AN : Hm, writing multi-chaps is very hard, isn't it. I've been trying to write this chapter ever since the day I uploaded the last chapter. And I only managed to write one small paragraph until today, when I rushed to write the rest. Sorry for the rushed, forced writing. I'm stuck ;u; Still, I'm trying my best, so hope you can enjoy~
Akashi is almost finished with his food when the two finally stop fighting and arguing. His eyes are staring at the horizon, giving the impression he didn't hear a single thing from their-not-so-quiet conversation.
He raises his hands to take another bite from his bread, then chews it slowly and swallows it down. Every single, even insignificant move he makes already catches the two's attentions. He has to admit it is starting to bother him. But he would be lying to himself if he says he doesn't find this to be a bit interesting.
Waves hitting against rocks nearby is about the only sound that replaces the sudden silence that befalls the three teens.
Once Aomine swallows the last bite of his bread, he shifts his position and looks up to the redhead.
"Are we doing this again tomorrow, Akashi?"
"That will be a waste of time."
"Right. And I wouldn't want the smoke to choke you either." He smirks.
"Glad you understand, Daiki."
"You guys had it easy, you know." Kagami joins in the conversation, he is starting to forget the reasons to dislike them, even though today's event is another valid proof for him to feel the same. Spending a whole day with the two actually wasn't so bad, especially watching Akashi struggling and failing at something, which was the treat of the day.
"You looked like you were having fun out there, at least to me." Aomine confesses.
"He had to, if he didn't want to make any more children cry because of his scary face."
"Y-You think my face is scary?"
Before Akashi can answer, Aomine cut him, "Does it matter?"
Kagami chooses to stay silent and stares at the calm vast orange ocean. How he wishes he could throw Aomine out there and watch him flailing his hands ridiculously, while he and Akashi are watching, the beautiful sight of the sun setting too while they're at it.
He shakes his head hard to get rid of the image in his head. Akashi is about, or even more, unbearable than Aomine. Yet there he is, sitting on the sand with the two, scenes playing in his head with Akashi as the innocent, kind, and everything Akashi is not, protecting him from Aomine the dangerous wolf. Meanwhile, his normal sense -that is still working properly deep down there- suspects Akashi might be the leader of the wolves, with his sweet words and -he bregudgingly admits- his good looks, dragging Kagami down to their nest, he is pretty much offering himself as their prey right now. Again, he shakes his head, his imagination is way too active from all the activities from today.
"Kagami, are you okay?" He feels air is sucked out of his lungs as his name escapes from Akashi's lips, making him unable to hear anything after that. It isn't the first time Akashi calls out his name yet this time a feeling of joy is filling his chest.
All these emotions are too overwhelming for him, he doesn't enjoy it, but he doesn't hate it either. He might be having a crush, like a small crush, on Aka -he coughs to snap him out of his own thought, he then corrects himself- he might have a small crush on someone. He unconsciously nods his head slightly and gently rubbing his chin with his fingers, giving the impression he is in deep thought, as he now understands the protagonist in the few shoujo manga he has read when he was bored, those butterfly feelings nonsense they kept talking about on those pages, it is true after all.
He then shakes his head, ever so slightly while closing his eyes, upon remembering his conversation with Aomine earlier. He can't believe he would come upfront and ask the guy to confirm he and Akashi aren't a couple. His stupidity sometimes annoys even himself.
The fact that he just admit to himself he was stupid now depresses him. He is tired inside out, he has been tired inside out from the very first second he lays his eyes on the kiseki no sedai.
"We're leaving you, Kagami." Aomine brushes his hand against Kagami's head, not too gently, he probably meant to smack the guy's head but failed.
"Hah!? Oi, wait for me."
The long awaited nighttime finally comes, the three exhausted teens go straight into the shower once they get home, each at a separate time, and flops onto the bed right after.
"Akashi, can I sleep in your bed? Just this one night, please." Aomine's long limb is on top of Akashi's legs, much to the latter's displease, his head hanging from the bedside, his arms and legs resting on the floor motionlessly.
"Ah, so you two prefer to sleep in this bed? I don't think you guys can fit but if that's what you want-"
"Come on Akashi." He sits up on the bed and grips Akashi's two legs firmly, looking down at the redhead who is already lying down comfortably. A playful smile graces the tan boy's lips, teasing the much annoyed redhead.
"Go ahead and do it, and it won't be only your nose I'll punch this time."
"You know I can hold you down pretty easily, right? I won't stop until you beg."
"In that case you will be receiving a lot of money after I sell one of your internal organs to the black market."
"I know you won't do that."
"Go back to your bed and I won't."
"Oh, you mean the two of us will be sleeping there?"
"Let's not do this tonight, Daiki, I'm tired."
"What the hell?" Kagami comes out from the shower and gapes at the two's position and the small part of the conversation he hears. "You can't be serious."
"What do you mean?" Akashi frowns as soon as he lands his eyes on half naked Kagami.
"Nothing, nothing. It's just that- if you guys wanna do it, do it later, you know. Like when I'm not here, or when I'm dead." He mutters the last part to himself.
"What do you think we were doing, idiot?" Aomine still asks despite knowing exactly what the other is thinking.
"You two, go to sleep, now." Akashi's frown deepens as he realizes where the conversation is heading to, he doesn't appreciate the fact that Aomine just downgrades his image in front of the two.
"Who's the mom now, I wonder." Kagami replies under his breath.
"Geez, give me a break. That guy kicks in his sleep, did you know that!?"
"Not my problem."
"And the two of us can't sleep comfortably in that bed, by the way." Kagami cringes his face as he remembers the small incident last night when he unconsciously mistakes Aomine as a body pillow. He shudders at the unpleasant memory.
"So what are you suggesting, Kagami? Do you want me to sleep with either one of you?"
"Y-Yeah?"
"Maybe some other night." Akashi replies almost immediately, tone indicating the conversation is over.
"Spoiled brat." Kagami whispers, Aomine agrees for once.
A short staring contest is going on between the two hot headed teens, they aren't very pleased having to share the bed again. Kagami then fixes the blanket and uses it as a sort of barrier between the two.
Tonight is the last night they are going to spoil this little redhead.
As you have noticed, AoAka is a bit more dominant in this story. Since it is after all my OTP *u*
But, if you want some KagaAka moment, feel free to let me know, and I'll try to write it.
But like dang it, Kagami is one of the two protagonists and I know very little about him.