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.

19. only want your everything

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BANDS OF black AND blue

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19 : only want your everything

This is one of the few moments where both your teams meet in a relatively cordial environment: a hot baths site. While your teammates were busy enjoying the steam, Satsuki went off on her own, most likely having gone to antagonize Seirin's coach, leaving you on your own. This is how you spotted Tetsu the first time this evening, giving him a cold can of soda (he has always been prone to fainting; you know this all too well) and issuing a challenge - to him and his insipid new light - for the Winter Cup.

Tetsu affirms the challenge; he is one of the few people you know who can and you nod your head, walking back with a scowl even as you're smiling inside and you assume that this will be the last time you see him before the winter cup.

But of course, Tetsu is one of the few people to consistently defy your expectations, both on the court and off it, and you can't find it in yourself to complain when the paper door to your team's booked room slides open and Kuroko steps in, hair wet and cheeks rosy, damp towel draped around his waist.

And during this time, you are in the middle of eating a full plate of sashimi - the kind with stuffed eel (the kind that no one else will touch) and the accompanying mixture of soy sauce and wasabi is dripping off of your fingers as you freeze and stare at the person who you used to call your 'teammate' - your 'partner'. In a graceful motion, you watch as he slides to his knees a couple centimeters away from where you're sitting.

This is too good of an opportunity to miss out on, you try to tell yourself, even while your tongue is trying to get out the words for 'so you went back into the hot springs?'. You lick your lips, attempting to concentrate on anything else but Tetsu's glistening wet skin - how drops of water roll off his hair, onto your legs, you can't convince yourself to tell him to go away - that you don't want him here.

But - with the same sort of agonizing incapability - you also find yourself unable to pull him closer, to give him any indication of what it is you've been wanting - wanting like nothing you've ever felt before - since middle school graduation. So you sit there, attempting to not notice him (even as your eyes are drinking up every little detail) and somewhere in this moment, Kuroko has taken advantage - most likely without even realizing it - of his inherently 'invisible' nature and you can't react at all when he takes your dirty hand and licks a warm wet line that sends electrical sparks across every aching nerve in your body.

"Tetsu..." you choke out, because your brain is refusing to believe that this is happening - this is Tetsu, Tetsu who always smiled wanely when you kissed his hands, who always pulled himself away when you tried to bring him close for a kiss - and your body is tingling because it has been so long since you've felt his unique touch. 'What are you doing?' you try to get your mouth to say, but it will not listen - just goes on to repeat his name a couple times.

His tongue laps at the small chunks of wasabi between your fingers - you begin to relax as his teeth start nibbling the edges of your fingers; you do not even know that this is what you've been wanting for so long - you have no idea until Tetsu gives it to you, wet lips and hot mouth and shining skin and all.

"Aomine-kun... I've..." he starts, and you feel a heat blossoming somewhere between your stomach and your chest because his tongue is tracing circles in the center of your palm and you can feel his every syllable with the movement of his lips within your hand, "I've missed you so much," he says it like a confession - he whispers it like a sin. In this moment, you know what you want - for the first time in months - and so, you take it, pulling your hand out of grasp, leaning yourself towards his prone form, gently pressing your lips to his.

It's just one night, you know - in fact, it won't even last a night. This is, after all, a shared room. It's just an ephemeral moment that Tetsu, most likely, will forget. All the same, you kiss him like he's the only person in the world; your heart is beating through your chest and you love the taste of wasabi and soy sauce - yourself - in his mouth. It will not last, but it's the most you can get and so, you take it gratefully like a starving man.