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After about ten minutes of his whining he had his boyfriends convinced to go with him. Shuu quickly wrote a shopping list because apparently they actually needed some things beside cereal, those being about twenty, and if they were going shopping anyway they could get them now too. Luckily the next 24-hour supermarket wasn’t too far, barely a five minute walk from their home.

“I’m sitting in the cart!”, Hide exclaimed the second they arrived and just like a little kid, he directly jumped into it.

“Aren’t you a little too old for this?”, Ken asked.

Hide let out a shocked gasp and put his hands over his heart. “Ken! I’m offended! How can you say such cruel things?!”

The black haired man rolled his eyes and started to push the cart into the supermarket. Hide took his jacket off and used it as a replacement for a pillow so the hard metal of the cart wouldn’t be so uncomfortable. Then he demanded Shuu to also give him his jacket because the blonde’s own wasn’t enough. The man happily obliged and gave his jacket that, and Ken was sure, costed more than what he earned at his job at Anteiku, to the other.

“What do we need first?”, he asked the taller man.

“Some seasoning. We only have salt and pepper at home and as much as I like cooking simple, I miss adding cinnamon to my meals.”

So the first thing the trio searched for was the shelve with the seasoning. With a smile Ken ignored the sweets Hide grabbed when Shuu wasn’t looking and hid behind the jackets. So that was what he actually needed them for. Usually when they went shopping, Shuu was adamant that nothing but healthy food was put into the cart. Completely against Hide’s mentality of food consisting of sweets, instant noodles and cereals.

Ken himself having lived on whatever his payment allowed him to buy, and of course coffee, was actually rather thankful Shuu made sure they were all eating healthy.

As soon as they arrived at the shelve, cinnamon, basil, fennel, oregano, and other spice Ken couldn’t name were added to the cart.

“Unnecessary”, Hide muttered and picked one of the small boxes up to inspect it. “Do you even know what this is?”

Ken took the box out Hide’s hands and shook his head after reading its name. “Not really. I know the herb but I don’t know what it is used for in cooking.”

“Exactly, and that makes it unnecessary.”

He put the strange spice in the shelve next to them and while he was at it, grabbed some bubble gum. Shuu had ran off somewhere to get another thing he needed, onions maybe? Ken could have sworn that he had said something about onions. The man turned up again as they turned right at the next corner.

“And we need cucumber, tomatoes and paprika”, Shuu declared and took the vegetables out of their shelves, inspecting each for dents.

Ken kept pushing the cart plus Hide and watched slightly annoyed how Shuu ran off to get healthy food, vegetables and wheat bread, while Hide took them out and placed them in the shelves filled with the chocolate he put in instead. The black haired man attempted to put them back but he couldn’t resist Hide’s puppy eyes. He told Ken where he had to push the cart and whenever some sweet he wanted was higher up so he couldn’t reach it, he stood up in the cart with shaking legs - “Hide, that’s dangerous! You could hurt yourself!” “I won’t hurt myself!” - and grabbed it. Ken was honestly convinced it was a miracle that Hide hadn’t fallen yet.

“Ken?”, Shuu’s voiced echoed through the supermarket. “I need your help.”

“Coming!”

He left Hide with the cart, a decision he would probably regret later on, but a risk he was willing to take. He found Shuu standing in front of two apple pyramids, holding an apple in each hand. They were both red with some green spots and all in all looked pretty similar

“Which brand do you think is better?”, Shuu asked, a thoughtful expression underlining how hard he deemed the question.

“Uhm, I don’t know? Just take whatever is cheaper.”

The man was obviously displeased by that answer.

“It’s about taste. This brand”, he hold the apple in his left hand up, “is sweeter and the other one is more sour. The question is which one is better? Their flavors are completely different! One is like a field of blooming flowers of all colors and variations while the other is like a beehive, it can sting but the result is worth it. The sweet honey, like sunrise-”

Ken sighed. He was tired because for one it was twelve by now, and also both his boyfriends were rather stressful. How did “I need cereal” become a full fledged shopping trip?

Shuu put about twenty apples in a plastic bag and both walked back to the cart and Hide or more accurate, where the cart and Hide had been. The aisle he had been waiting at was abandoned but various vegetables that didn’t quite fit in with the colorful packages of jelly beans, got Shuu to start complaining. But before he could get to the part where he pushed the fault of Hide’s unhealthy diet on studying at Kamii costing too much, he was interrupted by the blonde’s shouting.

“I’m the king of the supermarket!”

Hide rushed past them, standing in the cart and not exactly caring that it wasn’t made for racing through the halls of a supermarket.

Ken sighed and looked up at Shuu with a blank face.