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Reki: *passionately talking to Joe and Cherry about something*
Shadow: *snickers and tapes a piece of paper on Reki’s back which says “ORDINARY”*
Miya: *glares at Shadow*
Langa: *makes his way towards the group after practicing on his own and sees the paper on Reki’s back* hmmm? Miya do you have a marker I can borrow?
Miya: yeah? *raises an eyebrow, then proceeds to pull a marker out of his bag and give it to Langa* here…
Langa: *gently grabs the paper from Reki’s back so he doesn’t notice and messily scribbles “EXTRA” before the “ORDINARY” and quickly sticks the paper back onto Reki* thanks
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Sk8: The Sleepover
Author: GA!babe
Summary: The gang’s all here for a sleepover at Reki’s! In a discussion of skate names, Reki finds himself the center of attention after getting flustered by the mere mention of the word “tickle” (2,842 words)
“Langa! Glad you came!” Reki exclaimed as he opened the door to find his best friend standing there. 
And then he looked behind the boy and saw…four other people right behind him.
“Uh, what are they doing here?” Reki asked, trying not to sound too rude, but it’s not like he wanted to invite two grown men, a clown, and a literal child over to his house as well. It was just supposed to be him and Langa tonight.
“Oh, well when you told me that your mom and sister were out of town for some mother-daughter bonding, I thought it would be nice if everyone came along.” Langa said with a smile. It made Reki wonder again why that smile made his heart flip flop. This boy? The one with a pile of snow in place of a brain?
“That’s not a problem, right, Reki?” Miya asked, snaking himself around Langa’s legs and looking up at the red head with his big puppy-dog eyes. 
Reki took a deep breath.
“No, of course not. Come on in,” Reki sighed and took a small step aside so everyone could walk into his house. The house that he wasn’t supposed to have anyone else in while his mother and sister were away. That one. 
“Nice place you have here, Reki. I’m sure the ladies love a humble man who lives with his mom,” Joe teased on his way in, ruffling the kid’s hair.
“Just so you know, Carla said there was a 95% chance that we were seen by one of your neighbors. I hope you aren’t grounded for too long after your mother finds out,” Cherry said as he slid by.
“Thanks for telling me,” Reki whined, his shoulders slumping. Great. Now it was almost guaranteed that he would be grounded when his mom got back.
“Wait, you’re not allowed to have people over? Why didn’t you say so?” Shadow hissed, looking over his shoulder to see if anyone was outside looking at him.
“Well, that’s not exactly–” Langa began.
“What kind of flowers does your mom like? I can get her a vase before she even gets home,” Shadow continued. taking out a little notepad from his pocket and waiting for a response.
“Uh, she likes lillies I think?” Reki said with a dry chuckle, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. Shadow scribbled it down with a frown.
“Not exactly the best of apology flowers, but I’ll see what I can do,” the older man grumbled as he stepped into the house.
“Sorry for ruining your date night, Reki. Sleepovers are fun though. Do you think we should braid each other’s hair?” Miya said, popping a bubblegum bubble as he also walked into the house.
“Date?” Reki squeaked, his face turning a rather nice shade of pink. Miya just laughed as he skipped towards the couch.
“You will not get your little claws on my hair!” Cherry snapped from the other room.
And then he was alone with Langa. The guy he had wanted here…alone in the house. 
“Sorry, was I not supposed to invite them over?” Langa asked, smiling awkwardly. Reki couldn’t help but melt just a little. How could he say no to that face?
“Ah, no, you’re fine. I just forgot to ask for them over too. I just got, uh, busy with a new…new board! Yeah! Thanks. You saved me the trouble.” Reki stammered awkwardly, shuffling on his feet. Langa smiled softly and their shoulders bumped as he stepped in. 
Reki closed the door with a sigh.
This was going to be a long night.
~ ~ ~
“Alright, what are we going to watch?” Miya asked, jumping onto the couch, quickly getting comfortable against the pillow in the corner.
