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It was middle of winter, their break from lectures begun, and Hide was shivering. What did her do to deserve this? - Besides pranking Kaneki and a few other people on the campus he was being a good person. He definitely did not deserve such cruelty.
He looked around the room, where the hell was Kaneki? He didn't see him leave, but then again, he wasn't sure if he was even there when he woke up. All he did do when he woke up was shiver and pile a bunch of blankets on top of him.
That reminded him. He really needed to pee.
But was it really worth getting turned into an ice popsicle just to go to the toilet. If their dorms had toilets in the dorm rooms, that would have been great! But no, it was a cheap dorm, and the toilets were shared, and their room just happened to be on the other side of the floor. The laundry room was right next to theirs, but that wasn't important, was it?
Hide glanced at the phone on his night stand and reached his hand out, grabbing the object and feeling the icy air assault his naked skin. He retreated under his covers, fingers flying over the touch screen phone, pressing down on digits and inwardly panicking at the red battery, a white 6% written next to it.
The next thing he knows, or rather hears, is a lock turning in the door of his shared room. He rubs his eyes, peeking out from under the pile of blankets, a blurry image of someone stepping in the room was the only thing his mind registered. "'aneki is that you?" He muttered, rubbing his eyes, trying to adjust to the lightning, since under covers it was dark.
"Yeah, Hide. It's me. Did you just wake up?" Kaneki asked, his voice soft and Hide could sense a smile behind those words. He heard light footsteps against the wooden floors, and crinkling of a... plastic bag?
"What time is it?" The blonde decided to ask, seemingly as his phone wouldn't turn on, his battery having finally died. At least Kaneki was back, and seemed un-fazed with the cold with his jacket, gloves, a hat and a scarf wrapped around his neck.
"It's after 3, I went out shopping." Kaneki informed, pulling out a medium sized box from a plastic bag. Hide sat up, keeping the covers around him, it was still cold, and trying to see over Kaneki's shoulder what it was that he was carrying.
"What's that?" He asked, unable to contain his curiosity.
"A portable heater, it was on sale today at the market down town." The dark-haired boy informed, opening the box and pulling out the object. It didn't seem heavy, but it looked heavy enough to cause the college student problems.
"Need any help?" Hide asked, though he wasn't too keen on leaving his warm confines, but Kaneki shook his head, placing it near Hide's bed where a socket was located. "And why did you go out of your way to buy one? They should fix our heating soon, right?"
Kaneki plugged the heater in, turning it on and staring at it for a moment before standing up and sitting on the edge of Hide's bed. "I woke up this morning and went down to find out what happened. Turned out a prank by one of the other freshman's broke the main heating system and it's gonna take them a few days to fix it. Surely, you don't want to stay in this state all of your break, no?"
"Ah, Kaneki, you're a life saver!" Hide cried, pulling Kaneki into his cocoon and wrapping his arms around his waist. "Now sit with me until it get's warm." Somehow, Hide managed to ignore the coldness that latched onto Kaneki's clothes.
He heard Kaneki sigh, shaking his head before leaning back. "Hide, you're way too touchy right now. It's cold and I'm still in my outside clothes. At least let me take them off." Grumbling, Hide let Kaneki go, wrapping the blankets back around him and watching Kaneki unfold the scarf, and slowly fold, then he slowly peeled of the gloves and finally he shrugged of his jacket. It was frustrating for Hide to watch. When he was done, Hide opened his cocoon. "Come in right now. It's cold."
"Hide, you're cold because you slept in your boxers only. If you bothered to put something on, you wouldn't be so cold." Kaneki accused, pouting, but he crawled in with Hide, a soft blush creeping into his cheeks.
"Ahhh, man, this is so much better." Hide smiled, pulling Kaneki into his chest and laying down. "Now, everyday until heating is fixed, you're sleeping with me. Two bodies warm each other up, right? Though it's be best if we were both naked..."He trailed off, feeling a murderous intent and instead laughed. "Or not. So, how was your day?"
"It was fine. I woke up later than usual, went to hand in assignment early and went shopping where I got us a heater. Yours?"
Ah, you know! Saving the world and other things! Unfortunately for you, it's top secret so I can't go into details, but there was this hot chick, from the seniors, and she fell in love with me, and then I came back and took a nap." Hide grinned.
"Well, Hero-Hide, how nice of you to win yourself a potential date. Maybe that will stop your night invasions into my bed, eh?" He could tell that Kaneki was mocking him but his cheeks flared up anyway.
"S-shut up, delusional Kaneki. I sleep with you, because you call my name in your sleep, so I take pity on you, duh!"
"Of course, Hero-Hide."
"Shut up and go sleep."
"It's not even 4."
"But there's nothing to do."
"Do your college work, read a book, maybe you sleep, while I do something else?"
"Nope, you're staying here in my arms, where it's warm. And also, because you add extra warmth, since your sweaters are real nice."
"Hide." Kaneki warned.
In the end, Kaneki managed to get away from Hide's grasp when the blonde fell asleep, and watched him for a while before reading a book. During the night, however, he was pulled straight into bed and his pleas of 'Hide, brush your teeth at least' were ignored by the snoring blonde.