Rin was never a fan of getting up early despite it being in the job description of a swimmer, but someone was making pancakes. Even in his sleep, Rin knew the smell of pancakes. One tired eye cracked open and he regretted the decision immediately. Sunlight. He'd never disliked it in his life, but now he hated it with the force of a thousand supernovas. He tried again, this time bearing the pain that shot through his head as he (painfully) wrenched his other eye open. He'd fallen asleep on the couch. Of course he had, although he didn't have much of a recollection of doing so. Last he remembered, he was watching TV from the floor. To add to his confusion, a blanket fell to the floor in a crumpled heap the way blankets normally do as he rolled over on the couch so that his back was facing the backrest. But it wasn't the crumpling of the blanket that confused him, or the odd butterfly pattern on it or even the fact that it smelled a little too strongly of mothballs. How in the fuck did it get on him in the first place. Rin knew for a fact that if he had been awake, drunk or not, he would have refused to touch the damn thing. Still, he was thankful for it nonetheless. The still morning air wasn't exactly warm, evidence enough for him to indicate a chilly night. He would've killed someone if he'd gotten a cold.

Well, he was already awake. May as well clean himself up while he was at it. He carefully climbed his way over the masses of bodies strewn over the floor (Seijuurou and Makoto were asleep on each other on the sleeping mat. Wait, was Seijuurou spooning Makoto? Rin decided to forget he even saw that) as he made his way to the kitchen. Everyone appeared to be covered by a doona or blanket of some kind so at least the weird butterfly blanket wasn't the result of some weird-ass prank. He cleared his head of any weird or too thought-provoking ideas. His primary focus right now was food and he followed his nose to the kitchen where he found none other than Shun herself in not much more than a sports bra and boxer briefs making pancakes.
"Christonacracker," was Rin's immediate response, which he discovered he also regretted because even talking was hurting his head.
"Good morning Nyan Shark," Shun laughed as she flipped a pancake, grinning broadly in his general direction before going back to the task at hand. Grinning possibly too broadly for his likes.
What the fuck? Rin thought to himself as stood stock still in shock. A (admittedly very attractive) young woman was standing in front of him in the bare minimum of clothes deemed appropriate for public show, and she just called him fucking Nyan Shark and laughed at him. His unawareness to whatever the hell was going on had him red in the cheeks. That and her near-nakedness.
Shun glanced over and laughed again. "If I didn't know better, I'd say you've never seen anyone in their knickers before," she joked, moving the pancake to the top of a heaped plate before taking the plate and walking to the dining table, ushering Rin along while she was at it. Her goddamn near-naked body was in very close proximity to him and he was slowly becoming more and more red in the face. And the fact that, no, he had not seen a woman in her knickers before was not helping him in the least.
"There's Aspirin on the table and there's a jug of orange juice too," Shun's voice cut into his thoughts. "I know you nutty sporty men like your breakfasts big but Chou-chan doesn't have that much in his little house for a whole group of you,"
A moment later, Rin found himself seated at the table, a plate of pancakes piled high in front of him and a bottle of maple syrup set towards the side. Rin had a thing for pancakes. He fucking loved pancakes but today he was staring at them like he'd never seen them in his life.
"Go on then, dig in," Shun urged him, watching him expectantly, "I've got more for the others, but don't go waking them up. It's still kinda early and they're all probably tired and grumpy," she said with a little smile before returning to finish cooking.

Rin found himself in a spot of confusion as he forked the warm, spongy cakes into his mouth. This crazy nut-job of a lady just suddenly turned up at training last night, seemed to be the most violently threatening person he'd ever come across in his life and yet he was here blushing like a fifth grader over that cute girl in his class. Was he crushing on her? Oh god, that's so pathetic, he groaned internally. It was probably one of those lust situations as opposed to the love at first sight bullshit. Kinda like how you see a cute person pass on the streets, he convinced himself. If anything, Shun might just be a temporary distraction. She lived in Osaka anyway, and wasn't she going to go back soon? Who knew when she might visit next. Who knew if she would visit at all. Hell, he hadn't even known her for a full day.

He hit his forehead on the table. Thing number three on the list of things to not do with a fucking hangover. It took Shun less than a minute to reappear with a wrapped ice pack.
"Careful there Superman, Aspirin makes you invincible but it doesn't work immediately you know," she said, sitting herself down next to him and looking him sternly in the eye.
The redhead visibly flinched at her glare, holding the ice pack to his head. "Uh… Did I do something?"
"I don't know, did you?" Shun replied cryptically, before loosening up like she had never glared at him at all. "Actually, Nitori-kun woke up at some point in the early morning and asked to be sent back. I didn't have a problem with it, but I bumped into your teacher when I dropped him off at his room, and after I explained that I was Rei's legal guardian and I was looking after you guys as well. He kinda looked me in the eye and said you were a troublesome little shit and I needed to have a stern word with you. So that was me being stern, and this is me having a word with you."
Rin blinked at her. If her plan was to tell him off, she probably wasn't going to right away.
"Alternatively, I could've just said 'Talk shit, get hit', because apparently you're a lippy bastard, but hey, that doesn't matter," Shun shrugged before changing the topic completely. "Do you want tea?" she asked, not even bothering to wait for an answer before retreating back into the kitchen to fetch him a mug of exactly that. Then, without another word, she hopped back off to keep cooking and he found himself unable to do very much more than just watch her. Her tea worked better than any Asprin.

