Oh my, oh my!
It's been more than one year since my last update…
Real life sucks…
I hope someone still want to read this one.
Hum… since Lobsters-chan is busy with real life too, I am right now without a beta reader. Anyone who wants to candidate, feel free to do so, since this chapter is completely without a decent beta reader and my English isn't the best one…
So, I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Be aware of the lemons!
As always, the characters aren't mine (just the ones that you never heard of ), but since they're too good to be together, I'm helping them with this little piece of my mind.
3 – White Christmas
When Ran finished his teaching that day, he put away the books in his locker and didn't worry to say goodbyes to his colleagues. It was the same routine everyday. The other teachers looked at each other, making faces while Ran left the room.
Outside, some of his students waved their goodbyes to him and Ran answered with a nod, leaving the school's gate, mixing with the crowd of the students and pedestrians passing there at that time. Letting his feet guide him, Ran begun to take the park route.
"Good afternoon, Fujimiya-sensei", a cheerful voice greeted him before Ran could turn the corner. He raised the eyes and saw a very attractive man with bronzed skin and shoulder-length brown hair framing the smiling face. The hazel eyes looked almost too cheerful to him, almost making Ran smile back.
"Good afternoon, 'Ken-niichan'. I thought that you'd be at the park", he answered.
"I asked a day off", said Ken, looking at Ran intensely. "So, I have all this afternoon and the night to spend with you."
"Is there some kind of special occasion to do this?", he asked, curious.
Ken smiled eagerly and let himself move away from the bike he was leaning on to approach from Ran.
"Because I decided to commemorate a day that became important to me again." He paused, the eyes still intense, almost making the silent redhead shiver with those bright hazel eyes.
"I… suppose it's your birthday?" Ran asked, receiving an affirmative answer. "You should tell me before… I could give you a present…"
"To be with you today is more than a special present to me. Can I ask you this?" His smile this time, made Ran answer with a shy smile, feeling his face grow hot.
"Yes…" He answered, looking at the sidewalk.
"Thank you, Ran." Ken said, lifting his head, making Ran look to his still smiling face. "So… let's go? I know of a good restaurant where we can dinner at." He pointed to the bike.
"It's yours?" he asked curious.
"Yes, yes. I bought this baby last year. Birthday present. But nothing compares to the present you're giving me today." Getting one of the helmets, he let Ran use it while he put his own and seat on the bike, followed by Ran who seated behind him and put the hands on his hips to hold himself. Ken started the bike and soon both were distant from the school and some curious eyes that had the opportunity to see them part.
"…at the end of the game, there he was, totally naked! In front of the entire stadium!"
Ken let a cheerful laugh echoes through the cool atmosphere of the nice restaurant while he and Ran let themselves enjoy the pleasant dinner. As always, Ken was the center of their small conversations and this time he was telling Ran something that had happened some years ago, when he was part of a soccer team. Ran let an open smile spread through his face, due to the scene and mainly because of Ken. He was so at ease with him. And today was no exception. On the contrary, he was feeling exceptionally good. As if he wasn't capable of any sad thought.
"And you, Ran? You didn't tell me what is to be a teacher." Ken asked curious.
"Ah… There isn't much to talk… Just planning classes, correcting tests and so on…" He said, feeling unhappy for his life to be so without great moments.
"But there must happen something interesting… Do your students like you?"
"I think so."
"Does the girls like you?" Asked Ken, smiling mischievously to Ran, making him redden a little. "Ah! I knew it! Bet that they let some love declarations in their tests!" This time Ran became slightly redder than before, which make Ken's eyes widen. "Really? Wow! I didn't know that they were so bold these days! Well… but who can blame the poor girls… They have a very handsome teacher to fill their juvenile fantasies!" Now Ran was a deep shade of red, which make Ken smile warmly.
"Stop this!" Said Ran almost too shy, wanting to hide himself from that embarrass he was feeling.
Ken just smiled and shook the head.
"I didn't know you would feel so uncomfortable with this! So you are really timid!" He said with that smile on his face. Ran recovered his pose and sighed.
"Let's change the subject, please?" He asked, eating some of the salad.
"As you wish, my beautiful sensei." Said Ken, winking to him, making Ran feel the heat coming up to his face again.
