The Moon and the Sun

Warning: this one came out very fluffy..

Chapter 13


Mana stretched in his bed bearing a strong resemblance to some feline creature, before lazily opening his eyes and casting them to one of the windows. The morning-sky was a dark shade of grey and the rain kept pouring in a constant manner against the windowpane. Mana liked rainy days, they had a soothing effect on him making him feel less restless-as if the gods granted him a time out.

He closed his eyes again and decided to stay in bed a little longer. He hadn't scheduled practice for the day deciding to give his musicians a few days off after their small but still straining tour. He also didn't have any important meetings at Midi:Nette and Moi Memme Moitie. Maybe he should just take the whole day off, creating a few new designs and paying Masumi's daughter Hikari, a long due visit in the evening.
He had promised to visit her a while ago now, but with his sudden US-tour he had forgotten about it and he felt bad since he really cared about the girl and wanted to see how she was doing.

'That's a plan' Mana thought while yawning and turning to lie on his stomach burying his face into one of the pillows. He heard Masumi's laughter coming from downstairs and had to smile into the pillow imagining her gossiping on the phone with one of her numerous girlfriends, telling her that Camui Gackt had given her a huge bouquet of roses.. She had told almost everyone by now and Gackt was the only subject she was talking about the last couple of days. Mana didn't really know if he was annoyed or just amused by that.

Camui..

The evening with him two days ago had been very...informative. Mana had discovered that he was more than ever attracted to him and that the feeling he used to have whenever Gackt held him was still there. He also had discovered that Gackt had changed a lot. He was more confident and forward than ever.

Mana remembered a time when he could intimidate him with just one glare, but well - that didn't seem very possible right now and it wasn't because Mana didn't try hard enough.. He could glare, sneer and roll his eyes how ever much he wanted - Gackt didn't seem affected at all. He seemed determined to get what he wanted ..

Mana groaned in frustration. He couldn't deny anymore that he himself wanted him too, but problem was that he didn't want to want him. Every time he thought about him his betrayal flashed through his inner eye, that phone-call almost 7 years ago and he instantly got a feeling as if a bloody python snaked around his heart and squeezed it till it couldn't beat anymore..

..but he had felt so good again in Gackt's arms, the way he held him, the way he sang softly into his ear to calm him down.. he had felt like coming home..

..and then the kiss Gackt had forced him to initiate..

Mana abruptly remembered what he had been dreaming about just minutes before and he felt his cheeks flush a crimson red. He had dreamt about that kiss.. In his dream everything had been like it had originally occurred with the exception that the honk from the truck never interrupted them and Gackt's hands continued to caress his body and pull him closer. In his dream he hadn't thought not even a second about how much he hated him for his betrayal, on the contrary he had whispered words of passion to him and received confessions of undying love in return..

Mana groaned annoyed into his pillow scolding himself that his dream-self was still so stupid and naive but the annoying tingling of his body and the flush on his cheeks remained. When a knock on the door sounded he welcomed it as a convenient interruption of his self-bashing groaning a muffled: "Come in." Masumi had probably come to check why he was still in bed.

Aforementioned piece of furniture shifted only slightly under the weight of another person sitting down on it and Mana had to wonder briefly if Masumi had lost a few pounds lately.

"I'm not sick, just lazy." he whined into the pillow, feeling really too lazy to stand up and greet the elderly woman properly. ..and then there was still the evidence of his perverted dream about a more perverted man straining his underwear which he wasn't particular keen on showing his housekeeper, so he kept on lying there on his stomach and waited for her to check him for a fever and leave again.

A hand stroking lightly the back of his head informed him that Masumi was probably really worried about him and he decided to reassure her again: "Honestly, I'm fine Masumi-san. I just decided to take the day off." He slowly turned his face towards her, an emphasising smile on his lips and lazily opened his eyes. And closed them. Just to open them impossibly wide again before jumping up on the bed and yelping in shock.

"YOU!" he said still in shock watching Gackt lying on his side, his head propped up on his hand against his elbow, eyeing him with a huge grin on his face.

"Mana, you yelped!" he said before bursting out in laughter.

