Chapter 8: Hikaru's true disease
Some weeks passed and one morning, Kyoya and Hyoma heard Hikaru screaming from the bathroom. They went there and slowly opened the door. Kyoya burst into laughing while Hyoma slowly retreated.
"Why are you laughing? Is it what I think is it?" asked Hikaru worried. Kyoya didn't stop laughing, while Hyoma walked away slowly with a scared expression. "Oh, yeah, run like a coward you are..." yelled Kyoya to Hyoma. "Mr... You look nice!" he spat as he turned to her. Hikaru sweat dropped. "Is it what I think it is?" she asked. Kyoya smirked and examined her. "Yep." he simply answered. "But... how? It cannot be possible." said Hikaru sighing. Kyoya thought a bit... until he found the answer:
"Can't you understand? Coughing, no appetite, fever, vomiting, tiredness... and some complications like... and... Yes! Hallucinations were a complication which is usually appearing at teens and adults. And yes... your ears were itching because there appeared the first boils... If these symptoms appeared this means they know why, so... Exactly! Chicken pox! Nothing more." Hikaru looked shocked to Kyoya, who smirked to see her with so many boils on her skin. She smiled and breathed freely. "Thanks God that lion will disappear soon."
"But... You know you mustn't scratch... right? Look..." He showed her a scar on his arm. "Isn't it nice? I got it when I had chicken pox. I think I was 6... Well, I was lucky. But you aren't. Chicken pox at teens and adults is dangerous. So if you're not alright, tell me and we are going to the hospital in the next second." Hikaru nodded.
"But... where's Hyoma? Am I looking so terrible?" she asked, looking around for him. Kyoya chuckled. "Well, Hyoma never caught chicken pox, so he is running like a... Yeah, yeah... Well, I guess you should stand in your room until I ask the children if they ever had chicken pox. I'll send Hyoma to the doctor, then to the pharmacy. Um... Mom was smearing something, like oatmeal, I don't remember exactly, on my skin but at this moment I cannot do this, cause I'd make Hyoma green-eyed so..." Before he could continue his sentence, Hikaru said:
"Why you cannot?" she retorted. "If you tried to say I'm not letting you, then you can be sure I do. And I don't care what Hyoma says. That's my health and my body." This let Kyoya a bit speechless, just like his words got trapped in his neck, but he finally rescued them: "Well, then... o-k... No... pro-blem... it's not like I'd be afraid... I already saw your back... What could I be afraid of?" he tried to fool her. Well, it was noticeable he was very nervous hearing that.
Well, of course, when Kyoya asked everyone about that, they all said 'yes' probably because when one caught chicken pox, the others automatically caught it, too. He was walking towards Hyoma's room, when he saw Masumi walking towards him, with a shit-eating grin on his face, on an energetic pace. Kyoya stopped and looked surprised, widening his eyes.
"Hey, Yo-yo!" Kyoya sweat dropped at this, swallowing all the curses he was about to throw at Masumi. It was hard to hold back his anger at hearing that. "Take care who you are calling 'Yo-yo'! You are just like Yu." he protested. Masumi looked puzzled with his purple big filled of questions eyes, stuck in an undeveloped world. "Who's Yu?" he asked. Kyoya sighed as having Yu's childish figure in his mind. "Well... Forget. Whatever, I'm busy so hurry up." Masumi started to bit his lips. Kyoya sweat dropped and leant to him. Masumi whispered something at his ear: "I meet Megumi today at park." Kyoya adopted his normal position and looked puzzled. Masumi sweat dropped. "You know... Valentine's Day is coming... Um... I was just wondering if you can give me an advice. I think you have a girlfriend. How did you confess her?" Kyoya started to laugh like he never did before. "So you tell me you are dating girls starting 7?" he asked, being very amused. Masumi looked shocked to him.
"You never dated a girl, you mean?" Kyoya stopped laughing. "What do you care? Well, I can admit that... nothing. Forget. Lump it." he said, being very obvious he didn't really want to say that thing he was about to say.
