#fake dating real feelings

[plusultraetc]

idiots (affectionate)

[deadontheinsidesexyontheoutside]

Thinking of a beautiful au where Zuko joins the group earlier and in book 3 during the runaway episode, him and Katara "scam" people by pretending to be in a relationship and getting a couple's discount (let's just say it would go pretty well)😭❤💙

ZUTARA WEEK 2024 DAY 4:REVERENCE

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[f1goat]

fake date + lando norris

In which Lando helps you piss of your ex boyfriend by acting like your fake new boyfriend.

one shot inspired by something i saw on wattpad a loooong time ago + a bit of a abusive ex & not proof read

masterlist - playlist

“You want to piss him of properly?” Lando asks you. 

You simply nod. Of course you want to piss of your ex. He cheated on you after all. A bit of revenge would make you feel a lot better. When you think about what he did to you, you’re quick to feel annoyed again. Maybe you weren’t together for a long time, but still. You don’t cheat on someone. 

“He hated me you know,” Lando says, “I don’t really know why.”

He’s referring to your ex again. What Lando says is the truth. Your ex hated Lando. He always thought Lando would steal you away from him. Right before the end of your relationship you even started to hope Lando would do so. Your ex didn’t like how close you and Lando are. He didn’t understand the meaning of friends since childhood. Now you think about it, it makes you even more mad. He always accused you of cheating on him with Lando, but the dick cheated on you himself. 

“He didn’t like our friendship,” you explain to Lando, “and he accused me of cheating on him with you all the time.” 

“Why didn’t you say so?” Lando asks you confused, “I could have helped you deny it.” 

“I didn’t want to bring you in my problems,” you reply. 

“Don’t ever do that again,” Lando sighs, “We’re friends y/n. I’ll always help you if I can.”

“Maybe you can help me figure out something to piss him off?” You ask Lando, getting back to your earlier subject. “I know for sure he’s at the same club tonight as we are,” you explain, “and I’m not in the mood for talking with him so I need to show him I’m off limits.” 

When you look at Lando you notice the devious way his eyes start to sparkle. You know for a fact that he’s coming up with a plan right now. 

“What if I pretend that we’re together?” Lando asks you, “That would make him mad.” 

You smile. “That’s a great plan!” You say happily. 

***

Lando is already acting like a true gentleman. When he picked you up for your gathering with your friends, he complimented your outfit multiple times. You’re a bit more dressed up then normally. Although you don’t want your ex back, you do want to show him what he’s missing right now. You’re wearing a tight dark blue dress that’s showing of your curves amazingly. You remember when you brought this dress and your ex was obsessed with it, only to tell you later that you couldn’t wear it because it was slutty. Now you look back at the whole relationship, you don’t even know why you dated him. Maybe it was just easy? Maybe you just wanted a boyfriend? And really maybe you needed a distraction to forget about your feelings for your best friend. Not that this fake dating thing is helping with forgetting about your feelings for Lando. 

Your motives for the relationship weren’t the best, but at least you didn’t cheat. You always gave the full hundred percent for the relationship. 

Before you can open the door of the luxurious McLaren that Lando used to pick you up with, Lando is rushing to your side of the car. Is he opening the door for you? He actually is. You feel butterflies flattering in your whole body. You know for a fact that your cheeks are turning red right now. 

Lando gives you his hand to help you get out of his sport car. 

“Thanks Lan,” you say.

“No problem babe,” Lando is quick to reply, “I’m just doing what a good boyfriend will do.” 

That’s when you remind that everything is fake. Fuck. This is going to be a difficult night, but you’ll enjoy every tiny bit of it. Together the both of you walk inside the club. It doesn’t take too long before you find your friends. Lando is walking right behind you when you’re walking towards them, his hand is on your back. 

“I’m so glad you still came!” One of your friends tells you excited, “I thought you would ditch because of your ex.” 

“Yeah, I doubted for a bit.. but I can’t stop having fun because of that dick,” you reply with a small grin. 

“And maybe we made a small plan to annoy him a bit,” Lando adds, after that he’s quick to fill in your friends of the plan you guys made. Your girl friends love the idea, but you notice that Max is sending Lando some weird looks. It doesn’t take long for Lando and Max to disappear for drinks. 

“What are you doing mate?” Max asks Lando confused, “Do you think fake dating her is making your crush go away?” 

“I know, I know,” Lando sighs, “but I wanted to help her.”

“You’re an idiot,” Max says.

“Maybe she will see me as date potential if I treat her right the whole night?” Lando asks hopefully. 

