Ness and Lucas stood under a cherry blossom tree as petals fell. Lucas was confused as Ness was nervous. Lucas crossed his arms as he looked up at the slightly taller boy. "Ness? How long are you gonna stare at me like that?" Lucas asked. The question shot through Ness like a bullet. He knew why he was there but didn't know if he had the strength to do it. He was going to confess. He'd been planning for this moment for almost a year. Getting help from Claus, Red, Tracy, everyone. Despite all the planning, he was still nervous. Ness started rubbing his neck. "Listen, I have a club to go to, so can you hurry up?"

"Lucas, I-" Ness started. Lucas raised an eyebrow, waiting for Ness to finally spit whatever he had out. Ness sighed. He knew he couldn't do it. He knew he couldn't say those faithful words. He had to show Lucas how he felt. That was when Ness collided his lips into Lucas's. Lucas just froze, wide-eyed. Ness backed his head up and rubbed his arm.

"...What…."

Did he just…? Why the fuck would he do that? Why…..? Damn you.

Lucas shook his head and looked into Ness's eyes.

"The fuck was that?"

"I-it was a kiss."

"I know that." Lucas's body started emitting anger. "Why the fuck would you kiss me?"

"...Cause I like you," Ness said. He started feeling his plan backfire. He started feeling that everything he had planned was starting to dwindle.

"Ok. BUT WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU KISS ME?!" Ness felt short, he felt like he was being squished. Everything he wanted was disappearing.

"I-" Ness looked down and sighed. "I couldn't say it." Lucas shot around.

"Listen, Ness….I appreciate the gesture but…." Ness's heart broke. He wanted to cry, he wanted to run home, he couldn't stand tall any longer.

No…..please…...I should've never told him. FUCK!

"I don't like you like that." Ness felt a tear well up in his eye. Lucas sighed as he started walking away. "See you tomorrow." Ness slammed his fist into the tree. His eyes started to fully cry.

Dammit, dammit, dammit! Why….why? I thought Claus said he thought about me a lot? I thought…..I thought he liked me too. At least we'll be able to still play Baseball together….but…..will we be able to play well?"

Ness fell into his bed and groaned loudly. Tracy overheard this and rampaged into his room, fuming. "NESS, FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME, STOP USING THAT DILDO WHILE-" Tracy stopped as she saw Ness collapsed in his bed. "Oh….I'm assuming this has nothing to do with that dildo then?" Ness picked his head up and slightly looked over at Tracy.

"Lucas rejected me." Tracy's eyes widened.

"What….Ness, I'm….I'm sorry." Ness sat up and wiped his eyes. He sat at the side of the bed and allowed his feet to hit the ground.

"I-it's ok…."

"We did everything he liked though. We….brought him to that tree, did you give him the gift?"

"Uhhh…." Ness looked on his nightstand where a growing Sunflower in a pot stood. Tracy face-palmed.

"What the hell? You were supposed to give him that."

"Not like it was gonna help."

"You don't know that." Ness shot up and glared at Tracy. The glare even spooked her a bit.

"Yes, I do…." Tracy started seeing tears fall down his eyes. The tears were staining his cheeks. "He doesn't feel the same way about me. A damned flour wouldn't help suddenly making him feel things." Tracy looked down.

"I'm….sorry. He seemed to—"

"No." Ness sat back down on the bed and covered his eyes with the palms of his hands. "It's my fault….I should've never fallen for him." Right after he said that his phone rang. Ness grabbed it and answered without looking at the name. "...yes….?"

"Yo, Ness, what's up?" Lucas's voice came from the line. Ness's eyes brightened as he shot back up.

"Lucas?!"

"Uhhh, yea?"

"W-why're you calling?" Tracy grew excited. She looked at Ness, who-with his eyes-motioned for her to leave. Tracy pouted and groaned. She grumbled as she walked out.

"I was wondering if I could come over to play some Smash?"

"C-come over?"

"Um, yea. Is there a problem? Can I not come over?"

"Wh-... N-no, there isn't a problem. It's just….won't it be a bit awkward?"

