#[ and afterwards Eishi had to help Rindou out of the couch because she got stuck...again. lol ]

[justaramblingromantic]

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Characters/Pairing: Kobayashi Rindou and Tsukasa Eishi/EiRin

Type: Canon compliant, Post-series, Canon-divergent AU, Peerless-verse, Freestyle

Word Count: 606

A/N: Ever listened to a song that randomly gave you so much feels you’re scrambling to write something for the OTP before it goes away again? Yeah, that was how this drabble came to be. 

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She was happily digging into her yogurt when he came home that night. She made a rather comical sight, balancing the large, low fat, family sized tub on her protruding middle as she sat on the couch in the living room.

“Welcome back,” she chirped, apparently in a good mood. She was always in a good mood when she had something to eat. He dropped his keys on the end table by the hallway and wandered towards her. He looked tired and just a tad frazzled, so she petted the cushion beside her and invited him to sit.

He slogged over and plopped down on the sofa unceremoniously. He usually possessed more grace and decorum than that, so his actions spoke for his level of exhaustion. Rindou reached out and tousled his hair. Without a word, he turned his face into the side of her neck and breathed her in. She craned her head and let him rest against her.

“Long day?” Her fingertips lazily scraped against his scalp, and he sighed, exhaling at the contact. His arm snaked around the back of her expanded waist, palm splayed flat against the side of her swollen belly, quietly caressing her. She snuggled happily into his touch.

“Mm,” he mumbled against her skin, just content to hold her. She was soft and warm and smelled so subtly sweet. It was nice to come home to her like this.

She let him do as he pleased, and continued to tuck into her tub of yogurt and watch her show. He’d perk up and start becoming more coherent once he was good and ready.

Sure enough, he stirred after a while, nose twitching as he raised his head a bit to investigate what she was eating.

“What are you having?” he asked. “You didn’t put strange things in there again, did you?”

He really was such a worrywart. In response, she scooped a spoonful of her yogurt and fed him. “Taste for yourself; I’ve been good! It’s all the boring stuff that you’ve been nagging me to eat more of.”

Sure enough, it was a fairly regular mix of muesli, granola, nuts, chia seeds and frozen berries. This time, it was his turn to lift his hand and pet her on the top of her head. “Good girl.”

She mock scowled at him. “Are you patronizing me, mister?”

“I’m not. Give me more. I’m hungry too.”

“Eh? Why must I? Why are you stealing food from a pregnant woman?” She sounded rather offended as she hugged the tub of yogurt possessively to her chest, and he looked equally offended by her unwillingness to share.

“I’ve been working hard to support this family, haven’t I?”

“I’ve been working really hard too! I’ve been 3D printing a baby for more than half a year; it’s a lot of effort!”

Despite all that protesting, she did deign to share her snack with him even as she muttered. They sat there and took turns with the spoon. Eishi seemed in danger of nodding off again.

“Everything okay?” she asked. He nodded sleepily against her.

“Mm.” Then he groaned. “I don’t want to open another restaurant ever again.”

She snorted at his remark. “It’s tough being a perfectionist, huh.”

He squeezed her in retaliation. “Are you going to nag me now, woman.”

She tugged lightly at his snowy white hair, amused by his disgruntlement. “Who are you calling a nag, you grumpy old man?”

“I’m not old; my hair is just naturally white,” he muttered in protest. It wasn’t anything that she hadn’t heard before. She cackled.

“That excuse’s not gonna hold forever, you know.”

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