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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      M/M
  Fandom:
      One_Direction_(Band)
  Relationship:
      Harry_Styles/Louis_Tomlinson
  Character:
      Louis_Tomlinson, Harry_Styles, Niall_Horan
  Additional Tags:
      Punk_Louis, Flower_Child_Harry, Parent-Child_Relationship, Incest, Daddy
      Louis
  Stats:
      Published: 2013-06-06 Completed: 2013-07-13 Chapters: 2/2 Words: 6440
****** Give Me Love ******
by alovelikelarrys
Summary
     Based off this prompt:
     Can you write a Larry daddy kink? Where Louis is the dad and Harry is
     the son. Louis is a punk and Harry is a total cockslut for his daddy.
***** Part One *****
Louis Tomlinson was in a small but relatively well known punk rock band. They
played some covers of the classics but mostly songs Louis had written himself.
The songs were about lost loves, regrets of the past, and missing home. The
band spent a lot of time on the road, touring and promoting their albums. He
loved what he did but at times it did take a toll, being away for so long.
Louis was 34 but still looked 20 with his good genes and youthful style. He had
bright blue eyes that rivaled the sky in brilliance. His fringed caramel brown
hair only set off the blue of his eyes, as did his forever sun kissed skin. No
matter the season or weather he was tan; it was just darker in the summer. He
was on the shorter side and the curvy side with thick hips, thighs, and a
rather curvaceous bum. Fans of both genders found him irresistible. His skin
from the waist up was almost entirely covered in tattoos, each one holding
their own story. Louis couldn’t stand when people marked their skin for no
reason, stating his skin told a story – his story. His lip, eyebrow, and ears
were all pierced all a mark of defiance when he was younger. He wanted to be
anything but ordinary.
Louis missed home so much because home had Harry, his 16 year old son. The boy
was conceived during a night of passion when Louis was 17 with a girl he barely
knew from school. Three months later she had told him that she was pregnant and
was going to have an abortion. Louis felt awful and tried to reason with her to
keep the baby that maybe they could raise it together or at least give it up
for adoption. She had refused. After their conversation, she dropped out of
school and seemingly off the face of the earth. Louis figured it was all said
and done and moved on with his life.
A year later, an 18 year old Louis, opened his door one day to the girl of his
past hold a screaming baby. She handed the baby to him and quickly explained
that she couldn’t go through with the abortion after all but wasn’t fit to be a
mother. With that, she was gone.  Louis looked down at the child who had
instantly calmed once placed in his arms and fell in love as soon as his eyes
meet his son’s for the first time.
Fast forward all these years later, Harry had grown into a beautiful boy. He
had creamy milk white skin that stretched across his long lean frame. His mop
of chocolate curls often fell into his bright green eyes causing the boy to
sweep them aside with his long graceful fingers. He had the most perfect pout
with plump rose colored lips that just begged to be kissed. But he was the
picture of innocence, with his shy smile and soft chuckle. An angel would be
envious of the boy’s beauty and charm.
While Louis was away, Harry stayed with his grandparents. Harry loved them,
truly he did. He just missed his father immensely and counted the days until he
returned home. When he was feeling especially sad about his father’s absence,
he would pull out pictures of them from the time he was a baby to just a few
months earlier. He thought it was funny that he didn’t look like his father and
thought for the thousandth time that he must take after his mother. He didn’t
know since he had never met her and no one had a photo of her. She wasn’t even
in his father’s yearbook. Sometimes he would picture her in his mind. But she
didn’t matter to him that much. He loved his father, and Louis loved him in
return. And that was all he needed.
It was the day Louis would be returning home. Harry decided that he was going
to drive himself home since he had just gotten his license and meet his father
instead of him having to pick him up. On the drive over, Harry excitedly sang
along to the radio. It had been three long months since he had last seen his
father. A feeling of excitement began to build in his stomach. He felt a little
light headed, giddy with anticipation.
Once home, he still had about an hour till Louis would be home. Harry thought
about what he could do to pass the time. He really didn’t care for TV and there
wasn’t a book he was currently reading. Just when he was running out of ideas,
a brilliant thought struck. He ran out to the grassy hill in the back yard.
Plopping down in front of the grouping of wild flowers, Harry smiled to
himself. He hadn’t done this since he was a child. He began to pick the
prettiest flowers with the longest stems. Once he had all that he desired, he
started to braid the stems together to create a flower crown. It was one of his
favorite things when his was younger, to run around under the setting sun with
a crown atop his head pretending to be the prince of the garden.
Louis pulled into the drive thankful he was finally home. He hopped out the
car, excited to finally see Harry. Three months was too long. He decided that
he couldn’t go that long again. Harry would have to come with him if his
schedule called for him to be gone for that length of time. Pushing work aside,
Louis strolled through the front door calling out Harry’s name. Getting no
response, he moved to the back of the house and called out for the boy again.
No response. Just then, out of the corner of his eye, Louis saw something move
outside. He made his way out to the back garden to see if it was Harry.
Louis was about to call out for the boy again, when he was stopped dead in his
tracks by Harry’s splendor. He was dancing about the garden, loose white shirt
ruffling around him as he moved. Louis could see something on his head but had
to squint to see what it was. His breath hitched when he saw that it was a
flower crown, the kind Harry used to make as a boy. The setting sun was
illuminating him so he looked like an embodied angel sent to earth to steal
Louis’ heart, just like the first day he held his son all those years ago.
“Dad!” Harry cried out when he saw Louis.
The boy ran to his father, arms out ready for his embrace.
“Oh, god, Harry.” Louis breathed tears filling his eyes.
With a few steps, Louis met his son. He grabbed Harry and picked him up into a
crushing hug. Harry naturally wrapped his arms and legs around his father.
“I’ve missed you so much, dad.” Harry sobbed into his father’s neck.
“Shh, baby. I’ve missed you too. I’m sorry. I’m home now.” Louis comforted.
He went to kiss Harry’s cheek as the boy was moving his face to look at his
father, causing Louis to kiss his son’s lips instead. Louis quickly took back
his lips but not before Harry let out a soft moan. Confused by his son’s
reaction but not wanting to show his confusion, Louis gave him another squeeze
and set him down.
That night Louis made the two of them dinner. They ate over conversation of how
the last three months had gone, nothing too eventful happening for either.
Louis played shows and had some album signings, the usual. Harry, on the other
hand, who was almost painfully shy, only had a handful of friends and didn’t do
too much in the extracurricular activity area. Therefore, the past three months
for him were spent at school or with his best friend, Niall, playing video
games.
Louis thought it was a shame his son was so shy. With his looks he could be
ruling the school. He could have any girl, or boy for that matter, he wanted.
He wasn’t too sure were Harry’s sexually lay at this point. He hadn’t really
had the sex talk with him yet. And Harry never really expressed interested in
either gender so far. Louis would be fine either way. He was bisexual himself.
Though it seemed lately he was more interested in men.  
After dinner, Louis told Harry to change while he cleaned up and then they
could watch any movie he wanted. With a smile, Harry ran off to his room to
change. Louis finished the dishes and turned to ask what movie Harry wanted to
watch. But Harry hadn’t come back from his room yet. Deciding not to bother his
son, he plopped on the sofa and started to flip through the movie selections,
thinking Harry would probably end up choosing a rom-com as usual. A little
while later, Harry reappeared in a loose white shirt and gray sweats that hung
low on his hips. Louis couldn’t help but notice his son’s tousled hair and the
hint of a smirk on his lips as he sat down next to him.
“Everything alright, Haz?” Louis questioned wrapping a protective arm around
his son.
“Yeah, dad. Sorry I took so long. I, uh, I was talking to Niall.” Harry
explained.
When he finished speaking, he took his bottom lip between his teeth and began
to nervously nibble. He looked up at his father with wide eyes. Louis thought
his behavior was somewhat strange but shrugged his shoulders and decided to
think nothing of it. Louis lay back on the sofa making himself comfortable.
Harry moved so he was half laying of the sofa, half laying on his father with
his head resting on Louis’ chest, familiarizing himself with his father’s
heartbeat once again.
Harry picked Love Actually, a movie they had watched a hundred times. But both
of them loved it and would never tire of its stories. About half way through
Louis noticed Harry had fallen asleep, tired from the day’s excitement. He was
just about to get up, when Harry’s hand grabbed tightly onto his shirt.
Thinking his son was awake, Louis looked down at Harry only to find he was
indeed fast asleep. Harry then began to let out soft whimpers as he nuzzled his
face impossibly closer to Louis’ chest.
Louis’ heart beat began to race when Harry’s whimpers turned into hushed moans
and his grip on Louis’ shirt tightened. Harry’s long legs were lying on either
side of one of Louis’ thick thighs. And Louis could feel that is son was hard
against his thigh. His breath hitched when Harry began to slowly rut his hips,
seeking out friction. Louis could feel himself grow hard, his trouser becoming
tighter as the minutes passed and as Harry’s moans became louder. The sounds
that were falling from his son’s plump lips were deliciously filthy and were
driving Louis’ mad.
Louis didn’t know what to do. He was battling with himself. One part of him
thought this was so wrong and wanted to wake Harry up and send him off to bed.
But the other part of him, the larger part, was so turned on by his sleeping
son getting himself off against his thigh. That part wanted to let Harry keep
going till he came in his sleep and then Louis could finish himself off later.
The latter part won.
Harry started to grind his hips faster against Louis, his movements sloppy.
Louis knew he was close. He prayed he was close so he could get his own hand
around his throbbing cock. With a body wrecking spasm, Harry came, a wet patch
seeping into his sweats.
But as the boy came, he whispered one word so quietly that Louis almost didn’t
hear it.
“Daddy.”
And with that word, everything changed.
***** Part Two *****
Louis wasn’t able to look at Harry the same way since that night. He kept
having dreams of the boy on his knees, looking up at him, green eyes wide and
watery, and his pouty lips wrapped around his swollen cock. Louis would wake
with a guilty conscious but still snuck his hand beneath the covers for a quick
wank, all the while picturing it was Harry bouncing on top of him.
He knew it was sick, and he knew it was wrong, but he couldn’t stop it. He
wanted his son so badly. And Harry wasn’t making it any easier on him. Yes, it
was summer, and yes, it was hot. But did that mean Harry had to walk around in
nothing but a pair of shorts? His long lean body on display for his father to
drink up. Louis wanted nothing more than to lick every inch of his son’s milky
white skin, feeling him tremble with pleasure beneath him.
But Louis pushed his perverse thoughts aside and played the role of loving
father. Though it was becoming increasingly difficult.
♥
Harry and Louis had gone shopping to get some last minute items for their
vacation to the beach coming up in a couple of days. Harry had gotten a new
pair of swim trunks and a few new tank tops, while Louis purchased a couple
loose fitting scoop neck tees. Harry had told him he had looked handsome when
he tried them on, so of course, he had to get them.
After they were done shopping, Louis started to head back to the car so they
could go home. But Harry had another idea. He wrapped his hand around his
father’s arm and pulled him to a stop. Louis looked down at Harry’s long
fingers wrapped around his forearm – his tongue snaking along his bottom lip as
he thought of those fingers wrapped around his cock instead. He had to stifle a
moan at the image. Shaking his head to rid it of its sinful thoughts of his
son, Louis looked down at an innocent faced Harry.
“What is it, hun?” He asked, voice thick with want.
“Could we get ice cream? It’s just that it’s so hot, and it’s sounds so good.”
Harry asked, smiling adoringly up at his father.
“Um, sure. I don’t see why not.” Louis responded, desperately trying to clear
his throat.
Little did Louis know that there were plenty of reasons why he should have said
no to harry – that this wasn’t going to be an innocent trip to the ice cream
pallor.
Once inside the brightly lit shop, Harry ran up to the counter to see all the
flavors he could choose from. Louis chuckled to himself because even though
Harry was 16, he still sometimes acted like a 5 year old in a candy store. Now
being a perfect example. He asked the girl behind the counter to sample each
one of the flavors. Louis figured the girl would normally be irritated by such
a request, but she seemed quiet taken by Harry’s natural charm and good looks.
He stood back and watched as the girl shamelessly flirted with his son as she
handed him little spoons of ice cream. A pang of jealously shot through Louis
when he realized Harry was flirting back.
Before he could stop himself, Louis was stomping up to the counter and placing
a possessive hand on Harry’s lower back.
“Did you figure out what you wanted, love?” Louis asked his son sweetly, but
his eyes stayed on the girl – his look giving a clear warning.
“Um, not yet. You order first.” Harry told him.
“I’ll just have chocolate malt. To go.” He told the girl flatly, while rubbing
circles into Harry’s back.
He could feel his son lean into his touch. This made him grin like a mad man.
“We can get ours to go and eat outside and enjoy the day, yeah?” Louis spoke
softly to Harry.
“Sounds great, dad.” He smiled. “I think I know what I want now.”
A few minutes later, they walked out of the shop, Louis with his malt and Harry
with his double scoop vanilla waffle cone. They chose a table in the shade away
from the crowd. Harry licked his cone lazily, enjoying the cool ice cream on
his tongue. Louis sat frozen in his spot, malt forgotten, as he watched Harry
eat his treat.
He was mesmerized by the way Harry’s tongue would lick around they entire cone,
picking up a mound of white cream, before he slowly swallowed just to start all
over again. The more he watched the tighter his pants became, and they were
tight to begin with, so they didn’t leave much room for his fast growing
erection. Louis nearly moaned out when Harry’s ice cream began to drip out the
hole at the bottom of his cone. The boy placed his lips around the tip and
began to obscenely suck it clean. Once he was satisfied it would no longer
drip, he pulled away, but he had missed some, the remnants dribbling down his
chin.
At this, Louis shot up from the table, looked down at the boy, who was now
wiping the mess away with the back of his hand, and excused himself to the
restroom before quickly running off. Harry stared after Louis, but continued to
lick away with a smile on his face.
♥
Once they were home, Harry explained to his father that he was tired and was
going to turn in for the night. With a quick kiss to Louis’ cheek, he bounded
up the stairs and off to his room.
Louis was relieved to be left alone for the rest of the night. He didn’t know
how much more of his son he could take before he blew and did something he
regretted. He decided to pour himself a healthy glass of wine and order a
movie, something Harry normally wouldn’t want to watch. Before he was 30
minutes into the film, Louis was asleep. He woke an hour later, disoriented,
movie blaring. Quickly shutting off the TV, he rubbed his eyes trying to get
them to focus. But he was tired, so he decided to make his way up to bed.
The house was quiet. Louis figured Harry must have gone to bed hours ago when
they first got home. He quietly tiptoed up the stairs leaving the lights off,
not wanting to wake his son. As he crept by Harry’s room, he noticed that the
door was open a quarter of the way, which was odd since the boy normally slept
with his door closed. He was about to move on when he heard a soft moan. Louis
was going to let it go and continue to his room, but then there was the squeak
of the mattress and another moan, this one louder than the first. Curiosity got
the better of him. He slowly tiptoed up to his son’s door, shrouded in the
darkness of the hallway. He let his head inch closer to the opening. That’s
when he heard it – Harry’s breathy moans, strings of them right after the
other. And they were growing in pace and volume, as were the squeaks of his
mattress.
Louis willed his eyes to adjust faster than they were. He was dying to see what
his son was doing.
“Oh, yeah.” Harry let out breathily.
Louis had to suppress his own moan as he began to see the outline of his son’s
body. Harry was lying on his bed, stark naked, legs spread, hand frantically
pumping up and down his hard shaft, and his hips bucking wildly seeking more
friction.
Louis felt his pants grow tight once again – his cock begging for release,
begging for friction. He fought everything within himself not to slowly undo
his fly and wrap his hand around his aching cock. He was afraid any movement
would draw Harry’s attention to him, and that was a risk he wasn’t willing to
take.
He watched woodenly as Harry brought his free hand to his mouth. He stuck three
fingers in and began to suck like his life depended on it. Without warning, he
released the fingers from his swollen lips and bent his knees, propping his
feet on the bed, spreading his legs even wider. As Harry trailed his hand down
his body, Louis brought his fist to his own mouth to bite on to keep from
making noise. Harry reached his hand between his legs and began to teasingly
push at his entrance with his salvia coated fingers, all the while pumping his
cock. He slowly began to push one finger in. When the digit was fully sheathed,
he let out a heady moan, his head slightly lulling in Louis’ direction. As he
pumped his finger in and out, he started to mumble, all words inaudible, except
two.
“Daddy, please.”
Louis nearly came when he heard his son utter those words. It was the second
time his name had left Harry’s lips while he was getting off. Louis almost
shoved the door open and joined his son. Almost. Instead, he watched Harry
bring himself to orgasm – body trembling violently, one word leaving his lips
over and over again.
“Daddy, daddy, daddy.”
♥
It was the morning they would be leaving for their trip. Louis was beside
himself with nerves. The image of his son fucking himself, moaning out “daddy”
had been on repeat in his mind for the last two days. He had been walking
around half hard the entire time. No matter how many times he wanked, his dick
wouldn’t calm down. It was as if it wouldn’t be satisfied until it was buried
deep within Harry. Louis moaned quietly at the thought as he packed the last of
their luggage into the car.
“You ok, dad?” Harry asked.
Louis nearly jumped out of his skin hearing his son’s voice. He hadn’t heard
the boy walk up. Without turning around, Louis made a non-committal noise in
response. He didn’t trust his voice not to give him away.
Louis tensed when he felt Harry place his large hands on his shoulders and
began to roughly massage them. It was only natural he leaned into the touch and
let his head lull slightly.
“You seem really tense, dad. Are you sure everything’s ok?” Harry asked again,
his mouth dangerously close to his father’s ear.
Harry’s warm breath shot shivers down Louis’ spine that settled right in his
cock. He was no longer only half hard.
“Mmhmm. Everything’s great.” Louis practically moaned in response, letting the
pleasure momentarily take over.
“Good, cause I can’t wait to get this trip started.” Harry told him, his hands
slowly moving down Louis’ back pulling away right before they met his bum.
Louis was almost certain there had been a hint of flirtation in Harry’s voice,
but it was probably his lust clouding his senses.
♥
Half way through their drive, Louis pulled over at a gas station to fill up the
tank and give Harry some money to buy himself a treat. The boy happily skipped
off to the mart to pick out his prize, Louis smiling after him. When was done
pumping gas, he turned around to find Harry already back in the car. His knee
gave way when he saw what the boy had picked out for himself.
Harry sat with his knees drawn to his chest, happily twisting the stick of a
large red lolly between his fingers, flicking his tongue out to taste the
candy. Louis cursed his son for picking a lolly out of all the candies in the
store. Of course he had to pick the one that would drive his father insane. If
he didn’t know any better, he would think his son was taunting him on purpose.
Louis slid into the car next to his son, eyeing him wearily.
“Taste good, Harry?” He asked the boy, voice shaky.
“Delicious.” Harry told him with a wide grin, lips red from the sweet.
“I bet.” Louis mumbled.
Louis tried his best to keep his eyes on the road, honestly he did. It’s just
the little slurping noises Harry made as he licked away at his lolly kept
drawing his attention. Just when Louis thought he was saved and Harry had
finished his last lick, he fished another huge lolly from his back pocket.
Louis let out a frustrated groan, cursing his son’s sinful sweet tooth.
“You alright, dad?” Harry asked from around his thick lolly, words slightly
slurred, eyes big with concern.
“Just can’t wait to get out of this damned car.” Louis explained, shifting
uncomfortably in his seat.
♥
They finally made it to their destination, and Louis had successfully not
ravished his son on the side of the road like his mind had been screaming at
him to do. After they were all checked in, Louis and Harry lugged their bags up
to the room they would be calling home for the next week. Louis slid the key
into the lock and pushed the door open. Once he flicked the lights on, he
dropped his bags in shock. There was only one king size bed in the middle of
the luxurious room. There had to have been a mistake. Louis had specifically
reserved a room with two beds – one for each of them.
“Um, that’s not right. There’s meant to be two beds. I’m just going to talk to
the front desk and get this sorted out.” Louis explained, already on half way
out the door.
Harry’s long fingers caught him, impeding his escape.
“Dad, it’s late. Can’t it wait till morning? I’m so tired.” Harry pleaded,
bottom lip pouting out adorably.
Who was Louis to deny his son’s request? The boy was tired.
“You’re right. It can wait.” Louis conceded, closing the door.
Harry excitedly did a belly flop onto the middle of the bed and rolled over to
grin up at his father. Louis laughed at his son’s antics.
“Ok, I’m gonna take a quick shower. You get ready for bed, yeah?” Louis
instructed the boy who merely nodded in response.
Louis took a quick cold shower hoping the cool water would calm his nerves of
having to sleep next to a more than tempting Harry all night. He stepped out of
the shower and wrapped a towel around his waist. With a sigh, he realized he
didn’t bring his pajamas into the bathroom to change once he was done
showering. Louis quietly left the bathroom, unsure if Harry was already asleep.
But he wasn’t.
Louis froze when he saw the boy.
Harry was kneeling in the middle of the bed in nothing but a pair of tight
white boxer briefs. He looked delicious. Louis’ mouth began to water. When
Louis entered the room, Harry looked up at him with a question in his eyes.
“Uh, Harry, you ok, love?” Louis asked, voice thick with lust.
“Do you think I’m beautiful?” Harry asked his father quietly.
Louis was taken aback by the question. He wasn’t sure where this was coming
from.
“Of course I do.” Louis told him sincerely.
With a smile, the boy crawled off the bed and made his way over to Louis.
“Do you think I’m attractive?” Harry asked with a slight smirk playing on his
pouty lips.
Louis swallowed thickly, mulling over his words.
“You are quite beautiful, Harry.” Louis repeated.
The boy softly chuckled and took a step closer to his father, laying a hand on
his damp chest.
“No, daddy, do you think I’m sexy?” Harry practically purred.
Louis let out a small moan at the touch and then another at the word “daddy.”
His mind was going crazy, but he knew he still had to try to fight it.
“Harry, I don’t think that’s a question I should be answering. It’s not right,
love.” He explained, no real conviction behind his words.
“Why? I think you’re sexy, daddy. I think a lot of other things about you too.”
Harry informed his father, while gently stroking his chest.
“You do?” Louis asked dumbly.
“Mmhmm. I think about how your lips would feel on mine. I think about how your
tongue would feel on my skin. I think about how your cock would –“
But Harry didn’t get to finish his thought because at that moment Louis lost
his will to fight. He smashed his lips against his son’s in a bruising kiss,
both moaning out at the contact. Louis sucked Harry’s plump lower lip into his
mouth and began to teasingly nibble. The boy moaned into his father’s mouth as
he wrapped his arms around his damp neck, drawing his body closer. Louis moved
his lips down the boy’s jaw settling on the sensitive flesh below his ear and
began to suck – eliciting another loud moan. He softly laughed against the
boy’s skin, delighted on how filthy he sounded just from this. His laughter
died in his throat when he felt Harry’s hands snake down his chest, over his
abs, and settle on the knot in his towel. They desperately began to untie they
knot.
“Daddy, I want to taste you.” Harry breathed into Louis’ ear before sinking to
his knees, pulling the towel with him.
Louis’ cock sprung free, slapping his stomach before hanging dangerously close
to Harry’s waiting lips. Without hesitation, the boy reached out a hand and
wrapped his long fingers around the base. He then looked up at his father as he
placed a kiss to the tip of the swollen head. Louis moaned deep within his
chest at finally seeing his son’s lips on his cock.
Harry began to slowly pump his hand up and down the shaft as he gave lazy
kitten licks to the tip.
“Mmmm…you taste much better than my lolly, daddy.” The boy told Louis with a
filthy smirk.
“You naughty boy. You’ve been teasing me this entire time haven’t you? Louis
asked, threading his fingers through Harry’s curls.
“Mmmhmmm. Took you long enough.” The boy laughed before wrapping his lips
around his father’s cock.
“You little slut.” Louis moaned, pulling on Harry’s curls, causing the boy to
moan.
Louis’ knees nearly buckled at the vibrations. It felt so fucking good. With a
loud pop, Harry pulled off, letting Louis’ cock slip from his lips.
“Only your slut, daddy.”
“And what am I going to do with my dirty little cockslut, hmm?” Louis asked,
stroking his son’s cheek.
“Anything you want.” The boy moaned.
“On the bed.” Louis ordered.
Harry hastily made his way onto the bed, lying on his back, starring
expectantly up at his father.
“Good boy.” Louis praised as he crawled on the bed.
Harry’s breath caught in his chest. He couldn’t believe that this was actually
happening. After countless dreams and messy wanks, Harry was finally going to
be with Louis – his daddy. He began to shake with anticipation.
“I want you.” Harry pleaded, as his father kissed down his chest.
“Mmm…tell daddy what you want, baby.” Louis murmured into the boy’s skin.
Before Harry could answer, Louis took one of the boy’s nipples into his mouth,
sucking the hard nub between his teeth while nibbling on the sensitive flesh.
Harry arched his back, seeking more of his father’s touch. The harder Louis
sucked, the more Harry trembled. His father placed one large hand on his
stomach in attempts to keep the boy still. But he was too far gone – a moaning,
writhing mess beneath Louis’ mouth.
“I can’t hear you, baby. What do you want? Tell daddy.” Louis asked again,
making his way to the boy’s other nipple.
“I-I want your-your fingers.” Harry managed to stutter out between moans.
At this, Louis stopped his sucking and looked up at this son.
“Where? Where do you want my fingers, Harry?” Louis asked the trembling boy.
Harry’s cheeks flushed at his father’s question. Louis could sense the boy’s
hesitation. He licked a stripe just above the waistband of his boxer briefs
before locking eyes with his son again.
“If you want my fingers, tell me where you want them.” Louis taunted.
“Daddy!” Harry cried out in desperation and embarrassment.
“What, baby?” His father smirked.
Louis sat back on his heels and spread Harry’s legs as far as they could
comfortably reach. He slowly ran his palms up his son’s legs – leaving goose
bumps in their wake. Once he reached where the boy’s thighs met his ass, Louis
trailed one finger down the outline of the boy’s crease.
“Let me see. Do you want my fingers here?” Louis murmured down at his son.
“Yes! Oh, god, yes, daddy!” Harry moaned.
“You are a little slut, aren’t you?” He mused.
“Yes, your good little slut. Please, daddy, give me your fingers.” Harry
begged.
“Only since you’ve been such a good little boy.”
Louis pulled Harry’s boxer briefs off in one swift motion - the boy’s heavy
cock slapping against his stomach. Louis took a moment to admire it. And that
cock was perfection, long, thick, pink, and leaking with precome. Louis
couldn’t resist running his tongue along the throbbing vein on the underside of
his son’s glorious cock, then sucking the head fully into this mouth. He lapped
up the precome – savoring the taste.
“Daddy, stop! I’m gonna come!” Harry yelled as Louis dipped his tongue in the
boy’s slit again.
Regretfully, Louis pulled off and stared down at his son.
“Don’t want to come yet, baby?” He asked.
“No, daddy, I want to come from you fucking me.”
Louis practically growled at his son’s response. He lifted three of his fingers
to the boy’s mouth.
“Suck.” Louis ordered.
Harry grabbed ahold of his father’s hand and sucked wetly at his fingers –
making sure to liberally coat them with saliva. When Louis felt the boy had
done a good job, he pulled his fingers from his lips and told him to bend his
knees.
Trailing his hand down the boy’s trembling body, Louis leaned down to press
their lips together once more. He slowly pushed his index finger into the boy,
but he found little resistance. He then remembered the night he had watched
Harry fingering himself in his room. Louis broke the kiss and brought his mouth
to his son’s ear.
“Did you already fuck yourself, baby?”
“Mmhmm, this morning while thinking of you, daddy.” Harry moaned.
Louis wasted no time and brought the other two fingers to meet the first –
stretching the boy. Harry cried out when Louis curled his fingers on the drag
out.
“Fuck, daddy. That feels so good!” Harry purred.
Louis continued to finger the boy, scissoring his fingers to stretch him even
further. Every time he curled his fingers making sure to hit his son’s sweet
spot.
“Daddy, I’m close! Fuck me! Oh god, fuck me!” Harry begged.
Not wanting to deny his son, Louis pulled his fingers out – Harry’s muscles
constricting around the emptiness. He quickly spit in his hand and wrapped it
around his cock, giving it a few strokes to coat it with spit and precome. He
then knelt between his son’s legs and place the tip of his cock at the boy’s
entrance.
“You ready, baby boy?” Louis asked.
Harry wrapped his legs around his father’s waist drawing him close – the tip of
his cock pressing into him.
“Please, daddy.” Harry moaned, back lifting off the mattress.
Louis slowly rolled his hips until they were flush against the boy’s bottom. He
paused there giving the boy time to adjust to his girth. Louis was on fire –
Harry’s tight heat nearly suffocating him. He didn’t know how much longer he
could wait before he shamelessly pounded into the boy.
“Move.” Harry said not a moment too soon.
With that, Louis began to pump in and out of his son – slow at first. He built
up momentum as Harrys moans became louder.
“Harder.” The boy pleaded.
Louis relentlessly fucked into the boy. He grabbed ahold of his hips, angling
them higher. With the change in position, Harry screamed out as Louis pounded
into his prostate. The boy clawed onto his father’s back and wrapped his legs
tighter around his waist – never wanting this to stop.
“Fuck, daddy, you feel so good!”
“You too, baby. Love fucking your tight little ass. You’re gonna make daddy
come.” Louis growled.
“Come in my ass, daddy. Want you to.” Harry yelled, as Louis bit into his neck
causing the boy’s eyes to roll back.
“You’re such a good little slut for daddy.” Louis murmured against Harry’s
neck.
He snuck a hand between their bodies and took hold of the boy’s leaking,
neglected cock. He began to pump in time with his thrusts.
“Fuck. I’m so close, daddy.” Harry moaned, feeling that familiar tightening at
the base of his stomach.
Louis felt his son tense beneath him.
“Come for me, baby. Come for daddy.”
Before the last word left Louis lips, Harry was coming – body shaking with the
most intense orgasm he has ever had. A string of “daddy, daddy, daddy” falling
from his swollen lips.
Feeling his son constrict around him and seeing him completely wrecked with
pleasure, pushed Louis over the edge into his own climax.
“Harry!” He shouted, as he came deep within the boy.
As Louis’ thrust slowed, Harry reached his arms up and wrapped them around his
father’s neck pulling him down on top of the boy. Harry then rolled onto his
father and languidly kissed him.
“I love you, daddy.” Harry told his father upon breaking the kiss.
“I love you, too, baby. Are you ok?” Louis asked, concern bubbling up in his
stomach.
“Am I ok? I am more than ok, daddy! Do you know how much I wanted this to
happen? How long I’ve been trying to get this to happen?” Harry laughed.
“You have?” Louis asked a little dumbfounded.
“Yes! The lolly, the ice cream, fucking myself with the door open, and let’s
not forget my little wet dream, daddy.” Harry said with a wicked grin.
“All of that was on purpose?”  Louis asked, more than a little shocked and more
than a little turned on.
“Yes! Do you not realize how hot you are, daddy?” Harry asked, trailing his
fingers over the tattoos on his father’s chest.
Louis just stared up at him.
“I really am your little slut.” Harry told his father, bottom lip caught
between his teeth.
Louis swallowed thickly, feeling his dick twitch.
“I just have one question, daddy.”
“What’s that?”
“Round two tomorrow?” Harry asked with a filthy smile.
“Anything for you, baby.” Louis laughed, giving Harry’s bum a playful smack.
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y kid, only to be tackled to the ground minutes later when
Mika tried to befriend him and he refused. He remembers of how Mika was always
jumping on him, of the sensation of his hair tickling on his skin, and his
omega scent, so different of what he was used to, impregnating his clothes.
And now suddenly he meets Mika again, all grown up and using clothes that
finally fit him, his blue jacket opened over the white button up shirt and a
headphone hanging around his neck; his hair was shorter, and Yuu wonders when
he cut it –  before his father died or after. He would bet on the second
option, because he knows how strict the man was with Mika.
He looked nice, he thinks. Then he groans and turns on his other side, burying
his face in his pillow. What the hell is he thinking?
Just as he is thinking he should stop fooling around and go back to his
homework, or even go find something to eat, his cellphone starts to ring,
startling him to the point that he lets out a small yelp. He fumbles around
with it, his hands shaking, and after a while finally manages to look at it
properly to see that an unknown number is calling him.
His heart beats wildly in his chest as he thinks what if it’s him, and he
answers the call, clearing his throat before speaking.
“Hello?”
He hears someone breathing on the other side, and he waits what feels like an
eternity before a muffled voice whispers back:
“Yuu-chan?”
It’s him!
Yuu sits up and runs a hand through his hair, secretly glad that Mika can’t see
how nervous he is. Ok, Yuuichirou, calm down. It’s just Mika calling you, just
good, old Mika.
(He still can’t calm down.)
“Yup, it’s me,” He laughs nervously, resisting the urge to slap his own face.
“Is it you, Mika?”
He can hear Mika take a deep breath, and he wonders if the boy is as nervous as
he is.
“Yes.” Mika murmurs and Yuu hears him gulp. Yeah, he’s nervous too. That makes
Yuu feel a lot more relieved, and he finally manages to smile.
They stay quiet for a while, only hearing each other’s breath, one waiting for
the other to speak. After a few seconds, Yuu lets out an awkward chuckle.
“So,” He says, trying to break the weird silence, “It’s been four years, huh?”
Mika’s breathe hitches for a while, and he gulps again. Yuu resists the urge to
bring his finger to his mouth and bite on his nails; it was an habit he had as
a child, and he had tried to get rid of it when he moved in with Guren, because
the man would always scold him for doing it, but sometimes he would catch
himself with his hand halfway to his mouth, his jaw twitching with the urge to
bite his nails.
“Four years.” Mika mutters in tone of agreement, and Yuu hears him sigh, “Yuu-
chan, I…”
“No, listen, Mika, I… I wanted to apologize. I’m sorry that I left without any
warning, it’s just… A lot of stuff happened all of a sudden and I barely had
anytime to process everything and when I saw, I was already leaving that
house,” Yuu sighs tiredly. He knows saying this won’t make things better, won’t
change the fact that he left Mika alone to deal with his creepy overprotective
father.
But he also doesn’t know how to explain what happened. How to explain the way
his parents neglected him and hurt him, and why he ran away from home, and how
he came to find Guren and moved in with him. How to explain all of that on a
phone call?
“I don’t need you to apologize,” Mika says sounding bitter, and Yuu frowns,
feeling a pain inside his chest at the words, “I just want to understandwhy.If
you ever… If you ever considered me a friend or, or…” He hears Mika gulp and
sniff, and suddenly he panics a little when he wonders if he’s crying. Like, is
he actually crying? Damn, did he really make him cry?
“Of course I considered you a friend!” He hushes to say, knowing his words are
the only way to comfort the boy now, and he wishes he was there by his side to
look into his eyes, for him to see that it is true, “You were my only friend
back there, Mika. You have no idea of how important you were to me, of how much
I…” He stops, his voice cracking, and he gets up and starts pacing around his
room before stopping and whispering, “Of how much I missed you all of these
years.”
He hears Mika sniff again, and then something that sounds like a muffled sob,
and he panics again. Shit, if he wasn’t crying before, now he is. Well done,
Yuuichirou, he scolds himself mentally.
“I missed you too,” Mika whispers in a raw voice, “You too were the only friend
I had back then and when you left I… I thought you had abandoned me because you
didn’t want to be my friend anymore and… and…” He sobs again, and Yuu starts to
pace around his room again in circles, not knowing what to do to soothe Mika.
“That’s not it, I swear,” Yuu says trying to sound reassuring, but he is pretty
sure his panic is showing in his trembling voice, “I just really had to leave
at that moment. I would have stayed if I could, but… I just couldn’t. And I’m
really, really sorry Mika.”
Mika sobs a few more times until his sobs subside to small sniffs.
“I know. I’m sorry for overreacting.” He finally says, and Yuu tries to chuckle
in an attempt at lightening the mood.
“It’s okay, don’t worry about it.”
“No, really I… I’m just a stupid omega with stupid omega hormones.” He sounds
really bitter, and Yuu frowns.
“What does you being an omega has to do with all of it?” When Mika sniffs
again, he sighs and shakes his head to himself, “Listen, Mika, you were never a
stupid omega to me. Hell, you kicked my ass when we first met, that’s not
something an omega does to an alpha.”
“Yeah, but we were kids back then,” Though he says that, his voice sounds a
little better, and Yuu smiles a little.
“It doesn’t matter. I’m pretty sure you can still fight me like an equal, and…
Hell, I can’t believe I’ll say that, but I’m sure you can beat me.”
That earns him a chuckle from Mika, and he stops breathing for a while just to
admire the sound that he never thought he would hear again.
“This is true,” Mika says.
“Hey!” He tries to sound offended, but it’s hard to when Mika laughs again. He
feels his own smile widen. “I won’t fight you, though. Guren says an alpha who
hits an omega is an asshole that deserves to have their ass kicked.”
“Who’s Guren?” Mika asks curiously, and Yuu is glad that he managed to change
the topic and distract Mika from his bitterness.
“It’s my uncle,” Yuu answers flopping down on his bed and smiling at his
ceiling, “I live with him and his boyfriend, though he’ll never admit he and
Shinya are dating. He’s an asshole and I swear to you I’ll never know how the
hell he managed to get himself such a nice omega like Shinya.”
Mika laughs again, and so they start talking about their uncles and their new
lives, without realizing as the time passes by, too caught up in each other to
care about anything else.
 
 
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Ferid stops on his tracks when he hears the sound of laughter coming from
Mika’s room. Ever since he picked up the young omega at school, he had locked
himself inside his room. He looked awful, as if he’d seen a ghost, and Ferid
had wondered if he had lied when he said that alpha boy wasn’t harassing him.
He narrows his eyes when he hears another loud laughter, and puts his hands on
his hips. What the hell is going on?
“Ferid-kun.”
He almost jumps when he hears the slightly singing voice behind him, and he
turns to look at Crowley standing there in the hall.
“What are you doing?” Crowley asks, “Please, don’t tell me you’re eavesdropping
poor Mikaela-chan.”
“I was not.” He sniffs, and then smirks slightly, “Don’t let him hear you call
him like that, or he’ll kick your ass.”
Crowley laughs as if the idea of Mika kicking his ass amused him. Not because
he’s an omega – he knows Crowley doesn’t judge people like that, not after they
met and he kicked Crowley’s ass – but because Mika is a 16 year old skinny
teenager, while he is a tall strong man, and he would probably have Mika pinned
down in two seconds.
They are interrupted by another laughter coming from Mika’s room, this time a
fit of giggles followed by a “Seriously, Yuu-chan?”. Ferid and Crowley eye each
other before looking suspiciously at the door. But before Ferid can do
anything, Crowley moves to the door, reaching for the doorknob.
“Wait, Crowley, what are you…”
Too late.
Crowley opens the door and Ferid sighs when he sees Mika startle, jumping on
his spot on his bed and squealing.
“Ooh, what is happening here? I want to laugh too,” Crowley says in what he
must be thinking to be an amicable tone, but Ferid can see Mika shrink away
from him.
“I’ll call you later, Yuu-chan,” Mika mutters on his phone, lowering his voice
as if he doesn’t want them to hear him, “Ferid and Crowley are here.”
He hangs up and scowls at them, obviously angry at the invasion.
“Who was it at the phone?” Ferid asks before Crowley does, and Mika’s scowl
deepens.
“A friend.” He answers simply.
“Was it?” Crowley stalks closer, and Mika seems to sink into his pillows,
eyeing Crowley suspiciously. “You seemed to be having fun. I don’t think I’ve
seen you laugh like this since you arrived here.”
Mika blushes at this and averts his eyes, clutching his phone tightly in his
hands.
“It’s just… It’s been a long time since I talked to him,” He mumbles fidgeting
slightly, “We were just… Just catching up, that’s all.”
Ferid hums slightly, amused at how embarrassed Mika looks. He wants to ask who
is this “Yuu-chan”, because from what he heard from the social workers when he
went to get Mika, his father had kept him locked up inside his house for 16
years – though after living with him for two weeks, Ferid wouldn’t be surprised
to find out the boy rebelled and ran away a few times when his father wasn’t
around.
But he knows he can’t ask this while Crowley is here, because that would only
make him even more uncomfortable. To have an alpha invade his room must already
be unsettling enough; he doesn’t want Mika to be on edge around Crowley and the
others all the time – and for him to relax, they need to give him some space
too.
So Ferid hooks his arm around Crowley’s and starts to pull him to the door,
waving slightly at Mika with his free hand.
“We’ll leave you alone then, Mika-kun,” He says in a signing voice, smirking at
Mika’s annoyed face, “Have good dreams about your precious Yuu-chan.”
He laughs, closing the door just as a pillow is thrown at him.
Chapter End Notes
     While I was writing this, I kept listening to JoBros' "Still in love
     with you", and I swear the chorus stayed in my head like Mika singing
     to Yuu lol (don't even bother to go listen to it, it's just me
     messing around lol)
     Also, have I mentioned the characters will probably be slightly ooc?
     Because there's a great possibility they will lol especially Ferid,
     since I'll try to make him be a good guy, but I'll try to preserve
     his sassyness lol
     Anyway xD
     Thank you so much for everyone who commented last chapter, I was so
     so happy with all of your comments! So don't forget to leave some
     more to make me even happier ;P see ya next chapter~
***** Chapter 3 *****
Chapter Summary
     Yuu had always been his safe place when they were children; when he
     was with Yuu, it was the only moment when he could forget his
     problems and pretend his life was okay. He wants it to stay like
     this, he wants to forget about all his worries and focus only on
     being with his friend.
Chapter Notes
     It's been more than a week lmao I'm not even sorry!
     Also, have I said that the characters might be slightly out of
     character? Because you better keep that in mind xD
     Anyway!
     Enjoy the new chapter~!
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Everything feels too hot – the air he breathes with difficulty, the blanket
wrapped around him, his own sweaty skin. His golden hair sticks to his
forehead, and he gasps as another searing wave of heat makes him shake like a
leaf, whimpering as he feels more of the weird, slick liquid slide down his
thighs.
The bang on his door doesn’t help. He curls up into himself, shrinking against
the wall and wishing he could melt down against it, to simply disappear. His
head aches, his abdomen aches, everything aches too much, and he whimpers again
when a particular loud bang makes the door rattle, threatening to give in.
Please, don’t!
He can hear the rain falling outside the house – more like a storm, with
thunders and everything. He recoils every time a thunder strikes, lighting up
the dark room and throwing scary shadows on the walls for a brief second. The
bang on his door becomes more insistent, as well as his father’s screams
demanding him to unlock the door; but the only whimpers and shakes his head,
knowing what will happen if he opens it, and he’s scared, so so scared…
 
 
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The loud sound of the thunder makes Mika jolt awake. He opens his eyes and
glances around his room, feeling disoriented when he sees the dark sky through
the window. Is it still night?
But when he checks his phone for the hours, he sees it’s already 6:35 am, and
he frowns before groaning. Great, this will be a rainy day. Just awesome.
Sighing, he pushes himself out of the bed, immediately missing the warmth of
his duvet when his bare feet touch the cold ground. He slips his feet inside
his slippers and gets up, heading to the bathroom.
He really doesn’t want to take a bath when it’s so cold, but he feels his skin
too sweaty for his liking, so he resigns to his fated meeting with the shower.
Thankfully, there’s hot water, so he won’t freeze. Hopefully.
As he strips his clothes, he thinks back to his nightmare and shudders. He’s
been having the same nightmare over and over, reliving what happened on that
night. Why can’t I sleep one single night without seeing this same damn thing
over and over again?
Sometimes it would be just him trembling in the corner of his room, with the
rain pouring outside and his father pounding his fists on the door. Other times
it would be the sight of his father strangling his mother as she tried to
protect him from the mad man. Or other times, it would be his father trying to
climb on him, and him shoving the man away, in the direction of the table with
the candle – and it falling over the curtain, and the fire rising, quickly
growing and consuming everything in its way…
Mika shakes his head, as if trying to shake away the memory. It’s gone, it’s
past now, don’t think about it.
Still, as the hot water from the shower falls on his skin, he shivers at the
memory of his first heat and how disastrous it was.
 
 
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The rain makes it hard for the students to concentrate on class – except for
Mika, who drinks every word Mr. Hiiragi speaks, only averting his gaze from his
teacher to scribble something on his notebook.
“How can you concentrate so hard in a rainy day?” Mirai repeats for the nth
time at lunch break. They can’t go outside with all the rain, so they just stay
in the classroom, sitting together next to the window and watching the droplets
of water running down the glass and the strong wind shake the trees. “How?
How?”
“I just like studying, Mirai.” Mika sighs, leaning his head against the glass
and closing his eyes. To be honest, he is feeling sleepy, just like almost all
of the class.
He can’t blame them though. Omegas like comfort, and extreme temperatures, like
a too cold or too hot weather, makes them sluggish. Mika too is feeling the
urge to curl up in somewhere warm and sleep, but he refuses to; he’ll have time
for that after the class. For now, he’ll focus on learning as much as he can.
“I wanna sleeeep…” Mirai whines, dragging the word. She lays her head on her
folded arms over the table. “My brother didn’t want to let me stay home today.
Why is he so mean to me?”
“He probably just wants his sister to have a future, you know.”
Mirai shifts her head to look at him while still resting her chin on her arms,
and frowns at him.
“Why do I even need study? I will probably just become a housewife like all
other omegas,” She grumbles, and then hides her face in her arms again, “I hate
being an omega. All cool jobs go for alphas, so what’s even the point in
studying if you can’t get them?”
Mika frowns at the back of her head and looks at Yoichi, who shrugs and purses
his lips.
“If you don’t study, then you’ll have no chance at all of getting the job you
want,” Yoichi tells her softly, reaching out to pet her hair. She purrs at the
touch, shifting enough to peek at him, only her purple eyes visible between her
arms and the long brownish strands of her hair falling over her face.
“Yoichi is right,” Mika says after a while, and smiles encouragingly at her,
“Aren’t you smarter than people your age? If you don’t study, they’ll reach you
and even leave you behind. Also,” He adds when she finally looks at him, “You
don’t need to marry an alpha and become a housewife. My uncle is 21 years old
and he doesn’t have an alpha, and in the past he would be long married at this
age.” A few decades ago, omegas were married off to alphas as soon as they had
their first heat – which means that, had Mika been born at that time, he would
probably be getting married by now. “But he isn’t. Instead he’s in university
and he probably doesn’t even think about marriage or children.” Mika can’t
really picture Ferid having children; even though the man is an omega, he seems
like the type who would never have his own kids, and instead would only be
there to be the creepy uncle of the family. “So if he can do it, then I’m sure
you, too, can go to university and get a good job, without needing an alpha at
all.”
Mirai stares at him curiously for a while, before straightening herself in her
chair and pushing a few strands of hair away from her face.
“What about you?” She asks curiously. “Will you try to get a job or get married
and have children?”
Mika is surprised at the question. He stares out of the window, reflecting
about it for a while.
“I don’t know, actually,” He finally says with a shrug. “I don’t think I want
an alpha,” He is still too scared of them to even consider dating one, but he
won’t admit that to her, “Right now I only want to study. I really like it.” He
looks back at her with a small smile, “Maybe in the future I can think again
about dating.”
“I’m not talking about dating, I’m talking about marrying.”
“Well,” Yoichi says before Mika can answer, giving both of them a shy smile,
his cheeks tinged a soft red, “I don’t see why an omega can’t have both. Why
can’t we have a good job and be married to an alpha at the same time?”
“Yoichi, you only say that because you date my brother,” Mirai says rolling her
eyes, but ends up smiling. Mika chuckles.
“What would you two like to work with?” He asks before Mirai can insist on her
question, and watches as her face becomes thoughtful.
“I want to be a nurse,” Yoichi says before she answers, and Mika turns his head
to look at him, “In the pediatric area.”
“Well, you do like children,” Mirai teases him before turning to Mika, “I’m
pretty sure he and my brother will be the first of their group of friends to
have children.”
“Mirai!” Yoichi’s cheeks turn even redder, and even the tip of his ears are
somewhat red. Mika laughs softly.
“Sorry, sorry,” Mirai says, though she doesn’t seem to be sorry at all,
“Anyway, I want to be a lawyer, because I was watching an anime about lawyers
this week and it was so cool when the character yelled ‘I OBJECT’. I want to do
that too.”
An anime about lawyers?
“Oh my…” Mika starts to laugh really hard.
“Hey, stop laughing, I’m serious here.”
“I… I see.” He tries to control his laughter, but as soon as he pulls a
straight face, he breaks in a fit of giggles. Mirai rolls her eyes at him.
“What about you?” She shots trying to shut him up, “What do you want to work
with?”
Mika stops laughing gradually and thinks about it.
“I’m not sure yet,” He admits finally with a low sigh, “But I want to work with
abandoned children.”
“Like, in social work?” Mirai asks tilting her head to the side, and Mika
frowns a little.
“Not exactly… But something like that.”
“Why?”
He stops, chewing the insides of his cheeks. He doesn’t know how to explain to
her that he wants to help children who are like him – who, like him, are
neglected by their parents, or abandoned and don’t have a family to rely on. He
knows what it’s like to feel alone, and he doesn’t want anyone to feel like
this.
“I just… Want it.” Is what he ends up answering, and Mirai pouts at this, but
thankfully Yoichi changes the topic:
“I really hope this rain stops before we leave. Shihou said we could go eat
something at McDonalds before going home…”
As he and Mirai start talking about going out with Mirai’s brother, Mika leans
his head against the glass window again, staring off to the rain outside,
wondering if, in case Shihou comes to pick up Mirai and Yoichi again, Yuu-chan
will be with him.
 
 
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When the class is over, the storm has reduced to an inoffensive drizzle. Mika
stays with Mirai and Yoichi at the doors of the school building, waiting for
their lift to finally go to the gates.
“You should come with us, Mika!” Mirai suggests excited, “I’ll ask my brother
to pay your lunch. Have you ever eaten at McDonalds?”
“Uh… No.” He doesn’t want to explain that he never even left home, let alone
eat at a fast food. “Also, I don’t think it’s a good idea if I go, I mean… It’s
something only for you three, right?” By the way she and Yoichi had been
talking about it, Mika presumed it to be something the three of them did
together, like a family thing. “I don’t want to intrude…”
“Don’t be silly, you wouldn’t be intruding.” She rolls her eyes. “Plus,” She
smirks, “Yuu will be going too.”
That makes Mika hesitate for a while, fidgeting slightly with his sleeves.
“He… He will?”
She giggles as she shows Mika her cellphone, the screen showing a message
obviously from her brother, received a few minutes ago:
[I’ll be there in 30 min. Don’t stay out in the rain. Yuu’s coming w/ me.]
“So,” She says teasingly as she pockets her phone again and puts her hands on
her hips, smiling at Mika, “Will you come with us?”
Just as Mika is about to answer, Yoichi exclaims:
“Ah, Shihou is here!”
They all look up to see the car stopped by the sidewalk, and both Yoichi and
Mirai look at Mika with expectance.
“So…?” Mirai raises an eyebrow, and Mika exhales, giving up.
“Fine, I’m going.”
She cheers as she pulls him by the hand, Yoichi giggling as he follows them,
and the three of them run under the thin drops of rain to Shihou’s car. Just as
they reach it, the passenger door opens and Yuu leaves, raising his eyes to
look at them.
“Mika?” He looks genuinely surprised, and the smile he gives Mika makes his
heart flutter in his chest. “You’re coming with us?”
Mika nods timidly, and Mirai chuckles as she opens the backdoor, entering the
car and pulling Mika in with her. Yuu enters right after them, and Yoichi takes
Yuu’s place at the front seat by Shihou’s side.
“I invited Mika to come with us!” Mirai sings happily as Yuu closes the door,
and Shihou looks over his shoulder to raise his eyebrows at her. “I hope you
don’t mind.”
Her brother merely rolls his eyes, though a smile tugs at his lips when he
turns back around and starts to drive. Mika shrinks in his seat, clutching his
bag close to his chest and feeling suddenly very uncomfortable being in the
middle of Mirai and Yuu.
“Don’t worry about Kimizuki,” Yuu says, startling Mika. The blond looks at him
when he chuckles. “He may seem intimidating, but he’s actually a nice guy.”
“Wow, Yuu, I didn’t know you even had the ability to compliment me.” Shihou
says in a sarcastic tone, and Yuu glares at him.
“Shut up, telephone pole. You have a collection of Happy Meal toys.”
Mika hears the taller boy gasp, and Yoichi giggles.
“Aha, you’re blushing, Shihou.”
“You too, Yoichi?” Shihou groans.
“Don’t worry, brother.” Mirai says in a comforting tone, “There’s nothing wrong
with collecting Happy Meal toys. We all are children deep inside.”
“Mirai, please…”
Mirai, Yoichi and Yuu laugh at Shihou’s embarrassment, and Mika doesn’t know if
he should join them or not. He opts for opening his bag and fishing his
cellphone.
“What are you doing?” Yuu asks curiously, leaning over to peek at Mika’s phone.
Mika frowns and pushes his face away, sticking out his tongue.
“It’s not your business!” He smiles when Yuu pouts, and looks at his phone
screen. “I’m just texting my uncle to let him know where I’m going, or else
he’ll go crazy.”
Truth be told, Mika doubts Ferid would even care about it. But he knows the man
will be seriously upset to come pick him up at school only to know he’s not
there – he’ll surely find it a waste of time.
[I’m going out with some friends. I’ll be home before 9.]
He presses send and locks his phone, stuffing it back inside his bag. When he
looks up, Yuu is staring at him with a wide smile.
He frowns.
“Is something wrong with you, Yuu-chan?”
“Uh? No… Why?” He tilts his head to the side confused, and the way he looks at
Mika is so cute the blond boy has to avert his eyes to avoid blushing.
“It’s just… You’ve been smiling too much lately.” He looks back at Yuu, “It’s
weird.”
The boy laughs, which only serves to confuse Mika even further, but he smiles
at the sound. Yuu’s laughter had always been so rare, and hearing it after so
long makes him relax, finally feeling more comfortable in this strange car,
even with the scent of an strange alpha all around him in this closed space. He
feels at ease, even with Mirai’s intimidating brother so close, because he has
Yuu-chan next to him – Yuu-chan laughing next to him.
“Sorry,” Yuu chuckles, “It’s just that I’m really happy to be able to talk to
you again. I can’t control myself.”
A fit of giggles by Mika’s side makes both boys startle, and Mika looks over to
see Mirai chuckling at them.
“Were you two a couple or something?” She asks between her chuckles, “You’re
acting like two long-separated lovers who just met again.”
Mika feels his face heat up immediately at that, and when he glances at Yuu,
the boy is blushing too.
“We’re just friends,” Yuu grunts turning his face to the other side, most
likely trying to hide his flushed face.
“Mirai, stop being inconvenient,” Yoichi says in a gentle tone, though he too
is giggling.
“Yeah, Mirai,” Shihou agrees, “Leave Yuu alone, he has a lot of catch up to do
with his boyfriend.”
Mika hides his face in his hands, while Yuu throws insults at his friend,
calling him names Mika didn’t even know existed.
 
 
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Mika spent 16 years locked inside his house, but he’s not stupid. He’s seen a
lot of stuff on TV, so it’s not like a fast food restaurant is a big deal for
him.
Or at least it shouldn’t be, but when they arrive at McDonalds, he can’t help
but feel intimidated. He’s never been at a fast food restaurant there, and he
starts to feel anxious when he sees the amount of people inside, mostly
students from various schools.
Yuu laughs when he sees his face as he walks close to their group, trying to
hold back the urge to cling to Yuu’s arm like a little child clinging to their
mom.
“It’s okay, Mika, it’s just fast food,” He chuckles, “No one is gonna even
bother to look at us.”
But that’s not entirely true, because as soon as they enter the restaurant,
Mika catches a group of alphas staring directly at them. They use black jackets
with a small gold symbol at the chest, probably the uniform of their school.
Unsettled, he presses closer to Yuu, finally giving in and hooking his arm on
Yuu’s, searching for the comfort he feels by staying close to his old friend.
He is distracted when Mirai beckons at him and grabs his arm, pulling him down
to her level so she can whisper at his ear:
“Stop staring at them or else they’ll come here.”
He frowns at her, tightening his grip on Yuu’s arm.
“Do you know them?” He whispers back. Mirai doesn’t look like the type to hang
out with weird alphas like that.
She nods, very serious – a contrast to her usual cheerful personality.
“They’re students from Union High.” She says, “It’s a school for alphas only,
but the alphas there are mostly delinquents. Most cases of alphas harassing
omegas have students from there involved.”
Mika peeks at the alphas again, more discretely this time. There are three boys
and a girl, and they are all whispering as if they’re conspiring something. One
of them, a tall strong built boy, looks up just then and locks eyes with Mika.
He averts his eyes quickly, and lets Yuu drag him to the queue with the others.
“Are you okay?” Yuu mutters to him, and his cheeks are tinged with a soft shade
of red. Mika blushes too, but doesn’t let go of his arm.
“I’m fine.” He lies. “I’m just hungry. What are we gonna eat?”
“Big brother is going to have a Happy Meal.” Mirai snickers teasingly, and
Shihou rolls his eyes at her.
“Shut up,” He says, “You too pestered me to buy a lot of Happy Meals when the
toys were Pokémon characters.”
She sniffs and shrugs.
“I had to catch them all.”
Yuu and Yoichi chuckle, while Shihou shakes his head at his sister.
Then Mika almost jumps out of his skin when he feels someone poking his
shoulder, and he already know by the scent that it’s one of the Union alphas
even before turning around.
“Uh…” He looks nervously at the boy standing there, smirking at him. “Y-yes?”
The boy is taller than him, looming over him like a tower, no doubt trying to
look threatening, but he is too skinny for that. His face reminds Mika of a
mouse.
“You were staring at us,” The boy says, still smirking, “Me and my friends were
just wondering if you want to join us.”
Mika averts his eyes to the boy’s friends, all looking at the scene. Actually,
now that he stops to look around, almost everybody in that place is looking at
them, but no one makes any move to step in.
Yuu, however, turns completely around and glares at the taller alpha.
“Excuse you, but he already has company,” He all but growls at the boy. “Now
kindly fuck off.”
The boy looks down at Yuu as if he’s a mere annoying fly.
“I wasn’t talking to you,” He says in a low voice, “He was looking at us,
obviously he would rather come with us than stay with you.” Then he smirks,
adding, “What omega would want to be with an alpha that is shorter than him?”
Yuu seems to be about to throw a punch at the other alpha, but before he can do
that, Mika finds himself saying:
“Well, I was only staring because I had never seen someone so ugly before.” His
voice is not that loud, but everyone was chatting so low that they could all
hear him. “I was just curious if you were born ugly like this or if it was some
kind of accident.”
Mirai and Yoichi giggle behind him, and Yuu blinks at him before laughing too.
The alpha boy, however, doesn’t find it funny, and he glares daggers at Mika.
“You find it very amusing, don’t you?” He grunts, reaching out to grab Mika’s
upper arm, “I will show you something fu–”
Mika acts on instinct – because all he can think is there’s a stranger alpha
touching me and when he catches himself, he is already kicking the boy’s ankle,
unbalancing him and making him fall back straight on his ass. Mika’s breath
catches when he sees the angry look the boy shoots him, but he doesn’t back
down, instead fisting both his hands, as if getting ready for a fight.
“Do not. Touch. Me.” He drawls as the boy tries to stand up.
“You heard him!” Yuu says through loud laughs, and he realizes almost everyone
around them is either laughing or smirking. “You, oh mighty Mr. Alpha, won’t
want to have your ass kicked by an omega in front of everyone, will you?”
The boy glares at them, but turns back on his heels, his face red with
humiliation, and stomps back to his friends. Mika finally relaxes now that he’s
away.
“That was so cool!” Mirai giggles, patting Mika on the shoulder.
“Yeah, but that could have gotten us kicked out of here,” Shihou sighs and
shakes his head, but smiles a little at him, “Good to know you can defend
yourself, though. By the way you acted so nervous I thought you wouldn’t know
how to push someone away like this.”
Mika blushes, fidgeting a little.
“I had some self-defense classes when I was little.” It was one of the few
things his mother taught him: how to defend himself from someone trying to
attack him. She said it was something he, as an omega, needed to know.
“I’m not even surprised.” Yuu snickers, still chuckling to himself. “Remember
how you took me down when he first met?”
Mika smiles and nods.
“You made a cute angry face when I kicked you down,” He giggles.
“You kicked him?” Shihou asks with a mix of surprise and interest, a smirk
forming on his face, and Yuu makes a face that says oh no.
“W-well, we were kids…”
“And he did the same to another alpha just right now.” Shihou’s smirk is
malicious as he looks at Yuu. “Just wait until I tell Shinoa and the others
about this.”
Yuu groans, glaring at Shihou, only making his smirk widen.
“Why don’t you and Mika go wait at a table?” Yoichi suggests as if he’s sensing
the start of a fight, “We’ll take your lunch there!”
Yuu opens his mouth as if to protest, but Mika beats him to it.
“That’s a good idea.” He smiles at Yoichi, and grabs Yuu’s arm. “You can buy me
anything, I don’t mind what you choose. Yuu-chan, tell them your order and
let’s find a table for us.”
“… Fine.” Yuu gives up with a sight. “Just get me a Big Mac, a large portion of
french fries and a coffee.”
As Mika drags him towards a large table in a corner, he eyes him curiously.
“A coffee? With a hamburger?” He asks raising an eyebrow, and Yuu shrugs.
“Guren says I can’t drink soda,” Yuu says as they sit down, “Too much sugar in
my blood makes hyperactive. If I drink soda now, I won’t sleep tonight.”
Mika giggles at that and shakes his head.
“Isn’t coffee the same though?” He questions, “I mean, the caffeine keeps you
awake.”
“Yeah, but not as much as the sugar, trust me.” Then he shrugs, “But my body is
weird anyway, so it’s no big deal.” They both chuckle before Yuu sighs,
reaching out to touch Mika’s hand over the table. “Hey,” He says, his thumb
caressing Mika’s hand absentmindedly, as if he’s not even noticing what he’s
doing. “Are you okay?”
Mika hesitates, noticing Yuu is referring to the incident with the alpha boy.
“I’ll be fine.” He sighs. “It’s not like he did much more than just grab my
arm.”
“Yeah, but…” Yuu looks at him with concern, “I know you get nervous around
other alphas. I’ve noticed how you act around Kimizuki.”
Mika lowers his eyes to the table, focusing his gaze on their hands. Yuu’s skin
is slightly tanned, unlike his, so unhealthily pale from the amount of time he
stayed inside his house.
“Mika…”
“It’s okay, Yuu-chan.” He looks up to smile at him. “I’m just being a little
irrational, I know–”
“You’re not being irrational.” Yuu frowns. “After what you’ve been through,
it’s not irrational to fear alphas. Not for you.”
Mika stares at him, wondering if he would worry even more if he knew what
Mika’s father tried to do. When they had talked the other day, Mika had only
said his parents had died, but hadn’t said how they died or what happened that
day.
He decides he will keep this piece of information for himself for now. Yuu
doesn’t need to worry about him, and he doesn’t want Yuu to worry. Yuu had
always been his safe place when they were children; when he was with Yuu, it
was the only moment when he could forget his problems and pretend his life was
okay. He wants it to stay like this, he wants to forget about all his worries
and focus only on being with his friend.
So he smiles sheepishly.
“Don’t worry about that, Yuu-chan.”
He looks like he wants to contest, to keep talking about it, but he eventually
sighs and drops the topic.
“Fine.” He says. “Tell me then, how are you uncle’s friends? You mentioned
Crowley and Lacus. Are they nice to you?”
“Kind of,” Mika shrugs. “They usually stay out of my way, actually, and I
prefer it like that. It’s already bad enough to live in a house with six
alphas, I don’t need them to–”
“Wait, what?” Yuu interrupts him with a gasp, “Six alphas? You didn’t tell me
about this yesterday!”
“Ah, I didn’t?” Mika tries to chuckle nervously. He had forgotten he had
omitted this part during their phone call. “Well, it’s not much of a problem,
to be honest. I mean, they’re weird, but they don’t mess with me. Ferid would
kill them if they did.”
Yuu merely shakes his head, apparently too shocked to say anything.
“Yuu-chan, really. They are cool.”
“You are the weirdest omega I’ve ever met.” Yuu says amazed, and Mika blinks
confused before chuckling at him.
“I guess I am.” He smiles.
When the others arrive with their food, Mika is feeling more relaxed, even
laughing with Yuu at his jokes.
“I see you’re feeling better now.” Yoichi smiles as he sets down the two trays
he’d been carrying, pushing one in Mika’s direction. “I got you a
cheeseburger.”
“Thanks.” Mika smiles back, and looks down at his tray containing the
cheeseburger, french fries and soda.
“Those creepers are still staring at you, by the way.” Shihou says as they sit
down, and the pushes one of the trays he was carrying to Yuu.
“They won’t dare come here, though.” Yuu says smugly, and shoves a handful of
french fries inside his mouth, “Mika would kick their asses.”
“Yuu-chan,” Mika sighs, “Don’t speak while you’re eating. It’s rude.”
“Sorry.” He swallows and then grabs his cup of coffee, sipping at it.
“Still, you should be careful, Mika.” Mirai says seriously. “The kids from
Union are dangerous. You won’t want to be on their bad side.”
Mika nods, trying not to show how nervous that makes him. Yuu, on the other
hand, scoffs and waves a hand at Mirai.
“If they dare try anything on him, they’ll have to deal with me too.”
“And so what?” Kimizuki sneers, “You’re an alpha who got kicked by an omega,
literally.”
“We were kids!”
“And you’re shorter than him.” He smirks when Yuu stutters, mumbling some
curses under his breath before shoving more french fries inside his mouth.
“It’s just a few inches.” He grunts through his chewing, and Mika rolls his
eyes.
“Swallow before speaking.” He reprimands Yuu again, and then smirks too. “Also,
even if it’s just a few inches, it doesn’t change the fact that I’m taller than
you.”
Yuu shoots him a wounded glance, as if he thinks Mika just betrayed him.
“You too?” He whines, and drops his hands on his folded arms over the table,
making they all chuckle. “I hate you all.”
“Don’t worry, Yuu.” Yoichi says in a comforting tone, “You will still grow.
Maybe you’ll get taller?”
“Though that also means Mika can get taller too.” Mirai adds.
“You two are not helping at all!” Yuu glares at them and Mika chuckles.
“Yuu-chan, stop being such a kid about it.” He rolls his eyes. “Plus, omegas
stop growing at around age 17, while alphas keep growing until they’re around
19. So even if I grow taller, you’ll eventually get taller than me because I
will stop growing.”
“Mika, you’re my only true friend on this table!” Yuu cries throwing his arms
around Mika, and the omega laughs and pats his back.
“Stop lying to him just to make him feel better.” Shihou says, and Yuu glares
at him.
“I’m not lying. I just pay attention to Biology classes.” He raises his
eyebrows suggestively to Mirai and Yoichi, who both chuckle.
“That’s true.” Mirai nods. “Mika is such a nerd.”
Mika rolls his eyes, but smiles at her.
They keep chatting loudly while they eat, with Mika occasionally scolding Yuu
for eating and speaking at the same time. By the time they finish eating, the
rain has stopped completely, but it’s almost 6pm, so the sky remains a dark
shade of blue.
Shihou drives Mika home, after Mirai pointing out that, since he’s new in the
city, he would probably get lost trying to go back by bus (and though that’s
not entirely true, because Mika is sure he can find his way back home without
much problem, he doesn’t say anything because it’s getting dark and he’s afraid
he might find some shady alpha in the way).
When he arrives, after waving goodbye at his friends and watching the car
driving away, he enters the house to see Ferid waiting for him in the living
room, his eyes narrowed as he stares at the younger omega suspiciously.
“Where have you been?” He asks, making Mika roll his eyes.
“I went to McDonalds with Yuu-chan and some friends.” He says as he starts to
make his way upstairs to his room.
“Yuu-chan again?” Ferid says teasingly. “How lovely! When will you introduce
him to us?”
He halts at the top of the stairs and turns around to glare at Ferid, but he
can’t find words to say when he sees the older omega chuckling at him. So, with
his face burning in embarrassment, he turns around and runs to his room before
Ferid can say anything else.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     This got longer than I had first planned lol (it got over 5k words
     lmao my chapters are usually 3k)
     Anyway.
     Sorry for taking so long, but my tests at uni started last week, and
     I still wanted to finish my other two fics, so I decided to put this
     aside for the week and concentrate on studying and on finishing those
     fics. Now that that's out of the way, Imma try to write faster for
     this one xD
     That being said, I advice you to not get used to me updating fast
     because I suck at keeping a update schedule, and my writing depends
     on my mood, like, when my depression decides to kick me in the ass I
     can't be productive at all and sometimes I delay chapters for weeks
     (those who accompanied Almost Home know it xD)
     Tho I'll try not to let it get in my way with this, because I'm very
     very excited for this fic, and I'm very very happy you're all liking
     it. Have I said that already? xD
     Tomorrow and on Wednesday I'll have more tests, but then on Thursday
     there's a holiday so I won't have classes then and on Friday, so
     hopefully I can update during the weekend xD
     See you soon~
***** Chapter 4 *****
Chapter Summary
     Ferid never expected he would actually like the young omega so much.
Chapter Notes
     Aayyy I'm back, again sooner than I expected xD
     This chapter we have a little of Ferid's backstory. Have fun~
See the end of the chapter for more notes
At the very young age of five, Ferid decided that he would never ever have
children, after his older sister had her first baby, and disappeared of their
house. Her husband, an alpha who nobody ever trusted, apparently suspected
everybody who got near their child, since the little baby was an omega. When
Ferid asked his own mother why his sister wouldn’t leave that awful man and
just live on her own with her baby, his mother told him that omegas and betas
must obey their alpha if they’re married to one, and then told him that one day
he would be married to an alpha too, and he would have to do everything his
alpha ordered him to.
That was when he decided he wouldn’t have an alpha, one. And two, when he heard
– behind closed doors, because no one would tell him anything directly since he
was a child – that his sister’s husband kept her and their son locked inside
their house, he decided that he wouldn’t have children. What was the point if
you couldn’t leave your house? If you couldn’t visit your family, your friends?
No, he would have none of that.
As he grew up, his parents got fed up with his ideals, and eventually sent him
to live with an old rich uncle in Tokyo. This uncle was an alpha, but he was
very kind and never forbid him of doing anything. If much, the man had fun
seeing how unruly and independent Ferid was. He encouraged Ferid to enter
university and always laughed at his stories about how he dismissed the alphas
from his class who tried to put him down. However, his uncle eventually died
when Ferid was 19, leaving everything he had to the young omega.
Suddenly having a lot of money for himself, Ferid had felt more at ease,
thinking he could have a good life without needing an alpha, just like his
uncle had wanted him to.
That was, until Mika appeared.
He still thought about his sister sometimes. He thought she was rather stupid
for submitting to an alpha like that, throwing her whole future away for him
and their son. But he never actually got to think about his nephew. He had only
seen the baby once, before his sister’s husband took them away, and he was too
young to remember anything but a crying, annoying baby.
So when he got a call from the police one day, telling him he was needed back
in his hometown, he didn’t expect to hear that his sister and her husband had
died in a fire, and he definitelydidn’t expect to hear that now that his nephew
was an orphan, and since Ferid was his only family member alive – his parents,
the boy’s grandparents, had died a few years ago, and no one could find any
relative of his father –, he would have the guard of the boy.
He didn’t want to have children, so suddenly hearing, at the age of 21, that he
was now responsible for a 16 year old omega boy who had never left home and was
currently in heat, was a great shock for him.
But he couldn’t leave the boy alone. If he refused to take him in, he would
most likely be thrown in an orphanage, and who knows what would happen to a
young, innocent and unclaimed omega there. His imagination immediately made up
scenarios of the caretakers marrying him off to the first alpha who appeared,
and Ferid, as an omega, couldn’t let this happen to a fellow omega. What would
his uncle, who always supported him, say if he did?
So he had no other choice than to accept the boy. The kid would certainly take
some time to adjust to his new house, especially since most of Ferid’s friends
were alphas, but there was no other option.
 
Mika proved to be very different from what Ferid had imagined.
At first, he thought Mika would be a very shy, submissive boy, who would take
orders without contest and would always bow his head for everyone. That was the
only thing he could think of someone who spent most of his life locked up with
a mad alpha father and a bitter omega mother.
Mika was none of that, though.
He did avoid all of Ferid’s friends, but he glared at them whenever they came
close, and he even got mad at Lacus when he entered his room once. He ignored
them, unlike most omegas that would be always so willing to listen to anything
an alpha had to say. He didn’t avert his eyes nor bowed for them and even less
fawned over them. He would take any excuse to not be in the same room as them.
And over all, Mika disliked Ferid.
Ferid didn’t know why, but he suspected the boy stopped trusting him since he
found out he lived in a house with so many alphas. He couldn’t blame him for
that, and actually he had some fun teasing the poor boy only to see him mad.
Ferid never expected he would actually like the young omega so much.
 
 
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“Ferid, you’re looking like a creepy stalker,” Lacus comments as Ferid peeks
between the closed curtains of the living room. René had made them close the
curtains because apparently seeing people walking through the window distracts
him, and he needs to concentrate on studying, since his exams are coming.
Actually, the exams of all of them are coming, which is why everyone is sitting
in the living room, supposedly studying – though Ferid can’t concentrate on it
because again Mika has gone out with his friends after he left school. He’s
been doing this for the whole week, and Ferid can’t help but feel curious.
Not worried. Of course not. Just curious.
He turns to look at Lacus with a smirk.
“Well, I may look like a stalker, but it wasn’t I who walked into his room in
the middle of the night while he was in heat.” He says blinking innocently, and
that completely wipes away Lacus’ smile.
“It was an accident.” He mumbles before going back to read his papers, his face
slight red. Ferid met Lacus at a party that Crowley had dragged him to, and the
first impression he had of the young alpha was that he was too shameless,
hitting on everyone, even on other alphas. He found out later that Lacus is
actually very shy when it comes to flirting, and that that attitude he had saw
at the party was probably an effect of the alcohol he had ingested.
Lacus is, however, very stubborn when trying to make new friends, which is
probably why, even after being kicked out of Mika’s room, he still tries to
talk to him and include him in everything, despite the young omega always
refusing.
Actually, Mika rarely interacts with anyone in the house. At most the speaks to
Ferid and to Krul (he seems to trust more in her than in Ferid), but aside from
that he avoids everyone else and stays in his room most of time.
“Why are you so worried about Mika?” Krul asks without raising her eyes from
the papers she’s reading. “He’s with his friends, there’s nothing to worry
about.”
“I’m not worried.” Ferid laughs, waving a hand dismissively at her.
“You totally are.” Crowley comments, looking up from his Math book to smirk at
him. “How cute, you’re such a caring uncle!”
Still smirking, Ferid unceremoniously shoves a pillow on his face.
 
 
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As soon as Yuu found out that, even after being in Tokyo for two weeks Mika
still hadn’t left home, he decided it was up to him and his friends to take him
to everywhere.
Today it is the mall.
Mika had never been in such a huge place with so many people, and he can’t help
but stare in awe at everything. The shiny displays showing such a huge variety
of clothes, shoes, toys, and basically everything he could ever imagine
fascinates him in such a way that they spend the whole afternoon and good part
of the evening just entering stores so that Mika can look at everything.
“You’re really easy to please, ain’t you?” Kimizuki sighs when Mika starts to
drag them to another store, an electronics one this time.
Mika stops in his tracks, suddenly blushing and averting his eyes.
“I’m… I’m sorry, I’m just wasting your time, right?” He stares at them looking
very sad, averting his eyes to his feet and fidgeting with the hem of his
sleeve. Yuu glares at Kimizuki before taking his hands gently.
“Don’t worry about it.” He says calmly, caressing the back of Mika’s hand with
his thumb. “You’re having fun, and that’s all that matters.”
“Yeah, but…”
“I know!” Mirai suddenly pips up, smiling from ear to ear. “Why don’t we split
for now? Brother, Yoichi and I can go to the food court and find us something
to eat, while you two go visit this last store. You can meet us there in, say,
thirty minutes?”
“That would be nice!” Yuu smiles at her and then looks at Mika. “What do you
think?”
Mika looks from him to Mirai as if uncertain.
“If it’s not a problem for you all…”
“Then it’s decided!” Mirai giggles. “Come on, brother. I want to get a nice
seat next to Pizza Hut, because their pizza smells heavenly!”
Yuu watches as Mika smiles a little while looking at Mirai dragging her brother
away from them; Yoichi waves at them before following the two, chuckling at
Mirai’s behavior.
“Let’s go, then?” Yuu says to Mika.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t want to be a burden to you all.” Mika mutters as he
follows Yuu inside the store, but Yuu merely waves a hand at him.
“Don’t sweat it.” He goes straight to the headphone section, Mika trailing
behind him. “I need a new headphone anyway. Cerberus ate the wires of my last
one.”
“Cerberus?” Mika frowns.
“Yup. It’s my dog.” Yuu smiles at him.
“You… You have a dog? I thought you said you live in an apartment.”
“Yeah, I do.” Yuu picks up a packaged set of headphones, turning it around to
read the information about it. “It’s a long story, but Guren convinced the
apartment manager to let the dog stay. I was in a very rebellious phase, and
having Cerberus around was the only thing that actually calmed me down, so
Guren insisted on it. Plus,” Yuu looks up to smile at him, “He thought having a
dog would teach me to be more responsible.”
“And did you?”
“No.” Yuu puts the headphone set back on the shelf and takes a different one.
“If anything, it’s Cerberus who takes care of me and not the contrary.”
Mika snorts and shakes his head.
“And you? Do you have any pet?” Yuu questions as he picks up another set of
headphones and stares at the two in his hands as if comparing them.
“No, I don’t. I never wanted one.” Mika shrugs and takes a set of headphones
too, even though he already has one, which Ferid gave him with his cell phone
when he arrived at their house. “Though if I would get one, it would be either
a bird or a cat.”
“A bird or a cat?” Yuu looks up at him amused. “Why?”
Mika shrugs.
“Cats are cute, especially the ones with long, fluff fur. And birds are
pretty.” He remembers seeing one on TV that had blue and green feathers, and it
looked so beautiful Mika became fascinated with it. “Though I don’t think I’ll
ever get any pet.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t know if I can take care of it. It’s too much responsibility for me.”
“I’m sure you can’t be worse than me as a pet owner.” Yuu assures him, and Mika
chuckles at that. “Like, seriously, I’m terrible. I don’t know why Cerberus
still likes me, because I can’t take care of him at all. Once I tried giving
him a bath and I almost drowned him on my bathtub.”
“Oh my…” Mika starts to laugh, covering his mouth with his free hand. “Yuu-
chan. How.”
“I don’t know.” Yuu is laughing too, and he puts back both headphones set on
the shelf before speaking again, “Guren is always pissed off at me because of
that. And it’s gotten worse now that Cerberus has grown up, like, he’s reaching
up my waist now and it’s horrible to keep him inside the apartment.”
“Well, dogs only work on apartments if they’re the small ones.” Mika says, “A
big one is better for houses with backyards.”
“I know.” Yuu sighs. “That’s why Guren started to talk about moving out of that
apartment.”
There is a loud sound when the headphone set Mika just dropped hits the ground.
“Oh my– Mika, what happened?” Yuu looks alarmed as Mika stares at him
horrified.
“You’re… You’re going to move out?” His voice trembles, and Yuu wants to punch
himself because he knows exactly what Mika must be thinking right now.
That he’s going to be left behind once again.
“Ah, Mika it’s not like that, I swear!” Yuu grabs Mika’s hands, holding them
between his own. “We’re not going to be leaving town or something. It’s just
that apartment has become too small for all of us, especially now that Shinya
is almost living there too, he sleeps there almost every night. So Guren wants
a bigger house. I’m not leaving you.” He says firmly. “I’ll still be here for
you.”
“Yuu-chan…” Mika whispers, and then all of a sudden he hugs Yuu, wrapping his
arms tightly around the alpha and hiding his face in Yuu’s chest. “I’m so
sorry! I overreacted again, didn't I?”
After the shock of having Mika suddenly embracing him passes, Yuu hugs him
back, bringing one hand up to his hair so he can trade his fingers gently
through his soft strands.
“It’s okay.” He mutters. “It’s okay, Mika. I won’t abandon you again.”
 
