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Learning to Land by Suteishichic. Chapter Ninety Six Part B ~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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It wasn't split--it was slashed. Like with a knife.
Someone must have messed with Yuushi's shoes. They were all sharing bedrooms--two people to a room. Gakuto and Yuushi were each rooming with people from their grade but neither of the guy were sub-regs before so they didn't know them well. It was an honor for the guys to be tested and training with them. If they made it, they were in.
The guy staying with Yuushi was known kinda for his practical jokes, but this wasn't funny. That plus everyone knew no one made fun of Yuushi except for Gakuto. It was something Gakuto never said out loud because he never had to. He and Yuushi had always a kind of understanding with everyone.
Maybe this idiot didn't know the rules though. Gakuto saw Yuushi had a huge blood blister on the bottom of his foot that looked like it was really painful. It went from his toes along the bottom and his arch to almost his heel. Gakuto was livid at someone doing this to the tensai. Yuushi could be really stupid and trusting sometimes, but he was a great player. He was a good guy who didn't deserve someone messing with his stuff.
But it was more than that, it was not just a strike at Yuushi even if it was meant to be a stupid joke that had gone too far. Really this was an attack on all the sub-regs. It couldn't be allowed. The guy had to go and fast. It was the sub-reg's responsibility to watch out for each other and to not let a stupid bastard like Yuushi's roommate at the villa move up to a place of power where he could hurt anyone in his way. They looked out for each other. They were friends.
He felt bad for the tensai so Gakuto told Yuushi to finish changing to his other shoes and to let him handle it.
Yuushi walked off the bus somehow without limping at all even though it must have been agony walking on his foot like that. It dawned on Gakuto that Yuushi had probably known what happened and who did it to him all during practice. The tensai had played hurt and known. He only told Gakuto because Yuushi trusted him. For some reason, it made Gakuto feel even more enraged at the bastard who did this.
As soon as he could, Gakuto pulled Atobe aside and told him what must have happened. He figured Atobe mighta already knew, but Gakuto told him anyway and brought Yuushi's ruined tennis shoes as proof. Both Yuushi's feet were injured. Atobe was livid. He said he would take care of it. Atobe's face was in that scary mode when his lips went thin and his eyes all furious. He thanked Gakuto, turned, and walked away without another word.
The Vice-Captain switched around everyone's rooms around that night after dinner. He sent both Gakuto and Yuushi's roommates home with a few other people as if he had planned to all along. Atobe said they hadn't made the cut, which in a way was true. Gakuto's roommate really wasn't handling the intense pressure or the cut-throat competition well, and Yuushi's roommate was obviously a bastard or an idiot or both. Anyone could do what the bastard did to Yuushi at Hyoutei. Anyone could sabotage someone else and many would try using that as a tool to get ahead. Especially those who were not yet inducted as brothers, but may the gods help you if you got caught.
Gakuto planned to go after the guy once school started. He was gonna make fun of the guy until everyone hated him. The guy within a week would have no friends. He even told Yuushi he was going to despite the tensai saying to just let it drop, but Atobe must have already been moving. Maybe Yuushi already knew what was gonna happen before Gakuto did. The bastard who hurt Yuushi was not from a wealthy or influential enough family to protect him. Whether it was true or not, he failed the semester's first drug screening and was promptly thrown out of Hyoutei for steroid use.
And the room assignments at the villa? The night the bastard was sent home Atobe moved Jiroh in with Yuushi and put Gakuto in with Shishido. Gakuto thought this was great because Shishido spent all his time and every night with Atobe. It was like Gakuto almost didn't have a roommate--even if he did have to put up with the pissy peacock a few times a day. At the time, Gakuto thought it was a reward for his loyalty.
But now, Gakuto wondered how things maybe would have been if he had been put with Yuushi back then. Sato wouldn't have happened maybe. Gakuto wondered if maybe Atobe knew how Yuushi felt about him. Maybe even before Yuushi knew completely himself. He wondered if Atobe had kept them apart on purpose and why. Atobe always did things for a reason, but maybe that one time their vice-captain made a big mistake not putting them together sooner.
