Is This Fated?

A breezy and sunny morning in April’s spring. The aroma of the cherry blossoms is in the air and the sounds of high school students returning to school or starting school proliferate the air. Kobayashi Takeo and Tsuyoshi Sen, childhood friends and members of a non-violent yakuza group centered in Osaka are chasing down rivals from another yakuza group dealing on their turf on this spring morning. Being the youngest members, they are at the mercy of their senpai and brow-beaten to do the group’s menial labor. Kobayashi collides into a person as he turns the corner, his running momentum knocking over this small and delicate figure.

He finds himself laying on top of the most beautiful person he has ever seen in all his life. Jade pale skin, rouge red lips, chestnut brown hair, and green eyes. An Omega? He lays there on top of him mesmerized, his heart thundering inside his chest. Time stops. He doesn’t notice his friend Tsuyoshi stop behind him, perplexed as to why he’s remaining on top of the poor injured Omega and still staring at him.

The Omega stares back into Takeo’s amber eyes and his slightly sun-tanned skin and begins to blush. Tsuyoshi can see that the Omega is very beautiful and most definitely Kobayashi’s type, he knows from knowing him for so long. He pulls Takeo off the Omega after a few more seconds pass.

“What are you doing, Takeo? Why are you still on top of him gawking your eyes out, you perv?” he says smirking and continues, “We let them assholes get away. What are we going to tell Kashira?” Tsuyoshi looks at his friend when he realizes that he wasn’t even being acknowledged, Kobayashi continued to stare at the Omega who was now getting up and rubbing his back where he fell down when he was crashed into.

“Um…” the Omega began, seeing that he still had somewhere he was rushing to and that the rude Alpha who just crashed into him was not apologetic at all. He wanted to leave but his path was blocked by Kobayashi’s tall and fairly muscular body. “Um… May I pass, please? I’ll be late for class.”

His voice is just as beautiful. Ah, what a heavenly being , thought Kobayashi. Tsuyoshi nudges his slow friend and finally he regains his sense of reality. “Ah! I-I’m extremely sorry. I didn’t see you,” he said blushing deep red, unusual for a yakuza.

Seeing that he wasn’t just another conceited Alpha who couldn’t apologize when he had hurt another person, Kaiten smiled as brightly as if the sun harnessed its light from his smile and said, “No. It’s fine. Please, excuse me.” Takeo’s heart beat even faster at seeing his bright smile. As Sora started to walk away, Takeo began to think, What should I do to talk to him for just a bit longer?

His brain speedily came up with the best idea it could conjure: “W-wait! This area is dangerous! There are a lot of violent gangs around here. Why don’t I walk you to your class?” Kaiten felt that Kobayashi was an honest man, therefore, he was not afraid of him or avert his gaze from him, though he did think he was a bit strange to have been staring at him for so long. A kind but strange Alpha , Kaiten marvelled and laughed. Kobayashi just couldn’t look away.

“Okay,” Kaiten finally answered as he began walking alongside Kobayashi at a slower pace, headed toward the direction of his university. A slightly miffed Tsuyoshi was left alone, abandoned.

“Idiot, how could you leave your best friend behind just because you met a cutie?! Damn, that idiot’s type is mad obvious,” he said to himself as he headed back to the group’s headquarters to report by himself to the boss. “Next time I’ll make that stupid asshole treat me for running off.”

A tall figure walking beside a smaller figure, the taller talking about miscellaneous topics and stealing secretive glances at the shorter that make his heart jump out of his chest while the younger listens, amused and engaged. They reach the university. Kaiten stops and stands in front of him and says chuckling, “You still haven’t told me your name,” due to the fact that it seems like Kobayashi talked about everything from the weather to horse races but forgot to tell him the most important thing: his name. Kobayashi flushed at his own air-headedness and in the back of his mind he could hear Tsuyoshi laughing and mocking him if he were here to witness this scene.

“Kobayashi Takeo,” he stuttered out while blushing.

Kaiten smiled lovingly, “I’m Kaiten Sora. Nice to meet you.” He felt his heart beat just a bit faster when he observed this tall and shy man blushing and stuttering when he spoke to him and who also did not look away from his foreign chestnut brown hair and green eyes. He met his green eyes head-on without disgust or fear at his mixed features.

Just as he wondered if they would ever meet again, he turned to walk into the university amid the throng of college students when he felt a hand grab his wrist from behind. “A-ah, I’m sorry it’s just that… “ He turned a scarlet shade as he spoke, passersby looking curious as they passed them, “are you free… anytime soon?”

This man feels the same as I do , Kaiten thought. His heart beat like a drum in his chest. T-thump t-thump t-thump t-thump. “I’m free… Friday evening,” he meekly replied and lowered his head to hide his embarrassment at all the people watching them. When he disregarded them and looked up at Takeo’s face, he saw a smile that could melt ice. He’s hot , 19 year old Kaiten thought at this time as his heart sped up until he thought he would die of an heart attack. Takeo released his grip on his wrist and they exchanged cellphone numbers.

“I’ll be late! I have to go, Kobayashi-san.” He blushed lightly then ran toward the university entrance, the only thing on his mind this attractive and amusing Alpha Kobayashi Takeo, his heart beating ever the more faster as more and more of his thoughts were consumed with images of his smile and cute stuttering and blushing. Calm down, heart, both Sora and Takeo thought simultaneously as they walked away thinking about each other, one running north and the other walking south.