[FF] French Maids, Butlers, and Cigarettes, Oh my!
Title: French Maids, Butlers, and Cigarettes, Oh my!
Author: misfitmisfit
Beta-reader: atmosphere-zero (Thank you so much!! ^^)
Genre: Comedy, Humor, Crack, Romance, Fluff
Rating: R
Warnings: Sexual Innuendos, MenxMen Kissing, boxer briefs
Main Pairing: Kazuki (SCREW) x Jin (SCREW)
Side pairings:
- Chiyu (SUG) x Yuji (SUG)
- Shou (Alice Nine) x Nao (Alice Nine)
- Kifumi (BORN) x Ryouga (BORN)
- Ruki (Gazette) x Aoi (Gazette)
- Keiyuu (Kra) x Yasuno (Kra)
- Kouki (D=OUT) x Ibuki (D=OUT)
- Shin (ViViD) x Reno (ViViD)
Disclaimer: None of which I have written here is true or is for profit. This story is purely a work of imagination and for my own amusement, XP
Synopsis: Does the French Maid have enough seductive powers to lure out the suppressed emotions within the Butler?
Comments: This story is dedicated to simplydescend. I hope you enjoy it, ;D
“No.” Manabu glared at Kazuki.
Kazuki kneeled in front of Manabu and dramatically kowtowed repeatedly.
“As much as you like to shame yourself, I have some dignity.” Manabu rose from his chair and walked to the water cooler to get a cup of water.
Byou snorted, “I’ll do it.”
“Really?? You will? Great!!” Kazuki jumped up in glee and grabbed onto Byou’s hands in excitement.
“Under one condition.” Byou grinned.
Kazuki nodded feverishly, “Anything, anything. What is it? Tell meeeeee.”
“I charge by the minute.” Byou winked.
“What? You bastard!” Kazuki punched Byou in the shoulder. “What type of friends are you guys?”
Byou snickered and Manabu rolled his eyes. Rui simply sat on the nearby couch in the break room stroking his Maru-san. None of them understood why Kazuki was so desperate to join this crazy PSC competition. True the reward of a year’s supply of cigarettes was tempting, but certainly not worth losing a man’s dignity.
“Don’t you have any shame?” Manabu arched one of his eyebrows at the pathetic Kazuki, who was pretending to weep in the corner.
A loud bang of the door being busted wide open captured all of their attention. Jin was sweating profusely and panting out of breath as he limped into the break room. Kazuki was thrilled to see Jin.
“Jiiiiin!” Kazuki pretended to wipe his tears on his sleeve and ran up to hug Jin from behind. “You’ll do the competition with me, right?”
“What? What competition?” Jin huffed.
He was still in the midst of catching his breath, and Kazuki squeezing him tightly around the waist wasn’t helping.
“Wait… wh-what competition?” Jin tried to peel Kazuki’s grip off of him.
“No one wants to do it with you. Give it up.” Manabu crushed his paper cup and tossed it into the trash can.
Kazuki contemplated whether he should act even more intimate with Jin to shoo the others out to give them some privacy.
“Just say I do, Jin.” Kazuki stuck his face right up into Jin’s.
“Kazuki!” Jin forcibly pushed Kazuki’s face away as his face flushed a bright red.
Kazuki was much too close for comfort, and he was too sweaty to even be this close to anyone. Jin felt hotter by the minute as he was very aware that the rest of the band was closely watching him in amusement at his helpless state.
“I’m dripping in sweat! Can you freaking let me go?!” Jin cried out for mercy.
A mischievous smile curled up on Kazuki’s lips, “Nope. Nope. Not unless you agree.”
“You’re doomed.” Rui chimed into the conversation as he passed by them.
“See you two later in the practice studio.” Byou waved goodbye and Manabu closed the door behind them as they left, sealing the deal.
Jin watched in horror as the rest of his band members abandoned him with the demonic Kazuki in the break room. The last time they did this to him he was forced to wear a pink kimono for an in-store event! He had to hold on to the last shred of dignity he possibly had.
Jin turned around, shrugging off Kazuki, and glared up at him with great suspicion, “What did you rope me into doing this time?”
“Heh heh.” Kazuki handed Jin the flyer he had been waving around all morning at the other members.
Kazuki barely believed he was really all alone with Jin. Everything was going as planned.
Jin snatched the flyer out of Kazuki’s hand and grudgingly took a look at it. The flyer read “Tired of the rising cigarette taxes? Don’t worry! PSC is here to help. All you have to do is sign up to participate in our special event, “Guess your fan’s OTP.”.” Jin didn’t like the sound of it already…
“To participate, only two members of your band are allowed to join. Those two have to appear on PSC’s exclusive mini-game show and the prize will go to the pair who can be the most believable couple.”
“WHAT!?!??!” Jin cried out in fury. “I have to do what???”
“Think of the reward! A year’s supply of cigarettes. How could you say no?” Kazuki shook Jin’s shoulder. “It’s not hard to win either. We just need to do a little acting. What do you say?”
“But still!” Jin was slowly failing to refuse.
Kazuki cupped Jin’s chin and placed a quick chaste kiss on his lips, “I believe you can do it, Jin-baby.”
Jin gasped and abruptly turned his face away from Kazuki’s lewd, sparkling eyes and wet lips. His heart was pounding like mad, and as if he wasn’t already reduced to such an embarrassing state, he would never admit he kind of liked being harassed by Kazuki. But he had to remind himself that there was no telling if Kazuki picked him simply because the rest denied him or because of another unknown reason.
“Well…” Jin threw the flyer down on the table. “Is there anything we need to do to prepare for this dumb thing?”
Kazuki had to restrain himself from giving Jin another kiss, which would probably be much deeper than the first one he sneaked onto Jin.
“So that’s a yes?” Kazuki flashed Jin his charming smile.
Jin crossed his arms and pretended to be upset.
“Wooo hoooo!” Kazuki threw his hands into the air and jumped around the room, singing, “A year of free cigarettes. Oh yeah, oh yeah. A year of cigarettes. Oooooh yeah!”
“Hey. I’m still here.” Jin called out to the singing, dancing idiot.
Kazuki breathlessly laughed, “There’s nothing else left to do except go to the event tonight.”
“Tonight?!?!?” Jin fell back onto a chair. “How … but… wait, wait. Don’t you need to sign us up? How do they know how many participants are there? Shouldn’t we go over some facts about each other or lies we’re going to make up so we don’t look stupid out there?”
“Calm down, calm down.” Kazuki winked. “I’ve already got it all covered. Here’s a sheet of facts about me. All you have to do is read it and then fill me in about yourself. I’m sure we can do this.”
Jin was at a loss for words. Could it be that Kazuki already planned to do this event with him from the beginning? No, no. Jin shook his head. Impossible. Kazuki couldn’t possibly have thought of him as his first choice. If anything, Kazuki probably asked Manabu first, then the others, and as a last resort, him.
Kazuki held his breath. Was Jin catching on that he specifically did this all for him? That he wanted to do this event with him from the beginning?
“Are you reading it?” Kazuki anxiously pushed Jin to finish it.
“I am. I am.” Jin scowled. “But if you rush me, I won’t be able to process everything written on here.”
Kazuki was impatient and took the paper back from Jin, “You read too slow, Jin-baby. I’ll read it to you instead.”
Jin felt his cheeks get hot. Kazuki called him that again. Was that part of the act they needed to put on later tonight or was it for real? Jin shook his head. No, no. He needed to stop thinking these wild thoughts. Everyone in the band always made fun of him being a girl because of his height and size.
Kazuki didn’t even notice Jin’s flushed reaction and was too busy reading off his mini biography. When he finished he looked up to ask for Jin’s opinion, but then he noticed a dazed, spaced out Jin.
“Jin!” Kazuki slapped his knee.
“Ah!” Jin snapped out of his trance. “Okay, okay. I’m ready. Read it to me.”
Kazuki frowned. “I already read it all. Where were you?”
“Whatever, I missed it. Just read it again.” Jin didn’t want to argue with him anymore.
Kazuki held back giggling at how cute Jin looked when he was irritated. Kazuki narrowed his eyes at Jin and stared deep into his eyes. Jin tried to stare back with the same intensity, but he was only getting more and more nervous by the second. He wished he knew what was cooking under those charming, brown eyes.
“Are you hiding something from me?” Kazuki childishly grinned at Jin.
Jin unconsciously shifted his eyes around and his voice wavered ever so slightly, “N-no. Wh-hat are you talking about?”
Kazuki unexpectedly placed a hand on the left side of Jin’s chest, “Ooooh, why is your heart pounding so quickly? Is it trying to tell me something?”
“Gah! Quit playing mind games with me.” Jin swatted Kazuki’s hand away.
“You’re definitely paranoid, Jin.” Kazuki laughed. “But in a cute way, I suppose.”
Jin blushed again, but this time he spoke out, “Why do you have to say such embarrassing things?”
“That’s my nature. If there is a moment that I can’t crack a joke, I am probably sick.” Kazuki shrugged.
Jin didn’t buy his answer, so Kazuki thought of another idea. “Okay, how about I ask you a question, and then you ask me a question? This way we’ll be interacting and no one can be spacing out.”
Jin pressed his lips together. Damn Kazuki. He always found a way to force himself upon others.
“What are your hobbies?” Jin flatly asked him.
Kazuki’s lips turned up into a huge grin, “Jin! I can’t believe you asked such an embarrassing question so early in the game.”
Jin scrunched up his face, utterly confounded and completely missing any hidden meanings Kazuki was hinting at.
Kazuki slightly blushed as he quietly said, “I watch you all the time wherever you go and wherever you are.”
Jin’s eyes widened and almost popped out of his sockets as he blurted, “Stop messing around, Kazuki!”
Kazuki pouted into a small frown, “I told you it was embarrassing…”
The silence was awkward. Jin knew he should give some witty response back, but he had none. All that was running through his mind was perverted thoughts of Kazuki watching him undress in the dressing room… Ah!! Why was he having perverted thoughts now?? Damn Kazuki…
Kazuki tried to read Jin’s expression, but Jin’s mask was impenetrable. He panicked whether that was the right time to confess how much he loved Jin. Although… he did realize that the statement sounded much more pervy than he thought when he conjured it in his mind.
