The First 6/7
Pairings, Uruha x Kai (mains) Reituki! (important for plot advancement)
Genre; drama, fluff
Rated: trying to keep it PG-13 as requested. don’t expect yaoi other than a few pecks on the lips and major fluff/romance.
Disclaimer: I shouldn’t have to say it again. I only dream I own the Gazette. They own themselves. Until I trap them in my house mwahahaha!
Chapter 6: The First Apology
It’s been a two days since anyone’s last heard from Yuu. Akira, Yutaka, Yune, and myself told Shiori everything. She had to admit she was a bit surprised, but she didn’t seem too upset.
Said something about not wanting a steady relationship but a bit of fun. I was glad she wasn’t too hurt. She even gave Yutaka (or Kai if you wanna pull a Takanori) his job back and approved of our relationship. Even though we’ve got two years until we’re both legal. But when we are 20, we’ll still have the same strong feelings.
And today is my 18th birthday. I know everyone is planning something special for me. They’re clearly not good at keeping secrets. Yutaka got his schedule changed to have all his classes with me.
It seems as if more stalkers are fallowing me now that everyone knows about me and Yutaka’s relationship. Girls think it’s “kawaii” or whatever. One of them put a very perverted drawing of the me and my beloved inside my locker. I showed him and he only laughed. He kept that picture. Weird.
Yutaka has been staying with Akira and Takanori. I went back to Shiori. We all apologized. And we all tried to get into contact with Yuu. He hasn’t been answering his phone, coming to the door, replied to any of our messages or emails. We all are worried about him.
Especially Yutaka and Yune.
“Don’t worry, I’m sure he’s just a little upset about what happened. He’ll get over it.” Yune saod trying to comfort Yutaka. Although I can tell by the look in his eyes he didn’t believe his own words.
“Hey, let’s stop thinking about it. Kou, Akira is waiting for you down in his car.” Yutaka said, walking over into the kitchen.
“What for?” I asked, not planning on going anywhere today.
“You gotta go pick up Shiori and Ruki from the salon.”
“Since when have you called him Ruki?”
“Since this morning.”
“All the nicknames, how will I ever keep up with you males?” I asked jokingly, making Yune and Yutaka laugh.
I slipped on my boots and walked down to Akira’s car.
“We have to pick up Shiori and Taka then we’ll have a little get-together back at the loft.” Akira said. Not my idea of an 18th birthday, but it wasn’t so bad as long as I got to spend it with all my family. New and old.
It didn’t take long to get to the salon. Shiori and Takanori were out withing seconds.
“Do you like it?” she asked, sitting beside me in the back.
“It’s pretty, it looks good on you.” I replied with a smile, admiring the now auburn locks.
“Yes, I thought so too. At first I was skeptical, but Takanori assured me he wouldn’t screw it up. Now get out of the car.” she said.
“Excuse me?!”
“Go on, get out of the car. Don’t worry, Takanori will do a good job.” she said with a smile.
“That’s right. No little brother of mine is gonna have simple hair on his big day! Let’s go!” Taka said, trying to pull me out of the open car door. I took off my seat belt and fallowed him into the salon.
“So, what exactly are you going to do to my precious-“
“Koukun!”
Oh dear Lord no…How do these girls always find me? That voice…That annoying, squeaky voice. Is it-
“Yasu, go wash my little brother’s hair. And don’t talk him to death. I know he’s very attractive, but you can’t have him. I’ll fire you. And tell the others-“
“TAKASHIMA SAN!”
Oh boy…here they come…
“Oh my God! You’re related to Kouyou?!”
“Is he a good brother?!”
“He’s so hot! does he talk much at home?”
“Hey! Back to work! Or i’ll fire all of you!” Takanori shouted. The girls went back to their clients or whatever they were doing. “Sorry about that, you know how high school girls can get.”
“It’s fine…” I said, officially paranoid. All my number one fan girls work here. This was going to be awkward.
“Come with my Kou kun. I’ll get your hair all washed!” she shrieked, hugging my arms like the love sick teen she was.
She led me to the back and sat me at one of the sinks. I didn’t trust this girl. She’d try to do something to me, I know it!
