Ereri (SnK) is taking up all of my thoughts at the moment.

This chappie is just because I like Kaito (I feel sorry for his character, too, because I love making my characters suffer) and you guys barely know about the main character's best friend. Oh, and this chapter kicks off with another dream like in the last… because Kaito and Rin are much more similar than they'd probably ever hope to be. Wow. I'm still introducing character's and it's chapter 7.

Warnings: shortness, terribly unbeta-ed content, swearing and, again, Kaito's mildly dirty mind. Oh, and I rambled in the A/N at the end.

Kaito P.O.V.

"Mommy, I-"

"Don't call me that, boy." A hateful glare. It was scary. Was it because I disturbed her sleep? It probably was…

"T-Then… ma'am…" I started timidly, clutching my tear-stained pillow.

"What is it?"

"I… Can I sleep with you and d-daddy tonight?" I tried my best to look as pleading as I could. Big, watery eyes and pouty lips; I was desperate. Though, I wasn't sure if I was allowed to call that man "daddy". Would he have preferred "sir" instead?

She paused, rising from the bed with a groan. She rubbed her forehead in irritation and glanced at the lump of her husband under the blankets. "Just go to bed. And don't bother Kaiko, either. "

"Y-Yes… ma'am."

"K-Kaiko…?"

My twelve-year-old sister stirred from her bed, sitting up with a yawn. She rubbed her eyes tiredly, but once she saw me, a bright smile lit up her fatigued face.

"Kaito… Did you have another nightmare?" she inquired, patting the empty spot beside her.

I hesitantly stepped towards her and nodded, my voice wavering, "Y-Yeah… I wasn't supposed to bother you but…"

"Kaito," my older sister's voice was stern when I climbed onto the bed. She ruffled my hair playfully. "No matter what, I'll always be there for you. Mom and dad are just trying to get used to us being in the home. It's only been a few months since they adopted us."

"K-Kaiko," I whispered, nuzzling against her warm hand. "I miss mommy and daddy. I don't want them to be our new ones."

I seriously doubted they wanted to be either. Well, concerning me. But with Kaiko, they loved her, cherished her, and saw everything good in her. But I never thought it was unfair or anything. That was just how it is.

"I miss them too, Kaito… Shall we go to bed now?" she grinned happily, wrapping her arms around my small figure.

"S-Sis, that's embarrassing!" I whined, albeit liking the affection and making no move to draw back.

"No, Kaito. You shouldn't be thinking like that. You're only six!" She hugged me tighter, her warmth inviting and comfortable. "Good night, brat~."

"N-Night, sis."

Chapter 7: Obscurity and Cliches

Special, short chapter introducing Kaito's perspective. Tied with previous chapter.

My eyes opened slowly, the darkness of the room swallowing me whole. I surveyed my surroundings, letting out a breath of relief when I saw that I wasn't in that house anymore and was instead at Len's.

Meiko was sleeping downstairs. Len was snoring lightly on his bed beside me. I was moving around in my blankets on the floor. Lenka was sleeping soundly in her room. Speaking of Lenka, did they have to keep insisting that I'm a pedobear? Jesus of ice cream nation, I am not interested in Len's kid sister that way.

Ew. I blame both Becky and Piko. Why… am I even thinking about this?

I wiped off my drool and ran a hand through my hair. That… was not a dream, but a memory. Wow, what an amazing dream sequence. Maybe I'll have an obscure, sexy childhood friend visit me in my dreams, too, and we'll make love when she moves back into my neighborhood and she'll be the perfect, most obedient housewife who's actually into kinky stuff.

… Cue raging hormones this early in the morning. But 1) I don't have an obscure childhood friend, and Meiko doesn't count because she isn't obscure but is, in fact, my childhood friend; and 2) … I'm questioning such an existence.

Anyways, it's been a long time since I've dreamt of Kaiko. Three years ago, she ran off, gave our "parents" an earful about taking care of me, and went to college (practically disowned by then), so I guess she's around twenty-one now and I haven't seen her since. Or maybe they never allowed her to. I guess she couldn't handle being showered by their affection for more than six years.

