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Shinoa stepped on the couch, opening the curtains that shielded the sunlight from coming into the living room. Mitsuba and Yuu squinted at the brightness - Shinoa wasn't affected by it one bit. The other two may have felt like they've been blinded, at least, that's what Yuu thought.
"Dinner with Mika is in officially three whole days. That is why, Micchan and I have arrived while Shinya and Guren are busy working." Shinoa inhaled the electric cigarette in her lips.
"And because they are," Yuu frowned, "What does that make you?" He finishes with a scoff.
Shinoa turned around, jumping off the couch with an exhale. She smirked.
"It means the queen Bitch Shinoa Hiiragi is in charge."
"What will you be doing?" Yuu asked, not sure whether to be concerned or a complete pro for what's about to come. Mitsuba and Shinoa exchange glances, and the blonde joins her side.
"Motherfucker," Shinoa starts, "I'm going to teach you how to host a dinner like a boss."
"First things first!" Mitsuba takes over, "You got to make a shitload of renovations. When Mika and Krul walk in here they need to feel like they're entering an entirely different dimension that revolves around fancy platter and fine dining."
Shinoa came from the storage closet with the house vacuum, slamming it down on the floor. She handed it to Yuu.
"When we mean renovations, we mean refurbish the entire fucking house."
"This is like two stories, two stories big. If you include the basement and attic, about three!" Yuu gaped. Yuucifer barks beside him in agreement and Yuu nods furiously, gesturing how much he's satisfied he's on his side too here.
"When a piece of fine ass is coming over to eat your food and to stay over at your house laziness is not acceptable. You gotta make 'em feel welcome, brotha." Shinoa pointed at a piece of dirty tissue on the floor, "This." She walked over to it as if she found her target, picking it up, "Is not acceptable."
"Would anyone feel welcome in a house with a snot filled tissue lying on the ground?" Mitsuba questioned, Yuu throws his hands in the air.
"I-I don't know! Is that not allowed?!"
"When you blow your fucking nose you dispose of your tissue and it's waste in the trash bin." Shinoa snapped her fingers, and Mitsuba comes back with the trash. Shinoa dropped the dirty tissue inside. "I hope you understand we cannot leave a single speck of dirt in this house on the day of."
"That includes snot filled raggedy looking tissues."
"Okay," Yuu finished unraveling the vacuum, "We can make the renovations, but where do we start?"
Shinoa scoped the living room, the kitchen, and the den area. When she was finished inspecting, she makes a noise of disapproval, shaking her head.
"We really need to start with rearranging furniture and shit because it looks like we've got some dead bodies lying around and you've just completely failed to dispose of them to rid of the evidence." Shinoa holds her cigarette back to her lips.
"When we're done tidying up this place, oh boy, by Saturday it'll be like you four never even fucking lived here."
"OMG." Chess spelled out the words in an almost dreading tone, "He did not."
"He did." Mika grinned. Chess gasped. She slapped Mika's shoulder.
"Shut. Up." She whispers, Mika stays silent. His grin still there.
"No, shut up!"
"I didn't... Say anything." Mika furrows his eyebrows, and Chess smiles wide. They share a squeal, holding hands and jumping up and down like schoolgirls. Renè is busy texting on his phone, and someone closed their locker, eyeing the screaming duo before walking away.
"He's so romantic! Right, Ne?"
"Drop that shitty nickname."
Chess gives Renè another one of those shoulder slaps. He sighed. Giving the most unenthusiastic cheer ever known to man. Chess saw right through it, though.
"That's the spirit!"
"So," Renè is still texting, "He goes down on you a week back, and then now he invites you to dinner."
Mika's face morphed to worry. "Is that a bad thing?" He feared.
"Of course not!" Chess defends, "Like usually, most guys would fuck you and walk out the next day and pretend you never existed, but, Yuu took you on like, two dates."
"If he's managed to do that without fucking you then I guess that's pretty legit." Renè adds, "I don't know how decent and normal relationships work."
"Exactly." Chess rolled her eyes, "Don't listen to him."
"Okay." Mika nods, closing his own locker, "I have concerns."
He was finishing high school soon. But that was an obvious concern, then there was way fucking more things he hadn't even thought about since the day the dinner date was planned.
"What should I wear?" Mika panicked, "How should I even look? Are we supposed to keep our shoes on in the house or take them off-"
"Relax!" Chess cups his cheeks, "I've done this plenty of times, there's no safety handbook or guide on how to properly fucking sit at a table and eat food."
"Would you listen to the expert." Renè deadpanned. "No, would you really want to listen to someone who's using her history of the guys she's fucked on the baseball team as a primary, source?"
"I did not fuck those guys for your information. Lacus was lying," Chess grit her teeth, seething.
"Not very reliable," Renè pats Mika's shoulder and beckoning for the blond to walk with him down the hall. "I don't know much, or care, about these things really. But I'll tell you what you can do." He shoves his hands in his pockets, "First off and most importantly, if you or Krul can cook - which I know you both can because I've known you for a long while now, always bring what you've got to any family dinner you've been invited to. Think of it like a competition, everyone wants a good taste of what you can cook. Bring it to the table and Yuuichirou's parents will fucking love you for it."
"What should we cook?" Mika asked, and Chess catches up beside the two of them.
"Got a favorite family dish in mind that's absolutely downright fucking delicious?"
Renè smirks a little, "She gets what I'm talking about. You know, that dish."
Mika thinks for a little, and he stops walking in the middle of the hallway. He snaps his fingers.
"Lasagna!"
Chess and Renè give each other a high five.
"Now you're talking an entire batch. But not just lasagna, put all those fucking stories of Krul's quality chef success to good use!" Chess grabs Mika's hands and pulls him along. "Secret family recipes from like, the ancient times, cookbooks, whatever you can find. Whip up what will best taste mighty fine and bring it over."
"I'll try my best!" Mika exclaims, "But what about the attire?"
Chess snorts, "Hun, you should already know this. Showing up at that doorstep takes confidence and a lot of sex appeal."
