Heart Shaped Clock - Interlude ToraxSaga
Title: Heart Shaped Clock.
Author: shou_ni
Pairing: ToraxSaga
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut-ish
Disclaimer: I dont own anyone, just the story.
Summary: When a beautiful guy enters Tora's life, he's smitten. Unfortunately Shou has a secret and he doesn't want to share it
Tora let out a long heavy sigh, shaking the cramp from his wrist. He'd been at his work desk filling in various forms for a number of hours, not wanting to take a break until it was all done.
"Tora, dude just take a five minute break or something" Reita said rolling his eyes, looking over from his cubicle.
"I'll take a break when I've got it all finished" He replied, picking up his pen once more. He was mildly frustrated that he wasn't able to simply type everything up on the computer, it would've been done in half the time and would have saved his wrist alot of pain. On the other had, he figured that he relied on the computer far too much and a little bit of writing couldn't do him that much harm.
"You're a machine Tora" Uruha laughed as he leaned against Reita's cubicle wall. The blonde frowned and swiped at him with a ruler.
"Uru, do you ever do any work? You only ever seem to stand at my desk and yak on to Tora"
The other gasped in mock hurt "I do not yak, I merely converse and yes actually, I do lots of work"
"Getting fucked by your boss doesn't count"
Uruha scowled, leaning over to smack Reita upside the head.
"For your information, Aoi is actually really harsh to me at work, he acts like he doesn't even see me half the time, and I get just as much work as you two. So do me a favor and give it a rest with the Uruha and the boss crap okay?" Tora couldn't hold back the smirk that appeared on his face, he found it amusing that Reita was the only person who could really get Uruha wound up like a tightly coiled spring.
"Hey Tora" Uruha said, gaining his attention again. He was pointing in the direction of the office entrance. He sun his chair around to see. "Isn't that-"
"SAGA?" To Tora's disbelief, said male was walking towards his desk slowly. Diverting his eyes to the floor. Stopping beside his desk.
"Tora... can I talk to you?" He mumbled.
The raven haired male sprung to his feet, grabbing Saga's arm and roughly pulling him out of the office, down the corridor and into a quiet corner at the end of the hall where he pushed him forcibly against the wall. Fingers gripping the collar of his shirt.
"What the fuck are you doing here, coming into my place of work to start your shit" He growled.
"I don't wanna fight with you Tora" Saga cried.
"Well then what do you want?"
"Nao told me everything" Tora looked at him, what on earth was he talking about. He felt several kinds of anger bubbling up inside of him.
"Why were you talking to Nao? I told you to leave him alone"
Sagas brows furrowed, "Nao and I were best friends before I met you" He spat "You made it so that he feels awkward and thinks that he's not allowed to talk to me because he has to stay loyal to you "
Tora hated to admit it, but he had a point, sighing he looked into the others dark eyes.
"What exactly did he tell you?" He questioned, loosening his grip on his shirt.
"He told me about Shou, about his heart condition."He said, his tone becoming more desolate "Look, Tora. I never would have slept with him if I had known"
"What difference would that have made? You only had sex with him to hurt me, so what difference does it make if he's dying?" He yelled, slamming him against the wall again.
"It changes everything, if he was just some guy you were dating, it wouldn't have been much of a biggie, you could get over it and move on, spending the rest of your happy lives together. But he's not just your flavor of the month, I can see that now and I've ruined a bond with him that can't be repaired in such a small amount of time"
"As if you actually care, you enjoy fucking people around so this must be hilarious for you"
Saga pushed him away with a growl and for the first time in years, Tora saw a look in his eyes, a look of misery and desperation.
"You're the one who made me like this Tora" He cried "You fuck up everything"
Tora reeled back, taken by surprise as Sagas eyes bore into him.
"Remember now?" The younger hissed.
The raven haired closed his eyes with exasperation, the memories flooding to the front of his mind. Even though he'd pushed them to the deepest regions of his mind, they always lingered.
Of course he remembered...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 Years Earlier~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey over here" Eighteen year old Tora cheered, waving over his boyfriend over to the school gates. Leaning against the stone casually as he watched the other jog over.
"Tora, you waited" Seventeen year old Saga beamed, coming to a stop in front of him. Tora wrapped his arms around his waist and pulled him close giving him a kiss.
"Of course I waited for you, I wanted to help you with your science homework" He smiled "Maybe move on to some physical education after that". Saga simply scoffed in amusement, shaking his head. Tora laced their fingers together and started walking down the road.
