#i’m gonna go back to writing yuri after this i miss it
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musicalmoritz · 7 months ago
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Mitsukou lovers I am back with more food
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yourlastbraincell-kiwi · 1 year ago
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Cat and Mouse
A/N: Hey! This is a Peter Parker x Fem!reader this one is based on the 2018 video game version of SpiderMan, cause I had finished the game not too long ago, and I decided to make this. Also I’m not really good at writing out fighting scenes! Hopefully, you still like it! ❤️💙
Pairing: Peter Parker x fem!villain!reader
Imagine: (Y/N) is working alone, but like the other villains in the New York, desperately wanting Devils Breath for herself.
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“Hey, Pete.”
“Oh, hey (Y/N). I’m kind of in the middle of something..”
“Looking for this?” (Y/N) asked holding up the red vial of GR-27 or commonly known as ‘Devils Breath.’
“Uh, maybe? Can you hand it over then I’ll tell you?” Peter asked nervously, as she tiptoed towards the edge of the building.
“Come on, you know I’m not going to give it up that easily.” She laughed, as she kept backing up. “You’re gonna have to…”
“Don’t do it..” Peter said almost like a parent scolding their child.
“..Catch me first.” She grins securing the vial on my suit then fall backwards off the edge.
“Aaand she did it.” Peter sighs quickly web-slinging after her. “Come on, (Y/N)! Let’s talk about this!”
“Less talking more swinging, Spider.” She exclaimed, and flew higher up in the sky.
“I need the Devil’s Breath, (Y/N)! That can infect so many people! Just hand it over!”
“You talk way too much.” She says blasting holes in the sides of a couple building, causing chunks of rubble and glass to fall atop of the people below.
Peter quickly swooped in to get move the people out of the way, and it caused him to almost lost sight of (Y/N).
He quickly catches up to her, “This is your final chance! Hand it over or I’m gonna have to get physical!”
“Oh please, you won’t do a thing, but lull someone to sleep with those lame ass one-liners.”
“Hey! Some people really like my one-liners.”
She groans and tries throwing something Pete’s way, but misses and Peter finds an opening. He tackles (Y/N) to the roof of a building and the Devils Breath falls a little ways away, from the both of them.
“Y’know you never were one to play nice.” He says and she rolled her eyes. She pushed Peter off her before bolting for the vial. Peter being quicker shot his web at it and brought it to his hand.
“It’s over, give it up (Y/N).”
“It’s not over, till I say it’s over.” She kicks him in the stomach, causing Peter to drop the vial. She started punching, but Peter swiftly dodges her oncoming punches.
“Come on, you know I can’t hit a lady.” Peter states, “Perfect, then you’ll make sure perfect punching bag.” Peter bobs and weaves, dodging a couple of the hits, but some of the hits to his face and stomach area do land and leave marks and bruises.
Peter then begins to shoot webs at (Y/N)’s hands to hold them down, but she manages to blast through it and stand back up.
They continue to fight, before Pete’s being forced away with a blast from (Y/N). His back hits the railing on the rooftop, causing pain to shoot from his lower back to all different parts of his back.
“Okay, time out. Time out. Maybe we can call a truce, yeah?” Pete says as he slowly gets up. “Maybe we can discuss this over dinner, I make a mean chicken curry..” He says, before realizing that (Y/N) and the Devils Breath are no where to be seen.
‘Damn it.’ Peter holds onto his back as he sits on the edge with his chest against the railing, and his phone started to ring.
‘Yuri..’
“Hey, Yuri.” He said trying not to let Yuri hear that he was clearly in pain. “Did you obtain the GR-27?”
“Spider-Cop has had many, many difficult missions over the years, and this one was no diff-.”
“You could just say, that you lost it.”
“I was getting to that, but when you put it that way. It’s not very fun, is it, Yuri?” Pete replies, before hearing Yuri groan and hang up on him, leaving him badly bruised and dateless.
‘That wasn’t so bad right? At least, I know who has it just gotta find out where she went in one of the most busiest cities. Ever.’
‘No pressure right?’
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saintlesbian · 2 years ago
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too bad about so many recent eps getting preempted but pretty lucky for me since that gives me some time to catch up on the eps I missed 😊 anyways.
- Willow for the love of god can you PLEASE quit with the nina vendetta and can we skip to the part where y’all stop hating each other I’m SO tired
- Portia my least favorite neurotic nutcase 🥰 why are you being SO friendly w/ Esme you cannot trust this bitch as far as you can throw her. I get you hate spencer and you want him gone and everybody also wants Esme gone but who’s to say trina won’t just chase after him again. lose your daughter all over again
- also Laura and Kevin about to take their white asses to Chechnya is so bad bc as soon as they take their eyes off spencer/Esme for even a second all hell will break loose. but at they’re takin yuri with them at least, my favorite Belarusian bear 🐻 ❤️
- once again my most favorite neurotic nutcase nina is in a hell of her own making 💔 trying to gaslight Ned is a bad look it ain’t gonna work 😅 plus once the truth comes out about her snitching that’s def gonna be the end of Sona and have Willow going back to outright hating her
- oh and they’re finally moving some of the Austin/Ava/Mason plot along okay. baldy was the one to call the hit on Sonny I guess… also trying to have ava spy for you? babygirl this is Ava Jerome we’re talking about, she’s been through all the mob shit before, this is child’s play at this point
- Ned busting his ass in the pool was really funny sorry. like I love the guy but the way he was running to his momma to snitch was goofy as hell
- Anna devane in her enemy of the state era 🥺 at least the vanna scenes were good. as usual
- ZORDAN!!!! finally Jordan can let go of that Bald Bitch and go back to being a bad bitch. but also when it comes out that she fucked her ex husband’s wife’s brother it’s gonna be so ridiculous
- Tracy my beloved I don’t get your deal. on the one hand trying to frame drew for pushing Ned in the pool was kinda funny and once again feeds back into the theory that Maybe Tracy Called The SEC 🤔 but also why plant BLQ into Deception for corporate espionage to try and tank the company what does that accomplish. also you just helped set her back up w/ chase and get his badge back so now how is she supposed to pull this illegal shit off with her cop bf so close by????
- not even gonna comment on the contradictory nature of the Jex/bensons plotlines bc they make my head hurt and I haven’t been paying attention. can they stop glorifying joss and just write her character as the selfish/bratty girl she was truly meant to be while still calling out her behaviors bc I think she’d be more likeable that way 🙃
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fixfoxnox · 2 years ago
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How does it feel writing the last chapter bossman? Also I’m gonna miss this fic, I’ve reread this fic at least 5 times this month alone, this fic is just simply the best, also I went back and read some of your AO3 notes specifically chapter 8, u mentioned the fic had maybe 2-3 chapters left at that point, I’m so glad u decided to pick it up afterward cause look at this fic now 😭😭😭 much love!
Guys ngl its really sad for me tbh, like when I said it was bittersweet I really did mean that.
I am happy to be finished with it because it means I actually did it! I set out to write the fic and I managed to do it!! Not only that, but I'm super proud of the way that its turned out and the world I've been able to create for it!
I feel like I've done the characters justice and I've created a universe and established relationships that I love and care about which is a very big deal to me! This also definitely has made me feel more confident in my writing abilities and the fact that I can actually write something this long (any other multi chaptered fic I've worked on had been usually left incomplete 🙃). It also just kinda tells me how much I'm into COD rn landjjfjfjf
But at the same time it is very sad/odd. I'm falling into a weird area as I finish this where its like...what do I work on now? Like do I try to start another multi-chaptered fic? I want to, but I'm scared I'll leave it incomplete like I've done others. So there's some weird kinda anxiety going on there (and general sadness cause I'm like knowing that I'll probably stop getting so many requests that are connected to sito)
But also its weird cause like I've dedicated the past three months of my life to this fic and now its over. And when I say dedicated like...I mean dedicated. I've tried to kinda skirt around it, but some of you guys have still kinda picked up on how quickly I update and how long the updates usually are. 7,000-9,000 words every 2-3 days is a lot to write super quickly and so most of, if not all, of my freetime over the past month has kinda been dedicated to this fic (a little sad but I'm anxious and going out is scary so)
So now that I don't have this to work on I'm kinda like 🧍what am I gonna do with all this free time??? And I'm also just generally sad that I won't get to write the SiTO versions of these characters as much anymore lol
Also yeah, lol, I definitely did not intend for this fic to end up being so long and I am legit so bad at telling how long my fics will be akfbbdbdjd
Like idk if I've mentioned this before, but when I first started writing SiTO I fully thought it was going to be a longer one-shot (like 15,000 words) and I refused to admit that it wasn't a one-shot until like 60,000 words in akfjfjjfjfbf (yes I did write over 60,000 words of this fic before posting any of it lol)
Then initially I was going to end the fic actually after the Ghost/Roach/Soap initial get together. Like Makarov was going to die during that chapter because at the time I vouldn't figure out how to justify Yuri being alive and him still having his memories (and I stone cold refused to kill Yuri so). Then I figured it out and went back and heavily heavily edited the arm injury chapter, the bar chapter, and the chapter where Roach and Makarov first talk so that it would all flow together for Makarov to come in as a bad guy!
Lots of things changed as I wrote them lol
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yoonieper · 6 months ago
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Holy shit…34K, it took awhile for it to load up on my phone but shit. What an emotional chapter. I don’t even know where to begin…I’m so happy that he’s getting exposed to other people’s kindness (I mean oc’s kindness) and how she physically and verbally assures him. Yuri has been so damn manipulative that he believes the right way is only her way and he second guesses every single small detail. I’m so happy oc and jungkook are finally getting it going but my heart hurts so much for him. I know how much the guilt is eating away at him but at the same time I’m hoping this is a wake up call for him to see how unhappy he is and that there truly is better out there for him.
Aside from the sad shit, that whole office scene had SO much tension and he still wanted more after???? OC can’t say much either cause she knows she was feeling the tension. I hope he finishes getting his sleeve done as well, I feel like it’ll be a monumental moment of him taking back his freedom if he does get it completed, small bits of himself that he loved piecing back together to make him whole again.
He better go see Yoongi again or else oc is gonna drag him to seek professional help. Also why do I get the feeling yuri is off cheating as well for her late shoot, or I guess why do I get the feeling she’s been cheating on him for a long time now? Snake ass I hope her heels break and she turns ugly like her nonexistent personality.
Is Jimin coming back into the story soon? I miss him and I know jungkook is going to need a lot of support to get him through whatever happened between him and oc. Well I guess that’s if he tells his best friend. I’m rambling so much but this was a wonderful monster of a chapter. I love reading long chapters so don’t feel bad. Your attention to detail is impeccable and I’m excited to see where this story will go now that his fantasy has happened
She’s def a chonky chapter (hehehe tiny bit of a spoiler but ooooo get ready for the next chapter 🤭~)! Took me forever to write it so I’m so glad yall are enjoying it!
Y/n is very much so a change of pace for Jk. Keep in mind, he’s been stuck in that hellhole of a “relationship” for going on four years now, baby’s gotten so used to it and doesn’t know what to do with himself outside of that context (ex someone being nice to him). Will be interesting to see what path this takes them down, with Y/n’s added voice of reason!
The office scene OOOO yall don’t know how much of a pain that was to write, the entire thing was just 😭 I’m so happy you felt the tension, that was one of my main worries~ But yes, Jk need to connect back to his roots and that might help bring Jk back essentially~
Jk go to therapy >:O (*this is going to be our honorary ‘go to therapy bonk hammer’ 🔨* )
Jimin will be back in the near future, I promise friends ☺️
Love your analysis, this was fun to read anon jsksksksks 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽!!!~
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flooffybits · 3 years ago
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All The Way
Idol: Tiffany Hwang (Girls’ Generation)
Anon: Hi, I saw that you said you have no requests for Girl Generation, could you possibly write one for Tiffany where her American girlfriend is meeting the rest Girls Generation for the first time. P.S love your writing, it always brightens my day when I see you have posted something.
Word count: 2.3k
☕buy me a coffee☕
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“Hi, baby! What time are you coming over?” You hear once you pick up the phone, rubbing your hair with a towel using your free hand. “I honestly thought we would be heading to your dorm together.” You say with a slight pout and she giggles at your tone. Even if she couldn’t see you, she could already feel it through the call.
“I’m sorry. I got a call from one of the girls and I just had to head over as soon as I could and I didn't want to wake you, especially after an exhausting flight.” You can hear the apology in her tone, but you really should have expected something like this to happen, so you don't comment.
As a matter of fact, you're grateful that she's still thinking about you despite her excitement to see the girls again. "That's alright, maybe I'll come over after grabbing some food. Airplane food isn't exactly my favorite." You tell her, earning the same adorable giggle from your girlfriend.
"Okay, just don't take too long, alright? You know how much I’ll miss you."
When you say goodbye, Miyoung lets out a breath before lightly nibbling on her lower lip. While she wanted to see you as soon as possible, she was also a little worried about this introduction.
