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The phone rang and seeing the name appear, Tang Xuan sighed.
It was Yamato. More precisely Yuuhime and Yamato. Since the incident on the White Beluga, he has kept in touch with them. To ask about Yuuhime, his friend, and to reprimand Yamato, who keeps causing chaos around him. But when it's not him who calls them, it's either because the sister wants to spend some quality time with him, or in this specific case...
Tang Xuan picks up the phone and can already hear the screams of the two brother and sister who are making gibberish from interrupting each other.
Another argument...
Ever since the White Beluga incident, Yamato has taken control over his sister. But that doesn't mean he tyrannizes her. His saying is 'Freedom lies in control', quite contradictory, but he respects this: Yamato may control her, he gives her much more freedom than their former torturer allowed. For example, he lets her express herself. Which is already a lot compared to before, but not enough and for good reasons. Yuuhime wants to be truly free.
So they quarrel. And not only about that. Sometimes it's about trivial things like what food to eat, what clothes to wear and who owns what... Usually, Tang Xuan stands by Yuuhime to support her, and sometimes, he tries to give advice to try to fix their family situation, it would be nice if their problems could be resolved without any damage. It is indeed sad to see how much their relationship has deteriorated.
But this was too much! Lately, they only call him to tell who has what, and even if Tang Xuan had all the patience in the world, he couldn't take it anymore!
"I SAID MANY TIMES! LEARN TO SHARE!
-It's not-
-SHARE!"
And he hung up. Yamato called him back immediately but he refused to answer.
Let them leave him alone. Today is his day off and no one has the right to disturb him. Too many people have already done so.
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In the evening, still at his house, the doorbell rang.
Tang Xuan was watching a series while drinking jasmine tea. He put down the cup and turned off the TV to go open it. He grimaced when he saw the two siblings in front of him.
“You came to my house because you don’t know how to share?”
They look at him with a serious expression. Silently, they both nod at the same time.
“Do I really need to repeat myself ?”
“There’s no question of sharing this time.” Yuuhime said. And the fact that she was the one who took the initiative indicates that the object of desire was not something ordinary.
He ushers them into his house and sets the kettle on for more tea before sitting down at the table, staring at his two guests, who still have serious looks on their faces. How much does this mean to them?
He cleared his throat.
“Can I ask you what it is?”
Neither Yuuhime nor Yamato answered him. They both avoided him with their eyes. Were they ashamed when they realized the situation? Although the older brother was more or less shameless. It would be surprising if he felt embarrassed over something so stupid.
"I'm not going to play guessing games. Tell me what it is if you really want advice.
-We don't want advice, Yamato replied, we want your opinion.
-I still can't answer if I don't know what it is."
Nothing. Yuuhime tried to say but her sentence sounded more and more like stammering that it was incomprehensible, Yamato wanted to translate her terms but did not have the words so remained silent. Tang Xuan sighed.
"Sorry to tell you this then, but I can't say anything other than what I told you before: learn to share."
They got angry and Yamato hit the table as he stood up.
"It's you!" he yelled.
Tang Xuan was stunned. But he roughly understood the situation.
"You were fighting over me?
-Yes!!" they answered in unison.
He took his time to think. He wouldn't say that he was as close to them as he was to his other friends like Li Ling for example. But he was flattered. He liked the idea that Yuuhime felt close enough to him to want to argue against her brother. On the other hand, with Yamato, he was perplexed. He is a manipulator and a maniac, and he has already played him for his plans. He doesn't think that Yamato is honest and that he mostly wants to use him... But, it is true that he is not that bad. Most of the time, he helps for the good of all, even if it is for very selfish reasons. But Tang Xuan does not consider Yamato as his friend.
...However, he knows him well enough to know that not going his way would cause a lot of problems. Besides, forming a friendship might prove useful...
This will seem cruel, especially to Yuuhime. But what he's going to say will surely upset them.
"I don't see why it would be wrong to split my time between you two."
The siblings' eyes widened in shock. They didn't know what to say.
The kettle started to whistle and Tang Xuan got up to serve them tea.
At that precise moment, the two siblings met each other's gaze. They seemed to be speaking to each other through their thoughts, sharing the same idea and the same feeling of irritation.
They pounced on Tang Xuan and knocked him to the ground.
He didn't have time to understand what was happening to him, one took him by the arm and pressed her chest against him, the other took him by the hips and put his head under his, tickling him with his two-tone hair. And while he was about to retort something, they began to get closer, rub against him, kiss Tang Xuan that he could only moan in embarrassment.
“What are you doing?!” he shouted in a high-pitched voice.
The only response he received was intensified rubbing. He struggled but was quickly subdued.
And then he felt lips on the back of his neck, a warm breath against his skin, he got shivers, then he saw Yuuhime straighten up and place herself in front of his face, her thin mouth coming closer before placing a soft kiss on his lips.
Tang Xuan slapped his hands on the ground, demanding to be allowed to breathe. All Yuuhime and Yamato did was stand up while holding him.
