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Rating: T+
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Chapter Title: Examination
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You don't know how you failed to notice it earlier on. No, you aren't in the same year as them, and no, you don't have any classes with them other than lunch, but now that you know and you're watching them, you can see the signs. It perplexes you, really, since you somehow feel that you should have known. Their actions around each other have changed slightly – what abnormalities there are equally hard to find in both of them – but those little changes are there and suddenly seem to make all the difference.
Most noticeable is certainly the air around them. Sure, you only see them at lunch and when you invite yourself over to their house, and it isn't like you ever particularly paid attention to the mood hovering around Yuki and Kyo (it was always the same, anyway), but again, it's there. There's a discomfort of some sort, one that they don't quite seem to know how to get rid of besides acting normal. That 'leave me alone' tension is gone, replaced with an anxious, almost worried pressure.
You can feel it the most when they're near to each other. Kyo purposely never looks at Yuki. You see him keeping tabs on where he is, though, watching in his sidelong vision whenever he moves. His eyes always remain down or away or to the right – almost never directly at him – but most certainly very cognizant of where Yuki is in a way he never was before. Constantly aware of him, he himself never touching him accidentally or otherwise, you're given the impression that he's tip-toeing around the other. It's such a huge change from the abrasive behavior he had whenever it concerned Yuki, uncaring of what he thought and not giving any thought other than that. You can't help but wonder just where all that energy he normally has must be going.
A little more surprising is Yuki. You still can't forget that heated look he gave Kyo, not for one second. And he continues to surprise you, rattling your view of him into a little more focus. It's almost irrefutable that he's somehow trying to… well, on second thought, you don't know what he's trying to do. You aren't going to pretend to know what his intentions are, and you aren't going to assume what they might be, but you can definitely see that Yuki is much more in-tune to Kyo that he lets on. His eyes aren't as self-conscious as Kyo's, sometimes openly following him across the room or trailing over his features. He's looking at Kyo, though what's going on behind those looks is up for anyone's guess, his face neutral as ever. Still, it's not a look you've seen him give Kyo before. The cat has his attention, and you can barely see it through Yuki's shield.
It's more than just his eyes straying to him, though. There's his touch as well. He somehow manages to make it look accidental or unintentional. His hand will brush his shoulder, his arm will touch him… in one way or another, Yuki initiates some sort of contact with him.
And that's what really gets to you: the fact that you know its mutual. Yuki wanted Kyo to kiss him that time, even thought it looked like Kyo was forcing it on him. If Yuki hadn't, Kyo would have been flat on his back in no time – without a tongue. Kyo himself would never just go and do that sort of thing – not sober, at least. It just wasn't something he would (or could) do. But that's not it, either. The thing is: you know them. Yuki and Kyo are not the cuddly type, nor the overly social, touchy type. Sure, they both put up with contact from other people, but the underlying tension whenever someone gets in their space is there. It's always been there, like it is for most of the Juunshi. With Yuki and Kyo, though, it always seemed to be just a little more… intense. They both had past experiences that made them just a little less friendly towards others.
So, the fact that they can get that intimate, allow the other to come in their personal space and beyond that, sharing touches that would most likely never be allowed to anyone, tells you something. You can't say you know how they feel towards one another, but you can say that there is a definite, strong, and substantial amount of trust in it. Yuki trusted Kyo to touch him. Kyo trusted Yuki to let him. Everything was mutual, wanted, and craved.
There was no doubting it for a second.
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