Disclaimer: XXXHolic doesn't not belong to me. It belongs to CLAMP.
Pairings: Doumeki Shizuka x Watanuki Kimihiro, slight mention of Fai x Kurogane.
Note: to avoid confusion
Conversation will be in this form.
Doumeki Shizuka: "Hey"
Watanuki: "Hey"
Chapter 7: Attraction is definitely not a problem.
After the ceremony, the food and drinks. A young girl approaches him and says she is to show him to his chamber. So, he can rest while the prince stay behind to entertains a few of the important guest.
Now. He is here in the room supposedly his, alone. "This is awkward". Watanuki says to nobody as he looks around the room. The room is devoid of any personal belongings except for a four poster king size bed decorates with red and white drapes and sheet with 2 side tables. A mahogany writing desk, if he is not wrong. He doesn't know much about carpentry but the desks looks similar enough to the one that Yuuko has in her study room. He still don't know why Yuuko has a needs for a study room when she never uses them. Watanuki shrugs.
What important is there is no personal belongings or artifacts in sight."Heh.." Watanuki smiles at his luck. Maybe. They don't share a room after all.
Right after he said that the door open wide and Doumeki enters the room casually, eyes locked on him. Watanuki mouth fall open and he licks his dry lips. Doumeki just stares at him with his intense golden brass eyes. Watanuki swallows nervously. Has his eyes always been this intense. He finds himself wondering.
After what feels like forever but actually probably a couple seconds, the prince finally break their stares only to turn around and close the door behind him. Click. The sound of the door locked echo ominously throughout the room. Watanuki repressed the urge to bolt. This is real. It is happening. The FIRST night.
"The right door is the attached bathroom". Came a monotone voice cutting his thoughts short. Watanuki blinks.
"Oh..okay."
"The left is the walk in closet. Your clothes has been prepared by Yuuko. They are on the left sides."
" R-right.."
Watanuki says distractedly. His previous worries forgotten.
To be honest he is half-afraid at finding out what kind of clothes that Yuuko has chosen for his closet. The main question is, 'Are they wearable?.' He sighs. At the very least-
He prayed with his eyes close. God please, let the clothes at least be decent and he didn't look like he had just walk out of red light district. When he open his eyes, he finds the prince is staring at him weirdly with a raised brow.
Again. What's with the staring? All they do since Doumeki enters is standing still and staring at each other. Hopefully, it is not going to be a whole night of this because he likes to get on with the program. NOT THAT. Watanuki mentally swats the thought away. He means sleep. Good nature sleep. Totally innocent sleeping. No touching involves and whatsoever.
Thankfully, the awkward silent was break by a knock on the door. Watanuki thinks it is a close call he was sure any seconds late he would have spontaneously combusts.
"Prince Shizuka." The voice outside timidly says. Enters. Doumeki command. Watanuki couldn't help but thinks he looks irritates by the way the corner of his mouth slightly is turn down. A young servant boy, enters the chambers in hesitantly fashion with his head bowed low. "There's a messenger requesting for an audience".
"At this late of night?" Doumeki asks. He has what Watanuki can only describe as a silent stares conversation with the young man for a few seconds before nodding. Half-way out the door, Doumeki stops at stares at him. "Just settle in". Doumeki says offhandedly before leaving.
Watanuki stares at the close door and rolls his eyes. Watanuki snorts. "He has just gets married. One would thought, that- at least his priority has change even only for the night". Watanuki jerks at his own word. He did not just says that. Like-like he is a pathetic housewife that doesn't get enough attention from her man.
Watanuki cross him arms defiantly. He doesn't care, a bit. It would be better if the prince is gone the whole night.
Watanuki stretches his arms to his side and stares at the beautiful silk kimono he's wearing and if he did twirl around a couple times on the spot. Well, no one has to know. Guess. He should get change into something more comfortable for bed, he suppose. He stares at the door to the bathroom. He should wash himself first.
Watanuki steps on the cold tiles floor and his eyes open wide at the image before him. The bathroom? Is was more like a tiny version of a bath house. Large enough to fit at least 5 grown man. He walks closer to the large tub and let the water run through his fingers. The water feels clean. Natural hot springs.
