Title: Starting Things: It Started With Little Things
Pairing: KameRyo
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2820
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone or anything
Summary: It started with little things, just little annoyances that time and distance help get the better of them.
A/N: Written for
yukitsubute for the
Fund-Raising Project for the Habagat Victims. As requested, this is the second part in a multi-part sequel to '
It Started With A Kiss'.
It started with little things, plectrums left littering his coffee table, wet towels left in heaps on his bathroom floor, DVDs left in the player.
“Ryo~” he almost whined down the phone. “I asked you before not to leave pots in the sink right?”
“Sorry Kazu...” he replied, and Kame could hear the pout on his lips. “I was in a hurry to get the train so I didn't have time to do them...”
“How could you not have time” Kame pouted back “You didn't leave until dinnertime did you?”
“I know...but I was playing guitar and I totally lost track of time and then I had to run, I'm sorry Kazu, I promise it won't happen again”
Kame wasn't the type to give in so easily, but part of him just couldn't resist Ryo. “It's OK, I'll let you off this time...but next time you'll be in trouble.”
~~~
The next time he remembered about the pots, but to Kame's surprise, when he went to do his laundry he found not only an extra stack of towels to wash, as there usually was when Ryo came to stay, but also half of Ryo's clothes.
“Am I your maid now?” Kame half snapped when Ryo answered the phone.
“Kazu~” Ryo groaned sleepily “It's half two in the morning.”
“It is...I've just gotten home from work and I have an extra huge pile of laundry to do now...do you want to explain that to me?”
Ryo huffed down the phone “You don't need to wash my things, just leave them in the laundry basket and I'll do them when I'm back next.”
“And when will that be? You want me to just leave dirty clothes hanging around in my room for weeks until you get round to doing it?” and he hung up the phone before Ryo had chance to reply.
Heaving a tired sigh he grabbed the washing basket, and loaded the washing machine with his own clothes and as much of Ryo's as would fit.
With that done, he headed to the fridge to have a nice, refreshing glass of juice before trying to get some sleep. Only as he opened the door to put the juice away again he noticed the lack of milk.
Angrily he grabbed his phone again and dialled Ryo's number. “Did you use all the milk?” he snapped.
“Shit!” came Ryo's tired groan. “I'm sorry, I forgot to leave a note...”
“A note?!” Kame exclaimed. “What good is a note when you know I finish work so late? I'm out early tomorrow too, now I'm going to have to get up extra early in the morning to go and get some...”
“Well, I'm sorry, I should have gone to get more then...”
“It's fine...whatever...”
He heard Ryo's sigh and a little shuffling that he presumed was Ryo rolling over in bed. “It's not fine, you're pissed at me...I'm sorry, OK?”
“I know you are...just, I can't help feeling like you treat my house like a hotel sometimes, but I'm busy enough as it is without running around cleaning up after you Ryo...”
“Well maybe you should come and visit me every once in a while then...you know it's technically been 5 months since we started dating and you haven't even been here once...if anything, aren't I the one running around after you?” Ryo replied, his voice just a little tight.
“You know how busy I am...you knew that 5 months ago” Kame retorted.
“I work too you know? My job is the same as yours...”
“Yeah, but...” Kame started, but Ryo cut him off.
“But nothing...you signed up for all those different things all at once, and I know it's because your work is important to you, but maybe it's time you had a serious think about how important I am to you?”
Kame laughed, but it was one of those desperate, humourless half-laughs “How did we get here from you drinking all my milk?”
“Let's talk about it some other time OK? You should get some sleep.”
~~~
Kame did think about it, a lot. He really cared about Ryo and he wanted things to work between them, but unless they started putting in more effort, both of them, then he didn't see how it could.
He checked over his schedule for the next week, there was only one day that he started work after noon, but the night before wasn't too late, so he decided to make his move then.
Really, he'd wanted it to be a surprise, but the last thing he needed was to waste his time running off to Osaka only to find Ryo wasn't available.
“Are you free Thursday evening?” he asked hopefully when Ryo picked up the phone. A drawn out 'hmm' and some shuffling papers told him that Ryo was checking his schedule.
“Yeah, I finish around 6pm, oh, no I start at 9am on Friday, so I won't be able to come through...”
“Actually...I was thinking of coming to you for a change...”
There was silence for a moment, and then a deep breath “Kazu, is this about what I said the other night? I was just tired and grumpy...I know you're too busy right now...”
“I'm busy, but I don't want to be too busy for you Ryo...we said we'd make it work right?” he pouted back.
