Part 21

Come on Over

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Shinya bit his lips playfully while making a scary turn while Die, eyes widening every second, clutched his hands tightly on the handle above his head. He glanced at the drummer who pouted happily and let his hair swept by the wind that blew into the car from the opened window.

The morning sun shone gently on the face…the beauty that would always meant beauty…THE beauty

Die smiled

Shinya chirped excitedly and made another sharp turn

This time, Die just had to snap out of it and yelled

"Shinya!!!!!! Yamero!!!"

The younger man gasped as he noticed the car right in front making a sudden stop and Die yelped as Shinya shut his eyes (!) and stepped on the brake hastily.

…

Shinya opened his eyes slowly and took a look

Nothing happened

Shinya sighed in relief and turned to Die

GLARE

Shinya blinked few times, innocently, then smiled sweetly while at the same time ducking a little

GLARE

Shinya pouted and bit his lip, eyes looking up

Die took a deep breath

"SHINYA!!!!!"

The drummer sighed and drove on, as well as Die’s lecture

*

"Bye…see you…" Kirito smiled and leaned forward and Kyo did the same planting a cute kiss on the other man’s lips.

Kaoru sneered while Toshiya elbowed him

Kirito waved one last time and disappeared

Kyo scratched his head, yawned the looked at the other two.

Kaoru turned away, laughing while Toshiya gave him glares

"Come on, let’s go…" Kyo smiled, shook his head and trailed off behind Kaoru and pulled Toshiya’s arm

*

Kyo looked at his watch and fumed, "Do you guys know where Die and Shinya are???" he exclaimed. Few men shook their heads while Kaoru shrugged and looked at Toshiya who suddenly sneer

"Heh! I BET Shinya’s gonna storm in crying!"

Kyo widened his eyes, "Hm? Crying? Shinya never cries!" he objected, then realized, "What makes you think so?" he switched his eyes to Kaoru, who laughed, "Come on Totchi, it’s not like that! You know what would happen!"

Toshiya pouted

Kyo joined his eyebrows, "Nani? Nani?"

"We left a drunk Die in Shinya’s place last night and though Totchi knew it’s tough luck, but he expects Die to get ‘excited’ and Shin kun would come in crying…" he shook his head, trying to explain to the younger man.

Kyo laughed

"You seriously left him there?!!!"

Toshiya nodded

"This should be fun! I really wanna know now!"

Toshiya suddenly grinned, "Yeah, yeah! I think they should give it a try!"

Kaoru rolled his eyes, "But you know Die and his –my little brother Shinchan-" he made a face, "It’s tough"

Kyo lit a cigarette, "He’s a loser…"

"Full of denial" Toshiya joined in

"He needs a good try" Kaoru commented and shut his eyes, which was …DAMN! He missed those looks in Kyo and Toshiya’s eyes.

Yes, Kaoru still didn’t know, and if it was possible, he should NEVER know.

Die did it with Toshiya

Once

But still, it would be written down there in history….they did it….

Kyo looked at Toshiya, who looked back at him and smiled knowingly

Suddenly the door slammed open and Kaoru jumped, Kyo snapped his eyes in shock and Toshiya gasped

"DON’T you DARE to do it AGAIN!!!!!!!!"

Die frustratedly trailed behind Shinya, who made faces as he stormed into the room.

Toshiya blinked, looking expectantly

Kaoru looked interested

Kyo listened

"It was only once!"

"You should be considering how I FEEL!!!!"

"I won’t do it again!"

"LIAR! You ALWAYS lie!!!!"

Toshiya screwed up his face and raised his hand up.

"Chotto matte kudasai…"

Die and Shinya turned, Kaoru and Kyo turned

"What is going on?"

The red head rubbed the area between his eyes, "Shinya tries to kill me with my own car!"

"BUT I didn’t!!!!" Shinya protested

Die gasped, "Yeah!!! YOU DID!!!"

Toshiya made another funny face, "Bah!" he exclaimed and lay his head on the couch, on Kaoru’s lap and shut his eyes. The guitarist smiled sympathetically and patted Toshiya’s head gently, "Told you Totchi, tough luck"

Kyo laughed

Die glared at Shinya and pouted, "I will never let you drive my car again!"

Shinya stuck his tongue out, "You always say things you won’t do!"

