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The text always arrived exactly at midnight, containing nothing but a room number.
At this point, Akaashi knew the carpet patterns of Tokyo’s luxury high-rises better than he knew the floorboards of his own apartment. Between his exhausting, late-night deadlines as a manga editor and Bokuto’s chaotic travel schedule with the MSBY Black Jackals, this quiet, unspoken routine was the only thing that made sense. No expectations, no titles, and absolutely no feelings—just a strict midnight arrangement behind closed doors to blow off steam. It was the perfect, uncomplicated adult fling.
Until the elevator doors chimed open on the twenty-fourth floor, and the rules began to blur.
"You're late," Bokuto murmured against the doorframe the second Akaashi stepped into the dimly lit room. His usual gravity-defying hair was down, framing his face in loose strands, and his team-branded tie hung completely undone around his neck.
Akaashi didn't offer an apology. Instead, he stepped forward, letting the hotel door click shut behind them, effectively locking the rest of the world out.
The click of the lock was loud in the quiet suite, a definitive line drawn between the demanding world outside and the space they carved out here.
Akaashi let out a breath he felt like he’d been holding since his 9:00 AM editorial meeting. His shoulders dropped an inch. His eyes burned from staring at a tablet screen for fourteen hours straight, tracking panels and speech bubbles until the ink blurred.
He was running on black coffee and sheer willpower, but the moment he looked at Bokuto, the heavy, numbing exhaustion in his chest began to shift into something sharper. Something entirely focused.
Bokuto didn't push away from the doorframe. Instead, his eyes tracked Akaashi's movements with a slow, uncharacteristic gravity, watching him drop his leather briefcase onto the entryway bench.
"Traffic on the Shinjuku line?" Bokuto asked, his voice low, lacking its usual booming energy. It was a tone he reserved only for these midnight hours.
Akaashi replied smoothly, crossing the carpeted floor. He stopped just a foot away, close enough to smell the faint scent of hotel soap and the familiar warmth radiating off Bokuto’s shoulders. "An editor's work is never entirely finished."
Bokuto tilted his head, a slow smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth as his eyes dropped to Akaashi’s impeccably straight collar. "You're usually more punctual, Akaashi. I was starting to think you forgot the room number."
"I don't forget," Akaashi murmured. He reached out, his fingers steady as he hooked them into the loose, undone knot of Bokuto’s team tie, pulling gently to bring him just an inch closer.
"And I don't break our rules."
Bokuto let out a sharp, hitched breath, his hands instantly coming up to grip the structured edges of Akaashi's suit jacket. He didn't pull back.
Instead, he leaned heavily into the pressure, his gold eyes darkening as he let Akaashi dictate the exact distance between them. The loud, chaotic athlete from the MSBY court vanished completely, replaced by a quiet intensity that belonged solely to this room. Belonged solely to Akaashi.
Akaashi liked him like this. He liked the solid, grounding weight of Bokuto under his fingers, stripped of the flashing arena lights and the roaring crowd.
Out there, Bokuto belonged to the world; in here, tucked away on the twenty-fourth floor of an anonymous high-rise, Akaashi was the one holding the strings.
"Prove it," Bokuto rumbled, his thumbs tracing the line of Akaashi's jaw, gently tilting his face up.
The first kiss didn't break the rules, but it bent them dangerously out of shape. It was slow, heavy, and thick with the exhaustion of their separate weeks, a desperate trading of heat that made Akaashi’s knees feel suddenly weak.
He tightened his grip on Bokuto's tie, deepening the press of their lips until the last remnants of Tokyo's deadlines faded into nothing but the sound of their shared breathing.
When Akaashi finally broke the kiss to breathe, neither of them moved away. Bokuto’s forehead rested against his, his chest rising and falling in heavy, ragged cycles that pressed directly into Akaashi's chest.
Without a word, Akaashi slid his hands down from the tie, his fingers trailing down the front of Bokuto’s crisp white dress shirt.
He unbuttoned the first three buttons with practiced ease, his knuckles brushing against the warm, solid skin of Bokuto's collarbone. Bokuto shivered slightly at the contact, his grip on Akaashi's jacket tightening.
"The bed, Koutarou," Akaashi murmured, his voice laced with an authority that left no room for argument.
