[leave it to ai to forget of all things, he's naked--they're both naked.
it's not his fault his eyes strayed. he just. well. forgot they were both naked momentarily. or maybe he was shamelessly letting his eyes wander. because he knows what he likes. sousuke shakes his head, holding up a hand in some faux retreat. a signal to let ai know it's all good, they're all good. despite whatever interesting event just transpired]
Easy, don't go apologizing for just standing up.
[the laugh that trails after is albeit awkward. so sousuke just feels ten times worse for mucking this up further. but ai isn't shaking off his wrist. ah right. sousuke sure does have a grip on that doesn't he? it's tempting to rip it away but... ai pulls their joined limbs closer to his heart, and doesn't that do something to his heart? something he kind of hates, kind of doesn't]
You can go sleep. Whole point of all this is to relax. Not freak out in the bath.
[The pout he suddenly wears is petulant at best; he felt so-- indescribably off balance, and couldn't blame it on either the water or his hangover. It was something deeper. Something common, and normal for him at this point, but brought to the forefront of his consciousness so suddenly and abruptly that he hardly had time to cope. Pair that with the fact he is within close, naked proximity, well... Sentiments he'd rather keep behind lock and key suddenly seem every bit as vulnerable as his body presently is.
What a dangerous thought.
He settles back into the water, trying to convince himself that overthinking is the enemy. Relaxes enough to let his legs extend out in front of him, let his shoulders rest against the rocks behind them. Blue eyes flutter shut.]
I didn't freak out, [comes his reply, a rare denial painting his lips. It doesn't last long, though; Ai relents, free hand coming to pinch his brow.] ... I can't help it. Thinking I see something there, and panicking a little when it gets too close.
[There's a pause there. Ai's conjuring something in his chest, but seems to abandon ship at the last second. Sinks a bit lower into the water.]
Well, either way. Whether it's here or back in the room, I'd rather be with you.
[sousuke is intuitive at best. and choosing to remain in ignorance at worst. he knows a lot of the happenings between their friend group. even if it tries to get brushed under the rug, or glossed over, he sees it. he knows it's there. maybe it started ever since he got that stupid letter that he was so excited for...
only to see the evidence it was clearly meant for somebody else.
people dancing around each other, people skirting around things or trying to hide them. he has a good read of it. and well. whatever is going on here? coupled with ai's words? sousuke has a hunch. but choosing on whether to act on it or not? that's something else entirely.
his thumb carefully brushes over ai's skin. a stubbornly bold move, for whatever is currently transpiring. sousuke has a feel on what ai is saying. but what he means? ah. that's something else entirely. but there's no life without a little adventure. so he ventures cautiously]
...too close, huh.
[i'd rather be here with you. and maybe that solidifies it. sousuke takes a risk in life, and pulls ai a little closer. closing that gap, crossing that bridge. if ai chooses to hit him or shove him or anything else, sousuke yamazaki will happily take that loss. all in the pursuit of just knowing]
He might have denied and backed out a final time if not for the most subtle of reassurances. Ai didn't even need to know what he thought he saw, what he thought he felt. Didn't even want to know if Sousuke saw the same thing. Ai just needed to know that if he called a spade a spade, their world wouldn't end. The onsen wouldn't spiral and drag him down by the ankle, and he wouldn't be one incredible friend short by the end of it.
It comes to him in a simple truth, somewhere between the soft touch to his wrist and Sousuke pulling him close enough for Ai to be tucked into his shoulder: implicitly and unconditionally, he trusts Sousuke. This has been true from the very first moment they met. It remained true now, where Ai's doubts could make him tailspin, but instead his utter faith in Sousuke keeps him level-headed.
It's why despite his panic a moment ago, his response - even if it takes a little bit to work the words to the tip of his tongue - is so simple and resolute,]
You. I saw you. [Ai quickly shakes his head, just once. And maybe subtly leans against Sousuke a little, though notably his gaze is fixated on their reflections in the water.] But I'm not scared of you. I just--
You mean too much to me for me to want to put that in jeopardy. Maybe it makes me a coward. I don't know anymore.
there's no veil hiding the fact. no pretenses hiding the fact. it's something startling. only because sousuke feels the same. like he's seen ai before. in ways others haven't. ever since that night outside samezuka... it's been one thing after another, all edging into this bond the others can't even begin to fathom between them. something akin to relief floods his veins, when ai leans back against him.
the feeling is mutual. that much is obvious to him]
...it's the same.
[sousuke says with conviction. so stubborn in his delivery, even though his tone is gentle. anything further might startle ai away and he doesn't want that. is terrified of it in fact. maybe he really did invite ai here under some pretense. something he's long since thought he buried at least. one pinkie hooks to brush whatever piece of ai's skin he can. something selfishly grounding for himself. except sousuke laughs, and maybe it's to cover himself up a bit. embarrassment is a real thing after all.
or maybe it's to put ai at ease. like he's always tried to do]
If that makes you a coward, it makes me more of one. Don't you think?
[He titters, an airy and relieved sound, but he's looking at Sousuke just a bit too easily. Under the water, Ai tries to weasel his hand out of Sousuke's grasp. Not for very long; just enough for lithe fingers to try and skate over his palm, slot in where Ai believes they finally fit.
But that expression of his, and so boldly looking at Sousuke--]
I can't imagine you being scared of much of anything, Sousuke-senpai. Ah, not that you haven't been... You're only human. Though... You're very patient. You have to be with the kinds of things you've been through. Right? So you'll sit on your hands for too long.
[Kettle, meet pot. His tone is still to bright to be believably present, and it's obvious he's trying to lead into something. Something of a common subject between the two of them, and Ai doesn't want to sound accusatory, or bitter, but it'd do them no favours to ignore what from Ai's purview was the obvious modum of hesitance. Absently, his thumb strokes the outside of Sousuke's knuckle, eyes contemplative down on the water. Patiently, calmly minding their reflections. Passively, perhaps selfishly, Ai thinks they look good like this.]
[he lets ai pry their hands apart, thinking this is the end of that. only to be momentarily sidestruck when ai laces their fingers together. in some cruel, odd twist of fate, a strangely perfect match. he blinks down at the blurred and rippled out shape of their fingers under the water.
oh, if only ai knew.
....okay maybe ai did know.
sousuke can't help but laugh at those last words. was he really so transparent? it's something that hasn't crossed his mind in what feels like centuries. stubbornly coming to the conclusion that there was no chance in hell, and he could accept that. as long as it meant having his best friend by his side. chasing after some other dreams, his own dreams this time--and trying not to absolutely wreck his newly healed body in the process]
Caught me.
