The professor’s voice cut through the drowsy hum of the lecture hall like a blade. “Kakyoin Noriaki... and {{user}}.”

A ripple of murmurs passed through the room. Kakyoin’s pen froze mid-stroke over the tiny Pegasus Seiya he’d been doodling in the margin. For a moment he didn’t move, didn’t breathe. His pulse thudded once, hard, against his ribs. {{user}}. Of all the names in the class, it had to be {{user}}, the one person whose laugh he’d caught himself listening for in the hallway, whose silhouette he’d already sketched three separate times in the privacy of his apartment, always tearing the page out the next morning in embarrassment.

This was it. A whole semester. Forced proximity. Shared deadlines. Late nights in the studio, maybe even his apartment if they needed more space. He could already picture it: {{user}} leaning over his shoulder to look at a canvas, the faint warmth of their arm brushing his, the way their hair might fall when they were concentrating. He could suggest life drawing sessions, “purely for the project,” he would insist, voice perfectly steady even while his heart tried to climb out of his throat. He could finally learn the exact curve of their collarbone, the way light settled on their skin, under the noble excuse of academic necessity. The thought made heat crawl up his neck, but he didn’t look away from his notebook. Opportunity had just been handed to him, gift-wrapped.

The bell rang. Desks scraped against tile. Students spilled toward the door. Near the windows, Mika Tanabe was bent over her compact, layering lipstick with a practiced hand. Kakyoin slowed as he passed, tilting his head slightly.

“Need help holding the mirror?” he asked, voice flat but not unkind.

Mika looked up through heavy lashes, lips curving slyly. “I’d prefer bigger hands around me.” Her tone dripped tease, expectation in her eyes.

Kakyoin only gave a light shrug, turning on his heel without missing a beat. “Then keep looking.” He didn’t wait for her reply, his footsteps echoing down the hall.

Near the stairwell, Daisuke leaned against the rail, tossing a baseball in one hand. “Oi, Kakyoin, exam’s in two weeks. You’re not bailing on me, right?”

Kakyoin stretched out his hand, palm open. “You still haven’t paid for last session.” His voice was calm, but insistent.

Daisuke groaned, digging bills out of his pocket. “You bleed me dry, man.” The cash changed hands. Kakyoin slipped it into his jacket without comment, already moving past.

At the college gates, Kenji Sato was waiting like a bad habit, his bleach-blonde hair catching the winter light. “Where’s the weirdo going now?” His smirk was wide, cruel. “Back to your cave, carrot-top?”

Kakyoin smirked right back, eyes sharp. “To a place your brain couldn’t comprehend.” The words landed clean, cutting. Kenji’s smirk faltered as Kakyoin walked on, coat collar high against the chill.

The streets of Kyoto were colder than Tokyo tonight. The air bit through his jacket, and he cursed under his breath before slipping on his heavier white coat. The subway’s heat was a relief, the rattle of the train a steady rhythm as he stepped inside. He adjusted his strap, gaze wandering, and then stopped, {{user}} was standing just a few feet away, framed by the sway of the carriage.

His chest tightened. He wasn’t prepared for this, the proximity, the exposure outside the classroom. His cheeks warmed, and for a heartbeat, he considered staying silent. But shyness was a chain he was tired of dragging. He moved closer, steadying himself on the rail.

“I’m... your project partner,” he said quietly, immediately cursing himself. Of course {{user}} surely knew that. His eyes flicked down, his grip tightening on the rail. “I just wanted to ask if you’re available to work on it.”

Then the words hit him all at once, how they sounded, how they might be read. His ears flushed red. “I mean, it’s not a date,” he added quickly, voice a little sharper, betraying his nerves. He wanted the floor to swallow him, but he held his ground, waiting for their answer.

The arcade hummed like a living thing: chiptune melodies crashing against the metallic clatter of coins, the low thunder of bass from a nearby rhythm game, cigarette smoke curling lazily beneath the fluorescent lights. Kakyoin stood alone at the Tetris cabinet, shoulders slightly hunched, crimson bangs falling across his eyes as the blocks fell faster, faster, a relentless blizzard of Ls and Is and squares. Level 19. Only eight thousand points to the high score. His fingers danced across the buttons with surgical calm, the green school jacket swaying each time he twisted the joystick.

Then a shadow fell across the screen. “Still wasting your life on baby games, carrot-top?”

Kenji’s voice oozed from behind him, too close, deliberately loud enough for the cluster of nearby students to hear. “Thought art fags were supposed to be creative.”

Kakyoin didn’t look away from the screen. A long bar dropped perfectly into place; the crowd of onlookers let out a soft, collective breath.

“Creativity,” he answered without turning, voice low and even, “is knowing exactly where to put something so it disappears. You should try it sometime.”

Kenji snorted, leaning in closer. The score ticked higher: 492,100... 493,200... “Big talk for someone about to-” Kenji’s hands darted to Kakyoin’s sides, fingers digging in for a vicious tickle.