“Close your eyes, don’t want soap to accidentally get in them.”
Oh boy, she was gonna blind me…
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“When are they gonna be back? I miss him!” I whinned, pacing the living room.
“Call down Yutaka. I’m sure Takanori wont take too long.” Yune said, sipping his coffee.
I sat on the couch next to Yune.
“Yune san, can you tell me more about you and my brother’s relationship?”
“I wasn’t much of a relationship. He was ashamed of what we had. You saw how he denied it all.” he replied with a sad smile.
“Well, I think you’d make a better big brother any day. He was so strict. I wasn’t even allowed to date girls.” I said, causing both of us to laugh.
“But you know, I forgive him. I love him too much not too.”
I had the sudden urge to hug him. It was strange. But, I wrapped my arms around him anyway. “Sorry my brother is such a jerk. He wasn’t always such a bad guy.”
“He never was a bad guy. Just lost, a bit confused. The poor man doesn’t know what he wants.” Yune said, smiling down at me.
I pulled away and continues to listen to Yune.
“So, what happened that turned him onto the man he is today? The one none of his friends knew about?” Yune asked, crossing his right leg over his left.
“My parents got divorced. My father married Yuu’s mother. My mother couldn’t support me and my sister. So, I told her I’d go stay with father. She allowed me to do this of course. Me and Yuu got along very well. But father hated us both. So when it came time for Yuu to move out, father was very happy and Yuu didn’t like that. So he grew bitter and took it out on everyone. I got into fights with father daily so Yuu took me in once he had enough to support both of us. Now he’s sort of become our conservative father.”
“Maybe we should talk to your father?”
“No. I’m not talking to that man.”
“Just talking couldn’t hurt, could it?” Yune asked.
“Of course it could. I wont risk it. At least not on Kouyou’s day.”
“Alright then Kai. Why don’t you go up and get dressed before they all come back. We have to finish setting up before Takanori gets done with his hair.”
“You’re right. Be right back.” I said, dashing across the living room to the stair case that led up to the attic where I was now living. It was pretty cool up here.
I gabbed my outfit, ran down and took a show, got dressed, and helped Yune set up the loft for Kouyou’s surprise party. I cooked all the food, he put up the banner and set up the decorations. There were purple and silver balloons hanging everywhere and tied with black string.
There were silver and purple streamers hanging from the ceiling and every door way. Luna Sea was playing in the background. We set the food and drink out and called all of the family Kouyou has which is only a few blood related cousins from, a few of our friends from school, and Yune said thee was going to be one special guest.
“Hey guys, the set up looks great. Takanori and Kouyou will be a while. We told Taka to stall for as much time as he could.” Shiori said.
“Where’s Akira?”
“He went to go get the gifts out of storage.”
“And the…big one?” I asked.
“It’s downstairs hidden in plain sight. While everyone is up here at the party, I’ll go put the bow on. He’s gonna be so happy! I can’t wait to see the look on Uruha’s face.” she said.
“Uruha? Oh no, Takanroi got to you too.” I said with a laugh.
“It fits him. He’s very beautiful. Espcially for a man. And in two years when it’s official, I bet he’ll be calling himself Uruha.”
“So, Akira went to get all the other stuff…You drove here?” Yune asked.
“Yeah, hopefully Kouyou wont notice.” she said smiling. “it drives smoothly. It’s a very nice car. I’ve been saving up for that car for since I took him in. I was very lucky Akira helped.”
“Alright, who all is coming?” I asked.
“The list is on the table in the blue folder.” Shiori said pointing to it. I thanked her and went to grab it.
“I can’t wait to meet all these people.”
“Same here.” Shiori said, sipping a bottle of iced tea she grabbed from the fridge.
“Can you guys help me bring this stuff up?” Akira asked as he walked through the door.
The three of us followed him back down to the car. It only took a few minutes to get everything up. We set it all on a table in the corner. The larger ones were underneath the table.
There was a knock at the door. Akira walked over and opened it.
“SUZUKI! Hey dude!” was all I heard.
In came three guys around me and Kouyou’s age.