Watanuki shade his clothes, folded them carefully and place them on one of the empty rack his spots. Watanuki eyes are drawn to the cupboard next to it. A cupboard full of nothing but white linen. Curious. He pulls one, it turns out to be a bath cloth. Watanuki shrugs and wraps it around his waist. Then, he wanders to the next shelves. Towels. Of course. It makes perfectly sense, Watanuki smacks himself in the forehead. What else could they be? The rack next to it has yukatas hanging on neatly.
Rich bastards. Watanuki mumbles. Watanuki washes himself thoroughly with out of the many fragrant soap that lines up at the shower area, before stepping into the bath water. He sighs contently as he slowly submerge his body. He misses this. They also has hot spring bath back at the shop. Watanuki wonders why the left wing that they stay at doesn't have a hot springs bath.
Watanuki closes his eyes and savor the feeling of stress leaving his body only for his eyes to snaps open later when he heard footsteps outside the bathroom. Watanuki stands and look at the bathroom door. Doesn't it means Doumeki is back from whatever business he had left to attend to. Maybe he should get dress. He belatedly think. Then, the bathroom door suddenly open. Watanuki lets out a very manly shriek before dunking in the water.
Doumeki look a little surprise before he turns his back at him facing the shelves.
"W-what are you doing?" Watanuki questioned.
Geez, he knew that Doumeki...
Great. He has start calling the guy, Doumeki now in his head.
He gasps scandalously when he realize the prince starts undressing. He didn't even has a chance to finish his thought.
"W-what?" He chocked out. Why he is here? Why is he stripping? Watanuki internally panicked.
Doumeki stares at the boy face and raised an eyebrow. Well, the boy has been a little weird since they are small when Doumeki meet him when he is ten. He thinks the boy is more weirder now that he was before? Like if that even possible. Right now, the boy is staring at him open-mouth with a finger stupidly pointing at him.
"Taking a bath". He answer without a beat. "Isn't it obvious?" He asks the boy.
The prince says that while looking at him like he is weird.
He is not the weird one. The stupid prince with his stupid eyebrow and smirks, he is the weird ones here. Who goes around barging when someone is taking a bath without knocking first?
"I-i was here first". Watanuki says childishly. Watanuki certainly did not appreciate the condensing look the prince giving him.
It is a shame that the other boy was submerge in the water until his neck. He would appreciate seeing some skin. Doumeki shrugs and continues to get naked. He really did not understand why Watanuki is making a big deal out of it. Surely, he has went to a public bath house at least once before. No?When he thinks about the fact that the boy lived in the forest previously. Okay, he has got to admit. There's a high possibilities that the boy has never been to a public bath house before.
Taking bath together is normal. It is not weird.
But the way Watanuki is acting right now is making this seems weird. Now, he feels weird about taking a bath with Watanuki. He feels strangely excited and slightly nervous at the same time. Does that make sense?
Well, what he can say is. He certainly enjoy the thoughts that no one has seen Watanuki like this except him.
Watanuki blushes, realizing that the prince intents to take a bath together from the look of it. He quickly turns around when he saw the prince pulling as the last article of clothing that keeps him from being totally naked.
He hears the prince snorts. Watanuki sneers and mutters lowly, "Shameless bastard". He hears the shower turn on. Watanuki crinkle his nose distastefully. Still, he finds himself staring at the prince muscular tanned back a few moments later as the prince washes himself.
Grudgingly, Watanuki admits that the prince really has nothing to be embarrass about even from the back he could tell that the prince has a nice built. Watanuki gulps when the prince wash his hair and run his long finger through them washing the suds away.
Washing the suds away sexily. A voice in his head says.
Watanuki choose to ignore it and fake ignorance because like what they says ignorance is a bliss. And YES he wants to continue ignoring the fact that he thinks-
a part of him, a really small part of him finds the prince handsome dark look, his intense golden brass eyes and his smirks is very VERY attractive.
Watanuki feels heat flooded his cheeks and pooled lower down his stomach. He looks away immediately.
What he didn't know is Doumeki was actually watching him with the corner of his eyes the entire time.
Doumeki smirks. It is clear now that although Watanuki may not like him or harbor any romantic feelings toward him. He is at the very least attracted to him. It gave him something to work with. It makes Doumeki feels more confident of himself.
