[Log] Sengoku & Gakuto, pt.1

[singing_gakuto]

Rating: Weird
When: Right around the time Sengoku showed up
Where: Out and about
Summary: Gakuto's bored and decides to go bug Sengoku. He can't decide if he'd rather be friends with the guy or strangle him. Maybe he should just steal the magical, immortality giving hair...Part 1 because Tezz and I rock at epic giant 20+page logs.



Gakuto stretched and ran at the hallway wall, flipping off it. No reason other than he just felt like it. The floor was too quiet and it was a place he’d avoided. The only other time he’d even stepped foot on it had been the night of the party when he’d dragged Hiyoshi out of the boy’s apartment. But he wasn’t here to bug the second year today. Nah, there was someone else who he’d come to bug.

“Yo, you around?” He yelled, beating on Sengoku’s door. “Thought we were gonna go hang out somewhere.” Not that he knew where to hang out at. He was just bored and didn’t want to be in the SevenLines building anymore than he possibly had to. Probably would have gone to the dance studio but he needed a break from that every now and then.

Sengoku had been sitting with his legs crossed on the couch and read the horoscope. He hadn't had the time to do it earlier today, finally having unpacked his things. At the banging on his door, accompanied by the yells, he put the paper away, stretching his legs that were half asleep as he stood up. "Coming, coming~" He opened the door, spotting the redhead of Hyotei. "Hello, Gakuto-kun. Sure, we can go somewhere~" he said, wide smile on his face.

“Still unpacking?” Gakuto asked, looking in the apartment. “Sucks for you. Granted, I got distracted when I was unpacking too...though that distraction turned out good for me.” It’d been his song for the last round and that’d done amazingly well. Better than he’d expected after the first ranking round. “So, got anywhere you want to go?”

“Nope, I just finished. It wasn’t that much.” Sengoku chimed happily. Since yes, he hadn’t brought very much things with him. Mostly things related to music, and his tennis and boxing things. And clothes, yes and of course things related to his interest in the supernatural. “But yes, dates can be distracting~” he nodded, smiling at the shorter boy. “Mm, not really. I’ll let you choose~”

“Dates?” The redhead repeated, raising an eyebrow. “And I don’t really care. Want to just wander around until we see something that looks fun?” As long as it was out the SevenLines building. That was honestly all Gakuto cared about. He’d spent far too much time cooped up in the place thanks to that week of house arrest. Completely and absolutely terrible. And to think he was supposed to have had another week still. He smiled, silently thanking all the others who’d harassed the guards and gotten them to leave.

“Yes, dates. Dates are fun.” Romantic ones, casual ones, even those that were really just for making new friends and getting to know each other better. They were all really fun. Some were even relaxing. “That sounds fine to me~ Let’s do that.” He went into his room to get a few items that he might need, as well as his jacket. When that was done, he came back to the door, wide smile on his face. “I’m all done~ Or did you want to take a look around my apartment, first~?”

“They can be,” Gakuto agreed. “But I hate to burst your bubble. This isn’t a date.” Just him hanging out with someone who was somewhat interesting. “And I’m okay,” he declined the offer to enter the apartment. He’d had more than enough of his fill of the apartments. Besides, they all tended to look pretty much the same.

“Oh, don’t feel too bad about it. Dates can be more than just romantic ones.” He winked at Gakuto. “Ah, right, you were tired of this building, so of course not~” Sengoku closed his door behind him. “So shall we go~?”

“Sorry if I’d rather this not be called a date.” After all, that simple word had been enough to throw him into a downward depression-filled spiral of unhappiness for a week. He hadn’t meant to come off as snippy sounding but he couldn’t help it. “This is just people hanging out.” Gakuto frowned for a moment before bouncing down the hallway towards the stairs. “Now, you gonna hurry up or you going to spend the time just eating my dust?”

Sengoku noticed the small frown on the other’s face, but didn’t point it out. They going to have a good time. Instead he let out a laugh. “Sure, sure~ Let’s not call it that~” he nodded, before following the small redhead. “Oh, I prefer to avoid eating dust~”

“Good,” Gakuto said. “What would you prefer to do then?” He turned and looked at the guy. “Since right now, all you seem to be doing is eating said dust...”

“Oh, I’ll avoid doing that, then.” Sengoku said as way of an answer. He sped up to walk next to the other instead. “Better~?”

