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It was a long day.
Reki and Langa arrived at Reki's room 2 am in the morning after S. They immediately found themselves lying side by side as they felt the small pain on their backs as they lets their back relax against the soft mattess of Reki's bed.
It was silent. No one was talking, but they have small smiled on their faces as they interwined their pinky fingers together. They were enjoying the confortable athmosphere when Reki shifts and faced Langa who was closing its eyes beside him.
"Langa," Reki called, never bothering to remove his pinky from Langa's. Instead, he moved his entire palm and finally locked their hands together.
Langa hummed in response as he shifted his head to face Reki. His sleepy teal eyes looking directly into Reki's amber ones.
"I found something from the workshop. I thought it'd be pretty as a keychain or something." Reki said and reached for a tiny hourglass object to show Langa.
"It looked like the miniature version of it. The sand inside the glass isn't going down immediately despite the small volume inside the glass."
"Yeah... amazing, right?" Langa nodded.
Reki softly chuckled and puts down the miniature hourglass object beside his pillow and excitedly fced Langa once again.
"Anyway...wanna go somewhere tomorrow?"
Hearing the suggestion, Langa's sleepy eyes lit up as a bigger grin flashed on his face.
"Sure. What's with the sudden date though?"
"Mhm, we havent went to proper dates since we became a thing, you know."
"Ah," Langa trailed off and stared at the ceiling. "I thought everyday was already a date since we're always with each other..."
"Of course its the same thing! But I wanted to try new things, like going somewhere with you... I mean, just like any other clichè dates like: dressing up and going somwhere!" Reki blabbered and sat up from the bed. Langa agreed as he laughed and purposely tried to pull back Reki to him, but Reki resisted.
"Then the date tomorrow has ben set!" Reki softly said and tugged Langa from the mattress. "But first, we need to wash up because we smell like dirt and sweat. I can lend you some of my clothes." Reki added after getting two set of clothes and freshly washed towels from his closet and carefully trudged outside his room to the C.R
Langa happily followed like a puppy.
. . .
Those were the memories of what happened a couple of hours ago before he dozed off in Langa's arms after a few shared kisses and cuddles before the sun breaks through the horizon.
But now, well....
He found himself sitting on the edge of the bed with a horrified expression on his face, looking at the familiar figure infront of him who looked so aged up. Earlier, he woke up in between of those slightly built arms that made him panic and emitt a cry as he struggled to break free from its steel hold on him.
It turns out it was just Langa who was lovingly hugging him from behind with those slightly built arms. BUT things are different before.
This time, Reki was looking at Langa who now had a longer hair than before. Its not too long, its hair barely touched its shoulders and it can be tied up. Langa's body also has slightly grew before.
Also, instead of finding himself in his own room, he just woke up in a room that he hasn't seen before. NOT EVEN ONCE. Yet, Reki can tell where he is, and this and that.
....What the heck happened?
"Reki? Why do you looked so...terrified?" Langa–who was in front of him–asked with a worried expression on its face. The bluenette attempted to go closer to the terrified redhaired but failed when he recieved a flying pillow smacking his face.
"DONT go near me. Who are you, why do you looked unusual and where's Langa?" Reki cried as he moved back. He can feel the edge of the bed under him and if he'll gonna continue moving back, he'll fall.
"But its me though...?" Langa said in confusion as he pointed his self. "And...rather, its you who looked unusual."
"What do you mean...?" Reki knitted his eyebrows as he stood up from the bed and instinctively ran to the large mirror (yes, he almost freaked out when he exactly knew where the mirror was) to look at his appearance.
Looking at his reflexion, Reki repeatedly opened and closed his eyes to check if his eyes were tricking him. Nothing has changed at all! Its just his normal body, no any changes. But, instead of wearing the yellow pj's he wore earlier before sleeping, he was wearing another pair of pj's that were slightly bigger than his frame, exposing hos collarbones.
"Nothing changed at all!" Reki huffed and turned back to Langa who blankly staring at him.
"You just shrunk, Reki," Langa said seriously as he squinted his eyes and left the bed, showing off his height that was taller than the previous Langa who was with Reki before sleeping. "Your current physical appearance makes me remember of out youth. When we're still 17."
"But I am 17, Langa." Reki talked back. "And why do you looked so tall and old? You're just this tall earlier...!"
"Im just 24, Reki. Im not that old."
"You're what?!"
. . . .
And after a few minutues of blabbering things to each other (even when theyre brushing their teeth where Reki insisted to use a new toothbrush), they headed downstairs straight to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Now, Reki was looking at Langa–who he noticed was also wearing the same pj's he's currently wearing–tying its hair and wearing an apron after preparing the simple ingredients for the breakfast today.
"This is a dream, yes it is." Reki mumbled as his eyes wandered at the clean kitchen. "Although I can feel everything, its just a dream."
"Why dont you start preparing our table than mumbling things there, Reki?" Langa said as he almost finished cooking. Reki rolled his eyes and complied, heading to the utensils and grabbed 2 sets of eating utensils and placed them on the table.
As Langa finally finished cooking, he placed the food on the table and quietly looked at the small redhead who was still completely overwhelmed at the current situation.
"Okay, Im not sure but I think I just time traveled or something..." Reki said and looked at Langa with seriousness on his voice.
"Time travel...?" Langa repeated. "Now come think of it. You just suddenly shrunk overnight..."
Reki leaned back on his seat and worriedly looked everywhere. "Yeah. I was just on my room sleeping with your 17 years old version then I suddenly found myself here."
"So.... you, the 17 years old Reki and the 24 years old Reki changed timelines?"
"....."
There was no answer.
