t.r.u.t.h..o.r..d.a.r.e

"Um…T-truth?" Teito replied uncertainly. "No, wait, Dare! W-wait, u-um…"

"Te-i-to~"

"Not now, Hakuren!" Teito groaned, slapping a hand over his forehead as he weighed the pros and cons of each decision. A stupid game shouldn't be so difficult to figure out.

"Wait, doesn't the brat mmrphuphfuuu." Frau glared down at Labrador who was sprawled across his lap, having clamped a hand over the blond's mouth. Frau grabbed the gardener's wrist and attempted to remove it but found he was met with resistance and pulled harder. Labrador, in turn, clamped his other hand over Frau's and pushed forward, pushed forward, pushed forward, and Frau's eyes widened as he felt himself tilted back, unable to act quickly and was pushed backwards, backwards, backwards until he fell to the floor, Labrador falling across his stomach.

There was no reason for it, but Frau pulled in a deep breath of air the second his mouth had been freed. Once he was certain he wouldn't be suffocated again, he began to sit up and had a spout of curses lining up behind a growl in his throat when his face was suddenly filled with Labrador and he threw himself back in an attempt to put distance between them.

But Labrador followed, a frown on his face, and Frau suddenly had a quick sense of Déjà vu that had him shoving out a hand and catching the gardener's chin, tilting it up and away from his own face. Labrador, however, took handfuls of the blond's coat and kept himself in place, no matter how awkwardly bent backwards he was.

"What the hell are you doing?" Frau nearly shrilled, dragging himself backwards with his free arm to get away.

"Don't say anything!" Labrador yelled desperately and attempted to shake the body beneath him. "It's all according to my plan; don't screw it up!"

"You could've just told me that, you fucking weirdo!"

"I tried to but you turned around and attacked me!"

"Who's attackin' who?" Frau barked, carelessly throwing Labrador aside and away.

The gardener landed in a heap beside Frau with a little oof, blinking rapidly until the world came to focus again.

Which actually took a while.

"What was that?" Hakuren raised an eyebrow, giving Frau a pointed look.

The elder blond sat up properly and fixed Hakuren with a glare before reaching over and wrapping an arm around the poor boy's neck, ruffling his hair with a certain violent vigor. "When did you get such a mouth, punk?" he grinned. "What happened to Bishop Frau, and Bishop-sama, and Frau-san, and just plain worshiping the ground I walked on, huh?"

"L-lemme go!"

"You're going to lose another member of your fan club, Frau, if you don't knock it off," Castor commented, allowing a small smirk to grace his features.

"Aya-tan has a fan club too," Hyuuga smiled innocently, unwrapping a lollipop with great delicacy and love.

"I do?" Ayanami raised an eyebrow, glanced quickly towards Labrador to find the bishop glaring at him, and added the needed: "Nyaa~"

"Of course, Aya-tan~~" the lieutenant flung himself towards his superior officer, arms outstretched to catch the smaller man in a warm embrace when a socked foot rammed into his face.

"Don't you fucking think about it, creep!" Teito growled, hunkering down until most of his back was on the ground between Ayanami's legs. Then with a forced push, sent the lieutenant tumbling backwards. "You can hug him after I get off his lap," he muttered, a faint blush coloring his face. "I've decided to pick Truth."

"If you had to be a stripper, nyaa~" Ayanami's eye twitched, but it was barely noticeable, especially since he caught the panicked look on the brunet's face and that made everything better. It always did so adorable. "What would your name and act be, nyaa~"

"I pick Dare," Teito glared at the wall, folding his arms defiantly.

Still caught in Frau's arm, Hakuren wriggled out of it enough to free his mouth, but not enough to remove himself from his comfy spot nestled beside the blond bishop. It was an opportunity of a lifetime, and he would damn well milk it for all it was worth.

And to distract anyone from noticing, Hakuren gave them something to talk about.

"You're no fun!" he whined, then with a thoughtful sigh, continued. "Mine would be Golden Strawberry and I would sing and dance."

Frau stifled a laugh and looked down to the boy resting his head on his lap. "Given it much thought, Hakuren?"

The teen shrugged. "I figured if I didn't pass my Bishop's Exam, I might as well have a backup career I can fall back on."

"Well that's a thought," Frau mused before turning to his rusty-haired friend. "Castor, you really should pay more attention your students especially regarding their careers."

"Hakuren-kun, you can't become a stripper," he told the blond teen. "Satisfied?" he told Frau. The blond bishop merely grinned and shrugged a shoulder.

