[multi-part] It was the best of times...
Title: It was the best of times...
Pairing: Taiga x Hokuto
Rating/Warnings: PG-15
Word Count: 853
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, and only the words are mine.
Summary: It was Bakaleya that started it, started everything, and they were the best days of Taiga's life.
A/N: I promised lady_aenea that I would write her something for her birthday. This is not that fic...but it is a fic that I wrote for her, for her birthday...because the fic I wanted to write her is taking too damn long. You can think of it as a kind of spiritual prequel to the fic that I promised I would write for her. My sincere apologies >_< I will get the other fic finished...but I wanted to write something so much better than this!
There’s no special reason it should be now, maybe it isn’t even just now, maybe it always has been, ever since...but for whatever reason, Taiga misses Hokuto. He’s sitting at the other side of the dressing room, it’s barely five metres away but Taiga misses him so much it feels like he could be on another continent. Hokuto fiddles with his pen, places it absent-mindedly between his lips as he turns to the back of his textbook to check something, and all Taiga can think is Bakaleya.
It was Bakaleya that started it, started everything. It’s where Taiga started smoking but that was the least of it. He can remember it all so clearly that it makes him shudder, his own pale spindly fingers reaching out to take the cigarette from Hokuto’s rough, tan ones and it wasn’t about the cigarette, it wasn’t even about trying to look cool, it was about touching to his lips something that had, moments before, been between Hokuto’s, whatever that was about.
It didn’t stop at cigarettes, not by a long shot, but that was always their excuse because Kouchi was too sensible and Jesse was too much of a good boy and Juri and Shintaro were still raw from brothers getting kicked out of the agency for rule breaking and illegal smoking. So it was just the two of them, and that’s how it started and didn’t stop, and they were the best days of Taiga’s life.
“Hokuto has really changed hasn’t he?” Juri muses. It breaks Taiga away from his thoughts and draws Hokuto’s attention from his textbook. “He used to be such a noisy kid but now he just sits in the dressing room reading.”
Hokuto laughs, it’s not a real one, not the like ones that Taiga misses. “It’s called studying you idiot. Do you know what that is?” It’s teasing, his tone light but they all hear the line being drawn. Hokuto gets like that sometimes, when they bug him while he’s studying, when they try to persuade him to go out with them on days off. When they ask him why he changed.
“Speaking of people changing...hasn’t Kyomoto changed the most?” it’s Jesse to the rescue, Hokuto’s rescue, not Taiga’s. “He used to be so sullen and moody when we first started Bakaleya.”
He’s tried all the excuses, he was shy, he was getting into character...he was really into Gokusen back then. Only Hokuto knows that Taiga’s outward hostility was just poorly disguised confusion, frustration at the internal struggle with his own uncertain sexuality.
Hokuto figured it out himself, back then, somewhere between the cigarettes and the awkward glances, and he was the one to make the first move. There was no confession, just warm lips that tasted like nicotine and a little like heaven, tasted like acceptance.
It started with kisses, but it didn’t stop with those either. Taiga received his first blow job in the stairwell of that studio, gave his first one in the bathrooms. He lost his innocence to Hokuto on that old battered sofa in the club room set a few short weeks later, when they snuck in after dark on the night before the last day of filming because who knew what would happen when it was done.
Then came the movie, and Taiga and Hokuto kissed and fucked like they were on borrowed time, all rushed and passionate, overflowing off the movie set, into Taiga’s bedroom, into staying for dinner with his family, into holding hands as Taiga walked him back to the station.
And then the movie finished, and Taiga had been welling up at the crank-up but Hokuto had held it together. He’d held it together the whole way back to Taiga’s house only to break down there, his words barely audible between sobs, words like ‘future’, and ‘uncertain’, and ‘end’. He meant the group, Taiga was sure, the Bakaleya boys, all six of them, but it didn’t really matter, all that mattered in that moment was the warmth of Hokuto’s body clinging to his, the tight grasp of his fingers in Taiga’s T-shirt and then the desperate, senseless passion with which Hokuto had kissed him and the way it had made Taiga’s heart pound like nothing before it.
It didn’t end after the movie finished filming, because there were still promotions and there were still the Summary performances that they’d been rehearsing back to back with the drama and movie recording. Taiga still got to stand at the front of the stage, Jesse beside him, Hokuto and Shintaro and Juri and Kouchi, surrounding them, united.
And Hokuto didn’t stop waiting for him after work, and they didn’t stop walking back to the train station together, sometimes taking the train back together to Taiga’s house, and they didn’t stop kissing like tomorrow might never come. And they didn’t stop smoking, because Taiga transferred to Horikoshi because of their schedules, and they still met on the roof between classes or when they both managed to sneak out of PE at the same time. And they were still the best days of his life.
