Okay, well I was supposed to have this up a LONG, LONG time ago, and I'm really sorry that I didn't. D: I've just been really busy and what-not, but, I finally got it up, so don't worry. :D
I do not own UtaPri or the Fall Out Boys.
Chapter three:
When Rome's in ruins, we are the lions
Free of the coliseums
In poison places, we are anti-venom
We're the beginning of the end
Tonight the foxes hunt the hounds
It's all over now before it has begun
We've already won
We are wild, we are like young volcanoes!
We are wild, Americana, exotica!
Do you wanna feel a little beautiful baby! Yeah!
A mixture of screams, squeals, and laughs filled the arcade, a large huddle of people crowded around a DDR machine, where two pairs of feet stomped and pressed down on the lit arrows on the metal floor.
Come on make it easy, say I never mattered
Run it up the flagpole
We will teach you how to make boys next door
Out of assholes
Tonight the foxes hunt the hounds
It's all over now before it has begun
We've already won
We are wild, we are like young volcanoes
We are wild, Americana, exotica
Do you wanna feel a little beautiful baby?
Yeah!
"You asshole! You totally cheated!" A playful shout came from Saiko once the song had faded out and ended, a laughing Reiji standing off to his left side. "No way! You can't cheat at DDR!"
"Knowing you, you would find a way!"
"That's offensive-Hey! Hey! Let me go!"
The girls in the crowd around the game machine broke out into squealing fits when the blonde grabbed Reiji from under his arms and slung him over his shoulder. "Put me down, dammit!"
"Nope~."
"Saiko!" The brunette was playfully struggling in his friend's arms, an obviously happy look on his face as he flailed his arms around.
Reiji hated to admit it, but he had really taken a liking to Saiko. Maybe it was because of how handsome the blonde was, or maybe just because of how close they had grown...he honestly didn't know. "Saikoooooo! I'm getting dizzy!" He exclaimed after Saiko had started spinning him around, the blonde chuckling a bit before carefully setting him back down on his feet, having to steady him before he toppled over. "I'm not used to hearing you all giggly~. You're normally all snappy and stuff."
Reiji blinked, that smile from before getting wiped clear off his face as he snapped, "Shut up. I don't giggle and don't say I do, you ass."
"And there it is."
Saiko chuckled, turning to look at the mob of people surrounding his and Reiji's game. "So which one of you lovely fans would like to play next~?"
"Oh, oh me!"
"No, pick me!"
"I wanna' play with Reiji!"
"Alright then, how about you, in the-"
"Hey, where did he go?!"
"Yeah, where did Reiji go?!"
Saiko blinked in surprise when he heard a few girls in the crowd begin to get all demanding and irritable, his bright blue eyes drifting off to his side, where Reiji should've been. "What the-...where the hell did he go?"
"Hey! Let me go you asshole!"
Pale fingers had wrapped around Reiji's wrist and yanked him away from his game when Saiko had gotten the crowd distracted.
Said brunette was forced to follow after the stranger. [It just would've been nice if he didn't have his back to him and he didn't gave a grey hood covering his head.] "God dammit, let go!"
"Not a chance."
Reiji couldn't help but blink when he was spoken to.
That voice...that voice sounds really familiar...
The stranger didn't release Reiji until they had made it all the way down the empty hallway at the back of the building, which was decorated with shiny brown wood walls, unlike the actually arcade area, which was filled with so much colour and carpet that it could give any sensitive sighted person a seizure. "What the hell was that about?!" The brunette demanded, a sigh coming from the man in front of him before he turned around and pulled his hood down.
Silver eyes widened and Reiji's breath hitched at the sight of those heterochromatic orbs and that silver-hair he had seen many times in his life. "Ran-ran...?" He couldn't help the shock that filled his voice.
"You-...you idiot! What the hell are you doing hanging around that guy?!" Ranmaru didn't even bother to start with greetings, he was getting right down to the point. "Excuse me?" Reiji's eyes slowly narrowed. "What the fuck are you talking about?"
This time, it was Ranmaru's turn to be shocked. He had not expected to hear such vulgar language come from his ex-band member, but he quickly shook the sudden surprise off and continued, "Saiko! Why the hell are you hanging around him?!"
"He's my friend, of course I'm going to-..." Reiji cut himself off, looking up at the silver-head and meeting his eyes. "Wait...how the hell do you know Saiko?"
