#Akira Doujima

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Kono Oto Tomare! by Sakura Amyuu

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imagine akiramon workplace drama like the office or something

Aaaaa I want to explore that alternate line in Akiramon Week so I have a few hcs of what it could be like if they got into a relationship while still working in the CCG

Please keep in mind this is my first request and I suck at it

-Upon returning alive and healthy from the suicide mission in the 20th district, everyone gains promotions, Amon becomes special investigator, and Akira, Seidou and Juuzou become first class

-The work becomes more boring, Amon is no longer Akira's supervisor, she is more focused on quinque research, but eventually the team is put together for a task force, maybe about torso or nutcracker

-Amon uses the chance to get closer to Akira, feelings for her have grown more intense, but she has kept herself busy these past few months. He is also intimidated by the fact that the rivalry with Takizawa has turned into a friendship, and the fact that Akira seems to have many suitors in the research department

- Still, Houji sets them up to go out together, just the two of them, the tables are turned and Amon gets drunk, he declares his love for Akira

-She's a little skeptical at first, Amon has an internal crisis remembering the other day, he doesn't remember Akira's reaction, and she treats him normally at work, which is torturous

-At the end of the day, he confronts her, declaring himself sober this time and Akira is amused, but she doesn't show it by being serious.When Amon glares at her with an expectant outburst, Akira approaches, slowly, step by step, and glares at him. Amon realizes that she isn't getting any closer than that, and kisses her

-Akira is happy with the kiss, but she is still cruel to Amon, she makes him take her on dates and be nice to her, until she decides to accept the dating proposal before Amon has a meltdown

-Then, the secret relationship begins, Akira doesn't want to be the target of gossip, her family is always a target, Amon doesn't like the idea either

-but they eventually leave clues, a quick, strong, unobtrusive grip on hands as they pass each other, a lingering look, Amon doesn't smile easily despite being a gentle soul, but his mood is so mellow lately

- Hey, we know Amon's eyesight is bad, but does he really have to lean over her far to read a detail of the report?

-Akira looks different too, Takizawa notices first, she eats after nine, then starts looking at her phone more often, she even got giggly one day! However, Takizawa is the only witness and no one believes him

-And seriously, how many times can a quinque break? Amon attends Akira's lab more often than he attends committee meetings

-One night, he is focused on finding out who the torso is, Akira has a scar on her leg and it worries him constantly Amon is almost asleep in the office, when only he and Akira are there, when he feels her arms wrapped around his neck

-He was very stiff at first when doing something in the office, but he just relaxes, leaning back and kissing her softly

-However, the peaceful moment is interrupted by none other than Juuzou, returning to fetch sweets from his hideout. He doesn't intend to care so much until he sees Amon's pale face, Juuzou laughs evilly

- Everyone gets weird when Amon starts being nice to Juuzou (like, extremely nice), he helps him with his reports, shares sweets with him and even lets him handle Doujima

- Houji notices everything, he is doing a parallel investigation, writing down all the complaints Seidou and Juuzou make about Akira and Amon

-Amon has to be nice to Seidou too, it ends up being very tiring, but Akira always gets rid of all the tiredness

-When the bomb goes off, Akira ends up suffering more from the gossip, but she can defend herself well with smart words and comments, however most female employees are wanting her head on a silver platter

-Amon also listens to criticism, but most of the comments are made behind his back, to avoid further gossip they try to act separately, Akira makes a team with Seidou, who managed to get promoted to senior investigator with her, they parallel investigate the nutcracker

-But the worst (for Amon) is yet to come, when he walks into his own office at the end of a day and is greeted by Marude Itsuki.

-The man makes him sit down before he can ask why, it doesn't matter if Amon can punch Marude, the man is still his boss and worse, he is also threatening, especially when he displays a pistol and loads it with bullets in front of Amon

-They have a serious conversation about intentions and good manners with women

-Marude goes out with Houji to drink, Amon is on his blacklist, he even cries when he realizes that his friend's daughter has grown up

-In the end, realizing that he can't spend as much time with Akira at the CCG, Amon proposes that they live together, It's daring and he fears he'll actually end up getting shot by Marude, but to his happiness, Akira finds the way out extremely logical and perfect.

