nakedfish (nakedfish) wrote in areyougame, @ 2008-10-28 22:12:00 |
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Entry tags: | *persona 3, author: nakedfish |
First Steps, Akihiko/Mitsuru
Title: First Steps
Author/Artist: nakedfish
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word count: 333
Summary: It was awkward, but they could do it.
“I was told I had to drink all of the broth.”
“What!?” Akihiko coughed past his ramen. “Who told you that?” More importantly, he wondered who took her to a ramen stand in the first place. Mitsuru didn’t accept many offers to go out, and he had never understood why.
“Minato.” To say that he was a little vexed would have been an understatement.
“Well, he’s wrong. Can you even finish it all?” The boxer laughed as he leaned to her bowl, hitched as her hair brushed his shoulder. More and more he was feeling that stupid tingling in his lower belly, as if insects were scaling the walls of his stomach. It certainly wasn’t that stupid thing they talked about in cheesy movies and soap operas, ‘butterflies in my tummy’. Guys didn’t get butterflies.
“I did last time. But I have to admit, I felt very unwell afterwards.”
Without thinking, he pressed his fingers into her stomach- tough, riddled with lean muscle. If Mitsuru thought he was being presumptuous, she thankfully kept it to herself. Maybe she had realised what this was before he had.
“I bet! They have pretty big servings here.” She was soft as he pulled her against his chest, smelt like her familiar French perfume and a hint of motor oil. She had been fixing her motorcycle when he asked her to a very late dinner, after all. It was awkward and he was sure she could feel his heart rattling its way out from under his sternum, but when she leaned into him it didn’t matter.
“Do you want to come back here tomorrow? In the Dark Hour, I mean.”
“You and I?”
“Yeah.” He coughed nervously. It wasn’t like picking up just any girl, not like bumbling in front of someone he knew nothing about. Bumbling in front of Mitsuru was fine, because she would do the same once the Dark Hour past and their moment of peace in Beef Bowl was interrupted.
“I’d like that.”