Posted originally on the Archive_of_Our_Own at https://archiveofourown.org/ works/13402434. Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Underage Category: M/M Fandom: ダイヤのA_|_Daiya_no_A_|_Ace_of_Diamond Relationship: Kominato_Haruichi/Kominato_Ryousuke Character: Kominato_Haruichi, Kominato_Ryousuke Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega_Dynamics, Sibling_Incest, Mating_Cycles/In_Heat, No Plot/Plotless, Plot_What_Plot/Porn_Without_Plot, Power_Dynamics, Dirty Talk, Reunion_Sex, Floor_Sex, Knotting, Aftercare, Literal_Sleeping Together, Multiple_Orgasms, Biting, Bruises Stats: Published: 2018-01-18 Words: 10069 ****** Thorough ****** by tastewithouttalent Summary "For all that Ryosuke has teased his brother by pretending to forget or acting as if he doesn’t know the train schedule for Haruichi’s arrival down to the minute, he has felt the promise of this weekend running electricity along his spine and tensing in the pit of his stomach as if the other’s arrival has come early." Haruichi comes to visit Ryosuke at university just before his heat, and Ryosuke is too impatient to wait. Ryosuke can’t stand still. He’s been jittery all week, counting down the days and, as the date circled in red on his calendar drew closer, the hours to the weekend: after his university classes were over, and after his baseball club concluded, once he was finally free to walk down the rainy streets that stand between the muddy baseball diamond and the bright-light elegance of the train station. His mind has circled this fixed point ever since Haruichi confirmed their plans over the phone the span of weeks ago; and for all that Ryosuke has teased his brother by pretending to forget or acting as if he doesn’t know the train schedule for Haruichi’s arrival down to the minute, he has felt the promise of this weekend running electricity along his spine and tensing in the pit of his stomach as if the other’s arrival has come early, as if instinct itself has broken free of the restraints laid on it by nature and their own physiology. Even the exhaustion of a full evening of baseball practice isn’t enough to strip Ryosuke’s energy from him; he walks up and down the train platform instead, pacing until the old injury at his hip begins to ache, until he has to sit down just to force himself to some measure of stillness. He’s trembling with the adrenaline, the taste of it sharp as fire at the back of his tongue, and he keeps checking the time on his phone, as if he can make it run faster by his own impatience. It’s foolish, he knows, a kind of half-superstitious anxiety he would never usually leave on display; but he can’t help it, even knowing that his strain must be painting a perfectly clear picture for the others clustered on the station awaiting the train’s arrival. There’s only so much patience an alpha can muster when he’s awaiting reunion with his omega, after all. Ryosuke is still sitting down when he hears the train round the corner a few miles off, when he hears the whistle announcing its imminent arrival alongside the platform where he’s waiting. Some others crowd forward, a handful checking watches or skimming their cell phones, clearly on their way home after work or school or play; the others linger a little farther back, eyes wide with anticipation for the first glimpse of some beloved visitor’s disembarking. Ryosuke glances at them, reading the tenor of their excitement from the tilt of their shoulders and the bright of their eyes: nervousness, joy, excitement so strong it overrides everything else. It’s clear to see in them, so obvious he can almost smell it in the air; and then the train pulls into the station, and Ryosuke’s head turns as if on a cue to give up his idle distraction in exchange for the far greater payoff he’s about to get. The sleek metal slides to a halt, the doors hiss open; and Ryosuke’s heart rises to his throat, his hand tightens on the weight of his phone. He’s going to stay where he is, he’s not going to fight for the privilege of being first in the crowd, he’s going to let Haruichi come to him; but he can feel his heart humming in his chest, can taste his breath catching sticky-hot at the back of his tongue. It’s hard to think clearly, hard to force himself to focus long enough on the array of strangers’ faces emerging from the train before him to determine none of them are the features he’s looking for; and then the wind catches over the crowd, a breeze winds through the press of shifting bodies to find its way to Ryosuke’s nose, and Ryosuke’s head jerks sideways, instinct pulling him to reaction before he’s even placed that scent wafting through the air, sweet as fresh-cut grass, heavy as the dusk falling to drape a curtain around the station. His breath catches, his shoulders tense; and he’s moving before he can think, surging to his feet and striding forward into the crowd with no hesitation at all. His hip is forgotten, his intent to remain at a distance is scattered; his rationality is stripped from him at once, pulled free of his control just by the weight of that scent catching at his nostrils. It’s heat moving him now, that ache low down in his abdomen jerking him forward as if on a lead; he can taste Haruichi in the air, he’s all but panting in his effort to breathe more of that beloved, familiar scent into his lungs. The crowd is too thick for him to see through, his height is insufficient to let him see past the broad shoulders of the men and women around him; but Ryosuke could shut his eyes entirely and follow that scent blind with absolute, unerring precision. He’s pushing past the office workers, stepping around clusters of teenage girls and dodging the reunions of happy families; and then he steps around a model-tall woman, and he’s reaching out before his eyes have even registered recognition of the person before him. A ducked-down head, sloping shoulders, the weight of hair falling in a curtain over well-known features; and then Ryosuke’s hand closes at the back of Haruichi’s neck, and he’s stepping in over the distance between them in a single stride, without even giving the other a chance to lift his head. Haruichi makes a startled noise, something soft and shocked gusting from his lips even as he moves; but then Ryosuke has his arms around him, and he has Haruichi against him again, and everything else gives way in the first rush of relief at having his mate in his arms once more. “Haruichi,” Ryosuke says, growling the other’s name in against the curve of his ear. In his arms Haruichi huffs a breath of surprise that catches on the very edge of something like tears; but he’s moving before Ryosuke can ask what’s wrong, reaching out and up to clutch hard against his brother before him with as much strength in his hold as Ryosuke can feel trembling through his own arms. His head goes down, his face presses hard against Ryosuke’s shoulder; Ryosuke can feel the shuddering breath Haruichi takes against him, like he’s been suffocating and only just remembered how to breathe normally. Ryosuke can sympathize. He’s turning his head, pressing in hard against Haruichi’s