Chapter 1: Meet Me

"Wake the hell up," Guren called throwing open Yuu's door.

"What the hell," he groaned burying himself further in his covers. "What time is it?"

"It's 8:00am, now get up, before I drag you out of there."

"Shut up," Yuu pulled a pillow over his head. "It's summer, there's no reason for me to get up this early."

"Oh yeah," Guren raised an eyebrow. "Remember how I told you, you're helping an important client's son get familiar with the town today?"

"…..Shit."

"Yeah, so be downstairs in twenty minutes, I'd rather not be late," Guren said before loudly shutting the door on his way out.

Yuu grumbled before throwing his covers off and shuffling into his closet for something to wear. A quick trip to the bathroom, a run in with a hairbrush, and fifteen minutes later he was downstairs on the couch, still only half awake, waiting for Guren.

"You made it. Too bad, I was enjoying the thought of dragging you out of the bed by your ankles."

Yuu threw him a half-hearted glare before standing up to follow Guren out the door, only to be shoved back.

"Where do you think you're going? Get your keys, you have to drive there."

"What the hell, why?"

"Well, I don't expect you to stay at the office all day and you're certainly not taking my car."

"Fine, whatever, let's just go" Yuu said grabbing his keys and shoving his way past Guren out the door.

"Oi brat! Fix that attitude, if you fuck this up, I'll make sure you're the one who suffers." A slammed car door was the only response received. "Stupid kid," Guren muttered, locking the door. "Why'd she have to remember I have a son."
~~~~~

"Guren, a word," his boss Kureto Hiragi called to him. "I have Krul Tepes on the line and she would like to speak with you."

"Krul Tepes who frequently partners with our competitors? What the hell does she want with me?

"That's what I'm curious to know as well," Kureto narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

"Hey! Don't look at me like that. I've only spoken to her one time, at that gathering a while back."

"Uh huh," he continuing staring. "Sit down and we'll both find out what she wants."

Guren reluctantly sat and Kureto pressed speakerphone. "Ms. Tepes, I have Ichinose here with me."

"Ah, good. Let's get down to business then, shall we. I will be moving to your city soon and as we are mutual partners in the same industry, I was hoping you could do me a small favor." Kureto's eyebrows rose as he eyed Guren and waited.

"I'm not sure how accommodating we could be with someone who works with a competitor… " Guren began.

"This favor would of course be reciprocated. I'm sure we could be beneficial to each other."

Kureto cut in suddenly more interested, "And just what is this favor."

"If I recall correctly, at our past meeting, Ichinose mentioned he had a son?"

"I….do."

"Well, I have a son the same age as yours and it would be nice if he knew someone at his new school and if there was someone to show him around the town beforehand."

"Yuuichirou isn't really the sociable type-."

"But, I'm sure he'd be glad to help his father out, isn't that right, Guren?" Kureto was glaring angrily.

"Maybe-."

"That's perfect, my Mikaela doesn't really socialize either, hence the reason I wanted him to meet someone. I'm sure they'll get along great."

"Indeed," Kureto agreed.

"We should arrive there in two weeks; that should give you plenty of time to let Yuuichirou know and plan accordingly. If this goes well, who knows, there could be many more favors down the line. Thank you for your time."

"It was our pleasure," Kureto replied before disconnecting the call. He looked over at Guren, "Don't let that brat of yours fuck this up."

Guren sighed, Yuu better be on his best behavior. There was a lot riding on those "favors" from Krul and he'd never hear the end of it if today went badly, even if he had been opposed to the idea from the beginning.
~~~~~

"Mika, how long are you going to sit there and sulk?"

"Until you change your mind and let me stay home."

"I am not letting you remain a recluse. In the last city, you made no friends and never did anything with anyone."

"That's because I didn't want to."

"Regardless, it can't continue. You need to make some friends."

"Let me make them myself then! Don't force me to spend the day with some stranger."

"You've proven yourself unable to make friends yourself, so I'm stepping in."

"I can-"

"You will spend the day with this boy and maybe you'll make a friend."

"I don't-"

"And if you do in fact make friends yourself, feel free to drop him, I don't care. But get out of those pajamas and get ready."

"But-"

"Mikaela."

"Fine."

Shuffling upstairs, he was still pissed, he couldn't believe it when she told him a week ago, he'd be spending the day with some stranger they'd never met before. "Apparently he's unsociable too, you should get along perfectly," she had said to him. Did she not realize that two unsociable people meant twice the awkwardness?

