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troublesjunkyard · 4 months ago

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And Then There Were Five.

Chapter two: And Then There Were Five... Heroes?

Splinter was in his chair, and Kai was standing next to him. He wasn’t sure what exactly was going on, but he was mildly amused by it. A movie– as they all called it– was playing on what Donnie had said was called a projector. Raph, Donnie, and Mickey had been mimicking the movie the whole time. And Leo– actually, now that Kai was thinking about it, he hadn’t seen Leo in a while.

“Where's our free grub, noodle man?” One of the humans– the bad guy– had asked.

Raph, who was in front of the screen, was mouthing the lines of Lou Jitsu. “Okay, ha. How ‘bout some… hot soup?” Raph then gripped Donnie’s and Mikey’s chests. The humans on screen yell as they are tossed, and Raph tosses his brothers, too. Both yell as they fall face-first into hot noodle soup. A noodle lands on Splinter’s face, and he eats it.

“Too spicy for you?” Lou Jitsu asked before he laughed. “Everyone’s a critic. Hm.”

“Man, ‘Teriyaki Shakedown’ always gets me so,” Donnie inhales sharply before finishing his sentence. “jazzed!”

“Yeah, Lou Jitsu’s the business!” Raph had cheered.

The remote goes flying through the air and hits Raph in the face, knocking him down.

“Then why do you insult the master with your poor technique?” Splinter leaps off of his chair, spins in the air, and smashes into all three of his sons. “Hot soup!” Splinter then stands up as turtles groan. “Do not worry. Someday you will be great ninjas with a little practice… is something I would say if I were a liar.”

Kai didn’t understand why Splinter had just said that. All five of them were literally made to fight in a war to kill off the human race. Sure, his brothers were a little clumsy and under-trained when it came to fighting, but given even time, they would make excellent fighters. Raph alone has the power to kill a human with or without battle skills. And Donnie could easily kill a human as well. Donnie– just like Raph– has the advantage of his bite force. And he could do a lot of damage with his, uh, tech, as he called it. And actually, Kai wouldn’t be surprised if Donnie has killed someone before.

“That’s nice of you to say, Pop, but I’m tired of practicing.” Mikey had whined.

Nice? Mikey thought that was nice? Kai isn't so sure that Mikey had heard Splinter correctly.

Raph finally stands up. “Yeah, we can be heroes like Lou Jitsu– like you, Pops!”

Splinter laughs. “Nice try.” Then he walks away.

“We got the skills, and we got the tight color-coordinated team looks.” Mikey chirped

Raph bumps fists with Mikey. “Let’s do it! Let’s go out and bust some bad guys!”

Donnie pops up in front of them with his tablet. “Yeah. I just feel like, you know, we need a case to get the juices flowing a little bit. You know, let’s see what the internet has to say about it, shall we…”

Leo hops up from behind the Splinter’s chair and then flops over the back of it. Where did he even come from?

"Yo, Leo, we’re gonna be heroes!" Mikey chirped happily.

Leo slithers down, so he’s on his back in the chair seat. “Okay, what’s the plan? Solve the city’s rat problem?”

Splinter’s tail flashes out and smacks Leo in the face, knocking him off the chair. “Hey, now. I am standing right here.”

Leo sits up, rubbing his head.

“Pfft, no way. We’re crime fighters!” Raph exclaimed.

Kai could see Splinter walking off again in his peripheral vision.

Donnie holds his tablet so the screen is visible. “Okay, check this out. The Spine-Breaking Bandits!”

Raph chuckles. “Yeah. Go big or go home!”

Leo slides in between Mikey and Donnie. “Yeah, go home on a stretcher. What else did you got?”

Kai was super confused. Spine-breaking bandits? And what was Leo even so worried about that? A human spine is very easy to snap if you know where to hit and how much force to use. But him and his brothers? Their spines were protected by their shell. And as mutants, they are naturally stronger than humans. It’s just not logical for some weak, petty human to be able to break their spines.

Donnie sweeps his finger across the tablet to bring up another screen. “Uh, okay, here’s something. The Long Island Mangler!”

Leo sets his hands on the screen. “Okay, Donnie. I appreciate you giving your best effort, but maybe we should save mangling and spine-breaking for, I don’t know, our second day?”

Leo’s brothers just stare at him for a second.

Donnie changes the screen again.” Mm, well, this one’s kind of lame. Someone stole paper from a delivery truck.”

Leo snatches the tablet out of Donnie’s hands and strikes a pose. “Not on my watch! That’s exactly the kind of junior-level mischief we can put an end to.”

“Really? That’ll make us heroes? But it’s only paper.” Raph asked.

Why did they want to be heroes anyway? Being a ‘hero’ meant fighting, and Kai really didn’t like fighting; he always hurt after fighting.

“It’s only paper?” Leo muttered before laughing and then speaking louder. “I’m so sorry. Donnie, what did he just say? Did he say it’s only paper?”

“Yup.”

“Did he say it’s only paper?”

“Yes, he did.”

“Okay!” Leo starts pacing in front of his brothers. “That’s what they all say. You think the road Hero Town is paved with real crime? No, It’s paved with the tears of the poor paper man. And who helps that guy? I’ll tell you who; we are who.”

“Yes!” Raph, Mikey, and Donnie cheered at once.

“I don’t understand.” Kai finally spoke and made his presence known. His brothers jumped when he started talking, which was stupid; he was here the whole time– and he wasn’t even invisible at any point. “Why help the humans over some paper? Paper is easy to obtain. It’s not our fault that the ‘paper man’ is too weak to defend his paper.”

“It’s not about the fact that paper is easy to get; it’s about the fact that someone is stealing it.” Mikey was the one to try and explain the situation to Kai. “Stealing is wrong, even if it is just paper.

“But what if you’re stealing to help someone? When I was little, and Draxum started feeding me less, Huginn and Muninn would sometimes steal food and give it to me without Draxum knowing.”

Kai’s brothers had gone quiet and just started staring at him. Had he said something wrong? After a moment of them just staring at him, Kai let out a confused chirp, and that was enough to get Mikey speaking again. “Well, in a way, you are right. It kinda depends on morals. Like stealing food is okay if you're doing it to feed the hungry. Though even then, stealing is still bad.”

This was confusing. “But why help the humans?”

“We know that you don’t really trust humans, but not all humans are bad. Remember April? She’s a human, and she’s not bad, right?” Leo was the one to speak up this time.

Right, April. She had left– with Mayhem– after all the commotion with introducing Kai to Splinter, and they hadn’t returned since. Kai supposed that April was bearable, but he still didn’t completely trust her. Though that didn’t matter, Kai had plenty of confidence that he could easily kill the human if she proved to be a threat, even with Mayhem guarding her. “She is… bearable.”

“See! You’ll be good friends in no time! Now, let’s go catch some paper thieves!”

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The next thing Kai knew, all five of them were running across the city's rooftops. Kai’s brothers were all running on their feet alone like a human would; Kai kept on all fours. He was lower to the ground when running on all fours, so he was harder to spot than his brothers would be while running on their two feet like that. Kai’s scales and shell, being primarily black, also helped keep him hidden amongst the dark night sky. Kai was being extra cautious and was on high alert. There were a lot of humans down below, and Kai had never really been to the surface where the humans lived. He was on the surface for a short time when he left the Hidden City and went to the sewers where his brothers lived, but they didn’t encounter nearly as many humans as there were swarming in the streets below them.

~~~

Kai had also left the Hidden City once when he was little and had discovered one of the portals to the surface. That was the first and only time he did that. He had gotten lost on the surface, and Draxum had to come and find him. When Draxum finally found Kai Subject-5, he was mad– he wasn’t mad, he was livid– and punished S-5 for going to the surface; he didn’t get fed for a week and had to do extra training in the pit.

“You could have been killed!” Draxum yelled from his place atop the edge of the pit.

“But I wasn’t! I made sure to keep out of sight!” Subject-5 yelled as he dodged out of the way of a failed experiment– it was a ribbit-like creature with antlers, and it was two times bigger than S-5.

“And what if one of those humans had caught you and brought you back to one of their government labs!?”

S-5 just kept dodging and landing non-lethal blows. He didn’t want to kill the rabbit yet; killing it meant being done, and being done meant going back to his cell. “But they didn’t get me! They didn’t even know that I was there!”

“That is not the point! You are well-trained in battle, but you are not ready to fight the humans! You left to the surface alone! The humans will team up to overpower you! And they will not give up until you are dead or contained in a government lab!”

“I got lost, not captured!” The rabbit ran toward S-5, intending to hit him with its antlers. S-5 popped into his shell before the rabbit could hit him; then, he popped out of his shell and kicked the rabbit in the stomach from underneath it with enough force to send it across the pit and into the wall. Oops, S-5 didn’t mean to use that much force on his kick.

“And if you were lost, you wouldn’t have known where to go if you had been spotted! Nowhere is safe on the surface! Humans are everywhere!”

“But the books say that humans and yokai used to live together!” The rabbit was starting to tire; Subject-5 didn’t have long. “So why do I have to train to get rid of them!?”

“Because they chased us underground and have killed many of us! Those books no longer tell the truth, and that is all in the past! You are not to go to the surface again! Do you understand?”

“But I–”

“Do you understand?” Draxum cut S-5 off before he could argue any further.

S-5 dug his claws into the rabbit's neck, wrapped his tail around its neck just below his claws, and twisted. The momentum of the rabbit’s running, tied with the twisting movement from S-5, caused the rabbit to crash into the wall. Kai quickly sunk his teeth into the rabbit and tightened his grip on its neck with his tail. The rabbit screeched and roared as it struggled to breathe. A few minutes after the rabbit stilled and went limp, S-5 released it and got up, licking its blood off his beak. “Yes, Draxum, I understand.”

“Good. Huginn, Muninn, escort Subject-5 to its cell in the dungeon. They are to be punished for its behavior today.”

Huginn and Muninn looked at each other before flying off Draxum’s shoulders to escort S-5 to his cell.

The seven-year-old listened to Huginn and Muninn's voices getting further and further away until they were gone. S-5 continued to wait at the metal door for a few more minutes before crawling up in the corner of the cell on the one blanket that was there and cried oh so quietly. ‘Silence is a virtue.’ Draxum’s voice echoed in his head. Kai muffled a sad, desperate chirp that had slipped out of his beak. He didn’t need Draxum hearing him; that would only make things worse.

~~~

They finally stop on one of the rooftops, and Kai lets the memory fade away to the back of his mind. Donnie used his goggles to look around.

“What kind of weirdo steals paper?” Raph asked. Everyone had been relatively quiet on the way here.

“A dreamer.” Mikey chirped. “You look at a blank sheet and see nothing. They see possibilities.” Raph elbowed Mikey in the back, causing him to squeak at the force.

“There’s only one store they haven’t hit yet, and it is right over there, oh, convenient. Donnie informed them.

“How ‘bout we go stealth and make ‘em wish they stole toilet paper?” Raph suggested, and his brothers chuckled. Kai had stayed quiet, staying on all fours to be low to the ground. Kai still didn’t really understand why they were doing this, but Raph had just mentioned stealth, and Kai could do that.

“Okay.” Donnie answered for everyone.

Kai’s brothers leaped off the building and braced themselves suspended above the street between the two buildings; Kai stayed on the rooftop, watching carefully as the two humans with a foot painted on their faces and flames above their heads were walking with big stacks of paper.

Mikey lands on Raph’s shell, but Raph loses his grip on the walls and falls. “Whoa!”

A cat shrieks as it's startled by Raph and Mikey falling into the alleyway. Leo and Donnie jump down after their brothers. Both humans leap in opposite directions as turtles charge at them.

“You two go left.” Raph directed Leo and Donnie. “Mikey, go right. I’ll take the roof and swoop down like a boss!”

Leo and Donnie chase the Foot Lieutenant, and Mikey throws his kusari-fundo at the Foot Brute, but it wraps around a fire hydrant as the Brute rounds a corner.

Mikey goes flying around, still caught on the fire hydrant. “Whoa!"

Mikey smashes right into Leo and Donnie as they round the corner. They all groan as they lay in a pile.

“Where are they?” Mikey asked

“That is you, right?” Leo asked

Kai– now invisible– watches Raph jump off the top of a building directly above the rest of their brothers. “Swoopin’ like a boss!”

Leo starts waving his arms. “No, no, no!” Raph lands hard on all of them. “Ow!”

Kai’s brothers weren't very good at fighting, but that didn’t matter. He ran to the other side of the building, where he saw the two humans heading to a van. Kai let off a quiet growl before he leaped down from the roof and onto the smaller human.

“What the!?” The human yelled, confused as he was tackled to the ground but couldn’t see his opponent.

“There they are!” Raph shouted as he came into view.

“Wait a minute, where’s Kai?” Leo had asked.

The human struggled and yelled in pain as Kai bit into his shoulder and started to draw blood.

“He must be invisible!” Mikey pointed out as he saw the humans struggle.

“Hey!” The other, larger human shouted as he hit right where Kai was, knocking him off of the smaller human.

Kai dropped his invisibility and licked the human’s blood off his beak. “Lucky shot; that’s all that was.”

“Kai!” Mikey shouted. “Are you okay!?”

The sound of a screeching van goes down the street. The turtles watch as the van drives down the road with the back door open and paper flying all over. Kai hisses as the van disappears out of view.

“Uh, quick question. Did we seriously just get schooled by paper thieves?” Donnie asked.

“I don’t swoop like a boss. I swoop like a noob.” Raph said.

“Man, this seemed like a really cool idea until we didn’t succeed at it.” Mikey said with a sad chirp.

Leo stands up with his sword on his shoulder. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Where’d my brothers go?” Leo points at Mikey with the pommel of his sword. “Mikey, where’s your… legendary optimism?” Mikey groans as Leo turns to point at Raph. “Raph, where’s your, ya know, your go-getter attitude?” Leo grabs Raph by the shoulders and shakes him before walking over to Donnie. “And Donnie, where’s your… your thing, your– emotionless passion?”

Donnie has his Head down and speaks very quietly. “Here.”

“We can still catch these lame old paper crooks and be heroes!” Leo exclaimed.

“Yeah, that’s gonna be hard. This was the last paper store in town.”

“Hmm… Or was it?”

“Yeah, I… I literally just said that.”

“How do you plan on stopping them if you can’t even fight together without taking each other out?” Kai finally spoke up after he finished cleaning most of the blood off of him.

“Oh, I’m sorry, but if I recall correctly, you let them get away too!” Leo spat.

Kai growled at Leo, causing the turtle to sink a little into his shell. “You all took yourselves out! I at least managed to draw blood from one of the humans!”

Kai’s brothers all looked at each other.

“Anyway!” Leo broke the silence. “We just need to make our own paper shop and lure those flame heads to us!”

“That seems like a lot of work.” Kai said, watching Leo.

“Well, do you have a better idea?”

“Yeah, track them down.”

“And how would we do that, Kai?” Leo asked with a sarcastic voice.

“They left a trail for us.” Kai said as he pointed to the paper scattered in the road in a messy line.

“Uh, Kai. Not to be that guy, but you just pointed to a trail of paper. Paper, which weighs about 4.5 grams. The paper will just blow away in the wind, and the trail will disappear.” Donnie was the one to speak up this time.

“That doesn’t matter. We don’t need the paper to track them down. The paper is just a visual trail.”

“And how else would we track them?” Leo asked skeptically.

“Simple. I made that one human bleed so I can just track the smell of his blood.”

“Ohmigosh! That’s–” Mikey shivered, unable to complete his sentence.

“What?” Kai asked, watching Mikey.

“So you can track them just by the smell of their blood?” Leo asked.

“If I knew their scent well enough, I wouldn’t need the blood to track them. The blood is just easy to follow, especially since I’m still getting used to all the new scents and smells of the city.”

“So you’re basically like a tracking dog? Cool!”

“I am not a tracking dog, Leo. And you all could do this too if you actually learned how to filter out scents to track a specific scent.”

