Everyone's favourite crack OTP

[sketchysmile]

Who: Sai and Tobi
Where: Sai's apartment
What: Games and food
When: Before the second semester starts (because I'm a lazy whore and didn't clean it until now)
Warnings: Peanut butter, kisses.



Tobi was getting so bored with break. He wanted to see his friends again. (Oh yes he did!)

He knew where Sai lived though- he'd remembered, after all. (Well, he thought he did.) Even though busses were scary, Tobi was trying to become more independant, and he'd managed to bring enough in small change to get a ride down to the not-so-great part of town where Sai resided, and found the apartment complex.

It was finding the room that was hard.

Sai, for once in the holidays, was sober and away from his apartment. For a while. He'd been shopping (apparently one needed food to live, what did you know?) and was returning to the complex with his usual blank expression that made people think they could get away with whatever when he passed.

For the most part, they were right. Maybe Sai just didn't care at the minute. But mainly, he actually liked the attention. The fact that he could be anonymous but still watched, wanted, amused him.

He stepped into the rather disgraceful building, climbing the stairs as ever, and glanced up.

Was that...?

"Tobi?" He asked, looking at the boy, who seemed quite obviously lost. He picked up his pace a little, ignoring the silly twisting feeling in his stomach. Apparently he was still a little embarrassed about the last time they'd seen each other.

Turning, Tobi grins- oh finally, he'd found Sai. "Sai-kun..! Tobi found you!"

He pads over to the other male, the last time they'd met completly gone in his mind. (He didn't usually care about past meetings- that was in the past, after all.)

"What are you doing here?" Sai asked, face puzzled as he shifted the bags slightly in his hand, flexing his fingers, which were slightly red after carrying the shopping such a way.

"Oh, Tobi wanted to see Sai-kun." He says as if it's nothing, holding out a gift for Sai. (Some cookies he made with Baachan!)

Well. Tobi didn't know Sai's phone number, he'd been to his house once. Pretty good memory...

Huh? Cookies...

"Mmm, tell you what, come with me to my place, my hands are too full at the moment to carry any more." And with that he walked off towards his apartment, placing his bags down at the front door to pull out his key and unlock it.

"Okay, okay!" Tobi said with a grin, following Sai to his apartment.

"How is Sai-kun?"

"Sober," he muttered under his breath, just loud enough for Tobi to hear. "Mmm, alright, I suppose." He replied louder, opening the door and picking up the bags to carry them in.

The sophomore dismisses whatever it is Sai had said before, not knowing what he means by that, and takes a bag for Sai, wanting to help (like Baachan says a good boy should do).

"..." Sai said nothing to Tobi's help, but let the boy enter first, closing and locking the door behind them as he placed them on the small kitchen counter.

"Sai-kun- Sai-kun, Tobi had a birthday...!" He says after a moment. It had been exciting to him, at least.

Unpacking one of the bags, Sai offered Tobi a smile. "Oh, well..."

Grinning back, Tobi holds up six fingers. "Tobi's seventeen now, you know..!"

Sai let out a small snort of laughter as he noticed the error. "Good for you." Sai's birthday was in August - 30th actually. Huh. He'd forgotten completely.

Tobi nodded, wiggling in place slightly. "Yeah, and Tobi got a present from his mamma, and it's really nice and she wrote him a letter, and Tobi might get to visit mamma soon.." He hadn't seen her since school started, and missed her terribly. (Baachan was fun, but Mamma more so).

"Well, that's good." Sai replied, still unpacking. He let out a small sigh once his back was to Tobi. No-one would probably be there to celebrate his birthday. Not that it would bother him. He'd just always had someone - even a foster family.

"Yeah." He agrees, "Tobi misses mamma a lot, but she is busy, you know." Tobi wished she didn't work so often, but- well, mamma did what she did. "When is Sai-kun's birthday? Sai-kun, how old are you?"

"August." He replied shortly, folding up the plastic bags before stashing them in a drawer. "I'm sixteen, at the moment."

"Oh, okay-okay!" Tobi grins, giving Sai a thumbs up. "Sai-kun, what did you buy?"

