Okay, so this was an idea that had been in my head for a while and I didn't want to write it immediately, but I eventually couldn't resist, since my inner Ogafuru fangirl wouldn't leave me alone. I do hope you enjoy this story!

Warning: this is shounen-ai/boys' love.

Disclaimer: Beelzebub belongs to Ryuuhei Tamura, not me.

Story 37: Those Two

Characters: the Pillar Squad, Furuichi (the subject of their conversation), Oga (also a subject)

Pairings: Ogafuru

Summary: One evening, the Pillar Squad start talking about the relationship between their contractor and Prince Beel's contractor, and various members discuss certain events that they had witnessed between them.

The common room of the Pillar Headquarters was filled with activity as various pillar demons conversed with one another, played some games, or just drank and had some snacks. Tonight, there was a small party in the common room, simply as a way for the Pillar Squad to unwind after nearly a month of missions and non-stop training, and all of the demons were more than happy that this was happening.

"This was definitely needed," Hecadoth said as he and Graphel clinked their glasses of beer together before taking a sip.

"So, how's the Human World beer?" Agiel asked.

Hecadoth shrugged as he glanced at the bottle. "It's okay," he admitted. "Though, it's not as strong as a Demon World beer."

"Don't be fooled, if you drink too much of that, you'll become completely hammered," Graphel warned. "I learned that the hard way."

Agiel sighed. "If only Furuichi were able to come tonight," she said, pouting slightly. "He would have so much fun here! Why couldn't he come?"

"'Cause Oga Tatsumi decided to keep him hostage for tonight," Hecadoth said in a matter-of-fact tone. "He might as well say that he's gonna go out on a date with him tonight, no need to be so childish about it."

At this, Graphel stared at Hecadoth in surprise. "Wait, take him out on a date?" Graphel repeated in disbelief.

Agiel looked at him in surprise. "You didn't know? Furuichi's been dating Oga for a while now," she told him.

Tiriel happened to overhear this, and she was now both extremely shocked and extremely excited to hear this. "Seriously?!" she almost shouted. This seemed to have caught everyone's attention.

"Oi Tiriel, what are you squealing about now?" Fabas asked. "Don't interrupt a good round of beer pong!"

"Why are you so surprised?" Hecadoth asked, sipping some more beer. "Furuichi and Oga have been together for quite some time now."

The minute he said that, he saw a lot of surprised looks on everyone's faces. He also heard a shout of triumph from Fabas as well as an indignant snarl and curse from Kne as he pulled his wallet out, grudgingly handing some money to Fabas, who was merely grinning smugly. "I totally called it!" she cheered.

A bead of sweat rolled down Hecadoth's head. "Seriously? You were betting on them?"

"You know, I never would've thought they would be together," Laymia said thoughtfully. "Considering their interactions with one another, it's quite surprising to know that they're in a relationship. Even when I had a look at Furuichi's thoughts, nothing really seemed to show anything romantic."

"I thought that Furuichi liked looking at girls!" Wasboga said in surprise. "Since when did he start swinging the other way?"

"Maybe he swings both ways," Xoblah suggested.

Vabam shook his head as he took a drag of his cigarette. "Nah, I bet that he's Ogasexual," he said.

"But what about Oga Tatsumi himself?" Yata wondered. "From the times we've seen him, he's never even shown an interest in anyone."

"I thought he didn't even have an interest in romance!" Graphel added.

"You're wrong, he only has eyes for Furuichi," Ananta said, a small smirk on her face. "He just has his own ways of showing it."

"Well, he could be Furuichisexual, you know?" Quetzalcoatl suggested. "He shows no interest in anyone else other than Furuichi."

"Even then, whenever we saw Furuichi's thoughts about Oga, nothing really did seem, well, 'romantic', you know?" Pamiel said.

Hecadoth smirked. "Believe me, on the day they did get together, I saw Furuichi's thoughts," he said. "He actually was thinking that Oga and I looked similar."

