I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry! This should never have taken so long -_- Unfortunately I was so determined to finish the 30-Day fic that this got put by the wayside, even if pretty much all of the chapter was already done. The 30-Day being done does mean that this fic should get more attention, finally, and speaking of... the next two chapters are all but complete right now anyway. Hopefully I update soon!
P.S. Their outfits are the Spoon2di cover versions! See?-
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(Also oTL I'm really bad at texting lingo because I'm the type who has to text in full, proper sentences. Oops.)

Chapter 12- Of Bonding and Dates
Rin was wrapping a towel around his waist when his phone (sitting on the edge of the sink) trilled his alert tone. The redhead muttered something foul under his breath because there was only one person who would text him this early in the morning on a weekend.
Sure enough, the screen read 'New Text from Nagisa'.

"Brat," Rin muttered as he opened it.

'Riiiiiin-chaaaaaan!'(God there was no reason for so many letters) 'I have a SUPER important question 4 u!'

'I swear to fuck, Nagi, if this is something stupid...'

'*giggle*' (literally typed like that) 'You swear to fuck?'

'Shut up and get on with your dumb question.'

'Well, I wanted 2 ask u something REALLY simple.'

Rin snarled at the screen. 'I am still not going to tell you what color my underwear is.' He typed, hoping that would end the conversation, and picked up his toothbrush (the bristles were getting pretty ragged, he'd need another one soon) but it was as he was squeezing the toothpaste out that his phone went off again and he jumped, squirting a good amount onto the sink.

"Fuck."

He poked the message and read it as he brushed.

'It's not that, silly Rin-chan! But u never did answer that question...'

He rolled his eyes and closed his mouth around his toothbrush. 'Nagi, the first pair of red boxers I got as a gift I would KNOW were from you.'

'Red, huh?'

The redhead felt his scowl tugging into a smile. '...fuck.' He typed, just to give the blonde some sense of satisfaction.

'I figured out Rin-chan's secret!'

Rin cocked an eyebrow. 'Was that seriously all?'

'No! I have sumthin really big 2 tell u! A question 2 ask!'

'Shoot.' He wrote, leaning against the counter because honestly, he was getting next to nowhere with brushing his teeth since Nagisa was such a rapid-fire texter. The toothpaste started to burn the underside on his tongue and his jaw was getting sore, but still the screen indicated Nagisa was drafting his message. Rin rolled his eyes. Of course this time the blonde seemed to be taking his time.
He finished brushing his teeth and was halfway through wiping up the toothpaste mess in the sink when his phone lit up again.
He finished and opened the message as he headed for their bedroom.

'Well I wanted to know about a date. Are you and Haru-chan and Mako-chan free this afternoon? Because, you see, Ken-chan and Ai-chan are going on a date and I thought maybe we could ALL go on a date, you guys, Rei-chan (oops, Rei, shh don't tell him) and I, and Ai-chan and Ken-chan! Like, I thought they might feel better if they could see us being couple-y? You know what I mean? And besides, when was the last time you went on a date with Mako-chan and Haru-chan? Been a while, right? So I think it'd be really'

The message cut off and Rin snorted, tossing his phone on the bed (where a tiny splotched-and-white body pounced on it from her resting spot on Makoto's pillow), and finding clothes for the day. He paused halfway through riffling through the closet though.

A date... Well he sure as shit couldn't wear anything not flashy, now could he?

He grinned and started pulling out pieces of all their wardrobes, picking an outfit for Makoto- and Haruka- while he was at it, and then sat on the edge of the bed while Akiha wandered about under the fabric carnage.

He recovered his phone, though not without a couple of playful swats, and checked the new message.

'(Sorry I got cut off...) I was saying it'd be really great to go all together so that Ken-chan and Ai-chan can relax a bit. Plus it's their first date. THEIR FIRST DATE, Rin-chan! This is super-ultra-mega important! You get it, right?'

The redhead sighed and ran a hand through his hair, watching their kitten prance out the door with a lopsided smile. 'Yeah, I get it.'
And besides, the redhead mused, he owed his underclassman quite a bit by now. This would be an easy and potentially fun way to make it up to him.

