#for Yata every woman is a creepy woman XD

[ridiasfangirlings]

ik its too late for halloween stuff but whatever strain related incident where yata starts seeing this creepy woman in the background of everywhere like just staring at him and then randomly disappearing🫶

Since it’s Yata I assume ‘creepy woman’ just means any normal woman ever, right XD Imagine he gets hit by a Strain power without realizing, like he’s headed home from his part time job one evening and accidentally runs into a guy sweeping a small shrine. Yata doesn’t remember seeing a shrine here before and the guy grins, asking if Yata’s heard the story of the ‘curse’ of this shrine. Yata tries to sound all tough as he’s like ‘curses aren’t real’ but he’s actually all nervous now. The guy just says to look out for ‘her,’ putting a hand on Yata’s shoulder before returning to the shrine. Yata shakes his head all that was weird huh better get going. As he’s nearing his apartment though he spots what looks to be the dark silhouette of a woman in a black dress with long black hair. She smiles at him, revealing sharp white teeth, and Yata falls off his skateboard. When he looks back up the woman is gone and there’s no sign anyone was even there. Yata’s heart is beating fast as he’s like it was just a trick of the light right, yeah that’s it must’ve just been the shadows playing tricks on me. 

The next day Yata goes to Bar Homra and it’s raining out, as he’s waiting under a bridge for the rain to stop he suddenly sees the woman in black again, right there under the bridge with him. Yata screams very manfully and skitters away, but when he looks up there’s no one there. Yata tells himself it must just be his imagination getting the better of him and he decides to keep going to Bar Homra, only to spot the woman watching him from across the street. He gets to the bar and maybe Totsuka and Anna are out but Mikoto is sleeping on the couch, Yata starts to greet him and then cuts off with a yell as he sees the woman staring at him through the window. Mikoto raises an eyebrow and looks out the window curiously but there’s nothing there, Yata tries to blow it off like no, I, um, just thought I saw some lightning, yeah, just got startled I’m fine.

At some point I imagine him getting really nervous and paranoid that the woman is watching him, he sees her in the bushes while he’s skating through the park and then screams when someone actually steps out — except it’s not the creepy woman it’s just Fushimi (an entirely different sort of creepy). Fushimi thinks it’s amusing that Yata screamed like a girl just now, taunting him all maybe you should pay better attention to your surroundings Misaki. Yata’s like I wasn’t yelling at you I was yelling at her and then cuts off, muttering never mind. Fushimi wonders if virgin Misaki finally found a girlfriend, Yata’s like it’s nothing shut up. Fushimi goads Yata into a fight but then as they’re fighting Yata sees the lady again and ends up losing his footing, almost getting stabbed. Fushimi pulls back, clicking his tongue as he says Yata’s acting strange and it’s annoying. Yata says nothing’s wrong and anyway he doesn’t need a traitor’s help. Fushimi scoffs all as if I would help you, but he notices the way Yata’s eyes suddenly dart to one side where there’s nothing at all, but even so Yata’s face gets paler. 

Yata ends up going back to Bar Homra, exhausted and on edge wondering if he’s going crazy. When he gets there though Anna runs up to him all worriedly, she touches his forehead and then looks over at Kusanagi and nods. Yata asks what’s going on and Kusanagi asks if he’s been seeing a strange person. Yata tries to evade the question and Kusanagi explains that he got a phone call, there’s a Strain running around with the power to make people see a ghost-like woman. Yata suddenly sags in relief as he’s like so I’m not crazy. It’s not until later that he wonders who gave Kusanagi the information and how did he know that Yata specifically got hit by the Strain, like huh Kusanagi-san must have a really wide intelligence network I guess.