He shrugged. “Like I really care. Guess it’s better than you lagging behind.” Gakuto started down the stairs, a quick flash of memory of the last time he’d gone down these stairs with someone. Remembering what Kikumaru had done, the redhead shook his head. “See you later,” he called as he flipped over the railing to land a flight further down.

Sengoku blinked and leaned to look over the railing. “Hey!” he called out, hurrying down the stairs to catch up with the little acrobat. Once he was by his side again, he grinned. “That’s pretty cool. Those acrobatics you’re doing.”

“What?” Gakuto grinned. “That was nothing.” He laughed. “You should see me when I get going on dancing.” He was proud of those skills and was quite good. He knew he could put on a show.

“I’ll look forward to seeing that, then~” Sengoku laughed. This boy was entertaining, he thought. But then, he considered most people to be that.

“There’s an all ages club that’s not too far away I want to check out sometime. You should come with me,” Gakuto offered. “I haven’t been yet but some of the girls from belly dancing were talking about how it was fun and they liked going to it a lot.”

“Tell me when you’re going there, ne?” the taller boy said, happily accepting the offer. Sounded like a good idea, and dancing once in a while was fun.

He shrugged. He’d been inviting everyone to come so what was one more person. “What about you?” Gakuto asked, looking over at the other guy. “You got anything you like to do?”

It didn’t take long for Sengoku to answer that one. “Mm, boxing, fortune-telling and designing. It’s all very fun!” He didn’t need to mention going on dates, he figured that Gakuto had noticed that one already.

Gakuto stopped and stared at the other guy for a few moments. “That’s an odd bunch of hobbies,” he finally decided.

Sengoku laughed. “You think?” He thought about it for a bit. “Not really. As long as it’s fun.”

“Maybe each not on their own is okay but as a group, they’re really weird,” Gakuto argued. “Though I guess that explains how you ended up being you.”

“It’s not weird at all.” Sengoku protested. But it wasn’t like he took any offence by it. Not really. “And how am I, then?” he asked, the smile on his face widening.

“A very strange person,” Gakuto answered matter-of-factly. “But I guess you’re not too bad.” At least, so far the guy didn’t seem too terrible.

“Ah, that’s good then~” Sengoku stretched, locking his hands behind his back. “Maybe we should start walking again? Not that I mind just talking though~” Because since Gakuto had stopped earlier, they hadn’t gotten very far.

The redhead just stared for another moment before shaking his head. “Let’s go then,” he said, walking away from the guy and figuring Sengoku would follow. Granted, he didn’t really have a destination in mind but whatever. Better than just standing around.

Sengoku followed, falling into step next to Gakuto. “So do you do anything besides dancing on your free time?” he asked, curious. It was always fun learning new things about people, no matter if you had known then for a long time, or if you had met them just recently.

“Hang out with people, borrow games from Ryou, that kind of thing,” Gakuto answered. But dancing was a majority of his time. He was the studio at least three days a week, most weeks usually more. “You know, normal people things.”

“Oh, I hang out a lot with people as well, not only as dates~” Sengoku laughed. “Only that some don’t appreciate it.” Fingers still twined, locking his hands behind him, he added, “Like Akutsu.”

He shook his head. “Still think you’re nuts for wanting to hang around that guy,” Gakuto shot back. “You’re talking about me when you mean the unappreciative people, aren’t you?”

“Akutsu just pretends that he doesn’t want me there. He’s just shy~” Sengoku nodded to himself. That, and maybe he was slightly masochistic. “You haven’t told me to ‘fuck off’, so I don’t think I’m talking about you when I say that, no~”

“Shy my ass,” Gakuto muttered, not believing Sengoku about that claim. “But you haven’t annoyed me enough to tell you that.” But if Sengoku got to be too annoying, Gakuto wouldn’t be afraid to speak his mind and tell him to go away.

“Yes, it’s pretty nice.” Sengoku teased, glancing down for just a moment. He couldn’t help his flirty nature after all. “Oh, then I guess I’ve got to work on that~” Sengoku chimed, still a teasing edge to his voice. He had no doubt in his mind that this boy would tell him exactly what he thought about him.

He turned and stared. “You checking me out or something?” Ugh, just more of what he needed. Speeding up his pace, he kept walking away. “Thought you wanted to be a friend, not someone I didn’t like.”