"My parents are out for the night so we can go back and study at mine" The mossy blonde chirped, holding the elder boys hand tightly. His fingers freezing in the late winter wind.
"Cool. Y'know Saga" Tora said glancing at him "Kai told me about a party that's happening tomorrow night, open invite. Apparently is going to be amazing. You up for it?"
Saga hesitated, but then nodded. He'd been studying really hard recently so perhaps a party was what he needed.
They headed back to Saga's house, where they abandoned their homework and headed straight to the bedroom, peeling off uniforms and dropping them on their way there, littering the house.
Kisses trailed down heated skin, hands gripping hips as Saga rode Tora for all he was worth. He gasped and moaned in bliss, driving Tora's cock deeper and deeper inside of himself. His back arching with every thrust, and every touch. Crying out as his prostate was skilfully pounded into, a few strokes of his cock caused him to orgasm hard at the same time as Tora. Panting heavily as he collapsed beside him. Despite loosing his virginity to Tora at the age of fifteen, sex with the elder boy never grew dull. They didn't do it very often due to school, but when they did it was always worth the wait. Saga had always been shy and self conscious about his body, never letting anyone see his legs or his torso, but Tora had showed him that his body was beautiful ad to be proud of it. They had seen a change in each other during their two years of dating, more confidence and cheerfulness on both sides. They were good for one another and as much as Saga hated to admit, he would be more than happy to stay by Tora's side for the rest of his life.
Regardless to say, they didn't get any science work done that night, nor did they get much sleep.
After school the next day, Saga headed home for a power nap and to get ready for the party. Tora had arranged to come over at eight so that they could walk there together. Of course, Saga was feeling anxious, he'd never been to a party that was open invite, only ever small house parties at close friends houses. He made sure to put on his favorite outfit of leg hugging jeans and dark grey tee sporting rock and roll graphics. Adding a small amount of eyeliner to his lids and fixing his hair he felt pretty good.
There was a small knock on this door, followed by this mother's smiling face.
"Saga, Tora's here, He's waiting in the kitchen for you darling" She beamed, walking over and flattening a stray piece of hair. "Have fun tonight"
"I will Mom" He smiled, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek before grabbing his phone and shoving it in his pocket, heading downstairs.
Sure enough Tora was in the kitchen, with his hand wedged in a cereal box.
"You hungry there?" The blonde laughed, watching at the elder shoveled a handfull of cereal into his mouth.
"Yeah" He murmured "Your Mom said I could help myself to some food"
"She probably meant instant ramen or something, not stuffing your face with cereal" The younger laughed. Tora simply shrugged, putting the box back into the cupboard, walking over to him and kissed his neck.
"You look so sexy, I wanna eat you all up" he breathed, sweeping his hands over Sagas sides.
The other squirmed, laughing softly. "We should go".
"Alriiight, C'mon then sexy ass" Tora grinned, slapping Saga's behind and dragging him towards the front door.
The party itself was held at a large house that even had it's own road to get there. Saga had never seen such a big house before, especially not in their area. He was quite amazed. Stepping through the doors, he was hit by humid heat and smoke, taking him aback for a moment. Each room was packed with people, drinking, smoking, dancing to the beat of the heavy bass music. The atmosphere was thick, the kind that could make you lightheaded after long periods of time.
He couldn't tell if the sick feeling in his stomach was from excitement or nerves, either way he clung to Tora's hand tightly, not wanting to get split from him.
"Tora!" A voice called from the staircase. The two turned around to see their friend Nao stumble down each step towards them, beer bottle in hand and a carefree smile on his face.
"You made it, I was beginning to think you weren't coming" He cheered.
"I wouldn't miss a party like this" The raven haired boy chuckled, patting his intoxicated friend on the shoulder "Looks like it's gonna be an interesting one"
"Oh it is, I've already been kissed by like... nine people" The drunk teen said, taking a swig of his beer.
"You should slow down on the drinks buddy, you'll be in the gutter in no time they way you're going"
Nao simply shrugged, slinking off into another room where he disappeared into the sea of people.
Saga winced as the vodka burned at his throat as he stood in the kitchen doing shots with Tora and several people whom he had never met before. With each shot he could feel the blush growing on his cheeks, alcohol buzzing it's way through his system. Being one of the youngest there, he wasn't used to drinking spirits, the most he had was the odd beer at christmas, so of course he was much more zazzed than the others.
"You okay baby?" Tora asked into his ear, huskily.
