A short story from Doumeki's point of view.
Watanuki-kun is interesting
Note: This is my first attempt at a DouxWata storyline, so please forgive me if I seem to butcher it a little. I did my best. This is the scene where Watanuki begs Doumeki to let him use his house for the 100 ghost story night.
This story is about how Doumeki thinks Watanuki is interesting and first starts to think of him as cute. Because it is so early in the original storyline, I figured I add a little confusion on Doumeki's part. He seems a little dense to me when it comes to Watanuki and how either of them feel about each other.
"What? You want to tell 100 ghost stories at the temple?" Doumeki considered it seriously for exactly 3 seconds before he responded. "Why must I lend my house to you for those kind of games?"
Doumeki was baiting him, knowing Watanuki would react magnificently to his prodding. Sure enough, Watanuki screeched out a protest, demanding among other things, what kinds of games Doumeki was thinking of.(1) Doumeki let his mind wander for a bit, watching Watanuki's spectacular flailing session accompanied by random and sporadic twitching. Watanuki was always entertaining to watch, even if he was normally annoying to be around at times and unbearably loud. His weird, improvised little dances almost made Doumeki smirk. Almost. For the first time since having met Watanuki, though, Doumeki had to step back and reassess his priorities. Sure, Watanuki was interesting enough but for a moment Doumeki had almost thought him to be cute. That was impossible, though, because Watanuki was much too loud and much too male for him to be even remotely cute to Doumeki.
"Ok!" Doumeki finally answered, cutting into Watanuki's dance.
He turned to stare at Doumeki, his face looking like he thought this was some kind of trap. "Ah?"
Doumeki suppressed a sigh. "But…"
"Ah?"
Later on…
Watanuki arrived at the temple, followed by Yuuko-san, and was greeted by Kunogi. Doumeki greeted her cheerful disposition with a short answer before leading them inside. Kunogi immediately began chatting with Yuuko-san, leaving Watanuki and Doumeki to make conversation on their own. They sat beside each other in silence for several moments before Watanuki finally turned to face Doumeki. With a face full of wary concern, he asked if it would be all right for them to stay in the temple, repeating Doumeki's earlier words back to him. Slightly surprised that Watanuki had bothered to remember his words, much less show concern on his behalf, Doumeki replied in a condescending tone, hoping to get Watanuki to react as he normally did.
"Ah! I don't mind."
Watanuki blushed slightly before loudly complaining that it didn't matter if he minded or not. He went on to say that he wouldn't be held responsible if Doumeki got in trouble because of their being there. Doumeki ignored him, thinking that he must be catching a cold.(2) Watanuki was starting to look cute again.
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I hoped you enjoyed it. I had fun writing it. I had originally planned to make it a bit longer, adding how Doumeki thought it was sweet I mean cute I mean interesting that Watanuki was so scared of ghost stories. However, it ended up like this. I am satisfied with it, though.
(1) When I first read it, the first thing that popped in my mind was "What kind of games are you thinking of?" As the story progressed, and I became a fan of DouxWata, I would periodically go back to read earlier chapters. With my perverted mind, I can come up with a dozen different scenarios of games for them to play *wink wink* I only wonder what games Doumeki wanted to play with Watanuki at the beginning of their relationship?
(2) No, Doumeki, it is not a cold. It is just Watanuki's natural charm. I wanted to put in a small scene with Doumeki confusing the first signs of liking Watanuki with something ridiculous. Unfortunately, the only thing I could think of was a cold. I shall try harder next time to make it funnier and more interesting.