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Shinichi woke up in a vaguely unfamiliar room.
For a moment, he blindly reached for his bedside lamp, until...
...his hand fell upon a face. Then it all rushed back to him, yesterday's events, the revelations, and the lingering awkward silence. He had fallen asleep tending to his kohai, didn't he...?
Softly, he got up (for some reason, he wondered if he always got up this way or if he was doing it for Kuroba - Shinichi suspected the later), and tip-toed to the kitchen. He already found some porridge yesterday, so all there was left to do was add water, cook it, and wait. Shinichi also brought a fresh cooling pad and some basic flu medication upstairs with him.
Still it was hard not to wonder why he was doing all this sometimes.
The detective gently fed his kohai the porridge and medicine, gently brushing his hair aside and replacing the cooling pad.
Shinichi knew a lot about human nature, having to regularly deal with it for all sorts of cases. Lies, affection, betrayal, despair, and so many more of the never-ending faces of humanity were already well-understood. He knew about Kuroba's emotions. He knew that staying longer would only hurt Kuroba more if March rolled around and the detective's reply was in the negative.
In that case, wouldn't it be better to just leave now?
Still, there was something that glued him here, as he watched Kuroba's sleeping face.
So Shinichi took care of his kohai for the rest of the day, returning home when the fever had subsided.
"Goodnight, Kuroba," he said, after finding his kohai unexpectedly asleep in the middle of a conversation.
Somehow, his home's library, the usual stack of case files, and a mystery novel were no longer enough to satisfy him.
And roses bloomed larger, expanding to fill the sky with the dazzling reflections of the moonlight.
AN: Sorry for the belated and super-short chapter... I hope everyone enjoyed reading the fluff though (I got stuck reading Junjou Romantica, so it'll be more honeyed than usual)! Please review, and feel free to give any suggestions!