"Never better, c'mon drink up lightweight" Saga cheered, pouring everyone another shot with shaky hands. Knocking it back with another wince, he was certainly on his way to being very very drunk.
Some hours later, Saga was slumped against some randomer who sat on the same couch. He'd necked alot more alcohol than he had first thought. He felt like he would vomit at any given second, not to mention his hand-eye coordination was shot.
He had no idea where Tora was, he'd lost him in one of the crowded rooms a while ago, leaving him to stumble around on his own until he eventually crashed down on the sofa.
The person he was leaning on had long since passed out, drooling on the arm of the couch.
"There you are Saga" A voice pierced through the haze in his mind "I've been looking all over for you". The blonde blinked, clearing his vision, seeing Tora crouched infront of him, a hand resting on his knee.
"C'mon, let's get you back to mine" The elder laughed, seeing his boyfriend so drunk was beyond amusing. He helped Saga to his feet and supported him as they made their way out of the house, leaving the thick smokey atmosphere and booming music behind.
"Why are we going?" Saga whined childishly, leaning against his boyfriend.
"Because, it's 5am, you're wasted and I wanna go to bed" Tora laughed. The winter air cooling his heated skin, he was thankful that it was almost spring as his jacket was thin and did little to warm him.
He'd managed to guide the younger back to his house, with a great deal of stumbling and sloppy conversation.
He helped Saga out of his shoes and jeans, assisting him up the stairs and into Tora's bed. He wasn't fussed about sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag, even though he had a double bed, Saga had thrown up several times on their way back and he wasn't risking anything.
After making sure the younger was asleep, he finally slithered into his sleeping bag and passed out.
Spring rolled around much to everyone's excitement, final exams and graduation right around the corner. Which meant that Tora and Saga would be going to collage. The particular one they had chosen was a couple of hours away from their hometown in Osaka. So there they were, on a train, taking the chance to go and look for an apartment before they would give up their free time to study for exams.
Saga watched the passing scenery as they sped along the tracks, feeling a great amount of trepidation at the thought of living with Tora far far away from where his family was. Although he was a little worried, he knew that everything would be okay, just as long as they were together, even if they ended up homeless and penny-less, he'd be happy cuddling up to Tora just to be with him.
The train pulled into the station, Tora took his hand and they stepped off. Having arrived in the city, Saga was already amazed at everything around him. Everything was so new, buzzing with energy unlike his hometown, which was quiet and kind of boring.
"Right, we need to get across to the other side of the city and get a bus to here" Tora said, pointing to a location on a map, the first apartment they were going to look at was in a residential area across town not a million miles away from the collage.
Saga kind of regretted not grabbing his coat as the cool spring air nipped at his exposed skin, giving him goose bumps all over. Luckily Tora was kind enough to throw an arm around his shoulder to bring him close and warm him up a little. The road they were walking down was deserted. The residential area, houses on either side and a few trees dotted around. He imagined it would be quite peaceful at night. The silence was broken by the sound of footsteps and laughing coming from behind them. Suddenly someone shot past them, giggling madly. Before he could react, Saga was knocked to the floor by a small blonde running after his comrade.
"Aki get back here now!" He yelled.
"Watch where you're going shrimp" Tora shouted, brows furrowing harshly. Looking back at Saga to see someone's hand outstretched towards him.
"I'm really sorry about that" the boy said sheepishly as Saga took his hand, his brown eyes full of concern "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. No biggie" Saga replied, smiling at the brunette stranger. With a polite bow he turned and caught up with the blonde who was stood outside of one of the houses, banging on the door.
"Pon you knocked someone over" The brunette frowned.
"Well I could've avoided him if you could run faster, Aki open this door now" The little blonde hollered "Shou, why did you let him take the seioubo, he's gonna eat it all himself"
"Oh of course because we don't have another seven boxes in here" The other scoffed pointing to the carrier bag in his hand.
Saga laughed lightly as he and Tora walked past, so much commotion over some sweets, almost adorable in a way. Tora on the other hand looked pissed, pulling Saga closer in a protective manner.
"Fucking idiots" He muttered darkly glaring daggers at the two boys stood outside of the house. The brunette glanced back, quickly turning around after catching his scornful eyes.
"Oh c'mon Tora" The mossy blonde chirped, nudging him in the ribs "They couldn't have been any older than fifteen, maybe sixteen, besides they didn't mean any harm, stop being grumpy"
"Yeah well they better just hope I don't see them again today, They'll regret being so careless" He grumbled.
