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With Hide’s break, he thought there’d be more… activities not related to that university. And yet here the human is, studying on his bed. And not paying a lot of attention to him. Which he was anticipating. Sure, school was useful, but there’s no need to bring it home so much, is there?
“Ah, you just don’t understand,” Hide waves off what he says, and then points at him with his pencil, “you’ve never been to a school, have you?” The blond hums and taps his chin with his pencil, “were there even schools back then…“ Hide mumbles to himself.
Frowning, he brings his tail around the front as he shifts in the chair. All of his memories from that far back at foggy and indistinct at best, “I don’t know?” He really only knows his name from his memories of introducing himself ― and his ‘memories’ of protecting someone is more of a fragment of feelings, and thinking that far back is starting to make his head ache, so he stops.
“Well―“ he snaps his attention back to the human, “with school there’s all this… expectation ― I mean, my family are pretty chill in that area ― but even then, they expect you to do your best every day, constantly and…“ Hide sighs and looks at the piece of paper in front of him with distaste.
Cocking his head, he watches as the blond presses the end of the pencil into the paper, looking like he wants the paper to spontaneously catch fire. Hopping off the chair, he crawls onto the human’s bed, making his way over to cup Hide’s cheek, “maybe you could use a break.”
Speaking of expectation, Hide expects things from him now, to be soft and to care for him afterwards, but if it makes HIde happy, he’s sure he can endure things he doesn’t want to do. At the moment, he feels more amused at the blond’s hate, but manages to sell the ensuing kiss. The blond returns it hesitantly, and hands come up to clutch his arms.
Plucking the pencil out of Hide’s hand, he pushes the blond onto the bed, who lets out a small moan. Settling on top of the human, he curls his tail around one of Hide’s wrists, and starts to make his way down to the other’s jaw, focusing on the warmth of the human as he bites HIde’s neck.
Underneath him, Hide wriggles, and the hands on his arms move to his chest, pushing him away ― “wait wait! Kaneki stop!!” Pulling away, he stares down as Hide takes deep breaths, expression shaken.
“Why?”You wanted a distraction? Taking his tail away from Hide, he tucks his feet under him as he sits on the bed, watching the blond curiously.
Hide sits back up and looks at him warily, “we’ve done this,” the blond waves his hand between them, “enough, and I could tell ― you didn’t want to,” the blond huffs.
“And? You wanted to,” he furrows his brows, confused as to why Hide’s looking at him in such a long-suffering way.
“A little, but you didn’t want to,” the blond says, and the other’s tone is like he’s saying something obvious.
He tilts his head, “why should that matter?”
Hide’s face drops, before turning horrified as he mouths what he said for some strange reason. Suddenly, the blond moves forward to grab his hands, holding them between his own, and bringing his hands closer to Hide’s chest. “Of course it matters!” Hide says resolutely, squeezing his hands tightly, and the seriousness of the human’s demeanor makes him want to squirm away.
He huffs, feeling at a loss, “but I don’t matt―“
Fingernails dig into his hands due to how much HIde’s squeezing them, and he feels a small amount of alarm as the blond’s mouth thins, expression angry. He twitches, hunching up his shoulders as Hide continues to stare at him. Not long after, the blond sighs loudly, loosening his grip on his hands, then gives him an apologetic smile, dropping a quick kiss onto his knuckles. “Look, Kaneki, what you want matters just as much as what I want, okay? I don’t want you to do anything you don’t want to do, and,” Hide pauses, scrunches his nose up, then sighs, “it’d be nice, you know, if we actually talked about whatever you want us to do with―“
Tilting his head, he watches as the blond huffs, raising his eyebrows.
“... Sex. There, see, I said it! Anyway,” Hide comes closer, making their foreheads brush, “there are two people in this ― relationship? Weirdest friends-with-benefit thing ever?” the blond makes a frustrated sound, “there are two of us in this… whatever it is, so no, you do matter, okay?”