 
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The ride back home is quieter now, mostly because Mirai has fallen asleep on
the seat beside Mika. He can’t help but pick up his phone and snapping a photo
of her, grinning to himself as he thinks of sending it to her later.
Yuu giggles by his side, and he blushes a little before shoving his phone back
inside his bag. He still can’t believe he hugged Yuu in the middle of a store
full of people – and everyone stopped to stare at them!
“Mika, your face is getting red.” Yuu teases, poking his cheek, and Mika glares
at him.
“Shut up.” He grunts, pushing Yuu’s hand away, but he leans against the alpha,
resting his head on his shoulder. “Hey, Shihou?”
“Hm?” The alpha looks briefly over his shoulder, looking a little bit surprised
that Mika is addressing him; Mika rarely speaks to him, too intimidated to even
look at the alpha.
“Since when have you and Yuu-chan been friends?”
“… Since he arrived in Tokyo, four years ago, I guess.” Shihou answers. “Why do
you ask all of a sudden?”
“Nothing, it’s just… You two fight a lot, but you’re always together. I just
got curious.” Mika shrugs, and Yuu chuckles beside him.
“That’s because we live in the same apartment complex.” He tells Mika. “Not
exactly in the same floor, but very close. So Guren always asks him to give me
a ride back home.”
“In some way, you can say Shihou is Yuu’s chauffeur.” Yoichi says, which earns
him a glare from his boyfriend and a loud laughter from Yuu.
“Yeah, pretty much that!”
“In your dreams.” Shihou grunts, adding, “I’m gonna throw you out of this car
if you don’t stop laughing right now.”
Yuu rolls his eyes, but eventually stops his laughter.
“I know I fight a lot with Kimizuki, but he’s actually a nice guy when he isn’t
being stubborn.”
“Stubborn, me?” Shihou scoffs. “You’re one to talk.”
“What do you mean with that?” Yuu narrows his eyes at him, and Mika chuckles.
“There you go again.” He mutters smiling.
“That’s what a real friendship is like, Mika.” Yoichi chuckles. “You fight with
your friend, like, everyday.”
“Friendship goals.” Mika comments, and Yuu snorts.
“Shut up, you two.”
They finally arrive Mika’s house, and Mika leaves the car, waving at them.
“Will you come tomorrow then?” Shihou asks through the window. They had all
agreed on a study session on Mirai’s and Shihou’s place the next day, since it
will be a Saturday and they won’t have classes.
“I will.” Mika smiles. “At 3 pm, right?”
“Yes.” Shihou nods. “If you have any problems finding it, you can call and I’ll
go get you at the bus station.”
“Thanks, but I guess I’ll ask my uncle to take me there.” Ferid never does
anything on the weekends, so Mika can very well ask that from him.
“See you tomorrow then.” Shihou nods, and Mika smiles at him.
“See you tomorrow.” Then he waves at Yuu. “See you tomorrow, Yuu-chan.”
“Sure!” Yuu’s smile is so breathtaking Mika has so avert his eyes for a moment
before he embarrasses himself by blushing or something.
“Bye-bye!” He waves at them and turns around, listening as the car drives away.
As soon as he enters the house, he finds something is very wrong there.
Everyone is reunited in the living room, but the mood is very tense. There are
at least five boxes of pizza piled up over the table, as well as a lot of
sheets of paper, pens and glasses of water and soda.
Krul is very concentrated reading something, but the others are in different
stages of fatigue: Lacus, Lest and Chess are sprawled on the couch, seeming to
be dozing off; Horn and Asura are staring fixedly at the books they are
reading, their eyes big and unfocused; René has a mug of coffee in one hand,
and he constantly sips at it while reading the paper in his other hand, his
hair looking messy and out of his usual ponytail; Ferid and Crowley seem to
have given up on their studying and are playing some card game.
“What… is happening here?” Mika asks uncertain if he wants to know the answer.
Ferid looks up at him, flashing him a smile with a maniac look in his eyes.
“Mika! You’re back!” He giggles. “We’re studying, of course.”
“… Right.” He narrows his eyes at his uncle. “Since when do you have classes
about Yu-Gi-Oh?”
Both Ferid and Crowley chuckle at him, as if they think his question is silly.
Lacus groans, cracking his eyes open to stare at Mika.
“This, dear Mika, is what happens when you reach college.” He says. “Do not, I
repeat, do not enter college, do you understand? It will ruin your life.”
“Go back to study, Lacus.” René tells him, taking another long sip of his
coffee.
“So, Mika.” Ferid smirks. “Did you have fun with your Yuu-chan?”
Mika groans. Of course Ferid would ask about Yuu.
“I’m going to be in my room.” He says dismissively, walking to the stairs.
“There’s some pizza left for you in the kitchen.” Krul tells him without
raising her glance from the papers on her hands.
“Thanks.” He would eat that later. Then he stops and looks back at Ferid.
“Also, tomorrow I’m going to Mirai’s house to study with her and some friends.
Will you give me a lift?”
The smirk Ferid gives him almost makes him wish he hadn’t said anything and
decided to take the bus instead.
“Of course I will. After all, I want to finally meet your Yuu-chan you talk
about so much.”
“I don’t talk about him! You’re the one who keeps eavesdropping my
conversations.” Mika glares at him, receiving only a chuckle as a response.
Rolling his eyes, he turns back around and stomps to his room.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     So I almost didn't finish this chapter today because I got mad here
     for some reasons and started getting really sad (damn you depression
     ¬¬)
     But here it is. I'll try to update the next one on Saturday, because
     next week I want to focus on preparing for Mika's Week on tumblr
     laskahsjaskha <3 (in case you haven't noticed yet, Mika is my
     favorite character in this series xDDD)
     Though I can't promise anything uwu
     Also, for those who asked, yes, Shinoa and Mitsuba will appear too.
     Probably next chapter xDD (I'm pretty sure you know what it will be
     but shh)
     This chapter got shorter than the last one haha xD but I hope you
     liked it! See you soon~
***** Chapter 5 *****
Chapter Summary
     The dog all but pounces at him too, and soon Mika can feel its wet,
     warm tongue licking his cheeks, his nose, his forehead. He tries to
     pry the dog away and contain his laugh, and fails in both tasks.
     “He likes you.” Yuu announces when he dog finally moves away from
     him, only to jump back into Yuu’s arm.
Chapter Notes
     I'm sorry, I know I promised to post this on Saturday, but Bloody
     Blades didn't allow me to xD
     To compensate, have 7-fucking-k words of Yuu's dog, the squad
     studying History, and everybody teasing Yuu and Mika xDDD
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Yuu is known for oversleeping, especially in the weekends, so Guren is both
surprised and suspicious when he sees the young alpha up before 7 am on a
Saturday.
“What’s gotten into you?” He asks narrowing his eyes when he sees the boy enter
the kitchen. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you wake up so early without me
calling you at least ten times. Did you drink Coke yesterday?”
Whenever Yuu drinks Coke, or Pepsi, or any kind of soda at all, he gets too
agitated and sometimes can’t even sleep. However, Guren can’t see the traces of
a sleepless night on his face – no dark circles under his eyes, no tiredness in
his expression, no yawning. Instead, he’s looking refreshed, like he had a good
night of sleep.
“Uh? No, no, only some juice with pizza last night at the mall with some
friends.” Yuu sits by the table and grabs the plate with Guren’s pancakes for
himself.
“Hey!”
“Didn’t Shinya sleep here tonight?”
Guren turns around, walking to the stove to start making new pancakes for
himself – and also avoid looking at Yuu as he feels the blush spreading across
his cheeks.  He clears his throat.
“He had a dinner to go at his family’s house yesterday.” He answers. “He must
have slept there.”
“Hmm.” Yuu gets up again, and Guren looks over his shoulder to see that the boy
has already eaten all of the pancakes. His left eyebrow twitches and he wonders
if he would be arrested for hitting Yuu with the frypan. “I’m gonna walk
Cerberus.”
“Don’t forget your swimming class at 8.” He shouts after the boy as he leaves
the kitchen.
“Don’t sweat!” Yuu waves at him, disappearing in the living room. Guren hears
his dog barking playfully at him, and he sighs. What do I even do with this
boy?
Yuu peeks over the wall of the kitchen again to wave goodbye at him.
“I’m leaving. I’ll see if Kimizuki wants to go with me.”
“Stop bothering the poor boy.”
“Shut up!”
“Hey, Yuu?” The boy stops on his tracks, again peeking at him with his eyebrows
raised. “Did something happen? You’re too energetic for a Saturday morning.”
For some reason, Yuu’s face goes all red in less than a second, and he fidgets
with Cerberus’ leash in his hands.
“W-well, it’s n-nothing.” Is he stuttering? Guren doesn’t think he’s ever seen
him stutter like that before. Yuu frowns and glares when he notices Guren is
smirking.
“Nothing, huh?”
“Shut up! It’s just… Mika will be coming here today.” He mumbles, his blush
deepening, and then adds quickly, “Ah, not here here, but at Kimizuki’s place.
Everyone is coming, actually, because we’re gonna have a study session, ha, ha,
so, yeah…” He scratches the back of his neck, and Guren snorts.
“Could it be… You found yourself a boyfriend?” Guren’s smirk enlarges when Yuu
chokes on air and glares at him again. “I was really thinking there was
something wrong with you, 16 and not having any crush. I’m relieved to know
you’re normal.”
Laughing out loud, he ducks to avoid a pot Yuu has grabbed from the counter and
thrown at him.
“I hate you!” He groans. “Let’s go, Cerberus. We’re not staying one second more
in the presence of this asshole.”
Cerberus barks happily, probably more content with the fact that he’s leaving
the small apartment than with what Yuu said.
Guren shakes his head as he hears the door open and close, and then sighs. He’s
heard Yuu talk about this Mika before – apparently, they were childhood friends
or something. And in the past week, after Yuu met him again, it’s been
impossible to go a day without hearing the name Mika.
And, for the looks of it, it will go on for a long time still.
Though as annoying as it is, Yuu seems to have brighten up ever since he met
his friend again. Yes, he had gotten better after he made some friends – after
Guren had threatened to ground him for the rest of his life if he didn’t – but
Guren always noticed there would be times when Yuu would go quiet,
contemplative, his eyes unfocused as if he were lost in thoughts.
Now Yuu seems more vivid, and way more energetic than before – though Guren
doesn’t know if the last one is good or not; he really doesn’t want to deal
with a Yuu twice as hyperactive.
However, he can’t help but be secretly glad that Yuu is finally moving on, even
though he will never admit this to the boy.
 
 
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There’s a heavy mood in the house when Mika wakes up the next day. The dark
circles under René’s eyes look darker than ever, and even Lacus, Lest and Chess
have some bags under their eyes today. Crowley looks like a walking zombie and
Horn doesn’t even look up from her notes. By noon, Ferid is nowhere to be seen
and Mika is pretty sure his uncle is planning on sleeping the whole day.
Only Krul seems to be acting normal.
“Ferid asked me to take you to your friend’s house today,” She tells Mika after
lunch.
“Where’s he?” He asks, even though he’s not sure he wants to know.
“Sleeping.” She shrugs. “He always gets lazier than normal when his heat
approaches.”
“Ah.” Mika is pretty sure he’s blushing by now. Even though he knows Ferid is
an omega, he never thought about him going into heat.
“I’ll be leaving at two for my ballet classes, so be ready by then.” Krul says.
“I will.”
He makes sure to put all of his books inside his bag, as well as his notebooks
with some of his annotations. By 1:45 pm, he’s showered and fully dressed,
waiting for Krul in the living room. She goes downstairs ten minutes later
dressed in leggings and with her hair tied back in a ponytail, carrying a big
bag, probably with her ballet clothes.
“Let’s go, Mika.” She says without even glancing at him, already walking to the
door. He gets up quickly and follows her silently out of the house and inside
her car. “Where does your friend live?” She asks as she starts the car, and
Mika tells her the address.
The ride to Mirai’s place is quiet, but Mika likes it. Being with Krul is easy;
she turns on the radio and they sit in silence, listening to some rock song.
Krul hums quietly the melody, never taking her eyes out of the road.
Mika likes her. From all of Ferid’s alpha friends, he finds it easier to deal
with her. Maybe because she gives him some space, or maybe because she
sometimes acts all motherly with him. Like when she cooks his breakfast or when
she makes sure to scold the others from being too intrusive.
Or like right now, when she’s driving him to his friend’s house.
And over all, even though she acts like a mother to him, at the same time she
gives him space.
(Unlike Ferid, who will take any excuse to barge into his room without being
invited inside.)
As she drives, he quickly types a message to Mirai to let her know he’ll arrive
earlier. He sends it and then stuffs his phone away inside his bag again,
looking up in time to catch Krul moving her head to the beat of the song,
mouthing the lyrics silently. He smiles a little.
Fifteen minutes later, they arrive at the apartment complex where Mirai and her
brother (and also Yuu, but Mika tries not to think about it or else he’ll end
up blushing like he usually does when he thinks of Yuu) live.
“Thanks for the ride, Krul.” He says unbuckling his seatbelt and opening the
door, while grabbing his bag.
“Send me a message when you’re done and I’ll come pick you up.” She tells him,
and he nods, smiling a little.
“Ok.”
He leaves the car, closing the door behind him, and waves goodbye at Krul
before turning to face the building before him. Taking in a deep breath, he
walks in nervously, glancing around the entrance hall until he spots the
excited figure waving at him.
“Mika!” Mirai smiles, running to hug him, a blur of brown hair in front of his
eyes. He chuckles before patting her back. She pulls away enough to look at
him, “Let’s go, let’s go! No one has arrived yet, but we can watch some TV
while we wait. Also, brother said he will make pizza for all of us!”
Her eyes gleam happily, and Mika can’t help but smile too. He allows her to
drag him by the wrist to the elevator, and once in she all but smashes the
button to the fifth floor.
“You certainly are excited for this.” Mika comments. “I don’t think I’ve ever
seen you so happy about studying.”
She grimaces at that and pokes out her tongue at him.
“I just like it when we have visitors.” She shrugs. “Brother usually doesn’t
invite his friends in, so it gets kinda boring just the two of us.”
“It’s only you two living here?” He asks curious as the elevator stops with a
chime. The doors slide open and they step out of it and into the silent hallway
leading to three doors. Mirai walks to the one with the number 502 on it, and
Mika follows her.
“Yep, it’s just us.” She says. “Father lives in England since I was 10, I
guess. He sends us money and calls us every now and then.”
A lot of questions pop inside Mika’s mind – why is her father living so far
away? Why did he leave his children alone? Where is their mother? But he
doesn’t want to intrude in such a personal subject, so he keeps his mouth shut,
humming slightly only to let her know he’s listening.
She rings the doorbell, and a few seconds later her brother opens it for them,
nodding at Mika. He follows Mirai inside the apartment, muttering a timid hello
to Shihou.
He stops in his tracks, though, when he notices the mop of black hair peeking
over the sofa in the living room.
“Yuu-chan?” He raises his eyebrows as he walks around the sofa to stare at his
friend, who looks at him like a child on Christmas morning looking at the
presents under the tree.
“Mika!” He cracks the biggest smile Mika has ever seen, as if seeing him there
is the best thing to happen to him the whole day. “You came early!”
“Yeah, some stuff happened, so I had to come with Krul, and she had to leave
early for her ballet class.” He sighs as he sits down next to Yuu, and then
wrinkles his nose at his friend’s hair. “Why is your hair looking so stiff?”
Yuu’s hair always looks really soft to the touch, so he can’t help but reach
out to touch it now, confirming that yes, it is as stiff and dry as straw.
“Oh, this?” For some reason, Yuu is blushing. “I had swimming classes today and
I still didn’t wash my hair properly.”
“You didn’t take a real bath after swimming, is what you mean.” Shihou
intrudes, entering the room with his arms crossed and shaking his head. Yuu
pouts at him.
“I didn’t have time for it.”
“I’m sure you had, you just didn’t want to.”
Mirai giggles as she leans against the sofa from behind Mika, her fingers
playing with his hair distractedly.
“You should go take a bath, Yuu.” She tells him. “Mika won’t want to stay close
to you if he knows you didn’t clean yourself properly after swimming.”
Yuu rolls his eyes, though his cheeks are red.
“I was in a pool. With water. I don’t need to take a bath.” He scoffs.
“But, ew, people piss in that water.”
“They do not.”
“I’m sure they do.” Shihou says nodding solemnly.
“Yuu is covered in piss.” Mirai teases, and Yuu looks about to throw a pillow
at her face. Mika chuckles.
“You still have some time to go take a bath, you know.” He tells Yuu. “Your
friends will only arrive in 30 minutes.”
“You too?” Yuu groans, but sighs defeated. “Fine, I will.”
As he gets up, Mirai pips up:
“I wanna go too! I want to see Cerberus!” Her eyes shine, and suddenly Mika too
wants to go and see Yuu’s dog.
“Yes, Yuu-chan, we’ll go with you.” He says also standing up. “Also, someone
has to make sure you will actually take a bath.”
Yuu glares at him.
“I am ending our friendship right now.” He says solemnly, but Mika only rolls
his eyes and grabs him by the hand.
“Stop being dramatic.” The blond omega says, leading them to the door. Mirai
follows them giggling, and he hears Shihou sigh behind them.
“Don’t take too long!” He calls out after them.
“Ok!” Mirai calls back as she closes the door and follows Mika and Yuu into the
elevator. Yuu is pouting as he punches the button to the eighth floor, and both
Mika and Mirai chuckle at him.
“Aw, don’t be like that.” Mika says poking Yuu’s bottom lip, making the alpha
glare at him. “I, as your friend, just want to make sure you’re not stinking.”
“Shut up.” Yuu mumbles, the tips of his ears red. The elevator stops and the
door opens, and he’s the first one to step out, walking to the door with the
number 801 on it. Mika and Mirai follow him as he fishes out his keys from his
pocket and opens the door.
“Is Guren here?” Mirai asks as they enter the apartment.
“I dunno.” Yuu shrugs. “He said he was going out with Shinya, but he didn’t say
when. Ah, here’s Cerberus.”
Yuu crouches down and opens his arms with a big smile as a ball of golden fur
suddenly shots through the hall and all but jumps on him, tackling him to the
ground. He yelps and laughs, and Mika stares in awe at the dog licking Yuu’s
face enthusiastically.
Yuu was right: the dog is huge. Its legs are long and slender, and its furry
tail waves quickly from side to side; its fur is all gold and shiny, and when
it finally surrenders Yuu – after licking his whole face – and looks up at
Mika, he can see its eyes are of a deep blue. The dog all but sits on top of
Yuu and stares at Mika with its tongue pending out of its mouth, and it tilts
its head to the side slightly as if asking and who are you?
Mika smiles at the scene, quickly recognizing the dog’s breed and understanding
why Guren wants to move out of the apartment. Only Yuu-chan would want to have
a Labrador in an apartment.
Mirai giggles and kneels beside Yuu to pet the dog’s head, and it turns its
attention to her, quickly licking her hand.
“Hello, Cer! Did you miss me?” She croons at the dog, who barks at her before
licking a long stripe at her cheek. She backs away, making a face at that.
“Ew!” Then she shakes her head at the dog, “Bad dog.”
Mika can swear the dog makes a sad face at that. Yuu giggles from under the
dog, reaching out to wrap his arms around its thick neck.
“Ignore her, Cer. You can lick me all you like!” He says burying his face in
the dog’s fur, and it takes the opportunity to lick the top of his head,
styling his hair in such a way that finally makes that pointy strand of hair
that always stands up, sit down. Mika can’t help but smile at the scene.
He hesitantly crouches down too and reaches a hand to touch the dog’s head. It
looks at him then, studying him with what he only can place as curiosity.
Yuu pulls away to peek at him and smile.
“This is my friend Mika,” He tells to the dog, “You can lick him too!”
“What? Wait, no–” Too late. The dog all but pounces at him too, and soon Mika
can feel its wet, warm tongue licking his cheeks, his nose, his forehead. He
tries to pry the dog away and contain his laugh, and fails in both tasks.
“He likes you.” Yuu announces when he dog finally moves away from him, only to
jump back into Yuu’s arm. Mika sits up and wipes his face, feeling his skin
slimy. He rolls his eyes at Yuu.
“No shit.” He sighs and stands up, rolling his eyes again when Mirai giggles.
“Yuu, don’t think you can distract us with Cerberus and escape your bath.” She
tells him, making him pout again.
“You see, Cerberus? They think I need a bath.” Yuu says to the dog, all but
whining, and Cerberus barks and licks his face again, from the chin to the
hair, making his bangs stand up comically.
“I think Cerberus agrees with us.” Mika says petting the dog, and it barks
again, waving its tail and it looks at Mika. “See?”
“… You’re all traitors.” Yuu mutters standing up and sighing. “Wait in the
living room, I’ll be right back.”
Mika and Mirai giggle as they watch Yuu mumbling to himself, probably still
complaining about how they’re all “against him”. They go to the living room,
from where Mika can see Yuu walk to a hall leading to three doors, and entering
the one in the middle; Cerberus follows him, but Yuu closes the door as soon as
he enters the bathroom, and the dog sits by the door whining.
“Aw, come here, baby!” Mirai calls him. Cerberus looks from her to the door
and, after another pained whine, it walks defeated to them as they sit on the
ground of the living room. The dog lies down by her side, laying its head on
her lap, and she instantly starts caressing it. “There, there. He’ll come back
soon, and hopefully cleaner this time.” She raises her voice to the point she’s
yelling, and a few seconds later, Yuu yells back from the bathroom:
“Shut up!”
Mika shakes his head as she giggles, and he can’t help but smile too. He
reaches out to caress the dog too, sighing.
“Isn’t he cute?” Mirai says lovingly. Mika nods, still smiling.
“He seems to like you a lot.” He comments, and she chuckles.
“Well, I helped Yuu choose him.”
“You did?”
She smiles at his surprise.
“Yup. Brother and I went with him when he went to choose a dog from the pet
shop.” She tells him. “He was going to buy one, but then there was this box
with five puppies that said they were for adoption, and Yuu immediately decided
he wanted one of them.” She chuckles at the memory. “All the puppies kept
jumping on him, but then he suddenly grabbed this one,” She scratches the back
of Cerberu’s neck to emphasize, smiling down at it, “and said he was the one.
Well,” She looks up at Mika smirking, “I can see why now.”
“What do you mean?” He frowns.
“All the other puppies had brown or black eyes,” She says, “Only this one had
blue eyes.” Then she stares at him knowingly. “Don’t you think he looks like
someone?”
He immediately gets the reference – gold fur, blue eyes. His face heats up
immediately, and he ducks his head down, trying to contain the urge to hide his
face behind his hands.
“I… I don’t know what you mean with that.” He tries to play dumb, but her
laughter tells him he didn’t fool her.
“Sure, whatever you say.” She sings, running her fingers through Cerberu’s
sides; the dog turns around to lie on its back, staring at Mirai with its
tongue hanging out of its mouth. She immediately rubs its belly, giggling.
The door to the bathroom opens a few minutes later, and both of them look up to
see Yuu leave the bathroom wearing only a towel wrapped around his hips, and
still half wet, with water drops dripping from his hair and sliding down his
torso. Mika’s eyes linger a few seconds on Yuu’s chest before he looks up and
blushes when he notices he was caught; Yuu stares at him for a brief second
before averting his eyes, blushing too, and he all but runs to his bedroom.
“I noticed it.” Mirai’s voice startles Mika, and he looks nervously at her.
“Noticed what?”
“You were checking him out.” She smirks, and this time Mika presses his hands
against his face, trying to hide his flushed cheeks.
“I wasn’t!” He says with a muffled voice.
“You totally were.” She chuckles. “It’s okay, I understand you. Yuu looks
really nice, doesn’t he?”
Mika looks up at her with his mouth open in a silent gasp, his face completely
red, even the tips of his ears. Mirai chuckles again.
“What? He is.” She shrugs. “But don’t worry, you can have him. I’m not
interested in him.”
“I don’t want him.” Mika mutters weakly. “He’s my friend.”
“From friends to lovers, that’s so cute.”
“Shut up.”
She is still laughing when Yuu emerges from his bedroom, this time completely
dressed in sweatpants and a hoodie, with his schoolbag hanging from his
shoulder; his face is still a little flushed and his hair is still completely
wet.
Mika sighs.
“You should properly dry your hair, Yuu-chan.” He says. “You can catch a cold
like this.”
“Don’t worry.” Yuu shrugs and smiles when Cerberus jumps to its feet and runs
to him. He rubs the dog’s head before looking up at them. “Let’s go?”
When they leave the apartment, Mika can hear Cerberus whining at the other side
of the door, and he can’t help but feel sorry for the dog.
“Don’t worry about him, he’ll be fine. He always does this.” Yuu says, even
though his eyes linger on the door as if he wants to open it and let the dog
follow him.
 
 
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When they arrive at Mirai’s and Shihou’s house, there are already three people
there, all of them sitting on the couch with Shihou. Mika already knows Yoichi,
of course, but he doesn’t know who are the two beta girls chatting loudly to
Yoichi and Shihou – though he is pretty sure they are their friends that they
said they would invite too.
“Oh, look who’s finally clean.” Shihou sneers when he sees them, and Yuu’s face
immediately assumes an angry expression.
“Listen here, you telephone pole–”
“Aah, so this is the famous Mika we all heard so much about!” One of the girls
says clasping her hands together and beaming at him. She has a lilac hair tied
back with a purple bow, and brownish eyes that gleam mischievously.
Yuu groans by his side, and Mirai giggles.
“Yes, this is Mika.” She says grabbing him by the shoulder. “Mika these are
Hiiragi Shinoa,” She gestures to the lilac-haired girl, who waves her fingers
at him, “And Sanguu Mitsuba.” She gestures to the other girl, with blond
pigtails and purple eyes, who only nods at him. “Girls, this is Shindo Mikaela,
Yuu’s friend.”
The way she says friend so suggestively makes Mika want to run away from there
and never go back.
“It is so nice to finally meet you, Mikaela-san.” Shinoa gets up and walks a
straight line to him, grabbing his hand and shaking it enthusiastically. “I
must say I got very curious after hearing Yuu-san talk about you so much.”
Yuu groans again.
“Shinoa, please.”
She giggles and hooks her arm on Mika’s, grabbing him to sit with her on the
couch.
“Come with me; let’stalk about Yuu-san.”
“I thought we had come here to study?” Yuu says in a clear attempt at changing
the topic from him and Mika.
“Do you even study?” Mitsuba raises an eyebrow at him. Shiho and Shinoa laugh,
and Yoichi smiles a little. Mika doesn’t know if he should laugh or not, and he
looks at Yuu silently asking for help.
“Shut up.” Yuu’s face is red again, and he walks to sit on the ground, dropping
his bag by his side and pulling out all of his books to drop them on the table
in the center of the living room. Shinoa and Mitsuba exchange a look before
giggling.
Everybody joins Yuu on the ground, each one of them grabbing their own books
and notebooks.
“Alright, what should we start with?”
“History, because Yuu had a beautiful zero on his last History test,” Shihou
says smirking, and Yuu glares at him.
“Nerd,” He grunts under his breath.
“What are you studying in History?” Mirai asks as she opens her book, flipping
through the pages lazily, with a bored look on her face. “We were studying
omegas or something…”
“The Omega Repression in the 70s,” Mika says automatically, already opening his
notebook to look for his notes on it.
“I think we were studying the same?” Yuu says uncertain, and Shihou rolls his
eyes.
“We are.” The pink haired alpha throws a paper ball at Yuu, making the other
glare at him again. “You could pay attention to the classes once in a while,
you know.”
“He wouldn’t be Yuu-san if he did.” Shinoa snickers.
“Shut up you two.” Yuu mumbles, his ears very red, and he flips through his
book pages until he stops at one with a big black and white picture. He
mutters, “I have no idea what this is about…”
“As I said, if you only paid attention to the classes…”
“As if he could stand still enough for that.” Mitsuba rolls her eyes.
“Excuse me if I can’t concentrate on anything for too long.” Yuu bursts out
banging his palm against the table and glaring at them.
“Hm, can we go back to studying?” Mika says timidly.
“Yeah, we should.” Yoichi agrees, eager to change the topic.
Yuu stares at them for a little bit longer before looking back at his book,
still very angry. Mika sighs.
“This subject isn’t so complicated,” He says looking down at his notes. “This
is basically about how the omegas were treated in the 70s and 80s and about the
first laws of protection of omegas, when they were created and ect.”
“… Boring.” Yuu glares at his book as if it’s the book’s fault that the subject
is boring.
“But you have to learn it.” Mika smiles at him, and pets his head giggling when
he pouts. “You can ask us if you have any doubts, you know.”
“I have all doubts possible about this!” Yuu throws his hands in the air
exasperatedly. “Like, why did it even start? Weren’t omegas, like, precious or
something before that?”
“That’s right.” Yoichi looks down at his book. “Omegas were always considered
especial because they can breed children whether they are male or female, but
also because they’re usually smarter than alphas and betas.”
“Then what is this ‘repression’ about?” Yuu grumbles scratching the back of his
head with his pencil. There’s a collective sigh immediately, and Yuu pouts at
them.
“Ok, then,” Mika slides his notebook closer to Yuu to let him see his notes.
“Here’s the thing, Yuu-chan: in the start of the decade of 70, a new virus
appeared, one that only omegas caught. People commonly know it as the Flame.”
Yuu grabs Mika’s notebook, frowning at it.
“I think I heard about it.” He mumbles. “So, what does it have to do with
everything?”
Everybody else groans, but Mika simply answers:
“It is lethal.” When Yuu looks up at him, he shrugs. “In most cases, I mean. In
some cases, it renders the omega infertile. It was called ‘the Flame’ because
it caused marks similar to burn marks to appear in the skin, and also because
of the high fevers the omega suffers. No one ever found a cure for it, but 13
years later it was created a vaccine to prevent it. Thanks to it, though, the
omega population decreased drastically in less than one year.”
“The alpha population decreased too after it, though not as much as the omega
one,” Mika continues, “The bond between an alpha and an omega is so strong that
some alphas couldn’t bear to live after their omegas succumbed to the virus,
and committed suicide shortly after. With that, the omega population decreased
from 2 billions to 1 million, and the alpha population, from 2, 8 billions to 1
billion.”
“I thought we were studying History and not Math.” Groans Mirai.
“Mr. Hiiragi said this would be on our test.” Mika says.
“He said that?” Mirai looks at him scared, and he exchanges a look with Yoichi,
who bites his lips and shakes his head, trying not to laugh.
“That’s cruel, Mika.” He says before turning to her, “Don’t worry, Mirai, you
don’t need to memorize the numbers, it won’t be on our test.”
Chuckling, Mika ducks down to avoid the pen Mirai throws at him.
“The general concept will, though.” He says still smiling a little. “The virus
reduced the omega population to such a point that everybody feared they would
be extinct.”
“And the omegas were already rare even before that.” Yoichi complements. “This
leads us to the main point: their repression.”
“In an attempt at increasing the omega population, the alphas started to treat
them as only breeders.” Shihou says looking down at his book. “They were locked
up inside their house and forced to have children. Some had from 10 to 15
children in the spam of 10 years. With that, the alphas hoped that some of
these children were born an omega.”
“It was more than that.” Mika says. “The alphas had always been authoritarian,
and some took this opportunity as an excuse to treat the omegas as they
pleased. They claimed that it was for a ‘greater good’, to increase the number
of omegas in the world, but most just wanted a sex slave.”
Yuu shudders.
“That’s cruel.” He mutters.
“Most omegas were treated as sex slaves for more than 20 years,” Yoichi says,
“They were even sold by their own parents as soon as they went in heat for the
first time. And the natural age for an omega to present for the first time is
between 12 and 14.”
“They sold 12 years old children as sex slaves?” Yuu shakes his head, seeming
disgusted. “Awful.”
“It was.” Mika agrees. “The few privileges the omegas had before that were
discarded and they were deprived of any right. They couldn’t complain if their
alpha hit them, let them starve or locked them away. They couldn’t go out
without the company of their alphas, and they had to obey their alphas without
questioning. They weren’t allowed to study nor have a job. They were there
basically to breed children.”
“Who was the asshole who decided that was okay?” Yuu mumbles to himself, and
Mika smiles a little.
“The first country to start with this was India,” He says, “Then other
countries around the world adopted this too, with the exception of some
countries in the north of Europe. Japan adopted this culture in 1973, and was
one of the harshest countries regarding this. Here, omegas had to walk around
wearing collars that had an identification number, their alpha’s name, their
address and phone contact.”
“Pretty much like a dog,” Says Mitsuba.
“Pretty much like a dog,” Mika agrees with a sigh.
“Why did they have to wear it?” Yuu questions frowning.
“Well,” Shinoa starts, “Supposedly, if an omega got lost or were kidnapped and
later found, they would know how to contact the one responsible for them. But
in reality, the alphas just wanted to have a bigger control over their omegas.”
She rolls her eyes.
“It only changed around the end of the decade of 80, when the north-European
countries started to pressure the others into creating laws of protection of
omegas,” Mika says. “They stated that the action of the other countries didn’t
contribute to the increase of the omega population, but rather helped it
decrease, since many omegas succumbed to diseases caused by mistreatment, like
beatings and such.”
“Oh, and also the suicides.” Yoichi adds. “The omegas developed some deep
degrees of depression, leading many of them to commit suicide.”
Mika nods. Yuu seems more and more horrified as he listens to them.
“I will build a time machine.” He announces. “I’ll go back in time to kick the
asses of those stupid alphas to thought they could do this.”
Mika chuckles.
“Yeah, it was an awful moment to be an omega.” He says. “But with the pressure
imposed by the north-European countries, like the United Kingdom, Denmark,
Norway and Sweden, and some other countries like Germany, Spain and the United
States, the omegas started to fight for their rights, refusing to submit to
their alphas. In some countries, like Canada and some others in South America,
the transition was pacific and the laws of omega protection were created
without a big ruckus. But in other countries, mostly in the Asian continent,
the alphas fought back, and it took five years longer to create the laws.”
“And even after that, some alphas still ignored the law.” Shinoa complements,
twirling a strand of her hair with her finger. “For at least ten years more,
omegas were still sold secretly here in Japan, despite the efforts of the
authorities to stop it.”
“And even now, omegas still suffer a lot of prejudice.” Mitsuba adds. “It’s
hard for them to find jobs, and when they manage it, they are usually harassed
by their coworkers.”
Mika and Mirai exchange a glance before he looks away, clearing his throat.
“Anyway,” He says, “Now there are a lot of laws of omega protection, that
forbid alphas from mistreating their omegas. The penalty for hurting an omega,
physically or emotionally, ranges from 2 months to 3 years of jail.”
“That won’t be in our test too, will it?” Mirai asks apprehensively, and Mika
laughs while Yoichi rolls his eyes, smiling.
“No, it won’t.”
“It will probably be in ours though.” Yuu grunts, crossing his arms over his
chest and glaring at the notebook on the table. “Our teacher hates us.”
“You are the one to hates Mrs. Sayuri, and only because she gave you that zero
on your last History test.” Shihou rolls his eyes.
“Shut up.” Yuu pokes out his tongue at Shihou.
“Thankfully,” Mitsuba says louder, as if trying to drown the conflict starting
between the two, and she all but slams her book closed, “the omegas aren’t
treated like that anymore.”
“Yeah,” Mirai says, “I mean, it could be better. We still have a hard time
trying to get a decent job, but at least we aren’t slaves anymore. Can you
imagine it? Spending your whole life locked up inside your house?”
As she shakes her head, Mika and Yuu exchange a glance.
“It still happens in some small towns, though.” Mika mutters, but regrets it
immediately when all eyes turn to him. “Ah, hm, I mean… I’ve seen it happen
before. In some small towns people are still too conservative, and they believe
it was better when omegas didn’t have any right.”
Mirai looks at him as if analyzing him.
“Are you talking about yourself?”
“Eh? W-what makes you think so?” Mika stutters, looking everywhere but at her,
and then he stares at Yuu as if asking for help.
“Well, by the way you talked–”
“Mirai,” Shihou says, interrupting her. She looks quizzically at her brother,
and he shakes his head discretely before announcing, “I think this is enough
History for today. How about we move on to Math?”
While everyone stars to groan and complain about calculus, Mirai stares wide
eyed at Mika before muttering an almost inaudible Oh. Then she ducks her head
down, distracting herself with her book.
The rest of the afternoon is spent with only Math, mostly because Mitsuba and
Yuu are horrible at that. By the end of the afternoon, Yuu looks as if he could
sleep on any surface he lays.
“I never again want to see math in my whole life.” He groans lying on the
ground and throwing an arm over his eyes. “I think my brain has short-
circuited.”
“I thought it had happened long ago already.” Shihou snickers.
“Shut up.” Even his reply is spoken as a tired sigh. Mika chuckles.
“Do you want me to drive you home, Mika?” Shihou asks, and Shinoa starts to
giggle.
“Ooh, will you drive us home too, Kimizuki-san?” She asks batting her eyelashes
innocently.
“No.” Shihou raises a finger to readjust his glasses on his nose. “You two can
find your way home pretty well alone. But Mika is an omega, I can’t let him
take the bus so late. If something happens to him, his uncle will kill us all.”
Ferid already has a reputation only from what Mika told them.
“It’s okay, I will call Krul.” Mika says, already grabbing his phone from
inside his bag.
“Are you sure?” Yuu says peeking at him from under his arm.
“Yup, don’t worry.” He smiles at the alpha before looking down at his phone,
typing a message to Krul.
“Well, let me make our pizza then.” Shihou says standing up and stretching
before heading to the kitchen. “Will you eat with us before leaving, Mika?”
“Hm? Oh, I will!” He definitely won’t lose a free pizza like this.
He sends the message and then smirks at Yuu still sprawled on the ground. He
quietly approaches the boy before letting himself fall over the alpha, making
him yelp.
“What– What the fuck, Mika?” Yuu groans from under him, and Mika giggles.
“Shut up and just lay quietly there, like a good pillow.”
“But you’re heavy!” He huffs.
“That’s rude, Yuu-chan.”
He notices then someone sit down beside them, and he looks up to see Mirai
staring timidly at him.
“Hey, Mika.” She starts, fidgeting nervously. “I’m sorry for, y’know, for being
inconvenient earlier. I didn’t mean to pry on your private life.”
Mika sits up to look better at her.
“It’s okay.” He says quietly. “I just don’t like to talk about it. I don’t feel
comfortable with it.”
She nods.
“I understand. I won’t ask about any of this, then.”
“Thanks.” He smiles, and then reaches out to ruffle her hair. “Hey, don’t look
at me like that. We’re still friends, right?”
“Right.” She smiles.
“… I promise one day I’ll tell you all about it.” He says. “But not now; I’m
not ready to talk about it now.”
“Okay.” She nods again.
Yuu sits up too, then, so close to Mika that the omega can even feel his breath
on his neck. He looks nervously over his shoulder at him, and then looks away
quickly, blushing.
“So!” Shinoa sits down next to them, breaking the moment and making Mirai
giggle. “Tell us, Mika. Yuu-san said you two are childhood friends, is that
true?”
“Ah? Hm, yeah, we… We know each other since we were eight.”
Shinoa smirks then, and Yuu groans at her face, leaning his head against Mika’s
shoulder.
“Please, don’t answer to her questions, or she’ll never stop.” He whines.
“Aw, don’t be like that, Yuu-san!” She says. “I just want to know him better!”
“And have some material to tease Yuu about, of course.” Mitsuba comments
sitting with them too. Mika doesn’t see Yoichi in the room, so he figures he
must have gone to the kitchen with Shihou when they weren’t looking.
“I hate you two.” Yuu mutters.
“No, you love us.” Shinoa giggles. “But I must apologize, Yuu-san, I will never
be able to reciprocate your love, for my heart already belongs to my beloved
Makoto.”
“I never felt so sorry for Narumi.” Yuu comments, and Shinoa whacks him upside
the head.
“Who’s this?” Mika asks curiously, trying to change the topic.
“Narumi Makoto is Shinoa’s boyfriend.” Yuu snickers.
“He goes to the Moon Demon Academy too.” Mirai tells Mika. “He goes out with us
sometimes, but lately he hasn’t come because he’s in his senior year and he has
to study to get into a good university.”
“Yeah,” Shinoa pouts, “He could give more attention to his girlfriend, you
know.”
“Studies come before girlfriends,” Yuu says, “Especially one as annoying as
you.”
She glares at him and whacks him again, making him whimper.
“You say this, but you neither study nor have a girlfriend.” Mitsuba snickers,
making Yuu blush.
“I don’t need a girlfriend.” He mumbles.
“Yeah, Mitsu, don’t you know Yuu-san is into boys and not girls?” Shinoa
giggles.
“Shut up!” Yuu hisses as the three girls chuckle.
“Yuu-chan, why don’t we go see if Shihou and Yoichi need some help in the
kitchen?” Mika says quickly, grabbing Yuu’s hand and standing up and, without
waiting for a reply, he drags the alpha to the kitchen.
Both Shihou and Yoichi look up from the pizza they are preparing.
“What happened?” Yoichi asks as Mika releases Yuu and leans against the counter
with a sigh.
“Shinoa was being an ass.” Yuu grunts, approaching them to try and steal an
olive, but Shihou slaps his hand away.
“Don’t even try.”
Both alphas glare at each other.
“Calm down you two.” Yoichi sighs. “If you two will start to fight, I’ll kick
you both out of this kitchen.”
There is something quite comical about the thought of, one, a small, sweet-
looking omega like Yoichi kicking two alphas, and two, him kicking Shihou out
of the kitchen, since Shihou is the house owner.
“Sorry.” Shihou mutters, turning his attention back to the pizza.
Yoichi looks up and, when his eyes meet Mika’s, both omegas smile.
 
 
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An hour later, Mika receives a message from Krul telling him she’s waiting him
before the apartment complex. He says goodbye to Mirai and the others, and as
he’s about to leave, Yuu offers to take him to the entrance.
“Your friends are nice.” Mika comments when they’re alone in the elevator.
“Shinoa and Mitsuba, I mean. They are a bit inconvenient, but…”
“Yeah,” Yuu chuckles, “Shinoa likes to tease us all, but she has a thing with
teasing me. I guess because I know her since I came to live here. She’s
Shinya’s sister,” He adds, “Also she’s the sister of Guren’s deceased
girlfriend. So she was always in and out of our apartment. She was awful as a
kid, even worse than now.” He sighs.
“Hm…” Mika mutters, and then frowns. “Wait, you said she’s the sister of both
Shinya and your uncle’s girlfriend? Like, so the three of them were siblings?”
“Yeah. Guren has a thing with the Hiiragi family.” Yuu snickers.
“Hiiragi?”
“Yeah, Shinoa is a Hiiragi. Didn’t you pay attention before?”
“Uh, no I…” He shakes his head trying to clear his thoughts. “My teacher is a
Hiiragi.”
“Hiiragi Shinya?” Yuu smiles when Mika gasps and nods. “Yeah, that’s the Shinya
I talk about.”
“So my teacher is kind of dating your uncle.” Mika says, and Yuu chuckles.
“Yeah, it looks like.”
“And not only that, but your uncle had dated his sister before.”
“Yeah. Though Shinya is adopted.” Yuu shrugs. “I guess that’s why he doesn’t
want to admit they’re dating. He must feel guilty for being with him, as if
he’s betraying her or something.”
“Oh.” Mika mutters. “What happened to her?”
The elevator door slides open, and Yuu leaves it in silence. Mika follows him,
thinking that maybe he shouldn’t have asked about it, when Yuu finally says:
“She committed suicide.” He speaks quietly. “Like, three years ago. She was the
heir of her family and there was too much pressure on her shoulders. I guess
she couldn’t take it.”
“… I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have asked.”
“It’s okay.” Yuu shrugs. “Just don’t speak about it next to Guren. He gets
really sentimental.”
Mika smiles a little.
“Sure.” He nods, and looks up to see Krul’s car parked in front of the
building. “Well, I should go now.”
“Fine,” Yuu smiles, “Thanks for helping me today, by the way.” He scratches the
back of his neck, looking away. “I can never concentrate on the classes, even
if I try.”
“It’s okay, Yuu-chan.” Mika says, “You can ask me if you need help with
studying again.”
“I will.”
Yuu makes a movement as if he was going to hug Mika, but he ends up only waving
at him. Blushing slightly, Mika waves back before turning around and running to
Krul’s car.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     what is this fic doing to me, I never write such long chapters
     *screams*
     Anyway xD
     As I already said, this week (and maybe on the next too) I probably
     won't be posting anything, since I wanna concentrate on doing my
     prompts for Mika's week that starts at May 2. After that I shall go
     back to writing for this tho xD
     See you soon~
***** Chapter 6 *****
Chapter Summary
     “Why the fuck do you have a snake in your room?” Mika shrieks,
     keeping his eyes on the snake, too afraid to look away. Lacus tilts
     his head, appearing to be slightly confused.
     “This is Sally,” He says, “She’s my pet snake.”
Chapter Notes
     I am not even sorry about taking this long *sips tea*
     Oh and also, I wrote a small prequel of this fic. It's not really a
     big thing, it's just Mika's thoughts after Yuu left him when they
     were children. I wrote it for Mika's Week, so if you want to check it
     out, you can read it here
See the end of the chapter for more notes
When Mika wakes up the next morning, there’s a horribly sweet scent flooding
the whole house. He recognizes it immediately: it’s the scent of an omega in
heat.
He covers his nose to try and muffle the scent, and leaves his room; he is
surprised to find Ferid in the dining room with everyone as they eat breakfast,
though he’s the only one who seems to be in good spirits. Everybody else is in
a different degree of anger, from Krul who is slicing her bread with twice more
strength than necessary, to Lacus who seems only slightly irritated; it’s hard
to tell with Asura, though, because he’s using a mask covering the bottom half
of his face, but Mika thinks the omega looks amused. He doesn’t see Crowley or
René anywhere.
“Ah, Mika!” Ferid says when he notices Mika entering the room, and smiles,
waving at him, “Come and join us for breakfast.”
Mika merely stands at the entrance, one hand still covering his nose.
“What are you doing, Ferid?” He asks frowning, “Why is the house reeking like
you?”
“Now that’s rude, Mika…”
“As it is you let your scent everywhere in the house!” Krul snaps, waving her
bread threateningly at him, “Why do you always have to do that?”
Ferid laughs, not even appearing to be scared of her and her bread.
“It’s not like I can control it, Krul dear. I’m an omega, after all.”
“You should take your suppressants,” Lest says sounding bored, as if the
situation doesn’t bother him at all. “It’s annoying to have this scent all over
the place.”
“If you’re bothered, just leave.” Ferid laughs when Lest finally shows a
reaction, glaring at him. “That’s what René did.”
Lacus sniffs at that, sending a mean glare in Ferid’s direction. As Mika sits
beside him and starts to serve himself his breakfast, the alpha turns to him to
complain:
“René left before the sun was even up, and he didn’t even call me to go with
him,” He sniffs again, looking very hurt, “All because Ferid was a cunt and
didn’t take his suppressants.”
“Actually, René-kun left because he wanted to concentrate on studying and you
wouldn’t stop pestering him,” Says Crowley entering the room coming from the
kitchen, a plate with pancakes in his hands. Lacus pouts at him, watching as he
sets the plate in front of Ferid. “We’re leaving after you finish eating.”
“Okay~” Ferid smiles at him, and Mika eyes the two of them suspiciously.
“Leaving?” He asks uncertain, “Where are you two going?”
Everyone in the table looks at him with their eyebrows raised. Ferid chuckles
and Crowley smirks.
“We’re going to a love motel, of course,” Ferid says, “Or do you want to hear
our coupling–”
“Please, spare us of the details,” Horn grunts raising her eyes to glare at
them.
As Ferid laughs, Mika ducks his head down in an attempt at hiding his blush. He
had noticed that Ferid and Crowley were very close, but he never thought they
were this close. Now his brain is supplying him with dirty images of his uncle
and his friend that he definitely doesn’t want to think about, so he starts to
nervously slice his bread and spread the strawberry jam on it.
Lacus nudges him, and when he looks up the alpha smirks at him.
“You didn’t know about Ferid and Crowley, Mika?” He whispers in a teasing tone,
and Mika frowns at him.
“It’s not like I care.” He mumbles, biting on his bread. Lacus giggles.
“Well, it’s not like they’re actually a couple. Crowley only fucks him through
his heats, that’s all.”
Mika chokes on his bread, and Lacus watches amused as he downs a glass of
orange juice to try and stop coughing.
“You’re so innocent, being like this over the word fuck,” Lacus comments
resting his chin on his hand and smiling, “That’s cute.”
“Shut up.” Mika glares at him, fighting his blush.
“Hey, do you want to go to the mall later?” Lacus asks suddenly, and Mika gives
him a weird look. “What? You like going out, right? We can meet René there and
go fool around for a bit. At least until the house is free from Ferid’s stink.”
“I heard that.” Ferid pouts at him. “I don’t stink. And who said you can go out
with my dear nephew?”
Mika raises his eyebrows and coughs.
“Excuse you,” He says, “But I go out with whoever I want.”
“Oh?” Ferid smirks and gives him a knowing look, and only then Mika realizes
what he’s just said.
“Does that mean you’re going with me?” Lacus chirps up, clasping his hands
together delighted. “Nice! I’ll send René a message.”
Mika groans, glaring at Ferid as if saying this is your fault. His uncle merely
shrugs and smiles, blinking almost innocently at him.
 
 
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After Ferid and Crowley leave, Horn and Chess sprinkle a flowers scented
aromatizer around the house; Mika wrinkles his nose because it kind of tickles,
but he figures it’s better than Ferid’s sickly sweet scent. Asura leaves,
supposedly to go to the local library, and Lest simply shuts himself inside his
room, so it’s up to Mika and Lacus to help Krul with the dishes.
Krul hums a song calmly as she washes the dishes, but Lacus doesn’t stop
talking about the things they can do together at the mall and about how he
wants to show him a CD of a band he likes; Mika tries to ignore his talking,
but it’s hard when he won’t shut up.
He catches Krul shooting him an amused glance.
“Don’t forget to come back before night fall,” She tells Lacus, “After all,
Mika is an omega and if something happens to him, Ferid will kill you.”
“I know, I know,” Lacus rolls his eyes, “It’s okay, he’ll be with René and I,
so he’ll be fine.”
“Will he?”
Lacus glares at her as she chuckles. Mika merely sighs, already dreading what’s
to come. At least he’ll be going to the mall again; maybe he can buy some of
the books Mr. Hiiragi recommended for reading for their Literature class.
He wrinkles his nose when Chess and Horn enter the kitchen and start to
sprinkle the aromatizer all over the place.
“I hate when Ferid does this,” Krul sighs, wrinkling her nose too. “If he would
only take his suppressants…”
“He does this on purpose,” Lacus sniffs, “He likes being annoying.”
“What are these suppressants?” Mika asks quietly. “Is this some kind of
medicine?”
“You never heard about them?” Lacus says surprised, and Krul glares at him as
Mika averts his eyes, embarrassed. There are a lot of things about heats he
still doesn’t know about, because his parents never told him anything and Ferid
merely talked about it superficially when he came to live with them.
“Yes, it’s a medicine,” Krul says, “They suppress the omega’s heat. It doesn’t
go away completely, but it’s enough to make it bearable, so omegas can go to
school and to work normally.”
“That… That sounds nice.” Mika frowns. “Why didn’t Ferid take them, then?”
“Because he’s an ass,” Horn comments, spraying some of the aromatizator next to
Lacus and making him sneeze. “He feels pleasure by making other people suffer.
I sometimes doubt he’s actually an omega; maybe he’s a sadistic alpha in
disguise.”
Krul snorts.
“I wouldn’t be surprised,” She mutters, and then shakes her head, looking back
at Mika. “I know what you’re probably thinking, that we should have given you
suppressants when you were in your heat.” Mika averts his eyes, but he doesn’t
deny it. She goes on, “It’s highly unadvised to give suppressants to an omega
in their first heat. Also, you have to see a doctor about it first, because
only a doctor can tell you the amount of suppressants you’ll need to take and
what kind. Actually, Ferid should have already taken you to a doctor.” She adds
frowning, and it’s Mika’s turn to snort.
“Yeah, as if he would.” Though Ferid had said, right after his heat was over,
that he would do exactly that after Mika adjusted to his new life in the house.
“If he doesn’t do it before your next heat,” Krul says, “You can ask me, and
I’ll set an appointment. I know an excellent doctor.”
“Of course you do,” Chess rolls her eyes, but smiles, turning to Mika, “Her
whole family owns a hospital. Do you know the Hyakuya Hospital on the other
side of the city? It belongs to her family.”
Mika’s eyes widen.
“Your family owns a hospital?” He gapes at Krul, who brushes it off with a wave
of her hand.
“It’s nothing too big,” She assures him. “The Hiiragi family owns half of the
city. That’s nothing compared to them.”
“The Hiiragi…?” Mika is even more surprised. So the family of his teacher and
Shinoa is this powerful?
“Crowley’s family is a lot wealthy too,” Horn comments, “They own half of the
malls of the city.”
“I see.” Mika had noticed Crowley was rich, but he didn’t know it was to this
point. He knows Ferid inherited his money from his uncle; he wonders who else
in that house comes from a wealthy and powerful family.
He and Lacus finish helping Krul with the dishes, and then Lacus drags him
upstairs.
“You go change yourself, and I’ll send René the message.” He says as they climb
up the stairs. Then he smiles, “You don’t need to worry, we’ll protect you if
anything happens.”
Mika grimaces at that.
“I can defend myself,” He mutters, but if Lacus hears him, he chooses to ignore
his answer.
Resigning to his fate, he goes back to his room.
 
 
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Fifteen minutes later, Mika is showered and dressed in some fresh clothes; the
house is finally free of Ferid’s scent, though now everything smells like
flowers. He doesn’t see Lacus in the living room, so he sighs and decides to go
to the alpha’s room.
Lacus’ room is on the third floor, just like his; the door of his room is of a
dark wood, and it has a sign that says DO NOT DISTURB. Rolling his eyes, he
knocks on the door, and a few seconds later, Lacus’ muffled voice answers:
“Come in!”
He hesitates before opening the door and peeking in.
“Lacus? Are you ready?” He stops, frowning. The light is off and the curtains
are closed, keeping the room in the dark except for a neon blue light coming
from a big aquarium in the middle of the room. He sees Lacus standing close to
the aquarium, holding what looks to be… He gasps. “Is that a snake?”
Lacus looks over his shoulder at him and smiles.
“Ah, it’s you, Mika.” He doesn’t seem the least disturbed by the fact that
there’s a snake wrapped around his shoulders. The blue light makes its scales
shine, and, when the animal turns its head to him, he sees its yellow eyes
glowing in the dark.
“Whythe fuck do you have asnakein your room?” Mika shrieks, keeping his eyes on
the snake, too afraid to look away. Lacus tilts his head, appearing to be
slightly confused.
“This is Sally,” He says, “She’s my pet snake.”
“You have a pet snake.” Mika doesn’t know what shocks him the most: the fact
that Lacus has a snake, or the fact that he named the snake Sally.
“Don’t worry, she won’t hurt you,” He caresses the head of Sally The Snake,
smiling at the animal. “She’s a civilized snake.”
A civilized snake. If he wasn’t so terrified, he would laugh.
“Do the others know you have this… this thing here?”
“Of course they do,” Lacus rolls his eyes, and sets the snake into the
aquarium, closing the lid. “Are you ready to go?”
“Yes,” Anywhere away from this snake is good, he thinks.
He watches as Lacus throws kisses at the snake, muttering:
“I’ll be leaving now, Sally dear. Behave.”
The snake merely hisses at him, and he giggles as if it had said something
funny.
Mika stays quiet as he follows Lacus out of the house and to the bus stop, and
during the whole ride to the mall. Only when they are entering the mall is that
Lacus asks:
“What’s the problem, Mika? Your face looks weird.”
Mika looks at him. You have a fucking snake in your room, that’s the problem!
“It’s nothing,” He lies. “What was the name of that band you were talking about
before?”
As Lacus starts to speak excitedly about the band, Mika lefts his thoughts
drift off; he finds out it’s easy to deal with Lacus: he only has to hum
occasionally to let him know he’s listening. It could be worse.
They meet René at the book store; the beta is looking into some books about
self help.
“You’re late,” It’s the only thing he says when they approach him, without
looking up to see them.
“Renééé!” Lacus jumps on him, hugging his shoulders, and speaks in a tearful
tone, “Why did you leave without me?”
René merely sighs, but doesn’t push him away. Mika admires the amount of
patience the beta has, because if it was Mika in his place, he would’ve already
shoved Lacus off of him.
“Is Ferid gone already?” He asks, ignoring Lacus’ question.
“He is.” Mika says. “Chess and Horn sprayed some air purifier around the
house.”
René sighs again and puts the book he was holding back onto the shelf.
“The flowers’ one again?”
“Yes.”
He shakes his head.
“I hate Ferid.” He states.
“We all do.” Lacus comments, finally letting go of him, only to hook his arm on
the beta’s. “Let’s go to the CDs section! I want to show Mika some songs of the
new CD of Fall Out Boys.”
René allows Lacus to drag him through the shelves without complaining, and Mika
follows them not knowing if he should be amused or not.
In the end, Mika finds he likes the band, and Lacus convinces him to buy their
latest CD. After that, Mika drags them to the literature section and picks the
book Mr. Hiiragi had recommended before he allows them to walk to the cashier.
“We need to go to a clothes store too,” Lacus says as they wait in the queue.
“I need some new shirts.”
They proceed to spend the rest of the morning helping Lacus choose shirts; Mika
finds it funny how René’s deadpan doesn’t change at all, and still Lacus
doesn’t seem to mind.
They really are a weird pair.
He’s not surprised when he catches Lacus stealing some kisses from René when he
thinks Mika isn’t looking. Even if they don’t look like a couple, somehow Mika
finds it natural that they are one. After all, only René and his endless
patience can put up with Lacus’ enthusiasm. Mika has barely spent half a day
with him and he’s already tired.
By lunch time, they go to the food court and eat a pepperoni pizza. Mika and
René stay quiet as Lacus talks non-stop about a TV show he wants to watch when
he gets back home.
“Is he always like this?” Mika asks René as they leave the mall and walk to the
bus stop. René graces him with one of his rare smiles, a small stretch of his
lips, barely noticeable.
“You get used to him,” He assures Mika.
“Ahh, look!” Lacus says happily, pointing to a store next to the bus stop; it’s
a candy store, Mika sees, judging by the amount of chocolate exhibited in the
display. “That strawberry chocolate tablet is back!” He turns to René with
shiny eyes. “Let’s go buy it!”
“Lacus…” René sighs, probably getting ready to argue, but Lacus grabs his arms
and whines:
“Pleeease!”
Mika rolls his eyes, thinking that Lacus looks like a little child begging to
his mother to buy him something.
“You two can go,” He says, “I’ll wait for you at the bus stop.”
“Are you sure?” René asks as Lacus cheers. “The bus stop gets dangerous after
noon.”
“I’ll be fine.” He assures them. “Just try not to take too long.”
“We won’t,” Lacus promises him, and starts to drag René to the candy store,
babbling about the strawberry chocolate he so seems to love. Mika shakes his
head and resumes his walking to the bus stop.
Just as René said, the bus stop looks dangerously empty. There are only three
people there, and they all leave shortly after Mika arrives, getting onto the
first bus that stops. He sits by the bench of the stop, trying not to be too
nervous about being alone there. Lacus and René will be here soon, he tells
himself, there’s nothing to be scared about.
“Look who’s here.”
Mika almost jumps out of his skin at the mockery voice sounding beside him. He
looks up alarmed, and his heart beats fast when he sees the four alphas
standing next to him. He recognizes them: they’re the same ones who were
staring at him when he went to McDonalds with Yuu and his friends a few days
ago.
He tries not to show how scared he is when the scrawny alpha he kicked down
bents to look better at him, smirking.
“What’re you doing here alone, dear?” He asks, his voice laced with a malicious
tone, and Mika backs away slowly.
“It’s none of your business.” He says, and he’s proud that his voice doesn’t
tremble, instead sounding very firm.
“Ooh?” The bigger alpha raises an eyebrow, and looks at the only girl in their
group. Mika heard that alpha girls are usually treated as if they’re under
alpha boys, but the way they all surround her suggest that she is their leader.
“You heard that, Lacy? It’s not our business.”
The girl flips her dark blond hair over her shoulder. Her eyes are traced with
black eyeliner and her lips are tinged in blood red, and her smirk sends a
shiver down Mika’s spine.
“You’re a feisty one, ain’t you?” From the pocket of her jeans, she pulls a
switchblade, licking her lips when Mika pales. “We’re gonna have fun with you.”
Mika gets up immediately, backing away from them. He can punch them hard enough
to buy time to run, but he doesn’t think he can fight her is she has a knife.
He really doesn’t want to end up with a cut – though he also doesn’t want to do
what they want him to.
“Where do ya think ya going?” Asks the fourth alpha, sporting an undercut and
lots of piercings all over his face. When he licks his lips, Mika sees a
piercing on his tongue too. “Ya need to stay with us. Ya’ll have fun, I
promise.”
“No, thanks.”
“That wasn’t a request, you know.” Says the girl, blowing a strand of hair away
from her face. “Get him.”
The scrawny and the big alphas advance on him, and Mika panics. I can’ beat
both of them, he thinks as he backs away, wondering if he should scream for
help. He ducks down when the scrawny alpha tries to catch him, and kicks him on
the stomach. As the boy bends down groaning, the other alpha jumps on Mika,
managing to grab his arm. His sweaty palm closer around Mika’s upper arm, and
the omega gasps, terrified. Not knowing what else to do, he grabs the alpha’s
wrist and leans down, sinking his teeth on his flesh.
The alpha yells, hitting Mika’s face when he shoves him away. Mika tastes blood
on his tongue, but not his – he had bit down hard enough to draw blood. The
alpha holds his wounded wrist close to his chest, and glares at Mika.
“You little bitch–!”
Before Mika can retort, the fourth alpha rolls his eyes.
“Ya both are useless,” He says, stepping forward, not even fazed when Mika
holds his fists up, getting ready for a fight. “Ya children sit back and watch
how it’s done.”
He approaches Mika calmly, smirking at him. Before Mika can even blink, then,
the alpha jumps on him, tackling him to the ground. Mika yelps when his head
hits the floor, feeling a little dizzy for a moment, and then gasping when he
feels the alpha wrap his fingers around his neck.
“Now be a good boy and–”
Mika kicks his legs until his knee hits the alpha’s groin; the boy yelps, and
Mika takes this change to turn them around, with him on top of the alpha.
“So you like to ride.” Mika freezes when he feels a cold blade being pressed
against his nape. He doesn’t dare to turn around, but he can almost hear the
smirk in the girl’s voice as she leans down to whisper on his ear, “Good to
know you’re this dirty.”
“I could say the same about you.” Says a fifth voice, and the next second the
blade is gone from Mika’s neck. He looks over his shoulder to see the alpha
girl scratching at the hands wrapped around her neck. Lacus doesn’t even blink,
as if her nails don’t even hurt him. “What do you think you’re doing, Mika?”
Mika gasps at him.
“Me?” He says in a high pitched voice. “I was just here waiting and they just…
they just…” His voice breaks and he feels his eyes sting. He blinks away
quickly, not wanting to cry here, in front of all of these alphas.
“Look at what you just did,” Lacus sighs, shaking his head at the girl still
clawing at his skin. “If Ferid knows I let this happen, he’ll be really mad,
you know. This is all your fault.”
“We didn’t– We didn’t know he was with you!” The scrawny alpha gasps, and Mika
looks to see René has one hand firmly wrapped around his neck and one foot
stepping on the big alpha groaning on the ground.
“Of course you didn’t.” René sighs and then looks up. “Our bus is coming.”
“Great.” Lacus throws the girl aside, not even caring if he hurt her or not,
and bends down to pick up her switchblade and help Mika up. As he brings Mika
closer to himself, he twirls the switchblade around his fingers. “I’ll keep
this just in case you decide to harass another poor omega.”
The girl snarls at him, but her alpha friends stop her from advancing on them.
The bus stops and Mika is more than glad to get into it. He sits down trembling
from head to toe and trying to hold back his tears. Lacus sits by his side, but
he keeps quiet during the whole trip; instead, he fishes a chocolate bar from
his bag and opens it, offering some to Mika. The omega hesitates before
accepting it, biting it eagerly to try and cover the taste of blood on his
tongue with the sweetness of chocolate and strawberry.
 
 
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When they arrive home, Lacus and René let him run to his room and lock himself
there. Once inside, Mika leans against the door and slides to the floor,
finally letting the tears run down his face, biting down on his hand to try and
muffle down his sobs.
Why is that this always, always happens to him? Is it because he’s an omega?
Ferid did say the city is dangerous for omegas, but why? Why can’t he go out
without having someone harassing him? Trying to touch him? To rape him? His own
father had tried to do it. Why?
He gradually stops sobbing until it’s only silent tears streaming down his
face. He wipes them away and gets up, deciding he needs a bath. He feels dirty
where the alphas touched him and he desperately wants to wash it away.
The water of the shower feels cold, but he doesn’t mind, instead concentrating
on rubbing the sponge on his skin until it turns red. New tears pool at the
corner of his eyes, and he lets them fall, biting at his lips. He only stops
when he hears a knock at his door. He breaths in and out for a while before
turning off the shower and grabbing a towel. He quickly dries himself and then
grabs his robe, wrapping it around himself before leaving the bathroom and
walking to the door.
He opens it only a little, enough to peek out and see Lacus and René standing
there, Lacus holding a tray with a steaming soup. René holds up a paper bag.
“You dropped this earlier.” The beta says, and Mika recognizes the bag with his
books. “Also, Lacus brought you a soup. He thought you would like it.”
Mika considers just getting the books and the soup and then sending them away,
but he finds himself unable to do it when he sees Lacus’ begging look. With a
resigned sigh, he opens the door wider to let them in.
“Just wait while I put on some clothes,” He mutters, going to his closet to
grab a change of clothes and then heading to the bathroom. He dresses up
quickly and dries his hair, but doesn’t try to comb it; his blond strands fall
unruly around his shoulders, but he merely sighs and goes back into his room,
finding Lacus and René sitting on his bean bag chairs at the corner of the
room; the tray with the soup is set down on the small table that Mika uses to
study, as well as the bag with his books.
He sits down next to them quietly and pulls the tray closer to himself. As he
starts eating the soup, Lacus says:
“I’m surprised you managed to kick three of them down.”
The soup is hot on Mika’s tongue, but he doesn’t mind. He swallows down and
shrugs.
“I told you I know how to defend myself.” He says, and Lacus whistles.
“Who taught you how to fight?”
“… My mother.”
“Cool!” Lacus smirks. “You’re the third omega I know who can fight.”
“Let me guess: Ferid and Asura were the two first.”
“Asura broke his nose when they first met.” René says, and Lacus grimaces at
him.
“Why did you have to say that?” He whines.
“What did he do?” Mika asks amused.
“Tried to hug him.” René rolls his eyes. “He had this habit of hugging people
when he first met them. He dropped it after Asura punched him.”
Mika shakes his head, smiling a little when Lacus groans and hides his face
behind his hands.
 He still finds Lacus a lot annoying, and he still hasn’t forgotten Sally The
Snake in his room – he makes a mental note of keeping his own room locked from
now on, just to make sure. But as he talks to them, he finds it is slowly
getting easier to deal with them, and he’s glad to know they will step up to
help him if he needs.
He spends the rest of the day there, merely talking to them and laughing at the
embarrassing stories René has of Lacus, and he barely notices when the night
falls.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     This one was shorter than the other one, but *shrugs*
     In my defense, I've been feeling awful lately, and I just really want
     to throw everything away and isolate myself in a desert island. That
     would be nice. Yeah.
     But I like to finish the things I start, so I can't abandon this fic
     (and also I need money to buy my island first so *shrugs* yeah xD)
     Also, I've decided to finally sit down and plan out this story. And
     apparently there's at least ten more chapters to come, and maybe even
     more. What am I doing with my life *cries*
     Anyway.
     I'll try not to take too long to deliver the next chapter. Probably
     by the weekend I'll have a new one. Maybe.
     Don't forget to leave your comments and see you soon~
***** Chapter 7 *****
Chapter Summary
     The truth is he needs comfort after what happened at the bus stop the
     last day. Even if he had felt a little better talking to René and
     Lacus after that, he still feels awful about what happened. He had
     spent the whole night waking up from many nightmares – no matter how
     many times he tried to go back to sleep, they would come back to
     haunt him and he would wake up again, sweating, tired and crying. He
     hates feeling weak like this, and he wants someone to hold him and
     assure him that he’s not weak.
     And that’s something he knows he can get from Yuu.
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
On Monday, Mika tries to act naturally, but Mirai must have noticed something’s
wrong, because after classes are over, she corners him when they are leaving
school:
“Will you tell me what happened?” She asks crossing her arms over her chest and
raising an eyebrow at him.
“What do you mean?” He tries to dodge the question, walking ahead of her, but
she walks faster and stops in front of him, forcing him to stop too and look at
her.
“Don’t try to play dumb with me.” She frowns, and a look of worry crosses her
face. “You look like you barely slept tonight and you didn’t even pay attention
to the classes this morning. Is something wrong?”
Yoichi, who had been walking quietly behind them, finally reaches them and puts
a hand on Mirai’s shoulder.
“Maybe we shouldn’t be intruding on this,” He tells her gently, and then looks
at Mika. “I’m sure he will tell us if he wants. But we can’t force him to.”
“Thanks, Yoichi.” Mika sighs. “It’s just some things happened yesterday. I
don’t wanna talk about it.”
Mirai pouts and uncrosses her arms.
“You know you can tell us anything, right?” She says. “Even if it’s just to
take it out of your chest. It’s not good to keep it all inside.”
He bites his lower lip and averts his eyes, hesitating.
“I know.” He finally says. “Thank you, both of you. But I really don’t feel
well enough to talk about it now. Maybe another day.”
Mirai frowns again, but she finally gives up with a sigh.
“Fine.” She says. Yoichi giggles, and then his eyes soften.
“We’re here for you, Mika.” He says, leaning in to give Mika a tight hug. Mika
is surprised by the act, but he hugs him back, clinging to the smaller omega
and hiding his face on his shoulder; he hadn’t noticed how much he needed a hug
until now. Yoichi pats his back and caresses his hair soothingly, giggling
again. “There, there.”
“Thanks,” He whispers against Yoichi’s shoulder. “For everything.”
He pulls away a little embarrassed, a light blush covering his cheeks, but
Yoichi only smiles gently.
“We’re your friends.” He says shrugging. Mirai smiles too, and then hugs Mika
too.
“Yoichi is right.” She says tightening her arms around his neck before pulling
away and holding his shoulders. “We’re your friends. You can count on us for
everything. Even to hide the body.”
Mika finally laughs out loud, a feeling of easiness spreading through his chest
and making him feel lighter.
The three of them walk together to the school gates, finding Shihou and Yuu
already waiting for Mirai and Yoichi there, again leaning against Shihou’s car.
Mika doesn’t see Ferid’s car anywhere, but he doesn’t even think about it,
because when he realizes, he’s already running ahead and jumping on Yuu,
locking his arms around his neck and squeezing him into a hug.
“Woah!” Yuu laughs, catching him and enlacing his arms around Mika’s waist.
“What’s this? Did you miss me this much? We’ve seen each other two days ago.”
Mika blushes hard, feeling his whole face, even the tip of his ears, heating
up. Even so, he doesn’t pull away, instead tightening his arms around Yuu.
“I… I know.” He mutters against Yuu’s neck. “But I missed you anyway.”
The truth is he needs comfort after what happened at the bus stop the last day.
Even if he had felt a little better talking to René and Lacus after that, he
still feels awful about what happened. He had spent the whole night waking up
from many nightmares – no matter how many times he tried to go back to sleep,
they would come back to haunt him and he would wake up again, sweating, tired
and crying. He hates feeling weak like this, and he wants someone to hold him
and assure him that he’s not weak.
And that’s something he knows he can get from Yuu.
However, before any of them can see anything, they hear a loud honk, and Mika
tilts his head slightly to see Ferid’s car stopped next to them. With a sigh,
he pulls away from Yuu.
“I gotta go.” He says, his voice sounding sad and grumpy. Yuu casts him a
worried glance.
“Are you okay?” The alpha asks, holding his wrist to stop him from walking
away. “You look weird today.”
Mika hesitates, but another loud honk makes him shake his head and pull his
wrist away.
“I’ll send you a message later.” He promises, and before Yuu can protest, he
leans in and kisses his cheek, making the alpha jump startled and blush. He
smiles a little at the sight and then walks away to Ferid’s car.
 
 
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Mika thinks of locking himself inside his room for the afternoon, but he feels
a little too suffocated being alone there, so instead he slips inside Lacus’
room to watch Lacus and René play chess. Sally The Snake is securely locked
inside her aquarium, because Mika was too afraid to enter the room with her
there.
So he is currently curled up in a corner of Lacu’s bed, having dragged all of
the pillows to make a small nest for himself, and wrapped up in Lacus’ duvet.
The alpha doesn’t seem to mind, too concentrated on his game against René, even
though he is losing.
Mika pulls out his phone when he feels it vibrating, and unlocks it to find a
message from Yuu:
[So, will you tell me why you were acting weird earlier?]
He sighs, casting a quick glance to Lacus and René before typing out a message:
[It’s a long story.]
He barely presses the send button, and literally ten seconds later another
message pops up:
[I’m waiting.]
Knowing Yuu won’t give up, he uncurls from his corner and gets up. Lacus looks
up at him.
“Where are you going, Mika?”
“Call Yuu-chan.” It’s all he says before exiting from the room. As he walks
through the house, he presses the call button and presses the cellphone close
to his ear. It barely rings two times before Yuu picks up:
“What happened?”
“You really won’t drop it, will you?” He sighs as he climbs down the stairs and
heads to the backyard.
“No. Will you tell me what’s wrong? I’m starting to get really worried.”
He walks out of the house through the kitchen door. The sun still shines bright
in the blue sky, and a light, soft breeze wafts about, cooling down the heat.
There is a pretty garden running the whole length of the wall with many
different flowers; he knows Chess and Horn are the ones who keep it. He must
admit they’re doing a good job at it, because the flowers look beautiful.
He sits down on a chair by the stone tea table decorated with extravagant
ornaments. He runs a finger through them as he finally answers Yuu’s question:
“Yesterday I went to the mall with Lacus and René.” He starts hesitantly.
“Ferid is in heat and he didn’t take his suppressants on purpose, so the house
was reeking like him and no one could take it. So we decided to go out until
the smell had vanished a little.”
Yuu hums to let him know he’s listening. He takes in a deep breath.
“We stayed out the whole morning and had lunch there.” He says. “And when he
went back…” He stops when he noticed his voice is trembling, and takes a deep
breath before continuing: “When we went back to the bus stop, Lacus wanted to
go into a candy store to buy chocolate. So he and Lacus went there, and I said
I would wait for them at the bus stop.” He pauses again, taking in a shaking
breath. “It was mostly empty and after a while I was alone there. But then…
That group of alphas that were on McDonalds that day, do you remember them?”
“Yes.” Yuu says with a cautious voice. “What happened, Mika?” He sounds scared,
and Mika has to take a few more breaths in before continuing.
“They… attacked me.” He finally manages to say. “I managed to punch two of them
away, but then one of them pinned me down on the ground, and when I tried to
overpower him, the other one, the girl, pressed a knife against my neck.”
Yuu gasps on the other side.
“Mika, they didn’t do anything to you, did they?” He asks with a worried voice,
and Mika bites his lips.
“No,” He mutters, “No, Lacus and René arrived at that moment and saved me.” He
sighs. “I just… I was so scared.” His voice trembles, but he keeps talking. “I
hate how I had to have their help, how I couldn’t beat them on my own. I hate
that I’m so weak and that I’m always being attacked. Why does this happens to
me?”
His eyes sting with unshed tears, and he blinks them away.
“Mika you’re not weak.” Yuu reassures him, his voice as shaky as Mika’s. “They
had aknife. Not even I would be able to fight someone holding a knife.”
“But…”
“And there’s nothing wrong in depending on someone else’s help.” He goes on,
interrupting Mika’s protest. “That doesn’t mean you’re weak. Everybody needs
some help from time to time; that’s why we live in society. If we didn’t need
help, we would live isolated from each other.”
When Mika stays quiet, Yuu sighs.
“Do you want to go out tomorrow?” He asks.
“Out?” Mika frowns. “To where?”
“I don’t know.” Mika can almost picture him shrugging, and he smiles.
“Anywhere. I think going out might help you clear your head for a bit. We can
go watch a movie or something.”
“A movie sounds good.” Mika admits.
“Tomorrow after school?”
“Sure.” He smiles, even though Yuu can’t see it. He likes the idea of going out
just the two of them.
“Great!” He hears a bark on the background, and then Yuu yelps and laughs.
There’s a muffled sound of shifting before Yuu speaks up again, “I’m gonna have
to hang up now. I gotta walk Cerberus.”
Mika chuckles.
“Okay,” He says, “See you tomorrow, Yuu-chan.”
“See you tomorrow.” Yuu says, his voice sounding sweet and warm, managing to
calm Mika down and make him finally relax.
 
