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Another Path (School Rumble)



Another Path (School Rumble)

Another Path (School Rumble)

A/N: Another Path was a commissioned one shot originally written back in May of 2020! Posting it here for people to enjoy!

Summary: An exploration of what could have been, if Harima hadn't rejected Tae's seduction attempt.

Themes: Drunk Sex, Loving Sex, First Time

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"... You can fall in love as many times as you like, you know."

Harima Kenji blinks as he suddenly finds Tae Anegasaki inches away from his face. It's... it's hard to focus right now. Not only is he more than a little drunk from all the alcohol that the gorgeous brunette has plied him with, he's wearing his sunglasses inside, like he always does. But right now, seeing the world through both sunglasses and drunk vision is leaving him more than a little disoriented.

"For example, look right now, in front of your eyes..."

But Tae... Tae is right there, making it impossible for Harima to look anywhere else or see anything else. He focuses in on her despite his sunglasses and drunkenness. Her hand is on his knee, he belatedly realizes, and she's just a move away from kissing him with those gorgeous lips. But equally obvious, she won't ever make the first move. She's willing to go this far... but he has to take the final step.

In the end, Tae is beautiful. The gorgeous brunette is right there. He's spiraling. There's... there's nothing he can do but give in to temptation. Having this absolutely stunning woman leaning in so close, waiting for him to kiss her... it sends Harima right over the edge. He finishes closing the gap between them and kisses Tae right then and there on the lips.

It's everything his drunken mind could have hoped for. Her mouth is soft, her lips are pliable, and as soon as he kisses her, Tae lets out a muffled squeak of pleasure and begins kissing him right back. Making out with Tae is electric... and as it turns out, rather fast-paced. Before Harima can even say what's happening, clothing begins to go flying.

It starts with Tae shucking her floral print top over her head, revealing that she's not wearing a bra underneath. For a split second, Harima just stares at her breasts, open-mouthed... but then she's kissing him again, and her hands are on his wrists, guiding his hands up to her tits, and he's grasping and squeezing them both as she moans into his lips.

Needless to say, his own shirt doesn't last long after that. Then, it's a race to see which of them can remove their bottoms first. Tae beats him to the punch, but only because in this instance, his bottoms are a pair of jeans and her bottoms are a pair of short shorts that she has no issue at all slipping down and off of her long, slender legs.

She smells... heavenly. Even through his drunken haze, Harima notices that. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he notes that Tae even went out of her way to take a shower before this, leaving him to just sit there as he waited for her to return. Then, she'd gone ahead and gotten him drunk. Were they... was he being taken advantage of?

And yet, in the end, it didn't matter. Even as Tae hooks slender fingers into the waistband of her panties and begins to slowly slide them down her legs, facing away from him so as to show off her arched back and pert posterior, Harima is moving to copy her by shucking off his boxers, his hard cock springing free at last from its confines.

After that, they both get onto the bed, Harima on top to start with as they continue to kiss and fondle one another. Tae is so beautiful, the brunette so gorgeous, and he can't get enough of her sexy body. He plays with her chest and runs his hands down her form, one hand eventually making its way between her thighs, to her dripping honeypot.

Harima can hardly believe this is happening, but drunk as he is, he's not going to stop now. Maybe that's because this is exactly what he wanted, in the end. Maybe it's because he just can't get enough of her now that he has Tae naked before him. But, even in his drunken state of being, Harima can't just... do it. Tenma still resides in his mind, his long-time crush continuing to live rent free in his thoughts, despite him realizing now that there was no way he was ever going to get the girl, so to speak.

So even though he wants to go further, even though he wants to thrust it in, Harima can't bring himself to do it. Instead, he works on getting Tae off with his fingers, in thanks for all that the gorgeous brunette has done for him. However, seeming to notice his recalcitrance and his inability to seal the deal... Tae goes ahead and takes the choice right out of his hands.

When she begins to switch their positions, Harima could have stopped her. He's certainly stronger and bigger than her, after all. But he lets her push him onto his back, lets her get on top. He lays back, his hands merely coming to a rest on Tae's hips, and he watches her as she reaches down between them and takes hold of his erect member. A groan escapes from Harima's throat at that, only to be followed up by an even louder groan of enjoyment as Tae guides him up inside of her, impaling herself on his member as she sinks his member into her depths.

