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grimalkinmessor · 3 months ago

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Happy Halloween! Duo holders + Sea + Fluff?

RARE ICHINII REQUEST!!! ♡⁠(⁠Ӧ⁠ｖ⁠Ӧ⁠｡⁠)

Ichinii/Fluff/Sea

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Kudo let out a huff of air, eyes scanning the horizon ruthlessly as Shuzo worked a few feet away. Beside Kudo, sitting on the rock hidden beneath the docks, Yoichi swung his legs idly back and forth, the toes of his boots occasionally skimming the water. He was watching the ripples meet the waves, face pensive.

Kudo gave in to curiosity.

"What are you thinking?"

Yoichi looked up, eyes glimmering like tsavorite in the striped moonlight seeping between the wooden planks. He tipped his head, gathering the hood of his huge jacket in his hands and tugging it back up over his head like he was about to be scolded. "Hm?"

"You looked like you were thinking hard," Kudo explained, turning towards him a bit more, one eye still on Shuzo. "Are you having second thoughts?"

"No," Yoichi said quickly. "No, I just—I was just thinking." He looked out over the water, eyes on the skyline. "I've never been to the beach before. Never even been swimming, really. So I was thinking about this beach and wondering how many people come here to play during the day. What kind of shells they find in the water, and how many fish they see. Things like that." He glanced back up at Kudo abruptly, wide and sharp. "I'm not having second thoughts."

Yoichi's hand, maybe unconsciously, drifted to his neck beneath the hood, fingers brushing scar tissue. The sleeve of his dark coat slipped down, showing off even more. Identical cuffs of ragged pink.

...Maybe that had been a stupid question.

Kudo looked away, back towards the water, arms crossed. It was quiet for a moment as he rolled the words he wanted to say around in his mouth. Kudo didn't sit down, but he did move closer, leaning up against the bigger rock next to the one Yoichi was perched on.

"Once... we're out, I'll take you," Kudo murmured. "I'll take you to see a beach in the daytime."

Yoichi looked up at him, eyes wide. The water's glitter pattern reflected across his face, sending his features into stark, softening contrast. Kudo's chest squeezed, and it suddenly felt very hard to breathe.

He looked away abruptly, over the waves. "There are all kinds of beaches. This is a white sand beach, but there are others that are pink, green, black, and even purple sand beaches in other countries. There are rock pools, heated springs. I'll take you to see them. Then you can collect your own shells, and see your own fish. You won't have to wonder about it anymore. You'll know."

Yoichi stared at him for a moment. It was difficult to see in the dark, the water's reflection washing his face pale, but Kudo thought that Yoichi's cheeks looked a little...pink. Then, like the rise of the sun, Yoichi smiled.

Taking Kudo's hand, Yoichi pressed cold lips to the back of his scarred knuckles. "My hero is such a gentleman. How storybook prince of you."

It was Kudo's turn to flush, then.

He snatched his hand back and looked away with a huff. Yoichi laughed softly at him.

Shuzo finished gathering up what they needed, strapping the last cord over his chest before carefully pushing up to stand. He turned and motioned for them to follow, hurriedly making his way back up the beach towards the guard shacks.

Kudo turned back to Yoichi to jerk his head at Shuzo, showing that they needed to leave, before darting carefully after their fellow runner. The sound of boots scrabbling over sand was the only indicator that Yoichi had heeded his directions, and even that came to a stop quickly as Yoichi fell into his step pattern—a trick he'd learned from harder times of his own.

Yoichi knew how to run. Knew how to hide. Even Kudo had trouble keeping track of him sometimes.

They met Shuzo behind the bathrooms next to the third guard station, but he wasn't the only one there. A man with shimmering yellow eyes and long black hair tied back in a low ponytail smirked down at Kudo. "'Lo, Leader. Though I guess I shouldn't call you that anymore."

"No chatter, Xiaoshi," Kudo hissed, tense. "Just get us the hell out of here."

Rolling his eyes, Xiaoshi gestured them forward and held out his arm. Three hands grasped his jacket sleeve, and then they were abruptly somewhere else.

Beside him, Yoichi released Xiaoshi's arm to stagger away and heave, dropping into a crouch as he gagged through his fingers. "Oh—God, I'm sorry, I'm—" he cut himself off with another sickened noise. "I'm anemic, I get—easily motion sick..."

Kudo shook his head to dispel the lingering dizziness, slugging Xiaoshi in the arm when the bastard snickered at him. When he opened his eyes again, Shuzo was crouched by Yoichi's swaying form, murmuring, "The first few times are always the worst. I puked the first time Xiaoshi took us more than a few feet. It gets easier."

"I'm guessing you won't be needing a trip back then?" Xiaoshi mused, hands folding behind his back. He tipped his head, a few strands of hair falling into his eyes. His grin had faded. "It's not too late to change your mind. We could still use your guidance. Especially in the fights ahead."

