Current location:	Home with Lucy again! YAY!
Current mood:	creative
Current music:	L'Arc En Ciel- My Heart Draws a Dream

 

HYDE makes Gackt smile. Gackt has to turn away from the camera because his smile is dangerous.

For some reason HYDE is in sunglasses but Gackt isn't! Maybe HYDE stole them from Gackt...

I love that picture XD.

I'm in a HYDE mood right now. XD.

Anyway:

In the Light Of The Moon

Chapter 4

            It was 7:55AM and Yu~ki was pacing restlessly outside the café. He was waiting for Haruna to arrive. He’d been there for 42 minutes now. He’d been counting. It was still five minutes until Haruna was due to arrived so he wasn’t worried. Just bored. People gave him funny looks. Maybe because he’d been there so long, or maybe because they recognised him but couldn’t place him out of costume and makeup. Yu~ki spun around as he smelt the smell of fox coming from behind him. Sure enough there was a man a few metres away heading towards him. He had a kind and attractive face, the kind of face that seemed to say ‘you can trust me’. Yu~ki smiled his hello and the man smiled back. So this was Haruna.

            “You’re early.” Haruna commented.

            “So are you.” Yu~ki replied still smiling.

            “I hope you’re not mad at me breaking into your house. I had to make sure you weren’t a threat to me. Needless to say hanging out with vampires didn’t look to good for you. But there was no weapons so I figured you hadn’t joined The Hunters.” The Hunters were a vampire cult who believed that all shape shifters needed to be destroyed. A few shape shifters had been known to have joined them for there own safety.

            “Oh I’m not a Hunter.” Yu~ki reassured Haruna. “I think they are who killed my parents… I’d never join them.”

            “Yeah, they got my parents too.” Haruna admitted. “And my siblings. I was ten at the time and only just managed to escape. I joined some friends and we set out to destroy the hunters. We were all so young. We managed to get a few but then we went against a Prince. He killed all my friends but left me alive. He said he liked my face…. I…” Haruna went quiet. It was obviously a painful memory for him.

            “But you escaped eventually?” Yu~ki asked wondering what the Prince had done to Haruna.

            “Yeah, eventually.” Haruna agreed. Yu~ki looked at him sympathetically. He thought he’d had a tough life, but Haruna’s was obviously so much worse. “So you understand why I had to break into your house? Why I needed to make sure...”

            “Oh don’t worry about it. People come in and out of that house all the time. It’s like a hotel.” Yu~ki reassured him.

            “All the time?” Haruna asked surprised.

            “Yeah. It’s Közi ‘s house. Közi has an open door policy. Friends and family are welcome anytime. Sometime his friends come over when he’s not even home to use his stuff. He doesn’t mind.”

            Haruna smiled. “I guess that’s ok then.” He knew who Közi was off course. He was familiar with Malice Mizer and there music. “Shall we get a table?” he asked.

            “Yeah.” Yu~ki happily replied heading into the restaurant.

            “I was surprised that it was you.” Haruna admitted once they were seated. “I’m kind of a Malice Mizer fan already” Yu~ki smiled happily. He loved meeting his fans.

            “Am I your favourite?” Yu~ki asked with a grin.

            “Well if you weren’t, you properly are now.” Haruna replied not giving anything away. The waiter came over and handed them menus. Haruna looked at his but Yu~ki didn’t even bother opening it. He knew the menu off by heart.

            “The chocolate croissants are really good.” Yu~ki recommended.

            “You really like chocolate don’t you?” Haruna commented. “You’ve mentioned it a few times in interviews.”

            “Yeah but I have to cut back to stay thin.” Yu~ki agreed. “I only have five bars a day outside meals now.” Haruna laughed. He didn’t even eat that much in a week.

            “Just be glad you are what you are.” He said, aware that they were in a public place. Shape shifters got almost all there nutrition from meat. Most non meat foods gave them very little nutritional value. The only exceptions being anything high in protein. This was lucky for Yu~ki because the amount of chocolate he ate would make any human enormous.

            “Oh I am.” Yu~ki agreed. “But until now I’ve been pretty much alone.” He added sad. “Közi took me in when I was little, shortly after my parents were killed. I owe him a lot.”

            “Still, I know he’s your friend but he is still… what he is” Haruna began. “Has he ever…”

            “No.” Yu~ki replied, knowing what Haruna was on about. “But I have let him. Twice in emergencies.”

