One thing Asahi was never good at, was seeing you cry, he's heart would break into a million little pieces, then those little pieces would break into little pieces, then those pieces would break until there was literally nothing left and he felt like he was going to crumble with sadness. Everything about your crying face made him want to curl up into a ball and squeeze you and cry with you, the worst thing was seeing your face when you were about to cry, the way your bottom lip quivered and your eyes got bigger and your brows furrowed, everything about it was the most heart breaking thing in the world, he just wanted you to be happy. So when he saw you sitting on your couch, face in your hands, sniffling and rubbing at your eyes he felt like he'd fall apart. The first thing he did was run through a mental check list,
was it an important date today? No. Okay good.
Did he promise to take you out on a date today? No. Okay good.
Did you text him about something important, sad, or angry today? No. Okay good.
Did you fight with him recently? No. Okay good.
It must be something else. He walked slowly over to you and sat down, "hey.." He put his hand on your head, "hey what's the matter, you can tell me."
He felt you jump, probably startled, "it's just me." He promised gently carding his hands through your hair, trying not to completely fall apart. You pull your face out of your hands and look up at him he was completely unable to cope with seeing the person he loved in such a state. He held your shaking hands in his then he placed them on your shoulders, then cupping your face, and going back to entwining your fingers, unsure of what kind of physical contact- if any, would make you feel better. His face was clouded with worry as he got the his pressing question out of the way,
"are you upset with me?" When you quickly shook your head no, relife flooded over him, but the worry came back quickly, he wanted you to stop crying. "W-what's wrong then?" He peered down into your face, trying to mask his own worry, he didn't want to make you more upset. You tackled him down onto the couch in a tight hug and he allowed himself to be pushed back by you. He felt you bury your face in his neck, he hugged you lightly, still fearful of crushing you even after you were squeezing him with full force. He felt tears splash down onto the collar of his shirt, "please stop crying." He murmured into your hair, "come on, it'll be okay.." He started rubbing your back as you let out ragged breaths, you back rising and falling quickly. "Tell me what happened, I'll make it better.." You were hiccuping and huffing against him, holding tightly to his shoulders. You started to explain what had happened, the words tumbling out of your mouth, you explained you had found a box of kittens on the sidewalk on your way home, you were going to take them home with you but there were too many and you didn't know if Asahi had an allergy so you took them to a no-kill shelter and they started whining when you left and you really just wanted to take them home but there were so many of them and then you started thinking about the kind of person who would do this and it made you scared and you cried even more. It was in short, ridiculous. But your kindness melted his heart he sweetly and quietly hummed your name into your hair, rubbing the small of your back as the last of your tears escaped your eyes , your breath returned to normal, and your hiccups slowly reduced. You pick your head up and rub your cheek against his, he decided his heart really couldn't take much more of this.
"Do you feel better?" He asked quietly leaning into your touch. You nod and start peppering his face with kisses. He was a puddle underneath you. You held his cheeks in your hands as you showered his face in little 'thank you for listening to me cry about kitten' kisses.
He couldn't help the laugh that bubbled up in his chest, "ok, ok, I get it! You're welcome!" He moved his hands to your cheeks in an attempt to stop your kisses, "you're welcome." He huffed and you leaned down, kissing him sweetly. "You're too much sometimes." His eyebrows furrow, "I can't believe all this was over a few cats."
"There were so many of them though!" You whine, sitting up, "at least 10, who could do that?!"
Your bottom lip started to quiver and he started to wave his hands, "no no it's okay it's okay don't cry the kittens are going to get really great homes don't worry!" He sat up too, "everything is going to be okay so don't worry about it! I heard a friend of mine from middle school was looking to get a cat, I'll tell him about this I'm sure he'll adopt one or two!" Asahi was doing everything he could to stop the lip quivering. "A-and the guys from Nekoma might need a cute mascot! I'll tell the guys on the volleyball team about it! Don't worry about the kittens they're probably adorable they'll be adopted in no time!" Your head was in his neck again and you were nestling into him.
"Asahi.."
You yawned and he sighed, "you tiered yourself out."
"Mhhm." You yawn again and feel yourself being lifted up. He walked over to your bed and pulled your blanket down and set you on the bed. "Hey, let me go, I'll go get you a drink."
"Mhm.." You shook your head, refusing to remove your arms from around his neck, "come lay down with me.."
"You should drink something.."
"I don't wanna drink something...I wanna lay down with you..." You murmur letting your thumb run down his cheek bone.
"Come on..." He straightened up but ended up lifting you with him. "Just for a little while." He gave into you and laid down, he really only liked having you cuddle on top of him, he was afraid of squishing you, despite the amount of times you'd said you didn't mind it, and he was fine. He pulled you up onto him and you nestled into his chest, placing a few lazy kisses over his collarbones. His hands moved from you shoulders, to the small of your back a few times, with sweet long strokes. Eventually you fell asleep, your even breathing pushed away all his worry and the content little sigh that escaped your lips put him completely at ease. Your fingers slowly stopped twirling around the hairs that escaped his hair elastic and your hand came down to rest on his neck.
"You worked yourself up so much that you passed out." He sighed patting your back and eventually falling asleep himself.
so the cat thing is a true story but it happened to me with dogs last week, and I got home and was like sobbing about it, bc I really wanted these dogs but I already have two dogs, speaking of my dogs Stanley just got fixed and he's loving life in the cone, you could say I'm a pooch enthusiast. If you did know, I live right outside my state's capital city, so I head in there a lot to shop, and I used to go there to study with some friends I had in different cities since it was kinda middle point, but that's where I found the box of pups we took them to a lil shelter near my place and I think they're all okay, not sure if they're adopted or not.