“Watch? This is a party, right? We drink and play games until dawn!” Joe announced, sitting down on the couch and stretching his arms high over his head. 
“You’re an idiot,” Cherry huffed, looking around with a barely concealed look of disgust. He looked between the couch, chair, and love-seat, before deciding that he was perfectly fine standing right here thank you very much. 
“I’m an idiot? I’m just trying to make things fun around here!” Joe exclaimed, looking around to see if anyone agreed with him. 
“Did you forget how old he was? He’d get in more trouble if his mom found empty sake bodies around the house,” Shadow huffed as he took his spot next to Joe. The burly man scowled at being sat next to a clown, but he didn’t protest too much. 
“Well, there’s only so long she can ground me.” Reki chuckled before plopping down on the nearby love-seat. Langa sat down next to him, not at all bothered by how incredibly close they were.
“I’m sure she won’t be too mad, Reki,” Langa said and pat his friend on the back. 
“Well, if we can’t drink, then why exactly are we here? What are we going to do?” Joe groaned, dragging a hand down his face dramatically.
“What were you expecting? He was probably going to play spin the bottle with his new boyfriend, right Reki?” Miya teased, a shit eating grin on his little face. “Maybe swap spit and make babies?”
“Miya, do you know how–?” Joe began before Shadow smacked him in the face with a heavy pillow.
“I will not be explaining that on my night off,” Shadow grumbled with a shake of his head. Reki and Langa stifled their giggles, giving each other matching looks.
“What? What’s so funny?” Miya hissed, his face turning pink as he realized that there was something that the adults knew that he definitely wasn’t aware of.
“You’ll know when you’re older,” Cherry said with a sigh and a shake of his head.
Reki laughed even harder at that. 
“Stop it, guys! What is it? What did I say?” Miya whined, crossing his arms over his chest and just outright pouting. He had been bullied in school before, but this felt different. Sure, they were laughing, but there was no real malice behind it.
“We are not doing this tonight,” Shadow groaned, “Why can’t we just find monopoly or something?”
Reki laughed harder, leaning back against the back of the love-seat. Langa looked up and down the red-head.
“Really tickled over there, aren’t you Gearhead?” Cherry mused. 
Reki’s laughter dissolved into a coughing fit.
“Wh-what?” Reki spluttered, his face turning an even brighter shade of bright red. 
“What? Not Gearhead? Gears? Sunshine?” Cherry mused, finally sitting down, but on the arm of the couch. 
“Those are all terrible skate names. How about Mech? TechDeck?” Joe chimed in.
“Oh, and Joe is such a cool skating name?” Cherry scoffed.
“With all this going on? Keeping it simple is how the ladies don’t get too overwhelmed by my awesomeness,” Joe shot back, flexing his arms for everyone to see.
“We could call him Fire? Opposite of Snow there?” Shadow said with a wink in Langa’s direction. This was the type of teasing that he could get behind because it wasn’t some complicated nonsense that he would have to explain to a child.
“How about Red? Like his face when you said that word?” Miya said, getting up off of the couch and sauntering over to where the two teenagers were sitting. 
“Gearhead?” Langa asked, looking between Reki and the sly cat-like boy who was stalking his way over to them.
“Tickle.” Miya said plainly. Reki went an even brighter shade of red, closely resembling his own hair at the moment.
“Wh-What? I was just…thinking that Gearhead was such a stupid name that-uh…I dunno. It was ridiculous,” Reki said with a dismissive wave of his hand. 
“I am insulted by that, Reki. Nicknames are incredibly important on the S. You’ll need to figure something out so that you’re not in Snow’s shadow every time to you step on a board.” Cherry said. Now he was the one pouting.
“I-I didn’t mean it like that, Cherry. It was just–” Reki continued, glancing between Miya and Cherry. 
