I'm so sorry for the long update, guys! College has been keeping me busy, ugh! But I was rereading you guys' reviews, and they made me smile so much my cheeks hurt. You are amazing, you bootyful people.
I wanted to write a Valentine's Day oneshot for this couple, but I missed the date! Gah!
Should I write it anyway? As a late V-Day fic? And maybe as a gift to all you wonderful reviewers who have stayed with me through this long, bumpy journey? Do let me know, I have no problems writing a fic for you lovelies. Actually, even better: tell me what you want to see, I will write it. JUST FOR YOU WONDERFUL BABIES.
Also, just out of curiosity, are there any guys reading this fic? I always wonder when I read other yaoi works, haha :D
Chapter 10: By the Book...
"Oh! How about the Amusement Park?"
A sigh. "Ichiru, n—"
"Maybe the aquarium? You love fish!"
"When I eat it, ye—"
"Oh, oh! I got this—the fucking Eiffel Tower."
"Ichiru, where the fuck am I gonna get the money to go to France, of all places." It wasn't even a question, that's how absurd the idea was.
The younger twin scoffed and rolled his eyes. "You party pooper."
Zero raised an eyebrow. "Oh, my God, I will smack you."
Ichiru waved the threat away, scratching yet another line over the notebook lying in his lap. The two twins—or, rather, Ichiru was doing all the work while Zero quietly sipped his morning cup of coffee—had spent that Saturday morning coming up with a list of places Zero could go to for a...date (ew). With Kaname. Of course, Ichiru refused to acknowledge his older twin when the latter adamantly denied being in that sort of relationship with the brunet. No surprise there, really, because when did Ichiru ever listen to his older brother?
"What if you take him out to that really nice restaurant you once used to work at?" suggested the younger silveret.
"I'm not taking anyone out, let alone that bastard."
"Aw, are you guys calling each other cute nicknames already?"
"Ichiru, seriously, I'll murder you." Sighing in frustration, Zero got up from the chair he was sitting at and walked over to the kitchen, busying himself with washing his mug. "I'm not the one who came up with this oh, so great idea of becoming friends with Kuran, so I'm not doing anything about it."
Ichiru huffed in annoyance at his brother's stubbornness. "Gosh, brother, you're impossib—wait." Lavender eyes widening considerably, the younger of the two stared at his brother's back in suspicion. "Are you saying you would go along with it if Kaname asked you out?"
Zero didn't answer.
Maybe we should just keep meeting at that cafe for a while? But it is getting kind of boring to always see the same scenery—I want to take him somewhere else.
"—so then I got worried, because hello, I couldn't get hard! I went to the bathroom and—"
But then again, maybe he doesn't want to always meet up at food places. What if we go shopping? No, fuck—Jesus, Kaname, shopping? Does he fucking look like a shopping person? No, he does fucking not.
"—I tried to let my partner work her magic—let me tell ya, she's got this amazing technique, sometimes I wonder if she really was a virgin. She likes to grab my—"
What if we go to the movies? Hmm...yeah, that actually sounds pretty good. I wonder what genres he likes? He looks like a sci-fi lover, maybe even historical. I really wouldn't care, to be honest, though. We could go watch "My Little Ponies", for all I care, and I'd still enjoy it. So long as we're—
"Uh, Dr. Kuran?"
Kaname immediately snapped out of his mental monologue upon hearing his name being called, a little startled at the sudden wake-up call. He shook his head to clear his mind of all thoughts regarding a certain silveret and focused all of his attention to the man sitting in the chair across his desk—he couldn't afford to get himself distracted at work, that was inexcusable. "My apologies," he replied swiftly, briefly clearing his throat. "I was lost in thought for a brief moment."
The patient, a blond man in his thirties, nodded once in understanding. "I gotcha, no worries. Heh, I guess talking about my own girl made you think of your own, huh?" The blond leaned back in his chair, spreading his legs a little to get more comfortable.
The corner of Kaname's mouth twitched slightly at the question. "Hmm, something like that." Even though my "girl" is far from a female and not mine. Ah, that was a bitter thought. "Anyway, please let us go back to the matter at hand."
"Sure thing, Doc."
The brunet grabbed the file with the blond's name written on it and opened it, quickly scanning over the documents inside it. "From these tests I can see that you show no signs of any physical condition that could potentially cause an erectile dysfunction."