"I think I would be Bishie Rockstar," Frau supplied, staring at the ceiling for ideas. "As for my act…" he stopped to chuckle and grin, then leaned back on his free arm to laugh out loud.

"Bishie Rockstar?" Castor shook his head, grinning. "Seriously?"

"Wait, what's your act?" Labrador asked, poking Frau on the shoulder to draw his attention.

And failed..

"What's wrong with it? Better than anything you can come up with," the blond bishop challenged, to which Castor accepted with a smirk.

"Well, give me a minute, I don't already have it planned out like some people."

Hyuuga raised his hand and waved it frantically. "I would be Candie Shoppe 'cause you can lick my lollipop all day long~!"

"Did he just?" Hakuren bit his lip, unsuccessfully stifling a laugh and decided to just let it out, turning to press his forehead against Frau's thigh and laughed into it, feeling the blond bishop pat his back.

"Dude, I can't believe you just said that," Frau shook his head, taking on Labrador's giggling form on his left shoulder.

"Oh god, the mental image," Castor shuddered, fanning himself with both hands. He shook his head, probably in an attempt to dislodge the images from his mind but did not succeed. "And I was in it! Make it stop; someone make it stop!I need alcohol, STAT!"

"I wanna go to my room; I wanna go to my room, I wanna go to my room." Teito clamped his hands over his ears and chanted with all his might. He opened an eye to see if he succeeded, noticed he didn't and tried again, louder the second time around.

"Ouu~ Me," Labrador sat up properly, legs folded under him as he raised his hand. "I wanna be Mr. Bon-Bon because I'm so cute and fluffeh~"

Frau shook his head. "Dude, you'll be eaten alive."

"Maybe I want to be," the gardener smirked to which Hakuren gave an inappropriate wolf-whistle.

"I've thought of one!" Castor snapped his fingers suddenly, eyes glazed with a bottle in hand. "The Long Dong Ranger!"

"Can someone just give me my dare?" Teito interrupted with a face stained red.

"I've thought of something, nyaa~" It was disturbing how simple it seemed to be for Ayanami to incorporate the word into his vocabulary. Oh well. Stranger things have happened. "You must drink or eat something from someone's mouth and guess what you consumed and who you consumed from…nyaa~"

"No, no, no; not this again," Teito muttered as he pushed aside the military man's grabby hands and rose to his feet, tiptoeing around Ayanami and Labrador until he was standing behind them and able to glare at the group as a whole. "I was put through something similar not three turns ago! Wait "

Tears of unbridled joy and relief collected in the corners of shining emerald eyes, and he rubbed at them before anyone could notice them and sent Ayanami a smug smirk of satisfaction. "I got my Get Out of Jail Free card and I'm using it!"

"You can't," Frau deadpanned.

"What?" Teito's face fell, and the tears came back, only for a different reason, as he turned to face Frau. "Why?"

"You void it when you accepted Truth. You're supposed to use it before your turn."

"S-so then…" he sniffed, got over it, and glared at both blonds. "Why didn't you tell me?"

Frau shrugged, having attempted just that when he had been interrupted by Labrador.

Hakuren just laughed and pointed. "You should've seen your face! It was priceless and so worth it."

"That's it, asshole."

"No, wait!" Frau held out a hand to stop the teen.

But if he had succeeded, that wouldn't have been any fun, now would it?

Like a panther, Teito soared through the air and tackled into Hakuren, taking out Frau in the process. Following a low, painful moan was a sound similar to two cats fighting. The two teens scuffled for dominance, a crazy dance of arms and legs until Hakuren was flat on his back, Teito straddling his hips.

The brunet had a hand filled with blond hair, the other raised to strike but Hakuren caught it and tried clawing at Teito's face with the other. He caught a fistful of brown hair, however, and tugged down, bringing down the smaller teen to his level.

Hands busy, Hakuren bit down on the soft skin of Teito's neck, causing a mild squeak of confusion to vibrate in the brunet's throat. He thrashed helplessly, pulling at blond strands until the teen let go.

"You bit me!" he shouted, shocked.

"Stop pulling my hair!" Hakuren snipped, tugging at Teito's hair until he tumbled, switching positions with the taller teen.

"Labrador," Castor shouted. "Help me stop them!"

"No, wait," the gardener replied, watching the teen's scuffle with mild curiosity.

"What do you mean wait?"

A well placed punch on Teito's part, catching the blond on the chin, had them rolling again as they struggled for dominance, away from the grown-ups and Castor's failed attempts to pull Hakuren off the smaller teen.

Hakuren, caught on his back again, had his claws on Teito's cheek, pulling a leg between them and attempting to push the brunet off, but Teito held fast by grabbing more of Hakuren's hair and peeling the blond's fingers from his cheek one by one.

