kurara-time's chain

Time's Chain

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Part 7

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Kaoru, Toshiya, Shinya, Die and Levin rode horses through the greenery outside of the mansion. Kaoru would shyly look at Toshiya who would turn to see him looking and smile, causing Kaoru to blush. Toshiya got his horse as close as he could to Kaoru's before reaching out to brush thier hands against each other's. Kaoru held the hand and relaxed.

Shinya had insisted on riding with Die, and had his arms around Die's waist, resting against the taller man. One of Die's hands held Shinya's as they rode and his thumb moved over the smaller man's knuckles.

Levin, on the other hand, was having trouble just staying on his horse. He screamed as the horse bucked and shied away from everything, crying out for help, but the love struck couples were too absorbed with each other to take notice. The horse ran up to the side of Toshiya's, bumping into him sideways.

Toshiya fell onto Levin, who fell off his horse and disapeared. Toshiya was still holding onto Kaoru and watched in shock as Levin vanished. He turned back to Kaoru. "Did he...?"

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Levin blinked as he looked around at the new surroundings. "Kaoru? Toshiya? Shinya? Andie?" There was no response and he looked at the ground. "Waaaaaaaaaait! I was just on a horse! So where's the horse dung?" He scratched his head and decided to go up to the mansion. He gasped as he saw the decomposing building. "Oh my god! I fell off the horse and the world blew up! I'm the only survivor...." he dropped to the ground and cried.

"Moshi?" A voice came.

Levin wiped his eyes and stood up, ready to fight anyone that was ready to hurt him. //I wish Miffy was here...// Another short guy came out and Levin gasped. "Who are you?"

"Kyo Matsumoto. What about you?" He asked, as puzzled about Levin's clothes as Levin was about Kyo's.

"Levin... just, just Levin." Levin looked down.

"What are you wearing?"

"I was about to ask the same thing."

Kyo cocked his head to the side. "Why? I'm wearing normal...enough stuff..." he said while playing with his saftey pins.

Levin narrowed his eyebrows. "Since when?"

Kyo looked up. "Um... I'm guessing... 1980?"

Levin's jaw dropped. "1980? It's only 1901!"

Kyo blinked. "What the hell? Have you been stuck in some mental institution and they just let you out?"

Levin blinked, confused.

Kyo sighed. "Do you have anywhere to stay?"

Levin saddly shook his head. "I lived in the mansion."

"The mansion was burned down fifty years ago. Are you homeless?"

Levin sighed. //Might as well act like it.// "Hai. My parents were abusive to each other until one day they killed each other in front of me. I left school and home and went out to live in this mansion. I haven't talked to a human in a very long time. I can't even remember my last name." //Well, it IS the truth...//

Kyo's eyes widened. "Was there lots of blood?"

Levin nodded. "It got all over me."

"Cool! I mean... it sucks it was your parents, unless you didn't like them I mean, but the blood is cool. What did it taste like?"

"Um... I didn't eat it."

"You should've!" Kyo grabbed Levin's arm. "Come on, you can live with me. My dad won't mind."

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Levin at hungrily at the table, clad in Kyo's clothes since they fit perfectly, and he had taken to the saftey pins as well, though they clashed slightly with his cute composure. Kyo grinned as his brother hide watched wide eyed. "What did you say his name was again?" hide asked.

"Levin."

"Levin... hey, Levin, when was the last time you ate?"

Levin looked up and shrugged. "I don't remember."

hide sighed and finished his meal. "Uh... Kyo, Yoshiki says you have to work tonight too."

Kyo pouted. "Again? Damn it! You're a bad influence on my boss! Ever since you two met you've been doing everything together and I have to keep on working!"

"Don't you like the extra money?"

"Yeah, but I have barely gotten to see Toshiya!" Kyo protested.

"It's not like you two are going out or anything."

Kyo pouted. "But he was good for sex!"

hide grinned. "You're too young to be doing that stuff."

Kyo growled and pounced on the table, making Levin pay attention. //Toshiya? Wait... Toshiya went back in time, so maybe I went forward? Maybe this is Kyo of Toshiya's life?// He grinned. //I'm in the future.//

"hide! I'm going to kill you! I hate having to work for you sex life!" Kyo grabbed hide's shirt and tried pulling on his hair.

"Hey, I can't help it I'm so good." He grinned and pushed Kyo away, and onto Levin. He stood up and gulped down the rest of his sake. "Hey, why don't you bring your friend along? I'm sure Yoshiki doesn't mind."

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"You work at a food service?" Levin swirled around on the stool.

Kyo nodded. "This is Mc Donalds." (Hahah! Yoshiki owning a Mc Donalds! Hehehe. You never know...)

"Mc Donalds..." He put on a red hat and swirled around more. "So, what do you do here?"

"Well, it's night, so they just need me to work the drive thru, and people place thier orders here and I make their solid grease and I give it to them, they give me money, and I get paid for doing this."

"Solid grease?" Levin blinked. "Why would anyone want to eat solid grease?"

