「CHAPTER 2」
“ ‘Sorry about the other day!’ …No, maybe ‘I"m terribly sorry about last time,’ is
better? No…that sounds too unnatural too…,” Yos.h.i.+no mumbled to himself as he walked
towards Hatori"s apartment complex. His muttering was him practicing his apology. After
Hatori had angrily left a few days ago, Yos.h.i.+no had taken Yanase"s advice and sent
Hatori an e-mail, saying “Sorry for all the trouble”. But one week had pa.s.sed and still he
received no reply from Hatori.
Hatori was probably just busy with work, but this was the first time that he had
not contacted Yos.h.i.+no, and Yos.h.i.+no was somewhat restless. Usually Hatori was the first
one to give in and apologize, but this time, Yos.h.i.+no decided it would be better to go to
Hatori"s apartment complex and apologize himself as well as bring a present.
“Aah…well, here I am……”
He had stalled for time and had gone to the shopping center at the train station to
buy an apology gift, but Hatori lived in the neighborhood, so it was inevitable that he
arrived here quickly.
When he looked up the building, he saw that the light in Hatori"s room was turned
on. He gulped, prepared himself, and stepped inside the apartment complex.
“…Alright, let"s do this.”
He took a deep, nervous breath and pressed the intercom b.u.t.ton. He heard that the
buzzer had gone off inside the room, but there was no answer. He pressed it again, but
still got no answer. He had a spare key to this room, but thinking that Hatori was home
today, he hadn"t brought it with him, so he couldn"t open it up for himself. From the
outside, he had seen that the light was on, so Hatori had to be home. When he realized
that Hatori was pretending to not be home, he got somewhat angry.
“Hey! I know you"re in there! Don"t ignore me on purpose!”
He pounded on the door, even though he wasn"t supposed to be the angry person.
Then the front door finally opened, and he heard a low voice come out from inside.
“You"re disturbing the neighbors.”
“Then you should hurry up and open the door.”
“……….”
Yos.h.i.+no retorted and Hatori"s way of responding to him was to just look at him in
silence. Then he went back inside the room, still in his silence.
Wha- what the h.e.l.l…
In this awkward atmosphere, Yos.h.i.+no went in after him. If he was going to
apologize he should do it soon. Thinking this, he mumbled as he stared at Hatori"s back.
“…Sorry. You said to do it right this time, but I broke the deadline again…I
caused you trouble, too…”
“I"m not angry that you broke the deadline. That happens all the time.”
The casual way Hatori said this, ticked Yos.h.i.+no off and he raised his voice.
“Wha-! Not all the time! One-third of the time at most!”
“Half the time at least. Should I remind you how often it had happened this year?”
“Ugh-!”
He could not argue with Hatori, who had begun to flip through a notebook. He
had no excuse to make if Hatori presented the amount of times this has happened with
actual numbers.
Well, I always knew it was bad, but…
But this did not mean that he could very well give up! Yos.h.i.+no put the past in the
past, returned back to the original problem, and began talking again.
“The- then, what are you so angry about?”
“……….”
After Hatori stared at Yos.h.i.+no"s face, he gave out a long sigh.
“What"s with that look on your face!?”
Yos.h.i.+no got angry at feeling like he was being ridiculed, and then Hatori
reluctantly gave the reason for why he was annoyed.
“…I"m annoyed that Yanase was clinging on to you.”
“Ha?”
“Don"t let any other guy besides me touch you. Especially not him.”
But Yos.h.i.+no questioningly asked Hatori, who had said this sounding annoyed.
“Yuu is my friend. Why do you hate him so much?”
Then Hatori furrowed his brow even more and gazed at Yos.h.i.+no with a look like
he was looking at something unbelievable. 
“Why? You really don"t know?”
“It"s not like I don"t know, but…oh, I see! Tsk, you"re just too narrow-minded!”
He somewhat understood what Hatori wanted to say. Hatori was perhaps the type
that did not want anyone else touching the person whom he liked. That was probably
what it was. But it was still ridiculous of him to b.u.t.t into his business when the person
who had touched him was his close friend and not someone else with another plan up
their sleeve.
“Narrow minded…?”
“Yeah! You should follow Yuu"s example…OW!?”
To Yos.h.i.+no"s surprise, Hatori threw him on the bed and leaned on top of him.
“Wha- what did you do that for!?”
“Isn"t it obvious this means I want to do it with you on this bed?” Hatori calmly
told him as he proceeded to remove Yos.h.i.+no"s clothing. Yos.h.i.+no desperately held the
hem of his s.h.i.+rt down giving Hatori a chance to remove Yos.h.i.+no"s pants instead.
