Honest Advice (—in Honest Confession Series)

Fandom: Wild Life

Rating: T/15+

Genre: Humor-Romance

Pairing: Ryoto x Tessho + Hisataka

Disclaimer: Wild Life and its characters belong to Fujisaki Masato and him only. Luna only plays with them because they're interesting to play with.

Summary: "Hypothetically speaking, what will you do if your colleague suddenly say 'I love you' to you?" Hisataka could only stare at Tessho as if he had grown a second head.

A/N: I couldn't help but continue because the last fic seems unfinished ^__^. So, here it is , the sequel of Honest Confession. Enjoy reading~ *love*, and this time in Hisataka POV.

Warning: hints of shounen ai (Ryo x Tess; Hisa + Tess), the use of inappropriate language, possibility of oOC-ness character


Honest Advice

It was a fine morning day, Hisataka Kurachi had thought as he got up this morning. He felt fresh and feisty as he would go to work after a quick shower and a delicious breakfast; and didn't forget a cup of earl grey tea. He had finished a paper he was currently working on last night, and now he would finally be able to have some bonding time with his patient at R.E.D. again.

The dark haired glasses wearing veterinarian went to work with a delighted look on his face. He had come to get a hang on how to be a good doctor to his patients and their owners lately, thanks to (even though he hated to admit it) a certain blond haired vet that he claimed as his mortal rival, Tessho Iwashiro. Hisataka admitted that even though Tessho lacked off intelligence, he had a quite big heart and likeable personality… and he worked harder than everyone else to cure his patient no matter how impossible the task was, and secretly, Hisataka admired that particular side of his.

Not that he would say that out loud. Tessho was still a moron after all.

Hisataka nodded proudly at his perfect unnecessary monologue before he entered the hospital. When he went to submit some reports to his respectable Professor Ryoto, he stopped by the second division ward to greet his rival and might be, to harass him a bit. He didn't know why, but he still had a knack to tease the blond vet. Might be it was just his rivalry acting up, or he couldn't just leave him alone. Old habit died hard, Hisataka guessed.

"Good morning, Tess—?" Hisataka widened his eyes in a surprise as he entered the room and found the blond vet crouching at the corner of the room, hugging his own knees in that child-like manner and cloud of depression hanging above his head.

WTF?—Hisataka thought in wonder.

"Tessho, oi, what happened?" Hisataka entered the room and closed the door. He approached his depressed rival that wouldn't even regard his presence.

Slowly but surely, Tessho turned his pale looking face to Hisataka and suddenly, his eyes became teary. Histaka wanted to groan as he saw that kicked puppy-like expression. "Hisataka~!" and he even went as far as to reach the black haired veterinarian and hugged him desperately, crying.

"WHOAH! Wait a—! Tessho!" Hisataka couldn't help blushing at the sudden confusing act his best rival performed. "Te-…, hey…," Tesso really cried on his shoulder, he could even feel the wetness of his tears. Hisataka got really bewildered because usually Tesso was a synonym of craziness and cheeriness. Seeing the guy depressed was just as weird as seeing a turtle stand up and walk with two feet.

"What happened to you…?" Hisataka put his one of his hands on the slightly shorter vet's back while the other pushed his glasses up to place it more comfortably on his nose; and then let Tessho cry on his shoulder for some times before Tessho sniffed and released him slowly.

"Sorry, Hisataka, I just got really frustrated because I kept losing sleeps lately. Thanks to a certain annoying nightmare… and I can't even get it out of my mind until now," Tessho said, sighing and slightly forcing a grin on his face.

"You're such a bad liar," Hisataka said with a huff. "Hey, you can always tell me if something is bothering you," he said, not realizing that he just offered a help to Tessho, his lethal rival.

"Um…," Tessho looked away slightly, looking completely depressed again. "I don't think… this will be an interesting subject for you," he said a bit hesitantly.

"You won't know unless you try," Hisataka said slowly, shrugging and wondering if this subject was really a sensitive case to him.

Tessho was silent for a moment and sat on the chair beside the table and urged the black haired vet to sit beside him. Hisataka sat down now. "Hey, Hisataka… what will you do if your colleague suddenly say 'I love you,' to you?"

Hisataka threw the weirdest look ever. He widened his eyes and looked at Tessho as if he had grown a second head. "Excuse me?" He might have heard it wrong.

Tessho blushed slightly and shook his head. "It's just hypothetically speaking!" he said looking completely frantic.