“He’s just too shy to admit that the word tickle got him all bothered like this,” Miya said smugly and jumped onto the arm of the love-seat.
“Why would something like that bother you, Reki?” Langa asked, all innocent, but Reki could swear he could see evil behind those bright blue eyes. 
“It doesn’t bother me. I think Miya is just upset that we teased him a little.” Reki insisted, feeling like he was just a piece of red juicy meat and his friends just all turned into starving lions. 
He could practically feel his skin buzzing.
“You sound really defensive, kid.” Joe said, leaning forward with a smirk on his face. “Are you that ticklish?”
“There’s only one way to find out!” Miya said and jumped forward–
Only to be stopped by Langa. Reki cowered with a squeak, pressed hard against the back of the love-seat.
“As much I would love to see Reki tickled to pieces, it’s not very fair if we all gang up against him like this, don’t you guys think so?” Langa asked, looking around. Reki sighed in relief at first before realizing what exactly the former snowboarder had said.
“Hey!” He exclaimed, shaking his head frantically.
“And how do you propose we do that, Snow?” Cherry asked, now definitely intrigued as to how exactly the blue-haired boy planned to get Reki in a puddle of giggles. 
“Without killing him of course,” Shadow added with a pointed look. Sure, he liked to cause chaos and make people laugh (especially as his clown skater persona) but five against one was a bit much. 
“Sure, we can play a regular party game.” Langa said with a shrug and turned to his friend and a pouting cat-boy. “Reki, truth or dare?”
Reki looked around and huffed.
“Truth.” He said with a small nod. No way he would say dare after all that nonsense about the damn t-word.
“Alright, where’s your most ticklish spot?” Langa asked calmly.
How the hell could Langa say shit like that without blushing?
“I don’t want to play this game. It’s rigged.” Reki grumbled. Now he was red from the tips of his ears to the base of his neck. After he let all of these hooligans into his house when he knew he would be grounded later… they treat him like this? Totally uncool.
“Alright, how many of us do you think you could handle tickling you? Surely you’re not that ticklish, Red.” Miya teased and stuck out his tongue.
“And what about you, Miya? You wouldn’t happen to be ticklish, would you?” Shadow asked, looking between Miya and Reki.
“You never answered the question, Reki.” Langa said with a smirk on his face. 
“Alright, fine. You guys are bullies.” Reki huffed. “I don’t have any. You all are just wasting your time. Why don’t we pop a movie or something in the–”
And just like that, Langa was on top of him. He was shoved to the very corner of the love-seat with Langa practically straddling his waist.
“You can’t lie during the game, Reki. That’s not how you play,” Langa said with a shake of his head. “Where should we test out first?”
“Langa, come on, don’t do this. I’ll teach you a new skateboarding trick if you let me go right now. Maybe even make you some of my special ramen,” Reki rambled, kicking his feet out on the couch as he scrambled to get away. Langa snatched both of Reki’s wrists and pulled them above his head.
“Miya, would you be so kind to hold onto these for me?” Langa asked sweetly. 
“With pleasure,” Miya hummed, grabbing Reki’s wrists and holding them as tight as he could. 
“I would also like to join in on the fun!” Joe said, jumping up from the couch and running over to where the others were getting ready to tear Reki apart.
“Alright, you guys have five minutes, and then you have to let him go.” Shadow said, laying down on the now empty couch and getting comfortable. He took out his phone and pulled up the timer app.
“Five minutes?” The four said in unison, though Reki was more upset with how long time seemed to pass when he was getting tickled to all hell. 
Not that it happened often, mind you, but before he had skateboarding, he had more friends and those friends definitely took advantage of how ticklish he was time and time again. 
It had really been a while since he had been tickled to pieces and a part of him was…excited? Maybe?
No, that couldn’t be right.
“Time starts now,” Shadow said as he pressed the start button.
