Title: ...it's in debate. Got ideas?

Author: Jaded

Chapter: 6/?

Pairing: Sho/Kei

Rating: PG-15

Warnings: un-beta-ed, language, unusual situations and misuse of objects in some chapters

Disclaimer: Gackt owns Moon Child right? (I guess that means he own Kei too huh? *wiggles eyebrows*)

Jaded's fore- words: SURPRISE AGAIN! soubi HUZZAH!!! XD Tis the next chapter people've been waiting for. I finally have it up! Yayfullness for me! *claps hands* Tell me how much you all love me for this. And tell 0928soubi at docomo.()ne().jp (remove () ) how much you love her too! Because if it wasn't for her beating me so well with a stick this would have come out a LOT later. *shivers* D

Squeak! Squeak! Thump! Squeak! Thump! Squeak! Squeak! Thump! Squeak!

"What are you doing?"

Sho watched, leaning in the doorway of David's bedroom, as the pink-haired teen jumped up and down on the bed.

"Squeak! Thump! Squeak! Thump! Squeak! Thump!" Was his answer. David probably assumed the question was rhetorical.

"Okay…. What have you eaten today?" Sho tried again.

David's jumping came to an abrupt stop and he just kind of bounced up and down as the mattress gave under the sudden cease of movement. Probably had something to do with inertia or something. The mattress would keep moving until an external force stopped it or something. David stared at Sho as he bobbed on the bed. Sho never had any real schooling.

"Three Red Bulls, four pounds of chocolate, eight SoBe energy drinks, five Rockstars, a bag of chips, *Squeak!* *Thump!* an entire bowl of salsa, *Squeak!* *Thump!* nine yogurt cups, *Squeak!* *Thump!* three mini pizzas, *Squeak!* *Thump!* a jar of pickle juice, ahhhhhhnnnd fifteen Frappuccinos!" (1)

Sho's blue eyes bobbed as David continued jumping, speaking with slight breathlessness as he practically spit the words out.

"I'm sofuckinghyperrightnow!!!"

"Have you fed recently?"

"Nope! I plan to later tonight though!"

David jumped big - going so high his head almost the flat's unusually high ceiling - and landed too close to the edge of the bed. His foot slipped, his eyes widened, and he toppled right off the bed into the garbage from his junk food consumption spree. Cans and glass bottles clanged and rolled around while empty yogurt cups and a chip bag were squashed as David rolled around and laughed until his face was red and he couldn't breathe and his body was completely limp, convulsing with his laughter.

Sho looked at him with a raised eyebrow, wondering if he'd done something other than eating to make him this way.

"coughcrackheadcough," Sho pretended to cough.

"Am not!" David said, suddenly sitting upright and pouting.

"Yeah, whatever."

David pouted some more before standing up looking fine from the fall and brushed the butt of his pajamas off.

"Do you know how to use this?" Sho asked, getting to the point of why he'd come to David's room. He tossed a handgun to David. David, just finishing with his dirt brush easily caught the gun.

"I grew up in Mallepa too," David responded and spun the gun around on his finger before tossing it back to Sho.

Sho tossed it back.

"Good. Get dressed."

David stood there with wide eyes holding the gun in both of his hands, having awkwardly caught it when it hit his stomach unexpectedly. Sho stepped back to walk away just as Kei appeared next to him. He noticed the handgun in David's hands and frowned in disapproval.

"Why does David have a gun?"

"He's going to need some protection if he's coming with us," Sho said and started walking down the hall to the living room.

"Are you fucking insane Sho?!" Kei yelled. "He can't come on a heist. He's only fourteen!"

"And I was sixteen when you started teaching me to fight. It's only two years," Sho said. "Besides, would you rather he snuck out and came after us again. And he needs to feed tonight too."

"Sho, Goddammit. You can't just decide this without telling me."

"Hey, you said when you found him that I had to take care of him. So I am. I'm taking him out to feed."

"Sho-" Kei started but stopped himself with a sigh and a pinch to the bridge of his nose. "Establish some ground rules at least."

Then he was walking away with a huff. Sho looked at David, who was standing there stunned.

"Get dressed. Five minutes."

He walked away too, following Kei.

