Kagami massaged his forehead as yet another thud and string of curses resounded through his apartment. Exactly what had possessed him to invite that asshole into his home?

They had gotten to the grocery store normally, well if you count occasionally wanting to strangle someone normal, grabbed a shopping cart and started to go about picking things up for dinner.

Then Aomine decided to be, well, himself.

He started talking about how bored he was and that he didn't want walk around the grocery store like 'some brat with his mom'. Kagami was very proud of himself for acting civilly and maturely telling him to 'screw off or I'll poison your food'.

Then Aomine tried to sit in the child seat of the cart.

Yes.

He tried to fit his huge body into the freaking child seat.

Obviously this didn't work and he eventually gave it up in favour of occupying the larger space that most people would use for their groceries, not for an immature teenage boy.

At this point, Kagami was seriously questioning his own intelligence. Why had he started this? It was already developing into a headache and they hadn't even reached his apartment.

After getting Kagami to push him around the store, he refused to get out when they reached the checkout, asking the poor girl there to scan him along with the groceries, the tone he used clearly indicating it was some kind of horribly thought out innuendo.

After a lot of apologizing to the girl and trying to glare a hole through Aomine's skull, they completed their shopping and walked to Kagami's apartment.

Kagami had already developed a headache. It had been a battle to get Aomine's lazy butt out of the cart so they could leave the store.

After reaching their destination, Kagami was tempted to call Kuroko and ask to borrow one of Nigou's leashes. As soon as they walked through the door, Aomine had kicked off his shoes and disappeared.

Did he not have even a shred of politeness or courtesy in him?

After reining in his intruder, Kagami started preparing the hamburgers, all the while keeping an eye on Aomine who sat in a chair and watched from the table.

Then, predictably, Aomine got bored and started to find ways of amusing himself, which led to the current situation.

Aomine picked himself and the chair he had been using up off the floor and put the chair back in its place. Then he sat down and leaned back, balancing on the chair's two back legs.

Another thud.

Another stream of profanity.

Repeat.

This had been going on for at least twenty minutes and Kagami was experiencing the feeling of slowly losing his mind.

A dinging noise startled him out of his thoughts on how he could cleanly remove Aomine from this planet without anyone knowing.

Thank everything holy that the hamburgers were done.

Kagami whisked them out of the oven, slapped one on a bun with a plate and shoved it at his, now very unwelcome, guest.

"Food's done." He stated.

Aomine decided that the food was more enticing than falling on his butt and came over to investigate.

"Oh! That actually looks pretty good!"

Kagami gripped his spatula hard enough that he could almost feel the plastic reshaping itself. Killing is bad, he reminded himself before answering.

"Of course it looks good Ahomine. Unlike some useless idiot, I know how to cook."

Aomine must have missed the idiot comment since he made no retort and inelegantly stuffed his face with the burger.

Kagami sighed, prepared his pile of food, and joined Aomine at the table. Apart from the headache and annoyance that pretty much went hand in hand with Aomine's existence, it was kind of nice to have someone else in the normally empty room. It made it seem a little warmer, a little more welcoming.

They ate in relative silence, but Kagami found it was the comfortable type of quiet. It wasn't awkward or strange to him, they both just went about eating their food.

For the first time in a while, he found himself enjoying dinner with another person. He made a mental note that next time he wanted company, he would make the food in advance and skip the headache stage.

Aomine stuffed another burger into his mouth, half because they were damn good and half because he was too nervous to do anything else. You couldn't completely blame him though, Kagami was just sitting there silently putting one burger after the other into his vast stomach. Aomine could feel the silence like it was some kind of predator, stalking him and making his hands start to shake a bit.

Kagami was probably pissed at him. He had been really nervous since entering the grocery store, which was when the reality of how he was going to Kagami's home truly sunk in.

He had made a complete ass of himself to try and keep his mind distracted so that he wouldn't start completely freaking out.

Then they had reached Kagami's apartment. Aomine had practically leapt out of his shoes to explore. He immediately found Kagami's room. Listening to the angry voice coming from the kitchen, he figured he had a few moments before Kagami came to drag him away. He looked around curiously.

The big thing that struck him was that the room hardly looked lived in, except for a rumpled bed and some papers on the desk in the corner. There were no personal items on the dresser or posters on the walls, it was pretty bare.

Aomine listened carefully to any hint of Kagami approaching, to which there was none as of yet, then flopped face first onto Kagami's bed.

The pillow was soft, fluffy and gave off that intoxicating smell that was unique to Kagami. He probably would have stayed like that for the entire day given the chance, but he heard footsteps approaching and quickly got up.

Just as Kagami reached the door, Aomine knelt down and started peering around under the bed.

"Aomine? What are you doing?"

Kagami was clearly puzzled.

"Oh just looking for your porn collection. It's gotta be around here somewhere."

Aomine replied while standing up. Kagami's face turned bright red, probably with a mix of fury and embarrassment.

"I don't have any of those things lying around here!" He sputtered.

Aomine scratched his head.

"Well then where are they?"

At this, Kagami had firmly grabbed him and propelled him to the kitchen, sat him down on a chair and gone about preparing, then eating dinner.

Aomine didn't know how to react. It was similar to how he felt at the court, though nowhere near as strong. He wanted to run as far away as possible so that he wouldn't do anything to make Kagami truly hate him, but he couldn't bear to leave.

"You still hungry?"

Kagami's voice snapped him back into his current predicament. He was confused for a moment, then a wave of relief washed over him. Kagami had caught him staring as he thought, but thankfully had assumed he was staring at his almost-empty plate.

Nope, your burgers were delicious. Thanks. I really enjoyed them. We should do this again sometime. I'm not staring at your food, I was staring at your face. Sorry, I just find you immensely attractive and am trying my best not to get aroused from you waltzing around in an apron. Its no biggie, really, I just want to bury my face in the crook of your neck, wrap my arms around your back, feel the warmth of your skin and breathe in your unique scent.

Like hell he could actually say all that, so Aomine settled with a simpler alternative.

"Nah, just wondering how you prevent that black hole in your stomach from consuming the rest of you."

Argh!

No!

Abort!

This was not what wanted to say! He had probably just raised the level of hatred Kagami already had for him!

Aomine expected Kagami to get angry, but was pleasantly surprised with some form of choked laughter that was emitted instead. Kagami wasn't angry?

"You're such an idiot you know? There are few people who would actually say that to a person's face!"

Kagami had stopped trying to suppress his laugh and was turning red in the face.

"Oi! Who are you calling an idiot Bakagami!?"

Aomine returned the insult, smiling and laughing a bit as well. So Kagami wasn't pissed at him. Thank God. He must have just not seen any reason to keep a conversation going while eating.

Aomine was immensely relieved. It was like a switch had been flipped in his brain. All of the tension he had been accumulating dissipated upon hearing Kagami's laughter. He had really been overthinking things.

But now what?

He doubted his feelings would change anytime soon. Now he had to find some way of dealing with them. Should he be honest and tell Kagami?

Now was probably one of the best opportunities he was going to get. Kagami was relaxed and probably more open-minded. Aomine knew that he was in control of himself and wouldn't do something stupid if things suddenly went off down some weird path.

All he needed to do was decide.

Should he do it now?

Should he wait longer to figure things out more?