"Masumi!" a voice exclaimed from his behind. Kyoya turned.
"Hikaru!" said Masumi as he ran towards her. Hikaru smiled and hugged him. "I missed you very much, you knew it? (Kyoya raised an eyebrow at this) What's on, sweetie? Trouble with girls?" asked Hikaru making fun of him. Masumi looked puzzled at her. "Chicken pox?" he asked, while Hikaru nodded. "Seems you also have trouble with girls..." said Hikaru to Kyoya, who looked with indifference at her. Hikaru waited for an answer... "Well, then I have to go. Ta-ta, see you, Masumi! You too, Kyoya." she said as she slowly walked away.
"So she is!" said Masumi, enjoying Kyoya's disgusted expression. Kyoya didn't seem to be stuck in any brand new world where he sees just Hikaru around him, so he slowly moved his gaze to Masumi, looking tired.
"What...? No! What was your first clue?" Masumi smirked. "Do you really want a complete list? Well... you are a strange guy... Most guys are staring bewitched at girls, but you are ready to curse or beat the girl you like because this is you. Most guys are buying roses and gifts, but you'd better give her... I have no idea what you'd give her. You don't wanna people to know that you feel anything, especially her. But in the deepest part of your heart you are a friendly guy. And even people know that, you aren't the guy who'd be crazy for a girl. You hate Valentine's Day and you aren't romantic, but you are determined and good-looking. You love just one girl and that's the only who you keep in your heart until... until the kingdom come. Even you may seem to flirt with other girls, and this is rarely happening, because you are not like Keichiro, at the end of the day you think and care just about one. Well, these kinds of relationships aren't based on romance, kissing in rain or watching the moon. You'd better go with her in a club and party until morning, drinking, without kisses and... yaack. And they are based on adventure. Than kissing her at the park under a tree, you'd better do it in a car... or any unromantic place. But this doesn't mean that you cannot be romantic. When you see she's sad, you are not the one who'd brush her tears... You are just saying comforting things to her. And she's not the girl who'd be crying for nothing, like..." (on a girly voice, blinking excessively and very quickly, with a sarcastic cheerful smile on his face) He started to mock a girl like those: "'Someone told me that Tom, Dick and Harry did the X action and I also wanted to join them, but the Y thing happened and blah blah blah... The boy next door appeared and the Z thing happened... blah blah... I am so filled with pain that you cannot imagine... Oh, Kyoya, I love you so much and blah blah blah...' then bursts into tears. Yaaack. You'd never tell her she's cute or beautiful. You'd tell her she's wild or sexy and she'd love this, because she's not acting like a princess. She probably cannot cook nor do things for girls and she's not going shopping for bracelets, earrings or necklaces. She is acting like a boy, but in a feminine style and she's listening to crazy music. And you'd never tell her to be careful or see her home. And you'd never wish 'sweet dreams' to her. You'd find another way to express yourself. And you'd never tell her that you are worried about her. You are both lunatics when you are together and serious when you are alone. She's not the girl who'd tell so easy what she feels and..." Kyoya looked surprised to Masumi and cut his sentence:
"How the heck you knew these? Cause this is the pure reality... I mean, man, man... Man... You rock." Masumi chuckled slightly. "Secret... It is from my mother. She had supernatural powers..." he whispered winking and continued his psychologist work. Masumi's wink made Kyoya feel pissed-off, but he just hid that and raised an eyebrow as seeing Masumi got a pencil from his pocket and he was trying to keep it in balance on his nose. Rightly talking, he was a bit clumsy. "See?" Unexpected, he succeeded in doing it. "But Masami cannot do this. I'm the only one who is supernatural."
Masumi put his hand at Kyoya's chest. "And... is this your heart? What reason could the blood have to flow so fast? Maybe the reason you're lying! And the reason that you don't wanna admit that you are lying!" Kyoya removed Masumi's hand from his chest.