hair, neck, skin, nuzzling in as close to the other as he can get to gasp for breath against him, to fill his lungs with the familiar taste of Haruichi’s body, to sate himself on the musky weight of Haruichi’s scent. It’s different than he remembers it -- a little softer, a little gentler, anticipation of an oncoming heat instead of the immediacy of it -- but it’s still enough for him to identify, still enough to purr some dark, shadowed satisfaction against the inside of his chest with every breath he takes. “Your hair is different,” he says, fitting the words against the back of Haruichi’s ear while his fingers push roughly up through the other’s hair to measure out the weight of it, to fit against the fall of the strands curtaining Haruichi’s face. “You changed it.” “Ah,” Haruichi whimpers into Ryosuke’s shoulder, his voice breaking as Ryosuke’s fingers push against him. The sounds cradles heat into the depths of Ryosuke’s stomach. “Y-yeah. Yes.” Ryosuke can feel Haruichi’s hold on him tighten, can feel the strain in the inhale the other takes in his arms. “I let it grow out.” There’s a pause, a hesitation of uncertainty like there always is, from Haruichi; Ryosuke had almost forgotten that, over the time they’ve been apart. “Do you not like it?” “No,” Ryosuke says, with more weight on the word than he would have deliberately put there; but he’s well past rationality, now, his voice is pulling up from the dark instinct within him, the part of him that ignores propriety and Haruichi in favor of possession and mate. “I like it.” His hand clutches at the back of Haruichi’s head, his fingers spreading wide as if to catch the whole of the other’s existence against his palm. “It hides your eyes.” He presses in closer against Haruichi’s ear, breathing in deep against the dip leading down to the other’s neck; Haruichi makes a soft sound in the back of his throat and tips his head to the side in reflexive surrender to the demand of Ryosuke’s mouth against him, like he’s offering himself for the press of the other’s lips. Ryosuke growls satisfaction in the far depths of his chest. “I like being the only one to see you,” he says, and then he’s taking that implied invitation to press his lips close against Haruichi’s neck, to taste against the salt of the other’s skin, the dry, papery feel of travelling and the familiar dust of baseball lingering over the surface and underneath: warmth like a fever, the beginnings of need just starting to rise to glow against Haruichi’s skin, the scent of his heat that will mark him as the omega he is to any alpha within blocks. It hasn’t broken yet, hasn’t yet unravelled Haruichi’s own composure into the irrationality of need, the desperation of instinct that grips him whenever his heat comes on him; but Ryosuke can smell the promise of it, can already see the what is coming as clearly as if he’s looking into the future. Haruichi flushed and pink, panting even stripped bare and laid over the sheets of Ryosuke’s bed, his sweat sinking into the fabric beneath him to mark the whole of Ryosuke’s room with the proof of him, with the reality of his presence. The way his lips will part for Ryosuke’s touch, the way his thighs will open for the glance of Ryosuke’s gaze; the way he’ll look coming, the way he’ll feel as he screams himself into orgasm as Ryosuke drives him into the endless, helpless relief his body will demand. The thought of it alone is enough to flush hard against Ryosuke’s cock, to swell and strain at the front of his pants, and when his hand drops it’s to slide down Haruichi’s back, to pin the other’s jacket close against the dip of his spine and threaten the top edge of his hips, barely clinging to propriety as Ryosuke’s hips rock forward of their own volition to grind at Haruichi’s leg before him. Haruichi gasps at Ryosuke’s ear, his hand comes up to clutch against the other’s neck, and Ryosuke growls satisfaction into Haruichi’s hair and pulls him in closer. “Aniki,” Haruichi says, his voice soft and hot with embarrassment. “We...we’re in public.” “I don’t care,” Ryosuke tells him, and catches his teeth against Haruichi’s neck to nip the start of a bruise into the skin, to leave the print of his teeth on the flushed pink of his brother’s throat. “I missed you.” “Everyone will know,” Haruichi tries, even though his hand isn’t straying from Ryosuke’s hair. “Aniki, they’ll see us and they’ll know, we look too much alike.” “I don’t care,” Ryosuke says again. “Let them stare.” His hand slides down from Haruichi’s hip to drag over the curve of the other’s ass inside his jeans, his fingers tighten to dig in hard against the soft give; Haruichi’s balance jerks, his breath rushes from him. Ryosuke grins satisfaction against Haruichi’s neck. “You’re my mate, I don’t care who knows.” “Aniki,” Haruichi says, dragging over the word until it becomes a plea. “You said you wanted to show me around.” A pause, a catch of breath. “For next year, when I come here with you.” Ryosuke growls against Haruichi’s neck. Instinct is firing hot in him, his mind and body in complete agreement on what he should do: push Haruichi back against the nearest available flat surface, strip him down to pink skin and trembling limbs, renew his claim to his mate’s body as directly and unmistakably as he can. But Haruichi’s right, however much Ryosuke may not want to admit it; and the reminder of next year, of the far-off dream of a future together unbroken by anything but what distance they choose to indulge in to make their reunion sweeter, is too tempting for Ryosuke to casually dismiss. He drags in another breath at Haruichi’s neck, tightens his hold to squeeze the other’s ass hard enough that Haruichi hisses a breath of shock against his shoulder; and then he lets go, easing his hold enough to step back so he can actually look at Haruichi before him again. Haruichi’s head is ducked down, his grown-out hair falling heavy in front of his face so Ryosuke can’t see the details of his eyes; but his cheeks are flaring with color enough for him to understand with perfect clarity, and that’s enough to twitch Ryosuke’s mouth on a smile in spite of the dull roar of frustrated instinct in him that he’s fighting back through sheer force of will. “Fine,” he says, and he pulls against Haruichi’s shoulder to turn him towards the edge of the station platform so they can move together towards the exit. There are a few heads that turn to watch them, and more that deliberately don’t look up from the attention they’re fixing on the phones in their hands; Ryosuke doesn’t spare any of them a glance. “Let’s get you back home, then, first thing.” Haruichi’s steps stutter, his head comes up to glance at Ryosuke walking steadily next to him. “I thought you said we were going to look at the school when I got here.” Ryosuke remembers. He had purred the words over the static of a phone line, murmuring them like a promise to Haruichi while the other breathed so hard with excitement that Ryosuke could almost taste the rhythm of his inhales in the air of his silent, single room. The idea had been heady, in his imagination: keeping Haruichi out at