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Fate 26 -◘[In Person]◘- Louder than thunder (I know I could be better)

[If you were searching for someone who looked miserable today? You've found the person.
Ryuutaro is outside, training with his beyblade.
The range within ten metres around him is surrounded by a barely visible change in the way the air looks. It's because air pressure inside is fairly different. Everyone entering this range will see nothing but purple space and Ryuutaro and feel a headache strong enough to make you want to just curl up on the ground.
And Ryuutaro? Is experiencing just that, now that his ability to resist air pressure changes is gone.

He's holding his head, halfway down on his knees, appearing to be in great pain, but yet he doesn't stop the move and just intensifies it.

This was his special move, no matter what the Author did, he should be able to deal with it. It should be easy. And if training now meant to get into his own head until his vision was blurring, that was fine. Maybe it'd at least make all the voices inside shut up...]

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[Ryuutaro nodded. And then, when Hayato touched his face, it finally dawned on him how he had to look. Ugh.
This needed to be fixed. Right now.]

Indeed. I probably look horrifying, this requires change...

[But it had to be noted that he made no real attempt to hide his face from Hayato now or anything. He'd figured that it would make no sense at all. There was not much Hayato had not seen already, in terms of deranged looks at least.]

You don't. I still think you look pretty.

[He wanted to say cute... but after the conversation they just had, pretty felt like a better choice of words. Either way it felt accurate. He had seen Ryuutaro with make-up, without make-up, with messed-up make-up, and even buck teeth once. His opinion of him had never changed... well it did change... he got a crush on him... and then...

Hayato gently slipped his hand around the small of Ryuutaro's back, he was a bit worried that his boyfriend might be shaky after pushing himself so hard.]

You think you're alright to make it back in? I wouldn't mind carryin' you.

[It actually might be kind of fun...]

[Still pretty... Ryuutaro huffed a little bit. That wasn't enough he always had to look the best he possibly could and-
...hearing those words felt rather nice though. One way of making Ryuutaro act a bit more ~~tsundere~~ unsure was complementing him on one of the few things he was not completely sure off.

And then there's that question and he just looks very surprised]

A-ah, no, I'm fine.

[A bit shaky maybe, but okay... He'd manage. Even if he had to say, he liked the idea of someone doing this much for him, he was still a boy and still strong enough to walk on his own...]

[Hayato nodded, he wouldn't push it unless Ryuutaro proved to be really unwell. So, while he kept his arm around Ryuutaro, he started heading back to the manor.

And there were no words to describe how glad he was to be indoors and out of the snow. He figured Ryuutaro was going to want to go have a minute alone to fix himself up.]

Hey, I'll get us somethin' to drink, alright? Wanna meet in your room?

[Ryuutaro nodded with a smile]

Alright, see you in a moment then.

[And he's just rushing to the bathroom the moment it's not painfully obvious anymore how much he needs to redo his make-up. But he's really glad that nobody crossed his way before, because that would've been completely embarrassing]

[And as much of a dipshit Gokudera can be in the kitchen, he can, in fact, handle boiling water and mixing hot cocoa powder into it.

So in a few minutes he makes it up to Ryuutaro's room two mugs in hand... which meant he couldn't knock or open the door.]

Hey, Ryuutaro...?

[Luckily enough just this once it had not taken Ryuutaro ages and ages to finish his make-up, because he'd been doing it quickly.
He'd just re-arrived in his room and barely closed the door when Hayato already was back.
It did only take him a few seconds to open the door for him to come in and be able to put those mugs down on the small table]

[Gokudera smiled as he put the mugs down on the table, and took a seat at the table and looked up for Ryuutaro to join him. He was very glad to be inside again. It felt like his face was just starting to thaw out, his cheeks were rosy and pink because of this. It felt nice to be here...]

[While Ryuutaro did not overly mind the cold weather outside, he still had to admitt that being back in a warm room had it's advantages.
It was definitely something better than spending winter outside, only armed with a little mobile heater... Those had always been times when he actually tried to get enough money for hotel rooms and the likes.
He sat down at the table as well. He was physically feeling better, too, by now, even though he was still pale]

I still can't really believe it's already winter.

[And the moment Ryuutaro sat down, Gokudera contently scooted up next to him, so that they were shoulder to shoulder. A big wide smile spread on his face]

Mmm, just a couple more months and I will have been here for a whole year.

[And he takes a happy sip of his hot chocolaty beverage.]

