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It’s common knowledge that the Class 1-1 aces fight a lot. Mini arguments throughout the day, mostly on Sakura’s end with Sugishita ignoring him, or small punches randomly when one of them says something the other thinks is stupid. For most everyone in the Class, and maybe even the whole damn school, it seems like they hate each other. And maybe it was hatred at first. But after the war, something has changed. Now there seems to be a shift in their relationship.
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Suo first noticed it during a patrol. They were walking around town as usual, helping various shop owners with tasks, and just talking about random things. It’s been about a week since the war happened and everyone’s wounds have mostly healed, but Sakura is still recovering from a concussion. Nirei, Kiryuu, and Tsuguera are talking about a new show they’ve been watching. Suo is speaking about different teas to Sakura, who doesn’t really get it but is listening nonetheless, and Sugishita is completely zoned out.
A scream makes them all stop in their tracks, before Sakura is already bolting towards the cries for help with the rest of them quickly following behind him. About fifteen dudes are surrounding three middle schoolers, one of them is bleeding, with a large scar on his face. One of the guys is holding a knife and another has a wooden bat. The guy with the bat is about to swing down onto one of middle schoolers but is sent flying by Sakura kicking him on the side of his face, promptly knocking him out. There’s a moment of silence before the guys start charging at Sakura. “You little shit-!” One of them yells before he’s knocked out by a punch to the face.
The rest of the Furin group catch up, Suo, Nirei, and Kiryuu check up on the middle schoolers with Tsuguera standing in front of them, watching to make sure none of the guys try to harm them. Sugishita joins Sakura in the fight, both of them quickly getting into a rhythm. Watching each other’s backs, even tossing guys to the other to knock them down. Sugishita is in the middle of punching one when another bigger guy runs at him. Sakura notices and quickly runs over, using Sugishita’s leg to push off, grabs the shirt collar of the guy, flips over him, and throws him over his shoulder. The guy goes flying away, hitting the side of a building making him pass out. Sakura huffs, still crouching on the ground from his landing. All of the guys are either knocked out or can’t move so Sakura calms down a bit before he sees a hand in front of his face.
Sugishita isn’t looking at him but is waiting patiently for him to accept his hand. Sakura hesitates before accepting it and the taller one pulls him up. “Thanks….” Sakura stumbles a bit, his brain pounding against his skull, maybe that last move was a bit too much. Sugishita stabilizes him with a hand on his shoulder, patting it once before pulling away completely. They go to the rest of the group to check on them. “Thank you so much sir!” The girl bows her head to Sakura, who flushes red immediately. “Don’t- you don’t have to thank me.” Sakura coughs out and his friends can’t help but smile at his bashfulness. They fix up their injuries before sending the middle schoolers on their way.
“Sakura-san, that last move you did was amazing!” Nirei smiles brightly at him, making Sakura’s face pinken a bit. “It’s not a big deal.” He mumbles. “No, Nirei is right Sakura-kun, it was extremely impressive.” Suo hums. The praises continue to egg on before Sakura tells them all to shut up. They start to walk but Sakura stumbles once again and Sugishita catches him. Suo looks at them curiously, when Sugishita leans down so Sakura can hear him. “You can lean on me until we get back to the school…” He grunts out. Sakura nods but Suo can see that the blush now reaches his ears.
If they see Sakura leaning against Sugishita on their way back, no one mentions it.
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Nirei is caught a bit off guard by it. Sure, he noticed that they had stopped fighting as much, but he just thought they got scolded by Hiragi. Right now Suo and him are looking for Sakura. He kinda just disappeared during their lunch break, and now they have no idea where he is. “What if he is hiding an injury again?!” Nirei grips his hair. “I’m sure he’s fine, Nirei.” Suo tries to reassure him. They look all around the school but can’t seem to find him. They decided that the next best place would be the rooftop.
