Bonds [Fic] Chapter Two
Title: Bonds
Pairing: SagaxShou (and possibly more to come)
Rating: PG-13 (for now)
Summary: Bonds are the things that tie you down to someone. They're invisible to the naked eye, but strong and very hard to break. Once you're trapped there's no escape.
A/N: Many thanks to everyone who has left me a rainbow 8D Lmfao, I love you guys so much! So I decided to write this early in the morning ;O. Now I must learn how to get my journal to look all cool and stuff... >_
Chapter Two: Unexpected
The annoying sound that could only come from a cell phone ringing far too early in the morning could be heard in Saga's room. And honestly, if Saga wasn't the type of person he was, he would have thrown the phone against the wall. But the ringtone currently blaring loud and proud was personalized. Sadly, he knew the moment the meldoic piano version of Mirror Ball he knew exactly who the caller was.
Now his befuddled mind was stuck at a crossroads: Answer the person, or just leave the call alone. A part of him just really wanted to say 'fuck it' and go back to sleep. But the more rational, and possibly kinder, side was telling him that if he didn't answer... the caller would probably raise Hell and never let him live it down. Sleep was so inviting, though... however, the side that still liked his hearing and didn't want to be bitched out today finally won. So, Saga lazily rolled to the side and blindly sought out his cellphone. When his hand met obnoxiously ringing object, he brought the cell to his ears.
"Ello?" was his tired answer.
"You freaking son of a bitch!" And here we go...
Saga sighed, pulling the cell away from his ear so it didnt' suffer anymore damage. "Morning to you, too, Shou."
"Don't you even dare think about trying that evading shit! You know how long I've been trying to reach you all morning?"
"Probably not since I was, you know, sleeping this morning."
"That's a horrible excuse." Shou deadpanned.
Saga sighed and ran a tired hand through his bedhead and reclined against his headboard. Knowing by the ferocity in the other's voice, and that it was currently 10 A.M., Saga saw that falling back to sleep was only a fantasy now. Shou wouldn't let him go back to sleep. And it's not like he could have gone back anyways. Whenever he talked to show, he was always on full alert. He wanted to pay attention to every little detail the man made or did. Why? Saga honestly didn't know. Maybe he was always attentitive and he never noticed until now. Yeah... that was it.
"Is there something you wanted?" Saga asked as he lazily pulled himself out of bed, clad in only a pair of sweatpants that hung a little too low on his hips.
"No, Saga. I just called you because I was bored and alone, desperately wanting to hear the sound of that sexy voice of yours." Shou's voice was laced with obvious sarcasm, but Saga thought he could hear a little bit of... truth in those words. He shook his head thoroughly as he walked down the stairs to fix some breakfast. Shou wouldn't call him just because he was lonely. There was Hiroto, Tora, and Nao for that. Saga would be the last person to call... right?
'Right.' but he found that confirmation hard to believe.
Fixing himself a bowl of cereal, Saga cradled the phone between his shoulder and ear. "That wouldn't be the first time." he tried to sound as cocky as possible, hoping it would kill down his high expectations and hopes.
"Pfft, the last time was a fluke."
"Sure it was, Shou. I'll remember that the next time you call me whining and crying over the part where Mufasa dies."
"I was drunk then and you know it! Besides, that part was really emotional!"
"Of course it was," Saga added mindlessly, already used to their weird banter by now. Saga would say a comment, Shou would retort - probably a curse word or two thrown in there. Saga would remain cocky and stoic only long enough until he noticed he thought Shou made a cute noise, or got lost in those brown orbs... Saga shook his head furiously, directing all his attention into eating his cereal rather than his jumbled up thoughts.
"Why are you always such a bastard?" Shou muttered on the other end, before picking up his voice a little. "So! Saga! Guess what we're going to do today!"
"Practice...?"
"Nope!"
"Why? Wait, did Hiroto get trapped in his bathroom again? Or did Nao get ambushed by another random family reunion? Or did Tora get arrested?"
"No, no, and probably." Saga could practically hear the smirk on Shou's face and shook his head, laughing a little. Realy, Tora would never get himself arrested! Hiroto... yeah, he could possibly get trapped in his bathroom. And Nao? Well, anything is possible...
"Then if we're not having practice what are we doing?" the blonde was currently washing out his bowl and spoon, drying the wet tableware off with a dry cloth before setting it on the dish rack to dry.
