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Halfway to Nowhere

Chapter 4 - Do I Make You Sweat?

Akefia sat bored out of his mind in a meeting of the art and design tutors, surrounded by people he could barely tolerate walking past in the corridors let alone being forced into a room with them. Well, maybe there were a couple he could stand, but not many. In fact, probably only one of them, who he noticed was doodling in the notebook he was supposedly writing down the speaker's presentation in. The white haired man had no idea what the speaker was saying either. He'd tuned out quite quickly. He assumed it was another update about the systems and other technological crap he either already knew about or didn't care about.

"Akefia." His attention was gained when the Japanese man across the table spoke up. Looking around the tanned man saw people gathering their stuff to leave. "Lose your mind again?" The blue eyed brunette smirked.

"Oh I never had it, Set'. You know that." Akefia winked, collecting his own notebook and making his way out. He didn't want to delay too long, as he had a hot date with his favourite student, Bakura. Maybe not exactly a date, and the younger male hadn't even said he was coming, but he knew Bakura and knew to expect him around seven p.m that night. He didn't know why it was seven p.m but it tended to be around that time, rarely ever a significant amount earlier or later.

"What's the grin on your face for?" The brunette, Seto, walked beside him as he left.

"Oh, didn't even realise I was grinning." The muscular man admitted. "Just thinking about my plans for tonight. Total relaxation."

"Heh, wish I could say the same thing but I've got to do work for Aeria Games this weekend." Seto explained to him with his own small smile. "Good pay but an annoying about of work for a game that's pretty much free."

"Which one is it? The cute one or the angsty one?" Akefia asked, thinking back to the Aeria Games he could remember, which weren't that many. He didn't think too much of online games.

"There's more than just those two, idiot." Seto said almost fondly. "But I'm doing work for MegaTen. They need a few server bugs sorting out and a bunch of new items installed."

"Ah, wouldn't have a clue about that." Akefia admitted, turning down the corridor towards the car park and his Lexus SC.

"I often wonder how you write so damn much and yet have no clue about computers at all." The brunette shook his head in disbelief.

"It's called Word. The only thing I really need." Akefia winked at him before turning to go their separate ways, Seto to go back to his office while the tanned mixed-race man opened his car from ten feet away and got in, throwing his stuff onto the seat beside him while starting up the engine.

While he maneuvered around the car park, Akefia watched Seto walk across the courtyard nearby to get back into the main building. He smirked as he revved as he drove past, making the blue-eyed Japanese man jump slightly before glaring at him when he noticed who it was. The man gave him the finger as Akefia sped off, screeching around the corner at an almost illegal speed. He just wanted to get home and chill before Bakura came knocking.

The man drove in silence to his apartment, which was actually a fair distance away from the university itself but he liked the peace and quiet. It was on the edge of the main town, where rows of houses gave way to luxury apartments surrounding large open fields. Akefia often wondered why'd they had built such large apartments outside of the city, but he didn't really question it. There were only three buildings, with five floors each and two apartments to each floor. His own dwelling was on the top floor of the building closest to the park, overlooking the nearby river.

He pulled his car into the car park, parking right by the door since he was feeling lazy for once. He grabbed his bags, stopping at the trunk of his car to pick up a couple more that needed to be moved into his apartment and had been there for at least a week. "One of these days I'll be bothered to do things." Akefia muttered to himself, flashing his key over the panel by the front door while juggling all three bags, happy when the glass doors swung open automatically with a soft buzz.

He idly greeted one of the other tenants as she passed him, not really having any meaning behind his words and only wanting to get to his apartment to have a shower before Bakura arrived. Or maybe he'd pull the 'just out of the shower' trick again. When he answered the door dripping wet in nothing but a towel, Bakura was usually on him like a dog to a bone. Akefia smirked at the thought. Yes, he'd play that trick tonight, just to see how long it took for Bakura to pounce him. His longest record was ten minutes, with the shortest being only thirty seconds. It all depended on the young man's mood. However sometimes it was awkward to play that trick, since most visitors needed to call from downstairs to open the door. The white haired man just hoped that once again his student could just slip passed as someone was going out. Sometimes Bakura even just waited for someone to open the door, rather than call up. Again, it all depended on his mood.

Akefia's thoughts were interrupted as the elevator dinged, telling him he was on his floor. He strode over to his door the moment the silver metal slid open, jamming his key into the lock and dumping his bags just inside the doorway. He'd sort them out later, since nothing was of vital importance. He checked the clock on the wall, which read 17:56 in bright neon red numbers next to a large painting of a golden dragon. He had another hour to kill yet, so Akefia chose to devour the leftovers in the fridge before having the last of the coffee (which he needed to make a note of to get more) and then heading off to have a shower.

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