"Mikaela! Let's go now!"

"Yeah, yeah," he muttered kicking aside some clothes to find his wallet. He padded silently down the stairs to reach Krul. "Last chance to change your mind."

Krul sighed, "Mika, I know you don't trust people and I know it's your way of protecting yourself, but you can't stay locked away forever." He looked away. "Let's go.
~~~~~

Yuuichirou was leaning back on the couch, eyes shut with his head resting against the back when he felt something tickling his face and ears. He opened his eyes to come face to face with the bluest eyes he'd ever seen, which were also incidentally very close and staring into his with what he could swear was a mischievous glint as his body slowly tensed.

"I'm Mikaela."

"….."

"And you are?"

"Very uncomfortable."

Mikaela smirked, but made no move to adjust his uncomfortably close position of leaning over Yuuichirou. "Are you?"

"….."

"So, I'm assuming you are Yuuichirou, the one who's supposed to show me around?"

"You came over here without even knowing if I was the right guy?"

"Well, Ichinose said you would likely be the one asleep on the couch. So, I had a 90% chance of getting it right."

Yuuichirou sighed, his exhale ruffling Mikaela's bangs. "Wait, I thought I was showing around her son, not her daughter."

Mikaela glared, "I am her son."

"Are you? You were so close I couldn't really tell."

"You-"

"Mikaela! Stop trying to scare him off, I doubt you can anyway. His father probably forced him to be here."

He turned his head away from the emerald gaze of the boy below him and stood straight, "Krul."

"Now, that you've met, do go out and enjoy the day, try to be back by five and we'll head home together. You have money?" Mikaela nodded.

"Did you remember your wallet, Yuu?"

"Yes, Guren," he let out an irritated breath."

"Alright we'll see you two later."

Yuu turned to Mika and gestured, "My car's this way."

"I think they'll get along great," Krul mused as she watched them walk away.
~~~~~

Yuuichiro gestured to a black Nissan, "This is me, what do you want to see first?"

"I don't know Yuuichirou, I just moved here."

Yuu gave him a look, carding his hands through his hair in agitation, "Have you had breakfast cause I'm starving?"

"No."

He walked around the driver side and nodded, "Get in, we'll head back to town, since you'll be living there and not here in the city."

Mikaela made no move to open the door. "Are you a safe driver?"

"Get in the car."

"I'm just concerned about my safety," Mikaela replied sliding into the passenger seat.

Yuuichirou turned to look at him, "You're doing this on purpose."

"I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm trying to be social."

"Uh huh. Well, maybe you can be a little less social, might make the day go by faster."

They end up seated on a grassy spot at a local park with orange juice and a bag full of breakfast tacos. Yuu stretches out on the grass reaching into the bag and opens one, "So, why'd you guys move here?"

Mika shrugs, "Krul wanted a change of scenery and there's an office in her company here."

"Right," he nodded. "Eat one," he said throwing a foil wrapped taco at Mika, "I didn't buy all these for myself." Mika sighs and unwraps one. "How come you needed a tour guide? Was she afraid you'd get lost?"

Mika glared, "No."

"What happened to trying to be social?"

"You said be less social."

Yuu groaned, "This isn't what I meant and you know it. We literally have 7 hours together, is this really how you are? Or are you more like earlier?"

"Like this, earlier I just wanted to make you uncomfortable."

"You don't even know me."

Mikaela shrugged, "I know you agreed to this."

"I had no choice! I was forced into it!"

"That makes two of us, "he muttered.

Yuu finished his last taco and rolled onto his back, "So, what sounds good to you?"

"I don't really do much. I mostly stay home."

"Ah, so that's why you were forced to be here."

Mikaela didn't bother responding.

Yuu poked his stomach teasing, "Mikaela needs a life, does he?"

Mika swatted his hand away and stood up, "No, I'm perfectly fine."

"Mmmhmmm."

"Anyway, get up, I'm done eating."

Yuu laughed, but obeyed. He tossed their trash in the garbage, "Come on, let's go."

"Go where?"

"Since, you don't have any ideas and it's a nice day, we can just wander. The point is to get to know the town, yeah?"