Kaoru held his hand up at Kyo, "Yeah, true. And he never means what he says and he never says what he thinks!"

Kyo winked and listened in

"But Shinchan! Did you think of how dangerous it was? Anything could happen and it could put us in danger!" Die stated firmly and looked at Shinya in his best serious eyes, and he wasn’t lying or playing around. The red head was serious.

The drummer, knowing that, felt uneasy so he turned away

Die joined his eyebrows and walked towards the younger man, "No! Come here, Shinya! Stay!" he exclaimed and in a swift movement he grabbed Shinya’s arm and turned him around. The drummer gasped as Die grabbed both his shoulders

"Listen Shinya! I will never let you go unless you know what I have been talking about!" Die shot another serious look right into his eyes

The drummer sighed and bit his lip

"Okay, I know! I’m sorry Die kun…" Shinya muttered helplessly, sheepishly

Die studied his facial expression and took in the sight of uncomfortable Shinya, in his hold, saying sorry and looking as if he really meant it.

Kaoru and Kyo looked at each other, Toshiya fell asleep, yes. On Kaoru’s lap.

Die sighed and let go

Shinya fumed, rubbed his arms and walked away, sulking.

Die sighed and followed the beauty

"Shinchan…"

Kaoru and Kyo stared at each other

Toshiya was fast asleep

*

Kyo was on the table, dancing his ass off. The music played aloud in the room and there were only Dir en grey left. Toshiya looked up at the vocalist in disbelief while Kaoru choked laughters and at the same time trying to copy what baka Kyo did. Then the bassist switched his attention to Kaoru’s swaying hips

Die was looking at the scene before him and tried to think this : mature…mature…mature…

Shinya was taking pictures

No, nobody was drunk

Just bored

"Kaoru, hey! Quit it!" Die suddenly got up and switched the music off.

Kyo threw him a can and Kaoru stopped and Toshiya sighed

Shinya played with the camera, which was not even his. It was Kaoru’s (what’s with kaoru and stuff anyway? First laptop and now camera…).

"I think we need sometime to finish off this song" the red head placed the stuff on the table and pushed Kyo off. The vocalist protested and Toshiya helped him down. Kaoru scratched his head and placed a hand on his hip carelessly. Shinya was taking picture of himself.

"Oh yeah…only some touching up eh?" Kaoru remembered and commented

Die nodded and looked at Kyo, "So as soon as we get it done, maybe you can start working earlier"

Toshiya and Kyo were holding each other and pretended to kiss. Shinya took their picture

Kyo showed his teeth, "Yeah, I know…" he walked towards his bag and took out a diskette, "Here’s for the singles…I named it after the sun" he looked at Kaoru and smiled. The violet head smiled widely and took it, "Cool ne…"

Kaoru looked at Toshiya

Toshiya was posing for Shinya, who did the clicking job

Die laughed at the silly sexy poses while Kyo caught Kaoru’s look

What’s with the song?

*

Toshiya leaned back on the chair and stretched his legs. He blinked and looked around the table. Kyo was typing stuff on his compi with headphones in his ears and once in few seconds he would sing few words in tunes.

Die and Kaoru were having serious conversation about some guitar part in some song, and they would write down few stuff and tried to play some tunes with their acoustic guitar. Shinya was back there, busy with his drums and once in few seconds, he would stop and scrabbled some stuff down the papers.

Toshiya looked at his own work

It was doing fine, but he was getting BORED

The bassist yawned and looked at Kyo, hoping the older man would notice but noooo, Kyo was too engrossed with his lyrics. There was no hope on Die and Kaoru since they were looking serious and Shinya was far back there…

"Hey…." Came a mumble

Toshiya turned his head around and Kyo was looking weirdly at him, "Bored?"

The young one nodded

Kyo sighed, smiled and looked at the two guitarists. Then he leaned forward and whispered, "If ya wanna get outta here, distract one of them" he pointed at the two older ones. Toshiya pouted and shook his head, "I can’t!"

Kyo smiled, "I know you can’t, so I’m here to help!" he knew Toshiya worked hard enough. He knew he was doing fine, and he knew Toshiya needed rest.