Bokuto didn't hesitate. He took a single step back, his hand wrapping firmly around Akaashi's wrist, guiding him away from the door and deeper into the shadows of the suite.
The mattress gave way under their combined weight with a soft, expensive sink. Akaashi found himself straddling Bokuto’s lap almost immediately, the sheer size of the athlete filling the space between his thighs.
Even in the dim light filtering through the sheer hotel curtains, Bokuto looked massive, a powerhouse of muscle honed by years of professional volleyball.
But right now, he was looking up at Akaashi with wide, completely unguarded eyes, his hands resting tentatively on Akaashi's hips as if waiting for permission to squeeze.
Akaashi didn't give him time to think. He reached up, shrug-sliding his own heavy wool suit jacket off his shoulders and letting it drop carelessly to the carpeted floor. He followed it by untying his own dark tie, tossing it aside without breaking eye contact.
"You're too tense today," Bokuto whispered, his palms sliding up from Akaashi's hips to rest flat against his lower back, pulling their frames flush together.
The heat radiating through Akaashi's thin dress shirt was immediate and dizzying. "You're always working too hard, 'Kaashi. Did your authors push for another extension?"
"And you talk too much," Akaashi countered smoothly, his lips brushing Bokuto's jawline. "The only extension I care about tonight is how long I can keep you here."
He leaned down, pressing his lips to the sensitive junction where Bokuto's neck met his shoulder, his teeth catching the skin just hard enough to elicit a sharp, ragged gasp. Bokuto let out a low, rumbling groan that vibrated directly against Akaashi's mouth, his large fingers digging firmly into Akaashi's waist, anchoring himself.
Akaashi took charge completely. Sliding his hands down, he finished tearing open the front of Bokuto's shirt, popping a button in his silent, urgent need to feel the bare, radiating warmth of Bokuto’s chest against his own. When Bokuto arched up, seeking more friction, Akaashi pinned him down by the shoulders with a heavy, unyielding pressure.
"Stay still, Koutarou," Akaashi commanded, his voice dark and dripping with absolute authority.
Bokuto’s breath hitched completely, his golden eyes wide and dilated in the dim light as he sank back into the pillows.
He went entirely pliant under Akaashi's weight, his hands trembling against the mattress, fully yielding control to the editor who spent his days organizing chaos and his midnights commanding a giant.
Akaashi leaned down, capturing Bokuto's mouth in a deep, slick, bruising kiss that completely shattered the final remnants of their strict, unspoken boundaries.
"Hands on the mattress, Koutarou," Akaashi commanded, his voice dropping into a quiet, smooth octave that left absolutely no room for negotiation. "You don't get to touch me tonight."
Bokuto let out a low, frustrated whine, but the ingrained habit of obedience in this room won out.
He flattened his large palms against the dark hotel sheets, his knuckles turning white from the sheer effort of restraining himself.
His chest heaved, his bare skin flushed and slick with heat as Akaashi slowly slid down his lap, shifting his weight with agonizing deliberate precision.
Akaashi liked the power of it. knowing that a single look could keep a world-class athlete pinned to a bed.
With slow, teasing strokes, Akaashi ran his fingertips up the inside of Bokuto’s thick thighs, completely avoiding the center of his heat. He watched Bokuto’s hips jerk upward instinctively, only for Akaashi to press a heavy, punishing hand against his hip bone, forcing him back down.
"I didn't say you could move," Akaashi
murmured, a small, dark smirk tugging at his lips as he watched Bokuto's gold eyes cloud over with desperate need.
Akaashi finally wrapped his fingers around him, his grip firm and unyielding. He began a slow, rhythmic friction, drawing out every single stroke until Bokuto’s breath was nothing but ragged, broken gasps.
Just as Bokuto’s head rolled back against the pillows, his jaw straining as he neared the edge, Akaashi abruptly stopped. He pulled his hands away entirely, leaving Bokuto suspended right at the brink, trembling and completely undone.
"Please, 'Kaashi, please," Bokuto begged, his voice cracking as his fingers twitched against the sheets, desperate to break the rule just to pull Akaashi back down.
"Not yet," Akaashi whispered, leaning down just close enough to brush his lips against Bokuto's burning earlobe. "We have an extension on our midnight hours, Koutarou. I'm going to make it last."