Decided to update this since I'm in the middle of a lemon in JP and am in far too big of a food coma to think about smut.
So here's a nice fluff chapter to go with the recliner banging of the last :) thank you all for your praise! ^_^ Means so much!
Enjoy! And Happy Native American Genocide Day! (and in case I don't update tomorrow Happy Walmart Employee Genocide Day! XD)
The Thankful Flamingo 101
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Chapter Eighteen: Getting Around
Yuu's insightful garnet eyes flickered open as a finger of light reached in from a crack in the blinds and tickled his face. Sleepy irises glanced around incoherently for a few seconds before settling on a mop of curly flaxen hair tucked underneath his chin. His thin, expressive lips spread into a smile and he wrapped his arm tighter around Hisashi, whose was also beginning to stir.
Yuu readjusted, resting his cheek against the fluffy blond hair.
"Morning…" He murmured.
"Mhmmm…." Hisashi grunted back, one foot still in slumberland. Yuu's smile widened.
"W'time 'sit?" The blonde gurgled, rolling onto his back and looking drearily at the brunette.
"Ten. We still have a couple hours till we have to go in." Yuu replied, also shifting to his back and crossing his arms behind his head.
Hisashi moaned and his head fell with a soft bump onto Yuu's chest.
"Could you not sleep?" Yuu asked, raising an amused eyebrow and tangling his fingers in the blonde tassels.
"No…and you didn't help."
Yuu chuckled airily.
"Well I didn't hear you begging me to stop birthday boy….just for me to hit you harder."
Hisashi groaned again, grabbing rough handfuls of his hair and burying himself further into Yuu's solid chest.
Yuu smiled, his fingers stroking some of the longer curls around Hisashi's neck. His did it distractedly, but when a warm patch caught his eye, he sat up to inspect. And when he saw the large red hickey near the back of Hisashi's neck, he began to chuckle.
"What are you laughing at?" Hisashi murmured.
"Whoops," Yuu giggled amusedly. "Forgot not to put marks on visible places."
"What?" Hisashi's head shot up and he rolled off the side of the bed, crawling to the full-length mirror by the wall. After a few seconds of awkward twisting and turning, the blonde's blue eyes went wide as he saw the red spot in a VERY visible place on the side of his neck.
"YUU! LOOK AT THIS THING!" Hisashi moaned, wrinkling his nose. Yuu rolled over, resting his chin musingly on his elbows.
"It's not that bad." The brunette murmured. "Do you have a turtleneck?"
"Yes, but that's not the point!" Hisashi lamented, running his hands through his messy hair. "People in the office are going to be suspicious!"
Yuu snorted.
"Oh please, everyone in that office is fucking."
Hisashi's eyes got wider and he turned to stare at his seme.
"Um WHAT?"
Yuu rolled his eyes.
"Hah, Marukawa's got more office lovin' than a TV soap. It goes all the way to the top. With that in mind, what's wrong with a little fuck between dating office assistants?" Yuu smirked, giving his uke a wink.
Hisashi didn't look convinced.
"There can't be THAT many in our company…can there?"
Yuu chuckled.
"You'd be surprised. I found out recently Ijuuin's got the hots for a cute little part timer. I forget his name though, starts with a 'T'…."
Hisashi's eyebrows shot up.
"Umm… 'HE?'"
"Yep," Yuu grinned. "And wait till I tell you about the Maiden Department in Emerald. Now those guys get around."
"Seriously? The shoujo department?"
"Oh yeah, in fact, I'm pretty sure the head editor is banging one of the lower ones. My gaydar goes nuts when I see them together." The brunette smirked, dissolving into a fit of amused chuckles. Hisashi blinked a couple times, his view of the company shifting slightly downward. The blonde yawned and looked back into the mirror, trying with difficulty to comb back his bed head Afro.
"Ugh," He muttered. "My hair is so annoying in the morning. I just wanna cut it all off…"
Yuu's lips tightened irksomely.
"I like your hair, plus you'd seriously piss off all the girls at work. They'd riot in the streets."
Hisashi rolled his eyes.
"Oh brother. What the hell is it with girls and my hair?"
Yuu smiled with a snort.
"Well grouch, if you hate it so much why don't you just cut it?"
The blonde sighed wistfully.