"Great advice. Because the idea is to come to your boyfriend's house looking like a prostitute." Renè continues to tap away at his phone, most likely texting Lacus asking where he is.
"That is not what I mean!" Chess blurted out, she leaned in to start whispering and Mika couldn't exactly here what they were exchanging but he didn't miss that "he's too proper and innocent!" hiss come from Chess' mouth.
She clears her throat. "You know some guys. They like casual. But they also like inviting."
Mika perks over in interest. "What does that mean?"
The bell rings before his question could be answered. Chess patted his shoulder.
"Horn and I could tell you all about it if you want, after school." She giggles, pinching Mika's cheek, "I am so happy for you!" She praised before slipping away to her next class.
"If I were you," Renè dropped his phone in his pocket, "I wouldn't go down that road. You are a far, too innocent child."
"I wasn't planning to." Mika laughed, and Renè raised a brow. They walk to class together in silence.
"Since you all will be finishing your last year, trust me, two months seem not all that short but you'll be thanking me. That is why there will be no weekly homework assignments from this day on."
Mika wants to praise the lord. Everyone in the class flips their shit in excitement and he smiles to himself, and he thought being a senior was hard - after graduating... Oh boy, chemistry teachers won't be here to give breaks on homework because they actually give a shit about their students. He's gonna miss this.
He looked down at his binder, and glances at Chess conversing with Kousuke animatedly. Mika ripped a piece of looseleaf from his binder and began to write down on it.
"What are you doing?"
Mika raises his head and turns to Renè who's giving him that look.
"I just remembered I have to tutor in trig tomorrow during lunch and I'm writing down quick notes." Mika says, which is true, but not what he was actually doing. While everyone was chatting - only a couple minutes before the class period ended, Mika finished writing. He exhaled, about to crumple up the note. Then he changed his mind. He kinda needed, Chess' advice... Not like he couldn't ask Krul, it's just that - maybe Mika was being too curious for his own good and he couldn't exactly slip himself out of it.
He attempted to toss the note over to her desk discreetly. It doesn't work because the folded note drops and he reached over to catch it and earns some looks but regarding them he sends smiles before dropping it on her desk. He waits until she reads it patiently. Mika eyes the clock, he taps his foot. Not exactly so patient as much as time went on.
It's dismissal time and Mika has a hand rested on his cheek, when everyone jumps up throwing their bags on them and flooding out the classroom like wild animals Mika spots the note back on his desk.
He immediately picks it up and unfolds it.
Meet us under the bleachers at the field. ;)
He glances up to see Chess wink at him before exiting the classroom. Mika stood up, adjusting his backpack on his shoulders. He gulped.
He can't believe he's doing this.
Mika noticed that Yuu also looked out of shape at group therapy. They asked each other about it after, walking hand in hand. Yuu was fond of holding Mika's hand often and Mika was only starting to get used to it.
"It's been a long two days."
"Yes it has." Mika laughed. "I feel exhausted."
If only he heard about the things Chess and Horn have told them at Chess' fucking house the other day.
"Boys are so easy." Chess said. "All you have to do is bat your eyelashes and touch their arm, lick your lips while you're at it and all the blood will rush to their dicks."
Mika tensed. How the fuck does anyone even flirt in the first place? He's never done that before! Is that what Yuu wants? A challenge, maybe?!
"You okay?" Yuu asked, they were on their way to his car. Mika shakes his head quickly.
"I-I'm fine!"
"I understand, sometimes my handsome face can be overwhelming."
"Well," There's no point in denying it, "I like your stupid handsome face, unfortunately."
"And I like your pretty pouty face, unfortunately."
Mika scrunched up his face in disgust on purpose and the both of them share a laugh.
"Yuu-chan," Mika whispers.
"Hmm?"
Mika tapped his bottom lip with his finger. He bats his eyelashes, and Yuu realizes what he wanted. Blushing furiously. He tried to hide it with a snort, leaning in to kiss Mika on the lips.
"You could've just asked."
"Whatever."
Once they're seated in the car - Yuu coughed, "So, my house is off-limits."
Mika blinked, "Oh my God. Are you getting it bulldozed?!"
"What? No!"
"Are you moving? Is the house going under construction? Are you grounded?"
"No, maybe, and fuck no. I'm almost legal aged." Yuu laughs, "Maybe for the second question because... I'm too exhausted to even talk about it." He leaned back against the seat, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Well... That doesn't cancel our dinner night, does it?"
"Fortunately, nope."
Another squeal escapes from Mika's lips, and he cups Yuu's cheeks - resting his forehead against his.
"You don't understand how excited I am, my heart's beating so fast. Feel it." He places Yuu's hand on his chest.
"Mine too." Yuu does the same to Mika and for the first time Mika can feel Yuu's heart beating, and it's pounding fast just like his was. Yuu removes Mika's hand and Mika removes his in return.
"Krul and I are going to make a batch of lasagna."
"Hoooly shit." Yuu breathes, "Keep talkin', baby."
"We're going to rummage through some old recipes. It's gonna be a surprise, I promise our food will be great!"
"I fuckin' hope so," Yuu continuously pecks Mika on the lips, "Your sister's food is the bomb. Guren and Shinya are gonna love it."
"Yes!" Mika cheers, "So, is it gonna be a hangout at my house?"
"Most certainly. And makeouts?"
"Most certainly not, though first," Mika scooted back to his seat, "Milkshakes?"
"Milkshakes sound good." Yuu eyes lingered on Mika for a while. He licked his lips. Mika stretched his legs on the armrests of his seat, smiling sweetly.
Is this what flirting feels like?
"SHINOA I'M HAVING A PANIC ATTACK!"
Today is the day. Yuu couldn't even put on his dress shirt properly. He felt Yuucifer nudging himself at his legs.
"NOT NOW YUUCIFER!" He cried, clutching his phone by his ear.
"Yuuichirou Hyakuya fuckin Ichinose." Shinoa was in that motherly scolding tone and Yuu knew he had to step up his game.
