Wolf's Rain Fan Fiction ❯ Italian Sushi ❯ Santa Lucia ( Chapter 7 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

A.N: Sorry this took so long to do but being a tourist is hard work. I hope you enjoy the chapter and thank you so much for reviewing it always means a lot. Fantasy.


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Breakfast was prepared by, the early risen, Kiba who at seven showered and dressed and decided to cook while waiting for his hair to dry further. He raided the frige and cabinet's for what the man had gotten them as far as breakfast means. There were many options of cereals, surprisingly a lot of the kinds he and Toboe really like. Kiba didn't know whether to be happy or upset that his brother had talked about the Wolf family so thoroughly with that man. But since Hige declared tomorrow, which is now today, the official day for sightseeing Kiba thought a more hearty breakfast was appropriate for all the walking they will be doing. Or maybe Faye will drive them since it was her car that Tsume had borrowed to drive them over here.

"I hope there's hot water."

Kiba hears from Hige as the male exits his bedroom to cross the hall. The shower water sounded shortly after the door shut, a few minutes later the toilet flushed, and after that Hige let out a yelp from the changed tempurature of the water. He did this everytime he spent the night at their house, Kiba didn't expect anything less at someone else's, although he wondered briefly if Hige did it at his own home or was he just going for a running gag.

Turning on the sink water, Kiba runs his fingers underneath the spray of water then flicks some droplets of water at the heating pan to test it. The sizzle makes its sound of 'ready'. Slicing a bit of butter from the stick with a knife, Kiba taps the edge of the knife against the side of the pan to remove the butter from it. The hot pan melts the substance quickly and to that Kiba then drops a beaten egg onto the pan to prepare the omlette for them. It was odd that everything in Tsume's home was, seriously, freshly bought. Didn't the man live here at all? Not that Kiba wanted to use or eat from anything that he had started in on, but still, its a bit... sad.

Toboe groans seeing the closed bathroom door and at hearing Hige singing on the other side of the door. He really didn't wanna use Tsume's bathroom. Being surrounded by the males personal things would bring back too many memories of being in his penthouse the night he lost his virginity to the man. Tsume washed his hair for him in the shower, and took such care cleaning his back. Toboe had made sure to keep his eyes to himself, even though they had just had sex only an hour or so ago, he still remained uncertain of bounderies when it came to looking at another naked person. Grabbing a towel and washrag from the linen closet, Toboe walks into the models bedroom. He can still hear their conversation left in the room from last night. The small jokes, and talks about nothing until he just couldn't hold his eyes open anymore.

'Is Tsume gonna become a living ghost to me?' Thinks Toboe as he walks into the spacious bathroom. 'Alive and yet, whenever I think about him it'll always be in past tense until my heart just stops reminding me of him.' Tugging over the shower door; he really likes the dark blue color of the glass, it must look really nice once the door is closed and the water is going. Very aquatic.

"Whoa....." His jaw practically drops to the floor seeing the layout of the bathroom.

The bathroom is very spacious a good ten or thirteen steps can be taken by him before reaching the black toilet to his left, and forward from the door. A long counter, double sink with a marble finish is beside the toilet on its right- not Toboe's, the toilets. The marble is dark grey, but the sinks are white. The boy thought that looked kind of nice in its own way. The floor is a polished wooden finish like the rest of the home.

'Where's the shower?' He wonders turning around.

There beside the now closed door is the shower entrance. The glass door is dark blue. Heading over to it, Toboe pulls the door open from a small gold handle that looks like it belongs on a tea cup. Head tilted to peek, he whistles seeing the dark space is completely marble as well, the same color as the sink. Upon stepping inside two sets of lights come on. Four at his right, and some hidden from his line of sight in front of him. Directly at his left is a towel wrack: 3 gold bars hold four washrags on the top bar, and two pairs of big fluffy towels on the other two bars. But he paid no mind to that for the time being, he's more interested in what's behind this dividing wall.

Taking two steps forward, he's again surprised to see a jacuzzie-tub, at his right, set in the floor with only one step to climb before you could get into it. The lights that came on, are placed at the foot of the tub where the knobs are. The lights are kind of like those safety lights, they come out of the wall at the top corner in little boxes that are aimed at the tub. Its magnificent. But he doesn't have time for washing in the tub, so backing up he rounds the corner of the wall to walk the four steps in front of the towel wrack to get to the fanciest shower system he's ever seen. Toboe had a feeling the house could look like crud but someone would buy it if this is the original bathroom. Unlike with the tub, the lights in the shower are in holes in the wall with a removeable glass in front of them. Two are set at the top corners of the wall and the other two are on the bottom.

