A few hours later, Ren was lying on his couch. With Aomine lying on top of him. Kissing him, or rather, catching up.
They had walked back to his house from the airport. Ren had showed Aomine some of the stuff he had bought in England, and then Aomine had asked to see his prostheses. They were sitting side by side on the couch, making small talk for a grand total of five minutes until Aomine had pushed him down on the couch, claiming they needed to do some real catching up. And they had been catching up since then.
Ren pulled away, pressing a finger to Aomine's lips. "Let's go on a date, Daiki."
Aomine pouted. "A little longer?"
"Later," Ren promised, pushing Aomine's chest lightly.
Aomine pressed a kiss to Ren's neck before reluctantly sitting up. "Where do you wanna go?"
"Maji Burger. Then, let's play some basketball," Ren said, grinning. He was bouncing up and down excitedly.
Aomine grinned back, slipping his fingers through Ren's. "Three burgers for you, today."
"Baby steps, Daiki. Two."
The two left Ren's house, walking hand-in-hand. Ren squeezed his boyfriend's hand, smiling to himself. He knew it didn't matter to Aomine, but walking like this after almost two years in a wheelchair, next to the person he loved was truly the best feeling in the world.
Ren looked at Aomine's face. He was silent, but the smile on his lips told Ren that he felt the same way. He spotted a Maji Burger, and pointed towards it but Aomine shook his head.
"Let's go to the next one. I don't want to stop walking with you just yet."
"You don't miss wheeling me around?" Ren joked.
"It's different, stupid," Aomine grumbled. "This way I can proudly walk around and let everyone know that Sato Ren is my boyfriend. It was a little ambiguous with the wheelchair, you know."
"Hey Daiki. When did you start liking me?" Ren asked. He had been trying to build up the courage to ask Aomine this question for a while now.
"Somewhere during the time I was training you. But I didn't really realize it until you told me you lived alone. And when I told you that you were coming to my house for dinner the next night and you said, 'Thanks Daiki, I'd love that.' I realized then that I wanted you to say I love you, Daiki, so bad. I mean, I'm narcissistic, but not nearly enough to want someone to tell me that they love me, when I don't have feelings for them, too. Then, when I realized you liked me too, it was so hard to wait for you to confess." Aomine was blushing now, looking pointedly away from Ren.
Ren laughed softly. "Why didn't you confess first?"
"You liked me for a lot longer, dummy. It was only fair that you confessed. Of course, if you took longer than a week, I was going to. Let's go into that Maji Burger." Aomine pointed to the branch on the next intersection.
"Your logic is funny," Ren said, once they had sat down with their meals.
"It makes sense! I mean say I had liked you for years and I was just waiting for the right time to confess, and then you just did it. I'd be pretty pissed, like I wasted all that time planning for nothing?" Aomine said defensively, shoving fries into his mouth.
"I wouldn't have cared, though. I was happy just staying friends with Daiki for the rest of my life," Ren said cheerfully, biting into his own burger.
"You're stupid. You should be glad I fell in love with you, otherwise you'd be in pain watching me with someone else," Aomine pointed out. "Then it'd hurt for you to even stay friends with me."
"I had enough faith in your lack of any romantic motivation," Ren teased.
"Hey! I have had people falling over me since middle school, I'll have you know. I was just waiting for the right person to come along. I have plenty of romantic motivation when it comes to you," Aomine said, looking intensely into Ren's eyes. "Lots of romantic motivation."
"Are you thinking perverted thoughts, Daiki?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"No!" Aomine said vehemently. Then he appeared to give a little more thought into what Ren had just said. "Well…maybe."
Ren laughed, a light blush creeping up his cheeks. "If you want, we could—" he began, but he was cut off by a shrill voice shouting, "Aominecchi!"
"Eh? Kise?" Aomine said, looking confused. "What are you doing here?"
"We could ask you the same," Kise replied, motioning to Kuroko and Kagami behind him. "You totally ditched us because Satocchi was coming back today, instead you're here with… With who, exactly?"