"Well if you really want to know you could open your front door..."
"Why would I-Wait..." Shou ran from the kitchen, through his living room, and to the door where he turned the lock and flung it open. And there Shou stood, a goofy grin painted on his face and his cellphone held comfortably at his ear. "How long have you been standing there?" Saga asked, unaware that his eyes were scanning Shou's body from head to toe. Wait, his body? No! It was his attire he was studying! Yes... that's it. The brunette was wearing a pair of black skinny jeans that clung to all the right places a little too nicely, black combat boots, and a red v-neck. Saga tried to find some indication about what Shou had planned from how he was dressed but the man was always a mystery...
"Long enough," Shou shrugged and snapped his phone shut. "Are you going to stand there all day and gawk or let me in? By the way," he leaned in closely and ran a finger down Saga's musclar chest. The freaking gesture of it all made Saga shiver more than he'd like to admit. "You have a very nice set of abs. Work out a lot?"
Saga attempted to glare at the brunette, but it didn't get the affect he really wanted seeing as Shou chuckled him off. The bastard. Sighing, Saga smacked the offending finger from traveling any farther than necessary and shot Shou a glance.
"You like what you see?" Wait, what? Where the hell did that come from?
Shou looked slightly taken aback by how... flirty? No, that's not the word for it... was, Saga was actually playing along to his banter. That was weird...
"Um... Yeah... It's nice." Shou stuttered, feeling an annoying blush creep up his neck.
Saga leaned back against the doorframe, a cocky smirk in place as he watched the brunette turn red. It was kind of... adorable. 'Adorable? Did I seriously just think that...' Saga mentally groaned in frustration towards the direction his thoughts were heading. Since when in the world did he ever associate Shou with the world adorable?
'You've always have... You just don't like to admit it.' a voice sneered in his head. Saga stomped on that imaginary voice until he was content that it would never speak again.
"Soo..." Shou rocked back and forth on his heels, his eyes shining with expectancy. "Are you going to let me in or what?"
Saga stared at him for a few moments, mentally debating on the pros and cons of letting his friend in, before sighing and stepping to the side.
"Yeah, sure, make yourself at home."
Saga would come to regret those words.
+Bonds+
"You have so much plaid..." Shou muttered as he went through the articles of clothing stashed in Saga's closet. The blonde was sitting cross-legged on his bed, a scowl marred on his face as he watched the blonde yank a shirt or a pair of pants out of his cloest every once in a while, only to throw them to the ground and start his search again.
'Why did I tell him to make himself at home? No. Better question: why did I let him in at all?' Once again it seemed that Saga had found himself being swept by the flood named Shou, and he was berating every second he never grew a backbone and told the man to get out. Or better yet, to stop messing up his closet. He had just organized all of that yesterday! 'Like hell he's leaving without putting them all back.'
"Ah! This looks okay!"
"And who gave you permission to just rummage through my closet?" Saga glared at the man's back, hoping to see holes appear along with some smoke, but sadly all he got was Shou shoothing him a sideways glance before returning back to the closet.
"You did, if I remember correctly you did say to make myself at home. So that's what I'm doing." he shrugged his shoulders carelessly as he examined a pair of white skinny jeans and nodded his head in approving. "Here, wear this too." he tossed the pair of pants along with the long sleeve black shirt towards the bassist. Shou spun around on his heel and placed two hands on his hips, cocking his head to the side. "I do hope you can find some shoes to go along with that as well?"
"I think I can handle that..." Saga muttered and went over to his shoe rack Nao had bought for him for Christmas. The man was so adamant on fixing Saga's "dirty habits" of leaving his shoes under the bed. Saga liked the way he could just bend down, grab, and go (no sexual pun intended). Though he had to admit there were a few times he came out of the house wearing two different pair of shoes but... that's Life!
Choosing to go with a pair of black combat boots himself, he slipped the shoe on one foot at a time, laced them up, then stared at the singer who was giving him a rather... weird look.
"What?" he asked, trying to hide his curiosity with a dash of annoyance.
But Shou just stared at him for a few more seconds before breaking out of his spell. "Nothing!" he piped up, goofy grin proudly placed on his face. He walked over to Saga and grabbed the man by the arm, dragging him towards the front door. "I just realized we have to catch the train soon!"