“Maybe she thinks you have no feelings for her because you can easily fake date her,” Max replies. 

“Maybe she will like me after tonight?” Lando continues.

“This is the worst plan you’ve ever made and I know quite a few other terrible plans of yours,” Max says a bit annoyed, “I don’t know why you just confess to her.” 

“Maybe because her ex just cheated on her and she just got out of a bad relationship?” Lando says even annoyed as his friend, “Besides I think it was a lot worse then we already thought. I don’t want to push her into something new if she’s not ready and I don’t want to fuck up our friendship.” 

Max sighs and shakes his head. “Such an idiot,” he mutters again. 

In the mean time you’re talking with one of your best friends about the plan you and Lando came up with. Without you knowing you’re having a similar conversation to Max and Lando. 

When Lando slides his arm around your waist and hands you a drink, you can’t help to notice that you’re starting to blush again. How would it feel if he was your real boyfriend you wonder. You bet it would be amazing. 

“I think I just saw him,” one of your friends says suddenly. You turn around a bit to the direction your friend is looking. She’s right. You spot your ex boyfriend. 

“Let the show begin,” Lando says with a small smile. He pulls you a bit closer to himself, causing your body to crash into his. It feels warm and comfortable. 

When you finished your drink, Lando is quick to take you to the dance floor with him. You enjoy yourself on the dance floor with Lando. His hands are touching you everywhere. At one point they reach so low that Lando is almost touching your ass. You hope he actually does. Fuck this is bad. At one point a slower song starts, Lando is quick to pull you against himself once again. Together you slowly dance. 

“I fucking knew it!” 

There’s your ex. He grabs your arm and pulls you away from Lando. Lando is quick to react, slapping the hand of your ex boyfriend away and getting you back to himself. You notice the way he’s balding his fists already. When you look at Lando you see his angry glaze. Is this still an act? You didn’t knew Lando could act this well. He actually seems really angry right now. 

“Don’t touch her,” Lando says angrily. 

“Or what mate?” Your ex replies even angrily, “I should hit her for lying to me all this time!” 

“Lying?” Lando asks. You notice his fake dumb tone. 

“She was cheating on me with you!” Your ex exclaims. 

“I was not!” You reply madly. 

“We just got together last week,” Lando states, “and I have to thank you for that mate. If you didn’t cheated on her, it would take me a lot longer to finally convince her.” 

“Oh shut up,” you ex replies, “she’s a cheating whore.” 

“Don’t call her that again,” Lando groans. 

“Oh you’re going to tell me she’s not? You think she’s some sort of amazing person?” Your ex asks mockingly.

“Yeah, actually I am. I’ve been in love with her for the longest time, you know. Do you even realize what it did to me to see how you’re treated her? Do you know how often she came crying to me because of you?” Lando starts to speech towards your ex, “She’s the best thing that ever happened to me and you tried taking that away. Do you know how hard it was for me to see her all sad instead of being her happy self?” 

Is Lando still faking things? His words feel way too real. You feel a few tears coming up. This is too sweet. 

“And now I finally have her back,” Lando continues, “and she’s finally mine. So thank you mate for fucking up the best thing you ever had, so I can treat her properly now. What she deserves.” 

“You don’t get it man,” your ex replies after a bit, “She’s a fucking whore. Just wait till you see it and you will treat her even worse. I was a fucking sweetheart to her.” 

Lando doesn’t react verbally this time. You watch in shock when Lando bals his fist again and throws a punch straight on the face of your ex. Your ex is quick to react. Before you know it you’re standing in the middle of a fight. 

What the fuck is going on?

This was not what you meant with pissing him off properly. 

It doesn’t take long for security to break up the fight. Lando is quickly thrown outside of the club, no one cares about his name or the story. Lando started it, so he needs to leave apparently. You’re quick to follow him outside, but before you can turn your back your ex says one more thing.

“Don’t come back crying to me when you realize I was the better option.”

“Oh fuck off!” You scream annoyed, “I love him you idiot. I never loved you like I love him.”

After saying those words, you’re quick to hurry outside to Lando. When you see him you’re in shock. You notice a small blood stain on his collar. Then you see his nose, which is also bleeding. 

“Fuck Lando,” you mutter, “this went way too far. I’m so sorry.”

“Don’t be,” Lando says, “I’d do it again in no time.”

“You’re crazy,” you tell him, “you didn’t have to defend me like that.”

You sit down next to Lando on the sidewalk. Lando is quick to put his arm around your shoulders.

“I’m so sorry you went through that,” Lando tells you, “I should have noticed earlier that he was toxic.” 