Until Hakuren bit his wrist.

"Stop biting me!"

"Stop pulling my hair!"

Hakuren flipped him over and onto his stomach, quickly sitting on Teito and taking both his arms, twisting them around and pulling them backwards. The brunet bit back a cry of pain and began thrashing his legs the more the taller teen pulled.

"Let go, let go, let go!"

"You busted my lip!" Hakuren growled and pulled some more.

"You scratched my face and made my neck bleed, now let. Me. Go!"

"Stop kickin' me, brat!" Frau roared, taking one of Teito's ankles and pulling, knocking Hakuren off balance. The taller teen tumbled forward, face planting on the ground and finally released Teito.

The teen, in turn, pulled his arms close to his body and tried to ignore the burn on his chin and belly as he was pulled underneath Frau, who was on hands and knees with a feral snarl on his lips.

Hakuren, hair in complete disarray with most of it out of its usually neat hair-clamp, sat up slowly and delicately prodded the bruising skin around his nose His bottom lip was swelling with a faint dribble of blood catching on his chin.

Teito, winded and exhausted, rolled onto his back and placed a hesitant hand on the burning scratches on his cheek, the skin having been superficially split open and allowing beads of blood to bubble along their lines. On his neck was a dark mark with clear visual signs of teeth, dribbling blood at an equally low level. And, finally, the skin on his belly and chin were raw-red with no signs of broken skin.

Diagnosis complete, no life-threatening injuries.

Frau sighed and collapsed beside Teito, an arm unconsciously falling over the teen's small chest. He pulled the small body close, nuzzled into a thin shoulder and sighed, trying desperately to ignore the throbbing pain between his legs.

Anyway.

Castor growled at the stupidity being displayed and rose to his feet to drag Hakuren away from Teito to look over his injuries, but just mainly to prevent another squabble.

07.g.h.o.s.t

"Stop touching it!" Hakuren whined but Castor merely slapped the teen's hands away and went back to assessing the condition of the boy's nose. Labrador was beside them, giving his expertise though not actually attempting to feel for himself. There was the possibility that it had broken; he had fallen pretty hard, but with the swelling they couldn't be certain.

Things had calmed down remarkably after the two were forcefully split up by Frau, and everyone had taken that time to fix up their playing area. Empty bottles, snack bags and bowls were moved out of the way, any remaining were set in that inner circle neatly while sleeping bags and blankets were fluffed and shaken of any lingering crumbs and such.

During the entire process, Hyuuga sang a merry little song while Ayanami remained completely silent. Frau went staggering in search of a first aid kit, and Labrador and Teito aided in the cleanup. Castor was in charge of keeping Hakuren from touching his nose and throwing things at Teito.

Now, after most of the first aid was passed around, the group waited for Hakuren before continuing the game.

"I'm sorry, Frau," Teito whimpered, looking down at his fidgeting hands, ashamed at what he'd done. Though he didn't see it, having been fighting with Hakuren at the time, Ayanami had told him that he had made Frau cry (nyaa~). The blond bishop had instantly denied it, but the brunet wasn't stupid enough not to notice the faint trace of red in the corners of his eyes.

"Please stop talking," was Frau's response, hissing not a second later when the movement caused him discomfort. He settled the icepack a bit more comfortably on his crotch and tried to ignore the amused grin from Hyuuga who had quite a good laugh at his expense.

"But I'm really sorry!" the teen pleaded, wanting to be back in the bishop's good graces. The man tolerated Hakuren and ended up breaking the taller teen's nose. Now imagine Teito, who Frau constantly shouted at and called a brat?

Not to mention he ended up kneeing Frau's…ya know.

"I already told you that I forgive you, now shut up and pour me a goddamn glass of whiskey," the blond growled, flinching when the pain jolted through his aching body.

"Don't be so rough on the boy, nyaa~" Ayanami smirked.

"He said he was sorry," Hyuuga pouted, dark eyebrows dipping down sadly. Only he was laughing on the inside.

"Fuck you, Mr. Putty Tat and his cock-sucking hamster-"

"Frau, language!" Castor chastened from across the room.

"Sorry," the blond muttered, not meaning it at all.

Teito, still sitting, turned around and presented Frau the glass. "This much?"

It was filled half way.

"No, more."

"Okay," Castor sighed tiredly, rubbing his eyes with a forefinger and thumb. "It's not broken. Just keep a cold compress on it."

"Ya got lucky, Klein," Hakuren muttered in a phlegm voice, barely understood but the threat carried through.

