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Learning to Land. Chapter Forty One ~Mukahi~

Warnings: Yaoi, Love, Angst, Fluff, and Lots of Sex. Some kink. You've been warned ;)

Disclaimer: Nope not mine. Still in my dreams. ;)

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Gakuto went to hop up a curb they passed and felt that familiar feeling of soaring through the air. He never felt the ground. He had that dreamlike, disjointed feeling when time passes around you and you're not part of it. Sort of like when you go to sleep as a child and your parents are having a party. You can distantly hear people talking, laughing, and living but you're warm and cocooned safe in your bed. Part of you wants to be there but you're too exhausted to move so you just lay there and catch little bits of conversation from your bed.

Gakuto was first aware that he was cold and he had no idea where he was. He struggled to wake up. He didn't feel in pain but this was too similar to bad things he remembered to not try to figure out what the hell was going on and get the hell out of there. "Gakuto, its okay. You're safe. You're going to be fine." Yuushi said. Gakuto didn't know where the hell he was or what Yuushi was doing there with him. He considered this might be a dream and then dismissed it because sleep was tugging at him. You don't want to sleep if you're already sleeping so he figured he must be awake. This was real. He startled awake and tried to move to find everything around him was in white. The room spun and just like when he did flips, he tried to focus on one point to not lose his equilibrium.

"What the hell?" Gakuto asked and his voice sounded like gravel mixed with nails on a chalkboard and his throat felt like he had swallowed knives. Nice.

"We're at the student hospital." It was modern, school sponsored, across the street from the school, and everyone used it. The grade school, junior high, and high school all made use of the facilities. They were some of the finest around. Only the best for Hyoutei's brats. "The doctor left about twenty minutes ago. You don't remember coming here?" Gakuto shook his head no. "What's the last thing you remember?" Yuushi looked around and pressed a button on the wall. Gakuto figured he was calling a nurse.

"Running," Gakuto said and his throat felt like it was bleeding and coated in broken glass. He put his hands to his throat.

"Here, sip this slowly." Yuushi held out cool water in a straw to him. It was delicious and Gakuto gulped it down greedily. Yuushi took it away and said, "Slowly or you'll be sick again." He held the straw back out and Gakuto tried to take it slower but it felt like soothing ice when his throat was on fire. It felt so good he couldn't stop.

Finally it was empty and Gakuto said in less of a gravely voice, "Sick?"

"You have a fever and they think perhaps strep throat. Its nothing bad, you just have to take antibiotics for a week or so." Gakuto blinked at him. He really hadn't felt that bad. More stressed out and tired than anything. Yuushi looked weirdly at him. "I was scared..." the tensai started to say but then a guy nurse stuck his head in the door.

"Oh good, we're up? I'll get the doctor. He'll be right in. How are we feeling?" Gakuto hated when people said 'we' like that. It was so bogus. And the damn guy used a singsong voice because Gakuto was small. It was the kind of voice you used with a little kid. Gakuto hated when people did that because of his size. Gakuto was going to tell him 'we' felt like hell and 'we' want to get the hell out of here but his throat hurt too much. He shrugged. "You gave your friend quite a scare." The guy beamed at them like they were two little boys aged five instead of older and shut the door on his way out.

"What happened?" Gakuto croaked.

"You tripped and fell. I caught you and you tried to push away from me. You started throwing up and were very ill. Violently ill. I carried you here. Why didn't you tell me you weren't feeling well?"

"I felt fine." Gakuto lied. Yuushi hugged him and Gakuto went to push him off. The stupid doctor would walk in and see them so Gakuto hit him to get him to let go. He saw for an instant Yuushi had tears in his eyes. "What?" Gakuto asked annoyed.

"You were so sick." Yuushi said after an apparent moment of trying to get himself in control. "I didn't even see you were ill."

"Yuushi! Damn it, I didn't even know I was sick! OUCH!" Gakuto screamed a curse and held his throat after yelling. Yuushi went to hug him again looking crushed. Gakuto punched him and the there was a knock at the door. It opened immediately and the doctor walked in. Gakuto figured the punch was well placed and timed or the damn doctor would have caught Yuushi hugging him. Stupid Yuushi. What the hell was he so upset about anyway? He wasn't the one who was sick.

