Another busy night for Club Extacy.
Two young men stood outside its luminous gate, hesitating.
The black hair man said in a low voice," Ko.. Kouichi... shou.. should we
really go in?"
" Yeah! Sure! There's nothing to be afraid of!" The blonde hair one tried to
make himself sound confident.
"..... that's what you said 10 minutes ago.."
So someone inside this club would have all the answers for their real
identity. Or their birth parents might even be here?? Both Kouichi and Junji
feared to find out the truth, which could be terrifying.
Suddenly Kouichi felt there's someone touching his butt.
He turned around fast and saw a really disgusting old face smiling at him at
a vulgar way.
" Hehehehe.. you two cuties are new to here right? Never saw you before..
hoho.. you got great thighs.."
" Take off your hand you dirty.." Kouichi flammed.
" Oh~~~ I like you even more when you are shy hoho! Come on let's go in
together.." The ojisan put one arm on Kouichi's waist and the other on
Junji's and pulled them into the club.
" Wait~~~ we.." Junji cried.
Just when they got in manager Hide came forward and said," Welcome welcome
Mr XXX (whatever) long time no see hohoho.. eh? These two are..?"
Mr XXX," Eh? Aren't they working for you?"
Junji," NO! We.. we.. we come here to.."
Kouichi," To find our real parents!"
"Hun??" Hide backed off fast, he hates troubles like that..
Kouichi quickly added," We.. were told by our.. mother that if we come to
this address, we would find out about our birth parents.. here is the sheet
that she gave us.."
Kouichi showed Hide the old, dirty piece of paper and Hide's face
instantaneously strickened.
"Ah.. this day has finally come" He murmured.
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About 20 years ( in earth time) ago.
One beautiful evening, Yoshiki, the younger brother of the ruler of Dark
Kindom, was taking a stroll in the woods around the Lake of Damnation.
He liked to be alone, and actually he was always left alone as well.
Although the brother of this kindom's ruler, uncle of the two young princes,
Yoshiki was more regarded as a weird, grumpy when disturbed loner who cared
only about writing poems and taking care of his vast rose garden. At times
people even forgot that such person existed in this place.
Yoshiki's quietness and aloofness for power, made people of Dark Kindom
wonder how he could really be the relative of their loud king and his two
sons. But Yoshiki's one characteristic wiped out such doubt from their
minds---- he was so NARCISSISTIC!!
No one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, could have any disrespect for his poems, nor his
girly voice, and NO WAY his nose! Just like how everyone in the Dark Kindom
knows that they should never talk about Prince Atsushi's dancing and Prince
Rayla's ears..
"What.. what are you going to do??!!"
A fearful, desperate cry disturbed Yoshiki's musing. He looked towards the
lake through the branches and leaves.
He saw, Prince Atsushi, Sir Imai and two guards surrounding Prince Rayla,
who was only one step away from the lake of Damnation.
"What are you hesitating about? My noble Prince Atsushi.." Sir Imai said in
a tender, soft voice.
"I.." As much as Prince Atsushi disliked his younger brother, he had never
killed anyone before. And the terrified look on Rayla's face made him even
more unsure of what to do.
"Do it. Finish him. Prince Atsushi. It would be you or him. Remember he
would destroy you one day!" Sir Imai had become more assertive.
With his teeth gritted, Atsushi pushed Rayla into the lake. Yoshiki let out
a little gasp. But no one heard him.
Then after begging in vain, the two guards were also pushed into the lake by
Sir Imai, the latter had a triumphant smile on his face.
And then they left.
"Ah.. if I quickly go trace them.. they could still be alive." Yoshiki
quickly made up his mind. He closed his eyes, and began trying to "feel" the
presence of his nephew.
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"Ouuuuuuuuuuch!!" Yoshiki descended from the space opening and hit on the
ground hard. It had been a long time since he last used his power and he had
become clumsy.
He managed to stand up, masaging his butt, he looked around. " So here
is... Earth.. I traced their "presence" up to here.. now where are they?"
Yoshiki was confused, as he was expecting to find three unconcious bodies
lying side by side on the ground ( if life could be so easy!) but all he
could see here was a deserted openfield with piles of junks scattered all
over the place.
"Weird..." He murmured.
Then he saw some faint, eerie light coming from the top of the junk moutain.
With some effort, he climbed up there and saw two infants lying beside each
other.
