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Journey to the Stars
(or the Idiotic Love Story of Tegoshi and his Boyband) 10/12 by Tha Wrecka
See part 0 for details.
10.
It took serious manoeuvring just to borrow Tegoshi for a night. It felt to Yamapi like he had to make serious deals with half the group just so they'd let it happen.
"What do you want him for?" Masuda kept asking in a way that really worried Yamapi. He could only hope his mumbled assertions of group bonding put Masuda at ease.
"Why would I care?" Ryo-chan said. "Just make sure you find your own place to keep him for the night because you're not doing it on my bed."
"Good luck!" Koyama yelled out after him. Pi didn't want to know what Koyama thought he needed good luck with.
Yamapi pushed Tegoshi into the room and a giggle pushed its way out of Tegoshi's mouth. Yamapi used one arm to close the door and the other to pull Tegoshi close, squashing him to his body and smoothing a kiss onto his shoulder. Tegoshi wasn't sure how the happiness could be contained in his small body.
Yamapi let him go and told him to take his clothes off in a smiling voice. Tegoshi hastened to comply, flopping back on the bed in his excitement. It felt like giggles wanted to erupt from him every time his fingers brushed his own skin.
Knowing Yamapi was standing nearby getting naked made it strangely difficult for his fingers to work. He paused in his task and looked up. Yamapi was standing, half-naked, at the end of the bed, looking all hot. It made Tegoshi want to arch his back and spread his legs, so he did.
His throat was thick with this feeling. Tegoshi wanted to touch and taste him more than ever. He breathed out, long and shaky, and hoped that Yamapi knew his gasp translated to, "Touch me."
Tegoshi made a compelling noise. Yamapi took off his pants just that little bit faster and moved forward, let his hands come to ground on Tegoshi's skin.
His palms covered the sides of those slim hips, trapping Tegoshi in. But it was clear that Tegoshi wanted to be trapped, was happy to be caught. His smile was strangely sweet and open, somehow not what Pi would have expected of the situation and yet so perfectly Tegoshi that he could not imagine why he expected otherwise. Pi smiled back and moved his knees onto the bed.
Yamapi was rolling around on the bed like a child. He hid most of his body under the covers and peeked his head out through the top. In that moment it was a little hard to believe he was in his 20s. He made a face that set Tegoshi off in another round of exhausted giggles. The laughter continued even as Tegoshi made his way back to his room and into his dreams.
Tegoshi was really disappointed he'd missed out on everyone bathing together. Nudity was a really good way to bond as a group. He knew it always made him feel closer to Massu, after all. It would have been a nice excuse to see Yamapi naked, too.
If only they hadn't been so tired. Tegoshi couldn't even figure out why they were, but they were just like dying fish flopping into bed, dead to the world in moments.
On the weekend he wanted to have fun with Shige and Kei-chan but Kei-chan was doing things so Tegoshi went to play with Shige instead. Shige wanted to stay home and be boring so Tegoshi made him go through his closet and show him all his newest clothes.
Shige had a really cool brown jacket that made him look really cool. Tegoshi wanted it, the way he wanted a lot of Kei-chan's clothes. Sometimes he wished he could borrow their clothes but they were far too tall. It wasn't fair. It's not like he was much thinner than they were, anyway, but their things just never fit him right.
"I wish I could borrow it," Tegoshi said.
"Why can't you?" Shige asked. "It would only be a bit loose."
"It's not my fault you're tall!"
Shige rolled his eyes and put the jacket away, then made uncomfortable motions as he sat down on the bed next to Tegoshi.
"Why are you twitching?" Tegoshi asked.
"Koyama's underwear is so uncomfortable," Shige replied.
Tegoshi wasn't sure what Shige was implying.
"Things in our suitcases just got mixed up," Shige explained.
Tegoshi blinked. "Okay."
Tegoshi wanted to hang out with Koyama so Koyama graciously slotted in one night for them to go to a bar and catch up. Tegoshi wasn't really a bar kind of person, he hated the smell of smoke and he found sitting around and watching people get drunk mostly pretty boring, but for Koyama he would put that aside and just focus on getting to spend time with his friend. Sure, they saw each other at work all the time but it was just different to hang out in their off hours.
It started off mostly okay. They caught up over greasy food and talked about sport and music. It was when Koyama decided they needed to talk about grown up things that it started to go awry.
"There comes a time in every young man's life when he realises he has been a virgin too long and must do something about it," Koyama said with an air of grave importance.
"...What? Me?" Tegoshi asked.
"Yes, Tegoshi," Koyama replied.
Tegoshi burst out laughing. "Kei-chan is so silly!"
"It's no laughing matter."
Tegoshi just laughed harder.
Koyama made strange noises to indicate his disapproval for Tegoshi's reaction. The conversation continued to be equally awkward and stupid for quite a while.
