Kokichi and Shichi stay up late studying for mid-exams.

A/N: Non-despair au!!

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Mid-exams suck, that's what Kokichi concluded upon staying up way later than he usually would on a Sunday night in his boyfriend's room. But hey, at least of all the people he could study with it's him. However, there is a plus to this arrangement of their's, usually whenever they did this he had a tendency to just bluff his way through whatever he was asked until eventually he gave or got the right answer, but this time there was a catch. 

For every answer he gets right on his first try he gets a kiss. 

It was a deal he couldn't possibly deny, so here Kokichi was, absentmindedly tracing the lines on his boyfriend's palms as he rambled on until he interrupted him. "And how am I supposed to find x without a sheet of paper to write it all down?"

"Right right, here let me go get you one..." Sadly, he has to let go of his hand to reach into his binder to get a piece of scratch paper but he soon returns it when giving him a piece of paper and a lead pencil. With a teasing grin, he says:

"Nee-hee-hee! Not so smart are you now? Don't worry I'll still love you either way," Once again, sadly having to let go of his hand, instead switching out the right for the left one he gets to work, and about a minute later he's reached the end of the problem and where he chooses to enact a little playful plan he just thought up of. 

"Weellllll... Nine divided by three would mean that the answer would be..." Untangling his hand from Shuichi's, with one finger he traced a line of the detective's palm up to his finger and curled it upwards, toying with it. "One..." Then he moved to the another, tracing each separate line on the finger till moving to the other. "...Two,"

As he reached the third he moved his head forward to kiss the tip of it then, with eyes full of mirth he looked towards his boyfriend, smirking. "...Three! X is three right?" Shuichi says nothing and stays silent and if it's anything from the rising flush reaching from one ear to the other and silently gulps, shakily.  Ouma's smirk just grows wider.

"Aww c'mon, don't go soft on me now." He moves and pokes his cheek watching as the blush grows brighter on him and feeling how the budding warmth in his heart grows stringer as well.

"...Kokichi..." He silently says, though he isn't disappointed, it's a faux tone at best. 

"Yes, that is my name! Thank you for noticing,"

"Kokichi..."

"Yeesssss?" He stretches it out, leaning in close to his face as he tilts his head to the side in a case of faux innocence. 

"You can't just do that..."

"Do what?"

"You know what I mean,"

"Do I though?" He tilted his head to the side with a look of faux innocence, blinking at him as he kicked his feet back and forth in the background. Shuichi let out a heavy sigh, wishing away the blush on his face desperately as he looked up at his boyfriend, yet not a single ounce of any kind of negative emotion was on his face. "You do,"

Giving up, Kokichi nods without a single amount of remorse. 

Shuichi looks at him with a slight skeptic look, the blush having started to settle. He's tilted his head to the side raising his brows at him as a natural expression is splayed across his face. "You seem to forget that two can play at that game? Right?"

"Hm? As if you of all people could- huh?" Before Kokichi can finish his sentence he's distracted by the two hands cupping his cheeks, squishing them together. He looks at his boyfriend, briefly sticking his tongue out at him then putting it back not expecting much. What he doesn't expect is to be brought in for a kiss by the other teen, when they part he's sure his face is as red as the others.

"H-hey that's not fair! You're playing dirty! Dirty Dirty Detective!" The Supreme Leader's voice trembles a bit as he accuses his boyfriend but there's no real malice in it.

As he does this Shuichi shies away from his look, grabbing the sides of the hood of his hoodie and pulling it over his head, tugging at the strings to hide his flushed face. "You do the same thing..."

With a pout across his face, the flushing not going down he intertwined his fingers with Shuici's as he looked away from him. "It's different though..."

"Mmmhhh, is it really though?"

With a sigh, he nods not as fervently as he usually would, letting tiredness start to sink its claws into him. He flops onto his side right next to the detective. "You know what I mean, now come on let's..." He lets out a loud yawn, already feeling his eyes start to droop closed. "Let's take a quick nap... All this studying has made me tired..."

Putting the papers into the binder along with the lead pencil, without not much care- he'd worry about it next morning- he pushed it off the bed, along with turning off his bedside lamp as well, all in favor of shifting onto his side and hugging Kokichi against his chest. With one hand he moves to grab the blanket that had been strewn along to the side and cover them both with it.  "Same here..."

Kokichi turns around and feeling as Shuichi plants a kiss on his forehead, in return, ignoring the growing heat on his face and giddying warmth rising in his chest making his fingers tingle, he presses a kiss onto the detective collar bone, laying his face in the crook of his boyfriend's neck.  "G'night..."

Shuichi just curls around him, his breaths starting to grow slower as his heartbeat evens out. "Good night," 

Breathing in the scent of freshly made sheets, Kokichi falls asleep surrounded by warmth.