Jin chewed on his lip. Why wasn’t Kazuki saying anything? The air was becoming harder and harder to breath in as the two of them sat there staring at everything except each other. Finally, a knock on the door interrupted them.
Jin quickly ran to the door, unconsciously releasing a bout of held breath, and was shocked to see Tora.
“Hey! The competition has been moved up to the afternoon and it’s going to take place soon. Has SCREW decided which members are going to do the competition?” Tora smiled.
Jin gaped. Soon?? But- but- they weren’t even ready! How could they possibly just jump up on stage right now and … say what?
“Hello, Tora-senpai!” Kazuki ran up to the door. “Yes, Jin and I are going as a pair. Jin is going to be my girlfriend for this event.”
Jin snapped his neck around to stare up at Kazuki with incredulous shock. Kazuki responded by giving Jin another quick kiss. Jin blushed tomato red and turned right back around, staring at the ground.
“Whoa! You guys are good!” Tora clapped. “I almost bought that one! Great! Come with me, guys. We have to get you guys dressed up.”
Dressed-up???? Jin shook his head at Kazuki, who nodded back as many times.
“Don’t worry, Jin-baby. I’ll be right here with you.” Kazuki whispered in his ear, sending a chill down Jin’s spine.
Oh god, what was he getting himself into?
When Tora opened the door to the designated dressing room for the competition, Jin stared in horror at the other odd pairings. Was this really happening?
“Come on, Jin. Relax a little and let loose.” Kazuki intertwined his hand with Jin’s.
“What- what are you doing?” Jin panicked. “We’re not a couple!”
“It’s practice.” Kazuki winked as he squeezed Jin’s hand. “Let’s go pick out our outfits.”
Jin dreaded to hear that. He could only imagine what perverted costume Kazuki had in mind for him. As they walked past the others, he was surprised to see some of the other bands actually putting girly make-up on their partners. Everyone else seemed to be enjoying this competition. It must be the huge nicotine reward that had gotten to everyone’s head.
Kazuki couldn’t stop grinning with sheer joy. Oh boy, he hoped he would be able to convey to Jin his true feelings either during or after this competition. They were bound to win. He could just feel it.
When they made it to the racks of clothes, Jin couldn’t help from gasping. There were only French maid costumes in different sizes??? What the heck was PSC promoting? Kazuki almost cried with joy. He loved PSC so much at this very moment. They were helping accomplish one of his many fantasies about Jin.
“These costumes are fabulous!” Kazuki happily picked out a few for Jin to try on. “Here, here. Take a few different sizes to try out.”
“How come you get to wear a suit?” Jin felt completely wronged.
Kazuki laughed, “Because I’m the butler whereas you’re my maid.”
Jin scowled and grudgingly snatched the horrid clothing from Kazuki then trudged to the bathroom to further commit himself to his doomed fate. When he started undressing, he heard some funny noises in the next stall. At first, he just ignored them as he fumbled with separating all the lace so he could step into the black dress. The dress came out to be much shorter than he anticipated.
Jin bent down to pull the stockings over his feet and he almost yelped feeling a breeze tickle his bottom. Fuck! He hoped his balls wouldn’t be hanging out of this ridiculous costume. Gah, he tried to reach for the annoying zipper behind the embarrassing costume, but his arms weren’t long enough and the strange noises kept getting louder. Jin started to sweat as he twisted his arm behind his back and tried to wriggle around to get to the zipper. Then he noticed that the odd noises sounded like … someone was panting… and moaning?
Jin shook his head. Why? Why? Could things get any more awkward and weird? He gave up and slipped on the frilly white apron and right as he came out of the stall, he heard something squirt.
“Oh god, Aoi…” that sounded like Ruki.
“Haha, you stained your costume.” Aoi lowly chuckled, “But now you look even sexier.”
Ruki exhaled a deep breath, “God, Aoi, my legs are shaking. Do you think the judges are going to find out we’re a real couple and then we’ll be disqualified?”
It sounded like Aoi and Ruki exchanged a kiss before Aoi purred, “Naaaah, who’s going to know?”
Jin had to let Kazuki know! He tiptoed out of there and thankfully ran out before he had to hear any more disturbing noises.
Kazuki gaped at his sexy Jin-chan. Gaaaaad, Kazuki wanted to take Jin for himself. Ahem, he couldn’t even say or think anything appropriate as he gawked at Jin. Jin’s condition was so seductive. He had his toes pointed inward because he was so embarrassed, which only made him look sexier and damn cute! His dress was so goddamn short that he was actually thinking twice about letting Jin go out there for everyone to feast their eyes on him. Kazuki chuckled at Jin’s uneven stockings. He could definitely fix that in no time.
“Jin-baby! You look super sexy!” Kazuki whistled and drooled.
Jin was pre-occupied from being utterly disturbed in the bathroom, “Kazuki! I have something important to tell you!”
“Oh baby, that can wait.” Kazuki licked his lips. “You forgot a few details.”
Jin took a step back, “W-w-hat are you going to do?”
Kazuki waved a few accessories, “You need to tie white bows to the top of your thigh high stockings and your zipper in the back is still open, hehe. Oh! And this white, lacey headband. The outfit wouldn’t be complete without it.”
Jin gasped, “No, no! I refuse. I’ve already done enough embarrassing things for one day.”
“Come here, Jin-baby!” Kazuki corned Jin against the wall and placed the headband on Jin.
Jin’s eyes widened when Kazuki crouched down and slipped a hand around the top of Jin’s stockings.
“Ah!” Jin shrieked. “Don’t touch me inappropriately!!!”
Kazuki chuckled, “Relax, Jin. I’m making your stockings even and hehe, making them prettier, by tying these white ribbons on them.”
Jin wiggled his legs around, making it difficult for Kazuki to complete his beautiful, French maid, Jin. Because of Jin’s unwillingness to cooperate, Kazuki mischievously grinned and brushed a few fingers between Jin’s inner thighs.
“AHHHH!” Jin squeaked and slapped Kazuki’s perverted hands away. “Can you please zip up my dress???”
“No problem.” Kazuki flashed a devious smile at Jin.
“Only zip my dress. Nothing else.” Jin glared at him with the most adorable menacing stare.
Kazuki inwardly giggled. How could he resist? Jin’s back was completely exposed and the soft, white skin was just asking to be touched. How could Kazuki control his inner beast? Kazuki licked the tip of his finger and traced Jin’s spine. Jin shuddered from Kazuki’s touch, but decided to feign anger at Kazuki.
“Kazuuukiiii.” Jin called out his name in an irritated tone.
“Hehe…” Kazuki kissed the nape of Jin’s neck. “All right, all right. I zipped it. Now can I tie the bows on you?”
Jin huffed. There was just no denying Kazuki was there?
“Fiiiiine.” Jin rolled his eyes as he turned around to face Kazuki again.
Kazuki chewed his lips as he tried to delicately only tie the ribbons around Jin’s luscious thighs. Kazuki closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. This was too much, too much. Several times he thought about ditching this entire competition and just fucking Jin right there and then… but he had to control his urges. He loved Jin for more than that. He adored Jin’s cute, fun personality and that Jin was the only one who could put up with his silly antics.
“Okay, all done. Here is the last thing you need.” Kazuki stood back up and handed Jin the white feather duster.
“Ahhh!” Jin waved the duster at Kazuki’s face. “Why do you have a nosebleed?”
Kazuki touched his upper lip, “Ooo, oops, hee hee.”
“I quit! I quit! You’re perverted.” Jin ran away from Kazuki.
“Okay, guys!” Tora interrupted everyone. “We’re all ready for you! Let’s go and get this party started!”
Everyone in the room cheered as Jin groaned. Kazuki quickly caught up with Jin and ushered him along to follow the rest of the guys to the backstage.
Out in the audience, loud, catchy techno music was keeping the audience in great suspense, but they were soon relieved when Tora sauntered out on stage. The audience quickly quieted down as Tora welcomed the crowd.
“Welcome to PSC’s very first ‘Guess Your Fan’s OTP!’ bonza! In a minute, you’re going to see the pairings your bands have chosen for you. Let’s see if they guessed right. If so, enjoy the show they’re going to present. If not, let’s see if they can convince you to have a new OTP!”
“From SUG!”
Yuji wore small cat ears beside his white, lacey headband as well as cat paws. Chiyu sported his butler suit and he took off his jacket then flung it out into the audience which several fans fought for. Chiyu then jingled the golden bell hanging around his black choker and stroked Yuji’s long cat tail causing Yuji to shiver in response. Fans went wild and Tora encouraged them to scream if they liked this pairing.
The scream meter soared up to 90%.
“From Alice Nine!”
Nao giggled as he shyly walked on stage hugging his flat, vanilla cat in the French maid costume. Shou, clad handsomely in his suit, simply followed Nao out stage. Fans ‘awwwww’ed Nao and cheered for Shou. The scream meter made it to 90%.
“From BORN!”
Kifumi pranced on stage in his French maid costume with small fairy wings attached to his back and he wiggled his butt to the crowd while flapping his wings. Ryouga smirked and shook his head. Kifumi beckoned Ryouga to come over with his white fairy wand to which Ryouga jogged over. Kifumi sprinkled some fairy dust on Ryouga to make their kiss a magical one. The crowd oooo and aaaah then cried out in favor when Ryouga cradled Kifumi in his arms as they kissed.
The scream meter ran up to 95% easily.
“From Gazette!”
Surprisingly, even though Aoi was wearing the butler outfit, he was the one handcuffed by Ruki, the French maid, carrying a whip. Aoi seemed kind of nervous and weary of Ruki, but the fans loved it. They were screaming out their names and dying with anticipation to see what Ruki was going to do to poor Aoi. Ruki cracked the whip on the ground earning well-earned squeals from his audience. Aoi whimpered, shook his head, and feverishly waved his handcuffed hands for Ruki not to do it, but Ruki had the unstoppable impish gleam in his eyes. He motioned for Aoi to turn around and without any choice Aoi obeyed. Then Ruki raised the whip high up and the crowd gasped when Ruki launched the whip forward. Once again, the audience was surprised to find that Ruki used the whip to lasso Aoi into his arms and give him a big kiss for his brave performance.
The crowd broke out into happy cheering and clapping. The scream meter rose to 95%.
