#* Miruku is KING of minding his business i tell you.

[mimiruku]

hi! all pre-relationship for mimi & takeshi 😈🫶🏻

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╰┈┈➤    My name is Jojie & I'm excruciatingly slow for no reason, but here we go . . . finally got to this ! ( the way I was looking forward in answering this, but grass wanted to touch ME . THIS IS VERY VERY LONG, read at your own risk.

⸻ 「 ✦ LOVE ROUTE : IF YAMAMOTO TAKESHI WINS(?). ✦ 」

⸻ 01. How did they first meet? Namimori Middle School, in the classroom on a particularly sunny Monday morning. The class has long began its boring drawl, the teacher's monotonous voice droning only barely interested in the subject he is teaching. Something about a group project. Takeshi is the same, barely focus, still caught by some sleepy spell - his gaze was misty tired when he takes notice of the person seated in front of him, the remnants of summer blowing cold breeze into the classroom, his long hair cradled by the wind. Takeshi was just gonna swat it away, but he'd find his fingers tangled along the strands, weaving slightly along some stranger's hair.

Miruku turns to look at him then, blinking eyes staring curious for a moment before ultimately smiling. " No." He says and Takeshi offers a sheepish grin, " Sorry, couldn't see the blackboard." He lies. " Oh." Miruku replies, apologetic, gathering his hair to the side and along his shoulders. " So sorry." And he turns away.

The next day, Miruku sat away from him.  Unrelated to Takeshi of course.

⸻ 02. What was their first impression of each other? Miruku had no particular interest in him. A nice enough boy, he thought fairly vaguely, with a nice enough smile and nice enough voice and a nice enough face. Takeshi is easier to remember than most people. Takeshi is the same, there had been nothing to think about ; he was hardly reflective anyway, so what if he has a strange habit of follow him with his eyes?

⸻ 03. Who felt romantic feelings first?  &  04. Did either of them try to resist their feelings? Unknowingly, Takeshi. It had been a tenderness unnatural to him, he did not recognize it and it did not feel particularly comfortable either. There is a nervous edge to it, a knot in his stomach and a pleasure that provoked strange things in him, he'd rather not discuss it. He'd rather focus on things that didn't confuse and bewilder him, like Tsunayoshi, like Momina.

So it was, and against all this, he ends up dating the latter of the two he calls his best-friends. He ends up dating Momina near end of their middle school years, this is not an act of resistance, rather a cognitive choice that made sense then. She made him happy, they were friends, they were close enough for people to think they're dating, why shouldn't they?

Meanwhile, Miruku's last few months of middle school was spent happily unaware of the romantic hijinks that was about to run amok.

⸻ 05. What would their lives be like if they had never met? On a surface level, Miruku would not have taken interest in things like baseball & swords. Would not have applied as a manager for a baseball team. Would not have been as friendly to dogs. Would not have learned how to make sushi and plenty little things that simply wouldn't be part of his day to day life. There might not be much of a change, but I'm certain Miruku wouldn't be as happy, I'm certain, he'd rather experience Takeshi.

Takeshi meanwhile would have likely a more patent difference. Miruku is his growth pains. The tooth pulling and a leap of faith. There had been many things he wouldn't have done . . . Miruku has a way of pushing people out of their comfort zone it would seem, for better or for worst.

⸻ 06. What was their "flirting stage" like? Miruku does not flirt, but he is awfully ' overly friendly ' , it was easy with Takeshi, it came natural to be excessively affectionate both in words and action with him ; it's a bit virginal in a way, that he doesn't know what he is doing. ( he likes to pretend he does tho ). As for Takeshi, similarly he was particularly unaware of the lines he was crossing at first, from the time they've first met, through their adulthood his flirtation had been thinly vailed with what looks to be something chaste and modest, he is good at hiding his intentions, maybe he's just being friendly! he's always friendly! Even when later in life he has been more conscious of his actions, Miruku seems to just not understand what's going on.

Typically, if you flirt with Miruku, it would send him spiraling into disgust, in this case, Miruku was under the impression they were buddy-buddy . . . it was a miserable misread admittedly, one that foiled any advances Takeshi made.

⸻ 07. How do their friends and family feel about them as a couple? A collective sigh of relief, oh thank god. Later, one that of horror because there is such a thing as too affectionate. ( perhaps, get a room ? )