Time's Chain

by Kurara

Comments: The third part ^^ More charas... C/C is appreciated, as
usual ^^
Happy holidays you American people ;p

~Kurara
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Part 3

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Going down the stairs of the mansion, Kaoru looked over and saw
something in the middle of the ballroom. Frowning, he picked up his pace and
investigated. //A girl?// His eyes adjusted to the dark after a time
and he gasped as he recognized the face. //Toshiya!// Sitting down
next to the bishonen, Kaoru ran his hand over Toshiya's face. //The
same...// Kaoru almost smiled. //He looks so pure and innocent.// He kept
trailing his fingers lightly down the side of Toshiya's face,
unconciously, mesmerized by the well fromed face.

After a while, his fingers made their way to Toshiya's lips. He felt
the soft petals and the breath that came through them, tracing along the
top, then the bottom lip. Toshiya's eyebrows began to twitch, and
Kaoru retracted his hand. "Toshiya?" He started to brush his hand against
the side of Toshiya's face again as his face softened.

Toshiya blinked awake, confused. "Kyo?"

"No." Kaoru whispered, shaking his head.

Toshiya recognized the voice and sat up. "Kaoru?!"

"Hai." Kaoru nodded, then gasped as Toshiya threw himself on him into
a tight hug.

"I made it back!" Toshiya smiled widely. "I don't know how, but I
made it!"

Kaoru pulled back a bit. "Toshiya, where'd you go? What was that?
Magic? Why didn't you come back sooner?"

//Magic? Does he think I'm a witch? Do witches still have all that
bad... wait, that's America...// "Well, I'm... I'm not from here..."

"But what happened when you faded."

"I went home." He lifted up the ruffles on the dress and pulled out a
bag he had velcro-ed into the inside (Cuz Toshiya is nifty and
resourceful like that! ^^). He opened it and dumped the contents on the floor.

"Toshiya? What's this?" Kaoru starred at the items through the dark.

Toshiya smiled. "I knew I would need proof if I told you where I truly
was from." He picked up a Pocky box. "This is Pocky, a famous snack
food." He opened up the box and put a stick in his mouth before
offering one to Kaoru. "Try it." He grinned.

Kaoru politely took the stick and examined it quizically. "You just
eat it?"

Toshiya nodded and quickly ate his Pocky. Then, he lifted up his
discman, putting a Baiser CD in. "This is the music that my father and his
friends do." Turning the volume on full, Toshiya didn't have to have
Kaoru use the headphones as he pressed play on Prisme. He jumped up and
started singing along, mimicking Yukari in the PV until Kaoru brought
him down again. Toshiya smiled. "My father plays bass, his koi is
vocals--"

"What is this?"

"Music!"

Kaoru shook his head. "That is not music. Music is with the piano,
not with that machine."

Toshiya smiled. "Only classical music is like that! And this is a
discman, it plays music that people played and then captured into a CD."
He took out the CD. "On this is a recording of people doing music."

Kaoru lifted an eyebrow. "So you remember your past? You got your
memory back?"

Toshiya bit his lip. "I never lost my memory, Kaoru, I just knew that
I couldn't tell everyone where I was from without proof, so I had to
say that so I wouldn't be locked up in an institution." He took some
pictures out. "This is a picture of my home. It's down the hill a bit."

"I can't see it. It's too dark." Kaoru complained.

Toshiya shoved up the sleeve of his dress and pressed the button on the
side of his watch, shining light on the picture as Kaoru gasped. There
was a picture of Toshiya's house and six people. Toshiya pointed to
each person. "That's me, that's my father, his name is Shaisuke, that's
his koi, Yukari, that's Katsura, that's Mizuki, and that's Rei.
They're friends of my father and Yukari."

"What about your mother?"

"My mother? She... she was a stripper my dad met in a bar."

Kaoru gace another shocked face and he forgot to breathe. "A
stripper?"

Toshiya hit his head. "Well, you do know WHAT a stripper is, right?"

Kaoru nodded.

"Well, they are common where I'm from. My father slept with one and
when she had me, he knew that he was my dad. She didn't want to support
me, so my dad took me in and he and Yukari raise me." Toshiya smiled.

//What type of a place does he come from? Strippers? COMMON?! Maybe
he's a demon from Hell? That could explain the horrid excuse for
music!// Kaoru sweat dropped.

"Anyway, see, we dress differently from you all, see how much skin
shows? That's common."

//Sinners! All of them! Gah! Maybe this is a sign that this house is
evil and we need to change?//

"And this," he picked up another picture, "is Tokyo in my time."

"Your time?"

Toshiya nodded. "See, I'm from here, just... one hundred years later."

//That explains it. The world spirals toward destruction and poor
Toshiya is caught in the dumps of it!//

Toshiya blinked, gazing at Kaoru's expression. "What's wrong?"