the campus, or wandering through the baseball field, drawing the line of anticipation between them so taut with adrenaline that Haruichi would be breathless and shaky by the time Ryosuke got him home, maybe would be teetering on the edge of an early heat just from the thrill of impatience coursing through his veins like fire. But Ryosuke hadn’t counted on his own adrenaline, hadn’t expected the scent of his omega’s skin and impending heat to hit him as strongly as it did, and at the present moment even the few blocks of distance between the train station and his apartment seem all but insurmountable to him. “I changed my mind,” he says, a single, short summary to tie up everything in him into a direct statement; but Haruichi just ducks his head, and huffs a breath shaky enough with heat that Ryosuke thinks he doesn’t much mind the change in plans, anyway. Ryosuke tips his head to look at Haruichi next to him: the bag over one shoulder, the forward tilt of his body, the flushing color staining his cheeks, and for a moment there’s nothing in the world he wants so much as to reach out and claim Haruichi in the span of his arms, to pull him close enough to make up for the long weeks of solitude they’ve both been suffering through. The desire hits him like a fist, like a blow landing solidly at the center of his chest to knock the air clean out of him, and for a moment it’s hard to find the voice for even a mundane question. “Do you have any other bags?” “What?” Haruichi’s head comes up, his lips parted on surprise at the sudden, unexpected question. Ryosuke wants to grab at the back of his head to hold him still, wants to lick into the shadow of Haruichi’s mouth and dissolve all the days apart directly off Haruichi’s tongue. Haruichi’s lips press together, his head tilts into a shake. “No, just this.” “Good,” Ryosuke says, and he looks back out to the entrance to the station, where the last of those departing ahead of them are shuffling out and into the dark of the rain-wet streets. He lets his hand drop from Haruichi’s shoulder, lets his touch trail casually down the line of the other’s arm to the angle of his elbow and the slack weight of his wrist. When he winds his fingers in against Haruichi’s it’s casually, with an easy grace as if they have ever done this before, as if holding his brother’s hand in public is something Ryosuke would have ever dared to do in their hometown. Haruichi’s head comes back up, his breath catching audibly in his chest as he looks up to Ryosuke, but Ryosuke doesn’t let his hold go any more than he acknowledges the indulgence of the contact with so much as a smirk at his lips. He keeps his gaze fixed forward, keeps his attention on their nearest audience some feet ahead of them, and when he speaks it’s with his voice pitching deliberately soft so it will fall below the range of audibility for anyone but the two of them. “You won’t be wearing many clothes on this trip anyway.” Haruichi sucks in a sharp inhale and ducks his head, the sound and motion together far more of a giveaway than Ryosuke’s own deliberately metered tone; but after a moment his fingers tighten on Ryosuke’s, his hold tensing with tentative care like he thinks Ryosuke might pull away from the reciprocation. Ryosuke doesn’t look at Haruichi, doesn’t so much as smile to give himself away; but he tightens his own grip, just for a moment, and when Haruichi’s hold clenches to bruise-raising pressure he doesn’t flinch away from it. They walk in almost complete silence. There’s the sound of their shoes scuffing against the pavement, of course, the soft huff of their breathing as they make their way down the street -- Ryosuke isn’t setting a gentle pace, and Haruichi has never been willing to ask his brother to slow for him -- but neither of them speak, not even to offer the kind of bland small talk that might hold together the facade of calm they are only barely clinging to between them. Haruichi’s face is still flushed red when Ryosuke glances at him, his cheeks stained so dark the color is clear to see even with his head tipped far forward so he’s staring at his shoes as they move down the street; and Ryosuke’s thoughts are skipping ahead already, flipping through the next few minutes of his life with casual disregard to paint out the details of what will await them in the quiet privacy of his apartment, in the living room or the hallway or the bedroom. Ryosuke will pull Haruichi through the door, he thinks, will take the other’s bag and cast it aside to be collected at some later point, when he has the attention to spare for the mundanities of existence around the overwhelming, illuminating radiance of need he can feel sparking low down in his body even now, that has his cock so hard and straining at the front of his pants he feels like the very picture of an alpha caught off-guard by his omega’s first heat, as if he doesn’t know Haruichi’s cycles so well he can call them to mind more readily than he can recall the day of the month. It’s too early still -- that was the goal, after all, to have Haruichi complete his travel early, before the incapacitating need of his heat settled into his veins to render him desperate and incoherent with painful want -- but Ryosuke still feels alight all the same, as if the anticipation alone is enough to set his own veins on fire. He wonders if this is something akin to what Haruichi feels, if Haruichi’s heat is anything like this all-consuming focus, this complete attention to a single much-desired conclusion; but even that thought is a fleeting one, a moment of curiosity that is overridden with the next whiff of Haruichi’s skin Ryosuke catches, as the heat of their movement and the clean cool of the air sweep aside the dust of travel to lay Haruichi’s own wine-rich scent bare for Ryosuke’s appreciation. Ryosuke shuts his eyes for a moment, trusting familiar streets and habitual paths to guide his steps while he savours the weight of Haruichi in his lungs, while he breathes in open-mouthed to catch the faintly salty tang of the other’s sweat in the air against the heat of his tongue; and then he opens his eyes, and tips himself forward, and hurries them into still greater speed to more rapidly cross the remaining distance to his apartment. The windows are bright as they approach. Ryosuke left the light on when he left; intentionally, in this case, although he was so distracted it could as easily been have by accident. But he had been thinking of his return even as he left, had considered coming up this path with Haruichi beside him, and a smile of greeting on his lips; and he wanted, he wants, to show Haruichi the whole of his future home all at once, without any kind of slow easing into it. Haruichi’s steps alongside him slow as they draw nearer, as he realizes where Ryosuke is leading him and the anxiety of expectation eclipses the warmth of anticipation; but Ryosuke doesn’t hesitate, and as he takes the last few steps forward he’s all but pulling Haruichi in his wake, urging them forward towards the warmth and the privacy the apartment offers. His heart is racing, his mouth is all but