This is the sequel to Tiger In The Closet which was supposed to be a one-shot. Oh well.

When Kotetsu arrived the next day grinning like the Cheshire Cat, Barnaby didn't assume anything. When he came up to him eyes twinkling with mischief, alarm bells went off in his head. Something was definitely going on in the old man's scrambled-up brain and he had to know what now. That look screamed trouble. You're-going-to-get-screwed-inside-and-out trouble.

Kotetsu was beaming with glee. He'd take revenge today and he had the perfect plan. He liked to call his mission the "Marinated Bunny Mission". Why such a name? He'll let Bunny worry all day before extracting his revenge at just the right time. Of course, he'll spice things up along the way. Like now.

Having someone trying to drill a hole in your head was distinctly uncomfortable. Having someone trying to drill a hole in your head by staring at you from a distance of rougly five centimeters was downright unbearable.
"What, Old Man?"
Making it look like he had just acknowledged him, Kotetsu turned his swivelling chair towards Barnaby.
"Hmm~? What are you talking about, Bunny?"
"Stop calling me that. I'm Barnaby-"
"Oh! Is lil' Bunny embarassed by a simple nickname~?"
"-AND you were staring at me."
"You're imagining things."
"No, I'm not. Are you getting so old you're having memory problems? Wouldn't surprise me."
"Awww, don't be so harsh on this old man here!"
Weird, he didn't react. Something was definitely wrong. Not answering, Barnaby got back to typing and ignored him for the rest of the morning, not noticing Kotetsu's triumphant face.

At lunch, nothing happened. Barnaby started fidgeting, anxiously waiting for something, anything to happen. Still a bit jittery, he jumped when his...partner appeared out of nowhere and plopped next to him.
"Hey, Bunny-chan, you're trembling a little. Are you alright?"

"You don't move this much, usually."

"And you spoke quite a lot earlier."
When the implication dawned on him, he inwardly cursed. He was doomed.

As the day continued, Kotetsu got giddier and giddier. His "Marinated Bunny Mission" was going better than he had imagined. The young man had been exuding waves after crashing waves of anxiousness at lunch. When Kotetsu had - tactfully - evoked the content of the card Kaede had found, all color had drained off Bunny's face as realization hit him. Kotetsu had commited the look to memory before skipping off, a bounce in his steps.
A bit later, they had been called for a real mission, something about a hijacking. Barnaby had carefully kept a distance and avoided his eyes. He still did, now in their own locker room.
It was time.

His hero suit off, Barnaby was left in his black skin-tight one. Still ignoring the old man and not looking at him, he didn't notice him keeping his hero suit. It's only when he heard metallic sounds and cold steel wire wrapping around him that he reminded himself to always, always keep an eye on Kotetsu. Always.
When he was wrenched back rather unceremoniously into his partner's waiting hand, he couldn't help but open his mouth and ask, hoarsely from having his breath knocked out of him:
"What do you think you're doing?"
He raised an eyebrow, trying to keep his cool. He heard a pop and felt the wire being wrapped around him another time then knotted in front of him like a bow where, of course, his hands couln't reach. Damn it.

"I'm giving you a lesson. You've been a bad boy, Bunny. A very bad boy. You know what happens to bad boys?"
A chill ran up his spine. Squeals and screams of "Marry me!", "I love you!" or even "Take me!" erupted to his left, his eyes nearly popping out of their socket. Oh Hell no, he wasn't going to-!
"Old Man, stop it! I swear to God, if you do that, I'll-!"
Barnaby desperately trying to get away in one hand and the other opening the window, Kotetsu grinned maniacally and answered his own question:
"They get punished, Bunny."

And with that, he tossed him out the window without a second glance, joyfully hollering "Marinated Bunny for everyone!" and leaving him to a mob of rabid fangirls. He was glad they had had a mission today, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to capture Bunny in that skin-tight suit. At first, Kotetsu had intended to scare him a bit by playing yo-yo with him outside the window with his fans underneath it.

However, Kotetsu had passed his entire afternoon, evening and most of the night tied up on the floor only to have Antonio coming in at ungodly hours of the night, worried that he wasn't answering his phone. He had been just as dumbfounded as Kaede and had nearly walked out, muttering something under his breath about "Too much beer". He quickly came back to his senses though and hastily untied an extremely sore and pride-wounded Kotetsu.

Now, to find those five pairs of glasses Bunny had mentioned the other day... Kotetsu was sure they would sell quite a bit on StErnbild-Bay.