Behind Gentle Blue Eyes

Puffs of Fire [HP5]

quantumkurogane:

Sulky was way better than self-doubting. He knew how to deal with sulky. All boys he knew were sulky all the time, himself included. After rescuing Murasaki, it would be fine with him if Yuui didn’t want to ride a broom ever again in his life.

“You look like you have a lot of bandaids in your face”, Kurogane, not exactely the king of comedy, said and one corner of his mouth rose into a smirk.

Yuui lets out a giggle at Kurogane’s try at a counter. It was sort of cute. He even looked sort of proud of himself over it too. “Let us train a little more! If you are sure I will live with all this damage we can try more!”

He jumps to his feet, psyching himself up a little as he was not going to lose now. Then he runs over to the broom, slowly getting up from the ground, before it starts twitching under him. The shocked Yuui giving a undignified meep before he hits the ground hard.

“Or we call it a day and get some food?”

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quantumkurogane:

Kurogane sighed at their miscommunication. “What I meant was bringing Murasaki home, not the Quidditch team”, he said, unfolded his arms and applied the last bandaid to a scratch on Yuui’s forehead. “You looked at me like you don’t believe you can do it.” He lowered his hand again and tilted his head a bit to the side, narrowing his eyes at Yuui whose face was plastered with bandaids now. His friend looked kind of funny.

He hadn’t thought about joining the Quidditch team, he only told the other Gryffindors about that when they asked why they were training on their brooms. But after training so much now, he had to admit that flying a real broom was fun to him. He had played Quidditch with a child broom back at his home village, but that hadn’t been that much fun because all the other kids had been shorter and weaker than Kurogane, and the child brooms barely lifted off into the air. Maybe he would try it in a few years, if Yuui cheered him on.

“You’ve been brave since we met last summer, don’t give up now”, he said. He needed his friend in best condition, or they would be screwed in a few days.

Yuui gives a new pout. “I can do that. I will probably stumble and roll around a few times in the air, but I can do it. But after that I don’t want to do it for anything else than a crisis! Or school... as long as I am not sick those days.” Thinking over it, he might find some way to be sick those days. Then they could save on band-aids. “How horrible do I look? Will I live?” A try at a joke, as he felt like he couldn’t move his face anymore because he had band-aids all over it.

Then Kurogane praises him for being brave, and he feels his cheeks flush up as he looks happy down. It felt really nice when Kurogane bragged about him. Since no one else than his parents had ever done that and meant it this much. Kurogane was just the best person in the world!

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quantumkurogane:

When Yuui reacted to his words with sulking, Kurogane crossed his arms as well, another bandaid peaking out of his right hand, and he looked his friend straight in the eyes, his brows furrowed a little.

“Come on”, he said almost sternly, a tone he hadn’t used on Yuui ever before. It was the tone he had used with some of the younger boys in his friends group back at the village, and seldom Tomoyo. It sounded a bit like his dad when he was being stern with Kurogane, and maybe sounded a bit beyond his age, the tone of a boy who had to take a lot of responsibility before, or of an older sibling. “Don’t be like that.”

It hadn’t been Yuui’s style ever since he got sorted to Gryffindor to doubt himself as much anymore when they were going on an adventure. With Yuui, it seemed he could only be almost delusionally optimistic or absolutely pessimistic, there was no inbetween. But Kurogane really would prefer the optimism right now, since he himself was really nervous about all of this as well.

Yuui keeps fuming as Kurogane grew stern with him. He understood he was probably feeling like he was whining when he said he didn’t want to start quidditch, but he really had no interest in it. He had only done his best to learn it now so he could help out Murasaki.

“It is not like that.” Yuui pouts in the end, as he didn’t like Kurogane being stern with him. He felt like he had done something bad and Kurogane was disappointed in him. “I just don’t like it. I have never liked sports much. So when we can start trying out for the teams, I really don’t want to. I want to do potions and stuff instead! That sounds a lot more fun! And cheering on you and the team also sounds a lot more fun for me, and safer.”

He pauses a little, as he really hoped he wasn’t coming off as a whimpy kid. He had heard that a lot when he never wanted to do sports, but would rather do other things.