"You probably won't" Saga sighed with an amused shake of his head "anyway, they're just kids, lighten up"
"oh Fine" Tora huffed, rolling his eyes and pulling him closer "But only because it's freezing and we have an apartment to check out"
The first apartment was a no-go, small and cramped and completely out of their price range. Simply because of the location. Tora couldn't care less if the street was full of lovely people and was nice because of this and that. He just wanted somewhere that he could call home and that wouldn't take hours to travel to class from.
Fortunately, they had viewings for several other places that afternoon, so he was hopeful to like at least one of them.
The day proved to be quite fun, a few of the apartments were shockingly bad, whist some stood out as their ideal pad. Which put Saga in a great mood, most of his nerves had melted away leaving excitement instead.
His thoughts were interrupted with the sound of Tora's phone ringing.
"Hello?" Tora yawned holding the phone up to his ear.
"Hey it's me" Nao cheered down the earpiece "Just a quick call, there's a party tonight if you and Saga are up for it?"
Tora lowered the phone slightly, turning to Saga "Party tonight, you wanna go?"
"Don't we have school tomorrow?"
"Yeah but it'll be fine"
Saga shrugged, agreeing to go. He wasn't really that fussed about going but if it meant a few more hours with Tora, he was fine with that too.
"Yeah we'll go" The elder said in the mouth piece "We're about an hour away from Osaka right now, so text me the details and we'll head up there as soon as we arrive."
"Alright, well I'll see you guys later then" Nao replied cheerfully before hanging up.
This party was unlike any that Saga had ever been to before. Music boomed loudly, the bassline vibrating his bones. Thick smoke hung in the air, being coloured by rainbow lights and creating an atmosphere that was almost like a dream. It was the people that unnerved him. Scattered around, most seemed to be out of it, locking lips with whoever was closest.
He'd lost Tora about twenty minutes ago, leaving him to neck alcohol on his own. Nao was nowhere to be seen either, he must've been in one of the other rooms. He didn't really care anyway, he was happy enough just bopping away to the music whilst enjoying his drink.
"Saga!" Tora suddenly shouted near his ear, trying to carry his voice above the music. "There you are, baby, you HAVE to try this" He yelled, producing a small round pill in the palm of his hand.
Looking at it, it was only tiny, bright yellow it a music note embossed onto it. Despite it's small size, Saga did find it mildly intimidating.
"What is that?"
"It's just an E" Tora shrugged.
"Ecstasy?"
"Saga, chill, it's not going to kill you" Tora sighed "Just try it, it's amazing"
The blonde was unsure, He'd never done drugs before, he hadn't thought that Tora would ever touch them either but the elder seemed to be having a good time. Something inside of him screamed and protested as he took the pill from Tora's hand and put it in him mouth, washing it down with a mouthful of vodka. He felt the burn of the vodka, but nothing else, rather an anticlimax.
Tora instantly wrapped his arms around his waist, giving him a sensual kiss. "Don't worry babe, it'll kick in soon"
The moment it did, wow! Saga could practically taste the beat of the music, feeling each note caress his skin like a million little kisses. He felt like the world was suddenly over saturated, every colour seemed amplified. It was as if the whole world was animated now, everything felt incredible, Saga had never felt more excited. His body moved along with the music, damn he felt good.
He was pressed up against his lover, the two of them dancing in sync, attacking each others lips as if they would go out of fashion. It was surely the best feeling in the world.
That was until he started coming down. It was 3am, He and Tora had left and were almost back at his house. The cool spring breeze doing little to cool his overheated skin. The mix of drug and alcohol in his system making him feel nauseous with every step and he didn't feel excited anymore, only down, frustrated and exhausted. Tora looked as if he was crashing almost has hard as he was, running his fingers through his hair and walking with a small wobble in his step, occasionally stopping to dry heave.
It took twice as long to reach the house, where they kicked their shoes off, headed to Saga's room and passed out on the floor.
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Author's Notes.
For all of those who were wondering what was going on between Tora and Saga, and why Saga was so hell bent on ruining Tora's relationship...... Here's part one. Just to clear up confusion, Tora and Saga are in the same year but Tora is a few months older.
Still need to just finish the last few scenes of part 2, I decided to split the interlude into 2 parts because I was scary long = = So part 2 will be up as soon as I finish it. DUN DUN DUUUUUUNN find out what really made Saga into a vindictive bitch *Tv voice*
Anyway, I have a severe hangover so I'm going to crawl back into bed now. Friday nights, how can I not resist your promise of cheap alcohol T^T
Comments are love as always :D
Author: shou_ni
Pairing: ToraxSaga
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut-ish
Disclaimer: I dont own anyone, just the story.