They push the door open but only see Sugishita in his garden. Even though he decided to stop helping Umemiya, he still enjoys gardening. So Umemiya gave him a part of the roof to start his own garden. “Sugishita-san!” Suo calls out and the tired teen looks over at them. “We were wondering if you have seen our dear grade captain?” Suo explains while they walk over to him. Nirei notices that Sugishita isn’t wearing his uniform jacket. Sugishita just huffs before pointing over to the seating area. Low and behold, there sleeping soundly is Sakura. Both Suo and Nirei's eyes widened a bit. A Furin jacket is almost completely covering his sleeping form, which he snuggles up into slightly. He looks so… soft?
A sinister, knowing smile spreads onto Suo’s face. “Is that your jacket, Sugishita-san?” The taller teen’s face flushes a bit before he quickly looks down back at his plants. “I found him slacking off up here and the bastard was shivering his ass off….” Nirei can see his ears turn a bit pink. “Well he seems to really like it.” Nirei mumbles as he watches Sakura pull the jacket closer to himself. They decided to just let Sakura sleep until it was time for patrol. They forced Sugishita to wake him up and he just pushes Sakura off the bench.
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It’s not his fault that people broke into his apartment last night, things like that just happen. So when Sakura walks into Class 1-1 with a large bandage on his cheek and dark circles under his eyes, silence hangs over the room. He can feel all the eyes burning holes into his face. ‘Shit maybe I should’ve just stayed home today….’ He can’t even take another step forward before he is surrounded by his vice captains and the others. “Sakura-san! What happened to your face?! You look really tired, too. What happened last night?! You didn’t have that injury when we ended patrolling yesterday day!” Nirei immediately bombards him with questions. Suo and Kiryuu circle him, searching for any other injuries, while Tsuguera asks his own questions.
The rest of the class comes closer, trying to see for themselves if their captain is okay. It all happens so fast that Sakura has to recalibrate before his face flushes a bit at all the attention. “Guys.” Sakura’s voice shuts everyone up. “Look, I really just don’t wanna talk about it. I have already taken care of my injuries, so don’t make this a big deal.” He sighs, a bit too tired to really explain anything right now. Their voices have gone down but Sakura can still hear them mumbling. “Sakura-kun, just know we will ask you later about this, please remember you can tell us anything, okay?” Suo places a hand on his shoulder and Sakura just nods.
Sakura is about to tell everyone to go sit down, but a somewhat murderous aura suddenly fills the room. Sakura looks around confused and so does the rest of the class. “Sugishita-san..?” Nirei’s voice trembles out and everyone snaps their heads to look over at him. Hetrocromia eyes widen as they lock in with brown ones. Sakura doesn’t think he’s ever seen Sugishita this mad before. Maybe when they first met? Why is he so mad right now? “So you finally woke up from your nap!” Suo teases but the tired male doesn’t even acknowledge him. His chair screeches against the floor and he stomps over to them. Their classmates quickly move outta the giant's way as he stomps over to Sakura.
Sakura looks up at him but Sugishita isn’t meeting his eyes, he’s mostly just staring at his cheek. Sakura’s face flushes a bit redder and his heartbeat has quickened. “What’s your problem-“ Sakura starts before he’s being dragged out of the classroom. “What the fuck?! Let me go?!” Sakura yells, trying to yank his arm away from Sugishita, but he gets ignored and dragged into an empty classroom. He practically gets thrown into the room and Sugishita slams the door behind them. The angry teen invades his space again and Sakura swears he heard a growl come from him.
“What the fuck happened?” The question catches Sakura off guard. “Didn’t you hear me before?” Sakura looks away from him. “I don’t give a shit! What the hell happened?!” Sugishita keeps getting closer and Sakura instinctively backs away until his back hits the wall. “Look, can we drop it?! I don’t wanna talk about it anymore.” Sakura places his hands on Sugishita’s chest, pushing lightly. He thinks that Sugishita is going to keep pushing but he feels a weight settle on his shoulder. He feels soft hair brush against his cheek and a hand slides down his arm then holds his hand. Sugishita’s breath hits his neck and it makes him shudder a bit. “Fine. Whatever.” Sugishita rubs his head further into Sakura’s neck.
