Title: Mated
Chapters: 14/?
Author: kaorus_beard
Genre: Humor/Drama/General
Rating: Overall NC-17
Pairings/Characters: Die/Kaoru, Kyo/Toshiya/Shinya (Dir en grey)
Warnings: Sexual content/references/jokes
Summary: AU. In danger of getting fired from his job, Kaoru makes a deal with his boss Kyo that lands him in an embarrassing situation with Die that may cause him to lose his virginity sooner than he wants to.
Comments: Yay, the long plot is moving along! ^.^

Chapter Fourteen

It was Friday. It had been three days ago when Kaoru temporarily lost his sanity and made a loose pact with Die. So far the two of them had proved loyal to the agreement. Die kept his teasing to a minimum, Kaoru tried not to voice his complaints out loud, and amazingly, there was less arguing.

That Friday morning, Kaoru and Die had just arrived at work and went their separate directions, wisely keeping out of each other’s way. Kaoru needed to use the restroom for a few minutes and felt unusually at ease when he was finished. He walked up to his desk and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw what awaited him.

“Damn it, not again! Can’t the little bastard think up new ways to spend his time?”

A week ago, Kaoru would have recoiled in horror at what he saw on his desk, but ever since he touched himself in the shower, his fear and discomfort seemed to be miraculously receding.

The object on the desk was long, pinkish, and rather tube-shaped. Even an anti-social virgin like Kaoru could recognize a dildo when he saw one. It was quite obvious that it was another gift from Kyo, and Kaoru badly wanted to beat the other man into a pulp.

He heard footsteps behind him and cringed. “Kyo, this isn’t second grade anymore, you know. We’re adults in the business world and leaving crude jokes on people’s desks is not going to lead to a successful career.”

“Kaoru, what are you talking about?”

Suddenly embarrassed, Kaoru turned around and realized that Toshiya was standing behind him and Kyo was nowhere in sight. “Oh. I thought you were Kyo.” He really didn’t want to talk to Toshiya and pretended to be completely absorbed in a blank piece of paper.

Toshiya, however, wasn’t ready to go away. “So are you still living with Die? Lucky bastard.”

“Oh,” Kaoru said. If he behaved indifferently, then maybe the other man would go away.

“Hey, what’s this?” To Kaoru’s horror, Toshiya spotted the dildo and picked it up, laughing. “Is this yours, Kaoru? Why would you need this when you’ve got Die available to you every night?”

Kaoru’s face inevitably turned red. “No, it’s not mine. Kyo put it there as a prank.”

“Oh. In that case, can I have it?”

Kaoru stared at the taller man as if he had just asked if he could have his babies. “I don’t care.” He turned away from Toshiya, ending his side of the conversation, and tried his best to pretend the secretary didn’t exist.

Toshiya happily walked away and stopped at his desk to place his new sex toy in one of the drawers. The phone on the desk rang and Toshiya picked it up. “Hello?”

“Tell Shinya to come to my office.” It was Kyo.

“Why? Shinya will never allow himself to be seduced by someone like you.”

“I think you’re forgetting that I’m Shinya’s boss. He’s still fairly new here and I’ve got to check up on him once in a while. Now go tell Shinya to come here, unless you want to get fired.”

“Fine, you bastard.” Toshiya hung up and slammed the phone down. He found Shinya dutifully working at his desk and tapped the other man on the shoulder.

“Hm?” Shinya turned around. “What is it, Totchi?”

Toshiya looked unhappy. “The boss wants you in his office. He has a reputation for trying to do obscene things to his workers, so I would watch out if I were you. I think he even raped someone a couple of years ago.” It was a lie, but Shinya always trusted him. “Be careful in there, Shinya. Keep your legs closed at all costs!”

Shinya’s cheeks went warm at the other man’s startling speech. “I’m sure everything will be fine…”

Toshiya sighed disgruntledly. “You’d better go to Kyo’s office now or he’s going to get mad at me.”

Shinya obeyed and got up out of his seat, tingling with nerves. He said a quiet goodbye to Toshiya and made his way to Kyo’s office. He had no idea what the short man wanted with him and was a little afraid to find out, but he knocked on the door anyway.

“Come right in,” Kyo said from inside.