Mika shrugged.
~~~~~

Four hours of walking later, the day had gotten increasingly hot and they were both starting to feel the effects of continuous walking.

"Whose idea was this," Mikaela questioned.

"You didn't have any better ones and hey at least you got to see the town."

"Yeah, up close and personal, on foot."

Yuu grunted and shoved Mika through the school doors into blessed a/c. "The school's open right now for sport's clubs, so I can show you around."

"Fun." Yuu continued walking, by this time Mikaela's deadpan sarcasm and short answers just rolled off of him."

A brief, but blessedly cool tour later and they were back outside. Yuu was contemplating where to go next when Mikaela's entire demeanor changed. His eyes lit up and his body tensed in excitement. "Yuuichirou! That's an ice cream truck, we have to catch it!"

Now that he was listening closer he could, in fact, hear that familiar music. He laughed, "An ice cream truck is what it takes to get you to open up?"

Mikaela grabbed his wrist and began running down the street practically dragging Yuu behind him.

"Wait wait Mikaela," he protested. "It's way too hot for this."

"Ice cream will cool you off, run faster Yuuichirou! Geez, your name is a mouthful."

"Just call….me Yuu," he panted out. Summer vacation was really getting him out of shape. He was overjoyed when Mikaela came to a halt in front of the truck. Yuu bent over to catch his breath and wipe the sweat from his face, fucking 95 degree heat, while Mikaela ordered.

"Two scoops of chocolate chip on a cone and…." Mika glanced back at Yuu who was red faced and still panting from the unexpected exertion, "a fudgesicle." Mikaela silently eyed Yuu who looked mildly annoyed before he unwrapped the fudgsicle and popped it in Yuu's open mouth causing him to nearly gag. "Cheer up, we caught it." Yuu pulled the ice cream from his mouth and glared at Mikaela who smiled angelically.

Receiving his own next, Mika took a bite of his ice cream cone and hummed in contentment. "Where to?" He questioned Yuu.

"I dunno, somewhere out of the sun. Let's head back to my car."

"How far is that?"

"Uhh…maybe 2 hours?"

"Wonderful," Mika shoved a scoop of ice cream in his mouth, "you're really terrible at planning."

Yuu glared.

"And you had weeks to do it."

"Sorry, my time didn't involve planning the perfect day for you!"

Mika shrugged and turned away.

"Nuh uh," Yuuichirou grabbed his shoulder and yanked him back around. "You can't act like that anymore."

Mikaela raised an eyebrow.

"I just saw you run after an ice cream truck. I know there's more beneath those blank expressions and sass. There's no going back now."

"Fine…" Mikaela smirked, "Yuu-chan. You got me."

"Don't call me that."

"Why not? You want to see under, too bad its worse. And you're younger than me too."

"We're the same age," Yuu protested.

"Nah, I think I have a few months on you."

"That doesn't matter! We're in the same year!"

"Arguing and yelling like a child too, yeah, I think it fits perfectly," Mikaela laughed.

"You're kind of a jerk."

"Which way to your car?"

"This way," Yuu said walking off.

"Actually," Mikaela paused. "This area looks kind of familiar, we may be near my house."

"Which way to your house?"

"Dunno, GPS it."

Yuu sighed, "And why should we go there?"

"I have a pool."

Yuu's eyes lit up, "You should've said so. Tell me your address."

Mikaela shook his head and recited his address.

Yuu entered the address into his phone, "Ha! It's only an hour walk, maybe less if we hurry. That's much better than two hours and there's a pool!"

"So eager." But Yuu's not even listening to him anymore, he's already walking down the street.

"Come on, finish that ice cream and hurry up!"

Mikaela shoves the last bit of his ice cream in his mouth and chases after Yuu.
~~~~~

45 minutes later and Mikaela is exhausted, his feet hurt, Yuu has kept up a rapid pace, and the sweat is starting to irritate his burgeoning sunburn. He's never been so glad to see his house before. Yuu turns to look at him, "You're red. I probably should have slowed down."

"It's a little late for that," Mika muttered. He unlocked the door and sighed in relief at the cold air on his hot skin. He toed off his shoes and collapsed on the floor.

Yuu squatted down beside him and brushed his bangs back, "You okay?"

"No."

"You're probably dehydrated, I'll get you some water."

Mika honestly didn't care what Yuuichirou did, he would be content to rest on the cool floor forever. Yuu returned and pressed a bottle of water to his face, "Sit up and drink it. You'll feel better."

Mikaela groaned and sat up leaning his sweaty head against Yuu's shoulder, he took a few sips and closed his eyes.

"You're kind of weak, aren't you?"

"Shut up. It was hot. Hours in the sun will do that to you."

