This is some drabble I wrote on the train coming to visit my mamon! For some reason a two-hour journey actually got me home in 5 hours, WHAT?! I had to wait at one train station for an hour D: The idea has been stuck in my head for about two weeks though :D Spellchecker thinks Wata is Satanic and Dou-chan is Dormouse. suitably amused
Lunch
"This is possibly the worst thing I've ever tasted."
He was smiling as he said it. "I understand why losing out on my cooking would be such a terrible thing now!"
After having what could be considered by most to have been an exceedingly bad week (though admittedly for Watanuki, it was actually just a moderately bad week, but that fact served to only depress him further), Watanuki, in his infinite wisdom, had deemed that Doumeki must prepare at least one lunch that week on the grounds that a) he was poor, b) he'd hurt his arm and didn't really want to do any work he wasn't getting 'paid' for, and c) he was poor and Doumeki ate too much, damnit!
If the food was as bad as the above statement suggests, then it was most likely that Doumeki had accepted the task only to prove that it wasn't a good idea for him to cook, ever.
The archer resisted the urge to smirk. "Why only 'possibly'? You don't make bad food, right?"
"Not anything I made, you berk," but the annoyance was only mild. Then Watanuki took on a serious expression the other couldn't wholly take seriously. "My mother."
He wasn't entirely sure if it was meant to be funny or not, but Doumeki couldn't prevent the snort of laughter that escaped. The expression and the melodramatic tone were too funny. The cry of "I'm being serious!" told him it was the right reaction.
"She was a disaster in the kitchen! It wasn't funny for me!" His grin said otherwise. "Sometimes I wonder if my father taught me how to cook just so she wouldn't have to dream up culinary nightmares when he couldn't make dinner…"
"I bet you ate all of them, though."
"Of course I did! Every last bite! I loved her, after all."
Doumeki didn't miss the slip in his smile, or the ache behind the past tense, but he'd been around Watanuki long enough to know there wasn't much he could do about either; so, he chose to ignore it. It would pass, as always.
Watanuki remained in good spirits throughout lunch, despite the 'terrible' food. He even packed away the boxes for the other without being prompted. Doumeki presumed it was so he wasn't being so rude about wasted food.
When he eventually got home and unpacked the boxes, he was surprised to find them empty.