Tōkan catches some of what Inori's thinking because he says, "For what it's worth, alphas are also a lot less fertile if they're not around a heating omega, that's another reason why alpha/alpha couples have so much trouble having kids. But, um, yeah, omegas got the short end of the stick there."

"Every fucking stick. There's nothing good about being an omega. Nothing."

He's not about to tell Inori the ways in which him being an omega is good for Tōkan because that's the entire fucking point and if he did Inori would rightfully break his jaw.

"...well, there's... the part where we could have kids together someday."

...

Kids with Tōkan.

That sounds terrifying he's not scared of anything.

That one Inori is fully on the "they're too young for that" bandwagon for.

"Could've been a beta girl instead," he mumbles.

"That's true. And I'd like you all the same. Because you're you."

He's really cute when he goes all blushy BSOD like that.

But a car pulls up close to where they are.

"Delivery for Kokonoe-san?"

"That's me, thank you." And they get an honest-to-god picnic basket wrapped in a blanket. He starts setting it all up, and he's included stuff Inori likes: burgers, pies, cakes, lots and lots of sushi, much more food than Tōkan would've thought two people could get through if one of them weren't Yamada Inori.

He eyes the selection for a bit but once the delivery person is properly gone he tackles his boyfriend and kisses him on the grass.

Tōkan is still a teenage alpha so he's just absolutely not going to complain at all. He's not even particularly mindful of decency, Inori isn't in heat so they aren't really in danger of crossing the line all the way to illegal.

After Inori's had enough of it that he's kind of slowed down and no longer has his hand any places it shouldn't be Tōkan pulls away for a second and asks, "What's the occasion?"

"...the occasion is that I like you."

Okay! He guesses it's his turn to tackle his boyfriend and make out until the fire dies down.

...or until he decides to stop because it's actually quite likely that the fire won't die down, he's starting to have dangerous thoughts about risk likelihood of being caught while in a wide open park right next to a road not so empty that cars haven't been showing up every now and then. Dangerous thoughts which he should leave for later when they're at his place.

"I like you too, Inori-kun," he says after he manages to finally wrestle his thoughts away from that. "Is that why you were asking about pairing?" He had an inkling, after Subaru talked to him, but he didn't want to try to pursue it very far.

"...a bit."

"...but you're having second thoughts about pairing."

"Kind of." He pulls away then notices that the food is getting cold and starts scarfing it down.

"Should I not do the 'guess what you're thinking and feeling' thing?"

Inori pauses for a moment, then says, "No. You... should do it. It... helps."

Tōkan should also be eating, he guesses. While he thinks.

"You got it," he says slowly. "Didn't you? The thing about... us being too young. The heat thing, and having kids. You hadn't thought of that?"

He hums an affirmative around his food.

"Yeah." He leans close to Inori to kiss his temple. "I like you. We don't need to pair anytime soon. Your parents didn't until one year in, right?" And Tōkan's parents never did, he doesn't say. "We can wait. And until then you're still the strongest and you can still kick the asses of any dumb rapists who thought it was a good idea to exist in public in the same city as you."

He punches the air and swallows his food. "RIGHT ON."

They don't run into any shitty alphas on their way back to Tōkan's apartment, to Inori's chagrin. Inori has barely taken his shoes off and dropped his pipe by the door before he's on his way to the master bathroom, and Tōkan follows on his heels after locking the door and leaving the picnic basket in the kitchen.

When he walks in he finds Inori perched on the edge of the immense bathtub, naked, intently watching it get filled with water.

"You know, many people prefer to be in the tub rather than out of it," he says as he strips.