Logre squeezed Kogas face with one hand.

"Cute."

Koga smiled and playfully tapped his fist against the others jaw.

"Am not."

He leaned back against the wall and Logre followed, bending over with his arm propped above Kogas head.

"How would you like it if i grabbed you by the face and called you silly things?"

There was a defiant glint in his eye as he looked up at the taller man.

"Put your hands up here and see how many fingers they come back with."

He snapped his teeth at Koga and grinned at how terribly unimpressed he looked as he crossed his arms.

"You know how our biting matches always end up going."

"Yes, they tend to end quite nicely."

He uncrossed his arms and put his fingers under Logres chin.

"I've got a better idea of what to do with that mouth of yours."

Koga licked his lips and brought him closer with his fingertips.

"Don't you lick your lips at me, young man."

Logre put his hand on Kogas hip and drew closer still.

"Oh, would you rather i licked your lips then?"

"I wouldn't be entirely against it."

Their faces were inches apart and they smiled at each other. They cherished these mornings, ones they were both awake enough to converse and had extra time to stand around in the hall and tease each other while they waited for the rest of their guild to prepare for the day. They usually made a point to be careful to make sure they weren't seen by the two of their three friends that didn't know about them being together.

"Are you gonna kiss me or not?"

Kogas eyes flickered between Logres eyes and mouth. Logre smiled wider and leaned closer, but when their lips were less that an inch away from each other there was a loud thump. They both turned toward the source just in time to see the door to their friends room close and hear harsh whispers of 'You guys, that isn't nice!' 'Shut up, Veron!' 'Yeah, they probably saw us because of you!' from right behind the door. They both stood up away from the wall and Logre walked up close to the door with Koga close behind him and knocked on it. It opened a crack and there was a quick flash of blue as Yami peeked her eye out before quickly trying to slam the door closed, but Logre had stuck his boot in the doorway. His eyes narrowed down at her and she froze. She stumbled backward apparently into Asaki when he pushed on the door and opened it, and looked down at both of them with the same angry look. He was nearly a foot and a half taller than both of them and could be intimidating to say the least, even to people close to his height.

"What the hell are you doing?" They glanced at each other but didn't say anything.

"Well?" They tensed at his urging them to speak. Finally, Asaki spoke up.

"Yami didn't believe me."

"Did too!"

"You're just saying that because you lost the bet-"

"What bet?" Logre interrupted the two, taking half a step forward before Koga caught his arm as a sign to him to calm down.

"S-sort of..."

"What were you betting on?" Koga still held onto Logres arm, practically hiding behind him.

"On... Which one of you we thought... Was... Gay..." The two men stared at them, Koga in embarrassed disbelief and Logre entirely unamused. Again, Asaki was the one to break the silence.

"I thought it was Whirlwind, like, forever ago. And when we met prince Baldur i was seriously thinking you were gay for him-"

"The prince is a child-!" Logre interrupted her indignantly but Yami began to talk over him nearly immediately.

"But i'm still legit convinced that Koga is a total twink,"

"I'm a what..?" He asked quietly while she continued to speak.

"And then last week Asaki saw you in the shower together and said you were fuc-" Asaki slapped her hand over the other girls mouth and hushed her as if it would do any good. Koga felt sick to his stomach as he gripped Logres arm tighter. As such a reserved person who highly valued his privacy, he couldn't stand the thought of someone seeing him in a moment like that.

"You watched us..?"

His face looked utterly horrified, as he was. The thought of how Logre took him like that, one hand fisted in his hair while the front of his soap-slicked body pressed and slid on the tiles, each long deliberate thrust forcing him up onto his toes and against the wall with Logres heavy breath in his ear, would normally be enough to turn his face quite a few shades darker. Now it only served to drain any remaining colour from Kogas cheeks and make him feel disgusted and ill.

"No, No! i left as soon as i saw you. i came over to see if you guys had an extra umbrella the day it was raining and i figured it was ok to come in since your door was unlocked..."

"When am i going to learn to lock the damn door..." Logre pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"Well, actually the was locked the other time, that was my fault." Veron spoke up from where he'd been standing on the other side of the room.

"Aw, what? Seriously? Am i the only person here that hasn't seen you guys screwing?"

"And its going to stay that way." Logre told her loudly while Koga hid his face against the others shoulder.

"So are you two like, together, or..?" Logre felt Koga tense against his arm and suddenly turn toward the others.
"And what if we are? Does that make me any less of a person just because i love someone!?" His unexpected outburst startled the rest of them and they stared, including Logre. Koga made a small noise of realization that he had just shouted at all of his friends, then frowned and looked at the floor as his brow furrowed.

"... We should get going..."His voice was very quiet and he kept his head down as he turned to leave. Logre grabbed his wrist.

"Hey-"

"I'm fine." He let the wrist slip out of his hand as Koga walked down the hall, pulling the strap of his bag to reposition it continuously out of nervous habit. Logre shot a threatening look at the two girls before turning and heading down the hall after Koga. He didn't look up when the taller man began to walk closely next to him and stayed quiet all the way to the skyship docks where Logre, unsure of how to go about comforting him out in the open like this, gently pat him on the back. He didn't give any kind of response and continued to stare at the ground with a solemn indifference.

"Koga, you..." Logre began right before he saw the rest of their guild walking toward them and the ship. Koga turned away and began preparing the ship to leave and Logres words died in his throat.