[Closed] Oh, what horribly big teeth you have, grandmother!

[i_am_not_eleven]

Characters: Kaitou X and Takuto Tsunashi

Location: World's End

Rating: PG? (But this is a pseudo-kidnapping...)

Time: March 19th (backdated)

Description: A lesson in why your girlfriend should never annoy a serial killer. Not because he knew where she lived, of course. But because he knew where her friends lived.





Sai leans against the wall outside the World's End, occasionally giving a smile and a wave to the people he recognized from work. They in turn immediately put their heads down and tried their very best to run without actually increasing their pace lest Sai decided to chase them and break their limbs as he had often said oh-so-sweetly that he could.

That wouldn't be for today (although Sai mentally filed them away for the day after tomorrow) because today had already been reserved for a very special someone.

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[tauborn]

Takuto has had one day to think over things that could possibly have happened between Sai and Yako, and that is far too much time left with nothing but his imagination. Worse, given his graveyard shift of the watch, he's just spent all night considering what kind of history the other boy shared with his girlfriend. Well, he had also apprehended a criminal last night, but it had really only left him with adrenaline pumping alongside his overactive imagination.

Needless to say, he arrives at the World's End looking somewhat lost between angry and nervous. But as soon as he spots Sai standing there oh so nonchalantly, his eyes narrow and he makes a beeline for the pale youth.

"Well? Let's get this over with."

[i_am_not_eleven]

Sai straightens up when he sees Takuto and he even gives him a little wave, noting the narrowed eyes. He wondered just how long this guy had spent stewing since their conversation and the thought made him smile.

On his best behaviour (or at least his best facsimile of being on his best behaviour) Sai's tone is friendly and conversational, almost as if he hadn't heard Takuto, "Good morning! Takuto? It's Takuto, right?"

[tauborn]

"Yes, it's Takuto." Though for the first time in his life, it's rather grating to not hear an accompanying -san or -kun. He looks to the door to the very familiar pub, and then to Sai, and then just walks in.

[i_am_not_eleven]

Sai had never added honorifics without some ulterior motive in his seventeen years of life and he wasn't about to start. The only thing stopping Sai from calling him Takuto Tsunashi as if he were some kind of specimen was the fact that he hadn't learned his full name.

The pub was completely empty as Sai follows Takuto inside, it being much too early for elders who ran shady pubs to be out and about. (Not to mention the fact that Sai had asked to be given free run of the place.)

"The Major says we can use the basement so we don't get everything up here messy."

He holds the keys up with a smile as he starts walking towards the door of the basement.

[tauborn]

He can't help but raise an eyebrow at that. Takuto also has keys to the basement--it's the location of the stage that his drama club uses to rehearse. But he's never actually been there early in the morning. As he follows Sai he can't help but get a feeling reminiscent of being in a school outside regular hours. It feels like you just don't belong.

"What do you mean messy?" If Sai wants to fight, he'll give him one, of course. But it isn't really what he'd been expecting from this meeting. He wants answers about Yako, after all.

[i_am_not_eleven]

Sai doesn't even turn back, but there is a warm amusement in his voice as he makes his way down the stairs, "I mean, if you decide to fight me instead of listening or after listening, we won't be near anything breakable. And--"

He grins, a cheerful expression that doesn't match what he says next, "--it's a good place to hide a dead body, don't you think?"

[tauborn]

That last, cheery bit sends a cold wave of dread through Takuto. But he's not going to back out now. Of course he's not planning to kill Sai, though. And Sai...

Sai doesn't have any reason to want to kill Takuto, does he?


...does he?

Takuto immediately turns on the lights when they reach the bottom of the stairs. It's far too creepy to be here in the dark with the other boy.

[i_am_not_eleven]

Was it because Takuto was so familiar with the basement or was it because he found what Sai had just said worrying? Sai smiles to himself as the lights come on so quickly, turning around with a wounded expression, "That was a joke."

Mostly.

Besides, he knew better than to hide a body in a basement that was so frequently used. Unless he was trying to make some kind of point. Or make his boss really mad at him.

