A/N: I did promise an update. So here it is. I did say I was going to finish the second part the last time, but I didn't have enough time to write something every day so just bare with me and my 1 1/2. Next part is part two, this is just a little transaction to that. I won't take forever for an update next time...I hope :)

Chapter 20

A View From the Other Side 1 1/2

By the time Kasamatsu and Kise managed to get to the front of the school, their bodies decided to give out. Playing a practice game with Serin was like making a deal with the devil. It was exhilarating, fun, challenging, but the consequences at the end were deadly, neither team wanted to lose and that's what they strived for, every time, and every time they played together they never really learn their lesson, ignoring it for the gist of the competition. Kasamatsu's body gave out a few minutes ago in the locker room, but he pushed himself to make it out of the school and make it to the nice cold car that was waiting for them at the school gates, but eventually his body gave out and now the only choice he had was to lay against the wall, motionless. On the other hand, Kise kept on walking, he barely made it out of the school before he dramatically collapsed onto the floor and stayed there.

"Kise," Kasamatsu said, voice raspy even though he downed a whole bottle of water. "Kise, ge-", Kasamatsu heavily sighed, speaking was a chore in the condition he was in. Kasamatsu rested his head against the wall, taking in slow breaths, he wouldn't mind falling asleep in the hallway, but sooner or later a security guard will come find them and force them out. Kasamatsu really didn't want to deal with over obnoxious people at the moment, so without thinking about it, he shifted himself to the side, pushing his body up by his hands and with the support of the wall. Standing up seemed more like a fight, his legs were weak and shaky, making him depend on the wall for walking. It was a miracle that his duffel bag and bookbag managed to stayed on, if they had fallen off Kasamatsu wasn't about to bend over to pick them up, if he did, he certainly knew he would collapse again and at that time he was going to stay on the floor until the security guard would have to drag him out of the school. Kasamatsu slowly made his way to Kise, taking a small step at a time, using in all the support the wall gave. Once he reached him and without a word Kasamatsu kicked his side once and when Kise didn't respond he kicked him once more, harder. Kasamatsu kept this up until Kise responded. "I'm up," he said, his voice muffled by the floor. Kasamatsu took a long swallow, feeling the aching pain for his need of water,"Get up" he said. Kise grunted, moving his body so that his knees were propping him up. Kise's face was a deep red, making him look more like a tomato with brightly colored hair. Kasamatsu refrained from making a snarky comment about it, instead, he went back to focusing on moving to the front doors of the school.

His legs were refusing to work properly, they didn't want to support his weight, and Kasamatsu was nearing the end of the hall. It took him about fifty seconds from Kise's dead body to reach the front doors. Kasamatsu was reluctant to let go. The image of him relaxing in the nice cold car was giving him just a small spark of energy to let go, and he did, only to gravely regret it in the end. Kasamatsu took a step forward and started to sway, his legs giving out, Kasamatsu was ready to collapse, planning to grip the front door handle. Instead, he felt a pair of big arms wrap around his waist. Quickly looking to his side Kasamatsu saw Kise. "How the fuck" Kasamatsu said, not understanding the mere fact of how Kise was standing, standing as if no game had happened today as if he didn't collapse on the floor just a few seconds ago. "I don't know. I think it's the size difference" Kise simply stated. Kasamatsu was going to say something back to him, but decided against it, he didn't want to to give Kise a reason to let go of him and have his face meet the concrete. "Just move."

Kise gave him a smile and slowly started walking, pulling Kasamatsu with him, while Kasamatsu pried his legs to move along with him. Three minutes later, they both ended up at Kise's car. From what Kasamatsu could see from the window, Kise's father was busy doing something on his phone to realize that they had shown up. Kise opened the back door, to only scare the crap out of his father. Kise snickered, while his father just stayed paralyzed, phone in his lap. "Got scared there?" Kise said as he softly pushed Kasamatsu inside the car. Before Kise closed the door, Kasamatsu uttered a soft 'thank you' in which Kise happily replied back with a "No problem". Once the car door was closed Kise harshly opened the passenger seat door, throwing himself in and slamming it in the process. "Please, stop slamming the door. One of these days you're going to pay for the insurance" Kise's father said as he started the car. "I'm just making sure it closes okay"

"BY slamming the life out of it?"

"Yes"

Kise's father gave him a dull stare before fiddling with the radio controls. A few seconds later Kasamatsu felt the nice draft of cold air coming out of the small air vents. The nice coldness relaxed his weak and tired body.

"I got your things." his father said, passing Kise a small bookbag, "I'm picking up your mother at work, so just shower, or change or whatever at Kasamatsu's house. You don't mind, do you?"

'Yes' "No," Kasamatsu responded. Kise turned around in his seat to face him, "Really you don't mind, Senpai". It took everything in Kasamatsu's body to not curse at him, he gritted his teeth, shaking his head in a poor attempt of a no. Kise gave him a small smile, turning over in his seat. Kasamatsu sighed, rolled his eyes and shifted himself as much as possible to be pressed up against the door. He took a quick look outside, the passing trees seemed like a blur, along with the everyday pedestrians on their daily tasks. Kasamatsu leaned back into the seat. Closing his eyes, a few minutes later Kasamatsu drifted off.

