L'Arc en Ciel Fanfiction .::. Angel and Demon

Chapter 19 ~I’ve lied so much, nobody believes me any more.

Another short impromptu~

Tetsu opened the door abruptly. He couldn’t stand the constant bell-ringing which together with the knocking had woke him up.

Hyde followed him rubbing his eyes and walking behind him, unnoticed by Tetsu.

"Hey! What’s with the delay?!" Ken protested angrily at the door.

"Huh?" Tetsu was hardly awake.

"I mean... Haido is usually late, but you, fearless leader, you are always in time!"

Hyde yawned behind Tetsu and rested his chin on Tetsu’s right shoulder trying to open his eyes and focus on Ken at the door. Tetsu was startled to feel Hyde’s chin on his shoulder.

"Ohhhh, I get it!" Ken exclaimed laughing and throwing his arms into the air.

"Come in and don’t speak any of your hentai thoughts!" Tetsu ordered and closed the door behind Ken with a slam.

Ken pinched Hyde’s cheek to wake him up. He was still standing on the doorway, eyes closed.

"Too much fun, Haido?"

"Yeah..."

"Shut up, Haido!" Tetsu warned.

"It was great!" Hyde went on and yawned again. "I’m exhausted."

"It was not like that!!" Tetsu yelled in anger.

"Oh? So it wasn’t great for you, Tet-chan?! You’re gonna make me cry!!" Hyde protested pouting.

Ken laughed hard and exchanged looks and chuckles with Hyde.

"Shut up and go change your clothes, Haido!" Tetsu glared at them.

"Hey, Haido... you give me all the 411 later, right?" Ken winked at Hyde, knowing Tetsu would get mad.

"Haido!!" Tetsu admonished.

"Shhh!" Hyde signaled at Ken. And walked towards the bedroom humming and stretching his arms.

"So... say it." Ken urged Tetsu.

"Say what?"

"What was it like?"

"It’s not your business! It... it doesn’t concern you!! And Hyde is just acting!"

"What is he like in bed? The sweet angel or the wicked demon?"

"Shut up!!"

"I’m both, Ken-chan!!" Hyde bellowed amused from the bedroom.

"Whoa! Lemme know if you break up with him." Ken laughed.

"Huh?" Tetsu looked at Ken puzzled.

"I’m joking man... I like girls, and I MEAN what I say... I’m not like you two, fags."

"I heard that, Ken-chan!!" Hyde screamed from the bedroom. "No 411 for you!"

"Oh, no! Wait! I mean... being fags becomes you two! You are like... Cool fags..."

"Ohhh!!! I’ll really hit you now!" Hyde yelled again.

"No, I mean, it really looks cool on you two to be such flaming fags."

"Just... shut up, will ya?" Tetsu protested and got into the bedroom as Hyde walked out of it. As Tetsu closed the door, Ken wrapped Hyde’s neck with his arm and dragged him into the kitchen without paying attention to the vocalist’s half-choked protests. He took a cigarette, offered one to Hyde, who took it too, lit both and started his customary quiz.

"So... speak..." Ken urged.

"What are you? The police?!" Hyde protested. "Sex police?"

"That’d be a great job for me, but no. Come on, say it."

"There’s nothing to say." Hyde spat after blowing the smoke.

"You’re catching Tetsu’s habits. Come on, tell me."

"Tell you what?"

"About you and Tet-chan last night."

"Tet-chan is very sweet..." Hyde shrugged.

"Awww..." Ken made a funny face. "Go on!" He ordered.

"He didn’t fuck me!! Hentai!!"

"Come on!"

"It’s true!"

"You fucked him?"

"No, moron!"

"OK, just spill it out! Stop playing games!"

"I won’t! You are too hentai! I’ll clam up and won’t say a word."

"You are a hentai too! So, spill it out!"

Hyde peeped through the kitchen door, to check if Tetsu was there, once he noticed Tetsu was busy he leaned his back on the door closing it, and smiled wickedly at Ken.

"It was good. It felt good. But it was not... what you are thinking." Hyde whispered. "Just a first approach, OK?"

"First approach!" Ken burst out laughing and Hyde kicked him silent.

"I mean... I think he liked it too. I hope he will like it from now on... I don’t want him to dump me, so I’m being cautious."

"Uh... good. Smart move." Ken nodded and kept smoking. "Cautious is always good with Tet-chan."

"Yeah. I don’t want to scare him off. He’s not like Sakura... I have to work on him..." Hyde realized that was the wrong thing to say.

"Oh. Comparisons are bad..." Ken nodded and looked away.

"I’m over Sakura, Ken-chan." Hyde promptly explained.

"Yeah. Sure." Ken snapped bitterly.

"No, no... I mean it. I-I..."

"I hope you are, Haido, just... ya know... be honest to Tet-chan..."

"I am! Wait! Ken-chan! You believe me, right?"

"I don’t know Haido... you are way too weird... too hard to understand."

"No, no... It’s easy. Sakura is history. I’m over him. Out goes Sakura, in comes Tet-chan. I like the way Tetsu treats me, how he takes care of me, and he’s good looking and sweet, I think, I think I love him. You understand?" Hyde was speaking fast, trying to explain.

"Uh. Yeah. I understand."

"Listen, I’ll prove what I am saying! I’ll prove it! There is no one but Tetsu in my heart!"

"OK. Good. Tetsu would be very sad if it weren’t so. And I’d be feeling very guilty knowing I’ve encouraged him to confess if it turns out you are using him." Ken added. Hyde was aghast.

"It was true, Ken-chan?"

"What? What was true?"

"That Tet-chan had fallen for me long ago..." Hyde asked shyly.

"Yeah. It was. He was head over heels for you. But you never noticed."

"And he told you?"

"Uh... he was drunk, depressed... and he told me..." Ken shrugged.

Hyde peeped through the kitchen door again, reassuring himself that Tetsu would not listen.

"So... it was true, after all. He must have suffered a lot..." Hyde commented inhaling from his cigarette.

"Yeah, he did. He tried to hide it, but I could see he did. That’s why I’ll kill you if you hurt him." Ken commented staring fixedly at Hyde.

"I won’t hurt him." Hyde answered shaking his head. "Will you help me?"

"Help you with what? With sex? Are you insane?"

"No, baka!" Hyde said and pushed Ken lightly. "Help me convince him... I know he still has doubts about me."

"Sou ka..."

"Yeah... I can tell. He has some doubts about everything. About my feelings, about his feelings, about... just... everything..." Hyde relented.

"Convincing him is your job, Haido... No matter what I tell him, it’s what you do what will convince him." Ken explained calmly.

"Come on... help me..." Hyde asked tilting his head to the right.

"I feel I shouldn’t meddle in this, Haido..." Ken answered seriously.

"You don’t trust me, right? Baka!" Hyde protested and put out his cigarette in the sink.

"Well, to be honest..." Ken shrugged. "I dunno. You know what they say. Truth becomes lies in the liar’s mouth."

"Shut up, baka! That’s not how the saying goes..."

"Never mind, you understood what I meant."

"You will be sorry for this, asshole. One day you’ll be crying in front of my hung body and saying ‘oh... I didn’t help him when I had the chance... now he’s dead...’ and it will be too fucking late!"

"Oh, shut up, you big soap opera prima donna!" Ken chuckled at the pathetic remark.

"You’ll regret it..." Hyde hissed. "Some fucking friend you are..."

"Ne, Haido... I didn’t say I wouldn’t help you. I just said I won’t do blind, stupid stuff. Now go change your clothes and let’s go to practice."

Hyde walked out of the kitchen visibly upset, without uttering a word.