They meet in high school and for the first half of the school day they're friends, and then at lunch Minato is certain that giving Ryoji a blowjob in the school bathroom is going to get them both expelled, but they do it anyway. And for the next few months, into junior year, they're still friends, best friends, without benefits, and a blowjob in the bathroom or anything beyond that never happened again until Ryoji grabs Minato's ass one day and the next thing they know they're making out in the hallway.
The next week they're holding hands and sharing hugs and kissing each other's cheeks and the only comments they get are "you guys are so cute" and other dumb stuff that makes Minato embarrassed and Ryoji's cheeks bloom red and tease his sort-of boyfriend for it. Yukari, his ex-girlfriend, looks at them like they're one of Aphrodite's most perfect pairs. Teasing is from Junpei, the wanna-be baseball player, and hostility is from Aegis, the Greek transfer student who has a vast knowledge of robots and weapons, who has been telling Ryoji he's a hazard or something and clinging onto Minato like he's a lifeline since day one. Minato tells Ryoji that maybe if he wasn't trying to make a move on him every time he moved, maybe Aegis would like him more and Ryoji just responds with if Minato were more of a PDA type then she would calm down.
Three months before they graduate from high school, they're rooming together in a small apartment complex that underwent construction the previous year. The pea green colours of the exterior walls are hideous but the water does not come out tinted a brownish-yellow because of the rust and all the residents are very quiet so that you could hear the overweight cat from across the street shove its way through the cat door if you got your ears watered out and paid very, very close attention. The only noise they ever get is the leaf blower, the occasional moving truck and every Saturday morning one of the Mormon kids from Building C screaming.
The residents are as quiet as they are friendly. In 203, right next to their residence of 204, are a couple that consists of a music-loving, socially awkward boy named Yosuke and his extremely polite boyfriend Souji, who insists on inviting them for Christmas every year for reasons that remained undisclosed other than "my uncle is very busy with his detective work", but nonetheless they have, essentially, become good friends and are now beyond stiff friendly neighbour talk to the point where Ryoji has, in the past, shamelessly hit on Yosuke, which resulted in Minato quickly changing the topic to how they have now apparently adopted a cat that showed up outside the apartment door for no reason one day and how they have named it Harold.
it's really just a brief look into their lives which doubles as both sex and love because i said so.
since i suck at describing things harold is your run-of-the-mill brown tabby who only got into the apartment because they live on the first floor and the door was left open and it started scratching on their door because i wanted it to
when i lived in my apartment the building walls got painted a nice orange and some nasty puke green or at least everyone found it exceptionally unpleasant but me (it wasnt that bad ok 8( )? and there were kids from the building across who would scream every morning but i think they were indian LOL i just sounded like an ignorant douchebag who assumes the east is chinese people and terrorists
