tp5: kippei and shinji

[shattermelt]

Kippei stared down at the note on his bed, and read it three times. Then he dropped it, letting it flutter to the floor like a dead leaf, and rubbed the back of his neck as he stared at the wall where, if this had been a groundbased structure, there would probably have been a window. Shinji was spending the night in Brown, to visit Inanna. That was fair enough. Fucking curfew. It was too late now to go after him. Kippei ignored the oddly crushing sense of disappointment, and went about getting ready for sleep the way he used to, before Shinji.

It was like saying before space travel, or before the war. Before something that changed the world so completely that you could barely remember what it had been like... but it hadn't been that long, really, and habits died hard.

Or not, because once he'd changed into sleeping clothes and stood beside the bed, it looked decidedly unattractive. He went out to sit on the couch for awhile instead, until he was tired enough not to care that his bed was far emptier than it should be. He fell asleep there, and woke up early in the morning with a stiff neck and cold from lack of blankets. Dammit. And Shinji still wasn't home, probably wouldn't be until this evening, and didn't that just suck. Since he was awake anyway, he went ahead and went to work, even though it was much too early, and by the time he came home again he was, for some reason, half expecting Shinji to still be gone.

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[ayretala.livejournal.com]

Shinji hid on the opposite side of the doorway than he knew Kippei would come home by, and waited until the door slid open and Kippei was stepping inside, looking deciedly miserable, before sneaking out and reaching over Kippei's shoulders to put his hands over Kippei's eyes. He hadn't showered yet; had fluked getting home a few minutes before Kippei but he figured Kippei would like the scent of grease and oil. At least, he usually seemed to. Amused by the thought, Shinji reached up on his toes and blew warm breath over the back of Kippei's neck before leaning in to kiss the skin there, still not moving his hands.

"Guess who?"

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Kippei relaxed, instantly and completely and for the first time today, leaning back into Shinji and smiling, just faintly.

"Shinji." He sounded relieved and suddenly content, and also slightly wondering, almost surprised--partly because it was still a surprise, an amazing thing that Shinji wanted to be here at all. Maybe part of him had been a little bit afraid that Shinji was getting tired of it, although he'd known that Shinji wanted to see Inanna and that was a perfectly good reason for him to be gone.

"Mmmm, you smell good." And feel good, and suddenly everything was just good.

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Shinji let his hands drop to Kippei's shoulders, sliding down his back and slipping around his waist, pulling him close and inhaling deeply.

"So do you..." But he wasn't saying or doing anything more until they were in and then he ordered the door closed, then he was on his toes again, licking at Kippei's ear and murmering husky 'I missed yous'.

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Kippei turned when the door closed behind them, letting his arms close around Shinji and hugging him tight, loosing a rusty sound of laughter at the way Shinji's tongue tickled his ear.

"I missed you too," he admitted, a little awkwardly. He felt silly saying so, and never would have if Shinji hadn't said it first, but Shinji had, and maybe it was okay, maybe it was normal to miss someone when they were only gone for a day.

[ayretala.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, Shinji hadn't expected him to actually say ditto! It amazed him and delighted him at the same time. It felt good, to be able to hold Kippei again. Ina was nice and squishy and gave fun hugs, but they just weren't the same. Smirking, Shinji walked forward, pushing Kippei straight across the room and into the bedroom, pushing him back onto the bed and leaning down to kiss him stupid.

"How much?"

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Kippei blinked, wanting to go back to kissing because that had been good, and trying to figure out what Shinji was talking about. How much what?

Oh. He frowned slightly. How were you supposed to qualify that? So much that... as much as... what? His eyes slid away from Shinji's, hesitating before he answered. Weird question, and it was uncomfortable to know how revealing the answer was, but he wasn't sure that Shinji would realise it, understand what it meant.

"Like flying," he muttered, a bit reluctantly. For just one night, and he'd given up flying more or less for good, but it was the same.

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Like...flying? Shinji thought about it for all of five seconds, then froze.

...oh. That was a whole shitload since Kippei didn't miss anything at all in the same fucking universe like he missed flying.

