A one-shot that was supposed to be more nsfw than it turned out... I just ended up wimping out of it and making it more fluffy and psychological than intended... haha whoops. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
It had been a while since Kurapika last worked at the main office building, usually preferring to stay home and cram all of his work into one long binge, but he supposed the change of setting was a little nice, albeit the fact that a few of his fellow office workers didn't know how to react to him being there. He kept to himself in his office, and every now and then people had stopped in the hall when they saw his light on and watched him for a few minutes through his office window before leaving and coming back with someone else. After about three or four rounds of their petty game, Kurapika got up and shut the blinds looking into his office and made sure that a black piece of paper covered the window of his door too. Sighing, he returned back to his work at his desk, typing away at his laptop while looking at his desk computer every few sentences to verify the information he was typing.
Minutes ticked by into hours until he heard a knock at his door, bringing his attention from his work. He quickly glanced at the clock and noted that it was 10:23. He should have been headed home already, since most everyone had left.
"Come in." he called instead, deciding to ignore the time as he continued to type. He'd rather get it done with as quickly as possible before the next load of work came in.
"If you keep working like this, you know you're going to get yourself sick right?" a smooth voice said as he heard the door open and close behind the new person.
"Chrollo, I could care less if I get a cold over work or not." Kurapika replied steely, eyes narrowing at the words in front of him, trying to feign the concentration he had lost when the man had stepped into his office.
"Oh don't be that way Kurapika, I mean no harm by what I said!" Chrollo replied with a smile, moving to stand in front of his desk, placing both hands onto the wooden surface. "Besides, you look like you need a break you over achiever."
"I'm not an overachiever, I'm just doing my job. That is, unlike someone who seems to be unable to find something else to do with his time besides bother me." Kurapika retorted, taking a quick glance at Chrollo to emphasize his point. The older man just raised an eyebrow at him, his grin growing on his face.
"You need to find some way to take a break, but I have a feeling I won't be able to convince you to no matter what." He mused out loud, acting like he was thinking, though Kurapika already knew that tone very well despite being in this department for only a few months; he had a plan and he was trying to get it into motion, he was just missing the blonde's consent.
Even though Kurapika didn't know of his motives, he decided to go along with it to see where it got him. It could at least serve to entertain him before having to go back to work.
"It sounds like you have an idea of how I can take a break and still work Chrollo."
"You can still work if you have a strong enough will power." Chrollo replied with a low voice that caught Kurapika off guard, causing him to look up at the man hovering over his desk, their faces only inches apart, Chrollo having a knowing look in his eyes, telling the blonde that the older man was getting exactly what he was after.
Kurapika felt his mouth become dry, and while he had realized he had stopped typing his report, he couldn't bring himself to continue or to really care. He was more focused on the intense eyes searching his own as if they could uncover the world's secrets to the dark haired man.
Then Chrollo leaned forward and pressed his lips firmly against Kurapika's, humming when Kurapika gasped at his action. The older man took the chance he was given and slid his tongue into the other's mouth, resulting in a squeak as the blond's hands found way to his chest only to slide quickly to his shoulders.
Kurapika pushed himself away from Chrollo, his office chair rolling backwards with him and helping in separating them by a couple feet. He could feel that his face and ears were bright red, the pounding of his heart making it near impossible for him to understand what Chrollo was saying next.
"My my, you act like you've never kissed anyone before." He said teasingly, eyes dark and staring at him in a way Kurapika didn't understand, didn't want to understand.
"Go fuck yourself Lucilfer." Kurapika said heatedly, wiping at his mouth when he had realized he had some saliva on the bottom corner of his lip.
Chrollo paused with surprise at his response, but soon his shocked expression was replaced with an amused one, one Kurapika wanted to slap off his face.
"So you're telling me that at age 24 you're still a virgin?" he snickered, placing a curled hand near his face, turning his head to look the other way as he laughed.
Kurapika stood from his chair abruptly and marched over to the dark haired man in the few feet that distanced them, grabbed his tie and yanked him down so that he was eye level with the blonde. Though this had forced Chrollo onto his desk slightly he didn't care in the least at that moment. He glared at the older the man, the amused look the older man had never leaving his face, and it seemed to be pleasantly interested in what he was going to do next. They both stayed like that for a while, Chrollo awkwardly half sitting on the desk and Kurapika staring him down, each of them trying to figure out the other's next move.