[there's no denying ai's intuition, after all. he won't be made a liar of. he sighs, and lets his gaze drift back up towards the ceiling. fixating on a small droplet that continues to descent in the center of the hot spring]
Sounds like it comes from experience though.
[well. he's put it out there. ai can deny it, that's fine. sousuke can accept that. others can lie. he just refuses to, after almost a whole year of lying to the most important people in the world to him]
[It was something they both intrinsically understood. Now, and when they'd first met. In a sense, Rin brought them together, after all.
And if not for Rin catching everyone in his wake and breaking hearts, Sousuke may have never really found his way to Ai, and vice versa. Sousuke didn't have to ask the question at all, Ai thinks; he already knows.
I just wanted to be able to swim with him one last time. If you're meant to do it, you'll find a way to be there with him... At least, that's what I think he'd tell you.
And there is only so much tiding by and puffing chests and feeling not enough someone can put up with before it morphs into something else entirely. It had never been Rin's onus to show that to Ai; Ai had to show it to himself. And once he did, and realized he had a choice, he chose to move on.
He doesn't even realize he's squeezed Sousuke's hand tightly.]
Rin-senpai showed me a lot of amazing things. I owe him a lot. [Ai's eyebrows knit. And suddenly he's wondering some other things, too.] ... But you knew that much already, didn't you?
[Yet here we are. Would Sousuke continue to sit on his hands, be patient, considerate, stalwart? Even now, with everything laid out plain? There is suddenly a fire in Ai's chest; a determination. He knows what it feels like to be taken for granted, and tucked into Souske's side, he promises himself to make sure Sousuke never comes to feel the same way about him.]
The thing I'm most grateful for from him is you. That's why. Even if it's bittersweet, I can never, ever regret it.
[it's funny how so many people can be caught up in the singularity of a single person. much like world peace could be attained through haru's swimming, rin catches the pull of all those around him. and it seems it almost always inevitably leads to something else.
but there's some truth in all of this.
some things? are so precious, it can be worth the heartbreak.
sousuke's hand instinctively squeezes ai's back. he understands, without ai needing to go into any further explanation. call it something unspoken flitting between the two of them. or maybe it's just something louder than words could ever hope to convey. but it's not... sousuke's brows furrow a little as well, as ai tucks himself against him.
ai isn't a replacement for anything. in fact, sousuke thinks it's more like ai's something that's come to fruition from all of this. something he wants to bridge so achingly much. but there's fear in that. that perhaps if he finally does inch closer, maybe it will all come crashing down. and is that worth it all?
...or maybe ai's words just give him the closure necessary to facilitate what he feels like's wanted and tucked away for so long now. as ai tucks against him, sousuke presses his nose into ai's scalp, muttering the words against it. maybe like they never existed to begin with. or maybe they're something he's so terrified of that it's easy to mutter them against something to mute them out]
I can't either. Not when someone like you is what came out of it.
[He speaks so quickly it is right on the cusp of Sousuke's words. And hesitates to carry out the rest of his sentiment because the way Sousuke breathes against his hair is intoxicating; Ai swears his warmth, this close and pressed, is different. Something fundamental between them has shifted, even if words or actions haven't bred it directly. Such was their way, Ai thinks; leave it to Sousuke to silently weasel his way in, even now.
Sousuke is warm, and strong around him, and Ai for a few moments counts the breaths against his scalp before hesitating and daring to put distance between them, only enough to be able to look up at unrelenting teal. Still so painfully close to him, it'd be so easy to just tilt his head up and--]
If it's too much, then don't mind it. But...
[His thumb strokes the side of Sousuke's knuckle; his other hand rests idly on a spot under the water, against his lower ribcage.]
When that. Changed? For you. [When did you look at me differently? It's such a forward thing to ask, and he doesn't do so in vain, and in fact his face is a beet red at the prospect of having gotten the words off his tongue. He isn't digging for platitudes or reassurances; rather, he's conjuring a timeline in his head. As if the same spark he had felt may have been mutual for longer than he could have known.
Unfortunately, his constitution is only so great, and short of bombastic favour, it was hard to keep that kind of momentum. Slowly his eyes drift to the side, and somewhat awkwardly, he starts up again,] Not that it...! Matters! In any tangible way! Rather, I guess, because that sort of thing is usually obvious... For me it felt obvious. If anything, I just feel stupid for having ignored it. But maybe that really had just been all in my head?
It's hard to say, because, well-- that is, if what I'm hearing is... ...
Agh!, it'd be easier if I could just--
[Ai has to sit up and off the rock in order to close the distance, but the way in which he takes Sousuke's lips against his own is, in a word, bold. Confident where his words aren't.]
[there's so much, and so little resting on the tip of his tongue. they're almost talking over one another, and maybe a little flicker of something flutters in sousuke when ai starts talking. when that changed? he can't say for sure.
not when ai's thumb is stroking his hand, and with it his self control begins to melt into the water. his lips part, but nothing comes out. not at first, at least. because in his own head he's trying to conjure some semblance of a timeline. when did it start? was there something truly ulterior behind his invitation for ai to come here? he hopes it doesn't come off like that now, because he would never.
but before he can muster anything, there's lips covering his own. and for once, sousuke isn't surprised by the emboldened action. because this is ai after all. and he doesn't kiss back, not at first. only because it's some small amazement ai carried through where sousuke didn't.
or maybe it's not so surprising after all.
instead, he only answers with a smile pressed against ai's mouth, curling their fingers tighter together, leaning into the kiss. keeping it still for a moment, however less than hesitant. but he pulls back for a moment, a little laugh tumbling from his lips]
...do you want me to answer you, or do you just want to do that again instead?
[another squeeze to ai's hand, a little bump against his companion]
[Maybe if he had tried something so bold even 10 minutes ago, he would have started panicking the moment Sousuke didn't immediately reciprocate. Would have assumed he'd crossed a line he shouldn't have.
That's the funny thing about trust, when it is implicit in every possible way; Ai has the certainty Sousuke wouldn't just abandon him over a misstep like that, now. Instead, for his patience, he's rewarded with something even greater: a smile he can feel against his own lips, which sucker punches him straight in his chest. Sousuke's laugh is quiet, but so so warm. Not that Ai needed reassurance, but it's yet another notch to tighten the belt of confidence.
How silly they'd both been.]
If you answer honestly I don't think I can handle it, [he answers in a rueful huff, because the only person he can imagine being more direct and reckless than himself is Sousuke. He was the type to measure his words carefully, after all; they always had a way of disarming him.
He lets go of Sousuke's hand, finally. Both skate up the length of his body and loop around his shoulders, both hands up into short tufts of wet, dark brown hair. Ai does kiss him again, slower. Leans just a little into it. And then in an outstanding show of his self-control, pulls away only enough to let Sousuke speak if he wanted to.]