"Wait, stop dragging me! Why the hell do we need to catch the train?" Shou asked, trying to wriggle out of Shou's grasp but damn that man was strong... "Where exactly are we going?"
"You know you ask a lot of questions..."
"Shou!"
Shou giggled and turned around, a wide smile on his face as they stepped into the newly transformed world of Autumn. "We're going shopping, duh!"
+Bonds+
"What about this?"
"No."
"Alright... then... umph... this?"
"... No."
"Damn it! Okay, next one! Do you like this?"
"No."
"Fuck you, bastard!" Shou threw the shirt towards the smirking blonde's face and jammed a finger right at the area between Saga's eyes. "I'm trying to be serious here! Is the only word you're capable of uttering 'No'?"
"...No?" Saga's smirk was as wide as all get out as he watched the brunette groan and trash about how childish of a person Saga was. 'Coming from the guy currently throwing a temper tantrum.' he thought idly as he stared at his friend attempting to make the decision all by himself. "If you wanted someone to give you an opinon you should have brought Tora or Hiroto along with you."
"No and no." Shou answered automatically as he zipped on his own pants and went to hang up the clothing he didn't want to buy. "Tora was being a bastard the last time I brought him and I literally got nowhere because he didn't help me at all. And Hiroto never stopped whining about how long I was taking. Besides, those two are probably fucking each other's brains out as we speak."
"They're together?" Shou asked, though he already knew the answer.
Shou shot him a look like: 'Are you seroius' before walking out of the dressing room with Saga behind him. "Don't act like you didn't know. It's soo obvious! Let me guess, they told you not to tell, right?"
"No, I don't really think they would care if I did or not. Just that I walked in on them last time and..." Saga shivered, remembering walking in on a rather provocative the position the two were in when he had walked in.
Shou chuckled. "It turned you on that much, huh?"
Saga scoffed and knocked Shou on the back of the head playfully. "Baka, it did no such thing!" though he never told the brunette about certain dreams he had afterwards invovling certain people... But that was only because the man was in denial, and nothing more. "Now hurry up and pay for your shit so we can go."
"Ouch... Bastard!" Shou rubbed the back of his head and shot Saga a pout. "What if I get a bump from that! Or loose brain cells?
"Then you'll have one less brain cell than you already have." Saga deadpanned. When the only thing he got from Shou was another pout, Saga cocked an eyebrow. "What? You want me to kiss it and make it better?"
"Yes, actually that'd be great!"
This time, Saga was caught off guard by how... okay Shou was with such display of... affections? God, Saga was connecting the wrong dots here! Shaking his head furiously, he was getting rather unwanted thoughts at the moment, Saga pushed the brunette towards the cash register.
"Just pay for your stuff already!"
+Bonds+
The ride back to Saga's apartment was shared in silence, just the way Saga liked his train rides. That way he got to here everything, like his own personal concert. He closed his eyes in content as he listened to the sound of the train racing along the tracks, the soft (and sometimes loud) voices of people talking around him, and the rather close sound of Shou's breath...
Wait, what?
Saga snapped his eyes opened in alarm. Shou was pressing against chest a little too close for comfort, and at that moment Saga wanted to do numerous of things. But he was torn between ripping the brunette of his chest or... 'No, I'm not even going to think about the other option.' More than he should, Saga felt like the breathing space around him was growing smaller and smaller. He was becomign way too aware of Shou's presence. The way he smelled. The way his body molded with his. The way his brown hair always seem to fall into his eyes...
The blonde gulped, commanding his arms to stay where they were and not wrap around the brunette. He had more control than this, damn it! Hadn't all these years staying single, staying away from love, taught him nothing? It seemed like all those years of being, as Shou had put it, 'asexual' were flowing down the crapper... and fast.
Then, Saga did the most idiotic thing in the world...
He stared directly into Shou's eyes.
He had almost lost it right there and then. Almost.
Shou chuckled weakly, watching the skittering emotions play across Saga's face. "Sorry about this... It's really crowded this afternoon. I'll move soon."
Somehow... Saga didn't think he ever wanted Shou to move from that spot for a very long time.
