"Is this some kind of... bizarre signal of yours?"
Itachi looked blankly at him. "The message will be quite clear when you open it."
Shisui held out the neatly wrapped bento at eye level, sniffing at it suspiciously. "Okay, so one day out of nowhere you invite me to some sort of rendezvous in the middle of the night at the, um, shall we say, best place for couples and then give me this. Honestly, I thought I had to drag you out to any social event -besides business, mind you- and last time I checked, you did not enjoy cooking at all. Don't you think I have enough reasons to be freaked out?"
The younger Uchiha didn't bother to address the accusations thrown at him, instead he chose to nod towards the still wrapped up box dangling from Shisui's hand. "I think everything will clear up when you do open the bento."
Shisui's eye twitched slightly. Damn that stubborn little brat; sometimes Itachi was not fun at all. With a sigh, he procceeded to unwrap time bomb he held, wondering what the hell could be said with a bento. Sure thing there were some people patient enough to use the food to shape a figure of some sort but he sure as hell knew that Itachi did not fall into that category.
The cloth fell and the only thing between him and the to-be life changing mystery box in his hands was the lid, which Shisui lifted very slowly, very warily.
It was an understandment to say that Shisui was pleasantly surprised it wasn't bad at all. In fact, the bento looked quite normal: neatly packed food, the obligatory rice, the chopsticks sitting smugly in their place...
"... I will repeat my previous question: Is this some kind of bizarre signal of yours?"
"It is not strange at all. That's all I have to say," Itachi said without missing a beat.
Silence. Shisui looked down at the box trying to make sense of it. "There's this thing I don't understand at all... Why's only nori and cabbage and tofu and rice in this? No meat?" And who the hell puts tofu in a bento?
Itachi tilted his up his chin slightly, as if indignant. "You said so yourself. Each time you drag me out for a snack, all you eat is unhealthy. Too much meat and grease will send your cholesterol levels alarmingly high and you will risk developing atheroma in your arteries. At least eat some vegetables during your meals so you can keep yourself healthy."
"Um... but..."
"It's hardly polite to refuse a gift." Itachi crossed his arms, leaving no room for argument. "Don't be such a child. Even Sasuke eats more vegetables than you do." Itachi watched with narrowed eyes as Shisui picked up the chopsticks in a defeated manner and poked at the food. "Have some tofu," he snapped, making Shisui jump. Itachi had spent at least a hour of his life figuring out how to make the tofu as sleek as possible and he wasn't letting that time go to waste.
"Erm, I'll have some rice. Thank you very much."
A/N: Wrote this for a prompt at the Fluff Meme at the Naruto Writing Memes community over at Livejournal almost a year ago XD I hope you enjoyed it~
