"Just what in gay hell is THAT?" Sage demanded, indicating the froofy looking concoction Sai was pouring together.

"I'm not sure yet," Sai pouted at the pinkish drink. "It doznt' have a name..." he gestured wobbly at the array of bottles on the counter. "I'm experi-eshper- trying stuff."

Ryou and Sage exchanged a glance. "Um... Sai, just how long have you been at this?" Ryou picked up an empty bottle of Zima.

Sai blinked, trying to organize his thoughts. "Fewhours..." He swizzled a swirl of whipped cream on the top of the beverage and giggled slightly. "Ish a bet."

Sage stepped over and eyed the drink. "A bet?" He poked a finger into the jar of maraschino cherries and fished one out, licking at some syrup that dribbled down one ivory wrist. "A bet with whom?"

"Kento'nRowen. Bet me 500 Yen. Said... if I was such a gourm- gormo-"

"Gourmet," Ryou prompted absently, torn between watching Sage wrapping his tongue around the candied cherry (which was REALLY erotic), or watching Sai drunk off his ass (which was REALLY amusing).

"Thanksh." Sai swayed precariously. "That if I was such a... umm... what you said, that I should have no problem mixing the perfect drink. Sweet but not overpowering, not over alcoholed, that you could drink sheveral of before getting gone."

"And you've had 'sheveral', I'm sure," Sage drawled, and smirked at Ryou.

"Bullsht." Sai wobbled. He was swearing, he probably had sampled more than a few concoctions. "I can snober up like that." He attempted to snap his fingers and failed miserably.

Ryou snickered. Sage's eyes slid over to Ryou's, and glinted with trouble. Sage tilted his head at Sai, and then he raised his eyebrows with a faint smile. They conversed in gesture as Sai puzzled soggily over his drink, trying to de-fog his brain enough to come up with a name for his invention.

Ryou mouthed 'no!' at Sage, Sage's smirk broadened.

Why not?

Ryou made a faint throttling motion with his hands. Kento would KILL us!

Sage shrugged eloquently. Who's gonna tell him?

Ryou put his hands on his hips and glowered. Sage...

Sage grinned. You KNOW you want to!

Ryou looked over at Sai, talking softly to his drink in a playful sing-song voice, asking it very nicely what it would like to be named. Sai's hair tousled, his green eyes too bright, his hips enmeshed in their skin-tight jeans were thrust out to balance as he leaned on the countertop.

Ryou chewed his lip. Welll...

Sage pouted teasingly. You KNOW how sweet he is...

Ryou flushed violently. ummmm...

Sage stood up. The decision is made.

Ryou rolled his eyes. Here we go again...

"Well?" Sage purred close to Sai's ear, and if Sai weren't quite so shellacked he would have known to make a run for it. "Have you come up with a name for it?"

Sai shook his head, his hair flopping into his eyes. He was almost so cute it hurt. "Nope." He went to his knees, resting his chin on folded arms, at eye level with his fizzy creation. "Dunno yet." His eyelids drooped sleepily.

"Perhaps we could help you out then?" Sage leaned over Sai's shoulder, stretching out his arm to gesture Ryou over with one curled finger.

"Could you?" Sai turned bright eyes to Sage, glowing with hopeful trust. He was nowhere near as innocent as he seemed, but that was gloriously easy to forget when he beamed like that.

"Ummmmm-hummmmmm..." Sage traced the delicate shell of Sai's ear with one finger tip. "What you need, you see, is an event to name it after. "

"Really?" Sai chirped, glancing at Ryou for verification.

Ryou looked over Sai's head at Sage. Ryou was utterly weakened by Sai's perfect obviousness. Sage gave him an irritated frown and nodded. Well, GO on!

"Of course." Ryou smiled faintly. An event... ohboy... "Just to uh... commemorate the event. Right."

Sage stifled a groan. It was a good thing Sai was totally gone, Ryou was a shitty liar and Sai wasn't THAT gullible... he knew when someone wasn't playing straight with him.

"You'll help?" Sai smiled happily.

"We'll help." Sage pulled Sai to his feet. "We're going to play a game."

"I like games," Sai enthused.

Ryou shifted his hips. Hell yes Sai liked games... he remembered the last one... Twister. Sai took "Right hand Red" to a WHOLE other level! Ryou felt himself flush just at the memory.

"Good. We are going to play 'Guess'." Sage reached into one of the drawers and tugged out a folded cloth napkin, and whipped it into a blindfold. This was almost too easy.

"Guess?" Sai tilted his head as the blindfold slipped over his eyes, swaying as his lack of sight affected his already faltering balance. Ryou reached out to steady him, mouthing "GUESS?!?!" At Sage who just smirked.

Sai grinned under the blindfold, moving his head in Sage's direction. "How do I play, Sage?"

"We're going to see how well you know us." Sage said soothingly. "One of us is going to do something... and you have to guess if it is me or Ryou."

"Oh geez that's EASY, Sage!"

Sage smiled. Do tell, little fishy... "It might seem like it, but really it's a LOT harder than you think."

