Good Morning, Mr. Hyde, Today I'm Gonna Rock Your World 4A
Title: Good Morning, Mr. Hyde, Today I’m Gonna Rock Your World - Chapter 4A
Author: Mayonaka no Taiyou/ unare_haineko
Pairing: hyde x tetsu
Rating: R-ish overall, but again, this chapter’s definitely NC-17…
Summary: Hyde is having marital problems and Tetsu decides to exploit the opportunity to address his longtime obsession with Hyde.
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After a lengthy shower that amazingly had not resulted in anything more than a heavy make out session, Hyde and Tetsu emerged from the bathroom, clean for the second time that day.
“Tetsu, I’m hungry,” grumbled Hyde, towel drying his hair and combing it with his fingers.
“But you were eating all that cake with Yuki-“
“I know, but we haven’t eaten anything substantial in like the last 24 hours. Aren’t you hungry?”
“Not really,” Tetsu replied, buttoning his shirt. “Do you want to go out?”
“Nah, too much work to get ready…” Hyde sighed as he wandered out of the bedroom wearing nothing but one of Tetsu’s oversized shirts.
“Put some pants on,” said Tetsu, grabbing a pair out of his closet.
“What?! Whyyyyy?” Hyde grumbled as he walked over to complete his attire. “I thought we’re not going anywhere-“
“Don’t tempt me with that ass of yours.”
“Fineeee,” Hyde conceded covering the bottom half of his body up.
“Whoa, okay, we better clean this up,” Tetsu laughed, as he surveyed the damage to his kitchen.
Clothes were everywhere and bottles were knocked over (thankfully not spilled). The cakes were still on the counter with the victims of Tetsu’s collision still hanging out exposed to the air.
“We made a mess, huh,” Hyde commented, joining Tetsu in the kitchen.
“Yeah…Well it’s okay. You wanna cook or you wanna clean this up?” Tetsu asked.
“Is your pantry stocked?”
“Meat in the freezer, some fruits and vegetables, stuff in the cupboards….yeah, I’d say it wouldn’t be hard to put something together-“
“You know what, Tetsu? I’m not leaving you in charge of the food,” Hyde said opening some cupboards. “You clean up, I’ll start the first meal of the day-“
“Okay,” Tetsu said, picking up the dirty clothes off the floor and tossing them across the room into the hamper outside the bathroom. “What, you don’t trust my cooking?”
“To be honest, no,” Hyde said, grabbing an onion, some carrots, and some potatoes out of the refrigerator.
“Whyyyy??” Tetsu said, with a pitiful look on his face.
“You serve me stuff like cheese and crackers with alcohol, and get me drunk so you can have your way with me,” Hyde said, chopping up the onion quickly and throwing it into a large pot to sauté.
“But you liked it-“ Tetsu grinned, as he put the salvageable desserts in the refrigerator and sent the rest off to a decent burial in the trash bin.
“That’s not the point,” Hyde said, giving the onions a quick stir and turning on the rice cooker before chopping up the carrots and potatoes. “Here, wipe the counter with this.”
Hyde handed Tetsu a bunch of dampened paper towels with which to clean up the disaster known as the countertop.
“Have you got an apron? I don’t wanna get your clothes dirty.”
“Uh…yeah…” Tetsu said, opening some of the drawers. “I know I had some here somewhere….hmm….oh here.”
Tetsu retrieved a frilly white apron that looked more appropriate for a French maid cosplay than actual cooking and held it up next to a pink flowered apron that did not look half bad had Hyde been a cutesy housewife, not been a man pushing 40.
“I’ve got this one here and this pink one my sister gave me as a joke one year. Which one do you want?”
Hyde poured some water into the pot and added several brown cubes of powdered spice.
“Tetsu, that’s French maid apron and a pink housewife’s apron. Don’t you have anything practical?”
“When I cook, I don’t use an apron. Which one do you want?”
“I guess the pink one will have to do…” Hyde sighed.
“Want me to help you put it on?” asked Tetsu.
“Yeah, come over here and tie my hair up too,” Hyde instructed, as he stirred the bubbling concoction.
Hyde held his arms out so that Tetsu could assist him. Of course Tetsu couldn’t resist sneaking in a few gropes and kisses in between.
“You’re so hot when you get all androgynous on me,” Tetsu whispered huskily as he took a handkerchief and tied the triangle at the nape of Hyde’s neck. “I think I like Hyde the housewife…I think it might make for super hot kinky sex-”
Hyde rolled his eyes and glared at Tetsu.
“You just wanted to see me like this, didn’t you?” Hyde accused. “Which reminds me, pass me that phone.”
“Huh? Okay, why?” Tetsu asked.
“Dial 03.”
“03…”
“9021…”
“90…2…1…”
“6329.”
“62…3…9…Whose number is that?”
“Put it right here,” Hyde said, motioning to the crook of his neck.
“Okay.”
“Hello? Hello, Rei?…It’s Papa. Where’s Mama?” Hyde asked. “Yeah, go get Mama and give her the phone….Hello? Megu. It’s me-“
Tetsu heard cursing and screaming for about 20 seconds before Hyde was allowed to speak.
“Uh, yeah…I lost my cell phone-“
More screaming.
“Yeah, well, I’ll get another one….Sorry….”
More yelling.
“Where have I been?…Oh, well, I think I might’ve caught something…no, not a cold…I’ve got this red…uh, rash…on my uh, neck…”
Tetsu who had been drinking a glass of water nearly choked as he tried to refrain from laughing.