“I’m sorry... I bet you wanted us to get into the team together.”

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quantumkurogane:

“Look at how much better you got already”, Kurogane said, slipping the paper off a bandaid and pressing it to a small scratch on the back of Yuui’s nose, while they sat on one of the benches next to the quidditch field.

“If we keep going and train the rest of the week, I’m sure you can do it.” Then, this weekend, it was the night of the full moon.

At the warm words and support, Yuui looks pitiful over at his friend. Beaten and bruised and quite sure Kurogane was just saying it to be nice. When this was over he never wanted to ride a broom again. He only did this for Murasaki!

“I am never going to start quidditch! I will just cheer for the team from the ground. Where I am safe and can’t fall.” Yuui huffs, as he folds his hands determined over his own resolve.

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quantumkurogane:

“That would be awesome”, Kurogane agreed.

They still had about two weeks until the next full moon, which they spent with planning a route, designing a carrying mechanism for Murasaki which could be attached between their broomsticks and would hide her as well, and the largest chunk of the time they trained riding broomsticks. The weather wasn’t always that nice for flying training, but that was good, as well; who knew what the weather would be like on the night of their mission.

“Why are you guys training on your brooms everyday?”, Caleb asked them after they announced that they were going to train to fly after dinner on a particularly rainy and stormy day.

“We want to join the Quidditch team”, Kurogane lied. By now, the lie was well practised, so he managed to pull it off pretty well.

“First years aren’t even allowed to join”, Bill commented.

“The more we train, the better our chance later”, Kurogane explained.

Bill and Caleb looked at each other and shrugged, and Yuui and Kurogane left for the Quidditch field.

Training broomstick flying was the worst for Yuui. He just wasn’t any good at it at all. He usually ended up falling over and hitting himself quite hard, but he would always get up again. Even if he was small and weak looking, he could take a beating if he wanted to do something. He usually didn’t give up on anything he knew depended on just his own strength.

In the end he was at least able to keep from falling off long enough for them to fly places, and he decided that it was good enough for their trip, as he was feeling too ashamed about going to get patched up now he were covered in band aids.

When people asked about what they were doing, he usually just let Kurogane tell them, as he couldn’t tell lies. He were horrible at it. But he had decided he would try getting better later, so he could help out when they had to make up stories as well.

“Do you really think I am going to be able to fly that far? I keep falling off the broom...”

Character assassination

quantumkurogane:

Kurogane was about to say that if anyone wanted to try to say anything about Yuui joining Kurogane’s lecture and not going to his own, they would be welcome to direct their complaints to Kurogane’s death glare first, but since Yuui immediately took his offer of staying home with him, the point would be moot, anyway, so he simply nodded. “Of course.” Maybe he could get Yuui to take a walk to the campus with him on the weekend to meet some of their classmates in the dormitory.

Kurogane brushed gently over the back of Yuui’s head to help him to hopefully wind down a bit. He hated how he couldn’t really do anything to take Yuui’s mind off this crap. Except of becoming a neurosurgeon and finally fixing the headaches, probably. Even though he doubted that the doctors couldn’t help Yuui out of incompetence. Kurogane hated it. He hated it when his mother was incurably sick, and he hated that it happened again to someone he loved.

It’s not incurable, Kurogane scolded himself for his thoughts wandering off. Stop overexaggerating.

“Do you want me to call Hana and tell her everything’s fine?”, Kurogane asked. Maybe Yuui didn’t want to put up with it, but Kurogane was kind of expecting that she’d send noisy messages sooner or later if they didn’t properly work through the issue with her first.

He looked at the clock. It was still early afternoon. “Let’s go grocery shopping first”, he said. Maybe he could coax Yuui into getting some fresh air now that he came home early from uni.

He sort of hated himself a little as he felt relieved over Kurogane promising to stay at home with him. He for a moment felt horribly selfish for even thinking it was a good thing for Kurogane to cut school. It meant he was starting to keep Kurogane from things he should not keep him from. He imagined that Kurogane did stop doing a lot of things he always did to come faster home to him. He probably suffered a lot of worry the days he weren’t at home to keep his eyes on him as well.