"How come?" Ness's eyebrows raised.

Either he is suffering some type of amnesia….or he gets over things quickly.

"Ummm."

"Can I come or not?"

"You're already on your way, huh?"

"You know me too well." Ness started giggling. Whether Lucas forgot about the confession or not, Ness was happy to hear that Lucas still wanted to hang out.

"The doors are always open for you, you know that." Ness heard Lucas's giggles over the phone, which warmed his heart.

Damn it. Stop it, Ness. He doesn't like you like that, so stop!

"Wait…..don't you have practice?"

"...If you continue asking questions, I won't be coming."

"S-s-sorry." More of Lucas's giggles came from the phone which, once more, warmed Ness's heart and soul. Just from the giggles alone, he felt he would have melted.

"I love it when you apologize; it's cute, see ya," Lucas said before hanging the phone up.

"It's…..what?" Ness lowered the phone and looked at the contact info he had for Lucas, including the name of the contact; My Own Sunflower. He couldn't help but smile. That was when he got a text from Lucas and it appeared at the top of his screen.

My Own Sunflower: Try not to kiss me this time, Kay? ?

Ness glared at the message. His heart felt like it stopped beating.

He does remember? Then….then why is he so quick to see me again? It happened less than an hour ago and yet….and he said he was going to practice.

Ness smiled as he laid back. He clenched the phone as his hand went over his heart. He closed his eyes and felt a single tear fall from the corner of his eyes. That one tear was soon joined by another, and another, and soon, they were waterfalling out of his eyes.

About half an hour later, the doorbell rang. Tracy was expecting Ness to answer the door, but he didn't. After another ring, Tracy jumped off the couch and opened the door. Her eyes grew as she saw Lucas. She then noticed something odd about him. He was dolled up. Lucas was never one to dress up and try to look good, yet it was obvious he was that way now. His hair was clearly gelled, his clothes were neat and clean, his face even seemed to have some makeup. Lucas crossed his arms. "Man, what is with your family and staring at me?"

"Didn't you reject him?" Tracy asked.

"Yeah," Lucas shrugged.

"Sooooo….."

"We're friends, what do you expect?" Tracy gave another look to how dolled up Lucas was. "In fact, where is Ness. He usually opens the door for me, and he knew I was coming." Tracy looked back up at Lucas and giggled. "What?"

"N-nothing, just come on in." Tracy stepped aside and Lucas stepped in. He closed the door and started walking toward Ness's room. He stepped in and saw Ness on his bed, asleep. Lucas sighed as he walked up to him. He was going to try and wake up, but then he saw red around Ness's eyes. Lucas's heart dropped.

He's been…..crying?

Lucas then saw the sunflower on the nightstand. Lucas shook his head and sat next to Ness's sleeping body. Seeing Ness's peaceful sleeping body made Lucas happy. He smiled and a faint blush started to grow. He moved his hand to Ness's face but hesitated to make contact. When he saw another tear fall out of his eye, he threw away the hesitation. He felt Ness's soft cheeks and his blush grew. He started rubbing Ness's cheek.

Sorry I rejected you.

Lucas then kissed Ness on the lips. Tracy saw this and gasped loudly. Lucas shot off the bed and glared at her with an embarrassed fury. "If you tell him…..I swear….."

"You said you didn't like him the way he liked you."

"I…..I don't." Tracy crossed her arms.

"A guy doesn't normally kiss another guy if they don't feel something."

"I never said I didn't feel anything….I just said I didn't like him the way he liked me." Lucas looked down at Ness and another smile sneaked onto his face. "I…..I don't like him." Tracy gave an exaggerated groan.

"For Christ's sake, do I need to keep bringing up the fact that you kissed him?" Lucas sat back down next to Ness and rubbed his cheek some more.

"Yea, I did. So what?"

"I-what…..I don't…..what the…." Tracy stormed out of the room in very loud confusion. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIM!" Lucas giggled as he started rubbing Ness's lips.

Of course, she wouldn't understand. She's too young. Ness? I'm going to kiss you again, 'Kay?

