A/N notes: I'm sorry for the wait and the cliffhanger, and thank you so much for supporting me! This is the last "official" chapter of this fic, but it might be followed by an epilogue. I have yet to make up my mind about that and I am still discussing it over with my wonderful other half and blue orb :D
On another note:
Kiawna, I am very fond of your chibi uke-like puppy eyes :D I'm sorry about the confusion, I guess I forgot to mention it somewhere that Cruel Intentions is a movie, I'm so sorry about that! I hope this chapter will clear up any confusion the cliffy might've brought you and other readers. -hugs- Oh and btw, the Seigaku style of Cruel Intentions: Just. Pure. Love.
Heart the FujiRyoma version of Cruel Intentions :D
Cosmic Kath, I'm really touched by your story! I'm sending both you and your sister my undying love, and I promise I will finish this fic soon ;D
babi chika: Atobe plus spanking equals to squeals ;D and not only from the captain himself! I so love your mind!
Thank you all so much for reviewing! I love you -sends cookies and sweets-
Chapter 13: The defeat
The captain didn't believe the sight in front of him. His suspicions were automatically transferred onto Gakuto, being Oshitari's boyfriend and the one who had dragged the supposed to be happy couple back from their date. The redhead wouldn't want his boyfriend to lose this bet and could have gone after Shishido and Ootori to bring them back, but then again…
If there was no need to change their minds, then Shishido and Ootori had never intended to go on a date in the first place.
Atobe stepped up to Shishido, the shorter boy almost visibly jerking backwards as he did so. Atobe let his previously serious expression change into a smirk. "Heh, you should really consider being one of us." he said playfully. "You really had me going there…"
The captain then turned to face Oshitari. "But I could almost smell your work behind it. What I didn't see coming was that you had actually let them all in on the scheme: Mukahi, Shishido and Ootori…they all knew about our bet."
Atobe narrowed his eyes in an unmistakable glare. "You set me up."
"I don't know what you're talking about…" Oshitari answered with an innocent shrug on his shoulders, but Atobe could read between the lines where the tensai actually said: We don't have any rules. "And furthermore I don't like keeping secrets from my wife."
Atobe refused the urge to roll his eyes when Gakuto happily grabbed a hold on the tensai's arm, obviously more than pleased to hear his boyfriend say that.
From his spot, Ootori kept watching the scene. His heart was beating fast inside his chest and he was only waiting for Atobe to throw something hurtful at him next. The captain had already attacked Shishido and Oshitari together with Gakuto…when was Atobe going to direct his irritation at him and have revenge? Ootori was the problem for Atobe, the little pain that didn't want to go away and that kept screwing up his senpai's life.
As Atobe finally spoke again, Ootori was sure he felt his heart stop beating for a few seconds. "And Ootori of course knew that he had to accept that date, but that's pretty much all he knew that he had to do."
Atobe locked eyes with Oshitari again. They didn't need words to understand each other. Oshitari knew perfectly well not to let Ootori play a crucial part in his scheme, since Atobe would've seen through the junior in an instance if Ootori had tried to hide anything from him. Oshitari also knew that Atobe would go through Shishido, since the shorter third year was his safer way to win their bet.
"You had everything calculated as always. Well done. But you know how I like it challenging…" Atobe then said, a smile slowly taking place on his face again. "I'll win this bet."
Shishido dared to step up. "You can try, but I see now that you are the only one for Ootori, Atobe-buchou."
Atobe turned an annoyed glare at Shishido. The boy had promised to set him up with Ootori after all. Atobe guessed this was Shishido's own so-called revenge: seeing Atobe trapped in a relationship with Ootori but at the same time seeing Ootori happy.
"Better just give up, Atobe." Oshitari murmured, shooting him a smirk. "You'll never pair them up now. They already know everything…"
Atobe changed his gaze from Oshitari back onto Shishido and then to Ootori next. Ootori shot him an almost apologetic look. Atobe silently wondered how the boy could still keep on apologizing and taking most of the blame after everything that had happened. He eyed the tensai briefly.
"You know me, I never give up." he then said, letting out a dramatic sigh and walked over to Ootori. The younger boy practically ducked for cover as he stopped in front of him. "But I guess even I can make an exception in this case… So, would you like to go then, Choutarou?"
