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Who: Juudai and Yubel
Where: Ecruteak Inn
When: Morning of February 14th
Summary: Mostly fluff-snark, and two lovers getting along in the way that they do. Also, surprises to be had.
Rating: PG-ish, I guess. Maybe a little higher if they start getting more physical than kissing, but I doubt it.
Log:

It was about ten AM, an hour reasonably late enough for all the sane, productive people to be awake.

Juudai was not one of those people; not today, anyway. Sometimes, maybe he could manage being a sane, productive person, but today, he just didn't feel like it. He shifted, somewhere in the layers of tumbled sheets and hotel pillows, just enough to figure out the other side of the bed was vacant. Yubel was up, apparently, doing who the hell knew what. But still, he thought, even if she was up, he should be allowed to sleep in every once in a while.

...Valentine's Day or not.

Not like she wouldn't come pester him and drag him out into the waking world eventually. It was just a matter of time, so until then, he was going to stubbornly lay there and conserve all the energy he could.

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Yubel had spent most of her waking time that day trying to make chocolate. She'd been up since just before the sun to get started and had finally succeeded. Well, in all truth, she'd succeeded earlier. It was making edible chocolate that she'd finally triumphed at, and with a bag in tow, she entered their room and made a beeline for Juudai.

"Juudai!" She prodded his neck with the tips of her fingers. "Time to get up!"

"No it's not," Juudai moaned, covering his neck protectively with the comforter. He heard the rustling of a bag, and let his eyes drift upwards to look briefly, blinking a few times to make his vision slightly less bleary. But then he tugged the blanket right over his head again and curled up tighter.

More than likely, though, he was just being obstinate to be a pain as opposed to genuinely being tired enough to keep sleeping.

Yubel knew Juudai sometimes better than he knew himself and she knew he was more than ready to get up. He just didn't want to right now. Well, that wasn't going to work.

She didn't waste her time with threats, though. She eyed where his head was, then worked two fingers in, searching for his ear. One or two good thumps there should at least get him talking to her.

At that point, he knew instinctively there was no escape, but Juudai declined to move anyway until she was actually grabbing his ear and pulling him out of bed that way.

"Ow, ow, ow! Dammit! Alright, alright!"

With a great deal of exaggeration, he rolled out of bed and landed on his rear, sitting up ruefully and running a hand through his hair. "I wasn't really sleeping, you know," he said, feigning irritation and starting to stand up, "but damn, it's cold once you get out of the nice warm sheets..."

Yubel stood back, hands on her hips, and smirked at him. "Of course I knew you weren't sleeping. Did you really think I wouldn't?" She grinned even more. As if that had anything to do with getting him up when he needed to be up.

She didn't look at her bag of chocolate just yet, though. He'd get it, when she was ready for him to get it.

"So what's the occasion that you just had to have me awake for?" he asked innocently once he was standing, but the smirk on his face told her he knew exactly why she woke him up. Though perhaps he was expecting something entirely different from what she had actually planned for him... that bag made him wonder, though, and he eyed it with curiosity and a sly smile and tilt of his head.

Looking down at her instead of up, though, would never cease to be an odd thing to him.

Yubel would have much preferred to have her own true form back, but since that didn't appear to be possible here, she made do with what she had.

Oh, so he thought he knew, hm? She looked forward to surprising him. "I know you've heard about this holiday today." He probably knew more about it than she did, though she doubted he'd really cared that much before now. For many reasons.

"Have I?" he asked facetiously. A dumb question, certainly, but he was just harmlessly playing around with her. Besides, this was the one where girls were supposed to give things to the men in their lives... and White Day a month from now was the one where the debt was repaid, if he remembered right. Not that he'd ever really done much for White Day in the past, since there had never been any debts that needed to be repaid from Valentine's anyway.

"...Okay, so maybe I have. It's a day when some guy got murdered or something, and everybody thinks it's romantic for some reason," Juudai acquiesced, then shrugged. "And chocolate and flowers and cards got thrown into the mix at some point, too."