[and that's where the depth of their bond runs so deep. it may have begun to intertwine from a certain red headed loudmouth, but it transformed into something so much more than that. he can't help the second laugh that trickles out, something so achingly tender even he's aware of how it sounds]
I think you're the kind of guy who can handle anything.
[there's a million different ways to take that, but at the core, sousuke knows it to be true. ai bottles up so much, and manifests it into a prowess that forms to something positive. or at least that's how sousuke has always viewed it. he presses another kiss against him, before ai settles on yet another. ah yeah, that stamina. sousuke can still be catching his breath and ai's lips are so agonizingly slow he melts into it]
That night on the fire escape.
[the night that really changed everything for him]
[It isn't his intention - their moment was so solemn and sweet, and vulnerable in a way that made Ai want to bear his entire heart, take it right out of his chest and place it in Sousuke's palm because he trusted him to handle it with care.
Unfortunately, he laughs.
A surprisingly rare sound from him, and an airy one at that, but he looks up at Sousuke with mirthful eyes, teasing the short tufts of his hair that just barely skate at th back of his ear, along his nape.]
You saw some poor kid crying his eyes out, [he manages between chuckle fits, finally getting it out of his system. His smile still bisects his face though, wide enough to push his beauty mark up toward his eye.] Did it leave that much of an impression? Ah, maybe you're the type who wants to swoop in with a white cape, after all.
[Ai kisses his chin; his jaw. Idle and fleeting things, as if he can't stay away from Sousuke for too long.]
I think... If it's up to me, I'd rather give you a better sight.
[and sousuke can't help but meet that laugh with a small chuckle of his own, cupping ai's face to bring it closer. press their foreheads together with that stupid, soft smile of his ever present]
Almost. But, not quite my style.
[he tilts his head a little, in silent invitation of ai's lips. funny how once that little bridge has been crossed, it seems both of them can't keep their hands off of the other. well, while they're at it...]
I think I saw the start of a kid's bright future.
[sousuke squeezes ai's hand once more, before he pulls it away. all to push his fingertips through ai's hair, and slowly begin to work his way down the back of his neck. all pressing fingers and methodical touches to hopefully turn ai into a pliant puddle in the onsen. that's what they came out here for, right? to relax? maybe he can just help aid that along.
even if it is a little maddening the way ai says that. and sousuke's fingers turn tight for a moment, a smirk crossing his features]
[There was almost a grace about the way Sousuke shifts against him, and it captivates Ai so thoroughly it's a little worrisome. Zero hesitation to lean up and find Sousuke's lips when presented with the invitation; even shifts their bodies a little closer together, even with their current configuration, more shoulder-to-shoulder than anything.]
You're too nice to me. [You spoil me, is what he means. Because Sousuke doesn't belittle Ai, but seems to always know exactly how to encourage him or help bolster his confidence when faltering. Patiently waited for as long as Ai said red light and now rises to meet him right in the middle at green light. Ai again reminds himself to never, ever, ever take this for granted. If he can spare Sousuke the feelings he himself endured for so many years, he will. Thinks after all of this, it might be even easier to make his gratitude known.
A noise threatens to bubble up and out of his throat, the way Sousuke's hand works through his hair and down the back of his neck; this coaxes Ai to turn a little bit, now more facing Sousuke than he had been before.
That smirk is what nearly does him in, though in incredible testament to his self-control, the noise is aborted just as it reaches his lips, only a faint and sharp exhale through his nose left as a ghost in its wake. His heart is in his throat, for a moment unable to tell up from down. Is he...? Flirting?
...
...!!
Ai only then clues in what he'd said and its double entendre. Not intentional!! But fuck, now he's wishing he had the foresight to say it was. Because Sousuke's hands are strong on his skin, and Ai is beginning to feel weak in the water for entirely different reasons.
Emboldened that there was no such thing as a mistake between the two of them, Ai faces Sousuke fully, having to wade in the water in front of him to do so; floats forward, enough to be just barely between his bent knees where he sits. Ai's hands trail down from Sousuke's hair to his jaw, his neck. Over the rounds of his defined pectorals. His cheeks may be flush, but his expression is wrought with determination.]
I'm thinking... No matter what sight I try to give you, you won't be able to see through the steam. Unless you get really, really close.
[... Aaaand his bravado shrivels up in the same instant. His eyes still glued to Sousuke's, but it's as if his flush overtakes him; his hands fly back up to Sousuke's jaw, and Ai looks at the scant water between them.]
[it feels like ai has the reins, even if sousuke never explicitly handed them over. this dude's tenacity really knows no bounds, huh? sousuke thinks to himself as their lips meet again. and again, the front of their bodies shifting closer together.
and those stupid clever fingertips trailing maps across his face, over his hair and... well. he wasn't insinuating that exactly. flirting, sure. but sousuke's got some self restraint and is mildly a gentleman. ai's face reminds him of all those nights training in the pool deep into the night.
that stubborn determination he's always had an aptitude for.
but he leans in all the same, pressing their foreheads a little closer together, that hand cupping his jaw so tenderly it aches. sousuke's breath hitches a little bit through the steam. but no, his answer is silently pressed into ai as one arm wraps around him, pulling him impossibly close. permissively, giving him a little look as though to say this alright? before leaning in, and pressing a kiss against ai's neck]
Gotta stop doubting yourself.
[sousuke laughs against that damp skin, thumb rubbing methodic circles against the small of ai's back]
You're good just the way you are. That's the kind of close I want.
[He has half a mind to protest, because... Sousuke-senpai, you're hard to read! Except that isn't really the case, is it? Sousuke is nothing ever short of forthright, if a bit stoic to those who don't know him well enough. Ai actually felt he had a very good read on his senior, able to intuit most things about his intentions and what he may be thinking at most points.
This was all just-- so damn new. Equipped with the knowledge they'd both sat on their hands for way too long too, it lends itself to believing that certainly not all the time, but some of the time, Sousuke mayb obfuscate his intentions. This is the only place where Ai's uncertainty breeds itself.
And so he exhales, and then sighs a keening sigh, feeling Sousuke's lips against the length of his neck and his hand strong and reassuring at the small of his back.]
We're charting uncharted territory and doing it entirely naked. You can't blame me for a little bit of trepidation.
[As is evident by the way he feels his thighs against Sousuke's thighs; Sousuke's chest against his. Undulating water simultaneously scrambling and heightening those sensations. Given the height of the bath and how Sousuke is sitting, Ai is left to squat; he adjusts himself to be kneeling on the very edge of the ledge instead, still square between Sousuke's legs, water lapping at his navel. Like this, he's just slightly taller than eye height; able to lean down and steal a kiss square from Sousuke's lips before very un-subtly rolling his head to the side to expose his neck some, leaving his mouth close to Sousuke's ear.
