Title: Things that change for better or for worse
Chapter 27: Confronting the Change 4
By: Sissy

Disclaimer: DRRR shall never belong to me otherwise there'd be more yaoi.
Warning: Laugh!

"Wake up! Mikado, wake up!" Masaomi gave Mikado some light slaps, knowing that Anri and the doctor in charge of Mikado would probably kill him if he hurt his best friend. He heard the other whimper in pain before opening his eyes.

"Masaomi, that hurts… I can't even move… Why…?" Mikado asked and he held in his breath when he saw the taller blond behind his best friend. Tears had begun to form in his eyes and Masaomi felt the hand he held starting to pull back.

"Don't you dare! Both of you are going to have a good sit down right now! I told you to fix your problems! Now talk!" Masaomi pushed Shizuo in front of him and walked over to Anri to watch over the conversation. The friend at his side noticed how Masaomi's foot tapped the ground repeatedly, a sour look on his face. She realized that whatever Masaomi had on his mind was really important. At least, much more than she originally imagined.

Shizuo stared at Mikado's eyes and watched the first tear fall down his cheek. He had almost reached out for it but stopped himself before doing anything. "…ry…" Mikado's soft voice caught his attention. "I'm so sorry, Shizuo…san…"

"Why are you apologizing? I'm the one who forced you to run away from even your friends." Shizuo tried to calm himself. This wasn't the way he wanted to have the conversation. He felt it was much too forced, but there were many obstacles that would impede his escape.

"No… I stupidly did that… I just didn't notice how much I… Just really enjoyed baking for you…" Masaomi stopped for a moment and realized something very important. The things in his head started making sense. Memories from their university days flashed by in just a few seconds. Schoolwork, lunch, and every other random thing clicked.

It wasn't long before Masaomi screamed out at the top of his lungs, "WHAT?"

Anri nearly jumped out of her skin when Masaomi had screamed. Mikado and Shizuo were surprised and had now looked over to him. All four failed to hear something fall on the other side of the door behind Masaomi and Anri.

"An affair? All this because you had a secret affair for ten years?" Anri made the calculations in her head and simply assumed that Masaomi was somehow including the six years Mikado was gone for in the ten he mentioned.

"It wasn't an affair!" Shizuo screamed at him but Masaomi lifted his hand to stop him from speaking out.

"It WAS an affair. I always wondered why Mikado felt so secretive during our time at the university. He said he was baking because it helped him study. I teased him a bit but I never knew it was this serious. You took advantage of him when he was drunk! That's why he ran away!" Pointing an accusatory finger at Shizuo, he didn't hear the squeal coming from behind him. Anri had though, and looked behind her to see the edge of Mairu's body.

"Wha-what makes you think that I would…?" Shizuo shut his mouth when he noticed both Masaomi and Anri's shocked face. Looking back at Mikado, he saw the red face the other had. Now he knew he had revealed too much. Somehow, he thought he heard Erika squealing in the distance.

"Wait, wait, wait! I know I should make fun of Mikado for acting like the man, but the point of the matter is that, WHAT? All this because of a drunken night of passion?" Masaomi was sure he heard Erika having a giggle fit behind him but he didn't care if he was making her BL dreams come true.

Anri thought it best to interject at some point but she was having a hard time doing so. Part of her agreed with Masaomi and the other part was simply worried that she might lose control of the situation. Eventually, her lips started moving. "Kida-kun, why do you keep talking about Ryugamine-kun being drunk?"

"Huh?" Masaomi turned to her for a moment, not noticing how both Mikado and Shizuo tried to hide their faces. "You don't remember? Well, we were all pretty wasted that night. You know, on the last semester of our fourth year when Mikado won that competition. I dropped him near some place that wasn't his apartment and he was really happy to go there."

"Oh…" Somehow, Anri couldn't remember much about the night Masaomi was talking about but she did remember they had been celebrating something. "Oh." She suddenly blushed at the implication Masaomi had been talking about in regards to Mikado and Shizuo. For the moment, Anri decided to keep quiet.

"Anyways! What do you have to say for yourself?" Masaomi pointed the finger at the two who seemed to have no words either. "Ooh, fine! Saki!"

"What is it, Masaomi?" From behind the two came Saki, as the other peepers from behind the door tried to hide themselves from view.

"Set the date!" He gave the order to his girlfriend, who smiled in return.

"It's already done." She replied and he looked surprised. "I assumed you would be pestering Mikado-san until he gave in so I made the call the day we met at the train station."

"You make me so happy, Saki!" Masaomi cheered, leaving the rest confused. Suddenly, he quickly turned to Mikado with a serious face. "Say yes, Mikado! I'm not letting you shy away from this! Me and Saki have been more than patient about this! Hell, even Chikage-san found out! So say yes to being my best man!"

Silence dropped down like an axe on a guillotine and Saki was the first to cough in it.

"You're getting married? Ugh!" Mikado coughed due to speaking too fast and the fact that he was in pain. He had also tried getting up but fell back. Shizuo had almost run to him but stopped himself.

"Um…congratulations…?" Anri seemed confused about whether she should be saying that at the moment considering everything that was happening.

"Congrats you useless host!" Mairu burst in with Aoba and Chikage, all of them with a bright smile on their faces. The four in the room, aside from Saki, were surprised but Masaomi recovered quickly.

"I resent the comment but thanks! After all, I've saved up enough for like three ceremonies!" Masaomi laughed loudly and joined the three as the rest who waited out in the hallway started pouring in.

It seemed as though both Shizuo and Mikado were completely forgotten for the moment. Suddenly, they saw Erika glancing their way with a wicked smile. A shudder fell down their backs as they saw the woman move the conversation in quickest way possible. "We need to celebrate this! Everyone out of the room so we can go eat! I'm sure Simon will give us a special when he hears about this!"

With the help of Walker and Kyohei, who personally wanted to give Mikado some rest, everyone slowly exited the room until Shizuo was alone with Mikado. But before either could say anything else, Erika and Kasuka came into the room, left a camera recording said room, and quickly went after the rest of the party.

Shizuo was shocked and stomped towards the cameras before turning them off, all the while murmuring curses at his brother and the meddlesome people.

To Be Continued…