Bands of Black and Blue

by Classically Cliche

There is something about you that makes me willing to withstand the pain of both distance and time. But when all else falls away, you can remember that you once had me. 30themes with Aomine/Kuroko - varying between close friendship and strong romance.

5. serendipity in suffocation

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BANDS OF black AND blue

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undeniably inspired by hnbs on pixiv and her illustration #18816695

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o5 : serendipity in suffocation

Whenever Aomine decides to show the physical side of his affection, Kuroko feels like he is in the process of drowning.

It doesn't matter where they are: the school locker rooms, their homes, the library, or even the deserted classroom; it's always the same. Aomine descends upon him, dark arms and dark hands and hot tongue. He slides an arm across Kuroko's clothed chest, fingers digging into the cotton of the Teikou uniform. His other hand starts out pressed lightly against Kuroko's cheek, before deciding to clasp down - over the other's eyes and forehead.

At this point, without a doubt, Kuroko is sweating: his breaths are beginning to become harsher and Aomine lets loose a chuckle that Kuroko can feel vibrate through his own back - he laughs because he can feel Kuroko's erratic pulse, he can feel Kuroko's sweating forehead. And he delights in causing both.

Kuroko can feel the other's smile - white teeth and chapped lips - against the forcibly-bared crook of his neck. But it's difficult, to say the least, to concentrate on teeth and lips when Aomine is biting and sucking and licking and tasting from his jawline and his shoulder.

Aomine's hands temporarily loosen their grip on Kuroko to fumble through the buttons of their middle school uniform before stopping at the second-to-last button. One hand returns to clutching at Kuroko's side, the other hand wraps tightly around Kuroko's shaking, sweating wrist. At one point, Kuroko attempts to move his other hand to - he does not know what - but Aomine whispers a wet string of erotic insinuations right against Kuroko's ear and he drops the once-raised hand to make room for his heaving chest.

Drowning; drowning - it's a combination of the darkness and closeness and the fact that even though he can move, he cannot breath.

After they're done and properly dressed - and Kuroko is pressing a chaste kiss to the palm of Aomine's hand and Aomine reluctantly releases his waist, his eyes, his wrists (his body) from his grasp - Kuroko muses that Aomine knows exactly how it feels like, to be submerged in air and affection and entirely incapable of movement. Although it is terrifying in every way, there is also a sickening sense of comfort; that for once, you are without responsibility.

Like any piece of information he is unable to process, Aomine scoffs when Kuroko eventually confides in him that he will be going to a no-name school after graduating from Teikou. He pulls Kuroko down to claim his waist, his eyes, his wrists once more, and although it feels like the waves of the ocean will never end, he knows that he'll be breaking the surface soon.

It is a different sort of cruelty, he later thinks, to have not even kissed Aomine good-bye.