Seven minutes later found David wearing a pair of black jeans, combat boots, a red wifebeater, and his dark green, camouflage army jacket sitting in the back of Sho's car.

"Rules," Kei prompted, staring out his window since the car's top was up.

"Right," Sho said glancing in the rearview mirror at David. "Stay close by unless I …Or Kei says otherwise. Don't shoot your gun unless you have to. Uhm-"

"Don't run off or get lost," Kei supplied helpfully.

"Yeah that. And listen to whatever we tell you to do… And do it," Sho amended, realizing he'd left a loophole.

"Use your brain David. We could make a whole list of rules with all loopholes covered and set down in handbook. So don't be a smart-ass and we won't have to waste our time doing it." Kei said, basically covering everything. He'd seen David roll his eyes a couple times in his side-view mirror.

"'Kay," David sighed, slouching more comfortably in the backseat. He yawned after a moment. He was starting to feel the beginning of the crash after immense caffeine and sugar consumption.

It's good, he thought, that I can still function normally half asleep.

"What the fuck?" The other man exclaimed in Taiwanese,(2) holding his guns out pointed at a short blonde man and a man with braids. They were each holding a gun pointed at him to. But the barrel of a gun was poking him into the back too. And the only people he'd seen enter the room were the two in front of him.

"David," the one with braids called. "Stand by Kei."

And there was a sigh behind him and the gun stopped poking him. A pink haired kid moved from behind him to stand next to the blonde, holding a gun in his hand.

Son's mouth fell open a little. They'd brought a kid into a place like this? (He knew they weren't members of the gang. Figuring out if they were on the same side though was the trouble.)

And that was when, as they stepped back from each other, the actual gang members did appear. The kid, "Deividdo"(3) or whatever, moved to stand behind the blonde as if using him for a shield from any bullets. For a full fifteen seconds only the sounds of gunfire were heard as they each shot at the gang's men.

The men died.

The bullets ran out.

Son pulled out two more guns as the man in the white jacket (Braids, as Son's dubbed him in his head for now.) tossed one of his own to the short blonde, while pulling a gun for himself. The whole time the kid behind the blonde held his gun ready down in front of him, matching each step of the blonde in front of him, like a shadow.

"Who are you?" Braids asked.

"My question exactly," Son responded neutrally.

"None of your business," Braids snapped, then demanded, "What's going on?"

Son chose to ignore the question, taking in instead the number of new gang members popping up out of crevices everywhere.

"More of 'em than I thought," Son observed. He didn't miss the slight smile on the Blondie's face as he rolled his eyes in Braids' direction. So far Blondie hadn't said a word. Son didn't think he'd be much of a threat unless he hurt his partner.

"A lot more…" Braids said and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Join forces?" Son suggested, hoping he could trust them to not kill him.

"Not much choice," Braids stated. Son took that as a truce and spun around to start firing at the gang's men, seeing the other two do the same in his peripherals. He also noticed the mop of pink hair slip into the triangle of their bodies, hovering closer to Blondie.

But then his entire focus was on the men in front of him shooting at him and the other three.

Less than five minutes later he was able to make it to the gang's main room, where he entered in the midst of gunfire. He'd seen someone duck behind a desk nearby. He didn't matter though considering he wasn't shooting at him for the time being.

With Kei

"Get behind a pillar," Kei ordered to his (partially-)human shadow. The teen nodded as he slipped away from Kei to do as told.

He'd barely made it behind one before there was more gunfire at Kei, and bullets imbedded themselves into the concrete David was hiding behinds. Some of them ricocheted off.

David waited and when it was silent for five seconds he peeked around the corner and saw Kei walking away at gunpoint looking bored, maybe a little bit amused. And that distraction was all that was needed for his hand to be twisted against his back, forcing him to drop the gun he was holding, as he was grabbed from behind.

For a moment he wondered why the guy hadn't just shot him and then he realized that the guy must have been unarmed. Lackey? No even they carried knives. Or maybe the guy was just too stupid to use his. Either way it'd be too easy to get out of the guy's hold.

David pressed his teeth together and stomped hard on the man's foot. He heard a sickening pop followed by some crunching. The man screamed.

Then David was shoving the elbow of his free arm back as quick as he could. It made contact with ribs, glancing off them because of the way he was being held, what with his arm twisted and squished between his back and the guy's torso with the guy's other arm around his neck in a poor attempt at a choke hold. The hit would at least hurt a helleva lot though.