Sure, she may have talked about you to the girls and even showed some pictures, but they haven't met you in person. And that was what scared her.
The girls were her family, but you were just as important. If even just one of them didn't approve of you, then she was going to be torn because she really does love you and all she wanted was the approval of the people she's considered sisters.
"You seem tense." A voice called from behind and Miyoung looked back to see the tanned beauty offering her a kind smile. "Hey, sorry Yul, I was just thinking about some stuff." She mutters while running her fingers through her hair and Yuri cocks her head to the side. "It's been a couple years, Fany, but we're still the same people."
"Some, a little more mature." Taeyeon piped up as she joined them at the table, a bright smile on her features as she arrived. "I thought we were here to relax, not stress out?" She mused, making the American grin and shake her head, momentarily brushing off her anxiety. "You're right. Sorry, I guess it's jetlag." She knows it’s a lame excuse, but it’s one that works when the girls stop giving her curious looks and proceed to talk about their day.
The time apart truly did help their bonds strengthen because it all felt like they were back to when they were all still together. It was as though she never left and they were all still the same girls back when they were trainees. Of course, there were a few adjustments, but she was happy being surrounded by her girls.
“Unnie, I’m sure you have some stuff happening with you in America. You just finished a concert not too long ago.” Yoona spoke up and Sunkyu nodded eagerly. “That’s right! You posted a whole lot of pictures, but you haven’t told us any stories!” The bunny cheered and Miyoung laughed, the memory of the concert popping into her head and you were obviously there with her afterwards.
She trusted the girls. She had no reason to be so afraid. You were a good person with a kind heart.
Her dork.
"Well, there's something I haven't told you guys yet and I'm pretty sure you're gonna get mad." She says a little apologetically and Sooyoung raises a questioning brow before her eyes light up. "No! Don't tell me!" She squealed, causing a handful of the girls to look even more confused. "Don't tell what?" Joohyun asked curiously and Miyoung smiled bashfully before she pulled up her phone and opened it up to her gallery.
"I've been seeing someone for a long while now." She answers, showing all of them a picture of the two of you together. Hyoyeon gingerly took her phone into her own hands and saw various other pictures, either both of you together or just you.
Taeyeon was looking over her shoulder, brows raising higher before she grinned teasingly. "You took a picture of them in their sleep?" She laughed and Miyoung pouted as she snatched the device back. "My baby is a cutie! I can't not admire her." She defends, not at all bothered with the teasing glances her friends gave her.
"Are we getting the chance to meet this cutie or are you keeping her to yourself?" Sooyoung asked excitedly, clearly very happy with her friend's newfound relationship, and Miyoung grinned brightly, clearly relieved that her friends weren't upset with it.
"She should actually be here in a little while." She replies, her phone vibrating on cue. As soon as your name comes up on screen, the smile on her face tells them exactly who was calling.
But before she could answer, Hyoyeon had swiped the phone back and smirked as she stood up, quickly dodging the American's hands as she answered instead. "Hello, this is Miss Hwang's secretary, may I ask who this is?" She asks seriously and your girlfriend's eyes widened when she stood up. "Yah! Give that back!"
But the dancer was already on the other side of the table, the other girls laughing at the situation.
"Uh?" You had to pause and check if you had the right number. "I didn't know she had a secretary but, um, it's Y/n." Hyoyeon had to bite back a laugh. "And how may I help you?" She asks, moving again when Miyoung tries to move to the left. "I was supposed to meet with her? I'm at the address she sent, but I'm not too sure where to really go." She could hear the genuine confusion in your voice, so with a little mercy, she decided to help you out.
Miyoung wasn't too sure what the conversation was about, but she did not want to wait and find out.
"Kim Hyoyeon, give me back my phone!" She demanded and the dancing machine finally beamed before she hung up, passing the phone over the table and grinning mischievously. "Here you go, back in one piece."
Your girlfriend immediately took it while Yuri giggled from her place. "What did you do?" She asked and the shorter woman shrugged nonchalantly, the smirk still present on her face. "I just gave directions. Y/n should be here in ten."
Miyoung's eyes snapped in her direction and Sunkyu patted her friend on the arm. "I'm sure she'll be fine, Fany." She assures, but even she isn't sure what directions Hyoyeon had given you. "I helped her!" The latter protested as she took her seat again.
"But seriously, is Y/n Korean?" The dancer asks and everyone looks at her in confusion. "No, why?" Miyoung replies and Hyoyeon looks a little surprised. "Well, she's very fluent, I'll give her that." And your girlfriend suddenly puffs up in pride, her face lighting up as she nodded her head. "Of course! Y/n has been studying Korean a little after we met. She wanted to surprise me and we ended up having a couple dates with me tutoring her."
Majority of the girls looked impressed. "How long have you guys been together again?" Taeyeon inquired and Miyoung was about to answer before someone else cut in. "Almost three years, now."
All heads turn to the source of the voice and you smile politely before giving them a quick bow. "Hello, I'm sorry for being late. I got a bit lost." You greet shyly and Miyoung is back on her feet and quickly by your side in an instant.
"You're here!" Your girlfriend cheered before she was gesturing to you. "Guys, meet Y/n." You offer another smile, clearly a little overwhelmed. "It's nice to meet you all. Tiffany's had a lot to say about you all."
"Not all good, I'm sure." Yuri laughs when she gives you a quick once over. "I wouldn't say that. She's shown how much she cares about you, that's for sure." You promise and Joohyun looks intrigued while Yoona gestures for you to sit down.
"Unnie said that you've been studying but there's barely even an accent." The maknae comments, making you smile bashfully. "I still struggle with a few words, but thank you." You tell them before your girlfriend lightly pinches your side, making you wince. "She's being modest. Y/n is shy around new people." You pout a little, trying to fight back the blush forming on your face. "I am not!"
But your girlfriend only pinched your cheek in an affectionate manner. "It's okay to be shy. You're cute when you are." She says easily, making your blush worsen and for the other eight women around to watch in amusement.
"I almost forgot how Fany was like when in a relationship." Yuri mused, causing some of the girls to giggle. "Well, Y/n, good luck to you." Sunkyu says playfully and it's your girlfriend's turn to pout this time that Taeyeon almost cringed at how identical the two of you looked now. "Yah! What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing, just wishing the happy couple good luck." Sooyoung grinned with a wink and you were somewhat surprised with how easily this meeting was going.
That is… until your girlfriend had left the table with Sooyoung and Yoona to use the comfort room.
All eyes are on you as you sipped on your drink and Taeyeon laced her fingers under her chin. "So… what are your plans with our Ppany?" The leader asked seriously and you almost choked with how intimidating these women suddenly looked.
Your eyes shifted from one person to another and Hyoyeon leaned closer. "Answer the question, and maybe we won't hurt you." Your heart dropped to your stomach, but you swallowed thickly before shifting in your seat, failing to see the way Joohyun covered her mouth to stop a giggle from coming out.
"Well… I only want the best for Tiffany." When Sunkyu raises a brow, you hurriedly add. "I want her to be happy with her career and in our own private life. We aren’t out to the public, but it's not that we're trying to hide it. I want her to be as comfortable as can be while she's achieving her dreams." The more you think about her, the less nervous you are and Yuri smiles a little when she notices.
"Tiffany is someone who's full of passion. You can always see it in the things she does even if she's not too good at them. She tries, and I'm willing to be there for her when things get rough, not just when it's easy." You fiddle with the cloth on your lap before looking up with a genuine smile. "I'm sticking by her the whole way, as long as she'll have me that is."
Everyone at the table is quiet, letting your words sink in. When you turn to the leader, she's smiling at you before she reaches to pat your arm. "I have no doubt she will."
"Did we miss anything?" Yoona asks, eyeing the hand on your arm before Taeyeon withdraws herself, allowing your girlfriend back to her seat and nuzzling into your side, smiling as though it were stuck on her face while Hyoyeon waved a hand. "Nothing. We were just talking." Joohyun answers calmly, but the way they all looked at each other, you know that they all understood.
By the time you all had to go, the girls each gave you a hug, expressing how they were glad to have met you and making you promise to hang out again.
"This one's a keeper, Fany. Be sure to take care of her, too." Sooyoung whispered when she gave her a hug and Miyoung smiled softly as she watched you saying your goodbyes to the others. "Of course." She breathed out and the taller woman gave her a nod before finally leaving, grinning at you as she did.
At the hotel, when you're both freshened up and dressed in more comfortable clothing, Miyoung watches you from the window. She had taken another picture of you while you sat on the bed, back resting comfortably against the headboard and a book in your hands.
You looked so peaceful, she couldn't help herself.
"Staring is creepy, you know." You say teasingly without looking away from your book. "It's called admiring, babe." She retorts, but decides to finally join you in bed.
Plucking the book from your hands and taking a seat on your lap, she hums while you give her a look. "I was reading." You tell her, but she only smiles wider while caressing your jaw. "Well, I want your attention. Read later." She says confidently and you can't help but laugh while your hands rest on her waist. "Someone sure is clingy."
With a quick peck, she hums before resting her head against your shoulder where you can't see the smile that's set on her lips. But you're content with just holding her in your arms even with the silence in the room. It was comforting.
"Did you really mean it?" You hum softly, glancing down at the woman in your arms while she runs her fingers along the length of your arm. "What you said at the restaurant… did you?" She whispers and you almost didn't catch it if you weren't close enough.
But you did.
"Of course I meant it." You tell her. "I wouldn't trade you for the world, love." You promise and she can feel her heart skip a few beats before shifting her head to look at your face, and she can see that you mirrored her expression.
Without hesitation, she craned her neck a little before bridging the gap between you. Her soft lips fit perfectly with yours and fill you both with warmth. And when she pulls away, you make sure that she's still as close as possible as you kiss the top of her head.
"I'm not going anywhere without you, you know that, right?" Grinning, you gently squeeze her while resting your head on hers.
"And I you, Tiffany."
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nettleshuttle · 2 years ago
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not that i dislike when yuri is portrayed in a softer, more human way, but somehow even the canon “development” (can’t write that without the quote of sarcasm, so sorry) towards being friends with yuya &co feels so rushed for him. the dude was literally immersed in a hunter/colonizer mindset and he damn right enjoyed it, though he still was carrying out akaba leo’s orders — then he went to a more independent stance of “oh i’m gonna kill everyone because it’s fun and also i hate people and also i wanna prove myself the strongest and then suddenly?? i can sort of accept him swiftly urging yuya to absorb him after he lost the duel, because that’s the life-on-the-line procedure of playing he’s always followed (though i expected at least a bit more, i don’t know, shock after his first loss ever), but after zarc came and went i was literally watching with raised eyebrows because how come yuri is suddenly in such a good sync with the other three? i get that they originally were one person, but they lived separately long enough to develop separate, individualistic identities and it just doesn’t make sense, the way he had been consistently established as a malicious, bloodthirsty, stop-at-nothing sadist before.
give me yuri who’s seething because he has to share a mind (and a duel) with yuto, whom he still automatically considers an XYZ underdog. yuri who hates the fact that he has to even play under such conditions, but he can’t just back away because he’s afraid to risk another loss (it’s still somehow his body, though not his only now). yuri who’s livid when yuya prepares set up’s for other summoning methods than fusion — its so obvious that fusion, that starve venom, are simply superior to whatever else might be conjured, so why waste time and cards, why put yourself at a risk, to go for weaker strategies? yuri who forgets at times that he even lost to yuya because his mind back then was all “we will become one” to the point of barely registering anything even slightly unrelated. he’s so incredulous, so unwilling to accept this fact that he would have denied it, if all evidence wasn’t against him. yuri who longs to seclude himself at the back of their collective mind, who misses the authority and privileges he’s enjoyed for so long at the fusion academy, as he suddenly is forced to barter with some underlings instead of ordering them around or forcing out of his way. yuri who constantly bickers and trashes around with yugo, as he considers him a luck-reliant, untrustworthy idiot and who won’t even lower himself to address yuto — but when they do start talking, they won’t stop at anything to get at each other. yuri who boasts of how he kidnapped ruri and rin, but who is simultaneously flooded by the grieving rage that these words evoke in yuto and yugo (even their minds aren’t half as separate as he’d wish them to be). yuri who insists he should be the one in control of their body and yuri who’s dissatisfied with each duel because what’s that crap about smiling and making your opponent have fun even for? yuri who’s longing to grind his foes under the heel of his shoe again, to indulge in the despair he sees in their eyes, to rip them apart and hold their life in his hands, pulsating with a slow, hypnotic rhythm and have it die out with a single gesture and…
yuri who really has to learn to adapt to the new reality, for whom months pass before he even begins to makes peace with this outcome of the dimensional war. yuri who actually remains the villain he is established to be throughout the series — but a villain in the process of changing, slow, painstaking and unwilling as it may be.
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thatsarcasticgemini · 4 years ago
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Alone time
Ash Lynx x reader
A/n: Banana fish broke me, but writing is my coping mechanism, so...This is an AU where Ash and the reader are married and live in Japan, Ash being a model. Also, Shorter is alive cause I said do ( i would die for him to live tbh). I am so sorry for any mistakes.
