Pairings: Ogata/Akira

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: yaoi, lemon, angst

 

 

Aftermath:

 

He is currently fast asleep – curled in a fetal position with his uneven but warm breath tickling my skin as I try hard not to shiver in response. He shifts a little closer and I am subject to the cool and then warm but pleasant sensation of skin against skin. His glows beneath the pale light from the moon that filters through my window and again I am a witness to just how breathtaking he really is.

 

I turn onto my side to take a really good look at him, my restless fingers beginning to shamelessly explore the sleeping boy to their fulfillment. He stirs and mutters something that I can barely hear as my fingertips brush against his erect nipples – pink and hard as rocks – just the way I like them. I continue to thumb them relentlessly watching in fascination as his breathing begins to get uneven. His cheeks are beginning to get flushed with color and a small smirk comes to my lips as I watch them part to give a low moan of pleasure.

 

I trail my other hand down his small waist – to his slender hips – to the smooth curve of his ass and slowly begin to knead the firm flesh gently. He shivers and presses even closer to me and I can feel his nearly flaccid cock twitch in awareness against my upper thigh. I smile in triumph and carefully begin to toy with his still warm and cum slicked hole. I can still feel the evidence of our earlier coupling and I probe deeper, past the now relaxed inner muscles to find that tiny spot that had been punished earlier by my fevered thrusts. At this time, I can feel hot drops of his cum bathe my torso. His breaths are much faster now, his hands now latched upon my upper arms as he begins to thrust against my finger within his ass and yet into my body at the same time. His low cries become erratic and his lashes open up slowly to peer at me with something akin to lust and helpless plea.

 

He is still sore, his eyes seem to say. He might not be able to walk tomorrow if I continue. Please, sensei. Don’t…no more…

 

My smirk does not waver as my finger works faster and harder within him. I release his nipples and reach for his cock, my hand wrapping around the swollen flesh as I begin to stroke him just as fast. He gives up the fight to remain silent and begins to writhe against the sheets in pure delight I’m sure. A light sheen of sweat covers his lithe body as he arches off the bed with each sweet torture inflicted on him.

 

Sensei, he begins to cry out over and over again – such sweet music, the like of which I will never get to hear again. That high octave pitch of his voice as he approaches his peak, the way his muscles clench and unclench as his body strains to deny its obvious need to orgasm. The way his toes curl – the way a few stubborn and damp strands of hair cling to his heated skin like glue to paper– the way his eyes seem to become a pitch black hue of mindless lust…this is the Akira that I’ll keep in my mind and thoughts for many nights to come. This Akira – who belongs to me - body, mind and soul. For this precious moment, I will cherish him as I am supposed to.

 

As I finally give in to his plea to be taken, I bury myself in his heat and punish ourselves for one last time. Each hard thrust signals the inevitable for I will brand him mine and feel no regrets.

 

Perhaps it is a bit cruel of me to do this. However, there is no turning back now for cruelty has become my best friend…again.

 

 

 

~*~

 

 

 

I wipe my glasses carefully with one hand as I do my best to listen to Ashiwara at the other end of the line. He is saying something about Touya Kuoyo returning from his trip a bit earlier than expected but all I can see or rather all my mind can think about is the boy who’s shrugging into his sweater a few feet away from me. There is a rather enigmatic smile on his handsome features that has me wandering just what he had really hoped to achieve with all of this.

 

“Seiji! Are you even listening to me?”

 

I start in surprise at the loud yell in my ear before nodding quickly and forcing myself to pay attention again. “Yes, I am…wha…what?”

 

Akira’s arms are now around my waist as he presses his young body against mine from behind. He giggles at my reaction as if surprising me was now the greatest achievement of his young life. I stop myself from responding with a smile of my own and instead place my hand upon his to push him away gently.

 

Naturally, he looks hurt but as usual he hides it behind a small smile. He steps away and pretends to be fascinated with my aquarium. But I know that tense flex of his shoulders so very well. There was something on my Akira’s mind and we would need to talk about it now.

 

“Ashiwara, I’ll call you back later,” I all but bark into the phone and hanging it up quickly, I cross my arms before my chest and eye the quite lovely backside of my soon to be ex-lover.

 

“Is there something you want to tell me, Akira?” I ask as carefully as I can. He flinches a little and then responds just as carefully.

 

“Whatever do you mean, sensei…?”

 

“Don’t give me that,” I growl softly. “What are you doing here, really? Why did you want to come with me? Why do you allow me to touch you like this?”

