Strawberry Pocky
Summary: Ren is depressed after Yamato leaves. The guys try to come up with something to cheer him up. RxY
Author's Note: Based off of the timeline of my Gokusen RP forum (link in my profile). We'd love to have some members. : ) Also written partially because I got this idea while I couldn't stop thinking about pocky last night, and I really wanted to write it out.
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"Ne, Kura, do you know what Ren's favorite snack is?" Ichi asked Kura one afternoon. They were headed over to Ren's. The spring semester for College hadn't started yet, and Kura and Ren were both off that day so they all three decided to hang out, and maybe go razz Honjo at the tofu shop. They both figured Ren would need something like that, to hang out with friends, especially after Yamato left.
Apparently Yamato's father had found out about the two of them, and him being the jerk that he was decided to send Yamato over to America to attend vocational school instead of attending it in Japan with Kamiya. The reason why Yamato didn't just defy his father and not go? His father threatened to displace his mother. But now here the five of them where, missing one of the leaders (or in Ren's case, missing his boyfriend).
"Sa. I dunno." Kura replied. "Maybe we could try pocky?" he suggested. "Everyone likes pocky!!" he declared with a knowing nod. Ichi sighed as the two of them walked into the convience store.
"Just because you like it doesn't mean everyone else has to." Ichi pointed out as he went to scan some of the shelves in the convience store. "Ah! Here it is!" he declared, grabbing a box of, you guessed it, pocky. Particularly the strawberry kind.
"Eh? Didn't you say that just because I like it doesn't mean that other people have to like it?" Kura asked Ichi. Ichi just rolled his eyes and picked out a few other snacks.
"But for all we know he could very well like it." Ichi replied. "It's worth a shot." he told Kura and went up to the cashier to pay. Kura just snickered.
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"Reeeeeeeeeeen!! Come out and plaaaaaaaaaaaay!!" Kura said in a sing-songy voice at the front door of Ren's apartment. He knew what Ren's reaction was going to be, but he didn't really care. They were greeted by a bleary-eyed Ren. "Eh? Ren did you just wake up?" Kura asked Ren. Ren nodded sleepily.
"I haven't had any coffee yet either." Ren told him and opened the door. "Come on in." Ren said to his friends. "Lemme get myself some coffee though." he said to the two.
"We brought food." Ichi said to Ren, Ren just nodded with a yawn and took the bag, putting it on the table. "Have all you been doing is sleeping when you haven't been to work?" he asked Ren. Ren just nodded.
"Great way to save money." Ren said sarcastically after taking a sip of coffee. Ichi and Kura looked at each other and then looked at their depressed friend. He was really missing Yamato. "What'd you guys get?" Ren asked as he started looking through the bags that Kura and Ichi had brought in.
He froze when he saw the strawberry pocky. And memories of the smell of strawberries and the day Yamato confessed came rushing back.
Without a word, Ren proceeded to kick his two frienda out of the apartment, along with the box of the strawberry pocky.
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Author's Note: Ja. It's kind of an inside joke, but what happened was. The RP we did, it was Yamato confessing to Ren and they were both at his house sick. He goes to the shower and ends up using Kaoruko's strawberry-scented shampoo.