Summary: When a beautiful guy enters Tora's life, he's smitten. Unfortunately Shou has a secret and he doesn't want to share it
Tora let out a long heavy sigh, shaking the cramp from his wrist. He'd been at his work desk filling in various forms for a number of hours, not wanting to take a break until it was all done.
"Tora, dude just take a five minute break or something" Reita said rolling his eyes, looking over from his cubicle.
"I'll take a break when I've got it all finished" He replied, picking up his pen once more. He was mildly frustrated that he wasn't able to simply type everything up on the computer, it would've been done in half the time and would have saved his wrist alot of pain. On the other had, he figured that he relied on the computer far too much and a little bit of writing couldn't do him that much harm.
"You're a machine Tora" Uruha laughed as he leaned against Reita's cubicle wall. The blonde frowned and swiped at him with a ruler.
"Uru, do you ever do any work? You only ever seem to stand at my desk and yak on to Tora"
The other gasped in mock hurt "I do not yak, I merely converse and yes actually, I do lots of work"
"Getting fucked by your boss doesn't count"
Uruha scowled, leaning over to smack Reita upside the head.
"For your information, Aoi is actually really harsh to me at work, he acts like he doesn't even see me half the time, and I get just as much work as you two. So do me a favor and give it a rest with the Uruha and the boss crap okay?" Tora couldn't hold back the smirk that appeared on his face, he found it amusing that Reita was the only person who could really get Uruha wound up like a tightly coiled spring.
"Hey Tora" Uruha said, gaining his attention again. He was pointing in the direction of the office entrance. He sun his chair around to see. "Isn't that-"
"SAGA?" To Tora's disbelief, said male was walking towards his desk slowly. Diverting his eyes to the floor. Stopping beside his desk.
"Tora... can I talk to you?" He mumbled.
The raven haired male sprung to his feet, grabbing Saga's arm and roughly pulling him out of the office, down the corridor and into a quiet corner at the end of the hall where he pushed him forcibly against the wall. Fingers gripping the collar of his shirt.
"What the fuck are you doing here, coming into my place of work to start your shit" He growled.
"I don't wanna fight with you Tora" Saga cried.
"Well then what do you want?"
"Nao told me everything" Tora looked at him, what on earth was he talking about. He felt several kinds of anger bubbling up inside of him.
"Why were you talking to Nao? I told you to leave him alone"
Sagas brows furrowed, "Nao and I were best friends before I met you" He spat "You made it so that he feels awkward and thinks that he's not allowed to talk to me because he has to stay loyal to you "
Tora hated to admit it, but he had a point, sighing he looked into the others dark eyes.
"What exactly did he tell you?" He questioned, loosening his grip on his shirt.
"He told me about Shou, about his heart condition."He said, his tone becoming more desolate "Look, Tora. I never would have slept with him if I had known"
"What difference would that have made? You only had sex with him to hurt me, so what difference does it make if he's dying?" He yelled, slamming him against the wall again.
"It changes everything, if he was just some guy you were dating, it wouldn't have been much of a biggie, you could get over it and move on, spending the rest of your happy lives together. But he's not just your flavor of the month, I can see that now and I've ruined a bond with him that can't be repaired in such a small amount of time"
"As if you actually care, you enjoy fucking people around so this must be hilarious for you"
Saga pushed him away with a growl and for the first time in years, Tora saw a look in his eyes, a look of misery and desperation.
"You're the one who made me like this Tora" He cried "You fuck up everything"
Tora reeled back, taken by surprise as Sagas eyes bore into him.
"Remember now?" The younger hissed.
The raven haired closed his eyes with exasperation, the memories flooding to the front of his mind. Even though he'd pushed them to the deepest regions of his mind, they always lingered.
Of course he remembered...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 Years Earlier~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey over here" Eighteen year old Tora cheered, waving over his boyfriend over to the school gates. Leaning against the stone casually as he watched the other jog over.
"Tora, you waited" Seventeen year old Saga beamed, coming to a stop in front of him. Tora wrapped his arms around his waist and pulled him close giving him a kiss.
"Of course I waited for you, I wanted to help you with your science homework" He smiled "Maybe move on to some physical education after that". Saga simply scoffed in amusement, shaking his head. Tora laced their fingers together and started walking down the road.