Gakuto turned his attention to the doctor who introduced himself. He asked Yuushi to leave them alone for a moment but Gakuto insisted that Yuushi stay. He didn't feel like being alone right then. He'd never been alone with a doctor before, his Mom was always with him. He was still feeling tired and knew the tensai would remember everything better than him anyway. The doctor asked all kinds of stupid questions and then said they wanted to draw blood and test for mono because it turned out Gakuto didn't have strep throat after all. The doctor looked down his throat, in his ears, up his nose, and listened to him breathe. The doctor said he looked and sounded fine, perhaps he was just fighting a cold but they would draw blood to double check.

Gakuto listened but he knew all this was a waste of time. He was just tired and stressed out because of stupid Yuushi. He got this way sometimes when he was upset and all he needed was a nap. Gakuto may have a mild fever and may have barfed, but he knew he was fine. The doctor said the only strange thing that bothered him still was Gakuto's voice and asked if he yelled a lot. Gakuto said he did and the doctor said he should try not to yell because his voice could permanently become this way. Something about nodes on the vocal cords or some crap. Gakuto was fine while they drew blood and the doctor talked to him. He was perfectly alright while the doctor said they would run tests and if it turned out to be a mild cold or infection he could go home. He was completely copacetic with the doctor asking Yuushi if they were friends and Yuushi saying they were best friends and roommates. Gakuto was even contented when the doctor asked Yuushi to make sure if Gakuto wasn't feeling well that he returned to the hospital and Yuushi promising that he would closely watch him. But on his way out the door, the doctor casually said that Gakuto should rest. His parents would be by in a little while. The hospital had called them.

Gakuto blanched at that. The moment the door shut behind the doctor leaving Gakuto sat up so fast that he was queasy. He forced it back down and grabbed onto Yuushi, "You gotta help me! I gotta call her! I gotta Yuushi! She can't come here! She'll go crazy Yuushi, she'll go completely crazy!" Yuushi sat there with a shocked expression on his face. Gakuto almost punched him again. "Come on Yuushi! Help me! I gotta get dressed! I need a phone! Let's go! Move it stupid!"

Yuushi's brow creased but otherwise he made no effort to move. Gakuto shaking him with all his might barely even ruffled the tensai's hair. "Who? Gakuto, who will go crazy?"

"My MOM! Now MOVE!" Gakuto fought back a fresh serving of nausea and just barely held onto whatever vile contents were left in his stomach. Oh, the damn water. It felt like the waterbed at Jiroh's had moved into his belly and was sloshing around his insides. The thought of the waterbed made him fight back another surge of sickness and he tried to hold on and not hurl right there. For the first time he looked at Oshitari's shirt and saw that he had thrown up earlier. He had barfed earlier apparently all over Yuushi. The tensai was sitting there blinking at him and covered in his puke. Gross. That did it. Gakuto gagged once and projectile regurgitated it felt like everything he had ever eaten. All over Yuushi again and again and again.

Yuushi held him while he was sick and then didn't move as Gakuto sagged against him exhausted and fell back onto the bed. Then he gently lowered Gakuto and pried his hands off his newly soaked shirt. The tensai said quietly in a whisper, "Truly, I wish you did not drink the water so fast. Gakuto, I've already spoken to your mother and tried to convince her that you were alright but she insisted on coming to see you. I even told her that you would be going home and would be there so if you can stop panicking, I can at least get you home to see her. I assume she will be more distressed seeing you in a hospital than at home, correct?"

Gakuto couldn't move. Any movement and he would hurl again. He groaned. Why the hell was Yuushi whispering? It wasn't like he was going to barf if he spoke in a normal voice, "You...talked to my Mom?"

