#shuuichi akai x reader

[stellaistryingtowrite]

working late

Friday overtime has burnt out all your strength and energy. How could Akai possibly light it up?

shuichi akai x reader

cw: no cw, reader's is referred as a Miss, no physical description but reader is a FULL-GROWN WOMAN with a FULL TIME JOB. no angst, yes comfort. lots of kisses.

authors note: as much as i hate to admit it, likes and reblogs DO matter. i didn't expect my boyfriend!akai headcanons to receive 26 likes, i thought i'd get 3—maybe 6 at most. no hard feelings, detco isn't very popular. but i got 26 likes and i thought "wow there are other people who are starving for this content just as much as i do" so i decided to quickly write another one as a thanks. i hope you enjoyed this!

You tilted your head to your left and right—hearing a loud crack with each turns. Releasing a heavy sigh, you leaned back against your chair and blearily stared at the bright screen of your computer.

Working as a tech support wasn’t easy. It paid slightly higher than the average wage, but it left you with no work-life balance.

The client you were assigned to were having a major issue with the system and had to be solved immediately, leaving you at work until way past your work hour.

Your eyes darted towards the corner of your laptop screen.

20.26.

Unconsciously, you took another deep sigh and rubbed your eyes hard. Not wanting to irritate your eyes any further, your hands raised up high towards the ceiling as your arched your back and stretched your body with a loud groan.

Once you were satisfied, you threw your body back against the chair.

Fuck, you cursed inwardly. I need a fucking break.

A beat passed as you sat there in the room, alone in the darkness and trying to collect some strength to pack up and went home.

Massage would be nice, you hummed to yourself. And a long nap. Ten hours of sleep, at least.

A loud grumble of your stomach interrupted your train of thoughts. Reminded of your initial plan, you rubbed your face and groaned in annoyance.

Every Friday, after work, Akai and you would go out for dinner. He would pick you up and the two of you would have dinner in a nice restaurant. You were worried your boyfriend would mind the traffic jam and tire himself out, but he assured you with a quick peck of your head.

“You know I’d never mind spending my time in my car with you,” he assured as he wrapped his arm around your shoulders.

His words and action softened your heart, and it quickly became a tradition with the two of you.

Earlier, you had texted him and apologizing profusely that you’d be staying much longer than you had intended to, before telling him to eat his dinner and don’t wait up for you.

With the issue at hand, you didn’t have a lot of chance to read his text, but you remembered how your screen had lit up earlier with a notification from him.

[akai ❤️ — 17.14]

Don’t worry about me. 👍🏼

You shot up and smacked the laptop shut, not even bothering to put it on Sleep mode or even shut it down like you’d usually do on Friday. After quickly shoving your things inside your bag, you grabbed your phone and left your desk.

While walking towards the elevator, you did a quick scroll of your phone’s notification.

[akai ❤️ — 17.14]

Don’t worry about me. 👍🏼

Just let me know when you’re done.

[akai ❤️ — 19.43]

Are you finished? It’s getting late, I’m worried about your gastritis.

[akai ❤️ — 20.05]

Remember about your health.

Your heart ached at his sweetness, but a frown began to form in your expression.

Did he eat? Had he arrived before you got to cancel your plans with him? What did he eat?

Questions ran through your head as you press the elevator button and wait for it to arrive.

You were about to type in your reply when your phone rang.

His name with a red heart emoji next to it (you thought it’d be funny. Red. Akai. Your boyfriend didn’t laugh, but you could’ve sworn you saw a quirk of his lips.) flashed on your screen. Without hesitating, you quickly press the green button.

“Hey,” you greeted him softly.

“Hi baby,” he returned. You leaned on the wall by the elevator door in pretense of exhaustion, but it was his nickname for you that made you weak at the knees. “Are you still working?”

“No,” you hummed as you stared at the sign above the elevator door. 5 more floors. “I’m waiting for the elevator now.”

