Heart Strings | By : sakurazukamori6 Category: +G to L > Get Backers Views: 3461 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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After a couple of days, Juubei getting angry with himself and his childish behaviour approached the blond with a truce. He knew he wasn’t petty like this. That he didn’t need to show Kazuki off like some kind of trophy piece, because Toshiki and him were really friends. Good friends.
This was ridiculous.
Toshiki had readily agreed and so they had went back to their steady, easy friendship and rivalry.
And now as Juubei looked back on those past few weeks, it really was a shame how childish and moronic the two had behaved. Their feelings for Kazuki shouldn’t get in the way of their friendship.
They were better than that.
And so to prove that he was better than that, Juubei had invited Toshiki to hang out with him and Kazuki at his apartment. Kazuki had baked a cake, for what reason, he wasn’t entirely sure of, and he really didn’t like cake. He was sure Toshiki didn’t really either, but watching Kazuki eat the cake had been entertaining. Toshiki most definitely agreed with him there.
It reminded him that they were still rivals and that they were two hormonal driven teenage boys with wider imaginations than most gave them credit for, especially when Kazuki had started licking some of the vanilla icing of his fingers.
He reminded himself that this was him hanging out with Kazuki and Toshiki. There was going to be nothing else after that thought, because the only thing he was going to do was sit here and converse quietly and relax.
“The new members are so eager to prove themselves to Ginji-san. It’s a very welcome sight.” Kazuki’s eyes lighted up in that way they did whenever he spoke of the Lighting Lord.
Toshiki grimaced a little, which went unnoticed by Kazuki, but not by Juubei. It was pretty safe to say now that Toshiki Uryuu did not really like Raitei. Wasn’t enraptured or drawn in by his power and his charisma, like the other kings and everyone else in the Limitless Fortress. Even he could say he didn’t care too much for the Lighting Lord. He was to be respected and feared from afar, not made friends with. The only person he followed was Kazuki and no amount of demonstration of Raitei’s awe-inspiring power would make him change his mind.
“I don’t think those from the Beltline will stand a chance against us when we amass enough forces. Lower town should be safe from their violence…but I’m curious, as to why we don’t try to infiltrate the Beltline with our very own survey team. It seems very stupid to just wait around for them to attack us while we could be on the offensive.”
All motions at the table stopped.
“Survey team? Kazuki, you can’t be serious. That would be”-
“Suicide.” Juubei said, cutting in for Toshiki.
Kazuki looked over the brim of his teacup at the two of them. “I don’t think so. We’re strong, and I bet I’m not the only one curious as to what goes on up there.” His gaze shifted up to the ceiling, like he could see the Beltline through the solid structure. Then he was looking back at them from across the table and waiting silently for their responses.
“Of course, but most people here have the instinct to survive. They will not throw themselves into a den of lions because of a whimsical emotion such as curiosity.” Juubei levelled his stare at the brunette.
Kazuki did not look too pleased.
Toshiki, catching onto this tried to placate the small brunette. “It’s a brave endeavour. I would surely follow you if you needed me Kazuki.”
Juubei was now staring crossly at the blond sitting at his side.
It wasn’t that he wouldn’t follow Kazuki into the den of lions, it was just such an unnecessary risk, just for a bout of curiosity and he was about to reiterate his point, when he heard soft laughter coming from across the table.
Kazuki had a smile on his face and his laughter was like bells in the air. “Toshiki, you actually believed me. I would never ask that of any person.” He laughed again; light and airy sounding and it made him feel somewhat hollow.
He was still laughing delicately and Toshiki, embarrassed at his utterance, blushed and tried to collect his pride.
But something wasn’t right. Kazuki had looked so serious just a few seconds ago, and Juubei couldn’t throw away the feeling that Kazuki had meant every word he’d said.
What was this really about?
“Juubei, what’s wrong? You didn’t think my joke was funny?” He asked in that exaggerated, cute, pouty way. It wasn’t fair to use that against him and Juubei casting his gaze in Toshiki’s direction saw the other boy practically falling off his seat at the sight of it.
“Excuse me Kazuki.” He said.
