Tanaka is bae and Ohta is such a perfect husbando! (Who's with me!) XD Can't get enough of these two dorks honestly. (I'm hella late into the fandom i know but I really couldn't resist writing some flyffs for these two, I need to so bad)

Rely On Me

"Oi, Tanaka, are you awake already?" The door to a certain raven-headed boy creaked open and entered a tall sharp-eyed boy with mid-length caramel ponytail named Ohta. The bed was empty, he noted, taking a glance around the dark room which was suprisingly tidy considering Tanaka's extreme laziness. Maybe he was just too lazy to clean up his room so he opted not to make a mess, Ohta mused. He came to understand Tanaka's unorthodox way of thinking as of late after spending some time with the shorter boy.

Eyes back on the door, Ohta idly scratched his cheek in wonder, "What, he's already awake.. Where could he be then?" An imaginary light bulb flashed on top of his head just then.

"Ah, the bathroom."

'I hope his little sister won't mind the intrusion.' The younger Tanaka, Rino was not very fond of him for some reasons unknown. Rubbing his neck nervously, the reliable Ohta carefully made his way to the bathroom at the end of the corridor, on the third left. This was the third time he had been in Tanaka's house, mainly being the reason that the listless boy was not at their usual meeting place, so he decided to pick him up.

Knock! Knock!

Ohta gave a few good knocks before calling out to his friend from the outside. "Tanaka, you in there? It's half past seven now, we're gonna be late if you don't hurry up!"

Silence greeted him back and nothing else. Feeling rather impatient, Ohta tried the doorknob only to find that it was unlocked. "Oi, how careless can you get not locking up the - " Then he saw it. A floating body in the bathtub full of water.

"TANAKA?!"

After surviving a second of the most shocking moment of his life, Ohta inmediately rushed towards the bathtub, pulling the unconscious boy by the shoulders and out of the water. "Hey, are you alright?!"

Tanaka was cold from head to toe. He's naked. Tanaka's face was almost blue in color. He's naked. Tanaka was not breathing. He's naked. Wait - he's not breathing?!

"Tanaka? Can you hear me!" Ohta lightly slapped both of Tanaka's cheeks in attempt to shake him awake but to no avail, the raven remained unmoving. So, Ohta took the initiative to lay the boy down on the floor before crossing his hands together and started pressing Tanaka's bare chest, imitating the action from a drowning documentary he once saw on TV.

"Breathe, Tanaka... Breathe!"

But yet he still did not.

Oh lord, help him.

In the midst of panicking and contemplating on what to do, Ohta came across another technique he could use. "Ah, wait - there's probably some water clogging his lungs. To remove them, I need to perform a..." Ohta unconsciously blushed right there and then. "...CPR...?"

Wait, wait, wait! If he really did gave Tanaka a mouth-to-mouth breathing, won't that be counted as his first kiss? Even after having to debut as a high school boy three months ago, Ohta was not or rather, did not took the initiative in finding a girlfriend. And there could only be one reason; hazel eyes fell unto Tanaka's wet face. As he further contemplated regardless of the dire situation, Tanaka's arm fell limply to his side.

'Ack! There's no time to waste!' Squaring his resolve, Ohta carefully tipped Tanaka's chin up, parted his mouth slightly using a thumb and forefinger before blowing some oxygen into the suffocated boy. His own heart was beating so fast and loud against his ribcage.

After a number of blows, the boy was brought back to life again. And Tanaka began coughing up water, loud rough coughs echoed against the tiled walls but they were music to Ohta's ears. Proof that his dear friend was still alive and breathing again.

"Thank goodness..."

Ohta held Tanaka in his arms tightly, relief tears started to well up in his eyes. The thought of losing his dear friend scared him so. He was not ashamed to admit that Tanaka was a friend whom he cherished very much. Though rather than cherish, it was more appropriate to say that he could not leave Tanaka on his own, knowing how incapable the boy tend to be in leading a normal high school life like everybody else. His care for him could even pass as abnormal.