Langa went first, poking and prodding at the exposed belly of his best friend. Reki grit his teeth, refusing to let them get the satisfaction of hearing him break right away. Maybe if he doesn’t laugh, they’ll get bored.
Was Reki sure that he wanted them to get bored?
Joe snatched up the red-head’s legs and put his ankles into an armlock.
“Trying the tough-guy act, huh, Red-Mech?” Joe asked, swiping a finger down Reki’s foot. 
Reki yelped, jerking his legs. His heart sank as he realized that he could barely move as they all held onto him.
Then came the pinches up his ribs.
“How many ribs do you think you have, Sunshine?” Langa asked as he pinched up and down Reki’s ribs. 
“I-ACK! Stop! Lahahnga! Quit!” Reki gasped, a laugh managing to escape as he pleaded for his ticklish life. 
“Was that a laugh I heard, Ticklee?” Miya asked from his perch on the arm of the love-seat.
“What’s that nickname?” Langa asked as he continued to squeeze up and down Reki’s ribs as if he weren’t completely tormenting him right now.
“Oh you know, like how you’re the tickl-er, that must mean he’s the tickl-ee, right?” Miya asked sweetly.
“Shuhuhut up!” Reki exclaimed. He didn’t know what was worse. Was it the teasing with the actual word, or the fact that Langa seemed to not care about all of this? 
And Joe decided to chime in again, but this time lightly scratching his fingernails up an down Reki’s arches. Just as Langa decided to zero in on his other weak spot too. Well, weaker. 
Now that the truth was out, they would all know that Reki was just one big walking tickle spot.
However, Langa just found that Reki’s underarms were insanely ticklish, just like the bottoms of his feet. Just as Joe had started on his arches, Langa decided to lightly scratch under his arms too, one finger under each as if he were testing the waters.
“AH! OHOHOHOHOKAY! Okay!” Reki barked, his whole body jerking and his head thrown back.
“Wow, okay what?” Langa asked teasingly, stopping his tickling as he realized the hefty reaction from his friend was because of what he and Joe had done.
“Alright, you got mehehe,” Reki said and tugged on his arms.
“You still have four minutes, Firetop,” Shadow chimed in from his spot on the couch.
“How about just one more minute, Shadow? I think we found the answers we were looking for,” Langa said smugly. Shadow nodded and changed the timer. If they were going for the death spots, it would only be fair to Reki for them to shave off a few minutes.
“You’re no fun, Snow.” Miya huffed.
“And you are definitely next, kitty,” Langa said with a pointed look at Miya. He then turned to Joe. “You ready?”
“Of course. I’m waiting for you kids to finish with whatever. ” Joe said before getting back into it.
For one full minute, Reki was in ticklish heaven hell. Langa altered between digging his thumbs into Reki’s armpits and lightly tickling around Reki’s neck and ears while Joe tickled and scratched up and down Reki’s poor defenseless feet.
When the timer ran out, Shadow snatched Miya up and tossed him playfully onto the couch. Cherry snatched Joe by the ear and pulled him away from a giggling mess of a skateboarder. Langa pulled himself off too, but Reki grabbed a handful of his shirt and pulled himself closer. 
“Alright, your turn,” Shadow said as he began tickling little Miya to pieces, mainly clawing at and around the little monster’s belly button, getting him cackling in no-time.
“Now I’m in a tickle monster mood, what do you think, Cherry? Like old times?” Joe asked before diving on top of him and digging into the pink-haired man’s hips. Soon, Cherry and Miya’s laughter and giggles filled the living room as Reki curled up in Langa’s lap and watched the scene unfold. Langa ran his fingers through the red hair of his tickled out best friend.
“Thanks for inviting everyone, Langa,” Reki hummed sleepily. “But I’m definitely going to get you back for this one.”
“Alright, Sunshine,” Langa said and fluttered his fingers by Reki’s ear. The red-head squeaked and scrunched his shoulders up protectively.