“From Kra!”
Keiyuu skipped out to the front of the stage and lifted his black dress to flash everyone his strawberry boxer briefs. Yasuno failed to come fast enough to cover up Keiyuu’s explicit display.
“Sorry! Sorry!” Yasuno bowed to the audience, but the crowd actually loved it. They even chanted for them to kiss.
Yasuno bent down and Keiyuu stepped up on his toes to share a small, chaste kiss. The scream meter flew up to 95%.
“From D=OUT!”
Butler Kouki wheeled Ibuki out on a roller chair with his hands tied behind his back and a gag in his mouth. Ibuki pleaded for help as Kouki playfully rolled Ibuki all around the stage in an abrupt, fast pace. The crowd was screaming for Kouki to stop, but Kouki cupped his ear pretending he couldn’t hear them. The scream meter elevated to 95%!
“From ViViD!”
Reno proudly flaunted his sexy body and lapped danced for the crowd on top of Shin, who was seated in a chair conveniently placed in the middle of the stage. Reno pushed down Shin’s suit jacket and tore off his bow tie to toss aside. Then, with his teeth, he unbuttoned a couple of the buttons on Shin’s dress shirt. The crowd went wild with noise. Reno finally sat on top of Shin’s lap and lustfully kissed Shin leaving Shin slightly breathless with rosy cheeks.
The scream meter was about to burst!
“From SCREW!”
“Let’s go, Jin-baby!” Kazuki scooped up Jin into his arms bridal style since he noticed how nervous Jin had been the entire time the other bands had been called.
“Kazuuuki! Put me dooown!” Jin flailed in his arms, but Kazuki held onto him tightly so Jin wouldn’t fall.
Jin could hear the crowd roaring, whistling, and calling out their names, but he barely registered that as he was more focused on Kazuki leaning closer and closer to his face. His heart was about to explode out of his chest because he was so nervous from Kazuki’s face being nearly a peck away. Jin squeezed his eyes shut when he felt Kazuki’s lips lightly graze his and teasingly chew on his lower lip as they melted into their slow kiss.
Kazuki was nervous as hell, but he was no longer acting. This kiss was real. This act of holding his precious Jin in his arms was more than he could ever ask for. He hoped Jin noticed that this was a moment of truth.
Jin felt butterflies rising into his chest and lifting his heart, but just as he was about to release himself fully into Kazuki’s hold, his eyes popped open when he felt Kazuki give his butt a squeeze. Kazuki secretly winked at him then released their lips.
Jin was falling for him! Could he be imagining Jin relaxing into his arms or was Jin starting to feel more comfortable around him?
Jin’s face burned a deep crimson red. Did anyone in the audience catch that subtle, perverted moment???
The scream meter was well over 100%. They must have…
Tora reappeared on stage, “Well, well, well! It seems that the bands did a good job and treated you fans well! Let’s see if they can rise up to the challenge we’ve prepared for them this afternoon.”
The fans went wild screaming, yelling, and rooting for their favorite bands as the PSC staff scrambled around on stage setting up the props for the first event.
Tora smiled at the crazy crowd, “So! For this event, the pairs are to be sitting facing each other with their hands tied behind their backs and the goal is to be the first pair to finish the designated Twinkie bar. If it drops, that pair is disqualified. And, to be a little more exciting, the first three pairs to finish will be the ones that are going to go to the semi-finals!”
The auditorium became very quiet with anticipation as the other couples encouraged each other to come out on top as they all settled into their positions. Once every couple had the Twinkie bar situated between the lips of each of the couples, Tora gave the green light, “Goooood luck!!!”
Jin was too busy trying to stuff the nasty, spongy cream-filled crap down his throat to notice how any of the other groups were doing. He felt he was going to throw the shit up, when finally he gladly met Kazuki’s lips. For once, he willingly accepted the taste of Kazuki’s sweet lips.
Bleh! That crap was nastier than the traditional medicine his mother used to mysteriously brew for him when he was sick in his younger days. He almost didn’t breathe to try and swallow whole as much of it as the muscles in his throat would let him. In these situations, he might have gotten irritated that Jin only managed to scarf down a fourth of the Twinkie, but it was so gross he was glad to have been able to make three-fourths of it disappear in a jiffy.
Once Kazuki reached Jin’s lips, he didn’t feel satisfied enough, especially after the amount of torture he had to go through just to kiss Jin, so he deviously licked up the cream spread around Jin’s lips. Haha, perhaps the snack was tasty after all.
Jin squirmed his face aside, “Kazuki! I think you’re going to lick up my entire face if you don’t stop.”
Kazuki gave Jin another quick kiss before changing the subject, “Well, how did you like that snack?”
“What do you think? It tasted like fake sugar and cardboard.” Jin stuck out his tongue in disgust.
Kazuki snickered, “Yeah, but the real treat was at the end, right?”
Jin shifted his eyes to the ground. Geez, how did Kazuki always manage to stir the butterflies in his stomach and make his heart run a thousand miles?
“Congratulations to everyone for finishing!” Tora had everyone’s attention on him.
The audience was in a quiet murmur, anxiously anticipating which one of their beloved bands would be able to go to the next round.
“There were many close calls, but the judges have narrowed the decisions down to these lucky three.” Tora slipped out a piece of paper from a rectangular manila envelope.
“Third place is Shou and Nao!”
“Oh my god, Shou!!!” Nao jumped up from his seat, forgetting his hands were still tied, so he brought the entire chair up with him.
Shou shamefully looked away and wistfully glanced over at Tora, who announced,
“Second place is Jin and Kazuki!”
“We won! We won!” Jin surprisingly found himself getting excited about this competition.
“Yes! Only one more event to go and we’re going to win the ultimate prize!” Kazuki celebrated with him.
Jin briefly wondered if they would go back to being just friends after this event.
“First place is Aoi and Ruki!!”
The audience roared with sheer joy as Aoi and Ruki exchanged a deep kiss for all their fans to see. Jin turned his attention away from their overly intimate display of affection then he remembered, they were already a real couple, so this competition was a cake walk for the two of them.
“Kazuki!” Jin suddenly whispered with great urgency.
Kazuki raised his eyebrow and brought his ear closer to Jin to hear what Jin could possibly want to say at this moment.
“They... I don’t know how to prove it… but they’re fake.” Jin lacked confidence as he stated this.
Kazuki thought Jin was just trying to express his jealously at Gazette because they weren’t the winning pair, “Cheer up, Jin! We can defeat them in the next round. Don’t you worry!”
Jin rolled his eyes and groaned. How thick was Kazuki’s head?
“Noooo, I mean, I heard them in the bathroom when they were in the middle of … you know …,” Jin didn’t feel like spelling it out.
Kazuki drew a blank over his face.
“All right, let me explain the next event as our kind staff is cleaning up and preparing the stage.” Tora announced, making it difficult for Kazuki to hear Jin.
“Just spill it out already, Jin. The next event is coming up. I don’t want us to miss the rules.” Kazuki whined.
Jin panicked. He had to tell Kazuki the truth about Aoi and Ruki. It wasn’t fair that everyone else had to sacrifice their dignity to play this ridiculous game, so the two of them could practically waltz out with the prize.
“Aoi and Ruki knew they couldn’t participate because they are a real couple. They’re already together, but they wanted the grand prize, so they pretended they were like all of us, not a couple.” Jin blurted.
Kazuki immediately knew what Jin was trying to say, and before Tora could say another word, Kazuki shouted loud and clear, “The Gazette! They’re fake! They’re fake! Someone disqualify them!”
Tora mouthed to Kazuki, “What are you doing?”
Kazuki didn’t care! He couldn’t stand cheaters. Even if Aoi and Ruki would take him out back and beat the bloody pulp out of him later, he would do anything to make him and Jin won and that Jin didn’t lose his man pride for nothing.
Ruki and Aoi gave Kazuki the evil glare as Tora quickly ushered Kazuki and Jin off stage.
“What the hell are you trying to do?” Tora turned off the mic. “You know I can disqualify you for being a disturbance.”
Jin panicked. Maybe he shouldn’t have said anything. Knowing Kazuki’s hot head, he might say something out of rage and piss Tora off, then they’d for sure lose without even having the chance to properly fight.
But Kazuki surprised Jin. Kazuki wanted so desperately to chew off Tora’s head for being blind to the situation, but he reminded himself of the cost of that decision to their situation, therefore he took a deep breath before he spoke.
“Listen, Tora-senpai, Aoi-senpai and Ruki-senpai were making out in the bathroom when they accidentally revealed that they are, indeed, a real couple that is trying to break the rules to win the grand prize. Go check your sources to confirm I am telling the truth!” Kazuki stood his ground, barely holding his cool.
Tora scrutinized Kazuki’s sudden serious attitude. This was very rare behavior, especially coming from this silly junior of theirs, but Tora had no choice but to further investigate this matter since it was brought to his attention.
The audience was once again shrouded in confusion and mystery as their bands had left the stage empty, so the staff could resolve this rumor before continuing on with the show.
“Is our spot jeopardized?” Jin wringed his hands together as they waited for the final verdict from the staff.
Kazuki took one of Jin’s hands into his then kissed the top of it, “Don’t worry. We did the right thing.”
Jin slowly nodded. He hoped Aoi and Ruki didn’t make that fact up to get them disqualified. That would have been the oldest, dirty trick in the book if that was the case. Kazuki was shaking inside from the possibility of having alarmed everyone for nothing, but at the same time, he believed in Jin for telling the truth.
“Hello, everyone!” Tora reappeared on stage from what seemed like an eternity of waiting.
The crowd was now questioning Tora with ‘eeehhhsss???’ to find out what exactly had happened. Tora sighed as he prepared himself to mention the news, “Cheating is a very frowned upon activity, and we understand how much pressure sometimes a competition can place on people to make the wrong choice. But that does not mean we can accept those wrongdoings. Today, Gazette is stepping out of the race to respect PSC’s wishes therefore the group to replace them is going to be Chiyu and Yuji from SUG!”
Jin and Kazuki gave each other high fives then hugged.
“Sure you guys aren’t cheating, too?” Ruki crept up on them.
“Ahh!” Jin jumped out of Kazuki’s embrace then placed his hands on his hips in an attempt to scare off Ruki, but Ruki scoffed at him.
