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Cherry loved his bike. He absolutely loved riding as fast as possible in empty streets. You could say it was the only thing he lived for. Just the wind blowing on his face would make him smile. He could only do that in the middle of the night. So he always went to sleep early to wake up around one A.M and ride his bike till morning. It was a passion that no one knew about. Absolutely no one, he made the decision to keep it as a secret to make that thing only about him, he would sprint in the empty streets forgetting sometimes to be careful. Once he almost crashed, but that never took the fun out of his thing. It was the only moment of quiet he could enjoy.
This story takes place on one of those sleepless nights. Kaoru just took his bike out when he realised he had an important meeting the day after, so that meant that that night’s ride was gonna be shorter. He sighed as he put on his helmet. He quickly sped off. He was having a wholesome time, he kept speeding up and doing his usual tricks when he heard a roar. He slowed down thinking it was just gonna be a random car when he realised it was a bike that was coming at him. He sped up again, was he trying to surpass him? He wasn’t going to let that happen. The bike slowed and started riding along as him. Who was this random person following Cherry? He thought as he observed the vehicle. It wasn’t that bad after all. It had a shiny nameplate exposed. They were definitely going over the speed limit but he didn’t seem to care. Until they heard a familiar sound. Cop noises. “What the fuck?!” Shouted the nameless boy next to Cherry as he surpassed Cherry to escape. So did Kaouru. They ran off sone lonely road and accidentally ended up on a bridge. They slowed down and got off their bikes. They were weirdly coordinated.
Cherry took off his helmet. He was secretly hoping for a hot guy to be revealed under the helmet. So he waited patiently for him. Did he expect anyone except for the person that was actually under there? Absolutely. Was he extremely enthusiastic when he found out that his best friend / enemy was actually there? Kind of.
“What the fuck are you doing here?”
He asked to the green haired boy
“I was just riding and took a different route, you know I usually do this.”
Kaoru knew. They had the same hobby except Kojiro wasn’t aware of that. He didn’t reply.
“What about you” said he after a while
Kaoru kept quiet, he didn’t want the boy to find out of his thing, he was extremely conservative about it.
“Alright I won’t ask.”
Kojiro knew that Kaoru could be extremely private about things, and even though it angered him he tried his best to keep cool, he always felt the need to know everything about him.
Kaoru and Kojiro weren’t dating. They never had anything except for some drunk stolen kisses, never anything more than that. They were dumb enough to believe that the other forgot about the night before so they never talked about it and eventually forgot it even happened.
“Thank you.” Said Kaoru sitting on his bike and taking a small purse out of pocket. He was wearing a comfortable kimono with a black suit underneath.
“No problem, so how are you?” Said Kojiro turning to face him
“I’ve been doing good.” He took a pause to light a cigarette.
“Except for work, which is just stressful as usual.”
Kojiro looked at the man in white.
“You shouldn’t smoke. It’s bad you know?” He said with a grin
“It feels good.”
Kojiro had a shiver run down his spine as he weirdly blushed and turned around.
“Do you want to try?” Asked Kaour lending him a fag.
“I used to smoke but I stopped.”
“Why did you stop?”
“‘Cause …I just didn’t like it anymore.”
Kojiro stopped smoking as a response to Kaoru telling him he smelled like smoke and that it was bad for him. He just took that phrase very seriously, he didn’t expect Cherry to start smoking soon after that.
“Thats not how it works” he smiled.
“You told me they smelled bad once.”
Kaoru looked surprised
“And that’s why you stopped?”
“I think so, I hated that smell after all.”
Kaoru smiled as he threw the cigarette over the bridge with a flick
“Well that’s nice. You care about my opinions do you?”
Kojiro stayed silent, he didn’t feel like making fun of him, he was right after all.
“Sorry, I was teasing.”
Kaoru looked a bit worried
“I know” he laughed.
As they kept on talking Kojiro found the courage to ask the pinky to go back to his apartment for a drink. He happily agreed and they rode back to Joe’s.
“You haven’t been here in a while.”
Kaoru took off his purse and put down all of his stuff.
“I haven’t, still looks the same tho.”
