Response to Buried too Deep - Mamoru
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Ever since Keisuke nearly killed Satomi and pushed Mamoru away he was dreading the inevitable conversation the former best friends would have. He put it off after Mamoru interrupted his "procedure" but now he was finally ready for it and he gave Mamoru a golden opportunity to ask whatever he'd like. But what did he ask?
"Have you been eating the bean buns?"
At first Keisuke didn't know how to react. That lone sentence stopped him in his tracks. He stood in the middle of the street, his eyes wide, and his shoulders starting to shake. Behind him Mamoru was worried that he'd said something wrong. That Keisuke was about to punch something. That... that he'd failed.
Actually, the exact opposite was true. The shaking wasn't from anger, it was from laughter. Keisuke suddenly fell to his knees and then his butt. Laughing hysterically the whole time.
"Y-you, pfff, I've been-" He sputtered, holding his gut and rolling onto his back. "Gimme a minute!"
Overwrought with laughter, Keisuke's eyes were tearing up and he was having a hard time breathing. It was probably five minutes later before he calmed down well enough to actually speak. All while this was happening Mamoru was standing over him, confused. 'Did he snap again?'
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Keisuke continued to laugh a bit. "I expected some hard ass questions. I sure as hell didn't think you were worrying about the damn bean buns!"
"Well... I just..." Mamoru said hesitantly and quietly.
"I've been eating them, yeah." Keisuke finally confirmed, rolling back onto his shoulders and using his hands to spring him back up to standing. "They've been sort of coming out my ears, didn't have much of a choice."
When Mamoru's face fell, Keisuke started to chuckle. "Oh my God I'm joking." He reached his hand out and ruffled Mamoru's hair. Something he hadn't done in a long time. Then he unconsciously dropped his hand and lightly pinched Mamoru's nose. "Thank you, Mamoru."
Smiling to himself he started to wander off with a wave. "See you around." Keisuke said before vanishing into thin air.
That left Mamoru alone, feeling happier than before, but it reduced him to tears. He'd been so worried about Keisuke and said he was fine... he seemed fine... having him turn a 180 like that just relieved all of Mamoru's stress in a rush. He was bawling. And he couldn't stop himself.
"Idiot..." He muttered. "We just made up and you leave me just like that...? Get back here and hold me... stupid..."
Then in a brief instant, Keisuke reappeared smirking. "Ask and you shall receive."
Mamoru looked up, tears streaking his face, and he just put his head against Keisuke's chest, his sobs getting muffled. Keisuke rubbed his hand over Mamoru's back, trying to ease his overworked nerves. He honestly didn't know what else to do. In the past Keisuke used his fists to stop him from crying. He couldn't exactly beat up himself.
"Hey, everything's okay now..." Keisuke muttered as he placed his lips against Mamoru's hair.
"Hnnnh hh." The silverette muttered into Keisuke's shirt.
Keisuke looked down and quirked a brow. "What?"
"Hold me." Mamoru said louder, his face turning red.
Chuckling at the uncharacteristic bluntness of his friend, he obliged him. Keisuke wrapped his large arms around Mamoru's middle and buried his face in his shoulder. Mamoru reached up to snake his arms around Keisuke's neck, his tears soaked the larger man's shirt.
They stayed like that for a while. Neither really cared who passed, who stared, they had each other again. Keisuke repeatedly placed kisses against Mamoru's temple to try and ease the hysterical silverette. He was still crying minutes later.
Then Mamoru looked up before looking back down and muttering, "I love you."
Even though Keisuke heard him perfectly, he found himself saying teasingly, "Oh? What was that? Speak up! You're so softspoken!"
Glaring as malevolently as he could, Mamoru pulled his fist back and delivered a punch to Keisuke's gut. "I said that I love you, you idiot!"
Despite being hit, Keisuke laughed wholeheartedly. And so the two best friends were reunited again. Even though one of them would probably be regretting that to some level in the future, but never for long.
BURIED TOO DEEP - END
