Title: Yabeki
Author: Ohimechan & Aiko
Pairing: Jin/Kazuya, Tomohisa/Kazuya, Ryo/Uchi & Shige/Koyama
Characters: X Group: Nishikido Ryo, Yamashita Tomohisa, Koyama Keiichiro, Kato Shigeaki. Y Group: Akanishi Jin, Kamenashi Kazuya, Tanaka Koki, Nakamaru Yuichi. Still in no group: Kusano Hironori.
Disclaimer:
General Disclaimer and stuff.Genre: School fic, angst, love, hate - all that stuff.
Rating: PG13 (I think? I don't know!)
Word Count: 8 672
Summary: Oh dear god. Shige's a pervert and Kazuya's too good for Jin. Just too good... or not?
Yabeki - Chapter 8
No matter how much Koyama had been thinking about it (despite wanting his mind to shut up), he hadn’t expected anything to happen so damn fast. There were several moments during which the only movement he made was the widening of his eyes to what had to be twice their normal size, before he realized that in everything he’d read people had always responded to this sort of thing. But how was he supposed to respond? He wasn’t sure, but tried to emulate the actions in the books he’d read and it at least seemed as though it was going well… But it was rather difficult to breathe. From all he’d read, that was normal, but… As much as he needed the oxygen, he really didn’t want to be the one to end this!
However Shigeaki was the one to eventually break the kiss, needing air just as much as Koyama did. He grinned as he saw how shocked and surprised Kei looked and decided to again place a kiss on his lips, not making it last for as long this time.
“You like that?” he asked in a whispering kind of voice, only accepting an ‘yes’ for an answer… because he was that much in love with himself obviously.
Like it? LIKE it? Koyama was pretty damn certain that if he tried to voice his feelings at that point, they would've filled a book. Perhaps even two books. So he exhaled aloud and FORCED himself to say it in... A sensible parameter, hm... Five words, or less.
"Ye- Yeeeees..." A word and a half, wonderful. Even though he'd sort of dragged it out. But he was embarrassed, dammit, this sort of stuff wasn't supposed to happen where people could see! Of course there weren't actually any people there TO see, but who's to say they wouldn't have come around a corner during the act? Even the thought was embarrassing.
Kato Shigeaki’s smile grew a little at that and he pulled his free hand through Keiichiro’s hair, before kissing him again. How about they skipped food and karaoke and went straight to hotel? Would that be a bad idea? Maybe Kei would have a problem with it? But then again he was totally answering the kiss and he totally loved it and… well, it hopefully turned him on as well?
Unfortunately, despite reading a lot (a LOT), the great and wonderful Koyama Keiichiro hadn't the first idea of what it meant to be 'turned on' except that it involved getting excited. Well, this was certainly exciting, wasn't it? It felt... Amazing... He wasn't sure he deserved it at all, really. What good had he done the world to deserve this? Maybe later he'd die in a horrific accident or something to make up for it. "Anou, Shigekun, I..." he managed to say during the time he should've been using to catch his breath. But he wasn't sure where he was going with the rest of the sentence - and besides, now was the time for shutting up anyway. "...Never mind..."
Kato Shigeaki pressed himself against the smaller body as he did his best to seduce Kei as much as possible in public. “Ne…” he mumbled as he slowly started to kiss him down his neck. “How about ne…” Wow this was exciting - this was damn hot… and they were doing it in public. Haha. “You want to go to a hotel?”
Koyama's thoughts seemed to be suspended in some sort of liquid - as though he were trying to reach through water every time he tried to concentrate. It occurred to him that they were still in full view of anyone else, and that stopping before it got too far and they were arrested for indecent exposure or something was probably a good idea - and then the hotel question. Did he want to go? He wasn't sure. But he didn't want this to end. He'd gotten to like being half of two - it would be excruciating to become just one again. It was for that reason that before he knew what he was doing, his mouth was opening of its own accord once more.
"If you want..." Okay, so that was half an answer, but it seemed as though it would achieve the desired result anyway.
"Or..." Kato Shigeaki kissed his boyfriend once again with a wide grin. "Or we could just stay here yo~" Okay so no one could really blame him, could they? He was a teenager, just turned 18 and he was hot. He had a cute and adorable boyfriend and he wanted to take advantage of all those things - then sex was the best thing right? RIGHT. So NO ONE could really blame him!
"H- Here?!" Koyama tried desperately to create some space between them - this was becoming insane! - but failed miserably. Mostly because he didn't really want to. Just the idea of doing things like that in the middle of the street where anyone could see them... It was obviously frightening, but it was also kind of- No, no, no, no, no, he couldn't start thinking like that now!
"But people can see us here..." he finished lamely, knowing that he'd just managed to point out the obvious again. He was very good at that; though unfortunately he didn't seem to be much good at anything else.
At that Kato Shigeaki broke the kiss and backed up just a few steps to look at the other one - trying hard not to laugh.
"You're weird." he said, obviously taking after Kei (stating the obvious). "Let's go." he continued before the other one got to say anything and put an arm around his shoulders. "Not even I would do something like that you know~"
Oh good god but that was a relief. "Oh... Right, yeah, definitely..." muttered Koyama, fingers twitching once more but dammit, he was going to stop biting his nails because it made him look like a child. "I guess I'm really weird, huh..." Or just gullible. Either one, really.
