21: A Best Friend and a Lover

The room was tense and Ogiwara really didn't want to be here. He didn't want to stand here and serve a tea to the person he hated, he didn't want to wait for words that may cause him a huge urge of punching the very person who had instilled the concept of absolution so deep within his core. Simple to say, Ogiwara hated being in the presence of one Akashi Seijuurou.

Akashi himself looked calm and composed, like nothing was wrong at all. If Ogiwara's agitation could be seen as clear as a day, Akashi's composure was as unclear as a moonless night.

"Your tea-making skills are terrible. Although it's hard for your brain's capability, learn a little better next time."

"You should be really grateful that I didn't put anything in. Haha."

Sparks were flying intensely between the two boys. But Ogiwara resigned and breathed an 'okay' when he noticed that Akashi won't relent at all.

Because he was, you know, absolute.

"Where do you suppose Tetsuya is going?" Now here comes the real reason why Akashi even summoned him. The sooner he got this done, the better. "I don't suppose, I know where he will be going. No doubt he's already in South now, trying to make peace treaties all the while avenging that wound." He pointed at the neatly-wrapped wound on the redhead's arm.

"He will do something especially reckless. That child really knows no boundary when it already concerns me..." A smirk rose slowly and Akashi looked so complacent about it. Ogiwara really wanted to slam this guy's head with a good chop, but he held his grin. "Yeah, he does." And I don't doubt that Tecchan will do the same for me. But I take better care of myself so.

"Go to him, Shigehiro. Take as much men as you want because I do think that Tetsuya have marched there without any men of his own. Stop him from doing things he might regret later."

You don't need to say that, I was going to do that anyways.

"Okay."

But he was powerless against this guy. Because just as he said, every card in his arsenal were useless if it's compared to Akashi's ace in the hole.

He loved Tecchan and Tecchan loved him, but he just happened to be in love with his brother as well. It's not Tecchan's fault, nor was it anybody else's. It was just something Ogiwara had to deal with if he wished to stay with his most precious person.

Haizaki Shougo was a man of pace.

He did everything his own pace, he created them himself. He liked being in control of his life, as well as other people's, and that was why meeting Akashi Seijuurou was one of the greatest mistakes he could make.

Akashi was strong, both mentally and physically. Haizaki had no doubt that he could definitely take Akashi down, but mentally, Akashi could stare him down and make him cower.

Akashi was perfect in every aspect. He showed nothing, he owned everything and nothing at the same time. Haizaki knew just how much Akashi owned the other members of the Generation of Miracles, but he won't be affected if any of them were taken away from him. It didn't make the prospect of taking anything from Akashi's plate more appealing to Haizaki...

That was until he met Akashi Tetsuya.

Unlike his brother, Tetsuya was calm, quiet, kind, and possessed nothing but himself. He held himself high, but not arrogant. He preferred silence as he went through the motions of his life trying to make his path crossed nobody's but his own. But somehow... somehow...

He had everyone's heart on his plate.

Tetsuya was everyone's Tetsuya. He was Ryouta's Kurokocchi, Shintarou's Aquarius, Daiki's Tetsu, Atsushi's Kuro-chin, and Momoi's Tetsu-kun. But most of all, he was the one thing that Akashi won't ever let go for the life of him. His weakness, his kryptonite. Akashi Tetsuya unknowingly possessed each and everyone's heart on his plate, and it made Haizaki interested.

Imagine how fun it would be to just steal that Tetsuya away from everyone's plate. It just seemed so delicious. And imagine how Akashi would react if he saw his most precious Tetsuya was now Haizaki's Tetsuya...

He watched as the tealheaded Akashi sipped his tea as he babbled on about peace treaties and stuff Haizaki really didn't care about. Gods forbid him from ever agreeing with stuffs like that anyways. Power was something that must be attained or stolen, not something you negotiate to get. He was a true Southerner in that aspects.

"Haizaki-kun, are you listening to me?"

"I'm not, because I don't care." He smirked when he saw Tetsuya's narrowed eyes. It was fun to irk Tetsuya because he was usually so stoic about everything. It was fun, really fun.

"If you don't care, then why do you even accept this meeting?"

"I told you that you were my favorite, didn't I? And besides, I also have a proposition to make." Haizaki sipped his own tea and hide the smirk across his face. A little more... a little more and it will kick in...

