Time's Chain

by Kurara

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Part 15

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Levin felt someone's lips rubbing against his own and he snapped open
his eyes, seeing Kaoru's face. He struggled out of Kaoru's arms,
breathing fast. "Kaoru! What are you doing?!"

Kaoru opened his eyes in shock, starring at the brunette. "Levin?!"
He gasped. "What... Toshiya was..."

"Toshiya left?!" Levin screamed and Kaoru nodded. Levin started
pacing around. "I... I wonder where he went."

"What do you mean? He went back to the future."

Levin shook his head. "That's what I thought I was doing as well...
but..." he gripped his hair. "Ugh! I was too late!"

Kaoru grabbed Levin's shirt. "What do you mean?! What's going to
happen to Toshiya?"

Levin hung his head down. "I don't know..."

Kaoru sat down on a rock and trembled. "Toshiya... Toshiya wanted to
do what was 'right'." He gave a slight, sarcastic laugh. "If
something happens to him... it's that much worse..."

Levin nodded. "I'd try to follow him... but if I haven't left by now
then..."

Kaoru buried his face in his hands. "I wish I could travel as well."

Levin bit his lip and hugged Kaoru from behind.

***

Kyo tossed and turned in his bed, trying to sleep, but the sounds
from his brother's room were too loud. He threw off his covers and
put on some clothes, not even bothering to fix his hair before
walking out of his room and throwing open hide's door to see hide
being uke to Yoshiki. "I"m leaving for the night. Don't miss me too
much."

He slammed the door and ran down the stairs, going outside and
hopping on his motorcycle. He sped along, going to the
mansion. //Where did Levin go?// He gripped the handle bars of the
motorcycle hard. //He's been gone for a month... and so has
Toshiya...// He sped faster. //I need to patch things up with
Toshiya... and Levin... this emptiness... somehow, Levin...//

He got to the mansion and hopped off of his motorcycle, walking
inside to where he and Levin had been that night. Kyo gripped his
throat, feeling a tightness well up inside of him. "Levin..." he
whispered, "where are you?" He turned as he heard running footsteps
to see Toshiya coming. "Toshiya!" Kyo ran to Toshiya.

"Kyo..." tears streamed down Toshiya's face and he hugged the shorter
man.

Kyo held Toshiya and stroked his back, feeling sadder yet by the
despair in Toshiya's voice. "Totchi, what's wrong?"

Toshiya slunk to the floor, Kyo following. Toshiya looked up to Kyo
saddly as Kyo wiped Toshiya's tears. "I... I can't stay in Levin's
time..."

"What happened?"

Toshiya buried his face into Kyo's chest. "You can't stay in a time
that's not your own..."

***

"Metal underwear?!" Die's jaw dropped and Mana sat down, calmly
lifting it up into place.

Levin nodded. "That's all he was wearing. Anyway, I... I had to
leave, to warn Toshiya..." Levin gripped the table cloth, Miffy's
howls still resounding into his mind. "I had to leave Miffy with
Sting..."

Shinya hugged Levin from behind. "Poor Lebi..."

Die sighed. "Well, I have absolutely no idea why Miffy went with you
unless... maybe it's a test?"

Mana looked up. "A test?"

Die nodded. "Maybe Levin's heart was being tested? Maybe it was to
see if he'd do the right thing? If he would be willing to sacrifice
for love?"

"That's exactly it." Everyone turned to see Gackt in the kitched
doorway, even Kaoru who hadn't lifted his head from the security of
his folded arms since they sat down.

"Otou-san?" Shinya asked. "What do you know?"

Gackt sat down next to Kaoru and looked at him. "You can feel him
here, can't you?"

"Kami..." Kaoru's eyes glistened over and he reached out to the other
side of Gackt, at an empty seat. Die watched in shock as even he
could see a faint outline of Kaoru's dead koi.