A panel to start it looks very simple to use and the shower heads are flat, imprinted into the wall and from the looks of it, they can turn from left to right, up or down. The main head is placed right above his head only this one is a large circle rather than a square as the ones in the wall. Its like a carwash for humans.

"Amazing." He says to himself as he walks out of the shower then the bathroom. Removing his clothes he leaves them on Tsume's bed before returing into the bathroom to take his shower. "Now let's see." Pressing the panel key buttons 2 and 3 he waits for the spray to get him from the front and back but the water doesn't come. "Hmm." Figuring the main head has to be on first, he then presses the first button. Again nothing. "That's funny. It should have come on...." Looking over, he could have slapped himself in the head. He didn't even turn the water on yet. "Duh." Twisting the knobs, he let out a yell as warm water attacked him like a tidal wave from all around. Leaning forward towards the control panel, he turns off the main head then the one infront of him.

The pounding sound in his ear silenced, minus the gentle spray of the third head shooting against his back. Toboe was sure that if that wasn't so scary he would have died happy in this shower. But for now, a normal shower would suit him just fine. Turning off the third sprayer, he then turns on the main head and takes his shower.

'Rinsing is gonna be awesome.' Thinks the male happily soaping up.

Hige was the first to show himself for breakfast; hair damp around his head, he looked like he'd just been in a long steam. Kiba though had to avert his eyes from the sight, or he'd have to hide out in the bedroom for a minute so that Toboe wouldn't see his interest in his boyfriend showing against his jeans.

Giving the air a hard sniff, Hige lets out a pleased sigh of hunger. "That's the best smell in the world to wake up to. Kiba's cooking." He plants a kiss on said males cheek while swiping a sausage patty from the plate set by the stove that is slowly being filled with their breakfast. "I wish my mom cooked. Or even poured me a bowl of cereal."

Kiba pats the males shoulder for comfort. Even though Hige never talks about it, his mother is really busy all the time and somedays he's really down about it. But mostly, he's handled it very well. The father, Hige's lucky if the man remembers when his birthday is. He's even more busy than his mother. But that's the way it goes sometimes. Hige knows that, so he only complains when he forgets that he's forgiven them about it and doesn't care too much. Plus his family is very well to do, so he never has to whine for something he wants and who would bitch about that for too long?

"Did you see Toboe?" Asks Kiba, handing his boyfriend a plate.

"Nope. Why, what happened?" He asks while his eyes beam at the portion size.

"Nothing. I was just curious if he woke up yet."

Mouth filled with egg, Hige rests his head on Kiba's shoulder. "Did you sleep alright?"

Kiba shrugged his free shoulder. "Slept fine."

"Oh. Than no need to worry." He begins to depart the kitchen. "We're going sightseeing today, I plan on taking a lot of pictures so you'd better not be down in the dumps."

Kiba could only laugh at that. He already decided to let his hair down and have a nice vacation last night before bed. They're in Italy. There's so much to see and do here. True its not the most well known place for real Italian experience but he likes that bit of difference. And strangely enough he likes the hustle and bustle. It reminds him of Freeze city a bit.

"Morning Kiba!" Greets his little brother just about scaring the life from him.

"Hey." He hands the boy a plate. "I was beginning to think you were planning on sleeping all day."

"No way! Sightseeing." He takes the plate, looking it over to make sure he got enough to fuel him. "Thanks. But you know, I would have eaten cereal."

Smirking, Kiba reaches for the plate. "I'm sure Hige would like seconds."

"No, I'll eat it." He snickers. Taking a glass of juice from the counter, he follows his brother into the dining room.

Toboe has so many places he wants to see. There's this castle and a volcano, and the ocean itself is a sight to see. Its hard to tell which would be better first. He knew his brother wanted to see a museum which meant he would have to find something to do to keep from getting bored. He didn't see his DS when he unpacked which meant Kiba left it at home. Maybe Faye could show him where to find some comic books. He may not understand it but he can just look at the pictures. Breakfast was eaten moderatly silent, until Hige glances over at the open living room.

Grabbing his plate, he stands and says. "Oh yeah. I wonder what cartoons they have in the morning."

"Yeah." Toboe stands as well planning to follow the Moon boy, but his brother grabs his wrist to stop him. "What?"

