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Chapter 4: Unfolding Events
The next day started as any other would, except for a particular pitcher, whom now was having a heated battle within his mind. It was as if two sides of his conscious was arguing amongst themselves.
'I like him...EIJUN! No you don't, you're just confused...but this is what Kai described as liking someone, I mean, it feels good to be with Miyuki...think this carefully, it's Miyuki we're talking about...that's exactly why I'm thinking, cause it's Miyuki...you're going to get screwed by Miyuki, like literally...' With that last thought appearing in Sawamura's mind, a deep red blush bloomed on his face.
'Stop thinking about dirty things!' But it was hard, especially the unintentional kiss they had yesterday night.
'OK Eijun, snap out of it, I gotta get working!' he thought as he slapped his cheeks with both his palms. "YOSH!"
The pitcher walked to the staff area of the inn, getting ready to do his daily morning chores.
"Mornin' Eijun!" Kai shouted from across the hall.
"Hi Kai!" Sawamura replied ever brilliantly with a big smile on his face.
The older teen walked up to the younger and ruffled his hand in the shorter teen's hair.
"You seem happy this morning, good sleep?"
"Yup!" although he was confused, he couldn't deny that he felt very happy. It was as if a spark inside of him ignited and burned feelings of happiness throughout his body.
"Anyways, new assignment today, you're gonna be serving other people, I'll be taking care of your friend." Kai quickly mumbled the latter part of the statement.
Immediately, the spark of happiness welling within Sawamura diminished into nothingness.
"Whaaa? Why so sudden?" the pitcher was clearly upset. He was looking forward to seeing Miyuki early this morning.
'Wait...maybe it's a good thing...what if Miyuki felt it yesterday night when my body pressed against his...' a slight blush came onto the pitcher's face.
Kai watched his younger cousin go through a series of emotions, which was evidently shown on his face.
'He's thinking of the pervert...' a displeased look came onto Kai's face.
Sawamura gave a defeated look, knowing that he couldn't argue with Kai, not that he wanted to anyways. "I'm gonna go get ready then, see you after breakfast!" With that, the pitcher ran off.
Kai also left as well, holding a tray of food, heading for his destination...Miyuki's room.
Upon arriving at the door front, a welcoming surprise was left on the door. 'Please enter. In the bathroom...this again...' Kai read and gave another displeased look at the note before ripping it off the door and entering the room.
The shower was running and the blanket was sprawled across the room. Kai placed the tray down on a table and started to clean the room, moving the mattress aside and replacing it with the table. He proceeded to diligently set the table, arranging the food meticulously.
Not long after, the opening of the bathroom door was heard. Kai started to turn his body around so that he could greet Miyuki.
Miyuki walked out of the bathroom topless with his towel rubbing his hair dry; thus his vision was covered.
'I'll pretend to trip over and fall on Eijun, that should get him all riled up...' the catcher thought. The towel over his head was a good excuse for falling over as he couldn't see what was in front of him.
"Good mor..." Kai started as Miyuki made the turn into the main room.
"Waaaah!" Miyuki screamed as he tripped over the threshold and made his way on top of Kai. Miyuki fell on top the other teen and he ensured that his body was tightly against the other's. To top things off, he fell such that his lips would land on the other teen's cheeks. The two stayed there for a long few seconds, one enjoying himself, while the other trying to grasp at what was happening. Eventually, Miyuki started to separate and get up.
"Sorry Ei-JUN?!" Miyuki shouted as his eyes popped out, as if he'd seen a ghost. Miyuki stared into angry orbs of the taller older teen. He then quickly gave himself more distance from Kai.
"You damn pervert!" Kai shouted causing Miyuki to jump away and back himself to the corner of the room.
"Big cousin! I didn't know it was you! Sorry about that, I couldn't see with the towel over my head...ha...ha..." he meekly tried to laugh the incident off.
"Who's your cousin?" Kai angrily replied while staring darts into Miyuki. "What a coincident, falling over and planting a kiss on my cheeks...don't tell me you were trying to take advantage of Eijun? HUH?" Kai retorted.
"Of course not! It was an accident, I would never try to make a move on Ei...Sawamura..." Miyuki quickly got out of the corner and moved to Kai's side in attempt to show that he had nothing to hide. "I would never take try to take advantage of Sawamura!"
"Oh so yesterday night in the onsen when you were flashing your body to the whole world, you were just trying to what?" Kai questioned.
