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Kagiura struggles to keep his eyes from fluttering shut as he listens to the sound of Hirano's pencil softly scratching against paper across the table from him while the clock ticks rhythmically.
He's been rendered exhausted from early practices throughout the entire week in preparation for the game he had played earlier that day.
It paid off because their team had won, but now he just wants to fall asleep and be awoken only by a kiss from his one true love or something else that would let him sleep for a hundred years.
After Kagiura almost faceplants into the study table, Hirano speaks up.
“You okay Kagi-kun? We can skip studying tonight and you can go straight to bed if you want.” He offers with a concerned look in his eyes.
His eyes are so beautiful, Kagiura could drown in them. But he snaps himself out of his dazed staring and lays his head on the table, looking up at his roommate with hooded eyes.
“But if I go to bed early, I'll have to wait until tomorrow night to spend time with you!” He pouts, Hirano having already submitted a form to leave the dorms tomorrow to go shopping with his classmates.
No, of course Kagiura wasn't jealous.
Hirano clicks his teeth and lifts Kagi's head off the table before standing up and moving the study table back to the corner of the room, sitting on Kagiura's bed with his legs hanging over the edge and patting the spot next to him with a “C'mere.”
Without thinking about it, Kagiura -rather than standing up- shuffles over on his knees and lays his head on the mattress next to Hirano's thigh, earning an amused exhale from his roommate.
“You're such an overgrown puppy, Kagi-kun!”
“Hehe.. maybe you should be my owner, Hirano-san.” He laughs softly
Hirano blushes, mentally calling him adorable before grinning from ear to ear and patting the taller boy on the head and messing with his hair, without a thought spared towards asking about using his ten seconds.
Kagiura would've reminded him if he was awake enough to remember their self imposed restriction. But he is way too tired to remember more than his own name, so instead he simply presses further into Hirano's hand, looking up at him with droopy eyes.
Hirano smiles and shifts Kagi's head up onto his lap, continuing to pet him like a dog.
“You had a really tough week, huh? All the early starts must've left you too exhausted to stand.” He starts scratching his scalp with blunt nails. “You did so well at your game today though, I'm proud of you Kagi-kun.” He praises, the kind words spilling from his lips without a second thought.
Kagiura can't help but blush, turning his face to hide it in Hirano's lap and whining exasperatedly, “Hirano-saaan! You're making me blush! Ahh.. I really love you..”
Hirano is glad Kagi isn't looking at him right now because if he did he'd see the way his cheeks turn pink at the adorably sleepy declaration of love. Maybe even notice how his heart skips a beat at the way he whines as if he's pretending not to enjoy the treatment. Hirano really spoils Kagiura far too much.
“Oi. Don't fall asleep like that or your neck will hurt in the morning!” Hirano takes notice of the fact he didn't even think to worry about his own sleep.
“Awww, but your lap is so comfortable, Hirano-san~ I wanna sleep here forever. Are you sure you need to sleep too?” He jokes as he reluctantly lifts himself off his roommate's lap and sits on the bed normally.
“I'm sure, you goofball.” Hirano giggles before standing up and pushing Kagi down so his head lays on a pillow instead of his lap. “Get some rest. With how tired you are, I'll probably be back by the time you wake up.”
Kagiura's eyes start to flutter shut before Hirano can even flip off the light switch. He mumbles a quiet “Love you, Hirano…” and drifts off before he can even add the honorific.
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“Jeeeez! Why'd we have to meet up so early?” Sasaki complains the moment he and Ogasawara are in earshot of Hirano, who's waiting at the station.
Hirano sighs. “Because I have to be back at the dorm by five.”
“Also it's not even that early, dude. It's like 9:30.” Ogasawara adds as they all start heading to the mall.
Sasaki groans. “That is early! I had to wake up at 8! On a Sunday! I didn't even have breakfast!”
Hirano lightly smacks Sasaki on the back of the head and walks ahead of him. “Well we can go somewhere to eat first then.”
After a breakfast that Hirano would consider more like a dessert than a nutritious meal, the three of them start wandering around the shopping mall, stopping whenever one of them spots a shop they wanna look at.
“Can we stop by the book shop?” Ogasawara sighs. “I promised Eimi I'd buy her BL before I could think to say no, and I don't feel like going back to school with an upset girlfriend.” He shivers in a way only the boyfriend of a fujoshi could understand.
“Oh yeah! I can buy something for Myaa-chan too!” Sasaki smiles, suddenly sounding a lot more chipper now that he's thinking about Miyano.