Gakuto touched Yuushi's feet that night too. He wasn't sure then why he did it, but he insisted that he pierce the hideous blood blisters, clean, and wrap Yuushi's feet. They were alone on Gakuto's new bed with the door locked so no one else knew or would find out Yuushi was injured.
Yuushi seemed really grateful. In fact, he was the one who helped Gakuto get some of Atobe's knock-off shirts. Atobe back then liked Gakuto all right he guessed, although he and Atobe were not really friends. Even before what happened with Shishido, Gakuto was never part of Atobe's inner circle, unless like with Ohtori's records Atobe needed something from him.
For Gakuto the shirts had been a big deal. They made him feel included and important. He thought at the time it made him and Yuushi even. The other guys who knew about the shirts envied him. It was a sign of being part of the most powerful and well-liked people at school. Even Sato noticed. Gakuto had told Sato he couldn't get him one because the shirts only came in small and the stupid lummox believed him.
It really made Gakuto feel special. Mainly because Atobe personally gave them to him, but now looking back, although Yuushi said he only suggested it to Atobe, the tensai probably asked specifically for Gakuto to get some. Which was really nice of him to do. He can even see Yuushi kinda insisting.
He knew deep down Atobe still stupidly blamed Gakuto for what happened. Atobe's first time with Shishido had been a nightmare. Atobe had been a stupid idiot bastard, but it wasn't as if any of that was Gakuto's fault. Sure, Gakuto yelled at Atobe, but who could blame him? Anybody would have. Plus even though Gakuto would never use it, technically he had something over on Atobe. Even though he never told Atobe what Shishido said, Gakuto had very dangerous information on Atobe's precious Shishido. It had to have been Yuushi who kept Atobe from hating or dropping Gakuto completely. Especially after what Gakuto said to Atobe. Otherwise Gakuto would have been out long ago not just because he spoke up, but also because of what he knew.
Gakuto wondered how Yuushi's feet healed up because he forgot about that until now. He wondered if Yuushi got pedicures like Atobe did and how they felt. They must feel good or Atobe wouldn't do it all the time. Gakuto's stupid feet always hurt and Yuushi was really good at doing this. He somehow found every single place that was sore and so gently rubbed and stroked until it felt better. The tensai mumbled something about how Gakuto had some hammer toe thing and high arches and Yuushi would buy him these foot support things.
Yuushi mumbled to himself constantly.Well, never really around other people, but usually around Gakuto he would. Kinda like he felt like he could be himself around Gakuto which was cool. Yuushi talked to books and his computer and to himself a lot of the time. No one else had ever mentioned they noticed Yuushi talking to himself. If he did it around other people, especially people he dated and dumped probably they woulda said something.
Gakuto wondered when he stopped really noticing it. He also wondered when he stopped being annoyed by it and started thinking it was kinda cute in a sad way. Kinda like Yuushi didn't have anyone else to talk to so he filled up the empty silence around him.
He wasn't really listening to the tensai mumble stuff about witnessing modern man's evolution using heel bones because Yuushi was doing that really good thing--the one where he went in and massaged each toe and around each toe and then the ball of his foot which always hurt. Then he started on Gakuto's heels and worked over the top of each of his feet.
Just when Gakuto thought he was in heaven, Yuushi started licking his toes and sucking on each one in turn. Damn that was so good. Gakuto fleetingly hoped the strawberry lotion didn't taste like crap, but right then he just wanted Yuushi to keep going. It was the weirdest thing getting turned on and hard from someone sucking on your toes but Gakuto was up again. Stone hard and throbbing and feeling a need for release. He noticed he was moving slightly against the soft fabric of the comforter. The friction felt really good. Yuushi probably knew and noticed too.
Gakuto stopped. He didn't want Yuushi to notice. Thinking he was stealthy and the tensai was distracted, Gakuto went to reach under to touch himself. Just a little. Just to stay warmed up.
Before he could wrap his hand around his length, Yuushi moved it away. "Not yet, lover. I've only just begun. Unless, of course, you want to give in and say yes right now. I'll accept your total defeat even if it is rather disappointing at this early stage in our..."
