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“Come on! Let’s bet on it, Kaoru!”
“Don’t ever use that name again! Idiot!”
With a swift and sharp kick, Kaoru slammed his foot against Kojiro’s rear. Kojiro howled in pain, grabbing his behind and shifting from foot to foot. He hissed from the sharp sting and glared at Kaoru. “What the hell was that!?”
But Kaoru had his full attention back on the beef.
Kojiro growled. "Let's see how you like it!" Kojiro swung his leg back and pointedly kicked against Kaoru’s rear.
Kaoru yelped, the impact sending him a good thirty centimeters up in the air. He shuffled quickly to regain balance, before whipping back to Kojiro with a golden inferno raging in his eyes. “How dare you!”
“How dare me!?” Kojiro glared back with his own garnet flames. “You did it first!”
“You said that wrong thing!” Kaoru butted his forehead against Kojiro’s.
Kojiro thrust back. “You didn’t have to be violent!”
“You didn’t have to be violent back!”
Kaoru raised his hands, posed like claws, but Kojiro caught them. Foreheads and hands locked, they pushed and grappled against each other through gritted teeth.
“Stupid pink robot!”
“Bone-headed gorilla!”
“Nerd!”
“Gigolo!”
“Hairy Blossom!”
Kojiro dug his feet and shoved harder. He could feel it; Kaoru was slipping. Just a little more and-
Kaoru leaned towards Kojiro’s ear and whispered, “Sexy ape.”
There was but a stumble in Kojiro’s step and a slight loss of grip in his hands but that was all it took.
The next second, Kojiro found his back slammed against the ground and Kaoru’s foot pressed on his chest. Two slender but strong hands pushed at his shoulders; Kojiro grabbed Kaoru’s wrists. The two continued their scrimmage, Kojiro kicking fruitlessly, Kaoru looming menacingly, face edging closer and closer and…
Kaoru’s eyes darted from side to side.
Kojiro followed suit.
Everyone else was watching the screen.
Gold and garnet reunited, and two pairs of lips connected, quickly but fiercely.
“Save ‘Kaoru’ for tonight, when you’ll want to scream my name,” Kaoru breathed against Kojiro’s lips.
Kojiro inhaled sharply. “Okay.”
“But call me ‘Hairy Blossom’ again and you’re sleeping outside.”
“...Understood.”
Kaoru and Kojiro got themselves up and resumed watching the beef.
Just typical Joe and Cherry, as far as anyone else was concerned.