"You are the boldest motherfucker I've ever known in my life and this is not how you roll. Now's not the time to pussy out, you hear me?" She speaks, "Like five years ago, you were stealing money from banks and food from convenience stores. Five years later, just a two months before you were fucking bitches for a living. Now, you claimed that you were the happiest man in the world because you may have just found the love of your life. Fuck this up, and there is no, turning back."
Yuu nodded at every word. He sat down on the floor and patted his knees beckoning for Yuucifer to pounce onto his lap. Which his best friend had instantly obliged to. Giving an assuring lick on the cheek.
"I understand a family dinner wouldn't be that big of a deal in someone else's eyes. It is to you, and that is why it is to me. You are my friend and you need me. Without me you'd be a fucking mess. Now this is the last time I'll be here to babysit your ass, take deep breaths, step the fuck up, grow some balls and help host this family dinner like a boss."
Yuu inhales and exhales. "You're right." He calmed himself down. "Now's not the time to be backing out. We've planned this for seventy two fucking hours."
"Exactly." He can hear the relief in her tone, "Are you ready?"
Yuu takes about five minutes prepping himself up. He clears his throat.
"I think I am now." He says.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm pretty positive."
"Okay, if you feel like panicking again or if anything goes wrong just... Call me."
"Oka-"
"Wait!"
"What?!"
"I thought you might need this word of advice because it's really important, okay? Make sure as soon as they come in put on a smile, greet them and be welcoming to any form of conversation. And always remember to laugh at any fucking joke anyone has to crack, even if that shit ain't funny. Trust me, I know from lots of experience." Shinoa explained, "That's pretty much everything you need to know. Keep your dick in your pants and good luck."
"Alright, thanks Shi." Yuu hung up the call, setting his phone down. He turns to Yuucifier, clasping his hands in front of his face.
"This is it." He told him. Yuucifer makes a huff of approval. Followed by another bark and Yuu shakes his head.
"Guren said you have to eat in the living room."
Yuucifer doesn't look or sound very pleased.
"Excuse you last time I checked you weren't a homo sapien! Does it look like my fault you aren't?!"
Yuucifer barks again.
"Well my apologies you can't sit at a dining table like you're some talking dog. Oh please." Yuu sassed, their argument is cut short when the doorbell rings.
"Oh my God the doorbell is fucking ringing... Uh... Yuucifer get downstairs and stay in the living room. I'll be down in a second. Go!" Yuu shooed him away and to make matters more annoying he gets a call from Guren downstairs to get his butt down or he'll come up and drag his ass down the stairs.
"I'M COMING!" Yuu bursts out his bedroom almost flying down the staircase because he didn't bother to run down, leaping the last few steps.
Shinya opens the door and there stood Krul and Mika. Both holding a tray with aluminum foil over it which Yuu had assumed was the food they had cooked.
"Hello!" Shinya is the first to greet and his offer for hugs was declined when Krul gestures to the trays in their hands.
"It's okay," He smiles, "Just put them on the dining table."
They do so, and Guren closes the door. Yuu sniffs the air because he can smell the aroma from where he was standing. And he can still smell it.
"Don't drool, moron." Guren scolded, "It's impolite."
The meet and greet resumes once the food is set down. Yuu makes sure that he's done everything that Shinoa had gone over with him. He complimented Mika and Krul, (and he definitely does not forget to give Mika a kiss that lasted longer than it should because another simple button down with black skinny jeans and brown dress shoes never looked so stunning on anyone else) offer to join in on conversation and help with setting up the table.
"Oh wow, never thought you'd bring Scotch to the table." Krul says, surprised when they all are getting seated.
"I spent time and money buying that, you should thank me. Or else what would be decent decent if it involved fruit punch, you know what I'm saying?" He joked. Shinya and Krul burst out laughing. Mika starts laughing too, and Yuu is left sitting there clueless so he figures he should force himself to laugh.
He's not a very good pretender in that type of expertise, it's a bit boisterous and louder than everyone else's. What should actually be funny is that no one even noticed.
Yuu was questioning whether or not his suffering was showing through his reaction to that terrible joke or if that was supposed to just be funny itself at all. Mika grabs Yuu's arm and shakes it still laughing like he actually gets it along with everyone else. He didn't, however.
This is awkward.
"Oh boy," Krul's laughter fades, "Fruit punch. Guren, that's classic."
"I know." Yuu wants to laugh at how satisfied he looks. Now that the table was already set up Shinya said it was okay for everyone to start digging in. The trays were open and the food was distributed amongst the table and as Yuu expected, Krul's lasagna is always fucking delicious. It tasted like heaven and he wanted to bury himself inside it.
"Believe it or not," Yuu had forgotten Shinya was currently speaking, "I was one of the nurses who was treating the soldiers during the war at the time."
"Is that how you two met?" Krul asked.
"I was on leave for a year and my duty for that one wasn't very big, I did get myself roughed up though and I remember when I was forced to get treated for my wounds I saw Shinya and I told him to fuck off."
"How romantic, right?" Shinya deadpanned, Krul and Mika snorted.
"Battle scars are nothing. Gotten them so much that I'd get stabbed in the leg and just shrug it off like it's a mosquito bite."
"Oh but I still remember how the other injured soldiers in the tent told you to shut up because you were screaming at how much the wounds on your stomach hurt like a bitch, and you were also scared!"
"I never said I was scared to get treated. That really hurt, that's all."
"You did! Ask Yuuichirou!"
Yuu stopped stuffing lasagna into his mouth when all the attention in the table turned to him.
"Right, Yuu?" Shinya asks and Yuu raised a brow because he doesn't know what he's talking about. He wasn't listening, and he continued to awkwardly chew.
"Huh?" His mouth was full, and he quickly swallowed and kept his elbows off the table, grabbing the napkin on the table and wiping his mouth.
"Is it true?" Mika's eyes are sparkling in interest and Yuu doesn't want to ask what the hell everyone is talking about, so he nods.