'So what about Mako-chan and Haru-chan?!'

Rin smirked and leaned back on one hand. 'Oh, don't worry about those two. I can coerce them into virtually anything.'

'Yeah Rin-chan! Use your sex appeal!'

Downstairs Haru, Makoto and now Akiha all looked quizzically at the ceiling when they heard the shout of "Damn brat!"

"Nagisa," Haru said as he turned back to cooking his breakfast.

"Nagisa," Makoto agreed with a shake of his head.

Their boyfriend stomped down the stairs a few minutes later, dressed good enough to make Makoto's mouth water.

"You two, go get dressed."

The brunette blinked and glanced down at himself. "Ah, Rinrin, I- we- are dressed."

"You aren't dressed for a date," the redhead shot back tiredly. "I selected your outfits for you already; just go get changed."

Haru perked up. "We're going on a date?"

"Yeah. This afternoon."

Makoto stood but paused halfway out the room. "But what about Akiha?"

The redhead waved off his concern. "Already taken care of. Gou has nothing to do today- she and Seijuurou will be over in a half hour to watch Akiha for us."

The brunette leaned against the doorframe. "Well this is all abrupt," he said gently, "So what brought it on?"

"Double date."

"Reigisa?" Haruka guessed as he plated his food.

"Ye- well. A triple date then."

Makoto blinked. "Triple..? But you just said Seijuurou-kun and Kou-chan were going to be coming here, so who's the third party?"

Rin smiled. "Nitori and Sugimura."

Sapphire eyes sparkled brightly and emerald softened.

"Isn't this their first date?" Haru asked quietly.

Ruby closed as Rin hummed agreement. "It's why Nagi wants us all to go. Make them feel a little more at ease. And perhaps draw more attention to us rather than them."

Makoto rubbed the back of his neck. "I guess that makes sense. I suppose I'll go change then."

Akiha mewed and pawed at Haru's elbow, eyes locked on the edge of the table. The black-haired boy calmly scooped her up and handed her to his boyfriend.

Rin rolled his eyes. "Thanks, babe. I wanted cat fur all over my jeans."

"Speaking of those..." Haru muttered.

Rin glanced up and met his lover's gaze and immediately smirked at the familiar spark of heat in azure eyes. "Problem, Haru-chan?"

"You're not allowed to wear those unless I can remove them sooner than a few hours."

"You like them?"

Haru leaned across the table and hooked a finger over the collar of the redhead's plain white shirt. "I'd like to tear them off of you."

The redhead let out an airy chuckle and leaned away, effortlessly slipping out of his lover's hold. "No quickies when Nagisa and Rei are waiting for us. Finish your food, change, and let's go."

Makoto came down a minute later and Rin knew by the way Haru's eyes dilated that there would be a lot of time spent between the sheets that night.

Damn I have good taste.

"Sugitori."

"Nimura."

"Sugitori."

"Nimura!"

"Sugit-"

"Just stop!" Makoto interjected with a laugh and a shake of his head. "Isn't that somewhat their decision?"

"Nitori's older, so-"

"But Sugimura will top."

Rin paused halfway through his sentence and slowly looked back at Haru. "And how do you know that?"

"Intuition."

"Guys!" Makoto chuckled. "Stop."

"So what are we then?" Rin snapped.

The brunette actually looked to be thinking about that, a hand coming up to cup his chin after a moment. "Hmm, I don't know."

"Marinka." Haru said.

"Huh?"

"Makoto. Rin. Haruka. Ma-Rin-Ka. Marinka."

The redhead tilted his head and nodded with a carefree shrug after a moment. "I guess top order works fine. Sugitori it is."

A satisfied smirk tugged at the corner of Haru's lips and Makoto just laughed.

They found their friends waiting alone at the deserted train station- Rei standing next to the bench Nagisa was occupying with his nose in a pocket-sized novel- but before they could greet the pair the blonde looked up from his swinging feet and broke into a grin.

"Mako-chan! Rin-chan! And Haru-chan!"

Nagisa bounded up to them, all bright eyes and sunny smiles, and clasped his hands behind his back.