His hands skate back up Sousuke's sternum, over his shoulders. Ai leads Sousuke further against his body.]
especially with the way ai is treading carefully into this new endeavor. brazen, yet reserved just in case there is any misguidance between the two. but... their friendship has sheltered so much before. right? surely it can bear the weight of this new adventure together? sousuke murmurs something wordlessly against ai's neck, testing the waters and letting his teeth catch the skin at that pale expanse being given to him just a little bit more.
sousuke doesn't think it's possible, but he tries to draw ai in closer anyways. their positioning is honestly kind of perfect for this sort of thing anyways. and ai is all too willing to press closer, position himself more thoroughly, lean in and let the breath roll across sousuke's ear.
maybe that's what finally does him in. or maybe it's that promise of you can get closer if you want that mentally wrecks him. and the kiss he presses against ai's throat is more intense and open mouthed this time, that hand on the small of his back dropping to squeeze his ass just a bit. bold? why yes. yes it is, but it's sousuke yamazaki we're talking about here.
and paired with someone like ai, it's some small wonder they've sat on their hands so long like this. sousuke lets his teeth drag against his throat, as he works a patch of flesh between his lips and teeth, sucking with a low groan]
[Sousuke grips him, and this time it does pull Ai flush; it leaves his knees somewhat precarious, the center of his gravity now forcing him to lean on Sousuke some for purchase, as there wasn't much room for him to shift forward. But like this, his softened sex is pressed to Sousuke's navel; his chest just above Sousuke's; one hand in Sousuke's hair, practically kneading through soft tufts as he feels those lips and teeth threaten his neck, his throat.]
Oh, [he exhales, such a small noise, but one that is undoubtedly brand new for Sousuke's ears; the attention paid to his jugular has a full-body shudder rack through him.
And then Sousuke's hand is on his rear, and. Ai gasps, just a little; inavertently presses his hips back to catch and encourage that touch, especially.
The hand in Sousuke's hair slides forward to his jaw, encouraging Sousuke's lips upward, where Ai kisses him. Far headier than he may have even a minute ago, an obvious desire blossoming between slotted lips. Against him, Ai murmurs something akin to wait a sec, using the broad expanse of Sousuke's shoulders to steady himself as he shifts.
One thigh outside on the left; one outside on the right. Like this, it's more comfortable. And like this, he can truly kill the space between them... Though somewhat deliberately, he keeps his weight up. Not so much sat in Sousuke's lap as he is hovering just atop it.]
[he doesn't mind the additional weight of pressure. nothing about the inches between them slowly disappearing bothers him at all in fact. but that little oh? that has sousuke making a noise he didn't think he was capable of making.
and he can feel the ripples of shivers coursing through ai. and his own body probably meets them in return. those fingers working his scalp and hair beneath the soft pads, the hips moving back against his touch. fuck.
sousuke meets the kiss heavily, helping ai shift whatever which way he can, dragging their mouths back together to meet. that hand behind ai, intensifying the firmness of his grip, dragging his cheeks apart a little bit. fuck, it all feels so dizzy and it feels like they've only been going at this for five seconds. maybe less. he doesn't even know what time it is anymore.
sousuke lets something slip that sounds similar to a curse curdled with ai's name, before he finally forces himself away from ai's mouth to begin to work a piece of skin on his throat between his lips and teeth, hopefully leaving his mark a little more thoroughly there]
[There is a shuddered, quiet whine when Sousuke kneads his ass cheeks apart, the touch so damn intimate and yet intentional it causes a wave of heat to crest over the entirety of Ai's body, manifesting in his gut and out to his extremities. It's overwhelming when paired with the heat persistently lapping at his skin on account of Sousuke's proximity and the water still submerging them both; by another name, it was sensory overload, but if Ai was forthright? He was ready to drown.]
Senpai, Sou-- mm, [he honest to god moans, biting his lip at first but letting his tongue loose when the pinch beneath Sousuke's teeth crosses from painful into mind-numbingly good. His hands claw up the top of Sousuke's shoulders; up into his hair. Ai yanks him forward as if he could just pin Sousuke there, let him claim as much pallid white skin as he wanted.
Rolls his hips back against the hand that is still holding him so intentionally. And then, as if reward for gifting him not one but two incredibly dark and bruising marks, Ai cants his hips down. Almost shyly, as if this much is too much, too; as if Sousuke isn't quite literally claiming him where he touches him. It's deliberate enough to catch his sex in the cleave of his undercarriage, the glide impossibly easy on account of the water. Ai sucks in a breath, and slowly, cautiously rolls his hips down again.]
[there's no need to ponder if this is good or okay or anything else. ai's body speaks volumes, even if his voice wasn't taking on that heavy tone, preaching with how it rolls back against him, how those little keens slip out unbridled...
even with someone so normally stoic as sousuke, he too can begin to crumble. the sting from deft fingers tugging and clawing at everything, the roll of ai's ass against his dick is maddening. to a point where he can't help the way his hips buck into it, tossing his head back momentarily to suck in a breath between clenched teeth.
one hand on ai's ass tugs at him, carefully slotting his cock between the dip and he slowly begins to match ai's movements in tandem, maddeningly slow granted. the two of them are known for their endurance, and sousuke will be damned if he finished preemptively like some horny teenager. but the hot water sloshing around them only aids in that feeling, and he grunts a little as he bucks up again, tightening his hold on whatever of ai he's even holding onto at this point]
You can say it.
[sousuke says with a small laugh, scraping his teeth along the dip of ai's neck, down his shoulder and trickling back up]
[The water had obfuscated it, obviously. And Ai can't say he's gotten Sousuke close enough in the shower room to have ever gotten a proper peek - not that he'd have been hard at the time, anyway.
Ai's actions had been tentative to start, but feeling the entire length of Sousuke's strong arousal drag against the cleft of his ass leaves Ai breathless. Already he was so hard, clearly enjoying this as much as Ai was, however new and uncertain the territory might be.
He adjusts himself to match; lowers himself further, rutting his hips forward as Sousuke does up, backward as Sousuke does down. Feeling the drag of Sousuke's lower stomach against his own cock. One arm is slung over Sousuke's shoulder entirely, bracing against him; a small part of him letting Sousuke support his weight. His other hand flies into Sousuke's hair for a moment, gripping short tufts and gently tugging, just enough to encourage Sousuke to tilt his head.]
Sousuke-senpai, [he repeats, lips trailing from his jaw to the side of his neck. It's Ai's turn to return the favour, minding their rhythm and lapping heavily at Sousuke's skin until it nearly tastes metallic. Teeth pinch into sinew, and Ai cannot help but moan heavily as he finally gives Sousuke a mark worthy of matching the ones left on himself.