“You’re pathetic. You are the real dirt bag that overheard our conversation, but had to get your … boyfriend over to be the whistleblower.”
“You- you don’t scare me!” Jin furiously pointed his finger at Ruki, who only continued in his arrogant tone.
“You’re lucky we weren’t messing with you, otherwise you’d have gone down… hard!” Ruki ran the back of his hand under his nose then strutted away, clearly extremely upset.
Aoi only bowed in a weak, meek apology as he dashed off to comfort his lover.
“So what’s the last event, Tora?” Nao waved his hand in the air like those top students that were always asking the teacher questions after every point in the lecture.
“I’m glad you asked!” Tora winked at Nao, to which Shou crossed his arms and looked away.
Tora didn’t understand why Shou had been upset all day. He wondered if maybe he forgot something and Shou was even too annoyed to tell him what the matter was.
Tora had to continue the show. He would try to appease Shou afterwards.
“Right now each of you is being given a brown, paper bag to put over your heads. There will be no holes made in the bag for vision. I believe there’s a nose hole for breathing. We wouldn’t want an incident on the show… for liability purposes, but I don’t need to expand on that. I’m sure we’re all very familiar with those issues.”
As Tora was talking, the staff members were setting up high fences at the edge of the stage.
“Anyway, the way to win this game is to feel for your partner. Don’t use that as an excuse to feel someone up, but you must be able to find your partner using your sense of touch. No talking allowed.”
Each of the couples was lined up on opposite sides of the stage. Jin felt nervous about this ordeal. Feeling around blindly in the dark? That just seemed to be calling out for trouble…
Before Kazuki needed to slip on his brown paper bag, he tried to commit in his mind the place where Jin relatively was, so he could walk straight to Jin and be done with this kind of creepy game.
“Please place on your special hats now!” Tora let them know the game had started.
They all exchanged dubious looks at one another before slipping the brown paper bags over their heads. Jin frowned. The hole for the nose was too high… Damn! Didn’t they know he was short? Did they have to constantly remind him of his inadequate height? Jin ripped a makeshift hole at the real place his nose was located.
At first, Kazuki took big steps towards the direction he originally remembered Jin was located, but it was much harder to keep oriented with his head being enclosed in complete darkness. It also didn’t help that the musty smell of the brown paper bag was itching his nose. The quicker he tried to walk forward, the dizzier and off-balance he felt. He worried if Jin was having the same issue as him.
Jin wasn’t that courageous. He was deathly afraid of falling off stage. Although his band members and he joked about slipping off stage all the time, he really didn’t want that nightmare to become true. Thus, he took baby steps and stretched his arms out as far and wide as he could in hopes of bumping into someone or something.
Kazuki started to get annoyed. Why was he always bumping into this person that definitely wasn’t Jin? The mysterious person’s height was a definite giveaway, and no matter how many times Kazuki tried to push that person away in another direction, somehow the person always came back to find him. Kazuki even tried to turn in other directions just to get away from that person, but he’d always end up bumping right back into him. Kazuki had to clench his fists to prevent himself from yelling out and punching that person.
Jin began to sweat and panic. He knew he hadn’t moved far, but he still hadn’t bumped into anyone. Even if he stubbed his toe against the fence, he would feel more relieved. At least he would have some sense of direction, but nothing. No person, no fence, nothing. Where the hell was he? What was going on? He desperately wanted to rip off his paper bag.
“Ahhhh!” Nao suddenly screamed out.
Everyone froze in spot.
Tora quickly spoke to calm everyone down, “Don’t worry, everyone. Continue looking for your significant other. Shou and Nao, you both need to remove your paper bags and step out of the arena.”
“What??? Why? Have I been disqualified?” Nao whined as he refused to quit the game.
“You broke on of the rules of the game. You’re not supposed to talk.” Tora made his way over to Nao and lifted the brown bag off of Nao’s head.
“The light! It burns!” Nao melodramatically buried his face into Tora’s chest and wrapped his arms around Tora’s waist.
“Whoa, whoa! Take it easy, Nao.” Tora threw his hands up into the air. “Nao, you can let go of me.”
Shou had already ripped off his brown bag and his eyes widened at Nao’s action. All afternoon Nao had been acting sort of silly and he didn’t particularly mind because that was just Nao’s fun personality, but how could Nao hit on his crush?
Nao looked up at Tora and childishly giggled, “You smell good, Tora.”
Tora felt very uncomfortable, “Nao, please remove your hands from me.”
“Why?” Nao pressed his body against Tora, which made Tora flinch backwards.
“Nao! Seriously!” Tora exclaimed.
Shou felt a nerve pop out on his forehead. How dare Nao flirt with Tora? Out of jealousy, he marched over and yanked Nao off of Tora. Nao gasped at Shou’s strong display of strength. Since when was Shou aggressive?
Tora held the mic away from his mouth and tried to whisper softly to Shou, but the mic was sensitive enough to pick it up, “Shou, I know you’re upset at me, but can we talk about this after the show is over? I have been meaning to talk to you all afternoon, but as you can see, I’m sort of in the middle of hosting.”
“Get off!” Kazuki finally lost his cool.
He ripped off the brown paper bag from his head. He had to shake his head to readjust his vision, but he couldn’t believe he ended up diagonally from where he had started.
Kazuki tore off the brown paper bag from Yuji’s head, “You! I knew you weren’t Jin!”
“Yeah, I’m not.” Yuji cutely pursed his lips at Kazuki.
“Then why did you keep bumping into me? Couldn’t you tell I was pushing you away?” Kazuki exasperatingly explained.
Yuji flashed a mischievous grin, “I knew you weren’t Chiyu.”
“What?” Kazuki tried to wrap around his head what just happened. “You were trying to get me disqualified?!”
Yuji rolled his eyes around as he smiled, “I don’t know.”
Kazuki looked behind Yuji and mentally forced himself to count down from ten to not let the anger inside of him boil. Just as Kazuki was about to continue arguing with Yuji, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Jin about to fall off stage because somehow he slipped through a loose part of the fence and ended up outside of the barrier.
“JIIIINNN!” Kazuki dashed over with all his might to grab Jin, who was about to step onto air.
The crowd loudly gasped as Kazuki hurriedly pulled Jin against his chest and stumbled a few feet back onto the safety of the stage.
“Oh god, Jin. Jin. Jin.” Kazuki pulled that dang bag off of Jin’s head and profusely kissed Jin several times on his forehead, his eyes, his cheeks, and his mouth. “Jin… Thank god you’re safe. I almost felt like I was going to die when I saw that you were about to walk off the stage!”
The crowd was making a lot of happy noises, but that all became background noise to Jin. He didn’t know why, but he felt less embarrassed, and rather super happy hearing that Kazuki cared about him so much.
“Thank god you saved me. To think that I was walking so slowly only because I was afraid of falling off stage and to my luck, I was really about to crash to the ground!” Jin shook his head.
Murphy’s law was so unkind to him.
Kazuki laughed, out of relief that Jin was safe and that this dumb game was over.
“You know, Jin,” Kazuki lifted up Jin’s chin, so he could stare straight into those sparkling, dark orbs. “I would never forgive myself if something really did happen to you. I can’t believe I agreed to play such a dangerous, retarded game!”
“But you wanted the year supply of cigarettes.” Jin tried to justify that their effort was worth it.
“No, no, Jin.” Kazuki shook his head.
Out of nowhere, the words finally flowed out of him.
“That wasn’t what I really wanted.” Kazuki confessed. “I want you to be my lover, but I’ve been too embarrassed to ask you out, so if the only way I could be together with you was to pretend to be a couple with you, then I was willing to do it because… because… I was too cowardly to make it real.”
Jin’s eyes widened in surprise. K-kazuki actually liked him, too? Was he hearings things correctly?
Without warning, Kazuki bent down and pressed his lips against Jin’s. Jin could barely believe it. He had been too afraid to confess his feelings to Kazuki because all along he thought that Kazuki would never like someone so plain like him.
An overwhelming wave of cheering, whooping, clapping, and happy noises exploded in the hall. Kazuki and Jin looked up from their private bubble and saw all of their fellow PSC colleagues congratulating them.
Rui walked up to them with Maru-san in his arms, “Congratulations for finally confessing your long repressed feelings for each other.”
“What…?” Kazuki didn’t understand Rui’s meaning.
“There is no yearlong supply of cigarettes. We worked with all the other bands to set this up.” Manabu scoffed.
Jin cracked up. This time it was Kazuki’s turn to blush tomato red.
“Seriously??? We’ve been set up? This whole time?!” Kazuki exclaimed in great disbelief.
“Yup.” Tora crossed his arms and nodded. “Now, you two newlyweds, do us the honor and give us the first dance to celebrate this joyous event!”
“So you weren’t really flirting with Tora?” Jin pointed at Nao.
Nao giggled, “Not really. He’s not exactly my type, haha.”
Shou snorted.
“Shou would have killed Nao if he ever did try to lay a finger on me.” Tora kissed Shou on the cheek, in which Shou softened his angry glare a little as he let Tora placed an arm around his waist.
Aoi and Ruki reappeared on stage, too.
“Our acting was pretty damn good, eh?” Aoi winked at Kazuki, who playfully glared at his senpai.
Kifumi threw the magic dust up in the air signaling for ViViD to begin rocking the hall.
Jin and Kazuki looked at each other and laughed. ‘Weird, but what the hell?’ They both thought, and started boogie dancing to the lively, spirited jazz song.
“I love you, Jin-baby!!!” Kazuki picked up Jin and twirled him around after Jin teasingly shook his booty at Kazuki.
“Arrhhh, put me down!” Jin cried out in embarrassment. “My dress is flipping up!”
“Cute black boxer briefs, but I’m never letting you go.” Kazuki childishly grinned and they exchanged their first deep kiss.
All of the PSC fans didn’t regret paying for that event one bit. They loved to see and be a part of their jrockers journey of finding true love, especially inter-band love.
End~
A/Ns:
Whoo wheee! This story is kind of, umm, I guess... on crack? XDDDDD But it was so fun to write, and I really just had this idea from watching the making of Brainstorm because I loved that part where Kazuki and Jin were dancing together, LOL. Who knew that brief moment would turn into this hot mess? Hehehe.
