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Chapter One: And the Bench won...
Another less than successful...okay, completely unsuccessful attempt at wooing the hearts of two pretty girls he had passed just ten minutes ago. They had been waiting by the bus by the main shopping centre. He was only making sure no one creepy approached them but they eventually deemed him the creepy one, leading to his rejection and he decided to just walk back. Grumbling irritably to himself, he continued walking down the lamp lit street in the midst of the night-time darkness. The cool air calmed him somewhat and his frustration only elevated once more when a stone crept into his shoe.
Sighing and looking around quickly, he spotted a bench nearby which he perched on to remove his footwear. He removed the villainous pebble and thrust it across the street where it bounced off the metal plated fences bordering a building in the middle of construction. All the workers had gone home it seemed. Leaning back against the brittle wood of the seat he stared up, squinting at the fuzzy glow of the lamp directly above and trying to focus on the foggy sky further up.
It seemed a pitiful, meager thing to be upset about. He was rejected frequently and at this point it was the norm. It didn't make the rejections any easier though. What was he doing wrong? Okay, maybe some of the comments he made were a tad inappropriate at times but he just said what was on his mind! Yeah that wasn't the best way of doing things...It was just instinct, he seriously tried to calm down and act cool around the ladies but he ended up acting like an idiot. Or someone stronger or...cooler would run him down.
How he'd genuinely love to say "Ah well" and go about his business, let the girls come to him and so forth instead or pursuing them with his typical vigour but he...he just couldn't! He wanted to be with someone, even if the first factor that came to mind was to play out his vivid fantasies, there was an underlying desire to actually spend time with someone, to call them his own...wow that was sappy.
Knocking his head back he closed his eyes and exhaled slowly. A few minutes later he figured it was kind of dangerous to stay in the street at this time so he sluggishly got to his feet and started walking-MRROOWWW
"What the-" Furuichi hissed and jumped as a disgruntled cat wailed across the street and thoroughly startled the student. Muttering to himself once more he simply carried on walking until the grazing growl sounded closer and next thing he knew his wrists hit the floor and he was protecting his face from the concrete he had promptly landed on after that
damned cat ran infront of him.
"Are you kidding me...are you actually..." getting to his feet again. He spun around in search of the bloody feline to no avail. Gritting his teeth, Furuichi didn't think as he lifted his leg and kicked the bench.
Toujou blinked twice and paused rubbing the cloth over his oily hands and in the shadow of the construction site, simply continued to watch the somewhat familiar young man limp off, curses at his lips and a sob in his voice as he walked off out of view. Having accidentally napped in the office whilst having nothing to do, he hadn't been alerted by any of the others and had woken about ten minutes ago with an irritable grunt.
Still filthy from the day's work he had quickly tried wiping himself down and as he started to leave, keen to get home he stopped to see the street-lit commotion. Too surprised to even smile or snicker, he just blinked twice and hooked the rag in his belt.
It seems the bench had won.
Toujou wasn't going to attend morning classes, he was already missing his sessions in the afternoon but he was curious. Something was actually somewhat interesting for once and he decided to pursue this mild mystery until it faded into just another daily occurrence. Though Oga's infamous tactician Furuichi picking a fight with a bench wasn't something he'd class as normal.
Toujo sat in a more or less empty school classroom with Aizawa and Jinno, slouching back on bent metal chairs and watching the world go by out the window. The school was filled with the typical yelling of abuse and threats and stench of roudy youth yet Toujou remained utterly laid-back.
Then, just across the grounds, he saw Oga with that strange yet cute green haired baby of his and Furuichi who was limping. Raising an eyebrow and leaning over further, he smirked.
"What's up Tora?"
"Nothing..."
Aizawa peered over the leader's shoulder and followed his line of sight to Oga, he smiled to himself. Was Toujou perhaps looking to fight the infamous Ogre?
He said nothing so not to provoke the redhead but he muttered his assumptions to Jinno who nodded.
Toujou was actually thinking nothing of the sort, he was thinking about what time he was being called in for work this evening but every now and again he wondered if he'd see the unusual pale haired student again and what inanimate object he'd be kicking next...
Furuichi wasn't there that evening. Or the next. Toujou didn't much care and just got on with things. But on the third evening, as Toujou sat straddled over a metal beam further up the skeletal structure of the building, he did a double take over the street for lone behold, Furuichi sat there. He was finishing off some sort of warm, packaged pastry and was aiming for the bin a metre or so away. Toujou let himself smirk when he managed to get it in and did a little fist pump.
Ah, at least he'd done something right today. Furuichi allowed himself a little fistpump when the crumpled white paper managed to dive into the bin. About to get up and leave now he had finished his snack, he paused when a lovely, plump ginger cat slunk over and onto his lap without a second glance.
This better not be the same cat as a few nights before.