Releases. Leaves a few smaller marks below it, trailing toward Sousuke's collar bone. And then suddenly Ai is making a breathless sort of laugh against Sousuke's skin, and if Sousuke sought to check his expression, he'd see pulled eyebrows and a rueful smile.]
You feel. Um. [Well-endowed. Spitting that out might just kill him, though. Breathless yet smiling lips find Sousuke's again, for a moment, before Ai is unabashedly looking Sousuke in the eye,] -- You seem excited.
[instinctively, a hand tightens around ai's hip. all while basking in the tug in his hair, the the teeth scraping across his neck. the little tandem they're building together is dizzying. sousuke snorts a little bit as ai continues to trickle his mouth downwards, meeting that laugh in turn. heat blossoms every which way, and sousuke can't quite hold back the way his movements become slightly erratic, still bordering on considerate]
Not exactly easy to stay calm with you.
[that voice so rough around the edges, tinged even moreso now. he presses against ai deliberately, proving the theory that ai is desperately trying to point out currently. all the while his thumb smooths across ai's hip. but maybe he got a little of the insinuation that ai is making, and that brings a little heat to his cheeks]
Feels good.
[sousuke settles on with a breathy noise. well in various scenarios, he can't say this is one he could have conjured up. even if he desperately thought of it time and time again. he didn't want to sully their relationship, and so would so constantly push it to the side in turn]
Ah--
[he starts off carefully, biting his lip, stumbling over words momentarily]
How far...?
[sousuke is nothing but a gentleman, after all. and so he absolutely will not be pushing this further than ai intends, or wants to go rather. even if ai shoved him away right this second, sousuke would smile, draw back and and remedy the situation however possible]
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2025-09-12 03:15 am (UTC)it's not his fault his eyes strayed. he just. well. forgot they were both naked momentarily. or maybe he was shamelessly letting his eyes wander. because he knows what he likes. sousuke shakes his head, holding up a hand in some faux retreat. a signal to let ai know it's all good, they're all good. despite whatever interesting event just transpired]
Easy, don't go apologizing for just standing up.
[the laugh that trails after is albeit awkward. so sousuke just feels ten times worse for mucking this up further. but ai isn't shaking off his wrist. ah right. sousuke sure does have a grip on that doesn't he? it's tempting to rip it away but... ai pulls their joined limbs closer to his heart, and doesn't that do something to his heart? something he kind of hates, kind of doesn't]
You can go sleep. Whole point of all this is to relax. Not freak out in the bath.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-12 03:25 am (UTC)What a dangerous thought.
He settles back into the water, trying to convince himself that overthinking is the enemy. Relaxes enough to let his legs extend out in front of him, let his shoulders rest against the rocks behind them. Blue eyes flutter shut.]
I didn't freak out, [comes his reply, a rare denial painting his lips. It doesn't last long, though; Ai relents, free hand coming to pinch his brow.] ... I can't help it. Thinking I see something there, and panicking a little when it gets too close.
[There's a pause there. Ai's conjuring something in his chest, but seems to abandon ship at the last second. Sinks a bit lower into the water.]
Well, either way. Whether it's here or back in the room, I'd rather be with you.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-13 02:16 am (UTC)only to see the evidence it was clearly meant for somebody else.
people dancing around each other, people skirting around things or trying to hide them. he has a good read of it. and well. whatever is going on here? coupled with ai's words? sousuke has a hunch. but choosing on whether to act on it or not? that's something else entirely.
his thumb carefully brushes over ai's skin. a stubbornly bold move, for whatever is currently transpiring. sousuke has a feel on what ai is saying. but what he means? ah. that's something else entirely. but there's no life without a little adventure. so he ventures cautiously]
...too close, huh.
[i'd rather be here with you. and maybe that solidifies it. sousuke takes a risk in life, and pulls ai a little closer. closing that gap, crossing that bridge. if ai chooses to hit him or shove him or anything else, sousuke yamazaki will happily take that loss. all in the pursuit of just knowing]
What did you think you saw?
no subject
Date: 2025-09-13 02:50 am (UTC)He might have denied and backed out a final time if not for the most subtle of reassurances. Ai didn't even need to know what he thought he saw, what he thought he felt. Didn't even want to know if Sousuke saw the same thing. Ai just needed to know that if he called a spade a spade, their world wouldn't end. The onsen wouldn't spiral and drag him down by the ankle, and he wouldn't be one incredible friend short by the end of it.
It comes to him in a simple truth, somewhere between the soft touch to his wrist and Sousuke pulling him close enough for Ai to be tucked into his shoulder: implicitly and unconditionally, he trusts Sousuke. This has been true from the very first moment they met. It remained true now, where Ai's doubts could make him tailspin, but instead his utter faith in Sousuke keeps him level-headed.
It's why despite his panic a moment ago, his response - even if it takes a little bit to work the words to the tip of his tongue - is so simple and resolute,]
You. I saw you. [Ai quickly shakes his head, just once. And maybe subtly leans against Sousuke a little, though notably his gaze is fixated on their reflections in the water.] But I'm not scared of you. I just--
You mean too much to me for me to want to put that in jeopardy. Maybe it makes me a coward. I don't know anymore.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-16 01:02 am (UTC)there's no veil hiding the fact. no pretenses hiding the fact. it's something startling. only because sousuke feels the same. like he's seen ai before. in ways others haven't. ever since that night outside samezuka... it's been one thing after another, all edging into this bond the others can't even begin to fathom between them. something akin to relief floods his veins, when ai leans back against him.
the feeling is mutual. that much is obvious to him]
...it's the same.
[sousuke says with conviction. so stubborn in his delivery, even though his tone is gentle. anything further might startle ai away and he doesn't want that. is terrified of it in fact. maybe he really did invite ai here under some pretense. something he's long since thought he buried at least. one pinkie hooks to brush whatever piece of ai's skin he can. something selfishly grounding for himself. except sousuke laughs, and maybe it's to cover himself up a bit. embarrassment is a real thing after all.
or maybe it's to put ai at ease. like he's always tried to do]
If that makes you a coward, it makes me more of one. Don't you think?
[the meaning there is clear]
no subject
Date: 2025-09-16 01:21 am (UTC)But that expression of his, and so boldly looking at Sousuke--]
I can't imagine you being scared of much of anything, Sousuke-senpai. Ah, not that you haven't been... You're only human. Though... You're very patient. You have to be with the kinds of things you've been through. Right? So you'll sit on your hands for too long.