The dinner followed with the same warm atmosphere. Ken paid the bill, not letting Ran do this for him, even being his birthday. He said that Ran's presence that night was more than enough to be a great present for him. Then, they went to the park, where Ken teaches soccer to the children. It was cold that night, so both of them went out of he restaurant using their coats. They sat at the bench where Ran always watched Ken during those afternoons and a comfortable silence fell upon both men. It wasn't necessary any words this time, because the presence of the other was enough to fill the emptiness they both shared, as if they waited for each other to feel alive again.
Without warning, Ken let his hand slip inside Ran's hand, startling the teacher with his gesture. Both of them looked at each other, surprised with their actions: Ken who let his hand slip and Ran who held it. Both of them became slightly red but didn't let that contact go. Their eyes were locked on each other's, almost as if they were capable to understand what the other was thinking.
Inclining slightly, Ken approached his face from Ran's and could feel the heat caused by the breathing of the other. That sensation made him remember those two maddening nights they spent together as paid-lovers. The heat and the passion both of them shared in the secrecy of a room would never be forget by Ken and he was sure that Ran was thinking the same thing, since he was trembling slightly and his breathing was a little faster than before.
It didn't take much time to happen what succeeded. With the other proximity, Ran let his eyes close at the same time Ken inclined to him, capturing his lips in a delicate caress. Immediately both opened the eyes, looking frightening and at the same time hopeful. Their hands never letting the other go.
"It's snowing…" Said Ken, looking at the snowflakes that begun to fall around them.
"Yes…" Murmured Ran, without taking his eyes of him, but looking at the flakes that fell on Ken's head.
"We should go now…" Ken said almost too hesitantly, beginning to get up from the bench, when Ran pulled his hand.
"Please… I… I don't want to go home. Not tonight… Please…" Ran's words reflected his feelings and without warning, pulled Ran at his direction, embracing the redhead tightly.
"I don't want to be away from you. Not tonight." Said Ken while looking to the flustered face before his eyes. With the hands he touched delicately that face to feel the coolness of his skin and they both inclined to each other to share a kiss, this time more than a simple caress, putting fire at the feelings that resurfaced since their first encounters.
Letting go of each other almost too hesitantly, both men faced the other for a long time. Their agitated breathing making little clouds of hot air before their reddened mouths. Without saying a word, Ken took Ran's hand and guided him to the sidewalk, where his bike was parked. Immediately Ran mounted at the bike behind Ken, lacing his hands at Ken's waist timidly.
They searched for some place where they could be this night and only found vacancy at a high-class hotel at the end of the city. This time of the year all the hotels where full because of the festivities. Getting the keys, they both didn't wait for the host to guide them to their room. Getting inside of the luxurious penthouse, both men attacked each other's mouths to feel again that taste so much neglected all those past months, when they were trying to know each other properly.
Closing the door soundly with their bodies, Ken pressed Ran against the cold wood, making the redhead feel defenseless before this kind of feeling. He couldn't fight against this and would never want to. He was just submitting himself to this because he permitted it. Because he wanted to feel everything about Ken, who was the first person with whom he shared this kind of intimacy.
"I want all of you…", said Ken, between kisses and caresses, the ragged voice full of desire. "I want to devour you completely… God help me or I'll commit some kind of madness."
"So take me already." Said Ran, trying to sound more confident with his trembling voice and hard breathing. "Make me feel all of you tonight, so I can never forget you." While he spoke, his hands roamed to Ken's bags, trying to unfasten them, to prove what he wanted.
Obeying his eager lover, Ken helped him to unfasten the trousers, freeing Ran, letting both of them only with their torsos hidden by the shirts that they didn't find time to yank. The feeling of their members meeting in desperate caresses, almost made both men come right away. Ken took Ran's right leg; lifting it at his waist and without warning, let his pulsating organ invade that body so willingly to receive him.
A suave moan was heard from Ran at the exact moment he was being invaded and both of them stopped their kisses and caresses to face each other. Kissing again Ken's face, Ran let his lover know that he was ready for this and Ken begun to move in slow, increasing the pace at each thrust. Ran's hands came to grip his shoulders, trying to lean on the wooden door where he was taken, while Ken helped him holding his waist and the leg that wrapped up at Ken's waist.
In a final thrust Ken let all of his hot seed spill inside Ran's body, moaning loud at the same time Ran let his seed spill against their covered torsos with a muffled cry at Ken's shoulder. Getting at a normal pace, Ken let himself out of Ran's body and caressed that face so flustered, feeling the hot and fast breathing in his own face. With light kisses, he felt all of Ran's face, who seemed to wake up from his caresses and responded him with the same errand kisses.