A/N: Well, that's the end of chapter two ;o. I don't even know how this came about >_>. It just... happened o.o. Anywho, I hope you all enjoyed (; Next chapter shall come out next week :D! Leave a Rainbow? <3
Pairing: SagaxShou (and possibly more to come)
Rating: PG-13 (for now)
Summary: Bonds are the things that tie you down to someone. They're invisible to the naked eye, but strong and very hard to break. Once you're trapped there's no escape.
A/N: Many thanks to everyone who has left me a rainbow 8D Lmfao, I love you guys so much! So I decided to write this early in the morning ;O. Now I must learn how to get my journal to look all cool and stuff... >_
Chapter Two: Unexpected
The annoying sound that could only come from a cell phone ringing far too early in the morning could be heard in Saga's room. And honestly, if Saga wasn't the type of person he was, he would have thrown the phone against the wall. But the ringtone currently blaring loud and proud was personalized. Sadly, he knew the moment the meldoic piano version of Mirror Ball he knew exactly who the caller was.
Now his befuddled mind was stuck at a crossroads: Answer the person, or just leave the call alone. A part of him just really wanted to say 'fuck it' and go back to sleep. But the more rational, and possibly kinder, side was telling him that if he didn't answer... the caller would probably raise Hell and never let him live it down. Sleep was so inviting, though... however, the side that still liked his hearing and didn't want to be bitched out today finally won. So, Saga lazily rolled to the side and blindly sought out his cellphone. When his hand met obnoxiously ringing object, he brought the cell to his ears.
"Ello?" was his tired answer.
"You freaking son of a bitch!" And here we go...
Saga sighed, pulling the cell away from his ear so it didnt' suffer anymore damage. "Morning to you, too, Shou."
"Don't you even dare think about trying that evading shit! You know how long I've been trying to reach you all morning?"
"Probably not since I was, you know, sleeping this morning."
"That's a horrible excuse." Shou deadpanned.
Saga sighed and ran a tired hand through his bedhead and reclined against his headboard. Knowing by the ferocity in the other's voice, and that it was currently 10 A.M., Saga saw that falling back to sleep was only a fantasy now. Shou wouldn't let him go back to sleep. And it's not like he could have gone back anyways. Whenever he talked to show, he was always on full alert. He wanted to pay attention to every little detail the man made or did. Why? Saga honestly didn't know. Maybe he was always attentitive and he never noticed until now. Yeah... that was it.
"Is there something you wanted?" Saga asked as he lazily pulled himself out of bed, clad in only a pair of sweatpants that hung a little too low on his hips.
"No, Saga. I just called you because I was bored and alone, desperately wanting to hear the sound of that sexy voice of yours." Shou's voice was laced with obvious sarcasm, but Saga thought he could hear a little bit of... truth in those words. He shook his head thoroughly as he walked down the stairs to fix some breakfast. Shou wouldn't call him just because he was lonely. There was Hiroto, Tora, and Nao for that. Saga would be the last person to call... right?
'Right.' but he found that confirmation hard to believe.
Fixing himself a bowl of cereal, Saga cradled the phone between his shoulder and ear. "That wouldn't be the first time." he tried to sound as cocky as possible, hoping it would kill down his high expectations and hopes.
"Pfft, the last time was a fluke."
"Sure it was, Shou. I'll remember that the next time you call me whining and crying over the part where Mufasa dies."
"I was drunk then and you know it! Besides, that part was really emotional!"
"Of course it was," Saga added mindlessly, already used to their weird banter by now. Saga would say a comment, Shou would retort - probably a curse word or two thrown in there. Saga would remain cocky and stoic only long enough until he noticed he thought Shou made a cute noise, or got lost in those brown orbs... Saga shook his head furiously, directing all his attention into eating his cereal rather than his jumbled up thoughts.
"Why are you always such a bastard?" Shou muttered on the other end, before picking up his voice a little. "So! Saga! Guess what we're going to do today!"
"Practice...?"
"Nope!"
"Why? Wait, did Hiroto get trapped in his bathroom again? Or did Nao get ambushed by another random family reunion? Or did Tora get arrested?"
"No, no, and probably." Saga could practically hear the smirk on Shou's face and shook his head, laughing a little. Realy, Tora would never get himself arrested! Hiroto... yeah, he could possibly get trapped in his bathroom. And Nao? Well, anything is possible...
"Then if we're not having practice what are we doing?" the blonde was currently washing out his bowl and spoon, drying the wet tableware off with a dry cloth before setting it on the dish rack to dry.