"Hell with that, Yuushi. Keep goin! I was just...adjusting stuff." Gakuto grinned. He knew he was caught but he wasn't gonna admit it. He moved his hand between his legs, moved things around and pointed everything down to show the tensai that was all he was doing, and put his hand back at his side. Damn clever tensai was not going to get him to give in so easily! Gakuto laughed, "Total defeat my ass!"
Yuushi sounded like he was smiling too as he mumbled in that absent way, "Yes, I'll get to that part of you in a moment..." His hands slid up Gakuto's legs in a light massaging motion and Gakuto had to keep from giggling like a girl at the thrill of playing like this. He had never played with anyone like this and wondered why the hell not. It was fun!
Gakuto was damn jealous for a moment when he wondered who else Yuushi had played all sexy and fun with like this. It strengthened his resolve to not give in, but at the same time, it made Gakuto review the information he had on the tensai.
It was weird how many things he knew about Yuushi but then on the other hand, there were all these other things he didn't know. Then there were the things Gakuto knew but no one else ever seemed to. Not even people who dated Yuushi seemed to know much about him. Even when Gakuto was interviewing them when the relationship was over, there always seemed to be more questions that they asked than things they had answers for.
Things like the mumbling. No one ever said anything about it before. Gakuto couldn't be the only one who found it annoying and then kinda cute. Or how big Yuushi was down there. He was very well hung and not one single person mentioned this to Gakuto--not one--which was very strange! Even if girls hadn't been willing to talk about this intimate fact to Gakuto--and many were as apparent by all the girls who mentioned to Gakuto they were surprised or disappointed in Atobe's lack of..."status" in that department. Still, the guys Yuushi went out with would have. At least you would think they would have. Not one ever mentioned anything about it. Not even when Gakuto asked how the sex was. All they ever said was that it was amazing.
That was the word each one of them used. Amazing. Guys and girls. They also sometimes added words like intense and incredible, but mostly they went back to saying amazing.
As he thought about it, Gakuto felt really jealous that all those people knew what Yuushi was like in the sack, but he didn't. It didn't seem very fair somehow because those people really didn't even know Yuushi. Not the real Yuushi. Not like Gakuto did.
There were lots and lots of other things Gakuto knew about Yuushi that no one else did. And not just bad things about Yuushi's past, but good things too. Like that Yuushi was kinda kinky, but in really good ways. Like how Yuushi hummed when he moaned kinda like he was trying to be quiet. Like how damn good Yuushi was with his mouth and his hands and how he couldn't stop touching or wanting to kiss Gakuto. How Yuushi paid attention to the smallest details and always wanted to make everything perfect so Gakuto was happy. How the tensai was gentle and strong at the same time. How much Yuushi loved to cuddle when he slept.
Angry now, Gakuto knew without having to ask that not one of those people who supposedly liked or loved Yuushi "so much" knew any of this important stuff about the tensai. In fact, Gakuto knows most of the stuff people told him about Yuushi were all the opposite of what Gakuto now personally knows to be true.
Person after person said how hard Yuushi is to get to know. That he never talks about himself. That Yuushi is like a closed book and impossible to figure out. That they can never tell what he is thinking--which is totally absurd. It's completely ridiculous because Gakuto can almost always tell exactly what Yuushi's thinking. Yuushi has always been very easy to figure out. He talks about himself if you give him a chance. He's the easiest person Gakuto has ever gotten to know.
Then they would often say that Yuushi hates to cuddle. He hates being touched or being affectionate. That after making love--which thinking about them saying that really angers Gakuto now--in the morning they would wake up and always find the tensai gone.
Even if Yuushi spent the night in a girl's dorm room where he couldn't leave for risk getting thrown out of school, somehow he disappeared. People complained constantly to Gakuto that Yuushi was not very loving or affectionate or demonstrative, but Gakuto knows firsthand this isn't true.
Yuushi loves to cuddle and hold hands and all that nice lovey crap. These idiots all said Yuushi was quiet--a few even said shy--which both then and now makes Gakuto laugh to think about. Yeah right. Yuushi is about as shy as Atobe. Everyone also said that Yuushi never fooled around or had sex without all the lights being turned off. They also said the tensai never slept naked. That Yuushi always insisted on wearing clothes, but he had told Gakuto that first night that he preferred to sleep in the nude.
In fact all the time he and Yuushi sleep naked together, and holding each other, and Yuushi is always there in the morning. Okay, yeah, Yuushi lives there but if he wanted to go sleep in the other bed he woulda gone. In fact, Yuushi never wants to let him go, and Yuushi kisses him all the time. And sure, it was strange for Gakuto to sleep all naked and lovey like that at first, but now how they sleep together holding each other with nothing between them has kinda become something Gakuto's really come to love.
Oh, damn it, not that word again.
Fine. Gakuto has really come to like it very, very, very much.
Kinda like Yuushi.
It was strange. Nothing fit.
Was Yuushi just totally different with Gakuto than he was with everyone else? Gakuto knew from all the people that liked Yuushi and had confessed to him that the tensai was hot and all, but Gakuto wondered about it. Yuushi was always so weird, but now, it was kinda interesting and felt very important to find answers to all these questions. Fast. Maybe this is why Yuushi wasn't his third most asked about person. Maybe no one else but Gakuto can figure the tensai out or get answers.
Meanwhile, Yuushi had worked his hands up Gakuto's legs and was massaging his butt. You'd never think your butt muscles could hurt but Yuushi was really good at this too. He probably memorized how masseuses worked or something and then did it all with Gakuto. Oh, one thing Gakuto needed to warn him about as Yuushi got close to one spot. If you messed with it, it could hurt. Sometimes it did. Especially when Gakuto occasionally--rarely--landed wrong, "I get sore around there. I broke it when I was eleven."
Yuushi sounded amused damn it, "You broke your tail bone? How?"
Gakuto shrugged but felt annoyed, "I didn't land on my ass or anything if that's what you were thinkin. I was skiin with my family and some huge idiot that should have never been on the advanced slopes crashed into me and my cousin. My cousin broke his arm and I broke my...butt." Yuushi didn't like when he swore. "I landed on this rock thing. Hairline fracture. It sucked. I had to sit on this ring thing for weeks and everyone made fun of me. Our chiropractor says it's fine, but sometimes it hurts. If I land wrong or something. I guess."
Their team had a chiropractor who Gakuto was not too fond of. The guy was obsessed with pulling down on Gakuto's legs which just reminded him that he was short. It was like the guy hoped to stretch him tall or something. He was kinda also like a big bear that hugged you into these weird positions and then there would be a loud cracking noise. Gakuto walked off the table cursing to himself usually. He wasn't sore before going to see the chiropractor--only after! Sometimes for days!
Yuushi was touching him so softly Gakuto was annoyed that he told the tensai in the first place. He wasn't going to break! Yuushi said before he could yell, "Tell me if it hurts anywhere. Have you seen our acupuncturist?"
"Doesn't hurt and no, I haven't gone and no, I don't wanna. I mean, if Atobe ordered me to or somethin I'd go, but who the hell wants a bunch of needles stuck in you?" Gakuto sighed. "End up looking like a damn pin cushion! How is that good? You take a drink of water after and it will all squirt right outta you!"
"Hmm..." Yuushi sounded amused and went back to massaging his butt. "You're tense. Are you afraid of needles?"
"No. But that doesn't mean I like them. I've never gone." Duh Yuushi, who the hell would like it?
"I rather like going to the acupuncturist." Gakuto rolled his eyes. Of course Yuushi did. Great. Now he would want Gakuto to go. No way in hell was he going! Yuushi could beg, plead, and try to drag him there but he wasn't going to go. No way. Not gonna happen.
"I'm surprised you haven't been." Yuushi sounded smiley and cocky. Just like he did when all the girl reporters from tennis magazines were all over him after he won a match. Yeah, and people thought the tensai was shy. Puh-leeze. "Have you seen our acupuncturist? She's very pretty. And easy to talk to. And very intelligent. She's traveled the world improving her craft. You'd never think someone so young has as many degrees as she does. I find her fascinating."
Gakuto was instantly jealous. Damn witch was probably lusting after stupid Yuushi while stickin needles in him. After all, Yuushi was really smart and certainly didn't look like he was in junior high.
Yuushi continued, "It actually doesn't hurt. The needles are fine, often smaller than a hair. You don't feel them at all, but the results are incredible. My game has improved markedly since I began my sessions with her."
Gakuto turned back to look at the tensai. He still felt jealous as hell, but now curious too. Yuushi wasn't going to insist he go along? Or offer? "What's it like? When you go, what does she do?"
Yuushi made his thinking face and shrugged. "It's quite relaxing. I almost fall asleep by the end of the session. You're welcome to come along with me if you would like sometime."
"Yeah maybe." Damn tensai. Probably the woman was doing things to him and stupid Yuushi wasn't aware of them. Gakuto was going to have to go check this out. He really freaking couldn't leave Yuushi alone for five minutes before someone hit on him. Gakuto had a suspicion, "You fall asleep? So you don't really know what she does?"
"No, I..." Yuushi blushed, "I can never completely fall asleep, but I do feel very relaxed during and after. The truth is...I really can't fall asleep around anyone. Anyone other than you that is. Actually, I was surprised the first time I discovered I could sleep beside you. And that I slept well. It was...it was a surprising revelation. One that makes me very happy."
Well, that explained a lot of the difference between what people said and what Gakuto experienced. Gakuto asked without realizing he slipped into his information mode where he gave a little to get a lot back, "So when you would sleep over with other people before, you never slept? That kinda sucks. I don't usually sleep good around other people too because of what happened to me. And I never slept naked ever before you. Not even by myself." His leg started shaking in thought but Gakuto wasn't aware of it. "Yuushi, not sleeping next to other people, is it because of your tutor?" Gakuto had to know. He wondered why he would be any different for Yuushi to sleep around. Maybe because they both stayed up so late together? Maybe because they had been through such similar things?
Yuushi started massaging Gakuto again, but absently. Like he was trying to distract Gakuto or himself or maybe both of them. Gakuto realized he was shaking his leg and stopped. He turned around a little to look more at Yuushi.
Pursing his lips in thought Yuushi said, "I suppose. Then again, I'm sure you could ascribe everything I do that's strange to my tutor or to my upbringing, but I've never been comfortable sleeping in general. I don't sleep for many hours a night. Although, I'm not an insomniac like Shishido. I do fall asleep, but never for very long. And never before next to anyone other than you, ever. Although I have fallen asleep out of exhaustion on the rare occasion that I am unable to leave somewhere, but only for a few minutes at most." Yuushi shrugged and went to move his glasses that weren't on.
Yuushi was uncomfortable, but Gakuto wanted some more answers. So he asked, "That's why they say you sleep clothed, and don't like to cuddle, and always find a way home by morning?"
The tensai looked surprised, "I suppose. Is that really what they say about me?"
Gakuto grinned and nodded pleased he knew more than Yuushi thought he did. "Yeah, but I know most of that isn't true. At least you're not that way with me. Is that why you dumped Azukizawa? Because he's all heavy and stuff when he sleeps on you?" He expected Yuushi to laugh or something but the tensai looked very angry suddenly. It made Gakuto feel afraid. "I...I didn't mean anything bad by it, Yuushi. Really I didn't..."
"It's not that. I'm not mad at you. I'm just..." Yuushi moved up to lay down next to him. The tensai settled on his side with his head propped up in one hand and ran his other hand gently down Gakuto's spine in lazy circles. Yuushi said very quietly, "I'm very angry at him for hurting you."
Gakuto turned a little on his side and looked at him. Yuushi was really mad, but not at him and the tensai was damn smart to figure out which kendo player it was. Who Gakuto's first was. He shrugged, "S'okay Yuushi. It was a long time ago. I shoulda known you'da guessed who it was. I was really stupid back then." Gakuto shrugged, "And anyway, you hurt him worse than I ever could. You broke his heart."
"Regardless...I'd like to hurt him now." Yuushi looked that scary serious way he did when he wanted to destroy an enemy across the court. "Would you like to know about the very brief time I spent with Azukizawa Daishi? I half-heartedly pursued him only when Taki once let it slip that he broke your heart. I had no idea you dated him at all. I only wanted to get to know him as a person out of sheer curiosity. In fact at the time if you recall, I had just said I wanted to pursue Atobe right after Sato declared his intentions with Taki. It was right after my weekend with Atobe. I was not completely sure how I felt about you but I was drawn to get to know him. I'm not sure, perhaps to find out more about you through him, but all I found out was that he's very lonely and very confused."
