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The sweat gleamed off of Akito’s forehead as he held the note, harmonizing with his team before Toya sang the last line of the song. The choreography was done perfectly in sync with them as the end of Hollow played and they struck their final pose when the room went silent. After a few seconds the crowd erupted in cheers and applause.
An was the first to move towards the edge of the stage once they broke away from their stance. She shouted out to the crowd, “We are Vivid BAD SQUAD!, and we appreciate all of your support!” Akito, Toya, and Kohane followed after her and waved to the audience with smiles on their faces due to a successful performance. The show host continued after An, “What an amazing performance today, done by Vivid BAD SQUAD!! They could very well be the winners of tonight’s live show, but we’ll just have to wait and see!”
The team walked off stage happy with their performance. “Whoo! That was such a great show guys!”, An exclaimed while stretching her arms, “Especially you, Kohane, you hit those notes like a champ!”
“I agree, Shiraishi. Azusawa did a great job today,” Toya continued as he looked at Kohane. She giggled and replied, “Thanks, you guys! You all did amazing as well!”
Akito wasn’t fully paying attention to what his teammates were saying because his back was terribly sore. God, he was going to have to do something about that later, but he reached up to put his arm around Toya’s shoulders and ruffle his hair despite the pain, “But my Partner was the man of the night with his crazy good line at the end.”
Toya chuckled shyly at the praise and said, “Thanks, Akito.”
“Me and Kohane are going to head back out there to watch the last group, you guys coming with?”, An said, looking at the two boys. Even though it was his own fault for embracing Toya’s side, Akito winced as he brought his arm back down, “No, not yet, but we’ll be out there to watch the results.”
“Okay!”, A replied as she and Kohane left.
Toya turned and looked at him worriedly, “Why did you wince, are you okay? You seem like you’re in pain.”
Akito groaned slightly and replied, “Oh, I’m fine. Just having some minor back pain.” He lifted his arm to scratch the back of his neck and groaned more loudly at the movement.
He put his arm down defeatedly and sighed, “I’d kill for a massage or something, though.” Toya looked nervous at that for some reason.
“Um, I could give you a massage later if you want.”
“Really?”
Toya’s cheeks flushed lightly, “Yes. I have a bit of practice, as my brothers would sometimes ask for wrist massages because of their extensive piano practice.”
“I see… I guess that could probably work. As long it doesn’t cause you too much trouble.”
Toya shook his head, “No, it’d be perfectly fine, and I’d be happy to help out my Partner in any way I can.”
Akito chuckles softly and smiles, “Then sure. Thanks, Toya.”
Vivid BAD SQUAD! ended up winning the event, so they had a small celebration at Ken’s café. But Toya and Akito decided to leave a bit early to go to the Shinonome’s house for Akito’s long awaited massage, as he was really itching for the sore muscles to disappear.
They were walking to the Shinonome’s as the sun was setting in a comfortable silence when Akito asked, “Thanks again for doing this, Toya.”
Toya was a bit startled at the sudden noise, seemingly in his own world, “Oh, it’s really no problem, Akito, and I’m glad to be able to help you, like I said earlier.”
Akito thought about what a massage would feel like, as he had never had one before. Would it hurt? He wouldn’t imagine that. Why would some people pay a professional to do it if it hurt?
“Hey, Toya, what does a massage feel like anyway? I’ve never had one before.”
Toya looked like he was deep in thought for a few seconds until he answered, “It’s kind of hard to explain… My best answer is that it hurts a little bit, but mostly feels good. Especially when you get a particularly annoying knot out.”
“Interesting… Believe it or not, I’m kinda excited,” Akito said with a big smile.
“Really? It’s not that special.”
“Well, yeah. This back pain has been killing me almost all day, and I’m happy that it’ll finally be gone.”
He then hesitantly continued, “It’s also more time to spend with you,” and put his arm around Toya’s shoulder without thinking. Akito winced again, “Shit… I forgot…” He was too much in pain to notice the small blush that appeared on Toya’s cheeks.
They arrived at the Shinonome household shortly after, but it was dark outside when Akito opened the front door to the house.
To his surprise, and dismay, his sister was home.
Ena was taking pictures of a very bland looking salad to post to her social media account, obviously, because how could she not take pictures of anything that anyone wanted to take a glance at?
She looked up from her phone, her focused expression falling to one of annoyance, “Hello, Akito.”
“Why are you here?”, Akito asked, skipping the greeting altogether,
“Shouldn’t you be at school or something?”
“School was cut short today,” she said as she took one last picture of the salad. She then tilted her head to the side to see who Akito brought home, “And hello, Toya.”
“Good evening, Ena-san,” he said as he gave a slight smile to her. Akito grabbed Toya’s wrist and gently pulled him towards the stairwell, while glaring at Ena and saying, “We’re going to my room. Don’t bother us.”
She smirked at him and replied, “Okay, but don’t make too much noise up there, lovebirds.”
Akito turned his head as he was moving up the stairs to look at Ena and scoffed, “Y’know, I could say the same about you and Akiyama.”