"My parents are out for the night so we can go back and study at mine" The mossy blonde chirped, holding the elder boys hand tightly. His fingers freezing in the late winter wind.
"Cool. Y'know Saga" Tora said glancing at him "Kai told me about a party that's happening tomorrow night, open invite. Apparently is going to be amazing. You up for it?"
Saga hesitated, but then nodded. He'd been studying really hard recently so perhaps a party was what he needed.
They headed back to Saga's house, where they abandoned their homework and headed straight to the bedroom, peeling off uniforms and dropping them on their way there, littering the house.
Kisses trailed down heated skin, hands gripping hips as Saga rode Tora for all he was worth. He gasped and moaned in bliss, driving Tora's cock deeper and deeper inside of himself. His back arching with every thrust, and every touch. Crying out as his prostate was skilfully pounded into, a few strokes of his cock caused him to orgasm hard at the same time as Tora. Panting heavily as he collapsed beside him. Despite loosing his virginity to Tora at the age of fifteen, sex with the elder boy never grew dull. They didn't do it very often due to school, but when they did it was always worth the wait. Saga had always been shy and self conscious about his body, never letting anyone see his legs or his torso, but Tora had showed him that his body was beautiful ad to be proud of it. They had seen a change in each other during their two years of dating, more confidence and cheerfulness on both sides. They were good for one another and as much as Saga hated to admit, he would be more than happy to stay by Tora's side for the rest of his life.
Regardless to say, they didn't get any science work done that night, nor did they get much sleep.
After school the next day, Saga headed home for a power nap and to get ready for the party. Tora had arranged to come over at eight so that they could walk there together. Of course, Saga was feeling anxious, he'd never been to a party that was open invite, only ever small house parties at close friends houses. He made sure to put on his favorite outfit of leg hugging jeans and dark grey tee sporting rock and roll graphics. Adding a small amount of eyeliner to his lids and fixing his hair he felt pretty good.
There was a small knock on this door, followed by this mother's smiling face.
"Saga, Tora's here, He's waiting in the kitchen for you darling" She beamed, walking over and flattening a stray piece of hair. "Have fun tonight"
"I will Mom" He smiled, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek before grabbing his phone and shoving it in his pocket, heading downstairs.
Sure enough Tora was in the kitchen, with his hand wedged in a cereal box.
"You hungry there?" The blonde laughed, watching at the elder shoveled a handfull of cereal into his mouth.
"Yeah" He murmured "Your Mom said I could help myself to some food"
"She probably meant instant ramen or something, not stuffing your face with cereal" The younger laughed. Tora simply shrugged, putting the box back into the cupboard, walking over to him and kissed his neck.
"You look so sexy, I wanna eat you all up" he breathed, sweeping his hands over Sagas sides.
The other squirmed, laughing softly. "We should go".
"Alriiight, C'mon then sexy ass" Tora grinned, slapping Saga's behind and dragging him towards the front door.
The party itself was held at a large house that even had it's own road to get there. Saga had never seen such a big house before, especially not in their area. He was quite amazed. Stepping through the doors, he was hit by humid heat and smoke, taking him aback for a moment. Each room was packed with people, drinking, smoking, dancing to the beat of the heavy bass music. The atmosphere was thick, the kind that could make you lightheaded after long periods of time.
He couldn't tell if the sick feeling in his stomach was from excitement or nerves, either way he clung to Tora's hand tightly, not wanting to get split from him.
"Tora!" A voice called from the staircase. The two turned around to see their friend Nao stumble down each step towards them, beer bottle in hand and a carefree smile on his face.
"You made it, I was beginning to think you weren't coming" He cheered.
"I wouldn't miss a party like this" The raven haired boy chuckled, patting his intoxicated friend on the shoulder "Looks like it's gonna be an interesting one"
"Oh it is, I've already been kissed by like... nine people" The drunk teen said, taking a swig of his beer.
"You should slow down on the drinks buddy, you'll be in the gutter in no time they way you're going"
Nao simply shrugged, slinking off into another room where he disappeared into the sea of people.
Saga winced as the vodka burned at his throat as he stood in the kitchen doing shots with Tora and several people whom he had never met before. With each shot he could feel the blush growing on his cheeks, alcohol buzzing it's way through his system. Being one of the youngest there, he wasn't used to drinking spirits, the most he had was the odd beer at christmas, so of course he was much more zazzed than the others.
"You okay baby?" Tora asked into his ear, huskily.