“Hey Reno, hi Hiropon, hey Miyavi. I’d like you all to meet my band mate and best friend Yune-“
“Whoa, who’s the cutie in the green dress?” the short blond asked.
“Hiroto, that’s Kouyou’s sister Shiori. Well, technically his foster mom but they prefer a sister and brother relationship.”
“She’s much too young to be a mom.” the one called Hiroto said winking at Shiori, who in returned, blushed.
“She’s 30.” Akira said, earning a hit upside the head from Shiori.
“I’m 29, not 30.” she said, glaring at Akira.
“It’s cool, I’m only a few couple years younger. I don’t mind dating an older woman.” Hiroto said smiling at Shiori.
“You’re sweet, but no thanks. I’m not looking for a relationship right now. So what’s your relation to Kouyou?”
“I’m his cousin. So is Reno here. Miyavi is Akira’s cousin.”
“Oh, well it’s nice to meet all of you.”
“Who’s that cutie?!” The one called Miyavi asked, running over to me. And nearly knocking everyone else on their butts.
“He’s Yutaka.” Akira said.
“The Yutaka? The one who’s dating Kouyou? Oh darm. Why can’t you just be one of his friends? You’re so cuuuuuute!”
“Hehehe…thanks?” I said, trying to get away from this tall guy hugging me. He was pretty funny though.
The one called Reno was pretty quiet so far.He reminded me of Kouyou a bit. Nearly identical brown hair, same soft milky skin, those black glasses on his face infront of a pair of sparkling brown eyes, plump lips (not as plum and perfect as my love’s) and those ridiculous man shorts Kouyou wore the first day we met. It was kind of eerie how similar they were.
But he wasn’t my Kouyou. He was gorgeous, but my Kouyou was Uruha. His beauty seemed a bit more mature. And this Reno guy…he looked a bit more innocent.
He walked right over to me and stopped a foot away. He grabbed my hand and shook it. “Nice to meet you. I’m Reno. I already know who you are.” he said with a smile.
“Nice to meet you as well. How do you know me?”
“I’m number one in my school too. It’s my job to know all my competition.” he said with kind smile.
“Oh, well, that’s uh….cool? Oh my! The cake!” I ran over into the kitchen. I took the cake out just in time.
“Shiori, when it cools off, would you mind icing it and decorating it?” I asked.
“Of course not.”
“Great. Everything it on the counter next to it.” I said, arranging the food in a festive way. By the time I finished (after rearranging it 20 or so times) I there were more guests. Akira introduced me to one in particular.
“Hey Yutaka, this is my best frined Tora. We used to take Kouyou everywhere with us. And those are a few kids from yours school.”
“It’s nice to meet you.” I said, bowing slightly. I looked over to the other guest and saw they were a few people from school Kou and I hang with. Saga, Takeru and the only girls who weren’t after me and my beloved, Haruna Ono and Rina Suzuki (no relation to Akira). I waved at them and they all smiled back.
I turned my attention back to Tora. He was pretty tall, and very handsome. He was a raven head. Beautiful. I don’t think Akira knew any unattractive people. I turned my attention then to the clock. Any second now, my Kouyou and Takanori would walk through-
“I missed you baby.”
I felt a warm pair of arms wrapped around me and knew it was my Kouyou. He must have ESP or something. I turned to face him with a smile, but all I could do was stare. He was even more beautiful than before. It must’ve showed how amazed I was because he was smiling and blushing like mad.
“Pick up your jaw kid. I know, I got skills.” Takanori said, wrapping an arm around Kouyou’s shoulder. Boy was he telling the truth.
I hated the fact he cut my beloved’s hair, but it worked. I like the short black and dirty blonde hair on him. Especially the way it was styled. His makeup was perfection. I couldn’t take my eyes away from him. I smiled, it’s all I’m capable of at the moment.
“Come on, I’ll do your make up Yutaka!” he said pulling me into Akira and Takanori’s bedroom. He closed the door and locked it behind him. He sat me on the bed and got out all the makeup he could find.
I sat there and let him work his magic even though I didn’t like wearing make up. But it’s my Kouyou’s special day, whatever he wants he get’s. I’ll make sure of it.
