[Drabble] Okaeri Nasai
A friend who was reading this requested a companion drabble to “While He Sleeps” from Takumi’s point of view. This is my answer. Not really a companion drabble, considering that it takes place years after "While He Sleeps," but more like a spin-off.
A little fluff, a little drama, a little introspection, a little hint at smex. All of the above.
Theme: Okaeri Nasai
By: silentstar01
Category: Takumi-kun Series
Status: Completed
Chapters: 1
Disclaimer: I do not own the Takumi-kun Series.
Okaeri Nasai
It’s not often that Takumi gets to see Gii utterly defenseless.
In the quiet stillness of the bedroom, darkened by the night sky, Takumi feels like he and Gii are the only two people in the universe, even though he knows that it is far from the truth. And the moon is their accomplice, hiding behind clouds and offering them the fragile security of darkness.
Takumi’s mind wanders as he watches Gii, sleeping naked on his stomach, slumber on.
When Gii asked him to be with him forever, it wasn’t as if Takumi didn’t know what he was getting into. Takumi knows, and is resigned to, the reality that the outside world understands his relationship with Gii. He knows that the most he can get is a handful of stolen moments inside the spacious but secret flat he and Gii owns in the quiet part of Manhattan, where counter receptionists and security guards know to keep their mouths shut. Despite the lonely life and the need to keep secrets, Takumi is content.
Oftentimes he feels frustrated and helpless from not being able to help Gii except to keep him company during nights like these. His eyes run over the tired gashes that seem determined to stay under Gii’s closed eyes, despite his peaceful expression. Takumi takes comfort in knowing that at least, here, Gii knows that he can rest easy.
Takumi can’t resist but brush back the hair falling into Gii’s eyes with hesitant fingers. The locks are soft and a bit damp after the late-night shower, relaxed after a day’s worth of hair gel worked into them. When Takumi sees him like this, he is immediately reminded by their days of the not-so-distant past, a time when they were blissfully together in Shidou Gakuin. True, the years have lined Gii’s face, but, Takumi thinks with a faint blush, they had no impact on his…physical prowess.
Well, at least that explained why they were naked in bed.
“Takumi,” Gii mumbled from his pillow, “Just what are you doing awake at this ungodly hour?”
Takumi snatches his hand back, startled at Gii’s voice. He could’ve sworn that Gii was asleep…”You weren’t sleeping?”
Gii takes Takumi’s hand and presses a warm kiss against his palm, smiling against skin as involuntary shivers shake Takumi’s spine. “No.”
Takumi is pliant as Gii’s hand travels up his arm and hooks around his waist, pulling him down to Gii’s level. Takumi shifts to get comfortable, and looks up at Gii. “You should’ve told me that you were awake.”
“Mm,” Gii agrees. “It just feels good to be home.”
Home. The single word triggers something in the distant, dusty corners of Takumi’s mind.
Reaching up to press a soft kiss on Gii’s well-shaped mouth, Takumi whispers with pink cheeks, “Okaeri nasai.”
Gii lifts himself off the bed with a strong arm, looking down at Takumi with warm eyes. With his free arm, he hauls Takumi beneath him and settles himself firmly against him, placing an open-mouth kiss just beneath his collarbone.
“Tadaima” is lost to Takumi as his back arches at Gii’s light, teasing touch.
***
OK, so a slight hint of lime. I don’t think I’m ready to write a smex scene-but don’t worry, one is going to come out sooner or later. I wanted to write this not just because of my friend’s request. I was watching the three movies again, and I noticed that the two movies that Dai-san and Mao-kun starred in were much more angsty than the first one (the one with Kato Keisuke and Tomo), not to mention the fact that they were separate most of the time in the two movies-it was quite depressing to see.
I'm getting inspired a lot nowadays. I've completed re-written the revised version of "Hazed Passions" after it went through involuntary deletion and days of e-mail hassling with a friend who is the bane/savior of my existence as a writer. But I'm finding that I'm leaning towards more shounen-ai/yaoi pairings. Hm. Time will tell, I guess.
I wonder if people actually read the junk that I call writing. It seems that there's a lot of Gii/Takumi movie fans, but not Gii/Takumi fanfiction fans. I thought that if the movie was popular, stories would naturally pop up. I've yet to see a fanfiction fanlisting or anything like that. Or a Takumi-kun Series lj community. Hmm.
But I'm optimistic.
A spin-off of "Okaeri Nasai" should be up soon. Now that I'm out of my angsty, emo, don't-let-any-happy-endings-appear-in-my-writing phase is (relatively) gone, I'm in the mood for fluff. And romance, and happiness. Not that I'm not pessimistic. I'm usually a happy, upbeat person--that's what people tell me, anyway--but my angsty side tends to rear its ugly head in my writing. And then I go through ten revisions before giving up and letting my muse have its way.
Oh no. Before I follow that line of thought--which is bound to end unhappily--I need to think happy things. HAPPY things. Like clouds and rainbows. ^.^