"NO!" Gilbert yelled. "Kiku is hanging out with me tonight!"

"You hang out with him all day! At least let me hang out with him at night!" Alfred yelled back. Kiku stared uncertainly at the two young men arguing in front of his dorm doorway. What's worse is that Yao is standing in front of him and looking none the happier at the situation.

"You two, aru." Yao said in a threatening voice. "Have argued well in to the night already, aru. I can't sleep, I've got a test tomorrow, and neither of you are going out with Kiku tonight, aru!" He yelled before kicking both boys out the dorm and slamming the door in their faces.

"Y-Y-Yao-san?" Kiku stuttered nervously as he heard both boys have a rough landing from Yao's Xiaolin skills.

"They're loud and a nuisance, aru." Yao said with a disgusted look. "Any longer and they would wake up the whole dormitory, aru."

Well, Kiku couldn't argue with that, but he couldn't help feeling sorry for the two boys being kicked out too. "And if you'll excuse me, I've got a test first period tomorrow, aru. Good night, I'm going to bed, aru." China said before walking into his room and gently closing the door.

Kiku sighed and stayed still, listening to see if Gilbert and Alfred were still outside. He didn't hear anything and assumed that they had left. They probably won't come back for the night. He thought for reassurance and shut off all the lights before climbing into bed.

Outside the two's dorm, the two boys were still there. The reason that Kiku had not heard them was because the two were in an intense glare war. "Hah, you blinked! I win!" "I did not!" "You did!"

The volume of their voices were increasing and pretty soon, the two of them realize that if they continued the whole dormitory will wake up and they would get kicked out for making a disturbance.

"You lost the bet, Alfred. Why don't you get lost and leave Kiku with me?" Gilbert growled.

"Because, you clearly have ulterior motives and I'm not about to let you hurt my best friend!" Alfred growled back.

"Some best friend if you actually bet on your friendship." He retorted.

Alfred's eyes widened and reached over to tackle him and punch him in the face. Gilbert, not about to back out of a fight, kneed Alfred in the stomach and their tussle continued over across the dormitory. They did their best not to make any noise since if they were caught fighting, they would not only get kicked out, but probably expelled.

After a long fight that made them go from one end of the hallway to the other, both of them sat facing each other, leaning against the wall, panting. It was a while before Alfred spoke up. "If you dare hurt Kiku in any way, shape, or form, you'll be sorry."

"I'm not even the one hurting him." Gilbert spat. Alfred glare at him, but his face gave off a confused expression. Seeing that Alfred clearly did not understand the meaning of that phrase, he added, "Mein Gott. You're a dumb one."

Alfred continue to glare. "Look, I do not have the fucking energy to explain it to you so you're lucky you got off tonight with a couple of punches." He muttered as he got up, using the wall to help him stand. Alfred heard the ding of an elevator and a flash of light lighting up the hallway before he let out a breath. It had been a bit hard to keep that glare up and he was glad when Gilbert decided to finally leave.

He stood up in a similar manner as Gilbert and muttered to himself, "Note to self, call for back up when fighting him." Because heros aren't afraid of fighting. Because heros won't lose. And because heros need sidekicks.

Matthew packed away the first aid kit and placed it back in the cabinet. He let out a slow sigh. "...Alfred didn't used to be like this." He mumbled. "He didn't fight so much when we were younger..." The bear looked up at him with a questioning expression. "Who?" "Matthew!"

Picking up his bear, Matthew brought him back to his room and placed the bear on a makeshift bed in the corner of the room. "Good night, Kumayoshi." He said before turning off the lights and crawling into his own bed. He was a bit worried for Alfred. After he had bandaged up his brother, he had stormed out mumbling something about sidekicks and movies. He could easily tell that his advice from earlier didn't go well.

Kiku was still feeling bad about not keeping his word with Gilbert and not hanging out with Alfred. ...I'll start helping Gilbert tomorrow! ...And I'll work fast so I'll find time to hang out with Alfred! He thought with a determined look.

Just when he had an ease of mind and was ready for sleep, he heard a strange raking sound outside his window. Kiku frowned and turned towards the window, seeing nothing, he closed his eyes again only to hear that noise again.

Feeling annoyed, Kiku stood up and walked to the window, prepared to scare away whatever bird that might be bothering him. When he opened the window, he made a shocked noise that would have been a scream had a hand not covered his mouth. Alfred was hanging off a branch with a silly grin on his face as he covered Kiku's mouth. When it looked like Kiku had calmed down, he removed his hand and climbed into his room.

"A-Alfred?" Kiku stuttered. He looked down his window. They were on the third floor!

"Wasn't I cool?" Alfred exclaimed excitedly. "I wasn't sure I could do it since I was on the heavy side of the scale when I measured tonight..." His voice trailed off as Kiku placed a finger on Alfred's lips. "...?"

"Middle of the night. People sleeping." Kiku said quickly before going to turn on the lamp at his desk. Seeing that his desk was covered in manga pages, he quickly turned it off again. "On second thought, turning on lights would be suspicious." He said before Alfred could say anything. "So why are you here?"

