if you ever think there's enough sharkbait fics you haven't met me
Anyway I did an art trade with lovely Julia and she drew this lovely piece in exchange I wrote some dumb boyfriends sharing secrets
I just wanted to write dumb Ryouga sue me
anyway I hope you like it Julia!! ~
Ryouga’s got a bad habit of landing himself into situations where he’d rather not be in, and tonight is no exception. Except he knows he can’t really complain as for once he’s not in some sort life threatening situation as opposed to what Yuma normally places him in, but it’s still uncomfortable that Yuma’s leaning over him excitedly in only his boxers and its purely innocent Ryouga whispers to himself to try and stop his face from tinting a vicious red.
There’s no point though because after a few minutes of Yuma whining and hitting him with a pillow, he gives in with a roll of his eyes and lets his boyfriend crawl into his lap to get him to shut up. Only he doesn’t and now Yuma is kissing his collarbone and murmuring something as he pushes his tight tank top to the side. Ryouga instinctively shudders, causing Yuma to frown and go uncharacteristically quiet.
“What’s wrong with you?” Ryouga questions after a few minutes of silence. He knows that it’s probably a bad to ask seeing as it will probably involve a lot of unnecessary talking and the silence isn’t actually that bad, but Yuma’s making a small pouty face and he knows he’s accidently done something to hurt his feelings and goddammit.
“It’s nothing, don’t worry about it.” Yuma murmurs quietly to himself, burying his face further into Ryouga’s chest.
Ryouga huffs because really, does he have to do this today of all days? “look Yuma if you want to pretend that you’re not upset of whatever do as you please, but don’t sit there begging for sympathy then just tell me to not worry about it when I’d honestly rather not.”
Yuma sighs because he knows he was doing it but he just doesn’t want to bother Ryouga because he knows how annoyed he gets by it but he can’t just hide it all the time. “I don’t know how to explain it I guess, it’s a secret I’ve held for a while.”
Yuma feels Ryouga’s sigh through his chest before he hears the noise, and he looks up and Ryouga’s looking into the distance at something purely to avoid his gaze and then words slip from his mouth and Yuma stares at him in disbelief.
“Can you repeat that?” he asks because he’s still not entirely sure whether he heard correctly or not and it’s not something he feels he can just misinterpret.
“You heard me.” Ryouga mutters, crossing his arms around him. “I cried like a baby through Titanic.”
Yuma almost laughs and he can feel it building inside of him but he’s sure it’ll just make Ryouga angry with him, but as much as he a tries a small giggle escapes through his mouth and Ryouga just rolls his eyes because really, what did he expect? “Yeah well Rio forced me to watch it about a year ago and yeah, it wasn’t so bad.” He shrugs, releasing his hold and using them to prop himself up against the beanbag he was sitting on. “It’s not really the issue here I guess. What I mean is like even Rio doesn’t know that. I made some excuse and left the room so I could cry.”
“This is really cute and all Shark, but I don’t understand?” Yuma prods, because it is nice seeing this side of Ryouga, when he’s not all grumpy and he smiles and actually opens up, and it is a nice distraction but he’s not exactly sure how it fits into the current situation.
Ryouga huffs in annoyance, giving in and letting his back collide with the beanbag. “Well, you said that this thing that’s bugging you is a secret, right? Well I thought if you wanted to tell me that secret, because the look in your eyes and you’re just pouting at me whenever you talk its screaming ‘ask me what’s wrong!’ so I thought if I shared a dumb secret I’ve had hidden inside for a while, I dunno, I thought it might make you feel less scared to share yours.”
Yuma’s frown morphed almost immediately into one of his infamous grins as he moved faster than Ryouga anticipated into his arms, giving him no warning as he threw himself at him and kissed his cheeks and neck until Ryouga pushed him away in mock annoyance, rolling his eyes.
“Yuma, do you really need to be so”
“I’m leaving Heartland City.”
“What?”
