- author thoughts... -
I LOVE the last part of this chapter. I think its funny, but so far not a whole bunch of people have laughed.
Coffee & Video Games
With the apparent success of Seto and Yuugi under his belt, Otogi was more than confident about his next date: Honda and Jounouchi. The way he figured it, there were realms of feelings to be explored between the two, since they were such good friends. So he actually looked forward to that night's activities. He figured they'd go out for some coffee, and then return to his place and play some video games. It was simple, casual, and perfect for a get-together between friends.
Of course, before he left to meet the two at the local coffee shop, he made sure that his video games were set up in his bedroom instead of the living room.
"Hey, how've you been?" Honda asked when Otogi joined him and Jounouchi at the table. "You're late."
"Sorry," Otogi said with a grin, sitting down. "It's been a busy past few days."
"I'll bet," Jounouchi said dryly. "You were out with Kaiba and Yuug' last night, right?"
Otogi nodded, and before he answered he managed to flag down a waitress and order some coffee. Once she was gone, he responded, "Uh huh, but I got called into work in the middle of it." He didn't add that Seto and Yuugi didn't seem to care that he had left. It was actually… hey, come to think of it, that was kind of irritating! Otogi frowned. Wasn't he technically supposed to be the central focus of these dates? For all they knew, he was trying to choose one of them…
"Ooh," Honda teased, "what's with THAT look?"
"Hm?" Otogi asked, focusing on his two dates at hand.
"You look like you just swallowed a lemon," Jounouchi explained. That waitress came back with Otogi's coffee, and made a face when Jounouchi and Honda made their own orders.
The whole date went pretty well that way: banter, coffee, more banter, more coffee… Mundane, but it went well. In fact, Otogi was pleased with how well it went. The only thing he regretted was that he learned Jounouchi and caffeine didn't seem to be the best combination. By the time they arrived back at Otogi's place, Jounouchi was practically bouncing.
Then they were in Otogi's room, sitting on the bed playing some shooting game, and Jounouchi was - if possible - more competitive than usual… and he was STILL bouncing! Actually, all that excess energy would probably work to Otogi's advantage. Jounouchi was impulsive enough when his head was clear, so who knew what he would be compelled to do while hyper?
"Let's make this game more interesting, " Otogi said. It might have seemed sudden to Honda and Jounouchi, but it had all been very well planned by Otogi… except that hyper-Jounouchi thing; that was just chance screwing with him.
"And how do you suggest we do that?" Honda asked. Bounce bounce went Jounouchi.
"Well, since some of us," insert pointed glare at Jounouchi, "have trouble with shooting our comrades, I think we should create a new rule."
"I didn't mean to kill ya, jeez," Jounouchi pouted half-heartedly. Otogi laughed and smacked him playfully on the shoulder.
"I know," he told Jounouchi, "but after three different times, I think it's time to create some… consequences. From now on, we have to kiss any comrade we shoot."
Jounouchi thought that was the funniest thing he had ever heard, and was quick to agree.
Honda was a little harder to sway. "You really are all about sex," he said - almost scolded, really - and after a moment of looking from Jounouchi to Otogi resigned, "Fine, I'll play along."
Jounouchi managed to shoot Otogi. Twice. Each time he gave Otogi a lingering kiss, the end usually punctuated by Honda smacking him and telling him to "unpause and play the damn game already!" Otogi shot Honda and kissed him thoroughly, just to get him into the spirit of things. After that Honda was a little more amiable about the whole game. After that Otogi just stayed out of their line of fire, grinning, waiting. It could only be a matter of time before-
"Oh shit! Sorry, man!" Jounouchi yelped. Jounouchi had shot Honda.
Jackpot. "Well," Otogi said casually, "You know the rules."
Honda's eyes widened and his gaze flitted from Otogi to Jounouchi. Jounouchi shrugged and kissed Honda quickly, chastely. Otogi almost squealed with joy (something that was decidedly not his style; he must have picked it up from Yuugi) as they stared at each other for a moment… and then turned back to the game.
Not even five minutes later Jounouchi shot Honda again. "Damn," he said, but Otogi didn't think he sounded very remorseful. "Well, the rule is-"
Honda cut him off with the kiss, and Otogi was fascinated to see the kiss go longer, deeper, more forceful than the first.
Triumph! Two successes in a row. If things kept up at that rate, he's be back to his five-boy lifestyle in no time…
Then his glee changed to something different. Envy? Honda's lips had started exploring along other exposed bits of Jounouchi's skin, and Jounouchi looked… completely enraptured. Otogi had never seen him look like that before, and he was pretty sure that he was just as good with his mouth as Honda…
Then again, it could all be a ploy to make him jealous. After all, for all THEY thought, he was eventually only going to choose one… He stood up; he'd go get something to eat, and see how things played out. They would probably be back to playing games when he came back.
"I'll be right back."
When he returned, his bedroom door was closed. He tried the knob and frowned.
His bedroom door was locked. He had been locked out of his own bedroom… and what was that noise Jounouchi was making?
Otogi heaved a sigh. Fine, he could let that slide, just once… After all, they were adjusted to him. They could get used to each other.
Otogi went to his computer and put on his headphones. After all, he knew how loud Jounouchi could get.