Shigeaki couldn’t help but giggle a little at Koyama’s obvious… clueless ness or whatever it was that was talking. It sure as hell wasn’t the “normal” Koyama anyway. “Why aren’t you talking?” he asked, glancing at him. “You always talk you know. Why aren’t you talking now?”
"Because you said shut up." Koyama answered truthfully within moments. Well, that was the reason! Otherwise he might've been rambling on about anything in his head again, which was obviously irritating...
"Oh..." Shigeaki nodded, he had forgot about that. "It's okay now though, you know." he continued, still nodding. "You can talk now, I just want to..." He smirked and looked at the other one. "Just wanted to make out with you."
Koyama’s immediate reaction was to look down, thereby avoiding the (just slightly) taller one’s eyes. “Okay then, um…” Something to talk about, something to talk about… “Ahaha, now of all times I can’t think of anything to say. Um. That was my first one, you know.” Somehow, he thought, that probably hadn’t been a good thing to say. “I wonder if my hair looks okay - does my hair look okay?” he immediately began to examine it with his hands, looking rather flustered as he tried to pretend he hadn’t said anything before that.
Wait, what? First, like what? First kiss? Ever? No, he couldn’t really mean that? “Your hair looks perfect” Shige said, pondering about if he should leave the subject or not. Kei would probably be embarrassed about it but… he had to know. He had to know if he had just stolen, well ‘stolen’, Kei’s absolutely first kiss or if he just meant first kiss with a guy or first something else being random? “Was that your first… kiss?”
Well, it didn't seem as though there was any hope of ignoring it... "I was always scared of girls when I was a kid, remember?" Koyama laughed a little, his hands now gripping one another as tightly as possible. He was sure that if he tightened his grip anymore he'd break his fingers, but the dull pain was distracting, at least. "I don't think I even talked to one until I was thirteen, and I didn't want to kiss anyone at that point. And then when it came to the point that I was getting interested in people I was old enough to have decided that I didn't want to waste my first kiss on just anyone..." Not that Kato Shigeaki was 'just anyone'. No, Koyama was happy it'd been him and not some random person he'd never see again. But damn it seemed pathetic to have his first kiss at eighteen, when most people had it at around age twelve.
Kato Shigeaki smiled at that and just said ‘ah~’ in a lowered voice. “How cute yo” he continued in a more normal-tone speaking voice and pulled Keiichiro a bit closer. “Should I apologize for stealing it?”
Stealing it? That was an odd thought. Well, technically he HAD stolen it, hadn't he? Koyama found himself not really minding. "You should..." he started, failing to finish his sentence. However, he was determined to say what he was thinking, because if he didn't then who else would? "...You should only apologize if you do something wrong, ne?"
Shigeaki smiled at that and leaned his head against Koyama’s for a short moment. “That’s true, isn’t it?” he mumbled and then lifted his head again as they turned around the corner, yay hotel-street! “Hm, which one to take ne~” He sing-songed as he slowly let his arm fall down from Koyama’s shoulders and instead place it around his waist. “You decide.”
Koyama just barely managed not to squeak and run away as he felt Shigeaki's arm around his waist. Nobody had ever done that to him before, not even his parents (he'd seen fathers like that with their sons before, but he'd never been close enough with his own father for much more than a 'hi, how are you'), and it was a terribly alien feeling. And now he was supposed to pick one of these millions of hotels? It was a more nerve-wracking task than it should've been. "Um... That one?" he motioned weakly at a random one - well, it looked nice enough, and not too expensive either. Blah, money, but he'd gotten so used to budgeting that it was automatic by now.
How he wanted to just be inside a hotel right now. Be -inside- one of the rooms, being close to Koyama and then just lay down and do nothing but hearing his breathing. Feeling his body close to his…
“That one has people working there instead of those kind of machines thingies…” Shigeaki answered after some silence. “But if you don’t mind them seeing us together wanting a room I don’t~”
But of course, the amazing idiot Koyama Keiichiro couldn't just have been lucky and picked a good one first time. One with people? People who could see them and judge them and... Haha, people who'd probably be jealous of him. Who could fail to envy someone managing to attract the attention of the great and wonderful Kato Shigeaki? Nobody, that's who. "I don't mind." he said finally, putting off thinking about what would happen once they actually got inside. Because really, he didn't need to become that stuttering fool again.
A few looks and a few whispering words later Kato Shigeaki closed the door to the hotel room they had managed to get to an acceptable price. The more confident of the two watched the back of his boyfriend and leaned back against the door while locking it. “You want to shower?” he asked, not moving even a little bit. It was probably not until now he realized that that very person standing in the middle of the room looking a bit confused in a very cute way… That very person, Koyama Keiichiro was from this day all his right? Well, for as long as Kei wanted to, right?
He had finally, after been waiting and wanting for so long he had finally got it? Got him… It was quite amazing wasn’t it? It was indeed amazing! It was like… like… not real. For real, it just couldn’t be.
