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Day 34: Men's Showers

Artemis Fowl was, yet again, exceedingly displeased to be naked.

As much as Haku insisted that since he had experienced public bathing before, this time would be easier, the feeling was not mutual. Artemis' body was his own personal business, as far as he was concerned, and no one else's. His only comfort was the fact that he was not hideously tattooed anymore with various and sundry insults branding him a moron.

Still, that did not stop him from taking a towel into the shower area once again, Nurse Hedgerow grudgingly allowing it. She could see no other way of getting the boy to bathe. He was as stubborn as ten teenage boys. And after that lecture on psychological torture through means of public humiliation...

The boy let the water run over his head, the towel clutched firmly around his body. And he thought. July. How was it July when it had been fall just a week previous? It was impossible, logically speaking. But what part of this place fit in with any sort of logic Artemis had ever encountered? No, if he didn't let go of the fact that things would be as insane as people claimed he was, he would lose his mind.

His fingers brushed the burn mark Caleb had given him for what seemed the fortieth time. ...He had to get himself together, or this would only be a small taste of what awaited him in the hallways.

[For Omi]

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Hikaru seemed content to forget last night too, it seemed. Kaoru was certainly relieved, it gave him more time to work out what was going on and, hopefully, protect his brother from the experiments.

Kaoru leaned in to listen. For a few moments he was frozen, though his eyes seemed to shake in their sockets. "Please tell me this isn't a joke," he said, quietly before bursting into laughter, clutching his twin for support. "Hikaru! I love you." WHile he meant those words everytime he said them, there was a moment in the hug he gave that almost hurt with just how MUCH he meant it. But it was short lived. Today was not a day for seriousness. For their sake and for Tamaki and everybody else they crossed today.

"Kaoru!" Hikaru scoffed. "I'm hurt. When have I ever joked about something this serious?" Well, all the time, actually. But not to Kaoru.

Especially not when Kaoru was currently cutting off his air supply.

"Oi, oi," he muttered irritably after he'd extricated himself. "I love you too, but we're both kind of naked right now. I'm not giving anybody a show if they haven't paid for it beforehand."

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"No!" he grinned, gleefully. "I can't wait for the show to start!"
He had a sudden worry that Tamaki wouldn't see the joke in it. Usually that wasn't a problem because Tamaki was an idiot. But at the moment he was a depressed idiot. All else failed, the twins could jump to the rescue.

Kaoru pulled away completely. "Hikaru, you're so mean," he pouted. "I love only to please us, nobody else."

Hikaru laughed. "Me either. After all (to quote another mediocre 70s song), maybe all Tamaki needs is some of that sexual healing."

They had it controlled from their end. Now all Ed had to do was make sure that he kept up his side of the bargin...which he didn't know he'd struck. Hikaru felt obscurely sorry for the guy. Almost.

"Maybe Kyouya's rubbing off on me," he agreed, "but the brotherly love act hasn't been working here. Don't want to give a free show."

"And who'd have thought he'd be getting it from a short little guy," Kaoru snickered. Nothing against either of them but....it was unexpected.

"Gross. And if it's not working, we wont get a chance f9or a paid performance. Or do we have to do al this in private now?" he teased, arms crossed. A little part of him worried that Hikaru was upset, or that he thought his little brother was now too repulsive to play with. But he knew he was being silly and paranoid.

"Wonder who'd top?" Hikaru mused, and not for the first time. "Usually the seme's the taller one...but...then again Ed's the manlier of the two, don't you think?"

Tamaki was never going to live this down, not as long as the twins drew breath. Never.

"Private's better. I want you all to myself, away from prying eyes."

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Kaoru stuck his fingers in his ears, closed his eyes and sang 'lalalalalalala'. When he was sure Hikaru had stopped, he went back to normal. "Where's the soap, I need to wash your mouth out and then maybe my mind," he laughed. "But it'd so be Ed. Even if he has to stand on a phone directory." Woah, woah, mental images coming back. Kaoru shut his eyes tight.

Pleased with his brother's response, he smiled. "Hikaru," he squeaked, lovingly and yet pitifully. But he wasn't going to allow physical contact after hearing Hikaru speak of their love as though it were some form of prostitution! Even though it was and he'd never last long without some sort of contact. But for now he was going to be bitter just for fun.

Hikaru scowled, swatting playfully at Kaoru. Yeah...augh, those were not good mental images. But still. "Shut up. You're not exactly an innocent yourself."

Kaoru could have quite the naughty imagination. He'd proved that when they were twelve and looking at their very first skin mag, which they'd managed to steal from one of the other boys at school. Hikaru would never have learned how it was possible for two girls to have sex if Kaoru hadn't explained it to him.

(Well...at least until they'd found that yuri dating sim online. But that was a full year later!)

But now was not the time for walks down memory lane.

"Kaoru..." he tried to turn on the Hosting charm...but it wasn't really doing it for him right now. So instead he grinned and started to work shampoo into his hair. Commoner stuff...but it left him feeling clean and perky! Or at least that's what the bottle said.

"I wash your back, you wash mine?"

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Kaoru ducked and laughed. "Of course I'm innocent. I'm the little brother." It wasn't his fault he had a good imagination. Hikaru could be so technical at times that he couldn't see the obvious answer right away. Of course, when he did find it there was no stopping him and the possibilities he came up with.

"Gee, I want to, really I do, but nobody's paid me to love you in a while and, well, these guys don't deserve a free show," he teased. Besides, he was still a little achy. He tried to fiddle with the shower head to see if he could get something with a bit more oomph to batter the ache out of his bones, but it was a piece of crap. Instead, he just stood under it and let the water beat down on him weakly. Amazing how much better showers could make you feel (even if they were rubbish). Though he was careful not to tilt his head back too far in case his body followed. "I can wash yours if you want..." he said, quietly. "Only because it's painful to watch you struggling to reach the hard spots." And his mind was not going down the gutter at that.