“Just joking, joking~” Sengoku hurried up to walk next to Gakuto again. “Don’t worry~ Told you I wouldn’t do anything besides a little harmless flirting~ It’s a habit~” And it being a habit, he couldn’t help but flirt. Even if he knew he probably shouldn’t.

“Good because I get enough of that from Yuushi.” Not that Gakuto ever minded when Yuushi started flirting with him. Though really, the guy said some of the cheesiest, corniest things ever. “I still don’t get how flirting can be a habit though.”

“Mm, when you do something so much that you don’t really think that much about it and you just do it? You don’t have any habits?” So that made it quite easy for it to be a habit for the orangehaired boy.

“I’ve got habits, just nothing weird like flirting.” Gakuto couldn’t help but wonder how he was the one who always seemed left to deal with the weird ones.

Sengoku laughed, wide smile on his face. “Oh, it’s not weird at all~” But he already knew that most people didn’t have that specific habit. So maybe it was just a little bit weird.

“No, it’s pretty weird. You’re the second person I know who has it though.” Seriously, why him? Gakuto glanced over at the Yamabuki guy. “So, think of anything to do yet?”

“So I’m not alone. That’s good to know~” Sengoku looked around to see if there was anything around that would interest them both. “There’s a place for wall climbing ahead. If you’d like to try, if you haven’t already?” He was at least a bit familiar with the area, but not too much. But he had been planning on checking out that place. Now to see if the acrobat would be interested in it. “I haven’t tried it yet, could be interesting~”

Gakuto shrugged. “Why not? Sounds interesting.” He’d never done it before. “You and Yuushi. That’s it. No one else is that weird.”

“So we’ll both try on something new.” The horoscope had clearly been right, again. About him trying on something he hadn’t done before today. “I’ll take that as a compliment~” he said as Gaukto uttered that last part.

“You are the only one,” he shot back. “Most people wouldn’t want to be lumped in with Yuushi.” Gakuto himself being one of the exceptions. “New is good though.”

“I meant the weird part, though.” Sengoku smiled. “It means I’m pretty unique, right~? And I like being unique~” He nodded at Gakuto’s words that followed. “Yes, it’s always nice to try on something new.”

“Unique’s a way to put it.” Gakuto definitely hadn’t met anyone quite like Sengoku before. “It can be. Not afraid of heights, are you?”

“Not afraid of it in the slightest~” Sengoku unlocked his hands, letting them fall to his sides instead as they walked. “With all your impressive jumping, you can’t be either, right?”

“If people could fly, my feet would never touch the ground,” Gakuto grinned. “You ever been bungee-jumping?” That was about the closest he’d ever come to flying and he loved it.

“So you love heights.” Sengoku nodded, but went over to shake his head at the question. “I’ve thought about trying it, though.”

“Well duh.” Gakuto rolled his eyes. “That should be pretty obvious.” He paused for a moment before adding, “you should come with me some time.” Though his list of people he was suppose to go bungee jumping with now was getting long. There was Ryou and Piyo and Potato-chan and now Sengoku.

“It is, it is~” It was quite obvious indeed. “I think it’d be fun, so that sounds good to me.” He’d take all chances he could get to try on something new once in a while. And if he could do it with someone else, all the better.

“Cool. Though there’s kind of a line so you may have to wait a little while,” Gakuto answered. “It’s a rush though, one you’ll have never felt before.”

“So there’s more people who’s going~ I’ll be looking forward to my turn then~” He took a note on where they were. They were almost there by now. “See it? It’s that building over there~” he pointed to a building a bit ahead.

“Just a few. Ryou’s always up for it and I’m dragging Piyo and Potato-chan because they need to learn to lighten up and have fun.” Gakuto saw the building and nodded.

“They do need to lighten up, yes.” Sengoku nodded. Just about a minute later, they reached the building they were heading for. “So we’re here~”

Gakuto walked through the door. “They do. It’s why they’re my new projects. I’ve been working on Ryou since we were kids. He was too stuffy and boring when we were little.” And if he had to say so, he’d done quite a good job on the Hyotei brunette.

“Can’t let them stay boring forever, ne~” Sengoku followed Gakuto inside. “Oh, this will be fun~”

Gakuto shook his head. “Nope, not allowed. Want to help me?” He had a feeling that Piyo and Potato-chan would be much tougher than Ryou had been. Plus, help could and would be appreciated.