“Oh, oh, oh! Is that why I can always tell when vegetables and fruit are at their peak and are starting to go bad just by smelling them?” Mikey asked.

“Probably. You like to cook, and you often use your nose to gather the best ingredients. So you’ve probably trained yourself to filter out scents to tell if food is good and fresh or is going bad and rotting.”

“So cool!”

“Alright, fine. We’ll just track the flame heads down. It’s not like my idea was the greatest anyway.” Leo had muttered the last sentence.

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“We’ve been walking for over an hour! And the paper trail has long since been gone!” Leo complained. “Are you sure you know where we’re going? And why are you walking like that?”

“Yes, Leo! I know where we’re going! I’m still on their scent! And I’m walking on all fours for a few reasons. One, it keeps me closer to the ground, so I’m harder to spot; and two, it’s making tracking them just that little bit easier.”

“Why are you so insistent on not being seen?” Mikey asked. “There's not even anyone around, and even if there was, you can just turn invisible.”

“One, my invisibility doesn’t last forever; two, if I went invisible, you wouldn’t be able to follow me. And why aren’t you guys worried about being spotted? Humans are dangerous.”

“Not all humans are dangerous, Kai.” Raph was the one to speak up this time. “We get that you were taught that all humans are bad, but that’s just not true. Yeah, some humans are bad, and most humans are scared of us and would totally flip if they saw us, but some humans are nice, just like April.”

Kai came to a stop and sat down, his tail curling around his ankle as it often did.

“Wait, why are you stopping?” Leo asked.

Kai pointed to a large ship resting at the docks. “There. That’s where our ‘paper thieves’ are.”

“And you’re sure?”

“Yes, I am sure. That is where they are.”

“Alright!” Raph said as he punched his fist into his hand. “Here’s the plan!”

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They enter the ship through a small door. Raph rolls in first, thudding into a wall, then Leo cartwheels inside, and Raph rolls past him, slamming into something before rising. The turtles stare down through an open hatch into the ship's hull. Below them, the two humans stand amongst piles and piles of stolen paper. Leo leaps into the hull first.

“Okay, twerp and…” Leo started to talk as the rest of his brothers jumped down. Foot Lieutenant turns, and then Foot Brute. “surprisingly, big man. It’s five against two, so what say we just call it a day, right?

“Whoa! They’ve got footprints on their faces!” Mikey pointed to the humans as he said that.

“Uh, are those flames on their heads?” Raph asked.

“Feels like a real hazard for a paper thief.” Donnie mentioned.

“Wait, you guys are just now noticing this?” Kai asked.

“Well, sorry. We were caught up in the moment, Kai!” Leo defended.

“You! The Foot Brute yelled. “I’m gonna grind your bones with my fists.”

“Ooh, that’s inspired. We’re both gonna grind your bones.” The Foot Lieutenant exclaimed.

“Right. Listen, bubs. Before we put our footprints on your faces, we gotta ask, what’s with all the paper?" Raph asked

The Foot Lieutenant grabs a sheet of paper and quickly begins folding it. He finishes it and holds up a tiny paper ninja.

“Yay, arts and crafts!” Mikey chirped.

The Foot Lieutenant throws the paper ninja at them. It transforms in midair, becoming as large as Raph.

“Whoa!” Kai’s brothers all voice their surprise.

“Mystics!” Kai yelled.

“Mystics?” Leo repeated as the paper ninja charged at them, and he dodged out of the way.

“Yes, mystics! Like how you can portal or how I can turn invisible!”

“Huh?” Raph didn’t dodge in time, so the paper ninja slammed into Raph and sent him crashing into a wall, his shell leaving a sizable crater.

“Uh, hey, maybe we should fight now and register our amazement later?" Donnie said as he watched the paper ninja.

Leo rushes to the paper ninja and swipes at it with his sword, and it explodes into confetti.

“What?” Leo asked, confused.

The confetti landed on them, and they all started groaning and spitting and swinging their arms as the particles rained down on them.

“Ah, no!”

“Nasty!”

“It’s all in my mouth!”

“Ah!”

Kai’s brothers all voiced their disgust at once.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute! It’s just confetti!” Leo pointed out.

“Huh. Oh yeah.” Raph said in a much calmer voice.

“Paper viscera.” Donnie pointed out.

“Wait, where’s Kai?” Mikey asked.

As the two humans realized that they could only see four turtles, they panicked and looked frantically around in a vain attempt to find Kai. The Foot Lieutenant flails around as Kai grabs onto him.

“Oh no, you don’t!” The Foot Brute tried to punch Kai but only managed to punch the Foot Lieutenant since he couldn’t see Kai.

“Ow! Hit the turtle! Not me, you buffoon!”

“I can’t see him!”

The Foot Lieutenant twisted in an odd way before a sickening crack could be heard, and his arm bent too far in the wrong direction. “Aaaaaaaaah!” He screamed in pain.

“Ohmigosh!”

“Oh wow.”

“I was not expecting that.”

“Well, that just happened.”

Kai could only just barely hear his brothers over human’s scream of pain. Kai sunk his teeth into the Foot Lieutenant’s shoulder once more, drawing more blood. And again, like the fool he was, the Foot Brute tried to punch Kai but could only punch the Foot Lieutenant. He cried out in pain as he was slammed into the floor by the momentum of Kai leaping off of him and in front of his brothers. Kai dropped his invisibility and hissed at the two humans in warning.

“This isn’t over!” The Foot Brute yelled as a portal opened up, and he picked up the Foot Lieutenant to carry him through the portal.

“So… Does this count as a win?” Mikey asked.

“Well, I don’t know. Let’s think about it. Did the bad guys get their big supply of paper? Uh, no. Did they build their army of soldiers?” Leo laughed. “No. No, they didn’t. Are they otherwise thwarted, and we unscathed?”

“Yes!” Raph, Mikey, and Donnie all cheered at once.

“Hero mission accomplished, my friends!”

“Yeah!” They all shouted. Kai watched as his brothers started to wrestle with each other before collapsing on the ground in a pile, laughing.

“On another note, that may have been a bit too far, but you did good, Kai.” Leo looked at Kai. “Though maybe next time, we can work on getting less blood on you?”

“The human is lucky I gave them a broken bone and minor blood loss. I should have killed him.”

“We don’t kill people, Kai. That’s wrong.” Mikey stated. “But we’ll work on that.”

“Right. But for now, we should get back home. We– and more importantly, Kai– need a bath.” Raph was the one to speak up this time.

And with that said, the five turtles made their way back to the lair for a bath.

Oh, more lore from Kai! Nice. ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

But he seriously need some guidance before he snaps one day

*not foreshadowing things or so*

#trouble speaks #moots in da box

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densi-mber · 1 year ago

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We Swear It’s Not Real, Part 2

***

“So, when are you two going to take the next step?” Mandy asked, insinuating herself between Kensi and Deeks. From her slightly lopsided smile, he thought she’d enjoyed the wine tasting. Turning to Deeks with a conspiratorial smile, she leaned closer. “I bet you already have a ring and spot picked out, don’t you Marty.”

“Beg your pardon?” Deeks asked at the same time Kensi nervously said,

“Mandy, you know we’re taking things slowly.” Taking Deeks’ arm, her hand tightened around his, flexing quickly several times. They’d decided that if anyone inquired about their future as a couple, they would redirect and lie through their teeth.

They just hadn’t allowed for a drunken Mandy’s persistence.

“Oh yeah, I’ve heard that same speech from both of you.” She affected a higher-pitched, sing-song voice, ‘We want to enjoy our time together without any pressure.’ ‘We only just found each other.’ ‘We don’t want to kill the romance.’” Mandy rolled her eyes. “You two are perfect together and one of you needs to make a move so I can start planning the wedding. Which means you need to get on it mister.” She poked Deeks in the chest.

“Mandy, enough!” Kensi snapped. “We’re not like other couples, so stop pushing for some fairytale that doesn’t exist.”

Mandy’s eyes widened, a bit of her alcohol induced giddiness disappearing in the face of Kensi’s anger.

“Geez Kay, I was mostly joking. You’ve always talked about your perfect wedding all these years. I thought you’d be happy.”

“Well, not everyone gets a perfect ending,” Kensi said, pulling her arm out of Deeks’.

“Kens—” he protested softly, as she stood up, gathering up the length of her blue skirt.

“I need a couple minutes.” Then before either of them could stop her, she hurried off towards the small vineyard gift shop.

“I’m such an idiot,” Mandy sighed, cupping her hands over her mouth. “I’m sorry. I really didn’t think I was going to upset her that much.”

“It’s ok,” Deeks assured with a forgiving smile. “It’s kind of a touchy subject. But, uh, if I ever do propose, I do have the perfect place in mind.”

Lifting her head slowly, Mandy grinned back at him. “I knew you wouldn’t let me down.”

***

When Kensi came back about 20 minutes later, she was noticeably subdued, and faked her way through the rest of the event.

“Well, that was a disaster,” she sighed on their way back home. She’d kicked off her heels and roughly yanked the hairpins out keeping her hair in place.

“Eh, I thought the Riesling wasn’t bad,” Deeks joked. “Tiffani definitely approved.” Kensi gave him a knowing look.

“I freaked out for no reason. I let Mandy get to me, even though I knew she, or one of the other girls would pressure me about it at some point.”

“So why did you?”

“I don’t know,” Kensi said to his surprise. “I guess…I’ve been thinking about how different my life is from Kat’s and Mandy’s, any of my friends. I’m probably not going to get engaged, or invite all my friends to bachelor party, or marry—that’s just not my life.”

“Who knows, maybe I will propose to you someday,” Deeks said, probably getting way too close to the line of truthfulness for his own good.

Tilting her head to the side, Kensi reached for his hand on the steering wheel, smiling sadly. “I wouldn’t do that to you, Deeks.” She squeezed his hand once before letting go, and settling back with a wistful expression.

***

“Just a couple more weeks, and you’ll be a free man,” Kensi commented one night as they painstakingly glued tiny bits of lace to roughly a thousand centerpieces.

“Yeah, seems like it was just yesterday that the Tiffanys were jumping up in down in excitement at Kensi One-Date Blye finally having a boyfriend,” Deeks said after a moment.

The weeks flew had flown by with increasing speed, and before Deeks knew it, they’d hit the month of Kat’s wedding. With that, Deeks felt an increasing sense of panic with the knowledge that his and Kensi’s charade would be over once the reception ended.

And he didn’t want it to. Well, that wasn’t true; he didn’t want to pretend anymore. He wanted to be with Kensi, and he was pretty sure she felt similarly.

Since the disastrous wine tasting, her kisses were less perfunctory, and she found reasons to keep him hanging around longer each night. The day she’d insisted she needed help organizing her dishes was probably his favorite.

Every time he even hinted at there being something more, Kensi brushed him off with some self-deprecating comment about her inability to keep a houseplant alive. She wasn’t suited for a relationship, she insisted.

“I bet you can’t wait,” Kensi continued, pausing expectantly. Deeks hesitated, licking his lips as a touch of nerves set in.

“About that.” He drew a breath through his teeth, wondering if he was about to make the worst decision of his life. “You know how we said if either of us ever found someone that we liked, we’d stop doing this. Fake dating?” he asked. Kensi stilled, her face going carefully blank.

“Yes,” she said. “Did—did you find someone like that?”

“I did. I wanted to tell you sooner, but uh, I didn’t want to back out on our deal.”

“Oh.” The devastation on her face made him almost stop right then and there and tug her into his arms. Shrugging a little helplessly, Kensi offered a weak smile. “What’s she like?”

“She’s utterly ridiculous. In the best way possibly,” Deeks replied, not having to pretend for once. “She’s a brunette, with the most amazing smile in the world, and a terrible sense of humor.”

He saw genuine hurt flash across Kensi’s face, and decided he’d gone far enough.

“Wow, that’s really amazing Deeks. I’m so happy for you,” she said, sounding devastated.

“Yeah. I forgot to mention that she’s got these crazy eyes too. Different colors and everything.” He paused, fiddling with a bit of lace as Kensi froze, tilting her head.

“Deeks,” she whispered, a note of question in her voice. He couldn’t contain his smile.

“And she’s currently sitting in front of me,” he finished softly. Kensi gaped at him for a moment, then she launched herself at him, knocking him to the floor, her lips slanting over his. He leaned up into the kiss, tangling his fingers into her hair.

“You are so mean,” Kensi murmured, punctuating each word with a kiss.

“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” He drew back, brushing a strand of hair out of her eyes, and looked up at her. “Kensi Blye, will you go out with me?”

Kensi cupped his cheek, arching up to kiss him again. “Yes. More than anything.”

“To never be free again,” he said as Kensi drew him back down, rolling them into the long forgotten centerpieces.

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A/N: I think I might be watching too much sappy romance stuff. Sorry if this feel a little flat at the end.

#densimber 7.0 #densimber 2023 #ncis la fanfiction #marty deeks #kensi blye #densi #au #fake dating #fluff and romance #we swear it’s not real #part 2 #by ejzah

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lunarwing12 · 2 years ago

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Kora opened the door a crack. She saw a man and a very small girl standing there in the dark. At the sight of her the man fluttered his butterfly wings anxiously. The girl was too young to know exactly what was happening. “This is her?” Kora asked.

“Yes.”

“Bring her inside.” She opened the door to let them in. The girl, who was now paying attention, saw Kora and started to fidget with her tail nervously. She looked up questioningly at the man she was with.

“Go on,” he told her, “It’s safe.” She nervously stepped forward and took Kora’s hand.

“Her name is Eris. She’s very smart for her age, but very shy. She’s only three.”

“Hello Eris,” Kora smiled at the little girl.

“Hi.”

“You don't have to be nervous.” Eris stepped back towards the man and hugged his leg.

“Alli!” Kora called.

Another woman came running to the door, her golden tail wagging. “Awwww is this her?” She asked. The man nodded. “What’s your name, little one?”

“Eris,” she said in a small voice. Alli held her arms out. Eris stepped over to her and allowed herself to be picked up.

“Well, Eris, me and Kora are gonna take care of you, ‘kay?”

“What about Selket?” She turned to the man with wings.

“He has to leave, I’m sorry.”

“Listen Eris,” he began, “you will be safer here than you ever were with me. Kora and Alli will protect you, and someday you might see me again, okay?” Eris nodded. She squirmed out of Alli’s arms and gave Selket one last hug.

“No humans saw you, right?” Kora asked him, her tail twitching nervously.

“No. I was very careful.”

“Good.”

“Thank you. Take good care of Eris for me.” He kissed Eris on the head and stepped outside.

“Can you show Eris her room?” Kora asked.

“Sure, come on Eris.” Alli picked her up again, and disappeared down the hallway. Kora stepped outside to speak to Selket.

“How are things in the city?”

“Not any better. There are riots for our rights but most protestors are shot and killed by the police, unless they’re with an owner.”

“Where are Eris’ parents?”

“I don't know,” he sighed. “There’s a good chance they were killed in a riot or even a peaceful protest.”

“I see, and the zoos?”

“Treatment is getting better. They’re still being given bowls on the ground like animals to eat out of, but the food is human food instead of kibble for cats and dogs or raw meat. I guess they got sick of their ‘freaks’ dying from malnourishment and food poisoning.”

“Be careful on your way back home. And if you find any more orphans, you’re welcome to bring them here.”

“I’ll remember that.” He nodded to Kora and fluttered his wings, taking off into the sky.

#the otherkind #otherkin #otherkin media #otherkin story #otherkin book #therian #fantasy #original story #writing a book #book #prologue #tigerkin #wolfkin #butterflykin #catkin #birdkin #fishkin #lizardkin #lionkin

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jeannahas · 1 year ago

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1: Coba Kai, The DND movie, Spider Man Across the Spiderverse.

2:i posess a pair of brown socks that are very comfy, but not too thick or fluffy. I wear them when I am cold or in the rare occasions I actually have to wear shoes.

