Room 304, Diety Hall

Author: Yukimi2 yukimi2@yahoo.com

Dedicated to: This part’s for the La’cryma fans ^_~ Esp. Tsurara-chan for answering my questions.
Comment: Since I am lazy, I have fast forwarded the fic one week after part one ^_^;; Enjoy and don’t hesitate to comment. ^______^

Episode 2: Rat Face

Dear Journal,
    I have spent a week at college, and so far, I am surviving, amazingly enough. Classes are not that difficult, but are a lot of busy work. I don’t mind though, it will only prepare me for medical school.

My dorm is way too small, but decent. My roommate is alright, just, well, sometimes annoying. Everytime I try to do my homework, he drags me to one of his insane parties or asks me if he looks alright in one of his new outfits. Every night, he stays up till 3 in the morning talking on the phone yakking about useless things to 50 different people on hold! I would not mind so much, but anything that came out of his mouth wasn’t very exciting. Not only that, but he looks like a goddamn girl. What’s worse is that he looks like a goddamn supermodel, only it’s a he-she. Or is it a she-he? Whatever. I guess Toshiya’s alright; without him, I wouldn’t have met so many people in a matter of days.

    I discovered he wasn’t the only weirdo in this dorm. There are a whole lot of other people that dress like girls, but aren’t really girls. Then there’s the dorm cult lead by Professor Toshi; I don’t know how the faculty doesn’t know, but the cult has midnight meetings every other day. It’s strange-----


    "NE!!! What are you writing?"

    "ACK!" Kaoru quickly shut his journal and put it away. "Don’t you know the meaning of the word ‘privacy’?"

    Toshiya pouted. "Look here, Mr. I-Am-In-Pre-Med, just because I’m majoring in Fashion Design doesn’t mean I’m stupid."

    "I just asked you if you knew the meaning of the word; I didn’t say you were stupid." Kaoru explained. "…Well, maybe you look like it, but----"

    "MOU~!" Toshiya hit the grinning purple head with a pillow. "Fine! I’m going to go see someone who appreciates me."

    "Good." Kaoru opened his Chemistry book. "I can study without interruptions for once."

    Toshiya pouted. Suddenly, his lips turned to a smile.

    Uh-oh. Kaoru thought. He’s either gonna drag me to another party, or---.

    "Ne, Die’s having a party tonight."

    T_T Shimatta!!! "So, what’s new?"

    "Pleeeze come with me." The blue-head clung to his roommate’s arm.

    Let go! "I’m busy."

    "But-but I don’t want to go alone, and I don’t want to be lonely, and---."

    "Totchi! You know EVERYONE in Die’s parties---."

    "Pleeeze, Kao-kao?" The blue head’s eyes were as large and watery as Riiya’s (from akazukin chacha ^___^), and his lips plastered the most adorable pout.

    God give me strength. >_< Kaoru gripped the table for will power. He looked at the blue head one more time.

    "Fine." Kaoru sighed.

    "YATTA!!" The blue head jumped around the dorm as Kaoru hung his head low. Why does this always happen?

    "But Totchi, we have to be back by nine, alright?"

    Apparently, his roommate wasn’t listening. "Gyah! I can’t wait for you to meet Hakuei and Akira and Yuki-chan and blah blah blah…"

    Kaoru sighed, tuning out Toshiya’s voice. He had to think positive. Two good things can be derived from his situation. One would be that Toshiya will definitely be too drunk after the party to converse on the phone. Kaoru will be able to study in peace. Second, Die is going to be at the party, so at least he has someone to talk to. Die seems to be a party animal, but is also one of those guys that everyone gets along with, and he and Kaoru have become close friends in the past week.
    I guess it won’t be too bad….

*****

The music blared with intense remixes from the dorm’s favorite DJ, Yukihiro. The room wasn’t that big, so there wasn’t really any dancing, but a lot of drinking and socializing going on.

    Die walked around with a big grin on his face. He made a couple of high five’s, waves, and greetings. Everyone in the dorm knew him and everyone got along with him. Die playfully threw off Kyo, who took up his usual space on the futon.

    "What the hell?!"

    Die grinned. "You took my spot."

    "grumble grumble." The shorter man scooted over and settled himself on the floor by the couch. "You shouldn’t be rude to guests."

    "Kyo, what are you doing here?"

    Kyo rolled his eyes. "Well, you see, I’m your friend. You know, those people that you get along with and talk to---."

    "You idiot! I don’t mean that." He chugged his beer can. "I thought you had a cult meeting today."

    Kyo grinned. "Nah! Professor Toshi and the cult musicians Art Marju Duchain said they couldn’t make the inauguration ceremony. Professor Toshi said he was ‘tied up’."

    "That’s a first. I thought Prof. Toshi was never late to cult meetings."

    The shorter man smirked. "I bet you he got tied up with Prof. Yoshiki."

    "Prof. Yoshiki??!!" Die exclaimed. "Whoa! Where did you hear that from?"

    Kyo held up his hands. "Ayumi said they’ve been screwing around a lot."

    "Jesus Christ, Kyo! Don’t ever listen to Hamasaki Ayumi! She’s just a gossiping sorority bitch."

    "True, but Utada said the same thing."

    "And Utada’s in the same sorority as Ayumi."

    "Oh."

    "Kyo, you need to be updated on current events."

    Kyo grumbled. When it came to social events, Die knew everything, but when he is asked what one plus one is, he would scratch his head, confused. Maybe that’s why Die went to College of Athletics. All brawn and no brains. The shorter man thought.