"Especially if they're as pale as you," Yuu grinned down at him. "Hey, I don't have any swim shorts."

"I have some spare ones, you can borrow a pair." Mika manages to pull himself up, "Wait here." Mika would honestly rather take a cool shower and collapse in the bed at this point, but he suggested they go to his house, so he figures he might as well see it through. The pool will have to do to cool him down. Mikaela changes into swim trucks and a t shirt to protect his skin, slathers on sunblock, and grabs a pair of shorts for Yuu before heading back down. Mika throws the shorts at Yuu, "I'll be in the pool."

"You can't even wait for me?"

"No, my skin hurts too much." Mika is pleased to see that his inflatable inner tube is still there, slipping it up to his chest, he lets his body hang weightless in the water and rests his head on the inner tube. He's half asleep when he feels someone poking him in the cheek, Mikaela grunts without even bothering to turn his head.

"Why are you inside a floaty? You can't swim?"

"I can, I'm just resting."

"Oh. Okay," there's a pause. "Why is there a giant pink flamingo floaty?"

"That's Krul's. You can lay on it if you want."

"Nah, I'm good," Yuu splashes away. Mikaela knows he's probably becoming a terrible host, but honestly, he's not used to this much social interaction. He tends to keep to himself and spending an entire day with another person, a stranger no less, is a new experience for him. Mika sighs before slipping out of his inner tube and swimming after Yuuichirou, he supposes it could have been a worse person.

"So you can swim."

"I told you I could."

"Hey, I've cooled off now, if you really want to get out."

"Nah, it's fine, we can stay," Mika flips to float on his back.

Yuu is quiet for a moment, "If…you wanted to hang out again before school starts, I wouldn't mind."

Mikalea looks at him in amusement, "Does Yuu-chan like me now? You want me to be more social? Or maybe you just like my pool," he teases.

He flushes a bit at the use of the nickname, "It's not that. You're new here…I just don't want you to be lonely." Yuuichirou is a bit flustered at himself, he still barely knows this guy, he's not one to voluntarily hang out with strangers. He had to be forced to even come here today. But…he can tell there's more to Mikaela beneath the surface and he's surprisingly curious to find out.

Mikaela gives him a small smile, perhaps the first true one all day, "Okay."

Yuu splashes him feeling his neck burn a bit at his fleeting thought that Mikaela's kind of cute, "Alright, I'm good," he grabs Mikaela's wrists and pulls him towards the edge of the pool, "You look like you'll fall asleep if we stay any longer."

Mikaela leads Yuuichirou upstairs to his room, "There's a guest bathroom down the hall to the left and towels in the closet.

"Uh, okay thanks."

Mikaela enters his own bathroom, slips his clothes off, and finally takes a soothing shower. By the time, Yuuichirou appears in his doorway in nothing but a towel, Mikaela is already dressed, covered in aloe vera, and comfortably warm wrapped up in his bedding watching TV.

"Hey Mikaela, I have nothing to wear."

"Mika."

"Huh?"

"Call me Mika."

"Okay then, Mika I have nothing to wear."

"Wear nothing then."

"Mika, seriously, it's freezing in this house, I feel myself getting frostbite."

"First my swim shorts, now my clothes, just take my whole closet why don't you," he replies, eyes not leaving the TV while a smile pulls up the corner of his mouth.

Yuu rolls his eyes.

"Just grab something out of the drawers, anything is fine." Yuu quickly grabs shorts and a shirt then steps out into the hall to change. It's a little weird wearing more of someone else's clothes, but they're about the same size, so it's not too uncomfortable. He comes back in and sits on the edge of Mikaela's bed.

"I want blankets too."

"You have clothes."

"Yeah, but it's still freezing."

"You're so needy."

"I'm your guest!"

"So?"

"So, I need blankets!"

"I'm not getting up, it's freezing out there."

"That's my point!"

Mikaela sighs and adjusts a bit to open his blankets and look at Yuu expectantly.

Yuu stares, "I'm not getting in there with you."

Mikaela pulls his blankets back closer to block the cold air, "Well, guess you're not too cold, that's the only chance you get."

Yuuichirou huffs and leans back against Mikaela snatching the remote, "I'm picking something then."

"That's fine," Mika snuggles into his pillow and idly watches Yuu flip channels before settling on some action movie.

Ten minutes later and Yuu is back yanking at his blankets, "Let me in!"