3:no- oddly I don’t really like fruit, but I love milkshakes.

4:when I get to dress nicely I go for a white shirt, vest of ne of three colors, a tie that fits the occasion, and when I have a pair a set of nice black slacks - usually with brown shoes perfectly polished as an affront to fashion, and one of any number of simple leather belts. Occasionally, I allow add an Aguayo sash to the mix, this depends on the vest color and tie color.

5: scrambled. And tasty.

6: Page number. When I close a book I have the habit of checking the page number before it closes- upon opening the book I flip to that number, find my place, and continue reading. This is due to the fact that my brand of ADHD leads to me instantly misplacing any bookmark while reading as it wanders from one hand, to the other, to behind my ear, to heaven only knows where on earth before will have even turned the page.

7:black.

8:warhammer! And swords. I love painting small things, and I like swords. 😄

9:fire. I love fire. Candles, campfires, fireplaces, before brides, raging infernos, very soothing. My meditation app thingies are all set to sounds of campfires because I find it soothing.

10:I did not understand this question.

11:I do not. I have 20-10 vision, and my eye doctor always tells me I should have been a pilot.

12:hm. My best friend is my wife- many things.

13: Pen. I don’t like the way pencils vibrate in my fingers- end have a much smoother texture, and older quill style pens have a more satisfying scratch- pencils just kind of annoy me.

14:a. In front of a fire, b. Among Rock formation sun a desert, c. In the middle of a forest in the middle of no where- pine forests preferred.

15: I do- fiddle leaf figs, keep the air cleaner and survive my horrible inside houspkant skills. I somehow killed an Aloe plant.

16: I do not wear hoodies- used to, stopped once I descovered a preference for jackets.

17:A pommel for a sword I am currently rebuilding.

18:hm. The arrival of my ancestors on the American continent. Curious to know what they looked like.

19: I dressed up as a Roman soldier/knight thing when I was six - they still sell that same costume nowadays, and It makes me irrationally happy.

20:ni idea. Simple math. Daily use.

21: English realism- specifically the works of Luke Feilds, closely followed by some of the artists and their work from Magic the Tathering within the past 10 or so years- a lot of modern artwork is really well made! Enjoying the current environment of artists. I hate “Modern” art with a firey passion and see no value in it. Everything since Dadaism is…just sad.

22:cold- except for hot chicken late during winter.

23: hm. I actually don’t sing in the shower. None?

24: No. I am aware of this, so I drive as cautiously as I can.

25: Nope. I’m too indecisive and I know that ti would chang emu mind immediatley after getting one or I would get bored of it. Knowing this about myself, I’ll occasionally decorate my right forearm with Henna.

26: Kind of. I have a book of family recipients, I can follow the instructions, but it takes me a while. I will someday make a siccessful puff pasty.

I have not yet succeeded.

27:yea- I have a mini- black belt piece with my Dan Number embroidered on it. (2010-02)

28: I swim decently well- nothing fancy, but I know the major strokes and can make the whole length of a swimming pool underwater.

29:yes!! My favorite set was a dwarves castle my brothers and I got for Christmas 🎅 ne year- we actually managed to Keep It intact while playing with it too! Much fun- we would hold wars with all the mini figs, this likely led me into Warhammer.

30: No.

31: Hm. Hm………..apparently, Cheeleader- but specifically the Lumity animatic. Other than that- Vampair- all of them frequently. Raised by Bats is my favorite.

32: silver.

33: Earbuds.

34: yep. Without too much trouble.

35: a stuffed black cat I got as a kid I named Teto. He was an excelent swordsman.

36: Air Hockey- I am not good at any other arcade games. However, I don’t get VR sick at all, so I can outlast people when arcades have VR games. 🤣

37: Nope- I prefer it actually!

38: Vampair and Voltaire. 🫠

39: I was teaching a martial arts class and had several kids have some good “Aha!” Moments. Very satisfying.

40: Oooh- Either Ponderosa Pines or Juniper- ponderosa because they smell absolutely FANTASTIC and there were several forests of the trees close to where I gre up, and Junioers because those trees were EVERYWHERE growing up, and the wood was super dense, and made carving and whittling it super satisfying, as you could get it to such a fine polish when you were done.

41: I do not remember- a scent. (My nose doesn’t work, so I let my wife pick my deoderant)

42: I do- but I never really play them. The one I turn on most of them is WorldBox- I like to some funny little civilizations and make them fight each other for survival.

43: on.

44: collect! Collect and make into my dragon hoard! ( occasionally use it to buy soda from gas stations)

45: NO. It is horrible despite my best efforts. I am left handed, and my writing has been described as “if cursive were created by an eldritch being”

46: a random anime called “The Vision of EscaFlowne” I was expecting not to like it, but ended up thoroughly enjoying it and being sad that there was only one season and that they had to fit the entire back half of the story into the last few episodes- I’ve head there is a movie, I have not watched it yet.

47: Yes- but getting the motivation to actually get OUT THE DOOR is really hard.

48: Not really. I grab what’s available. I do have favorite silver ware- silverware with a rose on the handle- we called them “ Robber” silverware because we would steal them from each other at the dinner table, and when my parents moved I was able to snag them (with permission) and I have the Robber spoons! (This is a triumph roughly as significant as attaining my 3rd degree black belt was)

49: 1. Run one lap around my domic le laughing like a maniac while getting drenched with the first rain of the season: 2. Get as warm as possible, read a book, and take a nap while it rains. Lately; my favorite part is calling my oldest daughter to the door so she can see the rain- she gets SO excited, and it is just the best thing ever.

50: they vary with mood: sometimes- all the pillows three blankets (as heavy as possible) creating a little cave / nest where I can hide untill Morning. Other items- give me a blanket, a pillow, and a hardwood floor. 10/10 will recomend, especially if you are prone to overheating.

50 Questions Just Because

What are three shows in your watchlist that you’ve been meaning to get to?

Describe your favorite pair of socks

Do you like smoothies?

What do you wear when you have to dress nicely?

How do you like your eggs?

What do you use to keep your place when you’re reading a book?

What color dominates your closet?

Do you collect anything? If so, what?

What sounds or scents calm you down?

What’s your favorite kind of uquiz question? (Lyric, color, aesthetic, etc)

Do you wear glasses or contacts?

What’s something about your best friend that you love?

Do you prefer to write in pen or pencil?

What are some places where you feel most at home?

Do you have any houseplants? Do any of them have names?

Describe your favorite hoodie. How long have you had it? What makes it unique?

What’s the last thing you ordered online?

What’s one historical event that you would have liked to have witnessed?

What’s your favorite Halloween costume from when you were a kid?

What kind of math are you best at?

What’s your favorite period in art history, your favorite famous work and/or your favorite style of art? If you don’t know any that’s ok!

Iced or hot drinks?

Which songs do you like to sing in the shower?

Are you a good driver?

Do you have any piercings or tattoos? Are there any that you want?

Can you cook or bake? If so, what are some of your specialties?

Do you have any keychains on your home or car keys? Describe them!

Can you swim very well? Do you like swimming?

Did you play with Legos as a kid? What was your favorite set?

Is your closet organized? If so, how?

What’s the last music video you watched?

If you could dye your hair any color, regardless of how you think it would look, what color would you choose?

Headphones or earbuds?

Can you read analog clocks?

Describe your favorite stuffed animal, either now or from when you were a kid.

What’s an arcade or table game (air hockey, ping pong, etc) that you’re really good at?

Do you mind if others are in the kitchen when you’re cooking or baking?

What’s one show you watch or musician you listen to that your friends know nothing about?

What was the best part of your day today?

What’s your favorite kind of tree?

What scent is your deodorant?

Do you have any games on your phone? If so, which one(s) is/are your favorite?

Do you shower with the lights on or off?

What do you do with spare change?

Do you have good handwriting?

What’s the last thing a friend recommended to you that you looked into and actually liked?

Do you like to go on walks?

Do you have a favorite plate or bowl?

What’s your favorite thing to do when it’s raining?

Describe your perfect sleeping conditions

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animal-lover-forever · 4 months ago

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And Then There Were Five.

Chapter Three: And Then There Wers Five... Heroes?

“Where's our free grub, noodle man?” One of the humans– the bad guy– had asked.

“Too spicy for you?” Lou Jitsu asked before he laughed. “Everyone’s a critic. Hm.”

“Man, ‘Teriyaki Shakedown’ always gets me so,” Donnie inhales sharply before finishing his sentence. “jazzed!”

“Yeah, Lou Jitsu’s the business!” Raph had cheered.

The remote goes flying through the air and hits Raph in the face, knocking him down.

“That’s nice of you to say, Pop, but I’m tired of practicing.” Mikey had whined.

Nice? Mikey thought that was nice? Kai isn't so sure that Mikey had heard Splinter correctly.

Raph finally stands up. “Yeah, we can be heroes like Lou Jitsu– like you, Pops!”

Splinter laughs. “Nice try.” Then he walks away.

“We got the skills, and we got the tight color-coordinated team looks.” Mikey chirped

Raph bumps fists with Mikey. “Let’s do it! Let’s go out and bust some bad guys!”

Leo hops up from behind the Splinter’s chair and then flops over the back of it. Where did he even come from?

"Yo, Leo, we’re gonna be heroes!" Mikey chirped happily.

Leo slithers down, so he’s on his back in the chair seat. “Okay, what’s the plan? Solve the city’s rat problem?”

Splinter’s tail flashes out and smacks Leo in the face, knocking him off the chair. “Hey, now. I am standing right here.”

Leo sits up, rubbing his head.

“Pfft, no way. We’re crime fighters!” Raph exclaimed.

Kai could see Splinter walking off again in his peripheral vision.

Donnie holds his tablet so the screen is visible. “Okay, check this out. The Spine-Breaking Bandits!”

Raph chuckles. “Yeah. Go big or go home!”

Leo slides in between Mikey and Donnie. “Yeah, go home on a stretcher. What else did you got?”

Donnie sweeps his finger across the tablet to bring up another screen. “Uh, okay, here’s something. The Long Island Mangler!”

Leo sets his hands on the screen. “Okay, Donnie. I appreciate you giving your best effort, but maybe we should save mangling and spine-breaking for, I don’t know, our second day?”

Leo’s brothers just stare at him for a second.

Donnie changes the screen again.” Mm, well, this one’s kind of lame. Someone stole paper from a delivery truck.”

Leo snatches the tablet out of Donnie’s hands and strikes a pose. “Not on my watch! That’s exactly the kind of junior-level mischief we can put an end to.”

“Really? That’ll make us heroes? But it’s only paper.” Raph asked.

Why did they want to be heroes anyway? Being a ‘hero’ meant fighting, and Kai really didn’t like fighting; he always hurt after fighting.

“It’s only paper?” Leo muttered before laughing and then speaking louder. “I’m so sorry. Donnie, what did he just say? Did he say it’s only paper?”

“Yup.”

“Did he say it’s only paper?”

“Yes, he did.”

“Yes!” Raph, Mikey, and Donnie cheered at once.

“But what if you’re stealing to help someone? When I was little, and Draxum started feeding me less, Huginn and Muninn would sometimes steal food and give it to me without Draxum knowing.”

This was confusing. “But why help the humans?”

“We know that you don’t really trust humans, but not all humans are bad. Remember April? She’s a human, and she’s not bad, right?” Leo was the one to speak up this time.

“See! You’ll be good friends in no time! Now, let’s go catch some paper thieves!”

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~~~

“You could have been killed!” Draxum yelled from his place atop the edge of the pit.

“And what if one of those humans had caught you and brought you back to one of their government labs!?”

“And if you were lost, you wouldn’t have known where to go if you had been spotted! Nowhere is safe on the surface! Humans are everywhere!”

“But the books say that humans and yokai used to live together!” The rabbit was starting to tire; Subject-5 didn’t have long. “So why do I have to train to get rid of them!?”

“Because they chased us underground and have killed many of us! Those books no longer tell the truth, and that is all in the past! You are not to go to the surface again! Do you understand?”

“But I–”

“Do you understand?” Draxum cut S-5 off before he could argue any further.

“Good. Huginn, Muninn, escort Subject-5 to its cell in the dungeon. They are to be punished for its behavior today.”

Huginn and Muninn looked at each other before flying off Draxum’s shoulders to escort S-5 to his cell.