"Well...there's my warm fuzzy for the day," Shinji murmered softly, smiling and gently taking hold of Kippei's chin, thumb caressing Kippei's lips while Shinji met the dark gaze. "I...I give you wings?" In a sense?

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Kippei smiled, relaxing again. "Yeah," he said softly. Something like that.

"It's like being free," he added after a minute, shrugging. He couldn't really explain it anymore than that. It was why he loved flying, because nothing was holding you back and you could just... go, the most free and clear thing in the world. But being with Shinji was the same thing, like suddenly being cut loose of everything that had ever held him down.

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Being free? Jesus fucking christ, who was this lock schmuck fool and what had he done with Ambassador Kippei? Shinji chuckled softly and his hands carefully undid Kippei's belt, pulling it and sliding it out from under Kippei then reaching for the zipper on his pants.

"Mmm...I should make sure I free...every...little...part of..you then, huh?" He accentuated each word with wet kisses across Kippei's lower belly.

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Kippei slid his fingers into Shinji's hair, like an anchor, though really he didn't need one. Along with being free came the feeling of being absolutely safe, as if he could never fall.

"You already did," he answered, grinning a bit and then exhaling with a rush as Shinji hit a sensitive spot. Mmmm, that felt good.

[ayretala.livejournal.com]

"Mmm...before, but not this time..." He carefully tugged down Kippei's trousers, then stuck a hand under the elastic on his underwear, just playing with it for a minute while he kissed the inside of Kippei's thigh. He couldn't hide the smirk on his face. Tentatively, as if he had never done it before, he pulled Kippei's underwear free, tossing them across the floor, then wrapped his arms around Kippei, nuzzling against his lower belly. Naked Kippei was just sexy as all hell...even if he was only half naked, that was so not the point.

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Kippei laughed, because that hadn't been what he meant, but it didn't matter. "Mmmm," he agreed, a little half smile lurking as he raised himself on his elbows, watching with dark eyes as Shinji undressed him.

"Trust you to start with the important half first," he murmured, amused. His own fingers started tugging at the buttons on his shirt and jacket, wanting to get out of the least comfortable part of his uniform.

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Shinji just stuck his tongue out, then put it to good use, trailing it down one side of Kippei's groin, deliberately avoiding the 'important' bits. He studied Kippei for a moment then, spread out on the bed, half undressed and just the sexiest fucking thing in existence.

"Mmm I talked about that with Ina. I decided I liked a guy in uniform, so I didn't want to take it off..."

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Kippei stared at him, completely nonplussed for a minute. "You talked about that... with Inanna?"

Okay, that was weird. Definitely weird to think of Shinji talking to Inanna about anything like that, especially about him in particular.

[ayretala.livejournal.com]

"Mmm...she's good at getting stuff out of people. Really, I think she was just excited that I even had a boyfriend or anything...I think she hopes I'll turn into a weird pervert like her." He winked, not meaning it at all, and gave in, shifting to push Kippei's jacket off his shoulders and tugging it free, tossing it aside.

"You wouldn't like me in uniform?"

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Kippei paused, that being a new idea. Shinji in a uniform? He liked Shinji in his work clothes, definitely, but he didn't think that was what Shinji meant. He tried picturing Shinji wearing a pilot's jumpsuit instead, and whoa, that was really hot. Of course, it was Shinji, who would look sexy as hell in damn near anything.

"Maybe I would," he admitted, eyeing Shinji with a speculative gleam in his eye. "I like you like this, though," he added, tugging at Shinji's grease stained shirt. Mmmm yeah.

[ayretala.livejournal.com]

Mmm yeah, it was hot. But it was nice to know Kippei still liked him just as he was, dirty stained shirts and torn jeans and all. And that gleam in Kippei's eyes was hot! Shinji gave up on trying to get the damn uniform off and just kissed the man, and god he would never get enough of that taste and texture and the whole tone of Kippei's kisses.

"I think you're perfect, as long as you're you."