Please do give me your thoughts on this! Thank you ^^v
Author: misfitmisfit
Beta-reader: atmosphere-zero (Thank you so much!! ^^)
Genre: Comedy, Humor, Crack, Romance, Fluff
Rating: R
Warnings: Sexual Innuendos, MenxMen Kissing, boxer briefs
Main Pairing: Kazuki (SCREW) x Jin (SCREW)
Side pairings:
- Chiyu (SUG) x Yuji (SUG)
- Shou (Alice Nine) x Nao (Alice Nine)
- Kifumi (BORN) x Ryouga (BORN)
- Ruki (Gazette) x Aoi (Gazette)
- Keiyuu (Kra) x Yasuno (Kra)
- Kouki (D=OUT) x Ibuki (D=OUT)
- Shin (ViViD) x Reno (ViViD)
Disclaimer: None of which I have written here is true or is for profit. This story is purely a work of imagination and for my own amusement, XP
Synopsis: Does the French Maid have enough seductive powers to lure out the suppressed emotions within the Butler?
Comments: This story is dedicated to simplydescend. I hope you enjoy it, ;D
“No.” Manabu glared at Kazuki.
Kazuki kneeled in front of Manabu and dramatically kowtowed repeatedly.
“As much as you like to shame yourself, I have some dignity.” Manabu rose from his chair and walked to the water cooler to get a cup of water.
Byou snorted, “I’ll do it.”
“Really?? You will? Great!!” Kazuki jumped up in glee and grabbed onto Byou’s hands in excitement.
“Under one condition.” Byou grinned.
Kazuki nodded feverishly, “Anything, anything. What is it? Tell meeeeee.”
“I charge by the minute.” Byou winked.
“What? You bastard!” Kazuki punched Byou in the shoulder. “What type of friends are you guys?”
Byou snickered and Manabu rolled his eyes. Rui simply sat on the nearby couch in the break room stroking his Maru-san. None of them understood why Kazuki was so desperate to join this crazy PSC competition. True the reward of a year’s supply of cigarettes was tempting, but certainly not worth losing a man’s dignity.
“Don’t you have any shame?” Manabu arched one of his eyebrows at the pathetic Kazuki, who was pretending to weep in the corner.
A loud bang of the door being busted wide open captured all of their attention. Jin was sweating profusely and panting out of breath as he limped into the break room. Kazuki was thrilled to see Jin.
“Jiiiiin!” Kazuki pretended to wipe his tears on his sleeve and ran up to hug Jin from behind. “You’ll do the competition with me, right?”
“What? What competition?” Jin huffed.
He was still in the midst of catching his breath, and Kazuki squeezing him tightly around the waist wasn’t helping.
“Wait… wh-what competition?” Jin tried to peel Kazuki’s grip off of him.
“No one wants to do it with you. Give it up.” Manabu crushed his paper cup and tossed it into the trash can.
Kazuki contemplated whether he should act even more intimate with Jin to shoo the others out to give them some privacy.
“Just say I do, Jin.” Kazuki stuck his face right up into Jin’s.
“Kazuki!” Jin forcibly pushed Kazuki’s face away as his face flushed a bright red.
Kazuki was much too close for comfort, and he was too sweaty to even be this close to anyone. Jin felt hotter by the minute as he was very aware that the rest of the band was closely watching him in amusement at his helpless state.
“I’m dripping in sweat! Can you freaking let me go?!” Jin cried out for mercy.
A mischievous smile curled up on Kazuki’s lips, “Nope. Nope. Not unless you agree.”
“You’re doomed.” Rui chimed into the conversation as he passed by them.
“See you two later in the practice studio.” Byou waved goodbye and Manabu closed the door behind them as they left, sealing the deal.
Jin watched in horror as the rest of his band members abandoned him with the demonic Kazuki in the break room. The last time they did this to him he was forced to wear a pink kimono for an in-store event! He had to hold on to the last shred of dignity he possibly had.
Jin turned around, shrugging off Kazuki, and glared up at him with great suspicion, “What did you rope me into doing this time?”
“Heh heh.” Kazuki handed Jin the flyer he had been waving around all morning at the other members.
Kazuki barely believed he was really all alone with Jin. Everything was going as planned.
Jin snatched the flyer out of Kazuki’s hand and grudgingly took a look at it. The flyer read “Tired of the rising cigarette taxes? Don’t worry! PSC is here to help. All you have to do is sign up to participate in our special event, “Guess your fan’s OTP.”.” Jin didn’t like the sound of it already…
“To participate, only two members of your band are allowed to join. Those two have to appear on PSC’s exclusive mini-game show and the prize will go to the pair who can be the most believable couple.”
“WHAT!?!??!” Jin cried out in fury. “I have to do what???”
“Think of the reward! A year’s supply of cigarettes. How could you say no?” Kazuki shook Jin’s shoulder. “It’s not hard to win either. We just need to do a little acting. What do you say?”
“But still!” Jin was slowly failing to refuse.
Kazuki cupped Jin’s chin and placed a quick chaste kiss on his lips, “I believe you can do it, Jin-baby.”
Jin gasped and abruptly turned his face away from Kazuki’s lewd, sparkling eyes and wet lips. His heart was pounding like mad, and as if he wasn’t already reduced to such an embarrassing state, he would never admit he kind of liked being harassed by Kazuki. But he had to remind himself that there was no telling if Kazuki picked him simply because the rest denied him or because of another unknown reason.
“Well…” Jin threw the flyer down on the table. “Is there anything we need to do to prepare for this dumb thing?”
Kazuki had to restrain himself from giving Jin another kiss, which would probably be much deeper than the first one he sneaked onto Jin.
“So that’s a yes?” Kazuki flashed Jin his charming smile.
Jin crossed his arms and pretended to be upset.
“Wooo hoooo!” Kazuki threw his hands into the air and jumped around the room, singing, “A year of free cigarettes. Oh yeah, oh yeah. A year of cigarettes. Oooooh yeah!”
“Hey. I’m still here.” Jin called out to the singing, dancing idiot.
Kazuki breathlessly laughed, “There’s nothing else left to do except go to the event tonight.”
“Tonight?!?!?” Jin fell back onto a chair. “How … but… wait, wait. Don’t you need to sign us up? How do they know how many participants are there? Shouldn’t we go over some facts about each other or lies we’re going to make up so we don’t look stupid out there?”
“Calm down, calm down.” Kazuki winked. “I’ve already got it all covered. Here’s a sheet of facts about me. All you have to do is read it and then fill me in about yourself. I’m sure we can do this.”
Jin was at a loss for words. Could it be that Kazuki already planned to do this event with him from the beginning? No, no. Jin shook his head. Impossible. Kazuki couldn’t possibly have thought of him as his first choice. If anything, Kazuki probably asked Manabu first, then the others, and as a last resort, him.
Kazuki held his breath. Was Jin catching on that he specifically did this all for him? That he wanted to do this event with him from the beginning?
“Are you reading it?” Kazuki anxiously pushed Jin to finish it.
“I am. I am.” Jin scowled. “But if you rush me, I won’t be able to process everything written on here.”
Kazuki was impatient and took the paper back from Jin, “You read too slow, Jin-baby. I’ll read it to you instead.”
Jin felt his cheeks get hot. Kazuki called him that again. Was that part of the act they needed to put on later tonight or was it for real? Jin shook his head. No, no. He needed to stop thinking these wild thoughts. Everyone in the band always made fun of him being a girl because of his height and size.
Kazuki didn’t even notice Jin’s flushed reaction and was too busy reading off his mini biography. When he finished he looked up to ask for Jin’s opinion, but then he noticed a dazed, spaced out Jin.
“Jin!” Kazuki slapped his knee.
“Ah!” Jin snapped out of his trance. “Okay, okay. I’m ready. Read it to me.”
Kazuki frowned. “I already read it all. Where were you?”
“Whatever, I missed it. Just read it again.” Jin didn’t want to argue with him anymore.
Kazuki held back giggling at how cute Jin looked when he was irritated. Kazuki narrowed his eyes at Jin and stared deep into his eyes. Jin tried to stare back with the same intensity, but he was only getting more and more nervous by the second. He wished he knew what was cooking under those charming, brown eyes.
“Are you hiding something from me?” Kazuki childishly grinned at Jin.
Jin unconsciously shifted his eyes around and his voice wavered ever so slightly, “N-no. Wh-hat are you talking about?”
Kazuki unexpectedly placed a hand on the left side of Jin’s chest, “Ooooh, why is your heart pounding so quickly? Is it trying to tell me something?”
“Gah! Quit playing mind games with me.” Jin swatted Kazuki’s hand away.
“You’re definitely paranoid, Jin.” Kazuki laughed. “But in a cute way, I suppose.”
Jin blushed again, but this time he spoke out, “Why do you have to say such embarrassing things?”
“That’s my nature. If there is a moment that I can’t crack a joke, I am probably sick.” Kazuki shrugged.
Jin didn’t buy his answer, so Kazuki thought of another idea. “Okay, how about I ask you a question, and then you ask me a question? This way we’ll be interacting and no one can be spacing out.”
Jin pressed his lips together. Damn Kazuki. He always found a way to force himself upon others.
“What are your hobbies?” Jin flatly asked him.
Kazuki’s lips turned up into a huge grin, “Jin! I can’t believe you asked such an embarrassing question so early in the game.”
Jin scrunched up his face, utterly confounded and completely missing any hidden meanings Kazuki was hinting at.
Kazuki slightly blushed as he quietly said, “I watch you all the time wherever you go and wherever you are.”
Jin’s eyes widened and almost popped out of his sockets as he blurted, “Stop messing around, Kazuki!”
Kazuki pouted into a small frown, “I told you it was embarrassing…”
The silence was awkward. Jin knew he should give some witty response back, but he had none. All that was running through his mind was perverted thoughts of Kazuki watching him undress in the dressing room… Ah!! Why was he having perverted thoughts now?? Damn Kazuki…
Kazuki tried to read Jin’s expression, but Jin’s mask was impenetrable. He panicked whether that was the right time to confess how much he loved Jin. Although… he did realize that the statement sounded much more pervy than he thought when he conjured it in his mind.
