After eating, Yusuke lead Touya back to his room and began going through his drawers for paper and pencils. "Thank god it's summer..." he mumbled. Touya stood waiting, somewhat uncomfortably, for Yusuke to find what he was looking for. Smiling triumphantly, Yusuke stood with the required items. "Found!"
Touya grinned slightly. Then a thoughtful expression crossed Yusuke's face.
"Guess we'll have to work on the kitchen table, you sure can't use my desk, all the crap piled on it," Yusuke said and Touya nodded, looking at the mountain of odds and ends heaped on what, at one time, must have been Yusuke's desk.
And so they headed back out and cleared away a couple placemats, and each took a seat. "Kay, I guess we should start with the alphabet. We'll go through it a couple letters at a time. I'll give the letter, sounds it makes, and a word to remember it by, right?" Touya nodded, wondering what Yusuke meant by 'giving' him a letter. He saw soon enough as Yusuke wrote down a capital and small A. Touya realized Yusuke meant for him to copy it and did, not quite as small as Yusuke's, but neater. "A starts the word attack, and makes a sound like ah or ay." Yusuke said. They continued in more or less the same fashion through the whole alphabet, though Yusuke did get Touya to grin when he used their names for T and Y.
"All right. Why don't you try folding over the paper and see how many you can remember while I go to the bathroom." Yusuke scurried off and Touya began writing down the letters he remembered, keeping them in order but for a few. When Yusuke returned he saw Touya chewing his pencil and frowning. There wasn't much written on the paper.
"Not as easy as you thought?" Yusuke said, grinning.
Touya scowled at him. "Can't remember what they look like. Or even what there all called," he sighed and leaned back.
"God I'm a moron," Yusuke mumbled before continuing. "I forgot, there's this stupid little song that goes with'em. Like I said it's kinda stupid sounding, but it'll help you remember them in order and stuff." Yusuke sang 'the stupid little song' and Touya nodded slowly.
"That does help a little," he said, jotting down a few more he'd remembered. He sighed again. "Still don't remember what they all look like though."
"You realize you can check back to help you remember if you want. You're not taking a test..." Yusuke said, grinning. Touya blushed and did so, copying the ones he'd missed and changing ones he had in the wrong order. "Kay, just keep practicing for a while. Once you got it down talk to me again and I'll quiz you."
Touya glared at Yusuke and continued working. He had been expecting Yusuke would help him more. In the mean time, Yusuke left, telling Touya he'd be back later, he was going to go get some groceries, and more pizza. Touya brightened a little hearing that and began working more avidly.
((A/N yes, technically Yusuke should be teaching Touya Japanese, but I don't feel like dealing with that. Anyone know konji and whatever the other alphabet thing is called? LOL))