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Currently chifuyu was running really late, as he in fact was definitely running through his new campus building to get to the cafe situated right near the main building in the said campus. Practically dashing through the passing crowd of students changing their classes, he had been praying in his head that he doesn’t bump into anyone and make a fool of himself before he even started classes here.
As to why is chifuyu running? Well he was on his way to meet his childhood friend Hanagaki Takemichi who he had been separated at the age of 10 since he moved to osaka because of his dad’s transfer. At the age of 17, almost 18 he was surprised to see an unknown number texting him that turned out to be his supposedly first friend who he had buried the memories of.
Turns out takemichi is also attending the same college and had seen chifuyu the day prior moving into the dorm. Chifuyu was beyond happy to have known someone on campus and not be alone completely and that too a childhood friend who had so much to catch up with.
Panting heavily chifuyu stops at the gate of a small cafe that looked pretty decent for a college, huffing while placing both hands on his knees, chifuyu tried to catch his breath while regretting every decision that made him run here because boy his throat and legs hurt so bad, just how fast did he even ran??
“Chifuyu??” Hearing his name, Chifuyu's head shot up from his half bent position to look for the source of the voice, it was a boy with black hair and a really bad fashion sense. He was wearing a shirt that said ‘outlaw’ and khaki coloured trousers, a fashion disaster.
“Yes?” Chifuyu finally stood up straight, having caught his breath, adjusting his bag on his shoulder. “OH MY GOD IT'S REALLY YOU!!” The said boy latched onto chifuyu and it sounded like he was in tears? Almost? Chifuyu was less confused and started to put the pieces together.
“Oh oh.. OHHHH.. HANAGAKI???” Chifuyu asked as the other boy was still crying on his shoulder, Takemichi just nodded. Chifuyu, relieved that he wasn’t being hugged by a random stranger, returned the hug but not as tight as the other.
“Oh my god you look so different.” Takemichi pulled away face drenched in his tears and snot, chifuyu grimaced while glancing towards his shoulders, thankfully takemichi had not gotten anything there. “Yea well i stopped dying my hair and got a piercing i guess?” Chifuyu chuckled at his friend placing a hand on his shoulder, “You cried so much, you missed me that much?”
“OF COURSE IT'S BEEN 7 YEARS.” It looked like he was gonna start crying any moment again, “Yea yea i missed you a lot too, I can’t believe we’re in the same college we have so much catching up to do.” Chifuyu grinned, and Hanagaki nodded, “But first I want you to meet my middle and high school friends they’re all going here too.” Friends? It’d be kinda awkward to meet them for chifuyu since he doesn't even know them but he agreed to meet them nonetheless.
Entering the cafe, chifuyu noticed a large group of people seated on a large table, he assumed they were his friends. Goddamn chifuyu thought, in the past 7 years he could barely keep any friends and hanagaki had so many friends, chifuyu was kinda jealous with his socialising skills.
“Hey guys, this is my childhood friend i was talking about in the gc i finally met him after 7 years.” Hanagaki sniffled signalling chifuyu to introduce himself to everyone.
“Hey I’m chifuyu matsuno and I am the childhood friend of this crybaby.” Chifuyu smiled at the group, he noticed 3 girls and the others all being guys one particular guy caught his eye, he was absolutely gorgeous , he had blonde streaks in his hair, with a tiger tattoo adorning his neck as a beauty spot under his eye defined his beautiful eyes even more, god he kinds just wanted to-
He cut off his own thoughts as he realised he must have been staring, clearing his throat he looked over at takemichi. “If you have to hang out with your friends, it’s fine we can meet up some other day. I mean we’re on the same campus now.” Chifuyu smiled at him.
“You should join us.” A voice spoke from the group, chifuyu glanced towards the owner. A young looking boy with dark black hair cut neatly as a dragon tattoo situated on his neck travelling to his shoulder. “I wouldn’t want to intrude.” Chifuyu said politely. “You’re definitely not intruding.” The guy with the tiger tattoo spoke up with a particular smirk that irked chifuyu- His eyes twitched a little but before he could lose his composure he regained it and tried to politely decline until takemichi insisted him to stay. Chifuyu then reluctantly agreed as there was no other choice left.
“So chifuyu, how have you been all these years?” Takemichi asked as he seated himself next to Chifuyu and Hina, who introduced herself as Takemichi's girlfriend. “I’ve been alright, you could say, high school and middle school were particularly boring for me and the most eventful thing would be my piercing and tattoo.” Chifuyu smiled as Takemichi asked him about his tattoo.
