Title: The Breakfast Exchange Club
Author: cxcaroliena
Rating: PG to PG13 (though PG 13 is probably a really big stretch ^_^)
Genre: I don’t know… possibly fluff/crack, maybe? Maybe not really crack… How about general?
Disclaimer: I don’t own them.
God, I don’t own them TT__TT
Summary: In which Shige is late, the Sexy Osaka Man gets his way, and breakfasts are given out like candy to trick or treaters.
Just read it. I suck at summaries ^_^
It started like this.
First, Shige’s alarm clock failed to go off so he could wake up on time. When he finally woke up, it was twenty minutes until his first class of the day, the last train to the university long gone.
Shige bolted awake and raced around his apartment, his cell phone in one hand while his other struggled to put on his uniform, a foamy toothbrush held firmly between his teeth. He had called Koyama to see if he could possibly pick him up and give him a ride to school.
“Hai hai!” Koyama’s cheerful voice greeted Shige after a few rings.
‘Koyama!” Shige mumbled gratefully around his toothbrush, his one hand now trying to button up his shirt. “I overslept. Can you give me a ride?”
The phone crackled as Koyama let out a sigh. “Gomen ne, Shige. I can’t. I’m already at the Jimusho and my car’s in the shop; I took the train here.”
Shige whimpered, exhaling exasperatingly and rushed to the bathroom to spit his toothpaste out. “Ah, is there anyone there who might be willing to give me a ride?”
“Is something wrong, Koyama?” Shige heard another voice on Koyama’s side of the line say.
“Ah, Nishikido-kun, it’s nothing – “
“HOW can you say it’s NOTHING?! I missed the last train to the uni!!” Shige screamed into the phone.
“Hai, hai, gomen ne, Shige. Nishikido-kun, Shige missed the train to school and his class starts in twenty mintues, I think – “
“Well, it’s fifteen minutes now!”
“Hai, hai, gomen ne, Shige! Fifteen minutes until his first class and he needs a ride. It’s nothing, really.”
“KOYAMA!”
“Hai, hai, gomen ne, Shige! I mean, it’s a very troublesome matter, Nishikido-kun.”
Shige, fully, if a little sloppily, dressed sat on his bed with his head in his hands, willing his large headache to go away.
“Well, I can probably go pick him up really quickly,” Shige heard Ryo say on the other line.
“Shige bolted up, gesturing his silent refusal to Ryo’s offer, even though neither Koyama nor Ryo could see him.
“Ah, Nishikido-kun, are you serious? That would be great, arigatou!”
“Koya – ” Shige began.
“Shige, Nishikido-kun will be there soon! He just left! He’s so nice, eh?”
“Koyama, does Nishikido-kun even know where I live?!”
“Hai, He visited once for New Years, remember?”
“Koyama, that was last year at my parent’s house. I got a new apartment since then, remember?”
“…Oh…”
“KOYAMA!!”
***
It continued like this.
Shige ended up being half an hour late to his class, even though Ryo showed up at his door five minutes after Shige ended his conversation with Koyama.
When Ryo arrived, he insisted on having breakfast at Shige’s first, since he took the time out of his busy schedule to pick Shige up.
“Nishikido-kun, I’ll be late! Can we please leave now?!” Shige pleaded when Ryo forced his way into Shige’s apartment. “If we leave now, I might be able to make it!”
“No, because I didn’t have to give you a ride,” Ryo said, kicking his shoes off carelessly as he made his way to the kitchen. “I’m doing this out of the goodness of my heart. So the least you can do is give me breakfast.”
“Nishikido-kun, I promise on my life that I will buy you breakfast tomorrow if we just leave now.”
“Nope. It’s now or never; you either give me my breakfast now or you’re never going to get a ride.”
Shige groaned, setting his bag down and taking his shoes off at the door. He made his way over to where Nishikido-kun was in the kitchen. He dug some frozen waffles out of the freezer and popped them in the toaster. After a few moments, Shige turned around.
“You know, my professor is a very impatient woman. She won’t be very happy with you when I tell her that you are partially the reason why I was really late,” Shige stated, smirking slightly.
Ryo smirked back. “That’s impossible. No one can be mad at the Sexy Osaka Man.”
When Shige arrived at the University forty minutes later, Shige skulked to his seat, throwing his bag down.
Shige’s female professor scolded Shige harshly for being late. When Shige told her that it was partially Ryo’s fault, she swallowed her diatribe at Ryo when Ryo flashed his ever-so-innocently wide smile. She smiled radiantly back, then literally kicked Shige into the classroom.
Damn you, Sexy Osaka Man, Shige though as he sat to take notes.
***
It went on like this.
Shige found out that his alarm clock was broken when he woke up late again the next morning. Since he didn’t have any time (or money) to buy a new one, he got to school via rides from Ryo. After a few more mornings of being late, Shige finally got into the habit of having breakfast ready for Ryo so they could leave on time.
