Title: Warmth
date written: 11-13-06
Pairings: Oshitari/Gakuto
Note: Sequel to Rain. This is for merissala, who asked for an ending to the angst.
It had been ten minutes and he was still there.
Oshitari stared out his window at the figure huddled against the wall. The rain on the windowpane almost blotted the small boy from his vision. Oshitari had never seen anything so wretched in his life. The little acrobat hadn't moved since he got there, had simply sat there next to the wall and stayed, staring into the distance for ten whole minutes. Oshitari would never admit that he had been watching for just as long, trying to decide what to do.
At this rate the idiot would catch pneumonia.
He made up his mind. Grabbing an umbrella he ventured downstairs, stopping off at the kitchen for a minute before heading outside.
Gakuto looked up in dim confusion when the rain stopped falling, staring at the umbrella and the person who was holding it. Only then did Oshitari notice what he couldn't see from his window—that the redhead was pale and shaking like a leaf.
"Come on," he said, hauling his doubles partner to his feet and pulling him inside the house. He gave him a dry pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt, and once Gakuto had changed he set him down on the sofa and pushed a mug of hot chocolate into his hands. Gaktuo sat there miserably for a minute, the only sound the barely audible chattering of his teeth.
Oshitari frowned.
"Yuushi… I—" Gakuto started as the tensai sat down next to him, but his doubles partner shushed him. He took the mug from Gakuto's hands, setting it on the coffee table, and then pulled the redhead's cold body into a tight hug.
There was no apology. There didn't need to be one; words would only confuse the matter. It was words that had gotten them into this mess in the first place, and no matter how many times he could say he was sorry it would never speak as well as his actions did.
Gakuto relaxed as the warmth of his partner's embrace spread through him, and somehow he knew, without a doubt, that they would be okay.
Of course, there would be hell to pay when Yuushi's sister found them later that evening asleep in each other's arms… but that's another story entirely.
A/N: I'm sorry they've been so short lately. Hopefully this one doesn't suck quite as much as the last did... At any rate, to make up for it, tomorrow (provided that I can finish it in time) there will be Silver Pair and it will be longer than usual. Also, it won't be angsty. (Huzzah!)