Toshiya looked excited but then he looked confused as Kyo took out his phone from the bag and pressed few buttons. Die and Kaoru were now playing their acoustic guitar in unison while Shinya was beating his drums

"Hey, come and fetch me ne….I’m almost done…" Kyo mumbled on the phone, looking at his watch.

Die turned

Toshiya noticed

"No, you’re not finished" Die suddenly spoke

Kaoru stopped and looked up

Toshiya smiled

Shinya was still buys with his drums, not knowing what was going on

Kyo rolled his eyes and ignored, "Yeah, come fetch me ne. Just meet me here, in the room" he threw a look at Die, who glared. Kaoru shook his head and continued his playing.

"Ja…" Kyo smiled and hung up.

"Kyo….what do you think you’re doing?" Die asked, snappily.

"Calling my koibito to fetch me up coz nobody wanna ride me home?" Kyo replied snappily

Kaoru chuckled

Toshiya placed his elbows on the table, supporting his chin with both hands and looked at Kyo and the red head curiously. Die shook his head and made a funny sound, "But you’re not finished. Everybody would stay here, until everything is done"

Kyo turned the laptop off and kept the notebook in its bag, "I’m done" he made a mischievous face

Die narrowed his eyes, "No, you’re not"

Toshiya looked at Kyo then at Die

Kaoru continued playing

Shinya was busy and unaware still

"Yes I am! I’ve done three songs and I’m super fast today. It’s already two and I just wanna go back and have some good sleep" Kyo stated matter of factly

Die sighed, "But you can do more!"

"No! I’ve told you I wanna good sleep….with my koibito" Kyo added, with a glint in his eyes. Die glared while Kaoru chuckled louder. Toshiya tried not to smile.

"It’s distracting you from work…."

Kyo rolled his eyes, "Come on Die, we all know better than that!" he smiled and looked at Toshiya.

Yes, it’s time to join in. So Toshiya sighed and placed his long arms across the table, "Yeah, yeah….what’s with you and Kirito kun, Die?" he asked, innocently (as if)

Kaoru just had to stop and looked at Die

Kyo smiled…it’s working

Die looked at Kyo, then Toshiya then Kaoru and all the sudden felt uneasy, like he was falling into a trap. Then he threw them suspicious looks.

"I just…" he muttered, stopped and looked at Kaoru, as if for help. The violet head smiled slowly and did nothing. Merely stared at the red head for a long time. Toshiya sighed a loud, "It’s so weird coz you should be getting along with him!" he exclaimed.

Die narrowed his eyes more

"Nani?"

Kyo laughed, "Yeah. See that boy over there?" he pointed at the auburn haired who was beating his drums then wrote something down on a piece of paper next to his drum set. Die joined his eyebrows, "Yeah…?"

Toshiya grinned, "Shinya shares the same birthday as Kirito kun!"

Die’s jaw dropped

Kaoru raised an eyebrow

Kyo continued, "We all know you care about him. Though sometimes you tease and throw looks and tease more, you CARE" he stressed the word. Kaoru looked at Shinya then smiled. Toshiya grinned.

Die rolled his eyes, "That’s just coincidence!"

"No, if I tell you Kirito’s real name…" Kyo’s voice offered tease

Die looked at him suspiciously, "WHAT?"

Kaoru leaned forward to catch more and Toshiya did the same. Kyo did too, so it gave a better effect

"Murada Shinya"

Kaoru looked surprised while Toshiya burst out into giggles

Die looked SHOCKED

"No Fucking Way" Die muttered under his breath

Kaoru started to laugh, joining Toshiya. Kyo smiled

Shinya suddenly approached them and walked towards Die with few pieces of paper in his hands, "Die kun, can you please tell me what’s going on in this part?" he stood right beside Die, leaned forward and placed the papers on the table.

Die looked at Shinya speechless

Shinya brushed his hair gently and tucked few streaks to the back of his ear. He waited but finally noticed the strange look Die was giving him.

"Are you okay? Daijyobu?" Shinya asked, looking at him concernedly.

Die looked up…

Shinya joined his eyebrows and looked around, "Nani???" he asked

Toshiya and Kyo giggled while Kaoru shook his head, trying not to laugh.