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     Babysitting is a very challenging task, especially when the kid is a carbon copy of the most intelligent, cheeky and bratty man Eiji had ever met. Isaac Callenreese was giving the man a headache and pills were not fixing it. Sure, he knew what he was getting into and knew how much Ash and Y/N needed a break from parenting, but why on earth did he agree? At least Shorter was there to help him right?
     Wrong! Shorter was like a second kid. Yelling, running, coloring, making a mess and getting little Isaac even more agitated. Just how much energy did the 5 year old have? 
“Shorter, please! You are 30! Your playing days are over. You’re gonna break something and I will yell. I almost had Isaac under control, but then you came along to ruin the peace we had. Isaac come here right now or I’ll call Ash!”
“Jeez, Eiji...you almost sound like a grandpa! I haven’t seen Isaac in about a year. I missed him a lot, you know? Little gremlin did a lot of growing up!” said Shorter, with the same goofy smile he had all those years ago. Isaac was seated on the his lap, looking up at his favourite uncle with a wide grin. Based off the resemblance between him and Ash, Eiji could already sense some sort of comment coming.
“Nuh-uh. I wanna stay right here. Call dad “dad” please. And I love uncle Shorter, he’s taller, funnier and smarter than you, uncle Ji. He was telling me how dad knows how to ride a motocycle! It doesn’t get better than this!”
“Yes it does. If you stay quiet for five more minutes, I can get the rice done and I can tell you how Ash and Y/N..”
“Mom and dad, uncle Ji!”
“How mom and dad met while we eat. Does that sound nice?”
“Dunno, let me ask uncle Shorter too.” The two began whispering to each other while Eiji rolled his eyes. Just one more hour and Ash would be here to pick his spawn up. After a minute, both Shorter and Isaac nodded their heads and went to sit down at the kitche table.
     Once the table was set and the rice was done cooking, Eiji put it is bowls are brought it to the table. They all dug in, but Isaac seemed to be watching Eiji with great intrest, expecting the story he was promised.
“So Ash and Y/N...”
“Mom and dad. Continue uncle Ji.”
“Mom and dad met around 9 years ago. They met here, in Tokyo, and I am proud to announce that I am the one who got them to meet up, since Y/N went to the same highschool as me. We were both on the drama club in my third year. She was about 2 years younger than me, but she was so mature. Anyway, they started dating around three months after they met. The had a really pretty relationship. You dad was so hooked he embarrassed himself in front of her on multiple ocations. They got married two years later, lived together for two more years and then you came along. You were a very loved little boy. I wish I took a picture of the face your dad made when he held you for the first time.”
“Yeah! He teared up, but don’t tell him you know. You had this little puff of blond hair on your head, it was as fluffy as the little kitty we saw this morning, if not fluffier.” Isaac had look in his eyes that Eiji had only seen once before and that was when Ash told him about Dino and his childhood. The tiny blond seemed to be so vulnarable almost like a porcelain figure. 
“What about mom? Was she happy to see me?” There it was. The love Isaac, much like his father, held for her. It was like they would both die if it wasn’t for her love.
“Well of course she was. She really loves you, you know? Your mom loved you even before she had the pleasure of holding you. You have been one of her favourite people ever since she found out you were in her belly. They both love you a lot.”
“Then why am I here? Why wouldn’t they take me with them? Why do they want alone time?” Eiji couldn’t find an answer. He looked at Shorter, who still had that dumb grin.
“Well, Isaac, mom and dad need to rest every once in a while. Since mom got pregnant with your brother or sister, she hasn’t really been able to rest properly, so dad wanted alone time with her to help her rest, but I am sure they will both be so very happy to see you.”
     Just like magic, there was a knock at the door, Eiji went to open it, while Isaac trailed behind him, with his little backpack in hand. The door opened to reveal Ash and the boy jumped in his arms at the speed of light. 
“Wow! Hi bub! I missed you so much. How was today hmm? Did you have fun with uncle Ji and uncle Shorter? Were they nice to you?”
“Mhm, they told me how you and mama met. I miss mama, is she in the car?”
“No bub, she’s at home. She missed you too. Told me we should race all of the cars and get home in under ten minutes. We have cake.” And with that, Isaac was set back on the ground and the little boy dashed to the car. 
“Damn gremlin didn’t even say bye. Here i was thinking we have something special.”
“Hi Shorter! Hi Eiji! I can’t thank you enough for tonight. She really needed it.” 
“It’s ok Ash. He is a little loud and Shorter here is never truly helpful, but it’s our pleasure. Are Y/N and the baby ok?”
“Hm, not really. I mean the baby seems to be fine, but she isn’t. Throws up everything she eats. The doctor said it is because her body is getting used to the pregnancy, but this didn’t happen when we had Isaac. I’m just worried for her.”
“She’s strong. She can take it I’m sure.” Shorter nodded, agreeing with Eiji’s statement. 
“I know Eiji, I’m not worried about that. Truth is she seems happy to be pregnant. She’s beaming all the time, even after she got everything she ate out, and I feel bad. I feel like she’s in pain. Her smile makes me feel even worse.” Shorter laid a hand on his best friend’s shoulder, taking his sunglasses off. 
“Ash...listen to me. Y/N is someone who’s never lied to you about anything. She’s been genuine about everything. She would never fake a smile and she would tell you if she wanted to abort the baby. The fact that she’s smiling and being her bubbly self only means that the pregnacy isn’t that hard on her. Trust me Ash. I see the look in her eyes when the baby is brought up in any conversation. She’ll be fine. You’ll be a bigger family. Loosen up a little.” 
“Thank you Shorter. I owe both of you a drink. I’ll call you. Thank you for babysitting again.” And with that, all three of tehm smiled at each other while Ash picked the tiny shark backpack and went back to the car.
     Once inside, the older blond turned towards the younger one, smiling.
“Ready to see mom, bub?”
“Mhm! Is she feeling better?”
“Yep.”
     The car ride was one of the happy moments Ash wanted to hold onto. The sang together and talked about how Shorter told Isaac about the motorcycle.
“It’s true, you know? I do know how to ride one. When you’re older, I can teach you too.”
“I wanna ride one now. I’ve seen my friends with theirs, I want one too!”
“Those are lame. I’m talking about the real ones. That’s the true fun.”
     Once at home, Ash dropped everything on the floor and went to help his son hung his coat on the wall. The little boy jumped out of his red sneakers and ran down the hall yelling for his mom. 
“In the kitchen baby. I was cutting you a slice of cake.It’s vanilla, since I know you like the chocolate one’s less. Where’s daddy?”
“Right behind you.” said Ash, placing his hands on her hips and swaying her a little. She turned around to give him a kiss on the cheek, but her 5 month bump got in the way, making her pull a frustred face and Ash smile even more. Isaac pushed his dad to the side a little, making grabby hands at his mom. No matter how old he acted, his real age was always given away by his gestures around his mom. 
     Getting his slice of cake, Isaac turned back towards the living room. Eating on the couch was never truly forbidden.
“Mama, tomorrow is Yuri’s birthday. He celebrating it at home, I have the invitation in my drawing notebook. Can I go?”
“Sure you can. we just have to go buy a gift in the morning.”
“A birthday huh? That means a little more alone time for us two.” Y/N hid her face in her husband’s neck, smiling a little. Ash’s finger went to the back of her neck, getting her to look up at him to give her a kiss, but then...
“Gross! He likes cars mama, go brainstorm on that insted of smooching dad in the kitchen!”
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pineapple-lover-boy · 3 years ago
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Can- can I just talk about the Victuuri relationship? Pretty please?
I just…. I’ve never seen a healthy relationship that starts from idolization and a need to get out that has ended in a satisfying way.
Let me elaborate:
We all know that Yuri idolized Victor. It’s why he was so nervous in the beginning and why it took time for them to build on their relationship, he saw Victor as a god.
Victor? He was depressed. He loved the ice so much but he longer found excitement in competitions. He didn’t have any worthy opponents that had a chance of beating him (sorry Chris).
I believe Victor “fell in love” at the banquet. He was attracted to Yuri but, even though he lost, he also saw potential in him. That night was probably the most exciting night for him in a long time. I think he felt genuine affection for Yuri but also saw a way to get out of his predicament.
Then, of course, Yuri didn’t show up the following season (a year had passed before the present timeline). He was most likely annoyed that someone who had gave him excitement didn’t show up. Did he think Yuri had a chance of beating him at first? Probably not. Did he see potential or at least someone he could have fun with during the season? Hell yes!
And then when he saw the video of Yuri skating Stay Close To Me, something that awarded him a gold medal. That’s all he needed. He saw how Yuri not only skated it perfectly but I bet he thought Yuri skated it better. Let’s not forget that emotion is a huge part of skating. If you don’t skate with the passion your supposed to hold for whatever theme you have, your performance can almost seem futile. Victor obviously won because he perfected it but if it was based on how he presented it alone, he would’ve lost. He saw someone worthy of skating an gold medal piece while also having the heart to do it. That’s talent.
Anyways, because of this, their relationship doesn’t hold well in the beginning. He’s passive aggressive towards Yuri because he doesn’t see his own talent and Yuri is just going along for the ride because holy shit it’s Victor fucking Nikiforov.
As they get to know each other and Yuri opens up more (plus Victor getting info on Yuri from the others) Victor starts to see Yuri as an actual person and not someone he can use to project himself onto and then later skate against. And Yuri starts to see him as an actual person too.
I saw on another post talking about how we didn’t see them during the summer and how the end credits of every episode suggest they got to know each other better as both in the credits and in the show they (Yuri) are able to touch each other more. I 100% believe this.
I also believe they might’ve had an argument or two on this topic. It’s not easy to switch from inadvertently seeing someone as anything but a person to an actual person with emotions and feelings. I believe Victor would’ve tried to back away from this subject but Yuri wouldn’t let him. It wasn’t big arguments like in episode 7. It was probably little quarrels that annoyed them both but after having a long conversation they finally started to become more comfortable with each other.
Yuri started letting go of the notion that Victor was a god like creature and Victor saw him as something other than a pawn. Yuri stopped getting as embarrassed with Victor touching him and Victor stopped trying to seduce him as much just so he could see the man from the banquet.
This most definitely leads the way towards a healthier relationship but episode 7 was inevitable. Yuri’s anxiety was at an all time high when he comes out on top. The fact that he needs to stay on top and not mess up is getting to him. As a person with anxiety, it’s pure hell. The thoughts of failing won’t get out of his head and even as he turns off all the monitors he can still hear everything.
Victor takes him away from prying eyes and has no idea what to do. Despite an obvious change that would’ve had to include some emotions from both occurring over the summer, he still has no idea how to help someone in distress.
Then he makes his first mistake. Yuri is visibly shaken by someone’s scores (can’t remember who) and Victor, who is at his wits end, yells at him to stop listening and puts his hands over Yuri’s ears. This tells Yuri how nervous Victor is too and despite knowing that Victor wouldn’t leave him now it shows to him that Victor doesn’t have faith in him (even if he does).
Victor tried to shatter Yuri’s heart. He must’ve expected Yuri to maybe sign heavily but tell him that he’ll do everything in his power to win (probably something that’s happened with him and Yakov). Instead he see’s the consequences of his carelessness. Yuri rightfully lashes out at him and even through all that Victor stills says “should I kiss you?”. Idk what Yuri was thinking but if I were him I would be extremely offended that Victor would try and use me like some doll he can play with and can assume that physical affection and love can fix everything, which was probably what Yuri was thinking.
There’s something off about Yuri and Victor when they emerge but Yuri is surprisingly better now. Cathartic crying can do wonders, kids. There’s also my favorite part of the entire show (couldn’t find a gif):
*head jab* “Hey, fuck you.”
*more head jabs* “Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. I know you don’t like this you unempathetic dicknip.”
*head pat* “You’re forgiven.”
We all know what happens next: Yuri ends his love story with Victor’s signature move and Victor kisses him out of joy and the need to one up him (with love, of course).
I’m gonna get a little sloppy here with the timeline because I have the memory of a female protagonist that needs to go back to work to get something only to accidentally bump into the jerk CEO of which she will develop a toxic relationship for fan service, so forgive me.
Gonna skip ahead to the scene where Yuri tells Victor that he’s leaving skating, and basically Victor too. (At this moment I realized I’ve been spelling Viktor with a c and not a k which is really fucking with my brain but it’s too late to go back). Victor starts crying and realizes just how Yuri felt when he was rejecting him.
I believe Yuri found some light in the situation because of that fact, which Victor was not having. They’ve been closer than ever now. They’ve kissed, they’ve also announced they they’re getting married, so what the hell?!
Yuri, as we know, feels he’s keeping Victor from the ice. Victor, while he misses the ice and wouldn’t mind being competitive again, has found meaning and if he’s going to be Yuri’s coach to stay where he is than so be it.