She's weird.

I glanced at Len's alarm clock, 4:48 clearly imprinted in red amongst the screen. I groaned, standing up with a sigh. I can't believe that girl's got me waking up early. Though, that's always the case when she appears in my dreams. That girl.

I wonder what Len's dreaming about. It either has something to do with his beloved Miku or that, err, creepy ghost girl he's been bothering lately that Kiyoteru thinks "shouldn't exist". If he keeps messing with people's lives like that, he'll surely get cursed later on. She doesn't seem too fond of him, either. It's kind of annoying. But I can't really do anything about it right now because Len is Len and he'll always be attracted to misunderstood people and try to befriend them. It's always been like that.

I ended up stalking off like a zombie down the stairs, hoping to bother Meiko (I'm pretty sure I have a death wish but meh). She's the closest I'll ever get to my fantasies about obscure, closet-sadist childhood friends.

… Meiko sleeps like a drunk man. Her legs were sprawled out all over the couch, she was baring her midriff, one hand on her stomach, snoring loudly, and mouth wide open with drool seeping out.

What a sight to behold. I chuckled to myself, kneeling down to get a better look at her face in the dark. Her lashes are long, totally unfit for her macho appearance. Her cheekbones are sharp and high. Her hair stops just at the nape of her back and her boobs are… well, the one thing that gives her gender away. Heh. Well, her legs, too, but that's not the first thing you see.

Boobs.

As I silently ogled over my sleeping, sadistic friend, I poked at her cheeks with a smirk.

"Mei, get up, you cretin," I whispered, leaning in closer until my warm breath was hitting her face.

She groaned at the sound of my voice, effectively slapping my face to the ground. I made a strangled noise of discomfort from getting hit first thing in the morning, but I guess that's my punishment for being such a pervert.

Oh yes, I am certainly aware that I'm a pervert. Well, especially for Meiko. But she doesn't need to know that.

"Kai, you ignorant…" she slurred, wiping her drool off with the back of her hand. "I hope you… die in hell… you know I'm a light sleeper…"

I could only smile at this. Mei's not as violent when she first wakes up, but her violence usually progresses throughout the day.

"Kai…" Meiko yawned my name out, sitting up from the couch.

"What is it?" I asked, my voice rising into a higher pitch.

"Why are you up so early? The sun's not even out yet." We glanced around the dark living room. "Was it… a nightmare?"

I shrugged my shoulders and lied, "I don't remember."

Disappointed with my answer, she whacked my head and stomped off to the bathroom. That is, not before spinning around with a huff and declaring angrily, "You're such an idiot. I can see right through your lies, dumb shit. You never tell me what's wrong anymore! Bitchface!"

Ah, she has a bad habit of cussing me out in the first five minutes she's awake. I smiled dumbly and laughed to myself.

Len's such a dumbass. Because he's such an annoying, scary creature in the mornings, he got ice poured all over his groggy self.

Heh. That's my Meiko.

And here we were, finally walking to school after being ready for longer than I preferred. But alas, Meiko decided to ditch us and take some strange detour, insisting that we go ahead. She probably went to get some tampons or whips or something. I wouldn't know.

"Maybe I should crash at your house again after school," I suggested, licking the banana-flavored popsicle I'd stolen from Len's freezer.

"Your brain must be a frozen tundra of stupidity from all that ice cream if you think I'm letting you bother me after school," Len replied through grit teeth, apparently still sulky from being forcefully woken up by an entire bucket of ice cubes.

Again, his fault for being the lochness monster.

"Jeez, Len, on behalf of Mei, I'm sorry for treating you like the unicorn you are," I apologized and placed my free hand on his shoulder. He tensed up.

Cue a surprise shota punch to my face and the dropping of a perfect popsicle. Cue a punch protected by laws of what could be called "defense" to said shota's pretty face. Cue another punch probably not protected by said laws but executed in order to avenge my beloved ice cream to said shota's other cheek.

