I'd like to dedicate this chapter to rekt, because Mizuki x Unari is a very neglected, charming ship ;)

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It's because I'm so damn tired, he thought, distractedly, as he made a point to ignore his loud roommate, who was not being loud now because he was too busy smooching with that curvy girlfriend of his who was decidedly too good for his snake-ish friend. As they were in the kitchen, and Tomoe preferred to stay clear from them and the small talk that may ensue, he went straight to his room. And, although he had plans to drink some sake and catch up on the novel he was reading, as soon as his back touched the mattress, he fell asleep.

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Unari, Mizuki's girlfriend, stayed the night, sometimes.

Tomoe liked her, many times a great deal better than he liked Mizuki. She was really attractive (though he'd never comment on that- he was too much of a gentleman), really polite, and one hell of a cook.

So it was her he found in the kitchen the following morning, hair tied into a messy bun and wearing one of Mizuki's shirts, busying over a frying pan that contained deliciously-smelling pancakes.

'Good morning!' she greeted with a pleasant smile, and handed him a cup from the counter.

He acknowledged her with a nod, and proceeded to pour himself some strong, dark coffee.

'I'm sorry if we bothered you last night,' she said. That was another thing about her that was good, although in this precise occasion, maybe not that good. She was really observant.

'Nevermind,' he said, his voice still husky from sleep, 'I passed out soon as I got home.'

'It shows,' she commented, and she always seemed to manage to sound agreeable, although she sounded pretty serious when she said: 'Tomoe… are you coming down with something?'

He looked at her with the most nonchalant look he could conjure that soon after waking up. 'Not that I'm aware of.'

'Ok,' she said, with a little shrug, appearing to pay more attention to the pancakes than to him, 'It's just that you look pale. Kind of sickly. Are you sleeping well?'

'Decently,' he said, noncommittally, unsure about his reasons for actually answering her questions, 'I'll catch up after this job is done.'

'Make sure you do,' she recommended with a friendly wave of her spatula, 'Or else you're gonna be scaring around your customers, looking like death warmed over and all that.'

'That's Tomoe described in one fine idiom,' a sleepy voice said from behind them.

Mizuki lingered in the doorway for a moment, watching Tomoe sip his coffee with a pensive look on his face. He then took in the adorable sight of his girlfriend making breakfast in his clothes, and, ignoring his roommate's glare, he made his entrance to the narrow kitchen. Gracefully walking over to where his girlfriend was flipping the last pancake over, he slid his arms around her and pulled her towards his chest, almost causing the pancake to land on the ground. He kissed the top of her head, and absent-mindedly ignored her light blush in favor of watching her fumble with the kitchenware, which he made more difficult by keeping her pressed warmly against him.

Tomoe decided he'd had enough of it for the rest of the week, and went back to his room. His body was stiff from sleeping in the previous day's working clothes, and he figured a warm shower would do him good to ease away the lingering tension before going out to work.

It did little of the sort.

Standing under the pleasant stream of water, all that he wanted was that he could step out, make himself some tea, and then go back to sleep. But he knew that tea was out of the question, because the kitchen was No Man's Land, only that taken over. His only attempt at chasing away the Snakeboy-and-Snakegirl-cheesiness-in-the-kitchen involved (pathetically, if he may say so himself) Girl-with-cute-smile-whose-name-I-stupidly-neglected-to-ask, so, with a groan at his own enactment of how the mighty fall, he began to go through, mentally, of the work he had ahead of him for the day.

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Hi! Short chapter! But I thought it deserved to be a chapter on its own. I think it's pretty sweet (for all but for Tomoe, obviously).

What do you think? What's gonna happen to our poor, confused main character? Will he ever see Nanami again?

...willl he ever actually know what her name is? Stay tuned!

And review, if you can. It's really motivating ;)