"Yeah." He bluffed, sipping from his glass cup. "Yeah of course, it's uh, true."
"When did I tell you that?" Guren questions and Yuu hesitates, slowly shrugging his shoulders.
"See!" Shinya exclaimed. "Good thing you're retired or you would've had to face your fears of getting stitches and alcohol poured on your wounds. Seriously, those were really bad. You should see the patients I've seen in way more severe conditions."
Yuu almost choked on his drink. "Isn't this indecent to talk about at the table?"
"He sort of... Has a point." Guren muttered.
"Oh please, Yuu. When you were like sixteen you used to watch horror movies when I specifically said you weren't supposed to." Shinya teased.
"I was curious!" Yuu slammed his cup down, "You never let me watch them and it wasn't like those ones scarred me that much anyway!"
"Didn't he use to have the habit of wetting the bed around that time?" Guren asked, "Or it ended?"
"No it lasted until he was about seventeen, remember?"
"Guys!"
"I remember the time when he came up to me thinking his teeth were becoming magnets but in reality he had an overbite. Then the braces-"
"-He looked so cute with those on!"
"Oh my God!" Mika gasped, "You had braces?" He asked and Yuu covered his face in embarrassment.
"I was seventeen and you guys swore not to talk about this!" He cries, releasing his hands from his face. "Plus I only had them for one year! And I'm telling the truth when I say this!" He told Mika and the fact that he thinks it's cute makes him want to die.
"My teeth used to be perfect." Yuu muttered. "I hated those braces."
"What color were they?" Krul asks and Yuu throws his hands in the air.
"For the first month I told the orthodontist to put this pretty pink color on them. It was so, so adorable." Shinya answers. "I even have pictures-"
"For the love of God do not show them the pictures!" Yuu exclaimed. "Those were from a dark time and should be buried in a deep hole during the past and never dug back up again."
He swears in the middle of the night he'll go over and dispose of all his past photo albums by burning them to ashes.
"Pink braces?" Mika asks, "Now that is really adorable!"
"I know!" Shinya smiles wide and Krul fucking agreed with them.
"I don't even like pink!" Yuu angrily chews on his salad, "I wanted red and Shinya says oh no we should try out other colors first and maybe next month you can get red and still feel like a big boy."
"Ha!" Guren wheezed, "Man I was there the whole conversation and I let it happen because it was hilarious."
"Haha, I remember how big of an asshole you were then." Yuu deadpanned.
"Hey, don't give that tone Mr. Safety Blanket."
"Don't you dare."
"Oh that! I almost forgot about Yuu's safety blanket!" Shinya slaps Guren on the arm to get his attention, "You know the one with the sword pattern on them-"
Mika and Krul are laughing now and Yuu wishes for all this awkwardness to end. Most of dinner is spent laughing at the time spent with Yuu when he was around sixteen and living with them and Guren dared to include the story about when he had to come running to visit when Yuu was in juvie and he cried to him that he was scared because he thought a bunch of older guys were planning to butt rape him. Fucking butt rape. It was his around his second time locked up after he met Guren and he was in the state of a panic attack. The phrase don't drop the soap was pretty common and he had every right to protect his butthole at all costs. This story had everyone cracking up and Guren had even choked after finishing the story. Things got a little hectic there because Shinya started to lecture him about safety at the dining table.
"Relax," Krul says, "He didn't choke to death. He's okay now, right?"
"But it could happen again. Besides, what if it happened to you? Or anyone else at this table?"
"I'm pretty sure the chances of drinking ourselves to death is higher than choking on a piece of garlic bread." Krul joked. Shinya wasn't the least bit amused and Yuu mouthed an "oh shit" because if no one interferes shit is going to hit the fan really fast.
"Excuse me?" Shinya's eyes widen at Krul.
"So can someone pass the salt?" Yuu blurted out. "I'm really feeling the need to season this chicken..."
"I'm pretty sure that's the other way around." Shinya smiles maliciously.
"Is it?" Krul's voice is monotone.
"Are we going to talk about how amazing this garlic bread tastes, actually? Guren?" Yuu cuts in and Guren is looking at the two of them like he's watching a drama movie and a catfight is about to go down. Jesus Christ.
He feels a foot nudge him under the table. Yuu turns his head to Mika who's urging him silently to do something.
"I'm trying." He whispers.
"Well try harder." Mika kicked him and Yuu grunted.
"I don't think you're very familiar with safety precautions when at the dinner table." Shinya laughs and Krul shakes her head.
"You're mistaken, I am, but it's not really a big deal when they're not abided by, just my opinion."
"Well. I'll have you know," Shinya speaks quickly. "They. Are."
"Who wants to see a magic trick?!" Yuu jumps up from his chair. The rising tension starts to cool, though it's still there - there's a pause and all attention is diverted back to Yuu who backs up to one end of the table.
"Watch me successfully pull the cloth off of this dining table!" He presents, and before anyone could tell him this is a bad idea and he should've thought this through before doing it - even if it was clear he had to think up something and he had no choice - he grabs the white cloth under the plates and trays of food, and drinks in glass cups, pulling the cloth back with all his might. He failed the trick, obviously, because instead of him successfully yanking the cloth off the table without the stuff on the table, he brings everything on the table along with the table cloth.
Like a tree timbering to the ground, all the food and glasses come crashing down to the floor all together and it's like a disaster before everyone's very eyes. Glasses break, drinks are spilled, everyone immediately scampered away from the scene and Yuu has now created a mess on the entire dining room floor.
"Our floor." Guren doesn't even know how to sound fucking shocked, but the look on his face says it all.
"The food." Shinya gasped, and Krul walks closer to the mess, placing a hand on her chest.
"My lasagna." She breathed.
"Yuuichirou!" Shinya and Guren exclaim at the same time. Mika is too speechless to say a word and Yuu knows all eyes are on him and this is not how he expected this to go at all.
"...Tada." Yuu smiles sheepishly. He gets offended at the looks coming from everyone.