"Eh…, hypothetically speaking huh…," Hisataka set his suspicious look at Tessho He hoped that it wasn't about him. "Like… hypothetically speaking that Seno-san said she loved you?" Hisataka asked again, trying to clear out the hidden meaning.

"Yeah, like that," unexpectedly, Tessho sighed slightly in a relieved look. It seemed that, that wasn't the case.

"Well, what do you think about her, then? Do you like her?" Hisataka asked.

"Eh…, I am not sure…," Tessho bit his nail and thought hard; it seemed. He had that serious hard face, just like when he was thinking his best to cure his patient.

"Do you dislike her then?" Hisataka asked again.

"No! He's a great veterinarian and I admire him!" Tessho said surely.

Hisataka widened his eyes as he heard that. A veterinarian… and 'him'?—he thought in disbelief.

Tessho looked up at Hisataka when he got silent and it seemed he realized what he had just said and made that 'Crap!' look while covering his mouth.

"It's a 'he,' Tessho?" Histaka paled slightly and Tessho made that almost crying face again. No wonder he had a nightmare. A gay guy just hit on him, that must have been a dreadful experience… wait, he said a colleague… that meant… He was in R.E.D.!?

It can't be…!—Somehow, only a certain silver haired professor that came into Hisataka's mind.

"Tessho, don't tell me… it's Professor Ryoto?" the taller black haired vet asked, still with that pale dreadful expression.

Tessho almost fell from his seat when he shot up. "How did you know tha—!?" he had almost screamed even, if Hisataka didn't cover his mouth immediately.

"Moron! You're making a scene!" Hisataka hissed slightly at the blond, annoyed. Tessho made that almost crying face again and Hisataka sighed slightly in defeat. "Easy, just calm down…," he said slowly and Tessho nodded slightly before Hisataka released his hand from the guy's mouth.

"So, Professor Ryoto said he loved you," Hisataka said and Tessho nodded with pale look. "Isn't he always telling you that?" Hisataka planned to joke it out, but Tessho's face which turned at him showed nothing but horror and bewilderment.

"When, where, how?" Tessho asked with an awful expression.

"He always teases you and hits on you, right?" Hisataka said again.

"He does that to everybody! It's just a joke!" Tessho said with a nervous look, sweating profoundly.

"Well… he indeed is the type of person who will joke like that… but I actually never see him hit on others who don't show an interest in him…," Hisataka said while thinking slightly.

"Are you telling me I have interest in him!?" Tessho threw a glare at Hisataka scarily.

"Do you?" Hisataka asked with a more serious look. He looked straightly into Tessho's eyes and the blond twitched a bit. "I don't mean it that way, Tessho. Professor Ryoto doesn't just hit on everybody. The girls just keep flocking on his arms; he doesn't even try to hit on them. He just flirts so he won't disappoint them." Hisataka continued.

Tessho pouted at him. "You're just taking his side because you favor him, Hisataka! You read him too much! He's just a teaser whose hobby is slacking off in the middle of the work! And he's an old man! A pervert!" Tessho panted heavily after spitting out all of his frustration. "A sly bastard…!" He then scratched his head curtly, messing his hair.

"Why don't you just think that it's one of his jokes as usual?" Hisataka asked slowly.

Tessho jerked slightly and looked down. "He… uh… didn't look like joking… this time…."

Professor Ryoto was serious then. "And he invaded your head quite often, huh…?" Histaka asked pitying his rival. Professor Ryoto really messed this guy up quite badly.

Tessho stopped slightly and looked at Hisataka in desperate look. "What should I do…?" He was really in a great need of an advice, it seemed.

"Honestly, I don't know. If you don't feel the same, just turn him down," Hisataka said while shrugging.

"Are you insane!? This is RYOTO we're talking about! What will happen to my peaceful life if I do that!?" Tessho screamed with Goosebumps all over his body, a pale face, and a horror look.

Well, Tessho got a point. "Is that you're worried about?" Hisataka asked, sweat dropping.

"Of course! What else!? Just thinking how he would ruin my whole life everyday if I rejected him so blatantly makes nightmare keep coming every night! I can't even sleep even if I am so tired! If this goes on I'll die from frustration for sure…!" Tessho sighed weakly and slumped on the chair again before banging his forehead on the table. "I am so dead…!" he said awfully.

"Then just accept him, you don't hate him, do you?" Hisataka suggested.

Tessho made a face as if the world turned into hell. "Are you suggesting me to swing my straight life to that? I would have to endure OX#$^&*)_+)*&%$# if I accepted him, you know…!"

