Aeonian - Oikawa Toru x Reader

Ch. 04 - Heart and Soul

It was a warm night, but his mother had brought hot cocoa out to us anyway. It was a warm night, but there was a bundle of blankets out here with us. It was a warm night but we were dressed in our warmest pajamas, prepared to spend the entire night out here if we had to. It was a warm night, but we were in each other's personal space anyway, leaning over each other in our attempt to chart everything that we saw.

We were stargazing.

Together, we found Aquarius and Cassiopeia, Orion and Aries. The night sky was dark though littered with stars, and it was perfectly, beautifully clear - perfect for tonight.

"There's the body of the serpent," Toru said, referring to Draco and tracing the outline of the dragon's body. "See?"

"Mm-hm," I said, having to lean closer to him to see exactly where he was pointing. 

Picking up on that, he angled his body so he could get closer, setting his hand behind him so he could press his chest to my shoulder without even realizing it. Still, from there, despite the proximity, I certainly could follow where he was pointing much better.

We both noticed the proximity. But neither of us cared to comment on it, or acknowledge it in any form, because we were too engrossed in what we were doing. After I took another look at the serpent's body as a whole, I nodded, committing it to my mind's eye and to memory. I traced its line with the tip of the pencil, then copied it to the paper. Like a true snake, it weaved in and out from its surroundings, silently slinking through the sky like a snake might through sand or grass.

Toru helped me chart it, and I leaned back to check our work when it was done. "That's it," I said, confirming that it was right. "And this star here is actually the brightest of this trio here, meaning that it can be used to find your way."

"Right," Toru agreed. "Actually, there's no need for a Northern Star if we've got this."

I looked up from the paper, redirecting my gaze to the sky, to that triangle we found. Its sides were roughly equilateral, at least from our view. In reality, of course, those stars were set light years away from each other across a three-dimensional space, in no possible way making a true equilateral on any single plane.

But for our purposes, it would do just fine.

"Actually," I said, "it makes it easy to find Ursa Minor, too."

"Oh, you're right," he said.

We continued to chart, and we continued to work through the night sky together. After a while, we grew tired, and collapsed back onto the pile of loose blankets and bedding the Oikawa family had scrounged up for us.

It felt as comfy as a real bed, and it was as warm as one, too. Finished charting, we took to simply looking up at the sky together, noting the gradual way that as the moon progressed through the canvas, so did the stars. All the constellations shifted, and our view of the universe became a new one with each passing moment, but neither of us minded.

"You know what," I said, pointing up at a grouping of stars, "that group there kinda looks like Haji's scowl."

"Hm? I don't see it," Toru replied, shifting closer on all the bedding to see what I was pointing at.

I laughed a little, continuing to point as Toru situated himself just beside me. He leaned his head close to my own, following my line of sight as best he could. He drew so close that a few of his side swept groupings of hair brushed against my cheek, but I didn't mind, and I didn't so much as react to the ticklish feeling, for he was warm, and as I became drowsier by the minute, I found I didn't want that warmth to leave.

"Sometimes you don't see Haji's real scowl right away either," I reminded him, and just as I did, he seemed to flinch slightly. "What, finally saw it?"