Yuui closes his eyes and just tries to enjoy the gentle brushes over the back of his head, but it just made everything worse right now. He felt worthless in all of this. He was actively making Kurogane’s life harder for each moment he was there.

If it continued like this, he wondered if it would be better for Kurogane in the long run if he just... wasn’t there?

He had almost forgotten about the fact Hana were freaking out earlier when Kurogane mentioned her again. He really didn’t want to have to make Kurogane deal with her when he knew Kurogane didn’t really like her to begin with, but he also knew she probably wouldn’t be possible to talk to for him right now.

“Just what can you tell her then?” He gives a defeated sigh. “Just tell her I am a horrible drunk or something. Maybe she will buy it?” Because he was sure himself that he wasn’t that bad of a drunk. He just became a cat. At least no one had said anything else to him afterwards.

Then Kurogane wanted them to get out a little, and to be honest, it was the last thing in the world that Yuui wanted right now, but he hated the options. Either he went with Kurogane, and he would be tired, or Kurogane went alone, and he would be alone there until he came back again. The last option was not getting any groceries, and then they would starve.

“Just let me clean myself up a little, and we can go get something to eat.” He was a little hungry when he thought about it.

#character assassination

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quantumkurogane:

Kurogane wasn’t keen on getting expelled, which would probably really disappoint his parents. But if they did it smartly, they wouldn’t get caught. Maybe Yuui, who was still excited, didn’t mind the thought as much since he didn’t grow up as a wizard in a magical community, but for Kurogane it would be pretty unthinkable to have to give up his wand and magic.

He remembered what his mother told him shortly before the Hogwarts Express left King’s Cross: Don’t get into any trouble, unless it’s worth it. His mother would probably agree that saving Murasaki would be worth it, wouldn’t she?

“Let’s just not get caught”, Kurogane said and nodded determined. “We’ll do it in the night of the next full moon. Then we have more light”, he said. “Okay?”

Yuui thinks a little over the idea of having more light, getting a little unsure at that as more light wasn’t always the best either. If it was too light outside, they might actually get seen better too. But it was probably a lot better if they were able to hide themselves well.

It just meant that they had to plan everything a lot better!

“Okay! I bet it will be a nice trip for Murasaki! And then she will get back to her own kind, maybe her family is there too, and she will be really happy!?” Yuui jumps excited, as he hadn’t really thought over the chance that Murasaki could find her actual family too.

Character assassination

quantumkurogane:

Kurogane shrugged. “Gotta admit she’s a pretty girl”, he said. If you turned your brain off and ignored her abhorrent personality, that was. “But maybe you simply brushed your teeth and turned into night clothes. Maybe you weren’t that drunk. Or maybe it was just routine and habit kicking in.” If Yuui could at least depend on his habits, that was a good sign in Kurogane’s book. Would save him a lot of trouble if he went on autopilot again.

“Listen”, he said when Yuui asked him to tie him up again, gently brushing over Yuui’s back. “If you’re conscious enough to get dressed, open the door, close and lock it again, get to Hana’s house, talk and flirt with her, drink, get back safely while drunken, and then get cleaned up enough so I don’t even notice any of it, I wouldn’t be too worried that you’re not awake and aware when it happens. I think you just don’t remember it later.”

Even though he had a hard time to come up with a reason why Yuui would sneak away and don’t tell Kurogane if he was simply awake without remembering later.

‘Or it isn’t him’, the very low voice in the back of his head whispered again. Weirdly, even though the thought was outrageous, it was Kurogane’s logical part that noticed that his own explanation about Yuui suddenly sneaking away and back again, without Kurogane noticing, sounded completely bonkers. After all, Kurogane had only been working on Akachan from 7-10, so Yuui had only 3 hours to get dressed, get to Hana (without a car), get drunk, flirt and kiss, come back (without a car and drunken), shower and brush his teeth, dry his hair, get into night clothes, and fall asleep again. ‘Occam’s razor dictates that it wasn’t him’, his logic whispered. But since Kurogane didn’t have an answer to the question who else it should have been, he waved the thought away again.

