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Chapter 12:
Today is going to be great!
This was the first time since he was admitted into the hospital that the photographer was excited over something. Over the last couple of weeks Aki had gotten close to the kids in the cancer ward. They were always in and out of his room, eating the snacks Suoh smuggled in and playing video games. Because his room was huge, he pretty much had enough room for all of them. Plus, he really enjoyed their lively company. It was refreshing and brought a smile to his face. Then again, Akihito had always loved kids.
It was the night before that Aki had the idea. Lying in bed with Kiyomi while they both waited for Asami to get off work, the two had come up with the idea of having a huge sleep over with all the kids. This idea evolved into them wanting to build a huge pillow fort. After talking to the doctors and nurses, and of course getting Asami to agree and help (This actually took a bit of convincing. Asami didn't like the idea of him in the floor), they were good to go.
Now he stood beside Asami, who was on the phone getting his people to get the snack and drink they wanted. Mayuri had just arrived with his people as well, five or so people carrying stacks of beautiful fabrics, and few others carrying in pillows.
"Those look like they're pretty expensive…" Aki said
Mayuri just grinned. "Oh but course!~ Only the best for these perfect angels!~"
"You're literally kind of awesome when you want to be, Monkey boy." Yeah, the nickname had kind of stuck.
"Excuse you darling, I'm always awesome….and fabulous!~"
"Oh and not at all full of yourself, right?" Aki smirked.
Mayuri was about to reply when they were interrupted by Asami, who was getting aggravated while on the phone.
"Yes, Unicorn Frappuccino's, you heard me right…Twenty five, yes. Oh, and remember they're all decaf…..I don't care if it's embarrassing! I'm your boss! If I told you that you were to deliver them in a unicorn costume then by god you would!" Asami paused, looking thoughtful. "Actually, do that. The kids will love it."
Asami didn't give the man on the other side a chance to refuse, hanging up. Mayuri and Aki were giggling as they both imagined one of Asami's men coming in wearing a unicorn costume, which made the crimelord grin.
"That was just sadistic Ryu!~ I love it!~ Do it again!~" This comment didn't even shock Aki. He had been getting used to the crazy that was Mayuri.
"There will be time for Asami to be a sadistic bastard later. Right now I think we need to focus on getting this done. Rin can only keep those kids entertained for so long."
Mayuri snickered. "For such a loud and weird individual, he sure is good with kids."
"Don't forget the ladies! The nurses just can't get enough of him!"
"Hehe, anyway, back on task." The tiny blue haired man turned to his workers, pursing his lips.
Each of them were holding different combinations of fabrics that Aki assumed went together, letting the designer decide which they were going to use. Akihito had no idea what the different was, but apparently Asami did since he was studying them as well. I learn more about this bastard every day.
"What do you think, Ryu? I'm personally leaning more towards the Moroccan feel. Classy and elegant while still being colorful and fun."
"Hmm true, but there is something nice about the sleeker fabrics on the end. Layering those up would look nice, the silks and satins."
Aki looked between the two, feeling a little loss for words. It's just freaking pillow fort! It doesn't need a theme! And freaking silk and satin?! Are they crazy?! Children are messy! Akihito was about to relay this to them, but a precious ball of sunshine stopped him.
"Oooo! These ones are soooo pretty!" Kiyomi squealed as she ran from the door over to the lady holding the pastel tulle. "Can we use these ones?! They look like cotton candy!"
Asami and Mayuri looked between each other, nodding in silent agreement.
"I think those are perfect!~ You have a good eye!~" Mayuri cooed as he moved for the woman to set those down on the bed. He pointed at Suoh, who had been getting everything ready for hanging the fabric, and then at Asami. "You two, the helpful tall men in the room, start hanging the fabric please!~"
Watching as they complied, Akihito turned to the smaller man standing beside him. "So should we go help or what do we do?"
"Us? We sit back and watch our tall, sexy men do all the work. Besides, in case you haven't noticed I'm not quite cut out for work that involves reaching high up."
"What, scared of a latter?"
"Actually, I'm not scared of anything." Mayuri said matter-of-factly
"That's a lie! You have to be scared of something, everyone is scared of something!"
"Incorrect, for I, Suoh Mayuri, fear nothing!~"
Akihito scoffed in disbelief as he turned to Asami, hoping his other half would pipe up with proof that what the fashion designer was saying was total bullshit. Instead Asami just nodded, smirking in their direction as he carried a stack of tulle to start hanging.