"Bring it, Oak! I can take you on!" Teito growled.

"I swear, I will send you both to different corners of this room, so help me and if that doesn't keep you compliant, maybe I'll take Frau's earlier suggestion and tie you both up and gag you until this game is done and over with," Castor snapped, sending each teen a scalding glare. "Am I clear?"

Teito looked down to the glass in hand, swirling the contents, while Hakuren looked away and rubbed his arm.

"I said," Castor bit, clearly furious and ready to punish if necessary.

"Yes, Castor-san" both teens replied in unison.

Satisfied, the puppeteer sat back down and instructed Hakuren to sit between himself and Hyuuga. The lieutenant welcomed the estranged Oak with a piece of chocolate.

Teito, rubbing at the Band-Aid on his cheek, passed along the drink to its owner and asked no one in particular when he was going to complete his dare.

"I guess we are going to have another meeting outside," Labrador commented as he neatly arranged everything back in the first aid kit.

"I have to move?" Frau grumbled, searching for strength within his whiskey.

"Come on, everyone, nyaa~" Ayanami sighed, rising to his feet and calmly taking the lead, Hyuuga close behind with a smile on his face.

With Castor ushering out Hakuren, and Labrador helping Frau, Teito sighed tiredly and collapsed onto the blond bishop's futon, snuggling into the blankets and mentally preparing himself for…

Hell. It was the only word that fit.

07.g.h.o.s.t

"I will courageously volunteer myself for the dare, nyaa~" Ayanami voiced once the door to Castor's room had been closed and was instantly rejected.

By Frau.

With a simple no.

The air out in the corridor had a certain nip to it, causing those comfortable with one another to huddle for warmth. Hyuuga, all ninja like, had managed to wrap his arms around Ayanami's waist for all of ten seconds before he was ruthlessly shoved away.

Ten seconds. It was a world record!

Hakuren was protected by the elements between Labrador and Castor, the teen choosing to press closer to the gardener with the big fluffy dress rather than the man had had threatened him with bondage.

Frau stood alone and looked completely miserable about it. But not because of the cold. The bottle of tequila he brought with him was keeping him nice and warm it was the pain he was obviously still in.

"I'll do it," Hakuren proposed not a second later around the ice pack on his face.

And received a doubtful look on Castor's part.

"I thought you were furious with the boy because of…" he vaguely motioned to the busted nose and lip "that."

"I dunno," the teen shrugged his shoulders. "It looked like fun when Frau did it so I wanna do it too."

"No," Frau managed to reply with barely a hint of a growl in his tone.

Castor sighed. "Frau, we all know you are secretly in love with Teito-kun," he attempted at sarcastic but in his mind it was complete and utter truth so it didn't carry the tone as well as he hoped. "But you shouldn't hog him all to yourself. Let the boy breathe," he continued. "Let him experiment. Let him live."

"You can't do it either, Mr. Long Dong Ranger" Frau snarled before taking a swig from the bottle.

The russet slapped a hand over his forehead. "Then why don't we just let the fyulong do it," he returned, exasperated, desperate to ignore the snickers floating around him.

"We can always have a face-off of sorts," Ayanami suggested.

Labrador cleared his throat obviously.

"Nyaa~" the Chief of Staff finished.

"How about this!" Hyuuga began, shifting around the lollipop in his mouth to speak properly. "Okay, Enie," he pointed at Castor and followed the circle. "minie, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe~!"

"Oh, come on," Hakuren groaned, "What are we, five? That's just demeaning."

Castor pointed at Hyuuga and began: "Bubble gum, bubble gum in a dish. How many pieces do you wish?" and landed on Ayanami.

"Six, nyaa~"

It landed again on Ayanami.

"I guess he's doing it," Castor commented mildly, glad to have that problem solved so quickly.

"He counted!" Frau complained, pointing an accusing finger towards the military man.

Castor sighed. "Ayanami-san, can you pick a bigger number?"

"Thirty-six, nyaa~"

"It's divisible by six, it's still gonna land on him," the bishop growled, glaring at the smirking Chief of Staff.

"Then what do you propose we do, Frau?" the russet snapped, walking over to him to steal the alcohol bottle and take a swift drink before handing it back.

"How 'bout a fight club?" Hakuren suggested unhelpfully and received a smack upside the head from Castor.

"Um, if I may suggest," Labrador cut in. "How about…a drinking game?"

Hyuuga pointed to Hakuren while speaking alternately to Castor and Frau. "What is he, like ten? How are you letting a ten year old drink?"

"I'm sixteen, asshole!" Hakuren snapped, flinging his icepack towards the lieutenant only to have it skillfully dodged with minimal movement.