Several demons looked at him in disbelief. "Wait, how the hell do you and Oga Tatsumi look alike?!" Schethalim asked disbelievingly.

"Apparently, we have a similar air of intimidation, we have a slightly similar build, but the only difference is that I'm not only a demon, but I have long hair," Hecadoth explained. "Not to mention, after we finished defeating some weak punks, he was thinking that Oga looked quite handsome when standing victoriously over his enemies."

Hecadoth rolled his eyes as he heard Furuichi thinking about Oga and stealing glances at him from the corner of his eye. 'You know, Oga does look kind of hot when looking like that...' Furuichi was thinking.

"Oi, lieutenant," the demon spoke, making Furuichi jump. "You do realize that I can hear what you're thinking." He sighed. "Why don't you just tell him that you like him already?"

"What?!" Furuichi was mortified to hear this. He never expected Hecadoth to be hearing this! "D-Don't tell me-"

"Oh, I heard it," Hecadoth told him nonchalantly. "You like Oga Tatsumi, don't you?"

"N-No, i-i-it's not like that!" Furuichi stammered hastily in denial. "It was just a random thought, that's all!"

"You've been thinking that for quite some time now, lieutenant. I'm not a fool," Hecadoth said. "Besides, if you didn't like him, why do you keep on trying to glance at him while fighting?"

"Well, what makes you think that I like him?!" Furuichi countered.

Hecadoth rolled his eyes again. "Well, you've always been by his side no matter what the situation was," he started. "And, if I'm correct, you chose to accompany him to that school full of punks, even though you could've gone to a better one. Finally, whenever he's had no shirt on, you always stare." He smirked. "Don't even try to deny it now."

Furuichi just couldn't argue against him now. Hecadoth was right. Knowing this, he sighed. "Okay, I do like him," he admitted. "But I don't know how I should tell him, or whether he'll believe me?"

"Why are you so nervous?" Hecadoth asked him. "Just be blunt about it and don't hesitate."

Furuichi seemed surprised at this. "Why are you helping me?" he asked. "I thought you hated Oga."

"Even if I hate him, I won't stop you from dating him if you're in love with him," he said in a matter of fact tone. "Well, am I free now?"

"Oh, yeah…" Furuichi mumbled as he removed the tissues.

Hecadoth folded his arms across his chest. "And that's how it went," he finished.

Fabas raised her hand as a grin crossed her face. "I definitely know what you mean when you said that Furuichi always stares at Oga when he's shirtless!" she said. "One time, I was summoned to beat up some weakass humans and at some point, the contractor's shirt got destroyed, and Furuichi was just checking him out!" She laughed. "Like, he was blushing and trying not to look, but failing badly! Hell, I saw Furuichi's thoughts and he definitely wanted to be all over Oga so badly!"

"Well… we didn't need to know that, Fabas," Yshiel told her, looking slightly flustered.

At that moment, Salamander snapped his fingers as he remembered something. "Speaking of that, I do recall seeing both Furuichi and the contractor together at that amusement park, Ishiyama Land, when we were there with Master En," he said. "We had gone for the Rice Boy show there, and we saw those two sitting together with Master Beel, and it seemed like the contractor was constantly invading Furuichi's personal space for his own amusement."

"Speaking of the contractor," Agiel interjected. "Once when I was just walking through the streets of Ishiyama, I ran into him, and he was holding flowers!" She giggled. "He wanted to give Furuichi flowers and he even asked me if he should get him the ones he had!"

"Oi, you're Agiel, right?" Oga asked as Agiel stopped walking and turned to face him. "Do you think roses will work?" He showed her the red roses he had.

Agiel tilted her head to the side in confusion. "What's this about?" she asked. She was a bit confused that Oga Tatsumi was actually asking her for help with something.

Oga averted his eyes. "Well, I'm just trying something!" he insisted. "It's not like there's any other reason!"

Agiel peeked closely at Oga and her eyes widened in surprise as she saw a slight red blush staining his face. No. Way. Oga Tatsumi was actually blushing!

