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Usually on days that it rains the heaviest, Kuramochi can be found playing video games while Sawamura loudly complains about the weather. Tonight was different. They had visitors and it was more unexpected than usual. What Kuramochi actually assumed was that he would still be able to play his video games but with distractions, however that was not the case for tonight.
It would have been better if they could've gone to Miyuki's room but that didn't happen either. Six people were in the room and they were going to stay until the next morning since they were that bored. It wasn't quiet, at least not when they were about to play a game that Miyuki had suggested. Of course it would be something wild just for the fun of it. It's not like they had anything better to do.
Ryousuke, Haruichi, and Sawamura were each holding on to cherry stems. They were paired of with Kuramochi, Furuya, and Miyuki.
Some knew what they were doing, others were confused. Furuya and Sawamura were the only ones that didn't understand what was the point of playing a game with a cherry stem. Haruichi's face was bright red from the embarrassment. Ryousuke and Miyuki were the only two who were ready to participate in this minor competition while Kuramochi groaned about how obnoxious this was.
"Okay, so we only get one chance because there's only three stems, so you know, take it seriously." Miyuki said as he held his stopwatch.
Sawamura stared at the cherry stem between his fingers; he twirled it around and thought quietly to himself because it really wasn't making sense. He wanted to know why Haruichi was blushing and why Ryousuke was laughing darkly. Plus Kuramochi was upset too. Sawamura was curious. What was this game that Miyuki suggested? Sawamura continued to think. It took him a second, but the game finally clicked. He took a large breath as his eyes widened.
"Onii-san!" Sawamura raised his hand up in the air quickly, getting Ryousuke's attention. "Trade places with me." he begged.
"No." He and Kuramochi said together.
The game was a kissing game. The objective was to tie the knot of a cherry stem in partners which means teamwork. Kuramochi was with Ryousuke, Haruichi was with Furuya, and Miyuki was with Sawamura.
Miyuki laughed darkly as Sawamura grumbled to himself. If Sawamura was mad now, he was going to be extremely pissed off when Miyuki forced him to do things the way he wanted it done. Miyuki already knew he could tie the stem himself and he was sure Sawamura would only slow him down, so he planned to use Sawamura to his advantage. Sawamura was watching Miyuki laugh because he was aware that he was about to be used.
The only competition Miyuki was worried about was Ryousuke. Miyuki knew he was sharp tongued and had a bad mouth. Even with that innocent look of his, he couldn't hide what he was really capable of. Ryousuke didn't have to say anything to intimidate Miyuki, him just sitting across the room from him was enough.
"So who wants to go first?" Miyuki asked, a smile on his face as he looked around.
Haruichi and Furuya didn't dare move. They didn't say a word either. They definitely were not going first as long as they could help it. Kuramochi was shrinking into the silence as well. Of all days, this was not the day to get close to someone, especially Ryousuke.
"We'll go first." Ryousuke volunteered.
Kuramochi looked at him quickly in shock. Going first was not his plan. "Ryou-san! No-"
"Might as well set the bar high." Ryousuke said.
Already he knew he would be the fastest at tying the cherry stem. Having Kuramochi as a partner could only make things go faster. Kuramochi on the other hand was sweating bullets. He didn't need the other four watching him kiss Ryousuke. If anything, it should be done in private in a better setting. He didn't want to settle for right here right now.
"You can do this, cheetah!-" Sawamura just about shouted but Miyuki got him to put his hand down and shut up because he was rooting for their rival.
"Shut up." Kuramochi said through pursed lips as he looked away.
He didn't have a way to hide his blush. The rest of them could see it. When Ryousuke noticed, he could only smile. Kuramochi was definitely going to have a hard time with him if he was going to be nervous. The last thing Kuramochi needs is Ryousuke to tell him he sucked at kissing. So slowly, he put his arm over Ryousuke's crossed legs and leaned closer after taking the cherry stem and placing it on his tongue.
Once he was kissing Ryousuke, the cherry stem disappeared.
Miyuki started the timer the second he saw contact. He laughed at the sight of seeing Kuramochi dive right in. Ryousuke wasn't taking this lightly either. Miyuki would laugh harder but he couldn't ruin their concentration, even if it meant he could do better than them.
The two kissing worked together to tie the stem; it moved between their tongues and their teeth. It was hard enough to tie the stem, it was even harder to do it with someone else. What made it difficult was getting distracted. Kuramochi was really having trouble within the first ten seconds and he hoped that Ryousuke didn't kill him for it; he did his best to focus but then he continued to remind himself that he was kissing Ryousuke. He was forgetting about the stem with each passing second.
No one could tell.
Kuramochi didn't clench his fingers to fist despite needing another way to control himself. Ryousuke wasn't surprised to feel Kuramochi's sudden hesitation.
