Who: Itsuki Marehiko & Tooyama Kintarou
What: Icchan treating Kin-chan for clam chowder.
When: Around Kin-chan's birthday; the day after?
Where: Aki dorms kitchen.
Something felt different from Kintarou's birthday last year and even the year before that. After hanging out with Chitose and Shiraishi, he was invited by Itsuki or Icchan -a new friend of his which he just met in school. He walked through the corridors of the Aki Dorm and arrived at 208. He didn't have any trouble walking anyway and he wanted to eat what Icchan will serve him -he's actually excited about it. He goes in front of room 208 and knocks on it.
Itsuki wondered where Akaya had gone - maybe to Sanada-senpai’s room. But it didn’t really bother him at the moment, since he was waiting for a visitor. While it wasn’t that long since he had made clam chowder for Saeki - who tried to help and only made a mess - he liked anything with clams in it.
When a knock was heard on the door, he bounced over to it and opened. “Hi!” he smiled.
“Hi!” Kintarou replied with his wide grin. He actually looked at Itsuki then their room while saying so. He likes to explore new things after all. “Is Kirihara-kun there?” Not that he doesn’t want him to be there; just so he would know how to react or something similar to that.
“No, not as far as I know.” Itsuki replied, then picked up a few things that lay on his bed. “We’ll have to go to the kitchen either way, though. We don’t have any stove in the rooms, after all.” He stepped out of the room and locked the door.
Kintarou’s mouth gapped a bit and then gives of a cute smile. “Ah, that’s right. Sorry, my brain doesn’t really work during the morning.” He straightens his back and looks at Itsuki.
"That's fine." Itsuki smiled and grabbed Kintarou's hand, pulling him towards the stairs.
Kintarou watched Itsuki as he was being pulled by him and just kept on smiling; today’s really going to be a happy day for him again.
They went into the kitchen, and once there, Itsuki let go of Kintarou and told him to sit down. “It won’t take too long to prepare this.” He grinned and started to pick out whet he needed for the dish.
“Okay then.” Kintarou happily replied as he smiles at Itsuki and obediently sits on the chair nearby while still watching his friend. He patiently waits as he smells the different ingredients Itsuki is mixing with the soup.
Itsuki hummed a little as he mixed the ingredients, and while it simmered on the stove, he picked out two plates, glasses and spoons.
The scent of the clam chowder Itsuki was making just made Kintarou’s stomach growl louder and him, more embarrassed than ever as he tried to tame his tummy by holding it a bit.
Itsuki couldn’t help but laugh. The grumbling of Kintarou’s stomach and the redhead’s reaction was just so amusing, for some reason.
Kintarou now felt more embarrassed than ever since Itsuki has finally caught his stomach growling. He felt a bit red and tried to turn his head down after.
“There’s nothing wrong with being hungry, you know.” Itsuki pointed out. He stirred the soup a little and searched through the shelves and cupboards. “It’s almost done, too.”
Kintarou looked up and gave a little chuckle. “I’m really not like this... you know.” He tried to chuckle again and looked at the soup Itsuki is making.
“What? Hungry?” Itsuki teased. He was amazed by himself, actually. He hadn’t known Kintarou for long, but he was easy to talk to.
“No! What I mean is, my stomach doesn’t really growl like this when I’m hungry.” Kintarou said but he didn’t know that his tummy is like that because he hasn’t practically eaten anything while before, he would always do so.
Itsuki giggled. “You don’t have to be embarrassed or anything just because if that.” He finally found the bread he had been looking for, and cut up a couple of slices, then put them on the table on a plate.
Kintarou didn’t say anything anymore; he was really keen into watching Itsuki prepare their food after all and maybe he can do that some time too. He just smiled at the scene he’s watching and tries to absorb the things he learned today.
Once more stirring the soup, Itsuki got one of the spoons and tasted to see if it tasted alright. With a thoughtful pout, he rummaged through the ingredients and added some more of one of them.
There, that was better. He smiled and turned off the stove, putting out the pot on the table. “Hai.”
Kintarou looked at the soup, smiled, then looked at Itsuki as if he was waiting for a go signal.
“Dozo.” Itsuki smiled, holding out the soup ladle for Kintarou.
Kintarou happily takes the soup ladle and bread. He bites some of the bread and takes some of the soup. He looks back at Itsuki, smiles and says: “It’s delicious!”
Itsuki grinned widely. “That’s good.” he said. It always made him happy when people liked his cooking. He wasn’t great at it, but clam-dishes was something he was quite good at. Then he filled his own bowl with soup.