Author : yukigafuru
Title : Gentle embrace
Chapter : 10/12
Genre : romance, slight angst, a bit of swearing
Warnings: manXman love and sex
Rating : PG-15, will change
Disclaimer: I am in no way connected to these beautiful people. This is all my crazy imagination.
Pairing: Uruha / Aoi, Ruki / Kai, Reita/ Miyavi
Summary : Feelings can get stirred up quite easily sometimes, even by a band mate's radio show.
Notes: Finally moving along. This one is a bit short but I'm done with the writing so the final parts will be posted tomorrow and on Sunday so you guys don't have to wait long.
Waiting for the love...which would be comments of course. (hugs)
Chapter 10
Ruki had really imagined that life near Kai would become easy again when he had finally realized his feelings and talked with Kai. He was about to kill himself for even thinking that while looking at the movies together. Sitting on the same couch, actually being centimeters away from touching the man you love was a nightmare and he couldn’t have been happier when Kai allowed him to play the horror movie, knowing that he’d be able to cuddle during that one. After all, watching horror movies and getting scared and wanting to cling to someone was normal, right? And it did help that the movie really was a good one, which meant that even Kai a couple of times wrapped his arms around him tighter. Too bad the movies had to end eventually, Ruki thought without realizing that he was slowly falling asleep.
Kai’s feelings were pretty much a mirror of Ruki’s up to that point. He had really not paid that much attention to the screen as he had been paying to his crush and he had noticed some glances Ruki had been throwing at him and whose meaning he couldn’t quite pinpoint. It did cross his mind that those eyes somehow mirrored longing but that couldn’t be, right?
They had watched like five movies which meant that it had become evening already and Kai felt the way Ruki was leaning more and more on him, sleep taking over him. So when Ruki actually did fall asleep in Kai’s arms the drummer couldn’t be happier. He wouldn’t dare do anything like the other times, fearing that the vocalist would wake up ad catch him in the act, but he could stroke gently his hair, reveling in the softness of it, look at his peaceful face and just feel his heart beating next to him. It just felt so good to be holding him and at the same time it was bittersweet because he wanted more and he just had to hope that they’d get to that in time. Soon enough he joined Ruki in the land of peaceful dreaming.
There is nothing more annoying than waking up to the sound of the alarm clock, Kai used to think. The next morning he thought that again too, only to finally open his eyes to a sleeping Ruki on his lap, who pressed even closer to him when the alarm sounded. It was obvious that Ruki didn’t want to wake up and Kai didn’t want to wake him up either but they had band practice and Kai was the leader and a responsible one so he poked Ruki and tried to wake him up. All to no use because the vocalist just mumbled something that resembled a lot like “fuck off”, and that was it. Kai was a patient person, usually, but mornings had never been his thing so he thought that tickling would be the most effective method. Well, it was in a way, but while Ruki was struggling to get away from his hands and at the same time keep his eyes closed, Kai got a pretty nasty elbow in the stomach.
Hearing Kai’s exclamation of pain was all it took for Ruki to be up and quite awake apologizing. He really hadn’t meant to hurt the drummer.
“Really, Ru, you have to work on your waking up skills.”
“I’m so sorry, Kai. It’s just that I was having a really nice dream and didn’t want to wake up and then you tickled me… I’m so sorry.”
Kai ruffled Ruki’s hair and just said grinning:
“It’s ok. It doesn’t hurt that much anymore. Nothing that a kiss can’t heal right away.”
Ruki became a light shade of pink and much to Kai’s surprise it didn’t take the vocalist more than a few moments to think it over and bring their lips together. Kai hadn’t really thought about a real kiss though, he was more like expecting a peck on the cheek so his mind was definitely blown away by Ruki’s lips and all thought of pain or the slightest discomfort went out the window. He really regretted Ruki pulling back too soon; he would have liked that kiss to last an eternity.
Ruki couldn’t exactly explain why he had done that; he had shocked even himself. Maybe it had something to do with the dream, his still hazy mind, Kai’s request and Kai’s lips that just happened to look so damn tasty that morning. Thing is he could just pretend it was just a peck between friends, nothing more, when in reality it felt like losing his soul. Ruki was still a perfect actor, their front man, so he could pull off any part.
“All better, Kai-chan?”
“Yeah, Ru, hell, you blew my mind away. Next time I’m sick instead of taking medicine I’ll just get you over her and make you kiss me.”
“I’ll be here faster than a comet.”
They were both smiling but it was such a bittersweet dialogue for the both of them.
“Come on, Ruki, we have practice. You can shower while I make breakfast.”
After shower and breakfast they both got into Kai’s car and got to the studio a bit later.
It wasn’t a surprise to see that they were the first there. After all, Uruha and Aoi had most certainly had an interesting night but Reita should be walking in through the door any minute since he was quite a punctual character. Exactly five minutes later, Reita did walk in through the door, this big grin stretched all over his face, with that expression saying “I know something you don’t know and I can’t wait to tell you, if you plead long enough.” Which was exactly what Ruki had planned. Before Reita actually started talking though, Kai was called by the manager for some stuff and had to withdraw from a conversation that certainly promised to be very interesting. On his way out he passed by Aoi and Uruha, giggling madly. Yes, they certainly made a beautiful picture together. But Kai had to hurry to meet the manager, not suspecting what would happen next in their practice room.
The moment Uruha and Aoi got into the practice room, Uruha saw Ruki and Reita’s amused expressions and pouncing over there, not bothering to ask what they were talking about, addressed Ruki.
“So, Ru-chan, I’m glad to see you’re in a god mood this morning, after all those weeks. Let me guess, Kai let you in on his little secret.”
Ruki was intrigued. What secret was Uruha talking about? So he decided to play the guitarist. Assuming an innocent pose, turning his head towards the window and mumbling something that sounded like: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Uruha fell right in.
“Yeah, right, as if there could be another reason for you being in such a good mood today other than Kai’s love. I’m so glad he finally listened to me and confessed.” Uruha was practically bouncing but then he stopped suddenly when he took a good look at Ruki who was staring at him wide-eyed, obviously in shock.
“Uru, baby, you screwed up.” Aoi said.
“Oh my God Ruki, what were you talking about earlier.”
“I was just trying to make Reita tell me why he was so happy about. Uruha, what is this about Kai loving me?” Ruki got closer to Uruha and shot him a “you better spill it or I’ll kill you” glare.
“Listen, Ruki, I messed up, ok. Just, I guess you need to talk to Kai now. But if you don’t feel the same way, please don’t break his heart…” Uruha wanted to go on but a happy Kai walked in through the doors and an icy atmosphere met him. The four band members just seemed unable to move and then all of a sudden as if someone had sounded the wake up call, all except Ruki were out the door mumbling different excuses as to why they needed to get out of there.
Kai felt as if the tension was about to crush him with Ruki looking at him as if he was going to kill him any minute. He really wanted to play dumb and pretend that everything was just an illusion but something inside him just wouldn’t let him, so he just stood there, waiting for Ruki to start and he was blown away when Ruki did start.
“Kai, are you in love with me?”