 
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Yuu goes with Shihou to Mika’s school, but from there they take a bus to the
cinema. Yuu sits close to Mika very protectively, glaring at anyone who looks
at the omega; he knows he’s acting ridiculous and paranoid, and that Mika
doesn’t need him to be so overprotective, but he can’t help but worry about
him. He doesn’t want Mika to be harassed again, and he will fight anyone who
tries to.
There aren’t too many people on the cinema, since it’s a week day; Yuu buys a
ticket for Captain America: Civil War. Even though Mika says he'd never watched
any superheroes movies, he look interested enough for that. Since the session
will only start in one hour from now, Yuu decides to take a walk through the
stores near the cinema.
As they enter a toy store – Yuu wants to take a look at the superheroes toys –
Yuu starts to tell him about the heroes in the movie. Mika only chuckles and
hums at him, carefully looking around the store. There are board games, dolls,
cars, stuffed toys… Mika doesn’t remember having any toy as a kid. The only
thing he had was a small brown teddy bear someone gave him when he was a baby,
and his mother kept when they moved in after his father decided to lock him
away; unfortunately, the bear was burned down in the fire too.
“… Mika?” He jolts slightly when Yuu places a hand on his shoulder, looking up
to see the alpha frowning at him in worry. “Are you okay? You spaced out for a
bit.”
“Oh, sorry.” He says. “I was just remembering something.” He looks at the shelf
with stuffed toys, biting on his lower lip.
Yuu smiles when he sees where Mika is looking at. He reaches out to pick up a
big stuffed bunny. Its fur is gold and its button eyes are blue, which is why
he picked it up in the first place; its ears are exaggeratedly long, but he
finds it cute. He hands it to Mika, and the omega hesitates before grabbing it.
“It reminds me of you.” He chuckles, though he is blushing a little. But Mika
blushes too, so it’s worth it.
“Idiot.” He smiles, bringing the bunny closer to hide his smile behind it. “I’m
not a bunny. If anything, I’m a cat.”
“A cat?” Yuu tilts his head, amused.
“Yeah. I’m independent and come off as distant, but I’m actually very attached
to the people I like.” He says a little proudly, his cheeks and ears tinged a
beautiful rosy hue. Yuu laughs.
“Well, I thought you looked more like a dog.” He says. “I mean, you were all
friendly and excited before, pretty much like Cerberus.”
Mika snorts.
“You’re the one who looks like a dog,” The omega giggles, “You look like those
puppies that are always running between our legs and waving their tails
excited.”
Yuu blushes, but laughs too.
“Then we both are puppies.” He says finally, and looks back to the shelf with
stuffed toys, picking up another bunny. “Who resembles a bunny though?”
“Yoichi?” Mika suggests. “He could very well be a bunny.”
“You think so?” Yuu scratches the back of his neck, setting the bunny back onto
the shelf and picking a teddy bear. “What about Mirai?”
“She’s definitely a puppy too.” Mika says, making Yuu laugh again. “Shihou is a
cat though.”
“A cat? Kimizuki?” Yuu looks up at him surprised, and Mika shrugs.
“He reminds me of those cats who look like they don’t care about you, but in
truth they love you.” He smiles, and Yuu tilts his head.
Kimizuki, a cat. He finds the thought funny.
“What about Shinoa and Mitsuba?” He asks next.
“Hmm, I don’t know them enough to tell.”
“Shinoa would totally be a very sneaky animal, though.” Yuu huffs, and Mika
chuckles. “Like a snake.”
“That’s mean, Yuu-chan.”
“A monkey, then?” Yuu smiles when Mika chuckles again. “Like those ones from
the movies that keep doing funny things to distract you, and when you realize,
they stole your wallet, your phone, your keys…”
“Yuu-chan.”
“What?” He blinks innocently, and then giggles when Mika slaps him on the arm.
“Stop being mean.” Though he says this, he is smiling.
“Alright, I’ll shut up.” He frowns when he sees Mika putting the yellow bunny
back on the shelf. “What are you doing? That one is for you.”
“F-for me?” He stutters, once again blushing slightly. “But…”
“It’s a gift.” Yuu smiles. “From all the birthdays I’ve missed.”
If possible, Mika’s face gets even redder, and he mutters:
“You don’t need to give me anything…”
“But I want to.” Yuu says firmly. “They say it’s bad manners to refuse a gift.”
Mika rolls his eyes, but ends up smiling and nodding. He picks the bunny back
and holds it close to his chest.
They resume their walking around the store, and Yuu finds his heroes toys. He
picks up one red and yellow doll that looks like a robot.
“This is Iron Man!” He says excitedly. “He’s like, the one. He’s awesome. Oh,
and this!” He picks up another one, in red and blue this time. “This is spider
man. He’s probably the best of them, because he’s a poor high schooler like
us.”
Mika laughs.
“And this one?” He points to another one in blue and red, holding a round
shield with a star.
“This is Captain America.” Yuu picks it up too. “He’s nice too. Ah! They have
Black Widow!” He cries out, dropping the others to pick the doll of a woman in
a simple black suit. “She’s so awesome, nobody ever has anything about her!” He
pouts and then smiles at the doll. Mika chuckles.
“You’re looking like a little child, Yuu-chan.” He teases, making the alpha
blush.
“Shut up,” He mutters.
“Will you buy them?”
He hesitates and then shakes his head with a sigh.
“No, I still want to buy us a pizza after the movie.” He puts all the dolls
back on the shelf with a pained expression, whispering: “I’ll come back to buy
you guys later, I promise.”
Mika laughs as they walk to the cashier to pay for Mika’s new bunny.
 
 
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Mika actually likes the movie, and when they leave the theater, he’s already
decided to look up the other superheroes movies on the internet later. Or maybe
he can ask Lacus and René about it; they may have the movies, especially Lacus,
since he seems to love so much these nerd things.
They walk to a pizzeria just across the cinema, and they order a margherita
pizza before taking a table next to the window from where they can watch people
walking on the street. Mika laughs at Yuu’s jokes while they wait for the
waiter to bring their order.
Yuu smiles whenever he sees Mika laugh. He spent the whole night and half of
the day worried about him, and he’s glad that he finally made the omega relax
and forget what happened on Sunday.
As they eat, Mika starts to tell him about Lacus and René – about how Lacus is
too excited for his own good, about René’s infinite patience with his
boyfriend, and about the pet snake Lacus has. Yuu laughs at this.
“And here I thought I had seen everything.” He chuckles and shakes his head. “A
pet snake…”
“And I even found out later that Krul has a bat.” Mika says. “A real bat, Yuu-
chan! Can you believe it?”
“Seriously?” Yuu’s eyes widen and he laughs again. “Mika, those alphas
areweird.”
“They are.” Mika agrees, and pauses to chew on the pizza. After swallowing, he
continues: “I shouldn’t be surprised, though, considering they are Ferid’s
friends, and he is the weirdest of them all.”
Yuu shakes his head.
“If you feel like they’re too weird for you, you can stay at my place.” He
offers jokingly. “I’m sure there’s some space for you.”
Mika snorts, though his cheeks are red.
“Yeah, sure.” He says. “You said your uncle wants to move out exactly because
there’s not enough space. And his boyfriend already stays there, so there won’t
be space for me too.”
“You could sleep on my bed, and I sleep with Cerberus on the floor.”
“I’m sure Cerberus will appreciate the company.” The omega comments, and they
both laugh. He sighs and looks outside, seeing that the sky is turning a dark
blue as the night slowly falls, the first stars already showing up. “I’ll have
to call Ferid to pick me up.” He says with a grimace, and Yuu frowns.
“I could ask Guren to give you a lift.” He says. “He’ll come pick me up
anyway.”
“Are you sure?” Mika asks. “Won’t it be a problem for him?”
“Nah, it won’t.” Yuu assures him, biting on his pizza. “He’ll pick Shinya up at
his house and then he’ll come pick me up. If I say it in front of Shinya,
there’s no way he’ll refuse to give you a lift.” He takes another bite of the
pizza. “He’s always trying to impress Shinya.”
“Yuu-chan, don’t speak while you eat, you might choke on your food.” Mika
chuckles, and then adds in a teasing tone: “And, well, aren’t alphas supposed
to impress their omegas?”
Yuu rolls his eyes, swallowing and then drinking some of his Pepsi.
“Also,” Mika goes on, “Didn’t you say that when you drink soda, you get too
agitated and can’t sleep?”
Yuu grimaces and nods.
“Yeah, but,” He shrugs, “I missed drinking Pepsi.”
Mika chuckles.
“Won’t Guren be mad at you if you don’t sleep?”
“He will. But maybe I’ll take some medicine for sleep.”
“Medicine?” Mika frowns. “Without a doctor’s recommendation?”
“But I have one.” Yuu says. “I used to have insomnia even without the soda, so
my doctor prescribed a somniferous for me to sleep. I still take it from time
to time.”
Mika shakes his head.
“Be careful with that, Yuu-chan.”
“Don’t worry.” Yuu smiles.
After they finish eating, Yuu sends Guren a message telling him to come pick
them up before paying for their order. They leave the pizzeria and wait in the
front of it for Guren to appear; Yuu stands close to Mika, resisting the urge
to wrap an arm around his waist and bring him close whenever he sees an alpha
walking by and looking at the omega.
Guren arrives ten minutes later, and frowns when Mika gets into the car with
Yuu.
“Can you give Mika a lift?” Yuu asks as Mika closes the door. “It’s late and
the bus stops are dangerous now.”
“It’s barely seven.” Guren grunts.
“Guren.” Mika looks at the white-haired man sitting on the passenger seat and
casting Guren a censoring look. Mr. Hiiragi. “Mika-chan is a child yet, he
can’t go walking around so late.”
“A child.” Guren rolls his eyes, but starts the car. “Where do you live, kid?”
Mika blushes and mutters his address.
As Guren drives to Mika’s house, his teacher looks over his shoulder to smile
at him.
“It’s good to see you again, Mika-chan.” He has the habit of calling his
students with the –chan suffix, and Mika is one of the few that never minds
that. “I hope you two had fun?”
“Yeah, we did.” He smiles sheepishly at his teacher. “Yuu-chan bought me a
stuffed bunny.”
Yuu chokes on air, and he hears Guren laugh.
“You bought him a stuffed toy, Yuu?” The man says in a teasing tone. “So you
really are in deep for him.”
“Guren.” Mr. Hiiragi scowls at him. “You’re being inconvenient.”
Mika glances at Yuu, only to find the alpha’s face very flushed.
“Stupid Guren,” He grunts.
“Stupid Yuu.” The man shots back.
“Are they always like this?” Mika asks Mr. Hiiragi, who makes a whole act of
sighing dramatically and nodding.
“Yes.”
“How do you deal with them?”
“It’s difficult. Sometimes I have to lock them away until they learn how to
work their people skills.”
Mika chuckles when Yuu glares at them and Guren exclaims indignantly:
“Hey!”
“You asked for this.” Mr. Hiiragi tells him teasingly.
It’s weird for Mika to see his teacher like this, without his Teacher Face,
smirking at his alpha. But he finds he likes it; during the whole ride to his
house, Shinya keeps teasing Guren and Guren keeps grunting at him, and both
Mika and Yuu have fun watching them.
“This is what happens when you become an adult, Mika.” Yuu comments in a low
voice, but Guren snaps at him:
“I can hear you!”
Yuu and Mika giggle.
They finally arrive at Mika’s house, and Yuu gives him a hug before he leaves
the car.
“I’ll send you a message later.” He says, and smirks. “When I can’t sleep”
“Yuu-chan,” Mika sighs, “It’s not my fault that you drank soda when you know it
keeps you awake at night. Please don’t disturb my sleeping schedule too.”
Yuu chuckles.
“Thank you for the ride, Guren.” Mika says clumsily, without knowing how to
address the man.
“It’s Mr. Ichinose for you, kid.” The man grunts.
“Mr. Shitty Ass you mean.” Yuu mutters and Guren glares at him.
“Just call him Guren, he won’t mind.” Mr. Hiiragi tells him.
“Hey, you too!”
Mika chuckles.
“Bye, Mr. Hiiragi. See you tomorrow at school.” He waves at his teacher and
leaves the car, hearing Yuu’s uncle mutter bitterly:
“Why does he address you like this and not me?”
“Because I deserve it, Guren.”
Chuckling, Mika waves at Yuu inside the car and turns away, walking to his
home.
He feels tired after spending the whole day out, so he heads straight to his
room and, after taking a long bath, he puts on his pajamas and crawls under his
duvet, grabbing the yellow bunny Yuu had bought for him. He hugs the bunny
close to his chest and sniffles it; obviously Yuu’s scent isn’t there, but just
knowing that it was Yuu who gave it to him – his second stuffed toy ever – it
already makes him happy.
He finally manages to sleep that night without any nightmare.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     I'm in a great need to eat pizza lately. Like, I really really wanna
     a pizza right now. Why don't I have money to buy pizza *sobs*
     Anyway, this was just some mikayuu fluff because I felt like it lol
     next chapter I may introduce another character hehe xD don't forget
     to leave your comments, and see you soon~
***** Chapter 8 *****
Chapter Summary
     “You know what you need?” Yoichi says turning to them with his eyes
     gleaming. “Some time away from alphas.”
     Mika frowns, but Mirai lets out a small squeal and clasps her hands
     together.
     “Yes!” She says. “We need to take him there.”
     “W-where?” Mika asks nervously, looking from one to the other. They
     eye each other, smiling mischievously.
     “To a place where alphas aren’t allowed.”
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
Wednesday is calm and warm. The sun shines too bright on the sky, but the light
breeze wafting about on the rooftop is enough to cool Mika down; he lays on his
back with his arms behind his head, his eyelids closed as he feels the rays of
sun warming his skin. Today is not too hot and not too cold, it’s just the
perfect weather, and he wishes he could lay there forever.
Unfortunately, they only have thirty minutes of lunch break, so he wants to
enjoy every second of it while he can.
“I feel so lazy like this.” Mirai sighs by his side. He peeks at her slightly
only to see she’s leaning against the fence of the rooftop with her face turned
upwards to the sky. “I want to stay here and sleep. Can we skip class today?”
Mika chuckles.
“Mirai,” Even though Yoichi shakes his head, he’s smiling. He sighs, “You know
we can’t. We have chemistry now, and you’re awful at it; you need to have this
class.”
Mirai opens her eyes only to grimace at Yoichi.
“You’re no fun at all.” She says poking out her tongue at him.
“And you’re too much fun for your own good.”
Mika giggles at them, closing his eyes once more. He feels a little tempted to
accept Mirai’s idea and skip the class just this once. Even though he’s bad at
chemistry too…
“You look a lot better today, Mika.” Mirai comments suddenly. “Did something
happen in your date with Yuu yesterday?”
He doesn’t have to open his eyes to know she’s smirking – he can almost hear it
in her voice. He frowns.
“It wasn’t a date.” He mumbles.
“Uh-hum. Keep lying to yourself.”
He opens his eyes and stares at her, only to see her grinning.
“Will you tell us how it was like or not?” She asks, and he sighs, knowing she
won’t drop the subject.
“We just saw a movie and ate pizza after it.” He shrugs. “Then Guren came pick
him up and they gave me a lift home. That’s all.”
Mirai pouts at him, and he raises his eyebrows.
“What?”
“You could detail it a little more.” She complains. “Did he hold your hand? Did
he sit close to you? Did he…”
“I told you, it was not a date.” Mika interrupts her with a groan. “He just
invited me out to try and make me feel better.”
“Because of what happened over the weekend.” She says. “And that you didn’t
tell us yet. But you told him.”
“W-well, he’s my friend…”
“And so are we.” She smirks again. “You see? He’s special, isn’t he?”
“I-I… He…”
“Mirai, you’re making him uncomfortable.” Yoichi says, and she shrugs.
“Fine, I’ll shut up.”
Mika tries to relax again, but he can’t. He can’t stop thinking about Mirai’s
words.
Well, of course Yuu would be special for him. He was his first friend. It is
ridiculous to think that they’d ever be something else, right?
But, a little voice says inside his mind, Crowley and Ferid are also friends,
and they aretogetherin a sense.
Mika feels his face heat up at this thought. He quickly sits up and shakes his
head as if he could shake away the thought of he and Yuu could be like Ferid
and Crowley. No way.
“Mika?” Mirai asks concerned. “What is it?”
“Uh? I-it’s nothing, I’m fine.” He mutters, still blushing.
“Weirdo.” She chuckles, and then reaches out to ruffle his hair, earning a yelp
from him.
“Stop doing that.” He sighs as he pushes her hand away. “I’ll tell you.”
“About your date with Yuu?” She clasps her hands, her eyes shining.
“It was not a date.” He grunts. “I mean I’ll tell you about what happened on
Sunday. Why I was feeling sad and Yuu-chan was trying to cheer me up.”
She sits straight, and even Yoichi leans in, looking curious and worried. Mika
sighs once again as he shifts, sitting up and looking down at his own hands. He
repeats the same story he told Yuu, about how he went to the mall with Lacus
and René, and then about how he met the alphas from Union High at the bus stop.
He tells them about how he tried to fight them, and how Lacus and René came for
his aid.
Only after he finishes is that he dares to look up and face Mirai and Yoichi.
Both of them are staring at him with horrified expressions.
“You fought them?” Mirai gasps. “They could have hurt you!”
“They would have hurt me even if I hadn’t fought it.” He mumbles frowning.
“But you said one of them had a knife!” Mirai looks both amazed and terrified
by this. “How did you gather enough courage to fight them?”
He merely looks down again.
“By the way you talk,” He mutters, “You make it sound like I was some kind of
hero or something.”
“Well, it was close enough.” She shrugs. “I never heard of an omega fighting
four alphas alone. That must be some kind of record.”
He blushes.
“I-I wasn’t alone,” He says, “Lacus and René helped me.”
“After you had punched three of them,” Yoichi points out, and smiles. “You’re
amazing, Mika.”
“I only punched two.” He doesn’t know why he’s trying to argue. They look at
him with admiration, as if they had never seen someone like him before, and he
doesn’t know how to react to this.
“Mika, stop talking and just accept the fact that you’re possibly the most
badass omega to ever step on this planet.” Mirai says, and that makes Mika
chuckle.
“You will change your mind if you ever meet my uncle,” He assures her. “He
doesn’t even need to do anything, because he gives off this creepy aura that
you instantly know that you shouldn’t mess with him. Next to him, I look like a
little kid.” He sighs.
“Your uncle? Then being badass is a family thing?” She asks amused. “I want
those genes.”
“And don’t all omegas want?” Yoichi muses chuckling. “Seriously, Mika, you
should be proud of yourself. I wouldn’t be able to fight one alpha, let alone
four.”
Mika blushes again, ducking his head down to avoid their gaze. He wants to do
as Yoichi says and feel proud of himself; after all, his friends are right: he
did manage to defend himself of the alphas long enough for René and Lacus to
come and help him. Though he still can’t help but feel angry at the fact that
he was being molested by the simple fact that he is an omega.
They hear the bell ring announcing the end of lunch time, and reluctantly stand
up to go back to class.
“Now I understand why you were feeling down,” Mirai goes on as they walk.
“Yeah…” He sighs.
“You know what you need?” Yoichi says turning to them with his eyes gleaming.
“Some time away from alphas.”
Mika frowns, but Mirai lets out a small squeal and clasps her hands together.
“Yes!” She says. “We need to take him there.”
“W-where?” Mika asks nervously, looking from one to the other. They eye each
other, smiling mischievously.
“To a place where alphas aren’t allowed.” Mirai says in a mysterious tone.
“Artemis’ Café.”
 
 
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It takes a lot of convincing for Mirai’s brother to let her go out without him.
He insists on going with her, but she reminds him that alphas aren’t allowed
inside Artemis’ Café – and he is an alpha. Eventually they come to an agreement
that he will take her there and that she will call him when she wants to go
home, so he will pick her up.
Mika, Yoichi and Yuu watch as the two of them argue for ten minutes in front of
the school. Yuu seems amused by the scene, and he smiles at Mika.
“You will like this Café,” He says, “I’ve never been there myself, but they
have security guards that stop any alpha from entering there. You’ll be
completely safe from any alpha inside there.”
“… Sounds like a good place.” Mika admits, and Yuu chuckles, reaching out to
ruffle his hair. Mika blushes, but doesn’t push his hand away. “I never
imagined a place like this existed.”
Yuu shrugs.
“It was bound to happen. Omegas are constantly harassed and molested by alphas
everywhere they go, so eventually this kind of thing would happen. I mean,” He
gestures to the school building behind them, “Look at this school; Seraph High,
a school for omegas only. It was necessary that a school like this was created
just so omegas could study without being importuned.” Yuu frowns. “We alphas
need to learn how to properly behave. Omegas are not our property.”
Mika purses his lips, staring at him.
“You’re not like them, though.” He whispers. “You’re different. I know you
would never molest anyone, omega or not.”
Yuu smiles gently at him and nods.
“I wouldn’t,” He agrees.
“So you shouldn’t say we. Don’t include yourself in the same group of assholes
who do this kind of thing.”
“But I am an alpha,” Yuu says.
“Not like them.” Mika repeats.
“Not like them.” He agrees, and then sighs. “I wish more alphas were like this.
Like, Guren is an asshole, but I never saw him looking in any indecent way at
anyone or touching anyone without permission. Kimizuki… Well, he has Yoichi, so
it’s not a surprise that he wouldn’t do any of this. But being an alpha, I
usually get some ugly looks from some omegas and even betas, as if they’re
expecting that I do something bad.” Yuu pouts. “Those alphas who do bad things
give the rest of us a bad reputation, and I hate that.”
Mika wants to object, to find an argument to comfort him, but he can’t. Because
even he feels uncomfortable near any alpha he doesn’t know. Even if they don’t
do anything to him, even if they don’t even look at him, he still feels
uncomfortable being next to them.
He opens his mouth to apologize, but Yuu interrupts him before he even starts:
“Don’t.” When he casts a confused look to the alpha, he smiles. “I know what
you were going to say, but don’t. It’s not your fault.”
“I don’t like the thought that people see you as someone evil.” Mika mumbles
pouting, and Yuu laughs.
“Neither do I,” He says, “That’s why I hate these alphas. What do they even
have inside their heads, anyway? Alphas are supposed to protect omegas, to make
them feel safe. And they’re doing it very wrong if the omegas feel the need to
create places where alphas can’t enter.”
Mika stays quiet the whole ride to Artemis’ Café, reflecting on Yuu’s words. He
can’t stop thinking Yuu is right: the bad alphas give the others a reputation.
Even if it’s just a few of them, it ends up making the others look bad too, and
it’s obvious that the omegas would start to fear them too.
However, he never stopped to think about how it would affect the other alphas,
the good ones. The ones like Yuu, or his uncle; like Shihou, Lacus, Krul. Even
if they respect the omegas, they might still be treated with mistrust.
He wishes he could do something about it, but what can he do? If even he feels
distrust towards any alpha he doesn’t know. He knows it’s not their fault,
because they didn’t do a thing to earn his distrust – it were the alphas in
Mika’s past that hurt him to the point of making him fear other alphas.
“Mika?” Mirai’s voice snaps him out of his trance, and he looks up to see the
car has stopped. “We’ve arrived. Let’s go!”
Her excited smile makes him sigh, but he ends up smiling a little too. He casts
a look to Yuu before leaving, and the alpha makes a gesture of shooing him
away.
“Go,” He says amused, “You’ll have fun there, I’m sure of that.”
“If you say so.” Mika’s not so sure, but he’ll give it a shot. “Message me
later?”
“Of course!” Yuu cracks the brightest smile ever, and Mika’s heart flutters in
his chest. Blushing, he smiles at him and leaves the car, following Mirai and
Yoichi.
The café is a three storey building with dark glass windows that hide what’s
inside. The front of it is colored in dark colors, with the name Arthemis’ Café
written in silver flourished letters, and next to it there’s an intricate art
in black and silver of a silhouette resembling a girl holding a bow with a moon
behind her.
Mika raises his eyebrows. He doesn’t know what to think of that place. He looks
down at Mirai, who’s jumping on the balls of her feet. She grabs him by the
hand and drags him to the double glass doors, Yoichi following them chuckling.
The doors slide open automatically as soon as they step closer, and they are
received with a gust of cold wind from the AC.
Mika follows Mirai inside, raising his eyebrows when he sees what looks to be a
reception; there’s a large dark wooded desk with two women sitting behind it,
talking to each other, and another set of double glass doors. Mirai approaches
the two women with a big smile on her face.
“Table for three.” She says confidently, smiling at one of the women as she
hands her a credit card.
“Hello, Mirai-chan.” The woman says with a smile; her black hair is pulled back
in a ponytail, and she brushes a few strands from her bangs away from her eyes
as she takes the card. “Who’s the new boy?”
“This is Mika, he’s new in town.” She says, turning then to Mika. “Mika this is
Shinon-san,” She gestures to the black-haired woman, “And this is Mikoto-san.”
She gestures to the other woman, with a blond hair styled in a bun.
“You know everyone in here.” Mika states; he’s not even surprised. Mirai looks
like the kind who becomes friends with everyone she can.
“Of course.” She flashes him a smile, and then takes the credit card back, as
well as a receipt. “Let’s go, I’m gonna show you around!”
Shinon and Mikoto giggle as Mirai pulls him away. Yoichi follows them hiding
his mouth with his hand in an attempt of muffling his chuckle.
Behind the doors there’s a huge saloon – Mika doesn’t know where to look first.
There are tables lined around the saloon, and the seats are red leather sofas,
with even soft-looking pillows. There is a bar next to the wall, though Mika
doesn’t see any alcoholic drinks. The place is crowded, and Mika doesn’t see
any free table.
“Let’s go, our table is on the second floor.” Mirai says after checking on her
receipt, and leads them to a set of stairs that she climbs enthusiastically.
“This place is usually crowded at this hour of the day, because it’s when
school is over, so most students come here.”
Mika did notice that most of the people look like students – some wearing the
uniform of Seraph High and some wearing the uniform of Moon Demon, and others
wearing uniforms of schools he doesn’t know.
The second floor has less people, and looks less intimidating. While the first
one was decorated in red and black, this one is decorated in gray and white.
Instead of sofas, there are bean bag chairs that look incredible comfortable,
and Mika immediately wants to sit there.
“You two go to the table, I’ll go get us something to drink.” Yoichi says, and
heads to the bar next to the wall. Mika follows Mirai to a table close to the
window, from where they can see the street down bellow and the cars driving
through it.
“What do you think?” Mirai asks him as she makes herself comfortable on the
bean bag chair. The way she shifts around reminds Mika of a cat fluffing a
pillow before laying down on it.
“It’s a nice place.” He admits. He himself is feeling comfortable in this
chair, and he immediately relaxes. More comfort than this only on his bed with
his own nest. “Though why are there so few people on the second floor? Is it
because the first is crowded?”
“Hm? No, people just like the first floor because of the cute betas on the
bar.” Mirai chuckles. “Here on the second floor is usually calmer. Only on
weekends is that the whole place is crowded. Though you can only enter the
third floor is you’re over 20.”
“Why?” Mika frowns.
“Because there they have acohol and stuff. Ah, Yoichi’s back.” She raises her
eyes to see Yoichi approaching with a tray in his hands containing four cups of
coffee and some cookies; and then she smiles brightly when she sees the girl
accompanying him. “Akane!”
She all but jumps from her seat to throw herself on the other girl, tackling
her to the ground.
“Mirai,” Yoichi sighs exasperated as he sets the tray down on the table. “Could
you please control yourself?”
“No.” Mirai pokes out her tongue at Yoichi as she stands again and helps the
other girl up.
There’s a lack of scent coming from her, so she must be a beta, Mika assumes.
She has brown hair styled in a thick braid threw over her right shoulder; her
chocolate brown eyes are warm, as well as her smile.
“Akane-chan, this is Mikaela Shindo.” Mirai says. “Mika, this is Akane
Matsuoka. She’s in Yuu’s class at Moon Demon.”
“Nice to meet you, Mikaela-kun,” Akane says sweetly offering her hand. Mika
smiles a little as he shakes her hand.
“You can call me only Mika.” He says.
“I invited her to sit with us.” Yoichi says.
“I would punch you if you hadn’t.” Mirai states flopping down on her seat
again, and Akane chuckles as she sits between Mika and Mirai.
“I hope you don’t mind if I join you,” Akane says, and Mika realizes she’s
talking to him.
“Oh, no, not at all,” He assures her.
Mirai nudges Akane.
“Mika is Yuu’s childhood friend,” She says in a suggestive tone, making Mika
groan.
“Mirai, please…”
“What? You are.” She blinks innocently at him.
“Oh, so you know Yuu?” Akane smiles at him. “That’s good. I never knew he had
any friends from before coming to Tokyo; he looked so antisocial before.”
“True,” Yoichi chuckles, “I remember the only one he talked to was Shinoa, and
only to bicker with her.”
Mika smiles.
“Yuu-chan has always been difficult when dealing with people,” He comments, “He
didn’t want to become my friend at first. I got so upset that I threw him at
the ground.”
“Really?” Akane’s eyes widen. “Wow, you’re intense.”
Mika chuckles a little embarrassed.
“Yuu changed a lot though,” Akane goes on, “He didn’t talk to anyone before,
and then he started to slowly open up to everyone. I remember when he first
asked me out, he was so clumsy,” She chuckles.
“Asked you out?”
“Yes, we dated for a while.” She smiles at him. “I was his first girlfriend, he
said. He was so silly.”
“He still is,” Mirai comments, though her eyes are on Mika, full of concern.
Mika only keeps his eyes on his hands folded over his lap. Yuu-chan had a
girlfriend.
Well, of course he had. He’s 16, he’s a teenager; teenagers date all the time.
Plus, he’s an alpha, and a beautiful one at that. Of course he would have
girlfriends.
Though he never expected to meet one of them.
The others are still talking, so he reaches out and grabs his cup of coffee to
have an excuse for his sudden silence. He takes a sip – it’s sweet, unlike he
expected, and he can taste some cream and chocolate mixed in it. He immediately
likes it.
“I remember Yuu had a phase where he dated so many people, though,” Akane says
with a sigh. “He dated you too, Yoichi, didn’t he?”
“He did,” Yoichi blushes, averting his eyes and grabbing his coffee too. “That
was before I started dating Shihou. Right after that, he started dating
Shinoa.”
“It didn’t last a week,” Mirai remembers with a chuckle as she too takes a sip
of her coffee. “They fought a lot, so they decided it was better to just stay
friends.”
“Then it was Mitsuba’s turn,” Akane says smiling. “They lasted a month, I
guess?”
“Around that,” Yoichi confirms. “After that he dated Asura-kun too, but they
didn’t last long too. Asura-kun was too demanding for him.”
“Asura?” Mika says surprised. “Asura Tepes?”
“Yes, that’s him,” Akane looks at him with curiosity, “Do you know him?”
“Ah, kind of,” Mika mutters, “We live in the same house.”
“He’s creepy for an omega,” Mirai says with a grimace, “No wonder Yuu broke up
with him so soon.”
“Yuu never dates anyone for too long,” Akane comments chuckling, “No matter how
hard he tries, he can’t focus on the person he’s with. Whenever we were
together, he had this far off look in his face, as if he was thinking of
somebody else.”
“Is that so?” Mirai smirks at Mika, and the blond omega looks away, blushing
slightly.
“Well, he had depression for a few years,” Yoichi says, “I don’t think he was
ready to be in a serious relationship. He was just in and out of them as if he
was looking for something, but…”
“He never found it.” Akane complemented nodding. “I’m glad this phase is over,
though. He looks a lot better now that he stopped trying to hook up with
everyone.”
“Hopefully soon enough he’ll find someone who he’ll really love,” Mirai says
looking at Mika with a smirk, “Someone he’ll actually want to stay with.”
“I hope he will,” Akane sighs, “He looked so desperate for some kind of
affection. I hope he’ll find someone who will give him what he needs.”
“He will,” Mirai assures her, still looking at Mika.
 
 
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When they leave the café, it’s getting dark outside, so Mirai and Yoichi offer
to wait with Mika on the bus stop. Mirai sends her brother a message telling
him to pick her up, and the three of them sit at the bus stop waiting for
Mika’s bus to come.
“So, Mika,” Mirai starts, smirking at him, “What did you think of Akane?”
He shrugs.
“She looks nice.” It’s true. She had been sweet during the whole conversation,
and Mika found himself feeling comfortable with her; they even exchanged their
phone numbers so they could talk later.
Mirai pouts at him, but Yoichi only chuckles.
“Ah, there comes my bus,” Mika says standing up. “See you two at school
tomorrow.”
“See you,” Yoichi waves at him, but Mirai only mumbles a “See you tomorrow”.
Mika smiles and reaches out to ruffle her hair, chuckling before turning around
and entering the bus.
He sends Lacus a message, asking him to pick him up at the bus stop next to
their house – he doesn’t want to risk being attacked again. Lacus happily
complies, and when Mika arrives he’s there with René.
The three of them walk back home together, and Lacus makes a lot of questions
about Arthemis’ Café.
“I’ve always wanted to enter that place,” He says, “It’s not fair that alphas
can’t enter there!”
“It’s for the omega’s safety,” René reminds him.
“I’m a tamed alpha,” Lacus pouts, “Can’t they let me in?”
“No.” Mika smiles when Lacus whines.
When they arrive home, Mika goes straight to his room, ignoring Ferid’s
suggestive questions of what he’s been doing. He takes a long bath, feeling so
tired he just wants to sleep; he had fun with Mirai and Yoichi, and meeting
Akane, but this routine of spending the whole day out is wearing him out.
He puts on his pajamas and slips under his duvet, sighing content as he makes
himself comfortable on his nest of big pillows. He grabs his cell phone,
checking it to see that Akane has already sent him a message; smiling, he
answers her before seeing that Yuu also has sent him a message.
[How was it there?]
He bites the inside of his cheeks as he stares at the screen of his phone,
thinking of what Mirai, Yoichi and Akane said back at the café, of how Yuu
dated a lot of people before.
Well, it’s none of my business.
He doesn’t know why he doesn’t like it.
[It was nice. I met Akane there, Mirai and Yoichi said she studies at your
class?]
He hesitates but ends up sending the message. He sets his phone down and looks
at the ceiling.
Akane and Yoichi had said Yuu was looking for something that he never found.
Mika’s curious – he wants to know what it is. Yoichi also mentioned Yuu had
depression before… Mika wonders if it has something to do with the reason why
he disappeared out of a sudden. He knows his parents mistreated him, he always
heard their screams; maybe that’s why Yuu left?
His phone rings, and he quickly picks it up and unlocks the screen to read
Yuu’s message:
[That’s great! Akane is really nice :) Did u like her?]
Mika bites his lips, trying to decide on what to type. He sighs.
[Yeah, she’s really nice]
He sends the message, and seconds later two new messages pop up, one after the
other:
[That’s good!]
[So did you have fun?]
Mika stares at the screen for a while before typing out:
[Yeah, it’s a nice place]
Then, right after he sends it, he types another one:
[I’m tired now, Yuu-chan, so I’m going to sleep]
Immediately after sending it, he regrets. He doesn’t want to go to sleep, no
matter how tired he is. He wants to keep talking to Yuu; he wants Yuu to ask
him more about how it was at the café, or what they did or talked about; he
wants to ask Yuu about his day or just… Keep talking to him.
Instead, Yuu sends him:
[Oh ok then]
[Good night then! Have good dreams :) ]
Groaning, Mika sets his phone away and hides his face under his covers. I
really should go to sleep.
That night, however, he can’t sleep at all.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     :))))
     I swear I'm trying for a slow burn here. But I'm too impatient and
     these two just can't control their gay lmao
     However I can assure you they won't get together so soon because I
     still have a lot of things planned for this fic lmao I'm not even
     sorry *sips tea*
     Also, past AkaneYuu because I used to ship them before she died at ep
     1 :') rip my ship before it even sailed lmao
     Anyway xD don't forget to leave your comment! See you next chapter~
***** Chapter 9 *****
Chapter Summary
     None of them say a word. Mika doesn’t think they need to say anything
     – he can understand Yuu’s feelings just on the way he’s holding him,
     tight but not too much, just enough for him to know how dear he is to
     the alpha, but also giving him space to pull away if he wants to. He
     feels it in the way Yuu reaches up a hand to caress his hair, his
     fingers lightly massaging his scalp in such a gentle way that Mika
     closes his eyes and almost purrs.
     He tries to transmit his feelings too by wrapping his arms around
     Yuu, fisting both his hands on the alpha’s shirt; he doesn’t want to
     let him go, not now and not ever.
Chapter Notes
     or also, in which everyone gets gayer lol
     also, I should put here a warning that in this chapter there's some
     mentions to depression and suicide attempt. Sorry not sorry lmao
     BUT I PROMISE IT GETS REALLY CUTE LATER OK have a good reading ^-^
See the end of the chapter for more notes
When the weekend comes again, Mirai suggests another study session, because she
doesn’t understand a thing on Chemistry and she needs help. So they all agree
to go to Mika’s house on Saturday – Mirai suggests his house because he
mentioned it is bigger, but Mika suspects that she just wants to meet Ferid;
since Mika told her Ferid is creepy she’s been curious about him.
He spent the rest of the week messaging Yuu almost all the time; he woke up to
Yuu’s good morning IM and went to sleep still talking to him. Lacus told him he
should drop his phone for a while, and only then Mika realized that he’d been
walking around with it in hands all the time.
He also messaged Akane a lot. He found out she’s a nice person to talk to, and
she also has a lot of funny stories about Yuu. They start to talk just about
how their day was and end up telling each other about embarrassing things Yuu
did. Mika decides he definitely likes her, so he invites her over on Saturday
too. After all, she does study in the same class as Yuu and his friends, right?
Also, Mirai and Yoichi seemed to like her a lot, so it shouldn’t be a problem.
When Saturday comes around, he wakes up (at 10 in the morning, and no, he’s not
even sorry about sleeping so much; he’s been feeling a lot tired lately) to a
message from Yuu, sent at around 8 a.m.:
[ Hey, I’m going to my swimming class now. I’ll be going over at yours after
it, ok? :) ]
After it, there was another one, sent a few minutes ago:
[ I just left swimming. I’m coming over in a while!]
And then the one received only a few seconds ago – the one that woke him up:
[ I just arrived here at the bus stop, should be there in a while :) ]
Mika widens his eyes at this one, gasping. Yuu is almost here!
He all but jumps from the bed and scurries to his bathroom, stopping briefly to
glance into the mirror, only to see his sleepy face and bed hair. Groaning, he
strips his pajamas and walks under the shower, turning on the water and
shivering when he notices it’s cold.
He takes the fastest bath he ever took in his life, and when he’s drying
himself, he hears a knock at his bedroom door and then the door opening.
“Mika? Your friend Yuu is here~” Ferid sings, and Mika groans as he detects the
smirk in his voice.
“I’m coming,” He says, and he waits for the sound of the door closing before
walking into his room again. He picks up some clothes and puts them on,
massages his hair trying to tame it – then gives up on it with a sigh, and
leaves the room.
Yuu is sitting in the living room looking down at his phone; for some reason,
his cheeks are tinged a deep red, and Mika groans internally just thinking of
what Ferid must have told him.
“Yuu-chan?” Mika calls him, and the alpha looks up and smiles at him.
“Hey,” He says, “Did you get my messages?”
“Uh, I… Kind of was still sleeping,” Mika mutters embarrassed, scratching the
back of his neck. Yuu laughs.
“Sorry to wake you up then,” He smiles. “Ah, I was gonna ask you to use your
bathroom, if that’s not a problem? I want to take a proper bath.”
“Oh? You’re going to take a bath?” Mika clasps his hands and smiles sweetly,
making Yuu roll his eyes.
“You should stop walking with Mirai,” He grunts, and Mika laughs.
“Come on, this way.”
He leads Yuu to his room, feeling a little embarrassed that his bed is still
messy; the curtains are even still closed. He shows him the bathroom.
“Do you have a towel?” He asks, and Yuu nods.
“Yeah, don’t worry about it.” He smiles. “Thanks, Mika.”
“No problem.” Mika ruffles his hair, loving the way the alpha blushes. “Just
make sure to properly wash your hair. I’ll even let you use my shampoo if you
want.”
Yuu mumbles something under his breath, and Mika only chuckles, watching as Yuu
disappears inside the bathroom, though he doesn’t close the door.
“I, uh, I’m gonna have my breakfast.” Mika says, and then clears his throat.
“Sure!” Yuu peeks around the wall and smiles at him. “I won’t take too long.”
Mika nods and leaves the room, leaving him alone. When he arrives at the
kitchen, he finds Ferid there, leaning against the counter with a smirk on his
face.
“Wipe away the shit eating grin, I’m not letting you near Yuu-chan while he’s
here,” Mika grunts, walking over to the fridge to look for something to eat.
Maybe he’ll fry some eggs to eat with bread or something.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Ferid says sweetly, “Also, I made you
some pancakes.”
He gestures to a plate with pancakes on the counter beside him. Mika stares at
it before narrowing his eyes at Ferid.
“You did it?” He asks. “You suck at cooking.”
“You wound me, my dear nephew,” Ferid puts his hand over his chest and makes a
hurtful expression. “These were frozen pancakes, I just had to fry them.”
Mika rolls his eyes. Should’ve known.
“Thanks,” He mumbles.
“There’s some raspberry jam if you want, they go really good with pancakes,”
Ferid offers.
“I think I’ll just have the usual,” Mika grunts as he grabs the maple syrup
bottle and spills some over his pancakes.
“There’s also some orange juice left yet,” Ferid goes on, “Or do you prefer
coffee? I can breed you some…”
“Ferid, what do you want?” Mika turns to him with his hands on his hips and
narrows his eyes at the older omega. “You’re being overly gentle today.”
“I am always gentle to you, dear nephew.”
Mika merely crosses his arms over his chest and raises and eyebrow at him.
Ferid sighs and finally drops his act, frowning at him.
“Fine,” The older omega says, “I’m worried about your relationship with this
Yuu kid.”
“Why? He’s my friend, we met when we were eight, that’s all to it.”
“Mika, you spent the past three days messaging him non-stop,” Ferid states,
“And he came today earlier than the others. And he gave you a plush toy, don’t
think I didn’t notice.”
Mika flinches, but keeps his head up.
“So what? Are you gonna forbid me to see him?”
“Pff, no, why would I?” He rolls his eyes, and for the first time his smile has
a semblance of gentleness, “I’m not your father, Mika. I won’t forbid you to
leave home or see someone. I just want to make sure that everything is okay,”
Ferid’s expression turns serious, “You’ve been attacked less than a week ago,
after all.”
Mika hesitates.
“I’m fine,” He says, “Don’t worry about Yuu-chan, he’s really a great friend. I
like talking to him.”
“A friend, huh?” His smirk is back, and Mika groans.
“Are you worried about me or do you just want something to tease me about?”
“Both.” Ferid admits with a shrug, laughing when Mika facepalms.
“Leave me alone,” He mutters. Ferid chuckles and reaches out to ruffle his
hair.
“Just be careful, ok?” Ferid’s expression again is serious, though he is still
smiling, “If you need any help to kick an alpha’s ass, just call me.”
Mika rolls his eyes and watches as Ferid exits the kitchen, finally leaving him
alone. Sighing, he grabs a glass and walks to the fridge, opening it and taking
the box of juice, pouring some on his glass before putting it inside the fridge
again and closing the door. He picks up his pancakes and then he too leaves the
kitchen, heading towards his room.
He hears the sound of running water from the bathroom, so he sets the pancakes
and the juice on the nightstand and moves to tidy up his bed and open the
curtains, letting some light inside the room. Only then he flops down on the
bed and grabs his pancakes, finally eating them.
A few minutes later, Yuu leaves the bathroom; he’s changed into dark green
shorts that go just bellow his knees and a black tank top, his towel hanging
around his shoulders. Again he didn’t dry his hair. Mika sighs.
“Yuu-chan, here, give me this towel,” Mika sets his plate back on the
nightstand and motions for Yuu to come closer. When he does, the omega grabs
the towel and starts to rub it on Yuu’s hair, trying to properly dry it; the
alpha yelps.
“Hey!”
“You have to dry your hair, Yuu-chan, you’ll get your clothes wet with it
dripping on them.”
“It’ll just dry by itself,” Yuu complains, but makes no move to stop him. After
a few more rubs, Mika is finally satisfied; his hair still isn’t dry, but at
least it isn’t dripping on his shoulders. He throws the towel over Yuu’s head,
chuckling when he growls.
He sits back at his corner on the bed and grabs his plate of pancakes, watching
as Yuu sits down with him. He feels a little nervous having Yuu in his room,
sitting on his bed, but – it’s just Yuu, he reminds himself.
“So,” He starts, “Why did you come so early? We had agreed it would be at three
again.”
“I know, but,” Yuu grimaces, “Shinya is home, and he and Guren have been so
lovesick lately it’s getting annoying.”
Mika chuckles.
“Really, Yuu-chan?” He sighs, shaking his head.
“Why were you still sleeping at 10 in the morning?” Yuu asks in a clear attempt
at changing the topic. Mika raises his eyebrows.
“Because someone kept texting me until three a.m. last night,” He says
suggestively, making Yuu chuckle.
“Ok, I’ll admit I’m guilty,” The alpha shrugs, “I’m not sorry at all.”
“Figured as much,” Mika sighs before eating the last piece of his pancake. He
puts the plate away, and just as he is about to grab the glass with juice, his
eyes catch something and he frowns. “Yuu-chan, what is that?”
“Hm? What?” Yuu asks as Mika reaches out to grab both his wrists and pull them
closer to inspect them.
Then he gasps.
There are two thin vertical scars on his inner wrists, one on each arm. Mika
pales as he reaches out to touch them with trembling fingers; a thought rushes
through his mind, but he tries to shake it away as he asks with a shaky voice:
“What is this?”
Yuu keeps his eyes on his scars, his face also pale, but serious. He closes his
eyes and sighs.
“It’s… a long story.”
“I’m listening.” Mika gulps, his eyes glued on Yuu’s skin; he’s too afraid to
look up and see on Yuu’s eyes the confirmation to his theory.
“Well, I… To put it short, I tried to kill myself two years ago.”
Mika tightens his grip on Yuu’s arms and closes his eyes, taking a deep breath
in. He remembers Yoichi mentioning Yuu had had depression – but he never
imagined it was that bad.
“Why?” He finally whispers.
“I…” Yuu takes a deep breath as if readying himself to talk. “I never told you
why I left without saying goodbye four years ago.”
Mika waits, tracing his fingers lightly over the scars; they’re barely
noticeable, though he can feel the thin patch of swollen skin where there once
was a wound – a mortal wound.
“My mother tried to kill me,” Yuu says, “She and my father were always shitty
to me, but that night, she went to put me on the bed, something she hadn’t done
in ages.” He sighs, “I should have noticed something was wrong. She just… She
sat there watching me. It was really creepy. Then, when I was almost falling
asleep, she pulled my pillow and tried to suffocate me with it.”
Mika gulps and opens his eyes to look at Yuu, but the alpha’s gaze is on his
scars, watching Mika’s fingers caressing them. His eyes are dull.
“My father walked in on her trying to kill me,” He whispers, “He stopped her
and they started to scream at each other. I was so, so scared, and when I
started to cry they screamed at me. So when they turned their attention to each
other again, I ran out of the house. I didn’t even know where I was going, only
that I wanted to be away from them.
“Some cops found me and took me to the police station. They called my parents
there, but they didn’t show up. Eventually they managed to contact Guren, who
was my mother’s brother. After he heard what had happened, he took me in. By
the next morning, I was already on my way to Tokyo, to live with him.”
“What about your parents?” Mika asks in a whisper. “What happened to them?
Didn’t they arrest your mother or something?”
Yuu scoffs and shakes his head.
“She was sick,” He says, “Schizophrenia, father said. They can’t arrest her
because she’s not a sane person or something; she’s not aware of what she’s
doing.” His voice is bitter, showing how much he dislikes this. “I heard father
moved out with her. No one has heard of them ever since.”
“So…” Mika looks from his face to his scars, and Yuu takes another deep breath.
“It wasn’t easy after that,” He tells Mika, “I was too scared to talk to
anyone. I didn’t want to make friends, I’d never been good at it anyway, even
before. Guren had to threaten me to make me befriend someone. But even after
that I still felt awful, as if I didn’t belong in this world. My own mother had
tried to kill me, so why would anybody else want me around?” Yuu laughs, an
humorless laughter, and then sighs, “Then others things started to happen, my
grades were becoming worse and worse, and Guren wouldn’t leave me alone. One
night I was sitting alone in my room and I just thought… Everybody would be
happier if I was dead.”
Mika swallows thickly, but doesn’t say a word, letting him speak.
“Shinoa found me,” Yuu whispers, “I had broke my mirror and cut both my wrists
with the glass. It was the only way I knew. So I was there withering away,
wondering how long it would take until I died, when she came into my room.
“She was bringing me some food; Guren had asked her to. That time he was
spending more time working than at home, so I was mostly alone, and I didn’t
know how to cook.” He pauses, closing his eyes, “I remember it was a pizza; a
four cheese pizza. I remember the smell. I remember I thought, fuck, I could
eat something before I die,” He chuckles, again a dry laughter, lacking any
humor. “Shinoa dropped it to the ground when she saw me, unfortunately. I had
already lost a lot of blood, so I only remember vaguely what happened after. I
guess she called the emergency, and then Guren, and then I remember waking up
in a hospital.
“I thought Guren would be mad, but he didn’t scream at me for weeks. He kept
walking around me, treating me so gently as if I was made of glass. It was
honestly annoying. But I understood why he was so careful; he didn’t want me to
try anything again. It was just one year after Mahiru killed herself, so I
guess I scared the fuck out of him.” Yuu finally raises his eyes to meet
Mika’s, “I had to do a psychological counseling a little more than one year. At
first it was annoying to talk to that stranger, but he really helped me.
“Guren allowed me to get Cerberus around that time. My psychologist told him
maybe having a pet would help; something about having another being depending
on me or some shit like that. I didn’t complain, I always wanted to have a
dog.”
“So your rebellious phase…” Mika begins, and Yuu nods.
“I had to take some medicine for my depression, and they stressed me most of
the time,” He says, “But I always calmed down when Cerberus came close to me.
He acted like a numbing to my anger,” Yuu smiles, and for the first time it
reaches his eyes, “Whenever I was feeling sad or angry or just… Just empty, you
know? Like I wanted to disappear. He came close bringing some of his toys and
wouldn’t stop pestering me until I played with him. It was as if he knew I was
needing it, needing something to distract myself.”
Mika smiles a little.
“He loves you,” He says, not a question – a statement. Yuu nods.
“I got a lot better after I got him,” He says, “I still had some relapses from
time to time, but. It all stopped a few weeks ago.”
“Really?” Mika frowns, “Why?”
Yuu opens his biggest smile until then.
“What happened a few weeks ago, Mika?” He chuckles and reaches out to poke
Mika’s cheek. “You appeared. I never thought I would meet you again and then I
saw you, and you still wanted to be my friend,” Yuu smiles gently at him, his
hand still on Mika’s face, this time caressing his cheeks, “After you came by,
I forgot all about being sad or angry or wanting to die, because all I wanted
was to be with you, to make up for leaving you alone. And whenever you smiled
at me, even when you were making fun of me, it made me so happy…”
Mika feels his face getting warmer, and he averts his gaze back to Yuu’s
wrists.
“I can’t believe you really tried to… do that,” He says, unable to say the
words, “Didn’t Guren scold you for that? Like, at all?”
Yuu shakes his head.
“He did talk to me about it, though,” He says, “It took a few weeks, but after
I started seeing the psychologist, he came into my room one night, and asked me
about why I tried to kill myself and what I was feeling. I didn’t want to talk
about it, so instead we sat there in silence.
“Then he started to talk about how his day was. I didn’t understand where he
was getting at, but he told me about how his boss was an ass, and how some of
his co-workers were useless. He told me about how he had had lunch with his
friend Kureto. He told me about how the traffic was horrible and that he spent
hours trying to get to work that morning. He told me about how he argued with a
woman at the queue at Starbucks.
“After he was done talking, he asked me what I thought of it. I told him his
day was boring; he laughed and agreed, and told me one day my days would be
boring like these too. And that I would still cherish each one of these boring
days, because of the people I spent them with.” Yuu smiles warmly at Mika. “And
he’s right. Going to school is boring, but I have fun with my friends there.
Studying is boring, but I get to be with you, so it ends up being cool. Living
is boring, but I have people who care about me, no matter how annoying they are
and no matter how much we bicker, argue and scream at each other.”
“And that’s what matters.” Mika says.
“That’s what matters,” Yuu agrees. “Honestly, living sucks. But I get to meet
amazing people and spend time with them, so it’s worth the bother.”
Mika nods and smiles, looking back at Yuu’s scars. Then, without thinking of
what he is doing, he grabs Yuu’s wrists and kisses both of the scars
delicately, tenderly.
“I’m glad,” He whispers against Yuu’s skin, “I don’t think I could’ve handled
if you died.”
When he looks up, Yuu’s face is all red, and only then he realizes what he just
did. He releases Yuu’s wrists and backs away, feeling his own cheeks warming
up.
“S-sorry,” He mutters.
“It’s okay,” Yuu clears his throat, and then adds hesitantly, “Can I… Can I hug
you?”
Mika nods timidly, and Yuu approaches him, enlacing his arms around Mika’s
shoulders. He closes his eyes as Yuu pulls him close to his chest, resting his
chin on Mika’s left shoulder.
None of them say a word. Mika doesn’t think they need to say anything – he can
understand Yuu’s feelings just on the way he’s holding him, tight but not too
much, just enough for him to know how dear he is to the alpha, but also giving
him space to pull away if he wants to. He feels it in the way Yuu reaches up a
hand to caress his hair, his fingers lightly massaging his scalp in such a
gentle way that Mika closes his eyes and almost purrs.
He tries to transmit his feelings too by wrapping his arms around Yuu, fisting
both his hands on the alpha’s shirt; he doesn’t want to let him go, not now and
not ever.
“How cute.”
They both jump, startled, and pull away to look at the door, where Asura
stands, leaning against the door frame with his arms crossed over his chest and
a smirk playing on his lips.
“A-Asura!” Mika gasps, “W-we were just…”
“I know,” Asura’s eyes gleam mischievously, “Isn’t your friendship the cutest
thing ever?”
Yuu clears his throat and gives Asura a sheepish smile.
“Hey,” He says timidly, and Asura laughs.
“Hey”, the omega says back in a mockery tone.
“What do you want, Asura?” Mika asks a little too loud, not liking the way
Asura’s eyes are glued on Yuu. The other omega looks at him with an amused
expression.
“Ferid said you didn’t want him near Yuu, so he asked me to tell you we’re
leaving already.”
“Leaving?” Yuu asks, and Mika sighs.
“Ferid and the others are going to watch a movie,” Mika tells him.
“Mika didn’t want us around to embarrass him,” Asura says, and Mika glares at
him, making the other omega laugh.
“I never said anything,” Mika grunts.
“It’s okay, Mika,” Asura smiles at him, “Just have fun with your friends.”
Mika throws a pillow at him, but the omega simply retreats out of the room and
closes the door laughing; the pillow hits the door and falls to the ground as
they hear Asura’s laughter disappear as he walks away.
Mika groans and buries his face in his hands.
“Why do they all like to tease me?” He whines against his hands.
“Because your reactions are funny,” Mika raises his face to see Yuu shrugging
to his glare, “What? It’s true?”
“I hate you,” Mika states when Yuu laughs.
“No, you don’t.”
And when he smiles, Mika knows he’s right. There’s no way he could ever hate
Yuu.
 
 
 
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Since the others would only arrive at three, Mika and Yuu decide to watch
something on TV for a while. Mika rummages through the shelf with DVDs in the
living room, and finally finds some movie that seems interesting, so he and Yuu
sit to watch it. By lunch time, they have some lasagna that Mika found on the
fridge and put on the microwave.
He enjoys the whole time they’re together; there’s nobody else with them, just
like when they were kids and would play together. Also, now Yuu seems a lot
more comfortable with touching him, while before he would shy away from any
physical contact.
After lunch, instead of going back to TV, Mika suggests that they start
studying on their own; Yuu whines and complains, but ends up dragging his feet
back to Mika’s room, where they sit on Mika’s bed with their notebooks open on
their laps and try to solve some exercises of Chemistry.
Mika finds out that, despite being bad with Math, Yuu is actually good with
Chemistry, and the alpha ends up helping him out with the things he doesn’t
understand. When Mika notices, they’re sitting side by side so close together
that Mika sometimes can feel Yuu’s breath on his skin when the alpha turns to
talk to him.
He feels nervous like this; he can’t stop thinking about what he’s heard from
Yoichi, Mirai and Akane, about how Yuu dated a lot of people before, and again
he doesn’t like the thought of Yuu with somebody else.
Am I jealous?
But he shakes that thought away. There’s no way he could be jealous of Yuu
because of that; plus, it’s been years since then, it’s useless and stupid to
feel like this over something that’s already ended.
Still, the feeling remains.
He looks over at Yuu and hesitates before calling out:
“Hey, Yuu-chan?”
“Hm? What is it?” Yuu looks up at him.
But before Mika can ask him about his past dates, they hear the chime of the
doorbell. Mika looks at his phone to see that it’s already three.
“They arrived.”
They both get up and go to the front door, opening it to see Kimizuki, Yoichi
and Mirai there; Mika sees Kimizuki’s car parked in front of the house.
“Mika!” Mirai all but jumps on him, and then waves at Yuu from over Mika’s
shoulder, “Hey, Yuu. Did you two have fun alone this morning?”
Mika groans and Yuu mumbles something incomprehensible.
“Mirai, we’ve talked about this already, stop being inconvenient,” Yoichi sighs
as they come in; Mika closes the door behind them. “Haven’t Shinoa and Mitsuba
arrived yet?”
“No,” Mika says, and with Mirai still clinging to his neck he leads them to his
room, “Also, I invited Akane-chan, if that’s not a problem for you guys.”
“Not at all,” Yoichi replies, while Mirai eyes him suspiciously and Yuu gasps,
“Akane-chan?”
“What’s wrong, Yuu?” Kimizuki smirks at him, “Could it possibly be that you’re
jealous because you’re not the only one that Mika calls –chan anymore?”
Yuu blushes and averts his eyes.
“As if I would care about this,” He mumbles.
They enter Mika’s room, and Yuu flops down on Mika’s bed again.
“What are you doing, Yuu?” Kimizuki frowns at him, “You can’t just go and lay
down on an omega’s bed; it makes them uncomfortable to have a stranger alpha
leaving their scent on their nest.”
Yuu raises his eyes.
“Really?” He looks at Mika, “Is that so? If you don’t want me to, then I’ll…”
“No, it’s okay,” Mika feels his face warming up, “I don’t care if it’s you,
Yuu-chan.”
He regrets saying it immediately, because Mirai breaks into a fit of giggles,
and he groans, hiding his face in his hands.
“You brought this upon yourself,” She says.
“Shut up.”
He helps them bring his bean bag chairs close to his bed, and while they settle
in, he leaves the room.
“I’ll go get us some snacks,” He says over his shoulders as he leaves, and soon
after he hears the sound of footsteps following him.
“I’ll help you,” Yuu says as he catches up to him.
Mika merely nods, trying not to blush again.
“Hey, what Kimizuki said,” Yuu starts as they enter the kitchen, “Is that true?
Do you get uncomfortable with alphas on your bed?”
“I guess any omega gets uncomfortable with an alpha on their territory,” Mika
says slowly, turning away to hide his embarrassed expression from Yuu. “Omegas
usually only let alphas inside their territory if it’s their alpha; any
stranger alpha leaving their scent around will annoy them, to the point that
maybe they won’t be able to sleep there anymore until the scent is gone.” He
finally looks at Yuu and smiles a little, “But you’re not a stranger, you’re
Yuu-chan. So it’s okay, don’t worry about that.”
“... If you say so.”
They get some potato chips, cookies and orange juice and take it to the room.
Just as they set everything down on the ground next to everyone, they hear the
doorbell again.
This time it’s Akane, and she smiles sweetly when Mika opens the door.
“Hello!” She says cheerfully, “Am I too late?”
“Not at all,” Mika smiles as he steps aside to let her in, “We’re still waiting
for Shinoa and Mitsuba.”
He leads her to his room, where Yuu and Kimizuki have already started attacking
the potato chips.
“Akane!” Mirai leaps from her seat to jump on the other girl, giggling as they
stumble back; this time however they manage to stand upright instead of falling
to the ground.
“Hello, Akane,” Yoichi smiles at her, and Kimizuki nods, too busy trying to get
the bowl with the chips away from Yuu, who finally releases it in favor of
smiling at Akane.
“Hey, Akane,” He says, “How you’re doing?”
“I’m fine,” She smiles at him, “Mika said we’re only waiting for Mitsuba and
Shinoa?”
“They should be here soon,” Mirai says as she sits back on her seat, “By the
way, Mika, where’s your uncle?”
“He left,” Mika says, not missing the disappointed look that crosses Mirai’s
face, “I told him he was a nuisance, so Crowley suggested to take him to watch
some movie. But he didn’t want to be the only one left out, so he dragged
everybody else with him.”
“Ah,” Mirai pouts, “I wanted to meet him.”
“Trust me, you don’t.”
A few minutes later, Shinoa and Mitsuba arrive with a boy Mika doesn’t know.
“This is my boyfriend, Makoto Narumi,” Shinoa introduces him as they enter the
house, “Mako, this is Mika, Yuu’s friend.”
Mika rolls his eyes at her tone, but shakes Narumi’s hand and smiles politely
at him.
“Nice to meet you, Narumi-san.”
“Just Makoto is fine,” The boy says. He is tall, with a long dark brown hair
pulled back in a messy ponytail, giving him a mature look – way more mature
than Shinoa, and Mika doesn’t understand how they ended up together. Also, he’s
an alpha, though he doesn’t frightens Mika as much as other stranger alphas
would – maybe because he looks responsible, different from other alphas Mika
has known.
Everybody seems surprised to see Narumi there, as if he going out with the
group is a rare thing. It’s good to have him there with them though, because
he’s good at Chemistry – and basically every other subject apparently – and he
helps them a lot.
Aside from Narumi, Yuu and Kimizuki, the rest of them suck at Chemistry as it
seems; they spend the whole afternoon trying to solve some exercises. Mika does
his best to pay attention to Narumi’s tips, and he carefully takes note of all
of them, because he’s sure he’ll forget soon after – because he can’t
concentrate at all in studying this afternoon, not when he’s sitting side by
side with Yuu, their arms and legs touching with every movement they make.
He tries to ignore the way his heart pounds inside his chest, telling himself
to stop being ridiculous. There’s no reason to be this nervous just for being
by Yuu’s side; they’ve sat together like this many times before when they are
kids, so why feel nervous now?
He’s an alpha, he thinks, maybe it’s just my omega instincts reacting because
he’s an alpha.
Though he doesn’t react like this when Narumi leans in to look over his
shoulder at his notebook, nor when his hand brushes casually on Kimizuki’s when
they both reach for the cookies. And they’re alphas too.
I’m thinking too much.
He’s glad he’s written everything down on his notebook, because by the time
everyone decides to stop, he realizes he hasn’t paid attention to anything at
all. He sighs; I’ll have to look over these notes later.
“I’m dead,” Mirai breathes, closing her eyes and letting her head fall back,
“Brother, carry me to the car, because I’m so dead I can’t walk.”
“Stop being dramatic,” Kimizuki says, but Mika’s sure he will carry her if she
really doesn’t move.
“Where are the cookies? I need some food,” Yuu whines, and Mika chuckles.
“Yuu-chan, you know you can’t have too much sugar,” He reminds him, “I will not
stay awake again because you can’t sleep and decided to message me at fucking
two in the night.”
“But Mikaaa…”
“Oho, you message him this late, Yuu?” Shinoa says in a mischievous tone, “What
do you two talk about?”
Yuu blushes and glares at her.
“Not your business.”
“Rude.”
“Shut up you two,” Narumi sighs, “I should be going.”
“Already?” Shinoa pouts, “And here I thought I would get to spend the rest of
the day with my boyfriend.”
Narumi rolls his eyes but smiles as he ruffles her hair, making her yelp and
blush.
“I told you already, on vacations we can spend as much time together as you
want.” Then he raises his eyebrows, “If you don’t reprove any subject, that
is.”
“Who do you think I am, Yuu?”
“Hey!” Yuu glares at her.
“You too better study, Yuu,” Narumi tells him, “You know this time they really
will kick you out of the soccer team if you don’t get good grades.”
“You’re on the soccer team, Yuu-chan?” Mika asks surprised.
“If he’s on the team?” Mitsuba scoffs, “He’s the star of the team.”
“That’s why he’s so popular at school, even though he’s an idiot,” Shinoa
giggles, and as she and Yuu start to bicker again, Mika looks down at his
hands.
Yuu-chan is popular.
He fidgets, playing with the hem of his shirt, not understanding why this
bothers him so much.
 
 
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Akane leaves with Shinoa, Mitsuba and Narumi, since they’re all going to take
the bus, but Yuu goes home with Kimizuki. Mika walks them to the door, but
before he goes, Yuu turns to look at him.
“What were you going to ask me earlier, before everyone arrived?” He asks, and
Mika tenses up.
“Ah, it’s…” He scratches the back of his head and smiles at Yuu, “It’s nothing
important. Don’t worry about that.”
Yuu looks like he’s going to insist, but ends up giving up with a sigh.
“Okay,” He says, “Ah, hey, I wanted to ask you, do you want to go walk Cerberus
with me tomorrow? I wanted to take him to that new park at the center of the
city.”
For some reason, Mika blushes, but the prospect of seeing Cerberus overshadows
his shyness.
“Sure!” He smiles.
“Great!” Yuu smiles back, looking like he just got an early Christmas present,
“I’ll try to convince Guren to let me use his car, so I’ll get you at nine,
ok?”
“Ok.”
“If he doesn’t, then we can meet there.”
Mika thinks that’s most likely to happen, but he doesn’t say anything, only
nodding at Yuu.
“See you tomorrow then, Yuu-chan.” Mika leans in to kiss Yuu’s left cheek, and
the sight of the alpha blushing madly is totally worth his own embarrassment.
“S-see you tomorrow,” Yuu mumbles, before turning around and running to
Kimizuki’s car. Mika waves as they drive off, and then walks back inside.
 
 
 
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The others come back at early night, and Mika quickly sneaks inside Lacus’ room
to watch him play with René; this has become sort of a routine for them: Lacus
and René doing something together while Mika sits in the corner on Lacus’ bed
just on his phone. Mika finds he likes their company, even if Lacus gets
annoying sometimes.
“So, how was it today?” Lacus asks Mika as the omega starts to pile up the
pillows in the corner of the bed; Lacus had bought some new, fluffier pillows,
and Mika wastes no time in using them for his second nest. “Did you manage to
study with Yuu?”
Mika blushes.
“I did,” He lies, “Hey, you really don’t mind me nesting on your bed?”
“Huh?” Lacus looks up at him, “Nah, it’s okay. It’s actually pretty comfortable
to sleep on it later. Why do you ask?”
Mika finally settles on the pillows, wrapping Lacus’ duvet around himself.
“It’s just that omegas don’t like alphas invading their territories,” He
mumbles, “But I’m always invading yours.”
Lacus laughs at this.
“As if I would care about this,” He rolls his eyes and smiles, “I told you this
is comfortable. An omega is willingly turning my bed in a super comfortable bed
and we’re not even dating, why would I complain?” He shakes his head, chuckling
when Mika blushes.
“In other words, he’s taking advantage of you” René comments, and Lacus gasps
at him.
“On whose side are you on?”
“Not yours.”
“You’re an awful boyfriend,” Lacus whines.
“You’re one to talk,” Mika mumbles, giggling when Lacus glares at him.
“You’re an awful friend too,” The alpha complains, and Mika only rolls his
eyes. “Ah, hey, we found this store that sells some cool old CDs, do you want
to go there tomorrow morning? I guess I saw some of the oldest of Fall Out
Boys’ CDs…”
“Ah…” Mika bites his lips, hesitating. He really liked that band, it’s tempting
to accept and go there but… “Sorry, I’m going out with Yuu-chan tomorrow
morning.”
That picks Lacus’ interest, and the alpha looks up at him with a smirk.
“You’ll go out with Yuu-chan, eh?” His smirk only enlarges when Mika groans and
hides his face under the blankets. He hears Lacus laugh, “I swear you two will
be dating before July arrives.”
“Lacus!” Mika whines.
“It’s true,” The alpha shrugs, “Where are you two going anyway?”
“We’re going to walk his dog,” Mika mumbles.
“Huh? What kind of date is that?”
“It’s not a date!”
“I see.” Lacus doesn’t seem convinced.
“I’m serious.”
“Sure, whatever you say,” He smiles, his eyes gleaming mischievously, “Have fun
with Yuu-chan tomorrow, then, Mika. Don’t forget to use condoms.”
Lacus laughs out loud even as Mika chucks all of the pillows on his face.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     Lacus thinks he's cool. Only thinks though lol
     Also, I'd like to thank to everyone who's commented here, you have no
     idea of how happy your comments make me *-*
     I'll try to get the next chapter out before next thursday, because
     that's when my finals start; if I don't post chapter 10 by then, then
     I'll only post after finals are over, around the 20th.
     Don't forget to leave your comment, and see you soon~
     ^v^
     EDIT BC I MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE HERE! Remember how I mentioned in
     chapter 5 that Mahiru commited suicide three years before the current
     time line? But I said Yuu tried to kill himself two years before this
     time line, and then said Guren mentioned going out with Mahiru then,
     but she was already dead by then lmao I'M SO SORRY OTL I fixed it now
     so don't worry about that xDD
     (Also poor Guren having to deal with Mahiru's suicide and then Yuu's
     attempt at it)
***** Chapter 10 *****
Chapter Summary
     “If I had lived at that time, I wouldn’t mind having an alpha if that
     alpha was you.”
Chapter Notes
     Chapter 10 also known as Yuu's Past Story Part II
     Or also, The Time Cerberus Interrupted What We All Want To Happen
     Or also, How Do You Even Slow Burn?
     Have some Yuu POV, and have fun~
     xD
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Yuu is pretty sure he is starting to scare Guren by waking up so early on
weekends, but he can’t help it; he’s so excited to go out with Mika again that
he can’t stay one minute longer on his bed.
Though he also fears feeling like this; it’s been only two weeks since he was
reunited with Mika and he already recognizes the feeling that’s settling in his
chest, and he dreads it.
But when Cerberus walks in on his room and jumps on him, barking and licking
his face, he pushes those thoughts aside and laughs, wrapping his arms around
his dog.
“I get it, I’m up already,” He says chuckling as he sits up, and Cerberus jumps
out of him to let him get up; the dog sits on the ground before his bed and
looks at him with expectation in his eyes. “I know, I know, just a second ok?
I’ll take you to your walk in a while. Oh, we’ll see Mika today!” He tells the
dog as he stands up, and Cerberus barks at him, waving his tail; he chuckles.
“I know, I want to see him too.”
Years ago, Yuu would’ve found it ridiculous to talk to dogs. But now he’s so
used to it that he doesn’t mind – plus, he’s pretty sure Cerberus understands
him. After all, only because he’s a dog doesn’t mean he can’t understand what
people say, right?
Sometimes Yuu thinks Cerberus understands him better than anyone else, knows
him better than anyone else. The dog knows when he’s sad, when he’s happy, when
he’s angry, when he’s calm, when he’s tired, when he’s excited; Yuu knows he
knows because he always knows how to react to it. If he’s sad, the dog only
lays by his side with his head on Yuu’s lap and stays quiet, as if trying to
comfort him silently. If he’s angry, the dog barks angrily at him as if telling
him to calm down. And so goes on. Yuu has always been happy that he adopted
Cerberus, because now he doesn’t think he could go on one day without him on
his life.
He pets Cerberus head before leaving his room and going to the kitchen, finding
Guren and Shinya having breakfast there.
Yuu doesn’t mind having Shinya there; he likes the white-haired man. He also
likes how Guren always looks more like his old self around Shinya; ever since
Yuu attempted suicide, Guren had been a chaos, as if his whole world was on the
verge of breaking and he didn’t know what to do to keep it intact. Yuu always
felt guilty for that, because he knew he caused it, no matter what everyone
told him; he tried to do the same thing Mahiru did, and if he had succeeded who
knows how long it would take until Guren completely broke down?
However, Shinya being there helps balance him; sure, they’re always bickering a
lot, and when they’re not, they act as lovesick highschoolers. But Shinya’s
calm and composed presence is like a breath of fresh air in a house where
there’s only Guren and Yuu constantly arguing; Yuu sometimes thinks he acts
like a mom, though he will never tell them that.
“What are you doing up so early?” Guren asks narrowing his eyes as Yuu enters
the kitchen, rapidly stealing Guren’s plate of eggs and bacon. “Hey!”
“I told you I’m going to walk Cerberus with Mika at that new park,” He says as
he sits down away from Guren and starts to eat. “I even asked you to let me use
your car.” He looks up with his best begging look, but Guren only rolls his
eyes.
“The last time I let you drive, you knocked down a lamp post.”
Yuu flinches at the memory.
“Yeah, but…”
“A lamp post, Yuu.”
“Yeah, but that was before Kimizuki taught me to drive,” Yuu says quickly,
feeling his face warm up. He remembers begging Kimizuki for weeks for him to
teach him, and it took months for him to drive without running over something.
“Please, Guren.”
“You could let him, you know,” Shinya says quietly over his cup of coffee,
“We’re not going to leave home until tonight anyway.”
“Thank you,” Another reason why he likes Shinya around: the man usually sides
with him when he’s trying to convince Guren of something, and he knows how to
bend Guren to do as he says. He turns to Guren, “See? Shinya agrees with me.”
Guren narrows his eyes at Shinya then, who only blinks innocently and smiles
warmly at him.
“We could watch a movie while he’s out,” Shinya suggests, “Or do… something
else.”
Yuu groans at that; cons of having Shinya around: he never keeps his private
life, private. He always has a suggestive comment to make, and the last thing
he wants is to imagine him and Guren in a very intimate moment – which is very
easy to do with Shinya’s usual remarks.
Guren hesitates.
“When will you come back?” He asks Yuu.
“Before lunch, I guess,” Then he narrows his eyes at both Guren and Shinya,
“No, wait, I guess I’m going to have lunch at some restaurant. I don’t want to
risk coming home and walking in on you two doing… something.”
Guren turns red just like Yuu, but Shinya laughs out loud. He is adopted in the
Hiiragi family, but sometimes he can see such a similarity between him and
Shinoa that he’s surprised they’re really not related by blood.
“You could take Mika-chan to have lunch with you,” Shinya says with his eyes
gleaming, “Like in a date.”
Yuu chokes on the eggs he was eating; Shinya giggles and Guren watches
patiently as he struggles to swallow, drinking some water to help it.
“Do you really need to react so dramatically?” Guren sighs when he recovers,
“If I record well, you weren’t so embarrassed before about taking people out on
dates.”
Yuu blushes.
“That was different,” He mutters.
“How come?”
“Mika is my friend.”
Guren raises an eyebrow at him.
“So?” He asks, “A lot of the people you dated before were your friends too, and
still are now. Shinoa, Mitsuba, Yoichi, that Akane girl, Kimizuki–”
“Can you please forget about Kimizuki?” Yuu groans, hiding his face behind his
hands, his voice sounding muffled now, “It was just one kiss and we were both
drunk.”
He had gone to a party with Kimizuki and Shinoa, and the girl had started a
drinking game. They were drunk before they even realized it, and in the heat of
the moment, he and Kimizuki started to make out and it even got to the point of
Yuu dragging Kimizuki home and going to his room with the boy; they only
stopped when Guren walked into Yuu’s room and scolded them for drinking alcohol
when they were only 15. After that, Yuu and Kimizuki agreed to never talk about
that and pretend that night never happened.
Guren doesn’t seem so prone to forget it though.
“It was much more than one kiss,” Guren states, “And it’s your fault you were
drunk, I told you not to drink anything at the party, but did you listen to
me?”
“The point is,” Yuu stresses out, trying to be over with this topic, “Mika is…
different, from them.”
“Different how?”
“Just… different.”
Guren rolls his eyes, but Shinya smiles gently at him.
“Let him take the car, Guren,” The man says, and Guren looks at him as if he’s
crazy.
“But…”
“He will be fine,” Shinya assures him, “And if he doesn’t, you can punch him
later.”
“Hey!” Yuu pouts at him, but Guren looks happier with this thought.
“Okay,” He sighs, “I’ll give you the keys later. You better bring this car back
without even a scratch or you’ll be grounded until you graduate college.”
Yuu grimaces, but mutters a “fine”.
He finishes his breakfast and runs to the bathroom; it’s already eight a.m. and
he had said he would pick Mika up at nine, so he takes a quick bath and dresses
up even quicker, not even trying to tame his rebel hair; he’s already given up
on it years ago. When he picks Cerberus’ leash, the dog comes almost jumping to
him, barking excitedly. He laughs as he tries to attach the leash to the
collar, which is rather difficult with the dog jumping all the time.
“Are you excited to see Mika?” He asks the dog, giggling when he barks and
licks his hand. He whispers with a smile, “Me too.”
 
 
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Mika is already waiting for him in front of the house when he arrives – Mika
and his creepy uncle Ferid. Yuu shudders, remembering how the man had received
him with a smile and a What do you want with my nephew?, followed by an If you
plan to only fuck him I will end you.
He rolls down the window and smiles sheepishly at them.
“Good morning,” He says, “Ready to go, Mika?”
“Sure,” Mika smiles. He’s wearing jeans and a simple dark blue T-shirt, and his
hair is pulled back in a ponytail. Yuu almost loses his breath because, fuck,
he looks so cute! How can someone look so cute while being dressed so simple?
That’s a mystery only Mika knows of, apparently.
He waves goodbye at his uncle and enters the car. Ferid walks forward and leans
down to look at Yuu through the window.
“I want my dear nephew back before three, you understand?” He says with a sweet
smile, and that’s what creeps Yuu the most. He nods eagerly.
“D-don’t worry about that,” He tries smiling, but he’s afraid he only grimaces.
Ferid chuckles, and Mika frowns at him.
“Leave Yuu-chan alone, Ferid,” The omega sighs, “I know how to take care of
myself.”
“Whatever you say,” Ferid leans away from the war, and Yuu drives away, trying
not to look through the rearview mirror at him as he waves, disappearing when
they take a turn.
“Sorry about him,” Mika mutters, “He’s just worried about me, I guess. It’s
just that he never took care of anyone but himself, so he doesn’t know how to
act.”
“It’s okay,” Yuu smiles at him.
Cerberus chooses this exact moment to bark from the backseat and peek between
the two front seats. Mika lets out an exclamation of joy and chuckles, petting
Cerberus’ head.
“Hello, boy! I missed you too,” He coos at the dog, who barks again and licks
his cheek, making him chuckle. Yuu smiles at the sight.
He looks so cute, even cuter when he smiles.
Then he stops that train of thought. You can’t think of Mika like this, he
scolds himself.
Because Mika is his best friend, his first friend. His friendships with Shinoa
and the others may have survived after they dated and stuff, but who’s to say
if the same will happen if he dates Mika?
He took a break on going out with people exactly because he could never
dedicate himself 100% to them, and if the same thing ends up happening with
Mika, maybe it will change everything between them. He doesn’t want things to
end up awkward between him and Mika, like it did between him and Asura. They
were so close before, but now he’s always embarrassed to be around him.
It’s your fault, he reminds himself. You destroyed your relationship with
Asura.
He doesn’t want to do the same with Mika.
 
