Chapter Eighteen

Visiting Time

It was the third day of being in the damn hospital and Sousuke's mood was grumpy to say the least. Pissed, frustrated and bored were the other things he was as he lay in the pressed white sheets and glared at the game show playing on the TV screen.

He'd tried to leave earlier but Rin had told him he had to stay which annoyed Sousuke as if the roles were reversed... He was sure Rin would've convinced him to take part in some crazy ass escape in which they dressed in white coats and nurses scrubs. But as it was Sousuke in the hospital bed, he was being told to sit still and do as he was told. Which was more than a little irritating.

Nor did it help that during his last visit earlier today Rin had brought someone with him. He'd made the guy stay outside, loitering in the hallway but Sousuke had known what was going on and who it was.

"You're dating that Nanase guy?" Sousuke had asked, his voice low and gruff.

Rin had smirked and then raised an eyebrow. "Not exactly dating, Sousuke."

"Fucking then," he'd corrected with an angry growl, folding his arms over his chest which made the pain in his stomach twinge.

After a few moments, Rin had tried to be reassuring. "I'm sorry he's not visited yet."

Sousuke must've appeared flaming pissed as Rin had left pretty swiftly after that and Sousuke had sat and stewed, angrily wondering why Makoto hadn't visited. He also tried not to imagine a million ways he could damage Rin's face with the "just laid" happiness evident on it. Each of those scenarios were not particularly pleasant.

Instead of sitting, alone, in the hospital, Sousuke decided to check himself out, not caring for medical advice or Rin's smart ass attitude. He was getting out of the bed, figuring out where his clothes were, and readying himself for his exit when he looked up and saw someone in the doorway.

He looked like Sousuke remembered - tired still and his clothes were more casual but Sousuke's mouth was already dry as he saw the gorgeous man in the doorway. The guy who had taken three days to visit.

"Should you be out of bed?"

Sousuke growled as he didn't need Makoto to lecture him too. Stubbornly, he climbed back onto the hospital bed and scowled in Makoto's direction despite the feeling just seeing him brought.

"Why do you care?"

He saw Makoto flinch at the harshness of his words. "I couldn't visit at first..." he said and he walked into the room, walking towards the chair that was covered in newspapers and magazines, the tablet Rin had brought for Sousuke so he could play games during the boring hours in the hospital bed. "I've been in Nagisa's lawyers office and with the police for the last few days."

Sousuke softened at the admission and his fierce gaze became gentler as Makoto moved the items from the chair so he could sit. He should've figured that - the police had visited him, as had Nagisa, and so Makoto would've had the same treatment. In even more detail.

"And I had to see."

Raising an eyebrow and cocking his head, Sousuke showed his confusion. "See what?"

"The last few days were so damn intense... So much happened that I had to see whether these feelings I had were just because of adrenalin and the… intense situation."

Sousuke prepared for the rejection, looking then at his hands rather than at Makoto as it made sense. The situation they had been in had brought them together. They never should've met. They were from different worlds and now Makoto was no longer threatened and safe, well, Sousuke wasn't needed. It was a brief fling and nothing more. Sousuke just tried to hide his disappointment - even more annoyed when Rin had just managed to charm himself into Nanase's bed.

"And I decided I like you and I wanted to try...So that's why I'm here."

Turning his head quickly, Sousuke saw an adorable blush on Makoto's fade, embarrassed by his own admission. He was looking at the floor or one of the magazines he'd dropped rather than Sousuke and Sousuke reached over, touching then at Makoto's thigh as that's what he could reach.

"I like you too..." Sousuke said and he chucked softly as the words seemed so damn childish after all they had been through. "And I'm switching careers so I have some time to... Figure this out."

Makoto looked up, eyes widened in shock. "You're not going to be a bodyguard?"

Sousuke shook his head. "I have too many holes in me now."

He did - and he didn't want anymore. And as Rin said, he was getting old. Makoto laughed softly and it sounded so perfect to Sousuke's ear.

"Yeah so... Where do we go from here?" Makoto asked and Sousuke reached for his hand.

"Come over here and we'll work on that."

"You sure?" Makoto asked, his eyes darting towards the door, cautious about the nurses and a potential interruption.

"Sure."

Makoto walked over, leaning down for a kiss and Sousuke acted, pulling at him until Makoto got the message, straddling him on the bed and kissing him like he meant to.

It was a kiss full of fire and tongue, of opened mouths and panted breaths and when they separated, Sousuke groaned in frustration, his cock hardening due to the proximity of Makoto's incredible body.

"I'm glad I had to protect you," Sousuke said, his hand sliding gently over the soft material of Makoto's shirt, skittering up his sides.

"Me too. And thank you."

And to show his thanks, Makoto kissed him some more, Sousuke's grumpy mood, pain and impatience long forgotten.