Guys and girls can be just friends. Guys and girls can even be just best friends.
They can.
They really can.
NSFW! Childhood Friends to Lovers! Dry Humping, Quiet Intimacy.
Shikamaru Nara / You
Your best friend had always been particularly touchy.
It was endearing in it’s own way.
Holding hands when walking, legs brushing when sitting besides each other.
It came in the form of calloused fingertips raking through strands of your hair, or sometimes the exchange of breath as you laid a little too close together on the hillside. Your best friend was touchy, but it was affection. And you showed affection to those you cared for. So, it was natural. Par for the course.
You didn’t understand why it was such a big deal that your best friend was a boy.
It really wasn’t, you knew that and you paid it no mind. Nothing would change, even as you both grew a lot older.
Nothing would be different about the way his hand held onto yours. Fingers intertwined, wisping over your knuckles. They trail up your wrist, hovering at your pulse. Shikamaru doesn’t say anything, just taps and taps and taps. He doesn’t need to. You’re best friends.
It’s not odd when he guides you to sit with him on the hill either. Your thighs melting between the pressure of his. You’re only facing each other as is natural. And it’s a private conversation so it’s easier to have if you’re closer.
Yes, this close.
Close enough that when his words and breath, smoky as it is, travels along your ears, cheeks, lips, oh why, you ought to hear him a little better.
When his voice is a little quieter and raspier.
Then the conversation is over and you both decide to lay there. You don’t shift away because best friends are just touchy. Like girls braiding each other’s hair, or boys wrestling in the mud.
Guys and girls who are friends, well, best friends… Its the affection, they just show it a little differently.
Your legs tangled, and chests pressed together, his left hand finds your hair. The right, your back. Your waist, your hips. His hips, they’re trapping yours into the grass. He looks you in the eyes like he’s forgotten himself, lost himself.
You exchange breaths, foreheads knocking together.
He rubs into you carefully, and you twist and weave until your legs and his notch at just the right angle. Yes, touchy, touchy as the pair of you keen and rut and go back and forth and back and forth. Your leggings shaping and crinkling just right against his standard issue.
Shikamaru hisses into your ear, you cling to his back and shoulder. Closer, but its never as close as you both need it to be.
The moment isn’t long enough. When its over, and you’re shaking and trembling, Shikamaru looks down at you like he’s reached a realisation. You fear you’ve arrived at the same one.
And it isn’t all that natural for just best friends.