"Saiko? You mean that psychopath that you let put his hands on you? Saiko? That asshole you seem to have made such good friends with? The psychotic man-whore that gets pleasure out of screwing around with others? THAT Saiko?" Ranmaru's voice quickly turned low and manacing as he took a few steps forward, backing the brunette up against the wall. "That son of a bitch reuined my last band by fucking a bunch of whores and losing sight of what real music is."
Reiji didn't offer much of a reaction, even when he found himself trapped between the wall and Ranmaru. "Saiko's not like that." He said. "Yes, he is. That's just who he is. What, has he been playing all 'mister nice guy' with you?"
"He hasn't been 'playing' anything. It's a shame you seem to be stuck on such a stupid and idiotic assumption, Ran-Ran, but sorry, Saiko is nothing like you."
It took a few moments for the silver-head to comprehend what the brunette had just said to him, but when he did, he hissed, taking a hold of Reiji's wrists and pinning them to the wall beside his head. "You listen here Reiji and you better listen well; that guy is a complete and utter player. Understand? He toys with other people for sex. If he's being nice to you, he's obviously doing it to get in your head." He said in a low, dangerous tone.
"Didn't I just tell you, he's not like that!" Reiji claimed, stiffening when Ranmaru's body pressed more firmly against his own, keeping him held in place. "Dammit, let me go!"
"Not until you listen!"
"Why do you seem to care so much anyway?! I left out on my own for an entire year and you didn't care then! Why now?!"
That took the silver-head a back.
"I-..." He frowned. Why was he bothering with this? "That's right...you don't care. Now let me go you ass."
Ranmaru grunted but actually did as he was told, releasing the brunette and backing away from him. "Fine. Get your ass raped. See if I care." He scoffed, Reiji rubbing his reddened wrists. "Saiko doesn't look at me like that, so you can fuck right off."
Reiji turned to leave, but was stopped when his arm was grabbed. "For the love of god, what?!"
"That whole DDR tournament...What happens if someone beats you?"
Reiji turned his head a bit to glance at the silver-head. "...They win an entire day with me..." He said slowly. "Why?"
Ranmaru slowly released his arm, looking away and crossing his arms over his chest. "I came here for a reason ya'know."
"And what was that reason? To terrorize the drummer of my band?"
"No, but I'll tell you when I beat your ass in DDR."
"...I hate you. I hate you so much right now."
An obviously irritated Reiji was glaring over at a smirking Ranmaru, who had his arms folded behind his head. "Told ya' I would beat you. Now don't be a sore loser."
"I don't want to spend an entire day with the likes of you."
"You're not such a walk in the park now either." Glares that were sharp enough to cut through the atmosphere were exchanged until a patch of blonde and red hair jumped up onto the game and hugged Reiji from behind. "Ran-Ran, I didn't know you were the one that was playing with my Rei-chan~! Oh, it's so good to see you again!" Saiko said with a sickly sweet smile, Ranmaru's eye twitching and his mood growing more and more sour when Reiji only sighed and leaned back into the blonde's hold. "Oh save it." He scoffed.
"What~? Are you still Mister Grumpy Puss today~?"
"Shut up. Only because you-"
"I've done nothing wrong and I've done nothing to provoke you being so angry with me~." Saiko hummed, looking down when Reiji looked up at him. "Ran-Ran said you ruined his last band and were fucking around with prostitutes..."
"Oh, did he~? Why, I would never do such a thing!" The blonde gasped, giving off a believable, shocked look. "Why would I ever degrade my manliness in such a way?"
"That's what I thought." Reiji said with a sigh, prying himself from Saiko's arms and turning his attention back to Ranmaru. "You better have one hell of a day planned or the deal's off."
"Yeah, yeah. C'mon, before your manager stops distracting all of those fans of yours."
Without waiting for a response, Ranmaru took a hold of Reiji's wrist and dragged him off the metal floor of the DDR game, pulling him back out the front door of the building. To tell you the truth, he just wanted to get as far away from Saiko as possible.
"It's too bad he's still mad about what I did...I wouldn't mind having him and Rei-chan all to myself." Saiko said with a sigh as he watched his ex-band member drag Reiji out of the arcade.
"Hey, you're going to get me seen." Reiji said in a surprisingly calm tone as Ranmaru dragged him off down the street. "Oh relax, it's around lunch hour, everyone here in Tokyo is busy stuffing their face at some cheap restaurant." Ranmaru said with a roll of his eyes, blinking and having to come to a stop when Reiji dug his heels into the ground. "What?"
"I wanna go back to my apartment."
"What-?! What the hell?! Why?!"