“Any day~” That seemed like a challenge, to try and make them loosen up, and he wouldn’t back down from one. “Let’s make them fun~” He went to a board with information and lit up when he read on a note. “Hey, first try’s free this month. Lucky~”

Looking up and seeing that it was true, Gakuto grinned. “Yeah, lucky us.” He appreciated the help. It would make his project easier, that was for sure.

Seeing as there wasn’t that much left of the month, they were very lucky indeed. But then, he wasn’t called ‘Lucky Sengoku’ for nothing. This would be very interesting and fun to try out.

“So, what exactly do we do?” Gakuto asked, looking around. Nothing seemed too obvious to him but he’d also never been to a place like this before. He glanced around, seeing the wall that reached the ceiling and smiled a little. It was high up and it looked like it’d give an awesome view.

“Getting these on, first, I’d guess.” The orange haired boy held up some equipment that was placed neatly against the wall. As he spoke, someone working there came up to them, and in the end, explained just what they had to do before they could start climbing.

“That was handy,” Gakuto grinned, pointing to the employee. He glanced up the wall. “Guess we just start climbing then.” He gripped the first handhold and went up a few feet. Looking down, he raised an eyebrow. “Coming along or you just gonna check me out again?”

Very handy indeed, Sengoku thought. “Though that would be nice too, we did come here for climbing~” He grabbed a handhold and started climbing. It was a bit hard, but he already knew he would enjoy this.

Gakuto paused and looked down again. “You’re serious about that, aren’t you?” He asked, disbelief obvious in his voice.

“Depends on what you’re meaning~” Sengoku continued to climb a bit higher.

“What do you think I mean?” He paused, waiting for Sengoku to catch up.

Now about as high up as Gaukto, Sengoku paused. “Hm, I don’t know~ What~?”

Gakuto let out an exasperated sigh. “Seriously?” He shook his head and climbed up a little more. “What do you think I meant?”

“Mm, did I perhaps flirt with you again~?” Because if he had, he really hadn’t been thinking about it this time.

“Maybe,” Gakuto said back. “More like you implied something.” Just what the guy had implied, Gakuto wasn’t exactly sure but it’d definitely been enough to have made him stopped.

“So it’s nothing bad~” Sengoku let out a small laugh, continuing upwards. He should really try to get such a habit under control, he thought. It had given him a little trouble a few times, he remembered.

“Still think you’re weird.” Gakuto paused again, letting the orange-head catch up. The weirdos...why always the weirdos?

“And unique, right~?” Sengoku paused again, thinking about it. Him and his ‘weirdness’, as Gakuto put it, and his habit to flirt. He looked up in the ceiling for a few moments in thought.

Gakuto glanced over. “If you want to be unique,” he let his voice trailed off. “Why all the flirting anyway? I know you said it’s a habit but still...”

“Mm, I don’t know, really. I don’t know when I started to flirt so much.” Well, he had always been popular, and adults just seemed to have loved him when he was small. He rubbed a cheek at remembering all the countless cheek torture those aunties seemed to love to give to children. Because of that, he almost lost his grip, but he managed to stay up. Luckily.

“Really?” Gakuto grabbed the next handhold and pulled himself up. “Strange.”

Laughing again, Sengoku nodded. That, he could agree on. It was a bit strange. “Probably, yeah.”

“Probably?” He raised an eyebrow. “Try completely. There is no probably,” Gakuto added.

“Okay, completely it is, then~” the orangehead nodded, taking himself further up the wall.

Gakuto looked up, surprised at how close the ceiling was. “So high up,” he murmured to himself. He knew it was a stupid thought but he half wanted to just let go and fly through the air.

“Ah, you’re right.” Sengoku blinked up at the ceiling. Had they really gotten this far up already? But then, they had been talking for quite a bit during their climb.

He looked down and grinned. “Not quite the same thrill but not a bad one,” he decided. “So, if you flirt so much, that mean you got someone?” Gakuto had to admit, he was kind of curious to know if there was someone out there who could put up with a habitual flirter too.

“Mm, it was still fun, ne?” Sengoku nodded, then turned his eyes from the ceiling to blink at Gakuto as he climbed the last bit to come up next to him. “I’m not currently dating anyone. But I did until recently.” Though Gakuto talked about him breaking hearts.. he had gotten his own broken quite a few times. When you always seem to end up in one-sided love over and over again..

