-One week later-
School had started again for Eien and Trevor who he could now call his boyfriend. The redhead was worried about what his Father would think and it had been right on point.
"You can't make any close relationships with anyone, Eien," Sasori said as he paced around dining room slowly. "When we have to leave when the two years are up, what are you going to tell him? It's only going to end in heartbreak and you know that."
Eien who had been forced to sit at the table just bit his lip at the thought. He didn't seem to really care about that because he just wanted to be happy with Trevor but his Father made an excellent point. And if he did leave the brunette would want to keep in contact and that would be practically impossible. He would have to find out his secret and that was the last thing Eien wanted. He wanted to be normal for once and if that meant lying to someone you care for, then so be it.
In the end, Sasori permitted that they still be in a relationship but he finished up saying to use protection before walking away embarrassed. Eien had never received 'the talk' from his Father because it didn't seem very necessary because the younger redhead wasn't planning on having a relationship for centuries until his Father had stepped down but plans changed.
Another reason why he hadn't gotten the talk was because Eien had seen his parents have sex twice and had seen a couple have sex in the alley. He had even heard Aki talk about it and when they were younger and what you were supposed to do though Eien found no interest in that.
In the end, Eien was allowed to be with Trevor who had yet to tell his parents, but he did say that he wanted to keep it a secret in the first place. He had been all 'hetero' until the week before and it seemed that girls weren't working out for him very well. But he decided not to follow the traditional route and be with someone he cared for.
Though in school the couple didn't show off their affection for each other and Eien was fine with that. He didn't like the extra attention anyway and the fact that he was going out with one of the school's top athletes would draw more attention than he could handle.
Yoru still had nothing to say about their relationship and Eien found it strange that he wasn't being taunted or teased by him. He was serious all the time and it was beginning to creep the redhead out.
Sasori didn't have anything else to say about his boyfriend either because he seemed busy with something else. It was work, Eien found out, but he didn't know what it was then. He would catch his Father staring at something for a few minutes in thought Eien was almost concerned for him.
The redhead had made dinner that night and Eien was excited to have some home-cooking again. He asked his Father if Trevor could come over and the older redhead said it was fine, like he didn't even care. He was in his strange mood and Eien decided to ask again only to be questioned on why he was asking permission once more.
When Sasori was done cooking, he set the food on some white plates and set them on the table before telling Yoru to get some silverware. Eien was so used to using chopsticks when eating rice, so they always had a few spares in the kitchen for him.
When there was a knock on the front door Eien ran and opened it to see his boyfriend standing in the cold weather. He invited him inside and took his jacket before hanging it on a coat hanger. Neither of them shared any welcoming kiss unless they knew that they were completely alone.
Yoru was always somewhere in sight of the two males and he would send them a look that neither of them understood. Serious Yoru was creepy Yoru.
When the table was set, they all sat down to eat and Trevor found it funny that Eien was using chopsticks. He asked if he lived in Japan for a while and Sasori said yes before any of them could reply.
For dinner they were having seasoned rice with been curry on top. The food was good and Eien ate the whole time while Sasori and Yoru would talk to the brunette about school and sports, neither of them bringing up the relationship.
Eien was listening and was about to eat a piece of beef only to see all conversation was stopped. He looked around the table to see three expressionless faces, staring at him.
He almost flinched at the stares and he wondered if he was asked a question. "Is there something on my face?" He asked before grabbing his napkin.
Sasori shook his head. "We asked what classes you have now. Are they any difficult than the ones who had last trimester?"
"No," Eien said before chewing on his chopsticks lightly. "I still have an English class then Math, but I don't have P.E. this term."
The Devil looked pleased with the answer. "Trevor said that soccer was going to be done soon. Do you plan on playing basketball in the Spring like him?"
The chopsticks left Eien's mouth as he recalled Trevor talking about it before. He wasn't going to get his exercise after soccer because of no physical class so basketball would be a good idea. "I haven't played it before, but I've seen people play it."
Trevor's lip twitched. "I'm sure you'll be a natural like before."
Eien scratched the back of his head with an embarrassed smile. "You think so?"
The redhead saw Yoru role his eyes before pushing his rice around on his plate. Eien ignored the demon and continued the conversation with his Father. After a few more minutes everyone was done with dinner and they all helped clean up. Trevor was nice enough to take everything off the table while Eien washed the dishes. Yoru went outside to flap out the table cloth and Sasori went to his room, distracted once more.
Once Yoru was done with his task, he began drying dishes, Eien handing them to him casually. "Can you walk Kuma tonight? He hasn't been getting out lately."