"By fifteen minutes. Your littleness does not count! And I'm always right. Because I'm the oldest. So there." Hikaru would have stuck his tongue out to seal his point, but he didn't want to run the risk of clean and perky! suds getting into his mouth. He wanted cheap toothpaste to make his teeth clean and perky!, not cheap shampoo.

He rolled his eyes at Kaoru's suggestion, muttering about his brother's complete lack of subtlety...but offering no resistance.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. It only counts when it suits you," Kaoru mock-sulked.

He put a hand on his brother's shoulder and turned him round, grabbing some shower gel that promised to sooth and relax one. He wondered if it would counteract the perky shampoo. Would Hikaru be lost in a battle of perk versus soothingness? Time would tell. He squeezed some out onto his hand, snickering at the farty sound it made, and began to wash his brother's back. He couldn't help but appreciate his brother's body. Yeah, sure, they were identical, but still, this was his brother, not himself. He was reassured by the warmth and the twitch of muscles that his brother was alive. His eyes wandered to the marks left by the wounds Hikaru had obtained during his stay so far. Dammit, he wasn't supposed to be sad. He stepped closer and closed his eyes, pressing his forehead against Hikaru's neck, just for a moment. "This stuff smells too chemical," he said, as though it excused his behaviour. "I hope it doesn't spoil your skin." Hikaru had always had nice skin. Man, he felt tired again. He stepped away, patting his brother on the back to say he was done, and then began to wash his own body.

"And that's because I'm the oldest," Hikaru said with an air of finality. As far as he was concerned, the conversation was over and he'd won. Again. Because he was the oldest.

He closed his eyes as Kaoru started washing his back, allowing himself to enjoy the familiar sensation. Mm, that felt nice. Cheaply perfumed, yeah, but nice.

And the farty sound had been pretty entertaining. After all, they were fifteen year old boys.

Kaoru paused and leaned against him, which was enough to make Hikaru open one eye. "It might," he murmured. "It's cheap, so it'll probably dry out the skin a little..."

But then Kaoru had finished. Before his twin could protest, he grabbed his shoulders and turned around, squirting a glob of the farty floral soap into his own hand.

"My turn!"

Kaoru submitted. Because he was the youngest and knew Hikaru was too stubborn. Instead he just silently praised himself for being so grown up.

Kaoru tensed for a moment, though he wasn't sure why. He supposed his body felt like some big secret right now. But he forced himself to relax and closed his eyes. "You're only doing it so I get dry skin too," he muttered. Damn it...he was feeling sad again. He wanted to talk to somebody, but it couldn't be Hikaru, not yet. No, he'd just appreciate this moment and sought through things in his own head. Which was difficult when you were so used to having two.

"Poor Ed would probably have trouble doing this sort of thing for Tamaki, being so short and all. Maybe Mori should Milord advice on caring for Lovely items?"

Hikaru grinned. "Damn straight." Dry skin? Yeah, they could go with that. No, what he really wanted was the contact, the familiarity of washing his brother just like he had during bathtime while they were little. With the way Landel's tried to keep them separated most of the time, he wanted to savor their moments together as much as he could.

Even though something else happening a few showers away was pretty damn distracting. "Hey...I hate to interrupt, but check out Romeo and Julius over there." He pointed at a couple of boys who looked like they were getting down and dirty, but...didn't seem to be enjoying it very much. In fact, the taller boy was standing perfectly still, looking like he wanted to find the nearest cave to crawl into, while the other boy was on his knees in an extremely compromising position, but looking oddly clinical about it.

"Their form is terrible."

Kaoru snapped out of his owns thoughts and looked to what had caught his brother's attention. He pulled an expression of disgust. "They're doing it all wrong. If you're going to pretend you're not enjoying it, you've gotta struggle more than that.... And is the other guy supposed to be seme or uke?"
He turned a dark look towards his brother. "They mock us. And they do it for free." Kaoru wasn't going to drop that insult anytime soon, no.

"I have no idea," Hikaru mused. "He's certainly going for the submissive role, but he's the manlier-looking of the two." The twins had more muscle mass than the skinny kid, who was now apologizing profusely to the nurse that had come over to break up the little show.

Good things never lasted.

Hikaru looked at his brother and sighed. "All right. Kaoru, I'm sorry I made that joke about us only working for money. But that doesn't matter now." He grinned. "We've got another job to do." Oh, Tamaki hadn't been forgotten. He was just on the back burner until they could deal with their newest victims.

"Not forgiven entirely," Kaoru said, though he finally leaned against his brother, "but I call a truce. After all, what sort of Hitachiin twin would I be if I turned down a job like this?"

Hikaru linked arms with his brother. "A truce works just fine for right now." After all, Ed and Tamaki were talking in a corner, and the stage appeared to be set for the greatest of Hikaru's Landel's pranks thus far. They also had the two young lovers to contend with, and he already had a plan for that.

"No brother of mine, that's for sure," he said lightly. "We should make use of the bulletin board for this one. Little public service announcement, maybe. Nice and flowery and full of fake legalese?"

"I miss that place!" Kaoru laughed. "Sounds like a plan." And what could go wrong on a bulletin board?

Kaoru;s gaze wandered towards Tamaki.... "Hi-hika...ru....listen." His body was shaking. He was sure Ed had just said something abo- Kaoru bit down hard on his lip and hid his face on his brother's chest. This was priceless! "Oh god," he gasped through the laughter. "Don't look at them, he'll know it was us!" He wasn't taking credit, he just wasn't letting his brother take all the blame.

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