"Gil-kun," Oz began, swinging his feet. The boy was (much to the black haired male's dismay) sitting on a tree branch about six feet from the ground. Some leaves and small twigs had already lodged themselves in the youth's golden hair, making said boy look a little scruffy... but still just as cute. There were some smudges of light colored dirt on the boy's face, adding to the windblown effect of Oz's appearance. "Gil-kun, how much do you like me?"
Gilbert, though he knew Oz was a bit juvenile, was caught off-guard by the question. Looking up at the younger male (Gilbert himself was sitting at the base of the tree), he stuttered lightly. "I-I don't know. Uhh..." The Vessalius heir pouted a bit and brought his left foot up on the branch next to him, leaving his right to continue swinging freely. He folded his arms as well. Impatience.
"I, uh- I like you as much as...-" Gilbert flushed, grasping for anything, anything at all poetic. He begged inwardly for whatever God there was to save him. Immediately. "I like you as much as... as... as the flowers like sunshine." The raven-haired man replied, with a slight "pfft" sound afterward, as if to say "-or something like that".
Oz grinned lightly and flushed pink, picking a thin branch from the tree and weaving it with an apathetic determination. "Well – and try to beat this – I love you more than fish love water." Said blonde smirked triumphantly and looked back down at his precious Gilbert, who growled softly, unable to resist competition.
"I like you more than... than the clouds love the sky."
"I like you more than rabbits like grass."
"...Uhh... I like you more than... a pencil likes an eraser...?"
"I like you more than the stars like the sky~!"
"U-Uh, more than the Reese's peanut butter likes chocolate!"
"MORE THAN ELEPHANTS LOVE PEANUTS!"
"MORE THAN THE BIRDS LOVE THE SKY!"
"MORE THAN I LOVE CHOCOLATE-"
"-MORE THAN SQUIRRELS LOVE NUTS!"
Gilbert immediately erupted into a shade of red after blurting this, while the younger male only burst into giggles and squealed. "That sure is a lot, Gil-kun!" Laughing more, the boy climbed down from the tree and planted himself in the grass next to the Nightray family member and laid his head on the older male's shoulder. "I like you more than you like cigarettes, Gil-kun."
Gilbert snorted.