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"I'm always me," Kippei muttered, a pointless observation as he rolled over on top of Shinji and kissed him back. Kissing Shinji was like flying, only better.

He licked Shinji's cheek and leaned down to nibble on his shoulder--Shinji tasted like grease and sweat and it was so very hot. "You're sexy," he noted, purring a little in the back of his throat. He could kind of see where Shinji's reluctance to get rid of the uniform came in, since he was a bit reluctant himself to do away with Shinji's clothes entirely. But they were in his way, so they had to go. He started with the pants, since Shinji had obviously had the right idea.

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It was a little bit annoying that he had been on top and toying with his sexy toyboy one minute and then all of a sudden he was on his back and Kippei was getting rid of his pants. Shinji pouted a little, but not for long because Kippei thought he was sexy and that was damn cool. Because even as a goofy mechanic, Kippei still thought that.

"You seem impatient, Ambassador. Did my pants offend you?"

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Kippei flicked a glance at him, briefly, amused and yes, definitely impatient.

"Your fault," he told Shinji, smirking a bit. "You started it." Kippei would have been perfectly happy to just kiss the hell out of him and hold him for awhile, because he'd missed that as much as he had anything else, but Shinji had been all sexy and started taking clothes off and it was impossible not to want more in face of that. He shifted off of Shinji just enough to drag the offending pants down over his hips, pushing them all the way down and stroking Shinji's thigh on the way back up. Mmmmm.

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"I started it? Mmm, no that was so you standing in the doorway looking all sexy and tragic and then you admitted you missed me, so it was so you who started it, as if I was going to leave you alone after that..." Shinji's heart missed a beat as his pants were discarded, still nervous of this; of being allowed to touch Tachibana Kippei, but he was and that was that. No way was he giving it up, not for anything. And okay, the shirt Kippei was wearing still really had to go, so Shinji flicked the buttons open and pulled it off, tossing it aside and he idly wondered what the side of the bed looked like, the way they had both been tossing things aside. Not that it mattered. Shinji leant up on one elbow and attacked one of Kippei's nipples with his tongue.

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Kippei blinked up at him, a bit surprised. "Sexy and tragic?" he asked, bemused. Did he really look that bad off? And Shinji had jumped him because Kippei said he missed him. Well. He wasn't complaining about that.

He chuckled again, his laughter turning breathless and fading when Shinji licked him. Yes, okay, forget who started it, this was great, and with their pants gone Kippei made short work of Shinji's underwear, and then he could slide his leg up between Shinji's and settle against his hip, rubbing a little as he leaned up to kiss Shinji again, very thoroughly indeed. Mine.

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Shinji gasped into the open mouthed kiss, feeling hardness against his hip and rubbing his own against Kippei's thigh and there was that sense of Kippei claiming him in the way he curled around him and kissed him and Shinji pushed back just as hard. You're mine, you said I can have you. God, there had never been anything Shinji wanted the way he wanted Kippei.

"You make me crazy in the best way."

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Kippei agreed wholeheartedly. "You're the best thing ever," he told Shinji, growling at bit as he attacked Shinji's neck, sucking hard enough to leave a mark. Mine. Nobody else's but mine. And he was Shinji's, which was what made it perfect. He could feel it in the way Shinji pushed back against him, kissing him back almost desperately as if to say he wanted to keep him too.

He decided Shinji's shirt was still in the way and finished taking it off of him, picking impatiently at the buttons to get more warm skin, running his hands over Shinji's chest and stomach and nuzzling at his neck. All his.

[ayretala.livejournal.com]

It was relieving somehow, whenever Kippei said that. The best thing ever, better than any ship or flying or anyone else. Just the best thing. He smiled and helped get rid of his shirt, laughing a little at the hot breath on his neck that matched the heat growing in his belly under Kippei's hands. His fingers worked their way into Kippei's hair, massaging gently, every movement longing to make Kippei feel better; better than good.

"I don't like leaving you alone. What if someone steals you away while I'm gone?" It was said jokingly, as if he thought Kippei might run off with someone else. But he really meant, what if they kill you while I'm not here.