krystalkatzficz | D-wing part 24 (Reply)

Satoshi watched his lover with a smile from the back of the long chairs watching the game that was being played. It was a rare break from what had been a very stressful week of planning. He had been rather surprised when Nino had joined the prison baseball team but he was by far the best player they had. It wasn’t much of a compliment given that the team wasn’t particularly very good but Nino’s pitching meant that they at least looked as they knew what they were doing. They were playing against another prison and for the first time in what was probably a long time they weren’t being completely destroyed. They were still going to lose but at least they were having fun. Soon his plans would bear some fruit and that meant Nino could soon be in danger so this moment was needed for them all.

“You’re looking pensive, Ohno” Sho huffed from where he had been watching both the game and the inmates making sure that nobody was getting too rowdy. Satoshi looked over at the guard with a lifted eyebrow. “I suppose I just have a bored expression, I am actually rather enjoying myself at the moment. Why wouldn’t I be? The sun is shining after all” He hummed looking back at the field when a cheer went up. Nino had managed to get another player out and Satoshi clapped sedately. Sho let out a snort and then huffed;

“You think I’m stupid don’t you?”

“Actually I think you are perhaps one of the smartest people in the place, if not these smartest” Satoshi answered truthfully keeping his eyes fixed on Nino as he wound up the ball. His expression was focused with a touch of a smile about his lips. It was yet another expression he hadn’t seen before and he was rather disappointed that he hadn’t brought his sketchbook and pencil. He really wanted to capture every single expression Nino had as he fell in love with him every time. “I have a great deal of respect for you”

“Cut the crap, next week there will be an influx of prisoners, some who are well known to have worked with you” Sho huffed and Satoshi almost smirked but kept his expression blank. He looked back at the guard. Sho had lightened up on him since he had agreed to help get Masaki out and Satoshi had almost been disappointed. He didn’t want an easy going guard or one that could be bought and sold. So he was pleased that the man was seemingly back to normal.

“I see, I would say that was interesting but I would be lying and I can’t see how that would have anything to do with me. I’ve been happily locked away in here, keeping my head down and serving my sentence” Satoshi hummed again “Shouldn’t you be pleased? Less criminals on the street and more on the inside...”

“You would think that, but when it comes to you I don’t trust you at all you’re nothing but trouble”

“You are so flattering, but I confess I’m confused. If they worked with me why would I bring them inside? Surely they will be more worth to me on the outside?” Satoshi said ignoring the new cheer that went up around him. He wanted to celebrate whatever Nino had done but he was enjoying watching Satoshi’s expressions and the calculating look that was in his eyes. A muscle pulsated in the guards cheek just below his left eye and a vein bulged in his neck as he stepped closer so their faces were almost pressed together. Satoshi’s eyebrow lifted again his mouth curving into a smirk. “Really, if you want to kiss me you can just ask, I would turn you down of course, I have no interest...”

“In anyone beyond yourself. You can pretend, you may even believe that you do but you’re nothing but a hallow man” Sho looked towards the field and Satoshi followed his gaze knowing already it would be on Nino who seemed to be looking at them from the pitchers mound. “He isn’t like you, he’s a good kid that made a mistake. He deserves better than you, you will just drag him down to your level and then twist him into something...”

“I respect you and your intelligence and you are normally correct but this time I will have to correct you. I will not drag him anywhere, much less to my level” Satoshi said stiffly the smirk leaving his face as Sho touched on his only raw nerve. ”I know you think that I am a robot that I merely mimic the emotions of those around me but again you are wrong. I do not wear my heart on my sleeve and perhaps that I do not have the same level of emotions that others have, but I do care a great deal for Nino, in fact I will go so far as to say I love him. He is a good kid, but he is also one that will never join me no matter his feelings for me. If you are finished with your questions, the game has finished and although we lost I want to congratulate Nino on a good game”

“Ohno...” Sho sighed as Satoshi took a side step around him and Satoshi turned surprised by the change in the man’s attitude. “Be careful, I don’t care what happens to you, but if you care for him as you say, whatever game you’re playing could end up getting him hurt...”

“I understand, and I promise that I will not allow that” Satoshi nodded his fists clenching as once again Sho touched on that nerve. Much of the stress he had been feeling over the last few days had been because he was scared of something happening to Nino. “If...If it becomes too dangerous for him to be around me, I will let him go”

“I see, then I hope that you can” Sho hummed with a jerk of a nod and Satoshi returned the nod before walking over the field to the pitchers mound. Nino was frowning as he approached and although Satoshi smiled he could tell that Nino wasn’t fooled.

“Are you okay? What did Sho want?”

“Oh, the usual, I am an unfeeling monster and that he is watching me” Satoshi shrugged “He isn’t stupid, he saw the prisoner lists and he knows that I am planning something. He doesn’t know what but he really is a lot cleverer than any of the others in here”

“Why do you like that so much? Isn’t that bad for you?”

“Yes, but as I have said before I am glad that somebody in our criminal system is unmoved. It reassures me somewhat” Satoshi smiled looking back over at the guard who was now talking to Masaki his whole expression changed from what it had been when he had been talking to him.

“You’re so weird, do you know that?”

“Yes, but that is why you like me” Satoshi grinned pressing a kiss to the corner of his mouth before wrapping his arms around him. “Well done on your game”

“We didn’t win”

“No, but you did give them a fight. You should be proud of that fact. Now, come on, let me wash your back”

TBC

A/N: I hope that this was okay...>.<