"Okay, hey, instead of gawking at me lighten up that I at least attempted a magic trick! Besides! Does it look like I can clean this all up myself?!"
He knew he shouldn't have said that.
To sum it all up, overall, the dinner was a success. Then it went to shit. The best word? A shitty success. Sounds like the best fit. Shinya and Krul are on good terms, good. Yuu had gotten the most painful ass beating in his life, it was done and over with. Good. Everyone did state they had a good time and the food was good. Excellent.
Most the food had to be disposed of due to Yuu's fail of a magic trick. Not good. But some of it was saved, on the bright side. Most importantly, Guren and Shinya had said it was a pleasure having both Mika and Krul over. Very, very good.
But Mika is not happy. And so Yuu's job was to patch things up. He just barely had the time because his major course classes were a bitch and Mika was doing ancient senior stuff at school and he was too busy to talk to Yuu. He complained to Shinoa and the others that he might have made Mika mad again. And that it's not necessarily his fault. Both a family member from their family, or families, were about to fucking attack each other, and he wasn't supposed to sit there to watch and eat popcorn. He had to do something, and so he tried to pull the cloth off the dining table like he's always seen in those YouTube videos and on tv.
It wasn't the brightest idea, even Yoichi agreed. They were right. Yes - but c'mon. No one was on his side here and he wanted to put a pistol in his mouth. On top of this, he's about to start practice again soon and he doesn't want everything to be on bad terms by then. Mika's going to be out of high school in two months and he's just... Sticking around as a sophomore and shit is still getting a little serious. He had to take matters seriously.
"Just come over to his house and talk to him." Kimizuki suggested, "Moping around and sulking about life isn't going to help shit."
"I know..." Yuu groaned. Yoichi rubs circle around his back, Mitsuba is on her phone and Shinoa is looking at him with disgust.
"What the fuck did that child do to you?"
"That's exactly what I thought." Kimizuki agrees and Yuu groans loudly again.
"He kinda reminds me of how Narumi acted when he couldn't figure out a way to ask out that guy he met at the last football game." Mitsuba snorted.
"Well did he actually end up asking him out?" Yuu asks, raising a brow.
"Yes, he did." Mitsuba clarifies, "And they are perfectly happy together for your information."
"Hold on a second," Yuu puts up a finger, "When was this?"
"He finally got the courage like last week." Kimizuki states, and Yuu pauses.
"How the fuck have I never heard of this?"
"You never hear of anything. This is not big news." Shinoa laughed.
"To me it is, ha, Narumi Makoto is dating someone."
"They're actually pretty cute together. You should see the pictures. Hold on." Shinoa opens Instagram and hands Yuu her phone.
He almost spit out his smoothie when he saw the pictures. He scrolled through every single one and that face was familiar alright.
"This is our head leader of our support group." He showed Shinoa the picture. "Holy fuck!" he laughed, "Wait 'til I tell Mika."
"Isn't he not going to be there because you said he has a dentist appointment?" Yoichi asked.
"I'll wait after." Yuu says, and he has a grin on his face. "I'm going to tell everyone on fucking campus this shit."
"That he spent less time trying to get an actual boyfriend than you or...?" Shinoa teases, trailing off.
"It took him until sophomore year to get his first one, duh." Yuu laughs, "At least I dated more people than that fucktard."
"You're pathetic." Mitsuba stood up. "I'm gonna get more food, Shi, come with me."
"Sure, sure," Shinoa stands up, "Oh yeah, and Yuu?"
"What?" He's too busy messaging everyone he knows about the news.
"I don't care what you do right now but you better patch up things from that dinner stunt you pulled last week or I'll kick your ass. Don't forget about it."
"I know, I know." Yuu's busy texting, both girls leave and he stops when he gets a new message. Checking it, his heart skips a beat when he sees they're from Mika.
[ I'm about to go to the dentist ]
[ Krul's working night shift today ]
[ So she won't be like, home ]
[ Doesn't mean you can come though ]
Yuu smirked. Perfect.
Mika hears his doorbell ring. He groans. His feet dragging over to the front door to open it.
"I tell you not to come, and you come anyway."
"Surprise." Yuu grins. Mika curls up his lip in disgust, slamming the door in his face.
He ends up letting Yuu in the house and he tells him news about what happened at group therapy and soon pours that this was all just an excuse to come in and see him anyway. Along with apologies about the dinner night.
"I know that was really, really stupid." They're back on Mika's bed sitting quite a close distance to one another and Yuu's eyebrows crease further the more he speaks, Mika can tell how much he's dreaded the ending of that night and he regretted thinking that Yuu wouldn't care.
"I thought it was all ruined." Mika bit his lip, "You said it wouldn't screw up."
"Well what did you expect me to do?! Magically bring out a top hat and make a fucking bunny appear from under?"
Mika stops. "...It's better than pulling off cooked food that took hours to prepare off a table." He speaks in a low tone, and it ends with a snicker. He places a hand over his mouth and they end up sharing a laugh.
"I still can't believe you did that!" Mika slaps Yuu on the arm. "That was uncalled for!"
"But everyone's faces were priceless." Yuu has a smug look on his face, "You gotta admit that."
"I'm not going to admit that."
"Admit it."
"No!" Mika's composure breaks and he bursts out laughing. Yuu grins in satisfaction. He hates that that all actually was funny when he looks back at it. Fucking hell, it really was.
"You're just doing this because you know I can never stay mad at you." Mika shoots a glare he knows he can't keep serious. Yuu knows that as well, and because of that Mika shifts around so that his back is facing Yuu.
"Screw you."
"Oooh, damn, such eager words."
Mika grits his teeth. He harrumphed. "I'm not in the mood for your stupid bullshit. I'm too exhausted."
There's silence for several seconds.
"Babe, c'mere."
Mika stubbornly turns his head, "What?" He pretends he's irritated though he's not entirely irritated anymore and is craving Yuu's affection. It's night, he's tired, and he's really glad he's come all the way here when he could've just stayed home and planned to forget about the whole incident and wait for Mika to come running to him. But he didn't. He was the one that came to him.