"To this day we've never found a thing Mayuri is scared of. The three of us used to make a game out of it actually. Kei and I trying to find at least one thing he's scared of. There's nothing."
Akihito didn't believe this. Everyone had at least one fear, even it was a stupid one. Even Asami had a fear, and he even knew what it was because they shared the same fear. They were both terrified of losing the other, or of anything bad happening in general. It was a pretty terrible fear to have, especially when dating a crimelord who could be shot at any time and who had enemies who fancied kidnapping Aki. But neither of them could really help having this fear.
So, having decided there had to be something, he began listing. "Heights?"
"I go skydiving for fun some weekends, so nope!~"
"The dark?"
"I like to turn all the lights out at home to scare Kazumi when he comes home, so try again!~"
"Bugs?"
"Don't like them but I'm not scared of them!~ I just think they're gross!~"
"Um….hmm…..clowns?"
Mayuri giggled. "Ryu hired one to break into my house and scare me one time!~"
"Well, did it scare you?!"
"He made the guy breakfast after he finished laughing hysterically. He actually scared the clown because it thought he was crazy. Akihito, you're really not going to come up with anything." Asami said with a chuckle.
Akihito was getting irritated. "Ghosts, public humiliation, sharks….oh I know! Aliens!" Just saying that gave Akihito the shivers.
"Negative, Nope, and definitely not. Sharks are absolutely adorable! And aliens are anything but scary." Mayuri noticed Akihito's shiver and his eyes lit up, a malicious grin coming to his face, "Aw, what? Are you scared of green people, Aki?"
"How are you not?! Isn't it scary to think there are other beings out there, who are possibly smarter than we are?! Plus…." He glanced over at Kiyomi, who was busy tying a piece of fabric around her neck like a cape, and decided just to be safe and lean in to whisper, "I hear they probe people. Like….in the butt."
"Hehehe, so now they're kinky aliens?~ Hmm….I could get into that!~" He whispered back, making Aki cringe in disgust.
"There is something seriously wrong with you!"
Mayuri shook his head, his expression becoming serious. Oh this is going to be good. "Actually it could be quite romantic. Just think about it. You get abducted by a surprisingly attractive, scholarly alien who is using you to gather information on humans for his final exam at alien university. You're kept on his ship for an unknown period of time, and after days of tests and communicating with you, the two of you have fallen deeply and passionately in love. But he can't be with you because it's against the intergalactic space laws. So he's forced to take you back to earth, where you two are torn apart forever, cursed to be on opposite sides of universe. All he leaves you with as a reminder of the love you shared was the first probe he used on you. And you keep it forever, cherishing it and hoping that one day your kinky, surprisingly attractive, and scholarly alien love comes back to you."
Akihito stared at him, blinking a few times as the images of the story just told to him played out in his brain. The more he imagined it, the more he wanted to bleach his brain. All he could really see was a really back Sci-Fi porno, which was something he hoped he would never have to see. Sci-Fi movies were great, but they should never be made into pornos.
"You are such a freak, Mayuri." Akihito said under his breath, struggling not to cringe.
Asami could hear the two whispering across the room while he reached up to hang up the last strip of tulle, and it irked him a bit because he hated not knowing what they were talking about. He didn't trust those two together, they were too mischievous. The crimelord could only imagine what sort of crazy ideas they could come up with, but thankfully he only heard his lover made a disgusted sound, meaning they weren't scheming. Mayuri was just busy playing. That's fine.
He felt a tug on his pants leg, and looking down he saw Kiyomi pointing to the hook. "Can I do it?~"
"You want to help little one?" She nodded eagerly, giving him a toothy grin. "Alright, then up you go." He said, lifting her under the arms, holding her up so she could hang sparkly purple tulle.
Once she finished, she squealed and clapped her hands happily. "It's so prettyful!~" Asami found himself smiling and chuckling as he turned to adjust her in his arms so they were both more comfortable.
The crimelord turned to admire the work they had done. The entire front of the room looked like a huge pastel tent, the layers of colors looking like a rainbow. While they had been hanging the fabrics, the rest of Mayuri's workers had laid out blankets and pillows. It wasn't Asami's taste really, but it looked like something a bunch of little children would like, so he was over all pleased with it.
"I agree. You chose well." He praised the little girl, who beamed up at him.
The door opened and Rin walked in, crowded with little kids while some hung off of his arms and neck. It was an amusing sight, even if the guard looked very uncomfortable. When the children noticed the fort, the room was filled with little squeals and cheers as many of them took running starts into the large piles of blankets and pillows.
