41. TakeRei Confessions [Take #4]

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AN: Geez

"Rei, do you like me?"

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"Rei, do you like me?"

With a groan, Rei rolled his eyes. "No," he denied, "Absolutely not."

With a childish pout, Takeshi made a sound akin to a puppy being denied a treat, "Why?" he sounded hurt, turning to Rei as they walked on the road.

"Plenty of reasons," Rei grumbled, burying his face into his beige turtleneck-- "But for now, because you didn't let me grab a jacket before leaving the house."

It was nearing winter now, the winds of autumn blowing in air freezing like snow-- feeling another gust of icy wind, Rei shuddered and whimpered, shrinking back.

"What, just because you're cold?" Takeshi could've laughed. Relief washed over him as he let out a sigh in exasperation. Chuckling, his smile was up again. "Geez, I thought you seriously hated me or something!"

Rei was ready to snap back with a retort of my lungs of incomplete combustion, but Takeshi acted first.

Before Rei even realized, he was wrapped around by something soft and warm-- a blue cloth draping over his shoulders-- Takeshi had casually thrown his jersey jacket over the boy.

"Then, you can have that," Takeshi assured, his arms raised to the back of his head again in a casual poise, "Hope that's enough to keep you warm till we reach the Shrine."

Struggling to register the large cloth over him, Rei sighed.

So bloody casual, Rei swore in his head, Curse you, natural playboy.

Pulling his arms through the sleeves, Rei gave in and simply enjoyed the extra warmth brought in by the jersey jacket. It was comfortable and felt so-- safe. Homey.

Only the tips of my fingers peeked past the edge of the sleeves-- was Takeshi really that much bigger now? We were around the same size like-- five years ago...

"So," Takeshi chimed in with a playful tone, "Do you like me now?"

Pouting, Rei quickly looked away. Giving an embarrassed nod, he muttered a soft 'uhn'.

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Extra:

Gokudera glared at us with judgemental gazes.

"We were wondering why the fuck you were late," he muttered spitefully, "And Green fuckin' shows up in a bloody boyfriend jersey?"

Screeching at the top of his lungs, Rei charged up to Gokudera and grabbed him by the collar.

"Nooo!!" he yelled, "No! It's not-- you have the wrong idea this isn't like--"

Tsuna and Takeshi gave each other a confused look.

"What's a boyfriend jersey?" Ryohei asked.

Dino burst into laughter.

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