Story Title: Lost Time (What do you think of the new title?)

Chapter Title: Strange Ways of The Mind

Rating: (R-M/R-M)

Chapter: 8/?

Warnings: lots of thinking, strange dreams, mature content, homosexual relations, brief threesome, language, un-edited...

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

Pairings: Kei/Sho, Luka/Sho, Kei/Luka/Sho

Jaded's fore-words: Uhmmmmm yeah so I wrote this in like two days so enjoy my hard work! NNNNJOYYYYY~! And be warrrrnnnned! *cough* And thanks to-

In the early hours of the morning, when Mallepa was transitioning from the questionable, hush-hush activities of the night to the much more harmless appearing hustle and bustle of the day, Kei returned home in the hour of quiet before the sun rises.

As he silently unlocked the front door and pushed it open, stealthily slipping into the flat, he wondered if Sho would be angry at him for leaving David alone in the apartment at night. He wondered about when Sho got home and if he talked to David before he went to bed (if he even went to bed after talking to David). Did David say anything to him about Kei? Did David even stick around the apartment? How long did he stay up to talk to Sho, if he did stay up at all? Or did he go to bed? Did he sneak out instead?

Kei had thought about these questions briefly before, as he wandered around in the dark that night.

He closed the door just as silently as he had opened it and quietly walked through the living room area to his daybed, glancing down the hallway and noticing the soft blue light seeping from under David's door. He also noticed the bowl of popcorn from before sitting on the table next to the couch.

Kei frowned as he leaned down and unlaced his boots before sitting down on his bed to kick them off. Then he yanked his socks off, his mind surprisingly blank as he went through the familiar motions. He tossed the socks casually onto the floor next to his bed and left his boots unlaced in the heap he'd kicked them into. His too-warm skin felt wonderful touching the cold wood floors of the flat, now that the material separating the two was removed. He groaned quietly at the cool seeping into his muscles and soothing his achy feet.

He hadn't stopped walking since he left the apartment, going through the nearby park where he'd seen Yi-Che working on her mural at night (she hadn't been there that night), and wandering through almost every type of neighborhood in Mallepa. He'd even gone all the way to the beach and just walked along the shore in the moonlight before turning and heading back in the general direction of home. And he'd walked because if he stopped the numbness left and he felt too much for his brain to handle.

So he walked and he thought, mostly in a kind of daze. When he tried to remember his walk he saw in his head quick flashes of small details he hadn't known he'd noticed until then. His numb daze was also the reason he felt full for the first time in what felt like forever. Too hungry and thirsty to ignore feeding any longer while trying not to think, he had attacked a homeless man and a fat bouncer from a club, both without even knowing he had until blood was sliding down his throat.

And now that Kei was sitting and staring into the darkness around him the numbness was fading and he was starting to feel that jittery anxiousness that he hadn't felt since forever and a day ago. And then the burning curiosity sidled up close next to it. They cleared the way for the parade of thoughts that had already leisurely strolled through his head once before when he was walking.

He needed to keep moving.

Kei jumped to his feet and walked quietly out of his sleeping area and over to the hallway. He glanced at David's door again before walking past it to Sho's door, cracked like the taller man always left it. He would just check on them, Kei decided. Just walk in for a quick peek to make sure Sho was alright before doing the same for David.

But standing outside Sho's door with his hand on the knob, Kei froze. His breathing stopped and his heart-rate skipped and began pounding loudly against his ribs and echoing in his ears. It'd been forever since he'd been in Sho's room. The last he'd stepped foot in it at all had been years and year before, when they first moved into the flat.

He took a deep breath and pushed the door open, thanking whoever was eavesdropping on his thoughts that the hinges didn't squeak.

The room was dark, barely lit up with the deep blue glow of the rising sun below the horizon. The thin curtains covering the window fluttered next to Sho's dresser in a slight breeze and across the room Sho shifted in his sleep. Kei turned and noticed Sho's bed had been moved since he'd been in here last. Before it had been in the corner of the room facing the door. Now it was centered on the right side of the room and facing the wall with the window.

Faint light from the window fell onto the small bedside table where a lamp, an ashtray, and a clock were set up neatly. Resting between the alarm clock and the ashtray was Sho's hand, thrown carelessly out and landing palm-up on the table. Kei followed the line of Sho's arm with his eyes to the man's torso mostly covered by a dark-blue comforter. He smiled when he noticed a pillow hugged to Sho's chest and partially covering his face. Wrapped around one leg was Sho's red satin sheet, tangled and twisted around so completely only a foot could be seen while his other leg was barely covered.