The seven-year-old listened to Huginn and Muninn's voices getting further and further away until they were gone. S-5 continued to wait at the metal door for a few more minutes before crawling up in the corner of the cell on the one blanket that was there and cried oh so quietly. ‘Silence is a virtue.’ Draxum’s voice echoed in his head. S-5 muffled a sad, desperate chirp that had slipped out of his beak. He didn’t need Draxum hearing him; that would only make things worse.

~~~

They finally stop on one of the rooftops, and Kai lets the memory fade away to the back of his mind. Donnie used his goggles to look around.

“What kind of weirdo steals paper?” Raph asked. Everyone had been relatively quiet on the way here.

“A dreamer.” Mikey chirped. “You look at a blank sheet and see nothing. They see possibilities.” Raph elbowed Mikey in the back, causing him to squeak at the force.

“There’s only one store they haven’t hit yet, and it is right over there, oh, convenient. Donnie informed them.

“Okay.” Donnie answered for everyone.

Mikey lands on Raph’s shell, but Raph loses his grip on the walls and falls. “Whoa!”

A cat shrieks as it's startled by Raph and Mikey falling into the alleyway. Leo and Donnie jump down after their brothers. Both humans leap in opposite directions as turtles charge at them.

“You two go left.” Raph directed Leo and Donnie. “Mikey, go right. I’ll take the roof and swoop down like a boss!”

Leo and Donnie chase the Foot Lieutenant, and Mikey throws his kusari-fundo at the Foot Brute, but it wraps around a fire hydrant as the Brute rounds a corner.

Mikey goes flying around, still caught on the fire hydrant. “Whoa!"

Mikey smashes right into Leo and Donnie as they round the corner. They all groan as they lay in a pile.

“Where are they?” Mikey asked

“That is you, right?” Leo asked

Kai– now invisible– watches Raph jump off the top of a building directly above the rest of their brothers. “Swoopin’ like a boss!”

Leo starts waving his arms. “No, no, no!” Raph lands hard on all of them. “Ow!”

“What the!?” The human yelled, confused as he was tackled to the ground but couldn’t see his opponent.

“There they are!” Raph shouted as he came into view.

“Wait a minute, where’s Kai?” Leo had asked.

The human struggled and yelled in pain as Kai bit into his shoulder and started to draw blood.

“He must be invisible!” Mikey pointed out as he saw the humans struggle.

“Hey!” The other, larger human shouted as he hit right where Kai was, knocking him off of the smaller human.

Kai dropped his invisibility and licked the human’s blood off his beak. “Lucky shot; that’s all that was.”

“Kai!” Mikey shouted. “Are you okay!?”

The sound of a screeching van goes down the street. The turtles watch as the van drives down the road with the back door open and paper flying all over. Kai hisses as the van disappears out of view.

“Uh, quick question. Did we seriously just get schooled by paper thieves?” Donnie asked.

“I don’t swoop like a boss. I swoop like a noob.” Raph said.

“Man, this seemed like a really cool idea until we didn’t succeed at it.” Mikey said with a sad chirp.

Donnie has his Head down and speaks very quietly. “Here.”

“We can still catch these lame old paper crooks and be heroes!” Leo exclaimed.

“Yeah, that’s gonna be hard. This was the last paper store in town.”

“Hmm… Or was it?”

“Yeah, I… I literally just said that.”

“How do you plan on stopping them if you can’t even fight together without taking each other out?” Kai finally spoke up after he finished cleaning most of the blood off of him.

“Oh, I’m sorry, but if I recall correctly, you let them get away too!” Leo spat.

Kai growled at Leo, causing the turtle to sink a little into his shell. “You all took yourselves out! I at least managed to draw blood from one of the humans!”

Kai’s brothers all looked at each other.

“Anyway!” Leo broke the silence. “We just need to make our own paper shop and lure those flame heads to us!”

“That seems like a lot of work.” Kai said, watching Leo.

“Well, do you have a better idea?”

“Yeah, track them down.”

“And how would we do that, Kai?” Leo asked with a sarcastic voice.

“They left a trail for us.” Kai said as he pointed to the paper scattered in the road in a messy line.

“That doesn’t matter. We don’t need the paper to track them down. The paper is just a visual trail.”

“And how else would we track them?” Leo asked skeptically.

“Simple. I made that one human bleed so I can just track the smell of his blood.”

“Ohmigosh! That’s–” Mikey shivered, unable to complete his sentence.

“What?” Kai asked, watching Mikey.

“So you can track them just by the smell of their blood?” Leo asked.

“So you’re basically like a tracking dog? Cool!”

“I am not a tracking dog, Leo. And you all could do this too if you actually learned how to filter out scents to track a specific scent.”

“Oh, oh, oh! Is that why I can always tell when vegetables and fruit are at their peak and are starting to go bad just by smelling them?” Mikey asked.

“So cool!”

“Alright, fine. We’ll just track the flame heads down. It’s not like my idea was the greatest anyway.” Leo had muttered the last sentence.

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……

“We’ve been walking for over an hour! And the paper trail has long since been gone!” Leo complained. “Are you sure you know where we’re going? And why are you walking like that?”

“Why are you so insistent on not being seen?” Mikey asked. “There's not even anyone around, and even if there was, you can just turn invisible.”

“One, my invisibility doesn’t last forever; two, if I went invisible, you wouldn’t be able to follow me. And why aren’t you guys worried about being spotted? Humans are dangerous.”

Kai came to a stop and sat down, his tail curling around his ankle as it often did.

“Wait, why are you stopping?” Leo asked.

Kai pointed to a large ship resting at the docks. “There. That’s where our ‘paper thieves’ are.”

“And you’re sure?”

“Yes, I am sure. That is where they are.”

“Alright!” Raph said as he punched his fist into his hand. “Here’s the plan!”

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……

“Whoa! They’ve got footprints on their faces!” Mikey pointed to the humans as he said that.

“Uh, are those flames on their heads?” Raph asked.

“Feels like a real hazard for a paper thief.” Donnie mentioned.

“Wait, you guys are just now noticing this?” Kai asked.

“Well, sorry. We were caught up in the moment, Kai!” Leo defended.

“You! The Foot Brute yelled. “I’m gonna grind your bones with my fists.”

“Ooh, that’s inspired. We’re both gonna grind your bones.” The Foot Lieutenant exclaimed.

“Right. Listen, bubs. Before we put our footprints on your faces, we gotta ask, what’s with all the paper?" Raph asked

The Foot Lieutenant grabs a sheet of paper and quickly begins folding it. He finishes it and holds up a tiny paper ninja.

“Yay, arts and crafts!” Mikey chirped.

The Foot Lieutenant throws the paper ninja at them. It transforms in midair, becoming as large as Raph.

“Whoa!” Kai’s brothers all voice their surprise.

“Mystics!” Kai yelled.

“Mystics?” Leo repeated as the paper ninja charged at them, and he dodged out of the way.

“Yes, mystics! Like how you can portal or how I can turn invisible!”

“Huh?” Raph didn’t dodge in time, so the paper ninja slammed into Raph and sent him crashing into a wall, his shell leaving a sizable crater.

“Uh, hey, maybe we should fight now and register our amazement later?" Donnie said as he watched the paper ninja.

Leo rushes to the paper ninja and swipes at it with his sword, and it explodes into confetti.

“What?” Leo asked, confused.

The confetti landed on them, and they all started groaning and spitting and swinging their arms as the particles rained down on them.

“Ah, no!”

“Nasty!”

“It’s all in my mouth!”

“Ah!”

Kai’s brothers all voiced their disgust at once.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute! It’s just confetti!” Leo pointed out.

“Huh. Oh yeah.” Raph said in a much calmer voice.

“Paper viscera.” Donnie pointed out.

“Wait, where’s Kai?” Mikey asked.

As the two humans realized that they could only see four turtles, they panicked and looked frantically around in a vain attempt to find Kai. The Foot Lieutenant flails around as Kai grabs onto him.

“Oh no, you don’t!” The Foot Brute tried to punch Kai but only managed to punch the Foot Lieutenant since he couldn’t see Kai.

“Ow! Hit the turtle! Not me, you buffoon!”

“I can’t see him!”

The Foot Lieutenant twisted in an odd way before a sickening crack could be heard, and his arm bent too far in the wrong direction. “Aaaaaaaaah!” He screamed in pain.

“Ohmigosh!”

“Oh wow.”

“I was not expecting that.”

“Well, that just happened.”

“This isn’t over!” The Foot Brute yelled as a portal opened up, and he picked up the Foot Lieutenant to carry him through the portal.

“So… Does this count as a win?” Mikey asked.

“Yes!” Raph, Mikey, and Donnie all cheered at once.

“Hero mission accomplished, my friends!”

“Yeah!” They all shouted. Kai watched as his brothers started to wrestle with each other before collapsing on the ground in a pile, laughing.

“On another note, that may have been a bit too far, but you did good, Kai.” Leo looked at Kai. “Though maybe next time, we can work on getting less blood on you?”

“The human is lucky I gave them a broken bone and minor blood loss. I should have killed him.”

“We don’t kill people, Kai. That’s wrong.” Mikey stated. “But we’ll work on that.”

“Right. But for now, we should get back home. We– and more importantly, Kai– need a bath.” Raph was the one to speak up this time.

And with that said, the five turtles made their way back to the lair for a bath.

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sou-ver-2-0 · 3 years ago

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Shin says five nice things about Sara

Previously, on “Everyone Is Nice to Each Other”:

Shin says five nice things about Keiji

Keiji says five nice things about Shin

For a friend’s birthday, I decided to force Shin to say five nice things about his favorite rival, Miss Sara!

“Only five nice things? About our super wonderful, totally competent high schooler leader? Where do I even begin?”

“Ahh, I know! Miss Sara is unfailingly kind!”

“We’ve all seen how Miss Sara offers a helping hand to the most vulnerable among us. Like Gin, Miss Nao, and, of course, Kanna!”

“Kanna was always telling me how kind you were, Miss Sara. She told me how you helped her with the Attractions when I was too tired. She told me how you drank tea with her, and how you listened to her tragic sob story about her adoption.”

“You are so benevolent to listen to such a poor, pathetic, whiny little girl!”

“Even when you murdered her, you made sure to hug her first!”

“You are the kindest killer of the lot of us, Miss Sara. And you make it look so easy! A stupid villain like me could never pull that off.”

“You all may know me as the resident computer expert. This apparently makes me too useful to die, according to very nice people. But, did you know that Miss Sara is something of a hacker herself? She’ll put me out of a job someday!”

“Remember how Kanna was able to guess the password for Kai’s laptop by checking for Miss Sara’s dirty fingerprints? I had been so nervous until that point. I thought we’d never get in.”

“Thank god you’re such a filthy girl, Miss Sara! Keep avoiding the bathtub. It’s a winning strategy for us!”

“Hmm… I wonder which of Miss Sara’s many amazing qualities I should praise next… There’s just so many that it’s hard… to pick… Uhh…”

“I know! Miss Sara has a very creative hairstyle! Only a true fashion icon would have so many different styles going on at once up there. You are a veritable hair genius, Miss Sara.”

“It looks fucking stupid to me, but what do I know? You’re the popular queen, and I’m just some friendless loser. So you must be doing something right with it!”

“It’d be a shame if all your friends were just pretending to like it, wouldn’t it? Gossiping and laughing behind your back… I’m sure that would never happen to someone as well-loved as you.”

“Speaking of Miss Sara’s friends, you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. It speaks well of her character that her best friend was such a nice guy like Joe Tazuna!”

“I mean, now that you all know who my best friend used to be, that speaks pretty poorly of my character, doesn’t it? Makes me look like a sniveling sycophant. You’d probably think, He’s so pathetic that he would excuse anything so long as someone cool paid attention to him.”

“But not Miss Sara! She’s so cool that she has an entire army of sycophants!”

“So don’t worry, Miss Sara. Even if your clever deductions got Joe killed, there’s still plenty of nice friends left! You don’t need to feel guilty about anything when everyone makes excuses for you.”

“You don’t even need to remember that Joe guy anymore. Someone as funny and sweet as him is still a dime a dozen. When you’re popular, the numbers don’t lie. They must add up to you being the best friend ever.”

“Wow, am I at Number Five already? I could do this all day. Ahaha…ha…”

“Are you expecting me to make a fool of myself again and say you’re hot? That’s too bad, because I can think of a million other things… Probably…”

“…”

“All right, fine! I’ll give it to you!”

“Miss Sara, you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen!”

“You’re just as bewitching and supreme as the other guy said!”

“In another life, maybe I could have looked past the stupid haircut. Maybe I could have gotten over the fact that I never want to set foot in a high school again. Because deep down, I’m a sucker! Even I thought you looked nice when we first met! Maybe we could have hit it off! Who knows?!”

“You could have had allll of this, Miss Sara! You could have had a big adult man to show off to your little high school buddies. Imagine how mature and fancy that would be. I could buy all the alcohol you wanted.”

“…Well. I hope you’re happy with Keiji, since he’s bigger, and…adultier.”

“You two deserve each other.”

“I don’t actually care. I would rather be lonely than be your friend.”

“And that’s it! The End! Three Cheers for Miss Sara! Since she’s so amazingly talented, maybe she’ll manage to kill another child before I kill her. Everyone is rooting for you, Miss Sara!”

#sou hiyori #sara chidouin #sou and sara #shin tsukimi #sousara #ish #your turn to die spoilers #mine #happy birthday to You Know Who You Are :)

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jeehye · 3 years ago

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BNHA villain boyfriends when you’re depressed

— Shigaraki and Overhaul

— Gender Neutral!Reader

Warnings: Depression / Mental Disorders, Implied Nudity, Probably OOC Shigaraki and Overhaul. Harsh-ish Overhaul(?)

Genre: angsty fluff

A/N: This is a little more personal. Sometimes we go through the motions and that is okay. I am proud of you for even simply browsing through Tumblr. I promise you, someday it’ll get better, so hold your head high, these waves will pass. If you ever need to talk, I am always here for you. You’re doing amazing, never forget that.

You didn’t know how it got so bad.

Clothes littered the floor, shoes and stuffed animals thrown all over. Plates of half eaten food and water cups stacked up; all creating a chaotic mess.

You wore a baggy shirt and undergarments, mix matched socks that were slightly coming off your feet, but you did not care.

You hadn’t cared for days now.

Everything in life was like a seemingly tedious task. Even combing your hair was almost excruciating to do, and not because you had to yank knots out of your hair, but because it consumed every fiber of your being to get out of your bed and do so.

You had no energy. No enthusiasm.

You were so tired of it; so, so tired of it all. You felt desperate as you sunk deeper and deeper into this dark abyss. It was like you were trying to reach up for air but the weight of everything was continuously dragging you down. You desperately wanted to cry out for help, but you didn’t have the energy or strength, or even humility to ask for help. And so, you just laid there, time continuously ticking by, as the world continued to move forward, and you stayed stagnant in one place.

And as the sun rose on the fifth day, you heard a creak at your door and footsteps shuffling inside your room.

Shigaraki Tomura

Shigaraki came in quietly, like he always does when visiting your room. He didn’t know what was going on with you, but he knew deep down you did not want to be alone. So, he sat on the ground of your messy bedroom, switch in hand, playing Animal Crossing.

You could hear the background music of the game and the sounds of Shigaraki fishing. Sometimes he would grunt in frustration when he failed to catch a fish, which placed a tickle of a smile on your face.

After about 30 minutes of listening to his gameplay it went dead silent. You could hear him get up from his spot and shift his body weight onto your bed, causing it to creak.

“That damn Nook is a fraud”, Shigaraki grumbled, “This stingy bastard wants me to pay 548,000 bells for an expansion! This game is literally what I hate about society and those fucking ugly villagers do not deserve homes”, he continued to rant, scratching his neck in frustration.

You could practically feel him sulking.

“Maybe…” You murmured quietly “…maybe we could play together?” You lifted your head to look at him, your face still puffy from the crying session you had.

Shigaraki hated when you cried. He hated when you got the way you did too. When he first started dating you, he had made it a promise that he would protect you from everything, and make sure you were treated with the upmost care and respect. In some ways he can’t help but feel like he failed you, but he knows blaming himself would only make you feel worse.

Shigaraki gave you a soft smile and reached for the s/c switch that was sitting on your nightstand with 4 fingers.

He handed you the switch and you booted up Animal Crossing: New Horizons. As you were getting through Isabel’s mantra, you felt Shigaraki shift in bed.

“Y/N…” He said quietly, slipping his arms around your waist and nuzzled his head into your neck.

You hummed in response, all of your attention focused on running to open your island’s gate for Shigaraki to join.

“I know you are dealing with a lot,” He continued, “but do not have to take all of the weight of world on your shoulders, you can give some of the weight to me…”. He hugged you closer and kissed the side of your jaw.

You felt tears prick your eyes, “Thank you…I honestly do not know what I would do without you”, you said meekly, wiping your face.

“Mhm…I love you Y/N”.

Overhaul

“Your room is so filthy; don’t you ever think about cleaning it up?”

You shuddered in your bed as you heard the monotone man step foot into your room. You could feel the man’s judgement in his voice and it made your eyes prick with tears.

“I am sorry boss”, you muttered, ashamed and disgusted with yourself. “I’ll do bett-“

“No.” He firmly said, cutting you off.

You could hear him breathe deeply, as if he was trying to muster up courage, before his gloved hand yank your body out of your bed and into his chest. Your eyes widening in disbelief.