The only way to get him to focus, well, Ryousuke decided to bite his tongue to get him back from the clouds. The stem was pressed inside his cheek but Kuramochi was the one to move it forward with his tongue. The pain hurt enough to shock him, but he didn't groan or flinch. His tongue was numb for only five seconds more as he held the stem, feeling Ryousuke's teeth pull the stem.
Their lips would brush against each other's more often than not. They couldn't help it when they couldn't move away; the only solution was to try to handle the stem. Between the two of them, Kuramochi was the only one that was blushing. It would have been a great moment to tease him some more but Ryousuke had other things on his mind. It was great to kiss Kuramochi, at least to him, but the cherry stem was still between their lips and they had to do something about it.
It wasn't difficult to tie the stem but it was annoying for seconds at a time.
It moved between both their mouths until finally they had it tied.
They moved away from each other when they were done. Kuramochi used the sleeve of his sweatshirt to wipe his lips while he looked across the room. Ryousuke had a smile on his face; he stuck his tongue out and showed the tied stem.
"Forty seconds." Miyuki said.
Haruichi was extremely proud of his older brother. He wanted to be just like Ryousuke and aim for forty seconds or maybe even better. He looked over to Furuya but saw that he was barely paying attention. He was in a daze already, thinking about how he was going to survive the challenge. Should he kiss Haruichi? Should he not? What does that have to do with baseball?
Meanwhile, Sawamura couldn't hide his excitement.
"We can totally beat that." Sawamura said, getting pumped up for his time finally. His hands moved to fists and he shook his arms.
When he turned to Miyuki though, he lost his smile and put his hands down. Just looking at Miyuki's face was enough to bring down his mood. It wasn't helping that Miyuki had a smile on his face. It's not like Sawamura didn't know Miyuki was really going to go for it. He just didn't want to. Miyuki kept smiling at him.
"What?" Miyuki asked, but he knew.
"I don't like you." Sawamura had to get that out there; he kept his glare as he put the stem in his mouth.
"Mhm. That's fine." Miyuki tossed the stopwatch to Kuramochi before he grabbed Sawamura.
His hands took hold of Sawamura's jacket and pulled him forward forcefully. Miyuki wasn't gentle when he kissed Sawamura. Already he was getting straight to the point of it. His tongue was already moving in Sawamura's mouth, lifting the cherry stem so he could bend it. His fingers never let go of the thick clothes Sawamura was wearing, in fact, he just grabbed harder since Sawamura was struggling.
It's not like Sawamura would be grateful that Miyuki Kazuya was forcefully kissing him.
Sawamura could barely do anything and it was aggravating him. Miyuki knew what he was doing. He didn't need Sawamura getting overzealous so he was going to control him as much as he could. There was a need for him to get better than forty seconds. Sawamura just had to let it happen, he just had to let Miyuki stick his tongue in his mouth.
Still, it angered him because he did want to breathe.
Miyuki was making this more difficult than it needed to be.
"There's no reason for you to be like this, Miyuki." Kuramochi mentioned, breaking the not-so-silent moment. They could easily be heard; the heavy breaths, the moments their lips touched, all of it.
The other four were watching, two were blushing. Ryousuke couldn't help but smile as he watched Miyuki completely dominate over Sawamura; he regretted that he didn't take his chances with Kuramochi. It would be a fun experience. Kuramochi was seconds away from throwing a pillow at them to get Miyuki to stop being so forceful. His face was glowing red just like Haruichi's. And this time, Furuya was definitely paying attention.
Miyuki had to grip on to Sawamura's face to get him to stop moving. When he tried to pull away, Miyuki's fingers held his face and kept him from going any further. He was not going to let Sawamura ruin it for him.
Sawamura could only help when Miyuki wanted him to. The cherry stem would just barely brush against his tongue and teeth. Miyuki was the one moving it around to get it to fold. He thought it wasn't taking him long but he didn't see the time on the stop watch.
Ten seconds became twenty seconds, and twenty seconds became thirty.
Sawamura was just trying to keep calm. Miyuki wasn't giving him a chance to breathe. The kiss was so sloppy that Sawamura began drooling and he really couldn't do anything about it. He kept his hands down on the floor but Miyuki was getting touchy. It was bothersome. At least for Sawamura.
He groaned miserably and Miyuki moved his hand to grab a fistful of his hair, trying to cause pain to get Sawamura to bite down on the cherry stem that was on his bottom set of teeth. When Miyuki clenched his teeth down as well on the other small piece of the stem, he pulled Sawamura's head back so he could tighten the knot on the stem. Sawamura growled from the pain, opening his eyes to glare at Miyuki but there was not much more he could do.
Miyuki let go of Sawamura and let go of the stem that was between Sawamura's clenched teeth. He used his fingers to snatch it out from Sawamura's teeth.
"Forty-seven seconds." Ryousuke said.
Miyuki did not like the sound of that.