As chifuyu was about to answer his question, the guy with the tiger tattoo spoke. “You seem too much of a pussy to get a tattoo anyways.” Chifuyu raised an eyebrow at the remark, oh this pretty boy was getting on his nerves. Everyone else began to listen in on their conversation now. “Excuse me? What’s that supposed to mean?” A vein popped on Chifuyu's forehead as he tried to maintain himself. “You just seem frail and soft and are definitely the type to be scared of pain are you not?” The guy smirked as the guy with long black hair next to him just sighed. Ok chifuyu had enough. “Listen here, pretty boy, think twice before judging someone from their appearance alright?” The boy’s smirk widened, “So you do think I’m pretty.”
Chifuyu heaved in a sigh, His blood pressure was increasing he was sure of it- “I suggest it’s better that you shut up.” Chifuyu spoke trying to not get angry but was obviously failing at it.
“Ok ok let's not get feisty here we haven’t introduced ourselves.” The boy with a dragon tattoo on the side of his head spoke. ‘Same as the boy with the black hair’ Chifuyu thought, he had shaved his hair on both sides and had black hair in a pony. “I’m draken by the way.” He smiled at chifuyu “and this is mikey aka sano manjiro” He pointed to the guy with the dragon tattoo on his neck who was currently devouring his chocolate parfait. Chifuyu smiled at them “Chifuyu matsuno as i already told, nice to meet you both.”
Draken nodded with a smile and the guy with long black hair spoke up “Baji keisuke” He showed his fanged smile to chifuyu and pointed towards the pretty jerk with the tiger tattoo “and this would be kazutora, don’t mind him he’s just soooorrrtt of a jerk.” Baji snickered lightly, with a slight apologetic tone in his voice. Wow. Chifuyu thought he has this guy apologising for his absolute of a jerk attitude, he would scoff if he could but that would be rude towards the apology baji did give him so he just let it slide.
“I’m hinata! I already introduced myself but since everyone was going around so I did it again and this is emma!” She points towards the blonde girl sitting next to her, “Hey” I waved to Emma as she smiled and waved back.
“I must say takemichi went and made sooo many friends, I only made one friend in all these years.” Chifuyu smiled but saying that outloud made it sound sad- anyways he’s not sad about his socialising skills he is happy he had a great friend all these years.
The conversation flowed on from there, everyone asking chifuyu stuff about his life in osaka and his major, all while kazutora was just staring at chifuyu timely shiming here and there in the conversation.
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Everyday chifuyu fell in a routine for the following month, going to the cafe to meet takemichi’s- his- friends, depending on their schedules at least one or two people would be in the cafe to meet chifuyu and give him company bfr his morning classes and during lunch.
Today he dreaded his company, walking into the cafe he noticed kazutora sitting alone working on something on his laptop, sighing and rolling his eyes he walked over and sat next to kazutora.
He didn’t necessarily hate the other, it’s just, for starters their first meeting was not on a good note and kazutora never apologising for his remarks but chifuyu let it slide he’s not this petty, but that’s not what’s bothering chifuyu about the other is the fact that for the past month they’ve been having these looks passed between the two, it’s just, chifuyu sigh even thinking about them- the looks are so suggestive, it’s like kazutora is just trying to get something past the other ,leaving the looks aside kazutora was even directly flirting with him at times and not to mention the slight touches between them whenever they're sitting together-
Last week , sitting together in the cafe chifuyu and kazutora had been sitting together and it was quite packed, since somehow everyone had some time to spare so they visited the cafe and kazutora and chifuyu ended up next to each other since they were the first to arrive.
The group started talking about one thing then it flowing to another, currently they were talking about how baji had been missing to many classes to go meet the kittens that were just born in the main park, chifuyu thought it was kind of cute since baji looked like such a tough guy but he had the biggest soft spot for cats.
Not really paying attention to the convo chifuyu just zoned out until he felt someone’s hand on his hand under the table, he looked at his side and he saw kazutora laughing and participating in the convo but his hand was on top of chifuyu’s.
Chifuyu was gravely confused, did he not notice? Was it a mistake? Should he move his hand away…? At first he thought about moving it away but the warmth of the taller’s palm residing on top of his made him feel so nice, he would never admit it but he felt his heart race under the other’s slight touch.
Kazutora’s slightest touches made him feel like fire was going through his whole body, sighing he just lowered his head he felt inane. How did a simple touch of someone’s hand made him feel this much. He looked at kazutora once more and to his surprise he found giving him a side look as he was smirking? Smiling? He couldn’t figure out and then he winked- he FUCKING winked interwining their hands more under the table unbeknownst to anyone on the table, chifuyu scoffed at him but didn’t pull his hand away and just turned away from kazutora to hide his blush as he heard a light chuckle he was sure belonged to kazutora, ‘this bitch’ he thought, still holding hands with the said bitch.
