When he thinks of Joshua, he thinks of music.
When Joshua is around, all he hears is the beat, beat, beating of the rhythm. Pulses, waves mix and intertwine and go up down now hear it hear me. Low note. High note. His voice, the words flow with a kind of music, his voice goes hehe and oh Neku dear. His beat is a slow, seductive song that makes you want to come closer hear more I want to see just what you are. He hears beauty, he hears sound. He hears soul.
Neku doesn't know what his own song sounds like, but he does have a sneaking suspicion that it begins with oh and ends with touch me please whenever Joshua's around. His notes, he suspects, might be a bit off key and out of tune, but that's because he needs practice. So many years of pushing people away has made him embittered, made his soul cry out more than sing sweetly. Makes a bit of an undertone, the sound of pain and heartache and please I want to be loved.
When they come together, it creates a sound so beautiful that Neku feels like crying. He almost does, the first time he hears it. The first time Joshua kisses him. It feels oh so right and please I've been waiting for so long take me now just do it. The notes intermingle and rise up, up to the sky to call out to the heavens. Up to the angels, and reverberating in the tiny apartment that Neku has rented all by himself. He hears promises, words without words, and a voice calling him saying yes yes and I've waited so long for this too. His notes mix with Joshua's notes and they just sound so perfect together. Makes him happy. Makes him sad. Makes him want more, a hunger so intense that I don't care now I just want you please. He hears the same longing in Joshua's voice when he says hmm Neku dear excited aren't we and he responds shut up Josh just kiss me and Joshua says I thought you'd never ask and they make love right there on the spot.
It is only afterwards, when they are lying together in his bed that he asks what his music sounds like. Joshua pauses, smiling absently, not answering the question. Neku shoots a glare at him, and asks him what. Joshua smirks, looks up at the ceiling, and tells him I thought you'd never ask.