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Alright, I'm not even going to make a pretense at having a life. Instead I'm going to point at my icon and say, "Look! Isn't Kazahaya PRETTY?" and give thanks to CLAMP for having such an overly dodgy opening picture.

To clarify for those of you who have read volume 1 and went "what are you talking about? Legal Drug isn't anywhere near as gay as TB, or X, or Duklyon, or CCS, or...", I would here like to say that volume two is (as I put it earlier) a veritable EXPLOSION OF GAY.

(On that note watch this space for Sorata's Big Gay Adventure, a fic connected to this expression. XD)

I'm not sure if this will really be of interest to anybody but I was bored and it was vaguely entertaining to me, so I've translated the first chapter of volume two. I even made a new shiny icon to go with it- see above.

[] are action tags, ** means someone is thinking something, '' is for the little handwritten comments outside of speechbubbles.


[Young Kazahaya is sleeping under a tree. A girl in a kimono comes to stand next to him.]

Girl: You’re sleeping in a place like this again.

Do you know what time it is?
Kaza: I know.

Girl: But class has already started.
Kaza: I know that too.

Girl: Even though you know you’re still taking a nap?

Kaza: Isn’t it time for your class now too?

Girl: I went looking for you. It was inevitable.

Kaza: So you’re going to skip too because of me?

Girl: [lies down on her stomach next to Kazahaya] Not at all. In such good weather, lying down makes me sleepy.
Kaza: It’s okay if you sleep. I’m going to- I’m sleepy.

Girl: We really are alike in some ways.

[lies down on Kazahaya’s chest.]

You’re warm.

You’re always warm.
Kaza: Kei…

[Kei sits back on her heels and Kazahaya sits up, Kei burying her head against his chest.]

Kei: Even though I have a name of fire… I’m always cold, unlike you.

Maybe one day you won’t be here anymore. Like your name. Like the wind.

If that happens, I’ll be sad and lonely. Maybe I’m being strange.

Kaza: [puts his arms around Kei] I won’t leave.

Kei: Really?
Kaza: Yep. Because when you’re crying, it’s hard to make you stop crying.

[Kei smiles and stands up leaning over the still sitting Kazahaya, cupping his face in her hands.]

Kei: Then promise me…

That you’ll always be near, Nii-san.

[Present day Kazahaya wakes up at a funny angle in a tree, half lying on a branch and half supported by Rikuo, who is standing on the branch below.]

Kaza: H… huh?
Rikuo: You can sure sleep well in these conditions.

Kaza: I was asleep? How did I get into a position like this?

Rikuo: You climbed. [He smirks.] You have good will power to climb up a tree and sleep this late at night.

Kaza: [having a silent hissy fit] *That guy really pisses me off!*

Rikuo: There really is something about this tree, is there?

Kaza: [wistfully] Yeah. I remember this tree. I used to come here every night to sleep.

IT’S HERE! [points and yells]

[A tiny cat scampers out from the underbrush]

Rikuo: [slaps a hand over Kazahaya’s mouth] Be quiet! It ran away!

[The cat runs toward the tree; there is a basket hanging upside down from a rope, and Rikuo uses his powers to snap the rope and trap the kitten under the basket.]

Kaza: GOT IT!

[Both climb down from the tree. Kei runs toward the kitten and picks it up, cradling it against his chest.]

Kaza: Great! Your owner was worried- let’s take you home!

Rikuo: [flatly] You two are really well suited- you’re just like an animal.

Kaza: [puffs up like a pissed off cat] WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!

[Scene change back to Green Drugstore. Kazahaya runs in still holding the kitten.] WE CAUGHT THE CAT!

[Saiga is lying with his head in Kakei’s lap; Kakei has one arm under Saiga’s body and the other cradling his head. Both look smugly content. Kazahaya freezes, sweatdropping with a very stunned expression.]

Kaza: Ah- eh- ooh-

Kakei: Oh, don’t worry, the tuna’s there. [points down at the floor]
Kaza: Ha-hai!

Kakei: The back of his ears and head and the tip of his tail are black, and his eyes are golden. This is definitely the cat we were looking for.

Well done. I’ll pay you your reward.
Kaza: YAY!

Kakei: You didn’t use this carry bag?

Rikuo: The cat went to sleep on him and wouldn’t let go.

Kaza: [tickling the chin of the kitten, who is lying on his knees.] Really.

Kakei: Kudoh-kun, you get on very well with cats. [Kazahaya grins]

[Saiga is still lying in Kakei’s lap; Kakei’s hand is curled under his jaw] Did you used to have a cat?