"Food, mostly." Average groceries. Chocolate, biscuits, instant meals, soup, some milk, fruit and vegetables. It was quite the boring shopping list.

"Oh." He replies, for lack of anything else to say. "Hey- Sai-kun, what kinda food did you buy?" Tobi was interested, as it were.

"Nothing interesting." Sai replied shortly, getting a little irritated. He held up a few of the things as he put them away, though, so Tobi could see them.

"Oh, okay." Tobi wiggles slightly in place before deciding to sit down (on the floor). He was a little bored, but Tobi figured Sai would either make him leave or do something fun with him..!

Finished putting them away, Sai yawned a little. "So, these cookies..."

"Oh, oh! Tobi made cookies with Baachan, you know. He gived them to Sai-kun now, though. They have sprinkles!" He held the box out, getting to his feet again.

Sai smiled at Tobi, taking one.

...Hm, not too bad.

This, however, was. He dropped the cookie, trying to hack it back up. Oh great. He was choking.

Blinking, Tobi leans forward, looking at Sai. "...Sai-kun?" What was going on?

Sai leaned over the sink, gripping the bench tightly with his hands. Well this was just -perfect-. He managed to move one hand to thump at his chest, and the piece of cookie dislodged.

Shifting weight on his feet, Tobi slides to the ground, rather worried, as tears form in his eyes. (What was going on-? Tobi hated, more than anything, not knowing what was happening. The sense of being lost made him panic.)

Taking a few breaths and wiping the water from his eyes, Sai coughed a couple of times before regaining his composure. "Someone doesn't want me to eat today..." he muttered. First he'd found out his cupboard were empty and then he nearly died eating a cookie. Today was great. Really.

Still crying against the cupboards, Tobi watched him through his bangs, still worried of whatever had just happened.

Sai just noticed this, and bent down. "What's the matter with you?"

The sophomore shakes his head, not wanting to embarrass himself. (Baachan had said crying was bad, after all.) "T-tobi is fine..."

"Then get rid of the tears." Sai replied, a little cheekily, pulling some tissues out of a nearby box.

Nodding, he takes the tissue and wipes his face quickly before standing up again. "Tobi didn't mean to-"

"Mmm." Sai replied before Tobi could say any more, hopping back onto his feet.

Deciding he'd done something wrong, Tobi nods and stays quiet. (He doesn't want to make things worse...)

He'd liked the cookie, until he started choking. Smiling at Tobi (it seemed smiles kept the boy from crying - even if you were mean to him...?), Sai took another bite of the abandoned biscuit.

He smiles back (instinct?) and hopes that whatever had happened before doesn't happen again. "Is Sai-kun okay..?"

"Mmm," he muttered again, in between a bite of the cookie. "Yeah."

Smiling again, Tobi is glad. (Very glad.) "Tobi didn't do anything bad, then?"

Sai shook his head. It wasn't (really) Tobi's fault that food hated him today.

"Oh, okay!" Tobi grinned, happy once more. "Tobi was scared he had done something bad..!"

Sai finished off the cookie with a slightly satisfied sigh.

What did people say? Oh yes..."Thanks."

Clapping his hands (childish glee), Tobi smiles.

Sai quirked his brow for the briefest of moments before dismissing the behaviour. He should be used to Tobi by now.

After a moment, Tobi readjusts and opens his mouth again to speak. "Hey, Sai-kun, guess what Tobi got to do!"

"No idea."

Frowning, Tobi gives him a look. "You have to guuuuess, Sai-kun."

Sai glowered. He despised guessing games. "Why?"

"...Because that's what makes it fun!"

"So does just telling me." Really.

"...Fine." Tobi says, sighing quietly.

Oh, yay. Sai won. For once. "So, what did you do?"

"Tobi got to go to a meeting!" He says.

"About what?" How was that exciting?

"Tobi can't tell you."

Sai faked a pout. Not that he really cared. Not that he felt a little...something about being excluded.

"...It's a secret." He reasoned, switching feet.

"Ahhh...So, is there any way to get this secret out of you?"

Wiggling, Tobi doesn't know. (Maybe he could tell Sai...) "Tobi doesn't know."

