First off, I'M SO SORRY I haven't updated this story as frequently as I would've liked. But I'm glad to see most of you seem to be enjoying it! :D Not gonna lie, this chapter has some crack in it. Thank you so much for all of your reviews, favorites, follows and views. I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm taking all of your ideas into account when I'm writing and I'm so happy to know that most of the characters seem in character! I truly appreciate it! :) As always, enjoy the read!
-2:30 am-
It was 2:30am. The brothers had to make two separate trips to get up to the fifth floor, the first ride of five brothers and second of six. Unfortunately, during that time they came to the realization that their flashlight was dead, probably from the consistent use from Wataru making shadow-puppets along the dark walls when they had stopped to figure out a plan.
Now, up on the fifth floor, everyone seemed anxious. The spaciousness of the fifth floor seemed to add to the anxiety; the darkness of every corner, wall and furniture further added possible hiding spots for the robber.
Slowly, they descended the stairs from the upper-level of the fifth floor, making their way for the den and kitchen; Yusuke and Subaru careful to not cause noise with the weapons they still held in tow.
When the brothers approached the kitchen they could see a tiny light illuminating the space. There was rustling from inside the fridge as they slowly crept over. There, they could see a man with a flashlight, not enough light to illuminate his face, but with just enough to see what was inside the fridge.
He's stealing our... food? Masaomi thought, gripping Wataru's tiny hand in his own and keeping his other hand covering the boy's mouth in hope that the boy wouldn't announce their presence.
Upon seeing the burglar go through the fridge, without a second thought, Yusuke immediately made a rush for him holding his bat followed by Subaru with the folding chair. But Kaname beat both of them with his impressive quickness.
"Hey! That looks like fun!" Fuuto proclaimed watching the two brothers run towards the robber, snatching Wataru's pillow from his hands and joining in on the gang up.
Basically, the whole room erupted into chaos.
The robber yelped in surprise as he was tackled to the ground by Kaname, the flashlight he had been holding in his mouth now rolled onto the ground and illuminated the others watching. Which was quickly followed by a battle cry erupting from Yusuke as he hit the man already held down by his older brother, and proceeded to smack practically everywhere else on his body. Combine that with Subaru's constant chair beating and you sure had one hell of a mess. But this was nothing compared to Fuuto's angry pillow smacking, him laughing all the while and venting his repressed anger from the scare he had experienced earlier onto his creeper.
Tsubaki made a break for the landline, running and hopping over the counter while Azusa made a break for the elevator to get to the phone booth outside, now putting their plan into motion knowing there was a robber truly present.
Iori watched along with Ukyo, who was having an extreme headache from the possible lawsuit they were risking, making sure the robber didn't harm the other four brothers while Masaomi attempted to hold back Wataru from running in to join in on the fight, the young boy now freely yelling encouragement to his older brothers beating the shit out of the robber.
Louis was still sleepy and completely ignored the gang up, instead handing the curling iron he had brought to Iori and making his way to the sofa a few steps out of the way of the scene, completely crashing and falling asleep as the beating continued.
"U-Uncle!" the robber screamed, his voice coated with agony as Yusuke made the unfortunate aim for the man's crotch.
Hey, I know that voice... Iori thought reaching down to pick up the flashlight that had rolled over to them and aiming it at the robber.
Hikaru!? They all exclaimed in unison at the sight of the beaten brother, still gripping the sandwich he had taken from the fridge and dressed in his womanly clothing.
Realizing this, Kaname quickly backed off from holding down the man's body and the others ceased their beating, except Fuuto who was still enraged and blinded by his own personal trauma and kept beating the poor man with the fluffy pillow.
The cross-dresser had big purple and blue welts covering his face (and probably other places) along with cuts and bruises from the legs of the folding chair, but managed to force out a smile before receiving another fluffy blow to the face.
Finally, Tsubaki approached the angry fifteen year old and gripped his rising arm tightly before he could add another blow, and snatched the pillow from him.
Without any other attackers, Hikaru managed to sit up with support from the back of his arms.
"H-how's everyone?" he stuttered out before almost collapsing from the pain that rocked his joints, luckily being caught by Masaomi and dragged to the couch along with help from the other brothers.
"What are you doing here Hikaru?" Ukyo calmly asked the man as he was laid gently onto the sofa.
"Ah well ya see..." Hikaru began, stopping suddenly as he let out a hiss of pain from Masaomi padding on alcohol to clean the wounds he had received, "It's actually a long story."
Kaname snatched Subaru's folding chair from his hands and proceeded to sit down, "We've got time."