The guy's hold definitely loosened under David's attack and he was able to twist away and drop down on his knees in a spin as he grabbed his fallen gun. He rounded on the guy and shot him in the shin on a split second decision. The bullet scraped through the side of the bone with a loud (to David) scraping noise and ripped apart flesh in its wake. From the way the hole was gushing blood it had gone all the way through. The man howled in pain and dropped, groping at the wound.

David's pupils went wide, his fang's dropped, he breathed in deeply through his nose, and he glanced around. Seeing no one else in the vicinity but hearing some screaming (as if far away) he launched himself forward and latched onto the hole spilling the ruby drink of the gods into his awaiting mouth. He sunk his fangs into the flesh to hold his mouth attached to the leg as the guy screamed again and tried to yank him off, pulling harshly at his hair. David's hands grabbed at his leg, one trying to hold it still while the other pressed and squeezed the back of his leg in an attempt to stem the flow of blood out the back.

He wanted it all.

But in a few minutes the bleeding of the guy's leg had slowed and David was still hungry. He whimpered, angry and pathetic sounding, and pulled away, scanning the man's body quickly.

He was still alive. Unconscious but alive! There wouldn't be much longer. David had to get more though.

Immediately he scrambled up the man's limp body and while straddling his torso yanked the man's head back by his hair, exposing his weak pulse. David dove, curled almost awkwardly as his other hand's fingernails dug into the man's shoulder.

His teeth easily popped through the skin and sank into the flesh, tapping into the carotid artery there. David sucked hard. Swallowed in large gulps. Wanting to get as much as he could. He'd milk the body of every drop of blood if he could.

Soon though, the man's heart couldn't even be considered beating. He was as good as dead, drained almost dry of his life source.

David pulled away, sucking his lips and stretching his tongue over his chin to lick up the blood stuck there. He looked down at his clothing and saw large glistening spots of blood on the knees of his black jeans. His shirt was a darker red in splatters and smears from the substance. One of his hands was also complete red up to the wrist.

A sudden noise nearby had him scrambling away from the body, putting it between him and the noise.

"David," Kei called again and he realized it was his name echoing in the room that had startled him.

He looked up at the older vampire sheepishly. He'd made-

"Quite the mess you've got here. You're covered in blood."

David shrugged.

"I was hungry…"

"It looks like you have more blood on you than in you."

"Naw I just spread a small amount all over the place."

"Are you still hungry?"

David top jaw ached and his insides still felt like they were squeezed a little too tight into themselves but he'd live.

"Yeah."

"Hurry up then. I'm going to find Sho and Toshi. Be outside in the car in twenty minutes."

David stood up and Kei strolled by him with a half smile, ruffling the teens pink hair before walking off. Ten seconds later David heard a metal door swing open and then shut. Kei had fed too. He could smell it. But he knew it hadn't been even remotely enough. The blonde vampire had drunk less than David and he was …a lot older than him.

Oh well. He couldn't force Kei to feed. If Sho couldn't, he had no chance.

David shrugged to himself, stuffed his hands in his jacket pockets, and moseyed off to find the next course of his meal. He'd find some drugged guy who'd eaten Toshi's pizza. The blood would taste worse than normal due to the drugs but hey, David didn't complain.

"How again, did you get covered in blood?" Toshi asked for the millionth time. Son had gotten over it ten miles ago.

David groaned and dropped his head onto the back of Sho's seat in front of him.

"FOR THE LAST TIME! I SLIPPED IN IT AND FELL!"

"But-"

"I LANDED ON MY KNEES AND MY HAND SLID THROUGH THE PUDDLE OF IT! AS FOR MY SHIRT… WELL YOU TRY FALLING IN BLOOD AND NOT GETTING IT SMEARED ON YOUR SHIRT TOO! ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE NEAR A DEAD BODY AND YOU LAND ON IT!" David yelled, ready to punch the pizza man.

Toshi opened his mouth and, seeing it, David growled.

"And why were you there in the first place?"

David made a growling screech of frustration and punched the seat. The guy was incessant!!

