What is stopping you from loving someone?
Is it because of your religion? Past? Or what you think about the future?
What if you can feel the spark? Will you back away?
Even if you run away from love, it will always catch up to you.
Third Person's POV:
Gouenji woke up, he felt someone sleeping on his chest. He opened his eyes to see Aphrodi.
He looks so peaceful... Wait wait— no. He shouldn't think like this. But... He looks so beautiful while sleeping, he can't help but admire him-- wait no no! You're not supposed to admire him, snap out it Gouenji.
Gouenji carefully got off the couch and not wake up Aphrodi, he saw the note that his assistant left.
“Sir there will be no meetings for today and just do the paperworks tomorrow, don't exhaust yourself.”
"Yeah no, I don't want to do more work tomorrow." he says and saw another note on top of the papers
“I know that you were gonna ignore the first note, and think that you'll receive more tomorrow don't worry there's no new prints for tomorrow. For now just rest”
"Oh"
He sighs in relief that he won't be doing anything today, he looks at the clock, it was already 10 pm, oh, my, goodness. He slept for seventeen hours!? Well he did skip sleep for three days so i guess it's fair.
He then looks at the person on the couch, he muttered under his breath
"You're making me feel things that I shouldn't Aphrodi..." he walks to the couch and sat, he held his hand and tries to wake him up.
"Aphrodi" he says in a soft and gentle tone, he drew circles on his palm and a soft giggle was heard.
Aphrodi's eyelids flickered, he felt Gouenji's hands held onto his, he spoke in soft tone, "What time... Is it...?" he then slowly sat right up and he rubbed his eyes
"10 am, we slept for seventeen hours." Gouenji responds
"Oh, it's 10 am—"
he pauses, "IT'S 10 AM!?" he screams not too loud, "Oh goodness, I have to get back home!" he says and snatched his phone, Gouenji suggests if he can drive him to his house.
Aphrodi hesitates at first, but eventually gave in because his driver was already at home.
They walk through the halls and people were staring at them, Gouenji saw his assistant and asked
"Why is everyone staring at me and Aphrodi?"
The assistant shrugged because she didn't knew, then Kogure taps Aphrodi and showed him a picture that made his face red
Gouenji takes a look "I- how the hell did you get that!?" he screams but not too loud
"Well, people were going in your office even though the light is red, so I came in and took a picture. Oh and thank me for locking the door by the way." he says
Aphrodi and Gouenji jaws dropped. The assistant forgot to lock the door, she slowly gets away from his boss to avoid getting scolded.
"I- please just tell your co-workers that we're not dating and there was only one couch to sleep on." Aphrodi tells the chairman
"And I really need to go home now Gouenji, quick!" he adds and grabs his hand then runs to the door.
"Not dating? But I didn't even say something about them dating though?" Kogure murmurs
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The car ride is silent. Aphrodi was chatting with someone, he then asks Gouenji
"Don't you have any work today?"
"All my meetings are canceled and don't worry, I'm gonna do it all tomorrow, I'm on a break today." he responds, eyes locked on the road
"Ah, is that so? Wanna uhm, stay at my house for today?" Aphrodi says while looking outside the car window
Gouenji answers with a smile, "Sure, why not. Where is your house? It says here, that we're already in front of your house but we're in front of a mansion instead." Gouenji says but Aphrodi just laughs
It took Gouenji a minute to realize
"YOU LIVE HERE!?" Gouenji screams inside the car, Aphrodi just laughs at him.
Aphrodi waves at the guards to let him know he was home, one of the guards shouts, "Sir Terumi is home, open the gates!"
Gouenji drives inside and parks the car, they both got out and Gouenji jaws were still on the floor. Aphrodi lives here? How? When?
They walk inside the mansion, and a girl suddenly hugs Aphrodi,
Gouenji recognized her, it was Euclair Haru, she's one of the managers from Raimon soccer club, well was a manager– but still, what was she doing here in Aphrodi's house?
"Papa where were you?" Haru asks
"I was at Gouenji's office and slept there, did you eat Haru?"
Wait... PAPA!? Aphrodi has a child!?
Aphrodi looks at Gouenji and chuckles, "Yes Gouenji, Haru is my daughter."
"When?" Gouenji asks and Haru answers him, "It's been about 4 years since papa adopted me Gouenji–san."
Gouenji just discovered new facts about Aphrodi, first he's living in this mansion, and secondly he has a daughter!?
"Oh."
Aphrodi and Haru just laughs at the dumbfounded Gouenji
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"
So, this is your room?" Gouenji asks amazed as he sits on Aphrodi's bed,
"Ah, yup." he says popping the p.
