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Of bratty demons and mushroom heads	By : TrishaMCH Category: Prince of Tennis/Tennis no Ohjisama > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1574 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own "Prince of Tennis" or any of its characters. It belongs to Konomi-sensi. I’m merely using the characters because I like to have fun with them. No profit is being made.

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CHAPTER 36

It had just been a normal day at the game center for Akaya. It’d been spent playing way more fighting games then was probably healthy and kicking ass at them, but as it started getting dark, he decided to call it a day and head home before his boyfriend got worried and/or mad at him. He stepped onto the escalator; his hands shoved into his shorts pockets. He was almost to the ground floor when he saw it.

In one of the claw machines surrounded by cute fluffy animals was a light brown stuffed bear that had the most disgruntled look on his face. It seemed to glare at him as he stepped off the moving stairs and he found himself inexplicably drawn to it. He didn't know how long he stood there in front of the machine, but it was long enough for people to start staring and a worker to come up and ask him if he was alright. After another few moments, he pulled out his nearly empty coin purse and popped a 100 yen coin into the machine and took the crane controls. He had to have that bear.

Another hour and 1100 yen later, he walked out of the game center grinning like a fool and holding the grumpy bear to his chest, quite pleased with himself. After a short train ride, he made his way back to his room, excited to show Hiyoshi his amazing find.

Hiyoshi looked up from his book again to check the time on his alarm clock. It was getting late and he was just about to call his boyfriend too see where he had gone off to when the front door opened and in he walked… with a wildly happy grin bordering on disturbing. He wondered idly if he should be concerned, but the thought was immediately dismissed since this was a somewhat normal occurrence that he was used to ignoring. What concerned him more was that he was holding protectively, and dare he say lovingly, a rather large teddy bear. He wasn’t usually the curious type, but he looked bewilderedly at the teddy bear then lifted his gaze to raise a questioning eyebrow at Akaya.

"Isn't it awesome?!" Akaya said excitedly when he saw the question on his bewildered boyfriend’s face. "I won it at the game center!" He ran over and straddled his boyfriend, still holding the bear and looking quite pleased with himself. "Do you like it?"

Bookmarking his page, knowing he wouldn’t be able to get any more reading done, Hiyoshi put his book on the nightstand next to the bed and gave Akaya and the bear his full attention. Now that he looked at it closely, the bear looked rather… annoyed. An emotion he had much empathy for, but was not used to seeing on a stuffed animal. “It’s a bear.”

"Duh, of course it's a bear," Akaya rolled his eyes and wiggled closer to his boyfriend, "But it's not just any bear," Akaya said chidingly and frowned at Hiyoshi over the bear’s head as he rested his chin on the furry fabric. "This is a special bear and the best bear ever."

Hiyoshi’s nose wrinkled in slight confusion and he looked at the bear again. It didn’t look like anything special. Was it made of some kind of special soft fabric? Was it some random character in one of Akaya’s video games? He wouldn’t put it past Akaya to own a video game about disgruntled killer bears. Giving up on his mental guessing game, he finally asked with an annoyed expression somewhat similar to the bear’s, “and why is that?”

Akaya grinned as that familiar grumpy expression spread over the other man’s face. "Because it reminds me of you," he said simply in a chipper voice as he squeezed the bear a bit tighter. "See?" He held it closer to Hiyoshi’s face. "Heh heh, you guys have got the same expression!"

First off, Akaya just now basically accused him of being perpetually grumpy. Second, it was very insulting to be compared to a fluffy stuffed brown object and Hiyoshi had every intention of informing his boyfriend of this. “Akaya… I have absolutely nothing in common with a furry stuffed bear and I sincerely hope you’re not implying I look like a brat’s cuddle toy.”

Akaya’s smile stayed in place, but his eye twitched. Within seconds, he'd smacked the other boy over the head with the bear. Quickly holding it close again, he kept smiling at his boyfriend though this time it looked a little forced. "So what if I am? Besides, you totally look like him. His fur’s even the same color as your hair."

Okay… the highly trained martial artist and inheritor to a prominent kobujutsu dojo had NOT just been attacked by such a lowly object as a stuffed animal, and then to be compared to it yet AGAIN. He retaliated in the only reasonable way he could. He grabbed the offending object and smacked Akaya back with it.

Akaya glared at him and stole the bear back, holding it protectively. "Don't touch my Waka-kumo!" He said grumpily and pouted at his boyfriend. "If you're going to be mean to him, you're not allowed to touch him."

Hiyoshi rolled his eyes and felt the need to smack him again, this time without the bear, but instead just smacked his own forehead in exasperation. “You just did the same thing, idiot! And don’t name it ridiculous names after me!”

"It's not ridiculous!" the pouty demon argued, and his pout got worse as he held the bear tight and crawled off his boyfriend to sit next to him a safe distance away so he couldn't snatch away his new friend. "If you don't want him just say so and I'll take care of him!" he snapped and rested his head on the pleasantly squishy bear’s head.

“Why would I want a…. huh?” Akaya had won the bear for him? His mind froze on that for a second, mixed thoughts debating in his rather worn-out brain. Akaya had gone out of his way to get the bear for him? And as childish and emasculating as it was, had named it after him out of affection, not to make fun of him? He remembered back in elementary and middle school, girls made bears for there crushes and named them after them as some kind of childish way of showing they liked them. His cheeks reddened as he tried to finish his sentence without stuttering nonsense… which he completely failed at.

Akaya snuggled the bear close and hid his face in the soft fur. "Well? You want him or not?" he mumbled, hoping the other would take his present. Hiyoshi probably didn't like it, like he said, and that made him a bit depressed. It had taken him a long time to get the bear and he was so proud of himself since he usually kind of sucked at crane games (not that he would admit to it), but he figured he couldn't expect or blame Hiyoshi for not liking the somewhat girly present.

Words obviously failing him, Hiyoshi peeked at Akaya out of the corner of his eye with his face still flushing. The brat looked so cute hiding behind the stupid bear, pout firmly in place and eyes with that glassy ‘I’m going to be sad if you don’t like my present’ look. Giving up, and not looking directly at him, he held out his hand to receive his gift.

Akaya blinked and looked at the out stretched hand in surprise, then slowly the smile returned to his face and he placed Waka-kumo gently in the waiting hand.

Hiyoshi took the bear and brought it back into his line of vision, trying not to glare at it as he scrutinized it yet again. It really wasn’t that bad, he re-surmised. The fur was nice to touch, the facial features weren’t all wide eyed with some dumb brainless smile, and he supposed if he had to have a stuffed animal named after him, this one wasn’t so bad. Slowly his expression softened till a small lopsided grin replaced his previously present frown.
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