"Senpai", "Kasamatsu Senpai"

"Tugg on him"

"I'm not asking to be beaten. Doesn't he look so cute like that" As if on cue, Kasamatsu woke up, well more as in opened his eyes, since he wasn't truly asleep. Kasamatsu had woken up three minutes ago due to an idiot Kise, blasting up the radio, that ended up scaring the living hell out of Kasamatsu. And just a few minutes ago he tried to fall back asleep, which didn't come easily. "Did you say something?" Kasamatsu asked, to a slowly reddening Kise. "Nope, nothing, nothing at all. Um...lets get moving...I guess" Kise smiled at Kasamatsu, quickly moving away. All Kasamatsu did was roll his eyes. He reached for his duffel bag, pulling it out of the car first before shifting his body over to the very corner of the seat. He pushed, stumbling to the pavement. Luckily his legs worked again, and he soon regained his balance. He shut the car door, reaching into his back pocket of his bookbag to retrieve his keys. Kasamatsu started walking, never giving Kise a glance as he made his way to the front porch. He unlocked the door, carefully placing his keys on the small coffee table that held the family mail. "It's been a while. Still looks the same" Kise commented behind him. "Yeah, sure. Whatever Kise. Not like you remember every inch of this place" Kasamatsu said walking up the stairs. "Actually -"

"Shut it, I don't want to know. Just go fucking shower. And after you shower, you will quietly sit on the couch DOWNSTAIRS and wait until I'm done. Got it?" Kasamatsu added, looking over to Kise, who was still near the first step. "Or we can save so much time if we just shower together. I mean, you've seen me naked, I've seen you naked. J-just think about it"

"First of all, I have never seen your nasty ass naked. Secondly, my house my rules, thirdly, get your ass up here before I whip you to death"

Once Kasamatsu finished talking, Kise ran all the way upstairs, slamming a door. Kasamatsu smirked and finished walking up the stairs. He entered his room, sliding his duffel bag off his shoulder and to the floor, then shrugging off his backpack towards his bed. He then went towards his dresser, opening the third drawer, fishing out a pair of baby blue swim trunks. He went to the top drawer, getting a pair of underwear because Kasamatsu wasn't about to go commando. In the last drawer, he took out a dark navy blue tank top. Kasamatsu then settled down on his bed.

He didn't really have the energy to go to the beach. After that excruciating game, all Kasamatsu wanted to do was lay down and sleep until the next day. But he was now stuck on this beach plan, and if he backed out last minute he really didn't want to see Kise's pained face, acting as if everything was okay when Kasamatsu knew it wasn't. Kasamatsu sighed. This whole feelings thing, was harder than it played out to be in soap operas, and anime and all that bullshit. It all went the same, shy girl likes bad boy, or geek, or jock. She confesses her feelings, and in a matter of seconds, it's a happily ever after, but all that was nonsense. Even Kasamatsu thought so, but he really wished life was like that, that simple, so easy. But that's never going to happen. He himself wasn't great with the so-called 'feelings' situation, he wouldn't really know if he had any feelings for someone else, to begin with. Well, Kasamatsu wasn't that dead inside, but to have feelings for a man, wouldn't it be different? He just didn't know. If Kise just confessed to him and a miracle of whatever happened that lead Kasamatsu to say yes, that would be, something. But it wasn't that easy and it wasn' t going to happen that way.

Kasamatsu also didn't want to crush the boy. He was leaving in a few months, Kasamatsu would be long gone and he had told Kise he would have an answer by then. Kasamatsu didn't want to see Kise's anguished face, in fact, he hated seeing that face. He didn't want to have him cry, which he would, he didn't want to see him be miserable or in best terms, know he's miserable while finishing high school, if only Kasamatsu could say yes. But, but he couldn't and that's the most frustrating part of it, that he didn't know why he couldn't say yes. No one was stopping him, he was stopping himself for whatever reason it was and that shit was frustrating enough.

"Kasamatsu senpai!"Kasamatsu thoughts were broken. He stood up calmly walking towards the bathroom. "What!" he basically yelled. "I need a towel" Kise answered. Kasamatsu growled. He stomped his way over to the small closet that was located a few inches away from his parent's bedroom, he tugged at whichever towel he found, to only have a bunch tumbling down to the floor. Kasamatsu walked back, shoved the towel at him, "When your done wiping your ass, go clean the mess of towels over there"

"But, but"

"No buts" Kasamatsu said, walking back into his room. He sighed, passing his hands through his hair. A minutes seconds later, Kise appeared at his doorframe. Hair wet, no shirt on and shorts unbuckled. Kasamatsu quickly turned around, coughing. "Sorry, I forgot some things," Kise said. Kasamatsu went over to his dresser, randomly finding one of the posters there highly interesting. He heard some shuffling and then "I'm done"

Kasamatsu quickly turned around, taking the towel Kise just had, taking his clothes and rushed over to the bathroom. Once he was inside, he threw his clothes on top of the toilet lid, the towel on the floor. He took a quick glance at the mirror, his face red. 'No' Kasamatsu said, 'it's just really hot today'