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Ficlet Links:

An index of all the ficlets I've written!

A palette of gold (Kudou Chika/ Houzuki Satowa)

An uncomplicated love (Adachi Saneyasu/ Mizuhara Kouta)

When cherry blossoms bloom (Takinami Suzuka/ Doujima Akira)

Someday, my love (Kudou Chika/ Houzuki Satowa)

When the lights starting flashing like a photobooth (Momoya Natsu/ Yoshinaga Atsumu)

Needle and a thread (Kudou Chika/ Houzuki Satowa)

Sugar-coated love (Kudou Chika/ Houzuki Satowa)

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Chapter 2: Getting married (for a house)

It is 5pm on a Friday night. Akira has finished her last lecture before the semester break, plus submitted the revised grant proposal to the department head. Her brain is currently in a half-fried state.

And she's in a truck with Takinami Suzuka, on the way to visit Suzuka's parents...to seek their approval for their upcoming marriage.

Things cannot get wilder.

"Takinami-sensei, are you sure I don't have to get changed into something better?" Akira looks at her current attire; thank goodness she'd been lecturing prior to this and as a result, had dressed in reasonably formal attire, though not very "daughter-in-law-like", because which prospective daughter-in-law visits her parents-in-law for the first time while dressed in a blazer, button-up-shirt and chiffon black pants? Is she their daughter-in-law, or grandchild's tuition teacher?!

"Please don’t worry about it," Suzuka responds as he steers the truck. "Actually, my parents will appreciate the smart get-up. After all, I come from a family of academics, and they've always wanted a daughter-in-law befitting of this lineage. This shows them that you clearly fit the bill. You can even pull out your lecture slides later if needed."

"Right," Akira smooths down her formal black pants. What he's saying makes good sense - the Takinami family is quite renowned for their work in Psychology, even if in different subfields. To have a lecturer join the family would make perfect sense, though it may also be lucky that she hasn't gotten tenure yet, because her being of a higher position may have been interpreted as a threat to the existing familial and academic hierarchy.

"I do wish my family isn't as political and stuck-up like this. It's a bit better ever since my father's generation, but it's nonetheless ingrained in the way he was brought up by my grandfather. I apologise on their behalf." Suzuka isn't looking at Akira because he's still driving his truck, but she can hear that he means it. She also knows that he means it, too - he's always been a little different, plus estranged from his family, despite sharing the same line of work as well as line of study. His success had been a product of his own efforts, achieved despite not having had to stand on the shoulders of his family ties with academia, perfect proof of the actual substance he possesses as a thinker in his subfield.

"No worries." Akira is half-lying - she'd be insane to not be worried. After all, to someone she'd met just less than two months ago, with whom she'd never been in a romantic relationship, with whom she’d even hesitate to confirm that the feelings of friendship she holds are mutual…she's getting "married"...

…For a house. Doujima Akira is getting married for a house. And she’d never thought she’d find herself in such a position.

"No worries," Akira repeats, thinking of what her brother might say if he ever finds out. She resolves never to let him - the false-marriage contract will end in two years time, and it'd be like any other normal marriage, where divorce and separation are almost just a normal milestone rather than a major setback.

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When they arrive at the Takinami household, it is nightfall; they are in the outskirts of Kawasaki City, still located in Kanagawa Prefecture but quite a fair distance from Tokise University.

"I'm home," Suzuka announces, taking off his shoes at the entrance, with Akira closely following suit. He's expecting his own mother to jump on him any moment now-

"SON!" His mother buries herself in his arms. "How I've missed you! How dare you not call, only visiting once in every two months. You didn't turn up for the last blind date either-"

"Mom, meet my fiancée, Doujima-sens-” He clears he throat. “-Akira,” He beckons to Akira, who launches into a 90-degree bow.