[Kettle, meet pot. His tone is still to bright to be believably present, and it's obvious he's trying to lead into something. Something of a common subject between the two of them, and Ai doesn't want to sound accusatory, or bitter, but it'd do them no favours to ignore what from Ai's purview was the obvious modum of hesitance. Absently, his thumb strokes the outside of Sousuke's knuckle, eyes contemplative down on the water. Patiently, calmly minding their reflections. Passively, perhaps selfishly, Ai thinks they look good like this.]
You waited for Rin-senpai. Didn't you?
no subject
Date: 2025-09-17 03:18 am (UTC)oh, if only ai knew.
....okay maybe ai did know.
sousuke can't help but laugh at those last words. was he really so transparent? it's something that hasn't crossed his mind in what feels like centuries. stubbornly coming to the conclusion that there was no chance in hell, and he could accept that. as long as it meant having his best friend by his side. chasing after some other dreams, his own dreams this time--and trying not to absolutely wreck his newly healed body in the process]
Caught me.
[there's no denying ai's intuition, after all. he won't be made a liar of. he sighs, and lets his gaze drift back up towards the ceiling. fixating on a small droplet that continues to descent in the center of the hot spring]
Sounds like it comes from experience though.
[well. he's put it out there. ai can deny it, that's fine. sousuke can accept that. others can lie. he just refuses to, after almost a whole year of lying to the most important people in the world to him]
no subject
Date: 2025-09-17 03:52 am (UTC)And if not for Rin catching everyone in his wake and breaking hearts, Sousuke may have never really found his way to Ai, and vice versa. Sousuke didn't have to ask the question at all, Ai thinks; he already knows.
I just wanted to be able to swim with him one last time.
If you're meant to do it, you'll find a way to be there with him... At least, that's what I think he'd tell you.
And there is only so much tiding by and puffing chests and feeling not enough someone can put up with before it morphs into something else entirely. It had never been Rin's onus to show that to Ai; Ai had to show it to himself. And once he did, and realized he had a choice, he chose to move on.
He doesn't even realize he's squeezed Sousuke's hand tightly.]
Rin-senpai showed me a lot of amazing things. I owe him a lot. [Ai's eyebrows knit. And suddenly he's wondering some other things, too.] ... But you knew that much already, didn't you?
[Yet here we are. Would Sousuke continue to sit on his hands, be patient, considerate, stalwart? Even now, with everything laid out plain? There is suddenly a fire in Ai's chest; a determination. He knows what it feels like to be taken for granted, and tucked into Souske's side, he promises himself to make sure Sousuke never comes to feel the same way about him.]
The thing I'm most grateful for from him is you. That's why. Even if it's bittersweet, I can never, ever regret it.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-20 01:26 am (UTC)but there's some truth in all of this.
some things? are so precious, it can be worth the heartbreak.
sousuke's hand instinctively squeezes ai's back. he understands, without ai needing to go into any further explanation. call it something unspoken flitting between the two of them. or maybe it's just something louder than words could ever hope to convey. but it's not... sousuke's brows furrow a little as well, as ai tucks himself against him.
ai isn't a replacement for anything. in fact, sousuke thinks it's more like ai's something that's come to fruition from all of this. something he wants to bridge so achingly much. but there's fear in that. that perhaps if he finally does inch closer, maybe it will all come crashing down. and is that worth it all?
...or maybe ai's words just give him the closure necessary to facilitate what he feels like's wanted and tucked away for so long now. as ai tucks against him, sousuke presses his nose into ai's scalp, muttering the words against it. maybe like they never existed to begin with. or maybe they're something he's so terrified of that it's easy to mutter them against something to mute them out]
I can't either. Not when someone like you is what came out of it.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-20 02:36 am (UTC)[He speaks so quickly it is right on the cusp of Sousuke's words. And hesitates to carry out the rest of his sentiment because the way Sousuke breathes against his hair is intoxicating; Ai swears his warmth, this close and pressed, is different. Something fundamental between them has shifted, even if words or actions haven't bred it directly. Such was their way, Ai thinks; leave it to Sousuke to silently weasel his way in, even now.
Sousuke is warm, and strong around him, and Ai for a few moments counts the breaths against his scalp before hesitating and daring to put distance between them, only enough to be able to look up at unrelenting teal. Still so painfully close to him, it'd be so easy to just tilt his head up and--]
If it's too much, then don't mind it. But...
[His thumb strokes the side of Sousuke's knuckle; his other hand rests idly on a spot under the water, against his lower ribcage.]
When that. Changed? For you. [When did you look at me differently? It's such a forward thing to ask, and he doesn't do so in vain, and in fact his face is a beet red at the prospect of having gotten the words off his tongue. He isn't digging for platitudes or reassurances; rather, he's conjuring a timeline in his head. As if the same spark he had felt may have been mutual for longer than he could have known.
Unfortunately, his constitution is only so great, and short of bombastic favour, it was hard to keep that kind of momentum. Slowly his eyes drift to the side, and somewhat awkwardly, he starts up again,] Not that it...! Matters! In any tangible way! Rather, I guess, because that sort of thing is usually obvious... For me it felt obvious. If anything, I just feel stupid for having ignored it. But maybe that really had just been all in my head?
It's hard to say, because, well-- that is, if what I'm hearing is... ...
Agh!, it'd be easier if I could just--
[Ai has to sit up and off the rock in order to close the distance, but the way in which he takes Sousuke's lips against his own is, in a word, bold. Confident where his words aren't.]
no subject
Date: 2025-09-20 03:52 am (UTC)not when ai's thumb is stroking his hand, and with it his self control begins to melt into the water. his lips part, but nothing comes out. not at first, at least. because in his own head he's trying to conjure some semblance of a timeline. when did it start? was there something truly ulterior behind his invitation for ai to come here? he hopes it doesn't come off like that now, because he would never.
but before he can muster anything, there's lips covering his own. and for once, sousuke isn't surprised by the emboldened action. because this is ai after all. and he doesn't kiss back, not at first. only because it's some small amazement ai carried through where sousuke didn't.
or maybe it's not so surprising after all.
instead, he only answers with a smile pressed against ai's mouth, curling their fingers tighter together, leaning into the kiss. keeping it still for a moment, however less than hesitant. but he pulls back for a moment, a little laugh tumbling from his lips]
...do you want me to answer you, or do you just want to do that again instead?
[another squeeze to ai's hand, a little bump against his companion]
Cause honestly, I'd be okay with either.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-20 04:03 am (UTC)That's the funny thing about trust, when it is implicit in every possible way; Ai has the certainty Sousuke wouldn't just abandon him over a misstep like that, now. Instead, for his patience, he's rewarded with something even greater: a smile he can feel against his own lips, which sucker punches him straight in his chest. Sousuke's laugh is quiet, but so so warm. Not that Ai needed reassurance, but it's yet another notch to tighten the belt of confidence.
How silly they'd both been.]
