Yanagizawa Shinya / Kikumaru Eiji
Curiosity
Kikumaru was having a great day, he had beaten Inui in a singles practice match, he was going over to Oishi's house tonight while the other boy's parents were away for the weekend, the sun was shining, and the ducks were quacking. Eiji stopped short at that thought. Ducks?
He turned curiously to see St. Rudolph's Yanagizawa sobbing in an alleyway just off the main street.
Despite the large part of him telling him it was none of his business and to just walk away his curiosity got the better of him and he found himself walking over to the other boy. "Ohiyo!"
The boy looked up at him sniffling.
"Nya, what's wrong Yana-san?" Eiji asked, just barely stopping himself from calling the other boy 'duck boy'.
Yanagizawa sniffled again, biting his lip as if debating whether to tell him or not. "Ne," he started finally having decided to talk, "Kikumaru-san, d'you . . . d'you think . . . I mean . . ."
"Nya, do I think what?"
"D'you think I sound like a duck, dane?"
Eiji very nearly choked holding back laughter but he managed to answer in a barely controlled voice, "Nya, of course not Yana-san."
The other boy's face lit up, "Thank you so much Kikumaru-san, dane. You've made me feel much better, dane."
"Any—any time, Yana-san," Eiji replied watching the boy leave, his laughter nearly getting away from him several times until finally the St. Rudolph's boy was out of sight. As soon as the other was gone Eiji burst out laughing, gaining some weird looks from passers-by as he fell to the ground, near tears with hilarity.