Anyways back to now , he sat next to kazutora in the mostly empty cafe and took out his own laptop. “Oh hey I didn’t see you there.” Kazutora said, lacking his normal flirty demeanor, his hair tied in a bun as some strands fell out and he had glasses on, there were slight eyebags underneath his eyes.
“Yeah hey,” Chifuyu replied, “You seem tired, umm are you okay?” Chifuyu pondered but still asked, “Aww is my darling worried about me?” Kazutora wriggled his eyebrows in the way he knows chifuyu hates and chifuyu just rolled his eyes, “But uh yea this assignment I have due has been killing me literally I feel like I’m dying, oh save me chifuyu.” Kazutora dramatically fell on chifuyu.
“Don’t- sit up straight.” Chifuyu pushed him away lightly as kazutora chuckled but sat up straight with his head lolling, still staring at chifuyu with a smile on his face, it felt so genuine.
“W-what?” Chifuyu sputtered, feeling shy under the warm gaze of the other, it was odd in a positive way. “Nothing, you're just so pretty.” Kazutora said, still smiling but now turning towards his own laptop.
Chifuyu was literally at a loss of words, just what is wrong with him….. And his own heart was not helping generously fastening at the other’s comment.
“You’re weird.” Chifuyu said with faux annoyance as he pretended to focus on his own work. Kazutora smiled gently
“ Yet, you still adoreeee me, matsuno~” “Please shutup” Chifuyu groaned and Kazutora laughed.
Later, chifuyu would get them both coffee without a word and continue to work as they both sit silently basking in comfort of the other.
A few weeks later, with the semester finally over, everyone found free time for themselves and each other and finally met up in over a month. This time they met in mikey and draken’s dorm room
“I can’t believe it’s been this long since we all got together.” Takemichi said and chifuyu’s mind wandered over to the last time they all were together, It was the day kazutora and him held hands under the table for almost three- hours, ignoring that memory he tried to focus on everyone there.
If he was gonna be brutally honest here, he was slightly disappointed that kazutora wasn’t sitting next to him, he was next to baji, and he himself was sitting next to draken who was chatting with emma who he had just recently found out were dating.
“Guys this is so boring we need to do something fun ” Mikey said, his words sounded ominous but chifuyu listened nonetheless. “No, do not bring up truth and dare we’re not in fucking high school” Draken sighs but mikey protests they have to play it, perking at hearing truth and dare chifuyu’s eyes nonchalantly wandered to kazutora, whose own eyes were on chifuyu, when met with the golden irises chifuyu was caught and kazutora just flashed him a smile and blew a kiss, chifuyu turned away.
“Okay so everyone knows the rules whatever, let’s play!” Mikey said, spinning the bottle and it landing on draken, Draken sighed and mikey snickered.
“Draken, who was your first crush?” Mikey asked as he munched on some chips, others eager and listening on, "You didn't even ask me if I wanted truth or dare." Draken rolled his eyes, "Yea well giving you dares are no fun you do them all most of the time." Mikey said and told him to answer the question.
“Ugh you KNOW this.” Draken rolled his eyes, “It was Mikey,” Chifuyu was kind of shocked “Wait for real???” Baji asked, getting up slightly, clearly intrigued.
“Yeah yeah I first saw him beating the shit out of some 'friends' of mine and I was genuinely in awe, I liked him for quite a while too." Draken said and it seemed like emma already knew she just cooed and smiled at her boyfriend for having a crush on her brother.
"Okay let's move on please." Draken said, spinning the bottle and it landed on….
Chifuyu, Great chifuyu thought. "Hell yeah" Baji said and chifuyu raised his eyebrow at that but said that he'd do a dare and Draken told him to kiss the person who he thought was the prettiest in the room.
Well he be damned. Because his very first thought when he met with this group of friends months ago was that kazutora is so pretty, He was flustered and did not really want to kiss kazutora in front of everyone. Would he do it alone? It was already obvious.
"Well.." Draken urged him to proceed with the dare, he had a feeling they all knew who he was going to approach.
Slowly, Across the circle he approached kazutora who was smirking slightly at him,
"Gosh why do I have to do this." Chifuyu whispered as he moved closer to kazutora as the others snickered, already expecting it.
"Well you could've chosen someone else too you know." Kazutora shrugged with a smile.
"No….that would be..wrong..i don't know." Chifuyu sighed, now close enough to kazutora, who heard his response and was a bit taken back. Baji was grinning at kazutora's side, Painfully obvious that he wants them to kiss already.
Leaning forward, Chifuyu lightly pecked the other's lips with his hand on the tiger tattoo, slightly rubbing on it, which sent goosebumps through Kazutora's body, Chifuyu slightly licked kazutora's lips before pulling away.
Meeting with the taller's eyes, chifuyu felt so shy, like a girl sharing her first kiss with her crush.