"Good evening, madam, my name is Doujima Akira. Pleased to make your acquaintance," Akira extends a polite hand while still in the 90-degree bow.

His mother takes fifteen good seconds to process the information, motionless as she does. When she finally manages to, she starts jumping up and down while shaking Akira's hand.

"Oh my god, son, you actually managed to get yourself a girlfriend," she gasps. "And such a pretty one she is, too! Your name is Akira, you were saying? What do you do for a living?"

"I am a newly-appointed lecturer of Food Science in Tokise University," Akira whips out her laptop, showing Suzuka's mother the lecture slides used from earlier today, as discussed earlier. Suzuka stifles a laugh because he didn't expect she'd actually go as far as to do that - he actually finds it pretty cute, how seriously she takes things.

"Oh my god," his mother gasps. "Food science. That's really cool!" She runs to the back of the house, screaming something along the lines of Old man, come out here because your son has somehow managed to score himself a girlfriend, oh my god!, and Suzuka feels a bit of a headache brewing.

"Not just girlfriend - fiancée," Suzuka mutters.

(If he had to be more honest, he'd have said, "Not girlfriend - just fiancée," instead. After all, there requires no girlfriend step to be involved in a contract marriage.)

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Takinami's father is way less scary than he sounds, thinks Akira. The way he's been portrayed to be a no-nonsense academic hyperfixated on hierarchy and power...she could see no semblance of that in the friendly old man, who seems really nothing other than a cat-loving elderly man.

Nonetheless, looks can be deceiving, so she decides not to let her guard down. 

After dinner, she helps to wash the dishes (alongside a Mrs Takinami cooing, such a helpful daughter-in-law! You don't know how lucky you are, silly Suzuka). They sit in front of the TV, catching the news, when Mr Takinami suddenly pulls her aside.

"Let's have a word," is what he says as he sits Akira down at the balcony, offering her a cup of sencha. Accepting it with both hands, she realises how wise it has been to not let her guard down, because "Tell me honestly, why are you marrying my son?" is what escapes his mouth right afterwards.

She doesn't say anything - not yet. Her brain still needs a while longer, to search for the most situationally appropriate answer.

"Is it for tenure? Do you think that by marrying a tenured professor, you can get tenure faster?" He smiles as he says this, and Akira feels...she feels like she's sitting for a test.

And as someone who has spent their youth taking a bunch of tests, Akira knows just what she needs to do - breathe. Calm down. Examine the problem from the perspective of the person who set the question. Come up with an answer that is as vague as possible, but as precise as needed.

"I'm marrying Takinami-san because of love." Honesty aside, she’d thought was the most situationally appropriate answer. She didn't even have the time to process just how embarassing that sounded. "There is no other reason to get married, except for love. He is amongst the kindest people I know."

Perhaps except for the last statement, everything she has said in this string of utterances has been a fat lie. And she knows it.

So does he, Takinami Suzuka, the man at the other end of the contract marriage.

And the thing is, they’re both okay with it. More-than-okay with it, to be precise. Because it’s the way it’s supposed to be - big, fat, white lie, created to benefit both parties, according to Clause 5 of the contract.

Things cannot get wilder.

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Suzuka overhears what Akira says when his father accuses her of marrying him for the sake of tenure.

"I'm marrying Takinami-san because of love. There is no other reason to get married, except for love. He is the amongst the kindest people I know."

Nice save, Suzuka cheers inwardly. This lady is definitely even smarter than she looks. He knows that answer's sure to score with his dad.

And sure it does, because his dad says nothing. Takes a sip of tea. Turns to leave, but before he enters the living room, he says something to Akira without facing her straight-on -

"Don't let him get in the way of your success, then."