 
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Mika gets distracted playing with Cerberus, so he takes a while to notice how
quiet Yuu is. It’s not until they’re on the park, with him running around with
Cerberus, that he notices that Yuu is following them in silence, his eyes
looking distant, contemplative.
“Yuu-chan?” He calls out, “What’s wrong?”
“Huh?” Yuu finally focuses his eyes on him, “Oh, nothing. I was just…
thinking.”
Mika sits down on the grass. From the elevated area where they are, he can see
a good part of the park down bellow, though most of it is hidden behind trees.
The place they are has some trees too, so it’s good to just sit there under its
shadows.
“Thinking about what?” He asks patting the place beside him, and Yuu almost
immediately sits down with him.
“Just some… stuff,” Yuu smiles at him, “Don’t worry about that.”
Mika observes him.
“Is it because of what Ferid said?” He watches as Yuu looks a little
uncomfortable, and sighs. “He told you something yesterday, didn’t he?”
Yuu nods reluctantly.
“He talked as if I was going to… I don’t know, steal you away or something,” He
mumbles, and Mika sighs again.
“I’m sorry about that,” He says, “As I said, Ferid doesn’t know how to act
protective without being creepy.”
“It’s okay.”
They stay quiet, watching as Cerberus chases after some doves, running down the
small hill when they fly away from him.
“What are you thinking?” Yuu asks suddenly, and Mika lifts his eyes to him.
“Nothing particular,” He smiles, “I’m just glad to be here with you now.”
Yuu blushes at that, his lips quirking up in a smile.
“Me too,” He admits, his hand finding Mika’s; he softly caresses the back of
Mika’s hand with his thumb, and they fall silent again. In the distance,
Cerberus barks at some doves and then chases them disappearing between the
trees. He starts to think that he should to bring him back before he does
something like jumping on someone or licking someone’s face – he does that a
lot.
But he feels so comfortable being with Mika that he doesn’t want to move. Let
Cerberus have some fun for one more minute, he tells himself, just a little bit
more and I’ll go after him.
He doesn’t remember feeling this comfortable with someone before. Sure, he
knows he can trust in his friends, and he can always count on Guren too. But
being with Mika is different; maybe because they know of each other’s past,
each other’s traumas. Yuu heard Mika complain about his parents countless times
when they were kids, and he did the same; they were each other’s comfort back
then, each other’s safe place. And he’s relieved to know that this still hasn’t
changed.
He wonders if it would change though if they ever date, but then quickly shakes
this thought away. No dating Mika.
He tries to look for something to distract himself from these thoughts.
“Hey Mika, what were you going to ask me yesterday?”
“Huh?” For some reason, Mika blushes and averts his eyes. “Ah, I was just…
Curious about… Hm, it’s just Yoichi, Mirai and Akane mentioned you dated her
and, well, basically almost all of your friends before,” He says timidly, “I
was just curious about that.”
“Oh,” Now it’s Yuu who averts his eyes.
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t intrude in it,” Mika says quickly, “Just forget it–”
“No, it’s okay,” Yuu lays back on the grass, looking at the leaves of the trees
above them and the glimpse of sky past them. “Do you remember my ‘rebel
phase’?”
“Yes,” Mika lies down too by his side, his head turned to look at Yuu; they are
so close their shoulders are touching, but none of them tries to move away.
“After I tried to kill myself,” Yuu says, “I became too clingy with everyone
around me. My psychologist said it was like a defense mechanism, that I was
feeling too lonely and being clingy was my way of telling them to stay with
me.” He shrugs, as if he doesn’t give it much importance. “I don’t know about
that, but… Everyone realized I was acting weird. I started not going to school,
especially when I was feeling too upset with myself. I knew I wouldn’t be able
to concentrate anyway.”
He makes a pause, closing his eyes, and Mika watches him, thinking of how
beautiful he looks with the scattered light that comes in from between the
leaves illuminating him. Mika never noticed it before, but now he sees Yuu’s
eyelashes are thick and long, ghosting over his cheeks. His dark hair fans
around his head on the grass like a halo.
He looks cute, he thinks before shaking the thought away and trying to
concentrate on Yuu’s story.
“Akane used to take my homework for me when I missed school,” Yuu tells him,
his eyes still closed as he speaks, “Sometimes she would stay and explain it to
me, and sometimes she helped me solve it. It was one of these days, when it was
just the two of us sitting together, and we just… Just kissed,” He opens his
eyes and looks at Mika. “We started dating after that, but it lasted only a
month, I guess.”
“Why did you break up with her?” Mika catches himself asking, and then adds
clumsily, “I mean, she’s, she’s really nice.”
“She is,” Yuu agrees with a smile, “She was always sweet and patient with me.
But,” He sighs and closes his eyes again, “I realized I never had any romantic
feelings for her. Sure, I liked going out with her on dates, and holding her
hand and kissing her. But I felt like something was missing there. So I talked
to her, and we agreed to break up.” He looks at Mika with some sort of
amusement, “I thought she would be sad or upset, but she was very
comprehensive. In the end, I was the one who was crying because I was afraid of
losing her friendship, and she had to comfort me.” He chuckles, and Mika smiles
a little.
“Then I dated Yoichi,” Yuu continues, “About a month after I broke up with
Akane, he came to me and confessed he liked me. I decided to give it a try, but
it didn’t work because Kimizuki had feelings for him, and after I realized it,
I felt bad for dating him when my friend also liked him.”
“You broke up with him because Shihou liked him too,” Mika states and then
shakes his head, “Really, Yuu-chan…”
“I know, I know,” Yuu chuckles again, “But I don’t regret it. I mean, just look
at them, they were made for each other.”
“… That’s true, I guess,” Mika admits. “Didn’t he get mad with you? Yoichi, I
mean.”
“No, he understood it, I guess,” Yuu says, “And anyway Kimizuki gave him
everything I could never give, so I’m pretty sure he forgot me very quickly.”
He looks sad about it, so Mika reaches out to hold his hand. Yuu looks at him
and smiles.
“It’s okay,” Yuu assures him, “I’m fine about it. I’m glad they are happy
together.”
“But what about you?”
“I don’t think I could ever love Yoichi, not in the way he wanted me to,” Yuu
sighs, “I guess one week after that, I started going out with Shinoa. She was
nice and fun, but she was too much for me, I guess. I mean, we were always
bickering about everything. We didn’t last a week.”
Mika hums, rubbing soothing circles on the back of Yuu’s hand with his thumb.
“I was actually thinking,” He says, “How could Shinoa date you and now Narumi?
I mean you two are so… different.”
“Different how?” Yuu asks amused, but his amusement soon disappears when Mika
speaks:
“He looks mature and responsible, while you look… Well, you are you.”
“What does that mean?” Yuu frowns and pouts, and Mika laughs.
“You know what I mean,” He smiles, “I’m just surprised someone like Narumi
would end up with someone like Shinoa.”
“Well, we all were surprised with it,” Yuu mumbles, still pouting. “But somehow
they’ve worked. They’ve been together for almost six months now, and by the
looks of it, they still will be for a long time.”
Mika nods, humming again.
“After you dated her,” He says, trying to get back to the topic.
“Then I dated Mitsuba,” Yuu continues, “She had a crush on me ever since we
met, and she was really nice too. But…”
“There was something missing,” Mika guesses, and Yuu chuckles, a sad laughter.
“Yes,” He says, “After we broke up, things got really awkward between us for a
while. Only recently that we started talking to each other normally,” He
pauses, squeezing Mika’s hand lightly, “Asura was the last one I dated. We were
great friends before, but he turned out to be really paranoid. He wanted to
control my every step, wanted to know where I was, with whom I was, what I was
doing, and it was driving me crazy. I don’t blame him though,” He adds, looking
at Mika then, “His previous boyfriend had cheated on him, so I guess he was
afraid I was going to do the same.”
“You broke up with him, though.”
“Yes, I did,” Yuu sighs, “Things got even worse than it was with Mitsuba. She
got over me at least, but sometimes I think he still likes me. It gets pretty
awkward when we talk.”
Mika remembers the last day, and how Asura stared intently at Yuu, and frowns.
“After I basically fucked up my friendship with him,” Yuu says, “My depression
got even worse. I started to wonder if there was something wrong with me,
because I was unable to love someone romantically. I wondered if I was broken
somehow. I spent a long time sulking before talking to Guren, and he told me to
chill out because I was only 15, and I still had a full life ahead of me to
love someone in the way I wanted to.”
Mika smiles at that.
“He’s right,” He says, “You’re still too young. One day, you will love someone,
I’m sure of that.”
“I hope so,” Yuu says with a sad tone, “It really sucks to watch Kimizuki and
Yoichi, and Shinoa and Narumi, and knowing I can’t have something special like
they have.”
“You can have it,” Mika assures him, “But you don’t have to hurry, Yuu-chan.
Love shows up when we least expect it, not when we want it to.”
Yuu looks at him a little surprised.
“Have you ever loved someone, Mika?” He asks suddenly. “Romantically, I mean.”
Mika blushes and quickly shakes his head.
“How could I?” He mumbles. “I spent 16 years locked up, remember? The only
person I interacted with aside from my parents, was you.”
Yuu hums, averting his eyes; for some reason, his cheeks are tinged a light
shade of red.
They stay quiet again. Mika looks up at the trees hovering above them, thinking
about their conversation. He doesn’t feel that weird feeling anymore – was it
jealousy? He doesn’t know. But it’s gone now. Maybe because Yuu told him
everything about how he truly felt?
Then he sighs. He doesn’t understand what he is really feeling, but after
hearing about Yuu’s past lovers, he’s starting to fear what his heart is doing.
“Hey, Mika,” Yuu says suddenly, staring at the trees above, “I was thinking
about that Omega Repression thing…”
“Why were you thinking about it?” Mika asks curious, and Yuu shrugs giving him
a sheepish smile.
“Mrs. Sayuri made us to an essay about it,” Yuu grimaces, and then pouts when
Mika chuckles, “Why are you laughing? It’s not funny, it was really hard to do,
you know?”
“Right, right,” He giggles, “So, what were you thinking about it?”
“I just…” Yuu hesitates, biting his lips, “I was just thinking that if I had
lived at that time, the other alphas would think I was crazy because I wouldn’t
lock up my omega,” He looks at Mika with a frown, “I mean, I was looking at
some stuff they did to their omegas, and I couldn’t even believe how cruel they
were. Like, the omegas couldn’t even look in their eyes because they considered
it to be a sign of rebellion, as if the omega wanted to be an equal. The omegas
couldn’t sit at the table, they had to kneel at the ground and eat from a bowl.
They were treated almost as animals!”
“They were,” Mika agrees, “It was a horrible time to be an omega. If I lived at
that time, I would either poison my alpha or poison myself; or both, maybe. I
wouldn’t want to live as a slave.”
“I wouldn’t like you to poison yourself,” Yuu mutters, “Suicide isn’t really
good.”
Mika then realizes what he had just suggested.
“Ah, I’m sorry!”
“It’s okay,” Yu smiles at him, “If we lived at that time and I was your alpha,
I wouldn’t treat you like a slave. If much, I would pamper you so much you
would be the most spoiled omega in Japan.”
Mika chuckles at that.
“The other alphas really would’ve thought you went crazy,” He says with a
giggle, and then smiles gently, “If I had lived at that time, I wouldn’t mind
having an alpha if that alpha was you.”
Yuu’s whole face turns red, even the tips of his ears, and Mika thinks that’s
the cutest thing ever. He reaches a hand to touch Yuu’s cheek, his fingers
barely ghosting over his skin in a soft caress. His eyes are drawn to Yuu’s
lips when the alpha licks it quickly; the plump flesh looks pink, and Mika
wonders how soft they are. Without thinking, he moves his fingers lightly until
the tips of his fingers brush over Yuu’s bottom lip.
He doesn’t realize he is approaching Yuu until the alpha exhales and Mika feels
his breath on his face. He gulps when Yuu closes his eyes, and his own eyelids
flutter closed as his face approaches Yuu’s, their noses bumping lightly…
A sudden bark startles them, and a second later something heavy jumps on both
of them, and Mika opens his eyes to see yellow fur all over his face.
“Cerberus!” Yuu yelps, and chuckles when the dog licks his face. Then the dog
pulls away and jumps around them, barking before running down the hill again;
he stops at the bottom of the hill and looks back at them.
“I think he wants us to follow him,” Mika says quietly, and Yuu nods, his face
still very red.
“Yeah,” He says and then clears his throat, repeating a little louder, “Yeah,
let’s go there.”
They climb down the small hill and follow Cerberus as the dog bounces and runs
around the park, occasionally stopping and looking back as if wanting to make
sure they are following him. Eventually they reach the center of the park,
where there is a fountain and a few benches scattered around it. There are a
few people walking around, but Cerberus bounces past them to the other side,
running behind some trees. Yuu and Mika follow him, only to find the dog waving
his tail at a box hidden behind some bushes next to a big tree.
“What is it that you found here, boy?” Yuu asks approaching him, and he kneels
next to the box, peeking inside, “Ah!”
“What’s that, Yuu-chan?” Mika kneels next to him, and then gasps surprised, his
eyes widening and a big smile spreading on his face, “Kittens!”
Inside the small box there are four kittens meowing at them. Cerberus barks at
Yuu and Mika, and then buries his head inside the box to sniff and lick at the
kittens.
“You wanted us to find them, Cer?” Mika asks, petting the dog’s head and
looking at the kittens; two of them are completely black while one is
completely white, and the fourth is white with black spots on its eyes and
paws. “They can’t be older than one week, maybe two,” Mika mutters, reaching
out to touch one of the kittens. One of them tries to suck at his finger, and
he adds worried, “They’re hungry.”
“I wonder who left them here,” Yuu muses wrapping an arm around Cerberus neck,
“Should we take them to a pet shop? Or to an animal shelter?”
Mika bites his lips as he watches the kittens trying to suck at his fingers;
they look to cute…
“I’m going to take them home with me,” He decides.
“What?” Yuu looks up at him, surprised, “Really?”
“We can’t leave them here, Yuu-chan, they’re only babies,” Mika says grabbing
the box and bringing it close to his chest, watching the kittens meowing at
him, “I also don’t like the idea of just leaving them at a pet shop or at a
shelter. I’ll take care of them and find them a home myself.”
“Are you sure?” Yuu asks, eyeing the cats, “I mean, pets are a great
responsibility.”
“Says the one who tried to drown his dog.”
They both grin at that.
“I will keep one for myself,” Mika says, “I like cats anyway. I’ll take them to
a vet, get them to be vaccinated and properly fed, and then find a home for the
other three.”
Yuu hums and then smiles.
“Ok then,” He says nodding. Smiling at how Mika’s eyes shine prettily as he
stares at the kittens.
Too cute.
 
 
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Because they’re with Cerberus and the kittens, they can’t go to a restaurant to
eat, so Yuu buys them something at a fast food and they sit in the picnic
tables at the park to have lunch. Cerberus jumps around them, begging for some
food, but Yuu scolds him.
“You know you can’t eat these things,” He says to the dog, “It will make you
sick later.”
The dog whimpers, sitting next to Yuu and staring at him with big pleading
eyes. Yuu turns away, feeling bad for having to ignore him. Mika merely
chuckles at them.
After lunch, Yuu takes Mika home; Mika puts the box with the kittens on his
lap, and watches as the kittens sleep inside it.
“They’re still too small to eat cat food,” He mumbles as Yuu drives, “I’ll have
to feed them milk with a nursing bottle or something…”
Yuu chuckles.
“Careful not to pamper them too much,” He says.
“What are you talking about?” Mika looks up with an amused smile, “These will
be the most spoiled cats of the city.”
When Yuu stops in front of Mika’s house, Cerberus peeks between the front seats
to bark at Mika.
“Good bye, Cer,” Mika says petting him, smiling when Cerberus sniffs at the box
with the kittens before looking up at Mika again, “I’ll take care of them, I
promise.”
Cerberus barks once again, making him chuckle, and retreats to the back seat
again.
“He and his siblings were abandoned too,” Yuu comments, looking over his
shoulder at the dog, who’s now making himself comfortable on the back seat, “I
guess he didn’t want the same for the kittens.”
Mika smiles at Yuu.
“Maybe,” He says, and then opens the door, “Thanks, Yuu-chan. I had fun today.”
“Me too,” Yuu says, and Mika thinks back to that moment when they were laying
on the grass, and when he thought they were about to kiss before Cerberus
interrupted them. He wonders if Yuu is thinking about it too, because the alpha
is licking his lips and staring intently at Mika.
Then Yuu clears his throat and averts his eyes.
“I’ll see with Guren and Shinya if they know someone who wants to adopt a cat,”
He says.
“Oh, hm, sure,” Mika smiles sheepishly, “Thank you.”
Yuu smiles and nods.
“Message me later?” He asks.
“Maybe. It will depend if you want me to stay awake with you until three a.m.
again.”
Yuu chuckles as Mika leaves the car, holding the box carefully in his arms.
“Bye-bye, Yuu-chan,” The omega waves at him and closes the door.
“Bye,” Yuu waves back, and watches as Mika walks to his house and enters it. He
waits until the omega closes the door to release a shaky breath and start to
drive again.
What the fuck was that?
They were going to kiss! He was sure of that. And he was going to let it
happen, because the feeling of Mika’s fingertips on his lips had been so good,
the pad of his fingers so soft against his skin… He remembers Mika’s warm
breath on his face, their noses bumping and then…
He looks at Cerberus through the rearview mirror. Thanks God he interrupted us.
He doesn’t want to screw up things with Mika. No dating Mika.
No matter how much he wants to kiss him too.
 
 
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Mika thought Ferid was going to be mad with him for bringing four kittens into
the house without asking first, but the first thing the older omega did was
grab the box from him and coo at the kittens, making faces at them and
giggling.
That is, until he started to sneeze.
“Ferid-kun loves cats,” Crowley comments, “Unfortunately, he is allergic to
them.”
“Karma,” Says Lacus.
Mika is in the kitchen with Crowley, Lacus, René and Krul, and they are helping
him feed the kittens. They don’t have a nursing bottle, but Krul found a
dropper, so they are feeding the kittens with it. They have even already
cleaned them with a washcloth; Ferid helped to clean them, but when he started
to sneeze, Crowley made him take his medicine for his allergy and go to his
room, and stay away from the kittens. For the first time, Mika felt sorry for
him, because he really looked like he wanted to keep taking care of the
kittens.
“So, you’ll stay with one of them?” Krul asks.
“Yeah, if it’s not a problem to everyone,” He adds timidly, but Crowley waves a
hand at him.
“After Lacus brought Sally inside the house, an innocent kitten is not a
problem,” He says.
“Sally is a civilized snake,” Lacus says sniffing.
“Yes, yes, she is,” Krul rolls her eyes and then stands up, “Well, I have an
essay to finish. If you still need help, call me later, Mika.”
“Sure. Thanks, Krul.”
Crowley leaves soon after, leaving only René and Lacus in the kitchen with
Mika.
“So,” Lacus starts as soon as they are alone, and his smirk is enough to make
Mika suspicious, “How was it there with Yuu-chan?”
Mika wants to feign nonchalance, but then he remembers the almost kiss that
Cerberus interrupted, and his face warms up in the blink of an eye. Lacus
laughs at his flushed cheeks.
“Was it that good?”
“W-we just walked around with Cer,” He mutters.
“What else?” Lacus insists, “Come on, Mika, I can see it in your face that
something happened.”
“Almost happened.”
“There,” Lacus smiles when Mika groans, “Is it so hard to tell?”
“Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe this is something he doesn’t want to
share?” René sighs, watching with bored eyes as one of the kittens that has
already been fed curls up in a ball inside the box and starts to sleep.
Lacus pouts, turning his eyes to the kitten he’s currently feeding, and Mika
sighs.
“We just…” He hesitates, looking at the kitten in his own hands; it’s one of
the black ones, though now he notices the tips of its paws are white. “We
almost… kissed.”
Lacus gasps.
“Aha!”
“Almost.”
“It’s already halfway,” He smiles victoriously.
“Lacus, please,” Mika groans, “Yuu-chan is my friend.”
“And you obviously have feelings for him.”
Mika shuts his mouth. He wants to deny it, but his treacherous heart beats
rapidly, as if agreeing with Lacus’ statement.
“He is my friend,” He repeats stubbornly, and Lacus sighs.
“René was also my friend before we started to date.”
“It’s different.”
“I don’t see how.”
Mika bites his lips, watching the kitten pull away from the dropper. He sets
the dropper down on the table and carefully puts the kitten back inside the
box, where it curls up close to its sibling.
“Yuu-chan is still recovering from his depression,” He says quietly, “He
doesn’t have time for a boyfriend. All he needs now is a friend.”
René sighs tiredly and Lacus rolls his eyes.
“Kids,” He snorts.
“Shut up.”
After they finish feeding the cats, Mika brings the box to his room and sets it
down next to his bed. He’s already asked Ferid if they can take the kittens to
a vet on the next day. He’s also starting to think of all the things he will
have to buy, and he tries to distract his mind with it.
But when Yuu messages him later that night, he sees it really is impossible to
run away from his thoughts, and he falls asleep thinking of their almost-kiss,
and of what would’ve happened if Cerberus hadn’t shown up at that moment.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     Poor Cerberus, he just wanted them to find the kittens lmao
     As you can all see, I don't know how to slow burn lol tho as I said,
     there still will be a few more chapters until they get together, so
     don't get your hopes up now.
     That being said, there will be more and more cute scenes between
     these two xD
     Well, as I already said, this week my final tests start, so I
     probably won't be posting anything on this week and on the next,
     though I will be working on the few chapter if I can. Wish me luck
     orz *sobs because uni*
     Anyway XD
     Thank you so much for reading this <3 don't forget to leave your
     comment, and see you next chapter~
     ^-^
***** Chapter 11 *****
Chapter Summary
     It’s so easy to stay next to Yuu like this, so natural.
Chapter Notes
     WHASSUP GUYS! Sorry for taking too long xD my tests were wild, my
     internet went crazy and my cat got sick (I found out he has acute
     renal failure, I didn't even know cats could have it DDD:). Anyway,
     lots of stuff happened, but I managed to shit out- I mean xD write
     out this chapter for you. It's a transitional chapter actually, more
     interesting stuff will happen next chapter hopefully *shrug*
     Have a good reading~
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Mirai jumps on Mika the moment she sees him in the next morning, grabbing him
by his shoulders.
“I want to see the kittens!” She says excitedly, and Mika stares at her
confused.
“How do you know…?”
“Yuu told us,” She grins, “Can I go to your house today? I want to see them!”
Mika sighs, gently pushing her hands away to finally sit down on his seat.
“Not today,” He says, “Ferid and I are going to take them to the vet after
school.”
“Ah,” She pouts, but then brightens up a second later, “Tomorrow then?”
“… Sure.”
She giggles and clasps her hands together, bouncing on the balls of her feet as
she goes to her seat. Mika shakes his head, trying to suppress a smile.
Mirai is not the only one interested in the kittens, though, because after the
class is over, Mr. Hiiragi calls him before he leaves.
“Mika-chan,” His teacher says, “Yuu-chan told me you found some kittens
yesterday and is now looking for someone to adopt them?”
“Uh… Yeah,” Mika looks at him awkwardly.
“I would like one,” Mr. Hiiragi’s blue eyes gleam excitedly, “I love kittens,
you know.”
“I-I see…” Mika clears his throat, “I’m taking them to the vet today, but if
you want to take a look at them…”
“Oh, you can send me a picture,” Mr. Hiiragi quickly pulls a piece of paper
from the pocket of his coat and hands it to Mika; it’s a business card with his
number on it. “Send me a message with it.”
As Mika accepts the card, he looks up at his teacher; the man has a look of joy
on his face, like a little kid on Christmas morning. A smile spreads on his
face.
“Ok,” He says, shoving the card inside his bag.
“I’ll be waiting then,” His teacher smiles back and waves goodbye.
Mika walks with Yoichi and Mirai to the gates, but he’s surprised to see them
walking to the bus stop instead of waiting for Mirai’s brother.
“Shihou won’t come get us today,” Yoichi explains to him, “He’s in the soccer
team too, and there’s an important game coming, so they’ll be staying later
than usual to train.”
“Really?” Yuu hadn’t said anything… Though, they were too caught up in other
things to think of that. He tries not to think about it, or else he’ll end up
blushing like an idiot again. Instead, he asks, “Don’t they have train the
other days? They’re always here to pick you two.”
“Their classes end earlier than ours,” Mirai says, “So they have one hour of
training before coming pick us up.”
“Oh.”
A loud honk interrupts them, and he looks up to frown at Ferid, smirking at him
from his car.
“Why does he always do this?” Mika grunts, and both Mirai and Yoichi giggle.
“Teasing you is funny,” Mirai tells him, patting his shoulder. “See you
tomorrow!”
She waves at him, and he sighs before waving back and walking to the car. He
ignores Ferid’s smirk and simply flops down on the back seat beside Lacus.
“Mikaaa, why such a grumpy face? We’re going to take the babies to the doctor
today!” Ferid giggles, and Mika rolls his eyes.
“You’re not getting closer to them anyway,” He mumbles, and that makes Ferid
shut up.
“Mika-kun is right,” Crowley says from the passenger seat, “I’ll drive him to
the vet with the kittens.”
“But I wanna go too!” Ferid pouts, and he and Crowley proceed to argue the
whole way home about if Ferid can go with them or not. Between them and Lacus
trying to get René to play jo-ken-po with him, Mika doesn’t know how he is
still sane.
 
 
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No matter how long he runs, Yuu never gets tired. It’s what it seems, because
they’ve been training for two hours now and he still has enough energy to keep
going. However, his team mates are not as hyperactive as him, so after two
hours their coach ends the training, and, after scolding a few of them for
being too slow, sends them away.
Yuu follows Kimizuki and Narumi to the locker room, talking excitedly about the
game to come, and the two of them cast him exasperated looks.
“Do you ever get tired?” Narumi asks, still out of breath from the training.
“Like, ever?”
“No,” Kimizuki answers for Yuu as they enter the locker room, already stripping
his sweaty dirty shirt, “This guy could run a marathon and still wouldn’t be
tired.”
“Shut up,” Yuu grunts, stripping too as they walk to the showers. A few of
their team mates are already there, so they have to wait to get in. “I don’t
see any of you complaining when I score!”
“He’s right,” Another voice joins them, and they turn to see Shusaku
approaching, a mocking smirk on his lips, “He’s the star of the team, so stop
bothering him, you two.”
Yuu groans as Kimizuki snickers and Narumi rolls his eyes. Everybody else in
the school calls Yuu “the star of the soccer team” because he’s scored many
times in difficult games, but it became an internal joke among the team,
because in the beginning Yuu was terrible at soccer. So Yuu knows that, every
time a team mate calls him “the star of the team” it’s because they’re mocking
him.
“I hate you all,” He mumbles.
“Look how much this affects me,” Kimizuki deadpans when one of the boys in the
showers leave, “I’m going in first.”
“H-hey!” Yuu protests, but it’s too late; Kimizuki has already entered the
vacant shower. Narumi and Shusaku both chuckle at him.
“Stop talking and maybe you can shower today still,” Narumi says when another
boy leaves, and he is quick to enter the shower before Yuu.
“He’s right,” Shusaku chuckles, rushing past a third boy who’s leaving, and
entering the shower. Yuu stares at his three friends and shakes his head.
“You’re all traitors.”
“You’re too slow for a team star,” Narumi says from the shower, and Yuu
blushes, glaring at him. “Come in before you’re the last one left,” Narumi adds
when another boy leaves, and Yuu is quick to run to the shower, almost slipping
in the way. Kimizuki and Narumi laugh, and he blushes.
“You’re not my friends anymore.”
“I never said I wanted to be,” Kimizuki shrugs. He’s already rising his hair,
and Yuu rushes to turn on the water and wash himself, not wanting to be left
behind.
When he manages to finish his quick shower, he’s the last one left in the
showers. Grunting, he wraps himself in a towel and walks to the lockers, where
the others are already getting dressed and talking about going to McDonalds to
eat something.
“What do you say, Yuu?” Shusaku asks as he joins them, “You coming?”
“I don’t know if a team star should be seen with traitors like you,” He grunts,
making the three of them roll their eyes.
“Stop being such a kid,” Kimizuki says. “You’re coming or not?”
Yuu is about to answer when he opens his locker and sees his phone is
vibrating. He picks it up to see Mika has sent him a message.
[ I’m on my way to the vet with the kittens. Mirai and Yoichi said you had
soccer train today?]
Yuu can’t help but smile a little at the text. He can’t get the image of Mika
smiling at the kittens out of his head; he looked just so genuinely happy… Yuu
wants to see that expression on his face more.
[ Yup! We ended just now tho. Kimizuki and the others were talking about going
out to eat something. ]
He sends the message and sets the phone aside, grabbing his clothes. Just as he
finishes dressing his pants, Mika sends him another message.
[ What are you gonna eat? ]
[ We’re prob going to McDonalds, so maybe a hamburger ]
He is about to set the phone down again, but Mika quickly texts back.
[ Hopefully with something that doesn’t keep you awake at night sending me
messages when I want to sleep ]
He can’t help but laugh at this. He knows he should stop texting Mika late in
the night, but he can’t help it. And anyway, no matter how tired he is, Mika
always, always texts him back.
“What are you laughing at?” Kimizuki’s voice startles him, and he looks up,
suddenly remembering he isn’t alone. He can’t help but blush a little.
“N-nothing,” Yuu mutters, setting his phone down and finishing getting dressed.
“Are you texting your boyfriend?” Narumi asks teasingly.
“I don’t have a boyfriend!”
“No?” The taller alpha raises his eyebrows, “I thought you and that Mika kid
were together. I mean, the way you acted on Saturday, it looked like you were a
couple or something. He even let you sit on his nest.”
“T-That was…”
“I just remembered,” Kimizuki laughs, “Mika said that if it was Yuu, he didn’t
mind having him on his nest.”
“Kimizuki!” Yuu cries out as Narumi whistles and Shusaku snickers.
“And they always act like a couple,” Kimizuki goes on, “I mean, Yuu took him to
watch a movie and then have dinner together, just the two of them.”
“You took him to see a nice movie, I hope?” Narumi asks, “I mean, at a date,
you take your partner to see comedy or romance.”
“It was not a date and he is not my boyfriend!” Yuu stresses out, adding
quickly, “And we watched Captain America.”
“What the fuck,” Shusaku shakes his head, “If my partner took me to watch this
on a date I would–”
“It was not a date!”
“Keep telling yourself that,” Kimizuki approaches and pats him on the shoulder
before turning around to the other two, “So, McDonalds anyone?”
 
 
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Yuu ends up going with them, because he doesn’t want to stay alone at home
doing nothing. Fortunately, they stop teasing him about Mika and start talking
about the game to come in a few weeks against the Union High.
The match between the Moon Demon Academy and the Union High School has been a
classic for a few years now. This will be the first time Yuu plays on this
classic match, and he is anxious and excited for it – especially when he thinks
about the four alphas from Union who harassed Mika; all he wants is to kick
their asses, and this match will be his chance to kind of get revenge on them.
As he enters McDonalds with Kimizuki, Narumi and Shusaku, his phone vibrates
and he takes it out of his pocket to see another text from Mika. There is an
image attached to it, and Yuu lets a small aww slip past his lips when he sees
it: it’s the kittens sleeping all bundled up together inside their box, now
padded with a soft white towel.
Bellow the image, there’s Mika’s text:
[ They’re sleeping so sweetly it almost pains me bc they’ll have to wake up to
take shots ]
[ How cruel! To wake them up from the sweet land of dreams for something as
terrible as shots. Have you got no heart? ]
He sends the message with a chuckle, and when he looks up, his friends are
giving him a strange look.
“What?” He asks defensively.
“Not his boyfriend, he says,” Kimizuki snorts, and Yuu blushes.
“Shut up,” He grunts, but then remembers, “Oh! Mika and I found some kittens
yesterday, look!” He turns his phone for them to see the picture of the
kittens, “Do you know someone who wants a kitty?”
“Oh, they’re cute,” Shusaku smiles.
“What were you doing together yesterday?” Kimizuki asks instead, raising an
eyebrow and smirking at him. “Were you on a da–”
“It was not a date, for fuck’s sake, will you please let it go?”
“I don’t know anyone who likes cats,” Narumi says ignoring their small quarrel,
“But I’ll ask Shinoa about it, maybe she knows.”
“Yayoi liked cats, didn’t she?” Shusaku asks Narumi.
“She already has three,” Narumi answers, to which Shusaku retorts:
“I don’t think she would mind adopting a fourth one.”
The queue moves on and it’s their turn. While everyone orders a soda with their
hamburgers, Yuu orders a smoothie of peach and passion fruit, hoping that’ll
stop him from staying up too late and bothering Mika.
They take their orders and go sit down on a table, and Yuu quickly pulls out
his phone to see Mika has sent him three new messages:
[ It’s necessary, Yuu-chan! This way they won’t be sick later]
[Aw they’re crying D: ]
[I’M SO SORRY! ]
He chuckles again, quickly typing a new message to him:
[ You heartless monster, look at what you did to the babies ]
[ Just wait until Cerberus hears about this ]
[ He let the babies under your care and you went and hurt them smh ]
Just as he sends the last message, Kimizuki clears his throat.
“Will you please put your phone aside? It’s bad manners to be on the phone
while you’re eating with other people.”
“Sorry,” He mumbles, taking a bite of his cheeseburger. But soon Mika sends
another message and he can’t help but taking a look into it.
[ pLEASE DON’T TELL HIM ]
[ IT WAS NECESSARY]
[ I’m sure he had to take shots too ]
[ Also someone take me out of here, Ferid is crying with them ]
Yuu snickers, shaking his head as he quickly types in:
[ He had indeed. But don’t talk about it to him, he never likes to take shots ]
[ Also what the fuck is wrong with your uncle? ]
“Yuu,” Narumi says, and Yuu shoves his phone inside his pocket.
“Yes,” He blinks innocently.
“I’m really starting to think Mika is your boyfriend. I’ve never seen you with
such an idiotic smile on your face before.”
Yuu immediately grimaces at him.
“I don’t have an idiotic smile on my face!”
“You do have,” Kimizuki says.
“I don’t,” Yuu mumbles, pulling his phone out when it vibrates again. Mika’s
new message has another photo; it obviously was taken with the intent to not be
noticed, and it has Mika’s uncle crying on the chest of a tall red haired man
who looks so done with life.
[ Even Crowley has given up on him ]
Ah, sothisis Crowley. Yuu chuckles to himself.
“Yuu!”
“Ok, ok, I’ll set my phone down, I promise!” He says as he types two last
messages for Mika.
[ lmao how do you guys even live with him? ]
[ Also I gotta go bc Kimizuki and the others are complaining bc I’m on my
phone. I’ll text you later! ]
He puts the phone away and eats his french fries while Narumi talks about a new
movie that’s going to premier soon and that Shinoa wants to go see with him. As
Yuu listens to him absent mindedly, his phone vibrates again, and he can’t help
but sneap a peek at it to see Mika’s text:
[ Hopefully not when I’m trying to sleep! ]
Yuu muffles a laugh behind a hand types in:
[ Rude! ]
Then he has an idea, and he snaps a photo of his smoothie, sending it to Mika
with a text:
[ I’m drinking peach and passion fruit smoothie and they say it helps you relax
and stay calm so hopefully I won’t stay up too late ]
Mika is quick to answer:
[ We’ll see ]
“Yuu, I swear to God if you don’t put that phone away, I’ll throw it out of the
window,” Kimizuki grunts, and Yuu pokes out his tongue at him before shoving
his phone inside his bag this time, where he won’t have to hear it ring.
Even though he’s itching to grab it again and keep talking to Mika.
 
 
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Mika wakes up early on the next day to feed the kittens before going to school.
They had bought a special kind of milk for baby cats that the vet had
recommended, and the kittens had seemed to like it.
He’s already attached to them, and he’s worried about it, because how is he
even going to give away three of them if he already loves them so much?
But he knows he can’t keep all of them. He’s still catching up to all the
things he lost in school, and plus, Ferid is allergic to cats. He may dislike
his uncle a bit, but not enough to get him sneezing all day. Hopefully he’ll
get better when there’s only one cat left.
After Mika feeds the kittens, he grabs his phone to see his messages. There are
a few texts from Yuu from last night – he rolls his eyes at them, though he
smiles a little. There is also a message from his teacher; he had sent him a
picture of the kittens as promised, and his teacher was quick to answer with a
lot of AWWs and CUTE and a WANT. There are also a few messages from Akane – he
sent her a picture too of the kittens – asking if she can go to his house later
to see them.
He answers Yuu first, telling him first to stop texting him so late and then
saying good morning. Then he answers Mr. Hiiragi, asking if he’s still
interested in the kittens. And finally he answers Akane telling her, sure, she
can come.
Only then he goes take his bath and get ready to school.
When he comes down to the kitchen for breakfast, Ferid is pouting as Crowley
puts a plate with eggs and bacon in front of him.
“But I want to see them!” His uncle whines like a little kid being denied
something.
“For the millionth time, Ferid,” Crowley sighs, “You know you’re allergic to
cats, so no. You can’t go near them. Now eat your breakfast or else you’ll make
Mika-kun be late.”
Ferid turns to see him as he walks into the dining room and sits by the table
in front of him.
“Mikaaa…” He starts, but Mika quickly cuts him:
“No.”
“But–”
“If you keep insisting, I’ll get rid of all of them.” It pains him to say this,
but he really will if Ferid doesn’t control himself. The last thing he needs is
for his uncle to be sick because of him, because he brought something he’s
allergic to inside their house.
Ferid keeps whining during the whole breakfast and all the way to Mika’s
school, but Mika just puts his headphones on and plays some of the songs of the
band Lacus showed him, proceeding to ignore his uncle completely.
 
 
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“Aw, they’re really cute!” Mirai giggles as she and Akane play with the
kittens.
Just as Mika had promised Mirai, she had come with him to see the kittens, and
Akane arrived just a few minutes ago. Mika also invited Yoichi, but the boy
said he couldn’t come because he had to go somewhere with his sister – Mika
didn’t even know he had a sister, and he was surprised to learn that; after
Yoichi promising he would introduce them some day, he went to the bus station
alone, and Mirai went to Mika’s house with him.
Mika got worried about Yoichi being alone at the bus stop – he couldn’t stop
thinking about how he was attacked by those alphas that one time – so he asked
his friend to send him a message as soon as he got home. He just received the
message, and he breathes relieved, smiling at his phone now. He’s ok.
“I talked to my brother,” Mirai goes on, “He said I can adopt one.” She blinks
innocently at Mika, and the blond omega laughs.
“Ok, you can have one,” He says, “But the vet recommended that I only give them
after they start to eat the cat food. Also, they’re still too young and
changing their habitat so much in such a short span might stress them.”
“True,” Akane agrees, caressing one of the kittens in her hands; it is so small
it fits perfectly inside her palm.
“Don’t you want one too, Akane-chan?”Mika asks, but the beta shakes her head
with a sad smile.
“My brother Taichi has a dog, and the dog doesn’t like cats,” She says, “I took
one home once, but I had to find another place for her because the dog scared
her.” She sighs.
“Oh,” Mika grimaces, and she nods.
“Yeah, oh,” She then smiles at the kitty in her hand, “But I still love that
damn dog, so I try not to think too much about it.”
Mika chuckles with her.
“Well then, now I only have to find a home for one more,” He says, “Mirai will
stay with one and Mr. Hiiragi said he’ll stay with another.”
“He will?” Mirai perks up interested. “I never knew he liked cats.”
“He does. I saw he has a cat keychan on his bag when I was talking to him
today.”
“No way! Really?” Mirai laughs.
“Yeah,” Mika giggles, “He said he’ll only get his when he moves though.”
“Moves?”
“Yeah, he’ll move in with Yuu-chan’s uncle,” Mika snickers, and Mirai and Akane
laugh with him, “But Yuu-chan’s uncle is gonna move out of the apartment, he
wants a bigger house for them. So only after they move is that he’s going to
get the kitty.”
“I see,” Mirai looks down at the kitty in her hand, the black one with white
paws. “Well, I’ll want this one, so you better not give him for anyone!”
“It’s a female, Mirai,” Mika chuckles.
“Oh… Well, anyway she’s mine!” She says proudly, and then smirks, “You should
keep the black one though. It has green eyes too. Doesn’t it remind you of
someone?”
While Akane chuckles, Mika turns red instantly.
“I-I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He has a sudden feeling of déjà-vi.
Mirai must have felt it too because she laughs.
“You never change, do you?”
“S-shut up.”
 
 
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The kittens grow up fast during the week, and soon they don’t fit inside Mika’s
palm anymore, and are trying to crawl out of their box. When the next weekend
comes around, they’re already stumbling around Mika’s room, and he’s chuckling
and recording, thinking of sending the video to Yuu-chan – and maybe later to
Mr. Hiiragi and Mirai, since they both will stay with two of the kittens.
It’s a Sunday, but he still woke up early to feed the kittens, and then
proceeded to sit on the ground to watch them trying to walk around. When Ferid
comes inside his room, it’s to find him kneeling on the ground still on his
pajamas, laughing at the kittens.
“What are you doing?” His uncle asks amused.
“Uh, I was just…” He gestures vaguely to the kittens, and then blushes and
frowns at his uncle. “What do you want here?”
Ferid smirks.
“There’s a visit for you,” It’s all he says before leaving the room. Still
frowning, Mika stands up and leaves after him, going down the stairs. His uncle
adds over his shoulder, “He’s out there.”
Who… Mika walks to the front door and peeks outside, his eyes widening with
surprise when he sees who’s standing there.
“Yuu-chan!” He breathes out smiling, before remembering he’s still wearing
pajamas. But now Yuu is turning to look at him, he can’t run away to his room
anymore, so he just stands there awkwardly as Yuu smiles to him.
“Hey,” He waves, his cheeks bright red for some reason. He’s holding Cerberus’
leash, and the dog barks happily at Mika. The omega can’t help but smile at
him.
“Hello, boy!” He coos at the dog, kneeling to hug him and pet his head. “How
are you doing?” Cerberus barks again and licks his cheek, making him laugh.
Then he looks at Yuu timidly and stands up again. “So, what are you doing here
on a Sunday morning?”
“Ah, well,” Yuu scratches the back of his neck and gestures to Guren’s car
parked in front of the neighbor house, “Guren dragged Shinya and I to see some
houses to buy. I didn’t know your neighbor’s was for sale,” He chuckles, his
cheeks still flushed, “So when he stopped the car here, the first thing I
thought was to come and say hi.”
Mika’s heart flutters in his chest, and a bright smile tugs at his lips.
“So you’re going to move in to here?” He asks happily.
“I-I don’t know. If Guren likes the house, maybe,” Yuu shrugs, and then looks
timidly at him, “Would you mind having me as your neighbor again?”
At this, Mika chuckles and jumps on him, wrapping his arms around Yuu’s neck.
“I would love it,” He sighs before pulling away a little embarrassed. “Anyway…
Uh, I still haven’t had breakfast, so I’m going, hm…”
“Ah, did I wake you up?”
“No, no,” Mika giggles, “I was already up, I was just watching the kittens.
They’re starting to explore my room.”
“Can I see them?”
“Sure! Come in,” Mika enters the house, Yuu and Cerberus following him. “Do you
want to eat something?”
“I’ve ate already, but it’s not like I’ll refuse more food,” Yuu chuckles, and
Mika rolls his eyes though he smiles. He ends up laughing too, and Yuu follows
him to the kitchen to grab something to eat.
After they get some cereal and milk on a bowl, they climb upstairs to Mika’s
room, where Cerberus is quick to bark at the kittens, scaring two of them; the
other two merely look at him curiously, and soon they’re playing together.
“Aw, Cer likes them,” Mika smiles as they sit down on Mika’s bed to watch the
dog play with the kittens. “Oh, by the way, I was going to send you a video of
them trying to climb out of the box, it was so funny and cute.”
“Show me!” Yuu asks, and they proceed to spend the next few minutes giggling at
the video of the kittens.
It’s so easy to stay next to Yuu like this, so natural. They lean on each
other’s shoulders, Yuu talking about the game they’re going to play against
Union High in two weeks, and Mika listens carefully, wanting to know more of
this side of Yuu. He wants to know everything about Yuu, every little piece of
knowledge is important for him.
 
 
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Yuu completely forgot the reason he came here in the first place – to take a
look at the house Guren was interested in – until Guren calls him on his phone.
“You told me you were only going to say hi to your friend,” Guren complains,
“We’re already leaving so you better get your ass into this carnowor I’m
leaving you behind!”
On the background, he can hear Shinya say something along the lines of You
can’t leave your nephew behind like this, Guren.
“Ok, ok, I’m going,” He sighs and then hangs up, looking at Mika, “Guren’s
leaving, so I gotta go now.”
“Okay,” Mika pouts a little, but stands up with him. Yuu whistles to call
Cerberus, who is curled up sleeping with the kittens; the dog raises his head
at him and whines, as if he wants to stay there with his baby friends, but in
the end he stands up and follows Yuu out of the room with Mika.
The omega accompanies him to the front door, from where he can see Guren and
Shinya already inside the car. He waves at Shinya, smiling a little, and then
turns to Yuu.
“Will you stay late at school tomorrow again?”
“Yeah, I gotta train,” Yuu sighs, but smiles, “I gotta kick the asses of the
boys from Union High!”
Mika chuckles and nods.
“You do that,” He says, and leans in to kiss Yuu’s cheek. “Beat them for me.”
Yuu’s face turns red in the blink of an eye, but he manages to nod, stuttering:
“Y-yeah, I mean, I-I totally will!”
Mika chuckles again and waves, and Yuu turns around to walk to Guren’s car with
Cerberus following him.
“Why is your face red?” Guren grunts when he enters the car with Cerberus and
closes the door.
“N-nothing,” He mumbles, looking up at him as he starts to drive, “So, will you
buy the house?”
Guren sends him a knowing smirk through the rearview mirror.
“You look interested in this house,” He says.
“I do?” Yuu looks away nervously, hearing Guren laugh. He pouts.
“I liked the house,” Shinya comments with a smirk too, “And it’s next to my
kitty!”
“It’s next to a kitty Yuu likes too,” Guren teases, and Yuu shoots him a glare.
“Shut up!”
“So you don’t want me to buy it?”
Yuu stops, blinking at him.
“Will you… will you buy it?” He asks hesitantly, but there’s also hope in his
voice. Living next to Mika again…
Guren shrugs.
“It’s a good house. Though it’s too big for just the three of us.”
“It won’t be just us three for too long though,” Shinya argues, and Yuu frowns
at him.
“What do you mean?”
“Ah, nothing~” The white-haired man giggles, “Anyway, Guren, Kureto would say a
Hiiragi deserves only the best.”
“You Hiiragis and your grandiosity kink,” He mumbles, making Shinya laugh
again.
“How mean, Guren,” Shinya says, looking over his shoulder to blink at Yuu.
And Yuu knows, by the look in Shinya’s eyes, that Guren is going to buy that
house.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     As I said, nothing too exciting happened lol I wanted to introduce
     Kureto here but it would get tooooo long and I was getting lazy so
     *shrugs* hopefully he'll appear next chapter!
     Also, thank you all for your patience with me xD I still have some
     stuff to sort out at uni before vacations, but I'll try to update as
     soon as I can!
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chapter~
***** Chapter 12 *****
Chapter Summary
     “Yuu-chan…”
     “No, listen Mika, there’s something I need to tell you,” Yuu speaks
     quickly, his voice dripping with excitement, “You won’t believe in
     what I just found out!”
     “Try me,” Mika sighs, rolling on his back and staring at his ceiling.
     “I can’t tell you on a phone call though.”
     “… Then why did you call me?!”
     “Because!” Yuu breathes and Mika frowns, “I need you to meet me after
     school today so I can tell you.”
Chapter Notes
     I took a week lmao sorry
     Bluestacks decided to be shitty with me and somehow reset my bloody
     blades account... my beautiful white day Mika and black suit Mika got
     lost *sobs*
     so yeah I had to start a new account (for the fifth fucking time,
     ISTG this game hates me!) and I was leveling it up (but the gods
     decided to be merciful with me and bestowed me with the blessing that
     is the sunset gays red Yuu and light Mika and the legendary idol Mika
     today *cries in happiness* I feel so blessed!)
     I had half of the chapter written by the middle of the week, but then
     I got sick and I couldn't write a thing :') however, I got really
     happy today that I got freaking idol Mika, so I finished this chapter
     to share my happiness with everyone *throws confetti to the air*
     so yeah xD have Mika and Yuu going on a not-a-date again lmao xD Have
     a good reading~
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Mika wakes up at barely six am with his phone ringing – and it’s not his alarm.
Still sleepy, he grunts and rolls to his side, reaching blindly for his phone
and bringing it close, squinting at the brightness of the screen. He manages to
see Yuu’s name, and he’s so sleepy he has half a mind to wonder why the hell
Yuu is calling him so early on a Monday.
Yawning, he picks it up.
“Mikaaaa!” Yuu exclaims excitedly, and Mika flinches at his loud voice.
“What is it, Yuu-chan?” He mumbles yawning again. “It’s too early and we’ve got
school later, why are you calling me now?”
“Because you weren’t answering my texts.”
Mika sighs. Of course.
“Yuu-chan…”
“No, listen Mika, there’s something I need to tell you,” Yuu speaks quickly,
his voice dripping with excitement, “You won’t believe in what I just found
out!”
“Try me,” Mika sighs, rolling on his back and staring at his ceiling.
“I can’t tell you on a phone call though.”
“… Then why did you call me?!”
“Because!” Yuu breathes and Mika frowns, “I need you to meet me after school
today so I can tell you.”
“But you have practice today, don’t you? What about your super important game
in two weeks?”
“I know but we can go out after the practice. Listen!” Yuu insists, “Your
classes end one hour after mine, right? But I have two hours of training after
my classes. So after your classes are over, you go to my school, wait for the
training to be over and then we can go out and I can tell you this thing I
found out about Shinya and Guren.”
Mika’s frown deepens.
“Mr. Hiiragi and your uncle?” He asks, “What happened to them?”
“That’s what I’ll tell you later!”
Mika rolls his eyes and sighs deeply, but Yuu got him: he’s curious to know
what’s got Yuu so excited that he had to call Mika at six in a Monday morning.
“Fine, Yuu-chan,” He says finally, “I’ll meet you there after school. But
you’ll buy me something to eat.”
“Deal!” Yuu giggles, “There’s a Mexican restaurant next to my school that makes
some awesome nachos, you have to taste it!”
“Right, right,” Mika sighs once more and yawns, “Well, I’m going to get ready
to school.”
“Okay! See you later!”
“See you,” He mumbles and hangs up. He frowns at his phone screen, reducing the
brightness and then checking Yuu’s messages:
[ Mika, I need to talk to you! ]
[ It’s serious, you have nO IDEA of what I just found out]
[ jfc Mika answer me pls ]
[If you dont answer me Imma call you rn ]
Mika shakes his head, fighting back a smile. This idiot…
 
 
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Mika thought that Seraph High was a big school. But the Moon Demon Academy is
three times bigger, with three buildings with four floors each and walls
painted in grey and green. He stands awkwardly at the gates, clutching his bag
close to his chest, his cheeks becoming red when he notices people looking at
him. Only when some alphas walk past him casting him some smirks is that he
decides to walk inside.
He had asked Yuu if he could even enter the school since he wasn’t a student
from there, but Yuu had told him that one hour after the classes are over,
nobody cares anymore. This proves to be truth, because he manages to walk in
without anyone stopping him.
Fortunately, he finds a map on a wall next to a board with notifications and
announcements to the students. Mika notices the announcement to the soccer
game, with the soccer team calling the students to go cheer for them; there’s a
picture of the whole team together, and Mika can’t help but peek into it
curiously only to find Yuu at the center, wearing the black and green team
uniform. Mika smiles a little before going back to the map and looking for the
soccer field.
He finds out that besides the soccer field, there are also fields for football
and baseball, gyms for volleyball and basketball, a tennis court and also an
indoor pool for the swimming club. Mika whistles as he approaches the area
where all of this is located. This school really focuses on sports.
He knows his own school has some teams too, but he never cared to know when the
games would be. Maybe he should look for it – who knows if they’ll be in the
same competition.
He manages to arrive at the soccer field without any incident, and his eyes
widen when he sees the field. He had thought it would be a small thing since it
is for a school team, but the field is huge. He walks to the bleachers timidly,
noticing there are a few girls there gathered together in a small group,
giggling and gossiping and, occasionally, screaming at the boys in the field.
Mika sits next to them and looks at the field.
He had watched some soccer matches on TV before, but he never got really
interested in it. He actually doesn’t like any sport too much, and that’s
partially his father’s fault, because the man used to say that “sports are not
things for omegas”. So he doesn’t understand what’s going on, but he figures
they must have split the team in two to play against each other, one half with
shirts and the other with tank tops.
Yuu is in the tank top team.
Now Mika understands why the girls are so agitated. He can’t help but blush a
little when he looks at the boys running in the field, quietly thinking to
himself that they look good – before quickly shaking that thought away,
embarrassed at his own thoughts.
Yuu notices him, and he waves excitedly at him, calling his name:
“Hey, Mika!” He waves both arms, smiling, and Mika waves back shyly, his cheeks
redder than ever, shrinking in his seat when he notices the girls have gone
quiet and are now glaring at him as if asking who are you and why is one of our
boys smiling at you?
Then out of nowhere a ball hits Yuu on his back and he trips, almost falling
forward.
“KIMIZUKI!” Yuu screams furiously turning around with his face red to glare at
the pink-haired boy who’s smirking at him. Kimizuki waves discretely at Mika
before running from Yuu, who’s now trying to kick the ball on his face.
Their coach, a woman with red hair pulled back in a high ponytail, steps in to
stop them when they start to fight, screaming at them to keep their heads in
the game. Everybody stops to look with amused expressions while the woman
lectures them. After a few minutes, she blows her whistle and the practice
resumes.
Mika chuckles a little, watching as Yuu starts to run after the ball, screaming
something at one of his team mates. His tank top is already damp with sweat,
clinging to his chest. When he runs, his hair bounces around his head and then
clings to his sweaty face when he stops. Mika can’t take his eyes out of him,
and so he barely registers when the practice ends, only seeing when Yuu turns
to smile and wave at him again before heading to the locker room with the other
boys.
The girls on the blenchers start to leave too, casting Mika some distrustful
gazes before walking away. He waits for them to be out of his sight before
standing up and leaving too.
He waits at the door of the locker room, keeping his eyes on his feet and
fidgeting with the strap of his bag, getting even more nervous when the boys
start to leave the locker room, casting him strange glances as if asking who’s
the lost kid?
Then Yuu finally leaves the room with Narumi and Kimizuki, the last two
laughing at something while Yuu grimaces at them, his cheeks bright red. When
he sees Mika, though, his eyes widen and he smiles.
“Mika!” He runs to him and tackles him down, hugging him and laughing when they
hit the ground.
“Ouch! Yuu-chan!” Mika whimpers and glares at him, who only laughs again.
“Sorry, sorry,” He stands up and helps Mika up, still smiling.
Narumi mutters something that Mika doesn’t understand, but Yuu must have heard
him, because he turns to the older alpha with a glare.
“He’s not my… Ah, you know what, fuck you two. Come on, Mika, let’s go,” Yuu
grabs him by his wrist and drags him away from the other two, who laugh at
Yuu’s reaction.
“Yuu-chan, what was that?” Mika asks frowning as they make their way out of the
soccer field. Yuu blushes and slows down his walking, sliding his hand from
Mika’s wrist to enlace his fingers with Mika’s.
“Those two were being idiots, that’s all,” He mumbles. Mika raises his
eyebrows.
“Okay then,” He smiles and pokes Yuu’s cheek, giggling, “You’re blushing,
that’s so cute.”
“S-shut up you too!”
Mika laughs as Yuu turns his head away. They’re making their way now through
the area with the other fields and gyms, and Mika can’t help but stare at
everything again.
“Your school is really cool though,” He comments, “Such huge places for the
clubs…”
“Yeah,” Yuu seems glad with the change of topic, “And it’s not only the sport
clubs that get cool things. You see that building there?” He points to one of
the three large buildings of the school and Mika nods, “That entire place is
for the arts clubs. Drama club, dance club, choir, brass band…”
“Wow,” Mika breathes amazed, “That’s nice.”
“I suppose it is,” Yuu chuckles, “But your school is nice too, isn’t it? I
mean, the Seraph’s brass band is the best of the city.”
“Uh, it is?” Mika tilts his head, blushing a little when he admits, “I never
actually got interested in any of the clubs of my school. I guess I was too
focused on studying to pay attention to it.”
Yuu shakes his head and laughs.
“Only you, Mika, only you.”
“Shut up,” Mika gently pushes his shoulder, though he’s smiling.
“Why don’t you join the brass band?” Yuu suggests, “I remember you said you
could play violin.”
“I haven’t played in the past few years,” Mika sighs and then shrugs, “Plus, I
lost my violin in the fire.”
“Make your uncle buy you a new one.”
“Maybe I could,” Mika chuckles, “But then he would probably want me to play for
him and that would be a pain in the ass.”
“Speaking of playing for him,” Yuu eyes him as he says in a suggestive tone, “I
remember clearly you promised you would play for me one day.”
“Oh, that’s right, I did,” Mika smiles at the memory of both of them at around
10, and Yuu pouting because Mika was late to play with him, and Mika saying he
was late because he had violin practice. Yuu’s green eyes had widen at that,
amazed that young Mika could play violin, and then the small alpha practically
begged Mika to play for him.
“You still owe me that,” Yuu complains with a smirk, and Mika chuckles.
“Right, right,” He smiles at the alpha, “As soon as I convince Ferid to buy me
a new violin, I’ll play for you. Though I’ll have to practice a little, because
I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten almost everything.”
“You? Forgetting something?” Yuu snorts, “Not likely.”
Mika pushes his shoulder again, making him stumble sideways, and they both
laugh. They’re at the school gates now, and the few people around there are
staring at them, but weirdly Mika doesn’t care about them.
Yuu enlaces his arm on Mika’s and leads the way to the Mexican restaurant two
streets away from the Moon Demon Academy. Mika had never eaten Mexican food,
and when they enter the place, the spicy scent in the air is what catches his
attention the most. There aren’t many people there, but somehow the place looks
small and cozy.
“What do you think?” Yuu asks with a smile as they walk to the queue, noticing
Mika looking around with big eyes.
“I like it,” Mika smiles at Yuu, lightly squeezing his hand.
“I knew you would,” Yuu chuckles.
They order the nachos with some soda – Yuu clearly ignoring Mika when he
complained about having to stay awake at night because the alpha won’t stop
texting him – and then find a table next to the window. Once they are seated,
Yuu insists that Mika eats the nachos first, and then proceeds to laugh as the
blond omega gasps and gulps half of his soda because the nachos were spicy.
“You should have seen your face,” Yuu chuckles, not even caring about Mika’s
glare.
“You’re evil,” Mika whimpers, “You should’ve told me they put pepper on this.”
“Well, these are spicy nachos,” Yuu smiles, and then pushes his soda across the
table for Mika, “Here, you can have mine. Yours is almost ending.”
Mika watches as Yuu eats the nachos without even flinching, as if he didn’t
feel the burn of the pepper on his tongue.
“Are you okay eating this?” He asks suspiciously, to which Yuu shrugs.
“Mahiru’s curry was worse than this,” Yuu says chewing another nacho
thoughtfully, “I’m already used to spicy food.” Then he casts a guilty glance
at Mika, “If you want, I can buy you another thing to eat though…”
“No, it’s okay,” Mika picks up another nacho, carefully biting it and grimacing
at the taste. Yuu chuckles and reaches out, and Mika gives him the bitten
nacho. The omega sighs, “I’m okay with just the soda. And anyway,” He raises
his eyebrows suggestively at Yuu, “You didn’t bring me here just to eat spicy
nachos.”
Yuu chuckles as he eats more nachos.
“Ok, ok, I’ll tell you,” He leans over the table with an excited glare on his
eyes, “Ok, so remember when I told you Guren was going to buy a house because
of Cerberus, because he was too big to live in that apartment?”
“Yes.”
“So! I found out Cerberus’ was not the main reason for it,” Yuu takes a deep
breath dramatically, “Shinya is pregnant.”
Mika chokes on his soda.
“What?”
Yuu nods, his eyes gleaming.
“I found out this morning,” He says, “I woke up to go to the bathroom, and when
I was going back to my room I listened to Guren arguing with Shinya about how
they were only going to have one baby so they didn’t need a house with fucking
ten rooms. And I was like, what? What baby? And then during breakfast I asked
them about it and they admitted that they’re really going to have a baby and
that’s why Guren wants a bigger house, because there’s not enough room for a
baby in that cramped apartment. I mean, he was talking about moving out for a
few months before, but now suddenly he was very obsessed with it, and now I
know why! And also,” Yuu takes another breath, since he spoke it all so fast,
and then says as quickly as before, “Shinya convinced Guren, so he’s going to
buy that house. We’re going to be next door neighbors again!” He smiles widely,
and then frowns, “Hey, Mika, are you okay?”
Mika is staring him open-mouthed, his eyed widen. Mr. Hiiragi is going to have
a baby.
It shouldn’t surprise him. He’s always known that his teacher is an omega. And
omegas, even males, can get pregnant. So why is he so surprised?
“Mika!” Yuu’s voice snaps him out of his daze, and he blinks his eyes and
stares at the alpha pouting at him, “Are you even listening to me? I just said
we’re going to live next to each other again.”
Mika blinks again and then smiles. Then he chuckles and stands up loudly,
walking across the table to sit by his side and hug him, ignoring the strange
stares he’s attracting from everyone else around them.
“Yes, yes, I heard you,” He smiles warmly at Yuu, “I can’t wait to have you as
my neighbor again.”
Yuu’s face goes red in a second, and he nods weakly.
“Y-yeah,” Yuu says, smiling too, “I’m not going to let you sleep now,
definitely.”
Mika rolls his eyes at that.
“As if you don’t do that already,” He sighs. Then he leans over the table to
grab his soda, not wanting to move away from Yuu. He likes sitting like this,
so close to him that their arms and legs touch. And he likes even more the way
Yuu gets embarrassed about this, even though he knows he too must be blushing
by now.
“But about Mr. Hiiragi,” Mika says with a frown, “Will he really have a baby?”
Yuu nods enthusiastically, unceremoniously shoving a handful of nachos inside
his mouth.
“It’s still in the beginning of the pregnancy though,” He says, “He’s still not
scenting like a pregnant omega. Guren says that should be happening in a few
weeks though.”
“And is it okay for you to tell me that?” Mika asks raising his eyebrows at
him. “I mean, have they told their family about it?”
“Uhh…” Yuu averts his eyes with an embarrassed chuckle, “Yeah, I don’t think
so? But I’m pretty sure they’ll tell them soon. Kureto will want to know why
Shinya is moving in with us. And also, they’re going to get married, so they’ll
need to know,” He finishes with a shrug.
“They will get married?”
“Yes, Guren likes to do everything right,” Yuu rolls his eyes, though he’s
smiling, “And also, Kureto would strangle him if he got his precious little
omega brother pregnant and then just ran away from it.”
Mika tilts his head to the side.
“Who’s Kureto?” He asks curiously.
“Shinya’s brother,” Yuu says, “Technically they’re the same age, but Kureto’s
birthday is in March while Shinya’s is in November, so Kureto always acts as if
Shinya’s his little brother.”
“I see,” Mika nods, sipping his soda calmly.
“But anyway Kureto and Guren are best friends since forever, I guess, so they
should be fine,” Yuu shrugs, “Anyway! The thing is they’re going to have a
baby!”
His eyes gleam with that, and Mika smiles, finding his enthusiasm rather cute.
“You seem excited with it,” He observes.
“Well, of course I am! It’s a baby, Mika!” Yuu says the word with such
sweetness, as if he is savoring it, “Can you imagine how cool it will be?”
“Only until the baby starts crying in the middle of the night when everyone
wants to sleep,” Mika chuckles when Yuu glares at him, “I’m only joking ok?
It’s just,” He smiles gently at his friend, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen
someone so excited about a baby. It’s not even yours. And aren’t you afraid of
being left aside or something?”
That makes Yuu avert his eyes to the table. He grabs the last of the nachos,
turning it around as if suddenly it is more interesting than Mika’s question.
“Well, yeah, a little,” He finally says, eating the nacho in one go. After
swallowing it, he sighs and looks at Mika, “But it’s not like I’m Guren’s son
anyway, so it’s not like I’m being replaced or something. He’s finally starting
a family of his own, and he’s finally really moving on from Mahiru. I’m just
really glad for him.”
Mika nods, understanding, and then leans against Yuu, resting his head on Yuu’s
shoulder.
“I’m sure you’ll be the most annoying uncle this baby will ever have,” He says,
and that makes Yuu chuckle.
“It will be a tough competition with Kureto and Shinoa though.”
“Oh, you will win. You’re annoying enough.”
“Hey!”
“If you ever feel lonely and need someone to talk,” Mika says raising his head
to look at Yuu, “You can text me or even call me, at any time. Even late in the
night.”
“Seriously?” Yuu smiles, though his eyes are a little sad. “Thanks, Mika.”
“Hey, that’s what friends are for.”
Yuu nods, his eyes growing even sadder. Then he blinks, and the feeling is
gone.
“Ah, I was gonna ask you, do you want to go spend this weekend at my house?
Guren is going to travel so I will be alone. Usually Kimizuki is there to keep
an eye on me, but his father will be there this weekend, so I don’t want to
interrupt them or something.”
“You’re 16 and still need a babysitter, Yuu-chan?” Mika teases him.
“Well, not exactly,” Yuu scratches the back of his neck, embarrassed, “It’s
just that, after what happened two years ago, I’m kind of afraid of being alone
at home for too long.”
That wipes away Mika’s smile, replacing it with a frown.
“Yuu-chan,” He says carefully, “Have you been contemplating suicide again?”
“What? No!” Yuu shakes his head furiously, “No, no, that’s not it, I swear!
It’s just,” He sighs, running a hand through his hair, “After that, I got kind
of afraid of myself, of my own thoughts. I’ve been doing a lot better recently,
but when I think that if the thought crosses my mind when I’m alone and there’s
no one there to stop me again…” He shudders, “I prefer to have someone close.
Whenever Guren needs to travel, Kimizuki checks on me from time to time, but
with his father here, I think he’ll want to spend some time with him, so I
don’t want to intrude.”
Mika looks down at his now empty glass, frowning at it.
“Where is Guren going?” He finally asks.
“To Germany,” Yuu says with a shrug, “It’s something to do with a research him
and Kureto are doing. They’re some kind of scientists, you know,” He adds,
“Shinya will go with him, so there’s no one to keep me company. That’s why I’m
asking you. Though it’s okay if you can’t, I’ll understa–”
“I’ll go,” Mika interrupts him, finally raising his eyes to stare at him, “I’ll
have to ask Ferid first, but I’ll definitely go.”
“Really?” Yuu exclaims enthusiastically.
“Yes, of course!” Mika tries his best to mask his worry with a smile. He wants
to believe in Yuu’s words that he’s ok and that this is just for precaution,
but then he thinks back to the scars on Yuu’s wrists, and he’s afraid. He
doesn’t want to lose his friend.
But he knows showing his worries won’t do Yuu any better, so he does what he
does best: smile and be a good friend, because that’s all Yuu needs from him
now.
“And you know what,” He says “I’ll make Ferid buy me a violin this week, so
when I go to your house on the weekend I’ll play for you.”
Yuu’s eyes widen, and suddenly he throws his arms around Mika, crushing him in
a tight hug.
“Mika, you’re the best friend in the whole world!” He cries, attracting curious
glances from everyone in the restaurant. Blushing, Mika buries his face in
Yuu’s neck to hide his flushed face.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     Do you sometimes forget that this is an omegaverse fic because I
     swear I sometimes do lmao
     yeah Guren and Shinya are gonna have a baby, yay! *throws more
     confetti to the air*
     Also, I swear I'm growing impatient with this slow burn, I just
     really want them to kiss already hnnnn
     Also yeah, next chapter we'll have Yuu and Mika having a little
     sleepover. Alone at Yuu's apartment. For the whole weekend. ( ͡° ͜ʖ
     ͡°)
     I'm not promising anything though uwu
     Also, I don't know if I mentioned it here? lmao but I have a Tumblr
     and a Twitter and you can follow me there if you want :D (On twitter
     you may even stumble across some spoilers from here though you'll
     have to endure me complaining about my life 24/7 lmao)
     Don't forget to leave your comment, as they always make me very happy
     (thanks to everyone who commented last chapter, aah I was so glad
     with every comment ^w^) and see you next chapter~
***** Chapter 13 *****
Chapter Summary
     “Anyway, about you and your friend…”
     Mika groans.
     “Can we please forget it?”
     “No,” Ferid smirks, “You can lie to yourself about your own feelings,
     but you’re neither blind nor stupid, Mika. I’m sure you’ve noticed
     too that he has feelings for you.”
Chapter Notes
     I didn't think I could finish this today yet haha but I made a little
     effort because I GOT IDOL YUU-CHAN ON BLOODY BLADES AND NOW I HAVE
     THE SUNSET MIKAYUU AND THE IDOL MIKAYUU SETS AND I'M SO. HAPPY!
     *throws confetti to the air*
     Also, this chapter is almost fucking 10k words long (about 9800 words
     to be more exact haha), so grab your popcorn and fasten your seat
     belts, because this will be along ride! Have a good reading~
See the end of the chapter for more notes
“So you expect me to chill out and be ok with the fact that you’ll sleep for
two days at the house of an alpha, only the two of you,” Ferid says as they
walk into the musical instruments store. Mika had convinced Ferid to buy him a
violin, so on Wednesday he drags his uncle to the mall.
And on Wednesday he tells him he’s going to spend the weekend at Yuu’s place.
And apparently Ferid is not taking that as well as he expected.
“It’s not just any alpha, it’s Yuu,” Mika argues walking through the halls of
the store, looking for the violins. “He’s my friend. It’s not like we’re going
to do something illegal, it’s just a sleepover.”
Ferid hums as they finally find the violins, and they drop the subject when an
employer of the store approaches them. Mika spends at least thirty minutes
discussing with the employer about the best violin to buy and Ferid just stands
aside eyeing everything curiously, not even bothering to participate the
conversation.
When Mika started playing as a child, he never really liked it. His fingers
hurt too much and he found it all a waste of time, precious time that he could
have spent playing with Yuu-chan. But after Yuu disappeared, playing violin
became some kind of distraction for the pain of being left alone.
Now he’s not alone anymore though. But he still wants to play – and he wants to
play for Yuu. He’s more excited than he imagined about it.
He finally chooses one violin, as well as a bow and a case, and he doesn’t miss
Ferid’s mumble of “Finally!” when they walk to the cashier to check out. As
they leave the store, Mika says amused:
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you so bored.”
Ferid rolls his eyes, pouting.
“I hate violin,” He says, “My mother tried to make me play it when I was a
child. I wanted a guitar or a drum, but she went and said that those were not
instruments for omegas and that I should play violin or piano or something
delicate. I ended up crashing my violin on the wall in a fit of anger. Her
angry face when I did that was so delightful to watch,” He smiles contently and
Mika shakes his head.
“Mom was the one who taught me,” He says quietly.
“Is that so?” Ferid casts him a careful glance, sighing, “I remember vaguely of
her playing. She was a great violinist, my mother used to say. ‘Why can’t you
be like your sister?’, she would ask. It’s a shame all her talent went to
waste.” He shakes his head and shrugs, and then smiles brightly at Mika, “But
that aside, what do you think of eating something before going home?”
They go to the food court and order cheeseburgers with Pepsi. As they sit down
to eat, Ferid goes back to the topic of the sleepover at Yuu’s house.
“I’m not sure you should go,” He says, making Mika roll his eyes.
“Why not?”
“Because that kid is into you. Who knows what he can do to you while you’re
both alone?”
Mika blushes but glares at him.
“Yuu-chan would never touch me without my consent,” He says coldly. He’s sure
of that; Yuu is not like the other alphas, he doesn’t use his instincts as an
excuse to harass other people. He’s too kind and gentle to do that. “Plus,”
Mika adds with a sigh, averting his eyes, “He’s not into me.”
“He totally is though,” Ferid sips his soda casting him a curious glance, “Or
you’re gonna tell me you didn’t notice?”
“Notice what?” Mika frowns at him.
“The way he acts around you,” Ferid sets down his soda and leans back on his
chair, raising his eyebrows at Mika, “Seriously, Mika, everybody can see he’s
in love with you. And I would risk saying that the feeling goes both ways.”
Mika blushes harder.
“I-I’m not…”
“Please,” Ferid scoffs, “Spare me of your excuses. You can lie to him, to your
friends and to yourself, but not to me. I’m too smart to be fooled by that.”
Mika is tempted to throw his chair at Ferid, but he manages to control himself.
“I’m not lying,” He mumbles, though he’s not sure. He remembers the day at the
park, and how they almost kissed. He remembers wanting to kiss him.
“Yeah, sure.”
“Even if I was in love with him, which I’mnot, so what? It’s not like we’re
going to… to date or something,” He finishes of with a whisper.
“Why not?” Ferid asks, “That’s what happens when you’re in love with someone.
You confess to them, and if they feel the same, you two date.”
“Then why aren’t you and Crowley dating?” Mika shots back.
“Because I’m not in love with him,” Though he says this, he averts his eyes,
busying himself with biting his cheeseburger.
“Yeah, sure,” Mika mimics his tone, and Ferid glares at him.
“The thing between me and Crowley is different,” He says, “It’s you and that
Yuu kid we’re talking about now.”
“How is this any different?” Mika asks, “Yuu and I are friends, just like you
and Crowley.”
“You wouldn’t understand,” Ferid sighs shaking his head, “Crowley and I aren’t
together because I’m too selfish.”
Mika frowns.
“What does that mean?”
“Nothing, forget it,” Ferid waves his hand dismissively, “Anyway, about you and
your friend…”
Mika groans.
“Can we please forget it?”
“No,” Ferid smirks, “You can lie to yourself about your own feelings, but
you’re neither blind nor stupid, Mika. I’m sure you’ve noticed too that he has
feelings for you.”
Mika doesn’t answer to that, instead choosing to finish eating his
cheeseburger. Ferid sighs when he doesn’t get an answer.
“I’m just worried about you,” His uncle says, “Just please don’t do anything
you’ll regret later.”
Like telling my best friend I like him only to find out he doesn’t feel the
same?
“Don’t worry,” Mika mutters, “I won’t.”
 
 
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Guren travels on Friday morning, so Mika decides that he’ll go to Yuu’s place
on Friday after school. So when Ferid leaves him at school at day, he takes at
least ten minutes giving him recommendations before letting him go.
“I will call you every hour just to make sure,” He finally says, to which Mika
grimaces.
“Please, don’t.”
“But you’re my dear nephew…”
“And I can take care of myself, Ferid,” Mika sighs and shakes his head, opening
the door of the car, “Look, if something happens I will call you, ok? But just…
Just keep calm and have some trust in me. I’ll be back in one piece by Monday
after school.”
He leaves the car before Ferid can say anything else, closing the door and
walking away.
He finds he can’t concentrate on class that day. He keeps tapping his pen
impatiently on his notebook, wanting the class to be over already so he can see
Yuu. He brought his new violin, and he spent the whole Tuesday practicing only
so he could play decently for Yuu; he can’t wait to finally play for him.
Mr. Hiiragi isn’t on school today, since he traveled with Guren earlier.
Instead it’s a substitute teacher, an old man called Mr. Hiroshi, who’s
teaching. Mika doesn’t know if it’s because he’s impatient to meet Yuu soon,
but he finds Mr. Hiroshi’s class boring. He writes down everything either way,
because boring or not it is important; he wonders if he’ll have time to study
over the weekend, but considering that he’ll be with Yuu, he doubts. Yuu always
runs away from study, so he’ll definitely do anything but that, and he’ll want
Mika to join him for sure.
When school’s over, Mika is one of the first students to shove his things
inside his bag and stand up. Yoichi gives him an amused look and Mirai smirks.
“Someone is eager for the weekend, it seems,” She sings, making Mika blush.
“Gonna have fun with Yuu?”
He busies himself by picking up his schoolbag, the bag he brought with his
clothes for the weekend and the violin case, trying to think of something to
say.
“I’m just going to make him some company,” He finally says timidly, to which
Mirai snorts.
“Yeah, right.”
“Yuu-chan told me your father will be here this weekend though,” He says trying
to change the topic. It works: Mirai’s eyes gleam excitedly.
“He will!” She exclaims bouncing on the balls of her feet as they make their
way out of the classroom. “He actually arrived last night, but he had some
business to do here today, so he’ll only see us tomorrow and Sunday. But! He
told me we can go out, and he’ll take us to the aquarium and then we can go eat
together, and he’ll tell us all about England and it will be so fun!”
“That’s nice,” Mika smiles, “It’s good that you two will finally spend some
time with your father. How long has it been since you last saw him?”
“Hm, I believe since last Christmas,” She says thoughtfully. “We traveled to
England to spend it with him. We spent a whole week there, and it was kind of
fun, but he was mostly out at work,” She sighs, “Brother didn’t like it at all.
They had an ugly argument before we came back home, and they haven’t spoke to
each other ever since,” She frowns, pursing her lips, “I hope brother won’t say
anything stupid again or father will leave sooner than necessary. Again.”
Mika tilts his head slightly.
“Shihou’s relationship with him is…”
“Terrible,” She finishes with a sigh, “Father left shortly after mom’s death,
and brother never forgave him for that. He says father ran away from us. I try
to tell him father regrets this, he even asked for forgiveness a lot of times,
but brother doesn’t listen to me.”
“Mirai,” Yoichi says gently, “You were young and sick when that happened, so
you don’t remember much of that. But your brother does, and he had to stay
alone taking care of you while your father left for England without thinking
twice. That’s why Shihou-kun can’t forgive him. But,” He adds when he sees
she’s going to protest, “That’s his opinion on this. It doesn’t mean you have
to feel the same way.”
Her frown deepens.
“But sometimes he speaks as if I should,” She mumbles pouting, “Sometimes he
says I’m too stupid for being so affectionate with him. He says father doesn’t
really care for us and that I shouldn’t care for him.”
“Then he’s wrong,” Mika says, “He can’t force you to think the same way as he
does. And even if your father doesn’t care about you, it doesn’t mean you can’t
care about him too. He’s your family, one way or another.”
Mirai eyes him curiously, biting her lower lip. Mika averts his eyes, thinking
back to his own parents – his mother that one time ignored him, and the other
taught him how to defend himself or how to play an instrument; his father that
one time was too harsh with him, and the other brought him gifts for being a
good boy. They never were perfect parents, and his father went crazy in the
end, wanting to take Mika for himself. But they still raised him and took care
of him for 16 years; no matter what they did, deep down he knows he loves them.
Though it doesn’t mean he’ll forgive them for what they did.
He stays quiet the rest of the way out of the school, were they meet Kimizuki
and Yuu as always. Kimizuki has his arms crossed and a frown on his face, but
Yuu smiles brightly when he sees Mika.
“Hey!” He breathes out excitedly, happily grabbing one of Mika’s bags, “Here,
let me help.”
“Ah… Thanks, Yuu-chan.” Mika smiles at him. Yuu smiles back, his eyes traveling
to the violin case in Mika’s hand.
“You convinced him?”
“Of course!” They both chuckle.
Suddenly Kimizuki clears his throat, as if to remind them that they’re not
alone here.
“Can we go now?” The pink-haired alpha asks.
“Yes, please, let’s go,” Mirai says with a giggle, “I’m sure Mika and Yuu are
very excited for their weekend together!”
Yuu blushes hard, and Mika glares at her.
“Shut up,” He mumbles.
 
