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- Minegishi can only stare
- “Where the fuck have you been?”
- “What do you care?”
- “Why are you here?”
- “I was bored”
- Shimazaki could be here to kill him for betraying him but Minegishi is too tired for this and there are dishes to wash.
- In the time it takes him to do the dishes and calm down his plants, shimazaki falls asleep so he goes to the living to room to get a better look at the man
- Shimazaki looks almost the same except maybe a bit thinner and with possible hollower eyes. The crooked nose is definitely new. A crooked nose?? Did he broke his nose at some point?? He is even wearing the same clothes as last time. His precious jacket ripped at the edges. Scorching marks and bullet holes here and there.
- With a long sigh he takes out his phone, turns off the volume and opens the super3 chat(the too spicy for Seris innocent eyes). The messages start to come in rapidly
- Minegishi: Shimazaki is back
- Hatori: what
- Hatori: what do you mean Shimazaki is back???
- Shibata: how did he find us? Did he try to fight you?
- Minegishi: i mean he is asleep on my couch. No, he just ate all of my cereal.
- Shibata: what the fuck?
- Hatori: what the fuck?
- Minegishi what the fuck indeed
- Shibata: did he say what he wants? Do you know why is he here?
- Minegishi: He didnt talk and I dont know
- Hatori: what do we do?
- Minegishi:
- Minegishi: i dont know.
- Minesishi: i cant make any calls or else he could wake up and seri isnt logged in so can someone call him and tell him whats going so they can take the necessary precautions
- Shibata: im on it
- Shibata: hatori is freaking out in his room anyway. I think he is begginin to build a security system.
- Minegishi: …
- Shibata: yeah yeah ill go calm him after i talk with Seri.
- Minegishi stares at his phones and then at the man on his couch, he cant blame them. Shimazaki is a really dangerous person and they dont know what he is doing here. Minegishi just wanted to do the dishes, water his plants and go to sleep.
- The super5 will never know but Shimazaki wasnt lying per se. He WAS bored.
- After he ran away from the fight against seasoning city espers he hid here and there taking his sweet time at recovering and once he did(his nose still felt strange but he ignored it) he started to look at what to do.
- He joined many criminal organizations, afterall a teletransporter was very valued in the underworld. But not matter how petty or big the crime was, he got bored. So he ended leaving all of them. he even left some in the middle of a important job, not caring whether his employers got caught or not( it was their fault for being stupid and not having a backup plan anyway)
- After some months of this he realized he was bored of normal criminals. He was bored of normal persons with narrowed mindsets who conformed with just comitting stupid crimes. HE HAD BEEN PART OF A PLAN TO TAKE THE WORLD and now he was trafficking some drug?? Lame.
- Most of all he missed the thrilling sensation of being surrounded with persons that could actually put a fight against him. So he searched for something alike to claw, an organization of espers.
- His search turned out fruitless and he decided then he should return to where all started. Claw. It was time to pay a visit to his expartners.
- It took him just a week to locate them. It would have took him just a day but he was finally having some fun and god he was gonna drag it all he could.
- So here he was in a tiny empty apartment, the crazy amount of plants with a certain aura being the only indication that it belonged to Minegishi…WHERE THE HELL WAS HE? Oh well. He had been waiting for a year. He could wait a little more. In any case in his hurry to get here he forgot to eat and he could hear a fridge running.
- Shimazaki, still on the sofa, wakes up the next day at the sound of a blender. He is being held in place, bounded by lots and lots of thick green vines and sturdy roots from which he easily frees himself. The moment he does so the noise at the kitchen stops and an annoyed minegishi steps out. Shimazaki can feel him tensing, preparing for an attack and that makes him smirk .
- Until an alarm clock goes off that makes Minegishi mutter a curse
- “If you are gonna do something do it now. I have better things to do and i have to go now”
- “Better things to do?? What can possibly be better than this??”
- “I have work so if you are gonna just stand there and smirk be my guest”
- “Work?”
- “Yeah, work. you know? That thing you do for a living and that contributes to society? Fuck it.You probably dont. Anyway i gotta go” Turning his back on shimazaki is probably the worst idea but he couldnt sleep at all, he is late and he hasnt had breakfast so if shimazaki wants to kill him he will gladly accept it.
- He miraculously manages to exit his apartment and make it to his work. He only hopes theres an apartment to come back later.
- Shimazaki can only stare increduously to where minegishis used to stand. ‘Work’? 'Contribute to society’? THE FUCK WAS HE BABBLING ABOUT this was completely unexpected and he doesnt know what to do until he notices theres a smell coming from the kitchen where Minegishi left his untouched breakfast. Well he supposes he can muse how to proceed over breakfast.
- Hatori isnt allowed to use his phone at work but he is too anxious to care and he has powers to do it without anybody noticing
- Spicy3 chat
- Hatori: how did it went?
- Minegishi: …well…i guess?? I am alive and my flat was still in one piece last time i saw it
- Hatori: he didnt try anything?
- Minegishi: he woke up when it was time for me to go…so i just kinda left
- Shibata: you just left? He didnt try to stop you???
- Minegishi: no
- Minegishi:but i think…
- Hatori: WHAT
- Shibata:what
- Minegishi: i think he is…tired.
- Minegishi: I bound him while he was sleeping and he never woke up nlr stirred. He didnt notice.
- Hatori: weird
- Minegishi: i know. Worst of all i couldnt eat and i have 2 hours more left until my break.
- Shibata: i can pass on my way to gym and sneak you something
- Minegishi: thanks
- Hatori: if you want you can hang in our apartment for the time being. We still need to know what he wants
- Shibata: yeah, and if he shows up we can fight him together💪
- Minegishi: if Seri asks, everything is under control
- It takes a week for Shimazaki to finally show up. Meanwhile Minegishi has to use Hatoris and Shibatas washing machine to wash his work uniform daily(it can get very dirty when you work in a flower shop) because his other sets of uniform are back at his place trapped with Shimazaki. So is his money and he has to lend some from Hatoris and shibatas and ask his boss for an advencement in his payment. He hates Shimazaki more now.
- They cant do anything but stare blankly when he suddenly shows up in the middle of the living room where they were eating pizza holding an empty box of cereal and says “Theres no more food back there and i want more of these but i cant see how they are called” while pointing at the box.
- Sometimes its very easy to forget he is actually blind. Hatori weakly says the name of the branch of cereal he is holding and Shimazaki dissapears again before anybody can say anything.
- “Did everybody saw what i just saw right??what the fuck? What the fuck?” shibata exclaims
- “…my food"minegishi laments
- Its not until an hour of wondering what was that and wracking their brain for an asnwer after that shimazaki returns, a brand new box of the cereal in his hands. He picks up a slice of the forgotten pizza and sits besides Shitaba.
- "You didnt pay for that did you?” asks Shitaba
- Shimazaki just turns around and stares st him with his hauntingly empty eyes “you too?”
- “PAY? WORK? CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY? THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU”
- “Weve changed”
- “Yeah we have jobs and stuff, we help peopl”
- “YOU HAVE SUPERPOWERS! WHY ARE YOU EVEN WORKING?”
- “TO NOT PARASITE ON OTHERS HARD WORK LIKE SOME PEOPLE IN HERE” finally explodes Minegishi
- The man frowns and rapidly done with the conversation teleports away.
- Minegishi finally returns to his place, his web of plants telling him Shimazaki isnt there anymore. Re stashing his fridge and cabinet is a pain in the ass.
- Shimazakis plan had been to either find his expartners and form something alike to Claw with them or just antagonize them until he gets the fight he so much craves. None of that has happened because all of them had turned to a bunch of weakling pussies and he cant even find Serizawa.
- He could still try to fight them but he bitterly realizes he wont get any satisfaction of beating them if they keep acting like that, restraining themselves and trying to be civil as if they werent the same persons that destroyed this very city a year ago. It would be like punching flowers!
- The point was to get rid of his boredness and now he is just angry!
- He needs them to drop the act.
- Thats when a plan starts to form in his head and he smirks. He is going to show them what they are missing on.
- Thats how he finds himself back in minegishis apartment.
- “Im just saying you could probably grow tons of weed, good quality of course. And i take care of the transport i know a bunch of people-”
- “Weed? Are you serious? Is this why you came back? To start a drug trafficking bussines?”
- “Im just saying with my teletransporting abilities and yourplant thing we could save lots of money in transport and become richer than-”
- “No”
- “AREN YOU TIRED OF THIS? OF SHITTY CUSTOMERS GETTING YOU IN TROUBLE JUST BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW RAINBOW ROSES DONT NATURALLY EXIST?”
- “WHERE YOU SPYING ME AT WORK?”
- “MAYBE SO”
- “DONT DO IT AND STOP EATING ALL MY FOOD”
- He then tries with shibata, approaching him during one of his morning running routines. Teletransporting every 2 meters at his side while he keeps running clearly ignoring him
- “With your force, not that i need it, we could terrorize all the bussines of a whole prefecture and force them to pay for protection. We win, they win”
- “Not interested”
- “Why not?! It would be so easy”
- “I dont want to”
- “Could you stop running? This is important”
- “No thanks”
- “You arent even listening!”
- “Good”
- He finally tries with Hatori thinking he would be the easiest of them
- “You hack the system and we force all those politicians to pay us to not release all their dirty secrets”
- “I am busy”
- “No you are not. You are playing mario kart. I can hear Yoshi”
- “Ive changed”
- “Have you? Really???” at this point Shimazaki raises an eyebrow, he is so done and he wont keeo with this bullshit “because everywhere i have been, and i have been everywhere, the interpol, cia, you name it HAS BEEN AFTER ME whereas you three can waltz into a store like nobodys bussiness. WE COMMITED THE SAME CRIME. WE DESTROYED THIS CITY so how come im the only one being persecuted? Huh? You think I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU DID”
- Hatori pauses the game and glares at him. Good, he is finally getting a reaction.
- “ i did what had to be done and i wont let YOU of all people tell me-”
- “Me? Of all people? You believe yourself so grand and high when you are nothing but THE SAME AS ME” immediately shimazaki feels hatoris aura flare. what must have been his console shifting and changing into something new. Whatever it is, he is sure he can block it.
- “Really? You are gonna fight me? I want to see you-” a horrible sound like nothing he had ever heard before pierces his ears making him howl in pain and he teleports away.
- After that accident shimazaki never mentions Hatoris dirty secret again but that doesnt stop him from keep trying to get them to commit felonies again.
- He thinks he once “saw” Serizawa on the street but his aura was quickly eaten by the aura of the person by his side. He didnt stayed to find out and quickly teleported away.
- And this goes like this for 3 months, his proposals becoming more and more desesperate until one day he just… gives up.
- Shimazaki should have left or killed them months ago but for some reason he prefers to stay here. He wont admit it but hes having more fun living on their couches annoying them than what he would have had they accepted his proposals.
- He takes special delight in annoying them when they had hard days. (Minegishi comes home covered in something stinky and almost strangles shimazaki with his own hands after he comments this wouldnt have happened if he had accepted to traffick weed in a yacht with him)
- …besides he has noticed that now in both apartments there is always a box of his favourite cereal (hatori sweared it was the cereal what placated Shimazaki given how docile he was whenever he was seen eating it, shibata and minegishi just liked it)
- The super3 cant believe it themselves but they have now gotten used to the constant presence of Shimazaki in their lives (which isnt surprising given they spent at least 3 years together).
- Well constant is a way to put it because the man still has the habit of dissapearing 3-5 days every once in a while and reappearing like nothing happened
- But they know this cant keep going like this and thats how minegishi finds himself texting the super3 chat one day he comes to an empty apartment
- Minegishi: is shimazaki there?
- Hatori: yeah, hes playing smash with shitaba
- Minegishi: playing smash??
- Hatori: its seems he learned the patron of my movements by observing me and now hes kicking Shitabas ass as princess peach
- Minegishi: ?
- Hatori: we told him he was playing bowser
- Minegishi: whatever, tell him to bring his ass back. I need to go grocery shopping and i need his help
- “Why would i help you grocery shopping?” says shimazaki suddenly to his right
- At the same his phone sounds 2 times
- Shibata: hatori said something to him and he just teleported
- Shibata: is safe to assume he is with you?
- Minegishi: yea, im taking charge from here
- “Im teaching you to do grocery shopping”
- “I dont need you to teach me shit”
- “ yes, you do if you want to keep eating that cereal you like and that you finished this morning”
- Shimazaki raises his eyebrow, teleports and after 5 min returns with 5 boxes of the damn cereal in his arms
- “There. Its done”
- “DID YOU JUST ROBBED THEM? YOU CANT KEEP DOING THIS”
- “WHY NOT? ITS EASIER”
- “THATS NOT THE POINT"Minegishi stops, breathes amd tries again "Shimazaki you cant keep doing this and i dont mean just the whole robbing, i mean i dotn know what you do when you dissapear for days but when you are here you just eat our food, wait for us to come home from work and then annoy us?”
- “So? I can do whatever i want”
- “Do you realize how pathethic it sounds?Is this really all you want to do? Do you even know what you want to do?”
- Shimazaki doesnt wanna hear anymore of that and teleports
- He ends teleporting to a random alley where he passes the night
- The next days his mood isnt any better and he spends them sleeping, terrorizing random deliquents he finds in his way and kicking bags of trash until one day of the “bags” lets out a yelp.
- Its shibata who finds him some days later during one of his running routines when he follows the sound of a hurt dog
- Expecting to see a bunch of nasty kids terrorizing a poor animal he steps up to confront them only to find his missing “friend” glaring at poor dog and screaming “STOP COMPLAINING ITS YOUR FAULT FOR NOT MOVING I DIDNT EVEN KICK YOU THAT HARD”
- He texts a quickl “Found him” to the group chat and marches up to him
- “You shouldnt be kicking random things in the first place”
- “Get lost”
- “ are you sure you didnt kick him hard? He is limping and we both know your kicks arent exactly soft”
- “If i had wanted, a limp would be the least of its problems” still he makes a face as if he isnt sure
- With a sigh Shibata carefully picks up the dog and motions to shimazaki “theres a vet nearby. You kicked him so you own him that at least. Dont worry ill pay” he doesnt wait for Shimazakis response and walks, relief overflowing him once he hears footsteps behind him
- The consult is quick and the vet gleefully hands shimazaki “his” dog while she explains to shibata the treatment they should follow the next three months
- Shimazaki…had never in his life pet a dog, much less carried one. His fur feels dirty and is tangled everywhere but the vet said it just needs a bath. It is warm and he can feel and hear his steady breaths. His mental eye allows him to perceive the flowing of his blood, the currents in his brain, the beating of his heart…all what makes a living being held in his arms. Things he has always perceived but never payed attention. The fact that the dog starts to lick his hands doesnt go unnoticed and he feels strangely calm. His grip tightening.
- They are about to exit the clinic, shibata saying his last thanks when a woman and a girl enter. That very moment the dog starts to squirm in his embrace. And he doesnt know what to do
- “Hey are you alright? I can hold it if you want” asks shibata noticing his turmoil
- “ yeah, its just the stupid dog WHO HAS FORGOTTEN HE CANT WALK”
- The girls who shibata notices has red puffy narrows her eyes and yells “DONT CALL HIM STUPID YOU ARE THE STUPID” before turning to look at shimazaki, whatever she was going to say next is forgotten as she stares with wide eyes.
- Both the moms and shimazakis replies are drowned by the girl scream of “UESAMA! MOM ITS HIM ITS MY DOG”
- For some reason shimazaki feels his blood run cold and lifts up the dog even more when the girl comes clashing at his legs desesperately trying to grab her dog
- Shibata who noticed shimazakis earlier expression cant believe what hes seeing (please god, please tell me he isnt gonna fight a girl over a dog) when the vet decides to come out to see what is happening
- “Im sorry, my little girl believes those boys over there have Uesama”
- “ITS HIM”
- “Uesama?…” the vet stares some seconds in confusion before her eyes grow wider “Oh how didnt i notice it before! Im sorry sirs but it seems you have found this little girls dogs” the vets looks expectantly at shimazaki
- Shimazaki who has been holding a very squirming dog and listening to the screams of a girls is starting to get very annoyed. The tempation to teleport away with the dog too big to ignore. Hes about to do it when he hears the dog crying again.
- With a huff he hands it to the very thankful mother and exits the clinic as quickly as he can.
- Shibata follows suit “I saw your face before they arrived. I can tell what you did”
- “Shut up”
- The walk home is strangely quiet but at least he is back.
The joke on the spicy chat is that the super 3 are dumb and believe they are protecting oh so pure Seri when in reality they just share dumb penis jokes while Seri is actually riding Reigens dick.
And yes as his last crime Hatori threatened with realeasing all the state secrets of all the goverments and provoking a worldwide crisis if they didnt allow them to try to live normal lives
I just noticed this is more of a fanfic than a list of headcanons now but meh. What i wanted to actually be part 2 is gonna be part 3? 4? I didnt even get to write the prank the super5 were gonna pull on shimazaki but now you have something to look up next time.
Im not that happy with how the second half turned out but maybe im just tired.
Bonus for the AO3 gang (mind the spoilers for future parts):
- All of this (from Shimazaki's appearance onwards) happens after chp 100. Paralell to Reigen's spinoff
- yep, Reigen did in fact broke Shimazakis nose when he sucker punched him
- And the scorching marks and bullet holes from his jacketc come from Teru and Sakurai respectively
- All Shimazaki has known is a life of crime (his background and how he came to join Claw will be posted as bonus for chapter 3 as incentive for me to update this) so that's why that was what he immeately resumed to do. Unlike all the other he didn't stay long enough for Mob and crew to change his perspective on life. This job will fall onto the others super5.
- He didn't search for Touchirou even though he knew where he was. Actually he knows where everywhere is (except for Serizawa), Minegishis simply was the easiest to locate because unlike Hatori or Shibata the aura on his plants doesn't turn off, it just stays there.
- He doesn't know where Seri is because the S&S crew, and Mob specially, are hiding him from him (They believe, rightfully, that Shimazaki is dangerpus and up to no good) Mob's aura is strong enough to eclipse Seri's even when he isn't in the building and Shimazaki aint going near that anytime soon.
- The super3 don't want to worry Serizawa because of how much he has progressed, even more than them, and they dont want to take that away from him with silly worries. They always felt he was the best out of them and that he deserves to have a happy life. They own it to him for not protecting him back thenwhich they still regret so theyll make sure to protect him now.
- In the first draft Hatori was going to keep using the machine that emitted a hight pitched sound to ward Shimazaki off but I quicky realized if he did that it wouldn't allow them to get close like i needed so it was dropped.
- Why or how Shimazakis knows so much about smash will be explored in nother fic but i want to let you know he was fully aware he was playing with Princess Peach.
- Yep, Uesama is a reference to Noragami.