Characters: Dan Taichi, Oshitari Yuushi, Akutsu Jin
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for Akutsu
When/Where: Akutsu and Yuushi's classroom, just before class, September 26th
What: Dan gets his cousin to help him figure out exactly what Akutsu thinks of him.
"Ah, target acquired."
Yuushi's lips curved up as he and Dan stopped, watching Akutsu glare out the window of his first classroom. He'd been bored and lazing away in his bed before class when his cousin had come to him, plying him with cookies and banter. Then he'd asked for his help, something rare in Yuushi's experience. But, for Dan, he'd use his telepathic powers to see just what this Akutsu really thought of his cute cousin.
Said target was irritated. He'd run out of Dan's cookies again and had no interest in cracking any of his books. He chewed on a stick of ginseng that dangled from his lips like a makeshift cigarette.
"...Right." Dan nodded, holding a fresh box of cookies. He hadn't taken any to Akutsu this morning, but that didn't mean he didn't have any. "Want me to go annoy him now?"
"By all means." Yuushi let Dan go, slipping into an empty desk for now to wait.
Dan smiled slightly, walking over to Akutsu's desk. "Akutsu-san~ Good evening~"
"This ain't your class," the white haired vampire said automatically, flicking his gold eyes up to the aristocrat. Just as quickly though, he recognized the box Dan had in his hands and sat up a little straighter. "...That more cookies?"
"I know it isn't. And yes, it is." Dan offered him the box. "I couldn't bring you any earlier, so I thought I'd drop by before the class."
Opening up his power towards Akutsu, Yuushi wasn't much suprised by the conflicting thoughts. He wasn't an empath like Kenya, but he recognized what where annoyed thoughts, and ambiguous ones. Anti vampire thoughts often plagued Akutsu, so Yuushi tended to tune him out. So far, however, his thoughts about Dan weren't anything noteworthy other than a general thought about his cousin being a stalker.
"That all?" Akutsu grabbed the box though, dropping the ginseng stick to pop one in his mouth. It was annoying to him to think that he'd gone from hating cookies in general to getting pretty addicted to Dan's.
"Just wanted to say sorry for not bringing them to you earlier~" Smile, smile. Why, of course he was absolutely innocent of any kind of scheme~ "I know how much you like being woken up early by half-naked brats~" Okay, so now he was teasing.
My oh my...the thoughts whirling around Akutsu's mind were practically scandalous, Yuushi mused. And all conflicting like crazy. Thoughts of bundling Dan up in a snowsuit went right into stripping him the rest of the way off. Others were concern about the direction his dreams had been taking, starring one Dan Taichi. And always, the lone little thoughts that the brat was a damn vampire and he had no business even liking him. It was a bit to sort though, but all pretty direct and straightforward.
"You do that again, you better have clothes on," Akutsu grumbled at him from around a cookie.
"Oh, come on. I've never come around completely naked desu," Dan chuckled. "That's just you when you kick the covers off."
"You don't wanna see it, don't come around every damn afternoon," Akutsu frowned at him. Yuushi had to slip a hand over his mouth to not laugh. He might have been rude about it, but in his mind Akutsu was embarrassed at having been checked out naked while he was too exhausted to know better. He didn't even mind the thought that Dan might be a pervert like his asshole cousins.
"I don't recall complaining~" Now, the tiniest hint of a flush rose to Dan's cheeks. No, he most definitely had no complaints about such glimpses.
That seemed to grind all of Akutsu's thoughts down to a halt for a half a minute, if the sudden void Yuushi was sensing was any indication. Then there was a definite thought that Dan was crazy...like his asshole cousins. And that maybe all vampires were pervs that got off on liking someone not worth liking. Akutsu's thoughts started trailing off in different directions. Sometimes amazed that anyone liked him, sometimes disgusted by it. Thoughts of Hirakoba Rin surfaced, a brief replaying of the human confessing his attraction to him. But there was a definite recurring thought that he didn't deserve such attention, that he didn't belong in either the vampire world or the human one.