"I am listening." Tetsuya replied as he sipped his own vanilla milk tea. "Be mine, Tetsuya." Haizaki scoffed. "If you're mine, you'll get full control of the South too. Ain't that great?" Tetsuya narrowed his eyes as emptied the tea from his cup. Haizaki wanted to laugh. Just a little more...

"If 'I become yours' as you said, you will also have full control over East, West, and by extension, North. Since your men just attacked the Donna of North, I doubt that they will not try a rebellion." Tetsuya leaned to his chair. "Rebels are killed. That's the way of the South." Haizaki laughed. "So you realize that you're a very important card to unite all Sicily with South, right? As expected, though."

"If you are not going to listen, then I will just..." Tetsuya sighed, and he knew it was starting to kick in. "Leave." He moaned out. His face was getting redder and redder by the second. "You know about newts, don't you, Tetsuya?" Haizaki said as he stood up from his seat and walked on the table to get to the opposite head of the wooden table. "It makes a great aphrodisiac, you know? I used it thousands of times to get information I need..."

Haizaki crouched down in front of the panting tealhead. Really, Tetsuya could be naive. Who accepted drinks from their enemies anyway? "And in this case, I'll use it to get you. And then Akashi. And then East and West and North too. And I get to steal you away from everyone's plate..." The greyhead cupped Tetsuya's chin with his hand and tilted it upwards. Tetsuya's eyes were defiant and unrelenting, but it was also clouded with extreme lust. He moaned at Haizaki's touch, his body started fidgeting.

"It's a win-win solution, don't you think?" Haizaki leaned down and kissed him, inserting his tongue roughly onto Tetsuya's mouth. Their tongues danced, Tetsuya's kiss was sloppier, but it was needier than Haizaki's own kiss. He tasted sweet like vanilla, and Haizaki tasted each and every part of Tetsuya's cavern.

Tetsuya began to gag, but Haizaki was having none of it. He continued, regardless of the fact that the tealhead was choking underneath him.

Suddenly, the door flew open and a gunshot was heard, it cracked Haizaki's glass window, although it only missed his cheek by a few millimeters.

"You fucking bastard!" An orange-caped boy about his age barged into the room, his eyes were dark, cold, and wide with maddened stare. A Beretta 92fs firm on his hand. "Oh, here comes the Western Cavalry. But this is South, you know? I can kill you easily here."

"You and what army? Having no men around was a stupid thing to do during a negotiation with another territory's Don." The Don of West, Ogiwara Shigehiro seethed angrily. "Power is everything in South. So if I were to kill you here, they would make me the Don of South without any complaint. Leave Kuroko Tetsuya with me and I will consider this entire fiasco never happened."

"You are rather rude, aren't you?" Haizaki groaned as he let Tetsuya go, the tealhead clung to his touch, still panting from the drug. "Tetsuya came here out of his own accord, ya know?" Haizaki smirked as he found Tetsuya greedily sucked on his neck. The Western Don pulled his trigger once more, this time grazing Haizaki's other shoulder. "I won't miss the next one. Leave."

The greyhead scoffed, but he did think of the grey cape he'd get with so much effort anyways. He didn't want to let it out of his hands in such a short notice. He looked down on the babbling Eastern Don, adorable prick would still be under the influence for hours. He bent down to kiss his hair and licked his cheek. "Sorry, seems your friend wants me to leave, Tetsuya. See you later."

Tetsuya groaned uncomfortably, as Haizaki pulled away from his hold. Tetsuya panted.

Well, that was one hell of a treat. He should write a letter to Akashi about it.

Ogiwara gulped down all of his nervousness in a favor of trying to find an even ground with his currently-incapacitated best friend, but he found himself an absolute wreck before the very situation in front of him.

They had made a run into the East, in one of business hotels he often use to play around or make treaties. It should have been a pleasant night, a great getaway, but...

"Shige...-kun...!" Tecchan was writhing, his eyes clouded with lust and longing. Shige was now on top of him, his eyes peering nervously to his best friend, who was only clad in a pajama. Shige had taken a lot of effort to change him out of his clothes and because of several feathery touches, Tecchan was absolutely... in lust. With him.

Tecchan moaned, groaned, obviously feeling very hot and bothered from whatever Haizaki had put on his drink. Shige was scared. He'd seen so much of Tecchan before. His anger, his smile, his laugh, his recklessness, but never- never in his lifetime did he encounter a horny Tecchan.