Levin, Mana, and Shinya, who couldn't see anything (no, I'm not
saying that only semes have psychic powers ;p ) just looked back and
forth among the other men. Levin leaned over the table. "What?
Who's there? What's Kaoru doing? Andie! What are you looking at?
Gackt!"

Gackt looked to Kami. "Go ahead." He closed his eyes and Kami
entered his body. At this point, Yuki and Kozi came in and gasped as
they both, for an instant (along with everyone else), could clearly
see Kami where Gackt sat, then saw Gackt with a faint purple aura.

Kaoru, entranced, trailed a hand down Gackt's face (he and Die seeing
only Kami). "Kami..." he breathed.

Kami smiled and moved in briefly for a kiss, causing the ukes (sounds
like a team...) and the servants to gasp. "Hello, Kaoru..."

"Kami..." Kaoru took Kami's hands in his own. "I can't believe it..."

"Kaoru... listen... I've been watching you these past few years
and... and I know you love Toshiya..." Kami bit his lip. "I'm sure
that you still have a place in your heart for me, and that's why I
watch over you. But... Toshiya..." Kami put his head down. "Toshiya
is your destiny..."

"Destiny?" Kaoru blinked.

Kami shook his head. "That's the best word I could think of. What I
mean is... Toshiya is meant for you... and you for him." He looked
into Kaoru's eyes. "You two are destined to be together."

Levin jumped up. "What about me and Kyo? Huh, Gackt?!"

Kami looked to Levin and placed a hand on Levin's cheek. "Levin...
little orphen of the wolves, yes?" Levin nodded. "Same for you and
Kyo..."

"Then why are they forced to be apart?" Shinya protested.

Kami hung his head. "There was some... mistakes that happened...
Toshiya was meant to be born in this time and... and Levin in Kyo's
time."

Kaoru gasped. "Then, the time travel..."

"Was to try to make everything right again... but... something isn't
working right... someone thinks that Levin and Toshiya don't deserve
to be where they are, so... they're being tested by the four angels."

"Four angels?" Mana asked.

"Hai. Yuki, Yukito, Hiro, and their leader, Kazuki. They are
testing to see if Toshiya and Levin deserve this. And only if both
of them pass will the wrongs be right." Kami sighed. "You passed,
Levin. But Toshiya is on his task right now. If he passes, you two
will switch places... permanently."

Shinya and Die gasped. "Levin won't be with us anymore?" Die asked.

Kami shook his head. "No... he won't..."

Levin looked back at Shinya and Die sadly. "Never again? I'd never
get to see them... again?"

"Iie. You weren't meant to be in this time." Kami looked back to
Kaoru. "Kaoru, this isn't what I came to tell you..."

Kaoru tilted his head to the side. "Then... why?"

"Kaoru... Shinya is not your brother... it's not that important, but,
I wanted to have you know the truth considering... considering I'm
going to have to leave soon to be reborn."

"Then... what is Shinya to me?"

"Shinya is the son of a wealthy merchant, but he and Sugizo were
switched at birth by a careless nurse. Kaoru..." Kami took Kaoru's
face in his hands. "Sugizo is your twin."

***

"And we did that everyday?!" Ryu looked into Sugizo's face
surprisingly.

Sugizo nodded. "Sometimes multiple times in a day."

Ryu's jaw dropped. "Hounto ni?!" He looked Sugizo all over. "You?
Why would you want me?"

Sugizo played lightly with Ryu's hair. "Because you are so
special..."

Ryu blushed. "Special?" He flickered his eyes up to look at
Sugizo's for a split second.

"Hai. Special..." Sugizo took Ryu's chin and pressed their lips
together, encouraging memories that came to Ryu of countless
encounters they'd had. Sugizo broke the kiss and looked into Ryu's
eyes. "Very special..."

Rodger shoved another handful of popcorn into his mouth (he brought
refreshments with him. He's from Queen, he's allowed to be nifty!)
and took a sip of his soda before clearing his throat. "Hey, guys,
would you mind pausing yourselves? I have to go the bathroom."