The tensai whispered, "Yes. I know you are close to her and I heard they were going to call her. Please relax, I'll make it all right but I need you to help me. Understand?" Gakuto tried to nod but that felt even more terrible so he moaned instead. To make matters worse, right then he heard laughter in the back of the room. The three stooges had arrived and seen Gakuto's spectacular water show. Atobe Moe, Jiroh Larry, and Kabaji Curly were by the door laughing so hard they were holding on to each other. Well, Moe and Larry were, Curly looked like he was going to either ask Gakuto to do it again or tell some stupid story about his family from which he would never shut up.

"Damn Gakuto, do that again! That was so COOL! I've never seen anyone hurl that hard!" Jiroh said inbetween bouts of laughter. "Nice aim too! I don't think you missed a spot on Oshitari!"

"You know, if you could get that move down Gakuto, you'd win all your matches without ever having to play." Atobe said with a smile wide enough to split his too pretty face.

"We could call that move the hurling hellion!" Jiroh said excited.

"Or the puking pygmy!" Atobe added and they laughed harder.

Oshitari picked up the thread but of course no one understood what the hell he was talking about, "Or the heaving homunculus?" Stupid Yuushi. That snapped Gakuto out of his horror and this nightmare.

"See? I knew you guys wanted to go to stupid Seigaku and name all your stupid shots!" Gakuto finally retorted. "Are you guys done yet? Are you here for a reason, because I gotta warn you, I think I'm ready to blow chunks again..." Yuushi took an involuntarily step back. Atobe looked at Gakuto and then looked green himself when he looked over at Oshitari. Maybe the smell hit him. Or the thought of wearing Yuushi's shirt. Gakuto wasn't sure but Atobe looking green was something that made him almost start to laugh even though he felt like a warm case of death.

Atobe looked at the floor and said, "You should have told me you weren't feeling well. Oshitari you still have to run your laps in the morning. Gakuto call me tonight when you get home or hear what the doctor says. You'll see my doctor in the morning either way. Kabaji brought your things. Nothing has been touched except by him. Feel better. We'll...talk later." Atobe still very green made a very quick exit. Jiroh left behind him giving Gakuto two thumbs up for the show and a big grin. Kabaji put down their things and then hesitated as if he was going to chat but Gakuto made a retching noise and he too hastily departed.

"Sorry Yuushi. I'm not gonna hurl anymore. I just can't take the three stooges right now." Gakuto was annoyed and then hurt as he realized they were all really size jokes. Kicking him when he was down. Damn bastards. He should have puked on Atobe. It might be worth it to get dropped for that.

"Three...stooges?" Yuushi said distractedly as he looked rather dismayed down at himself.

"You've never heard of the three stooges?" The tensai shook his head no and went into his bag Gakuto guessed to find another shirt. He took out a towel and walked over to Gakuto. "Yuushi, come on! The Three Stooges? You know!" Yuushi shook his head no and looked confused. "You know for a tensai you're a real moron."

Yuushi sighed, "I know. Hold still." Yuushi wiped his mouth and face. "Are you really done?"

"I dunno. I hope so. It hurt like hell." Gakuto looked at Yuushi covered. Clearly the tensai was unsure of what to do next. He must have wanted to wash immediately but could not. Even if he changed his clothes he'd still stink. Something occurred to Gakuto, "Hey, why aren't you hurling after I hurled on you?" Yuushi shrugged as if to say it was no big deal. "You're so weird Yuushi." Yuushi then smiled as if it was a good thing Gakuto had just said. Gakuto had a sudden worry, "Yuushi, be nice and please be normal when my Mom comes. Okay? No jokes, no puns, no stories, be normal. Please?"

Yuushi was still smiling, "Normal. Are you asking me for a favor, Gakuto?"

Gakuto was disgusted. "No, I'm telling you that I'll kill you if you make my Mom worry. I mean it Yuushi. Be normal!" Yuushi was wiping off his wet arms and removed his shirt. He threw it in the trashcan and then the now wet towel along with it. He nodded to show Gakuto he understood and would comply but he looked sad. So sad that Gakuto had another worry, "And don't say anything about leaving." Yuushi looked at him as if surprised. "I mean it Yuushi. Don't say a word that you want to move out or anything about it. Nothing. My Mom can't worry."