Ryouga’s sure he heard Yuma wrong because what? Yuma’s still in high school and he said specifically that if Ryouga finished school without simply dropping out – not that he really was planning on it anyway – he would do the same. But he should have known better now that he thinks about it; what use would Yuma really have in completing high school? He knew ever since the numbers war that Yuma was going to follow in his father’s shoes and become an adventurer, so what was the point of him remaining in school?
Yuma fiddled with the sleeve of Ryouga’s tank. “Well, yeah. I know I promised that I’d finish school but I was approached the other day by Heartland Museum and they offered me a once in a lifetime chance to go explore the ruins we visited back when we were hunting the numbers. Mihael was interested so he’s going to come with me as well.” The excitement was undeniable in his voice even as he tried to downplay it, but Ryouga wondered why he would even bother.
“That sounds really cool.” Ryouga replies, and he’s genuinely impressed and interested because he’s right, it really is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so why does he sound so upset?
“Yeah well, we’ll be gone at least a year and I know you’re not going to be in Heartland for college anyway so I thought it wouldn’t really matter though?”
“when are you leaving?” he questions stiffly, because sure he’s leaving himself, but he’d like to know because he thought he’d have a reason to come back to the City if he was there, but seeing as he’s now going as well and Rio was going her own separate ways, there was no purpose left for him there, and a part of him felt a little... disheartened at that.
“A couple of days before you do.” He admits with a sigh, trying to snuggle closer into Ryouga’s body to make sure he wasn’t mad at him. “You’re not mad at me, are you? You’re being quieter than normal.”
Ryouga shook his head half in response and half to clear his own mind. “No, I’m not mad. This is really good, how could I be mad? It’s not like I didn’t expect it sooner or later anyway.” He receives a puzzled look from Yuma, only to use a shrug as a reply. “I mean, you’d have to be an idiot not to. You were so excited visiting those places the first time, just even travelling. You could tell that you were going to do the whole exploring thing. And besides, at the rate that you fall asleep in class, I’m surprised that they haven’t simply kicked you out by now.”
“You’re one to talk.” Yuma interjects with a frown. “At least I actually turned up to class. How the hell did you still manage honours?”
Ryouga laughs quietly to himself, giving in and wrapping his arms lazily around Yuma’s waist. “Well, I actually know how to study. And follow through with said studying.”
“Well it’s not like we’re all great musicians that can just magically turn music into studying.” Yuma grumbles, and though it’s true that it’s a good habit that Ryouga’s actually pretty good at stringing sentences together when he can actually be bothered, he did offer the same to Yuma and well, it doesn’t matter anymore, does it?
“It’s not my fault I have a talent.” Ryouga rolls his eyes. “Anyway, you wandered off topic. This is irrelevant. I mean, yeah I guess it’ll suck not seeing you around but I wasn’t really going to anyway so it would be better if you’re doing something you want to.” He looks at any direction that isn’t Yuma, and settles with the roof.
Yuma makes a small whine, absentmindedly tracing a pattern on Ryouga’s chest as he tried to grab his boyfriend’s attention. “I’ll miss you. A lot.” He murmurs quietly as if Ryouga’s not listening even though he knows he is.
“I know you will.” He chuckles. “Who wouldn’t?”
Yuma rolls his eyes, pouting as he punched him softly in the chest. “Are you going to miss me?”
Ryouga continues to stare at the ceiling, avoiding his gaze, a small smirk plastered across his face. “Yeah, I guess so. It’s going to be quiet around here, not that I’m sure I’m going to mind.” Ryouga gestured for Yuma to get off him as he pulled himself to his feet. “Knowing you, you won’t give me a chance to miss you anyway. Come on, I want to play some video games before Rio gets home.”
“Can we play Slender, please???!” Yuma jumped to his feet in excitement at the prospect of more games. “I promise I won’t scream this time!”
Ryouga chuckled, messing at Yuma’s hair and pushed him back to the beanbag. “We’ll see.” He turned away, allowing only a small frown to himself at the prospect that fuck, everything is totally different now only to erase it completely before Yuma could see because it’s not important now, and Yuma’s taught him that he really needs to relax more often. They’ll deal with it when they get to it, and he had bigger problems – trying to control Yuma’s screams as Ryouga landed in another situation he was not keen to be in.
