Warning/s: Fluff. Noticing a trend?

Disclaimer/s: I don't own them. I'm not making money. I'm just a fangirl with too much time on her hands.

Theme: #027; overflow
Title: Vanilla

Oishi was completely unprepared for their first "kiss."

The lighting in their part of the diner was too dim. The sun made a valiant effort to break through the blinds glued shut with years of caked-on dust, but no sunlight reached their table. There were either too few bulbs in the overhead lights or too many had blown. He wanted to bring the issue up to their server, but Eiji quickly waved his complaints away.

"It's okay, Oishi! My eyes are like a cat's," he explained (probably) only half-joking.

It wasn't just the lighting that had put Oishi off to the dingy little diner. Looking around, the color scheme looked like it was put together in the dark. The (once) bright blue carpet clashed wonderfully with the burnt oranges and brick reds of the peeling wallpaper, and certainly didn't go with the sea-green tables patterned with squares the color of bubblegum. It did, however, match the uniform of their decidedly forlorn waitress who slid their milkshakes across their table in a manner that suggested she really didn't care if they reached the hands of the patrons or not. Maybe it was best that Eiji stopped Oishi from mentioning the lighting.

The worn brown pleather of their circular booth moaned noisily when Eiji slid around to sit close to Oishi.

"This place is kind-of dumpy and the servers can be mean sometimes," Eiji said, echoing his thoughts as usual. "But the milkshakes are worth it! Try yours!"

Smiling at his insistent boyfriend, Oishi tentatively took a sip of the vanilla beverage.

"It's delicious!" His surprise was evident in his voice and Eiji laughed heartily.

"I told you!"

The texture was perfect. It was neither too watery, nor too thick. It wasn't too sweet, but held just enough sugar to satisfy Oishi's tastebuds. It was perfect. Oishi marveled in the fact that this place could hold such a secret. Trust Eiji to find such a thing.

'Speaking of the redhead….' Oishi glanced over to see the boy happily sipping his strawberry drink. He hummed to himself between sips. His eyes closed in an expression of utter contentment. A light flush crept onto Oishi's cheeks at this sight. Eiji really had no idea how adorable he was.

Green eyes suddenly found themselves staring at a vanilla milkshake. His stomach was doing acrobatics of its own and his heart had decided to test the limits of its speed. He couldn't say why he was nervous all of a sudden. Something about watching Eiji in what seemed like such a private moment, maybe.

He took a hurried, absent-minded sip of his milkshake by way of picking up the glass. This turned out to be a bad decision. His mouth filled with too much of the sweet mixture. Thin trails of white ice cream dribbled from his mouth as he swallowed the mouthful.

Eiji chose that moment to reach out and turn Oishi's face toward his. Perhaps he hadn't noticed that Oishi made such a silly mistake. Perhaps he'd decided not to waste a moment when Oishi was thoroughly distracted. To this day, Oishi still isn't sure why Eiji did it.

Before Oishi could make a noise of protest, before he could reach for the pile of rough brown paper towels that replaced napkins at their table, Eiji had grabbed Oishi's chin, pivoted his face towards Eiji's, and planted a hurried kiss on the corner of his mouth. (Oishi could only guess that he missed due to his rush.)

Eiji's pale cheeks turned a vibrant red. He quickly turned back to his own milkshake before whispering quietly, "you make vanilla taste good."

In that moment, it didn't matter that they were in this horribly tacky place. It didn't matter that his own cheeks burned from the double embarrassment of his own clumsiness combined with the hurried kiss. It didn't matter that they were getting odd looks from the perpetually-frowning middle-aged waitress. Because in that moment, all that mattered was the fact that Eiji's lips had touched his.

A/N: Two updates in one day? Le gasp! O: Indeed, indeed. I'm on a HUGE Golden Pair kick right now (again). Expect a lot more updates soon. :3