“Sir?” You looked at him in bewilderment, knowing damn well you’re not up-to-date on his cleanliness protocol.

Suddenly, dread washed over you as you thought he was going to reconstruct you right here, or just kill you because of how you were, but he didn’t do either of those things. Instead, Kai dragged you into your bathroom.

“I told you to stop with the formality”, he grumbled underneath his mask, “now put your hands up”.

You did as you were told, and he slipped your shirt off, as well as your undergarments and socks. You felt the cold air surround you and as you were about to shiver and cover your body self-consciously, strong arms picked you up and gently placed you into the warm bath water.

Kai turned away to take off his mask and gloves off and set them neatly on the marbled vanity table before turning back to tend to you.

“Aren’t I dirty?” You muttered your eyebrows furrowing together.

His golden eyes looked at you, his face expressionless, “why else do you think I’m washing you?”, he asked in a more matter-of-fact tone, as he lathered your h/c hair with f/s shampoo.

You could feel your shoulder loosen up as he massaged your scalp, your body slowly sinking into the tub in bliss.

Kai’s eyes softened at the sight of your pure, fragile state. He saw you as someone worthy of so much and he hated when you got into your depressed states. He tried his best to build you up as much as he could, though some could argue that his methods were more-or-less tough love, but regardless the man adored you. Even if you rolled in mud and were covered head-to-toe in dog shit, he would still never view you as dirty. Kai held cleanliness next to godliness and you were a god(dess) to him.

“Don’t fall asleep on me angel”, he hummed, rinsing your hair off with the shower head.

You hummed in response, the warm water lulling you to sleep. “Too late…” you mumbled, and as soon as you said that you felt the shower head looming over you turn off and the sound of the bath tub being drained.

You were about to whine in protest when the same strong arms picked you back up and wrapped you into a warmed, soft towel.

“It is not good to fall asleep in the bath”, Kai scolded, wiping your body down and putting a new pair of clothes on you.

Once he was finished, you tried walking back to your bedroom, but he stopped you. “I am having your bedsheets changed currently so you cannot head back to bed yet. You can go once they are done.”

“Okay…thank you”, you said shyly.

Kai looked at you intensely for a moment before he wrapped his arms around you. “Y/N, I do not mind taking time out of my day to take care of you”, he said slowly, pressing his lips against your wet hair. “You’re my everything angel, I want to make sure you are always okay”.

You nodded in response, “Thank you Kai…for everything”.

“I love you angel".

Requests are Open!

#Shigaraki x Reader #Shigaraki Tomura x Reader #Overhaul x Reader #Chisaki Kai x Reader #Fluff #Angst #BNHA #MHA #Boku No Hero Academia #My Hero Academia #MHA x Reader #BNHA x Reader #Shigaraki Tomura #Overhaul #Chisaki Kai #MHA Fanfiction #BNHA Fanfiction #I was going to add dabi but I made him so ooc y/n might kill me #sfw

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prophetparadox · 2 years ago

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DMC OC Week 2022 Day 6: Family and Background

(Sorry, no image again!)

Well, this is technically a redo, but this year for @dmc-oc-week-specialedition I’m much more willing to go into Kay’s past than I was last time! It’s pretty short, but it’s fine! I figured now I could talk about Kay’s family and life before she got kidnapped, though it ended up being a bit more about her parents than her! Oops!

I hope you look forward to what I have in store for tomorrow, because it’s something a bit special! Until then, enjoy this!

Kay comes from a small village in Ireland, though she’s long forgotten its name. Born under a name she discarded long ago, she lived a mostly happy life with her parents. Mostly happy because she was considered a “weird kid”. Other kids her age bullied her, ostracizing her for her strange quirks and her mom’s reputation. She didn’t really understand why they didn’t like her mom and what it had to do with her, but she did her best not to let it get to her and just live her life as a happy little girl. Her parents loved her, and the old man that was their neighbor was kind to her so it was all good. And hey, maybe someday she’d be able to make friends who did like her! There was always hope! Plus she was never truly alone since she had her beloved plushie Mr. Panther.

Of course, the reason her mom had a reputation like she did was due to being a hybrid. Aisling was a quarter demon who didn’t take shit from anyone. She’d speak her mind as much as she wanted, even getting violent if she had to. Even before moving to the village, she’d always had a reputation that left most people fearing her and keeping their distance. Still, she only wanted the best for her daughter, keeping their demonic heritage a secret until the time was right, which never came. She also would tell off other parents for letting their kids treat her daughter like crap, telling them exactly what she thought and not being afraid to intimidate them. Even when members of the Saviors of Dawn came to take Kay, she refused to go down without a fight, and she died trying to protect her daughter to her very last breath.

Her dad, on the other hand, was just a human. Malcolm grew up in a Christian home (most likely Catholic seeing as this is Ireland but I haven’t decided yet) and was a kind, sensitive man. He liked his books and was a nerdy guy. Despite most people being afraid of Aisling, he felt quite the opposite. He thought she was amazing and fell in love with her, even after she accidently scarred his cheek. Probably because he was the only person who had the courage to ask her out, they became a couple. Of course, he was fully aware of her demon side, but didn’t mind in the slightest. His family didn’t approve of the relationship though, but he got married to her anyway, even though his family disowned him. He loved Kay very much, and while he wasn’t quite as aggressive as his wife, he still stood up for his beloved daughter as well with his words.

Unfortunately, the two of them are both deceased, being killed by members of the Saviors of Dawn when Kay was nearing seven years old.

Due to her dad’s side of the family disowning him for running off with a demon woman, this leaves Kay with no living relatives. Not that she’d be able to go to them anyway since her death was faked and she’s legally dead. However, there is one relative still out there in the Irish forests. One she wouldn’t even think to look for. After all, one would assume their great grandmother was long gone by the time they’re in their twenties, and most great grandmothers aren’t demons…

#Prophet posts #dmcocweek #DMC OC Week #Devil May Cry

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maxwell-grant · 3 years ago

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Red of Overly Sarcastic Productions once said :"If you can imagine your Batman comforting a shared child, then congratulations, you're righting Batman. If not, you're just writing the Punisher in a funny hat". This got me wondering: could the Shadow comfort a scared child?

Could he? You forget who was there to lift young Bruce to his feet at his first brush with death (sadly far from his last).

But it's an interesting question to pose still, because children were straight up not in the pulps, not in any I've read, and I can't recall any episodes of the radio show that feature them much (there's gotta be at least a few, because they had everything in that show). The most interaction I think The Shadow's ever had with children (from comics that I can discuss here, because Marshall Rogers' "Harold Goes to Washington" is way, way too much for me to go into right now, and the less I talk about some other DC comics, the better) is in the Street & Smith comics.

There's Jerry from the Devil Kyoti arc, a kid who was traumatized by an encounter with the villain who Sayre's looking after and who ends up having some kind of hidden power that allows him to see The Shadow and defeat the villain. There was a blonde Jerry who showed up later in the Monstradamus arc, but he isn't a kid so much as he's diet Jimmy Olsen or a replacement for Harry, but he had weird eyesight-based powers and a familiarity with The Shadow, so I assume it's the same character.

There was also Donald Jordan - Shadow Jr, and okay, I may have to talk more about this weird little failed experiment some other time, but the basic gist of it is that The Shadow had a friend in Tibet named Harry Jordan (and someday I'm also gonna write about the weird prevalence and significance of the name "Harry" in The Shadow's mythos in and out of universe) who was murdered, leaving his son orphaned and with nowhere to go. And, I'll admit that I have a real weakness for The Shadow calling people "son", which he does a lot in this story.

And as you can expect, it then turns out that the kid's also learned how to cloud minds and has basically the same powers The Shadow has in these comics, and they solve the mystery of his dad's murder together, and yeah, you can absolutely tell that they are setting up this kid to be The Shadow's Robin. Although, interestingly, they don't have The Shadow actually recruit the kid, instead it's Jordan who asks The Shadow if he can go with him and join his mission, and Cranston even states he's going to have to "earn" his way

"Must I stay here, sir? It will always remind me of dad - I'd like to devote my life to your fight against evil and evil doers!

Now, "Shadow Jr's" career was incredibly short-lived, it only lasted for about two other issues, and I have no idea what happened in his final appearence called "Snake Eyes" in Shadow Comics #77, I cannot find that issue anywhere and I really want to. But the one other solo story of his I've read was...well, I think it kinda illustrates why the idea of The Shadow having a Robin was doomed from the start.

...Yeah. Even The Shadow at his most sanitized and family friendly is still The Shadow, and there's no room for children in his network, obviously he shouldn't and wouldn't have children be in those positions or make decisions expected from grown-ups who have already had encounters with death and danger, why would anyone do that-

The only instance I can think of The Shadow interacting with a child in the pulps was during The Prince of Evil, when he has to rescue a young boy from Stark's thugs.

Cranston, dazed, tried to stagger to his feet. Before he could do so, the thug had picked up the limp figure of the boy and was darting out into the street. There was a scream of horror from pedestrians.

A heavy truck was racing at top speed along the avenue. Straight into the path of the truck, the thug threw the senseless boy!

The driver of the truck jammed on the brakes. But it was too late to halt the heavy vehicle. The broad-tired wheels rolled toward the limp head of the lad on the pavement.

An instant before it could crush out his life, Lamont Cranston dived headlong into the path of destruction. His shoulder struck the boy, rolling him toward the curb. A quick wriggle, and Cranston swerved aside from the grinding death that loomed over him.

He picked up the boy. One glance and he knew there was no time to lose. The attempted killer had leaped into a waiting sedan and had already made his escape.

The boy was all Cranston could see or think about. Brass knuckles had fractured his skull. He had suffered a concussion of the brain. A glance at his bluish lips and the fixed glaze of his staring eyes told Cranston that unless the boy was operated on immediately, he would die.

A leap, Cranston was in his car. He laid the boy gently on the seat beside him, then headed the car toward the nearest hospital. Traffic lights were ignored.

The boy was taken to an emergency operating room and a skilled surgeon went to work. When it was over, Cranston asked only one question: "Will the child live?"

"Hard to say. We'll do our best."

"Spare no expense. Put him in a private room. Engage day and night nurses."

Cranston's face was pale. He knew that he himself was indirectly responsible for the boy's attack. A supercriminal had made a prompt answer to Cranston's message over Jackson's telephone. That telephone must have been tapped. The attempt to kill the boy was a vicious warning for Lamont Cranston to mind his own business about the Harmon family. It was a follow-up of the attack on Jackson's dog.

Cranston felt a surge of hot anger. He kept it under control while he answered routine police questions. He told all he knew - which was nothing.

He had only one angry thought. He intended to drive straight to the office of David Chester. He'd get the truth out of the sleek Chester, if he had to batter him with vengeful fists!

Cranston was actually halfway to Chester's office before common sense returned to him. He realized he had lost his sense of balance. He was behaving exactly as the crooks wanted. He was playing their game, not his!

He parked, and the hot rage drained slowly from him. He stopped thinking about the limp figure of a young lad on a white operating table.

This is definitely because Tinsley writes the character differently than Gibson, but I actually cannot think of another occasion where we got to read about The Shadow actively wanting to hit someone with his fists. It's very, very rare to read about The Shadow actually getting mad in the first place in such an undignified way. And I think with this passage, you'll start to notice a pattern.

The problem isn't that The Shadow cannot interact with kids or that he can't comfort them, he does it to his agents and adults he wants to help just fine, he knows how to address people in their language, or any language. The problem is, The Shadow is constantly surrounded by danger everywhere he goes, because he is The Shadow. He can be any number of things at any number of occasions, but usually, when The Shadow shows up, it's usually because people are going to die, and people are going to kill, and it's his job to address that and work the scales.

Children should not be anywhere near this, and if The Shadow's interacting with a child, it usually means that some grave danger or tragedy fell upon them, and he's here to either prevent greater tragedy or address the fall-out, and he'd be the first to agree that neither of these options should be happening at all. It doesn't mean he's not gonna do what's right and give life and limb to protect them, but, it shouldn't be up to the Boogeyman to look after them in the first place. Maybe it shouldn't be up to the Boogeyman to protect us.

But then again, as I mentioned when I talked about my own reasons for liking The Shadow so much, there are many kids who would like nothing more than to have the Boogeyman by their side to protect them. There's comfort in knowing that the scariest man in the room is unconditionally there to protect you, and that is the comfort that The Shadow gives best. Not as Cranston, not under a friendly face, but as what he is.

Due to a lack of scenes from the pulps or satisfying scenes from elsewhere, I will instead be pulling one from a fan story written by Kimberly-Murphy Smith, editor and writer of The Hot Cornerm where The Shadow rescues a child who was kidnapped for blackmail. I couldn't care less that it's fanfic, and if you do, come back in 20 or so years after The Shadow's been made public domain and it's gonna be just as official as anything licensed (on my “to write about” list: how fickle the separation between “official” and “fanfic” is, and the many times it plainly didn’t exist). There’s aspects of her writing I don’t care for, but I really like this scene and I do think The Shadow’s more gentle interactions with people are necessary to getting the character.

Annabelle.

She stopped crying for a minute. "Who's there?" she said, her voice choked.

A friend. Your mommy and daddy sent me to pick you up.

"Mommy? Mommy's here?"

Sh-h-h. Annabelle felt a gloved hand gently stroking her hair. She's waiting for you at home. So, we need to hurry up and leave.

"'kay." She looked around. "Where are you?"

It's kind of hard to see me. It's dark in here, plus you've been crying so much your eyes probably hurt.

"Yeah."

Don't be afraid. I'm here to help.

"'kay."

The implicit trust of children was simply amazing at times. Adults trembled in fear of The Shadow's wrath, but children somehow seemed to understand that he was there to help them, even if they couldn't see him.

Sit up, Annabelle. I'm going to pick you up. Be very quiet.

One hand took each of her arms and guided them around a neck she could not see. "Why are you wearin' a blanket?" she asked as the fabric of his cloak brushed against her shoulders.

Sometimes I get cold at night.

"Even in the summer?"

Even in the summer. He gently stroked her cheek and wiped away her tears. Now, you need to be very quiet so those bad men in the next room don't hear us. I'll bet you're tired.

She nodded.

He rocked her on his arms, projecting a very gentle hypnotic relaxation into her with his powers as he did. You probably didn't get your nap, either. Poor thing. Lean on my shoulder and go to sleep. And when you wake up, you'll be back with Mommy and Daddy.

She yawned, then snuggled against his shoulder and went to sleep.

The Shadow sighed with relief. Now to get past the men out front. He gently pulled the pistol out of its holster under his left arm and slipped it into the belted waist of his overcoat within easy reach, then secured his grip on Annabelle and draped his cloak over her.

She clutched the edge of his cloak in her hand like a security blanket and snuggled against his shoulder again.

(Art by Jill Thompson)

#replies tag #the shadow #pulp heroes #fanfic #I think about the -Sometimes I get cold at night- response a lot #and how superhero capes can easily be likened to oversized blankets #and The Shadow is one of the main reasons why capes became so popular among American heroes #seriously you can see how practically overnight so many heroes at the time imitating The Shadow acquired capes #and what is a hero if not a childhood fantasy manifest #they are all just wearing blankets to battle #I think my posts are turning into too much of rollercoasters

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dime-smothied · 3 years ago

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I’m rewatching Ninjago (continually updating)

Episode 1

Lloyd: I’m telling you mom. I’m a thug. A rebellious child. My life be like ooh aah. *hits hand on stop sign* aah

Episode 2

Zane: Why aren’t the dishes in alphabetical order?

Ninja: … what does that even mean?

Episode 3

Jay: GET YOUR DOG!

Lloyd: It don’t bite.

Jay: YES IT DO GET-

Episode 4

Lloyd: Daddy?

Any Serpentine general: DO I LOOK LIKE YOUR DADDY

Episode 5

Lloyd: I spilled lipstick in your Valentino white bag

Zane: wawawah LIPSTICK IN MY VALENTINO WHITE BAG?

Episode 6

Lloyd to Wu: an avocado… thanks…

Episode 7

Zane: we all die, you either kill yourself or get killed

Jay: *hitting doorway*

Zane: What you gonna do? What you gonna do?

Episode 8