The other man frowned. "Is that...good?"
Kaname made sure to meet the other's brown gaze as he replied, "It is, don't worry. It just makes it that much easier for us to find the cause." The man looked greatly relieved at the news, and it showed in his relaxed posture. "Say, Mr. Niles—"
"Oh, Chris is fine."
"...well, then, Chris." Kaname didn't know how to feel about that. Calling a patient by their first name seemed so...inappropriate. "Are you a smoker?'
"Yup. Been one since twenty."
"Ah, I see. One of the factors that could potentially cause an ED is the heavy consume of tobacco. How often do you smoke?"
The man—Chris—seemed to be thinking about it for a while. "Eh, probably two packets a week? Sometimes I can go by with one packet, on a regular basis. I've been smoking a lot more recently, though. Like, maybe three or four cigarettes a day, which is way more than I would normally smoke."
Kaname wrote that down on a scrap piece of paper. "What about alcohol?"
"I don't drink much. Mostly when I go out with my co-workers, friends, or my girlfriend."
"That's good; make sure to never go overboard. Not only is it a risk your general health, but it's also another contributor to this particular issue. Would you consider yourself to be a very stressed person, Chris?" The name felt foreign in his mouth, unpleasantly so. It sounded so...weird. Kaname preferred names that resembled numbers...
At that, the blond man let out a long sigh, shaking his head. "Man, you have no idea! Being an office worker sucks, dude! This past three weeks have been especially terrible, though. See, we got this new manager who's just a plain sadist. He always drowns us in boring paperwork, and I even had to stay overtime on more than one occasion! I mean, I already work myself like a dog from morning to night, why the hell should I stay extra hours just because the guy can't do his own job right? That's not fair, man!"
Kaname resisted the urge to chuckle at the man's (quite childish) behavior. "Well, Chris, I think we may have just found the cause for you impotency."
"Whoa, really?"
The brunet nodded. "You see, excessive use of tobacco alone can very well cause your body to nor respond to certain kinds of stimulus, and you've already said you've been consuming around four cigarettes per day. That in itself could very well be the problem, here, but your high levels of stress are what topped it all off—think of it as the cherry on top of the cake. It's quite normal, actually, for a person to not be able to engage in sexual activity when put under such circumstances. Your body is simply too exhausted to keep up with you, and the result is this temporary erectile dysfunction."
Chris seemed to take all the information in with a concentrated look on his face. "So, what you're saying is that it's nothing I should worry too much over?"
"Exactly."
"So, I don't have some sort of cancer, or whatever?"
Kaname actually did chuckle at that. "No, I can assure you no such illness exists in your body."
"Awesome! Then what will my treatment be, Doc?"
"Go on a little vacation. Take some time off work and just relax. You need to get all the piled up stress out of your system. Maybe even take your girlfriend with you; spending some good quality time together with her may help the 'healing process' go by faster. And do let me know if this treatment works."
With a beaming smile, the blond man jumped out of his chair and nodded. The brunet also rose, quickly shaking hands with his patient. "Sure thing! Thanks, doctor Kuran, you rock!" He basically skipped towards the door, not looking back as he made his exit.
It wasn't until he made sure the door was firmly shut that Kaname flopped down into his chair with a long, tired sigh. He sagged down until his ass was on the edge of falling off the seat, his fingers interlocking over his stomach as he closed his eyes. Sometimes, the brunet really hate his job, especially when he got patients like Chris who were far too friendly and far too open in sharing all the little details of their sex life. Kaname had absolutely no need to know how good the blond's girlfriend was at sucking dick, nor did he want to know how long their trysts lasted.
Another sigh left the tired man's parted lips.
His only consolation was that he'd be able to talk to his favorite person in the whole entire world in just a couple more hours.
Zero was lounging in the couch of his empty apartment, soda can in hand and popcorn in the other. His eyes were trained on the large television screen, absentmindedly following the movie currently playing. Ichiru had gone on a date with his boyfriend earlier that day, and the older was feeling quite bored and lonely by himself. All of his homework was done, as well as whatever chores needed to be completed, so he was left killing time by eating junk food and watching hideous movies.