"Wha...ummm..." Miyuki was caught off guard at Kai's question, he didn't realise the older teen was there as well. 'Shoot...he seems really angry...think Miyuki...think...'
"Well...it was the male's onsen area, so I didn't think I need to cover up..." Miyuki tried to reason.
"And the purpose of standing a couple feet over Eijun for a good couple minutes, when you clearly knew that Eijun was watching you..." Kai semi stated, semi asked.
"What? Ei...Sawamura was looking at me? I didn't know...I was looking at the moon and just forgot about getting into the onsen! I thought Sawamura was looking at the moon too!" Miyuki again tried to defend his actions as an innocent act.
"Yeah, he was staring at the moon...he saw a crack on it too..." Kai muttered, but loud enough for Miyuki to hear.
Miyuki immediately blushed obviously knowing what Kai had meant. 'Great...I gotta get back on his good side...'
"But big brother..."
"Don't call me that."
"Cousin..."
"Stop that..."
"Kai...?"
"I'm warning you, you make any moves on Eijun and..." Kai looked at the perfectly set table, he proceed to grab the chopsticks then stuck them straight into the grilled mackerel. There, the chopsticks stood, protruding out of the fish's body.
"Enjoy your meal." Kai said before leaving the catcher alone.
Muyuki stared at the angry blonde teen walk out of the room before turning his gaze onto the dead fish in front of him, his heart jumping more erratically than usual. 'I guess I'll eat the fish first...' he sighed as he pulled the chopsticks out. 'Actually...maybe not...'
- Later in the afternoon -
Miyuki walked around the inn, enjoying the gardens. Lunch service wasn't any better.
'He's getting angrier and angrier at me...' the catcher thought as he ran into a tall wall that blocked him from his one and only pitcher.
'Ahhh, come on Miyuki, think of something...' the pondering catcher rummaged through his brain trying to find a way to mend his relationship with Kai.
'Wait...What if I stop doing perverted things to Eijun...' Miyuki stopped in his tracks contemplating his thought, but subconsciously, his mind flourished with other impure thoughts. Before he knew it, something down below woke up from its slumber.
'Arrrgh...that's not going to happen...' the horny teen sighed in defeat as he ran off into the nearest washroom to finish some business.
By the time the catcher was done, it was mid afternoon. 'Great, it's tea time.' Miyuki smiled as he saw the clock on the wall. He made his way to the atrium where tea and snacks were being served.
The atrium was grand. It had an indoor pond with coy fish and greenery landscaped throughout. It was also opened to the second floor and above that were multiple skylights that let natural light in. It felt like an outdoor courtyard, but indoors.
Miyuki looked up towards the second floor to see various patrons walking around chatting with one another. He continued to marvel at the design of the atrium until he caught a glance of a certain blonde.
'Perfect...it looks like Kai's cleaning rooms...I guess he won't be serving me tea.' Miyuki was relieved as he couldn't take anymore of the animosity that Kai directed at him.
Miyuki wandered into the centre of the atrium and took a glance around for a seat. To his luck, instead of finding a seat, he found a certain someone.
'Eijuuuuun~' he thought as his eyes landed on his prize. 'Let's get a seat somewhere more private...' Miyuki looked around to find an empty seat under a tree at the corner.
Miyuki continued to watch the pitcher run around serving various people. It was Sawamura and another person serving, so the pitcher was endlessly running around, but doing so very gracefully. It was as if he had years of experience.
"Miyuki! Good afternoon." an oddly polite Sawamura greeted, all signs of insecurity that Miyuki had seen the last couple days had seem to vanished from the pitcher, now waiter's composure.
"Hi Eijun." Miyuki subconsciously muttered, which caused Sawamura to slightly blush.
'Why am I blushing? It's perfectly fine for Miyuki to call me Eijun...we're good friends...' the pitcher tried to reason.
"What can I get you?" Sawamura quickly asked.
"Oh, I'll get a coffee and cake."
"Sure, anything else?"
"Nope, by the way, you look good in cosplay..." Miyuki threw the complement in.
"W-w-whaaat?" Sawamura stammered in shock. His face was completely red now.
"Your waiter costume, you look good." Miyuki smirked at the pitcher, smiling at his success in getting the pitcher to lose his composure.
"It's not cosplay! It's my uniform..." Sawamura could feel the blood rush up to his head before he quickly ran off.