"Just c'mere, Mika." Yuu beckons and Mika scoots back so that he was a little closer to Yuu, but his back was still facing him. He was too nervous to.
Why did he keep doubting himself? Mika pursed his lips together. This was Yuu- Yuu was his boyfriend, of course he was going to cheer him up. Of course he was going to explain himself and make everything normal and fine again because he wanted Mika to forgive him and feel better about the situation. Of course- and in that moment, Mika realized he's never loved anyone so much as he did towards Yuuichirou Hyakuya and as simple as the fact was it was also an undeniable truth Mika had embraced wholeheartedly and he wanted to cry because of it.
Hands gently rested on his shoulders.
"Let me help you." Yuu laughs slowly, and he squeezes Mika's shoulders with such sweet tenderness, massaging them and Mika's worries immediately start to fade away. He closes his eyes, and relaxed himself against Yuu's hands. He let them do their magic.
Mika lets out a sigh. He can feel Yuu's predatory gaze behind him the more he adjusts his firm grip on his shoulders. His hands leave them, and they travel down to his shirt, pulling them up and over to expose his bare back. Mika shivers at the cold air that hits his skin, and when Yuu's hands trail up his back. Another sigh escapes his lips, and it's shaky, when something warm presses against his back. Again, and again, and again.
It's Yuu's lips. Mika stiffens and he finds it more difficult to relax with the soft kisses Yuu was leaving on his back. His mouth touched a particularly sensitive spot just above at the center of his spine and Mika gasps.
He shifts until he's fully turned around and brings Yuu's head up, tilting his head to mesh their lips together. He tasted fresh mint on Yuu's tongue when he parted Mika's lips and inserted the wet muscle inside. They've been intimate like this before - but with their bodies touching like this, Mika couldn't help but whine at the contact.
Their lips were smacking, and their kiss went from tenderly passionate to something more provocative, Yuu sucked on his bottom lip and the feeling wasn't new but it had felt amazing and he pulled himself onto Yuu's lap, straddling him, hands still cupping his cheeks as he rocked himself closer. Curiously, Mika runs his hands up and snakes under Yuu's shirt. He wanted to feel the warmth of Yuu's skin in his hands and he had enjoyed that warmth, it was almost like it was scorching. He bit his bottom lip, feeling the coarse hair that had started from his navel and disappeared beneath his sweatpants. It's the first time Mika's seen it up close, and his fingers tingled, the electric feeling coiling in the pit of his stomach as he started wallowing in the warmth.
They part, and their breaths were mingling with one another. Yuu's hand covers his, fingers only brushing over them. Mika gives him eyes that were practically pleading for consent. Yuu exhales and his fingers leave Mika's. Mika lets his hand drop beneath Yuu's sweatpants and under his boxers. Through them, Mika was able to grasp his hard length and Yuu hisses, breath hitching when Mika begins to experimentally move his hand.
Yuu's mouth parts in another shuttering breath. Mika watches him with attentively lowered lids, and he swipes his thumb over the head, when it brushes the slit- Yuu throws his head back and groans.
"Shit, Mika- your hand- your hand and fingers feel so good on me-" He croaked, and Mika keeps moving his hand, Yuu murmuring more praises as Mika works on Yuu's pulsing cock. He can feel the veins against his fingers and he could also feel Yuu bucking into his hand, and for friction - Mika grinds into Yuu's knee. His length beginning to throb in return. He bit his lip to fight back a whimper, and once substances begin to leak from Yuu's cock Mika's hand is at a faster pace.
Yuu jerks his knee up and Mika gasps involuntarily.
"Take your hand off." Yuu demands and Mika jerks his hand out from Yuu's sweatpants. It isn't long until Yuu pushes him back on the mattress of his bed. He hovers over Mika, and Mika is now helping Yuu take his shirt off, and pants as well. He leans over to kiss Mika without mercy and this time Mika can barely keep up, because it's no longer gentle, this kiss was basked with uncontrollable lust and Mika moaned into Yuu's mouth. He pulls away and a strand of saliva is connected between them.
"I wanna make love to you." Yuu whispered. Mika sucks in a breath, shuddering at those words. Instead of responding, Mika silently nods, reaching to touch Yuu's cheek. He was consenting to this, he was ready. That's all he needed to do for Yuu to understand.
Yuu's lips stretched into a treacherous grin, and he puts up a finger. "Hold on."
He leaves the bed to turn off the light.
"It's in the top drawer." Mika says softly. "If you were wondering, it was all Krul's idea. F-for protection."
"Looks like I'm not the only one." Yuu walked back over to the bed. "I've got a special surprise in the back of those pants pockets." He chuckles, and his eyes rake Mika's clothed body.
"Undress for me." He requests. They settle inside the bed covers and Mika obliges. In the dark, he knew Yuu couldn't see much. His fingers couldn't stop from shaking when he tried pulling his shirt over his head. Strong hands helped him and Mika let Yuu take off his shirt for him and drop it on the floor beneath them. They both worked on Mika's pants and boxers, along with Yuu's own.
"Just so I'm not the only exposed one..." Mika jokes and it's followed by a soft giggle. Yuu snickers, reaching for the bedside table. Mika chewed his finger in anticipation.
"How does that feel?" He asked. Yuu uncapped the bottle of lube and poured a generous amount onto his fingers.
"It'll probably feel cold." He shrugged with a laugh. "It'll probably feel weird too, but if it hurts, let me know by just... I don't know, shouting out the word butternut. Okay?"
Mika nods with a small smile and Yuu grins, sliding back down on the bed. "Are you ready?"
Mika nods again, taking a deep breath. He tenses when he feels a finger enter and he shuddered at the pressure. Yuu's done this before, and the sensation was welcoming. Uncomfortable, though Mika knew this was something he was going to have to get used to. He bit his lip and he shifts, eyes shutting tight and face scrunching up slightly. He still doesn't know how to describe the exact feel. It's all kinds of things.
