Re: ONCE TORU MAKES HIS WAY BACK TO THE DORMS~
"Okay. I just needed to know for sure."
Toru's forehead was so warm that to any casual observer, he'd have appeared feverish. Once Noboru hugged him, he mirrored the gesture, arms clumsily twining around his roommate's torso. He made no movement to shift his head away.
"You really didn't... but at least you..." The boy sighed. "At least your feelings were honest." Noboru had been annoying, but not malicious. And a small dishonesty didn't bother him nearly as much as previous lies had.
When Noboru pulled away from him, Toru folded back on himself, hugging arms to chest and looking downwards once more. "It's... it's fine. You did what you could." Then a sudden blush before responding to the remainder of Noboru's statement. "It was just a... kiss. And it wasn't a bad one. You could have done a lot worse that would have deserved a lot more apology, anyway..."
His hand went up to his own face, the area of his forehead and the bridge of his nose. Deep in thought, or at least worry.
"I don't... know. 'cause... I like you well enough, but at the same time... I'm not sure what my emotions are saying." Toru tilted his head backwards. "But my body is saying 'why the hell not'. And, I mean..."
Toru was getting into dangerous territory here. Was it okay to be that easily swayed by something like your roommate-who-flirts-like-a-thirteen-year-old kissing you like somebody who is patently not thirteen? The last time this happened, he ended up used. But at the same time, Noboru didn't seem half as inscrutable and manipulative as Kazuya, and he'd pleaded the case of his honest when Toru asked him. And he didn't dislike his roommate in any sense of the word, except when the teasing got excessive.
Only one way to test himself now. Toru darted forward at Noboru in a near-imitation of the boy's earlier actions, one hand on his knee and the other on the back of his head, and kissed him back.