"Ah. Would you like to play a game, Tobi?" He had cards somewhere...

Blinking, he nods. "Okay!"

Ah, yes. Sai pulled them out of a drawer. "Okay, what card games do you know?" He doubted, somehow, that Tobi could play poker.

Tobi tried to think. "Go fish, and Old Maid, and Crazy... Crazy gates!" Gates? Eights? Tobi didn't remember.

"Crazy Eights?" Sai supposed Go Fish would be the most fun. "Go Fish, then?"

"Eights, yeah!" Tobi didn't really mind playing Go Fish though. "Yeah, okay!"

Dealing the cards on a table next to the sofa, Sai sat down, sinking into the old furniture.

"Can Tobi go first?" He asks, sitting down next to Sai.

"Sure."

"Yay!"

Sai glanced at his cards, rearranging them, and placing pairs on the table, waiting for Tobi.

Looking his own seven cards over, Tobi grins and puts down two pairs (Six and two!) before asking Sai, "Sai-kun, Tobi wants to know if you have queen."

Glancing over his cards, Sai shook his head. "Go fish."

Frowning, Tobi takes a card and sighs. No queen. "Your turn!"

"Any fours?"

"Ummmm... Go fish!"

Fabulous. Sai picked up a card. Eight. Oh, wait. Pair.

"Does Sai-kun have aaaa... Three?!" Tobi had a three.

"I do actually." That solved that problem. "A king?"

Frowning, Tobi nods and gives him the king after laying down the two three's. "Ace, ace ace?!"

"Not a one." What a liar. Sai placed down his pair of kings with a smile.

Sighing, Tobi grabs a card and- Oh, sevens!

"A nine?"

"Nopo."

Picking up the card, Sai frowned. Well that would be irritating.

"Siiiix?" He asks, looking at his cards. (A nine, not a six, but oh-)

"Nuh-uh. King?" Well, at least he could lie without being caught now.

Pouting, Tobi hands over his king. "Does Sai-kun have a jack?"

Sai placed down the pair and handed over the Jack he'd just picked up.

Grinning, Tobi puts down his pair with glee. "Tobi is winning!"

"For now." Sai retorted. "A six?"

Shaking his head, Tobi tosses Sai a card on his lap, "Two, two two?"

Hey! Sai flinched a little when the card was tossed at him and then picked it up. "Nope." That was -so- a two.

Frowning, Tobi picks up a card- oh, yay! A three.

Placing down a couple of pairs he'd just noticed, Sai grinned. "Heh. Done."

Giving a pout, Tobi puts his cards down too. "You win, Sai-kun." He was dissapointed, but...

Sai picked up all the cards, putting them back. "So, do you need to go home now, or anything?" He wasn't entirely sure whether he wanted Tobi to stay any longer.
Not if anything like...well...yes.

"Do you want Tobi to go? He can go if you want.." He had only told Baachan he was going out, and that he would be back before dark- and, well, it was before dark, wasn't it?

"No, it's alright, I just don't want your baachan to be mad." 'at me.' Sai was still rather intimidated by the woman. For obvious reasons.

Tobi loved his Baachan..!

"Oh, okay!" He thought for a moment before glancing back at Sai. "Sai-kun should get a prize for winning.."

Huh? A prize? Well, Sai didn't care for one. "Eh, it doesn't bother me."

"Oh, okay..." Hm. What now?

"I mean, you can give me one if you can think of one."

"Oh!" He nodded, and (set to work) tried to think of something for Sai to win.

Sai smiled a little at how hard Tobi tried to make people (him?) happy. It was innocent, everything that Sai wasn't, really.

Rocking ever so gently, Tobi speaks again, mostly out loud and not to anyone in peticular. "...Sai-kun could choose the next game... or.."

"I chose the last one, though."

Pursing his lips, Tobi taps his nose for a moment before leaning over and giving Sai a small kiss. (His mamma used to reward him with kisses, when he was little.)

Sai's eyes widened slightly, before he remembered that Tobi probably had forgotten that incident by now.
"Heh. Well..." Er...

Pulling back, Tobi smiles and gives a short nod. "Tobi's mamma used to give him a kiss when he did things good." It made sense to him.

