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Fic title: Twenty Five Fireworks And So.
Chapter title: Scented Oil.
Summary: He only knew her back, and she only knew his hands.
Timeline: AU 12YL. They both are 26.
Notes: I checked out Japanese girl names that were like Hayato but I found none, so I chose Hayase because it has a meaning that fits and it's kind of nice :D

Twenty Five Fireworks And So

Scented Oil

If there was one thing that was known about Sawada Tsunayoshi, it was that his love life sucked oh so very much (probably because of his horrible luck and the fact that he was being tortured everyday by his boss).

But even so, he shouldn't get this way about an elder lady.

An elder lady who has an extremely gorgeous back.

*mental slap*

No, he can do this! He's a professional, he could handle clients of any nature whatsoever.

"Ah..."

Though it would really help if she did not moan like that.

"I'll bring some oil," he said, which was a total lie because everything he needed was in the table next to him.

"Just do it with the one you have," the elder lady said in return. "Continue, please..."

Oh God, the way she said that 'Please' has to be illegal.

Not trusting his mind to argue with her at this moment, Tsuna continued the massage, pleading inwardly for the session to end.

"Oh, there. Right, there...!"

He started to weep.

The Dying Wills was a small, unpopular spa that a family friend called Reborn (aka: the demon) owned. Being the good friend he was (he wasn't), he told his parents that he would let Tsuna work there after graduating high school, and took it upon himself to teach him all about the fine art of massaging.

And needless to say, the years he spent working under that boss of his were horrible and full of torture.

Reborn didn't care though.

Through the years, Tsuna learned that the clients that frequented here were always from the elderly for some unknown reason. He has yet to see a person younger than fifty entering through the spa's old doors. He didn't mind it actually, they were very nice people that he loved to meet everyday.

"Good morning I-Pin," he smiled when he saw the teen who greeted him with a returned smile. She started working here as a receptionist a week ago to help her getting money for college. He wished his neighbor's son, Lambo, would follow her example. "Any clients yet?"

"Yes, there's a lady in waiting for a massage," I-Pin said. "She's very be-" she was cut off by the sound of the phone ringing.

I wonder what she was about to say.

Nodding in understanding, Tsuna headed for the room his client was in.

He didn't know that from this day onwards, he'll start hating himself for being very attracted to an elder lady (who might have grandchildren and a loving family for God's sake!).

No, he didn't know.

If there was one thing that was known about Gokudera Hayase, it was that she was utterly workaholic. Being a chief editor for a high profile magazine would make a person that way.

It was when she began spacing out in the middle of meetings, that her assistant, Yamamoto, advised her to take a break and told her about a great spa his father goes to every week. She only agreed on it because he said the place was rather unpopular, so the chance that she would stumble on people in the same business was slim (they were quite annoying actually). She was also stressed like hell and her body felt like it has been blown up several times over, and the thought of a massage was very appealing at the moment.

So no one could really blame her for moaning like she did when some very capable hands worked on her back.

"K-Keep it up...!" forever, she urged inwardly.

Really, no one could blame her.

Hayase was feeling very embarrassed about herself when she was out of the spa, so much that she didn't take the chance to look at her masseuse (he did have a fantastic backside though, a fact that she learned upon seeing him bending over to pick out something that fell down). She wasn't one to make such sounds whenever she was being massaged before.

Maybe I should try again? Just to see if it was him or that I may have been ill or something...

She did try again.

And again.

And again...

It was him.

Damn, it was him.

And with every visit, she found herself moaning for entirely different reasons that didn't have anything to do with her stress.

To get himself out of the gutter whenever she stops by, Tsuna started random conversations with her. And he learned more about her along with that. Like the fact that she was into music, and the fact that she has blown up her chemistry classroom when she was in high school, on purpose. She was kind of snappy (he heard her yelling at her assistant when he called about a story leak), but she was overly smart (she spoke in what seemed to be foreigner metaphors sometimes when she tried to explain something to him).

She was really interesting, and very fun to be around and talk to.

So in addition to being physically attracted to her, he found himself getting mentally attracted to her, too.

I'm so going to hell for this...

To get herself out of the gutter whenever she stops by, Hayase started responding to her masseuse's polite questions and asking ones herself in return.

His life was either utterly pitiful or absolutely hilarious, she learned (she held back a laugh when he dramatically complained about how he got into this business, the guy was really traumatized, it's not polite to laugh at him and say, 'Seriously, your life sucks'). And somehow, with time, she found him more and more intriguing.

So yeah, I'm having a crush, now, after all these years.

Damn it...

It's just so destined that an attraction that is being held down by shackles of guilt by one and embarrassment by the other, will someday come to a boiling point.

His boiling point...

"Would you like a date with me? If you don't have a husband and grandchildren of course! I'm sounding like a creep now, right? You know what? Forget that I said anything! I was joking, yea-"

He let out a gasp when she turned around and he saw her face, finally, after six months.

"Y-You're young?!"

Her boiling point...

"Do you give out private sessions? I would like one, in my bedroom... I'm not creepy, honest!"

She didn't know what has gotten into her, but she just turned around to see him, finally, after six months.

"Wow, you're attractive..."

Silence.

"Well, this is awkward..."

"So...?"

"Yes."

"Thank God, I don't have to dream about it!"

"..."

"I probably shouldn't have said that."

"It's alright, it's the same for me too."

So, after a month of dating (they were all over each other, much to Hayase's co-workers' horror upon seeing their Ice Queen of a boss sighing dreamily randomly) Tsuna suddenly said, "About your question, yes."

Hayase was confused at his words, "What do you mean by that?"

"I give out private sessions, only in your bedroom though."

Okay, I'll just leave you all now...

See you next time?