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Gen was just talking with Yuzuriha about the only thing on his mind at the moment: Ishigami Senku. His brain was going haywire with thoughts about the leak haired scientist and all the things to come. He knew he liked Senku a little more than he wanted to admit when he saw Senku’s release date and name on a certain tree. He became fascinated with what he could do and just wanted to see it through right by his side. However, it seems it developed into a slight crush, nothing more. (That’s what a natural born liar tells himself).
“Senku may say love is illogical but that doesn’t mean he isn’t human!” Yuzuriha reminds Gen as she can see the poor mentalist has no intention in pursuing the crush.
“Yuzuriha~chan, I thank you for trying to cheer me up but Senku is the most asexual man I have ever met and I’m a famous mentalist!” Gen smiles weakly as he wishes his words were wrong, that he read Senku wrong, but the likelihood of that was -10 billion percent. (As senku would say)
“He may seem that way but it’s just he’s never experienced love outside of science! I can tell he cares for you deeply-” Yuzuriha didn’t even get to finish her sentence as a certain brown haired man ran up to them.
“YUZURIHA! I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU!!!” Taiju, the man in question, runs in screaming as if he can’t let a single moment pass.
“What is it?” Yuzuriha smiles at her childhood friend looking at him with such genuine interest.
‘She’s an angel’ Gen shivers at the sweetness.
“I-I-I- uh”
“What do you got there?” She points out, noticing Taiju has something in his hands.
“This?! Well just something Senku whipped up!” Taiju becoming all flustered finally notices Gen standing next to Yuzuriha, watching the whole scene go down.
‘Taiju 100% made Senku make him a tea to give Yuzuriha, after many of his failed attempts, as a way to ask her out but of course is starting to chicken out’ Gen facepalms, not literally. ‘Everyone could have seen this coming, 5 years and counting and Taiju is still trying to ask out Yuzuriha’
“GEN! HERE!” He grabs Gen and forces the tea down his throat before gen could get a word out. “THIS IS FROM SENKU!”
“What…” Gen coughs up a bit of the tea that was just shoved down his throat unwillingly. ‘Gross…’ All while Taiju starts to get even more flustered from talking to Yuzuriha, changing topics about 50 times in a single minute that it doesn’t process fully in Gen’s head.
He just decides to walk away from the situation, ‘What better time than now to go socialize with Senku! A quiet laboratory with only him and I is seriously the best way to spend the day. Not that I would ever admit that to him as he would definitely force more me into more labor than I can manage’
As he walks over to the lab, he begins to get a slight headache and his thoughts start to jumble like they were out to kill him.
‘Senku’ ‘What is he doing’ ‘How is he’
He swears all of a sudden his thoughts about Senku had gotten 10 times worse. ‘Luckily the odd taste is gone, getting rid of one of my problems’ He thinks. Finally making it to the lab, he lets out a sigh as he opens the door excited to see the scientist.
“Senku~chan-” He was about to rant about how mean Taiju is to get some sympathy out of Senku but his brain shuts off at the sight. Senku is sitting working right under a window and the sun just happens to reflect on Senku just right that it makes him literally glow to the point that he doesn't look real. Gen just stares, ‘god he’s so handsome’ ‘Ishigami Senku..’
He walks up to Senku, hugging him from behind and resting his chin on Senku's shoulder, ultimately surprising him in the process. Senku was so engrossed in his work that he didn’t notice Gen had entered the lab or even walked up to him.
“What do you want, Mentalist,” Senku chuckles trying to get Gen off his back, all while comparing him to a monkey in his head. ‘He’s quite cute’
“What, you don’t want to hug me” Gen pouts, “Senku~channnn...”
“Sure, sure Mentalist. Now what do you really want?” Senku turns around his chair so he can face Gen.
“Just want to see what my scientist is up to,” Gen says, genuinely smiling at the scientist while grabbing and holding onto his hands. This catches Senku off guard and Gen swore he saw Senku’s cheeks go red for a moment.
“That makes it sound like we are dating. What's up with you today,” He shakes him off like all of Gen’s actions mean nothing to him but really his heart is about to explode at the sight of Gen. He turns his chair around hiding the furious blush on his cheeks as he tries to go back to his work.
Gen wraps his arms around Senku again as he watches him work, secretly knowing Senku is definitely freaking out internally from the mentalist’s closeness. Gen continued watching for about 30 minutes out of pure curiosity and the never ending urge to be as close to the man as physically possible. He doesn’t understand why but his crush on the leak haired scientist has now gotten so bad that he felt he could explode from his emotions right then and there. ‘Senku would definitely say that’s impossible and illogical but he’s killing me slowly but surely’
“Get off me,” Senku half-jokingly says as he feels a little indifferent about the close contact. ‘Something about this whole situation seems off’
“Senku~chan, why don’t you stop working and go out with me?” Gen pipes up annoyed that Senku isn’t paying attention to him.
“What… go out?”
“Go out on a date!” Senku immediately turns back to look at Gen at his words. All to see the mentalist blushing while giving Senku a wide grin.
“Well that was bold of you,” Senku smirks, his ears turning a little red on top. He never admitted it before but he does feel quite fond of Gen just never thought Gen would feel the same. “Are you sure you're okay in the head, had too much cola?”
