Hey hey hey! Happy 2021! I know I'm late in terms of new years, but whatever. 2020 was big for me in many ways, negative and positive. I won't go into it because it's not important nor do you guys care. All I will say is that 2021 will arguably be bigger. For one major reason...I'll be graduating High School this semester. I'll also be turning 18, I'll finally be a registered adult. Despite that, however, I will not be stopping these oneshots. Granted, they may slow down in the future due to a possible job, but I'll cross that bridge when it comes. Either way, here's to another year of oneshots. 😁


"ALRIGHT CLASS! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Byleth yelled at the top of his lungs. The entire class froze. Not once had they heard Byleth yell like that. It was actually quite spooky. Byleth felt proud of himself that he was able to make every single one of his students sit up straight as if they were all army men and he's the leader. He sat on his desk. "We have a special guest with us today who has a fun little challenge for us. Please, come in," Byleth motioned for whoever was at the door. Everyone looked at the door as it opened. That was when Sephiroth walked in. Lucas ended up jumping on his desk and squealing. This obviously made Sephiroth stop dead in his tracks and give Lucas the most deadly of death stares. Even Ness looked up at Lucas.

"Dude," he simply said. Lucas looked around at all of the looks he was currently being given. He cleared his voice before sitting back down and smiling forward innocently. Byleth sighed.

"Sorry, Seph, he's what you call a simp for you," he called out. Sephiroth, with a slight cold sweat, turned toward Byleth.

"R-right. Ok then….I'll just get to what I came here for." He cleared his throat and turned toward the class. "Tomorrow is my friend's birthday. And her birthday wish is to have all of her classmates hold a baking competition against each other and she be the judge."

"Who is this friend?"

"Pichu." Pichu, who was sitting way behind Ness, stood up and happily ran up to Sephiroth. When she got close, Sephiroth picked her up and placed her on his shoulder. Pichu then happily waved at the class. Her overwhelming amount of positivity rubbed off on everyone in the class.

"I didn't know it was her birthday tomorrow," Ness said under his breath.

"Pichu, getting to be held by Sephiroth," Lucas growled as he balled up his fists and gritted his teeth in utter jealousy. Ness flicked Lucas's cheek to break him from this angered trance.

"I don't think that's what's important dude."

"Anyway, class, you will partner up with a classmate, only one, and go to one of your houses and bake. You can bake what you want, how you want when you want, just be sure to have something for tomorrow. And just in case, the judging will happen later in the day, so don't worry if you need some of tomorrow morning to finish up. Any questions?" Ness raised his hand. He was called on.

"Does Pichu have a preference? Like cupcakes? Brownies? Or something?" he asked.

"Well," Pichu started, happily talking from Sephiroth's shoulder, "I do love myself some nice classic cake. I also don't like things too fancy, although I'm not against it."

"Any other questions?" Byleth asked once more, to get no response. "Alrighty then, Pichu, back to your seat, and thanks Sephiroth for coming in today. We'll be seeing you tomorrow." Sephiroth nodded his head before making his way for the door. However, he didn't leave by the way. He looked back at Lucas, making Lucas's heart race.

"By the way, Lucas was it? You may want to check under your seat," he said with a strangely attractive wink. He then left without giving Lucas a chance to say anything to him. Under Lucas's seat, was a photo. It wasn't just any photo though. It was one of Sephiroth without a shirt. It was autographed by the man himself. Ness saw the look on Lucas's face as he analyzed the photo.

"Oh dammit, not again." He reached into his backpack and grabbed a pair of headphones and put them over his ears. Right after he put his music on, Lucas shrieked so loudly that it broke the windows and caused Lucas to bleed out of his nose. The shrieking hurt everyone's ears, but Ness's of course, but soon Lucas fainted. Ness took the headphones off and looked at an unconscious Lucas. Seeing Lucas with the smile on his face, and knowing just how excited he was, made Ness smile. He couldn't say why seeing Lucas so happy and excited made him feel the same, all he knew was that he enjoyed the feeling. "You damn idiot," he said with a slight happy curve in the corner of his mouth.