 
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They drop off Yoichi first. The whole ride to his house is quiet, and Mika
understands why after he leaves: he’s not there anymore. Without his calm voice
to balance things, Mika is trapped between Yuu and Kimizuki arguing and Mirai
teasing him.
He almost lets out a sigh of relief when they finally arrive at the apartment
complex. Yuu helps him carry his other bag, and together the four of them enter
the elevator; Mirai and Kimizuki leave on the fifth floor, and then it’s only
Yuu and Mika.
The elevator stops on the eighth floor and Yuu leaves first, talking excitedly:
“Guren left early today, so we have the house all for ourselves!” He opens the
door, holding it open for Mika to enter and closing it behind him, “I can’t
cook for shit, but we can order something or go out to eat – oh, hey there big
friend!” He laughs and kneels to hug Cerberus and pet his head when the dog all
but bounces across the hall, barking at them. “Guess what?” He asks, and Mika
realizes he’s talking to the dog, “Mika’s going to spend the weekend here with
us!”
Cerberus barks and then wriggles out of Yuu’s embrace, jumping on Mika,
successfully tackling him down and licking all over his face. Mika knows it’s
useless to fight, so he only laughs and pets the dog’s soft fur. After a while,
Cerberus releases him, bouncing through the hall and disappearing into the
living room. Yuu and Mika eye each other and chuckle.
“So,” Mika says as they stand up, “What are we going to do now?”
“I want to hear you play,” Yuu says immediately.
“I imagined so,” Mika rolls his eyes, but smiles. “Well, first let me at least
put these bags somewhere. Where am I going to sleep?”
“Oh, in my room. Come on,” Yuu says as he guides him to his room, “I found a
spare futon, so I can sleep in it and you can sleep in my bed.”
Mika frowns.
“Are you sure? I don’t mind sleeping in the futon. It’s your bed, after all.”
“It’s okay, don’t worry about that!” Yuu smiles brightly at him, opening the
door of his room. “Here we are!”
Mika only needs one glance around the room to recognize the mess that is that
place. There are shirts and dirty socks threw around the floor and on the
wheeled chair of the desk, the sheets on the bed are messed up as if Yuu had
just woken up, there are crumpled papers on the desk and what looks to be the
rest of a pizza from who knows how long ago.
Mika grimaces.
“You could tidy up your room once in a while, you know.”
“A-ah, sorry,” Yuu chuckles embarrassed, quickly running around the room and
picking up his clothes, only to throw them inside his wardrobe – Mika catches a
glimpse of an even bigger mess of clothes inside there. “Between school and the
practices I’ve been so tired I didn’t have time for anything else, haha.”
I don’t think you would have cleaned even if you had time for it, Mika thinks,
but decides not to say anything, instead inspecting the posters of diverse
bands on the wall. Next to it are some beautiful drawings of birds, forests and
people.
“I didn’t know you could draw,” Mika comments, his eyes running through the
drawings that look to be random. There is one of a beautiful red and green
bird, one of a quiet black lake in the middle of a forest, and one that looks
to be of Shinoa and Mitsuba laughing at something.
Yuu looks at the drawings too with a smile.
“Oh, those aren’t mine. They’re Yoichi’s.” He says, “He’s a great artist, you
know? Whenever I like any, he gives it to me. It’s rather sweet actually,” He
chuckles, approaching Mika to admire the drawings too, “You see this one?” He
points to one of Yuu with a wide smile and what looks to be snow falling around
him, “That was from when we started to date. It was around February and we went
on a date on the park, and there were those two little girls playing with a
dog, and they looked so cute and I just couldn’t stop laughing. When I
realized, Yoichi had already pulled out his sketchbook and was already drawing
me,” Yuu has a nostalgic look on his face, and he chuckles lightly, “You better
be careful, because when you least expect, he might be drawing you. Ah, he made
one of you, by the way,” Yuu points out to one drawing that is in a frame as if
Yuu wanted to preserve it; it’s a drawing of Mika smiling timidly, a blush
spreading across his cheeks, and Mika frowns.
“When did he do that?” He asks confused, tilting his head to the side, and Yuu
laughs.
“I told you, he’ll draw you when you least expect, and you might not even
notice it.”
“Wow,” Mika raises an eyebrow, “He’s like a ninja.”
“He is,” Yuu chuckles again.
“Though,” Mika turns to him with a frown, “Why do you have a drawing of me?”
That makes Yuu freeze, his cheeks becoming red in the blink of an eye, and he
laughs embarrassed.
“A-Ah, that is because… Well, I… I thought the drawing was pretty… I-I mean,
you looked, well…” Mika chuckles, making Yuu glare at him, asking defensively,
“What?”
“Nothing,” Mika shakes his head, smiling at Yuu, “You’re cute when you’re
embarrassed.”
That makes Yuu’s face become even redder.
“S-shut up!”
 
 
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After Mika has settled in – and after Yuu more or less has tidied up his room
(a.k.a. after he hid everything under his bed and inside his wardrobe) – they
go to the living room, and Mika takes his violin out of its case.
“Are you sure I can play here?” He asks, “Won’t it disturb the neighbours?”
“No, it’s okay,” Yuu waves it off, “Plus, I’m sure they’ll like it too.”
Mika blushes, rolling his eyes at him.
“Okay then,” He mutters and takes a deep breath, tucking his violin under his
chin and bringing the bow up to the strings.
Mika had practiced a little the last day, too afraid of having forgotten
everything, but he found out he still remembers some stuff. He looked into the
internet for some sheets to practice.
As he starts playing, though, he notices he didn’t even need to look for the
sheets. He still remembers every single one of them. As the bow slides over the
strings swiftly, he can almost hear his mother’s voice instructing him, telling
him what chord comes next, correcting his posture or telling him to play this
way or that. You want to slide the bow smoothly, Mika, she’d say, you’re
playing a delicate instrument, don’t need to be aggressive about it.
He doesn’t realize his eyelids have fluttered closed, but they have, and now he
feels like he’s disconnected from the world, and he and his violin are all
there is. The song flows through his body swiftly, from head to toe, making his
fingertips tingle.
He opens his eyes slightly, his eyelids only half-open, when he hears a
delighted sigh. He has almost forgotten Yuu is in the room with him, and he
blushes slightly when he notices the alpha’s gaze – his eyes wide and gleaming
with wonder, as if he’s watching the most amazing thing in the world. He averts
his glance, trying to concentrate on the song again.
Though even when he closes his eyes, he can still feel Yuu’s stare on him, as
if his gaze is burning through him. It makes his cheeks warm up, and he steals
another glance at him, this time smiling a little. He was nervous, afraid of
not being able to play decently for Yuu, but it seems he likes it either way.
Would he even notice if I missed a chord?
Even if he did, Mika is pretty sure Yuu wouldn’t mind. Knowing Yuu, he would
tell him that he was great and that next time he would manage it. He smiles at
the thought.
As the song approaches its end, Mika looks at Yuu again through half-lidded
eyes, and sustains his gaze until the song ends. Even after it, they both stay
quiet, simply looking at each other.
After what feels like hours, Yuu finally blinks and then chuckles, clapping
lightheartedly.
“That was beautiful, Mika!” He breathes out, completely wonderstruck. “You
looked so… wow… I mean, I even got goose bumps, look!”
Mika chuckles as he watches Yuu extend his arm to show him. He sets the violin
down with a smile.
“I’m glad you enjoyed it so much,” He says, admitting, “I was a little afraid I
wouldn’t be able to actually play it. I’m pretty sure I was out of tone once or
twice, but…”
“I think you were great,” Yuu cuts him, smiling brightly, “Like, really, you
have a great talent for it. I admire people who can play musical instruments
with such intensity,” He sighs, “Mahiru tried to teach me to play piano, but I
failed horribly at it.”
“Oh, so you play piano?” Mika asks amazed.
“I failed at it,” Yuu repeats grimacing, “I managed the basics, but I never
could concentrate enough to learn other songs. I mean, some classical songs are
so freaking long for whatever reason. Why couldn’t they just make a three
minutes song like normal human beings?”
Mika laughs at that.
“Yuu-chan, please,” He rolls his eyes, “Three minutes sometimes aren’t enough
to capture the feeling of the song.”
Yuu shakes his head.
“You’re crazy just like them,” He sighs and then shrugs, “Well, whatever. Hey,
play another song!”
And so they manage to spend the rest of the afternoon with Mika playing and Yuu
simply watching amazed, as if he’s having the time of his life.
 
 
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They order pizza for dinner, and eat on the couch of the living room watching
TV. Yuu insisted on watching a show called Game of Thrones, telling Mika that
he needs to watch it because apparently it’s the best show in the whole world.
So far, all that Mika has seen is sex and people being beheaded, but Yuu has
promised him there are dragons, so he’s curious enough to endure it.
Five episodes later, though, and Mika is already sleepy. He looks to the clock
to see that it’s already midnight, and he nudges Yuu slightly.
“Hey, Yuu-chan, let’s go sleep,” He mumbles, “I’m tired. Let’s watch this
tomorrow.”
Yuu looks at him with a pout, but sighs.
“Ok, ok, let’s go,” He stands up, stretching, and grabs the remote control to
turn off the TV. “I have swimming tomorrow anyway.” Yuu then looks at him with
worry, “Oh, I had forgotten about swimming.”
Mika hesitates.
“I could go with you,” He suggests timidly, “I mean, I would just watch, but…”
The smile Yuu gives him is so bright Mika feels embarrassed again.
“Sure!” Yuu says, “Let’s sleep then!”
They head to Yuu’s room, where Cerberus is sleeping on Yuu’s futon.
“Hey!” Yuu glares at the dog, nudging it, “Go away, mate, this bed is mine!”
Cerberus peeks at him and then promptly ignores him, going back to sleep. Mika
laughs.
“Yeah, Yuu-chan, it seems you lost to the dog,” He chuckles. Yuu pouts.
“Can you believe this guy?”
Mika shakes his head, still smiling.
“Come sleep with me,” He says as he’s already sliding under the sheets, and he
pats the space by his side. Blushing, Yuu slides to the space next to him, and
they lay down side by side, their arms touching. Mika feels his face warm up
too, and he’s sure even the tips of his ears are red. However, even if he’s
nervous, having Yuu lying by his side is almost soothingly, and for some reason
he’s sure he won’t have problems to sleep this night.
“Well, then,” Yuu clears his throat and then turns on his side with his back to
Mika, whispering, “Goodnight.”
Mika smiles at his back. He’s as nervous as me.
“Goodnight, Yuu-chan.”
 
 
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Mika is the first to wake up on Saturday, before seven, and he leaves the bed
quietly, not wanting to disturb Yuu. Cerberus lifts his head to look at him,
and he puts a finger on his lips as if telling the dog to stay quiet. When he
leaves the room, Cerberus follows him without uttering a sound, and Mika
chuckles quietly to himself. Yuu-chan is right, Cer is way too smart.
He decides to make breakfast, so that when Yuu wakes up he won’t have to rush
for swimming on an empty stomach. Digging through the fridge, he finds a lot of
frozen food – probably Guren stocked it all since he knows of Yuu’s non-
existent cooking skills. When he looks at the frozen pancakes, he can’t help
but snort, remembering of Ferid.
When Yuu finally wakes up, he enters the kitchen to find Mika finishing frying
eggs; there are already toasts and coffee for both of them on the small table
of the kitchen.
“Oh, hey, good morning Yuu-chan,” Mika beams at him, who blinks confused.
“G’morning,” He rubs his eyes, “Did you make our breakfast?”
Mika giggles.
“Of course. Who else would, since you can’t cook?” He teases him as he puts the
eggs on the table as well. Yuu pokes out his tongue at him.
“Shut up,” He says, but he smiles as they sit down to eat.
After breakfast, they walk Cerberus for a few minutes on the park next to the
apartment, and when they come back, it’s already time for Yuu’s swimming.
“I knew you would be late,” Mika sighs as he waits by the door of Yuu’s room,
watching the boy running around looking for his goggles.
“Ha ha,” Yuu stops to poke out his tongue at him, and then resumes his search.
He finally finds his goggles stuffed inside his wardrobe, among the mess of
jumbled clothes. “Here it is!”
“Let’s go then.”
“Chill out, we can take Guren’s car.”
Mika frowns.
“Are you sure?” He asks uncertain, following Yuu out of the apartment and
watching as he twirls the car keys on his finger with a smirk.
“Of course! Just trust me.”
 
 
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They make it to the swimming club in less than ten minutes, and Yuu all but
rushes inside with Mika trailing close behind.
“You can go to the pool, it’s at the end of this hall” Yuu tells him, “There’s
a space for spectators to watch, you can stay there. I’ll go change first.”
Mika merely nods, shaking his head with an amused smile as he watches Yuu speed
to the locker room. He follows down the hall that ends at the indoor pool;
there is indeed a space on the side with tables and chairs, where a few people
are scarcely seated on, watching the ones on the pool. There’s a tall, strong-
built blond man walking around giving instructions and occasionally blowing his
whistle, and Mika assumes he must be the instructor. He quietly goes to one of
the tables, sitting alone and waiting for Yuu.
It doesn’t take long for Yuu to come running in, dressed in nothing more than
his black and green swimming jammer. Mika blushes as he looks at him, unable to
help himself as his eyes run through Yuu’s chest, taking in his lithe but
strong built muscles. He averts his eyes to Yuu’s face when he notices Yuu
waving at him, and suddenly almost everybody is looking at him.
He waves back timidly, watching amused as the instructor scolds him, telling
him to stop fooling around and get inside the pool. As he starts swimming,
someone approaches him – a beta boy with dark purple hair and blue eyes.
“Hello,” The boy smiles at him, “You’re a friend of Yuu?”
“Yes,” Mika eyes him carefully, nervously, “I’m Mikaela Shindou. You are...?”
“Shusaku Iwasaki,” The boy’s eyes gleam mischievously, “So you’re the famous
Mikaela. We’ve heard a lot of you.”
“W-we?”
“The soccer team,” Shusaku explains, sitting down on a chair besides Mika, “Yuu
talks non-stop about you. It gets kind of annoying with time, so we usually
tease him about it.”
Mika feels his face heating up. Yuu talks about me to their friends.
He doesn’t know why, but the thought of Yuu blabbering about him makes him feel
warm inside.
“H-he does that?” He asks curious. Shusaku chuckles.
“A lot.” The beta looks at the pool and giggles, “Well, it’s kind of cute
sometimes though. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Yuu so excited about someone.”
Mika blushes harder, if that’s even possible. He lowers his head, allowing his
hair to fall over his eyes and hide his flushed cheeks.
“We were childhood friends,” He tries to explain, “We haven’t seen each other
in–”
“In four years, I know,” Shusaku smiles at his baffled expression, “I’ve heard
Yuu telling that story countless times, trust me. I think everyone in the
soccer team and in Yuu’s classroom knows the story of you two.”
“I-is that so?” Mika doesn’t know if he’s happy or if he wants to hit Yuu. On
one side, he finds it sweet that Yuu thinks so much of him to the point of
talking about him to everyone. On the other, that’s just plain embarrassing –
there are people who he doesn’t even know, who know him.
“Yeah,” Shusaku leans back on the chair, his eyes following the figure of one
of the swimmers who Mika doesn’t know, “He even told everyone that you were
going to spend the weekend together during practice yesterday. It was kind of
annoying because we were trying to get him to concentrate, but all he talked
about was how the two of you were going to have fun together.” He looks up at
Mika to smile, “In the end, we had to finish practice one hour earlier because
no one could concentrate with him like that.”
“I’m, I’m sorry,” Mika mumbles, but Shusaku just laughs it off.
“It’s okay, don’t worry. We’re all used to Yuu getting distracted during
practice, to be honest. And it’s not like we cared about ending it earlier, we
were all so tired from practicing so intently during the whole week,” He lets
out an exaggerated sigh, “I don’t know how Makoto can practice and still come
to swimming on Saturdays. He and Yuu are two cases to be studied by science, I
swear...”
“Makoto?” Mika asks, “You mean Shinoa’s boyfriend?”
“Ah, you know him,” Shusaku smiles, “Yes, he’s right there,” He points to the
swimmer he was watching before, “He was the one who got Yuu into swimming. Back
when Yuu was still trying to deal with his hyperactivity, he thought it would
be a good way to waste energy during the weekends.”
“Is his hyperactivity that bad?” Mika frowns. At first he had thought Yuu was
just joking about it, but after spending so many nights awake telling Yuu to go
to sleep, he’s starting to get worried.
Shusaku nods a little serious.
“It was actually worse before,” He says, “He was never actually diagnosed with
ADHD, but he there was a time when he was so terrible we all thought he had it.
He couldn’t stand still, couldn’t concentrate in classes, couldn’t sleep well.
It was around the time when Makoto and I started hanging with him and Shinoa,
and we had this group chat, and whenever he couldn’t sleep he kept sending us
messages.”
“He does that to me,” Mika sighs. “But if he doesn’t have ADHD, then what is
it?”
“Just a disorder triggered by his depression, it seems,” Shusaku shrugs, “I
never had the courage to ask him directly, but I heard him talking to Kimizuki
a few times. Apparently it was some mechanism his mind developed to defend
itself against the apathy of depression. Instead of being lethargic, he became
hyperactive.”
Mika hums, looking at the pool to where Yuu has stopped swimming and is now
talking to Narumi. Their instructor notices, and soon screams at them to go
back to swimming.
“So,” Shusaku starts, and when Mika looks at him, he’s smirking, “How is your
weekend going?”
Mika groans and hides his face behind his hands. From afar, he can hear Yuu
screaming at Shusaku to stay away from him, and Yuu’s instructor yelling at him
to go back to swimming.
 
 
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After practice is over, Yuu stops at Subway to eat some sandwiches before going
home.
“I’m sorry about Shusaku,” He says as they sit down at a table, “The guys at
the soccer team can be really annoying...”
“No, it’s okay.” Mika sighs. Shusaku had teased him a little, but he didn’t
seem like a bad guy. After a while, they just talked about school and the game
against Union High. Mika wouldn’t say he liked him, but he didn’t feel
uncomfortable around him either.
“More importantly,” Mika says as he looks down at his sandwich, “What are we
going to have for lunch? Since we both can’t cook...”
“Can we have pizza?” Yuu asks excitedly, and Mika sighs.
“No, Yuu-chan. We ate pizza last night.”
“So what?” Yuu pouts, “Pizza is never enough.”
Mika shakes his head.
“I do hope whoever you marry with in the future knows how to cook or you’ll
both starve.”
“Shut up.” Yuu pokes out his tongue at him.
In the end, when they arrive home, Mika shoves Yuu out of the kitchen and tells
him to go play video game or do his homework, and goes to find something to do
for their lunch. He doesn’t want to do any of the frozen food – that’s not
healthy at all, especially for someone like Yuu, who practices so many sports.
Instead he finds a recipe of spaghetti on the internet and sets on doing it.
Yuu brings his notebook to the kitchen and sits quietly in the small table,
pretending to be doing his homework but actually watching Mika cook. After a
few minutes of silence, he finally says:
“I didn’t know you could cook.”
Mika, who’s been slicing a tomato to put on the sauce, looks briefly over his
shoulder and smiles at Yuu before resuming his task.
“Well, I’m not that good, but I can do something easy if I have a recipe in
hands,” He gestures to his cell phone on the counter next to him. Yuu hums,
nodding absent-mindedly. “Plus,” Mika goes on with a sigh, “My mother was
starting to teach me how to cook before... Well, before she died.”
“By the way you talk, you make it seem like she was raising you to be a
housewife,” Yuu comments with a frown, “I mean, she taught you to play, she
taught you to cook, and by the way you scowled at my mess, she probably taught
you to keep everything tidied up.”
“That’s true,” Mika giggles a little, “She and father got really pissed at me
if they saw my room messed up. I had to keep everything clean and pretty.
That’s how an omega must be, my mother used to say,” He sighs again, setting
down the knife and staring at the sliced tomatoes on the counter. “I’m pretty
sure that, if they hadn’t died, they would have married me off to a wealthy
alpha on the first opportunity they found.”
Then I’m glad they died, Yuu thinks, though he doesn’t voice it. He doesn’t
want to sound rude or tactless. Instead, he says:
“Well, look on the brighter side: at least you won’t starve to death if you
have to live on your own, like I will. I’ll either have to survive on frozen
food and fast food or die.”
Mika looks up at him with an amused look.
“You really should learn to cook, Yuu-chan.”
“Maybe one day.” Yuu smiles when he sees Mika chuckle.
The spaghetti is properly finished by lunch time and smelling heavenly in Yuu’s
opinion. He sits down with Mika on the small table of the kitchen, and he
attacks the spaghetti with ferocity.
“Yuu-chan, stop eating like a savage,” Mika sighs and shakes his head,
“Honestly, didn’t Guren teach you manners at the table?”
“He tried,” Yuu says through chewing the spaghetti. Mika frowns at him.
“Do not speak while eating,” He scolds Yuu, “You may actually choke on your
food and die, you know.”
Yuu rolls his eyes, but swallows before replying.
“Ok, mom, don’t worry about it.”
“Mom?” Mika seems amused at that.
“J-just shut up, ok!” Yuu stuffs his mouth with more food, averting his eyes as
he feels his cheeks warming up.
 
 
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After lunch, Yuu convinces Mika to continue watching Game of Thrones. They are
on episode eight when Kimizuki knocks on the door and sneaks inside the house
with a grumpy expression.
“Is it that bad with your dad?” Yuu asks half amused and half concerned as the
tall alpha joins them on their marathon.
“Not exactly,” Kimizuki grunts, “He took us to the aquarium this morning. Mirai
was excited. They’re watching a movie on Netflix now, so I took the opportunity
to escape for a while.”
“At least someone is happy here,” Yuu comments, earning a glare from Kimizuki.
He rolls his eyes, “C’mon, what happened now?”
“He was talking about taking Mirai with him to England!” Kimizuki finally
explodes, his face red and his eyes furious, “He abandoned us here, and now he
wants to take her away? Not-fucking-happening!”
“Dude, chill out, Mirai is not going anywhere,” Yuu rolls his eyes, but Mika
can see he really is trying to comfort Kimizuki. His eyes are worried, and his
voice is gentle when he speaks, “She loves you. She would never go anywhere
without you.”
“... Yeah, but,” Kimizuki hesitates and then sighs, “She would try to convince
me to go with them–”
“She would never do that,” Yuu interrupts him, “She knows you have Yoichi here,
and she would never try to separate you two.”
“Yuu-chan is right,” Mika finally says quietly, shrinking a little when both
alphas look at him, “I mean, Mirai loves this place. She wouldn’t want to leave
all of a sudden.”
“... I hope so,” Kimizuki mutters.
Yuu and Mika share a glance before Yuu’s eyes light up.
“Hey, Kimizuki, have you heard Mika playing violin? He’s awesome.”
“Y-Yuu-chan!”
“Play for him, Mika!” Yuu looks at him with pleading eyes, and Mika sees what
he’s trying to do: he’s trying to distract Kimizuki.
Mika finally gives in with a sigh.
“Ok, wait a minute,” He stands up and goes to Yuu’s room, where he had left the
violin. When he comes back, he avoids looking at Kimizuki and Yuu as he takes
his violin out of the case. “What should I play though?”
“Play something short, please,” Yuu grimaces, and both Mika and Kimizuki
chuckle.
“Idiot,” Kimizuki says, though he’s smiling. Mika smiles too, tucking the
violin under his chin and playing.
Both alphas fall silent as they watch him play, both of them astonished with
the way Mika plays. It’s not so much about the song, though that too is very
beautiful, but it’s more about the way Mika behaves as he plays, his posture
tall and proud as that of a noble, his body moving slightly and swiftly as he
slides the bow softly over the strings, producing a sound that’s close to
heavenly.
When he finishes, Yuu applauds enthusiastically and Kimizuki breathes out
amazed.
“That was incredible,” The tall alpha says, “What are you doing here instead of
being on a stage?”
Mika blushes madly, averting his eyes.
“I’m not that good,” He mumbles.
“You are,” Yuu insists, adding, “Play another!”
Mika rolls his eyes, but complies, again sliding the bow with a swift movement.
 
 
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At evening, Mika heats up the spaghetti on the microwave for dinner, and
Kimizuki eats with them before leaving with another grumpy expression.
It’s colder than it was the night before, so Yuu closes the windows and they
sit close together curled up in a blanket on the couch while they continue to
watch the series. Halfway through it, though, Mika starts to drift off to
sleep, resting his head on Yuu’s shoulders. He wakes up when Yuu carries him to
the room.
“Yuu-chan?” He mumbles as Yuu sets him down on the bed.
“Shhh,” Yuu smiles at him, putting a finger on his lips, “It’s okay, go to
sleep.”
“Only if you come with me,” Mika grabs his arm and tugs, pulling him down to
the bed with him. Yuu looks like he’s going to protest, but gives up once he
finds himself trapped when Mika wraps his arms and legs all around him. Mika
sighs contently, “Good night, Yuu-chan.”
“G-Good night,” Yuu stutters, but Mika is already sleeping.
 
 
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On Sunday, when Mika wakes up, Yuu is not on the bed anymore. He checks his
cell phone, only to find a message from Lacus; it’s a video he sent a few
minutes before of Sally The Snake on Mika’s room, Lacus saying on the
background that he was going to take the snake to play with the kittens.
Mika screams as he hits the call button.
Yuu bursts inside the room wearing a green apron and with a worried, scared
look on his eyes.
“Mika, what’s wrong?”
“Lacus is gonna kill the kittens!” Mika cries out, just as Lacus picks up the
call, “Lacus, you fucking asshole, I swear if you don’t take this snake away
from the kittens right now, I’ll–”
“Dude, chill out, Sally is a civilized snake,” Lacus has the nerve to chuckle,
and Mika wants to strangle him.
“SHE’S A SNAKE, SHE’S GONNA EAT THEM!” He cries on the phone.
“She won’t!”
“Lacus I swear to God I–” There’s a shuffling sound and then René speaks:
“It’s okay, I already took him and Sally out of the room.”
Mika sigs relieved.
“René, I love you.” He hears the beta chuckle, something rare for him. “Please,
don’t let Lacus near the kittens again.”
“I won’t,” René promises, “I’m sorry, I know Krul said she would take care of
them, but she had to go out with Asura now and won’t be back until afternoon.
I’ll look after them until she’s back.”
“Right, thanks. I’m counting on you.”
When he hangs up, Yuu is staring at him with an amused expression.
“Let me guess,” Yuu says, “Lacus wanted the snake and the kittens to be
friends.”
Mika groans, hiding his face behind his hands.
“I’m surrounded by idiots in that house,” He whines, “I’m so happy René and
Krul exist there to stop everyone from going crazy.”
Yuu laughs, and Mika raises his head to look at him, frowning at his apron.
“What are you doing?” He asks. Yuu looks down at the apron and blushes,
scratching the back of his neck.
“I was just, hm, trying to cook breakfast,” He averts his eyes embarrassed,
“You know, since you did it yesterday, I thought I could try it....”
They stare at each other for a few seconds before Mika casts him a worried
glance.
“Yuu-chan,” He says slowly, “Did you leave something on the stove?”
Yuu’s eyes widen, and he curses under his breath as he bolts out of the room,
running to the kitchen. Mika sighs and shakes his head before standing up and
following him. He enters the kitchen to find Yuu trying to save the pancake he
left frying when he ran to the room upon hearing Mika’s scream.
The pancake can’t be saved, and Yuu resigns to throw it on the waste bin.
Fortunately, nothing else is damaged, and the alpha manages to finish the
breakfast without burning anything else. Mika is quite surprised that Yuu
managed to make pancakes until the finds out it was the frozen pancakes he saw
on the fridge before. Still, he’s proud Yuu can at least make some frozen food
for himself – if he doesn’t get distracted, that is.
They sit down to eat together, and after breakfast, they change their pajamas
to some shorts and fresh T-shirts and decide to walk Cerberus.
They spend the whole morning on the small park near the apartment playing with
Cerberus. When Mika gets tired, he sits down on a bench and pulls out his cell
phone, messaging René to know about the kittens. Fortunately, they’re all still
alive and well, and Sally The Snake is safely away from them.
They go back to the apartment to leave Cerberus there, and then go have lunch
at a restaurant nearby. They order lasagna, and Yuu tries to concentrate on the
conversation with Mika, though he can’t help but glare at a pair of alphas who
won’t stop looking at Mika. At one moment, he takes Mika’s hand discretely but
in a way that the alphas notice, and though Mika doesn’t seem to notice nor
comment on it, the alphas finally stop staring.
Yuu knows he doesn’t have the right to act like this. Mika is not his
boyfriend, so he has no reason to act all jealous and territorialist around
him. But he doesn’t like when other alphas stare at Mika.
He dreads this feeling, because he recognizes it. And he knows what will come
next if things keep up like this.
 
 
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They spend the afternoon on the apartment watching TV and, when Mika finally
gets bored of it, playing some board games. Yuu finds out that Mika is terribly
good at Monopoly, and quickly bankrupts Yuu.
“How do you do it?” Yuu cries when he loses for the fifth time in a row, “You
didn’t even know how to play it an hour ago!”
Mika chuckles.
“Yuu-chan, this game is simply strategy,” He smiles condescendly at Yuu, who
pouts at him and crosses his arms over his chest.
“You’re an evil friend,” The alpha whimpers, and Mika rolls his eyes.
“Stop being such a baby, let’s play again.”
“No,” Yuu turns his head away childishly.
“Yuu-chan…”
“No.”
When Yuu still doesn’t look at him, Mika smiles mischievously. Before Yuu has
time to react, Mika moves quickly, jumping and tackling him to the ground.
“M-Mika, what…?” Yuu’s eyes widen when Mika starts to tickle him, and he can’t
help the laugh that slips past his lips, “W-wait, don’t, haha, fuck, I, haha,
hate you!” He laughs and squirms, trying to wriggle away from Mika, but the
omega straddles his waist, stopping him from fleeing.
“Do you really hate me, Yuu-chan?” Mika wriggles his fingers down Yuu’s sides,
reaching a particularly sensitive spot, and Yuu bursts out laughing.
“Fuck, Mika, hahaha, stop!” Yuu finally manages to roll them around, this time
straddling Mika and pinning his hands on the ground over his head, “Geez, Mika,
don’t you know the meaning of the word stop?”
“No,” Mika smiles sweetly at him.
“Ah, well, then,” Yuu smiles devilishly, “I think I’ll have to take revenge on
you for that.”
“Yuu-chan…?”
Yuu releases Mika’s hands only to slip his own hands down inside Mika’s shirt,
tickling him this time. Mika shrieks and laughs, trying to hold Yuu’s arms and
stop him. They roll around on the floor, one trying to dominate the other, but
Yuu ends up over him again, once more holding his arms to stop him from moving.
They stare at each other, both still chuckling breathlessly. Mika’s hair is a
mess and there are a few tears on the corner of his eyes; his cheeks are
flushed red, and Yuu thinks he’s never seen something more beautiful than that.
He doesn’t realize he’s leaning down until his eyelids flutter closer. His nose
bumps Mika’s, and he can feel the omega’s warm breath on his skin. Just when
he’s starting to think he should move away, Mika closes the distance between
them, sealing their lips together.
The whole world disappears and Yuu’s mind goes blank. All there’s left are he
and Mika, Mika’s arms wrapping around his neck and bringing him closer, Mika’s
soft lips pressing against his, Mika’s breath and Mika’s scent, Mika, Mika,
Mika. His hands are still under Mika’s shirt, and he snakes them up, feeling
the warm skin of Mika’s chest, and Mika shudders, his moan muffled against
Yuu’s mouth. Yuu takes the opportunity to slip his tongue inside Mika’s mouth
and explore, slightly nudging Mika’s tongue and encouraging him to join on this
wet dance, and Mika moans once again, melting against him…
Yuu suddenly pulls away panting, his face flushed and his eyes widen. What am I
doing? But before he can move any further, Mika follows him up, straddling his
waist and kissing him again, holding him tight as if afraid of letting go. Yuu
groans, holding Mika’s slim waist and pulling him closer, allowing himself to
melt against the omega.
And then he remembers that this is Mika, his best friend, and he pulls away
once again, crawling backwards until his back hits the couch. He and Mika stare
at each other with wild gazes as they try to catch their breaths. Yuu is the
first to avert his eyes, clearing his throat.
“I-I’m sorry,” He says in a hoarse voice, “I shouldn’t have…”
“Yuu-chan…”
“I won’t do it again, I swear,” Yuu swallows thickly, and looks hesitantly at
Mika, trying to analyze his expression, but the omega turns his head away and
low, hiding his face behind his hair, merely nodding.
“We should clean up this mess,” Mika finally says gesturing to the pieces of
Monopoly scattered around the floor.
Yuu nods and they silently start to pick everything up. After Yuu has put
everything inside the box and put the game back in its place, Mika suggest that
they have dinner and go to sleep. Yuu realizes Mika isn’t looking into his
eyes, and a feeling of dread sets on the pit of his stomach.
I’ve screwed everything up again.
He lost another friend to his feelings.
 
 
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Mika can’t sleep at night, even though he was the one to suggest that they go
sleep early, with the excuse that they have school the next day. He turns
around on the bed, completely distressed. He can’t take out of his mind the
feeling of Yuu’s lips on his and Yuu’s hands on him.
The bed feels too big now that he’s alone in it. Yuu had gone to the futon
without saying a word, and Mika was left to sleep on the bed alone. Yuu’s bed.
He can scent Yuu all around him, and that doesn’t help at all.
He grabs his cell phone, seeing that it’s way past midnight, almost one am. And
he can’t sleep at all. He steals a glance at Yuu, who has his back turned to
him and seems to be sleeping soundly. Quietly, he types away a message for
Mirai.
[ Hey, are you awake? ]
He waits in the dark, biting on his lower lip. After a few minutes, she
answers:
[ I am]
[ Wtf do you want at one am Mika? Are you becoming like Yuu?]
The mention of Yuu makes his heart hurt. He bites harder on his lip as he
messages back.
[ I need to talk to you, about Yuu-chan ]
She takes only a few seconds to answer to that:
[ Meet me at the lobby in 15 min ]
Mika locks his phone and glances at Yuu again. As quietly as he can, he slips
out of bed and tiptoes out of the room. Cerberus is sleeping on the couch on
the living room, and he lifts his head briefly to look at Mika as the omega
walks past him and out of the apartment.
When he reaches the lobby, Mirai is already there, wrapped in a pink robe and
with a grumpy face.
“Couldn’t you have waited until school tomorrow?” She asks sleepily, rubbing
one of her eyes.
“It’s, it’s just…” Mika hesitates, looking around. There’s no one there, but
still he whispers, “Yuu-chan kissed me.”
That wakes Mirai up completely. Her eyes widen and she smirks before Mika cuts
her:
“But he pulled me away.”
Mirai groans and shakes her head.
“Here, let’s sit,” She drags him to a few sofas and makes him sit down with
her, “Now, please explain what the fuck happened.”
Mika tells her, from how they were playing, and the tickle war and how they
ended up kissing and then Yuu pushed him away saying he wouldn’t do it again.
When he finishes, Mirai facepalms.
“You are two idiots,” She groans, “Yuu especially.”
Mika frowns.
“What does that mean?”
“It means that if you want to date him, you’ll have to straight out tell him or
he’ll never get it.”
“D-date?” Mika stutters, blushing. He hadn’t thought that far. Sure, he likes
Yuu, but… Date? Is he even ready for that? Does he even want that? Or does Yuu
even want to date him?
Mirai rolls her eyes and shakes her head again;
“Of course,” She says, “Why else would’ve you called me here?”
“B-because Yuu-chan…” Mika stutters and then shuts up.
“Mika,” Mirai stares at him, “Are you in love with Yuu?”
He hesitates, but finally nods.
“And what are you going to do about it?”
“What…? What do you mean?”
She stands up and puts her hands on her hips, glaring at him.
“Yes, what you’re gonna do!” She snaps, “If you’re in love with him, you should
date him. Tell him, ask him out. Or else, just tamp it down and forget, pretend
this feeling never existed.”
Mika stares at her wide-eyed.
“I-I…”
“I’m sorry,” She sighs and sits down again, “I get grumpy when someone wakes me
up.”
“I see…” He manages to smile a little before sighing too, “I don’t actually
know what to do now,” He admits, “I like Yuu-chan but… But he doesn’t seem like
he wants to date me? I mean, he pushed me away…”
“Yuu is just scared,” Mirai tells him waving her hand dismissively, “I mean,
look at his past relationships. All of them were with friends of his. He’s
probably just afraid of screwing up his friendship with you.”
“… What should I do then?” Mika stares at her in despair.
“First of all, chill out,” She says, “Second, talk to him. If you really want
this to go somewhere, you two have to sort out your feelings for each other.”
“What if… what if he doesn’t feel the same?” He whispers, but she scoffs.
“As if,” She smirks at him, “You two have been into each other for a long time.
You’re the only ones who haven’t noticed yet.”
Mika lowers his eyes to his lap, playing with the sleeve of his pajama.
“Mika,” Mirai says softly, and he looks up at her, “If you’re in love, then
fight for it. In love and war, everything is fair.”
He blushes, averting his eyes again.
“I’m scared,” He confesses.
“You would be a fool if you weren’t.”
“I don’t want to lose him.”
“Then you have a decision to make,” She stands up and stretches, sighing,
“Well, I’m going back to sleep, and you should do the same.”
Mika nods absent-mindedly, and follows her back to the elevator. When it stops
at the fifth floor, she smiles and ruffles his hair playfully
“Good luck!” She says before leaving with a wave and leaving him alone to go
back to Yuu’s apartment.
He’s surprised to find the lights on when he enters the apartment. Yuu is
walking around the house with a desperate look, and when he sees Mika entering
the living room, he runs to him and hugs him tight.
“Mika!” He sighs, “Fuck, you worried me! Where were you?”
“Ah, I… I was with Mirai on the lobby,” He mumbles, looking away, “Sorry.”
Yuu merely hugs him tighter, and Mika hesitates before wrapping his arms around
him too. He hides his face on the crook of Yuu’s neck, where his scent is
stronger, and he inhales. Suddenly tears well up at the corners of his eyes.
“Mika?” Yuu mutters worried when he feels the tears fall on his shoulder. He
tries to pull away to look at him, but Mika only holds him tighter, refusing to
let go. “Mika, what’s wrong?”
“I… I…” Mika tries to speak, but his voice breaks and a sob escapes. He fists
his hands on Yuu’s shirt and closes his eyes, trying to stop the tears from
falling, “Yuu-chan I… I…”
“Mika, hey,” Yuu finally manages to pull away enough to look at him, alarmed at
his tears, “Hey, calm down, tell me what’s wrong?”
“I-I’m in love with you, Yuu-chan,” Mika sobs, hiding his face behind his
hands. “I’m in love with you b-but… I’m s-so scared and I… I s-still want to be
next to you a-and, and I never want y-you to leave me…”
Yuu is frozen, staring as Mika cries, not knowing what to respond. Though his
mind yells a big no, reminding him of what happened the last time he dated a
friend, his heart beats fast inside his chest and he feels lightheaded because
Mika likes him. Mika wants him.
And he wants Mika.
It’s so simple, really, so why does he still complicate things?
Remember Asura, a little voice whispers inside his mind, remember how you were
before and how you are now.
However, it’s hard to concentrate on that when Mika is crying. He doesn’t want
to see Mika crying. He wants Mika smiling happily, he wants to hear Mika’s
laughter and see his eyes gleam with joy.
He pulls Mika close again, letting the omega cry on his shoulder, not minding
that his tears are staining his shirt.
“I won’t leave you,” He whispers soothingly while he caresses Mika’s hair,
“I’ll never leave you, Mika.”
“B-but…” Mika raises his head to stare at him. His cheeks are red and wet from
the tears, and Yuu softly wipes them away.
Then he has an idea.
“Hey,” He says carefully, smiling, “Do you trust me?”
Mika nods, rubbing at his eyes to get rid of the tears.
“Of course, Yuu-chan,” He says in a hoarse voice, “Why?”
“There’s somewhere I want to go with you.”
“W-what? Now?”
“Of course,” Yuu laughs as he pulls away and goes to look for the keys to
Guren’s car.
“But we have class tomorrow!”
“Who cares?” Yuu turns to smile at him, “We won’t die from losing one day of
class.” He offers his hand to Mika, “Come with me.”
Mika hesitates for a few seconds before grabbing his hand, nodding.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     I feel like a rushed things a little? lmao I'm not even sorry
     THIS WAS THE LONGEST CHAPTER I'VE EVER WROTE LMAO
     Idk when I'll deliver the next, though I dare to say it will be soon
     because I'm very excited for what's in next chapter hehe
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chapter~
***** Chapter 14 *****
Chapter Summary
     “I am in love with you too,” Yuu finally says, breaking the silence.
     Mika snaps his head around to look at him with wide, unbelievable
     eyes. But Yuu still looks at the horizon as he speaks, “I think I’ve
     always been, ever since I first met you. Maybe that’s why I couldn’t
     concentrate on dating other people. It’s like deep inside I knew that
     my heart already belonged to you, even if I didn’t know if we would
     ever meet again or not.”
Chapter Notes
     I don't think I've ever wrote something so fast lmao
     Here's to you all who were curious about where Yuu was going to take
     Mika to 8)
     Have a good reading~
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Before leaving, Mika has the idea of brewing some coffee, which proves to be a
good idea because Yuu drives for at least two hours. The night is cold and they
keep the windows up, the heater of the car on, but still Mika wraps himself on
a blanket and drifts off to sleep while Yuu drives.
When he wakes up, he doesn’t recognize where he is, but he has an idea from the
sand and the sound of waves crashing down on the shore.
“Are we on a beach?” He asks groggily, rubbing his eye and yawning. Yuu smiles,
finding the sight cute.
“Yes,” He opens the door of the car, “C’mon, I wanna show it to you!”
Mika is still sleepy, but he feels a little excited. He never went to a beach
before, and as soon as he leaves the car and his bare feet step on the sand, he
leaves out a delighted sigh. He inhales, smelling the scent of salt carried by
the wind. He looks at Yuu when the alpha chuckles, and he blushes, knowing he
must look silly like this.
But Yuu doesn’t comment on it, instead grabbing a blanket and the thermos
bottle with the coffee from the car, and gesturing for Mika to follow him. As
they walk further into the beach, Mika notices they’ve stopped next to a big
four-storey beach house; the lights are off and it doesn’t seem like someone
lives there, but Mika still feels like they’re trespassing.
“That’s the Hiiragi’s beach house,” Yuu explains when he sees Mika staring. He
lays the blanket over the sand and sits over it, patting the space beside him
and Mika sits with him. Yuu continues as he opens the thermos, “After I tried
to kill myself, Shinoa and the others kind of started to try and cheer me up.
They showed up at my house randomly to take me to watch a movie or to go to an
amusement park. Then one Saturday, Shinoa burst through the door and ordered me
to pack my things because we were going to the beach,” He chuckles, taking a
sip of the coffee and offering it to Mika, who accepts timidly, “She took me
here and the others were already here. We spent the whole weekend here just
fooling around,” He runs his eyes across the beach shore, as if seeing an image
Mika couldn’t see, “It was really fun, you know.”
Mika lowers his eyes to the thermos, taking a sip too. The coffee is too
strong, but at least it will help keep him awake.
“Won’t we get into trouble for being here?” He asks.
“Only if we get caught,” Yuu smirks, and Mika averts his eyes blushing, taking
another sip of the coffee.
“Why did you bring me here?” He finally raises his eyes to meet Yuu’s.
“I just wanted to see the sunrise here with you,” Yuu scratches the back of his
neck, laughing nervously as a lovely blush spreads across his cheeks, “There
aren’t many places where you can do it in the city. When I first came here, we
all stayed up all night and watched the sunrise together, and it was the most
beautiful thing ever,” Yuu stares at him, “I just wanted to see it with you
this time.”
Mika blushes too, averting his eyes. He gives Yuu back the thermos, and Yuu
drinks the coffee slowly, looking thoughtfully at the horizon.
Mika has to admit the view is beautiful, a thousand times better than the tall
buildings of the city. The sky is still dark, a few starts scattered around and
a beautiful yellow moon casting a light glow over everything. The sea is of a
dark blue color, barely reflecting the starts above.
“I am in love with you too,” Yuu finally says, breaking the silence. Mika snaps
his head around to look at him with wide, unbelievable eyes. But Yuu still
looks at the horizon as he speaks, “I think I’ve always been, ever since I
first met you. Maybe that’s why I couldn’t concentrate on dating other people.
It’s like deep inside I knew that my heart already belonged to you, even if I
didn’t know if we would ever meet again or not.”
Mika gulps, feeling his heart do somersaults in his chest. He feels happy,
giddy, but also nervous. Now comes what? Do they kiss? Do they date? He never
did this before, he doesn’t know how to act or what to say.
He swallows thickly before speaking.
“Do you… Do you remember that tale about the mates?” He asks hesitantly. Yuu
chuckles.
“Yeah, we talked a lot about it when we were kids, right?” He smiles at Mika,
“Though I thought it was just something the alphas invented to justify their
demand that omegas submit to them.”
“Not exactly,” Mika says, “They modified it a bit, making it look as if only
alphas and omegas could be mates, and that’s why omegas must serve the alphas
and all that bullshit. But in the original tale, your mate could be anyone, an
alpha, an omega or a beta.”
Yuu hums, nodding as he sips more of the coffee.
“So, what about it?”
“Remember how it said that we all have a mate?” Mika stares to the ocean,
watching as the moon casts a beautiful glow over the waves, “According to the
tale, we all are born with a mate already designated to us. Some of us might go
all our lives without finding our mate, though, but some of us find them. And
the bond formed between two mates is the strongest thing that exists.” Mika
looks back at Yuu with a sad smile, “It was a tale told to try and justify why
the bond formed between two marked people is so strong.”
“But do you believe in it?”
Mika simply shrugs, grabbing the thermos from Yuu’s hand and drinking a little
before speaking again.
“I don’t know. I just thought that…” He blushes, looking timidly at Yuu, “I
just thought that, if you waited for me all this time, maybe we are mates,
meant to be together.”
They way Yuu’s cheeks turn even redder than before is too beautiful, Mika
thinks, even though he knows his own face must be completely red now.
“I see,” Yuu gulps down more coffee and sighs, looking back at the sea with a
conflicted gaze, “I’m afraid of this, you know. Of being in love with you. The
last time I dated a friend…” He shakes his head and looks at Mika with despair
in his eyes, “I don’t want to do this only to have things change between us
when we break up. I don’t want to lose you. I could lose anyone, but you. You
have no idea of how important you are to me.”
Mika lowers his gaze to his hands, feeling tears well up at the corners of his
eyes again.
“Mika…?”
“When we break up,” Mika repeats with a trembling voice, “You speak as if
you’re already planning on breaking up with me.”
“Mika, that’s…”
“That’s not how you start a relationship, Yuu-chan, thinking of the end of it
already,” Mika had never been in a relationship before, but of this he’s sure.
“There’s no way a relationship will last if you start thinking of how you’re
going to end it.”
“I’ve saw too many relationships end to not think about it,” Yuu smiles sadly
at him, and Mika notices there are tears in his eyes too, “I can’tlose you,
Mika.”
“You won’t!” Mika turns completely to him, holding his face between his hands
to force him to stare into his eyes, “You will never lose me, Yuu-chan. I’ve
told you before, didn’t I? You’re stuck with me from now on. I will never let
us be separated again. That’s why…” He leans in until his forehead bumps on
Yuu’s, and he closes his eyes to stop the tears from falling, and his voice
trembles when he speaks, “That’s why, Yuu-chan, don’t run away from me.”
“I’d never–”
“Be my boyfriend,” Mika opens his eyes, finding a pair of emerald green orbs
staring back at him with surprise. His heart pounds inside his chest and his
face burns bright red; he wants to run and hide from embarrassment, but he
knows he has to do it, or else they’ll never go anywhere with this. “I want to
date you, Yuu-chan. I want to hold your hand and kiss you, and I want everyone
to know we’re together. I want to go on dates with you, and to make plans with
you. I want to be yours and I want you to be mine.”
At the end of his speech, Mika is ready to go and drown himself in the sea, so
embarrassed he is. But Yuu’s laughter freezes him in place.
“I think that, aside from the kissing part, we already do all of it,” Yuu says,
smiling gently at him. Then he sighs dramatically, “Fine, I give up. I don’t
want to be the stubborn one here. I’ll be your boyfriend– H-hey!” They both
fall back on the blanket when Mika jumps on Yuu, wrapping his arms around his
neck.
“Just one thing, Yuu-chan,” Mika pulls back enough to smile at him, “You’re
already the stubborn one from both of us. There’s no running away from that.”
“Rude!” Yuu chuckles, pulling Mika down to seal their lips together.
Mika feels like a thousand fireworks are exploding inside him, and he sighs
contently against Yuu’s lips. He had never kissed anyone before, and knowing
Yuu kissed a lot of people already makes him extremely nervous. What if Yuu
doesn’t like the way he kisses? He remembers how Yuu kissed him before, with
tongue and all, and he feels his face burn again at the memory.
Tentatively, he slides his tongue over Yuu’s lips, tasting the soft flesh, and
Yuu gasps before smiling, his lips curving upwards against Mika’s. His fingers
curl on Mika’s hair as he opens his mouth, sucking on Mika’s tongue, which
earns him a moan from the omega.
Yuu chuckles when Mika pulls away with his cheeks flushed and his eyes wet.
“You know I’ve never kissed anyone before and you go and do this,” Mika
mumbles, pouting at him. Yuu chuckles again.
“Sorry,” He says before leaning in to give him a chaste kiss, a mere peck on
the lips. After that, they both sit back, with Mika curling next to Yuu, and
drink the coffee as they wait for the sunrise.
Eventually, Mika drifts off to sleep, not being used to stay awake for so long.
Yuu simply lets the omega rest his head on his lap and sleep, carding his
fingers through Mika’s golden locks. The coffee is over now and he forgot his
phone back home, but he’s ok. He enjoys simply watching Mika sleep, the way his
lips part slightly and his chest rises and falls with every breath he takes.
Gradually the dark sky becomes lighter, and when Yuu sees the blue start to
give way to a light orange, he shakes Mika awake.
“Hey,” He whispers, “Wake up, it’s coming.”
“Mmm? What’s coming?” Mika cracks his eyes open, looking disoriented around him
before looking up at Yuu with half-lidded eyes. Yuu has to fight back a chuckle
because he’s too cute.
“The sun,” He says, pointing to the horizon. Mika sits back, leaning against
his shoulder and yawning.
They stay quiet as the sky becomes clear and the first rays of sun shine over
them, making the sea glow in stunning hues of blue and green. Yuu hears Mika
sigh delighted, and he looks at the omega – his boyfriend, he remembers with a
sudden jolt of excitement and nervousness – to see him close his eyes slowly as
he lays his head on Yuu’s shoulder. His face looks so calm, and Yuu smiles,
happy to be able to see it, remembering how Mika used to fake smiles at him
when they were children – he probably thought Yuu never noticed, but he did, he
noticed everything, from the fake smiles to the red eyes and marks of tears on
his cheeks. After all that they’ve been through, he’s happy to see Mika smiling
a genuine smile.
He can’t resist leaning down to press his lips softly against Mika’s forehead
in a gentle kiss. That makes the omega open his eyes and look up at him,
chuckling.
“Is there still some coffee?”Mika asks yawning and sitting upright, rubbing his
eyes.
“Nope, it’s all gone,” Yuu grabs the thermos and shakes it for emphasis, and
Mika sighs.
“What do you say of stopping somewhere to have breakfast before going home?” He
asks timidly, and Yuu’s eyes gleam.
“I think there’s a Starbucks around here,” He says, and Mika smiles.
 
 
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None of them brought their cell phones, so they have no idea of what time it is
when Yuu stops at the Starbucks, but Mika supposes it must be early because
there aren’t too many people inside when they enter the place. Mika orders a
sandwich of ham and Swiss cheese with yogurt, but Yuu orders a sandwich of
bacon and eggs with a Frappuccino that has so much chocolate in it Mika is
surprised it doesn’t fall over.
“Is it really necessary?” Mika says raising his eyes at Yuu’s coffee.
“It is,” Yuu takes a careful sip, and Mika rolls his eyes.
“And we’re going to miss school,” He sighs, already wondering if Mirai or
Yoichi will take notes of the classes. Yoichi maybe…
“I’m not really worrying about that,” Yuu comments.
“Why am I not surprised?” Mika smiles, “But you’re going to miss soccer
practice.”
Yuu grimaces at that.
“Yeah, well, one day isn’t going to kill me.”
“Who knows…”
“Mika, you’re my boyfriend now, you should be supportive.” Yuu complains, to
which Mika replies calmly:
“Someone has to be the responsible one of this relationship.”
Yuu doesn’t have a comeback to this, so instead he pouts and concentrates on
eating his breakfast.
Mika looks down at his own food smiling to himself, secretly glad because Yuu-
chan just said I’m his boyfriend. Well, obviously, he had said it back at the
beach, but hearing it now again, when they’re in public… It’s like it makes
everything official. They’re not just two friends anymore. They’re boyfriends
having breakfast together, and the thought of it makes Mika’s chest warm.
He hears a chuckle and he looks up to see Yuu covering his mouth with his hand
as if trying to muffle the sound.
“What?” He asks already frowning, and Yuu simply shakes his head, his eyes
smiling at Mika.
“You just had this cute expression on your face,” Yuu says, “I think I really
am in too deep for you.”
Mika makes a strangled sound at the back of his throat as he blushes and turns
his head away, trying to hide his flushed cheeks. Though he can’t help the
smile tugging at his lips.
“Idiot,” He says, making Yuu chuckle again.
They finish their breakfast and go back to the car, and by the time they’re on
the road again the sun is already high in the sky. Mika is thankful for the
dark window film that lessens the brightness of the shiny rays of sun; he curls
up wrapped in a blanket on the passenger seat and falls asleep again.
When Mika wakes up, his stomach is growling demanding for food. He already
recognizes the area they’re in, near Yuu’s apartment, and the rubs his eyes to
get rid of the sleepiness.
“Are you awake now?” Yuu asks amused, “We’re almost home.”
“I’m hungry,” He mumbles, yawning again. “What time is it?”
“I dunno. Probably lunch time. The traffic was a bitch.” Yuu grimaces, and Mika
chuckles.
“Well, your fault for wanting to drive early on a Monday morning.”
“Shut up, you liked it.”
And it’s true. Sure, he’s just missed school, but having Yuu confess to him and
watching that beautiful sunrise together was totally worth it. He would do it a
thousand times again.
However, as soon as they enter the apartment, they realize they’re in trouble
when they see Guren, Shinya and Ferid reunited there with expressions varying
from anger to worry and to disappointment.
Guren is the first to speak:
“Where have you been?” His voice is laced with anger and his face is all red.
Mika shrinks against Yuu, holding to his arm tightly. By his side, Yuu gulps,
his eyes terrified, but he has the nerve to chuckle.
“We were just driving around, ha, ha, ha.”
Guren approaches them looming threateningly, and Yuu recoils against Mika, but
the older alpha stops when Shinya steps forward and puts a hand over his
shoulder, casting him a warning look.
“And you just thought it was a good idea to go drive around on a Monday without
warning anyone,” Ferid hums, and his smile that doesn’t reach his eyes is what
scares Mika the most. “I’m deeply disappointed with you, Mika dear.”
“I… I’m sorry?” He mumbles, squealing when Guren huffs, his hands balling in
fists by his side.
“You bet you are!” The man says, glaring at both terrified teens. He points a
finger at Yuu, “I leave you alone for one weekend – barely three days! And you
disappear with my car and your omega friend like this!”
“We were just–”
“I don’t care what you were just doing!” Guren raises his voice, glaring
daggers at Yuu. “You’re fucking grounded. I don’t want you anywhere near my car
for the rest of the month.”
Yuu gulps again, though he seems relieved, and Mika realizes he must have
expected a worse punishment.
“And you,” Ferid says, and Mika looks at him terrified, “We’re going home.
Now.”
Mika and Yuu exchange a glance before Mika nods, and they both run to Mika’s
room to pick his things.
“I’m sorry,” Yuu mutters.
“It’s okay,” Mika sighs, stuffing the last pieces of clothes inside his bag and
zipping it closed. He smiles at Yuu, “It was worth it.”
Blushing, Yuu smiles back and nods. They go back to the living room with Mika’s
bags, and Ferid immediately grabs the one Yuu was carrying.
“I’m sorry for the trouble, Shinya,” Ferid says, and Mika realizes he’s
deliberately ignoring Guren.
“No, no, I apologize,” Shinya smiles sheepishly, “It totally looks like an idea
Yuu would have, Mika-chan probably just went along with it.”
“Yuu-chan isn’t–”
“You would do well to keep your mouth shut,” Ferid says with a sweet smile, and
Mika gulps, clutching his violin case close to his chest. He wants to glare at
him, but he has a feeling Ferid is not in a good mood right now. “Say goodbye
to your friend and let’s go. I want to be back to uni for the afternoon class
yet.”
Yuu accompanies them to the door with a terrified expression.
“Will you really be okay?” He whispers, “He looks like he could set you on
fire!”
“I’ll be fine,” Mika says, though he’s not sure. But he doesn’t want Yuu to
worry, so instead he leans in to kiss him briefly before pulling away, giggling
at his flushed face, “I’ll text you later.”
Yuu smiles with a dreamy look in his eyes and nods.
“Ok.”
Still giggling, Mika follows Ferid into the elevator. However, as soon as the
doors close, the atmosphere becomes tense, and he shrinks into the corner when
he notices Ferid’s glare.
They walk in silence to Ferid’s car, and as soon as they’re in and driving,
Mika decides to ask:
“How did you know I wasn’t at school?” He recoils again when Ferid glares at
him once more before turning back his attention to the road.
“Why, dear Mika, they called me,” His voice is calm and sweet, but somehow this
is even more scary than if he were yelling like Guren, “There I was leaving my
class and going to have lunch with Crowley when I received a call from the
coordination of the school saying that you didn’t show up and asking if you
were sick. Then I call your friend’s house only to find out none of you are
there. What a lovely day, isn’t it?”
Mika gulps.
“Are you angry?”
They stop at a red light, and when Ferid turns to look at him, his brown eyes
gleam in such way that they look red, and Mika shrinks even more against his
seat.
“What do you think?” He asks in a whisper. Mika pales, deciding to stay quiet
from now on.
The rest of the way is silent as none of them utter a single word. Ferid helps
Mika carry his things to his room, and once there he drops the bomb:
“You’re grounded.”
“What?” Mika gasps. “You can’t–”
“As your legal guardian, I can and I will,” Ferid’s anger is cold as ice, and
Mika feels like he’s frozen in place as his uncle speaks, “You’re forbidden to
leave this house until the next Monday. You can only step out of that door to
go to school and nowhere else. And I want you to come straight home after
school, no going to fool around with your friends anymore.”
Mika presses his lips together in a thin line and nods rigidly, lowering his
head to hide the tears of fury and shame in his eyes. No leaving home.
Ferid is doing exactly what his father did, forbidding him from leaving home.
Nothing hurts more than this. He could take any punishment – doing chores,
being forbidden to use his cell phone or the internet, but this…
Ferid sighs and approaches him, grabbing him by his chin and lifting his face
to force him to look at him.
“Do you understand why I’m doing this, Mika?” He asks serious, “You vanished
without telling anyone where you were going. I was really worried thinking
something serious had happened to you.”
“I was just–”
“Regardless of what you were doing,” Ferid interrupts him sharply, “You could
have been kidnapped for all I knew. I can’t just let it pass off as nothing or
else you’ll think you can do it again and again, and you can’t. I never forbid
you to go out with your friends, but I at least want to know where you are and
what you’re doing.”
“I’d never…” Mika swallows thickly and averts his eyes, “But this punishment…”
“It’s what your father did to you,” Ferid says with a nod, “I know it, and
that’s why I’m doing it.”
“Why?” Mika stares at him with a mix of anger and astonishment. If he knows I
hate it, then why…?
“Because it’s a punishment, obviously,” He rolls his eyes, “A punishment must
be something you absolutely hate, so the next time you think of doing something
wrong again, you’ll remember that you’ll be punished with this, and you’ll
think twice of what you’re about to do.” He releases Mika and sighs, walking
away, “Well, I’m going back to uni. I think there’s still some lasagna from
last night, you can heat it for lunch. Behave well and don’t leave home,” He
stresses out with a last glare towards Mika, and leaves the room closing the
door after him.
Mika closes his eyes and takes a few deep breaths to calm down. He’s furious
with Ferid, but he understands his reasons. I deserve this punishment.
Also, it’s just for one week. He can do it. He can stay home for one week.
Then he remembers he just started dating Yuu and he was super excited to go out
on dates with him. He groans covering his face with his hands.
One week, just one week, he repeats to himself like a mantra.
After all, they can still text each other. Plus, Ferid forbid him of leaving
home, but he didn’t say anything about bringing someone home. Maybe he can ask
Yuu to come see him?
But he has practice, he remembers.
Groaning again, he gives up on thinking about it and goes unpack his things. He
needs to put his dirty clothes on the laundry and text Mirai to ask for today’s
notes. Just as he picks up his phone, he sees there’s a new message from Yuu:
[ I hope u survived ur uncle, he had a srsly murderous look in his face ]
Mika smiles to himself, feeling giddy all over again.
[ I’m still alive, but I’m grounded. Can’t leave home :(  ]
[ Did Guren yell too much at you? ]
He picks his clothes and goes to the laundry. Just as he’s putting everything
in the washing machine, Yuu answers him.
[ omfg how dare he ]
[ Worry not my beloved, I’ll save you from your prison ]
[ Also I may or may not be a little deaf from his yelling ]
Mika giggles, blushing a little. He types quickly a reply:
[ My brave prince, come save me, it’s barely been thirty minutes and I’m
already terribly bored ]
He can almost imagine Yuu’s face flushing a bright red at this, and he chuckles
at the thought. He goes to the kitchen and digs through the fridge, finding the
lasagna Ferid told him about. He puts the lasagna in the microwave and checks
his phone again to see Yuu’s texts.
[ I’ll definitely save you, my dear!  ]
[ But I have no transportation anymore, Guren doesn’t want to let me use his
car again T_T  ]
Mika rolls his eyes, smiling again.
[ Then find one of your own ]
[ I need to go have lunch now, talk to you later ]
The next text from Yuu makes him freeze:
[ Ok! I love you =) ]
His heart feels like it’s going to burst through his chest, so fast it’s
pounding. He can’t fight the smile tugging at his lips as he texts back:
[ I love you too, silly! ]
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     I was so excited for angry Ferid lmao xD
     Poor Mika though :( I'm sure he can survive the week!
     Also, "I Don't Know How To Describe Kisses", a novel by me, soon
     enough in a bookstore near you uwu
     I wrote this really fast so sorry for the typos, I'll look over it
     later lol
     Also, this is shorter than chapter 13 but, I hope you enjoyed
     nonetheless.
     I don't know when I'll be able to update because I want to update now
     my other fic (A Place For Us, but it's a yuunoa one, so shhh) and
     also work on some drawings - I want to finish them while I have time
     now during vacations :')
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chapter~
     EDIT: quick warning just so you don't worry about the next chapter:
     it might be delayed for one or two weeks because I just remembered
     both Yuumika and Kimiyoi weeks will take place next week and, welp, I
     want to participate in both so I'll be busy writing the prompts (I
     already started writing one for Yuumika, and it will be so angst, I'm
     really proud of myself :') ). As soon as both weeks are over, I'll
     resume updating tho. Be patient, next chapter will be back soon with
     more fluff ^-^
***** Chapter 15 *****
Chapter Summary
     “D-did you just call me babe?”
Chapter Notes
     Chapter 15 also known as "Ferid has The Talk with Mika"
     I'm not sorry at all *sips tea*
     Have a good reading~
     XD
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Crowley noticed Ferid was acting weird after he went to pick up Mikaela, but he
couldn’t imagine what had happened until that night, when Ferid bursts inside
his room, slams the door closed behind himself and says in a strangled voice:
“Mika is not a virgin anymore!”
Crowley looks up from the administration book he had been reading and raises an
eyebrow at Ferid, watching as the omega paces around the room with his hands
pulling his hair and a terrified look in his eyes. Crowley sighs from his spot
sitting by the desk and sets the book down, turning around in his wheeled chair
to face Ferid.
“What makes you think that?” He asks though he has an idea. Mikaela spent the
weekend at the house of his friend, who’s also an alpha, and Ferid spent the
weekend driving everyone crazy worrying about his nephew.
“They are dating!” Ferid squeals, “When I picked him up earlier, that Yuu kid
kissed him!”
“So?” Crowley rests his chins on his hand propped up on the arm of his chair,
looking at Ferid with an unimpressed look. “They kissed. It doesn’t mean they
had sex already…”
“But they spent three days together!” Ferid continues, fastening his pace to
the point Crowley thinks he’s about to make a hole on the ground. “It’s enough
time for them to… to…”
“Have sex?” Crowley helps, and Ferid covers his face with his hands whimpering.
“My poor nephew,” He wails, “His innocence was stolen.”
There’s something funny about Ferid freaking out like this just because there’s
a tiny possibility that Mikaela has had sex with his friend. Crowley tries to
suppress his amused smile as he leans forward.
“It can’t be stolen if he gave it away willingly.”
“But what if he didn’t? What if that Yuu kid forced him to…?”
“Then Mika-chan wouldn’t be locked inside his room talking to him on the phone
for the past three hours.” Crowley had passed by Mikaela’s room a few minutes
ago on his way to the kitchen to get some food, and both times he passed there
he heard Mikaela’s laughter as he talked to his friend. Crowley is pretty sure
that, if Yuu had forced Mikaela to have sex with him, Mikaela wouldn’t be
speaking so happily with him now.
Ferid doesn’t budge, though, and instead throws himself on Crowley’s bed with
open arms and stays there, staring at the ceiling.
“I need to have The Talk with him,” He says in a terrified whisper, and Crowley
can’t stop the laughter that escapes past his lips this time.
“I don’t think that’s necessary,” He says, “Mika-chan is smart enough to have
searched it for himself, if his parents didn’t tell him before. So I’m pretty
sure he knows how to spread his legs and let his boyfriend put his d–”
“Crowley!” Ferid protests, sitting up immediately to glare at Crowley who’s
laughing out loud now, “You’re not helping!”
“Well, what do you want me to say then?” Crowley spins around in his wheeled
chair and picks back up the administration book, opening it where he last
stopped. “It’s useless to freak out over the possibility of him having had sex
when we don’t even know if it really happened.”
“…” Ferid flops back down on the bed and frowns at the ceiling, “So… Should I
ask him?”
“If you want him to kick your ass...” Crowley can almost picture perfectly
Mikaela sputtering, his face flushing bright red and his eyes burning with
anger as he shouts at Ferid to shut up and leave him alone.
“It might be the only way though,” Ferid mutters and Crowley sighs, turning
slightly to look at him.
“You could deposit a little bit more of trust in your nephew, you know,” He
says a little exasperated, “Mika-chan isn’t a little child. He’s capable of
making his own decisions.”
“But he doesn’t tell me…”
“Because he doesn’t trust you,” Crowley rolls his eyes. “The way you always act
with him pushes him away, and you know it.”
“… The way I act always pushes people away,” Ferid says quietly, his eyes still
glued on the ceiling. Crowley sighs again and stands up, walking to the bed
only to sit beside him.
“This is not just about Mika-chan’s virginity, is it?” He asks. Ferid looks
briefly at him before frowning at the ceiling.
“I thought…” Ferid hesitates and then sighs, “I thought he would be like me.
Independent. Not that he would go and start dating an alpha.”
“Ah.” Now Crowley can see the problem. Ferid doesn’t want his dear nephew
“depending” on an alpha. Ferid was seeing himself in Mikaela, in the sense that
both didn’t need an alpha.
Mikaela dating his alpha friend destroyed this vision Ferid had of him.
“Well,” Crowley sighs, “Mika-chan is very different from you, Ferid.”
“… I know it.” Ferid turns his head away, deliberately avoiding his eyes.
“Maybe he’ll be able to have a happy relationship with his friend, unlike me.”
Crowley stares at him for a few seconds before standing up and going back to
his place by the desk.
“An omega doesn’t need to be single to be independent,” He says as he sits down
and picks up his book once more.
“I know.” Ferid stands up. “I’m going to talk to him.”
“Good luck.”
Ferid stops by the door, casting a guilty look towards Crowley before leaving.
 
 
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Mika is in the middle of recording a video of two of the kittens climbing up
his bed – they look like little spiders with how fast and agile they are – when
Ferid enters his room. He stops the recording to frown at his uncle.
“What do you want?” He asks suspiciously as Ferid approaches with a smile that
doesn’t reach his eyes.
“I just want to talk to you, dear nephew.” Ferid sits by his side on the bed
and Mika narrows his eyes.
“Talk about what?”
Ferid makes a whole act of fixing his clothes, as if trying to busy himself and
avoid whatever he wants to talk about. Mika rolls his eyes.
“So?” Mika raises his eyebrows impatiently.
“You’re dating that Yuu kid,” Ferid starts and Mika blushes. Well, of course
Ferid would notice; Yuu kissed him in front of his uncle.
“Y-yeah, so what?”
Ferid hums, nodding to himself. Then he looks at Mika with a dark expression on
his face.
“What did you two do over this weekend?” He asks in a low voice.
Mika groans and stands up, finally understanding what Ferid wants. His face
burns with embarrassment.
“We didn’t have sex, if that’s what you want to know,” Mika says bluntly
crossing his arms and facing Ferid, who doesn’t even pretend to be embarrassed
about what he’s asking.
“You didn’t?” He narrows his eyes as if Mika is the suspicious one, “Even if
you two spent three days alone?”
“We didn’t do anything!” Mika glares at Ferid. “We only started dating today,
how would we have done anything before today? Or do you think I’m like you,
going around and having sex with my best friend without dating him or having
feelings for him?”
Out of all the things Mika could have said to try to get under Ferid’s skin,
this is the last one he would have imagined that could bother his uncle. That’s
why he’s surprised when Ferid averts his eyes with a grim expression. He waits
for Ferid to say something, but his uncle remains quiet.
“Ferid?” He asks hesitantly. “Is… Is everything okay between you and Crowley?”
“Everything’s fine,” Ferid snaps, and then sighs and clears his throat. “You’re
right. Crowley and I are not an example to be followed. I am not an example to
be followed.”
What the…?
“Ferid…?” Mika approaches him, trying to think of something to say, but before
he can open his mouth Ferid turns to him with a big smile.
“Well, but let’s go back to the topic.” He clasps his hands together. “You and
your precious Yuu.” Ferid chuckles when Mika groans. “I know you think I’m
being nosey, but I’m seriously just worried about my beloved nephew.”
Mika raises an eyebrow, unimpressed, when Ferid puts his hands over his heart
and bats his eyelashes innocently at him.
“Just say what you want and leave, please.”
“How rude, dear Mika!” Ferid makes a hurtful expression that doesn’t convince
Mika in the slightly, and when he sees Mika merely deadpans at him, he sighs,
“I just want to make sure you’re protecting yourself properly.”
Mika groans and hides his face behind his hands.
“Do we really need to have this talk?” He asks with a muffled voice.
“Yes,” Ferid answers happily, “Also, since you are dating and most likely will
engage in sexual activity very soon–” He ignores Mika’s gasp of “Ferid!” and
continues merrily, “I’ll take you to the doctor so he can prescribe you your
suppressants. Make sure to use them.”
“You should use them too,” Mika mutters, his face flushed a bright red. He
really doesn’t want to talk about sex with Ferid of all people. He could pretty
much research all of this on his own and go to the doctor alone (though he is
touched that Ferid is worried enough to want to talk about this with him, but
it’s still embarrassing nevertheless).
“I don’t need it.” Ferid flips his hair over his shoulder and smiles sweetly.
“Keep telling yourself that and you’ll end up with a lot of children.” Though
Mika can’t really fit the image of Ferid taking care of a baby. He’s pretty
sure Ferid would be a terrible father.
“Don’t worry, I’ll never have children.”
Mika narrows his eyes at him, but doesn’t comment. He’s always known his uncle
is not a common omega.
“Are you done?” He asks impatiently, wanting to be over with this conversation
already.
“No,” Ferid smiles when Mika groans, “Listen, if that Yuu kid ever forces you
to have sex with him…”
“Yuu-chan would never force me to do anything,” Mika says dryly, glaring at
Ferid who merely shrugs.
“You never know.” He has a grim look in his eyes. “Alphas can be pretty
unpredictable.” Before Mika can even ask about it, he raises his voice, “But
the point is, never let him guilt trip you into doing anything. Don’t go doing
the things he wants you to do unless you’re comfortable and ready for this.”
“I know it.” Mika sighs, “Can you please leave now?”
Ferid stands up, smiling at him.
“I know you find this embarrassing and annoying, but I am responsible for you.
I don’t want you to get pregnant or get a STD under my care.”
“That won’t happen,” Mika mutters with his face red. He doesn’t want to think
about having children now. He’s finally free to go to school and date and do a
lot of things he’s always wanted to do before. He doesn’t want to put it all
aside now to take care of a baby, he’s too young for that.
Ferid chuckles at his expression and ruffles his hair, waltzing aside to avoid
the pillow Mika throws at him. When he opens the door to leave, though, they’re
surprised to find Crowley there.
“Is The Talk over?” The alpha asks amused.
“What are you doing here now?” Mika asks exasperated, and for a moment he fears
the alpha will want to talk to him about it – now that he thinks about it, if
Ferid ever decided to officially date him, Crowley would become his uncle too.
Mika shudders at the thought.
“Krul just asked me to tell you two that dinner is ready,” Crowley says
innocently, and then smirks at Ferid, “Did you tell him everything? About how
to let his boyfriend shove his dick up his a–”
“You’d do well to keep your mouth shut!” Ferid interrupts him, pressing both
his hands over Crowley’s mouth while Mika gasps, his face flushing a brighter
red than before. Crowley pushes Ferid’s hands away to say:
“Hey, if he ever wants to have sex and you don’t feel like it, just suck his
dick. It’s pretty effective.”
“Alright, it’s time to leave now!” Ferid glares at him as he pushes him out of
the room, closing the door behind them as they leave. Mika hides his face in
his hands, wanting to die of embarrassment, as he hears Crowley’s laugh as the
door closes.
 