“…uh, yeah, I don’t think it’s contagious. It might be an allergic reaction to something…Um, it’s on other parts of my body, some bruising, but I think it’ll go away in a few days….No, I haven’t been to the hospital yet….You don’t want me to come home…? Rei’s under the weather…? Weak immune system…? Well, I guess his doctor knows best….I’ll just crash at Tetsu’s til Rei gets better…Yeah, okay, well, I’ll call you when I get my new cell. Okay…bye.”
“You sneaky…” Tetsu grinned, kissing Hyde’s neck. “Red rash on your neck…how do you come up with these things?”
“Get your lips away from my neck, you stupid suckerfish,” Hyde said, fighting off Tetsu’s advances with the soup ladle. “I seem to recall that this was all your fault. If you hadn’t given me that gigantic ass hickey on my neck, I wouldn’t have had to lie-“
“Lie?” Tetsu said innocently. “Where was the lie in all of this? I mean, isn’t an allergy just a hypersensitivity to something?”
“In this case, to what?” Hyde asked skeptically.
“To my lips on your skin,” Tetsu smiled, kissing Hyde right on the lips.
“You bastard,” Hyde said, kissing back before breaking away. “Let me cook without distractions. Go finish cleaning up the kitchen.”
“Yes, dear,” Tetsu giggled, bowing. “Oh, darling, I’m so excited about the first meal you’re cooking for me-“
“Shut up, Tetsu, before I roundhouse you.”
“Okay, no need to get all defensive, kung fu master. Can I help it if I’m totally stoked about the idea of someone cooking for me?”
“What, your girlfriends never cook for you before?” Hyde asked, cocking one eyebrow.
“No…we’d usually just order out,” Tetsu shrugged, grabbing some bowls and spoons out of the cabinets. “I think it was a status thing. You know, they want you to impress them…They’d never offer; I’d never ask. I bet Megumi’s a good cook though, huh?”
“Are you kidding?” Hyde scoffed as he turned down the heat and began cleaning up the sink. “Megu can barely boil water. The woman tried to fry an egg for breakfast one morning…with water instead of oil…then there was the time she tried to make Rei’s bento for the picnic we were supposed to go on…sugar in the rice balls, too much shoyu in the stir-fried ginger pork…”
“Well, at least she tried…”
“I guess, I think it was more to show how much more feminine and motherly she was…”
“Feminine and motherly? Hyde, what the fuck is that supposed to mean?”
“Oh, I didn’t tell you, did I? Well, Megu and I had a fight-well as you and everyone pretty much know, Megu and I fight…a lot…about everything…”
“Uh huh…”
“And well, we had a fight about…well, this is kinda embarrassing…” Hyde said, suddenly finding the curry to be very interesting.
“About what?”
“God, this outfit makes it that much more embarrassing…” Hyde sighed and turned to face Tetsu. “About how I am too feminine…”
Tetsu’s jaw dropped. He looked at Hyde, who seemed to be making a serious effort not to blush in embarrassment.
“Too feminine?”
“Yeah, I know, it’s pretty embarrassing-“
“Wait, hold on. What precipitated this?”
“Tetsu, you really know how to kick a guy when he’s down don’t you?” Hyde said, turning back to his curry and dishes.
“Whaaat?” Tetsu said, hopping off the counter and scampering over to Hyde to smooth over his faux pas. “I’m sorry, did I say something wrong?”
“No,” sighed Hyde. “It’s not like you knew or anything…God, Tetsu, you’re such a dick for being so perceptive! Okay, so basically, it was Megu, Rei, and I at home one night. I was sitting on the couch, writing lyrics ….Megu was I dunno, somewhere in the kitchen I think. Rei was watching TV. You know how he likes to watch the music channel?”
“Yeah, I remember you telling me that.”
“Well, go figure, some program was doing a ‘back to the 90’s special’ or something, a countdown of musical figures that have made some sort of impact on the industry. So, they honor L’Arc~en~Ciel. We’ve been a group for over 15 years. So they show footage of some of the new stuff, which Rei recognizes. He sings and dances. Then they count backwards to some of our old stuff…”
“I think I see where this is heading…”
“Well, so they manage to dig up some old concert footage of us in our Indies days…”
“So what happened?” Tetsu asked, heaping some steaming rice into the bowls.
“Well, there’s a bunch of shots with us with our long hair and pretty clothes and Rei goes up to Megu and says something like ‘Mama, Mama, I think the prettiest person in the world is that Papa on the TV screen.’”
“HE SAID THAT?!” Tetsu said, nearly dropping the bowls on the counter in shock.
“Yeah,” Hyde said, ladling the curry into the bowls. “Oh, and that wasn’t even the real kicker. Rei goes on, ‘Mama, will I be as pretty as Papa when I grow up? I wanna have a gorgeous perm like Papa and wear pretty clothes too!’…Yeah, he said that…”
“What did Megumi say?”
“She pretty much flew off the handle,” Hyde said, handing Tetsu a bowl and spoon before turning off the stove. “It was bad enough that Rei was implying that I was prettier than she was. Then he had to really go and piss her off by wanting to emulate the V-kei androgynous me of the early 90’s. I can’t help it if my face shape is aesthetically more pleasing to a child than hers is! Nor can I help it that my eyebrows have a nicer natural arch than hers, or that my skin glows with more youth than hers, or that I have more curves than she does!”
“Or that your ass is nicer than hers!”
“Yeah! …Hey!” Hyde glared at Tetsu.
“Did you really tell her all that?”
“No. But I was thinking it while she was screaming her head off.”
“Well, you can’t help it if it’s true. Not that I’ve touched her ass, since she’s not really my type. But based on experience. I know for a fact, you have a very nice body,” Tetsu said, leaning over to kiss Hyde before he took the seat opposite him. “Looks good!”