It didn't seem to be, it wasn't as skinny or dark in colour. Furuichi was surprised at how friendly it was but didn't complain as he smiled and cautiously ran his fingers through the thick, soft fur on it's forehead. Scratching lightly behind the ears and chuckling as the glorious feline began to purr like the thrum of a harley motorbike.
"Can I hold him?"
Furuichi jumped and looked up, subconsciously gripping the cat to him. Toujou...the...the Toujou was standing above him, forehead glistening with a thin sheen of sweat that trailed down to powerful forearms, exposed by the short sleeved t-shirt. His hair was slightly scuffed with some kind of oil where he must have ran fingers through it to push the locks back. No smile adorned his features though his tone was amicable enough and Furuichi only nodded, scuffling over as it was clear Toujou wished to sit.
Taking the cat with surprising grace and care, a smile grew on the infamous Ishiyama legend's face as he nuzzled and stroked the cat who continued to purr and mewl happily at the attention.
"He yours?" Toujou asked and Furuichi jumped again, internally yelling at himself for doing so.
"N-No, he just climbed on my lap" he answered.
Toujou simply nodded and managed to cradle the kitty in his arms like a child, tickling it's tummy.
"Do you have a cat?...you're really good with them" Furuichi muttered, more of an observation than compliment but Toujou seemed a little startled nonetheless. He was used to students like Furuichi cowering under him, daring not to speak unless spoken to.
"No...couldn't afford it but I do love them" he replied. Furuichi simply nodded. It was weird, the larger student beside him smelt of metal, sweat and sandy musk. He seemed...human. Considering Furuichi was quite familiar with affairs of demons and the supernatural, it seemed more abnormal to him sitting beside the top of the hierachy in the delinquent controlled high school.
"How's your leg?"
Furuichi almost missed the quiet, wry comment and looked over at the redhead for a moment of mild misunderstanding and confusion before he looked over at the construction site and his pale features contorted into one of utter horror and humiliation. A fiery blush rose over his cheeks and his hands immediately tucked inbetween his knees as he looked down.
"Oh god you saw that" he stated and Toujou nodded to himself. Almost pleased with the tacticians reaction.
"Why did you kick the bench?"
"...I...I was mad"
"About what?"
Wow there was no small talk with this guy.
"...It's nothing...stress and stuff"
Toujou didn't seem convinced but shrugged and continued petting the stray cat, waiting to see if Furuichi would crack but it seemed he wouldn't. Although it shouldn't have been, it was...odd talking to Oga's strategist. The Ogre was something of a tale amongst the lower and now upper ranks of the school and despite his seemingly horrific and crazed personality, this student handled him with a sense of ease and familiarity.
"How is your leg though?"
"...Bruised to hell" Furuichi chuckled though there was little amusement in the underlying notes of his laughter.
"Want me to take a look?" Toujou spoke without looking up from the content face of the purring cat who the eighteen year old had just noticed had no collar.
"It-it-it's alright, it's fine" Furuichi was having a small panic attack. Here he was on something of a spontaneous kitty play date and now the terrible legend of the high school wanted to inspect his wounds. A very embarrassing wound to top it all off.
"Nah, come on, did you cut it?"
Toujou set the fluffball down on the bench and the plump creature simply rolled cheerfully on it's back before sitting up and watching the antics of the two students. Furuichi grabbed the back of the seat as Toujou knelt down and took his right leg.
"This one?"
Furuichi nodded, glossy grey eyes wide. Toujou didn't seemed bothered in the slightest, like he did this all the time. Didn't he have work?
As though on cue the redhead spoke as he carefully focused on holding his trainer attired heel and sliding up the material of his school trousers.
"Work's finished by the way, I don't usually do this in the middle of a job"
"Ah" the tactician managed.
Toujou's hands were large and warm, somewhat calloused and so...scarily strong. He didn't grip the younger students tender limb particularly hard but Furuichi could feel the muscles beneath the flesh, the way he seemed to be holding back from his average strength.
The next thing Furuichi was most aware of, almost hyperaware of was the way Toujou surveyed the ugly purple, red, blue and vaguely yellow markings on his lower calf. It had been an awkward kick.
"What have you been telling people?" Toujou inquired as he trailed a finger across the sore flesh. Furuichi made a quiet noise of pain and surprise but replied with a steady tone.
"Nothing, they can't see it"
"But you've been limping"
"...When exactly have you seen me limp, how!?" Furuichi spluttered.
Toujou chuckled.
"I do go to school sometimes, you're hard to miss beside Oga" he explained and to his surprise Furuichi's face fell slightly.
"Ah...okay" he replied. The cat meowed and Furuichi looked over at the feline who offered a soft headbutt into his thigh.
"Anyway, seems pretty bad and sore but it's healing fine, not cut or anything" He slid the material down just as Furuichi muttered to himself.
"I could have told you that?"