In the corner of his eye Atobe saw Shishido turn his head away from the scene in front of him. It made Atobe feel a little amused, taking joy in the other third year's misery, and he offered Ootori his arm. Ootori just stared at him in disbelief. "Well? Or have you changed your mind about me?"
Ootori couldn't help smiling and the boy shook his head eagerly before grabbing Atobe under the arm and letting the captain lead him in the direction towards the main entrance of the school.
Gakuto peered after them. "Do you think Ootori can handle it from here?" the redhead asked and yanked on his boyfriend's school uniform.
"I think you're underestimating the hidden powers of the ukes…" Oshitari answered with a light smile and Gakuto pulled him down for a kiss.
"Jesus you two, get a room..." Shishido muttered, also looking at the hallway that now stood empty. "Atobe is not going to give up. That was just a load of crack what he said about making exceptions."
"I know, but I trust Ootori's going to win this one." Oshitari replied and Shishido sent him a doubtful look.
"I don't see how he could…" the shorter boy said, still looking after the two guys who were already long gone. "Atobe practically controls his every movement. He is out of Choutarou's reach in that way, no matter how sappy Choutarou can make him feel..."
Oshitari paused for a while, a smirk filling up his face. "Wanna bet?" he then challenged.
Shishido raised one eyebrow. "Are you serious?" he just snorted, shooting one look at the empty hallway again before hesitantly turning his attention back onto the couple in front of him. "…On what terms?"
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A silence hung over them and Ootori wondered what Atobe was planning and also how the older boy was going to act towards him when they would reach wherever it was Atobe was taking them.
After a while Ootori recognized the familiar neighborhood where Atobe lived and started to have more and more problems to walk forward. What was Atobe going to do?
Atobe led him into the same mansion Ootori had already visited dozens of times and took him all the way up to his room where the captain finally let go of him.
"What, uh, what are we doing here-" Ootori tried to ask as Atobe locked the door to his room and removed his jacket.
"We're going to start dating…on my terms." the older boy answered and Ootori took a step backwards.
"What?"
"That's what you wanted, right?" Atobe shot him a look. "You insisted on having me any way you could get me, well congratulations, we're going to be dating for the rest of my third year."
Ootori stumbled backwards again as Atobe stepped closer to him, well aware that Atobe was making him walk in the direction of the bed.
"Do you still feel like doing that?" Atobe continued and Ootori gave a doubtful nod. Atobe grinned. "Well, then. I'll take you up on your offer, besides I lost the bet so I won't get to sleep with any other guys before I graduate…"
Atobe had now reached up to the younger boy, who stood trapped in front of his king-sized bed, and gave him a light push making him fall down onto the bed behind him. Atobe crawled up on top of him and stared down into his brown eyes. "…that means I'm going to be horny quite often."
Ootori felt his breathing almost stop and his face heat up, but the junior took a hold on himself and bravely stared back. "D-do you think you can scare me away? That's not going to happen! I want you! Furthermore I know you have feelings for me."
Atobe gave out a short, but amused chuckle. "You do?"
Ootori nodded. "Oshitari knows it too. Otherwise he wouldn't have helped me."
"Well you are right about something, I do want you…" Atobe breathed into the boy's ear and Ootori squirmed under him. The tone in Atobe's voice was so lustful that Ootori decided not to even question if that statement had been true. Especially when Atobe's hands found the fabric of his shirt next and Ootori felt how his clothing was being ripped apart, revealing his upper body. Once again Ootori could feel those demanding hands brush over his skin, leaving marks on various places.
Atobe slowly lowered his head and pressed lips against Ootori's. His mouth was as demanding as his hands and Ootori's eyes widened as he felt his captain deepen the kiss by roughly pushing a tongue in between his lips, not even waiting for an invitation.
The kiss was hungry, leaving Ootori more than slightly out of breath when Atobe finally parted. The captain let Ootori catch some air into his lungs before leaning back down to claim those same slightly swollen lips again. One of Atobe's hands hastily unbuttoned the clothing on his own upper body as well, dying to get rid of everything he wore right now.
