Title: right in front of my salad
Rating: T
Fandom: Kuroko no Basket
Relationship: Akashi Seijurou/Mayuzumi Chihiro
Wordcount: 435
Short summary: Mayuzumi comes home to Akashi working on his casual English. The saying is certainly something.
“Right in front of my salad. Right in front of my salad? Right in front of my salad!”
“What the hell are you going on about?”
When Chihiro opened the door to their apartment, drained from the grind of office life, the last thing he expected was to find Seijuurou sitting on the couch with his phone out reciting some who knows what. Yes, Chihiro knew that Seijuurou was studying casual English in preparation for graduate school abroad, but what kind of nonsense was this phrase? Chihiro was pretty confident he understood every individual part, so this had to be something trendy overseas. He took out his own phone to do an online search. He’d have to exercise his ability to read English in order to understand this English, but it was better than just hearing the phrase over and over… What. What the hell!
“Are you literally quoting from a gay porn?”
“Hmm?”
Finally Seijuurou stopped his practice and looked up at Chihiro with a raised eyebrow.
“Do you… not know?”
Chihiro had no idea how Seijuurou found this quoted meme that he had been reciting, but this English website suggested that Seijuurou would not be alone in ignorance. Chihiro thrust his phone in front of Seijuurou’s face and watched as Seijuurou’s expression changed from narrowed, focused eyes to wide, open eyes.
“That’s… interesting.” Seijuurou’s neutral tone belied his obvious surprise. “I like it.”
“What?” That was not the follow up that Chihiro was expecting.
Seijuurou chuckled. “I should let Kuroko know about this. He’d probably find it hilarious.”
Ah, so it was Kuroko’s fault? Or maybe Kagami’s fault? Chihiro knew that Seijuurou exchanged emails with Kagami especially since Kagami currently lived in L.A., having stayed there to finish high school, college, and now as a professional basketball player. And of course, being good friends with Kagami and Seijuurou, Kuroko could have picked up the phrase from Kagami and passed it along to Seijuurou. Either way it didn’t really matter.
“As long as he doesn’t use it against us.”
Chihiro made a face at the thought of Kuroko saying those words. Kuroko already had enough fun riling Chihiro up by just existing…
“You mean you don’t want to…” Seijuurou made a crude gesture with his left hand. ”in front of his salad?”
“Fuck off.” Chihiro retorted reflexively.
Seijuurou smirked. Well, Chihiro wasn’t going to take that cheek from his lover without some sort of payback. He grabbed onto Seijuurou’s shoulders and pulled him in for a rough kiss. In front of some salad… yeah right. How about, before the salad could even be served…