If you answer honestly I don't think I can handle it, [he answers in a rueful huff, because the only person he can imagine being more direct and reckless than himself is Sousuke. He was the type to measure his words carefully, after all; they always had a way of disarming him.
He lets go of Sousuke's hand, finally. Both skate up the length of his body and loop around his shoulders, both hands up into short tufts of wet, dark brown hair. Ai does kiss him again, slower. Leans just a little into it. And then in an outstanding show of his self-control, pulls away only enough to let Sousuke speak if he wanted to.]
But I'll still listen. Just spare me, please.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-21 12:28 am (UTC)I think you're the kind of guy who can handle anything.
[there's a million different ways to take that, but at the core, sousuke knows it to be true. ai bottles up so much, and manifests it into a prowess that forms to something positive. or at least that's how sousuke has always viewed it. he presses another kiss against him, before ai settles on yet another. ah yeah, that stamina. sousuke can still be catching his breath and ai's lips are so agonizingly slow he melts into it]
That night on the fire escape.
[the night that really changed everything for him]
Saw something I never saw before.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-21 12:38 am (UTC)Unfortunately, he laughs.
A surprisingly rare sound from him, and an airy one at that, but he looks up at Sousuke with mirthful eyes, teasing the short tufts of his hair that just barely skate at th back of his ear, along his nape.]
You saw some poor kid crying his eyes out, [he manages between chuckle fits, finally getting it out of his system. His smile still bisects his face though, wide enough to push his beauty mark up toward his eye.] Did it leave that much of an impression? Ah, maybe you're the type who wants to swoop in with a white cape, after all.
[Ai kisses his chin; his jaw. Idle and fleeting things, as if he can't stay away from Sousuke for too long.]
I think... If it's up to me, I'd rather give you a better sight.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-21 11:48 pm (UTC)Almost. But, not quite my style.
[he tilts his head a little, in silent invitation of ai's lips. funny how once that little bridge has been crossed, it seems both of them can't keep their hands off of the other. well, while they're at it...]
I think I saw the start of a kid's bright future.
[sousuke squeezes ai's hand once more, before he pulls it away. all to push his fingertips through ai's hair, and slowly begin to work his way down the back of his neck. all pressing fingers and methodical touches to hopefully turn ai into a pliant puddle in the onsen. that's what they came out here for, right? to relax? maybe he can just help aid that along.
even if it is a little maddening the way ai says that. and sousuke's fingers turn tight for a moment, a smirk crossing his features]
...what were you thinking?
no subject
Date: 2025-09-22 12:14 am (UTC)You're too nice to me. [You spoil me, is what he means. Because Sousuke doesn't belittle Ai, but seems to always know exactly how to encourage him or help bolster his confidence when faltering. Patiently waited for as long as Ai said red light and now rises to meet him right in the middle at green light. Ai again reminds himself to never, ever, ever take this for granted. If he can spare Sousuke the feelings he himself endured for so many years, he will. Thinks after all of this, it might be even easier to make his gratitude known.
A noise threatens to bubble up and out of his throat, the way Sousuke's hand works through his hair and down the back of his neck; this coaxes Ai to turn a little bit, now more facing Sousuke than he had been before.
That smirk is what nearly does him in, though in incredible testament to his self-control, the noise is aborted just as it reaches his lips, only a faint and sharp exhale through his nose left as a ghost in its wake. His heart is in his throat, for a moment unable to tell up from down. Is he...? Flirting?
...
...!!
Ai only then clues in what he'd said and its double entendre. Not intentional!! But fuck, now he's wishing he had the foresight to say it was. Because Sousuke's hands are strong on his skin, and Ai is beginning to feel weak in the water for entirely different reasons.
Emboldened that there was no such thing as a mistake between the two of them, Ai faces Sousuke fully, having to wade in the water in front of him to do so; floats forward, enough to be just barely between his bent knees where he sits. Ai's hands trail down from Sousuke's hair to his jaw, his neck. Over the rounds of his defined pectorals. His cheeks may be flush, but his expression is wrought with determination.]
I'm thinking... No matter what sight I try to give you, you won't be able to see through the steam. Unless you get really, really close.
[... Aaaand his bravado shrivels up in the same instant. His eyes still glued to Sousuke's, but it's as if his flush overtakes him; his hands fly back up to Sousuke's jaw, and Ai looks at the scant water between them.]
... If that's too much, I...
no subject
Date: 2025-09-23 11:45 pm (UTC)and those stupid clever fingertips trailing maps across his face, over his hair and... well. he wasn't insinuating that exactly. flirting, sure. but sousuke's got some self restraint and is mildly a gentleman. ai's face reminds him of all those nights training in the pool deep into the night.
that stubborn determination he's always had an aptitude for.
but he leans in all the same, pressing their foreheads a little closer together, that hand cupping his jaw so tenderly it aches. sousuke's breath hitches a little bit through the steam. but no, his answer is silently pressed into ai as one arm wraps around him, pulling him impossibly close. permissively, giving him a little look as though to say this alright? before leaning in, and pressing a kiss against ai's neck]
Gotta stop doubting yourself.
[sousuke laughs against that damp skin, thumb rubbing methodic circles against the small of ai's back]
You're good just the way you are. That's the kind of close I want.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-24 12:00 am (UTC)This was all just-- so damn new. Equipped with the knowledge they'd both sat on their hands for way too long too, it lends itself to believing that certainly not all the time, but some of the time, Sousuke mayb obfuscate his intentions. This is the only place where Ai's uncertainty breeds itself.
And so he exhales, and then sighs a keening sigh, feeling Sousuke's lips against the length of his neck and his hand strong and reassuring at the small of his back.]
We're charting uncharted territory and doing it entirely naked. You can't blame me for a little bit of trepidation.
[As is evident by the way he feels his thighs against Sousuke's thighs; Sousuke's chest against his. Undulating water simultaneously scrambling and heightening those sensations. Given the height of the bath and how Sousuke is sitting, Ai is left to squat; he adjusts himself to be kneeling on the very edge of the ledge instead, still square between Sousuke's legs, water lapping at his navel. Like this, he's just slightly taller than eye height; able to lean down and steal a kiss square from Sousuke's lips before very un-subtly rolling his head to the side to expose his neck some, leaving his mouth close to Sousuke's ear.
His hands skate back up Sousuke's sternum, over his shoulders. Ai leads Sousuke further against his body.]