            “Still be careful.” Haruna warned. “It’s like drugs for a vampire.” He glanced around, but luckily nobody had overheard him.

            “Közi won’t hurt me.” Yu~ki confidently replied. “He’s never force me to do anything. He looks after me.”

            “Well you know him better than me.” Haruna relented and Yu~ki relaxed. He had thought Haruna was going to make an issue over the vampire thing, but he hadn’t. The rest of breakfast was filled with pleasant conversation. They discussed what they liked. What they hated. There hopes for the future. The past was left alone. It was painful for both of them. Time past quickly and it was soon time for Yu~ki to go.

            “Yu~ki, one more thing.” Haruna said with a smile. “I consider you a friend now. My friends call me Klaha.”

            “Klaha.” Yu~ki repeated with a grin. “It was nice meeting you in person.”

            “Yeah it was nice meeting you too.” Klaha agreed. “If only too see someone eat four portions of chocolate croissants in one sitting.”

            “Chocolate good.” Yu~ki replied with a huge grin, before hurrying out of the café. He was running late. Klaha left shortly after. Yu~ki seemed to be a generally nice guy. The kind of guy who Klaha was looking for. Not in a romantic sense, but for something else. ‘Yu~ki seems to be just the type who would help me.’ Klaha thought. ‘Even with his vampire friends.’

            Yu~ki was aware that Gackt and Mana didn’t get along. Gackt seemed to really hate Mana. It had been going on for months now. He never said or did anything, but he avoided Mana like the plague. However the last week had shown a change. Now Mana seemed to hate Gackt as much as Gackt hated him. It made the atmosphere very tense. Especially as Közi was obviously mad at Mana for something. Mana seemed desperate for Közi’s forgiveness. Yu~ki couldn’t understand why Közi hadn’t forgiven him yet. It wasn’t like Közi to stay mad at Mana for long. It must have been something really bad. However Közi was showing signs that he was ready to start forgiving Mana. Yu~ki knew that they’d be friends again soon. He had never known them to fall out for more than a few days. This was a new record for them.

            Gackt and Mana were different though. Every day seemed to drag them further apart. Still Yu~ki hadn’t expected what was coming next.

            “I need my own dressing room.” Gackt announced to Közi. It was getting close to the live now and they needed to arrange where people would get changed. “I can’t share with him.” He added glaring at Mana. Yu~ki gave Gackt a look. Was he aware that he was acting like a spoilt child? No way was Közi going to agree to that. It would mean the makeup artist and hair stylist would have to run between two rooms. It just wasn’t practical. There was just no way Gackt was going to be allowed his own room.

            “Sure.” Közi agreed. “I understand why you don’t want to share.” Yu~ki stood there in shock. What was going on here?

            “But I don’t want to be alone.” Gackt announced. “So Kami’s coming with me.”

            “No way.” Közi snapped. “Everything takes you twice as long when you’re alone with Kami.

            “But it won’t tonight. I promise.” Gackt said flashing Közi a smile and trying to look innocent. He didn’t quite manage it.

            “You’re not sharing with Kami.” Közi said as if that was the end of the argument.

            “Can I share with Gackt them?” Kami asked with a cheeky grin. Közi returned the grin with a look of death. Kami just laughed. He’s seen Gackt’s look of death and was now immune to all others. Gackt was really scary when mad. Even Kami got worried when Gackt looked like that and he knew Gackt would never even think to hurt him.

            “Sure you can share.” Gackt agreed happily.

            “Well that’s settled then.” Kami announced equally happily.

            “You two are NOT sharing.” Közi glared. However when they had settled which room would be Gackt’s, Kami had simply took his stuff and went in with Gackt. There was no lock so the two had sat by the door so Közi couldn’t open it. They were laughing as Közi tried to force the door open so he could drag Kami out.

            “Face it, we’re sharing.” Kami laughed.

            “I always get my own way.” Gackt agreed. Közi gave the door one more push before giving in.

            “Fine you win.” He called. “But you had better be ready in time.” He’d figured as long as they were ready it didn’t really matter too much what else they did in there. Not that they’d actually have time to do anything. Kami and Gackt waited until they were sure Közi was gone before leaving there position by the door. Gackt grinned at Kami.

            “I’ve taught you well, my young apprentice.” Gackt said. He’d been watching Star Wars recently. He went to sit down and remove his shoes. He was determined to prove to Közi that he could share with Kami and be ready in time. So that next time Közi  would just agree they could share. Besides the hair stylist and makeup artist might be here at anytime.

