Title: pros and cons
Rating: T
Fandom: Olympia Soiree
Relationship: Byakuya/Kuroba
Wordcount: 735
Short summary: Kuroba reveals Byakuya some pros and cons he’s thinking about when she catches him lost in thought.
“Kuroba?”
Byakuya called out her husband’s name but received no response, leaving her puzzled. It was already unusual to wake up to Kuroba facing away from her instead of gazing down at her. Additionally it was odd that he didn’t acknowledge that she had woken up, even though he would normally sense that right away and take advantage of her half-awake state to kiss her thoroughly and fully awake. Nor did he respond to her hand landing on his shoulder, not until her fingers pressed hard into the bared skin.
“Ah, sorry!” Kuroba finally turned around to face her. He gave her a sheepish smile. “I guess I was a little lost in my pros and cons.”
“Pros and cons?” Byakuya’s expression scrunched in confusion.
“Yeah. Good aspects and bad aspects of something, you know?” Kuroba chuckled. “It gives me something to think about while I’m out and about. It’s a little safer than some of the other things I could think about.”
His hands reached out to touch her, his right hand caressing her face while his left hand lightly pressing onto her hip. Byakuya shivered knowing exactly what other things Kuroba meant. It was good not to think about those things outside this hideout, at least in her opinion…
“What pros and cons were you thinking about now?” Byakuya wanted to know if she could also use this method to calm herself down, especially if she ran into some surprise teasing from Yosuga while down in Yomi.
“The pros and cons of having you live with me there instead of needing to make the commute here.”
“Live there?” If here was this hideout, then there was…?
“Pros would be having more time with you. Someone to welcome me when I got back from rounds. Someone who might be able to help me with research in a hands-on manner. If you wanted to and were available, of course.”
“You mean at the Kotowari…” This was not an idea that had ever crossed Byakuya’s mind, but now that she thought about it, since Kuroba was so heavily involved in research at his well-equipped lab space at the Kotowari, he couldn’t be the one to leave. Meanwhile she could, but…
“Cons I guess would be having Akaza right outside at any time. He’d likely know when and how much we were intimate and give me even more stink eye about it than…”
“Stink eye?” Byakuya had thought Akaza was Kuroba’s good friend though.
“You mean he doesn’t give you stink eye for…?” Kuroba laughed. “I guess he’s really only annoyed with me and not you for getting a wonderful soulmate. But no matter what I’m not giving you up. That’s not up for any pros and cons analysis.”
“Kuroba…”
Kuroba closed the distance between their mouths, pressing his lips onto hers in a sweet kiss. Byakuya opened her mouth more to let him deepen the kiss, to let him communicate to her his passionate feelings. Even though they were married, Kuroba was still prone to some short bouts of insecurity, so any time he declared his love whether with those exact words or with intentions like just now, Byakuya just wanted to receive it all. After all, she loved him just as passionately and greedily…
“Maybe once in a while?” A thought had occurred to Byakuya while they were kissing and she wanted to share it immediately. Even if she hadn’t done her own pros and cons thinking yet…
“Once in a while?” Kuroba repeated, his hands pausing their caressing of her body.
“I work with you in the lab and stay extra long.”
Byakuya couldn’t help the heat rising to her cheeks upon saying that. She was never as smooth as Kuroba was with words, but she wouldn’t even know how to verbalize all of what she meant, all the things they could be doing during that extra time…
Kuroba’s expression morphed from confusion to smug satisfaction. “Oh, that sounds like a good plan. There are many, many experiments that could use your help.” His fingers began moving along Byakuya’s body, leaving trails of warmth on her bare skin. “But there are some that can be performed outside of the lab. I’m feeling up to it, if you are?”
He asked that as if Byakuya wasn’t already moving her body closer to his body… Her reply didn’t use any words, but it was perfectly understood.