 

He turns his head a little and then shrugs lightly. “I thought…I thought you liked me, sensei.” I am guessing he had wanted to say that in a nonchalant way, but instead it had come across as weak and almost pleading. However, it isn’t the answer I want and I am determined to get it no matter how cold-hearted I have to be.

 

“Shindo,” I say flatly and I can literally see him tremble at the sound of the other boy’s name. But relentlessly, I continue. “It’s about him, isn’t it?”

 

“You were with him in the elevator,” he begins defensively and I scowl at the childish stubbornness in his tone. Kami, but the boy can be quite a pain when he wants to be.

 

“So what if I was?”

 

“What were you doing in there with him?”

 

“And what business is it of yours whom I choose to be with in the elevator, Akira?” I am really getting impatient now and he knows only too well the effect he is having on me.

 

Damn him!

 

“Sensei…” He stops and takes a deep breath before turning around to face me. I had fully expected tears or at least a saddened expression on his visage, but instead I am treated to one of passive indifference. And then it dawns on me – so hard that I almost gasp in shock.

 

I was staring right back at… me!

 

That look. That stare of determination and yet an undeniable look of defeat within those green eyes. I had once had that look – Touya Kouyo had once told me that I had had the look of a man caught in headlights but yet stubborn enough to remain there. Was Akira doing the very same thing? Had he realized that he was fighting a losing battle when it came to being with me? Does he now understand the enormity of the situation we both find ourselves in?

 

He licks his lips and sits down heavily on a single chair, his hands falling between his thighs as he lowers his head to stare at the floor in seeming fascination.

 

“I don’t…I don’t know what to do, sensei…” he begins quietly. “I am so confused right now…”

 

No thanks to me.

 

“I want to hate Shindo…but…but…”

 

Say it…

 

“But…I can’t, sensei…”

 

I need a cigarette.

 

“I mean…I want to be with him and I know that we are good together…”

 

Where in fuck’s sake did I leave my packet of cigarettes?!

 

“…the other night, I hit him.”

 

Oh? Now that gets my attention as I finally find the elusive pack and reach for a stick quickly. Placing it between my lips, I begin the search for my lighter.

 

“Keep talking,” I mutter a bit impatiently.

 

He gives a soft nod and still not looking at me, he continues his tale. “I was so angry at the time, sensei. He was acting so…jealous and back then I was too stupid to realize that he had every right to be that way. I tried to put myself in his shoes – to see how it would have felt if I had known he had spent the night with you. I would be so…”

 

I light up my cigarette, watching in amazement at how expressive he is without even saying a thing. His hands are clenched into tight fists now and I know he’s struggling to find the right words to convey the depth of his emotions.

 

“Angry?” I volunteer with a light shrug.

 

“No…not angry,” he replies softly. “A whole lot deeper than that, sensei…”

 

I stare at him in disbelief. Something deeper than anger? Wouldn’t that be pure murderous intent? Could it be that…?

 

“I just couldn’t think of you being with him, that’s all,” he finishes with a small smile before laughing self-consciously. “I think deep down inside, I still believe that you belong to me, sensei.”

 

I allow the heavy silence to fall between us as I watch him through the hazy smoke from my cigarette. There is a light hue of pink on his cheeks and I am reminded again of just how young and naïve he really is.

 

/I still believe that you belong to me, sensei./

 

Ah, the sentimental and emotional side of me that’s been buried deep within the recess of my mind wishes to rear its ugly head again to make me almost believe that sentence. But, I am a grown man now, Akira and I think it’s time for you to do a little growing up as well.

 

And knowing full well that I am about to drive a nail right through his young heart, I reply quietly but with enough emphasis to let him know just what I am trying to get across.

 

“I belong to no one, Akira…not even to you.

 

He sucks in a harsh breath and lowers his gaze again, the hands now trembling slightly as he grips the armrests a bit too tightly.

 

Forgive me, Akira. As much as I wish for this fairy tale to never end, we are just going to have to deal with the unforgiving reality of life.

 

“Why?” he mutters brokenly and I feel something tight constrict in my heart as I hear the slight catch in his voice. He is really doing his best not to cry and I have to commend him for that.

“Why, sensei? Why don’t you like me?!”