From the phone, you heard some shuffling noises. “That’s good,” he answered. “I’ll pick you up.”

2 more floors. You frowned. “Akai, it’s alright. You don’t have to pick me up,” you assured. “I’ll eat something before I get home, so don’t worry about me and make sure to eat your dinner.”

“I’m at the parking lot.”

The doors of the elevator opened right as he uttered those words.

Your eyebrows furrowed in confusion as you walked into the elevator. Two other people were inside, but you and them couldn’t care less of each other. None of them had stared at your shocked expression—their blank eyes stared into the distance as they wait to arrive at the ground floor.

You’d be like that too, if it weren’t for your boyfriend’s statement.

“What parking lot?” you interrogated him as the elevator began its descent. “Like, our building parking lot? What were you doing there? Did you even have dinner?”

He didn’t answer and your frown grew even deeper. You put your phone away from your ear to see why he wasn’t answering.

The upper right corner of your phone answered your answer.

No signal.

You sighed resignedly and waited for the elevator to arrive at the ground floor—not even bothering to pocket your phone.

A few seconds later, the elevator stopped its descent and the door parted open.

Brushing past the two strangers, you rushed out and quickly phoned him again.

The phone rang while you tapped your card on the automatic access gate.

It rang again as you walked out towards the open-space lobby, surrounded by glass as walls.

It rang once again when you froze at the sight in front of you.

Shuichi Akai, leaning against his car in front of the lobby.

His gaze was trained on you as he smiled and waved as soon as you spotted him. One hand held the phone against his ear.

Dumfoundedly, you raised your phone to your ear.

Across the glass, he mouthed the words.

“Wanna have dinner?”

But you heard his voice through your phone.

Realization fell upon you that he was there, he was really there. Waiting in front of you on the lobby.

Without waiting any further, you ran outside. The cold evening air greeted you, but it was quickly replaced with his warmth as you crashed yourself towards him and wrapped your arms around his waist.

The warmth spread across your body as he embraced you in return, one arm across your shoulder and the other gently caressing your hair.

“Long day?” he teasingly asked with a short kiss to the crown of your head. Warmth spread across your cheeks. You didn’t even realize you had leaned on him and slagged your body—his arm was the only thing keeping you standing.

“Long week,” you whined against his chest.

He rubbed his hand on your upper shoulder in an attempt to lift up your spirits. “Come on, you must be hungry.”

His invitation reminded you of your initial worry. Your head shot up from his chest, but you kept your chin tucked against it—not wanting to be away from him for long.

“Did you remember to have dinner?” You gasped.

Akai hummed as he nodded his head.

“How long were you waiting for me?”

You finally leaned back so you could properly interrogate the man in front of you. Instantly, the cold air wrapped itself around your body and you found yourself missing his warmth.

“Not for long,” he assured.

Your eyebrows furrowed as you stared at him in suspicion.

“Were you waiting for me?” you pouted.

Akai didn’t reply—for he knew that you’d be upset with his answer. His lips quirked up to an all-knowing smile in respond.

It was adorable and infuriating how you insisted for him to eat his dinner on time yet abandoning your own meal. Akai knew that you wouldn’t have anything to eat in your office, unlike him that had a pork bun and grilled chicken thigh in nearby FamiMa.

Your frown grew even deeper and Akai held himself back from chuckling and your pouting lips.

He took one step forward from leaning against his car and closed the distance between the two of you. Wrapping his arm around your shoulder, he kissed your forehead—but unlike the quick peck earlier, he let it rest as he tried to remove your backpack on your shoulder. He remembered your work laptop and how it weighed down on your shoulders and how you’d tilt your head from the left to the right in an attempt to ease the ache.

Once he has your backpack slung across his shoulder, he lifted his lips from your head to answer your question.

Akai kept his arm wrapped towards your shoulder—mindful that he didn’t rest it there, knowing your shoulder pains—as he gently led you around his car, towards the passenger seat.