Jay: got diagnosed with cool guy syndrome yesterday haha

Jay: so now I take Adderall haha

Episode 9

Cole: you want me to sing? I hate singing! I don’t even know when to come in

Music: *starts*

Cole: I don’t want a lot-

Episode 10

Garmadon: *pointing at Jay and Nya* is… is this allowed?

Garmadon: is that allowed?

Jay: STOP

Episode 11

Ninja: He’s such a snake

Pythor: *slithers by*

Episode 12

Kai: hey come here I want to talk to you

Kai: someday you’re going to grow up and your going to become a man

Lloyd: someday you’re gonna be dead

Episode 13

Devourer: I’m HUUUUUUNGRY

Devourer: don’t you touch any of my food

Episode 14 (2x1)

Lloyd: how much money do we have

Cole: oh, like 69 cents

Lloyd: well you know what that means

Cole: I don’t have enough money for chicken nuggets

Episode 15 (2x2)

Garmadon: can I get a waffle? Can I please get a waffle?

Episode 16 (2x3)

Teachers: every time you yell at your kids put a quarter in your no yelling sock and soon you’ll have a weapon to beat-

Episode 17 (2x4)

Garmadon: last one outside is a stupid idiot!

Lloyd: Dad, we’re all outside. We’re waiting for you

Garmadon: aww now I’m the idiot

Lloyd: no you’re not

Episode 18 (2x5)

Lloyd: I’m an adult

Lloyd: I do grown up things

Lloyd: Independence

Lloyd: Mommy what are taxes

Episode 19 (2x6)

Kai: Honestly I don’t remember, I was probably messed up

Kai: Yeah I was crazy back then hahaheh

Episode 20 (2x7)

Misako: *appears*

Lloyd: YOU’RE NOT MY MOM

Episode 21 (2x8)

Ninja: do you ever like, wake up or like do something and go, what the f- what the heck is happening?

Episode 22 (2x9)

Zane: what do we want?

Dr. Julien: a heartfelt ending to this vine!

Zane: when do we- dad?

Dr. Julien: that’s right son I’m home

Episode 23 (2x10)

Garmadon: so basically… what I was thinking of was uh-

Overlord: *punches Garmadon*

Garmadon: oh shuck I can’t believe you did this

Episode 24 (2x11)

Lloyd: how do you know what’s good for me!?

Literally everyone: THATS MY OPINION

Episode 25 (2x12)

Garmadon: how did you defeat the green ninja?

Overlord: we shot him in the leg, because his defense is the size of a dinner plate, and he’s an idiot

Episode 26 (2x13)

Citzens: hurricane Katrina? More like Hurricane tortilla!

Episode 27 (3x1)

Ninja: that’s technology

PIXEL: :)

Ninja: get rid of it

PIXEL: oh

Episode 28 (3x2)

Overlord: I should’ve left you on that street corner where you were standing

Borg: but you didn’t!

Episode 29 (3x3)

Zane: I eat Cheerios because they’re heart healthy

Zane: and my heart has been severely damaged

Zane: so PIXEL if you’re out there

Episode 30 (3x4)

Lloyd: I have no soul. Have a nice day

Pythor: I don’t have one either

Episode 31 (3x5)

Zane to PIXEL: hey! I think you’re really cool! I like you a lot! Maybe we can hang out or something

Episode 32 (3x6)

Garmadon: There’s only one race. The human race

Lloyd: *slaps him* what about Nascar

Episode 33 (3x7)

Garmadon: what the shuck is up Wu? No what did you say dude? Shut the shuck up Wu

Episode 34 (3x8)

Jay: Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream (bum bum bum)

Episode 35 (4x1)

Lloyd: The ninja brothers can’t break up, they’re brothers!

#ninjago

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deejadabbles · 4 years ago

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Yu-gi-oh x Avatar:TLA

Been re-watching Avatar the past week and when I searched for it I legit couldn’t find, like, any Yugioh Duel Monster x Avatar The Last Airbender content??? I mean the search feature sucks here so maybe I’m just not seeing it, but, now I have a mighty need for this cross over, so I guess I’ll do it myself! (if anyone knows any other posts about this though please link me to them!)

So first off, Yugi is the Avatar

I don’t care if most think Yami is the main protag it just makes sense to me that Yugi is the Avatar

Much like Aang, Yugi is an airbender, but instead of being raised by a group of monks he was actually raised by his nomadic grandfather, who is also an airbender.

Yugi is basically what everyone thinks of when they think of the stereotypical airbender, he’s intelligent, prefers pacifism, would give a stranger the shirt off his back, fun loving and worldly due to his travels, etc.

On the other hand Grandpa, while kind and not prone to violence, isn’t exactly a “monkly” airbender. He’s way too familiar with gambling halls, tomb raiding, pirating, and pretty much every other seedy side of the different nations you can think of.

While grandpa definitely toned down those..*ahem* less than virtuous adventures when he started raising Yugi, he did not shield Yugi from these things during their travels. Yugi's safety was always his priority, but he also knew it was important for Yugi to learn to take care of himself if he was going to travel the world.

Plus, I mean, when Yugi beat a pirate captain at pai sho at age 12, and won them an ancient water tribe artifact, grandpa knew his bright young airbender could handle his own.

Oh also, Yugi’s flying bison is a brown fluff-ball named Kuriboh. Kuriboh was the runt of his littler, much smaller than most male bison, but that didn’t stop Yugi from bonding with him almost immediately when they met near the air temple (in fact if probably helped them bond more), and the two are now inseparable <3

Grandpa took Yugi against the wishes of the council in charge of the Avatar. The council wanted to shelter Yugi and deprive him of a normal life (much like the monks wanted to with Aang), but grandpa basically said “F all of you” and took Yugi with him so he could have a fun, free life away from all that...at least for awhile.

When Yugi turned 16 the council tracked the boys down, finally told Yugi he’s the Avatar, and demanded he come with them to finish his airbending training and start learning the other elements.

Yugi was honestly, understandably, pretty devastated, his whole life was being stolen from him in the blink of an eye, but, he’s also heard tales of how important the Avatar is for the world and how people would suffer without the avatar, and he couldn’t handle the idea of letting the world down.

Yugi whet with the council, unknowing of that was about to come.

Okay so for Atem I have two possibilities for his role in this AU that I really like, so I’ll just list them both:

#1 is that Atem was the Avatar before Yugi, born as the son of Fire Lord Aknamkanon.

He grew up in the lap of luxury, but never took it for granted thanks to his father, the most peaceful Fire Lord the nation had seen in a long time.

His father dedicated his life to improving relations with the other nations and maintaining peace.

Atem’s uncle, Aknadin on the other hand, was an authoritarian jerk-wad, who thought Fire Lord Aknamkanon weak and unfit to rule the Fire Nation.

You can see where I’m going with this. Aknadin hatched a plan to assassinate both Aknamkanon and Atem, and put himself on the throne, using the death’s of the Fire Lord and Prince as cause for war.

What he did not count on though, was Atem being the Avatar.

Atem didn’t even know he was the Avatar at this point, they were going to wait until he was 16 to tell him, like most Avatars. Atem had no idea he could bend other elements besides fire, let alone realize he had the power of the Avatar spirit.

Even still, when Atem was attacked by his uncle’s assassins, and he was on the verge of dying, his Avatar sate kicked in.

Well, not quite. It began to kick in just before Atem was overpowered by the assassins, but not quick enough to save him. You know that whole thing about “if the avatar dies while in the avatar state, the avatar will cease to be”? Well, this was a strange In-Between.

The avatar cycle was not broken, since the avatar spirit wasn’t fully awoken, but now Atem’s soul, that incarnation of the avatar, is in a strange form of limbo.

It was only 16 years later when the new avatar, Yugi, went into the avatar state for the first time, that his soul was finally brought out of limbo. Only now he and Yugi have a strange bond. Instead of residing somewhere deep inside Yugi’s soul like the other past avatars, Atem seems to be one with Yugi, able to commune with him like a constant companion, and even take over Yugi’s body in times of need.

In this version the new Fire Lord waited years to launch his war, gaining the trust of the other nation while slowly changing and manipulating the ideologies of his own people through propaganda and fear mongering.

Yugi fled the air temple when the firelord finally launched his attack on the air nomads in an effort to kill the new avatar, and during that tramtic ordeal is when Yugi went into the avatar state for the first time and awoke Atem’s soul.

Now Atem’s main focus is helping train Yugi to save the world from Fire Lord Aknadin, who’s hell-bend on world domination.

OR!

If the whole “Atem dying in a half avatar state that affected his soul” plot doesn’t work for you, I also think we could just simplify things and say that Atem is a Fire Bender dedicated to helping the avatar defeat the tyrant Fire Lord.

In this version Atem would still be a Fire Nation Prince, whose father was dedicated to peace. Only in this version Atem’s father died unexpectedly, and Atem was deemed too young to take the throne, so they put Uncle Aknadin on the throne in Atem’s place.

Atem watched for years while his uncle slowly, meticulously dismantled all of his father’s hard work for peace and was powerless to stop him. All Atem could do was train, improve his firebending, and hope that he could challenge his tyrant uncle to an agni kai for the throne someday.

During that time Atem also found it hard to hold onto his own morals, as his home was every-changing under it’s new Fire Lord, becoming more and more authoritarian and xenophobic. He became a bit harsher during that time, but deep down still held on to his core belief in peace and mercy that his father taught him.

So, when he found out that Aknadin was making plans to wipe out the Air Nomads, and thus, the new Avatar, Atem had to take action.

He fled the Fire Nation to warn the Air Nomads, and he did manage that, but it wasn’t enough to save everyone. Yugi was still too young to fight an army, or the Fire Lord, he hadn’t even begun to learn waterbending let alone anything else. So, when the Fire Lord’s soldiers attacked the temples, the monks insisted Yugi and Atem flee together, live to fight another day, and become strong enough to fight the Warmongering Fire Lord.

No matter which version of Atem we go with everything else stays virtually the same. In the version where Atem is just the spirit of the previous avatar and Yugi’s guide, the Fire Nation still attacked the Air Temples, hoping to kill the new Avatar, he just waited longer to do this, accumulating support and maybe even some alliances with other nations. But either way, Yugi escapes (after a LOT of arguing against leaving any one, let alone everyone, behind) so he could start his avatar training and defeat this new threat.

In this AU I believe most of the gang’s time would be spent trying to train Yugi in the next elements, but also avoiding capture by the Fire Nation, who’s put a big bounty on Yugi’s head. They also aren’t sure who to trust, as sides are often picked and alliances formed during wars and they have no real way to know what nation would aid them vs the Fire Nation. Unlike the original ATLA show, this is a new war unfolding before their eyes, not one that’s been known and ongoing for 100 years.

Now on to the rest of the cast! Honda is a non-bender, but don’t underestimate him, in a world where he constantly has to avoid the Dai Li and thugs who can earthbend, he’s learned to take care of himself.

Jonouchi is an earthbender, and Yugi actually met both him and Honda while traveling the world with grandpa (before learning he was the avatar).

Jou and Honda were both street kids who joined the gangs in Ba Sing Se in order to survive. Their fellow thugs tried to mug Yugi, thinking him an helpless monk. Peace-loving Yugi didn’t attack them, of course, but used his airbending to dodge their attacks with ease and grace... and ended up humiliating them all when he blew them into a fountain.

While Jou was initially against mugging Yugi (even when he was a thug he always went on about facing opponents who at least stand a chance against you, not picking on the weak) after that incident Jou basically made it his life’s mission to make Yugi’s life hell the whole time Yugi and Grandpa were in Ba Sing Se. He’d track Yugi down pretty much every day to harass him, trying to get Yugi to “fight him like a real man” and just generally being a bully.

Yugi always refused to fight him, even the few times Jonouchi actually landed a hit on him with his earthbending. Grandpa intervened a couple times, but ultimately left it up to Yugi to handle.

Right before Yugi and Gramps made to move on to the next city though, Yugi came across a frantic and injured Honda.

Turns out Jou spoke out against their gang stealing from a family that was already down on their luck and said thugs decided they had enough of Jou’s mouth and wanted to “teach him a lesson”. Honda tried to stop them and defend Jou, but was overpowered just by sheer numbers.

Yugi couldn’t stand by and let this happen, of course, and together he and Honda found where the thugs had taken Jou. Despite the fact that Yugi still refused to strike a damaging blow on anyone, his and Jou’s opposing bending styles actually worked pretty well together and they were all able to escape.

That was the turning point for both boys, but especially Jou and he finally realized that he mistreated Yugi and that Yugi was someone to be admired, not mocked. They unfortunately did not get a chance to make amends then, however, since Yugi and Grandpa were gone the next day.

So about a year later, when Yugi returns to the city after escaping the raids on the Air Temples, Jou and Honda are eager to help him and insist on joining Yugi and Atem, “as the avatar’s bodyguards” if nothing else. And despite being against the idea of endangering them, Yugi had to admit he teared up at the mere thought of friends joining him on his journey.

Next, we of course have Anzu, a waterbender, and Mai, a firebender.

Anzi and Mai have a traveling act together. They combined their bending with intricate dances and make a marvel of it, sometimes doing synchronized performances that focus a lot on how their opposing elements can compliment and balance each other, other times they do solo numbers that are just as mesmerizing with Anzu’s captivating grace and Mai’s mesmerizing passion. They also wear full, intricate face paints (or sometimes even masks) while on stage to help keep them from going unnoticed when traveling.

Anzu also knows a bit of healing with her waterbending, and as they travel through towns/cities, Anzu often uses her time between shows helping heal those who can’t afford medicine. Mai sometimes goes on about how ppl will take advantage of Anzu is she isn’t careful, but secretly really admires Anzu’s kind heart.

Don’t ever underestimate these girls though, their bending isn’t just for performance, they can and will kick your ass with their bending and have held their own again a whole crew of highway men. You don’t travel the world without knowing how to defend yourself, especially if you’re women thugs think they can take advantage of.

The boys came across Anzu and Mai soon after leaving Ba Sing Se. The first glance they got at them was one of their shows and were impressed to say the least (Yugi was particularly captivated by the waterbender, like the big-hearted bi-disaster that he is).

What really impressed them though was that night, when Yugi was taking a walk through the town to clear his head. Once again he was seen as an easy target by his “weak” appearance (season 0 anyone?) and some thugs ambushed him. Before he even had the chance to defend himself though, two women came to his rescue, water-whipping and fire-blazing. It didn’t take much for Yugi to put two and two together and realize they were the dancers from the show, and, being thoroughly impressed by their bending skills, he begged Anzu to teach him waterbending.

Anzu was actually interested in the idea from the start, when they heard about the attacks on the Air Temples and the Fire Nation declaring war, she was outraged. Anzu is nothing if not compassionate and all that life being burn away gave her a slowly growing need to take action, and now the avatar himself was asking her to teach him!

Mai on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with Yugi and his “band of do-gooders” and insisted Anzu turn him down. Mai grew up in the Fire Nation during the rise of the tyrant Fire Lord Aknadin, she knows first hand how ruthless his soldiers can be, and sees it as loosing battle to resist them. In her mind, her and Anzu have a good life going for them, why change that to fight a war they aren’t going to win?

The girls argue about this for awhile, to the point that Anzu actually thinks about leaving Mai to go with Yugi without her, despite the idea of leaving Mai behind tearing her up inside.

Then the town they’re staying in is attacked by Fire Nation soldiers. Everyone, including Mai jumps into action to defend the towns people and together they’re able to fight them off. In the aftermath, having the war’s carnage brought right into her lap, Mai sees that the ruler of her homeland has to be stopped and agrees to join the gang too.

I haven’t thought a ton about the other characters honestly, and I’m especially having trouble placing Ryou in all this, but here are some half developed/misc headcanon:

Seto is a firebender and the son of Fire Lord Aknadin, making him and Atem cousins.

In the version where Atem is just a regular firebender and not the previous avatar, Seto and Atem grew up together. Atem tried his best to convince Seto to leave with him when he set out to warn the Air Nomads of the attack, but Seto refused, already being drawn in by Aknadin’s power-centric teachings.

In the version where Atem is the previous avatar and shares a body with Yugi, Seto was only a few years old when his older cousin Atem was “mysteriously killed” and Seto grew up hearing stories from his father about how they could avenge the young prince and the previous fire lord.

In both versions Seto is similar to a Zuko character. He’s sent out by his father to capture the avatar, but eventually he comes to realize what a warmongering monster his father is and turns on the firelord, joining Yugi and the gang. He’s still an egotistical ass though and is basically constantly criticizing the whole gang the entire time he’s with them. The rivalry between him and Yugi/Atem is still there, because of all the times Yugi whipped him with his airbender while Seto was trying to capture him. Also, Seto honestly believes that he’d make a better avatar than Yugi and thanks to @readerinsertfanfiction now I can’t get the thought out of my head that Seto would try to science his way into becoming a second living avatar 😂