“You are way too excited about this.” Ogasawara groans.
“There's no way in hell I'm standing around in the BL section with you two.”
Sasaki smirks. “Coward.” He says with a shit eating grin.
“Have fun leaving us to get stared at by fujoshis I guess.”
“I will. You two make it quick.” Hirano leaves them to be judged by a jury of fangirls and enters the closest store that looks anywhere near interesting.
Nearby there are a lot of women's clothing stores (certainly not Hirano's style), a huge variety store (way too large for a quick browse), a few other shops that look uninteresting, and a pet shop. Hirano heads into the pet shop, figuring he can take a look at the fish until the guys are done.
He walks around the shop, trying to find wherever the fish were, until he stumbles upon the aisle with all the dog accessories.
His eye is drawn to a little basketball shaped chew toy. He huffs out an amused breath of air as he recalls how doglike his roommate acted when he was tired the previous night, and the way he offered himself up to Hirano.
‘Maybe you should be my owner, Hirano-san.’
Before he can take a second to think about the consequences of his actions, he's turning bright red and taking the chew toy off the shelf, as well as a blue dog collar, and suddenly he's checking out at the cash register.
“New puppy, huh?” The cashier smiles.
“Something like that..” Hirano offers weakly, as his brain starts catching up to him.
As he leaves the pet shop, he spots the others waiting for him outside the bookstore, their hands full of bags of BL. Or rather Sasaki's hands are full. Ogasawara opted to just buy one book in order to sate his ravenous fujoshi girlfriend's hunger for delinquent ukes or whatever he complains about when Hirano is too tired to listen.
“I can't believe you just bought like 5 volumes of that stuff! Where is your shame, dude?” Ogasawara asks, weakly.
Sasaki ignores him in favor of addressing Hirano's arrival. “What did you get? I thought pets weren't allowed in the dorms.”
Hirano stares at him for a second before his face grows bright red and he yells, “Mind your own business!” Before hiding the bag behind his back uselessly.
Ogasawara scoffs halfheartedly, “Dude, what is your deal? I'm having a crisis here.”
“He overheard the fujoshis calling him an uke.” Sasaki laughs.
“You were right, it's way too early for this.” Hirano complains.
Hirano makes sure to hide the impulsively purchased pet supplies in his closet the moment Kagiura goes to take a shower that night. He'll show him the new clothes he made sure to buy so the little bag with a collar in it wouldn't draw any attention. But if Kagi-kun asks, it's some random gift for a friend's birthday.
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Later that week, after lights out, Hirano and Kagiura decide, rather than heading to sleep right away, they should use their 10 seconds for the day first since they hadn't yet. So they sit together quietly on the floor.
“So… what do you wanna do with yours?” Hirano asks.
Kagiura rubs the back of his neck bashfully. “Well, uh, Remember how you pet me the other day..?”
Hirano goes bright red and his eyes dart to his closet. “Uh- I-I have no idea what you're talking about! But I'll, um, I'll pat your head if you want.”
Kagiura, who's always paying way too much attention to his roommate's face, instantly notices where his gaze is set.
“What are you looking at?” Kagi says, already getting up and going to open the closet.
Hirano debates standing up and getting him away from there, but he decides that would look too suspicious, so he opts to just stay where he is, drill a hole in the floor with his eyes, and hope Kagi doesn't find the bag.
“Why is there a bag from a pet store here?”
‘Shit.’ Hirano thinks, along with other expletives, as Kagiura takes the collar and the little squishy basketball out.
“E-eh!? Did your parents get a dog?” Kagiura yelps.
Hirano stays silent, hoping the ground will suddenly collapse and swallow him whole along with his dignity.
Kagi sits back down, collar and chew toy in hand. “Hirano-sa-”
“It was an impulse purchase, okay!?” Hirano yells as quietly as he can to avoid disturbing anyone.
Kagiura looks confused for a moment, before he realises why Hirano's face is so red.
“Oh…” Kagiura blushes as well, though not as much as Hirano, and he smiles.
‘Hirano-san was thinking about me, even while he was with his friends! Ahh I'm so happy my heart might explode..’
He can hear his heartbeat thumping in his head as he unclasps the collar, hesitantly raising it to his neck, his eyes trained on the object of his affection all the while.
Hirano looks back up at him just as he fastens the collar and leans forward, resting his hands on the floor between them.