“Hey, still gotta get down,” Gakuto pointed out. “Good break or bad break?” Not that he really had any experience in relationships and dating someone. Still, he kind of understood them, what with his own weird, messy situation.

“Bad, I suppose. Didn’t really want to end it, but it can’t be helped.” Sengoku let out another short laugh. Usually it was, but he was pretty good at laughing it off by now.

“Sounds like you weren’t the one to end things.” Gakuto looked down, not really wanting to start that just yet. He liked being up so high. “You with the person very long?”

“Well, no, I wasn’t.” Sengoku sucked on the inside of his cheek in thought. “About half a year. If you want the exact amount of days, I can tell you that too.”

“That’s a fairly substantial amount of time,” Gakuto said, frowning. And from the sounds of it, probably a sore subject. “At least it’s better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all?” He offered.

“Ah, I suppose so, yeah.” Because the feeling of being in love was pretty amazing and big, after all. “Mm, being in love is an amazing feeling.” The hurt it could bring, not as much.

“It can be,” Gakuto agreed. “As long as it’s a good love.” Because it could hurt. It could hurt a lot.

“Mm.” Sengoku hummed in agreement. As long as it was a good love, yes. Gakuto was right about that.

“Bad love...” Gakuto shook his head. “Yeah, bad love can suck.”

“I know what you mean.” Sengoku moved a bit where he was on the wall, this time losing his grip entirely. For a second, he fell, before he was stopped by the safety cable and was left hanging. “Oops~” he laughed.

Gakuto laughed as well. “Good job there.”

“Thank you~” The orange haired boy did his best to do a bow, while in his current hanging state.

“Having fun over there?” Gakuto asked after a moment, barely able to hang onto the wall. It was hard to grip a wall and laugh your ass off at the same time.

“Very~” Sengoku knew that had he still been holding on to the wall, he would fall off from laughing right now, had he been in Gakuto’s position. As it was, he could laugh just how much he wanted.

Gakuto shook his head and took a deep breath, letting himself calm down. “Meet you at the bottom,” he decided, beginning to work his way down.

Sure, but he wasn’t sure how to get down. What had that person who helped them earlier said..? Ah, it would work out somehow. He moved his legs, working up enough movements to get him to reach the wall. The third time, he did manage to get a somewhat steady hold of the wall. “Third time’s the charm~” he hummed, starting to work his way down as well.

Gakuto looked up at the orange-head coming down. “Just don’t fall on me,” he called out.

“I’ll try not to~” Well, he would just get hanging again if he fell.

“You fall on me and I’ll kick you ass,” Gakuto warned. “Got it?” He may have been kind of small for a guy but that didn’t mean he wasn’t tough.

Sengoku let out a laugh. “I’ll make sure I won’t do that, then~”

“Good.” Gakuto glanced up. “Sure are taking your own time getting down.”

“Mm, maybe I just don’t want to get down.” But he found it a bit harder to come down, compared to getting up.

“Don’t blame you,” Gakuto said once his feet were on the ground. Like he’d said before, if he could, he’d always be flying through the air.

A small while later, Sengoku also reached the ground. Too bad they were already down, he wouldn’t have had anything against it lasting longer. “That was fun~”

“We’ll have to come back,” Gakuto agreed as he started taking the equipment off. He had a feeling his shoulders would be slightly sore but that was nothing new, having sore muscles and body parts.

“I agree fully with you on that~” the orange haired boy started on his own equipment. It really had been a great idea to come here.

Gakuto headed towards the door, assuming Sengoku would follow. “Wanna do anything else?” Because it was still fairly early and he didn’t want to head back to the SevenLines building just yet.

Sengoku did follow the other boy, and they soon found themselves outside again. “We could do something else~ It’s not like we have to be anywhere else right now~”

“Very true,” Gakuto nodded. “Anywhere else you want to go?” He didn’t have a real preference.

“Not at the moment, no~” The wall climbing he had remembered just before pointing it out, he wasn’t that familiar with this area, after all. They had been lucky it had been close by.

So back to wandering around. Not terrible or anything. At least his companion was an interesting guy, if a bit odd. Gakuto took a moment, stretching his arms above his head.

“So how’s it been this far? Working for Seven Lines?” Sengoku was a bit curious about it, yes. He had gotten here just this week, only to find that everyone lived together. He was going to enjoy his stay in the apartments, he was sure.