Tetsu took a spoonful of the thick curry and a bit of rice. Blowing on it to make sure he did not end up stupidly burning his tongue, he raised the heaping spoonful to his lips and partook what he deemed Hyde’s culinary masterpiece.
“THIS IS FUCKING FANTASTIC!! MARRY ME, HYDE!” he praised, blowing on another spoonful and shoveling a potato into his mouth. “Where did you learn to cook like this?!”
“Tetsu, it’s curry rice…it’s one of the simplest-”
“Hyde, curry rice is one of my favorite dishes!” Tetsu gushed, happily shoveling more down his throat. “If there was one dish I wished my mother would have made for me when I was a kid, it would have been curry rice! My family hated curry, so we never had it, but I’d always order it when I ate out. I’m soooo happy! Whenever I try to make it, it never turns out good, but this-this tastes fucking fantastic! How did you do it?!”
Hyde watched as Tetsu sang more praises between half full mouths of curry. He was stunned how easily Tetsu was placated. Tetsu had been moved by someone making his favorite childhood dish. Hyde had not realized it was Tetsu’s favorite food. His decision to make curry was based on purely the ingredients he saw in the cupboards and refrigerator. However, while it made him happy that Tetsu liked his cooking, it made him sad at the same time as the realization that he did not know Tetsu as well as the bassist knew him sunk in.
Tetsu knew everything from his birthday and blood type, his favorite food, about his family, his tastes in music, fashion, art, and even down to how to cheer him up when he was down. Hyde was almost certain Tetsu knew Hyde better than he knew himself. Hyde was amazed that Tetsu knew down to the exact number of links on the wristband of the watch he bought, so that the diameter was the same as all his other watches. Hyde liked the wristband a little snug-just enough for it to slide maybe a few centimeters. Tetsu had gotten it down to the exact link. Hyde, on the other hand, on a Tetsu test probably would have failed. He did not even know that his favorite food was curry rice.
“Aren’t you gonna eat?” Tetsu asked, his cheek bulging on one side as he chewed on the carrot. “It’s gonna get cold if you just sit there with your mouth open….Unless you’re extending an invitation…”
Tetsu moved in and stared at Hyde expectantly.
“Get back over there and finish your curry, you pervert,” Hyde said, crossing one leg and effectively turning away from Tetsu. “All we’ve been doing is sleeping and having sex. Leave me to my food-”
“Okay, I see. You need your energy so we can have MORE SEXERCISE!” Tetsu declared gleefully as he ran to get seconds. “In that case, don’t let me stand in the way of your nourishment-“
“Tetsu? Do you hear that?” Hyde said, perking up.
“What?”
“I think your cell is vibrating.”
“Really, I don’t hear anything-“
“I can hear it rattling on the dresser. Go answer it, it might be important-“
“Yes, dear,” Tetsu smirked, to Hyde, who instantly yanked the handkerchief on his head and the apron off, realizing he still had them on.
“Shut up and go get that.”
Tetsu returned several moments later still on the phone with a duffel bag.
“Uh oh…” he said, deleting the voice mail on his phone and calling the number. “Hello, it’s me…I’m sorry…I forgot…I’ll be there in 20 minutes…Bye…”
“What’s up?”
“I forgot I said I was gonna baby sit for my sister…my brother-in-law’s…uh, someone…I don’t remember….passed away. They’ve gotta go to Toyama to pay their respects…”
“They’re not taking the kids?”
“No, apparently it’s a distant relative. They’re only going to show face. Overnight. They’ll be back tomorrow….”
“Well, you better go then. Don’t worry, I’ll clean up. I won’t trash the place or anything.”
“I’m sorry,” Tetsu said guiltily.
“-t’s okay,” Hyde shrugged. “Not like I could’ve gone home-not with a hickey this big on my jaw here. I doubt even stage makeup could’ve saved me on this one…What?”
“Nuthin’…” Tetsu said, shuffling about the kitchen after having finished his curry.
“What? I’m not gonna be offended that you had to baby sit for the night,” Hyde said, placing his hands on his hips.
“It’s not that…”
“A bit lonely perhaps…”
Hyde sauntered over to Tetsu and cupped his chin in his hands. Pressing his body against Tetsu’s, he gave Tetsu a deep kiss before stepping away.
“But I’m sure I’ll be fine,” Hyde said. “Go on, they’re waiting for you.”
“Hyde-never mind…”
“Are you worried that I might not be here when you come back? Don’t worry. I’ll be here. I promise, oh wait-we have practice tomorrow, right? I guess I’ll just meet you at the studio then.”
“Yeah, okay…right…I guess I’ll be off then,” Tetsu walked to the door.
“See you tomorrow,” Hyde waved as Tetsu closed the door behind him.
After Tetsu left, Hyde cleaned up the kitchen and decided he might feel inspired to write some lyrics. He locked up the main floor and headed down into the basement. He came to the door to the largest room on the basement level, Tetsu’s music room. The room itself was actually half the total space available for that floor split into a bunch of smaller rooms that could technically be opened up into one large auditorium-like room.
Hyde had been in there several times, but he really had not been paying attention. This time he noted that Tetsu had this room organized extremely well. Within his soundproof mini music studio, he had a room for all his stringed instruments, a room with a keyboard and a bunch of other state of the art musical gadget-like equipment like mixers and recording devices, an open room, and a modest sized room at the corner of the house that had every imaginable thing someone who wanted to be inspired could want.
