Written for the promt: Minor Character, and a personal one, Touch. I do think I went overboard with Toudou, and it's characterization is vaguely weird; but I like it in all. Hope you do too!
ps. Feedback will be loved dearly.
Touching You
By: Nekare
Touch had always been forbidden to Toudou, his Japanese upbringing teaching him to forget the human touch everyone craves deep down, and for a time, Todou didn't actually thought he every would need it. Then came María, whose touch was insistent and warm; natural to someone who had grown up needing so much contact from his never there father, and who basked in it, the simple pleasure of feeling skin in a completely platonic way.
Toudou hadn't grown used to it, though, and along with María's half hugs and firm handshakes; his heart began to beat faster and his palms go sweaty. Quite a ridiculous thing for a respected scientist, he thought with shame when he lay in bed at nights, thinking of her; but nothing he could avoid.
Eventually, he learnt to yearn for the next brush of her skin against his, became addicted to it. That was about the time the idea of salvation and hope and María got so mingled together he couldn't think of them on their own.
It was for the best, in the end.