[Kasuka's POV]

The actor hummed to himself as he kept scrolling through recipes, having no clue what to make. He had a lot of extra stuff in his kitchen because of care packages, once again being sent to get him as a guest on something that wasn't exactly beneficial to his career, and he had to think of something to use the items for.

He could feel Izaya's chin resting on his shoulder as he watched the screen as well, letting Kasuka tilt his head to rest his own against his boyfriend's hair. "How about these?" Kasuka finally asked, stopping on chocolate macaroons since they looked good and he had tasted some before himself.

"Kasuka, I said nothing sweet!" Izaya immediately protested, the word chocolate in the title obviously making him grumpy.

"It's not too sweet, don't worry. You're only supposed to use dark chocolate - really, really dark chocolate - and you don't use too much sugar either, it'll be fine." the actor explained, giving him a kiss on the cheek to see if it would sway his boyfriend's decision. There was pouting for a moment as Izaya glanced at him, until finally the informant sighed. "Alright, fine. But I'm only having a couple." the ravenett concluded, moving so Kasuka could set the laptop onto the opposite counter and look at the recipe to get the ingredients.

"If you like them though, you can have all of them and I'll just force you to help me make some more." the actor replied, seeing Izaya roll his eyes at him before failing to fully conceal a smile. He'll have fun.

After everything was out, Izaya slid out of his place on top of the table, moving to stand beside his boyfriend and look at everything. "What do we do first?" Izaya muttered, obviously trying to act like he really hated the idea of cooking.

"We're supposed to.. line two baking sheets with parchment paper, which I have… And have a pastry bag with a half-inch tip. Which I don't have.." Kasuka said slowly as he read the instructions, reading through some of the suggestions as well as he went, which was why he was reading so slowly.

"Then we have to go get one right? Let's pick something else to make." Izaya said beside him, looking at alll of the ingredients and thinking it couldn't be too hard to make something else with all of it.

"No, it says here we can make one. And we're going to need almond powder, but I only have regular almonds… I'll do the bag while you mash them or the other way around, kay?" he asked, turning to look at his boyfriend. The informant was already grabbing the almonds from their place so he assumed he'd gone with the first option. Kasuka did his own assignment, finding a freezer bag and cutting a hole in the tip, making sure it was big enough before glancing over at Izaya. He'd been quiet for the last couple minutes besides the sound of almonds being crushed, but when he turned around he saw why - his boyfriend was currently trying to hold in a smile and laugh as he crushed them, switching between rolling over them with a rolling pin and using it to whack them inside a bag so they would be a fine enough powder as needed. It was like watching a small child be easily amused with drawing silly faces in the sand.

"So, enjoying yourself?" Kasuka finally asked as he was almost done, grinning to himself when Izaya jumped and hit the almonds harder than before in his surprise.

"No, why would you think that?" the informant retorted, blushing lightly from being caught in his moment of childish amusement. Kasuka came closer and looked over his work before giving him another peck on the cheek and pouring the now-powdered-almonds into a small bowl.

"It's alright to enjoy yourself, ya know. This might be a good hobby for you if you get bored and I'm not around." Kasuka added, looking at the instructions again before pouring the almond powder, sugar, cocoa powder and salt into a smoothie maker, his makeshift food processor then turning it on.

"Why are you doing that?" "You need to mix them up so the macaroons all taste the same." "It looks like you put chalk in there instead of fruit."

Kasuka just shook his head for a second as he read ahead in the instructions, feeling Izaya leaning against his back as he did, either reading as well or just pressing against him to ease his boredom. Either way he just enjoyed the closeness for a moment until the powder was done; he sifted it, set it aside and started on the next part, glancing at the recipe every couple minutes to make sure he didn't screw up. The entire time Izaya was still close to him or hovering near him, almost making him nervous that he would screw something up before glancing at him and noticing that he wasn't staring at him for attention, but instead having his full attention on what Kasuka was doing to help make their treat.

"You want to try?" the actor suggested, stepping away from the bowl in front of him that he was mixing and watching Izaya snap back to attention before shrugging and moving towards it.