She couldn't help but giggle lightly. Who would've thought that Oga could be so adorable when blushing? In fact, who would've thought that Oga was a tsundere as well?

"Aww, are you trying to impress Furuichi?" she teased.

"Shut up!" Oga snapped. "Will they work or not?!"

Agiel shrugged. "How should I know?" she asked. "I'm not his girlfriend. Why don't you see for yourself?" She giggled as she ran off. "See ya!"

Agiel smiled. "Furuichi told me about the flowers that night," she said, laughing slightly. "He was blushing as he held them, it was so cute! They really are such cute boyfriends!" A small smirk crossed her face. "Not to mention, I saw them kissing after their date."

"Seriously?!" Schethalim asked, looking surprised.

"Furuichi was the one who kissed first," she said.

Hecadoth snorted. "Oh, that's nothing," he said. "Believe me, you haven't been around when there's not many people around."

"Oh?" Nearly all the pillar demons looked eager to hear about this.

Naga nodded in agreement as a rare smile crossed his face. "When there aren't so many people around, you'll see quite the displays of PDA," he agreed.

Tiriel snapped her fingers. "I know what you're talking about! Pamiel and I saw it once!" she said.

Pamiel smirked. "So, at some point, Tiriel and I had gone to the local waterpark just to hang out, and since it was evening, there weren't too many people around. Anyways, we were just hanging near one of the pools and talking, but we heard some heavy breathing coming from the pool. So we looked, and we saw Furuichi and the contractor in the water and making out quite passionately up against the wall!" She glanced at Tiriel. "Am I right?"

"Yeah!" Tiriel laughed. "They were all over each other, like it looked like they were about to start doing each other right then and there! We even have the picture to prove it!" She took out her Demon World communication device, selected the picture, and showed it to all of them.

Agiel reached for the device in an attempt to grab it. "Let me have it!" she said excitedly.

Tiriel laughed. "I'll send it to you," she said.

"Well, are you gonna try and blackmail either of them with it?" Basilisk asked, taking a drag of his cigar.

"Don't bother trying to," Hecadoth told them. "Neither of them will get affected."

Pamiel looked at them in surprise. "What do you mean?" she asked.

A wry smile crossed Hecadoth's face. "Well, at some point, Furuichi was supposed to be training with me, but he was very late in coming, and I got pretty pissed so I went to his quarters to see what was taking him so long." He chuckled slightly. "They were going at it like rabbits. That's all I can say."

"Whoa," Graphel laughed, looking at his comrade with both pity and amusement. "Did they even notice?"

"Only the contractor," Hecadoth laughed. "He just gave me this shit-eating grin before I left."

Elim timidly raised her hand. "Um… I don't know if this counts, but when I saw Furu-sama and the contractor together, and it looked like the contractor touched Furu-sama's butt."

"Oh yeah, the contractor does like checking out Furuichi's ass a lot," Agiel laughed. "And grabbing it."

Laymia nodded slowly. "It's actually quite strange," she said. "Despite the interactions we've seen between them so far, they have a strong relationship that's started from their friendship. Personally, I think they are meant for each other. Even their human friends can see it."

"Well then, you know it's real when both humans and demons can agree on how they act around each other!" Graphel joked, which earned some laughs.

At that moment, Laymia glanced at the clock. "Oh my," she said. "It's quite late, and we'll have to train tomorrow. So, enough talk about Furuichi and the contractor, we have early morning training tomorrow."

"I still can't believe that we actually sat around like a bunch of teenage girls and talked about Furuichi and the contractor," Hecadoth muttered to himself.

"Again, you know it's real when it makes you want to discuss it for hours with your friends, am I right?" Agiel teased, and Hecadoth and some other demons laughed.

Even though it was kind of fun to talk about Furuichi and Oga's relationship together, the pillar demons now wanted to find out more about their relationship from Furuichi himself. As they all returned to their quarters for the night, all the demons made a mental note to ask Furuichi about his relationship with Oga the next time they met. They definitely couldn't wait to hear what he had to say.