[you belong to me]

[covenantal]

This is an AU for two nerds who discovered their feelings are mutual.

• Where it started. (bakerstreet)

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[covenantal]

A little, [ Yu concedes with a quiet huff that will have to pass for a laugh, given that he's not much for laughing out loud.

He can tell Yosuke is thinking hard about this, and probably feels a little guilty over things. As far as Yu is concerned, there isn't really anything to feel guilty about, but he knows how his friend-- boyfriend worries. Appearances, making others happy; these are chief concerns to Yosuke, and sometimes they go hand in hand, and sometimes they clash. He knows right now that the latter is part of the problem, what with them needing to appear to be just friends when Yosuke wants him to be happy, too.

But the answer he gets manages to surprise him yet again. Is dating Yosuke always going to surprise him this much? Yu blinks, and then flushes a little, ducking his chin. ]

It doesn't sound dumb. [ A beat. ] I...

[ He looks up without lifting his head. Yosuke will start to recognize this as how he gets when he's feeling shy. ]

... I wouldn't know what to ask you for.

[ He's open to the idea, but truly, he has no aspirations. The idea of being able to ask for more is at once enticing and terrifying, and he thinks, maybe, they should be setting those boundaries together. ]

[hoyay]

[ The answer was expected from Yu and the shy look he gets was also kind of expected. (He didn't have to not say he didn't sound dumb because he most certainly did though.) There was a part of him that hoped that Yu could have offered him something to work with. Even if it was asinine. ]

Just think about it. [ Yosuke says with some reservations himself. He knew that was a lot to present to Yu right from the start but he meant it. Asking for things seemed logical for Yosuke; there was a lot that he wanted both materialistically and not. He was kind of shameless about it, if he wanted to be honest with himself.

And he just knew that he could ask almost anything from Yu and it would be met with both an agreement and results. He had seen the way that Yu will sometimes hold onto particular items from the TV world for people in Inaba. Yosuke wanted to do the same. ] I'm not as good as you are with granting requests but—

[ His voice is lighthearted, he sticks a thumb up, and offers Yu that bright smile he always tried to keep up whenever possible. ]

I'll try; I like being relied on.

[ And there'd be no better person to rely on him than Yu. Of course, he was already there for him as much as any person could be but he wanted to do more. He had thought of it as a pain in the past when people bothered him incessantly at Junes for one thing or another, but he had come to realize that it wasn't all that awful. It made him feel good when he could help.

Quietly, he'll add on: ] And, you know, because you're important too.