He wanted to coach Yuri because he wanted a worthy competitor and while he still wants that, what matters most now is his relationship with Yuri. If he stops being Yuri’s coach and Yuri goes off the ice he knows it will be the end. Yuri loves the ice too and I’d bet he’d try to distance himself from Victor as to not feel regret from leaving without actually knowing that he’s doing it.
They’ve grown so much at this point. But that doesn’t mean it’s over. After all they’ve been through Yuri doesn’t realize that consequences of parting from one another. While being too dependent on your spouse isn’t good, it’s what they both need right now. They are what caused the other person to be happy again and while I hate those types of storylines this one executed it perfectly.
I find Victor’s silent plea to Yurio absolutely heartbreaking. He knows it’s bad to put pressure on people but now he’s doing that to a 15 year old boy. He’s putting his relationship and his life into this child’s hands because he knows there’s nothing else he can do.
I do think Yurio had a crush on Yuri but even if he didn’t: Yuri has taught him so much. He, although being an ass most of the time, has really come to love Yuri as family. It’s clear that Yurio was always lonely (Otabek being his first friend and all) but once he came to Japan and lived, truly lived there, he wasn’t lonely anymore.
Yurio wins, Yuri gets silver and all’s well that ends well.
I guess my point of this was to show how well the relationship in YOI was. I could’ve included some more detail on some points but I usually write stuff in one take (it’s very hard to revise without my mind shutting on itself).
I just love how an implicitly toxic relationship can come out so healthy. They don’t do any of that miscommunication bullshit and when they do it’s because the characters don’t know what to do or how to handle something. Like humans do!
They could’ve easily made this the hot famous guy thinks the kawai girl boy is just so adorable and the kawai girl boy is absolutely infatuated with the hot guy. Hijinks ensue which includes the kawai girl boy thinking the hot guy is in love with someone else. She He gets pushed into thinking that she’s he’s more independent in the end and happily ever after for the couple that will divorce in less than five years! Yay!
Seriously, I thought that was what was going to happen but YOI subverted my expectations so much. They are people that grew from their bad mindsets. And you know what? Yuri still has anxiety! Victor is still bad with handling emotions! And that’s ok! We don’t change that quickly. It takes time and hopefully another season.
I’m definitely using this show as a template for healthy relationships. It’s so hard for me to properly write them when I’ve never been in one and I’m not given the chance to see it happen in different environments (when searching it up all I get is “they trust each other. They blame each other. They’re compassionate.” Like ok but can you show me how?)
Yuri!!! On ice…. I love you so much. You have done so much for my mental health and my writing. Thank you.
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agent-cupcake · 4 years ago
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yuri with yandere prompt number eight? i feel like thats the most accurate for him
This ask is old but I’m never gonna quit these yandere prompts. Try and stop me. (aka, here’s 5k of unhealthy pining and Yuri “I want to confess my love but I don’t feel like I deserve you” Leclerc)
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A sharp, frightened gasp was what pulled you awake. Terror gripped your thoughts as a memory overrode all rational thought —the scent of tread packed filth and chalky, tangy, sharp stone filling your nose with each shallow, bloody, gasping breath. Cold, cutting gravel scraping against your cheek, your scalp, the sharp pebbles embedded into your skin with the force with which you had hit the ground. You couldn’t move, couldn’t fight your collapsed chest into expanding for air to fill your lungs. Escape, you had to escape, that was the only real, solid understanding in your dazed brain as you struggled against the blankets.
But then you blinked a few times, your eyes rolling as you focused them, and realized that was nothing more than a dream. You were safe. Sore, uncomfortable, in an unfamiliar bed and wearing unfamiliar clothes, but safe. And confused, still entangled in the cotton fog of unconsciousness.
You had been… Where had you been? Your head was foggy, your thoughts blurry, almost enough to convince you that you were dreaming. If only you weren’t so uncomfortable. Something was wrong, more than just being sick. There had been… Blood? Pain?
Agony. A blunt, overwhelming ache that had slammed against the entire right side of your body when you hit the ground. A whine had escaped your mouth alongside a glob of bloody saliva. The pain was all-consuming. You could remember that in the same second the pain registered so did the panic of knowing that you were going to be sick right there on the street. Nausea had seized your stomach and you had been helpless to its violent, urgent, undulating undertow. Rocks cut into your palms as you wrenched yourself up to avoid choking as you sputtered and heaved and coughed out the acidic bile. When you blinked, your sight clearing from a dozen fragmented frames into a single dizzy, tear-blurred picture, all you saw was blood. Blood in the watery puddle on the ground, scarlet staining your side, oozing up between your fingers as you pressed a panicked hand against the slash across your ribs as if that would force the blood back where it belonged.  
But there was no blood now. No wounds to validate that terrible living nightmare.
Everything came flooding back into your mind as your thoughts cleared up. You remembered accepting Lev’s offer to ignore Yuri’s orders and perform a secretive strike on an opposing gang. You remembered going along with the plan and taking the dangerous role of getting everyone into the Vanargand base despite the risk. You remembered nearly died in the escape.
You remembered thinking that you were dead. In that moment of laying on the street in a puddle of your own blood, you had clung to the pathetic thought that you didn’t want to die. Even though you already had, you didn’t want to betray Yuri in this way, too. He didn’t want you involved in any of this, he did everything he could to keep you out of it. He promised your brother, he made a vow. But even that tragic, horrible thought had become cloudy as cold disseminated ice throughout your body, piercing all the way into the marrow of your bones and numbing your limbs, pulling you closer into the creeping void. That was the last of what you could remember.
Now, the only remaining evidence of your brush with death was the bruised shades of puce plum and rotten currant covering the entire right side of your body. Someone had used white magic to heal the direst of your wounds. Presumably, the same someone who had saved you. You were pretty sure you knew exactly who that someone was, too.
Your hero.
Yuri Leclerc with his violet eyes and smiling mouth and sweeping, dramatic cape who came to you after your brother’s death and told you of the promise he’d made as his boss and friend. Yuri Leclerc, the nearly mythical Underground Lord, the unaging Savage Mockingbird. Your hero, your knight in armor of shadow and subterfuge. He promised that he would protect you. And he had saved you. Again.
With a soft groan, you turned from laying on your back to your mostly uninjured left side. The bed was comfortable enough, better than your own. The room was smaller than yours, however, easily lit up by just a single lamp. By all standards, it was far from lavish, but you were covered in a thick comforter with two pillows plumped beneath your head. The four-poster frame was made of an attractively dark solid wood that matched the bedside table, writing desk, and chair. It looked an awful lot like the impersonal room of an inn, although there were clear signs that someone lived in here. Books and paper and feather pens were stacked on the desk, a glass rainbow of bottles lined up on the shelf above, a colorful swath of clothes on the rack.
Most telling was the way that the room, the bedding, and the clothes you wore all smelled like Yuri. An intoxicating embrace of spring rose and lilac, plush amber musk, and heady sweet vanilla. Achingly familiar, desirable, wonderful. Now it just made you sick. While the previous day’s actions could make a case for your intellectual deficiencies, it didn’t take a genius to figure out where you were. You groaned softly, closing your eyes.
Yuri was going to be mad. You had justified following Lev before by telling yourself that if the job went off without a hitch, Yuri would be so impressed with your skills that he would have no choice but to recognize you as a member of his gang and stop coddling you. Now you realized that it was and always had been an act of petty rebellion. Yuri would never respect your reckless disregard for his orders and your own life, not even if it had gone well.
Which it hadn’t. You had no idea what had gone wrong, you had performed your task without any problems, getting the small group of men into the compound without alerting any guards. Your brother had done well in teaching you to sneak around. But then there was complete and utter chaos and they all came running back as the compound was eaten up by flames, your so-called friends leaving you stranded on the top of the wall with a group of Vanargand men. So you jumped.
Even your vague recall of that particular agony made you wince, your stomach churning unhappily.
The sound of someone outside the door made your heart jump, your eyes instinctually closing to feign sleep. Maybe if you seemed like you were sleeping you could spare yourself a lecture. Or worse, his disappointment. The doorknob turned, the wood creaking, the metal hinges making the faintest squeak as they were pushed. You held your breath.
But nobody came in, stopping in response to the approaching sound of another, heavier set of footsteps. “Glad to see you back in one piece,” Yuri greeted whoever it was. With the door cracked the way it was, you could hear him quite clearly. His voice was friendly, matching the smile he must have been wearing, but it was sharp, too. You knew that tone, recognized the danger it hid. “I figured it would be you who led this little rebellion.”
“Rebellion?” Lev asked. “I acted for all of us. The Vanargand boys won’t be an issue anymore.”
Yuri laughed. Although the sound was oddly genuine, nobody could miss the fact that he was making fun of Lev. “You really believe that?” he asked, his voice lilting with disbelief.
Lev grunted, you could imagine his scowl. He scowled a lot. “If you knew what we did to them, you wouldn’t laugh.”
“All you did was kick the hornet’s nest,” Yuri said, unimpressed, “while ignoring my orders to standby.”
“I came here to tell you that I think things should change around here, I think-”
“I don’t actually care what you think,” Yuri said, cutting him off calmly. His tone was deadly smooth, dripping with the unique threat of his friendly malice. “I expect you to be out of here by the time the sun rises. That gives you, what, four hours? Plenty of time.”
“What?” Lev asked, his bravado faltering.
“Leave my city,” Yuri told him. “And pray that I never see you again.”
“You can’t kick me out,” Lev said. “Not after all I’ve done for you, for the gang.”
“No?” Yuri asked. “You directly disobeyed my orders and put my men at risk for the sake of your own ego. I’d say that’s a pretty good reason to lose any and all trust I ever had in you.”
“The Vanargand Street Gang have been a pain in the ass for too long,” Lev told him, his tone growing combative. “I decided to do something about it.”
“I had them under control,” Yuri said. “without stooping to such boorish and dangerous methods.”
Lev responded with a mocking bark of a laugh. “Nah, this is about the girl, isn’t it? You should know that she all but begged me to take her along. If you wanna talk about trust, maybe consider why your precious little pet would disobey you.”
You froze, a cold, nervous sweat beading up at the nape of your neck, anxious nausea once again closing in your throat. Either unfortunately or fortunately, Yuri breezed right past that comment as if it didn’t affect him in the slightest. “This has nothing to do with her,” Yuri said without missing a beat. “If you don’t think I’m a fit leader, challenge my authority directly. But I’m warning you. Think carefully about what you do next. Right now, I’m relieved enough that nobody was seriously hurt by your incompetence that I’m willing to let you go with nothing more than a warning.” His voice lowered dangerously, forcing you to strain slightly to make it out. There was no playful teasing injected into these words, no way to interpret them as anything other than naked intimidation. “Don’t mistake my benevolence for weakness, you won’t live to regret it.”
A long moment of tense silence passed between the two men. You could imagine Lev’s storming rage, Yuri’s cool demeanor. You didn’t dare move, afraid that either would hear and unsure which was worse. The moment was broken only by another set of thumping, rhythmic footsteps cresting up the stairs. There was only one man who could possibly make that much noise.
“I heard shouting. I’m not missing the party, am I?” Balthus asked. While there was nothing directly antagonistic about the man’s voice, there was no mistaking the threat he posed. There was a reason he was Yuri’s right-hand man.
“No,” Yuri said. “Lev and I are simply having a… Disagreement.”
“Oh yeah?” Balthus asked. “Anything I should weigh in on?”
“That depends,” Yuri said. “What do you say, Lev?”
“Damn you, Leclerc.”
“Haven’t you heard?” Yuri asked, a hint of a smile in his voice. “I’m already damned.”
There was another moment of silence, almost long enough to make you wonder if the trio had somehow disappeared, before Lev swore under his breath and retreated past Yuri and Balthus, his feet pounding a cadenced thump, thump, thump as he stalked down the stairs.
“Balthus,” Yuri said when Lev’s footsteps were completely lost. “Would you mind making sure our friend makes it out of the city without doing anything reckless?”
“Think he might?” Balthus asked.
“Honestly, I’m not sure,” Yuri responded, his voice was more honest than with Lev. He sounded tired. “I sure as hell didn’t think he would make a move like this just yet.”
“I’ll keep an eye on him.” Balthus paused. “What, uh, should I do if he tries anything?”
“Take him to the Vanargand. I’m sure they’ll be hunting him down regardless.”
Balthus whistled. “That’s pretty cold, boss.”
“It’s far better than he deserves,” Yuri said, his voice dark. “If she died, I…”
“No need to explain. I get it, pal,” Balthus said, saving Yuri from having to continue. As badly as you didn’t want to know what Yuri was going to say, you very desperately did, too. “I’ll make sure he stays in line. You look like you could use some rest. Or a drink.”
Yuri laughed, the sound a bit lighter than before. “You might be right about that.”
“Of course I am,” Balthus said. “You don’t live as long as I have without catching wise to these things. I’ll be off, then.”
“Good luck,” Yuri said, “and don’t do anything stupid. There’s only so much I can handle in one night.”