watering; but his hand in his pocket is graceful, his movement elegant with familiarity as he slides his keys free so he can unlock the door. The latch turns, the deadbolt gives way, and Ryosuke pushes the door open at once, taking the lead to step forward into his apartment as he leads Haruichi through the doorway in his wake. He turns at once. The apartment is familiar to him: comfortable, yes, as much a home as he has been able to make it without his mate here with him, but it holds no surprises for him, and he wants to see Haruichi as the other steps forward and into the light. Haruichi’s chin lifts, his hair sliding away to uncover part of one eye as he looks up; Ryosuke can see his lashes widen, can see his lips part. There’s not much to see, all told: just a bookshelf, and an attached kitchen, a couch along one wall and a small television in the corner. But it’s Ryosuke’s, it carries as much of him in it as he can print onto the walls around them and the few pieces of furniture within; and he can see recognition of that in the way Haruichi bites his lip, in the way his lashes dip over the damp of almost-tears at his eyes. “Oh,” Haruichi breathes, his voice creaking in the back of his throat. “Aniki.” “Do you like it?” Ryosuke says without looking away from Haruichi’s face. Haruichi’s lashes flutter, his gaze flickers to meet Ryosuke’s eyes; Ryosuke lets his lips curve on a smile, lets his head tilt to the side into the teasing angle that is so easy to adopt, with Haruichi. “Good enough for you to move into next year?” Haruichi’s forehead creases, his lips quiver. “Aniki,” he says, and then he ducks his head forward to hide his face as he lifts his free hand to press to his eyes and push against the emotion shining there. “Don’t tease me.” “I’m not,” Ryosuke says at once, with more sincerity than he intends; and then he’s stepping forward, pushing in to urge Haruichi back with some force born from the depths of his stomach, something rising up from the heat at his spine and the ache of want surging all through him. Haruichi takes a step back at once, surrendering with instinctive speed to Ryosuke’s force; his shoulders catch at the door still open behind him to push it back and into place against the frame. The sound is loud, Ryosuke can feel it rattle through the walls of the apartment, but he doesn’t care, he can’t find any part of himself that can spare a thought for anything outside the span of the walls around him, anything that doesn’t fit within the reach of his arms. He grabs for the lock to turn it over in the doorframe, to hold out the weight of the world outside for the span of the night, at least; and then he reaches up to slide his fingers into Haruichi’s hair, to push the fall of the pale strands back and away from the other’s face as he steps in closer to back his brother up against the support of the door as quickly as he pulls at the weight of Haruichi’s bag to slide it free and drop it to the floor. “I want you here,” Ryosuke says, growling the words against Haruichi’s quivering lips, against the hiss of breath at the other’s mouth as he lifts his hands to clutch at Ryosuke’s hips as if to brace himself steady against the support of his mate against him. Ryosuke’s body comes forward of its own accord, cresting in to pin Haruichi back against the door behind him; Haruichi whimpers in the back of his throat, a low keening note somewhere between pained and wanting, and Ryosuke ducks his head in to drag his teeth against the bruise-marked line of Haruichi’s neck and fill his lungs with the sweet scent of his mate’s skin against his mouth. “Every time I come in the door I think about coming in to you, about having you waiting for me.” He presses his nose to the collar of Haruichi’s jacket and breathes in hard, like he’s struggling for the air to which he’s laying claim. “I want to be able to open the door and taste you in the air.” “Aniki,” Haruichi groans. His hands tighten at Ryosuke’s hips, his fingers slide to dig in against the other’s shirt. Ryosuke huffs a breath, the sound hot and strained in the depths of his chest, and he lets his hips buck forward, lets the instinct in him guide the rhythm of his motion as he rocks up and against Haruichi in front of him. “I want you in every room,” he says; a confession, an admission, something he would never have offered before, something born out of these months apart with no more of Haruichi than the image of his face on a video screen, with none of his scent or his shape or his heat to flare Ryosuke’s body into incandescent life. “I’m going to fuck you on that couch, Haruichi, and over the table in the kitchen and against the tile of the shower, I’m going to spend your whole heat marking this place with you.” “Oh,” Haruichi gasps. “And the...the bed?” Ryosuke’s breath tears from him in a growl so hot and low it takes on the shape of a purr in the back of his throat. “And the bed,” he says. “I’m going to spend an entire day there with you, Haruichi, I’m going to push you into the sheets until every inch of the mattress smells like you, until I can press my nose against the pillow and remember the feel of your heat just from that.” “I’m not--” Haruichi starts; but it’s an apology, not a protest, and Ryosuke doesn’t lift his head from where he’s nipping a line of bruises into Haruichi’s collarbone, where he’s printing the shadow of his mouth against the pale of his brother’s skin. Haruichi’s hand tightens at Ryosuke’s hip, his head ducks forward against Ryosuke’s hold. “I haven’t started my heat yet, aniki.” “I know,” Ryosuke says against Haruichi’s throat. “I don’t think I would have let you out of the train station if you had.” His hips come forward, his cock grinds hard against the front of Haruichi’s jeans; under his mouth Haruichi’s head goes back, his throat straining over a moan as hot as it is helpless. Ryosuke can feel the tension starting to gather in the other’s body, can feel the heat of arousal building beneath him; it’s a strange, brilliant novelty, to be able to coax Haruichi up and into desire without the instinctive assistance of his heat burning all the blood in his veins to adrenaline before Ryosuke has even touched him. It makes Ryosuke’s breathing come faster at the thought of it, at the knowledge that all this is for him, is pure response to his own actions rather than the result of Haruichi’s omega physiology; when he moves again to grind his hips to Haruichi’s it’s with deliberate intent, dragging the motion out so he can feel the shift of Haruichi’s cock swelling against his, can hear the catch of want at the back of the other’s throat as he clutches at Ryosuke’s shoulder. “I’m going to fuck you anyway.” Haruichi huffs an exhale against Ryosuke’s hair; when his hand comes up it’s to clutch at Ryosuke’s arm, to brace against the tension at his brother’s bicep. “What about later? Tomorrow, or the day after, when I…” “I’ll fuck you then too,” Ryosuke purrs. “Don’t worry, Haruichi.” He pushes his fingers through Haruichi’s hair to urge the weight of it back from the other’s eyes; when he pulls away from Haruichi’s skin it’s only