Friction[Squared]- part six
Oct. 28th, 2007 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infinitestarlightChapter Six: Under Moonlight
Pairing(s): Kurogane/Fai technically =3
Chapter Rating: PG13-ish (for sexual content!? YAY!)
Word Count: 2570
Chapter Summary: A little history on our new favourite rockstars =3
new reader? ---> Part One
“Just giving someone a ride home, Kuro-tan,” he grinned and gave a small shrug. “Didn’t I tell you?”
“No, you didn’t. You just disappeared suddenly. And who the hell were you giving a ride to? What is that supposed to mean?”
Fai only shook his head and giggled, “Oh, you’re so cute when you worry. But don’t fret. It’s a surprise, Kuro-chu.”
Nothing but moonlight lit the room, but with the vast, crystal windows that encircled the sleek, penthouse apartment, moonlight was all that was needed.
“Don’t try to play cute, idiot. I’m mad at you right now.”
A bottom lip shot out in a pout (an obviously fake pout) and Fai tossed his keys on the table and made a painfully slow line for the man sitting on the couch. He knew as well as anyone how short Kurogane’s fuse was – how annoying him or making him angry was about as easy as turning on a light switch. But he was not in the mood for Kurogane to be mad at him for no good reason.
“Does Kuro-non want me to tell him where I was and spoil his surprise?”
“I don’t like surprises,” he glared, doing his best to keep his focus straight on Fai’s face. The crisp autumn moonlight catching on his pale gold hair was not helping.
“You like some surprises,” he only grinned.
“No I don’t.”
“Oh really?” a thin blonde eyebrow raised and he couldn’t help but think that had just sounded a bit like a challenge.
He smelt like vodka and strawberries, and Kurogane might not have known this if Fai had taken his seat on the couch like a normal person. But Fai had never been a normal person. And as Kurogane had come to discover years ago, he was also rather insatiable.
He kept his glare aimed straight forward; his eyes away from the blonde perched in his lap and kissing down his neck. He was supposed to be mad it him, damn it!
“What would Kurogane like for his surprise tonight?” there was hot breath on his cheek as Kurogane leaned back into the couch and willed his hands to stay put; tried to keep his breath normal.
Deep down he knew that Fai would not stop until he got his way. Part of him didn’t really mind, though the other part of him wished that one day Fai could learn to take a hint. But there would be no sense in bringing that up right then. And no point in denying himself anything just to prove a point.
Yes, Fai drove him crazy almost every waking day of his life. His odd habits and strange nicknames and carefree, oblivious behavior made him want to smack him in the head if he thought about them too much. But then again, that was what made Fai, Fai. And there wasn’t anyone else Kurogane would want him to be. Because crazy or not, he was his Fai, and they had decided years ago that he always would be.
They had met in college. Fai had been a physics major because that was what his scholarship had been for. Kurogane had remained undecided but his parents had been paying for his schooling anyway so he hadn’t felt to pressed to claim one at the time. Mostly, he skated through his classes just enough to keep him eligible for sports.
During study sessions for a kinetic science class, a handful of the students would take part in unrehearsed jamming sessions in the campus fraternity house basement if studying racked their brains a little too much. After a few months, they had unintentionally formed a band, and named it “Friction” because of their inspired rehearsals. But they were in need of a singer.
Fai was actually the third singer for the band. The first two had lasted only long enough to loose interest or become too busy in their studies. Fai on the other hand, despite being a physics major, seemed to have all the time in the world for it. Not to mention the one who possessed the most raw talent.
They practiced two nights a week in the frat house, eventually moving up from the basement by request of the residents themselves. After, “Friction” started to become a widely known name on campus the result, provided a heavy conglomeration of female students showing up to the frat house whenever a practice night rumor surfaced. And none but the neighbors of the Delta Alpha Phi could complain.
Kurogane had been living in the fraternity house since the beginning of his sophomore year. Neither he nor any of his fellow fraternity brothers were actually a part of the band itself, but because of their constant presence, they all knew one another and were on friendly terms more often than not. Before first semester was over, he knew every word to every song, every note and every tune backwards and forwards; before “Friction” ever even started to play in small venues around Tokyo. His last three girlfriends he had even met from them coming over to band practice nights at his own house.