Ootori gave out a whimper inside his mouth, hands grabbing a tight hold on his shoulders, wanting some kind of support. Atobe just shoved the hands off from his shoulders, removed his shirt and locked Ootori's struggling arms above the junior's head with one hand. The other hand traveled down his innocent prey's bare chest to unbutton the pants next.
"Atobe…" Ootori managed to say, but he would not tell the older boy to stop.
Atobe leaned in with an amused expression on his face and captured the other one's lips once more. As he distracted Ootori with another intense kiss, his hand slipped beneath the last pieces of clothing the boy wore, making Ootori arch up his whole body to the touch and in the process press lips firmly against his. Atobe only took the situation to his advantage and kissed the boy even harder than before. Ootori tried to continue breathing but Atobe was just too good drawing moans out of him and the captain never left his lips alone either.
What the captain's lips were doing to him was enough to make him lose his breath, but never mind what his hand was doing to him. It was practically blinding the younger boy or making him see stars in front of his eyes. Needless to say Ootori wasn't used to this sort of treatment, where the Atobe he had dated before had been so careful and loving with his every touch this one was brutal and demanding. Ootori had troubles keeping up and it felt like he had been totally left to Atobe's mercy, which was something the captain didn't have at the moment.
Ootori barely noticed at first that his pants were being jerked off of him and then thrown to the floor together with his underwear, leaving him wearing nothing else except for his cross. Ootori would've blushed his cheeks off, when finally being able to process his current state, but his face was already beyond red. Maybe Atobe could still see the rest of his blush that Ootori felt was spreading all over his naked body.
Atobe pulled apart, leaving him hanging on the verge of relief and Ootori breathed in and out heavily, eyes slowly opening to take in Atobe's figure climb off the bed to remove the last pieces of clothing the older boy still wore. Atobe was so beautiful. His skin was smooth and glossing with sweat, his movements were graceful but still so manly…
Ootori could see how guys wanted to sleep with his captain. The junior only wished Atobe could be as beautiful on the inside as he was on the outside. It was like making love to a whole different person than before, no, it wasn't even about making love. This was an emotionless, lust-filled fuck. But if that was all Ootori was going to be able to get from his so-called ex-boyfriend, then that was what he was going to settle for.
Atobe returned to the bed, preparing himself to engage into the very activity Ootori had just described as an emotionless, lust-filled fuck. The younger boy was prepared that this was going to hurt quite a bit with Atobe probably not going to be as careful as the captain had been on his first time. If this had been the Atobe Ootori had known as his loving boyfriend, the junior wouldn't even hesitate to go through with a second time. Now however, Ootori felt even more nervous than he had been the first time Atobe had slept with him.
As Atobe positioned himself in front of him, Ootori felt his captain's grey-blue eyes gaze upon him and he slowly made eye contact with them. Atobe saw that Ootori wasn't going to back down and at the moment Atobe was only pleased with that fact. All he could think of now was being inside of Ootori again, all thoughts of bets and Shishido:s didn't exist in his bedroom anymore tonight.
Ootori broke their eye contact as Atobe then finally pushed inside of him, his brown eyes shutting tightly and his fingers gripping a hold on the sheets, but he came to realize pretty quickly that Atobe hadn't been as forceful as he had thought the captain would be. Furthermore as Atobe pulled out and entered him again, Ootori felt the other boy's movements to be even gentler this time.
Atobe paused for a while, being totally buried up inside of Ootori a second time tonight. He knew from the expressions on the younger boy's face that Ootori was feeling very sore. Atobe didn't want to be slow, but he couldn't bear with having that face under him twist in pain everytime he moved, so instead he would try to be careful while keeping a somewhat steady pace.
Thankfully it didn't take too long for Ootori to get used to his pace and as soon as the whimpers he drew out of the boy beneath him started to sound more like moans, Atobe raised his pace again, steadily driving them both to relief.
Ootori gazed at him through half closed eyes. It didn't come as much of a surprise to Atobe that Ootori was still behaving very much like a virgin. In a way it felt like he was sleeping with an untouched Ootori all over again.
Slowly the captain lowered his head to press lips against Ootori's, much to Ootori's surprise who snapped his eyes fully open and only stared at his captain's face for a while.