so he can meet the shadows in the other’s gaze, so he can savor the heavy-lidded force of desire so clear in Haruichi’s expression. “I’m going to satisfy you no matter how much you want.” Haruichi’s lashes flutter; Ryosuke can see the shadow of them, can see the pull of motion in the other’s throat as he swallows. “Aniki.” “Yes,” Ryosuke says. He lets his hand drop from Haruichi’s hair, lets some of the weight of the strands fall back over the other’s eyes in favor of gaining the use of his hand to slide down and pin the button of Haruichi’s jeans between his fingers, to push and urge it loose of the denim. “Let’s have a practice game before the championship match, Haruichi.” That wins a gusting laugh past the other’s lips, as it was meant to; and then Ryosuke is drawing down the fly of Haruichi’s jeans, and the outline of laughter melts into a groan as fast as he can slide his fingers up and inside the weight of the fabric. Ryosuke presses his palm in close, grinding down to feel out the curve of Haruichi’s cock, to catch at the weight of the other’s balls while his own draw up tight with anticipation against the inside line of his jeans; and then he’s pulling Haruichi away from the door, and down to the floor, and Haruichi is following him, stumbling with the speed of his obedience to Ryosuke’s hold and Ryosuke’s pull. Ryosuke is glad for the weight of the rug across the floor. There’s the futon a few feet away, and the soft of his bed around the corner and down the short hallway of the one-bedroom apartment; but he can’t get his hands to draw away from Haruichi’s skin, and after weeks apart he finds his desire too fever- bright to restrain for even the very few seconds it would take to lay claim to a more comfortable position. Ryosuke has to have his hands on Haruichi’s hips, sliding under the weight of the waistband of his pants to urge the denim down, to lay bare the trembling muscle in his thighs and tensing against his calves, and if the rug beneath them will save Haruichi’s skin from the raw marks the bare floor would leave, Ryosuke is more than grateful to it for that if nothing else. “I missed you,” Ryosuke says, growling the words against the midpoint of Haruichi’s stomach as he urges the weight of the other’s jeans down and over his ankles to strip bare the length of his legs, to free the delicate line of his ankles and the pale inside of his thighs for Ryosuke’s touch, for Ryosuke’s gaze, for Ryosuke’s mouth. “You should stay here with me, Haruichi, just don’t go back.” He ducks his head to press against Haruichi’s stomach, to mold the curve of his lips just against the other’s navel; below him Haruichi gasps and shudders, his back arching to bring him up to meet Ryosuke’s lips, and Ryosuke takes advantage of the movement to slide his fingers inside Haruichi’s boxers and pull to draw the fabric down and off the other’s hips. The action leaves the heat of Haruichi’s cock bare, the flush of his length looking strange and unfamiliar for the softer uncertainty that comes with a coaxed arousal rather than a forced one; it makes Ryosuke’s mouth water, makes his chest flex over a groan as his own cock twitches hard against the inside of his jeans, swelling as if it intends to knot Haruichi to him with the first thrust forward. He wants to strip his pants off, wants to drag down the zipper holding him back and push forward and into Haruichi in one long stroke, with the motion made easy by the slick of the other’s arousal and the heat of his own desire; he wants to fuck Haruichi down against the floor right here, wants to struggle out of their clothing while they remain locked together rather than taking the time to strip themselves of the barrier to begin with. There’s an appeal to that, as much as there was a draw to the idea of pushing Haruichi back against the wall of the train station and taking him right there, in front of whatever staring audience they might have for their mating; but Haruichi isn’t in heat yet, however much Ryosuke can taste the promise of forthcoming arousal just under the surface of his skin, and that grants Ryosuke some measure of composure beyond what he could muster with the scent of his mate’s need heavy in his nose. So he slides down instead of pressing up, dipping down to weight his hands to the inside of Haruichi’s knees so he can urge them apart, so he can make space for himself to sprawl over the soft of the rug beneath them, and when he says “Take your shirt off” it’s a purr against the inside of Haruichi’s thigh, a murmur closer to a suggestion than a command. Haruichi still shudders with it, desire answering Ryosuke’s tone even if his need isn’t yet swelling to dominate his awareness, and Ryosuke shuts his eyes and presses in closer, leaning into the inside line of Haruichi’s thigh while the other struggles against the floor to strip his jacket free of his shoulders so he can shed the thin of his t-shirt where it’s clinging close to his skin. Ryosuke lingers where he is, nuzzling close against Haruichi’s thigh where he can feel the heat of the other’s arousal, where he can taste the damp catch of expectation on Haruichi’s skin; and then Haruichi tosses his shirt aside, and Ryosuke pushes himself up and away with fluid grace, drawing a last inhale off Haruichi’s body before he rocks up onto his knees so he can urge his own coat off his shoulders and tug the weight of his shirt up and free of his chest. “You look good, Haruichi,” Ryosuke declares, looking down at Haruichi spread out before him. Haruichi is sprawling over the floor, his skin flushed with anticipation and his breath visibly straining in his chest as he watches Ryosuke past the weight of his lashes; Ryosuke can’t remember ever seeing anything as seductive in all his life as the tangle of Haruichi’s hair catching at his eyelashes or the curve of the other’s mouth as he bites at his lower lip with his teeth. Ryosuke strips his shirt up and over his head, letting it rumple through his hair without concern before tossing it aside to join the trail of Haruichi’s clothes they’ve left across the room; when he drops his hands to the front of his pants to unfasten his belt he lets his gaze drop too, dipping his eyelashes with a deliberate show of intent as he lets his attention slide down over the pant of Haruichi’s breathing in his chest and the shift of lean muscle just under the warm heat of his skin. “Did you stop skipping practice when I left?” “What?” Haruichi sounds dazed, like he’s having trouble following the conversation; Ryosuke strips his belt free of his beltloops in a long drag of motion, smiling at the way Haruichi’s breath catches before he shakes his head in a desperate attempt to pull himself back to composure. “I...I never skipped practice, aniki.” “Liar,” Ryosuke purrs as he draws down the fly of his jeans and hooks his thumbs into the waistband of his pants so he can push them down his hips and thighs along with the thin weight of his underwear. The fabric catches at the stiff angle of his cock for a moment, dragging against the heat of it before it slides free to curve back up towards his stomach