No need for an excuse - 1 A/N: Please forgive me some invented things.
Akise was already waiting at the bus stop as Yukiteru arrived. It was unusual for Yukiteru to
come earlier that the actual meeting time, but that was when he wondered how long Akise had been silver-haired boy wore his usual clothes, but today he had a sports-bag and was unusuallyabsent-minded. Yukiteru saw him staring at his cell and wondered why Akise did it with such an intensity.
Yukiteru waved and called out "Akise-kun! Hello!"
Akise turned his head to face Yukiteru and smiled a calm, gentle smile "Hello, Yukiteru-kun. Are you already excited?"
For a second, Yukiteru didn't know what Akise meant, then it hit him. Akise said in the text message that he wants to meet up with Yukiteru. But also, he told that the destinations will be kept a secret. Akise smiled, as if not awaiting a reply from the brunette, then he took Amano's hand and led him to a large building near the bus station. The city's biggest adventure pool. Swimming...Yukiteru blushed, being embarrassed in swimming pools, especially since the last time he was in one with Yuno. He tried to find an excuse not to go there, then he had one.
"A-Akise-kun, I have no swim trunks with me", he said with an insecure smile.
"Don't worry, I have two pairs with me, I thought it through.", Akise replied as he kept dragging the brunette along.
Yukiteru blushed even more. Wearing Akise's trunks...but what was he ashamed of? They were both guys, they were friends. So what was wrong? Yukiteru was deep in his thoughts as they entered the building and Akise paid for the tickets. Just then Yukiteru felt a cold stare behind him and wanted to turn around, but Akise didn't let him to do so. The silver-haired boy cupped Yukiretus face and his crimson eyesmet Yukiteru's sky blue ones, having a stunning intensity in their gaze.
-"Akise...kun?"
-"What's wrong with you? You look so absent..."
-"Nothing at all!", the brunette said, flailing his arms a little bit.
Akise smiled and let go of Yukiteru's face, Yukiteru turned his head to look behind, but there was no one. Yet the feeling of being watched never left him. Not even felt stressed and uneasy. Akise could sense it and he hated it. Yet he knew exactly who was watching them. He knew, whom the cold stare belonged to. Gasai Yuno. The probably most creepy stalker that existed. Well, back to the story.
Akise smiled sweetly at Yukiteru, his eyes calm as ever: "What is bothering you? Come on, tell me!"
The two of them were in a pool with artificial stream, although everything around them was noisy and the echoing chattering made the atmosphere quite loud, there was a heavy, meaningful silence between the two teenagers. Then, Akise broke it again.
"Gasai Yuno."
Yukiteru's eyes widened, he watched the smiling boy with bewilderment. How did he know? Or had he seen the pink-haired girl?
"So I am right. Don't worry, I wont let her come near you."
Yukiteru still watched the silver-haired boy. He was amazing, even without having any future diary or any other supernatural powers, the boy always made statements that were right. Yukiteru gazed at Akise, forgetting everything else around him. His blue eyes were fixated on the boy's pale face.
"Yukiteru-kun?"
Akise reached out to touch the boy to bring him back to reality, his hand was caught by Yukiteru's.
-"Akise-kun, may I ask you a question?"
-"Sure."
-"Why did you invite me out?"
-"You can see this in one of these ways: Either this is a date or just an excuse for making you go
to the wedding fair with Yuno."
-"Just an excuse...huh?"
Akise said that just to watch the boy's reaction, but he didn't expect the sadness. Why was Yukiteru sad about such a thing? This was bad. Akise started being happy about that reaction. That reaction gave him hope to be loved back by the brunette.
Yukiteru let his head hang for a second and blushed a bit
"No need for an excuse, Akise-kun"
Akise smiled gently as he reached out for Yukiteru's face with his free hand, making the blushing boy to look at him. He couldn't hold his feelings back any more, he had to tell Yukki, what he really felt. He had to let the boy know why he invited him out.
"Yukiteru-kun, I love you, won't you leave Yuno behind and accept my help instead? We could win this game together."