Been sitting on this idea for a while, but an Ichika sick fic where her 5 boyfriends try to take care of her but mostly don’t know what they’re doing. She told Hana to keep it a secret so they wouldn’t worry, but Hana lets it slip and the entire defense team goes “SHE’S WHAT?”
Hana is thankfully able to convince them to not all show up at Ichika’s house at the same time because that would be very overwhelming so they decide to take turns and have one person go each day. They draw lots or something and I have the order as thus: Ryuhei > Hyuma > Yusuke > Naoya (+ Hana) > Taisei. Everyone is VERY concerned about Ryuhei being the first one but he manages to ease their concerns.
-Ryuhei’s visit is still a mess tho, he does, in fact, have no idea what he’s doing. You can be damn sure he’s trying his best tho. He tries to cook her some curry, but doesn’t realize that just because something tastes good doesn’t mean it’s always good for you, so he’s just kinda like oh uh here’s some rice??? Does the “puts my forehead against yours to check a fever” thing. Cheesy because Ryuhei doesn’t realize how flustered it makes Ichika. Essentially Ryuhei just brings a lot of big loud energy, but it cheers Ichika up.
-Hyuma is probably the only one who knows what he’s doing since he takes care of his sick mom. A breath of fresh air after Ryuhei the day before. Properly takes Ichika’s temperature, serves her a nice soup, cool towel. He mostly keeps to himself otherwise, just reads a book at her bedside. She’ll point it out and he’ll probably try to pretend he’s not flustered and ask her what she’d want to do then. They have a nice chat about something niche they both enjoy.
-I know logically it makes sense for Yusuke to know how to take care of a sick person the gap moe would be funny so I think he’s surprisingly useless. Does he know basic first aid? Yeah, for injuries on a baseball field not the flu.
-Naoya and Hana just come together since they’re siblings, but Hana leaves early on to give Naoya his time with Ichika. She just checks up on Ichika and drops off a lunch she made (full of greens of course, Naoya helped too). Naoya’s definitely taken care of Hana when she was sick before. I think he’s got some special secret remedy for a sore throat.
-Taisei is nothing if not enthusiastic. Ichika is feeling somewhat better at this point; they mostly just hang out. Taisei knows the basics of how to take care of a sick person. He cooks her some miso with tofu because obviously. I think they get a little ahead of themselves and Ichika like almost collapses or something but Taisei catches her all romcom style, they have a cute moment. Taisei carries her to her bed so she can rest some more.
Ichika deserves all the love in this world and these boys have endless amounts of it.
Bonus: someone else gets sick from this and they do the same thing all over again