The ‘inspiration room’ as Hyde dubbed it, had about 30 varieties of incense, a plug-in fountain that simulated the sound of a babbling brook complete with the option of wild bird and cricket accompaniment, a couch with several blankets draped over the arms, a hard wood desk set, large speakers with a rack of two or three hundred CDs ranging from classical to Euro pop and techno, a well stocked mini bar, dimmable lighting fixtures, adjustable climate control and for some reason, a small microwave. On the desk was a can of pencils and pens, a rack that contained several clipboards, and stackable file trays that held blank paper, lined paper, and blank staff paper for composing. Hyde helped himself to a pen, a clipboard, some blank paper and a sheet of staff paper before settling on the couch.
He tapped his pen on the clipboard as he allowed his thoughts to wander. He must have dozed off since the next thing he remembered was getting up to answer the phone. There was no phone in the inspiration room, but Hyde followed the sound to the telephone Tetsu had next to the stringed instrument collection.
“Hello?”
“Hyde?”
“Oh, Tetsu? What time is it…whoa, it’s already 11:30…What’s up?”
Deciding he was too lazy to hold the phone, Hyde turned it on speakerphone as he went to get his clipboard.
“Oh…nothing much…I’m bored and I can’t sleep…”
“What happened to the kids?”
“They went to sleep like 3 hours ago.”
“What’ve you been doing then?”
“I was channel surfing, but that got boring.”
“Don’t they have porn or something?”
“Eww….this is my sister and her family we’re talking about!”
“Oh, sorry…”
“But I checked anyway. They don’t have anything. If they’ve got anything, it’s hidden really well…”
“What about the TV?”
“Everything’s on parental lock and I don’t know the code. It’s 8 digits, so I wasn’t that desperate that I wanted to try…”
“So what have you been doing?”
“Well, I thought I’d go on the internet, but the computer asks for a password…”
“Any books?”
“No…they don’t have anything in their house. Everything’s pretty much been child-proofed, is about child-rearing, or is supposed to stimulate the development of good children….There is nothing to do here except stare at the ceiling. I knew I should’ve brought something to do.”
“Are you tired?”
“Not really. I mean, I woke up at noon today. I’m not really ready to sleep. I was gonna take a night cap out of sheer boredom, but of course, no alcohol here.”
“No toys to play with?”
“No…they’re still in elementary school and with a mother like my sister, it’s not like they’d have a Wii or a PSP or anything. My nephew’s gonna be 8 this year. I thought he might be into toy cars or something, but he wants to be a cop when he grows up, so there’s all this law enforcement related toys like the hat, the uniform, handcuffs, the flashing lights, megaphone…My niece is 6. She’s really into animals, especially cats. Everything’s got kittens on it-well, kittens and fairies. She’s got these feathered wings she likes to wear around the house with her fluffy cat ears…”
“What does she want to be when she grows up?”
“A nurse.”
“A nurse?!”
“Yeah. Said she wants to be a nurse-sorta like an angel from heaven.”
“With the wings?”
“I guess so…I was debating whether to tell her about that massive tattoo on your back. But I think she might have been freaked out, so I didn’t.”
“Good thinking, Tetsu.”
“So yeah, no porn, no TV, no alcohol, no fun toys-“
“Welcome to my world, Tetsu, the life of a married man…”
Tetsu sighed loudly on the other end.
“Too bad I wasn’t there,” Hyde said, embellishing a treble clef with a few random lines. “I bet that even though there wasn’t a whole lot at the house, we could’ve had some pretty kinky role playing sex…”
“Role playing sex?”
“Sure, one of us could be the prisoner, handcuffed and being interrogated by the police officer…or the nurse…taking care of the needs of the patient…or even, cat ear sex. Yeah, I bet that would’ve been really odd, but really hot…I’m amazed the inner pervert in you, Tetsu, of all people didn’t try to con me into it. Or was it your plan to get me to suggest it?”
Hyde scribbled the finishing touches to a detailed drawing of a maple leaf.
“Tetsu…? Hello, Tetsu…?”
“…Why is it that we aren’t even in the same room and you manage to make me hard? I’m not even looking at you and I’m getting hard. I’ve got a raging hard on from hearing your voice over the phone. Fuck…”
“What we see with our mind’s eye is many times more powerful than what we taken in with our physical eyes. Such is the power of our imaginations.”
“Is that from a song?”
“No, I made it up just now. Tetsu,” Hyde crooned. “Do you want me to help you take care of it?”
“You’re half an hour away and it’s almost 12:30 in the morning…as much as I appreciate the offer-“
“Tetsu, sometimes, you completely miss the point. You can hear me right?”
“Yeah…”
“You got a free hand right?”
“Yeah…”
“Well, close your eyes and imagine me in front of you…unzipping your pants…releasing your cock…Is he hard and oozing at the tip with precum?”
“Yes…” Tetsu breathed.
“Good…now what do you want me to do to you?”
“You want me to beg?”
“No…not today, you can pledge your undying allegiance to me another time ….Picture me in your mind…Now, do you want me to suck you off?”
“Yes!”
“Lick the tip and then take your cock in my hot mouth?”
“YES!”
“Work it down my throat and then graaaaaazzzze my teeth as I come back up?”
“YES!!”
“Suck then squeeeeze your balls as I give you more head?”
“YES, YES!!” he hissed.
“Yes, who?”
“Yes, Hyde!”
“Hyde what?”
“Hyde-sama!!”
“Then start whacking you off until the friction and speed overwhelm your senses and you-“
“Nnnnggaaaahhh-“
“Cum…”
“You…play…dirty…”
“I know, I learned from the best…Night, Tetsu, see you tomorrow.”
