Gravitation and its characters belong to Murakami Maki.

This is only a fanfiction.

Yuki's POV.

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I heard as that little pink-haired brat came running through the door again. I heard how he kicked his shoes off his feet and dropped his bag on the floor even though he knew that irritated me. Then I heard him going through the kitchen and my office as he searched for me. I wasn’t interested in letting him know where I was so I just shifted in the bathtub and closed my eyes. It didn’t take him long to come knocking on the bathroom door.

“Yuki? Are you there?”

I already thought of not answering him but then I realized that even if I didn’t, he would open the door just to make sure I really wasn’t there. He would find me anyway.

“Yes,” I sighed shortly and heard the door opening. “Haven't you ever heard of giving people some privacy?”

“But Yuki, I've already seen you naked,” Shuichi giggled and made me open one of my eyes to give him a glare.

“That’s not what I meant. I was enjoying my time of silence.”

Shuichi pouted his lips, but then suddenly he smiled widely and I could almost see the light bulb above his head. “I could join you?”

“Did you happen to hear me saying the word silence?” I laughed shortly and closed my eye again.

“I can be quiet. Yuki, can I? Please?”

I sighed. Shuichi had to know the ways with me already. He knew I would eventually give up; otherwise he wouldn’t be so persistent.

“Fine,” I murmured. “But if you make even---“

“I’ll be quiet, I promise,” the boy said in a hurry and I heard him taking his clothes off. A part of me wanted to open my eyes just to watch him do so but the stubborn part of me kept my eyes closed. I had seen it already. Many, many times already. I didn’t need to see it every time he stripped naked. There wasn’t even that much for me to see. Just some bones and skin to cover them. I snorted at myself. If that really was the case, then why on Earth did that little body of his make me so hard time and time again?

Soon Shuichi stepped carefully into the bathtub and placed himself in my lap. His pink hair lay against my chest and his fingers tangled themselves with mine. If I had to be completely honest, that didn’t feel bad at all. On the contrary, it felt pretty damn good, just to have that body against my own in complete silence. I felt Shuichi tensing up and then relaxing again for few times, and I knew he was trying his best to keep himself quiet. I knew how hard that was for the brat.

“What is it?” I asked giving him a permission to say the thing that was clearly bothering him.

“It’s nothing really. I promised to be quiet.”

“I asked. That clearly means I want an answer too.”

Shuichi turned his head so he could kiss my chest shortly and then snuggled closer.

“I just wanted to say how nice this is,” Shuichi said and I felt him smiling.

“Even though you have to be quiet?”

“Anything is fine as long as I can be with you, Yuki,” he whispered then and I couldn’t keep my eyes closed.

“Shuichi---“

“I know, Yuki. You don’t want to hear me talking stuff like that,” Shuichi interrupted me and pulled my hands around his body. “I won't talk anymore. Enjoy your bath.”

No matter how hard I tried to stop myself, I couldn’t keep the small smile from appearing on my lips. Maybe Shindo Shuichi wasn’t completely hopeless after all.