"Well if you really want to know you could open your front door..."
"Why would I-Wait..." Shou ran from the kitchen, through his living room, and to the door where he turned the lock and flung it open. And there Shou stood, a goofy grin painted on his face and his cellphone held comfortably at his ear. "How long have you been standing there?" Saga asked, unaware that his eyes were scanning Shou's body from head to toe. Wait, his body? No! It was his attire he was studying! Yes... that's it. The brunette was wearing a pair of black skinny jeans that clung to all the right places a little too nicely, black combat boots, and a red v-neck. Saga tried to find some indication about what Shou had planned from how he was dressed but the man was always a mystery...
"Long enough," Shou shrugged and snapped his phone shut. "Are you going to stand there all day and gawk or let me in? By the way," he leaned in closely and ran a finger down Saga's musclar chest. The freaking gesture of it all made Saga shiver more than he'd like to admit. "You have a very nice set of abs. Work out a lot?"
Saga attempted to glare at the brunette, but it didn't get the affect he really wanted seeing as Shou chuckled him off. The bastard. Sighing, Saga smacked the offending finger from traveling any farther than necessary and shot Shou a glance.
"You like what you see?" Wait, what? Where the hell did that come from?
Shou looked slightly taken aback by how... flirty? No, that's not the word for it... was, Saga was actually playing along to his banter. That was weird...
"Um... Yeah... It's nice." Shou stuttered, feeling an annoying blush creep up his neck.
Saga leaned back against the doorframe, a cocky smirk in place as he watched the brunette turn red. It was kind of... adorable. 'Adorable? Did I seriously just think that...' Saga mentally groaned in frustration towards the direction his thoughts were heading. Since when in the world did he ever associate Shou with the world adorable?
'You've always have... You just don't like to admit it.' a voice sneered in his head. Saga stomped on that imaginary voice until he was content that it would never speak again.
"Soo..." Shou rocked back and forth on his heels, his eyes shining with expectancy. "Are you going to let me in or what?"
Saga stared at him for a few moments, mentally debating on the pros and cons of letting his friend in, before sighing and stepping to the side.
"Yeah, sure, make yourself at home."
Saga would come to regret those words.
+Bonds+
"You have so much plaid..." Shou muttered as he went through the articles of clothing stashed in Saga's closet. The blonde was sitting cross-legged on his bed, a scowl marred on his face as he watched the blonde yank a shirt or a pair of pants out of his cloest every once in a while, only to throw them to the ground and start his search again.
'Why did I tell him to make himself at home? No. Better question: why did I let him in at all?' Once again it seemed that Saga had found himself being swept by the flood named Shou, and he was berating every second he never grew a backbone and told the man to get out. Or better yet, to stop messing up his closet. He had just organized all of that yesterday! 'Like hell he's leaving without putting them all back.'
"Ah! This looks okay!"
"And who gave you permission to just rummage through my closet?" Saga glared at the man's back, hoping to see holes appear along with some smoke, but sadly all he got was Shou shoothing him a sideways glance before returning back to the closet.
"You did, if I remember correctly you did say to make myself at home. So that's what I'm doing." he shrugged his shoulders carelessly as he examined a pair of white skinny jeans and nodded his head in approving. "Here, wear this too." he tossed the pair of pants along with the long sleeve black shirt towards the bassist. Shou spun around on his heel and placed two hands on his hips, cocking his head to the side. "I do hope you can find some shoes to go along with that as well?"
"I think I can handle that..." Saga muttered and went over to his shoe rack Nao had bought for him for Christmas. The man was so adamant on fixing Saga's "dirty habits" of leaving his shoes under the bed. Saga liked the way he could just bend down, grab, and go (no sexual pun intended). Though he had to admit there were a few times he came out of the house wearing two different pair of shoes but... that's Life!
Choosing to go with a pair of black combat boots himself, he slipped the shoe on one foot at a time, laced them up, then stared at the singer who was giving him a rather... weird look.
"What?" he asked, trying to hide his curiosity with a dash of annoyance.
But Shou just stared at him for a few more seconds before breaking out of his spell. "Nothing!" he piped up, goofy grin proudly placed on his face. He walked over to Saga and grabbed the man by the arm, dragging him towards the front door. "I just realized we have to catch the train soon!"
