Heart Strings | By : sakurazukamori6 Category: +G to L > Get Backers Views: 3461 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
Disclaimer: I do not own Get Backers, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. |
A/n:Even though the manga in volume fifteen says otherwise, I made Elegance a sub group of Volts, instead of disbanding them when Volts was formed.
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There was this persistent rumor flying around the ranks of Elegance that Uryuu Toshiki, third in command had a schoolboy crush on Kazuki Fuuchouin.
He’d heard of it from many of the inner members and even from strays who wondered into their group via the fact that all of them were Volts members.
Now the only other rumor that could challenge the Toshiki one was well, the rumor that he also had a schoolboy crush on Kazuki and that they were having sex. It was a pretty well known rumor that had even sparked Kazuki’s friend Shido, the beast master and all around hermit—not that he was a party man himself—to one day approach him and ask, quite out of the blue and without an affected tone if he was sleeping with Kazuki.
He’d answered yes.
Shido hadn’t said anything and after that he hadn’t either.
And those things were fine. He had no problem with those rumors, because as it so happened it was all true. Now, what was really bothering him was this other rumor.
Toshiki was his friend. Quiet and very standoffish, but with a loyalty streak a mile long and wide if he found something worth protecting. Toshiki was a precious friend.
A precious friend that now that he knew where to look for the signs had fallen for another precious friend. An even more precious friend, a friend that he didn’t want to share with anyone.
So when Toshiki had walked in on them, he had no qualms about telling him what he’d exactly seen. He wasn’t the type of person to beat around the metaphorical bush, never had been, so a direct and blunt answer was the only thing he could offer.
Kazuki hadn’t told him differently. Hadn’t made an attempt to dissude him out of that approach with a shake of the head, or a gentle pat on the shoulder, or a searching gaze.
He just lay there, still as a lace and porcelain doll and waited for Toshiki to leave so he could return to the thread master and help him up and dressed.
They’d spent the rest of the evening in each other’s arms and when the sun had come up, and training and preparation for the day were beginning, they had carried themselves out of the apartment and into their territory with all the same grace and dignity afforded their entrances.
He saw Toshiki out of the corner of his eye staring balefully at him. It was surely not a stare that a friend should be giving another friend, and so without a moment’s pause he was making his way over to Toshiki.
“Is there something the matter, friend?”
Toshiki looked startled for about a second and then he was gathering his wits about him.
He quietly said, “No,” and then was moving tersely past him and going towards Kazuki.
Kazuki, giving orders to the gathered boys in front of him flecked his gaze over to an approaching Toshiki, and Toshiki stopping in front of the thread master went on to give him some news on their side of the fort.
And this was how the entire day was spent, with Toshiki ignoring him and Kazuki caught in the middle.
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And within a couple weeks of passing, this is what their friendship had warped into. It was now a continual fight for Kazuki’s attention, for Kazuki’s affection, for anything that Kazuki would spare their way. Juubei was reluctant to play along, but he had no choice, not with Toshiki being so stubborn and trying to get between him and Kazuki.
They were in love. Didn’t the other boy see that? They were really, truly in love with each other and no one, not even a friend could take that away from him.
Kazuki was oblivious as always to the other boy’s pain. He was still being nice to Toshiki, still teasing him and laughing along with him—even if the other boy had never cracked a smile in Kazuki’s presense—and prodding him about why he and Juubei weren’t talking to each other anymore. It never ceased to amaze Juubei how Kazuki couldn’t see what he was doing to poor Toshiki. How it was eating him alive that he couldn’t have the thread master.
However no one could remain oblivious when a few days later, the whole matter had culminated into something that none of them had been expecting of their quiet friend.
“It’s not fair! I’m better suited for Kazuki than you could ever be.” In a sparring session gone horribly wrong, Toshiki in a moment of rage had punched him hard enough to draw blood and spit, and was now in front of the entire gang, yelling at him and demeaning him.
In front of the entire gang and…Kazuki.
They’d ended up injuring each other quite a bit before Kazuki could close his mouth and understand that these two boys were no longer play fighting. He had thrown out his threads then, had to use extra netting just to keep the two captains within boundaries and away from the other members who would have surely gotten injured or much worse if he hadn’t intervened.
He had to pile on more threading to keep the two immobile and separated and in the process nearly having his arm pulled out of the socket by the sheer force the two were exerting. He’d had to enlist the help of some of the other members and the boys had struggled along with him until they had both rampaging boys separated and locked away.
It was without a doubt the biggest embarrassment Elegance had ever suffered.
Kazuki hadn’t meant to do it, but after he’d reported to Ginji and reassured him that everything was alright, he had, in the cell bunker beneath the training grounds where they were keeping the two for now, in his own fit of rage slapped the two. He then went onto lecture them about interfighting within the group and the punishment that came along with that.
He’d then, when he had calmed down enough, asked them what would make them do this? Why were his two closest friends acting this way towards each other?
Then he’d gotten himself worked up again and it made him want to cry and kick them in all of one go. Juubei had apologized almost immediately and Toshiki being a little more stubborn had apologized only when he saw the sad and hurt look in Kazuki’s big doleful eyes.
They’d even shaken on it.
Kazuki had smiled at them both and it wasn’t hard to assume after, that both of them were faking it so the smaller boy wouldn’t get upset again.
They were pretty good at faking it and so when Kazuki had turned his back, Toshiki had glared at him and he had glared right back with a promise that this wasn’t over and that Toshiki better watch himself because his acupuncture needles in your spine sure as hell didn’t cure back problems.
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A/n: I update at weird times with this story so I’m thankful for all those who are patient. Thanks for the reviews and support. Sorry for the lack of smut, but it will resurface in the next chapter. Mwahahaha!
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