Kazehaya waited for Ryu downstairs as he got ready. Soon he heard footsteps coming down.

"Ready?" He asked turning to the boy before him in jeans and a t-shirt.

Nodding, Ryu lead the way outside. "Do you wanna stop by your house? Get some clothes?"

Kazehaya looked down at himself, he had totally forgotten he was still in his school uniform. "Oh! Yeah…." he looked away rubbing the back of his neck blushing.

Ryu gave a smile and wrapped his arm around the other's shoulders. The smaller boy looked at the hand on his shoulder and blushed harder.

"You're blushing." FACT!

But he denied it anyway.

"Wha-No, I'm not!" His denial only added to his already bright cheeks.

A snort of laughter came from the taller boy, which in return got him an elbow to the ribs.

"Shut it." Kazehaya was pouting now, he wanted to push the arm around his shoulders off but it felt nice…he'll let it stay there.

Not too long after they reached the ex-baseball player's house, he turned to the other. "Wait for me?" He asked.

'Of course." he replied. Smiling, the boy ran inside.

"You're home already? I thought you said you'd be home later?" Kazehaya's mom asked peeking from around the kitchen corner.

"Need clothes!" Was his reply as he ran upstairs to his room. He threw open the door and made a mad dash to his closet. 'ASDFGHJKL!' He thought as he threw clothes from his closet to the floor. "Okay! Shirt, pants! Don't be such a girl about this Shouta!" He scolded.

Hurriedly dressing, he rushed back down, said bye to his mom and flew out the door again.

….He wasn't there….

Kazehaya stepped further out from the door looking back and forth. "Where could he have gone? He said he would wait…"

"That was fast."

"Ah!" He whipped around to see Ryu push himself off the wall beside the door.

The boy smiled at him as he walked over and wrapped his arm, once again, around the other's shoulders. "Let's go."

The smaller boy nodded and walked forward with him, holding onto the hand that was settled on his shoulder.

The arcade was packed, full of teens and kids waiting to spend all of their allowance on the games jam-packed together.

"What do you wanna play?" Ryu asked sliding his arm off the smaller teen's shoulders.

Kazehaya missed the contact but shook the feeling off. "Shooting game!" He pumped his fist in the air.

They pushed their way through the crowd to the surprisingly free shooting game. They both picked up a gun, Ryu blue Kazehaya red, and put in the respective amount of change into the machine and started playing.

As the game went on, slowly the smaller boy started to inch closer to the other. Ryu didn't notice, his concentration focused on the game, with him the small plastic gun with one hand at the screen while the other lingered at his side.

Kazehaya started to reach his hand over, getting closer about to grab it, his fingertips brushing against the back of the others hand.

"Hey! It's Kazehaya and Ryu!" It was yanked away. "What's up?"

Yano and Yoshida joined their sides, a bright smile on the latter. "Nothing." He put the red gun down.

"You guys should come hang, we were about to head over to Sawako's."

A decline upon his lips didn't get to make it out.

"Sure." What? He looked at the over boy.

"Ha, ha thought so. Lover boy over here probably wants to pay her a visit." The two girls laughed.

"What?" 'Since when was he a 'lover boy'? He wondered to himself, specially towards Kuronuma…he did think she was cute but strong and athletic was more his type.

"Let's go then!" The girls each took a hold of one of them and started to pull them out.

'I thought we were gonna spend the day just the two of us…why did Ryu agree to hang out with them?' Kazehaya wondered to himself, slightly hurt by the decision.

~ping~

"Hmm?" He pulled out his cell phone.

From: Ryu

Let's not tell anyone yet, okay?

'Huh?'

HUUURGH! feels like forever since i've updated! Sorry for the wait! My first month of school just ended, i will try to keep updating as much as I can!

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