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It was a quiet morning today, with only the sounds of birds chirping near the kitchen window. Rantaro was the first awake while tenko was still sleeping in her room, he headed downstairs still in his pajamas, it was a Saturday and he didn't have plans for today. Well, he did plan on having a bowl of cereal, purely cause he didn't felt like cooking anything.
Rantaro yawns while opening the fridge, there he saw the milk carton, grabbing it and shutting the door, though once he did he raised his brow at how light it felt, Like...Really light…Just to be sure he gave a quick shake shake silently hoping he was wrong, but alas just as he thought it was empty. He sighed, just as he was about to throw away the carton he heard footsteps. they were tenko's who had finally woken up.
"Good morning tenko." he greeted softly, an attempt to not startle her so early in the morning but that fails anyways.
She'd flinched as if she didn't noticed rantaro was here before walking in…which might've actually been the case. "...Good, morning..." she begrudgingly mumbles, he gives her a soft smile and she squints at him in response, giving a quiet "Hmph." before removing her glare from him and heading towards whatever she originally came in for.
Still smiling at her as his gazed stayed on her for a moment before blinking away, remembering his own reason for being in the kitchen this morning, he frowned as he looked back at the carton, then back at tenko, pondering before he spoke. "Oh tenko, do you happen to know where all the milk went, it's empty." he asked with a bit of playfulness in his tone, while raising the carton up waving it a little.
"Empty?…what are you talking about? I just had som-" she paused, having a brain blast to the past in that very moment.
Flashback
Yesterday Morning…
Tenko was humming as she skipped over to the fridge, opening the door, she grabbed the milk then pour some into her bowl. While doing that she heard her phone's reminder go off and glanced at it before gasping, she then quickly put the cap on and threw back the now empty carton in the fridge, swiftly closing the door and rushed back to the table.
"Better eat up fast!, so I can continue my aikido training and then I can meet with himiko!" she then began eating with determination, all while completely forgetting and not caring about the carton as she'd fantasized and giggle about her plans for that day.
Flashback Ending
Her faced dropped into true horror as she gasped, acknowledging her failure yesterday. Tenko did not want to admit such a mistake, especially to a...a male, she's more horrified of the fact that he's the one to point it out and she ends up blushing red out of shame. Rantaro upon noticing her blush began to chuckle, which caused her to flinch into defense clearly offended by his reaction.
"Are you really embarrassed over a simple slip?" He asked laughing gently, founding it quite humorous that she appears generally flustered over a little slipup he and others probably have done before.
"Gah!…Of course I'm embarrassed!," She pointed her finger almost accusingly at the man. "I'm embarrassed because I am being mocked by you, a degenerate! hmph!" She swiftly turned back, stumping towards the kitchen's entrance while mumbling under her breath. Rantaro's laughter eased, seeing her leave his cool weared off as he started to get a little worried that he took it a little too far.
"Uh, wait tenko, where are you going?"
She paused and raised a brow at him. "Huh?, I'm going to get more milk duh!" She responded as if he was being a dolt and that it should be obvious.
"You're going now?" He questions again, taking a second to check the time on his phone.
She grumbled, getting annoyed by his little questions, again swiftly pointing her finger towards his direction with the same chiding look, "Look here!, since this is a mistake that I made, I've decided to the right thing and going to right my mistake," she declares, before grumbling out. "…Plus I don't want a male like you to continue mocking me..."
Confused about her sudden passion to right her…mistake. He ponders for a moment before responding "Oh…well, then I'll come along too!"
Tenko's stance falters "Wha…what?!"
"I'll come along too," he repeated, "I don't want to just wait here hungry…plus it's nice outside, it'll be good to take a short walk together" He explains while peaking over his shoulders towards a window, he sees a small bird tweeting by the seal.
She flinched at the word 'together', stunned silent for a moment before she regained herself and respond. "...Fine!…d-d-do what you please, I don't care!" she shouts while fleeting the kitchen, heading straight for the stairs. Rantaro watches as she leaves with a smile and lightly chuckles at her flustered reaction as he reaches for the carton again, momentarily forgetting and realizing again it's empty. He then sighs as he closes the fridge and heads upstairs as-well.
They soon left their apartment and headed to the closest store near them in comfortable-ish silence, (more on rantaro's end than tenko's). As they were walking rantaro glanced to his side to see tenko unknowingly glaring at him, with a sorta dazed expression. Her face slightly red perhaps due to whatever is on her mind.
A small smile appeared on his face, curious if she even notices she's staring, "Tenko."
"Hm?…" She responded, still deep in her thoughts.
"You okay?, you've been staring at me blushing for awhile now." He asks gently, with a light chuckle.
"…Huh...H-h-h-..huh?" Tenko froze, completely halting to a stop which in turn caused rantaro to do the same. She turned her head and looked at one of the nearby building's window as a mirror, to see she is in fact, blushing...
"Tenko?...Tenko are you alright?..." he asked softly generally worried, raising an eyebrow while she stands just staring, he slowly leans into her view, his face being a little too close while waving a hand in-between their faces, checking to see if she's still with him.
Generally out of no where tenko gasps and pales, she screams in genuine horror looking like she discovered something that truly spooked her, she than covered her face with her hands (rantaro could've swore he saw her face going red) and dashed away while loudly chanting "Degenerate male" over, and over.
Rantaro stood there, completely dumbfounded along with other passersby, (said passersby glancing at rantaro wondering if he did something to the woman, some glaring already assuming he did).
He was shocked to see such a reaction like that from her, truly confused on what caused it. But snapping out of his daze as he noticed tenko's figure shrinking as she continues running, he quickly gathers himself and ran after her yelling "T-tenko!, wait up!", receiving more stares.
As shocking and confusing as all of tenko's actions have been today, tenko after having a literal marathon suddenly slowed down enough for a wheezing rantaro to finally catch up, he'd soon calmed her down enough so they could go to the store (which they had to now go in the opposite direction due to tenko making them literally ran passed it). She looked completely defeated on the walk there, for what? he had no idea, but rantaro kept silent while they walked in fear she would run off again.
Soon the two made it and finally headed inside, paid for their single carton of milk and left, walked back home with luckily no more random interruptions. And finally rantaro got to make his planned meal for this morning, a simple bowl of cereal, with a surprising nice addition of tenko, who after their walk home has relatively went back to her regular self and decided to have some cereal too.
Both of them enjoyed their simple breakfast and their simple morning...Well, at least it was suppose to be simple but despite…everything it was still nice.