Hunny was running through the cherry blossoms, clutching his Bun-Bun in a cute way only possible for a loli-shota boy like himself. His gigantic brown eyes were closed because his adorable smile was so big it took up his entire face. His honey blond hair swished as he ducked under branches and skipped over logs.
Light pink petals fluttered to the ground around him, brushing his cheeks and jacket.
Mori sat alone under one of the flowering trees and watched Hunny, while he read his book. The spring breeze flicked the corners of his book around his fingers as he held the pages down. His head was bent, and to anyone else is would have seemed the book was getting all of his attention. But the host club knew that Hunny was the only person who ever got that.
Suddenly, the little golden head disappeared as Hunny tripped over a root. Mori had a short panic attack, and started toward his cousin, but Hunny got up and brushed himself off. Mori clutched his calming heart. He settled back against one of the garden's many tree trunks, and slid to the ground, closing his eyes. When he opened them he was staring face to face with Hunny.
His tiny face was inches from Mori's, and he seemed to be staring him down. His eyes scanned, taking in all the slight evidences of emotion from Mori's stone cold face, and eventually came to a conclusion. Hunny smiled. "You were worried, Takashi!" he squealed, reading him perfectly. Mori was never one to emote anything, but somehow his cousin always knew what he was thinking.
"Mmm," Mori grunted for an answer.
"I'm okay, First Mate Takashi!" said Hunny, reassuring him with a grin.
'First Mate…?' Mori thought. The little boy in front of him looked devastated, for he knew what he was thinking.
"We… were… playing… pirates! Don't you 'member?" Hunny sniffled, "Don't you want to play… with… ME!" he yelped.
Mori nodded to Captain Mitskuni, even though he would have remembered if Hunny had said anything, and he definitely hadn't. They jumped and hopped and skipped around the garden for an eternity, looking for buried treasure, and Mori knew there was no place he'd rather be. Because sometimes, he wasn't taking care of Hunny, but Hunny was taking care of him.
