CHAPTER 12 It had been weeks since their first date, but that date lingered in both boys minds. The only time Kusano and Yamashita were not together, was the time they spent at school. Kusano had made it clear that he did not want to be hanged out as a fag, he was getting mobbed enough as it was. So basically, no one knew, minus Shige and Koyama of course. Shige had forced Kusano and Yamashita with him on a double date with him and Koyama. That was fine enough, being on single dates were more private, but double dates were fun. Yearly the school had a sports day. That day Kusano could be Yamashita’s boyfriend around everyone, because no one would look at them anyway. Yamashita had not told his gang about him and Kusano. Whenever they asked him why he was not joining them after school anymore, Yamashita would just sigh and tell them his sister was very sick and he had to take care of her. That was a lie though, his sister was totally fine. Rolling off his boyfriend, Yamashita placed a kiss on Kusano’s fore head and smiled. “You’re just getting better by every time” Kusano blushed, “Urusai…” “I am just telling you the truth baby~” Yamashita giggled and tapped Kusano’s tummy. Recently Yamashita had switched from loving Kusano’s back to loving his tummy. Kusano’s tummy was much cuter than his. It was round so he could go doki doking with it. “Toilet!” Kusano said as he got up, wrapping one of the blankets around himself he went of to the bathroom. “Don’t be long!” Yamshita laughed. Holding his hand up in front of his face he started to count on his fingers how many times he and Kusano had had sex. 13. That was not good! 13 meant bad luck. “Too bad! We have to do it again!” Yamashita shouted to Kusano at the bathroom. “Eh?” Kusano popped his head out from the bathroom with a huge question sign written over his face. “We must do it once more, so we don’t have a bad luck number hanging over us!” Yamashita told his lover and sent him a blow kiss. “Baka…” Kusano mumbled and continued his get-rid-of-Yamashita-sperm-actions. Some time out in March, Yamashita came driving to school. Everyone was of course very hyper about it. Even though Yamashita spent most of his time with Kusano, did not mean he stopped being the most popular guy at school. “Wow your boyfriend is popular!” Shige commented when he saw the scene outside the school gate. “Yeah” Kusano sighed. It was his Yamashita, HIS. And he bloody well knew it! Moving his hand up to his collar, he held protectingly around the necklace he shared with Yamashita. The necklace was actually a pendant, containing two pictures of him and Yamashita. The fist picture they ever took together and the most recent one (that was taken the night before). “Looks like your boy has got company” Shige nodded towards the direction of Yamashita’s car. Narrowing his eyes Kusano turned around to see two girls standing way to close to his boyfriend. Even though he knew Yamashita had it all under control he could not help but to get jealous. As the girls would not leave Yamashita alone a stinging pain grew inside his chest. Why won’t you just leave them? Kusano thought and started walking over to where Yamashita stood. He had given Yamashita ten minutes to get the heck away from the girls, fifteen was enough. “Yama-chan…” Kusano said as he was a meter away from his boyfriend. “Yes?” Yamashita cocked a brow at Kusano, he was unaware that Kusano was a hundred present jealous. And since he only heard Kusano calling him ‘Yama-chan’, his WARNING-JEALOUS-BOYFRIEND-ALARM did not switch on. Pushing the girls away from Yamashita, Kusano embraced him and kissed him hard. For the first time, Yamashita was shocked over that Kusano kissed him. His eyes were still wide open as Kusano’s lips parted from his. The people, who were surrounding Yamashita before, were now just gasping at what the junior had just done. Koyama, who was holding around Shige’s waist for once, was actually saying ‘Awwww’. The rest were death silent or whispering. “So… this is your sick sister ey?” one of Yamashita’s friends said half-laughing. “Not really, he’s my boyfriend” Yamashita replied and patted Kusano on the head. “Well it had to be something” another one said “You were just too perfect— fag” he grinned. “Call me whatever you want” Yamashita was about to say something ugly to the guy but stopped himself. “I don’t care” Now the guys in Yamashita’s gang went ‘Oooh hoho’ and laughing. “Don’t care do we?” the leader said. “No!” Yamashita said and narrowed his eyes at his friend. “So fags can be angry huh?” he got support from his friends. “Being though eh?!” he gave Yamashita’s shoulder a push. “Are you?” Yamashita said quickly and determined. “OI! Don’t act though you little—“ as he was about to hit Yamashita in the face with his fist, Kusano had grabbed the rebels arm. “Don’t hurt him, got it?” About ten minutes later, Kusano was driving Yamashita’s car. He was driving! “Thanks for… helping me out back there” Yamashita said and tightened his grip on the door. Kusano was driving like a drunken guy. Swinging here and there, driving outside the road, you name it. “No problem, can’t let my pretty boyfriends face get damaged now can I?” Kusano said and kissed the boy in the passenger seats cheek. “Nawww, you’re so sweet—“ “And you totally rock for letting me drive!” Kusano interrupted. Yamashita sent Kusano a worried smile, “I might regret it!” It was then, that something that should not be allowed to happen, happened. Just as Kusano was about to open his mouth to say ‘I love you’ to Yamashita, a truck came driving in from the side and hit their car. A flash of white light followed. Opening his eyes slowly from something that seemed to have lasted for forever, Kusano got a glint of Yamashita. “Yama-chan” he said with a hoarse voice. Not receiving any sort of respond, Kusano said ‘Yama-chan’ a bit louder. This time Yamashita smiled and as he did so a flood of blood ran down his chin. “TOMOHISA!” Kusano screamed but it hurt so much to raise his voice, so he too coughed up blood. “Hi… Hironori…” Yamashita whispered, slowly raising a shaking hand which was covered in blood. Kusano reached out for the other, “I love you…” And the last thing they both did was to touch each other hands.