Title: Time
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Notes: Another tiny, slightly odd product of a free lesson. Enjoy.
It took Kyouya approximately forty seven seconds to know that there was something special about Tamaki. It took him a little bit longer – fifty three seconds at a guess – to realise how terribly annoying Tamaki was.
It took him about two years from meeting Tamaki to experience a stinging kind of jealousy that wasn't related to his family, but only about two seconds from feeling this jealousy to decide that he was going to make Haruhi's life hell.
It took him another two years to begin tolerating Haruhi, but it was only after she made it abundantly clear that she would never see Tamaki as anything more than a friend. After half an hour of Tamaki's insistent wailing and brooding, Kyouya had allowed himself to offer a few words of monotonous comfort.
Three months passed before he noticed a pleasant change in Tamaki's behaviour, but he forced himself to wait another two before he did anything about it. He would die before coming across as desperate.
There were about five seconds of stunned silence between the two of them after Kyouya came clean about his feelings, and then almost thirty seconds of Tamaki stammering and blushing while trying to maintain his composed, princely exterior.
Kyouya would stand for it no longer, and with strategic use of his hands and tongue had Tamaki writhing beneath him in no more than a few moments. They remained that way for as long as Kyouya could bear it before he stopped teasing and pushed them both roughly past the point of no return.
But it took a good minute for either of them to come up with an adequate excuse for their state when those damned Hitachiin brothers fell through the door they forgot to lock.