"You doing okay up there?" Yuu's reached the knuckle and Mika tries to relax himself, nodding. This is the part where he couldn't explain, that feeling when Yuu starts to move his finger. Thrusting them in and out and he starts to squirm and writhe creating a knot in the pit of his stomach. Mika accommodated to the feeling of Yuu's finger, and he trembled in pleasure the more Yuu pumped in and out.
"Ah..." His hand left his mouth to grasp at the bedsheets under him, and he was more than relieved to let out a soft moan rather than embarrassed. "Yuu-chan. Your fingers..."
"Does it feel good?" Yuu asks and Mika breathes a "yes". His eyes are on him and Mika's submerged too much in the feeling of those fingers to think about anything else. He spreads his legs wider and Yuu plunged in a second finger. He arches back and trembles more significantly when Yuu hunched over to press wet kisses along Mika's lips, to his jaw, to his neck and down his chest. He licks around his navel and Mika jumps when Yuu's fingers touch a spot within his walls, something between an embarrassing squeal and a moan escaping his lips that he failed to bite back.
"Butternut!" He finds himself saying and his hands fly out to stop Yuu from pulling his fingers out all the way. Yuu blinks, confused, and Mika's face flushed.
"What... What was that?"
"Your sweet spot." Yuu smirks, winking. "I've never touched there before but looks like I've found it." He leans down to give an open-mouthed kiss to the swollen head of Mika's length. Mika gasps and the knot in his stomach grows bigger when Yuu continues to move his fingers.
Mika collapses back into the pillows, head sinking deep and he clutched tighter at the bedsheets, bucking his hips into Yuu's fingers.
"Yeah, just like that, fuck- you're doing so good Mika. Keep riding my fingers." He's now softly whispering praises into his neck. "You're making such pretty noises right now." He sucks at a patch of skin and Yuu's name rolls off Mika's tongue like a mantra.
"I want you inside of me." The words come out and it's a whine from Mika, Yuu grunts and he removed his fingers almost instantly, reaching into his pants pocket to retrieve the condom that was hidden inside the back pocket.
"What's the magic word?" Yuu brings the packet to his lips.
"I want it now." Mika whispers harshly and Yuu freezes.
"Actually," He says, "It was please. But fuck, since that was hot, it works too." He rips the condom open with his teeth and tosses it aside, rolling it onto the head of his cock.
"I'm sorry," Mika laughs shyly, "I'm just... Really, desperate."
Yuu hoists Mika's legs on either side of him. "I know." Once he adjusts himself, he gives Mika another questioning look.
"Are you sure about this?"
Mika swallowed, nodding. "I trust you, Yuu." He answered. Yuu bent over to kiss Mika's jaw, and Mika closes his eyes bracing himself. He stills feeling the tip of Yuu's cock at his entrance.
"Ah-" Mika takes shallow breaths, although it gradually quickens again when Yuu pushes in fully and he gasped loudly. One hand holds onto Yuu's broad back for support and the other flips, open for Yuu's hand to join with in the bedsheets. Yuu nips at his jaw and raises his head to look up at him.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes." Mika whispers, and he hopes it signaled for Yuu to start moving his hips. He did, and his movements were slow, and gentle. His hand was joined in Mika's and the other steadily holding his legs around him and he slowly began to thrust in and out. His thrusts were deep, and every inch Mika was gasping and at a loss of breath. His nails dug into Yuu's back and his name left his lips like it was the only thing he would be remembering for days.
"You're so tight, Mika." Yuu panted, and he almost pulls out to push back in deeper than before in a new angle - hitting that exact spot and Mika saw stars. "You feel so good, fuck- it's like you're sucking me in and..." He pauses to groan out loud, Mika's eyes begin to flutter the deeper Yuu's thrusts had become.
"God, you're so beautiful."
Mika moaned in delight at the compliment. Yuu kept his smooth, steady tempo and his eyes never left Mika's while he buried himself inch by inch inside of him. Mika was now whining high in his throat and this felt so good, so different, so amazing, he could feel all of Yuu right now and he was mesmerizing this feeling and he knew he'd always be cherishing this moment no matter what. He hadn't realized the tear that escaped his lips when he brought Yuu's face closer to him, and bumping their foreheads together, and whispered,
"I love you."
Yuu's movements stuttered and with a wrecked cry Mika comes when Yuu bites into his neck with his last proper thrust. He saw complete white and his hands squeezed Yuu's as his mouth was kept open in the remaining time shortly after he faded out of his euphoric high in a silent scream. Yuu follows after him momentarily, and he orgasms with a muffled moan into the juncture of Mika's neck.
Mika had taken a while to catch his breath. He trembles when Yuu pulls out of him, feeling sensitive all over. He struggles to pry his eyes open and Yuu is smiling down at him. They both laugh, even though they're out of breath, even though they're all sweaty and joined together feeling musty - even despite that all, there's a distinguished connection between them that finds the highlight of amusement in this all.
"I can't feel my legs." Mika cackles.
"Yeah, well I can barely feel my dick."
"Oh my God. What is wrong with you- haha!"
That's what Mika expects they're now doing. Laughing, and enjoying each other's company, and presence. It ends when Yuu cleans them up and starts all over again when they're back under the sheets, basking in the warmth of their body heat.
"I'm going to make another pinky swear promise."
Mika rolls his eyes, and Yuu stuck out his bottom lip.
"Hear me out!"
"You've broken about three already since around the time we've met. Retard."
"Then I'll just keep making more until this one is never broken." Yuu smiles smugly, and holds up a pinky. "I hereby swear, to never fuck things up between us again."
Mika sighed. He holds out his pinky finger and entwined it with Yuu's. He eventually smiles a little, pinky fingers grasped together.
"I hereby swear that I'll kill you if you break this again."
Yuu laughed, breaking away their fingers. He kisses Mika's knuckles.
"I hope I won't."
Mika let go of Ako's hand, turning to Krul who's staring at him, she raises a brow, an impatient look on her face.
"Well?" She asked, "Aren't you gonna go?"