Hirano is hyper-aware of both how loud his breathing is and how hot the tips of his ears feel. But he musters up the courage to lift a hand to his adorable kouhai's head and mess with his hair.
Kagiura presses his head further into Hirano's hand right away, giggling quietly. The corners of his eyes scrunch up in a satisfied smile as he speaks softly. “I bet you would make a great owne-”
“Dogs don't talk.” Hirano suddenly says, he turns his face away with that same angry look on his face that he gets whenever he's super embarrassed, and he continues carding through Kagi's hair.
Kagiura is taken aback, but the smile never leaves his face and he nods almost eagerly. He leans further forward, until eventually his forearms rest on the floor and he has to look up to see Hirano's face.
Hirano takes his hand away and covers his face with it. “It's definitely been ten seconds already.” He explains. “S-so you can stop acting now.”
“But-” Kagi goes to reply, but remembers what Hirano said, and suddenly he can't bring himself to disobey. He wants to tell Hirano he doesn't find it weird and that he doesn't want to stop, that he's enjoying it, that he wants to use his own ten seconds now. But he doesn't want to say a word because Hirano is right. Dogs don't know how to speak. So instead, he crawls forward and lays his head in Hirano's lap, looking up at him with his best puppy eyes.
Hirano inhales sharply and stares down at him, his breath stuttering. He lowers his hand back down onto Kagi's head and gently moves it to scratch behind his ear.
“Did you uh.. did you want that chew toy as well?”
Kagiura nods, smiling at him. ‘Ahh.. I’m so glad Hirano-san is relaxing!” He thinks as Hirano holds the chew toy up to him.
Kagiura hesitates. He knows Hirano means for him to pick it up with his hands, but after he'd mentioned that dogs don't talk, Kagi's mind latched onto it. He decides that dogs don't use their hands either, so he grabs the squishy basketball toy in his mouth and chews on it lightly.
Hirano makes a surprised noise before speaking, “You know you can speak, right? Sorry about yelling before I just.. what you were saying..” He trails off, not knowing how to explain that he was embarrassed without making himself even more embarrassed.
Unfortunately for Hirano, Kagi seems to have some kind of tunnel vision for commands that trainers give to dogs, so all he processes is the word ‘speak’. So instead of asking a question or clarifying how much he's enjoying the situation, (though, Hirano could easily guess that he finds the situation more appealing than the average person) he instead lets out an excited “Wan wan!” and accidentally drops the chew toy in the process
Hirano chuckles. He can't help but picture Kagi with a big fluffy tail, imagining it excitedly whacking the floor while it's wagging.
“Y'know, now that I think about it, once I get past the fact that I..” Hirano pauses for a moment to renew the blush that was slowly fading from his cheeks. “That I bought you a dog collar..” he moves his hand to scratch under Kagiura's chin, “Maybe.. I could get used to having a dog.”
Kagiura giggles and wraps his arms around Hirano's waist tightly, earning a matching laugh from his senpai.
Hirano shakes him lightly, prompting him to pay attention while he speaks.
“Wanna sit on my bed? The floor is-” he pauses to yawn, “-is fine but it's getting kinda late, don't you think?”
Kagi hugs him tighter for a moment before reluctantly letting go and allowing Hirano to stand up.
“C’mon, come sit. On the bed this time.”
Kagiura gingerly stands up on two legs and sits on the bed with Hirano, both of them resting their backs against the wall.
“You didn't do all that just because you thought I wanted it, right?” Hirano asks suddenly, guilt laced in his voice, he continues. “I mean- it's not like I hated it! I just..” before he can continue, Kagiura clicks open the collar and presses it into Hirano's hands. He grins and squeezes his hands before letting them go, belatedly realising how much longer than ten seconds he'd been touching Hirano.
“That was so fun, Hirano-san! Can we do that for our ten seconds tomorrow too?”
Hirano blushes for the millionth time that hour and sets down the collar on his headboard. “S-sure whatever, go to sleep.”
“Anything for the best owner in the world.”
“Shut uuuup.” Hirano groans and pushes his hand into Kagi's face to shut him up, only making him laugh in satisfaction.
Finally after a little more teasing from Kagiura and some complaining from Hirano, the two of them finally retire to their own beds, albeit unenthusiastically on Kagi's part. A promise to continue tomorrow granting him sweet dreams.
Meanwhile, the last thing Hirano's brain supplies before he dozes off is a belated, ‘Oh shit, is that what Miyano meant by puppydog seme?’