DISCLAIMER: I do not own Ao Haru Ride, obviously. I just wanted to write a story since I noticed there are barely any out there. So I hope you all enjoy (:

A/N: Thank you all for the reviews, I appreciate them! This chapter shows the more playful side of their relationship and is a bit longer than the last one, but I hope the ending of this chapter makes the length worth it!

CHAPTER 2
- BRUNCH –

Time until movie: 6 hours and 23 minutes

Kou found himself following his nose to the kitchen as the delicious scent of breakfast lingered in the air. Although he already ate bread on his way to Yoshioka's, the smell of her cooking made his stomach growl, desperate for a taste of the scrambled eggs she's been preparing for them both. Seeing his girlfriend working her magic over the stove, he slowly wraps his arms around her waist from behind, pulling her into a gentle yet tight hug, as he rests his chin on her right shoulder closing his eyes.

"Smells good" he mumbles into the crook of her neck.

"Hope it tastes good..." Yoshioka replies, a bead of sweat trickling down her right temple.

Hearing the doubt in Yoshioka's voice, Kou opens his eyes expecting to see soft, creamy, fluffy scrambled eggs on the pan. Instead, he sees...

"What the hell is that..?" Kou releases Yoshioka from his grip to stand next to her.

For a while the two stood there, side by side, staring blankly at the strange looking egg before them. The egg was not at all fluffy, but as thin as maybe three sheets of paper. With the edges brown and crispy, the egg was white with strange golden brown patches here and there. Overall, the awkwardly shaped scrambled egg looked nothing how a scrambled egg should.

"Well? Turn off the stove before it burns!" Kou yells, not lifting his eyes from the questionably edible food.

"Oh! Right!" Yoshioka snaps out of her daze to turn the stove from high to off, still gripping the spatula tightly in her right hand.

"How can something so strange smell so good?" Kou wonders out loud.

"Heh... Kinda like you" Yoshioka chuckles still staring at her creation.

Taking the remark more like a diss than a compliment, Kou lifts his right eyebrow. "Are you saying that this 'egg' resembles me?"

If anybody else had been in the room, they would have probably believed that the two were having a conversation with the egg with the way they have been staring at it while talking the whole time.

"Yeah!" Yoshioka chuckles. She could still feel her cheeks burning with embarrassment from her lack of egg scrambling skills, so she refused to look at Kou until the red died down. Finally, Kou turns his head towards Yoshioka, takes the spatula from her hand into his right and playfully smacks her on the head with his left.

"Oi, take that back"

"Ouch! It was a compliment!"

*smack*

"Didn't sound like it"

"Stop hitting me!" Yoshioka pouts.

"Taking it back?"

"No!"

*smack*

"If the egg resembles you then that means it probably tastes good!" Yoshioka randomly blurts out trying her best to get Kou to stop hitting her head.

An odd silence filled the two for a short while until Kou wrapped his left arm around Yoshioka's waist, pulling her closer.

"Are you saying I taste good?" Kou smirks teasingly at his girlfriend. Yoshioka's eyes grow wide as she stands stiff in Kou's arm, heart beating fast with her face flushed red.

"W-what are you talking about?!" she squeals as she wiggles out of his grip to turn her back towards him and cross her arms, "I meant that although the egg may seem different on the outside, it's really nice on the inside. Kinda like 'don't judge a book by its cover'. Or in this case 'an egg by the way it's cooked'...?" Yoshioka's cheeks are still burning red not only because of her lame comparison but also at her lame confession.

Kou laughs at Yoshioka's sudden outbreak. "I was just joking, but thanks, I guess. While you're turned around, get me some new eggs. I'll cook it this time. Unless you actually wanna find out if that egg really tastes good or not"

"Nahh, I'm good" Yoshioka quickly replies as she grabs the eggs from her fridge, "Two for you, two for me. Might as well eat up since it's almost time for lunch too"

"Okay, so brunch?" Kou asks as he throws out the egg and prepares the pan.

"Mhmm! Do you even know how to cook?" Yoshioka asks as she sets the eggs on the counter next to Kou.

"I've seen my brother do this a couple of times. And I don't need to know how to cook, I just gotta do a better job than you did" Kou chuckles.

"You didn't even taste it!" Yoshioka pouts.

"Neither did you" Kou laughs as he looks at the scowling girl mumbling to herself on his right. "Grab me some cheese?" he asks as he cracks the eggs into a bowl.

"What kind?" Yoshioka asks opening her fridge.

"Doesn't matter, cheese is cheese" he replies uninterestingly as he scrambles the eggs.

"Of course it matters! There wouldn't be different kinds of cheeses if it didn't matter!"

Kou sighs, allowing Yoshioka to have it her way, "...Feta?"

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The two stood at the tableside staring at the food they have prepared together. Their mouths watering at the delicious site before them, eager for a bite to sink into their taste buds. Kou broke the silence.

"So does the chef get a kiss for this?" he asks as he turns to Yoshioka, leaning his left elbow on the dining chair.

"Hey, I helped! If anyone deserves a kiss, it's me!" Yoshioka smiles as she wipes off the drool from the corner of her mouth with her thumb.

"You cooked rice! Anyone could cook rice!" Kou retorts. He was taken by surprise when Yoshioka boldly took a step towards him to wrap her arms around his neck.

"Alright, fine" she goes on the tips of her toes and plants a warm kiss on Kou's soft lips.

Before she could pull away, Kou snakes his arms around her waist to pull her closer to him and deepen the kiss, this time catching Yoshioka by surprise. Her hands make their way into his shaggy hair while he trails hot kisses and sharp nips along the left side of her neck. Feeling his warm breath against her skin, Yoshioka's knees grow weak causing her to grip tighter onto his hair as she bites her lips. Wanting to get as close to her as possible, Kou slowly walks their way to a wall not once lifting his mouth from her neck. Feeling a wall meet her back, Yoshioka stops moving backwards. The space between the two is so tight that not even a leak of air can flow through.

"The food is...gonna get cold" she manages to get out between breaths.

Kou smirks into her left ear, "I like this better"

Next Chapter: Afternoon Delight