Yowamushi Pedal

[redheadedstepson]

Who: Reno and Makishima
What: Reno wanders modern Earth and takes a fool chance.
When: Modern times, in the last decade.
Where: England
Warnings: Possible smut, but everyone is of age and consenting.



A fateful night under the mistletoe just a few days after Reno stumbled into the boring-ass world called "Earth" and he ended up with a phone number and a lingering taste in his mouth. He waited a long time to call. Not months, but a couple of weeks, once he learned about the local holidays and realized they were meant for family and close friends, not date with strangers you snogged in bars. Well, depending on your upbringing, anyways, but he figured Makishima for a more quality figure than himself.

So it was that the day after Christmas, Makishima's phone rang and it wasn't someone from Japan or any of his relatives. It was the lazy drawl and accent of the guy from the bar.

"It's uh...it's Reno. Remember? From the party?" he offered up as gently as possible in case Maki didn't have the privacy to talk. Usually Reno didn't think about much, saying whatever he felt like when he felt like it, but the weeks of wandering around (which was actually more than a month for him, being as he went portal jumping in the meanwhile) gave him time to think about how not to screw everything up in the first hour. It was pretty sweet having time to make plans and rev himself up. Plus it meant time to beat the crap out of some punks to rip them off, shuck their wallets and get enough local scratch to take a guy out for a night on the town and not look like a cheap-ass.

Good times.

"Look uh, I know it's been a while but I thought you'd like time with the family and all. But apparently the holiday was done yesterday and I didn't want you to forget me" the Turk laughed, trying not to sound desperate. Fucking hard to do when you were playing out a seen from goddamn Lady and the Tramp. Good thing he'd never seen the movie. Loveless was bad enough.

"That dinner? Uhh...you hungry?"

[ Continued from here ]

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[irridescentspider]

Makishima busy looking at one of his many gravure magazines which meant he really wasn't busy at all.

He hadn't forgotten about the strange red-head he'd met at his teams Christmas party, and he was a little disappointed that he hadn't gotten a call from him sooner, but he wasn't going to try and dwell on it either.

Christmas had been busy for him, and while it wasn't really a holiday overly celebrated by his family he had flown back to Japan for a weekend to see Kinjou, Tadokoro, Toudou, and the rest. Of course Toudou had somehow known something had happened at the holiday party and he'd pestered Maki until he'd spilled about the mistletoe and the stranger. Toudou of course had been pissed, and Makishima supposed he couldn't blame him but it was for the wrong reasons. Whatever the reason Toudou hadn't texted him or tried to call for the past few days and it was weird, so when the phone rang Maki almost ignored it in favor of making Toudou stew a little longer.

In the end he had answered it, in Japanese no less and with a tone of annoyance, but when he heard the voice on the end of the line a smile burst on his face.

"Sho! Y-yeah of course I remember you." He leaned back against his headboard, running a hand through his hair as if Reno was there to see it in it's less than perfect state.

The way Reno said it led Maki to think Reno must have definitely been from somewhere other than England. He hadn't had a British accent, but Maki hadn't been able to place the tone either. There was a lot he didn't know about Reno.

"A-ah...I...I don't think I could forget you." Did he have to say such embarrassing things? Maki's cheeks tinted pink and he looked away out of habit. "N-yeah...I'd like that." He wasn't overly hungry but he could sure work up an appetite for a date.

6 Months Later

[irridescentspider]

It has been six months. Six months since he and Reno had started dating and it has been on hell of a trip. Of course after winter break Makishima had gone back to school and had to focus on his studies. Reno was off doing whatever it was he did for work, but every weekend he was there to spend time with his green haired boyfriend. Makishima for the most part had loved every moment of it. It was nice having Reno around, and watching him get better at cycling, perhaps a little too good as some reckless tricks seemed to prove, and generally getting to live with him.

Actually if Makishima was honest it was the living with Reno on the weekends that was putting a bit of a strain in their relationship. Reno was a handful too be sure and Makishima really wasn't used to people being that close in his space. Now and again he'd find things moved or food missing and Makishima couldn't help but be annoyed. Sure he was used to his stuff being touched, he was a middle son after all, but that didn't mean he'd like it. Now that summer was here and Makishima was once again on vacation Reno was over nearly all the time and Maki was really feeling the strain.

He wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say.

It wasn't just that either. Underneath it all Makishima still didn't know much about Reno's life or wherever he came from. He had learned some, that Reno came from a poor background and had worked his way up the ranks of whatever organization he was a part of, but everything else still came across as one big mystery that Makishima didn't understand.

He was worried about Reno, and that worry was beginning to stress him out.

Right now, they were at the bar where they'd had their first date, sharing a plate of nachos and while things were going decently well Makishima chose that moment to speak up, "Reno...I need to talk to you about something, sho."