She's out. She's out a lot, I think she likes that I'm having dinner with you all the time because it means she doesn't feel like she's falling down on the job for not having something on the table and leaving me to fend for myself.

"Oh I actually haven't even ever introduced myself to her as your boyfriend... Oh why does that sound terrifying."

"...no idea, why would it? She's nice, she's not like your dad - uh, you presumably at some point had a mom but you've never mentioned her -?"

"She passed when I was a baby, I never met her."

"...that sucks. Anyway, Ren's nice, I think she'll like you."

"Yeah I mean, I'm not like, I just, she's my b-boyfriend's mum? I need her to approve of me."

"You don't have to treat Ren like she's - scary and high stakes. She's really... breezy and chill."

"Well. Yeah. But." He fidgets a bit. "I want to get a good grade in Haru's boyfriend."

"She's a kindergarten teacher. She doesn't assign grades."

He giggles, then shivers. "Okay my slutty magical boy costume is hot but it's actually kinda cold out here."

Haru tugs him inside. "When do you go set up whatshisface with unnamed additional boy?"

"Oh that I don't know, I still need to talk to Takuo, maybe he got a boyfriend already, but—I'm having lunch with Akira at one. I should, like, actually tell him that I'm serious about you before I try to set him up." Phone comes out of the buckler then he detransforms.

(Akira's reply says,)

sure, that works

"Okay. If you do want to show him pictures of me you can, you know."

"I don't think he wants any for real, but if you're offering to pose some more I would love to take a hundred."

"A hundred? I don't even wear interesting outfits, what would the hundredth picture add over the previous ninety-nine?"

"Angles! Facial expressions! And you don't need interesting outfits, the outfits aren't the point. You actually don't need any outfits at all."

"Walked right into that one."

"You're already in my thoughts whenever I have a moment to myself, the pictures would definitely help with the imagination."

Blush.

He is so cute. Yutaka will kiss him for that crime.

"Did I interrupt your breakfast or have you already eaten?"

"Neither, I was still deciding what to have, though I was leaning 'pop open the rice cooker and put a fried egg and a lot of furikake on top'."

"I got cereal, if you have coffee or tea I could have that while following you around and making puppy dog eyes at you."

"We have tea!" Haru points to the kettle and the tea arranged behind it. It's all cheap stuff in bags, but it's tea. "If that's how you would like to spend your morning don't let me stop you." He gets out an egg and a little frying pan.

And Yutaka will get some tea brewing and watch Haru with an adoring gaze.