 
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Yuu is trying – he really is – to concentrate on doing his homework for once in
his life. He knows Guren is already furious with him, so he doesn’t want to
give his uncle another reason to yell at him.
However, it seems Heavens don’t want him to do his homework because his phone
rings and he drops everything to pick it up when he sees it’s Mika.
“Hey…” He starts to say breathless but Mika interrupts him:
“I just had the most embarrassing talk with Ferid ever,” Mika groans, and Yuu
can hear in his voice how ashamed he is.
“What happened?” He asks concerned, only for Mika to whimper, his voice coming
out muffled, and Yuu can totally imagine him covering his face with his hands
as he speaks:
“Ferid wanted to talk about sex.”
Yuu can’t help the laughter that escapes now.
“Oh my…”
“That’s not funny, Yuu-chan!” Mika whines. “Do you know how is it like to have
your uncle trying to talk about sex with you?”
“Yeah, yeah, I know, sorry,” Yuu chuckles, blushing a little when he remembers
when Guren had The Talk with him, shortly after he told the man he was dating
Akane. He never thought he would see Guren embarrassed and stumbling over his
words until then.
“And the worse is that Crowley showed up then, talking about sucking dicks.”
Now Yuu really can’t stop his laughter. He flops down on his bed, trying to
muffle his chuckles behind his hand, especially when Mika exclaims:
“Yuu-chan!”
“Sorry, sorry,” He chuckles a little more before taking a deep breath, trying
to control himself. “Are you ok? It seems like you won’t have peace this week
in this house.”
He hears Mika sigh, and he smiles a little.
“I don’t know how I’ll survive a week with these idiots,” He mumbles, and then
hesitates before adding, “I wanted to go out with you. You know, in an actual
date.”
Yuu smiles at his ceiling.
“Me too,” He admits, “But it’s only for a week. I’m sure we can survive this.”
Though, as he says this, he aches to see Mika again – to hug him and to kiss
him. It’s barely been some hours since they last saw each other but it already
feels like it’s been years.
“Maybe you can,” Mika says, “But I don’t know if I’ll last long between Ferid
talking about condoms and Crowley talking about blowjobs.”
Yuu chuckles again, making Mika scold him once more.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
“It’s not funny,” Mika mutters, and Yuu is pretty sure he’s blushing. “We
barely started dating and Ferid is already thinking of us having sex, this is
so embarrassing!”
Yuu doesn’t answer, because he too has started to think about it. He blushes,
scolding himself meltally. Now is not the time for it.
After all, he’s Mika’s first boyfriend – this is the first time Mika dates
someone. He can’t just go and start thinking about having sex with him right
away when he’s still not comfortable with it.
“Yuu-chan?” Mika calls when he doesn’t get an answer, “Please tell me you’re
not thinking about it.” He doesn’t answer again, and Mika gasps, “Yuu-chan!”
“W-well, in my defense, I’m a teenager full of hormones.” And you’re too
attractive for your own good. Though he doesn’t say this, instead saying, “B-
but, anyway, this aside…”
“Don’t youdarechange the topic now.”
“I thought you were embarrassed to talk about it.” He smiles when he hears Mika
grunts something under his breath. “Hey, it’s ok. As you said, we just started
dating. We don’t have to think about it right now.”
“You have already started thinking about it, though,” Mika observes.
“Well… Yeah. Sorry.”
“Don’t be. You’re a teenager full of hormones, after all.”
“Shut up,” He grimaces, and then smiles when he hears Mika chuckle. “But
seriously, don’t worry about that. You don’t have to do anything you’re not
comfortable with.”
“I know,” Mika sighs, “Thanks, Yuu-chan.”
“Why are you thanking me? I’m just being a decent boyfriend.”
“You better be or Ferid will kick your ass.”
“Geez, I had forgotten about him,” Yuu shudders when he thinks of the murderous
look Ferid had on when he picked Mika up earlier. “I think I’ll keep my hands
to myself, then.”
“Good boy,” Mika purrs with a chuckle, and Yuu pokes out his tongue before
remembering he can’t see him. “I gotta go have dinner now. Talk to you later.”
“Ok,” Yuu smiles, “Until later, babe.”
There’s a silence on the other side of the line, and for a moment Yuu thinks
Mika has hung up, until he squeals:
“D-did you just call me babe?”
“… M-maybe?” Yuu blushes, realizing what he has just said. “Sorry?”
“You idiot,” Mika mumbles with an embarrassed chuckle, before admitting, “This
is actually cute.”
Yuu smiles relieved.
“I’ll start calling you like that then. Babe.”
“Please don’t.” Mika cuts him, though Yuu can hear the smile in his voice.
“Bye-bye, sweetheart.” And as Yuu gasps, he laughs and hangs up.
He stays staring at the ceiling for a long time, feeling as if his brain has
just short-circuited. Mika called me sweetheart.
Sure, he was probably just mocking him, but still… He felt his heart warm up at
those words. An idiot grin tugs at his lips, and he chuckles when Cerberus
bounces into the room and jumps on the bed with him, draping his heavy body
over Yuu’s. He wraps his arms around the dog’s neck, burying his face in his
fur.
“Mika just gave me a pet name,” He whispers to Cerberus, who barks and licks
his hair. He chuckles again, feeling silly but happier than he could ever
remember being.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     First of all, I'm sorry for being so late! At first I was
     concentrating on Yuumika and Kimiyoi weeks (and I wrote so few
     prompts for both omg :') ), but after they were over I was feeling
     really stressed out, so I spent a week at my father's house where I
     had like no internet at all lol so yeah, sorry!
     Also, sorry for it being so short. I feel like this part wouldn't go
     right with what I want to write next - like, it would feel
     disconnected from the rest. So I'm posting this now and I'll post the
     rest later (maybe tomorrow or on Friday, idk)
     Also, is this crowferi angst that I smell coming? *smiles contently
     sipping tea*
     haha xD
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chatper~ ^w^
***** Chapter 16 *****
Chapter Summary
     Over the week Mika had enough time alone to worry about how much his
     relationship with Yuu would change now that they’re dating.
Chapter Notes
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Mika is not surprised when, the next day, as soon as he arrives at school,
Mirai stomps until him and slams her hands on his desk, her eyes shining with
excitement and curiosity.
“Tell me everything!” She demands.
“About what?” He asks trying to play dumb, but she doesn’t give up.
“Where were you yesterday? And is it true you and Yuu are dating now?”
He sighs, looking to the front of the classroom to see Mr. Hiiragi entering for
the first class of the day.
“Later,” He promises her. She pouts, but goes back to her desk.
During lunch break, though, he has no escape. So he allows Mirai to drag him to
the rooftop, with Yoichi trailing behind carrying their lunch with an amused
expression, and as soon as they arrive there, she demands:
“Talk.”
“Why do you have to be so curious about it?” Mika sighs as they sit down. He
picks one of the sandwiches, trying to distract himself as Mirai pouts at him.
“Because you woke me up in the middle of the night to ask for advice, so I have
the right to know what happened after it.”
“… Fair enough,” He chuckles. As they eat their lunch, he tells them everything
– from how he confessed through tears to how Yuu took him to the beach. He told
them how they watched the sunrise together and how Guren and Ferid had been
waiting for them back at Yuu’s apartment. He also told them how Ferid had
grounded him.
“First time I get a boyfriend and I can’t even go out with him because I’m
grounded,” He sighs shaking his head and Yoichi laughs.
“You could invite him over to your house, though,” He suggests, “You two could
watch a movie or something.”
“The only TV in the house is in the living room. No way will I watch a movie
with Yuu-chan there. The others will probably want to watch it too and it will
be a living Hell.”
“Ah, yes, I forgot you live with a lot of nosy dudes,” Yoichi comments with a
chuckle.
“You can do other things besides watching movie though,” Mirai says with a
smirk, and Mika blushes remembering the talk he had with Ferid last night.
“I think I’m fine with the movie,” He mutters, and before Mirai can ask more
questions, he asks, “How was your weekend with your father?”
Mika realizes he’s becoming a master at distracting Mirai: her eyes light up
immediately, and she starts to speak really quickly:
“It was so cool! He took us to this aquarium and there was an awesome whale
there, and we took a lot of pictures together! And then we had lunch together
and when we came back home we marathoned American Horror Story together!” She
makes a pause to breathe, and Mika chuckles a little as she continues, “And on
Sunday he took us to the mall and he bought me some really cute dresses, ah, I
have to show you!” She digs through her pockets for her phone and shows Mika
some pictures she took of herself wearing the dresses: one baby pink with long
sleeves, the second navy blue with white buttons, and the third looking like a
doll’s dress, with ribbons and frilly sleeves and skirt.
“Aah, the third one looks cute on you,” Mika comments.
“I told you,” Yoichi smiles, probably having already seen the pictures.
“He said he’ll send some from England next month,” Mirai sighs contently,
smiling at her phone.
“Kimizuki visited Yuu and I on Saturday,” Mika comments, “And he told us that
your father had been talking about taking you to England with him.”
“He said that?” Mirai sighs, shoving her phone inside her pocket once again and
flopping down on the floor, her purple eyes staring fixed to the sky. “Well,
yeah, father suggested it once. He wanted to take both of us to England, but I
told him we couldn’t go because Kimizuki’s mate is here.” She smiles sheepishly
at Yoichi.
“But do you want to go?” Mika asks quietly, and watches as Mirai bites her
lips, frowning at the sky.
“It would be good to live with father again,” She admits, “But I can’t leave
brother alone here, and I can’t ask him to leave Yoichi and go with me.”
Mika hums, exchanging a glance with Yoichi, who smiles apologetically at him
before saying gently:
“You could go if you want to, Mirai. I’m sure Shihou wouldn’t mind.”
“He totally would, though,” She chuckles tiredly, “He got mad at father. Said
father probably just wants to marry me off to some alpha in England. Though if
that’s what he wants, it’s not going to work.”
“Why not?” Mika asks, “I mean, being forced into a marriage is terrible, but…”
“No, that’s not it.” Mirai grimaces, “I mean, yeah it sucks, but the problem is
not being forced to marry someone, but the fact that no alpha will ever want
me.”
Mika frowns at that.
“What do you mean?”
Mirai looks at him for a moment before chuckling again, though this time
without any humor in it.
“Ah, that’s right, I never told you, did I?” She sits up, running a hand
through her hair to push away from her eyes the stray strands of reddish hair.
“Remember when Yoichi said I got sick after my mother died?” Mika nods, and she
continues, “Well, I caught the Flame.”
“What?” Mika gasps, “B-but… Weren’t you vaccinated against it?”
She shakes her head, and the stray strands of hair fall back over her eyes once
again.
“Omegas are usually vaccinated at age 10, but that was when mom died. With the
funeral and the burying and having to adjust everything after her death, we
missed the date for the vaccination. So by the time brother took me to take the
shot, I had already caught the disease,” She sighs, looking up to smile sadly
at Mika, “That’s why he can’t forgive father. Father knew I was sick, but he
still went to England and left us alone here. Brother had to take care of me
while I almost died.”
“Why did your father leave if he knew you were sick though?” Mika doesn’t want
to judge without knowing his reasons, but he already feels disgusted at this
man. How could he leave his two children alone when one of them was sick?
“He had a nice job offer there,” Mirai says shrugging, “He had lost his job
before, so he couldn’t refuse this opportunity. And actually, he had already
accepted it before we discovered I was sick, so he couldn’t cancel it at the
last minute. At least,” She sighs, “That’s what he told brother when he left.”
Mika frowns, still not convinced, but Mirai simply waves it off.
“Anyway,” She continues, “As you can guess, I survived, but… Well, I’m
infertile now.”
“Oh…” Now Mika understands. “So you think no alpha will want you because of
that?”
“Omegas are only useful because they can have children,” Mirai says with a
frown, “If I can’t have children, I’m of no use to an alpha. Simply like that.”
“Mirai…”
“That’s why I want to have a nice career, you know?” She goes on with a smile
that Mika can see now is fake, for it doesn’t reach her eyes, “If I can’t even
have children like I’m supposed to, then I have to do something useful.”
“Mirai,” Mika raises his voice, making her look at him, and only then is that
he speaks in a soft tone, “You don’t have to have children to be useful. Some
omegas have children and still don’t know how to take care of them, so what’s
even the point?” He thinks of his and of Yuu’s mother. Yuu’s mother was sick
and tried to kill him, while his own mother closed her eyes to how his father
treated them. “I’m sure you can still do a lot of things even if you can’t
carry a child. And anyway,” He smiles at her, “If you still want to have a
child, you can always adopt.”
“Adopt, huh?” Mirai looks at him with interest before chuckling. “Well, I don’t
want to have children. I never liked kids anyway.” Mika notices her shoulders
are shaking, and when she speaks her voice trembles as well, “I-I mean, t-
they’re such a bother, don’t you t-think?”
When she sobs quietly, Mika quickly pulls her into a hug. She looks surprised,
especially when Yoichi too hugs her, both boys squeezing her tight. None of
them say a word as they let her cry silently, letting the boys hug her. They
don’t move not even when they hear the chime of the bell announcing the end of
lunch time.
That day, they skip a class for the first time.
 
 
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“I thought I said you were grounded.”
Mika doesn’t even blink as Ferid scolds him as soon as he enters the house.
He’s not even surprised to see his uncle waiting for him by the door.
“I know,” Mika says, not even attempting to lie.
“Then may I ask you why you not only skipped class, but also went out with your
friends when I clearly said you couldn’t go anywhere for a week?” Ferid asks
crossing his arms over his chest and lifting an eyebrow at him.
“Yoichi and I were trying to cheer Mirai up.” They had taken her to watch a
movie in hopes it would make her feel better.
“And why is that?”
Mika doesn’t answer to that. He can’t just say Mirai’s problem – he’s pretty
sure she wouldn’t like him to go around talking about it to just anyone. He
knows he wouldn’t like his friends to go around telling his secrets.
“Well?” Ferid insists, his eyebrow twitching. Mika simply stares at him,
decided to not say a thing. Finally, his uncle sighs tiredly and waves a hand
to him dismissively. “Enough, go to your room. One more week without leaving
home for that, understood?”
Mika merely nods and starts to walk away when Ferid calls him:
“Ah, Mika.” He turns around to see his uncle extending a hand to him. “Your
phone. Give it to me.” When Mika frowns confused at him, he says, “You’re
forbidden to use your phone until your punishment ends.”
Mika’s mouth drops open in indignation and fury.
“B-but, how am I going to talk to my friends now?” How am I going to talk to
Yuu-chan?
“You should have thought about it before disobeying me.” Ferid glares at him.
“Since apparently being forbidden to leave home is not enough for you, I’m
making it worse. I do hope you learn to not disobey my orders.”
Gritting his teeth, Mika fishes his phone from inside his pocket and hands it
to Ferid before turning around and stomping to his room.
 
 
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The rest of the week passes by slowly, like time is slowing down to torture
Mika even more. Sure, he has the kittens to take care of and his homework from
the days he missed to do. But not being able to talk to Yuu and his friends
during the whole week is starting to eat him out; he got used to receiving
messages from Yuu at night, and now he thrashes around in his bed, restless and
anxious. He wonders if Yuu too misses texting him, or if he even knows he’s not
with his phone. Mika had told Mirai what had happened – rolling his eyes when
she apologized for causing his grounding to be extended and telling her it’s
not her fault – and he asked her to warn Yuu, but even so…
When Saturday comes, he’s surprised when Ferid wakes him up by telling him that
Yuu came visit him.
“Your boyfriend is waiting for you downstairs, so you better hurry and wake
up,” He says teasingly before leaving the room chuckling.
Mika is quick to stand from the bed and run to the bathroom, showering as fast
as he can and throwing on the first clothes he picks from his wardrobe. Only
then he rushes down the stairs to find Yuu in the living room, sitting on a
sofa drinking tea with Ferid; his brain barely registers the weird image as
Yuu’s eyes look up to see him entering the room and the alpha smiles.
“Mika!” He stands just in time to catch Mika when the omega jumps on him,
successfully tackling him to the ground.
Mika thought he had missed Yuu before, but only now, hugging him tight and
burying his nose in Yuu’s neck to scent him, is that he realizes how much the
past week hurt without talking to him.
“I missed you,” He breathes out, and he hears Yuu chuckle.
“Yeah, I missed you too.”
They hear Ferid clear his throat as if to remind them of his presence in the
room, and they finally separate from each other, their cheeks flushed but a
satisfied smile on their lips. Yuu helps Mika stand up and they sit together on
the sofa.
“What are you doing here, though?” Mika asks as Yuu serves some of the tea on a
cup for him. He accepts the cup and sips it carefully; he was never a big fan
of tea, but he enjoys the drink for now. Ferid pushes a plate with cookies in
Mika’s direction, his silent way of telling him to eat.
“I came to see you, of course,” Yuu smiles brightly at him, “Mirai told me you
don’t have your phone anymore.” At this, Yuu glares at Ferid, who merely
ignores it and smiles at them as he sips his own tea. “I know you can’t leave
home, but that doesn’t mean I can’t visit you, right?”
“… I suppose.” Mika chuckles. “But I thought you had swimming classes on
Saturdays?”
“Mika… It’s already 11 am. My swimming class is at 8.”
Mika’s eyes widen and he chokes on his tea.
“Wha– really?” He pouts when Yuu chuckles. “Yuu-chan!”
“Sorry, sorry,” Yuu’s eyes gleam as he smiles at him. “Well, anyway, the game
against Union High is tomorrow morning, so I wanted to see you before it.”
“Oh…” Mika looks down at his cup, pursing his lips. He had forgotten about the
game. And now, being grounded, I can’t go watch him. He looks up at Yuu with
sad eyes, “I’m sorry, Yuu-chan. I won’t be able to see you play tomorrow…”
“It’s okay, don’t worry about that.” Yuu calmly raises a hand to Mika’s face,
tucking away a strand of blond hair behind Mika’s ears before smiling at him.
“There will be a lot of chances for you to watch one of our matches, so don’t
worry.”
Mika smiles a little and nods, but deep inside he feels bad. He really wanted
to be there to cheer for Yuu. Then he thinks of the girls he saw watching the
game on the day he visited Yuu’s school, and he feels a little jealous. They
will be there but I, his boyfriend, won’t.
“Anyway,” Yuu continues, and Mika snaps out of his jealous thoughts to look at
him, “I thought we could watch a movie together on Netflix, what do you think?”
“That sounds nice.” Mika smiles.
“I agree!” Ferid pips up cheerfully, clasping his hands together and smiling
brightly at them, “There is this movie I’ve been watching to watch called The
Forest…”
“And who said you will watch anything with us?” Mika asks coldly, glaring
daggers at Ferid. Ever since Ferid took his phone and extended his punishment,
Mika has been cold with him. He understands that he deserved it, that he
shouldn’t have disobeyed his uncle, but it still doesn’t stop Mika from being
angry, especially when he spent the whole week without saying a word to his
boyfriend.
“Eeh? But I want to watch a movie too!” Ferid pouts, but Mika merely turns his
head away, promptly ignoring him.
“We can watch in my room,” Mika tells Yuu, “I have my computer there, so we
should be fine.”
Also we can have some privacy there, Mika thinks.
“O-ok,” Yuu smiles sheepishly at him, though Mika can see his eyes averting to
stare nervously at Ferid.
“Ignore him,” Mika says, bringing his cup up to drink his tea, finishing it.
“Let’s go.”
Yuu still wants to take a bath – Mika scolds him for not bathing again after
swimming – so Mika has enough time to tidy up his bed and get them some snacks
from the kitchen. When he goes back to his room with a bow of popcorn and a
chocolate bar, Yuu has already finish his bath and is sitting on his bed
playing with the kittens, chuckling as he watches them jump on him.
“They’re already so big,” Yuu comments when he sees Mika enter the room, and
the omega smiles and nods.
“Soon they’ll be big enough to go to their new homes.” Saying this makes Mika’s
chest ache; he doesn’t want to let go any of the kittens, but he knows he can’t
keep the four of them, and he already promised Shinya and Mirai one kitten
each, so he can’t back down now. “I still need to find an owner for one more of
them, though.”
Yuu hums, smiling sympathetically at him.
“Which one is Shinya’s?” He asks, trying to distract Mika.
“The white one.” Mika sits by his side after setting the popcorn and the
chocolate on the nightstand. He picks up the kitten whose fur is completely
white as snow and shows it to Mika. “The vet said this one is a male.” He feels
one of the kittens, the black one, nudging his thigh, as if demanding to be
pet; chuckling, he scratches he kitten’s ear and picks it up, “This one will be
mine.”
Yuu chuckles as he watches Mika hold the kitten carefully and nuzzle its fur.
“And these other two?” Yuu gestures to the other kittens that are climbing on
him, and Mika smiles at the scene.
“The black one with white paws is Mirai’s,” He says, “The other one is the one
I have to find an owner for.”
Yuu hums, still playing with the kittens with a thoughtful look on his face.
Mika sets his kitten down on the bed – he needs to find a name for him – and
goes grab his laptop. He sits down as he turns it own, glancing briefly at Yuu,
who’s now lied down on the bed allowing the kittens to lie on top of him, and
he smiles at how cute he is with the kittens all over him.
“Cerberus will never stop sniffing me when I arrive home,” Yuu comments, and
Mika chuckles.
“How is he doing?” He asks.
“He’s fine.” Yuu smiles briefly at him before closing his eyes and sighing.
“I’m the one who’s dying because of the amount of hours we have been practicing
for the game.”
 “Sounds hard,” Mika chuckles. “You should rest today or else you won’t have
energy to play tomorrow.”
“Oh, I’m sure I’ll have enough energy for it,” Yuu assures him, “Though I’m
pretty sure I’ll be dead when it ends.”
Mika shakes his head still smiling and looks back at his computer. As he opens
Netflix, Yuu crawls closer to him until he’s directly behind him with his chin
resting on Mika’s shoulder. Mika rests his back against Yuu’s chest, relaxing
against him.
Over the week Mika had enough time alone to worry about how much his
relationship with Yuu would change now that they’re dating. But leaning
comfortably against him now, feeling Yuu’s arms gently wrap around his chest to
hold him close as they choose a good movie on Netflix, Mika realizes he had
nothing to worry about. He remembers what Yuu said, about how apart from the
kissing they have already been acting like boyfriends ever since they’ve met
again, and he wants to laugh at how much he worried about it.
They end up choosing an animated movie, and they sit close together in Mika’s
nest, the kittens lying on their laps as they watch it.
They proceed to watch two movies before making a pause for lunch, and then
watch two more until Yuu notices it’s getting dark outside and he should
probably go home before it gets too late. Mika accompanies him to the door as
he leaves.
“I’ll come visit you tomorrow after the game,” Yuu tells him. “To tell you the
result and, depending on it, celebrate or sulk with you.”
Mika chuckles and shakes his head.
“Don’t worry about that,” He says, “If you win, you should go celebrate with
your friends.”
“Yeah, but…”
“Don’t worry about me.” Mika cups his cheeks and presses their lips together
softly. “Good luck tomorrow.”
He moves to pull away, but Yuu stops him by wrapping an arm around his waist
and pulling him flush against his body, kissing him passionately. Mika whimpers
before melting against him, moving his hands to his hair, wrapping his fingers
on the soft black strands.
When Yuu pulls away, they’re both flushed and out of breath. They both chuckle
and Mika leans forward to press his forehead against Yuu’s, closing his eyes.
“Good luck,” He repeats in a whisper.
“Thanks,” Yuu mutters, pressing his lips against Mika’s briefly once more
before moving away. “I have to leave now.”
Mika nods and, as Yuu opens the door, he adds, “Kick the asses of those Union
alphas!”
Yuu laughs out loud, and Mika thinks that’s the most beautiful sound he ever
heard.
“I will!” Yuu smiles brightly, “They won’t even know what hit them.”
“And be careful,” Mika adds, “Don’t get hurt.”
“Yup, don’t worry!”
“And–”
“Mika,” Yuu interrupts him, and then smiles softly, “I’ll be fine, really.”
“With how reckless you are?”
“Hey!” He stops to admire as Mika giggles, fighting back a smile.
“Ok, I’ll let you leave now.” Mika leans in to give him one last kiss before
pushing him out of the door. “Now off you go.”
“How mean!” Yuu chuckles, “Just one more kiss…”
“No,” Mika puts a hand on his chest to keep him away, “Go home now and make
sure to sleep properly, and please have a nice healthy breakfast tomorrow, not
anything greasy like bacon and stuff.”
“Why not? Bacon and eggs are nice to eat for breakfast.”
“It’s not healthy too early in the morning, Yuu-chan,” Mika sighs and shakes
his head, “You’re an athlete, so you should pay more attention to what you
eat.”
“Right, right,” Yuu rolls his eyes and, moving quickly, steals another kiss. He
laughs as Mika squeals and frowns at him. “Ok, now I’m really leaving. Bye!”
Mika shakes his head again and smiles a little as he watches Yuu walk away.
Only when he disappears into the night is that Mika closes the door, and he’s
surprised to see Ferid standing there on the hallway, casually leaning against
the wall with a smirk.
“What?” Mika asks aggressively, but Ferid merely shrugs.
“I was just thinking of how you’re such a caring boyfriend,” He teases, “That
was the sappiest scene I’ve ever seen.”
“You didn’t even have to be here watching it,” Mika frowns at him, crossing his
arms over his chest. Ferid shrugs again.
“It’s such a shame, though,” He says, “That you can’t go watch him play, I
mean.”
That makes Mika go rigid, his face paling as he glares at his uncle. Is he
making fun of me?
“As if you don’t have a thing to do with it!” He snaps, stomping past Ferid,
intending to go to his room.
“Ah, but you’ve behaved so well after I took your phone away.” Ferid comments
as Mika walks away, “I’ve actually been thinking of making it an exception and
allowing you to go to the game tomorrow…”
Mika halts in his steps and turns away to look at Ferid through narrowed eyes.
Ferid blinks innocently at him.
“We could make a deal, that is.”
“… What kind of deal?” Mika asks suspiciously as Ferid stalks closer, stopping
in front of him. His uncle bends slightly to bring his eyes to Mika’s level,
smirking as he stares at him.
“I’ll take you to the game tomorrow,” He says, “But only to watch it. After it,
we come back home.”
Mika hesitates. This is tempting, but also – why would Ferid be offering to do
something so nice for him when he was the one to put him in this rigid
punishment?
“What do you want for that?” He asks, and Ferid straightens himself, looking
away and twirling a strand of silver hair on his finger.
“I just thought I could act like a nice uncle for once,” It’s what he finally
says, and Mika narrows his eyes at him. “Your first grounding was well
deserved, but when you disobeyed me on Tuesday it was merely for your friend’s
sake. You were just being a nice friend and I punished you for that.” Ferid
looks at him with a small smile, “That doesn’t mean I’m ending your punishment,
though. I’m just, let’s say, suspending it temporarily.”
Mika uncrosses his arms and looks hesitantly at him.
“So you’ll really let me go to Yuu’s game tomorrow?”
“I’ll be going to you, of course, but yes. You can go.”
There’s a silence that stretches for a few minutes before Mika exhales a breath
he didn’t know he was holding in. He offers Ferid a smile.
“Thanks! Ah, but I don’t know what time it will be…”
“I called Shinya about it, the game will start at 10 am, so we should be there
at least one hour earlier if we want to get a nice place. Therefore, dear
nephew,” Ferid smiles at him, “Go sleep. We need to wake up early, and you have
the bad habit of waking up late in the weekends.”
Mika blushes, wanting to deny it, but then remembers he woke up at 11 am today,
so he decides not to comment on it.
“How do you have Mr. Hiiragi’s number?” He asks instead. Again Ferid twirls a
strand of hair on his finger – Mika is starting to think that’s a nervous tick
– looking away briefly.
“We know each other from before,” Ferid finally says vaguely. Mika hums,
remembering how they talked politely to each other when Ferid picked him up at
Yuu’s place.
“So you know Guren too?”
“Yes,” Ferid grimaces and then smiles, letting go of his hair as he looks at
Mika. “Now, what did I say about going to sleep? Go, go.” He makes a gesture of
shooing him away and Mika glares at him.
“Fine,” He grunts, walking away in the direction of the stairs.
Ferid watches him go, and waits for the sound of his footsteps to disappear
upstairs before letting out a stressed sigh. He leans against the nearest wall,
crossing his arms protectively over his chest and frowning at the ground.
Will you have better luck than me?
That’s a silly question and he knows it. Mika is not like him, no matter how
much he wanted him to be. Yes, Mika has a natural aversion to stranger alphas
because of the way he was raised, but after he comes to know the person better,
he opens up to them – unlike Ferid, who prefers to keep a mask and hide his
true self.
He thinks of how genuine Mika’s laughter was as he said goodbye to his
boyfriend, and his frown deepens.
Maybe it’s for the best that you’re not like me.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     I know I promised this for Friday but uh things happened? ahaha
     *laughs nervously*
     Ah but here it is, with some mild angst and who's excited to see
     Ferid suffering? ^w^
     (That won't happen for a few more chapters, but I'll keep teasing you
     while on that xD)
     I don't know when next chapter will be, but I'll try to update as
     soon as possible because I only have one more week of vacations
     before uni comes in to wreck me again :')
     Don't forget to leave a comment, and see you next chapter~
     ps: anybody else excited for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? No?
     Only me? *freaking out in the corner because scorbus*
***** Chapter 17 *****
Chapter Summary
     “I never knew soccer was so intense.”
Chapter Notes
     Also known as, "That Time I Tried To Write A Soccer Match And Failed
     Horribly"
     lol
     Have a good reading~
     xD
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Mika had only seen a soccer stadium on TV before, so when he first sees the
huge building, he can’t help but gap at it.
Yuu-chan and his friends will play here?
As soon as Ferid stops the car in the parking lot, Mika hops off the car and
cranes his neck back to look up at the stadium. He hears Ferid chuckle at him,
but he doesn’t even care.
“Surprised?” Ferid asks sweetly as he leaves the car. “I bet you never expected
teams of school clubs to play on such a huge place, huh?”
Mika merely shakes his head, hearing Crowley laugh this time. He finally looks
behind to see Crowley leave the car too, followed by Krul and Asura. Lest had
said he doesn’t care for these kind of things and he had to study, so he stayed
back. Lacus had dragged René to watch a movie, and Chess and Horn said they had
to meet some friends at the mall.
Mika wasn’t surprised that Asura would want to come, since he studies at the
Mood Demon Academy too – but he was actually surprised when he heard that Asura
is a cheerleader. When he heard that, all he could think about was of the silly
girls he usually saw in high school movies, and an image of Asura in a mini-
skirt holding some pompoms wouldn’t leave his mind.
He looks at the purple-haired omega now, already dressed in his outfit, which
consists of shorts instead of the skirt his mind had imagined. His clothes are
black with neon green details, with the name of the school across the chest of
his shirt and a red-faced demon on the back. Asura had said that that was their
mascot, and Mika was half amused and half intrigued about a school having a
demon as a mascot, though he had to admit that the art of the demon was cute.
“I have to meet with the others soon,” Asura told them, though Mika guessed he
was talking mostly to Krul as he looked at his sister, “Please don’t let Ferid
wander around on his own. If he does something embarrassing, I’ll outright say
I don’t know any of you.”
“How mean!” Ferid whimpers, but everybody ignores him.
“I’ll see you later,” Krul tells Asura, nodding at him and he leaves, his long
hair pulled back in a ponytail bouncing as he runs to find his cheerleader
friends.
“We should go inside then,” Crowley says, and Mika nods, excited.
I’ll watch Yuu-chan play. He’s more anxious than he imagined he would be.
There is already some movement there; Mika sees many teenagers dressed in
uniforms, and he supposes they’re there to play too – he wonders just how many
games there will be today. He sees other cheerleaders from different schools
and, at some moment, he sees someone dressed in a big tiger costume, and he
guesses that must be the mascot of some school.
He scents mostly alphas and betas there, and he doesn’t miss how some alphas
cast some looks at him. However, he can see that they are not disrespectful –
merely curious or interested. A shy blond alpha smiles tentatively at him, but
Mika merely blushes and looks away, feeling a little guilty for thinking that
the boy actually looks cute.
He is distracted when he hears someone call his name:
“Mika?” He turns to see Yuu arriving with the rest of his team, and he smiles
at him.
“Hey, Yuu-chan–” He doesn’t have the chance of saying anything else as Yuu runs
and jumps on him, successfully trapping him in a tight bear hug.
“You came!” Yuu breathes out once he lets Mika go, holding him by his shoulders
and smiling brightly at him. The alpha from before is long forgotten as Mika’s
face becomes even redder. He didn’t think Yuu would be so happy for having him
there.
“Well, Ferid decided to be a nice uncle for once,” He vaguely gestures at
Ferid, Crowley and Krul who are watching them with varying degrees of interest
– Crowley and Krul being amused while Ferid narrows his eyes and smiles his
creepy smile as if trying to scare Yuu off.
It works, because Yuu clears his throat and releases Mika, taking a step away.
“H-hello,” He stutters nervously, frowning at Mika when the omega chuckles.
“Hello, Yuu-kun,” Ferid says in the sweet tone he uses when he’s trying to
subtly say ‘I-don’t-trust-you’. “Also, hello Mito-san. Long time no see.”
The rest of Yuu’s team has reached them now, and the red-haired coach nods
rigidly at Ferid.
“Ferid-kun,” She says, “Nice to see you again.” She then looks at Yuu, “We have
one hour before the game yet, but that doesn’t mean you can disappear only to
show up at the last minute, got it?”
“I’ve only done this once,” Yuu mumbles blushing, and some of his teammates
snicker.
“Hello, Mika! Nice to see you,” Shusaku says cheerfully, waving at him. Mika
nods timidly at him, Narumi and Kimizuki, and recoils against Yuu when he hears
one of the boys say:
“Eeh, so that’s the famous Mikaela?” There are more snickers, and another boy
comments:
“No wonder you won’t stop talking about him, Yuu. He’s a cutie.”
“Listen here now–” Yuu turns to them with an offended face, but Narumi cuts him
by glaring at the boy in question:
“Kei, that’s a rude thing to say. You’re making Mikaela uncomfortable.”
Some of the boys chuckle at Kei, who blushes and mutters an apology before Mito
ushers them forward, saying they have to get inside to talk before the game.
Yuu stays behind and walks with Mika, both a little distant from Ferid and the
others.
Yuu holds his hand as they walk, and Mika can feel the eyes of some people
around on them.
“Why are they looking at us?” He mutters embarrassed, and Yuu chuckles.
“I keep forgetting you never left home,” He smiles apologetically at him, “In
big cities like here, alphas are a lot more reserved. They don’t usually show
affection in public, so walking holding hands like this usually attracts some
curious looks.” Yuu merely shrugs, “We can… walk normally though, if you’re
bothered.” He adds nervously, but Mika quickly shakes his head, tightening his
hold on Yuu’s hand.
“No, no, it’s okay, I’m fine.” Mika smiles at him, and the smile Yuu gives him
back is the most beautiful thing in the world, he thinks.
“Well, ain’t ya two such lovebirds.”
They stop at the sudden voice. They have just turned a corner into a relatively
empty hall, and when Mika looks up his face goes pale.
It’s one of the alphas who attacked him at the bus stop weeks ago – the one
with the undercut and the tattoos. He’s dressed in a black and gold uniform,
and Mika feels even sicker to know that he’s in the team of his school.
“It’s kinda sickening to watch this, ya know.” He says with his arms crossed
over his chest and a smirk playing on his lips.
Yuu frowns at him, not noticing what’s going on. He doesn’t know this is one of
the guys who attacked me before, Mika remembers.
“What’s your problem, dude?” Yuu asks defensively, staring at him suspiciously.
“Nothing,” The alpha uncrosses his arms and puts his hands on his hips, sighing
and shaking his head. “Just a little disappointed, ya know. My friends and I
tried to bend this feisty one there, but…” He smirks at Mika, raising an
eyebrow as he looks from Mika to Yuu. “I see, so ya’re already fucking him.
That explains why he refused us.”
Mika feels his stomach drop, and he’s divided between feeling offended and
wanting to puke. Yuu, on the other hand, goes all red and growls at the other
alpha, instantly stepping forward to hide Mika behind himself.
The alpha laughs out loud, waving his hand.
“It’s okay mate, I can already see he prefers ya. Though,” He sends another
dirty smirk at Mika before proposing swiftly, “Since we’ll be playing against
each other, we can decide it at the game? The one who wins gets the omega.”
Yuu’s hands ball in fists and he growls again, and for a moment Mika thinks
he’s about to pounce on the other alpha.
“Mika is not a fucking trophy!” Yuu snarls angrily, “And I’ll fucking kick your
ass at the field for suggesting that.”
“It can’t be helped then,” The alpha sighs dramatically, shrugging before
casting another glance at Mika, “Are ya sure of that, beauty? Ya could have a
lot more of fun with me and my friends.”
Mika gulps down and forces himself to keep a blank face as he deadpans:
“You should leave now.”
The alpha shrugs again.
“As you wish, pretty,” As he walks past Yuu and Mika, he grins at Mika before
he slaps Mika’s ass.
Mika jolts and gasps, turning around offended and angry and ready to punch the
boy, who has the nerve to laugh. He hears Yuu growl and he’s sure Yuu would’ve
punched the alpha at that exact moment if not for one thing.
Ferid was standing just behind them, and the alpha walks straight into him,
bumping against him. He stumbles back, glaring up at Ferid.
“Look where ya going, idiot!” He snarls before scenting Ferid’s omega scent and
smirking. “Hey there, cutie.”
“Don’t ‘cutie’ at me,” Ferid says, and Mika doesn’t think he’s ever seen Ferid
look so serious as he grabs the alpha by the collar of his shirt and brings him
close, enough for their noses to touch. “That one you touched just now is my
nephew, you know?”
The alpha gasps, and Mika realizes Ferid has wrapped his hand around the boy’s
neck, his long nails digging in his skin.
“So?” Ferid deadpans, his voice dangerously low, “What do you have to say about
it?”
“Lemme go–”
“Ferid-kun, you’ll get us in trouble like this.” Mika hadn’t even realized
Crowley and Krul were there until Crowley speaks, shaking his head
exasperatedly.
“But he…”
“I know, I saw it.” Crowley smiles at the alpha, and his cold smile is as scary
as Ferid’s. “I’m sure that won’t happen again. Will it, buddy?” When the boy
only gasps, still struggling in Ferid’s hold, Crowley adds calmly, “I heard
they have really harsh punishments at Union for alphas who harass omegas. It
would be a pity if your coach heard about this episode and you ended up being
kicked off the team…”
“I-I got it, I got it!” The alpha gasps, and Ferid finally releases him, making
sure to shove him away from Mika.
“If I ever see you near my nephew again, I’ll cut your little cock with
scissors and make sure you eat it for breakfast, kiddo.” Ferid says with a
murderous look in his eyes, and the alpha pales, staring from Ferid to Crowley
to Krul and then to Yuu before simply dashing away from there.
When he disappears around the corner, Krul sighs and shakes her head.
“Are you okay, Mika?” She asks, and all heads turn to him. He shrinks a little,
staring timidly at his own feet.
“I’m fine,” He mumbles.
“Are you sure?” Yuu takes his hand, and Mika realizes the alpha is trembling as
much as him. Mika manages to smile reassuringly at him and nods, lightly
squeezing his hand for comfort.
“I still don’t like having let that idiot go,” Ferid grunts crossing his arms
over his chest, and Crowley chuckles.
“Don’t worry, he won’t come near so soon.”
“He better don’t!”
“We should get going to the bleachers,” Krul interrupts them, and then looks at
Yuu, “And you should go meet with your team, shouldn’t you?”
“Yeah, but…” Yuu looks at Mika uncertain. “Will you be alright?”
Mika chuckles and smiles sweetly at him; cupping his cheeks, he kisses Yuu
softly before stepping away.
“I’ve told you already, I’ll be fine.” He says. “Now go and make sure to
destroy them.”
Yuu nods serious and runs off to meet his teammates. As soon as he’s out of
sight, Mika sighs.
“Mika?” Ferid asks concerned.
“I’m fine.” He repeats. “We must go now.”
Ferid looks about to protest, but gives up in the end. As they start walking in
the direction of the bleachers, Ferid puts an arm around his shoulders
protectively, and, for the first time, Mika accepts his uncle’s protection.
 
 
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Mika is surprised with how many people are there to see a match between two
school club teams – the bleachers are crowded, despite the fact that there are
still a good thirty minutes until the game starts.
“Where should we sit?” Crowley muses looking around, and suddenly Ferid gasps
delighted.
“There!” He announces pointing in a direction, and when Mika looks, he almost
rolls his eyes when he sees Yuu’s uncle. He’s sitting with Mr. Hiiragi and
Shinoa, the two Hiiragis laughing at something that has Guren glaring at them.
Ferid happily leads the way to them. As Mika follows him and the others, he
looks down at the field, but there’s no one there yet. He bites his lower lip,
frowning as he thinks back to how furious Yuu was before. I hope he won’t do
anything stupid during the game.
Shinya is the first to notice them as they approach, and he waves cheerfully at
them before nudging Guren to point at Ferid coming near.
“Oh, no!” Guren groans, hiding his face in his hands. “Not you.”
“Yes me,” Ferid says merrily, sitting by Shinya’s side and smiling brightly at
the other omega. “Fancy seeing you here!”
“What are you doing here?” Guren frowns disapprovingly at Ferid, receiving a
glare from Shinya.
“Behave,” The white-haired omega says elbowing him. Guren groans and moves away
from Shinya, glaring at him.
“Mika wanted to see his boyfriend play,” Ferid explains casting a smile in
Mika’s direction, who glares at him as he sits beside his uncle. Crowley and
Krul sit beside Mika, both looking with some interest at the conversation as
Ferid finishes amusedly, “So I brought him!”
“And did you really have to come too?”
“Guren!” Shinya glares at him again, but Guren ignores him.
“Of course I had,” Ferid frowns and glares at the students from Union High that
are starting to fill in the bleachers on the other side. “I can’t let my
precious nephew walk around all these uncontrollable alphas alone.”
Mika is too tired to retort that he can defend himself pretty well, so instead
he ignores Ferid and smiles at Shinya.
“I didn’t know you two would come,” He says.
“Someone has to cheer for Yuu,” Shinoa, sitting by Guren’s other side, pips up,
leaning forward to smile mischievously at Shinya, who smiles back at his
sister. “I didn’t know you would come though. Yuu said you were grounded.”
“He still is,” Ferid adds, “But since I’m such a benevolent uncle–” Crowley
snorts out loud, but Ferid ignores him, “I decided I could let him come and see
his boyfriend play.”
“You’re such a saint,” Mika deadpans, “You deserve a Nobel Prize for being so
generous.”
“Don’t be all sarcastic on me, kid, or do you want to be grounded for one more
week?” Ferid pouts at him, but Mika ignores him again in favor of listening as
Guren talks:
“You’re still as annoying as ever.”
“Aw, that hurts me, dear Guren,” Ferid makes a hurtful expression that
convinces no one, “Where went all the love you had for me?”
Guren snorts, rolling his eyes.
“It was the other way around, if I remember well.”
“Guren, you know he’s only provoking you,” Shinya sighs, “You’re too easy to
rile up.”
“Must run in the blood, because Yuu-san is like this too,” Shinoa comments with
a chuckle.
“Shut up you two,” Guren mumbles.
Mika looks at Ferid with a frown.
“What was that?” He asks.
“What?” His uncle raises an eyebrow, but Mika presses on:
“What did you two mean with that? Did… did you two date before?” Though he
can’t imagine this happening; Ferid is too flamboyant for someone like Guren.
“Ah, he wishes we had,” Guren snorts. “He had a crush on me before.”
“Oh, don’t fool yourself, my love for you still runs deep,” Ferid says
dramatically, and Crowley whines:
“What about me?”
“Oh, I love you too, of course.”
“Yeah, sure,” Guren snorts, “You’re incapable of loving anyone.”
“Because your broke my heart,” Ferid places both his hands over his chest,
“When you abandoned me to date that Hiiragi girl.”
“We weren’t together for me to abandon you.” Guren mumbles, and Shinya laughs.
“Ferid’s uncle was a professor at the university where Guren studied,” He
explains to Mika, who was watching the whole exchange with a confused look.
“Eizen Bathory-san, wasn’t it?” He asks Guren and Ferid, but continues before
they can answer, “Guren was Eizen-san’s favorite student, and he always invited
Guren over to dinner and stuff like that, because he loved discussing science
with him. Ferid and Guren met in these occasions, and, well…”
“It was love at first sight,” Ferid sighs with a smile, and Guren grimaces at
him.
“I had a 15 years old kid drooling over me,” The alpha complains.
“What’s wrong with young love?”
“I was already 20, for fuck’s sake!”
“Guren,” Shinya scolds him again, though he looks to be holding back his
laughter. He looks back at Mika, “So yeah. Later that year Guren started dating
Mahiru, and thus broke poor Ferid’s heart.” Ferid nods with a tearful
expression, making Guren roll his eyes.
Mika tries to imagine a younger Ferid being impressed about that smart alpha
that would appear for dinner occasionally. He tries to picture Ferid as an
infatuated teenager, being anxious for dinner with his crush and blushing all
the time at him – but all that comes to his mind is the kind of guy that sits
behind the pigtailed haired girl at class only to pull at her hair, because
that’s the only way to get her attention.
Mika is pretty sure that’s the kind of person Ferid is like.
“It’s not my fault he fell in love,” Guren mumbles. Then he sighs and crosses
his arms over his chest, glancing at Ferid, “I was surprised when you took
Eizen-sensei’s surname, though.”
Ferid sniffs, pouting.
“He was more like a father to me than my own real father,” He says crossing his
arms over his chest too.
“Wait, Bathory isn’t your real surname?” Mika asks surprised.
“What do you mean real? It is my surname, you know.”
“You know what I mean,” Mika frowns at him, so only smiles mischievously.
“Let’s just say Ferid Bathory sounded really nice, so I took it.” Ferid then
smiles warmly at him, “Do you want to become a Bathory too? It would sound so
good too, wouldn’t it? Mikaela Bathory!”
Mika groans, rolling his eyes.
“I don’t want to sit by your side anymore.” He stands up, ignoring when Ferid
cries, “Where are you going?”, and moves to sit by Shinoa’s side.
The purple-haired girl chuckles at him.
“I think Mikaela Bathory sounds very nice,” She says with a smirk, “But Mikaela
Amane would sound even better, don’t you think?”
Mika chokes and blushes furiously, glaring at the girl as Shinya laughs and
Ferid pouts. He had forgotten about Shinoa’s teasing nature.
“Aha, it does sound good,” Shinya laughs, exchanging a mischievous glance with
his adoptive sister. “But as much as you two love each other, you’re still too
young to get married, so wait a few more years. Oh, but you can go and have
se–”
“Shinya!” Guren interrupts glaring at him with bright red cheeks.
“What?” Shinya blinks innocently at him. “He’s already 16 years old, Guren, not
a child. I’m pretty sure he already knows about sex and everything that comes
with it. It is important that we openly talk to teenagers about this topic
instead of hiding it, which may lead them to search for it in unreliable
sources–”
“Ok, ok, I got it!”
“I agree,” Comments Krul quietly from her corner next to Crowley, leaning
forward to smirk at Guren before looking at Shinya, “If we are open to them
about sex, they are more likely to trust us with their questions about it. If
you don’t talk to them about it, they will ask someone else, and this someone
else might give them misguided informations.”
“Can we please drop this topic now?” Guren groans, and Mika nods eagerly,
pretty sure he’s as red as Yuu’s uncle.
“Why are you so shy about it now, Guren?” Shinoa teases. “I mean, you can’t
really be so shy about sex if you did it with my brother–” Guren makes a
strangled sound, but Shinoa continues as if she didn’t hear him, “I mean, he
didn’t get pregnant of his fingers.”
The sound Guren makes is closer to that of a dying whale, and Shinoa looks
pleased with herself at the fact that she managed to embarrass him so easily.
As Guren bends over himself, burying his face in his hands to hide his flushed
face, Shinya leans over him to high-five his sister, looking like he’s holding
back his laughter.
“Don’t you get tired of teasing everyone?”
Mika looks up just as Shinoa squeals and jumps to her feet to jump on Mitsuba,
who has just arrived. The blond-haired beta grunts as Shinoa throws her arms
around her, almost making them both fall over; Mitsuba manages to keep standing
though, sighing as she hugs Shinoa back.
“We saw each other two days ago,” She says rolling her eyes as Shinoa finally
lets her go and pulls her to sit with them; Mika makes some space for Mitsuba
to sit by Shinoa’s side, smiling timidly at her.
“I know,” Shinoa smirks.
Mitsuba chooses to ignore that smirk – though Mika can see her cheeks turning
red – and clears her throat, asking:
“Where are Yoichi and Mirai? Won’t they watch the game too?”
“They were here a few minutes ago,” Shinoa comments, “But Mirai wanted to grab
something to drink, so Yoichi went with her. They’ll be back before the game
starts, don’t worry.”
Mika looks at the field again, seeing that the team of Union High has entered
now, probably for the warming up before the match. His eyes quickly find the
alpha with the undercut, and when he looks at Ferid, he sees his uncle is
glaring at the alpha too.
He feels violated. He wonders if he’s just making a big deal of it, since it
was just a slap but – considering who did it and why he did it… No, he was
right to feel this way. Not even Yuu has done this kind of thing, and Yuu is
his boyfriend. A mere stranger – who, by the way, had tried to rape him before
– didn’t have the right to touch him without his consent.
He tries to ignore the sight of the alpha down on the field before his eyes,
and instead tries to engage in a conversation with Shinoa and Mitsuba. It’s
hard because Shinoa keeps making dirty jokes that make him either blush or want
to slap her, sometimes both; Mitsuba merely sighs exasperated every time,
probably already used to her friend’s antics.
Eventually, the Moon Demon Academy team makes their way to the field for the
warming up too, and Mika notices Yuu right away; Yuu’s eyes seem to be
searching through the bleachers, and when his gaze lands on Mika, he makes a
relieved expression and waves at him before moving to pay attention to
something Narumi is telling the team.
Not long after, Yoichi and Mirai finally join them, and Mirai squeals in joy
when she sees Mika and is quick to jump on him, laughing as she almost sends
both of them tumbling down to the ground.
“I thought you were grounded!”
“I still am,” Mika sighs, already tired of how much he has listened to this
phrase today, “Long story short, my uncle for some unknown reason decided to be
nice and brought me here today.” He points to where Ferid is sitting with
Crowley, still glaring at the alpha from Union High.
“Ooh, so that’s your uncle?” Mirai giggles, sitting on the blencher directly
under Mika with Yoichi. “He looks cool.”
“Only looks though,” Mika mutters, and Mirai laughs.
“He has a nice hair though, you have to admit.”
Mika casts a side glance at Ferid again. His long silver hair is pulled back in
a low ponytail as usual, tied with a red bow.
“Yeah… I suppose it is,” He concedes, making Mirai chuckle once again.
“I’m glad came, Mika,” Yoichi comments before Mirai can say something else,
smiling at Mika. “I’m sure Yuu will be happy to find you here.”
“Yeah, I found him when I arrived,” Mika lets his gaze wander around the field,
localizing Yuu talking with Kimizuki – more like arguing, by the looks of it.
Kimizuki looks pissed, like he’s ready to punch Yuu; Narumi must have noticed
it too, because Mika sees him approach the two, probably to intervene in case
they start to fight.
“He was really excited for this game,” Yoichi says.
“I just hope he won’t do anything stupid or hurt himself,” Or both. Mika sighs,
grimacing when Shinoa laughs:
“That’s a little impossible for Yuu, to not do something stupid.”
“We should have a little faith in him,” Yoichi suggests timidly, to which
Mitsuba scoffs:
“Yoichi, you’ve known Yuu for almost four years now. I expect you to know by
now already how reckless that idiot is.”
“He’s not reckless,” Yoichi says, “He’s just… uh…”
“Reckless,” Mitsuba repeats, and Mirai and Shinoa laugh.
“Ah, look, it seems like the game will start.”
“Yoichi, don’t try to change the topic now,” Shinoa says, though it seems
indeed that it’s time for the start of the match. The players have left the
field, and Mika can see the cheerleaders of both schools in place now. He spots
Asura, one of the six cheerleader boys in the middle of the girls; he doesn’t
look out of place, though, seeming rather relaxed and even laughing with his
friends. He doesn’t think he’s ever seen Asura laugh so naturally like this.
With a gasp of surprise, he notices Akane is one of the cheerleaders too, using
a black and green dress, her side braid tied with a green bow.
“I didn’t know Akane was a cheerleader,” He comments to no one in particular,
and Shinoa giggles by his side.
“You should watch out for them,” She says, and when he makes a confused face,
she adds, “The cheerleaders, I mean. They’re all crazy for Yuu; you have no
idea of how upset they were when they heard he’s dating.”
“Again,” Mitsuba snorts.
“This time it will last,” Shinoa says.
“Will it? Ow!” Mitsuba glares at Shinoa when the petite girl elbows her. Mika
averts his eyes back to the field, keeping his gaze on the cheerleaders.
He doesn’t want to think about the fact that Yuu has already dated a lot of
people, and that he might be just another one. Sure, he knows Yuu really likes
him – but will that be enough?
Stop it right there, he reprimands himself. He can’t start doubting their
relationship now. He remembers of what he told Yuu at the beach, about how it’s
wrong to start a relationship thinking of how it’ll end. He decides to follow
his own advice and stop thinking about it.
I’ll worry about it when the time comes, andifthe time comes.
After all, he doesn’t plan on letting Yuu go so easily.
After a few more minutes, the players enter the field again, and everybody on
the bleachers – now completely crowded – cheers loudly, making so much noise
Mika is pretty sure people living nearby the stadium could hear them.
“Make your bets,” Shinoa suddenly says, raising her voice to make herself be
heard over the noisy crowd.
“Bet? On what?”
“On how many times the star of the team will score,” Mitsuba scoffs, and Mika
remembers what Yuu’s friends told him before about him being popular at the
school. So he’s the star of the team?
As the game starts, Mika catches Yuu glaring at the alpha who harassed him
before, and he frowns. While he’s still angry at the alpha, he doesn’t want Yuu
to do something stupid to him and end up being dismissed from the game.
The players scatter across the field, and Mika muses how funny it is that the
whole game consists of twenty-two guys running around chasing a ball. Then
again, he thinks, all sports are kind of funny if you think of them that way.
He has no idea of what’s going on in the game, since he doesn’t know most of
the rules, but he figures the Moon Demon is with the upper hand, because they
barely give the Union players a chance to touch the ball. Yuu looks especially
good at fooling them, and Mika is rather proud of his boyfriend. The other
players are not bad either, especially Narumi, that Mika found out is the
captain of the team.
Mika misses the first score – he was distracted watching Mitsuba and Shinoa
argue because Shinoa won’t stop saying dirty jokes only to make Mitsuba
flustered, and he only notices when everyone around him jumps to their feet
screaming and cheering.
“What…?” He looks around, hearing Shinoa laughing at him and Mitsuba telling
her to shut up.
“Shusaku scored!” Yoichi tells him from his spot beneath them, smiling brightly
as Mirai jumps on him with her arms wrapped around his neck.
Mika looks back at the field, decided to not miss the next goal. He sees the
Moon Demon cheerleaders making some acrobatics in celebration of the score, and
he nearly gasps when he sees Asura being thrown in the air, graciously landing
back on his friends’ arms as if it was nothing.
A few minutes later, the crowd on their side roars again as Kimizuki and Yuu
approach the goal running, Kimizuki with the ball successfully dodging the
advances of the Union players. Then as they near the goal and the goalkeeper
approaches to try and stop them, Kimizuki sends the ball to Yuu – and Mika
misses as Yuu nets the ball, because the next thing he knows is that everyone
is roaring again because they’re two points ahead.
When he’s able to finally see the field again, feeling irritated at the people
who were jumping in front of him, he sees Yuu is looking at the bleachers, and
with a jolt of surprise, he realizes the alpha is looking for him. When Yuu
finally notices him and their eyes meet, he smiles and makes a heart with his
hands. Shinoa, Mitsuba and Mirai giggle, but he blushes and smiles, content.
The Union players start to get impatient, Mika can see, as they press on the
Moon Demon with more insistence, apparently not afraid of fouling, and they
started pushing and tripping the Moon Demon players. In less than five minutes,
three of them already have received a yellow card.
“They’re really desperate,” He comments to Mitsuba, who nods with a frown, her
eyes worriedly watching the players.
“Well, aside from this being a classic between the two schools, the winner of
this game will be one of the two Tokyo representatives in the interhigh.”
“R-really?” He turns to her with wide eyes and she merely nods. “What about the
other one?”
“It will be decided this afternoon,” Mitsuba looks at him from the corner of
her eyes with a smirk, “Though everyone is pretty sure it will be the Seraph
Academy. They’re basically the best of the best of all schools. They’ve gone to
the nationals and won for five years in a row now… Ah, looks like they’re going
to score again!” She adds suddenly, and Mika turns his eyes back to the field
to see Yuu dodging everyone, apparently decided to score another goal.
Before he can reach the goal, though, the undercut alpha reaches him and bumps
into him, sending him to the ground.
“THAT’S A FOUL!” Shinoa and Mitsuba roar together as the crowd on their side
boos. The undercut alpha merely raises his hands as if saying I didn’t do
anything. Narumi reaches them, extending a hand to help Yuu up and glaring at
the alpha.
The undercut alpha gets a yellow card, and he glares at the referee, but
doesn’t say anything. The game resumes and Mika can see everyone is already
stressed. He can almost smell from where he is the scent of angry alphas, and
he’s not surprised, considering the amount of alphas in field who look about to
jump on each other’s throats.
He just hopes Yuu isn’t one of them.
A few more minutes later and the first half of the game ends; Mika releases a
deep breath, relieved that nobody got seriously hurt. Yet.
“They are really intense,” He comments, to which Mitsuba nods with a grim
expression.
“I have a bad feeling about this match,” She says, and Mika frowns.
“I just hope no one gets hurt.”
“Very difficult,” Yoichi says turning to frown at him, biting his lips. “You
could smell it too, couldn’t you? They’re all furious by now. It will be a
miracle if they can finish this match without anyone getting hurt.”
Mika presses his lips together and bites the insides of his cheeks, feeling
very nervous. He suddenly can’t stand to sit there with so many people
surrounding him, and he stands up.
“I’m going to buy something to drink,” He says. There’s a 15 minutes break
before the second half, so he supposes that’s enough to find a vending machine,
buy something and come back.
“I’m going with you,” Mirai says, standing up too. “It’s a little dangerous
walk around alone here, considering all these furious alphas.”
Mika thinks back to the alpha with the undercut and how he slapped his ass
earlier. He fights back a shudder.
He and Mirai manage to leave the bleachers somehow. The halls are also a little
crowded – probably other people had the same idea as them – but not as much as
the bleachers. Mika manages to find a vending machine next to the nearest
bathroom; he buys a Coke, ignoring the small group of alphas next to them, even
though he can feel them staring at him.
When one of them approaches, he almost groans. Please not again. He doesn’t
think he can deal with more harassing today.
“Hey.”
With a tired sigh, he looks up to stare at the alpha who is at least two heads
taller than him, his long black hair tied back in a ponytail. He’s wearing a
red and white uniform that Mika doesn’t recognize.
“Hi.” He says dryly, hoping the alpha will just leave him alone. Instinctively,
he steps aside to stand in front of Mirai, just in case.
“My friend there wants to meet you,” The alpha says pointing with his thumb
over his shoulder at his other two friends. One of them laughs but the other
stutters and groans, hiding his red face in his hands.
“Kai, please!” He moans ashamed, and Kai laughs.
“What?” He turns back to Mika with a sparkling smile. “He’s too shy, you know.”
Mika stares with a blank face at him before sighing again.
“I have a boyfriend,” He says shortly, and Mirai whispers behind him:
“That burnt.”
“A-ah, my bad! Sorry,” Kai scratches the back of his head, smiling sheepishly
at him. His embarrassed friend finally looks up with a sigh.
“See? I told you not to say anything,” He looks at Mika, and his cheeks are
still red. He bows slightly, “I apologize for him. Kai is an idiot.”
“Hey, I was just trying to help you!”
Ignoring Kai, Mika smiles a little at the boy; he now recognizes him – it’s the
blond alpha who was staring timidly at him when he arrived.
“It’s okay, not everyone has the gift to be polite.”
Kai casts him an offended look, but the other two laugh.
“You deserved that,” Said his other friend before looking at Mika. “I’m
Sousuke, and this timid lady is Rui,” He gestures to the blond alpha, who
blushes even harder and glares at him, punching his shoulder.
“Shut up.” When Rui looks back at him, he has a look of exasperation on his
eyes, as if saying Can you believe these guys? “Are you here for the match of
the Moon Demon?”
“Yes, his boyfriend is playing,” Mirai pips up, hooking her arm on Mika’s and
smiling at the alpha now that she’s seen that they’re not as much of a threat
as they first thought. “I’m Mirai, by the way, and he is Mika. His boyfriend is
Yuu, the number 9.”
“Oh, I heard about him,” Sousuke snickers, “The one who started recently and
that mostly does stupid things during the games but always manages to score,
right?”
Mika frowns, and Rui quickly elbows Sousuke, frowning at him.
“I think we better go back,” Mirai comments suddenly, “The second half is going
to start soon.”
“True,” Rui nods and smiles, “See you around.”
“Yeah… I suppose.” Mika mutters, averting his eyes.
“Are you going to play today?” Mirai asks.
“Yes, against the Seraph Academy,” Kai says.
“A bunch of omegas,” Sousuke scoffs, “We’ll probably win.”
As both Kai and Rui glare at him with an obvious “Can you shut up?” look, Mirai
smiles coldly.
“Our school has the best soccer club in the whole city,” She says, “They will
kick your asses if you don’t watch out, alphas.”
“You deserved that,” Rui mutters as Sousuke pouts at his feet.
“Good luck at your game,” Mika says already pulling Mirai away from them before
she can start a fight, and she adds:
“You’re going to need it!”
As they walk away, Mika can hear Kai saying:
“Well done, you idiot! You offended them. There go Rui’s chances with the blond
guy.”
“Which were already none,” Sousuke replies, and then Mika and Mirai turn a
corner and leave.
“That was weird,” Mika mutters, and Mirai chuckles.
“What? The fact that Rui was into you?” She smirks when he blushes. “At least
he’s cute. And he was actually polite. If you weren’t dating with Yuu, I would
tell you to give him a chance.”
“Yeah, but I am dating Yuu,” He cuts her, frowning. He doesn’t want to think
about dating other guys, not when he already has a boyfriend.
“You should have asked their phone numbers.”
“Why for?” Mika rolls his eyes. “Your should though. Kai was looking very
interested at you, if you want to know.”
That makes her blush, and this time it’s Mika who smirks.
“He wasn’t,” She mumbles.
“He totally was.”
Mirai elbows him, and he laughs despite the pain.
The second half is about to start when they finally reach their seats.
“What took you two so long?” Shinoa asks curiously.
“Mika found an admirer,” Mirai snickers, and Mika is tempted to kick her, but
holds back.
“I didn’t,” He says, “Just some alphas from another school wanted to talk to
us, that’s all.”
“Oho,” Shinoa smirks, “Yuu-san better watch out or someone else might steal
Mika-san’s heart.”
“That won’t happen!” Mika snaps irritated, glaring at her before looking back
at the field. As the game starts back again, he opens his can of soda and
starts to drink it, more to occupy himself. He’s still nervous about the
possibility of Yuu getting hurt during the game.
The Union players are more determined than ever, and in five minute they foul
at least seven times and one of them receives a red card and is dismissed from
the game. Unfortunately, Mika thinks, it’s not the alpha with the undercut. He
can see that this alpha and Yuu are almost waging a war, with the difference
that he looks to be having fun with it, while Yuu looks ready to murder
someone.
Union scores two times, but Kimizuki manages to score for Moon Demon again,
keeping them ahead in the score. Mika is almost biting his nails as the game
goes on, the time seeming to drag to the end of the match; as they near the
end, the Union players get more and more violent.
“This won’t end well,” Mitsuba murmurs by his side, watching as Yuu runs with
the ball, being followed closely by the undercut alpha. “What’s with that guy
marking Yuu?”
Mika bites his lips, not wanting to say the true reason. Instead he keeps his
eyes on Yuu, smiling a little when his boyfriend scores another goal. Yuu
smirks cocky at the undercut alpha before searching for Mika again and smiling
sweetly at him; he makes the heart gesture with his hands once again, and Mika
almost melts down in the inside.
As the game resumes, the Union players finally manage to get the ball. Mika
frowns when one of the alphas passes the ball to the undercut alpha, who smirks
as if he’s just gotten a present. Before he blink, the boy kicks the ball with
all his strength – straight into Yuu’s face, who was nearby.
This time Mika stands up to roar with the crowd, wanting to jump in the field
and punch that alpha in the face because how dare he.
“He did it on purpose!” Yells Shinoa while Mitsuba lets out a string of curses
that Mika didn’t even know existed. “Out with him! OUT WITH HIM!”
Mika agrees with her, but he’s unable to say anything, too worried about Yuu.
Narumi, Kimizuki and another boy are surrounding him as he’s doubled over with
his hands over his face. When he finally looks up and they step aside, Mika
gasps.
“He’s bleeding!”
“His nose must be broken,” Mitsuba says grimacing.
As they expected, the undercut alpha receives a red card and is dismissed from
the game. Yuu leaves the field too to stop the bleeding of his nose, and while
on that, the game resumes. The Moon Demon players seem more furious than ever,
and Mika fears that something worse will happen.
However, the match fortunately ends a few minutes later, with Narumi scoring
the last goal, the final score being 5 x 2 for the Moon Demon. Mika finally
breathes relieved.
“I never knew soccer was so intense.” He mumbles to himself, and Mitsuba and
Shinoa laugh.
“Let’s go find Yuu,” Shinoa says with a smirk, “I’m sure he must be look rather
pretty with his nose out of place.”
Mitsuba elbows her for that.
 
 
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They wait outside of the locker room, and when the players finally leave,
Mika’s head snaps up, anxiously scanning their faces until he finds Yuu.
“Yuu-chan!” He runs to him, pulling him in a tight hug before pulling away
enough to look at his face. “Oh my…”
His nose has stopped bleeding, but now it is swollen. Yuu grimaces.
“It hurts,” He mumbles, and Mika feels his heart ache. He hugs Yuu again.
“Pretty, huh?” Kimizuki scoffs.
“Shouldn’t he go to a doctor?” Yoichi asks nervously to which Shinoa snorts:
“I don’t think it’s necessary. It doesn’t look so bad.”
Mika steps away when Guren approaches. The older alpha pats Yuu on the
shoulder.
“Let’s go home,” He sighs, “You need to rest after this.”
Mika nods eagerly, but Yuu groans.
“The guys were going out to celebrate!” He complains.
“I thought you had said your nose was hurting,” Mika says raising an eyebrow,
and Yuu pokes out his tongue at him.
“Guren-san is right,” Narumi says putting a hand on Yuu’s shoulder. “Go home
and rest. Take something for the pain and apply some ice on your nose. Don’t
forget to keep your head elevated when you sleep.”
“Ok mom,” Yuu scoffs.
“Yuu-chan, he’s just being a nice friend.” Mika sighs as they start to walk
away from the others, who start immediately to chat about where they’re going
to celebrate at.
“Where’s your uncle?” Yuu asks clearly wanting to change the topic.
“He’s waiting outside.” Mika had insisted on seeing Yuu before going home, and
Crowley convinced Ferid to let him.
Yuu hums as he holds Mika’s hand, lacing their fingers together.
“You really must rest now, you know,” Mika says quietly.
“Right, right.” Yuu rolls his eyes.
“Don’t speak like this to your boyfriend, kid,” Guren tells him before
smirking. “He was really worried about you, you know. You almost gave him a
heart attack.”
Mika blushes, averting his eyes as Guren and Yuu start to argue. They keep
their quarrel the whole way until they’re out of the stadium, where they find
Shinya with Ferid, Crowley, Krul and Asura at the parking lot.
“Yuu!” Asura says in an anxious voice. “Holy shit, your nose looks awful. Are
you ok?”
Yuu sighs and grimaces.
“I’ll be fine,” He mumbles.
“We better go home now,” Shinya says, and Yuu nods absently turning to Mika.
“I’ll call you later.”
Mika merely smiles and nods, leaning in to kiss his cheek.
“You were wonderful today,” He whispers against his skin before pulling away.
Yuu’s face is slowly becoming red, and Mika giggles at this. “Also, you’re
forgetting that I’m not with my phone until the end of the week.”
Yuu opens and closes his mouth three times before turning to glare at Ferid,
who merely smiles innocently at him.
“Have a nice week,” The older omega says happily. “Let’s go, Mika?”
Rolling his eyes, Mika kisses Yuu’s cheek one more time before entering the
car. After the others have entered as well, Ferid starts to drive away, and
Mika looks back at Yuu until he disappears from view.
 
 
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Later that night, after having fed the kittens, Mika is lying down on his bed
staring at his ceiling, thinking about Yuu, wondering how he is. Just as he’s
starting to think he should put on his pajamas and go to sleep (after all, he
has class the next morning), he hears a knock on his door.
“Come in.”
Ferid peeks in with a smirk.
“Your boyfriend called you,” He sings waving his hand, and Mika sees he’s
holding his phone. He sits up as Ferid laughs, offering the phone to him. “I
think he forgot you’re grounded. I would have turned off, but he sounded so
pained it would be like kicking a puppy.”
Suspicious, Mika stands and walks to him, grabbing his phone.
“You can have it back now,” Ferid tells him, “But you’re still forbidden to
leave home until next Sunday, so don’t disappoint me.”
Mika nods silently and waits for him to leave before bringing his phone up.
“Yuu-chan?” He whispers to the phone.
“Mika!” Yuu’s voice sounds muffled, but happy. “I thought your uncle was only
pranking me when he said he would let you talk to me.”
“Yeah… He’s unusually benevolent lately,” Mika mumbles with a sigh. “Are you
okay? Ferid said you sounded like you were in pain?”
“Well, it still hurts a little,” Yuu chuckles tiredly, sighing, “I’m actually
trying to sleep, but I can’t concentrate because of the pain. I took some
medicine a few minutes ago, so I’m waiting for it to kick in.”
“But it doesn’t look so bad, does it?”
“No, no. Guren is pretty sure it will be fine in a few days.”
Mika hums, feeling a little more relieved.
“Hey, guess what?” Yuu’s tone suddenly changes, becoming more excited. “Guren
said we’ll be moving out by next week!”
“Already?” Mika gasps.
“Yes! We’ll be neighbors again in one week.”
“Nice!” Mika smiles at his ceiling, feeling his heart pounding in his chest.
Seeing Yuu-chan everyday…
“It will be so cool,” Yuu says, “We’ll see each other every day! I can go get
you at school and we can come home together, like in those sappy shoujo manga.”
Mika laughs with him, blushing a little, but also smiling at the thought.
“Even if one of us is grounded, we’ll still be able to see each other…” Yuu’s
voice slows down, and Mika hears him yawn.
“Are you okay Yuu-chan?”
“I’m fine, it’s just… The medicine… It’s making me sleepy.”
“Then you should take the opportunity to actually sleep,” Mika says with a
chuckle.
“But I still want to talk to you,” Yuu mumbles.
“I can stay on the line until you fall asleep,” He suggests, shifting to lay on
his side. He grabs the yellow bunny Yuu gave him and holds it close to his
chest, imagining the bunny is Yuu. I want to hold him now…
“Ok…” Yuu yawns again. “Don’t hang up on me while I’m still awake.”
“I won’t,” Mika promises chuckling.
Yuu falls silent on the other line, and all Mika can hear is his breathing. He
clutches the stuffed bunny tighter, listening as the sound of Yuu’s breath
slows down and falls in a rhythm as he falls asleep. When he’s sure Yuu is
sleeping, he smiles a little.
“Good night, Yuu-chan,” He whispers before hanging up.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     I live in Brazil and here everyone always says "all Brazilians are
     good at soccer", and that's a terrible lie because I suck at it and I
     don't know any of the rules ok lol
     This chapter was a lot difficult for me to write - in part because I
     was procrastinating a lot lol (I even started a new fic here xD) but
     also in part because my depression has been kicking my ass day after
     day lately :(( (which also has to do with the procrastination bc I
     usually can't do anything when I'm feeling down so I just sit in
     front of the computer and stare at the screen until it's time to go
     to bed >.>) BUT!! The past few days I've been very happy because I
     GOT A NEW PHONE! And one that runs Pokemon GO, so I finally can go
     hunting pokemon and *screams* so I decided to stop being a lazy ass
     and finish writing lol
     (I also took too long because, as I said, I know nothing about soccer
     and it was a pain for me to write orz)
     Anyway
     Uni has been wild this semester, even wilder than before e.e so I
     can't promise updates any soon (though I certainly will try because
     I'm reaching a plot that I've been inching to write since this fic
     started and it has to do with Lacus and Yoichi and hnnn!) So yeah.
     Even if I can't promise anything, I'll try my best! Please be patient
     with me ;;v;;
     So yeah. Don't forget to leave your comments and see you next
     chapter~
***** Chapter 18 *****
Chapter Summary
     “I hate moving,” He mumbles against Mika’s skin, “It’s all so sudden
     and there are so many changes…”
Chapter Notes
     ... Hello? xD
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Ferid is acting weird.
Ever since meeting him, Mika thought his uncle was weird, but lately he’s been
weirder than before. He doesn’t know exactly what’s so different, but he knows
something is off. His uncle seems more cheerful than before, but his smiles
look false, never reaching his eyes. Also, he’s become clingier, to the point
Mika starts pitying Crowley because Ferid won’t leave him alone.
“It’s because it’s nearing the anniversary of his uncle’s death,” Crowley tells
him when he tries to ask if he knows what’s going on. The alpha smiles sadly at
Mika, “Ferid-kun may try to act tough and all, but deep down he’s still an
omega, and omegas are very emotional, as you well know.”
Mika knows. He knows very well how his mood can change quicker than a heartbeat
when he’s in a distressful situation. He just never imagined Ferid would be
like that too.
“Well, he’s only human.” Yuu tells him with a shrug when Mika talks to him
about it. It’s Sunday morning and Mika managed to convince Ferid to let him
help Yuu with his moving, so he’s currently at Yuu’s room helping him finishing
packing his stuff – because of course Yuuichirou Ichinose would procrastinate
and leave his packing for the last minute.
Yuu’s room looks almost empty without the bed and the desk, but it’s still
messy with all the boxes piled around them. Mika can hear the sound of
furniture being moved loudly as Guren, Shinya and Kureto carry the last pieces
of furniture out of the apartment.
“I mean, he may be creepy and all,” Yuu continues as he shoves some books
inside a box. “But he still has feelings, right?”
“… I suppose.” Mika sighs from the spot where he’s sitting on the ground,
watching as Cerberus bounces inside the room with a loud bark and jumps on Yuu,
successfully tackling him to the ground. Mika chuckles when he hears Yuu yelp
as they fall down over the boxes.
“Cerberus!” He cries out, trying to wrestle away from the dog.
“Come here, boy,” Mika calls him, and the dog happily jumps off of Yuu to run
to Mika, pouncing on him to lick his face. Mika chuckles again, petting his
head. “Are you excited to move out too?”
Cerberus barks at him, his tail waving wildly from side to side. Behind him,
Yuu groans as he tries to stand up.
“Sorry, Yuu!” Shinya peeks inside the room to give Yuu an apologetic smile. “We
were moving the table and we forgot you had strapped his leash on the table’s
leg.”
And indeed, Cerberus’ leash is attached to his collar. The dog barks and sits
in front of Mika, who chuckles at Shinya.
“It’s okay, we’re almost done here,” He says, “I can watch over him.” They had
bound Cerberus to the table because he wouldn’t stop jumping on them while they
were trying to move the furniture, but Mika figures since they’re almost done,
there’s no need to keep the poor dog leashed.
Shinya leaves after a short nod, and Mika chuckles when Yuu grunts, resuming
his task of putting his books inside the box.
“I think this is the last one,” He sighs closing the box. Then he stands
straight and looks around his room littered with boxes, the only furniture left
being his wardrobe that Guren is going to sell because in their new house Yuu’s
room has a closet. The black-haired alpha has a nostalgic look in his eyes as
he whispers, “It feels so weird to be leaving this place… I mean, I’ve been
living here for four years… Ever since I came to live with Guren…”
Mika scratches behind Cerberus ear a little before standing up, watching as Yuu
walks around the room and stops next to where his bed was before Guren and
Kureto moved it out of the room. Yuu puts his hand on the wall, slowly
caressing it.
“It was in this exact spot where I tried to kill myself,” He says quietly. Mika
presses his lips in a thin line, slowly walking to him. He wraps his arms
around his boyfriend from behind, resting his chin on Yuu’s shoulder as the boy
continues, “Two years ago, right here where we stand…”
Mika tightens his hold around Yuu’s chest a little more.
“Then I guess it’s good you’re moving out of this place,” He mutters, “You
won’t have to look at your own room and remember of such a thing. It will be
like getting a fresh start.”
Yuu turns around his enough to hug Mika back, smiling at him as he presses his
forehead against Mika’s.
“A fresh start with you by my side,” He hums, “I like the thought of it.”
He presses a chaste kiss against Mika’s lips and then hugs him tighter, hiding
his face on the crook of Mika’s neck.
“I hate moving,” He mumbles against Mika’s skin, “It’s all so sudden and there
are so many changes…”
Mika thinks back to how quickly Yuu had to leave his parents’ house to go live
with his uncle in an entire new city. It must have been really stressful for
him.
“It will be okay,” He assures him, “You can talk to me if you feel… You know…”
Yuu chuckles and pulls away to give him a quick kiss, and then he releases Mika
and steps away.
“Don’t worry about that, I’m fine,” Yuu says, “I’m just getting a little
emotional. Let’s tell Guren we’re done.”
As they walk out of the room, Mika notices how the apartment looks wider being
so empty. Most of the furniture of the living room and the kitchen has been
moved out already, only leaving some boxes piled in a corner. They arrive just
as Guren and Kureto enter the apartment discussing over something.
Kureto Hiiragi, Shinya’s brother, had offered to come help them with the
moving. Mika had been surprised and a little intimidated; he had heard that the
man is an alpha, but seeing him in person actually scared him more, because he
looked like the kind of alpha that was too strict just like his father.
He found out very quickly that that was just a façade, as he saw Kureto spend
most of his time discussing with Guren and Shinya about fishing.
“Yuuichirou,” Kureto says when he notices them, “Have you finished?”
“Yeah,” Yuu sighs, “Everything is packed.”
“Great. Now help us put everything in the truck,” Guren says, to which Yuu
groans.
“Do we have to?”
Mika chuckles and pokes at his ribcages.
“Stop being so lazy, Yuu-chan.”
“Yeah, Yuu-chan, listen to your boyfriend,” Guren smirks, and Mika blushes.
Kureto sighs and shakes his head at Guren.
“Stop mocking the poor boy,” He says, “That’s probably why Yuuichirou never
sticks with a boyfriend or girlfriend for too long. You scare them away.”
“Iam the one who scare them away?”
As they start to argue Shinya enters the room, quickly assuming a tired face
when he sees Guren and Kureto bickering like little kids.
“Can you two please stop?” Then he turns to Yuu and Mika, “If you’ve finished
with the packing, help us put the boxes in the truck. Shinoa called and said
she will be meeting us at the house with Aoi and Mitsuba. They’ll help us
there.”
Yuu sighs and mumbles something under his breath, and Mika chuckles as they
move to lift some of the boxes. Mika watches as Shinya picks up a box too, and
he sees how Guren’s eyes watch the white haired omega too. Mika had asked Yuu
if Shinya even could be carrying so much weight being pregnant and all, and Yuu
told him that Shinya would probably kick their asses if they even suggested
that he’d just stand aside and not help them.
They take around an hour to carry all the boxes to the truck, and it was even
harder with Cerberus jumping around them. Eventually Yuu goes to Kimizuki’s
apartment and leaves Cerberus there with Mirai, while Kimizuki offers to help
them with the boxes. After they are done, he even offers to go with them to
help unpack everything.
“Well, Shinoa and Mitsuba are going to be there too, so why not?” Yuu smiles,
“We can even call Yoichi.”
“I want to go too!” Mirai pips up, and Mika knows nothing Kimizuki says can
convince her to not go.
So the two siblings follow them in Kimizuki’s car when they leave for Yuu’s new
house. Mika goes in Yuu’s car, sitting between Yuu and Kureto on the backseat,
while Guren drives with Shinya by his side talking excitedly about the new
house. Kureto sometimes quietly adds something to their conversation, most of
the time to complain that the house is too small (and that has Mika wondering
just how big his house is for him to think a three-story house with ten rooms
is small).
Mika just leans against Yuu, resting his head on his shoulder, and tries not to
be nervous about being so close to Kureto. It’s a great help when Yuu reaches
an arm around his shoulder to bring him closer, his fingers playing with the
hem of Mika’s shirt.
By the time they arrive at the house, it’s almost midday. Unloading everything
goes by quickly, if only because Guren is already complaining about being
hungry and wanting to eat already. The boxes are left carelessly at any random
corner, just like the furniture. While Guren, Shinya and Kureto argue about
what they’re going to have for lunch, Yuu runs upstairs to choose his room.
“I want mine to have a window to your room!” He tells Mika as he drags him
upstairs, Kimizuki and Mirai following them with expressions of exasperation
and amusement, respectively.
“Yuu-chan…” Mika smiles a little, glad to see Yuu more cheerful now. They go to
the third floor, where Yuu immediately enters the room that has a window from
where they can see Mika’s room.
“This room is mine!” He announces, and Kimizuki rolls his eyes by Mika’s side.
“You don’t need to announce it like this, you idiot.”
“Shut up.” Yuu sticks out his tongue at him just as Cerberus comes bouncing
inside.
Following the dog, comes Shinya, putting his hands on his hips when he looks at
the room.
"Are you going to choose this one?" He asks raising his eyebrows. "Will you
really be alone on the third floor?"
His voice has a teasing tone to it, and it makes Yuu hesitate.
"But this room has a window with a view to Mika's room," He mumbles with a
pout.
"Oho?" Shinya covers his mouth with a hand, casting Yuu an amused look. "So you
want to spy on your boyfriend while he's changing clothes? What a pervert..."
"I'm not-!" Yuu chokes and glares at Shinya, who laughs. Mika blushes slightly
and looks down at his feet when he sees Mirai smirking at him.
"Don't tell me you were planning to put on a show just for him, Mika?" She asks
feigning surprise, and Mika widens his eyes at her.
"Mirai, shut up," Kimizuki sighs. "Let's all just finish moving this idiot's
things up here." The way the pink-haired alpha glares at Yuu tells very much
how annoyed he is that Yuu picked a room that's so difficult to access while
carrying heavy things – like a bed or a desk, for example.
"Y-yeah," Mika agrees, clearing his throat. "We should at least bring the boxes
for now."
"Before that," Shinya says, "We will order food for lunch. What will you guys
want?"
"Pizza!" Yuu pips up immediately, and Mirai cheers in agreement.
"No pizza for lunch," Kimizuki cuts them, and both glare at him.
"Uh..." Mika scratches the back of his neck, looking timidly at them, "I could
ask Krul to cook us something instead. I'm sure she wouldn't mind. And it would
be a lot more convenient than ordering food."
Shinya clasps his hands happily.
"Would you do that?" He asks cheerfully, "Then please do!"
Mika nods as Yuu whines:
"But what about pizza?"
They all ignore him.
As they walk out to pick the boxes and take them to Yuu's room, he sends Krul a
text asking if she can cook their lunch. She is quickly to reply with a
positive answer.
They finish taking Yuu's boxes to his new room before noon, and then Guren
tells Yuu and Kimizuki to carry Yuu's desk to the room while Mika and Mirai
help Shinya to move the furniture around the living room.
The sofas and TV are already there, so they just have to help Shinya put them
in place. While they do that, Guren and Kureto carry Guren's and Shinya's stuff
to their room, on the second floor.
Cerberus keeps running around the house, randomly sniffing everything. Once, he
pees on a corner next to the kitchen, and Shinya yells at the dog loud enough
for everyone to come down and see what's wrong.
"Yuu, please watch over your dog," Guren sighs tiredly before telling Yuu to
clean the mess. Yuu seems like he's going to protest, but Guren has already
turned his back to him.
At around 1pm, Krul and Ferid show up with their food: curry and rice.
"Thank you for doing this, Krul," Shinya says with a warm smile at her as he
rummages through the boxes in the kitchen looking for the silvery.
"No need to thank me," She waves a hand at him, smirking. "It's good manners to
greet our new neighbors with food, isn't it?"
Shinya chuckles as Guren grunts, "Where do you think we are, USA?"
They all sit scattered on the living room to eat. Krul leaves soon, claiming
she has to go back to study, but Ferid stays, offering to help them unpack,
much to Guren's dismay.
"Don't you have anything better to do?" He asks a little too aggressively, but
Ferid merely blinks innocently at him.
"Of course not," He chuckles. Mika rolls his eyes at the whole display.
Only after lunch is that Shinoa and Mitsuba appear, accompanied by a blond
woman that looks way too much like Mitsuba.
"Aoi," Kureto compliments the woman, and Mika is surprised to see him smiling,
and even more surprised to notice a slight blush on his cheeks, barely visible
if you weren't looking. "Why did you take so long?"
"Shinoa's fault," The woman, Aoi, says blankly, to which Shinoa laughs
cheerfully.
"I was with my boyfriend," She justifies. "Do you know how difficult it is to
talk to him lately?" And she even pouts at that.
Mitsuba rolls her eyes.
"You could've just said you didn't want to come," She grunts before looking at
Mika, "Hey Mika. This is my sister, Aoi. Nee-chan, this is Yuu's boyfriend,
Mika."
Mika blushes slightly at that while Aoi gives him a small nod of
acknowledgement.
After that, it gets much quicker to move everything. Mika and Yuu's friends go
to his room, help him unpack his boxes. A little later, Yoichi shows up to help
them too.
"I hope I didn't come too late," He chuckles, to which Mitsuba says:
"It's okay, we still have a lot of things to do."
"Why is it okay for him to come late but not for me?" Shinoa whines. "He even
came later than me!"
Mitsuba simply ignores her.
They manage to take almost everything out of the boxes – even discovering some
adult magazines in the process, and of course Shinoa and Mitsuba tease the hell
out of Yuu for it ("I'm a normal alpha teenager with alpha teenager needs,
okay?" He whines while blushing). Mika tries to ignore the way Mirai smirks at
him, and also tries to ignore his own dirty thoughts.
He doesn't want to think that Yuu thinks of him that way.
Even though he knows Yuu does.
After all, it's just natural, isn't it? They are dating, so it's only natural
to think of having sex with your boyfriend.
Even so, Mika feels embarrassed with it. It’s not that he doesn't want to have
sex with Yuu, but he doesn't want to think about it yet. He's still not
comfortable enough to think of having sex.
As Shinoa and Yuu argue because of the magazines, Mika receives a text from
Lacus:
 
[ René and I are bringing a pizza for u guys! ]
 
Mika squints at his phone.
 
