[ For the past ten years, Takigawa Koushuu has been dealing with an infestation. There's no other way for him to describe it, and he's pretty sure that the other kids that they've grown up with would completely agree with this descriptor. It was easier when they were younger, when said infestation was just an obnoxious, constant ray of sunshine trying to befriend him. One dad would encourage him in his efforts to get him to go away, while the other one sighed and made him apologize, sure, but still. He tried very, very hard to make him go away, regardless of which father he listened to on any given day when it came to the method.
And then Kuramochi Eijun managed to weasel his way into his sleeping bag at naptime and it was all downhill from there.
And right into the ditch when he started to think Eijun was attractive. It would be less irritating if he wasn't so fucking stupid still, but, no, it doesn't work like that. And no threats of biting or kicking him work anymore, as he manages to barge into his life daily now, especially with them both attending Seidou, but -
It's nice, sometimes. Even if he acts like it isn't.
Case in point: tonight.
Koushuu perks when he feels his hand being taken, like an animal suddenly aware of something, and slowly looks down at where Eijun has essentially latched onto him. Just as slowly, if not, perhaps, more slowly, he lifts his flat gaze up to look at him. If unimpressed could be bottled up, he'd have the monopoly on it. ]
What. [ His voice goes just as flat as his stare. ] Are you doing.
[ ""childhood friends"" maybe feels sort of like a stretch when it comes to koushuu. eijun's known him since he was maybe four years old (his kohai!) and sure, they've always spent time together, but koushuu seems weirdly resistant to the concept of the word 'friend'.
not that that ever stopped eijun. he's a bulldozer when he wants to be, and so he's continued on his lifelong mission of befriending (bothering the hell out of) takigawa koushuu. anyone who was related to chris, the coolest catcher ever, had to be a great guy!
and so, childish games had turned into playing baseball together, two separate middle schools but a new high school, the family legacy, and few things changed. koushuu still looked unimpressed with eijun most of the time, eijun didn't care. eijun still dragged him into stuff, koushuu went or outright stopped it, depending on his mood.
eijun still occasionally scoots over to get into his sleeping bag.
it's fine.
at the moment, he's sitting on koushuu's floor, staring up at the tv in front of them. he'd picked a horror movie because he's not scared of anything and never has been, and his dad told him a long time ago that he could hold someone's hand to, you know, help them if they were scared. which is where eijun is right now, definitely not scared, and definitely holding koushuu's hand. he blinks, when he's addressed, then says, in his most determined and definitely not scared of the movie voice ] Helping! I'm gonna keep you from being scared, obviously!
[ about two seconds later, there's a jumpscare in the movie, and eijun jumps. ]
[ Life would probably be easier if he didn't have a crush on Eijun, honestly. Which his best friend is more than happy to remind him of, frequently, when he starts growling under his breath about something that the pitcher's done. ""Childhood friends"" probably isn't something he'd ever admit to, sure, but he'd yell that from the highest building on campus before he ever conceded to having a crush. Koushuu does not do crushes.
(He has done crushes since he was like. Ten. It's awful.)
His eyes drop again, without his head moving, to look at where Eijun is holding onto him. Helping. The horror movie hadn't been his first choice, but he's never actually been scared during one that he can remember. Having the combination of dads that he does, it shouldn't come as any surprise that something like that doesn't really faze him. His temper is pretty terrifying, though, so there's the con to that pro.
And then Eijun jumps, and that's what makes him jump, and he stares at the TV with wide eyes before he sighs, heavily. ] I'm pretty sure you're the one that's scared, Eijun.
[ sure enough, as the jutmp scare happens, eijun's hand immediately tightens where it's holding onto koushuu's, squeezing tight. onii-san always let him hold his hand when eijun was little, because he needed rescuing! and this is no different. he's just...rescuing. that's all. after all, it's pretty dark in here.
blustering up immediately, eijun hunches his shoulders, his cheeks flushing under his freckles as he does what he does best: yells. ] I'm not afraid of anything!! It's just a movie! [ because he can still be loud even when he's embarrassed, a feat that truly sawamura eijun has mastered. ]
Besides, onii-san said we've gotta watch it so we can talk about it at Christmas. [ what kind of weird family ] Harucchi already watched it with Satoru, too!
