AN: I do not own Slam Dunk and it's characters/ they were created by Takehiko Inoue and the publishing house that funded him/and yeah, this contains boyxboy love but just a tiny bit.
Senru drabble. Strung it all together a while ago and decided to post it just for fun.
Rukawa hated lemons. It all started back when he was a kid. He liked gums back then, and he liked how they all come in different shapes and sizes. One time, his mother came home with gums the shape of little lemons in different colors and those little gums made him happy. So imagine his surprise and delight one time he traipsed into their kitchen and saw a basket full of lemons. His first encounter with the lemon shape was of course with the gums so his mind has associated the shape with the sweetness of the gum. He made his way to the counter, used the chair for leverage and took the basket with him to his room.
Minutes after he took the basket, his mom found him crying with a very abused looking lemon in his bed, the other lemons flung to the other side of the room along with the basket. And that single incident was the first and last time Rukawa ate a lemon.
Years later, he found himself dumbstruck when he found out that his newly appointed nemesis in the form of Sendoh Akira worshipped lemons to the point that he carried around with him a Tupperware full of sliced lemons. And as stoic and indifferent as he may be, he couldn't help but stare and cringe whenever Sendoh sucked on them. A thing of course that Sendoh noticed after several one-on-one sessions between them.
Now Sendoh knew of course that his past time of sucking on lemons always made other cringe but Rukawa's way of cringing was a little bit different considering the fact of course that the guy was Rukawa Kaede, Shohoku's Ice prince. Surely it would take more than just lemons to bring emotions out of him but the slight twitch in his eyes and lips proved otherwise.
And so one time he asked.
"Why do you seem to hate it so much when I suck on lemons?"
"Why do you love to suck on them so much?"
Stunned a bit by a full sentence reply from Rukawa, Sendoh chuckled.
"I dunno, guess I just like the taste."
"It's too…sour"
"It's a bit sweet for me."
"Cause you're a do ahou."
"It's not so bad."
"Hnn."
"Maybe the lemon you had back then was just too sour. Mine are sweet." Sendoh said at Rukawa, a grin breaking out of his face when he saw the kitsune raise an eyebrow at him.
Now Rukawa was not really that stupid to believe that they are lemons that are sweet but the way Sendoh sucked on them constantly made them seem sweet. And the curiosity was gnawing his sanity off.
"They're really sweet. Come here, let me give you a taste." Sendoh motioned for him to move nearer. He hesitated a bit, but after a couple of seconds leaned forward anyway, close to Sendoh.
Sendoh wasn't really expecting Rukawa to follow him and was shocked at the sudden invasion of space. Rukawa was close to him, enough for him to smell him. It must have been the smell of vanilla and strawberries on Rukawa's hair because he just found himself leaning closer to Rukawa and capturing the boy's lips with his own.
When Sendoh pulled away, he was too shocked and embarrassed at his impulsiveness to say anything. A few moments have passed and the silence was broken, surprisingly by Rukawa.
"I still think lemons are sour." He said with a tone of finality as if he just proved some hypothesis true. Sendoh looked at him, opened his mouth to say something, then closed it when he felt his brain leave him. Rukawa fixed his stare at Sendoh, then did something that further shocked Sendoh; he grinned.
"Your lips are sweet though."
Okay so that was brainless. I think the zombies ate my brain haha.