Which means that a couple months after that, we will have known each other for a whole year.

[He ponders on that for a moment]

Ah, I probably missed your birthday didn't I?

[That suck, he wanted to get him something and do something special for him.]

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[Ryuutaro put his own cup down and shook his head]

Ah, no, actually you didn't. It's rather soon, on New Years day.

[Another reason why Ryuutaro did not care overly much for it. It just went together with all the festivities going on at that date and he never learned to really celebrate it for himself only]

I'm hoping we'll be somewhere with a shrine around that time...

[And that just made him perk right up. New Year's day? He couldn't help but wonder if that might have had something to do with his abilities... but more importantly- he hadn't missed it! He could still do something special for him! He just needed to figure out what! After all, Ryuutaro had stuck with him on his shitty-ass birthday.

Though, now that he thought about it... he wasn't quite sure what to do. He was going to have to try to think of something Ryuutaro would really want to do... and he still needed to get him something for Christmas too... since it was looking like that's what the Author was going to push on them. Not that he mined, he knew the holiday well, and even if Ryuutaro didn't celebrate it, and he hadn't actively celebrated it since he ran away from home (Christmas at the mansion kind of sucked anyway), he still wanted to give Ryuutaro something!]

That's a pretty badass day for a birthday! I'm glad I didn't miss it!

[And he reached over to place his hand on Ryuutaro's to give it a squeeze. He was excited for everything coming up!]

Is it now?

[Ryuutaro laughed a bit. He'd never really thought about it, but now that he did, he supposed it was fitting for him to be born on that day]

I never really celebrated it. Hatsumode has always been a lot more important. Actually I think I'd usually look more forward to that than to the fact that it's my birthday at all.

[While he was probably a bit biased- being foreign caused him to give little care about the Japanese holidays. He simply made sure he was familiar enough with them to follow the Tenth along and not mess up too badly. Heck, he didn't even pay much mind to European holidays either after he ran away. Holidays actually kind of sucked because everyone was too busy with their families to hire him for hits.

So when it came to a measure of importance, the scales were heavily tipped in Ryuutaro's favor.]

Well, we should do somethin' special then! For your birthday!

[After a moment of running his thumb over Ryuutaro's hands... he notices they're kind of cold. He takes Ryuutaro's hand in his both of his own, rubbing it to try and warm it up.]

Your hand's cold. Here...

[He brought the hand to his mouth and let out a warm breath on it before starting to rub it again.]

[Something special? More special than it being New Years day? Ryuutaro really liked that after all. He'd dress up prettily and search for a less popular shrine where it wouldn't be crowded and make his prayers and buy his good luck charm in peaceful almost-silence and then enjoy seeing all the traditionally dressed people.
After he ran away it had become a routine to work in the afternoon. There were a lot more people caring about their fortunes at such a day. That was maybe a bit stressful, but his abilities being this wanted was also always an amazing feeling.
But it wasn't like it was very likely for all this to be possible at the Manor. And he was really curious about Hayato's idea of something special, too.

And then the hand-thing happened and his previous train of thought hit a wall. He blinked, his eyes widening a bit. This was... this was...
Really close. Somehow it felt even closer than hugging, even if that did not make too much sense.
His heart skipped just one beat, before he caught himself]

It comes with the winter, you know? But thank you...

[He smiled again.]

[Gokudera smiled back, just holding Ryuutaro's hand, wrapped in both of his, for a moment... and then he brought it to his lips to gently kiss his fingers. Then he finally let go and gave Ryuutaro his hand back.

He turns back to his drink and takes a sip of his hot cocoa, blushing to himself as he starts really thinking of things they should do together, when something finally comes to him.]

Y'know... we should.... go on a date sometime too... if the manor takes us somewhere...

[They had been dating since September... yet... they really hadn't done anything that people usually did in a relationship. Granted the whole ordeal in October helped with that... but still...]

[Ryuutaro stared down at his hands for a moment. He was a bit confused, but also positively thrilled. It was like all the work he'd done in the past months just suddenly payed off and rewarded him wonderfully.
That smile wasn't leaving his face and it was honest. Even if a lot of the issues from a while ago were not fixed yet, he could push the thoughts aside and just feel happy for the moment.
It had been so long since they really had good moments like this]

Yes...

[He hadn't even gotten a chance to think about this before... They'd been so stuck in a whirlpool of events]

That sounds like something nice that is long overdue.

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