Title: Living together
Author: Luce Red
Series: Hikaru no Go
Disclaimer: Characters are the creation of Hotta and Obata
Type/Pairing: Hikaru/Akira
Summary: Hikaru is behaving oddly. (Yes, it's the same summary as Backing You.)
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The third time Akira caught Hikaru adding crushed Viagra to his morning coffee, he decided that it was time to have things out with his lover. It was either that or stop drinking coffee, and Akira was not ready to deal with caffeine withdrawal in the middle of the tournament season.
"It's not enough that I have to do all the cooking to ensure that my dinner is uncontaminated by that... that? Now you're conspiring against my coffee?"
Hikaru put on his best penitent look. "But Akira, we only have sex once a week!" he wailed.
"We are both busy with title games," Akira said, thinking of his schedule, and abruptly decided not to, because it gave him a headache. He tried to use reason. "And in case it slipped your mind, Viagra is not for improving one's sex drive."
"You don't love me any more," Hikaru said, pouting. He spoilt the effect by fluttering his eyelashes in the next moment. "I'm the only one here who thinks about ways to improve our relationship!"
Unwillingly, Akira remembered the day Hikaru came out to his parents. The shock had never really worn off. The fact that weeks of worry and self-doubt had been greeted with enthusiasm by his parents did not restore Hikaru's equilibrium. Rather, it had only exaggerated his eccentric moods which, thankfully, did not stand out much amidst the crowd of eccentrics that made up the ranks of truly dedicated Go professionals.
No one, for example, had talked about--nor forgotten--the time when Ogata started to sing the teapot song (complete with gestures, of course: it wouldn't have been half as remarkable without gestures) in the final game for the Meijin title with Kurata. From Ogata's viewpoint, the truly humiliating thing about the whole incident was that he had lost the game by six-and-a-half moku. There had been the time the extremely venerable Tokojima Mamoru, second only to Kuwabara in terms of seniority, had turned up for his game in a dress (white silk, black lace), complete with stiletto heels. And there had been the Affair of the Square Watermelons...
"You've been distancing yourself from me since the Affair of the Square Watermelons!" Hikaru accused--unjustly, in Akira's opinion.
"I have not," Akira said, stung, declining to comment further on that deplorable event. If he never saw another watermelon--square or otherwise--in his life, it would be too soon.
Hikaru's face was starting to darken. "Admit it, you aren't attracted to me anymore."
"That's untrue," Akira said, but he was not hopeful that Hikaru would be convinced.
The problem was that in a world of eccentrics, the Touya family had been recognized for being absolutely freaky, because they neither sang obscene songs, had wardrobe malfunctions, nor had they adopted the habit of publicly discussing Go strategies with a five-foot tall Pooh bear plush toy.
Hikaru's solution to all of this normality was to have lots of sex.
This was enjoyable for the brief periods when the tournament season lulled. However, Akira was of the view, one commonly held among Go players, that over-indulgence in the bedroom had the effect of dulling one's killing instinct, and that would be disastrous for one's game. (It probably also explained why it was that he was an only child, but Akira preferred not to dwell on that.)
"Then why can't we have sex now?" Hikaru whined.
"Because I'm going to work."
"But!"
Akira sighed, and walked to his desk, pulling out an envelope he had placed there, and held it out to Hikaru. "Here. It was supposed to be a surprise."
"What is it?" Hikaru opened it, and stared the brochure. " 'Deer Park Hotel'?" he read.
"Next weekend. I've made reservations for us. It's one of those nature appreciation hotels. Apparently, you can spot deer from the rooms. Anyway," he went on before Hikaru could object, "it's a getaway for us." This proved that he did try to think of ways to improve their relationship, didn't it?
Hikaru was starting to sparkle at him. "Akira!" he exclaimed, and rushed into Akira's arms. "I knew you'd wouldn't ignore me!"
"I've never done so," Akira said, but Hikaru was trying to mash his face into Akira's neck. "Hikaru, I have to go to work. You should, too. You have a game later, but remember not mix up your M&Ms with the Go stones... Hikaru?"
"Huh?"
"I really have to go now."
"Oh." Hikaru finally released him, and kissed him.
Akira returned it, relieved that things seemed to have gone back to normal. He went to the bedroom to collect his wallet and phone, and as he walked out, he saw Hikaru standing across the room, trying to take something out of his bag. The plastic package looked familiar... "And no more Viagra!" he snapped.
A handful of blue-coloured pills scattered to the floor.
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