Chapter threeOn a Starry Night Outside of Tōkyō
Shinji had initially been on his way home from the office. It was near midnight and he reckoned he had put in enough work for the day when something had come over him.
It had been a snap decision from out of nowhere and instead of driving home he had taken a turn somewhere and driven on, through the huge and busy roads of midtown Tōkyō.
On and on until he reached smaller roads, then further on until he actually came near woods and green areas which, as clear as any sign, told him that he had now left the big city and was well on the way towards the country side, towards one of the smaller towns surrounding the capital.
Instead of entering the town ahead, however, he pulled in at one of the small rest stops along the way. No other cars were there.
He sat in the dead silence of the night as he turned off the car engine and let the darkness and the quiet embrace him like a much needed hug of absolute solace. It might just be the first time in, wow, eight years that he had been alone like that…
Truly alone…
It had been a starry night, just as the one that surrounded him right then outside the silenced car, though only late spring and not winter.
Akihito had snug out of his home late in the afternoon and had come to meet him by the old basketball court as he had done so many times before. Where Akihito’s elderly aunt was extremely authoritarian with the kids who were not her own, Shinji’s father was less strict when it came to rules concerning him. As long as Shinji came home to sleep at night, the golden boy could freely roam about and do pretty much whatever pleased him. It wasn’t like Shinji would ever possibly cause any trouble, that much his father was sure of.
If only he had known…
Maybe then the mess could have been avoided…
“I’m sorry I’m late,” Akihito laughed slightly out of breath as he dumped himself down on the grass besides Shinji, his heavy rucksack making a dull thud as it collided with the hard ground. He flashed a pearly smile at Shinji who just shook his head at him goodheartedly. He understood, after all.
“She’s been on my case ever since I flunked my midterm in Math, my aunt.” the boy explained on with a juvenile happiness as Shinji pulled the fold-out cardboard chess board out of the rucksack and placed it on the free space between them. The grass had just broken through the frozen winter earth and it was soft and brightly vivid even though it wasn’t yet fully grown and provided less than soft seating on the harsh ground.
Even though it was leaning towards night time and the stars were already out, summer was about to break and the night was clear as day. It would be no trouble to play even though they had no lights. They more often than not just ended up talking instead of playing anyway…
Shinji doubted he had really taught Akihito anything about chess these last couple of months of supposed tutoring…
Akihito didn’t seem to mind though…
“You really should focus more on your studies.” Shinji said by force of habit, playing his role of senior student and mentor in a way that would make any teacher proud and beaming, and he smiled slightly when Akihito just laughed and smirked at him. He wasn’t academic-minded, that was always his answer to any such preaching. Shinji had heard it many times and by now he had to agree - the evidence was overwhelming. Akihito was bad at chess
and bad at Math. It seemingly couldn’t be helped…
“Your sister gave me another letter today.” the younger boy noted randomly as he settled on watching Shinji line the small wooden chessmen up on the cheap board, apparently not feeling inclined to help him so they could actually get on to playing.
Shinji kept his eyes averted to the board as he felt a keen sting of something, jealousy most likely, at that notion.
It wasn’t supposed to feel like this….“Are you going to answer this one then?” he asked, just able to keep the bitter tone out of his mellow voice, and he peered up at Akihito and into his calm, ebony eyes.
His baby sister had seemed to take a liking to the beautiful boy, had even confessed so to Shinji himself when she had learned of their friendship and thought she could benefit from it, and it bothered him immensely.
She had no right!They even attended the same class…
“No, I don’t think so.” Akihito answered shortly, with a light shrug of his slim shoulders, and he drew his legs up, wrapping his thin arms around them as he looked up at the blue sky, watching the twinkling stars which would soon be invisible when the summer came fully upon them.
He offered no explanation as to why not and Shinji didn’t really need one either. His heart leapt and he only just managed to keep down the happy grin which threatened to break unto his plump lips.
