random drabbling with Kitti is dangerous to my sanity
"O-chan." Adachi tipped his head back, blinking at Zukki. "There's been a challenge issued."
"... A challenge?" Adachi was confused. Here he was, planning on quitting D-Boys, and there was a challenge?
"From the new Golden Pair." Zukki waved a sheet of paper in front of Adachi's face. "They think they can out-Gold us."
Adachi made a grab for it. "... We weren't exactly the best Golden Pair." He scanned the piece of paper, obviously a blog entry.
"Pfft." Zukki flopped next to Adachi. "We were the best! No one can top you beating me up!"
"But..." Adachi chewed on his bottom lip. "Everyone else said --"
"Haven't I always told you not to worry about what people say?" Araki, popping in out of nowhere, leaned over Adachi's shoulder and snatched the paper away. "What's this?"
"A challenge." Zukki nodded. "Now, where's Kaji? We need the Golden Foursome to top them."
"The WHAT???"
Zukki grinned slyly at Araki from beneath messy bangs.
"The Golden Foursome." Adachi was staring at him incomprehensibly and Zukki motioned to them. "You, me, him, and Kaji! See? We're the perfect double double!"
Araki looked blankly at Zukki. "You're going to have to explain that one a little more, because it whizzed right over me."
"Me too." Adachi blinked a couple of times. Maybe it would make sense if he stood on his head or something? Zukki seemed to think in odd ways.
"Well, Adachin, Kaji, and I are the magnificent Golden Trio." Zukki preened. "But see, a trio's got three people, it's uneven. So Kaji and I were talking, and since Arayan's my bestest friend, and since he and Adachin are like, bestest buddies too..."
"So how does this relate to the challenge issued by Seto and his new friend?" Araki raised an eyebrow.
"They said they could out-Golden Adachin and I." Zukki nodded. "But they never said anything against including other people! And hey, they should know we had the Golden Trio at least. Sheesh, they're so not up on their Prince of Tennis knowledge."
"... I think the new Oishi is actually a fan of the manga." Adachi said. "And still reads it. Unlike a certain someone who got the CliffNotes."
"But don't you think you two can do it on your own?" Araki said with a nod in Adachi's direction.
"Adachin here says we're not the best Golden Pair." Pouting, Zukki latched onto Adachi's shoulders. "And you know how he gets around people! All shy! I think we should be able to pull it off, after Cinepuri and all."
"... Zukki." Adachi's voice was muffled, his face being pressed into the couch. "Can't breathe."
"'Ore-tachi no chikara wo shinjiyou!'" Zukki chirped happily.
"... You're very odd." Araki admitted. "And you can't be a Golden anything if you kill O-chan."
"Who's killing O-chan?"
The three -- or two who weren't being smothered by upholstery, at least -- turned to the newcomer.
"Kaji!" Zukki cheered from the couch, waving him over.
Kaji walked over, careful not to spill the bowl of sweetened cereal he was eating. Adachi took the opportunity to escape while Zukki's one hand had only a loose hold on him.
Zukki pouted, especially when Adachi took refuge behind Araki. Man, and he was this close to getting in a grope and calling it an oopsie. "Kaji, there's been a CHALLENGE!"
"Challenge, ah?" Kaji scratched his stomach, then took the paper when Araki offered it. "... I don't get it."
Adachi, meanwhile, was pondering about how Zukki's hand had started to drift to places he didn't want to think about.
"It's a challenge." Araki clarified, patting Adachi on the back. "Obviously." His hand drifted down, but not too far. He and Zukki had a running bet about who Adachi would confess to first.
"And I think there's food being offered as a prize." Zukki added hurriedly.
"Food?" Kaji grinned. "I'm in!"
Adachi looked up at Kaji and was about to throw out a retort that it was his and Zukki's challenge, but then a certain tingle by his lower back stopped the words. With a hurried apology, he reached into his back pocket for his cellphone. He decided to ignore that Araki's hand was practically in the way.
Adachi's phone was set to vibrate. Zukki definitly had to remember that.
"So." Seto grinned at Takki. "Are you guys in?"
"In?" Adachi blinked. Zukki, guessing who was on the phone, snatched it away. "Oha!" he greeted Seto.
"Oha~!" Seto sang back.
Takki blinked in confusion, mouthing "Oha?"
Seto mouthed an "I'll explain later" and turned his attention back to the phone.
"So. When's this challege taking place? Your memo was lacking details!" Zukki bounced a little in his seat, ignoring Araki's near-groping of his Adachi.
Kaji grumped as he slurped down the sugary milk at the bottom of his cereal bowl. "And what food will be the prize?"
"You're asking for details already, Zukki? Don't you and Adachi need to, you know, practice?"
"Practice?" Zukki asked shrilly. Araki winced. "Practice?" Kaji blinked. "Don't you and what's-his-name need to? You guys haven't even had a scene together."