Kei crept over to the unconscious man and carefully pulled the comforter down to cover more of Sho's body. Then he took Sho's hand gently in his and wrapped his arm around the pillow his face was buried under. Sho mumbled something softly in his sleep and squeezed the pillow before relaxing again with a sigh.

Kei continued smiling and leaned down, brushing Sho's hair away from his temple and pressing his lips to it softly. Could it really be possible that he indeed loved Sho more than he thought he had? Was he really in love with the man? And if he was, how did David know? Was Kei really so oblivious he didn't realize that he'd developed feelings for Sho?

He didn't think so, but then again, it had been too easy for Sho to steal his heart and pull him in without Kei realizing when he'd been just a kid.

Sho groaned in his sleep and shifted again, rolling onto his back and knocking Kei's hand out of his hair with a tossed arm. Kei stiffened, thinking he was about to wake up. When no further movement came from Sho, except the fluttering of his eyes, Kei relaxed and breathed a sigh. He blinked suddenly, noticing he'd been staring at Sho's lips. He had the surprising urge to lean down and kiss them, to see how they'd feel pressed against his.

Kei shook his head softly, dispelling the thought and wondered if this was the first time he'd unknowingly stared at Sho or if he did this more often than he thought, never catching himself until David pointed out his maybe-infatuation for the man.

Then Kei remembered the small teen sleeping one room away and he straightened up, removing his hand from Sho's shoulder where it had been resting lightly. He turned to the door and had his hand on the knob again when suddenly Sho spoke from behind him.

"Kei?" He mumbled sleepily, his eyes attempting stay open enough for him to see the blonde.

"Yes?" Kei inquired in a whisper so he didn't pull Sho completely from sleep.

"Where were you?" Sho asked, groggily trying to push himself up onto his elbow, staring at Kei tiredly.

"Walking, Sho. But I'm back now," Kei said gently and pulled the door close to his body. "Go back to sleep."

"Okay," Sho murmured and fell onto his side. "Came home… N David was sleepin'… But you were gone. Was jus' curious. Cuz you never… run off…"

Kei smiled again and stepped out of the room, pulling the door closed. A strange burning sensation was filling his chest and almost making him want to laugh at Sho's behavior.

He moved over to David's door and grabbed the doorknob, turning it slowly so the slider didn't make any noise as it moved. When the knob would turn no further he cautiously pushed the door open.

He stepped into the blue glow filling the room and carefully closed the door behind him. He found a lamp with blue plastic beads as the lampshade hanging from the ceiling in a corner of the room and providing the soft blue light. The window in the room was completely covered with a grass mat creating a dark glow with little slits of light peeking through from the now risen sun breaking over the horizon. David was sleeping in the bed next to the window, pressed into the pillows against the wall.

A large black and silver comforter was draped around his waist leaving his bare chest open to the cool air. He was curled up on his side with an earphone pressed into his ear from the pillow under his head. The other earphone was lost and the chord was wrapped around his neck, causing Kei to worry. Sleeping on the pillow next to David's head was Bob, the Mitzsterfiffle. His large, usually closed, eyes were open and dark, deep blue irises surrounding large circles of black were staring at Kei curiously. His wings hummed softly as they frantically fluttered for a minute and he moved, rolling so his tiny toes were visible from the side, curled contentedly. Next to David's pink and white and purple and blue and black hair it seemed as though there were two Mitzsterfiffles sleeping next to each other.

But David's face was visible so it ruined the illusion.

Kei moved over and gingerly sat on the bed next to David, studying the boy's face in case he woke up. David barely responded, his breath catching for a moment before he let it out in a sigh. Kei reached out an put his hand on Bob's side and the Mitzsterfiffle heaved a great sigh, relaxing into what looked like a deflated blob covered in fur. His rice-paper-thin wings hummed again and folded into his body like paper fans before a soft trilling filled the air in the room, sounding very much like a purring songbird. Under Kei's hand Bob's body was vibrating oddly and Kei realized the noise was coming from Bob in some weird sort of purring.

He'd thought a lot about David on his walk, previously not aware of the fact that he and Sho knew almost nothing about the boy. They didn't even know his favorite color. (Kei was going to go out on a limb and say it was blue, considering the abundance of it in his room.) And Kei discovered he did want to know David. He wanted to know everything about the teen. He thought about life without David, what he and Sho might be doing if they'd never found the boy, and Kei felt a twinge of pain in his chest. And he almost hated how attached to David he'd become in such a short time.

