When morning finally came, Kise woke with a splitting headache and upset stomach. He didn't realize he had drank so much last night because he remembered every second of what had happened with Kasamatsu.

The thought of the short dark haired male made Kise turn over and groan into his pillow. He knew – someone knew who he was and the pit in Kise's stomach sank even lower. Senpai probably thought he was a baby now for running away or that he was irresponsible for having an affair or that he was disgusting for liking a man. Kise groaned again.

After taking the longest shower he's ever taken (he was only stopped because Takao kept bagging on the door to take a dump), Kise managed to pull on a fresh pair of clothing, his glasses and hat and exited the bachelor pad.

The walk to work was slow because the sun was too goddamn bright for seven in the morning and the birds were too loud. Kise wished he would have grabbed sunglasses and a pair of ear plugs from Takao's room (apparently Aomine snored really loud).

And, of course, it didn't help that right before he managed to make it to Kuroko's flower shop, the one and only Kasamatsu Jun was waiting for him, leaning against a broom, his green apron on but his earbuds wrapped neatly in his pocket.

"Yo Mr. Glasses." Jun stepped in line with Kise, blocking his way from the floral shop. "How was last night?"

Kise felt his heart stop. He remembered how he had made Kasamatsu-senpai pinky-promise not to tell anyone of Kise's true identity.

"F-Fine."

"Brother came home later than usual." Jun grinned, "He smelled of cigarettes."

"Yeah, so?" Kise was waiting for it, waiting for Jun to announce who Kise really was.

"He only smells of cigarettes when he's really stressed or when he meets someone he's nervous about." Jun didn't let Kise respond. "He normally doesn't smoke when he's with his friends. Last time he's came home smelling that much was after a marriage candidate date. Dad made him sleep in the back yard."

Kise stood there, speechless.

"I've got my eye on you two."

"Oi, Jun, get your ass in here and start restocking! We opened ten minutes ago!"

Kise stood in the middle of the road, unaware of the people that started moving throughout town during the early Saturday morning. Was Kasamatsu Jun, third year high school student, part-time worker at Kasamatsu Grocery and middle child of the Kasamatsu family, black-mailing him?

"Sorry about him," Kasamatsu-senpai brought Kise back to the real world, his voice harsh, "He's an idiot."

"I think he just threatened us."

"What?"

"He just told me that he had his eye on us."

"What the hell?"

"He thinks I make you nervous."

"What the fuck!" Kasamatsu was bright red and Kise thought for sure that steam was going to start erupting with smoke. "He said that? He fucking said that? When I get my hands on –"

Kise watched, open-mouthed, as Kasamatsu stomped back to his store, his face still bright red and his fist clenched in tight fists, and couldn't help but to laugh into the back of his hand at how utterly adorable Kasamatsu was being.

Somehow, watching his senpai storm into the grocery store, Kise felt at ease with whatever the situation was.

"Good morning, Kise-kun." Kuroko was already at the desk once Kise finally decide to enter the store. He had a thick blue quilt over his shoulders and the circles around his eyes were deeper, like he hadn't been sleeping properly. Even little Nigou seemed to be less than energetic as he laid in his doggy bed, head buried in his arms.

"Morning, Kurokocchi, would you like me to take over for today?" Kise had learned to read the signs and had only had to offer to take over a few times but each time Kuroko had refused.

So it didn't surprise Kise when Kuroko just shook him off and told him to start the morning inventory and sweeping.

The day went on in its normal lazy-Saturday way. Old women came in and chatted to Kuroko, insisting that he gets the latest dirt from his grandmother the next time he goes to visit her. Then came in Takao's younger sister with her friends, fluttering around Kise, trying their latest flirting techniques that they learned in all their magazines. Some middle-aged men came in, buying bouquets for forgotten birthdays, anniversaries or simple apologies. Finally, at one-thirty, Kise switched the sign to closed and watched as Kuroko took off down with road, on his way to the nursing home for his daily visit with his granny.

Kise finished taking stock and cleaning up around three and since he had nothing better to do, he exited the store, only to come face to face with a short, dark haired guy that looked a lot like the elder of the two Kasamatsu's.

The elusive Kasamatsu Hayato.

