Kaeya brings and mango and you both eat it together.
Tags: Kaeya x reader, self-indulgent, might be OOC, might have Grammar and Spelling mistakes, GN reader, reader has a flower shop.
Can be read romantically or platonic.
PD: I tried my best in the mango cutting scene but it might contain errors or be poorly written, tips and advice appreciated.
(Please tell me if I missed any, comments and constructive criticism appreciated:D).
The door chime of the door rang again, making you raise your head from the counter, not to your surprise, it was the Calvary Captain, probably paying one of his daily visits to your shop, making himself a space in the shop’s routine, not that it bothered you much since his presence was welcomed and appreciated anyways.
Surprisingly, he was carrying something, at first you would have thought of a bottle of wine, a pouch of mora.. anything but a bright red fruit with yellow and green tones.
He walked over to the counter with that characteristic stride of his, and placed the fruit in the middle of it.
“Are you busy?” He asked, completely skipping over the small talk or his usual chatter and teasing.
You noticed how he looked more expressive than usual, he looked more excited, it kinda reminded you of a kid who just found out something new and eagerly wanted to share it with someone.
“Well..”, you glanced at the deserted space of the shop, looked back at his eager eyes, hearing the light sound of the drumming of his fingers against the counter.
“No, Nope. I’m all free for you Captain.” You answered, giving him a mock bow.
He huffed a laugh, before flicking your forehead, effectively earning a soft ow from you.
“Flattery will get you anywhere [Name]”, he said stealing another glance at you, , rolling his eyes when seeing how you rubbed your forehead. .
“Oh please, I didn’t even flicked you that hard”, he deadpanned.
“Back to the topic in question” he snapped his fingers, bringing the conversation back to the reason he was here.
“Our dear Honorary Knight gifted me a very nice detail, ” he patted the fruit bringing your attention to it as he grabbed it and raised like a glorious treasure.
“One of the best fruits in all Teyvat!” He said theatrically.
“According to Paimon’s words. ” he added looking at you with one of his smirks.
“Really?”, you leaned on the counter, resting your forearms on the surface, “And what’s the name of that glorious fruit? It must be good if Paimon claims that.”
“As far as I know it’s called a Mango”
“Man…go?”,you said to verify it, he nodded, still holding the fruit.
You hummed, rubbing your chin in thought “And where’s Man-went?” You asked.
Kaeya gave you a deadpan look at your pun, not very fan of it he gave you another flick on the forehead.
“Don’t try to make another pun when I’m trying to teach you stuff.” He warned, still hovering his fingers near your forehead.
“But-“, you tried to interject.
After you said that you weren’t going to make more jokes or puns related to the topic of the conversation and after that he was finally satisfied with your apologies he offered you to try it.
“Want to try it?” He said putting it on the initial place and slidding it closer to you.
“Yeah, that’s the whole reason I’m here”, he shrugged gesturing to the surroundings and rubbed his neck.
“Okay… But how do you head it?” You asked, leaning closer and inspecting it, “Do you eat it with the skin, or..?”
“Ah, now that’s the spirit!”, he grabbed the mango, holding it on a comfortable grip “Do you have a knife?”, he asked.
You quickly scrambled to find one on your desk. But you must have taken to long from his point of view, since seeing how you turned to search for it or anything similar he clicked his tongue and patted his pockets, pulling a small pocket knife from his pocket.
“Ah, forget it. I already had one” he said quickly unsheathing the small tool.
You saw how he cutted the mango in half horizontally and takes one of the half’s, cutting vertical and horizontal perpendicular lines, ending with small squares in the fruit’s flesh. He held that half with both of his hands and applied pressure in the bottom of it, inverting the mango making the grid pattern transform into pop up cubes.
You couldn’t contain a small ‘wow’ from his small spectacle as he cut off one of the cubes and offered it to you.
You carefully grabbed the piece and eat it, surprised by the taste.
“Really? Then let me try” he popped one of the cubes in his mouth, humming at the taste.
“Yeah, it’s sweet” he agreed oferring you another piece that you gladly took.
You both stayed eating the mango, and sharing bits about your day.
Kaeya broke the comfortable silence you both share after a while.
“Could you grow one of these?” He pointed at the remaining two pieces of the mango. “You grow flowers, no? It must be similar, since you are a gardener of flowers.”
You took a moment to give it a thought but after a while of pondering you answered:
“Even if I could, who knows if the Monstadt environment would make it able to grow.”
He hummed in acknowledgement at your response.
“For example, I tried growing some naku weed from inazuma, but…. It was impossible, ” you added “I couldn’t give it the environment necessary.”
“And since Natlan is a very hot place, I don’t think that Monstadt temperature will be enough.”
“Ah, a shame” Kaeya sighted in disappointment resting his cheek on his hand, “I really looked forward for my own mango tree….”
You patted his shoulder in a comforting manner
“There there, I’m sure that the Honorary Knight has a bunch more that can give you.”
He looked at you before dropping his gaze towards the remaining mango pieces, “Do you want to finish what is left of the mango?”
This is the website I used for my investigation of mangos:
https://www.mango.org/es/mango-variety/haden/
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