"Sit. You can watch tv after you eat."

Scoffing, Toboe points to the missing vacationer. "But Hige gets to watch?"

"That's because Hige has poor table manners."

Said male only waved it off.

Downtrotten, Toboe takes his seat. But he ate as quickly as he could, eyes wandering over to the screen as best he could see. Why didn't Tsume put the tv in a better place. Was he insane or something. Who doesn't eat in front of the television or at least with a view of it. It should be a crime- yeah, if it were he's been jailed his whole life for it. It doesn't matter, though, so long as Hige didn't mention what was on, he could sit still and eat.

"Hey look," Hige calls "its Tsume."

And he was up and out of his chair. Dashing over to the livingroom, he takes a seat on the floor infront of the coffee table. Surely enough, Tsume is on the screen. The model is naked in the shower washing his hair and body while a woman does a voice over about the product maybe. Toboe isn't sure. But he watched the commercial as though he were programmed to record every aspect of it to play back for later.

"Oh yeah," says Hige seeing the water turn into a womans figure, while remaining liquid form. "We have a commercial like this back home, remember-" he pats Toboe on the shoulder with the back of his hand. "It was with Sae Ishiki?"

Toboe barely got the word out, so glued to the tv. "Yeah." The shower system looks exactly like Tsume's. Did he get it for free since he advertized it? He even had the shower gel! Toboe blushed fiercely when Tsume looks at the camera and in Italian says something before the water woman turns into a real woman and the screen goes dark. 'How could they... make him do that? Don't they know he's into men- namely me!' Thinks the young boy.

"Woo hoo, right runt." Jokes Hige seeing the serious look on Toboe's face, which would inevitably bother Kiba, which would bother him. And today he planned on doing nothing but being a happy tourist and buying lots of good junk on someone elses wallet. Can't do that with the Wolf brother's at odds. "I wonder when Faye's coming over." He changed the channel to some talk show then finishes off his breakfast.

Toboe is still stone-faced with thoughts. There was so much he didn't know about Tsume, or of what the man has been up to since their parting. What if he's been seeing women, lovely Italian women. What if they love him and he loves them back. Will he just keep him as a nice play thing on the side for when he wants some unattached fun. 'No don't be stupid. Tsume isn't like that and I know it. I've gotta stop getting so worked up, anyway, he's not gonna be my boyfriend for much longer- if he's my boyfriend at all.... Yeah, I'll just keep that in mind.' That being known, he puts on a smile. "Yeah, I wanna see that castle- do you think they have armor in their or anything or has it been cleaned out and abandoned."

Toboe returns to the table and starts in on his food. Hige heads for the kitchen to put his plate in the sink but joins them once rinsing it off. Kiba, once finished, washed his and his brother's plates. Hige had whipped out a brochure and he and Toboe are huddled over it, pointing out attractions for them to see.

"The weather's good, maybe we can walk." Says Toboe when he sees how close everything is once you leave the neighborhood.

"Are you kidding? Who wants to walk to food when you can drive and get there quicker." Replies Hige closing the thin booklet.

Rolling his eyes, Toboe sits in his seat rather than on his legs as he was to lean over the book. "Hige, walking will work up your hunger."

Grinning, the male says. "Trust me, I don't need excersize to work up an apetite."

Laughing, Toboe shakes his head. "Walking would still be more fun. Plus if we see something cool we wouldn't have to park just to go look at it."

"Toboe's got a point." Says Kiba.

"See."

Scoffing, Hige pouts. "Oh big shock, brother's taking each others sides."

Kiba only shrugged.

All three boys turn their heads at the sound of keys rattling at the front door.

"Guess who brought breakfaaaast." Faye sang as she walks into the house.

Someone must have had a good date last night. The older woman turns into the dining room seeing them all sitting around at the table and her cheerful smile flatlined into a twisted brood.

"Oh, you've already eaten." She mentions to no one.

Swiping the bag from the woman's shrugging hand, Hige pulls out a jelly filled. "Doesn't matter- I could eat again, thanks." He takes a big bite holding tightly to the bag for himself.

Pulling out a seat Faye sits down in a slump turning her gaze to Kiba, who she pinned as the ring leader of the visitors. "We leaving now, or do you wanna hang out until lunch?"

"Is anything open?" Asks the older of the Wolf brothers.

"Not until ten, but we could just drive around for a while, I don't care."