Unsure of what to even say, he nods, then pouts a bit as Hide lets go of him, giving him a bright smile. Placing his hands on his knees, he turns over the things Hide said in his mind as the blond begins to work on his essay again. Which kind of irked him, considering Hide’s paying less attention on him. “Does mean I should stop,” he leans over to pull on Hide’s pants fly, causing a small squeak and blush from the blond, “working you up?”
“Well, uh ― that won’t be hard―difficult! Difficult to do,” a hand covers his and gently pulls it away, “but there are still some times where I just don’t want to, you know?” Hide looks over, expression serious “... have you changed your mind? Do you want to?” He frowns at the blond’s gentle tone, tail twitching in irritation at the question.
He shakes his head, and HIde lets go of his hand as he puts his forehead on the other’s shoulder. Moving back, he lies himself across Hide’s lap, nuzzling into the blond’s hip. The legs under him feel a bit uncomfortable, but he doesn’t care about it that much, bringing his arms and tail to curl around Hide’s waist.
“Hugging? That’s what you want?” The blond’s voice is happy, and he finds himself smiling as he nods. “I’m always down for hugging,” Hide says, and soon after, warm fingers start combing through his hair as the legs under him shift to a position more comfortable.
A few minutes pass, with Hide working on his essay, sometimes saying random words. “Before,” he breaks the silence, and the fingers massaging his head stop as the blond hmmm’s, “you were angry.”
The fingers start to massage his head again, and he opens his eyes to stare up at the other’s face, “ah, I wasn’t angry at you, it’s fine now,” Hide says cheerily, smiling down at him.
He nods, going back to burrowing into Hide’s hip. “Oh.”
Staring at the closed bedroom door, he scowls. Sure, Hide has to work on that essay, but there comes a point where he’s just comparing himself to some pining pet, waiting for his master to come out pet his head.
Tail restlessly whipping behind him, he walks through the door, and takes a moment to watch Hide on the laptop, headphones over his ears as he types. Tilting his head, he rocks on the balls of his feet as he takes in the blond’s focused expression. He starts to make his way over to the unsuspecting human, taking off the other’s headphones, tossing them onto the desk ― which makes Hide squawk in surprise ― and then moves the chair back as he goes down for a kiss.
Hide lets out a surprised sound, and then another sound as he sits on the blond’s lap. Warm hands wander up his sides to pull him down more by his jacket collar, and he hums, knees digging into the other’s ribs. The blond lets out a moan before ending the kiss and pushing him away, “believe me, I’d love to take you up on your offer, but I’m so close to finishing this,” Hide says, staring at him pleadingly.
He raises an eyebrow, then brings a hand up to hold the other’s jaw so he can bite and lick into Hide’s mouth. The hands on his jacket yank him down roughly, and he smirks as he grinds down, causing the blond to let out a high moan and arches into him.
“Waitwaitwaaaaaaait,” Hide moans, and the hands on his jacket move to clutch his face, ending the kiss, “the―“ the blond takes breathes deeply, “the sooner I get this done, the sooner I get to be all yours,” there’s a beat as the blond shifts slightly under him, and the chair squeaks, “at least, until Kamii starts again in a few days and then there’ll be…”
Rolling his eyes, he slips out of the other’s hold to nip Hide’s neck, feeling the blond shiver.
“ Kaneki ,” hands hold onto his shoulder, dragging him away from the other’s neck, “stop being such a pain in my side and neck,” the blond mutters the last part under his breath, “and I don’t… go and look up some sex toys or something, I don’t know!”
Feeling amused, he quickly bites Hide’s lip, “you have the laptop,” so cute, forgetting something simple like that.
“... I knew that,” the human turns red, and the hands on his shoulders trail down to his sides, “just ― go entertain yourself in the living room while I work on this, okay?!”
Giving Hide a flat look, he rolls his eyes again, stretching as he climbs off the blond, leisurely making his way back to the living room.
Entertain myself…