Jin chewed on his lip. Why wasn’t Kazuki saying anything? The air was becoming harder and harder to breath in as the two of them sat there staring at everything except each other. Finally, a knock on the door interrupted them.
Jin quickly ran to the door, unconsciously releasing a bout of held breath, and was shocked to see Tora.
“Hey! The competition has been moved up to the afternoon and it’s going to take place soon. Has SCREW decided which members are going to do the competition?” Tora smiled.
Jin gaped. Soon?? But- but- they weren’t even ready! How could they possibly just jump up on stage right now and … say what?
“Hello, Tora-senpai!” Kazuki ran up to the door. “Yes, Jin and I are going as a pair. Jin is going to be my girlfriend for this event.”
Jin snapped his neck around to stare up at Kazuki with incredulous shock. Kazuki responded by giving Jin another quick kiss. Jin blushed tomato red and turned right back around, staring at the ground.
“Whoa! You guys are good!” Tora clapped. “I almost bought that one! Great! Come with me, guys. We have to get you guys dressed up.”
Dressed-up???? Jin shook his head at Kazuki, who nodded back as many times.
“Don’t worry, Jin-baby. I’ll be right here with you.” Kazuki whispered in his ear, sending a chill down Jin’s spine.
Oh god, what was he getting himself into?
When Tora opened the door to the designated dressing room for the competition, Jin stared in horror at the other odd pairings. Was this really happening?
“Come on, Jin. Relax a little and let loose.” Kazuki intertwined his hand with Jin’s.
“What- what are you doing?” Jin panicked. “We’re not a couple!”
“It’s practice.” Kazuki winked as he squeezed Jin’s hand. “Let’s go pick out our outfits.”
Jin dreaded to hear that. He could only imagine what perverted costume Kazuki had in mind for him. As they walked past the others, he was surprised to see some of the other bands actually putting girly make-up on their partners. Everyone else seemed to be enjoying this competition. It must be the huge nicotine reward that had gotten to everyone’s head.
Kazuki couldn’t stop grinning with sheer joy. Oh boy, he hoped he would be able to convey to Jin his true feelings either during or after this competition. They were bound to win. He could just feel it.
When they made it to the racks of clothes, Jin couldn’t help from gasping. There were only French maid costumes in different sizes??? What the heck was PSC promoting? Kazuki almost cried with joy. He loved PSC so much at this very moment. They were helping accomplish one of his many fantasies about Jin.
“These costumes are fabulous!” Kazuki happily picked out a few for Jin to try on. “Here, here. Take a few different sizes to try out.”
“How come you get to wear a suit?” Jin felt completely wronged.
Kazuki laughed, “Because I’m the butler whereas you’re my maid.”
Jin scowled and grudgingly snatched the horrid clothing from Kazuki then trudged to the bathroom to further commit himself to his doomed fate. When he started undressing, he heard some funny noises in the next stall. At first, he just ignored them as he fumbled with separating all the lace so he could step into the black dress. The dress came out to be much shorter than he anticipated.
Jin bent down to pull the stockings over his feet and he almost yelped feeling a breeze tickle his bottom. Fuck! He hoped his balls wouldn’t be hanging out of this ridiculous costume. Gah, he tried to reach for the annoying zipper behind the embarrassing costume, but his arms weren’t long enough and the strange noises kept getting louder. Jin started to sweat as he twisted his arm behind his back and tried to wriggle around to get to the zipper. Then he noticed that the odd noises sounded like … someone was panting… and moaning?
Jin shook his head. Why? Why? Could things get any more awkward and weird? He gave up and slipped on the frilly white apron and right as he came out of the stall, he heard something squirt.
“Oh god, Aoi…” that sounded like Ruki.
“Haha, you stained your costume.” Aoi lowly chuckled, “But now you look even sexier.”
Ruki exhaled a deep breath, “God, Aoi, my legs are shaking. Do you think the judges are going to find out we’re a real couple and then we’ll be disqualified?”
It sounded like Aoi and Ruki exchanged a kiss before Aoi purred, “Naaaah, who’s going to know?”
Jin had to let Kazuki know! He tiptoed out of there and thankfully ran out before he had to hear any more disturbing noises.
Kazuki gaped at his sexy Jin-chan. Gaaaaad, Kazuki wanted to take Jin for himself. Ahem, he couldn’t even say or think anything appropriate as he gawked at Jin. Jin’s condition was so seductive. He had his toes pointed inward because he was so embarrassed, which only made him look sexier and damn cute! His dress was so goddamn short that he was actually thinking twice about letting Jin go out there for everyone to feast their eyes on him. Kazuki chuckled at Jin’s uneven stockings. He could definitely fix that in no time.
“Jin-baby! You look super sexy!” Kazuki whistled and drooled.
Jin was pre-occupied from being utterly disturbed in the bathroom, “Kazuki! I have something important to tell you!”
“Oh baby, that can wait.” Kazuki licked his lips. “You forgot a few details.”
Jin took a step back, “W-w-hat are you going to do?”
Kazuki waved a few accessories, “You need to tie white bows to the top of your thigh high stockings and your zipper in the back is still open, hehe. Oh! And this white, lacey headband. The outfit wouldn’t be complete without it.”
Jin gasped, “No, no! I refuse. I’ve already done enough embarrassing things for one day.”
“Come here, Jin-baby!” Kazuki corned Jin against the wall and placed the headband on Jin.
Jin’s eyes widened when Kazuki crouched down and slipped a hand around the top of Jin’s stockings.
“Ah!” Jin shrieked. “Don’t touch me inappropriately!!!”
Kazuki chuckled, “Relax, Jin. I’m making your stockings even and hehe, making them prettier, by tying these white ribbons on them.”
Jin wiggled his legs around, making it difficult for Kazuki to complete his beautiful, French maid, Jin. Because of Jin’s unwillingness to cooperate, Kazuki mischievously grinned and brushed a few fingers between Jin’s inner thighs.
“AHHHH!” Jin squeaked and slapped Kazuki’s perverted hands away. “Can you please zip up my dress???”
“No problem.” Kazuki flashed a devious smile at Jin.
“Only zip my dress. Nothing else.” Jin glared at him with the most adorable menacing stare.
Kazuki inwardly giggled. How could he resist? Jin’s back was completely exposed and the soft, white skin was just asking to be touched. How could Kazuki control his inner beast? Kazuki licked the tip of his finger and traced Jin’s spine. Jin shuddered from Kazuki’s touch, but decided to feign anger at Kazuki.
“Kazuuukiiii.” Jin called out his name in an irritated tone.
“Hehe…” Kazuki kissed the nape of Jin’s neck. “All right, all right. I zipped it. Now can I tie the bows on you?”
Jin huffed. There was just no denying Kazuki was there?
“Fiiiiine.” Jin rolled his eyes as he turned around to face Kazuki again.
Kazuki chewed his lips as he tried to delicately only tie the ribbons around Jin’s luscious thighs. Kazuki closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. This was too much, too much. Several times he thought about ditching this entire competition and just fucking Jin right there and then… but he had to control his urges. He loved Jin for more than that. He adored Jin’s cute, fun personality and that Jin was the only one who could put up with his silly antics.
“Okay, all done. Here is the last thing you need.” Kazuki stood back up and handed Jin the white feather duster.
“Ahhh!” Jin waved the duster at Kazuki’s face. “Why do you have a nosebleed?”
Kazuki touched his upper lip, “Ooo, oops, hee hee.”
“I quit! I quit! You’re perverted.” Jin ran away from Kazuki.
“Okay, guys!” Tora interrupted everyone. “We’re all ready for you! Let’s go and get this party started!”
Everyone in the room cheered as Jin groaned. Kazuki quickly caught up with Jin and ushered him along to follow the rest of the guys to the backstage.
Out in the audience, loud, catchy techno music was keeping the audience in great suspense, but they were soon relieved when Tora sauntered out on stage. The audience quickly quieted down as Tora welcomed the crowd.
“Welcome to PSC’s very first ‘Guess Your Fan’s OTP!’ bonza! In a minute, you’re going to see the pairings your bands have chosen for you. Let’s see if they guessed right. If so, enjoy the show they’re going to present. If not, let’s see if they can convince you to have a new OTP!”
“From SUG!”
Yuji wore small cat ears beside his white, lacey headband as well as cat paws. Chiyu sported his butler suit and he took off his jacket then flung it out into the audience which several fans fought for. Chiyu then jingled the golden bell hanging around his black choker and stroked Yuji’s long cat tail causing Yuji to shiver in response. Fans went wild and Tora encouraged them to scream if they liked this pairing.
The scream meter soared up to 90%.
“From Alice Nine!”
Nao giggled as he shyly walked on stage hugging his flat, vanilla cat in the French maid costume. Shou, clad handsomely in his suit, simply followed Nao out stage. Fans ‘awwwww’ed Nao and cheered for Shou. The scream meter made it to 90%.
“From BORN!”
Kifumi pranced on stage in his French maid costume with small fairy wings attached to his back and he wiggled his butt to the crowd while flapping his wings. Ryouga smirked and shook his head. Kifumi beckoned Ryouga to come over with his white fairy wand to which Ryouga jogged over. Kifumi sprinkled some fairy dust on Ryouga to make their kiss a magical one. The crowd oooo and aaaah then cried out in favor when Ryouga cradled Kifumi in his arms as they kissed.
The scream meter ran up to 95% easily.
“From Gazette!”
Surprisingly, even though Aoi was wearing the butler outfit, he was the one handcuffed by Ruki, the French maid, carrying a whip. Aoi seemed kind of nervous and weary of Ruki, but the fans loved it. They were screaming out their names and dying with anticipation to see what Ruki was going to do to poor Aoi. Ruki cracked the whip on the ground earning well-earned squeals from his audience. Aoi whimpered, shook his head, and feverishly waved his handcuffed hands for Ruki not to do it, but Ruki had the unstoppable impish gleam in his eyes. He motioned for Aoi to turn around and without any choice Aoi obeyed. Then Ruki raised the whip high up and the crowd gasped when Ruki launched the whip forward. Once again, the audience was surprised to find that Ruki used the whip to lasso Aoi into his arms and give him a big kiss for his brave performance.
The crowd broke out into happy cheering and clapping. The scream meter rose to 95%.
“From Kra!”
