Title: A hug
Characters: Tajima/Hanai
Notes: It's Ookiku Furikabutte... sort of... drabble.
by Genmitsu (aka 1-KatouYue here)
Standard Disclaimers Apply
- Can I touch you?
Hanai blinked.
- Don't you always do that? And without permission at that.
- It's this way now! - Tajima was close, looking up at Hanai's face, his eyes intense and concentrated. - Come on... it's a normal touch. Should be okay, right?
Hanai was uncertain about that, after all, how "normal" it could be coming from Tajima? His touches were welcome, though, strangely so, and it took Hanai some serious willpower to admit. Yet, they've been unexpected up till now, and it seemed to Hanai that actually allowing Tajima to touch him, straight-forwardly, would push their strange kind of a relationship over some line, and the captain wasn't sure he wanted that.
- A hug. - Tajima said, as if knowing what Hanai was contemplating and suggesting a compromise. - So you know it's not anything weird or, you know...
His voice trailed off, leaving Hanai to actually think about what he might've mentioned. Suddenly, a hug seemed like a very tame idea.
- Okay... - he finally said, reluctantly. - A hug.
Tajima's eyes sparkled and he closed the remaining distance between them in one step. Seeing his compact, lithe body so near made Hanai feel awkward and gangly and so totally not cool and he didn't know how to react. But Tajima didn't need him to, as he slowly snaked his hands around the captain's waist and laid his head against his chest, a hot and solid weight. Hanai doesn't know what to do with his hands - should he embrace Tajima in return? should he remain motionless? what does he really want?..
Tajima was surprisingly still against him, but the warmth radiating from him almost drove Hanai insane. He felt as if his whole body gone taut, like a wound up spring, and is waiting for a moment to strike, if only Tajima does something--
- Amazing... - he heard Tajima's voice, soft and soothing.
- Wh-what is?.. - Hanai asked, and regretted it immediately, since he sounded shaky and breathy and just a bit scared.
- Your heart. Such an amazing sound... - Tajima's eyes were closed, and he tightened his arms around Hanai a little more. - Don't you hear it? It beats strongly, and surely - and quickly too. You scared?.. of me?..
The said heart leaped. Tajima chuckled and snuggled closer.
- I'm not gonna hurt you. Come on, hug me as well... I'm warm... It's calming... Don't you trust me?
Maybe it was the web of Tajima's words, maybe it was the wave of their meaning, maybe it was something else completely, but Hanai felt the tension ease up as soon as his hands came to rest on Tajima's shoulders.
Trusting felt good.