"What are you talking about? I don't want to move out." Yuushi looked genuinely confused.

What an idiot. "You said you were going to talk to Atobe. Because of your tutor. You were sorry and wrongly thinking you were being like him. You don't want to live with me fine, but don't you say anything to my Mom!" Gakuto's throat was tight with tears suddenly and he looked away.

"Gakuto, I don't want to move out." Yuushi sat on the bed next to him. "I don't. I was going to see if we could change rooms so we each had a bedroom. Like the golden twins do." They were two third years and Hyoutei's star doubles pair. They weren't really twins or even brothers but they looked so alike and acted so similar no one could tell them apart. "They have a suite with two bedrooms. I was going to ask Atobe for a favor to switch to a room like that. Then we each wouldn't be so tempted but I still want to live with you. I'm very happy living with you." Yuushi gestured down at himself and the corners of his mouth twitched into nearly a smile, "Usually anyway." Gakuto felt tears filling his eyes and blurring his vision. He looked down and wouldn't look at Yuushi. Gakuto was sitting up and looked straight down at his hands folded in his lap. He wondered again where his clothes were because even if he ran out of the room he would be naked except for this hospital thingie, his ass would be hanging out, and he'd probably puke the whole way. And even if he went right home, Yuushi would just be there soon. "You thought I didn't want to live with you anymore? That I wanted to leave you?" Yuushi asked sounding surprised and as if he had solved the mystery of what was under the sphinx.

Gakuto shrugged. Wasn't his fault Yuushi was so stupid. "Don't you?"

Yuushi ran his finger down Gakuto's part separating the hairs there. Gakuto watched as two of his tears fell onto his folded hands. He really wasn't feeling well today. Yuushi said, "No, I don't. Not at all. I love you, Gakuto. I really love you. I never want to leave you or move out. I thought I wasn't being fair to you. I thought you hated me after I told you what happened to me and wouldn't talk to me."

"Then why did you say..." Gakuto's sore throat got too tight and his anger rose this time instead of his bile. "You're so stupid, Yuushi! I can't figure out why you're so stupid! People in love wait to make love. That's what they do! They date and wait until its making love. They fool around and then later when they are together for real they have sex. Waiting until its real isn't like your bastard tutor. Not at all. Its what normal people do. If you love someone you don't leave or go sleep somewhere else, you stay and work it out. Everyone knows this. Why don't you know this, Yuushi?"

Yuushi looked at Gakuto shocked, "I...I don't know but I...I'll contemplate it, all right? But, I don't want to move out or leave and I won't do anything without talking to you first. You surprise me Gakuto, you're really smart when it comes to affairs of the heart." Gakuto nodded once in agreement and decided not to make fun of Yuushi for using his stupid lovey terms. "Right now, we need to get you dressed and out of here. Your Mom said they would be here in..." Yuushi checked his watch. Gakuto didn't need to look to know that Yuushi the super geek had set the stop watch function on his huge digital watch to countdown. "Thirty-three point three minutes." Gakuto gasped in horror. "I'll help you all right?" Gakuto nodded and they dressed rapidly.

The doctor returned right as Yuushi was tying Gakuto's shoes. He didn't knock the door and they were surprised he was suddenly there, "Still nauseous?" The doctor guessed and pointed at Yuushi helping Gakuto.

"Yeah. Is there anything you can do to stop it?"

"I can give you a shot?" The doctor offered. Gakuto agreed because even though he hated shots and he felt better, if he wasn't done barfing, worrying his Mom would be much worse. The doctor said the mono test came up fine so he either had some kind of cold bug or had eaten something that didn't agree with him. Most likely the doctor said it was just a cold and for a cold they wouldn't keep him. "Your Mother has called me several times, I told her it was only a cold and you were free to go but she said she will be here to see you soon. If she has any other questions she can call me." Gakuto knew his Mom had probably called the doctor every five minutes for the last two hours from her cell phone as his father sped through the night to reach him. The doctor was probably just glad to be rid of Gakuto and his Mom, and the man was just being nice. His Mom was downright scary when it came to her children, especially him, her favorite child. He thanked the doctor, had his shot, and was released.

