It had been a month. Four weeks of desperation, thirty days of wishful thinking and 720 hours of longing.
Sakuragi stood with his other Shohoku teammates in the opening ceremony of the Inter-high competition.
Beside him was Captain Fujima. There were several Basketball teams from various High Schools aiming for only one goal: to be number one in Japan.
Everyone was excited, full of vibrance and prepared for very tough competitions to come. But Sakuragi's emotions were too plain to rival with them.
He felt so alone since the morning he woke up and found out that Kaede Rukawa had left. Perhaps the place or his life forever.
After the ceremony, the Shohoku team huddled outside the coliseum for some words from their captain.
"So team, we're staying at a house with four rooms. Two rooms will have four people while the other two will have three. Understood?"
The team answered and they all walked together towards the bus sponsored for them.
"Hey captain." Sendoh called Fujima. "Look, there's the Aiwa team."
The whole Shohoku players glanced beside them and saw the fifteen players of the Aiwa High entering a coaster van.
"That's Maki Shinichi. Their new recruit." Sendoh murmured.
"I've heard of him." Fujima added. "He's the son of the team's sponsor and I also heard they're staying in a five-class hotel."
"We're competing against them a week from now." Sendoh said.
"Let's not fear their money." Fujima assured his team.
The Shohoku captain was a millionaire son but his parents focus on overseas investments and not on Basketball teams.
In the Hiroshima Front Hotel
The Aiwa Team were greeted pleasantly by the hotel employees. A room was asssigned on every two players while Maki, being the son of the sponsor, had his own.
The brown-haired and more than six feet tall point guard of Aiwa High, Shinichi Maki inserted a plastic card beside the door and the door was unlocked.
He stretched his neck to relieve a bit from his tiredness.
When he reached the king-size bed, he smiled at the sight of Kaede Rukawa laid comfortably on the bed while watching the television. The sexy boy was wearing a white sleeveelss top that emphasized his muscled chest and pants on his lower body.
Kaede Rukawa had been working for him for about two months already but he never get bored of him. He's still very irresistible in Maki's eyes.
"How are you?" Maki leaned on the bed and gave Rukawa a soft peck on the lips.
Rukawa didn't bother to respond.
Maki gently took the remote control from his hands seductively and turned the television off. His left hand travelled down to Rukawa's pants in feathery touches and unzipped it.
"I need some refreshment Kaede." He spoke in a very sexy tone on Rukawa's mouth and the latter parted his lips to lick Maki's chin.
Maki, getting horny, pulled Rukawa's pants until his knees and made the raven-haired boy face the bed.
The Aiwa point guard touched Rukawa's black underwear and massaged his butt underneath. He slowly pulled the underwear's garter to reveal the vanilla-white butt inside and kissed it.
He licked it and tasted the mushy skin.
He had always loved the milky skin of Kaede Rukawa and perhaps it's the raven-haired boy's asset that brought hundreds of men and women to crave for him sexually.
He then snaked his left hand upward to trace Rukawa's hard but smooth abs with his fingers.
"Dance for me." Maki laid on the bed while Rukawa sat on his abs.
Rukawa moved a little backwards to let his private part touch Maki's ones.
The sapphire blue eyes of Rukawa, though it seemed to be always piercing on you, looked very alluring and urged you to ask for more.
The raven-haired boy brought his hands up and swayed his hips in a very sexy step. His very essence rubbed on Maki's that provoked the latter to moan a craving sound.
Slowly, he took away his upper clothing and exposed his very chest that had always made Maki very horny.
Sakuragi sat beside the open window and gazed above the dark blue sky.
His teammates were still busy having their dinner downstairs. He didn't eat much that night because his appetite was still missing.
He haven't seen Kaede Rukawa for so long and perhaps he would never see him again.
He attempted to visit him on the club where they first met, but the employees there said Rukawa had resigned.
The redhead misses him so much. So much that his days were so incomplete without a gaze on him. He was very worried. He wasn't certain if Rukawa is in a good condition wherever he is right now.
Suddenly, he stared at the very gloomy crescent moon on the velvet night sky.
Wherever you are Kaede, I hope you're also looking at this moon. I want to feel your presence. I miss you so much.
Back in the Hiroshima Front Hotel, Rukawa sat on a chair located at the terrace.
A long lite-blue blanket surrounded his naked body as he gazed above to the solemn dark sky.
He was only looking at the sky when he felt the weight of his eyes heading towards the moon.
He suddenly felt peaceful and at home with the sight of that heavenly body.
The thought of the MVP he once bedded with came reeling on his mind. It was the most special night he ever had as far as he could remember.
No one had ever touched him like that. It was so warm, so comforting and he felt secured on those husky arms that once surrounded him.
He wanted to feel that again. He wanted to feel secure, because in the arms of that MVP, he felt he was loved.
Then he returned inside the room and found Maki still sleeping on the bed.
He sat beside him and caressed his brown hair lovingly.
Since that night he spent with the MVP, he went bored of his work. He wished he could also live like him. Going to school during weekdays, play sports in a team and go to parties without accompanying a customer.
He'd rather lose his condo, his Benz convertible and his signature clothings just to live like that.
But he couldn't just escape from Shinichi Maki. The Maki family was too powerful and influential that they could ruin his life when he disobeys Maki.
For the past month, he often fooled himself to think that Maki was the MVP he longs for.
Though they were completely alike from head to toe physically and emotionally; Rukawa closed his eyes everytime Maki inserts his tongue on him. He convinced himself that the hands of Maki travelling on his body downwards belonged to the MVP, Hanamichi Sakuragi.
He remembered the moment the MVP kissed him torridly. If only he didn't suffocate, he should've enjoyed that kiss to the limit.
Suddenly, Rukawa touched Maki's cheek. He traced his nose on Maki's cheeks and felt the hotness of his arousal. He then snaked his right hand downwards to touch Maki's private part and massaged it.
Sex. It was his way to cover his crave for the MVP's touch. He was definitely aware that the MVP was very near from him.
It's the season of the inter-high competition. He knew he must see him and he would see him.
I promise.
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