Something like Suicide

Night Seventeen - 048

Friday

1:23 A.M.

February 17

Otoya stared at the cup in front of him that was filled with hot coco. His oldest brother was in the other room chatting away with his new friend while Otoya was left with the blue hair male he had bumped into. The two had sat there is silence for about three hours, since Reiji came home. And honestly it took everything Otoya had not to yawn. He could tell that the other man, Tokiya as the silver haired man had called him, was bored. He stared at the calendar on the wall.

"So." Tokiya spoke up, frustration apparent in his voice. He even looked upset with his arms crossed tightly over his chest. "What do you do for fun?"

"Nothing this lat usually." The redhead mumbled quietly. "I just hang out with Kaoru and Syo. Oh I forgot. You probably wouldn't know them. They are the-"

"I've met Syo Kurusu before. Although I have yet to met Kaoru." Tokiya interrupted.

"O-oh."

For another few minutes they sat there in silence. Otoya watched as Tokiya's eyes scanned the room. The red head scratched the back of his neck in nervousness.

"There really is nothing to do here." Tokiya stated plainly.

"Excuse me?" Ittoki said, offended.

The blue haired male looked back at the teen across the table. "No your home. I meant this town. I haven't been here long but it seems boring."

"Oh. Yeah, that's why I want to leave this town. Soon I'll leave and go to Tokyo."

Tokiya smiled. "Oh really. What do you plan to do once you leave here? Do you have family there or something? Seems kinda far away to go alone."

"No, no family there, but there's this amazing music college there."

"Maybe we should hang out some more. I use to live in Tokyo." The bluenette grinned for a moment, shifting his eyes away. There was no way he would tell the younger male how long ago it was he lived there.

Otoya smiled happily. "Sure!"

Ranmaru sighed from the living room. He knew that he shouldn't have brought Tokiya. Ichinose was the most awkward person to get to know. Ranmaru almost felt bad for sticking the youngest member of the household with the strange male. Almost...

"Kurosaki?" Reiji's worried gray eyes looked at his from the side. His brown hair hung limply and dripped slightly with water. "Are you feeling okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine." He paused before smoothly continuing. "I was just feeling bad for sticking your brother with my friend."

"I'm sure it's not a problem. Otoya will warm up to him in time. He'll probably start talking about music then nothing can stop him. Anyways enough of Otoya, How long are you planning to stay here?" Reiji asked Sliding into the stop next to him on the couch.

"Not long."

"Oh... that's t bad." the brunette looked disappointed.

"N-not that it's not nice here. You like it here?"

"Yeah..." Reiji said. "I haven't been anywhere else."

"Oh."

"Have you traveled much?"

"A little." Ranmaru blushed.

"You would probably get along with Cecil and Otoya. They both don't like this place much. Well Cecil is fine anywhere as long as he has is boyfriend with him."

"His boyfriend?" Ranmaru said a little shocked. Most people from the places he and Haruka's small family went were not open to those kind of relationships yet. But a small little village in the middle of nowhere accepted it normally.

"Oh, I didn't mean to offend you if you are... umm, homophobic."

"Not a-at all!" Kurosaki exclaimed standing from the couch.

Reiji practically beamed. "Oh okay."

The silver haired man sat down his face ten shades redder than he was before.

"Ai-chan!" Haruka called to the grumpy blue haired teen. She tried cheering him up earlier that day. But since she had told him not to visit his little blonde friend he had become increasingly annoyed at her. "Ai I know that you wanted to see Syo but he will come to us in his own time. I know he will." The last bit she mumbled to low for him to hear.

"How do you know?" His cheeks puffed out.

Haruka couldn't help but to think that he looked adorable like that. His slumped over the table with his favorite hoodie on, hand holding his face and the look he wore... Adorable!

"You came, even though you didn't want to at first."

"This is different."

Nanami laughed and pokes his cheek. He swatter her hand away, looking even more pissed than he was. "Don't worry, I've been doing this for much longer than you've been alive. I know how people think."

"How would you know that. Monsters aren't people."

"Aw, my precious Ai-chan, I wasn't always this way. And you can't think of us as monsters. We are still people, we are still alive."

"Hardly." Ai spat angerly.

"By that tone it doesn't sound like you want Syo to be one of us." Haruka's mood darkened.

"I-I don't know..."

"Ai it's time to accept what happened. If you can't how dare you ask to drag another into this kinda world." She stood from the arm of his chair, her hands crossing over her chest. Something she did when she got irritated.

"Haruka-sama..."

"Get over yourself and deal with it. I don't let just anybody join my family. I chose you. If you see us as monsters what does that make you? You left a family for this."

"I-I..."

Taking a step forward she ran her short nail against his pale cheek. "We can be monsters. But I choose not to be. We are what we are Ai. Take responsibility and grow up!" With that she turned on her heels and left him at their dinning room table to think.

And he did. Of his past, of his future, of the present with Haruka, and even with Syo. "I don't know what to do."