Rintori fluff. About 2,714 words. Enjoy.
"-Senpai!"
Dammit.
With that word, Rin sighs. He'd pulled the senpai card. He'd have to go with Ai now. He couldn't say no when he did that.
I just wish the little shit knew how much he's able to get me to do with that one word...
"Please?" Ai gets on his knees in front of Rin and he gulps, blushing despite himself.
"...Fine. But I don't understand why you want me to go with you to a family gathering," Rin says irritably, and before the smaller boy can get out a, "thank you, senpai," Rin says, "I mean, it's a family gathering, not a 'bring a friend to hang out with your family gathering'."
"I- I wanted to bring you because my mom and dad want to know how my swimming is! They won't believe me when I tell them anything, so I asked you to come along because you're the one who knows most on how good I am and how bad I am. You can give them an honest answer." Ai says, embarrassed. It's a blatant lie, and Rin knows it's; all the tells are thereHe couldn't have refused, even of he'd wanted to. Rin's cheeks tinge pink as he's pulled into a hesitant embrace. "Thank you for agreeing to go with me, senpai!"
Rin just grumbles and blushes, pushing Ai away before his thoughts catch up with his body. "Yeah yeah, I'm only staying for a bit, then I'm catching a cab back, ok?"
"O- of course, senpai! I wouldn't want to impose."
"Of course you wouldn't," Rin mutters to himself, "That's part of your charm."
"E- excuse me senpai?"
"Nothing, Nitori. Just get whatever you need and call the cab. I'm ready to go when you are."
"Yes senpai!" Ai nods meticulously before rushing to his bunk and grabbing his Samezuka jacket and his cellphone. "Ready?"
"As I'll ever be."
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"Aichirou, sweetie, how nice it is to see you again," A young woman, whom Rin assumed was Ai's mother, approaches them immediately as they step out of the cab. Rin turns to pay the driver as Ai meets more and more family members, and hugs get distributed.
"Aichirou," Ai's father nods at him and Ai stands firm as he nods back. "I suspect boarding school is doing well for you? I see you've made a friend,"
"D- dad! I have more friends, it just seemed imprudent to bring everyone..." Ai blushes and Rin's eyebrows raise in question. Surely, he'd be more talkative in a familiar environment...
"And who are you, young man?" Ai's mother, who hadn't noticed Rin earlier, turns from pinching her son's cheek to inspecting Rin carefully. "One of Aiichirou's boyfriends?" Boyfriends? She giggles as Ai lets out an exasperated "Mother!" She says to a flustered Rin, "We sent him to Samezuka so he'd quit picking up every boy he saw and breaking their hearts, but I see that's not the case."
"Mom!" Ai flushes pink, ignoring the two-year-old latched on his leg trying to get his attention.
"Ai and I are just friends," Rin says, forcing a smile at Ai's mother, "I'm his roommate, actually."
"Oh," Ai's father looks Rin up and down thoughtfully, his eyebrow raising as Rin realizes he's called the younger boy 'Ai.' "So you're the infamous Maksouka-senpai our son always talks about,"
Rin blushes, shooting a look at Ai, who was looking more flustered than he'd ever been.
"I- I don't talk about you that much, senpai..." He mutters, though the permanent blush on his cheeks spraja otherwise.