The redhead glanced at the demon and shook his head. The demon knew not to ask him of any favors. "No, he's your dog, you walk him. Besides I have plans to hang out with Trevor." Eien washed the last dish and handed it to the demon roughly. He turned around to see his boyfriend standing a few feet away awkwardly. "Come on," Eien said as he walked out of the kitchen, the brunette following.
Eien went to his bedroom and waited for Trevor to come in before closing the door. "Doesn't your Dad have a rule against being alone in a room with your boyfriend or girlfriend?"
The redhead raised a brow and sat on his bed. "No, he knows we're not going to do anything… We're not going to do anything, right?"
The older male shook his head. "No, I didn't plan on it." He sat down next to Eien and brought his feet on the bed to sit criss-cross. "It just seems like your Dad doesn't really care about anything you do."
Eien didn't respond right away and laughed. "No, he cares. It's just that he's always busy with work and he doesn't really have time to set up a whole bunch of boundaries for me. In all honesty, Yoru does that." Trevor looked confused and Eien sighed. "My Dad cares about me, and he knows that I won't get into any trouble. Yoru on the other hand is… He's just Yoru."
"It seems that he wants to keep you safe all the time. Don't you find it weird?"
The sixteen-year-old shook his head. "It's not like that. He treats me like his brother or something. He teases and picks on me and he keeps me out of trouble. I mean," Eien paused but continued after a few moments. "I've known him since I was eight so him being here is so normal."
Trevor nodded slowly. "And I think you mentioned before that your Dad worked a lot so he was also there to watch you?"
Eien groaned. "Yes and for the first ten years he was the most annoying thing ever."
Trevor raised a brow. "But you're seventeen, right? And you said that he came around when you were eight?"
The redhead froze but then chuckled nervously. "Sorry, I just rounded it to ten years. I've actually only known him for nine so-"
"So he's always annoying?" Trevor raised a brow, obviously confused with his boyfriend's reasoning.
"Yeah, he's always annoying," Eien confirmed.
"Hm…" Trevor leaned back on his hands and looked around the redhead's room. He had been in there before and he wondered why the redhead didn't have any special possessions. Everything looked very plain and boring. But when he looked at his boyfriend he was the opposite. He could be very serious but whenever he was around Trevor noticed he was much happier. "You know I don't really know a lot about you." Eien looked at the brunette curiously. "What do you like to do for fun besides playing sports?"
Eien was automatically reminded of Natsuko. When he came back, she pried at his life, wanting to know what he was about. She wanted to know about him to get to Yoru; in the end she hurt him deeply. She betrayed him. He suddenly felt very self-aware and he narrowed his eyes at the brunette. "Why do you want to know?"
Trevor eyed the younger male. "Because we spend so much time together yet I don't know a lot about you. Plus we're going out so I just want to get to know you better." He smiled very lightly. "If you don't want to talk that's fine."
The redhead leaned against his headboard after moving his pillow out of the way. "No, I just haven't had an easy time trusting people in the past."
Trevor nodded. "I understand. I won't question you about anything, I'm sorry."
Eien's eyes widened. Even Yoru wouldn't say he wouldn't question him again; he would say sorry but go back to his old ways. Could the redhead really trust his boyfriend. Eien almost hit himself. Of course he could! The teen had understood him better than anyone else!
"It's fine, like I said, people in the past." He smiled and bit his thumb lightly. "For hobbies I like to read novels and some of the best ones aren't even in the U.S." Letting go of the digit in his mouth, Eien looked at Trevor. "When I was younger I was into archery."
The brunette's lip twitched. "That's cool." Eien almost laughed at his monotone, though he just grinned. "Are you any good?"
"Uh, I think I am." Eien rubbed the back of his neck and Trevor crossed his arms, a small smirk forming on his lips.
"Prove it." Eien began feeling uneasy again just at those two words. Just like Natsuko, she wanted him to show her his power. Trevor noticed the look at the redhead's face and the smirk went away, a concerned expression coming instead. "No, you don't have to, I was just teasing," He said holding up his hands in defense. Eien nodded and felt like he couldn't even have a normal conversation with his own boyfriend.
Because I'm not normal.
"Maybe another time, when I get a bow," Eien said, a smile forced onto his lips. "Well like any other teenager I like to watch t.v., but only if there are good shows on. I don't like reality t.v. either."
Trevor nodded. "And you said that you don't play video games much?"
"Nope. Every once in a while I would play a game," He said, meaning that he would play every decade or so to see improvements in technology. "I saw you have other games in your room besides those first shooters, right?" Trevor looked at Eien who just blushed. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snoop."
The brunette sighed and ran a hand through his hair. It seemed that neither of them could talk to each other without thinking that they offended the other. "No you didn't snoop. And yeah I have other games but they're mostly about fighting, or sports."