“We uh- need to get back to class…” Sakura stutters, but his words hold no real weight as he unconsciously traces small circles onto the other’s hand. “Just a bit longer.” Sugishita grunts. They stay like that for a while, the silence between them comforting.
When they go back to class, no one mentions their red faces but their knowing smiles speak for themselves.
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Nirei and Suo didn’t see Sakura this morning walking to school, which is fine. Normal even. Sakura has slept in multiple times and has gotten to class later than everyone, so it’s not completely unusual. But what's weird is that he has read all of the group chats text, not responding of course, due to the speed of the chat. They first assume that he’s at Pothos but when they get there, Kotoha tells them that he didn’t come by that morning. “I think I’m just gonna text him to see if he’s alright.” Nirei mumbles, and Suo just nods as they walk to the school. They’re going earlier than usual so there shouldn’t really be anyone there.
When they open the door of their class, they’re met with a surprising sight. Sugishita leaning back against the wall, sleeping presumably, his head was on top of Sakura, who’s playing with the taller one’s hand. Sakura’s head snaps up and stares at them like he’s been caught doing something wrong. “Oh well isn’t this interesting.” Suo’s lips spread into a sinister smile. Red spreads down Sakura’s neck and his whole body tenses up. Sugishita shifts a bit, rubbing his cheek on Sakura’s hair and grunts a bit. Sakura notices and relaxes, leaning back onto Sugishita. This surprises the vice captains, they kinda expected him to pull away.
They decide to sit with the two and Nirei gives Sakura some bread the bakers gave them. “Did something happen? Sugishita-san looks more tired than usual.” Nirei asks Sakura. “I bumped into him on my way to Pothos and he said he didn’t get much sleep last night so I just told him we could go to the school early. He just kinda collapsed on me when we got to the classroom.” Sakura fidgets with his hands, his face still a bit red. Nirei just nods understandingly. “Well it was very kind of you to care for him.” Suo smiles softly. “Of course I care about him….” Sakura mumbles but the two still hear him. Sugishita shifts again slightly so his hand lands on one of Sakura’s. The bi-colored teen’s eyes widen and a small smile graces his face. He starts playing with Sugishita’s hand again, tracing the lines and gently massaging his fingers.
Suo can’t help but notice blush slowly appearing on the taller teens face. “Why Nirei! I seem to have forgotten something at my house, do you mind accompanying me?” Suo says dramatically, throwing his hands up. “Oh uh- sure?” Nirei tilts his head a bit as they stand up. “We will return soon Sakura-san, make sure to wake up Sugishita-san when everyone starts to show up.” Suo opens the door and calls back at him. “Yea, okay.” Sakura doesn’t even look up at them.
“Did you really forget something?” Nirei questions as they walk down the school hallways. “Of course not but I wanted them to have a moment together, Sugishita-san seemed to be enjoying it at least.” He hums, and he hears Nirei laugh a bit.
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Getting dragged around is common for Sakura but getting pulled into a room randomly by Sugishita is kinda a recent thing. It’s been happening pretty frequently for like a month, he will pull him to just hug him or for them to eat lunch together. It’s weird but not unwelcome. Sakura likes Sugishita. Romantically. It was surprising. Something just attracted him to Sugishita, maybe it’s his piercing brown eyes, maybe it’s how they are able to trust each other in combat, or maybe it’s just how his heart races when the other is near. Fighting or not.
“You know you can just ask to meet in here instead of just dragging me wherever you want.” Sakura huffs while crossing his arms. Sugishita just stares down at him but his eyes are furrowed like he wants to say something. They stand there for a couple minutes in silence, Sakura getting more confused by the second. Suddenly he feels his hand get grabbed. He blushes and looks down at their hands. Their fingers intertwine and Sugishita pulls their bodies closer. “I…” Sugishita starts but immediately stops, his eyebrows furrow further. Sakura tilts his head to the side slightly, “Sugishita..? Are you okay?” He squeezes the other’s hand a bit. Sugishita tenses up before backing Sakura against the window seal.