Kei moved his hand from Bob to David's head, gently combing his fingers through the soft, pink-colored locks on his left side. David breathed in deeply and let all the air in his lungs out in a great whoosh. Kei smiled a little.

Before David pointed out his attraction to Sho, Kei never considered the fact that his feelings for the two of them were different. But while he had been walking he'd noticed some big differences.

Like how he coddled David. He'd never coddled Sho. He helped him out and gave him a hand when the taller male needed one but Kei had never coddled him. Yet he found himself doing it when David was around.

Case in point being when Sho decided to take David on their heist. Kei had been against it. He would have rather tied the teen up in chains and thrown him in a closet than let him go with them. But Sho had convinced him with a couple carefully placed sentences.

When he and Sho first started doing heists Kei had been reluctant. He'd stalled and hesitated before finally deciding that doing them with the then-teen would actually be a good thing since it would teach Sho to fight and shoot and protect himself.

He didn't want David to have to shoot or fight or protect himself at all.

But this kind of protectiveness was different from the protectiveness he felt for Sho, who he didn't necessarily want to protect from the front. He didn't want to shield Sho like he wanted to David. He'd wanted the man to grow up and see the truth in the world; that it could be harsh and unforgiving but Kei would be there as long as Sho needed him. He wanted to hide David away, though: maybe in a cottage in the woods or a tower taller than any skyscraper in the world.

Leaning forward slightly Kei rubbed his left eye with the heel of his free hand, having a craving for a cigarette.

It was thoughts like that, that had kept him out walking for almost five hours straight. They were thoughts that contradicted each other or went in circles and drove him nuts. Thoughts that made no sense but were completely true. Thoughts that were entirely absurd.

Kei looked at David and saw that he'd started sucking on the corner of his lip in his sleep, his eyebrows furrowed as if he were deep in thought while he slept. The blonde vampire brushed feathery soft locks of hair from David's forehead and leaned down, brushing his lips across the soft skin in a very parental way. Then he stood up and turned the lamp in the room off before leaving as silently as he'd come in.

Feeling exhausted finally, Kei lowered himself down to lay on his bed, making sure to make as little noise as possible. He was asleep as soon as he made himself comfortable.

Kei smiled, grinning almost as the warm breeze floating across the ocean swept his blonde hair back from his face and brought with it the smells of the sea. The sun from above warmed his face and caused sparkling white flames to dance over the water hundreds of feet below him. Kei's legs leisurely kicked in the open air below him as he sat on the plank of sturdy wood held to the lighthouse made of cake behind him with ropes made of red licorice.

He saw in the distance a beer-bottle dolphin jump, spouting amber liquid from it's blow hole, before crashing back to the waves below. And then the line attached to the fishing pole in Kei's hands was tugged on and he began reeling furiously.

Far below the water splashed around as the fish he was reeling in fought for its life. But in a matter of seconds Kei had pulled in a ten pound box of chocolates shaped like a fish and covered in iridescent red scales. He reached into the bucket next to him and quickly wrapped the writhing fish in red cellophane before it could get away. Then he unhooked the fish and threw it onto the large hammock full of fish he'd already caught hanging from the top of the lighthouse, also held up by licorice ropes.

Sho would love it when Kei presented him with the net full of large, wiggling fish he'd caught. Everything from a Kegcharodon to the box fish of chocolates he'd caught not minutes ago.

But just as he cast his line out into the ocean again, enjoying the slow paced activity of fishing, a loud screech was heard and he looked up into the pale blue sky above. Spiraling around in circles, getting nearer and nearer, was a large, orange flaming bird. A phoenix, Kei recalled.

"KEI!" A familiar voice called excitedly from the sky and the blonde vampire startled. He jumped into a standing position, letting his fishing pole fall into the crashing waves below. He knew that voice. It belonged to Luka. But… Luka was dead.

"LUKA!" Kei called back, filled with a warm sort of ache at knowing his old lover was nearby.

The firebird descended, swooping carelessly close to the lighthouse.

"You can't land here, Luka!" Kei shouted, shielding his eyes from the sun as he watched the phoenix and his lover riding on the bird's back as they circled the lighthouse. "The lighthouse is of cake! If you land, it will catch fire and we will all surely fall into the whirlpool below."

Which would suck them into a haunted house filled with demons, Kei continued in his head.

To solve their problems though, Luka just jumped from the firebird's back to land gracefully and silently on the gangway surrounding the top of the lighthouse. He was holding something bulky wrapped in his coat. Kei ran over to greet him, his feet moving from hard wood to soft, spongy cake.