Shinji knew his sister’s crush would soon die out if her attention wasn’t returned. He just had to wait and hope Akihito wouldn’t change his mind before that happened…
After that… he just had to hope Akihito wouldn’t take a liking to any of the other girls whom Shinji knew would soon discover him…
A guy like him couldn’t stay hidden forever…
Akihito probably got more love letters than the ones he told Shinji about… Soon someone was bound to steal him away… What would Shinji do then?
How many girls could he get away with killing before he would be caught?
… Would Akihito visit him in jail?
Shinji watched the younger boy sit there, arms folded around his jeans-clad knees, his head tilted back as he watched the evening sky. He seemed so at peace and so youthful, so unaware of Shinji’s murderous thoughts and indecent longings towards him…
His ears were so huge…
“Is there any girl you like then?”
It ripped out of him before Shinji could stop it and for a moment he feared his thoughts had been too obvious in his voice. It didn’t help either, that Akihito cocked his head down instantly and looked at him with the most curious expression on his beautiful face…
Shinji gulped inaudibly.
“Any girl… I like?” Akihito asked with a slight grin on his plush lips and Shinji noticed how he seemed almost confused at the question. Then he shook his head wildly, making his bangs slide across his eyes.
“Shinji… I’m… gay… I kind of thought you knew that…?” Akihito added after a little while of looking at Shinji, into his eyes, almost nervously though his voice portrayed no such feeling. He didn’t seem to be afraid of Shinji’s reaction either, more confused as to why that vital fact had seemed to escape the older boy sitting across from him on the baby grass…
Akihito shrugged lightly to that effect. Later he would confess to Shinji that he had known instinctively that Shinji wouldn’t, as so many other Japanese boys would, have a problem with his homosexuality. Why, he hadn’t really known though…
“You…
You are?” Shinji exclaimed without much thought, in a voice so shrill it all too embarrassingly portrayed his utter surprise. He definitely hadn’t seen that coming…
Or… maybe he had?
… Maybe that was why he craved the younger boy’s company to the extent where he’d be willing to
slaughter just to have him all to himself…?
“How… How do you know if you’re gay?” was the next embarrassing thing which ripped from him and Shinji kicked himself inwardly at how immensely naive he sounded in his juvenile ignorance.
Still, the question was there, as it had been since he had first learned that people sometimes happened to like people of the same sex.
Homosexuality… Shinji had never even seen two people of the same sex kiss…
Akihito laughed. It was a soft and sweet laughter and Shinji took no offence even though it was obviously at his account. He couldn’t when the sound and sight of it were
that beautiful… He laughed too himself, without really knowing why, his eyes glued to the younger boy’s huge overbite which was anything but repellent to him.
“I guess you have to… Mmm…” Akihito trailed off as he pouted his curvy lips, making a cute, thoughtful facial expression, and Shinji’s heart toppled over in his chest and made him feel almost nauseated when the younger boy pushed up to sit on his knees on the grass and moved a little closer in towards him.
The chess board so neatly lined up seemed completely forgotten by both of them by then as it lay abandoned between them.
Right then Shinji couldn’t even remember the rules of chess…
How he found the courage Shinji would never know, but in the next second Akihito leaned in close to him and caught his lips in a chaste, tentative kiss. It was so soft, so –
Unconsciously Shinji’s arms moved to wrap around Akihito’s middle section as the kiss unfolded, possessively in its dominance and roughness, and he pushed forth against him, pushed against his plush lips, deepening the contact between them to such a degree that he was sure they’d melt together and into one if they kept going…
When Akihito gasped at the tight grip around his slender waist Shinji instinctively pushed his pink tongue against the joint of their lips, prodding for entrance to the other boy’s mouth. As soon as it was granted Shinji pushed inside and a soft jolt shot through him, invisible to anyone watching, when their tongues met in a slow, sweet dance that made his heart topple inside his chest.
“I’d say,” Akihito whispered breathlessly as they finally drew apart, his one knee now supporting upon the board which’s chessmen had fallen and rolled unto the grass as the abrupt movement, his hands resting upon Shinji’s shoulders for support. “That you’re most certainly as gay as I am.” he continued with a slight smile as their lips were but a heartbeat’s space away from each other’s, their faces so close they both looked like a beautiful blur to the other.