After Kasamatsu's shower, he hastily put on his clothes, throwing his school clothes in the hamper. He opened the door, towel in hand. The colossal mess of towels was cleaned up, and he was kind of grateful that Kise ended up doing it. When he entered his room, Kise was lying on his bed, playing around with what looked like a small stuff animal. "Wow. You're such a big boy!" Kasamatsu said as he placed the towel near the edge of the bed. Kise gave him a small glare, turning back to what he was doing. Kasamatsu then went over to his closet, pulling out some sandals to wear. He put them on, went over to his dresser, put on some deodorant, and body lotion. After he finished, he went over to his bed, sitting on the edge since Kise took up most of it. "You can call your dad we're done and...stuff" All Kise responded with was a hum. "He texted me, well I texted him. Just tenish more minutes"

"Tenish? Right?"

"SO, how's life?"

"None of your fucking business"

"Why are you so hard to conversate with?"

"It's not me, it's...you," Kasamatsu said, hissing at the end. He stood up, for no reason at all. Kise gasped,"Baby no. Don't this, I'll change.I-I promise!" Kasamatsu let the baby thing slide and played along. He smiled. Without turning his back he responded, "I can't. You'll never change, I know that and so do yo- JUST let me go"

"NO! You can't do this! Is it because of BELLA!" Kasamatsu could feel Kise tug on his arm. "Bella has nothing to do with this, you fool. You just can't accept it, can you? You're a pathetic excuse for a man!"

"Honey, Please" Kasamatsu was tugged with more force, making him tumble back onto the bed. Kise scooted up forward, wrapping his arms around him and started to do a high pitch whine and a bogus crying act that soon turned into laughter as Kise buried his face into Kasamatsu's torso. Kasamatsu couldn't help but laugh along. After their laughing session, Kise moved up higher, to the point in where Kasamatsu could feel Kise's hot breath on his neck. "Didn't you say -"

"Nooo, this is going to be so hard. Starting from the beginning again, starting all over. You should give me some leeway"

"You ask for too much you know that?"

"Yes. But for a good cost. Love"

"Stop before I throw you off the bed" Kise stuck out his tongue. He moved his head over to rest on Kasamatsu's neck. It was quite. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of the air vents out in the hallway. It was nice, Kasamatsu thought, being there, laying in bed, with... Kise. Kasamatsu groaned. It was hard to admit that, that he was enjoying this cuddly thing with Kise, but in a way it was some type of progress.

Kasamatsu shifted his head to the right. Looking out towards his clean room. There wasn't really anything to talk about, well Kasamatsu just really didn't want to engage in any conversation, just laying there was fine enough.

A few minutes passed by and Kasamatsu slowly drifted off to sleep, but as soon as his body relaxed it tensed up. It felt weird very weird and Kasamatsu knew exactly what it was. On his neck, he could feel the warm wet swipe of a tongue. Kasamatsu abruptly sat up shoving Kise to the side. He quickly wiped his neck with his blanket. "What, the fuck," he said menacingly. "Your neck is very tempting" was all Kise said back to him. Kasamatsu was about to blow up when Kise's phone rang, disrupting him. 'Lucky bastard'.

"Hello?" he answered, "Yea. Oh...Okay. I know. Bye," Kasamatsu removed himself from the bed, stretching his sore muscles. " My dad's downstairs. You don't mind if I leave my stuff here and come get it later right?" Kasamatsu just gave Kise a shrug. He walked out of his room and over to the small closet, carefully pulling a towel out from the stack Kise nicely folded back. With a towel in his hands, Kasamatsu made his way downstairs and to the front door. He took his keys and opened the door. He waited a few seconds more for Kise to step out of the house when he did Kasamatsu turned the lock over, moving the door handle to the right and left, making sure it locked properly. Once that was over with, he closed it and made his way over to a glaring Kise. "You are such a baby, you know that. It's just your mother."

"So. You can't tell me that you've never hated one of your parents at a certain time"

"Okay...maybe..yes. But your are always like this when she's around"

"No. This is just a phase" Kise said as he gave Kasamatsu a bitchy look, all Kasamatsu did to that was flip him off. He made his way over to the car, getting in, leaving the door open for Kise to enter. "Mother," Kise said, as he slammed the car door closed. "For god sakes Ryouta!" his father said. Kise's mother looked at both of them from the rear view mirror, smiling at both of them. "Kasamatsu, nice to see you again. Ryouta, that's no way to greet someone, especially your mother"

"HI, mom"

She gave them one last smile before looking over to Kise's father. They both started talking about something, but Kasamatsu wasn't too interested in what it was. He took a glance out his mirror for no apparent reason. He leaned back into the seat, head gently resting beside the headset. Kasamatsu wanted to get a few minutes of sleep, his body was feeling better now, but he was still tired.

"You gonna sleep?"

Kasamatsu lifted his head. Giving Kise a 'What do you think' type of look. Kise shuffled closer to Kasamatsu, resting the tip of his head against his shoulder. Kise gave him an uncertain look. Kasamatsu shrugged and leaned back down, trying his best to fall asleep.