17A/N: This chapter is shorter than the last one...but...it's worth the read...
Enjoy.
"Onodera!"
Emerald eyes snapped open and the brunet shot up, only for his hip to slam into the coffee table.
Hissing, the younger male looked up to find a hand coming towards him and quickly rolled under the table, popping up on the other side.
"Oi, what the hell is your problem?"
"T-Takano-san?"
"Who else would it be?" the older male replied imperiously.
Scowling, the brunet rubbed at his now sore hip, "What the hell are you doing here?" he blinked, "How did you get in here?!"
Shrugging, the dark haired male slowly sauntered around the table towards the brunet, "I told the landlord you were sent home sick and I needed to check in with you."
"And they gave you a key?" Ritsu asked incredulously, pausing (he had been taking a step back for every one his boss made towards him).
"Yes." Takano stopped as well, a few feet away still, "After all, I was only worried about you."
"You w-were?" the younger male blushed, "Why-?"
"Yes, I was." the older male interrupted, "Until I saw you weren't deathly sick, just hiding away!" Ritsu flinched at the edge in the end of the other's words.
"I've been trying to get ahold of you all damn day!" Takano continued, "Worried that something had happened because you weren't writing back, not even with you're usual 'stop it' or 'I'm fine' crap!" he held up the brunet's phone, "But no, you were just here sulking!"
"You don't know what I as doing here!" Ritsu snapped back, hand tightening unconsciously on his hip.
"Oh?" the other asked with a smirk and a patronizing tone.
"I wasn't feeling well! An-and I've been working still! Look!" the brunet stood straighter, planning to walk right past the other male and show him his storyboards.
But of course, the instant he was within arms reach the other grabbed him, and in a blur of movement had him pinned to the couch.
Ritsu glared, trying to press the heavy weight of the other off of him, but Takano only burrowed closer, catching the brunet's arms in an embrace, "Takano-!"
"Why didn't you tell me you weren't feeling well?" the harsh whisper next to his ear made the brunet cease his struggles.
"E-eh?"
Long arms tightened around him, drawing them impossibly closer, "Why didn't you just stay home if you weren't up to being at work?" Takano continued in a growl.
"I-I don't need a babysitter." Ritsu weakly answered, "I felt fine-"
"Then why did you have to be sent home?!"
The brunet flinched again at the angry yell, and attempted to push away to no avail.
"Answer me!"
"I don't know!" he lied. He wouldn't let Takano find out what happened. It wasn't the other male's concern, and he was already feeling much better!
"Ritsu!"
Panicking, Ritsu yelled out the first thing that came to mind, "I wanted to get away!"
A heavy silence fell.
"Away?" Takano repeated quietly. Dangerously. Because he knew what the next part would be...
"H-hai...away...from you..." now the younger male winced as the dark hair male's hands dug painfully into his arms before loosening, "T-Takano?" he murmured, sensing the defeat rolling off of his former lover, "Takano, I-ah!" the brunet gasped as teeth nipped sharply at his neck.
"W-wait, stop it!" Ritsu ordered as Takano continued to nip at the sensitive area on his neck.
"Why do you have to be so stubborn!" the older male hissed, but he sat up, meeting emerald eyes.
And the brunet felt his heart ache at the sadness in those hazel eyes, an emptiness that didn't match the other's furious tone.
Something must have changed in his own eyes as well (guilt and grief clouded emerald orbs), because Takano sighed, the tension leaving his shoulders, leaning over to press their foreheads together, "I've already told you," he whispered, hazel eyes softening, "I'm never letting you go again. I can't." he closed his eyes, as though in pain "I can't..." he repeated quietly before pressing their mouths together.
For once, Ritsu just let things happen, he gasped as the older male pressed against him, shivered when their tongues met, and wound his fingers into dark raven locks...
Because he couldn't hurt him again...
'I can't...'
A/N: Hmm...I seem to like fucking with Ritsu. Poor thing doesn't know what he wants right now...and just to be clear, Takano still has no idea just how sick Ritsu is, because Ritsu basically told him he was sick of being around him...after pulling that stunt he felt horrible...
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