Die opened his mouth, "Shinya, do you know…Kirito shares the same name and birthday with you?" he asked, plainly. The drummer looked at him weirdly then sighed, "Yeah, I do. Oh yeah, I knew that" he smiled

Kaoru, Toshiya and Kyo burst out laughing at the same time

Die’s jaw dropped, "WHAT?!!!!"

Shinya blinked, "Yeah! It’s cool isn’t it??" he flashed a sweet smile.

"No, it’s not! And how come I didn’t know about that…why didn’t you tell me?!!!" Die protested. The younger man smiled weirdly, "Why would you wanna know anyway?" he asked back, "It’s Kirito kun and you’re not interested ne, we talked over the phone and he just told me that"

"YOU talk with him over the phone?!!!!!" Die was over the top.

"Hai"

"But you hate phones!!!!"

"I was talking to Kyo kun and he went away looking for something…then Kirito kun talked to me" he tried to explain, "Then we talked again few times when we met, and-"

"Nani?!!!"

Die took a deep breath, ‘Shinya, stay away from him!"

Kyo narrowed his eyes, "Die! What the hell???"

Toshiya looked at Kaoru, who looked back at him

Shinya joined his eyebrows

"I don’t like the way Kirito acts while he’s around Shinya and Toshiya" Die spoke up. Kyo shook his head and made a face, "What’s the problem with that? What’s your problem??"

"What’ YOUR problem?! Can’t you see how flirty he is?!"

"Kirito is NOT flirty! That’s his nature, he doesn’t mean it!"

"He IS!"

Toshiya giggled, "Maybe he’s jealous coz Kirito kun doesn’t flirt with him" he whispered to Kaoru but Die heard. The older guitarist laughed and Kyo giggled. Shinya started to smile, trying to catch up.

Die went ballistic

"NO!!!"

"Die is jealous nya nyanya nya nya….." (yes, that tune) somebody chirped, sounded like Toshiya. The red head flushed hard while Kaoru laughed, placing his head on the table. Kyo told Shinya what happened.

"Listen!!! I just don’t like how-"

Everybody laughed, even Shinya started to giggle. Die shook his head and walked away, towards the couch and put up his sulking mood. Kaoru looked up and the laughters died down. Kyo sighed and looked at Die, while Toshiya waited for a reaction.

Shinya bit his lip lightly and walked to Die and sat beside the older man. The rest of Dir en grey smiled as Die started to talk to Shinya and smiled as the drummer said something cute. Then they were back to those teasing stuff and…

"I think we all should go now…" Kaoru mumbled and got up, lighting a cigarette. Kyo grinned and winked at Toshiya, who grinned back and started to pack his stuff. The violet head sat on the chair and took a puff. He looked at Toshiya

"Babe…"

Toshiya turned to him

"Have a good night sleep…" Kaoru muttered

Toshiya gave him a smile, the smile.

Kaoru smiled back

*

Die closed the car door slowly, locked it, then put on his seat belt. He sat there quietly, for a while.

There was nothing particular in his mind, but it seemed to him that something was bothering him. Like, he was so …occupied. His mind was filled with things, but as there were so many things at the same time Die just couldn’t single out what it was that bothered him.

Dir en grey?

Iie. He was so motivated these days

Music?

Iie. He was doing fine

Fans?

Iie. They were cool

Girls?

Iie. Not interested at the time

…

Kyo?

Hai. The whole Kirito thing

Toshiya?

Hai. The whole sex thing

Kaoru?

Hai. The whole ideal seme thing

Shinya?

…

Die blinked and looked up

…

Shinya?

…

What’s with Shinya?

Die sighed

There was nothing with Shinya. He was doing fine, he was alright.

Except that Shinya was getting very spoilt day by day, that Shinya was getting more playful, getting more bratty, that the boy might hurt himself one day…

…

But then Shinya was getting sweeter and sweeter day by day, more mature and thoughtful…

Die smiled

The red head started the engine and drove out of the car park. He didn’t wanna go back but he didn’t know where else to go, and there was nowhere to go. The red head sighed tiredly and stopped the car by the road, thought a while before taking his phone out and pressed a button.

He looked up while waiting and saw Kirito and Kyo walking hand in hand towards Kirito’s car that was parked outside and Die noticed the smile on Kyo’s face

…

The other side picked up the phone and Die snapped his eyes open

"Shinya? Where are you now?"

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to be continued...