"Ohta..?" Tanaka reopened his dark-colored eyes, meeting with Ohta's worried gaze. "...where are we?"

Ohta's tears magically dried up as soon as they stared into each other's eyes.

"...your bathroom. I'll explain later so-" The blondie swiftly pulled a towel from the toilet cabinet before gently wrapping the cottony cloth around the shivering Tanaka. "-dry up first." He said, hands furiously wiping the water droplets from Tanaka's dripping wet hair. He looked refreshingly mesmering. So much that it sent a twinge straight to Ohta's heart.

This was so not healthy for his body.

"Ah, this feels oddly comfortable..." Tanaka languidly leaned his back on Ohta's chest and sighed in content. "My throat hurts though."

"You really are..." Shaking his head, Ohta made a combination of chuckling whilst sighing, hands stopping in motion. "You had me so worried, i-di-ot." Gushes of hot breath flowed from Ohta's mouth travelling directly into Tanaka's ear for each syllable, and the listless boy spontaneously froze on the spot. "...!"

"...it tickles." Tanaka weakly grumbled but his expression remained the usual emotionless one as Ohta carried him back to his bedroom. Tanaka was as light as a feather, the worrywart Ohta remarked, planning in his mind to have his slender friend eat twice as much today or better, tried that special one-foot long yakisoba bread.

"Heh, you're so you." Ohta commented as he placed Tanaka on his bed, resuming his - drying Tanaka up with a piece of towel - mission.

"So are you, Ohta." Tanaka countered, closing his droopy eyes, readily accepting an invitation to slumberland when a sudden cat-like sneeze escaped from his lips. And then another one.

"Are you still cold?" His overly concerned friend asked, in which Tanaka did not mind but instead welcomed Ohta's showers of love and consideration with open arms.

"Uh-huh."

"Hmm, I read somewhere that the easiest way to transfer warmth is by hugging." And that was exactly what the straight-faced blond did as he glomped the smaller boy tightly. "Warmer?"

"Uh-huh." Tanaka mumbled, snuggling closer to the taller boy. "But, Ohta..."

"Yeah?"

"Won't we be late for school today?" Tanaka calmly asked as he rolled his black round eyes to the clock hanging on the wall of his bedroom. 07:50 AM; Ten more minutes before the school bell rings.

"Ah?!"

"WE'RE HERE!" Ohta exclaimed loudly as he barged into the classroom with Tanaka safely tucked under his armpit. Only then did the ringing of the bell resounded throughout the school. And the whole classroom reacted with applauds and whistles.

"Ooh, they made it! They made it!" Both Katou and Shimura cheered in amusement while a certain bespectacled pink-haired girl worriedly approached them. "Ohta-kun! Tanaka-kun! Good morning and what happened?"

"Morning, Shiraishi." Ohta smiled, placing the still sleeping boy on his seat properly. "Uh, we had an...incident just now." I got my first kiss stolen, that's what.

"Master! Are you alright!" Tanaka's self-proclaimed apprentice, Miyano, flocked around her master's desk like a lost baby chick. Tanaka did not even flinch. "Master..!"

"He's fine, Miyano. Just a bit sleep deprived." Ohta helpfully answered and the petite girl nodded enthusiatically. "Is that so - AH! What if last night Master encountered a group of aliens from outer space disguising as children mascots planning to dominate Earth and he vallantly fought them using lasers and beams and kitties and sparkles?!"

"Uh, isn't there something wrong in that story in ways more than one?" Shimura commented, fixing the thick framed glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"I see... was that the reason why?" Ohta slowly bobbed his head in agreement, looking very serious. Could it be that Tanaka was too exhausted from fighting off evil, to the point of falling asleep in the bathtub?

"You're believing her?!" All of them sans Ohta and Miyano chorused in disbelief.

