Kai's hands felt so lovingly warm against Lloyd's face, a sharp contrast to his typical cold reality. In fact, everything about Kai seemed to radiate a loving warmth, a warmth that intoxicated Lloyd, drew him nearer then he would have ever dared.
Lloyd was cold, harsh. He didn't need anyone. But those words, words repeated by himself at all costs, words that protected an already shredded heart. They melted away at the warm touch of the fire ninja.
Kai's hands moved down, one taking Lloyd's hand and the other resting around his hips. His long legs stepped gracefully, and Lloyd was helplessly lured to follow in Kai's dance.
Cold hands, oversized and deformed, Lloyd almost hated how awful the contrast was as he rested one on Kai's sculpted shoulder. But Kai's smile, his care free grin and his glowing eyes, they hypnotized Lloyd. Pulled him in so dangerously close.
With every twist towards the small table, Lloyd's worries seemed to melt away. All the steps he'd taken to protect his broken heart, they seemed to dissolve with Kai's smile.
The hand holding Lloyd's left, but not with the intention of leaving the dance. Instead, a record slid in place as Kai twisted Lloyd into a dip. Music, old music that carried anyone listening through their motions with a buzz.
Kai looked down at Lloyd, holding him with one hand as his smile spread to his charming eyes.
"Care to dance with me?"
Part of an upcoming oneshot with a newly membered Lloyd and a determined Kai.