As he got closer to his former lover he realized that Luka was opaque. It was as though all the colors that Luka was make up of were faded and almost transparent. He was a corporeal ghost.

"Look, Kei! I've found him!" Luka exclaimed excitedly, uncovering the bulky thing in his arms wrapped up in his coat. "I've found our son!"

And with a flourish he unveiled a large, oval watermelon with short, black hair growing from what Kei assumed to be its head.

"He's looks adorable." A new voice commented and Kei looked to his right and found that David had suddenly appeared. Except his hair was all black.

Then, quite suddenly, he was brandishing a plastic spork which he used to stab the baby watermelon with. Luka shrieked as a squirt of red shot out from the wound and splattered over Kei's face, landing mostly on him mouth and cheek. And David used the spork to saw through the tough, green rind of the watermelon to get to the vulnerable, refreshing flesh hidden by it.

Once a deep, thick incision had been made, David swooped down and hungrily slurped out the watermelon's flesh. And Kei watched as the watermelon baby, his son, dried out and its hair became white before disappearing at the same time a shock of white hair appeared behind David's ear.

When he was done he tossed the rasin of a watermelon over the railing of the lighthouse where a Kegcharodon snapped it up in its jaws of saw-edged razors. Kei gaped as the events played out in front of him, not sure what to think of what had just happened to his and Luka's precious watermelon baby. He looked to Luka for advice but found the man tightly embracing David. David hugged him back just as tightly.

And as if the strange happenings before couldn't get any odder, Luka suddenly bared his fangs and dug them into David's neck where spurts of pink yogurt jumped out from the bite. Luka drank up the yogurt-y blood hungrily.

One particular spurt landed on Kei's face, right onto his cheekbone, only to drip down to his chin, thick and warm. Kei touched it with a finger and examined its light pink color before licking it up. It tasted tangy and like watermelons.

"Kei!" Sho's voice suddenly yelled and the blonde vampire spun around and saw Sho behind him on the gangway. He was frozen in place but that didn't last long as he quickly ran over and grabbed the shorter male. He kissed Kei on the mouth sloppily, pulling him close before licking at Kei's lips and cheek.

"Mmm Kei, you taste like strawberries," he mumbled before pulling back and glancing over Kei's shoulder. He gasped and flung Kei into the sugar-glass windows of the lighthouse. Kei turned his head to look and saw Luka bleeding blueberry blood from his wrist into David's mouth.

Lightening quick, Sho rammed into the dark-haired man, throwing him to the ground and releasing David from his hold. Luka looked into Sho's blue eyes and inhaled sharply. And before Kei could react, Luka was fiercely kissing Sho with both their mouths wide open. Sho trembled and his eyes fell shut as he kissed Luka.

Kei's blood burned in anger even as he felt a small bit of lustful-stirring in his groin. With a growl of fury he ripped Sho from on top of Luka because dammit, Sho was HIS! Then Sho cried out and pushed at Luka with all his might. Luka stumbled with a shocked expression and even the railing made of Kit-Kats and licorice rope couldn't save him from falling into the whirlpool around the base of the lighthouse.

"Kei, you saved me!" Sho exclaimed dramatically, looking into Kei's eyes with adoration. "How can I thank thee! For surely my body would never be enough!"

But as Kei opened his mouth to respond, his heartbeat racing and his belly filling with heat at the thought of Sho's body being all his, the moon suddenly eclipsed the sun and the world fell into darkness. A harsh scream was heard from somewhere and Kei could hear the sound of tearing flesh and chomping jaws. Sho's fingers dug into his arms as the man radiated sheer terror.

"Help me, Kei!" David shouted from somewhere far away, sounding like he was sobbing.

Then Kei felt his body wrenched around in the darkness and he could feel wind whipping around him as vertigo claimed his stomach and head.

He gasped, throwing his head back as he shot up into a sitting position. His hand immediately went to his panicking heart as he panted violently, his eyes darting around the room. Sunlight leaked through the curtain to dimly illuminate the small living room and Kei realized he was in his and Sho's flat. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. His skin was sticky with cold sweat and he wondered for a minute how long he'd been asleep.

With an exasperated sigh he fell back on the bed and stared at the ceiling, and, thinking back on his dream, he wondered if one of his last meals might have been on LSD or some other crazy hallucinogenic drug. The more logical part of his brain told him that if they had, hours after he'd drank their blood there would be no effects from it. Especially with his vampiric metabolism breaking down anything that would harm a human's body.

Kei groaned in annoyance and decided that it would better if he just got comfortable, shut his eyes, and went to sleep so he didn't have to deal with whatever was going on in his head.