"...you're giving me too much credit, Miyano-san." A cool, lifeless voice shook everyone out of their chit chat. "You too, Ohta."

"Ah, morning Tanaka." Ohta greeted the awakened boy with a small pat on the head.

"Mor..*yawn*..ning, Ohta." Tanaka listlessly greeted back but displayed a rare smile. He nearly purred like a cat from Ohta's gentle caresses.

"Is it me or there's something different with the atmosphere between the two of them somehow?" Katou secretly nudged his bespectacled friend and Shimura nodded understandingly. "I thought so too..."

"Eh, what, what?" Shiraishi stared hard at her two friends (or her friend and her secret crush to be exact). "Don't tell me... Tanaka-kun and Ohta-kun..?" Her heart sank as deep as Titanic at the thought. No way it could be true, right..?

"GOOD MORNING, MASTER!" Miyano's shrilly voice suddenly reverberated throughout the classroom, and everyone immediately brought their attention to her.

"Morning, Miyano-san..." Tanaka went back to his old lazy self in no time, plopping himself back on the desk.

"YAY, MASTER GREETED ME BACK! WEEE-"

"Miyano, get back to your seat now!" The teacher appeared from the front entrance, carrying worksheets for the day.

"Y-Yessir!"

Lunchtime:

"Wake up, Tanaka. Lunchtime." Ohta tapped the sleeping Tanaka on the shoulder.

"Mnhn..." Tanaka nodded, barely and Ohta decidedly asked; "Want me to carry you? To the cafeteria."

"Uh-huh..." Tanaka spread his arms wide, indicating he wanted to be picked up by the tall friend of his.

"C'mere..." Ohta tucked the smaller boy under his arm again and leisurely made their way to cafeteria. "I'm thinking of getting a proper meal set for you today. You need to gain more weight."

"...no need."

"Huh, why not?"

Because then I will be too heavy for you to carry. And I don't want you to strain your muscles because of me...

Tanaka quietly replied after a while. "..if I have to gain weight, then Ohta, you should gain some too..."

"Eh? And how did you come up with that conclusion?" Ohta laughed instantaneously at Tanaka's silly little logic.

"Wait here, I'll go get food for the both of us." Ohta said as he seated the ravenette at one of the empty tables and quickly went to buy the meals.

He came back minutes later carrying two trays of the same set meal. "Today's menu is the Special Japanese Full Course. I'm expecting clean plates by the time we're done."

Tanaka eyed the tray of food first and in one second, glanced in disbelief to the straw-haired boy. "This amount of food is enough to kill me, Ohta."

"Ah, should I get ready with your funeral then?" Ohta replied stoically but the mirth evident in his eyes. Him and his weird sense of humour.

Planning his little revenge, Tanaka silently slipped onto Ohta's lap as soon as the other boy took his seat beside the ravenette.

"Is it double listless day today?" Ohta presumed.

"...no."

"Then, what is it?"

"...it's...Pampering Tanaka Day." Tanaka innocently said, afterwards opening his small mouth with a monotonous 'Ahh'. He wanted to be fed. And so Ohta did, watching the silver spoon with food disappeared into that tiny mouth.

God, he's so damn adorable...

Ohta smiled, unconsciously wiping some of the curry stain on the corner of Tanaka's lips with his thumb before licking it.

"Do you want more..?" The way Ohta said those words came out as some kind of an invitation in Tanaka's ears. So misleading...

More? More of what? More of you..?

Tanaka blinked furiously. Flustered. Anxious. Sitting so close to the blond suddenly made his insides all fluttery and jittery. "I think I'm...full..."

"But, you barely ate..." Ohta leaned closer and Tanaka wondered if he did that on purpose or not. "I'll keep feeding you until you finish the whole set. All by yourself."

"...you wouldn't..." Tanaka turned to see a very confident expression on Ohta's face.

"Oh, but yes, I would."