Ness finally arrived at Lucas's house. Lucas had kicked everyone home so he was all by himself for a while. Ness, who was given a spare key, opened the door and stepped in. He saw Lucas sitting on his couch, with crossed feet, and a mug full of hot cocoa that he was holding with both hands. He glared at Ness as he took a sip of his hot cocoa. "You're really holding it with both hands?"

"That's not what we should be focused on," Lucas said, placing the mug on the table in front of him. He then stood up. "You're late." Lucas walked up to Ness.

"I know I'm late, but let's just not waste time and get started, huh?" Lucas rolled his eyes before deciding it wasn't worth his time to berate Ness about being late. He was always the type to be late for pretty much anything, so the fact he expected Ness to be on time was more on him than it was Ness. He just motioned for Ness to follow him, which he did after closing the door.

They made it to the already pre-prepped kitchen. There were pans of varying shapes and sizes….and strangely designs, all spread across the kitchen table with the ingredients on the island. It was quite the overwhelming sight, especially to one with little to no baking experience….like Ness. Ness grabbed the large container of flour and looked into it. "So this is flour?" Lucas forced the container out of Ness's hand and placed it back onto the island.

"No touchie."

"But this is our challenge. We need to do it together." Lucas looked at all of the pans he needed to fill up with cake batter, brownie mix, and pies. He knew he couldn't do it alone, but also knew he couldn't really trust Ness with responsibilities like this. Since the last time he did, he somehow had flour in his underwear. Lucas needed Ness's help, but how would he do that? "AAAAAAH!" Ness yelled, making Lucas flinch and slightly scared to turn back toward him. "Luuuuuuucaaaaaaas?" Ness whined. Lucas started inhaling intensely. "LUCAS!"

"What?" Lucas said, without turning and just exhaling all the air he inhaled.

"I uh….touched the sugar." Lucas slowly collided his hand into his face.

Oh my fucking God

Lucas slowly turned around and found Ness standing in a pool of sugar as he held the open container upside down. The sugar dune down at Ness's feet completely covered up to his ankles. "How…..the hell, did this happen?"

"I-I wanted to eat some sugar and I accidentally held it upside down."

"Yeah, but HOW! IT'S OBVIOUS WHERE THE TOP IS AND WHERE THE BOTTOM IS!"

"I-I wasn't really paying attention." Lucas rubbed the bridge of his nose before walking off. He quickly returned with a broom and dustpan. He kneeled and started cleaning up the mess Ness made. Seeing this made Ness giggle and his mind started racing to more…..dirty thoughts. Lucas looked up at him with a blank stare.

"What's so funny, asshat?"

"You're cleaning up my white stuff while on your knees," Ness winked. Once what Ness said drained into Lucas's brain, he shot up with a blush. He then forced Ness to grab hold of the broom and dustpan while he was seemingly growing a deeper shade of red. He shot around and huffed as he sat in a chair at the kitchen table.

"I-idiot. Clean it up yourself now." Ness stepped out of the puddle of the sugar and stepped over to Lucas. He put the broom and dustpan on the floor before putting his hands on Lucas's shoulders. He started to message Lucas's shoulders. The calming feeling he was getting from the message was too much for him. He rested his head back and looked up at Ness. "B-bastard." Ness lowered his head with a smirk plastered on his face. A very big shit-eating grin that he always held when he knew he was getting Lucas into his head. Confusing him. Ness's message grew more intense. "I-I…..hate you." Lucas's eyes told a different story though. Lucas's eyes, as he looked up into Ness's eyes, were lovestruck. Almost as if his eyes were blushing along with his cheeks. Ness loved this look. He was able to hold himself back every previous time he saw it due to them being around other people, but this time, being all alone...he couldn't. He leaned his head down and gave Lucas an upside-down kiss on the lips. It was a short kiss, no tongue action, just lips. But when Ness moved his head back, his grin grew as Lucas's blush did the same.

