Title: Okonomiyaki
Characters: Tatsuha, Ryuichi
Summary: Ryuichi fries up some Japanese pancakes.
Genre: fluff/comedy
Word Count: 300
Rating/Warnings: T/ for a couple of curses and Tatsuha's fantasies.
Disclaimer: Gravitation belongs to Murakami and its respective copyright holders. This is a fan work only, and a profitless venture.
Tatsuha couldn't believe his luck.
On a date with Ryuichi Sakuma!
Of course, Ryu might not call it such, but he'd remedy that. Unlike their trip to the zoo, this time Tatsuha would win him over.
Tatsuha reined in his libido at the thought of visiting a hotel and doing all sorts of nasty things to Ryuichi that a Buddhist monk in training like himself shouldn't even know about.
Small steps.
Best to start with small steps.
Which led him to choose a quiet restaurant.
Ryuichi insisted Tatsuha choose where to eat. Tatsuha wanted Ryu to decide, he was hoping to find out what Ryuichi's favorite foods were and where he liked to eat, but Ryu assured him that he could eat whatever he wanted whenever he wanted, so Tatsuha picked a small okonomiyaki restaurant.
"Do you like okonomiyaki?" Tatsuha asked, hoping he'd made a good decision.
"Hai!" Ryuichi chirped. "It's the first time I've had it since I came back from America."
Ryu's happy expression excited Tatsuha and he shifted in his seat.
Damn teenage hormones!
"Say, Tatsuha?" Ryu spoke. "How 'bout I make yours? I make a mean okonomiyaki."
"Sure!" Tatsuha struggled not to squeal like a yaoi fan girl.
Ryuichi Sakuma, the Ryuichi Sakuma, was making his favorite food for him!
"Yay!" Ryu cheered. "Tohma and Nori-chan won't let me make it for them."
Tatsuha grinned at Ryu as he started frying the food, but his face soon fell.
Hadn't Ryu ever made this before? Why was he mixing weird ingredients together? He was going to burn it!
Tatsuha didn't want to crush Ryuichi's feelings, but he couldn't eat that.
"Eat up!" Ryuichi smiled at he served Tatsuha. "What's wrong? Is it no good?"
Damn those doe eyes! Tatsuha took a bite.
"Y'know, it's not half bad."
Okonomiyaki: Sometimes called Japanese pancakes, or Japanese pizza. It's made up of batter and other ingredients such as cabbage, green onions, pork, octopus, etc... Most Okonomiyaki restaurants are grill-it-yourself establishments where customers are given ingredients so they can fry it themselves on a hotplate built into the table.
Listed as one of Tatsuha's favorite foods in volume three, next to miso ramen and Ryuichi.
Up next: Hiro and Suguru drop Shuichi off at home after a night of celebration.
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