“Here, take a look.” he said, showing me to the mirror. It wasn’t bad. It was very simple. A bit of foundation, a bit of black and white eyeliner, very light eyeshadow.
“It’s nice, and typically I don’t wear makeup, but I really like it.” I said with a smile. He kissed my cheek.
“I thought a natural look would be perfect for you. Now let’s go back out so everyone can give me praise and go home.” He said with a laugh.
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I’ve been home for about an hour. I never left Yutaka’s side. Not once. My family loves him. My friends think we’re the perfect couple. But even without their approval, I’d still be all his.
“Alright, everyone ate and sang happy birthday-which sounded bad but I still love all of you, so now I’m gonna open presents!” I announced. Everyone gathered in a crowd in the living room. I walked over to the table where my gift were.
A guitar from Akira. Taka got me a bunch of nice clothes, jewelry, and a new pair of boots. Reno got me make up, so did Hiroto and Tora. Saga got me a few games for my DS, so did Haruna and Rina. Miyavi got me a few CD’s I’ve been wanting.
“Kouyou, me and Akira have a special surprise for you waiting downstairs. Would you like to go see it?” Shiori asked with a smile.
“Of course!” I yelled, over excited. Everyone went out into the parking lot.
“Over there, see that car with the purple bow?” Akira said pointing at a beautiful black Monte Carlo Intimidator. Convertible! You know the one. Red stripe at the bottom seperating the silver and black? It was my first car, and it was so cool! I hugged my sister and brother.
“I love you guys so much! This is the greatest gift ever!” I looked over to Yutaka who was grinning. He was so gorgeous. I just wanted to squeeze him and never let go.
After a few minutes of hugging my car, we all went back up to the loft. Yune handed me a black box. I opened it. It was a silver ring with a dragon on it. It had onyx eyes. I loved it. I thanked him and gave him a hug.
We partied hard for a hours. By the time everyone left, it was almost 10 o’clock. Yune stayed behind to help clean up. Then he went home after I thanked him again. He said he’d drop by soon, I couldn’t wait. He was family now.
Shiori was drunk so she slept in the guest room while me, Yutaka, Taka, and Aki finished off the cake.
“Well, I’m stuffed. I’m gonna go off to bed. Night everyone. And Kou, I love you and I hope you enjoyed yourself today.”
“I did Aki. Thank you.”
He nodded and walked to his room.
“He thinks he’s going to sleep? No way! He promised me we’d watch movies! Get back here Suzuki!” Taka shouted, running after him. That man was so adorable. And tiny.
“Come on, let’s go up to my room.” Yutaka said, leading me up stairs. We left my many presents I didn’t mention in the living room on and under the table. We sat on his bed.
“I didn’t want to give this to you in front of every one. Because you’re special to me and I wanted this to be a special moment just between us.”
I reached under his pillow and grabbed a long red box. I opened it and my heart skipped a beat. It was a beautiful silver charm bracelet. There was a heart, a rose, a clock, a treble clef, a star, and a crescent moon.
“Each charm symbolizes something very special. The heart is our love, the rose is your beauty, the clock represents time meaning that I’ll always have time for you, the treble clef is music I hear when you speak or laugh or even breath, the star represents how you always shine, and the moon represents the glow you have in even the darkest of times. I want you to keep that foreverso you’ll always have me with you.” he explained with a smile. Not once did he let go of my hands.
I felt tears of joy fall from my eyes. I wraped my arms around him.
“That was beautiful, I love you so much. Thank you, this has been the greatest day ever.”
Our moment was interruped by his phone ringing.
“It’s Yuu…”
He answered and put it on speaker.
“Yutaka, I’m sorry I ruined you life. I shouldn’t have put you through all this mess. You’re a great kid, you don’t deserve this. So, I’m apologizing from the bottom of my heart. And tell kouyou I’m sorry too. And Yune and Shiori. Everyone. You can come home when you’re ready. I’m happy you have Kouyou. If he makes you happy, it’s perfectly fine with me.” then he hung up.
We stared at each other in utter shock. What just happened?