“Hey! What the fuck!” Sakura hisses before looking at the others' faces. He looks a bit panicked and his face is a bit pink. He looks cute? Like this, which is a strange thought. Sakura brings his other hand up and cups Sugishita’s face. The taller ones eyes widen but the relaxes and leans into it, placing his hand on top of Sakura’s. Come to think about it, every time they’ve touched hands, Sugishita’s hands were cold. Sakura suddenly feels vibrations of the others voice on his palm. “What?” He raises an eyebrow. “I like you.” Sugishita squeezes his eyes shut and whispers. When he doesn’t hear a response he slowly opens his eyes and sees the prettiest sight he’s ever seen.
Sakura is red down to his neck as he stares at him bug-eyed. Sakura’s eyes are filled with so much emotion it’s almost impossible for Sugishita to hold himself back and his mouth hangs open slightly. He tries to cover his face with his hand and looks away. “You’re so damn embarrassing…. Fuck, I like you too.” Sakura’s voice is barely audible but it’s the only thing Sugishita can hear. A second passes and everything is still until Sugishita yanks him back into the hug. He buries his head in the other's neck and wraps his arms tightly around his waist. Sakura arms fly around for a second before ending up wrapping around Sugishita’s neck.
“I want you… and I want you to want me.” Sakura feels his breath on his ear and neck. “I do- I like you so much.“ Sakura stutters as Sugishita pulls back a bit to look at him. Sakura glances at the others lips before meeting his eyes again. “Sugishita-“ He starts before a cold hand grabs his jaw and slams their lips together. He immediately presses back into the kiss, tilting his head slightly to deepen it. The kiss is clumsy but feels so right. Sugishita’s hand goes back to his waist and pulls their bodies flush against each other. Sakura jumps when he feels a tongue swipe at his lips lightly. Sugishita pulls away a bit, “Is that okay..?” Sakura just nods and pulls them back into another kiss. He gasps softly when he feels Sugishita’s tongue again but this time he takes it as an invitation to lick into the other's mouth.
The longer they kiss the more desperate it seems. Sakura’s hand grip the taller one's hair, pressing them harder together. His knees are getting weaker each second but Sugishita picks him up and sets him up the window seal. His hands rub against Sakura’s waist traveling any part of his torso. When they pull apart, Sakura’s lips are swollen a pretty pink and his eyes are a bit glossy. They can feel each other's harbored breaths on their faces and Sugishita pulls them into a kiss again. Sakura makes a noise that surprises him and Sugishita swallows it hungrily. He bites at the bi-colored teens lips, causing the other to groan. They break apart again and Sugishita immediately starts kissing Sakura's neck. “Sugi-!” Sakura moans and grips Sugishita’s hair tighter as he licks up his neck. “Fuck- I like you. I like you so god damn much.” Sugishita grunts are muffled as he continues to kiss and lick his neck. Sakura moans and his hips unconsciously buck up, making the both of them groan. Sakura grips Sugishita’s shoulder hard as he feels teeth graze his neck. This is getting to be way too much.
Sakura pushes against Sugishita chest and when they pull away, Sugishita sinks in the sight of his disheveled state. Fuck, why is he so pretty? His eyes travel to Sakura swollen lips then to his breath taking eyes. “I wanna touch you more…” He growls, slowly sliding his hand up Sakura's shirt a bit before Sakura hits him hard on the head. “No! Absolutely not!” He hisses, Sugishita starts pouting and rubs his head. Sakura tries to stop himself from laughing, but light puffs of air leave him. He hesitantly kisses the spot he hit and the other seems to brighten a bit. “So are we like… dating now?” Sakura holds his face in his hands. Sugishita only nods quickly and it causes Sakura to laugh into his hand.
When they finally go back to class, no one mentions their interlocked hands and flustered faces.