Short kid. He nearly fell backwards, but a smile twitched on his lips when he rubbed his cheeks.

Of course, this was the way to go. I wiped the blood off of my lip and smirked. Any pedestrians watching us have a mini fist fight on the sidewalk would probably have shook their heads and thought, "Boys will be boys."

Len laughed loudly, slapping my back as if all energy he'd put off from being angry came back to him. "I forgive you, man. But I actually am busy after school. With studying and work, you know."

Well, like it even needed to be said. I chuckled, pulling on his ponytail. "What a shota. You couldn't even block my second punch."

He shrugged, the grin still lighting up his face. "Bakaito. It's obvious I did it on purpose."

"Well, you were acting like an out-of-character unicorn who also happened to be scary as shit," I agreed blissfully, nodding to myself.

We continued to walk, chatting about random things like girls, school, the soccer team, our next school year, and the like. That Len couldn't even wipe off the damn grin on his face the entire time.

At one point, when we were nearing the school, I commented with a dry laugh, "You smile like Kaiko."

To which he replied with a head-tilt upwards (what a beautiful height difference) and a wider grin, "Thanks."

"Ehh? Was that really a compliment?" I questioned, bewildered by his response. Though, what was I expecting from him?

He nodded quickly, saying, "Kaiko's an amazing person. So yeah, that was a compliment for me. But… what about you?"

I shook my head and shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know. It was just a comparison."

"Whatever you say." He waved it off and, luckily for me (knowing how nosy this shota can get), he changed the topic. "Kaito, we should go to the health room. My cheeks hurt and your bloody lip will probably make you look like a shady thug." *

"Sure."

I nearly choked on my words when I opened the health room door. Here I was, trying to have a normal conversation about the evolution of spiders with Len, when we decided to fulfill our "promise" of going to the health room for the sake of our poor, minor wounds.

"… It must be hard to keep secrets like this."

We'd opened the door when Miku was mid-sentence when she talked to that girl. What's more, Miku was kneeling down, staring at her with a gentle expression, and wrapping some bandages all around her legs. The devil-dealing girl shrugged her shoulders, watching Miku from above with this sad, pained look in her otherwise dull eyes.

Of course, they managed to notice our presence when Len cleared his throat, stepped forward, and asked in a concerned voice, "What's… wrong?" He probably had a faint idea of what was going on though, but I had absolutely no clue. I never knew Miku interacted with this cursed classmate of mine.

Oh gosh, I've got some bad vibes coming in just from looking at that gloomy girl. I glanced at Len, who had also knelt down next to her. Yup. She's definitely trouble.

I had fun with this chapter. Thanks to all those who'd supported me throughout this story. :) And I'm so glad I've been updating regularly since this remake. *sighs in relief* You probably don't want to know what I'm up to, but I insist that you read "Horimiya" if you haven't already! IT'S SO ADORABLE. I love adorable mc waifus! *squeals* I said adorable twice...

A-Anyways, I hope you enjoyed seeing things through Kaito's eyes. I already made up my mind on not keeping things exclusive to Rin and Len's perspective because of the vast amount of characters and their development I have to work on (gosh, it's actually fun though). I hope you can agree with me on this.

I have a challenge to you silent readers out there *winkwinknudgenudge*: REVIEW. xD I'm sorry, but I just need to know what you guys think of my story. Maybe point out flaws that I have to work on, grammar mistakes, whatever. Tell me about what you like or dislike about this story. C: Please and thank you. :D

Okay yeah. I don't remember if I replied to your reviews last time and it's kinda like 3 in the morning right now and today's my last day of school and I have to go to the beach and ditch it because why not (excuses, excuses) so I'm lazy and I love you all. :D I'll reply next time. *shrugs*

*- YAOI SENSES ACTIVATED. X3 Okay… I'm sorry… B-But Kaito and Len...! DX