Roadtrip // Kubokai

Beach Day

Despite having a skinny physique, Kaidou Shun was a total food lover. When a sweet smell of burnt sugar and vanilla extract entered his nose, he immediately woke up and looked around to find the source.

He quickly realized that the smell was coming from the kitchen. He turned to his right and saw Nendou still sleeping. He smiled slightly and got out of his futon.

He gladly followed the smell, and when he entered the kitchen, he was quite surprised to see his best friend Kuboyasu's standing by the stove and flipping the fluffiest pancakes he has ever seen.

"Good morning Aren" Kaidou leaned against the doorway and crossed his arms on his chest. Kuboyasu put the last pancake on the plate and turned to Kaidou.

"Hello" his voice was still deep and sleepy "Sorry if I woke you up"

Kaidou shook his head and came up to his friend. Kuboyasu put some vegetables and mushrooms in the bowl and put it under a stream of warm water.

"I didn't know you can cook"

"Of course I can!" He laughed and got the cutting board out of one of the upper cabinets.

"Makes sense actually" he shrugged his shoulders "The only time I saw you cooking was when we were making pancakes in class but let's just say... I was a bit too busy to pay attention"

Kuboyasu smirked knowing that "too busy" was quite an understatement. Although it also wasn't true. Kaidou was aware of that one time he caught himself staring at his best friend, instead of focusing on the batter.

He was following every tiny hand movement. Mindlessly looking and forgetting about everything around him, just like right now.

There's nothing wrong with that, right? I just want to somehow learn how to cook. It's not my fault that Aren happened to be good at it.

In reality, nobody even noticed his behavior. The only person he was excusing from was himself.

"Oh fuck!" Kuboyasu's resonant voice woke him up from overthinking. Kaidou turned his head. The next thing he saw was a knife falling on the ground and bouncing off with a loud clash "Shit! Shit!"

For the first few seconds Kaidou could only stand there in confusion, but when blood started pouring out of his best friend's clenched fist, he knew he had to do something.

"What happened?" he asked and started looking around.

"I cut myself!" Kuboyasu hissed in irritation.

"Oh my... Let me find some band-aids!"

"It's okay" Kuboyasu said with calm voice and straightened up "It's not a big cut. The medicine cabinet is there, on my right"

Kaidou nodded his head and immediately went for searching for some band-aids and something to disinfect the wound.

Five minutes later he was sitting on a chair in front of Aren, holding his palm in both of his heads. He used cotton wards soaked in warm water to clean the cut, which was fortunately pretty small. It still bled a lot, so instead of using just a small band-aid, Kaidou wrapped his friend's hand in bandage.

"It looks like you tried to peel off your skin!" Kaidou tried to laugh about the situation, despite feeling really disgusted. He did it to cheer up Kuboyasu, who seemed miserable "You have to be more careful!"

But it wasn't the injure he was so worried about.

I've just completely embarrassed myself! I just wanted to impress him with my cooking skills and ended up looking like an idiot!