"Surprise!" Everyone cheered out loud in unison."Happy birthday!"

Masato stared in amazement, at the staff he was working with, the director, his band manager , fans and of course, his band mates! They were all congratulating him as he made his way inside his apartment, throwing confetti at him, offering him drinks until Takeru showed up with a simple yet delicious cake that was enough to make everyone's stomach grumble with approval in his hands, dimpled smiling.

The cake was, certainly waiting for the birthday boy to blow the candles, and he did. 

Laughter was immediately shared, hands clapped enthusiastically for him and Masato was showered with more pretty remarks from all the guests there. He couldn't be more than happy at this moment, despite how beat up he was from working his off for yet another working day and a stack of paper works.

A dangling sound of keys being swung was heard in the middle of the crowd and Masato who was constantly smiling from thanking everyone there, whipped his head after it caught his attention and he craned his neck once he couldn't find the source. Out of the blue he was suddenly dragged away from all his guests to a less crowded area and discovered himself looking at an unwrapped gift from Shinpei.

"Awh, thank you, Pei-chan."Masato smiled in gratitude as he happily accepted the latest edition of mini-yonku."This one will be added to my collection."

"You better!" The drummer gave him a brief yet warm and tight hug before disappearing into the crowd in search for some snacks.

Masato watched at the smaller male from behind with a smile never leaving his face before his eyes were granted by a sight of a wrapped present after a hand lowered it in front of him.

"Thank you, Yuji."Masato gave a mocking pout at the other but it didn't last long as he burst out laughing when his band mate responded to him by faking a punch in his face. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" He continued laughing, waving both hands in defense.

"You must have thought I didn't have something to give to you, huh?"Yuji stuffed the present in Masato's arms, its size was two times larger than Shinpei's. Masato wondered what was it this time from Yuji. 

"Yeah."He laughed once he managed to avoid yet another blow of attack from the other by running away to the other side of his apartment. There, he received lots more birthday presents and cards from almost the rest of the guests. Yes, almost because there was one missing person...

That being said, he found the bassist of his band, Chiyu...who was doing nothing but washing the dishes from the breakfast earlier. The leader was somehow glad his kitchen was spotless aside from the content of the sink.

Masato just realized of all his band mates out in the living room, Chiyu was the only one who didn't show up with the cake. But the leader did think he was there because he assumed he really was , in his field of vision; maybe he was being delusional...but it did feel like Chiyu was there, standing close to Yuji and Takeru as they huddled around him.

Wait, wait... that was last year. Oh great. The raven-head sighed softly against the back of the head of a teddy bear - another gift, this one was from a fan girl - and thought that it must have been because of his ty work, then made a move from behind to approach the seemingly-too-immersed silver-head in his current action and spoke.

"Chiyu."

"Holy mother er of -!"Chiyu cursed under neath his breath, the mug in his hands almost flew in the air if the silver-head hadn't taken a firm grip around it, despite his soapy hands. Masato was already panicking though, but wasn't enough to create such a scene to attract other people's attention to him thanked to the loud booming music in the air- as he rushed over to Chiyu after dropping all his gifts.

"Sorry." Masato,with hands were already reaching out at Chiyu, took a deep breath, trying to calm his nerves while he stood there next to Chiyu. He laughed slightly and unintentionally leaned against the other."Gosh, you scared me."

Chiyu smiled in amusement without a mirth."But who did to me in the first place?"

"Why aren't you joining the others?" He pulled himself away from Chiyu and began picking up his precious gifts from the floor. The bassist just shrugged his shoulders and continued with his delayed work.

"I'm just lazy." 

"Very funny, Chiyu." Masato turned around to set his gifts on the counter and heard as the sound of the water was turned off at the sink. He suddenly felt a pair of eyes were drinking in his every movement attentively ...and that made him feel vulnerable. Well, it must be Chiyu doing that. He crossed his arms, as he shifted his weight to a foot, eyes never tearing off from all those things on his counter. "So where's my present from you?"

"Excuse me?" Chiyu asked and Masato instantly gagged in surprise, looking into the silver-head's eyes who was now standing on his extreme right. 

The raven-head , who hadn't yet recovered from the shock a few seconds ago and annoyed at the fact that Chiyu just appeared like that, tried to be as solemn as he hard as he could.