As Shun said, it was still considered early when Rin had woken up and he didn't want to begin to even think about how early Shun had gotten up to make enough pancakes to have easily fed ten people comfortably if he'd woken up at eight. Apparently she'd gone out to buy the ingredients in the morning as well and just the idea of voluntarily waking up that early made him lethargic.

It didn't seem like anyone would be waking up soon, so as soon as she'd finished making the pancakes, she popped them all on a tray and into the oven with the heat on low to keep them warm before going back to keep Rin company. Rin found that she wasn't nearly as confrontational as he'd imagined. A little (okay, a lot) eccentric, yes, but he supposed all his friends were that way anyway. She talked about a lot of things while Rin ate. She didn't indicate that she expected him to say anything, more that she was simply keeping him company and warding away the awkward silence that came with eating breakfast in a room of unconscious swimming nuts.

She talked about engines and motors and cars at first. As it turns out, she was studying mechanical engineering in university, but then she moved the conversation to other things, like space and nebulas and star clusters. She was "absolute shit" at science apparently, so she had no understanding of how they worked, but she loved how they looked and she apparently had terabytes worth of images saved off NASA's sites. He told her she was insane. She claimed that she was "just invested". Rin laughed at that. What an odd character.

She also talked about his sister. She thought Gou was a nice girl, apparently. She talked about how they hung out last night, how Gou looked up to him a lot to which he responded with a "tch, dumb kid". Somehow he had expected Shun to scold him. She seemed to care about family quite a lot after all, but she just laughed a little and said "siblings are like that, huh?".

Rin could feel himself being pulled into this one, but somehow he didn't seem to care that much. Even if they ended up as just friends, that sounded alright to him. He wouldn't mind having this positively insane, pancake making machine, car fanatic as a friend. He wouldn't mind that at all.

Everyone else woke up hours later as it neared noon, save for Makoto and Nagisa who seemed intent on sleeping through the day, and came to join in the pancake eating festivities. Well, except for Haru who insisted on eating mackerel. Shun told him he could "either eat your pancakes or go fishing for your damn trout or whatever. See if I care" as she angrily scrubbed at the pans and bowls.

They all had a good laugh at Rin though, since he hadn't noticed the whiskers and other cat-like decorations drawn onto his face while he was unconscious the night before. He shot Shun a nasty glare since she must have seen it. Hell, they talked face to face for a full two or so hours, but she just sniggered in his general direction. So that's what the whole Nyan Shark shit was about. Fucking sadistic asshole, Rin decided, groaning in his head as he stormed to the bathroom to clean off the embarrassing markings.

Rei simply wanted to know where all the ingredients came from.
"I evicted your dumbass brother from the house to fetch the ingredients after that stunt he pulled last night," she replied rather grumpily. "Honestly. I left for less than three hours and he managed to pass out before everyone else. Responsible adult my ass," she grumbled as the door swung open.
"I am home, my lovelies!" Yousuke sang as he entered the building, hands full of grocery bags. There was a collective groan through the house at the noise, although the unconscious Makoto and Nagisa didn't even twitch at the racket.
"Speak of the devil," Shun droned as she ferried yet another plate of pancakes over to the table. "Did you bring the cream cheese?" she asked, returning to the kitchen with her older cousin in tow.
"Cream cheese?" Rei repeated, his head shooting up from his I-hate-this-goddamn-hangover position.
"Eh?" Seijuurou cut in. "What's so special about cream cheese?"
"My cousin makes the most exceptional cakes," Rei filled in, pushing his glasses further up his nose in the same manner that he always does. "My favourite of which is one of her secret recipes that she calls 'Butterfly Cake'. I don't know all the ingredients, but I'm aware that there is chocolate and she uses cream cheese in her frosting,"
"Have you ever tried to, oh I don't know, watch her make it?" Rin asked, sarcasm laced thickly through his words.
"Don't you remember what happened last night?" Rei asked back dryly. "She threw my brother, a twenty year old, six foot plus, seventy-something kilo guy into the ocean. What makes you think she's incapable of stopping me from watching her?"
Rin considered the argument for a moment, turned to look Haru in the eye before returning his attention to Rei.

"Challenge accepted."