"Atobe…" Ootori whispered out his name and it inspired Atobe to deepen their kiss. The junior's eyes flickered close as he started responding to the kiss. Atobe's tongue felt so warm against his own and the way the captain was kissing him made Ootori feel down right loved once again.
Ootori had so badly missed the person Atobe had pretended to be. He had seen that Atobe in both his dreams and in his daydreams, wishing against all odds that he would return to be with him again. It hurt to know that that person had never even existed so Ootori could never have him back. But the way Atobe was kissing him now reminded him of how happy he had felt back then and Ootori could've stayed like this forever.
Atobe finally broke the kiss when Ootori's breathing had started to become so unstable that the boy needed all the chances to air he could get. The heavy intakes and outtakes of breath tickled against Atobe's skin and the captain decided to drag out on this sensation a little longer by suddenly going slower. Ootori practically whimpered out sounds, desperately in the need of a release and Atobe enjoyed seeing the younger boy's reactions. He fed on them for a little while longer before granting them both a powerful relief.
Ootori's voice was breathless but nevertheless Atobe had caught a small whisper of his name again the moment Ootori had come. The junior was still shaking under him as Atobe slowly pulled himself out of the boy and satisfied, lowered himself down to rest onto Ootori's body, not even bothering to roll over to the other side of the bed.
The younger boy blushed practically all over, feeling Atobe's warmth return to him and the strong hands circle around his body. Atobe's breath next to his ear sent shivers down his spine and Ootori only lay completely immobile for the longest time.
"I love you." an unsure voice came at last and it reminded the captain even more of the first time they had slept together, but Atobe was simply too tired to even bother to reply in any way. He hated losing bets to Oshitari. It always made him irritated and horny. Now that all of that had been taken care of, he was left feeling pretty worn out.
Soon enough he felt two arms carefully wrap themselves around his figure, probably afraid that he would shove them off again. Atobe didn't really care and after a while he felt Ootori relax again, not fearing a possible rejection from Atobe tonight. Ootori nuzzled closer, his cross pressing against the captain's chest.
That was the last thing Atobe remembered before falling asleep in the still awake Ootori's arms.
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Atobe opened one eye and stretched slightly. He had slept in the same position the whole night and was now feeling stiff. Someone's breath hitched under him, as he moved again. Atobe opened both of his eyes to stare down into Ootori's brown ones.
"G-good morning." Ootori managed to say and Atobe rolled over onto his back on the bed next to the junior. Ootori slowly sat up. "Did you sleep well?" he continued and when still getting no response from Atobe the junior sank his head. "Do you…want me to pick up my things and leave?"
Atobe yawned once before placing his eyes onto Ootori's again. "Did I say so?" he asked and Ootori doubtfully shook his head.
"No, but I just thought…" the junior's voice died out as he felt himself being observed by Atobe's piercing eyes. "I mean, why would you want me around during the day?"
Atobe stretched again before sitting up as well. "There are so many fun things we can do during the daytime too…" the captain started and Ootori's gaze fell onto sheets with a brand new blush appearing onto his cheeks. "…like going to the movies and out eating somewhere."
Ootori's head flew up and the junior eyed his senpai. Was Atobe serious? Or was he just fooling around again, getting Ootori's hopes up in order to crush them? "Really?"
Atobe gave a nod.
Ootori smiled blushing, as Atobe pulled him closer and kissed him almost lovingly. "Let's go down for breakfast."
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Ootori couldn't believe how much fun he had had today. Atobe had been so nice. They had gone to the movies, to the same restaurant they had visited on their first date and even taken a walk on the beach after that. It was almost like when he had been dating Atobe in the beginning.
Only then Atobe hadn't been himself. Only Atobe never was himself.
"You're staying over, right?" Atobe's voice came and the captain sounded more like he was assuming that that was the case, rather than asking Ootori if it was alright. They were back at Atobe's place again. Somehow they had ended up there after their day filled with fun.
"Um, sure." Ootori answered. Right now, Atobe somehow seemed so different again…
Was this what Atobe had been chasing after all along? He would play the boyfriend like he had promised as long as Ootori spread his legs everytime Atobe felt like it? He didn't want Atobe to pretend when the captain was with him! He only wanted to be with Atobe, no matter who that really was!