[ What do you want? ]
 
[ So mean! I just want to be a good friend!]
[ ... And I may need your help with a little thing :3 ]
 
Mika sighs, shaking his head. Lacus is impossible to deal with.
 
[ Fine. As long as it's nothing illegal. ]
 
[ Can't promise that much ]
 
Mika rolls his eyes, shoving his phone inside his pocket again.
"René and Lacus are bringing us a pizza," He announces. That makes Yuu shut up
immediately.
"Really?" The alpha's eyes widen and he throws himself at Mika, hugging him
tight. "Mika, I love your friends!"
"Will they love you though when they find out the things you want to do with
Mika?" Shinoa teases, and Yuu chokes on air.
"I don't- Shinoa, shut up!"
Mika rolls his eyes, pulling out his phone to see a new text from Lacus.
 
[ We'll be there in thirty minutes. ]
 
"We should go see if Shinya and the others don't need help," Mika says loudly,
interrupting the fight. "Lacus will still take a while to come here."
"I don't wanna help anymore!" Yuu whines, going limp against Mika, making the
omega stumble before balancing himself. "I'm tiiiired, I wanna reeest."
"Oh my God, you're such a baby," Kimizuki sighs annoyed.
"You shut your mouth, too."
In the end, Mika manages to drag Yuu to Guren's and Shinya's room, where the
two plus Ferid, Kureto and Aoi are unpacking everything.
"We're finished with Yuu's room," Shinoa announces cheerfully, "Yuu wants more
slave work to do!"
"Shinoa!"
Mika holds Yuu to stop him from lunging at the beta girl, who laughs and runs
to hide behind Shinya.
"You can go clean the kitchen," Shinya suggested, "We didn't wash the dishes
after lunch. Also, could you all also sweep at least the living room and the
kitchen? It's everything so dirty after the whole moving."
Yuu groans as he drags his feet downstairs to the kitchen.
"I'll sweep the floor," Kimizuki says, "Since you're all useless anyway."
"Hey!" Shinoa and Mitsuba exclaimed offended. Kimizuki merely stares blankly at
them.
"Someone who can't even fry pancakes without setting the kitchen on fire
doesn't have the right to complain."
The girls fall silent after that. Yuu quietly slips to the kitchen with his
head ducked down, and Mika chuckles.
"I'll go play with Cerberus then," Mirai announces, "He must be feeling so
alone out there!"
They had leashed Cerberus to a tree in the backyard because he was giving them
too much work. Yoichi chuckles as he accompanies her. Mika simply heads to the
kitchen to help Yuu with the dishes.
They work quietly on washing the dishes for a while before Yuu mumbles,
"I'm sorry about the magazines."
Mika looks briefly at him before smiling and looking down at the dishes he's
washing.
"No need to apologize," He says, "It's not my business if you like to, ah, look
at porn or something." Yuu blushes furiously at that, ducking his head down to
hide his eyes behind the long bangs of hair that fall over his face. Mika too
blushes a little as he continues, "I don't see anything wrong with it."
They stay quiet for a few more seconds before Yuu whisper,
"I don't look at them anymore." He hesitates, "I mean I did... Like to look at
them... But that was before I started dating you, because now..." Then his face
grows even redder and he stutters, "I-I mean, i-it's not like I'm meaning... I-
I like you because of who you are and n-not because of... B-but I..."
"Yuu-chan," Mika interrupts him and then sighs, smiling a little. "Please calm
down. I won't be mad at you just because you have wet dreams about me."
Yuu splutters and almost drops the plate he's holding. Mika muffles a chuckle
behind his hand; it's almost worth the embarrassment of saying that kind of
thing, just to see Yuu so flustered.
"I know I said it's still early for us to think about having sex," He says,
"But there's nothing wrong about... Fantasizingabout it. I mean," He fidgets
with the spoon in his hands before looking timidly at Yuu, "Even I think about
this kind of things now and then."
Yuu's eyes widen at that.
"You do?"
Mika nods timidly.
They finish washing the dishes in silence, and when they're done, Yuu finally
gathers the courage to say:
"You know, you don't have to... I mean, I don't want you to feel pressured to
have sex with me. I-I mean," He clears his throat, fidgeting with the hem of
his sleeve, "If you want to, it's okay but... We don't have to. We just started
dating, so..."
Mika smiles sweetly at him.
"Thanks, Yuu-chan," He says, "I'll let you know when I'm ready." He then
hesitates and sighs. "We're on Summer now, so by the end of the month my second
heat will hit so..."
Yuu stares at him for a while before asking softly,
"Do you want me to be with you then?"
Mika hesitates.
"I don't know," He admits, "I've thought about it, but... I'm still not sure."
He looks up to stare at Yuu. "I'll let you know when I decide if I'll want or
not."
Yuu nods and then smiles.
"Just let me know if you need me." He leans in to give Mika a peck on his lips.
They separate when Kimizuki peeks into the kitchen to say, "Mika, your friends
are here with the pizza."
"Pizza!" Yuu squeals happily, rushing to the living room. Kimizuki sighs and
shakes his head.
"I'm going to tell Yoichi and Mirai." He mutters and goes to the backyard. Mika
smiles a little before following Yuu into the living room.
René is holding two boxes of pizza. Yuu has thrown himself on Lacus and is
clinging to his neck, crying about how happy he is that Mika has such good
friends that bring pizza to his boyfriend.
"Mika, what's wrong with your boyfriend?" Lacus asks half confused and half
amused, trying to get Yuu to release him.
"I've been asking myself that for a while too." He looks around, "Where are
Shinoa and Mitsuba?"
"The two annoying girls?" René asks with his usual blank face, "They've gone
upstairs."
"Oh, they're probably calling Guren and the others." Yuu says finally getting
off of Lacus.
At this moment, Kimizuki comes back with Yoichi and Mirai. Mirai runs to René
to try and get the pizzas from him, but the beta merely holds them up away from
her reach.
"Gimme them!" She whines.
"Mirai, stop being inconvenient-" Yoichi freezes, his face going pale and his
body going rigid.
"Yoichi?" Kimizuki calls concerned, but Yoichi is not listening to him.
His eyes have fallen on Lacus.
"You!" He seethes.
And before anyone can move, Yoichi lunges forward, throwing a punch at Lacus'
face.
 
 
Chapter End Notes
     I don't even have an excuse for taking so long tbh lol
     I'm sorry orz
     I'll try not to take too long this time. I want to get this arc over
     with already. Also, it would just be too mean to leave you all with
     this cliffhanger for too long ^w^ haha~
     *coughs* also smut may or may not be coming in the next two or three
     chapters *coughs*
     Again, sorry for the delay. Thank you for everyone who waited
     impatiently for this short chapter. I'll try to compensate later xD
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chapter~
***** Chapter 19 *****
Chapter Summary
     "We were friends since High School and the three of us were very,
     very close. We were inseparable."
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
 
“What have you done to Yoichi?” Mika demands in a stern voice.
Lacus whimpers as René presses the bag of ice a little too harshly on his
swollen eye.
They are at Lacus’ room now, Lacus sitting on his bed with René by his side,
while Mika stands in front of them with his arms crossed over his chest and a
frown on his face.
After Yoichi had punched Lacus, yelling “It’s your fault!”, René and Mika had
dragged Lacus back to their house while Kimizuki and the others tried to calm
Yoichi down.
Now Yuu has just sent Mika a text saying that Kimizuki has gone back home with
Yoichi and Mirai. He sighs tiredly, trying to understand.
“I swear I didn’t do anything– Ouch, René!” He whines as the beta continues to
press the bag too hard against his eye. René has an annoyed expression, glaring
at Lacus.
Mika has to admit he’s surprised at Yoichi’s strength. The smaller omega had
made it look as if Mika fighting against four alphas was a big deal, but he
just gave Lacus a black eye. Mika never expected this from him.
“You didn’t do anything?” Mika scoffs, raising an eyebrow at him. “Yoichi is
the sweetest omega I know. He would never punch someone just for nothing.”
“I swear I don’t know…”
“You’re really oblivious, aren’t you?” René sighs, shaking his head.
“Huh?” Lacus frowns at him, confused.
“That boy,” René says, “He’s Tomoe’s little brother.”
There’s a silence after that as Lacus’ eyes widen and his mouth opens in a
silent gasp. Mika tilts his head to the side, frowning in confusion.
“Tomoe…?” He asks slowly. “Wait, she’s Yoichi’s sister? You two know Yoichi’s
sister?”
The two of them stay quiet. Lacus looks down at his lap, chewing on his bottom
lip with a guilty look on his face. René merely sighs again.
“I’m too tired for this,” The beta says and stands up, handing the ice bag to
Lacus. “I’ll go back to my room, I have to study for my tests.”
And with that, he exits the room, leaving Mika there with Lacus.
“Lacus…”
“Can you leave me alone, please?” The alpha cuts him, pressing the ice bag
against his black eye again.
Mika frowns but decides he’ll ask him later – or simply ask Yoichi tomorrow at
school. He leaves the room, deciding to go to Yuu’s house and see how things
are there.
 
 
“So he didn’t want to say anything?” Yuu flops down on the bed beside him, and
Mika sighs and shakes his head.
“He told me to leave,” Mika rolls his eyes.
“What an ass.”
They are at Yuu’s new room. The bed had already been set, and as soon as the
girls left a few minutes ago Mika quickly grabbed Yuu’s pillows and started
making a small nest for himself.
“Yuu-chan, I’m going to need more pillows,” He off-handedly tells his
boyfriend, and Yuu snorts.
“Why are you nesting on my bed?”
“Because I want to?” Mika smiles and then sighs. “Anyway, I’m kind of afraid to
ask Yoichi now what happened. If it involved his sister…”
They fell silent; Yuu simply lay on his back with his head turned to his side
to watch Mika fumble around with the few pillows and comforters.
“Do you think he… hurt her?” Yuu finally asks, and the way he says hurt implies
something else. Mika frowns.
“I don’t know,” He admits, “So far Lacus doesn’t seem like the kind of person
who would hurt anyone just for anything. Actually, if he did hurt someone, it
would probably be without noticing it… I think.”
Yuu hums.
“Well, who knows,” Mika sighs, “Maybe he was that kind of person but he
changed? The way he and René acted…” He shakes his head. “René seemed really
annoyed at something.”
“He knows what’s going on then.”
Mika nods and finally gives up on making a nest on Yuu’s bed. Yuu laughs as the
omega grunts frustrated and simply flops back down on bed, covering himself
with a blanket.
Yuu shifts to crawl over Mika and hug him over the blanket, nuzzling his hair.
“I will make Guren buy more pillows,” He promises.
“You better do that,” Mika mumbles, closing his eyes with a peaceful sigh as
Yuu started to plant soft kisses all over his cheeks. After a while, he opens
his eyes again and looks back at Yuu, saying quietly, “I will try to talk to
Yoichi tomorrow.”
Yuu hums and nods.
“He seemed really distressed when he left,” Yuu frowns and pouts, “Mika, if I
find this Lacus really hurt Tomoe, I will kick his ass.”
“I’ll help you,” Mika promises with a small smile. It’s sweet seeing how much
it bothers Yuu that his friend is upset. He’s such a good friend.
“Good,” Yuu smiles before leaning down to kiss him softly.
Mika hums appreciatively into the kiss, wrapping his arms around Yuu’s neck and
threading his fingers through his hair. Yuu’s body is heavy against his, but
it’s not uncomfortable; rather, he enjoys the warmth coming from his body.
He wonders just how longer should he indulge Yuu into a more passionate kiss as
he parts his lips and allows Yuu to slip his tongue inside his mouth. They
haven’t had any heated kisses since their first kiss weeks ago – mostly because
of Mika’s grounding, since he couldn’t go out and Yuu couldn’t go visit him
unless on weekend because of soccer practice. So Mika haven’t had enough
practice to find his own limits and just how far he’s willing to go so soon.
But he finds he enjoys experimenting. He allows Yuu’s hands to caress his
sides; one hand slowly makes its way down to his thigh, giving it a timid
squeeze. Mika groans against Yuu’s lips.
Just before things get too heated for his liking, there’s a loud bark and
Cerberus comes bouncing inside the room, interrupting their kissing. Yuu pulls
away from him breathless to glare at his dog.
“Cer, why?” He whines as the dog jumps on the bed with them. Mika laughs and
Yuu sighs, shaking his head. “Of course, it’s time to walk you.”
He pouts like a little child as he drags himself from the bed, and Mika
giggles. He’s so adorable.
“I can go with you,” He suggests.
Yuu’s face light up instantly.
“That would be great!” He says.
The sun has already set when they go out with Cerberus. Yuu holds Mika’s hand
in one hand and Cerberus’ leash on the other, allowing the dog to drag them
across the streets near their houses.
Mika loves the smile plastered on Yuu’s face, a big grin from ear to ear as if
he’s the happiest man in the world. He thinks back to how Yuu’s expression
looked sad earlier, when they were packing his stuff in his old room back at
the apartment.
He doesn’t want to see Yuu sad like that again. He understands there will be
times bad things will happen, but he wants to make sure Yuu is happy despite
all of that.
When they go back home, it’s already night and Kureto has already left. They
sit with Shinya and Guren in their living room and eat what’s left of the pizza
René and Lacus bought to them. Mika watches amused as Guren tries to scare Yuu
since he’ll stay in a room alone on the third floor while Guren and Shinya will
be on the second floor.
Smiling, he can’t help but think the three of them look like an actual family.
And sitting there with them, as if he’s a part of the family…
I could get used to it.
 
 
Mika spends the whole way to school the next day thinking of how he’ll talk to
Yoichi after the incident with Lacus the previous day, but he finds his worry
was useless.
Yoichi doesn’t go to school that day.
Mika frowns as he enters the classroom and doesn’t see him. Yoichi is usually
one of the first students to arrive. He sees Mirai sitting on her desk though,
and he walks to her.
“Mirai,” He says stopping next to her, “Where’s Yoichi?”
She looks at him and bites her lips, hesitant.
“I don’t know,” She sighs finally, and after a heartbeat adds, “I don’t think
he’ll come today.”
Mika purses his lips and frowns.
“He was really upset yesterday,” Mirai comments quietly, fidgeting with the hem
of her sleeve and frowning, “Seeing your friend… It really made him mad. I had
never seen him like that.”
“… Do you know what happened for him to react like that?” Mika asks.
Mirai stays quiet and that’s all the answer he needs – she knows.
“Mirai?”
“… It’s… Complicated,” She finally says with a sight, and looks at him with
conflicted eyes, “It’s not my place to tell you, you should ask him.”
“Does it have to do with his sister?” Mika asks, “René said something that made
it look like they knew her…”
Mirai hesitates.
“Yeah, it has to do with her.”
Mika nods.
“Alright,” He says, “I’ll ask him tomorrow.”
 
 
For the first time since Kimizuki got his car from his father and starting
taking Yuu to school, Yuu takes the bus to go home. Now that he doesn’t live in
the same apartment as Kimizuki, the alpha doesn’t have a reason to give him a
lift since his new house is not in the way of Kimizuki’s house, and he still
has to pick Mirai at her school.
So this time Yuu goes to the bus stop with Narumi and Shusaku, distractedly
listening as the two boys discuss their tests that will start next week. As he
waits for the bus with them, he pulls his phone to send Mika a text.
 
[Hey babe! I’m going home now, how about we watch a movie together? ]
 
Mika takes a while to answer – long enough for his bus to come. He says goodbye
to Narumi and Shusaku and gets in the bus, checking his phone once he’s sit
down. A few minutes later, Mika answers:
 
[ Sorry I can’t rn :( ]
[ Ferid decided to finally take me to the doctor since my heat is coming >.> ]
[ I’m in the waiting room rn ]
[ But we can watch something when I go back if it’s not too late for you ]
 
Yuu smiles a little at the texts and quickly types his answer.
 
[ Of course! I’ll be waiting for you ;)]
[ Also I hope everything goes well with the doctor! ]
[ Make sure to clarify all of ur doubts, don’t be ashamed to ask them anything
]
 
That was something Yuu had learned before. After all, that’s the whole point of
going to the doctor for a checkup, right?
 
[Alright, I will :) ]
[ Uh it’s my turn now orz talk to you later! ]
 
Yuu sighs, hoping everything will be alright with Mika. He frowns at his phone,
remembering what he had studied in Biology and that Mika had mentioned when
they were studying the Omega’s Repression in History: that omegas usually
present, or have their first heat, when they are between 12 and 14. But Mika
had told Yuu he had his first heat this year, and he’s 16.
He hopes there’s nothing wrong with him.
Don’t be pessimist, he tells himself. Mika will be fine. He’s strong.
He just has to believe it.
 
 
It’s already nightfall when Mika and Ferid arrive home. Mika drags his feet
upstairs, tired from being outside all day, and even more so from going to the
doctor. Hospitals make him uncomfortable, he doesn’t know why.
When he reaches the third floor, he stops by Lacus’ door, seeing it is half
open. He looks at the door and sighs, deciding to try and talk to him again.
“Lacus?” He calls peeking inside.
Lacus is sitting on his bed, frowning at his phone. He looks up at Mika when he
hears his voice though.
“Oh, hey Mika,” He manages a smile, “I’ve been wanting to talk to you.”
“About Yoichi, I hope.”
That makes Lacus grimace.
“About the favor I was going to ask you yesterday, actually,” Lacus says.
“What makes you think you deserve a favor?” Mika crosses his arms over his
chest and raises an eyebrow.
“I paid you a pizza?”
“…” Mika sighs and rolls his eyes. “I’m listening.”
Lacus chuckles and gestures for him to come inside; Mika hesitates before
entering the room and sitting by his side on the bed.
“So? What do you want?”
“So you know that I’m having this class now of Art Direction,” Lacus begins,
“And we have to make a project… We have to make an ad with something related to
cats.”
Mika can see where this is going now.
“You want to use the kittens,” He deadpans.
“You are so comprehensive!” Lacus smiles brightly, “Can I? René and I will take
good care of them, I promise! We will just take some pictures of them, that’s
all.”
Mika sighs and reflects about it, narrowing his eyes at Lacus.
“Will you tell me what have you done to Yoichi? Or to his sister?” He finally
asks.
Lacus averts his eyes, frowning at Sally’s aquarium. Finally, he sighs and
nods.
“I’ll tell you,” He says reluctantly, “I haven’t done anything to your friend,
though. I hadn’t even met him until yesterday.”
“And his sister?”
“… I knew her,” He admits, lowering his eyes to his phone. Mika looks too and
notices he was flipping through his gallery, and now is looking at a picture of
a girl with auburn hair and very familiar green eyes. “His sister, Tomoe… She
was a friend of René and I since High School.”
“Is that her?” Mika asks gesturing for the picture, and Lacus nods slowly
before locking his phone and throwing it to his side on the bed. “What happened
to her?”
Lacus fidgets with the hem of his shirt nervously.
“I… It’s a long story,” He warns Mika before taking a deep breath, “Ok, so
here’s the thing… We were friends since High School and the three of us were
very,very close. We were inseparable. So when he graduated, we went to the same
college and even chose the same major.”
Lacus looks at him as if to make sure he’s listening and Mika nods for him to
go on. Lacus averts his eyes back to Sally’s aquarium and sighs.
“When we entered college…” He starts hesitatingly, “Well, you see, I had always
had a thing for René since I met him, and in college I decided I wanted to try
telling him, but… I could never bring myself to do so. So I wanted to know of
his feelings first.”
Mika has a bad feeling of where this is going.
“What have you done?” He asks carefully. Lacus’ eyes stay glued on the
aquarium.
“I asked for Tomoe’s help,” He says quietly, “I asked her to pretend to be my
girlfriend, just to see if he would be jealous.”
Mika feels like facepalming.
“I can’t believe you did that,” He sighs closing his eyes and shaking his head.
Lacus makes a small sound of displeasure.
“Yeah, I did, so what?” He grunts, and when Mika looks at him again, he’s
frowning at his lap. “Anyway… She agreed to my plan and we started to fake-
dating. And René really got jealous of us, so I thought the plan had been
successful but…” He sighs.
“She had feelings for you,” Mika guess.
So typical. How hadn’t Lacus seen this coming?
Lacus nods, chewing his lower lip.
“She didn’t want to ‘break up’,” He says, “We had a huge argument… More like a
fight, to be honest. I went to her house to try and talk to her, but… I ended
up saying some very hurtful things to her.”
Why am I not surprised? Mika thinks trying to suppress another sigh.
“She was really heartbroken,” Lacus whispers, “She told me to leave and never
talk to her again. And then she stopped showing up at our classes.”
Mika feels his body go cold.
“Did… Did something happen to her?” He asks fearing the worse, but Lacus shakes
his head.
“She’s fine. I guess…” He says quietly, “René went and talked to her once. She
refuses to go back to college. She’s working at a café near her house, but René
told me to not go there. He told me she doesn’t want to see me.”
Why would that be?
Mika stares at Lacus, taking in his dull eyes and how his lips curve downwards,
and he notices something.
He may not have loved Tomoe Saotome like she wanted him to. But he definitely
cares for her.
“We were inseparable.”
Mika thinks of how furious Yoichi was, and how he was screaming “It’s your
fault”.
He must have seen the discussion at that day.
That would explain how he recognized Lacus, but didn’t know his name.
“Was René ok with all of this?” Mika finally asks, and Lacus snorts.
“Of course not,” His eyes are still dull as he finally looks at Mika, “But
there was nothing he could do. Tomoe refuses to talk to me.”
Mika hums, watching as Lacus looks back at Sally’s aquarium. Finally, Mika
stands up.
“You can take the pictures of the kittens,” He tells Lacus, making the alpha
give him a confused and surprised look. “But you will do something first.”
“What is it?”
Mika puts his hands on his hips and stares at him with a stern look.
“You will go to Tomoe and apologize to her.”
There’s a long silence that follows his words.
Lacus averts his eyes and shakes his head.
“That won’t work,” He mumbles, “She won’t listen to me…”
“Have you tried to contact her after the fight?”
“… No.”
“Then try.” Mika tells him, “Only after you apologize you can take the pictures
of the kittens.”
He starts to leave, but stops when Lacus says:
“Why do you even care?”
Mika looks back at him to see him frowning, and he raises his eyebrows.
“One of my best friends was furious and clearly hurt at what you did to his
sister,” Mika states, “The least you can do is apologizing to them.”
And with that, he leaves the room.
 
Chapter End Notes
     It's like 1 a.m. here so if there's any mistakes I apologize 8))
     Also, Lacus is an idiot. Don't be like him, kids.
     Hopefully next chapter I end this arc and start to work to introduce
     the smut. Or not lol
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chapter~
     XD
     EDIT: jfc I keep forgetting, I should've said this like last chapter?
     lmao but yeah while I was procrastinating orz someone made fanart for
     this *squeals* You can see it here! It's adorable and aaaah I love
     yall *sobs*
***** Chapter 20 *****
Chapter Summary
     Yuu can see how stressed he is with all of this - after all, both
     Yoichi and Lacus are his friends. It must be distressing, feeling
     like he should take a side on this.
     He wraps his arms around Mika and nuzzles his hair, cuddling him
     gently, decided to give him at least some kind of comfort in the
     middle of all this mess.
Chapter Notes
     Have I mentioned that some characters might be slightly ooc here
     bc they may or may not
      
     I'm not sorry at all LMAO
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Yuu is slightly amused when Mika sneaks into his house that evening with a
pouty face. As soon as they enter Yuu’s room, Mika pulls him down to the bed
and clings to him, hiding his face on his chest.
“Mika?” Yuu asks, just a tiny bit of worry laced in his voice. Mika grunts into
his chest. “Did something happen?” His thoughts roam over to the doctor, and he
panics a little at the thought of something being wrong with Mika’s health.
“How… How was it at the doctor?”
Mika shifts to lay his head sideways on Yuu’s chest and press his ear against
it, listening his heartbeat.
“It was fine,” He finally mumbles, and shifts again, maneuvering himself to his
elbows, hovering over Yuu to stare at him. “He was worried about me presenting
so late, so he asked a few exams, but he said overall I’m as healthy as I could
be.”
Yuu sighs relieved and smiles, reaching a hand to tuck a strand of blond hair
behind Mika’s ear.
“That’s good,” He hums, “Something else?”
“No… He just told me to go back before my heat so he can prescribe my
suppressant,” Mika sighs and leans in, resting his forehead against Yuu’s,
“I’ll have to go back soon to do the exams and then get the results anyway…”
Yuu hums again, running his hand through Mika’s hair, rubbing his fingers in
soothing circles on his nape. Mika closes his eyes and sighs again, contently
this time.
“That’s not all, is it?”
Mika opens his eyes and frowns at him, but nods.
“Lacus told me what happened between him and Yoichi’s sister.” Mika tells him
everything Lacus told him earlier, and Yuu frowns.
“So he fake-dated her and she was upset when he put an end to it?”
Mika nods.
“I mean, she had agreed to it, but…” The omega frowns and sits back, frowning
his lips at Yuu, “Fake-dating is so… I mean, why couldn’t he have just told
René he liked him? It would spare them all this headache.”
“Not everyone is as good at expressing their feelings as you, babe.” Yuu argues
gently, carefully placing his hands on Mika’s thigh; the omega is sitting on
top of him, practically straddling him, and Yuu can’t really complain.
“I know it,” Mika mumbles, “I just can’t help but think Lacus brought this upon
himself.”
Yuu merely hums once again, rubbing his hands on his thigh soothingly.
“So that’s why Yoichi was angry?”
Mika nods, and puts his hands over Yuu’s, stilling them. Yuu takes that as a
silent request to stop and removes his hands from him, allowing Mika to climb
off of him and sit by his side; Yuu sits up too, staring at him.
“Yoichi must have heard them arguing,” Mika says, “And that must be why he’s so
angry. Depending on what Lacus said to his sister…”
Yuu nods understanding.
“Well, it's his sister,” He says with a shrug, “No wonder he would take her
side.” Mika nods slowly, and Yuu adds carefully, “Though I think maybe he
should have gone easier on Lacus.”
Mika throws him a confused look.
“What do you mean? You think Lacus is right?”
“I don’t think this is a matter of who’s right and who’s wrong,” Yuu comments
slowly, “As you said, the fake dating was a bad idea, but she agreed with it.
She knew what she was getting herself into, and she knew Lacus liked somebody
else, that was why the whole thing started, right?”
“... Yeah,” Mika sighs.
“Lacus may have said bad things to her and Yoichi maybe felt angry because of
that,” Yuu continues, “But it still doesn’t justify Yoichi punching him. This
is a problem that should be solved with a talk between Lacus and Tomoe.”
“You’re right,” Mika mumbles and looks at Yuu hesitant, “I told him to
apologize to her… Did I do right?”
Yuu smiles gently and pulls him close, allowing him to rest his head on his
shoulder and cling to his shirt.
“You did, babe,” He assures him, “Independent on if the fake dating was right
or wrong, Lacus shouldn’t have said hurtful words to her, and should have taken
her feelings in consideration. I mean, he used her to make someone else
jealous. He should apologize for these things.”
“But…” Mika incentives, and Yuu continues:
“But she too should apologize for wanting to force him to continue in a
relationship when he didn’t want to. She was aware of his feelings for somebody
else, so…” He trails off, stilling when he feels lips pressing to the side of
his neck. He doesn’t dare to move as Mika noses along his neck and jaw line,
nuzzling against him. Is he… scent marking me?
The thought makes Yuu blush, but it also makes him happy. He giggles softly,
not having the heart to tell Mika that it’s usually the alpha who rubs his
scent all over the omega.
After all, it’s not like he can complain about having Mika’s scent on him.
“Yuu-chan…?”
“Sorry, you distracted me,” He laughs gently when Mika pulls away blushing.
“Sorry,” He mumbles.
“It’s okay,” Yuu presses a kiss to his forehead. “Anyway, to shorten it all, I
think both of them should apologize to each other for how they acted. And
Yoichi should understand his sister was in the wrong too.”
Though Yuu could understand Yoichi a little. If it was one of his friends in
that situation, he too would be very angry, especially because he hates to see
his friends sad.
Mika nods and hesitates before whispering timidly:
“I know you called me here to watch a movie but… Is it okay if we just… Lay
down in silence for a while?”
Yuu smiles gently.
“Of course it is, Mika.”
Mika nods and then pushes him back onto the bed. Yuu makes himself comfortable
on the pillows as Mika lays by his side, clinging to him. Yuu can see how
stressed he is with all of this - after all, both Yoichi and Lacus are his
friends. It must be distressing, feeling like he should take a side on this.
He wraps his arms around Mika and nuzzles his hair, cuddling him gently,
decided to give him at least some kind of comfort in the middle of all this
mess.
 
 
Yoichi is at school when Mika arrives the next day, sitting with Mirai by the
window while they wait for Mr. Hiiragi to arrive.
“Yoichi,” Mika says as he stops by them. Yoichi stares blankly at him and Mirai
tenses up.
“Hello, Mika,” Yoichi gives him a smile that doesn’t reach his eyes, and Mika
frowns.
“Is… Everything okay?”
“Why, yes,” Yoichi turns to look out of the window with a vague look, “I just
found out my ‘friend’ is friends with the man who hurt my sister. Why wouldn’t
it be okay?”
Mika feels something weird in his chest – a cold and tight feeling that makes
it a little too hard to breathe. He forces himself to keep a calm demeanor.
“Yoichi, we need to talk…”
“Yeah, we do,” Yoichi looks at him again, his eyes still blank. “We’ll talk
during lunch, though. Mr. Hiiragi has just arrived.”
Mika looks over his shoulder to see that indeed their teacher has just entered
the classroom. Casting Yoichi a last hesitant look, he sighs resigned and goes
to his seat.
The time passes slowly and he’s too impatient to pay attention to class.
Yoichi’s words give him a bad feeling, and now he’s nervous about the talk; he
wants to think of a way to run away from it, but he knows he can’t. He has to
know why Yoichi is so upset at him too now, and he also wants to hear his side
of the story.
When lunch time finally arrives, Mika is fast to shove his things inside his
bag and get up from his seat. Yoichi and Mirai are already waiting for him at
the door of the classroom, Yoichi still looking strangely calm and Mirai,
nervous. They make their way through the halls of the school to their usual
spot at the rooftop.
“So,” Mika sighs once they’re alone at the rooftop, and he watches as Yoichi
walks to the edge of it and looks contemplatively at the city before them.
Mirai stands between them, looking nervously from one to the other.
“So,” Yoichi says in tone of agreement, and turns to look at him, “You’re
friends with him.”
Mika frowns.
“Yoichi…”
“He hurt my sister.”
“I know it, but…”
“Did you know that?”
Mika hesitates.
“He told me yesterday,” He finally says, “I didn’t even know he knew your
sister, Yoichi, really. Why are you so angry?”
“What do you mean why?” Yoichi’s calm demeanor disappears and he glares
furiously at Mika, to the point Mika takes a step back, afraid of being punched
too. “He used her and then threw her away! And as if that wasn’t enough, he
went to our house and humiliated her!”
“Yoichi, she knew what she was getting herself into…” Mika tries to say, but
Yoichi interrupts him:
“It still didn’t give him the right to humiliate her!” His body trembles with
rage, and he covers his face with his hands, his voice coming out muffled as he
speaks, “He said a lot of horrible things to her… He said he would never fall
for her, as if she wasn’t worthy of him… Because of him, she dropped out of
university and the course she loved so much… And…” He takes a deep breath and
looks up to glare at Mika with tears in his eyes, “And you’re his friend! You…
You…”
“I didn’t know!” Mika raises his voice, feeling a lump in his throat making it
difficult to talk. His eyes sting and he tries to blink away the tears. “How
could I know what he did? He never even mentioned her…”
“Of course he wouldn’t,” Yoichi laughs and runs a hand through his hair, “She
didn’t mean a thing to him!”
“That’s not true!” Mika thinks back to the look in Lacus’ face as he stared at
Tomoe’s picture in his phone. We were inseparable. “She was important to him…”
“Then why did he throw her away?” Yoichi yells at him, “Why did he hurt and
humiliate her? You don’t do that to someone who’s important to you. You…”
Yoichi inhales a shaky breath and gives Mika a betrayed look, “I thought you
were my friend.”
Mika’s heart stops for a second.
“I am your friend,” He says in a small, weak voice.
“Then why are you siding with him?”
“This… This is not about siding with you or him!” Now there are definitely
tears in Mika’s eyes, and he tries to stop them from falling. “Lacus is…”
“He’s a monster!” Yoichi cuts him, “And if you’re siding with him… Then you’re
one too.”
A heavy silence follows his words. Mirai’s eyes are wide and scared, her face
pale as she stares at Yoichi as if he had grown a second head. Mika’s whole
body freezes and then relaxes.
“Alright,” He says. The tears are now streaming down his paled cheeks and he
does nothing to stop them. He repeats, “Alright. I am. You’re completely
right.”
“Mika…” Mirai tries to say.
“Leave him,” Yoichi tells her harshly, “He was never truly our friend.”
“Yoichi!” She stares at him shocked and then back at Mika when he turns around
and starts to slowly walk away, “Mika, wait, please!”
Mika stops, but doesn’t turn around.
“I’m not comfortable with this,” He tells her, “I don’t want to stay next to
you two anymore, not now at least. I need to be alone.”
“Mika…”
He ignores her, and as he walks away he can hear she turn on Yoichi:
“How could you say that?! He’s our friend!”
He hurries out of there before he can hear Yoichi’s reply.
He doesn’t look where he’s going as he runs through the school’s halls – he
only knows he needs to find an empty place where he can cry alone without
anyone bothering him. Eventually he finds an empty bathroom on the second
floor, in an area where almost no one is walking by, and he enters it, quickly
closing the door behind him.
He stops for a few seconds to catch his breath, leaning against the door. The
tears are warm on his cheeks, and he bites his lips to muffle a sob.
He understands Yoichi was just feeling hurt and didn’t really mean what he said
– but it still hurt either way. It hurt too much to hear that – he was never
truly our friend.
He takes a few deep breaths and then pushes away from the door, making his way
to the sinks. He turns on the faucet and lets the water fall to muffle the
sound of his sobs. He tries to wipe away the tears, but more keep falling soon
after, and after a while he gives up and simply leans against the sink and
cries, his shoulders trembling and his breath shaky.
Then he hears the door of the bathroom open and he freezes in panic. He looks
up scared to see Shinya Hiiragi enter the bathroom.
“Mika-chan?” Shinya says, “Hey… Is everything alright?”
Mika quickly tries to wipe away his tears, rubbing his eyes like a little
child.
“Y-Yeah…” His voice is hoarse, and he clears his throat before continuing, “I’m
fine.”
“Are you sure?”
“What are you doing here, Shi… Mr. Hiiragi?”
Shinya smiles and closes the door behind him before approaching Mika. He leans
against the sink by his side.
“I heard the sound of running water,” He explains, “I thought someone had
forgotten to turn it off, so I came here to do it.”
“… Sorry,” Mika mumbles, and Shinya chuckles.
“It’s alright,” He makes a small pause. “Are you sure everything is okay?”
Mika hesitates but nods.
“I’m just… Having a bad day.”
“I see.” Shinya smiles sympathetically. “Oh, actually I wanted to talk to you
before, but I forgot. It’s about the kitty.”
Mika tenses up, feeling an ache inside his chest. First Yoichi, now the kitty…
He wonders what else will happen today to break his heart once again.
“Y-Yes?”
“I know I said I would finally get him when I moved in with Guren,” Shinya
starts, “But with the whole moving I forgot to buy his stuff. So can he stay
with you at least one more week? Just until I have time to go and buy his
things like food, litter box and the likes.”
“Oh…” Mika releases a shaky breath, feeling suddenly so relieved that new tears
form in his eyes; he quickly wipes them away. “R-Right, sure. I’ll take care of
him until then.”
Shinya smiles and reaches out to ruffle his hair. Mika looks at him a little
surprised.
“Lunch will be over soon, so you should go eat something before it ends,” He
says pushing away from the sink. “Don’t be late to class.”
“A-alright.”
Shinya gives him a last smile and turns away to leave, thinking back to the
things he had bought the last day with Guren at the pet shop. He smiles to
himself as he leaves the bathroom. I’ll have to hide all of that when he comes
over to see Yuu.
 
After class is over, Mika is the first to leave the classroom. It feels weird
to leave alone, and he feels like crying again. He wonders why he’s so
emotional all of a sudden – sure, he’s hurt over what happened, but to the
point of crying so much…
Then he remembers his heat is near and his hormonal levels must be pretty high.
Stupid hormones, he thinks bitterly as he stops by the shoe lockers to take off
his slippers and grab his shoes.
But thinking about his heat makes him remember Ferid was going to take him to
the doctor again today to do his exams. He frowns as he drops his shoes to the
ground and puts them on. After the fight with Yoichi, he had wanted to go to
Yuu’s house and cuddle him for the rest of the afternoon…
I guess that will have to wait a little bit more. He sighs.
As he bends down to pick up his slippers, someone stops next to him.
“Mika.”
He feels his body grow cold immediately.
“Yoichi,” He answers with a mumble, finally straightening himself and putting
his slippers inside his locker. He closes the locker and turns to see Yoichi
and Mirai stopped there. “What do you want?”
Yoichi hesitates, but Mirai gives him an ugly look that makes him sigh.
“I… I’m sorry about what I said earlier.”
Mika stares at him blankly and then looks at Mirai.
“If you’re just apologizing because of her,” He says, “Then save it. I don’t
need an empty apology.”
He turns to leave.
“Mika, wait!” Yoichi grabs his wrist to stop him from walking away. Mika takes
a deep breath before looking at him again.
“What?”
“I’m reallysorry,” Yoichi says in a weak voice. “I just… I’m just angry at him.
I hate what he did to my sister.”
“But I had nothing to do with that,” Mika says, “Why would you be angry at me
then?”
Yoichi doesn’t reply. Mika sighs and yanks his wrist away from his hold.
“I know you want to take your sister’s side,” He says, “But trust me when I say
Lacus cares about her. He’s just an idiot who didn’t take in consideration that
fake-dating someone could be so harmful.”
Yoichi frowns at him and looks at his feet. They stay in silence for a few more
seconds, but Mika waits, if only a little hopeful.
“I don’t care about him,” Yoichi finally says, and looks up at Mika, “But I
care about my sister, and I care about you. And I’m upset that you’ve been his
friend all this time when he’s such an asshole.”
Mika raises his eyebrows. This is the first time he sees Yoichi refers to
someone like this.
“Yoichi…”
“Can you forgive me?” Yoichi interrupts him, and as hurt as Mika is, he knows
he can’t say no to that pleading face.
He sighs and smiles.
“Of course I can.”
Yoichi gives him a bright smile and jumps on him, giving him a tight hug.
“I’m really sorry,” He whispers against Mika’s neck, “I was such a bad friend,
I’m sorry.”
“It’s alright, it’s over now,” Mika assures him before pulling away and giving
him a stern look, “But if you ever say anything like that to me again, I’ll
punch you in the face.”
Yoichi laughs cheerfully and nods.
“I’ll help you,” Mirai pips up, and Mika looks at her. He had almost forgotten
she was there too. “Honestly, you two… What would you even do if I wasn’t
here?”
“Probably try to kill each other,” Says Yoichi, and Mika giggles.
They start walking towards the entrance of the school, and Mika sighs when he
sees Ferid is already waiting for him.
“See you tomorrow, Mika,” Yoichi says.
“Yeah, try not to miss school again,” Mika teases him and smiles at Mirai, “See
you tomorrow, Mirai. Thank you for putting up with us.”
She giggles.
“Well, someone has to,” She shrugs, “See you.”
He waves at them and approaches Ferid’s car, raising an eyebrow surprised when
Ferid rolls down the window.
“Sit here with me today,” He tells Mika opening the door of the passenger seat,
and Mika frowns as he enters the car and closes the door behind himself.
“Where are the others?” He asks noticing only the two of them are in the car.
“Today it’s just us,” Ferid sings as he starts to drive, and he laughs at the
exasperated face Mika makes at him. “Crowley had to stay a little later today,
he was researching something in the library. And Lacus and René left earlier.”
Mika hums, nodding. They stop at a red light and Ferid looks at him frowning.
“Hey, is something wrong? You look like you were crying.”
Mika freezes and turns his face away from him.
“I’m fine,” He mumbles, “Are you going to take me to the doctor now or are we
going home first?”
“Nah, we’re going now,” Ferid says, “But first we have to stop somewhere else.”
That makes Mika look at him, frowning.
“Where?” He asks carefully, and his uncle laughs.
“Don’t worry, it’s nothing too suspicious.”
“That doesn’t help,” He mutters, but decides not to say anything else.
He falls silent as Ferid drives, humming along to a song that’s playing on the
radio, and eventually they stop in front of a flower shop.
“What are we doing here?” Mika asks as they leave the car.
“We’re buying flowers, of course, silly,” Ferid giggles, and Mika glares at
him.
“I’m going to strangle you,” He mumbles, following his uncle inside the flower
shop.
He had never been to one before, and he’s slightly curious about the flowers
there, many of which Mika doesn’t know. He recognizes the roses, of course –
who wouldn’t? –, and the lilies and orchids, but many flowers he doesn’t know
the name even though he recognizes them, and others he had never even seen
before.
“Pretty, aren’t they?” Ferid comments, observing Mika look at the flowers with
a smile. Mika looks at him with his eyebrows raised.
“Are you going to buy flowers to someone?”
“Why, of course, dear Mika. Isn’t that why people come to flower shops?”
Mika feels tempted to grab a cactus near him and shove it into Ferid’s face,
but refrains himself when an employer of the shop approaches them. Mika turns
his back to the two as Ferid starts to ask for something, and instead focuses
on the flowers. They all have small tags under their vases with the names, and
Mika looks curiously at the ones he had never seen before, learning their
names.
After a while, Ferid comes to his side while the florist leaves to the back of
the shop, probably to get whatever Ferid had asked him for. Mika narrows his
eyes when Ferid approaches with a smirk and then turns his face away.
“Mika, how about you buy a bouquet for your precious Yuu?” Ferid asks in a
singsong voice. “I’m sure he would love it!”
Mika fights back a blush, as well as the temptation to do as Ferid says.
“Why don’t you buy Crowley a bouquet?” He mumbles annoyed. Ferid hums and looks
over at some flowers in a corner, with white petals with the tips dark pink.
“Nah,” Ferid finally says with a wave of his hand, “Maybe on his birthday.”
Mika watches as he approaches the flowers he was eyeing and carefully runs a
finger on its petal as if it’s made of glass. He looks at the tag name under
the flower’s vase – a carnation, he sees. He tilts his head to the side.
But before he can say anything, the florist comes back with a huge bouquet of
dark crimson roses in his arms.
“Here it is, Mr. Bathory,” He says handing the flowers to Ferid with a smile.
“Thanks, dear,” Ferid says sweetly, cradling the flowers gently to his chest.
“Come, Mika.”
“You’re not going to pay?” Mika asks confused as they walk out of the shop.
“I had already paid for them before,” Ferid explains, “I had ordered these ones
a week ago.”
Mika hums and enters the car with him. Ferid sets carefully the flowers on the
back seat and then starts to drive.
“What are these flowers for?” Mika finally asks, and Ferid takes a while before
replying.
“For my uncle,” He says quietly, “Today is the anniversary of his death. I’m
going there visit his grave later.”
“Oh…” Mika hadn’t expected that. “I’m… Sorry.”
Ferid smiles briefly at him before looking back at the road.
“It’s alright~” He sings, “It’s not a big deal.”
Though he says that, Mika notices his cheerful smile doesn’t reach his eyes. He
had already noticed his uncle had a habit to mask his true feelings with
cheerfulness, but he’s starting to think this is more common than he imagined.
“How was your uncle like?” Mika asks after a while, startling Ferid who looks
at him surprised before smirking.
“Oh, he was an amazing man,” He says, “Just like me!”
“What, you mean he was annoying and nosey?”
“That’s mean, Mika!” Ferid whines, and Mika chuckles. Ferid pouts comically for
a while but ends up smiling after. “But yeah, he was like that too. I think you
could say I learned it from him.”
Mika can’t even imagine what it would be like to live in a house with Ferid and
his uncle.
“How did he die?” He asks quietly, and this time Ferid takes a while before
answering softly:
“He had cancer,” Ferid says, “Lung cancer. He never told me about it. I only
learned of it when he was almost dying.”
Mika doesn’t know what to say to that. Ferid is calm as he says this, but Mika
remembers how agitated he had been the past few days, to the point of becoming
annoyingly clingy. He wonders if he was unconsciously looking for some comfort
for his pain.
He must really miss his uncle.
 
 
When Mika arrives home a few hours later, he’s surprised to see Yuu waiting for
him in the living room, playing chess with Lacus.
“Oh, hey Mika,” Yuu smiles before looking back at the chessboard, “How was it
there at the doctor?”
Ferid makes a snarky comment about Yuu that Mika ignores in favor of dropping
his schoolbag to the floor beside the couch and sitting with Yuu.
“It was fine,” He says, “I just did the exams. The results should be ready
within a week.”
Yuu hums, his hand finding Mika's to enlace their fingers.
“That’s good,” Yuu says giving him a smile before looking back at Lacus,
watching as he makes his move in the game.
“What are you doing here, Yuu-chan?” Mika finally asks.
“Oh, I came here to try and convince Lacus to talk to Tomoe,” Yuu says happily,
reaching out for his knight and moving it, “So he challenged me to a chess
game.”
“If he wins, I’ll talk to her,” Lacus says, and Mika raises his eyebrows at
him.
“I thought we had already agreed you will go to her and apologize,” Mika says
sternly, “We made a deal, didn’t we?”
Lacus blushes and averts his eyes, pouting at the chessboard.
“I… Didn’t really agree to that,” He mumbles.
“Oh?” Mika raises his eyebrows and Lacus flinches. Yuu laughs.
“It’s okay, babe,” He says, planting a soft kiss to Mika’s cheek, “I’ll
completely destroy him in this game and make him do as you said.”
Mika pouts, glaring at Lacus, but finally sighs.
“Fine.” He gives Yuu’s hand a gentle squeeze before letting go and standing up.
“I’ll go take a bath and change these clothes.”
“Alright!” Yuu smiles, waving at him as he grabs his bag and leaves the living
room.
He goes to his room, where he checks on the kittens – the four of them are
sleeping on his bed, despite him having made a comfortable bed for them inside
their box with some pillows. He smiles and shakes his head.
He takes a quick bath and puts on some comfortable clothes, only then heading
downstairs again, finding Lacus whining about losing the game while Yuu smirks
superiorly, sprawled on the couch like he owns the place.
“Mika, your boyfriend is too mean!” Lacus whines when he sees Mika.
“It was a fair match,” Yuu tells him, “You’re such a bad loser.”
Lacus glares at him and Mika smiles.
“He is,” Mika agrees, “You should see how many rematches he has asked René
already.” And then he looks at Lacus, “You should just accept that you suck at
chess.”
“Why are you being mean too?” Lacus complains, and just then René enters the
room, coming from the kitchen with a cup of tea, and Lacus turns to him with
teary eyes, “Renééé! They’re being mean to me!”
“I don’t blame them,” René deadpans, sipping his tea. Lacus gasps casting him a
betrayed look.
“You too?!”
“Are you going talk to her now?” Yuu says before Lacus can complain more. “You
lost, so you have to go.”
Lacus falls silent, glaring at the chessboard.
“Fine,” He finally gives up with a sigh, “I’ll go tomorrow…”
“Now,” Yuu interrupts him, “You’re going now.”
Lacus gives him a shocked look.
“Why now?”
“Because I want to go too, to make sure you won’t run away.” Yuu crosses his
arms over his chest.
“You just want to gossip about it, don’t you?” Mika mumbles to him, to which
Yuu whispers with a smile:
“Shut up.”
Mika shakes his head, but ends up smiling too.
“You’re going to see Tomoe?” René asks with a frown.
“Yes,” Mika says, “And Lacus is going to apologize to her.”
René snorts and looks at Lacus.
“Good luck with that.”
Lacus pouts at him.
“Aren’t you coming with me too?” He asks.
“Why should I?” René sips his tea.
“Because you’re my boyfriend,” Lacus whines.
“One more reason why I shouldn’t go.”
“Actually, it would be good if you come too, René,” Mika says, “To stop Lacus
from saying anything too stupid.”
“Hey!” Lacus complains and René sighs.
“You’re right.”
“You’re agreeing with him?!”
“Then let’s go now!” Yuu says happily, standing from the couch. “The café she
works at is not too far, if we go now we will be back before dinner.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Mika smiles at him.
“Wait, are we really doing this then?” Lacus looks at them shocked. “Like,
right now?” René rolls his eyes and leaves for the kitchen, probably to put his
cup in the sink. Lacus looks at Mika. “Are you serious?”
“Lacus,” Mika says calmly, “Please, shut up.”
 
 
They take a bus to the café where Tomoe Saotome works. The ride barely takes
ten minutes, and soon the four of them are in front of a small coffee shop.
Lacus looks terrified and René has his usual blank face on.
“Come on,” Mika says, “We can’t stay here all night.” Ferid would be furious if
they took too long.
Lacus mumbles something under his breath as they enter the café. It’s warm and
cozy inside, and the whole place has a very comfy look. They sit by a table
near the window and wait for a waitress.
“Maybe we should go back home,” Lacus suggests, but René holds him in place.
“You’re not running away now,” Mika tells him, “Don’t even try.”
Lacus pouts at the table.
“What are you doing here?”
They look up to see a very furious Yoichi stopped next to their table. He’s
still in his school uniform, making Mika think he came to the café straight
from school.
“Hello, Yoichi,” Mika says hesitant. He doesn’t want the episode from earlier
to repeat itself again. “Lacus is here to apologize.”
Lacus’ eyes are terrified as he looks at Yoichi, no doubt remembering the punch
he received two days ago. His eye is still swollen from that, though the purple
color has receded and became a sick yellow.
Yoichi hums and crosses his arms over his chest, narrowing his eyes at Lacus.
“If you dare to do anything to my sister…” He starts threateningly, but stops
when a waitress approaches them.
Mika recognizes her immediately from the photo in Lacus’ phone. It’s Tomoe
Saotome, with brown hair, the same olive eyes as her brother and small freckles
scattered across her cheeks.
“Oh, Yoichi, you’ve met a friend?” She smiles at her little brother before
turning to them. “Welcome to…” She stops herself when her eyes fall on Lacus.
Her face pales and her expression hardens immediately. “What are you doing
here?”
Lacus swallows thickly.
“Tomoe…” He starts.
“I told you to stay away from me,” She hisses through her teeth, forcing a
smile as if trying not to call attention to them. “Please, leave.”
Yoichi looks at her.
“He said he’s here to apologize,” He rolls his eyes and glares at Lacus, who
opens his mouth so say something, but is interrupted by Tomoe:
“I don’t wanna hear it. Leave.”
“Tomoe, please…”
“If you don’t leave now, you’re going to regret it.” She threatens, and Mika
starts to think if it was really a good idea for them to come here.
“Tomoe,” René says calmly, “Please, listen to him at least. You can punch him
later if you’re still angry.”
“Hey!” Lacus glares at his boyfriend, as if saying You’re not helping at all.
René ignores him.
Tomoe looks from Lacus to René, frowning at them before grabbing Lacus’ arm.
“Come with me,” She says harshly, dragging him out of the table with her. They
watch as she drags him across the café and out of it.
Mika looks at the others.
“Let’s go,” Yuu says suddenly, standing up.
“Go where?” Mika asks confused.
“With them, of course!”
“Yuu-chan!”
“Yuu is right,” Yoichi says with a dark expression, “I don’t trust that guy
alone with my sister.”
Mika watches as they start to walk away, and sighs resigned, standing up too.
Then he realizes René hasn’t moved from his place.
“René?” He calls him, “Aren’t you coming too?”
René gives him a tired look before averting his gaze to the window, staring at
the sky outside.
“I will stay,” He says, “I’m tired of their fights.”
Mika hesitates for a while, before turning and following Yuu and Yoichi
outside.
 
The sun is about to set and the sky is slowly turning from light blue to
purple. The air is chilly on Lacus’ skin. The hand wrapped around his wrist has
a vice-like grip.
Tomoe drags him to an alley beside the café. The alley is badly lit, but he can
see her angry eyes as she turns to him and lets go of his wrist.
“Well?” She says aggressively, “What do you want now?”
Lacus’ breath is shaky and he tries not to break down. The last time he had
seen Tomoe had been the last winter; her hair had been longer then, but now it
is cut short, barely past her chin.
“I…” His voice breaks, and he stops, trying to think of what he should say. I’m
sorry? Please forgive me? None of that seemed right.
“I would’ve never suggested to fake-date you if I knew you would do this.”
I didn’t mean that to sound so harsh.
“Why would I even want to date you?”
That too, why did I say it like that?
“You’re annoying!”
I should’ve never said that, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…
Tomoe crosses her arms over her chest and narrows her eyes at him, and Lacus
realizes he’s taking too long to answer.
“You’re too shameless to come here after all that happened,” She whispers,
“After everything you said to me…”
“I’m…”
“If you say ‘I’m sorry’, I will punch you.” She cuts him, glaring at him, and
Lacus swallows thickly.
“But I am,” He whispers, “I really am sorry, Tomoe. I was angry, but I
shouldn’t have said those things.”
He had wanted to come back that night as soon as he left her house. He had even
walked back to her door, but couldn’t bring himself to knock.
So he left, and when she disappeared from their classes, he didn’t have the
courage to go to her.
Even now, all he wants to do is turn around and run away.
“You’re an asshole,” Tomoe says, uncrossing her arms, “You should’ve stayed
away, like I told you to. Why did you come here?”
That’s a valid question. Why was he even there?
Because Mika and Yuu had forced him to?
Or because he wanted to?
He doesn’t know.
He looks at his own feet.
“You always do that,” Tomoe’s words surprise him, and he looks up to see her
frowning disapprovingly at him. “You always run away from confrontations
instead of saying what you have to say.” She makes a pause and then adds, “We
wouldn’t be like this if you had just gone to René and told him you liked him
right away.”
“… You’re right,” Lacus sighs and smiles sadly at her, “But it still doesn’t
change the fact that we had a deal, and you broke it.”
“If you came here just to throw it to my face…”
“It’s not that,” Lacus interrupts her. “I think we both made mistakes regarding
this, and we're refusing to accept it. You broke our deal, because I was
inconsiderate of your feelings. I never even imagined you could fall for me.
And I’m sorry for that.”
Tomoe blinks surprised at him, and he averts his eyes, embarrassed. A second
later, though, he looks back at her shocked when she starts to laugh.
“You…” She giggles and covers her mouth with her hand, the corners of her eyes
wrinkling. “I don’t think I ever saw you say something like this before. Are
you sick or something?”
He blushes.
“I’m not!” He whines, and she giggles again.
“You’re an idiot,” She shakes her head, “If you think I will forgive you so
easily…”
“I know you won’t,” He interrupts her, casting a miserable look at her, “But I
also know now that I can’t keep running away.”
She looks at him thoughtfully for a while.
“What do you really want?” She finally asks.
“Come back to university,” He says, “You’ve always loved it more than René and
I, and it’s unfair for you to leave because of something stupid I did…”
“It was not you,” She’s the one who averts her eyes now. She sighs, “Things had
already been pretty bad since father died and I started taking care of Yoichi…
What you did was just the last straw.”
Lacus nods, finally understanding. He remembers how sad Tomoe was when her
father died right after she graduated from high school – and her mother had
already died when she was a child, which meant then she was alone to take care
of a little brother…
And Lacus worsened everything by asking her to pretend to be his girlfriend
only so he could make their friend jealous.
I really am an idiot.
“I still think you should come back,” He says quietly, “Or do you plan to work
here for the rest of your life? That’s not what your parents would want for
you.”
Tomoe raises an eyebrow at him.
“I didn’t know you cared so much.”
“Of course I do,” He says softly, giving her a sad smile, “You’re my friend,
even if you don’t consider me like that anymore.”
They stay quiet for a while, just looking at each other. Tomoe looks
thoughtful, as if she was taking in consideration everything he said.
Finally, she sighs.
“Please, leave,” She says, “I have to go back to work.”
Lacus nods miserably. I tried.
He turns around to leave.
“Lacus,” She calls him softly, and he stops, looking back at her. She smirks,
“You better get ready for when I come back next semester. I won’t go easy on
you.”
He blinks, half surprised and half confused, watching as she giggles and walks
past him out of the alley, saying over her shoulder:
“I may have lost one semester, but I bet I can catch up to you two in the blink
of an eye.”
Lacus watches her leave with a dumbfound look on his face. Even after she’s
gone, he stays still, thinking of her words. Then he snorts.
Of course you can, you nerd.
She had always been the smartest of them three, after all.
He smiles.
When he walks out of the alley, he’s surprised to find Mika, Yuu and Tomoe’s
brother standing there, as if they had been listening to the conversation. Mika
and Yuu at least look embarrassed for being caught, but Yoichi merely crosses
his arms over his chest and glares at Lacus.
Lacus thinks he looks a lot like his sister when he does that.
“If you think that means Tomoe has forgiven you…” He starts, but Lacus
interrupts him by patting his head.
“You kids should stay out of adult’s business,” He sings, barely managing to
dodge Yoichi’s hand when he tries to slap him. He chuckles. “Tomoe can take
care of herself, little brother. Don’t worry about her. She’s stronger than you
think.”
Yoichi gives him a suspicious look, but Lacus ignores him, walking back to the
café. Not everything has been solved yet, but he thinks at least now they can
start working to rebuild their friendship.
He’ll just have to make sure to not mess up again.
 
Mika watches him enter the café again and then turns to Yoichi and Yuu.
“Well…”
“That was… Weird.” Yuu says frowning, and looks at Yoichi. “Will you be okay?”
Yoichi frowns at his feet, but nods reluctantly.
“I’ll go back inside,” He mutters, “To keep an eye on him.” He looks at Mika
with a pout, “That guy… You shouldn’t be his friend, Mika.”
Mika sighs.
“Yoichi,” He says, “We’ve already gone through this. You are my friend, just
like he is. Please don’t make me choose between you two.”
Yoichi’s pout intensifies, and Mika averts his eyes to not give in to him.
“We should go back home,” Yuu comments, “Or else your uncle will kill me.”
Mika smiles a little and nods.
“See you at school tomorrow?” He asks Yoichi, who sighs but smiles.
“Of course,” Yoichi nods. “I’ll go back and watch over that guy.”
“Don’t go too hard on Lacus,” Mika adds with a small smirk, “Though I think you
should keep your glare. It’s kind of fun to see Lacus so scared of you.”
Yoichi blinks and then laughs.
“You’re a terrible friend,” He says.
“Never said I wasn’t,” Mika blinks innocently and looks at Yuu, “Let’s go
home?”
Yuu nods, smiling at their exchange. He takes Mika’s hand, enlacing their
fingers.
“Let’s go home,” He agrees.
 
 
The sun is setting in the horizon and the sky is colored in beautiful shades of
orange and pink. Ferid’s silver hair, as always pulled back in a low ponytail
and tied with a silky red ribbon, sways in the wind graciously as he bends over
to deposit the bouquet of flowers over the grave; the wind slightly swayed them
too, the dark crimson roses contrasting against the white stone of the grave.
Crowley manages to move his eyes from the omega to the grave.
Eizen Bathory’s grave.
Ferid kneels in front of the grave and stares at it with dull eyes. Crowley
frowns a little.
“Ferid?” He asks carefully, but the omega merely hums, without tearing his eyes
away from the grave.
The sunset casts a beautiful orange glow over Ferid’s silhouette as he closes
his eyes and sighs. The wind blows again, swaying the leaves of the trees that
cast long shadows over the graves nearer to the walls of the cemetery, swaying
Ferid’s hair and his red ribbon – the ribbon Eizen had given to him. Crowley
still remembers how Ferid had rolled his eyes at his uncle.
“I don’t want it, it’s too… Delicate.”
“This is why it’s perfect for you.”
“Are you insinuating I am delicate, uncle? Just because I’m an omega…”
“It’s because you areyou.”
Ferid had made a confused face at that, too stunned to notice when Eizen
swiftly combed his hair back with his fingers and tied it with the red ribbon.
Crowley had laughed at the scene.
We were going to the cinema, he remembers. Eizen had insisted that Ferid had to
dress up better for a date, even after Ferid has insisted it wasn’t a date.
Ferid had complained about his uncle the whole way to the cinema, but Crowley
noticed he never removed the ribbon his uncle had tied on his hair.
The wind stops, but the air is still chilly enough to give Crowley goosebumps.
He looks to the sky to see that the sun is gone and the stars are already
shining brightly.
“We should go now, Ferid,” He tries again, his voice soft and quiet. Ferid
merely nods without uttering a single word and stands up from his spot, making
his way past Crowley to leave the cemetery.
Crowley casts one last glance at the grave before turning to follow him.
“How was lunch with your father today?” Ferid asks quietly after a while, and
Crowley looks at him curiously before answering.
“Boring,” He shrugs, “He only wanted to talk about business. And pressure me
again about marriage.”
Ferid snorts and looks away, making Crowley think he’s hiding his expression
from him.
“He won’t give up, will he?”
“No,” Crowley says, “He’s decided to have me married before I graduate.”
Ferid hums again and nods.
“Ferid, if only you…”
“No.” Ferid interrupts him, still not looking at him. “We’ve talked about it
before, this is out of question.”
Crowley sighs. He knew of that already, but he’s still stubborn enough to try.
When will I let him go?
“I’m sorry,” Ferid whispers with a broken voice, and Crowley presses his lips
tight together.
Probably never.
When they reach the car, Ferid silently takes the passenger seat, and that’s
enough to tell Crowley he definitely isn’t okay. Ferid always insists on
driving.
Sighing, he enters the car and begins to drive away from the cemetery. When
they stop by a red light, he dares to look at Ferid, only to see him curling up
against the door, his forehead pressed against the window glass; his shuddering
breath fogs the window, and even though it’s dark inside the car, the light
coming from the street lamps is enough for Crowley to notice the silent tears
slowly making their way down Ferid’s cheeks.
He turns his eyes back to the road.
 
Chapter End Notes
     This chapter was such A Mess LMAO Sorry xD
     Now you ask, why did I do this messy arc between Lacus, Tomoe and
     Yoichi?
     And I answer you, I have no idea YOLO
     (But I liked it despite being so messy lol)
     Also yes, more foreshadowing for Ferid's angst. I guess by now you
     can guess what it's going to be? Yes? No? Maybe? ;)
     New chapter might take a while to update (because I have to update A
     Tale of Ice and Fire, and I also did myself the favor of start a new
     fic again, so lol I gotta work on those lolol), but since after
     Tuesday I'm on vacations \\sobs\\ I'l try to work on all this mess
     lol
     Thank you for being so patient with me xD
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chapter~
***** Chapter 21 *****
Chapter Summary
     "Yuu-chan..." He finally says after a while.
     "Yes?"
     "... Would you really be with me during my heat if I asked you to?"
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
After the incident with Lacus and Yoichi’s sister, things become gradually
calmer.
Yuu and Mika fall in a nice daily routine. Yuu started appearing at Mika's
house after breakfast, and then Ferid would take them to school before coming
back to take the others to college; at first Ferid complained about having to
take Yuu to school too, but he resigned to his new task after Mika suggesting
he would stop having Ferid drive him to school and instead take the bus with
Yuu. So now they go to school together, and after school sometimes Yuu takes
Mika out to eat at McDonalds or go watch a movie. Sometimes, though, they just
go to Yuu's house and lock themselves in Yuu's room, cuddling in his bed and
watching movies on his notebook until dinner time.
Yuu likes this new routine.
Guren starts to tease him after the first week, saying he's becoming too
clingy. While Yuu agrees with him to a certain point – he had never been so
clingy like this to his previous boyfriends/girlfriends – he also doesn't mind.
He likes being next to Mika, even if all they're doing is sitting next to each
other while Ferid drives them to school. Just the mere presence of Mika is
enough to make him happy.
Even his teammates have started teasing him when they realized Mika has scent-
marked him.
Not that Yuu minds. He enjoys having Mika's scent all over him. If it wasn't so
anti-hygienic he wouldn't even bath so the scent wouldn't leave him. When he
joked about it with Mika, though, he was lectured for 30 minutes about how he
should always take a bath, and then Mika proceeded to threaten to break up with
him if he ever went more than one day without taking a bath.
"I can't even joke anymore," He had pouted, to which Mika merely said:
"No, you can't. And go take a bath now."
All in all, Yuu was relatively happy with how things were going.
 
The middle of July approaches very quickly and, with it, their middle-term
exams. Which means less dating and more studying. Mika agrees to still spend
time with him at his house, but with the condition that they are going to
study, not date. Yuu agrees reluctantly, though he knows he needs to get good
grades in these exams or else he might be kicked out of the soccer team.
On the Friday before the week their exams would start, though, Mika has to go
to the doctor to get the result of his exams. He texts Yuu telling him to start
without him and that he'll show up later after his consult. So after soccer
practice, Yuu takes the bus and goes home alone. Neither Guren nor Shinya are
there, so Yuu has the house all to himself. With Cerberus bouncing after him,
he grabs some snacks in the kitchen and heads to his room, slumping on his bed
and reluctantly grabbing his textbooks.
A few hours later, though, when Mika finally arrives, Yuu is playing videogame
with Cerberus sleeping on his lap.
"Yuu-chan, I told you to study," Mika says exasperated, dropping his schoolbag
on the floor and sitting by his side on the bed. He's still wearing his
uniform, the navy-blue blazer that Yuu secretly thinks looks really hot on him.
"I was studying," Yuu tells him, "But then Mario called me. I need to help him
rescue his princess."
Mika shakes his head, but there is a tiny hint of a smile on his lips.
"You, mister, are impossible," He huffs, grabbing his bag to take out his own
books.
Yuu is too focused on the game, which is why only after the phase he was
playing is over that he notices that Mika has dragged all of the pillows to
make a nest around himself and also wrapped himself on Yuu's blanket; now he's
comfortable snuggled up on his small nest, cradling his textbook in his hands
and reading it with the same concentration Yuu reserved to his games.
"You're really smooth, aren't you," Yuu snorts. Mika briefly raises his eyes to
him, a tiny smile on his lips, and then looks back at the book.
Yuu turns off the videogame and decides to join him – though not in studying.
He snuggles into the nest and drapes himself over Mika's lap, wrapping his arms
around his waist and burying his face on his stomach, making him gasp.
"Yuu-chan, I'm trying to concentrate," Mika complains.
"I'll stay quiet, I promise," Yuu looks up blinking innocently, and Mika
squints his eyes at him before looking back at the book with a huff.
They stay quiet for a while, Mika studying and Yuu slightly dozing off on his
lap. He vaguely registers Cerberus joining them, draping himself over Yuu. Yuu
is grateful for his air-conditioning, because with how hot the summer is, all
snuggled up like this they would probably be passing out by now.
Thinking about hot weather makes Yuu remember something, and he slightly pulls
away to look up at Mika.
"How was it there at the doctor?"
"Hmm?" Mika looks at him distractedly before finally catching up to what he
said. "Oh, that's..." He sighs and puts the book away, "It was fine. I mean,
they found out I presented so late because of a problem with my hormones, but
it's nothing too serious. I just have to take a medicine to regulate my
hormones again."
Yuu hums, feeling relieved to hear that.
"Did he prescribe your suppressant? Your heat is nearing, right?"
Mika nods reluctantly, looking away.
"Yeah, it is..." He bites his lower lip, absently caressing Yuu's hair, "He
prescribed a suppressant, yes, though it was a special kind because of my
hormones."
"Hmm..."
Yuu waits, knowing Mika has more to say. He draws small circles in the small of
Mika's back with his thumbs, trying to soothe him so he'll be more comfortable
to talk.
"Yuu-chan..." He finally says after a while.
"Yes?"
"... Would you really be with me during my heat if I asked you to?" Mika isn't
looking at him, instead staring at the wall across from them, a light pink
dusting his cheeks.
"I would," Yuu assures him, "But only if you want me to."
Mika nods and hums.
"My heat is probably going to start in a week from now," He says quietly,
"Right after the exams, thankfully..." He sighs and then looks at Yuu shyly, "I
want you to be with me during my heat, Yuu-chan."
Yuu shifts, sitting back up so he can stare properly at Mika.
“Are you sure of that?” He asks. He knows Mika has never had sex before, and
having to decide whether to do it or not so soon… Isn’t he pressuring himself
to choose?
Mika bites his lips again.
“Not really,” He admits, “But… I want to try. After all, I trust you.”
Yuu feels a little proud of himself – after all, he knows Mika doesn’t trust
just anyone.
“I see…” He smiles and reaches out to cup Mika’s cheeks, leaning in to press
his forehead against Mika’s. “Alright, let’s try. And if you want to stop at
any time, you just have to tell me.”
Mika smiles relieved and nods, putting his hands on Yuu’s cheeks too.
“Thank you, Yuu-chan,” He whispers.
 
As their exams week starts, they see each other less often, since Mika insists
on concentrating on his own exams. The only moment of the day when they see
each other is while going to school, since Yuu refuses to go a day without
seeing Mika. Mika thought he would feel offended because even while Ferid
drives them to school, instead of paying attention to him, Mika pulls out his
notes to review everything; but Yuu seems rather content just to be by his
side, not even once complaining about anything.
“You study too much, Mika,” Mirai sighs on Thursday after their final exam,
while they wait for Kimizuki and Ferid at the school gates, “You should relax a
little bit more.”
“Mirai, we’re at school exactly to study,” Mika retorts.
“Not as much as you do. Have you even slept this week?”
He hasn’t – at least not much. As the week passed, he has become more and more
uncomfortable while sleeping. Ferid suggested it might be because his heat is
approaching, and proceeded to give Mika a whole new bunch of pillows and
comforters, and now Mika’s bed looks like just a huge messy pile of pillows.
Though that isn’t the only problem, but he doesn’t want to talk about his
nightmares with Mirai just yet.
Mirai sighs when he doesn’t answer.
“Yoichi, tell him he needs to relax,” She whines to Yoichi, who looks up
distractedly from his cell phone.
“Huh? Oh, yeah, you need to relax, Mika.” Then he looks back at his phone,
making Mirai roll her eyes and Mika snort.
“Who are you talking to? Is it brother?” Mirai asks curiously.
“It’s Tomoe,” Yoichi answers vaguely, “She’s saying she’ll be helping that
Lacus today with some project and will be late for dinner tonight.”
He glares at his phone as if it was the device’s fault.
After the whole incident at the café, Yoichi has become a lot distracted, and
Mika suspects he’s stalking his own sister. While he finds it sweet how much he
worries about her, he also thinks he should trust her own decision a little bit
more – though he’s not going to say it, because he’s pretty sure it would
result in another fight, and with how he’s been the past week he knows for sure
he will have a breakdown if they fight again.
“Leave Tomoe-chan alone,” Mirai sighs, “She’s doing pretty fine dealing with
her… Friend or whatever the hell they are now.”
“I still don’t trust him,” Yoichi grunts.
“You’re not the one who has to trust him.”
Mika rolls his eyes at their banter. He’s starting to feel a little cranky, and
he’s pretty sure it has everything to do with his approaching heat. He just
wants to go home soon, take off those clothes – and especially this damn
necktie that seems like it’s going to suffocate him no matter how much he’s
already pulled at it – and then bury himself in his nest and proceed to sleep
for the rest of the afternoon.
He wonders if Yuu would mind if he doesn’t show up at his house today even if
his tests are over.
 