Ghosts weren’t real, after all, and Yuui never had had a twin, anyway.

Kurogane still couldn’t tie Yuui up. Yeah, at least they’d find out if it kept happening even with Yuui tied up, or it would stop the problem by preventing Yuui from wandering off, but Kurogane wouldn’t be able to live with the thought that Yuui was tied to his bed for several hours alone with no means to get free. It was just impossible. Kurogane could never do it.

“Fuck no. I can’t leave you here tied up”, he said. “I wouldn’t be able to take a single step out of the door.” He continued brushing over Yuui’s back. “You can come with me and sit in my lectures tomorrow. Just sit there, you don’t have to think and you can doze off.” He suggested this first because he thought that after not going outside for a week, it would probably be good for Yuui to get some fresh air and see a few friendly faces (Battler was in Kurogane’s lectures), even if it would be hard for Yuui to endure. Maybe Yuui had run away to Hana because he was lonely. “If you don’t think you’re well enough for that, I can stay home tomorrow, and after that, it’s weekend anyway.”

Yuui really wanted to make a joke with Kurogane as he pointed out Hana was a pretty girl, but he were too tired for anything right now that he just gives a strained laugh back over it. Too spent to really want to even make any sort of joke now. His brain just felt so mushy he didn’t even know if he was mentally able to make any coherent tries at a joke right now.

He had been so off lately he had even been tempted to call his mother and ask if there was any sort of history with dementia or anything close to it in the family.

His try at getting tied up once more failed, as Kurogane pointed out all the reasons that they shouldn’t worry too much about it. But all those reasons just made him worry more about it. He didn’t feel hungover at all. So he was sure he had not been drinking, so his worst fear was still that he had gone out on his own, and kissed Hana on his own. That was what he feared the most!

“I can’t come to school with you when I haven’t been to my own classes for a week.” He chuckles gently, as he understood Kurogane were trying his best to find the best way to keep his eyes on him and not have to tie him up. Of course the only logical thing in the end was for Kurogane to stay at home. Something Yuui hated. He hated Kurogane cutting off anything else he had to do to be home with him.

Yet, more than he hated the thought right now, he was afraid and didn’t want to walk off again.

“C... can you stay home tomorrow?” Yuui whispers, as he tries to calm down. If Kurogane was there for three days, he at least knew he wouldn’t wander off in that time. It meant it was three days of safety. After that hopefully he felt good enough to get to school himself. He just had to hope Hana hadn’t ended up spreading it or anything. He really hoped she was the sort of person that wouldn’t gossip.

He didn’t know if he could deal with being judged by people above the constant feeling of floating through his days.

#character assassination

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quantumkurogane:

Yuui stopped to think about what Kurogane had just chimed in, and asked him if they would still be best friends if they had to leave Hogwarts. Kurogane found that a bit weird. Did he fear Kurogane would be mad with him if they were to get expelled? He didn’t see any other reason how this could end their friendship.

So he didn’t even have to think about the answer. “Of course”, he said. “I can come to London with the flea network. I know where dad hides the powder.”

Worry clear on the blonde’s face as he waits for the answers. What if they would never get to meet again if they got expelled? Of course he would still do all he could to save their baby dragon, but he would be more afraid then. If he ended up back to where he had no friends and nothing to look forward to. Even if he had been sad most of the summer when he thought he had messed up, he could still remember how amazing it had been when he was looking forward to things.

He wasn’t used to looking forward to meeting someone. He really just wanted to get to feel that, and he felt like he could take normal life again if he could look forward to Kurogane coming over.

“Okay! Then I’m not afraid of getting expelled at all!” He cheers, as he knew if that happened his parents would sort of be happier too. As his father wanted him home and had always just wanted him to go to a normal school close to home.

Can’t say no

#Can't Say No #aria of the magical girls 2 #nswf

quantumkurogane:

Kurogane was taken aback by the senstations flooding her now. If the kiss had felt overwhelming already, there was simply no way to describe the current sensations with any word in her vocabulary.

How could this even be? She had touched herself before, but it had never felt intense like this, not even a fraction. She guessed that it did make a difference if it was your own hand or not.