They had nineteen minutes until his Mother arrived and Gakuto knew she would probably be early because she would make his Dad speed the entire way to school. Once his freshman year, the school phone lines were out after a bad storm. Gakuto's family now lived in a nice quiet suburb just over two hours away by car. His mother had forced his father to drive straight to school to check on him because his Mom didn't drive. His father made the trip in just over an hour and a half despite the weather and the bad roads. Gakuto cringed remembering his Mom crying in front of everyone when she saw he was fine. He didn't even know the phones were down because the lights were still on. Still, she worried and she got upset and then she got even more upset. That was just how she was. He cringed again thinking of what Yuushi would think of his Mom and she about the tensai.

Yuushi must have seen him cringing. "Are you feeling sick again?" Gakuto shook his head no and continued walking as fast as he could towards where they lived. It was still slow going. "Wait, I'll carry you." Yuushi held his arm to stop him. Gakuto didn't want him to. Supposing someone saw. Supposing his parents saw. "Don't worry, I'll run." Gakuto looked at him. "Yes, I can run fine with you on my back. It will be faster. We never cleaned the room this morning." Yuushi reminded him.

Gakuto dropped his jaw. Oh gods. He moved to climb on piggy back style. "You'd better not tell anyone Yuushi!"

"I won't." Yuushi assured him and took both of their bags on his back as well. Damn Yuushi was strong. "Hold on."

The tensai started running as soon as Gakuto's hands went around his neck. He wrapped his legs around Yuushi's middle and held tight as the tensai tore across the school grounds. This was faster provided his 'piggy' didn't drop from exhaustion. Gakuto worried a little, "You...okay?"

"I'm fine." Yuushi answered and sounded like he was. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah." Gakuto said mentally willing the tensai to get there faster and praying no one saw them. He realized Yuushi was probably worried that he was going to barf on his back and he was glad he had the shot. The tensai had changed into his practice clothes and had thrown his others away. Even his shoes and socks. He had thrown Gakuto's out too promising him he would buy him more and telling him they simply smelled too foul to attempt to salvage. Gakuto protested that he wasn't Kabaji, he did his laundry but Yuushi oddly insisted. The tensai even mentioned that if Gakuto's mother got wind of their clothes she would be upset. Gakuto in the end agreed and let Yuushi throw them out and change him into his practice clothes.

Gakuto looked left and right as they approached the building but his Mom was nowhere to be seen yet. They made it to their room and Gakuto ignored the stares of the other guys in the stairs and hallway as the tensai sprinted to their door with Gakuto still on his back. Yuushi was barely breathing hard even after the run with his added weight. The tensai closed and locked the door behind them and put Gakuto gently down. "Can you shower by yourself while I straighten up?"

Gakuto felt weak but not disabled, "Yeah. You stink too though."

"I know. I'll shower as soon as you're done." Gakuto felt sorry for some strange reason that Yuushi wasn't going to join him. "Just wash fast to get the smell off, I'll give you a proper bath later if you would like." Gakuto felt placated so he shrugged. But then he thought that maybe Yuushi would think he didn't want to and he did so he nodded and quickly went to shower. He heard noises as he finished up and hoped his parents weren't there yet. He came out of the room towel drying his hair and wished that he had time to blow it dry. His Mom would be annoyed by him walking around with wet hair if he was sick. He was stunned as he looked around the room.

Somehow, Yuushi had completely re-arranged the room. It looked bigger but what Gakuto immediately noticed was now the beds were behind their desks in one corner and behind Yuushi's bookcase so it looked like they had a second room instead of the one big one. It looked like a living room and kitchenette in one part and a bedroom in the other. Yuushi handed Gakuto some of his clothes to put on and told him to lay down on the couch. The tensai had a futon couch and he had it arranged as a sofa. It also helped to separate the 'rooms'. "Damn." Gakuto said despite himself and felt disappointed as he heard the shower that Yuushi was not around to hear it. Gakuto quickly put on his clothes and moved to the couch. Yuushi had even brought out and arranged pillows and blankets so he could lay in them. Gakuto sat and then lay down and realized the pile of books beside him were his homework for that day. Damn. Yuushi was good. He had only taken around five minutes to shower not five hours. He couldn't have done all this for Yuushi. Not so fast. He felt a little bad about that although he couldn't say why.