A loud silence comes after as Langa spoke his theory. They both looked at each other, almost forgetting about the food infront of them.
"Okay that's it. Langa, can I ask what year are we now?" Reki finally said after the suffocating silence between them.
"Its year 20XX here already, Reki." Langa answered immediately.
Hearing the answer from the bluenette, Reki's jaw visibly dropped as his eyes widened. 7 years ahead from Reki's current timeline!
"Okay..." Reki mumbled. "What's the current date today?"
"August 3 20XX."
"Oh...OH..." Reki closed his eyes as he massaged the temples of his head. He cant just take every informations immediately! Its just very impossible and really...weird!
But Reki finally accepted the weirdest fact that he time traveled 7 years ahead from his timeline by some unknown circumstances. It was on a whim, of course.
And he can't just sit there and panic can he?
"Then lastly, Langa, What are we?"
"Boyfriends..?" Langa said as he showed off a shiny silver ring on his left hand with a small ruby decorated at the center with some carved stuff that Reki can't clearly see from the distance and size. "We got matching rings after we graduated and moved in in the same apartment." He added and pointed at Reki's hand.
Reki instinctively looked at his left hand to see what Langa was pointing on his hand. He can see the same ring Langa was wearing, but in his ring, it was a sapphire instead of a ruby.
'So 7 years ahead from my current timeline, me and Langa were still together?'
The thought made Reki's face flare in the deep shade of red. His eyes unconsciously landed at the latter who was looking at him fondly. Then again, his heart leaped on his chest, feeling euphoric.
"Now stop thinking about anything and eat. Let's continue talk about this after eating." Langa smiled softly and ruffled Reki's soft red locks. "Although you need to help me clean the house since it was neglected for a few months due to work."
. . .
Just like what is said, they both continued talking about the current situation. They also cleaned the house from their first floor to the 2nd floor of their house where Reki found the most messy area ever.
Outside from their room, there was a big space where he can see pins, scraps of high quality sheets, scribbles of clothes in the papers, patches and a few fabric chalks lying on a huge desk.
Also 3 manequins that were covered in clothes that has a very unique style. Not to mention the other mess on the floor.
By curiousity, Reki asked about the huge mess in the mentioned area. It turns out, the future Reki was a fashion designer and future Langa as its model (which isn't surprising base on Langa's exquisite looks).
Reki also found out that his future self was the one who made and designed their pairing pj's that he wore earlier.
It took them two hours to finish cleaning and decided to rest and talk about things from past and future. 17 years old Reki talked about the events that already happened from his timeline that bought nostalgia to 24 years old Langa, while 24 years old Langa talked about the present (which was the future events) that made Reki beam in excitement.
Langa also talked about how he and 24 years old Reki bought a house after saving up enough money for them to move for a more spacious environment due to their works. And talked about skating together on their neighborhood every weekends and go on regular dates from theme parks to beaches and mountains. Also the fact that he and future Reki would travel back to Okinawa (since they're resided in Tokyo at the moment) every holidays to see their parents and even Joe and others to hang out with them.
Of course they would file a leave every 6 months to relax on the island where everything started.
At dinner, both of them cooked their food and almost burned the kitchen when Reki forgot to turn off the stove and cut his finger that made Langa scold him for a few minutes.
After eating dinner, they decided to watch a certain movie that they both liked before and ended up arguing over the simple things on the movie in a childish way.
"...Im now tired.." Reki mumbled as he yawned after Langa turned off the TV.
"Do you want me to carry you upstairs?"
"I can do it by myself, thank you." Reki smiled and started to walk upstairs to their bedroom and Langa followed behind.
As they finally entered the room, they both headed to bathroom to brush their teeth and give themselves a nice warm bath before plunging to bed with their exhausted bodies.
After covering themselves with the soft blankets over them, Langa hugged Reki from behind as he kissed the back of its head and wished Reki a goodnight. Reki can only nod his head as the drowsiness took over him and finally drifted off to sleep like nothing happened.
.. .
Reki woke up by the feeling of a hand caressing his cheek softly. Slowly, he opened his eyes only to see a Langa who was staring at him fondly with a smile on its face.
His eyes also wandered around his room full of posters on his wall. For some reason, he felt relived for nothing and shrugged it off.
"Good morning, Reki." Langa said softly flashing a soft grin.
"Good morning, Langa." Reki greeted back, his voice hoarse because of sleep.
"Did you have a nice dream?"
"Yeah.." Reki answered as he tried to remember of the strange dream last night. "It was an interesting one... but I can't remember everything on that dream."
Langa pressed a peck on Reki's forehead and finally sat up from the bed, telling he had an interesting dream as well. Langa told him that he dreamt of seeing Reki in a grown up form and he was so surprised, too.
"Where do you want us to go?" Langa asked as he carefully helped Reki to sat up on the bed. "You forgot to tell me where we'll be going. You dozed off immediately."
"Did I..?" Reki softly laughed and rubbed his eyes, then felt a stinging pain on his finger. He looked at his finger and it was a cut from a sharp object. It also looked new as well. He continued to stare at the cut feeling the strange emotion inside him until a pair of pale hands held the hand that has a cut.
"A knife cut?"
"Seems like it."
"Wait here, Im gonna ask for your mom where'd she put the first aid kit." Langa said earning a hum from Reki who just continued to stare at the cut on his hand blankly.
He wondered where'd this cut came from. As far as he can remember, hadn't even touched any sharp objects before, specially knives.
Then again, just by staring at the cut, he suddenly thought about the dream he had last night that he couldn't remember.
A small smile creeped on his lips as he patiently waited for his boyfriend to return with a first aid kit.
Whatever that dream was, it was sure so...interesting.