Asami noticed Kiyomi looking longingly at all the kids jumping into pillows and reluctantly set her on the ground, letting the seven year old join the other excited children. He walked over and took his place behind his lover, wrapping his arms around the smaller's waist as he set his chin atop his head He watched a couple kids ran over and grabbed Rin by the wrists, trying to drag him into the fort with them.
"Come on Rin! Come play with us!" One of the boys said, the one pulling on his left arm.
"Yeah! Come on! It's going to be fun!~"
"OKAY CHILDREN, YOU HAVE WON ME OVER!" Asami winced.
"Inside voice, Rin!" All the children laughed at him, some even going "Oooo you're in trouble!"
He found himself smirking as he watched Mayuri take Suoh's hand and join in on the fun, running and jumping into a pile of pillows as he dragged the giant man down with him. Children were soon tackling his blonde bodyguard, much to the amusement of Mayuri. Asami chuckled, looking down at his own little lover.
"Are you sure giving them a sugar high is going to be a good idea?"
Akihito grinned up at him. "It'll be fine. They'll crash pretty soon. Besides, what's a sleepover without sugary sweets?"
Asami laughed softly, shaking his head. That was definitely something his Akihito would say. Where he didn't like sweets, he had always found it cute that Aki did. And of course he loved to spoil his little Kitten with all the sweets he could eat. After all of this was over he was definitely going have to do that again. He loved seeing the look on Akihito's face while he ate something sweet, it was always such an intoxicating and delicious look.
"OH MY GOD IT'S A UNICORN!" One of the little girls squealed, all the children running towards the door where there was man in a unicorn costume, carrying the unicorn frappes Asami had ordered him to do just a little while before.
"Oh my god he actually did it." Akihito said, starting to giggle as he ran out of Asami's arms to go get one of the colorful drinks.
A few hours later and now it was ten o'clock at night, and Asami felt it. He was too old to be in the floor, especially with his leg that still occasionally hurt from where he was shot a few years ago. Children were crowded around Rin and Aki mostly, as they seemed to all be scared of him. Asami was kind of used to that, so he didn't really care. But little Kiyomi was curled up between he and Aki, holding that ridiculously cute turtle. Asami knew it had been given to Aki from Mayuri, but the little girl had pretty much taken it over.
Asami glanced around him, trying to see if everyone was asleep. All the kids had basically passed out in the last hour, but he remembered the fun they had. They played games, had an intense pillow fight, and then settled down for the movie. The kids had loved the frappes, and they had devoured the homemade mochi Kirishima had brought in halfway through their first movie. Looking behind him, he saw Suoh and Mayuri cuddled up together, the smaller boy basically laying on Kazumi. It seemed like everyone was asleep, that was except Akihito who he noticed was looking at him sleepily.
"Can't sleep, Kitten?" Asami whispered, reaching out the gently brush against his lover's cheek.
Akihito shook his head. "I can't get comfortable…it hurts." The photographer admitted, and that was really all the boy had to say before Asami decided he was done with this.
He stood up, careful not to jostle the child between them, and walked over to his lover, lifting him up. Akihito didn't fight as Asami carried him over to the bed, laying him down in it before crawling in himself. Neither of them needed to be sleeping in the floor anyway.
"Are you okay? You looked like you were in pain…" Akihito trailed off, looking at him with concerned blue eyes.
"I'm fine Kitten, it was just uncomfortable."
"Hmm, I should have thought about that. You are getting old, bastard."
"Careful Kitten, or I'll have to prove to you how wrong you are." Asami growled lowly.
Akihito scoffed and playfully slapped his chest. "Don't be a pervert! There are children in the room!" Aki whispered loudly, scoldingly.
"Children who you will wake up if you aren't quite, sweetheart." Asami reminded.
The boy just rolled his eyes as he laid his head back down, pulling the blanket up to his chin. Asami just smirked as he laid his head back against the pillow, letting the silence of the room wash over him. The only noise in the room was that of the small snores of children, and the occasional sound of one moving around in their sleep. He waited until he felt Akihito breathing steadily to close his own eyes.
Right about the time he drifted off, Asami felt movement on the bottom of the bed. Golden eyes opened tiredly, and he saw Kiyomi struggling to climb onto the bed, but she ended up making it up successfully. She looked like she had tears in her eyes, and Asami automatically felt guilty for leaving her down there. Kiyomi had nightmares almost every night, and they had only recently stopped because she slept with him all the time. She had told him it was because he made her feel safe.