again; Ryosuke casts his gaze up through his lashes, just to see the way Haruichi’s lips part on a huff of heat at the motion. “You spent more than one practice sweating in my dorm room.” “Oh,” Haruichi whimpers, his voice giving way to something between embarrassment and arousal; Ryosuke can see his fingers tighten to fists at his sides, can see his shoulders shift as he rocks back against the floor. “I can’t help going into heat, aniki.” “It’s still missed practice,” Ryosuke purrs. He kicks his feet free of his shoes and shoves his pants off and aside without looking; when he comes back in it’s to press his knees to the rug between Haruichi’s feet and lean in to brace himself with a hand at the floor so he can reach in and under the upward angle of the other’s tipped-in knee. He doesn’t have to fumble for traction, doesn’t need the guidance of sight to see what he’s reaching for; his fingers press to Haruichi’s entrance on his first try, his touch pulled there as if it can sense the wet heat of Haruichi’s body answering the demands of Ryosuke’s own, easing obediently in expectation of the pressure of Ryosuke mating them. Haruichi shudders with the contact, his whole body tensing for a moment of convulsive strain; Ryosuke gusts a sigh of satisfaction and anticipation in equal parts as he presses his touch close to feel out the wet of Haruichi’s entrance and the flutter of pressure there, as if an invitation to urge him within. “You’re as wet now as you used to be back then.” He draws his fingers around, pressing close against Haruichi without quite thrusting inside, teasing instead of answering the want in the body trembling under his touch. “I forgot how good you feel, Haruichi.” Ryosuke ducks in closer, tipping his head in over the shudder of Haruichi laid out under him, panting and hard and as ready as if it’s his first heat all over again, as if it’s desperation instead of blood coursing through his veins. “How good you smell.” “Aniki,” Haruichi whimpers, his voice skipping so high it’s nearly a protest. He lifts an arm from his side to cover his face, to cast his forearm across his features and dip them into what disguise shadow can grant. “Please.” It would sound like a plea to stop, from someone else, to someone else. At someone else’s lips it would be protest; to someone else’s ears it would be refusal. But Ryosuke has his fingers against Haruichi’s body, has his gaze fixed on the shadowed angles of the other’s face; and in the end it’s Haruichi beneath him, his brother and his lover and his mate, and Ryosuke has never yet been wrong about Haruichi, and what it is Haruichi means when he says that word. “Yes,” Ryosuke says; and he draws his touch back, lifting his hand away to touch to Haruichi’s knee even as the other is shuddering with the tension of relief that courses through him in answer to his brother’s words. “Open your legs for me.” Ryosuke couples the words with a gentle push, a suggestion more than a demand, in case Haruichi has lost his grasp on coherency to the heat glowing his skin so warm with color; but Haruichi doesn’t need the implication, maybe doesn’t need the order at all. He’s letting his knees fall open, spreading his feet wide against the rug under them and opening his thighs to offer up the soft heat against their inside curve, and Ryosuke hums satisfaction in the back of his throat as he lets his touch slide down Haruichi’s body to follow that sleek line of pale skin. Haruichi’s cock twitches towards his stomach, Haruichi’s fingers curl into a tighter fist at his side; and Ryosuke can feel his patience give way like a wave breaking over him, like the swing of a bat coming around to slam solidly into the oncoming weight of a perfect pitch. He draws his touch away, pulling his fingers back even as Haruichi’s thigh trembles with the loss and Haruichi’s breathing catches on a hiccup in his chest; but Haruichi doesn’t voice a protest, and Ryosuke is closing his fingers to brace at the base of his heat-heavy cock and guide it steady as he slides his knees in close to fit under the open angle of Haruichi’s and leans in to shadow the glow of the other’s body with the weight of his own. Haruichi catches a breath, Ryosuke angles his hips in and down; and then his cock is pressing to Haruichi’s entrance, and instinct is flexing in his thighs, and he’s sliding forward and in to sheathe himself inside the warm wet of Haruichi’s body in one smooth stroke. Haruichi’s head goes back, Haruichi’s throat opens up on a moan at the sensation; and Ryosuke’s shoulders are canting forward, Ryosuke’s legs are straining, Ryosuke’s whole body is tipping in and down to get closer, to press tight against Haruichi beneath him as their bodies slide together at last. “Haruichi,” Ryosuke hears himself groaning; but it’s not his voice, or at least no conscious part of his voice. It’s heat instead, raw and unfettered and as immediate as the surge of sensation that swells his cock harder, that thickens at the base in expectation of satisfaction. His head comes down, his shoulders tip forward, and when he moves it’s with pure instinct guiding his motions, drawing his hips back before snapping them forward to fuck into the pliant give of Haruichi beneath him. Haruichi quivers with the force, moaning far in the back of his throat in a range that might be pain, in other circumstances; but his hands are coming up too, lifting from his sides as he reaches to clutch desperately at Ryosuke’s shoulders, and when his legs shift it’s only to hook his heels around Ryosuke’s knees, to pull the other closer with the full strength of his body under his brother’s. Ryosuke lets himself press down, lets the weight of his body pin Haruichi to stillness, and then he moves with force, letting the rhythm of long-repressed instinct rush through him on the wave of his own desire rather than in response to Haruichi’s regular heat. “Haruichi,” Ryosuke says, growling the other’s name just against Haruichi’s neck, down at the curve where the other’s throat dips into his shoulder. Haruichi’s skin is flushed, glowing warm and damp with the beginnings of sweat; it’s novel to have him rising to responsiveness with every motion Ryosuke takes, to have him sliding up towards arousal instead of already pantingly, desperately there. The thought brings Ryosuke’s motions to greater force, to more speed, as he moves with an intent more to draw Haruichi further into arousal than to sate the desperate need that is already there; he can feel Haruichi easing around him with every thrust, can feel the tremors of sensation coursing through the other’s body pressing close against his. At his lips he’s breathing in heat, is inhaling deep lungfuls of air right off the radiance of Haruichi’s body beneath his; his hand is grabbing at Haruichi’s hip, his fingers tightening to brace the other still against the forward buck of his hips. “I’m going to knot you,” Ryosuke says, weighting the words like a promise against Haruichi’s throat. “Haruichi, do you hear me? I’m going to knot you now, tonight, I’m going to keep you with me until I’m satisfied, until I’ve made