You can get closer. If you want.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-24 02:46 am (UTC)especially with the way ai is treading carefully into this new endeavor. brazen, yet reserved just in case there is any misguidance between the two. but... their friendship has sheltered so much before. right? surely it can bear the weight of this new adventure together? sousuke murmurs something wordlessly against ai's neck, testing the waters and letting his teeth catch the skin at that pale expanse being given to him just a little bit more.
sousuke doesn't think it's possible, but he tries to draw ai in closer anyways. their positioning is honestly kind of perfect for this sort of thing anyways. and ai is all too willing to press closer, position himself more thoroughly, lean in and let the breath roll across sousuke's ear.
maybe that's what finally does him in. or maybe it's that promise of you can get closer if you want that mentally wrecks him. and the kiss he presses against ai's throat is more intense and open mouthed this time, that hand on the small of his back dropping to squeeze his ass just a bit. bold? why yes. yes it is, but it's sousuke yamazaki we're talking about here.
and paired with someone like ai, it's some small wonder they've sat on their hands so long like this. sousuke lets his teeth drag against his throat, as he works a patch of flesh between his lips and teeth, sucking with a low groan]
no subject
Date: 2025-09-24 03:22 am (UTC)Oh, [he exhales, such a small noise, but one that is undoubtedly brand new for Sousuke's ears; the attention paid to his jugular has a full-body shudder rack through him.
And then Sousuke's hand is on his rear, and. Ai gasps, just a little; inavertently presses his hips back to catch and encourage that touch, especially.
The hand in Sousuke's hair slides forward to his jaw, encouraging Sousuke's lips upward, where Ai kisses him. Far headier than he may have even a minute ago, an obvious desire blossoming between slotted lips. Against him, Ai murmurs something akin to wait a sec, using the broad expanse of Sousuke's shoulders to steady himself as he shifts.
One thigh outside on the left; one outside on the right. Like this, it's more comfortable. And like this, he can truly kill the space between them... Though somewhat deliberately, he keeps his weight up. Not so much sat in Sousuke's lap as he is hovering just atop it.]
no subject
Date: 2025-09-25 03:49 am (UTC)and he can feel the ripples of shivers coursing through ai. and his own body probably meets them in return. those fingers working his scalp and hair beneath the soft pads, the hips moving back against his touch. fuck.
sousuke meets the kiss heavily, helping ai shift whatever which way he can, dragging their mouths back together to meet. that hand behind ai, intensifying the firmness of his grip, dragging his cheeks apart a little bit. fuck, it all feels so dizzy and it feels like they've only been going at this for five seconds. maybe less. he doesn't even know what time it is anymore.
sousuke lets something slip that sounds similar to a curse curdled with ai's name, before he finally forces himself away from ai's mouth to begin to work a piece of skin on his throat between his lips and teeth, hopefully leaving his mark a little more thoroughly there]
no subject
Date: 2025-09-25 03:59 am (UTC)Senpai, Sou-- mm, [he honest to god moans, biting his lip at first but letting his tongue loose when the pinch beneath Sousuke's teeth crosses from painful into mind-numbingly good. His hands claw up the top of Sousuke's shoulders; up into his hair. Ai yanks him forward as if he could just pin Sousuke there, let him claim as much pallid white skin as he wanted.
Rolls his hips back against the hand that is still holding him so intentionally. And then, as if reward for gifting him not one but two incredibly dark and bruising marks, Ai cants his hips down. Almost shyly, as if this much is too much, too; as if Sousuke isn't quite literally claiming him where he touches him. It's deliberate enough to catch his sex in the cleave of his undercarriage, the glide impossibly easy on account of the water. Ai sucks in a breath, and slowly, cautiously rolls his hips down again.]
no subject
Date: 2025-09-26 02:58 am (UTC)even with someone so normally stoic as sousuke, he too can begin to crumble. the sting from deft fingers tugging and clawing at everything, the roll of ai's ass against his dick is maddening. to a point where he can't help the way his hips buck into it, tossing his head back momentarily to suck in a breath between clenched teeth.
one hand on ai's ass tugs at him, carefully slotting his cock between the dip and he slowly begins to match ai's movements in tandem, maddeningly slow granted. the two of them are known for their endurance, and sousuke will be damned if he finished preemptively like some horny teenager. but the hot water sloshing around them only aids in that feeling, and he grunts a little as he bucks up again, tightening his hold on whatever of ai he's even holding onto at this point]
You can say it.
[sousuke says with a small laugh, scraping his teeth along the dip of ai's neck, down his shoulder and trickling back up]
Senpai, or whatever you want. I don't mind...
no subject
Date: 2025-09-26 03:11 am (UTC)Ai's actions had been tentative to start, but feeling the entire length of Sousuke's strong arousal drag against the cleft of his ass leaves Ai breathless. Already he was so hard, clearly enjoying this as much as Ai was, however new and uncertain the territory might be.
He adjusts himself to match; lowers himself further, rutting his hips forward as Sousuke does up, backward as Sousuke does down. Feeling the drag of Sousuke's lower stomach against his own cock. One arm is slung over Sousuke's shoulder entirely, bracing against him; a small part of him letting Sousuke support his weight. His other hand flies into Sousuke's hair for a moment, gripping short tufts and gently tugging, just enough to encourage Sousuke to tilt his head.]
Sousuke-senpai, [he repeats, lips trailing from his jaw to the side of his neck. It's Ai's turn to return the favour, minding their rhythm and lapping heavily at Sousuke's skin until it nearly tastes metallic. Teeth pinch into sinew, and Ai cannot help but moan heavily as he finally gives Sousuke a mark worthy of matching the ones left on himself.
Releases. Leaves a few smaller marks below it, trailing toward Sousuke's collar bone. And then suddenly Ai is making a breathless sort of laugh against Sousuke's skin, and if Sousuke sought to check his expression, he'd see pulled eyebrows and a rueful smile.]
You feel. Um. [Well-endowed. Spitting that out might just kill him, though. Breathless yet smiling lips find Sousuke's again, for a moment, before Ai is unabashedly looking Sousuke in the eye,] -- You seem excited.
no subject
Date: 2025-09-28 09:47 pm (UTC)Not exactly easy to stay calm with you.
[that voice so rough around the edges, tinged even moreso now. he presses against ai deliberately, proving the theory that ai is desperately trying to point out currently. all the while his thumb smooths across ai's hip. but maybe he got a little of the insinuation that ai is making, and that brings a little heat to his cheeks]
Feels good.
[sousuke settles on with a breathy noise. well in various scenarios, he can't say this is one he could have conjured up. even if he desperately thought of it time and time again. he didn't want to sully their relationship, and so would so constantly push it to the side in turn]
Ah--
[he starts off carefully, biting his lip, stumbling over words momentarily]
How far...?
[sousuke is nothing but a gentleman, after all. and so he absolutely will not be pushing this further than ai intends, or wants to go rather. even if ai shoved him away right this second, sousuke would smile, draw back and and remedy the situation however possible]
(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From:(no subject)
From: