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I hope I sent this to the correct address, anyways, I hope you've enjoyed your summer vacation. I hope your rock-for-brains self actually studied. You need too, your math skills are concerningly low for your age. Although, on a better note, I can meet up with you and Atsushi, as long as you both come to the field by the river, the one Ranpo mentions you guys hang out at, I hope I could come to a session soon, if you don't mind.
—Kunikida
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Dazai sat in a tree in the field, clouds covering the skies, raindrops threatening to pour down soon and Kunikida still hadn't shown up.
He canceled his plans to harass Chuuya for this! That is a very important activity that he didn't want to miss.
He was about to leave until he saw Kunikida, talk about finally.
"You took forever!" Dazai yelled, slipping out of the tree. "Don't do that, you could've gotten injured."
"I would've been fine, anyways where were you?" Dazai asked, crossing his arms so Kunikida would assume he was angry. "I told my parents I was coming here because studying outside is good for less distractions, they made me bring all my books, so that slowed me down, then they wanted to know where I was going and I said, 'that one river' and then they told me someone named Dazai tried to kill himself there, want to explain that to me?"
Dazai froze for a moment. "That definitely wasn't me." Dazai lied through his teeth. Kunikida ended up dropping it and just rolling his eyes.
"Where's Atsushi?" Kunikida asked, Dazai paused for a moment, because yeah, he was supposed to come, which logically of course he wouldn't be able to do that because the orphanage he was in barely let him leave, but how was he supposed to explain that to Kunikida who Atsushi doesn't want him to know that he's an orphan.
"He probably didn't want to deal with you screaming at me every other minute, you are very loud, Mr-stickler-for-rules." Kunikida rolled his eyes, "stop rolling your eyes at me! It's very rude to do that to a friend."
"Friends? Dazai, I'd rather go to an unplanned event than consider you a friend." Dazai let out a fake offended gasp. "My, my, Kunikida, you're much ruder than I first intended! Maybe if I knew you were this mean, then maybe I wouldn't give you my address, who knows? You could send me poison or something!"
Kunikida glared at him for a moment before talking. "I regret coming here."
"Oh shush, right now you're having the best time in your entire life! I'm your greatest friend!" Kunikida paused for a minute. "Yosano and Atsushi are my greatest friends, because I don't know if you forgot this, but I do not enjoy your company."
"So rude Kunikida!" Dazai gasped clutching his heart so he would 'look sad.' "I might as well jump into that river again if my dearest friend treats me like this!" Kunikida's eyes widened.
"Do not jump into that river, are you clinically insane?"
Dazai just laughed and attempted too anyway. (Kunikida grabbed him before he could get a drop of water on him.)
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"Dazai, have you heard?" Atsushi asked, walking up to their shared desk. "Heard about what?"
"There's some disease spreading; it's deadly, apparently it's getting worse and closer to Japan, I don't know much about it, I was talking to Ranpo about it earlier, he knows more than I do."
Dazai hummed, "thank you for the intel, Atsushi! I can always count on you to tell me everything!"
Kunikida walked into the classroom at 8:15, like he does, every, single, day.
(Dazai realized that he was one of the only people who noticed this, Ranpo did as well, but he knows everything.)
Dazai saw Atsushi run up to him and most likely told him about the disease, of course Atsushi would worry about that. Dazai didn't really care, it was probably just like a common cold that'd go away in a couple of days and Atsushi was stressing over it like how he stresses over everything.
Atsushi ended up standing by the door with Kyouka to tell everyone about it. Kunikida ended up sitting with Dazai before classes started.
"Then Chuuya started threatening to kick my teeth in so obviously—I made another height joke and then he got even more mad at me—"
"He threatened to kick your teeth in? I'm confused I assumed you two were friends?" Kunikida raised his eyebrows, almost amused at the thought of Dazai getting beaten up, how cruel!
"We are! Best friends who threaten to murder each other— it's like how you strangle me." Kunikida paused. "I put zero pressure on your neck though? This sounds painful."
"I assure you, it's not! Chuuya is way too small to even harm me!
Kunikida rolled his eyes, "you're insane, Dazai." Dazai puffed his cheeks out, like a pufferfish.
"You're so mean Kunikida! Sometimes I wish you were as short as Chuuya so I could throw you easier! You being taller than me is no fun!"
Kunikida rolled his eyes and got up from Atsushi's seat. "Class is about to start, please actually use your brain, your grades depend on it. I'll round up everyone to get into their seats." Kunikida started.
"Did he also tell you about that disease? It sounds quite dangerous." Dazai rolled his eyes, (dear god, was he turning into Kunikida? That's terrifying.)
"I'm sure it's nothing, Atsushi likes to get himself worked up, he worries too much." Kunikida nodded, "still, any disease is worth being worried about. I think you should be more nervous about this, Dazai."
"I'm sure it's nothing, now don't you have some students to round up? I'm sure Ranpo is getting into some mischief right about now." Kunikida turned and saw Ranpo throwing candy at Kenji and Kenji was trying to catch it in his mouth.
Kunikida started yelling and Dazai watched, amused, Ranpo ended up spilling his Konpeito all over the floor and started blaming Kunikida for it and Yosano was just laughing her ass of the entire time.
Kunikida's ponytail ended up falling out halfway through the ordeal because his ribbon snapped, and Dazai was almost blown away because his hair was really pretty.
What did Dazai get himself into, because he shouldn't be blushing around a boy.
as long as we're out in the sun.