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Fic #28: Peace
Request: Loveless, Soubi/Kyo, prompt: getting a drink after school
Requested by: farasha
Length: 519
Rated: PG
Notes: See previous fic for notes on how I can’t write this series for beans. Also, you didn’t say after whose school! =D
“Hey, I brought you a juice.”
“Thanks.” Soubi accepted the juice and popped the top, taking a drink. He had not asked Kyo why he had insisted on accompanying him to the school. Conversations like that with Kyo were usually doomed for failure anyway. Conversation was not something that Soubi particularly excelled at.
“So.” Kyo sat down on the bench, looking more excited than could possibly be reasonable that Soubi had allowed him to come along. “How’s the stalking going?”
Soubi drank his juice and didn’t answer. It wasn’t necessary with Kyo, anyway, who took his silence as a sign that it was time to launch into one of his famous speeches on why stalking elementary school students was sick and wrong and could get him arrested, and anyway, why should he be paying any attention to some twerp who still had his ears when he had such a gorgeous roommate who was, by the way, willing to pose nude for him at any time, just give the word.
That was how it always went around Kyo, and Soubi didn’t mind. It was pleasant and familiar to sit there in the sunlight and drink the juice and listen to Kyo talk.
“Ah,” he said, interrupting Kyo midsentence as he saw Ritsuka leave the building, flanked on either side by Yuiko and the other boy whose name he couldn’t recall off the top of his head. He started to stand up, but Kyo grabbed him by the arm, making him sit back down on the bench. Soubi blinked at the other man.
“Don’t,” Kyo said. “Look at him smiling over there. You’ll ruin it.”
“I won’t ruin it,” Soubi said, thinking of how Ritsuka would undoubtedly get all flustered and blush and snarl. He liked it when Ritsuka blushed and snarled. It was so cute, so young, so . . . utterly unlike Seimei. “Anyway, if he doesn’t see me, he’ll wonder where I am.”
“Soubi,” Kyo said, in that ‘I’m smarter and know better than you’ tone of voice, “you’ll ruin it.”
Soubi sighed. He could always catch up with Ritsuka, but -
He saw the younger boy come down the steps with his friends. Yuiko was chirping away like usual, the other boy looking a little uncomfortable with whatever it was she was saying, like he might start to blush and snarl any second. Ritsuka wasn’t laughing, but he had this slightly amused smile hovering around his lips, a more genuine expression than the smile he ever gave his teachers or Yuiko herself when she was worried about him.
Ritsuka glanced over at the fence and the bench as he passed, obviously waiting for Soubi to jump out of the shadows and pounce on him any moment. When he saw the man sitting there, his step faltered a little, but when Soubi did not approach him, that tiny smile grew just the slightest bit wider and more grateful.
The three of them turned the corner and went on their way.
“See?” Kyo said, smug as usual.
“Sure. You’re right, you’re always right. C’mon, I’ll buy you a drink.”
“Woohoo!”