“Hah!” Balthus called, trampling right back down the hallway. “That big brain of yours will burst into flames if you keep on worrying about everything, pal. Better call it quits before you ruin that cute face with wrinkles.” Yuri laughed.
Realizing that Balthus leaving would mean Yuri would finally enter the room, you threw the blankets off of yourself and sat up. It hurt like hell, it felt like every single inch of your body was bruised, right down to the bone, but it was doable after the sickening dizziness passed.
You didn’t particularly want to get up, but you didn’t want to stick around and have the conversion you knew Yuri would start, either.
The way Yuri worried made your chest clench. You didn’t dare name it discomfort, but the feeling was awfully close. It was Yuri’s growing intensity that you noticed first. The way he’d get when other men got too close to you, the pointed questions he’d ask about your interactions with other people. How he worried when you had to travel or interact with people he didn’t trust, insisting that you tell him every single detail about what you were doing. Worse, the times when he seemed to know things he shouldn’t, things you didn’t tell him.
It was because of the promise he had made to your brother, he said, to keep you safe. Yuri valued the men under his command, and your brother had been a close comrade of his. And you bought it at first because your brother had always been protective, but Yuri’s behavior was different. He wasn’t your brother, but neither did you get the impression you were friends. Friends weren’t suffocatingly overprotective. Not friends, but not anything more, either. He never flirted with you as he did with everybody else, as he had before. Not even in a playful, teasing way. The tighter hold he kept on you, the more and more he maintained a distance.
Lev called you Yuri’s precious pet, and that struck too close to home. You hated it. You weren’t a child —you weren’t even a teenager anymore— and yet Yuri acted like you were made of glass. Like you couldn’t be trusted to look after yourself, like you were… Like you were a pet.
That’s why you had agreed to Lev’s job in the first. You wanted to change the dynamic the two of you had. You figured that if he saw that you weren’t as weak as he feared, that you were just as capable as the men in his gang, that he’d stop being so intensely and oppressively protective. But if he was willing to give Lev up to the torture the Vanargand gang would inflict on him for the sin of endangering you, you didn’t think it had been at all effective. Actually, it made sense that your near-death and horrible failure would have the opposite effect.
Steading yourself, you searched the room for your shoes. Someone, and you didn’t dare to think of who, had changed you into what you were pretty sure were Yuri’s clothes. While it made sense considering your own were probably nothing more than blood soaked rags, you weren’t incredibly comfortable with wearing his things. The smell alone was nearly overwhelming, but the level of intimacy it implied was something you didn’t dare consider. Even worse that you should wake up in his bed. His bed that was obviously big enough for two people, a bed that he had probably had company in because he was attractive and desirable and… And you couldn’t find your shoes.
“What are you doing?” Yuri asked. The door shut behind him, the metal latch clicking.
It occurred to you that while you’d been having a micro-meltdown, Yuri had probably been standing there watching.
“Leaving,” you responded, trying to maintain a neutral expression despite the way your voice cracked. That brave attempt fell apart with the way you burst into a coughing fit a moment later, hacking up sharp bursts of air against your scratched up throat, each breath sending aching pulses of pain against your bruised side.
“Don’t strain yourself,” Yuri scolded, rushing to the bedside table to pour you some water. So considerate, always. Guilt rose up within you. After he saved you, how could you be so rude and ungrateful? You knew he cared. He was your hero.
You averted your streaming eyes and took a few slow, careful sips from the cup as Yuri took a seat on the desk chair, sitting the wrong way with his arms draped over the chair’s back.
“Drink this, too,” he said, handing you a vial. You uncapped it to take a sniff it, wincing at the astringent scent.
“What is it?” you asked.
“It’ll help with the pain,” he said. You nodded, grateful for the idea of that, and pinched your nose to down the vial. It was exactly as disgusting as it smelled. At the very least, it wiped the smell of Yuri from your head for a spell. “You should lay back down,” he recommended. “Magic can only do so much to heal your wounds. Not to mention that you’ve had a hell of a shock. Honestly, after what happened, I’m surprised you managed to get upright. You’re full of surprises tonight, aren’t you?”
The implication, the reminder of what you’d done in such a banal tone, made you wince. Guilt or shame or embarrassment, you didn’t know. “I’m fine,” you said, staring at the floor rather than meet his eyes.
“It’s cute that you can say that with a straight face,” Yuri said. “Seriously, you look terrible.”
“Thanks,” you mumbled sarcastically, an instinctually petulant reaction to the way he treated you, “But I really am capable of taking care of myself.”
He didn’t even grace that with a serious answer, rolling his eyes. “Obviously.”
“I can’t stay here,” you said.
“You can,” Yuri told you, “and you will. You’ve lost a lot of blood and I don’t need a dead body on my doorstep. It’s bad for business.”
“Where will you sleep?”
“Don’t worry about that,” Yuri said. You met his eyes, frowning as you tried to figure out what he was thinking, what he was feeling. He sighed, likely reading the further arguments you were going to make in the way you looked at him. “I’ve had a long night dealing with your mess. Stop being a fool and do what I say.” “Or what?” you muttered, looking away again as you fought against the guilt. He didn’t own you, you weren’t even one of his men. He couldn’t order you around.
“Or I’ll make you,” Yuri said bluntly. “I doubt that’ll pleasant for either of us.”
That answer sent a shiver down your spine, whatever complaints you had been trying to maintain drying up on your tongue because you kind of believed him. His cold, cruel tone of voice when dealing with Lev was still all too clear in your mind. Besides, he was right. He was usually right. That didn’t help the terrible sensation of being treated like a child, like an invalid.
Avoiding his eyes, you set aside your cup and did what he said, tucking your feet back under the covers, leaning down against the pillows. It was a lot easier on your aching side, better for the splitting headache gathered up behind your right temple.
“Did you save me?” you asked after a moment, staring at the quilted pattern.
“Yeah,” Yuri responded, his voice unreadable.
“And you healed me?”
“What do you think?”
It had been a dumb question. You couldn’t imagine Yuri letting anyone else see that much of your bare skin to heal those wounds. All the same. “You don’t have to be rude, I was just clarifying,” you told him with a frown.
“Right, right, sorry. I just about forgot myself,” Yuri said, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. “What I meant was that I was the one who rushed to your rescue and healed your wounds, fair maiden. Is that better?”
You frowned, refusing to be amused by his antics. Despite the joking tone Yuri took, those words set you on edge. He hardly ever teased you like that anymore, now it just felt off. “Who changed my clothes?”
“Is that what you’re worried about?” Yuri asked. Was there amusement in his tone? At your embarrassment? You could feel that your cheeks were hot and hoped desperately that he couldn’t tell. “Well,” he shrugged apologetically, “it’s not like I had much of a choice and I couldn’t put you to bed in dirty clothes…” Yuri looked up to meet your horrified eyes, smiling. “Kidding. I do have some honor. I asked the landlady to help me out. Your virtue is intact.”
Virtue. You swallowed hard on that word, drinking the last of the water. Your thoughts were beginning to fuzz, becoming less clear. It made it harder to refocus after being caught off guard by his teasing. The pain wasn’t as crisp, more of a background ache rather than an insistent thud. That was distracting, too. You knew that, for some reason, he wanted to fluster you. But you couldn’t let him distract you, nor could you let your embarrassment deter you. So, clenching your fists, you looked up and met his eyes.
“Thank you for saving me,” you said carefully. “I’m… I’m sorry for inconveniencing you.”
Yuri didn’t answer right away, staring you down in his unnervingly piercing way. The intensity of his eyes was uncomfortable, but it was undercut with the swirling storm of concern amidst the individual strands of purple pigment, the void-like pool of pupil. “I’m glad you’re alive,” he said carefully. And that was honest, genuine. He looked so tired. He sounded tired.
“I owe you. Twice, for saving me and healing me,” you said, forcing the words out in as business-like of a tone as you could manage. They were slurred, slightly. Had he given you a sedative? Or was this just normal exhaustion finally taking you out? “So tell me how you would like to be repaid, and I’ll see that it’s done.”
Yuri’s head fell to the side in confusion, like the question threw him off guard. Good. “Excuse me, what?”
“That’s how it is in your world,” you replied. “Our world. Right?”
“Our world?” Yuri asked, his expression retreating into a mask.
“The real world. Altruism doesn’t exist. When someone does something for you, there’s always a price. If I want to be taken seriously, I can’t keep being naïve about that.”
“That’s pretty cynical of you.” Was it just you or did he sound sad about that fact?
“You taught me well.”
“Not well enough,” he said, frowning as his eyes lingered on the bruises. He sighed. “So, I take it that that’s why you went? You want to be taken seriously?”
“Yes,” you said slowly, surprised that he’d be able to cut to the heart of it so quickly. Then again, it shouldn’t have been that surprising. Yuri was all too good at that.
“Word to the wise,” Yuri told you. “Never act unless success is guaranteed. If you want to be taken seriously, you have to have results to show for it.”
“I’ll keep that in mind,” you said.
“And another thing,” Yuri added. “Never give out open ended favors. Not even to people you trust. You might not like it when they call to collect.”
“But I know you wouldn’t want anything bad from me,” you said, frowning and unsure if he was implying what you thought he was. He couldn’t be, not Yuri. Not to you.
“Is that a fact?” he asked. “I could be helping you simply to get one of those incredibly enticing open favors. Now I’ve got two of them, I wonder what I could ask for…”
“I’m being serious,” you said.
“You think I’m not?” Yuri smiled at you like he knew all the secrets in the world, like you’d never catch him without the trickster’s mask or even guess at what he had hidden beneath. But then your reply was eaten by a mostly stifled yawn that tugged hard at your sore jaw and all pretense fell away to the concerned expression you knew so well from him. “Alright, enough of that. You look like you’re about to pass out. Get some sleep. I’ll watch over you, yeah?” he offered, flipping the chair around so he could sit directly at the bedside.
You couldn’t argue with that, yawning again. It hit you all at once, it seemed. You were passing out, the need for sleep becoming more and more pressing with each breath. “Next time,” you told him, your words slurring like a drunk as you settled further down into the bed. Your body felt so heavy, the colors of the room smoothing out like butter, the smell that clung to the bedding and the clothes filling you with warmth. “Next time for sure, I’ll show you. Then I won’t owe you-” you yawned, again. This time you just gave up. He definitely had given you a sedative. Unfortunately, you were too far gone to be mad. Sleeping would be nice anyway. You were so tired.
“There won’t be a next time,” Yuri told you. There was something absolute in his tone, a hard edge that wasn’t to be questioned.
“Why?” you asked, trying to clench your fists to remain lucid for a moment longer. This question was important, important enough for you to fight against your heavy and scattered thoughts. “Why do you care... so much?”
“I don’t know,” Yuri said, his voice threadbare and exposed. He really looked so tired, so beautiful. He had more masks than anyone, but right then you didn’t think that it was a mask.
He didn’t know either.
Where did that leave you?
Floating, it seemed. Lavender and milk and shadow blurred in your vision, the colors of Yuri. Your eyes fluttered shut, filled with a kaleidoscope of him. The pain was gone, you couldn’t even find the passion to argue or to be mad or afraid or upset. It was enough to be safe, to be with him, to be warm.
Tomorrow, then. Tomorrow you would get answers.
“You remind me of something I lost a long time ago,” Yuri said after a moment. It would have been too much to open your eyes or respond, so you just listened, marveling at the way his voice created the words, the way it caressed them. Had you really never noticed how delicious his voice was? You could lose yourself in it, you thought. “Something even I can’t steal for myself,” Yuri continued, “something more precious than a Heroes Relic. As long as I can preserve that, I can live with the consequences.”
You didn’t fight when he grabbed your hand from where it had fallen on the comforter, pulling it up into both of his. Yuri’s hands were rough, his fingers narrow and long and nice. They were scarred and bloodstained. They held yours gently, tenderly.
“Heh, maybe I’m a coward to tell you now. I doubt you’ll remember this by tomorrow.”
“I’ll remember,” you mumbled mindlessly, your eyes remaining closed. How could you forget this warmth? The beauty of the colors in your head, the feeling of his touch.
Yuri pressed his cheek against your hand. The skin was soft, warm. “Maybe you will. You certainly deserve my honesty. But after tonight... Maybe it’s too late to anyway. I tried so hard to protect you, even from myself.” He laughed, a humorless puff of air against your knuckles. “Especially from myself. Sometimes I can’t help but think that it’s inevitable that everything and everyone who becomes close to me will be stained by the association. I didn’t want to see that shine in your eyes become dull. This cruel, cynical world destroys everything of value, but not you.” He paused, thinking. You drifted, the words rolling over you without sticking, without meaning. His voice was so lovely. “But you’re wrong, you know,” Yuri continued after a while, pulling you back. “Things done out of love don’t have a price. You don’t owe me anything, you never have.”