Lucas, once more, collided his lips into Ness's. This time, it felt way more comfortable. He stopped and rested his head against Ness's chest. His heartbeat was slow, but the rhythm was oddly calming to Lucas. Each thump of Ness's heart made his own thump as well. It didn't take long for their hearts to thump in unison. "I guess Smash can wait," Lucas happily snugged himself closer to Ness.

Ness slowly started to open his eyes. Once he became conscious of his situation, he felt some weight on his chest. He looked down and saw that Lucas was using Ness as a pillow. Ness's blood started rushing to his face and he sat up quickly, accidentally causing Lucas to fall off the bed and hit the ground. "Oh, shit….sorry," Ness said. Lucas stood up with a yawn. He scratched the back of his head and glared at Ness.

"That wasn't a very nice way to wake up."

"L-Lucas, were you sleeping on me?" Lucas gave another yawn and stretched.

"Yea….." Ness opened his mouth to say something, but then Tracy popped her head into the room.

"Hey, mom ordered pizza if y'all want some," Tracy said.

"PIZZA!" Lucas ran out of the room, showing his excitement. Tracy walked over to Ness as he was getting up.

"Ness, there's something you need to know."

"What?" Ness asked.

"Lucas kissed you." Ness stayed silent and looked down at Tracy with widened eyes. Tracy reached into his pocket and grabbed her phone. She then showed Ness a picture of Lucas kissing his sleeping body. Ness's mouth started to fall open.

"He…..He kissed me?" Ness raised his hand up to his lips and felt them. That was when Lucas looked into the room.

"Nessy? The pizza is gonna get cold!" Lucas called out.

"Oh, r-right," Ness called back. He ran toward Lucas as he exited the room. Tracy looked down at the picture she took and smirked.

Nessy? Lucas not liking Ness in that way? That's the biggest load of bull wanky I've ever heard.

Tracy left the room and walked into the living room. From this room, she was able to see Ness and Lucas sitting at the table laughing and eating pizza. Tracy crossed her arms and giggled. She shot back around to enter her room and leave the two boys alone.

Lucas crammed a large piece of pizza into his mouth. "You really need to learn moderation."

"Moderation?" Lucas asked, accidentally spitting some cheese onto Ness's cheek. Ness rubbed it off and clicked his teeth.

"And how not to talk with your mouth full." Lucas swallowed the pizza slice and grinned. Ness couldn't help but find the grin cute. There was some cheese on Lucas's cheek. Ness placed his hand on Lucas's cheek, making his grin disappear.

"N-Ness?"

"Shhh….you've got something on your cheek." Lucas started blushing as Ness rubbed the cheese off. That was when Lucas shot up and tried to put on an angry face.

"D-DON'T TOUCH ME!" he yelled. Ness crossed his arms. Ness could see the blush on Lucas's cheeks and the smile he was trying his hardest to hide.

"Oh really…." Ness said, raising an eyebrow. He then stood up and towered over Lucas by a few inches. Lucas gulped and tried to step back, but forgot the chair was in his way. "Cause to me, you seemed to like me touching you." Ness placed his hand on Lucas's cheek and started rubbing once more. He grew a large grin as he looked into Lucas's eyes.

"I-I said stop…." Ness giggled.

"Fine then." He gave a few light slaps to Lucas's cheek. Ness grabbed his slice of pizza and shoved the rest into his mouth, which wasn't too much. He turned away and started walking toward his room. Lucas looked down at his hand and balled them up.

That stupid…..stupid…..stupid…..ugh, I AM NOT GOING TO BE SUBMISSIVE!

Lucas glared at Ness's beck walking away. He started walking toward him. "Hey, asshole!" Ness turned around with a raised eyebrow. Before he could say anything, Lucas collided his lips into Ness's. The kiss didn't last long but when it ended Lucas looked up with an evil grimace. "Don't you ever kiss me, or touch me, got it?" Ness chuckled.

"You're very confusing, you know that? One minute, you don't want a kiss, the next you kiss me. Which is it?"