"No, you had your chance, you picked the remote!"

"I changed my mind!"

"Too bad, I'm good."

"Mika," Yuu whines, "I'm so cold, I can't even watch the movie."

Mikaela sighed, "Next time, I won't give you a second chance," he said unwrapping his blankets.

Yuu eagerly crawled in, wrapping the blankets back around them, and sighing in contentment, "It's so warm."

"It was warmer before you crawled in," Mika muttered.

"Told you I was cold." He felt Mika moving around before he felt a warm head pressing against his neck, he had the passing thought that Mikaela smelled really good, his blankets too. "You're not watching."

Mika murmured something indecipherable before relaxing further. Yuuichirou smiled a little as he felt Mika's breathing even out, guess he really was as tired as he looked. Yuu squirmed a bit before shutting off the TV, he supposed a quick nap wouldn't hurt.
~~~~~

"Where are they," Krul questioned impatiently. "It's 5:30."

"They probably just got caught in traffic. Still no answer?"

"Clearly not," she glared at Guren, "if your kid kidnapped my son…."

"How do you know your brat didn't kidnap mine?"

"Now, now," Shinya interrupted, "I'm sure they'll be here shortly. They're sixteen year old boys, they probably lost track of time."

"And no answer from either of them?"

"If they're on their way, there's no point answering," Shinya tried to reassure Krul.

"Alright, we'll give them until six."

"That's fair."

Thirty anxious minutes later and Krul was demanding they call the police.

"That's not necessary, Guren interrupted. "I'll track Yuu's car."

"Why didn't you do that before?"

"I thought they'd be back, but I'm getting a little worried," Guren confessed.

"Hurry then."

Guren took a few minutes to pull up the app on his phone, "It says his last location was the park back in town. Huh."

"What is it?"

"It says his car has been parked there for almost 8 hours."

"Let's go then," Krul heads towards the door, her heels clicking across the floor, "Text me the address and I'll meet you there."

Guren sends her the address before heading to the parking garage, Shinya on his heels. "What if Yuu really did kidnap Mikaela? Maybe they ran away together in rebellion."

Guren snorted, "Yuu is not that much of an idiot. He wouldn't run away with some strange kid that doesn't understand personal space. If anything, they killed each other."

Shinya hummed, "Kind of like Yuu and Kimizuki."

"Exactly."
~~~~~

Guren is standing in front of Yuu's empty car with no sign of the two boys. It's the last part of the hottest time of the day and there's hardly anyone around. They've searched the park and come up empty handed.

"Why would Yuu just leave his car here for eight hours," Shinya thought out loud.

"No clue, I called Shinoa and none of them have heard from him today either."

"Can we call the police yet?"

Guren sighed and looked over at the pink haired woman, "If we have no other choice."

"Finally, let's return to my house. We can call them from there. You can follow me."