Yuri’s lips brushed over your knuckles, a kiss over each ridge, before one of his hands untangled itself. You leaned into the feeling of his calloused fingertips on your warm cheek, pushing your hair out of the way as they caressed your face. Even in your vague stupor, the touch was enough to make your eyes open. Half-lidded, your sight hazy. Yuri glowed in the candlelight.
A smile tugged at the corner of his pink lips, a melancholic expression. So sad. Did he always look so sad? So beautiful? It made your heart ache, a hollow, faraway feeling.
“Hey,” he said, meeting your eyes. You attempted a smile in return, a dozing, drunken, delirious smile. “If I told you tomorrow that I loved you, would you take me as I am?” You hummed. A yes, maybe, no. He was still stroking your face, holding your hand. You couldn’t recall the last time you’d been touched like this. Not since you were a child, you didn’t think. So nice, so soft. “That’s the problem, I don’t know. And I… I don’t act unless victory is assured. If I make a move and lose you for good…” He squeezed your hand, his eyes closing. “I don’t want to lose you. Not to the whims of the cruel world and not by corrupting you with my black heart.” Your eyes closed again, his words becoming lost in your fascination with his voice. Yuri’s fingers left your cheek, returning to wrap around your hand. “Even if can never have you,” he said, a soft resolution in his voice, “it’ll be okay as long as you’re safe. And I know that you’ll be safe as long as you stay with me.”
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supermarvelgirl15 · 4 years ago
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Delicate Type of Beauty- Chapter 1: New Neighbor
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Summary: You hated moving, but luckily you had a helping hand. Bucky just wants to go home.
Pairing: Bucky Barnes × f!oc-insert
Word Count: 1,440
Warnings: A few curses, mentions of death
A/N: I know, I know. Another series. Don't worry, I'm still working on Home! I just been in a Bucky craze lately hehe. There's gonna be oneshots with these two and when the TFATWS comes to an end, I'll write into those episodes. Anyways, enjoy! Tags are open for this series/oneshots!
Series Masterlist // Main Masterlist
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    “James, did you hear me?”
     Bucky’s eyes snap back from the window, landing back on the cold orbs of his therapist. For someone that was supposed to be welcoming, she tended to come off as unreceptive. Then again, she did have to put up with his bullshit.
    Doctor Raynor crossed one leg over the other, her pen tapping the dreaded notebook. He knew it was just an inanimate object, but it was too passive aggressive for his liking. Or maybe it just reminded him of that red book with that grating star.
   “Did you make any progress with your amends?” Raynor repeated her apparent earlier question, locking her eyes with his own. 
    He’s been looking into a couple of politicians that he had helped gain their positions, ones that still held their place in office even after Hydra collapsed. They were terrible people that needed to be stopped before they harmed anyone else. All he needed was some evidence that would be enough to convict them, since he had to follow “the three rules” set by his therapist.
    “No.”
    Raynor let out a small sigh at his dry response. It was hard to get more than three words out of him at times, but she had come to not expect anything else. If he wanted to open up some more, he would. Today just wasn’t one of those days.
    She opened her mouth to comment but was interrupted by the timer going off, signalling the end of the day’s session. Bucky got up and started out the door before she had the opportunity to add anything else. He’s come to learn that if he doesn’t leave immediately, Raynor would definitely keep him there longer than an hour.
    All Bucky wanted to do now was to grab a bite to eat and get back home. He’d usually meet up with Yuri afterwards, but the old man-- that was still younger than him-- already had plans for the afternoon. 
    Yuri Nakujima was also someone that he needed to make amends to, but he wasn’t going to let himself think about that right now. Right now, he just needed a damn burger.
    You hated moving, you decided. 
    If someone ever heard those words leave your mouth though, they would have probably called you a hypocrite. You would have gladly informed them that moving across the world with a SEAL team was extremely different than moving across the state. 
    At least with a SEAL team, you were with people that you knew and loved as you bounced from an unfamiliar place to another, with the promise of returning home to see your family after the operation was over. Moving from Syracuse to Brooklyn alone wasn’t really ideal, but it was the only way.
    You had been one of the half billion people that vanished during the Blip, waking up one day to find out that five years had apparently passed. You came back only to find out that the United States government had disbanded your squad. The only thing the government did for you was give their thanks and sent you into early retirement, made, no, threatened you to keep your mouth shut about the highly confidential operations that you and your squad worked throughout the years. But that wasn’t the worst part. 
    Before the Blip, the only family you had were your mother and your younger brother Colton. They still lived in your hometown while you were off working. Your mother and Colton were the only people that kept you grounded when you came home for a few weeks at a time, helping you hold yourself together when you thought you were going to fall to pieces. 
    When you came back, not only was the only job you’ve known stripped away from you, so was your family. Your mother had passed away a couple years after you vanished, and a couple years after her passing, Colton went missing, apparently without a trace. And no one looked for him. Everyone told you that they couldn’t look for someone that had been missing for over a year, that you needed to accept the possibility that he was no longer alive.
    So, your taking matters into your own hands.
    Brooklyn was the last place where Colton had been seen, why he was there, you hadn’t the slightest idea. You found his abandoned car at one of the docks with no indication of where he was heading. It was apparent that he had some kind of business in Brooklyn, so that’s where you were going to set up camp. He wasn’t the first person you had little to nothing to use to track him down.
    You set a box down on the floor of your new apartment, cringing slightly at the emptiness of the room. Maybe a couch would make it feel more homey instead of a camp out. A sigh left your lips as you walked back out the room, jogging down the stairs to retrieve the last of your belongings. 
    Bucky had his gloved hands stuffed in his jacket’s pockets as he moseyed his way up the stairs of his apartment building. He didn’t exactly have any plans for the rest of the day, but he just wanted to spend it at home. Maybe he would get around to reading that book the waitress at that restaurant he and Yuri frequented recommended. 
    Upon reaching the door of his apartment, his hand reached into his back pocket to grab his keys, freezing when he noticed the door across the hall was open. Bucky looked down both ends of the hallway before inching closer to the opened door. He didn’t recall that room being vacant, so it was a bit strange. 
    Bucky double checked his surroundings once again before he proceeded to open the door some more. Peering inside, he saw almost the same layout of his own apartment with a few boxes littering the floor. Who exactly was moving in across from him?
    His silent question was answered when he heard a string of curses coming from the flight of stairs. He watched as you came into his view, struggling to balance three boxes, one of them falling out of your grasp, which pulled another curse out of your mouth. He hadn’t heard anyone curse so much since he was on the battlefield during the war, let alone from a woman.
    After a few moments of seeing you continuing to struggle to retrieve the fallen box, he made his way over to you, picking it up off the ground. “I got it,” he alerted you as he held it in front of him. 
    “Oh, thank you,” you thanked him, looking over the other two boxes to see your savior. Bucky noted how your eyes briefly glossed over with recognition and how your smile faltered for a second. You know him.
   You moved around him to get to your apartment, kicking the door open more with your foot. “You can just set it in here,” you called back to him over your shoulder. Bucky nodded as he followed you into your apartment, setting the box down where you directed him to. 
    You wiped your hands on your pants after you set down your own boxes, turning back to face the man before you. “Thanks again. It was really a pain in my ass,” you offered him a small smile as you placed your hands in your back pockets. 
    Bucky offered you his own smile, his less warmly than yours had been. “No problem,” he replied shortly, stepping backwards out of your apartment, turning with a final nod to you before reaching for his keys once again. 
    You quickly stepped out after him, sticking your hand out towards him. “I’m Kris, by the way. I guess we’re neighbors,” you mentally face palmed at the awkward greeting that just left your mouth.
    Bucky glanced down at your outstretched hand, hesitating a moment before shaking it. “I guess so. I’m…”
   “James Barnes. I, uh, know,” you finished for him, closing your eyes tightly immediately afterwards. “I’m so sorry, it just came out. Now I made things weird,” you apologized, opening your eyes to look back at him.
    Bucky chuckled dryly, unlocking his door behind him. “It’s fine. Hope you like it here,” he said with another tight lipped smile before slipping into his apartment. 
    You groaned internally as you walked back into your own apartment, locking the door behind you. After all the training you’ve been through, nothing would have prepared you for anything like this. 
    For being literal neighbors with the Winter Soldier. One of your squad’s old targets. 
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unacaritafeliz · 3 years ago
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fic writer review
tagged by (one of my absolute favourite authors) @dameferre!
1. how many works do you have on ao3?
94! I am slowly creeping closer to that 100!
2. what’s your total ao3 word count?
360, 929.
3. how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?
technically nine, but only seven for ao3 - check please, avatar the last airbender, miraculous ladybug, haikyuu, yuri on ice, 2gether the series & cherry magic
(more questions + tags under the cut!)
4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos?
A slap to the face. (viktuuri)
Here in Your Arms (nurseydex)
Re-dib-flip (nurseydex)
It's (not) You (nurseydex)
New York at Christmastime (nurseydex)
anyone else miss the days when the check please fandom was active? i mean... i don't miss the racism i had to see every second of my life, but i do miss writing fic for the boys to combat that racism. and not hating canon!dex. i miss that too.
5. do you respond to comments, why or why not?
listen, why did ao3 make it so that author comments count towards the comment total? I always used to think it was cheating by artificially inflating your own comments now and I can't start now because how will i compare my fic if some of them have double comment counts? i know there are comment threads in statistics but consider - i don't care.
anyway i feel bad because i do feel as if more people would engage with me if i did respond but alas. maths brain won't shut up.
6. what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
the only fic i've written with a sad ending is Goodbye (nurseydex) where Dex confesses to Nursey and gets rejected (rip). It was a prequel to another fic i was writing where they met 5 years after college and managed to get together but i... never wrote the follow up (which i started writing first)
7. do you write crossovers? if so, what’s the craziest one you’ve written?
i write crossovers in that they are inspired by other media but not that characters from both media are present. I have 2 chapters of Checks, Chirps & Cellys (zukki set in the check please universe) up (and yes I am working on chapter three for the anniversary) and I have a Haikyuu x Cherry Magic crossover (kuroken!) ready to go up as soon as I have a free week to post.
8. have you ever received hate on a fic?
yeah so in New York at Christmastime someone told me that it was "abuse" for Nursey's sister to threaten to leave Dex on the side of the road if he was mean to Nursey when the Nurse siblings offered to take Dex home for Christmas since he didn't wanna go to his own family (even though he had been a dick to nursey previously, as per canon). This person left me this comment on CHRISTMAS DAY which makes it better.
also it's not hate but i get a lot of "wow i love this fic which is weird because bi zuko seems so wrong!" which isn't hate but i do take it as hate <3. bi zuko rights but more than that just leave people alone if they ship something you don't. you don't need to tell them you don't ship their ships or disagree with their headcanons.
also also this wasn't on a fic but do y'all remember when the parse stan told me I was drinking the "cool-aid"? Truly my favourite fandom interaction.
9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?
bitch please can you imagine?
10. have you ever had a fic stolen?
lmao who would steal my rubbish
11. have you ever had a fic translated?
i have! Because I love Adrien too (Alya & Adrien) was translated into Russian! I also have two fics that have been podficced! It's Chow Time!! (Chowder-centric) and Adam J. Birkholtz and the case of the missing clothes (links to translations and podfics at the end of the work)
12. have you ever co-written a fic before?
Anne and I worked together on 2gether 4ever (sarawatine).
13. what’s your all-time fave ship?
y'all are picking favourite ships?
14. what’s a fic you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
okay so the 5+1 fic The long way home (zukki) won't get finished. I don't think I'll ever go back but I loved it so much. It was such a fun concept. It was basically sokka and suki being like "okay can we love you know?" and zuko being like "no! you can't! honour!" and sokka and suki being like "okay! how about now?"
i still want to work on Checks, Chirps & Cellys (zukki) and am trying my best to get chapter three chugging along but i think if we're being realistic... its been eleven months since chapter one and i'm only just starting on chapter three. i don't think we're gonna get to the end on this one gang (unless y'all wanna hang around until 2024)
15. what are your writing strengths?
i don't know what i'm doing i just write a bunch of words and sometimes they're good.
16. what are your writing weaknesses?
i don't know what i'm doing i just write a bunch of words and sometimes they're not good.
17. what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages on a fic?
i think it can be confusing to understand but i do occasionally throw in some better known words into my fic.
18. what was the first fandom you ever wrote for?
if we're counting unpublished, then pirates of the caribbean self-insert when i was ten. the first fandom i actually count is Miraculous Ladybug.
19. what is your favorite fic ever written?
I can't pick a favourite from my own fics so I'm interpreting this as my favourite fic by someone else and it is without a doubt A Mile Away by @dameferre. I remember reading it, a beacon of light in the messy racism that was the nurseydex fandom and just... everything felt right in the world for once.
tagging: @creativityobsessed, @admiralsushishin, @toriftw, @literalchineseperson, @hoenursey and @ambykinns
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hogwarts--imagines · 4 years ago
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GIF NOT MINE
Time Set: College
Kenma x F!Reader
Warning: Angst, abusive relationship, talks of trauma, some Fluff. 
