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Sweetly swaying, dreaming on the moon (Your cold cheeks),

Hotter than the sun, let me feel the warmth.

If we can head towards the sun and moon and meet there. Hey~
Me and you.

-EXO Drop that (Japanese Version)

This was not what he had expected.

Sure, Kise was a professional model. He probably did extremely well in his job, seeing how much money he had based on the different amazing and stylish clothes that he put on every day. Besides, gathering from the time he took every single morning to actually prepare himself by finding the correct clothes, the perfect hairstyle and also putting on the barest makeup needed for the day, one could probably guess the amount of effort he needed to make to present himself was of course because of his outstanding career.

The thing is, Kuroko never knew how professional the young model could be.

It was the first time that Kuroko had actually stepped in to watch Kise in an actual professional modelling job. Normally, he would just accompany the model into the outside door and go do whatever he was supposed to before coming to actually pick him out or taking him out outside and go for a drink or whatsoever. His head hurt remembering how he had tried to find a place where no one would actually recognize the model. That was partially impossible, seeing that the blond hair and the bright eyed model was extremely eye-catching. He frowned every time someone scouted him as Kise had to stop and reject the person by saying that he actually had a modelling career.

Back to the incident on hand, Kuroko was shocked to see how Kise looked. He was all goofy and joking just now. A moment ago, he was merely joking with Kuroko as the stylist was putting on making and fixing his hairstyle for the photo-shoot. The young model had been laughing along with them as he cracked jokes with boss the boss and the employee. But the same model was now posing professionally for the cameraman. His eyes were still bright as if he was telling a story. He wore a brown jacket with a simple black T-shirt underneath, and the black tight leather pants was certainly doing no justice as they further showed the thin legs that the model had. He gulped instantly at the thought of how uncomfortable those were to Kise, and the fact that he looked so cool, and a bit cold and distant actually scared the young man. The professionalism that he was showing now reminded him that this was the working world, and it really didn't matter who you were, but as long as you have a job, you had to work hard to keep it.

"Like what you see?" His boss's deep voice broke Kuroko's train of thought. He coughed a bit and shook his head.

"I-I wasn't staring." He uttered quietly, hoping that his boss would just drop the subject. A smirk reached Akashi's face slowly and he teased his employee.

"Not staring? I was pretty sure your eyes were on his dark leather pants a few moments ago."

Kuroko's head shot up to see a teasing smile on his employer's face. His brain tried to work to form a reply, but the mesmerizing gaze that he was facing just took his breath away. The mismatched eyes had caught his eyes before, but now they were just fascinating. He looked from the red to the gold as he caught a flicker of sadness behind those strong and powerful stare. Then Akashi blinked, then the magic disappeared. Kuroko blinked and realized that he had been staring and looked away awkwardly.

"I didn't know you were the type to tell jokes, Akashi-san."

A small chuckle could be heard as Akashi shook his head and merely tilted his head to the direction of where Kise was. The model was discussing something with the photographer. When he caught Kuroko looking, he turned to his direction and threw a smile and a wink to him. Kuroko merely smiled and nodded his head in reply. Then he stopped.

"I swear I heard some sort of cursing behind me just now." He turned back to face his boss.

Akashi only shrugged.

"Thank you for coming over to shoot this commercial, Ryouta." Akashi shook Kise's hand again after the entire photo-shoot was over.

"No problem, Akashichii. Besides, it was really fun! And the clothes you had were really nice. Thanks for them again!" Kise gave a big smile and held up the bag at the side. The clothes were sponsored, and the designers would certainly be proud to hear that the model Kise actually took a liking to their clothes, now what they would hope next would be a post to Snapchat or Instagram to actually promote their line.

"Thanks anyway, here, your cab is here." Akashi pointed to a car that stopped in front of the office and gave a brief smile. Kise waved and wished Kuroko all the best before getting into the cab and left.

Kuroko smiled at the young model and waved as the cab drove off. Next to him, Akashi checked his watch before shaking his head. He tapped his employee on the shoulder and entered the building with Kuroko behind him. At the lobby, he looked around before going to the reception counter and telling Kuroko to sit on one of the couches to wait for him. Kuroko nodded and headed off to one of the near couches.

As he was taking his notebook out of his pocket, his pen dropped. Bending a bit, he tried to pick it up. A hand then reached for it and passed it to him, their fingers brushing slightly. Kuroko bit his lip and looked up to see the red haired boss standing there. He immediately stood up and apologized.

"It was nothing. Let's go up now." Kuroko nodded before following his boss up.

On the way up, Akashi was talking in his cellphone and Kuroko fiddled with his pen. His mind was still on the time when their hands brushed together. He was sure that he had gotten over his feelings, just at least a little, when they had met again. But when their fingers came in contact, a rush of adrenaline had ran through him like an electric current. He blushed when he saw those slim, smooth fingers in his mind again and shook his head trying to get rid of the thought. He couldn't be feeling sparks now, after all, Akashi was engaged.

Engaged.

The word hit him again like a knife. Yes, Akashi was a businessman in and out. His engagement was probably beneficial to him, and perhaps it was more of a contract to expand his business than a real engagement, but it still meant that he probably was still getting married and was going to have a family with someone, and that person was definitely wasn't him. After all, what use could he have other than being a faithful, diligent and obedient secretary slash assistant slash partner in Akashi's life. He sighed. Not like he could do anything about it. But still, the news about Akashi being engaged hurt him more than he thought it would. Engaged huh….his mind lingered on it and he didn't realize that they had reached his floor until a hand waved in front of his eyes.

"Are you okay?" Akashi mouthed, still on the phone. Kuroko nodded and gave a small smile to his boss. Pleased with his answer, Akashi went bad to the matters on his phone as his eyebrows creased, then he started shouting on his phone. Kuroko didn't understand what language he was speaking. When they entered Akashi's office, his boss slumped on a chair and continued to talk on his phone while Kuroko merely stood in front of his boss's table and waited for the next instructions to come.

"Goddamit!" After what seemed like an eternity, Akashi finally ended the call and ran a hand into his red locks of hair. Kuroko gulped a bit. Akashi was naturally hot and sexy to him, so no matter what he did, he would still look perfect to Kuroko, and the fact the Kuroko once had a crush on his boss definitely wasn't helping at all.

10 years.

Yes, 10 years and the crush hadn't faded at all.

"Is there any problem, Akashi?" Kuroko pointed to the phone that Akashi had left on the table when he stood up.

"I have a branch in China. Apparently some emergency matters had gone there, the worst part is, it clashes with my trip in France!" Akashi shrugged off his blazer and sat down again as he thought about what to do before finally making a decision.

"Cancel my trip to France, and book tickets to China, you are coming with me." He finally huffed and crossed his arms. "That guy in France must be disappointed, but what to do? My own company comes first.

"Yes sir." Kuroko took out a notebook and wrote a small reminder down, "Anything else Akashi?"

"Not really, by the way, you can go home now." Akashi waved at him. "See you tomorrow."

Kuroko bowed slightly before opening the door. As he was about to leave, a question from Akashi stopped him in his tracks and he looked back, shocked.

"On second thought, would you care to join me for dinner?"

I BET YOU GUYS THOUGHT I WAS GONE! But who's here now? ME!

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