Aiichirou taps the end of his pencil ontop of his finished homework and glanced back slightly to look around the room, light had settled gently over things, including It's occupants. His boyfriend Rin, was sitting on the bottom bunk talking to Momotarou, Aiichirou's roommate. They where conversing about a new game both of them had gotten into playing. Sousuke, also his boyfriend, sat close to Rin reading a magazine and occasionally adding to the other boys' banter. Aiichirou had been drowning the noise out while working on his paper, and only now came to attention when the conversationed piqued interest in him.
"Sure is warm out!" Momo commented.
"Makoto asked if we wanted to go camping with them." Aiichirou heard Rin say, which made him turn in his seat to face the group completely.
"Who else is going?" the redhed asked, excitement evident in his eyes.
"Everyone, I think. Haru and Nagisa, Rei...oh and the twins; Makoto's siblings. As well as his parents, they're driving."
"Sure is a lot of people." Sousuke voiced what Aiichirou was thinking. Lifting up from his desk chair, he joined the others with a smile.
"Sounds like fun though, can they manage to take all of us?" Aiichirou said settling comfortably on the edge of the bed next to Sousuke.
Rin nodded, "They used to help out on field trips back when, so they have two vans. And Makoto's parents have time off, so they thought they'd make a trip of it before school starts next month."
"I need to pack!" Momotarou announced, he went off listing all the bugs still in season that he wanted to study, muttering small facts about them from one of his favorite books.
Sousuke leisurely leaned against Aiichirou and wrapped his arm around him too, while the smaller teen settled into the familiar embrace. Both held one end of Sousuke's magazine so he could continue reading it.
"When do we leave?" Aiichirou asked Rin.
"I'll have to text Makoto." Rin replied, watching Momotarou dance around the room for his things, and every once in a while giving a hint for him to pack some sort of essential.
Aiichirou smiled contentedly, "Very nice of him to invite us."
"Yeah. I thought so too, though...I suppose I do talk about you both often..." color dusted Rin's cheeks lightly, and Aiichirou's heart fluttered as he watched Sousuke lean over, seeking a kiss from the redhead to distract their boyfriend from unneeded embarrassment. Rin smiled when they pulled apart. "Love you." The arm around Aiichirou's shoulder squeezed gently, and Sousuke replied with "I love you too." a smile lit all three of their faces now, and Momo could be heard over the sickening loveydovey-ness in the room with an obnoxious "Awww~!"
But none of them could disagree.
A week later found them in front of the Tachibana house where two vans sat waiting, only half packed. The twins where pulling Aiichirou around like he was their new best friend, and luckily he had siblings of his own and was used to the treatment. Makoto was thankful for the help, as he introduced Momotarou to another member of their party; Shigino Kisumi.
After a lot of organizing they managed to fit everyone in two cars, one of Makoto's parents driving in each. Aiichirou sat in the far back seat with the twins, singing camping songs and hearing stories from them about other trips they had taken.
Momotarou was talking to Kisumi, as they sat next to each other. The two seemed to be getting along well enough, even while dealing with the confined space. Sousuke kept himself turned towards the back seat so he could join in on what Aiichirou was doing. Rin who sat in the front seat talking to Makoto's dad, had his left hand resting on Sousuke's knee.
Over all it was a relief to finally pull off the road and into the camp site, everyone stretching their limbs.
Ran and Ren who had been restless for the last half hour, exclaimed once out of the the car, "You have to see the river!"
Their mother called after them, "Don't go too far! Nitori-san's never been here remember." The twins nodded, each pulling once of the teen's hands in an attempt to make him hurry.
Aiichirou fleetingly smiled at his boyfriends before he was dragged into the line of woods flagging the campsite. Their trek was a colorful one, many of the leaves having turned brown or shocking red.
They where greeted by a flock of geese swimming in the steady current at their destination, and feathers where scattered everywhere - both on the shore and swirling in the pull of the dusky waters, signalling this as a common migration point for the birds. One tipped forward head first into the water as if in search for food. Aiichirou clumsily tried keeping up with the twins as they danced gracefully around the waters edge, exclaiming about all the feathers and calling to the ducks, and G]giving each one a cute name as they went.