Keiyuu skipped out to the front of the stage and lifted his black dress to flash everyone his strawberry boxer briefs. Yasuno failed to come fast enough to cover up Keiyuu’s explicit display.
“Sorry! Sorry!” Yasuno bowed to the audience, but the crowd actually loved it. They even chanted for them to kiss.
Yasuno bent down and Keiyuu stepped up on his toes to share a small, chaste kiss. The scream meter flew up to 95%.
“From D=OUT!”
Butler Kouki wheeled Ibuki out on a roller chair with his hands tied behind his back and a gag in his mouth. Ibuki pleaded for help as Kouki playfully rolled Ibuki all around the stage in an abrupt, fast pace. The crowd was screaming for Kouki to stop, but Kouki cupped his ear pretending he couldn’t hear them. The scream meter elevated to 95%!
“From ViViD!”
Reno proudly flaunted his sexy body and lapped danced for the crowd on top of Shin, who was seated in a chair conveniently placed in the middle of the stage. Reno pushed down Shin’s suit jacket and tore off his bow tie to toss aside. Then, with his teeth, he unbuttoned a couple of the buttons on Shin’s dress shirt. The crowd went wild with noise. Reno finally sat on top of Shin’s lap and lustfully kissed Shin leaving Shin slightly breathless with rosy cheeks.
The scream meter was about to burst!
“From SCREW!”
“Let’s go, Jin-baby!” Kazuki scooped up Jin into his arms bridal style since he noticed how nervous Jin had been the entire time the other bands had been called.
“Kazuuuki! Put me dooown!” Jin flailed in his arms, but Kazuki held onto him tightly so Jin wouldn’t fall.
Jin could hear the crowd roaring, whistling, and calling out their names, but he barely registered that as he was more focused on Kazuki leaning closer and closer to his face. His heart was about to explode out of his chest because he was so nervous from Kazuki’s face being nearly a peck away. Jin squeezed his eyes shut when he felt Kazuki’s lips lightly graze his and teasingly chew on his lower lip as they melted into their slow kiss.
Kazuki was nervous as hell, but he was no longer acting. This kiss was real. This act of holding his precious Jin in his arms was more than he could ever ask for. He hoped Jin noticed that this was a moment of truth.
Jin felt butterflies rising into his chest and lifting his heart, but just as he was about to release himself fully into Kazuki’s hold, his eyes popped open when he felt Kazuki give his butt a squeeze. Kazuki secretly winked at him then released their lips.
Jin was falling for him! Could he be imagining Jin relaxing into his arms or was Jin starting to feel more comfortable around him?
Jin’s face burned a deep crimson red. Did anyone in the audience catch that subtle, perverted moment???
The scream meter was well over 100%. They must have…
Tora reappeared on stage, “Well, well, well! It seems that the bands did a good job and treated you fans well! Let’s see if they can rise up to the challenge we’ve prepared for them this afternoon.”
The fans went wild screaming, yelling, and rooting for their favorite bands as the PSC staff scrambled around on stage setting up the props for the first event.
Tora smiled at the crazy crowd, “So! For this event, the pairs are to be sitting facing each other with their hands tied behind their backs and the goal is to be the first pair to finish the designated Twinkie bar. If it drops, that pair is disqualified. And, to be a little more exciting, the first three pairs to finish will be the ones that are going to go to the semi-finals!”
The auditorium became very quiet with anticipation as the other couples encouraged each other to come out on top as they all settled into their positions. Once every couple had the Twinkie bar situated between the lips of each of the couples, Tora gave the green light, “Goooood luck!!!”
Jin was too busy trying to stuff the nasty, spongy cream-filled crap down his throat to notice how any of the other groups were doing. He felt he was going to throw the shit up, when finally he gladly met Kazuki’s lips. For once, he willingly accepted the taste of Kazuki’s sweet lips.
Bleh! That crap was nastier than the traditional medicine his mother used to mysteriously brew for him when he was sick in his younger days. He almost didn’t breathe to try and swallow whole as much of it as the muscles in his throat would let him. In these situations, he might have gotten irritated that Jin only managed to scarf down a fourth of the Twinkie, but it was so gross he was glad to have been able to make three-fourths of it disappear in a jiffy.
Once Kazuki reached Jin’s lips, he didn’t feel satisfied enough, especially after the amount of torture he had to go through just to kiss Jin, so he deviously licked up the cream spread around Jin’s lips. Haha, perhaps the snack was tasty after all.
Jin squirmed his face aside, “Kazuki! I think you’re going to lick up my entire face if you don’t stop.”
Kazuki gave Jin another quick kiss before changing the subject, “Well, how did you like that snack?”
“What do you think? It tasted like fake sugar and cardboard.” Jin stuck out his tongue in disgust.
Kazuki snickered, “Yeah, but the real treat was at the end, right?”
Jin shifted his eyes to the ground. Geez, how did Kazuki always manage to stir the butterflies in his stomach and make his heart run a thousand miles?
“Congratulations to everyone for finishing!” Tora had everyone’s attention on him.
The audience was in a quiet murmur, anxiously anticipating which one of their beloved bands would be able to go to the next round.
“There were many close calls, but the judges have narrowed the decisions down to these lucky three.” Tora slipped out a piece of paper from a rectangular manila envelope.
“Third place is Shou and Nao!”
“Oh my god, Shou!!!” Nao jumped up from his seat, forgetting his hands were still tied, so he brought the entire chair up with him.
Shou shamefully looked away and wistfully glanced over at Tora, who announced,
“Second place is Jin and Kazuki!”
“We won! We won!” Jin surprisingly found himself getting excited about this competition.
“Yes! Only one more event to go and we’re going to win the ultimate prize!” Kazuki celebrated with him.
Jin briefly wondered if they would go back to being just friends after this event.
“First place is Aoi and Ruki!!”
The audience roared with sheer joy as Aoi and Ruki exchanged a deep kiss for all their fans to see. Jin turned his attention away from their overly intimate display of affection then he remembered, they were already a real couple, so this competition was a cake walk for the two of them.
“Kazuki!” Jin suddenly whispered with great urgency.
Kazuki raised his eyebrow and brought his ear closer to Jin to hear what Jin could possibly want to say at this moment.
“They... I don’t know how to prove it… but they’re fake.” Jin lacked confidence as he stated this.
Kazuki thought Jin was just trying to express his jealously at Gazette because they weren’t the winning pair, “Cheer up, Jin! We can defeat them in the next round. Don’t you worry!”
Jin rolled his eyes and groaned. How thick was Kazuki’s head?
“Noooo, I mean, I heard them in the bathroom when they were in the middle of … you know …,” Jin didn’t feel like spelling it out.
Kazuki drew a blank over his face.
“All right, let me explain the next event as our kind staff is cleaning up and preparing the stage.” Tora announced, making it difficult for Kazuki to hear Jin.
“Just spill it out already, Jin. The next event is coming up. I don’t want us to miss the rules.” Kazuki whined.
Jin panicked. He had to tell Kazuki the truth about Aoi and Ruki. It wasn’t fair that everyone else had to sacrifice their dignity to play this ridiculous game, so the two of them could practically waltz out with the prize.
“Aoi and Ruki knew they couldn’t participate because they are a real couple. They’re already together, but they wanted the grand prize, so they pretended they were like all of us, not a couple.” Jin blurted.
Kazuki immediately knew what Jin was trying to say, and before Tora could say another word, Kazuki shouted loud and clear, “The Gazette! They’re fake! They’re fake! Someone disqualify them!”
Tora mouthed to Kazuki, “What are you doing?”
Kazuki didn’t care! He couldn’t stand cheaters. Even if Aoi and Ruki would take him out back and beat the bloody pulp out of him later, he would do anything to make him and Jin won and that Jin didn’t lose his man pride for nothing.
Ruki and Aoi gave Kazuki the evil glare as Tora quickly ushered Kazuki and Jin off stage.
“What the hell are you trying to do?” Tora turned off the mic. “You know I can disqualify you for being a disturbance.”
Jin panicked. Maybe he shouldn’t have said anything. Knowing Kazuki’s hot head, he might say something out of rage and piss Tora off, then they’d for sure lose without even having the chance to properly fight.
But Kazuki surprised Jin. Kazuki wanted so desperately to chew off Tora’s head for being blind to the situation, but he reminded himself of the cost of that decision to their situation, therefore he took a deep breath before he spoke.
“Listen, Tora-senpai, Aoi-senpai and Ruki-senpai were making out in the bathroom when they accidentally revealed that they are, indeed, a real couple that is trying to break the rules to win the grand prize. Go check your sources to confirm I am telling the truth!” Kazuki stood his ground, barely holding his cool.
Tora scrutinized Kazuki’s sudden serious attitude. This was very rare behavior, especially coming from this silly junior of theirs, but Tora had no choice but to further investigate this matter since it was brought to his attention.
The audience was once again shrouded in confusion and mystery as their bands had left the stage empty, so the staff could resolve this rumor before continuing on with the show.
“Is our spot jeopardized?” Jin wringed his hands together as they waited for the final verdict from the staff.
Kazuki took one of Jin’s hands into his then kissed the top of it, “Don’t worry. We did the right thing.”
Jin slowly nodded. He hoped Aoi and Ruki didn’t make that fact up to get them disqualified. That would have been the oldest, dirty trick in the book if that was the case. Kazuki was shaking inside from the possibility of having alarmed everyone for nothing, but at the same time, he believed in Jin for telling the truth.
“Hello, everyone!” Tora reappeared on stage from what seemed like an eternity of waiting.
The crowd was now questioning Tora with ‘eeehhhsss???’ to find out what exactly had happened. Tora sighed as he prepared himself to mention the news, “Cheating is a very frowned upon activity, and we understand how much pressure sometimes a competition can place on people to make the wrong choice. But that does not mean we can accept those wrongdoings. Today, Gazette is stepping out of the race to respect PSC’s wishes therefore the group to replace them is going to be Chiyu and Yuji from SUG!”
Jin and Kazuki gave each other high fives then hugged.
“Sure you guys aren’t cheating, too?” Ruki crept up on them.
“Ahh!” Jin jumped out of Kazuki’s embrace then placed his hands on his hips in an attempt to scare off Ruki, but Ruki scoffed at him.
