Title: Propositions in Cloth
date written: 10-25-06
Pairings: implied Momoshiro/Ryoma
Warnings: my first attempt at writing anything for Seigaku... but no one but Momo could do this, so it had to be them.
Momo had a new shirt.
It was bright blue and had a trendy English phrase scrawled across the front.
He was hanging around at the street tennis courts, showing off his cool new outfit and waiting for Echizen to show up so they could play their usual weekend game and then go out for burgers. Echizen, as usual, was late. It was kind of a shame, since Echizen was one of the only people Momo knew who was actually fluent in English. Momo's English wasn't very good, so he wasn't really sure what the shirt said and he wanted to know what the first year thought.
He had already caught a couple of people staring at him in admiration. It was a little strange, though, because no one had actually complemented him yet, and a few had given him odd looks. Momo decided that it was because the shirt was just too cool to approach.
Scanning the crowd, Momo frowned until he caught sight of a familiar white cap.
"Oi! Echizen! You're late!"
"My alarm clock broke," muttered the freshman as he walked up to Momo. "I overslept."
"Well, I guess I don't mind, so long as you treat me to burgers today," replied Momo, grinning cheerfully. When no snarky comeback was made, he glanced down at the other boy and noticed that he was staring… at Momo's new shirt.
"Oh, right, the shirt!" Momo straitened his clothes, still grinning. "So, Echizen, what do you think?"
For a moment Echizen just stared. Then he pulled his cap down and smirked.
"Not today, Momo-senpai," he said, picking up his racket and walking towards the court.
"Huh?"
"Nothing. Are we going to play tennis or just stand around?"
"Hey!" Momo picked up his own racket, running to the other side of the net. "Wait, what did you mean, Echizen?"
"Mada mada da ne."
"Echizen!"
The freshman ignored him, serving the ball instead. Momo continued to ask throughout the game, and then afterwards while they were eating burgers, but Echizen never told him what he had meant. All Echizen said, when they finally parted ways later in the day, was that if Momo ever went to America he should probably not wear that shirt.
Momo didn't know what he was talking about. He thought "Lets Get Naked!" was an awesome thing for a shirt to say.
A/N: WAH! SEIGAKU! I've never written this pairing before, but for some reason the idea of Momo's new shirt just popped into my head. Believe it or not, the shirt is based off of a real shirt from Engrish . com, which says, if I remember correctly, "Run around naked". Also, this isn't meant to be offensive or anything, I happen to think it's just as funny that Americans like to wear shirts decorated with Kanji that they don't understand...