“Don’t say that,” you sigh, “you just got beaten up for me.” 

“It felt great punching him,” Lando says with a small smile. You let out a soft chuckle. 

“You’re the best friend I could have ever wished for,” you confess to Lando, “I don’t know what I would do without you.”

“That feeling is mutual babe.”

You notice the nickname again. You’re not in the same room as your ex anymore, so why is Lando still pretending? 

Before you can say anything about it, Lando tells you it’s time to go home. When you look at him again you see the bruises his face are already covered with. You wonder how it will look tomorrow. Thank god it isn’t race week, the questions about this will be awful. 

You and Lando are quiet in the car. Both of you are thinking about everything that happened tonight. When Lando puts his hand on your thigh while riding, you almost jump up. This is new. He never does things like this. 

When you’re in the parking garage underneath Lando his apartment, Lando is quick to rush towards your door again. He opens it for you and helps you step out once again. 

What’s happening?

Lando doesn’t let go of your hand while walking towards the elevator and walkings towards his apartment after that. He drops it to find his keys inside of his wallet. 

“Are you still pretending that you’re my boyfriend Lan?” You ask jokingly. 

Lando looks at you. You notice his nervous look. Or are you imagining things? 

“What if I was never pretending?” Lando asks you then. 

“What do you mean?” You ask surprised.

“Maybe I want to be your real boyfriend and saw this as a dumb chance to show you what I’d have to offer you,” Lando confesses so quiet that you almost don’t hear him. 

“Maybe?” You ask him.

“Maybe I’ve been in love for you for a long time,” Lando continues.

You can’t stop smiling. 

“Maybe you have convinced me,” you tell him slowly.

Lando looks at you with a big smile.

“And maybe I’m also in love with you,” you confess.

It doesn’t take Lando longer then a second to press his lips on yours. You feel his soft lips on yours. This is a feeling you could get used to.  And you guess, you have every opportunity to get used to this. 

“I love you,” Lando tells you when he pulls back. 

“I love you too Lan,” you confess, “I only dated him to find a distraction from my crush on you.” 

Lando chuckles. “Please don’t ever do that again.”

[bayetea]

I think it's really annoying that leo has completely falsified memories of jason too and this is barely acknowledged in the books

[aardvaark]

i was thinking about how i wished leverage had a birthday episode for some of the characters cause that would be sweet, but then i realised something and basically…. okay here’s my thoughts in quotes form, just for fun

hardison: so when’s your birthday? i could plan something for us and the team to do and-

parker: i dont know

hardison: you don’t know… your own birthday?

parker: no, how would i know? pshh, cmon, you’re telling me you remember EXACTLY when you were born? watch this - hey, eliot, do you know your exact birth date?

eliot, innocently passing by, who was canonically anonymously dropped off at a hospital as an infant: no, how would i know?

parker: that’s what i said!

hardison: excuse me?? what is going on right now

sophie, walking into the apartment: whats wrong?

hardison: parker and eliot- well, okay, when’s your birthday? i just have to prove something.

sophie: …….july 12th

hardison: why did you pause? wait, is that your birthday or sophie devereaux’s birthday?

sophie: ………… (guilty silence)

parker: see, no one knows their real birthday! haha you’re so weird sometimes, hardison

hardison:

hardison: what the fuck guys

[hogletthe2nd]

i HAVENT seen it yet, but the fact that there’s someone out there who probably thinks Skye is straight is sending me into a coffin.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

To elaborate more on the Pesterquest stuff -

Alternia is a hell world. It's shitty to live in, even if you're a highblood, unless you fit a very specific mold of person AND are lucky enough to be born of a high caste. Every troll character we care about is, in some way, fucked over by their relationship to their society; Eridan and Vriska get it the worst, having been forced to participate in the murdering side of things since they were young, but every lowblood is screwed and every highblood is made worse even just by their passive participation. Kanaya becomes less sympathetic because she seems completely at peace with the society she grew up in, and Feferi wants to enforce casteism, even if it's of a different flavor. Gamzee and Equius both hold genuinely casteist beliefs and attitudes, which slip out and alienate them from the people they care about.

Putting a friendship simulator into the middle of all this is... a choice, I guess. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for wanting that or liking that, but it's going to be inherently at odds with what Alternia is and is meant to represent, and thus, fundamentally at odds with many of the characters' arcs and even basic personality traits, so heavily are they influenced by the shit society they grew up in.

