Secret Lovers (Shin Soukoku)

The Hangout

By the time Atsushi had settled down on the couch, Akutagawa had already finished making the popcorn, and was on his way to bring it to Atsushi. Akutagawa handed the popcorn to Atsushi without even saying a word. "Thank you Aku!" Atsushi exclaimed with a smile, causing Akutagawa's heart to flutter. "Yea." Akutagawa shortly said, trying to hold back blush. Akutagawa sat down on the couch, beside Atsushi. It wasn't long before Atsushi had begin to cuddle up to Akutagawa, Atsushi's head was resting on the taller mans shoulder, while his arms wrapped around the taller. Akutagawa was struggling to hold back blush, still, he grabbed the remote and began flipping through the movies. "Aku, have you watched that one yet?" Atsushi asked curiously, pointing to one of the movies on the screen. "No, I haven't yet, would you like to watch it?" Akutagawa replied quickly, Atsushi nodding his head like a little child. Akutagawa immediately pressed on the movie, and turned up the volume.

It was a good movie, Atsushi was actually into the more 'innocent' types of BL's, so he had chosen a BL movie that he had already watched more than a billion times already. Akutagawa wasn't a massive fan of romance movies, nonetheless he enjoyed it. When the movie finished the two had decided that they would go on a quick walk outside. Akutagawa was y'know, wanted, so he had to kind of disguise himself. He just wore a black turtle neck, with some black pants and black sunglasses.

They walked down a path heading away from Akutagawa's house, and closer to the ADA. "Hey, Aku?" Asked Atsushi, Akutagawa quickly replying with a, "Hm?" "Have you ever fallen in love?" Atsushi bluntly asks, Akutagawa began to grow flustered, taking a moment to think before responding. "Well, Once, I guess." A surprised look grew on Atsushi's face. "Really? Who? I never thought you would be the type to fall in love." Atsushi comments. "Okay, now that's just rude. And no, I'm not telling you who." Akutagawa states, Atsushi turning to face him, giving him the puppy eyes. "Please, I just want to know who! It can't be that bad! At least tell me when you fell in love!" "Fine, I believe I was around fourteen when I realized, although I don't know when exactly." Akutagawa turns his face in the other direction, in an attempt to hide his face. "Well, were they a boy or a girl?" Atsushi asked, "Why do you need to know?" Akutagawa teasingly said. "Because, I just do, now answer the question!" "Fine, fine, he was a boy..." Akutagawa began to mutter, making it almost impossible to understand what he was saying. "I couldn't hear what you said, could you please repeat that?" Atsushi asked, Akutagawa seemed quite annoyed at that. "I fell in love with a boy..." He repeats, a little louder this time. Atsushi had heard what he said, although was still quite surprised. "Really? You're gay? I never would've expected that." Atsushi comments, "Well, have you ever fallen in love before?" Akutagawa asked, "Yea, I have." Atsushi states, Akutagawa replies with another question, "Were they a boy or a girl?" "A boy." Atsushi continued to answer his questions with little to no arguing, unlike Akutagawa. 

When the two had made their way over to the ADA apartments, "Atsushi, we're here." Akutagawa states, Atsushi had looked quite upset. "I don't wanna go back." Atsushi wines. "Well you have to," Akutagawa paused, opening his arms like he was about to hug Atsushi, "here, hug me before you go." Atsushi's eyes lit up with excitement, quickly tunning to hug Akutagawa, before finally being forced to return to his apartment. When he got to his apartment, he slipped off his shoes before walking over to the kitchen to grab himself a snack. It wasn't long before he could hear loud banging and 'screaming' from the neighboring apartment. "Of course Dazai-san's at 'it' again..." Atsushi muttered to himself. "I'm not gonna be able to sleep with this much noise, omg." Atsushi decided to text Akutagawa for a bit, hoping the sounds would go away, and Dazai wouldn't be doing it for the whole night like last time. 

Aku-

Hey Aku! Dazai-san is with Nakahara-san again, so I don't think I'll be able to get any sleep- At

Aku- Nah, I wanna get some sleep myself, and normally it won't last the whole night

Come on! Please! He literally doesn't even take breaks!-At

Aku-Fine

Atsushi had gotten Akutagawa to listen to him, finally. The two had continued to text for hours after hours, neither ever once getting bored. Although by that point they were really tired. 