[ Eijun has one hell of a grip, which shouldn't be surprising, since he's a pitcher. But he lets him hold on, anyways, because it doesn't really hurt, it's actually kind of ridiculous more than anything. He does lean away from him a little, though. There's no concept of volume control when Eijun is riled up. ]
Your family is so weird. [ At least his dad is kind of cool, in the same way that his dad is, with that rough around the edges but sappy and soft on the inside thing going for them. But man, the Kominatos are weird, and that's spread to the rest of them. ]
Satoru probably slept through it, anyways. [ Because Koushuu's not afraid to throw shade where shade is deserved, and Miyuki Satoru will do anything to make his girlfriend happy but, also, sleeps through anything and literally anywhere. ]
[ not that eijun realizes it, but it's probably a small miracle that koushuu is actually letting him hold his hand. he doesn't let go, either, not with the movie getting scarier by the second. he doesn't listen to any of his insults with a-- ] Shhh!!
[ mostly because he's actually kind of engaged in this scary movie, the strange child. plus, onii-san usually makes sure it's dead quiet when they're watching a horror movie, and eijun is always good for onii-san. still, as the woman in the film slowly, quietly sneaks through the room containing the killer, eijun's grip tightens and he ends up tipping over a little bit, grabbing onto his arm with the other hand.
he curls up, instinctively, too, watching with his eyes wide open and totally engaged, totally ready to be scared.
[ Making a softly annoyed sound at being shushed - really? - Koushuu stares at Eijun with that usual combination of mild annoyance and disbelief that only Eijun can inspire. He crinkles his nose, and then finally looks at the TV again when his dumb senpai curls up into him.
It definitely looks like they're cuddling, and he's going to not think about it. He's just going to sit there and watch the movie and let him hold his hand.
After a little bit of watching the movie, he takes a wild guess at where it's going and wiggles his hand where Eijun has practically cemented himself against him. Instead of taking it away, though, he hesitates, then laces their fingers together.
The entire time, Koushuu remains resolutely staring at the TV, watching the killer creep after their victim. ]
[ eijun's plenty distracted by the film. it's heart-pounding at this point, and eijun can't help but get sucked into it. he's always been like this, easily eaten up by any sort of thing, fascinated by the attention.
slowly, he tenses up more and more as the movie keeps going and going, and right as the killer leaps out, eijun shrieks and practically upends himself right into koushuu's lap, so startled by it that his hand might actually be the only thing tethering him to this planet for a brief second.
after a brief second, he loosens his grip. ] She's dead, she's dead, they totally killed her! They killed the main girl!!
[ The way that Eijun gets sucked into things - baseball, shoujo, his weird war novels, movies - allows Koushuu to observe him more closely without him realizing it. It's... probably a bad idea for him to do that, really, considering he gets distracted trying to count freckles or wondering why his eyes glint gold in some lights.
Stupid. This is so stupid, he wishes he could stop.
But right now, he's at least managed to focus on the movie, too, especially since he has to know when to brace himself for -
Well, that. Shrieking and jumping. He lets out an alarmed oomph as he gets him practically on top of him, trying not to fall over, his other hand shooting up to grab Eijun's shoulder. ]
... [ Movie. ] Maybe she wasn't actually the main girl and someone'll have to get revenge for her?
[ dw koushuu, eijun has no idea about your internal gay crisis. he wouldn't even dream of it. sure, he knows it's a real and true thing that they're friends, even though koushuu denies it at least half the time, but anything further than that? not a chance. besides, it's not like he's ever thinking about dating. there have been people who liked him for years (koushuu, wakana) and eijun never noticed either of them.
at least not in that way. their positioning at the moment might suggest otherwise: eijun's almost barnacled onto koushuu's side, having thrown his other arm around his shoulders when he leapt forward. he uses that to give him a shake, reactive as ever. ] No way!!
[ well, maybe. the screen cuts to a pool of blood, then darkness again and the sound of breathing. maybe she's alive! ]
[ Frankly the only person that knows about his internal gay crisis is his best friend, and Takuma is frankly the worst about it. At every chance he's trying to do something for Koushuu, and he doesn't appreciate it in the least. Besides, they have more important things to focus on. Like baseball. And making sure Eijun doesn't flunk - that's usually Kanemaru and Harucchi's jobs, but sometimes it becomes his when Eijun whines loud enough.
Even if he tells him off for a lot of things. Such as...
Without missing a beat, Koushuu bares his teeth a little and pretty much growls at him when he's shaken, because no matter how much he likes a person he's not about to approve of being rattled around. Even if he lets Eijun continue holding onto him. Whatever. ]
I'm never watching horror movies with you ever again. [ A lie. He would watch just about any movie with Eijun, even if he pretends he wouldn't. ] She's still breathing, anyways.