“Interesting,” Gakuto replied. “There are times when we’re busy, like when a song deadline is coming up and when there’s a fanmeet. Other than that, they seem to let us be and do what we want.” Well, except when they screwed up and did something like have giant awesome parties. House arrest had been hell.

The carrot-top laughed. “I look forward to it all. It’ll be really fun, ne~” He couldn’t wait for an opportunity to do something with all of them, and to meet their fans.

“It can be,” Gakuto nodded. He remembered the last fan meet and went light pink. “They’re definitely interesting.”

“Ahaha~” An amused expression on his face, noting the faint blush on the other’s cheeks. “Did something interesting happen recently, then?”

Gakuto shook his head. “Just someone being...being very much himself.” Stupid, silly, mushy romantic and the giant show he’d put on. He’d felt like dying from embarrassment when that’d happened.

“Mm, weren’t everyone being themselves at the time?” Sengoku asked. He had no idea what had happened, but it seemed like it had been very interesting indeed.

“Yeah, but this was...” Gakuto thought for a moment, trying to think of an appropriate word. “It was special,” he decided. “And completely ridiculous.”

“Judging by the expression on your face, I take it was a good ridiculous.” There were good and bad sides to everything, after all.

“Serenading,” was all Gakuto gave about what had happened. “The guy was serenading.”

“Cheesy.” Sengoku smiled. But he didn’t really have any right to say anything about that, he could be pretty cheesy himself, but he hadn’t serenaded anyone. And he knew for sure who Gakuto was talking about by now.

“Gah, I can’t believe I know someone like that,” Gakuto said, shaking his head. “The sad thing? I know that when he did it at the fanmeet, it wasn’t even the first time he’d done that.” Twice within roughly a month...Yuushi was pretty ridiculous.

“There’s a lot of people in the world~” Sengoku hummed, nodding to himself. So many different sorts of people and there was no end to them. It was amazing, really. “Indeed~” he agreed to Gakuto’s words.

And my luck is to get to know all the strange ones, Gakuto thought, rolling his eyes. “You meet anyone that sticks out as odd and memorable?”

“Mm.” Sengoku thought it over for just a few moments. “You can’t call Akutsu anything but special, and the same goes for Dan-kun. Jimizu are so plain it’s incredible~” He did think of his team as important. “There’s a lot of special individuals among us, isn’t there~?”

“Everyone seems to have this one thing about them,” Gakuto said after a moment, nodding. “This one weird trait or saying that is the thing everyone seems to remember them for.”

“Mhm~ So there’s a lot of memorable people in the world.” Sengoku looked up into the sky for a moment, thinking. “Everyone’s special..”

“Speaking of special...” Gakuto grinned and stopped walking for a moment, stretching as best as he could. The climbing from earlier actually helped quite a bit. The street they’d been walking down wasn’t terribly busy. It wasn’t deserted but besides the two of them, there were only a handful of other people on it. And seeing the fairly open sidewalk laid out in front of him just made Gakuto want to do one thing. “Watch this,” he ordered, backing up a little and running forward, doing a one-handed backflip.

Sengoku stared at the acrobat as he did that move, his mouth open to form a small ‘o’. He blinked, before his face split up into a wide smile. “Sugoi, Gakuto-kun. That was amazing~” He clapped his hands, applauding the other boy.

Gakuto grinned and looked over. “That was nothing.”

“Got something even more impressive to show me, then?” Sengoku asked, curious.

He hadn’t planned on showing off. He’d only done the one flip because it’d felt like a good idea. Looking at the ground, Gakuto winced. “Maybe but only if there’s something other than cement under my feet.”

“That can wait till another time, then~” Sengoku let out a laugh. “Don’t want you to hurt yourself.”

“I do that enough as is.” An unfortunate side effect of the dancing. All too often Gakuto would do something stupid or not watch what he was doing. The bruises from hitting his arms on the table during house arrest were still visible.

“So let’s avoid it as much as we can~” Sengoku knew about the possibility to get hurt while doing something you liked. Boxing wasn't exactly a gentle sport after all. But it wasn't like that had ever scared him from getting up again after getting hit.

“Oh yeah, ‘cause you do something too,” Gakuto nodded after a moment. He tried remembering what other sport Sengoku had mentioned doing but couldn’t remember. He shook his head, it not coming to him at all.

