"Oh no, I'm fine with something else I was just trying to not stare at the offerings and be so noncommittal that it would sound like I didn't wanna go at all."

"I think it would be pretty romantic for me to cower in fear and hide behind my brave, powerful boyfriend, and I can keep the screaming to a minimum. So your pick of action versus thriller, then."

"Okay." Supernatural thriller it is. Let it not be said that Haru doesn't always have his superheroic mission on the brain.

Yutaka was not, actually, playing it up when he said he's a wimp. He manages to only scream twice, but he gasps and covers his eyes and hides his face in Haru's neck more times than that, and absolutely needs to have his hand held throughout.

Haru is happy to hold his hand and stroke his hair and hug him through the scary parts.

Being pathetic and clingy and uncool under controlled circumstances in expected ways can be pretty cool, and he does enjoy being soothed by Haru like that, so even though by the end of the movie he has made a fool of himself a double digit number of times he still feels pretty good about the idea overall.

"Dinner?" Haru asks, when the credits start rolling.

"Give me a minute," he tells Haru's shoulder, "to regain my composure. Then yeah."

Pet pet. "Was the thriller a bad idea?"

He wraps his arms around Haru's neck. "Nope." He's not shaking anymore. "Sometimes feeling bad things can be good and this was one of them."

"...kinky?"

"...well I wasn't thinking like that but I'm so gone over you I'm pretty sure I'd try whatever you wanted me to."

"I'm not actually particularly, the joke was just right there."

"No?" He lowers his voice. "You wouldn't like me at your feet, obedient and worshipful, serving you and servicing you in every way, doing whatever you tell me to do to please you?"

"- there's an English expression about bossy opinionated people, that they 'like to have their own way', and I always thought that was a weird expression, because if someone wouldn't like to have their own way then there has been some fundamental definitional confusion about what their own way might be, and that is also how I feel about what you just said."

"—you sound kinda horny but I didn't follow enough of that to be able to keep flirting in response," he says, which is probably pathetic and he's feeling dumb as fuck, good job Yutaka you're not even smart enough to flirt with Haru the right way.

Haru kisses his forehead. "Do you want me to try to say it again differently or just figure out what we're doing for dinner?"

"...I want to know more about how to make you horny so definitely the first thing."

Haru giggles. "So like - not everything you listed is doing much for me but the things that are, it's really hard to imagine it constituting a kink that they do? Of course I like it when I get what I want, that is what it means if I want a thing. I don't think it's a kink to just use words correctly. But I think I am maybe missing something about the concepts you're drawing on."

"...well sometimes the thing that I want is that someone else decide for me what I'm getting without consulting me first."

"That seems legit to refer to as a kink! Sort of like there's a word for a prix fixe menu but not a word for the normal kind of restaurant where you go and you ask for a thing and you get that thing."

"And the opposite kink would be—wanting someone else to do stuff for you without you needing to reciprocate? Just choosing whatever makes you feel good and having the other person do that."

"I hesitate to dignify being inconsiderate with a respectable label like 'kink'."

"...okay but it would be so hot if you just used me for whatever made you feel good and didn't care about me, though." He thinks he's definitely starting to understand this boy better.

...this time when Haru kisses him he grabs his hair.