Pairing: Taiga x Hokuto
Rating/Warnings: PG-15
Word Count: 853
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction, and only the words are mine.
Summary: It was Bakaleya that started it, started everything, and they were the best days of Taiga's life.
A/N: I promised lady_aenea that I would write her something for her birthday. This is not that fic...but it is a fic that I wrote for her, for her birthday...because the fic I wanted to write her is taking too damn long. You can think of it as a kind of spiritual prequel to the fic that I promised I would write for her. My sincere apologies >_< I will get the other fic finished...but I wanted to write something so much better than this!
There’s no special reason it should be now, maybe it isn’t even just now, maybe it always has been, ever since...but for whatever reason, Taiga misses Hokuto. He’s sitting at the other side of the dressing room, it’s barely five metres away but Taiga misses him so much it feels like he could be on another continent. Hokuto fiddles with his pen, places it absent-mindedly between his lips as he turns to the back of his textbook to check something, and all Taiga can think is Bakaleya.
It was Bakaleya that started it, started everything. It’s where Taiga started smoking but that was the least of it. He can remember it all so clearly that it makes him shudder, his own pale spindly fingers reaching out to take the cigarette from Hokuto’s rough, tan ones and it wasn’t about the cigarette, it wasn’t even about trying to look cool, it was about touching to his lips something that had, moments before, been between Hokuto’s, whatever that was about.
It didn’t stop at cigarettes, not by a long shot, but that was always their excuse because Kouchi was too sensible and Jesse was too much of a good boy and Juri and Shintaro were still raw from brothers getting kicked out of the agency for rule breaking and illegal smoking. So it was just the two of them, and that’s how it started and didn’t stop, and they were the best days of Taiga’s life.
“Hokuto has really changed hasn’t he?” Juri muses. It breaks Taiga away from his thoughts and draws Hokuto’s attention from his textbook. “He used to be such a noisy kid but now he just sits in the dressing room reading.”
Hokuto laughs, it’s not a real one, not the like ones that Taiga misses. “It’s called studying you idiot. Do you know what that is?” It’s teasing, his tone light but they all hear the line being drawn. Hokuto gets like that sometimes, when they bug him while he’s studying, when they try to persuade him to go out with them on days off. When they ask him why he changed.
“Speaking of people changing...hasn’t Kyomoto changed the most?” it’s Jesse to the rescue, Hokuto’s rescue, not Taiga’s. “He used to be so sullen and moody when we first started Bakaleya.”
He’s tried all the excuses, he was shy, he was getting into character...he was really into Gokusen back then. Only Hokuto knows that Taiga’s outward hostility was just poorly disguised confusion, frustration at the internal struggle with his own uncertain sexuality.
Hokuto figured it out himself, back then, somewhere between the cigarettes and the awkward glances, and he was the one to make the first move. There was no confession, just warm lips that tasted like nicotine and a little like heaven, tasted like acceptance.
It started with kisses, but it didn’t stop with those either. Taiga received his first blow job in the stairwell of that studio, gave his first one in the bathrooms. He lost his innocence to Hokuto on that old battered sofa in the club room set a few short weeks later, when they snuck in after dark on the night before the last day of filming because who knew what would happen when it was done.
Then came the movie, and Taiga and Hokuto kissed and fucked like they were on borrowed time, all rushed and passionate, overflowing off the movie set, into Taiga’s bedroom, into staying for dinner with his family, into holding hands as Taiga walked him back to the station.
And then the movie finished, and Taiga had been welling up at the crank-up but Hokuto had held it together. He’d held it together the whole way back to Taiga’s house only to break down there, his words barely audible between sobs, words like ‘future’, and ‘uncertain’, and ‘end’. He meant the group, Taiga was sure, the Bakaleya boys, all six of them, but it didn’t really matter, all that mattered in that moment was the warmth of Hokuto’s body clinging to his, the tight grasp of his fingers in Taiga’s T-shirt and then the desperate, senseless passion with which Hokuto had kissed him and the way it had made Taiga’s heart pound like nothing before it.
It didn’t end after the movie finished filming, because there were still promotions and there were still the Summary performances that they’d been rehearsing back to back with the drama and movie recording. Taiga still got to stand at the front of the stage, Jesse beside him, Hokuto and Shintaro and Juri and Kouchi, surrounding them, united.
And Hokuto didn’t stop waiting for him after work, and they didn’t stop walking back to the train station together, sometimes taking the train back together to Taiga’s house, and they didn’t stop kissing like tomorrow might never come. And they didn’t stop smoking, because Taiga transferred to Horikoshi because of their schedules, and they still met on the roof between classes or when they both managed to sneak out of PE at the same time. And they were still the best days of his life.