Posted originally on the Archive_of_Our_Own at https://archiveofourown.org/ works/7426243. Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Underage Category: M/M Fandom: 美男高校地球防衛部LOVE!_|_Binan_Koukou_Chikyuu_Bouei-bu_LOVE! Relationship: Kinugawa_Atsushi_&_Yufuin_En Character: Yufuin_En, Kinugawa_Atsushi, Arima_Ibushi, Kusatsu_Kinshirou, Zaou_Ryuu, Naruko_Io, Hakone_Yumoto, Gero_Akoya Additional Tags: cerulean_week, ceruleanweek, enatsu, epinardweek, epinard_week, NSFW, Sequence, Series, link_stories, headcanons Stats: Published: 2016-07-11 Completed: 2016-10-09 Chapters: 10/10 Words: 35780 ****** Cerulean & Epinard Week Compilation Fics ****** by AngelLuckovich Summary 5 stories that link each other, at some point or level, that were written for the Cerulean Week that took place from June 27th yo July 3rd on Tumblr! Adding the 5 new stories written for Epinard Week and updating the order for all the stories to be together! Notes So, I made a promise to post something on each day for Cerulean Week I accomplish that goal, but I needed to still post them over here, all the fics are on my tumblr angelluckovich and were posted on each respective day (which I still cannot believe) ***** Little Friends ***** Chapter Summary Who would say that they knew each other from before? Chapter Notes Well I always wanted to write something like this because En and Ibushi are my favorite characters in the show and imagine them together it's like the cutest thing ever, especially as kids, so this came out of that need XD  Little Friends   He is bored again, every day is like this. He spends the whole day alone waiting for his parents to come back and then going back to sleep. There’s no one who can play with him, there’s nothing he can play with… well he has some toys, but he is simply boring of those already. At least if his parents would accept buying him a cat, he would have a pet to take care of… although that would be too troublesome. He sighs, it’s too early and he doesn’t know what to do, he doesn’t want to sleep all the afternoon again and then the whole night, but it seems like he doesn’t have any choice. He has already watched all the movies, all the cartoons, everything his parents have bought for him. He is already bored of that and he is bored of this places. He looks through the window, the place looks as boring as it has been since the first day he and his family got there. The place where they are living now it’s nice, he has to admit, but the property is too big and there are no kids around, he wishes he could go back to their small house, he does not like this house at all. Sometimes, he wishes his parents wouldn’t think so much about work, and could think a bit more about taking him to a place where he could play with other kids. He is sure that this lack of activity will have consequences in the future and he hopes that his parents won’t complain in that moment, after all they have some guilt on this. He hears the door being open, it’s weird, it’s not the time for any of his parents to come back, but he stands up and runs to the door. He sees his mom and another lady with her. “En-chan, dear, it’s good to see you!” his mom greets him and he goes towards her and hugs her. “Are you gonna stay, mommy?”  the small kid asks, his mother hugs him and with just that he knows that his mom is here for a few moments. “I’m sorry sweety, I gotta go back to work, you know, we are here for working purposes and your dad is waiting for me, Mrs. Arima needed to meet you.” “Hello young boy, it’s a pleasure to meet you,” said lady greets him, but he hides behind his mom’s legs. “I apologize, he is not used to talk with other people besides me and his father,” his mother explains. It’s just obvious that he cannot speak with other people, he does not know how to do it, maybe if he could have just one friend it would be easier for him to talk. En thinks while grabbing his mother’s dress strongly with his tiny hands. “I see, anyways, I think he’ll be the perfect company for my dear boy, I make sure one of my maids come here to get him tomorrow morning,” the lady says and turns around, “I’ll give you some moments with your boy so we can go back to the office.” “Thank you Mrs. Arima,” his mom replies and goes down to pick him up. “Why can’t you stay? I like it more when we could be together all day,” En mentions and wraps his arms around his mom’s neck. She kisses his tiny arms and his cheek and takes him to the couch. “I know, I used to love those days too, but your daddy and I decided that we need to work for your future,” his mom says and sits him on her lap. “I don’t want a future, I want to be with you and daddy, that’s better,” the kid says and plays with his mom curly hair which is the same color than his, “I don’t want you to leave me all day.” The kid complains and hugs his mom, she smiles, she knows it’s not really fair for him and it’s not the best decision to leave the kid alone almost all day. At least, she feels a bit better now that Mrs. Arima’s child is going to be with En for some days before they leave this place. “Let’s make a deal, in a couple of days we’re going back to Binan City, I’ll make sure that daddy and I can spend a whole week with you, ok?” The child does not reply, he puffs his cheeks and turns around. That breaks a bit his mom’s heart, and he also understands that he’s being stubborn, but he has a reason. He is a child. His mother suddenly starts stroking his hair, he wants to jump and run, he knows that’s something that is gonna make him fall asleep, and it actually happens. He falls asleep and his mom takes him to his room. The next morning, En is sleeping peacefully on his bed, he’s holding his dear Chiku-chan, a cat plushie that his mom made for him when he was just a baby, but suddenly this beautiful moment is interrupted. His mom wakes him up and gets him ready to go out. “I don’t wanna go,” he complains and tries to take off the sweater, since he can’t he chooses to pick up Chiku-chan and hugs the plushie. “En-chan, you’re gonna have a new friend, please honey, behave just for today, if you don’t enjoy today I’ll speak with Mrs. Arima, ok?” The kid has teary red eyes, he looks at his mom and then at his father, he cannot say no to them, he loves them too much. So, even if he does not really want to go, he nods. His mom carries him downstairs, where the maid is already waiting for them. “I’m sorry for the lateness, we needed to talk to him,” his father says to the maid who gently smiles. “There’s no problem, hello little boy, are you ready to go?” the young woman asks and En looks at his mom and then back at the maid to nod. The young lady takes his free little hand, since he takes Chiku-chan with him, and goes with him to the limousine that is waiting for them, and then the boy waves good bye to his parents. After a couple of minutes the vehicle stops and the maid indicates him to get off of the car. He is guided by her through a huge mansion and takes him to a beautiful garden full of flowers of almost all the possible colors that he could imagine. In the middle of that lovely place there’s a crystal table and two fancy chairs, En’s eyes widened, he can’t believe that a place like this can be real, he thought that this was only something that could be real in fairy tales. “Please take a sit, I’ll go for the young master,” she indicates. En nods, he tries to sit, but the chair is actually too big for him, so he decides to wait while looking around to the different types of flowers, he holds Chiku-chan closed to his chest and tries to jump to get a better view to some of the flowers. Then, he listens to some footsteps, so he hurries to get close to the table again. “Yufuin En, he is Arima Ibushi, young master, Yufuin En, he is going to be with you for the next couple of days,” the maid says and introduce both of them. En gets a bit uncomfortable, he knows that yesterday he was complaining for not having friends, but he is not used to meet people, so he does not know how to react. On the other side, Ibushi seems rather happy to have someone to talk and play again, and he kind of recognized what En is feeling. He has gone through that after all and it was all thanks to the kids he met at Binan City that he now had a different way of thinking. “Hi, you can call me Ibushi,” he says and offers his hand to the boy. “Hi… guess you can call me En…” the smaller one replies and grabs Ibushi hand. “Great, do you want to eat some cake? Or do you want to play something? We can play in this garden or in my room? Just tell me what you want to do,” the green haired boy comments.  En gets a bit more excited with the idea of being there.  After all, he is being offered with a lot of different options and the boy, well Ibushi seems to be really nice. “Can we eat cake? And then we can play, what’s your favorite game? I usually don’t play cuz I’m alone at home, so I don’t know…” En feels suddenly ashamed, he does not often speak to other people and admitting that it is kind of hard. “It’s ok, I didn’t know either, until I met two boys at Binan City, they were really kind and taught me how to have a good time,” Ibushi comments and kindly smiles to En. The blue eyes kid gives a shy smile back, at least Ibushi says he understands, so it’s not so bad to be honest with this boy. “Please take a sit,” Ibushi says, but En seems to be uncomfortable at the proposal. “It’s too high… I couldn’t sit a while ago…” the boy admits, but muffling his voice with Chiku-chan. “So, would you want to go and eat cake next to the lake, it’s really closed and we can play there.” En smiles and nods, a lake is always a nice place to play, but also sleep. They walk together, with the maid’s company, towards the lake. Both children sit on the blanket that now is covering the grass, the maid gives them a piece of cake and some juice. For the moment, both kids enjoy the moment, not talking a lot, but at least getting used to each other’s company. When they finish with their food, Ibushi proposes to go and play, but En looks a bit sleepy. “I’m no used to play, why don’t we talk?” En says. “Talk? About?” “Why do you think that the sky is blue? I mean it’s my favorite color, but it’ll be cool to have a green sky once in a while, don’t you think?” En starts the conversation without giving to little Ibushi the chance to give his opinion. “A green sky? That would be weird! The sky has to be blue!” Ibushi says and looks at En as if he could convince the other to drop the conversation. “Why?” En is totally serious about his questions, but Ibushi is totally puzzled on the issue. The green haired kid have never thought on something like this, and he does not know what kind of answer En is waiting for. He seems to think, but no reply comes to his mind. The blue eyed kid seems to understand what’s going on in Ibushi’s mind, and if he has to be honest, he does not want to seem to be rude. “What do you want to play?” “Eh? Do you want to play?” Ibushi asks surprised now, but seems to be a lot more relaxed. En nods, and so Ibushi asks for the ball, they both start playing around and then after the ball falls into the lake they stop. “It’s a nice lake, it would be cool to swim there,” En comments while he looks at the lake. “We can swim tomorrow, you’re coming tomorrow right?” Ibushi asks excited. “I guess, mommy told me I had to come here every day,” the child who is holding Chiku-chan again replies, “If I come again, can you teach me how to take care of the plants, I saw a lot of flowers and mommy loves flowers, so…” “Of course, we can do a lot of things in the next couple of days!”   And it is actually like that, during the next days the kids play together, swim in the lake, take care of the plants, and they even convince one of the maids to teach them how to bake a cake. Laziness and sleepiness is easily forgotten by En who now seems to be more active and does not have so many difficulties to speak with Ibushi anymore. Unfortunately, the time for En to return to Binan City has come and today is their last day together. “This sucks…” En says, he is hugging his dear plushie and does not want to look at Ibushi since his eyes are teary. “I know… but I’m sure we will meet again,” the green haired boy mentions and looks at En with such a confident expression that the blue eyes boy believes him. “Yes!” “Hey, I have an idea!!!” Ibushi grabs En by the wrist and runs with him towards the garden. When they are in the garden, Ibushi looks for a specific pot. Once he finds it, En can see some tiny blue flowers on it. “There are call “forget-me-not” you’re gonna plant this at your place as the reminded that we will see again, deal?” “Deal!” They shake hands and then have a strong hug as a farewell.   ===============================================================================     “I see that you actually planted them,” the teen comments while walking with the dirty blond teen. “It was a promise, right?” En replies and open the door, “By the way thanks for coming and help me with the cake, I forgot the recipe.” “Well, it was a long time ago, and it’s not a problem,” Ibushi replies and goes in to the house, “I’ve never thanked you before, but thank you for not revealing that we know each other.” “I deduce it was the best thing to do once Atsushi made the comment about you.” Ibushi simply nods and takes off his shoes, he takes a look around the house, it is just as he imagined it when En talked about his real home when they were kids. He smiles at the memory, and he’s actually glad to see that En lost all his shyness and kept his awkwardness for conversations topics. “Are we gonna keep the act? You know, better not to reveal to them that we know each other since a long time ago?” “Yes, indeed, I think it’s better like that” Ibushi replies. “Cool, it’s actually funny,” En comments and they smile. Together they go to the kitchen and start baking the cake that En needs for his mother birthday. Maybe a lot of things have changed, and maybe they wouldn’t be so closed as the way they were when they were children, but it is actually a nice thing to know they share that part of their lives.        ***** I'll Catch you ***** Chapter Summary The beginning of their relationship, the first time one of them see and listen to the other, and the first time that same person realize he wouldn't be able to survive without the other, finally saying the words, I love you. Chapter Notes When I started writing this, was the moment when I realized that my brain was going to be a damn bastard wanting to have a whole "series" for their relationship, now I thank my brain cuz I actually liked how it turned out to be. See the end of the chapter for more notes I'll Catch You   “He has always been fascinated by weird things, that’s why he never believed that he could fall for something so simple.” It’s his first day at this new school, he has seen so many people come and go and he is sure that he does not like so much movement. After the first period is over, he stays inside the classroom, he does not really needs to go outside, not even to the restroom, he just needs to take a small nap and recharge his batteries, not like that is gonna make any difference to be honest. However, there are two voices in the classroom, for the first time he is not the only one who stays there during the free time. He takes a quick glance over the two other kids, one with white haired the other one with blue haired. Nice, he thinks as he tries to sleep one more time.  During his second day, he listens again to the same voices, one of them is talking about a series he has watched, he would like to jump into the conversation, but he does not want to look at someone who is nosy. Once again, he only looks at their direction, taking a particular interested on the guy who is wearing glasses. It’s a shame that the reflection does not allow him to catch a glimpse on the eye color, he bets that those eyes must have an interesting color. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* It’s been weeks since the classes have started, and it’s been weeks since he has been listening to those kids talking during the breaks. Their conversations topics are really varied, but he knows he loves more when Kinugawa, that’s the last name, leads the conversation. Although, there’s something that keeps bugging him, what’s his eyes color? It may be incredible that they have been classmates for almost two months and even if they are in all the classes together, he hasn’t been able to really take a good look at him. Well, he hasn’t tried hard to be honest, but he does not want to be taken as a weirdo for all his other classmates. Besides, Kinugawa usually spends all his time with Kusatsu, literally they spend all the time together, so he does not know how to approach him. Yes, he just wants to approach Kinugawa since his instinct tells him that maybe Kusatsu won’t like him. On the other hand, Kinugawa seems to be easier to handle, and as he has believed from the beginning more interesting. However, there’s something else that stops him to try to become Kinugawa’s friend, at this moment of the year he is known as the “lonely wolf,” most of his classmates think that he is just “too serious and anti-social” because he sleeps all day. That’s just the most misunderstanding judgment he has been given in all his life. He sighs, again another day has passed and he hasn’t even talked to this boy. After school is over, he walks downtown for a while, he has been saving money to buy a new game and maybe go and buy some curry at that place he found the other day. Once he comes out from the game store, in which there was no more copies of the games, he goes out completely resigned to accept that things are not going the way he wanted them to be. Trying to shake off the feeling he walks to the restaurant, CoCoKaRa Curry, the only place he has liked in the entire city to eat curry. Nonetheless, he will enjoy it even more if he could come with someone here. He takes a sit in one of the booths and places his backpack in front of him, after all no one will come to eat with him. He is about to leave after he has finished his curry, being honest he needs to be at home before 6p.m. and it’s almost 5:30p.m., he is not sure he can accomplish the quest. Nevertheless, before he goes out of the restaurant he hears that voice, Kinugawa’s voice. “A special coupon for tomorrow? Yes! I want it! I’ll be here tomorrow!” he listens to him saying and by the corner of his eyes he sees Kinugawa leaving the place. “Excuse me sir, what’s that about a special coupon?” En does not realize that somehow he is kind of planning his first outing with Kinugawa, or at least he is hoping for that. “Oh, I’m sorry boy, apparently I forgot to give you one, thanks heaven you asked, let me explain.” Yufuin actually does not pay attention to the whole explanation that this sir is giving him, he is just thinking on how he can approach Kinugawa and tell him that they can come together to have some spicy curry. No… he can’t do that, he will sound as a stalker, still he will keep the coupon and if he gets to figure out how he can do this without looking as a stalker, he will. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* Next day at school, Yufuin has been thinking during all the classes on how to go and talk to Kinugawa. So far, nothing has come to his mind, he has not even napped in all day just to get a single idea, but it seems that his brain does not want to cooperate. He has come to the conclusion that if after lunch time there are no ideas, he will go alone to CoCoKaRa Curry, after all he is used to that, so there’s nothing wrong in going alone one more time, right? The bell rings, the end of school day is here and he hurries to go out of the classroom, he couldn’t think on something, so he better leaves before Atsushi get to the restaurant first. Nonetheless, there’s a feeling that tells him to stop… it’s weird, he has never felt that before, but he decides to stay at the entrance of the school building. Being there, En feels his heart about to come out, why is it that this Kinugawa has caught his attention? Practically, he has only listened to the boy talking, he has never held a conversation with him or look properly at him. He sighs one more time and looks down, it’s really weird. He listens to some footsteps, someone is running, who would have energy to run at this hour? When he looks up, he sees Kinugawa running. Almost immediately he feels the urge to go after him, and he does. Yufuin sees the blue haired teen running really fast, geez, he really is in a hurry, but in an instant, Kinugawa trips. Suddenly, En moves faster than at any other possible time in his life, just in time to grab Kinugawa’s wrist and save him from what it looks like a really bad and awful fall. His heart is beating fast, but he tries to play it cool in front of Kinugawa. The bespectacled boy slowly regains his balance and looks up at him. En cannot believe it, this is the first time that he will look at Kinugawa’s eyes, and he will see his eyes color clearly, that’s been a question that’s been hunting him for a long time. However, before he can take a precise look, Kinugawa speaks to him and he tries to immediately focus. “Tha…thank you,” the boy shyly says. “You are Kinugawa, right? Where are you going?” En tries to take a smooth lead of the conversation and avoiding being too obvious in this situation. “To CoCoKaRa Curry,” Kinugawa replies, a tiny smile showing on his face. “Right, today they have their extra spicy curry,” Yufuin thanks to whatever God has helped him to remember part of that sir’s words that gave him the coupon. “Yufuin, you like curry?” he listens to Kinugawa excited voice asking him. “Pretty well,” he manage to reply on time, what is the color of Kinugawa’s eyes? He is still not sure since the sunlight is distorting the colors at this moment. “Want to go with me? I’ve got a coupon,” the bespectacled boy offers him and shows the coupon he got at CoCoKaRa Curry and smiles at him. “So do I,” En replies and shows his own. It’s so weird for En to know that this is actually happening, they walk together, he can finally speak with one of his classmates, the one he has been feeling more curious about it. For the first time in forever, En does not feel bored while walking down the streets and for the very first time he does not sit alone. Once they order their curry, they go to one of the booths and sit one in front of the other. For a moment, En has forgotten about what he really wanted to look at Kinugawa, but when the bespectacled boy asks him if he comes here frequently he remembers. He wants to look at Kinugawa’s eye color, it must be a really interesting color. He looks up and unconsciously lets out an “Eh?” being disappointed of the color, simply brown. However, Kinugawa giggles, he believes Yufuin must have not listen to his question and looking at him with his mouth half open and about to get a spoon full of curry makes him look funnier. Yufuin tries to go back to normal and remember the question. “Almost every day,” he says putting the spoon down and waiting to see if there’s another reply. “That’s great, we can keep coming together, my friend Kin-chan, does not like curry, so when I want to eat curry I have to come alone,” Kinugawa explains and offers a happy smile to Yufuin. En tries to correspond in the same way, but he is still thinking that brown eyes are too simple for such an interesting person. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*:* Time has passed and many things have changed, the biggest change according to En’s perspective is that Kusatsu and Atsushi are no longer friends. He feels a bit guilty about it, because it happened right after he went with Atsushi to have curry. He has even tried to make Atsushi go and talk to Kusatsu because he knows how hurt Atsushi is about this, but with no result.  The second change that Yufuin has noticed is that he does not stay alone in the classroom and that he always goes back with someone. Now, he is always with Atsushi, and he will be lying if he said that he is not happy for this. They have even participated together in an eating spicy curry contest and they won, that day was when they call by their names for the very first time, and whenever he thinks about that day he smiles. The third change, well that’s a pretty obvious one, they are about to start high school and even if Binan High was not one of his options, seriously no one who is lazy would like to go to that school, he applied to it just because of Atsushi. Even more interesting is the fact that he passed the test, he won’t forget the moment when Atsushi hugged him when they saw the results and both of them had made it into Binan High. Again, Yufuin cannot stop smiling when he remembers Atsushi’s sparkling eyes with joy and excitement for imagining them together in Binan High. Which leads him to remember the fourth biggest change he has noticed, and also final change. This one being the fact that he has been falling hard for brown eyes. He does not see them so common now, at least not in Atsushi’s case, he wants to always look at them to find the different shapes of the color they can give with every emotion that Atsushi manages to express. Yes, he is trapped into that enigma every day. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* He feels as if his world has ended and just curses the moment in which that damn Wombat got into their lives. En looks when Atsushi jumps into that roof to save Kusatsu, he knows he has the right to save and protect one of his best friends, he, himself, did it just a couple of minutes before, but … There’s no reason that can contradict Atsushi’s behavior, he thinks as he just waits to see that Atsushi is safe and sound. En keeps holding his breath until the moment he finally sees the blue haired teen landing hard against the ground with Kusatsu. He lets out a breath he was holding and gets a bit scared for the injury he can distinguish on Atsushi’s back. Well, even if he does not want to, he will have to wait until this is solved to scold Atsushi for his reckless actions, and of course help him with that injury. After some fighting, and as he believes the most ridiculous fight in history of fights, they are finally free of that tedious duty as Battle Lovers. The outcome being the most positive one, Atsushi and Kusatsu are friends again, he is happy for Atsushi and he can see in Atsushi’s eyes that his heart is overflowing with happiness. He thanks to whatever source of divine power that made this possible, because no freaking way in hell that he is going to thank a pink Wombat who made him used that ridiculous suit and made him said those stupid phrases about love and stuff. “How are you feeling?” En asks to Atsushi when they are finally alone during that day. “Better than ever!” the bespectacled boy replies and En can see in the shining light that those two brown orbs emanate that that is true, but in an emotional level. “I mean physically, how’s your back?” even if he enjoys that beautiful show of precious bright colors, he has to be honest and let Atsushi knows what really bothers him in this moment. “Eh?… well…” Atsushi hesitates in his answers and En stops their pace just to have the opportunity to look at Atsushi straight to his eyes. “Honesty.” That simple word tells to Atsushi that En would not accept a lie or any other statement that can make him feel better, En only wants the true. The blue haired teen sighs, well they don’t have secrets and he has learnt that honesty is the key for a great relationship. “It hurts… but not as bad as I thought” “We’re going to my house,” En says and grabs Atsushi’s wrist, of course he does it in a delicately way, he does not want to cause him more pain. Once at his place, En looks for some bandages and pain killers that can help Atsushi. Seriously, he would not forgive himself if he does not take care of Atsushi today, he sighs; he really was scared when he couldn’t see Atsushi for those seconds, which seems to be hours for him, time is weird he thinks to try to get his attention into something else with no result. “En-chan, are you ok?” the sudden voice of Atsushi talking to him startles him a bit, but he tries to act it out as best as he can. “I’m alright, I’m just wondering where my mom put the pills, she’s always moving the stuff and I get lost,” En replies and makes as if he is looking for something. “En-chan, the pills are already on the tray…” the blue haired teen says and points at the pills, “You really don’t have to do this, I can go home, you also must be tired and…” “I want to… please… go back to my room, I’ll be there in a moment,” the blue eyed teen replies, and the other simply nods. He feels bad, he practically yelled at Atsushi those words, but he is feeling too out of control in this moment, what would he have done if Atsushi has… no he can’t think about that. Atsushi is here with him, he can still see those eyes; he can still keep trying to discover each of the emotions and feelings they reflect. En does his best to breathe in and out before going back to his room to calm himself, he hadn’t had realized before but his hands are shaking and he feels as he can burst into tears at any moment, who would have say it? A big guy about to cry for his best friend… because they are only friends, right? He goes through the stairs and get into his room, first thing he sees is Atsushi sitting on the futon and half asleep, he puts the tray on the desk before going right next to Atsushi something catches his attention. There’s a calendar that he keeps there so he does not forget important dates… just to realize that he almost forgot an important date, Atsushi’s birthday… Stupid aliens who get in his way, well it’s not as he has planned something, but he is sure that if he has come back earlier to his home he would have seen it before and would have had the chance to plan something. Damn aliens! He thinks again and goes to sit next to Atsushi taking two of the pills since Atsushi will probably not accept the bandages. “Atsushi…” En whispers trying to wake him up, “Come on, you need to take at least these before sleeping,” En murmurs. Slowly Atsushi starts blinking, his eyes look teary, and his expression shows complete exhaustion, but even if it is like that, En sees them as the most beautiful pearls that he has ever seen in his entire life. He cannot place the exact moment when this has happened, because even if he has always been attracted to the weirdest and shocking facts, colors, and things; he now knows that he has fallen for something as simple as brown eyes. Nevertheless, his mind and thoughts insist, those are not simple brown eyes, those are Atsushi’s eyes. Those eyes are his world now. “En-chan, what is it?” Atsushi asks, but there are no words, instead Atsushi suddenly feels a quick and smooth movement in which En links their lips together. A tender and chaste kiss that last less than thirty seconds. In that precise moment the clock strikes midnight, they pull apart from the kiss, and for a moment the two teens remain silent. Atsushi is astonished. En is embarrassed, but he knows that he had to do it. “Happy birthday, Atsushi, I love you.” Sometimes En wonders if his brain can have some kind of mercy with him or if it is always going to make him act like this. However, he does not regret it, he just wonders that out of curiosity because he has never felt as happy as now, he has finally realized why those brown eyes were so captivating to him. And now he looks at those eyes, more mysterious than ever, he feels scared that the answer Atsushi is going to give him won’t be the one he is hoping for. At least, he has seen those eyes showing him a different emotion. “En-chan…” Atsushi whispers, a blush starts to cover his cheeks, well practically all of his face. “I love you,” En repeats again, he wants to bit his tongue to stop saying silly things, but his heart can do more than his own reason, “I love you, I have fallen so hard for you that now my favorite eye color is brown, can you imagine that?” The dirty blond keeps talking, he has never felt so nervous before, “But your eyes are special Atsushi, they are not just some kind of simple brown, I have seen them so many times and still they are always different, I love them, I love you.” His heart is pounding so hard he can listen to it in his own ears and he knows he is also blushing. “And…” He is about to start saying something more, but now is Atsushi the one who moves, not so quick, because En can see everything happening as if the actions are being reproduce in slow motion. Yufuin can observe as Atsushi reaches for him, his hands cupping his own face and the beautiful brown orbs coming closer than they have ever been for the second time. They are kissing again, they are kissing because Atsushi wants to kiss him, does it mean? The kiss lasts for a bit longer this time, their lips playing and opening a bit so their tongues can taste each other’s lips. Once they get to pull apart one more time, just because they need some air, they can see clearly the blush on each other’s face. “Thank you for the greatest gift ever, I love you too,” Atsushi finally says. As careful as he can, En wraps his arms around Atsushi, who corresponds in the same way. He pampers the blue haired teen with kisses all over his face and whispers as many “thank you’s” as he can. Honestly, En didn’t know this was so important for him until now. “Promise me you will never do anything as dangerous as what you did today, please!” En expresses and for one more time looks Atsushi to his eyes. “I can’t say no, because you know me and if any of my friends, or especially you are in danger, I wouldn’t think it twice to try and save them,” Atsushi replies, shyly smiling and accepting the kisses that En has not stopped giving him. “Then, I guess I’ll have to jump first to save you, and catch you whenever you can be in some kind of danger” he adds and hugs him a bit stronger. “I supposed,” Atsushi giggles, not only for En being so worried, but also for the kisses that are starting to tickle him. En cannot stop thinking about a phrase he read some time ago, he remembers the phrase and repeats it on his mind. “Sometimes you meet with someone, and even though you never liked brown eyes before, their eyes are your new favorite color.” En smiles as he strokes Atsushi’s hair, he cannot believe how accurate and fitting is that phrase to him, but he is happy that he has been able to find such a beauty in that brown paradise.            Chapter End Notes I wish I could have read more the third light novel to get more real the part about the curry and their outings together, but it was writing or reading and I prefered to write. Super special thanks to d4tka who helped me with the dialogue between En and Atsushi from the final episodes from season 1, thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ***** Happy Birthday, my dear! ***** Chapter Summary A special surprise for their first special day as a couple which turns out to be Atsushi's birthday. Chapter Notes Birthday day! It was funny cuz I wrote part of it on my own birthday so I had the birthday mood on XDD Happy_Birthday,_my_dear!   October 5th’s morning; it’s kind of cold, but it’s good to know that it’s a free day, not because of a holiday or weekend, but because the school has to go over repairs. It’s already 7:00a.m when Atsushi wakes up, he does not identify the place where he is right away, but when he feels an arm around his waist he remembers. He has slept over En-chan’s place and when he thinks about the first minutes of this day he blushes. He would have never imagined that his feelings could be corresponded in the same way, but En was actually the first one to speak. Atsushi moves towards En and snuggles a bit on the boy’s chest which cause the other to wake up. Still feeling sleepy En looks down and sees the blue haired mane snuggling and curling over him, his heart skips a beat, so it actually happens, he thinks as he smiles. “Good morning birthday boy! How are you feeling today?” En asks him giving him a sweet kiss on the forehead. “Happier than ever,” Atsushi replies a fond smile on his face and letting some giggles coming out when he feels En’s kisses around his cheeks. “I’m gonna make some breakfast… or actually checked what mom has left, stay here, ok?” “Ok,” the blue haired teen replies and sees as En leaves the room, Atsushi can help but keep that silly smile on his face, he is really happy and this without a doubt is one of the greatest birthdays he has ever had. On the other hand, En has gotten into the kitchen and he mentally thanks to his mom that she actually left something ready. He takes a couple of dishes out and distributes everything in equal amounts, no way he is going to let his Atsushi eat less, not on his birthday. Then, En looks for another tray around the kitchen, he should have brought back the one he took over his room at night, but he forgot it. Once he finds one, he puts there the two dishes with rice, then two others with soup and lastly two cups with tea. For a moment, En takes a pause and blushes… ‘This seems as we are already married’ he thinks to himself and gets even redder with that idea, but that same thought reminds him of something else. “I haven’t asked him to be my boyfriend… I just told him I love him,” En mutters and immediately knows that he has to do something.  He goes upstairs, carefully carrying the tray and opening the door. En sees Atsushi completely wrapped with the blanket, and giggles at the view. “Is it too cold?” En asks. “No… I just got a message from my parents, they want me to go home to celebrate my birthday…” Atsushi says, “I told them that I’d be there before noon… sorry, I couldn’t say no,” the bespectacled boy replies and looks down. “It’s ok,” En replies, but inside he feels that a part of his soul is shattering, “We will celebrate together tomorrow, what do you think?” Atsushi looks like a small child, he is pouting and looking away, definitely he wanted to spend the day with En, but he has never been able to say no to his parents. Noticing that Atsushi is having such a big dilemma, En sits right next to him and takes his hand. “It’s ok, in that way I have time to come up with something special,” En says, his voice comes out in a singing like tune that makes Atsushi turns around with brilliant eyes. “A special surprise?” he mutters looking at En with excitement just like a kid. “Yes, but only if you eat all your breakfast and go with your parents without sulking.” “I am not sulking!” The blue eyed teen smiles and makes Atsushi pouts, which makes him feel happier, he has won; Atsushi is sulking. After breakfast, they get ready, En has promised to Atsushi to go and leave him at home and that they would text each other for their plans on the weekends. Since they have just confessed their feelings, they preferred to say “good bye” as they normally do so Atsushi’s parents won’t freak out. “Text you later,” En says and leaves. Atsushi waves good bye and sighs, he really wishes that this year his parents would have let him stay with En, but of course they don’t know anything yet, even himself didn’t know that this would happen. He gets inside his place, immediately he is greeted by his mother, who hugs him and kisses his cheek. “Happy birthday my dear boy! I can’t believe you have become this handsome boy!” his mother says and presses his cheeks. “Hehehehe… thank you mother,” Atsushi replies, he is really thankful for the nice surprise, since once his mother lets him go he sees some decorations, ballons and some gifts and when they go to the dining room he sees his birthday cake and a lot of food. A lot of food that he does not think he can’t eat, but he knows that En will ask him to. He giggles, and his family looks at him. “I am just happy, thanks for everything,” he politely says. “We are happy as well son, now let’s eat all together, today is a special day,” his father expresses and all the family sits together. “Let’s offer a toast to our little Atsushi who has become a very fine man and let’s hope he can accomplish all his dreams, but mainly, finding true love, as the way our mother and father did,” his sister mentions, she really loves Atsushi and he knows she really means those words. “Thank you very much sister,” Atsushi replies, happy with how things are going, for a moment he considers telling them about his new relationship with En, but he restrains himself, he considers that it will be better if En could be there at the moment when he gets to say it to his family. Their day goes pretty much as a normal family day, and that’s perfectly fine for Atsushi. He smiles and is thankful for that, apparently his parents and sister finally have understood that he likes simple stuff and that going to fancy restaurants or having an unexpected trip to God knows where, it’s not what makes him happy. Finally the day is almost over, not that Atsushi hasn’t liked the day, but he really wants to see if En-chan has texted him already. He goes to his room and changes his clothes first, it’s ridiculous to think that he feels so exhausted after that day, but he does. Maybe it’s not only today, yesterday was a pretty tiring day so it’s normal to feel like that. He searches for his cellphone on his backpack, it’s almost out of battery, quickly he looks for the charger and after he is sure it’s not going to turn off he checks if he has any messages. He can’t avoid the blush that is on his face once he realizes that En has actually written him some messages through all the day. “So this is the plan meet me 2morrow @ the staircase in front of Kurotama Bath @ 10” “Wear comfortable shoes” “Comfortable clothes 2, well u always seem comfortable with ur clothes but just in case” “I invite u don’t take money” “Hope u had a good day” “Night” Apparently, En has planned a lot and that’s why he has gone to sleep earlier than ever Atsushi thinks. Well, it doesn’t matter, tomorrow they are going to be together and enjoy their day, it doesn’t matter if it’s not October 5th, if it is with the person he loves he can celebrate his birthday any day, he thinks as he lies down on his bed. Sleep takes over him and it also happens sooner than he has actually expected. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* The next day he wakes up a little startled, has he woken up on time? He checked his alarm, it’s 8:30a.m. he still has time to get ready, but he feels weird since he slept more than normal. At least, he knows he is fast in getting ready, so he can actually even take some light breakfast before leaving. “What? No school today?” his sister asks him. “No sis, remember, the school needs some repairs, so today we also have a free day, see you later,” Atsushi says, but his sister keeps talking. “Where are you going now? Shouldn’t you stay studying?” “I am going out with En-chan, I’ll study tomorrow,” the teen replies and tries to take his leave. “You know, I have always believed he’s a bad influence for you,” she says and drinks a bit of his coffee, looking completely serious about the issue. “He’s not, I’m leaving, tell to mother and father that I’ll be back before dinner,” he really hopes to be back at that time, but he also wouldn’t mind to get back later. “Enjoy your day!” He thinks his sister can be really contradicted, but he knows it’s because sometimes she is overprotected. Atsushi starts walking, this morning is a bit chillier than yesterday, but he can only think that he is going to have a very special day with En-chan and that’s all that matters. It’s around 9:45a.m. when he gets to the Kurotama Bath, there’s no sign of En, but that’s not weird, punctuality has never been one of En’s qualities. “Atsushi-senpai!” he hears Yumoto calling out for him, “Atsushi-senpai!” “Good morning, Yumoto!” Atsushi greets him smiling. “Happy birthday senpai! Well I know it was yesterday, but when I called you, you didn’t answer,” Yumoto says while pouting, “Anyways, happy birthday! En- chan-senpai asked me to give you this!” Atsushi receives a box from Yumoto, curiosity takes the best of him and while he opens the box he also speaks to the younger. “Was En-chan here earlier?” “No, he gave me that yesterday,” Yumoto replies, he has never been good at lying so Atsushi is sure that that’s the truth. “I see,” the bespectacled boy replies automatically and sees at the box’s content. There’s one of Atsushi’s favorite books, “The longest staircase to knowledge,” but over the word “knowledge” there’s a paper that instead of “knowledge” has the words “your heart.” When Atsushi takes it off, he can see that in the back part there are some words written by En. ‘You know, we have met for so many years, and even if we spend almost every day together, there are so many things I still wanna know about you, and that’s why I consider your heart as the longest staircase, one full of mysteries, one full of beautiful surprises, but one that is totally worth the effort, come to the arcade now.’ Atsushi smiles and blushes when he reads the note, Yumoto looks at him with curiosity, still he is too innocent to notice the recent changes to En and Atsushi’s relationship. “Thank you, Yumoto! I think I better keep going!” “Eh? Where? Can I go? It looks like a treasure search! Did En-chan-senpai organized a treasure search for you as a birthday gift?” the blond boy asks with shining eyes. “Kind of, but I am sorry Yumoto I have to go alone, but I promise you that we will do something together!” Atsushi says before taking his leave. He takes with him the box and keeps it closed to his chest. It is a nice thing that all their favorite places to visit are closed one to the other, so he does not have to walk a lot from the Kurotama Bath to the Arcade. Once Atsushi is in front of that place, he searches again for En with no result, instead, someone touches his back, which scares him a bit, but it’s not the person he was expecting to see there. “Whoa! You’re really nervous Kinugawa-senpai! Or is it the age affecting you already?” the pink haired asks and laughs a bit. “Oh, I’m sorry Ryuu, I was expecting to see…” “Yufuin-senpai, yeah I can imagine you really want to see him,” the teasing tone of Ryuu’s voice let Atsushi knows that Ryuu is aware of their new kind of relationship. “I… just… Did he…” “You don’t need to tell me, both of you were pretty obvious in everything you did, I’m actually glad that you two have decided to put your feelings on the table already, by the way he asked me to give you this,” the second year says while he gives a green bag tied with a blue ribbon, its shape is rectangular. “Thank you, Ryuu.” Atsushi takes a sit on a bench that is closed to where they are standing. He pulls the ribbon and he finds another one of his books. The original tittle of this one is “100 Unknown Mysteries,” in the modified version by En is “100 Days of Mysteries.” Again another note was written in the back part of the paper replacing the word. ‘I don’t know if they were exactly a 100 days, I just know that it took me a really long while to get to talk to you and solve the biggest mystery, your eye color. However, it’s been the first time that waiting was really worth the price, I’ll say it again, I love you. Please hurry up, next place to go is our favorite ice cream shop.’ Atsushi feels his heart beating faster, En is really putting a lot of effort into this and he can’t be happier. Of course he needs to move from one place to another, but that doesn’t matter. This is actually one of the sweetest things that someone could have done for him. “Guess you gotta keep moving, if you see Io, please tell him I’m waiting for him here,” Ryuu says a smirk all over his face when he sees Atsushi’s in-love face. “Eh? Sure, I’ll tell him, thanks Ryuu,” the bespectacled boy says as he takes his leave. “And also, happy birthday senpai!” Ryuu screams once Atsushi has started running, but still the blue haired teen catches the words, stops for a moment and smiles at Ryuu. Their favorite ice cream shop is also pretty closed, they usually go there first and then they go to the arcade during weekends in which En-chan has enough energy to move from one place another. When Atsushi is around the corner he can notice Io is sitting in one of the benches outside the ice cream shop. He can immediately think two things, it’s not the time yet to get to see En face to face, and En really had a lot of planning on doing this. “Hello Io, how are you?” Atsushi says to the second year boy who is too busy on his tablet to notice that he has come. “Good morning Kinugawa-senpai and happy belated birthday to you, I assume you come for this,” Io says as he delivers another bag, this one is blue and the ribbon is green. “Yes, thank you, also Ryuu is waiting for you at the arcade” the bespectacled boy replies and takes the bag, this one is a bit lighter, but he can distinguish that is another book. “I see, then I’ll go with him, have a nice day, I hope you two enjoy the rest of the day,” Io replies and takes his stuff to go to the arcade, Atsushi nods and his attention goes back to the package on his hands. Once he opens it, he verifies that is a book, another one from his personal collection, “The Last Piece,” curiously Atsushi remembers that he finished that book at En’s place, probably he left it there. The tittle this time, according to En’s version is “The Last Piece to your heart,” the extra words added with a light blue paper and the same pattern is repeated. ‘The Last Piece was actually the scariest one, I can’t take out the image from my mind when you jumped off to save the president and I didn’t know if you were safe, I have to say a bit of myself die in that moment and came back to life when I saw you again, even if it was scarier I have to say that thanks to that moment I had enough courage to act, but I haven’t really talked, you know? Next place is the mall where we spend our weekends when there’s nothing else to do.’ Well, that was unexpected, Atsushi has thought that all the points of this treasure search would have been around these streets, not going downtown. Still, it’s not like he is not having some fun, and getting to have a lot of things to say to En once he can get to see him, so he stands up, but before he starts walking, he asks for a bigger bag to the employee of the ice cream shop. He is already carrying three books and it’s not easy to take them around like that. Once he’s ready he tries to walk as fast as he can to the mall, thanks heaven it’s a cold month and the morning is pretty fresh, with just a gentle breeze and clouds covering the sun. After fifteen minutes of walking he gets to the mall’s main entrance, over there he can’t see any signs of En-chan. Atsushi stays there for a while thinking, maybe he can go inside and check the places they usually visit when they are there, but just when he was about to start going around with no specific destination someone calls him. “Kinugawa-san!” he turns around and sees Arima Ibushi right next to Gero Akoya, “Apparently we almost miscalculate the time,” he says and laughs a bit looking at Akoya. “Don’t blame me, you thought I could get ready in ten minutes, that’s not possible, but I did my best,” Akoya replies and puffs his cheeks. “Anyways, first of all happy birthday Kinugawa-san,” at that phrase Akoya also looks at Atsushi and smiles, “Yufuin-san asked me a favor yesterday, to give you this,” Ibushi says and gives another box to Atsushi. “He didn’t say anything to me, but I wanted to come along and wish you a happy birthday, after all you really are a nice person,” the pink haired says. “And also he threatens Yufuin-san with telling Kinshiro about your relationship if he didn’t let him tag along, apparently Yufuin-san is afraid of that moment so he accepted,” the tallest boy clarifies the real version and Akoya gives him a gentle hit with his elbow. “Anyways, hope you enjoy this day as well, see you Kinugawa-san,” Akoya expresses to finish their encounter. “I better follow him part of the deal is to buy him anything he wants, let me know as soon as you two inform Kinshiro about your relationship to stop Akoya…” Ibushi mentions giggling and goes after Akoya, “I think you’re getting to the end of your quest, happy birthday and enjoy the day.” “Thank you,” replies the bespectacled boy, still too shock of the interaction. Every interaction that he has witnessed in some way, first En-chan getting to talk to even Arima to get him into this “mission,” Arima and Akoya’s way of talking to each other and how they look at each other. However, the main point of all that, it’s that now Atsushi is thinking about a future conversation he will need to have; talking to Kinshiro about his relationship with En-chan. He takes a deep breath, today is not the time to think about that and he will even talk to En to know how they should do that. Atsushi sighs to let go of his recent stress and relax, he opens the box, again another book, also from his personal collection. “Under clear Skies our Love…” he also remembers that book, he also finished it at En’s place; during those days he knows he spent most of his reading time with books about romantic plots and characters who accomplish their happy endings after a lot of obstacles. In fact, Atsushi blushes when he remembers that more than once he thought about himself getting that happy ending right to En’ side. This time the tittle is not modified, but there’s one rose between some pages. Atsushi immediately opens the book in those pages, the text that he sees is marked makes his eyes teary; the page goes like this: ‘I have been waiting a long time to let my heart feel, I have waiting so long that sometimes I am scared of telling you what I do feel, but I have come to realize that in this way I am just punishing even further myself. Therefore… I ask to myself what can be more dangerous than shutting your heart and not letting it be? My feels must be spoken, my heart needs to show you that is alive. That is the reason why I shall beg to you to let me love you, that is the reason why I shall beg you to listen to me. Please allow me to love you. I, humbly, ask you to allow me to protect you, I ask you to let me stay by your side, to support you, to allow me to share with you each dawn’s morning, to look with you at the beauty of each sunset. I shall beg you to let me see the countless stars with you every night, to demonstrate through them my love to you, to show you that my love for you is limitless. Under clear skies I shall beg you to please accept my love.’ Atsushi let some tears fall, he cannot believe En-chan actually chose his favor passage from this book. He cleans his tears and takes a deep breath, and when he is about to put the book into the bag with the others, he sees a tiny paper that falls from the book’s pages. ‘Meet me at Binan High’s garden.’ Atsushi smiles, he thinks there are some other places that would have to be visited if this route is representing their most frequent places, but mainly because it’s quite ironic to finish at the school in a free day. Still, Atsushi gets on his feet again and starts walking. He feels so many emotions going on and he cannot avoid the smiles or the tears that get to escape every once in a while. Honestly, Atsushi would have never imagined that En-chan could do something like this. He walks slowly, he knows En does not have any hurries. Once he gets to the main entrance of the school, he feels his legs getting weaker, his stomach feels as if there were thousands of butterflies in there, and he knows that his hands are shaking. He breaths in and out and start walking towards the school garden, apparently people who are working there are way too busy to notice that someone else is getting there, and Atsushi thinks that’s actually wonderful for him and En-chan. When he is reaching the garden, he can perceive a very familiar smell, and his stomach rumbles a bit. Finally, when he turns around the corner he can see a blanket on the ground, a small basket, and some dishes and glasses. Everything is closed to one of the biggest garden’s trees and on it there’s a small note attached with a tape. ‘Please, answer the question out loud: Do you want to be my boyfriend?’ The boy can’t help but chuckle a bit and then clean the few tears that fall from his eyes. “Yes, of course En-chan!” Atsushi replies quickly and giggles out of nervousness. Suddenly he is being wrapped by two arms around his waist, and a hot breath makes his skin shivers. He turns around just to see En’s face. “I didn’t have the courage to ask you the question, so I wrote it,” that’s the first thing En-chan says to Atsushi and put both of their foreheads together. The blue haired boy perfectly understands him, since he knows that he talks that fast because otherwise his voice would have failed him. They stay like that for a moment, letting each other holding themselves in that cute tender atmosphere. Maybe Atsushi has thought a lot about everything he wanted to say to En, but sometimes silence is actually more rewarding than a whole speech. Especially when they are this closed, when they know that they belong to each other’s little world. “What happened to my lazy boy that was so active?” Atsushi suddenly breaks the silence with a teasing tone. “That boy is right in front of you… I didn’t do that much, you were the one walking,” En replies leaning on Atsushi’s shoulder. “Well, maybe not today, but yesterday you did a lot,” the blue haired teen insists, he is really curious about how En did it. “Good ideas are always a secret, so I’m not gonna tell you, what I will say is that it’s nice that you always leave your books at my place, I always read them when I’m bored, you’re a really interesting person,” the taller boy says and now it looks like they are slowly dancing at the wind’s rhythm. “Eh? Did I leave all of those books at your place?” Atsushi asks a bit embarrassed, but without leaving En’ side. “There were more, but those were actually really fitting for what I wanted to say, you know… I love you and I want you to be my boyfriend and I will stay by your side as long as you want me to be,” En says kissing Atsushi’s cheek. “Even if I ask you to be forever by my side?” Atsushi asks the red tone increasing on his cheeks. “Forever sounds perfect to me,” the dirty blond replies and now kisses the teen on his lips. They share a tender and sweet kiss, when they pull apart both sighs and look at each other in the eyes. “Who would say that falling in love with your best friend would be the greatest thing to happen in life?” En says, smiling and showing such a loving expression that Atsushi’s heart skips a beat, “Come, I bring some food from the greatest place ever, CoCoKaRa Curry!” En mentions to Atsushi and takes his boyfriend’s hand to guide him to take a sit on the blue blanket that is on the ground. “Best place ever indeed,” Atsushi comments as the memories from their first outings to that place come to his mind. The rest of the afternoon goes as they love it, with nonsense conversation, by each other’s side, but now, knowing that their bond is stronger and that they will remain together forever as they just said. There’s only one thing going on Atsushi’s mind, “Best birthday ever.”               ***** A Friend is a Star ***** Chapter Summary They are friends again and Atsushi wants to do something special to celebrate it, "Would you go to look at the stars with me? One simple question that was really hard to say, Chapter Notes Kinshiro and Atsushi are hard to write together, that's all I'm gonna say about this x_x See the end of the chapter for more notes A Friend is a Star Atsushi is really nervous, he thinks it’s too soon to ask to his friend to do this, but he really wants to go and En-chan has already told him that it’s a good idea. So, even if he feels this weird sensation on his stomach and his head about to explode, he takes a deep breath and knocks on the Student Council’s door. Now he just hopes that Kinshiro is alone at this moment. “Come in,” he listens to Kinshiro’s voice, lucky him it seems that his friend is alone. The bespectacled boy turns the door’s nob and gets into the Student Council’s room, he notices that Kinshiro is writing and so he does not realized of who has just come in. It is the first time that Atsushi gets in with a more relax behavior, or at least he tries to convince himself that he feels that way, so he takes the opportunity to take a look around. Definitely, this room resembles a lot of Kinshiro’s personality, but it has as well a lot of the other two members of the Student Council. The wall’s color and the furniture around is what Kinshiro will love to have, something simple but showing the delicate essence of a nice fancy place. Atsushi chuckles, it’s so good to see that his friend has kept some of his most outstanding traits during all this time. “At-chan!” Kinshiro’ surprise voice gets him back on Earth and out of his thoughts he can see a tiny blush on his friend’s face. “Hi, did I interrupt you?” the blue haired teen asks, a polite and shy smile showing on his face. “Not at all, please take a sit,” the president tries to act as if he is not feeling anxious, but honestly inside he is a complete mess of overwhelming emotions. Even if the conversation has started pretty fluently, it stops for a moment, it is weird for them, there are moment in which both of them can perfectly talk as two good friends who never stop speaking to each other, and then, there are these kind of time. Those times in which neither of them know what to say or how to proceed. What is the right word, phrase or gesture to continue? No one wants to offend the other and no one wants to push the other too fast. Atsushi is screaming internally, he is forcing himself to speak up and keep his promise of trying his best to express his thoughts. He knows he has to try; and he does not want to disappoint En, so he takes a breath and speaks. “Hey, Kin-chan, can I ask you something as a special birthday gift?” Atsushi finally says it, he can’t believe he did it, but looking at Kinshiro’s face he is quite sure he has said the words. The white haired teen looks as a deer who has been struck by a car. Suddenly, Atsushi feels his face hotter and he assumes Kinshiro has the same problem since he politely asks Atsushi for a moment and goes to open the window. Slowly, the president of Binan High returns to his seat and looks back at his friend. “I am sorry, you said a special birthday gift, right?” Kinshiro repeats Atsushi’s words, trying to completely understand the meaning of the question. “Yes… but… if you do not want it is not necessary, I mean I know I am being selfish since you already invite me to have dinner with you in two weeks and I just well… I mean… well” the blue haired teen starts mumbling nonsense and fidgeting with his hands. “I think it’s fair enough, your birthday was two days ago, it’s better now than in two weeks. What is the gift that you want?” Kinshiro shyly reasons and asks, he is not looking at Atsushi, he is actually looking to the window, and he is also blushing and fidgeting with his hands. Nonetheless, the simple fact that Kinshiro has asked him that, makes Atsushi confident enough. He even flashes a huge bright smiles and his eyes are shining full of happiness. When he is finally able to overcome his own astonishment and reacts to his friend’s answer, he gets to continue. “Well… I really want… but only if you want of course,” even if he wants to be more straightforward he keeps stumbling on his own words. “At-chan, it’s alright you can tell me what you want,” Kinshiro reassures him and smiles at him. Once he is being given a little bit more of trust he lets out a sighs and proceeds. “Will you go to look at the stars with me tonight?” The questions leaves Atsushi’s lips faster than expected as well as the way Kinshiro’s face changes. Both stare at the other and a very expected silence fill the room. Atsushi could swear that time has stopped, or that maybe he has stopped time with his question or that he just killed Kinshiro and the other’s last action was to stare at him for an eternity. Finally, Kinshiro blinks, and seems to have a hold or some kind on control on his blushing and body again. “Look at the stars? Tonight?” he asks, and Atsushi can feel that the white haired teen is mentally curing himself for repeating the words after such a long time. Or was it just a matter of seconds that felt like an eternity? Well, it’s not the time to think about that. “Yes!” the bespectacled boy quickly replies and looks expectantly for the final answer. Kinshiro’ smile goes a bit wider, “Yes, I’ll gladly go with you to look at the stars,” the white haired teen replies. “Really? I mean, thank you, it means a lot to me! I’ll pass by your house to go together… do you think 7:00p.m is ok?” “It’s the perfect time, tell me if you want me to take something,” Kinshiro offers, having as well more confidence in the issue. “I’ll text you if I think about something!” the bespectacled boy replies happily and stands up, “Well, the next period is about to start I better go, I don’t want to be late to class,” he adds and respectfully leaves the room. Atsushi leaves a pretty happy Kinshiro in the Student Council’s room, the white haired teen feels so much contentment and excitement. After so many years, they are going back to looks at the stars, curiosity takes over Kinshiro and so he checks to see where would be the best location to see the stars that night. “Interesting,” he mutters and puts his phone back into his pocket, after all, he also needs to get going to his own classes. On the other hand, Atsushi goes first to the clubroom, he finds En taking a nap, thanks heaven he has the idea of checking that place before going to the actual classroom. He walks in and shakes En a bit just to wake him up. “I assume it worked since you have that cute smile on your face,” En says when he looks at Atsushi. “He said yes, we’re gonna see the stars tonight together!” The happiness in Atsushi’s face is evident, it’s one of the most beautiful expression someone can be able to see. The brightness in his eyes, the cheerful smile and that sweet aura of innocent excitement he has is incomparable, En thinks that not even an angel can looks as beautiful as Atsushi does in this moment. Together they walk to their classroom, after all it’s the last period of the day and that makes easier to go to classes with a renew motivation for the events that are going to happen that night. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* That day Atsushi does not go to the Kurotama’s Bath, he wants to get ready for his outing with Kinshiro. He thinks about the old times and giggles to himself, it’s been a long while since the last day when he went to see the stars with his dear friend. Well, time to stop thinking about the past, that’s the decision he has come to make, that moment of their lives is a nice memory, but he can’t be stuck in wishing and thinking about that time anymore. Now, they are almost adults and they have solved a conflict that took years of their lives. He gets ready, picking up the warmest coat and a scarf, he has read that today is going to be really cold, so he better takes the preventions for the case and even packs a blanket. Quickly, Atsushi goes to the kitchen and he picks up some random stuff to eat with Kinshiro, before he can keep rummaging through his kitchen cabinets, he gets a text from his old friend, ‘I’m getting something hot to drink,’ Atsushi smiles, his friend is still as prudent as ever. He types a quick reply, ‘Thank you, I leave in 5 minutes to get you,’ he places his phone on one of his pockets and goes for his backpack. However, before he leaves his house he texts one last message, ‘Leaving now, I’ll call you when I come back,’ he waits for a reply and in less than a minute he gets it; ‘Have fun, try to tell him.’ Although he knows it is not really polite to leave En without an answer he does not reply. In reality, he is not planning on saying to his best friend that today. It would not be the best decision, he thinks and force himself to ignore En’s last message, he will talk later with him that it was just not the best time. The bespectacled boy walks towards Kinshiro’s place, it’s funny; it’s been so many years, but he can still remember everything about this path. The laughs they shared, the silly conversations they had as kids, and those competitions to see who could get first to the white haired boy’s mansion. Most of the times Kinshiro won, Atsushi was never really good at sports, but Kinshiro has always been lucky in being good at almost everything. Atsushi can’t help, but having a tiny smile on his face that is mixed up with some nostalgia; he knows he has said he shouldn’t be thinking about the past. Nonetheless, memories are overflowing now and it’s the first time that those memories are not painful. During all those years there was always some kind of uncertainty, he wanted to know so badly what he did wrong to make his friend drift apart from him, he wanted to know how to make up for any damaged he has done. But, he didn’t know how to approach the other, he simply didn’t have an idea on how to talk with the one he called his best friend at that moment. He reaches Kinshiro’s place, his hand is a bit hesitant when he needs to push the button for the doorbell, but his memories hunt him once more for that day. He won’t leave that his cowardice wins the battle again. He rings the doorbell and takes a deep breath, so far so good, he thinks to himself and smiles again. One of Kinshiro’s butlers comes to receive him and asks him to go inside with him. Atsushi nods and follows him. The house is practically as he reminds it, no big changes to be honest, he thinks and he knows they are getting to Kinshiro’s room. The butler knocks on the door and Kinshiro’s voice can be heard allowing them to come in; the old man opens the door for Atsushi who gets in and thanks the butler for his help. Once in the room, he can perceive some changes, but maybe they reflect how Kinshiro’s personality changed after they stopped talking, that’s a painful thought thou since the room is plain and with just the minimum amount of decoration. Nonetheless, Atsushi quickly remembers that even as a kid, Kinshiro did not like to have his room stuffed with a lot of things. “I am sorry, I was looking for something that I wanted to give you,” Kinshiro states, but he keeps looking for something inside a box. “Eh? But Kin-chan, you really don’t have to! Seriously for me is more than enough that you go today with me!!!” the blue haired teen quickly exclaims and moves his hands in a desperate manner trying to stop the other’s actions. “Found it,” the teen exclaims and stands up, he was rummaging through some boxes that were all over his room floor.  “During that year…” Kinshiro starts explaining and stops himself thinking that it’s not the best way to start, but it’s the only manner to do it, so he keeps going, “during that year, I remembered you said you wanted a special edition for that game we used to play, ‘Emerald Hunting,’ remember?.” “Kin-chan…” Atsushi whispers, he thinks he knows where this is going and he is not sure that he can handle what he thinks is about to happen. “I… I looked for it at that time, I was too desperate to find it and I have my parents looking for it… and I got it,” Kinshiro says showing the little box that is wrapped in a green paper, “I got it that year… but I couldn’t say ‘happy birthday’ to you at that moment.” The bespectacled boy can notices how Kinshiro’s voice breaks a bit in that last sentence, he knows this means more than anything to both of them since his hands also feel shaky. Atsushi carefully reaches for the box and takes it into his hands, he unwraps the paper and he can see it; that old game that he wished for so much when he was still a kid. “I am deeply sorry I could not give it to you on time,” the white haired teen adds and looks away. “It’s the perfect time,” Atsushi’s words take by surprise the smaller teen, his green eyes shine excitedly when he hears that, “It’s the perfect time Kin-chan, I really appreciate it, thank you.” Atsushi lets himself being move by his own emotions getting to wrap his arms around Kinshiro and giving him a gentle hug and muttering again with a soft voice ‘thank you’. Being honest, Atsushi has been waiting for the perfect moment to do this since the day they renewed their friendship and so he couldn’t be happier at the time, this without a doubt has been the best birthday week since he can remember. However, before the two of them get to be an emotional disaster, Atsushi pulls off and carefully cleans his own tears, he really gets to be involve in a moment, especially in something he waited for so long. “Well, I think it’s time to go, don’t you think?” he asks to the white haired teen and the boy eagerly nods. “Would you let me guide you to the place in which we can have the best view?” “Eh? Aren’t we going to the same place?” Atsushi asks surprised. “I think it’s better to have a brighter place for this new start,” Kinshiro replies and with just that Atsushi immediately nods. They both leave the Kusatsu residence and start walking while carrying the stuff they need to see the stars. Atsushi thinks he has a vaguely idea of where they are going since the path it’s pretty familiar, but he prefers not to spoil the surprise. Their conversation is as interesting as ever, talking about books, talking about important events, it’s like some kind of magic that this old ritual between friends is allowing them to talk with no problems. Once that they are closed to their destination, Atsushi giggles, it’s kind of ironic, but it’s also the perfect place to mark this new beginning. Binan High. “I hope you are not disappointed of the place,” Kinshiro shyly says and looks at Atsushi from the corner of his eye. “I’m not, but… is it ok that Binan High’s president gets in to the school at non-school hours?” the bespectacled boy says in a teasing way. “No… if no one gets to know.” “Then, let it be our tiny little secret,” Atsushi says and offers his pinkie to Kinshiro. The smaller teen blushes, he thinks this is so childish, but he also feels so tempted that he immediately links his pinkie with Atsushi’s. They laugh at it, and as soon as the laughs are over they go into the school’s property. Being Binan’s president, Kinshiro has a special set of keys, so he can open any door at the school’s facilities and that’s how they get to reach the upper level of the school. Once they are there, they walk together towards one of the roofs, the roof in which Atsushi had the chance to save Kinshiro during that day, and which has been already fixed. It’s actually kind of the perfect “ceremony” for this new beginning, practicing an old tradition while being at the place that made them realize of the importance and sincere feelings they have for each other. “You know Kin-chan, I’m really happy that we got to talk to each other again… I’m gonna try my best and tell you everything to avoid misunderstandings,” Atsushi suddenly says, his voice has a genuine tone, but also shows the nostalgia he felt during all those years. “I’ll do the same, I really miss you and I know my behavior was not the most proper, At-chan… you are my dearest friend,” the words come out of Kinshiro’s mouth and a shaky breath follows them, “I hope you can forgive me,” he adds and pushes his knees towards his chest. Atsushi looks surprised at Kinshiro, he thought that everything was already forgiven, but he should have known better. Kinshiro is a person whose strict conduct makes him carry the weight of his action for a longer time, even if the problem has already been solve. That’s why Atsushi takes action, so his friend does not get to be stuck in that point any longer, the blue haired teen links his arm with Kinshiro’s and directs his look towards the sky, being able to see just a bit of Kinshiro’s blushed face. “I used to see the stars every night during all those years,” the bespectacled boy says and he feels as Kinshiro’s hold get stronger, “I use to look at them because it made me think of you, of our childhood and I knew that maybe even if it wasn’t soon, I was sure we were going to be friends again, because you are one of the brightest stars in my life,” Atsushi mentions and looks at Kinshiro. “One of the brightest?” the white haired teen repeats looking at the stars, Atsushi can see a small smile forming on his friend’s lip. “Yeah, so it didn’t matter how dark the sky was because I was always able to think in all my friends, to think in all those stars that I cherish and love, and you were, you are, and you will be one of those.” Atsushi looks right to Kinshiro’s eyes, the white haired teen has teary eyes and his lips are trembling a little, but instead of crying, he decides to smile. “You are also a star for me, At-chan!” Kinshiro replies and leans a bit his head on Atsushi’s arm. Maybe it is going to be hard to leave everything behind, but they honestly care and love each other as two good friends, for a moment each one of them could see each other as the small boys that used to go out in the middle of the summer to see as many stars as possible and to wish upon a star. That day they have marked a new promise, the promise to shine for each other and cherish their friendship more than ever after that second opportunity. “Thank you for the gift.” Atsushi says when they are saying good bye to each other, and even if Kinshiro knows that Atsushi values the game he gave him, he knows that the blue haired teen is talking about the moment they shared that night looking at the stars. “Thank you too, At-chan, good night!” There’s a warm feeling in both hearts, and there’s the feeling of a special never ending friendship.   *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*   Chapter End Notes I hope I had caught in a nice way their friendship.... ***** Like Spinach ***** Chapter Summary Things didn't turn out to be really easy with Atsushi's family, and sometimes it takes a weird look at the situation to take meassures and find a solution, it's good to know that Ryuu can provide it. Chapter Notes Again, it's weird, I know, but the idea came to me after a conversation during a meeting at my workplace. Like Spinach   It couldn’t be worst, he knows that. The day has not been good at all, he’s worried, frustrated, and he knows he is about to get sick. Atsushi would have never imagined such a negative reaction from his parents and sister when telling them about his relationship with En-chan. He has been trying to deny En’s words, but he knows pretty well they are true, his sister practically kicked En out of the house, and to make things worse, at least with En, he told him not to be so dramatic. Atsushi sighs, he knows that was the worst thing to say in that moment. En simply left and told him that they would talk later. After that, he couldn’t stay at his own home and left to walk around the city. What a nightmare, two days ago he had the most precious and perfect moment in his life, and now here he is, in the middle of a city, going nowhere, and it is actually about to rain. Yes, things couldn’t get much worse. “Senpai!” or maybe they can. He does not want to be rude, but having to deal with someone as energetic as Ryuu, who is also passionate about relationships, is not the best for him in this moment. Even though he wants to ignore him and keep walking, he turns around. “Hi, Ryuu,” he knows he didn’t even try to sound happy, his voice shows all the tempest that goes inside his mind. “Woah… what happened senpai?” Ryuu asks, and he even touches Atsushi’s shoulder in a way to show him some empathy. “It’s nothing… seriously,” the blue haired teen replies, but his eyes are screaming for help. “Wanna get something to drink and maybe we can talk, I don’t know, but even if you say nothing happened, it looks like the whole world has crashed on you, and that’s not normal for someone who has just started going out with the person that he loves.” Ryuu’s words make some kind of effect on Atsushi, since the boy simply nods desperately before letting the tears fall. Ryuu wraps an arm around Atsushi’s neck and leads him to one of his favorite cafeterias downtown. Once they have ordered and they have their coffees, they simply stare around. “Ok,” Ryuu says first and tries to know how to start the conversation, “I know a while ago it seemed like I knew exactly how to help you and what I was doing, but I don’t, so do you want to talk about it?” Atsushi looks incredulous at Ryuu, maybe he was also wrong in trusting someone younger… well he shouldn’t think like that, sometimes younger people are pretty wise. He sighs again, he cannot even remember how many times he has sighed during those two hours. The older teen takes a deep breath and talks about that morning. He tells to Ryuu how they, he and En, have planned everything to first talk to En parents right after the day En asked him to be his boyfriend, which went pretty well. En’s parents were so happy with the news, Atsushi can’t help but sigh again at the memory of that moment, “His mother even cried because she said that she thought she would die waiting for us to become a couple,” he comments to Ryuu. “Well, tell her she was not the only one, I made a bet with Io and I thought I was going to lose,” Ryuu replies at that. “What?” “Well, I said you two were going to be a couple before winter break and Io said until you two would go to college, at the end I won, thanks for that,” he says and winks. Atsushi does not know if he should stand up and leave at that moment or simply laugh, he chooses the second option. After all, it is funny to think that everybody, except for his own family, was waiting for this. He then keeps on going with the story, and tells to Ryuu that since they talked to En’s parents it was obvious that they needed to talk to his own parents and his sister. “En-chan was even wearing fancy clothes to make a better impression today, but…” “But?” “As soon as we told them my parents asked him to leave, my sister grabbed En- chan by his arm and took him out of the house,” Atsushi finally says and he feels as his stomach flips all over again, “I had to go after them to talk to En-chan…but…” “But?” Ryuu says again grabbing the table’s edge and trying to get as closed as possible to Atsushi. “When he told me ‘I’ve never been kicked out of a place before, this is a whole new experience,’ I told him that he didn’t have to be so dramatic, that no one has kicked him out and then he told me he would leave and that he would call me later,” the explanation is over and although Atsushi thought he would feel better after telling the whole issue, it does not work like that. Ryuu is looking at him with his mouth wide opened, probably Ryuu is also thinking what he is thinking in that moment; he is the worst boyfriend ever. Why wasn’t possible to have an understanding family? It’s not like he has been promised to someone’s daughter, or like he’s an only child who has ruined all the family’s reputation. There’s his sister and she has always been brilliant… well until the moment she decided to kick En out of their home. Again, he sighs, well it seems like at least sighing it’s something that he can still do perfectly, because thinking, talking, or solving problems are out of his reach right now. “Probably Yufuin-senpai is sleeping right now,” that’s the first comment Ryuu gives after all what he has explained, “He will call you as soon as he also calms down and he has thought about something nice to tell you.” “What?” “Yeah, Yufuin-sepai’s personality as a boyfriend must be ‘I gotta calm down first to make you feel better then,’ so he must be sleeping,” the pink haired adds as if that could explain everything. “Is that even a personality? And well maybe he is sleeping, but I don’t think he can have an idea on how to deal with my family after sleeping…” he quiets himself immediately, he knows he should not leave all this problem on En. “Because you are the one who has to deal with your own family,” Ryuu says snapping Atsushi out, “Senpai, if you want this, you have to be clear with your family, you can’t let them be a spinach in your life!” Ryuu’s words were having a kind of impact on Atsushi until he mentioned the word spinach. “A spinach?” Atsushi repeats while frowning. “Yeah, I just learnt those things grow fast, so if you let your family handle this and making you feel bad about your relationship you’re just gonna let them grow as a spinach that will suffocate you!” Ryuu waves his hands and speaks louder. The bespectacled boy gets a bit embarrassed because they are catching everybody’s attention, so he tries to calm Ryuu down. Once he thinks the second year won’t keep making so much noise he sighs out in relief. “So my family is a spinach…” Atsushi murmurs, he feels guilty about that thought, but honestly he loves En-chan and it’s not like En-chan has to fight this alone. “Well, it sounds kind of cruel, and I know they’re your family and all, but really senpai, you gotta tell them, or don’t you love Yufuin-senpai?” The question makes him blush so hard he thinks he can go and lighten up a whole town, Ryuu is really an opened person when talking about relationships. Atsushi breathes in and out to calm down and try to make his blush go away. “I do love him,” he whispers softly and looking away. “Well, now I know why you family can handle you so easy, you don’t seem so convince,” the pink haired retorts and licks the cherry that was on top of his coffee a while ago. The blue haired teen looks painfully hurt with the truth, but he won’t let anyone doubt about how much he loves En-chan, not again. “I DO LOVE HIM!” Atsushi screams out loud, the whole cafeteria getting silence after that. Even Ryuu looks too shocked with Atsushi’s reaction, and the poor blue haired teen madly blushes after that. The second year starts giggling and little by little the other conversations start taking place again. “There you go senpai! Now finish your coffee and go to cut some spinach out of your life!” Atsushi actually wants to slap Ryuu’s face for his methods to make him get some confidence, but he also knows that his method has been just perfect. The bespectacled boy nods, not happy or relaxed, but at least with the power to go and make himself clear. They drink their coffee and leave the place. It’s almost getting dark when Atsushi is about to reach his home when he sees a familiar silhouette waiting around the corner. “Hi…” En says, he looks sad and that breaks a bit of Atsushi’s heart. “Hi… I’m sorry… about my family,” Atsushi comments and reaches for En’s hand which is cold, En must have been waiting for him for a long time over there. “I can talk to them, I can tell them all my good things which are really few, but I also can be very honest about my defects, which I know they are a lot and…” “It’s not necessary, this is a spinach I have to cut it out by myself.” The answer confuses En, actually it makes him feel totally lost. “What?” “Just don’t worry, this is something I have to do, but… there’s actually a spinach that we might have to deal with together…” Atsushi reasons, now that he’s getting brave enough he knows he has to say this to Kinshiro too. “I’m sorry, I know we have several jokes about you and the spinaches, but I’m lost here,” En admits, his face showing complete confusion towards the conversation. “I’ll explain you later, for now I’m gonna talk to my parents and sister and I’ll call you later,” Atsushi says and kisses En on the cheek. The taller boy is still confused, but at least he is less worried now that he has seen Atsushi’s happy expression. That day Atsushi talk to his parents, that same day he could see their faces changing from disappointment to an unexpected understanding. Unfortunately, they couldn’t show the same level of happiness that En’s parents had shown, but at least they promise that they will give a chance to prove how good En is, at least his parents will, his sister couldn’t show too much of a change, but he knows it might be also some kind of unexpected jealously as an older sister. Once in his room, Atsushi lies down on his bed, it has been a really stressful day, but the outcome can be seen as positive. He takes out his cellphone, the first message goes to Ryuu, “Thank you,” and then he receives a quick reply with an emoticon of a happy face and the thumbs up. He smiles at it and goes to send the second message to En. “It may take longer for them to accept everything, but I will make them see the good things on you, I’m sorry for everything, I’ll keep fighting.” Surprisingly, En texts back really fast. “I love you, no need to apologize <3”  What a miracle?! En-chan typing more than three words and using punctuation, Atsushi giggles, if his family could only see this kind of things they will understand everything sooner. However, he can’t keep thinking like that, he has to believe that they can change, and even if they don’t change their mind, he has decided that he prefers to deal with the spinach, cutting or pulling it off, than letting go of En-chan. He places his cellphone away and smiles, even if it was a weird comparison, at least it made him got the courage to talk. “Spinach,” Atsushi whispers smiling and letting himself fall into sleep.     ***** Just What ***** Chapter Summary Atsushi and En-chan have started dating and they want their relationship to be approved by everyone, including obviously Kinshiro. Chapter Notes This was the hardest fic to finish for the Cerulean Week... Jesus.... God.... Holy Mary.... I mean I started it on Tuesday and I finish it on Friday at 2am I guess... it was the hardest one to complete and it's one of the simplest.... just me and my great mind! Just What   He does not like to accept it, he does not like to believe that now they have to hang out together. However, this is part of the “deal,” or maybe he should see it as part of the renew friendship that he shares with Atsushi. It has been a couple of days since they reconciled and all of them will walk together to the school and then back again to home. However, Kinshiro can’t still feel comfortable with a certain someone presence every time he talks to Atsushi. He cannot stand whenever he interferes in a conversation, especially because of their nonsense comments that always interfere in a very interesting talk. Today is one of those days in which he regrets this part of his second chance, they are at Yufuin’s place, for some reason Atsushi practically begs him to come over and spend an afternoon at En’s house. When they get to the place, Kinshiro can’t avoid the fact of feeling distress, it’s a very humble house, but humbleness does not mean that has to be disorganized. He tries to convince his mind to ignore that detail, but every single thing that comes one after the other just makes him feel even more distress. The garden had some flowers, but those poor blue flowers could look better if someone would take care of them. Then, the door, En does not even takes his keys out, he just pushes the door and gets inside, Atsushi follows him and gives an apologetically look at Kinshiro, probably asking him to hold his comments. After that, once they reach the living room there are cushions and blankets around the floor. Kinshiro’s mind just goes wild, asking to himself if this house could be seriously taken care by adults. “Mom?” En calls out, but there’s no reply, “Guess she’s already off, I’m gonna take a look at the kitchen to see if she left something ready,” he informs and leaves the living room. “Kin-chan… I know this is too much for you, but…” “I won’t say a thing, I promise,” Kinshiro replies, he honestly will hold his comments, but he is sure about calling Ibushi to complain once he gets home. They take a sit on different couches, Atsushi being so used at the place he sits without a problem, but Kinshiro examines the whole space and being sure that is a safe place, he takes a sit. The blue haired boy tries to find a way to open up a conversation, noticing that En is taking a long time to come back, but he actually seems to be very nervous. Kinshiro is about to talk, at least about their upcoming tests, but En is finally back and carrying a tray, Atsushi stands up to take the teapot since he is afraid that En can drop it at any moment. “I don’t usually make tea, but I hope it’s ok, my parents mainly drink coffee and I drink sodas,” En says and puts the tray on the little table that’s in the middle of the couches. “You made tea,” Kinshiro says, his voice trying to hide the irony and surprise, but En simply nods. “En is actually pretty good at the kitchen, it’s just that he needs motivation to do something,” Atsushi adds and smiles while giving a cup of tea to Kinshiro. “Motivated or forced,” En smirks while saying those words, “Anyway sorry for the wait, mom had to leave earlier according to her note, so I had to make this.” Kinshiro’s eyes widened, he would have never believed that the laziest boy in all the school could do something, especially something that looks edible and good. They all eat together, drinking tea or soda in En’s case; however Kinshiro is reaching his limits. Why is the reason that he was asked to be here? He must know that right now, he does not want to lose his composure, but if he does not have a reason to be here, he’s sure that that is going to happen. Atsushi can notice his childhood friend getting impatient, since he’s now crossing his legs and arms. Surely, the pressure and the intrigue is consuming Kinshiro right now. “I guess you’re curious about why we asked you to come over here,” Atsushi says and his voice crack a bit, he has completely showed off his nervousness by now. “I’m going to the kitchen to get another soda,” En announces and Atsushi’s desperation grows even more. “Atsushi, would you kindly explain what is going on?” Kinshiro demands, his tone of voice trying to show calmness. “Ah well… listen… ah…remember last week was my birthday?” “Of course, we are going to celebrate it tomorrow at that restaurant I mentioned you since they didn’t have availability during your birthday,” Kinshiro replies and smiles, “I am really pleased to celebrate your birthday again,” he adds and takes a sip to his tea. “Me too, I hope we can do something for yours next year” “Atsushi…” En’s voice catches both teen’s attention. The blue haired teen knows what En is meaning and he clears his throat, to be honest it was not so hard to tell his parents about this. Well maybe it was since his parents didn’t show as much happiness as En’s parents. However, Kinshiro is a case totally different, especially because they are just starting to be friends again and their background is a bit complicated at the moment. “Well, on my birthday I went out with En and well… ah…” the teen keeps hesitating. “I asked him to be my boyfriend; he said yes despite the fact that I didn’t have anything romantic prepare,” En abruptly interrupts, but being honest he is tired of waiting and he knows it’s better to go straight to the point.  There’s an uncomfortable silence, really uncomfortable for Atsushi who is blushing and nervously fidgeting with his fingers. The poor bespectacled boy would have never imagined that the truth would be reveal like this to his childhood friend. Especially since he is still afraid about his reaction and he is feeling that his fear is completely valid when he looks at Kinshiro. The silver haired boy has a blanked expression, he moves his eyes from En to Atsushi, repeating his motion and being speechless. “I…I need to leave, I see you both tomorrow at school,” Kinshiro says and stands up, not waiting for someone to guide him and stomping his way out of the house. “I think it went better than expected, at least he couldn’t kick me off the house,” En comments and Atsushi sighs. “My parents didn’t kick you off En-chan,” Atsushi repeats once more this statement, but he knows that he’s lying a bit to En and to himself. “Well your sister did… maybe not kicking, but saying ‘would you mind leaving right now, we need to discuss some important stuff as a family’” Atsushi lower his head, he knows that was not very nice from his sister, but he could not change how things went now. The blue haired teen sighs once more and En feels guilty about it. He goes closer to Atsushi and kisses him. “I’m sorry, I think I made a mistake because of how is everyone around you reacting, but if I have to be honest, I don’t regret it,” the blue eyes boy says and leans on Atsushi’s shoulder. “I’m also sorry… I wish things could be easier, but at least my parents are better with this now and my sister just struggling to understand, I’ll talk to her later,” the bespectacled boy mentions and strokes En’s hair. “I’ll talk with the president” No sound is made. No movement is done. Nothing happens for a while. Then, Atsushi slowly moves to face En and his eyes shows uncertainty. Contrary, that plain look that is on En’s face all the time, it’s showing completely determination about what he says. “Are you sure?” “Yes” En is well-known for always given short answers, but Atsushi has never seen this level of security in his reply. Atsushi nods accepting the offer. The final agreement, En will walk alone tomorrow with Kinshiro while coming back home, after all Atsushi wants to stay studying to finish their project for Biology.   It is 3:00pm. Kinshiro is finishing his job at the Student’s Council room, he is alone since he feels betrayed by Arima and Akoya who express their contentment when being informed about En and Atsushi relationship. Kinshiro simply does not get it, how can they feel happy about something like that? His best friend with a commoner like En Yufuin? The laziest guy all over the world! That cannot be possible. He keeps writing furiously, and once he admits there’s no way he can keep working like this, he decides it’s time to leave. Unfortunately for him, he sees the most unwanted person in the world waiting for him. He tries to avoid him or does as he does not realize that he is there. However, En is a person who is not affected by Kinshiro’s rude manners; on the contrary he has survived to this 10 years, two more minutes won’t do any damage. “You know, I can follow you all the way to your place,” En mentions after having walked all the stairs following Kinshiro in complete silence. “Well, I guess my security will have to work today in that case,” the teen immediately snaps at himself, he has promised to himself that at least he will be less harsh in his way of talking to Yufuin, not only for him, but for Atsushi. “Guess it’ll be ok, as long as you listen to me,” the taller replies, Kinshiro is actually amazed that En does not seem offended, “Listen, it’s been a bit hard telling to everyone about this, well to the guys in the club was easy, but families have been hard.” There’s a pause, En is scratching the back of his neck and he shows some kind of tiredness unknown to Kinshiro. The president stops his walking, he looks at En, as if he’s giving him the permission to talk and explain himself. The taller grunts, he hates to provide long explanations, but he knows he offered himself to take this quest. Why didn’t Atsushi stop him yesterday? “Look… during that crazy and shitty day I was afraid when Atsushi went to save you, I was afraid that something could go wrong, and I thought ‘shit, he’s so important, I love him’, that day I realize of my feelings and so I needed to let them go.” En explains, his face tinted with a light blush. “I don’t see the point in this confession,” the white haired teen expresses and starts walking again, he is not going to take any of En’s romantic thoughts, that’s indecent at some extent. En sighs, this is going to be harder than he expected, and he actually can’t believe that his doing all his confession thrice. First to Atsushi, then to Atushi’s parents, well to them without the “magical boys” part; and now to Kusatsu. Why couldn’t all they be like his parents?  