She gave an annoyed but embarrassed look and mumbled back, “Oh, shut up.”
Akito opened the door to his room, still holding Toya’s wrist, but not noticing the pink tint to his face, “Sorry about Ena. She can be annoying as hell sometimes,” Akito said as he set his stuff down in the corner of the room and let go of the other to grab some clothes from his drawers.
He tossed a pair of shorts and a shirt to Toya, “Go change in the bathroom,” as well as getting a shirt for himself, and slid off his hoodie and undershirt with minimal groaning at the strain of his shoulder muscles.
He was about to put on his clean shirt when he looked up to see Toya staring at his chest, with red ears and pink cheeks. The sight dusted Akito’s own cheeks a light pink,
“What?”, he asked, slightly smiling, and partly wondering why it made his heart speed up.
“N-Nothing,” Toya replied as he looked away, “Just was a little surprised you changed in front of me.”
Akito breathed out a laugh and jokingly said, “Why? Did I make your heart skip a beat?”
Toya’s cheeks flushed a darker pink and he glanced at Akito before saying, “N-No.”
An awkward silence stood there for a few seconds before Toya continued, “I’m going to change now,” and he shuffled awkwardly to the bathroom.
‘That was weird. Toya doesn’t normally get embarrassed like that. Especially not over something as stupid as seeing me without a shirt…’ Although, he’s never been shirtless around Toya before, or seen how Toya reacts to anyone else being shirtless. Maybe it’s just the way he acts when that happens? But that’d be pretty strange for Toya since he’s so calm all the time.
By the time Akito finished his thoughts, he still hadn’t put his shirt on, and Toya was back in the room, staring at him yet again with a pink face, “Why are you still not wearing a shirt…?”
“Sorry. I got caught up in my thoughts while you were gone. I’ll put it on now,” Akito had his shirt around his arms and was about to put it on when Toya raised his voice,
“No! I-I mean, you don’t have to if you’d be more comfortable without it.” Now both his face and ears were bright red while he was looking down at the floor with a very embarrassed expression.
‘Why is he acting like this?’
“O-kay…” He decided to keep his shirt off this time and tossed it to the side of his dresser, mostly just to see what would happen with Toya, besides he wasn’t embarrassed about it. Why would he be? The only person who’d see him is Toya, and why we would he be uncomfortable around Toya? Toya is… Toya, his best friend, the person he’s most comfortable with on the planet, and Toya should feel the same way about him. So why didn’t he?
“Toya, are you okay? You’ve been acting pretty strange all day.” Akito sat on his bed and motioned for Toya to do the same,
“Yes, I’m fine.” Akito put a hand on his Partner’s shoulder, and turned his head so he was looking Toya in the eyes, “Y’know you can tell me anything, right? I mean, you’re kinda supposed to tell me everything because we’re partners and all, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to, of course. I just want you to know that I’m here to listen whenever you need.”
Akito gave him a small smile and the other returned the favor, “Yes, I know. Thank you, Akito. I feel a lot better.”
Akito scoffed and used the hand touching Toya’s shoulder to rub the back of his neck, ignoring the tight feeling in his shoulder, “Don’t get all sappy on me, now.”
“I was being sappy?”
“Yeah, just a little. But anyway, I’d like that massage now ‘cause my back and shoulders are still killing me.”
“Oh, yeah, I forgot.” Toya seemingly realized he wasn’t wearing a shirt again and turned a dark pink, “You’re not going to wear a shirt while I massage you?”
“Would it make you uncomfortable if I wasn’t? Because I can just put it on, it’s not that big of a deal.”
“No! It’s okay, really. Besides, I read somewhere that massages are supposed to be better when the person being massaged is without a shirt.”
“Alright. So what do I do now? Just lay down on my stomach?”
“Yeah, and relax your muscles.”
Akito did as instructed, and laid down on his bed with Toya sitting right beside him, as well as grabbed a pillow to support his head. He didn’t know where to put his arms, so he just put them to his sides.
This already felt pretty weird, and Toya hadn’t even started yet, but Akito didn’t know quite why. Was he… nervous? Toya’s voice brought him back to reality before he could dig any deeper, “Is it okay if I touch you now?” Akito gave an affirming grunt and shortly after he felt two calloused hands on his back.
He inhaled sharply at the sudden coldness of it, but quickly got used to them. At first Toya just rubbed up and down all around his back. It felt kinda nice.
After a few minutes Toya asked, “Where does it hurt the most?”
“Uh, probably my shoulders and upper back.”
“Hm, okay. That’s typically where it’s hurts the most to massage, and since you’re new to this, I’m going to start at your lower back and work my way up, okay?”
“Alright.”
Toya began pressing down on Akito’s back, making him let out a soft grunt. It stopped abruptly and Toya spoke with a worried tone, “Oh, I’m so sorry Akito. Was I pressing too hard?”
“No, you were fine! It felt… nice. Keep going.”
