Kotetsu had thought he was being fairly obvious about what he was. After all, when guys said they didn't like boobs, that was saying he didn't like girls.

After all, all girls had boobs.

He didn't quite quash the thought that maybe Yuzuya was dumb; while the guy might just be tired, after all, there was being open, and being so open the door was missing.

"I prefer asses that are trim. You know, hard. Like shinobi." Soon he might need to be proclaiming it to the restaurant.

He was just here for the sushi, dammit.

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Yuzuya had his new beer and was taking a big swig when Kotetsu's reply made him stop short. "Hard... ass? Now you're starting to sound like--" Then it dawned on him. "Oh." And then the sheer stupidity of his end of the whole conversation sunk in with terrible force. "Oh."

Yuzu put down his beer, at a loss for words. For his part, Kotetsu picked up his chopsticks with a slight frown and picked at the plate of sushi as if to say, end of story.

Yuzuya watched the younger man eat for a few moments. He felt about an inch tall. "Sorry," he began. "I didn't think." Now this was what he got for trying to be cordial. He ought to just stick to being a sourpuss jerk and be over and done with it.

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"It's alright." How to make it better for the other man? Yuzuya looked embarrassed - Kotetsu understood that perfectly, especially since he had a tendency to walk into things and get it utterly and totally wrong. "Um... It's okay, really. you were just trying to help." He tried to smile reassuringly, but the atmosphere was just a tad uneasy.

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"Well, yeah, but the thing is, is I don't usually bother trying to help," Yuzuya admitted, dropping his gaze to the sushi on his plate. "So I'm not very good at it."

He paused and then shrugged it off. "Well, whatever. If you're after guys, then I guess you're in the right branch. There's lots of available guys in ANBU. Even if they... have no breasts. You know." Yuzu himself couldn't really comprehend how you couldn't like females-- women just came equipped with so many more... options.

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"You do help." Sort of. "And it's nice to have someone not call me rookie to my face." Kotetsu ate some more, and then decided to clean off a quarter of the platter. "Guys don't have breasts." In fact, that was pretty funny, if they did. A bit on the ick-side, but also funny. As long as they weren't permanent.

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"Well, some guys do," Yuzu replied, stealing a few more pieces of salmon. Salmon, sweet salmon. One of Yuzuya's only food addictions that was actually healthy to eat. "But it usually has to do with eating too many carbs."

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"Okay that? Ew." Kotetsu made a face and drank more tea. "I mean, no offense to the Akimichis, though they're on the big size all around. I prefer the trim type."

Small, wiry. Preferably not towering over him.

Like Ginta.

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It was at this point in the conversation that something new occurred to Yuzuya. As he digested this information from his dinner partner, his face began to turn slowly and decidedly scarlet.

Oh dear gods.

He fidgeted on the booth's pleather bench and a tiny corner of his brain automatically started going through a mental rundown of all available escape routes just in case he needed them. A shinobi was always ready for a quick getaway when need be. Yuzuya gave the kid a once-over. Kotetsu sat there drinking his prissy girl tea, all young and cute and looking so very breakable. 'It's good for dates.' You are such an asshole, Yuzu reprimanded himself.

The world's biggest, the little voice in his head answered with a smile.

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Kotetsu would have noticed the blush if he had not been thinking of yellow and blue. It would have surprised people who knew him to notice him actually eating absently rather than actually devouring the sushi at breakneck speed.

It was actually Yuzuya's fidgeting that brought him back to earth. The pleather squeaked, after all. "Eh?"

Then he noticed the blush. "Are you alright?" It wasn't that hot.

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Yuzuya cleared his throat, looked around, and then leaned forward over his beer to ask a very delicate and embarrassing question. "Ahem. This... you and me, here, this isn't... a date, is it?" Cause if Kotetsu liked 'trim' then it was possible that Yuzuya himself, being 'beanpole,' fell in under that heading.

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"You and me?" Kotetsu echoed, and then it clicked in his brain. For a long moment, he was tempted to say 'yes', just to see his face, but then, Yuzuya was the first non-rookie ANBU who was actually nice. He didn't want to lose his friendship.

"No! Of course not!" He glanced at his chopsticks for a moment, his fingers tightening around them just slightly, debating if he should say. What the hell, it's not like he'd know just from his description, right? "I like someone else."

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Yuzuya visibly relaxed, his shoulders loosening. "Okay. Just as long as we have that settled. Cause no offense, it's totally fine with me if you like guys, some of my friends, do too. But I really-- well, not that I have any time for women, to be honest, with work-- but, they're way nicer to look at. No offense," he repeated. So thankful that he wouldn't be hurting any feelings.

So Kotetsu liked someone else, huh? Now that was cause for celebration. Just as long as it wasn't him. Yuzuya delivered half of the rest of the sushi to Kotetsu's plate, and slapped the rest onto his. Kotetsu was left to watch his dinner partner generously distributing the ginger and wasabi. It looked as if Yuzuya thought he was some kind of jolly holiday elf of brotherly tolerance. I'm okay, you're okay. Let's celebrate!

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Kotetsu gave him an odd look - so happy? - and then mentally shrugged and applied himself to the food. Yuzuya's effusive mood was catching, and Kotetsu grinned back at him.

"No offense. 's not like I have a chance with him anyway." He shrugged easily.

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Yuzuya paused in the devouring of a row of shrimp, and blinked at the younger man behind his glasses. "It might be the tea thing." He nodded to the chuunin's choice of wussy beverage.

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Kotetsu blinked, considered his tea. "You think?" he asked, doubtfully. He didn't think that Ginta'd care about whether he drank tea or not.

But then, Yuzuya was older than him. He'd interacted with the other ANBU, right? So he'd know, in general... "In what way?"

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