The Lawful Truth
Akihiko was hiding out in Hiroki's apartment for what had to be the fifth time that month. It was obvious he either had a deadline coming up or he had a deadline that he had missed and that demon editor of his was on his back. Why Akihiko kept going back to Hiroki's apartment, he'd never know; Aikawa did, after all, know where it was.
"Why don't you just finish your work on time for once instead of putting it off? Even award-winning authors have to do some work," Hiroki said. Nowaki was working right then, so they were alone in the apartment.
Akihiko looked at Hiroki, a cigarette dangling from his lips. He had forgotten his lighter, though, and Hiroki and Nowaki weren't smokers, so there was nothing to light it. He just sat there, letting it hang there like a lollipop stick. "I did finish my work. I was just bored. Misaki is out with his brother today."
"His brother?"
"Takahiro."
"So you're going out with Takahiro's underage brother."
Akihiko thought about it for a second before saying, "Misaki is nineteen. Even when he was eighteen, he was legal under both the age of consent and the various ordinances throughout the country that prohibit adults from having sex with anyone under the age of eighteen."
Hiroki just stood there at the stove, staring down at the tea he had been preparing. "You've thought long and hard about this, haven't you?"
Akihiko just shrugged and put his hands behind his head, ready for a nap. It pissed Hiroki off, honestly, but what can you do?
Usagi is a law school graduate, after all, but I am not so I had to look up all that information. National age of consent in Japan, by the way, is thirteen, and not every prefecture has a law preventing adults from having sex with kids under eighteen. Kind of creepy, Japan.