Hopping out of his seat, Toboe heads into the entry way to grab his sneakers. "Can we see that castle from the tour book? Its supposed to be an egg right?"

Face confused trying to understand what the heck Toboe is talking about, the picture came in for her and she nods. "Its not shaped like an egg kid, its just called, The Egg."

Toboe thought that over; "I thought that seemed a bit odd." sneakers in place on his feet, he wanders back into the living room to turn off the television. "I'm ready to go."

The three of them looked at him as if he were insane. Toboe returned the stare; they act as though its four in the morning when infact its 8:43.

The first to stand, Kiba asks. "Is it warm today?"

"No, its fine."

He took in the woman's attire of a loose fitting navy colored t-shirt and a pair of very high cut, white, shorts and flip flops on her toenail painted feet. He didn't see the need for a light jacket or long sleeve shirt to go under his light orange t-shirt. Hige wore his usual get-up of double shirts: the short sleeve tennis shirt is a bright red, the under shirt with the long sleeves is a light grey, his jeans blue. Toboe chose a short sleeve plaid shirt with colors of forest green, olive green, and yellow with kahki pants looking like the true definition of tourist.

"You wait in the car, I'll get the money." Says Faye finally able to stand after her collapse.

Toboe was the first out the door followed by Hige, whose keeping a protective hand on the bag of donuts, Kiba waited politely for Faye so he could lock up afterwards. Besides he needed to talk to her in private for a minute. Seeing the cute blue eyed male waiting at the door the singer offered him a smirk.

"You didn't have to wait, I'd lock the door. What do you think I am, neglectful."

"No. I just need to ask you about something."

"Go ahead." She pockets the money in the back one since the front pocket couldn't hold a dime let alone an envelope of money.

"My brother has a birthday coming up soon and since we're not gonna be in Japan, I have to throw the party here." He follows her out the door. "So can you take me to a party store later so I can get the supplies?"

"No problem."

"The party isn't a surprise, but I'd rather not have Toboe tagging along with me."

Faye laughed at that. "Still does that childish pointing thing?"

Blushing that she would call his kid brother a kid, he replies. "Sort of. He's more disapproving than anything else." It was weird when other people looked at his brother like he's a kid considering they didn't have to go through what he did, but it was also kind of a comfort to have someone on his side. Unlike Hige who thinks his brother should experience everything while he's still young. Sometimes he wonders about the Moon childs upbringing.

"Alright, we'll go after dinner." They start down the paved path to the car. "I can drop them off after we eat."

"Thank you." After a second thought, Kiba says. "You can come if you want."

That made the woman laugh a bit harder than before. "Thanks but no thanks. I out grew parties when I was 29 for the second time."

Snickering, Kiba says. "Okay."

Only he really wanted her to come, because Tsume would be back then and there was no doubt he'd be there because he lives where they're staying. With Faye around she could take some, if not all, of the models attention from Toboe so he won't get tempted to repeat any of his birthday parties since he and Hige started dating. With any luck the two won't even be on speaking terms by then. Tsume can stay hauled up in his bedroom for all he cares. But that's enough thinking about that wretched man for today. He said he would relax for Hige's sake and his own.

The silver car backs from the driveway then starts down the road towards the main part of the city where they will soon be heading for Santa Lucia. The ride over was filled with music and chit chat about this building and that, although, it seemed that Faye didn't have a clue what she was talking about. But she made it sound fun and interesting anyway. It was great when Hige started talking from the guide book about buildings they passed; Faye told him to cut it out, that she is the resident tour guide, but when Toboe asked what something was she blushed and said why not ask mr. know-it-all. The car was left parked on a corner, and the four of them head through a little area filled with water and boats. The main color is very gray because of the castle but surrounding it is dozens of buildings as if its the castle's court.

Faye told them that the castle is called: Dell 'Ovo' which they knew to translate as 'The Egg'. She also mentions that the village is called Borgo Marinaro but not anyone can just live there, the village is for fisherman, but its popular in the summer for its cafes. Kiba took a picture of Mount Vesuvius, Faye told them that it is the A list volcano and that its the only one still active in Europe.

