Teo Torriatte

[krystalkatzfics]

Title: Teo Torriatte (Let us cling together)

Author: krystalkatz
Rating: PG
Length: Chaptered
Genre: AU Romance, angst,
Pairings: Sakurai Sho/Aiba Masaki, Matsumoto Jun/Ninomiya Kazunari
Disclaimer: I only own the plot, title is from Queen

Aiba sat frozen against the teacher’s lips, he was aware that he was being kissed, kissed by the man he had been in love with for a year and a half, but he had no idea what to do. He had never kissed anybody before, he had practiced on his hand a few times until Nino had caught him, it had taken him an hour to stop laughing enough to call him gross. This was nothing like kissing his hand, Sakurai’s lips felt strange against his, a good strange but strange and it was more than obvious that the teacher had kissed more than his hand. A hot tongue was ran over his bottom lip causing him to give a good kind of shiver, Sakurai put an arm around him gently pulling him in closer. Aiba tried to move his lips, to copy what the teacher was doing but he thought that Sakurai would get the feeling that he was kissing a fish or something

“Sorry… I guess I caught you off guard, ne?” Sakurai said in a husky voice as he started pulling away, and Aiba blinked his tongue running over his lips.

“I’m sorry!” He said thinking that he was disappointed, the teacher laughed stroking the side of his face again

“Don’t be sorry… It was great” He told him, Aiba gave an embarrassed smile, his eyes going down to the table, his finger playing with the grain of the wood on the table. His heart was thumping painfully against his ribs and he didn’t know how to ask what the kiss was for, thinking that maybe it had been given out of pity. “Masaki… We can’t let anyone know about this…”

“Se-Sensei?” The orphan mumbled looking into his face again, trying not to blush when his eyes fell on the teachers plump lips.

“If people find out I could lose my job… But I can’t keep stopping myself from liking you, Masaki…” Sakurai murmured running his fingers over his cheek “And you like me don’t you?”

“Yes! I like sensei very much” Aiba nodded enthusiastically and the teacher gave another lighter laugh playing with his hair for a while.

“You should go have your break… Meet me in the garden shed later at about 7 and we can talk more, okay?” Sakurai said kissing his forehead and Aiba nodded wondering how he was going to be able to keep this a secret but knowing that somehow he had too. Sakurai got up, moving away and Aiba slowly got to his feet his legs feeling a little like they were made of jelly. He still couldn’t understand what was going, so he hoped that it would make more sense after their talk later.

Slowly he made his way to his room, his body felt weird, he almost felt lighter than air. He could still feel Sakurai’s lips moving, gently against his and he was almost tempted to stroke them. Outside his door he shook his head a few times, pinching and pulling at his face, trying to stir himself. Sakurai had said that they had to keep it a secret and that meant he couldn’t even tell Nino, it would hurt him not being able to tell his best friend but he knew that Nino would understand in the end. Hoping that his expression was clear he pushed the door open not expecting the sight that greeted him.

Nino was lay on his side on the single bed, his arms wrapped tightly around a loudly sobbing Jun. That wouldn’t be a big deal except that Aiba knew his roommate had a huge fear of people touching him, he himself had learnt the hard way when Nino had punched him in the eye when he had only touched his shoulder.

“It’s okay. Jun, everything will be okay” His friend was whispering soothingly and that was another surprise for Aiba who had thought that Nino only knew how to be bratty.

“It’ll… Ne-ver… Be… Okay…” Jun hiccupped between sobs “I know I shouldn’t cry… It won’t bring them back…” and Nino nodded

“You’re right they’re dead and no matter what you do you can’t bring them back… But if you feel like crying, cry… I won’t say anything and neither will Ai-baka, will you Ai-baka?”

“No!” Aiba said quickly when Nino turned to look at him. He heard Jun give a loud sniff and saw him nuzzling closer to Nino’s chest

“Th-ank-yo-u” he said in choked voice. Aiba was still bewildered by his friend’s attitude, Jun must have meant more to the 5 year old Nino than Aiba had realised before. He sat with them on the bed, leaning against the wall, not knowing what to say. He wanted to be there for Jun too in however small a way, having spent all of his life here he was used to the tears, he had spent hours comforting the other residents but today his mind was in a complete muddle still full of his kiss with Sakurai, buzzing with excitement and nerves about the whole thing. Jun’s tears slowed until eventually his sobs turned into light snores.

