#huh. wonder what happened in those five minutes Tsukauchi forgot!

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For the ask game 5 thing do one where Naomasa is Giran's sugar baby 😈

yeah. why not.

1- "Now, information is my livelihood, so I can't give you something for nothing..." The broker started, giving the detective a curious look over. The rookie is stiff, and frowns deeper. He's too clean to bribe for anything and will leave if there's nothing useful here. On saying so, he turns, but the broker tsks. "I didn't ask for money, did I? From you, detective, i wouldn't need much. How about a light?" He pulls a cigarette from his pocket. But the detective doesn't smoke, has no lighter, and says as much. The broker knew it and smiles, wishing him better luck next time. Then the detective whirls, grabs the gun from Giran's pocket, and holds it up. "You won't pay, but you're willing to shoot me for information?" He says, incredulous, but not fearful.

"No." Detective Tsukauchi clicks the gun-shaped lighter, and lights the end of the cigarette. "But you're willing to talk now, you said?"

Giran laughs at the audacity and throws the guy a bone, laughing harder when the detective turns and tries to hide his blush by pushing down his hat as he leaves.

2- The broker decides he quite likes this new detective. He decides to keep giving him information for a bit of sugar- a joke, a light, he once got Tsukauchi to grudgingly lend him his coat as Giran's light, open shirt wasn't suitable for going home in the rain in. He did finally return the coat (in exchange for something else of course) and Tsukauchi could never get the smell of smoke out. (For his own part, Giran is curious about the perfumes the detective always seems to wear, but that's far from the most interesting thing about him, so.)

3- Once they establish that they'll be meeting each other semi-regularly, they do some research on each other, background check, quirk check, all that stuff. Then it becomes almost a game to avoid directly triggering the other's quirk. Giran, naturally, has much more fun than Tsukauchi during these games but hey he's giving the guy stuff for free so what's he going to do, complain? (yes. he complains often to Sansa.) Giran's even giving Tsukauchi information about AfO- not everything, he doesn't even know everything, but he's sure telling far more than he'd sell to anyone else. He justifies this as no betrayal to his customer because Tsukauchi couldn't possibly be a threat. What's he going to do, secretly turn out to have All Might on speed dial and help the hero kill AfO a second time?

4- .... um anyway so when Popstep gets Bee'd, Giran tsks at the question Tsukauchi asks him, looking all the wrong ways into the villain factory. "You know, the last victim was a hero's daughter. He paid a pretty penny to get what he needed to save her- but he already knew the real problem you're missing; I was happy to do it." The detective asks what he wants this time, and Giran says he'd like to share a smoke. Tsukauchi isn't sure when he started carrying a lighter (lie: he absolutely is) but he uses it regardless, then stares as Giran offers the cig to him.

"I don't smoke."

"I know. I said I wanted to share a smoke with you."

Tsukauchi finally takes it, almost chokes on it, and fails to keep Giran patting his back over it while telling him about the way to stop the bees. But then Giran takes the cig back to bring to his own lips, then handing it again between them. "There's more you'll want to know. Try another drag."

The taste of tobacco doesn't quite mask the taste of bile when the extent of the parasite is explained.

5- Oh yeah the whole 'All Might Kills AfO a second time' thing yeah that happens at some point after Vigs but before canon, why not, a treat for Toshi. So Tsukauchi actually sees Giran leaving just before everything comes down and skulking around the edges of the scene later. He turns away and lets the broker leave. An exhausting 36 hours later, when he finally returns home and goes to bed, he wakes to find Giran on his balcony. He warily joins him. Giran complains about the loss of a very good customer, and Tsukauchi mentions a suspected accomplice who got away.

"And why'd you let him get away, Detective?"

"I thought he'd be more willing to help later."

Giran doesn't dignify that with a response, merely musing that he's paid to have people killed for less than what Tsukauchi cost him.

"So you think I'll be worth more later instead? An investment?"

"Ah, hah. No. We have the same reason, yes, but we both know that aint it."

"Then what is it?"

Giran smiles, getting closer- then Tsukauchi blinks and he's gone. Confused, he looks around- just a very strong, smokey scent, and when he goes back inside, his alarm clock says the time is later than he expected by a few minutes. Tsukauchi's heartrate begins to pick up when he puts it together- or maybe it was already going faster when he started remembering again.