"Since you don't seemed inclined to," Castor glared at Labrador "worry about the state of your liver, I'll have to be the killjoy again and prevent such a contest from taking place."

"You used to be fun, man," Labrador scoffed, crossing his arms as he took to glaring at a certain spot on the wall opposite of the puppeteer. "What happened to Mr. Long Dong Ranger? He was cool."

"I'm still fun!" Castor shouted defensively, realized how stupid he sounded, and bravely carried on as if what he had shouted before hadn't sounded so petty. "Mr. Long Dong Ranger died since no one else seems to have a responsible bone in their body! How are we supposed to get hammered out in the hallway while Teito-kun is in the room, unattended?"

"Boy can handle himself," Frau shrugged, not seeing the problem in it.

"You just want an excuse up your sleeve when you're accused of sexually assaulting Teito," Castor snapped, directing his foul-mood at the blond. "'Oh, it's 'cause I was drunk that I did all those bad-things'," he pouted mockingly, carrying on with his interpretation of Frau's voice. It wasn't very good actually… "'It wasn't my fault'. You're starting to get on my fucking nerves, moron."

"Who you callin' a moron, dipshit," Frau barked, looking ready to attack at any moment. "Ya wanna talk about annoying? How 'bout putting up with your lovesick monologues about Razette~"

Hyuuga clapped. "Frau-kun, you didn't deny your love~!"

"Fuck off!"

"Then what do you propose we do," Ayanami started in his no-nonsense, I-am-terrifying-general-listen-to-me-rawr tone that captured everyone's attention until it plunged straight to hell after he finished with a "nyaa~?"

"Okay, okay, Gentlemen," Castor, ever the voice of reason, spoke up, gracing them all with a pleased smile though it looked somewhat malicious and predatory, most of that hostile attention directed at Frau, who glared at him from across the hall, unflinching and otherwise impassive, and the russet gave a suggestion. "You want drinking? I'll give you drinking. We're going to play a fun little game I call the Lying Game."

Frau tensed.

"Every person that tells the truth loses; last man standing wins. And to add insult to injury, those that lose will be given a penalty of the group's choosing. Labrador," Castor spared the gardener an amused glance. "You still have that drink we distilled from the rocky flowers in the Sixth District, yes?"

"Of course," the lilac-haired priest raised an eyebrow, glancing between Frau and Castor. He was confused as to why the russet found the need to bring it up until… "Oh."

"And if you lose, Frau," Castor frowned, glaring daggers at blond. "I'll be forced to punish you accordingly."

A/N: Punishment, punishment, punishment~! Okay, no, I'm not that twisted. Although… *cackles* I don't mind reading about some good-looking men getting down and dirty ;) Okay, I'll stop; I'm sorry. TEE-HEE.

My little hyphenie thingies keep disappearing! What the fudge duckies, man? D: It's still understandable, right? I'm too lazy to go through and put them back in x9

Now for our honorable mentions~ I know someone asked for a truth regarding "strippers". Can't seem to find that review anymore... But! If I used your idea, and you would like credit, just tell me and I will do so next chapter~ I really gotta start writing people's names down... Anyway, everyone would've gotten a stripper name but I couldn't think of one for Aya and Tei... Anyone got any ideas? I might slip them in later if they make me laugh :D Moving on; our "eat something from someone's mouth and guess" was given to us by ...someone else I can't find... Okay, I'm seriously writing these down from the very start. Regardless, thank you for all the wonderful ideas, guys! I know not much happened in this chapter, but I'll make up for it, I swear.

On an unrelated subject, where are all the Kaname fans? He's so hot! …let me stop before I unleash the wrath of the VK fans reading this. I don't even remember what volume I stopped reading the manga, so there's probably a good reason Zero's more popular (^ ^);;

Anyway~ THE LOVE - IT OVERFLOWS~ You guys are awesome! I am so blessed to have such wonderful fans! Lots of hugs, the boys get kisses xD *cackles* yeah, no. Okay, I think I've ranted long enough. Special thanks to Anonymous, RS, EKid, WobblyJ, Tsu94, TPO [Sorry, that one made me giggle xD], AniLov, KH, LTan, DMR [DM Stylin' Soilder ;D], Tan94, JAS [Jazz Hands :D], DK, NMK, and AMS92 for the reviews last chapter~ They're in order from the time you reviewed, so don't think I'm playing favorites or anything *waggles finger*

Next chapter: Where a contestant goes AWOL, punishments are passed out, and an irreversible dare leaves someone tearing their hair out. Nyaa~