Eien nodded and Trevor swore under his breath lightly. "Hey do you have any nail clippers, I got a hangnail." The brunette was about to rip if off with his teeth, not wanting to wait for the redhead to answer, but Eien grabbed his hand so he wouldn't do that.
"Don't," He said before letting go of his hand. He went to his night stand and opened up the drawer. He turned on the lamp to see better and that's when he realized that he and Trevor were sitting in the dark. He pushed the thought from his mind as he found the nail clippers. "Here." He handed them to the older male and Trevor thanked him before cutting the nail. he got up and discarded it in Eien's trash can and the redhead was glad that he actually had manners.
Trevor handed the clippers back to the redhead and Eien tossed them into the side table. "I heard some rumors," The brunette said softly, as if to not offend his boyfriend, making Eien already assume that it was about him.
"What about?" Eien asked as he scooted closer to the older male. Trevor wouldn't meet his eye and Eien grabbed his hand gently. "If it's about me, I would like it if you would just tell me."
Trevor sighed and looked at the redhead. "There's a rumor that we're going out."
Eien's eyes widened. "Already?" He put a hand on his mouth when he realized he had spoken out-loud. "I mean… Who would even guess that? Are we really that obvious?"
Trevor shook his head. "It's just a rumor and I think it's just to tease us but what if people do find out?" Eien frowned at seeing the worry written all over the brunette's face.
"Would you want to deny it?" It hurt saying that and the older male just ran a hand through his hair.
"Maybe, I don't know. I've just seen a lot of people being rejected because of something they did, like going out with someone strange." Eien nodded and took his hand off his boyfriend's.
Strange. Eien knew he wasn't normal, he had already established that. But was Trevor so worried about being found out that he would break up with him only after a week? Eien felt like that even though it had only been a short amount of time, it would still hurt. To do something because of a petty fear of being rejected. Though it wasn't petty. Eien looked at Trevor who was staring at the ground in thought. Eien was used to be alone and rejected but the teen beside him wasn't.
"Do you want to break up?"
Trevor's eyes went wide and he gave such a shocked expression that Eien flinched. "What? No, I never said that, I was just worried about hazing. I've seen people get beat up over this kind of thing and I don't want that to happen to you." He looked down dejectedly. "That's why I don't want anyone to know."
Eien finally understood and he felt like an idiot for not seeing it sooner. "I-I guess I misunderstood," He said softly.
"It's fine, I suppose I was unclear." Trevor sighed and looked at his boyfriend who was staring at the ground wide eyed. He smiled and kissed his cheek, snapping the redhead out of his daze. "Thanks for inviting me to dinner, but I told my Mom I'd be home by eight," He sighed once more. "We have relatives over right now and she wants me to be there to send them off."
Eien nodded and gave Trevor a chaste kiss on the lips. "See you at school?"
The brunette genuinely smiled and nodded. "Yeah."
Both teens stood up and Eien walked the older male to the door. "Drive safely," Eien said with a wave.
The redhead felt a presence behind him and he turned to see Yoru standing there with a plate of cake. He was eating some and he held out the treat. "Want some?"
-Next day-
Sasori groaned as he looked over his schedule for the day. For the moment Itachi was covering the E.R. while he met up with some patients who were recovering from surgeries and other treatments. The woman with the knee was back because of pain and he had told her to stay off of it but she thought that going for a jog once a week would be fine. No.
He had to explain to her again that she had to rest as much as possible to stay off the knee unless she wanted another surgery. And even though he still had to check up with recovering patients, some other people had made appointments to get things checked out like a sore throat that led to an ear infection.
By the time it was lunch Sasori had downed three cups of coffee to keep himself calm. It wasn't working anymore so he found some packets of tea in the break room and began making that instead.
He saw Itachi walk in when he was dipping the teabag in the hot water that he had made instantly. "Are you tired, Dr. Akasuna?"
Sasori sipped at his burning tea and shrugged. "No, I'm quite all right actually. Are things slow today for you?"
The Uchiha pushed his glasses up to look at the redhead more clearly. "Everything is average."
The Devil nodded and realized that he could never have a conversation with this man. He might as well have been a rock or a tree. Sasori downed the rest of his tea and almost hummed at the scorching feeling in his throat. He wasn't used to it before, but now he loved to feel.
He rinsed his coffee cup and put it on the dish rack to dry. "Well I have work," He said before walking out.
When he went to the main nurse, he handed him a chart of the next patients and Sasori scanned them carefully. He looked at his next one and paled. "I'm sorry but isn't this patient supposed to go back to the burn center for a checkup?"
The nurse looked at the redhead and he shook his head. "No, to avoid confusion and miscommunication, the doctor who treated the patient has to do a follow-up as well." He shrugged his shoulders. "It's just so we don't get any mix-ups. Why do you ask though? Do you not want to treat this man?"