Yanking the slicked shirt Ran wore, Ken discarded it together with his, letting both naked at the penthouse's main entrance. Smiling child-like to his redhead lover, he took his hand, calling him to go inside of the room they would spent that night.
"Come on, let's take a bath. We're slicked this way." He said, puling Ran's hand, who came right behind him smiling timidly.
Getting inside of the hot water previously prepared by the hotel's crew, waiting for someone to stay at the last moment in one of their expensive rooms, Ran and Ken let themselves only to rest wrapped by the heat that emanated from the tub. Closing the eyes, Ran let himself be at ease, when he felt hands on his hair, tugging his braid, freeing the scarlet tresses. Soft kisses were left on his face while those fingers traced his hair delicately.
"Are you feeling comfortable?" Asked the husky voice, closer to his ear, making him shiver slightly while those sweet kisses and caressing fingers on his hair never ceased. Ran answered with a brief nod and Ken begun his new assault, taking his mouth in an almost hungry kiss. His hands roamed Ran's back now, descending until them cupped his bottom, feeling and bringing him closer to the hazel-eyed man.
"I'll never get enough of you… Ran…" He said, looking at the man with beautiful violet eyes opened, looking through him almost as if they could see all of his most well hidden secrets.
"I earned for your touch all those months…" Said Ran, inclining to kiss his red lips, while his arms embraced him by the shoulders. "And I still am." The suave kiss became hotter and soon both were immerse in an exchange of heating kisses and stimulating caresses. While Ken's hands gripped Ran's bottom, Ran's hands roamed at Ken's torso, pinching his erect nipples, making him squirm with pleasure and intensify the caress until his middle finger get at the timid entrance of Ran's body.
"Ken…" He moaned, feeling the intimate caress taking all of his senses. A second finger added and Ran searched for Ken's mouth, taking his lips again fiercely, feeling the entrance of another finger while on that almost desperate kiss. Touching again Ken's nipples, he made the man almost jump when his mouth connected with them, licking slowly and letting his teeth scrapple each one.
"Are you trying to make me crazy?" Asked Ken huskily, never letting his fingers go.
"As long as you keep on driving me mad." Answered Ran, loosing his initial shyness to lift himself slightly, separating Ken's fingers from his body, to lower himself at the ready and pulsating organ that took him immediately.
Ken let a hoarse cry escape, taking Ran's waist and searching his mouth to kiss him again, letting both of them with sore lips. Moving a first time faster than Ran expected, Ken made him moan louder than the first time they joined that night. Another sudden and fast movement and Ken was almost pounding inside Ran's body, who made the same movements, but in the contrary direction, to increase the friction and the pleasure. The movements became faster and both men where trying to bring the pleasure as soon as possible. Ran's moaning louder than before, accompanying Ken's moans and fast breathing, their bodies movements, the feel of the other in a intimate company, the sore lips kissing each other, tongues exploring mouths, all making both men fell at the haziness of the pleasure. Another hoarse cry left Ken's throat, while Ran moaned breathless.
Letting the heat and tiredness from the climax undo slowly, both men wrapped each other in a tired embrace until their breathing became normal again and their voices could function properly.
"I won't let you go away from me this night." Said Ken embracing Ran stronger while he retired himself inside of his body, making him shiver again.
"I am all yours." Ran said, kissing his face and letting the man wash his hair now unbraided and wet. Soon he got a washcloth and begun to wash Ken until both men were clean to get out of the tub.
Drying himself with the towel, Ken wrapped in a robe at the same time Ran did the same thing, only that the he used a towel to dry his hair. Taking the redhead's hand, Ken guided him until the room where was the bed and made Ran sit at the stool in front of the dresser, taking the comb and freeing the long hair from the towel, beginning to comb it with all care.
While he did this, Ran let his eyes close, only to feel that almost too forbidden pleasure. The violet-eyed man never thought that some day in his life he would feel the hands of a lover caressing him this way. He never thought that someone could wake some kind of feeling in him again, after all those years spent in solitude.
Ken's mouth connected with his at the next moment he finished to comb the long tresses. Immediately Ran accompanied him in the kiss, letting himself be guided to the bed, where he fell at his back with Ken's body above his. The kiss seemed to never end, the sweetness seemed to never end, making both lovers never get enough of each other this night. Just like the other times they had sex, never having a time to take a nap, as if with the new day, all of this would end.
