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[lapidarius]

"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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[starmark]

Maybe we should tell him. Make his head explode.

[lapidarius]

We could just kiss in front of him and watch him short circuit, too.

[starmark]

...Do you want to? Sometime.

[...]

In front of people, I mean. Is that something you...

[lapidarius]

...I don't really mind. If you wanted to, that's fine with me.

[starmark]

It doesn't matter to you either way?

[lapidarius]

Telling your family is one thing, but I don't really care what other people think when it comes to that.

[starmark]

...You're scared of my mom but a show-off to everyone else.

[lapidarius]

I never said 'scared'.

...But yes, basically.

[starmark]

Mmmm.

...All right. In front of Josuke, yes or no.

[lapidarius]

I guess so? Are you really about to run down an entire list?

[starmark]

Is there something you'd rather talk about? I'm just...

[...Talking kind of a lot, actually, and apparently calling attention to it has just made him a touch self-conscious, in a curiously benign kind of way.]

Um.

[lapidarius]

[...oh no]

[that's cute]

...Well, we could stop talking about who we want to show off to and you could actually kiss me instead.

[starmark]

But then you'd have to move.

[...]

I mean I guess you could kiss Star and it'd be almost the same thing.

[lapidarius]

...Or I could turn around, tackle you, and make you stop being such a smartass myself.

[kakyoin you have no realistic concept of how small you are]

[starmark]

You weigh about as much as a housecat. You'd bounce off.

[lapidarius]

I do not-!

[starmark]

I've held up much heavier things than you.

[lapidarius]

I've already thrown a pocketwatch out that window, you want to go next?

[starmark]

No.

I just like seeing every side of you. Which includes the one who fluffs up like a housecat when he's mad.

[lapidarius]

I'm not a housecat.

[starmark]

You're right. You're a betta.

Elegant and deadly.

[lapidarius]

...

[Damn you, that's so stupid it's flattering.]

So are you going to let go of me so I can actually move, or are you just going to keep me trapped and come up with more fish metaphors?

[starmark]

I don't want you to move, though.

[BUT SURE, GO AHEAD AND DO SO, HE'S NOT STOPPING YOU]

[lapidarius]

Don't you?

[Because he shifted position again to turn around just enough for a kiss that probably wasn't entirely a surprise.]

[starmark]

[No, it certainly wasn't.

Unlike some of the other times they'd ended up sharing kisses, this one came with reasonably little surprise and relatively little fanfare. It certainly didn't bring with it the abrupt rush of a First Kiss™, nor did it come laden with the gravity of a Confession Acceptance Kiss™. It was just...nice. And quiet, and calm, and reassuring and simple; easy and natural and oddly like balm on his fraying patience and thin-stretched nerves. It was just...there, asking nothing more than to be taken as-is.

They were, too, in their own ways. Asking nothing but to live up to themselves, and not the expectations their circumstances might have demanded of them.]

Mmm.

[Attempting to help support Kakyoin as best he could, he shifted his hold and moved to steady him, bringing his hands to rest against him and gather him in as obligingly as he could.]