How Could Big Brother Orange Not Fall for a Brazilian Big Orange?

Echizen Ryoga x Hinata Shoyo

[Click to watch a straightforward big orange win over a playboy (literally)]

Perspective 1:

Echizen Ryoga, leader of the Peel-and-Eat-Orange School, is an unremarkable language prodigy wandering around the world.

His two great loves in life: tennis and oranges.

He can go a day without playing tennis, but he can't go a day without eating an orange.

He believes in eating oranges with the peel on, for the authentic, unadulterated flavor.

One day, he wandered into Brazil.

Walking along Copacabana Beach, amid all the bare chests and brightly colored bikinis, he immediately locked eyes on an orange head.

Gulp.

Echizen Ryoga felt like a fork from some novel who had lost his sense of taste and could only regain it by eating cake.

He watched the orange cake running and leaping across the beach, and felt a little thirsty.

What a delicious, juicy cake.

A faint orange fragrance seemed to linger in the air.

Echizen Ryoga knew that he'd finished the oranges he'd brought with him five minutes after coming ashore.

And there was no one around holding an orange, either.

That big orange was tempting him.

Look at the striking contrast between his sun-browned skin and the white arm sleeves, the taut muscles exposed on his arms, brimming with explosive power, and his pert backside, dusted with grains of sand that glimmered in the sunlight. The orange-yellow goggles on the bridge of his nose made him look even more like a ripe orange.

I want to take a bite.

The moment the thought crossed his mind, Echizen Ryoga fell silent.

Oh, God, not only was he a fork, he was also an alpha. (Not really.)

He readily accepted his new setting.

Then he headed toward the person he had decided was giving off orange-scented pheromones.

Perspective 2:

Hinata Shoyo, a human-shaped big orange, a little Brazilian chili pepper.

Originally from Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, now transplanted to Brazil.

A sunny, cheerful little sun who radiates warmth indiscriminately!

Hinata Shoyo knew that the odds of meeting someone who spoke his native language in a foreign country were practically the same as passing an exam. So when a certain tennis player, who had shown up uninvited and offered to treat him to a meal after he'd lost his wallet, suggested, "Let's be friends," he happily agreed.

The big bad wolf eyed the orange that was gradually ripening.

And then...

He quickly fell for the orange boy's barrage of praise.

"Ryoga, you're incredible! You've traveled to so many countries!"

"You've even competed in world-class tournaments! I only dare dream about doing that!"

"You can breakdance, too! That's so cool!"

"You eat oranges with the peel on? That sounds like an amazing talent!"

Echizen Ryoga, floating on air from all the praise, covered his nose.

I'm done for. I can't take it anymore.

I'm going to fall head over heels for this person.

I hereby declare: Orange Puppy is the best in the world!

"Hobbies: Napping, looking for delicious oranges.

Favorite color: Orange.

Favorite foods: Oranges, pan-fried chicken with orange, and orange wrapped in Italian prosciutto." - Orange Guy's official profile book

Tips:

* Probably a short story about romance and traveling.

* Love at first sight is basically being attracted by what you see (the color orange)~

* The side couple is Kirishima Natsuya x Serizawa Nao (the brother-in-law couple from Free!).

* Cake and fork fiction: Cake is a fork's natural food ("eat" in the literal sense). Forks have no sense of taste and can only smell a particular fragrance from cake, which instinctively makes them want to "eat the cake." They can regain their sense of taste only by eating an entire cake. (There is no cake-and-fork setting in the main story, but there may be one in an extra.)

Theme: You move me more than oranges do