Two of a kind

By:Anari02

Disclaimer: The characters and art belongs to Satoru Kannagi and Hotaru Odagiri.

Rating may change.

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"Kazu-kun! Kazu-kun!" The door was slammed open, causing Kazuki to bolt upright. He was unable to sleep last night and now, with the ruckus blaring in the room his eyes wanted to glare at the poor soul who awoken him. But he restrained himself as a smile appeared before him.

"Good morning Takako…" His voice was rigid but nonetheless he smiled at his cute little niece. "…. But how many times do I have to tell you to not to go in my room? I could have sworn it was lock."

"Sorry Kazu-kun but I couldn't help it plus daddy gave me a key to your room. He says it's for punishment. Whatever that means." Takako jumped on Kazuki's bed, hugging her uncle with a huge grin on her face. Kazuki' knew for a fact, why a 'punishment' was put on him but for now, Kazuki paid it no mind as he carried her down stairs and into the kitchen. Sitting Takako down, Kazuki harbored an immensely frigid expression on his face.

"Why did you do that?" He grumbled, taking a seat while running his fingers through luscious blonde disarray hair. Though, despite his obvious anger, he could have sworn he saw a smile on his brother's face.

"You know it was your turn to cook breakfast today." It seemed like he was enjoying Kazuki's current state. With his dazed eyes, clothes that seemed to have been worn yesterday and an expression that wasn't quite enjoyable to look at, Shohei succumbed his erg to laugh. Although his daughter, giggled when she took notice of this and Kazuki didn't dare to direct his anger toward her.

"Well aside from breakfast, are you going to take the key away from her?"

Shohei shrugged. "Ask her yourself."

Unable to win this battle, Kazuki turned toward Takako with a charming smile. His own special smile that would make any girl in his high school faint or squeal with joy, but it didn't work. Takako remained unfazed as she frowned.

"I'm not giving it back." She selfishly said, cradling the key in both of her tiny hands.

"Please sweet Takako. I promise that I'll walk Puru for you for a week."

Even if Kazuki hated to walk that little mutt of a dog, he would do absolutely anything to get that key back. Just imagining that his little niece had access to his room at any time of the day was spine tingling.

In response to Kazuki's offer, Takako had the personality of her father as she raised her nose in the air a spat out a 'humph'. "No way. I'm keeping it. Plus look." She uncurled her hands to reveal the said key but something was different. The plain old key he once knew now was painted pink, explaining why she would never let it go. "Daddy painted it so pretty just for me to keep so I'll never let it go."

Placing it in her dress pocket, she skipped her way up stairs, leaving the two brothers in a heavy atmosphere. But to Shohei, he whistled a tune as he flipped pancakes, adding to Kazuki's anger.

"You did that on purpose."

Shohei turned his head. "Excuse me?"

"You painted the key in her favorite color, knowing to well that she would never give it to me. When it comes to her favorite uncle you knew she would follow anything I say and having this knowledge you went a step further."

He raised his brow, indicating his calculations were correct to the smallest detail. "Always so observant aren't you Kazuki."

"I'll get that key one way or another."

Shohei placed a plate in front of him, his evident smile doubting those very words. "Why is that key so important? It's not like Takako's going to turn your room upside down. Like you said before. She only admires the color so you don't have to worry."

He was somewhat right, but still. Kazuki couldn't help but worry about his room because for once, that room held a lot of memories. He didn't change anything about it after he met that one special person…

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"Wataru!" Kawamura ran toward his friend and gave him a slap in the back. "You little sneaky bastard."

Wataru rolled his eyes. "Please don't tell me you saw the scores."

"Hell Ya I did!!" He practically hollered as heads turned toward the ruckus. Kawamura was always such a big mouth and sometimes Wataru regretted ever having been so close to him. But he was a good guy after all so there wasn't too much of a problem with him. Except for his mouth that is.

"Can you quiet down?" Wataru knew what he was going to say and he knew how everyone was going to react to this outstanding dilemma. Maybe he shouldn't have tried so hard.

"But dude, you got 2nd rank. The whole school did that mock exam and here we find out that you…the only junior is on par with Yuichi kazuki but of course he took 1st."

He grumbled. "I know. Gosh it's super annoying when you say it like that. I just studied and-"

"And you got help from Mr. Smart-ass while we commoners had to actually have money to get a tutor."

"And what smart-ass are you referring to." Wataru said as he narrowed his eyes and smiled. The said smart-ass was right behind Kawamura with that same glower on his face. But he stayed quiet for once. Usually Kazuki would have interrupted Kawamura's ranting but he stayed close behind Kawamura, waiting for his reply.

"You know who the hell I'm talking about… that damn kazuki who thinks he can get all the damn girls and on top of that be a smart-ass who never even offered to tutor me."

Kazuki laid a hand on Kawamura's shoulder and when he was about to turn around with a smile, a scared look replaced those blissful features and his face paled. It was like facing god and you could only imagine what that god might do when you defy him.