"Fucking-"
"This is your fault." Sawamura said loudly at Miyuki.
"Clearly, you've been waiting to stick your tongue down Sawamura's throat." Kuramochi crossed his arms and sighed, shaking his head. He just couldn't watch but he did. He thought Miyuki needed to chill out.
"The good thing is that this knot is perfection." Miyuki held it up.
The knot was tighter than the knot on Kuramochi's cherry stem. Although Kuramochi and Ryousuke were faster, Miyuki and Sawamura had a knot that was nicely done.
Now Haruichi and Furuya had to beat that. They looked at each other quietly. Haruichi wasn't sure if Furuya was ready since he did look dazed. The one thing he knew was that he needed to be as good as his brother, if not better. It took Furuya a few seconds but his determination finally blew into flames and he was ready to give it a try. He was more concerned with doing better than Sawamura because he knew he could do it.
Sawamura shouted loudly, "You can do this, Harucchi!-" before getting hit in the face with a pillow.
"Shut up!" Kuramochi said through his teeth.
"This isn't so hard, right, Furuya?" Haruichi turned to Furuya again as he held the cherry stem up. Furuya nodded enthusiastically before moving closer to Haruichi.
The rest of them thought Furuya and Haruichi weren't going to live up to the expectations. At least Sawamura was cheering them on. The purest two in the room were paired together and it was a bit worrying just to see if they could tie the knot, more so than if they could tie it the fastest.
What the others weren't expecting was to see how serious Haruichi and Furuya were about doing this.
Kuramochi thought Miyuki was the most provocative before, but Haruichi and Furuya were definitely something else. Provocative was an understatement. The only two people who didn't think of this game as extreme kissing was Furuya and Haruichi, the others however were stunned. They could easily see the cherry stem pushing up against both Furuya and Haruichi's tongues.
It was mostly tongue. It was mostly heavy breathing from being flustered. In the end, Haruichi would be red up to his ears, and Furuya would want to shy away just because it's not something he's used to. They concentrated as much as they could while they got the stem to fold and bend the way they needed it to.
If they had to, their lips would press together and they would pull on the stem. Before they knew it, they were back to folding their tongues together.
Everyone could see the stem again. It's not like Furuya and Haruichi were trying to hide it.
It was passed between them, going back and forth while it curved. Their teeth came down when they needed to pull the knot but they hadn't stopped just yet. They were constantly biting each other with the stem pressing on their lips. It wasn't easy to hide the embarrassment even now; their cheeks were feint red, enough to show how this was pushing their limits. Yet they were passing the stem around easily like it was nothing. They had no problem showing it either. The others had to keep their mouths shut and swallow down whatever they were feeling. It wasn't like they believed that Furuya and Haruichi were the ones that would make them hot but here they were doing just that.
Miyuki stared in disbelief; in his mind, he wondered why he didn't pick either of them. And Sawamura, well, he couldn't look away. He was gawking hard at the view in front of him. When Kuramochi stared too much, Ryousuke was the one to nudge him and make him look somewhere else; Kuramochi would glance back however because he just couldn't believe it. Ryousuke knew his brother would be an issue but he would never say anything about it. That was just how Haruichi was, he needed to be like his brother and maybe even surpass him. And what better way to do that than by kissing Furuya? It was as simple as that. The others could stare and mutter to themselves all they wanted, but it didn't hide the fact that they were beginning to get worried about those two that were sitting close to each other and passing a cherry stem around.
They kept going because they could, and because they wanted to.
Furuya and Haruichi were making the others sweat. A lot.
At forty seconds, they weren't close to pulling away. There was no time limit, but it was definitely pushing it when it was forty-five seconds. The others thought they were struggling, after all, they weren't the fastest.
At forty-nine seconds, Haruichi and Furuya pulled away from each other. They were hesitant to look to the four that were staring at them with wide eyes. Now it was time to show results. Haruichi took out the cherry stem in his mouth and held it up for the rest of them to see.
"What the fuck?" Kuramochi spoke his disbelief.
"Damn..." Miyuki was just as shocked.
Furuya and Haruichi managed to tie two knots with the cherry stem they had, and they did it in forty-nine seconds. That was saying a lot about the two of them. Haruichi was still blushing up to his ears as the others looked at the two of them in complete and utter shock.
"Harucchi...no..." Sawamura breathed out. He believed that Haruichi was pure but seeing that let him know that wasn't true.
Kuramochi and Ryousuke might have been the fastest, Miyuki and Sawamura might have been more precise, but Furuya and Haruichi definitely had more skill.
"Nice one," Ryousuke said to Haruichi although he was slightly annoyed.
Haruichi didn't noticed though. He was so happy that his older brother had something sweet to say to him. He couldn't help but smile widely at him, being proud that he got approval.
Four of the six were thinking the same thought: if they ever decided to do this again, they were going to have to split Furuya and Haruichi up.