Small Steps Suna Rintarou x Asano Kura
—Suna helps Kura who isn't used to physical touch with small steps before he kisses her.
For Kiss Day Yumefess 2023 #.KissKissMlyt
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Kura is not someone too experienced with physical touch. So when Suna asks to kisses her, he's surprised she even let him.
Now she stands in front of him, looking stiffer even than her usual stoic self, as Suna is holding her right cheek.
“Is it okay now?” he asks.
Kura lets out a long breath and closes her eyes, bracing herself.
“Yes.”
Suna pauses. Is it really okay? She always looks like she's forcing herself, but now she looks uncomfortable more than anytime else.
“Really?”
“Yup. Yes.”
”... okay then.”
Suna starts to lean forward slowly, until when his breath hits her skin where she flinches and Suna immediately stops.
“Kura?”
“M-mm?” She keeps her eyes closed and her voice slightly trembles but she tries to play it cool. Suna sighs and caresses her cheek.
“If you don't want me to kiss you, you could always say no.”
Kura immediately opens her eyes and gazes at Suna with a thousand mixed emotions in those gray irises.
“N-no, it's not that,” she says, “I … I'm just not used to something like this ….”
“Is that so,” says Suna.
The two of them goes silent for a second, before Suna thinks of something and mumbles:
“Small steps then.”
Kura looks up at him as he kisses the top of her head lightly, a gesture the girl is more comfortable with. Kura burrows her head a bit, but she let Suna continue.
Then, he raises her left hand and presses her fingers against his lips, Kura slightly moves, feeling ticklish from the sensation. Suna hums but still move to now kisses her on her forehead, a gesture as warm as it is gentle.
As he pulls back, a ghostly smile appears on his usually deadpan face, reassuring her.
“How about now?”
Kura nods. Her face and ears are unimaginably red, but with the 'small steps' Suna has done, she has made her resolve to be braver, something written right on her face. And seeing that, Suna decides she has finally relaxed enough for a kiss on the lips.
But before Suna could lean down, Kura grabs on his tie and pulls him forward as she stands on her tiptoes.
Then, without saying anything, Kura is the one who kisses Suna. It was only a light peck on his lips, a soft feather as her warmth tickles him. The first thought that passes by his shocked mind is how he wished she would stays like that for eternity, for as long as time will, but unfortunately it only lasts for a few seconds.
“D-done,” Kura whispers as she goes back to standing normally. She contemplates on burying her face on Suna's chest, but remembering his reaction the last time she did that, she decides to just avert her face, which only makes Suna able to see her expression clearly with just a bit of an effort.
Out of his shock, Suna slowly reaches out for her cheek again, this time pushing her fringes that's a hindrance to seeing Kura as he turns her head to face him again.
She stands still, more beautiful than ever. The built resolve that was there is now melted and gone, replaced by her true self. Her trembling lips, her reddened face, her almost teary eyes—this is the face of hers only he can see.
Suna immediately chuckles at the realization, catching Kura off-guard.
“R-rintarou?”
“Kura, you're definitely too cute~” Suna pinches her cheek with one hand while taking out his phone with another. “Should I take a picture?”
“Nho, I'm not! And dhon't yhou dhare!”