Sengoku grinned at Gakuto. “Boxing.” he reminded the other.

“Why?” Gakuto had to asked. He got that doing a sport was fun. After all, he played tennis. But boxing? What was fun about punching someone and getting punched back?

“It’s like an adrenaline kick.” Sengoku tried to explain. “Or something like that. I just like it~” ‘Adrenaline kick’ was probably the closest he could get to explain it.

“Because someone punching at you is just so much fun,” Gakuto said dryly, rolling his eyes. “I can totally see the point in that.”

“You’re supposed to try and avoid getting hit.” the orange haired pointed out. “It’s easier since I’m the smallest in my weight class. To avoid being hit, I mean.”

Gakuto did a double-take. “You’re the smallest?” He’d hate to see who the big guys were.

“I’m the smallest, yes~” He wasn’t short, yes, but compared to the others at the place he trained at.. he was the smallest.

The redhead looked at the other guy again and then back at himself. “Yeah, never ever gonna try that one,” he decided then and there. He’d be so screwed if Sengoku was the smallest.

Sengoku couldn’t help but let out another laugh. Gakuto was wearing an amusing expression on his face at that moment. “You’re welcome to come look sometime, though~”

“To watch a group of sweaty guys beat up on each other?” Actually part of him was kind of intrigued. He shook his head. “I’ll pass.”

“Tell me if you change your mind~” Sengoku grinned. Looking around he asked, “got something more you’d like to do?” They hadn’t had any ideas just earlier, but who knew about now? Not that he had any ideas himself.

Gakuto shook his head. “I still got nothing.” Though just walking and talking wasn’t too bad. “So why’d you sign?”

“Mm..” Sengoku looked up in the sky for a moment. “I thought it’d be a fun experience.”

“At least you weren’t coerced to join by someone who hasn’t even bothered to show up yet,” Gakuto snorted. Stupid Atobe.

“Atobe-kun is slow, ne~” They were missing Kamio as well. With Ibu convinced that he had murdered the other boy.

“Oh yeah, you gotta deal with him to,” Gakuto nodded after a moment. Atobe and all his commitments and having to be involved in everything. “Least it means we get free time and don’t have to do band stuff.”

“True, true~” Sengoku nodded. “But the band is fun as well~”

Gakuto shrugged. He saw his band members all the time, whether at school or at the apartments. “I guess.” It was fun to have reasons to bug Hiyoshi and besides, it was great teasing Shishido about telling Ohtori embarrassing childhood stories.

“Ah, right, all your bandmates are from Hyotei~” Well, with a band name like that.. He himself was the only one from Yamabuki after all.

“Yeah, Atobe and Piyo and Ohtori.” Not the three he hung out with the most or were the closest with but not a bad bunch of people. “Yours from all over the place?” He didn’t really know who all was even Sengoku’s band.

“Yes, all over~” Sengoku nodded. “There’s Atobe-kun, Kirihara-kun, Sanada-kun, Kamio-kun and Ibu-kun and me.” So that made him and Atobe alone from their schools. But Atobe was Atobe.

“Lot of people.” More than his little group. Gakuto stretched his arms above his head.

“Mhm~ Why it turned out to be us, I have no idea~ But it’s a fun group~” With such interesting people with clashing personalities, it couldn’t be anything but fun.

“Whatever works.” Personally, as much as Gakuto liked the other artists at SevenLines, he was kind of glad his own group was made up of people he already knew. Made things easier.

“I’ve gotten to know several interesting persons through it~” Maybe he was the one who found it the most interesting. It was amusing to see the others interact and interacting with them.

“I’m sure.” The SevenLines did seem to be attracting an odd assortment of people after all.

“But you’ve gotten to know new people after signing, right?” At least it had seemed like it, Sengoku thought.

“Some. People like Eiji and Bunta and Potato-chan,” Gakuto said, nodding. “Eiji’s awesome. Kind of like if I was me but kinda different. And Bunta’s awesome too. Kind of like another me too but he also seems to just have things together in a way I don’t.” And Potato-chan was just fun to mess with.

“That sounds fun.” That logic was amusing. With the ‘other me’ and everything. “And we’ll get to know even more people, I’m sure~”

“It has been.” Gakuto looked over. “Any big plans or things you want to do?”