"Because, I really just wanted to sit around my living room in my pajamas for the rest of the day..." The brunette said, Ranmaru noticing the bit of longing that flashed through his pools of bright silver before they returned to their normal carefree state.
Why...am I even considering giving him what he wants...? The silver-head thought, a frown slowly tugging at the corner of his lips.
This was weird. Really fucking weird. It was like he was actually caring about Reiji's feelings for once.
"...Fine."
Reiji blinked is surprise, totally not expecting Ranmaru to give in. "Really? You're not just fucking with me?"
"Yes, I mean it." Ranmaru sighed before mumbling, "And stop swearing so much...it doesn't suit you."
"Eh?"
"Nothing. Where's your apartment?"
"Down the-...you know what, how about I just lead?"
Ranmaru found himself blinking when Reiji wiggled his wrist out of his grip and took his hand, walking in front of him and leading him off towards the end of the street.
He didn't bother-or even want- to argue about the sudden touch, so he just let his fingers lace with the brunette's as he was shown the way back to where his ex-band member had been living for so long.
"What floor do you live on?" Ranmaru could be heard asking Reiji as they stood in front of a set of closed elevator doors, the silver-eyed male watching the numbers above the doors slowly go down, showing that the elevator was slowly working its way down to their floor to pick them up. "The thirteenth."
"Why the thirteenth?"
Reiji shrugged. "The number is just easy to remember."
Ranmaru didn't bother to ask questions and just waited quietly with his 'friend' until the metal doors eased open, Reijii stepping in first and him following soon after. He went ahead and pressed the button with the number 13 en-carved into it and watched as the doors closed back before leaning against one of the cold metal walls, Reiji doing the same. "How big is your apartment?" He asked out of curiosity, figuring it would be best to make small talk. "Ah, actually fairly big...and it's really cozy too, so I really like it." Reiji responded simply, focusing his attention on the elevator doors, as if he was waiting for them to hurry up and open, which he was.
If you looked closely enough, you could see that he was actually fairly tense. His arms may be folded over his chest, but his fingers were tightly grasping the fabric covering both of his upper arms.
"Hey, something wrong?"
Reiji looked up when Ranmaru spoke to him, responding to him with a shake of the head and a small, "No. Nothing's wrong."
That answer didn't seem to sit well with Ranmaru, because he kept his attention locked on the brunette up until the elevator gave a sharp jerk and forcefully stopped, nearly sending both him and Reiji crashing to the floor. "What the hell happened?" Said brunette asked, Ranmaru frowning. "I think it broke down on us..."
"The elevator is experiencing a few technical difficulties. Please remain calm and wait for further assistance." A calm, feminine voice called from the speaker hanging above the elevator's control panel.
"Well this sucks..." Ranmaru groaned, letting his attention drift back over to Reiji. "Hey...Reiji?"
The brunette's fingers were now visibly digging into his arms, his eyes filled with a mixture of panic and worry.
"Reiji, we'll be fine..." The silver-head said in a calm, slow tone, noticing the way Reiji was beginning to tremble.
He frantically shook his head, digging his fingers father into his arms and slowly sliding down so that he was sitting against the wall with his knees pulled up.
"...Hey, are you-...claustrophobic?"
"N-n-no..."
"Reiji..." Ranmaru let out an audible sigh, making his way over to sit down against the wall next to the brunette. He reached out and let one arm wrap around the back of Reiji's neck, pulling his head down onto his shoulder. "Relax, we'll be fine..." He quietly said in a gentle tone, letting his fingers run through Reiji's surprisingly soft hair. "N-no w-we wont..." The brunette said in a shaky tone. "W-we'll be in here forever...A-and the walls will close in on us...!"
"The walls wont close in on us. We'll be fine."
Ranmaru was about to say something else when Reiji didn't respond, but was cut off when the brunette moved to be sitting in his lap, his knees on either side of the silver-head's hips and his face buried in his chest. "Reiji-?"
"Please...please hold me...j-just until we get out...please...I-I'm scared..." Reiji's voice barely above a whisper, his fingers grasping the front of Ranmaru's shirt.
The silver-head had never seen the twenty-five year old in such a state, not even when he had still been a part of Quartet Night. So now that he got the chance to see him so scared, he felt his heart ache a bit more then he expected it to.
"A-...alright..." He slowly let his arms wrap around Reiji entirely, pulling him closer and resting his chin on top of his head, letting his eyes close.
"We'll be fine, I promise."
Well, this is where this chapter ends! Thank you so much for all of the reviews, and I promise I wont take as long with the next chapter!
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