"My present." The leader could feel the blush creep to the crest of his cheek bones, because Chiyu didn't seem to want to take his eyes off of him. But with his usual fake oblivious look that infuriated Masato."From you.... well, fine." He garnered his gifts back into his arms." You don't have one for me I know." 

"I didn't say anything, Maa-tan." Chiyu's laughter could be heard from behind as he threaded his way to his bedroom. "Oh, c'mon! You don't look pretty when you're sulking!"

"Like hell I am." Masato mumbled then stepped inside of his room. And when he was about to close the door with his free hand, one long arm slid in and propped against the door, preventing it from being closed and the leader knew right away that was Chiyu so he put all his weight against the door, grunting.

"Go have some snacks and the cake and drinks outside! There's nothing like that in my room!" Masato frowned as Chiyu wasn't listening to him then before the taller male eventually succeeded on getting inside. The leader looked at him with a defeated look and dropped all the gifts to the floor.

"I know." Chiyu said simply with his triumphant look then stuffed his hand in his front jeans pocket before fishing out a bunch of keys. Which were Masato's.

The leader cut him a narrow look, his blood boiling at a highest degree. No wonder he couldn't find them earlier on his way home and caused him to worry about them for more than an hour. In the end he chose to go to his apartment and pondered the idea to either break into his own place or bust through the front door...

But that also meant that Chiyu was the one behind all of this birthday party for him....right?

The realization hit Masato hard and left his jaw hanging, he was light years beyond surprised. 

"So, how big is my present for you?"

The condescending statement couldn't help but make Masato's eyes roll sideways and he held out both hands in Chiyu's direction, his palms up, gesturing the other to hand over his keys to him. 

"Big enough."He held back his tongue from tossing any curses at the other."I want my keys now."When Chiyu didn't respond and just closed their distance in two steps - he let out a groan. "Please. So then we can have some fun with other people outside and celebrate this birthday boy—"

His voice was immediately swallowed by the time Chiyu caught his lips with his in possessive manner. Masato gasped, reeling, more shocked than he had ever been in his life. He moaned into the kiss as the silver-head roughed his mouth against his that made his knees grow weak that he had to hold onto Chiyu so firm he doubted he could stand for another moment without having his own knees to support him standing.

"Happy birthday." The words sounded slurred to Masato's ears after Chiyu broke the deep-heated kiss the seconds after and the taller encircled his arms around his leader's waist before he sat himself on the edge of the bed. Masato was breathless, already melting in his arms and seemingly comfortable in that embrace. And somewhat shy.

It amused Chiyu to no end how fast his leader could turn from a ticking bomb into a marshmallow one.

"I want more kisses.." The leader pressed his lips into a thin line as he brought his gaze up to lock with other's , his cheeks were rosy red and Chiyu couldn't swipe off a smug smile which had taken over his own at this. The silver-head brushed some hair away from Masato's face with his fingers where the smaller male didn't notice his own pair of eyes were watching them. He almost couldnt believe he asked for that.

Masato laced his fingers with Chiyu's.

They were perfect, with and for each other.

"I like you, Maa-tan." Masato could tell it was a sincere confession from Chiyu. And he mirrored it with his own verbally.

"I like.. you, too."

Simple, yet enough to cover up everything he felt for the other. There was no mistaking Chiyu's was the same.

Chiyu granted him another tender kiss on the lips, trailed along the line of his jaw, then pressed a teasing once to the sensitive skin underneath Masato's earlobe as his spidering fingers made their way up the leader's sides.

Until the moment they caught the sound of camera taking a picture.....of them. 

The new lovers froze on the bed.

"You ing forgot to silence it!" Takeru slapped Yuji's arm as he spoke between his gritted teeth, but they all could see he was holding himself from grinning.

"Don't worry, I just recorded a video." Shinpei gave a thumbs up, he was crouching at the door frame, both Takeru and Yuji were towering him.

A pillow was launched directly at the three of them, which hit the door fist, slamming it in their faces. "Shoo! Leave us the alone!" Chiyu yelled.

"Your fault for forgetting to lock the damn door!" Masato laughed and was silenced again by Chiyu, only this time it was longer with a full kiss on the lips and they were both left together, even until all the food and refreshments were all consumed, music came to an end and everyone went to their respective home when it was almost midnight.

And their life together as a couple had just begun.