Asami gently rolled the sleeping Akihito over a bit so his head laid on his shoulder rather than his chest, and then he opened his arms up for the little girl. She crawled over on top of him and laid down, trembling on top of him. He sighed softly, pulling the blanket up to cover her shoulders.
"Mmm…wha…what is it?" Akihito mumbled, stirring awake.
"S-Sorry! I didn't mean to wake you!" Kiyomi whispered, wiping at her tears. When Akihito noticed she was crying he immediately snapped fully awake. So much for him getting sleep.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling sick?" Aki asked quickly, scanning over her.
"N-No…I-I'm just…sad…" She mumbled.
"What's wrong darling?" Asami asked quietly, gently rubbing her back.
"I…I don't want to go back. B-But I have too….this is my last week here. My treatments are over…and I'm almost recovered" Kiyomi mumbled, sniffling as she tried not to burst into sobs. Asami felt his mouth go dry and his chest hurt. When Asami looked down at Aki, he saw the boy's eyes filling with tears. They had gotten so close to this little child in such a short time.
Despite the tears his lover was shedding, Aki forced a smile as he leaned down and placed a gentle kiss to her head. "It's going to be okay Kiyomi. Why don't we get some sleep? You'll feel better after some rest." None of them believed that, but that was all Akihito knew to say.
Still, she nodded and laid her head back down on Asami's chest. While they laid there, Asami went into his head, a thought that had been popping into his mind often lately coming back to him. An idea he never thought he would consider. Something he thought he never wanted out of life, but now with Akihito….it was something he found himself missing out on. The more he laid there and thought about it, the more appealing it sounded. It was time to make a decision, to take a chance or to decline the very idea.
Looking down at the little girl and his beloved Akihito, both of them drifting to sleep with tears still in their eyes, he knew the answer was clear.
I'll talk to her about this tomorrow.
BONUS: PILLOW FIGHT!
Akihito grinned as he watched the children playing, sipping on his sickeningly sweet drink. He was currently waiting for on the other adults to come back from getting changed into night wear. He and the children didn't have to, as they were all in their hospital gowns anyway. Rin was the first one to come back in, wearing a pair of black sweat pants and a grey t-shirt. Plain and boring, just like what he always wore. He grinned as he watched the children immediately attack the guard as he walked in.
With his attention taken away from the door, he didn't notice Mayuri and Suoh come in. However, he was quickly aware of their presence when a pillow hit him in the face and he looked up to see a giggling Mayuri who was pointing at Suoh accusingly. The blonde behemoth was shaking his head, pointing back at Mayuri. Akihito noticed they were wearing matching pajamas.
"Oh it's on!" Aki set his drink down and jumped up, grabbing the first pillow around him and throwing it at them.
One of the little boys looked up and grinned. "PILLOW FIGHT!" He declared, hitting one of the little girls with a pillow. The war was on.
Pillows flew across the room as children began hitting and throwing pillows at one another, laughing and squealing loudly. Alliances were being made, children teaming up against one another. Kiyomi joined Aki on his side against the two love birds across from him.
Another pillow hit him hard in the face, and Akihito pretended to go down. "AVENGE ME KIYOMI!" He yelled dramatically.
The little girl giggled and raced forward to the two men, hitting Mayuri with her sparkly pink pillow. Mayuri put on the dramatics along with Aki, gripping his chest and falling to the ground as he pretended to be wounded. Suoh lifted Kiyomi up into the air.
"How dare you hurt Mayuri! What do you have to say for yourself?" Suoh asked in a playful growl.
Kiyomi giggled, sticking out her tongue as she tapped the pillow onto his head. "Boop!" Suoh fell to his knees, setting her back to the ground.
"Such…a compelling argument…I can't…go on…" Suoh fell beside Mayuri, letting his tongue fall out of his mouth for added effect. Akihito had never seen Suoh act like this. The stoic, quiet behemoth was actually playing with children…and was good at it.
The door opened and immediately it all stopped as every child in the room got the wide eyed "Oh crap" look. Asami stood in the doorway, looking at the display with an unamused look. All the kids looked a little scared.
"Just what is going on here?" A pillow hit Asami in the chest in reply, and with that all the children resumed.
Akihito looked away innocently, having sat back up from where he had been laying in the floor. He felt Asami's eyes on him, and he knew he was in trouble. Asami picked the pillow up and made his way across the room, where he then stopped at Mayuri and Suoh.
"I'm on your team." Asami winked across at the photographer. Aki grinned as he waved Kiyomi over.
"Come on! Time for round two!" He declared, gathering pillows up for ammunition.
Game on.