"Because we didn't want him sneaking after us again. Stop asking questions we've already answered Toshi or I will personally shoot you," Kei replied calmly, giving David a break.

Son sighed on the other side of Toshi.

And it was silent.

...

For about five minutes.

David mimed shooting himself in the head with his thumb and forefinger. (The gun he'd been carrying had been taken from him when he'd shot at Toshi – who had been being annoying again - before they'd gotten in the car.)

After another agonizing fifteen minutes the car stopped as Sho pulled up (…surprisingly normally) in front of a small flat in the Taiwanese sector of Mallepa.

One by one they all got out of the car, Toshi and Sho helping Son, and started moving toward the small flat.

"So this is where you live?" Sho asked conversationally, with a grunt as he practically pulled Son up a small set of stairs with Toshi's stumbling help.

"Yeah," Son breathed, lightly out of breath from their struggle. David and Kei were trailing behind them. David glanced at Kei discreetly as Son continued talking.

"Just me and my sister here. And one other recently. Yi-Che found this girl in the park nearby and brought her home for lunch and she's stayed with us since."

David was only half paying attention to the conversation, opting instead to try and figure out where exactly Kei was staring. Was it Sho's head? His back? His butt? …Wait! Kei was staring at Sho's butt!

David inspected the oblivious vampire closer and almost laughed. Kei didn't even know he was staring at Sho's ass from the out-of-it expression on his face.

They reached the top stairs without much incident and entered the flat, Son calling out Yi-Che's name.

A young woman wearing a pale-pink shirt and khaki capris came out of a room on the opposite side of the kitchen. Kei recognized her as the girl who he'd seen painting in the park not too long ago. She was smiling at her brother. It soon dropped to a look of curious confusion as she saw the extra people with him, her gaze hovering on Kei for a fraction longer than the others. Then the look dropped entirely to one of worry when she saw how Son was being half carried.

Son noticed.

"Don't worry Yi-Che. It's just a scratch. Can you clean it up for me?" He asked, sounding a bit hopeful and a bit demanding. Yi-Che smiled and disappeared through another door several steps away in a tiny hall. There was the rustling of clothes as Sho and Toshi moved to sit Son down at the kitchen table.

Several seconds later Yi-Che reemerged from what seemed to be the bathroom, holding a medium sized First Aid box. She set it on the table silently and pulled up a chair next to her brother. On another chair she motioned for him to put his leg and she rolled up his pant's leg before setting to work.

"You guys can sit and make yourselves comfortable," Son said and motioned toward the living room area.

Kei and Sho shuffled toward the mini-sofa and chair next to each other. Kei sat on the sofa and Sho in the chair. Their coats were nearby and Toshi sat in another chair close enough to watch Son being tortured. He was drinking something in a cup and nobody had realized he'd had it until that moment.

"Where'd you get that?" Son questioned with a glare.

"I found it," Toshi said with a smirk, putting emphasis on found. Son glared harder.

"You asshole! That's the only alcohol here!!"

Toshi just pursed his lips smugly, taking a drink. Son jerked towards him as if he were going to attack the pizza deliveryman. He jolted his leg and hissed through his teeth at the pain it caused.

Yi-Che lightly smacked the top of his foot with a reprimanding eye narrowing. Son looked sheepish and muttered a sincere "sorry". David chuckled and moved to sit next to Kei, between the vampire and Sho. He tossed his coat over the back of the couch, being careful not to get any of the still damp blood on his body anywhere.

"That looks painful-" Toshi was saying before he was rudely interrupted by a girl flying in the sliding doors from outside.

She was at least five feet four inches tall, she had light brown hair cut to her chin around her face and shorter in layers as it moved to the back of her head. She was barefoot, wearing jean shorts and a dark blue halter-top over her busty chest. She only looked to be fourteen-years-old.

She was staring intensely at David with dark brown eyes that would have amazingly gorgeous if they hadn't been set on murder. David was staring fearfully back. Seriously, the pink haired boy looked absolutely terrified! Like death furiously warmed over had just walked in the door and called his name off the list.

Suddenly he screamed and made to jump and run away as fast as he could. But was promptly tackled back onto the couch by the girl. Kei blinked in surprised at the mess of flailing limbs next to him. And to get away from them he flinched sideways… Right into Sho's lap. Who jumped up in shock and Kei's body promptly found the floor in the same moment Toshi did, laughing his ass off.