Shinji laughed, freely and loudly, as he didn’t know what else to do. He didn’t know what to feel or how to react, all he knew was that he was so happy his heart was threatening to bubble out of him and that he didn’t want to let go of Akihito again anytime soon…
So, instead he just laughed and pulled the younger boy further forth against him, tipping back to lie in the newly born grass, Akihito lying on top of him as he chuckled himself breathless.
This definitely couldn’t be wrong…“Does that make you my… boyfriend… then?” Shinji asked after laughing on for a good long while, so long it felt like his lungs were going to explode and his cheeks had gone into a cramp, the foolish smile on lips probably frozen there forever.
He didn’t care if it had though. He finally felt happy for what might be the first time in his life…
Akihito laughed at that comment. “If you ask me to be, I am.” he answered with a wry smirk as he got comfortable upon Shinji’s bigger body, seemingly happy he was shielded from the hard ground and not caring that Shinji’s back was being spiked with hard rocks and gravel and whatnot as he weighed down against him.
For once, it seemed, Akihito was the wiser, the more experienced one of the two. And for once… Shinji didn’t mind…
“I guess… I’m asking you to be, then.” Shinji chuckled softly and he smiled slightly up at the beautiful boy, almost nervously. It would never be that simple though…
As they looked into each other’s eyes then, an understanding seemed to be arranged silently. It would have to be a secret, no one could know. No one was openly homosexual at their school and Shinji knew, even if it had never been said out loud by anyone, that no such thing would be tolerated either…
Japanese people weren’t gay.
They just weren’t.
“Then I guess I’m your boyfriend, Shinji… Shin…” Akihito whispered after a little while of letting Shinji drown in his sea-deep eyes and he leaned down, again taking the first step, initiating yet another kiss between them.
This time Shinji was more prepared though and, as he returned the kiss with fervor, he loosened his embrace around the younger man’s waist and drew his hands down to the hem of Akihito’s sweatshirt and pushed them under, chilled hands seeking warm skin as Shinji, for the first time ever, touched another boy in the way he had always wanted to.
His fingertips danced upwards, exploring, memorizing, and they stopped as they each reached a painfully erect nipple and Shinji massaged them with his fingertips just as he liked to do to himself when he masturbated.
A rewarding moan against his tongue was enough to encourage him and he kept on, touching, teasing, all while their lips stayed connected, their tongues dancing lazily around each other’s –
Back in the car Shinji threw his head back against the car seat and groaned at the sullied images flowing before his closed eyelids, filling him up in the darkness.
By now his pants were so painfully tight he felt he had to free himself or he might just burst them, might just ruin his handmade Italian suit. That wouldn’t do…
Unbuttoning the pants and unzipping the zipper went surprisingly easy, pushing his pants and underwear down just enough to free himself while he was still sitting locked in the driver’s seat of his company car was another story entirely.
Once he finally managed to wriggle the clothes down and free his own straining cock to the thick, heavy air of the confinements of the small car, Shinji threw his head back against the seat again, closed his eyes and went back to the spring night on the grass by the older basketball court, back to when he had first touched Akihito.
He had smelled so good, tasted so good, felt so right beneath his fingertips…
Shinji moaned heatedly and writhed in his seat as he started drawing one hand up and down his own rigid cock in slow motions, stroking himself skillfully, his thumb ever so often moving up to smear at the head where thick precum soon erupted and added extra softness and slickness to his touch.
His moans, so deep, so unashamed, had been the most arousing thing he had ever heard…
Shinji sped up, grasping more firmly around the veiny flesh, flicking his thumb more harshly over the velvety head as he recalled the sounds in his mind, as he recalled how Akihito had moaned his name there beneath the stars, on the hard ground, how he had whined when Shinji had bit down on his neck and rightfully marked him as his -
And then it was over. Just like that Shinji toppled forwards; gasping like a fish on dry land as white seeds spurted from the slit at the head of his cock and unto his hand and unto the shirt and pants of the Italian suit his wife had gotten him for Christmas.