up for all the weeks apart.” “Ah,” Haruichi gasps. His fingers grab at Ryosuke’s hair, his hold tightens to a fist, but Ryosuke doesn’t flinch from the uncomfortable tug against his scalp. “What about...I’m going to go into heat, aniki, I--” “I know,” Ryosuke tells him. “I’m going to fuck you through that too, Haruichi, I swear it, I’m going to leave you more satisfied than you’ve ever been.” He huffs a laugh against the other’s neck and ducks close to press his lips to a glancing kiss; Haruichi whimpers and tips his head to the side to make an offering of himself for Ryosuke’s mouth. “I’m your alpha, Haruichi, it’s my job to bring you through your heat.” Ryosuke presses his hand hard against the floor, steadying himself against the support so he can push up and away from Haruichi by inches. Haruichi blinks up at him, his hair falling back from his face to leave the pleasure-darkened haze of his eyes clear to see; his lips are flushed against the part of them, his cheeks are stained nearly to red by the warmth coursing through his veins. He looks dazed, incoherent, like he’s struggling to place himself in the world and has only Ryosuke to reach out and brace himself against; he looks like the most delectable thing Ryosuke has ever seen. Ryosuke’s hips jerk forward involuntarily, his cock driving forward into the give of Haruichi’s willing body; and Ryosuke gasps a breath, and fixes his hold the tighter on Haruichi’s hip. “Your heat is for you,” he says, low, with the words humming to shadows in the back of his throat. “This is for me.” And his thighs flex, his hips buck forward, and beneath Ryosuke Haruichi spasms, his lashes fluttering as his lips part on a soundless breath of pressure. Ryosuke can feel Haruichi’s body straining around him, can feel the shift and pull of almost-resistance as he pushes forward; and then Haruichi eases, and Ryosuke slides forward and into him. He can feel the rush of heat to his cock, can feel the sudden sharp weight of his knot swelling wider to pin them together; but it’s only for a moment, only for the span of a breath, because the heat against his spine is sweeping up, the pressure deep down in his stomach is unfurling all at once, and Ryosuke’s head is going back, his shoulders are flexing tight as he jerks, and groans, and pulses long waves of pleasure into his mate under him. Haruichi gasps, his legs flex tight around Ryosuke as if he’s trying to urge the other closer; and Ryosuke gives Haruichi everything he has, wave after wave of sensation breaking over him until he’s panting for air, until he’s trembling with it, and still they keep coming, as if his body intends to drain itself dry with his first orgasm. He rides it out as best he can, gasping for air and staring unseeing out at the wall before him; and then the height of the tension eases, and pulls away, and Ryosuke can gasp himself back into the structure of a normal breathing rhythm again. “God,” Ryosuke groans, “Haruichi” and he’s letting Haruichi’s hip go, letting his bracing grip give way so he can reach down between them instead. Haruichi jerks when Ryosuke’s hand closes on him, his eyes open wide as his breath rushes out of his lung, but when Ryosuke draws up to stroke over the needy heat of the other’s length Haruichi just arches into it, his knees tipping wider as his head goes back, as his lips part on the sound of a moan pulling up from the depths of his chest. Ryosuke can see the other’s orgasm building in the angle of his lashes, in the tilt of his throat, in the tremor of his lips; and he can feel it too, quivering against Haruichi’s thighs and tensing at his fingers and running through the whole of his body to clench around Ryosuke inside him, as if instinct is reaching out to brace Haruichi steady against the weight of Ryosuke’s knot. The thought makes Ryosuke growl something between satisfaction and rising arousal, as his own cock makes a bid towards renewed heat of his own; and then he presses his thumb up and over the head of Haruichi’s, and Haruichi spasms into pleasure, gasping and quivering through each jolt of sensation as Ryosuke pulls him to spill wet over the flat of his stomach. Ryosuke watches him through it, feeling his own arousal building in response to each shaky, helpless convulsion of his mate under him, of his brother coming apart to his touch, until by the time Haruichi is panting himself back towards composure Ryosuke can’t bear to let him go, can only manage to shift his grip from Haruichi’s cock to his hip, to press sticky fingerprints into the small of Haruichi’s back and urge him up and closer. Haruichi arches into it, eager with his submission even without the aid of his heat to melt him into it, and Ryosuke ducks in to kiss at Haruichi’s throat, to press his lips in against the rhythm of the other’s heartbeat just under his skin. “Haruichi,” Ryosuke purrs, and he pulls Haruichi in closer, drawing the weight of the other’s body in against his to make a single form of them both, to center their balance in over his hips so he can pull Haruichi up against his chest without straining at the knot holding them together. Haruichi winds both arms around Ryosuke’s neck, and presses his head in close to the other’s shoulder; Ryosuke turns his head to breathe in deep against Haruichi’s hair, so nearly the shade of his own but a little longer, a little softer, a complement instead of a copy. “Hold onto me.” Haruichi does, without asking why, without waiting for clarification; and Ryosuke braces Haruichi against him, and gets heavily to his feet, and brings them both down the hallway to the bedroom without letting any part of Haruichi go. He pushes the door open with his shoulder, elbows at the lightswitch to fill the room with illumination; and then he steps forward to the bed, and drops to his knees at the end of it, and when he drops Haruichi to the soft of the sheets Ryosuke follows him down to press a kiss against the part of his lips. It has been long, long weeks since Ryosuke last saw Haruichi, since he last had the taste of his mate on his lips and the scent of Haruichi’s hair in his nose; and he makes up for all of them, riding out the rush of orgasm after orgasm while Haruichi shudders and pants with the force of them beneath him. Ryosuke can feel his thighs cramping, can feel the ache of muscles grown unaccustomed to this kind of use protesting the sudden exertion; but every time he comes the waves of pleasure just pull another in their wake, as if his body itself is begging for just one more every time he considers letting himself go slack with satisfaction. It’s impossible to draw away, not now that he has Haruichi back with him again; and then there’s Haruichi himself, with his eyes wide and clear of the almost drugged haze that comes with his heat, that desire so intense he can barely experience it as relief at all. Haruichi is present for every moment of this, the focus in his eyes an aphrodisiac as potent in its own way as the musk of his oncoming heat; and every moan Ryosuke pulls from him, every fluttering convulsion of pleasure he urges Haruichi into, he knows belongs