Title: Into the Frying Pan
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Humor/Romance
Word Count: 532
Summary: Mamoru is in a tough position with his wife over an issue. He can't say yes or no easily. How will he fare in the end?
Mamoru Chiba is in a tough position. In fact, he's in such a position that he can't say yes or no. A "yes" would mean that he might have to suffer this particular position every day. A "no", on the other hand, would mean he might suffer every night from a certain "lack" of position. So, what will he do now? He simply looks at this dear wife with an "o" on his lips as his dark blue eyes glaze over with deep thoughts of his fate.
"Mamo-chan! Tell me, does this curry taste good?" She looks at him with an ever-hopeful sparkling blue eyes and a sunny smile. He knows though that depending on his answer, her ever-hopeful sparkling blue eyes and sunny smile could turn ugly in an instant.
'Ugly for me, indeed,' he thinks as his hopeful heart continues to drop down in tension over his imminent fate.
"Well... Usako... my love..." he starts, hoping against hope to lengthen the time for his doom.
"Yes, muffin?" in an almost impossible feat, her already-wide, hopeful blue eyes widens more like a cute puppy in love. That seals his fate. Mamoru knows what he has to do to save himself and his precious wife's beautifully hopeful blue eyes from sad tears. He simply says, "I don't know, it tastes kind of funny. Maybe it was just a tiny amount of salt over the limit that's the problem."
He smiles toothily at her, hoping that she won't look through his dashing smile to his lies. He looks at the curry again on the rather "unclean" stove. The usually red curry turns into an olive green shade with vegetables that seem to dissolve upon contact.
He turns to look at his wife as she stares curiously at the curry with pink lips slowly turning into a pout. Mamoru simply gives her another dashing smile with his pearly white teeth and exclaims, "See Usako, it's probably just the salt. That's all! Thank you for all your effort for this surprise, Usako! You are a wonderful wife! For such a wonderful wife, I also wanted to give a surprise! In fact, I reserved us a seat in a special restaurant for tonight. Would you like to go, my love?"
Usagi immediately screams and jumps up and down in joy at the "surprise". She hugs her husband, who, in the meanwhile, begins to congratulate himself in his mind for his smoothness. She exclaims, "Mamo-chan! You reserved us a seat in a restaurant. I'm so glad! What should I wear, Mamo-chan?" She babbles about getting dressed in excitement to which her loving husband just nods his head in immense relief over the disaster averted.
That moment Chiba Mamoru doesn't know that he would later regret in his mind thinking 'Why does my cute, little wife have such a huge appetite? Why do Makoto-chan and Nephrite-kun own such an expensive restaurant? Why did today have to be the day I get my salary? Why, oh WHY, did my wife secretly get the curry to the restaurant to feed me since it's the first time she cooked for me? Chiba Mamoru, next time let your smoothness be damned!'
The End
Lunais: Usually I get the quote from "The Famous Quote Challenge" but this time I got the quote from "One Hour Challenge #104 by Dertupio." Thank you Dertupio for getting me inspiration to get out of my writer's block. ^_^