At first, he had merely been curious. Most people were. Fai was the center of all the new found attention “Friction” was gaining, and yet remained at the top of his graduating class as a physic’s major. He was friendly and flirtatious and sang songs of love, romance and sex, but Kurogane never saw him leave with any of the dozens of girls who threw themselves at him. He would chat away with anyone and yet there wasn’t anyone who could say they knew anything more about him other than the obvious: that he was a smart science major with an unexpected talent for lyrics and singing. He was friendly. He was handsome. He was blonde. His name was Fai.
The other members of the band however, Kurogane knew loads about. Yasha especially, who seemed oddly determined to teach Kurogane to play the guitar under the excuse that it would “get Kurogane more chicks.” To which Kurogane would raise his eyebrow and ask about how Ashura was doing.
Five months later, Kurogane splurged on a guitar of his own rather than stealing Yasha’s from him when he wasn’t using it. Music, if nothing else, was a good release of tension and stress from his daily life of sports, girls, studying and hangovers. He didn’t know much about writing music, but he had picked up the skill of being able to play almost everything he heard, so it seemed natural that he knew most of the basic melodies to a handful of “Friction” songs.
It wasn’t a deep interest. Just a hobby. Something to pass the time. Something to take his mind of the things he didn’t want to think about.
He’d been coming back from the indoor swimming pool one night after a couple dozen workout laps when he caught him out of the corner of his eye.
Fai, the poor thing, as lovely as he was, found himself completely in over his head with vicious fishnet-wearing, red-lipped cheerleaders. Four of them. Even from his distance, Kurogane could see the fake smile plastered on the blonde’s face as he did everything he could think of to get away from them without coming across as a shallow, insensitive jerk.
Kurogane however, did not quite have the reputation around campus as Fai did for “playing nice.” And he’d also has his fair share of run-ins with the breed of girls who seemed willing to do anything for one of their notches on the bed post to be someone well-known among their fellow harpies. Kurogane didn’t know him well, that was certain, but it didn’t mean he was going to just leave him there.
“Hey,” he approached the group with a casual nod. “You still meeting us for drinks tonight?” he had said with crimson eyes focused directly at the blonde.
Fai was obviously surprised at first, but he covered it well. “Oh, that was tonight? Thanks for reminding me Kuro-sama,” he smiled as he ever did.
Kurogane just gave a shrug and mumbled, “I’m going right now if you want to ride together. We’re supposed to meet them in twenty minutes.”
“Oh! Ok!” he smiled, playing along, and did his best not to run away at full speed with his new found freedom. Instead, he just apologized with a smile to the ladies and followed after Kurogane as he walked away.
They didn’t say anything for a while. Just walked side by side to keep the appearance that they really were going somewhere together, incase Fai’s fan girls were inclined to follow.
“Harpies,” Kurogane mumbled, looking back over his shoulder to see them still standing by the tree giggling and chatting.
Fai only laughed, pushing his long blonde hair out of his eyes. “That was very nice of you Kuro-sama.”
The other only shrugged, giving Fai nothing more than an “it was nothing” grumble and continued walking in silence. He had never been one who was very good at small talk, and knowing so little about his companion made conversation a trifle more difficult than usual.
Silence was probably best anyway.
The house was locked and the windows dark by the time they arrived. It was still fairly early for a Friday night, so it wasn’t altogether unexpected that they arrived to an empty fraternity house.
“I think they all went out for some drinks downtown if you want to join them,” Kurogane said with a shrug as he unlocked the door.
“Not really,” he only grinned. “What are you doing with the rest of your evening, Kuro-sama?”
“I was going to take a shower and go to bed.”
“Early Saturday practice?” Fai titled his head in curiosity.
He only gave a nod.
“They say you’re the best player on the team.”
Kurogane only gave a shrug.
“They didn’t have a Lacrosse team at my high school,” Fai said sadly, “I’m afraid I don’t know anything about the sport.”
Guess that ruled out one subject of conversation between them.
With another silent shrug, Kurogane flicked on the light switch and tossed his athletic bag against the wall before kicking off his shoes. One day they were going to need to go through that pile by the front door and do something about it. It was at the very least a horrible mess, and quite likely a bio-hazard or health code violation. Maybe it could be a new project for the pledges or something.
“You can crash on one of the couches if you like,” Kurogane offered.
“I will probably wait here a while and go back,” he shook his head. “But thank you.”
“You live in the dorms, right?”
Fai just smiled.
“No one will care,” he insisted.
“I know,” he only grinned again and slid onto one of the couches in front of the television.
He took one more sweep of the empty house before looking at him again. He wasn’t sure why he felt so uncomfortable being alone with him. Why it felt like this was some sort of secret he would need to keep.
