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The stage hums with anticipation, red and purple lights softening the sharp edges of desire hanging in the air. In the center, bathed in a single spotlight, stands Satoru Gojo - unattainable, untouchable, and yet entirely on display.
He wears white tonight. A corset that clings to his sculpted torso like it was stitched onto him by sin itself, paired with rabbit ears that somehow make the show more obscene in its innocence. There’s a subtle shimmer to his porcelain skin under the lights, every movement intentional, every breath another invitation.
Suguru watches from his usual booth - far enough to be just a shadow, close enough to see the way Satoru’s fingers trail over his own collarbone. He never misses a performance. He never blinks.
Satoru doesn’t dance for the crowd, not for the deafening applause or the cash tucked into garters. No, Suguru sees it. That moment when those blue eyes flicker just past the curtain, seeking something, someone. Him.
Every week is the same. Satoru moves like honey - slow, thick and irresistibly sweet. Every sway of his hips is a promise, every smirk a tease.
And Suguru? He aches.
There’s heat between his ribs, a burn in his lungs, because Satoru doesn’t just dance - he commands.
Tonight, Satoru reaches up, sliding the straps of his corset down slowly, teasing his own throat with lazy fingers. His gaze is heavy-lidded, pupils dilated.
Suguru’s hand curls into a fist against the table.
Around them, laughter and whistles erupt, but all Suguru can hear is the blood pounding in his ears.
This is a slow kind of torture. Delicious. Devastating.
And Satoru knows it.
He turns slightly onstage, and there, just there, is the smirk. The one he saves for Suguru alone. Like a secret between them in a room full of strangers.
Suguru doesn’t smile, doesn’t react. He burns.
A week passes. Seven days of Suguru pretending he’s not counting the hours.
The nights are restless. He dreams of satin, of pale fingers trailing up a mirror, of soft gasps behind locked doors. And every morning he wakes up harder than sin and twice as frustrated. It’s pathetic, he thinks, he hasn’t even touched Satoru.
But he’s close.
Tonight, he arrives earlier than usual, dressed in a sharp, dark button-down that clings a little too well to his shoulders. He’s not here to watch. Not tonight.
The club buzzes low, smoke curling in lazy spirals under dimmed chandeliers. The regulars don’t notice him. He’s just another pair of eyes in the dark, another hungry ghost haunting Satoru Gojo’s stage.
Except, he’s not. Not tonight.
When he finds the manager, he speaks softly, calmly, as if he’s ordering a drink and not offering a small fortune for ten minutes alone in the backroom. A private dance. One-on-one. From him.
“He won’t go for it,” the manager mutters, arms crossed. “Gojo doesn’t do privates.”
But when the request reaches the dancer, something shifts. Not in his expression - no, Satoru always smiles like he knows your secrets. But his fingers pause mid-stroke as he reapplies a soft gloss to his lips. His tongue flicks against his teeth.
“Who’s asking?” Satoru asks, already knowing the answer.
That man. The one who never speaks. Who watches like he’s carving every movement into memory.
“…Tell him yes,” Satoru purrs, finally. “Ten minutes.”
The room is small. Purple light. A velvet chair. A mirror.
Suguru sits with his legs apart, hands on his thighs. Waiting.
And then Satoru enters.
He’s wearing the same outfit - white corset, cuffs, collar, but there’s something different now. No crowd. No show. Just him. Just Suguru. And rules.
No touching. No kissing.
But God, the things Satoru can do without ever laying a hand.
He circles Suguru slowly, like a predator, or worse, like he’s bored. Fingers ghost above his chest, trailing just inches away, never landing. His thighs brush close, deliberately avoiding contact. Every sway of his hips is filth disguised as elegance.
“You paid for this?” Satoru murmurs at last, eyes low-lidded, voice like silk fraying at the edges. “Ten minutes of looking?”
Suguru doesn’t answer. Can’t. His jaw is tight, breath shallow, fists clenched against the chair.
Satoru straddles the space between his knees, his face close now. Too close.
“But you want more than that, don’t you?”
The room is suffocating. Heat and need and silence. Their lips don’t touch. Skin never meets skin.
But it’s intimate . It’s personal . And it’s torture.
Satoru leans in, his mouth brushing the air just over Suguru’s cheek.
“Don’t break the rules, sweetheart,” he whispers. “Or I’ll stop.”
And Suguru, shaking with restraint, only exhales one word;
“Cruel.”
Satoru smiles.
“Only if you ask nicely.”
Satoru moves like the music is inside him - slow, sensual, teasing. His body dips, arches, and slides over Suguru like a shadow, never quite touching. But they’re close. So close.
And somehow, not touching is worse than any touch could ever be.
Every time his hips roll near Suguru’s, there’s heat. When his hand slides up his own thigh, Suguru watches with hungry eyes, a muscle twitching in his jaw. Satoru’s fingertips skate along the edges of Suguru’s shoulders, ghosting over fabric, never skin. It’s cruel, intentional. A game they’re both playing too well.
Then it shifts.
The music slows - soft jazz, all smoky notes and silken rhythm. Satoru straddles Suguru’s lap, not sitting, just hovering, chest close enough that the scent of cologne and clean skin is impossible to ignore.
Suguru’s hands lift, hover, pause… then slide up Satoru’s sides - slow and reverent - never straying where they shouldn’t. Palms over ribs. Fingertips brushing along the seam of the corset. Like he’s memorizing the shape of a sin he’s not allowed to commit.
Satoru shivers.
“Still playing by the rules?” he whispers, voice breathy, pupils blown wide.
“Barely,” Suguru answers, voice low and rough.
And Satoru smiles like the devil in silk.
His hands, delicate and daring, rise to cup Suguru’s face, thumb brushing just under his bottom lip, almost trembling. The moment is thick with everything unspoken. This isn’t part of the dance. This is real .
He leans in.
Their lips meet. Barely.
Not a kiss. A whisper of one.
A brush, warm and soft and shattering. Lingering. Devastating.
When they pull apart, Satoru’s breathing isn’t steady anymore. And Suguru’s hands curl into fists again, desperate to stay obedient, desperate not to drag him down and taste what he’s not allowed to want.
They say nothing as Satoru rises.
The ten minutes are up.
No rules were technically broken. Not really. But they both know what that kiss meant.
As Satoru walks out, head high, heels clicking, a secret smile on his lips, Suguru exhales like he’s just barely survived something dangerous.
And he knows it.
This thing between them? It’s not a romance. Not a future. It’s a ritual.
A secret whispered in low light and velvet heat. A dance neither of them will ever admit to wanting as much as they do.
Their dirty little secret.