Edited 2011-02-15 03:45 (UTC)

Yubel hadn't heard about the getting murdered part, but suffering for love was something she understood in her bones. She decided she liked this holiday just a bit more because of that.

She reached over and picked up the bag, offering it to Juudai. "I made this for you." Her voice was a touch gruff when she spoke, but she could only hope that he liked it. She'd certainly tried her best.

...Wait. She actually made something? Ahead of time, without being prompted by him specifically? That was... new. When the words sunk in, Juudai looked genuinely surprised at the offer -- quite pleasantly, though. He took the bag with a smile, not about to tell her no, and peered inside, then reached in to pull out whatever it contained.

Yubel seldom admitted she was nervous or bothered by anything. A guardian couldn't let on what they felt most of the time. But she was nervous about Juudai's reaction.

Miniature chocolate roses were inside the bag, a dozen of them. She'd always had an affinity for flowers, and when she'd found miniature chocolate rose molds, she'd bought them at once. They at least looked all right and she hoped they tasted all right.

Juudai stared at the roses, temporarily dumbfounded. He looked up at Yubel after a while of just looking at the candy and then broke out into a huge grin.

"Hope they taste as nice as they look, hehe. I hate to eat something so pretty, though," he said, only really half-joking. He pulled the bag back and nibbled on one of the chocolate petals, taking a moment to deliberate, but quickly making his final decision apparent when he smiled at her warmly. "Yeah, it's chocolate, all right. Unless you added a secret ingredient I should know about?"

Yubel's eyes twinkled with mischief at him. "Of course I did." She paused only for a heartbeat, for the effect of it. "The secret ingredient is arsenic."

Juudai stopped chewing for a moment, gave her a sideways look... and then went right back to eating again, his smirk getting a little wider.

"Liar."

She couldn't help but laugh at that. He knew her so well, after all. "Well, maybe next time." She grinned; cooking wasn't her forte at all, but that was why she'd worked so hard on these chocolates.

"Next time you'll just add salt and pepper and whatever else isn't poison in the kitchen to the damn thing, then claim it's poisoned again. And that'll work just as well as it did this time."

Juudai looked thoughtful for a moment after that, then pulled out one of the flowers and offered it to her. "Hey, you should try these too, they're good. I think you've earned your share of some, anyway. And if I have to get poisoned by them, so do you." He grinned his taunting grin again. He knew what she'd probably try to do to anyone who tried to poison him for real, though, and it would involve varying amounts of pain and death, among other unpleasantries.

Yubel eyed it for a moment, then accepted it, sniffing at it. It did smell somewhat good, she guessed. She hadn't tasted it herself. He likes them, she reminded herself, and began to lick around the rose petals.

And indeed, if anyone had ever tried to poison him in truth, Yubel would shred them into unrecognizable bits.

Juudai wasn't particularly surprised she hadn't tried her own cooking, but then again, his palate was a more than a bit wider than hers. Still... chocolate was a universal treat for just about everyone, so it was hard to imagine that she wouldn't like it. Besides, it was hard to mess up, unless one did something like forget an ingredient -- but he wasn't about to ask how she'd undoubtedly screwed it up in the first few attempts.

"What spurred this, anyway? Did you just suddenly decide you wanted to play along with the holiday?" he asked between bites. She was like him; when they decided they wanted to do something, they did it, come hell or high water.

Yubel shrugged as she licked the petals some more. It really was kind of good. Maybe not something she'd want on a regular basis, but for a treat, yes.

"I was talking to someone on the 'gears and making something for you started to sound interesting. It's not as if I need a special day to tell you I love you, you know. But making something for you..." That wasn't something she did every day, and never would.

"Heh, yeah, I know that. Still, though..." Juudai put a hand on her shoulder and let his fingers creep around to the back of her neck, playing with the ends of her hair, "I really appreciate the thought. A lot. I didn't actually expect you to do something like this."

Yubel smiled a little, feeling the heat of his fingers against her. "Then I'm glad I could surprise you." That only said a small part of what she really felt. While she longed for the complete union of their souls that this place denied them, being separate did give the chance for surprises like this.

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