WHAT I WISH FOR (Pt. III) - teaser

Author: Jouhaiichi-gou

"So .. do you want it or don't you?"

No answer.

The man looked down and nearly laughed out loud. The scowl on the boy's face was exactly the same one he wore when they started to go out this afternoon. And that was a good two hours ago.

The man cleared his throat. Laughing would only serve to aggravate the young boy and further foul his mood. He decided to just try again.

"Sasuke?"

The said boy stiffened. He hated it when the man says his name like that, using that voice.

Soft and gentle as it was, it was a voice which its speech was seldom refuted.

A voice which its orders were seldomrefused.

But the boy was not about to give in just like that.

At least not so easily this time!

In the most serious tone he could manage, the boy gave his answer.

"NO."

"Eh .. you sure?"

The older man bit his lips. Right now, not bursting out laughing was getting harder and harder to do.

He had expected that much to be the answer, but the expression on the boy's face was really something else. It was too seriously stubborn and severe.

And so cute, too!

Trying his best to ignore the man's amused smile, the boy turned and looked away.

"I said no, Yukimura. I don't want it."

"But you're not even looking!"

"I don't care. I still don't want it."

"Aw come on .. you can't decide without looking. Take a look first, maybe you'll like it, who knows? Just one look .. come on."

"Really! I told you I don't-"

"Just one look. That's all I ask from you. Sasuke."

The boy cringed inwardly.

That damned voice, again! Yukimura is really using it on purpose this time!

'That's all I ask from you'? That's ALL?

Don't be ridiculous! With Yukimura, it never ends after just 'one look'.

And this, the boy knows from experience.

Exasperated, he tried to bargain. "Look, this time why don't we just-"

"Please, Sasuke."

The boy sighed.

As usual, Yukimura was unrelenting. Until what he wanted was seen to, he was never going to stop.

Sasuke should have known better than to start resisting in the first place.

But, really. He just didn't feel like doing this right now.

"I'm tired already, Yukimura."

"Then we'll just do it quickly."

"What! But that's not the point!"

"For me ..."

The boy startled.

Yukimura didn't have to go that far so as to use that sentence.

At least not for this sort of thing, anyway.

Sasuke stared at the man in front of him. For Yukimura to actually ask this from him this way, the boy is left with no other choice.

He folded his arms across his chest.

"Ch'. Fine, have it your way."

END OF TEASER