to him alone, Haruichi’s arousal drawn from him by nothing more than the effect of Ryosuke’s words and Ryosuke’s touch. Ryosuke urges Haruichi into a second orgasm, a third, struggling through a fourth; until Haruichi is shaking helplessly beneath him, caught in the tremors of pleasure marked by nothing more than a few drops of come to spatter across the sticky mess of his stomach. Ryosuke’s long since lost count of his own -- he feels like he’s been coming since that first thrust forward, as if every quiver of Haruichi around him has milked another pulse of heat from his cock knotted inside the other’s body - - until it’s the easing that he feels more than the tension, as the force of arousal gripping him as tightly as Haruichi is clenching around his knot finally loosens enough for him to consider letting it go. “More,” Ryosuke says, down against the dip of Haruichi’s collarbones, where his lips are pressing the imprint of his teeth to the other’s skin to mark him outside as well as inside with his claim. “I’m going to give you more, Haruichi, I promise I will.” Haruichi’s fingers tighten in Ryosuke’s hair. “I know,” he says, his voice dragged raw over moans of heat and sensation and pleasure alike. “I know, aniki.” And Ryosuke shuts his eyes, and ducks his head, and feels himself soften into bone-deep satisfaction against the give of Haruichi’s body beneath him. The tension holding them together gives way as Ryosuke’s knot eases enough to let him slide free of the slick heat of Haruichi’s body, but Ryosuke doesn’t move to pull away, and Haruichi’s fingers don’t ease in his hair. They just stay as they are, pressing close as if to make up for the weeks apart all in one go; and then Ryosuke takes a breath at Haruichi’s shoulder, and sighs himself into resignation to the movement they ought to effect. He pushes up onto one elbow, shaking his hair back from his face so he can cast his gaze down over the sticky expanse of Haruichi’s body beneath him. “You’re a mess,” he declares, the words flat with the truth of his judgment. “Honestly, your alpha ought to take better care of you than this.” Haruichi’s breath gusts out of him in a startled laugh. “Aniki?” “I would never treat a mate so carelessly,” Ryosuke says without looking up from Haruichi’s stomach, where the spill of wet from the other’s orgasms is drying to a sticky shine around his navel and halfway up his chest. “You should be cleaned up first thing.” He lifts his hand to trail through the mess they’ve made; he can see Haruichi’s stomach flutter under his touch, can hear the catch of an inhale in the other’s throat as Ryosuke slides his fingers in and over the ticklish curve of Haruichi’s ribs. “And then put in a hot bath for a soak for your sore muscles.” He lifts his head to smile up from under his lashes at Haruichi. “While your alpha scrubs your back for you.” Haruichi’s mouth twitches at the corner, like he’s fighting back a smile he’s not quite sure he’s allowed to indulge in. Ryosuke lets his grin go wider in answer before he leans in towards that tremor against Haruichi’s lips. “I’ll take care of you tonight,” he murmurs as he leans in closer. “Thoroughly.” And he presses in to catch Haruichi’s mouth with his and hold back the huff of laughter in Haruichi’s throat against his own tongue. Ryosuke is as good as his word. They spend almost an hour in the bathroom, until finally Ryosuke leaves Haruichi to tip his head back against the lip of the tub and rest while he gets up to change the sheets on the bed. It takes a few minutes -- he has to find the spare ones in the closet, and bundle the mess they’ve made of the ones already there into the laundry to be washed at the end of Haruichi’s visit -- and by the time he’s back Haruichi is flushed pink from the steam and so drowsy Ryosuke has to dry his hair for him before walking him back around the corner to the bedroom. Haruichi tumbles into bed as quickly as Ryosuke draws back the sheets for him, curling up against the far edge of the mattress as if he’s already anticipating the curve of Ryosuke’s body matching to his; the sight makes Ryosuke smile before he pulls the blankets up over Haruichi to keep him warm while he doubles back out to turn off the lights in the rest of the house and bring Haruichi’s bag in from where they dropped it in the entryway. The bag goes just inside the door of the bedroom, Haruichi stirs enough to shift and stretch out a hand towards the door; and Ryosuke smiles, and turns off the light, and follows the guidance of Haruichi’s hand back to the warmth of the sheets and the soft of the bed. He fits himself in against Haruichi’s back, pressing his chest close against the angle of the other’s shoulders and letting his arm drape around Haruichi’s waist, and they fall asleep like that, with Haruichi’s hand clinging close as if to hold Ryosuke where he is even in sleep. Ryosuke wakes to warmth. More than warmth: heat, a fever, burning so bright against him he can feel the sheets sticking close to the sweat forming at his skin. He stirs against the blankets, blinking as he shakes the haze of sleep from his thoughts enough to bring himself to the present; and it’s as he moves his arm from around Haruichi that the other gasps, and shudders, and comes awake in a rush. His hair is sweat-dark at the back of his neck, Ryosuke can see it is; his hold on Ryosuke’s hand is shaky-tight, his whole body radiant as if he has summer sunlight coursing through him instead of blood. He’s trembling head to toe, his whole body tense against Ryosuke’s; and Ryosuke can taste him in the air, the sweet, musky scent that tells the story more clearly to his instincts than all the circumstantial evidence that Haruichi’s heat has broken over him. “Aniki,” Haruichi whimpers, his hold on Ryosuke’s hand tightening as he quivers against the bed, as his hips rock forward in pursuit of some kind of friction, some relief for the arousal hot against his skin, for the desire like fog in the air. When he rocks backwards it’s to grind himself against Ryosuke’s hips, his body seeking out the satisfaction of an alpha to mate him while his voice is still sleep-hazed in his throat. Haruichi gasps a breath, sounding like he’s struggling for air; his arm tightens to hold Ryosuke against him. “Are you...already?” “Ssh,” Ryosuke hums, drawing the sound long and heavy in the back of his throat. “I’ve got you.” And he lets his hand slide down to Haruichi’s hip, to set his fingers in against the prints he left last night, to brace Haruichi in place against the reflexive tremors of want running through him. “I told you yesterday,” he says, as he pushes Haruichi down over the sheets, pinning him in place so he can get a knee down between the other’s and rock up to line up the length of his heat-heavy cock with Haruichi’s entrance. “I’m going to take care of you, Haruichi. I promise.” And he presses forward to sate the demands of Haruichi’s ever-insistent instincts. However much he may tease him, Ryosuke’s never broken a promise to his brother, and he’s not about to start now. Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work!