Kaza: [smiling happily] No. But I did used to live with someone like a cat.

Kakei: [slight smile] Someone like a cat?

[Kazahaya’s expression basically says “OOPS” and Rikuo looks interested]

Kakei: Forgive me for keeping you up so late. Please return to your room and have a good rest.

Kaza: Hai! [stands up and tries to remove kitten, but it sticks its claws into his t-shirt.]

Um, he…
Kakei: Looks like he wants to stay with you, Kudoh-kun.

Will you take care of him for a night?
Kaza: [cuddling kitten again] Hai!

Seeya later!

Kakei: Looks like there’s a bit more to Kazahaya.

Oh. There’s a message from Saiga for you, Rikuo.

[Rikuo looks alert]

He says that as usual, information regarding Tsukiko-san’s manner of walking is important.

Did you have anything else you wanted to ask?
Rikuo: If Saiga doesn’t know, asking anything else would be futile.

Kakei: I can’t help you with Tsukiko-san…

Because I don’t know the future of people who are stronger than I am.

Rikuo: [looks determined and a little angry] Tsukiko is alive. Even though I don’t know where she is right now, I’ll get her back.

[scene changes to Kazahaya’s room. The window is open, the kitten is on the bed and he’s pulling on his sleeping t-shirt]

Kaza: But then, I had that strange dream.

[panel of Kei smiling down and back to Kazahaya looking sad]

I broke the promise, Kei.

But if we were together, you or I? Which one would…

[cat dashes towards the window, pauses on the windowsill to look back at him and jumps out. Kazahaya panics, reaching out for it]

AAAAAA! WAIT! It’s 3 floors up from the ground!

[cat lands on its feet and is fine. Kazahaya goes weak with relief]

It… it’s okay.

[cat runs away]

IT’S NOT OKAY! [runs out of the room and straight into Rikuo]

Rikuo: [amused] Can’t you look where you’re going?

Kaza: [shoves past him to run down the stairs] THE CAT RAN AWAY!
Rikuo: WHAT?!

[scene change. Saiga wakes and sits up]

Kakei: Did you sleep well?

Saiga: [puts a hand behind Kakei’s neck] Because it was your knee.

[the two lean forward, are about to kiss and-]

Saiga: [still with one hand curled around the back of Kakei’s neck and the other now on his arm] It’s loud outside.
Kakei: Thanks to the two young ones.

Saiga: Isn’t the job finished?

[leans forward to kiss Kakei’s neck]
Kakei: [smiling] The job is finished, but… there’s an *extra*.

[scene change again. Rikuo and Kazahaya are chasing the kitten]

Rikuo: Why didn’t you close the door!

Kaza: It WAS closed!

It escaped through the window!

Rikuo: Three floors?! Shouldn’t it have been hurt?
Kaza: If it had it wouldn’t be running like that!

Rikuo: If that’s so, that cat-

[cat jumps up on top of a really high wall]

Kaza: Hey, wait!

[Kazahaya jumps up on the wall too and starts running along the top of it. Rikuo follows on the ground. They end up in a park with the kitten sitting on top of the jungle gym]

Kaza: [irritably to Rikuo] You’re slow.

Rikuo: [flippantly] A cat is better to chase after a cat.
Kaza: WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!

Rikuo: [claps a hand over fuming Kazahaya’s mouth] Don’t yell, it’ll run away again.

Kaza: But why did that cat come to a park like this?

Rikuo: Maybe it didn’t have a reason aiming for this park. It could have just come here when it was running.

Kaza: That’s not it. It seemed like it was guiding us here for some reason. I could feel it.

[Rikuo glances at him, eyes narrowed thoughtfully; flashback to cat running]

Kaza: Ah! You jerk! You think I’m talking about dreamer stuff, don’t you?
Rikuo: ‘Oh, shut up.’

No. That cat is definitely-

[Rikuo stops talking, and both turn suddenly to look at the cat, who begins to disappear]

Kaza: What the HELL?

Why is that cat coming APART?
Rikuo: It fell from three floors and was fine. I don’t think that’s an ordinary cat.

Kaza: Even though I thought this job was normal!
Rikuo: Not that Kakei gives us easy jobs.

Kaza: I feel like I’ve been played around with somehow. ‘Am I easy to play around with?!’
Rikuo: More than that, if we don’t catch it quickly we won’t get our reward.

Kaza: [panicky] That’s right!

[the cat completely disappears and reforms as Tsukiko and Kei. Kazahaya and Rikuo stare in shock]

Kaza: KEI?!

Rikuo: TSUKIKO?!