Kei frowned as he heard the odd noises in the flat when he walked in the front door. He'd been out shopping and David was with Gabe so Sho should be alone. But it didn't sound like he was.

Kei kicked the door shut behind him and dropped the bags he had in his hands on the floor nearby before taking off his red coat. Underneath he was wearing a white wifebeater that had red and black words on it saying "Bite me" with blood splatters. His boots disappeared from his feet as he made his way towards the noises that seemed to be coming from Sho's bedroom. The thought of a fight going on in there between Sho and a maybe-burglar passed through Kei's head but it didn't sound like that was what was happening.

He opened the door and looked around, his eyes landing on Sho's bed. He froze at what he saw there.

Sho was on his knees, legs spread apart for balance as he rested his upper body on his elbows, facing the head of the bed, with his head in a naked Luka's lap. Luka was reclining comfortably against the pillows piled behind him against the headboard. He had one hand in Sho's hair while the other held onto Sho's shoulder as Sho's head rose and fell in his lap, sucking him off.

Kei felt his blood boil as the shock wore off and he realized that his dead lover was using his Sho's mouth for pleasure when Kei should be the only one getting it. But even as anger tensed every line of his body, something inside him stirred and he found himself feeling quite turned on at the thought of the two of them. And very suddenly his anger was consumed by a fierce lust and he groaned as it throbbed in his veins.

"Look who's joined us, Sho-kun," Luka said, his voice raspy from arousal.

Sho pulled his mouth from Luka's erection and turned his head, looking over his shoulder. He whimpered softly when he saw the look in Kei's eyes, the blush on his cheeks darkening before he turned back to his task of leisurely pleasuring Luka with his lips and tongue and mouth.

"Join us, Kei," Luka urged, sliding one hand teasingly down Sho's back making him shiver.

Kei ripped his shirt off and crawled onto the bed, his pants disappearing. He couldn't stop the desire pushing him to take Sho and grabbed the man's hips, forcing himself into Sho's body. Sho moaned loudly and pushed back against him, obviously wanting more.

A sudden, loud blast jerked Kei awake and he fell out of his bed, confused, horny, and wondering what the fuck was going on as his heart raced. He scrambled up, looking for the cause of the noise.

He didn't have to look far as he saw the front door of the apartment on the living room floor, hinges ripped right from the frame, with David pinned against it under Gabe in a heap of limbs. Large scratches marred the wood floor from the doorway, streaming sunlight into the apartment, to where the bottom edge of the door was. The two on the door paused in their furious wrestling to glance guiltily at him.

Almost as one they jumped up earnestly shouting.

"WE FISS IT!"

Then they turned and picked up the door, holding it over their heads, and started carrying it to the empty doorway. Kei watched skeptically as then put it down so it was standing up to cover the doorway, upside-down. At the same time the two teens turned and attempted to slip out the small cracks on the sides of the door. They ran into each other on the other side and fell into the door, knocking it over again. Both broke into fits of laughter.

"It's too early to deal with this shit," Kei mumbled before making his way to the bathroom.

"Did you see his boner?" David stage whispered to Gabe, giggling at Kei's unfortunate problem.

"RENOB!" Gabe cackled and then jumped up. "We need tools!"

"HOME DEPOT HO!" David shouted, jumping up and pointing a finger in the air with a hand on his hip for emphasis, just as the bathroom door slammed shut.

"I don't think there are Home Depots in Asia…" Gabe said.

"HARDWARE STORE HO!" David amended and ran down the stairs, out into the world of Mallepa. Gabe slammed the door shut, getting it stuck in the door way, before taking off after the hyperactive boy on a mission.

Meanwhile, in the bathroom Kei was in a warm shower with his hand between his legs as he tried to forget everything that had happened in the last twelve hours.

Later that evening Sho returned home from the day spent with Toshi, Son, and Yi-Che to find the front door painted chrome and the doorknob on the opposite side it was normally on. And one side of the doorframe wasn't painted like the rest of it, being just plain wood covered in a stain and a sealer. There was also a new doorknob and new black hinges.

He didn't receive straight answer from David when he inquired about the new door. And Kei was ignoring him.

Sho was confused but let it be.

Jaded's after-words: -Everyone who reads and updates! Especially SOUBI and SATCHI! ...yeah well anyway... if you would have read the warnings you would know what to expect... so if you want to flame GO FOR IT! I'll get a laugh. Then I shall roast marshmallows and heat my house which is currently freezing...

ALSO! What do you think of the new story title?