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You what?

[Okay, he wants to chastise Shuji for this, and he's trying, but mostly he's failing. Because he's grinning. Because he's pretty sure the reason Shuji lied was because he wanted to hang out, and that's ridiculously cute.]

You can't do that kinda stuff, Shuji, you gotta do your work, it's way more important than me. And anyway, if you get it done ahead of time you get to hang with me more. Right? That's a pretty good reward.

[Especially since they can kiss now, but also just in general.]

Excuse me, you are way more important than any paper I've written for any class. That's not up for debate.

...But hanging with you is a great reward, so I guess I have to put more effort in now.

[He was putting in effort before! Just not with 'kissing Mista' as his goal.]

Okay, but I don't have a deadline. I'm always gonna be around. And you always get an A with me anyway.

[That is one of the worst lines in history? Holy shit. Meanwhile, there's a sudden moment of realization and Mista looks abruptly incredibly disappointed.]

Damn. I just realized I can't take you out properly if there's monsters rampaging. What the fuck! That's so inconvenient, I wanna woo you finally and I can't because of monsters?

That's dumb. Monsters are dumb. But I can cook for you a lot, so that's something?

[He's not a great cook, but he'll manage with things from a box and recipes on the internet that look easy.]

. . . Yeah, I'd like that a lot, honestly. But--

[How to explain it. He takes both of Shuji's hands in his and thinks for a moment, trying to line his words up right.]

I wanna take you out to dinner. Do it right. I wanna take you dancing, and on adventures, I want to show you stuff you haven't seen before and I wanna learn how you see this city different from me by walking around in it with you. I wanna do ordinary stuff with you out there like we usually do, except we get to hold hands now.

I don't know. I guess I wanna sweep you off your feet. I wanna spoil you so much you feel what I see when I look at you.

[Hearing Mista say that he wants to spoil him, wants to learn more about him, wants to spend more time with him - the ordinary and the adventures - makes Shuji feels so warm that he might melt.]

We'll do all that. We just can't do it right now. When the monsters are gone, when things calm down, we'll go dancing.

[Shuji can hardly wait.]

[Well. Impatient as he is, hearing that common sense calms Mista down a bit. He still doesn't want to wait, but he will, because they'll get there eventually.]

Okay. When the monsters are gone, we'll go dancing.

. . . Maybe in the meantime, we can do a living room date or something. I'll bring us some wine and you can make dinner and we can hang out here watching movies or playing games or, I don't know, whatever you want.

Dinner and a movie sounds great to me. Anyway, we can talk more than we could if we actually went out, and there's no gum stuck to your couch, so it's better.

[He's not complaining about this at all. It's more than enough for him right now.]

Yeah, that's true. Plus if you're next to me on the couch instead of in the next theater seat over, it's easier for me to do this number.

[And lo, Mista demonstrates the super-casual stretch and settle your arm over your date's shoulder totally by accident maneuver.]

[Flawless execution. Shuji mentally gives it ten out of ten as he scoots a little closer to Mista.]

And I don't think we're going to be kicked out of your living room for PDA.

[Oh, sweet. He didn't think Shuji was going to actually indulge that. But Shuji indulges a lot of his stupid bullshit, he reflects as he pulls Shuji close.]

[Plus there's a good point there that he hadn't considered. He ponders it for a moment.]

Okay, I'm starting to get behind this concept in a serious way.

Me too. Even when we can go out safely again, we can still do at-home dates when we want to.

[They'll just have the option of doing whatever they want.]

When we don't wanna get kicked out of theaters.

[He doesn't ever want that, but sometimes he gets kicked out anyway because he has a lot of strong movie opinions, okay.]

Or when we just want to be affectionate... no, wait, that's all the time for me.

[He didn't think this through??]

. . . Oh my god. You're so cute.

[Mista is literally dying a little bit over this. He spends a few moments thinking about how much he wishes he could kiss Shuji right now before realizing, hey, he can do that thing. So he does.]

[Yep. Still awesome. So he does it again. And a third time, all in quick succession, for a total of five kisses, not four.]

[We wouldn't want to ruin kisses with the number four.

By the time Mista's done kissing him, Shuji looks dazed, a blush having settled on his face during the first kiss and just gotten worse afterwards.]

...I should be saying that to you...

Well. You can if you want to.

[Even if, objectively speaking, Shuji is the cutest. Shuji gets all red when he's kissed. Mista's going to take a lot of notes on this.]

[And then--he ponders following up and taking the risk of using the word he's still a little shy of. Sure, it's not a guarantee that it won't be embarrassing, but he really wants to.]

You can call your boyfriend cute whenever you want. Right?

[Every time Shuji thinks, okay, I'm getting used to Mista flustering me like this, I'm going to calm down now, Mista does or says something else wonderful.

And this is the most wonderful thing he could possibly say.

Shuji squeaks hearing it - he'd like to call the noise something less embarrassing but he can't - before his smile grows so wide that it actually does hurt.]

I can! I will! My boyfriend Mista is the cutest person on the planet!

[My boyfriend, Mista. He could die happy. Or just snuggle into Mista's shoulder some more.]

[No. Too cute. This is too much. What the hell is he supposed to do to recover from this?]

Shuji--

[Ugh. Shuji is so soft and cuddly and warm and he squeaked. Mista kisses him on the cheek, because that's what he can reach first.]

I'm really happy, Shuji.

Me too.

[He might never stop smiling at this rate. Certainly not if Mista keeps kissing him.]

Right now I feel like things are going to be okay.

Yeah, me too. Like I'm still nervous but--

[He shrugs one shoulder, ruffles Shuji's hair.]

I feel like I can't fuck up too bad if you keep smiling at me like that.

[Shuji closes his eyes and leans into Mista's hand. He would purr if that was a noise he could make.]

Everything outside this apartment is terrifying, but - at least I don't have to deal with it alone.

Damn right. You can't get rid of me now.

[Mista Will Now Die For You. Just kidding, he'd have done that anyway.]

You'll tell me if I do something dumb or weird, though, right? I've never--you know. Dated a guy before. I know everybody's different and all but if I do something wrong you gotta tell me so I can do better. Just like being friends but even more so.

You'll do just fine. I don't really know what I'm doing either - so you have to tell me if I'm being weird or gross - but I don't think I'll mind that much no matter what you do.

Oh.

[He puffs up a little. Shuji really does like him a lot, huh.]

Well. That's good. Pretty sure it'll be the same for me. I like everything you do all the time anyway. And I really like kissing you.

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