How are things these days?

[masukukunai]

Who: Yousuke Hanamura (masukukunai) and Souji Seta (eatsyourscience)
Where: 3rd floor, room 22
When: Late night
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Yousuke gets an unexpected visit.
The Story:

Yousuke didn't have much of a reason to stay up here, so he often went to sleep at an hour earlier than he would back home. There was only so long he could practice his guitar before getting bored of it all and wanting to hit the sack. And while his body hasn't aged since he got here, in his mind, he certainly felt... older.

Maybe getting lamer was a better explanation. This place was getting to him. One of these days, he'd have to resort to drastic measures and do something stupid to shake things up a bit. Like the mansion's way of shaking things up wasn't bad enough already.

Another caper for another day.

Anyways, he was nearly asleep when he heard the knock on the door. At first he wasn't sure if he was imagining things or not, but a second knock set things straight.

Who in the heck would knock at this time of night? Did someone need help? Was he unwittingly snoring really, really loudly? Yousuke sighs and turns on his lamp, and rolls out of the completely unmade pile of blankets that was his bed to answer the door. Wearing nothing but a somewhat worn t-shirt and boxers. He yawns, stretches his neck and scratches at his shoulder.

"Coming..."

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[eatsyourscience]

When the door opens, Souji tilts his head at Yousuke, taking him in.

"You were asleep."

He's not sure if he's surprised. The lightly snoring dragon in his arms reminds him that it is, in fact, late, and he decides surprise isn't necessary.

[masukukunai]

Yousuke jumps a little at seeing Tefra-- this is something you can't really help when you see a dragon-- but otherwise blinks sleepily at Souji. When he gets a once over, he starts to self-consciously smooth out his hair.

"I was working on it, yeah. What's up?"

Souji does random things sometimes, but this was definitely a first.

[eatsyourscience]

"My room's cold."

And in he comes. Beep beep, Yousuke, bro with a dragon coming through.

[masukukunai]

"Turn up the heater...?"

He's not quite understanding the tone of Souji's message yet.

[eatsyourscience]

Perhaps he will understand when Souji sets Tefra down at the end of Yousuke's bed and strokes her under the chin to keep her from waking up.

[masukukunai]

"...Wait, you mean--"

Yousuke motions to Souji then points to the ground, as if to say, 'you're staying here?'

[eatsyourscience]

"Yes."

Souji is going to get some pajamas from Yousuke's closet now. He didn't bother to change before coming here.

[masukukunai]

"Because you're cold."

He's not saying no. No, not at all. The thought honestly doesn't even occur to him. Yousuke's just stuck sort of dumb by the sudden proposal. Was there any meaning behind it?

[eatsyourscience]

Souji stops in the middle of unbuttoning his shirt and looks over at Yousuke.

"If it's okay."

[masukukunai]

"Y-yeah!"

He turns away in an attempt at being discreet. Well, he might like to stay facing forward, but for now this would probably be best.

"It's just kinda weird for you, I guess."

But he found himself warming to the fact that Souji did. He liked it whenever he went out of his way-- Affirmation and attention. And it was far from boring.

[eatsyourscience]

Souji smiled a little and continued to changed. In just a minute, he's back beside Yousuke and slumps so he can rest his chin on Yousuke's shoulder.

"Still tired?"

[masukukunai]

Honest answer: not as much as he was a minute ago. All sorts of nervous little thoughts were invading his brain and making "relax" kind of impossible. But he nods and steps towards the bed.

"Sorry it's kind of a mess. I usually... Don't care."

Been sleeping in a heap since his mom stopped cleaning his room.

[eatsyourscience]

"I don't mind." Souji follows Yousuke and nudge Tefra a little into the best position. The dragon grumbled, but didn't rouse.

[masukukunai]

Yousuke climbs in and does his best to smooth out the blankets and spread them evenly so he's not hogging or anything. Scootches over to the side so Souji has enough room. It's a double, so they should fit with a little bit of... touching...

"Is she okay like that?"

[eatsyourscience]

Souji follows Yousuke into bed without any hesitation. "Yeah. She might come up and try to lay between us, though. She likes being warm."

[masukukunai]

"That's fine."

Yousuke used to be a little frightened of Tefra, but after seeing how tame she was around Souji, he lightened up. She'd never purposefully hurt either of them. And he had to admit, she was pretty cool.

He's impressed by Souji's confidence too. This is the first time they've done something like this, and he wasn't batting an eye... The first time. How long had they been together now? A year? Wouldn't this be more like taking it slow, then? Was Souji getting impatient? Should he be making some sort of move?

It's uncharacteristically quiet as he quickly gets lost in thought.

[eatsyourscience]

Souji looks at Yousuke, then props himself up on his elbow and gives him a kiss.

"Don't think too much. You won't be able to get back to sleep."

[masukukunai]

Yousuke huffs, but doesn't protest being kissed.

"A dangerous pastime."

He's sort of half-sitting up as he mulls over words. If they were together, and alone, and this close, he might as well talk about it. He just had to gather up some courage.

"...Everything's okay with us, right?"

[eatsyourscience]

"Are you worried about it?"

[masukukunai]

He shakes his head with enough emphasis to get his point across.

"No, not like that... I just. I dunno. I don't even think about it, and it's been a long time, and it's so easy-- Am I even doing it right?"

Oh, like relationships are supposed to be hard and complicated. Nice self esteem there, Yousuke.

[eatsyourscience]

"Do you think it shouldn't be easy?"

[masukukunai]

"I... Guess...?"

You have to admit, things go almost unnaturally smoothly for these two.

[eatsyourscience]

Souji tilts his head in thought.

"What did you think would happen?"

[masukukunai]

"I dunno. Disagreements, fights, butting heads..."

Souji generally was too level-headed and cool for that kind of thing though.

"Maybe it's because we're here. We're not really 'living'."

[eatsyourscience]

"I think there's plenty to argue about here."

Like when he went off to fight Adachi alone...

"There's just no reason to."