Feel My Heart Beat

Chapter 4: Blush

Akihito was curled up in bed, covers pulled up over his head, arms hugging the pillow his face was buried in. He had thrown himself into a cold shower as soon as he got home but even that couldn't erase his reaction to the memories of that evening. It was just a kiss dammit. Well, that wasn't quite right, there was more than one kiss. No, it was more of a full blown make out session on the balcony and then again in the limo on the way home. Akihito was now rather convinced that the entire reason that man got driven around in a limo was so that he could have his hands free for other things. Like molesting little photographers. Not that he had done anything entirely inappropriate although he was pretty sure those hands had wandered under his clothes at some point as there was no way his shirt got like that on its own. He had been fully sitting in Asami's lap, arms around his neck, very eager with the activities that were occurring when they had been interrupted by Asami's ring tone. And Asami had growled. A deep, rumbling growl from the back of his throat that sent a flash of heat straight to his groin. Turns out that was a special line they called to get hold of him only in emergencies. Golden eyes flashed and suddenly Akihito had been pulled in for one last kiss, leaving him with lips tingling and gasping for breath. They had arrived at his apartment a few minutes later, Asami still on the phone and Akihito had all but dashed inside. His feelings were torn over the call. If that hadn't interrupted he knew what they would be doing right now, those molten eyes had been filled with desire and dark promise. And that man was good. He knew what he was doing and Akihito had been like putty in his hands. Having had a taste of what was offered left Akihito breathless for more but at the same time it was too much, too soon and he needed to clear his head.

Soulmate.

He groaned into the pillow. He couldn't get it out of his head. The feeling of warm hands tracing his skin, lips moving against his own. He had fought for control of the kiss at the beginning, a fight for dominance that seemed it could go either way until Asami apparently decided that he had indulged him enough and quickly took absolute control leaving Akihito weak kneed and reeling in response. In all fairness, his inexperience was probably partly to blame, he had never really been interested in such things before, much preferring to spend his time with his friends or doing stake out work. But from what he had experienced, Asami was on a whole other level.

He was going to catch up with Takato and Kou tomorrow and he knew that they would ask him about this. About him. Akihito knew he would blush at the barest mention of Asami right now and he was in for a long afternoon. With another groan, he curled up and tried to calm his thoughts enough to sleep. He wasn't successful for quite some time.

***

Akihito took a deep breath before he entered the quiet little coffee shop. It was early afternoon on a Tuesday, just after the office lunch time rush and the perfect time to have a catch up over some coffee without it being so noisy that you needed to almost shout to be heard. He spotted his friends sitting over in the corner and waved when they spotted him. He ordered a coffee, needing the caffeine after his thoughts kept him awake the night before, and made his way over to his friends table.

"Aki-chan!" He rolled his eyes at the greeting.

"Hey guys."

"You haven't been replying to our messages," Kou mock-pouted at him. "We weren't sure if you were even going to show for our weekly catch up. Takato thought that you got a girlfriend or something," He snorted, showing what he thought of that idea. "But I figured you'd just gotten carried away on stake outs."

Akihito could feel the blush forming immediately. Turns out someone didn't need to explicitly mention Asami, his brain was quite capable of conjuring thoughts about the man on its own accord. He saw Kou's eyes widen in surprise and Takato suddenly grin and he knew he was doomed.