[ eijun backs off when koushuu growls at him, mostly because it's scary even years later, finally loosening the grip of his arm around his shoulders and the grip on his hand. he drops them back into his lap, even letting go of his hand fully. finally. ]
Nu-uh. [ whether that's to the horror movie comment or that not breathing comment, who knows? either way. the movie's past its climax, now...mostly. the serial killer is alone, about to go pick up the body of the girl to move it--when she moves!
eijun yelps, and grabs onto koushuu's arm again. ] Aaah!!
[ Truth be told, Koushuu's not stupid. Eijun has only ever been scared of one thing their entire lives they've known each other. Horror movies are a different thing, that's not based in reality. But any time he growls, Eijun backs off for a second, maybe a minute depending on how much vitriol is injected into the guttural noise, and it gives Koushuu a moment to recover from whatever suffering he's dealt with.
He tries not to think about the fact that Eijun is pretty much one second away from sitting in his lap completely. He just sits there, waiting, watching the movie.
Eijun does not disappoint, even if he startles him again, and immediately attaches to him again as the girl apparently fights back against her supposed killer. ] Told you.
Lucky guess! [ eijun huffs, though he keeps his voice low, like he's trying to keep from scaring the girl on the screen as she jumps at her attacker, surprising him. it's scary! and eijun's worried!! this poor lady!
his hand tightens on koushuu's arm, and eijun ducks a little bit, dropping his cheek against his upper bicep, almost like he's hiding from what's about to happen. ] What if she dies?! What's going to happen to her little brother?! He'll be all alone!!!
[ Koushuu rolls his eyes a little at the way he keeps his voice down, but doesn't call him on it or anything else. It's fair, though, given the fact that she was brutally attacked and is now fighting back against her killer. Of course Eijun is going to worry about her, because he's the most strangely empathetic human being that Koushuu's ever met.
So he just tolerates being clung to (as if it's that much of a hardship, when his heart does a weird little jump in his chest in response to him hiding against his arm). Shifting a little, he offers him his hand, palm up, against the top of Eijun's thigh. ] She won't die. She has to live for him.
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apparently that's now
And then Kuramochi Eijun managed to weasel his way into his sleeping bag at naptime and it was all downhill from there.
And right into the ditch when he started to think Eijun was attractive. It would be less irritating if he wasn't so fucking stupid still, but, no, it doesn't work like that. And no threats of biting or kicking him work anymore, as he manages to barge into his life daily now, especially with them both attending Seidou, but -
It's nice, sometimes. Even if he acts like it isn't.
Case in point: tonight.
Koushuu perks when he feels his hand being taken, like an animal suddenly aware of something, and slowly looks down at where Eijun has essentially latched onto him. Just as slowly, if not, perhaps, more slowly, he lifts his flat gaze up to look at him. If unimpressed could be bottled up, he'd have the monopoly on it. ]
What. [ His voice goes just as flat as his stare. ] Are you doing.
Thirst
not that that ever stopped eijun. he's a bulldozer when he wants to be, and so he's continued on his lifelong mission of befriending (bothering the hell out of) takigawa koushuu. anyone who was related to chris, the coolest catcher ever, had to be a great guy!
and so, childish games had turned into playing baseball together, two separate middle schools but a new high school, the family legacy, and few things changed. koushuu still looked unimpressed with eijun most of the time, eijun didn't care. eijun still dragged him into stuff, koushuu went or outright stopped it, depending on his mood.
eijun still occasionally scoots over to get into his sleeping bag.
it's fine.
at the moment, he's sitting on koushuu's floor, staring up at the tv in front of them. he'd picked a horror movie because he's not scared of anything and never has been, and his dad told him a long time ago that he could hold someone's hand to, you know, help them if they were scared. which is where eijun is right now, definitely not scared, and definitely holding koushuu's hand. he blinks, when he's addressed, then says, in his most determined and definitely not scared of the movie voice ] Helping! I'm gonna keep you from being scared, obviously!
[ about two seconds later, there's a jumpscare in the movie, and eijun jumps. ]
stares at hands
(He has done crushes since he was like. Ten. It's awful.)
His eyes drop again, without his head moving, to look at where Eijun is holding onto him. Helping. The horror movie hadn't been his first choice, but he's never actually been scared during one that he can remember. Having the combination of dads that he does, it shouldn't come as any surprise that something like that doesn't really faze him. His temper is pretty terrifying, though, so there's the con to that pro.