Yi-Che was on her feet looking furious as the two teens wrestled around, the girl trying to pin down and restrain David while he attempted to escape her clutches. She was growling, animalistic and angry, like a lioness while he squealed and pleaded.

Finally the girl got the upper hand in two seconds flat, pressing her leg sideways over David's hips while using one hand to pin his arms down by the wrists.

Everyone's bottom jaws were on the floor. Toshi's had the least amount of space to fall considering he was propped on his elbows still on the floor. Sho's fell the farthest, him being the tallest and the only other person standing.

Then the girl went in for the kill, swooping down and… FURIOUSLY TICKLING DAVID'S STOMACH WITH HER FREE HAND!!

He yelped loudly, a horrified look of mirth crossing his face before he jerked violently upward and to the side. He successfully threw the girl from his body and promptly rolled onto his side into the couch, his back facing the room as he curled into a ball. Soft mutters of "I'm gong to die" were heard as he said them like a mantra.

The girl on the other hand had landed flat on her butt next to the rounded coffee table, legs in front of her and hands behind her, propping her body up. She pouted furiously before scrambling up and running out the front door… Still barefoot.

"Geibu!" Son yelled angrily after her but the door had slammed shut two seconds before and not much later she was farther than gone.

"W-what the hell was that??" Toshi stuttered from the ground, staring at the front door.

"I think that would be what we call a 'young woman' or 'girl'," Kei stated mockingly.

Toshi glared.

"Oh shut up Kei. But seriously what just happened?"

Son sighed before hissing as Yi-Che furiously went back to work on cleaning his leg.

"That's Geibu. She's been living with us for a week and a half," he explained as his leg twitched in pain. Toshi nodded as he slid back up into his chair and Kei stood up, brushed himself off, and sat down next to David who was finally uncurled and lounging again, as if nothing had happened.

"We think she's bi-polar or something because she has violent mood swings," Son continued and looked from his sister's work to Sho, who was still standing. "What are you doing?"

"Huh?" Sho intelligently replied.

"Why are you still standing?" Son elaborated on his question before.

"I think he's waiting from something to explode… or for him to get sucked into another world through a vortex splitting the space/time continuum in front of him," David supplied helpfully, making the tall man twitch in fear and look around frantically as if space or time, or both, would suddenly rip in front of him and whisk him away. After a moment he sat back down, pressing back into the chair behind him.

"What was that ab-" Toshi started as Son and Yi-Che just looked at him in confusion.

"Don't ask," Kei interrupted as David snickered behind his hand.

"Okaaayy…" Son said before turning back to Yi-Che's work. His leg convulsed again. Toshi noticed and grinned like the devil.

"The slow ones get hit," he commented. Son scoffed.

"He's right," Sho said helpfully and reached for his cigarettes off the coffee table. He placed one between his lips and breathed in the nicotine-laced smoke as he lit it. Instantly he started to calm again, a plume of smoke blown from his mouth.

He heard David snicker again and glared over at him. The teen laughed out loud and reached forward, curling his fingers to look like claws with a mad (as in insane) expression on his face. Sho flinched and scowled.

Toshi could be heard annoying Son in the background of their little exchange.

"I'm going to pummel you," Sho mouthed at David and the teen put a hand over his heart and pretended to faint with fright, the back of his other hand touching his forehead. Kei smacked his leg, with a glare telling him to shut up.

"Hey, she'll look at you now," Son said, pulling Sho from his three-way glaring contest. (He was glaring at David who was glaring at Kei who was glaring at the both of them in exasperation.)

Sho looked at him, turning because of the way Son had to stand, using the top of the doorframe as support.

"Me? I'm fine," he said casually.

Kei and David exchanged glances and looked at the bullet scrape on Sho's arm.

"Come on, I can smell the blood from here," Son insisted.

Kei leaned forward as David leaned back to watch, and the blonde backhanded Sho's arm, just above the laceration. Sho recoiled immediately with a jump and a yelp. Everyone laughed at him and Yi-Che smiled at the action.

"Have her take a look," Kei said with amusement lacing his voice.

Kei looked at Yi-Che and she caught his gaze. They held it before Yi-Che's smile twitched a fraction bigger and she turned back to her work as her brother hauled Sho out of his chair.

