I...finished the Kidnapping Fic a few days earlier than I thought I would and started the new fic (Amnesiac Yuuji, which won this poll) just yesterday. Today? Time is soup, and timezones are worse.
Anyway! Amnesia Wednesdays shall now commence! Help me.
I'm still getting a feel for this fic. This week's excerpt is from the prologue, which is the only part that's Yuuji PoV. Have some fluffy kissing to make up for all the Kidnapping Fic fuckery:
Gojou turns around, cocking his head to the side and giving Yuuji a once-over that’s somehow obvious despite the blackout glasses hiding his eyes.
“What’s up with you?” he asks Yuuji. “Tired already? You’re the one who wanted to cook, you know.”
“We’ve been eating out all week,” Yuuji says absently. “Gojou-sensei, I want to…”
The silence that follows Yuuji’s clumsy non-demand feels thick and heavy.
But Gojou smiles, a mild upcurve at the corners of his mouth. It’s a familiar expression, both inviting and indulgent. Yuuji’s been on its receiving end a lot the last few weeks, and now he’s trying to remember if it’s the first time he’s wondered how it would taste on his tongue. Gojou’s mouth almost always looks like it could cut someone, and it does, Yuuji knows, but then there are times like this too, more and more frequent, when it looks like it’d be soft and sweet to the touch.
“What is it, Yuuji?” Gojou asks. “What do you want?”
“Can I kiss you?”
Shock splatters on Gojou’s face, bright and graceless.
And then it’s gone, eaten up by a grin that splits his face.
A part of Yuuji wants to back up; most of him wants to catch that smile with his teeth.
“I don’t know, can you?” Gojou’s voice is a low, deadly murmur. “Come and find out.”
It’s a warning and a challenge, Yuuji can tell, and whatever common sense he’s ever had is screaming, but his feet take him forward, closing the scant few feet between them with sure, steady steps until he’s right in front of Gojou. Yuuji stares up at him, and his body feels like it’s braced for battle.
Gojou’s still grinning, but it’s a little less toothy. Yuuji can see a sliver of blue under his glasses, watching and waiting.
He grabs those broad shoulders with both hands and pushes up on tiptoes to press their lips together.
Warm, fleeting pressure.
Yuuji’s soles meet the ground, harder than they should. His heart’s in his throat, too thick to swallow around. He tries anyway, choking a little.
Gojou’s expression hasn’t changed at all.
He asks, “Is that all you wanted?”
Yuuji can’t tell whether it’s disappointment or mockery or some other unholy thing that’s there in his voice. He wants to crawl under a table or maybe split the ground open so he can drop right into its core, but his fingers refuse to let up their death grip on Gojou’s shoulders and his feet are rooted to the ground and his whole damn body’s soaking up the warmth Gojou’s radiating, and Yuuji finds that all he can do is stand and stare.
“No,” he croaks.
Gojou hums, a considering noise Yuuji’s grown to associate with some atrocious movie or a sparring bout that leaves him heaving on the ground. Fresh adrenaline floods him, and his heart beats even faster, a wet roaring in Yuuji’s ears.
“Was that your first kiss?”
Yuuji shakes his head, the motion too jerky.
“Oh?” A knuckle nudges his chin, tilting it up, and Gojou’s there, bending low to exist prettily in suffocating proximity to Yuuji’s face. “Don’t lie now.”
That unties Yuuji’s tongue. “I’m not. It was just one time. Girl in middle school. We didn’t do much.”
“Huh. Cute.”
“Sensei!”
“Don’t get all offended,” Gojou says, and he’s not laughing, but he’s close to it, and Yuuji shifts abruptly from wanting to drop into the abyss to wanting to dropkick Gojou into it.
He tries to back away, face unpleasantly hot, but then Gojou’s whole hand is there on his jaw, and an arm winds around his waist, and Yuuji’s pulled against a hard, unyielding body and his head is tilted further back. Gojou’s face is even closer, mouth hovering over Yuuji’s.
His breath is hot on Yuuji’s face.
Fuck, Yuuji thinks, panicked and reverent.
“Don’t run off either,” Gojou murmurs, and he’s so damn close that Yuuji can feel the words as he hears them. “Kiss me right first. You’re a quick study, aren’t you? Or have you changed your mind already?”
“No,” Yuuji yelps, snapping his jaw shut the next instant. More quietly, and not at all steadily, he says, “I still want to.”
“Go on then.”
Yuuji’s not sure when his hands shifted from Gojou’s shoulders to his hair, but when he clenches his hands in nervous anticipation, it’s soft, snowy strands that bunch up in his fists, and it’s easier than it has any right to be to pull Gojou down that last burning centimeter, forcing his mouth against Yuuji’s.
It’s still a knife-life curve, and Yuuji doesn’t bleed in any way that hurts, but it feels like Gojou’s cutting him open anyway.
His first kiss was soft and sweet and short. A few tight, thrilling seconds of sensation. He remembers licking his lips afterward, tasting something plastic and fruity and wondering if it’d have tasted any different on her mouth.
Gojou’s the answer. The glossy gleam that never leaves his lips is sticky on Yuuji’s lips and thick on his tongue, with a dull, fruity punch that feels like it should be sweet to the taste but isn’t, and then he sucks one into his mouth, more hungry than curious, and he learns that Gojou’s soft, yielding flesh tastes a hell of a lot better than any product.
The aftertaste lingers.
Apples, Yuuji thinks dazedly.
Gojou breaks the kiss, leaning back when Yuuji tries to chase him and keeping him at bay with the hand still cupping his jaw.
“Easy, tiger,” he murmurs. His lips are wet, but his skin is unflushed and his breathing calm.
Yuuji feels like he’s run a marathon in the summer sun.
“Sensei,” he gasps. There are a thousand things he wants to say, but nothing comes out, except another weak, raspy, “Sensei.”
“Yuuji,” Gojou returns. “Still want more?”
“I—yes, please—”
“Sleep on it.”
Yuuji shuts his mouth, blinking up at Gojou. “What?”
“Sleep on it,” Gojou repeats, “and tell me again in the morning. I’d hate for you to regret me, Yuuji.”
There’s something about the way Gojou says it that makes it sound like a promise.
Yuuji closes his eyes, swallowing thickly. The unsweet flavor of Gojou’s lip balm is gone already, but under that, there’s another taste—sharper and hotter and a lot more damning.
I won’t, Yuuji doesn’t say, but he knows it with the same fervor he felt when he said, I won’t regret the way I lived.
“Okay,” he says, opening his eyes. “Just one night.”
“The impatience of youth,” Gojou says, amused but also so fond, and Yuuji’s burning again, from face to gut, and when he frowns up at Gojou, he’s greeted to a crooked grin that burrows into his chest. “Don’t pout. You’ll survive the night, I promise.”
Yuuji pulls on his hair.
Gojou shuts right up, shuddering hard enough that Yuuji can feel it all over.
He stares at his fists in Gojou’s hair, then at parted lips still wet from their kiss.
Gojou tries to straighten back up; Yuuji doesn’t let go.
Gojou doesn’t make him.
He says, “Yuuji.”
“One more,” Yuuji breathes, tugging a little at Gojou’s hair, and there’s no shudder this time, but Gojou leans back in like he can’t help himself, and even through his glasses, his eyes glow. “Just one more, sensei.”
Gojou groans, right into Yuuji’s mouth.
They burn dinner.
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