“Hey,” you whisper, interrupting the moving droning on the tv. “You wanna fight?”
It’s boring in the apartment, the rain having washed out any prior date ideas you two had thrown around. Life outside is completely silenced from the cold droplets of water. You’d been cuddling on the couch for the past three hours, one random movie starting and ending, only to be followed with another one that Eijiro can’t bring himself to care about.
But hey. You’re cute. And you’re looking at him with mischief in your eyes. Might as well indulge you.
“Emotionally or physically?”
Eijiro’s never been the kind to take your negative bait, though he adores your positive ones; he’s always been able to read you like a book, keeping tabs on when you’re feeling playful or when something is truly bothering you, when you’re hungry or truly annoyed, and despite reading the novel time and time again, it’s one he continues to see through every day.
And right now, based on the cheeky look you’re giving him, he knows you’re too playful for your own good.
You gently knock your head against his, as if trying to provoke him in the cutest way possible, “I dunno; are you always this clueless?”
He smirks, bringing a mammoth hand to cup the back of your neck, squeezing the meat of it gently, “I don’t know; you’re the one who agreed to date me.”
“What a mistake,” you scoff.
And yes, Eijiro likes to try and make you work for his attention when you’re feeling playful, he likes the little whines and pawing you send his way, the way you smother his face in non-penetrating bites and rough squishes of his cheeks with obscene and absurd words about how cute he is.
But sometimes, his hands hooking under your arms is plenty, as he forces you down onto the couch. Occasionally, the playful, fake punches he delivers to your laughing tummy do just the trick.
“You’re! So! Mean! To me!” He grunts between each gentle, barely connective tap. “Why!”
“Because!” You giggle, batting away his hands. You grip your hands over his and use all your strength to force his hands back away from you. Eijiro knows he could just as easily overwhelm you with his strength, but you look so happy to fight him off that he can’t bring himself to.
You send one push his way, barely strong enough to move him, but he humors you anyway and takes a tumble backwards, thick back hitting the cushions with a soft noise. With no waste of time, you climb on top of him and gather his wrists in your hands, pinning them on either side of his head.
You smirk and lean down to press a noisy kiss to his nose, “mwah!”
He smiles and puckers his lips out for one on his lips, but you merely press one to his cheek, “mwah!”
Then you move to his brow bone, “mwah!”
“I am-“ you press a kiss to his chin, “mwah!”
He laughs and tries to intercept your kisses, moving his head side to side to try and catch them, but you merely dodge him. Every sticky kiss you press to his face, you accompany with a dramatic “mwah!” he groans with a few chuckles at the anguish of not being able to kiss you.
“Mercy!” He calls. “I’ll die if you don’t give me a real kiss. You wouldn’t want that, would you?”
This has you pondering, jutting out your lower lip in thought before sighing dramatically, “no, I wouldn’t. Guess I like you or something.” You lean down to kiss his lips, and letting go of his hands when he gently tugs at them; you mewl as they wrap around you, relaxing you to lay on his chest and cuddling close as you part. "I really do like you, Eiji."
"You wanna know what's crazy?" He asks, and when you nod, he gently grabs your chin to look at him, "I really love you."
You blow him a kiss which he pretends to chomp the air to eat, dramatically swallowing while you giggle up at him.
He noses as your head before letting his eyes close, resting up for your next bout of playfulness.