Kaoru said looking around he loved Kojiro’s apartment. It was always clean and had a place for everything, books figures and everything, it looked like a warm place, mist of the furniture was made of wood, and he had a groot minifigure on his bookshelf which he loved to look at, he had a fun game, he always moved it some inches and every time Joe would walk by it he’d place it back exactly where it was, Cherry thought it was cute and admired his precision. He sat down on the sofa which had a black blanket on and some junkboxes on the sides.
“Oi, what do you prefer?”
Asked Kojiro from the kitchen.
“I don’t mind, you know my taste.”
“Alright, let me do the job.”
Kojiro said as he started pouring something.
Kaoru got comfy and pulled a nice grey blanket on his feet like he always did. He started browsing in his phone to cancel the meeting for tomorrow. He knew he was going to be there for a while, like it always was. They’d get drunk and do stupid shit, it was like a routine which he loved. Joe came back with two tall glasses of liquor and ice cubes, he put one on a glass rest and kept the other one in his hand, he then went to adjust his groot figure, which Kaoru giggled at, and then sat down next to him.
“So what am I drinking?”
Kaoru asked as he elegantly took the glass and wet his lips with.
“Good ol’ Jack Daniel’s, like always.”
Kaoru smiled as he drank some
“You know me so well”
He said with a deep voice
“I also have some very good wine I just know you’ll love!” Said Joe almost sounding excited
“Mhh” murmured Cherry with his mouth full.
“We always end up here, right? It almost became usual for me.”
Kojiro said looking deep in his eyes, Kaoru hated that, it made him feel weird like he was about to snort in a weird way and his throat would close up.
“I know” he said with a beam “We always end up drinking too much, and you always forget what happens.”
Kojiro laughed, he never forgot any of those casual make out sessions, but he faked to not make it weird, he himself never thought about them as something serious, just something that happens to everyone, which didn’t really happen to anyone but that was his mindset, he just enjoyed them. Time passed as they kept on chatting, it was around three A.M and both of them were just laughing together like always.
“Y-you know I always move that groot figure of yours just to see you move it back” Kaoru said not able to keep a serious face
“What!! That was you ! You fucking idiot!”
There was some silence, just two guys sitting on a couch at three AM staring at each other.
The silence slowly got awkward, full of tension and questioning. Maybe both of them were waiting for the other to make a move.
Kojiro looked around the room, his glass wasn’t on the glass rest, he reached over Kaoru’s area without thinking reaching for the glass. Kaoru mistook that movement and threw himself on Joe, he kissed him while his hands were still under his blanket, which he quickly pullet out to grab his hair and hold him close almost making him trapped under his hands. Joe on the other side was shocked at this quick movement of the other so he froze for a bit, he then realised that Kaoru was basically forcing himself onto him, so he decided to kiss back the drunk man.
After the kiss ended they both just stared at each other, Kaoru was just waiting for Kojiro to take him by his face like he always did and kiss him once again.
“Kaoru I… I”
He standed there observing every detail of the boy, starting from his beautiful hair now all messed up and his beautiful.. gorgeous lips that were plumped and red.
“You don’t have to talk. You can just go with the flow or make this even more weird than it already is.” Kojiro jumped from seeing the lips that he stared for years at move.
“You think this is weird,” Kaoru said without thinking.
“It feels weird but also familiar. And you can’t keep on lying Kaoru. We have done this before.”
Kaoru eyes lit up, so he did remember.
“You idiot. You never told me that you knew.”
Kojiro grinned
“You can’t really belive that I always seemed to forget everything that happens everytime you’re here.”
Kaoru smiled too, he was dumb for not realising it faster, really really dumb.
“I’m sorry, I should’ve told you.” Said kaoru
Kaoru was trying to keep himself together but he was pretty intoxicated, and a little bit horny.
So was Kojiro. He was waiting patiently for the right second to make a move, he wasn’t thinking and caring for the future and the days to come, all that mattered to him was just Kaoru, Cherry, whatever you call him, the guy he knew in all of his ways his goods and his flaws, he honestly just wanted him to make him his. He caressed Kaoru’s cheek as he leaned in closer
“Will you finally let me touch you the way you deserve?”
Kaoru nodded. Lost in his eyes. Kojiro had nothing else to care about. Everything he needed was there, he finally leaned closer and captured the pink lips in a long kiss