Taking Chances
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A training session with Akutagawa leaves Dazai with a confusing set of feelings long since buried. The thoughts which come with them are not easy to deal with, and the crying child Dazai stumbles across in the city does not help his issues one bit.
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- Part 1 of Taking Chances
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"Nice to meet you," Odasaku says, and Dazai watches Atsushi open his mouth twice, voiceless, like a fish.
"Nice—nice to meet you too," he gets out at last, and his eyes are so wide Dazai thinks his eyeballs might fall out the following second.
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- Part 2 of Taking Chances
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He should take Atsushi back to the orphanage. He should take him and make him someone else’s problem. Dazai isn’t fit to care for a child. He is eighteen years old. He is ex-mafia and one of the most feared executives in history, Mori’s right hand, and he has enough problems of his own.
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- Part 3 of Taking Chances
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The first time Atsushi realizes his fear of having Dazai leave him behind is justified, there is a lot of silence and way too much blood.
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- Part 4 of Taking Chances
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Finally, they ask him: "What happened, Atsushi?"
He feels the sobs locked inside his chest surge up. "I don't know," he says. His job was to hold Dazai's arms. The man—Ango—told him that in the car. His job was to hold Dazai's arms.
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- Part 5 of Taking Chances
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“…Can I do something?” Atsushi asks.
Dazai presses his lips together. He runs his hand over his eyes and pushes down on the soft skin, and then his throat tightens. He lets go of the sink and turns around.
“Um.“ Atsushi shifts his weight. “I made some toast?”
or: After an ugly suicide attempt, Ango and Taneda force Dazai into therapy. Atsushi makes him toast. Neither are things Dazai enjoys very much, but one is better than the other.
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- Part 6 of Taking Chances
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Atsushi stares at him with wide eyes, frozen in the middle of a movement. “You would help me train? My—ability? Really?”
Dazai has a carved out, sinking feeling about it. As if someone is holding his head underwater.
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- Part 7 of Taking Chances