Warmth - 0027

5.

Tsuna leaned over his friend and placed a final kiss on his forehead before rolling over on his back. He sighed of relief and turned to face Enma, who still had red eyes. The boy shifted his body to look at Tsuna and closed his eyes.

"What time is it?"

"I don't care," Enma whispered. "The most important is that you're here with me now."

The brunette pulled his bag over and took a lunch box out. As soon as he saw the food that his mother had prepared, his stomach growled. It was time to eat, he decided. He retrieved chopsticks from somewhere in the depths of his bag and coaxed the sleepy Enma over.

"Thanks for the food!" They said in unison.

Enma opened his mouth shyly to receive food from Tsuna. He felt like a little child being fed by his mother. He felt the color return to his cheeks as he slowly chewed the rice. Smiling to Enma, Tsuna shoved some chicken bits into his mouth and ate too. At some point, he removed several grains of rice off the side of the redhead's cheek. He slipped them into his mouth and caused the other boy to blush even more.

"Say, you have some rice here too." Enma approached him cautiously. Instead of pulling the food off with his hand, he opted to lick it off and proceeded by kissing the other silly. Gasping and pushing Enma away, Tsuna turned his head.

"You're sick, idiot. I don't want to catch what you've got."

Still guilty that it was his own fault for staying under the shower made Enma smile sadly. There had been no reason for him to make himself sick. He really was an idiot. He didn't want to explain it either, even though he saw a need to. He backed away quietly, head hanging down.

"I-I'm joking, idiots don't catch colds." Tsuna turned Enma's head towards him. "It doesn't matter, I won't catch a cold. I'm too dumb. How did you get sick anyway?"

"I was just careless," he mumbled. "It won't happen again."

A bit confused by his words, Tsuna tried to change the topic and return a smile back onto Enma's lips. "I'm staying over for today, okay?"

"B-but the rules say that…"

"Can't you forget the rules for one day? I promise we won't get caught. I'll leave tomorrow."

"Okay. But what are we going to do about…"

"Don't worry, I've got everything I need." Tsuna silently thanked Reborn. How did he predict events so well? He wasn't the best of the best for nothing. He reached inside his bag to get some of his clothes. The first articles of clothing he grabbed included his pink and blue striped boxers. "M-my mom bought these, okay? I don't go clothes shopping."

"It's okay…" Enma pulled puzzle-patterned underwear from his drawer. "Adel gets these for me. Adel. Do you know how awful it is to go shopping with her? And Julie even agrees with her stupid purchases."

"W-well," the brunette pouted. "Next time we just have to go together." They both laughed.


There was a knock on the door.

"Enma, are you all right?"

"Yes?"

"Is Tsuna with you? I'm afraid he's going to have to leave."

"Oh, yeah," he lied. "He's gone." A sneeze could be heard.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'll be up tomorrow for class, no problem."

"Can you open the door? I have the assignments for today and some notes for you."

"I'm ch-changing, can you just put them in front of the door?"

"Okay. See you at dinner time then?"

"I already ate when I woke up, so…"

Seeing as it was redundant to continue the conversation, Adelheid said goodbye and strode off, leaving a notebook with several papers on his doorstep. Enma, hearing the footsteps subside, quickly grabbed the things and shut his door after.

"That was scary." He placed the book on his desk. "I guess I'll have to do some work today."

"Enma, you know that I have to leave you tomorrow… When will we see each other again?"

"I-I don't know." He suddenly realized that his time with Tsuna was eventually going to end, no matter how unreal he wanted it to be.

"Give me your phone number. I'll call you every week at least."

"Yes," he bitterly agreed. "At least." He scribbled down his number on a piece of paper. "You too." He handed Tsuna the pen he was writing with. He sighed. "I wish I could go back to Namimori. I had such good friends there…"

"We're all still friends! We can hang out on weekends. You don't live that far."

"I want to go back to our time together."

"We are together!" Tsuna protested. Why was he being so stubborn?

"We are, but not physically." He paused before continuing, his eyes off of Tsuna now. "W-what I'm talking about is our lack of s-skinship."

"Huh?" Tsuna flailed his arms frantically. "Y-you mean hugging and stuff, right?"

"And more… maybe." He supplied. "I'll miss you."

"I'm not gone yet."

"I'll see you soon, definitely." Enma continued his monologue. "I promise."

"Of course. I'll wait for you."

"Okay." Enma threw himself on the bed.

Tsuna stroked the boy's hair gently, seeing as he was tired. He got up to pick the lunch box up and wash it. He could feel Enma's dwindling gaze on his back as he placed the box on the side of the toilet sink to dry.

"I love you." Enma whispered, slowly drifting into sleep.

Tsuna glanced outside the window to watch the orange glow of the sun reflect on the clouds. He placed a hand on the glass and felt it cool his warm palm. As a response, he replied absently after he could hear Enma's slow and steady breath, "And I'll wait for you. You are my pride. Always."


End.

I was genuinely sad when I wrote the first few chapters of this story. It was hard to end as I broke away from my slight blues. I still hope it was an enjoyable read nevertheless. Thanks for sticking with me for so long.