For a non-Eridan example, Karkat loathes himself in massive part because his society loathes him. He's kill-on-sight and lives in daily terror of death. He wears a symbol at all because not having one marks him as even more of a freak, even though he knows that that symbol is connected to the empire's biggest rebel, whose footsteps he is expected to follow. The reason he's so obsessed with being leader-y and earning his teammates' reapect, or the respect of anybody, is because he's so deeply insecure about whether or not he even deserves to exist.

If you soften Alternia to the point you can write a lighthearted friendship simulator in it, then that characterization... goes away. Karkat is no longer motivated by deep, overwhelming insecurities, which drive him to idolize the society that deems him unworthy, mistakenly believing that if he can find validation in that society, he'll feel less bad about himself. Instead, Karkat is just kind of an asshole!

It's the same way with Eridan. He and Karkat are equal and opposite in this way - while Karkat is marked for death by his society, Eridan belongs to the extremely privileged caste of sea dweller royalty - even moreso than Feferi, as Feferi is slated to be murdered by the Condesce as soon as she comes of age (and her ridiculous optimism is likely something she cultivated in outright defiance of this fate). But it turns out that being a sea dweller sucks shit, too, if you aren't the extremely niche type of person that society deems "correct."

Eridan is not actually casteist and genuinely likes his land dweller friends - and this is unacceptible. Not only that, but smaller "unacceptible" offenses are wrapped up in big ones - despite not liking murder and feeling guilty about it, murder is objectively the correct thing for Eridan to be doing, constantly, to the point of it being "all [he's] ever done practically," because if he doesn't fulfil the duty of his bloodline to be murdering lusii (and by extension, their charges, who are culled when their lusii die), EVERYBODY dies. The constant push-pull of trauma, societal expectations and obligations, the fate of the species, and the fact that he is inherently not the "right" kind of person for his society, are pretty much his entire character. He's basically a walking ball of anxiety and emotional turmoil.

So, again, if you soften Alternia to the point where you can write a story about Eridan wanting to see Shrek in a public theater (something he would not actually be able to peacefully do in canon Alternia - at least not without taking off his cape, hiding his fins, and going anonblood - as sea dwellers are considered ridiculously hostile to the point even Gamzee's nervous about being on the beach for too long), Eridan ends up being just kind of an asshole!

Pesterquest!Eridan is, and I cannot stress this enough, fundamentally not the same guy as canon Eridan. They have practically nothing in common, from the fact that PQ!Eridan is willing to do something for leisure, to the fact that he isn't widely feared and the movie theater doesn't empty out in a panic when he turns up, even down to the fact that he likes femme fashion (canon Eridan goes to Lengths to lean into masc fashion) and Shrek (canon Eridan is a hipster). Hell, even the fact that PQ!Eridan SMILES is a massive deviation from canon!Eridan, who has never once been depicted smiling, and probably hasn't for many sweeps.

Also that he has that much beef with Sollux when, canonically, the two had a lukewarm mutual dislike and didn't even bother interacting until Feferi was added to the mix and Eridan became mad that Sollux was dating her. He wasn't even casteist about him until then, and after, even Sollux and Feferi don't think he's casteist, they just think he's ashenflirting so he can get into a quad with Feferi. Like come on, if you're going to feature another troll in Eridan's route, 1) make it be Karkat, and 2) have Eridan cheat on you the whole time with Karkat like he does to Feferi.

Eridan is just overall a wild choice in a friendship sim - I can't even blame them for just writing an OC and putting an Eridan skin on top - because societally, Eridan isn't even supposed to have non-sea dweller friends. The sea dweller/land dweller race war is something the Condesce deliberately put into place in order to keep land dwelling nobility in line, and Equius cites it as one of the reasons he never got along with Eridan. Like, the very fact that Eridan talks to two land dwellers on friendly terms (Kanaya and Karkat) is a MASSIVE deviation from what he's "supposed" to be like, and a huge hint that he's not as casteist as he'd like to appear. You are genuinely hundreds, if not thousands, of times likelier to end an encounter with Eridan either orphaned or dead than as his friend. He's an unstable maniac, and there's a reason so many members of his team don't like him even though he's legitimately not casteist and they mostly seem aware of it (nobody really complains about or even notices Eridan's casteism by the time they're on the meteor - his contradictions are really obvious, and it's likely that they've more or less realized that he's full of shit).

Again, I don't begrudge anybody for wanting or liking PQ. Who cares, really. I'm just saying that as a canon discussion blog, there's not really any place for PQ because it's so far removed from canon that, like, there's not really anything meaningful to discuss about it. The setting and characters in PQ are fundamentally divested from canon, and not even in an AU way. And it's totally fine if that's what you like, but, yeah, like.