"I can't. I'm forced to keep it."
Yuu raised an eyebrow.
"Huh?"
"My stepmother loves my hair," Hisashi muttered irritably. "And Renaka-san told me if I ever buzzed it she'd come down here, drag me back to Hokkaido, and tie me to one of her peach trees."
"HAHAHAHAH!" Yuu barked out a laugh, but cocked his head when he saw Hisashi glaring at him. "You're afraid of THAT threat?"
Hisashi blinked.
"She's dead serious."
Yuu's auburn eyebrows lifted.
"Seriously?"
"Yes," Hisashi stated. "Atsushi found that out when he got his tongue pierced without permission. To this day I'm still slightly afraid of peach trees…."
Yuu couldn't help but laugh again, getting off the bed and stretching his lean arms.
"Well, whadda you say we make some breakfast. We have to be at Marukawa at twelve."
"There's not much around here," Hisashi replied. "We can either grab food on the way or I have takeout menus somewhere."
Yuu raised an eyebrow, heading out of the room and into the kitchen. He opened the fridge and was a little shocked to see only cans of coffee and store bought bento gracing the cavern of the appliance.
"Is takeout all you ever eat?" Yuu asked.
Hisashi shrugged.
"More or less. I can't cook a damn thing."
Yuu laughed. That sounded familiar.
"Why not? Didn't Renaka-san ever teach you?"
"Heck no." The blonde replied. "My stepmother and her decided against it. They say my presence in the kitchen is a bad omen."
Yuu rolled his eyes.
"Oh come on. You can't be that bad. Now Chiaki in a kitchen is scary. He screwed up a simple rice ball recipe."
"I cut myself with a butter knife and blew up a microwave…at the same time." Hisashi replied plainly.
The witty reddish brunette found himself beat.
"Wow… so, what kind of takeout menus do you have?"
It was exactly 11:38, and the two manga assistants (having gotten distracted in the shower) were running a tad late, especially since Hisashi was having trouble finding the turtleneck in his hoarder's apartment and refused to leave without it. The completely dressed Yuu stood near the entryway, sighing as he waited for his spastic boyfriend. A quiet thump sounded from behind the doorway and Yuu inclined his head.
"That's the newspaper!" Hisashi called from the other room, half buried in his closet. "Will you grab it? I save them for when I paint."
"Sure," Yuu replied, unlatching the door and stepping out into the hallway. He leaned down and picked up the newspaper. The brunette pivoted to return inside when a racket further down the hall caught his ear. He lifted his garnet eyes and peered ahead at the scene of a tall, raven haired man struggling to slip into his shoes while yelling bloody murder into the open door of an apartment. A higher-pitched reply screeched back with equal fury, causing the dark man to bark like an angry rottweiler.
"ONODERA! IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE IN TEN SECONDS I'LL DRAG YOU DOWN TO THE OFFICE BY YOUR FLAPPING MOUTH!"
"WELL EXCUSE ME IF I WANT TO LOOK PRESENTABLE WHEN I GO TO WORK TAKANO-SAN! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU LEFT ONE RIGHT ON MY NECK! WHAT AM I GOING TO SAY TO EVERYONE WHEN THEY SEE THIS?"
"WEAR A GODDAMNED TURTLENECK!"
"STOP FORCING YOUR WAY INTO OTHER PEOPLE'S APARTMENTS!"
A slow, musing smile spread over Yuu's face as his sharp ears recognized the voices of the two respectable neighbors. After a few more heated bellows, the second man stumbled out of the apartment, a pale, blushing brunette with large green eyes. The raven-hair was about to bark another comment of dismay at the brunette, when he caught Yuu's eyes from down the hall.
"Good morning," He called, nodding to the reddish brunette.
"Good morning," Yuu smiled back, his lips curving as he saw the brunette's face flushed the color of a lobster.
"Yuu!" Hisashi called, heading towards the apartment entrance. "Come help me! I can't find my turtleneck and—oh…."
The blonde froze stiff as a board as he saw the other two people in the hallway, and like the light brunette, his cheeks also went red as his eyes caught the glances of Yuu and the tall man. Yuu chuckled, exchanging a sly wink with the raven-haired seme before towing the blonde back inside.
Well, he did say the Maiden Department got around.