While taking another sip of his drink, the silveret's eyes shifted over to the dining table. He had only turned on the lamp by the couch, so the rest of the apartment was mostly dark, but he could still make out the notepad Ichiru had written on that morning lying exactly where it had been left. Not thinking much about it, Zero rose from his seat and walked over to the small block of papers, holding it in his hands for closer examination. There, in Ichiru's sloppy-as-fuck handwriting, was a whole list of places the younger Kiryuu had come up with for Zero's so-called "dates".
"What the fu—Peru? Jesus Christ, that kid has major issues," the silveret mumbled to himself as his lilac eyes scanned over the scribbled ideas. Some of them sounded pretty decent, while other were basically out of a fairy-tale, because seriously? Who the hell had dinner in a cave behind a waterfall?
Just as Zero was about to put the little notepad down, a sudden, loud noise made him jump out of his skin, the block of papers flying out of his hands and onto the ground in the process. Bewildered and utterly embarrassed at his own reaction, the silveret turned his murderous eyes towards the coffee table in front of the TV, where his phone was. The vibrations from the device had, apparently, so hard that they resonated through the wood of the table, creating the noise that had almost succeeded in giving the poor boy a heart attack.
With an angry huff and a bright blush, Zero stomped over to the table and angrily grabbed his phone, all the while muttering cruel obscenities under his breath.
"Stupid fucking piece of shit, why the fuck do you vibrate so much..." Upon closer inspection, the silveret noticed the notification of a text message on the top corner of the screen, not surprisingly from Kaname. Ever since their last encounter at the cafe, the two had exchanged messages after messages almost every day. Zero had been surprised to realize that talking to the brunet, at least through written words instead of actual spoken ones, was surprisingly quite easy.
[Evening, Kiryuu-kun.]
A short, amused laugh escaped Zero as he read the message. [Ever the polite one, Kuran.]
The reply was almost immediate, and the young man tried to ignore the little burst of happiness he felt at the fact. [Only for you.]
[Charmer.]
[Oh, you flatter me.]
[Pft. Whaddya want?]
[Who's the charmer now? Anyway, what are you doing?]
Zero looked around him and at the sadness that was his empty apartment. [Drowning in self pity over the fact I have no social life and therefore am stuck in my empty apartment watching shitty movies and drinking soda.]
[...wow, dan.]
A thin, silver eyebrow raised. ["Dan"?]
The response made Zero outright laugh. [*Damn, shit. I hate this phone.]
[Ah, autocorrect seems to have gotten a hold of your soul. You will never escape it, now.]
[That was a very macabre joke, as expected of you. Well, since you seem to be wallowing in self-pity, care to join me tonight for some "bonding time"?]
[I can't believe you actually just said that, wow. Lame, Kuran.]
[Bite me.] Zero couldn't help but appreciate the sassy comeback, grinning to himself. Another thing that had changed between them was the way the talked to each other. Zero had started to be a little more open with his jokes, and Kaname had returned the favor with some witty humor of his own. It was quite entertaining, if the silveret had to admit, and it never failed to put a smile on his face.
[You probably taste like shit, no thanks. What did you have in mind?]
[Ha-fucking-ha, Kiryuu-kun. Well, I was thinking of catching a movie, but it looks like you've already overdosed yourself with bad acting, already.]
Indeed, the young twin did suffer through the longest hours of horrifying acting he'd ever experienced in his life. [What movie did you have in mind, Kuran?]
["Big Hero 6".]
Zero stared blankly at his phone, blinking once. [Oh my fucking God, are you even being serious right now.]
[As serious as I'll ever be.]
The silveret simply stood there for a few moments, rereading the brunet's words over and over. Never in his life would he have taken Kaname Kuran for a lover of animated movies. [...]
[...?]
[...sure, why the fuck not. Might as well.]
[Perfect. I'll meet you at the movies?]
[Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills?]
[The one and only.]
[Be there in a few.]
Jesus Christ, Zero was actually going on a date with Kaname Kuran.
Ah, you lovelies, you have no idea how refreshing your comments are! They always make me so happy to read them!
And yaaay! We got to see Kaname in his element! Doesn't he make a sexy doctor, or what?
Also, did it dawn on you guys yet that Kaname is a urologist?
Meaning he knows exactly where the prostate is.
Meaning I have a feeling Zero will enjoy those prostate exams very much.