Sugizo glared at Rodger, finally taking notice of his being in the
room. "How long were you there?"

Rodger scratched his head. "I think from the first time you two
were 'together'." He grinned.

Ryu blushed as he got flashes from that time. Immediately he felt
like draping himself onto Sugizo, but refrained, thinking the other
would take it badly. Sugizo looked to Ryu and smiled. "Want to go
to another room? He hasn't paid his admission fee."

Ryu giggled and nodded. "Ughn!"

***

Toshiya kept his head down on his desk, relieved that at least the
teacher hadn't covered too much in the time he was gone. //I was
gone for a few days after getting Levin, but Kyo said it was a
month... what's with this wierd time frame?// He flicked his eyes up
to look at the notes on the board to at least seem like he was paying
attention. //Kaoru...// he kept tracing the single kanji symbol on
his desk with his finger. He felt the corner of a folded paper note
tap his arm and he turned his attention to see Miyabi with a hentai
grin. Toshiya took the paper and looked at the contents.

~~Dear Totchi-chan,
~~Hiya! Ne, it's been too long ne...
~~You're not still with Kyo, are you?
~~I'm not with Kirito anymore...

Toshiya looked up to see Kirito being fawned over by Takeo and he
would've giggled if he wasn't so down.

~~I've been reading too much... stories lately ne...
~~Have you gotten any better?
~~Wanna see what I'm like now? (I'm innocent I tell ya!)
~~Meet me after school, okay?
~~And smile! You're too dark for your pretty face!
~~Ai ai!
~~Miyabi-chan

Toshiya looked over to Miyabi who gave him a flirtatious air-kiss.
Toshiya let the sides of his mouth tug up a bit. //I'm depressed, I
know... but that doesn't mean I have to shut everything out...//
Toshiya nodded to Miyabi and Miyabi smiled, mouthing "usual place".
Toshiya nodded again and started to doodle pictures of Kaoru.

***

Miyabi looped his arm through Toshiya's and they walked to a cafe.
They ordered tea and when the waitress came back with thier drinks,
Toshiya blew on it lightly and sipped. Miyabi stirred at his first,
watching Toshiya until Toshiya looked up to him. "What?"

Miyabi smiled slightly. "You've been through a breakup, haven't you?"

Toshiya blinked.

"Kyo broke up with you, didn't he?" Miyabi tilted his head to the
side. "But... I didn't think that you'd take it this hard. I mean,
you two weren't serious, were you? I thought it was just physical."

"It was." Toshiya sipped again.

"Then why are you so sad? You can easily find someone else to bed
with."

"Because... it's not him."

"Oh?" Miyabi was interested now. "Who was it?"

"You don't know him..." Toshiya looked up. "He's not from around
here."

"You fell in love with a gaijin and he had to go home and wouldn't
stay in Japan for you? Oh god, Toshiya!" Miyabi giggled.

Toshiya laughed lightly, knowing that this was Miyabi's way of trying
to cheer him up.

Miyabi rested his chin on his laced fingers and looked to
Toshiya. "So, someone I don't know? How could you keep him from
me? I thought we were friends!" Miyabi pouted. "Or maybe he was
just so droolable that you thought that I'd steal him from you!"

Toshiya grinned.

"So... what's he look like?" Toshiya took out one of his drawing
books and took out a portrait he'd drawn from memory that night he
came back and handed it to Miyabi. Miyabi's eyes widened and he
whistled. "Ooo! He's a sexy one! Now I know why you didn't come to
school OR introduce him to me! You too must have been in bed 24/7!"

Toshiya looked down at that. "No... it... Miyabi..."

Miyabi held Toshiya's hands over the table. "Ne, Toshiya... the best
way to get over a guy is to get on with your life and to go on like
nothing happened."

//Like nothing happened... I can't do that with Kaoru... can I?//
Toshiya nodded and stayed quiet for the rest of the time.



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