A/N: This is my ultimate dream.
Standard disclaimers apply.
059: Food
Kenshin hates eating lunch in the cafeteria – he much prefers eating in the hallway, or outside in the courtyard when the weather's nice. It's so…loud and obnoxious in the cafeteria.
But he does it for Kaoru because she likes seeing her friends during lunch.
She joins him at their half-empty table (which includes himself, Soujiro doing Physics homework, and Sayo doing a crossword puzzle), and he doesn't look up from his book to acknowledge her, which he knows will piss her off.
"Hey!" she exclaims, reaching from the other side of the table to slap him on the head. He looks up with annoyance. "You can't read! You can do that when you're in the hallway eating lunch alone. You're with me, and you have to talk to me."
"Don't hit me," he retorts, stuffing his book in his bag. "You're lucky you dragged me in here."
"Oh come on, it's not that bad."
I give her a small smile and don't say anything more.
She smiles back and lowers her eyes to her own lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a water bottle. But in the middle of lunch she'll go back up again and buy a bag of chips. He could never understand why she wouldn't buy the chips along with her sandwich.
"So what are you reading this time?" she asks, unwrapping her sandwich from the plastic wrap.
"On The Road."
She scoffs. "Ugh. Kerouac. If I wrote everything that happened in my life and added a bunch of 'he saids' and 'she saids' I would be exactly the same."
"He is a bit self indulgent in that respect, I'll give you that. But he can write – his descriptions can be top notch. If only he were more creative…kind of a waste, really."
"Of course, every single guy has to like Kerouac, it's like an unspoken law."
He smiles at her. "That's actually kind of true."
She laughs. "But your opinion is the lowest of him I've heard from the male sex. Actually, come to think of it, you're the only other guy besides my dad who has read it. Everyone else here is moronic."
"Aw, don't be like that," they hear someone drawl.
Kaoru looks to her side and her face scrunches with distaste when she sees Enishi Yukishiro slide into the seat next to her.
"And you're definitely a prime example of how this school is moronic," she continues, looking at Enishi in the eye.
Kenshin loves that she can be very polite, but extremely vicious when the time arises.
"No need to insult my intelligence. We both know you're into me, stop denying it," Enishi says, as if she never said anything.
She inches away as he slides closer.
"Yukishiro, get the fuck out of here," Kenshin growls, glaring at him.
Enishi doesn't even look to acknowledge Kenshin. "Come on, Kaoru, just admit it."
Kenshin isn't quite sure what comes over him, but he thinks it's out of control, especially when he finally realizes that he has thrown his drink at him, causing him to blubber like a fish.
Enishi's eyes finally lock onto Kenshin's and he reaches over to throw Soujiro's mashed potatoes (he cries out with resentment), but Kenshin ducks at the last second, and the thrown food ends up hitting the back of a senior who's notoriously known for his anger issues.
"This is straight out of a movie," Kenshin finds himself saying as the senior turns around menacingly.
And then Kenshin grins mischievously, which worries Kaoru a little. He reaches under the table and taps her knee. Her hand laces with his, but confusion is etched on her face.
"FOOD FIGHT!" Kenshin yells before pulling her down under the table.
There's a surge of chaos as everyone jumps up and begins to throw food.
"Kenshin! What the hell?" she squeals as a particularly nasty substance nearly hits then from under the table.
"Come on, it was the perfect opportunity!" he says excitedly.
She sighs. "That's true." And then she smiles. "We have to go out there and fight!"
He grins. "We do. But first…" And he snakes his hand to the back of her neck and pulls her in for a deep kiss.
When he pulls away her eyes are still closed, which makes him smirk. But then she opens her eyes and slaps his arm. "We're talking about that after we kick some ass."
"Gladly."
And then both get out from under the table to join the fight, which manages to last for a good ten minutes, when the principal comes into the cafeteria, his face slowly turning an interesting shade of red…
Kenshin looks over at Kaoru, abandoning his mopping. "Was it worth it?"
She stops her own mopping to look at him with a blank expression. But soon she can't contain her emotions and she slowly breaks into a smile. "Yeah, it was."
The entire school is cleaning up the cafeteria, just like the movies, and Kenshin and Kaoru are in the middle, hoping to hide in the masses so they could talk without any of the teachers and administrators noticing.
He nods before mopping a little, but only so he can step closer to her without the principal yelling at him. "So…" he starts, and she immediately knows what he wants to talk about.
"Yeah…kind of random?" she says, looking away from him to focus on her mopping. She grimaces at what she supposes (hopes) is yogurt on the floor. Her face is turning red.
"Okay. I'll give you two options. One, we pretend that it never happened. But if that's the case, we can never talk about it again. Understand? It would be under lock and key," he states, not looking at her either.
"And the second?"
"We talk about it right now."
She really doesn't want to talk about it now, but she does want to talk about it at some point, but there isn't an option for that.
"Let's talk about it," she answers, still not able to meet his eyes.
"Okay. Was it that unpleasant?"
She flushes. "Not really."
"Would you like to do it again?"
She chokes back a laugh. "You're so conceited!"
"I would, how about you?" he continues, but this time his voice is softer, letting her know he's very serious.
She finally meets his eyes, which are staring at her steadily. His fingers are drumming on the mop, the only sign of his insecurity. Noticing this, she drops her mop and takes a few strides to Kenshin, and despite their being covered in pounds of food, she kisses him, and this time she's completely into it.
He responds eagerly for a few seconds before the principal yells, "STOP THAT AND GET BACK TO CLEANING!"
They break apart and Kaoru's flushing and Kenshin's smirking while they resume their tasks.
A/N: The writer's block is so close to being gone – it's just having a hold on me with The Unidentified, but I'm slowly getting that chapter done, so no worries.
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