And then Eijun jumps, and that's what makes him jump, and he stares at the TV with wide eyes before he sighs, heavily. ] I'm pretty sure you're the one that's scared, Eijun.
here we go again
blustering up immediately, eijun hunches his shoulders, his cheeks flushing under his freckles as he does what he does best: yells. ] I'm not afraid of anything!! It's just a movie! [ because he can still be loud even when he's embarrassed, a feat that truly sawamura eijun has mastered. ]
Besides, onii-san said we've gotta watch it so we can talk about it at Christmas. [ what kind of weird family ] Harucchi already watched it with Satoru, too!
it's fine
Your family is so weird. [ At least his dad is kind of cool, in the same way that his dad is, with that rough around the edges but sappy and soft on the inside thing going for them. But man, the Kominatos are weird, and that's spread to the rest of them. ]
Satoru probably slept through it, anyways. [ Because Koushuu's not afraid to throw shade where shade is deserved, and Miyuki Satoru will do anything to make his girlfriend happy but, also, sleeps through anything and literally anywhere. ]
koushuu voice
[ mostly because he's actually kind of engaged in this scary movie, the strange child. plus, onii-san usually makes sure it's dead quiet when they're watching a horror movie, and eijun is always good for onii-san. still, as the woman in the film slowly, quietly sneaks through the room containing the killer, eijun's grip tightens and he ends up tipping over a little bit, grabbing onto his arm with the other hand.
he curls up, instinctively, too, watching with his eyes wide open and totally engaged, totally ready to be scared.
(it sure looks like they're cuddling.) ]
[ REVS ]
It definitely looks like they're cuddling, and he's going to not think about it. He's just going to sit there and watch the movie and let him hold his hand.
After a little bit of watching the movie, he takes a wild guess at where it's going and wiggles his hand where Eijun has practically cemented himself against him. Instead of taking it away, though, he hesitates, then laces their fingers together.
The entire time, Koushuu remains resolutely staring at the TV, watching the killer creep after their victim. ]
pets
slowly, he tenses up more and more as the movie keeps going and going, and right as the killer leaps out, eijun shrieks and practically upends himself right into koushuu's lap, so startled by it that his hand might actually be the only thing tethering him to this planet for a brief second.
after a brief second, he loosens his grip. ] She's dead, she's dead, they totally killed her! They killed the main girl!!
revs softly
Stupid. This is so stupid, he wishes he could stop.
But right now, he's at least managed to focus on the movie, too, especially since he has to know when to brace himself for -
Well, that. Shrieking and jumping. He lets out an alarmed oomph as he gets him practically on top of him, trying not to fall over, his other hand shooting up to grab Eijun's shoulder. ]
... [ Movie. ] Maybe she wasn't actually the main girl and someone'll have to get revenge for her?
good boy ;>
at least not in that way. their positioning at the moment might suggest otherwise: eijun's almost barnacled onto koushuu's side, having thrown his other arm around his shoulders when he leapt forward. he uses that to give him a shake, reactive as ever. ] No way!!
[ well, maybe. the screen cuts to a pool of blood, then darkness again and the sound of breathing. maybe she's alive! ]
boofs
Even if he tells him off for a lot of things. Such as...
Without missing a beat, Koushuu bares his teeth a little and pretty much growls at him when he's shaken, because no matter how much he likes a person he's not about to approve of being rattled around. Even if he lets Eijun continue holding onto him. Whatever. ]
I'm never watching horror movies with you ever again. [ A lie. He would watch just about any movie with Eijun, even if he pretends he wouldn't. ] She's still breathing, anyways.
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Nu-uh. [ whether that's to the horror movie comment or that not breathing comment, who knows? either way. the movie's past its climax, now...mostly. the serial killer is alone, about to go pick up the body of the girl to move it--when she moves!
eijun yelps, and grabs onto koushuu's arm again. ] Aaah!!
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He tries not to think about the fact that Eijun is pretty much one second away from sitting in his lap completely. He just sits there, waiting, watching the movie.
Eijun does not disappoint, even if he startles him again, and immediately attaches to him again as the girl apparently fights back against her supposed killer. ] Told you.
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his hand tightens on koushuu's arm, and eijun ducks a little bit, dropping his cheek against his upper bicep, almost like he's hiding from what's about to happen. ] What if she dies?! What's going to happen to her little brother?! He'll be all alone!!!
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So he just tolerates being clung to (as if it's that much of a hardship, when his heart does a weird little jump in his chest in response to him hiding against his arm). Shifting a little, he offers him his hand, palm up, against the top of Eijun's thigh. ] She won't die. She has to live for him.