As soon as Mika arrives home, he runs upstairs to his bedroom and locks himself
in there, quickly turning on the air-conditioner. As the room starts to become
cold, he strips himself down to his boxers and socks, and then crawls under his
mess of pillows and comforters. He chuckles when he finds the kittens there.
Only two are left now, since Shinya and Mirai have already taken theirs. Mika
has started contemplating if he should keep both; after all, Lacus has a
freaking snake, why can’t he have two inoffensive kittens?
He carefully grabs the kittens and makes himself comfortable on the bed before
letting them sleep on his chest. They have grown a little now, enough so that
they don’t fit on Mika’s palm anymore, but he still finds them adorable either
way.
After a while, the room is comfortably cold, and Mika wraps himself on his many
comforters, and slowly starts to fall asleep.
He dreams of a stormy night, and violent knocks on his door, and fire burning
bright and consuming everything in its way. When he wakes up panting and
crying, his phone alarm is ringing, announcing it’s time to get ready to go to
school.
He groans, grabbing the phone to turn the alarm off. He’s all sweaty and gross,
and there’s something sticky on the back of his thighs. He frowns, sitting up,
realizing his boxers are damp too, and he feels way too hot, even if the room
is freezing cold. As he pushes the covers and pillows aside and tries to stand,
he feels a searing wave of heat hit him, making his legs give out weakly. He
falls on his knees, groaning and hugging his stomach.
Fuck.
His heat has arrived.
Whimpering, he supports himself on the bed to stand up, and makes his way to
the bathroom on wobbly legs. The suppressants his doctor prescribed and Ferid
bought earlier that week are on the small cabinet over the sink, and Mika
reaches for the bottle with trembling hands.
“Just one pill each twelve hours,” He repeats to himself, making sure that he’s
still in his right mind. He unscrews the lid of the bottle and manages to drop
one pill on his hand, quickly shoving it inside his mouth and swallowing. He
places the bottle over the sink and groans; feeling his legs way too weak to
support his own weight, he decides to kneel while he waits for the pills to
take effect.
Please, please, please…
After a while, the heat subsides a little, though he can still feel it there –
a small ache in his core, his body pleading for the presence of an alpha to
come and breed him, knot him. He shakes those thoughts away and forces himself
up, peeling off his boxers damp with slick while he makes his way to the
shower.
He cries with relief when the cold water of the shower hits his heated skin,
and starts to wash himself. He hates how gross he feels with the sweat and the
slick on his skin.
After he leaves the shower, he decides he’s not going to school today. Even
with the suppressants, he still feels awful – his skin feels sensitive, his
limbs weak like jelly, and a great need to just bury himself under his nest
again and never leave.
He puts on some sweatpants and a large shirt, feeling more comfortable in loose
clothes, and then slowly makes his way to the dining room, knowing he needs to
eat and drink a lot of water now that he’s in heat.
“Mika, you look like you’ve been hit by a truck,” Lacus says as he walks into
the dining room and plops down on a chair beside him.
“I would’ve rather been hit by a truck by now, to be honest,” He mumbles,
grabbing the bottle of milk and pouring some on a cup for himself, “It sounds
way better than being in heat.”
“Oh, so that’s why you’ve locked yourself when you arrived from school
yesterday?” Lacus hums, “You didn’t even have dinner… We ordered pizza, Krul
even saved some for you.”
Mika looks guiltily to Krul sitting across from him on the table.
“Sorry,” He mumbles.
“It’s fine,” She smiles gently at him, “I assume you’re not going to school
today, since you’re not with your uniform.”
Mika nods, sipping his milk slowly.
“Will you be fine on your own the whole day?” Krul asks, “If you want, I can
stay with you.”
“No, no, it’s alright,” Mika assures her, “I probably won’t stay home anyway.
Shinya told me about a clinic for omegas in heat, he said it’s very safe there
if you want to spend your heat without being bothered.”
“Ooh, so you’re going to a love hotel,” Lacus says.
“It’s not a love hotel!” Mika blushes, glaring at him, who only shrugs and
smirks.
“If you say… But that’s what we call those clinics, since mostly couples go
there to fuck without anyone bothering them.”
Mika’s blush intensifies, and he looks down at his milk. He is pretty sure they
all know he will be spending his heat with Yuu, but he’s not going to outright
admit it.
Thinking about Yuu makes him feel nervous. He did say he wanted Yuu to be with
him during his heat, but now he’s starting to doubt himself… Is he even ready
to do that now? On his second heat? Maybe he should just spend it alone… Though
the thought of going through another heat without an alpha makes him wince in
pain. He wonders if it will be as painful with the suppressants.
But still, he told Yuu he trusts him. Even if he’s nervous, he’s still willing
to try. And Yuu said he would stop if he changed his mind, didn’t he? So he has
nothing to fear. Just trust Yuu, everything will be fine, he tells himself.
The others arrive for breakfast too, and even though they probably noticed Mika
is in heat, thankfully none of them comment on it. Ferid is the last to come
in, and he’s surprised to hear Mika isn’t going to school.
“I thought nothing could stop you from going to school,” He snorts.
“Yeah, me too…” Mika sighs. He really wants to go, but he doesn’t think he can
stand spending a day inside that classroom during summer while on his heat.
He’d probably pass out before the day ends.
“So you’re going to a love hotel?” Ferid hums, smirking, “With your precious
Yuu-chan, I presume?”
“It’s a clinic, not a love hotel,” Mika corrects him with his cheeks burning
red, “And it’s none of your business if Yuu-chan will be with me or not.”
“Actually, since I’m your guardian, it kind of is–”
A ring in their doorbell interrupts Ferid, and Mika quickly shots to his feet,
knowing it’s probably Yuu. He had forgotten to text him to say he won’t go to
school today. Ignoring Ferid, he runs to the door and opens it, and indeed Yuu
is there in his school uniform, smiling at him.
“Hey Mika… You’re not ready yet?” He frowns, noticing Mika is not in his
uniform.
“I… I’m not going to school today,” Mika says timidly, “Sorry, I forgot to send
you a text… My heat has arrived this morning.”
Yuu blinks at him, his mouth opening and closing as if he doesn’t know what to
say.
“I see…” He finally says, and then clears his throat. “So… Do you want me to
stay with you?”
Mika hesitates, but then shakes his head.
“You should go to school,” He says, “My exams are over, but you still have one
today, right?”
“I could ask Mrs. Hanayori to let me do it another day,” Yuu says, though he
doesn’t sound so certain. Mika smiles gently.
“I’ll be fine, Yuu-chan,” He says, “I will wait for you at the clinic. I just
have to tell them that I’m waiting for my alpha and give them your name,
right?”
That was what Shinya had told him. Apparently Shinya has spent many of his
heats there, his most recent ones with Guren.
“Yeah, that’s right,” Yuu nods, “Then… I’ll meet you there?”
“I’ll be waiting for you,” Mika says, “But please, don’t do your tests in a
hurry. I’ll feel bad if you end up with bad grades because of me.”
Yuu chuckles.
“Alright,” He says, and then reaches a hand to touch Mika’s face, caressing his
cheekbone with the pads of his fingers; just his touch is enough to make Mika
feel like his skin is burning, and he tries to stop himself from jumping on him
right there and now. Stupid slutty body, control yourself!
“I won’t take long,” Yuu whispers, leaning in to kiss his forehead softly, “See
you soon, babe.”
Mika nods, and watches as he leaves. Once he’s out of his sight, he closes the
door and leans his back against it, sighing heavily. This will be one hell of a
weekend.
Though he’s curious… If he reacted that way with just an innocent touch on his
cheek and a kiss on his forehead, how will his body react when they…?
His face burns hot and he covers it with his hands. This is so embarrassing…!
He pushes himself away from the door and takes a deep breath before making his
way to his bedroom. He has to pack his bags to go to the clinic, where he’ll
probably spend the whole weekend, which is probably how long his heat will last
– the last one lasted four days, so he’s hoping this one will last around that
time or maybe, hopefully, less.
This will be a long weekend.
 
Chapter End Notes
     Oops xD
     This chapter was shorter, but because it was just a transitional
     chapter. I just wanted to post something before the end of the year
     lolol
     I'm sure you know what will happen next chapter~ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you! Have a Happy New
     Year~
     ^-^
***** Chapter 22 *****
Chapter Summary
     They look at each other, the awkward moment extending for a few more
     seconds before both break down laughing loudly.
     “S-Sorry,” Yuu hiccups, wiping away tears from the corners of his
     eyes and trying to suppress his laughter, “It’s just…”
     “We’re both nervous,” Mika agrees with a chuckle, nodding and taking
     a deep breath, smiling embarrassed at him. “I really… Want to try it,
     Yuu-chan. I just… I’m so nervous I feel like I’ll have a heart
     attack.”
     “To be honest, me too,” Yuu sighs and then crawls to him, hugging him
     gently and hiding his face on Mika’s neck. He mutters against Mika’s
     skin, “I want to make this special for you.”
Chapter Notes
     In which Mika gets the dicc :3
See the end of the chapter for more notes
Ferid takes Mika to the heat clinic before going to college. Mika sits curled
up on the passenger seat, clutching his bag tight against his chest and resting
his head on the window, his eyes closed. He feels very uncomfortable being
stuck in that closed space, even if it’s just for a few minutes – and
especially with Crowley, Lacus and René in the backseat.
He had packed everything to spend the weekend at the clinic; some clothes –
though he doubted he would actually use them – his suppressants, his phone
charger and his toothbrush. At the last minute, on an impulse, he had grabbed
the yellow bunny Yuu had given him; Ferid had snickered at him for that, but
even that wasn’t enough to make Mika leave the bunny at home. He feels a little
more at ease with the bunny, as if Yuu himself is there with him.
He clutches the bag tighter, the yellow bunny pressed between the bag and his
chest, because Mika tried to hide it when Ferid started to teasing him.
Ferid stopped the teasing now, though, and they are all silent as he drives. He
probably noticed how nervous Mika is. After all, his first heat was a disaster
– his father going mad and trying to breed him, the fire burning his house,
being alone in the police post office until Ferid appeared to take him to a new
house… He tries to remind himself that now it’s not like that time; he will be
in a place where no one will be authorized to enter his room unless he allows
it, he will be given medication to quell down the pain, he will be safe.
But somewhere in his mind he’s still scared that something might go wrong.
And that’s not all. He did invite Yuu to stay with him after all, so they’ll
probably have sex. After dating for less than two months.
Granted, they’ve met each other for longer than that, but still…
“We’re here!” Ferid sings, making Mika look up and out of the window. They’ve
parked in front of the clinic, a tall five-storey building with glass doors,
but no windows. Mika swallows down, but unbuckles his seatbelt and leaves the
car, swinging his bag over his shoulder and clutching the yellow bunny tighter
against his chest.
Ferid leaves the car with him to take him inside – he will need the
authorization of his legal guardian to have an alpha with him inside his room –
but the others all stay inside the car, and Mika is thankful for that.
Inside the clinic, the gust of cold wind from the air-conditioning makes Mika
sigh in relief. At least he won’t feel hot all over.
The whole place looks sophisticated and modern, with white and gray walls,
black furniture and a huge television occupying big part of the wall behind the
reception counter. A friendly beta woman is behind the counter, and Mika lets
Ferid do most of the talking. Mika has to sign some papers, including the one
that will authorize Yuu to enter his room when he arrives later – Ferid has to
sign this one too, consenting to let his nephew have an alpha with him there;
after all, Mika is still a minor.
After all the papers are signed, the woman gives him a card and calls another
beta, a man this time, to show Mika the room he will be staying at. Mika turns
to Ferid, taking in a nervous breath.
“Will you pick me up?” He asks, feeling a little proud of himself to see that
his voice doesn’t tremble.
“On Monday, early in the morning,” Ferid nods, watching him closely, “Will you
be alright on your own?”
Mika bites his lower lip, digging his fingers into the yellow bunny to the
point he fears he’ll rip it off. His hands are trembling a little and he has to
contain a shiver. He is more nervous than he had anticipated.
“I’ll be alright,” He says after a while, and it’s only half a lie. “And I
won’t be alone; Yuu-chan will come over later to stay with me.”
That was the part the has more nervous about. Sure, he craves Yuu’s presence
right now, and he loves how Yuu manages to calm him down so easily. But he’s
also a little scared of what’s to come now; he has no doubt that Yuu won’t do
anything if Mika asks him not to, but he also doesn’t trust his own body right
now.
He wonders if Ferid was as nervous as he is now when he had sex for the first
time – though he can’t really imagine Ferid being nervous about anything at
all.
Ferid smiles a little and pats his head.
“Don’t forget to tell Yuu-chan to use a condom,” He sings, “I don’t want you to
get pregnant too early.”
He laughs and skips away when Mika gasps and stutters, throwing the bunny at
him – he misses as Ferid dodges and waves, leaving the clinic. Mika glares at
his back before retrieving his bunny and turning his back to the entrance,
finally nodding at the man waiting for him, and following him inside the
clinic.
He is led trough an elevator to the third floor, where his room is. The halls
are silent, as all the rooms are sound-proof as well as scent-proof. At least
no one will hear us, Mika thinks with flushed cheeks.
They arrive at his room at the end of the hall; the door is simple, completely
white, but it has no knob, instead having only a space to insert a card – the
card he had been given in the reception. He inserts the card and there’s a
small, almost inaudible chime before the doors slides open.
He takes a deep breath and looks awkwardly at the beta beside him.
“No need to be nervous,” The man gives him a kind smile, “You will be safe
here. No one without this,” He points at the card in Mika’s hands, “will be
able to enter your room. Anything you need, food, more pillows or duvets, you
can ask for it through the telephone.”
Mika nods.
“Thanks,” He mumbles.
“Have a nice stay,” The man says, and Mika nods and enters the room, the door
closing on its own behind him.
Mika inhales and exhales slowly, closing his eyes for a while, trying to calm
himself down. There’s no scent in the room, and he’s a little grateful for
that. He finally opens his eyes and takes in the whole room before him – while
walls with no decoration, a small iron table on a corner with a minibar beside
it, and a huge bed on the other side of the room; there’s also a closet, and
when Mika opens it, he finds pillows, comforters and sheets.
He decides to first make his nest; at least having a nest will make him calm
down if he really ends up having sex until the end of the day. He leaves the
bag and the bunny over the table and sets to work on carrying the pillows and
comforters to the bed. He spends at least an hour making his nest, and by the
time he’s finished, he feels a little tired.
There’s a nightstand beside the bed, with only a telephone and a box containing
some suppressants and birth-control pills, as well lube, condoms and some sex
toys that make Mika blush and close the box furiously. He knows some omegas
prefer to spend their heats alone, and he wonders if they use toys like that.
All of the rooms must have those, and Mika shudders when he thinks another
person may have used that; sure, the staff probably has properly cleaned and
sterilized it before placing it back in the room, but even so…
Mika decides to ignore the box. He places his bag beside the bed and sits down,
pulling his phone and his earphones out of the bag; he sees there are a few
texts from Yuu, and he answers to them to assure him that he’s fine and that he
doesn’t need to hurry. Then he puts the earphones on and plays a random song,
grabbing his bunny and crawling under the comforters with it, trying to relax
as he waits for Yuu to come.
 
 
Yuu has never hated History as much as he does right now.
Sitting in his classroom, staring at the sheets of paper on the desk before
him, he chews at his pencil as he tries to concentrate on the words on the
paper – but all he can think about is Mika.
Is he doing okay right now? He knows he must have gone to the clinic by now. At
least he can rest assured that no one will bother him there, but still…
Almost an hour later and Yuu finally finishes his test, giving it to his
teacher with a defeated expression. He managed to answer all of the questions,
but he’s not so sure they’re correct. Mika will probably lecture him when he
receives a low grade about it.
He takes the bus home again, and he sends Mika a text on the way home, letting
him know he’ll go there very soon.
But first he has to get some clothes, if he’s going to spend some days there.
There’s nobody home when he arrives. He feeds Cerberus and then goes upstairs
to his room. He changes into some more comfortable clothes and then grabs a bag
and shoves some random clothes in it. He doesn’t know how long Mika’s heat will
last, but Shinya’s usually don’t last more than five days, so Mika’s can’t last
longer too, right?
Though, he remembers Mika has a hormonal problem, so maybe his heats will be
different from Shinya’s.
After packing his bag, he leaves the room and goes back to the living room,
where he leaves a note to Guren over the coffee table telling him where he’ll
be; he’s already warned Guren earlier sending him a text, but he figures he
must leave a note just in case.
Finally he leaves home and goes to the bus stop; while waiting for the bus, he
sees a convenience store, and after deliberating for a while he decides to go
in, sending a quick text to Mika:
 
[Is there food for us there? I could buy some snacks on my way]
 
He grabs a basket and starts roaming through the halls, looking at the shelves
and wondering what he should buy. After a while, he receives Mika’s answer:
 
[There are some fruits and frozen yogurt in the minibar. What are you going to
buy?]
 
Yuu grimaces. Typical, healthy food… He shakes his head and types:
 
[How does some chocolate sounds? :D]
 
He sends it and looks back at the shelves, at some brands of chocolate. He
doesn’t know Mika’s favorite brand, but he knows omegas like sweet food.
Finally he chooses two bars of chocolate with nuts and one small box of
chocolate cookies. Then he walks further into the store to the hall of snacks,
and grabs some potato chips.
He knows the clinic will probably provide them food if they ask for it, but he
doesn’t want to spend days eating only healthy, sugar-free food or something.
He also grabs two cans of Pepsi, though he knows Mika will probably scold him
for that; he smiles a little at the thought.
After making sure he has everything, he finally makes his way to the check-out
counter; as the cashier is checking out his things, Yuu’s eyes land on the
condoms on the counter; he hesitates a little before grabbing some and adding
it to his things. The cashier doesn’t even blink, but Yuu feels his cheeks
heating up. He pays for his purchase and leaves the store trying not to run.
When he arrives at the bus stop, he sees his bus already there, and he runs to
hop on it. Once he’s seated, he sends Mika a text saying he’s on his way. Then
he stays quiet the rest of the way, occasionally scrolling through his social
networks now and then.
When he finally arrives at the clinic, he starts to feel a little nervous; it
finally dawns on him that he’s there to spend a heat with Mika – and probably
have sex with him too. He takes many deep breaths before entering the clinic.
The beta behind the counter narrows her eyes slightly at him, and he doesn’t
blame her. What would an alpha be doing in a heat clinic, anyways?
He wonders if some alpha ever tried to break into that clinic. Probably.
There’s always an idiot to try.
He approaches the counter nervously.
“Uhm… I…” Yuu stutters. He has never been to a clinic like this, so what is he
supposed to say? The woman’s blank face doesn’t help... He clears his throat
and says timidly, “I’m here to be with my boyfriend during his heat… His name
is Mikaela Shindo. He must have arrived earlier this morning.”
The woman nods and types away in her computer, saying with her eyes still on
the screen:
“Are you Yuuichirou Amane?”
He nods nervously and digs through his bag to pull out his ID, handing it to
her. She types into her computer for a while before giving Yuu his ID back and
calling another beta, a man this time.
“Mr. Shindo is in room 309, on the third floor,” The woman tells him, “I will
call him right away to warn of your arrival. Hiro will show you the way.”
The way she says that sounds to Yuu like they don’t want to leave him, an
alpha, walking around alone. He doesn’t blame them; they have a lot of omegas
to take care of in this place. And some alphas really can’t be trusted near
omegas, especially omegas in heat.
He turns to the beta, Hiro, and follows him further into the clinic. They take
the elevator to the third floor and walk down a hall in silence. Once they
arrive at the room, Yuu sees there’s no door knob, only what looks like a space
to insert a card.
“Uhm…” He looks at Hiro, who just silently pushes a small button by the door’s
side. A doorbell?
He doesn’t hear a sound, though. But a few seconds later, the door slides open,
revealing Mika in sweatpants and a loose T-shirt, his hair disheveled as if he
had just gotten up from bed. He smiles at Yuu and then nods at Hiro.
“Thank you for bringing him here,” He says, and Hiro nods politely.
“Call if you need anything.” Like kicking the alpha off your room, the rest
goes implicit.
Yuu enters the room and the doors slides closed behind him.
“They are very wary of alphas here, aren’t they?” Yuu mumbles, and Mika
chuckles.
“They are,” He agrees, “What kind of chocolate did you bring?”
They sit on the huge bed on the other side of the room and Yuu pulls out all of
the chocolates and potato ships he bought.
“Pepsi, Yuu-chan?” Mika says exasperated when he sees the cans, “Really? You
know you can’t drink those.”
“… Sorry?” He scratches the back of his neck and gives Mika a tentative smile.
Mika shakes his head but smiles back.
“You should put them on the fridge,” He says with a sigh, falling on his back
on the bed and curling up around a pillow. Yuu nods and stands up, grabbing all
of their snacks.
There’s a table on a corner with a minibar beside it. Yuu opens the minibar,
finding some fruits and yogurt stocked there. He grimaces at them and pushes
them to the side, putting the chocolates and the Pepsi cans there; he leaves
the potato chips on the table though.
When he goes back to the bed, Mika has buried himself under the comforters and
is typing something on his phone. Yuu notices he’s clutching a yellow bunny
that looks very familiar…
Then he remembers. It’s the bunny he gave him. He smiles as he sits down by his
side.
“I can’t believe you brought this with you,” He says.
Mika looks at the bunny and blushes a little.
“I felt a little lonely this morning,” He mumbles, and Yuu nods understanding.
For an omega, spending a heat alone must be quite distressing.
They fall in an awkward silence for a while. Yuu tries to distract himself by
taking off his shoes to lay in the bed with Mika, and Mika immediately curls up
on him, laying his head on his chest.
“How was your test?” Mika finally asks after a while, and Yuu grimaces. Mika
sighs when he sees his face. “I told you, you didn’t need to make it in a
hurry.”
“I know,” Yuu mutters, “I just… Couldn’t concentrate on it.”
More silence follows his words. Mika buries his face in Yuu’s neck, nuzzling
the skin and scent-marking him again. Yuu smiles a little, bringing a hand up
to thread his fingers through Mika’s hair.
“Mika…?” He says after a while, and Mika hums to let him know he’s listening.
“Will you really… Want to have sex with me?”
Mika tenses up in his arms. A few seconds later, he pulls away to stare at him
timidly.
“I… think so?”
Yuu frowns at that.
“Mika…” He sighs, “You don’t have to force yourself to do this, you know. If
you just want me to be here by your side, without doing anything, I’m fine with
it. As I said, you don’t have to do anything you’re not comfortable with.”
“I know it…” Mika bites his lower lip and sits up, clutching his yellow bunny
against his chest and resting his chin on its head. “I just… I want to try to
do it with you, but…” He looks up timidly at Yuu, “I’m nervous.”
Oh.
Yuu smiles and then snuggles closer to Mika, hugging him and nuzzling into his
neck, leaving his own scent there; Mika sighs and tilts his head to the side,
giving him more space.
“I’m nervous too,” Yuu admits, his breath on Mika’s skin making the omega
shiver slightly, “We don’t have to do it now, you know. I mean, we could just
sleep for a while and… Do it later.”
Mika hums, reflecting about it.
“Sleep sounds good,” He finally agrees.
Yuu pulls away smiling at him, and leans in to give him a soft, gentle kiss.
They lay back on the bed cuddling close to each other, with the yellow bunny
crushed between them. The room falls silent, the only sounds being their
breaths and the quiet hum of the air-conditioning.
Mika is the first to fall asleep, lulled to sleep with Yuu caressing his hair
gently. Yuu stays awake a little more before his eyes start to feel heavy; he
closes them, his breath slowing down and his mind finally shutting down.
 
 
Mika wakes up with a soft moan. His body feels hot and sweaty despite the air-
conditioning. He presses against Yuu, whimpering against his skin and then – he
gasps, his eyes opening wide open when he realizes he’s hard, his erection
pressing just against Yuu’s thigh.
He presses his lips together and pulls away just enough to look at Yuu, seeing
he’s still sleeping. He feels for his cell phone, grabbing it to check the time
– it’s almost six thirty, which means it’s time to take his suppressants again.
Biting his lips to stop himself from making any kind of noise, he slowly pushes
himself away from Yuu and sits up. When he tries to leave the bed, though, he
hears Yuu groan.
“Mika?” He mumbles, and Mika turns to see him rubbing his eyes. They stare at
each other as Yuu finally takes in his scent, and his pupils dilate
immediately.
“… I need my suppressants,” Mika finally says, breaking the awkward silence.
“… Oh. Ok.” Yuu blushes and sits up too, moving to get out of Mika’s way.
Mika moves past him, reaching for his bag to grab his suppressants. He swallows
down a pill and leaves the bottle on the nightstand before falling back down on
the bed, whimpering.
Yuu leans in to hover over Mika’s face, smiling gently.
“Are you okay?” He whispers, reaching out to push his hair away from his face;
his touch feels like it burns Mika’s already heated skin, and he blushes.
“I’ll be in a few minutes,” He says, and, after a while, adds, “I’m hungry.”
Yuu laughs and gives him a small peck on the lips.
“I’ll get you something to eat.”
Mika nods and watches as Yuu gets up to go get him an apple from the minibar.
Mika accepts the apple, eating it slowly to not upset his stomach; he had eaten
only a banana and a pear at lunch time, before Yuu arrived. As he chews, he
absently wonders if he should call to the reception for someone to bring him
some real meal.
He feels Yuu’s eyes on him, but Yuu doesn’t say a thing, merely watching him as
he eats. Once he finishes his apple, Yuu asks:
“Better?”
Mika nods, looking up hesitant.
“Will we… do it now?”
Yuu tilts his head to the side, confused for a moment, before his eyes widen in
understanding.
“Oh…” He breathes, scratching the back of his head, “If you want it…”
They look at each other, the awkward moment extending for a few more seconds
before both break down laughing loudly.
“S-Sorry,” Yuu hiccups, wiping away tears from the corners of his eyes and
trying to suppress his laughter, “It’s just…”
“We’re both nervous,” Mika agrees with a chuckle, nodding and taking a deep
breath, smiling embarrassed at him. “I really… Want to try it, Yuu-chan. I
just… I’m so nervous I feel like I’ll have a heart attack.”
“To be honest, me too,” Yuu sighs and then crawls to him, hugging him gently
and hiding his face on Mika’s neck. He mutters against Mika’s skin, “I want to
make this special for you.”
Mika inhales deeply, feeling his face warm up and his heart skip a beat.
Special… It’s just sex – or that’s what Mika has been thinking until now, but
hearing Yuu saying that… I want it to be special too, he realizes.
He hugs Yuu back, burying his face in his hair. His body still burns, demanding
more, but he forces himself to calm down. He isn’t going to act like a wild
animal during his first time having sex. Yuu wants to make it special for him,
so he will try and make it special for Yuu too – because even if it isn’t Yuu’s
first time, it is their first time together.
Maybe it is silly of him to want it to be something special; it’s just sex,
after all. But Mika feels that he wants it to mean something for them.
“Mika…?” Yuu asks, trying to pull away to stare at him, but Mika hugs him
tighter, refusing to let go.
“I love you,” He breathes against Yuu’s neck, and only then he pulls away,
looking at him in the eyes. “I love you… And I want it to be special for us
too.”
Yuu’s eyes widen in wonder, and the smile he gives Mika is enough to make his
heart pound inside his chest. Mika feels his whole body heating up, but he
knows this time it has nothing to do with his heat – it’s not a raw, primitive
desire for an alpha, any alpha, but a desire for this specific boy in front of
him, this one he loves so much he feels ready to give himself to him
completely.
“I love you too,” Yuu whispers with tears in his eyes, before leaning in to
capture his lips in another kiss – soft and gentle at first, just testing the
waters.
Mika immediately melts down against him, whimpering as he presses against his
body for more contact. His heart is beating so loud he wonders for a fleeting
moment if Yuu can hear it too – and then Yuu pokes out his tongue to lick his
lips, and Mika’s mind goes blank as he opens his mouth to allow him entrance.
Mika whimpers, the sound muffled as Yuu’s tongue tangle with his, stimulating
him to move along.
Yuu tentatively starts roaming his hands down Mika’s sides and then sneaks them
underneath his shirt, caressing his heated skin and making Mika arch against
him.
“Y-Yuu-chan,” He gasps, pulling away enough to look at him, his cheeks flushed
red and his pupils dilated. Yuu’s fingers burn every single inch of skin they
touch, and Mika pants hotly, feeling something wet between his thighs – his
slick, he realizes, blushing.
He is distracted from that when Yuu tugs at the bottom of his shirt, looking
hesitantly at him.
“Can I?” He asks, and Mika nods eagerly; he feels too hot to be wearing any
kind of clothes anyway.
Yuu starts to pull Mika’s shirt off, until Mika gets impatient and tries to do
it himself, only to whimper in embarrassment when his arms get tangled in the
shirt. Yuu muffles a chuckle behind his hand, and Mika glares at him for
laughing.
“Don’t need to hurry,” Yuu breathes, gently helping Mika to untangle his arms
and undress the shirt, throwing it to the side as soon as it’s off. He presses
light kisses to Mika’s lips, slowing down his movements, and repeats against
his lips, “We don’t need to hurry.”
“… Sorry,” Mika whispers, embarrassed. He hides his face in Yuu’s neck,
suddenly feeling too shy to even look at him. Yuu’s hands stop at his hips, his
thumbs slowly caressing his skin in small circles, making him shiver slightly.
He clutches at Yuu’s shirt, frowning, “You… You should take this off too.”
Yuu chuckles, but complies – he gently pulls Mika away, never breaking eye-
contact as he undresses his shirt, his movements slow but swift, and Mika feels
embarrassed again when he thinks of how he managed to tangle his own arms in
his shirt. I probably looked like an idiot.
“Hey… You okay?” Yuu asks as he discards his shirt, watching him with anxiety.
His cheeks are red too and his hair is a mess, and Mika feels his body growing
hotter at the sight.
“I’m fine,” He says, and hesitates before adding timidly, “I… Just don’t know
what to do.”
Yuu smiles and approaches him – Mika slowly lays back down, allowing Yuu to
crawl over him, his face hovering over his, his breath hot on Mika’s skin.
“Just follow your instincts,” Yuu whispers, nuzzling his nose against Mika’s,
and then staring at him very serious, “And… If you ever want to stop… Just tell
me and I will stop. If you’re uncomfortable with anything…”
Mika nods, not trusting his own voice. He feels grateful for that – for having
a way out if he decides to back down. Though he doesn’t think he will back down
now, not when he feels so hard already, it’s still nice to know Yuu will
respect him if he decides to stop.
He wraps his arms around Yuu’s shoulders, pulling him down for another kiss,
this time soft and gentle. Yuu settles between Mika’s legs, and Mika spreads
them further apart to accommodate him better; when Yuu slowly rocks his hips
against his, Mika arches into him, a low moan escaping his lips and more slick
pouring between his thighs, dampening his pants. Yuu is as hard as him, and he
continuously grinds against him as he slowly kisses his way down Mika’s body,
nipping and sucking at every patch of skin, leaving faint pink marks all over
his neck and collarbones.
Mika closes his eyes, trying to control his breath – in and out, in and out,
slowly, slowly – but then Yuu’s tongue flicker over a nipple and he gasps,
mewling loudly and arching into Yuu’s mouth. Yuu sucks softly on his bud until
it stands stiff, the skin around all red, and then he moves to repeat the same
actions on the other nipple. Mika pants hotly, reaching out to tangle his
fingers in Yuu’s hair and tugging slightly when he feels Yuu’s teeth graze over
his nipple.
“Y-Yuu… Hnn…”
Yuu looks up slightly, feeling rather proud of himself when he sees how worked
up Mika already is, and they have barely started. He keeps kissing his way down
Mika’s body, leaving sloppy kisses all over his stomach and nipping at his
hipbones.
 “Can I…?” He asks breathily as he wraps his fingers on the waistband of Mika’s
sweatpants, and he looks up again at Mika as the boy breathes in and nods.
“Yeah… Go on…”
Yuu slowly pulls the sweatpants down and Mika looks away, suddenly feeling very
self-conscious – he isn’t wearing any underwear; they were making him
uncomfortable, and they would get dirty with slick anyway, so he decided he
didn’t need them.
“Mika?” He reluctantly looks back at Yuu, and the alpha caresses his thighs,
trying to soothe him, “Do you want to stop?”
Mika hesitates, but shakes his head.
“I’m just embarrassed,” He admits, and after a while, adds, “You too… Should
take your clothes off.”
Yuu nods with a chuckle, sitting back to unbutton his own jeans and take them
off, along with his boxers. His eyes are on Mika the whole time, and Mika
fights the urge to cover himself with his hands. It’s just Yuu-chan, he tells
himself, trying to keep calm, I don’t need to be ashamed with him.
Easier said than done, though. Once they’re both fully naked, Mika feels even
more nervous – because now it seems more real than ever. We’re really doing
this.
He tries to take deep breaths, and Yuu must have noticed how anxious he is
because he stops and crawls over his body again, bumping their noses together.
“Are you alright?” He breathes, looking carefully at the omega.
Mika bites his lips, but nods. Yuu narrows his eyes, but before he can say
anything, Mika blurts out:
“Really, Yuu-chan I’m fine,” He forces himself to stare at Yuu instead of
averting his eyes like he wants to – it’s Yuu-chan, I trust him. “Please, let’s
just… Go on before I have an anxiety attack or something.”
Yuu frowns, reaching a hand to tuck a strand of blond hair behind Mika’s ear.
“Mika, do you really want to do this? Won’t you regret it later?”
“… I don’t know if I’ll ever regret this,” Mika admits, “But, to be honest… I
usually regret only the things I didn’t do rather than the things I did. And…”
He smiles gently and reaches up, cupping Yuu’s cheeks, “Until today I have
never, ever regretted anything I did with you, and I don’t think I ever will.”
He chuckles at Yuu’s mesmerized look, “Now, will you make love to me now or do
I have to take matters in my own hands?”
“Actually, I would love to see you taking the lead,” Yuu admits with a chuckle,
“Being the one leading it is kinda scary.”
Mika gives him a tiny smile, biting his lower lip. He is tempted to do it, to
take the lead – but he’s never had sex before, and he’s too nervous to do it
now.
However, he is also curious to know how it would be like to be the one in
control.
“The next time, then, I’ll do it,” He whispers.
“Sounds good,” Yuu agrees before leaning down to kiss him again.
This time, when Yuu grinds his hips down, Mika throws his head back and moans
loudly when their erections rub together, the friction making him feel like
fire is cursing through his whole body. He spreads his legs even further apart,
slick pouring down from him and dampening the sheets beneath them. Yuu’s body
presses against his, but the weight doesn’t seem uncomfortable – rather, it
feels good, and Mika knows part of this is his instincts claiming for an alpha
now.
Well, he supposes he can give in to his instincts just a little bit. It’s Yuu-
chan, after all.
Yuu pulls away panting hotly, his whole face flushed and his eyes hazy with
lust. He sits back and looks around a little disoriented, and Mika frowns.
“What… What’s wrong?” He pants.
“Condoms,” Yuu says, finally spotting his bag over the table – across the room;
he groans at the thought of having to leave the bed and Mika’s warmth, even if
it’s just for a few seconds.
“There’s some in that box,” Mika says quietly, pointing to the box over the
nightstand. Yuu blinks for a while and then sighs relieved.
“I had bought some earlier,” He admits as he shifts, reaching for the box,
“But… Well, whatever.” He simply shrugs and opens his box.
Mika knows when Yuu spots the sex toys because his eyes widen and his face
becomes even redder, if that’s even possible. He himself blushes, swallowing
thickly and waiting for some kind of comment, but Yuu doesn’t say anything – he
simple fishes a condom out of the box and sets it on a pillow next to Mika’s
head, before closing the box again and putting it back over the nightstand.
“Yuu-chan?” Mika asks half concerned and half amused.
“They really are prepared for everything here, aren’t they?” Yuu laughs
nervously, and Mika smiles and rolls his eyes, pulling him down for another
kiss.
As their lips move languidly together, Yuu’s warm hands caress Mika’s thighs,
and the omega shivers. Yuu pulls away slightly, looking at him as if searching
for any hint of hesitation in his face; when he finds none, he slowly kisses
his way down Mika’s body. His eyes watch Mika carefully as he wraps his lips
around Mika’s length.
Mika’s breath hitches, and he bites down on his closed fist to muffle a loud
moan as Yuu sucks on his cock. His mouth is warm and wet around his flesh, and
he licks on all the right spots before sucking him inside his mouth, taking as
much as he can without chocking. Yuu watches him all along, paying close
attention to how wrecked Mika looks and sounds now. When he deems Mika
distracted enough, he brings a hand to his rear, circling a finger around his
entrance.
Mika tenses up for a while before relaxing again, whimpering against his hand.
Yuu pulls away slightly to pant:
“Don’t… Don’t hold your voice,” He sounds as wrecked as the omega, his voice
rough and breathy. “I want to hear you.”
Mika swallows thickly, hesitating before pulling his hand away from his mouth,
letting it drop beside his head; he fists the pillow beneath him and bites his
lips, groaning as Yuu resumes his ministrations.
“Y-Yuu-chan…” He whimpers, looking down at Yuu through wet eyelashes. Yuu
stares at him as he licks his cock from the base from the tip, eliciting a long
moan from the omega. At the same time, he inserts a finger inside him, stopping
to let Mika get used to the feeling before slowly moving in and out.
He’s thankful that omegas self-lubricate, because he totally forgot about lube.
If he was doing this with a beta, they would have to stop there otherwise he
would end up hurting the other – though, he thinks, he saw some lube inside the
weird box on the nightstand; maybe some omegas still like to use lube, even
with their slick?
After a while, he inserts a second finger inside of Mika, paying attention to
not make him uncomfortable. But Mika moans and jerks his hips, rolling them to
get Yuu’s fingers further inside.
Yuu smiles a little against the skin of Mika’s thigh; he’s glad to see Mika
likes this. He had been so nervous earlier, but now he just looks like he’s
enjoying himself. Seeing Mika feel so good because of what he is doing – it’s
the best feeling ever, even better than any kind of sexual pleasure he could
ever feel.
Mika’s eyes, that had been screwed shut, open up and stare back at him, the
blue in them darkened with lust. Yuu licks his lips absent-mindedly, nuzzling
Mika’s thigh before biting gently on the flesh – Mika meowls softly, his chest
rising and falling with his rapid breaths.
“Yuu-chan!” He complains with a pout, making Yuu smile slightly.
“Sorry.”
“No, you’re not,” Mika pokes out his tongue at him, only to throw his head back
and moan loudly when Yuu leans down and takes his length inside his mouth
again, sucking thoroughly on it. Mika’s hands fly to Yuu’s hair, gripping his
black strands but without tugging at it, as if he needs to hold onto something
to ground himself.
Yuu hums, closing his eyes as he works a third finger inside of Mika. He
resists the temptation to reach down and jerk himself off, despite how hard he
is, knowing he won’t last long if he does that – and he wants this to last as
long as possible. Instead, he places his free hand on Mika’s thigh, gently
caressing him as he works his fingers in and out of him, scissoring them and
stretching him carefully.
He can see Mika is getting impatient by the insistent movements of his hips,
and Yuu himself is feeling a little impatient – but this is Mika’s first time
doing this, and he knows it will hurt if he isn’t careful. So he keeps on
stretching him – he curls his fingers and slightly twists his wrist, and Mika’s
breath hitches again – his hips jerk upwards and he lets out the loudest moan
until now, tugging harshly at Yuu’s hair as he arches his back off the bed.
Yuu pulls away from his cock, whimpering at the pain in his scalp – Mika makes
a small confused sound before letting go of his hair.
“Yuu-chan… Oh my, sorry! I didn’t…”
“It’s okay…” Yuu rubs the top of his head and sighs, before smirking at him,
“Was it that good?”
Mika blushes.
“I will pull your hair again.”
“I will bite your dick next time.”
Mika narrows his eyes at him, and Yuu presses his lips together, trying not to
laugh.
“Do you want to get bald? Because I’ll rip off all of your hair if you do
that.”
They stare at each other for long seconds before breaking down laughing again –
Mika falls back on the bed and throws his head to the side, burying his face on
the pillow as he laughs uncontrollably, and Yuu presses his lips against Mika’s
thigh, his shoulders trembling as he tries to control his laughter.
“Are we seriously arguing while you have your fingers up my ass?” Mika chuckles
after a while, and this elicits another round of laughter from Yuu.
“Now that you put it like this…” He shakes his head and laughs again before
sighing. “… Ah, sorry… I wanted to make this special for you but now it’s
just…”
“It’s okay,” Mika smiled gently at him, “It is special enough for me like this.
I like things like this, just you and me being ourselves.”
“Mm, I think you’re right,” Yuu hums, kissing his thigh as he wriggles his
fingers inside of Mika, pressing his digits against his prostate again, making
the omega shudder and roll his hips down on his fingers, mewling softly. “Are
you okay? You don’t feel uncomfortable or anything?”
Mika shakes his head, sighing contently and clutching the sheets under him, his
insides clenching down on Yuu’s fingers.
“It… It feels good…” He’s embarrassed to admit it, but he looks into Yuu’s eyes
as he speaks, and the look of relief and pride in Yuu’s eyes almost make him
chuckle. He’s trying so hard…
Yuu pulls his fingers out, and Mika suppresses a whine of complaint. He takes a
deep breath as Yuu crawls over him, leaning in to press their foreheads
together, his hands gently gripping his thighs and spreading them apart as he
lines his length to his entrance.
“You’re sure of this?” Yuu breathes against his lips, “If you want to stop now,
it’s o–”
“Yuu-chan,” Mika interrupts him, cupping his cheeks and pulling him down to
long, passionate kiss before pulling away to pant, “Just… Go ahead.”
Yuu chuckles breathily and nods, pressing a soft kiss to his lips.
“Alright...”
Mika closes his eyes when he feels the tip of Yuu’s length press against his
entrance – relax, he tells himself, breathing in to calm himself. He feels
Yuu’s lips leaving soft, sloppy kisses all over his face – the corners of his
lips, his jaw, his cheeks, his nose, his closed eyelids – and he smiles,
knowing Yuu is trying to calm him down too.
Slowly, Yuu pushes in, and Mika inhales sharply, gripping Yuu’s hair and hiding
his face in the crook of Yuu’s neck, inhaling his scent to calm himself down.
It doesn’t hurt, but the stretch burns a little and the unfamiliar pressure is
slightly uncomfortable. Yuu notices, and stops once he’s all the way in, softy
caressing his thighs.
“Are you okay?” Yuu asks in a whisper, “Do you want to stop?”
Despite everything, Mika snorts and pulls back to raise his eyebrows at Yuu.
“Do you seriously want to stop now that you’re all the way in?”
Yuu blushes, biting his lower lip – Mika automatically licks his own lips,
curling his fingers on Yuu’s hair.
“I mean… I don’t want to, but I could…”
“Yuu-chan,” Mika sighs, interrupting him, “I’m fine, okay? Just… Give me a
minute to… Adjust to this.”
Yuu smiles and nods, softly kissing him before trailing his lips down Mika’s
neck, nuzzling and nipping at the skin there; Mika’s scent is inebriating, and
now it is completely mixed with his own scent – and somehow Yuu feels proud of
himself for that. The possessive part of him wants to mark Mika all over, to
the point where he smells only of him so everybody else will know who his mate
is.
Yuu wonders what Mika would think of that – if he would like it or if he would
find it creepy.
He is distracted from his thoughts when Mika tugs at his hair, softly nipping
at his shoulder.
“Yuu-chan…?”
“Mm?” He kisses his way up Mika’s neck until his ear, nibbling at his earlobe.
Mika shivers, his grip on Yuu’s hair tightening slightly.
“M-Move…” He whispers.
Yuu peeks at him before kissing the skin just below his ear.
“Alright,” He breathes, pulling his hips back before thrusting in again slowly,
trying to set a slow pace.
Mika whimpers and moans, hiding his face in Yuu’s neck again; Yuu feels him
pressing sloppy, wet kisses all over the skin of his neck. Yuu slides his hands
over Mika’s thighs and up his body, placing them on his hips and gripping
slightly. Mika is warm and tight inside, clenching down on him every time he
draws his hips back, as if wanting to keep him inside – and, God, Yuu never
wants to leave. Especially when Mika’s moans start to get louder, and he starts
letting out a string of incoherent sentences – broken words mixed together,
pleas of more and faster, and his own name constantly leaving his lips like a
prayer.
They are both a sweaty mess by now, and Yuu’s thrusts make an obscene squelch
noise because of both Mika’s slick and his own pre-cum. Mika slides his hands
from Yuu’s hair to his shoulders, digging his nails there when a particularly
hard thrust hits his prostate dead on – he throws his head back and moans
loudly, raking his nails down Yuu’s back. Yuu hisses, but thrusts again in the
same spot, only to hear Mika meowl loudly and arch off the bed under him.
He’s so gorgeous, Yuu thinks absent-mindedly, leaning down to capture Mika’s
lips in a heated kiss, their lips molding together as if they were made for
each other.
Yuu slides his hands up Mika’s body, lightly scratching his sides and watching
as Mika moans louder and louder, scratching his back as if in retaliation. His
hips roll down against Yuu’s and he locks his legs around Yuu’s waist, taking
him even deeper inside himself.
“Yuu-chan…” He pants after a while, his eyes wet with unshed tears of pleasure,
his cheeks flushed and his lips red and swollen from all the kissing – he is
the most beautiful creature Yuu has ever seen, and he finds himself falling
even more for him.
“Y-Yeah?” Yuu gasps, gripping Mika’s hips as he drives in faster.
“I-I won’t last much longer,” Mika bites his lips, his eyes hazy with lust.
“Oh…” Yuu chuckles, leaning his forehead against Mika’s, and admitting, “Me
too…”
He would be very content to stay inside of Mika forever because it was the best
feeling in the world for him – but he can feel his climax approaching, and he
knows he won’t be able to hold back much longer.
“Can I…?” He gasps, closing his eyes for a moment before continuing, “Can I
knot you?”
Mika’s eyes widen, but he catches himself nodding, whimpering, “Yes, yes,
please…” His voice breaks, turning into a loud moan as he arches off the bed
again, wrapping his arms around Yuu’s shoulders and holding him close.
A few more thrusts and Mika comes with a soft cry, painting their stomachs
white with his cum. Then he lays on the bed panting, his chest rising and
falling with every rapid breath, watching as Yuu groans and whimpers over him,
leaning in to bite on his shoulder – Mika hugs him protectively, shutting his
eyes close and whimpering too, curling his fingers in Yuu’s hair – then Yuu
comes too, seating himself deep inside of Mika as his knot swells and ties them
together.
They lay together in silence after that, the only sound being of their loud
pants as they try to normalize their breaths. Yuu shifts them to their side
gently, hiking Mika’s legs around his waist and hiding his face in the crook of
Mika’s neck, inhaling his scent of sweat and sex. Mika curls up around him,
hugging him tight and closing his eyes, looking like he’s about to fall asleep.
Yuu chuckles, reaching blindly to caress his hair – his hand lands on the
pillow instead, and his fingers poke at something.
He frowns, grabbing the small plastic square and bringing it to his sight –
then his eyes widen when he realizes what it is.
“Mika, please don’t panic,” He says in a strangled voice, and Mika frowns,
looking up confused.
“What’s wrong?” Mika asks, his voice hoarse and sleepy.
“I… I forgot the condom.”
There’s a long silence that follow his words. Yuu expected Mika to panic or
something – but all Mika does is blink at him, before sighing defeated and
shake his head.
“Yuu-chan…”
“I’m… I’m sorry!”
“I don’t know what to even to with you anymore,” Mika hides his face in Yuu’s
chest again.
“… Aren’t you mad?” Yuu asks confused, setting the condom down on the bed again
to hug Mika back.
“I am,” Mika grunts, looking up at him with a glare, “But… There are birth
control pills in that box, so I won’t stress myself over this for now. I’m too
tired and want to sleep.”
“Oh…” Yuu makes, blushing, “Ok…”
After a few seconds, though, Mika chuckles and looks at him again.
“Were you already scared of becoming a parent so soon, Yuu-chan?”
Yuu averts his eyes, frowning.
“Well, of course,” He mumbles, embarrassed, “Aren’t you too?”
Mika hums, shrugging.
“A little,” He admits, “But if it happens, it happens, right? We’ll deal with
it then.” He looks up almost timidly, “Wouldn’t you want… To have a child with
me?”
“Of course I want!” Yuu answers almost immediately, calming down a second
later, “But… Not now.”
“Not now,” Mika agrees, nodding. Then he yawns and makes himself comfortable
against Yuu again. “I’m gonna sleep a little,” He mumbles, “Wake me up later to
take a bath, I’m feeling gross.”
Yuu chuckles and kisses his forehead.
“Alright,” He whispers, smiling as he watches Mika fall asleep almost
immediately.
 
Chapter End Notes
     Yuu is a dork tbh lol
     don't worry, there won't be any mikayuu mpreg in this lol
     Fun fact: the one who forgot about the condoms was I lol I was
     already in the middle of the Smut when I realized I hadn't written
     Yuu putting the condom on, and I got too lazy to go back and rewrite
     it, so it ended up like this xD poor Yuu-chan ends up being blames bc
     the author is an air-head :')
     Anyway lol
     I'm sorry for taking so long! My cousin decided to spend the last
     weekend (when I was going to write :'D) here with her boyfriend and I
     was unable to write anything like that... And when they finally left,
     my father finally gave me a new computer so I spent like two days
     transferring my data from my old computer to the new and installing
     my programs and etc... To sum it all up, it was A Mess lol
     I hope you enjoyed this messy smut :'D I found it way too hard to
     write ;w; but I had fun in the end lmao
     I'll try to update the next sooner! ^w^
     Don't forget to leave your comments, and see you next chapter~
***** Chapter 23 *****
Chapter Summary
     There isn’t much for them to do in there, aside from talking, playing
     games – and making love, of course. Yuu tries not to push Mika too
     much, but he finds out the omega is as thirsty for this as him,
     though he wonders if it’s just his heat talking – will he still want
     to do it after his heat is over? Yuu doesn’t want to be rude and ask;
     if it happens, it happens.
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
 
Yuu ends up dozing off for a while too, and when he wakes up his knot has
already deflated, so he gently pulls off of Mika, watching him carefully when
he whimpers and curls close to him in his sleep.
Yuu leaves the bed as quietly as he can, stretching and yawning once he’s on
his feet. He makes his way to the bathroom, wanting to prepare a warm bath for
Mika, but there’s no bathtub in the bathroom, only a shower. He sighs, but
decides it’s best not to complain.
He makes his way back to the bedroom, stopping to pick his cellphone from his
bag before going back to the bed, sitting by Mika’s side. He reaches a hand to
softly caress Mika’s hair, smiling when Mika hums in his sleep and
unconsciously leans into his touch. As he continues to caress Mika’s hair, he
unlocks his cellphone to check the time; it’s almost 10 p.m. now. He answers a
few texts from Guren before locking his phone again and setting it on the
nightstand, turning his attention back to Mika.
“Mika?” He whispers, “Babe? Hey, wake up.”
Slowly, lazily, Mika blinks his eyes open, staring up hazily at him.
“Yuu-chan?” He mutters sleepy.
“It’s almost ten now,” Yuu says softly, “Let’s go take a bath? We can go back
to sleep later.”
Mika nods but all he does is climb on Yuu’s lap, wrapping his arms around his
neck.
“Carry me,” He demands. Yuu raises his eyebrows, but ends up laughing.
“Alright.”
Yuu carefully carries Mika into the bathroom, entering the shower with him and
only then setting him down on the ground. Mika places his hands on Yuu’s
shoulders to support himself since he’s still a little dizzy from sleep – and
then yelps when Yuu turns on the shower and cold water falls down on them.
“Sorry!” Yuu says, though he’s chuckling. Mika glares at him and kicks him
playfullly in the shin, making him whimper. “Mikaaa…”
“Silly,” Mika pokes out his tongue at him before reaching for the knobs to
adjust the temperature of the water, sighing contently when it becomes warmer.
“Sorry…” Yuu repeats, still smiling a little.
Mika pouts, but chuckles when Yuu reaches out to ruffle his hair with both
hands, further dampening the blond strands.
Mika had never bathed with anyone, but he finds he’s not as embarrassed as he
thought he would be. Maybe because he and Yuu have already been as intimate as
they could be with each other, so now a shower together doesn’t intimidate him
anymore.
They wash each other’s back, Yuu’s touch now soft and soothing on Mika’s sore
muscles. He enjoys how attentive and caring Yuu is being now, playfully kissing
his shoulders every now and then. They don’t go further than kisses now,
though, and Mika is grateful for that; he is tired and hungry and definitely
not in the mood for sex – no matter how good it was the first time.
After they finish their shower and dry themselves, they dress up again – Mika
stealing Yuu’s long-sleeved shirt for himself.
“It’s an unspoken rule that after sex one must wear the shirt of the other,”
Mika says with a serious face despite how much he wants to laughs, and he
smiles a little at how Yuu rolls his eyes but chuckles. In protest, Yuu grabs
for himself one of the button-up shirts that Mika had brought in his bag, along
with his shorts. Mika tries not to stare too much, despite how good Yuu’s legs
look.
“I’m hungry,” He complains instead, and Yuu laughs. “Don’t laugh at me! Go
order us some dinner.”
“Order dinner?”
Mika points at the interphone on the wall beside the door that Yuu hadn’t
noticed before.
“They said we just have to call and ask for food,” Mika says, “Apparently, it’s
included in the whole service.”
“Alright,” Yuu walks to the door to grab the phone.
Mika watches him for a while before sitting on the bed. He still has a towel
over his hair, and he’s wearing only boxers and Yuu’s shirt. He sits cross-
legged, absently rubbing the towel on his hair to dry it when his eyes wander
to the box on the nightstand, and he suddenly remembers how Yuu forgot to use a
condom.
Right, I have to take a birth-control pill.
He reaches for the box, dropping the towel around his shoulders, and fishes one
of the pills. Standing up, the walks to the minibar to grab some water and
swallows down the pill with it, hoping it will work.
“They said they’ll bring our dinner in thirty minutes,” Yuu says, hanging up
the phone and turning to Mika.
“Then we have thirty minutes of doing nothing till there,” Mika sighs, leaning
against Yuu when he approaches him. “What should we do?”
“Hmm…” Yuu wraps his arms around Mika’s waist, “We could go lay down and cuddle
for a while?”
“Sounds good,” Mika hums in agreement, “But first we need to change those
sheets.”
Yuu tilts his head to the side, confused.
“What’s wrong with the sheets?”
“They’re dirty,” Mika says as if it’s obvious, “I refuse to lie down on those
sheets again.”
Yuu blinks at him before shaking his head, smiling amused.
“Alright,” He concedes.
They have to take all of the pillows off the bed to change the sheets, and
while Yuu helps Mika with that, when it’s time to put on the clean sheets and
rearrange the pillows, Mika insists on doing it on himself. Yuu doesn’t insist
much, knowing omegas like to do their nests by themselves.
While they do that, they find Mika’s bunny on the ground next to the bed.
“Oh,” Yuu mutters, picking it up, “It must have fell when we…” He trails off,
blushing slightly. Mika blushes too, grabbing the bunny from Yuu and clutching
it close to his chest.
“Let’s not keep it on the bed then,” He suggests, walking to the minibar and
putting the bunny sitting over it.
“It’s staring at us,” Yuu complains, pouting when Mika chuckles.
When all of the pillows are piled on the bed, Mika finally drags him to the bed
and they snuggle close together. He chuckles when Yuu nuzzles his neck, the
alpha's hot breath tickling his skin.
"Are you okay?" Yuu mumbles into his hair, and Mika frowns at the question.
"I am, why wouldn't I be?"
"You just... seemed really nervous before, so..."
"You were nervous too," Mika chuckles against the skin of his neck and peeks up
at him with a playfull smile. "First times are always this awkward?"
"I think so," Yuu laughs too, "But I think we were good. I mean, none of us got
hurt, and we enjoyed ourselves, so it's okay."
Mika nods in agreement.
"It's okay," He echoes, pressing a soft kiss to Yuu's neck, right next to his
scent glands. Yuu sighs at the gesture, his arms tightening around Mika just a
little more. "To be honest, I was more afraid than anything else, but
everything turned out better than I expected."
"Afraid?" Yuu mumurs, "Afraid of what?"
"I don't know... Of something going wrong. This is only my second heat, and my
first one was a disaster." He sighs, nuzzling into Yuu's neck, unconsciouly
scent-marking him. "My father tried to breed me, my house caught fire and both
my parents died..."
"Wait, what?" Yuu pulls away and props himself up on his elbows, staring at
Mika with shock and horror. "Your father tried to do what?"
Mika pauses, only then remembering he hadn't told Yuu about this part.
"Well..." He hesitates, but then decides there's no need hiding it anymore.
"When I first went in heat... I don't know what happened to father, maybe he
was in rut or maybe his mind broke down, I don't know... Just... He tried to
breed me. I locked myself in my room and he tried to barge inside. When he
managed it..." Mika pauses to breathe, and Yuu gives him a concerned look.
"Did he...?" He whispers, not finishing the question, but Mika shakes his head.
"Mom came right after him to try and stop him," He says, "They fought and he
started to strangle her... When I tried to run from them, I ended up tipping a
candle on my curtains - the power was off because of the storm, so there were
candles everywhere." Mika stops again, remembering that day - the storm raging
on outside, the sound of wind and rain against his window and the sound of his
father banging on his door. The candle falling on the curtain and the fire
raising. He takes a deep breath, trying to recompose himself, and continues
with a low voice, "The fire grew way too fast for us to react. I managed to
leave the house, but mom and dad..."
His voice finally breaks, and he closes his eyes to stop the tears from coming.
"Mika..." Yuu whispers, and Mika feels him hugging him again, rubbing his back
soothingly. "It's okay, you don't have to talk anymore."
Mika merely nods, choosing to cling to him instead. One of Yuu's hands goes to
his hair, slowly caressing him in such a soothing way that Mika starts to feel
sleepy.
"I'm sorry," Yuu says after a while.
"About what?" Mika mumbles still sleepy.
"For suggesting this," Yuu explains sounding miserable, "If I knew you had gone
through this..."
"Yuu-chan," Mika says softly, pulling away to look at him. "It's alright. I
consented to all of it, didn't I? So it's okay. I wanted to do it, and I
enjoyed it. What happened during my first heat and what happened tonight are
two completely different things."
"... Are you sure?" Yuu still looks unconvinced. Mika huffs, but smiles and
nods.
"I am. C'here," Mika cups his cheeks and pulls him close, giving him a soft
kiss. "I feel comfortable here with you, so you don't need to worry about
anything, ok?"
"Ok," Yuu mumbles, bumping their foreheads together and closing his eyes, his
hands cupping Mika's cheeks too. "I just... I love you, ok?"
Mika chuckles, "I love you too."
Yuu hums and hides his face in Mika's neck, his breath on Mika's skin tickling
him. They fall silent, merely enjoying each other's presence until their dinner
arrives.
A beta woman brings them soup, bread and juice. Yuu looks disappointed at it,
but Mika merely chuckles, explaining to him that it's better for omegas not to
eat anything too heavy during their heats so to not upset their stomachs. The
woman leaves their dinner there and exits, leaving them alone again to eat.
"I still preferred a pizza," Yuu mumbles as they sit by the table, pulling his
soup closer to him.
"When we leave, I'll take you out to eat a pizza," Mika promises.
"Really?" Yuu brightens up imediatelly, and Mika laughs, nodding.
"Really."
They finish their dinner and go back to bed, not taking too long to fall back
asleep.
 
 
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Mika wakes up early in the morning when he starts to feel hot and sticky all
over again. He groans, managing to pull away from Yuu's embrace without waking
him up, and grabs his supressants. After downing one pill, he curls up close to
Yuu again, hiding his face in his neck and inhaling his scent to calm himself
down.
It doesn't take long for Yuu to wake up, though, because soon enough Mika feels
him put a hand on his hip, caressing him through his clothes.
"Morning," Yuu mumbles, kissing his hair. "How you doing?"
"... Hot," Mika complains, nuzzling Yuu's neck again and sighing. "You smell
good."
Yuu laughs hoarsely.
"You too. Maybe even better than me."
"I disagree," Mika starts to pepper kisses on his neck, and Yuu hums.
"Then we both do," He says, slowly sliding his hand under Mika's shirt and
caressing his sides. He pauses after a while, though, pulling away to look at
him. "Is this okay?"
Mika huffs, but chuckles, nodding.
"Yes," He whispers, pulling him into a messy kiss and hooking a leg on his
hips. Yuu groans against his lips, tightening his hold on Mika's waist.
Mika's body still feels slightly sore, but he doesn't mind about it one bit –
or rather, he doesn't even remember it in the heat of the moment – as he grinds
against Yuu, moaning against his mouth when their erections press together. He
moves slowly, lazily, still dizzy from sleep, though his mind is slowly waking
up with the electrifying pleasure cursing through his body as he keeps rubbing
against Yuu.
Yuu slides a hand down his body to grab his ass, pushing him further against
him, and both of them moan at the friction. Mika ducks his head down and hides
his face in Yuu's neck, nuzzling his scent glands and inhaling his scent. He
notices Yuu's scent is a lot more alluring now – not that it wasn't before, but
now it has become so good he wants it all over himself; he guesses it's
probably his heat-crazed mind sharpening his senses to the scent of an alpha,
but it still doesn't stop him from nipping at Yuu's scent glands, trying to
release more of his scent.
Meanwhile, Yuu slides a hand underneath Mika's boxers, kneading Mika's
asscheeks before dipping his fingers between them, circling Mika's hole
teasingly – Mika moans against his neck, fisting his shirt and biting hard on
his skin when he feels one finger slowly enter him, easily because of the
amount of slick his body is already producing.
"Y-Yuu-chan–" He moans against Yuu's neck, rolling his hips down on his finger.
Yuu hums as his free hand dips between their bodies to palm at Mika's groin,
and Mika gasps at the feeling.
"Is this okay?" Yuu asks again, his voice low and raw, pulling away to stare
into Mika's eyes. "We can stop at any time you want."
"This is– ah, fine," Mika manages to say between his moans, shamelessly rocking
against Yuu's hands. "Just... Try not to forget the condoms again."
Yuu chuckles, pulling both his hands away from Mika and sitting up, making Mika
whimper pitifully.
"I won't forget," He promises, pressing a kiss to Mika's cheek before moving
over Mika to reach the box on the nightstand, fishing a condom from inside it.
When he comes back to Mika, instead of going back to their previous position,
he lays behind Mika, wrapping his arms around his waist and pressing the omega
flush close against him. Mika gasps and moans when he feels Yuu's hardness
against his ass, and he can't help but roll his hips against it.
"Is it good like this?" Yuu mumbles into his ear, his hot breath eliciting
shudders from Mika, and the omega nods.
"Yeah... This is good," He assures. Though he misses being able to nuzzle Yuu's
neck and inhale his scent, he likes being pressed against Yuu's chest, having
his alpha's arms around him keeping them close together.
Yuu hums, pressing a kiss to Mika's neck while his hands work on pushing Mika's
boxers down. Mika shifts awkwardly to kick them off, his heart speeding up and
his breathing becoming heavier. By now he is almost completely awake, though
there's a small part of himself that wonders if this is just all a very good
dream.
However, Yuu's hands on his body feel very real – the way Yuu's palm feels when
he wraps it around Mika's dick, slowly strocking him as his other hand slides
under his shirt, caressing his chest and pinching his nipples. The way Yuu's
cock feels against him when the alpha rolls his hips against him feels way to
real to be a dream.
Mika wants to turn around and kiss him, mesh their lips together and tangle his
tongue with the alpha's – but he's way too overwhelmed with pleasure to do
anything but rock back against Yuu, little moans spilling from his mouth and
shudders running up his spine.
Yuu mouths at his neck, biting it softly before pulling away to take off his
own shorts and put on the condom. Then his hands are back on Mika, one of them
wrapping around his erection again and the other holding his hips as he presses
his hard cock to Mika's hole, slowly entering him.
Mika groans, clentching the pillow underneath him with one hand while the other
moves back to grip Yuu's hair, panting hotly as he feels the alpha slowly
filling him up. Yuu stops once he's fully inside, breathing hard against Mika's
neck.
"Are you okay?" He managed to rasp out.
"Y-Yeah..." Mika groans, turning his head to try and look at Yuu. His boyfriend
looks up at him with darkened eyes, his cheeks reddened. "You?"
Yuu smirks at him, his eyes sparkling, and he leans in to press his lips
against Mika's, tentatively rolling his hips and eliciting a small moan from
the omega.
"Couldn't be better," He mutters against Mika's lips. "Can I move?"
"Yes," Mika gasps, closing his eyes and letting his head fall back on Yuu's
shoulder.
Yuu kisses his cheek tenderly, softly caressing his hips with his fingertips,
and slowly pulls out before thrusting back in. Hips hips move rhythmically,
trying to keep a steady pace Mika can keep up with – after all, the omega has
just woken up.
Plus, it's not like they have to hurry anyway. They don't have to go anywhere
today, as they'll stay there until Mika's heat is over. So Yuu takes his sweet
time slowly making love to him, trying to make him feel good and have a good
time. Especially after hearing what happened during Mika's first heat, Yuu
wants him to have a nice experience now.
The hand Yuu has wrapped around Mika's cock moves in time with his thrusts, and
his other hand roams over his body, caressing his thighs and then sliding up
his chest, teasing his nipples, eliciting moans from Mika that only get louder
and louder, until the omega moves his hand from Yuu's hair to the back of his
neck, pulling him into a heated, awkward kiss, his teeth nibbling on Yuu's
lips.
Mika is the first to come, moaning loudly against Yuu's mouth and spilling his
seed on Yuu's hand. Yuu comes right after him, whimpering and biting on Mika's
neck as he spills into the condom, his knot swelling and tying them together.
They stay quiet after it's over, the only sound being their harsh breaths as
they come down from their highs. Mika feels tired and sleepy all over again,
especially when Yuu nuzzles into his nape, wrapping his arms around him and
encasing him in a warm, comforting hug.
"Wanna take a nap before breakfast?" Yuu mumbles with a smile, feeling sleepy
too, and Mika hums contently and nods.
"Wake me up later..." He yawns, closing his eyes and allowing sleep to take him
away.
Yuu does wake him up later, pressing soft, gentle kisses to his shoulders and
neck.
“Wake up, baby,” He mutters, kissing up Mika’s neck until his ear. “Let’s go
shower and have breakfast.”
Mika whimpers, shuddering when Yuu bites his earlobe.
“Lemme sleep,” He slurs, hiding his face in the pillow beneath his head, and
Yuu chuckles.
“But you told me to wake you up,” He says amused, “Aren’t you hungry? C’mon,
I’ll order our breakfast and we’ll shower while we wait. You can sleep more
after, I promise.”
Mika grunts in response, peeking at Yuu with sleepy eyes.
“We don’t need to order breakfast,” He mumbles, “There’s yogurt and fruits in
the minibar.”
“I want coffee though,” Yuu whines, pouting, “And bacon, and eggs.”
“Yuu-chan, no way they are going to serve this to us,” Mika giggles, shifting
to lay on his back and stare at his boyfriend. “Maybe they can bring some
pancakes or bread, but bacon? Really? What part of omegas can’t eat heavy food
when in heat didn’t you understand?”
“I’m not an omega,” Yuu’s still pouting; Mika rolls his eyes, chuckling, and
wraps his arms around Yuu’s neck, pulling him into a soft kiss.
“No bacon,” He says, “But I think they can bring us some coffee if you want.”
Yuu grunts, but gives up with a sigh. He stands up, not bothering to put his
shorts back on – the shirt he borrowed from Mika covers down to the middle of
his butt only, and Mika chuckles, blushing when Yuu looks over his shoulder
with a smirk at him. While he calls to the reception to ask for some coffee,
Mika sits up and stretches his arms over his head, wincing when he feels his
sore muscles ache.
“Hey, Yuu-chan,” He says when Yuu comes back to him, “Do you know how to do
massages?”
Yuu gives him a puzzled look, tilting his head to the side.
“No... Why?”
“I need one,” Mika sighs, shrugging, “Oh well... Let’s shower before our coffee
arrives.” Yuu had remembered the condoms this time, so there isn’t any cum
inside of him, but his thighs are still slicky and he’s sweaty, despite the
air-conditioning. He looks up at Yuu and extends his arms to him, “Carry me!”
Yuu chuckles, shaking his head, but complies, scooping Mika up in his arms and
carrying him into the bathroom. This time he makes sure to adjust the water
temperature before entering it with Mika. They wash each other’s backs, and Yuu
even tries to do a massage on Mika’s shoulders, though he doesn’t know how to
do it very well; still, Mika finds it sweet, and ends up giggling at him,
pulling him into a kiss. They end up making out in the shower, though they stop
before taking it too far.
Their coffee arrives just as they’re leaving the shower, and it’s Yuu who goes
receive it, wrapped in a towel, while Mika dries himself in the bathroom. Only
after he hears the sound of the door closing is that he leaves the bathroom,
massaging his hair with the towel to dry it off.
“Our breakfast is here,” Yuu smiles proudly at him, gesturing for the table;
there was coffee, but also chocolate milk, bread and cheese.
“I told you we have fruits,” Mika huffs, though he approaches the table to grab
the glass of chocolate milk, taking a sip. It’s cold and sweet just how he
likes.
“I don’t want fruits,” Yuu pokes out his tongue at him, sitting down by the
table, and Mika raises an eyebrow at him.
“Aren’t you going to put some clothes on?”
“Huh?” Yuu looks down at himself; he’s naked, with only the towel wrapped
around his waist, but he doesn’t seem to mind. “Why for? It’s only the two of
us here.”
Mika stares at him for a while before sighing, shaking his head.
“What?”
“Nothing.” Mika goes to his bag, grabbing some boxers and a shirt, refusing to
walk around naked, despite what Yuu said is true – they’re alone in there, and
only Yuu would see him naked; either way, he feels better when he’s clothed.
Only after he’s somewhat dressed is that he sits with Yuu to have breakfast.
“What should we do today?” Yuu asks while he nips at his bread, leaning to rest
his cheek on his hand. “I doubt you’ll just want to have sex all weekend, and
with nothing to do, staying here sounds pretty boring.”
“I know,” Mika sighs, “But I don’t know what we could do...” He takes a sip of
his chocolate milk, staring at Yuu as he eats his bread, and muses, “I should
have brought my laptop so we could watch a movie or something.”
“Oh, true,” Yuu groans, “I didn’t remember it either. Do you think I could
leave and go to your house to grab it now?”
“Are you that bored already?” Mika snorts, smirking at him while he teases, “I
thought you wanted to stay with me, Yuu-chan. Are you going to just leave me
now?”
“T-That’s not what I– why are you being like this?” Yuu whines, pouting.
“I’m just kidding,” Mika chuckles, earning himself a glare from Yuu that he
ignores, “We could play a game or something. Though if you truly want to go
grab the laptop, you could. But you should be prepared for Ferid and the others
teasing you.”
Yuu groans, leaning over to rest his forehead on the table.
“Forget the laptop,” He mumbles, making Mika laugh.
After breakfast, Mika goes back to bed – his body still aches a little, and he
just wants to curl up and sleep, which is exactly what he does: he grabs his
bunny and crawls under the sheets, making himself comfortable in his nest of
pillows and comforters, not taking too long to fall asleep. Yuu settles for
laying by his side – and the omega quickly curls up against him – with his
phone in his hands, playing random games to pass the time.
He finds out he’s not as bored as he thought he would be. The games are
distracting enough to make him lose track of time, and when he notices it’s
already way past noon, and Mika wakes up, kissing his neck and shoulders
playfully to distract him from the game.
“Mika, you’re going to make me lose!” Yuu whines , though he’s not exatcly
trying to pull away from him. Mika chuckles, snaking his arms around Yuu’s
chest.
“I’m hungry, Yuu-chan,” He says, “We should order lunch.”
“I’m going, just lemme finish this– fuck! ” He yells at his phone when he loses
the game, and glares at Mika when he laughs. “It’s your fault.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Mika blinks innocently, his smile
widening when Yuu narrows his eyes at him.
“You know what you’re deserving?” He whispers smirking threateningly at the
omega, “Punishment!”
All of a sudden, he drops his phone on the bed and jumps on Mika, tackling him
to the bed, his hands sneaking under Mika’s shirt to stickle his sides. Mika
bursts out laughing, squirming underneath Yuu to try and get away, but Yuu sits
on top of him to stop him from moving.
“Y-Yuu, ha, ha, n-no, s-stop it Yuu-chan, ha, ha, ha,” Mika grabs his arms, but
he’s unable to push Yuu’s hands away with how much he’s shaking from laughing,
“Y-Yuu-chan!”
“Do you regret your crime now?” Yuu grins, moving his hands to tickle a
particularly sensitive spot near Mika’s hips that makes the omega almost
breathless with how much he’s laughing.
“What–” Mika gasps, wheezing, little tears from laughter sliding down his
cheeks. “Y-Yuu-chan, please, ha, ha, d-damn you...!”
Yuu stops, only to pin Mika’s hands above his heand and hide his face in the
crook of his neck, blowing raspberries there. That causes Mika to squeal,
squirming harder than before.
“Yuu-chan!”
Yuu merely chuckles against his skin before pressing a soft kiss on his neck
and pulling away, smiling victoriously at him.
“I win.” He announces. Mika pants, trying to catch his breath, but narrows his
eyes at him.
“Oh yeah?”
Before he can even blink, Mika flips them over, pinning Yuu to the bed – Yuu
yelps when he sees he’s trapped, and gulps when Mika smirks down at him.
“Revenge!” He cries out before diving in to tickle Yuu.
“N-No!” Yuu gasps, squeaking when he feels Mika’s hands crawling down his sides
and tickling his stomach. “Mika!”
They roll all over the bed, one trying to dominate the other, and Yuu ends up
losing when Mika decides to attack his back not only with tickles, but with
nips and bites that cause him to squirm.
“Not fair!” He cries out when Mika has him completely immobilized, sitting on
his back. He has to crane his neck back to look at the omega, glaring at the
blond smiling down at him.
“You weren’t fair either, before,” Mika contests, poking his tongue out at Yuu,
who retorts with a mumble:
“You started, when you interrupted my game.”
Mika only shrugs at that, chuckling before leaning in to press a soft kiss to
the back of Yuu’s neck.
“Let’s order our lunch!” He says happily instead, and Yuu huffs, pretending to
be irritated, though he knows Mika is not believing his act at all.
They order their lunch, which turns out to be omerice. After lunch, they go
back to bed, with Mika pulling out his phone to check out his messages.
“How are the kittens doing?” Yuu asks amused when he sees Mika smiling down at
his phone.
“Huh?” Mika looks up distractedly before lowering his gaze to his phone again,
still smiling. “Oh, they’re just fine.”
“Lacus didn’t try to feed them to his snake yet?”
“No,” Mika grimaces, “Krul is taking care of them, so Lacus is not allowed near
them.”
Yuu chuckles at how satisfacted he sounds, and shuffles closer to him when Mika
turns the phone for him to see its screen: there’s a pic of the two kittens
sleeping all buddled up together. He makes a soft awn noise at the picture.
He’s seen the kittens multiple times before, but they’re so cute...
“And have you found a name for them?” The last time he’d heard of the kittens,
Mika still didn’t know what to name them, even after he’d decided on keeping
both.
Mika hums, nodding slowly.
“Krul helped me name them,” He says smiling, “The male is Noir and the female
is Ciel.”
“Those are weird names for cats,” Yuu snorts, “Isn’t Ciel the name of an anime
character?”
“I know,” Mika chuckles, “But Krul said it fitted them. Noir means black in
French, and Ciel means sky, also in French. Since the male has black fur and
the female has white fur, Krul thought the names were okay for them.”
“Huh...” Yuu looks at the picture of the kittens again. “I would’ve named them
Yin and Yang.”
That makes Mika snort.
“Yuu-chan...”
“What? It also fits.”
Mika shakes his head at him, though he’s smiling.
“You’re a dork,” He states, before leaning in to peck his lips. He doesn’t pull
away, instead cupping Yuu’s cheeks and pressing their foreheads together as he
says happily, “You’re not naming any of our children.”
Yuu gasps at that.
“No! Why?”
“Because as far as I’m concerned, you might as well name them Yin and Yang.”
“Mikaaaa!” Yuu whines, pulling away with a grumpy face when Mika chuckles. “I
wouldn’t name them this!”
“Huh? Then what would you name them?” Mika lays on his stomach by his side,
resting his chin on his folded arms and looking up at Yuu with big expectanting
eyes. Yuu stammers, blushing, racking his brain for an answer.
“Uhm... I-if it was a girl, maybe... Uh...” He groans, his shoulders sagging.
“I don’t know.”
Mika chuckles.
“Me too,” He whispers, his eyes twinkling. “Think it’s better to leave it for
years later, when we decide to have children, right?”
“Sounds good enough for me,” Yuu agrees.
 
 
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There isn’t much for them to do in there, aside from talking, playing games –
and making love, of course. Yuu tries not to push Mika too much, but he finds
out the omega is as thirsty for this as him, though he wonders if it’s just his
heat talking – will he still want to do it after his heat is over? Yuu doesn’t
want to be rude and ask; if it happens, it happens.
Yuu was starting to get bored being locked up there – even Mika was,
complaining that he wanted to see his kittens – but fortunately, Mika’s heat
ended on Sunday afternoon, sooner than they expected.
“We are free!” Yuu cries happily when they reach the lobby, attracting the
attention of the beta on the counter and a couple checking in.
“Yuu-chan!” Mika hisses, elbowing him, though Yuu can see he’s trying to
contain his laughter.
“Sorry.”
They check out at the counter, Yuu glancing curiously at the couple checking in
– two women, and the alpha glares at Yuu suspiciously, putting her arm around
her omega lover. Yuu doesn’t blame her; he knows how protective alphas can be
around their omegas. He himself doesn’t like seeing other alphas staring at
Mika normally, he can’t even imagine how upset he’d be if he saw one near him
when he was in heat.
Mika calls Ferid to pick them up, and they sit by some sofas in a corner to
wait for him.
“A lot of people come here, huh,” Yuu comments when he sees another couple
coming in, this time two teenage boys, though he notices one of them is a beta,
which kind of surprises him; it’s rare to see an omega dating a beta. He turns
to look at Mika. “Hey, I was wondering... If omegas take supressants, why do
they need to come to heat clinics? I mean, I take supressants during my rut and
then I don’t need to isolate myself or anything...”
Mika sighs, smiling gently at Yuu as if he’s just asked a dumb question – which
he realizes he might as well have done.
“The supressants merely quell down the pain from the heat,” Mika explains, “But
it’s still uncomfortable to go out and do stuff normally while in heat. Of
course, some omegas can do it, but for some it’s just too much, especially if
they work or study near alphas; the scent is too overwhelming. So some omegas
prefer to stay at home or, if they have enough money, they come to these heat
clinics.”
Yuu hums, understanding.
“I wanted to go to school but...” Mika sighs, “Well, it’s just my second heat.
I still have to get used to it. Maybe when I’m older and used to heats, I can
go out normally during them.”
Just then, Mika’s phone vibrates and he unlocks it to see Ferid has sent him a
text.
“Ferid’s waiting for us outside,” He tells Yuu.
“Let’s go, then,” Yuu stands up happily, “I really want my bed right now.”
Mika chuckles, standing up too. Yuu holds his hand as they walk out of the
clinic, though he is distracted when his own phone rings, and he reaches into
his pocket to grab it and answer the call.
Ferid is standing leaning against his car, and he waves at them as they
approach.
“How was it?” He asks in a teasing voice, “Did you two have fun?”
Mika groans.
“Please shut up,” He mutters, looking to his side to see Yuu frowning as he
talks to someone – by the sound of it, it’s Guren. “Something wrong, Yuu-chan?”
Just then, Yuu’s face pales and he inhales sharply.
“I’ll be right there in a second,” He says into the phone before hanging up and
turning to Mika and Ferid. “I need you to drive me to the hospital.”
A chill runs down Mika’s spine.
“Did something happened with Guren?” He asks terrified, and Yuu shakes his
head, his eyes as scared as Mika’s.
“It’s Shinya,” He says, “Something is wrong with the baby.”
 
Chapter End Notes
     *brushes dust and spider webs off of this*
     Is somebody even still here? xD
     I'M SO SORRY FOR DELAYING THIS SO MUCH!!! I... Kind of procrastinated
     a lot. And uni didn't help. And my mental health didn't help as well.
     So uh... I'm really, really, really sorry!
     (Plus, as I've said before, it's not easy for me to write smut, which
     is why there's only one scene of it here, even though I planned for
     it to be three :'D)
     I'll try not to delay the next chapter so much - especially after
     this cliffhanger haha~
     dw Shinya will be okay... eventually LOL
     Again, sorry! For those who are still around here, thank you ;w; I
     don't deserve you guys //sobs
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