They have been the most understandable people with this, and his mother was so excited about the news that she almost threw a party. Of course En stopped her, but she said that she wouldn’t be stop of celebrating their wedding. Sometimes En wonders why his mom acts like that. He shakes all those thoughts from his head, it’s not the time to get distracted, it’s the time to show to the president that he’s serious about being with Atsushi. Although he still does not get why he has to have an approval from Kinshiro. “OK, then I’m not gonna say anything else from that day,” wrong way of starting back, Kinshiro raises his eyebrow, he’s definitely having the wrong idea, “Wait! Nothing like that happened, don’t get the wrong idea” En immediately says putting his hands up. “As I said, I’m not interested in knowing anything,” the green eyed boy remarks once more and tries to move as fast as he can. En is actually reaching his limits, how can Kinshiro be so stubborn? Since En’s patient is running out, and they are also reaching the city and En does not want to walk too much, he grabs Kinshiro’s wrist and makes him stop. “What’s your problem? What do I have to do to show you that I’m a nice guy? I know I’m lazy, but that’s not something really bad, well at least I don’t think is that bad, and I know I’m full of defects, but who is not?” the tallest says. The white haired boy shakes En’s hold away and his eyes pierce a look into En’s eyes. Kinshiro is also getting tired, being honest he does not even have an idea of why he feels so distress about this relationship or about En… or maybe he does. However he is not going to accept that. Once he has completely shaken off En’s hold, he goes to restart his path, but suddenly he feels arms around him, a loud shout, and he hears something crashing against the ground. He knows he’s on the floor, but he knows that he’s not actually on the ground, he’s on someone. When he opens his eyes, he cannot even recall when he has closed them, he sees people starting to gather around and gasping in horror. He listens to a grunt, a familiar grunt, and once he looks back, he sees Yufuin, what happened? He wonders and when En loosens the hold he stands up. His eyes go wide open when he sees some blood dripping from En’s hair. “What?” he whispers, still to shock to remember or being able to register everything. “A skater was coming full speed, but you didn’t see him; I barely have time to move you away, are you ok?” “How can you ask that?” the president says, his tone of voice is alarmed and he pulls out his cellphone and makes a call. “Who are y…” Yufuin does not finish his question, he blacks out and Kinshiro gets even more alarmed.   When En wakes up, he’s in a white room, he feels dizzy and there’s a pinching sensation in the back of his head and it itches as hell. Once he tries to touch it, he notices there’s a bandage around it, just what happened? He asks to himself and tries to look for someone who can explain it. “En-chan!” he recognizes that voice, it’s Atsushi, but why is he here? “Atsushi,” he feels dumb, he should have say something better. “How are you feeling? Do you remember what happened?” Atsushi’s voice sounds a bit alarmed and En is wondering why, but he knows if he asks, Atsushi will get even more alarmed. “Atsushi, please, remember the doctor said he might not remember everything,” a second voice… oh… yeah now he remembers. The blue haired teen seems embarrassed, but he’s worry is not going away from his face. En tries to place all the events on his mind and after a while he finally gathers them. He remembers talking with Kinshiro and suddenly pulling him away from a careless skateboarder, and then hitting his head against the sidewalk. “I’m alright Atsushi, you don’t have to worry, I’m just a bit hungry, and just for curiosity, you haven’t called my mom, right? You know how she gets” En speaks the words as clearly and fluently as he can to lower Atsushi’s worries. “No, you told me once to never call her in case that you’ll get in a hospital,” Atsushi kindly smiles and continues, “I’ll go and get you some melon bread, ok?” Probably Atsushi does not know about the awkwardness that’s left in the room once he’s out. Or probably he does, and he wants things to be completely sorted out between these two. However, silence is growing bigger and none of them seem to be capable of breaking the ice. En is finally tired of trying and Kinshiro is too proud. “Thank you,” the white haired boy finally says, but looks away. “Are you alright?” En asks again since Kinshiro didn’t answer back in the place of the accident. “Yes… I was unharmed thanks to you,” he replies, En simply nods. By now, En has given up, he has decided that he can live with Kinshiro’s hate towards him, and even if he knows that’s gonna hurt Atsushi, he simply does not know what else to do. En stares at the window, counting the minutes that it’ll take to Atsushi to come back, after all being with Kinshiro is only less weird if Atsushi is there with them. The dirty blond haired is about to fall asleep when Kinshiro clears his throat. He looks at the white haired teen a bit confused and tilts his head. “I hope that now you can listen to me, I’ve been thinking about it, being honest what I hate is the fact that I know you are the perfect person for Atsushi,” Kinshiro says, his voice steady and firm, “So, that’s probably what I hate, but I’ll do my best to try and respect and support your relationship… after all you were the only one to keep Atsushi’ smile during all these years.” En does not know how to reply to that, there’s somehow a bittersweet tone in the way Kinshiro pronounces those last words. However, it’s different from the usual bittersweet tone that he always use against En. Before En can say a word, Atsushi comes back, with the melon bread and a soda. “Did I interrupt something?” Atsushi asks ashamed. “Not at all, I must leave now, I hope you get better, Yufuin,” he smiles at the boy, for the first time, “See you tomorrow at school, At-chan.” “Yes, see you Kin-chan! Thank you for everything!” “Apparently I did it,” En says smirking. “Apparently you did,” Atsushi smiles and kisses En’s forehead, “Now that the problem is solved and that you’re injuries are treated it’s time to call your parents.”             En grunts, he knows his mother is really melodramatic, but after all there’s no way he can hide that injury. “Thank you for trying so hard with Kin-chan,”Atsushi says one more time and kisses En’s hand. “Anything for you.” En replies and leans towards Atsushi, with this the hardest test has been approved and he can finally feel his relationship with Atsushi official.                 ***** Happy Birthday Little En-chan! ***** Chapter Summary For some reason En has been turned into a kid, what are the boys gonna do on this special day now that En is a boy? Chapter Notes En-chan as a kid kills me XDDD so I needed to do this fic even if it does not make any sense at all XD Happy Birthday, little En-chan! -July 2nd, when Atsushi woke up he thought that this would be a normal day, a normal birthday celebration, but well… it might be that that couldn’t be possible today.- He is not sure about what to think, when he gets into En’s room, as he usually does to wake him up, he perceives that something is different, but he cannot put a name on it. Not even a word to describe the weird feeling that invades him. That, until the moment when he looks at the futon. The silhouette over there doesn’t quietly match En’s silhouette, does En have any visitors at home for his birthday? “En-chan?” Atsushi calls out, but not to the person on the futon, he actually calls to him with a loud tone hoping to find his boyfriend somewhere, or that En-chan crosses the door screaming ‘surprise!’ or anything like that, but it doesn’t happen. Instead, he hears a murmur, saying something like ‘no school, please,’ Atsushi takes a breath and goes straight to the futon, he repeats his breathing pattern in order to calm himself. He slowly counts to three and lifts the blankets. There’s a child over there, but not any child, he is sure that child is En Yufuin. How can that be even possible?! En is supposed to be 19 today, not 5 years! Atsushi falls down and muffle his own scream with his hands, but that doesn’t prevent the child from waking up and so the child slowly sits. The small version of En Yufuin rubs his eyes and tries to focus his sight towards the blue haired teen. “Who are you?” the child asks blinking several times, “And where are mom and dad? They were supposed to wake me up as they always do?” ‘So, apparently, En has always been dependent on someone to wake him up,’ Atsushi thinks at the moment, but tries to go back to the main issue as fast as he can. “You don’t remember me?” the bespectacled boy asks. “No… I don’t even know you…” En replies and looks around for something, “Where’s Chiku-chan?” “Chiku-chan?” Atsushi repeats and En keeps looking around the room. The blue haired boy is confused, is this something that Wombat or any other alien did? And why? And what should he do? Take En with him and call the other guys? His thoughts are cut out when he starts listening to some sobs, oh no! En is starting to cry! He is really desperate to find that Chiku-chan thing, whatever it is. “No, no, no, please don’t cry, can you tell me how Chiku-chan is? I’ll help you to find it out!” En-chan cleans his tears and nods. “Chiku-chan is a fluffy cat, is blue and his tail has green rings.” Atsushi immediately knows where to find it. He remembers it from a previous visit when he was searching some clothes for En-chan and found out the old plushie. He chuckles at the memory of En-chan being embarrassed and so throwing the poor Chiku-chan to the deepest part of his closet. “I think I know where it is, give me a second” Little En nods and waits on his futon for Atsushi to come back. It doesn’t take long to the blue haired to finally get to the “hiding” place for Chiku-chan. After all, it was obvious that En would have never cleaned or organize his closet. “Is this Chiku-chan?” Atsushi asks and bends to give the plushie to the child. “Yes!” En quickly takes it and hugs it, “I’m hungry, where’s mommy? She always brings me breakfast to my room on my birthday.” So at least En knows which date today is, and something else that Atsushi notices, definitely, En’s parents contributed to the fact that En is a lazy person. Atsushi knows is not right to lie to a child, but if he is reasonable, En-chan is not actually a child. “Well, they ask me to come here to take care of you since they are preparing a really nice surprised for you, so come on, I’ll make you your favorite breakfast!” For a moment, Atsushi is nervous, En doesn’t seem really convinced about what he said, but after a couple of seconds the child stands up and grabs Atsushi’s shirt to go downstairs. The blue haired boy gently smiles to the kid and starts walking to the kitchen. It’s good to know that En has had the same tastes all his life and he actually prepares En’s favorite breakfast, pancakes with chocolate chips, while the child is eating Atsushi takes a moment to text the others. “En-chan, I invited some people to come, they are all really nice and want to celebrate your birthday with you!” “OK,” the child replies, he seems a bit uncomfortable, but keeps focused on his meal, “Do I really have to eat the fruits, I don’t like them?” The puppy eyes that En-chan makes in this moment conquest Atsushi’s heart and he just lets En does as he wants.  “It’s ok, if you want you can go and watch some cartoons while I clean the kitchen, ok?” The child nods and goes to the living room to watch TV. Atsushi is still worrying, according to what Yumoto says, Wombat is nowhere to be found and the others couldn’t believe what they heard. He just hopes that they can get to En’s place as soon as possible and that Kinshiro brings the clothes he requested since he already searched through all the house, but there are no clothes that can fit En in this moment, and having the child wearing an oversized t-shirt is not fair at all. After half an hour and two “Hamtaro” episodes the bell rings, of course they would wait for someone who opens the door, not all of them are used to just walk inside the house. Atsushi, then, asks to the child to wait there so he can go to open the door. “I wanna see him! Where’s he?” Yumoto screams as soon as he gets in the house. “Is it true? So, En is now the youngest and not our dear grandpa?” Ryuu continues his questions. “Ryuu, please, we need to think about a solution, not to make jokes about the actual situation.” “Naruko is right, you are such a dumb person, but also, why are we supposed to be here?” Akoya asks towards Ibushi and Kinshiro. “We are here to help as well,” the tallest boy replies. “Here, this is what I got with the description you gave me,” Kinshiro says while handling a bag to Atsushi. “Thank you, and thanks to all for coming, I honestly don’t know what to do.” “You really don’t know, En-chan-senpai-chan is not in the living room” “What?!” All of them scream in unison. “It can’t be possible, I left him alone for less than 4 minutes.” Without even saying a word everyone starts looking for the child around the house, in the kitchen, the bedroom, every corner in the living room, bathroom, and so on without a result. “Maybe in the backyard?” Ryuu suggests when everyone seems to be done. “Wait!” Atsushi screams remembering something and goes upstairs with everyone following him. When they reach the end of the hall, there was an old piece of furniture, an old closet actually. Atsushi closes his eyes and crosses his fingers hoping to find En there. Thankfully the child is there, sleeping. “What the…?” Kinshiro murmurs, but holds himself before letting out an indecent word. “Oh, he’s so cute! Can I carry him senpai?” Yumoto asks and all of them think about the cuddles that Yumoto usually gives to Wombat, definitely, not good for a child. “I think it’s better if Atsushi takes him out, probably little En at this moment is more used to Atsushi than any of us,” Ibushi explains taking Yumoto’ shoulder and although there’s disappointment in Yumoto’s eyes he accepts. Atsushi bends over and carefully takes the child out of the closet and asks to Kinshiro to bring the bag with the clothes upstairs. Once they are all together again, they go to En’s room. “I honestly don’t know what could have happened, I just got here and he was like this,” Atsushi comments after having changed En-chan, however the boy is still asleep, “But, I honestly believe that Wombat is involved in this… unfortunately…” “Wombat disappeared since yesterday’s night” Kinshiro mentions and everyone sighs. “What we need to do first is to find Wombat, since we are all suspecting of him, and besides he’s the only one capable of doing something like this,” Ibushi proposes and everyone agrees. “I wonder if this is some kind of special show for those vulgar aliens,” Akoya questions and everyone gets tensed, it’s not like they want to be in one of those shows again. After some moments of discussion, they decide that Ibushi and Yumoto will go to look for Wombat, Io, Ryuu and Akoya will buy some stuff for a party, for a child’s party, and lastly Atsushi and Kinshiro will stay to take care of En- chan. When the five guys are out, there’s just silence all around the Yufuin’s residence. Both teens stay in the room watching as the child keeps sleeping on Atsushi’s lap. It is not a secret that both of them are worried, if Wombat is responsible about this, why isn’t here to at least tell them the reason? However, even if he’s worried, Kinshiro also has a limit for his patience and looking En sleeping all the time is making that that patience runs out. “Is that all what he does during the day?” Kinshiro cannot stop his comment and immediately blushes and turns his face to the other side. “Well… being En-chan, I think it’s pretty possible,” Atsushi chuckles, he has been carried En and brushing the child’s hair with one hand during this whole time. “I’m not sleeping,” a childish voice said, “but I’m too comfortable, so I didn’t want to talk, plus the other scares me… but just a bit,” the child confesses as he snuggles more into Atsushi’s hold, “I’m hungry, can you cook something again?” Kinshiro just rolls his eyes and stands up from the only chair that didn’t have any clothing or books on it. “Come on, let me help you,” he says to Atsushi and offers his hand to the bespectacled boy. “I think it’d be better if you take him and then I stand up,” the child holds stronger to Atsushi and looks at the teen from the corner of his eyes as if Atsushi is betraying him in the most awful manner, “It’s ok, he’s my best friend, you can trust him, right, Kin-chan?” Kinshiro looks as the child, not very convinced of performing the action, but tries to act as confident as he can and he nods. Slowly he bends over and takes the child from Atsushi’s hold. It’s obvious that En does not feel comfortable being with Kinshiro, but restrain himself from complaining, Atsushi looks kindly to both of them and stands up, he doesn’t take the child back, he just goes straight to the door and then to the kitchen, leaving the child and the white haired teen confused. After some minutes of dealing with what to do, Kinshiro starts awkwardly walking downstairs with the child, the discomfort is still evident in both of them. Once they reach the kitchen they see Atsushi putting on the apron and then looking for ingredients. “Would it be ok if I cooked curry?” Atsushi asks with an apologetically look. “Yes!!!!!!!” little En screams, lifting his arms and almost falling from Kinshiro’s hold, and so the white haired gets to look a bit hilarious when he tries to keep a hold of the child. “Is it ok, Kin-chan?” “He’s the birthday boy, we should eat what he likes,” the white haired boy replies and turns his face not to look at Atsushi. “Why? You don’t like curry?” big cerulean eyes look straight to green ones and Kinshiro just moves his head to reply in a negative way.  “HOW CAN THAT BE POSSIBLE??? CURRY IS SO DELICIOUS, NO ONE SHOULD HATE CURRY!!!!” the child actually screams and looks at Kinshiro in disbelief grabbing Kinshiro’s face with his chubby hands and almost pinching the white haired teen’s cheeks..   “En-chan, it’s ok that people don’t always like the same stuff, I’ll make curry for most of us, but then I’ll cook something different for Kin-chan, in the meantime, please take care of En-chan, ok Kin-chan?” There was no space for an argument, so they just nodded, Kinshiro carries En- chan again. They watch TV for a while, and then before Kinshiro can even notice, En-chan is not there. How is it possible that he didn’t notice when little En stood up?  Kinshiro feels his heart skip a beat and then he listens to the doorbell. “Kin-chan, can you get the door, please?” “Yes, sure,” Kinshiro quickly stands up and goes to get the door, it’s Akoya, Ryuu and Io. “Well, we are back with the stuff for the party, are we actually making this party for a child?” Ryuu asks and gets in to the house. “Yufuin is a child right now, it’s obvious it has to be a child party, so don’t complain anymore and help me to get everything ready!” “I’m gonna help Atsushi, or do you need any kind of help, Kusatsu-san? Is everything ok?” Io’s questions brings Kinshiro down to Earth again, but before he can say something about the lost child, there are some small footsteps coming down the hall. “Party!!!!!” The four teenagers look at the child, is it possible that En can actually be this energetic? Well apparently, it can be. The child jumps into Kinshiro’s arms, and once the teenager gets a hold of En and can look at the child’s face and hands, he sees that on one of the kid’s hands there are some chocolate rests and it’s also visible around his mouth, now there’s a reason for the sudden disappearance and the sudden energy. “Were you eating chocolate? And where did you find chocolates?” The child licks his fingers and cleans his mouth, “No, I don’t have chocolates in my room” he innocently replies and the second years laugh at the scene. “We’re back!” Yumoto announces since the door was still open, “En-chan-senpai- chan!!!” the blond screams and goes straight to take En out of Kinshiro’s hold and finally being able to start cuddling the child. For a moment, they think about taking the kid away of Yumoto’s hold, but strangely, it seems that the kid actually enjoys to be cuddled and he even cuddles Yumoto back. Laughing and snuggling with the blond, it’s actually a really sweet view and the others get mesmerized by the moment. “Hello, well, there was no sign of Wombat in any of the typical places he frequents,” Ibushi informs when he gets to the door and all of them sigh. “Well, then we just have to wait and have a childish party, Naruko, Zaou, Arima, come and help me out,” Akoya orders and just keeps walking without waiting for a response, interesting enough the three of them just follow. “Kinshiro-senpai, let’s go and play with En-chan-senpai-chan!” Yumoto says and grabs Kinshiro’s hand while still carrying little En-chan with his other arm and the little one giggles and holds onto Yumoto while the blond runs at full speed through the house. They go to the back yard and play soccer together, well more like helping En to kick the ball, it’s funny to see that En’ small legs cannot even kick the ball if no one carries him. So, they take turns, at one moment, Kinshiro is the one carrying En and Yumoto being the goal keeper, and then the other way around. It’s actually pretty tiring, but seeing the small kid laughing so hard and jumping every time he scores a goal, makes it worth. “Lunch is ready!” Atsushi announces and En-chan jumps off Yumoto’s hold to run to the dining room. “Did you wash your hands?” Atsushi asks to the child once he sees the little boy sitting down. The child dusts off his hands on his clothes and smirks saying he’s ready to eat, but that’s not a valid option for Atsushi, so the bespectacled boy takes the kid to actually wash his hands. “There’s no point, I’ll get dirty again,” the kid complains, but before he can continue, Atsushi also cleans his mouth. “It’s necessary to be cleaned, ok? Besides it’s not healthy to eat your food with dirty hands, and were you eating something before lunch?” “No,” the child replies again, hiding the fact of the chocolates he ate, “I want to sleep,” he says as he yawns. Is it possible for a child to change his needs so fast? Atsushi is not sure of the answer, but he knows he won’t let En-chan sleep until having lunch. “For now, you have to eat, besides everyone is waiting for you so we can have lunch together as part of your birthday celebration, so let’s go now.” The child pouts, rubs his teary eyes, and grabs Atsushi’s shirt as a way to complain, but he keeps his actual words in silence. Once they reach again the dining room they see all of them sitting together and ready to eat. However, that doesn’t motivates at all the little sleepy En-chan, it’s hard to get him to eat and he actually leaves more than the half of his food and keeps rejecting each try that Atsushi does to make him eat a bit more. “There’s no point, it’s Yufuin after all; it’s better if you leave him sleep now,” Ryuu says, his heart is breaking of just looking at the kid’s teary eyes and pouts.   “It’s true Kinugawa, let him sleep, I hate to agree with Zaou, but the poor child needs to sleep.” Atsushi sighs after Akoya’s words, he really didn’t want to let the kid going to bed if he hadn’t eaten enough, but they are right. Nonetheless, before he can take En-chan to sleep, the phone rings. It’s obvious that the caller must be En’s parents, when they are out of town they call before En gets to nap to see how En is doing and some other typical stuff they ask. “I’ll answer the phone” Atsushi says and so Yumoto takes En for the bespectacled boy so he can go and answer it. “Mommy, daddy?” a sleepy En-chan asks, “I wanna talk” “Let’s go to sleep, ok? It’s better for you to sleep so you can play with mom and dad when they come back, right?” Yumoto says and takes En away, but the rest can listen to the child’s crying as Yumoto takes him away claiming that he wants to talk with his mom and dad. “I’ll go to help Yumoto,” Ryuu quickly says and stands up. “I’ll clean over here, and maybe Naruko and Akoya can finish the decoration for the party,” Ibushi says and the two guys nod. Meanwhile, Atsushi is finally getting the call and trying to sound as calm and normal as he can, he speaks with Mrs. Yufuin. “Hello Mrs. Yufuin, hi… En-chan is… well, yes, he is actually already napping… yeah, well… ah… no, no, I… we… no… yes we are dating, but… well…yes… …yes… I’m shy… yes… sure Mrs, Yufuin, enjoy your trip…” Atsushi hangs up the phone, he’s blushing and his heart is beating so fast he can actually listen to his heartbeat. There’s a pause, in every action for him, but not for too long since Kinshiro starts talking. “You’ve never been good at telling lies” the president comments, Atsushi tries to look somewhere else to try to hide his blushing face with no result, since even his ears are red, “If this wouldn’t be happening, well… we know the day would have been pretty different for you two,” Kinshiro teases and smirks when he sees that the bespectacled boy gets even redder after his comment. “I’m gonna see if Ryuu and Yumoto are doing ok,” the blue haired teen says, but turns around, “and… just for you to know, nothing like that has happened” Atsushi comments, his ears and face still completely red as he leaves the dining room and go straight to En’s room. Once he crosses the door he finds that the child is sleeping peacefully on the futon, hugging Chiku-chan, and slightly snoring. However, this was apparently a huge job for the youngest members of the Defense Club. Ryuu looks up at Atsushi, his hair is a mess and he’s even sweating. “He tugged my hair! Is it possible for a child to be that strong? I would have never believe a child could be that strong” Ryuu complains, but he does not screams, he whispers in the most dramatic way than anyone can ever imagine. “He calmed down after we gave him that plushie thing, he fell asleep after that,” Yumoto says laying next to the child. Atsushi kindly smiles and sits next to Yumoto. “What are we going to do if Wombat doesn’t show up?” Ryuu asks, apparently he does not want to keep taking care of the child. “Honestly, I don’t know, I don’t even know what we can do if he wakes up, he’s waiting to see his parents, and right now his parents are in Kyoto,” Atsushi replies and there are three sighs that can be heard in the room. The three stay there for a while, watching the little boy sleeping and thinking about where to find Wombat. After half an hour, there’s a knock to the door, and a pink haired sneak into the room with a happy smile. “Everything is ready, you can wake him up,” Akoya says and Atsushi nods. Ryuu is a bit scared, he does not want the child to cry again or even worse that En will pull his hair out of anger again. Yumoto just nods, he thinks En will get happy when he sees the party and that everyone is there to celebrate with him. Atsushi gets closer to the kid, he thinks about what to do to wake him up, normally he will poke En or move him or even sit on top of him to wake him up, but that does not seem quite right to do with a kid. “En-chan,” Atsushi says almost singing, “there’s a birthday party for you, come on wake up…” The child turns around, hugging Chiku-chan and complaining about the noise. Atsushi decides then to carry him to the living room and trying to wake him up in the way to the living room. It turns out to be a good idea, the child starts rubbing his eyes and keeping his eyes half opened looking at Atsushi. Akoya indicates to Atsushi to walk a bit slower and grabs Yumoto and Ryuu’s wrists so they walk faster with him. “En-chan, be ready, we have a nice surprise for you,” Atsushi whispers to En and the child lifts his head a bit more, still hugging his dear Chiku-chan. Once they get to the living room, all the guys that are there scream together “Happy birthday!” En finally wakes up and gets excited, Atsushi puts him down and the child runs around the living room. “Look, look!!! There are cats everywhere!!!” he says, his eyes shining with excitement, “Look, look!!! All are so pretty!!! Chiku-chan has a lot of friends today!!! Cats, cats, cats!!!!!” Akoya grins as a sign of victory, after all he chose all the stuff that is decorating the living room in this moment. Once the child gets to be a bit calmer, all of them sit around the living room with the little kid and start playing games with him. Obviously, most of the games they do are related to cats, and each time someone gets a correct answer the person gets a piece of manju. Of course, little En keeps stealing some manju every once in a while, when he thinks no one is watching. At one moment, all of them are wearing cat ears and even tails, En also gets a cat mask and he keeps meowing while jumping around, the little boy is fascinated and gets to play with each one of the boys. There’s also a piñata for the party, with a cat form, and En enjoys the moment of playing with it and looking at how the candies fell from it. Little En even believes that the piñata cat is magical for throwing candies like that. The teenagers get to be actually pretty surprised by how the child behaves, they never imagine that En could have been such as hyper child, and obviously no one hesitates in taking pictures of the moments of energy of the little kid. It’s almost 6pm, there’s still no sign of Wombat. So, the guys decide to sing happy birthday to the child. After all, the whole day has passed and it doesn’t seem possible to have a change for today. When they sing, En keeps clapping his hands and smiling. He looks at the candle’s flame, his eyes shining so bright that they look like two stars; he reaches for Atsushi’s hand and hugs the blue haired teen. Fortunately, Ryuu takes the chance and takes a picture of that cute scene at the perfect moment.  When the singing is over the kid blows the candles and giggles, and of course all of them get to eat some of the delicious chocolate cake. It’s been a wonderful day, now they are all still waiting for Wombat or at least that whatever Wombat did lose it effect. “I’m sleepy” En-chan says one more time in this day at almost 8 o’clock. “Well, let’s be honest, it actually has passed a lot of time, let’s be thankful to all the sugar he consumed,” Io comments, he is the one holding En-chan by the moment. “True, well, I think it’s not necessary that all of us stay, I already texted my parents, so I’ll stay to see if there’s a change by tomorrow morning,” Atsushi says and picks En-chan up. “Indeed, but are you going to be ok alone?” Kinshiro asks. “Well, I don’t think he wakes up in the middle of the night, I mean he’s En- chan,” Atsushi replies and chuckles, and the rest of the guys also laughs. The guys leave the Yufuin’s residence, after having been babysitters for a whole day. While walking, they share the pictures they took during the day and also send the pictures to Atsushi and even En-chan, after all it’s going to be funny to see En’s reaction when he sees himself as a child and being so active. In the meantime, Atsushi slowly walks with En-chan to the bedroom, carefully he places En in the futon and goes to search the extra futon that he knows En keeps in his closet. “Mommy?” the little one asks and rubs his eyes. “Hi, I thought you were sleeping already,” Atsushi says and goes to sit next to the child. “I heard noise, I thought mommy was here” Atsushi’s heart clenches, he knows that En’s parents are not a fault for not being here today, after all he was actually the one who told them that he wanted to spend the day alone with En. Now, he was regretting his decision, but mainly he wanted to find Wombat and order him to turn En back to normal. Atsushi is lost in his thoughts when he feels a tiny hand taking his own hand. He looks down and sees as the child gets to cuddle on his lap. “Wanna sleep with you,” the child says and Atsushi nods, he caresses the kid head and quickly the boy falls asleep. **********************   It’s morning, he already feels the sun light getting through the window, but also he feels strong arms that are holding him, he feels his back is about to break and a huge weight on him. When he opens his eyes he can see dirty blond hair, which is pretty messed. He remembers that last night he fell asleep while holding En-chan, but En-chan was a little boy. “En-chan!” the bespectacled boy screams once he realizes of the change, but the answer he gets are some mumbles and complains. Atsushi then tries to take En’s face on his hands to verify that the boy is actually a teenager and not a 5 years old kid. “So noisy,” En murmurs and lifts his head to kiss Atsushi, but he doesn’t get what he wants. “You’re back!” Atsushi exclaims still holding En’s face. “I told you I wasn’t going with my parents, why so surprised?” “Because you’re back!” Atsushi repeats again, En looks confused and so Atsushi knows it’s time to explain. Apparently the other teen does not remember anything at all from his birthday. After looking at the pictures, watching the videos, and listening to the whole story from Atsushi, En-chan keeps silent for a moment and the bespectacled boy just looks at him. “So… I miss my first birthday, my birthday that we were going to celebrate as a couple because of Wombat…” Who would say it? En Yufuin actually wanted to celebrate his birthday this year, and the tone of the voice with the one he says those words gets to Atsushi’s heart. Atsushi will definitely get even with Wombat at the given moment. “You know, we can have a two-day-celebration-birthday, we don’t need to wait until next year,” Atsushi goes closer to hug and kiss En-chan. “Really?” the spark in En’s eyes makes him look like the little boy that he was just yesterday and Atsushi chuckles at that, “And can we go later to find Wombat and claim revenge? Now that I remember I saw him the night before my birthday, he came saying something about a precious gift for me…” “A precious gift, eh? Well maybe Wombat was not so wrong, you know, come on, there’s a lot to do today.” Atsushi replies holding En’s hand and helping him to stand up, maybe it was not July 2nd anymore, but who cares, when you want to celebrate someone’s life there’s no specific date to do it, especially if you love that person. ***** Happy Birthday my dear En-chan! ***** Chapter Summary After been a child on his birthday, En has a second birthday celebration and just with Atsushi. Chapter Notes OK I'm too tired to write notes right now, so funny Spanish for this guiño, guiño, 13,13 uy papi.... I can't believe I wrote two lemon fics for this week XD See the end of the chapter for more notes Happy Birthday! It has been a really nice day after all, it is not July 2nd, but having the chance to have two different birthday celebrations in just one year makes it special. He and Atsushi have returned to his place after having been out all day. They even get the chance to see the other guys; although that has not been a really enjoyable part of the day, all of them have talked about how cute and energetic he was as a child and to be honest, it is kind of embarrassing to hear that. However, it is not the time to keep thinking about it. He is back at home with Atsushi, there’s nothing else to worry about it, and even if he hasn’t been able to see Wombat to claim revenge, he feels good. He opens the door and lets Atsushi get in first, he then closes the door and together they walk to the kitchen to get something to drink. “Ah! Now that I remember, there’s something else!” Atsushi expresses and goes to the fridge. “Something else? I thought there were no more surprises, you know it’s been really cool there’s no need for more,” the taller boy comments and looks at the blue haired with a raised eyebrow. “Remember you told me you wanted to taste cheesecake, I got some at a store downtown yesterday, and I put it into the fridge when I got here, I think we can eat it today,” the bespectacled boy replies and pulls out said dessert. “You really got some! Thanks Atsushi!” Atsushi smiles, he can perceive that En is really thankful for this, but it’s been weird to actually see the blue eyed teen so thankful for every single action that they have done during the day. To be honest, En has been saying thanks to almost everything Atsushi has done so far. It’s not like En is an ungrateful brat, but so many “thank you’s” in one day it’s just weird. “You really are in a good mood, don’t you? Even if you haven’t slept all your requested hours today, you seem really happy” Atsushi mocks, but he feels a quick change in En’s mood, like if he is embarrassed for the words. “Let’s go to my room, ok?” Atsushi nods, he feels that he has done something wrong, or at least, he feels kind of uncomfortable now. They get to the room and eat the cheesecake, and then as usual En just puts the dishes apart over his desks, and after that, in one simple and quickly move he wraps Atsushi in his arms. They both remain sitting down, Atsushi been wrapped in En’s arms and trying to correspond the hug as much as h can; and in the room is filled with silence for a moment. “Thank you,” the dirty blond whispers once more into Atsushi’s ear. “En-chan, you don’t have to thank me, I love you and this is the less I can do for you,” Atsushi replies and turns around to give a kiss to En. “This is the first time someone has been with me during all my birthday,” En whispers into Atsushi’s ear. Atsushi is surprised by the statement, it didn’t look like En’s parents will leave him alone during his birthday, not after the struggle they had to deal to calm him down. The blue haired boy keeps in silence, but grabs En’s hands and lifts the dirty blond face with his free hand. Maybe with that simple touch Atsushi is asking En to explain a bit more, the blue eyed boy understands and he kisses the hand that is linked to his. “My parents were always with me in the morning, they woke me up, and we had breakfast together, but after that they would leave to work. I’d stay at home watching TV or sleeping, waiting for them to come back at night, but most of the times I was already slept” En says, his words are muffled since he leans towards Atsushi’s shoulder, “That’s why I didn’t like to celebrate my birthday.” Now, it’s really understandable the reason why En, as a kid, was so desperate to talk and see his parents. Atsushi grabs stronger En’s hand, he is lost at words; how can he reply something like this? It’s true that in his family was also hard to have a time with all the family members, but he knows that his parents would always stop their activities when it was his or his sister’s birthday. “It was not that bad, you don’t have to worry about the past, I love my parents, you know that and you know that they love me, but… well it’s not so easy for middle class families that want their kids to go to the greatest high schools to get enough money for everything,” En says and again pushes Atsushi closer to him, “I remember I used to tell them that I didn’t care about a future, ‘cuz I preferred to be with them, but you know what?” “What?” Atsushi asks while caressing En’s hair. “Thanks to them being so worried about my education I got to meet you, at the end, they gave me the greatest present I could have ever received because you are always there for me, thank you Atsushi.” The way En says those words, the way that he’s holding him, all the little details in the atmosphere right now make Atsushi really feel as if he’s En’s most precious possession. Suddenly, Atsushi stands up, for a moment En believes that he has said something wrong or at least he does not have an idea of what Atsushi is doing now. The bespectacled boy goes straight to turn off the light, En tilts his head and is about to ask what’s going on, but before he can say something, Atsushi starts speaking. “I want you to know, that I’ll be there for you, always! Always! Even if you can’t see me or even if you can’t hold my hand, I’m always gonna be there for you, I love you En-chan and I want you to know that, I’ll never leave your side,” Atsushi expresses, he’s still at some point of the room without getting closer to En. “Thank you…I love you more than anything, you know?” En whispers, he tries to keep his voice steady, but Atsushi knows that the older is holding his tears. Slowly he walks towards En, he does not turn on the light; he can find his boyfriend easily and so he wraps his arms around En as soon as he gets to him. Atsushi sits on En’s lap and without a word they share a kiss and En puts Atsushi’s legs around his waist. It’s the first time they are in such an intimate position and the first time that the kiss is not so innocent. They pull apart, and they notice the heat that comes from each other’s body. They can clearly see to each other with the dim moonlight that gets into En’s room through the window. Atsushi believes that’s the perfect view, En’s beautiful sapphire eyes shining with the silver light provided by the moon, sometimes he wishes he could know what En is exactly thinking, but he has learned in all these years that that’s not really possible. En’s mind is such a beautiful mystery, and he’s glad of that, and he actually takes that as an attractive challenge to carry on. On the other hand En keeps thinking he’s the luckiest guy in the world having such as loving person as his boyfriend, he really can’t come up with a good reason for having such an amazing luck, but he thanks whichever power gave him this bless. En goes back and kisses Atsushi once more, he wants to show to his dear Atsushi how much he loves him. The kiss starts out as a chaste one, just a simple peck on the lips, then slowly and sweetly En licks Atsushi’s lips, getting little by little to explore his boyfriend’s mouth with his tongue. Atsushi slides his hands towards En’s broad chest and then taking his curious hands towards En’s back and keeping them there to hug En tightly. The dirty blond continues with the kiss as far as he can, and letting himself go with the moment he takes a small bite of Atsushi’s lower lip. Unconsciously, the blue haired teen licks his lip to soften the little pain he feels from the bite, and that makes En’s heart skip a bit. It is pretty sexy to have a look at that innocent action, but such an innocence awakes the dirty blond. Once again En strikes against the younger boy with a kiss, the brown eyed boy; who is not ready for such a fast come back; unexpectedly, lets out a moan when En licks and bites his lips and quickly the dirty blond gets his hands under his shirt caressing his abdomen.     Atsushi moans again and pulls apart from the kiss to get some air. His face is completely blushed, his lips are red and swollen and his breathing is pretty heavy. Having that sight in front of him, En feels a growing pain on his lower part, this is more than what they have done so far, and he’s hesitating about what to do. Unfortunately his mind is playing really unfair and giving him several ideas and his lower part is also betraying him and he buckles his hips against Atsushi’s once more. Both of them groan at the sensation and at least En calms a bit more by knowing that he’s not the only one that feels like that at the moment. Being caught in his thoughts he’s taken out of guard when Atsushi’s hands touches him closer to his crotch making him grunt and hold his breath for a few seconds. The bespectacled boy repeats his action and being unable to control himself En buckles his hips again and feels an unbearable pressure over there. “Atsushi…” he whispers his voice getting hoarse, and he holds Atsushi’s hands before the other repeats his action, “we’ve never got to this point… is it… is it…” “It’s ok,” the bespectacled boy replies before En can ask his questions, “I think it’s ok…” he repeats and kisses En once more. En presses Atsushi to his chest and both tremble at the sensation of their bodies being so closed, especially with the little friction they feel on that sensitive spot. This time, En breaks apart first and after normalizing a bit his breathing, he goes and gives a kiss to then continuing licking Atsushi’s jaws. After that he traces a small path of kisses until the point in which Atsushi’s shirt becomes an obstacle. Being a bit mad with this, En just pushes up the shirt leaving Atsushi’s torso’s naked, the blue haired boy trembles a bit when he feels the cool air hitting his hot skin. At the sight En licks his lips and Atsushi cannot avoid getting blushed by that. “You always see me like this, there’s nothing new about it… and I’m pretty skinny… you know,” the younger complains and tries to cover his chest with his hands. “Don’t do that!” En demands and pulls apart Atsushi’s hands, “it’s true we always see each other like this, but in this moment, we’re alone, we belong to each other and you’re perfect for me, I love everything about you,” he says with no hesitation and plants some kisses on Atsushi’s chest while holding his hands and lies the blue haired boy on the futon. The boy squirms, feeling En’s hot kisses and the warm of his saliva on his chest and stomach it’s a whole new sensation and he wants to register everything about that; although he’s sure his senses are gonna fail him at any moment. Now, it’s Atsushi who bucks his hips and starts feeling more and more pressure under his pants. However, with En holding his arms and his legs he feels pretty restricted in the position he’s right now, and he can’t do anything to avoid that movement. En actually grins when he notices Atsushi’s desperation when he licks several times one of the boy’s nipples and he starts pinching the other with his fingers. En is delight by the view and keeps licking, nibbling, and touching all around Atsushi’s chest. Then, after a while, En lets go of the younger’s hands, and his first movement is to grabs En’s shoulders and holds tightly into him. En kisses him one more time and make sure to lightly rub their erections, the taller nibbles hard Atsushi’s earlobe and so the bespectacled boy lets out a cry of pleasure when he cums. Atsushi’s breathing is pretty irregular and he’s hotter by now, he looks from the corner of the eye to En who is grinning, the dirty blonde delicately touches Atsushi’s pants and with one of his fingers he licks a bit of Atsushi’s cum. “Tastes as good as you,” he mocks and smiles seductively. Atsushi gets even redder than before and he pushes En against the futon, the older is too distracted with the recent burning sensation on his back, so he does not notices Atsushi who goes down and unzips his pants. The bespectacled boy kisses En’s cock through the fabric and feels as it throbs a bit. En groans at that feeling and he lifts his hips almost by instinct when Atsushi pulls down his pants and underwear. Atsushi playfully takes En’s shaft into one of his hands and teases with one finger the whole length, he then smiles mischievously as he gives little peck to the tip of En’s member. En throws his head back and his breathing becomes faster. “Don’t play…” he gets to say, but the blue haired teen smiles and ignores En’s petition, the blue haired teen loves to look at those lidded eyes that brightly shine in the dark of the room. Atsushi keeps moving a finger all around En’s length, the dirty blond bucks his hips, totally frustrated to get more attention on that part, and so Atsushi complies. He licks a bit first, tasting the precum that has come out already and getting used to the taste. Then, he opens up his mouth and takes just the tip, En moans loudly and he bucks his hips making Atsushi takes more of himself into his mouth. The older cannot prevent himself of grabbing Atsushi’s hair and pushing him to take even more. The bespectacled boy handles it and moves up and down taking as much as he can with each movement. “Atsushi… I can’t… anymore… let go…” En says, he can barely let the words out, but even if Atsushi listens to him, he just doesn’t obey. Atsushi keeps bobbing and licking and without being able to control himself, En cums in Atsushi’s mouth and