[YuushiDabide, SaekiBane] Best Friends
A gift fic for hotarukunn who's responsible for getting me hooked on YuushiDabide >>
Title: Best Friends
Characters/Pairing: Bane, Saeki, Dabide / mentioned!YuushiDabide, onesided!SaekiBane
Word Count: +/- 706
Rating: PG (Some swearing)
Dabide is Kurobane’s best friend. They’ve been that way since they were little, doing everything together and never being separated for more than a few days. A part of Kurobane feels like he would never be complete again if he ever lost the red-head and another part quietly pines away with an unmentioned love, too scared to cross the line between best friend and more.
So when Dabide comes back from the Junior Selection Camp and announces he has a boyfriend, there’s suddenly a hole in the wall of the Rokkaku tennis club clubroom and Kurobane’s gone before anyone can stop him. The team stares after him in shock and no one’s quite sure what just happened, Dabide the least of all, because he’d thought that his best friend of all people would’ve been happy.
Saeki pats his shoulder then, and tells him not to mind; that Kurobane has some issues that he needs to face. And then he’s gone as well, chasing after the short-tempered boy. Kurobane’s nowhere to be seen at the court or the playground, but Saeki wasn’t planning on looking there. He knows the one place that can calm Kurobane down and he heads straight for the cliff overhanging the local beach.
He’s not surprised to find the tall boy there, standing right on the edge and staring down into the churning water. Cautiously, Saeki touches his shoulder and he feels Kurobane tense up beneath his hand.
“It’s not fucking fair,” he growls. “He was mine… He was supposed to be mine. I was going to ask him at his welcome home party. That idiot Oshitari knows nothing about him. He’s going to fail him as a boyfriend and then Dabide’s going to be hurt and then I’ll have to hurt him for hurting Dabide.”
Saeki sighs and he gives a slow shake of his head. “Sit down, Bane,” he murmurs and tugs insistently on the back of his shirt. Eventually, the large boy concedes and they both sit down, Saeki pulling the mess of black hair into his lap and threading his fingers through it to try and relax him. He doesn’t say anything more for a while, though, trying to think of something to say that won’t aggravate that short temper again.
“He looked so upset,” he finally settles on, a softly spoken sentence. “He thought you’d be happy for him, Bane. You’re meant to be his best friend and support him with stuff like this. You know he doesn’t like going against you. He’s going to think you don’t approve and he might even go ahead and dump the guy.”
“Good.”
“Baka!” Saeki snaps and whacks the larger boy across the head. “Not good. Just because he’d be single again doesn’t mean he will go out with you. If you’re going to be a jealous brat about this, don’t do it where he can know about it. It’s your own fucking fault for not saying anything sooner. You’ve had how many years?” There’s a long moment where neither boy says anything and Saeki gives a slow sigh. “I’m sorry, Bane. I really am. I really wanted things to work out for you two…” I wanted you to be happy. Because Bane isn’t the only one who is in love with his best friend. “But… all any of us can do is support him. And if, in the end, he does get hurt… then you can be there. But until then… Just… let him be, okay, Bane? Let him have this one thing for himself.”
There’s another long silence then Kurobane slowly sits up and runs a hand through his hair. “I hate it when you’re right, Sae,” he mutters, staring out across the ocean in front of them. “I really wish you weren’t…”
“I know, Bane,” Saeki keeps a hand on his friend’s shoulder and squeezes it softly. “Sometimes I wish I wasn’t, either.” The hand on Kurobane’s shoulder drops to wrap the arm around the larger boy’s waist. Saeki tucks himself under his friend’s arm and gives his middle a squeeze. “It’ll work out, Bane. I promise.”
The arm Saeki had ducked under curls around the smaller vice-captain to squeeze him a one-arm hug. “… I believe you.”
Title: Best Friends
Characters/Pairing: Bane, Saeki, Dabide / mentioned!YuushiDabide, onesided!SaekiBane
Word Count: +/- 706
Rating: PG (Some swearing)
Dabide is Kurobane’s best friend. They’ve been that way since they were little, doing everything together and never being separated for more than a few days. A part of Kurobane feels like he would never be complete again if he ever lost the red-head and another part quietly pines away with an unmentioned love, too scared to cross the line between best friend and more.
So when Dabide comes back from the Junior Selection Camp and announces he has a boyfriend, there’s suddenly a hole in the wall of the Rokkaku tennis club clubroom and Kurobane’s gone before anyone can stop him. The team stares after him in shock and no one’s quite sure what just happened, Dabide the least of all, because he’d thought that his best friend of all people would’ve been happy.
Saeki pats his shoulder then, and tells him not to mind; that Kurobane has some issues that he needs to face. And then he’s gone as well, chasing after the short-tempered boy. Kurobane’s nowhere to be seen at the court or the playground, but Saeki wasn’t planning on looking there. He knows the one place that can calm Kurobane down and he heads straight for the cliff overhanging the local beach.
He’s not surprised to find the tall boy there, standing right on the edge and staring down into the churning water. Cautiously, Saeki touches his shoulder and he feels Kurobane tense up beneath his hand.
“It’s not fucking fair,” he growls. “He was mine… He was supposed to be mine. I was going to ask him at his welcome home party. That idiot Oshitari knows nothing about him. He’s going to fail him as a boyfriend and then Dabide’s going to be hurt and then I’ll have to hurt him for hurting Dabide.”
Saeki sighs and he gives a slow shake of his head. “Sit down, Bane,” he murmurs and tugs insistently on the back of his shirt. Eventually, the large boy concedes and they both sit down, Saeki pulling the mess of black hair into his lap and threading his fingers through it to try and relax him. He doesn’t say anything more for a while, though, trying to think of something to say that won’t aggravate that short temper again.
“He looked so upset,” he finally settles on, a softly spoken sentence. “He thought you’d be happy for him, Bane. You’re meant to be his best friend and support him with stuff like this. You know he doesn’t like going against you. He’s going to think you don’t approve and he might even go ahead and dump the guy.”
“Good.”
“Baka!” Saeki snaps and whacks the larger boy across the head. “Not good. Just because he’d be single again doesn’t mean he will go out with you. If you’re going to be a jealous brat about this, don’t do it where he can know about it. It’s your own fucking fault for not saying anything sooner. You’ve had how many years?” There’s a long moment where neither boy says anything and Saeki gives a slow sigh. “I’m sorry, Bane. I really am. I really wanted things to work out for you two…” I wanted you to be happy. Because Bane isn’t the only one who is in love with his best friend. “But… all any of us can do is support him. And if, in the end, he does get hurt… then you can be there. But until then… Just… let him be, okay, Bane? Let him have this one thing for himself.”
There’s another long silence then Kurobane slowly sits up and runs a hand through his hair. “I hate it when you’re right, Sae,” he mutters, staring out across the ocean in front of them. “I really wish you weren’t…”
“I know, Bane,” Saeki keeps a hand on his friend’s shoulder and squeezes it softly. “Sometimes I wish I wasn’t, either.” The hand on Kurobane’s shoulder drops to wrap the arm around the larger boy’s waist. Saeki tucks himself under his friend’s arm and gives his middle a squeeze. “It’ll work out, Bane. I promise.”
The arm Saeki had ducked under curls around the smaller vice-captain to squeeze him a one-arm hug. “… I believe you.”