Rin glanced around. "Waiting on Nitori now, are we?"

The blonde nodded. "Yup! Ken-chan sent me a text a little bit ago, said they may be a few minutes late, but that's okay! The movie's been out for a while so it should be easy to sit all together. Though maybe we ought to sit apart... For privacy reasons?" Nagisa purred with far too coy a look.

"We'll see." Haru agreed, but his eyes were drilling holes in Rin.

The redhead scoffed and adjusted his hat. "Ugh, movie dates are so cliché. Tell me, are we going to go to a coffee shop after?"

Nagisa blinked. "We could, if you want to, but I hope you can cover all seven of us. I'm broke..." The blonde sighed, sticking his tongue out.

Rin snorted. "At least we're all broke enough that we can't fall into the movie stereotypes."

Nagisa tilted his head and put a finger to his lips. "Does Rin-chan watch a lot of romantic movies? Sad ones and comedy ones and even the trashy ones?"

The redhead blushed. "N-no way!" He barked.

"Yes," Makoto and Haru rebuffed simultaneously.

Rin shot them both a foul look but Makoto simply smiled beatifically and Haru looked away with just the edge of a smirk quirking his lips. Nagisa giggled and grabbed the redhead by the arm, dragging him over to join Rei by the bench.

"Let's wait for them together!"

"And he had his umbilical cord, I kid you not, on his desk, right in-"

"Matsuoka-senpai!"

Nagisa was still laughing over Rin's story when Nitori and Sugimura came running up.

"K-Ken-chan, Ai-chan!" Nagisa squealed between giggles. "I'm glad you made it!"

The Samezuka first-years linked hands and smiled shyly at the group. "It's my fault we're late," Sugimura panted. "I, umm... I couldn't decide what to wear..." He admitted.

Nitori giggled and hugged his boyfriend. "I had to wait in the living room with his parents while he picked because he wanted it to be a surprise."

Sugimura laughed bashfully and Nitori kissed his cheek.

Haru and Rin shared a look they'd gotten used to when the new couple was around- 'ugh they're too cute'- and Nagisa smirked coyly.

"Speaking of, Haru-chan and Mako-chan look really good today too. Did Rin-chan pick out their clothes?"

The redhead scoffed and crossed his arms. "Naturally. We both know they need all the help they can get."

Irritation and hurt flashed through blue eyes but Makoto seemed affronted, hands on his hips. "Are you calling my taste into question?"

"No, because you were smart enough to pick me... and Haru," he drawled with a wink at the black-haired boy. "But sometimes you make some questionable choices."

The brunette looked about to protest so Rin gestured at the group at large.

"We're gonna miss the first chunk of the movie if we don't head out soon. Let's go."

The first twenty minutes of the movie (its title wasn't too interesting either and the redhead had known at that point that the movie was a flop) had Rin suppressing a gaping yawn and though Haru's gaze remained forward it was unfocused. Nitori and Sugimura sat a half-dozen rows down, heads together, and Nagisa and Rei were sitting exact center of the theater after Rei proclaimed that the middle was the most beautiful place to truly experience a film. Besides the seven of them there was maybe a dozen other people... and four of them had just left.

Finally bored, the redhead had eyed Haru and then, emboldened by the lack of an audience, had climbed into Haru's lap. The two had been engaged in messy making out since. Makoto sat next to them, mortified, hands covering his face.

"Could you please stop?" He begged yet again. "We're going to get kicked ouuuuut..."

He didn't get a response- just a purr from Rin.

"Haru-chan, I'm going to leave here covered in bruises..."

"Maybe you should wear your jacket properly then," the black-haired boy shot back.

Suddenly a zombie hand smashed through the floor in the movie and Makoto shrieked along with half the sparse female audience. His lovers both glanced at him, hunched over and trembling, and Haru growled "This is a horror movie?"

Rin slid off of Haru's lap and climbed into Makoto's. "I didn't know," he replied, rubbing the bigger boy's back soothingly. "I guess I should've expected Nagisa to choose something that would have us all over each other."

Makoto whimpered and buried his nose in Rin's shoulder. Strong hands gripped tight to his younger boyfriend's shirt and as a girl screamed onscreen he flinched and reached for Haru too.

