Title: passing the scenery by
Day/Theme: May 1st / it don't go nowhere but damnation
Series: Sukisyo
Character/Pairing: Kai/Gaku
Rating: PG
Summary: The long road home seems shorter, somehow.
A/N: Goes on drama canon, pretty much, archive circa 06. Inspired by gratuitous listening to Passenger Seat, Death Cab For Cutie.
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They are together through every seminar or supply trip, at which Kai is so silent that he slips into the crowd of men and women, all in varying labcoats and sizes. If Gaku wasn't there beside him, noisy and bustling with energy, he would disappear altogether at these meetings, save for the few who recognize him and made the poor decision of approaching him.
Gaku stays close enough to be Kai's shadow, close enough to be another separate side of him,
and Kai prefers it this way.
Through the car trips Gaku takes control of the radio and the cacophony melds into something almost tangible, the strains of music and advertisements forming a mosaic of sound, intermixed with Gaku's off tune humming of some melody that caught his attention.
When he has tired of this game (Kai thinks it must be a game, that Gaku must derive some amusement from, otherwise the exercise would be pointless ) They will talk, or it is to say, Gaku will talk and Kai will listen, occasionally adding a sparse word or nod in here and there. Gaku will tell him of his day, relate each gossipy story or happening in halting detail, often meandering and the point will be lost midway until they are to another tale entirely.
And when it grows dark, Gaku curls into a fetal position and sleeps. All is quiet except for the hum of tires of pavement, and Gaku's breathing and sleep talking, and the song stuck in Kai's mind which he doesn't know the words to.