“Mmmphhh…pervert…”
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Author: Mayonaka no Taiyou/ unare_haineko
Pairing: hyde x tetsu
Rating: R-ish overall, but again, this chapter’s definitely NC-17…
Summary: Hyde is having marital problems and Tetsu decides to exploit the opportunity to address his longtime obsession with Hyde.
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WARNING! The author has rated this chapter NC-17 for sexually explicit content. If you are offended by this kind of content, proceed no further. If you have reached this page in error, please click on the ‘Back’ button of your browser at this time.
After a lengthy shower that amazingly had not resulted in anything more than a heavy make out session, Hyde and Tetsu emerged from the bathroom, clean for the second time that day.
“Tetsu, I’m hungry,” grumbled Hyde, towel drying his hair and combing it with his fingers.
“But you were eating all that cake with Yuki-“
“I know, but we haven’t eaten anything substantial in like the last 24 hours. Aren’t you hungry?”
“Not really,” Tetsu replied, buttoning his shirt. “Do you want to go out?”
“Nah, too much work to get ready…” Hyde sighed as he wandered out of the bedroom wearing nothing but one of Tetsu’s oversized shirts.
“Put some pants on,” said Tetsu, grabbing a pair out of his closet.
“What?! Whyyyyy?” Hyde grumbled as he walked over to complete his attire. “I thought we’re not going anywhere-“
“Don’t tempt me with that ass of yours.”
“Fineeee,” Hyde conceded covering the bottom half of his body up.
“Whoa, okay, we better clean this up,” Tetsu laughed, as he surveyed the damage to his kitchen.
Clothes were everywhere and bottles were knocked over (thankfully not spilled). The cakes were still on the counter with the victims of Tetsu’s collision still hanging out exposed to the air.
“We made a mess, huh,” Hyde commented, joining Tetsu in the kitchen.
“Yeah…Well it’s okay. You wanna cook or you wanna clean this up?” Tetsu asked.
“Is your pantry stocked?”
“Meat in the freezer, some fruits and vegetables, stuff in the cupboards….yeah, I’d say it wouldn’t be hard to put something together-“
“You know what, Tetsu? I’m not leaving you in charge of the food,” Hyde said opening some cupboards. “You clean up, I’ll start the first meal of the day-“
“Okay,” Tetsu said, picking up the dirty clothes off the floor and tossing them across the room into the hamper outside the bathroom. “What, you don’t trust my cooking?”
“To be honest, no,” Hyde said, grabbing an onion, some carrots, and some potatoes out of the refrigerator.
“Whyyyy??” Tetsu said, with a pitiful look on his face.
“You serve me stuff like cheese and crackers with alcohol, and get me drunk so you can have your way with me,” Hyde said, chopping up the onion quickly and throwing it into a large pot to sauté.
“But you liked it-“ Tetsu grinned, as he put the salvageable desserts in the refrigerator and sent the rest off to a decent burial in the trash bin.
“That’s not the point,” Hyde said, giving the onions a quick stir and turning on the rice cooker before chopping up the carrots and potatoes. “Here, wipe the counter with this.”
Hyde handed Tetsu a bunch of dampened paper towels with which to clean up the disaster known as the countertop.
“Have you got an apron? I don’t wanna get your clothes dirty.”
“Uh…yeah…” Tetsu said, opening some of the drawers. “I know I had some here somewhere….hmm….oh here.”
Tetsu retrieved a frilly white apron that looked more appropriate for a French maid cosplay than actual cooking and held it up next to a pink flowered apron that did not look half bad had Hyde been a cutesy housewife, not been a man pushing 40.
“I’ve got this one here and this pink one my sister gave me as a joke one year. Which one do you want?”
Hyde poured some water into the pot and added several brown cubes of powdered spice.
“Tetsu, that’s French maid apron and a pink housewife’s apron. Don’t you have anything practical?”
“When I cook, I don’t use an apron. Which one do you want?”
“I guess the pink one will have to do…” Hyde sighed.
“Want me to help you put it on?” asked Tetsu.
“Yeah, come over here and tie my hair up too,” Hyde instructed, as he stirred the bubbling concoction.
Hyde held his arms out so that Tetsu could assist him. Of course Tetsu couldn’t resist sneaking in a few gropes and kisses in between.
“You’re so hot when you get all androgynous on me,” Tetsu whispered huskily as he took a handkerchief and tied the triangle at the nape of Hyde’s neck. “I think I like Hyde the housewife…I think it might make for super hot kinky sex-”
Hyde rolled his eyes and glared at Tetsu.
“You just wanted to see me like this, didn’t you?” Hyde accused. “Which reminds me, pass me that phone.”
“Huh? Okay, why?” Tetsu asked.
“Dial 03.”
“03…”
“9021…”
“90…2…1…”
“6329.”
“62…3…9…Whose number is that?”
“Put it right here,” Hyde said, motioning to the crook of his neck.
“Okay.”
“Hello? Hello, Rei?…It’s Papa. Where’s Mama?” Hyde asked. “Yeah, go get Mama and give her the phone….Hello? Megu. It’s me-“
Tetsu heard cursing and screaming for about 20 seconds before Hyde was allowed to speak.
“Uh, yeah…I lost my cell phone-“
More screaming.
“Yeah, well, I’ll get another one….Sorry….”
More yelling.
“Where have I been?…Oh, well, I think I might’ve caught something…no, not a cold…I’ve got this red…uh, rash…on my uh, neck…”
Tetsu who had been drinking a glass of water nearly choked as he tried to refrain from laughing.