there’s a thin white smear falling down from Atsushi’s mouth. The teen cleans his mouth and takes off his glasses. “Why?” En asks, still trying to normalize his breathing. “You’re not the only one allow to have fun,” Atsushi says. There’s a pause; both heavily breathing, but En is the first one to reach for Atsushi and pulls him over him to kiss him even more. Until then, En realizes that he’s still wearing his t-shirt and that Atsushi is still wearing his pants. The blue eyed teen wants to simply strip himself and Atsushi, but he also wants to enjoy that moment. Feeling Atsushi’s breath and his body’s hotness over him it’s driving him crazy. However, he holds himself and gently places Atsushi right next to him and kisses the bespectacled boy’s cheek. “Do you want to stop now?” En asks, he does not want to disrespect Atsushi, he looks straight to the beautiful brown orbs that look so bright and that practically represents En’s whole world. “We’ve gone this far, I don’t see a reason to stop now,” the blue haired teen replies and kisses En on the lips. Slowly, they enjoy their kiss, feeling their tongues intertwined and each other small moaning and mewling when they try to reach even closer. En pulls apart from the kiss, and starts tracing Atsushi’s torso with kisses and light caress, reaching down until the point in which Atsushi’s pants get in his way. His hands tremble a bit and he hesitates about pulling down the teen’s pants, so Atsushi takes En’s hands and slowly guides him in the action, helping the dirty blond lifting his hips and removing his pants. He shivers at the cold sensation of feeling the air of the night on his skin, but that doesn’t last long, En immediately starts given attention to the now uncovered skin. The taller boy takes one of Atsushi’s leg and pulls it over his shoulder and so he starts kissing the inner part of the tight while his hands rubs the other leg. The blue haired teen looks at his boyfriend, he seems so deep in thought, so focused and passionate on his actions. Nonetheless, even if Atsushi loves to admire his boyfriend, he can’t keep doing that when En drags his tongue so very closed to his cock that he parts his lips to let out a loud moan, which actually makes En take a look at him. “Am I doing this right?” En innocently asks tilting his head, he actually looks a bit worry, “You know, I literally have no experience on this.” “You’re doing it perfectly, En-chan,” Atsushi replies, kindly smiling to his boyfriend to make him know that everything is ok, “And remember, none of us have experience, so it’s ok.” En feels better by the reassuring answer that Atsushi gives him, he takes advantage of this pause and removes his t-shirt. He does not know why, but he actually feels the urge to just go and lie down with Atsushi for a moment, and so he does. He strongly wraps his arms around Atsushi, the other boy corresponding the hug. Both feeling their bodies for the first time completely uncovered and adoring the sensation of their skins being together. En swiftly moves, rubbing their growing erections once more. “I don’t know what to do now… I know that it can hurt and I don’t want to hurt you,” En whispers into Atsushi’s ear. It’s weird, but En sounds like a little kid, Atsushi cannot avoid his chuckling at the thought and at how cute En’s voice sounds. Even if they are doing this, he knows there’s plenty of innocence in both of them. After all, they are doing this out of love. “You know, it’ll be ok,” Atsushi answers back after a moment, “I’m with you, and there’s nothing that can go wrong when I’m with you.” The dirty blond hugs him even stronger, gives a kiss to Atsushi’s forehead, and stands up. The blue haired boy is confused by the action and sees as En goes straight to his desk. “I need to find something my mom gave me the other day,” En explains when he looks back and sees Atsushi’s puzzled expression. “Your mom?” “This is kind embarrassing…” En murmurs and keeps talking, “when she knew we started dating… well… she bought… some stuff… for us…” As soon as Atsushi understands what En is saying he blushes so much that he thinks that En can actually find him just by the blushed on his face. After some rummaging through his drawer desk he finds the bottle and goes back to the futon where Atsushi is now sitting and hiding his face with his hands. En takes both hands giving a kiss to each of them and putting them down. “Sorry for the unexpected pause,” he says and goes to kiss Atsushi on the lips one more. There’s a change in the pace of the actions. En moves slowly, nibbling and tasting Atsushi’s skin, from his collarbone to his legs. En wants to have as much of Atsushi’s essence as he can, he needs to memorize and remember Atsushi’s beauty. The younger, on the other hand, mewls and squeezes at every touch and tender kiss he receives, murmuring En’s name every time his voice allows him to talk. The atmosphere gets to be pretty intense, En accelerates his action, which is pretty amazing for the lazy boy, but he goes tracing paths with kisses and his hands through all of Atsushi’s body. The blue haired teen tries to hold onto En, grabbing his arms, or his hair depending on En’s position, but with no success of having a way to support his trembling body. “Can I… well you know…” En suddenly says pausing his action and looking right into the eyes of a panting Atsushi. “You mean…” Atsushi trails off, still panting, but that is not the real reason not to finish his phrase, he gets embarrassed of the idea of saying ‘that.’ “Yes…” the dirty blond replies and keeps locking his eyes with Atsushi’s. The smaller man tries to produce a sound that can affirm to En that he can go ahead and prepare him for what’s coming now, but his voice betrays him. Instead, he ends up nodding, his face even redder than before. En also nods, he grabs the bottle once more, but before performing any action, he goes to pull Atsushi into another heated kiss, their hands reaching each other’s bodies and both feeling the leaking precum that starts to cover their lower parts. “I’m gonna be really careful,” En says after pulling apart from the kiss and recovering his breath. Atsushi nods, there are no words that can reassure anymore En because Atsushi’s eyes are full with love and trust towards En. Then, the older covers his fingers with some lube, he is completely unsure on how to proceed, he looks again at Atsushi, his eyes are a bit different, they keep that shine of innocence that En loves, but also there’s a bit of lust in his brown eyes. That simply helps En to unlock himself from the mental cage in which he was in. That look in Atsushi’s face that is totally blushed and covered with sweat, the lips that are covered with their saliva, swollen and pink, and the eyes that shine as a beautiful as the moon, makes En move with no hesitation. The taller boy lifts a bit Atsushi’s hips and as slowly and gentle as he can he put one finger in. the dirty blond feels as Atsushi tenses and whines a bit, En gets worried by this sudden change, but he bends over and starts kissing Atsushi to help him get distracted. “I’m ok…” Atsushi reassures him and softly he places his hand on En’s jaw, “You can go ahead, I told you I’ll be fine with you.” En nods, and he pulls out his finger to get more lube over it and when he goes back to work, he as tenderly as he can, he puts two of his fingers in. Again, he perceives that Atsushi is going through a lot of pain, he does not like that. He tries to think fast, his solution again kissing his boyfriend and with his other hand he takes Atsushi’s cock and start pumping it. He grins once that he feels Atsushi’s moans and his body getting spasms. “I won’t… I… last longer…” Atsushi pants when he pulls apart from the kiss. “You look so good,” that what En replies and Atsushi can’t help it but chuckle at how distracted En can be. However, En did put attention to what Atsushi has said. He pulls out his fingers again, and he starts tantalizing Atsushi’s entrance with his cock. En cannot avoid it, he grunts, he feels really good and this is something that he never thought it could feel so extremely good. They gasp in unison, their breathing are irregular, and their muscles tremble with each movement they attempt to do. En tries to regain his strength, he makes eye contact one more time with Atsushi and gives one more kiss, and he could swear that he would never get tired of Atsushi’s taste, of his lips, of feeling those delicate lips being in touch with his. Once he breaks apart, he moves to align, he takes a deep breath and so does Atsushi. Slowly he pushes the tip into Atsushi’s entrance, the blue haired loudly gasping at the intrusion and arching his back. En being so caught up by Atsushi’s movement he pushes deeper, making the other moan and grabs the sheet with such a strength that his knuckles go white in just a few moments. The blue haired teen breathes quickly, his face completely flustered and sweat falling all over his face and body. En gets hypnotized by the view he has below him, his boyfriend being a tremble moaning mess and squirming at the tiniest movement he does. “Atsushi… I… I want to move…” En says, his face getting flushed and having an evident tremble on his muscles as well. “Go on…” Atsushi weakly replies with a smile on his face. En breaths in and slowly lets out the air, he grabs Atsushi’s legs and place them around his waist, holding them tight and starting to move back and forth. He starts with a gentle and slow movement. He does not want to hurt Atsushi after all, he wants this first time to be as perfect as possible, and until now, he feels that it has gone like that. Nonetheless, he is surprised by Atsushi, who starts moving and meeting each one of En’s thrusts. “There’s no need to be afraid,” Atsushi says while gasping and sounding a bit drained, but reaching to kiss En. En complies and goes down to kiss Atsushi, he starts sloppily kissing him while going back and forth as fast as he can. Atsushi can barely breathe, there’s too many things going on now for him; feeling En’s lips going all over his face, having En’s chest just rubbing his own so hard, and then that feeling of being one with En, it’s much than what he can bare. He tries to register all those emotions, all those sensations, all those new feelings that he is experimenting. He tries to keep track of everything, but he’s again attacked by En’s constant kisses. This time En envelopes him in such a deep kiss that there’s no pause, there’s no time to breathe, En plays with his lips, with his tongue, he bites and nibbles as Atsushi tries to scream or moan, anything would be good, he just needs to let out his air, but En does not seem to understand his need in this moment. Atsushi knows he’s not gonna last any longer, and he tries to let En knows, but the other does not allow him to make any kind of sound. En is just too focused, too out of himself, because all what is on En’s mind right now it’s Atsushi. To make Atsushi feels good, to make him feel as he has never felt in his whole life. And so, if Atsushi has to be honest, En is really getting that goal. “En…” Atsushi finally gets to say, but it’s cut out when En goes back to kiss him. En keeps thrusting him, now strongly and faster, and just at that moment, En gets to hit that spot. There’s no more time for Atsushi, he cums while being kissed by En and he splutters both of his stomachs. Once more, Atsushi arches his back emptying himself and heavily panting and feeling dizzy because of the climax he has just experimented. En looks at Atsushi, he thrust a couple of times, and he loudly grunts when he reaches his climax as well. En seems to be lost in the moment, his irregular breathing and Atsushi’s pants being the only sound that fill the room. En trembles a bit when he pulls out of Atsushi and so the other unwraps his legs from En’s waist. The taller goes down and lies next to Atsushi. He caresses Atsushi’s hair and moves a part of it behind the blue haired teen’s ear, En slowly moves to kiss Atsushi’s cheek and he caresses the teen face with his hand. Atsushi cups En’s hand with his. They stare to each other in the silently night and both having a gentle smile on each other lips. “I love you,” En murmurs and wraps Atsushi with his arms. “I love you too, I hope you like your birthday,” Atsushi comments and kisses En’s forehead. “There’s no need to reply, but I love it, thank you, you’re everything I need.” En replies and snuggles Atsushi’s chest, he quickly pulls apart from the hug just to take a clean blanket to put it over them. “Is it ok if we sleep like this?” he asks, he seems to be too tired to go and take a shower and with his expression his almost begging to Atsushi to say yes. “Just because it’s your birthday, but after this time, never again,” he answers back, to be honest he’s also really tired and does not feel any kind of strength to stand up. En happily smiles and goes back to cuddle with Atsushi. Both teens embrace each other and share a few more pecks until the action itself makes them fall asleep, but never letting go of each other. After all, they mean the world for each other, and there’s nothing that can make them change their minds. Chapter End Notes so I Hope it was good, I didn't want to repeat many things from the first fic I worte for the week, which is the last episode of this sequence and I hope the sequence makes sense LOL ***** Our Blue Moon ***** Chapter Summary There are some moments in which En leaves his lazy side and becomes a much more active boy Chapter Notes I wrote this one first for the week, it was really hard cuz it's been like a year since I wrote something lemon and so I was afraid of not getting a good result XD Our Blue Moon “This part of him, this side of him…There’s no one… there’s no one else who has the right to see this side of En Yufuin. And Atsushi loves the fact that he is the only one who is allowed to see and enjoy this part of his dear En-chan.” Atsushi realizes that today is that kind of day when En gets closer to him at the end of the club activities and whispers to him, with a husky voice and a look that he couldn’t dismiss “come home with me.” The bespectacled boy does not ask why or even bother to reply, when En asks it this way there’s no way to say no. It’s not a demanding voice, not even imperative, there’s no sense of possessiveness either. So, after coming out of the Kurotama Bath and saying their farewells to their juniors, they start their way to En’s place. They walk closed to each other, but none of them take the other’s hand. It’s weird and funny that En can actually walks faster than usual, but Atsushi knows that the only thing in En- chan’s mind in this moment is being alone with him. He loves that, he loves the fact that En needs this time alone with him, that En needs to have this level of intimacy with him. Sometimes, Atsushi thinks he is the real possessive person in their relationship, but when he analyses if he feels guilty or bad about it, he realizes that he simply does not care. He honestly loves to feel this important to En. Once they reach En’s place, the taller opens the door and as soon as they get in, he closes it and corners Atsushi. The bespectacled boy is a bit stunned, but can’t hold too long on this emotion, he gets traps in a passionate kiss. An intrusive and persistence tongue keeps begging to enter into the younger’s mouth, which after some resistance from Atsushi’ side, finally gets in. The delicate touches, but the meticulous inspection given to Atsushi’s mouth makes the younger squeezes and let go of a tiny moan. Their breathings quickly accelerate and so it does the warm in their bodies. “Sorry, couldn’t hold on any longer,” En whispers after they separate from their kiss to breath. Atsushi is out of his breath, he can only look at En-chan and smiles. En gets closer and strongly hugs Atsushi. The blue haired teen is surprised by the action, he can perceive something different in the emotion of the hug. The taller boy stays there, he wants to have the time to taste Atsushi’s essence, smelling it slowly and getting as close as he can. En wants to absorb and memorize every single detail, every single trace of Atsushi’ skin and smell. He just wants to stay there in silence for a while, stay there enjoying their moment, their privacy. Just staying there in perfect silence and listening to the synchrony of their heart beats. “I love you, Atsushi,” En says, his voice without a single trace of hesitation and the hold of his arms gets stronger than any other time.  Atsushi’s heart skip a beat and he wants his voice to come out and reply in the same way that En just did, but he doesn’t have the time. En takes him and carries him over his shoulder upstairs. “En-chan! What are you doing?” Atsushi asks, but there’s no answer, he just can catch what seems to be a grin on En’s expression, “En-chan, I’m heavy, let me walk!” “Yeah, and I’m never sleepy, just wait!” En replies with a sarcasm that makes Atsushi pouts, but En ignores that to open the door to his bedroom. Some people might believe that En’s laziness would make him be careless and do things as fast as possible just to go and be free again, or some believe that he never does anything. However, Atsushi knows that’s the biggest lie ever told in this world, and he confirms it once En puts him down. The room is surrounded by green and blue candles, which obviously are not lighten up, not yet, some petals are adorning the floor and there’s a delicate aroma going around. Did En work on all of this before going to school today? That means that he must have woken up earlier than ever, and that also explains why he received that text from En saying ‘I’m ready don’t come’. Atsushi looks around the room stunned, he would have never guess that something like this was waiting for him. Then, strong arms are wrapped around his waist again and he also gets some tickles on his neck once En lays his head on his shoulder. Atsushi smiles and caresses En’s hair. “I can’t believe you did all of this,” Atsushi comments and turns around to kiss En who gladly lets their lips join one more time. “If I have to be honest, mom helped a bit cuz I was running late for school, and I didn’t want you to come for me today” En admits, the blue haired boy chuckles at his boyfriend honesty, “Hope that doesn’t disappoint you.” En adds and again gets closer to Atsushi’s neck, his breathing giving some tickles to the bespectacled boy who gently shook his head. “Disappointed? How can I be disappointed when you worked on this for me?” Atsushi says, his voice full with excitement and gratitude, “Well, with your mom of course, which reminds me, where is she? And your dad?” “Family party at the other side of the country, they won’t be here for the whole weekend… you know what that means, right?” The grin on En’s face takes a mischievous tone and he also grips Atsushi’s butt causing the other to yelp. “En-chan!” protests the poor boy who is taken aback by the action. However, En has gone back to that state in which he can’t listen to any sound around, Atsushi knows that, and he knows he just has to go with the flow. A flow he will always enjoy no matter what because after all, this is his En- chan, the one he loves the most. En carries Atsushi bridal style and the other just wraps his arms around En’s neck. The action is slowly and careful, the blue haired teen can feel as if En- chan was treating him like a piece of crystal who must be protected of any kind of damaged, and he likes that. Once they get to the futon, En bends and cautiously lays Atsushi on it. The younger teen observe as the other just lays over him. The only thing that Atsushi can think of at this moment is that En-chan is actually being more romantic than ever, but that the older is actually kind of holding himself. “En-chan are you ok?” Atsushi asks, after all he feels that something’s been off for a while. “Yes, I’m alright,” the taller replies and kisses Atsushi’s neck, and as fast as he can he starts untying the tie and unbuttoning Atsushi’ shirt as well. The kisses start going from his neck to his collarbone, and then tracing a path from his collarbone to the lowest part of his abdomen. Atsushi’s breathing starts being more accelerated, he cannot believe how ease En looks at the moment, but maybe that is the older advantage for being so calm and relax all the time. “En-chan…” Atsushi moans, he doesn’t even know why he calls the others name, he just does. “Does it feel good?” En asks, his voice so seductively tempting that Atsushi simply groans a response and En smirks as a sign of victory. En loves this, he loves to know that he can make Atsushi feels so good, he loves to know that the bespectacled boy can melt under his touch in a matter of seconds. That’s why he starts working on Atsushi’s belt, he needs to keep on moving if he wants his Atsushi to keep enjoining the moment. Before things can actually get to heat up, En stops for a moment and moves to stay face to face with Atsushi for a moment. Those cerulean eyes are locked so deeply into the brown paradise of Atsushi’s pure look that for a brief second En holds his breathing and then let it go. The reflect on each other’s make them sigh and forget of everything around them. It is like some kind of magic spell, a magic that only they can understand and perform. En is the one who goes back to the action, he cannot contain anymore and kisses again the blue haired teen. Each kiss, each touch is always so different, is always so new for the two of them. Their lips joining, their tongues playing among them, it doesn’t matter how simply the kiss can be since any contact between them is always so deep and intimate. After some playing around with their kisses, En finally parts away, but before moving too far away he bites Atsushi’s under lip and the bespectacled boy let out a small cry of pain. “Sorry,” he says once that he sees Atsushi’s resentful look for how strong he bit him, seeing his Atsushi like this is not something he enjoys, so he goes back once again and licks the hurt lip kindly and carefully without living a single part of the lip without the right treatment. The blue haired teen takes a deep breath because of the action and En smiles and playful starts taking off his own shirt. It’s inevitable for Atsushi to blush, he cannot get over this simply action. It doesn’t matter how many times he has seen En shirtless; he will always blush and feel his heart beating so fast that he can swear it’ll come out of his chest at some moment. En-chan then lies down on top of Atsushi, this is something that he loves to do, feeling their naked skins together and getting some warm from Atsushi’s body. After some minutes of calm, and just listening to their heart beats, En moves down by tracing again a path through Atsushi’s torso with delicate kisses all around and leaving one of his hands working on his boyfriend’s nipple. En keeps his own pace, and instead of taking off Atsushi’s pants, he kisses the lower parts of the younger through the fabric. The blue haired teen squeezes at the sensation and grabs En’s hair and tries to pull him away. However the dirty blond doesn’t give up and keeps his treatment against Atsushi’s will. “You’re getting more excited, don’t you?” En teases when his lips get a bit wet with Atsushi’s precum and the blue haired boy covers his face, “Don’t hide, I love to see your expressions.” Atsushi feels his heart about to explode, En’s words and voice is simply too much for him, but still he manages to put his arm away and let En sees his face again. The blue eyed boy smiles and kisses Atsushi’s belly and as if he could make a magic trick, he has already undone Atsushi’s buckle and slowly removes Atsushi’s pants and even his socks. “How…?” “Does it matter?” En mischievously asks and goes straight to kiss each of Atsushi’s legs, tenderly and passionate. “En-chan…” the boy moans as the other gives those tender kisses and keeps on massaging his tights. Atsushi knows that whenever they have moments like this, that lazy boy who always wants to keep sleeping disappear. It’s as if something could take control over En’s mind and body and all that sleepiness goes away. He tries to look at En’s face, the boy seems so focused and determined to make him feel good that Atsushi feels his air being caught in his throat. Especially when En, without any previous word, starts giving him a blowjob. Atsushi grabs En’s hair so strong that he can swear that he has pulled a few strands out.     “En-chan… I’ll…En…sto…” there’s no much time for a warning, since Atsushi can’t fight against the overwhelming pleasure and comes into En’s mouth. “I’m… sorry,” Atsushi tries to whisper, his voice agitated. “Why are you sorry? I love everything about you,” the blue eyed boy replies while licking his mouth and looking straight to Atsushi’s eyes. “En-chan, please don’t swallow it,” Atsushi whines and covers his face. The older doesn’t listen to him and does as he pleases. En then takes a cloth and cleans Atsushi’s forehead and a bit of his own mouth. Throwing it somewhere around his bedroom, he goes straight to kiss Atsushi one more time. The bespectacled boy being too tired of just being there without doing anything starts unbuckling En’s belt and unbuttoning his boyfriend’s pants as well. “Getting eager?” En asks, again that husky voice making Atsushi blush and wanting to lose control. The blue haired boy does not reply, he actually sits down and pushes En against the wall. “I’m actually tired that you are the only one taking the lead and also of being the only one completely naked,” he replies still all blushed and flustered, but getting enough braveness to kiss his En-chan. The dirty blond smirks into the kiss and tries to find that bottle of lube that he left somewhere closed to the futon. Once he finds it, he puts some into his hands, still kissing Atsushi, still enjoining his perfect boyfriend’s enthusiasm. En feels as Atsushi is relax and just going with the flow, so he takes that as a sign to starts preparing his boyfriend. Atsushi let out a small cry into the kiss when he feel the intrusion, and so En licks the upper part of his mouth to calm him down and try to distract him. “Are you ok?” En asks in whisper, almost in a singing like tone, and Atsushi nods. “Yes, you can go ahead,” Atsushi says, his voice sounds a bit drained, but as soon as he notices En’s hesitations, he kisses him to assure him that he is just fine. En really takes that as the sign to go and puts in a second finger. For a second he feels as Atsushi’s body tenses, but then as he gets to touch the most sensitive places inside Atsushi, the boy relaxes and squeezes in En’s arms, too lost into the pleasure that his boyfriend is giving him. The blue haired boy wraps his arms around En’s broad back and without noticing he digs his finger nails into En’ skin. The older doesn’t care about that since he takes it as the perfect moment to keep on going. En then takes again the tiny bottle and pulls out his fingers. Atsushi whines a bit and dizzily looks straight at En, who gets momentarily lost into Atsushi’s beautiful gaze full of lust, but contradictory carrying so much pureness. Once he comes back into reality, he pours some lube into his cock and takes as firm as he can Atsushi’s hips, he lifts the boy a bit and then slowly penetrates him. The groan that escapes from Atsushi’s mouth makes En shivers, and the dirty blond has the immediate urge to attack his boyfriend’s neck with kisses and even bites. Atsushi keeps clutching and trembling in En’s arms, his breathing more and more elaborated with each action his boyfriend does. En does not stop at all, he keeps moving his hips, kissing Atsushi’s neck, and then licking his boyfriend’s neck, collarbone and each part he can reach. He needs to taste Atsushi, he needs to savor his essence, he needs to assure that Atsushi is all his.  Atsushi is simply out of himself, he cannot think about anything else in this moment, his voice keeps calling En’s name like a mantra, which makes the other go even wilder. The blue haired boy just tries to hold himself, tries to keep his voice as steady as he can, failing miserably in the attempt. Listening to his boyfriend calling him like that, with that beautiful tone, with that desperate intonation, just makes En mad. That voice should be a sin, that voice should be sacred, En thinks as he keeps moving himself deeper into Atsushi and feeling as they get to coordinate with each other’s movement. “En-chan… I can’t…” Atsushi whispers into En’s ear, he keeps holding as strong as he can into his boyfriend’s neck and moaning at each stroke his boyfriend gives. He grabs to En as if his life is depending on that simple action. “I’m sorry… just a bit more,” En hardly gets to reply and grabs Atsushi’s cock to stroke it while he keeps pushing his member shallowly into Atsushi. Their sweaty bodies keeps the friction of their skins, their labored breathing, their voices calling each other, those are the noises that fill En’s room. As soon as the taller gets to hit that one point, Atsushi can’t hold himself any longer and tighten himself around En, his head falls back and screams En’s name as loud as his lungs aloud him, and that sexy voice makes En cums as well. He wraps Atsushi even stronger and hugs him tight against his chest until the ecstasies of their climax vanishes little by little. Slowly, both start going down into the futon. En carefully helps Atsushi to lay down and looks for another clean cloth. Atsushi tries to normalize his breathing, he looks lovingly and warmly at En-chan when the older cleans him as sweetly as he can. After cleaning Atsushi’s forehead and stomach, En goes and lays next to him, kissing Atsushi’s forehead and taking one of his hands into his. “I love you,” En says one more time. “I love you too, thank you” Atsushi says and wraps his arm around En. “I’m sorry for taking you like this… I think it’s not fair… but…” “I don’t care… I… I actually like it… whenever you have the initiative to do this, I like it… it’s like our blue moon… just like the color of your eyes,” Atsushi talks and makes En blush more than any other time. “Our blue moon?” the taller questions. “Yes, a beautiful blue moon.” Atsushi replies and kisses En’s nose, the boy smiles and strongly hugs his boyfriend. “Then, let’s have a many blue moons as we can,” En says while grinning. “En-chan, do you know the meaning of “Once in a blue moon”?” “Not really, but who cares?” That’s the taller replies and Atsushi simply giggles. It doesn’t matter, after all… that’s the En-chan he loves, and both keep hugging each other and falling sleep into each other’s hold. ***** In a Peaceful Forest ***** Chapter Summary It's been a year, they love each other, they love what they feel when they are together, and there's no better place than a forest to seal their love forever. Chapter Notes See the end of the chapter for notes In a peaceful forest It is a cold autumn night. There’s nothing else between themselves. There’s only the sound of the cold wind rustling the leaves and making them dance through all the surroundings, creating a slow music with a lovely and beautiful rhythm. But besides that, there’s nothing else that can overcome the beauty of the moment, that is what Atsushi believes as he feels En’ skin over his own. They are alone, outside the city in a hut that is in the middle of a forest. Nothing else matters to them when they are together, nothing else matters to them when they are having these kind of intimate moments. Atsushi sighs and shivers as he feels En’s hot breath on his neck, but he has no time to talk or react, En gives him a passionate kiss, linking their lips, savoring their tastes. The older caresses the blue haired boy with such a tender feeling that Atsushi can’t help but sigh and smile at En. It’s been always like this, En is always treating him as if he was made of the most fragile crystal, sometimes he wonders why, but he has never been able to find the answer. He has never been able to ask En the reason why he treats him like this. Then, he comes back down to Earth when En intertwines his fingers through the blue hair and locked his eyes with Atsushi’s. Blue and brown meeting each other and lingering there as if the moment could be shattered by simply blinking. Just a few seconds after being almost hypnotized by their own eyes, En’s hand travel through Atsushi’s body to touch, to feel, to show to the bespectacled boy how much he loves him with his actions, since he has never considered himself good at speaking up his feelings. They move at each other’s rhythm, they move as if the wind is also giving them the perfect cue and melody to change their positions and adjust themselves in a dance dedicated to love. “I love you,” En suddenly says, “Sometimes, I feel like I don’t say it enough, so let me say it now, I love you.” Atsushi is left without words, En kisses him again and traces a path of gentle sweet kisses through his jawline down to his collarbone; the blue haired boy is letting some moans and tiny whimpers out. Atsushi breaths out and takes En’s face with his hands; for a moment he looks at the other and his eyes expresses all the love he cannot pronounce through words. Impulse by the moment Atsushi keeps cupping En’s face with his hands and makes it come closer to kiss him; he first gives a kiss to his forehead, his nose, his cheeks, and lastly his lips. The bespectacled boy has never been good with expressing his feelings either, but he knows En understands him, he knows they can understand each other without the need of words. They know each other, they know they can spend all night just kissing each other and holding themselves closed to the other and never get tired of it. En leans on Atsushi’s chest, he snuggles and breaths Atsushi’s scent, a smell he could recognize anywhere, a smell that he won’t ever get tired of. En takes one of Atsushi’s hand and kisses it, he then traces little circles on Atsushi’s hand and looks at him, getting momentarily lost in that brown paradise that he has been in loved with for such a long time. The boy chuckles thinking about that time when he was so desperate to know which Atsushi’s eye color was, and having so many troubles to finally find it out; Atsushi looks at him surprise. However, before Atsushi can demand an answer, En goes back to kiss him. Lost in his memories, En thinks about the first time he dared to kiss Atsushi, the shy and surprised blush that covered Atsushi’s cheeks in that moment. How scared he felt for not knowing how Atsushi would react back then. He also remembers the day after that when he asked him to be his boyfriend, all those special moments being reproduced like the most beautiful movie in the back of his mind. They have gone through so many things, and even if the obstacles were sometimes too big for him to handle, he knows all of them were worth the price, his Atsushi, only his. On the other hand, Atsushi is mesmerized by En’s actions, the way they kiss, the way their bodies rub against each other, and his attention also gets lost in the sudden music that their agitated breathings are creating. Suddenly En comes over Atsushi, and presses his body completely against Atsushi. The time stops for the umpteenth time for the blue haired man on that day. They have been like this several times, but still Atsushi gets all flustered and nervous whenever he feels trapped by En’s body. One more kiss, Atsushi knows he is capable of swearing that he will never get tired of this, that he does not care if he feels his lips swollen, or even if he feels that his lips are already numb. Because the sweet taste of En’s lips, the delicious essence that lingers on his skin every time they touch, it’s never enough for him. “Do you want to do it today?” The questions echoes on Atsushi’s mind, and in a blink of an eye he has so many thoughts. First, he thinks that En has always been the most considerate boyfriend he could ever wish for, he always asks him if he wants to go ahead or if it is right for them to do it. Then, he thinks about their first time, it’s crazy, he can’t believe himself and the fact that he always has that memory whenever En asks that question. He also thinks about En’s expression, such an interesting mixture of a pleading innocence with such a provocative and erotic voice, how comes En is capable of doing such an opposite things at once? Atsushi comes out of his thoughts when he feels En’s hand travelling down and caressing his tight. Well, maybe En can be considerate, but not patient. “Yes,” the blue haired boy replies and kisses his boyfriend. It always starts with lots of kisses and with an exchange of gestures to show to each other how much they value their presence and feelings. En’s whole body keeps being over Atsushi’s, his arms look like a shield protecting the other from any possible danger around, his legs around the other and pushing them tight against Atsushi’s leg. For a moment, En lies over Atsushi again, letting all his weight fall into his boyfriend, which gives them the opportunity to feel their bodies being this closed. Their temperatures rising up and their breathings becoming more elaborated. En goes again and kisses him one more time, Atsushi takes the opportunity to surround with his arms En’s neck. Nonetheless, even if Atsushi wants to keep holding on to En, the other escapes his hold and kisses him on his chest, abdomen and lower parts, letting him be a moaning mess who pants and begs to have some air into his lungs, En’s tongue also going around licking and teasing the younger boy. That’s another one of En’s characteristics, he can take things too sweet and slow, but he can suddenly turn into some kind of predator that is too desperately and eager to get what he wants. It does not matter which mode leads En’s actions, Atsushi loves them all. “En-chan…” Atsushi whimpers, he loves En’s movements, he loves the way he kisses him, the way his hands travel around his body and how he can feel his hot body all over him.   He is completely crazy about it, and he does not care about worrying with his own obsession over En. With no previous warning, En spreads Atsushi’s legs and in a sudden motion he takes all of Atsushi’ shaft in his mouth. Immediately the other boy gasps and is left with no air at all, trying too desperately to hold into his boyfriend’ sandy hair and beg for some mercy in that way. There’s no point, once that En has started, there’s no way to stop him. En goes up and down, touching, licking and working hard to please his boyfriend, the bespectacled boy can only listen to his heart beating fast and even if he would like to ignore it, he also listens to those sounds that are made by En’s actions, which only makes him feel more aroused. Atsushi falls on the mattress and frantically grabs a pillow to try and muffle the sounds that are coming out of his mouth, cries of pleasure and agony that little by little are leaving him with no voice. Even if En is busy making his lover feel good, he can notice Atsushi’s action and he does not like it. With a swift movement, he grabs the pillow and throws it away. Atsushi’s face is completely red and sweaty, his hair sticking all over his forehead; the blue haired boy looks with half lidded and pleading eyes to En so he can allow him to hide himself again. The taller boy smirks at the expression that he loves so much and stops his job for one moment. En simply is too hypnotized to see Atsushi melting under his touch and becoming a squirming mess under his body. “Haven’t you understand that I love everything about yourself? That I love to listen to you, that I love looking at your face, feeling your body, being one with you, I love everything! Please don’t hide anything away from me, I love you,” En expresses his slowly movements tracing around Atsushi’s body like some kind of feline. “En-chan.” The blue haired boy puts his hands over his face, he can’t still believe the things En says to him, this happens almost all the time they get to do it, but Atsushi seems not to be able to get used to it. Then, En simply goes up and pulls apart Atsushi’s hands from his face. He kisses Atsushi one more time and with his hands he caresses Atsushi’s legs. En will not ever get tired of remembering Atsushi how perfect he is, because he seriously believes that his lover is the most perfect human being that there can ever be on Earth. Before they pull apart from the kiss, En bites Atsushi’s lower lip and caresses it with his tongue that is like his trademark, and the blue haired boy knows that En just wants to go ahead. However, before proceeding as Atsushi is expecting, En lingers a bit more; and in a lovely way he delicate smells Atsushi’s neck, nuzzling and sighing closed to his lover ear. The blue haired teen shivers a bit because of the hot breath that makes such a sudden contact with his skin. Just seconds after that, En licks around Atsushi’s ear up to his jawline to later come back and bites Atsushi’s earlobe. “En-cha…” the boy can’t get to finish, he is panting and his body is trembling under En’s hands. “Tell me, I’m here to make you happy,” En says with a hoarse voice and his lips about to touch Atsushi’s. “Just kiss me… please,” even if it is a simple request, En smirks and happily complies what he is asked to do. Their bodies rubbing each other giving them more warmth than what they can actually bear, but it does not matter to any of them. Unexpectedly, En slides his finger into Atsushi. Immediately, spasms runs through all of Atsushi’s body and making him arch his back. En smirks, the view his having is glorious and he loves it more than anything else. Atsushi holds to his lover, leaving sloppy kisses at any part he can reach of En’ skin. Quickly, but gently, En prepares Atsushi, showering him with kisses, caresses and sweet, lovely words to remind him of how much he loves him. The bespectacled boy knows that if it would be possible he would have already melted under the magnificent lips and hands that belongs to En. “En-chan… please… do it,” Atsushi whispers, his voice is weak and he practically chocked at the moment of speaking, his eyes begging for mercy, but having that delicious touch of lustful desire. En’ smirk couldn’t be more satisfying, he loves when Atsushi loosens up and is completely open with what he wants. He takes a last view to Atsushi’s figure lying down and happily recording the image on his mind. Softly, the taller man grabs Atsushi by the hips, being careful enough and keeping with the kisses to his lover. Then, in a smooth quick motion he pushes himself into Atsushi. Atsushi cries loudly sending shivers through En’s body, making his lover hold his breath and also making him stop for a moment before he can actually starts moving. After a moment, En breathes in again, being capable enough of thinking again and starting his motions, going slowly, listening to Atsushi’ small whimpers and trying to make his boyfriend feel as good as he can.    There’s not only the sound of the cold wind anymore rustling the leaves, now the wind is accompanied by groaning, moaning, and two lovers calling each other’s name, reciting sweet words to each other. The dancing has changed to a faster motion, in which the rhythm matches the euphoric chanting and heavy panting. The quietness of the place is suddenly disturbed, both men too desperately, too hungry for each other, trying to satisfy their needs, trying to extinguish the never ending thirst for each other. Tasting themselves, biting, licking, kissing, everything is valid once they get lost into the action of being just one self. Of being together and expressing their love for each other like this. The dancing moves, their rhythms are in perfect synchrony, En goes closer to Atsushi and bites his ear, the blue haired cries out and heavily pants, he is reaching his point and En knows it. That’s why, the older teen starts licking and nibbling Atsushi’s ear, his hands working also on his boyfriend nipples and shaft. For a tiny second Atsushi wonders how En can do so many things at the same time, but when the older shifts their positions and makes him sits on his lap, Atsushi lets go of every single thing on his mind. Now, his mind is completely blank, En has found that sweet spot that makes him see everything white and all he can do is hold onto En’s broad back, digging his nails on it and sliding his fingers through it, biting En’ shoulder to muffled himself, and wrapping his legs around En’s torso as strong as he can, giving as many kisses as possible, even if the kisses are completely messed and sloppy, he also wants to show to En how much he loves him. Atsushi is frantically trying to last a bit longer, trying to enjoy the pleasant sensation that is being given to him, but failing to hold with every thrust that En gives, he chokes, he tries to yell, his voice being completely mute by the lustful pleasure. “En!” Atsushi screams almost sobbing, lost by the lust, his head falling backwards at the moment he cums and his arms falling into his sides, unable to hold by himself any longer and simply moaning at the amazing feeling that En has given him. En hugs Atsushi tighter and thrusts a couple of times more until he also gets blinded by his own climax, being totally defeated by Atsushi’s beautiful form, getting satisfied by looking the spasms that runs through his boyfriend’s trembling body. Taking advantage of the last strength that he has left, he lies Atsushi down in bed and he does the same. Kissing the boy and caressing his hair, cleaning the sweat and moving the hair that is stick to the boy’s forehead. “I love you,” En repeats, he kisses Atsushi one more time and grabs the boy’s hands. “I love you too,” the blue haired boy weakly says while he smiles, his voice is hoarse because of all the screaming; and his eyes seems to be about to close at any moment. They look at each other for a brief moment and then En stands up, as always he looks for anything that can help them to clean. Once he has found some clothes and other blankets he comes back. It’s been almost a year since they started dating, it’s been almost a year of this kind of things going on, and still Atsushi can’t believe how incredible awesome En is. He cleans both of them, he delicate takes Atsushi out of the bed and sits him on a couch near the bed for a moment to cover the bed with clean white blankets and again he lies Atsushi down, just to showering with more kisses to show his love to Atsushi. What is left of the night goes like that, both kissing and hugging. The bespectacled boy is not sure of when, he just knows that they fall asleep after kissing, they sleep holding into each other and being as closed as possible. However, even if he knows that, he can’t answer himself about where En is when he wakes up the following day. Atsushi tries to sit down, but apparently, last night was pretty intense, more than usual, and he feels a sudden pain on his back when he sits. Almost when he is about to call En to see where he could be, the sandy haired boy comes into their room. He comes in, he is already wearing a t-shirt and some sweatpants, and he is also carrying a tray, having breakfast on it and smiling. That beautiful, gentle smile that makes Atsushi melt. “Morning,” En says and sits next to Atsushi, “how do you feel?” “Good morning… well… to be honest a bit sore, but I’m ok, so don’t worry please,” Atsushi quickly says and to his surprise En nods. “I… well…first, are you cold? Do you want a blanket?” En asks him and then Atsushi knows that En was trying to hide his usual concern for him, but as it is seen, it is not possible for him. “It’s a bit chilly, but I’m ok,” even if he says that, En goes to get him an extra blanket and puts it around him, “Thanks,” he smiles at En and leans his head on his boyfriend’s arm. “So… do you wanna eat?” Atsushi enthusiastically nods, but he is curious about En’s shy tone of voice, it’s not something usual. Nonetheless, once he takes a look at the tray, he understands the reason why. In the middle of the tray, there’s a tiny box that is wrapped with green paper and a light blue ribbon that decorates the upper part. Atsushi blushes and gasps, is that… “En-chan…” he whispers. The other boy awkwardly smiles and takes the little box into his hands, suddenly once again the only thing that can be heard is the wind rustling the leaves and creating the perfect melody for the moment. With shaky hands En opens the box and goes down on his knees. “Atsushi… would you spend the rest of your life with me, would you marry me?” Inside the box there’s a ring, a winged heart ring with a turquoise gem. “Yes!” Atsushi’s voice cringes and he throws himself to En. In the morning light they decide to join their lives, remembering how much they love each other, remembering every moment since the day they met. The sound of the wind accompanies, making the leaves dance, making their hearts being overflow with emotions of happiness and love. They laid back, closing their eyes, holding their hands, and hearing the “clack” of both rings when making contact with each other. Comforted by the sound of the falling leaves, each leave representing a memory, each leave announcing future days full of happiness for both of them. It’s the perfect ending for a new beginning of a beautiful love story.    Chapter End Notes Atsu's week needed zhukhulenzhia XDD Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work!