Again.   von samidare
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                                  Kapitel 2: 
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Aoi had never been in the studio of another band than his own and felt
distracted by little things, which annoyed him. He liked to stay focused on the
things that were meaningful. The guitarist had been the last one to enter the
little studio so it took him a second to be able to see the couch in the next
room through his band members’ bodies. 
His gaze fell on Tora, whose head was lying on the backrest of the arm chair,
his black hair fanned out around him, smiling contently at the ceiling. There
was something about the way he was slouched on that sofa that made Aoi start to
stare. And when Tora finally noticed them in the studio and his gaze also
immediately fixed on Aoi, the GazettE guitarist found that still smiling face
attractive. But the smile didn’t even stay for a second.
He felt a little sting in his heart when the other man’s face started to look
somewhat horrified. He felt that this was not a good beginning.

Shou and Nao, who had come out from hiding in the back room had started to hush
them all into the big room. After everyone got settled somewhere, Kai started
speaking. “Soooo… you know, we’re gonna do a show together!” he smiled,
looking first at Nao and then the rest of Alice Nine. “It’ll be the
Tenshoukan theatre, which is a quite big venue, and we, that is, me, Ruki,
Uruha, and Nao-kun thought it might be kinda cool to do one song of each band
together, or something along those lines.” No one protested so Kai went on
after taking a sip of his coffee. “I guess we’ll figure things out tonight
and then rehearse sometime next weekend.”
About that time Tora stopped listening, his gaze drawn to Aoi at his right again
and again. Aoi noticed, and every time he looked back at him to smile friendly,
Tora would drop his eyes and look somewhere else. It started to annoy Aoi.
“So it’s settled then!” said Nao, causing Tora to finally focus on the
subject of the meeting again. “Next Saturday, three in the afternoon.”
Everyone started getting up and ready to leave for home or elsewhere. They
crowded in the small lobby room, picking their warm clothes when Aoi’s and
Tora’s arms brushed by just a bit. They looked at each other, Tora stiffening
slightly. Aoi opened his mouth to say something; he actually had hoped to talk
to him. He had been searching for another good guitarist for a little jam
session; Uruha sometimes was just a total loser at improvising. He thought about
how to ask Tora but in that second, the black haired turned around, hurrying out
of the door, catching up with Saga who was already out on the street. Again, Aoi
felt weird for being ignored.

“What got into you?” Saga asked laughing as Tora came to a halt beside him,
blushed slightly and seeming to try and slow his breathing. “Oh, eh...
nothing.  ……really.” He added as Saga looked at him strangely. Tora just
couldn’t tell him the truth. Him, loving a man? Would they avoid him, throw
him out of the band to find a guitarist with a normal brain? He knew all about
the whole fanservice thing but… a guitarist actually loving another one?
No…
 The bassist knew Tora wasn’t telling the truth, but did not ask again. Tora
would tell him if something was wrong, they were best friends after all. Maybe
even a bit more.

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