Tegoshi slipped off to the bathroom to check his hair and collect his thoughts. He felt strange about Kei-chan not knowing about whatever he was doing with Yamapi. Part of him was really surprised that Koyama hadn't figured it out by himself yet; Kei-chan was usually pretty observant and he thought for sure that he'd looked suspicious about it for a while. Part of him felt guilty for not having told Koyama. Another part just wanted to keep it to himself, hold it close as a precious, secret thing.
He breathed out deeply, tried to put it from his mind and tousled his hair a little. A look at his watch showed him he'd spent more time in there than he'd planned and he hoped that Kei-chan wasn't getting bored by himself.
Tegoshi plastered on a smile and charged out and back to the table. His smile froze at the sight that greeted him. It seemed that while Tegoshi had been in the bathroom, Koyama had been drinking until he couldn't see straight.
"Hey, Tegoshi, I bet I know what you were doing in there," Koyama said in what he probably thought was a sly voice.
"Kei-chan..."
"It's okay! Everyone does it. I do it all the time. Sometimes three times a day! It's perfectly natural."
"I'm sure it is but I actually wasn't doing what you probably think I was doing," Tegoshi said.
"You don't need to be shy about it."
Tegoshi started to feel uneasy about where the conversation was going.
"Somebody needs to tell you about these things, Tegoshi. Tegoshi!"
"Yes, Kei-chan," Tegoshi said.
"We need to fill in these very very big gaps in your education."
The service people were starting to glare at them so Tegoshi threw money at them and started to drag Koyama outside.
Koyama slung one arm over Tegoshi's and breathed hot, stinky breath all over his face.
"Tegoshi," he said, his syllables a little more sibilant than usual. "There are some things a man needs to know at your age. Yes, very important things."
"Uh, that's great, Kei-chan," Tegoshi said, wondering how he was going to get his friend out of the bar.
"It's about girls. Girls are really nice. Ooh, let's go find some girls!"
"No, Kei-chan. I'm really tired," Tegoshi lied, "and I think we should go home."
"My point is, girls are nice. You need to get a girl. Not that you need to limit yourself to one, you're a man of the world, we'd all understand."
Tegoshi had a feeling this talk was going to get more embarrassing than the time his grandma explained the facts of life.
"Now, first, you have to talk to them. They won't let you into their pants if you don't talk. Nobody likes those creepy silent guys."
"Kei-chan, you're heavy."
"Your problem is you're too pretty! They don't want a guy that's prettier than they are. You have to be sneaky. I'll teach you all about - no I'm not!" Koyama objected.
Tegoshi sighed loudly.
"There are some things you'll need. First. What was first?"
"First we should get you to the car, Kei-chan."
"No, that's not it," Koyama objected. "What was it?"
Tegoshi struggled to get Koyama to move across the car park.
"You're going to need condoms," Koyama said, spitting as he spoke.
Tegoshi wanted to die.
"I think I have a spare pack with me," Koyama said and twisted around to try to find them in his back pocket.
His movement forced them out of balance and made Tegoshi stagger under his weight. Right then Tegoshi was really pondering how unfair it was that a black hole wouldn't open and swallow him up.
Koyama awkwardly tossed the packet to Tegoshi and he caught it out of reflex.
"Those ones are in rainbow colours! I think I also have some that glow--" Koyama began.
"No, Kei-chan! No more talking," Tegoshi ordered.
Koyama slumped against Tegoshi's shoulder. "But I didn't tell you any of my wisdom about oral sex."
It didn't get any better when he refused to get into the car. Tegoshi gave up and decided to call Shige to take care of it.
"You smell nice," Koyama said, putting his wet fingers all over Tegoshi's hair.
"Shige," Tegoshi said desperately into the phone. "You have to take Kei-chan home. I can't stand him any more!"
"Oh, you're pretty," Koyama mumbled.
"Now!" Tegoshi demanded.
"I don't need to see that moron flirting with everything that walks past," Shige's voice declared.
"Shige, you're pretty, too," Koyama said, leaning in towards Tegoshi's phone.
"And you're an idiot," Shige replied.
Twenty minutes later, Tegoshi was never happier to see Shige in his life.
"Thank you so much," Tegoshi said, fervently as Shige took Koyama off his hands.
He wanted to hug Shige at that moment but he could see that Shige had his hands full.
"Hey, Shige," Koyama mumbled happily.
"You owe me for this," Shige said to Tegoshi. "And you," he continued, looking at Koyama, "are going to let me sleep over at your house to make up for the trouble I took to drive here."
They didn't talk about it the next day. Kei-chan didn't even mention his headache, though it was pretty obvious by the way he sometimes pushed his face against Shige's shoulder and whimpered.