An hour later Aiichirou sluggishly walked back to the camp with the twins, who where still whirlwinds of energy. Though Ren had settle into a comfortable pace next to him, holding onto his hand gently.
"Aii?!" Rin exclaimed when the group of explorers stumbled out of the trees. "What happened, are you alright?" Aiichirou smiled at him, though the expression was strained from embarrassment.
"He fell in the river!" Ran helpfully reported, while her brother clutched Aiichirou's hand and pulled on his sleeve showing off the duck feather he had found. Rin's face contorted into a grin, all worry slipping away from his features. Giggling he griped his side with one hand, while waving the other, gasping out "As long as you're okay.."
Aiichirou's nod was lighthearted and loving. Getting sopping wet was worth seeing his boyfriend so lively."I'm fine..Rin."
Rin gulped down some air and smiled at his boyfriend. Rin used his free hand to wipe damp silver strands out of blue eyes and he whispered, "Go get changed, I'll watch the kiddos." Aiichirou nodded his gratefulness. He released Ren's hand and headed toward the others, but spared a glance behind in time to see Rin crouching down in front of Ren to better observe the feather.
Once he had changed in his tent, (which apparently had been done for him while he was gone.) Aiichirou sighed. Then noticed Sousuke's bag next to his, they must be tent-mates for the night. This made him relax, at least he hadn't been paired with someone he barely knew, like Kisumi or even Nagisa.
Leaving his tent he went to warm up by the fire, Sousuke noticed him walking over and patted the spot to his right, signaling for company. Aiichirou granted it, sitting down and feeling the warmth seep over him, along with one of his boyfriends arms slipping around his waist.
"You look like you've had a long day, babe." was commented near his ear.
"Humm." Aiichirou mumbled sleepily, "It was fun though."
Rin managed to wrangle the twins up, getting them washed and changed for dinner. Makoto was assuring him that he could take over, Rin just brushed him off saying he doesn't mind and that he should spend time with Haruka.
Haruka didn't look like he was starving for Makoto's attention, however seemed happy enough when the tall man brought him his favorite food; Mackerel. Smiling even, when Makoto sat close to him.
Aiichirou was starting to wonder if Momo was talking Kisumi's ear off or not - looking at them now, it didn't seem like the other man minded that much.
Food was wonderful, after a long day of exploring Aiichirou was famished. Once the flickers from the fire became the main light source, they roasted marshmallows, made s'mores, and Ran asked for a spooky story. Both Haruka and Makoto bid everyone goodnight around that time as well, retreating to their shared tent.
Aiichirou leaned heavily on Sousuke's shoulder, begining to not be completely sure who was talking about what and why, when finally Rin whispered to him
"Time for bed." which he only manged a sleepy nod.
Aiichirou woke up earlier then he normally would because he wasn't on his comfy dorm bed. Blinking, he found himself wrapped between both his boyfriends. The snuggle pile was warm and comfortable, so he didn't bother getting up, and infact pressed himself in deeper in an impression of a cocooning catarpillar.
"Sleep well?" Sousuke's asked into his sleep ruffled hair.
"humm." Aiichirou pressed closer to him naturally. "best ever."
He could feel Rin rubbing gentle circles with his thumb, hand resting on his leg. "Glad I moved in here with both of you."
"Who were you paired with before?" Aiichirou asked curiously.
"Makoto and Haruka...decided to let them have time alone.." Rin told him, nuzzling int his back gently, hand never moving. And it was especially nice, they rarely got to wake up with eachother while at Samezuka, dorms and protocol separating them.
After a few blissful moments, the only noise from their steady breathing, Rin raised his head.
"Why don't I start breakfast? You both hungry?"
"Sounds good." Sousuke said. Aiichirou nodded as well. Rin gave them each a little kiss before crawling out of their warm shelter.
Aiichirou sighed at the loss, Sousuke just hugged him closer though and that made him relax once more. Smiling into his boyfriends t-shirt, wondering what Rin would make and if he could manged to talk the redhead into breakfast in bed.