Kaoru pulled Toshiya into himself and held him. "Don't go back."

"What?!"

"Whatever it was that you did to go back last time, don't do it again!"
He closed his eyes. "Your times seems like Hell. Stay here."

Toshiya bit his lip. "I... I don't know how to control it."

Kaoru breathed in Toshiya's scent. "Then, try to stay, best you can,
or take me with you."

Toshiya gasped. //He's acting so romantic... does he...//

"Kaoru?" Shinya's voice called. "Are you down here?"

"H-hai!" Kaoru called up, but felt stupid as he saw Shinya with a
candle, gasping as he saw Toshiya. "Toshiya! You came back!" He sat next
to them. "Why'd you wait so long?"

"So long?"

"It's been a year!"

Toshiya's eyes widened. "A year?! I was only gone for a day!"

Shinya cocked his head. "No, you left a year ago."

Kaoru looked to Shinya. "Shinya, you trust me, right?"

Shinya nodded. "Absolutely."

"Then dont' question this, but Tohsiya is... from the future." Kaoru
said seriously.

Shinya raised an eyebrow. "O... kay..." He scratched his head. "I've
heard stranger things before..." He looked to Toshiya. "So, how far?"

"I'm from the year two-thousand."

Shinya nodded slowly. "Okay... and how did you get here?"

Toshiya remembered that he was still in Kaoru's embace, so he relaxed
into him, feeling Kaoru hold on tighter. "I don't know. The first time
I came here I was dancing in this mansion and I tripped and blacked
out. When I came to, I was here. Somehow I got back and in the next day
I came back here and now, somehow I'm back."

"For how long?" Shinya asked.

"I don't know." Toshiya whispered.

***

Kaoru peered into Toshiya's room in the morning, making sure the young
man was still in there. Smiling inwardly, he closed the door and
walked to the kitchen. Upon entering, he saw a familiar face, and he dawned
with dread. "Ryu!" //If Ruy is here then Sugizo...//

As if his thoughts summoned him, Sugizo walked in and sat next to Ryu,
his man servant. Sugizo pouted at Kaoru's frown. "Good morning
Kaoru." He said smuggly.

"Good morning, Sugizo." Kaoru replied in as much a polite voice as he
could manage. Ryu snuggled up on Sugizo and Sugizo made no outward
sign of his appreciation of the attention. Kaoru felt sick thinking of
them and what they did when everyone WASN"T looking. Mana unfortunetly
allowed Sugizo to stay with them because he was also like them all.
Kaoru hated being around Sugizo. The first time that Sugizo had come by,
he tried to seduce Mana and Gackt simultaneously. He also tried to
push himself onto Shinya. As of yet, he hadn't done anything to Kaoru
though. "What brings you here today, Sugizo?"

"I hear Die is out of state on business. I've come to... help out
Shinya if he needs it."

//I'll help you you bastard.// Kaoru frowned. "That's not necessary.
He has me."

"You can't help him." Sugizo said with a glint in his eyes.

"I can help him more than anyone, so don't burden yourself."

"Ah, in that you are wrong, Kaoru. You don't know what Shinya needs
and wants."

"What ever Shinya has trouble with he comes to Die or I for and that's
ALL he'll ever need." Kaoru clenched his fists.

"Ah, young Ka-- oh, and who is this?" Sugizo stood up and walked to
the door way.

Kaoru turned and saw Toshiya walk in clad only in a shirt. "TOSHIYA!"

Sugizo licked his lips and advanced onto Toshiya. Toshiya's breathing
picked up with the sexy man close to him. Sugizo placed a hand on his
shoulder that made it's way across the back and to the other shoulder
as he pressed himself up on the bishonen. Sugizo placed his mouth near
Toshiya's ear and breathed hot air into it. "Hiya sexy."

Toshiya melted and his knees seemed to give out. "H-hi..."

Kaoru threw Sugizo off of Toshiya and caught the man before he fell to
the ground. "Toshiya!"

Toshiya looked up with dreamy eyes. "He..."

"Toshiya!"

Sugizo started laughing. "Well, To-shi-ah, I'll visit you tonight."

Kaoru glared at Sugizo. //Not if I can help it.// "Toshiya! Snap out
of it."

"I'm going for a walk, Kaoru. Ryu, come!" He started to laugh again
as he left, Ryu trailng behind him.

"Toshiya!" Toshiya still looked up at Kaoru. //It's like a bad
romance novel...// He rolled his eyes. "Toshiya..." He closed his eyes and
brought his lips down on the younger man's.

Toshiya snapped out of the fascination that he had with Sugizo and
opened his eyes breifly, seeing that it was Kaoru that was kissing him. He
closed his eyes and brought his arms around Kaoru, deepening the kiss.

Kaoru gasped and pulled away. "What was that?"

Toshiya pouted. //Note to self, no tongue.//

***

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