Sasori shook his head, knowing he had that option. Before he would do a surgery on a person, if their beliefs were strongly against his own then he could decline, but that would obviously have to be a planned surgery. In the case of working in the emergency room, if he already started working then he couldn't stop even if he found out the man was a mass-murderer or something.
But with the case of Deidara, it was just a follow-up. After a few more minutes of talking to the nurse, he headed to the room where his former lover was waiting for him.
He opened the door and made sure to keep stoic. "Sorry for the wait," He apologized before sitting down in the chair assigned for doctors. "How have you been?" He asked without looking up from some other patient's paperwork.
"Do you mean how have I personally been doing, or how is my burn doing, un?" Sasori looked up to see the blond grinning cheerfully in the chair across from him. He didn't take the joke and answered to the latter. "Oh, well it's been fine. I did what you said and it's healing, un. It itches like a bitch though."
Sasori nodded and took a few notes on the blond's chart. "Okay, let's see it then." He rolled his chair over to Deidara's smoothly and looked at the bandaged arm. He began to carefully undo it, his thoughts drifting. He had contemplated healing the blond his way before but he knew that he had to keep a distance. Who knew, maybe just an energy could bring memories back? After the bandages were off he saw the burn had gotten better, all it would need now is just new ointment. "You did a good job taking care of it."
Sasori put on some gloves because of mandatory procedures and began feeling the younger male's arm. "You still haven't come to one of my shows."
Sasori looked at the blond for a moment before averting his attention back to his arm. "It's not wise to get personal with your patients. Besides, I don't have any time nowadays."
The blond looked unconvinced and he gave a faux sigh. "That's too bad, you know, even though I saw you walking your dog at the park two days ago, un." Sasori flinched and Deidara grinned. "So did you like the show?"
The Devil pushed down on the burn lightly, making Deidara jump. "Sorry," He apologized softly. "I only got a glimpse and I had to walk the dog because my friend was too lazy to. It's not even my dog," He muttered.
Deidara laughed. "It seems you have a hard life."
Sasori looked at the blond again, feeling happy that he was smiling, but he didn't show it. He had to be cold to him, then maybe he would take the hint. The last time they had met he didn't know what to do but he had thought about it long enough to now know that he shouldn't talk to Deidara.
Sasori let go of the blond and took off his gloves. "You checked out fine, just keep away from the sun, rinse with cool water before putting on some ointment and do that once a day." He went back to his clipboard and looked over a few things. "You will have to use a different ointment though because it deals with a burn that are mostly healed." He began writing on a piece of paper carefully for the prescription.
"Eh?" Deidara frowned and sighed. "You doctors just want the money, don't you, un?"
Sasori almost smiled. "Some doctors do over prescribe to get more money, but I don't find it very ethical." He ripped the piece of paper off the sticky pad and handed it to the blond who took it with another sigh.
"You know it's not easy making a living as an artist. I do the things I love but the pay isn't always good, un," He looked at the redhead and smirked. "How about you treat me to dinner because you haven't gone to my show. Actually you did but you didn't even pay so I think I get something in return."
Sasori didn't look amused. "Like I said before, it's not wise to get personal with your patients," He said before standing up. "You can pay at the front desk or ask them to mail you the bill. Goodbye, Mr. Iwa." He left the room quickly and he almost felt bad for treating the blond like that, but it had to be done.
He was walking down the hall when he heard someone following him. "You were a lot nicer before," Deidara grumbled as he walked beside the redhead and Sasori saw just how short he was; maybe just an inch taller than Eien. "Do you just not like work, or did I do something to upset you, un?" Deidara narrowed his eyes and Sasori noticed that his eyes were rimmed darker than before. Eyeliner?
"There's a lot of work today and doing just a checkup is a waste of time to me, no offense," Sasori said as he flipped a paper on his clipboard.
Deidara shrugged his shoulders. "None taken, but I don't think you should worry about time." Sasori's eyes widened and he looked at Deidara. He knew? "I mean, look at the way time treated you." Deidara gestured with his hand to the redhead and pouted. "You look like you just got out of high school but you have a son almost my age, un."
Sasori calmed down and came to the next room. "I'm sorry but I have to go now," He said, putting his hand on the door handle.
Deidara grinned and nodded. "So dinner soon, right, un? I like sushi," He said before walking off with a wave. "Later, Doc!"
The Devil gave a small sigh and ran a hand through his hair. This was not going to turn out well.
Holy sheeze it's been a week DX
Ha! No long chapter today cuz I dun't wanna make a long one! I wanna go back to 2,000 words =3=
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