[they turn abruptly to stare at each other, then the two girls turn back into the kitten, who floats down to land in Kazahaya’s arms. They go back and Kakei is outside on the stairs, leaning back against the rail with a mysterious smile]

Kakei: Welcome back.

The cat went to the park, then?
Kaza: How did you know?!

Kakei: [pets the kitten] This little one was born in the park. I don’t mean in the biological sense.

Children always want to play in the park. That feeling gathered, and this cat was born. It’s a bit embarrassing to say it, but it’s like a spirit.

Therefore, it is at the park where it can demonstrate its foremost power. It wanted to thank you, so it showed both of you something that would make you happy.

In gratitude, it became the form of the people you wanted to see most, didn’t it?

It’s okay, it won’t run away again. Let it sleep with you, Kudoh-kun.
Kaza: Okay.

Kakei: [still outside after the two have gone, now looking slightly sad] …But I wonder if now those two are sadder.

[scene change to Kazahaya lying in bed looking sad with the kitten curled up in the crook of his neck]

Kazahaya: *…Kei is definitely the person I want to see the most.*

[Panel of Kei, then a panel of Rikuo]

*He also has someone he wants to see.*

Tsukiko-san…? I wonder what kind of relationship she had with Rikuo.

Date: 2005-01-08 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tairamika.livejournal.com
http://gohoudrug.cjb.net/

*grins* Scanlations for 2 and 3, in Vol3 the gay gets even more...gay. *hearts gohou* ^_~

Date: 2005-01-08 02:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
I keep on hoping that maybe THIS time CLAMP will not leave me frustrated. XD As I estimate it, though, it's probably about 10 months until Gohou 4 comes out. And I bet they will find a way to make it even gayer without any kissing or overt declarations of any kind. *twitches*

Date: 2005-01-08 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] link621.livejournal.com
GD is irrevocably gay. Between the fact that Kakei and Saiga are together and the fact that Kazahaya and Rikuou seem to have a thing for putting themselves in questionable situations... well, and in volume three, there's that romance between the vice president and president of the student council (they are so bloody cute). Actually, the third book sort of reminds me of the St. Michaels arc of Yami... (I'm probably just making weird assosiations, now...)

Anyway, all that gayness aside, GD is my favorite CLAMP work. I love the art, I love the characters, and I really love the story. x_x; CLAMP needs to make more-- stat.

(and I'll use my icon of Kazahaya cosplaying Chii just for the hell of it)

Date: 2005-01-09 12:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
I think Kazahaya and Rikuo are intended to end up together. I mean, you never know because this *is* CLAMP who enjoy nothing more than frustrating their readers to the point of pegging their books at the wall, but one can always remain hopeful. *g*

I have to agree with you on the favourite CLAMP manga thing- I really like the more minimalist drawing style, and the characters are also more in proportion. Goes without saying I love the characters and the story. I just really hope this doesn't turn into another hiatus... *twitch*

Date: 2005-01-08 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
Dude. I've only read vol. 1 and I *still* realize how much gayer this manga is than any of the other CLAMP stuff I've read/seen. The fold-out pictures *alone*...I bought vol. 2 in Japan two summers ago because I saw the CLAMP logo and when I opened it up it had a picture of Rikuo holding Kazahaya on a leash or something equally dodgy.

And Kakei and Saiga are still really, really gay in vol. 1. Everyone's all "I wonder who Saiga is and why he stays around" while I sit there and go, "BOYFRIENDS, OBVIOUSLY."

Also, Kakei is very pretty and Saiga vaguely reminds me of Seishirou.

Date: 2005-01-09 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
... You too?! I think it's the sunglasses. And the ev0l smirk. XD

That said, Kakei and Saiga are so gay in the second volume (like, they almost kiss gay) that you cannot deny they are lovers. Even though Kazahaya tries to. *g*

Date: 2005-01-10 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
Hee, yes. Those and also, the looming. And the random molesting.

They're pretty damn gay in the first, so I'm intrigued by them getting even gayer. It's hard to get more subtext-y than the line "so are we alone now?" with Saiga draping himself over Kakei when if Kakei turned his head about half an inch they'd be kissing. Somehing like that, anyway; memory not wha it should be at the moment.

Ah, Kazahaya and his denial. Strange little boy.

Date: 2005-01-10 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
I'd forgotten about that! But I think his molestation goes up a notch, plus the added wtf fun value of Saiga sewing yukata and cooking. *g*

Kazahaya IS a strange little boy, but a pretty one. Looks good in a sailor seifuku. *snerk*

Date: 2005-01-10 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
Saiga: *sekritly a total housewife, hence his never doing anything productive and non-domestic, kept around by Kakei for sex and bento*

Looks good in a sailor seifuku.

