30-day OTP challenge: NaguSuzu

#2: Pet names

This was a pretty hard one for me to do :P and I think I failed a little aha ~.~ but oh well, I tried.

Also, I did want to publish a part a day, but I couldn't edit it in time yesterday so I guess you might see 2 updates from me today :D

I'm not sure but maybe this features Adult!NaguSuzu? Living together as boyfriends? Just read and you'll see ^^

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Suzuno would have liked to say that he'd been woken up by the pleasant smell of bacon and eggs, or a sweet kiss on the forehead from his boyfriend, or even just a simple, loving "Fuusuke". Instead, the thing that jolted him awake was an alarming series of crashes from the kitchen, followed by a string of colorful curses. What a great way to start off his Saturday.

Turning onto his side, Suzuno buried his face into the pillow, trying to fall back to sleep. He could feel drowsiness starting to take over again, until...

BANG!

BOING!

WHAM!

"F*CK!"

The gray-haired man sighed deeply before flipping the covers away and sitting up. Glancing at the digital clock by his bed, Suzuno groaned upon seeing that it was only 8:30 AM. Running a hand through his possibly cowlicked hair, he began to make his way to the kitchen. Now out of the bedroom, he could start to smell something dangerously similar to burnt toast.

"Nagumo?" Suzuno spoke as he entered the kitchen and took in his surroundings. On the floor were about a dozen pots and pans, scattered as if they had been piled up and just fell (they probably had); the countertop was covered with flour and milk and even whole raw eggs. And in the middle of it all was no other than his boyfriend, dusted with flour and standing paralyzed.

"Crap! Hi! Oh my god." Random words began to stream out of Nagumo's mouth. "I... I was just... You're not supposed to... Aren't you asleep?"

"Well, I was..." Suzuno chuckled lightly as the redhead raised a hand to push up the bangs falling into his face, only managing to put more flour onto himself. "Careful, there's broken glass on the ground."

"Oh... oh, god, I'm so sorry... this is... I really didn't mean to... um..." The redhead's speech was only getting more jumbled up. Suzuno stepped into the kitchen, thanking the heavens he wasn't wearing socks as he spotted the spilled milk on the ground, and towards his boyfriend:

"So, uh, what were you doing just now?"

There was an awkward moment of silence as they stood and stared at each other's faces. Then, entirely out of Suzuno's prediction, Nagumo started crying.

"Oh my god! Haruya... Baby, what's wrong?" The gray-haired male felt his chest filling up with worry as he quickly got to his boyfriend's side, careful to lead both of them away from the broken glass. Nagumo's body was shaking as he wept away in Suzuno's arms, dirty hands covering his equally dirty face. He choked out in between sobs:

"Fuuz, I'm sorry... I... I'm..."

"Hey, hey, it's alright. Everything's fine. Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Suzuno started to use his shirt sleeves to wipe the tears and flour off of the redhead's face, but he showed no sign of stopping. "Haruya, talk to me. What is it?"

"Nothing, it's nothing, I swear... I... I..."

"You can tell me, baby. I promise I won't get mad."

"I know!" Nagumo sobbed. "It's just... I don't even know... I don't even know why I'm crying! It... oh god, I'm sorry... I'm just blabbering and..."

"Sshhh, it's fine. It's fine." Suzuno pulled the redhead into a hug, planting a kiss atop his head. "You're just a bit frustrated. I get it. It's okay."

"But it's... it's not..." Nagumo seemed to have quieten down a little; he mumbled into Suzuno's shirt, his voice congested. "You don't know... you're not supposed to know what's happening..."

"And I still don't have a clue." The grayhead smiled as he rubbed soothing circles onto Nagumo's back. "But, considering the current situation, could you please tell me?"

A full minute of silence passed by, before the redhead's muffled voice came again:

"I was trying to, um... make you a surprise breakfast."

"Make me a surprise breakfast?" Suzuno couldn't help but laugh at this. "So that's what it was all about? The flour, and the eggs, and milk? Were you making pancakes or something?"

"Y-yeah... Well, more like trying and failing to." His boyfriend lifted his head from Suzuno's chest, his dark golden eyes red and puffy. Upon hearing Nagumo's ashamed tone of voice, the gray-haired male couldn't help but sigh:

"Awh, baby, it's alright. I'm already overjoyed to hear that you actually thought of this to make me happy! Especially when cooking isn't exactly your forte..."

"I know, I know..." Nagumo sighed as he took Suzuno's arms off from around himself, to which the grayhead had no objections to, since he knew how much his 'tough' and 'fiery' boyfriend hates to show any signs of weakness in front of other people, even those that are closest to him. "Ugh, I should have picked something else... This was a dumb idea."

"No! Don't talk like that!" The grayhead chided softly as he grabbed hold of Nagumo's hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze. "I appreciate the thought, honestly. In fact... in fact, I would be more than happy to help you with this little project!"

"Help? But that's cheating!" The redhead frowned. "This is supposed to be for you, so technically..."

"Well, next time, you can surprise me all you want. But to do that, you have to know what you're doing first. So do I have your permission to help?" Suzuno replied, and he found himself smiling as his boyfriend pouted:

"Fine, but just this once..."

And so the rest of their morning went by peacefully, albeit the occasional yelps of Nagumo, followed by amused laughs from Suzuno. Both of them wouldn't hesitate to agree, though, that even if no pancakes come to be in the end, they would still be content -- for all they really need, is each other.