Shinya forced his heartbeat to slow down, knowing that he was overreacting. Kyo probably wanted to talk about business with him. He grasped the doorknob in his hand and opened up the door. He barely registered what happened after that, because as soon as he was inside the room, Kyo shut the door and grabbed him. Kyo pushed Shinya down so he could reach the taller man’s mouth and started fiercely kissing his employee as if he had been starving for a taste of him.

“Kyo—” Shinya started to say inquisitively, but the sentence was cut off by the smaller man’s wildly working mouth.

Kyo grabbed onto Shinya’s ass and took his mouth away to smile. “You haven’t given me an answer yet. Do I have to take you by force?” For the past couple of days he had given Shinya space, not wanting to overwhelm him. His shy employee apparently was not ready to give an answer of whether or not he was ready to lose his virginity to his boss, and Kyo no longer had patience.

Shinya’s body was warm and fluttery all over. He was aroused—it was impossible for him not to be—but also extremely confused. “I don’t know, Kyo. This isn’t right.”

Kyo reached up to place a hand on Shinya’s shoulder and soothingly rubbed at the body part with his fingers. “Of course it’s right. You’ve become a special employee to me, and therefore you get special treatment. Don’t be afraid of me, Shinya. I want you more badly than you can believe, but I won’t hurt you.”

“I know you won’t,” Shinya murmured.

“Then why do you keep hesitating? You’ll never know whether you like something or not unless you try it.” He put his free hand possessively around Shinya’s waist. “Let’s do it tonight.” His voice had gone softer, as if he were speaking to an animal he didn’t want to frighten away. “When work gets out, I’m taking you home with me.”

Shinya felt that he couldn’t refuse. It wasn’t because he was weak; he had a perfectly good mind of his own and could make decisions without being influenced by others. There was something compelling about Kyo that Shinya could no longer keep resisting.

“Okay,” he agreed. “I’ll go with you after work. I took a bus here today to save my car fuel.”

Kyo gently brushed his fingers along Shinya’s neck, wanting to touch every section of exposed skin he saw. “Good. I knew you would have to say yes eventually.” He kissed Shinya one last time, filling the taller man with an unsatisfied desire, and then broke away. “Get back to work now. I’m working hard to restrain myself and if you linger here any longer, I don’t know what’s going to happen to my self-control.”

Shinya wordlessly left the office and walked quickly in an attempt to make his body feel back to normal. The burning, tingling sensation was smoldering down in his privates again, just like the last time Kyo touched him. Perhaps giving in to his boss was a good thing. He was tired of experiencing weird feelings, both physical and mental.

When Shinya got back to his desk, Toshiya had left, much to his relief. Toshiya was his friend and he didn’t want to lie to him, but he couldn’t tell him about Kyo. It was going to be his secret, whether it was a good one or a bad one.

+++

When lunchtime came around, Kaoru was still seething with annoyance at Kyo. It was bad enough that his boss put lubricant on his desk a few days ago, but repeating the joke with a different object was even worse. It was an invasion of privacy, even if it didn’t hurt anything.

He was terribly thirsty and needed some water to cool down both his throat and his emotions. He got up out of his desk and headed for the vending machine that carried bottled water, hoping nothing strange appeared on his desk while he was gone.

The last thing Kaoru expected to see was a head of bright red hair, but Die was inevitably walking in his direction and Kaoru couldn’t avoid him. He and Die saw each other sometimes during work, though they normally didn’t speak to one another.

Die looked surprised to see Kaoru. “Hey, Kaoru. What are you doing?”

It wasn’t the best time for Die to decide to be friendly, but Kaoru kept his outer mood mild and responded. “I’m getting a bottled water.” Suddenly he didn’t feel as thirsty anymore.

“Oh. You didn’t look very happy when I first caught sight of you. You didn’t see me then, so I know I’m not the one who upset you.”

Kaoru sighed. “Of course I’m not happy. That little shit Kyo has been leaving all this annoying crap on my desk just to antagonize me.”

Die shrugged. “That’s just what Kyo does. He wants a reaction out of you. Just ignore him and he’ll get tired of it.” He put a comforting hand on Kaoru’s shoulder. “How about you have lunch with me?”