Hikaru let out a sigh, "So I was walking back to my car after doing my...," The cross-dresser glanced at innocent little Wataru, "My... uh 'job.' So, there I was, a beauty covered in rain and looking for a warm, comforting place. I was saddened by the results I had gathered that day and it didn't help when I entered my car to find it wouldn't start."
No wonder he writes novels Subaru thought He's dramatizing this way too much
"I screamed to the sky, my fists hitting the horn in the process of my grief. It was then that a man ran out from his apartment, relatively close to where I had parked, and approached me."
"I'm sure he was confused." Fuuto chuckled, remembering that his brother was still dressed in his 'working' attire.
Hikaru glanced at Wataru again, who was watching him, wide-eyed and restless; waiting for what came next.
"I didn't notice it but the man was a magician!" Wataru's eyes sparkled upon hearing this.
"He summoned a beautiful lightning unicorn right in front of my eyes! The... 'Unibolt' as he called it, was very kind and used it's lightning magic to restart my car!"
"Really?! That's so cool!" Wataru yelled out of amazement.
"But I was more amazed that such a magnificent creature was standing before me, so I ditched the car and rode the Unibolt all the way ba-"
He was cut off when Iori stated, rather bluntly, "So basically this guy was kind enough to help you get a jump start on your car with just enough power to drive here."
The wounded man's eyes darted to the blue haired boy and gave him a death glare that practically screamed Don't ruin this poor kid's dreams!
Nevertheless, the injured man continued, "It was then that I realized I was ungodly hungry...which reminds me, someone hand me the sandwich I had."
Reluctantly, Tsubaki stood up and retrieved the sandwich, which had been left on the ground; and handed it to his brother.
"Mm so I drove to the closest place that I knew had free food, desperate for some midnight munchies," Hikaru said in-between chews, "and so I traveled here."
"Why couldn't you just get some fast-food?" Yusuke questioned, "I mean you didn't have to drive ALL the way here just to find something to eat."
Despite still being injured and hardly able to move, Hikaru managed to put his hands on his hips, "You know a working girl needs her food! Plus the best food is free." he retorted, adding some womanly sass with it, he glanced teasingly at Fuuto, "And I wanted to get a chance to see at least one of my dear brothers."
Fuuto snapped.
"YOU ARROGANT, CREEPING ASSHOLE!" Fuuto fumed, reaching over and grabbing Hikaru by the collar, "Do you even know how traumatized I became from that?!"
Iori quickly grabbed Fuuto and restrained him before he could go on another rampage again.
Hikaru smiled evilly, a flash of lightning illuminating his smile, "I just wanted to say hi~!"
"You know an idol needs his beauty sleep!" Fuuto responded arrogantly, giving his hair a casual flip and glaring back when he was released from the other boys arms, "unlike you, unaccomplished writer; I have people to please with my work. Or should I even give you the self-absorbed pleasure of even being titled a 'writer?' You're more like a raging transvestite on her pe-"
"That's enough you two." Ukyo said sternly, cutting off Fuuto, who dodged the blond's gaze.
Kaname rubbed his head and gave a long, low yawn, "Still, you could have stopped by in the morning."
Hikaru simply nudged his shoulders up, "I was tired too, you know! I couldn't make it back to my house without eating."
Tsubaki huffed out with annoyance and stretched his arms, "I guess all we have to left to do is go back to bed."
"I was hoping something interesting was happening..." Yusuke added under his breath, almost sadendly.
The brothers began to disperse slowly making their way toward the elevator, leaving Louis sleeping on the couch with Hikaru, still in pain, next to him.
Suddenly, Subaru stopped in his tracks, his brows knit together as if thinking intently on something, "Does something seem... off?"
The brothers thought for a moment until Tsubaki practically screamed.
"Shit! Azusa's still outside! He doesn't know if we cau-" Tsubaki was cut off as the telephone from the landline rang, it's ringing echoing the whole room.
You thought it was over? OH HELL NO, the adventure's just starting! :D Serious stuff's gonna go down in the next chapter. Despite Hikaru not actually being the robber, there will most definitely be one later on. I'm sorry if Fuuto seems really uh... "hardcore" when it comes to anger and self-control. But in my mind he seemed like the equivalent of Yusuke (in terms of anger and age), just with wayyyy more pride and cockiness/arrogance. So it was funny putting him in a situation where he was scared shitless XD I actually had a different idea for this chapter, but I scrapped it. If you're curious to know, PM me. Also, I have NOTHING against transvestites, hell I love Grell from Black Butler and I adore Hikaru's character; so please don't believe that I do. Didn't you love Hikaru's story?
Natsume will be added soon to the little pot luck we got cooking up, I promise!
Thanks for reading! :)
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