Tang Xuan was completely red up to his ears, his cheeks were stinging and his lips were itchy. How should he react to this?
"What's gotten into you-..." he couldn't finish his sentence,
- We're following your advice, see!" Yamato retorted with his mocking tone. And still with an arched smile and a haughty look, he began to tease him by caressing under his sweatshirt.
Yuuhime interrupts him before her brother can go any further.
"You're making him uncomfortable..."
Yamato stared at her and shrugged as he pulled his hand away. But that didn't stop him from wanting to annoy Tang Xuan.
"You said it yourself: let's learn to share.
-My time! Tang Xuan cried. I said my time can be shared between you two! Not me!
-Indeed. We are sharing time with you right now."
Tang Xuan wanted so badly to silence Yamato's snicker and make him want to stop playing with words. And as he was about to make a new remark, his breath was quickly cut off as he felt Yamato's teeth nibble his neck lightly, his tongue caressing him. He let out a small cry of astonishment. Yuuhime threw her brother away immediately.
"You're hurting him!"
Yamato glared at her.
"Stop playing innocent, you were cuddling him a second ago!
-Yes but- I wasn't hurting him!
-Because you thought I was hurting him?! I was giving him pleasure!
-That was clearly not sweet!
-Well show it then!"
Yuuhime, suddenly all shy, grumbled in her little voice. She breathed and leaned over Tang Xuan's lips to kiss him. The poor boy didn't have time to say anything as he already felt the thin lips placing a chaste kiss on him that became more and more tender as they pressed a little more gently. The purple lipstick smudged onto his skin.
Oh gods, it was almost touching. He almost wanted to let go.
However, he put his hands on Yuuhime's shoulders to signal her to stop. She did so reluctantly, saddened that this kiss could not last longer. Her brother mocked, and the sister's red and disappointed face gave way to displeasure towards him.
Tang Xuan finally sat down. He stared at them, as they were about to argue again. And before the bombshell exploded between the two of them, he finally spoke up and demanded the two of them to immediately go sit at the table and wait for tea. His tone was so stern that they trembled and obeyed his orders.
Tang Xuan went away, not to the kitchen but to the bathroom. He examined his face in the mirror. The traces of lipstick covered his mouth. Seeing this, he remembered the feeling of the girl's lips...
He shook his head and splashed water on his face and neck. On the back of his neck, the teeth marks were becoming less and less red. Tang Xuan frantically rubbed his lips and neck, refusing to remember the moment before.
He came back, his head completely red. Yamato would surely have made an unpleasant remark if he saw him. He took the kettle and served them tea.
He sat down and for a moment he said nothing. This annoyed Yamato.
"Are you going to leave us without an answer now?"
Tang Xuan thought again.
Clearly, he thought they were talking about friendship, he didn't think that in a short time they would develop feelings for him. But at the same time, their situations are somewhat peculiar. So is it so surprising ?
He looked at Yuuhime. He liked her. And that kiss on the mouth didn't leave him indifferent. He would like to go out with her, at least so she can have an idea of what it's like to go out with someone. But, and unfortunately but, turning his gaze toward him, he fears the brother's reaction. He is capable of sabotaging them, of forcing his sister to do something she doesn't want. And even try to use the cursed artifact against Tang Xuan. And no, he doesn't want to go out with him.
It's really not easy to make a choice. He hesitates.
The siblings noticed this hesitation. Yamato sighed.
"Alright, we'll share your time."
Tang Xuan wanted to answer something else, but this is rather ideal in itself. He could spend quality time with Yuuhime while keeping Yamato at a distance.
huuuuuuuuuh i'm sorryyyyyy for all of this cringey momentssss i'm ashamed of myself. I SWEAR IT WASN'T LIKE THAT IN MY HEAD !
the initial idea was Tang Xuan trying to going out with the izanabros one at a time, learning new things about them and slowly falling in love....
... with Yuuhime. OBVIOUSLY YUUHIME !!!
I know my otp is TX x Yamato, but I'm not delusional enough to say it's a healthy relationship ! no it's not !
ugh... The story would have gone like this :
After this awkward meeting, Tang Xuan first choose to have a date with Yuuhime. He learns about her likings and has an overall great time with her. And the more date he goes with her, the more he learns how under all that shyness, she is incredibly passionate and resolved (I imagined a scene where Yuuhime stops a fight between two strangers that interrupted their date haha)... then they get cuddlier and cuddlier and we know what happens next...
As for Yamato's dates, they don't get along. They have too opposite tastes and that doesn't mix up that well. (For example, I think about a date in a fancy place and Tang Xuan doesn't get the appeal behind it, or a date in the arcade when this time Yamato doesn't really enjoy the games.) I have a particular scene where Yamato brings Tang Xuan to a theatre to see an opera, and he gets bored so he gets sleepy but tries to fight it until he realizes Yamato has fallen asleep on his shoulder, letting himself being vulnerable. From there, Tang Xuan learns new facette about him. Ultimately he wouldn't choose him but he would try to make Yamato understands that they can't be a thing and he needs to accept it.
anyway, until next scrapped fic....