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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 46

Hiyoshi woke from his deep heaven sent slumber when the pair of arms draped around him squeezed him closer to a warm muscular chest. Usually this would not have been enough to fully wake such a heavy sleeper as him, but the light from the window shown through the curtains at just the right angle to shine directly at him in the most annoying way. Sleepily, he contemplated opening his eyes to check the time and see if he should attempt getting up, but quickly vetoed the idea. Groaning in sleepy irritation, he turned his body so his head was now buried in the hard pectoral muscles of his cuddly boyfriend. He was much too comfortable to move any time soon. Besides, he vaguely remembered thinking last night that today was not a day to get out of bed, though at the moment he couldn’t remember why.

Akaya felt his lover move in his arms and smiled a bit before virtually pouncing on the still technically younger man. "Good morning, Wakashi~!" He chimed happily and kissed him, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY~!!"

His comfy pillow was now smothering him. “Ugh… What..? Oh...” That was why he’d decided not to wake up today. Maybe he could feign still being asleep. Never opening his eyes, he made his body fall back again in a sleep like state. This was one thing he was good at pretending since he didn’t really need to pretend at all.

"Hey! Don't pretend to be asleep!" Akaya pouted and nipped Hiyoshi’s ear. He wanted his boyfriend to be happy and enjoy his birthday, but he couldn't do that if he was asleep.

Hiyoshi’s lips turned up in a half smile at the attention but still grumbled out as grumpily as he could muster, “Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t?” Sleep was a perfectly acceptable way to spend his birthday and he’d done so on many occasions.

"Because it's your birthday!" The happy demon explained like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Who didn't love their birthday?!

Akaya said that so decisively that Hiyoshi didn’t know if he had the heart to tell him that was the worst reason in the world to get out of bed. With a sigh, he blearily blinked open his eyes and looked up at his boyfriend with a sleepy worn out expression and yawned.

"Good morning," Akaya chuckled and kissed Hiyoshi warmly, "Did you sleep well?"

“Mm-hmm…” The sleepy man muffled into warm skin. He had slept very well the previous night after such a long week. It was nearing the end of the semester and he’d been overwhelmed lately with school work, training, and preparing for exams. There had been a lot of activity going on at the fraternity as well, getting ready for the end of the year festivities as well as discussions with the president about possibly taking over his position after he graduated the following year. It was nice to just lay there with his boyfriend and remember he had a life outside of responsibilities.

"Good," Akaya hummed happily. He could tell Hiyoshi had been stressed lately. He'd been scowling in his sleep and knew that was never a good sign. "So what do you want to do before the party?" he asked merrily. December always seemed to put him in a good mood, no matter what the situation.

In general, Hiyoshi hated December, and not just because it was his birthday month. Too much music, too many people out and about, and damn it, it was cold. “MmMmmMm,” was his intellectual reply to Akaya’s question. They had made plans to go to Akaya’s parents later, but other than that, he had no idea what kind of birthday plans Akaya had in mind since he never bothered to make any.

"...In Japanese, Wakashi," Akaya laughed and kissed his boyfriend's nose affectionately.

Hiyoshi rolled his eyes. “Sleep. Quiet. Akaya.” he mumbled and snuggled in closer to the warmth and closed his eyes again. Yeah, he would never be a morning person.

"Eh?! No, no sleep. It's time to get up and do stuff! Oh oh! Here! I was going to save it for the party but..." The excited boyfriend crawled over to the edge of the bed and hung half off of it to grab something out from under the bed. He sat back up holding a small but long wrapped tube and a big wrapped but somewhat flat box. His grin grew huge and he crawled back over to Hiyoshi. "Presents!" he exclaimed as if it wasn't obvious.

Hiyoshi was about to point out that he should be able to do what he wanted on HIS birthday when the gifts were presented to him. He hadn’t gotten Akaya anything for his birthday and hadn’t expected anything for his. Ugh… It was too early in the morning to feel guilty. Looking over the presents with trepidation, he finally forced himself into a sitting position. “Really… you didn’t need to get me anything…”

"I know. I wanted to." Akaya offered him the small box first. "Open 'em." He sat cross-legged in front of Hiyoshi with the long tube held across his lap while he waited for Hiyoshi to open the ornately wrapped box that his mother had helped him with.

Knowing better than to argue, Hiyoshi took the smaller package from Akaya. Examining it first with a quizzical eye, he asked with a knowing smirk. “Who helped you?”

"Shut up and open it," Akaya half glared at him.

Snickering, he opened it very slowly, mindful of the careful wrapping, purposely to drive his boyfriend nuts of course.

It was a Kubotan, a self-defense weapon meant to be placed surreptitiously on a keychain. It was about 5.5 inches long and .5 inches in diameter; only slightly thicker or the same size as a marker pen. Hiyoshi had never used one before. As far as he knew, they were mainly used by police officers, but it was an interesting gift and he liked it.