Kurogane closed her eyes and took a deep breath, before she gathered herself and gave it her all to bring Fay close to the edge. She pressed her forehead into the sheet next to Fay’s face, Fay’s hair tickling her nose.

Fay was already close, Kurogane could hear her cries and feel her trembling telling her as much. Fay had started all this; she was obviously used to this and knowledgable. It would be a small victory for Kurogane to make her lose her mind. She raised the pressure on Fay’s clit and started to stroke her faster, trying to avert her own attention from the heat coiling in her own crotch by focusing on her own hand working on Fay.

Fay were thinking hard over just what she could do to push the other over the edge, and with a smirk she starts repaying the favor with putting more pressure on the others clit as well, flicking it as hard as she dared without giving the other any sort of discomfort.

Mostly going on pure willpower now, as she didn’t want to be the loser in this. She wanted to see how the Asian beauty looked when she climaxed.

The blonde lets out gentle moans as she urges the other to turn her head more towards her, kissing Kurogane hard as she starts twirling her two fingers inside her around more, doing all she could to win their first of hopefully many challenges.

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@behindgentleblueeyes

The past few weeks Yuui and Kurogane spent juggling two tasks; lessons starting again when the holidays were over and keeping a baby dragon hidden in the castle while raising it.

Christmas was more fun than either Yuui or Kurogane expected, spending it not at home with their parents. Many teachers celebrated it at Hogwarts, including Prof. Dumbledore and Hagrid the groundkeeper, and some students as well. They got presents, a feast the scope and size Kurogane hadn’t seen at Hogwarts before, and many charms and stories by the teachers. The Great Hall looked beautiful, decorated with not one but twelve heavily and magically decorated trees, alit with fairy light and stars.

Hiding Murasaki was the first big problem they ran into when the holidays came to an end. They finally decided on going back to the abandoned hallway they had found the boggart in, bravely opening each room until they found a large one made out of stone. They prepared a nest and a cauldron Yuui put a spell on for keeping the water inside ever-boiling for heat. At first, this arrangement worked very well. The room was spacious enough to host a baby dragon, but the amounts of food the dragon ate got more and more over the weeks, and soon, it was the size of a large dog. That was when it started to claw at the walls and pace a lot, and the time when Kurogane and Yuui knew they had to make a plan how to get Murasaki out of the castle soon.

Murasaki grew more aggressive with time, too, just like the book had predicted. But Yuui and Kurogane were a good team. They immediately punished the dragon with a cold spell when it threatened either of them, and rewarded it when it acted tame, for example if it took the steak from one of them without snapping at their hands when it was gone.

Kurogane felt like he had a strong connection to the dragon. He could sense its mood when he came inside the room by the tension in its wings. One time, he could make out that Murasaki caught a large splinter in one foot by the tiniest hint of a limp it had. Sometimes, he only had to raise his voice to calm Murasaki down. Murasaki even let him close enough for him and Yuui to find out what its gender was; she was a girl dragon. Kurogane hadn’t known before that caring for a beast like Murasaki would be as amazing as it turned out to be. Because when he tended to Murasaki, he was completely wrapped up in it, forgetting everything else (like homework a few times).

One day, he and Yuui entered the room and saw that Murasaki had a wound on one wing. They checked it, and decided that Murasaki probably had tried to leave the room and smashed its wings against the walls. By then, they had found out that there was a Scottish wizard clan that took care of the Hebridien Blacks not that far away from Hogwarts. The problem would be to get Murasaki out of the castle and to the Clan unseen.

Kurogane held Murasaki down while Yuui cleaned and bound its wound. “We have to come up with a plan soon”, he said. “She will soon learn how to fly, and we can’t keep her inside the castle then. It would be torture. Not to mention that a few weeks later, she’ll learn how to throw fireballs.”

Yuui had done his best to keep his mood up as Christmas came, but found it harder and harder as he was starting to miss his mother a lot. In the end he even started to miss his father a little. Taking care of Murasaki as well, while doing his best to not show Kurogane he were feeling a little down, as he didn’t want to worry any of them. However, once the celebrations started, he forgot everything about missing his parents, as it was starting to become the best Christmas ever!