He looks at Gouenji, he looks so... elegant... Wait, no! Well he does look elegant- but still! He can't think like this. But... His amazed face is so cute– No no. Don't think like this Aphrodi! You're a Christian.
"Do you wanna eat here for lunch?" Aphrodi asks to make his thoughts go away.
"Well, actually, why not?" Gouenji says before he chuckles
'God his laugh makes me smile– ah FUCK APHRODI. Don't think like this.'
He noticed that Gouenji was still sleepy and says, "Sleep first, I'll wake you up."
"Huh--? How did you...?"
"You really think that seventeen hours of sleep can help you from 3 days without sleeping?" Aphrodi says while he crosses his arms.
"I- fine, I'll sleep once we finish eating." Gouenji sighs in deafeat.
Both of them went downstairs and got to the dining area, you can see that Gouenji was still in awe
Haru is already at the table waiting for them, and, they have another visitor, "Tsurugi, what are you doing here?" Gouenji asks
"Gouenji–san? I came here for a sleepover with nii–san and Kariya and Hyouga, now what are you doing here?" Tsurugi asks after he explained
"Wait, Kariya and Yukimura are also here?" Gouenji asks as he sits beside Aphrodi at the table, then Kariya just popped out of nowhere with Yukimura
"HI APHRODI–SAN!" Kariya says before he sits on the chair, "Oh— and hello too Gouenji–san!" he adds when he saw the chairman.
"Good noon Aphrodi–san and Gouenji–san." Yukimura greets the adults and sits down beside Kyousuke
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After they all finished eating, the adults went upstairs to Aphrodi's bedroom.
"Betting 50 yen that they're dating." Kariya says while he crossed his arms
"Nah, 100."
"I'd say, 150." Kyousuke after he finished drinking his apple juice, "How about you Ru? What are you betting?" he adds
"Betting 500 yen that they're gonna get married." she says while smiling
"Wait what--?" Kariya says confused,
"Make sure to invite us if your guts are correct Ru."
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Aphrodi made sure to lock the door so the kids won't come in and disturb them.
"You locked the doors?" Gouenji asks after he lied down on the bed, Aphrodi hums as an answer, he closes the main light and opens the led lights and turned it to baby blue color.
"Getting comfortable?" Aphrodi asks as he sits down on his bed,
"Mhm... How about you? Aren't you also sleepy?"
"Well..." before Aphrodi can even answer, Gouenji pulls him by the waist and landed on his arm
"Huh–?"
Gouenji puts his other arm around Aphrodi's waist and buries his face behind his shoulders, Aphrodi is hyperventilating.
What was happening? Why is this happening? His face was red, he can smell Gouenji's lavender scent and sweat at the same time. He feels, so... comfortable with him.
Suddenly, Gouenji moves his head on top of Aphrodi's shoulders and speaks softly,
"I... also don't know what I'm doing. My brain says not to, but my hearts says do it. Remember the time, when I was still with Fifth Sector...? I was so happy that you actually showed up, and... I'm sorry, that I left without saying goodbye after the match."
Aphrodi is shocked to hear this from the chairman, Gouenji Shuuya. The person who he barely interacted, with his whole life, was apologizing just because he wasn't able to say goodbye...? And also said he was so happy to see him...
Gouenji takes a deep breath, and says something behind Aphrodi's shoulders that made it hard to hear,
"I wanna be yours... so bad."
Aphrodi's eyes widened, his heart beating very fast, and his body froze.
He heard him.
He heard Gouenji Shuuya. GOUENJI SHUUYA. Inazuma Japan's ace striker, just said that he wants, wants, to be his.
He just shrugged it off, thinking that was a mistake, but... what if it was true...? So he asked Gouenji.
"Gouenji... Is, it true...?"
Gouenji hums as his answer, Aphrodi is now screaming inside his mind.
Gouenji whispered something close to Aphrodi's ears that made him go insanely red.
"Aphrodi, I... I love you." then he passed out behind aphrodi's neck due to exhaustion.
Afuro Terumi, the coach Kidokawa Seishuu, just got a confession from the chairman of Soccer Youth Association and was part of the legendary Inazuma Japan, Gouenji Shuuya. He couldn't believe this.
He just brushed it off, so he can sleep again. But while he was sleeping, he couldn't stop dreaming about the confession earlier, it was... repeating.
"Aphrodi, I... I love you."
But Aphrodi doesn't complain about it, instead, he loves it.
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Cover Art credits to: @rikarii173005 from Twitter.