“And we will, but...”
“But nothing” he insisted “I want to come and see you...”
Ryo sighed “Yeah, OK...I mean thank you...you don't need to, but I'll be happy to see you.”
“Well OK then” he replied “I'll check with my manager if I can't get out of work a little early, and then I'll let you know what time I'll be there.”
~~~
Luckily Kame did manage to get out a little early, he put in extra effort to get his photo-shoot finished earlier, and then he grabbed his overnight bag before calling for a taxi to take him to the station.
He was lucky enough to get straight onto the next bullet train too, but it was still around 8pm before he managed to get to Osaka.
Ryo was there waiting for him when he stepped out of the station, leaning against his car with his hands in the pockets of his smart leather jacket. He was wearing a disguise, an old beany and a pair of large, dark sunglasses, but if anything, Kame thought it made him stand out more, who looks that cool just waiting at a train station?
Ryo's lips turned up in a smile when he spotted Kame, and Kame felt weightless for a moment at the knowledge that that look was directed at him.
Ryo took his bag from him and put it into the boot of his car before walking around to open the passenger door for Kame. And then they made their way back to Ryo's place.
“Thank you...it means a lot to me that you made the effort to come out here.” was the only thing Ryo said on the way, and Kame watched the surroundings pass them by before Ryo pulled into a parking garage.
He didn't have time to look around Ryo's apartment before he was being pressed into the wall of it, warm lips fast on his. He reached out to take Ryo by the hips, pulling him closer and arching a little into his hold as one hand moved firmly up from his chest to his face.
The kiss was incredible, intense and relieved like breath after almost drowning, but it was over too soon, and Ryo was peeling himself away from Kame's body.
“Food first.” Ryo insisted, and Kame could hardly disagree, he hadn't eaten since breakfast and even if he'd tried to tell Ryo he wasn't hungry, the noises his stomach was making would reveal his lie.
~~~
“If there'd have been more time I would have made something a bit fancier” Ryo said with an apologetic smile, but Kame shook his head.
“Osakan food, made by a real Osakan, you can't beat that.” and Ryo just laughed shyly. “So...what's for desert?”
Ryo blushed, but his lips were turning up at the corners, and Kame had a pretty good idea of what he'd had in mind for desert.
Ryo leaned in first, cupping Kame's cheek gently with one hand while bracing himself against the back of the sofa with the other, and he pressed their lips together in the gentlest of touches “I missed you” he whispered out over Kame's lips.
“I missed you too” Kame replied, breathier than he'd meant, and he pushed himself forward from the sofa, leaning more into the kiss. “How about you show me your bedroom.”
Ryo looked a little sheepish as he opened the door to it, it was much smaller and less fancy than Kame's but it was cosy and homely, the sheets silk like his own only black in colour. He wandered in and took a quick look around before settling himself in the centre of the bed, patting the space beside him.
Ryo's shirt was already falling to the floor as he climbed atop Kame, pulling his shirt from his body too and tossing it to the floor before pushing him gently to lay down.
Kame let him take control, watching in silent awe as the defined muscles in Ryo's shoulders and abs, shifted with his every movement, how his hands shook slightly as he pulled the rest of their clothes from their bodies.
He groaned as Ryo lay down atop him, their heated flesh connecting the same time as Ryo's lips connected with his throat, kissing softly and then nipping as his hips rolled into motion.
Faster and faster, Ryo's hips, grinding into his and it was all too much but not enough and he whined for more. Ryo answered his plea, lifting his hips enough to shove a hand between them, wrapping it around them both and it was better but not what he wanted. No matter how much he let his imagination drift, no matter how much he fantasized about what they were doing, Ryo's hand just couldn't compare.
“What are you thinking?” Ryo panted against his lips, and it was the strangeness of the question that made Kame realise his face was contorted in an expression that could only be desperation, but he shook his head, lucid enough to know that this wasn't the right time to discuss it.
Ryo clearly had other ideas though, and he stopped his motions, focusing entirely on Kame until he finally opened his eyes, looking up into Ryo's concerned face. “It's not important right now” he wheezed, bucking his hips a little to remind Ryo of what they were doing, but Ryo's hand released them altogether, and he sat back on his heels, regarding Kame with a hurt expression.
“It's important to me...you're not here with me, in your head at least...you're thinking of something else...is it...have you found somebody else?”
He shook his head as quickly as he could “No, Ryo I swear, you're the only one I want...I just...I know we said we would make it work...but I want more of you...I want...”