So Kawamura did the smart thing. "See you Wataru. I have to…" Before he could even finish, he ran into the boy's bathroom.

"Stupid idiot." The blonde ran his fingers through his hair and glared at the bathroom door.

"C'mon, he's got a point."

Kazuki's sharp gaze turned toward Wataru and without knowing, his head turned away from him. Maybe he shouldn't have said anything but he couldn't help it. It just slipped out.

"Why are you on his side?" Kazuki poked Wataru's forehead as he turned his head toward him.

"I'm just telling the truth okay. You tutored me….you should have let him join us but no. You just diss him and turn the other cheek. It's quite rude." Kazuki was his best friend and everyone knew that they were tight. Even Kawamura was no match to Kazuki when it came to friendship but Wataru treated the both of them equally. He was just that kind of person.

"Well it doesn't matter. You got 2nd and I got 1st. I don't know how you got 2nd." Kazuki teased with a light smirk on his face.

"Shut up alright. I got the English part mixed up a bit that's all." They walked through the busy corridor as students collected books from lockers and some loitered to talk to friends. The two teens didn't take notice to the crowd as they headed toward the roof. Thanks to numerous ghost stories, students kept away from the roof due to fear but as for Wataru and Kazuki, they found ghost stories amusing.

"English. I went through that 2 times over with you. Jezz, never going to stop being a dunce huh?"

Wataru clenched his hands into a fist and glared at Kazuki but his hand ruffled his disarray hair as they climbed the steps. "You're a pain."

"Yeah yeah, it's always the same thing with you huh?"

"What is that supposed to mean?" With that angry look on his face, Kazuki just kept a smile on, taking a seat on the floor as they got to the roof. Wataru did the same, placing his bag on his lap. Shuffling through it, Wataru found a notebook and a pen and started scribbling on it.

"You act so weird you know that. So childish." Kazuki finally answered.

He continued to scribble and once he was done he ripped the piece of paper out of the book. "Well for your information, people find my childish ways kind of funny."

"You mean cute."

Did he just say cute? Wataru's face went red as the paper in his hands flew to the ground. "C-Cute?"

"That's what the girls said." The blonde picked up the piece of paper and read it over. He only shook his head at the chicken-scratch but it was still readable. "What the hell is this?"

"Can't you read English? And I thought you were a scholar." Wataru snatched the paper form his hand and pointed his index finger at the 3 words. "KAZUKI A FREAK".

"You're grammar's wrong." He pointed out with that 'you're a dumb idiot' smirk of his face. "It's supposed to be either 'Kazuki's a freak' or 'Kazuki is a freak' or maybe you got the words mixed up and it's supposed to be read 'Kazuki's a god.'"

Wataru let out an exasperated sigh. Kazuki was the most conceited jerk he had ever met. Even when it came to insults, Kazuki would always find a way to turn them around and that was really annoying on Wataru's part. When will there be a day where he could shut Kazuki's mouth once and for all.

"Idiot. Well anyways I'm going to the park after school. You want to come?"

"I can't. I have a job interview remember or can't your brain-"

Knowing it was another insult, Wataru quickly interrupted. "Fine. I'll just go by myself."

"Going to write those stories of yours again?"

Wataru nodded. "Yeah. I'm getting great feedback and it's really got me hype to get the next chapter done."

Kazuki knew what Wataru was shooting for when it came to a career. Ever since he was little he would have a note pad in his hands. Scribbling any kind of nonsense that popped into his head. But what bothered Kazuki the most was that he could never read them. He could always go on the Internet and find those said stories but that was difficult even for the smart-ass Kazuki to find out. He concealed not only his stories but his username as well so that was all and done with.

"Can I read it?"

Wataru shook his head. "Of course not. It's embarrassing."

"So you let complete strangers read it but not your best friend."

It was the first time Kazuki had ever said 'best friend' and it caught him off guard for a second. But he quickly shook out of the trance and put on an unbreakable sullen expression. "It's because there strangers that they read it. So stop asking me that question."

"What ever." Kazuki stared at the sky as Wataru scribbled in his notebook. It was always like this every recess but Kazuki didn't mind as much. As long as he was here with Wataru then it didn't really matter.

"Love…" Wataru whispered and kazuki turned toward him.

"What?"

"Love…how should it be described as?"

Was he serious or just toying with him? For years Kazuki was deeply in love with Wataru but since they were friends. Things were just difficult. So he chose to seal that love away and that was that. Being friends was just much easier so Kazuki didn't mind this type of relationship but when love gets into the conversation. What is he supposed to think?

"Why are you asking me that?"

Wataru shrugged. "Well don't you have a girlfriend? There's a rumor that you do so you can tell me how it's like. Being in love I mean."

"I don't know and those rumors are lies. Why are you listening to them and assuming that there true."

Wataru shrugged once again. "I don't know. It's just that it's not some type of rumor that's hard to believe I guess."