By the time the sun had finally arose, Atsushi had to finally get dressed for the day. He had just gone with the same thing he always wears, literally everyday. He had headed on his way to the ADA, when he got there, just about everyone stared in confusion. Atsushi was normally all happy and energetic, but today he looked awful, bags under his eyes, his hair a mess, and his tie not even on right. "What the hell happened to you?" Yosano asked from the back of the office. "Dazai-san. I hate being your neighbor." Atsushi states, his voice tired and scratchy. Dazai took a second to process what Atsushi was saying before it clicked. "Oh, I'm really sorry Atsushi-kun! I'll try to be quieter next time!" "What did he do?" Kunikida spoke, sounding quite annoyed. "He was-" Atsushi tried to speak, but Dazai had covered Atsushi's mouth in an attempt to silence him. "It was nothing! Just ignore him!" Dazai cheerfully says, Kunikida angrily walked over to Dazai and smacked him in the head, "Don't go treating our new employees with such disrespect!" Kunikida yelled, ripping Dazai's hand off of Atsushi's mouth, allowing him to talk. "So, Atsushi-kun, what was he doing?" Kunikida asked sternly. "Dazai-san was getting fucked." Atsushi states bluntly, no second thought. Everyone in the room turned their heads to face Dazai. "Dazai, what the fuck?" Yosano and Kunikida had spoke in sync. "Sur..prise?" Dazai said quietly, regretting his life more than he normally does. "So, Atsushi-kun, with the way you worded that... is that insisting that Dazai-san is a bottom?~" Yosano asks, teasingly. "Going based off of the types of 'screams', then yes." Atsushi states, not even having a second thought to it, Dazai had appeared betrayed. "Did you really listen that much to them?" Dazai asks, surprised. "Yea, I couldn't not listen, you were so fucking loud. The amount of sleep you have stopped me from getting, and you really had to go all night?" Atsushi replied, seemingly getting increasingly more annoyed. "Geez, you could have just politely asked me to stop." Dazai rolled his eyes as he spoke. "Do you think I wanted to walk in on that? No." Atsushi states before making his way over to his desk. The other ADA members had left some paperwork on Atsushi's desk for him to complete, so he had to get working on that. He knows for certain, that at least a few of these are Dazai's.

By the time it was the end of the day, Atsushi had decided to take a walk over to Akutagawa's house, just in case. It wasn't long before he had already made his way there, so he rung the doorbell, and no one had came to answer the door. So he rung it again, and again there was no answer. He decided he could just walk in, the door was unlocked anyway. He tried looking all over Akutagawa's house in an attempt to find him, he had no luck. The last room he was going to check was Akutagawa's bedroom, so he opened the door. Akutagawa was in the middle of changing, he had a black crop top on, and just some black sweatpants. "Trust me, this is not what it looks like, my little sister forced me, alright?" Akutagawa stated, not actually lying. Atsushi was holding back blush, and laughter. "And you listened to her?" Atsushi asked, Akutagawa seemed annoyed at that sentence. "No, I didn't. She forced me." "Yea, yea, definitely believe you." Atsushi replies, before Akutagawa started to speak. "She had said that I have to wear it in front of my crush, so I told her no, but she literally started telling others some of my secrets because I wouldn't listen, so I just went with it." Atsushi was now laughing, tears rolling down his face. "Really? Well I'm guessing you were taking it off?" Atsushi tried to calm himself down, although just couldn't. "Yea, I guess." Akutagawa says, before pushing Atsushi out of his room to get back into his normal clothes. Akutagawa had went back to the living room to meet up with Atsushi, he found that Atsushi had started to cook something. "What are you cooking?" Akutagawa asked, peeking over Atsushi's shoulder, "Just some chazuke." Atsushi responds, Akutagawa had decided to wrap his arms around Atsushi's waist, and rest his head on the others shoulder. Atsushi began to blush an enormous amount, not used to this side of Akutagawa. 

A/N
Hi! I'm so sorry I haven't worked on this in literally 5 months, but I have just been way too busy with stuff going on that I haven't been able to find the time write at all! I hope that this chapter was worth the wait nonetheless!