The first shock was that they actually got gifts! Something he hadn’t really expected, and his happiness doubled as he noticed that it was gifts sent from his parents as well.

It was a cool book on magic for more advanced students from his mom, and of course a boring set of gloves and scarf from his father. He could give the scarf to Murasaki to be warmer!

Taking care of Murasaki eventually proved to be a harder task than they had thought though, as she became bigger and bigger, and Yuui felt bad each time he saw her getting hurt when trying to get out, at least when she hurt her wing.

“Ah! We have to get her away before she learns that! She will burn the door down!” Yuui panics, as that was a scary thought. But it was harder to think of just what they could do. “Okay, how is the best way to get her back to her kin? It isn’t that far away, so the biggest challenge is how to get there without being discovered. And handing her off without them seeing us. Just in case they tell the school what we have been doing.”

Character assassination

quantumkurogane:

Kurogane blinked some moisture in the corner of his eyes away. Whenever he heard Yuui this helpless, it hurt him deep into his core. He was helpless, too. Even Dr. Rondart was.

“You didn’t smell like alcohol”, he said. “I was in bed at ten and you were sleeping peacefully in your night clothes.” Nothing seemed like a crash from alcohol.

Another suspicion of his reared its head far in the back of Kurogane’s head. The thought had crossed him once before, when Yuui supposedly had been going to uni even though he had always been home when Kurogane was. ‘Maybe it wasn’t Yuui’, was the thought. 'Then it would all make sense.’ But Kurogane couldn’t accept having that ridiculous thought just yet, so he fought it down again.

Yuui got more agitated, his voice now terrified and panicked. “You were here when I went to bed, you didn’t go anywhere the whole night or I would have woken up, and you are not going crazy”, he said calmly but firmly, looking into Yuui’s eye so his thoughts wouldn’t wander but stay with him in the present. He sounded much calmer than he actually felt, but nowadays, it came remarkably easy to him to keep calm for his husband. “Yuui. You are not going crazy”, he repeated. “Maybe you can’t remember afterwards, but that doesn’t mean you’re losing yourself while it happens.”

“But if I didn’t smell of alcohol it also means I were’t drunk and kissed her on my own?” His mind wanders off, as he felt his breath grow more and more hitched, as he just wanted to scream and let all his frustration out.

Yet he is able to calm down again, as Kurogane started reassuring him that he wasn’t going crazy. allowing him to hear the words he really needed right now, as he just hug Kurogane hard, attaching himself to him as he just needed something warm and tangible to hold unto right now.

“I sort of want you to start tying me up or something...if I can’t move out of the bed when you aren’t here at least I know I won’t go off...”

Character assassination

quantumkurogane:

“You’re better not crying because of the kiss”, Kurogane grumbled softly when his husband started to cry like he had expected him to. He scooped Yuui up in his arms to hold him close.

It was a weak joke and not very convincing, though, because Kurogane knew that Yuui wasn’t crying about the kiss, but about the fact he had a blackout and couldn’t remember it happening. With his suspicion supported like that, Kurogane also couldn’t help but feel even more worried.

“You know, it’s not exactely uncommon to not remember the evening after you drank too much”, he tried to joke again. “Happens all the time.” He was probably trying to soothe himself as well as Yuui.

Yuui wanted to laugh at Kurogane’s horrible try at cheering him up right now. It was really horrible. Almost sad even, but the effort made him feel a lot better. Because Kurogane was really trying, and that was all that mattered. He just wanted to be able to stop worrying about this! It made him feel powerless!

“But I haven’t been drinking... I know how I feel when I have been drinking. I don’t know what is going on.” Yuui stutters, feeling more tears well up as he was shaking now. He was utterly powerless. “Did I smell like I had been drinking when you came to sleep last night? I were here when you went to sleep, right?!” panic now, as he was trying to just find some sort of way to make it all go away. Any sort of proof he had been there with Kurogane would save him. Then he at least knew that others were crazy and not him!

“I’m not going insane... I’m not crazy, right?!”