"Never better, c'mon drink up lightweight" Saga cheered, pouring everyone another shot with shaky hands. Knocking it back with another wince, he was certainly on his way to being very very drunk.
Some hours later, Saga was slumped against some randomer who sat on the same couch. He'd necked alot more alcohol than he had first thought. He felt like he would vomit at any given second, not to mention his hand-eye coordination was shot.
He had no idea where Tora was, he'd lost him in one of the crowded rooms a while ago, leaving him to stumble around on his own until he eventually crashed down on the sofa.
The person he was leaning on had long since passed out, drooling on the arm of the couch.
"There you are Saga" A voice pierced through the haze in his mind "I've been looking all over for you". The blonde blinked, clearing his vision, seeing Tora crouched infront of him, a hand resting on his knee.
"C'mon, let's get you back to mine" The elder laughed, seeing his boyfriend so drunk was beyond amusing. He helped Saga to his feet and supported him as they made their way out of the house, leaving the thick smokey atmosphere and booming music behind.
"Why are we going?" Saga whined childishly, leaning against his boyfriend.
"Because, it's 5am, you're wasted and I wanna go to bed" Tora laughed. The winter air cooling his heated skin, he was thankful that it was almost spring as his jacket was thin and did little to warm him.
He'd managed to guide the younger back to his house, with a great deal of stumbling and sloppy conversation.
He helped Saga out of his shoes and jeans, assisting him up the stairs and into Tora's bed. He wasn't fussed about sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag, even though he had a double bed, Saga had thrown up several times on their way back and he wasn't risking anything.
After making sure the younger was asleep, he finally slithered into his sleeping bag and passed out.
Spring rolled around much to everyone's excitement, final exams and graduation right around the corner. Which meant that Tora and Saga would be going to collage. The particular one they had chosen was a couple of hours away from their hometown in Osaka. So there they were, on a train, taking the chance to go and look for an apartment before they would give up their free time to study for exams.
Saga watched the passing scenery as they sped along the tracks, feeling a great amount of trepidation at the thought of living with Tora far far away from where his family was. Although he was a little worried, he knew that everything would be okay, just as long as they were together, even if they ended up homeless and penny-less, he'd be happy cuddling up to Tora just to be with him.
The train pulled into the station, Tora took his hand and they stepped off. Having arrived in the city, Saga was already amazed at everything around him. Everything was so new, buzzing with energy unlike his hometown, which was quiet and kind of boring.
"Right, we need to get across to the other side of the city and get a bus to here" Tora said, pointing to a location on a map, the first apartment they were going to look at was in a residential area across town not a million miles away from the collage.
Saga kind of regretted not grabbing his coat as the cool spring air nipped at his exposed skin, giving him goose bumps all over. Luckily Tora was kind enough to throw an arm around his shoulder to bring him close and warm him up a little. The road they were walking down was deserted. The residential area, houses on either side and a few trees dotted around. He imagined it would be quite peaceful at night. The silence was broken by the sound of footsteps and laughing coming from behind them. Suddenly someone shot past them, giggling madly. Before he could react, Saga was knocked to the floor by a small blonde running after his comrade.
"Aki get back here now!" He yelled.
"Watch where you're going shrimp" Tora shouted, brows furrowing harshly. Looking back at Saga to see someone's hand outstretched towards him.
"I'm really sorry about that" the boy said sheepishly as Saga took his hand, his brown eyes full of concern "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. No biggie" Saga replied, smiling at the brunette stranger. With a polite bow he turned and caught up with the blonde who was stood outside of one of the houses, banging on the door.
"Pon you knocked someone over" The brunette frowned.
"Well I could've avoided him if you could run faster, Aki open this door now" The little blonde hollered "Shou, why did you let him take the seioubo, he's gonna eat it all himself"
"Oh of course because we don't have another seven boxes in here" The other scoffed pointing to the carrier bag in his hand.
Saga laughed lightly as he and Tora walked past, so much commotion over some sweets, almost adorable in a way. Tora on the other hand looked pissed, pulling Saga closer in a protective manner.
"Fucking idiots" He muttered darkly glaring daggers at the two boys stood outside of the house. The brunette glanced back, quickly turning around after catching his scornful eyes.
"Oh c'mon Tora" The mossy blonde chirped, nudging him in the ribs "They couldn't have been any older than fifteen, maybe sixteen, besides they didn't mean any harm, stop being grumpy"
"Yeah well they better just hope I don't see them again today, They'll regret being so careless" He grumbled.