Kudo sighed through his nose. He looked at Yoichi for a long moment, watched Shuzo pull him up again. Kudo glanced back at Xiaoshi, expression firm. "If nothing else, this will distract at least one of your opponents. If you play it right, you can pit All For One and the government against each other, even more so than they are already." Kudo held his gaze. "That's all I can give you."

Xiaoshi stayed silent for a moment more, expression unreadable. Then, snapping back into his insufferable smug persona, he smiled and flourished out a hand. "Ah, young love. The heart wants what it wants I suppose." Before Kudo could snarl at him, embarrassed, Xiaoshi spun on heel and began to walk away. "This is a nature preserve. There's no one else for miles, so you're good to take off." He gave a half-assed, two-fingered salute. "Zhàogù zìjǐ, Un-Leader."

With that, like a glitch in the framework, he was gone. Kudo pursed his lips, hands fisted, before turning back to Yoichi and Shuzo.

He couldn't afford to regret this.

"Let's get that thing in the water," he said gruffly as he came up beside them, nodding at the small boat strapped to Shuzo's back. "I wanna be well on our way out of home waters before sunrise."

Xiaoshi had taken them to another beach, this one far from the one where they'd stolen the boat, so even if they're tracks were discovered there, it'd be highly unlikely anyone would be able to track them. Xiaoshi's teleportation power really did come in handy, even if the guy was an asshole.

The moon was shielded by clouds here, leaving this beach dark and shadowed. A seemingly perfect escape.

Shuzo unhooked the last cord from his back, and the boat crashed down into the sand, half in the water. The impact made the surrounding wake light up like a lightning strike, brilliant blue glittering in and out of view like fairy lights in the water. All three of them paused.

Yoichi bent down then, stepping closer to the water to dip his hand beneath the surface. Little blue organisms lit up all around it, dancing around his wrist. "Oh!"

"Fucking bioluminescent algae?" Kudo snarled under his breath. "What part of 'discreet' did that fucker not understand?"

"He likely didn't know—" Shuzo tried, but Kudo cut him off.

"Bullshit he didn't know, Xiaoshi practically lives and breathes research."

Shuzo averted his eyes, acknowledging the point. Yoichi merely hummed, still swishing his hand around in the ebbing tide.

"He said there was no one around for miles here, that it was a nature preserve. This is probably why; beauty often gets walled off from the public. They can't keep their hands off of it. People probably tried to steal and kill and sell this stuff before the state got their hands on it."

It was said softly, thoughtfully. Distracted by the glowing bits of marine life in front of him. Kudo watched him, the scars on his wrists stark in the glow of the algae, and wondered if he understood the irony of his words.

"Regardless," Shuzo began, snapping him out of it. "We need to get going. We only have five hours before sunrise, and we need to be out of Japanese waters by then."

Looking up, Yoichi nodded and stood, hand wet and glittering. "Right."

Kudo huffed again, dog-like, before coming forward to smack the hull of the boat lightly. "In, both of you. It's on me for the next few hours."

Shuzo hopped in first, folding back the black cover to do so, then held out a hand to help Yoichi clamber up. The boat started to tip dangerously, unstable this far out of the water, and he flailed. Kudo reached forward, one hand holding the hull steady, and used the other to grasp the back of Yoichi's thigh and shove him the rest of the way up into the cradle. He flailed, disappearing into the boat floor with a dull thump.

"...Thank you."

Kudo didn't respond, focused on pushing their vessel further out into the water. Then, his palms braced against the wood, he took a running start and—

Gear shift.

Kudo tightened his grip just as the boat took off into the water, leaving a light streak of glowing blue behind it. Gritting his teeth, Kudo hauled himself into the boat and pressed his back against the hull, chest heaving.

His power wasn't meant for something so big. He had been training with it, making it stronger, but this was still a stretch of it that made him ache.

Still, Kudo breathed deep and opened his eyes to see Shuzo hooking the cover back into place on his side, leaving them mostly in the dark. It would keep their identities hidden, even from the satellites, but left enough of a gap for them to see around themselves.

Yoichi, having sat up from the floor, peeked his head over the side to watch the waves go by in fascination. He reached out, mesmerized, and trailed his fingers over the water, bioluminescence sparkling after them in thin streams.

The grin that took his face then was blinding. A childish sort of joy radiated out from him in the way he shuffled his feet against the floor, head pillowed on his arm as he gleefully watched the algae glow at his touch, slowly fading.

Kudo heart thudded in his chest.

Yes, he thought—he wouldn't regret this. He could never regret this.

Not if it got Yoichi to smile so brightly.

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Zhàogù zìjǐ or 照顾自己 means "take care" in Mandarin (I think so anyway, I'm not fluent (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠)). Xiaoshi is an OC of mine and not a real BNHA character :3

Yoichi, openly flirting with Kudo only for him to keep brushing it off: *King Julian voice* How long is this going to TAKE!?!

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