[20] [xxxHOLiC] It's your job
Title: It's your job
Theme: 20, 'take your mama out all night'
Series: xxxHOLiC
Characters/Pairing: Yuuko, Watanuki, Mokona
Rating: PG
"Yuuko-san, wait up!"
Watanuki broke into a jog to catch up with her purposeful stride, frantically trying to catch up with the proprietress of the shop.
Mokona bounced at him from it's position under her arm.
"Wata-kun's slo~ow!" It teased it from atop his head before bouncing ahead and prancing in front of the small group, taking the lead, singing, "We're ea~ting o~out to-night!"
The teenager in question caught up with the two, panting and gasping as he drew up beside Yuuko.
"And why is my presence required?" he asked Yuuko, awkwardly walking alongside her.
She turned slightly to chuck him under the chin before replying, happily exclaiming, "I thought you could use a night off cooking for us, so I decided we could eat out and you could come along. We need someone to pay for us of course!"
Watanuki's face fell as he grumbled, "That's not giving me the night off... I'll have to work even harder tommorrow. I'm not sure if I even have enough money for a good restaurant..." He flopped in half at Yuuko's poor decision before snapping back up again as he realised something and raced to catch up again.
"Wait, don't I get something in exchange for paying?"
A slender finger was held up in thought for a moment before a wicked grin stretched across the Dimensional Witch's face.
"No. This is part of your job. It's your responsiblity to make sure Mokona and I are fed well. Your job description is open to intrepretation," she looked happily at him, her twisted logic obviously making her pleased.
"So a part of my job is to take you out to dinner and pay for it... That's practically taking you out on a date! What will Himawari-chan think of me taking such and elder woman out?" Watanuki was tempted to curl up into a ball on the side of the road until Yuuko yanked on his head.
"Come along, Mokona's found a place that looks really exciting," she smiled at Watanuki's glare before hauling him up so she could whisper in his ear.
"If you want, you could pretend that you're taking your long lost aunt or something out for dinner."
He nodded, slightly dumbly, in agreement.
"Good, just as long as it's not your mother or something old sounding like that, we can go eat teppenyaki!"
Once again, she strode ahead, Mokona bouncing along slightly in front of her and Watanuki was left to catch up.