Guren glared at Yuu's car. He told that stupid brat not to fuck this up and what does he do? He goes completely AWOL leaving his car and not answering his phone. Guren wants to strangle him, even as part of him is actually a little worried. He feels Shinya placing a hand on his shoulder and squeezing it reassuringly.
~~~~~

Krul opens the door to her house and steps out of her heels. She pauses, taking in the water bottle on the floor and the unfamiliar pair of shoes at the entrance.

"What is it," Shinya asked entering behind her.

"Those aren't Mikaela's shoes."

Guren peered over Shinya's shoulder and sighed in relief, "Those are Yuu's."

"This is where they've been the whole time? He was supposed to spend the day outside of the house." Krul hurries up the stairs to Mika's room pausing when she hears voices coming from inside. She's surprised to see both Mikaela and Yuuichirou in bed together. "I didn't realize Yuuichirou was the type to climb into bed with a complete stranger."

"He's not," Guren grits out.

"But, I suppose they are sixteen," Krul continues as if Guren hadn't even spoken. "Although, this is not how I would have chosen the day to go." Guren is about to go drag Yuuichirou out of the bed by his hair when he hears Mikaela speak.

"Why are you in my bed?"

"What do you mean why? You wouldn't give me any blankets!"

"Oh. So, you'll hop in bed with any stranger to get warm," Mikaela smirked.

"That's not what happened!" Yuu protested.

"Really? Because here you are. In my bed. Under my blankets."

Yuu glared, "Well, maybe next time you'll give me blankets when I ask."

Mika flipped onto his back and smiled, "Well, maybe next time you won't go home with a stranger."

Yuu freed an arm from the confines of the blankets and smacked Mikaela with a pillow, "You're a terrible host."

Mikaela retaliated by running his nails roughly down Yuuichirou's stomach causing him to jerk back only the blankets keeping him from falling off the side. "You're a terrible guest."

"I'm going home."

"Feel free….have a nice walk."

Yuu paused, shit, he'd forgotten they had walked here. "Nevermind, you're driving me to my car."

"Nah," Mika stretched and turned over, "I think I'll go back to sleep."

"No you won't!" Yuuichirou fought free of the blankets and gripped Mikaela's waist attempting to pull him from the bed.

Krul stepped into the room, clearing her throat. Yuuichirou immediately froze and both pairs of eyes flew to the doorway landing on Krul, Guren and Shinya standing there. "Uh…." Yuu gaped.

"What are you doing here?" Mika questioned sitting up forcing Yuuichirou to let go of him.

"It's after five."

Yuu glanced over at Mikaela's clock which read 6:45 and cursed internally. "Guess we lost track of time," he said with a sheepish glance at the adults.

"You bet you did," Guren said stomping into the room. "Where the hell is in your phone?"

"I…must have left it downstairs before we went swimming."

"And you left your car too?"

Yuu chuckled nervously, "Well, it was closer to here than back to my car when we decided to stop walking."

Guren narrowed his eyes, "What the hell was I supposed to think when you disappear, don't answer your phone, and your car's been abandoned for hours?"

"That I fell asleep," Yuu joked.

"This isn't funny, Yuuichirou."

The use of his full name like that instantly irritated Yuuichirou, it wasn't like he intentionally lost track of time. "I didn't do it on purpose, Guren!"

"How hard is it to be back by five," Guren countered.

"At least I came! I didn't volunteer for this!"

"It's the least you could do, I-"

"Okay, okay," Shinya interrupted what was easily about to turn into a full blown argument. "We get it, Guren was worried and Yuu is sorry he worried you."

"Yes," Krul said, "and I'm just glad you're both okay. Since we're all here, we may as well have dinner. I'll order something, come down when you're ready." Krul turned on her heel dragging Shinya and Guren out of the door.

Yuu groaned in frustration and collapsed across Mikaela's lap. Yuuichirou figured Guren had actually been worried, but still, he didn't have to act like Yuu was being difficult on purpose. It kind of pissed him off actually, he only agreed to this for Guren's sake anyway. Speaking of which, he could feel Mikaela stroking his hair and he hated to admit it, but it felt nice. He peered up at Mikaela with one eye, "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? You fell on me."

"I'm trying to be less annoyed at Guren."

"Then I'm trying to comfort you."

Yuu cracked a smile, "I knew you weren't as cold as you acted."

Mika grimaced and shoved Yuu off his lap, "Let's go, I'm hungry."
~~~~~

Mikaela slipped into a chair around the table where Krul was placing pans of pasta and Yuu sulked in a chair next to him.

"How was today, Mika," Krul questioned.

He glanced at Yuuichirou, "It wasn't so bad," Mika mumbled recollecting their day.

"At least someone's day was carefree," Guren muttered.

Yuu opened his mouth to protest, but stopped when he felt Mikaela squeeze his leg, hard. He settled for glaring at Mikaela instead before attempting to pry Mika's hand off his thigh without being noticed. He thought he had succeeded only for Mikaela to grab his hand and squeeze causing him to flush. He glanced over at Mikaela to see he had that innocent smile back in place while he talked with Krul.

"You okay there, Yuu? You're looking a little weird," Shinya questioned in concern.

Yuu's head shot up and his cheeks darkened, "I'm fine."

"You better be for the trouble you caused," Guren muttered.

Mikaela yanked on his hand before he even had the chance to come up with a retort. Yuuichirou sighed and felt Mikaela's thumb stroking the back of his hand soothingly. He looked over at Mikaela smiling at something Shinya said and thought maybe another friend wouldn't be so bad.

"Yuu-chan says he wants to hang out again," Mika said looking over at him.

"Really," Guren replied with all eyes turning to look at Yuuichirou.

"Yeah, he doesn't want me to be lonely," Mikaela gave him a cheeky smile.

Guren smirked, "I'm sure he doesn't."

Yuu could feel himself turning red under Shinya and Guren's matching smirks and he wanted to melt into his seat, even Krul was looking at him curiously. He took it back, maybe a new friend would be so bad.