Title: friends with benefits
author: sango houshi
pairing: ruka/hitsugi
summary: being friends with benefits is pretty convenient...but sometimes it felt like high school all over again.
Being friends with benefits is great, but unfortunately it never lasts. It can either make or break what was once a beautiful relationship. But it comes to a point where taking what you want and only giving as much as you get isn’t enough. Sometimes someone in the…relationship breaks the rules and they both end up getting hurt.
Which brings us to the current conversation.
“I didn’t know you were a whore.”
“Excuse me?! A whore? If I’m a whore what does that make you?!”
Ok so…let’s back up a bit.
These two, let’s call them tweedle dee and tweedle dum, have been having no strings attached sex for a few months.
Now, usually Ruka, being the seme he was, wasn’t exactly the emotional type. He was very laid back. He was tall and good looking and funny and he had a lot of friends but he was also pretty lazy. Hitsugi on the other hand was very shy, had few friends and was always busy working so his social life was pretty limited. Hitsugi had also been hurt before in a relationship and was tired of getting his heart broken and being the only one putting an effort into a relationship. He had been the one to suggest to Ruka to be fuck buddies. The tall brunette had readily agreed. Hell it was sex without an emotional commitment, the only thing he had to worry about was using condoms and being available when Hitsugi needed him-which came as a surprise that it was a lot. He had no idea the little redhead was such a firecracker.
An insatiable firecracker.
However one mistake was all it took to have the part time salesman (AN: lol. Ruka’s job before becoming a famous drummer-anyone seen Heyx3) demanding things from him that quite frankly he had no business demanding of Hitsugi. It was a typo on Hitsugi’s part. He had been talking to his good friend, Aki, as well as Ruka at the same time, when he accidentally sent the text to the wrong person. And it was something innocent too.
Aki had asked him what day he had off and Hitsugi responded with
“I get Thursdays off, why?”
And immediately Ruka flipped. Demanding to know who Hitsugi was talking with and if he had a date with whoever it was he was texting -because they sure as hell hadn’t been talking about Hitsugi’s day off, and he didn’t know that he was talking to Aki, someone who was very hot but not someone Hitsugi had ever considered having sex with: the man was way out of his league-and Ruka had had the balls to call him a whore for assuming he had a date with someone else, when it was just him being paranoid.
And the conversation goes as follows, with Hitsugi trying to calm Ruka down, in text messages.
“First of all, who the hell do you think you’re talking to? If I’m a whore, what does that make you? And secondly, I wasn’t planning on sleeping with him.”
“That’s what you say now. What about Sakito, Zennin, Aoi, Kai and whoever the fuck you fucked.”
Now, Hitsugi had slept with Sakito and Ni-ya (but Ruka didn’t know about that) and Ruka was just naming random people, insulting Hitsugi with the number of people he named, which wasn’t true.
“What the hell are you talking about, I never slept with those people. And you’re one to talk. How many people have you fucked?!”
And Ruka tried to play it off saying ‘lol’ and that he was just kidding, just naming names. Which only pissed Hitsugi off more.
“I only let people I really like in my pants.” Ruka texted.
Hitsugi responded with “Me too. I have to really like someone before I let them anywhere near my pants.”
To which Ruka said, “Prove it.”
Of course this left Hitsugi completely baffled. What the hell was he talking about. It also begged the question of why they were still having this conversation via text rather than calling each other, but both are, again, idiots.
“Prove what?”
“Prove that you really like me.”
“….. how…?”
“I don’t know. You figure it out.”
Now, one very important piece of information is being left out. Good looking seme Ruka has a girlfriend and Hitsugi knew about her but she was okay with it because they were on a ‘break’ as she had gone on vacation. Had this been a different situation, or a different person, he would’ve never touched Ruka, he wasn’t that type of person. But having a very awkward conversation with her had rid him of all his doubts about her not caring if he slept with her -at the moment not-boyfriend (what with them having a break and all). Yes, Ruka was bisexual because he didn’t give a damn one way or another so long as he got his rocks off. But he did have to care for the person before he put his dick near them. And the same was for Hitsugi, only he wasn’t as brash about it. He had tact. Something Ruka obviously lacked. But the thing with Hitsugi was that he had to like the person but know in his mind that he would not fall for that person. He was tired of being emotionally attached to someone and not having his feelings reciprocated.
“How am I supposed to show you? Hell, why should I bother, it’s not like you’ll do the same for me.”
“O.m.g. didn’t I just say I liked you. Why else would I fuck you?”
“Because you like sex as much as I do and it’s convenient for both of us?” Hitsugi texted his sarcastic voice and the ‘duh’ hanging in the air was painfully obviously.
Ruka didn’t respond for a long time and Hitsugi didn’t know what to make of their non-relationship. Did this mean it was over? Hitsugi sighed. He felt like he was back in high school. This is why he had wanted a no strings attached relationship, so that he wouldn’t have to have these conversations and this drama.
“I thought this was supposed to be no strings attached? We like each other, which is why I trust you enough with my body, but there was to be no emotion involved. You can’t act possessive with me knowing you have an on off relationship with that chick. And I’m not some whore that’ll let just anyone touch me.” He sent the text torn between being pissed off and just tired. He didn’t want to deal with this. He had orders to do at work and this was not a good time to be having this conversation.
“So does that mean you’re not going to let me fuck you anymore?” Came the text from Ruka a while later. He took so long to respond, Hitsugi had almost thought he wasn’t going to reply. But seeing the text made him think it would’ve been better if he didn’t respond at all.
“Nice wording asshole. You know what, no. I won’t let you fuck me anymore.” His finger wavered over the send button not knowing why he hesitated but in the end he took a deep breath and erased the message. Instead he typed,
“I don’t know what to do anymore. You flipped over nothing. I’ll talk to you later.” He finalized the conversation knowing he wasn’t going to get a reply. Sometimes he hated how Ruka was. But he was surprised when his phone chirped again. He was almost wary to see the text.
“Come over.” Were the only words on the text. He sighed not knowing if he should do as Ruka wanted, but knowing he was going to anyways. He hated how he couldn’t say no to him. He was an ass, but the sex was really good. And if they worked it out he was probably going to have make up sex.
Surprisingly he was looking forward to it.