“…uh, yeah, I don’t think it’s contagious. It might be an allergic reaction to something…Um, it’s on other parts of my body, some bruising, but I think it’ll go away in a few days….No, I haven’t been to the hospital yet….You don’t want me to come home…? Rei’s under the weather…? Weak immune system…? Well, I guess his doctor knows best….I’ll just crash at Tetsu’s til Rei gets better…Yeah, okay, well, I’ll call you when I get my new cell. Okay…bye.”
“You sneaky…” Tetsu grinned, kissing Hyde’s neck. “Red rash on your neck…how do you come up with these things?”
“Get your lips away from my neck, you stupid suckerfish,” Hyde said, fighting off Tetsu’s advances with the soup ladle. “I seem to recall that this was all your fault. If you hadn’t given me that gigantic ass hickey on my neck, I wouldn’t have had to lie-“
“Lie?” Tetsu said innocently. “Where was the lie in all of this? I mean, isn’t an allergy just a hypersensitivity to something?”
“In this case, to what?” Hyde asked skeptically.
“To my lips on your skin,” Tetsu smiled, kissing Hyde right on the lips.
“You bastard,” Hyde said, kissing back before breaking away. “Let me cook without distractions. Go finish cleaning up the kitchen.”
“Yes, dear,” Tetsu giggled, bowing. “Oh, darling, I’m so excited about the first meal you’re cooking for me-“
“Shut up, Tetsu, before I roundhouse you.”
“Okay, no need to get all defensive, kung fu master. Can I help it if I’m totally stoked about the idea of someone cooking for me?”
“What, your girlfriends never cook for you before?” Hyde asked, cocking one eyebrow.
“No…we’d usually just order out,” Tetsu shrugged, grabbing some bowls and spoons out of the cabinets. “I think it was a status thing. You know, they want you to impress them…They’d never offer; I’d never ask. I bet Megumi’s a good cook though, huh?”
“Are you kidding?” Hyde scoffed as he turned down the heat and began cleaning up the sink. “Megu can barely boil water. The woman tried to fry an egg for breakfast one morning…with water instead of oil…then there was the time she tried to make Rei’s bento for the picnic we were supposed to go on…sugar in the rice balls, too much shoyu in the stir-fried ginger pork…”
“Well, at least she tried…”
“I guess, I think it was more to show how much more feminine and motherly she was…”
“Feminine and motherly? Hyde, what the fuck is that supposed to mean?”
“Oh, I didn’t tell you, did I? Well, Megu and I had a fight-well as you and everyone pretty much know, Megu and I fight…a lot…about everything…”
“Uh huh…”
“And well, we had a fight about…well, this is kinda embarrassing…” Hyde said, suddenly finding the curry to be very interesting.
“About what?”
“God, this outfit makes it that much more embarrassing…” Hyde sighed and turned to face Tetsu. “About how I am too feminine…”
Tetsu’s jaw dropped. He looked at Hyde, who seemed to be making a serious effort not to blush in embarrassment.
“Too feminine?”
“Yeah, I know, it’s pretty embarrassing-“
“Wait, hold on. What precipitated this?”
“Tetsu, you really know how to kick a guy when he’s down don’t you?” Hyde said, turning back to his curry and dishes.
“Whaaat?” Tetsu said, hopping off the counter and scampering over to Hyde to smooth over his faux pas. “I’m sorry, did I say something wrong?”
“No,” sighed Hyde. “It’s not like you knew or anything…God, Tetsu, you’re such a dick for being so perceptive! Okay, so basically, it was Megu, Rei, and I at home one night. I was sitting on the couch, writing lyrics ….Megu was I dunno, somewhere in the kitchen I think. Rei was watching TV. You know how he likes to watch the music channel?”
“Yeah, I remember you telling me that.”
“Well, go figure, some program was doing a ‘back to the 90’s special’ or something, a countdown of musical figures that have made some sort of impact on the industry. So, they honor L’Arc~en~Ciel. We’ve been a group for over 15 years. So they show footage of some of the new stuff, which Rei recognizes. He sings and dances. Then they count backwards to some of our old stuff…”
“I think I see where this is heading…”
“Well, so they manage to dig up some old concert footage of us in our Indies days…”
“So what happened?” Tetsu asked, heaping some steaming rice into the bowls.
“Well, there’s a bunch of shots with us with our long hair and pretty clothes and Rei goes up to Megu and says something like ‘Mama, Mama, I think the prettiest person in the world is that Papa on the TV screen.’”
“HE SAID THAT?!” Tetsu said, nearly dropping the bowls on the counter in shock.
“Yeah,” Hyde said, ladling the curry into the bowls. “Oh, and that wasn’t even the real kicker. Rei goes on, ‘Mama, will I be as pretty as Papa when I grow up? I wanna have a gorgeous perm like Papa and wear pretty clothes too!’…Yeah, he said that…”
“What did Megumi say?”
“She pretty much flew off the handle,” Hyde said, handing Tetsu a bowl and spoon before turning off the stove. “It was bad enough that Rei was implying that I was prettier than she was. Then he had to really go and piss her off by wanting to emulate the V-kei androgynous me of the early 90’s. I can’t help it if my face shape is aesthetically more pleasing to a child than hers is! Nor can I help it that my eyebrows have a nicer natural arch than hers, or that my skin glows with more youth than hers, or that I have more curves than she does!”
“Or that your ass is nicer than hers!”
“Yeah! …Hey!” Hyde glared at Tetsu.
“Did you really tell her all that?”
“No. But I was thinking it while she was screaming her head off.”
“Well, you can’t help it if it’s true. Not that I’ve touched her ass, since she’s not really my type. But based on experience. I know for a fact, you have a very nice body,” Tetsu said, leaning over to kiss Hyde before he took the seat opposite him. “Looks good!”