"Satocchi himself," Aomine said, teeth clenched as he gave Kise a menacing smile.
Ren turned around to look at Kise. "Pleased to meet you, Kise-san!" he said with a smile.
Kise just stared. "B-B-But your wheelchair! Aominecchi, were you lying?!" Kise exclaimed. Behind him, Kuroko just looked at the scene expressionless, while Kagami was repeatedly hitting his forehead at Kise's displays of idiocy.
Ren rolled up one of the legs of his jeans a few inches to show off his prosthetic leg. "That's why I was in London!"
"Can you play basketball with those?" Kagami asked, curiously looking at the prosthesis.
"Theoretically, yes. I haven't tried yet, though," Ren said. "Maybe we could all play together!"
Aomine grunted, annoyed that his date had been interrupted. He glared at Kise, hoping that the latter would get the hint and scram, but the blonde was as dense as ever.
"That sounds great! I would love to play with Satocchi!" Kise said happily, clasping his hands together.
"Well, we're practically done here, so we can go now! Daiki, you can take the rest of your food to go, right?" Ren asked, looking at the two burgers that were untouched on his tray.
Aomine hesitated, but his boyfriend just looked so happy, that he couldn't say no. He smiled despite himself. "Yeah, I'll just put them in my bag. Let's go." Aomine stood up, and took Ren's hand, eliciting a smile from Kuroko and a squeal at how utterly adorable the two were from Kise, and how Kurokocchi and I should hold hands, resulting in Kagami threatening to kick the blonde.
Ren laughed, enjoying the company of Aomine's friends greatly. When he was certain that the other three were sufficiently occupied amongst themselves, he leaned up to kiss Aomine's cheek, mouthing a thank you.
"Stupid," Aomine grumbled, mussing Ren's hair with his free hand.
"Go easy on me, please. I haven't played for almost two years. Or walked for almost two years, either," Ren said cheerfully. Kise had decided that he wanted to play a one-on-one against Ren first, and thus the two were on the court with Aomine, Kagami and Kuroko watching from the sidelines.
"You hurt a hair on his head, and you're dead meat," Aomine said, glaring at Kise.
"You're so scary, Aominecchi," Kise pouted. "Doesn't he scare you, Satocchi?"
Ren laughed. "Maybe just a little," he said, looking at Aomine with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Okay, Satocchi. I'll let you take the first basket, just so you can get a feel of the court again," Kise said, passing the ball to Ren.
Ren nodded, suddenly nervous. It's okay. I've got this. He dribbled the ball to the three point line and shot from there, getting the ball in the basket. He sighed with relief, glad he hadn't made a fool out of himself.
"Oh, Satocchi is a shooting guard? Well, I'll try to go easy on you!"
The game progressed for only ten minutes, but even with Kise going easy against him, Ren only managed to score nine points against him. He sank into the bench, positively exhausted and embarrassed.
"Hey, you okay?" Aomine asked quietly, sitting next to Ren once Kagami had stormed onto the court, demanding that Kise play him.
"Yeah. I knew I'd be worse than before, but I didn't realize I'd be this bad," he said softly, looking at his feet.
"You just need to practice with your new legs, that's all. Like you practiced to get good before your accident, right? You just need to do it again," Aomine said. He stretched Ren's lips with his fingers. "Now, smile!"
"Will you train me again, Daiki?" he asked.
"Of course, stupid. Though I might end up falling in love with you all over again," Aomine said, grinning as he pulled Ren in for a hug. Then, something dawned on him. "H-Hey…what were you saying before Kise showed up?"
Ren turned pink again, as he remembered. "Um, nothing important," he lied.
Aomine frowned, but decided not to pry further. "My parents are out for a week, do you wanna sleep over?" he asked, nuzzling Ren's ear.
"I thought you'd never ask," he said, grinning as he pulled Aomine in for a kiss.
I wonder what Ren was talking about...teehee. - sarah