(A lot of this relates to me and to be honest it hit me close to home, but this inspired me to write about it and talk about it. a lot of my writing is truly personal to me and the only way I can vent that out is to write..)
Summary: After finally breaking free from him, y/n was able to find herself again and make some friends along the way. 
This song has been stuck in my head and I had to make a mini series with Kenma because Kenma Would be perfect for this story idea :)
Please watch Yuri on Ice because its a perfect anime and I love it so much
History Maker
Y/n sighed, this café attracted way to many people, more like too many girls. All to meet Kuroo the barista. Even though he looked as if he was the type of guy that would play around with just about any of the girls that constantly came in, he paid no mind to them. Doing his job he just kept a friendly face. 
“Ah y/n are you on your way to your evening class?” He greeted you as your approached the counter. Ever since she came to this college Kuroo has gotten to know her favorite drinks and occasional food choices. She came her every day about 2-3 times a day.
“Actually,” She took a deep breath, she hated having to force herself to talk, “I was wondering if there was any job openings.”
“Really?” Kuroo raised his eyebrows in shock, he had mentioned to his boss many times that they need the help and he had been considering asking her and his friend to come work with him. “We actually are in desperate need of more people.”
“Is there a job application I can fill out?” She blushed, she never wanted to work here but with the new changes happening to her, she needed to find a job desperately. 
“Give me a moment to grab it!” Kuroo was excited, he was finally going to have extra help here.
After she got her hands on the job application she stayed in the café to fill it out. When she was done she handed it to Kuroo and thanked him. 
“Don’t you have classes today?” Kuroo asked a little confused as to why she hadn’t run off to class already, it must’ve started already.
“Oh, um well my professor canceled for the day today and my last class is online.” Something in her voice made her sound hesitant. Kuroo didn’t bother to push since it wasn’t his place. 
“Oh okay, well I’ll give your application to my manager and he should give you a call in the next few days.” Kuroo smiled, now he just needed to convince his roommate to come back to this place.
“Thank you”  She gave a relieved smile, something was definitely wrong. 
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“Kenma, I’m back” Kuroo called out.
“mm” Kenma responded, “I’m in the kitchen.” 
“You good?” Kuroo walked into the kitchen, seeing his friend leaning over the counter on his phone.
“I'm fine.” He didn’t look up from his phone, “My friend hasn’t been on in a while, normally I get a message from them once a day.” 
“Maybe they are busy?” Kuroo asked going to the fridge, “I'm gonna make some dinner.” 
“Yeah maybe.” Kenma shrugged,” It’s unlike them though, even if they were really busy they always sent some type of message.”  
“You have always worried about your friends.” Kuroo chuckled, “Oh that reminds me, we had someone apply at the café so it won’t be too stressful for you if you decide to come back.”
“I can’t, with my new streaming schedule it’ll be hard to work two jobs and do school.” Kenma shoved his phone into his pocket.
“Oh yeah I didn’t think about that, but you should stop by once she starts her job, she’s cute.” Kuroo smiled brightly.
“Maybe, but only because your café has good coffee.” Kenma walked away towards his room and started up his pc. Once everything turned on he launched Discord and sent his friend a message.
‘Hey N/n, are you busy?’
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Y/n plopped down on her bed, she was done with the day. She just wanted to sleep and forget about her problems. She sat up and looked around her room, boxes were all over her room and everything was almost packed away. 
Thankfully he hasn’t been back. He left for a week vacation back to his hometown and thankfully she wasn’t forced to go. This was her chance to leave and she was going to take it.
*ding* 
Her phone went off, the familiar sound of discords notification filled the silent room. She knew who it was right away and smiled. It had been a long few days she forgot to respond to her online friend. 
‘Hey N/n, are you busy?’
The discord name KoKen was across her screen above the message. She missed her friend a lot. 
‘Hey Ko, sorry, I have been packing a lot this week.’ 
‘Are you moving?’
‘Yes, I found an apartment closer to my college and I have one roommate and I also got a new job.’ 
‘Is he still there?’
‘He comes home Friday but I’m leaving tomorrow.’
‘Does he know where your college is?’
‘No, I never told him’ 
‘I wish I could be there to help you move.’ 
‘You don’t even know where I live :P’
‘I will if you tell me :)’ 
‘No :)’
She smiled to herself, KoKen was always worried about her and she always worried about him. They had met through playing Apex Legends, they had played a match on the same duo team and before the match was over she had sent him a friend request through steam and that led them becoming friends on Discord and they would spend hours playing the game while in a voice call. 
It annoyed her soon to be Ex boyfriend that she talked to this person she met online but that didn’t stop her. She would just talk to them whenever he wasn’t around.
She sighed and got herself ready, She was going to take all over stuff out of here and be gone by tomorrow.
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Two weeks had passed since she moved and she felt at ease going home to her own place everyday. Her roommate was pretty loud mostly but he was extremely friendly when she met him. He and his boyfriend helped her move, she had explained her situation to them, without giving them to much information, but enough that they needed to know. 
“Well starting today, you will be my roommate and We are going to become best friends!” Oikawa smiled excitedly.
“R-really?” She wanted to cry, it had taken her a long time to find a roommate, it was last minute when she saw a flyer for a roommate in her college that made her give him a call. “
“Do you need help moving?”  Iwaizumi stood behind her new roommate, he had his arms resting on Oikawa’s shoulders.
“Um, If it’s not too much trouble.” She felt her cheeks flush.
Since then, Oikawa and Iwaizumi became her friends. It had only been two weeks but she loved hanging out with them. 
“I’m off to work boys!” She called out, heading out the door. She adjusted her sweater, covering her arms completely as she headed towards the café. 
“Hey y/n!” Kuroo was excited to see her, she had finished her training early and she was already confident enough to take orders and make drinks on her own. 
“Hello” She smiled at her now coworker, “How’s business?” 
“Slow today,” Kuroo shrugged and watched as she threw on her apron, “So y/n, do you live around here?” 
The question shocked her, she kept to herself mostly and all Kuroo knew was she goes to the same college as him. 
“I only ask because I noticed you walk here a lot.” Kuroo pointed out, “And I was going to offer you a ride home if you ever knew it.”
“Oh, I live close, my roommates normally meet me here before I head home.” She let herself relax. 
She was lost in her thoughts while she was making another pot of coffee. She thought about KoKen, She missed her friend, not being able to play games with then was a struggle. She sent them messages daily but it was hard not being able to hear her friends voice and she just wanted to talk to them again. 
“Kuroo” A voice called from the other side of the counter, a voice that sound way too familiar.
“Hey Kenma!” Kuroo was excited, “Hey y/n come meet Kenma!”
“I just want my Coffee.” Kenma sounded annoyed. But why did his voice sound familiar?
“Y/n’s making a fresh pot right now.” Kuroo informed his friend. 
“mm, fine.” Kenma shrugged, he just wanted to go back home and try to get his friend to talk to him again. He missed their voice.
“Kuroo can you come here please?” The coworker’s voice called out, a voice that Kenma could recognize from anywhere. 
“N/n?” Kenma asked unsure if he heard the voice correctly.
Y/n’s head whipped around quickly, she felt her heart skip a beat there was no way this was-
“KoKen?” 
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firemblem-fics · 4 years ago
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Hello, If you are still taking requests, could you write any of the prompts for Yuri please, anything is fine lol. Thank you! I love your blog uwu
betrayal. | yuri
50 Wordless Ways to Say I Love You: Giving them a tight hug that makes them lose their breath
-> Pairing: Yuri x Female!Reader
-> Warnings: Cursing, Violence, MAJOR CINDERED SHADOWS SPOILERS
-> Genre: One-Shot (1.3k), Some Fluff, Mostly Angst
-> A/N: This is like as canon-compliant as I could make it with the addition of the reader idk, I’m sorry it’s not quite “original” as much as it’s me rewriting the scene
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“Finally, you’re all awake. Good morning, sleepyheads. Or is it a good evening?”
Yuri’s voice pierced through your skull, making your head throb. You heard the other Wolves talking to him- they sounded angry- but you were too weak to even open your eyes. 
“You- you scoundrel!” Constance yelled, “You are unfit to speak with us, liar that you are!”
Yuri waved her off, seemingly uncaring about whatever the hell he was doing. You tried to keep quiet, fighting off a groan of actual pain, as you opened your eyes and peered up. Yuri was standing tall above the four of you, his sword in his hand. You, Constance, Balthus, and Hapi were tied up, lying on the ground in a chamber. What the fuck?
“What exactly are you trying to do here?” Balthus pressed.
“Aelfric intends to reenact the Rite of Rising.” Yuri sighs, then explains. “By offering up the blood of the four Apostles, you can bring someone to life. Saint Seiros attempted the ritual 995 years ago, but not enough blood was given, so the ritual was a bust. And now, through extreme persistence, Aelfric has found and gathered the four of us, with our Crests.”
“Okay, but what does that have to do with Y/N? She doesn’t even have a crest.” Hapi asked. 
You were more awake now, gently sitting up as memories came to you. That’s right- Yuri had betrayed everyone. The Wolves, the professor, you… Your eyes burned with tears. The little bird certainly was only a rat. Yuri looked at you, a bit too long to mean nothing, and walked to the side, twirling his sword. 
“She’s simply too strong. To have her go free is to risk too much. Aelfric can’t let this ritual fail. He spent his years raising us in the Ashen Wolf house all to ensure that the Rite of Rising was successful.” 
“You mean to say that he intends to drain our blood? To kill us?!” Constance’s voice raised. 
“Yeah, no, count me out.” Hapi joined in, “Wait- the number four includes you too, right? You’re gonna die too?”
“Yep. That’s the idea.”
You’d had enough of this talk. Yuri- Yuri wasn’t like this. You refused to believe it. He had been nothing but sweet to you, was it all really just a lie? Struggling to find your voice, you finally cried out. 
“I can’t believe you!” Everyone’s head snapped towards you. “You- you filthy liar! You’re risking your life and everyone else’s for what? Some dead bitch? You’ve spent your whole life with these people to stab them in the back?”
“Y/N-” Yuri opened his mouth, but you cut him off.
“No, no! Fuck you, Yuri Leclarc. Or are you lying about your name too? I can’t believe I trusted you- or any of us. You took advantage of everyone’s kindness and now you’re throwing everyone’s life away.” You spat at him. If you weren’t avoiding his gaze now, you would’ve seen hurt flash in his eyes. 
That hurt hardened quickly as he saw Aelfric watching from the corner. “Shut it. I've lived through Hell and worse. After clawing my way here, you really think I wanna die?”
“Then why throw your life away for the likes of Aelfric?” Asked Balthus. 
“Some things are more important than my own life.” Yuri’s eyes shifted back to you for a moment, “Some things are worth protecting.”
“You’re not making any damned sense-”
“It would seem that you want to be punished severely, Yuri.”
Suddenly, Aelfric revealed himself, walking to Yuri with a threatening aura. Yuri only scoffed, defiantly speaking back to him. You couldn’t understand much, now, your vision was spotty with your migraine. You felt like throwing up, but that didn’t seem quite appropriate right now. 
“-If I must, I will kill your mother alongside your dear people.” Aelfric finished his little speech as you focused on soothing your nausea. You kept blacking in and out between the conversation, missing bits of it. To focus on staying awake, you tried to grab the dagger that was strapped to your waist in order to cut yourself free. 
“The whole ‘evil villain’ outlook doesn’t look good on someone as pious as you, Aelfric.” Yuri laughed. You paused, wondering why he would insult his boss. 
“Yuri-bird, I could-”
“Not yet,” He hissed at Hapi. You continued to fidget, getting your ropes to the blade and beginning to saw through them. 
You were about halfway through when three figures, coated in masks and dark outfits came forth and took hold of the three downed Wolves. A fourth walked in front of you, raising his hand to knock you out once more. You flinched back, awaiting for the impact, but it never came. Opening your eyes, you saw Yuri holding the man’s wrist. 
“You will not touch her.” He threatened, “Or else.” 
The figure left and you could only sit back and watch as Aelfric sliced the four Wolves, spewing some goddess-awful monologue to Yuri. Bells chimed and Aelfric began to look panicked, much like you were. You said you hated Yuri, but that was far from the truth.
In the past time that you had gotten to know him, his sly, cunning antics had begun to grow on you. A lot. Before you knew it, you had found yourself becoming quite fond of the house leader, wanting to fight alongside him and spend your time conspiring with him. With as big of a crush that you had on the boy, it was only normal that you would feel so betrayed by him. Hell, you weren’t even going to die (yet, probably), and yet you were still just as upset as the other wolves. 
“Oh, and just so you know, I’ve been working for Lady Rhea since before I ever began working for you.”
Your utter surprise at Yuri’s words made you snap the last bit of rope that you had to cut. So, he was on your side the whole time?
“It matters no longer. The ritual is almost done. Just a little bit longer…” Aelfric tried to reason- with Yuri or himself, you couldn’t tell. 