"I can still walk!" He exclaimed and teasingly reached for Toshi's balls in a threatening manner when the pizza man commented on Son saying something about infection.

Yi-Che picked up a cotton ball as Sho pulled the short sleeve of his black shirt up to reveal the scooped out flesh wound from a bullet. David noticed Kei had frozen as Yi-Che started to clean up the half dried blood.

Son could smell it from three feet. David could smell it from across the room. How much did Kei smell of it? David could smell attraction from the other man he was currently living with. What could Kei smell?

The blonde vampire's mouth was open, lips parted as he breathed slowly in and out through both his nose and mouth. His pale green eyes darkened as he stared at Sho's arm, eyes flickering to his neck.

Then Kei was moving, rolling his head and turning away from the scene. He grabbed his jacket, leaning partway over David to get it, and David could smell it. The crave, the pheromones he emitted used to subdue prey. …His friends (except one) thought he was crazy when he told them he could smell pheromones. To an extent they could too but never like David, who could sometimes pick out the different types of them.

And while he was pondering on this Kei had left and Sho was telling Yi-Che to be careful as she cleaned him up. David jumped up. Sho looked over his shoulder questioningly at him.

"Uh… I –uh- feel hyper. Gotta run!" He said jumping up and down, concentrating intently on Sho's face to make his pupils grow. Then he ran out the large doorframe after the blonde.

"What's with him?" Son asked.

"He… ate a lot of sugar before the heist." Sho absently scratched the side of his neck while staring after David in confusion.

"Kei!" David called, jogging to stand next to the vampire who was sitting on the roof's raised edge.

Kei looked at him before turning back to the moon. It was fine if the kid had followed him but he had preferred to be alone just then.

"I saw that," David stated softly, knowingly, as he leaned on his arms on the ledge next to Kei.

"What do you think you saw, David?" Kei asked quietly. His voice was so unassuming that it immediately led David to believe he was right. (And he was, neither of them truly knew that though.)

"Forbidden fruit right?" David questioned and hopped up on the ledge in front of Kei.

"I bet it would taste delicious. I saw that look."

David paused as Kei looked away from the too-large moon in the distance and right at him. David was watching him. Foresty eyes gazed at him with intensity, putting off the same deterring qualities as cold, locked like underground, reinforced 'creep' steel doors.

He knew he wouldn't get anything verbally out of the other vampire, but Kei spoke with his body as well. All the time; not knowing how closed off he looked only on the surface. And David picked up on those things too easily in people. All too easily.

"Have you ever tasted it?"

Kei's face remained unchanged, like those doors. But unlike those doors in that solid frame, a building can shake and tremble and sway violently. Kei's body was tensed, suddenly everything looked rigid and even though the blonde hadn't moved anything but muscle.

Obviously that would be a 'no', something repulsive to Kei's mind.

"You want to."

David wasn't even looking at Kei; he could just feel it all. Repulsive to the mind, not the body. He knew what's Kei's body craved. Knew the ache in his canines and the roof of his mouth.

David was turned now. Back to Kei, he watched the large moon. He closed his eyes for a moment and could almost feel the caress of her beams brushing across his cheekbones, tracing his lips and delivering a soft kiss. A breeze picked up, and like fingers it combed gently though his hair. The soft scent of fresh water, dewdrops, wild mountain roses, and fresh raspberries teased the skin under his nose.

His eye's flickered open when he felt a hand on his chest, pressing into his body right over his heart.

No one. He breathed out.

"She's happy tonight." And David would bleed for her if she ever asked.

Kei blinked, startled out of his daze. What was David talking about?

He noticed the way the boy was staring reverently at the moon.

"She may not have given birth to any of us, Kei. But she loves us. Loves us so much. Her love could never even compare with a mother's. And tonight she is happy. She knows what's brewing under her kind gaze. And she's twinkling in merriment at the thought."

Kei frowned. He'd always felt comfort in the moon before but this was taking it too far. David wasn't even full vampire. He should be out in the sun during the day (like Sho) enjoying his freedom.