Shortly after, Miyuki got his coffee and cake but from the other waitress. 'Great...is he angry at me?' Miyuki mused as he slowly ate his cake while continuously watching the pitcher at his antics. 'He's not bad at this...too bad he can't extrapolate it to baseball...' the catcher joked. Suddenly, Sawamura sneezed, which caused Miyuki to chuckle even more.
"WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS?"
Suddenly, two people came into the atrium and sat in the middle of the room talking loudly and interrupting everyone around them.
"YEAH, HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT!"
Sawamura cautiously walked up to them to get their orders and to ask them to not talk so loudly as he was getting complaints from various guests.
"Good afternoon sirs. Can I take your order?"
"SURE, GIVE US BOTH A COFFEE." a blonde teen said while the other laughed.
"Will do. By the way, sorry for requesting, but is it possible if you guys can speak a bit softer?"
"WHAT? YOU WANT US TO SHUT UP?" the other red headed teen angrily said.
"No! Not at all, I didn't mean that..." Sawamura was caught off guard as he tried to correct the misunderstandings.
"HOW ABOUT YOU GO AND GET US OUR COFFEE?" the first teen angrily replied.
"Yes sir..." Sawamura's backbone had been instantly melted. He didn't know how to deal with the customers. He quickly ran off to grab the two coffee.
Miyuki immediately gave a frown towards the two older teens yelling at Sawamura. 'What's their problem... '
"Haha, did you see how scared he got? He seems fun to play with." the blonde stated.
"Yeah, plus...he looks cute in that uniform too..." the red head replied.
"What? Both of you are guys!" the blonde said in surprise, although he didn't too shocked at that statement.
"So? He still has a hole back there..." the other just shrugged his friend's question off.
"Whatever floats your boat I guess..."
"What say we have some fun with him?" the red head said as a devious smirk grew on his face.
The other acknowledged with a smirk as they both knew what to do.
Sawamura came back within a couple minutes with two coffees on his tray. As he walked over to the table, the blonde stuck his foot out causing Sawamura to immediately trip.
"Waaahh!" Sawamura shouted, but quickly caught his balance as he stepped one foot out while moving his hand to carry the tray and coffee's momentum such that the it didn't spill.
"I'm so sorry!" the teen who stuck his leg out quickly apologised.
"Oh no worries, I should be sorry for not watching my way." Sawamura thought nothing of it as he apologised. He carefully placed the coffee in front of his guests before looking at both of them.
"Would you guys like anything else?"
"Oh we're good for now, by the way, sorry about shouting earlier, we'll pipe down." the red head apologised in what seemed like a sincere way.
"Oh no worries! Thanks a lot for understanding." Sawamura let out a sigh of relief as the guilt of being misunderstood just now was wiped away. 'They're not bad people...' the pitcher thought.
Sawamura then started to back away from the two guests to return to his duties.
"Waaaah...ouuuch..." Sawamura shouted as he tripped over something and hit his rib cage against the edge of an empty table. The waiter fell kneeling on the floor, one hand clasping his rib cage in attempt to subdue the pain.
"Are you ok?" one of the teens got up and ran over to Sawamura.
"Y-yeah...everything's good...sorry about that..." Sawamura slowly got up and started walking away.
Both Miyuki and Kai were watching Sawamura, one from the corner of the atrium, the other from the open to above second floor.
'What the hell is happening...Eijun wouldn't be that careless tripping like that...' they both thought as Sawamura walked away to the back. The two kept their eyes on the rowdy teens and noticed both of them smirking in enjoyment.
'They better not be screwing around with Eijun...' both Kai and Miyuki thought.
Sawamura continued serving people a few minutes after the incident. The pain had subsided and nothing was broken, so he went back to his task. Although there was still a lingering pain. Sawamura walked across the atrium to go to the back room, his undivided attention in his own little muse.
*SLAP* the sound echoed throughout the atrium.
"Ahhhh!" Sawamura shouted in surprise as he jumped forward a bit. One of the teens had slapped Sawamura from behind, which was caught by both Miyuki and Kai.
'What the hell is that guy doing...' Miyuki instantly stood up readying himself to go and punch the living daylight out of the perpetrator. But he opted to leave it alone as it seemed Sawamura had it under control. He calmly sat back down, but his fists were clenched and teeth gritted.
'Shit...I should quickly finish this and get down there.' Kai on the other hand was in full big brother mode, but he had to take care of some rooms as many guests would be checking in any moment.
"Ummm, can I help you?" a displeased Sawamura asked politely, looking at the red head, who slapped his behind.
"Yeah can you get us some cake?"