Resting from their last climax, tired enough to make any other movement, both men where entwined in each other, only hearing their soft breaths. Ran used Ken's chest as a pillow, listening the calm heartbeats, while Ken caressed that long tresses which seemed to fascinate him. Both eyes went to the window, to see the faint light of the new day and the falling snow. It was the day before Christmas. Closing their eyes almost at the same time, both men fell asleep, with the soothing presence of the other.
They woke up after the 2 pm. It was still snowing. Taking only a bath, both men dressed with the hotel robes while Ken asked for the room service to clean their clothes and bring their so neglected breakfast, which was turning in almost dinner, seeing the time.
At the table, Ken and Ran ate in silence, as if the sound of their voices could break the harmonious atmosphere in which each of them lost inside the other's eyes. Shy smiles and intense looks were the pleasant substitutes of their voices until the end of the meal, when Ken took Ran's hand and wrapped the other man with him in an embrace so lengthy.
Ken left sweet kisses in Ran's face, feeling the heat rising between both again. But this time he only wanted to enjoy the silent and so shy company of the other. The night before was… something he could never imagine to happen. He never felt so much desire and lack of control towards someone like it was with Ran. It was different. There were something more, but he would be dead before to admit what it was.
"I wasn't planning this… when I asked your company yesterday…", said Ken, looking inside of those eyes so deep. "I just… wanted to be by your side on my birthday. I only wanted to enjoy my day at the side of a friend." Lifting his hand, he caressed Ran's face, going through the hair still wet from their last bath.
"And how do we stand now, Ken?" Asked Ran, looking through him with those eyes that would never forgive a false explanation. "We're still… friends? Or it was something you'd do with anyone?" His voice was calm, not wanting to disturb their closeness, but eyes demanding the truth.
Ken smiled and, caressing his face, kissed him on the lips sweetly.
"I'd like to say that nothing changes… that we're still friends… However, it was obvious that we have something more than just friendship…" He said, guiding Ran to the comfortable armchair and standing up before him. "I wont lie about this, Ran. Every time I am near you, I feel something that escapes of my control. Every time you give me your rare smiles, it's as if my life makes sense. And to be with you, so intimately, is almost as if I can touch the Heaven's Gate."
The tears came almost imperceptive. Ran felt first the sting pain on his chest and the burning on his eyes. Soon, more tears made company to the first ones, startling Ken who immediately knelt before him, taking the chair arms where Ran sat.
"Ran… I'm sorry, Ran… I never wanted to make you cry. I know I said too much… But I just-" Before he could finish, Ran took his lips in a desperate kiss, letting his tongue get inside of Ken's mouth almost too fiercely. Letting go the kiss, the redhead only embraced him by the neck, letting his head fall on Ken's shoulders, who felt the heat of the new tears.
"I don't know what I can do now, Ken… I am so confused… I feel happiness and sadness at the same time… I can't deal with all of these emotions… It's been a long time since someone made me feel again… Moreover, I fear that all of this could only be a dream. A dream that will end when we get out of this room."
With trembling hands, Ken cradled Ran's face between them, making their eyes to meet each other.
"Are my words the cause of your happiness?" Asked Ken carefully while his thumbs made slow circles through Ran's cheeks.
"Yes." Answered Ran in a whisper only to Ken's ears.
Ken felt his heart skip a beat with that affirmation and smiled openly to him.
"I feel the same thing, Ran." He said, never letting those eyes, which looked so deeply at him. "However… your sadness is my sadness too. I don't know what we can be out of this room to each other. Unless you want me. As your lover."
More tears formed in Ran's eyes and a shy smile formed on his reddened lips.
"Yes." He said, embracing Ken in a fierce hug, feeling the heat of the other's tears make company with his.
Never wanting to let the other go, Ken and Ran stayed the rest of the afternoon snuggling on the sofa until the dinnertime. Soon, they went to the bed, where they only slept together, in a comfortable embrace. The next day, they reclaimed their vows, almost fearful that all could have been a dream. It was like a Christmas present, the company of each other and their recently discovered feelings, that neither wanted to name yet, just to feel it while it was safe, wishing that this could last forever.
At the first light of the 26th, Ken drove Ran to his house, letting his redhead lover on the front gate of the large propriety. The large house that belonged to Ran's family, where he now lived alone. Kissing Ran's lips he said briefs goodbyes, warning that would be possible they wouldn't meet at the end of this day, and waited for the redhead to enter at the house to start up the bike and go home.