“You want to have sex?” Ryo asked, his expression a little bewildered. “That's what this is about?”
“Yes...I like what we've done so far and I want to keep doing all those things, just...”
“Just...you want to have sex...” Ryo finished for him. And then after a few moments of silence he continued “If you're willing to bottom then we can do it right now...but...I'm not ready to...do that...yet...”
Kame was clutching at straws “I swear I'd be really gentle Ryo...and if you didn't like it...if you wanted to stop, then I promise I would...”
But Ryo's head was shaking before he even got his sentence out “It's not that I don't trust you Kazu, it's just that this is all so new...and there's too much I haven't discovered about myself yet...”
“Then let's discover together...I'll help you...”
Ryo let out a sigh “Kazu, I'm not saying never...I just, need some time first, but if you think it's that easy then why don't we 'discover' first on you...”
“I don't like it...I already know I don't.” he admitted, suddenly feeling like their position was a little inappropriate for this conversation. Ryo seemed to have noticed that too and he slid off Kame's body, coming to sit beside him and pull the covers over his quickly fading erection.
“What do you mean...have you been with other men?” Ryo asked, almost incredulously.
He could feel his face heating up but he knew lying now would only come back to bite him later “Yes...a few...”
Ryo's face fell, but his eyes looked angry “How many is a few? And who? Who is so important to you that you'll let them fuck you in the ass but you won't let me?”
He felt like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming truck, and he couldn't find the right way to word what he wanted to say. “Just two...only two have done it to me...”
“Who?” Ryo demanded again “And what do you mean only two have done it to you, who have you done it to?”
He shook his head, it hadn't meant to sound like that, it was the truth but he hadn't meant to put it so bluntly, and he was actually starting to feel a little annoyed at Ryo's pushiness. “Does it matter who? The point is that I've done it...and I didn't like it...but you won't even try it for me...”
“Yes it does matter who” Ryo snapped back, “If there's been two then you must have tried it with somebody else after you knew you didn't like it...who was so important....”
“Kimura-sempai” Kame cut in, just wanting to get it over with. “It was Tackey first, and then I tried again for Kimura-sempai.” he turned his head away so that he wouldn't have to see the shock and hurt in Ryo's eyes.
“Tackey I can kind of understand...but Kimura-sempai? I didn't even know you were close...”
The hurt in Ryo's voice alone is enough to have Kame feeling ashamed “We're not really...just, on the set of his drama there was...tension and we just...”
“I see” Ryo answered after a pause “So you're that kind of person...”. There was silence for a few moments and Kame felt as though his world was crashing down, little did he know that it was about to get a whole lot worse. “What about the juniors? If you fuck guys you're not even close with I can't imagine what you get up to with them...”
He nodded slowly “A few...mostly kisumai”
Ryo was shaking his head “ I can't believe this...do you even have any morals at all?”
Kame looked up at his face finally, hurt and a little angry at the disgusted expression he found there. “I don't see what it matters who I've slept with...I'm with you now Ryo and I swear I've never done anything to be unfaithful to you, nor will I ever...I don't deserve for you to treat me like this”
“You're just not the person I thought you were...the things you've done...I was saving myself for you...”
Kame couldn't help the burst of laughter “Saving yourself for me? Ryo you've fucked more girls than I've had hot dinners.”
“But never with a guy...you would have been my first...”
“I'm flattered that you're thinking of it that way Ryo but isn't it just because you were scared? If I hadn't have kissed you that night you'd be huddled up here all alone tonight trying to convince yourself you're straight!” he snapped a little.
Ryo's face turned cold “I'd rather be huddled up here all alone than even looking at you right now.”
He could feel anger bubbling up under his skin but he held his breath, not wanting to say something he might regret, and then after fully considering his words he barked out “Well why don't you just do that then...I don't have time for this shit.” and he got up from the bed, pulling his clothes on hurriedly as he made his way towards the door.
“Get out then” Ryo almost screamed after him “Go find someone else to fuck if it's that important to you...I'm sure you have a list of numbers you could call...”
He slammed the door behind him and as he stumbled out onto the street he seriously considered it. He'd always been pretty close with Uchi, if he got him drunk enough then he was confident he could get into Uchi's pants, that would hurt Ryo for sure.
But even before he'd finished the thought he knew it was a bad idea, and he felt like a real ass-hole for even thinking it. Instead he called for a taxi and he made his way back to Tokyo.
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I'm really sorry it took so long to get this to you, but here's part two of your multi-part...just one more part left to go. You did say you wanted arguments and stuff so there you go :P