    "Well," Kyo retorted. "It so happens that I passed by Prof. Toshi’s office yesterday…"

    "And?"

    "And the window was fogged up and there was someone yelling: ‘Oh baby! Ride me hard!’"

    ~Hack! Hack!~ Die choked on his beer.

    "Daisuke! Daijoubou?" a familiar voice asked.

    Die recovered and turned around. "Toshiya! Finally! I thought you weren’t showing up!"

    "Don’t blame me, blame Kao-kao." He pointed to the man behind him.

    "What?!" Kaoru snapped. "I wasn’t the one who took an hour to fix mascara!"

    "Tisk. Tisk. It hurts to be beautiful!"

    Kaoru ~sweatdrop ^_^;;;~

    "You get used to him." Kyo whispered to Kaoru.

    Toshiya scanned the crowded room and hallway, searching intently for a particular someone.

    "Toshiya, who are you looking for?" inquired Die.

    "Hmmm… where’s Hakuei-chan?"

    " ’Hakuei-chan’ ?!" Kyo cackled as Toshiya glared down at him. "OooOOOo! Looks like Toshiya has a crush!!"

    "Um, Kyo…" Die informed. "We’ve known that for weeks."

    Kyo stopped laughing. ">_<! MOU!! Why doesn’t anyone tell me anything!!"

    "Maybe because you’re always asleep." Toshiya said.

    ~Grumble. Grumble!~ "Fine! I’d rather hang out with my cult anyway!" He stalked off to another cult member named Ryutaro as Toshiya and Die laughed.

After an hour, Kaoru wandered off and found himself playing cards at a table by the fridge.

    "Four aces! I win!" Koji grinned as he grabbed all the money from the rest of the almost-broke players.

    "C’mon, Koji! Go play video games with Levin and let us rookies play!" whined Shuse.

    "Let’s play another round then kick Koji out." Kaoru said.

    "Fine by me." Koji smiled. "This game’s getting boring without a challenge."

    "Shut up!" Shuse snapped.

    "I think this time we should have someone else shuffle." Taka suggested, grabbing the deck from the taller man. "Hiro, wanna shuffle?"

    Shuse sputtered. "NO!!! He’ll put some cult spell on those cards then we’ll never win!"

    Hiro ~^_^;; sweatdrops~ "Shuse, calm down! It’s only a game."

    "So you DO know cult spells!! ~gasp~"

    Everyone ~BIG sweatdrop~

    "Um, yeah." Hiro replied. "And if you don’t shut up, I’ll cast one on you."

    Shuse quickly shut up.

    Taka sighed. "Well, Kaoru? Guess you’ll shuffle."

    Kaoru shuffled quickly then started another game. Goddammit! He wanted to win so badly. He dealt the cards then picked up his cards then widened his eyes in amazement. Four kings! DAMN! He looked at the pile of bills lying in the middle of the table. $_$. It was enough to pay for his books. Soon, signs of dollar bills were dancing around Kaoru’s head. His cards would give him a definite win.

    "OK. Everyone ready?" Taka asked.

    Everyone nodded then laid their cards down one by one.

    "Two aces. Two sixes."

    "Three threes. One ace."

    "one five. One four. One two. One one."

    "Four Queens!" Koji exclaimed.

    Kaoru got up excitedly, unaware that he bumped into someone behind him. "I got four---"

    "Hey!!! What’s your problem??!!"

    Kaoru turned around and saw a tall blond haired guy behind him. And the guy looked pissed.

    "Look, I’m sorry." Kaoru apologized.

    "SORRY!?!?!?!" the guy snapped. He pointed to his now wet shirt. "Look what you did!! You made me spill beer all over my new shirt!"

    "I said I’m sorry!"

    "Now how am I supposed to catch babes!?"

    Kaoru looked the man up and down; then involuntarily smirked.

    The man glared. "You’re not much of a looker either, Rat Face!"

    Kaoru winced.

Rat……..face….…!!!!!!

The purple head glared.

The blondie glared.

The poker table stared.

They could practically see battle aura’s surround the two men.

"I put money down on Kaoru." Koji said.

The table rolled their eyes. It’s not surprising to have Koji, aka Mr. Finance, derive money matters out of any situation.

Kaoru glowered. "Are---you---threatening---me??!!"

The man put a hand on his hip. "It’s not my fault I’m sexier than you!"

Kaoru was losing his patience. This guy had a bigger ego than Toshiya. Before he could lash out another insult, an over-mellifluous voice called out.

"Oh, Kao-kao!!" Of couse. Toshiya.

"What now, Totchi?"

The blue head walked over, swaying his hips more so than usual. Then he put on one of his most irrisistable smiles.

"Oh," Toshiya said, voice lowering to seduction level, "I see you’ve found my honey for me."

EH?

The blondie’s scowl slowly morphed into a sly seductive one. "Hey babe." The man slid his arm around the blue head’s slim shoulders, careful to hide the wet spot on his shirt.

Kaoru rolled his eyes.

"Hmmm…where have you been, Hakuei-chan?" Toshiya purred.

Hakuei??! Kaoru stared at blondie.That’s the guy Totchi’s been after?! ~shock~

Kaoru made a face. With Toshiya’s looks, the blue head could do better. He took a look at Toshiya, grinning happily like a love-sick school girl; then looked at Hakuei, smiling like a hungry dog in heat. Kaoru didn’t like it one bit.

to be continued~