I really want to include Mana and Mahad in this AU as well (since they’re my fave side characters) and thought maybe they could also be firebenders who grew up with Atem and were his close friends. Then when the tyrant Fire Lord took over they started plotting behind the scenes and formed a rebellion within the fire nation. (for real could you imagine the version where Atem was killed by his uncle and now an older Mahad and Mana, who’ve been waging a rebellion in the name of their prince and best friend, meet Yugi and can talk to Atem again and how heart wrenching a scene like that would be??)

Another possibility I thought of for Mahad and Mana was that they’re spirits of deceased airbenders who have gained some power in the spirit world. They commune with Yugi and help guide him and even step in to save him a couple times. This idea play more on the whole “Dark Magician/Dark Magician Girl Duel Monsters” side of things. Heck maybe we could do both these ideas since DM and DMG are usually considered separate entities from Mahad and Mana.

Duke/Otogi, I could image being a character similar to Jet (a charmer/flirt, who’s cunning and vengeful, at least at first? Come on I know you can see it) and maybe even having a similar story of tricking the gang into helping him do something horrible in the name of fighting the Fire Nation, then redeeming himself later.

I’m still a little unsure of Ryou’s story in this AU, but, I think I have an idea brewing involving Ryou being a waterbender who’s been processed by an evil spirit. Said spirit is thriving/feeding on the carnage of the war and often takes over Ryou’s body in order to stoke the fires of said war. This could lead to some interesting stuff involving Ryou wanting to join Yugi and the gang, but the evil spirit always stabbing them in the back. The gang, especially Yugi, would see it as a personal responsibility to save Ryou from the evil spirit and Yugi tries to learn more about his spirit powers in order to help Ryou.

I have some more vague ideas floating around my head, but I think that’s it for now. Boy, these are the longest headcanon I’ve had in while lol. I’m really loving the idea of this AU and I’m even really tempted to write an actual series surrounding it. I’d love to hear your guy’s thoughts about any of this or whether all this is even appealing at all. Please feel free to invade my inbox if yall wanna talk about this AU! <3

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thotsforvillainrights · 4 years ago

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~Pivitol~

Summary: Pops takes control of the date and gets in some opinions (much to Kai’s disdain). Meanwhile Kai is trying to find a way to balance the quickly moving relationship along with his newfound feelings. Plus there is some touching!

Chapter: 10

Warnings: None

“Anyway, gonna show me your room kind sir?”

If his heart wasn’t beating that fast before, it was certainly beating fairly quickly by now! “M-my room?” He mentally face palmed at stuttering and you laughed a bit. His shyness was out of character so it was soothing to know you had that much of an effect on him! “Uhhh yeah? Your room? Well unless you have any other room to show me?” A little lightbulb went off in his head and he quickly stood up from the couch. He held his hand out for you...the second time today he would be touching you...and you graciously accepted it, being sure not to comment on his germaphobia and kill the moment. “I do have some other rooms to show you. “ He lied smoothly. There was nothing else in the house of true interest (at least to him anyway), but he wasn’t even sure the condition of his room at the moment. “Follow me this way, Angel.” He tested the waters with the nickname again, and you complied as if he’d been calling you it from day one. In fact, he had been testing the waters for a good time now. The increased effort to touch you was a test to himself. At one point he rolled up his sleeves and relished in the fact that he had not a single hive to show.

You were like magic to him.

“Kai, what room is this?” You asked in confusion and he smiled, turning on the lights to reveal MANY books from wall to wall. In fact, the medium sized room had all walls set as a bookshelf. “This is Pops collection of books. Before you ask, there is no way in hell the old man read all of this. I just think he’s an avid collector. Although I do seem to recall him reading quite a bit when I was younger. I always assumed it was mostly paperwork. Oh my apologies, is my prattling on beginning to bother you?” He asked as you gently trailed your hands along the books. “It’s not bothering me at all! It’s cute when you talk about your childhood. And these books are all so well taken care of. Not a speck of dust in sight!” Kai chuckled and leaned against the doorframe. “That’s because of my contributions during chore day. That old man tends to the fish in the Koi pond and calls it a day. Can’t complain though, at least he gets out of the way for me to handle the business.” You rolled your eyes and him and scoffed playfully. “Poor Kai, left to do something I’m sure he enjoys doing for fun anyway.”

“Bold of you to assume I enjoy cleaning because I’m a germaphobe. The whole point of it is to stay away from as much dirt as possible.” He teased you and reached out for your hand again. “C’mon. There are more rooms in this house to show you.” While you were enjoying the time and taking in as many as views as possible, he was internally freaking out about holding your hand. This was the first hand he’s intentionally held in his life! Well, besides holding Pop’s hand to cross the street when he was a kid. A part of him wonders if it’s childish to have this kind of mental breakdown over something as simple as handholding, but it’s quickly silenced by the urge to push his limits further. You’re beginning to make him wonder if he’s even truly a germaphobe in the first place. Around the 5th or 6th room he was starting to look at your dismissive face and he became concerned. “Is there...something bothering you Y/N?”

“Hmm?! Oh no it’s okay. I just...I really am ready to see your room. It’s getting late and I don’t wanna miss the opportunity is all.” You fessed up and he swallowed. “I see. Okay then, just follow me.” He could feel his hands getting a little clammy underneath the fabric gloves. Thank God he made it to the door before it leaked through and you felt it. That would’ve been more embarrassing than any childhood story Pops could tell you. When you made it to the doors, he mentally braced himself before opening it and moving aside for you to enter. The gasp you made almost made him fall out but luckily it was coming from a good place of mind. “Kai it’s exactly like I imagined! This is the neatest room I’ve ever been in! Have you even ever slept in that bed over there??? This makes me want to go home in clean my rats nest of a room (no offense reader, but your room in this story is in fact a rats nest)!” You continued to compliment him while his eyes locked onto the singular book laying on the desk and not on his shelf. He dashed to put it back into place and you laughed. “No need to panic over something so simple. This room is damn near spotless. I’d live here if I could!” You exclaimed as you let yourself fall back onto the plush bed. He didn’t mind you rolling around and your laughter was awakening something him at the moment until Pops interrupted the two of you. “Live here you say!?” He popped his head in the doorway and Kai verbally sighed. “Not now please...” He begged but the old man ignored him. “How about staying the night for a starter? I’ve got somewhere to be tomorrow and the boy can’t handle the Hassaikai work and the chores as well. Perhaps could you lend a hand with my end of the work please?”

“Pops there is no way in hell-”

“Sure thing!” Kai just about got whiplash with how fast he jerked his head around to look at you. “W...wHaT???” You laughed and sat upright on the bed. “I’ll sleep over for a night or two if I need to. It’s kinda boring at home and this place is nice. Besides, I’m off for the next few days. Plus hours have been cut and I’m one of them thanks to me being a rather new employee still. Pops you can trust us to keep the house running while you’re gone!” You assured him and he smiled in return. “Thank you my dear. I’ll be heading out to pack right now.” Pops walked out and Kai excused himself to follow directly behind the elder. Once in the confinement of Pop’s room, Kai went off. “Are you actually going senile old man?! What the hell was that!???” Pops simply laughed it off and began packing his bags. “What do you mean? I just recruited some help for you from my darling in-law. Besides, it would be nice for Y/N to get to know the house better since I intend for the two of you to move in together once the relationship progresses to that point. Oh yes, then the marriage will soon come. And of course the grandkids you’ll have/adopt. Oh and also-”

“YOU ARE GETTING AHEAD OF YOURSELF!” Kai’s face was beet red with anger and embarrassment while Pops simply laughed it off. “Calm down my boy, I simply wanted you to spend some time with them. It’s better because you’re far too late in developing feelings. I was wondering if you planned on dying alone. I’m glad to know you aren’t going to be alone when I pass someday. I’m proud of you for finding someone so wonderful to be at your side. Y/N is good, I can tell from her/his/their smile.” Pops gently reached to pat Kai’s shoulder and he calmed down under the old man’s touch.

Sometimes he was bearable.

“Besides, I left you another special gift below the base in your office. I thought it would come in handy.” Pops smiled mischievously while Kai gagged.

Sometimes bearable, not all the time...

Now he would have to tend to you for a day or two.

#bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #kai chisaki #overhaul #pivitol #Pivotal #fanfiction #fanfic #shie hassaikai #overhaul x reader #chisaki kai

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ooo-babyboi · 4 years ago

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Kenma x G/N!Reader Oneshot: Ground Cake

a/n: dang, i really said ‘falling off the face of the earth ✌🏼 bai boo’

take this kenma fic i wrote in two hours as an apology :))

also can you tell i gave up on making titles

FIC ENTAILS: stress from school work, ghosting, online friends with kenma :>, minecraft being everyones coping mechanism, picnic date <3, lack of sleeps, idk what to say pls

one in the morning, that’s when you had felt most productive, unfortunately. the moon casted a misty glow through your blinds as you sat at your desk, computer on.

the assignments were always piling on each other, as if they were a globish monster ready to consume you. while you really did try to finish them, it was just getting to be too much. you prayed that there was an escape-

ding

watery eyes (from the blue light or overwhelming stress, who knows) gazed towards the top of your screen, in search for the notification.

applepi: >:( i know ur awake, ur sleep schedule is as shit as mine

u havent been on in a while, u okay?

you clicked over to discord, opening the message fully. you really hadn’t been on in a couple days. or maybe it was a week or two, who knows.

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ: haha

im fine, dw :))

applepi: you use :)) when ur upset :/

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ: ffs y can u read me like an open book

applepi: only thing im good at 😎

rlly tho, whats up?

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ: idk, everything feels like garbage

a dumpster on fire

applepi: that sounds

✨shitty✨

minecraft = coping mechanism

wanna play?

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ: lol sure

a ring came from your computer, alerting you that he was voice calling you. you cleared your throat quickly before picking up, letting out a little hello.

“go on our usual server, ‘kay? i updated the base,” applepi murmured.

you hummed in agreement, “what did you do?”

the line was silent as you entered the world, only caves and dungeons visible till the land loaded.

“apple? what did you do to the base?” you asked again.

“oh sorry, i spaced out. you can call me ken, by the way. uh, i added an extra room, come look.”

your characters ran together through the base to an unfamiliar hallway, which lead outside to a pathway to a dark oak forest.

“im scared, are you gonna kill me again? bombard me with skellies? have me trip over a wire and fall in lava?” you questioned, though still running behind him.

“no, that got old after, like, the third time,” ken chuckled.

“i’m still upset about that, i was farming endermen and i lost all those ‘pearls,” you scoffed, although he could tell you were messing around.

“m’kay, farmer n/n, look.”

in an opening in the forest, red and white carpets were placed down with lanterns on the trees. you could feel the grin ken wore while his character crouched several times.

“wait, that’s not it,” he broke a carpet and placed a cake down, “bam, there we go. you like it?”

it was silent for a moment, then you let out a loud laugh. tears pricked in your eyes as you hunched over, the biggest smile on your face.

“i hope those are good laughs, it didn’t take me very long, but i just thought it might make you feel better,” ken huffed.

“very good laughs, ken. thank you, it’s very nice,” you wiped your eyes clear of tears.

“good, now come eat this cake with me before i eat the whole thing myself.”

“yum, ground cake, sounds very appetizing,” you teased.

“just get over here, you sap.”

you both had eaten the cake and sat in the picnic area for a while, talking about anything and everything. after some time, the both of you moved on to exploring, as well as mining in some of the caves you saw earlier.

before you knew it, an orange haze beamed through your window. stretching, you popped a few bones, “morning already?”

“what? no.”

“real life, ken, look out the window,” you snickered.

“oh, i guess it is- oh god.”

“wha-”

the mic didn’t pick it up very well, but you could hear a brief yell from ken’s side, along with, “suck my ass, kuro! i’m playing minecraft!”

“pftt-”

laughing ensued between you too, then it fell silent. Although, it was quite comfortable with a few giggles here and there.

“someday, if your not a 35 year old man, maybe we’ll meet in person and have a real picnic,” ken mused.

“thankfully i’m not a 35 year old man.” (if you are 👀 leave)

“hmmm, that sounds like something a 35 year old man would say-”

“oh shut up,” you interjected, smiling.

you agreed when ken asked if you would be on later, snorting when you said ‘just for you’. with that, you both logged off, putting your status to ‘invisible’.

sitting in your chair, you thought about what an actual picnic with ken would be like. then you drifted on thinking about what ken would be like. little did you know kenma was thinking about it too, well, till kuroo started yelling at him again.

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sou-ver-2-0 · 4 years ago

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“Midori is Meister’s son,” and other Sou theories

I’ve had a theory for a while that Original Sou is the son of Meister, the likely Mastermind behind the Death Game. I’ve alluded to this theory before, but I haven’t made a proper post for it until now.

I came up with the theory because it’s the easiest way to put Original Sou under Meister’s power and influence. It’s the simplest explanation I can think of for why Original Sou was both an Asu-Naro member and a planned Death Game participant. That’s a strange combination of things to be, but it’s not that strange if that’s what your father raised you to be…

However, there’s more to this theory than a mere hunch. In the first two chapters of YTTD, we learn the story of the Satous: Gashu the father, Kai the human son, and Rio Ranger the doll son. I believe that the story of the Satous is foreshadowing for the story of Sou’s own family.

Gashu is a villain dedicated to the cause of Asu-Naro. He raised Kai to be an Asu-Naro agent. Part of Kai’s job was to watch over Sara, a planned Death Game candidate; he grew to care for her. Kai becomes a participant himself and is one of the Game’s first victims. After Kai dies, we are introduced to Rio Ranger, a sadistic Floor Master. He is a broken doll who wears smiling masks. Rio Ranger is similarly fated to die, and Gashu is then revealed as the father.

Let’s try changing the names in that story. Meister is the main villain behind Asu-Naro. He raised Sou Hiyori to be a top agent. While on the job, Sou developed a close relationship with Shin, a planned Death Game candidate. Sou himself is the first candidate to die, before the Game even begins. However, we meet him again in the “Graveyard of Broken Dolls” as Midori, a sadistic Floor Master who masks his cruelty behind a smile. Midori instructs the participants to kill him… Perhaps leading to a scenario where Meister will finally reveal himself.

I’ll dig into these parallels deeper beneath the cut. But before I go any further, I want to give credit to @joukester who came up with the “Shin was a replacement candidate for Sou” theory, which has influenced my thinking a lot. I also want to credit @novatoast, who pointed out the important Kai parallels and many other ideas to me! I’m very grateful. While Shin is my favorite character, Sou is the character I enjoy speculating about the most. I’m excited to finally share my thoughts on the ramifications of this theory.

Some words on Meister, and the role of the Man from the Memorandum

I should be clear upfront that I think Meister is the Man from the Memorandum, the winner of the Previous Death Game, who loved and lost a “17-year-old School Girl.” I subscribe to the theory that Meister is recreating the Death Game to mold Sara into his beloved High School Girl by putting her through the same trials, and he is hoping she will win this time.

In order to make the perfect recreation, I think the other Death Game participants are also meant to fill in the previous participants’ roles. I believe that Shin fulfills the role of the “Man” himself, which was likely an antagonistic role. However, I believe that Sou was originally meant to play this antagonist role. I think that Shin’s First Trial is so unusual because it was designed to twist Shin into adopting Sou’s personality. That way, he could better play the part.

The first thing we learn about the Man is his confession, “In the first trial, I killed a person.” If Sou had survived to the Death Game, it’s possible that his First Trial would have been to literally kill Shin. Instead, Shin’s First Trial is only that “Sou” metaphorically kills “Shin.”

I want to bring up another possibility for the Man’s role; it may be a doomed role. It’s possible that even if Sou had survived to the Death Game, he might also have had a zero percent chance of survival. The worst outcome for the Mastermind may be seeing a “repeat win” for his own role. While I love the theory that Shin’s zero percent survival rate is due to his own agency (having a self-sacrificial nature), there’s a poignancy to the idea that both Sous turn to villainy out of desperation in the face of certain death. Knowing that the Game is rigged against them in favor of a teenage girl.

Perhaps, even knowing that your own father favors a strange girl over yourself.