God but this was insane. At this point yesterday Koyama had been beating himself up over not being able to think straight about the whole 'picking a person and sticking with that' deal, and now he was at some hotel with Shigeaki after barely having spoken to either he or Yuichi all day and it was just so damn fast it made his head spin.
"…A- Anou…" Did I mention he was damn nervous? So nervous that he was barely talking at all - almost unthinkable for he who, under normal conditions, spoke near-constantly. He felt like an idiot, but it was really, really hard to fake confidence he didn't have.
"Nervous?" Kato Shigeaki smirked at that, forcing himself to get a grip and not turn in to one of those silly lovey-dovey persons who just danced around being all wiee because he had got what he finally wanted. Sure, he wanted to do that but it wasn't in character! And character was important, especially when you were with the one you lov-... with the one you like ne? "Don't be, relax a little bit yo."
"Ahaha, that's really..." Koyama ran a hand through his hair - kind of funny really, that was supposed to be Tomokun's bad habit. "...Not as easy as you make it sound..." But of course being relaxed was easy for Shigeaki! He was just... Way too cool. Koyama himself didn't really know what it was like to be cool - he'd always just been funny, or annoying, or stupid... The traitor of the group as well, fraternizing with the enemy, but that wasn't important right now. "...'M sorry, you deserve someone better at this sort of thing."
"Haven't I told you to shut up when you're about to say stuff like that?" Shigeaki sighed and walked up to him, shaking his head a little. "I don't listen to stuff like that and thus you shouldn't be talking about it, right?" He knew he was right so he didn't give Koyama a chance to answer. Instead he smiled slightly at the other one and put some of his bleached hair behind his ears. "So either you say something that matters or you... answer my question..." He smiled. "You want to shower?"
"I'm sorry..." muttered Koyama automatically. Apparently apologizing for everything had become stuck in his brain already. Ah, inferiority. "...I guess?" He didn't need to shower or anything, but it felt as though that was the right answer to be giving... For reasons unknown.
"You don't have to, I don't think you're..." Shigeaki leaned a bit closer and placed feather kisses on Koyama's neck. "Dirty or anything..." he whispered, knowing very well that Keiichiro probably didn't feel comfortable in this situation. But that was only a good thing wasn't it? If he didn't feel comfortable, Kato Shigeaki would have to do something about that? "It's just me being polite..." he added and gave the other one a light kiss on the lips. "Ne...?"
Koyama tried to speak then, to say something that wasn't entirely idiotic, but all that came out was a sort of 'nnh' sound. All he could think for a moment was the singular wish that Shigeaki stop kissing him because it made it extremely difficult to speak - and then in the next moment he realized that he didn't mean that at all. Anyway, if he couldn't speak then he couldn't say anything stupid, right? His arms fidgeted at his sides, fingers constantly moving as he wasn't sure what to do with them. Stupid books - they were entertaining and all, but no amount of reading could compare to actual experience.
As he got no response, Kato Shigeaki decided to kiss the other one again as he slowly decided to help Koyama off with the jacket. "I'll be careful..." he whispered, knowing (not guessing, seriously - knowing, it was so obvious) that the other one was still a virgin and probably even a bit scared about all this. "Promise."
Suddenly Koyama felt terribly panicked, much worse than before - he was really going to do this? Here? Now?! It seemed so... He wasn't sure what it seemed, but this wasn't really how he'd envisioned doing these things for the first time ever. Though despite how daunting the prospect was, he did trust Shigeaki - that was the most important thing, wasn't it? He really did want to do it, just that the idea was... Frightening. His heart was already beating so fast he felt as though he'd just run a 100m sprint. "...Okay..."
Akanishi Jin grabbed Kazuya's hand as they entered the small apartment which he shared with his father. He had noticed that something was rather off with Kazuya today but he honestly didn't wanna deal with it.
"Oi, I'm home!" Jin said in a loud voice as he took a look around, his fathers shoes weren't there so probably he was out on another random and pointless and totally useless date. Useless because he wouldn't ever get a new girlfriend anyway. Jin sighed and walked to the kitchen to open the small fridge. He sighed as he saw there still just was that slice of pizza left from three days ago and then looked up at Kazuya who he knew had followed him.
"No food, but you're not hungry are you?"
That really wasn't a question, it was just a nice way of saying 'We have no food, deal with it'. But it wasn't as if Kazuya got surprised by it, it had been like this for the last two years now. Ever since Jin's parents had gotten that divorce and his mom decided to run away and move to Australia, Jin had lived with his father in this really low price apartment. His younger brother had decided to study abroad in Australia and so gotten help from their mother, while Jin loved his father very much even though their situation was rather bad. He cursed his mom for leaving and his brother, Shin, wasn't considered his brother anymore. About his sexual preferences, his father didn't mind. Jin had promised that he'd give his father a grandson someday and he was damn sure that he'd keep that promise as well. Everyone knew about it, it was just a matter of not talking about it. Even Kazuya, who obviously loved Jin more than anything else, knew that there was no way he'd be able to stay by Jin's side as his lover for the rest of his life. But it was just something he preferred not to think about.