"Are you the Kise Ryouta?" He had large blue eyes and his hair was cut so short that if Kise didn't know he was a first-year in high school, he would have guessed he was face to face with a middle schooler – or even an elementary schooler. "Kise Ryouta, the mode-"

Regardless of the total baby faced Kasamatsu that stood before him, Kise quickly pressed his hand to the kid's mouth, his heart pounding out of his chest.

"What are you saying! Shh!" Kise whispered, not caring that few women stopped to stare at the scene before them.

"Mmphf!" The youngest Kasamatsu tried to break away from Kise's hand but he was weak to pull away. "Mmmmpfffh!"

"Hold on!" Kise pulled Hayato around the side of the floral shop into the alleyway, making sure to not loosen his grip for fear of his identity being released. Once they had made it to the back of the store, Kise finally let go of the younger. "What the hell are you doing saying that outloud?!"

"I could call Aomine-san and he could arrest you for kidnapping me." Kise could see how this cute little kid was related to Jun and Senpai.

"I didn't kidnap you. I just took you, like, a few yards away." Kise whispered-screamed, still self-conscious of wandering eyes and ears (although it was pointless considering the back of the floral shop was just a narrow alleyway by the Chinese restaurant). "Now why are you saying that outloud!"

"I just wanted to know if you are," Kasamatsu Hayato shrugged. "I've waited a whole month to ask you this."

"A whole month? Wait – you knew?!"

"Um, duh?" Oh yes, he was definitely related to Jun. "Brother brought home the latest magazine with your face on it the week you arrived and last night he drank like three bottles of beer and talked about you in his sleep. Jun told me that you were brother's Kouhai and I wanted to meet you."

"Wait, what are you talking about?!"

"Brother. Kasamatsu Yukio, you know him right?" Hayato suddenly looked really bored. "He said you were an idiot but…"

"Wait, he talks about me?!" Kise had the sudden urge to grab ahold of the mini-Senpai in front of him and twirl him around.

"I just told you, he was talking about you last night when he was really drunk. He wouldn't shut up about how annoying you were and how lame you looked with glasses on."

"Eh?"

"Jun told me it was because you make brother nervous but now that I see you, I don't really get it. Maybe it's 'cause your famous." Hayato shrugged, "I didn't tell Jun that though cause he doesn't know that you're a model. He's the dumb one."

"Wait, but he said this –"

"He just thinks you're a homo."

"Eh?!" Kise's previous feelings of happiness were soon forgotten as feelings of, well, Kise couldn't really describe the sort of emotion he was feeling at this moment, all he knew was that he wanted to strangle all three of Kasamatsu brothers. Hayato, Kise wanted to strangle because his stupid cute little face was hiding a mastermind evil genius that made Kise extremely uncomfortable. Jun, because he was just a little shit and made Kise nervous with his threats and annoying green apron. And Senpai, because, well, Kise didn't really have a good reason to strangle him but he was on a roll and didn't want to neglect the eldest brother.

"And according to the magazines, you are." Hayato grinned, wagging his finger at Kise. "So are you and brother gonna do it then?"

"Oh my god," Kise clenched his fists to kept himself in check. "I can't be having this conversation with a baby face like you."

And, with that, Kise pushed pas the deceivingly cute Kasamatsu Hayato and stormed his way to the grocery store.

"I've got my eyes on you!" Hayato called from the alley as Kise entered the entrance.

It wasn't hard to find Senpai; all he had to do was follow the voice that was yelling and calling whoever he was yelling at an idiot (whom, Kise guessed, was either Jun or the hyperactive Hayakawa that Kise found to be really funny but Senpai found to be really annoying).

Luckily, it was the latter and Kise wouldn't have to deal with the middle son for the second time that day.

Once Kasamatsu noticed Kise, he dismissed Hayakawa and the ADD brunette took off to complete whatever task he had apparently messed up on.

"Senpai, we need to talk."

"'Bout what?" Kasamatsu flipped through the clipboard he was holding, shaking his head as he looked at the numbers. "Could it maybe wait until we close?"