Suzuka glances at his mother in the living room - if not for his grandparents' fulfilled wish to domesticate her, she may well have been a tenured professor herself. Before their marriage, she and Old Takinami, her then-fiancé were both lecturers in the same university. Fearing that their daughter-in-law might eventually supersede their son in terms of power, Old Takinami's parents had forced her to quit her lecturer job in the university. Mrs Suzuka may have swallowed it and lived it down, but her husband never has. Not one day has he woken up without being shrouded by a sense of guilt and apology at having imprisoned his wife, would-be superstar in the Child Psychology academic universe, in the old misogynistic stronghold of traditional Japanese society. It is why Suzuka fully understands why his father had said what he did, as well as why he'd asked the question he'd asked to Akira - to let her know that this marriage may well break her academic career, instead of make it.

Well...pretty sure that won't happen, as long as it's this Old Mr Takinami approving the marriage this time round. Plus, the contract's supposedly ending in two years - most likely not enough time to "break" an academic career. Or so he hopes.

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"That was quite well-played, sensei,” Suzuka says to Akira on the way home. "You have a way with words."

Akira pauses for a bit, realising that Takinami-sensei had heard what she said. Her face starts to heat up slightly at the recollection of what embarrassing things had escaped her mouth, but she quickly soothes the blush down by reminding herself of her current role - a pretend wife.

And pretend, was exactly what she was doing, as expertly as she could have in that moment that could have been a crisis averted.

"Thank you. I actually feel really bad for lying. After all, they're already getting old."

Akira glances at the man in the driver’s seat, and she thinks she catches a faint smile, but she can’t be sure in the scant light of the surrounding traffic.

"It's okay, you’re most definitely not at any fault. It was my idea to begin with.” He looks at her, and she can see that he’s definitely smiling, but it’s a smile she can’t exactly read. “Though you did agree after all, so we're in this together."

Akira smiles. She would never have thought she'd feel so assured about the prospect of telling lies together with a man she'd just met almost two months ago - the kindest man she knows, yes, but nonetheless a man she'd just met almost two months ago. Who'd simply been kind enough to provide her with free coffee, and now, a free house.

Indeed, she would never have thought she'd feel so assured about the prospect of getting married…

…For a house.

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☆HAPPY BIRTHDAY AKIRA DOUJIMA☆

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If your onii-chan isn't treating you like this, then you're doing something wrong

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Get a brother like this hahahahaha

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Kono Oto Tomare! by Sakura Amyuu

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For the ship ask game: 7, 10 and 27 for AmonAki because these two don't know how to say the word love to each other

7. How often do they say “I love you”?

That's hard, they're so weird it hurts. But I think Akira could randomly say, like "Amon I'm leaving, I love you more than ever, I'll be back at six" or when she is trying to get a reaction out of him then she will cup his face in her hands and stare at him like hell and then say "I love you"

Amon, I think it's even harder, he's not very verbal, I think he could tell when she's sleeping, after a fight with "you know I love you, right?" or when he realizes that Akira explicitly needs to hear it from him, it's hard because she doesn't show feelings easily and he doesn't sense feelings easily

10. Do they share any hobbies or interests? How do these things bring them together?

I think that Akira is not the exercise type, I have faith that she has always been the type of person who doesn't expend physical energy just to expend energy. So I think Amon is most interested in her hobbies, I think they watch TV, like doramas or documentaries about felines or Egyptian mythology.

If Amon could eat human food, I think Akira would always be making him something sweet.

27. How do they say “I love you” non-verbally?

Amon is good at that, he's doing all sorts of things for Akira, gifts, acts of service, making sure she's warm in the middle of the night, taking her on dates, he doesn't pay much attention to other women, not realizing their intentions, but Akira has his full attention, he's always trying to make her comfortable.

Akira is a little more subtle about it, she remade Doujima but never planned on taking credit for it, I imagine in the Amon office periodically receiving sweets, but without any cards or anything that hinted at the secret sender, he only discovers it's Akira because the sweets are constantly shaped or something reminiscent of cats.

Anyway, I think she would be doing things for him out of his sight, or in a rude way like getting him to stop doing push-ups and go to sleep, again, Amon was unable to see when someone was proposing to him with burnt cookies, but with Akira he always noticed or found out, he thinks it's cute, and doesn't comment, but hugs or kisses her gently.