Lips curving into a small smile, he looked up from his gift to Akaya. “Thank you,” he leaned forward to kiss him quickly then took it out of the box and held it properly in his hand, his smirk grew. “Are you certain you want to give me this though?”

"Not really," Akaya said honestly, but wore a large smile, happy the other man liked it, "but there’s more in there, look under the wrapping paper," he grinned and looked like a little kid on Christmas even though he wasn’t the one receiving the present. Under the paper he'd hidden 5 different sizes of shuriken, all black with red lining and red tips. He was glad Sanada had helped him pick things out, even though the older man had bitched the whole time. It was fun getting to watch him look like a kid in Toys R Us at the weapons store. Prying him away from the swords had been torture. At least he knew what to get his fukubuchou for Christmas now.

Hiyoshi looked under the wrapping and found the shuriken, getting a mischievous happy sparkle in his eyes as one hand reached forward to softly caress the comforting steel. Not having words, he took hold of Akaya’s arm and pulled him closer, kissing his forehead, then trailing his lips down his cheek. Still holding his Kubotan, he traced it over Akaya’s chest.

“Did you know… in the past, this weapon was utilized by officers of the law, most notably to break the will of unruly suspects while interrogating them?” He traced it over Akaya’s body as he explained in a low amused tone. “It’s extremely effective by making quick and painful strikes to pressure points and specific nerve targets such as the knuckles, bridge of the nose, stomach, solar plexus, temple, ribs, groin, neck, eyes…” He snickered, “It’s been dubbed by some as the “Instrument of Attitude Adjustment”.”

Akaya’s eyes went wide because suddenly he understood why Sanada had suggested that weapon with a little smirk on his face. He really needed to read up on things before buying them. He shivered, "O-oh... I see…" he laughed nervously.

Hiyoshi chuckled darkly. “Perhaps I’ll get to try it out sometime to see how effective it is.” He kissed Akaya soundly, enjoying his taste for a moment before letting go of him and moving his attention to the much larger gift. “Any second thoughts before I open this one?”

His heart pounding a bit from the kiss, Akaya grinned and handed the large flat box to Hiyoshi, a little nervous the other man wouldn't like it. "Nah, go ahead. Though I think I will wait over here..." he mumbled and inched back off the bed so he was at a safe distance, just in case.

Resisting the urge to laugh out loud, he let Akaya move away as he again unhurriedly opened his other present. It was rather long; almost 70 inches or so would be his guess. Carefully, he opened the side of it and took hold of the long crafted staff and pulled it out.

He was confused at first, then surprised when he realized he was holding a traditional samurai’s Naginata sword. They had been used by shrine priests originally to fend off invaders, then later by samurai on horseback. Inspecting the thick blade, he noticed it was actually quite well crafted with an intricate Japanese dragon design on the steel. His own style was an Okinawan martial art with original ties to China and its weapons were based off what farmers would use to combat invading samurai, very different from this type of weapon.

Akaya watched his boyfriend with bated breath, hoping the other man liked the ridiculously expensive weapon that even Sanada was fanboying over. "....Whaddaya think?" He asked quietly, hoping that pretty weapon was not going to end up through his chest or something. Oh, who was he kidding, Hiyoshi would be helpless without him, he wouldn't kill him, at least not over something like this, at least he hoped not.

This would be his first weapon not based on his own style of art and was rather impressed with Akaya’s choice; though he was sure he must have had help. “Thank you… It’s beautiful,” he said with awe, finally pulling his gaze away from his new toy to look at his boyfriend with a smile free of its usual cynicism. He placed the present to the side and leaned back on the bed. “Get over here.”

Akaya grinned and jumped onto the bed to crawl over to his boyfriend, proud of himself for putting that smile on his boyfriend’s face.

His brat must have put a lot of thought into it to get him such excellent gifts. Hiyoshi didn’t know how to tell him with words just how much the effort meant to him, so he just continued to smile at him and took his hand.

Akaya smiled and leaned in to steal a kiss for all his effort. Hiyoshi didn't need to say anything; he already knew the other appreciated it. The smile was enough evidence of that.

“I suppose we should get up and get some breakfast,” Hiyoshi suggested after a moment, knowing Akaya was probably hungry. “Then we can come back and get ready to go to your parent’s house.”

As if on cue, Akaya’s stomach gave a loud agreement to that statement and he flushed a bit before laughing, "Alright."

Hiyoshi chuckled and stood up from the bed, using their clasped hands to bring Akaya up with him. He wondered what kind of surprise lay in store for him at the Kirihara residence for his birthday. He realized for the first time that he wasn’t feeling any dread or need to escape. It was starting to feel more like he was going home.
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