Character assassination

quantumkurogane:

Kurogane was relieved to see his husband waking up from sleep smiling at him. At first, he thought he didn’t read Hana’s messages yet, but then Yuui even made a joke about them. Obviously, Kurogane had underestimated him. He had thought he’d panic about this. Apparently, Hana hadn’t told him what she was so mad about. Kurogane felt a bit warm inside about the fact that Yuui didn’t immediately think that he had done something horrible just because Hana accused him of doing so. It showed him how healthy Yuui had become in that regard. So Kurogane smiled back.

“You really did”, he said and sat back on the bed next to him. His smile faltered a bit, but not entirely, when he realized that it was now his job to explain to his husband what he had tried to do yesterday, apparently.

“She also called me.” He talked slowly so Yuui didn’t have to take in too much at once. “Told me you sneaked to her flat last evening.” Another pause before he felt like Yuui was over his inital surprise and could take in more. He lowered his hand and brushed over Yuui’s head gently. “Said you got drunk and kissed her. She sounded almost a bit disappointed that I didn’t turn in the divorce papers right then and there when she told me about that.”

Having been able to fool himself into a false sense of safety with deciding Hana had just been overreacting, Yuui starts realizing something bad was going on as he understood Kurogane had come home early. He could see the clock on the bed side that Kurogane should be at school still. He had also looked really worried, which meant that whatever Hana had said about him probably meant it wasn’t something so bad that Kurogane wasn’t more inclined to think about his peace of mind before anything else.

So, whatever he had done was something he would feel horrible about, and Kurogane had come home in a hurry to make sure he wasn’t acting out over it.

“Got drunk? But... I don’t have a hangover or anything...” Yuui whispers, as he were rubbing his temple hard, feeling the headache return as he got stressed. The kissing didn’t really alarm him too much, as he imagined he would do weird stuff if he got drunk, even Kurogane kissed people when he was drunk, but what alarmed him was that he couldn’t even remember going there and getting drunk! And this wasn’t anyone at school that really didn’t know him, this was one of his friends that was so sure he had done this that she had started changing her view of the world.

He wasn’t sure if he wanted to cry or laugh over the fact she was the one panicking when he was the one falling apart over this.

In the end, he decided to cry.

Character assassination

quantumkurogane:

Kurogane was walking over the quad on his way to his next lecture when his phone rang. He immediately fished it out of his pocket, being entirely sure it was Yuui. Maybe something was wrong. Maybe he had nightmares. Kurogane had never experienced Yuui having nightmares in the past, since Yuui used to not have them when Kurogane was close, but lately, he had witnessed it. It was heartbreaking and Yuui was often confused after waking up.

Kurogane was parts relieved and parts disappointed when he saw it was Hana (she had insisted on sharing number with him even though she was Yuui’s friend, not his).

Kurogane picked up. “Yeah?”, he grunted.

“Kurogane”, Hana said, and her slow and solemn tone of voice, putting emphasis on every syllable of his name, immediately pissed Kurogane off. He just couldn’t stand her, and the way she was talking already told him this talk was going to piss him off even more. Fucking drama queen with her over the top emotions which were 50% fake and 50% hysteria.

“I have to tell you something. As you might know, Yuui visited me yesterday evening”, she said. Then she added with a whisper: “On second thought, maybe he didn’t tell you, seeing as what happened.”

Kurogane furrowed his brows. Yuui had been home when Kurogane came back from school. Kurogane then worked on his car in the garage, though, so Yuui technically could have snuck out without telling him. He really doubted it, though. Yuui had been feeling like shit and was still lying in bed when Kurogane joined him later that night.

Hana seemed to interpret Kurogane’s silence correctly. For all her selfishness, she was often surprisingly quick to read others. Kurogane couldn’t say he liked her manipulative streak more than her dramatic one. Probably less.

She sighed. “Kurogane… We had a few drinks, and Yuui started to flirt with me…”

Kurogane rolled his eyes as he now got an idea where this was going. “Yeah. That’s his idea of friendly banter. Means he probably likes you.” Only god knew why, Kurogane would never understand (but, he had to admit, he had only experienced Hana at her worst, hurting his friends and then whining about it like a first grader).