It was true that Kaoru and Die were fighting less, but Kaoru still avoided spending time with his roommate. They were at work though, which meant that nothing could go wrong, and Die was behaving pretty nice that day. “I’ll eat with you if you really want me to. You haven’t done anything recently that makes you deserving of bad treatment.”

“All right. I take that as an unhappy yes, but still a yes.” Die led the way to get the food and took Kaoru to his desk. After clearing off the desk space and adding a second chair, Die sat down and gestured for Kaoru to join him.

Kaoru sat as far from Die as he could and started to eat in silence. Die grabbed the other man’s food and held it out of his reach. “Come on, Kaoru, don’t be boring. Let’s talk about something.”

Kaoru reached for his lunch and tried to get it back, with no success. “Talk about what?”

“You’ve been living with me for about a week, Kaoru. I’m not a stranger anymore.” Die gave the other man his food back. “I know you hated me at first, but tell me what you think of me now.”

Kaoru wanted to say that he still hated Die, but he found that wasn’t true. “I don’t know. You’re okay, I guess.”

“That’s definitely a major improvement when compared with other ways you’ve described me,” Die remarked. “I’ve changed my opinions about you too, Kaoru. I’ve always been curious about you and wanted to get to know you, but you were so annoying and pessimistic towards me that I thought of giving up. But now you’re not so bad anymore. We ought to talk like this more often.”

Sitting around and idly chatting with people was an activity that Kaoru did not enjoy doing. He had to admit though, that he would rather have a conversation with Die than with any of the strangers in the building. Die was becoming more tolerable, besides, so what was so bad about talking to him?

“What would you want to talk about?” Kaoru asked.

“Anything!” Die answered. “Maybe you can talk about yourself, and I’ll tell you about myself in exchange. We’re roommates, after all, damn it. We can’t keep on being mysteries to each other.”

Kaoru wasn’t the least bit eager about Die’s plan, but he chose not to complain about it. He didn’t want to destroy the sense of compromise that had sprung up between the two of them.

He finished his food quickly and parted company with Die. It sounded weird, but he thought the red-haired man was actually trying to bond with him. If it meant less conflict and more kindness towards him, then Kaoru supposed he could handle it.

He headed back to his desk and decided he was thirsty for that bottle of water again. He reached the vending machine, but he was prevented from buying his water once more because Kyo was nearby. Feeling an unusual burst of assertiveness overcome him, he approached his boss and stared him in the face.

“Playing that prank once was more than enough, Kyo. Quit putting stuff on my desk.”

The shorter man looked confused. “What are you talking about?”

“First you leave me another one of your annoying little ‘gifts’, and now you’re lying to me about it. Did you wake up particularly evil this morning?”

Kyo scowled in offense. “Why would I lie to you about something? You’re obviously the one who’s lying, because I have no idea what you’re trying to accuse me of. Yes, I thought it was hilarious when I gave you that lube on Monday, but I never put anything on your desk today.”

Now it was Kaoru’s turn to be confused. “But if you didn’t do it, then who did?”

“What exactly did you find on your desk anyway?” Kyo asked.

Kaoru suddenly grew uncomfortable. “Nothing, really. It was just something stupid.”

Kyo smiled wickedly. “It’s something embarrassing, I bet. What was it?”

“I wasn’t embarrassed,” Kaoru insisted, defending himself. “If you really want to know, it was a dildo. Toshiya took it, so if you want to see it then you’ll have to ask him.”

“Wow, that’s impressive,” Kyo commented. “I actually considered giving you one of those, but I went with the lube instead. I congratulate whoever decided to gift you.”

“Great, now I have an unsolved mystery and you’re no help, of course,” Kaoru said. “I’d better go and guard my work space.”

He walked away without quenching his thirst and went back to his desk, which was thankfully empty of anything alien and disturbing. He sat down and stared down at the surface of his desk as if expecting it to give up its secrets. He had no idea who had decided to play a joke on him that morning, but the idea of another person who thought like Kyo was a very discomforting one.

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Previous Chapters:

Chapter One || Chapter Two || Chapter Three || Chapter Four || Chapter Five || Chapter Six || Chapter Seven || Chapter Eight || Chapter Nine || Chapter Ten || Chapter Eleven || Chapter Twelve || Chapter Thirteen