The young, thread master sighed and getting up from his seat and walking behind his chair, Kazuki draped an arm around his chest.
“You’re awfully quiet today.”
The arm around him was now moving over his chest, the feeling of warm breath on his neck and another arm slinking around him, making him forget everything he’d thought about in the last five minutes.
“Juubei?” Kazuki’s voice was right next to his ear, his fingers curled around the base of his throat, the touches there, feathery light and soft and it made him want to close his eyes and surrender to those sweet touches. However, he couldn’t forget that they weren’t alone, not when he could feel icy blue eyes piercing into him from his peripheral. He had to remember that Toshiki was also in the room and that it was very insulting and very improper to be doing these kinds of things in front of a friend.
He thought about self-restraint and Toshiki, and how they were the only two things in this room keeping him fixed to his seat and Kazuki still standing.
He chanced a glance up at the boy behind him, saw his eyes caramelise and smoulder under his dark and thick lashes, watched him aim that irresistible stare towards Toshiki and watched Toshiki fall prey to it and unconsciously reach his hand out to the brunette beauty.
His friend didn’t look like he had too much of that famous Muramase School restraint left. Juubei would have thought the chi master had a finer sense of controlling his baser instincts, especially since his body was his weapon. He diligently trained it everyday, he ate properly prepared meals and he did not succumb to the vices of alcohol and smoke. Toshiki’s body was his temple and so he treated it as such.
He should have better control, but Juubei taking one look at Kazuki, all sweetness and devilry and his own body seemed to have no will of its own either.
Kazuki, leaning over him rested his forehead against his shoulder and so when he spoke, Juubei had felt his words before he had heard them.
“Do you think Toshiki would like to join us?”
Kazuki’s one hand, now on his hip traced down until his fingertips were brushing his arousal through his pants. He didn’t think Kazuki expected an answer from him, not when those fingers were now cupping and kneading him and making comprehensible thought nonexistent.
Kazuki’s words, which were loud enough for the other boy to catch had Toshiki wondering if too many hits to the face had caused his hearing to do funny things. The soft palm slipping into his calloused hand however cut him off from that thought, as he realized that Kazuki was indeed holding his hand and sweetly smiling at him. Kazuki’s other hand held by Juubei and before Toshiki could realize what was happening, the small brunette was pulling him out of his seat.
It was only when Kazuki had stopped to open his bedroom door that something seemed to click in Toshiki’s head.
“Kazuki, what...I can’t go in there.” He looked at Juubei, who for some reason didn’t look at all that nervous, just too calm and relaxed for any of this to be considered normal.
Juubei couldn’t say that he was surprised at tonight’s outcome. Really, he was surprised it hadn’t happened sooner. Not to say they had ever done something like this before. It had always been him and Kazuki, but with Toshiki, his friend seemed to move something within Kazuki, seemed to make Kazuki want to spoil him a bit and tease him a lot. Juubei figured it was Toshiki’s seriousness and prudishness. Kazuki seemed to take an immediate liking to the other boy and with Toshiki’s strong attraction and feelings for the thread master, Juubei now felt out of place in any attempt to discourage this.
Kazuki was free to choose whomever he wanted to take to his bed. He didn’t belong to Juubei, even though he felt otherwise a lot of the times. He protected Kazuki, comforted him when those nightmares of his burning past became too much and loved him like he believed no one ever could.
He felt jealously of course, but it was not his place as Kazuki’s protector to feel that, or not out in the open anyway. Those emotions were best kept hidden away, like many other things in his life.
Toshiki’s presence had made him more sensible to these petty emotions. Made him realize that these types of feelings really should be hidden away, because they distracted him and made him less efficient at protecting Kazuki.
He loved Kazuki and he knew that Kazuki felt the same. He felt confident in their feelings for one another enough now where another man didn’t bother him so much. And Toshiki wasn’t just another man. He was a brother. Someone who he trusted with his back during many fights, someone who he knew if he were ever killed in battle would take up his mantle and protect Kazuki for him in his place. That had always been his greatest concern and now with Toshiki here, the job of protecting this important person, not only to the Limitless Fortress, but to them as well had seemed to become lighter, the weight of it now carried by two pairs of hands instead of one.
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