Shige himself was only clad in his dress shirt and trousers, his eyes focused on Tecchan's azure ones as he didn't want them to wander to how sweaty Tecchan was. Or how each and every curve of Tecchan's body went, or how soft and pink those lips seemed...

He shuddered, but then he leaned down to his best friend and hugged him. "Tecchan... please... please please please calm down and snap out of it. I don't know what to do. You know how awkward I am. Please please please..."

No matter how much Shige loved Tecchan, the thought of having sex with his best friend never crossed his eyes. Sure, he would hold Tecchan's hands, kiss his lips, kiss his forehead, cuddle and snuggle to him like he was a teddy bear, but...

Tecchan didn't seem to hear him, but he moaned a drawn-out pleasured moan as their skin touched one another. Shige wanted to cry, he... he didn't want to do this!

The tealhead moved swiftly to open his dress shirt, revealing his very much sun-kissed chest and torso area. His best friend planted kisses there, making Shige ticklish and his skin red from his kisses. Tecchan planted his butterfly kisses in the exact same places where his brother had placed angry red-or-purple marks all over his body.

"Tec... chan." His body was shuddering, his private parts were starting to be filled with blood. Gods, gods above please... no...

Tecchan was dangerously close to Shige's crotch as he started to lick around, Shige was trembling, but then he took the initiative hand stripped his best friend first.

"Tecchan, please, I don't want this. You don't want this. Please..."

"Shige-kun... I love you." He was muddled with lust, his voice was sultry. This was not his Tecchan. This was not the person he had fell in love with. Tecchan was still Tecchan nonetheless, but...

Ah, I see... He thought as he exchanged a passionate kiss with his best friend, his tongue dragged itself on top of Tecchan's mouth. His best friend mouth. I love Tecchan so much... that's true... A kiss, with another kiss and then it trailed down to Tecchan's jaw, neck, collarbone, chest, and torso. Small red marks trailing Tecchan's body like it was just a mark made by crayons. It looked so stark obvious on top of Tecchan's pale skin than Shige's sun-kissed ones.

But when the time came for him to strip Tecchan's trouser... he couldn't do it.

He loved Tecchan so much, there was no doubt that he would be willing to trade everything for him. His most precious best friend. But he never wanted a sexual relationship with the tealhead. No. Never. He didn't want to be Tecchan's lover, he wanted to be Tecchan's bestest friend in the whole world.

He wanted to be the first person Tecchan relied on whenever he had problems, he wanted to be the person Tecchan goes to whenever he felt like talking about his personal problems, he wanted to be Tecchan's important person...

But never his lover.

Tears were falling down from Shige's face as his drugged friend moaned, sounding so desperately in need. "Tecchan... Tecchan sorry... I can't do this... Tecchan..." He apologized over and over, but Tecchan didn't show any sign of snapping out from the aphrodisiac anytime soon.

"Don't show your weakness in front of Tetsuya, Shigehiro." A cold-sounding voice invaded Shigehiro's ears, the raven-haired teen's head immediately turned to the source of the voice.

There stood Akashi Seijuurou, perfectly clothed in a grey-colored suit with black dress-shirt, it looked really similar to Rakuzan High's uniform, only minus the school emblem.

"Akashi..." Shige looked at the redhead with resigned expression, tears were still flowing from his eyes. He couldn't do it. He didn't want to do it. He couldn't... have sex with Tecchan...

"Calm down. Do not show your idiocy. Tetsuya needs you, and it does not look like he will let go of you. So calm yourself and strip him off his pants."

"Oi, Akashi-!"

A pair of scissors flew to the wall across where the redhead was standing, grazing Shige's cheek and leaving a thin scar on his face. A terrifyingly calm expression was there on Akashi's face as he stood with his arms crossed. "Do you think I want to watch you as you make love to my Tetsuya? I do not. But I heard that he was given a very powerful dose of aphrodisiac..." Akashi took a seat in an armchair next to the bed and crossed his legs.

"Listen to me, Tetsuya is very susceptible with drugs. That also goes with painkillers or even cough syrup. A normal dosed aphrodisiac will muddle him twice normal people would, imagine him having tripled that doze. He won't be able to think at all. Let him ride out of it." Those golden and crimson orbs glinted dangerously.