Yuushi walked out of the bathroom in just a towel and said almost sheepishly, "I forgot to get my own clothes." The tensai grinned a little and Gakuto smiled but for once didn't roll his eyes. Yuushi looked very good. He had a few beads of water on his chest and Gakuto had a sudden image of licking them off and drying him everywhere with his tongue. Damn. His Mom was probably waiting outside the dorm and just looking at Yuushi had him getting hard. Gakuto watched Yuushi walk into their now bedroom and the tensai said, "What? We can put it back the other way when they leave if you'd like."

Gakuto watched him dress and admired him. "No. This is good. Really good, Yuushi."

The tensai whipped his head around to look at him. For a moment Yuushi looked at him guarded as if expecting Gakuto to lash out with his tongue and hurt him and this made Gakuto feel terrible. If he had said something mean, he knew Yuushi would switch from that guarded look to a goofy smile even if whatever Gakuto said tore his heart out. He suddenly understood why Yuushi was so desperate to talk to him all day, because he thought Gakuto now that he knew about his tutor wouldn't want him. Even with all that, even thinking Gakuto was rejecting him, the tensai must have seen Gakuto running bad and stayed with him. He caught Gakuto when he fell and Gakuto never ever asked how he was. Hell he puked all over him and the guys saw and Yuushi never cracked a smile or said one mean thing. Even his joke was to get everyone else to stop laughing at Gakuto and to laugh at him instead. And he had been doing it for as long as Gakuto could remember. Stupid Yuushi.

Gakuto felt guilty and angry at himself suddenly. He must have been looking strange at the tensai because right then Yuushi's guarded face softened into a small real smile. One he only showed Gakuto and never for very long because Gakuto was too busy tearing into him for it to last. The tensai said, "You really feel bad, don't you?" Gakuto shook his head yes although he knew he and Yuushi were talking about totally different things. Gakuto wondered how many time he had said and done things to hurt Yuushi. A hundred? A thousand? It wouldn't be hard to make Yuushi feel good once in a while so how come he never had? If anything Gakuto'd gone out of his way to make Yuushi feel bad and put him down. Gakuto had never missed an opportunity to hurt him. Ever. Not since they had met. And when they had met, he had been particularly cruel.

He thought of what Yuushi had told him about his tutor. Being sent away and then his tutor killing himself. Then they sent Yuushi away again to Hyoutei where he didn't know anyone and didn't fit in. He remembered the gangly boy with the birds nest hair and the mouth of metal standing awkwardly there all alone after arriving a day late. He clearly remembered the sudden look of stupid naked hope that was on Yuushi's face when Gakuto walked over and then opened his big stupid mouth. He recalled seeing the look of shock in Yuushi's eyes as that hope was shattered and how Yuushi just stood there smiling stupidly while his eyes screamed out how much he was hurt and lost and alone.

Gakuto's next thought was that maybe Yuushi really didn't love him. Maybe he just acted like his friend and like he cared to show Gakuto what a terrible, awful person he was. Maybe the moment Gakuto responded and said he loved Yuushi back, the tensai would laugh long and hard at Gakuto and really hurt him to get his revenge. Yuushi could do it. He was smart enough and he had been known to take many a joke way too far. Even if he did it though and even if it hurt Gakuto, who had to admit it would really, really hurt, Gakuto wondered if it would ever be enough revenge to make Yuushi feel better. He wondered if it would ever be enough to make it up to the awkward little boy who Gakuto crushed. He wondered if he could ever make Yuushi feel better even if he never had that look of naked trusting hope in his eyes again because Gakuto had ruined that for him. Gakuto took in a breath but it came out sounding like a small sob. Tears were running down his cheeks. Yuushi was instantly by his side, sitting on the futon with him, feeling his forehead, looking concerned and loving. "What's wrong? Do you have a fever?"

