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“So what is your deal with Makoto?”

Rin looks up from his steaming cup of coffee (black but with sugar but no one needs to know that) and looks to the side at his partner. He still can’t believe he’s partnered up with his idiot. “There is no deal.”

Aomine dunks a piece of his donut into his coffee (which is purely black but then that donut is kind of sweet) and stares back at Rin with what looks like infinite but exasperated patience. “Yes, there is. He is hot. How are you not banging that yet?”

Rin is so glad he isn’t drinking his coffee when Aomine just keeps on talking. “I’d appreciate it if you do not say anything like that about my friend ever again.” He narrows his eyes to further illustrate his point. “And what will Kise even say when he finds out you’ve been checking Makoto out, huh?”

“Matsuoka,” Aomine starts slowly, giving gravitas to his words like little grains of amazing wisdom. “if Kise were here and you put Makoto in front of him, he will ask you the same question.”

It’s moments like this when Rin just wants to put his head over a table and ask for the nth time why he decided becoming a police officer was a good idea. “I’m sorry I asked…” He really is.

Aomine lifts his cup of coffee to his lips. “And he’ll probably ask you if you’re ever going to make a move because if you’re not, we will.”

Rin stares as he tries to compute what in the hell Aomine just said because it can be taken in so many ways and all possibilities are undoubtedly terrible and obscene.

The asshole just takes another lazy bite of his donut.

“...Why do I know you people?!”

Aomine sighs, like he’s the one suffering in all this. “Because someone decided it’d be a good idea for me to be your senpai. It’s not like I have this easy too, you know…” Then he looks toward the dessert display. “Haru, back me up here.”

“Rin’s difficult.” Rin’s ex-friend agrees without pause as he casually places cute little muffins in with the other desserts like he didn’t just go ahead and went into cahoots with the Demon of Sloth.

“See? Even he agrees with me.” And Rin has a feeling Aomine would be reaching for a fistbump right now if he isn’t all the way here, even if Haru will probably just stare at it then ignore it.