Sorry for the wait! I've had a busy month, but right now, I'm planning to write more until New Year, so hopefully you'll see some more updates until then ;)

For now, enjoy the read~

Noya and Asahi didn't get the chance to talk in the week after that. Training was tiring and both were busy with studying.

Asahi had trouble focusing on his schoolwork, his mind often wandering to the conversation they had together.

The first few days, he stayed away from everything related to the genderfluid subject, like he was trying to forget it happened.

On the contrary though, Asahi wanted to find out more about it, but he was a little scared to look it up. He knew the subject would bite or anything, but finding out stuff about yourself was scary, even in general.

About a week after their 'talk', Asahi was quietly reading a text about English literature. He should have read it earlier, he knew that, only a certain something had come in between.

Asahi stared at the text without actually reading the words. He was tired, had been lacking sleep for days and his mind was elsewhere.

Noya popped up in his mind, as he had really popped up after training, and he asked if there were any updates. Like that morning, Asahi shook his head in response. No, he hadn't thought about it yet and yes, he was going to soon.

It was a promise Asahi thought he could break. What was 'soon' anyway? A few days? A week? A month? At moment like this, Asahi wished Noya was with him, or at least his decisiveness.

Sighing to himself, Asahi's eyes refocused. They fell on a word Asahi hadn't noticed before. Not exactly registering what it said, he started at the beginning of the sentence. Finally, with some concentration, Asahi managed to read it.

'That being said, we cannot assume this is accurate information, as the author of the book, according to reliable sources, had no interest in the female body. Multiple sources, including family members, believed that his weekly meetings with friends were not actual meetings. Although this claim has never been proven to be true, the majority of the people believe it is and that he even confessed it in one of his last books.'

Asahi rubbed his tired eyes. Great, now it was following him to school too. Getting the message, he closed his book and started up his laptop.

Very slowly, he managed to open multiple tabs, one for Google, one for Wikipedia and he remembered Urban Dictionary to be helpful too. Asahi's power of persuasion normally already was low, and now it took him the longest time to convince himself to search.

First up was Urban Dictionary. Searching for genderfluid wasn't the problem, he and Noya had done it before, looking at the definitions was.

Asahi felt like cleaning his room instead of doing this. Despite that, he continued.

He already knew the first definition, so he scrolled down to read the others one by one. For the moment, skipped the suggested links as he planned to get back to those later.

Some definitions felt slightly off, and with some others Asahi didn't know what to do. There were a few words he didn't know, one of them was present in the redirection section and so he clicked on it. He figured what agender had to mean, but it was nice that the internet proved him to be right. A small victory.

From agender Asahi went to genderqueer and after reading the extensive explanation of pansexuals*, he opened a link that said 'asexual'.

It seemed obvious to Asahi that the (first) 'a' stood for the exact same thing as in agender. He felt like laughing uncontrollably. It was funny how the world worked sometimes.

In a burst of excitement, Asahi sent Noya a message to ask if he knew the word.

The answer came fast and was short. No but tell me.

And Asahi did. Or rather than explaining it himself, he took a few photos of his screen and sent it to Noya instead.

Noya, who was still online, received them right away. He liveblogged while reading everything. Asahi wanted to respond to some of them, but decided to wait until Noya was finished. Luckily, he had the right mind to type out everything. Noya's way of texting varied by day and today was a good one.

Hey, I didn't know you weren't interested in sex, how come you never told me?

I don't know what those 'boston marriages' are, but as long as those women were happy it doesn't matter, right?

This one says men and women, but last week we learned that there are more genders, are those included as well?

Are you sex repulsed?

How far can we go?

Or don't you know?

What's aromantic?

Are you aromantic?

The questions stopped and Asahi shrugged about most of them. He typed simple answers.

We never talked about it, I guess, I think so, I don't know, I don't know, not falling in love, don't think so

Noya, who couldn't work with Asahi's lesser excited response, seemed to have taken over his excitement. He asked to meet up the next day after their training.

Asahi agreed and promised to look further for things like that were of any value to him.

Noya corrected him, saying that it was important to them.

Asahi, like the intelligent person he was, smiled softly until he realized Noya couldn't see that. To show his appreciation, he sent the kiss emoji with a small heart, one of the emoji's he didn't use regularly.

Noya quickly returned the favor and announced that he was going to sleep.

Asahi checked the time and saw it was already quite late. Saying goodnight to Noya, he bookmarked the asexual page and shut down his laptop. The rest of his research could wait until tomorrow.

The happy feeling he got from recent developments (and Noya!) made him fall asleep quickly.

*the page for pansexuality is a different one.

Have I already told you that I'm bad with regular updates? Well I am. Sorry about that.

If you like this small fic, feel free to comment on it or leave kudos :D I also have a tumblr page for this, which is genderfluidasahi.

Thank you for reading and until next time~