Ootori slowly made his way onto the bed. "Let me just tell my parents where I am…" he said and made a quick phone call.
By the time Ootori was done with his phone call, Atobe had also sat down on the bed and was unbuttoning his shirt.
Ootori blushed as he put his cell phone away. He knew that if he broke his part of the deal then they were through, but he was feeling so sore after last night. That had only been his second time and Ootori felt as if Atobe had showed mercy on him and been gentler. But how long would it take until the captain forgot about taking it easy with him and ruthlessly pinned him down to the sheets and had his way with him, regardless if he was feeling up to it or not?
Ootori dared to look up from the sheets and at his captain, who had leaned over to the table next to the bed and turned off the lights.
Ootori felt his stomach hurt, he was starting to get anxious. He knew this was crazy and he had never thought he would find himself doing something like this to a person like Atobe. But Ootori loved Atobe, player or not. He loved him enough to please him and give the older boy everything he had to give.
He felt Atobe move in closer in the dark and his eyes soon adjusted and were able to take in the other boy's figure.
"Atobe…" Ootori started, but hesitated. Atobe wouldn't listen. Atobe wouldn't care even if he listened.
"Hmm?" Atobe's voice came and Ootori shifted his weight on the soft bed.
"Nothing." Ootori then whispered and felt how Atobe moved in even closer.
"There's no such thing as 'nothing' in your dictionary." Atobe commented and Ootori could now clearly see the blue-grey eyes watching him. "What is it?"
Ootori swallowed, debating whether or not to answer at all. "I'm just…Please, go slow tonight."
There was a moment of silence and Ootori regretted ever opening his mouth. The older boy was surely mad at him by now.
Atobe gave a sigh, laying down on his back and Ootori's heart nearly jumped up into his throat. "I-I'm sorry, I…" Ootori wasn't sure what to say. He had succeeded in turning Atobe off. "You can be any way you like, I…-"
"Choutarou." Atobe said and Ootori fell quiet, waiting for what was to come next. Atobe doubted at first, but this had to be done. He would have to get rid off the boy before he got too attached to him. "You can't live up to what you promised me."
Ootori let his head sink, as Atobe's words continued to hit him. "I don't want to feel like I'm abusing you all the time when you told me you could handle this kind of a 'relationship' with me. You should've already noticed it yourself that you can't live without love and I can't give it to you."
"But…I can't live without you." Ootori protested and Atobe gave a groan.
"Of course you can. Don't be stupid." the captain muttered. "Look, if you really want to make me happy, go on a date with Shishido so that I can sleep with other guys again." Atobe continued, changing his tactics.
He could perhaps play with Ootori's guilt and make it the younger boy's fault that Atobe was tied down to only one person that his captain didn't even want to be with.
Ootori lifted his head up, eyes filled with tears again. "Why can't I be enough for you?"
Atobe gave out another groan, indicating that he was dead tired of dancing around this subject. "Because I'd grow tired of sleeping with only you."
"Is that because I'm not experienced enough?" Ootori blushed.
"No, it's because I'd get tired of sleeping with the same guy over and over again when there are so many attractive young men out there." Atobe replied.
"But…I accepted that." Ootori started and Atobe could hear that he was pressing out the words while holding back tears. "It was one of the terms you gave me if I wanted to date you, and I accepted them."
"No you didn't, you can't accept them." Atobe sighed. "You are not capable of being in that kind of a relationship and you know it yourself. So stop trying to be what you're not and go give a chance to the one guy who has loved you from the beginning."
Ootori was taken aback. Shishido really loved him? Shishido had loved him all along? The senior had been serious about his confession then when asking Ootori out on a date.
"I knew it." Ootori gave out a small laugh and Atobe looked at him surprised. "I mean, I knew that you cared for me. You wouldn't bother to push me away so much, if you didn't."
Atobe gritted his teeth together in annoyance. There was just no way to get rid of this boy, was there? "I don't love you."
"Perhaps not." the younger boy said and slowly lied down next to his captain. "But you care enough for me to push me away. You won't talk me over this time. You won't succeed in scaring me off to run to Shishido-san for comfort so that you can escape this situation where you're stuck with me and your feelings for me."
