Am I quick or what?

Things really were going the right. Shuichi seemed to be enjoying himself, and the more Shuichi enjoyed himself, the more he began to return Ryuichis flirting. They had gone outside and made snowman in the parking lot, until a man had scolded them for using valuable parking space for something as 'useless' as snowman. To which Ryuichi had replied that maybe the man had gotten his priorities in life wrong, and he couldn't drive his car with all the snow anyway, much to Shuichi's amusement.

After they'd done six snowman (four children and their parents busy making more children) they decided it was enough, and had gone inside and snuggled together on the soft, fluffy couch, with hot chocolat and marshmallows.

Right now, Ryuichi was trying to figure out how to get a fire in the fireplace (one with some actual wood burning, instead of just the paper) It wasn't going well. And they were running out of old newspapers as well.

"It's okay, Ryu-oun, it's not that important."

"Yes it is no da! If Shu-chan wants a fire, Shu-chan'll get a fire." Ryuchi pouted cutely in a way that reminded Shuichi vaguely of himself, and continued to light another newspaper.

"Maybe we should start with small branches, in stead of big logs." Shuichi offered, brains kicking in when someone was suffering, however lightly.

"You think so da?"

"Yeah. I mean, I haven't got much experience, but..."

"Okay, then, we'll try small wood na no da! What could we use for small wood…?"

"You…don't have any small wood?"

"No, but we can just smash the kitchen table to little bits!"

"Maybe we could smash a big log to bits, but either way, I don't think it's such a good idea. We might smash each other or something."

"Ryu-chan doesn't want to smash Shu-chan to little icky bits, with his brains everywhere an' his eyes on kuma-chan an'-"

"I…I get the picture, Ryu-kun…"

okay na no da. But then how are we going to light the fire no da?"

"I dunno. Maybe we could just sit in front of the fireplace with a blanket and pretend it's on?"

"Yay, cuddle with a blanket da! Ryu-chan'll get a big an' soft blanket!"

'Ryu-kun really likes to cuddle… Yuki never cuddles with me…

…

… I haven't called Yuki that I'm staying here because of the snow!'

"Ryu-kun! Where is your phone? I need to call Yuki where I am!"

"…It's in the hallway no da."

'But I wonder if Yuki'd get worried if he didn't know where you were…'

Silence. A soft curse and then the sound of the phone being slammed down.

"What's wrong na no da?"

"No dial tone…"

"Probably because of the snow no da…"

"Yeah… My cell phone doesn't work either."

"O well, Yuki-san probably figures you're at my place by himself anyway na no da."

"Yeah…"

"Ne, Shu-chan, there's nothing you can do about it, so do you wanna cuddle now?"

'Need to get his mind of Yuki…And things were just looking up, too.'

Ryuichi gave a mental sigh.

"Yeah, Ryu-kun, I wanna cuddle."

'tehee. He's improved, Yessir!'

"Yay! Cuddling, cuddling! Kuma wants to Cuddle too!"

grin "Yeah. Have you gotten those blankets yet?"

"Ryu-chan's on it!"

And so, they cuddled in a blanket, pretending there was a fire in the fireplace, and having more hot chocolate with marshmallows.

"Ne, Shu-chan, where do you want to sleep tonight? You can sleep on the couch, if you want, but you can also sleep in the bed with me. It's a really big, soft bed na no da!"

Blushing, then slowly a small grin "Hint, hint, ne, Ryu-kun?"

I grin back at him. 'Perhaps… Would he…?'

"I… I'll sleep with you… in the bed…Ryu-kun."

"Yay! Shu-chan, lets go find some pyjama's for you no da, Shu-chan needs cute pyjama's to sleep in! Yay, yay da!"

And they did find some very cute pyjama's, though Shuichi was beginning to wonder more and more exactly what Ryuichi meant by cute; cute like a purring kitten, or cute like the girls some guys whistled at. 'I suppose, Ryuichi's got both in him. he's very cute when he's drawing or playing, but he's cute in the other sense of the word when he's serious. I'm not quite sure which cute I like best…'

Anyway, Shuichi put on the cute pyjama's, and Ryuichi decided he might as well put on his cute pyjamas. And as lied next to one another in Ryuichi huge bed (it was indeed really, really big) they both found it very hard to keep their mind out of the gutter, and in the realm of sleep, they lost the internal struggle and had Very Nice dreams indeed.

They also got quite a shock in the morning.

Short but Cute, ne…?