He backed away, slightly dumbfounded because the small interaction made him shiver. He enjoyed that light peck way too much and the lick at the end was something else….He needed to clear his head really.
The others were way too excited, Mikey complaining how it wasn't even a kiss but draken just urging him to shut up.
Chifuyu just spun the bottle and the game was back on track but he was still lost in his thoughts, too shy to look towards kazutora, he just gently touched his lips, remembering the feeling of the other's on his.
Kazutora's lips were plump and soft, way more than chifuyu even expected, It made his heart flutter even more.
He was definitely going crazy.
Following the truth and dare incident, Chifuyu sort of ignored kazutora, well definitely sort of. He was being subtle, or so he thought because kazutora genuinely thought chifuyu would never talk to him.
Sitting in the cafe with inui, His friend of 7 years from osaka, Who was visiting tokyo to meet his boyfriend koko who lives here, He had come to meet chifuyu and catch up on his college life.
"So yea we kissed, Well I pecked him and I am kind of ignoring him?" Chifuyu slightly flinched at his own retelling of the kazutora events to his best friend because he realised how kazutora might've been feeling being ignored by chifuyu.
"He seems flirty, and genuinely interested in you though, I cannot believe you are just ignoring him over a dare. This is so cliche, Chifuyu stop creating your wattpad story here." Inui said while taking a sip of his coffee as chifuyu rolled his eyes.
"Oh hey chifuyu!" He heard takemichi and looked over to see him, mikey, kazutora and draken.
He waved and smiled at takemichi, mentally dreading facing kazutora. "This is inui, My best friend from osaka, the one I told you about.
The others greeted him as he replied back, introducing himself. "Chifuyu told me a lot about all of you. Thank you for being friends with him. I was honestly worried about him since he does not socialise at all." Chifuyu scoffed at the comment.
"Stop sounding like my mom." Chifuyu pointed his fork at the blonde. "Yea well someone's gotta care for you." Inui rolled his eyes while lightly flicking the other's forhead.
"Owww" Chifuyu rubbed his forehead faking pain and inui blew kisses attempting to ease his faux pain at which chifuyu grimaced but chuckled.
Then he heard takemichi call out for kazutora and looked over to see kazutora walking out of the cafe as he was left dumbfounded.
"Wha…" Chifuyu was confused but stood up to follow the other out as he told the others he'd be back.
"Yea yea just go get your romeo." Inui rolled his eyes at the other.
Walking out he saw kazutora sitting on a bench, he walked towards him.
"Hey" Chifuyu said sitting next to the other, no reply.
"Are you…mad at me?" Chifuyu treaded lightly around the question as he didn't want the other to ask why he was being ignored.
"No" Kazutora simply answered and chifuyu clicked his tongue, annoyed because he could see that kazutora was mad or at least upset.
"C'mon..tell me." Chifuyu slightly shook the other.
"It's nothing, leave it." Kazutora said and chifuyu heaved a sigh.
"Please? I'm really sorry for ignoring you. I didn't mean to, I just…" Chifuyu leaned on the bench dragging his hand through his face.
"It's….not about that." Kazutora muttered, Chifuyu raised an eyebrow then asked what it was about.
"am…jealous," Kazutora muttered even lowly, But chifuyu heard it. His eyes widened.
"You're what?" He asked slightly amused.
"You heard me, Don't ask again." Kazutora grumbled. Chifuyu chuckled,
"Alright Alright, but jealous of who..?" He asked.
"Inui." Kazutira muttered quietly as chifuyu started laughing as soon as he heard the reply. "Oh god please shutup" Kazutora groaned holding his head in his hands.
"Why-why are you even jealous though?" He asked in between laughs. "Umm because I like you?" Kazutora said facing chifuyu, head still in his hands, he was having his howl moment.
Chifuyu was taken aback, "You..you like me?" He asked. "Well I'm pretty sure I made it clear with all the flirting." Kazutora said.
"I…I..um.." Chifuyu sputtered at a loss of words as kazutora sat up.
"What?" He asked facing chifuyu, "Fuck it. Ahhhh Ilikeyoutoo" Chifuyu said in one breath eyes shut tight, He didn't even want to see the other's reaction.
To his surprise he didn't get teasing in return but a chaste kiss to his lips.
"I've been wanting to do this so badly fuck." Kazutora sighed as pulled away but Chifuyu pulled him back by the collar joining their lips.
"Do it properly then idiot." He said as he closed his eyes while Kazutora held him by the neck deepening their kiss.
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"I still cannot believe you were jealous of inui." Chifuyu said as he was cuddled up in kazutora's arms.
"Oh fuck you." Kazutora lightly pinched the black haired's side as the other giggled.