"I'm telling you the truth. Shishido loves you, while I don't." Atobe replied and Ootori carefully ran a hand down his arm.
"But I don't have feelings for Shishido-san." Ootori said and moved in a little closer. To his relief and happiness Ootori noted how Atobe hadn't even once denied the fact that the captain did feel something for him. That fact made Ootori bolder and allowed him to say out loud everything he had pondered about since he had learned that Atobe had used him. "So I'm sorry, but I won't go out with him even if it means that you won't get to sleep with others besides me…-"
Ootori's sentence was cut off by his own gasp as he suddenly felt Atobe move him onto his back and climb on top of him. "You do know that the minute I graduate I will dump you on the spot for some other guy I've been eyeing the whole time?"
"B-but until then you have no other choice than to be with me." Ootori managed to say and Atobe only silently kept their stare, making it almost difficult for Ootori to breathe. Ootori felt as if Atobe once again was looking right through him and seeing everything about him, or worse: burning a hole into his skull.
"So why don't you just stop pushing me away and let me be with you? You can't be with anyone else during the next few months anyway, then after that you are free to dump me again. I can't stop you."
Atobe still didn't reply. It was as if the captain was challenging Ootori to continue trying to talk him over. "H-how could it hurt you to date me for real during that time? If not for anything else you'll gain an experience from it or get another reason to despise dating even more than you already do."
There was another moment of silence between them and this never ending silence from Atobe's part was making Ootori highly nervous.
"Atobe?" the boy then gulped, as his captain slowly lowered his head to rest only an inch away from his, the dark hair brushing against Ootori's forehead.
"You are one stubborn guy." Atobe muttered before leaning down to brush lips against Ootori's.
"I'm…also…a…guy…" Ootori tried to say between the kisses and Atobe pulled away to hear the rest. "…you've had more than once." Ootori finally finished.
Brown met blue for a while, until Atobe couldn't help smiling and closed the distance between their lips again.
As he broke the kiss, Ootori wrapped his arms around Atobe's neck, nuzzling his head into the older boy's shirt. "I love you, Atobe." he mumbled happily and Atobe let his head drop into the pillow, defeated. Ootori was probably going to drive him nuts with that stupid saying.
"Say that one more time and the deal is off." Atobe muttered into the pillow but to his surprise Ootori only chuckled in response.
"But if the deal is off and if I am not capable of dating you on your terms, then that means that you will have to spend the last few months till you graduate without sleeping with anyone."
Atobe fell quiet. Damn it that Ootori had noticed it.
Although Atobe knew about a hundred different ways to counter Ootori right now, the captain kept quiet. For some reason he was enjoying his loss of the bet and the situation as it was way too much to overcome it with hurtful comebacks.
And Atobe knew that that was way beyond wrong.
"Fine. We'll date till graduation, but only until graduation." Atobe pointed out. "I am not asking you to be my soul mate or my husband!"
Ootori nodded against his chest and the arms tightened around him. "I understand, thank you, Atobe." Ootori carefully snuggled up to his captain. "You won't regret this."
"I better not…" Atobe muttered and felt how Ootori slowly placed a kiss against his chest. They were silent for a while.
"Um, Atobe? Would you like to come over for dinner someday and meet my family?"
Atobe, who had just started to 'enjoy' being close to Ootori like this, snapped his eyes open. "Oh, hell no! I agreed to date you and not your family."
His statement made Ootori give out a small chuckle into his shirt. It was a long time since Atobe had heard Ootori laugh. Atobe, much to his own despair, found himself enjoying it.
A small trace of a smile made its way onto his face as he watched the younger boy calm down and snuggle back up into his arms. Stupid, persistent, lovesick Choutarou… Atobe wondered at what point Ootori had started to twirl him around his little finger this way, when it was supposed to be the other way around.
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A/N notes: I may write an epilogue after this where you can 'find out' what actually happened to the smexy boys after this, but if this hanging sort of an ending fits you better where you can imagine your ideal continuing of the story yourself then I warn you that the epilogue might disappoint you in some way.
sweatdrop- Anyway, I hope I didn't make Atobe too…sappy? Please tell me what you think!