"He is?" Gakuto was confused. The Azukizawa he knew was strong and confident. He was the kendo club captain. He was a quiet person. He was shy when it came to talking about himself, but as Gakuto spent more time with him, the closer they became. Which is why what he did was all the more horrible. "Confused about what?"
"His sexuality. His feelings for you. Many things. Understand, I didn't know what happened from your point of view--only his and he never mentioned you by name. I actually did not break his heart--you did. He calls you his first love or his little redhead. In fact, I often thought he was talking about a girl. If Taki hadn't accidentally told me it was you, I might not have known. Azukizawa was scared of having sex with a guy with him as the bottom. For some reason, that to him was gay, but sex with a man with him on top was not."
Yuushi shrugged with an elegant roll of his shoulders. Gakuto was kinda in awe at how graceful Yuushi could be when he wasn't feeling self-conscious. Yuushi went on, "His parents apparently are homophobic and after a long time he said his first love was a guy. I knew he meant you, but he never mentioned you by name. He said his best friend threatened to tell his parents on him several times." Yuushi caressed his hand along Gakuto's shoulder and his neck, "I never knew about their sharing or what happened. Just his side of the story where you stopped seeing him and refused to talk to him. I can only guess because of his parents finding out is why he was going to go through with what almost happened to you at all. I am in no way making excuses for him--what he did is inexcusable and I am furious at him, but I do know that he is truly terrified of his father finding out he is gay. He was also scared about sex but begged me to make love with him just so he could know what it was like with a guy. I can tell you that his feelings for you were genuine and probably still are. If you had shown up for the sharing, I honestly don't think he would have allowed it to proceed and he didn't know at all about your past."
Yuushi went to go on but Gakuto's anger was too pressing. He interrupted, "So you slept with him, Yuushi. You had sex with him..." And not with me, Gakuto couldn't help but jealously think, "and then the next day you dumped him. That's what everyone says. I know. Everyone knows." Stupid tensai. Without realizing it, Gakuto put his fingers in his mouth for comfort.
"Gakuto? Is that really what they say? And you really believe that's what happened? That I would do something like that?" Yuushi had the nerve to look upset, "That's not what happened at all. You more than anyone should know that rumors are often a long way from what really happens our school. Does that really sound to you like something I would do? Gakuto, I...I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't. I...I couldn't...I...the truth is I can't..." Yuushi's eyes filled with tears and he flopped down on his back hard.
Gakuto was shocked at the sudden change. Yuushi let out a puff of breath that might have been him crying and ran his fingers through his frizzy hair. He pressed his palms to his face so hard Gakuto saw the muscles in his arms and wrists straining.
Quietly Yuushi mumbled more to himself than to Gakuto, "I wanted to show you and not tell you because it's so weird..." He choked back a sob, "I thought if I could just show you and make you feel good that maybe you'd understand. I should have kept it dark in here and then told you after." Yuushi started to really cry and his voice cracked with emotion, "But I...I didn't want to be like that with you. I didn't want to lie to you or have you feel hurt or confused. I wanted it to be all out in the open with you...only with you. I'm so stupid, I wanted to see your face during, but I should have kept the lights off like I always..."
Gakuto was beyond alarmed. Yuushi never got upset like this. Ever. Gakuto was already moving by the time Yuushi called himself stupid. He tackled the tensai in a fierce hug and put his arms around him. Gakuto wrapped himself around Yuushi and tried to pry the tensai's hands off his face but they were locked on there. "Hey," Gakuto said softly as Yuushi silently cried, "Only I can call you stupid. You know that. No one else is allowed to make funna you but me."
In the middle of his crying, Yuushi snorted a small laugh and Gakuto felt at least a little better.
He felt better until Yuushi's mouth suddenly twisted into an ugly pained expression beneath his hands, and Yuushi whispered sounding broken, "Gakuto, I am so fucked up..."

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