"Well, I wanted to try being the hero and climb up the tree and-"

"You didn't have to pick this tree!"

"It was the only one by the building." There was an awkward silence before Alfred spoke up again. "Since I'm here, why don't we do something together?"

"...Like what?" It was in the middle of the night, way after lights out so they couldn't go outside the dorm building. Heck, they probably can't even leave that very room without waking Yao.

"Oh...well..." Alfred glanced around. "Hey! You got a TV here! How lucky!"

"No! Wait! Don't-"

Kiku was too late. The TV screen flickered on and display an image of questionable activities. "...Kiku? Why do you have por-"

"It was research for a school project!" Kiku nearly forgot to keep his voice down and hurried to switch the TV off.

"School project that requires you to watch po-"

"Health class!"

"Oh, that makes sense."

Kiku was very glad for two things. Alfred bought that and the room was too dark for either one of them to see how flushed he was. "You know what? ...How 'bout you just go back to your room?" Kiku said calmly.

"Whaaaaaaaat? But it took so much effort to get here!"

Kiku grimaced. It seemed like Alfred was here to stay. Not that he minded too much. He was just worried that he would be breaking a few school rules. ...Actually, he was already breaking a few school rules. Kiku was so lost in thought that he didn't notice Alfred poking around his TV until Alfred stood up with a satisfied expression.

"There! Now we can watch that movie I rented!"

"何ですか?" Kiku mumbled as Alfred jumped on his bed and patted next to him. "Come join me!"

"Wait, what are we watching?" Kiku asked as he cautiously sat next to Alfred. He was glad that Alfred had thought of keeping the volume low. Past expierences had told him that the American liked things loud.

Kiku could tell that Alfred was about to let out another scream and he quickly grabbed his pillow and stuffed it into his mouth. Alfred's scream was luckily muffled enough to only be heard between the two of them. "Alfred, if its too much, we don't have to watch..."

"N-N-No! H-Hero's aren't afraid of nothing!" Blood splattered across the screen as another person in the movie got killed. "Ah-mmmmmm"

"You might want to keep the pillow there." Kiku advised.

Alfred trembled as the credits played and Kiku patted him on the back soothingly to hopefully calm him. "Alfred? Are you going to be ok walking back to your room?" The American shook his head fearfully.

"Um..."

"P-Please, Kiku! You have to let me stay here! Please! I don't mind sleeping on the floor! I just don't want that vampire to catch me!"

"Alfred! There's no such thing as vampires-!" Kiku let out a shocked noise as Alfred latched himself to the Japanese boy's arm with a whimpering noise.

"I-I just saw something outside the window!"

"That would be the tree."

"I-I can't climb the roof! The vampire will catch me! Please, let me stay here tonight!"

Kiku thought for a moment before deciding. "...Alright. But you have to leave by morning." Two reasons for that. They would get expelled if he stayed and Alfred would see his drawings.

Alfred quickly nodded an agreement and got out of the bed to sleep on the floor. "W-Wait! Alfred, you don't have to sleep on the floor... You can sleep u-up here." A blush crept up Kiku's face as a situation he had never even considered the whole night arose. Actually, he should have realize this would be the usual manga cliché. The blush deepened as he realized that what this sort of situation led to.

"Kiku? Are you ok?" Alfred was not sitting on the bed again and looking at him with his face close.

"Y-Yes! I'm fine!" Kiku moved backwards in surprise and nearly fell off the bed. "A-A-Anyways, we should g-go to s-s-sleep. S-School t-tomorrow." He said in a hurry as he crawled under the covers.

"Ok!"

"Kiku? Are you still awake?"

"Yes."

"That's good~ Keep me safe from the vampires, alright?"

"Sure. No problem." Right, Kiku should have expected nothing would happen with America.

Kiku blinked and opened his eyes to see the sun high in the sky and sending rays of sunlight into his room. Kiku sat up and stretched. Mid-yawn, he paused. Wait. Sun high in the sky...? He immediately reached out for his alarm clock. "9 AM?" He's already missed first period! And how on earth did he forget to set his alarm?

Jumping out of bed, he shivered as the air felt cold against his bare skin. Kiku furrowed his eyebrows and looked at himself. Why am I naked...? He wondered as he walked over to the closet to get his clothes.

"Mnn... Kiku, thanks for protecting me from the vampires..." Alfred said as he sat up in bed and rubbed his eyes.

Kiku stared at a naked Alfred with wide eyes before letting out a blood curling scream that could be heard by Yao from his classroom.

The Chinese boy was taking his exam as he and the rest of the class heard a yell. Glancing out the window, he didn't even have to guess to know that it came from the dorm room, particularly from his and Kiku's dorm. "Hmph. Serves them right for keeping me up all night." He mumbled as he looked back down at his test. Sure enough, he had dark rings around his eyes from tossing and turning at each moan of a monster from Kiku's TV.

"You! Me! Bed! Naked! What? Us! Happened?" Kiku spoke in shrill fragments of sentences.