"What..? How..? Oh stop it, I didn't yelp and what the fuck are you doing here anyway?" Mana yelled still standing on his bed not able to control his racing heart. Meanwhile Gackt was laughing so hard that he had tears in his eyes but his laughter soon died out as he ran his eyes up and down the almost naked form in front of him. Mana registered abruptly that he was standing on his bed in front of Gackt only in his sleeping shorts and reached hastily down intending to grab his sheet and wrap it around himself, which however, was a mistake, because Gackt took the chance to grab his wrist and yank him down on the bed again. Mana was about to put a fight on but Gackt just put the covers back on him as soon as he hit the mattress and scouted as far away as he could get without falling off the bed.

Mana instinctively grabbed the covers and stared at Gackt. "Are you nuts?" he asked. "Do you have a death-wish?"

"Not anymore." Gackt said and snickered creakily convincing Mana that he really wasn't very sane. When he stopped snickering he said: 'You promised that you would meet me willingly today. I came, I knocked, you told me to come in and here I am!"

"Are you stupid?" was the only thing Mana came up with to say.

Technically Gackt really hadn't done something wrong, except, well, everything! Mana just pulled the covers childishly over his head and started a whiny rant voicing his frustration: "I don't believe you - go away - get lost - you annoy the hell out of me - I can't find peace even in my own home anymore - you are haunting me - you are like a creepy headless house ghost - your behaviour is so surreal that it makes me want to scream and that's exactly what I will do right now: aaaaaaahhhhhh.."

Gackt laughed harder.

Maybe his insanity was contagious, Mana thought wondering about his own mental health, deciding to never reappear again from under the covers. He would just go back to sleep and the annoying man would have eventually disappeared when he would wake up again. Maybe he was still sleeping and this was only a hilarious dream!

A very real arm wrapped around his form and pulled him closer.

"Oh Mana-chan, it's so good to have you back. I had feared that this side of you was gone for good.." Gackt sighed happily holding the mummy that was Mana close to him.

Mana who had started thrashing to get away stopped abruptly and thought Gackt's words over. He was right. The Malice Mizer Mana would have acted that way he was acting now: yelping and ranting and childishly hiding under the covers-not to mention the screaming..

The Moi Dix Mois Mana would have calmly put on his yukata(*) and escorted his unwanted guest to the exit suggesting him politely but firmly to stay away from him. And then he would get a restraining order and sue him for trespassing or something like that.

"Gackt-san, I'm asking you to leave and I have to inform you that I will sue you for trespassing." Mana tried earnestly, not feeling at all like his usual self. The air of authority he was usually emanating non-existent, probably due to the fact that he was half-naked and wrapped like a mummy in his covers while being held by the man he was threatening to sue. He could hear Gackt laughing again and it reminded him of his earlier thoughts about not being able anymore to intimidate that man.

Mana sighed in defeat not really knowing what to do and let it go for now, trying hard to not think about the fact that he was lying in his bed with Camui holding him close. Flashes of his dream came in an instant back to him and it suddenly seemed unbearably hot under the covers.

'No, don't you dare go there.' he ordered himself mentally although he knew that whenever he desperately didn't want to think about something, exactly that something he would be thinking twice as hard about.. and he should definitely not be thinking twice as hard about how close Camui was or how nice it would be to feel him without the covers on his naked skin..

"I have a present for you." Mana heard Gackt say feeling very grateful for the distraction.

A ruffled head appeared partially from under the bedspread and a long-lashed eye glanced through the hair suspiciously at Gackt. "Present?"

"Hai." Gackt said softly his smile growing more wide at the bad suppressed glimmer in Mana's eye. "But I will give it to you later, at the end of the day."

"Nande(**)?" two elegant eyebrows furrowed in question.

"Because you will have to spend the whole day with me, earning it with being a good boy."

"You know Gackt-san, I would love to play your silly games with you, but unfortunately I am a very busy person and have to go to work, so I can't be spending the whole day with you.." Mana started only to be interrupted by Gackt, who much to his dismay was laughing about him again.

"Oi Mana-chan, you said just 5 Minutes ago that you would take the day off, and now you are lying about it. I guess it has become a bad habit of yours to lie to me all the time, please stop it -it's no good, you are a crappy liar!"

'Oops.' Mana thought and scolded himself already a second time that morning for his stupidity, having a foreboding feeling that it wouldn't be the last time that day. He decided to end this surreal situation and swung out of bed grabbing his yukata from a chair before heading out of the door on a search for his bloody traitor of a housekeeper.


* yukata = house-robe
** nande = why


A/N: is it getting boring? tell me what you think!