Kyo shrugged. "Just some American crap."

"Sou desu..." Levin stopped swirling and grinned as the world still spun around him. "Ne, your brother and your boss are together?"

Kyo frowned. "Seems that way. Keeps me from getting any though..."

"Getting any?"

The blonde raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, getting laid."

Levin nodded. "Why don't you just leave and get laid?"

Kyo sighed. "Cuz I need money to do anything. And my dad doesn't give me any, and I can't keep my job unless I work here. No one else would hire me."

Levin smiled. "Then why don't you just do it here? They wouldn't find out, would they?"

Kyo laughed. "If I want to get it on camera I can do it!"

"Camera?"

"Yeah. Don't you know what a camera is?" Levin shook his head. "Well, a camera is..." he pointed up to one of the screens. "See that screen?"

"Yeah! I'm in it!" He bounced around and saw that his image did the same. "Is that a mirror?"

Kyo shook his head while laughing. "No! That's a screen that is showing what's going on in here. There is a camera which records what you do so that later on someone can go back and watch the tapes to see what you were doing.

"Wow..."

Kyo grinned; Levin was just too kawaii! He hated when people called him kawaii, but he liked kawaii things. Teddy bears, fuzzy blankets, cats, dogs, Levin... //Levin?// He bit his lip, remembering hide's words, about him and Toshiya not going out. //We're not really going out... and he won't mind anyway... he's getting boring to me anyway...// He smiled at Levin. "Ne, Levin?"

"Eh?"

"Come here." Kyo leaned over the counter as Levin bounced over to him. Kyo grinned and took Levin's chin in his hand before bringing himself close enough to his lips to kiss him. "Do you think I'm kawaii?"

"No..." Levin smiled. "I think you're kakkoi!"

Kyo beamed. "Good answer. Now, do you think I'm... desirable?" Levin took his hand and put it behind Kyo's head, pulling himself up to kiss Kyo's lips. Kyo responded harshly, not even waiting for permission before slipping his tongue through the other's lips. Levin responded well; encouraging the blonde. Kyo broke it off and smiled evily to the brunette. "Levin-chan?"

"Hai?"

"Did I tell you to do that?"

Levin shook his head. "Iie."

"Then why'd you do it?"

"Because you're damned sexy!" Levin grinned, then went close again, breathing on Kyo's lips as he said, "was that a good answer?"

Kyo nodded. "Very good."

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"J..." Sugizo peered into the stable and saw J polishing the tack (saddles and bridles ^^). J looked up and nodded. "Do you like working here?"

J took in a breath sharply, wondering what it was that Sugizo wanted to REALLY know. "Hai."

"Would you ever leave it?"

"Probably. Depends."

"Hmm..." Sugizo walked to a dark horse and petted it's mane. "What about for me? Would you work for me?"

J narrowed his eyebrows slightly. //And just what does he mean about work?// "Depends..."

Sugizo sighed. "J... do you know how I got Ino to work for me?" J shook his head. "Well, I'll tell you." He sat down next to J and stared at the floor. "When I was a kid, I went around everywhere, trying to find a way to eat and survive. I did all types of jobs. ALL types, J. Most of them I did out of desperation. Many times I would end up having to be someone's sex toy..."

J gasped. "Hounto?"

"Hai." He took a saddle and started to polish it, smiling sadly at J. "The first time was when I was ten, and I was forced to. For about a year I belonged to one particular man, Hideki (note - not a jrocker, just a random name ^^). I saved up and was able to get away, and to this house where Mana took me in, for reasons I can't tell you or anyone."

J nodded. "What's this have to do with Ino?"

"Ino was on the same track. He used to have a brother, Shinya, but Shinya had died one night of a disease, leaving Ino alone. Ino had gone the same way I did, looking for work any and everywhere. When he got to me, he was ten, just like I was, and I couldn't stand to think of someone with his innocent aura to be defiled like that." He worked hard at the saddle, making it's luster almost blinding. "Even though he was my servant, he was still someone close to me. I took him in and had him work only because I didn't want him to have to think that anything was free in life. Ino became... in a sense... my son..."

J looked up to Sugizo. "Your son?"

Sugizo nodded. "I don't think he realizes that I think of him that way, but I dont' want him to leave me forever, and that's what he's planning to do, right?"

J bit his lip.

"Because you. He wants to be with you. I can tell, I've seen you too, and he looks happy with you. But he must think of me as just some guy who he works for." He finished the saddle surprisingly fast and put it to the side. "J, I asked him if he'd work for me until I died, and he agreed on one condition, that you'd work for me."

J widened his eyes.

"He would only do it if you are with him. J, I know you love him too, and I know you think that I'm just some sex-crazed guy, but I'd never go after you or Ino that way, it'd be like trying to get with my son and his boyfriend. I would like you to come with me and work for me with my horses. I don't have as many, and if you're working for me, you'd always get to see Ino, and I'll even help you two along if you ever need help, so, think it over, ne?"

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