FASH: Juri needs some more love, because she's just too damn cool to be ignored. Dedicated to Jack, because I vaguely remember her posting a challenge for an Akaba/Juri/Kotarou that I never had a chance to fill out.
Disclaimer: I'm just a fan who should be doing her homework.
Juri frowned and set her hands on her hips as she surveyed the two silent boys in front of her. Akaba was on one side of the room calmly tuning his guitar, Kotarou was on the other side, temperamentally running his comb through his hair with quick, careless flicks of his wrist.
Both of them were so obviously ignoring the other.
"Okay, what did you guys do this time?" She asked, throwing a look over in Kotarou's direction.
Kotarou stopped combing his hair and sputtered. "Julie! Why do you always think I'm the one that starts everything?!" He pointed his comb at Akaba angrily. "He's the one who started it. Akabaka!"
"Fuu." Akaba sighed, but otherwise ignored Kotarou's comment in favour of strumming his guitar.
Kotarou twitched in agitation and Juri tapped her foot impatiently. "Come on guys, it's time to kiss and make up."
"Never! Totally not smart!" Kotarou shouted in retaliation while Akaba remained silent.
She just had to saddle herself up with two of the most stubborn guys in the world, didn't she?
"If you keep this up, I'm not going to give you the Valentines Day chocolates that I made just for you guys."
Both of the boys perked up, it wasn't very often that Juri went out of her way to make handmade goods, claiming to have more important things to do than to 'train to become a housewife'.
Kotarou was the first to cave, as over all the years he'd known Juri she'd only ever given him store-bought chocolate on Valentines Day, if she gave him any at all.
He slowly turned to Akaba, eyes glued to the ground as he muttered an insincere sounding: "I'm sorry."
Juri coughed into her fist and made a vague 'go on' gesture with her other hand but Kotarou remained silent, straightened his posture and crossed his arms, just giving Akaba an expectant stare. Akaba stared back, equally silent.
"Guys..." Juri prodded. "It's now or never."
"I said I was sorry." Kotarou responded, sounding a little more sincere than last time.
Akaba relaxed his posture a little. "I'm sorry as well."
Juri ran a hand through her hair, glad that their daily spat was over and not entirely too interested in what had happened to cause it.
It was Valentines Day after all, for all she knew Akaba had just been accepting chocolates from girls politely and Kotarou just got jealous without wanting to admit that he was.
"Alright, and now that you two are behaving yourselves I can finally give you your chocolates!" She dug through her bag for the packages she'd put together last night and gave them to each of the boys.
"They don't look all too great, but they taste just fine." She said before they even had a chance to open them up.
Kotarou practically beamed at her and she belatedly realized that the chocolates she made could taste like dirt and he'd still be happy to receive them from her.
"Thanks Julie!" He exclaimed before leaning down to give her a quick kiss.
"Yeah, well for White Day you two had better get along, or I'm never going to bother making you anything again."
Akaba stepped forward and fondly ruffled her hair. "We promise we'll behave on that day."
'But I can't promise about all the other days' was left unspoken.
Juri grinned up at them. "Good. Now what did I say about kissing and making up? Come on, show a little affection to each other on Valentines Day, I know you want to."
"Well, when you put it that way..."