Haru took his hand and squeezed it, glaring sharply down at the abruptly frozen figures of Nitori and Sugimura- both gaping at the movie- and then at Rei, who was sitting stiffly in his seat, then to Nagisa, who was leaning forward with a disturbingly wide grin on his face.

"I swear that brat's actually a demon," Rin grumbled, voicing a piece of Haru's inner rant aloud.

The brunette started to say something but he swallowed it in a yelp as the girl in the movie got her arm chopped off.

Two more people left muttering their disgust.

"Makoto..." Haru murmured. He carded his fingers through soft brown hair and leaned in, nibbling on the taller boy's neck.

"We'll distract you," Rin chuckled darkly.

"We can't do that here!" The brunette whisper-shrieked. "This is a public place!"

Haru watched another group, three this time, leave quickly.

"No one'll know, babe. And I can always pretend to be a girl, if I gotta. Pretty sure the rest of these people will be leaving soon anyway- this movie is shit. Just a senseless bunch of gore, ugh."

"Not like Titanic?"

For some reason Makoto didn't know, Rin flushed. He could see his boyfriend's cheeks darken even in the dim lighting. "Shut up, Haru. I can't even think about watching that movie without hearing you moan."

Green eyes went wide. "W-what?"

Rin smirked down at their brunette. "Haru will tell you."

And the dark-haired boy leaned in and did, indeed, spin him the sordid tale while Rin kissed him so senseless the only thing he knew was the mouth on his and the mouth whispering dirty things in his ear.

He didn't catch much more of the movie once a hand snaked into the front of his jeans but he was sure as hell glad Haru kept their napkins.

The whole group exited the theater before the movie was even done, Rin having declared his irritation loud enough for Nitori to hear and hastily agree, and with both other couples- well, a couple and a threesome- out Nagisa gave a long-suffering sigh and dragged Rei out too.

"Stop complaining, Nagi, it was shit."

"Yeah but we were alone at least!"

"You scared the hell out of Makoto!" Rin yelled.

The blonde was suddenly appropriately abashed. "Sorry, Mako-chan."

"O-oh no, it's all right. Really!" He added, catching Rin's abruptly sour expression.

"How about I make it up to you?" The blonde squeaked. "Next week we can have a big slumber party at Haru-chan's and we'll watch good movies! Not scary!"

"Oi, Nagi, don't just invite yourself! You brat, you did it last time too, and you didn't even-"

"It's fine," Haru said softly.

Makoto glanced aside and had to grin at the fond smile tilting the black-haired boy's lips up.

"I can be there," Rei said, pushing up his glasses. "Summer homework can wait a day, I suppose."

Nagisa squealed and threw his arms around the blue-haired boy's shoulders, kissing his cheek. "Rei-chan's the best!"

"School lets out for me on Wednesday. I'll be there."

"Waaah Rin gets out for the summer a whole week earlier!"

The redhead smirked and tossed his head. "Yup."

Nagisa's eyes narrowed and the smile he fixed the threesome with was almost devious. "Rin-chan will be spending lots of time with Haru-chan and Mako-chan, huh?"

A warped grin stretched over Rin's shark teeth. "Every night," he said smugly.

Nitori and Sugimura turned fire-engine red but Nagisa giggled and clapped gleefully. "I knew it! Have fun Rin-chan! I'll talk to Haru-chan and Mako-chan about it at school! You keep Akiha happy and comfortable!"

"All that and more," Rin agreed.

"Let's go before you embarrass us further," Makoto groaned.

They were kept company past Rei and Nagisa's stop by the pair of happily cuddling boyfriends- carefully screened by the threesome for maximum privacy- and while Rin and Sugimura exchanged small talk Nitori chatted with Makoto about different types of pets.
The trio had to leave before the new couple, however, and that left them waving back at the enthusiastic first-years.
After making sure the coast was clear Rin nibbled at the sensitive spot behind Makoto's ear.

"Now how about a sequel to earlier?"

Makoto rolled his eyes and smiled. Haru grabbed both their hands and started tugging his lovers eagerly up the stairs to his house.