Kazuki narrowed his eyes. There was something up with him. He was using that timid voice again and that only indicating that he was hiding something. "What is that supposed to mean?"

His expression was a bit distant as he stared at his book but he looked up and smiled. "Nothing nothing. Never mind." Then he started to scribble in his notebook, trying to ignore the blush that smothered his face. But for Kazuki, he couldn't help but notice that blush as he gently nudged Wataru's head with a fist.

"Hey!!! What was that for?"

"You're being difficult."

"No I'm not!!"

Kazuki glared. "Yes you are."

"No I'm not!" He retorted.

"You know what Wataru. You get quiet hot-headed when it comes to conversations like this. You are difficult and you should take it."

"You're the one that's being difficult. You're always so difficult" Wataru grumbled under his breath as his eyes plastered on the book in front of him.

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He couldn't really feel his legs. Exhaustion prevented him to do so as he trudged down the kitchen and up the stairs toward his bedroom. His hand lazily reached for the doorknob but his exhaustion elapsed once he turned the knob and entered his room. "Takako!!"

Loud stomps could be heard down the hall and then that's where he met the same huge smile he was awaken to this morning. "Hi uncle Kazu. Is something wrong?"

"You went in my room." He tried not to glare but his day prevented him to smile. He walked into the room and sat on the edge of her bed. Takako merely grin as she brushed Puru's fur.

"I didn't uncle Kazu. Papa did."

"Shohei?" Kazuki abruptly stood up and ran toward his room. Bee-lining his way toward his dresser as he tossed his clothes out of it. Shirts and pants were scattered everywhere but he finally found what he was looking for and took a hold of a small wooden box. If it weren't here he would die. If anything, he had to make sure that no one touched them and as he opened it, his expression softened.

"Thank god." His eyes were plastered on the two rings that laid in the box. He didn't know why Shohei went in his room but as long as these two rings were untouched then he sure didn't care.

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Kazuki went to school only to find out that rumors were running a rampage throughout the halls. And for once it wasn't about him but it was about Wataru. He could hear little parts of it but not the whole story. During the month he was normal and nothing seemed to be wrong but now it seemed he was running a rampage.

He ranked from 2nd to dead last.

He's ditching class.

Wataru's acting up to the teachers and being sent to the office.

He's even been caught prostituting.

From what Kazuki saw, the first rumor was actually a fact but as for the whole prostitution ordeal. That was highly unlikely. But he couldn't help but worry about him and that's why everyday since he head these rumors, Kazuki's been waiting on the roof but for 2 weeks now he never showed up.

Maybe the pressures have been getting to him. Who really knew?

Kazuki leaned his head up against the fence, his eyes shut as the cool breeze eased his mind. The whole Wataru masquerade was getting to him more then anything and even his grades were slipping a bit due to his ventures away from reality. He always daydreamed and thought what the hell Wataru was thinking and that's when his eyes snapped open.

"Wataru!!!" He was here, right in front of him but his face was closer then expected. Leaning forward, Wataru entwined his fingers into the fence beside Kazuki's head. His blazer was undone, his tie assembled messily and his smile was a mystery. It was a smile but it had a mixture of confidence. Something the old Wataru lacked of.

"Where the hell were you! What's up with the rankings and-" Fingers running through his blonde silky hair halted his words for a bit. He couldn't comprehend what was happening but Wataru straddled Kazuki's left leg, placing a hand on his chest.

"I was always thinking Kazuki…" His voice was different. It was more alluring and enchanting. "…when you always insulted me I wanted to really shut that beautiful mouth of yours. I pondered on how I might do that and you know what I concluded on doing?"

Kazuki grasped Wataru's hand and took it away from his hair. "Stop fooling around you idiot. I know your stupid but dropping your ranks that low is utterly irresponsible. Talking back to your teachers and even getting sent to the principles office. What the hell is going on with you?"

Wataru laughed at the accusations but he knew they were more then rumors. They were facts. "Did you hear the popular rumor that was going on about me? The one where I'm working the streets for money? But I'll let you in on a little secret Kazuki." His lips were now millimeters away from his ear as his chest rested on his. The only thing Kazuki could feel was his hot breath caressing his skin but before Kazuki could respond to this, Wataru licked his ear.

"I never had sex for money but for pleasure." Wataru was way beyond normal. He was a whole different person. At that, Kazuki inattentively loosened his grip on his hand and Wataru took this to his advantage as he traced his fingers lightly down Kazuki's jaw. This is what Kazuki wanted to do to him for so long but now…he couldn't react. His eyes stared distantly into his as Kazuki tried to put everything together. But nothing. He couldn't figure out what was wrong with him.

Wataru's lips hovered dangerously close to Kazuki's moist mouth. With a smile, Wataru made sure his warm breath was felt against the other's skin as he softly whispered. "You want to have fun Kazuki?"

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Haha…Wataru's on top lol. Just kidding but that's chapter one for you.