Mint Chocolate Cookies (World trigger)

Confines

"Kage! Your boyfriend is texting you!" Ema called from his spot on the couch, to lazy to get up.

"OH! Is Inukai done with his baking?! Those cookies were awesome!" Nire smiled, cuddled under her Kotatsu.

Kage swore lightly, something along the lines of "Fuck you all, I want to throw you all face first into the sun, and I'll laugh as your faces are incinerated you sick fucks."

He sighed, and tried to snatch his phone off the table, which bright screen had been within Ema's view. Unluckily, Ema's hand got there first.

"Gimme that."

"Awe, not denying that he's your boyfriend? Wow, somebody's gone soft!" He teased, distractedly. His nose buried in a book of some kind.

"He's not my boyfriend! Dear lord, now gimme my phone!"

Ema held it out. "Not until you say you like him!"

Kage growled, and somehow managed to wrestle his phone out of Ema's hands, and grab it.

"Why the hell would I?"

"You've been sparring with him a lot recently." Zoe offered, helpfully. "And talking with him."

"He keeps baking us cookies, whatever you did to help him has surely been payed back by now, right?" NIre grinned devilishly.

"You got his number." Ema finished off, eyes still scanning the page, though he doubts Ema's processing the words, and only using it as a cloak to hide under while he bashed on him. "You seem to be friends with him, at the very least."

"Whatever." Kage growled. "What would you guys know anyways? He's just... nice on my head, okay?"

"Oh, so he likes you back?"

"No!"

Nire laughed, and Ema didn't contribute, maybe supposing he had been teased enough.

"Come on Kage, we're proud of you!" Zoe chortled.

"It's not like that!"

But his growls of protest were in vain, as he tapped the notification and thumbed open his lock screen.

Suddenly, his phone was plucked out of his hands by Zoe, and Kage blinked.

"Hey, fuck you!" he yelped, as Zoe wore a shit eating grin, and dangled the device out of his reach.

"Gimmie that!"

But Zoe was one of the tallest people he knew, so most resistance was in vain, and was only to satisfy himself.

Zoe squinted at the already opened messages, holding it out of a scrabbling Kage's grasp.

"Hey Kage" Zoe read outloud.

"Gonna drop off some more cookies now, if you're at the squad room, and I wanted to know if you might wanna hand out?"

"Gimmie that you son of a bitch!"

"I have an extra movie ticket and nobody else wants to come with me, I was hoping you might be available."

"OH!" Nire exclaimed "Kage, you were asked on a date~!"

"Fuck you!"

"It looks like it!"

"I will shove you into a pit of hellfire once we all die!"

Ema hummed from his spot on the sofa, noting what was happening, neither helping nor hurting Kage.

"Ema! Come on, back me up!"

"Inukai is gay."

"What?! I- HEY!"

His squad burst out laughing, and Kage was about to punch them, before turning his back to Zoe.