Disclaimer: Of course, I don't own any of the Gravitation characters
A.N. Just something I wrote while I was eating ice cream.
Shuichi Shindo laced up his shoes and ran full speed towards the door, pocketing the change his mother had given him. He heard the ringing of the ice cream truck, and his could pratically taste the orange dream bar in his mouth.
Everyday of summer, he'd waited for the ringing of the truck, and finally it came.
"Be careful, Shuichi!" His mother called
Shuichi rolled his eyes. He didn't understand why she always had to treat him like a child. Granted, he was a child, only ten, but he was just going to the curb and back.
'Mothers' He thought
He tore outside, and made his way through the crowd of eager children, shouting at the man their requests. He noticed how many of them had been asking for orange dream bars. Finally, he was next in line, standing behind a boy that he didn't recognize. He was taller than him, and his amber hair shone in the sunlight. Wiping the sweat off of his forehead, he held up his money, and said:
"Orange dream bar, please."
The man turned around, handing down his ice cream.
"You're lucky." The man said "I've been selling those things like hotcakes. It's my last one."
"Thank you!" The boy called, walking away from the truck
Shuichi couldn't believe his ears. He stepped out of line, tears welling in his eyes.
'I've been waiting all summer for one... and this kid...'
"Hey!"
Shuichi looked up to find the boy staring at him.
"You wanted one, didn't you?"
Shuichi nodded. The boy carefully removed the wrapper from the ice cream.
"Wanna share?"
Shuichi nodded again, and sat down on the pavement next to the boy.
"I'm Yuki."
"Shuichi."
The boy cocked his head at him, taking a lick of the bar.
"Shuichi?" He asked as Shuichi wrapped his hands around Yuki's fingers, and licking his side. Shuichi nodded "That's too long." He said "I think... I'll call you... Shu."
Shuichi shrugged. He liked the nickname, and the soft way it sounded on Yuki's lips.
"I haven't seen you around before Yuki-kun."
"I just moved here Shu." He replied, licking again "My family moves around a lot."
"Oh." Shuichi said, licking the melting juice off of his fingers
"Is that were you live?" Yuki asked, pointing with sticky fingers
Shuichi nodded, wiping his sweat on his shirt.
"Will you be going to school with us?"
Yuki shrugged.
"I dunno." He replied, licking, his tongue roaming over to Shuichi's side.
"Hey!" Shuichi exclaimed "Stay on your side!"
"Your's has the most orange still." He said calmly, licking the melting juice off of their fingers "The sherbert is the best part."
Shuichi nodded in agreement, and partly in shock as he watched Yuki calmly lick his sticky fingers.
"Shu." Yuki said "You're blushing."
Shuichi laughed nervously, and smiled at his new bestfriend.
The pattern continued, everyday Yuki would buy an orange dream bar, and everyday they would sit on the curb outside of Shuichi's house and share it, which somehow always involved Shuichi getting to lick the bar for a few moments, until Yuki would trick him and finish the bar, leaving the two to go about the mess of licking the juice off of their fingers. Up until one day, when everything changed.
It was near the end of summer, when Shuichi met Yuki at the ice cream truck as always, only to find the boy carefully unwrapping his orange dream bar, looking very obviously upset.
"Yuki-kun?" Shuichi asked, sitting on the curb as Yuki sat next to him. "Are you alright?"
Yuki shook his head, and handed the bar to Shuichi.
"Why not?" He asked
"You take the bar today." Yuki said, not answering his question
"Yuki-kun." Shuichi said again, taking the bar "What's wrong?"
Yuki lowered his head, tears stinging his eyes.
"Shu-chan. I have to move again."
Shuichi blushed at the use of 'chan', and then realized what Yuki had said.
"What?" Shuichi asked, nearly dropping the bar "Where?"
Yuki shrugged.
"I'm not sure..." He said softly, sniffling back tears
Shuichi sighed, licking the bar.
"Well..." Shuichi said softly "You can still write me. We can keep being friends that way."
Yuki looked up at the pink hair boy.
"Yeah." he said softly
Shuichi smiled, closing his eyes and biting into the bar, leaving his lips sticky with the juice. His eyes then snapped open as he felt Yuki's velvety tongue run swiftly across his lips, removing the juice.
"Bye, Shu-chan!" Yuki said, running away
Shuichi sat their for a long time, the bar ignored as it melted completely and left his arm, hand and legs sticky with juice. He was in almost shock, not comprehending what had just happened. Not only had his bestfriend moved away, but he'd taken his first kiss with him.
After Yuki had gotten settled in, he and Shuichi began trading postcards. Shuichi would recieve one from Yuki almost every two weeks. And then it became every month... and then every six... and slowly, little by little, the letters stopped coming, until one came from the new owners of Yuki's house, saying that Yuki's family had moved again, and that they had no idea where they'd gone.
And eventually, Shuichi's family moved too, away from that curb where he and Yuki would sit and talk, whispering secrets in each others ears, and eating orange dream bars.
While he was unpacking at his new house, Shuichi stopped and literally dropped everything when he heard the ringing bell of the ice cream truck. He tore outside, digging in his pockets for change. It stopped right outside his house, bringing back a bit of déjà vu.
"Orange dream bar, please."
Shuichi looked up at the golden haired boy, who was holding his money up for the man to take.
"Aren't you a bit old to be eating those?" The man joked
"They just bring back memories." The boy replied
"Well, you're lucky. This just happens to be my last one."
Shuichi sighed and moved out of line.
"Hey!" The boy called
Shuichi turned to look at him, as he carefully unwrapped the ice cream.
'It can't be...'
"Wanna share?" He asked, sitting on the curb
Shuichi felt himself nod and walk over to the boy. The boy took a lick, and held it out to Shuichi, who stared at him.
"Shu-chan, if you don't lick it, it'll melt."
Shuichi cocked his head at him.
"Yuki-kun...?" He asked softly
Yuki smiled.
"So you remember?"
Shuichi nodded, sitting down next to Yuki, and taking a lick.
"Is that were you live?" Yuki asked
Shuichi nodded.
"Where do you live?" He asked
Yuki lifted his hand and pointed to the house next to his.
"Here." He replied simply
Shuichi couldn't help but smile.
"I never thought I'd see you again..." He replied, watching the ice cream truck drive away and the children disapear "I mean... after you moved away.. and..."
"After I kissed you?"
Shuichi looked up at Yuki's softly smiling face and nodded.
"After you... kissed me."
Yuki smiled.
"Why did you--." Shuichi began
"Because, I like you." He said simply "I really like you."
Shuichi swore his jaw hit the ground.
"You always wanted to ask me about it, didn't you?" Yuki asked
"I did... in the last letter I wrote.. but you never wrote me back."
Yuki cocked his head at him.
"What last letter?"
"You mean, you never got it?"
Yuki shook his head.
"No. I kept waiting for you to write me... but... I thought you never did. And I thought that you didn't want to talk to me... so..."
"You mean... we spent all those years... not talking because a letter got lost in the mail!"
Yuki shrugged casually.
"Aparently."
Shuichi burst out into laughter.
"Did you..." Yuki said, scooting closer "Ever wonder... why I called you Shu-chan?"
Shuichi nodded.
"It's because..." Yuki said, bringing his lips near his "I think you're kinda cute."
Shuichi turned beat red, as Yuki kissed him, the orange dream bar, slipping from his sticky fingers, as his love kissed him softly, on the curb in front of their houses, on a mid summers day.
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A.N. Should I keep going or leave this as a one-shot?