He then shot up. "F-fine, I'll just clean it myself, you useless….useless uh useless….." He couldn't think of a rude thing to say as he saw Ness's face and thought about what he had just done. He "hmph'ed" before grabbing the broom and dustpan; resuming his cleaning, which was just slightly worse due to Ness moving. Lucas didn't mind though. Hell, he didn't even notice it. His mind just kept racing on what Ness did. While thinking of it, he accidentally giggled a high-pitched giggle. He covered his mouth since he knew he just loudly giggled as if he was some anime schoolgirl around her crush. Ness, who was actually cleaning up the footprints of sugar he made, kneeled next to Lucas with a cocky smile.

"What was that Lukey?"

"N-NOTHING!" Lucas sped up his cleaning to try and get done faster, but only ended up making a mess of his shirt and a bigger mess on the ground. Ness grabbed Lucas's chin and made him look at him. This stopped Lucas's cleaning. Lucas's eyes still had that "blushing" look to them.

"Look what you're doing, making a big mess. You might want to go clean yourself up," Ness said as he playfully booped Lucas's nose with his free hand.

"I….fine." Lucas stood up and made sure his head was facing away from Ness. He didn't want Ness to see his blush, despite him already seeing it. He didn't want to show Ness just how much he was enjoying this treatment he was getting. If it wasn't obvious, he liked Ness. Like….a lot. Like, he liked Ness more than humans need the sun. And having Ness act this way around him was getting too much. It wasn't like he was denying the fact he liked Ness, he was just trying not to seem too into him. Little did he know, though, that was failing.

Later that day, the boys had already put a few pans into the oven. Mainly the brownies and a pie. All that was left for them to do was the cake. It wasn't nearly as complicated as the other two. It was relatively simple, and with the more space they had due to the other two being in the oven, it was supposed to be easier. Ness brought over the ingredients, as ordered by Lucas, to the table that was once filled with pans.

Ness was ordered to get a cup of flour. However, instead of putting the measuring cup into the flour, Ness opted out on pouring the flour into the cup. It started out pretty normal, the measuring cup got filled halfway. However, a big chunk of flower fell from the container and landed on the edge of the measuring cup, shooting flour onto Ness and all over that part of the table. Not to mention this caused the measuring cup to tip over and spill the flour onto the table. Ness started coughing violently since a good amount of flour spilled into his mouth. After his coughing fit was over, he looked down at his mess in a disappointed state. "Awe man, I'm sorry," Ness said, disappointment and shame tinting his voice. Lucas saw these feelings to be genuine, so he walked over and patted Ness's back, analyzing the mess that was made.

"Hey, come now, it's alright. Hey, since you've been doing pretty well, go on and change. Ya know, take a bit of a break."

"Wow, really? I can do that?" Lucas smiled with a nod.

"You've been a good boy, so of course," he said with a pat on the back. Ness then grew a similar smirk to the one he had earlier. He fully turned toward Lucas and took his own shirt off.

"I don't need a shirt do I?" Lucas couldn't keep his eyes from darting from Ness's bare chest to his face that he wanted to feel against his once more.

"I-I guess not," Lucas anxiously said. Lucas stepped back as Ness seemingly got closer to him. Soon enough, Lucas backed into the couch and thus fell down onto it. Ness didn't stop though. He purposely leaned down on the couch, bringing his head closer to Lucas's.

"You too have been a pretty damn good boy." Ness grabbed Lucas's chin and didn't hesitate to kiss his lips. This kiss lasted longer and almost tempted Lucas to melt into the kiss, but it ended before he could. Lucas did, however, have his arms around Ness's body. Neither boy noticed, however.

"N-Ness?"

"What?"

"Why do you keep kissing me?" Lucas asked as he looked away with a huff and a blush.

"Because you enjoy it." Ness grabbed the cheek that turned away and forced Lucas to look into his eyes. Lucas soon saw the look Ness loved seeing in Lucas's eyes. The blush. Ness's violet eyes twinkled as if he was looking at some beautiful star. Lucas was subconsciously staring into those eyes. This prompted him to do another thing he didn't have full control of. He moved his hand from Ness's back up to Ness's cheek. He rubbed there for a bit, feeling the heat that had appeared only in his cheeks. This allowed him to see Ness's eyes more prominently, which he loved. "Lucas? Did you hear me?"

"Hmm?" Lucas hummed without removing his hand from Ness's cheek.

