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Prompt: Puppy love

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Sean smiled at Kimi, his heart thumping a little faster when she returned it. He pretended to not notice the slight twitch of discomfort of her shoulders, especially as he shifted in his seat for the same reason. Neither of them were exactly used to civilian clothes, not after wearing only either their ninja uniforms or their Sigma suits for so long. It didn't help that they'd only been allowed the absolute minimum of weapons for this mission.

Thinking on that, Sean stifled a sigh before glancing again through the menu in his hands. They were posing as a couple on a date in a nice little diner. Eventually an 'old friend' would surprise them and the three of them would leave from there to 'see a movie'. It was annoying but if the mission was successful, they'd have a high-profile Cobra member in their possession.

It would have been nice to go on a real date though. He and Kimi hadn't been together very long and it was a little upsetting that their first date was a mission cover. Glancing back up at her, Sean caught her eyes as she glanced back at him. Exchanging smiles that were only a tiny bit nervous, Kimi flipped her menu around, pointing at something on the dessert section, "Want to try this with me? It looks good."

Sean saw what she was pointing to and looked at it on his own menu to better read the description, "It does doesn't it? Yeah, let's try that."

They exchanged smiles again, more relaxed now. Kimi glanced around, "I wonder where our waiter is. He should have brought our drinks by now."

Sean looked with her, also wondering that. Telling the little pessimistic voice in the back of his head to shut it, the apprentice shrugged, "Well it's busy."

Kimi frowned and went back to her menu, about to say something when the waiter finally showed up, putting their drinks on the table with an apology and asking if they decided on anything yet. They glanced at each other, briefly asking one another with their eyes if they should order or put it off for a few more minutes. Sean flicked his eyes to the menu, saying they should and after barely a couple seconds, Kimi agreed and handed her menu to the waiter, "I'd like the lunch special please."

Sean gave up his menu too, "Same with me, but could I get extra cheese on the burger?"

The waiter nodded and confirmed it, slipping away before either of them could mention dessert. Sighing, Kimi shrugged at Sean and sighed. He shifted again in his seat, both from missing the weight of his sword on his back and not knowing how to proceed from here. He'd never really had much opportunity to date before this after all.

At that moment the diner's previously silent jukebox started up, "And they called it puppy love..."

Blushing, Sean twisted around to see who'd done that, but no one was close enough to the device to be the culprit. Still red, he turned back just in time for some guy to pull up a seat at their table, dropping into it with a relaxed ease, "On a date, cousin Kimiko?"

Kimi let out a little gasp, arms open for a hug, "Tommy! It's so good to see you again!"

Sean had not been expecting this, not at all. In a few minutes, his brain would catch up to him and point out the needed details on the older ninja that said he'd not had easy time of it. Details like the dark bags under his eyes, revealed when he took off his sunglasses, the slight tremble of his hands and arms when he hugged Kimi, as well as the high neck of the older ninja's jacket that neatly hid what seemed to be a bandage on the back of Storm Shadow's neck. The rumpled civilian clothes alone should have been a major signal but that didn't break through.

Because, for right now, his brain was stuck on the realistic joy in his (girlfriend's?) partner's voice, "You two are cousins? Really?"

Storm Shadow gave him a smile that exposed a little too much teeth while nodding affirmatively. Sean weakly gulped, hoping he'd live to see a second date with Kimi. At her reassuring smile, he promised himself that and moved the mission forward, "Hey, why don't we get our lunch to go and see a movie or something?"