"Wait, stop dragging me! Why the hell do we need to catch the train?" Shou asked, trying to wriggle out of Shou's grasp but damn that man was strong... "Where exactly are we going?"
"You know you ask a lot of questions..."
"Shou!"
Shou giggled and turned around, a wide smile on his face as they stepped into the newly transformed world of Autumn. "We're going shopping, duh!"
+Bonds+
"What about this?"
"No."
"Alright... then... umph... this?"
"... No."
"Damn it! Okay, next one! Do you like this?"
"No."
"Fuck you, bastard!" Shou threw the shirt towards the smirking blonde's face and jammed a finger right at the area between Saga's eyes. "I'm trying to be serious here! Is the only word you're capable of uttering 'No'?"
"...No?" Saga's smirk was as wide as all get out as he watched the brunette groan and trash about how childish of a person Saga was. 'Coming from the guy currently throwing a temper tantrum.' he thought idly as he stared at his friend attempting to make the decision all by himself. "If you wanted someone to give you an opinon you should have brought Tora or Hiroto along with you."
"No and no." Shou answered automatically as he zipped on his own pants and went to hang up the clothing he didn't want to buy. "Tora was being a bastard the last time I brought him and I literally got nowhere because he didn't help me at all. And Hiroto never stopped whining about how long I was taking. Besides, those two are probably fucking each other's brains out as we speak."
"They're together?" Shou asked, though he already knew the answer.
Shou shot him a look like: 'Are you seroius' before walking out of the dressing room with Saga behind him. "Don't act like you didn't know. It's soo obvious! Let me guess, they told you not to tell, right?"
"No, I don't really think they would care if I did or not. Just that I walked in on them last time and..." Saga shivered, remembering walking in on a rather provocative the position the two were in when he had walked in.
Shou chuckled. "It turned you on that much, huh?"
Saga scoffed and knocked Shou on the back of the head playfully. "Baka, it did no such thing!" though he never told the brunette about certain dreams he had afterwards invovling certain people... But that was only because the man was in denial, and nothing more. "Now hurry up and pay for your shit so we can go."
"Ouch... Bastard!" Shou rubbed the back of his head and shot Saga a pout. "What if I get a bump from that! Or loose brain cells?
"Then you'll have one less brain cell than you already have." Saga deadpanned. When the only thing he got from Shou was another pout, Saga cocked an eyebrow. "What? You want me to kiss it and make it better?"
"Yes, actually that'd be great!"
This time, Saga was caught off guard by how... okay Shou was with such display of... affections? God, Saga was connecting the wrong dots here! Shaking his head furiously, he was getting rather unwanted thoughts at the moment, Saga pushed the brunette towards the cash register.
"Just pay for your stuff already!"
+Bonds+
The ride back to Saga's apartment was shared in silence, just the way Saga liked his train rides. That way he got to here everything, like his own personal concert. He closed his eyes in content as he listened to the sound of the train racing along the tracks, the soft (and sometimes loud) voices of people talking around him, and the rather close sound of Shou's breath...
Wait, what?
Saga snapped his eyes opened in alarm. Shou was pressing against chest a little too close for comfort, and at that moment Saga wanted to do numerous of things. But he was torn between ripping the brunette of his chest or... 'No, I'm not even going to think about the other option.' More than he should, Saga felt like the breathing space around him was growing smaller and smaller. He was becomign way too aware of Shou's presence. The way he smelled. The way his body molded with his. The way his brown hair always seem to fall into his eyes...
The blonde gulped, commanding his arms to stay where they were and not wrap around the brunette. He had more control than this, damn it! Hadn't all these years staying single, staying away from love, taught him nothing? It seemed like all those years of being, as Shou had put it, 'asexual' were flowing down the crapper... and fast.
Then, Saga did the most idiotic thing in the world...
He stared directly into Shou's eyes.
He had almost lost it right there and then. Almost.
Shou chuckled weakly, watching the skittering emotions play across Saga's face. "Sorry about this... It's really crowded this afternoon. I'll move soon."
Somehow... Saga didn't think he ever wanted Shou to move from that spot for a very long time.
A/N: Well, that's the end of chapter two ;o. I don't even know how this came about >_>. It just... happened o.o. Anywho, I hope you all enjoyed (; Next chapter shall come out next week :D! Leave a Rainbow? <3