Araki patted Adachi's back, fingers lightly grazing his waistband. Adachi, sweet as he was, didn't want to suddenly jump up and run to the other side of the room and make Araki look bad, so he settled for squirming slightly in his seat. Which didn't help his case. At all.
Araki sorta liked squirmy Adachi. It gave him good mental images, and judging from Zukki's glare, the other knew what he was thinking. Araki smirked superiorly and tipped his nose into the air a little.
Zukki turned his attention back to the conversation, realizing that he had lost track of it when he was busy formulating the fortieth of his forty-one ways to get back at Araki.
Seto ignored the callous reference to Takki. "Oh, I'm getting all the practice I want. What about Adachi?"
"... Is that what they call this type of thing?" Takki asked as he sat up in the bed, blushing a little when he realized he was completely naked. "And where'd you put the Eiji boxers?"
Seto grinned at Takki. There was no need to tell him that the sex part of being the Golden Pair was really all tennis innuendo. "If you want we could get this over with quickly. It'll make your defeat less pathetic." He waved upward, motioning to where the boxers were hanging off the ceiling fan. Takki glanced upward and went to get his mop.
Seto tried to pay attention to what Zukki was saying. Really, Takki's arse was so... Distracting. Takki got the mop, using it to get his boxers down.
"We aren't the ones who'll be defeated." Zukki said and Kaji waved his fist in the air, obviously agreeing with him. Araki rolled his eyes and Adachi just looked... blank.
"In fact... We'll Golden you into the ground!"
"... That just sounds weird, Zukki." Araki tucked his hands into his pockets, letting Adachi move away if he wanted. Adachi secretly agreed, but Zukki and Kaji were having so much fun saying it that he didn't exactly want to ruin their happiness. Oh well. Nutters will be nutters.
"You couldn't Golden us out the front door." Seto stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes, earning an amused glance from Takki.
"The front door of what, precisely?" Ohoho, Zukki knew a challenge when he read (and in this new case, heard) one.
Seto was about to say "Takki's apartment" but caught himself. Uh-uh, no need to tell them what sort of practicing he and Takki did to get their own Synchro just right.
Instead he spouted off the address of a karaoke place.
"... Uh." Zukki blinked. "No. How about..." He named a bowling alley with a smirk.
"BOWLING???" Araki looked at Zukki in shock, then at Adachi. That arm would break in all of four seconds. Four and a half, if Adachi was lucky.
"...I don't bowl." Adachi admitted.
"Neither do I, but it sounds like fun though!" Kaji quipped, completely ignoring that this was a Golden Pair thing.
"Hey, is that Kaji?" Seto asked. "You can invite him along!" Maybe they could make this a 3rdCast versus 2ndCast thing. Except where would that put Aiba? With them, of course -- they'd tie Aiba to the bowling alley chairs if needed.
"But I thought this was going to be a Golden Pair thing," Takki said. "We'd have to take Shinpei along if they're bringing Kaji, right?"
"And Shinpei's still blushing about kissing Tomo." Seto sighed. Shinpei and Tomo had been impossible since then.
"He what???" came the outburst from the other end of the line. Oops. Maybe forgetting to cover the mouthpiece wasn't a smart move.
"Who what?" Adachi blinked at Zukki.
"Tomo kissed Shinpei!"
"Ehh???"
"... Who?" Kaji asked, confused.
"Tomo. Kissed. Shinpei. Momoshiro/Kaidoh canon, Kaji!" Zukki flung the phone at Araki, who caught it, and clutched Kaji to himself.
A mental image of himself and Kujirai flashed unbidden through Kaji's mind and, scared by it, Kaji clutched Zukki back. Zukki patted Kaji's back. Adachi pointedly looked away.
"Hey." Araki said into the phone.
"Hello, Araki-san." Seto greeted with a small blush. Takki's eyes narrowed a little.
"Araki-san?" One perfect eyebrow shot up, but Seto brushed it off.
Seto had a small crush, nothing to worry about. Takki was sexier. Naked, anyway.
"So... Bowling, huh." Pathetic attempt at small talk, yes, but seeing as Zukki had his hands full -- literally -- and Adachi was currently pretending to not be in the same room, Araki had to do something, right?
Well, he could go and use his own hands to coax Adachi back from wherever it was that he wandered off to, but that was different.
Seto was enthusiastic though, and it wasn't just because Takki's hands were running down his still-bare arms and raising goosebumps in their wake.
"That's a Seigaku thing right?" Seto questioned. Takki was nodding at him so he guessed so. "Everyone else seems to play pool though." He wiggled a little when Takki's hand moved to running up and down his thighs.
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EDIT: Thank you, mojotmonkey, for pointing out the magic of my copy-paste. XDDD
Gah. I wanna finish writing this, I really do. Naughty Seto is fun.
Re-read it. And like I said before, I don't have a janitor fetish but I'm willing to make an exception for Takki. *goes back to staring at Takki's RikkaiMyu photoset*