Struck by an Arrow

Touya wasn't one for Valentine's Days. He hated it, in fact. Daikirai.

For years, ever since he was a little boy, lots girls would confess their love to him on this day. Year after year, it was the same. A girl would pull him aside, stare down at the ground nervously, hold out a box of chocolate, and say something along the lines of "Kinomoto-kun, I really like you!" or "I've been in love with you for months! Please accept my feelings!"

The first time a girl had confessed to him on Valentine's Day, Touya had no idea what to do. He had been five-years-old at the time, and the last thing on his mind was love. All he had wanted to do was eat all the chocolate he had been given that day, so when one of Touya's female classmates had approached him while he was playing in the sandbox and told him that had she liked him, he had felt confused and merely shrugged, asking her if she wanted to help him build a sand castle. The girl had taken this as a sign that he wanted to be her boyfriend and proceeded to kiss him. When she did, Touya had silently gotten up and walked away, leaving the girl with a confused look on her face and their sandcastle half-built, not liking the feeling of her lips on his at all.

To his disappointment and slight horror, the same thing had happened to Touya five more times during the day: a girl would tell him that they liked him and try to kiss him. He had walked away without a word after this would happen, wishing that the day would just come to an end, but he had become so tired of all this confessing and kissing and stuff that when the fifth girl had confessed to him, he had screamed in her face that he didn't like her at all, causing the girl to cry.

That had been the first of many rejections, and each time, Touya would end up feeling guilty afterwards, but as the years passed, he had grown used to it, knowing that girls would eventually get over him and move on with their lives.

To add to his hate of Valentine's Day, the amount of chocolate he received and the amount of girls that confessed to him caused many of his male classmates and friends to grow jealous of him. Dirty looks would be shot at him whenever he walked down the school hallway with a bunch of chocolate boxes and packages in his arms.

Not only did he receive hate from the guys, but also from girls, specifically, the ones that he had turned down and their friends. They would make of fun of him and talk behind his back, saying that he was cocky and thought that he himself was above everyone else. Touya couldn't stand it. Why did he have to be made out as the bad guy, even though he didn't do anything wrong? So what if he didn't want to accept any of their feelings? Was it his fault that girls were attracted to him?

Touya hoped that this year would be different. Unlike other Valentine's day, he had someone to share it with this time. Because of this, Touya wasn't anticipating on receiving any chocolates or confessions this year. Well, he was wrong. In fact, more girls had confessed to him on this day than any other time before, and, to his horror, guys had also confessed to him for the first time. Touya assumed the reason for this was that because they knew that he was in love with Yuki and, therefore, thought that was gay, but he wasn't gay. He didn't like guys. He likes a guy.

Touya was sure that, regardless of Yuki's gender, nothing would've been able to stop him from falling in love with his best friend. Yuki just happened to be a guy, that's all.

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Touya came home to an empty house that Valentine's Day. His dad was still at work, and Sakura was off playing with her friends. He laid down all the boxes of chocolate he had received on the coffee table and flopped down on the couch, closing his eyes, his legs and arms sprawled out. Even after ten years of rejecting girls, it still felt tiring for him.

One of the doors suddenly opened. Before he could open his eyes to see who it was, something pointy hit his knee. It fell to the floor with a soft clinking sound as his eyes flickered open. He thought he was going to have a heart attack when he saw Yuki standing at the other side of the room clad in a pink cupid costume, complete with wings, tights, and a bow and arrow, positioned in an archer's stance.

Touya was speechless. He couldn't believe it… Yuki in a cupid costume? Was this a dream?

Yuki withdrew himself from his archer's stance, and, in a powerful, commanding voice that sounded awkward coming from his mouth, proclaimed, "You have been stuck by cupid's arrow! Your heart will be drawn to the first person you lay your eyes upon."

Touya, still stunned, automatically looked down at the carpet and saw that there was a toy arrow lying by his foot.

"The first person you lay your eyes upon!" cupid-Yuki repeated in that commanding voice, seeing that his boyfriend wasn't getting the message. "That would be me," he whispered.

"The first person… oh! OH!" Touya finally seemed to be catching on.

"You shall fall madly in love with this person and stop at nothing until you have his heart!"

Touya got up, a grin on his face, and slowly walked towards his cupid-boyfriend, not taking his eyes off him. Both of their hearts began to beat faster as he neared him, and as Touya brought his face near Yuki's, Yuki whispered in his ear, "And what better way to capture that person's heart if not by a kiss?"

Their lips met each other's seconds later, creating that soft, bubbly sensation they both loved and craved. Only with Yuki could Touya feel this, not with any of the other girls that had tried to steal a kiss from him before. He placed a hand on either of his cheeks and deepened the kiss, causing Yuki to whimper. After a moment, the kiss was broken by Touya, who whispered in his boyfriend's ear this time in a seductive tone. "I can think of a couple more ways…" He resumed the kiss, and gently guided Yuki backwards, into his bedroom.

Touya's love for Valentine's Day had just begun.

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A/N: Written for the "Think Pink" theme at the 30romances community at livejournal.

I'm sorry if picturing Yukito in a cupid costume (with tights) freaked any of you out! hehe , I couldn't help putting that in the story XD

As always, thank you so much for the comments! Reading this always makes me happy!