Alfred blinked and looked around the room. Articles of clothing was strew around the floor, which matched what the both of them had been wearing the night before. "Hold up, let me put on my glasses..." Alfred said as he reached for them on the dresser. "Woah? What happened here? It looks like someone had crazy sex that started with ripping the clothes off of each other."

Kiku gave him a stare.

"Oh, hey, why're you naked, Kiku?" Alfred asked with a smile.

"... Alfred. This isn't math, I think you can figure this out."

Alfred frowned and made a face that looked as if he was thinking hard. "... Oh! You burried something in your closet/underwear drawer and now you can't find it after throwing all the clothes out!" He said, looking proud of himself.

"W-What?" How could Alfred come to that conclusion and not think of the obvious. Or...was it just him who was thinking of that? Maybe he should cut back from reading all that rated-18 material. No! Its for studying! He thought to himself, trying to steel his resolve. So I draw better doujinshis! Doujinshi making is my side past time after all! "You know you're naked too, right?"

Alfred looked a little confused at the revelation and then he slipped out of bed to look at himself. "...Hey! You're right!"

Kiku made a shrieking sound and blushed deep before hiding under his desk. "Alfred...Just put your clothes on. Please."

"Why? We're both guys! Its absolutely fine!"

"... ..." Kiku stayed under the desk as his face turned darker red than ever before.

"Ok, my clothes are on, Kiku. Can you please come out now?" Alfred asked delicately.

"L...oom."

"Um, Kiku, I can't hear you if you're going to muffle yourself by hugging your knees."

"I said leave the room!" Kiku yelled out this time. "I need to put on my clothes too!"

Alfred took a step back and gave him a smile and a shrug. "Ok man, I get it! I'll wait for you outside and we can walk to class together!" Alfred said as he closed the door behind him.

"Class!" He was already what, a whole period late? He quickly dashed around the room, putting on whichever piece of clothing he came across while gathering papers and art supplies to put into his book bag.

"Ok, I'm ready Alfred!" Kiku said as he exited his own room.

"Kiku! I just thought of something!" Alfred said excitedly. "...We didn't have wild sex last night and forget everything like one of those, uh, I've just gotten close to the right age of reading it manga, right?"

Kiku paled as he remembered the embarrassing moment, he had forgotten after running around gathering all his school things. "W-Well, do you remember anything?"

"Hmm...Nope! Nothing after the horror movie! ...Maybe we had wild sex and then we just forgot all about it? Were there any beer cans in the room? Maybe we had unsafe BDSM?"

At the last question, Kiku's face flushed again and he ran out of the room, leaving Alfred by himself. "Uh...Did my joke go too far?"

Gilbert dropped the hot dog he was eating. "Uh, you guys woke up naked and you're still coming to me for advice?"

Kiku nodded. "I-I don't remember anything happening, though!" Kiku was shaking as he drew. He had finished a bit and Gilbert had even sold some to make some money. Not a surprise, his artwork was popular since it matched the manga-style of a popular manga artist, which in reality was him.

Gilbert shrugged. "Eh. It happens. Drink some beir and you'd wake up in the morning not knowing where you are and then there's someone next to you in bed and you don't know who he/she even is."

"...I didn't need to know about your adventures in drunken land, Gilbert." Kiku mumbled as he tried to drain the images from his mind. "I'm about to ask the school janitor for bleach."

"Kesesesese!" Gilbert laughed. "You need bleach? For knowing something like that? What about all those pictures you drew that were especially for girls! Like Eliza, didn't she like, buy ten of those?"

Kiku's face turned red as he tried to change the subject. "S-So, Gilbert, why do you have so many scrapes on your arms?"

"I got into a fight." He mumbled unhappily as he looked away, clearly not interested in the subject.

"A-Alright, so you have any suggestions?"

"For what?"

"Getting Alfred to like me! What, do you think I'm doing this for free?" Kiku was starting to get irritated. The pencil point even broke under the pressure he was exerting on it and he quickly fished a sharpener out of his bag and re-sharpened it till it was pointy enough to be used by a serial killer.

"Oh, well, for starters... What do you think of him?"

"What does that matter?"

"Just answer it."

"...I...I really like him. S-Since we first met, practically..." Kiku mumbled. "After he helped me get over my crush on your-" Kiku cut himself off short, not saying anymore since by then he'd be digging his own grave if that ever got out.

"Mmhmm...Okay. And what do you think he thinks of you?"

"...A friend? Maybe. At times I wonder if its more like he's using me..." Kiku's grip on the pencil tightened again. Why was he confiding this in Gilbert.

"Using you?"

"L...Like he'd ask me to do his homework. And...he used me in a bet with you..."

Gilbert was silent for a moment before muttering, "I see." and left the table without another word.

Kiku wondered if it was a bad idea to tell Gilbert that. He's never mentioned it to anyone before, not even Yao. Nowhere in his manga did he ever say that Sakura had any insecurity of what John thinks of her.

He wondered if he's made the biggest mistake of his life telling Gilbert that.

De-Anon from Kink Meme.

Again, I apologize for how long this took. ;;;