Ryou cleared his throat and refrained from commenting on things being a lot harder than Sai thought.

"Okay, Are you ready?"

Sai nodded, smiling like a kid with a new puppy.

"Good." Sage reached back into the cherry jar and retrieved one, touching one finger to Sai's mouth to get him to open up before depositing the tidbit inside. Sai chewed thoughtfully. Sage held out his hand to Ryou, who clasped his dark fingers around Sage's wrist and gently sucked off the syrup clinging to the pale skin. Sage closed his eyes and shuddered slightly.

"That was you, Sage." Sai announced. "Ryou's hands are warmer."

No shit, really? Sage thought sarcastically, and then sighed softly as Ryou's tongue traced a warm wet circle on his palm. "Very good, Sai. Next guess." Sage reached out and undid the top button of Sai's shirt.

"You again, Sage," Sai said without hesitation. "You're always telling me I button my shirts too high."

"Right again."

Ryou took his cue from Sage and stepped behind Sai, bringing his hands down onto Sai's shoulders and running them lightly over Sai's back.

Sai paused only a minute. "Ryou. That's how you always start out back rubs."

Sage smirked. Now for the real fun. "Now guess this one, Sai..." He murmured, running his hands up Sai's chest, feeling the smooth musculature beneath the thin fabric of his pale blue shirt. Sai gasped slightly as Sage's thumbs found his nipples, teasing them hard until they ached.

"Sa-Sage..." Sai's voice was uncertain and distant.

"Good boy, Sai." Sage nuzzled and bit lightly at one tight peak, making Sai moan softly and lean back against Ryou.

Hands slid over Sai's body, four of them. Two warm bodies pressed against him, never quite kissing him, never quite touching him where he most wanted it, confusing him with soft murmurs and gentle motions. He was lost in the darkness of the blindfold, and he was being seduced.

"I can't... can't tell who-" He managed. "Aren't- aren't you supposed to take turns?"

"We will," Sage murmured. Sai felt a pair of hips move against him, front and back. Sai could feel their heat even through several layers of cloth.

"But... the game-" Ryou was sliding a hand over his hip from behind him, and slipping in between the heat of Sage's body in front to carefully squeeze Sai though his jeans. Sai's breath caught in his throat, he turned his head in confusion. "I-- I--"

"The game's over," Sage answered, not ominously.

"This is what you get for winning." Ryou's smoldering mouth descended on Sai's throat, grinding himself against Sai, massaging his hardening sex. Sai stifled a gasp, sandwiched between them. Sage was kissing him now, across the bridge of his nose and through the blindfold on his eyes, down the line of his jaw.

"Ohhh," Sai got out, before Sage's mouth captured his, and Ryou was not only stroking Sai but Sage as well, and the soft moan Sage made into Sai's mouth was enough to convince Sai he liked this game VERY much.

Ryou's fingers flashed over the button fly of Sai's jeans, and Sai reached out to steady himself on Sage as mouth was plundered and his shirt undone. In a matter of moments he was bare between their clothed bodies, not realizing how erotic it was to feel an aroused covered lover against his own exposed skin. They danced around him, stroking and kissing and touching him and each other. Ryou's hot kisses moved down his spine as Sage's did down his chest, in perfect unison. Ryou's tongue drew hot exquisite little circles on the small of his back and bit at him softly, one warm hand sliding between Sai's legs and cupping him, feeling his desire and increasing it with tight squeezes and teasing tugs. Sai was moaning helplessly by this point, not sure which of them to ask for what, Sage was scattering kisses on his lower stomach and nibbling at the skin where his legs joined his body, the ends of Sage's pale hair tickling his sex and making him squirm.

"Ry-Ryou... Sage..."

"Be patient, Sai," That was Sage.

They were shifting around him, now Sage was behind and Ryou was in front. Sai gave himself up for lost.

Sage paused only long enough to get Ryou undressed, letting Ryou do the same for him as they both ran their hands and lips over the pale willing captive between them. Sai was shivering, but not from any chill. There was heat enough from the hungry pressure of his lovers to keep him warm. He felt Sage nudge him between his slightly spread legs.

"Wider."

He obeyed, but Ryou's mouth descended on his sex with no preamble and no warning. Sai cried out, his arms flailing until Ryou caught his wrists and guided Sai's palms to his broad shoulders. Sai felt like he was going to need the support VERY soon. Sage was touching him in that way only he had, as though examining him like a fine jewel, pressing here, stroking there, seeing what made the loudest cries or the most helpless whimpers.

Sai could feel the sweat on his skin and on theirs, his blindfold clinging to his face as Ryou buried his face hard between his spread legs, drawing on him tightly, moaning as he did so, for nothing so much as the soft vibrations he knew it caused. Sai clutched at Ryou's shoulders, gasping slightly at the pleasure. Ryou was so good at this but he was almost rough in going about it... and his mouth was SO hot. It was like being immersed in armorous lava.

Sage leaned over Sai's back and kissed his ear, then prodded the delicate skin behind his earlobe with his tongue. It was carefully in synch with the probing push between his legs.