[tauborn]

"O-of course." It hadn't been an 'of course' moment at all.

He moves to the stage, boosting himself onto it with his legs dangling off the edge. His eyes hardly ever leave Sai. "So? What's between you and Yako?"

[i_am_not_eleven]

An annoying demon from the Underworld.

...would have been Sai's first answer, but he had the feeling that joke would have just gone completely over Takuto's head.

Sai doesn't move to the stage, instead choosing to pace with his hands behind his back. He doesn't mind having to look up and he likes the fact that if he wanted to, he could get moving much more quickly than Takuto could.

"In this whole city, she's the only one who knows me and I'm the only one who knows her. The real her."

[tauborn]

He grits his teeth. This conversation is already difficult.

"So what does that actually mean, and how are you planning to prove it?"

[i_am_not_eleven]

"How do you want me to prove it? Scars? Birthmarks? Ah. Or maybe I could tell you about the guy who was keeping her like a pet."

Sai stops pacing to tap his finger against his chin, forehead furrowed in mock-concentration.

[tauborn]

Takuto wouldn't be very good at recognizing any scars or birthmarks of Yako's, considering he's only ever seen her fully clothed. Still, the idea that Sai knows about those kinds of things... makes him feel a little sick.

Not nearly as sick as the idea of someone keeping her as a pet. There's a rumor he's heard about a different person who kept a girl in a birdcage, and it's a rumor he really hates.

"What."

[i_am_not_eleven]

Sai's eyes widen at that, but his voice doesn't sound surprised, "You really...don't know anything, huh?"

[tauborn]

"Okay, I get it. You know lots of things about her and I hardly know anything. I get it." All of his pent-up frustration that was really directed at Yako was coming bubbling out. Still, there was plenty of unease and distrust and general dislike that was rightfully directed at Sai. "So just tell me what I came here to know already."

[i_am_not_eleven]

Sai really does find this whole situation hilarious and would have been more than willing to drag this on as long as he could just to see how Takuto reacted. But alas, he didn't have all day.

Besides, he was still standing between Takuto and the door.

"If I said absolutely nothing, would you believe me?"

[tauborn]

"No." Because why else would Sai have asked him to come out here? Takuto understood walking in the door that Sai is likely to gloat about his relationship to Yako and whatever it all entails, but it's a price he's willing to pay to hear the truth behind what lead to Yako and Sai in bed together for the whole network to hear.

So despite how much he's hating it, he's ready for Sai to get on with the story and brag about how close he is to Yako and how Takuto is just some kind of outsider.

[i_am_not_eleven]

To make Yako extremely uncomfortable, of course. To remind her that if Sai wanted to, he could destroy everything she loved and it would be so, so easy.

"How mean. Don't ask if you are going to believe me."

He tilts his head to one side, smile still cheerful, "It really isn't what you're thinking, you know. I have problems even thinking of her as a human being sometimes."

[tauborn]

His moment of relief at Sai's "it isn't what you're thinking" is short-lived. What does it mean to not think of someone as a human being?

"That's... not really making any of this better, though."

[i_am_not_eleven]

So demanding, Takuto.

"Then what would make it better? Maybe if I told you that I tried to kill her once? Or was it twice...?"

whether it connects or not is up to you~

[tauborn]

He loses any and all respect for the person standing in front of him, not that he had that much to begin with. His face falls flat as he walks purposefully towards Sai.

He hardly slows as he gets closer, and then, without warning, slides his right foot back, cocks back his arm, and aims right for Sai's face.

well...he /is/ trying to make a point to Yako so...sorry, Takuto.

[i_am_not_eleven]

He had kind of expected it. Most normal people didn't react well when you told them that you had tried to kill someone they cared about. He didn't exactly understand why that was, of course, but he'd been enough people and seen enough people to know that for some reason, they didn't like it.

He doesn't want to be punched in the face today though (or any day). He dodges out of the way, hopping a bit to regain his balance, "Ah. That was dangerous. So glad I listened to the Major and used the basement."