Anticipation
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. :(
Ban fidgeted in his seat. He couldn't wait to get back to Earth. That was one of the downsides of long-distance relationships, especially inter-planetary ones; he and Hoji barely saw each other, both of their jobs keeping them more than busy. It had taken a while, but eventually, after he'd left his team on Earth and joined the Fire Squad, he'd realised just how much he missed Hoji. Gyoku Rou was strict, yes, but he missed having his stubborn partner glaring at him all the time for being so reckless.
He smiled at that phrase. He and Hoji had always been partners, right from the beginning, even if the other man had refused to see it until right at the end. How like Hoji, to admit to the partnership only at the very end, when it was likely that they might never see each other again. Still, they'd won, Agent Abrera had been deleted and he'd transferred to the Fire Squad. Seeing Hoji again a year later, when he'd been pursuing Abrera's protégé, Agent X, had simply rammed it home how much he'd missed the brooding, stubborn presence in his life, and part of his display over Mari's picture in his morpher had been to get a reaction out of Hoji, anything that would tell him how things stood. The shove and subsequent chase round the room had been promising and he was looking forward to similar moments when this floating piece of rubbish masquerading as a commercial liner to Earth finally got there. Times like this he missed his old pursuit vehicle. That would have gotten him to Earth much faster and he'd be with Hoji right now.
He sighed and sat back in his seat again, ignoring the disapproving look from the matronly woman in the seat next to him. The first thing he was going to do when he got his hands on Hoji was fuck him through the mattress. Then they could relax into their usual rhythms of bickering and fighting. He wasn't sure what it said about him, that he was looking forward to being yelled at and insulted. He grinned though, nothing about his relationship with his partner had been easy or normal, even before they'd become lovers, so at least there was symmetry now that they were.