Oneshot_03
Getting Away With It
Paring: Ryo X Uchi
Summary: they hardly noticed the change from when they were best friends sleeping in the same bed to something more.
Rating: not suitable for homophobes, otherwise good for everyone
Word count: 1,708
Note: after reading ' leaving the door unlocked (for you)' by trivialaffair, I felt very fluffed and very much in the mood for that kind of thing. So I wrote this. It has nothing to do with trivialaffair’s story, she just put me in the mood ^____^ I hope you like it
Sometimes, Ryo is amazed that they are still able to get away with this. Sometimes, he can’t believe that when he wakes up in the morning Uchi is there. That it wasn’t a dream and he did still have his best friend by his side. He is still amazed that at the age of 20, when Uchi was still suspended, they were able to have sleepovers in the same bed and not feel awkward about it.
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They had always been close and from a young age they had had sleepovers in which they slept beside each other and Ryo would wrap his arms around Uchi’s waist to prevent either of them from falling off the small bed. Ryo was a superstar now; his bed was definitely big enough for them to not need to hold onto to each other so that the other didn’t fall off. But they had grown used to the warmth that the other would bring them, they had grown used to twining their fingers together and having Ryo’s nose in the crook of Uchi’s neck.
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He was there nearly every night now, Uchi in Ryo’s apartment, in his bed. Sometimes he would come over just to sleep in the same bed as Ryo and Ryo was happy about that because he wanted Uchi to be with him. He missed him during the day when he was the with other NEWS or Kanjani 8 members because none of them could replace him. None of them made his heart that little bit warmer from just being in their presence and so he would send a mail to Uchi to say if he was going home early so that they two of them could watch a movie of Uchi’s choice or go out to eat or get drunk when he gets back. It didn’t matter what they did, as long as at the end of the day, they were holding each other in the same bed.
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The transition that moved them from being friends to more than friends didn’t seem to even exist. The two of them were wrapped in the same blanket one night when they were watching a movie, Uchi had fallen asleep by the end of it and as Ryo turned to find Uchi’s angelic face, he brushed a few stray hairs out the way and brushed his fingers against Uchi’s lips before kissing them without a second thought. He smiled at him and then watched him shift his position slightly as he groaned and mumbled quietly.
“mm, do that again, Ryo” Ryo smiled down at him and pecked him on the lips again before speaking.
“so you are awake. Come on idiot, let’s go to bed” he wrapped one of Uchi’s arms around his neck and one of his own around Uchi’s waist as he helped Uchi to the bedroom. Lord knows why Uchi was tired when Ryo was the one that was working, but somehow it had turned out that way and Ryo helped him out of his clothes, stripping him down to his boxers and helped him under the covers before dealing with himself and joining him wrapping, as usual, his arms around Uchi’s waist and settling his nose in Uchi’s neck. Uchi turned his head towards Ryo and gave him a kiss on the nose before entwining their fingers together again and bringing it up to his lips to kiss before they drifted off to sleep.
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Ryo was tired one night after vigorous dance rehearsals and a crap load of traffic on the way home, so when he entered his apartment, he didn’t check to see if Uchi had come over that day, he would have been happy either way, and went to his bedroom where he lay on top of the covers on his stomach.
Uchi had been there that day and had turned off the show he was watching in favour of lying beside Ryo on his back. His head was turned to the side facing Ryo’s worn out face and his hand reached out to hold onto the other man’s hand before their fingers were linked once again. Uchi just looked at Ryo’s face as his fingers unconsciously stroked the hand that they were linked with and soon Uchi had leant in to kiss Ryo on the lips, an action which he had not yet done although Ryo would kiss his lips when he was asleep or ‘asleep’.
“okairi” he whispered as he turned on his side so that he was now facing the slumbering boy and stroked his hair and cheek.
“tadaima” he mumbled with his eyes still closed, not moving anything other than his mouth that turned into a faint smile after he said so.
Had he opened his eyes, then he would have seen the huge blush that had spread across Uchi’s cheek after the napping boys response as he had really expected him to be asleep and therefore not hear his words or notice his kiss.