"They can't be.." Yoshiki was shocked but then he caught a glumpse of the
black symbol representing the Dark Kindom flashed on the two infants'
forehead, before it quickly disappeared.
"So... they experienced some distortion of time when they passed through the
lake of damnation..?"
But where was Prince Rayla!! The symbol that briefly appeared on the two
infants' forehead only proved that they were citizens of the Dark Kingdom,
but the sign that represents royal family was not there..
"Gua!!" A horrifying shriek came from behind and as Yoshiki quickly turned
around, he saw a red, bird-like creature circling on the sky, looking down
at him with its evil "eyes". Though Yoshiki had never seen such creature
before he believed it must had come from the "enemy". He quickly collected
the two infants into his lap and started to run.
Yoshiki was running in a speed that he believed, not more than 3 people in
the whole Dark Kingdom could match. But as he raised his head he could see
that he hadn't be able to get rid of the creature! It was still about 10
meters away from him. Yoshiki kept running and running in the dark, alien
streets until he dodged into a narrow, crampy alley and temporately escaped
from the creature's tracing.
" Damn! I can't run fast enough with these two on me! And if we got caught
together by whoever is after me.. it would be hopeless.."
Yoshiki found a piece of paper on the ground, he then looked up and saw a
little, shabby bar with a sign reading " Club Extacy" above its entrance. He
closed his eyes and summoned his dark power, such words appeared on the
paper: "When it is safe to come, if you bring them to....the family will
give you a generous reward."
He left the babies on the ground, then started running again.
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It was a cloudless, fine summerday. A young, red haired young boy was
whistling as he jogged along the street, enjoying the fine weather. He just
got himself a qualification for professional personal image-building, and
decided to devote his life dressing up people.
" I told you to get away from me!!!!!!" A girl (?) screamed and scared the
hell out of Hide.
He saw not far ahead there was a skinny girl with long, curly blonde hair
being surrounded by 4 gangster-look-alike teenagers about his own age.
" Oh, your highness, please do not be angry. We are just trying to help..
hohoho" One of them said mockingly.
" Yeah.. your highness, you know how in 20th centuary, noblemen should make
themselves more approachable by we commeners.. now come on, let's have some
fun together.."
" I SAID back off!!" Yoshiki was furious. When he was wondering in this
alien district, trying to find Rayla, his strange costumes attracted the
attention of these four kids. They approached him and started to "play" him.
He was so angry that he forgot that he was on earth and threw his title in
the Dark Kingdom at them which gave them a good laugh and played him even
harder. He wanted to use his dark power to beat them up but as there were
constantly people walking by, he didn't want mortals see him using such
power. Without using those spells and magics Yoshiki was just a weak,
helpless mortal.
"Hey!! Guys!! Do you know who this freak is??" As Hide yelled those four
gangsters turned around, they looked at him with alert.
"Yeah..she said she's some powerful member of the royal family of some crap
called the dark kingdom." One of them said. The others all laughed.
"Ah.. yeah she always says that.." Hide approached further, and as he
examined the girl's chest ( its his professional habbit ^^::) he soon found
out it's a HE not a SHE. Hide was disappointed, why should he risk his ass
saving a GUY? He looked like 20 something.. man! What a useless whimpy!
".. she's a very dangerous patient who just escaped from the mental hospital
that I work for, she becomes really aggressive when annoyed and if you take
a closer look you'll find..." Hide walked towards Yoshiki, and suddenly
ripped open Yoshiki silky shirt, " that she's a man!!!"
All four of them stared at Yoshiki's flat chest and froze into four statues,
Hide took the chance, gave one of them a kick in the stomach, the other a
punch in the face and grabbed Yoshiki and started running.
10 minutes later they had got rid of those four gangsters and they collapsed
onto the ground, panting.
Then Hide stood up and without saying anything started to head back where he
originally wanted to go.
Yoshiki," Wait, where are you going?"
Hide looked down and said," Whereever I want to! Oh, you don't have to thank
me, it's OK.."
Yoshiki," Thank you???? You owe me an appology for ripping apart my shirt!!!"
Hide couldn't believe his ears," What???? I just saved your life!! Well..
maybe not life.. BUT I SAVED YOU!!!!"
Yoshiki," The only way I would forgive you, is if you shall be my protecter
on eart.. if you shall protect me until I finish my work!"