The first day, Shige picked up a dozen assorted donuts from the bakery across the street. Unfortunately, a vast majority of them had chocolate on them.
“Chocolate donuts? Kato-kun, do you realize what donuts do to your body?! Are you trying to make the Sexy Osaka Man unsexy?!” Ryo exclaimed when Shige showed him the box. “And chocolate?! First donuts, but then they’re chocolate?! Seriously, Kato-kun, CHOCOLATE?!”
And so, Shige had to endure the entire car ride with a grumpy, hungry, and complaining Ryo.
The second day, Shige cooked Ryo eggs and ham, the only thing in his refrigerator that was quick and easy to make.
“Eggs and ham?” Ryo demanded when Shige placed the plate in front of him. “You call this breakfast? Egss and ham?!”
And so, Shige had to endure the entire car ride with a grumpy, hungry, and complaining Ryo. Again.
The third day, Shige spent the entire night before preparing a breakfast feast, taking time to research Ryo’s favorite foods on the several fansites dedicated to the Sexy Osaka Man. Pardon me, I mean the Sexy Osaka Man.
When Ryo arrived that morning, letting himself in by taking the spare key from under the cat figurine near the welcome mat, it was to find a fully-dressed Shige at the kitchen table, head in his arms, sound asleep with a spread of food laid out on the table before him. The foremost dish held a note.
Sexy Osaka Man-I will most likely have fallen asleep if you’re
reading this. Here’s your breakfast for today.
Sorry if it’s a little cold; you always arrive a
little late anyways.
Once you’re done eating, please wake me up
so we can leave right away.
-Shige
Ryo smiled and set the note down. He went to Shige’s cupboards and pulled out a few small plastic tupperware containers. He put some of the food in each container, then slipped the ones he knew that Shige liked as well into his school bag. The rest he kept for himself.
When he was done eating, Ryo wiped his mouth with a napkin and tossed it on top of the dirty dishes. He’ll do those after he dropped Shige off at school. He kicked Shige in the shin.
“Wake up, Kato-kun, it’s time to leave.”
That day was the first time had gotten to class early since his alarm clock broke.
***
It ended like this.
For about a month or so, Shige and Ryo had gotten into the routine of rides to school in exchange for breakfasts. Secretly, Ryo hoped that Shige never got a new alarm clock so that he could spend more time with the young rock star. And get a good breakfast every morning. But it was mostly to spend time with Shige.
Though he, the Sexy Osaka Man, would never admit to that.
One morning, Ryo let himself into Shige’s apartment and found no peacefully sleeping Shige and no slightly lukewarm breakfast waiting for him.
Ryo slipped out of his shoes and closed the door behind him.
“Shige?” Ryo called out into the seemingly empty apartment. “Shige?” he tried again.
Ryo tread the familiar path to Shige’s bedroom (he had often snooped around while Shige slept at the table) and let himself into the room. “Shige?” Ryo said softly, surveying the slightly cluttered, but completely empty of human life, room.
Ryo frowned, wondering where Shige, no, his Shige, could possibly be.
After a while of just standing in the doorway, Ryo’s eyes finally rested on a shiny, silver, brand-new alarm clock. Ryo felt his heart break a little when he saw the minute change on its digital face.
He crossed to the alarm clock next to the unmade bed in a few strides, picked it up in his hands and got the strongest urge to chuck it against the nearest wall.
Instead, Ryo set the alarm down gently, fiddling with the buttons until the alarm was set to 5:30 am, a full two hours before Shige really needed to get up.
The next morning, Shige jerked awake at 5:30, rubbing his eyes sleepily.
Shige looked up after a few moments into Ryo’s unreadable expression, confusion evident on his own face. Ryo had snuck into Shige’s house at five that morning and sat next to Shige’s bed, watching Shige slumber peacfully for half an hour. Shige cleared his sleep-clogged throat.
“Nishikido-kun?” Shige rasped sleepily, looking from the clock to Ryo, then back. “What are you doing here so early?”
Ryo merely smiled and held up a pile of plastic containers wrapped up in a large square of blue cloth. There were band-aids covering the shallow scrapes from the knife slipping and cutting his fingertips, as well as small burn marks on his palms.
You see, Ryo had spent all of the previous night researching Shige’s favorite foods on the fansites dedicated to NewS’s rockstar, as well as prepared them to the best of his ability. Despite the many curse words that flowed from his mouth during the process, Ryo merely smiled at Shige.
“It may be a little cold, but then again I’ve been waiting for a while.”
Shige still stared at Ryo in disbelief. Ryo smiled even wider.
“Eat up and get dressed, Shige-kun. I wanna take you for a drive before your first class.”
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