Was Eridan written well (where "well" = accurate to canon): no. Maybe he's fine as an OC with an Eridan Minecraft skin slapped on, but that's not my beautiful son, that's not my baby boy.

What did they get wrong about Eridan (where "wrong" = inaccurate to canon): all.

What route would I have written for Eridan: he shoots you with a gun and you die. And then maybe cheats on you with Karkat

[depressedhatakekakashi]

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Prompt: Fake Dating

@kkgiweek

Words: 2,888

People confessing their feelings for him was not a new occurrence for Kakashi.

Ever since he was a kid he’d had various people, sometimes complete strangers, approach him while he was walking around the village and declare their admiration of him and ask him out on a date.

No matter how many people he said no to, there always seemed to be someone else ready to pounce on the opportunity to ask him out.

Someone who thought the answer they received would be different even though Kakashi had never done anything to suggest that he returned the feelings they claimed to have for him. 

The worst part was that they didn’t always wait until he was alone, and if his friends were there to witness him turning down another potential suitor they always had an opinion about how he handled the situation.

Nine times out of ten their opinion was that he was too harsh, crushing the person with his cutting response. He didn’t understand why he should be gentle though. When he was gentle people assumed he was just being shy and would get pushy, and they’d only really leave him alone when he reverted back to his harsher response to their advances. 

Still, when one of his friends was with him to witness someone asking him out, Kakashi tried his best to start off with a gentle response. Then at least if the person didn’t take the hint he could defend himself by saying he had tried. 

Today was a perfect example of one of those moments when he had to think carefully about his response. The suitor, a woman that stood just as tall as him with long brown hair and fierce eyes, had approached him while he was walking around the village chatting with Gai and had passionately declared her love for him while presenting him with a gift. A brand new book that he had been eyeing in the bookstore for the last few weeks but had refrained from buying until he read at least two books from his ‘to read’ shelf at the bottom of the small bookshelf in his apartment. 

His hand itched to reach out and accept the gift, but to do so would be to accept her request for a date.

No book, not even Icha Icha, was worth going out on a date with someone he wasn’t interested in.

“No th-” he paused, glancing to his left where Gai stood watching the scene unfolding in front of him. If he wasn’t careful with his words Gai was sure to give him an earful after the girl left. Even if she took the rejection gracefully and simply walked away Gai would still give him a piece of his mind, and that was guaranteed to ruin their hang out.

So rather than giving his preferred response, Kakashi shifted gears and choose one of the gentler one’s that he’d gone over with Asuma and Kurenai to ensure it was a friend approved rejection. 

“I’m sorry.” he continued, pocketing his hand so that he didn’t reach out to accept the book that she was still holding out to him. “I’m not really interested in dating anyone right now.”

It wasn’t completely true. There was one person he could think of that he would be willing to date, but to admit that would be risking the friendship the two of them had.

That was something Kakashi couldn’t do. Their friendship was precious to him and he wouldn’t allow anything, not even the deep feelings that had blossomed over the years into a deep passionate love, would get in the way of that friendship.

“Really?” she dropped her hands so they hung to the side, the book now clutched in her right hand and resting against her leg. “Why not?”

He blinked, her question taking him by surprise.

No one had ever asked him for an explanation before. Angry, dejected, even slightly annoyed. Those had all been responses he’d received to his refusal to date any of his previous suitors.

But being asked ‘why’ was a new one.

“I just…i’m not…” panicking he found himself debating making a quick exit. The only thing keeping him from going through with the plan was Gai standing right beside him. He didn’t want to cut their hang out short just because someone asked him a question.

A question that he should be perfectly capable of answering. 

“You can’t answer me?” she pushed, her expression growing more annoyed with each passing second. “You say no to everyone who asks you out, you know that right? Every single person, and you don’t even have an excuse?”

“I’m just very busy.”

“So is every shinobi,” crossing her arms over her chest she sighed. “Really, you can’t even entertain a first date? Have you even ever had one of those? A date?”

“Well…no.”

“And why? Because no one is good enough for you? You’re so-”

“Whoe,” Kakashi interrupted her. “I do not think that. I’ve never thought that.” If anything, it was the complete opposite. Everyone was too good for him. They deserved better than a broken man who couldn’t promise that he would be emotionally open and available to them. 

Especially when his heart already belonged to someone.

“Then what is it?” she insisted, her eyes burning with fierce determination as she stared him down. “Why can’t you even entertain a single date with me after I went through the effort of talking to your friends and picking out a book they all told me you’d been eyeing.”

