Fics like The Home and the Heart

After a few more seconds, Akira peeks up at Goro. He’s in the midst of turning his head, as though he had just been looking at Akira, as though he didn’t want to be caught doing so. Akira tempts that fate. He stares at Goro, at the way the sunlight burnishes his hair, at how his throat moves as he swallows. Goro lifts a hand and rubs it across his face and then, abruptly, he sits. “Fine,” he says. “Let’s start the shitty day.” The comment, grousing and grudging as it is, makes Akira smile. “That’s the spirit.” “If you wanted spirit, you should have moved in with Yoshizawa.” The past year hasn’t just dulled Akira’s ability to mask how he feels behind an impassive wall. He can see Goro’s comment for the slight that it is, not against Sumire, but against Goro himself. “And yet here I am.” He reaches out then, slowly, so Goro can move away if he doesn’t want to be touched. Yet Goro doesn’t. He remains still, watching as Akira pokes him once, gently, on the forehead. “What does that tell that big brain of yours?” * Or the tender, heartfelt take on oh my god, they were roommates

Fics like The Home and the Heart

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