Five
There was not much for Hikaru to clean except maybe the dishes, vacuum, do his own laundry, and clean the windows and tables. After that he had nothing to do. Hikaru decided to go into his room and go online to play some Internet Go. His mother had long bought him a nice silver laptop that was his highschool graduation present along with his car…a Honda Accord…which wasn't exactly a sports car but it was better than nothing.
It was about 10:00 AM when Hikaru decided to get off-line and make lunch.
He turned on the radio listening to some current J-Pop and J-Rock while working on making some Teriyaki and chicken. Hikaru knew that he wasn't the best at cooking but it was Touya's fault for leaving it up to him to make lunch! Still Hikaru wasn't careless with his cooking, he put a lot of care into it.
He sat in the kitchen for awhile just to think, he grabbed some paper and starting practicing on his Kanji and Hiragana and Katakana, making sure that he wouldn't forget how to write each character.
By 11: 43 AM rain began to pour and the food was almost ready. His cell phone rang playing the theme songs to one of his favorite animes.
"Moshi Moshi?" asked Hikaru.
"Shindo it's Touya, unfortunately Ogata won't be able to pick me up due to traffic, I might be awhile, can the food wait?" asked Akira. Hikaru could hear the cars and street noises even the rain in the background of the phone.
"Do you need me to pick you up? The food will do fine," said Hikaru.
"Iya, the traffic is horrible, worse than rush hour. I'll come on the subway and walk home," replied Akira.
"Touya you didn't even bring an umbrella with you idiot! It's pouring like crazy!" exclaimed Hikaru.
"I'll be fine, don't worry about me Shindo," said Akira.
"Fine, I'll prepare you a hot bath for when you get home," said Hikaru.
"A-Arigato Shindo, Ja! If I'm not home by 1:00 start eating," stuttered out Akira.
Hikaru smiled at that shy stutter.
"I'll wait, now get home quick. Ja!" he said and the pressed the end button on the phone.
Hikaru went to the marble covered bathroom and started up the bathtub and placed some salts into the water to soothe Akira when he got home.
It was about 12:54 PM when Akira got home.
"Tadima!" called out Akira, taking his shoes off at the front door.
"Your home! Good! The bath is ready for you, I'll set the table," said Hikaru.
Akira blushed and headed upstairs to find the bath waiting for him.
The food was all out and prepared which took about twenty minutes to get in dishes and all, and five minutes later Akira was downstairs in a loose turtle neck and dress pants waiting to eat.
"It's all ready," said Hikaru proudly as they both sat down to eat.
"Itadakimasu. Arigato Shindo, for everything," said Akira quietly.
"Itadakimasu, enjoy and it's not a problem," replied Hikaru cheerfully.
Both ate the Teriyaki and chicken and Akira didn't complain once even though Hikaru in his opinion thought he let the chicken get too dry.
"How was your game?" asked Hikaru.
Akira smiled.
"I won by komi, and how was your day?" he asked politely.
"Ah I vacuumed, cleaned the windows and dishes. Played Internet Go for awhile, got bored with it and started to make dinner while practicing my Kanji…," replied Hikaru like it was no big deal.
"Sounds relaxing," commented Akira.
"Yeah, your day seemed wet to me," said Hikaru jokingly.
"Yes, it was crazy out there," replied Akira as they both finished up their plates.
"I'll do the dishes since you did the ones for breakfast." Said Akira.
"Okay, um…what do you want to do after this?" asked Hikaru.
Akira pondered for a second.
"I would suggest playing Go," he said.
Hikaru groaned.
"Is that all you ever do?" he asked.
"No actually I do watch TV," responded Akira.
"On Go games?" asked Hikaru.
Akira made a face.
"My whole world doesn't just revolve around Go!" he snapped.
Hikaru snorted.
"Does so! Your whole room is filled with nothing because you play so much!" he pointed out.
"We'll you're not as good as me because you goof off!" snapped Akira throwing a pair of chopsticks in the sink.
"Hey at least I have a life outside of the game," Hikaru said.
Akira whirled around looking angrily and the blonde banged boy.
"And you think I don't have a life?" he screamed his emerald eyes having that look that they had went Akira was majorly pissed off.
"Touya…I'm sorry, I really didn't mean for it to come out that way… I know you have a life. I've been with you through a lot of it. What I said…just sort of…slipped without me thinking," said Hikaru apologetically
Akira's eyes softened.
"I forgive you Shindo, if you don't mind, I'd like to go to bed, it's been a long day," he said.
"Alright, you get some rest you deserve it," said Hikaru smiling.