Jin sighed and grabbed a bottle of water before he passed by Kazuya and headed for his room. The apartment was just a living room and one bedroom but his father had decided to give that to Jin as he needed some privacy for studying... Which didn't really happen but he believed in his son and thus believed that he would succeed, once he wanted to. When Kazuya had closed the door he looked up at Jin who had decided to sit down on the desk and drink some of the water. He didn't really like water, but it was all they had at home right now. Well, that and old pizza and he totally wanted water over that.
"So what's the story?" The taller one of them asked as he looked up at Kazuya and met his eyes. Even though Jin didn't eat as well as Kazuya he had always been bigger than the other one. Mostly due to Kazuya and his obsession with being slim. "Why the hell did you start a fight with one of their people?!"
Jin put the bottle aside and jumped down at the floor again, just so that he could walk up to Kazuya and push him against the closed door as he took a hard grip around the shorter one's collar.
"Huh?! Who gave You the right to start a fight? And with HIM of all people?! Huh?!"
Kazuya avoided Jin's look as he tried to come up with a good answer. He didn't know why. Yamashita had been annoying and himself he had had a short temper back then?
"I'm sorry..." he eventually apologized, still not wanting to meet Jin's eyes as he knew he'd get a slap in the face any minute. Even though Jin would never hit him hard enough for it to be visible to anyone else, being hit by him hurt so much. Even more than getting beaten up by Kato or Nishikido.
"You're sorry hu?!" Jin snorted before doing just what Kazuya had expected - he slapped him across the face and then walked back to the desk to take the bottle.
"You have ANY idea of how humiliating it was standing there?!" he then continued in a loud voice and turned to his lover. Yeah, how ironic. His LOVER, boyfriend, the guy who was supposed to LOVE him had made HIM look like a fool. "Huh?! You've got any idea at all?!"
Kazuya nervously licked his lips as he shook his head slightly, still looking down. No he didn't know, how would he? He'd never been in a similar situation.
"I'm sorry..." he apologized again and now bowed, because he could as Jin didn't stand close. "Jin, I'm really sorry..."
"You better be." The more dominate one replied and drank some more of the water before he walked up to Kazuya and pushed him against the wall again, forcing him to look him in the eyes. "Apologize." He demanded with a stern voice and he didn't even have to wait another second before he heard the apology he wanted, followed by assurance that it wouldn't happen again.
Jin grinned as he heard in Kazuya's voice how insecure he was, before making sure he held the other one in a grip that was tight enough and kissed him. The shorter one closed his eyes and answered the kiss, hoping Jin wouldn't notice the tear that just escaped the corner of his eye.
Five hours had passed rather slowly but eventually it was 11 pm and Kazuya had been forced to leave Jin's room. Not that he'd noticed, seeing how he'd fallen asleep after the sex, but Kazuya knew that he could wake up and if he did so and noticed he was alone before it was 'late' he'd get punished. Again. So he'd been staying there until 11 which was when 'late' began. It wasn't that Kazuya wanted to run away or something, but his mother had set a rule that said 'no later than 10.30 on weekdays', which he had to follow. Only it was hard now when Jin's rule said 'no earlier than 11'.
Tomohisa had always thought the walk home was sort of boring. He'd been to see Kusano, whom he'd almost given up on but had turned out to be really cool, and now... Walking home. Just as a bit of a change, and because at about eleven at night nobody would be there to see anyway, he turned around and randomly began to walk backwards. Oh how he wished he'd brought his mp3 player; but he'd always thought it was rude to take things like that when going to see people. Sooo walking backwards. It wasn't much more fun than walking forwards, really, but required more concentration and thus less of his brain was available to be thinking about things. Things like... Oh dear god. Was that..? Here? Now? Tomohisa quickly turned back around, pretending not to have noticed what had to have been Kamenashi (was that guy following him or something?) a little way behind. Maybe the other one hadn't seen him either... He could only hope.
Such was his annoyance at the other's presence that he sped up a little, not paying attention to his surroundings - which inevitably led to him tripping up and falling on his face like a complete idiot. For a moment he just sort of sat there, on the ground, hair over his eyes because... Somehow it was more embarrassing to just get up and keep walking? It didn't make sense, but not a lot of Tomohisa's logic did.
Kazuya looked up as he heard the noise made from the person in front of him, and immediately decided that he had to run up and help, whoever it was that had tripped.
"Hey-!" he crouched at the other persons side and grabbed his arm because... well, there was no reason really. "Are you okay?" Kazuya asked, sounding rather worried and did his best to see the face of the stranger. Or not.
His eyes widened as he saw it was Yamashita Tomohisa and he tried to back up, which was rather hard while crouching like this so he ended up 'falling' down on his butt and just... stared at the other one. What was HE doing there?! Even though he had just did something very, very ungraceful at which he'd probably feel totally embarrassed about usually he didn't care about that at all now. Not when Yamashita - cutie - Tomohisa was sitting there in front of him. Why...? Why was he there?!
It was sort of an odd sight, Tomohisa's shoulders tensing so obviously when he was touched and then suddenly relaxing like that. What was he best at? Being nice to everyone, right? So maybe that was the way to go here.
"I'm okay." he smiled a little, though it was into the air; his eyes closed to protect them from his hair as he moved it from his face.
