Finally, the last chapter! XD
That's it. I give up. I had actually said what I had needed to say as plainly as I could and Nii-chan just didn't understand. Was this my fate? Was I doomed to keep my relationship with Usagi-san going while my brother remained completely oblivious?
Yes. Yes I was.
I sighed, burying my head under a pillow as I fought to try and go back to sleep. I had regaled my tale of coming out of the closet yesterday to Usagi-san and he had, as always, used the one gift he had besides writing to comfort me. So, because of his attempts to "comfort" me all night long, I was exhausted.
Nii-chan popped into my mind and I could feel a tiny sliver of frustration take hold of me. Unfortunately, I was just way too tired to do anything about it. I groaned and rolled over; deciding the best way to deal with this was to make Usagi-san suffer, as well. And so, with the intentions of rolling onto him and squishing him with the same butt that had given him such nice memories from the night before, I just kept rolling... until I hit the floor.
Usagi-san wasn't in the bed. Well, fuck.
I sighed and sat up, getting ready to heft myself onto my rubbery feet and climb into bed when I heard a doorbell ring and then the door open.
"Ah, Takahiro~!" I heard Usagi-san say happily, acting like the sweet and innocent author that everybody but me knew him for, "What a pleasant surprise, do come in!"
"Thank you, Usagi..." The door closed and I strained to hear what was said next. "Is... Is Misaki here? I need to talk to him right away."
"He's sleeping at the moment. He tuckered himself out with a late night of... exercise. Yes, therapeutic exercise. Anyway, is there a problem?"
Stupid Usagi. He just wanted to hear Nii-chan talk about showing me his jolly-stick.
"Well, I'm afraid I may have done something rather horrible to him yesterday and—"
"I wouldn't worry about it; I do something horrible to him every night."
Yeah, that makes it totally okay! ... I was going to strangle him.
"Well then, I guess I can wait until he wakes up. Because, after all, there was also something else I wanted to speak to you about particularly. Do you... see Misaki as a brother?"
"Of course."
WHAT?
"You... You do?"
"Well, sure, we're like brothers who... who share a very special bond! Like a blood pact, but the blood is white and it goes into a very different area, indeed."
"I... see..."
Okay, that was it! I stood up, ignoring the fact that I was completely naked and walked out of the room, standing on the landing with my feet shoulder-width apart, my hands clutching the railing for dear life as I shouted, "USAGI-SAN AND I ARE LOVERS!"
Silence. A very tense silence. I peeked an eye open to see that Nii-chan was looking at me as though I were a crazy person who had just escaped the loony bin and Usagi-san's eyes were low enough that I could tell exactly what he was thinking of.
"There he goes saying weird things again!" Nii-chan whined, pointing at me as he looked to Usagi-san for help.
I sighed, my patience having dissolved into nothing but a very, very angry resolve to pound the truth into my brother's thick head. I walked down the stairs, my fists clenched. "I am in love with Usagi-san! He is in love with me! If the reason you can't understand that is because you're a homophobe, then that's just too bad! These 'weird things' I'm saying are the truth and they will continue to be the truth. I... LOVE... USAGI-SAN!"
Usagi-san chuckled and Nii-chan batted his eyes in surprise as he obviously dissected every word I spoke and tried to decipher the meaning of what I had just said. Several minutes later, he finally said, "But... I wasn't thinking it was weird because of your relationship... I thought it was weird because you kept throwing it in my face when I already knew about the relationship.
"A-A-A..." It was my turn to dissect and decipher. "ALREADY KNEW?"
"Yeah. Usagi told me."
I turned to Usagi-san, who was still staring at my... yeah... you get the point... with great interest. "Hey, Misaki, let's go move to a nudist colony."
Was it okay for me to kill him now? Please?
After I had gotten dressed—much to Usagi-san's disappointment—all three of us sat in the living room so that we could discuss this misunderstanding.
"See, I've been a great fan of Yukiko Aikawa's work ever since her debut novel and I have all of her books. But, when the series suddenly went from Akihiko and Takahiro to Akihiko and Misaki, I became... curious. Usagi had always been the one to get the latest novels before anybody else and he always had spares to give me and so I asked him about it and he told me the truth."
"And... you don't mind that your high school buddy was writing you into explicit yaoi novels with himself?"
"Well, I'm actually a bisexual, so I didn't mind. I was just glad that Usagi would give me an autographed copy of Love Cums Hard in return for me keeping my knowing about your relationship a secret."
Dear Lord...
"Actually, this works out perfectly!" Usagi-san said oh-so-cheerfully, "Now Takahiro can be re-introduced into the series and he can fight with Misaki over the love of Akihiko."
Lord, please save me...
"And now we can all have some awesome yaoi threesomes!"
Okay, I changed my mind. Lord, please kill me now!
"I think that is a splen—"
"Out of the question," I interrupted Usagi-san.
"But yaoi threesomes!" he whined.
"Out of the question."
"I'll even let you seme!"
Lord, are you even listening? Please! Go all Sodom and Gomorrah on me! Please! Kill me! Now! End my suffering! I beg of you!
"I'll take your silence as agreement."
God, why do you torment me so?
A/N: Well, isn't that a happy ending?