Even if the role isn’t necessarily doomed, I think Sou Hiyori still knew more about Meister and the Death Game than any other planned participant. If Meister was Sou’s father, and Sou was serving him faithfully, wouldn’t it make sense for him to be upset that he isn’t the favored “Chosen One”? Knowing that he will someday participate in a Death Game, with a high chance of death, but his father isn’t even rooting for him?

What would that horrible knowledge do to a person?

Kai Satou and Sou Hiyori: Two Different Kinds of Stalkers

Let’s talk about the Human Sons, Kai and Sou. Kai was raised to work for Asu-Naro and he was trained to become an assassin. However, he could never kill a person, and so his ranking in the organization was low. I’m suggesting that Sou was also raised to work for Asu-Naro, but since he took on so many important jobs of manipulating participants’ lives, he was likely in good standing.

The most interesting parallel between these two agents is that they each developed an attachment to another candidate. Kai was instructed to watch over Sara, the strongest candidate, and he grew fond of her from afar. Sara never even knew his name. Although Kai had noble intentions, Sara feared him, and lived with the anxiety of having a stalker.

In contrast, Sou developed an intense, abusive relationship with Shin, the weakest candidate. Instead of keeping his distance while spying on the boy, Sou seems to have become Shin’s closest friend.

Sara and Shin share a similar trauma of feeling stalked. Watching eyes and grabbing hands haunt them.

Another clear parallel between the two stalkers is that they both left written accounts of their observations. We see Kai’s notes about Sara on his laptop, and we see Sou’s notes about Shin in his “Shin Tsukimi AI Test Data” book, to Sara and Shin’s chagrin.

Kai grew an emotional attachment to Sara in spite of his job to watch her. Now the question is, how much of Sou’s relationship with Shin was “strictly business”?

Was Sou’s interest in Shin really all for Asu-Naro? Was he instructed to form such a close relationship with the boy? Or did he also grow close to his chosen candidate in spite of his job? We can’t say for sure yet. However, the closer parallel to Kai would be that Sou’s feelings for Shin became more “personal” than “professional.” Personally, I find it likely that Sou wanted to exercise control over a vulnerable person because he didn’t feel like he had much control over his own life.

I speculate that a major difference between Kai and Sou is knowledge of their fate. I think that Sou grew up knowing that he would one day be a Death Game candidate, while Kai did not know this until the last minute. In a similar way that Shin only becomes a villain if you tell him his survival rate, I think that Kai’s innocence of his fate informed his nobler personality. Meanwhile, Sou’s knowledge of his fate could have harshened him.

How do these two men behave in the face of death?

Death: An act of resistance?

“This is... resistance. Our lives toyed with to our enemy's whims, we are unable to save even a single person... As we die off, this is... my feeble... resistance. But it is one large step... toward counterattack...! It is a step I was able to take... because you bought me time. It is surely... not futile. I entrust them to you...! Our regrets...!! Our hopes...!! I... am satisfied.”

Kai’s suicide in the First Main Game is framed as one of the most courageous acts in the story. Kai takes his life into his own hands, rather than let himself be abused by Asu-Naro a minute longer. He also uses his final words to give an inspirational speech to Sara and entrust his hopes to her. It is a heavy burden for Sara to carry, but she doesn’t have a choice. Nobody has any “easy” choices in this Game.

How does Kai’s death compare to Sou’s death? While Kai took his own life in resistance of Asu-Naro, Sou was murdered by Alice, presumably in service to Asu-Naro.

That’s certainly how it looks…

But what if? What if Sou’s early death was his own form of resistance? What if he deliberately provoked Alice to kill him, knowing that this would mess up the script? Knowing that this would make things more complicated for Meister? Is that so unthinkable?

Why would he do that?

It’s not like Sou’s life was particularly meaningful. He lived in service of an evil organization, possibly with a father who didn’t love him. His only close friendship we know of was with a helpless teenage boy, and Sou treated him terribly.

But…I’d like to share my most outrageous Sou theory, because I might as well go big or go home.

In the same way that Kai entrusted his regrets and hopes to Sara, it’s possible that Sou was entrusting his own regrets and hopes to Shin.

What I’m saying is that: it’s possible that Sou died thinking that his death would give Shin a fighting chance.

“I gave Sou to Shin. He’s already Sou by now, you see.”

This quote has always stood out to me. From our point of view, it was Shin’s own choice to take Sou’s name! Sou didn’t “give” it to him!

Unless…Sou knew that his own death would force Shin into the Antagonist Role? He might have known that his own First Trial would be to murder Shin, and he wanted to avoid that? He might have wanted Shin’s First Trial to make the young man “stronger”? He may have even liked the idea of Shin carrying on his own name and legacy?

Following this interpretation, it’s possible that Sou rationalized his abuse of Shin was “good” because it would have “prepared” the boy for the upcoming Death Game. Shin ought to learn how cruel people are. From a “friend.” If the story were to actually frame Sou’s abuse of Shin as “teaching Shin,” this would also tie into Shin AI’s line, “Though I learned a lot of things at his house.”

There’s an obvious argument against what I’ve just suggested. It comes from one of Midori’s most memorable lines.

“Since he was going to die anyway, I wanted to kill him with my own hands…”

Midori the doll says cheerfully that he wanted to kill Shin himself. That clearly shows his intentions towards Shin are purely negative. That line is not befitting someone who might have died to “help” a vulnerable person.

However, I have a counterargument for that. It’s that Sou and Midori aren’t the same person. YTTD’s narrative makes it very clear that the dolls and humans can have separate personalities, shown most clearly with Reko and Fake Reko.

And Midori doesn’t parallel Kai. He parallels Rio Ranger.

Rio Ranger and Midori: the sadistic broken dolls

Rio Ranger is an incomplete doll. His father Gashu strongly imbued him with “a strong sense of inferiority, which gave birth to jealousy and hatred.” Gashu also “discarded what [Rio Ranger] originally possessed.” “Kindness… compassion… happiness… / Nearly all of [his] positive emotions.”

I think it is possible that something similar happened to Midori. Sou’s feelings for Shin may have been more complex than simple sadistic pleasure at Shin’s pain. If Sou truly paralleled Kai, he may have had hidden “positive” emotions for Shin as well. Inconvenient, rebellious emotions that Meister would want to “discard.” Leaving Midori as the purely sadistic doll we know now.

I realize that this would be a shockingly positive development for Sou’s character if any of this is true. Original Sou is currently treated as a hate-able joke in the fandom because he is so cartoonishly evil. I feel obligated to say that nothing I’ve written would make Sou’s treatment of Shin “okay.”

And it could be that nothing I just wrote is true! I’m simply drawing parallels with Kai’s death of “resistance” and Rio Ranger’s loss of “positive emotions,” and trying to show the implications of what that could mean for Original Sou and Midori. But it could also be that Nankidai will write Original Sou’s death in an opposite way from Kai, and that Midori is more of a “broken person” instead of a “broken doll.” In fact, my favorite difference between Midori and Rio Ranger is that Ranger only knows what it’s like to be a doll, while Midori has the complex memories of human existence. Honestly, there are many ways Nankidai could approach this. I just don’t know yet.

For example, Original Sou could have even been instructed to allow Alice to kill him. I can’t discount that possibility.

Nankidai could also approach a death of “resistance” in a nuanced way. Perhaps Sou stumbled into conflict with Alice without meaning to take things so far. Like Kai, he didn’t want to die. Perhaps he escalated the tension because he was feeling more emotional than logical. Perhaps he found himself in a fight with a larger man, a fight he couldn’t win, and then he finally started rationalizing to himself that his death could still have meaning. And that meaning could have been a combination of feelings of spite for his job and obsession for his friend.

We do have evidence from Midori’s behavior that he seeks mutually assured destruction, and he even seems masochistic. This could lead to a death of “resistance” which is still very different in tone from Kai’s death.

“But I’ll try my best to make it one shot, one kill… I wanna take at least four people with me…”

“How nice hatred is… It lets me satisfy a person 100%...”

I do think that the only interesting thing to do with Midori’s character is to humanize him. He could get sympathetic traits to make him feel more realistic. I think this could even make him scarier! What’s most frightening about the character isn’t his campy villainous vibe; it’s the fact that he’s an abuser. And abusers use sympathy to get what they want.

Rio Ranger is mostly demonic in the story until we finally learn about his father, Gashu, who “puts Ranger in his place” by killing him. Something similar may happen with Midori.

Conclusions

This is getting long and I’ve already written about the most interesting potential parallels between Sou and the Satou brothers, so I’ll wrap things up.

The reason I find Sou/Midori so fascinating is because he is a man of many contradictions. He is a participant and floor master, alive and dead, aggressor and victim. He could be a victim within the cycle of abuse himself, if they develop his relationship with Meister as much as I’m speculating.

Even if my theories and conclusions are wrong, the parallels between Sou Hiyori and the Satou brothers still exist. We have two Asu-Naro agents who developed an attachment to a candidate before becoming early victims. We have two “broken” sadistic doll floor masters. I feel instinctively that these parallels must mean something. I want to think that the parallels mean that Sou could have a father figure, similar to Gashu, and the most likely candidate is Meister. We can also use these parallels to infer how Sou/Midori could be written to be a more complex character.

Thank you for reading!! @ Nankidai good luck writing this bastard.

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Someday: Overhaul

You had been Overhaul’s assistant for two years now, you were also one of the few people closest to him. And by close I mean, non-expendable, not at a huge risk to be overhauled, and can give him advice that he (usually) takes. You knew Kai (Oh yeah, he also insisted that you call him by his name, but only around him or Chrono.) wasn’t exactly a heartfelt individual, yet you couldn’t help but fall for the Mysophobic, emotionless, cold young leader of the Shie Hassaikai.

You knew he’d never feel the same, I mean, the guys borderline a sociopath, not to mention EXTREMELY dedicated to his goals. So you knew loving him wouldn’t end up great for you..but you mean what you say when you couldn’t help yourself. He was strong, charming, determined, not to mention handsome. Even only ever seeing from the bridge of his nose up, you could tell he was attractive. About a year or so ago, you had asked Hari, (his childhood friend) If he was hiding a scar or birth defect. But he said he just didn’t like breathing the same air as they did. Which seemed like overkill, but you weren’t one to judge. Currently you were making your way over to Overhaul’s office, he had said he needed your help with something. This wasn’t unusual, being called into his office. I mean, you were basically his secretary. But lately you noticed you had been getting called in more, and more. But not for phone calls, or paperwork, but simple things. Little things he could have easily done himself, or even gotten one of the precepts to do, but instead he insisted that it be you. After about five minutes of wandering the maze of a base, you got to his door and knocked. You used to have to wear a black surgical mask, and gloves, but over the years he got used to you and allowed you to not wear them. Oh yeah! You might want to know what you’re wearing, you wore a silky white dress shirt neatly tucked into a black pencil skirt that ended just above your knees, your hair was down, straightened and parted on the left, with the left side being sweetly tucked behind your ear. “Come in” The usual monotoned voice of Overhaul spoke up. You walked into the room and headed over to his desk. It was then you noticed he wasn’t wearing his plague mask, but his black surgical mask he wore under it. You always liked when he didn’t wear it because you got to see his nice features more clearly. He had also abandoned the jacket and tie, leaving his first few buttons undone. He was also holding a wad of gauze to his forehead. “Oh my gosh Kai, what happened?! You’re bleeding!” you scrambled to get the gauze and medical supplies he kept on hand “We had a couple…issues with the lab this morning, a vile of the drug exploded and it cut me on my forehead, and I think there’s some glass lodged in my shoulder” It was then you noticed he had also been holding his shoulder. “Yeah, I’d say! And you didn’t get any medical attention?! Why didn’t you fix your shoulder with your quirk!” “It was a vile of the quirk destroying drug, my quirk won’t be back until tomorrow, and I don’t think it’d be a good idea to wait until then to deal with it.” Luckily for both of you, you had taken an advanced course in first aid when you started working there, so you knew how to fix wounds like this, you just normally didn’t have to since overhaul could fix his wounds himself. “Okay then, I can help you but you’re going to have to let me touch you.” Just at the mention of the word ‘touch’ Overhaul could feel the hives just waiting to make their appearance. You see, the truth is, is that over the past two years, overhaul had developed feeling for you too, but being a villain and the leader of one of the most notorious gangs in history, he didn’t exactly know what to do. He had asked chrono what to do about it, and he said he should just tell her how he feels, especially since she was the only female, aside from Eri, in the Shie Hassaikai and she probably wouldn’t be single for long. Chrono had smoothly and stealthily found out that y/n was indeed single and liked overhaul back, and was more than happy to play match maker. (Listen, being stuck in this base can get boring real quick, real fast.) Y/n made her way over to the young boss. “Since it’s lodged pretty deep into your shoulder, you’re gonna have to take off your shirt..” y/n sheepishly looked away. Overhaul smirked, y/n was a usually confident and collected person, and there’s only one person whose been able to crack that façade and make her flustered, and that person is of course Kai Chisaki. “Are you sure its not just because you want to see me with my shirt off y/n? Hm?” The mention of Overhaul shirtless alone made y/n’s face go bright red, a sight that made Overhaul lightly chuckle. He took his shirt off and y/n’s blush only grew. The man was built. She knew he was in good shape, and probably had some muscle, but she hadn’t expected him to be in THAT good of shape! This reaction did not go unnoticed by him, and only boosted his ego of course. “Now, are you going to keep checking me out, or are you going to patch me up?” He asked in his usual monotone, but with a noticeable amount of amusement in his tone. “You really enjoy making me embarrassed don’t you?” you said as you started cleaning the wound “I must admit, it’s amusing to say the least. It’s not my fault your so easy to fluster y/n~” He said the last part in a deeper, maybe even seductive tone, the kind of tone that made y/n’s heart flutter, and get used to the blush, cause it ain’t leavin anytime soon. It was then you also noticed that kai…didn’t have any hives…. you were touching him…and he wasn’t covered in hives!!! It was then you also felt two arms snake their way around your waist. (Kai is sitting in his desk chair, and your standing in front of him patching him up) “U-uh k-kai” You stuttered out, face red beyond belief and with the heart beat to match. “Yes, y/n?” He answered, as if he hadn’t just made the smoothest move known to mankind. “D-doesn’t it bo-other you to t-touch me?” You had finished patching up the gash on his shoulder and forehead, you were about to move away, when strong arms pulled you to sit on his lap. “eep!” You squeaked as you felt him bury his head into your shoulder. “It doesn’t bother me y/n, you’re clean. Actually…I enjoy your touch…I enjoy being around you, y/n” he said, looking up and turning his golden gaze to match your shocked one. “Actually y/n, I’ve enjoyed your company for a while now, it hasn’t been until recently however that I knew why. Do you know why, y/n?” “U-um, w-why kai?” “It’s because I love you Y/n L/n. Or rather, I’m in love with you.” Hold up. Did he just- yup. He did. Kai Chisaki, the scary leader of the Shie Hassaikai just sMoOtH as butter confessed his love to you. You quickly turned to meet his gaze, filled with nothing but sincerity, and love. “…Do you really mean it?” “Every word. So?” “So..?” He playfully rolled his eyes “Do I really have to spell it out for you? I want to be your boyfriend, y/n. Although I must be honest, I can’t promise to want to be your boyfriend forever.” “Oh?....Why not?” “Simple, someday I’m going to want to be your husband instead.”………Y/n.exe has OFFICIALLY stopped working. “KAI CHISAKI ATLEAST GIVE ME A WARNING BEFORE YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT!!” If the tone of her voice didn’t give it away, the FIERCE blush on her face did. “No, I’m only going to give you a warning if I’m teasing you, I see no reason to warn you if I’m being serious.” The son of a gun shrugged it off like he DIDN’T just say he was gonna marry you someday and moved on. “But, y/n, in all seriousness, I am completely sure in my feelings for you.” “I didn’t think you’d feel the same way..All this time, I thought it was one sided, guess I was wrong huh?” Y/n let out a happy giggle, the kind that made Kai’s heart overflow with love. Sure, he was a cold Yakuza leader, and yes he on occasion killed people, but if there was one thing he knew for certain, it was that he was hopelessly and utterly in love with Y/n L/n and he was going to make sure nothing EVER changed that. “….I…I Love you….y/n..” Although it was going to take him AWHILE to get used to…well emotions he knew that one day, someday you’d understand just how much he loved you. “I love you too, Kai Chisaki”. And right now, someday was getting closer and closer.

#overhaul #overhaul x reader #kai chisaki #bnha #bnha villains #bnha x reader #y/n #shie hassaikai

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