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It was Ryo’s day off, which meant that when the two of them had woken up at the regular time and realised this, they simply snuggled closer together, Ryo gave Uchi multiple butterfly kisses on his neck and Uchi had moaned slightly, thoroughly enjoying the sensation before the two of them snoozed for a couple more hours.
Even when they woke up they didn’t want to separate Ryo’s chest from Uchi’s back or untangle their legs under the covers. Ryo inhaled the scent of Uchi’s hair and sighed contentedly and kissed his neck. There wasn’t much more that he wanted than this, than being together with Uchi doing nothing other than feeling him there and smelling him and touching him. The two of them hadn’t confessed any feelings for each other and they hadn’t officially gone on a date, but Ryo thought that they felt more like a couple than many couples out there. At some point he thought, ‘what if Uchi doesn’t actually return my feelings? What if he still thinks of this as a kiss between friends? An intimacy between friends and nothing more?’ and from the fear or saying something stupid and making Uchi feel awkward and ruining what they had, Ryo had refrained from confessing anything and thought that if Uchi was okay with it whilst thinking that they were friends, then it was fine with him.
The silence in the room was peaceful and they could only hear each other’s breathing and the occasional shuffle of fabric as their legs moved under the covers.
“ne, Ryo?” Uchi broke the silence after a lot of thinking and blushed as thought ran through his mind.
“mm?” their hands were playing with each other subconsciously and Ryo would occasionally place a kiss in Uchi’s hair or on his neck.
“wha-… ano… do-…I mean…”
Ryo laughed at Uchi’s stuttering, “what is it Uchi?”
Uchi took a deep breath before speaking again.
“do friends do this?”
“do what?”
“sleep in the same bed, hold hands, snuggle… kiss” his voice quietened on the last word.
“do you feel uncomfortable with this?”
“wha- no! no, of course not. It feels… it feels good. And warm. And when I’m with you I’m happy”
Ryo lifted his head to see a content smile on Uchi’s face and a dazzled look in his eyes that turned to face him as he too smiled. “so what does it matter if friends do this or not?”
“but then. I don’t know how to explain this feeling. It feels like I’m going to explode with happiness. I can’t wait for you to come home so that you’ll hold me because when you do, I just feel like everything is alright and it doesn’t matter that I’ve been suspended because we can still keep our relationship the same as before, if a little quieter and more private. I feel… I don’t know what I feel, but a feel a… a huge warmth… in my chest, the spreads and… and I feel like I must be glowing with the amount of heat that I feel… I think that you would surely flinch away or burn yourself when you touch me because I just can’t control the sensation that clenches my heart when you kiss me or the shiver that runs down my spine when you hold me.”
Uchi was facing him now. They were still as close to each other that their chests were touching instead of chest to back. Uchi had a hand on his heart from when he was explaining the sensations he felt whilst his other hand was still linked with Ryo’s. Ryo’s eyes had widened slightly at the confession and had gently pressed their foreheads together as Uchi’s breath warmed his face, breathing slightly harder from his passionate declaration.
Ryo untangled their fingers and placed both his hands on either side of Uchi’s head. He kissed him on the lips once, twice, a third time and the fourth time their lips were pressed together for seconds later.
When they had finally parted, Uchi’s eyes were scrunched up in, what Ryo thought, was an adorably cute fashion. He smiled at him before he spoke.
“I love you too”
“love?”
Ryo smiled at the boy whose eyes were now wide open and nodded before saying, “love”
Ryo wrapped his arms around Uchi’s waist as the younger male wrapped his arms tightly around Ryo’s neck, never wanting to let go.
They kissed each other with such great force, moving their lips against each other with a ferocious passion that anyone in the room would have felt it as it radiated off their bodies in waves.
Even though they had finally confessed to each other, they didn’t feel obliged to now have hell loads of sex. They were still happy with just holding each other and pecking each other on the lips, kissing each other’s body and then waking up to find that they were still with the person that always meant to most to them.