"Lad, chiefly, I'm also not telling anyone what I feel, especially a lad who has a pencil on his nose when he is talking to me, ok? So let it drop. And, moreover, she has someone! And I told you that I'm not feeling anything for her, ok?" yelled Kyoya. Masumi made an 'oh, go on' expression on his face and looked at the pencil on his nose for some seconds then changed his eyes' attention to Kyoya,
"No, no, my friend (on a sarcastic voice) Ha-ha... No... You aren't solving any problem if you negate... Show her who the boss is. This is what these kinds of girls want to see. But be careful cause she may want to get the leadership and if she's doing this, you are over. I'm sure she also likes you. Look, Yo-yo, why don't you confess her in the store room? What would be so hard?" Kyoya got angry with this. "Then I wanna see you confessing Megumi in the store room when she'd already have someone!" Masumi blushed at this and let the pencil fall. "Well..."
"Masumi, where you were all this time? How the heck will you meet Megumi when you are looking like this?" a voice interrupted their discussion from behind. It was Masami, who got Masumi's ear and pulled him away. "You know girls need a lot of attention and..." And she started to babble about girls. Masumi rolled his eyes and started to yell she has to let his ear alone. Kyoya sweat dropped as the twins were quickly walking away, then discerning the stairs. Or just Masami was walking. Masumi got another pencil and tried to keep it in balance on his nose with indifference while Masami was pulling him.
"Ok, I have to go. Megumi is waiting for me. Ta-ta, Kyoya! See you, and don't forget you mustn't let anything unspoken." exclaimed Masumi with his last words. Kyoya sweat dropped again. Strange family... I met a swot... then a lunatic whizz-kid and his psychopath sister... First I thought that woman was a shrew... But I see she's also broken from the reality... Strange fellows. And I'm here, in my infinite wisdom...
He picked up Masumi's pencil and continued his way to Hyoma's room, but, when he opened the door, something surprised him... Hyoma was standing next to the window, and... man... Kyoya saw Satsuki was about to throw herself out. When he entered, she already did it. Hyoma smiled at this while Kyoya raised an eyebrow. "What's happening here?" Hyoma flung his head to Kyoya. "Look, Hyoma..." A sudden excited sound stopped Kyoya's words: "Yahoooooooooo!" That sound was fading away and Satsuki was appearing and disappearing from the window. "Satsuki and I are... jumping. A kind of." They are jumping when we are at the fourth floor? I think they doped their selves with marijuana... Man... How can you jump when you are at the fourth floor? Even with a special net and... Man... Again: strange fellows. Kyoya continued his sentence: "Look, Hikaru is sick and seems like I care about her more than you do. Actually, you have to go and buy these..." Kyoya gave him a list and, unexpected, Hyoma got it without any word. He left the room.
Kyoya sighed and looked on the window. Satsuki was still jumping. "Oh..." She falls and jumps back again. "You must be Kyoya..." She falls and jumps back again. "Do me a favor." (that happens again) "Tell me..." (again) "Hikaru is your girlfriend or Hyoma's girlfriend?" She falls and jumps back again, but Kyoya quickly caught her arm this time and pulled her inside. When Satsuki saw herself in her house again, she breathed freely. "Perfect. Now answer my question." she said panting. Kyoya just answered her. "Oh... So this means I have no chance with Hyoma. And I also wanna ask you... why do you care so much about her?" Kyoya kept a bit quiet, but he gave no sings that he will say something embarrassing. "You cannot understand because you don't know what happened between me and her." he said walking towards the window and looking outside. "She is just like me and I'm feeling the best when she's next to me. And... she changed a part of me and I'm surprised she succeeded in doing it. Even maybe it's a bit sore to see her again everyday... Anyway, you don't care about my regrets. But... (he turned around) the part with the jumping sounds good... How did you jump?" Satsuki smiled warmly to him. "Well..."
"Yahooooooooo!" exclaimed Kyoya. "Hikaru would love this!"