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Managing Accounts (Yuuko and Kakei gen)
Title: Managing Accounts
Fandom: xxxHOLiC/Legal Drug
Length: 618 words
Prompt:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
31_days: 19 Oct 09 // hide-and-seek among the tea flowers; comment_fic: xxxHolic/Legal Drug, Yuuko and Kakei (with implied Doumeki/Watanuki and Rikuo/Kazehaya), bonding and reminiscing over the shared love of making their errand boys do humiliating things
Pairing: Yuuko and Kakei; slight Doumeki/Watanuki and Rikuo/Kazahaya implied
Other: n/a
Excerpt: Yuuko watched her creation fondly, lifting her cup of tea to her lips for a moment, and then resting it on the table next to her. It was still half-full, but Kakei refilled it anyway, his smile never fading.
Mokona was playing hide-and-seek among the flowers with a scowling boy who could be convinced to smile, and a taller one who couldn't. Yuuko watched her creation fondly, lifting her cup of tea to her lips for a moment, and then resting it on the table next to her. It was still half-full, but Kakei refilled it anyway, his smile never fading. He was glancing at his employees once in a while, but his grin could be said to be more possessive than fond.
"Do you remember those headphones?" Yuuko said after a moment of peaceful silence (there was sound in the garden, Mokona giggling and Kazahaya's consternation and the half-argument he was conducting with Rikuo, but the shopkeepers were both ignoring it). "The ones with the cute little earpieces?"
"Oh yes," Kakei answered with a chuckle, taking a seat again and picking up his own cup. "I tried to borrow them from you, if I recall."
"You did," Yuuko replied, pointing at him lazily, "but I told you I needed them for something. My errand boy, actually. You should have seen the look on his face. Of course, there was no other way to communicate with him, what a shame, he simply had to wear them."
Kakei lifted his eyebrows, impressed. "And you sent him out with his archer like that?"
"I did," Yuuko answered, grinning. She watched Mokona dodge out of Kazahaya's grasp, and then as Kazahaya ran clumsily into Rikuo and complained at him for getting in the way.
"I'll forgive you then," Kakei answered cheerily.
"I thought you might," Yuuko said with a particularly evil grin. "It really was a shame that he lost them. I had to charge for them, then." Mokona slipped between Rikuo's legs; he reached down and picked it up, but it scrambled onto his head and then jumped back down into the flowers.
"Squirmy thing," Kakei remarked, and then, "I'm sending them to an all-boys' school next week to get something for me."
Yuuko nudged her companion. "Subtlety is not your watchword, Kakei."
"Not always," the man answered, sipping at his tea. "But when appropriate."
A shadow loomed over the pair. Saiga never changed, Yuuko always thought when she saw him. Always wearing sunglasses, always slightly rumpled. He rested his hand on Kakei's shoulder possessively (and Yuuko, instead of rolling her eyes, shifted subtly to show more thigh, because it wasn't that she was interested at all, but his possessiveness was annoying).
"Are you done playing?" Saiga asked, ignoring Yuuko. Kakei considered, and then sighed.
"I suppose so. Boys!" he called out, lifting his voice and getting up. Rikuo and Kazahaya looked up. Yuuko rose elegantly to her feet.
"Mokona!" she called out. Mokona bounced past the feet of its would-be captors and leapt into her arms. Kazahaya's mouth fell open in disbelief; Rikuo's frown deepened subtly.
"Why were we trying to catch that thing if it belonged to HER?" he said, pointing at Yuuko.
"Ssh, Kazahaya," Kakei said, waving, "or one might think you disliked women." He winked at Yuuko. Saiga set a hand on Kakei's shoulder.
"Wouldn't it have been polite to be able to return it to her when she arrived?" he continued.
"But it came right to her!" Kazahaya protested. "Did I really just spend an hour--"
"Mokona had fun!" Mokona remarked cheerfully, scrambling up onto Yuuko's shoulder.
"Nice to meet you boys," Yuuko said, petting Mokona absently. "It's very rare to see two children who are... so close."
Kazahaya frowned, but she swept around gracefully and offered her hand to Kakei. "See me out?"
"Of course," he answered, shooting his employees a look over his shoulder.
"I cannot believe--" Kazahaya began.
"Shut up," Rikuo muttered, thumping his coworker on the head, and it was to the dulcet sounds of another disagreement that Yuuko and Kakei parted ways again.