“Just take every opportunity to have fun~” It was a very important factor in life after all. Having fun. Sengoku really couldn’t understand why anyone would want to live a boring life. You were born to live, so why not have fun during the time.

“Finally, someone who agrees with me,” Gakuto cheered. “Everyone else is all ‘let’s have fun but act like boring sticks in the mud’. So annoying.”

“Oh, but I don’t think I want to be a stick. Especially not one stuck in mud~” Sengoku laughed. “I don’t see why some people want to be that. Sticks can’t even talk.”

“Have you met Kabaji?” Gakuto shook his head at the thought of the Hyotei mountain man. “Great kid. But seriously...”

Sengoku shook his head. “I’ve only seen him, but not really met him. Mm, that sounds a bit weird.. But only seen him.” He had heard that Kabaji didn’t talk much, so saying ‘talked with’ might be just slightly off. But he had only seen him from afar, so he couldn’t really count it as having ‘met’ him. But maybe it did. “..Now my mind is just confusing me.” he admitted, laughing.

“How so?” Gakuto wondered, glancing over at his companion. “And it’s pretty hard to miss Kabaji.”

“Well, I haven’t met him because I haven’t talked with him. But I’ve heard he doesn’t talk much, so maybe ‘meeting’ him isn’t counted from there.” he trailed off there. It would turn into too long of an explanation if he was going to explain that one. Since he hadn’t sorted it out himself yet. But maybe he was just making it more complicated than it was.

“I get what you’re saying.” After all, Gakuto did go to Hyotei. “Kabaji doesn’t really talk to anyone. I think him and Atobe chat at times but other than that...”

“Then you get more than me~” Sengoku let out another laugh. “Maybe he’s shy?” Shyness came out in different ways after all. A lot of different ways.

Gakuto shrugged. “Could be. Never really talked to the kid though. Usually I spend my time with Yuushi or Ryou or Jirou or Piyo.” Because they were the fun ones at Hyotei. Well, that, and if he went near Ohtori, Shishido’d throw a fit. Something about leaving one person on their team innocent...

“So it’s possible~” Sengoku would have to talk to him next time he saw him. That was for sure. He did speak to most people after all, so that wouldn’t be a problem.

After a few minutes of silence, Gakuto glanced over. “Think of anything to do yet?” Because they were still just wandering around.

“Nope~” Sengoku looked around. “Well, we could get something to eat.” This part of the street seemed full of restaurants, cafes and the like.

“That’d make it feel like a date or something,” Gakuto frowned. Going out and doing something then getting a meal afterwards...yeah, pretty much what a date was.

“Mm, but you can still eat with someone without it being a date.” If not, he’d gone on countless of dates with Akutsu, which he hadn’t. Even if those meals had just been him stalking after Akutsu to bug him. “But if you don’t want to, we don’t have to~”

“I know that.” Gakuto gave Sengoku a dirty look. “It’s the whole going and doing something then eating somewhere that makes it seem like a date-ish activity.”

“Ah~” Sengoku laughed. “Maybe just a little bit.”

“Just a little?” Gakuto raised an eyebrow, staring at the orange-head. “Try a lot.” And he wasn’t out looking for someone. He kind of already had a guy.

“Okay then.” Sengoku couldn’t help but laugh again. “But that wasn’t what I was after, though. Mm, so let’s not do that, then~” Well, he had flirted with him earlier, but not intentionally. He had gotten Gakuto’s situation explained just earlier after all. “Got anything else in mind?”

For as much as Gakuto talked, he didn’t have much to back it up with. “Not really,” he admitted. “I just don’t want to spend time in that building.” House arrest had cured him of ever wanting to spend unnecessary time in the building.

“Since you were stuck in your room.. I can understand that.” Sengoku nodded. “We can just walk a while longer then~” They’d get to something they could do, eventually.

“For a week,” Gakuto groaned. “Torture. Absolute torture.” He never ever wanted to experience something like that ever again.

“Mm, a bit mean to make you stay in your room.” He didn’t know the details of the party, but there had been more than just the hosts at said party, so yes, quite a bit mean. Though he knew that Gakuto didn’t know the details either.

“Ugh, you’re telling me.” Gakuto hated that only he and Eiji really got punished. Granted, it’d been his idea and he and Eiji had put things together. But they hadn’t been the only ones to do things at that party.

“How come you don’t remember the party?” He had been wondering, and since they were on the topic already, he might as well ask.