            “Yeah. I was good before I met you.” Kami agreed. “You’re a very bad influence”

            “Come on get changed.” Gackt urged, noticing Kami was just standing there.

            “I’d rather molester you.” Kami said, his eyes on Gackt’s now naked chest.

            “Yeah, that would be more fun.” Gackt agreed. “But we don’t have time for games. We need to be ready so Közi has no argument for us not sharing again.” Kami saw the logic in this and started to get changed as quickly as possible. They were opening with one of there more controversial songs (Illuminati) and so by the time they were dressed neither of them were wearing very much. They had also both grown over half a foot thanks to the shoes.

            “That outfit makes you look so hot.” Gackt commented. “I want to jump you right now.” Kami smiled. He’d been having similar thoughts about Gackt. Unlike Gackt he didn’t have the confidence to just say it like Gackt did. “I just want to rip those clothes right off.” Gackt added. With a look that suggested me might just do it.

“Well you can’t.” Kami laughed. He started to run his hand seductively across his chest, just to provoke Gackt even more. Gackt was suddenly there in front off him, he’d moved with his vampire speed. He pushed Kami against the wall and started kissing him passionately. His self control had failed. Kami didn’t mind the attention and kissed back. Annoyed that kissing was about all they had time for right now.

They pulled apart moments later at the sound of knocking on the door. It was the makeup artist seeing if they were ready yet. Gackt let her in and she began work on Kami. Gackt watched as Kami sat there and soon grew bored. He pulled out his phone to see if he had any messages. His phone had been on silent. There was a message but it was from his brother. Gackt considered just hitting ‘delete’ but thought better of it.

            “Come get drunk with me.” Keisuke had texted only 20 minutes before.

            “I’m working. I have a live soon.” Gackt replied. He actually really enjoyed going out to get drunk with Keisuke. Keisuke was a lot easier to handle when they were both drunk. However he enjoyed performing so much more. There was no feeling like it. On stage with all his adoring fans looking up at him. Shouting his name.

            “Can I have backstage tickets?” Keisuke replied interrupting Gackt’s train of thought.

            “No.” Gackt texted back. Partly because he knew both Közi and Kami wouldn’t want Keisuke here and partly because it was impossible to get backstage tickets 40 minutes before a live. Gackt actually really enjoyed his brothers company most of the time. It was just sometimes Keisuke could get a little too much for even him to handle. Gackt put his phone away as the makeup artist moved onto him. Keisuke texted him a further 12 times to complain. However the phone was still on silent and the texts went ignored until after the live. They were all deleted anyway. Gackt couldn’t be bothered reading his brothers complaints.

            As the makeup artist finished Gackt, Közi arrived in the room. He looked surprised to find Gackt and Kami ready, except for there hair. Off course there hair wasn’t ready, the stylist was still working in the other room on Mana’s hair.

            “See we were ready in time.” Gackt smirked.

            “So you are.” Közi agreed.

            “So you have to let us share next time.” Gackt added. Közi had no choice but to agree with him. They were ready in time. What could he say?

            Közi arrived home tired. His feet hurt from standing up so long in his shoes. Still he was happy. The live had gone well. The fans had loved when Kami had left his drums to perform some fan service with Gackt. It had looked so real. Little did the fans know, it properly had been almost real. The fan service between Mana and Gackt had been cut as much as possible, but the fans expected some so it had to be done. Mana and Közi went straight upstairs while Yu~ki went to raid the kitchen cupboards. Yu~ki was hungry. Mana went into his bathroom to shower and Közi carried on down the hall to his room. He opened his bedroom door and was startled to find a man sitting on his bed.

            “Hello my love.” Keisuke said with a grin that sent shivers up Közi’s spine.

Yu~ki really does love meeting his fans. All three of them. (And his parents off course, but they don’t count.). Also you’re not really meant to understand what Klaha and Yu~ki were talking about in the café yet. So don’t worry about that. XD

In the original draft Klaha thinks about Yu~ki “and what does a big nose matter anyway.” But I’ve suddenly come up with a purpose for Klaha other than his one shot at glory later on. XD And the big nose comment didn’t really fit anymore. The plot of this story is slowly developing as I write it. XD I’m glad because it’s all coming together now. XD

Gackt really is a Star Wars fan you know. XD He once cos played Darth Vader.