A Heart To Heal (BL)

CH 8.1 - Going Abroad (PA)

Gathered at the dining table with a heavy book in hand and dried flowers on a sheet of newspaper, Satoushi was doing oshibana with Yuto.

It was the art of flower pressing and was shown to be effective at treating depression. He wanted to help Nagisa on his mission to inch Yuto closer to recovery and decided that a day of oshibana with his future son-in-law was the perfect way to aid him.

"I've already dried this for 10 days now. Don't they look pretty?"Satoushi chuckled, holding up a dried sunflower head. Yuto nodded and gazed at all the dried flowers. They did look lovely. "Of course, from now on, I'm going to send you a bouquet of flowers from my florist and you can keep half of them in water and dry the other half, pressed nice and flat in a heavy book,".

Yuto thanked him meekly and Satoushi beamed at him. "We can do this once a month if you'd like. I don't mind taking the time out of my day to spend time with you,". Yuto was happy at the idea of Satoushi coming over to do flower pressing with him. So far, he found it relaxing. He was in love with the idea of it.

However, Nagisa was not. "Otou-san, don't you think this is boring?"He groaned after hearing his father gabble about the art of flower pressing for hours. "Nagisa, don't be such a child. I'm not doing this for your sake. I'm doing this for Kirishima-kun because at least he obediently listens to whatever I have to say,"Satoushi grumbled with a frown plastered on his face.

His expression morphed into a wide grin when he faced Yuto, pushing some watercolours towards him. "Go on, Kirishima-kun. Paint some beautiful colours on your canvas. Then use the glue to stick the flowers onto it in any pattern you like,". Yuto ducked his head to say thank you and looked around for inspiration before painting his canvas with a deep hue of blue.

Realising where Yuto drew his inspiration from, Satoushi sighed, looking at Nagisa's eyes and then at Yuto. "You really are deeply in love with my idiot son, aren't you?".

"Otou-san!".

"Am I wrong? What idiot can't appreciate the therapeutic nature of oshibana? Only you!".

"Fine, give me a canvas. I'll knock it out of the park,".

Giggling to himself while he heard them bicker over Nagisa's competency, Yuto painted a blue gradient on his canvas and stuck some dried petunias onto his masterpiece.

While Nagisa was fuming like an angry kindergartener who got ticked off, Yuto finished his masterpiece calmly. Satoushi was intrigued and he asked Yuto about the piece of art he just made. "Kirishima-kun, what made you choose petunias for your creation?".

Glowing pink from his cheeks to his ears, Yuto mumbled his response. "Because....Because... Petunias mean 'Your presence soothes me'. The background is blue because it represents Nagi. Well...My art says that Nagi's presence..soothes me,". Nagisa's cheeks turned crimson as well and he looked at Yuto's canvas, the petunias arranged in a neat heart.

As if he were entranced, he cupped Yuto's cheeks and pecked him on the lips only to earn a smack on the head from his father. "Nagisa, you should be lucky he's so madly in love with you because if he wasn't so hypnotically attracted to you, he would have broken up with you ages ago,"Satoushi smirked, crossing his arms.

"Also, goodness me, don't kiss him so passionately in front of me. There's a time for these things, my boy and it's definitely not in front of me. If I knew I'd see kissing like that, I'd have gone to see an R-rated movie instead,". Yuto blushed, his face feeling like it had been set on fire. Of course, he knew that Nagi deserved to be told off. But sometimes, whenever he just locked eyes with his handsome face, he couldn't bring himself to scold him anymore.

It would feel like scolding an eager puppy and he just felt bad even thinking about it. Nagisa just chuckled sheepishly and hugged Yuto, kissing him on the head. "I just can't help it, Otou-san. He means the absolute world to me and I love him,". A smirk still on his face, Satoushi winked at him. "Save all that love for the bedroom. I want him to relax with oshibana now,".