Shige wiped his tears and gulped down all of his fears. He had to do this. Not for him. Not for Akashi. But for Tecchan.

His eyes travelled up and down his best friend's pale and unblemished body. He took a deep breath and whispered a firm 'I love you, I'm your best friend, I'm here for you' to his best friend and stripped him down.

"Can you please face the back, Tecchan? I'm going to make you feel really good, okay? Just... just look at me and trust me. I love you."

And so, the very first time Ogiwara Shigehiro and Kuroko Tetsuya made love began under Akashi Seijuurou's gaze.

It was revolting to see at the least.

Seijuurou had to watch Tetsuya writhe under Shigehiro's sloppy and clumsy movements. He didn't know better, maybe. But... it was revolting.

He could see Shigehiro panting, depleted of his stamina. Tetsuya was the same, but...

But the drug was still not wearing off, forcing that tired body to keep on moving and moving. Shigehiro moved slowly, and Tetsuya's moans were in tune with that movements. Shigehiro was tired, after all this had been the fourth round ever since he penetrated deep into Tetsuya's prostate.

When he couldn't take it anymore, Seijuurou took a bathrobe from the nearest closet and threw it to Shigehiro, who took it with a relieved, yet confused stare across his face. "You are getting harder to watch. Clean yourself and get some rest. Book another hotel room if necessary." The raven-haired teen nodded dizzily as he moved away from his best friend and locked himself on the bathroom.

Tetsuya was panting hard, but his eyes were still muddled with lust. Seijuurou caressed his teal tresses with his fingers and kissed his brother's hair with affectionate lingering touches.

"Seijuurou...-oniisama...?" He breathed out, his normally-monotonous voice was sultry and full of lust. Tetsuya... how adorable.

"Yes, yes it's me. Do you want to rest, or...?" When Seijuurou's cold hand touched Tetsuya's utterly hot neck, the tealhead let out a very long drawn moan and panted again. Seijuurou shuddered, feeling his entire body turned on by his brother's voice.

"I will go slow, I will be gentle, love. Tell me when you are tired, yes? I will let you sleep..." Seijuurou stripped himself of his clothing and let out a handsome smirk across his face. It was a comforting gaze he often use whenever he saw Tetsuya being hopelessly adorable. He loved him so much. His brother was so beautiful. If only it were him instead of Shigehiro who had found him first... Seijuurou would have wasted no time to let those hateful drugs out of Tetsuya's system.

"Ungh! Anghhhh! Ngah...gah... ugh... Onii-samAAA!"

Maybe he should send Haizaki flowers with some poisonous thorns to go with it. His rounds lasted shorter than Shigehiro's, but he felt completely at peace and satisfied. He knew each and every spot to hit if they ever make love again. He had Tetsuya's body mapped and marked with bruises Shigehiro didn't dare put on. It contrasted Tetsuya's pale body beautifully.

A few hours later, Tetsuya was finally out cold and Shigehiro was already snoring on the sofa, no doubt tired and restless from the entire fiasco. Seijuurou carried his brother like how grooms carried their bride to the bathroom and bathed him. Just like how he always did when the two of them were just boys...

It crossed his mind to have a sleep-sex with his brother, but he admonished the thought to the depths of his mind. Right now, he had another thing to take care of, after all.

He lay Tetsuya down on the loveseat across the sofa and put a blanket on top of his brother. Chances were he won't wake until two days from now, plenty of time for Seijuurou to have a nice long talk with his former teammate...

But for now, he sat on the armchair just a few centimeters away from both the loveseat and the sofa and sunk on his chair. It was a tiring day. For Tetsuya, and for him as well. He closed his eyes and let his mind drifted off to the darkness.

The room was totally silent, saved for Shigehiro's light snores that was oddly comforting for both Akashi brothers.

Teehee~

Does this chapter explain much to you guys? I mean, this is the chapter where Ogiwara admitted that he's in love with Kuroko, but not as a lover. You love your best friend, maybe you want to kiss them or hug them and be with them all the time. But with sex? It's a completely different matter.

I hope I conveyed it properly. Ogiwara was a mess of a person when he dealt with Tecchan being absolutely horny with him, but Akashi took in a stride so easily. So in this chapter it's made clear that Ogiwara loves Kuroko as his best friend, and Akashi completely loves him as his lover. God, that explanation is so sloppy. But I dunno how to word it better... DX

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