"...you're a devil in disguise, aren't you..?" Tanaka grumbled after surviving an arduous ordeal from none other than his most trustworthy friend (maybe not so anymore).

"Ahaha, I guess." A chuckle escaped Ohta's lips. I'm a devil only when it comes to you though.

"Ah, there goes the bell for our next class. We should go now."

"H-have mercy, Ohta... I can't even move.." Tanaka pleaded, slumping over the table when a loud burp came out directly from his full stomach. "Urgh.. I feel sick..."

"It's okay, I'll carry you so you don't have to move around too much. You did well today, by the way." Ohta crouched closer to the raven-headed. "Good job." A pat to the head and Tanaka grunted dissatisfyingly.

"Geez, I'm not a kindergartener."

"Let's go?" A warm bright smile, that was enough to blind the listless boy.

"..okay.." Tanaka nodded and Ohta carefully scooped him up.

End of class:

*chime ringing*

Slowly, one by one of the students began dispersing out of the school with the exception of those staying due to club activities.

"See you, Ohta! Good luck with Tanaka!" Katou and Shimura waved the blond goodbye.

"I have to see Ecchan now since we promised to go home together! See you tomorrow, Ohta-kun, Master!" Next was Miyano, waving both of her hands wildly before stepping out of the class in search of her yankee friend.

Lastly, Shiraishi peeked at the sleeping Tanaka a few times, blush evident on her cheeks. Ohta and Tanaka were not in that kind of relationship, right? Even without confessing to the ravenette, she was already halfway into broken-hearted mode. "And I'll be going to the Student Council office now. See you two tomorrow..."

"Okay." Ohta briefly tilted his head towards the pink-haired girl. Finally, it was just the two of them.

Honey eyes then travelled back to his sleeping friend and then to the windows - it was that time of the year again; spring. A few cherry blossom petals strayed into their classroom through an open window.

"I'll let you sleep for a while longer..." Ohta softly said, feeling rather bad for stuffing the shorter boy with food more than he could actually stomach.

"Ohta..."

Ohta gazed down at the mention of his name to see a very satisfied-looking Tanaka, resting on his desk with his cheek cosily planted on the hard surface. "Yeah?"

"I just realised that Ohta is absolutely essential in my life." Tanaka suddenly said, lips curving into a microscopic smile and the sandy-haired boy felt his defense wall of emotions crumbling more and more. His words could easily be misinterpreted as a proposal and yes, Ohta believed they meant that way, judging by that shy blush on Tanaka's pale cheeks. Him and his roundabout ways of saying things.

Ohta snickered, "Oh yeah?" I realised that way longer than you though. From the first time I laid eyes on you, sleeping so nonchalantly under a blooming sakura tree, right after the entrance opening ceremony.

Love at first sight, they say.

'And I love you too, dummy...' He lightly ruffled Tanaka's hair, his thin fingers lingered a little bit longer on the smooth dark tresses.

"Actually...You just wanted me to carry you home, didn't you?" Ohta's tone came out jeering and accusative not long after.

"...you know me too well...zzzzz..." Tanaka trailed off, letting out a sleepy yawn and was dead asleep in no time.

"Already..?" Ohta softly sighed before leaning close and kissed Tanaka's forehead. "Let's head home now, shall we?" Slinging the two bags on his shoulder, Ohta carefully positioned Tanaka on his back and carried him piggyback style.

"Y'know... Whether you're drowning or falling or sleeping, I'll be there for you. Time and time again." Ohta quietly confessed to the sleeping prince before making his way out of their class with the dark-haired boy sticking on his back. "So, rely on me more..!"

I will.

Unbeknownst to the blond, the half-awake Tanaka silently pledged in his heart, his arms, although muscle-deficient, strongly tightened around Ohta's neck, his face nuzzled close, taking in Ohta's calming scent. And I'll continue to be listless, so that you'll never leave my side ever again.

End~

That got real cheesy 0 to 100 ahh~ XD thanks for reading! ;)