At the mention of his friends Kakashi turned to Gai, who responded to his inquiring glance with a simple shrug of his shoulders. Clearly by ‘friends’ she meant someone else. 

“By friends do you mean-”

“The spiky blond haired kid and the pink haired girl? Yes,” she confirmed, frowning when Kakashi sighed. “They said they were your friends. I asked them when i saw you speaking to them.”

“They are…kind of…” the thought of his precious students meddling in his love life, again, brought on a headache even greater than the one he got whenever they were arguing. “Those were my students.”

“Students, friends, same thing,” she dismissed his correction with a wave of the book. “Were they right about you liking books?”

“Well, yes.”

“Then their information helped me out, and yet here you are still saying no to me.”

“It’s just-”

“Am I not pretty enough?”

“No, that’s not it!” panic began to set in as she continued to grill him. 

“Then you must not think I'm smart enough,” she decided. “But you’re wrong there. I am very smart. I know I could keep up with you in a conversation if you’d give me a chance.”

“I didn’t say you weren’t smart,” the more he argued the more he could feel his energy seeping away. If this kept up he was going to be too tired to do anything else for the rest of the day which would put a huge damper on his plans. “Listen, this isn’t about you. I’m just not-”

“Interested in dating right now,” she repeated his explanation back with annoyance dripping in her words. “Are you ever going to be interested in dating, or are you waiting to turn down all of Konoha before you die a hero’s death in the battle field?”

“I-”

“He’s already dating someone,” Gai spoke up, earning himself a bewildered look from Kakashi. 

“Dating someone?” the girl raised an eyebrow, clearly not believing Gai. “If that’s the case why wouldn’t he just say so? Save everyone the trouble of thinking he’s single?”

“Kakashi’s a private man,” wrapping an arm around Kakashi’s shoulders, Gai pulled him tight against his body. “He doesn’t like other people knowing about his personal business, and most people,” he added with a stern note in his voice. “Accept his rejection with grace.”

Rather than taking the judgment with graceful defeat, the girl stood her ground and stared at Gai with those fierce eyes of hers. “It’s unfair to let people think they have a shot,” she fired back with just as much anger as she’d been throwing at Kakashi for the last three minutes. “Actually, it’s downright rude. If he’s dating someone he should just say it.”

“I did mention he’s a private person.”

“That sounds like a bluff to get rid of me.”

“It’s not.”

“Then who is it?”

Seeing another endless argument beginning to unfold in front of him, Kakashi took a leap of faith and placed his right hand over the hand Gai had hanging over his shoulder. Understanding the assignment immediately, Gai intertwined their fingers together without a second thought.

“Oh…”

“Gai’s right. I prefer to keep my personal life private, so if you could keep this,” he nodded toward their interlaced hands. “A secret between us, that would be appreciated.”

Understanding what she was being told, she let out a tiny gasp. “I…I'm so sorry,” she apologized. “I just thought…I've heard so many stories of people being turned down by you and i was anxious about asking you out so when you gave me that poor excuse to turn me down i just…got so angry.”

“You’re not the first person Kakashi has upset with his poor choice of words,” Gai tried to comfort her, laughing when he was rewarded with a sharp glare from Kakashi. “My rival is good at a lot of things, but being open about his life is not one of them. It can cause a bit of trouble at times, but,” he turned his head so he was looking at Kakashi, his eyes sparkling with such joy that Kakashi found himself looking down at the ground just so he wasn’t overwhelmed by it. “It’s also something I can't help but love about him.”

‘Something I can’t help but love about him’

Kakashi’s heart skipped a beat when he heard those words, and now they’d infected his brain. The rest of the conversation drowned out behind them, simple background music to something so much more beautiful.

Something he wished he could hear a second time, or a third, or maybe for the rest of his life.

They were such beautiful words and he hated that they were said to defend a lie. 

‘They’re not real’ he reminded himself while trying not to let the disappointment at that reality completely drown out the joy he’d felt at hearing them. ‘He doesn’t mean that. This is just so she’ll leave me alone.’

Sinking further into Gai’s side he lifted his head just enough for his nose to brush against the scratchy fabric of that obnoxious green jumpsuit Gai always wore. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling, yet he couldn’t help but smile when it happened.

“Kakashi,” Gai’s voice called out to him, pulling him back to reality. Raising gaze to meet Gai’s he tried his best to ignore the butterfly’s that started flying around in his stomach when he saw those soft black eyes staring down at him. 

