"Aw, honey, come ooooon!" Nanjiro dragged out, pouting. He glanced at his son. "Ryoma, tell her."

Ryoma looked up with a bored expression. "I have homework."

Nanjiro slumped, but followed his wife into the kitchen by himself. "Don't you think you could just try a Japanese dish?"

His wife shook some kind of wooden utensil at him. "You know as well as I do that when it comes to cooking fish, I may as well be a gardener, I'm so bad!"

Nanjiro shook his head stubbornly. "I'll show you how. And besides," he said with a sudden stroke of genius, "Ryoma's tired of American food, too. Aren't you?"

He didn't get a chance to answer; Nanjiro disappeared into the depths of the kitchen, still arguing with his wife.

Ryoma shook his head. He would never use his son, of all things, to get something he wanted.

O.o

"But…Karupin misses you."

Sakuno raised her eyebrow. "Your cat?"

Ryoma shrugged. "You're softer than me." Sakuno rolled her eyes. "It's true! He'll lay on my chest and then glare at me!"

Sakuno shook her head. "I'm sorry Karupin misses me, but I simply can't go to your house to study." She started to settle her notes together and stack her books. There's only so much of the school library one person could take. She'd finish her work at home.

"Why not? You need the practice." Ryoma pointed out.

Sakuno rolled her eyes again. Leave it to Ryoma to subtly insult someone he's trying to convince to go home with him. "Exactly, Ryoma, which is why I can't go to your house. You know we never get anything done there."

Ryoma shrugged. "Ok, I'll come over to your house."

Sakuno stacked the last book on top of the sizable pile, and turned to look at Ryoma with a raised eyebrow. "I thought Karupin missed me?"

Ryoma blinked. "I'll…bring him."

Sakuno slumped in exasperation. "Ryoma, no. We never get anything done when we're alone."

Ryoma smirked devilishly. "We get plenty done." Sakuno tried to glare at him, but she had to fight a smile.

"I need to study, Ryoma."

His eyes were suddenly wide an innocent. "I never said you couldn't!"

Sakuno snorted. "Yeah, I know what you want to study."

Ryoma smirked and took half of Sakuno's stack of books. "So, my house?"

Sakuno looked at him, down to her books, and back. She sighed. "Alright fine." Ryoma grinned in triumph. "But only because Karupin misses me."

A/N: My goodness, seven reviews overnight! Now, I'm not sure what else beyond this I'll think of, but this came to me at the same time as the first chapter. I think it's a really funny theme, I could probably continue pretty easily .