"So that's why Yuu's been taking so long to come back." Guren rolled his eyes, "That idiot is probably up to attempting dumb romantic shit."
"Youth." Shinya wraps an arm around Guren and Mika smiles sheepishly. Shinoa laughs, agreeing and even with Yuu out his own house the place remains just as lively and understanding towards his actions. They must know him very well.
"I say you should go." Akane urges, "Yoichi didn't run all the way over here just to tell you that Yuu wants you at the park for you to just stand here like an idiot."
"What do you think he wants?" Mika asks, and he stares at the presents on the kitchen counter. He figured it out right after.
"To give you your present, of course! You know he's been spending all week trying to get it for you and that's why he showed up so late to the surprise party." Shinoa explained and Mika smiles, he shakes his head. Typical Yuu. He was the one who told him to go to his house and do him an urgent favor by picking up Yuucifer's dog poop off the floor. He does the honors, only to be involved in a huge surprise birthday party, screaming seeing everyone in excitement and finding it completely hard to believe that Yuu planned this all. He can't forget that Yuucifer himself was the first to actually greet Mika attacking him right on the spot.
"You should go Mika!" Taichi agrees, and Mika glances at his own friends. Lacus and Chess immediately approve and he gives in, walking over to the door and opening it.
"Hurry up and bring the kid back so we can cut this damn cake." Guren muttered and everyone laughs.
"I'll try to be back as soon as possible," Mika bends down to stroke Yuucifer's fur, "I'll be back, I promise." He leaves the house and takes the shortcut to the park. He read Yuu's text message and told him he was coming.
He reached the park and stopped by a tree to catch his breath, and as soon as he spotted Yuu he caught up to him.
"Yuu-chan!" Mika waves and he throws his arms around Yuu. Yuu laughs, too startled to return the hug.
"Whoa there, could've at least told me you were present in the fucking park before scaring the shit outta me." Yuu joked.
"Sorry," Mika blushed. Yuu exhales. And Mika blinks in question.
"Woo, boy." He clears his throat. "Okay so first of all, happy birthday. I didn't forget, my sweet." He brushes his nose against Mika's and Mika sighs in relief, giggling.
"Second, I know I didn't make it to my own planned surprise party for you on time because I wanted to give you your gift in private." Yuu brought out a small black box. He holds it up for Mika.
"Well?" His smile grows wider, "Open it."
"Oh, o-okay." Mika nods, and he opens the box in Yuu's hand. He spots a piece of round gold inside and he picks up the item, when he raises it higher - Mika realizes it's a bracelet with the letters Y M engraved on the heart chained to the bracelet. He stares at his gift, at a loss of words.
"Yuu-chan..." He looks at him, "Oh my God."
"Twinsies." Yuu held up his wrist to show his bracelet that was already on. "Except mine says M plus Y but you get the point." He laughs, and Mika continues to stare at his gift, no, more like gawk at the bracelet.
"Thank you. I love it." Mika smiled.
Yuu gently grabs his wrist. "Lemme help you put it on."
The bracelet fits perfectly around Mika's wrist. Yuu kisses Mika's wrist, then he cups his cheek. Mika leans into the touch, closing his eyes. When their lips are a brief distance away from touching, something drips onto their noses.
"I-Is this rain?" Mika asks, "I thought it wasn't going to rain-"
"Holy shit!" Yuu exclaims, and they're almost separated - but Mika grabs onto Yuu and they both lose balance tumbling down the short and steep hill below them with startled yelps.
Rolling onto the ground, Yuu lands on top of Mika and they're now both covered in grass. Like reckless klutzes.
"What just happened?" Mika asked. Yuu snorts, tapping his nose.
"A bird just fucking pooped on our noses and flew away."
"What?!"
"I'm not even kidding!"
"I can see that!"
"Do you really?" Yuu leans in and Mika screams for him to stop and he ends up rubbing more bird shit on his nose. Yuu eventually stops, and they're both returning slowly becoming, captivating gazes.
"Yuu-chan." Mika finds himself saying softly,
"Kiss me." He asks of him.
Yuu doesn't hesitate to finish what was interrupted earlier because of the fucking bird who decided to shit on their noses. Their lips meet under the hill of the park just near the lake and bridge beside it. It's cloudy, Mika thinks it'll really rain soon and that they should start heading back because everyone was waiting, but now, Mika decided - let them wait. He didn't mind getting sidetracked for several more minutes.
Yuu's lips part Mika's and soon Mika misses that warmth when Yuu retracts, and Mika's fingers graze his cheek.
"We kissed with bird poop on our noses."
"I know."
Mika smiles at the comment of immature matter. Yuu slowly shakes his head. He stares at Mika with such admiration and Mika watches Yuu mesmerize the features of his face, like he always does, like he always had.
"You are so beautiful, Mikaela Shindo Tepes."
Mika's smile grows wider. Droplets of rain begin to fall and their moment is cut short when a glance at the cloudy skies scream that it's about to rain on their parade.
Yuu's lips stretch into a mischievous grin.
"Race you back up the hill." He helps Mika up and they both dust themselves off. They race up the hill and it's a tie and the rain is falling harder by the time they're up the hill and walking out of the park, hand in hand.
The rain falls hard like how Mika fell for Yuu. Harder and harder as time went on. He held his hand tighter as he followed behind him, Mika never really believed in things like forever. He never really believed in love. He never did, in fact. But the last thing he wanted to realize was that dealing with a typical nuisance of a problem meant falling in love and he was way over his head when he thought this would all come out differently than he had expected.
Back at Yuu's house, everyone was there to welcome them back. Yuu turns around and waits patiently for Mika to step inside.
Mika always hated his social anxiety. Now, he knew he was going to miss it. He was going to miss everything that had come with it and he was going to kiss it goodbye. With Yuu by his side, he has helped him overcome his obstacles, and maybe he can continue being his hero for as long as they were alive.
Because. Mika thought to himself as he walked in, smiling at everyone, and smiling at Yuu. My heart belongs to you.