He was a grown adult acting like a teenager in love. 

“She’s gone,” glancing to the side he frowned when he noticed that what Gai had said was true. The girl who just minutes ago had been grilling him relentlessly about his inability to accept a date was suddenly gone, leaving in her place nothing but an empty space.

“Oh,” he began to pull away, certain it was what Gai wanted now that they were alone again. Before he could get far though Gai’s arm tightened around his shoulders, holding him in place. “Uh, Gai?”

“We should do something,” his friend insisted while his lips stretched out into one of those brilliant smiles of his. The ones that always managed to make the world seem a little brighter no matter how bad things got. 

Relaxing into Gai’s hold, Kakashi hummed in agreement “Like what?”

“Sushi,” Gai declared. “A proper date.”

Kakashi blinked. 

He was certain he’d heard Gai wrong. Certainly his friend hadn’t meant to say that.

“A date?” he repeated, kicking himself immediately for saying it.

Gai might not have meant to say it, but Kakashi couldn’t help but wish he’d allowed himself to live with the dream that it was real. That Gai, with his beautiful smile and bright personality, wanted to go out on a date with him.

Kakashi.

The one person in all of Konoha who didn’t deserve the unwavering attention Gai always seemed to give him. 

“How else will people believe that we’re dating? You don’t think she’s actually going to keep that to herself, do you Rival?”

Thinking about it, Kakashi nodded in agreement. Regardless of his request to be allowed to keep his private life to himself, it was highly unlikely that she would be able to keep such interesting gossip to herself.

Konoha’s top two shinobi dating? That was something anyone would want to tell their friend, and that friend would tell their other friend, and so on until all of Konoha knew. 

By providing a quick escape from an awkward situation Gai had placed himself in the centre of Konoha’s gossip vine. The only options they had now were to come clean with the truth or go ahead with the lie and it seemed like Gai had already made up his mind about what he wanted to do.

“Are you sure?” he asked cautiously. “I don’t want to be the reason you can’t get another date. I appreciate what you did, but-’

“Nonsense,” Gai insisted. “I would be a poor rival if i let you stand there being grilled. Besides, dinner with my greatest rival isn’t new.”

“But this isn’t the same. If people find out and see us they’ll expect… well…”

“Hand holding?” squeezing Kakashi’s hand Gai laughed. “Or perhaps kissing? Maybe they’ll expect that, but that would be silly. Kissing would require you to take off your mask and everyone knows you’re not going to do that in public.”

“Still, isn’t there anyone else you’d rather spend that time with? Someone you like?”

His heart ached at the thought of Gai loving someone else.

Gai staring at someone who wasn’t him with those beautiful black eyes. Uttering those soft ‘i love you’s into someone else’s ear.

The thought tore him apart, but he wouldn’t be the one to deny his rival such beautiful pleasures. Just because he couldn't allow himself that small happiness didn’t mean he had any right to deny it to Gai.

Even if seeing the man he loved so completely and hopelessly loving someone else would hurt almost as much as burying his father, Sensei and friends. 

“Rival,” Gai spoke softly, his eyes focused intently on Kakashi. “There is no one in this world I would rather spend my time with.”

Staring back into those eyes Kakashi found himself looking at something he’d never thought possible. Something that he was certain would never have existed in those eyes he adored so much.

Love.

Unrestrained, complete love.

A love that was directed at him.

“Oh…” squeezing Gai’s hand, Kakashi ducked his head into his shoulder in a desperate attempt to hide his emotions. It wasn’t that he didn’t want Gai to see how he was feeling about this revelation, he simply couldn’t handle the overwhelming emotions that washed over him.

In response, Gai rested his chin on top of his head and chuckled. His laughter vibrated through his shoulders in just the right way for Kakashi to feel it against his forehead. 

“I love you.”

“What was that, Rival?”

Moving back, Kakashi lifted his head and stared straight into Gai’s eyes. “I love you,” he repeated without Gai’s shoulder muffling his words. “I just thought i should say that before we go to dinner.”

Thoroughly embarrassed by his sudden admission, Kakashi released his hold on Gai’s hand and turned away from him. “Sushi,” he declared, fighting to keep his voice even while his systems were flooded with emotions that he had not been prepared to deal with today. “Lets go to our favourite spot, ok?”

When he didn’t hear a response from Gai he risked a glance back at him. What he saw was the most amazing thing he could ever dream of witnessing.

There Gai stood with his mouth agape staring at Kakashi. No words came out of his mouth even when Kakashi tried to comfort him with a smile. He simply stood there staring for a solid two minutes until Kakashi turned back to him. 