"Please..." Sai pleaded, lifting his hips back, he couldn't take the suspense. "Please Sage...." He wanted to feel that heat inside him, wanted to be taken until he screamed. It took all he had just to stand still.

Sage smirked, rubbing a nipple softly as he eased himself partway into Sai, watching his face as best he could. The sounds Sai was making were incredible.

Sai wrapped one hand around Ryou's neck, petting the soft dark hair. He grunted softly as his body accepted the penetration, and then moaned as Sage pushed himself in all the way, and then pulled out again, carefully teasing Sai by running the tip in little circles around the opening.

"Nnng!" Sai writhed in frustration, Ryou was no longer pulling hard on him now, he was licking and touching and teasing, making him wait. Sage rewarded him by sliding just a little in. Sage bit his lip- this was taking most of his patience as well. Sai was more than sweet, he was intoxicating.

"More... it's not enough... Sage... Ryou please..." Sai pushed his hips back against Sage, but in doing so he had to pull away from Ryou's sweet mouth. Sai was ready to start sobbing. He wanted them both.. why were they being so mean?

"Down on your knees, Sai..." Sage whispered gently, not withdrawing. Sai maneuvered himself to the cold ceramic tile as best he could, Ryou steadying him. Ryou's mouth was pulling at Sai's now, and Ryou was easing down on his back, urging Sai on top of him. In a flash Sai realized what he was being given, and kissed Ryou back with a vengeance as Ryou spread his legs wide and offered himself. Sage reached around and grasped Sai, pressing him right against Ryou, who's hips were lifted, blue eyes shut in anticipation.

Sage kissed Sai's cheek. "Are you ready?" He whispered, almost breathlessly. Sai had barely begun to nod when Sage shoved foreword, pushing Sai deep into Ryou, who arched his back and gave a guttural cry as he was taken by both of them. Sage whipped the blindfold off of Sai... The expression on Ryou's face was too good for Sai to miss, his eyes squeezed shut, mouth open in a wordless cry. Sai balanced carefully to reach between Ryou's legs and pump him in time, working him harder as Sage's quickening thrusts made him speed up.

Sai felt like he was going to die... this was too much to take, Sage deep inside him, Ryou all around him, his ears ringing with soft muted gasps and urgent moans. Ryou reached up to catch Sai's face and kiss him deeply, a frantic cry suddenly sounding in Sai's mouth as Ryou tore his mouth away to gasp both their names, shuddering hard as he came in Sai's hand, hot enough to burn Sai's stomach as Ryou spilled against him.

Sai shivered and was climaxing before Ryou even had stopped, feeling his own release deep within Ryou, captivated by Ryou's now wide-open eyes as he felt Sai explode deep within him. Ryou whispered Sai's name against his lips, clutching at Sai as tightly as Sai was clinging to him. Both of their bodies were suddenly rocked hard and fast by what Rowen had once called Sage's "Three Deadly Thrusts", the last warning before he too cried out, holding himself perfectly still as he flowed into Sai.

They collapsed into a tangled pile of limbs, all of them panting, kissing softly and stroking back damp hair. It was some time before any of them spoke, Sage and Sai withdrawing themselves and falling on the blessedly cool tile on either side of Ryou. Ryou gathered them both into his arms and kissed them deeply, the three of them trying to perfect a three-man French kiss without giggling first. At last Sai sat up.

"Well, thanks for helping me name my drink, guys." His speech was clear and unslurred, and his eyes were bright.

"Wha-?" Ryou lifted his head and stretched lazily. "You could NOT have sobered up that fast."

Sai smirked, leaning down and biting at Ryou's nipple, making him jump.

"Hey!"

"I was sober the whole time, silly kitty!" Sai poked Ryou in his washboard stomach. "Really, you two are far too gullible. Never take a water sign for granted. We're never what we seem." He winked and rose gracefully to his feet, padding over to the counter and writing something down.

Sage chuckled ruefully and rested his cheek on Ryou's chest. "Well, guess we didn't take advantage of him after all."

"No, you took advantage of ME. How'd I draw bottom?"

"You know you like it... and you were on top last time, and all you did was whine-"

"How'd YOU know that?"

"Mia told me."

"You talk about this stuff with MIA?!?"

"Of course! How else would I know how much you like hot baths?" Sage grinned. "And Chocolate sauce..."

"Don't forget that flavored body oil stuff," Sai added.

"Of course not." Sage smiled fondly down at Ryou, twirling his fingers in the ebony hair. "Who do you think Mia BORROWED that stuff from?"

"I can't belive that the two of you would... would go and-"

"It's not just the two of us... the chocolate sauce was Kento's idea. SO was tying you up with her stockings, and she said you liked that QUITE a bit..."

Sage laughed as Ryou's face went crimson and he fumed himself silent; Sai just poured drinks for all three of them. It had indeed been an occasion worthy of commemoration.

Rowen and Kento found themselves paying Sai 500 yen...

Even though they NEVER figured out how the drink got it's name-

But they have their suspicions....

~owari~

by Tenshi no Korin
yoroiden samurai troopers
b i s h o n e n i n k