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le0watch · 3 years
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Fic prompts if you want any more ideas :)
langa catches people bullying reki at S and won’t put up with it
Reki has nightmares and langa helps or langa has nightmares about his dad dying and reki comforts him
Pls just.. langa or literally anyone finally standing up for Reki the way he stands up for everyone else
this is the first time i'm writing ad*m into a fic of mine, so cw for him and i'm sorry in advanced lol
"oh, my snow!" adam cheered, taking large steps closer to the canadian. langa keeps a blank expression on his face, not even turning to acknowledge the man. reki stiffens at his side, and langa rests his free hand on the shorter boy's shoulder, lightly squeezing. the guard he'd been talking to pauses in their conversation at the approach of their boss. "it has been so long since you came back, i have missed you so dearly!" the man stops near him, looking from reki to langa. "i didn't even get to race you in the final! i had to race that damned snake..."
langa doesn't respond to him, and reki keeps his eyes locked on the ground, his gaze hard. he merely reaches up to his shirt collar and unclips the s badge, meeting the guard's shocked eyes.
"i came here to turn this in," he informed the guard, who is gaping now. it must be a shocked to him that the amazing rookie snow was turning his badge in. it probably was going to be to everyone at s. not that langa cared. he finally found what makes skating and his life in general happy again. and the reason for that happiness is standing directly beside him, reaching up to the hand on his shoulder to instead hold it in his own. langa returns the gesture, giving his hand a squeeze. their hands fit perfectly together.
both the guard and adam are silent at his declaration, and then adam is rushing forward, grabbing both of langa's shoulders to tug him into facing him. langa doesn't release reki's hand.
"what do you mean turn it in?!" adam demanded, and langa can tell he's angry upset. not that he really cares how the older man feels. "why would ever wish to leave me, little langakun?"
langa's eyes narrow at his words, and he opens his mouth to speak, but reki is quicker, pushing adam's hands from his shoulders and away from langa. he stands between the canadian and the older man, his anger a burning fire.
"lay off!" he shouted, his teeth clenched together. he was terrified to be facing adam again, but he was doing it for langa. "it's his decision!"
adam's lips pull into an angry frown, and he's grabbing reki by the collar of his shirt, and yanking him close. reki's breath stutters with his fear as he is once again too close to the older man.
"did you have a hand in corrupting my eve, you damned apple?!" adam demanded, almost growling. and now it is langa's turn to push adam away, pulling reki back towards himself instead. reki's breathing heavily, on the verge of an attack, and so langa's urge to protect the shorter boy flares in his chest. he wraps an arm around reki's shoulders, holding him close and whispering calming words into his ear. reki relaxes underneath his care, until adam is approaching them again, at which point he draws in towards himself. adam has his hands raised in a placating way as he stares at langa. "come, my eve, do not be tempted by this rotten fruit. i can keep you much happier than this disgrace ever could."
reki flinches, and langa's eyes flash. adam's words were exactly reki's greatest fears and anxieties, and he has to put a stop to this now.
"shut. up," langa hissed, angrier than he has been in a while. adam freezes, shocked at his tone. he tightens his hold on reki, who nuzzles closer to him, hiding his face in his shoulder. "you don't get to chose who i spend time with." then he's grinning with malice, knowing just how to hurt adam now. "i don't want to be your eve." he shoves the s pin into adam's outstretched hand, finding great pleasure in the way he can literally see the older man crumble. "stay the fuck away from us, you creep. you're never seeing us again."
and with that, he turns himself and reki back towards the exit of s, ignoring adam's desperate shouts.
when they're further away from s, he properly hugs reki, running a hand through his fiery hair. "dont believe a thing he said, my love," langa whispered to him, and reki nods into his chest. "now, would you like to skate home?"
reki draws away at the suggestion, a large, beautiful grin on his face. his eyes are only a bit red from the tears that had been gathering in them, but the idea of skating with langa again excited him.
they don't need s to skate together, after all.
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