“When you texted me,” he began. “I was waiting for you in the lobby. I thought it’d be a waste to go back and come pick you up again. So I parked my car outside and had a quick snack at the Family Mart.”

He pinched your chin in adoration. “And I think Little Miss ‘Skipping-dinner-for-work’ shouldn’t nag me too much about eating my dinner late.”

Akai tapped your nose gently after scolding you.

You pouted and relented because you knew he was right.

The gentleman he was, Shuichi Akai opened the door to his passenger seat and waited for you to sit down. Once he knew you were comfortable, he grabbed your seat belt and leaned across your body to put it on.

You couldn’t resist the small space and quickly kissed his cheek.

“Thank you for waiting for me,” you softly mumbled. It had been a long week and you knew you were ready to drop dead as soon as you got home, but Akai picking you up and waiting for you for more than two hours gave you the comfort you needed.

As soon as you heard the seat belt clicked, Akai grabbed your chin and kissed you on your lips.

You held his face with both of your arms as you returned it—just as passionately, if not more.

It was short-lasting. He quickly pulled away and kissed the tip of your nose—but he couldn’t resist himself to pinch your chin once more before closing the door.

You giggled at his affection. It was nice to know that you were loved, even when you were tired down to your bones.

The door behind you opened and quickly shut—a sign that he was putting your backpack behind you. Your head turned to watch your man (my Akai. mine mine mine.) through the window as he walked around his car and eventually open the driver seat.

Your gaze never moved from him as he sat on his seat and started the car. As soon as the engine rumbled, he straightened up and shifted the gear.

Your smile only grew when he turned his head towards yours with his ghost smile that you liked so much.

It was thin across his lips, and the corner of his eyes barely crinkled. But his gaze were warm and kind and it fills your with all sorts of love that you never realized you could experience from a simple action of picking you up from work.

“Ready to leave?”

-END-

Dictionary FamiMa → Family Mart. Minimarket chain that’s very popular in Japan, very similar to Seven-Eleven. You can buy food and ask for them to be warmed up and they have small sitting areas for you to have your snacks.

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Side Character Lover + some of my favourite ones

I am sure there are many alike me out there that fall in love with side characters more than the protagonist or the main cast. It’s quite funny though that I never realised this haha. But, as a side character lover, it’s not that I dislike the main characters that this happens, it’s merely that they are not my favourite.

The best example of what I’m trying to say would be in Detective Conan. Conan isn’t my favourite character, in fact Kaitou Kid is. However, it’d be considered lucky to see Kid every 50 episodes lol. But, although Kid is my favourite character (alongside Hattori Heiji <3), I wasn’t very interested in his anime Magic Kaito 1412 where he starred as the protagonist. Personally, I very much enjoy Conan and his stupid “ah le le” findings, his purity (although Ran wins in the category of purity haha) and his desire to uncover the truth of these cases draws me in. On the other hand, I’m not too interested in Kaitou Kid eluding the police and detectives every episode since there’s really nothing to solve besides seeing Kaitou Kid being cool LOL.

The allure of Kaitou Kid is him being able to shine in the limited screen time he has and Detective Conan does that very well, so well that when I was young, I’d chase the episodes hoping and eagerly awaiting for a Kid episode to appear. I still do that now though hahaha. It’s hard to be a likeable protagonist and side character. One appears too much making it difficult for readers/viewers to like everything about them and one appears too less making it difficult for readers/viewers to like anything about them. I mean, you gotta admit that some side characters are so cliche and redundant that they might as well be thin air and you wouldn’t even notice.

For me, Kaitou Kid has the right amount of everything. A very balanced side character. He gauges enough mystery and interest to the reader/viewer with his battles against Conan whilst maintaining a friendly rivalry that is capable of eluding Conan’s grasp every time with his magic.He looks pretty much just like Shinichi but his confidence, his goal and his design is most definitely the most charming in the series for me. However, Akai Shuuichi and Hattori Heiji are hard to pass up on.

