Title: Pocky Fairy
Theme: March "White Day" Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not own Gravitation or its characters. I do not make any profit from this text.
Warnings: None
Summary: Shuichi finally gets a White Day present.

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Shuichi loved Eiri. Sometimes he thought that he loved Eiri more than he should, more than was practical or made sense. He loved Eiri so much he could just cry with emotion as his heart swelled to near bursting. But, even Shuichi knew that this kind of love was dangerous for the giver – if it was rebuffed and Eiri truly turned him away it would kill a part of him. He was so focused on Eiri he was willing to do almost anything for him – except quit singing since that was his other great love! Shuichi unconsciously started humming a happy tune as he sucked on a stick of pocky, lazily running it in and out of his mouth. This had been one of the best days, Eiri had finally given him a white day present.

Now Shuichi had always given Eiri Valentine's day gifts, but the novelist had insisted that no matter what Shu chose to call himself he was not his wife nor was he a woman! Eiri would always emphasis this by grabbing Shu by his parts that were assuredly not female. However, Eiri had gotten him something this year. Shuichi had woken up that morning just like any other, he had almost given up any hope of receiving a gift from the grumpy novelist. The first thing Shuichi noticed was that there was a box of strawberry pocky on the nightstand. Shuichi didn't think that he'd left any there, but it was possible. Shuichi then got up and headed for the shower to start his morning. He paused as he exited the shower, wiping the condensation from the mirror and staring at the trail of lovebites that ran from his earlobe down his chest, he winced slightly as he knew he'd be the butt of quite a few jokes today at work!

'Damnit,' sometimes he wished Eiri didn't have to mark him where other's could see. However, he knew that the novelist had difficulties expressing himself, so Shuichi took these random acts of possessiveness to be just another way Eiri reminded him that he wanted him and that the singer was 'his'. Shuichi smiled remembering their wild night of loving making last night, while he opened the medicine cabinet to get out his toothbrush. Shuichi was stared in confusion at the box of strawberry pocky propped up in the cabinet, by his toothbrush. Now, that was strange, but sometimes Shuichi stashed his pocky in random places so he grabbed it and walked back to the bedroom to get dressed. He dressed quietly, not wanting to disturb Eiri who was sprawled on his stomach snoring softly. He stuffed the strawberry pocky boxes into his pants pocket and headed towards the kitchen to heat up some miso for breakfast.

Shuichi was fully awake now so he was bit surprised when he walked into the kitchen and saw that there was a little pyramid of strawberry, chocolate, and almond pocky three boxes high on their small table in the kitchen, and there was also men's pocky, honey pocky, and carmel pocky scattered across the counter, between the coffee maker and sink. Shuichi rubbed his eyes, was he going crazy? Where the hell did all of this pocky come from! He carefully stacked up all of it on the side of the counter and then moved to get his bowl down, and there in his bowl were three boxes of powdered tea azuki bean that Eiri must have gotten from Tatsuha. He started to smile then laugh as he realized what had happened.

Shuichi stood in the kitchen laughing, looking at the huge haul of pocky until his laughter woke Eiri who joined him in the kitchen, hair sleep mussed and only a pair of pj pants on. He called out to Shuichi "What's so funny baka?"

Shuichi turned and putting down the bowl and pocky he ran over to Eiri and enveloped him in a bear hug.

"Eiri, I love you! You gave me a white day present, actually several of them!"

Eiri grunted in response, but his arms did come up and hug the singer back. Shuichi pulled back so he could look at him, and planted a passionate kiss on the novelist.

"I can't believe you gave me pocky Eiri, I know how much you hate me eating this crap," Shiuchi exclaimed.

Eiri shrugged and tried to sound surly in his reply but he was unable to hide a tiny smile "I didn't get you anything baka, it must have been the pocky fairy that visited you."

Shuichi just laughed in response before turning back to finishing his morning routine, he loved that Eiri would do something so sweet for him even if the novelist couldn't actually admit it to his face! Shuichi may have loved Eiri more than was sane, but he was certain that one day the novelist would freely return that love.

Wikipedia had an interesting article on Pocky – the powdered tea azuki bean is special to the Kyoto region. See wikipedia's pocky entry for more information.

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