Somehow, Hisataka couldn't understand Tessho's language after the word 'under' and before the word 'if.' Slang words…? Or some foreign terms?

"Isn't that okay? You can't say it is bad unless you have ever experienced it," Hisataka said again, completely indifferent.

"You can say that because it's not your problem! Try to fit on my shoes, damn it!" Tessho hissed at Hisataka in annoyance now.

"Too bad, my foot is too big for your shoe," Hisataka said while looking at another way.

"You…! Are you seriously saying I should get together with him?" Tessho asked in an unbelievable expression.

"Just treat him like another girlfriend of yours. That's not too bad, right?" Hisataka said again with a nervous look. Tessho was such a pain in the ass indeed.

"What the hell!? How can I know what to do something as alien as that! It's outside my forte, damn it!" Tessho said in complete annoyance now.

"What…?" Hisataka then realized suddenly. "Don't tell me…, you've never dated a girl before?" he asked incredulously

Tessho blushed hard at that. "Well, sorry for being so unpopular," he gritted his teeth, irritated and embarrassed.

"Then you're still a virgin?" Hisataka couldn't believe this. Even a stoic guy like himself had one or two dating experience. Tessho was 25 for God's sake, and was still a freaking VIRGIN!?

"Mind your own business!" Tessho shouted at him, his blush deepening.

And here Hisataka thought Tessho was so popular with women… He was sure as hell that Seno-san, Tessho assistant, had a crush on Tessho, and that girl he claimed as his childhood friend who was her name again…? Hosho? She seemed had a feeling towards this guy as well. He guessed, he couldn't judge a book by its cover, then…

"Well, if you really don't know, why don't you give it a try? You can just tell him you want to try to work things out; and then, if you think it's impossible, just tell him so. I don't think Professor Ryoto will force himself to someone who isn't willing. That will be a crime, you know," Hisataka said with thoughtful words. He could at least persuade Tessho to follow his own feelings without having to talk to Professor Ryoto about this.

"Trying to work things out…?" Tessho looked at Hisataka with a confused look again.

"You can experiment with your sexuality first, Tessho. It's time to learn something new, right?" Hisataka smiled convincingly.

"It's a process of learning, then?" Tessho asked again, still unsure.

"Yep," Hisataka nodded slightly. If this could help ease Tessho's mind a bit, then it was worth lying…. Eh, he didn't lie. Who said he lied? It was a process of learning, even he thought that. Well, with some feelings involved indeed. But right now that wasn't necessary to talk about.

"Okay…, I'll try," Tessho said while looking down slightly.

Well, Tessho could at least get this out of his mind while he was working. "I'll submit my report to Professor Ryoto first," Hisataka stood and was about to leave when—

"Hisataka," –Tessho held up his doctor coat.

Hisataka turned back slightly. "What?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Uuh… don't tell Ryoto about this…," Tessho asked nervously.

Hisataka couldn't help chuckling at that. "Of course I won't. What are you thinking? It's our little secret," he said, smiling while wondering inside if he would get murdered by Professor Ryoto if he knew Tessho talked to him about this. Even if he adored his professor, that guy was as scary as hell sometimes… and he didn't want to mess with his property if Tessho had been claimed.

Hisataka had just realized what he had thought when he saw Tessho's grateful expression. He quickly turned his face away and walked out the door after Tessho released his coat.

Well, then… if Tessho hadn't been claimed, would Hisataka have wanted to mess with him?

"It's our little secret,"

Hisataka couldn't help blushing a bit when he realized how intimate that sounded like. It was as if he was a partner in crime with Tesso's adultery, cheating on Ryoto or something on that line.

No, Hisataka didn't just think that. He could deny all he wanted. But, he would admit that he had that little interest to build a relationship more than just rivals with Tessho. He was still an idiot though, but Hisataka didn't mind. Tessho could stay the way he was.

Tessho was an adorable idiot after all… Hisataka bet that Professor Ryoto was thinking the same. He seemed to understand a bit why his Professor was so interested in Tessho, because now he was experiencing the same feeling as him.

End of Honest Advice


A/N: I couldn't resist to make this one~ XDDD Having Hisataka's POV about Tessho and Ryoto and he actually encourages Tessho to be with his professor *loves* and with a secret crush to add the spices. Really, Tessho is too dense for not realizing how popular he is with women and men XDD. Well, I hope you enjoy reading this one as well ^__^. I hope I can make something again after this… the final round where Ryoto and Tessho can finally be together in the most innocent way I can make XD.

Oh, and of course… comments and reviews are highly appreciated ^_____^