"I asked you if you wanted me to kiss you again." Lucas's mind was about ten steps slower than his body. Lucas's body decided on something before his mind could even comprehend what that something was. Lucas brought his lips up and kissed Ness's. Ness was taken aback by it, but unlike Lucas, he decided to melt into the kiss. This time around they were even able to use their tongues. This kiss was multiple minutes long and long enough for Lucas's mind to realize what he was doing. He gasped, which prompted Ness to back away with the streak of saliva between their mouths splitting when he got far enough. He rubbed his lips. When his hand moved away from his lips, it showed an intoxicated smile. "Man, who would've thought you'd be such an intense kisser….I like it." Lucas covered his mouth before sitting up.

"I-I…..I'm sorry."

"Sorry? Baby for what?"

"B-baby?" Lucas's blush grew so much more potent. Ness reached forward and gently grabbed Lucas's soft wrists. Lucas's eyes stopped on Ness's chest once more, and like before, seeing him on top of him, made his mind race. He didn't realize Ness pulled him up closer and onto his knees in front of Ness as he was still on the couch. His mind only broke out of itself when Ness tossed some flour onto him. "Dude?"

"What's wrong Baby? I had flour on me, might as well toss some on you," he said with a wink.

"Wh-why're you calling me baby?" Ness caressed Lucas's cheek.

"I can stop if you want." Lucas's eyes moved downward.

"I…..I didn't say that." Lucas loved being called Baby. It was a simple name, but something about how it sounded to him made his heart skip much more than a few beats. "I was just wondering why you were calling me that."

"Well, after 3 kisses, I have a pretty good feeling you see me as more than a friend." Lucas slowly moved his head up and gulped.

"And...uh, if I do have that feeling….how'd you react?"

"I'd react like this." Ness placed his hands on the back of Lucas's head and pulled him into another kiss. This time, both boys fell into the kiss instantly. This kiss was somehow longer and more intense than the one prior. After the lengthy and strangely calming kiss, their heads moved slightly away from each other. Both of them had that dreamy look in their eyes. There was still that debatably gross saliva stream connecting their mouths together. It wasn't even broken when Lucas closed his mouth and smiled. This caused Ness to giggle. "Now then, Baby, we should probably continue baking." Lucas was still lost in his thoughts until a certain smell became dominant in both of their noses. Once Lucas recognized this smell, his heart shattered.

"THE BROWNIES!"

The next day, the boys put their baked goods on their combined table inside their classroom. The school day had ended but they were still out of breath from having to walk to Lucas's house, pick up the pans of baked goods, then walk back to place them on their table. They sat down in their chairs as they saw more people piling into the room. Much like them, they all had tinfoil over their trays or pans. Lucas looked over at Ness. "Are you sure we got everything?"

"Yes, don't worry, Baby."

"WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT CALLING ME THAT IN PUBLIC!" Lucas yelled at the top of his lungs. This caught the attention of some of the others in the room; primarily Claus and Ninten, who were partners and had their own trays on their table. "Uhm, hi guys!" Ninten happily waved as Claus's eyes squinted. Ness leaned down toward Lucas.

"Come on, Baby, it's not that big a deal. It's only a matter of time 'till they find out." Lucas simply rolled his eyes. Ness's face grew annoyed at Lucas's lack of wanting to be out there about their somewhat confusing new advancement in their relationship. He stuck his finger into one of the trays covered with the tinfoil and scooped up some of the frosting. He ripped his finger out and tapped Lucas's nose, making the frosting attach itself to his nose. Lucas grew an angered expression before looking at Ness.

"Dude!?" Seeing Lucas's angry face with the pink frosting on his nose cracked Ness up. But he needed to do what he wanted to do before Lucas wiped the frosting off. He leaned in and sucked the frosting from his nose. Having a little fun with licking his nose in the process, obviously making Lucas blush as a result. Afterward, Ness licked Lucas's lips.

"What's wrong Baby? Are you scared of being found out?

"I….fuck you."

