The Dawn of Our Love

Happily Together: Ranmaru

Ranmaru was getting tired of waking up every other morning to find Serin wandering around the dorms hungry and just waiting for someone to wake up and make her food. There were even other days when she'd try to make herself some simple microwaved food but only ended up burning it and nearly catching something on fire. After he had to rescue her the first few times, he figured that she was truly just waiting for him to wake up and make her food. He wasn't bothered by that most mornings, but there were some days he was up before everyone else and wasn't able to make food for the female. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to make sure Serin had food in the mornings left an odd feeling within him. He didn't like it and decided to finally do something about it.

"Serin!" The sudden yelling of her name caused the female to jolt and drop various papers she was holding. She momentarily glared at the male before she bent down to collect them. Ranmaru hadn't meant to cause her to drop things, so he bent down to pick up the papers that fluttered to his feet.

"I was just coming to find you Ran-Ran. I have some more of our song done and wanted to show you. It's why I woke up so late today." She seemed really excited about the work she'd done, however that wasn't what Ranmaru was after for that moment.

"I'll hear it later. You haven't eaten yet, right?" It was already past noon, but the female had only been awake for an hour, so Ranmaru could only assume she hadn't eaten.

"Of course I haven't."

"Good. Come with me." The male proceeded to grab her wrist and pull her along with him. Any questions from the female about what was going on was ignored by the silver-haired male, which infuriated the female.

"Ran-Ran, what's going on?" Her last question was finally answered by the opening of the kitchen door.

"I'm going to teach you how to cook."

"Um... That's not going to end well." Her statement was ignored by the male yet again, which caused her to glare at him. "Come on, I'm fine not knowing anything about cooking. I mean I've lived this long not cooking, haven't I?" It concerned Ranmaru how proud she sounded about that fact. He knew for certain that she lived alone before she arrived at Shining Entertainment, and he could only imagine the kinds of unhealthy foods the female consumed then.

"You shouldn't give up before you try."

"I'm warning you, this will end badly. You should make sure you have a fire extinguisher nearby."

Ranmaru should have listened to her warning. However, thankfully there was a fire extinguisher near them. Just like Serin predicted, it did go bad. She somehow caught the pan itself on fire. The food wasn't even in the pan, it had just been sitting on the stove to get it hot so they could begin cooking. It horrified both of them and caused Ranmaru to change his mind with trying to teach her how to cook.

"So... I'm still hungry..." Serin earned a glare for her comment, but it wasn't only her stomach that began to growl. "You're hungry too..."

"We've both been banned from the kitchen now."

"I did warn you." Ranmaru couldn't help but sigh at her comment. She was right, she had indeed warned him. "I guess we could go get something, I'll pay?"

"Let's go to my apartment." It was clear that it wasn't an option once Ranmaru spoke. He had no interest in going somewhere to get food when he could cook them food that was much better, plus he didn't have to deal with any fans on his day off.

His sudden declaration had caught her off guard. So, she was left standing there confused as the male walked away from her. However, she quickly snapped out of her stunned state and followed after him. Saying they would go to his place for food was the last thing she expected, but she welcomed it. If Serin was honest with herself, she wasn't happy about this just because of food, she had heard about all the bass guitars the male had. She had been wanting to see them for a little while now, so her want for food was temporarily forgotten.

It didn't take too long to get to his apartment. Ranmaru drove surprisingly fast, which was mostly due to him being extremely hungry at the moment since they never were able to get anything to eat before being banned from the kitchen. Once the pair got there and entered his residence, the female was led to the room where all his "girlfriends" were and told to just not break anything. Usually, Ranmaru would tell the girl to help him make food, but he'd had enough of nearly burning to death in one day, so he handled the food by himself.

Serin was in awe over all of the guitars and how different yet similar they all looked. She made sure to stay away from them and not physically come into contact with them since the last thing she wanted to do was hurt one of them. They were precious to Ranmaru and he was precious to her.

"Oh wow..." That thought had caused her face to burst out in a blush. She had been trying hard to not be too fangirl-ish around the silver-haired male. She was content with just being friends with him and she didn't want to scare him off or anything.

"Why is your face red? You look like a tomato." Serin spun around in shock to look at the male standing in the doorway.

"I... I don't know what you're talking about..."

"Sure," Ranmaru looked at her like she was crazy, but ultimately chose to ignore the obvious lie. "Food is ready. If your done doing whatever it is that you're doing, then come on."

Serin followed the male as she felt the redness fade from her face. Thankfully, the two were able to finally eat a peaceful lunch, even though it was now quite a few hours later than they'd originally planned. They didn't speak much through the meal, other than a few positive comments from Serin about how much she always loves eating Ranmaru's cooking. Once the pair was done eating, they cleaned up and headed to the room with all of Ranmaru's guitars once again.

"Why are you so fascinated with my bass guitars?"

"Well, these are a part of who you are, and you make such beautiful music with them." Serin's honesty caused not only her to blush, but the tops of Ranmaru's ears also turned red. She didn't notice it much to his relief, but it only got worse as she continued. "You also look really cool when you're playing them and you always look so much happier when they are around you. Plus, your style is awesome and they seem to compliment your personality and style pretty well."

Serin got no response, so she turned around to see what the issue was. She couldn't help but gasp at the sight. Ranmaru was turned slightly away from her and was covering most of his face with his hand. Under his pale hand, Serin could clearly see the redness of his blush that was covering his face.

"Ran-Ran, are you okay?" He simply held up his other hand and turned fully away from her. After a moment of collecting himself, he was able to face the female again, with a less blushing face.

"This isn't the first time I've ever heard someone say that to me, but for some reason it made me feel a lot different." Ranmaru opted to be honest about his feelings since Serin was so honest about hers.

"Can I ask you something?"

"What is it?"

"Do you... Do you like me? As in romantically?" The female walked over to him and looked up into his eyes. His eyes showed confusion and hesitancy, however, his actions spoke even louder than his eyes. Instead of using his mouth to respond to the girl, he leaned over and kissed her.

"Did that answer your question?" Serin, however, couldn't respond as her face turned fully red. It unnerved the male as he'd never seen someone turn that red before because of him. "Serin?"

"I'm fine!" She blurted out, causing Ranmaru to jolt. "Can you um... can you do that again?"

"I'll be doing that a lot more now since you're my girlfriend."

"As is a real girlfriend, or am I the same type of girlfriend as your guitars?"

"I don't kiss my guitars." Ranmaru seemed almost annoyed to have to say that, but his annoyance faded once his girlfriend began to giggle at his comment. He leaned back down to reconnect their lips but smiled internally. He wasn't sure how well it would all go, but he would put trust in this female and hope it didn't end as badly as his other relationships.