YAY! The promised update is here! I was hoping to get this done earlier this morning, but my mom lied to me about when we were leaving and we left an hour earlier than I thought we were going to... Thus you are getting the update a few hours later than I planned, but it is still here AND I am half way through writing a Christmas story too, so it's not so bad. I really hope I caught at least most of the errors and typos in this story, but please tell me if you see any! I'd like to be able to fix them as soon as possible! THANK YOU for Reading this story!

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It's Kinda Funny

Irie Shouichi

It's kinda funny. You've got to admit, making that kind of mistake? It's so obvious…but not.

"Hey Shochan!" You called to the red haired mechanic and commander of the Melone base. "Do you have those files I gave you last week? These," you hefted the heavy stack of folders you supported in your arms, "are supposed to go with them. They include the backup reports as well as the follow-up reports on several of the missions as well as corrections for…" Your voice drifted off as you observed that all you could see of your "commander" was his white-pants coated rear sticking out from under the desk.

"Um, sir?"

No response.

"…Sir?"

You could see him shift and move a little under his desk.

"…" You just looked at him flatly.

"ahem" you cleared your throat before gathering air into your lungs and…

"SHOUCHAN!"

"GAH!" The red head shot three feet in the air, or would have if the desk above him hadn't stopped his movement by connecting with a great smash to his poor intellectually packed skull before he fell back to the hard floor on his elbows clutching his painfully throbbing head with his hands, whimpering as white stars past in painful flashes in front of his eyes.

You sighed again.

"The reports are here Shochan" you addressed your whimpering boss.

The man groaned as he reached up a hand from the floor, beckoning you to come closer.

"Was that really necessary [Name]?" he looked up at you groggily from his lower angle, green eyes showing beneath his rectangular glasses.

"Well, with all due respect, I did try several times to get your attention and each time you ignored me sir." You remarked as you walked forward in your white boots with the files still piled in the heap in your arms.

"Ah, so by 'all due respect' you mean next to none at all don't you." It wasn't really a question.

You smiled back down at your boss who was still kneeling on the floor.

"Well that's one way of looking at it I suppose, Shouchan." You smiled back down at the red haired man on the floor who dropped his head immediately in dejection.

"That's what I thought" he groaned out, "and why do even you call me 'Shouchan' anyways?" he whined.

"Hunh?" You replied, "Isn't that your name?"

"What?"

"Well, I mean, that's what Byakuran always calls you isn't it?"

"…[Name]~" he groaned out, as he supported himself with a hand on his desk chair and with his face buried in the other.

"Eh?" You blinked in surprised response to your boss' strange reaction, "Er…was I wrong?" You asked as your red hair boss continued to groan and bury his face in his hands.

One explanation of Japanese suffixes and Byakuran's apparent obsession with them later…

"…And that's how it all works" Your boss finished off, his stressed eyes closed beneath his glasses.

You were both seated on the hard floor of his messy office/room now as to be at least a bit more comfortable as your boss concluded his explanation of Japanese culture.

"Oh~" you hummed out. This all made a whole lot more sense now. "So," you asked him as he looked up to your question, "your name's actually 'Shouichi'?"

He nodded in confirmation.

"Do you mind if I call you that instead now?"

Shouichi sighed.

"Sure sure, that'll be fine….honestly," he murmured again, "how could you not get something like that from the get go?" He drifted off as you leaned over and gripped one of his hands in yours. Looking up he met your very serious gaze gulping as your eyes seemed to bore holes into his own.

"Shouichi" you said very seriously.

"A-ah y-yes." He stuttered face going slightly red from the intensity of your look.

"In case you hadn't noticed…." You continued, "I'm not Japanese."

"Er- right…"

Yeah…things were kind of awkward for a bit after that. Not to mention that even Spanner had noticed when you stopped calling him 'Shouchan'. How many people had noticed that anyways? But all that was sort of made up for when the red head asked you out four weeks later. Apparently the 'Shouchan' thing was the only thing that had been keeping him back for the last few months…oops? Well, better late than never right? You thought as you set down the tea next to the stacks of reports that your sleeping boss- boyfriend had yet to sort through.

You looked at the sleeping red-head in his desk chair who was resting his head against his curled up knee and smiled.

"Oh Shouichi" you hummed out, "time to get to work."

"Shouichi~" You shook him slightly when he didn't respond and only got a slight mumble in response. You smirked.

"Shouichi~ WAKE UP!"

Your cute red-head shrieked and fell out of his desk chair while you clutched at your sides laughing while he struggled to sit, complaining "[Name]!"

Oh yes, you absolutely loved your boyfriend to death and back and nothing was going to change that anytime soon.

Omake:

Byakuran hummed as he plopped down on his all white couch in front of a white laptop with a bag of marshmallows sitting next to it.

"Well~" he hummed to himself, "Time to see how Sho-chan is doing, now isn't?" He asked no one in particular in his other wise empty room.

Smiling continuously to himself Byakuran flipped the laptop open, switching it on, and opening the window that would allow him to see what the red head was up to only to be greeted by—

"SHOUCHAN!"

Byakuran yelped and jumped back holding himself halfway up the back of the white couch he had previously been sitting on with his hands fisted in the white cloth.

Needless to say; he was very pleased that none of his minions were there to see that.

From then on Byakuran ALWAYS made sure the volume was on was on low before doing anything. And by the god that he knew he was was he glad for it.

Thanks for reading! Again, I'm sorry for the lack updates for awhile there, but they should become far more regular now that the finals are OVER! ...Until they come back around at the end of the next semester, the last for the year, anyways... BUT I am back for now anyways!

Extra Special thanks to everyone who has reviewed, alerted, and favorited between this and the last chapter! Thanks for such a quick response and Thank you so much more for all of your support! Thank you all so much and Happy Holidays and all that Jazz!

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