Fic: After Dinner Conversation
Title: After Dinner Conversation
Series: Gokusen
Pairing: Faint/One-sided Shinkumi
Rating: K
Summary: Ever since Sawada started coming over for dinner, the after dinner conversation became a bit awkward for Yankumi.
Kumiko remembered the good times, back when she could lounge around with her family after dinner to enjoy light conversation. The mood had been softer then, quieter perhaps. And she had always been remarkably less red in the face. That all changed when Sawada Shin started visiting for dinner.
It had been nice at first - like a novelty - to have a student in her home. It was a relief to have someone she could share her family with. It was exciting to have a student she could share with her family.
Then Sawada started to get comfortable.
And the family became accustomed to having him around the house.
And now they felt so at home with him that they felt it perfectly reasonable to share humorous anecdotes from her childhood.
Kumiko knew it wouldn’t be long before Sawada lost any trace of respect he had gathered for her, both as a teacher and as a friend.
Kyou had his arm flung over Shin’s shoulder as he recanted one of Kumiko’s amorous plans to woo her middle school crush. Shin looked uneasy under the heavy arm, but he wore a small smile nonetheless. Across the table Yankumi was vainly trying to put up a good front, but a cherry colored blush had already spread across her face.
“Mou… Kyou-san, does he really need to hear all this?” Kumiko whined. Sawada’s grin widened as he chalked up this comment to the running total. So far Yankumi had said the same thing fourteen times that night.
“Why not?” Kyou chuckled. He gave Shin a sharp pat that might’ve been friendly if it hadn’t cracked his back. “It’s a good story. Who doesn’t want to hear about you and your overzealous crushes?”
Yankumi managed to turn a shade darker and she moaned again, “But do you really have to tell him?”
Aah…Fifteen.
Once again ignoring Kumiko’s pleas, Kyou turned back to Shin. “It took our poor Ojou three years to figure out Takashi didn’t like her. And that only happened because he flat out knocked her down.”
Across the table Yankumi seemed to have given up. Her head was nestled in her arms so they couldn’t see her face, but Shin could still see two red ears peeking through her hair.
“Naturally, Ojou knocked his lights out,” Kyou concluded. “Nearly put him in the hospital from what I heard…” His eyes twinkled and Kumiko’s head snapped up.
“That is not true!” she exclaimed. “One moment - One! - of a lapse in self-control and suddenly it’s turned into a big story. I slapped him, and that’s it.” Huffing, she folded her arms and looked away. Sawada was impressed. He had never seen her become so flustered that she pouted.
Kyou looked sheepish. “Well, I may have exaggerated here and there… but Ojou, you can be a bit…er… oblivious when it comes to guys.”
Kumiko started to protest, but she was cut off by Shin’s quiet mumble. “No kidding…”
Kyou shifted slightly and his eyes narrowed. He understood.
“Hey! What do you mean ‘No kidding’?! Oi, Sawada! Hey, what did you mean? Oi!”
And as usual it sailed straight over Kumiko’s head.
Series: Gokusen
Pairing: Faint/One-sided Shinkumi
Rating: K
Summary: Ever since Sawada started coming over for dinner, the after dinner conversation became a bit awkward for Yankumi.
Kumiko remembered the good times, back when she could lounge around with her family after dinner to enjoy light conversation. The mood had been softer then, quieter perhaps. And she had always been remarkably less red in the face. That all changed when Sawada Shin started visiting for dinner.
It had been nice at first - like a novelty - to have a student in her home. It was a relief to have someone she could share her family with. It was exciting to have a student she could share with her family.
Then Sawada started to get comfortable.
And the family became accustomed to having him around the house.
And now they felt so at home with him that they felt it perfectly reasonable to share humorous anecdotes from her childhood.
Kumiko knew it wouldn’t be long before Sawada lost any trace of respect he had gathered for her, both as a teacher and as a friend.
Kyou had his arm flung over Shin’s shoulder as he recanted one of Kumiko’s amorous plans to woo her middle school crush. Shin looked uneasy under the heavy arm, but he wore a small smile nonetheless. Across the table Yankumi was vainly trying to put up a good front, but a cherry colored blush had already spread across her face.
“Mou… Kyou-san, does he really need to hear all this?” Kumiko whined. Sawada’s grin widened as he chalked up this comment to the running total. So far Yankumi had said the same thing fourteen times that night.
“Why not?” Kyou chuckled. He gave Shin a sharp pat that might’ve been friendly if it hadn’t cracked his back. “It’s a good story. Who doesn’t want to hear about you and your overzealous crushes?”
Yankumi managed to turn a shade darker and she moaned again, “But do you really have to tell him?”
Aah…Fifteen.
Once again ignoring Kumiko’s pleas, Kyou turned back to Shin. “It took our poor Ojou three years to figure out Takashi didn’t like her. And that only happened because he flat out knocked her down.”
Across the table Yankumi seemed to have given up. Her head was nestled in her arms so they couldn’t see her face, but Shin could still see two red ears peeking through her hair.
“Naturally, Ojou knocked his lights out,” Kyou concluded. “Nearly put him in the hospital from what I heard…” His eyes twinkled and Kumiko’s head snapped up.
“That is not true!” she exclaimed. “One moment - One! - of a lapse in self-control and suddenly it’s turned into a big story. I slapped him, and that’s it.” Huffing, she folded her arms and looked away. Sawada was impressed. He had never seen her become so flustered that she pouted.
Kyou looked sheepish. “Well, I may have exaggerated here and there… but Ojou, you can be a bit…er… oblivious when it comes to guys.”
Kumiko started to protest, but she was cut off by Shin’s quiet mumble. “No kidding…”
Kyou shifted slightly and his eyes narrowed. He understood.
“Hey! What do you mean ‘No kidding’?! Oi, Sawada! Hey, what did you mean? Oi!”
And as usual it sailed straight over Kumiko’s head.