Submitted on 31/10/2014 to basketballpoetsociety's Challenge No. 95: Character Battle for Kise.
Daiki discovers that Kise loves thunderstorms one afternoon as they're racing towards his house in the pouring rain because they were distracted by basketball, and didn't realise or remember it was supposed to rain today until they started getting hit by raindrops.
Kise is laughing between breaths as they run, and he has one of those honest, excited smiles on his face; the rain is getting steadily heavier and they're going to be completely soaked by the time they reach Daiki's house. Daiki's not entirely sure why Kise is enjoying this so much – he is cold and soggy and can't wait to get back so he can get under a hot shower and warm up again.
When they finally get to his house, Daiki fumbles with the key because he's shivering, and Kise's laughter subsides a little even as he looks longingly back out at the rain. Kise's probably one of those romantic idiots who thinks kissing in the rain is anything other than cold and uncomfortable. Daiki's about to tell him there's no fucking way he's going back out in the rain even though he's already wet when the sky lights up. Kise's smile doesn't falter as the rumble of thunder rolls over them moments later. If anything, it gets bigger.
He finally gets the key into the lock and opens the door, and he has to yank Kise inside because he's too busy searching the sky for more lightning to pay attention to the fact that the door is open.
It's rare that Aomine has to fight to get Kise out of his clothes. Well, usually they're in the middle of a completely different kind of mood when he's trying to get Kise naked. Right now, though, he just wants to get Kise out of his wet things so he doesn't get himself sick. Kise gets at least a hundred times more annoying and whiny when he's sick, and Aomine's phone is usually his victim of choice for complaints.
Kise won't come away from the window, which is also annoying. He's searching the sky for more lightning, and he wriggles every time the sky lights up. God, he's frustrating. They both need to get clean, because they'd been playing for ages and they're covered in sweat. Usually Kise's the first to start complaining about how disgusting he feels.
Also, Daiki's already got his own shirt off, and he's a little annoyed that it doesn't seem to have as much of Kise's attention as it usually does. He's being ignored for a goddamn thunderstorm.
"Kise," he growls.
"Sorry, Aominecchi," Kise says. But he doesn't take his eyes away from the sky. "I just really love the lightning, you know?"
"No," Daiki grunts in response. "Get your damn clothes off, idiot."
"Always in such a hurry, Aominecchi," Kise teases, but he's still not looking at him, for fuck's sake. "If you wanted it that bad, you should have said so, and we would have stayed here and—"
Daiki doesn't let him finish his sentence, because Kise has to know that he's saying stupid shit. He smacks the back of his head.
"Wet things off."
Kise pouts, but finally, finally starts shedding his soaked clothes.
"I want to watch for a while," he says, standing there quite shamelessly clothes-less and enraptured by the way the sky was lighting up. Why does Daiki like him so much? It's completely beyond him sometimes.
"Don't stand in front of the window naked," is all he says. "If someone gets a picture I won't be sorry for you."
"You're not going to get me clothes?" Kise makes his best attempt at a puppy dog expression. He's very good at it, too, aided by his usual adopted air of 'excited puppy', but Daiki's seen too much of Kise by now to be fooled by this trick.
"You know where they are. Get them yourself," he answers. "I'm not dumb enough to want to stand around cold watching the sky. I'm getting in the shower." There is an implicit suggestion there that Kise should join him, but for once, he doesn't.
Kise gets sick despite Daiki's efforts. Next time, he thinks as he turns off his phone because it won't stop buzzing, he'll just leave Kise outside to freeze to death. When he's dead, he won't be so annoying anymore, and Daiki's pretty sure that he'll eventually stop grieving and find a normal person to date.