“Hey! Cut the c.r.a.p…! Stop.. stop it!!”
“I"ll stop if you listen to what I have to say.”
“I don"t understand what you"re saying! Wah! Hey!”
Hatori pulled down Yos.h.i.+no"s underwear, ending this struggle. When Hatori
touched his naked lower half of the body, Yos.h.i.+no"s heart rate suddenly quickened.
“This place is begging for release. Or, do you release it out yourself?”
“Wha- what are you saying!? Ngh…!”
Yos.h.i.+no gasped for breath as Hatori held and ma.s.saged his c.o.c.k. Hatori was
right. It had been a while, so his body was simply reacting to get rid of the built up
tension.
“Haa…! Ahh…No…! No…”
Since he had been abstaining from it up till now, he figured it was better to get it
over with. But now, for some reason, he felt like it was more than just to release his built
up tension. His desire was stronger than before. He was not used to this lover-like
atmosphere of being face to face, so perhaps this was furthering his frustration. Or maybe
his feelings had changed because he was about to have s.e.x.
“…Urgh!? I said no…!”
His excitement increased in his core when he felt the sensation of being licked. It
interrupted his thoughts. When he raised his head, letting out a cry, Hatori spoke with a
cool expression on his face as he continued to run his tongue over Yos.h.i.+no.
“Looks like you can afford to think about something else, huh?”
“No……Ah…hh…Aahh…!”
Hatori ma.s.saged Yos.h.i.+no"s erection while carefully licking the underside. In no
time at all, Yos.h.i.+no"s already stiff c.o.c.k began to drip. Although he had several b.l.o.w.j.o.bs
done to him before, he still disliked them. Having someone lick this sensitive part of him
sent his mind boiling with shame and intense ecstasy.
“Ah! …Tori, no! Please……!”
“If I stop now, you"ll be in trouble, so just be quiet,” Hatori replied to Yos.h.i.+no"s
weak plea and continued to hold the tip of Yos.h.i.+no"s member, which was dripping wet
with s.e.m.e.n, in his mouth. Hatori tightened around Yos.h.i.+no"s sticky, warm c.o.c.k, causing
Yos.h.i.+no to arch his back from shock.
“Noo…! Ah, aahh!”
With the tip of his tongue, Hatori scooped at the tiny hole at the tip of Yos.h.i.+no"s
c.o.c.k while rubbing that area with his bottom lip as he held it tightly in his mouth. This
influx of excitement dissolved Yos.h.i.+no"s reasoning.
Oh, c.r.a.p, it feels so good I"m gonna die…….
The sound of his shallow breathing mixed in with the wet sounds and resonated
around the room. Immediately, he couldn"t fight against it, all he could do was gasp. His
mind grew clouded at such intense pleasure, and the voice escaping from his throat
sounded so flirtatious that it did not seem like his own.
“Haa! Aah…ah…no…I"m coming…! Let go…”
Not knowing what else to do, Yos.h.i.+no tried to push Hatori"s head away, but it
took too much effort to do seeing that his arms were weak and all. Hatori kept sucking
Yos.h.i.+no"s c.o.c.k until he climaxed.
“Don"t…ah! Aah…nngh…! Ngh…!”
Arms and legs trembling, Yos.h.i.+no released his desire. Hatori took all of it up in his
mouth and calmly swallowed. 

Instead of being shocked at the fact that he was just forced to e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.e, Yos.h.i.+no
was lost in the after ma.s.s of the climax.
I"m hopeless……I"m so sleepy……
He was exhausted, because he was lacking sleep from the nights before.
Obviously weak and unable to fight against the strong wave of drowsiness taking over
him, Yos.h.i.+no was losing consciousness. Last night he had barely slept because he had
been working hard to complete the upcoming storyboard.
“Yos.h.i.+no?”
“Sorry……I"m so…sleepy……”
“Sleepy!? Hey, Yos.h.i.+no!?”
Even the sound of Hatori calling him sounded so distant. Then, Yos.h.i.+no completely
blacked out.
* * * *
Yos.h.i.+no"s eyes snapped open at the same time he hit the alarm clock to silence the
beep-beep-beeping.
“Ahh…I slept well…,” Yos.h.i.+no sat up and stretched on the bed.
The time on his wrist.w.a.tch indicated ten o"clock. He felt strangely refreshed,
perhaps because he had slept really well. He casually looked around and tilted his head to
one side.
“Huh? What am I doing at Tori"s place?”
Yos.h.i.+no had thought that he was at his own place, but he had slept in Hatori"s
bed instead. No wonder the sun was. .h.i.tting the futon, and the bed sheets felt freshly
washed too.