"What?" Toujou honestly asked but Furuichi went rigid and inhaled sharply.
"Sorry, sorry!"
"Ah, calm down, didn't even hear you"
He sat back down beside the sixteen year old who bent his leg a little, wincing slightly but other than that sat still. The cat couldn't seem to decide which one it wanted to lie on so sufficed for propping it's head on Toujou's thigh and draping his tail over Furuichi.
"I wonder who he belongs to" Furuichi voiced.
"Doesn't have a collar...probably just a stray"
"Why don't you-oh wait, sorry, sorry you can't afford it, ignore me" Furuichi stammered frantically and Toujou raised an eyebrow, looking off into the distance for a moment.
"...He can stay at mine I guess...he might run away though"
"He seems very fond" Furuichi chuckled as the cat purred profusely into the dirty material of the eighteen year old's trousers.
"You think?" Toujou smiled, stroking around the thick fur of the feline's neck.
Furuichi just nodded. After a few minutes of watching Toujou's tanned hand caress the domestic creature, he noticed the darkening of the sky.
"Ah, I need to go"
"Same...I'll take this guy with me and we'll see what happens"
He was so casual, so civilised...Furuichi actually just stared at him for a moment as he picked the pet up and held it over his shoulder where the reddish tints of its fur nearly matched the legends hair.
"Okay...see you soon" he hadn't meant to say that, why would he say that? As if Toujou would be interested in seeing him again, then again it was just him being polite.
"Yeah, I'm actually in tomorrow so see you then" and with that Toujou turned and the cat meowed over Toujou's shoulder in farewell at the dumbstruck Furuichi.
Entering his bedroom. Alaindelon was seated almost obediently on his bed, eyes glittering as he greeted Furuichi. The latter sighed and smiled weakly in reply though he wasn't as bugged by the man as he actually thought he might be at this point.
"How come you are late, Furuichi-dono?"
"I stopped off for something to eat and was talking with someone"
"Oooh~ A young girl?"
Though Alaindelon would make comments of some mysterious, seductive relationship about him and Furuichi unwittingly, he had learned that Furuichi was indeed interested in finding a young girl.
"N-No...just a student"
"Oh, well that is still good"
"Why'd you say that? I do talk to other people you know" Furuichi hissed as he removed his shirt and slipped on nightwear.
"I didn't mean to offend you Furuichi-dono!" Alaindelon gripped the sides of his face as a blush grazed his cheeks and Furuichi sighed.
"Jeez, you really go for it when you purr, don't you puss?" Toujou mumbled to his new cat-pal and the feline only meowed in reply before continuing to purr deeply.
"You're like some kind of vehicle" he added as he set down a bowl of some cat food he quickly bought at the shop before getting to his apartment.
"...Harley"
The cat looked up from wolfing down the meaty chunks.
"I'm gonna call you Harley, like the motorbikes" he grinned.
It was kind of nice knowing the cat might be here the next day, something to look forward to. It was odd interacting with that Furuichi guy earlier, not unpleasant but...Toujou shrugged to himself before trudging to the fridge to scavenge what he could of the last of this week's shop.
A/N: I thought they'd be kind of cute together and there's not much I can find on this pairing so I wanted to make a small contribution. I hope you like it or it at least grows on you!
I've researched the characters and hope they come off in character. I've had to stray from the plot line but it's more or less at the beginning of the series.A lot of break-lines but I want to keep it neat and easy to follow!
This is only going to be a short story by the way. I hope you like it so far and I'm not royally screwing up characters and events, haha. Until next time!
-LAW09
CHAPTER TWO UPDATE: This looks really bad on my first update promise but honestly my laptop crashed today *Wails loudly for three minutes* and I am unable to access my next chapter. In apology I will update TWO as soon as it is repaired! Sorry again.
~Review Replies~
xxxfreakishXclutzxx: Ahh, thank you! I adore this couple and am really glad more people like it too! I'm hoping to write some more soon. And I know! That scene was brilliant for a bit of Toujou x Furuichi, it was so sudden when Toujou was really worried! Love it! Ahaha, aside from his soul being ripped out… aww, you are too kind! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing!
Devlin Dracul (Nov 13): Oh wow, you're review was lovely, thank you so much! I think Toujou and Furuichi wouldn't be absurd ahaha. Oh of course, Alaindelon's fear! Honestly I'm not sure why Toujou got the cat...probably some symbolism in there somewhere, ahaha. Thank you so much again for your review! It's really amazing how much you are looking into this ahaha.
javagirl: I'm glad you are no longer doubting! Thank you so much for reading and for reviewing!
RubyRedSpiderLily: That's a really cool username by the way. I'm glad to get someone on the bandwagon! Ahaha, thank you so much for reading and for the review!
Devlin Dracul (Nov 16): Aye, my computers throughout my life particularly like ridding me of all my story work. Thank you so much for your patience! And for the review!