Title: Nightmares
Author/Artist: bandanability
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nope.
Prompt: KHRFest: 5 − 70. Gokudera/Yamamoto - Bunk bed; "Nightmares"
Summary: Sometimes, in this sick and twisted version of their future, Hayato hears Yamamoto crying, and it breaks his heart.
Word count: 361
Sometimes, in this sick and twisted version of their future, Hayato hears Yamamoto crying, and it breaks his heart to hear someone supposedly so stoic sounding so utterly pathetic, so weak.
At first, he feels as if it's not a matter he should be responsible for, that the idiot is just his roommate in this time and nothing more, but it wakes him up and he can't help being worried, as hard as he tries. After the fourth night of only a few hours of sleep, he hears Takeshi whimpering and decides to act.
"Hey, baseball freak," he hisses, to no response. "Idiot." Silence.
He crawls down from his bunk and shakes Yamamoto awake. There's a flash of fear in Takeshi's eyes, just for a moment, and then all of a sudden, he's all smiles and laughs. "Haha, what is it, Gokudera?" He wipes his eyes and swallows, and then he's back to his normal self. "I'm trying to sleep!"
"You're not doing a very good job of it." He sits on the bottom of Takeshi's bed. "You're making an asston of noise."
"Ah, sorry! I think there are headphones in my bag if you want them - "
"You okay?" The words spill out, uninvited, and he's surprised to see just how protective of the idiot he's feeling.
"I'm fine." The smile is gone, replaced by a grimace, but it doesn't seem like Takeshi is asking for any sort of sympathy. "Go back to sleep."
"I can't very well do that if you're going to keep being - do you want to talk about it?" He'd been ready to insult the baseball freak, but he doesn't want to be responsible for any of the pain that is so apparent on Yamamoto's face.
"Ahaha, you don't have to." He forces a smile, and Hayato, tired as he is, is overwhelmed by an incredible urge to give the idiot a hug. He scoots up the bed and does just that.
At first, Takeshi freezes. "Go - what are you - are you going to blow me up?" He sounds genuinely afraid, and Hayato scowls.
"Don't question it, idiot, or I just might."
fin.
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