They were back in Gokudera's flat before either of them bothered breaking the comfortable silence that echoed in the wake of Gokudera's confession. Tsuna spent the night there more often than not nowadays, so it wasn't a big issue. He was a big boy now, and Maman while initially uncomfortable in allowing her precious seventeen year old boy to more or less move into his boyfriend's house broke down with some well-placed begging.

"So…" Tsuna trailed off, his ears beet red and his body trembling slightly.

"So…" Gokudera said, his voice barely above a whisper and his heart in his throat.

"Umm…" Tsuna squeezed Gokudera's hand lightly and Gokudera felt his own ears start flaming.

They looked at each other and then away abruptly, their hands squeezing tightly, insistent and hot, even if the cold room.

Gokudera's words were swallowed by his dry throat and he licked his lips slightly to drag moisture over what felt like cracked, parched skin.

He felt like he jumped a mile in the air when one of Tsuna's hands tentatively reached up and pushed some hair out of his face. He ceased breathing for a moment as the other boy stepped into his vision, eyes confused and pleading for direction.

"…Hi…" Tsuna began, releasing Gokudera's hand and lacing his fingers up around the silver-haired man's neck instead.

"…Hi…" Gokudera managed to squeak out, feeling completely out of his area of expertise.

"So… so… are we going to… um… that is… tonight… or are we…?" Tsuna's face was vermillion by the time he was done and Gokudera knew his own was just as bright.

"Do you know how… I mean, I've never…" Gokudera stammered, his hands fluttering at Tsuna's sides and gradually managed to rest on the other boy's hips, even as he felt like Tsuna's skin was burning his through three layers of material.

Three… three if Tsuna was wearing underwear, but what if he wasn't?

Oh shit… if anymore blood rushed to his face, he was going to pass out.

"I've… looked it up… I guess, I mean, I was curious and…" Tsuna admitted, his face gradually fading and then flushing again when the boy's eyes met his own again.

"Oh…" Gokudera choked out, knowing that sweet oblivion was a few seconds away.

Tsuna had looked it up… Tsuna had wanted… it… oh shit…

"I'm going to…" Gokudera attempted to warn as his knees gave out and he collapsed backwards, dragging Tsuna on top of him.

"EEK!" Tsuna shrieked, howling with laughter as he landed on the as-of-yet-non-functioning form of Gokudera, who couldn't help but let out a chortle of his own.

"This is awful…" Gokudera moaned out, hiding his flaming face in Tsuna's large mass of hair.

"Kinda, yeah…" Tsuna admitted, his own fingers laced in Gokudera's hair as he shifted and found a comfortable perch above Gokudera's hips.

Gokudera had a few more seconds of peace before he realized that his hands were once more on Tsuna's waist and that Tsuna was staring at him intently.

"Ggrkle!" Gokudera put forth eloquently as Tsuna pressed his lower body down, directly against Gokudera's crotch, which instantly jerked up to meet the pressure.

"I… read about this too… this position that is… and sooner or later…" Tsuna trailed off, his face still red, but his eyes frustrated and curious and… determined.

"P-p-p-position…?" Gokudera gasped out, attempting to regain a few brain cells in his considerable stock, but unable to so much as remember to breathe as Tsuna lowered himself so that they were face-to-face.

"Mhm…" Tsuna nodded, his large eyes wide and expressive as always. They overwhelmed the obsessed second's vision and what should have been a blurry image was so clear it almost burned. "Kiss me?"

Gokudera nodded helplessly and traced his hands up from Tsuna's hips to his hair, lacing into the strands and brought Tsuna's mouth into connection with his own.

Oh shit…