"Sure, anything else?" Sawamura semi-gritted his teeth as he spoke.
"Nope!"
As Sawamura left, he looked down to make sure he wouldn't trip over anything, which didn't go unnoticed by the harassing teens. Once out of hearing range, they started conversing within themselves again.
"Ok...the next time he comes, I'm gonna do it!" the red head noted. He had his eyes on his prize, Sawamura.
"Seriously? What if he files harassment?" the other asked fully knowing what his friend would be doing. He had to play along as well.
"Pfft...he won't have proof..."
After a couple minutes, Sawamura came back with two pieces of cake on a tray. He took a look at the ground in front of the table to make sure nothing was there and proceeded forward.
"Waaaahh!" again, Sawamura tripped over someone's foot that suddenly appeared. As the pitcher fell, he quickly stuck one of his foot out, but was met with someone's leg preventing him from stopping his fall.
'What the hell...' the pitcher was angry, but to his displeasure he landed right on top of one of the troublesome customers. His face hit against the teen's chest and there he laid in confusion for a good few tens of seconds.
Both teens had their foot stuck out, but the one that Sawamura fell on positioned himself such that Sawamura's entire body would press against his. His right hand was also positioned down below so that he would be able to grope the pitcher down south.
Sawamura, after regaining his composure, felt someone's hands squeezing his package down below.
"WAAAAH" the pitcher shouted as he squirmed around from the unpleasant feeling. Sawamura tried to push away, but felt someone's arm wrap against his back preventing his separation.
'What the hell...' Sawamura thought as he struggled to push away. His face was getting red from the embarrassing situation he was in, and not to mention that the squeezing the person was doing was causing an undesirable reaction.
'Shit...what the hell...' Sawamura's heart was beating faster, but it wasn't the same feeling he would get when he's with Miyuki. This feeling was unpleasant, it was the feeling of embarrassment and fear.
Suddenly a hand came and pulled the perverted teen's hand away from Sawamura's crotch, grasping it in a tight hold. Another hand grabbed the pitcher's shirt from the back and pulled him away from the harassing teen.
"What the hell are you doing?" an angry voice echoed.
'Miyuki?" Sawamura heard and saw the catcher standing next to him with a scary angry face, but regardless, he let a sigh of relief knowing that Miyuki was there for him.
"Let go of my hand ass hole...what do you think you're doing?"
"I'm stopping you from harassing my boyfriend." A pissed Miyuki blurted out. He was in no state to think of his choice of words.
Sawamura was kneeling on the floor trying to recover from the ordeal, but his ears perked upon hearing the word boyfriend.
Both the unruly teens jumped at what they heard. "Oh yeah...you better let go before I call the cops!"
"Oh yeah? Go call, I'll file for harassment, I got videos on my phone on what you did just now, plus, everyone here was watching too!" Miyuki glanced at everyone else in the atrium, who nodded their heads in support.
Both teens were at a loss for words. The red head, who was apprehended by Miyuki, tried to shake off Miyuki's grip, but that only caused Miyuki to tighten his grip even more.
"Let me go! Ouuuuch!" the teen shouted as Miyuki squeezed harder from the anger that welled up within him.
Miyuki looked around and saw the fallen cakes on the table.
"You wanted cake right?" Miyuki grabbed the cake off the table and shoved the whole piece into the screaming teen's mouth.
"Enjoy and get the hell away." he let his grip go, which caused the teen to immediately run off mouth full of cake while grabbing his sore arm. Miyuki glared at the other one, who immediately got the message and ran off as well.
Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Miyuki then knelt next to the cowering Sawamura.
"Eijun, you ok?" he asked in a calm caring voice while placing a hand on the pitcher's shoulders.
Sawamura had some tears welled up in his eyes with a couple rolling down. He was staring at the ground as he nodded meekly in response.
"Come on, let's take you to the back." Miyuki softly said as he tried to help Sawamura up, who quickly shook his head in resistance.
"What's wrong?" Miyuki asked curiously and noticed Sawamura staring down into his lap.
'Damn those bastards!' Miyuki mentally yelled as he realised what happened.
Miyuki quickly grabbed the big circular tray and handed it to Sawamura.
"Here, use this...let's go..."
Sawamura took the tray, got up and held it in front of him. The two walked towards the backroom without a word.
Kai gave a smirk from the second floor above, watching the two walk away. 'Hmmm...maybe he isn't that bad of a pervert...'
A/N: Thanks for reading! Next chapter would be out in ~1-2 weeks...I hope xD