Gakuto shook his head no and still crying he held Yuushi's face in his hands. Yuushi was looking at Gakuto as if he was an equation he just couldn't figure out. His brow was furrowed and the tensai held out his hands as if to ask what was wrong then. Gakuto would have laughed atthe tensai'sexpression of complete befuddlement if Gakuto right then wasn't so upset and serious. "Yuushi..." Gakuto said softly and then pressed his lips to the tensai's in a kiss. Yuushi went to pull back and talk, probably to remind Gakuto that his Mom would be there any second but Gakuto held him closer and kissed him again.

Gakuto had been kissed by and kissed a lot of people. He had never kissed someone like this though. He thought kissing was all right sure, it was usually done on the way to sex and was a good way before actually having sex to see how someone would be in bed. It was a sure bet that if someone kissed sloppy, they'd bethe same in bed. If someone hogs your mouth or is greedy or too fast or too hard, then they'll probably be that way with sex. Gakuto had given a lot of thought to determining how someone kissed and how good they would be but he was angry at himself for never thinking about how he was. How someone else would think he kissed. It was as if it didn't matter before because the person he was kissing usually wanted to have sex with him so they had better like how he kissed or tough for them. But it mattered now. The only exception up until now with Yuushi had been Sato. He had completely fooled Gakuto, even with his kiss, and Sato had enjoyed how he had conned him and then despicably hurt him. Fooling Gakuto had made Sato feel even better when he showed him his true evil self. Gakuto felt dread like a shadow on his heart that Yuushi might still now be fooling him and how cruel and ironic it would be if he was.

Instead the tensai had his arms around him and was holding him and sweetly kissing him back. Sweetly because for the first time, there was no real burning heat between them, just a lot of emotions and feelings. Gakuto had never kissed someone this way and it felt sort of like a first kiss. He had never kissed someone like this or felt things like this. It made his heart pound but almost in a very different way, especially when he realized that this was the way Yuushi had always kissed him. From the very start, those swirly good kisses had been like this each and every time. Even when they weren't swirly, they had been sweet like this. Gakuto finally broke the kiss. "Yuushi?" Gakuto said when the kiss broke, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry for every mean thing I ever said to you and I'm sorry for always punching you and I'm sorry for always making fun of you and I'm sorry for being a bastard to you when we met and..."

Yuushi, smiling, almost laughing, put his finger on Gakuto's mouth to silence him. "That was a very nice kiss. I know you don't feel well. You have nothing to be sorry for." The tensai produced a tissue from apparently thin air and dried Gakuto's tears. "Nope, you'll need to go wash your face. Hurry before your Mom comes. I'll go call Atobe and tell him you're fine. Do you think you can eat anything?" Gakuto with Yuushi's finger still on his lips nodded. He realized he was starving after not eating since dinner last night and hurling all afternoon. "I'll see if Kabaji can run out andpick upsomething for us." Gakuto realized with a shock that Yuushi hadn't eaten either and it was getting late. Yuushi never complained either.The tensaikissed his forehead once but like he was checking for a fever and then took hisfinger away and kissed his mouth once, softly. For a moment, the tensai's lips lightly lingered there and Gakuto closed his eyes and pressed himself up more against Yuushi's mouth. Gakuto was rewarded when Yuushi made the humming noise for a heartbeat and then there was a loud knock on their door.

They both jumped.

At night, visitors had to sign in and be called up first. Gakuto though knew his Mom was a force of nature and the rules didn't apply to her. Yuushi kissed him once quickly and gave him a strange look. Gakuto wiped his face with the back of his hands and Yuushi nodded. He smiled slightly as if to say Gakuto looked acceptable even though he had been crying and hadn't washed his face.

"I'll be normal, don't worry," the tensai whispered, looking very earnest as he promised Gakuto. He had no idea he made him feel even more terrible. Yuushi stood and went to the door.

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