 

“It’s not a matter of liking anyone, Akira,” I reply as I crush out the cigarette, aware that my hands are trembling as well. Sweet Kami, this is going to be the toughest acting job I am ever going to do. “I just don’t have the time for…”

 

“But you said you loved me!” he yells out suddenly as he gets to his feet to pin angry and frustrated green depths on me. “Last night! You kept saying it over and over again! You taught I was sleeping but I heard you!” He gives another harsh sob, his eyes now shimmering with the tears that literally begged to fall. “You said it, sensei…” he whispered achingly. “Why? Why can’t you say it in my face? What’s so wrong with…?”

 

“Because you are being selfish, Akira.”

 

How I can remain so nonchalant about it all is amazing to me. I take off my glasses and make a show of wiping them again. I have to gather my composure quickly – this…this is really taking a lot out of me.

 

“You want me and you want Shindo. You can’t have it both ways…”

 

“I’ll break up with Shindo if I have to!”

 

“Why?”

 

“Because…because….”

 

“Because you think you love me, Akira, ne?” I finish as I slip them back on my face. “You don’t know what the word means, my dear boy. Do you think you can compare that emotion to me? What’s your definition of the word ‘love’, Akira?”

 

“I…I…”

 

“You don’t know, do you? How do you feel when you see a goban, Akira? What emotion courses through your veins as you watch those black and white stones? Power? Lust? Desire to be the best? To crush your opponent at the other side and leave them a whimpering mess afterwards? Isn’t that what courses through your veins?!”

 

He shakes his head and covers his face with his hands, whispering over and over again in dismay. “No…no…”

 

“It’s true, isn’t it?” I press on. “What you and Shindo have is the same lust and desire over a game that has progressed to your relationship outside of it. Isn’t it?”

 

“It’s not the same…”

 

“You are both young and foolish. You think you can both throw the word ‘love’ about and then expect everyone to agree with you?!”

 

“No…sensei…no…”

 

I grit my teeth and glare coldly at him, now very grateful that I have managed to muster up the anger and jealousy I had once had for the two boys. “You have five minutes to leave my apartment and to find Shindo. And when you find him, talk to him Akira. Find out how you really feel about him. Do you understand?”

 

He nods weakly, the tears having finally broken free to spill down his cheeks. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Akira shed real tears of pain – well besides me screwing him the other day – but this is different. He is going to have to grow up and I am the only one who can make him do that.

 

He wipes his tears away quickly and tries to give me a smile. “I’ll…I’ll try to see if he’ll want to talk to me,” he says softly. “Maybe…maybe we can work things out…ne…sensei?”

 

I reach for my packets of cigarettes and turn away with a curt nod. “Perhaps.”

 

I wish he would just go already and leave me to my thoughts but to my chagrin and surprise, I feel his arms around me again and this time he tightens them a bit possessively. I am sure he’ll crush my lungs from the force of his embrace.

 

“Akira…what…?”

 

“Will you wait for me, sensei?” he whispers softly. “If Shindo and I don’t work things out…will you give me a second chance? Will you take me back?”

 

I open up my mouth to say something – anything coherent while fighting the dull sense of pleasure I feel inside at his question. But as I turn my gaze towards the window, a familiar sight of an oversized sweatshirt comes to view and I give an inward sigh of irritation.

 

“You have to go now,” I finally mutter in response. “Looks like your friend’s waiting for you downstairs.”

 

He doesn’t say anything for a moment and I begin to wonder if he’ll ever let me go but eventually he releases me with a final squeeze before muttering a quick ‘goodbye sensei’ and making his way out of my apartment. The soft click of the door behind him is the final straw as I finally collapse into an empty chair with a heavy sigh.

 

I do not want to glance out of the window, but I end up doing so anyway. I watch as the two boys share an awkward moment of staring at each other before Shindo seems to shrug as they exchange a few words. He is the first to begin walking and Akira follows him slowly. They are still talking but of course none of that matters to me now.

 

I light up another cigarette and watch the smoky rings form as I lean back in the chair and close my eyes in sweet repose.

 

It has been an interesting week to say the least. I have learned so much about my self and I think I have awakened something within the boy I had loved from the moment he was thrust into my arms. Perhaps deep down, I honestly wish that both boys would get back together again. I would love to be able to sit across a goban and to play with Akira again the way we used to – passionately and with our usual rivalry.

 

/Will you wait for me, sensei?/

 

Hn.

 

Maybe I will, my dearest Akira. Maybe someday…we will eventually play this wonderful game all over again.

 

And when that time comes – I promise to win and never let go of my precious prize.

 

You…

 

 

 

~Owari~