stealhearted | are you hurting the one you love?

Most days of the week have dates and we still spend time together during them, [He makes the statement a counter, but mildly. He's mostly just being a brat.]

[But then he stands and stretches his arms over his head, wandering after him. He doesn't comment or overall react to the forehead kiss, just... smiles, maybe. Slightly. His face sort of hurts from how much he smiles lately.]

Just you wait, this marks our "first date anniversary". I'll remember it forever. [ Six months down the road like "do you remember it's our six month anniversary" like a schoolgirl.

To be fair, spending time with Goro makes Akira feel a little like a giddy schoolgirl. ]

One day it'll be "our first date since we aren't metaphysically superglued together", and we can celebrate that, too.

[He grimaces.] Oh you're going to be one of those people. A day is just a day, Akira.

I will take any excuse to spoil you. [ As long as Goro requires him to use an excuse, anyway -- he figures eventually Goro will just resign himself to the situation and allow himself to be spoiled a little for no reason. ]

[He shakes his head slowly, moving to stand closer to him and bump his shoulder into him.] I suppose I can allow that, but don't go overboard.

I make no promises. [ In part because they have very different ideas of "overboard". It's not overboard for Akira, to cut carrots into cute shapes, to make sure that Goro is well-fed and sleeps well and is comfortable, to get him small gifts throughout the day that tell him he's thinking of him. But for Goro, who is so unused to people taking care of him, it must feel almost overwhelming.

Akira thinks they'll eventually find a happy medium, but he imagines they'll have at least three more frustrated fights ending in tears and/or bruises (or both) before the subject gets properly resolved. ]

Just wait until we drag you to Destinyland.

Of course. Don't overextend yourself trying to tone down the aggressive affection you're just dying to smother me with. [He sounds tired, but fondly so. He won't claim to understand it, but he is aware of how much it means to Akira to dote.]

[And then he immediately blanches.] Ohh, no, no, absolutely not. Not happening.

What if it's just us there? We can rent the whole place out. [ He says it so casually, because while Akira's yakuza-banked yen is nowhere near Haru's fortune, it's still pretty sizeable. He's not sure if it's accruing interest. He should probably check in with Iwai about that. ]

You didn't get to go the first time we all went together. [ Akira does not mention this is because Goro was busy committing murder. Of Haru's dad. ]

It'd be fun.

[He tilts his head at an odd angle.] That-- is likely an obscene expense, and it's not the people that bother me.

Goro. [ Akira pauses, turning to look at him with his mouth quirked a little in an almost smile. ]

Putting aside Haru's net worth -- Ann's too, actually -- and Futaba's hacking skills for taking money from the unworthy -- how much money do you think I have saved up?

Also, is it the rollercoasters? Because I'm dragging you on those.

Edited (tf you mean you won't keep my icon) 2021-05-04 01:23 (UTC)

[He opens his mouth to protest further and just winds up making a series of irritated sounds before closing his mouth again, crossing his arms over his chest and sulking like a child.]

It is the roller coasters, because the last time I was on one I was fairly immediately and horrendously ill. Being fair, I was seven. But I don't think that should align well with your view of romantic. And if it does, you really need to reevaluate some things.

We'll start small. We'll go on the spinny teacups. [ You're not going to escape this, Goro, you might as well get in. Akira reaches out to take Goro's hand again, entwining their fingers as he sets off to find the previously mentioned garbage can. ]

Really, it's about the food you eat at the end.

[He grimaces slowly, realizing how absolutely fucked he is in this situation. Akira has firmly decided this is happening, and there is approximately no way Goro can wriggle his way out of it.] If I vomit in a teacup I am aiming for you.

That's the price I'll have to pay to make you have fun. [ Akira offers, with another grin. He's going to drag Goro into friendship and being a teenager kicking and screaming. For both their sakes, really.

He slips his phone out of his pocket to check the time. ]

We've got more time before the meeting... wanna go to the zoo?

[He rolls his eyes in as absolutely dramatic of an overblown gesture as he can manage without hurting himself, because really, nothing deters this guy. He's completely hopeless. Short of having some kind of actual damaging trauma relating to theme parks, Akechi will never be spared. Rest in pepperoni.]

[He frowns slightly, fixing him with a baffled frown.] ...why? [Because it's a date, Goro, Jesus.]

...because we're on a date? [ Akira offers, much less put upon than Goro's own internal dialogue would be. He just offers a smile, and then points in the direction of the zoo -- it's not far. ]

It isn't a big one or anything, it's like four hundred yen to get in. You don't seem like the type of person who went on his school zoo fieldtrips very often.

[He's not even sure he remembers there being a zoo here, let alone if he's ever been to it. He follows Akira's pointing, and his jaw sags open, and he looks between the area Akira is pointing and his face a few times, but can't argue.]

I probably only actually attended 50% of the schooling I've been enrolled in, period. It's a wonder my marks have been what they have. [He's mostly just a nerd.]

Like I said, it's because you're actually really smart. [ Which is extremely true, even if Goro continues to think he's not smart just because he cheated at being a detective for awhile. ]

C'mon, they have foxes there. [ Akira is always genuinely enthusiastic about getting to do normal kid things -- especially ones that he didn't get to do when he was younger, living in a rural area where the most fun a kid could have was getting ice cream from the konbini and getting lost playing in the fields.

If he gets to do things with Goro, then it's even better. ]

[He's bizarrely brilliant, in fact, but he refuses to see his own merits since he touted them for so long when he wasn't actually achieving things based on them. It's an ugly knot of emotion, he'll work it out eventually. At least he'll agree he's pretty.] ...among other things, but I'll let you maintain that simplistic narrative.

[He perks up ever so slightly. He does like foxes. And Akira's genuine interest is a bit infectious-- he reaches out to take his hand.] ...you know, you're cute when you want things.

[ Akira looks at Goro with a very distinct "I have been perceived" expression, and then flushes slightly. ]

I blend in pretty well, but I'm still a country boy. [ With a smart city boyfriend and a bunch of talented friends. He can't believe his luck, sometimes. ] Getting to go to a small Tokyo park zoo with my boyfriend is kind of unimaginably cool.

[He has to look away from the sheer force of Akira's fucking cute face, but he hides his own flush behind a well-placed chuckle, his free hand brought up near his mouth to mask the smile that lingers.]

You'll have to forgive me for having a hard time with that term for a while... But, all right, country boy.

[ 'Country boy' is cuter than 'attic trash', Akira thinks, idly, even if he genuinely likes both when they come from Goro. Really, there's not much he doesn't like coming from Goro.

Admission to the zoo is only a couple hundred yen each, so Akira pays for them automatically, offering over a thousand yen note and putting the rest in the donation box.

Then he stops, reading a sign near the front of the zoo. ]

Goro, we've gotta go to the guinea pig petting zoo.

[He flinches at how readily Akira says his first name, but doesn't chastise him for it-- he's trying to be more familiar with him, trying to ease into the change in their dynamic. They're boyfriends, and that involves calling each other by their first names.]

[It doesn't make it any less strange to hear, but he covers the flinch with a cough, frowning.] Next you're going to tell me you want to do a camel ride. I'm beginning to think you are actually a toddler. [He doesn't sound annoyed, though.]

I don't think they have camel rides here. [ Or yeah, he'd totally do it. He makes sure he has a grip on Goro's hand, though, because he catches the flinch and the way Goro covers for it, and he wants to be careful not to go too fast.

They've been speedrunning the whole relationship, as Futaba would say, and while Goro hasn't used slow down yet, Akira wants to notice if he does. ]

I do want to go to that island of bunnies one day.

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