“So what did Sakurai-sensei want you for?” Nino asked as he pulled away and put the blanket over the sleeping Jun. Aiba quickly tried to get his brain to think of an excuse as his mouth opened

“The trip… The trip next month” He said, the trip happened every year thanks to a benefactor from the town, the residents and most of the staff went away to the seaside. He didn’t know how he thought of it but it was a good enough reason for him to speak to the teacher. This year Sakurai was the teacher in charge and Aiba was the head boy of the orphanage, Nino looked a little doubtful his small beady eyes studying his face and Aiba prayed that he wouldn’t crack and he was happy when Nino just gave a shrug, before smoothing out Jun’s hair lightly, a smile on his face. “MatsuJun means a lot to Nino, ne?”

“Yeah… He was the one that saved my life” Nino whispered looking down at the sleeping face, Aiba licked his lips looking at his friend. Nino rarely spoke of what happened with him and his step-father if Aiba tried hard he could remember him saying something once before, but even then he had only given vague details about it.  “He was the one that found me in the hallway and called the police and ambulance, he waited with me until they came… Without him I wouldn’t be here…I never thought I’d see him again…I kind of wish I still hadn’t…Urgh if you tell anyone about me being girly I’ll stop talking to you…”

“I won’t I promise!” Aiba swore seriously holding up his hand a wiggling his pinkie finger. Nino gave a laugh linking his own and they made a promise. They moved away from the bed but Nino didn’t want to leave the room, his eyes lingering on Jun, so Aiba offered to go fetch them some bento’s from the lunch room. There wasn’t a large crowd and he managed to get three meals easily. Looking around he saw Sakurai eating his lunch with the other two teachers. The teacher didn’t look up at him and Aiba wouldn’t have trusted himself if he did so he quickly ran away. He hummed to himself as he headed back to his room, counting down to the time that he would meet Sakurai in the shed, he wasn’t sure what he was going to tell Nino about his disappearance later, when he about to push the door open he heard Nino speaking, and he thought that Jun had woken up again but when he opened the door Jun was still fast asleep and Nino was blushing a little. It was strange to see Nino flushing and blushing so much but Aiba thought it was cute. His friend snatched the food out of his hand and scrambled onto his bed leaning against the head board. Jun still hadn’t woken up when the bell rang for lessons so they left his meal on his side with a note.

The afternoon seemed to move painfully slowly even though he was in the same room as Sakurai. The minutes seemed like hours and the hours felt like days. After the lesson had finished, Nino went back to the bedroom and Aiba went to the common room watching the other residents play around with the ping pong table trying not to look too much at the clock. He was too nervous to eat and so avoided going to the dining room being alone in the common room the ticking of the clock seemed to intensify and quickly he slipped out into the garden not wanting Nino to find him and ask questions. The shed was at the end of the garden surrounded by an overgrown wilderness that shielded it from the house. Strangely none of the residents visited the shed, there were too many horror stories involved with it, at first Aiba had believed the rumours until Nino had called him stupid and told him the only scary thing in the shed was the gardener when the town kids tried to mess with the things inside. He went to the shed a little earlier then 7, his nerves twisted and torn to shreds. Wild thoughts filled his mind, he was almost positive that the teacher was playing a trick on him, that everything was just a cruel joke.

He was leaning against the door closing his eyes trying to calm his heart when the door opened and a hand grabbed his arm pulling him inside the warm dusty smelling shed. He almost screamed but then he saw Sakurai’s toothy smile and felt his hand stroking his face gently.

“Hey… I’m glad you came, Masaki” He mumbled and Aiba wasn’t given a chance to reply before the teacher claimed his mouth in a hot kiss. Aiba clutched at his shirt, he was just as unprepared as he was earlier, but Sakurai moved his mouth slowly, as if teaching him how to kiss. Aiba was a good student and moved his mouth along the best he could. “Good Boy…” Sakurai mumbled against his lips before pecking at him again. Aiba almost glowed at the praise, a smile forming on his lips and he was surprised when the teacher gave a groan.

“Sensei?” Aiba whispered shyly and Sakurai smiled

“You just look cute” he said kissing him again and Aiba allowed himself to enjoy it before asking

“Sensei… What is this… Um I mean…” He stopped looking down at his shoes Sakurai gave a light laugh playing with his hair

“What do you want it to be?” he asked and Aiba looked back up at him

“I-I… Wa-Want to date… Yo-u” he whispered shakily playing with the teacher’s shirt that was still in his grip

“Then we’re dating… But we have to keep it a secret okay?” Sakurai told him and Aiba nodded glad when the teacher kissed him again sealing their deal.

TBC

A/N: Hmm…I promise that they’ll be more about Sakurai later