"I guess I shouldn't try to walk backwards like that when I'm not paying attention, huh?" It felt so odd talking to this person, THIS person in particular as though he were a friend. Of course, they'd been rather closer than most friends... But that had been a mistake, something that would never happen again! He blinked a few times before standing and, in a rather gentlemanly way, offering his hand to help Kamenashi up as well. "Surprised to see me again?"
Kazuya looked up at him, not surprised but more or less shocked by seeing him... again. Had it been Nishikido he'd just rise and leave, ignore that he had asked him and just... well, just ignore it. But this wasn't Nishikido, it was Yamashita! After a few short moments he took Tomohisa's hand and got up to his feet. Though he immediately took a step back so he didn't have to look -up- to meet he other one's eyes. He didn't quite know why but he wanted to meet his eyes even though he shouldn't. Kazuya swallowed and locked eyes with Yamashita before nodding a little. "S-sort of..."
"We seem to meet a lot, huh?" Tomohisa laughed a little, not breaking the eye contact and really not sure why. "Almost as though someone planned it." That wasn't supposed to be a hint, but it almost sounded that way. There were no words for how much he just wanted to run away and be done with this weirdness. This sort of friendly talk... It just didn't happen, it simply wasn't done! But then, he was doing it, wasn't he? And so far it seemed to have had no real ill effect. Perhaps this really was the way to go about things?
"You live... Near here?" It wasn't as though he was interested in knowing where the smaller one lived, because he really wasn't! Honest! Just that his own house wasn't far away now, a few more turnings and he'd be there. If he was living close to someone like this, he wanted to know about it!
"Yes..." Kazuya nodded, still looking the taller one in the eyes (which by the way almost brought a smile to his lips, though he preferred to ignore that). "I live a few turnings away from here..." Did they leave in the same neighborhood? If so, why hadn't they met before? Had they without knowing it? No... Not really? He would notice Yamashita Tomohisa! He'd remember if he'd met one of the X-group. Yes, that's right. He's from the X-group. he's having eye contact and actually loving it with one of the X-group and- "You too?" Kazuya cut his own thoughts off. This was.... awkward. Though it was a sort of pleasant kind of awkwardness... which made it even more weird.
At this rate it looked as though it was going to turn out that they were next-door neighbors or something... As much as Tomohisa thought it'd be nice not to have to insult people for once, that would definitely not be cool. Though he wasn't really sure why. He never seemed to have reasons for his own thinking these days. "Yep. Looks like we live pretty close." Was he trying to steal Kei's title of official X-group Captain Obvious or something?
"And I'm gonna be late getting back if I don't keep going, sooo..." Of course, he wasn't about to say something stupid like 'you wanna walk home together' or anything. The offer was... Sort of there... Just, not said. It would just be embarrassing for all involved, anyway.
Kazuya broke the eye contact at that and looked down for a few seconds before quickly meeting Tomohisa's eyes one more time. Yeah, so they were going to walk home together. Now this was weird.
Though they slowly started walking, not trying to walk away from the other one or anything like it... just walking.
"I'm already late..." Kazuya said soon though, breaking the awkward silence as he tried to push the reminding thought of 'groups' aside. He didn't want to think about it. About that they were from different groups and that if one of their leaders found out (yeah, it would be enough of Nishikido found out) hell would break loose. No kidding, seriously. And that was something none of them wanted... which should have been reason enough for them not to walk each other home but... they still did.
"Oh?" Tomohisa asked, hooking his thumbs in his pockets as he walked. He was glad that he didn't have to say any more - the questioning 'oh' was a perfect reply. It invited the other to elaborate while not actually asking, and also giving a perfect opportunity just to say 'yeah' in reply. He didn't normally think about these things, analyzing his own speech so much, but it was better than thinking about what would happen if anyone saw them like this... Just the companionable (yet still somehow awkward) atmosphere was enough to get him, personally, the beating of his life from BOTH group leaders - stupid Nishikido was always such an ass, seemed to have no problem with hitting his friends. He wasn't sure what the consequences would be for Kazuya (there he was using the other's first name again), except that he couldn't really remain Akanishi's right-hand-man after such blatant defiance, could he? Ah, it was all so complicated...
"Yeah, should have been home at 10.30..." Kazuya nodded, looking down at the ground while they were walking. War still going on in his head. "Forgot about time though so..." Yeah, there we go. Lying about the real reason for being late to his new found friend. Wait, was it? Friend? No, stop it. They were just... Getting along and walking each other home and... He sighed a little and blinked at his own thoughts. Maybe they could be friends if no one got to know? But what kind of friendship was that?
"Aah... You must've been having fun, huh..." Though of course, Tomohisa had no idea as to where Kazuya had been - neither did it really matter to him. At this rate he really would have to move and sit in the middle in class - there was nowhere to sit that overlapped the line, the desks had been pushed apart years ago, but he could always bring one over. Sure, that pretty much meant hatred from all sides, but he could be his own damn group if he wanted to. "...Y'know," he said quite suddenly. "up until recently I'd never have thought this would be possible at all." Well, up until recently they'd hated one another like good little obedient children, hadn't they? But Tomohisa was eighteen years (and one month, and about a week) old and damn if he was okay with remaining a child.