“You’re pathetic. You are the real dirt bag that overheard our conversation, but had to get your … boyfriend over to be the whistleblower.”
“You- you don’t scare me!” Jin furiously pointed his finger at Ruki, who only continued in his arrogant tone.
“You’re lucky we weren’t messing with you, otherwise you’d have gone down… hard!” Ruki ran the back of his hand under his nose then strutted away, clearly extremely upset.
Aoi only bowed in a weak, meek apology as he dashed off to comfort his lover.
“So what’s the last event, Tora?” Nao waved his hand in the air like those top students that were always asking the teacher questions after every point in the lecture.
“I’m glad you asked!” Tora winked at Nao, to which Shou crossed his arms and looked away.
Tora didn’t understand why Shou had been upset all day. He wondered if maybe he forgot something and Shou was even too annoyed to tell him what the matter was.
Tora had to continue the show. He would try to appease Shou afterwards.
“Right now each of you is being given a brown, paper bag to put over your heads. There will be no holes made in the bag for vision. I believe there’s a nose hole for breathing. We wouldn’t want an incident on the show… for liability purposes, but I don’t need to expand on that. I’m sure we’re all very familiar with those issues.”
As Tora was talking, the staff members were setting up high fences at the edge of the stage.
“Anyway, the way to win this game is to feel for your partner. Don’t use that as an excuse to feel someone up, but you must be able to find your partner using your sense of touch. No talking allowed.”
Each of the couples was lined up on opposite sides of the stage. Jin felt nervous about this ordeal. Feeling around blindly in the dark? That just seemed to be calling out for trouble…
Before Kazuki needed to slip on his brown paper bag, he tried to commit in his mind the place where Jin relatively was, so he could walk straight to Jin and be done with this kind of creepy game.
“Please place on your special hats now!” Tora let them know the game had started.
They all exchanged dubious looks at one another before slipping the brown paper bags over their heads. Jin frowned. The hole for the nose was too high… Damn! Didn’t they know he was short? Did they have to constantly remind him of his inadequate height? Jin ripped a makeshift hole at the real place his nose was located.
At first, Kazuki took big steps towards the direction he originally remembered Jin was located, but it was much harder to keep oriented with his head being enclosed in complete darkness. It also didn’t help that the musty smell of the brown paper bag was itching his nose. The quicker he tried to walk forward, the dizzier and off-balance he felt. He worried if Jin was having the same issue as him.
Jin wasn’t that courageous. He was deathly afraid of falling off stage. Although his band members and he joked about slipping off stage all the time, he really didn’t want that nightmare to become true. Thus, he took baby steps and stretched his arms out as far and wide as he could in hopes of bumping into someone or something.
Kazuki started to get annoyed. Why was he always bumping into this person that definitely wasn’t Jin? The mysterious person’s height was a definite giveaway, and no matter how many times Kazuki tried to push that person away in another direction, somehow the person always came back to find him. Kazuki even tried to turn in other directions just to get away from that person, but he’d always end up bumping right back into him. Kazuki had to clench his fists to prevent himself from yelling out and punching that person.
Jin began to sweat and panic. He knew he hadn’t moved far, but he still hadn’t bumped into anyone. Even if he stubbed his toe against the fence, he would feel more relieved. At least he would have some sense of direction, but nothing. No person, no fence, nothing. Where the hell was he? What was going on? He desperately wanted to rip off his paper bag.
“Ahhhh!” Nao suddenly screamed out.
Everyone froze in spot.
Tora quickly spoke to calm everyone down, “Don’t worry, everyone. Continue looking for your significant other. Shou and Nao, you both need to remove your paper bags and step out of the arena.”
“What??? Why? Have I been disqualified?” Nao whined as he refused to quit the game.
“You broke on of the rules of the game. You’re not supposed to talk.” Tora made his way over to Nao and lifted the brown bag off of Nao’s head.
“The light! It burns!” Nao melodramatically buried his face into Tora’s chest and wrapped his arms around Tora’s waist.
“Whoa, whoa! Take it easy, Nao.” Tora threw his hands up into the air. “Nao, you can let go of me.”
Shou had already ripped off his brown bag and his eyes widened at Nao’s action. All afternoon Nao had been acting sort of silly and he didn’t particularly mind because that was just Nao’s fun personality, but how could Nao hit on his crush?
Nao looked up at Tora and childishly giggled, “You smell good, Tora.”
Tora felt very uncomfortable, “Nao, please remove your hands from me.”
“Why?” Nao pressed his body against Tora, which made Tora flinch backwards.
“Nao! Seriously!” Tora exclaimed.
Shou felt a nerve pop out on his forehead. How dare Nao flirt with Tora? Out of jealousy, he marched over and yanked Nao off of Tora. Nao gasped at Shou’s strong display of strength. Since when was Shou aggressive?
Tora held the mic away from his mouth and tried to whisper softly to Shou, but the mic was sensitive enough to pick it up, “Shou, I know you’re upset at me, but can we talk about this after the show is over? I have been meaning to talk to you all afternoon, but as you can see, I’m sort of in the middle of hosting.”
“Get off!” Kazuki finally lost his cool.
He ripped off the brown paper bag from his head. He had to shake his head to readjust his vision, but he couldn’t believe he ended up diagonally from where he had started.
Kazuki tore off the brown paper bag from Yuji’s head, “You! I knew you weren’t Jin!”
“Yeah, I’m not.” Yuji cutely pursed his lips at Kazuki.
“Then why did you keep bumping into me? Couldn’t you tell I was pushing you away?” Kazuki exasperatingly explained.
Yuji flashed a mischievous grin, “I knew you weren’t Chiyu.”
“What?” Kazuki tried to wrap around his head what just happened. “You were trying to get me disqualified?!”
Yuji rolled his eyes around as he smiled, “I don’t know.”
Kazuki looked behind Yuji and mentally forced himself to count down from ten to not let the anger inside of him boil. Just as Kazuki was about to continue arguing with Yuji, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Jin about to fall off stage because somehow he slipped through a loose part of the fence and ended up outside of the barrier.
“JIIIINNN!” Kazuki dashed over with all his might to grab Jin, who was about to step onto air.
The crowd loudly gasped as Kazuki hurriedly pulled Jin against his chest and stumbled a few feet back onto the safety of the stage.
“Oh god, Jin. Jin. Jin.” Kazuki pulled that dang bag off of Jin’s head and profusely kissed Jin several times on his forehead, his eyes, his cheeks, and his mouth. “Jin… Thank god you’re safe. I almost felt like I was going to die when I saw that you were about to walk off the stage!”
The crowd was making a lot of happy noises, but that all became background noise to Jin. He didn’t know why, but he felt less embarrassed, and rather super happy hearing that Kazuki cared about him so much.
“Thank god you saved me. To think that I was walking so slowly only because I was afraid of falling off stage and to my luck, I was really about to crash to the ground!” Jin shook his head.
Murphy’s law was so unkind to him.
Kazuki laughed, out of relief that Jin was safe and that this dumb game was over.
“You know, Jin,” Kazuki lifted up Jin’s chin, so he could stare straight into those sparkling, dark orbs. “I would never forgive myself if something really did happen to you. I can’t believe I agreed to play such a dangerous, retarded game!”
“But you wanted the year supply of cigarettes.” Jin tried to justify that their effort was worth it.
“No, no, Jin.” Kazuki shook his head.
Out of nowhere, the words finally flowed out of him.
“That wasn’t what I really wanted.” Kazuki confessed. “I want you to be my lover, but I’ve been too embarrassed to ask you out, so if the only way I could be together with you was to pretend to be a couple with you, then I was willing to do it because… because… I was too cowardly to make it real.”
Jin’s eyes widened in surprise. K-kazuki actually liked him, too? Was he hearings things correctly?
Without warning, Kazuki bent down and pressed his lips against Jin’s. Jin could barely believe it. He had been too afraid to confess his feelings to Kazuki because all along he thought that Kazuki would never like someone so plain like him.
An overwhelming wave of cheering, whooping, clapping, and happy noises exploded in the hall. Kazuki and Jin looked up from their private bubble and saw all of their fellow PSC colleagues congratulating them.
Rui walked up to them with Maru-san in his arms, “Congratulations for finally confessing your long repressed feelings for each other.”
“What…?” Kazuki didn’t understand Rui’s meaning.
“There is no yearlong supply of cigarettes. We worked with all the other bands to set this up.” Manabu scoffed.
Jin cracked up. This time it was Kazuki’s turn to blush tomato red.
“Seriously??? We’ve been set up? This whole time?!” Kazuki exclaimed in great disbelief.
“Yup.” Tora crossed his arms and nodded. “Now, you two newlyweds, do us the honor and give us the first dance to celebrate this joyous event!”
“So you weren’t really flirting with Tora?” Jin pointed at Nao.
Nao giggled, “Not really. He’s not exactly my type, haha.”
Shou snorted.
“Shou would have killed Nao if he ever did try to lay a finger on me.” Tora kissed Shou on the cheek, in which Shou softened his angry glare a little as he let Tora placed an arm around his waist.
Aoi and Ruki reappeared on stage, too.
“Our acting was pretty damn good, eh?” Aoi winked at Kazuki, who playfully glared at his senpai.
Kifumi threw the magic dust up in the air signaling for ViViD to begin rocking the hall.
Jin and Kazuki looked at each other and laughed. ‘Weird, but what the hell?’ They both thought, and started boogie dancing to the lively, spirited jazz song.
“I love you, Jin-baby!!!” Kazuki picked up Jin and twirled him around after Jin teasingly shook his booty at Kazuki.
“Arrhhh, put me down!” Jin cried out in embarrassment. “My dress is flipping up!”
“Cute black boxer briefs, but I’m never letting you go.” Kazuki childishly grinned and they exchanged their first deep kiss.
All of the PSC fans didn’t regret paying for that event one bit. They loved to see and be a part of their jrockers journey of finding true love, especially inter-band love.
End~
A/Ns:
Whoo wheee! This story is kind of, umm, I guess... on crack? XDDDDD But it was so fun to write, and I really just had this idea from watching the making of Brainstorm because I loved that part where Kazuki and Jin were dancing together, LOL. Who knew that brief moment would turn into this hot mess? Hehehe.
Please do give me your thoughts on this! Thank you ^^v