Gokudera waited in bed for Tsuna and Ryohei to leave the room before getting up. He was too embarrassed about what they had just done to be able to talk to the 10th. He glanced over at Yamamoto who was yawning and stretching. Yamamoto stood up and grabbed his jeans to change into.
"Oi!" Gokudera cried. "Why the hell are you wearing my boxers?"
"Huh?" Yamamoto said and looked down to find himself in red plaid boxers that were definitely not his. He laughed. "That means you're wearing mine."
"Gah!" Gokudera said in surprise as he looked under his blanket to see that he was wearing blue boxers with little baseballs all over them. Shit, I grabbed the wrong ones when I jumped back in my bed.
Yamamoto laughed and pulled his jeans on.
Gokudera jumped up. "Don't put your pants on! Give me my boxers back!"
"Hah- nope. Yours are nice."
"Damn it, baseball idiot!" Gokudera snarled, blushing. "Give 'em here!"
"Na uh," Yamamoto said stubbornly. He couldn't help but smirk.
Gokudera pounced on him and knocked him down on his bed. He grabbed his pants at the waist and pulled on them, but Yamamoto squirmed and giggled.
"Ah! Don't tickle me!" He laughed.
"Huh?" Gokudera said, stopping in his confusion. "You're ticklish?"
Yamamoto nodded. "Very much so."
Gokudera sat back, straddling his legs. "Hm," he huffed thoughtfully. He took a finger and wiggled it along the flesh under his bellybutton, making Yamamoto giggle and squirm. He smirked and started tickling him with both hands. Yamamoto shouted out in surprise and started laughing and thrashing about.
"No… fair," Yamamoto gasped through giggles.
"You're the one that's trying to run off with my boxers," Gokudera reminded him, stopping so Yamamoto could breathe.
"You're the one that took mine in the first place," Yamamoto said breathlessly.
"I didn't mean to!" Gokudera snapped.
"I really like that you're sitting on me," Yamamoto grinned.
"Shut up," he said turning pink. He pinned Yamamoto's arms on either side of his head. "I can't believe I really like you…" he muttered leaning down to press their lips together.
Yamamoto responded eagerly. They kissed for a moment when suddenly the door flew open. Gokudera looked up and froze as he saw Reborn standing in the doorway starring at them.
"Gah!" He cried in horror, jumping back. "It's not what it looks like!"
Reborn raised an eyebrow at him.
"Er… Yo," Yamamoto said awkwardly as he sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Put your clothes on and come outside," Reborn said with a roll of his eyes. "We're all waiting." He walked out and closed the door muttering something about "stupid teenagers."
"Shit, shit, shit," Gokudera said hiding his face in his hands.
"They were going to find out at some point anyway," Yamamoto said hesitantly.
"Fuck!" Gokudera yelled angrily and stood up. He started dressing quickly, forgetting about the boxers.
Yamamoto quickly finished dressing too.
"Look, I'm sorry," Yamamoto said as Gokudera made to leave.
Gokudera looked at his feet for a moment. "We can't do this anymore," he muttered.
"What? Why not?" Yamamoto cried.
"Because it's a bad idea!" he growled. "I'm supposed to be the tenth's right hand man- not some faggot!"
Yamamoto frowned. "You're the only guy I've ever been attracted to in the 18 years I've been alive and Tsuna won't think of you differently when he finds out about us!"
"How the hell would you know?" He yelled. "And there is no us. I never said we were going to be together."
Yamamoto looked hurt by these words and he had to look away.
"I have to stop Reborn from telling him," Gokudera said and left.
He ran out of the old house and found Reborn waiting for them.
"I sent Tsuna and Ryohei along already," Reborn said.
Gokudera fell on his knees in front of him. "Reborn-san! Please don't tell the tenth what you saw!" he begged.
"I'm not, but Tsuna isn't going to look at you any different if he knew."
"I can't risk it!" Gokudera cried.
Yamamoto came out of the house looking miserable and Gokudera ran to catch up with Tsuna.
They got back to Tsuna's house late that night after a rigorous training session with Reborn. They were all tired and Ryohei had already headed home.
"I'm going to head home too, Tsuna," Yamamoto told him before they went inside.
"Okay, see ya!" Tsuna said. He frowned when Yamamoto was out of sight. "There's something wrong with Yamamoto. He hasn't been himself today."
Gokudera looked at his feet, feeling guilty. They heard Tsuna's mom calling him, so he ran inside.
"Gokudera," Reborn said before he could slip away. "What did you do?"
He inwardly groaned. "I broke it off with him… whatever it was," he said unable to look at Reborn. "I told him we couldn't be together."
"You like him though, don't you?" Reborn said watching him closely.
Gokudera's cheeks turned pink. "Sure, he's a good friend."
"You know that's not what I meant."
He sighed. "I... yeah I like him, but-but- I'm not gay! I've never been attracted to a guy before!"
Reborn raised an eyebrow. "You don't have to label yourself as gay or straight. If you like someone then that's all that matters. Tsuna won't judge you. You should know that by now."
"Yeah, okay," he said hesitantly. "I'll talk to Yamamoto tomorrow. Tell the tenth I said bye."