MitsuObi: Friends With Benfits (HC)
Okay, so:
Mitsuhide and Obi shares a night of "passionate hugging" after a few drinks and a talk about unrequited/hopeless love (Obi loving Shirayuki but can't be with her. Mitsuhide having complicated feelings about Kiki and is uncertain about how to act with her.)
No one really knows who started it (probably Obi), but they find themselves moving closer to each other.
They kiss. They make out. They touch each other slightly.
Mitsuhide hesitates about going further though. He's worried about it complicating their friendship.
Thoughts like "Is this him using Obi?" is stuck in his head. He's not comfortable with that thought.
Obi comforts/encourages him though that it's just them helping each other out. As long as both are in on it, then there's no problem.
He also mentions that he can keep his shirt on, if Mitsuhide prefers that. It might not be much fun playing with a guy's chest. Besides, his scars are rather "ugly".
Mitsuhide argues against that imidiately.
The whole process is slow and a bit awkward, but also very tender and sweet.
Mitsuhide is gentle, determined to not hurt Obi or bring discomfort to him.
Obi does laugh a bit and tell him that he's "not made of glass", yet Mitsuhide keeps touching him like he's fragile. He won't treat him roughly. That makes the whole thing feel more intimate that Obi expected it to.
They don't really talk about it afterward.
At least not until they somehow end up kissing inside one of their rooms a second time.
This then kind of develops into them becoming "friends with benefits", finding themselves searching each other out and spending more of their nights together. This in turn eventually grows into something more fond and they end up developing some complicated, romantic feelings for each other.
And of course neither of them is going to mention said romantic feelings for a while (even though most of the others have noticed something between the two of them.)