Hide didn't know whether to be furious or entertained," OK, so am I going to
get paid?? How much are you going to pay me per day??"
Yoshiki,"... I would be able to pay you back one day.. "
Hide," Oh really? Sorry, but I'm a fan of cash. Bye bye, you just wait,
maybe there would be people wanting to help you."
Just as Hide turned back, he heard a big "bang" sound behind him.
He saw Yoshiki lied flat on the ground, he sighed and started kicking
Yoshiki lightly on the arm. " You think I'll sympathize you if you play
dead?? Now get up and be a man!! Go find a job and support yourself!!"
But there's no response from Yoshiki.
Hide grabbed yoshiki's arm and left him up, he shouted at him," HELLO???!!!"
Had't been eating for 3 days, Yoshiki had no more strength to "act noble",
he just leaned on Hide, instinct told him that if he continue to do nothing,
this stranger would help him out.
"$#8-y9fB*(E)R#.. FXXK! OK, I'll take you back to my place, I'll take care
for ONE DAY!! One day ONLY OK??!!"
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And twenty years passed by.
Hide didn't quite remember how he got used to taking care of Yoshiki.
These years Yoshiki had proved himself totally useless and he could not help
Hide in any ways. He did not know how to do any housework and he resisted to
learn. He did not know what's the meaning of a "job" and he refused to find
one. He wrote poems everyday and turned their little backyard into a rose
garden. He spent Hide's money for food on buying new, precious species of
rose. He used to talk to Hide in a manner as if Hide was his servant ( he
talked to anyone in that way). Now he talked to Hide as if he was his close
guard ( but mind you, still of lower hiearchy).
Hide knew he should have killed him or at least kicked him out but somehow
he just got so used to taking care of Yoshiki, it would feel strange if he
returned home without Yoshiki waiting for him at home. He even got used to
speaking to him as if Yoshiki really was of higher status than him. He knew
Yoshiki had got to be a psycho but somehow he wasn't afraid.
The only positive thing Yoshiki brought him was good luck. Somehow his
career boomed and he got richer everyday.
He bought Club Extacy and renovated the whole thing and turned it into a
super popular gay bar. Partly because Yoshiki went to there everyday. After
Hide bought the club, Yoshiki stopped to go there but told him, if someday
someone shall come and ask for their birth parents, come and tell him.
Hide thought it was strange but it was not the strangest thing about Yoshiki.
Yoshiki hadn't seemed to have aged at all. When Hide met Yoshiki he looked
like twenty-something. And now he still looked like twenty-something!! Hide
was a teenager when he "adopted" Yoshiki but now he looked older than Yoshiki.
Four years ago, when Hide turned 32. One day Yoshiki came in Hide's room
with tears on his face.
" Wha... what's wrong??" Hide wasn't too shocked, Yoshiki cried for
anything, he probably was moved by his own poems again.
"Hide!!! I cannot stand it anymore!!!! I cannot stand the sight of you aging
so fast, as if you are going to grow really old tomorrow and die and leave
me!!!" Yoshiki cried.
"OH!! Good good!! So your highness is finally going to teach me how to take
care of my skin?? I've been looking for this day for a long time!!" Hide was
excited.
Yoshiki approached Hide, raised Hide's face and "printed" his forehead on
Hide's forehead.
"Wha.. what are you doing??!! I.. I.." Hide blushed. Although they lived
together, and everyone assumed they were a couple, they hadn't really done
anything.
"Shuu.. concentrate!!" Yoshiki commanded. Then he closed his eyes and began
to speak a strange "language" very fast.
"Ow, he's casting a SPELL on me, gosh.. he really IS a psycho" Hide thought.
But suddenly Hide's forehead became burning hot.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Hide screamed and tried to get away from Yoshiki. But
Yoshiki held him so hard he couldn't move an inch ( Hide wondered where
Yoshiki's power came from).
Just when Hide thought his head was going to explode Yoshiki suddenly fell
back onto the floor.
"Now.. you're 'one of us'.. I broke the rule.. but.. it's worthwhile..." was
the last thing Yoshiki said before he became unconcious.
From that day onwards Hide had not aged even one bit. He thought, OK, so
Yoshiki is a voodoo but that's fine. He never expected him to be normal anyway.
Coming back from this long musing, Hide said to Kouichi and Junji, " Come
on, let me lead you to the person who has been waiting for you for twenty
years".
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