"...Not changing the way I sleep just cause you wanna get some cheap thrills," Akutsu finally grouched at him.
"Never said you should~ You're quite nice to look at." Oh, the blush was most certainly not going to disappear. "Not that I've ever peeked on purpose, mind~" He wasn't that much of a perv, thanks. Besides, Akutsu would have probably tried to kill him at that point.
"Never figured vamps needed glasses," Akutsu frowned at him. He just couldn't take a compliment, Yuushi thought. Why Dan would want such an obtuse, frustrating man was beyond him.
"My eyesight is quite all right~" And, just to prove his opinion on the matter, he leant quickly over the desk to press a kiss on Akutsu's lip before quickly standing up again, stepping back just barely out of Akutsu's reach.
Another grinding halt. This time it seemed to take Akutsu's mind more time to get back online, Yuushi noticed. The turned vampire just stared at Dan in disbelief for a long moment before scowling. "What'd I tell you about that shit?"
"All sort of things~" Dan tilted his head to the side with a tiny smile. "But since you're so convinced I'm some kind of an idiot, you can't really expect me to keep such things in my mind, can you?"
"Don't make me kick your ass," Akutsu grumbled, eating another cookie grouchily.
"Oh, you wouldn't do that just for a little kiss."
"Wouldn't test that if I were you." A statement that Yuushi was easily refuting. If there was one thing clear about Akutsu's mind, it was that he wasn't going to lay a hand on Dan like that. So he must like him enough for that.
"Well... one could claim that might depend on where the kiss is aimed." Oh, yes, he was that much of a cousin of Oshitari.
"Don't you have some place to fucking be?" Akutsu shot back at him, the tips of his ears going pink. Yuushi had to stand and walk carefully out of the room before he burst out laughing.
"You're cute when you blush," Dan said cheerfully before giving Akutsu one last happy smile. "I should head towards my class now~ Have a good day~"
"You don't want to know all the colorful words he's calling you right now," Yuushi told him as Dan left the room.
"Probably not desu," Dan chuckled. "But he is cute when he blushes~"
"Naughty scamp," Yuushi ruffled his hair. "You've been sneaking into his room and comforting him...no wonder he'll never follow through with any of his threats."
"Not like I really think he would," Dan replied. "He's only actually scared me once."
"Mm. Well. So far as your chances with him go, you're obviously on the right track. The only real roadblocks I got were his attitude towards our kind, and Hirakoba Rin."
"Hirakoba Rin?" Dan echoed. "The student council member he calls Princess?" Oh, that was definitely a problem... if not otherwise, then simply because he was not a vampire.
Yuushi nodded, walking him down the hall. "It seems the Princess confessed to him not long ago. Its on his mind quite a bit."
Dan's eyes narrowed. "...In which way?"
"I'm not an empath so I can't say how he feels about him. But he's thinking about him. About having kissed him twice, in fact. As far as I can tell, he's definitely attracted. But probably in denial. He thinks he doesnt deserve to be with anyone."
Dan sighed. "...Denial hardly helps if the fact is he's attracted to Hirakoba."
Yuushi wrapped an arm around his shoulders. "Maybe...but when you kiss him his mind stops altogether. That's more than promising."
"...Maybe." Dan managed a small smile. "Good thing I'm patient, ne?"
"Its a very good thing," his cousin agreed. "You're going to need it with that one. He's quite the project."
"As long as he doesn't hate me, I'm not giving up." And he knew Yuushi would have told him if Akutsu had hated him.
"You shouldn't," Yuushi grinned, stopping briefly at Dan's classroom. Their classes were about to start, but he had time enough to share one more tidbit. "You and your cute, half naked body have been appearing in his dreams. Or so he was thinking when you were talking about it." With that, he patted his cousin's head and bid him a short goodbye, moving onto his own class.
Yuushi left Dan blinking and flushing, taking a good while to get his thoughts into a calm enough shape not to blush too badly as he headed to class. However, he spent most of his time simply daydreaming, staring out of the window into the dark night.