Inch by inch, his cock disappears inside of Tae Anegasaki, until finally, the brunette stops, blushing profusely and panting wildly as she gives him a smug grin.

"Congratulations on no longer being a virgin, Harima~"

Harima flushes, trying to find something to say in return. But he's unable to find the words, finding it hard to talk with how good she feels wrapped around his cock. Seemingly on impulse, Tae suddenly reaches down and snatches his sunglasses from him, pulling them off of his face and tossing them aside before he can even try to get them back.

Then, she leans down and cradles his face in her hands, smiling at him as she presses smooth, soft palms into his cheeks.

In a surge of passion, he cums along with her, cumming inside of her as Tae reaches her second orgasm. He paints her inner walls white, and plants his seed deep inside of her womb itself. Harima arches his own back as he does so, thrusting his cock as far into her as he possibly can. Tae in turn clings to him as they both ride out their mutual climaxes, her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.

Finally, they both finish cumming. Without a word, Harima pulls back out of Tae... and collapses next to the brunette on his side. She turns onto her side as well, facing him, and the two look into each other's eyes. It feels good... more than that, it feels right. Harima falls asleep with Tae held close in his arms, smiles on both of their faces as they slumber in Tae's bed together.

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The next morning arrives... and Harima lays there on his back, frozen solid, Tae sleeping on his chest. The two of them had clearly shifted at some point during the night into this position, but rather than shifting away from one another, they'd merely moved into another position that two new lovers might take. Lovers... oh god, he'd totally betrayed Tenma, hadn't he?

Staring up at the ceiling, Harima struggles to reconcile what he's done and how good it felt with his feelings for Tenma Tsukamoto. How long has he obsessive pursued Tenma? Only... only to throw it all away here and now because he got drunk and couldn't keep it in his pants.

He doesn't blame Tae, or anything like that. In the sober light of day, her actions last night might have taken on a different cast, but Harima saw the truth of the matter. The brunette had only been trying to cheer him up, he knew that. She'd effectively offered him her body... and Harima hadn't been strong enough to say no.

Maybe if he had, maybe he could have still had a chance with Tenma. Ah, but who was he kidding... he knew the truth. He was never good enough for the girl in the first place. He was a weak man, a selfish man... an obsessive man. Regardless, he'd gone and done it, hadn't he? He'd put his foot in it, he'd slept with Tae... he'd fucked Tae, even.

He couldn't really be sure what he was going to do now. He'd told Tae all about his fantasies involving Tenma and a nice family the night before. She'd consoled him, comforted him, and ultimately let him use her body to drown his sorrows. It wasn't her fault that in defiling her, he'd defiled himself. He would never be worthy of being Tenma's husband now.

Honestly, he wasn't worthy of being Tae's lover either, right? He-

In the midst of Harima's melancholy and self-loathing, it seems that Tae has woken up, because quite suddenly the brunette is leaning over him. Despite having a total case of bed head and just waking up, she looks as gorgeous as she did the night before... and he's entirely sober now as well. Smiling down at him, Tae gives a little giggle before leaning down and kissing him right on the mouth. Harima's eyes widen, but he nevertheless responds, just as he did the night before. Their tongues duel for just a moment this time around, and then Tae pulls back, still smiling as she looks down at him.

"Hey there, sleepy head. Good morning."

Her voice is so melodic, and she sounds so happy. Was that because of him? Had being with him really made her that happy. W-Would continuing to be with him continue to make her happy? It sounded so crazy to Harima, so impossible... but in the end... what else did he really have going for him, all in all?

Mouth dry, Harima licks his lips really quick to wet them. Then, he looks up at Tae and smiles back at her, tentatively.

"Good morning..."

As she gives him another giggle and then crawls out of bed with promises of breakfast, ordering him not to move a muscle while she gets to work, Harima... just lays back and looks at the ceiling with a sigh. But this time around, there's a smile on his lips that he can't get rid of, no matter how hard he tries.

Maybe... maybe this is fine. Maybe he can live with this, after all.

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