"You didn't listen to me." Lucas crossed his arms. "You can't kiss me, you can't touch me. But I can do whatever the hell I want. If we can agree to those terms…."

"We can be together?" Ness finished. Lucas growled to himself.

"WHAT THE HELL, I WANTED TO SAY THAT!" Ness giggled. He held up his hands and backed up.

"Fine, fine, whatever you say. I'll just go to bed and leave you to be….whatever you want." Ness turned away which was able to hide his wide smile.

Lucas…..so does he like me? He…...ARGH WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!? But….he is cute when he tries to be dominant and aggressive.

"Uh, N-Nessy?" Before Ness could turn into the small hall that held his bedroom, he turned his head.

"Yes?" Lucas ran up to Ness's side, his blush seemingly about to make his head explode.

"I'm holding your hand." Before Ness could say yes or no, Lucas collided his hand into Ness's.

"Do I not get a choice?"

"Fuck you, now take me to bed." Ness tightened his grip on Lucas's hand before walking him to his room. Ness crawled into bed first with Lucas next to the bed. He crossed his arms.

"What now?" Lucas huffed.

"I wanna hear your heartbeat." Ness blinked a few times from disbelief.

"Umm….way to make yourself sound creepy." Lucas crawled onto the bed and placed his head on Ness's chest.

"I can't hear it well, asshole!"

"Well, what do you want me to do about it?"

"I want your shirt off," Lucas said, adjusting his head to face Ness's head rather than his feet.

"Y-y-you want m-my shirt off?"

"I didn't ask, OFF NOW!"

"Lucas? Do you know the difference between being dominant? And benign rapey?" Lucas's eyes shrunk.

"There's a difference?" Ness rolled his eyes.

"At least pick your head up so I can take it off." Lucas giggled as he picked his blushed head up. He was proud that he got to order Ness to do something. Ness took his shirt off, making Lucas blush more. Ness tossed the shirt away and laid back down. "There, happy now?" Lucas held back his excitement as he laid his head down onto Ness's chest. "It's not fair that I have my shirt off when you don't."

"Sh-shut up." Lucas closed his eyes and kept Ness's heartbeat playing through his head. Each beat of his heart Made Lucas's mind go crazy. That was when Ness placed a hand in Lucas's hair. Lucas shot his head around to look at Ness, yet he still kept his head on his chest. Lucas opened his mouth to yell at him for touching him, but for one reason or another, he couldn't get it out of his mouth. He saw Ness's smile which only made his heart skip more beats than it already was. "I-I hate y-you." Ness's smile only grew. Lucas sighed. He picked his head up and pecked Ness's cheeks. "W-we never got to p-play Smash."

"There's still some time left in the day."

"Sh-shut up idiot." Lucas placed his head back on Ness's chest and closed his eyes. "I'm tired, so we're both gonna sleep."

"That's not fair."

"Fuck you, sleep, NOW!" Ness rolled his eyes and slightly adjusted himself in the bed.

"Fine." Lucas grew a wide smile.

YES! Ok, I got to order him around again. But so….why doesn't it feel as good as I thought it would? His hand in my hair…..why does that feel good? I'm totally gonna be dominant….I…..damn it, no way I'm submissive.

The next day came around and the two boys went to school like normal. During the first few minutes they were there Lucas was just bossing Ness around. Ness was going along with it though. He knew how much it meant to Lucas to be the boss.

He was leaning against the locker next to Lucas's. "Yo?"

"I didn't say you could talk, Nessy."

"Don't call me that in public," Ness said, slightly embarrassed by the nickname Lucas gave him. Lucas closed the locker and looked over at Ness with an evil grin.

"Oh, and who are you to be ordering me around?" Ness kicked himself from the locker and opened his mouth to say something, but was stopped because their friend, Paula, called out to him. Ness turned around and saw Paula running toward him.

"Hey, Ness, could we chat for a bit?" Paula asked. Ness looked back at Lucas for permission, who hesitated to grant him it. Paula chuckled as she interlocked her arm with Ness and ran off with him. Seeing the way Paula attached herself to Ness made Lucas angry. He balled up his fists and followed the direction they went in.

