Hitouji Yuuji & Zaizen Hikaru
10 dates; #2: Gift
"Zaizen!" Yuuji shouted once he spotted the teen by the cafeteria. He saw Zaizen tense, then continue to walk, as if he hadn't heard him. Yuuji, who had raised his hand as if to reach out for his team-mate, lowered the hand and looked after the younger teen sadly. "Zaizen?"
"Yo, what's gotten y' so gloomy?"
Yuuji spun around, looking at Kenya. "Ah, well. I think Zaizen's avoiding me."
"Avoiding you?" Kenya tilted his head to the side. "Why'd he do that?"
"I sort of did... something stupid.." Yuuji squirmed and looked odnw. "Think he's mad at me."
"Hoooh..."
"Don't just 'hooh'. Tell me what to do!" Yuuji shouted, grabbing hold of the front of Kenya's red t-shirt. "I don't want him to be mad at me!"
"Okay, okay. First off, Yuuji, calm ya gotta calm down, 'kay?" Kenya pried Yuuji's hands off of him and held the sad-looking teens wrists in his hands. "Now, let's go somewhere and talk about this."
Yuuji nodded, letting Kenya lead him to the roof and seat him by the fence.
"So tell me, what happened?" Kenya asked.
Yuuji was silent for a while, then told him the whole story, ending with "and now I think he hates me, but I thought that he..."
"What?" Kenya crossed his arms. "You realize first now?"
Yuuji looked up at him. "Wh-what? What do you mean?"
Kenya rolled his eyes and lay down with his hands behind his head. "Geez, you're denser than Yuushi. Listen, you. He's liked you since like, first day he got here or somethin'. I've known him longer than you, since he was my kouhai at my old school, and he sort of, well, not act differently around you, but there's this look in his eyes."
"...Kenya..." Yuuji stared at his friend with wide eyes and mouth agape.
"What?"
"You're more observant than I thought." Yuuji stated, and Kenya shot up to sitting position. "Hey! I'm a really observant person!"
"...no, you aren't."
"Well, neither are you! Can't you just give up on Koharu and spare the kids feelings? And I'm not talking about Koharu now!" Kenya slammed his hand against the roof-floor and glared at Yuuji, causing the aqua-haired boy to bull back a bit at the intense stare. "K-Kenya... I.."
"You know you have to give up some day." Kenya said, his voice softer now. "Koharu isn't interested, and you know it."
Yuuji looked down and wrapped his fingers around each other nervously. "...I know..."
Kenya sighed. "Yuuji. I know you like Koharu, but.."
"I don't know, Kenya."
Kenya almost didn't hear what Yuuji said, because his voice was so low. "Hm?"
"I just don't know anymore.. The look on Zaizen's face... It.."
"Made you sad?" Kenya inquired. Yuuji shook his head.
"...scared."
Kenya's eyes widened and he tilted his head to the side. "Scared? Of what?"
"..I don't know.." Yuuji mumbled, shaking his head again. "..of losing something?"
Kenya slid over to him and gave him a hug. "It's not too late to fix things yet." Yuuji gripped the back of Kenya's blazer and buried his face against the other's shoulder. "Kenya..."
"Ah! Zaizen!"
Yuuji spun around onto his knees, and Kenya pointed. "There."
Zaizen was down at the school-yard, on his way somewhere. Yuuji flew to his feet and up to the fence and he would have climbed over if if Kenya hadn't grabbed his waist to stop him. "Zaizeeeeennn!" he shouted, and the tensai looked up towards the roof. "Zaizeenn! I'm sorryyyy!" Yuuji shouted at the top of his lungs. "Please talk to meeee!"
Zaizen made a dash for the school building, and once he disappeared from Yuuji's sight, Yuuji let go of the fence. The two seniors tumbled down onto the roof, and they both groaned. Kenya sat up and just as he was going to shout at Yuuji for being a suicidal idiot, the door to the roof slammed open and Zaizen, face ablaze and anger shining in his eyes, stormed up to Yuuji and pulled him up from the ground by a tight grip on the senior's shirt. "Are you an idiot? ! Are you trying to kill yourself or something? !" he shouted. Yuuji looked at him, stummed into almost silence. "I'm– I'm sorry, Zaize–"
"Shut up, senpai!" Zaizen snapped. "Just shut up!"
Yuuji closed his mouth and listened as Zaizen's frustration was shot at him. "You're such an idiot! Don't you fucking care about how I feel? ! I love you, senpai! But you always run after Konjiki-senpai who doesn't even care! Do you know how much that hurts? ! Why can't you just see me? ! When I love you so damn much! You're so stupid! Just- just fucking get out of my head! It's annoying! I can't think about anything else, damnit!" Zaizen took several ragged breaths and his head sank down against Yuuji's chest. "Y-you're so s-stupid... J-just g-get ou-t.."
Yuuji's eyes widened to an almost impossible size when Zaizen's body shook and a sniffle was heard. "Zai-zen..." Yuuji mumbled, then wrapped his arms around Zaizen, pulling him close. "I'm sorry." He pressed a light kiss to the top of Zaizen's head, and Zaizen froze. "S-senpai? Wh-why did you..?"
"I..Well... See it as a gift?" Yuuji asked nervously. "I... I'm really sorry.. I didn't know.. And that I hurt you.. I don't want to... Sorry.."
"You know," Kenya broke their silence, and they turned to look at him. "the teacher's've probably heard 'bout your attempt at flying, Yuuji. You should probably scram. Go on a date or somethin'."
"Wh-wh-wh-!"
"Hurry up, 'kay?" Kenya ushured them towards the stairs and they stumbled forward. "Kenya-!"
"Heheeeh~!" Kenya made the victory-sign with his right hand and winked. "Get going, blockheads."
End part 2