Hikaru sighed for what must have been the tenth time as he absentmindedly played with Akira's hair. He didn't want to wake Akira up, but he was beginning to reach his limit.
"I gotta pee!" He tried not to wiggle around too much, but neither stillness nor quiet was something that came to him naturally. He took a deep breath and tried to concentrate more on what he was doing. The strands of Touya's hair glided effortlessly through his fingers, shining with soft iridescence in the late morning light. "Green and violet and blue and red and I still have to go to the bathroom..." He sighed again, it was pretty, but something that couldn't distract him anymore. Hikaru was still weak, he couldn't just shove Akira off onto the floor--not that he wanted to anyway. It would be criminal to wake him and lose that look of utter contentment that no one but Hikaru had probably ever seen. Or the look that had been there.
Akira looked uneasy now, his muscles tensed slightly. "A nightmare maybe? I hope it wasn't because of me." He was shaking badly, almost rocking back and forth. Hikaru still might have let him be if he hadn't made an odd gasping, almost choking sound.
"Akira? Are you alright? Wake up," Hikaru hugged him tighter, calming the tremors.
"Unh... Hikaru?" His eyes opened a little, and for a moment Touya seemed unsure of where he was.
"You OK? Was it a strange dream?"
He shifted uncomfortably, "Yeah. It was one of ones, you know, where you're running in the dark. You can't see what's chasing you, but you go faster and faster because you know that if it catches you..." Akira tried and failed to suppress a shudder. "I didn't want to see that thing..."
"Thing?" He's not telling me something...
"Anyway, it was only a dream. What are you squirming around for?"
Changing the subject? But..."You wouldn't happen to know where they're hiding the toilet would you?" ...I can't take it anymore!
"I wasn't really paying attention when we got here, but I think it was by the bath." Touya half-smiled, and tried not to laugh at the pained expression on Hikaru's face. "Which, is another thing you could use by the way."
Hikaru scowled then put an arm around Akira's shoulder to be helped up. "Whatever--you're the one that smells!"
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"Are you sure about this?" Hikaru winced as Akira pushed the edge of a garbage bag down into the top of his cast. The only thing more uncomfortable than being a naked guy with a cast, is having another naked guy put a trash bag over said cast.
"Yeah. Then I'll put another over this one and water won't get down in there. Unless you just want to sit around out here while I'm in the bath?"
Hikaru ran a hand down Akira's neck and trailed off one side down his shoulder. "If you don't want me..."
Akira trembled and took his hand. "Y-You understand right? I mean..."
Such sad eyes. "I'm only teasing you, you know." Hikaru smiled as widely as he could, "If you're going to take me seriously all the time you'll be crazy by the end of the week."
Akira wrapped his arms around him and held on tightly. "Don't. Stop just for a little while, just for now. I'm sorry, I know it's the way you are but right now... Let's just forget about everything for a while." He put his head down on Hikaru's shoulder.
"This has been really hard on you hasn't it? I mean you weren't hurt, but that only made you feel even worse than you would if you had been. I don't know what to do for you--I feel like I don't know anything about you."
"You know that I'm in love with you," Akira whispered, trying to block the sensation of being pressed against him this way.
"That's what I mean. I don't know this person, and I feel awful because of it--"
"But--"
"Just listen a minute okay?" He laughed softly, "I know it's probably hard for you to do. I'm not trying to say you've changed, I don't think you have. I'm just don't get things sometimes--you know that. I just wish I could have seen YOU sooner, that's all. I mean, for the longest time I didn't even question the way you looked to me. That's something I should know a little something about, considering the way some people see me. But on some level, I truly didn't want to know--it would be easier to be your opponent that way. I wanted to be respected by you. You could hate me all you wanted, as long as you could respect me at the same time."
"I guess I understand," Akira looked up into his eyes. "You know I respect you, and love you. I don't want you to apologize to me, or explain anything to me. I only want you to know, I would do anything for you. Anything." The tone in his voice paralyzed Hikaru where he sat.
"This is what I get for being serious?"
"What? A bath?" Akira smiled coyly and pushed aside the hair in front of the stitched up gash on Hikaru's forehead. "I don't think you'll have a scar..." He carefully brushed his lips past the outside edge of the stitching, taking advantage of the skin's sensitivity there. He appreciated Hikaru's deep gasp, and felt a little guilty when he pulled Hikaru over to the warm water instead of following up the move.
Akira should have considered Hikaru wasn't likely to take this as a momentary break--grabbing hold of him and putting his mouth to his ear as soon as they hit the water. He'd have found himself flat on the ground if it had happened out of water, but here floated backwards just a little, pressing himself back against Hikaru. He turned back looking into his eyes and seeing an intense look that was completely unfamiliar to him, knowing in his mind he likely had a similar expression. Akira kissed him as passionately as he could given his inexperience, and tried to keep control as Hikaru's hands swept up and down his body.
The hands eventually stopped between his legs, and Akira somehow managed to protest, "Wait! Not--AH--not in here!"
"You don't want me to?"
"There are probably other people who have to use this water," he said between heavy breaths, "and we have a room..."
Hikaru looked like he wanted to sprint the whole way, even on a broken leg, "Then let's get the hell out of here!"
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That's awfully squishy isn't it, think I should up the rating? . I hoped I would move things along a bit, but it keeps *stretching*. The next chapter will probably only be on the website *cough* *unsubtle hinting* *cough* I hope everyone didn't mind the wait too much this time, and thanks again for the reviews! ^_^v