"You close at, like, nine." Kise followed Kasamatsu as he started moving absentmindedly through the aisles towards the stock room. They passed by Jun on the way but Kise refused to look at him. "And this is pretty urgent."

"If it's about last night, I already told you, I'm not going to tell anyone." Kasamatsu sighed, tucking his pen into his pocket as he pushed the door open into the back room.

"It's not about that – Senpai, can you just listen for a second?" Kise tried to grab ahold of Kasamatsu's arm but he was moving around too much, moving inventory from shelf to shelf and flipping through his clipboard every so often.

"Just keep talking, I'm listening." Kasamatsu mumbled, scratching at his chin as he concentrated on the inventory for the ramen.

"I met Hayato-kun just now."

"Oh, yeah, I won't let him work here because he's falling behind in his school work."

"We had a little chat."

"About what?" Kasamatsu crouched down and started rummaging around in a box labeled 'sauces.'

"Oh, I don't know, about you, about me, about us."

"Okay. That's nice."

Kise sighed, feeling a knot appear in his neck.

"No, I don't think you understand, would you like me to quote your brother?"

"That's nice." Kasamatsu repeated, obviously too concentrated on whatever the hell he was doing.

"Senpai." Kise now understood why he wanted to strangle Kasamatsu. "He thinks we're homos."

It was quiet for a moment and Kise counted in his head until a large bang erupted in the stock room.

"Ow!" Another bang as Kasamatsu hit his head again on the shelving as he tried to stand. "What the fuck?"

Kise watched, his arms crossed and lips pressed together, as Kasamatsu finally managed to stand, his clipboard and box of sauces long forgotten. He had a hand on his head where he bumped it but he was turning around his circles, his face bright red and his eyebrows were screwed downwards in anger.

"Are you fucking with me?" Kasamatsu didn't wait for an answer. "Oh my fucking god, are you serious right now? What the hell did they say to you? It was Hayato, wasn't it? He's a little fucking devil. You think Jun is bad, no way, he's just an idiot that follows whatever Hayato says… I already smacked Jun for telling you that I'm nervous around you. Like, what the fuck is that? I am not nervous! Wait, what did they say to you?"

Kasamatsu had both hands gripped onto Kise's collar by the time he was done yelling/ranting/rambling.

"Done?" Kasamatsu managed to get out a nod. "He said he knew who I was, and that Jun had no clue, and he asked me if we were gonna do it."

Kise couldn't help but laugh as a new wave of red came rushing onto Kasamatsu's face and ears. Although the situation wasn't exactly what Kise was expecting when moving to Namimori, it wasn't anything horrible. Sure, a little high school knew who he was, but he really didn't seem concerned with telling people about his true identity, all he seemed to care about was making his brother and Kise's life as uncomfortable as possible.

And, hey, Kise could admit that the man before him wasn't completely off his radar for attractive men.

Not that he was interested.

Nope.

No way.

Not interested in the angry little man in front of him that was cursing his younger brothers to hell.

No.

"I swear to god I'm going to skin him and then feed him to the wolves when I get ahold of him."

"Senpai, it's not that big of a deal, right?" Kise mumbled, suddenly remembering his worries about Senpai thinking he was disgusting for liking men. "We can just tell them that I'm not, um, homo for you?"

"That's not the problem here, you moron." Kasamatsu was still red. "I don't care if you like men or not, I care that they are being little shitheads and trying to ruin our lives."

Kise didn't know how to respond and just tried to nod as Kasamatsu continued to talk about how much he was going to hurt his siblings once work ended and they were in the protection of their own household.

As Kise walked home in a daze, he wondered if he would be accounted responsible for not calling child services if one of the two Kasamatsu brothers turned up face-down in the river bed the next morning.

Kise was just turning out of town, towards home, when Takao rushed by him on his bike. The weekends were the only time when Takao had off and it was a miracle to even get him out of bed without promise of alcohol or his favorite TV show, so to see him in such a hurry, awoke Kise from his daydream.

"Takao-kun! What's wrong?" Kise asked, suddenly worried when he got a good look at Takao's pale face.

"It's Mine-chan, he just called from the hospital." Takao tried to even his breathing. "It's Kuroko-san. He fainted on his way to the nursing home!"

Dun Dun Dun.

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