“Well then…”
“Woke up?”
When he finally remembered what had happened last night, Hatori came into the
bedroom. He was looking more displeased than yesterday.
“Oh.”
He looked at the frown on Hatori"s face, and the events from last night clearly 
came back to him. Yos.h.i.+no had fallen asleep after he had e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.ed. He had been forced
to receive oral s.e.x.
That must have been awkward…
Hatori was not pleased that he had been put in the waiting phase. Although
Yos.h.i.+no had been forced into this situation for the most part, being a man himself, he
knew how awful it was to be in the waiting phase, and he felt guilty that only he was the
only one feeling refreshed.
As he wondered what had followed after, Hatori coldly spoke up.
“I made breakfast, so go eat.”
“O- okay.”
Wanting to see how the situation will play out, he decided to eat first. When he
got to the table after was.h.i.+ng his face, he saw a solid, j.a.panese style breakfast laid out
before him: miso soup with white rice, omelet, and grilled fish. There was also a salad
full of fresh vegetables along with a reduced sugar yogurt for desert. The moment he
looked at all that, Yos.h.i.+no"s stomach grumbled from hunger. Last night, his head had
been full of ways to apologize to Hatori so he hadn"t eaten anything. Giving his body
what it needed, Yos.h.i.+no said his thanks at the same time he began eating the side dishes.
It"s been a while since I had Tori"s cooking. It"s just as good as always.
His feelings of nervousness disappeared as he happily ate and forgot the
awkwardness between them. Before he knew it, he finished the main course, and then
reached for the yogurt desert. As he peeled back the aluminum lid, he remembered what
he wanted to tell Hatori.
“Oh yeah. I"m going to the hot springs with Yuu this Wednesday and Thursday.”
“What? I didn"t hear of this,” Hatori stopped eating, his chopsticks in mid air
when Yos.h.i.+no suddenly announced this.
“I didn"t have time to tell you. I wanted to invite you too, but me and Yuu can"t
go on the weekends, so the two of us are gonna go.”
Yos.h.i.+no could make it work on the weekends, but Yanase could not because of
his other jobs working as an a.s.sistant. Yos.h.i.+no had been persuaded that it was better go
on a day when Yuu was free, so he gave up on inviting Hatori this time.
“……….”
“I"ll bring back a souvenir and definitely finish the storyboard before I go on the
trip. Speaking of that, I brought it with me yesterday. I stayed up all night to finish it.”
Because of that, he had fallen asleep yesterday before Hatori. He wanted Hatori to
forgive him for last time, so that"s why he had made such progress in his work. Yos.h.i.+no
took out the folder – which contained the copy of the storyboard – from his bag that sat
on the chair.
“If you have some time right now, do you think you can check this over for me? I
want to get it over with.”
“So…you do know what day that is. The day you"re going to go,” Hatori asked
quietly, making Yos.h.i.+no crook his head.
“Huh? There"s something going on that day? Oh, the supplementary ill.u.s.tration
piece is due, isn"t it? I finished the rough draft for that as well, so I can bring it over
tomorrow,” Yos.h.i.+no said, proud that there was no problem when it came to that issue, but
Hatori put down his chopsticks, dismissing the fact that there were still side dishes left.
Hatori suddenly got up and began clearing away both of their plates as he spoke.
“…I"ll look at the storyboard later. I"m busy today. If you"re done eating then
hurry up and leave,” he said and went to the kitchen with a stack of plates in his hands.
“Huh…?”
Yos.h.i.+no didn"t understand the reason behind Hatori"s att.i.tude and was taken aback
by it. Yos.h.i.+no had taken everything that he could into consideration, but for some reason,
Hatori"s bad mood had gotten worse.
He"s acting really rude! Sulking and giving me the cold shoulder!
Thinking this, Yos.h.i.+no"s anger rose.
“What the h.e.l.l is up with your att.i.tude!? A person tries really hard like this, and
you don"t even have anything to say!?”
“……….”
“Say something!”
Yos.h.i.+no was enraged, but Hatori continued to ignore him and washed the dishes
in silence. Yos.h.i.+no could not put up with Hatori anymore.
“d.a.m.n you! You jerk!”
Yos.h.i.+no threw the folder with the storyboard on the table and left Hatori"s place, 
saying something he would have said if they were still kids who were having a fight.
p.i.s.sed off, Yos.h.i.+no left the apartment building, but then suddenly stopped in his
tracks and looked back.
“…I knew it. He"s not gonna come after me…”
Hatori"s feelings were unclear to him, and this made him feel unusually helpless.