Fun? Kazuya smiled ironically at the thought, damn fun to lay in a bed and stare at the ceiling... Yeah, just really fun. Hoping that Jin would wake up and so actually get to have some fun but of course he'd been sleeping all the time. He was about to answer to that as Tomohisa broke the silence again and he blinked a little. Surprised at that he even talked about it. You know, he'd thought it'd be this silent thing that they both knew about but wouldn't... actually talk about because it would obviously be a bit weird. "Me too..." he truthfully answered though. He had no idea if Tomohisa was loyal to his group or not, but Kazuya indeed was. There was no way he'd ever leave Jin's side unless Jin pushed him away. And if That ever happened... he could just jump off a bridge or something.
Tomohisa had always been a big fan of making it known exactly how he felt at that point. Most of the time nobody cared or wanted to hear it, but he tended just to say it anyway. "I guess I don't mind you though." This said with a silent 'so long as you don't kiss me again' added onto the end.
"...Is he always like that?" he asked suddenly. A second of silence ensued before he realized he hadn't specified who he was talking about. "Akanishi-san, I mean. Surely someone can't be so hostile all the time..?" Though of course it was perfectly possible. Tomohisa just preferred to believe that people like that didn't exist in the world.
"Ah..." Kazuya nodded, not being completely sure how to answer to that question. Of course he wasn't always like that... Only to people he didn't like and when he was angry. But then, saying that he was a child when he was with his friends was simply not an option so... He smiled. "He's just protective..." Which was true. He did just about anything to protect his pride and everything that concerned it. As for now Kazuya was involved in it too, so touching Kazuya meant touching Jin's pride. That's how things worked and they had all learned to live with it.
"Oh, right..." Tomohisa trailed off, noticing that he didn't seem to have anything else to say. That was odd - usually at this point his hyper babble would kick in, but it seemed to be sleeping or something at that moment. Silence, of course, meant more thinking - the reason why he'd tripped up in the first place. And more concentrating on how weird this was, that they should be walking together in this way, and it almost felt as though they should be holding hands or something. ...Wait, no it didn't. That was completely and utterly insane, and he quickly banished the thought from his mind. "Seems like that's all we talk about at all, huh? We must have something other than 3-E in common." Just that Tomohisa hadn't the first idea to what that could be.
A smile grew on Kazuya's lips as he looked up at Tomohisa. He wanted to have more in common with him? In other words, he -wanted- to talk with him and probably even... Now that was just amazing. Quickly looking down again, Kazuya shrugged a little.
"I don't know... You play any sports or anything?" he asked, sounding way more cheerful now than he had done earlier, not too much though it was... somewhat noticeable if you listened for it.
"Not really." replied Tomohisa honestly, within moments. Sure, he was tall and lean, had at least a little muscle on him, but he'd never been good at sports purely because he didn't have the patience. If he got something wrong the first time he tended to feel stupid, get angry at it and never try again. "I play videogames, if that counts?" he laughed a little at that. Videogames indeed. It was a wonder that he didn't get fat staying at home to play videogames so much - but then, he did tend to work out quite a lot. "I guess I'm pretty boring! Um... I cook a lot? And walk my dogs and stuff..." A basic description of just about everything he did with his free time, besides doing stuff with other members of X-group which usually meant karaoke, eating or (sometimes) purikura because that was just fun. Even if it was mostly a girl thing. "...You?"
Kazuya laughed at the videogames comment and nodded. "I think that counts at least a little!" Because he did it too? Well, not that much but he did it sometimes when he had the time for it or when he couldn't sleep.
"No..." He answered though as he got the question and shook his head. "I follow soccer and baseball but that's about it..." He didn't really know any team names when it came to soccer or anything though, he only followed it because Jin played. Wait, had he said he cooked? "You cook?" The shorter one asked and looked up at Tomohisa again. "Good?"
How interesting that Kazuya would ask about that, of all things... "Well, I cook for my mum and my sister, and they always like it?" Tomohisa smiled as he said this - he'd never say it out loud, but he was damn proud of his cooking and thought he might like to take it up as a career. "...Why d'you ask?" he raised his eyebrows questioningly, vaguely noticing that the awkwardness seemed to have disappeared. They were even acting like real friends now, people who could talk freely without the threat of violence from others over their heads... How nice it would be not to have that anymore.
Kazuya smiled (again with the smiling! What was so special about Tomohisa anyway?). "Sugoi na..." he looked at the other one and shrugged. "I could never have guessed that you'd be good at cooking..." he simply answered and tipped his head to the side as he carefully put his both hands in his jeans pockets. Though he took up one shortly after that, to run the fingers through his hair, just to make sure it was all good. Yes, sudden and random thought of that he might look like hell popped up. And looks mattered - a lot. "You've got to show me sometime, ne?" he continued, completely forgetting about the whole X and Y deal.
"You're not afraid I'll poison you?" Tomohisa asked with humor in his voice.
"Haha, I don't look like I'd be a good cook? What do I look like then?" Of course, that was an invitation for all kinds of stupid comments, but he obviously didn't realize that. He also didn't realize that they were drawing up quite close to his house now - just another left turn and they'd be on his street. How odd that the pair of them would live so close together and never have realized it.