"Maybe…" Ness grabbed Lucas's chin, "Maybe you will." He then pulled him into a kiss. It wasn't a long one, not at all. It did, however, catch Claus's eye. Granted Claus was standing right in front of their desk after the screaming, but still. When the kiss ended, they looked up at the confused yet smug yet even more confused boy. Lucas was so overcome with embarrassment that he basically melted into a puddle of Lucas-ness?

Claus's judgemental gaze was focused on Ness. He stepped forward and grabbed Ness's collar. He pulled him closer. "If you hurt him in any goddamned way….I swear on the holiest of holy gods, I will do the same fucking thing to you."

"Pfft, what if I hurt him in a sexual way," Ness taunted.

"Did I stutter?" Ness's smug appearance shattered and turned into an anxious one. "When I said 'anything' I do mean anything. Don't. Fucking. Test me. Do I make myself clear?"

"Uh-huh, y-yeah."

"Goodie." Claus pushed Ness back, causing him to hit his back against his chair, it surprisingly hurt him. Claus then winked back at a now normal and cocky Lucas before walking off back toward his boy toy; Ninten.

"I have a good brother, huh?"

"Too good."

It didn't take much longer for the judges, Pichu and Sephiroth, to step into the room. Sephiroth decided the order in which the judging would take place, so Ness and Lucas ended up being the last to be judged. After seemingly an hour of judging, the two of them made it to Ness and Lucas. Lucas shot up with a happy face. "Hello there, M-Mr. Sephiroth." Ness growled slightly at the sight of Lucas's blush. Sephiroth chuckled before putting his hand into Lucas's hair.

"Always nice to meet a fan, even if they're a bit….extreme," he said. Ness's growling grew more ferocious, causing him to stand up and wipe Sephiroth's hand away. Lucas cleared his throat before looking down at one of their trays.

"Alrighty then, the first one is a classic Apple Pie." He ripped the tinfoil from the circular pie tray and showed the classically made apple pie. The smell made Pichu so happy. Sephiroth then brought out his sword, from nowhere, and struggled to cut out two pieces. They tried it and both equally loved the taste. "The next is a classic yellow cake." He ripped the tinfoil from the cake pan and showed an almost perfectly made cake.

"What's that?" Sephiroth pointed down at the little smudge Ness made when he stuck his finger into it. Ness nervously laughed.

"It's just…..no worries."

"Uh, right...let's just not eat that part of it." Sephiroth cut out two pieces and found the cake to actually be relatively good, despite the smudge. When Pichu walked over to the final tray the boys grew anxious. They knew what was in there. They didn't know why they decided to bring it. "Well, open it up already."

"Uhm, you do the honors, Ness," Lucas said. Ness swallowed his fear and slowly took the tinfoil off. The judge's faces turned disgusted. It was a pitch-black brick of brownie.

"Uh, explain please."

"We kinda got distracted," Ness nervously said.

"Well, I think it's obvious you two aren't going to win." Both boys sighed in disappointment.

The judges didn't hesitate to go to the front of the class and go on a monologue about how they appreciate all the work and blah blah blah. During this, however, Ness looked over at Lucas with a guilt-ridden face. "I'm sorry. It's my fault we screwed up the brownies." Lucas saw this saddened expression on his face and his heart broke. He just sighed before rubbing Ness's cheek.

"Come on, Baby, the brownies got burnt beyond redemption, but I have something better." Lucas grabbed Ness's surprised hands. He leaned in. This time, his mind and his body were in tandem. He smirked before putting his finger into the cake and rubbing the pink frosting onto Ness's lips. "Oh no, looks like you have a mess, guess I've got to clean it." He leaned further in and soon collided his lips into Ness. They kissed during the entire monologue. After the kiss, they stared into each other's dreamy eyes.

"Ooo, look at you being all confident, I love it."

"I learned it from someone special."

"I love you, Baby."

"I love you too."

"AHEM!" They looked forward and saw Byleth standing there with a stick. He then slammed the stick into their heads. "IF I CAN'T HAVE LOVE, YOU GUYS CAN'T EITHER!" he yelled with an obvious tear streaming down his face. He then stood up and smiled as more tears ran down his face. "A-anyway class, we're going to learn why love is fucked."

"We have a strange curriculum," Lucas mentioned.

"Agreed," Ness said.