"You probably won't" Saga sighed with an amused shake of his head "anyway, they're just kids, lighten up"
"oh Fine" Tora huffed, rolling his eyes and pulling him closer "But only because it's freezing and we have an apartment to check out"
The first apartment was a no-go, small and cramped and completely out of their price range. Simply because of the location. Tora couldn't care less if the street was full of lovely people and was nice because of this and that. He just wanted somewhere that he could call home and that wouldn't take hours to travel to class from.
Fortunately, they had viewings for several other places that afternoon, so he was hopeful to like at least one of them.
The day proved to be quite fun, a few of the apartments were shockingly bad, whist some stood out as their ideal pad. Which put Saga in a great mood, most of his nerves had melted away leaving excitement instead.
His thoughts were interrupted with the sound of Tora's phone ringing.
"Hello?" Tora yawned holding the phone up to his ear.
"Hey it's me" Nao cheered down the earpiece "Just a quick call, there's a party tonight if you and Saga are up for it?"
Tora lowered the phone slightly, turning to Saga "Party tonight, you wanna go?"
"Don't we have school tomorrow?"
"Yeah but it'll be fine"
Saga shrugged, agreeing to go. He wasn't really that fussed about going but if it meant a few more hours with Tora, he was fine with that too.
"Yeah we'll go" The elder said in the mouth piece "We're about an hour away from Osaka right now, so text me the details and we'll head up there as soon as we arrive."
"Alright, well I'll see you guys later then" Nao replied cheerfully before hanging up.
This party was unlike any that Saga had ever been to before. Music boomed loudly, the bassline vibrating his bones. Thick smoke hung in the air, being coloured by rainbow lights and creating an atmosphere that was almost like a dream. It was the people that unnerved him. Scattered around, most seemed to be out of it, locking lips with whoever was closest.
He'd lost Tora about twenty minutes ago, leaving him to neck alcohol on his own. Nao was nowhere to be seen either, he must've been in one of the other rooms. He didn't really care anyway, he was happy enough just bopping away to the music whilst enjoying his drink.
"Saga!" Tora suddenly shouted near his ear, trying to carry his voice above the music. "There you are, baby, you HAVE to try this" He yelled, producing a small round pill in the palm of his hand.
Looking at it, it was only tiny, bright yellow it a music note embossed onto it. Despite it's small size, Saga did find it mildly intimidating.
"What is that?"
"It's just an E" Tora shrugged.
"Ecstasy?"
"Saga, chill, it's not going to kill you" Tora sighed "Just try it, it's amazing"
The blonde was unsure, He'd never done drugs before, he hadn't thought that Tora would ever touch them either but the elder seemed to be having a good time. Something inside of him screamed and protested as he took the pill from Tora's hand and put it in him mouth, washing it down with a mouthful of vodka. He felt the burn of the vodka, but nothing else, rather an anticlimax.
Tora instantly wrapped his arms around his waist, giving him a sensual kiss. "Don't worry babe, it'll kick in soon"
The moment it did, wow! Saga could practically taste the beat of the music, feeling each note caress his skin like a million little kisses. He felt like the world was suddenly over saturated, every colour seemed amplified. It was as if the whole world was animated now, everything felt incredible, Saga had never felt more excited. His body moved along with the music, damn he felt good.
He was pressed up against his lover, the two of them dancing in sync, attacking each others lips as if they would go out of fashion. It was surely the best feeling in the world.
That was until he started coming down. It was 3am, He and Tora had left and were almost back at his house. The cool spring breeze doing little to cool his overheated skin. The mix of drug and alcohol in his system making him feel nauseous with every step and he didn't feel excited anymore, only down, frustrated and exhausted. Tora looked as if he was crashing almost has hard as he was, running his fingers through his hair and walking with a small wobble in his step, occasionally stopping to dry heave.
It took twice as long to reach the house, where they kicked their shoes off, headed to Saga's room and passed out on the floor.
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Author's Notes.
For all of those who were wondering what was going on between Tora and Saga, and why Saga was so hell bent on ruining Tora's relationship...... Here's part one. Just to clear up confusion, Tora and Saga are in the same year but Tora is a few months older.
Still need to just finish the last few scenes of part 2, I decided to split the interlude into 2 parts because I was scary long = = So part 2 will be up as soon as I finish it. DUN DUN DUUUUUUNN find out what really made Saga into a vindictive bitch *Tv voice*
Anyway, I have a severe hangover so I'm going to crawl back into bed now. Friday nights, how can I not resist your promise of cheap alcohol T^T
Comments are love as always :D