Tetsu took a spoonful of the thick curry and a bit of rice. Blowing on it to make sure he did not end up stupidly burning his tongue, he raised the heaping spoonful to his lips and partook what he deemed Hyde’s culinary masterpiece.
“THIS IS FUCKING FANTASTIC!! MARRY ME, HYDE!” he praised, blowing on another spoonful and shoveling a potato into his mouth. “Where did you learn to cook like this?!”
“Tetsu, it’s curry rice…it’s one of the simplest-”
“Hyde, curry rice is one of my favorite dishes!” Tetsu gushed, happily shoveling more down his throat. “If there was one dish I wished my mother would have made for me when I was a kid, it would have been curry rice! My family hated curry, so we never had it, but I’d always order it when I ate out. I’m soooo happy! Whenever I try to make it, it never turns out good, but this-this tastes fucking fantastic! How did you do it?!”
Hyde watched as Tetsu sang more praises between half full mouths of curry. He was stunned how easily Tetsu was placated. Tetsu had been moved by someone making his favorite childhood dish. Hyde had not realized it was Tetsu’s favorite food. His decision to make curry was based on purely the ingredients he saw in the cupboards and refrigerator. However, while it made him happy that Tetsu liked his cooking, it made him sad at the same time as the realization that he did not know Tetsu as well as the bassist knew him sunk in.
Tetsu knew everything from his birthday and blood type, his favorite food, about his family, his tastes in music, fashion, art, and even down to how to cheer him up when he was down. Hyde was almost certain Tetsu knew Hyde better than he knew himself. Hyde was amazed that Tetsu knew down to the exact number of links on the wristband of the watch he bought, so that the diameter was the same as all his other watches. Hyde liked the wristband a little snug-just enough for it to slide maybe a few centimeters. Tetsu had gotten it down to the exact link. Hyde, on the other hand, on a Tetsu test probably would have failed. He did not even know that his favorite food was curry rice.
“Aren’t you gonna eat?” Tetsu asked, his cheek bulging on one side as he chewed on the carrot. “It’s gonna get cold if you just sit there with your mouth open….Unless you’re extending an invitation…”
Tetsu moved in and stared at Hyde expectantly.
“Get back over there and finish your curry, you pervert,” Hyde said, crossing one leg and effectively turning away from Tetsu. “All we’ve been doing is sleeping and having sex. Leave me to my food-”
“Okay, I see. You need your energy so we can have MORE SEXERCISE!” Tetsu declared gleefully as he ran to get seconds. “In that case, don’t let me stand in the way of your nourishment-“
“Tetsu? Do you hear that?” Hyde said, perking up.
“What?”
“I think your cell is vibrating.”
“Really, I don’t hear anything-“
“I can hear it rattling on the dresser. Go answer it, it might be important-“
“Yes, dear,” Tetsu smirked, to Hyde, who instantly yanked the handkerchief on his head and the apron off, realizing he still had them on.
“Shut up and go get that.”
Tetsu returned several moments later still on the phone with a duffel bag.
“Uh oh…” he said, deleting the voice mail on his phone and calling the number. “Hello, it’s me…I’m sorry…I forgot…I’ll be there in 20 minutes…Bye…”
“What’s up?”
“I forgot I said I was gonna baby sit for my sister…my brother-in-law’s…uh, someone…I don’t remember….passed away. They’ve gotta go to Toyama to pay their respects…”
“They’re not taking the kids?”
“No, apparently it’s a distant relative. They’re only going to show face. Overnight. They’ll be back tomorrow….”
“Well, you better go then. Don’t worry, I’ll clean up. I won’t trash the place or anything.”
“I’m sorry,” Tetsu said guiltily.
“-t’s okay,” Hyde shrugged. “Not like I could’ve gone home-not with a hickey this big on my jaw here. I doubt even stage makeup could’ve saved me on this one…What?”
“Nuthin’…” Tetsu said, shuffling about the kitchen after having finished his curry.
“What? I’m not gonna be offended that you had to baby sit for the night,” Hyde said, placing his hands on his hips.
“It’s not that…”
“A bit lonely perhaps…”
Hyde sauntered over to Tetsu and cupped his chin in his hands. Pressing his body against Tetsu’s, he gave Tetsu a deep kiss before stepping away.
“But I’m sure I’ll be fine,” Hyde said. “Go on, they’re waiting for you.”
“Hyde-never mind…”
“Are you worried that I might not be here when you come back? Don’t worry. I’ll be here. I promise, oh wait-we have practice tomorrow, right? I guess I’ll just meet you at the studio then.”
“Yeah, okay…right…I guess I’ll be off then,” Tetsu walked to the door.
“See you tomorrow,” Hyde waved as Tetsu closed the door behind him.
After Tetsu left, Hyde cleaned up the kitchen and decided he might feel inspired to write some lyrics. He locked up the main floor and headed down into the basement. He came to the door to the largest room on the basement level, Tetsu’s music room. The room itself was actually half the total space available for that floor split into a bunch of smaller rooms that could technically be opened up into one large auditorium-like room.
Hyde had been in there several times, but he really had not been paying attention. This time he noted that Tetsu had this room organized extremely well. Within his soundproof mini music studio, he had a room for all his stringed instruments, a room with a keyboard and a bunch of other state of the art musical gadget-like equipment like mixers and recording devices, an open room, and a modest sized room at the corner of the house that had every imaginable thing someone who wanted to be inspired could want.