"I would have guessed soccer... or something..." Kazuya nodded, not even thinking about offending him. "Like, you look like that kind of guy who'd do soccer... or maybe basketball and then be super-popular and hang out with your friends until like, late and..." Friends - X, friends... Kazuya fell silent and shrugged. "You know... that kind of guy." They weren't friends were they? They were just putting up an act while walking home... The shorter one of the two put his hair behind his ears and looked down again. He wanted to get to know Tomohisa, he really did! But how was that ever going to be possible without one group finding out sooner or later?
"I tried that sort of thing, but I have what has to be the worst aim ever." Tomohisa commented, noticing the sudden return of the dreaded awkwardness. Stupid line, stupid rift, stupid 3-E, stupid, stupid, stupid! What kind of a world was it where a guy couldn't even talk to a person without feeling as though they were doing something horribly wrong? "...You mind if I ask you something?" His anger towards the whole X-Y thing was clouding his judgment, but he couldn't really see that.
"Noo..." Kazuya shook his head and looked up at the other one with an asking smile. Yes, smiling again and being all nice because that was how he was getting treated and... Tomohisa was a nice guy! Even though he came from a group filled with airheads he was really, really nice! "Ask away!" he said, still smiling and being randomly girly. How could a guy even... be this girly without putting up an act? Cause that's something he absolutely didn't do, he'd never been a good actor. So all his girly moves and thoughts and appearance came from... him, which is why one would ask why he wasn't born as a girl if he was going to turn out one anyway.
"Do you like me?" asked the taller one suddenly. It took Tomohisa a moment to realize that question could be taken the wrong way, and thus added: "...Not in a romantic way. Just like, as a person?" Because he was sure he'd had quite enough of the OTHER way to last him a lifetime. ...Okay, so that was mean and sort of a lie but he thought it anyway, to save face. Which didn't make sense at all. Saving face from himself? He really was insane...
Kazuya, who had been ready to answer yes to the question - no matter what way it was meant, smiled a little as Tomohisa made sure it wasn't the romantic kind of way he was talking about. "Suki yo~" he replied with a grin and turned so he was walking backwards with his hands folded behind his back. "How about you?" he asked and tipped his head again as he met Tomohisa's eyes. "Do you like me?"
Ah, Tomohisa should totally have been expecting the question to be turned back on him, shouldn't he? And yet he hadn't, and even worse, he didn't know how to reply. This guy was... Very intense, to say the least. Was that a good thing? It was, wasn't it? Or else he himself wouldn't have even tried to be nice to him because it wouldn't be worth the trouble... And now that he thought of it, he was putting himself rather at risk just to talk to Kazuya at all, wasn't he?
"...I guess." Half an answer! "Haha, hey, if Akanishi suddenly dies or something you should come sit with us." He was joking, obviously, though perhaps that wasn't the best subject to be joking about...
Now that was... not anything he'd expected. Kazuya stopped walking and just looked at Tomohisa with expressionless eyes. Just the thought of what had happened last summer brought tears to his eyes, but he didn't break the eye contact or anything, just tried not to cry at the memory. Ah, sucked pretty damn much being a girl sometimes.
"He almost did." he answered to the so called joke and then turned around. Why did he tell Him this? He was one of Them after all and they surely didn't need to know about this and one of Jin's weak sides. "Last summer, he almost drowned."
Oh, not cool. Really not cool. "Oh..." muttered Tomohisa, looking intently at the ground because that expression was just... Way, way too upsetting. "I'm sorry to hear about that..." He'd never gotten on well with the Y-group leader, but death? Everyone deserved to live, every single person in the world, and death just wasn't something Tomohisa would wish upon anybody. Not and mean it, anyway. He ran a hand through his hair, nervous habit again resurfacing, with good reason this time.
"...I'm really sorry, if I'd known..." But he hadn't known, and now he'd gone and said something really damn stupid and probably screwed things up forever.
Kazuya forced a smile and shook his head. "No, no it's okay!" he said, sounding just as cheerful as he had done just a few moments ago. He took a step up to Tomohisa and patted his shoulder as he tried to make him walk again. "You didn't know ne~ So it's... Not like you meant it or anything, it's really okay!" It was okay. Though only because this was Yamashita Tomohisa after all. Had it been Nishikido or Kato or just about anyone else he'd have beaten them up just at the mentioning of Jin's name.
Well thank god for that. "Noooo no, no, no. I could never... Wishing that sort of thing on another person... I don't like him or anything, but that's gotta be classed as evil." Tomohisa rambled a little, able once again to look at Kazuya.
"...And besides, if Akanishi-san weren't around then Ryo-kun would have nobody to get periodically beaten up by." That joke was slightly funnier, but being funny had never been Tomohisa's specialty. "Ah." he said suddenly. "My house is... Over there." he pointed at one right at the end of the street they were currently on. And it was quite a long street. "Is yours near to that?"
Kazuya didn't comment on the Ryo-related joke and just looked over at where Tomohisa pointed. "To... to the left?" he asked and when he received a nod from the other one he immediately burst out laughing. Kazuya clapped his hands as his hair fell down in his face and started to annoy him. Which it often did and it sure as hell did annoy the hell out of him, but this was just too... hilarious, so at the moment hair didn't matter!