Although, I should probably clarify that when I’m speaking of side characters, I’m referring to anyone besides the main cast that appear most of the time. I want to include antagonists but they’re pretty much main in a different way ahaha. I mean, Griffith from Berserk is my favourite but he’s appeared so rarely now that he’s like a side character antagonist haha! To be honest though, I only started this post to revere in all the side characters that I love in Rurouni Kenshin. Naturally, I love Kenshin, Kaoru and Sanosuke but the ones I truly can’t let go of my love for would be Shinomori Aoshi, Sagara Souzo, Saito Hajime, Hiko Seijuurou, Soujiro and Anji. I know, that’s waaay too many but I can tell you that I’ve cut it down already LOL. I do have to acknowledge that I’m probably biased because of my feelings as a kid haha. But, their back stories, their personalities, their views and just everything about them touched my heart. I can tell you, I’ve cried too much watching Rurouni Kenshin haha.

Ace from One Piece will always remain as one of the side characters that I’ll always love and most probably never forget. I can tell you that when that OP chapter came out, I literally cried for hours and it wasn’t even just a few tears, it was like literally bawling because I was just that sad. It didn’t help that I loved Ace ever since he first appeared so reading that chapter and just thinking about it now breaks my heart to pieces. Needless to say anymore, it was absolutely devastating.

Kite from Hunter x Hunter was also my favourite side character alongside Hisoka (if you consider him one hahaha), Pakunoda and maybe Illumi hahaha. Kite has always interested me, he doesn’t appear much at all but when Gon thinks about him as a sort of goal as well and everything, I got quite attached to him.His appearance in the Chimera Ant arc was one I deeply enjoyed as well. Sadly, everyone I like apparently dies lmao. And no I don’t acknowledge the Chimera Ant version of him haha, I mean...you can’t do that to him T__T

For a bit of change of pace (it’s not fun if I always talk about NANA haha!), I’ll mention two characters in an old anime that people probably don’t even remember that didn’t do much but nevertheless, their existence has been engraved in my heart as a kid because of their character design and personality as the older common sense adults. They would be Haru and Yurika from Final Approach. They have the common role of being the adults that talk some sense into our main characters but I think their voices, characters and character designs were done so well that when I was a child, I literally thought they were perfect. They still are, in my heart haha. It’s crazy how this was nearly 13 years ago, dangg.

Anyway, all I really wanted to say was how much I loved them LOL. I was gonna go more into the difficulties of liking a protagonist or main cast and side characters but I guess I’ll just leave that for another time hahaha.

[stellaistryingtowrite]

shuichi akai as your boyfriend

first things first; you're always the passenger princess. he will always pick you up and drive you around. will drop you off to the office and even to your hangouts with friends.

will also pick you up from work! as soon as you walk out, he's sitting pretty in front of his car with a dinner invitation

if you take the public transportation, he will either drive you to the closest station or bus stop.

if the station or bus stop happens to be close, he will walk you home every evening.

^ related to the point above; man's not possessive, but very protective.

he sleeps closest to the door or window, will walk on the outer side of the sidewalk.

if you bend down to grab something from under the table, he will cover the side of the table with his hand just in case you bump your head against it.

if you were cooking something on the kitchen counter and he needs to grab something from the cupboard, he stand behind your back will cover your head and gently push your head towards his shoulder to keep you safe.

he doesn't get jealous easily, but if someone starts flirting with you in front of him, he will wrap his arm around you and pull your body towards him. sometimes forehead kisses will come with it.

speaking of touching; he is very, very keen on physical touch.

need to have his hand on you at all times.

arm wrapped around your waist, shoulder, or your back. his big hand holding your smaller one in his grasp.

please expect his hand on your thigh while he drives.

will start caressing your thigh too while he's at it.

won't hesitate to pinch them if he's feeling playful.

i'll have more but i'll make separate parts for it so the post won't get too long