"D-dude..."
"Yes, Al-san?"
"That movie..." he whispered behind tears of overly powering emotions. "Was the best...movie...ever."
Kiku couldn't agree more. The Fault in Our (freaking) Stars was possibly the best movie of the year 2014 and Kiku, unlike himself, indulged in his tears of remorse, tragedy and contentment throughout. Aside its ending, Alfred and Kiku cried like babies and wanted to know more about what happened to everybody.
"Why can't everyone not die with cancer?"
"It is tragic..."
"I loved their catchphrase, too," Alfred said, getting up to turn off the DVD player. "Kinda makes you wanna have a catchphrase like that..."
As Kiku wiped salty wet tears off his cheeks, he contemplated whether or not theyshould have one. What could be their 'always', or their 'okay' like Hazel and Gus? Kiku was thinking too hard on the idea and saw Alfred putting the disc away in the box. Shyly, he wondered what he was thinking.
Alfred sniffed, "Maybe our 'always' will be 'desu'," He looked to Kiku with a grin, his cheeks soaked in tears and Kiku...just stared at the bizarre goofball.
"Eh, why that? You might become a weeaboo if you do that, won't you?" Kiku asked, confused.
"No, we say it together and it'll be like our inside joke!"
"What is an inside joke?" Kiku asked innocently.
"Please, don't act all innocent at me-"
"No, really, what is an inside joke? Is it inside a house?"
Alfred briefly gawked to his good friend, who was puzzled, at his expression. What was so wrong about asking him what was an inside joke? Kiku saw no harm in it and thought Alfred was wondering how naïve he was when he only knew average things. Aside from Kiku's naïve perspective, Alfred seemed clueless as to what to say now.
"Why no say 'desu' like them?" Alfred asked, pointing at the cover box like it was a person. "They say 'okay', and that other couple said 'always', so why don't we give it a shot?"
Kiku had thought about it, and shyly said while taking hold of a nearby pillow close to his chest, "I just think...it might be something so special it'll makes us into...a married couple..." Pulling the pillow to his cheeks he cleverly hid his burning face.
"Wow, aren't you the classy one?" Alfred teased with a perverted tone. He even wiggled his eyebrows playfully at him and Kiku felt abashed.
As Alfred made his way over to Kiku's side on the couch, Kiku composed himself to say something, "I-if you are all right saying that word... We can say it together, as our word..."
Alfred grinned, showing his teeth. "Great!" He leaned over to Kiku's burning skin and kissed his cheek. "Desu?"
Kiku was shyer than ever but said, "D-desu..."
And that was how USPan was a canon pairing...
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"THIS IS WONDERFUL!" Elizabeta cried in tears of honor and happiness as she hugged the shy Kiku closely.
"I-I forgotten that the TV had the camera on for some reason and this ended up made-" Kiku said, but then his face was squished into Elizabeta's chest and he moved frantically.
"YOU ARE MY SHIPPING LORD, MY FRIEND!"
And that's how Kiku ended up becoming the shipping lord...