[drabble] Chocolate Day
Title: Chocolate Day
Author: Luna (dreamweavernyx )
Pairing: RyoDa
Genre: Crack/Fluff
Summary: Chocolate opens the door to many opportunities.
Notes: Happy White Day!
More of a Valentine's/White Day fic rather than a White Day-centric one.
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Ryo blinks slowly, very slowly, as he stares at the box that is being shoved at him.
“What…is this for?”
Ueda fidgets, highly aware of the curious stares coming from the rest of NEWS, seated in various parts of the dressing room.
“Chocolate,” he murmurs, and tucks a curl of copper hair behind his ear before pushing the small black box at Ryo.
“Oh. Um…thanks?”
Ueda blinks once, twice, and then nods hastily, before hightailing it out of the NEWS dressing room.
Ryo thinks he must have imagined the pale cherry blush on Ueda’s cheeks.
Tegoshi stares at the door.
“Ryo-tan, how come he only gave you chocolate?”
Ryo shrugs.
“Beats me.”
“Open it!”
Ryo does so, and is greeted with the sight of nine small chocolates, sitting perfectly in individual black paper cases.
“Looks delicious,” Masuda observes.
“Everything looks delicious to you, Massu,” laughs Koyama from where he is playing Uno with Shige.
Ryo has to agree with Masuda on this one though, because the smell of the chocolates is already making him hungry, and he eats one.
Dark chocolate.
He lets Tegoshi help him demolish the white chocolate ones, before stashing the box away in his bag.
“I wonder why he gave them to me…?”
“You know,” Yamashita suddenly says, “it’s Valentine’s Day today.”
And then everything clicks into place.
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A month later it is Ryo who is fidgeting nervously, because the atmosphere in the KAT-TUN dressing room is worlds apart from the NEWS one.
Kamenashi is staring at him with nail polish brush poised over his perfectly-painted fingernail, the odor of the polish wafting out and making the room smell. Koki and Taguchi are fighting over a DS, and Nakamaru is passed out on the couch next to Ueda.
“…Yes?” Ueda inquires curiously, after watching Ryo fidget for a while.
A slim black box is shoved into his lap, and before he can react Ryo has run out of the room to return to the happy comfort and safety of the NEWS dressing room.
Ueda blames Kamenashi’s nail-polish smell.
Without waking Nakamaru, whose head is on his shoulder, Ueda slowly unties the silk ribbon from around the box and opens it to see a row of truffles along with a white slip of paper.
Happy White Day, it reads, and Ueda smiles in spite of himself.
“You know,” Kamenashi calls from the table, capping his bottle of nail polish, “you only get chocolate on White Day if you’d given chocolate on Valentine’s Day.”
Ueda raises his eyebrow, picking up a truffle from the box.
“And so?”
“Do you have a crush on Nishikido?” Kamenashi grins, and Ueda rolls his eyes.
“Don’t act like you didn’t get that ridiculously large box of chocolates from Akanishi this morning. I swear, he’s probably out to give you diabetes or something.”
Leaving Kamenashi to splutter incoherently, Ueda closes the box again and gently moves Nakamaru’s head to rest on the sofa cushions before heading to his bag.
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Ryo is watching an interesting debate between Koyama and Tegoshi about whether cats or dogs make better pets when his keitai vibrates.
From: Ueda Tatsuya
Nishikido. Thank you for the chocolate. It was delicious.
Ryo smirks slightly as he returns the message.
To: Ueda Tatsuya
You realize this makes you the girl, since you gave me chocolate on Valentine’s Day.
He doesn’t get a reply to that.
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The next year, they are in a sort-of relationship. “Not lovey-dovey like Tegoshi and Massu or disgustingly sweet like Kame and Jin, but more like a married couple. They fight a lot,” is how Nakamaru describes them.
It is an apt description of them indeed.
“Why,” Ryo asks, lounging on the sofa in Ueda’s living room, “do I not get chocolate on Valentine’s this year?”
Ueda huffs.
“Go get some yourself. I’m not a girl, Nishikido.”
Ryo grins.
“But you’re girlier than me.”
He points to the pink apron tied around Ueda’s waist to prove his point, which turns out not to be such a smart decision. Ueda socks him on the arm, showing that while his mannerisms may be feminine his muscles are strong enough to disprove that image.
“Ow!” grunts Ryo, “You know, girlfriends aren’t supposed to be violent to their boyfriends-”
He is cut short when Ueda shoves five sticks of chocolate Pocky down his throat, and begins gagging and choking.
“Happy Valentine’s Day,” Ueda says, dry humour very evident in his voice.
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On White Day Ryo gives Ueda a chocolate cupcake that explodes in his face.
“I have three more,” Ryo says cheekily when Ueda has wiped all the brown sticky crumbs off his face, “want another?”
The next day Ryo will hear a scream of terror coming from the KAT-TUN dressing room, quickly followed by a gibbering Taguchi running out of the room screaming about bombs hidden in his cupcakes.