Title: The First Move
Pair: Massu and Tego from NewS (J-Pop)
Rating: PG-13 for BL
Genre: Fluff because it is the setup to many chapters
Hook: Massu finally pops the question to Tego. No, not that question! If you were thinking about the 'M' word then you've been reading one too many fanfics. Don't worry, I'd consider that as a good thing. But an even better thing is to read this, one of the cutest fanfics you'll ever stumble upon!
This time I would just have to do it. Once I start, there is no turning back. Massu thinks as he bites his lip and lets out a big breath.
He walks casually to his best friend, hands in his navy blazer's pockets (one of the attires the school makes everyone wear). He always thought the blazer makes him look fat. However, his best pal just assures him that he looks cute, just like everyone else. That is what the parents and the rest of the adults want them to look, he explains intelligently. Moreover, if he must describe himself as looking rather large, the word squishy defines him, not fat, he ends his analysis. Nevertheless, on his best companion, not even the overly formal blazer makes him look the least bit unappealing. No. It actually makes him look very attractive, even more attractive than he normally is in casual clothes. No, attractive is not the word to depict what he sees. To him, he exudes a degree of sexiness, the value of which one knows it is nearly wrong to think that way. The innocent kind of sexy, the one that truly makes him look like a very stereotypical, good-looking schoolboy.
Now Massu can feel the sweat diffusing maximally from his hands. However, before he can open his mouth, Tego abruptly moves his body meeting him halfway. "Ohayo!" he greets Massu cheerfully waving his hand with a short burst of energy.
"Ohayo Tego-chan," Massu monotonously belts out darting his eyes away from his junior.
"Are you okay? Looks like you want something?"
How can Toshi be that sensitive to pick up such a thing like that? Toshi, the name he affectionately refers to him in his mind every time he envisions his wishful love. Usually any other person would remark, "Are you okay? Looks like you're thinking about something." Anyway, it's not something I want rather. It's something I want to know... "See, I was just wondering…" He starts walking away towards the building as he nervously speaks. Tego notices and follows by his side, nodding obediently. "I was wondering…" Massu continues uneasily finding the words. "If…" Oh gosh, he thinks. I am choking on words I already know by heart. I replayed this scene in my head so many times and now it is going blank!
"If…" Tego repeats curiously.
"If…if you… if you… believe there really is any other life-form anywhere besides earth," Massu quickly blurts out from his mouth and could nearly smack himself on the forehead.
"Hmm, yeah I've been pondering that for a while too. Well to tell you the truth, I do not know. But I do know you should ask sensei because today is bring-your-own-topic day!" Tego responds cheerfully gesturing his hands as if he had just finishes explaining why the sky is blue.
"Right, thanks," Massu trails off, feeling as if he had just missed Hailey's Comet and would have to wait another seventy years to possibly catch another glimpse of it.
"Actually I was also wondering about something else."
"Mm, hmm… I'm all ears!"
"I wanted to know if…" and Massu comes to a soft halt and turns to Tego who at the same time follows his lead. "I wanted to know if you want to have dinner tomorrow and watch the new flick that's coming out. I think it's called 'The Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Style'." Good, he said to himself. Make it sound like you did not put in so much effort in asking him out. I hope that is the name of the film though. Stupid movie, I wouldn't even know the real name of it if it were embedded scientifically in my brain.
"Awesome!" Tego quickly exclaims enthused. "Who else is coming?" he looks at Massu smiling.
Massu honestly does not know what to say. This is definitely not what he had practiced in front of his mirror of what seems like hundreds of times. Clearly, from the look of things he should have rehearsed a little more effectively. He did not think that such an answer like that would be made. Nevertheless, this is Tego. Anything could happen in a moment's drop of a hat with his bouncy crush.
Defensively he buries his hands in his pockets and looks down at his shoes. He ineffectively shuffles his tense feet, of what he thought he was moving rather coolly. "Ooooooooh… Just me and you," Tego concludes slowly with eyes darting back and forth thinking of a delicate and sophisticated reply. Although Tego does not really do his best thinking on his feet and he surely knows of this. Thus he suddenly, but smoothly sits down on the populated sidewalk with many of their classmates and schoolmates. He totally dumbfounds Massu who sees a wondrous figure appear at his feet. Not only that, he also lowers his gentle fist under his chin perfectly showing he was thinking hard. Massu watches from above fascinated, thinking that this is the cutest thing he has ever seen.
Massu looks around turning his head effortlessly. He quickly affirms that he does not care how embarrassing and out of place it is to sit down in the middle of a crowded walkway with nearly half the school buzzing past them. Besides, he gets to accompany his charismatic, romantic interest. Thus, he copies Tego but instead rests his elbows collectively on his knees looking very masculine.
"I don't know if dating each other is such a good idea. I mean it could affect our friendship. Although it is kind of like hanging out like we always do. Yet I have never really thought of you that way…" and just as Tego was about to completely reject Massu, he locks his eyes with this suddenly beautiful Adonis and feels a twinge of an incredible feeling he has never felt towards him. As for a matter of fact, he has never had this kind of intuition towards anybody and especially not just by one sheer look into his or her eyes. These were not the eyes of just anyone's. These were the eyes he most trusts and endears to have fun with almost everyday since meeting in their first year of their high school experience together. Now three, short years have past because they were filled with joyous and whole-hearted laughs plus countless, unforgettable times. How could this make our bond worse if I say yes? It could do nothing but remain the same or go up from here. Tego just had to take a waft of the other side.
Massu sitting there intently awaits his hopeful answer, eyes never leaving Tego. Tego opens his mouth to finish his most anticipated ending of what could be the beginning of a perfect fairy tale or the ending of a failed attempt at mission impossible four. "I don't know if I like you," Tego states trying to escape his captivating eyes. "But…!" and he succeeds in losing the hold that Massu had on him and rapidly glances away for a moment. "I do want to see the new Tokyo 'Drift' and you always seem to pick the best restaurants. And, if I do decide to become more than friends with you, that is totally up to me!" he endearingly points a finger to his adorable nose. "So yes, I'd love to go out with you!"
Massu completely entranced by this angel sitting in front of him, only the word "yes" penetrates his foggy mind. He gapes, "Yes!" Catching reality, he straightens himself calmly stroking his sculptured chest to his lovable stomach and corrects himself, "I mean, yeah. Let's go to class. We're going to be late." He does his best to try to keep his erupting emotions under wrapped.
A/N: Of course there's still more silly!