Kurapika moved first, moving away and releasing the tie and watching it fall back onto the other's chest, trying to recollect his thoughts. He really shouldn't have been so angry about the accusation, despite it being true. So what if he had never had sex? He had never cared before, but something about the way Chrollo had said it ticked him off. No, maybe it was just the fact that it was Chrollo saying it. He didn't think any of his associates would need to know this, but the fact that the older man just seemed so amused by guessing it, and nonetheless getting it right, felt something akin to getting his pride trampled. He knew he shouldn't care, knew he acted out of place, but yet every time something slipped past that man's mouth, he wanted to prove him wrong with as much strength as he could. But now? He was trapped. He couldn't prove him wrong without lying, and that was just as frustrating as seeing that very man sitting on his desk and watching him like this was some kind of game.
'Sickening yet intriguing' were the words he would describe it if he was being honest with himself.
"If this is all you wanted to do, then leave, I have work to do." Kurapika managed, doing his best to keep eye contact with Chrollo.
The older man hummed with a smile still plastered on his face, adjusting his position on the desk to be more comfortable all while maintaining eye contact with Kurapika. It didn't seem like he was planning on leaving any time soon and Kurapika sighed inwardly to himself, making a mental note to never open his office door for others again unless the building was on fire. Even then, he thought, he'd rather jump out the window behind him then have the possibility of encountering Chrollo at his door, especially during any type of emergency.
Kurapika decided the safest course at this point was to ignore him. He wasn't going to move and chances were that he'd probably just watch him do his work, but he had no way of getting him out without force, and even then he wasn't sure if he could beat the older man in any sort of physical struggle.
He sat back in his chair and rolled it back over to his desk, doing his best to avoid Chrollo's stare as he got back to typing. It was a lot harder to concentrate, but he got in a few paragraphs before he saw Chrollo slide off the front of his desk. He almost sighed in relief but then realized that Chrollo was just walking around to his side of the desk.
Great.
"Why can't you just leave already?" Kurapika heard himself say in frustration, though he was already able to work better on his report now that Chrollo wasn't directly in his line of sight.
"Hmm, well for one, it's pretty hard to read what your typing when looking at it sideways, and two because I already said that I would help give you a break." the taller man's voice came, his breath brushing past Kurapika's neck.
He suppressed the urge to shiver and instead raised an eyebrow to himself and kept typing.
"So you're saying that little stunt you pulled that made me lose about twenty minutes of work time wasn't my break?"
Chrollo laughed behind him, a genuine laugh that he could tell the older man was trying to hold back on, and placed his hands on Kurapika's shoulders, causing his work to come to a halt.
"That was only around ten to twelve minutes of time wasted, but no, that was not what I had in mind, though if you want, I can always do it again."
Kurapika felt his blush returning to his face but ignored it and forced his mind to keep working so he could respond in some sort of dignified way.
"I'd rather you be where I can see you, but at the same time I don't want to see you at all, so if you're going to do this at all…" Kurapika started and then faltered, because what he was saying didn't make much sense at all. Keeping Chrollo in his peripheral vision but not wanting to see him there sounded just as strange as saying someone liked chocolate but didn't like eating it.
There was a long pause before Kurapika resumed his thought process, though it was on a different track than beforehand.
"Besides, you said I could still work during your said "break," but I don't see how that's possible given that what you did earlier prevented me from even typing! And even if I could keep typing, there is no way I can look to verify the information on the computer!"
Chrollo only chuckled as he slid in front of Kurapika's way, blocking the computer screens from his sight and forcing him to look up at the taller man lest he wanted to stare at his belt.
Once Chrollo knew he had Kurapika's attention, he smiled at him, his eyes glinting with deviance.
"I said, you'd be able to work if you had a strong enough will power."
And with that, he began to kneel in front of Kurapika, placing his hands on the blond's knees as he lowered himself down.
Immediately Kurapika stopped the older man's descent, gripping his shoulders tightly with an intense blush already on his face.
"Wait, I don't think- that shouldn't be done here-"
The blonde kept stuttering, trying to relay how it'd be impractical, or how it really wasn't appropriate especially given the time and place, and Chrollo let him much to Kurapika's relief.
He ended up asking the older man questions, mostly to make sure that this wasn't just to tease him, but also to make sure that his intentions were true and not just for pleasure.
"Are you sure about this?"
"I am."
"And you're not in a relationship already?"
"No."
"This isn't for a joke right?"
"Not at all."
"This won't be as coworkers will it?"
"Nope."
"And not as friend's either?"
"I don't think you consider me that, so no."
"So what would it be as?"
There was a pause between the two, and it seemed to catch Chrollo off guard. He went into thought for a while before shaking his head, his eyebrows still furrowed as he attempted to think of an answer.
"I wouldn't know."
If only to spare the man before him from his surely looping brain process, Kurapika asked another question, one that he had thought of on the spot.
"Then what exactly are we?"
