Tiger & Bunny - Antonio/Kotetsu
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lirillithFandom: Tiger & Bunny
Characters: Antonio/Kotetsu
Word count: ~200 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nothing
Summary: Antonio finally says "to hell with it" and does what he's wanted to do for a while.
Notes: Written for the vocabulary meme on Tumblr; the word for this one was "strikhedonia."
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“One minute, huh?”
“Don’t even start, man,” Kotetsu retorts, taking a sip of his shochu.
“Just saying…”
“They’ve been joking about the time limit ever since I debuted. I might as well head ‘em off at the pass, right?” Kotetsu elbows him. “You care too much about what people think.”
“Hmmph.” That’s what Nathan likes to say, mostly when Antonio doesn’t want his ass grabbed in public. But if you ask him, Kotetsu’s the one who cares more, with all his worries about looking cool, about impressing Kaede, about dressing well and having new cars, new phones; his condo was on the Bronze Stage and it was a pigsty, at least until Barnaby entered the picture, but the things people would see him using and wearing, those had to look good. “Speak for yourself.”
“Fair,” Kotetsu agrees, good-naturedly, which isn’t what Antonio was expecting. “Guess I just learned to say to hell with it, you know? Somebody’s got to stand up for the lame-ass old men who run like dorks.”
“And all this time I thought you didn’t realize,” Antonio says. Kotetsu grins, and Antonio slings an arm around his shoulders. At first he thinks he’s going to go for the kind of half-headlock he always does, but then he just leaves it at that, an arm around his shoulders, and thinks, to hell with it, and presses a kiss to the side of Kotetsu’s head.