Akito could feel that Toya’s hands were now more hesitant, but he eventually fell back into the rhythm of massaging. It felt so… good. That was the only word he could use to describe it. The mixture of rough, cold hands against his warm, tense back was really nice.
Akito closed his eyes and tried to hold back as many soft grunts and moans as he could to not make Toya uncomfortable, but he couldn’t stop a few coming out every once and a while.
His Partner’s hands slowly moved up Akito’s back, the massage was becoming more painful, but he didn’t care. It just felt so good. It was like Toya described, except so much better than he expected. God, he wanted this to last forever.
Toya’s gentle hands were at the upper-middle part of his back, but all he could focus on was how Toya sometimes drifted down to the side of his body. That was almost the best part. He wanted Toya to feel every part of him. He wanted crevice of his body to be explored by Toya. His Partner.
Jesus Christ, this felt so good.
Akito never wanted this to end…
‘Shit, I think I’m getting turned on.’
Toya’s hands froze on his shoulder blades. Akito could feel his cheeks get extremely hot, and his heart rate increase by at least ten times than what it should be at. Fuck. He said that out loud.
Akito slowly opened his eyes and was about to start apologizing profusely and ushering him out of the house, but Toya spoke first, “I know what you’re going to say, but it’s okay.” Toya’s hands were moving across his back again, “I’ll keep going. I don’t care that you said that, and I don’t feel uncomfortable.”
It’s like Toya could read his mind.
He turned his head to look Toya in the eyes. His entire face being red, along with his ears, only made Akito blush harder.
He couldn’t understand how Toya’s face was so beautiful. How had he not noticed before? Was it because he was turned on that he was feeling this way? No. He had always felt this way, he was sure of it. This was just the push he needed to realize it.
He was hungry for Toya. Hungry to feel him move against his lips. He had been repressing this for way too long.
Toya opened his mouth, as if to say something, but Akito took this as his chance.
He spun around to grab Toya’s face and pressed his mouth against his own. Toya was shocked at first, but quickly leant into the kiss, just as hungry as Akito was.
Akito left one hand cupped on Toya’s face, but he let the other move to the back of Toya’s neck, pushing him even closer.
Toya put one arm around Akito’s waist, while the other wandered across his bare chest, making them impossibly close as they moved against each other‘s lips.
It was amazing. God, why hadn’t he done this sooner? This was everything Akito had ever wanted, but he still needed more. He needed to feel Toya everywhere he possibly could, so he pressed even harder into him, forcing Toya to fall back against his bed.
Barely being able to breathe, Akito pushed himself up and heaved air into his lungs. Toya did the same as he looked him in the eyes, and Akito couldn’t help but smile at Toya’s adorable, shocked, red face. “You have no idea how long I’ve wanted to do that…”, Toya said, breathing heavily.
Akito couldn’t stand just watching him look so beautiful like that, so Akito brought his face down to kiss him again. This time the kiss was softer, less hungry, but still just as good, if not better than the last one. Akito brought almost his whole body weight down onto Toya, but made sure not to crush him.
Their legs intertwined as Toya wrapped his arms tightly around Akito’s waist, not daring to let him go. This kiss was the best thing that had ever happened to him, there was no way Akito was going to let it end. Not yet.
Toya adjusted his head slightly to the side, giving Akito an opportunity to deepen the kiss by slotting his tongue into the other’s mouth. There was a faint taste of black coffee on Toya’s tongue, and though he normally wouldn’t even think about drinking plain coffee, he couldn’t get enough of the taste.
It was just so… Toya.
Akito wondered if the other could taste the pancakes he had earlier, but he didn’t think about it for too long because he was still breathing the same air as the most amazing man in the world, his Partner and best friend, but hopefully something more after this.
Toya gently pulled Akito away and he reluctantly pushed himself up slightly with his knees, still having his arms wrapped around Toya.
Not getting enough of Toya just yet, he pressed tiny kisses to the edge of his lips, and slowly made his way to Toya’s jaw, listening to the man below him giggle. Then went down to his neck, biting slightly on a few, liking how Toya softly moaned, before he stopped and pushed himself all the way up to look at the breathtaking man he was just kissing like his life depended on it, which it did.
Akito stared at him with a playful grin, and Toya smiled right back.
They just stared, taking in each other’s beauty for a few seconds until Toya said the words that Akito’d been wanting to hear this whole time,
“I’m so in love with you, Akito.”
Akito breathed out a laugh, “I told you to cut the sappy shit,” he said before climbing off of Toya and them both sitting up,
“But me too, Partner.”
They gazed into each other’s eyes, both of their faces bright red before Toya said with a chuckle, “Um, so did you enjoy the massage?”
Akito scoffed, “Hell yeah I did.”
He laid back on the headrest of the bed and motioned for Toya to follow.
Toya gladly did and held onto Akito’s waist while kissing him softly all over his face.
He can’t believe he had someone as wonderful as Toya-
Two quick knocks came from the door and it opened showing Ena looking at her phone,
“Hey, you two. Wanna get some cheese-”,
then she looked up in shock,
“OH. MY. GOD-”
“GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM, ENA!”