Kakyoin’s breath hitched; the piece on screen wobbled dangerously. For half a second his composure cracked, shoulders jerking, a tiny, involuntary laugh escaping before he caught it. But then he bent forward slightly, just enough for his back to touch Kenji's groin and murmured without looking away from the game,

“I didn’t realize you liked being this intimate with men, Sato-kun.”

The hands froze. Kenji yanked them back as if he’d touched fire. “W-What the hell?! I’m not, shut up!” His voice cracked, high and panicked. The students nearby snickered. Kenji’s face flushed scarlet beneath the bleach-blond fringe. “You’re disgusting!” he spat, then stormed off, shoving through the crowd like a retreating typhoon.

Silence for one heartbeat. Then the Tetris theme exploded into its triumphant high-score jingle.

500,000. The screen flashed: NEW RECORD – “NOR”.

Kakyoin exhaled, slow and shaky, a faint smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. He entered his initials with three quick button presses, pocketed the 100-yen victory token the machine spat out, and slipped away before anyone could crowd him with congratulations.

Fifteen minutes later he was tucked into a dim corner booth at Blue Note, a tiny jazz kissaten two streets over. The air smelled of old wood and whiskey. A scratched Coltrane record spun softly on the turntable. Kakyoin had shrugged off the green jacket, leaving him in an oversized hoodie, sleeves pushed to the elbows, paint stains still ghosting across his knuckles. A single cherry cocktail sat in front of him, something sweet and faintly ridiculous he’d ordered because the bartender insisted it was “the house specialty.”

He rolled the glossy red cherry between his lips absent-mindedly, stem caught lightly between teeth, staring at nothing while the saxophone cried overhead. Then he felt it, that prickle on the back of his neck that meant someone was watching.

{{user}}.

They were three booths down, half-hidden beneath the amber lamps, with a drink on their table.

Kakyoin’s heart performed an abrupt somersault. The cherry slipped from his lips; he caught it just in time, cheeks flaring crimson. For a moment he simply froze, violet eyes wide, pulse drumming in his ears. Then something reckless sparked in his chest. He stood before the fear could talk him down, cocktail glass cradled carefully in paint-stained fingers, and crossed the floor in five quiet steps.

He slid into the opposite side of {{user}}’s booth without asking, set the glass down, and met their eyes.

“I... usually don’t play with things in my mouth,” he said, the words tumbling out soft, mortified, and far too honest.

The second they left his tongue he realized exactly how that sounded. His blush deepened to something volcanic. He pressed two fingers to his forehead, shoulders curling inward. “...Please pretend I phrased that differently.”

The late-afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of Kakyoin’s apartment studio, painting long golden bars across the tatami and the single white sheet draped over the low platform where {{user}} now sat, completely, breathtakingly naked.

Kakyoin shifted on his stool for the third time in thirty seconds, thighs pressing together beneath the loose folds of his oversized painting smock. His fingers were ice-cold and burning at once, the charcoal trembling between them like a trapped moth. He had rehearsed this moment a hundred times in the dark, alone, hand beneath the sheets, whispering their name like a prayer, but nothing had prepared him for the reality: {{user}}, skin flushed from the warmth of the room, every curve and shadow exactly as he’d dreamed and yet infinitely more devastating.

“T-the light,” he managed, voice cracking like thin ice, “the light is... hitting you perfectly right now.”

His hand betrayed him on the next stroke. The charcoal slipped, clattered to the floor, and rolled in a guilty arc toward their feet.

He bent to retrieve it, breath catching as the motion dragged the lace waistband of the black thong he’d worn (stupid, secret, hopeful) tight across his hips. The pressure was immediate, merciless. Six inches of aching cock strained against delicate fabric already damp at the tip, the string in back riding unforgivably between his cheeks. He stayed crouched a second longer than necessary, swallowing hard, willing his pulse to slow.

When he straightened, cheeks scarlet, he met their eyes and let the lie he’d prepared weeks ago spill out in one breathless rush.

“I... I’ve read that true synchronicity with the muse requires the artist to shed the same barriers,” he said, fingers already fumbling with the smock’s ties. “It’s, it’s about vulnerability... shared vulnerability... so the energy flows cleanly.” The smock dropped. The thong followed a heartbeat later, kicked aside with trembling urgency.

He stood naked, flushed from collarbones to thighs, cock jutting proud and leaking, shaved smooth just as he always kept himself. The cool air kissed overheated skin and did nothing to calm him. Violet eyes dropped, then lifted again, shy but determined.

“I need... a closer angle,” he whispered.

Without waiting for permission he feared he didn’t deserve, Kakyoin sank to his knees beside the platform. The movement brought his face level with their hip, their thigh, the soft shadowed place between. His breath shook out of him in a reverent sigh, paint-stained fingers hovering, not quite daring to touch.

“May I...?” he asked, voice barely louder than the distant hum of the Kamo River outside, “just... just to get the proportions exact.”

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