Fandom: xxxHOLiC/Legal Drug
Length: 618 words
Prompt:
31_days: 19 Oct 09 // hide-and-seek among the tea flowers; comment_fic: xxxHolic/Legal Drug, Yuuko and Kakei (with implied Doumeki/Watanuki and Rikuo/Kazehaya), bonding and reminiscing over the shared love of making their errand boys do humiliating thingsPairing: Yuuko and Kakei; slight Doumeki/Watanuki and Rikuo/Kazahaya implied
Other: n/a
Excerpt: Yuuko watched her creation fondly, lifting her cup of tea to her lips for a moment, and then resting it on the table next to her. It was still half-full, but Kakei refilled it anyway, his smile never fading.
Mokona was playing hide-and-seek among the flowers with a scowling boy who could be convinced to smile, and a taller one who couldn't. Yuuko watched her creation fondly, lifting her cup of tea to her lips for a moment, and then resting it on the table next to her. It was still half-full, but Kakei refilled it anyway, his smile never fading. He was glancing at his employees once in a while, but his grin could be said to be more possessive than fond.
"Do you remember those headphones?" Yuuko said after a moment of peaceful silence (there was sound in the garden, Mokona giggling and Kazahaya's consternation and the half-argument he was conducting with Rikuo, but the shopkeepers were both ignoring it). "The ones with the cute little earpieces?"
"Oh yes," Kakei answered with a chuckle, taking a seat again and picking up his own cup. "I tried to borrow them from you, if I recall."
"You did," Yuuko replied, pointing at him lazily, "but I told you I needed them for something. My errand boy, actually. You should have seen the look on his face. Of course, there was no other way to communicate with him, what a shame, he simply had to wear them."
Kakei lifted his eyebrows, impressed. "And you sent him out with his archer like that?"
"I did," Yuuko answered, grinning. She watched Mokona dodge out of Kazahaya's grasp, and then as Kazahaya ran clumsily into Rikuo and complained at him for getting in the way.
"I'll forgive you then," Kakei answered cheerily.
"I thought you might," Yuuko said with a particularly evil grin. "It really was a shame that he lost them. I had to charge for them, then." Mokona slipped between Rikuo's legs; he reached down and picked it up, but it scrambled onto his head and then jumped back down into the flowers.
"Squirmy thing," Kakei remarked, and then, "I'm sending them to an all-boys' school next week to get something for me."
Yuuko nudged her companion. "Subtlety is not your watchword, Kakei."
"Not always," the man answered, sipping at his tea. "But when appropriate."
A shadow loomed over the pair. Saiga never changed, Yuuko always thought when she saw him. Always wearing sunglasses, always slightly rumpled. He rested his hand on Kakei's shoulder possessively (and Yuuko, instead of rolling her eyes, shifted subtly to show more thigh, because it wasn't that she was interested at all, but his possessiveness was annoying).
"Are you done playing?" Saiga asked, ignoring Yuuko. Kakei considered, and then sighed.
"I suppose so. Boys!" he called out, lifting his voice and getting up. Rikuo and Kazahaya looked up. Yuuko rose elegantly to her feet.
"Mokona!" she called out. Mokona bounced past the feet of its would-be captors and leapt into her arms. Kazahaya's mouth fell open in disbelief; Rikuo's frown deepened subtly.
"Why were we trying to catch that thing if it belonged to HER?" he said, pointing at Yuuko.
"Ssh, Kazahaya," Kakei said, waving, "or one might think you disliked women." He winked at Yuuko. Saiga set a hand on Kakei's shoulder.
"Wouldn't it have been polite to be able to return it to her when she arrived?" he continued.
"But it came right to her!" Kazahaya protested. "Did I really just spend an hour--"
"Mokona had fun!" Mokona remarked cheerfully, scrambling up onto Yuuko's shoulder.
"Nice to meet you boys," Yuuko said, petting Mokona absently. "It's very rare to see two children who are... so close."
Kazahaya frowned, but she swept around gracefully and offered her hand to Kakei. "See me out?"
"Of course," he answered, shooting his employees a look over his shoulder.
"I cannot believe--" Kazahaya began.
"Shut up," Rikuo muttered, thumping his coworker on the head, and it was to the dulcet sounds of another disagreement that Yuuko and Kakei parted ways again.