"I live ne..." He calmed down and then pointed at the house to... the right, just in front of Tomohisa's, as he walked up to the taller one and somewhat leaned against his shoulder so that he could point at the house belonging to family Kamenashi. "There."
"Eh?!" was Tomohisa's initial reply. "You mean... But that's insane!" Now he began to laugh. "I can't believe we live right across from one another and never noticed!" Hadn't he thought that wouldn't be cool before? Oh well, he'd forgotten that by now anyway. "But I guess I'm glad you never noticed... I have this stupid habit of changing in front of the window, and since my bedroom is at the front of the house, people on the street and stuff can see me." It was so embarrassing once he realized he was doing it, but he never remembered to close the curtains first. "I don't think I'll be doing that anymore, haha." ...Obviously.
"Ah... that was you?"
At that, Tomohisa's eyes widened to about twice their normal size.
"Please... Please tell me you didn't see me doing that." Because holy HELL that would be the single most embarrassing thing ever. Even worse than the time he'd looked out and seen a group of little girls watching him... Definitely, definitely worse than that.
Kazuya's smile grew as he saw the taller one blushing and poked his cheek. "Kawaii~" he laughed as he started to walk again, not giving a good answer to what Tomohisa'd said. Had he really seen that? Yup. Honestly, he had. And if it helped, the only thoughts to have crossed his mind at that time was that the back of that person getting dressed... was very nice. So it wasn't as if it had been a bad thing! Though, of course... He turned to Tomohisa again and put his hair behind his ears again before tilting his head with a smile. "You have a nice back." Doh! Kazuya Kamenashi! That was not what he was supposed to say.
Oh dear god the embarrassment was so intense Tomohisa thought the heat from blushing so much was going to cause his hair to catch fire. "D- Don't say stuff like that!" Because really! It wasn't fair, it wasn't nice and it wasn't appropriate. If he'd seen someone doing that, he'd never have TOLD them so!
"Just... Yeah. Closing of curtains is gonna happen in future." His tone wasn't very resolute, however, and his face was still a rather nice shade of bright pink. He'd probably have liked the shade if he'd been able to see it himself.
"Aww..." Kazuya pouted but didn't give Tomohisa a chance to answer to it before he smiled again. "You're cute when you're blushing." he complimented him, and totally meant it too. Many people said that just because it was something cute to say even though many couldn't even tell when someone blushed or not. He, however, totally meant it. Seeing that faint shade of pink (well, it was pretty obvious but still) all over Tomohisa's face was just really, really... cute.
Now, Tomohisa was very unused to compliments. That came mostly from being friends with Ryo, actually - the guy was never nice to anyone who wasn't Uchi Hiroki, and while they'd be good together it got sort of annoying after a while.
"Noooo I'm not..." muttered the taller one, knowing that wasn't the best way to reply because it left room for argument, but not wanting to accept that sort of thing from Kazuya of all people. It was basically the same as if it'd been Tanaka or Nakamaru saying it - except no it wasn't, not really, because if Tomohisa was honest this wasn't entirely unwanted. Ah, stupid boy, thinking such things about someone who not only shouldn't be talking to him, but was actually taken by the guy he himself hated most in the world. That wasn't really saying much seeing as he tended not to hate people, but still!
Kazuya, who still stood fairly close to Tomohisa walked up to him and looked (up, by the way) him in the eyes with an assuring look. "Yes, you are." he said again, keeping that girly smile of his.
"You totally are and just me saying that... makes you even cuter."
Um. Hello? Akanishi Jin? Remember him? Boyfriend? Kazuya's mind tried, reminding him of the boy he had left sleeping. The one he had had sex with just a few hours ago! The one who would have their both heads if he ever found out about this. The one Kazuya was supposed to care about and belong to... If he only would listen to it though. He obviously didn't, as he stood there - more or less flirting with Yamashita Tomohisa. Though, could one blame him? He knew he was just someone, something, to pass time with for Jin and Tomohisa was the cutest thing ever. Even cuter than that puppy he had wanted so badly years and years ago! Not that that said much but it said something. Yes, that Tomohisa was cute. But what if he had a dark side? Maybe he had a dark side? That maybe, if... just saying if because it would probably never happen, but if they were to start dating... maybe he'd get all stuck up and... stuff? Now he didn't act or look like that kind of person, but one never knew.
Kazuya put some of his hair in a ponytail and looked down at the ground before carefully looking up at the taller one again.
"I really shouldn't be doing this should I?"
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Teasers for chapter 9
"Meccha suki da yo."
The feeling he felt right now, it was... it was something that filled him up, you know? Like... someone had given him the weirdest mix of potions ever and had him drink that so he'd be hyper and just very energic. That's how he felt right now... energic and hyper and happy. And he just wanted to get out of the bed and jump around, dance around and be childishly silly... but he wouldn't. Because... well, he wasn't in his house now.
"I'll ask you one more time, -where- is he?"
"And I'll tell you that I don't know and I really couldn't give less of a shit if I tried."