"I guess. You make it sound hard, it's just mixing." the informant huffed, copying what the ravenett had been doing a moment ago and finally making Kasuka grin again. Izaya had started glancing at the computer as well when he noticed it didn't look exactly like the picture after a couple minutes of doing it.

"Here, lemme help." Kasuka laughed, already feeling the glare on him within half a second but it stopped when he got behind him and wrapped his arms around him, taking his hand and doing a different motion than before to try and make it easier. "Better?"

"Hmph.." Izaya refused to look at him now that he was pressed up against his back instead, but the actor just kept close to him, smirking to himself as he realized he was doing something almost every cheesy movie brought up at some point. It was fun though and he could see why people did it. They stayed like that for another minute before Kasuka only moved away to grab some cream and add it into the mix so it wouldn't just be a dry mass. They finished that step and moved on until they were ready to put their batter onto the cookie sheets.

They each got a bag, Kasuka making another one for him quickly so Izaya could do it as well, before each getting their own trays to spread their macaroon bases out on. If one comment could be made about the outcome, it was that Izaya was much better at making his treats look professional. Almost none of Kasuka's looked equal to each other and he was almost certain that they would bake into one another while in the oven, but Izaya's batch looked just like the picture shown to him, all equal and in neat rows.

"You should be on a cooking show, not a drama.." "Shut up, I'm just following the instructions! At least mine will bake properly.." "But mine have personality~"

Kasuka earned a jab in the side at that comment before he moved to put their trays in the oven, sighing as they looked at each other. "We still have more to make if they're gonna be right."

"How much more do we have to do!?" "Not much, just follow my lead." Izaya sighed dramatically and followed behind him as he moved onto the next step, thankfully the making of the ganache being much simpler.

It was only 10 minutes later that the filling was done and all they were waiting for was for the bases to be done and cooled, giving them almost a whole other hour to themselves just for kissing and giggling as Kasuka pressed his boyfriend against the counter. "Kasu-kun, cut it out~ If we don't stop then they're going to burn, just like everything you make." Izaya commented, getting a grin in return.

"You weren't complaining about my cooking when I made us dinner a couple days ago. Or a week before that, or-" "Get off your high-horse Kasu-kun, I already said I don't cook.. But thank you for not letting me starve myself on accident." "Any time."

Kasuka rested his head on Izaya's shoulder after that, both of them drifting into silence again as they cuddled where they were. He definetly didn't want to move when the oven beeped to let them know he needed to take the trays out, staying where he was for a moment until Izaya nudged him.

"We can cuddle anytime you want, quit being a baby." "But I'm your baby." "You're a grown-ass man, don't do that."

The actor finally pushed away and got them out of the oven, making sure everything was fine and trying to go back into their previous position, only being stopped by his boyfriend now being on top of the counter and leaning back against a cabinet, looking uncomfortable but half asleep where he was sitting. Well, he did say he had a lot of assignments before this. It's no wonder he's tired too.

The ravenett just smiled to himself as he pulled a sleepy boyfriend into his arms and walked him out into the living room, laying him on the couch and draping a blanket over him before snuggling with him on top of it. Izaya fell asleep quickly with the help of his murmuring and warmth, leaving Kasuka on his own half an hour later when he got up to completely finish the macaroons himself, putting them into the fridge and coming back out to sleep beside his lovely informant again.

Kasuka pressed a kiss onto the other's lips softly before drifting to sleep beside him, thinking they could do this together a lot more often.

Chapter 40!

Alright, so lots of fluff and domestic in this chapter, and I love it~

Of course, Kasuka being the one in movies would know instantly that he was being super cliche and cheesy, but who cares? Iza-chan loves it~

I picked macaroons just because I've actually made some before (didn't come out very well, but I made them!) and they aren't too sweet either, so they can still be fluffy and bake together without Izaya throwing up their creation!

Let me know if you guys want another fluffy chapter or not before getting on with the story, I really wanna know and wouldn't mind at all giving you guys your fluff-fix before heading off into plot-line territory again ^^

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