I am just not going to ask.

Date: 2005-01-11 12:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
Scarily true-sounding. I mean, it sounds like something Kakei would do... although that gives me mental images of housewife!Seishirou, which is just WRONG.

And don't give me that look! It happens! IT HAPPENS IN CANON!

Date: 2005-01-11 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
XD Seishirou in an apron. Oh god.

And is this like Subaru secretly being a Cher impersonator happens in canon?

Date: 2005-01-11 12:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
Ow. Just... ow. XD

... HOW IS THAT CANON? AT ALL? *cracks up* No, I'm serious. Actual actual canon. And he got possessed and had a sweet scene with Rikuo WHILST possessed. I thought you had volume 2?

Date: 2005-01-11 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
*contemplating* I bet it'd be pink. And frilly.

It isn't! Hence my point! *g* I do have volume 2. But it is a) in Japanese and b) sitting on my bookshelf collecting dust because I haven't looked at it in over a year. But now I have to go get it so I can find Kazahaya in sailor outfit.

Date: 2005-01-11 12:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
NOOOOO! STOOOOP! ... write it. You have credit. *evil grin*

Oh ha very ha, you. XD And I'm pretty sure it's in volume two, because the wedding dress is in volume 3. Do you want me to finish the text translation so you know what's going on?

Date: 2005-01-11 12:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
*facepalm* You write better Seishirou crack than I do, YOU do it.

:p

Wedding dress? XD I have scanlations of almost all of vol. 2 and 3 and what I don't have scanlated I have translations of. Am giving myself the next half hour to indulge crack addiction (read: read scanlations) before going off to studying.

Date: 2005-01-11 12:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
But I'm writing Sorata! *g* Also, I need to continue that Huge Big Monster Fic sometime... *shifty look* Psst! Help me come up with what happens next after your exams!

Sounds like a good plan. Exams are evil and so is work. :(

Date: 2005-01-11 12:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
Hee, true. And post-exams, I am all up for muse'ing. I suppose "wallsex" is not the answer you're looking for. *g*

Exams are teh evil. Work too, actually. Anything that interferes with free time.

Date: 2005-01-11 01:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
Yay that! Enabling ahoy, I finish work on Friday. And nooooo, not quite. XD

YES. Also I think I'm getting RSI again from too much typing. -_-; However, lunch break! Yay!

Date: 2005-01-11 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
*is master enabler*

Lunch breaks are good. Am still reading GD, just started chapter 10. Kakei is totally running a prostitution ring out of the drugstore, isn't he. "Wear the uniform, Kazahaya, or I'm whoring you out on the streetcorner." Pretty, but kinda creepy.

Date: 2005-01-11 01:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
*is also!*

XD Yes, it is rather. Ahahaha. Poor Kazahaya. *snerk*

Date: 2005-01-11 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
I think Kakei is also seriously into BDSM. When he's not dressed in a big furry jacket prostituting his employees, he probably wears a lot of leather. *g*

Date: 2005-01-11 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
That is ever so vaguely disturbing. *giggle* My icon just got more appropriate!

Date: 2005-01-11 01:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
But he so is! He's all teeny and pretty but also EVIL and he likes handcuffing Saiga to the bedposts. *nod*

And if the random pictures at the beginning of the chapters are anything to go by, Kazahaya and Rikuo have similar relationship, only Kazahaya is usually the one tied up. CLAMP really likes putting Kazahaya in a collar.

Date: 2005-01-11 01:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
He seems so nice. And then you pay attention to what he is saying and you're like OMG WTF EV0L!

Can you blame them, though? I mean, really. XD

Date: 2005-01-11 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corialis.livejournal.com
Like I said, teeny and pretty and evil. *g*

Hee. Well, no. Even if Kazahaya is not really my character-type, he is still very pretty and really just lends himself to the shady fetish poses.

Date: 2005-01-08 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quitty.livejournal.com
hmm...you're kinda making me REALLY want to go and buy Gohou(?) Drug now...must consult accountant and check if personal funds can accommodate another manga series...hmm...

Date: 2005-01-09 12:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
Hee! If you can afford it, it's worth it. ^^

Date: 2005-01-09 11:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] min1979.livejournal.com
I LOVE GOHOU DRUG SO MUCH EEEEEE *faints*

Date: 2005-01-09 12:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tammaiya.livejournal.com
It IS love, isn't it? <3

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