“Good night,” he said with a curt nod and trodded up the stairs to the shower room, pausing at the top of the stairs to look back at him one last time.
“Good night Kuro-sama. Thank you again,” Fai looked right at him and smiled.
He showered, just like he had intended. Slipped into bed early, just like he had wanted to. But unfortunately, he was wide awake.
The house was still dark when he peered out of his room. No one would be home until the bars downtown kicked them out, which usually wasn’t until sunrise. And he hadn’t forgotten about Fai being downstairs, but in the silence, he had simply expected that the blonde had already returned to his dormitory for the night like he said he had wanted to do.
Needless to say, he had been a little surprised to find him still on the couch, curled up in a corner, scribbling away in one of his notebooks by a single dim lamplight.
“Couldn’t sleep, Kuro-tan?” he looked up with his usual smile as soon as Kurogane reached the bottom.
The other didn’t quite know what to say to him. Had he really just called him Kuro-tan?
“Would you like some warm milk, or maybe some nice chamomile tea? I can make you some if you like?” he practically jumped off the couch. “They’re really quite good for you to, so you’ll be nice and healthy for your practice in the morning.”
He was already in the kitchen digging for a kettle before Kurogane could voice his polite declination. And by the time Kurogane followed after him to actually say something, the stove was on and the kettle was being filled; it seemed quite rude to tell him anything by that point. So Kurogane just slid into one of the chairs at the table.
Not much longer, and Fai presented him with a mug full of steaming, warm milk and a smile. “Drink up, Kuro-wan,” he said and slipped into the chair right across from him.
“Thanks,” he shrugged and took a sip as directed. His mother used to make him warm milk on nights he couldn’t sleep. He hadn’t had it since before high school, so he found it rather odd that his mysterious pseudo-rock-star acquaintance was the next one to present it to him.
“So which do you like better, Kuro-sama, lacrosse or track and field?”
“I like them both,” he shrugged and took another drink.
“That’s silly. You have to like one better than the other.”
“Not really.”
“Do you like something else better then?”
“No.”
Fai just giggled. Kurogane hadn’t realized how long his hair had gotten. It dusted the tops of his shoulders now when he shook his head.
“Y-chan tells me that other schools call you “the dragon,” because you’re so good at everything. He says you practically fly sometimes, and you’re so good the you just destroy the other teams. Is that what you’re going to do one day, Dragon-sama? Are you going to play sports professionally?”
“I don’t know yet,” he shrugged after another sip. “Who the heck is Y-chan?”
“Yasha-chan, of course,” he told him, obviously certain Kurogane should have already known that. “So what are you going to do then?”
“I don’t know.”
“Do you think about it?”
“Not really.”
Fai laughed. But this time, it was a long, amused laugh. His head rolled back, his smile widened and he laughed until he gripped his sides.
Kurogane was a heartbeat away from getting up and leaving. He had no reason to stay if Fai was only going to laugh at him.
But the moment he went to place his drink on the table Fai stopped. And he looked him right in the eyes with a soft smile on his face. “I like that, Kuro-wan. I like that very much.”
The raise of a single black eyebrow was enough of a question to get Fai to continue.
"Because I don’t know either….”
Part Seven coming soon! XD And I would just like to say that as a unit, this is probably the hottest fictional band I've ever thought of.... you'll agree with me more [than you already do] when you learn who the other members are! =3
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Date: 2007-10-29 06:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 03:35 pm (UTC)And yes, yes we will get to know how they got together.
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Date: 2007-10-29 10:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-29 09:13 pm (UTC)XD you tortured me with that today~ I just saw it was out before I had to leave! > > LOL, could't think about anything else for the whole time =P
And it's even better than I imagined ^____^ Yay, finally their backstory =D
He was friendly. He was handsome. He was blonde. His name was Fai. XDDD I bet that are the only things Fay wants others to know about him~
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Date: 2007-10-29 09:22 pm (UTC)And you will have more soon I'm sure, it's really easy to wite for some reason, so I've been coming out with chapters alot faster than normal. (Which means the writing really isn't as good as it could be cause I just kinda write it down and post it... =3 oops)
Their backstory is fun to make up though XD
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Date: 2007-10-29 09:51 pm (UTC)^______^ yay! It's really good enough! That only means that you could be even better~&hearts
hi
Date: 2009-05-07 02:04 am (UTC)Re: hi
Date: 2009-05-07 02:50 am (UTC)