Chrollo looked up at him again, this time his eyes showing surprise at the question.
"We?"
"Yes," Kurapika nodded, trying to figure it out himself. "What exactly are we to each other? We may be coworkers, but that doesn't apply very well to this situation. If taken out of this work space, we are nothing but acquaintances. At the same time however, we are more acquainted to each other than that to be just that either."
Chrollo nodded at what he was saying, understanding what he was trying to get at.
"And despite us not being lovers, I have kissed you a few times as well." Chrollo added, referencing back to when Kurapika was first introduced to the office and the older man had teased him with a kiss on the cheek when he had welcomed him to the department, and later on after that a kiss on the forehead for luck on his first presentation and a kiss on his ear when he had managed to get a promotion within his first week there. Chrollo even momentarily remembered when he had found the Kurta in his (then) new office asleep at the computer on the first night after his promotion due to working over into the morning, and he had given him a kiss on the head and a blanket over his shoulders. It was a fond memory, but Chrollo never thought of them as being in a romantic relationship before.
He saw Kurapika blushing at the memory of their most recently shared kiss and Chrollo chuckled, bringing the blonde's attention to him.
"Then maybe we're dating." Chrollo stated, the words feeling more natural then he would care to admit.
Kurapika just stared at him for a split second before shaking his head frivolously.
"That's impossible! We can't have started dating without even one of us knowing! Even so, that seems a bit ridiculous to just jump from… whatever we are, to dating!"
"Well we're certainly not rivals, and as far as I know, we're not enemies, and the only thing left that I can think of is either the dating thing or that we're soulmates."
Kurapika wrinkled his nose at the last word, not sure why he didn't quite like the idea.
"The last one wouldn't really make sense Chrollo."
"Yes, but none of this situation really makes sense if you think about it. I was about to give you a blow job in your office while you finished your report and now we're contemplating our relationship status with an odd amount of concentration."
Kurapika pushed his hands into Chrollo's face, his own face burning up yet again with his blush.
"How can you even say that so casually?! You really need to learn when to shut up Lucilfer, or I swear to God I will force you to shut up and then kick you out of this office!"
"I think it'd be worth it if you shut me up with your di-"
"You are so lewd oh my God!" Kurapika laughed, pushing at the other's face even more to mess up the last word of his sentence to sound more like the word "dish" than anything else.
Chrollo found himself laughing again too. It truly was fun to mess with Kurapika, but it only added onto the question: what were they really? He wished he knew of a word to describe them, but he sadly could not think of anything. He would guess they were friends at the least, especially given that they can at least tolerate each other enough to make each other mad and tease each other of ridiculous things; despite the teasing part currently being one sided at the moment. He however, felt it would be wrong to call him a friend. There was clearly a different feeling to how he felt towards the blond that was beyond that of what would be appropriate for one labeled a friend, but he couldn't quite pinpoint it.
He shook his head and stood up, smiling to himself. He looked at the time that was displayed on Kurapika's laptop and frowned a bit when he saw that it was already 11:31, way past the time he had intended to leave this building at. Though, thinking on it, he wasn't even sure if he had even really expected to leave any earlier anyway, despite how far his plans had been skewed.
"I think that's all for today." He said more to himself than to Kurapika, but he saw the blonde nod in the corner of his vision.
"Yeah." He heard him say, his voice soft with tiredness.
Chrollo looked over at him and smiled, relieved that all the weird tension he purposefully built up had disappeared from the other's worries. He himself didn't even want to remember how embarrassing he was.
"And you too. You need to go home and sleep."
Kurapika gave him a shocked look, one that basically told him that his idea was stupid.
"I need to finish my report still."
"But you also need to sleep." Chrollo added, closing Kurapika's laptop. "And you're not taking this with you to continue working either.
Kurapika gaped at him, shock obvious on his face.
"What? You don't need to finish this until next week. I think you could use a little bit of sleep."
Kurapika looked like he was about to protest, but instead tried to take his laptop, in which Chrollo swiftly took out of his reach, holding it high above his head.
"If you're not going to go home and sleep willingly, I will take you to my house and give you a reason to feel tired and sleepy."
While Chrollo expected another shocked look, he instead got an odd smile from the blond, a dark glint in his eyes.
"Is that a challenge Chrollo Lucilfer?"
The dark haired man paused, then smiled, lowering the laptop from the air just a fraction.
"Maybe it is… would you care to find out yourself?"
Kurapika only chuckled darkly at his response and stood up out of his chair and pushed Chrollo out of his way, shutting down his desk computer and pushing in his chair in one swift motion, waiting patiently until the light of the computer screen shut off before turning to Chrollo, an amused smile on his lips.
"Yes, yes I would."