Kiba took a picture of Toboe and Hige posing in front of a boat. Faye blocked her face when he snapped a picture of her in the castle. Hige took numerous pictures of the three of them while they walked about the village. Toboe talked to the fishermen about fishing in the area and they laughed and joked with the boy. Kiba was glad to see Toboe having a nice time. After a fourty minute stay in the area; Faye then drove them to see a museum as Kiba had asked. The archeological museum was the highlight for Kiba. He must have taken pictures of just about every statue he saw. Toboe tried to get into it but he was having a hard time, and lagged behind the three enthusiast. He didn't get what was so interesting about a bunch of statues and paintings. He could paint a picture, maybe not one as lavishly done as these peoples but if he could he wanted instant recognition for it.

"Hey Toboe, check this out." Says Hige, pulling him to him by the upper arm.

"What? What?"

Pointing he says. "See that lady over there, watch this." Speaking loudly enough, Hige says to the woman. "Giorno!"

The woman smiled at him and said 'Giorno' in return.

"Cool! She understood you?" Beamed the boy as if Hige made up the language.

Nodding with pride, he says. "I read it from the book and Faye told me how to say it."

"I wanna say it to someone." Toboe looks around the museum for a prime specimen.

A man standing off by himself seemed fitting, and casual he stolled over to the man.

"Giorno." He says to him.

The man smiled and returns the greeting, though he continued from there speaking to the boy rapidly in italian. Terrified, Toboe shakes his head and smiles.

"I know what you mean," he replies quickly hoping the man wasn't actually saying something cruel to him. Not wanting to remain in the situation, he lifts a hand of 'goodbye' then floors it back to Hige.

Hige is doubled over laughing at him. "What was with that guy?"

Shrugging, Toboe looks over his shoulder at the confused man. "I don't know. Maybe he thought I was Italian."

"You wish! He might have just thought you learned the language and wanted to test it out." Arm around the boy, he steers him to the last place he saw Kiba and Faye. Those two. How could she like Kiba over him, he only adored her every second. Maybe fan worship creeps her out. Could be. Upon seeing them, Hige holds his gut saying in a low groan. "You guys done. I'm so hungry I could eat the runt here. And let's face it he's not much of a meal."

"Yeah, I could eat." Says the singer. "Let's have pizza and gelato."

"I hope you mean in the same sitting." Says Hige beaming at the woman for agreeing with him to eat.

The foursome leave the museum and head for a place called Da Michele. The interior is so clean, but plain and modern with stark white tiles checkered with green ones. The tables are for four and they have booths as well. The people inside are very talkative, which excites the hell out of Toboe who likes listening to foreign languages. A waitress came over and asked them what they would like. Hige was surprised to see that there were two options and only two but the drinks selection was nicely sized.

"What are you getting Miss Faye?" Asks Toboe.

"Get the margherita, its the best."

Kiba thought that sounded weird. "Shouldn't we share?"

Checking her make-up in a small mirror, Faye waves her hand out toward the center of the restaurant. "Take a look around. We don't slice pizza here, you get a whole one to yourself."

"Alright! I think I like this place." Cheers Hige. "You can have mine when I'm half done, Kiba, we'll switch."

"Sounds like a good way to get two kinds out of it, but okay."

Not wanting to be left out of the experience. "You wanna switch with me Faye?"

The woman nods while ordering for them. The waitress came by with their drinks first then brought their pizza's over. They're very thin, almost paper like. Kiba looked at his then Hige's. There were slight differences but nevertheless they were without toppings. He wondered if any of the pizza's in Italy had toppings.

"Look," says Faye. "the only way to eat this is with your fingers, like a crepe." The woman pulls a slab off the pizza then eats it to show them how to do it. "See, rippy bits."

They all cocked their heads at her Japanese, 'rippy bits' came together in an odd clump of wording but they understood. Tsume actually taught Faye very well because up until now they've never had a problem understanding each other at all. Lunch went along nicely. Toboe even managed to strike up conversation with another table, his brother and Hige joined in with Faye as their translator. The couple next to them ended up taking their picture and they took one of them. The group switched half finished as they agreed and they ate peacefully until the last bite and drop of iced tea was gone. Leaving, they then stopped at a shop for gelato as she promised. Hige couldn't decide what he wanted and ended up getting two kinds. Chocolate and hazelnut. Kiba got a chocolate as well and Toboe chip and mint. Faye got hers on a cone instead of a cup and she got three flavors, peach, lemon, and watermelon. That couldn't taste good together once it melted. But Hige just died holding her ice cream for her as she drove to the opera house to end the tour. It was a great day alright, but Toboe was most looking forward to a phonecall that was promised to him by Tsume and surely enough when the clock struck twelve the phone in the models bedroom rings.