Ice-Cream
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Author: Kaiede
Rating: G
Genre: Romance. One-shot.
Status: Complete.
Pairing: Ban + Ginji.
Summary: Ginji and Ban share ice-cream on a hot day.

It was a sweltering hot day. The Getbackers were lazing on a park bench, too hot to move around.

“Ban-chan...” Ginji whimpered. “I’m hot...”

“Ginji, I’m hot, too,” Ban sighed. “There’s nothing we can do about it.” At the same instant as he spoke, the cheerful tune of an ice-cream cart reached their ears. Ginji perked up.

“Ban-chan!” he squealed, pointing to the white cart. “Ice cream!”

“Nuh-uh, Ginji.” Ban shook his head. As if they had enough money to waste on ice cream.

“Please?”

“No.”

“Ban-chan...please?” Ginji begged his partner with the cutest puppy face he could muster.

Looking at Ginji’s pleading brown eyes, Ban felt himself give in. Who could resist that puppy face? Besides, it was a pretty hot day, and ice cream would cool them down.

“Fine, Ginji. But just one, okay?”

“Yay, Ban-chan! Thank you!” Ginji hopped off the bench and skipped toward the ice cream cart, blissfully murmuring “Ice cream! Ice cream!” with each hop. Reluctantly, Ban peeled himself off the bench as well and followed Ginji.

By the time Ban reached the cart, Ginji was already staring at the different kinds of ice cream and drooling. The ice cream vendor observed this with a mixture of amusement and mild disgust.

“Ban-chan, I want this one!” Ginji pointed to a cup of vanilla ice cream, covered with nuts, chocolate, and three juicy maraschino cherries. The vendor opened up the cart and pulled it out.

“That’ll be 270 yen,” the vendor stated. Heaving a sigh, Ban pulled out the money. With extreme reluctance, he very slowly handed the vendor the coins, not noticing that Ginji was already bouncing back to the park bench with the ice cream in hand.

“Thank you! Here, you’ll need some—” Ban turned, only to find Ginji gone. He glanced around, and then spotted Ginji. He took off after him.

“Spoons...” the vendor’s voice trailed away. Upon reaching Ginji, Ban discovered that his partner had already eaten two of the cherries. Hurriedly, Ban snatched up the last one with his teeth. Ginji glared at Ban.

“Ban-chan! You took my cherry!”

Ban grinned mischievously. Holding the cherry in between his teeth, he teased, “Come and get it, then.”

Without hesitation, Ginji lunged forward and seized the cherry. Persisting a few seconds in a brief kiss, he then drew away. With a gulp, he swallowed the cherry, looking proud, seemingly for both for the kiss and the cherry.

“Ha! Got it!” Ginji grinned at Ban, who chuckled. Ginji seemed so pleased with himself. What a cute kid.

Ginji scooped up a mouthful of ice cream with his tongue.

“Now it’s your turn, Ban-chan!”

With still a lingering taste of Ginji, maraschino cherry, and ice cream in Ban’s mouth, he leaned over and gave Ginji a long, sweet kiss, his tongue flicking around Ginji’s mouth, tasting the ice cream on his tongue.

“Ginji, you taste good!” Ban laughed.

“You do, too, Ban-chan! Now it’s my turn again!”

They continued to alternate ice cream kisses until at last the ice cream was gone, to Ban’s disappointment and Ginji’s despair. Sitting side-by-side on the bench, Ginji glanced sideways at Ban.

“Ban-chan...can we get another one?”

This time, Ban didn’t argue.

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