But even as he stared at the moon with a confused scowl, he was noticing it. The moon wasn't just bigger than life tonight. It truly was shimmering, absorbing and reflecting the light from the sun on the opposite side of the earth. She'd taken that harsh blinding blistering light so dangerous to Kei's body and turned it into a silvery, milky, cool touch.

Wait… She? Kei had just called the moon she. David's madness was rubbing on him.

At that moment though their reverent silence was broken by Sho calling and the other's joining them.

Sho grimaced in disgust when the three reentered their flat. It repulsively smelled of burning marijuana and incense. Kei looked at him curiously, noticing the change in David and Sho's happy teasing mood. David eyes were wide in wonderment and he breathed in sharply.

Just then the girl who had attacked David before at Son's flat walked out from the pink-haired teen's room. On her back was a teddy-bear backpack, the black straps wrapped around her shoulders and the bear bounced against her middle back as she walked.

In one hand was a silver Zippo lighter and in the other a pipe. She stared calculatingly at David, lips in a half pout. They pursed and a minute later David jumped back, a look of terror on his face.

Kei's eyes widened as David's hair began to change colors. Sho turned to look and his bottom jaw fell.

Less than ten seconds later half of David's hair was pink, a fourth of it pure white in the back, and the rest near his face was purple and blue. The random chunks of black were still present.

Immediately the teen reached up and started pulling his hair forward into his face for fearful inspection of each lock. After several frantic moments of this he sighed in relief and looked at the girl in question.

She shrugged her shoulders.

"You took good care of it. So while I'm still furious I didn't have it for almost two weeks I'm okay with it. Don't accept my mercy lightly though. You know what I can do to you David." She said with threat.

David nodded hurriedly, definitely not taking advantage of her merciful ways.

She seemed satisfied and walked over and hugged him tightly.

"Gods am I glad to see you. Ever since we've been on the streets you've found some form of trouble." Geibu said into his newly purple and blue hair.

She pressed her cheek into the silken strands as David hugged her back, wishing her hair was as soft as his was. Hers always got oily too fast and there was way too much of it. That's why she kept it short. Or her neck would start hurting from the extra weight.

"I missed you," David whispered into her neck. He didn't want to ever lose his best friend again.

"Me too," She whispered back before pulling away and looking him in the face. "Now I think it's time I head back though. Ti-Chen and Yi-Che will be worried. And I will need to explain myself and thank them for putting up with my bi-polar-ness while I wasn't medicated."

She turned warm, brown eyes on Sho and Kei.

"Nice to meet you –Sho, Kei. Thank you for keeping him out of trouble."

Then she turned and held out a fist, thumb wrapped around fingers and knuckle up. David smiled and placed his fist under hers. As one David tapped the top of her fist while she tapped the bottom of his before they both tapped the fingers of other's stacked fist. A quick embrace and she was at the opened door.

"I'll be seeing three later," she said in such a way all three males shivered unconsciously in dread.

Then she was gone.

"Who exactly was that now?" Sho asked, knowing that Kei wouldn't.

"Gabe. Or well, Gaberiella. That's her …full name? We just call her Gabe for short because… we do. Anyway, she's a year and half(?) older than me. We've been friends since…"

David stopped short, trailing off and shying away from something.

"Well a long time."

Kei frowned. Sho opened his mouth and almost asked "Since what?" always so insatiable when it came to knowing things. But instead he said,

"Why don't you go shower. You're a mess."

Kei smiled secretly to himself at Sho's parent-like behavior. It was odd and almost cute.

David nodded, giving the taller man a thankful look, and turned toward the hallway and bathroom. And once he was done in there, his room too.

Tonight had been very eventful. They all needed a rest.

(1) I really wanted to eat all that as I wrote it all down. It sounded so good. …Still does. I WANNA EAT JUNK FOOD!!

(2) I don't actually know if he actually says it Taiwanese or Chinese… Or hey even Japanese (even though it didn't sound that way to me.) *shrug*

(3) David's name when pronounced in Japanese. I spelled it like that then went on the Internet to find out and I was correct. I danced a little dance when I saw. XD

Jaded's after words: *gumble* my tummy's hungry, *hic* and I have the hiccups now. *hic* My family's hungry too so *hic* I think I'll go make dinner. *hic* I hoped you liked this chapter (confirm it for me or disagree plz *points to button underneath*). And look! A new character!