Senku scratches his ear, “Whatever could you mean Senku~chan! I am better than ever, especially now that I'm with you!”
“Pftt. You really are something else, Mentalist!” Senku was thinking about how this had all started when he remembered this morning’s events, “ Oh, did you ever see Taiju when walking towards the lab? I wonder how that went.”
“Wow, how like you to be thinking of someone else while I am currently asking you out…” Gen pouts, “But to your amusement I did see him. I was having such a great conversation about you, my dear Senku~chan, with Yuzuriha and he just came out of nowhere and then proceeded to shove tea down my throat. It was so grosssss Senku~chan!”
“Oh,” Senku just stood there utterly shocked, finally understanding this whole situation. He sighs, “Gen, and here I thought you reciprocated my feelings, but I guess this is still just as exhilarating knowing my experiment worked”
“Reciprocated?!” Gen face becomes a tomato focusing singly on that one part of what Senku had said.
Senku messes with his hair, “Get back to work Mentalist, it should wear off soon”
Gen gives him a look as he says “Wear off”, what would wear off? After a little bit of thinking on it, Gen gives up and does in fact start to help out with some of Senku’s experiments due to being content knowing that Senku reciprocates his feelings.
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‘How the hell does he stay focused on this for hours at a time?!’
He couldn’t look at another beaker full of some random mixture for another second. His thoughts couldn’t focus on Science anymore so he takes about 100 tease Senku breaks within the hour. The rest of the night, more like 30 minutes, consisted of Gen being overly touchy with Senku, he couldn’t take it anymore when the black and white haired mentalist took the liberty to whisper in his ear some not so pg things.
“Okay, we are definitely not getting work done and I don’t know If I can stay sane for another moment if I stay here” Senku stands up pulling Gen by the arm back to their hut, “Sleep. This damn tea needs to wear off already”
Senku’s face was a deep red and he was staring at Gen as if he was about to explode, Gen couldn’t believe this was the same ‘asexual man’ he thought he knew. All while the scientist's thoughts were going out of control about how crazy he was about Gen and with the man sitting right in front of him with supposably reciprocated feelings he was going insane.
As they try to finally go to sleep, Gen insists he sleeps right next to Senku which after a bit, not much at all, of pushing Senku agrees for many reasons but the main one being his feelings towards the black and white haired man.
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Gen wakes the next morning to see a certain scientist hugging him with his eyes shut. Gen holds back a squeal of excitement but the blush manages to persist. The memories of the other day surface and he can’t contain his embarrassment. Yes he likes the scientist but never would've gone about it that way. It had to have been whatever was in that damn tea. After a brief examination of the events that occurred, Gen hit the mark. The tea in question was in fact a “love potion” Senku was forced to make for Taiju. Senku definitely had no idea it would actually take effect but here we are.
Senku just happened to wake up before Gen could collect his thoughts and move about as far as he could from the scientist. He just wanted to roll up and hide from the man till he could face the embarrassment.
“Morning, Mentalist,” He sits up rubbing the back of his neck, ears tinted a slight red. Gen isn’t fully sure if that was from sleeping weird or if Senku was also embarrassed.
“Good orning-say Senku~ chan” The nerves present in his pig latin.
Senku messes with his hair and smirks as he realizes the mentalist has been awake for some time, probably going crazy from yesterday's events, “How you feeling? Still madly in love with me?”
Gen explodes like a tomato, “ I- I - I-”
This is definitely not the reaction Senku had expected of the social expert. “Or do you actually?” Senku blushes when he starts to understand Gen's recent actions.
Gen swatted at Senku’s chest “That isn’t how you ask out your crush, Senku~chan,” Trying to hide his embarrassment by recalling that Senku did in fact state he “reciprocated his feelings” yesterday.
“Well now this is definitely exhilarating,” Senku smirks, “Say Gen if I by chance asked you to go out with me, would you?”
“Ten billion percent yes Senku~chan!” Gen mocks Senku with a smile on his face.
Senku indeed enjoyed that mockery, attacking Gen with a hug which makes them break into fits of laughter just enjoying each other's presence.
“I like you~” Gen says with such a genuine smile on his face.
Senku grabs his face and places a soft kiss on his lips. “Senkuuuuu~chan, you're supposed to say I like you back” Gen laughs wiping tears from his eyes, all happy of course.. Senku can only stare in astonishment at how pretty the mentalist is. He realized this before but damn… Asagiri Gen is breathtaking...
“I thought that would answer well enough, keke”
“You so aren’t romantic”
“It's just so illogical-”
“Says the one currently in love with a mentalist in the freakin stone age”
“Lets just say, I need you by my side, Mentalist” The way the light from the window hit Senku as he said that made Gen fall more in love with the handsome boy in front of him than he already was.
Gen grabs Senku and kisses him like he can’t contain his love for the leak haired scientist any longer.
“I like you Gen”
“So when’s our date?” Gen's eyes sparkled in excitement as he was half joking.
“All day today, lab room, experiments” Senku gives him the same eyes back, completely serious.
“Okay leave the date planning to me as you clearly are more in love with science then you are in love with me”
“Kekeke what can I say putting my two favorite things together is just exhilarating”
Gen wouldn’t admit it but that made his stomach do flips. They both walk out of the hut holding hands which definitely doesn’t go unnoticed by the kingdom of science.
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