Hana gasped. “Oh, Kurogane”, she said. “I know that. I’m not stupid. I thought it was a joke at first, too, but then, he made a move on me. He…” Her voice broke, and she sighed the next words more than she spoke them: “Then he kissed me and wanted to touch me…” It seemed like she was dazed, but then she got a grip on herself again. “Of course, I immediately pushed him away and kicked him out of my flat. But… I knew I had to tell you. I’m so sorry.”

She was waiting for a reaction, her voice sounding whiny as fuck. Actually, it would be a lie if Kurogane said he wasn’t surprised about what Hana just told him. Kissing her seemed to be a bit much, even for Yuui. Maybe he had been super drunk and thought he was a cat again and wanted to lick Hana’s face. Or maybe it was just a casual drunken fuckup. Anyway, it was not the first time Yuui (had been) kissed by someone else since Kurogane had married him, and this definitely didn’t piss Kurogane off. This was not an Ashura situation.

More than anything, it worried him. Had Yuui had a blackout again? While being drunk? That sounded dangerous. And afterwards he had to get home alone? Kurogane was suddenly very grateful his husband had been safely lying beside him when he woke up this morning.

“Well”, Kurogane said.

Hana sounded almost a bit angry now. “Kurogane? Do you understand what I’ve said? Your husband kissed me and I think he also wanted… to make out with me… Or more.”

“Maybe”, Kurogane said. He highly doubted it, though. “He was probably just drunk.”

“How can you stay so calm?”, Hana said, now clearly sounding irritated. It was amazing how she could switch from whiny to shocked to pissed off in a heartbeat. “I mean… I guess I’m happy I’m not the reason for a marriage crisis, but…”

Once again, Kurogane rolled his eyes. “Did you talk to Yuui today, too?”, he asked. He feared that if Yuui didn’t remember this happening, that he’d be scared out of his mind if he heard from it. Kurogane’d probably later scold him for drinking so much when he was feeling unwell, but first, his top priority would be to be there when Yuui heard from this. He changed his course from the lecture hall to the tram station.

Another overexaggerated sigh from Hana. “No”, she said. “I couldn’t bring myself to. I texted him last night, though. Said that I find horrible what he has done.”

“Fuck”, Kurogane cursed when he heard that. He really hoped Yuui hadn’t read those messages yet. Who knew what dramatic shit Hana had written to his vulnerable husband. “Okay, I’m going home. Don’t write Yuui more messages.” Then he furrowed his brows. “Thanks for telling me, I guess.”

Hana let out a huff. “Alright. Hope everything will work out for you.” She sounded almost a little cold. With that, she hung up, and Kurogane took the next tram home.

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When he came home, he opened the door carefully, as if to prepare himself for a crying Yuui on the couch. When he found the living room empty, he got out of his jacket while going over to the bedroom, opening the door to look after his husband, still clinging to the small hope that he may not have read Hana’s messages yet.

Yuui really had no idea just what he had been supposed to have done. Only the vagueness of it probably kept him from having any sort of panic attack over the cryptic messages from his friend. All he got from it was that he the night before had done something horrible. Something that had made her question the concept of love in some way? Had he given her some sort of bad advice on love? Was it about Yuffie again? Had he missed something and broken her heart? But if it was something she had to tell Kurogane about it was probably something he had done towards Kurogane? Had he gotten drunk and talked bad about Kurogane? Had he been saying some sort of banter towards Kurogane she had taken as real slander and seen their marriage as a big hoax?

The blonde really didn’t see any other chances than that. Just the idea that he might have tried having an affair or something like that were just not a part of this equation for him. Even awake or sleep walking, the thought of flirting with anyone else than Kurogane just didn’t seem possible to him.

Kurogane was everything to him.

So as he decided he wanted to not even think about this before Kurogane was home, he lies down to try sleeping again, taking an extra dose of his medicine as it often help him sleep more, not waking up again before he heard the door open, and he looks drowsily at his husband, smiling as he didn’t know the time or that Kurogane had gotten home earlier for him.

“How was school Kuro-rin?” He asks, as he sits slowly up. “Has your day been as exciting as mine? I have somehow traumatized Hana, and I don’t even know what she thinks I have done.”