Yuri scoffed and you began to stand up, drawing your weapon. “Don’t think for a moment-”
“That I’ll let anything happen to them!” You yelled, suddenly charging towards the man. Your fist collided with Aelfric’s jaw, knocking him to the ground as the other Wolves stood up. 
“Seriously, Boss, did you have to tie us up so tight?” Balthus complained, rubbing his wrist. 
“Sorry, Balthus,” Yuri laughed, “I figured those little tears would be enough for you to break through the rope.”
“I hate to interrupt the relief party,” You walked up to the group and shoved the blade of your weapon against Yuri’s throat. “But I’m still quite angry, and I’d like to take it out on some people I actually can beat up.” 
Yuri gave you a watery smile and gently pushed down the blade, tilting his head at you. “I’m sorry.”
You scrutinized Yuri for a moment before dropping your weapon and rushing towards him, knocking him back a few steps as your arms wrapped around him. You heard him grunt a little and you smile, squeezing him even tighter. Yuri eventually relaxes and wraps his arms around you as well, resting his head on top of yours. “Don’t fucking do that again.”
“Do you still hate me? I think you do, because you’re squeezing me so tight I can’t breathe. Not complaining, though.”
You looked up at him, ignoring the professor and the other knights as they filed into the chamber, ready to fight. “No, I could never. Even if you really had betrayed us…” You looked away from his gaze, but he tilted your chin back up. 
“I couldn’t betray you all. That would mean never getting a bone-crushing hug from you again and now that it’s started, I don’t want it to stop.” 
You laughed and tip-toed up, pressing a light kiss against his cheek. “Whatever, you sap. Let’s go kick some ass.”
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vidaflxwer · 4 years ago
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may i ask for some recs 👀❓
buckle in kids, this is gonna be a long one because i pretty much only read yuri manga anymore, but i do hope you're able to find something you enjoy among these! i'm going to limit it to my favorites, as well as those that aren't nsfw, but trust me. i have plenty more recommendations where these came from.
i'll start with my favorite: useless princesses. unfortunately, from what i've seen on the artist's twitter, this one's going to end very soon but! i've been a fan of it for about two years or so now and it has the nearest and dearest place in my heart. it's about a girl named fujishiro who is one day dumped by her boyfriend, who was cheating on his girlfriend with her, only to be comforted by the nerdy, "ugly" girl in her class, kurokawa. thanks to this encounter, fujishiro very much wants to become friends with kurokawa, much to the latter's dismay, and they end up getting into all sorts of hijinks together. they're both extremely oblivious and i think that's what's so charming about it.
handsome girl and sheltered girl is another fantastic one - i am, personally, horribly in love with kanda but that's a story for another day - about this girl who falls in love with this "guy" at college, who's actually a girl! only she doesn't know this, and asks "him" to work at this cross-dressing cafe, to which the other girl jokingly says, "sure, if you'll go out with me" and the series just progresses from there! it's super silly and sweet, and kanda is definitely one of my favorite yuri manga love interests. she's just so cool but when she gets all cute it's fucking precious. i have a big weakness for cool girls with a soft side, if you couldn't tell. it's only two volumes, so it's quick read, but i promise you'll love it!
still sick is a series i find myself rereading a lot, probably because of how easy it is to get into and how relatable it is. it stars two office ladies - one of whom is secretly a yuri doujin artist, and the other who just so happens to pop by one of the conventions she's selling her doujins at, which starts a weirdly tense friendship that slowly turns into something more between them! you learn that the love interest is actually a former manga artist, who dearly misses her work but needs a proper push to get back into it, which the yuri doujin artist is more than happy to provide. it's only three volumes, but they're three volumes that pack a punch. i'd absolutely recommend it to anyone who is a fan of yuri, and especially those of you who are content creators in general, because it really felt like a love letter to all of us - fan or original work creators.
this one's actually an artist i have to recommend - shio usui! they currently have two ongoing series - crescent moon and doughnuts and trying out marriage with my female friend - as well as a one shot collection, i believe, and all of them are just god tier works. they draw some of the prettiest, most adorable girls i've ever seen - if you're weak for the cool girl with a soft side trope, they have you covered all the way - and the way they fall in love? is so gentle? and sweet? and i don't know how to express my gratitude towards them for creating such lovely stories that feel so genuine and homely. you can't go wrong with a single one of their works, and i mean that. i pray that trying out marriage with my female friend and their one shot collection get official translations soon because i'm dying to buy them for my personal - and way too big - yuri manga collection.
i'm going to end this here for now! please do feel free to ask me for more recommendations, but i'm going to leave you with a warning for an artist to stay the absolute hell away from. now, i know her works might look pretty, but hachi itou writes stuff that i can promise you, you do not want to read. it's pretty much all p*dophilia, save for a singular one-shot, which is the story that introduced me to her work but after i realized that her content wasn't all like that one-shot, well. needless to say i stopped reading her stuff very quickly.
do let me know how you enjoy any of these series! like i said, i have plenty more recommendations, so if you'd like me to give you more, just ask!
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thelonewolf48 · 4 years ago
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Things you said at 1 am.
One of the new fics I wrote recently, after the shittiest year of my life and that almost makes me stop writing, is based on these list of prompts.
I’m still writing them, little by little, but I posted this one in my AO3 account. Here I did another quick edit (I will edit the one in AO3 soon) so if you read it there and find the little differences don’t worry. It isn’t as different, just some sentence structure and changed a few words.
Anyway, I hope you like it!
A warning, since in here the tags are at the end of the page, it touches the 2021 issue. Don’t read if you don’t want to be reminded of it.
Compared to other nights, it wasn't late.
In fact, Chaeyeon knows that Sakura is able to function for a whole day even if she spent an entire night without sleep, sometimes crashing somewhere and taking small naps. This is something that caused discussions, debates, and fights.
On one side, Chaeyeon – one of the group's motherly figures – worries that, in the long turn, all the irregular sleep patterns Sakura follows will lead to some kind of disease. (Mentally or physically, the feather-like dancer shuddered only with the mere thought of Sakura suffering for both at the same time).
On the other, Sakura always shrugged the worries saying that she was more than used to sleep very little. After all, since the day she debuted back in Japan, her schedules were more packed and hectic. And she’s been following an abnormal patter since she was fourteen.
Sometimes, no one opened their mouths. Because during the fiercest discussions - that began with one girl complaining and the other rolling her eyes. And ended with screams and a pair of doors slamming close at the same time - everyone was too afraid to say something and receive some kind of backlash.
The only brave enough was, of course, Eunbi. She never raised her voice, just sighed tiredly, and let some kind of comment slip. Not about the discussion but about whatever activity the group was having at the moment.
(Breakfast, practice, riding the car, watching movies…)
It never passed long before the anger was over though.
Suddenly, the others would encounter Chaeyeon hugging Sakura, whispering apologies on the stubborn girl’s ears. If they were out in public, the second eldest would nod, awkwardly patting Chaeyeon's back or head (or both), and whisper a fast "I'msorrytoo." It always made Chaeyeon giggle.
If they happened to be at the dorms, Sakura would press her forehead on Chaeyeon's. Cup the other girl's face as delicate as possible (as if Chaeyeon would break with the lightest touch), and give her a full heartwarming apology. No one was surprised to find a flower resting on the dancing machine's bed. A famous Sakura sandwich and juice with the note 'Do not eat unless your name is Chaeyeon.' Accompanied by a little drawing and a warning of 'I'm serious!', in small letters to either Yuri, Wonyoung, Yujin, Yena, or Hyewon. Or some random cute something for Chaeyeon (earrings, make-up, clothes, necklaces…)
It was a little thing.
Their little thing.
So no, Sakura up at one in the morning wasn't surprising.
What surprised Chaeyeon was that the older girl had her eyes glued at some place of the wall that was across her, the television, or maybe on some of the photos of group that were around the TV. Chaeyeon knew Sakura was deep lost on her own thoughts, though. A random worn-out T-shirt, grey sweat pants and, a cup of probably hot chocolate cradled between Sakura's hands. The beverage was still warm, judging by the thin threads of steam.
In silence, to not wake the others up and to not scare Sakura, she moved slowly.
Sitting as softly as she could next to the older girl, Chaeyeon waited. Knowing far well that Sakura noticed her, knowing that she could wait until Sakura was ready. There was no rush. As good as she could dance, Chaeyeon could stay still, too.
A couple of seconds later, both girls silently shared the biggest sofa and looked to someplace in front of them.
"I do not know what I am going to do after this." Chaeyeon turned to look at Sakura, the older girl didn't return the gesture.
It made her frown but suppressed the itch she felt on her lips, swallowing the question forming on the tip of her tongue. Sakura continued.
"I never thought I would be this up. Never imagined that I would reach the top." The girl giggled, "Refer to one of my old dramas," she clarified and Chaeyeon took a mental note to ask either Nako or Hitomi about it. "I was so disappointed when I didn't win the elections back in Japan. I felt like a failure. I failed my group, my family, my fans, Sasshi…"
Chaeyeon slowly reached for Sakura's shoulder, gave it a light squeeze.
"Then I came here, and I failed too. Not about debuting," adding before Chaeyeon could open her mouth, knowing the words that Chaeyeon wanted to say, "but at that time, the trainers yelled at me. They told me how badly my performance affected our group and how we lost on the group battle. Back then, I was disappointing everyone, even the few juniors that looked up to me. What would my juniors think about the pathetic me? What would my own beloved seniors think of such weak junior? How many fans did I lose in the past days after they discovered that I could do nothing decently?
I did not know how to dance, how to sing, how to express myself in Korean, how to stop all my tears and frustrations from haunting me every time I closed my eyes." Finally, Sakura looked at her, with eyes filled with tears threatening to overflow. "I was nothing more than a disappointment. And no matter how hard I pushed myself, nothing worked." Sakura looked down, to the cup on her hands that with each word became colder.
There was a moment of heavy silence, a moment that Chaeyeon took to order her thoughts. To find the right ones to say, something more than just a simple 'it's okay,' or an 'I know what you mean.' Because Chaeyeon could relate. The feeling of failing at something that you were confident at, the pain that caused the heart to break with every harsh word thrown at you, realizing that dreaming of a goal wasn't enough. The frustration of giving your everything to achieve something, only for reality to slap you across the face with the cold truth. Killing your soul with each failure, driving you to think why bother? The nights spent crying, inconsolable.
And then, Chaeyeon understood.
"Is this why you don't want to sleep?" Chaeyeon whispered, so softly that if it weren't for the fact that everyone was sleeping and the younger girl was right next to her, Sakura would have missed it. "Sakura…"
"I'm sorry."
The dam broke.
There was no way that anyone or anything could stop the tears coming from the Japanese girl's eyes. A strained sob broke the silence, Sakura captured the next, biting her lower lip, tramping it there. Chaeyeon took the cup from the older girl's hands, placed it on the small table in front of them. Wrapping one arm around Sakura, she pulled the girl towards herself. The older girl allowed the movement, crashing her face in the space between the neck and shoulder, gripping her hands around each shoulder. And Chaeyeon started crying too, wondering how she endured not releasing any tears until now.
She didn't say anything but tightened the hug and moved both of them gently to and fro.
Time seemed to stop, the darkness covering both like a blanket, and the sobs coming from Sakura were so small and soft that no one awakened. Chaeyeon never loosened her embrace. Not until the other girl's shoulders stopped shaking, her own shoulders were freed, and the sobs turned into little sighs.
There was certain guiltiness on Chaeyeon's stomach. It felt heavy and made her question about how naïve she was.
All that yelling and discussions now tasted bitter. And since it was their thing now Chaeyeon cupped Sakura's face. The touch barely there, but because Sakura's strength was inexistent at the moment, it made her face move up. Foreheads pressed, sharing a sigh.
"I'm always here, Sakura." Chaeyeon barely whispered, "I'm always gonna be here. I want you to remember that."
A few tears fell from Sakura's eyes, that were cleaned by soft thumbs.
"I will return to Japan. I am going to leave, and you are going to be busy with anything you decide to do with your career."
"You do know that phones exist, right?" Chaeyeon teased with a soft smile, making Sakura giggle. "Sakura, the gamer with the latest technology in the basement, forgot that there are many ways to communicate with each other."
Sakura pouted, softly hitting Chaeyeon's shoulder.
"Shut up."
If the other members that shared the apartment with them saw them on the sofa, Sakura in between Chaeyeon's arms, no one mentioned it.
Everyone ignored the bags and redness on both pairs of eyes when they sat on the kitchen table the next day.
And, if with each passing day, they wondered why the discussions and Chaeyeon's insistency for Sakura to sleep more stopped, they reminded silent.
However, they wondered about the two cups that began to appear often in the sink. (Wonyoung, in her innocence, asked because it annoyed her that Chaeyeon never allowed her to leave dirty dishes.) Both girls always shared a look, a smile, and a little blush on their cheeks. Trying their best to not get caught.
They got caught one morning and were scolded by Hitomi when it was her turn to wash the dishes.
"If you both are going to share all-nighters, please clean up your mess."
It made them blush.
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