Ness and Paula made it to the lunchroom. Ness ripped his arm from Paula and crossed his arms. "Hey, don't just do that without telling me. Lucas is gonna get mad." Paula smiled. In the corner of her eye, she saw Lucas make it to the door to the lunchroom, clearly planning on eavesdropping. This was exactly what she wanted. She looked up at Ness's eyes.

"So, Nessy…." Paula started. Lucas growled to himself when he heard this.

Only I get to call him that! NO ONE ELSE!

Ness sighed. "What do you want?"

"I wanna go on a date with you," Paula said, oddly raising her voice slightly. Lucas clenched his fist and growled like a rabid dog.

A DATE!? That bitch is trying to steal my Nessy away from me? He belongs to me, so back off!

Lucas ran out from his place and into the lunchroom. He saw Ness about to answer and grabbed his hand. "I'm so sorry, but he's taken already, so back off," Lucas ordered. He looked up at Ness's surprised yet confused face. Lucas, while still holding Ness's hand, started walking away. Ness could tell how mad Lucas was, so he decided to just go along with it so as to not make Lucas angrier.

Lucas led them to the outside of the back of the school. He finally stopped and let go of Ness's hand, but instead, he just gave an evil glare up into Ness's eyes. "Wh-what's your problem?" Ness asked, slightly frightened but the seriousness in Lucas's eyes.

"She was trying to steal you away from me."

"I wasn't going to say yes."

"And if I didn't come to your house yesterday? Would the answer be the same?" Ness looked down.

"In my defense, you did blow off my confession so…..What would you expect?" Lucas looked down.

"I don't want to see you with anyone else like that. It really makes me mad."

"That's not very dominant of you." Ness grabbed Lucas's chin and made him look up. "Rather, it makes you seem like one of those clingy, bossy, and easy to piss submissives." Lucas's face started blushing and his eyes started to glimmer.

"I-I….I'm not s-submissive."

"Oh yeah?" Ness moved his head to Lucas's ear. "Let's put that to the test, shall we?"

"Wh-what do you—" Lucas stopped talking because Ness gripped Lucas's wrists tightly. Ness then backed Lucas into the wall and pinned him against it. Ness was still holding his hands against the wall. He grinned as he saw Lucas's blush growing. "Y-y-you bastard." Ness closed the space between their faces.

"See, your cute little face is blushing mad right now. I think you like this."

"I-I don't."

"Then say it into my eyes without stuttering." Lucas looked into Ness's violet eyes and gulped.

"I…..I don't l-like it."

"You stuttered again."

"F-fuck you." Ness chuckled.

"You can be submissive and bossy at the same time."

"I can?"

"Mhm, go ahead and give it a shot," Ness winked. Lucas smirked.

"Umm, then kiss me."

"What if I don't want to?" Ness raised a smug eyebrow.

"Bastard. Kiss. Me."

"Fine, don't get you—" Ness was cut off by Lucas kissing him. Unlike all other kisses they've had, both of them were able to kiss. Despite kissing Lucas, Ness was still able to keep Lucas pinned up. The kiss ended and Lucas stood against the wall with a smile and a large blush.

"You talk too much, damn it."

"So, who are you in this relationship?"

"Your….bossy little kitty." Ness giggled.

"I like that."

"Well, fuck you, I didn't ask if you liked it." Ness kissed Lucas's forehead.

"Love ya." Lucas rolled his eyes and snugged his head under Ness's chin and closed his eyes from the comfort.

"Yea, yea yea. In our next lifetime, you better make sure I'm the one who confesses, you bastard."

"Aww, come on, say it at least once. Or I won't allow you to boss me around anymore," Ness said as he let go of Lucas's hands and started patting his back. Lucas sighed then wrapped his arms around Ness's body.

"...Love ya too….." Ness couldn't help but giggle as he heard Lucas say that. Lucas's patting turned into a simple hug. Both of them finally being able to become one, even if for just a little bit.