Alright. That makes...sense...he supposed. "Ah. So, do you want to pick the next game?"

"Ummm... okay!"

Sai nodded. "You hungry?" While Tobi was thinking, he wanted food.

"Mmm... okay." Tobi said; he was a little hungry. "Sai-kun, Sai-kun, do you have peanut butter?"

Sai'd never much cared for peanut butter, so why he kept buying it was beyond him. He didn't have many guests (who stayed to eat). "Yes. Sandwich, then?"

Tobi shook his head. "Just peanut butter!"

Sai blinked. And resisted gagging. But he handed Tobi the small jar of peanut butter (smooth) and a spoon, before finding a bag of crisps.

Grinning, Tobi takes the spoon and pulls off the lid to the jar, dipping the spoon in before sticking it in his mouth.

Mm, peanut butter.

Huh. Odd. And slightly disgusting. Sai averted his eyes as he ate his crisps slowly - Peanut butter...

Curling up in a chair, Tobi eats his peanut butter happily, getting it on his mouth and nose (accidentally) as he eats. Peanut butter was one of his favourite foods.

Finishing the packet (alright, so half of it was uneaten, but that was just semantics), Sai threw the rubbish in the bin, just managing to hit the target. Just.
Was Tobi done with that...that...stuff, yet?

Still sucking on his peanut-butter'd spoon, Tobi hands Sai the jar back, a little sticky (like the rest of him) from the stuff.

Sai couldn't hide that grimace and held the jar lightly as he put it back in the cupboard, before walking back over. Now the spoon.

Running his tongue over his teeth and gums (peanut butter stuck), Tobi gets up and puts the spoon away, to save Sai the trouble of touching it. (It was dirty!)

The sink. Well, it could be cleaned later, he supposed. Sai curled his legs under him, folding his hands together before moving one to cover his mouth as he yawned.

Tongue still working in his mouth, Tobi sits down next to (read: on) Sai, giving him a thumbs up with a closed-mouth smile.

Not sure what the thumbs-up was for, Sai's brow furrowed slightly, but he left asking, Tobi's behaviours were random. Just like him sitting so close to - well, on - Sai's lap.

As could be well-known about Tobi by now, physical attatchment was a comfort to him. (Years of therapy on the stuff had made the connection that physical closeness = emotional closeness.)

Swallowing the last of the peanut butter, Tobi opens his mouth to speak but instead licks off the food from his lips.

Sai avoided watching - partially because it was peanut butter, and partially because...

Physical closeness was something Sai was used to. Emotional closeness...well he hadn't been emotionally close to anyone for years.

Smiling, Tobi wiggles against Sai and looks at the other male. "Sai-kun, are you and Tobi friends, yeah?"

"I suppose." Sai disliked the term friends, but Tobi could call them that if he wanted.

"That's good... right?" Sai was the only one Tobi had ever wondered about- he didn't yell at Tobi like Deidara or Tayuya...

"Yes." Sai didn't yell at many people. It was a waste of energy.

He smiled, somewhat relieved. "Oh, good."

Sai nodded, eyes looking a little brighter - happier? - when Tobi smiled.

Glancing out the window, Tobi frowned. "Sai-kun, Tobi has to go home..." The sun was setting.

Oh. "Alright." Sai replied, looking out of the window as well. "Do you want me to go with you?" Make sure you're safe?

"Oh, Tobi can do it...!" He said with a grin, getting up.

"Mmm, alright..." Sai wasn't entirely sure, but didn't push the matter, standing up as well. He'd have to lock the door once Tobi left anyway.

"Sai-kun, are you going to be at school on Monday?" Tobi asked, pulling on his jacket.

"Most likely." He didn't really want to, but there were rules. Unfortunately.

"Oh, good! Tobi will see you then."

Getting to the door, Tobi waved and waited. (For what he wasn't sure-)

He was waiting? Hm. Sai quickly bent forward, kissing Tobi on the nose. "Get home safely, alright?"

Smiling (there we go), Tobi kissed Sai back quickly. "Tobi will be good!"

"Alright, now go before you're late." He felt like a mother.