Reaching out with his left hand he gently cupped Gai’s chin and pushed it up so his mouth closed once again. “Sushi?”

Shaking his head, Gai grinned that brilliant grin of his once again. “Sushi,” he agreed. “And Rival?”

“Hmmm?” 

“I love you too.”

Turning his back to Gai once again, Kakashi smiled to himself. His heart beat a little faster and he felt like he was floating on air as he began walking away, but he couldn’t let Gai see the way his eyes sparkled with joy at hearing those words.

If he did, Kakashi would never hear the end of it and he’d already been through too much for one day.

Gai was just going to have to wait a bit longer before he’d be allowed to see just how happy those words made him.

[typicallyriarkle]

How could it be anyone but you?

chapter ten of my captive prince fake dating x regency au is up...after about a million, billion years

this is truly the most angst-ridden thing I've ever written, please enjoy xx

[charlieconwayy]

fryleela meme ♥ [1/8 episodes] → season one, episode 10 "a flight to remember"

[plusultraetc]

ask game!! fake dating real feelings. sounds like some good quality fluff!!!

AH OKAY SO this one is a relatively new WIP and it's a little out of my wheelhouse ngl, but I Love Them and so I am writing it anyway lol. It's also incredibly canon divergent. Like, we've left canon in the rearview, we're borderline making stuff up at this point.

Early 20s erasermic, Aizawa ends up meeting eight year old Shinsou through a case, and in an effort to keep the Commission from squirreling him and his brainwashing quirk away somewhere, decides to foster a child. The problem is, Aizawa lives out of a suitcase in a barren apartment, which means:

Cue Aizawa and Mic committing like. Way too much to their pretend relationship while somehow remaining oblivious to each other's feelings. Aizawa's like "wow, Yamada is really good at pretending to be in love with me. And pretending to be in love with him is really easy. I will at no point consider this any more closely."

(Have some Aizawa hiding in the bathroom while the Commission's '''social worker''' visits Mic's apartment bc if there's one thing this fic is it's fun to write :D)

[clownantihero]

i just think shiganatsu as a ship has the potential to be SO funny in regard to how much it will piss off people they know. tomura is like "babygirl i can make your dad SO upset-"

[littlespoonevan]

the thing about romcoms is just- it's never meant to be 'is it believable?' but instead 'do you believe it?' do you believe these two characters are actually falling in love with each other??? do you believe their chemistry??? do you believe whatever obstacle is thrown in their way is legitimately something that might keep them apart for a time and not something that could be solved with one conversation?? do you believe that they believe they need to fake date for this very specific reason??? do you believe the reason why they're 'enemies' at the start, no matter how silly a misunderstanding it may be??? do you believe the grand romantic gesture fits the characters and is actually how one character would show their love to the other?? like!!!! it's about empathy and authenticity and feeling what the characters feel so strongly that even if it's a trope or a cliché it doesn't matter because you believe it

[its-been-rose]

Ugh this is for the au where Marie and Jason get together after George’s death

There’s a knock at Jason’s front door kinda late at night in like Octoberish or Novemberish, months after Marie had told him that even though they were grieving the same person she blamed him and never wanted to speak to him again.

He tells his parents he’ll get the door and he opens it and it’s Marie shivering in the cold with a suitcase next to her

And Jason is like “whoa, Marie, why are you here? What’s going on? Are you okay?” And she shakes her head and says “I got kicked out. C-can I stay with you?”

And he’s like “kicked out?! Because you were upset at what happened to George?!” And she just looks at the ground in embarrassment and brings her shaking hands to her stomach and goes “no… something my folks actually cared about.”

And his eyes go big and he’s like “holy shit Marie” and she scoffs like “yeah, I’m in deep shit, you dont need to rub it in.”

And he’s like “but you… came to me for help?? I thought you never wanted to talk to me again.” And she’s like “believe me, if I had other options, I’d take them. So… can I come in or not?” And he’s like “of course, oh my god, of course, Marie”

And his parents are like “Jason who is at the door?” And he’s like “uh mom, dad, you know Marie, George’s girl, right? She… she’s gonna be staying with us for a little bit, okay?” And they stand up and walk over like “what?! Why?!” And he just looks back at them like “because she NEEDS to. I’ll explain the rest later. Just get to bed and we’ll talk about this tomorrow.”

[dirt-str1der]

That post is still pretty active so i have to scroll past that guys bloated festering corpse every time i want to see someones new reply

[faaun]

lmao looking at her insta highlights was a mistake