The ‘inspiration room’ as Hyde dubbed it, had about 30 varieties of incense, a plug-in fountain that simulated the sound of a babbling brook complete with the option of wild bird and cricket accompaniment, a couch with several blankets draped over the arms, a hard wood desk set, large speakers with a rack of two or three hundred CDs ranging from classical to Euro pop and techno, a well stocked mini bar, dimmable lighting fixtures, adjustable climate control and for some reason, a small microwave. On the desk was a can of pencils and pens, a rack that contained several clipboards, and stackable file trays that held blank paper, lined paper, and blank staff paper for composing. Hyde helped himself to a pen, a clipboard, some blank paper and a sheet of staff paper before settling on the couch.
He tapped his pen on the clipboard as he allowed his thoughts to wander. He must have dozed off since the next thing he remembered was getting up to answer the phone. There was no phone in the inspiration room, but Hyde followed the sound to the telephone Tetsu had next to the stringed instrument collection.
“Hello?”
“Hyde?”
“Oh, Tetsu? What time is it…whoa, it’s already 11:30…What’s up?”
Deciding he was too lazy to hold the phone, Hyde turned it on speakerphone as he went to get his clipboard.
“Oh…nothing much…I’m bored and I can’t sleep…”
“What happened to the kids?”
“They went to sleep like 3 hours ago.”
“What’ve you been doing then?”
“I was channel surfing, but that got boring.”
“Don’t they have porn or something?”
“Eww….this is my sister and her family we’re talking about!”
“Oh, sorry…”
“But I checked anyway. They don’t have anything. If they’ve got anything, it’s hidden really well…”
“What about the TV?”
“Everything’s on parental lock and I don’t know the code. It’s 8 digits, so I wasn’t that desperate that I wanted to try…”
“So what have you been doing?”
“Well, I thought I’d go on the internet, but the computer asks for a password…”
“Any books?”
“No…they don’t have anything in their house. Everything’s pretty much been child-proofed, is about child-rearing, or is supposed to stimulate the development of good children….There is nothing to do here except stare at the ceiling. I knew I should’ve brought something to do.”
“Are you tired?”
“Not really. I mean, I woke up at noon today. I’m not really ready to sleep. I was gonna take a night cap out of sheer boredom, but of course, no alcohol here.”
“No toys to play with?”
“No…they’re still in elementary school and with a mother like my sister, it’s not like they’d have a Wii or a PSP or anything. My nephew’s gonna be 8 this year. I thought he might be into toy cars or something, but he wants to be a cop when he grows up, so there’s all this law enforcement related toys like the hat, the uniform, handcuffs, the flashing lights, megaphone…My niece is 6. She’s really into animals, especially cats. Everything’s got kittens on it-well, kittens and fairies. She’s got these feathered wings she likes to wear around the house with her fluffy cat ears…”
“What does she want to be when she grows up?”
“A nurse.”
“A nurse?!”
“Yeah. Said she wants to be a nurse-sorta like an angel from heaven.”
“With the wings?”
“I guess so…I was debating whether to tell her about that massive tattoo on your back. But I think she might have been freaked out, so I didn’t.”
“Good thinking, Tetsu.”
“So yeah, no porn, no TV, no alcohol, no fun toys-“
“Welcome to my world, Tetsu, the life of a married man…”
Tetsu sighed loudly on the other end.
“Too bad I wasn’t there,” Hyde said, embellishing a treble clef with a few random lines. “I bet that even though there wasn’t a whole lot at the house, we could’ve had some pretty kinky role playing sex…”
“Role playing sex?”
“Sure, one of us could be the prisoner, handcuffed and being interrogated by the police officer…or the nurse…taking care of the needs of the patient…or even, cat ear sex. Yeah, I bet that would’ve been really odd, but really hot…I’m amazed the inner pervert in you, Tetsu, of all people didn’t try to con me into it. Or was it your plan to get me to suggest it?”
Hyde scribbled the finishing touches to a detailed drawing of a maple leaf.
“Tetsu…? Hello, Tetsu…?”
“…Why is it that we aren’t even in the same room and you manage to make me hard? I’m not even looking at you and I’m getting hard. I’ve got a raging hard on from hearing your voice over the phone. Fuck…”
“What we see with our mind’s eye is many times more powerful than what we taken in with our physical eyes. Such is the power of our imaginations.”
“Is that from a song?”
“No, I made it up just now. Tetsu,” Hyde crooned. “Do you want me to help you take care of it?”
“You’re half an hour away and it’s almost 12:30 in the morning…as much as I appreciate the offer-“
“Tetsu, sometimes, you completely miss the point. You can hear me right?”
“Yeah…”
“You got a free hand right?”
“Yeah…”
“Well, close your eyes and imagine me in front of you…unzipping your pants…releasing your cock…Is he hard and oozing at the tip with precum?”
“Yes…” Tetsu breathed.
“Good…now what do you want me to do to you?”
“You want me to beg?”
“No…not today, you can pledge your undying allegiance to me another time ….Picture me in your mind…Now, do you want me to suck you off?”
“Yes!”
“Lick the tip and then take your cock in my hot mouth?”
“YES!”
“Work it down my throat and then graaaaaazzzze my teeth as I come back up?”
“YES!!”
“Suck then squeeeeze your balls as I give you more head?”
“YES, YES!!” he hissed.
“Yes, who?”
“Yes, Hyde!”
“Hyde what?”
“Hyde-sama!!”
“Then start whacking you off until the friction and speed overwhelm your senses and you-“
“Nnnnggaaaahhh-“
“Cum…”
“You…play…dirty…”
“I know, I learned from the best…Night, Tetsu, see you tomorrow.”
“Mmmphhh…pervert…”
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