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The first time Izaya sees Shizuo after coming back, he’s still limping and already drunk on the city, whispers spreading on the streets like a cough, he’s back, have you heard, people betting on him like he’s a racehorse, people betting against him, people glancing over their shoulder and rubbing the napes of their necks because they could swear they felt somebody’s gaze heavy on their back, even though Izaya only has one pair of eyes. He’s got his chess pieces on dozens of different boards, and when he cups his hands over his face at the end of each day, his skin smells like everything that could happen, everything that already has, everything that hasn’t yet.
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13 Nov 2025
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After, it took weeks before he thought of the twins – really thought of them, two teenagers whose brother he almost—
It took him weeks to wonder how they must have felt, and now he wonders again, wonders if, just like him, Mairu inhales smoke so she doesn’t have to breathe in the lack of Izaya. God knows there seems to be more of it than there’s oxygen in the city.
God knows cigarette smoke is nowhere near as bitter.
Or, Shizuo can't forget Izaya, so he decides to remember him instead.
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13 Nov 2025
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After Izaya gets Shizuo hit by a train he visits him in hospital only to find out that the blond doesn't know who he is, the informant tries to abuse Shizuo at his most vulnerable, but for some unknown reason - he just can't.
“I suppose,” Shizuo continued, his tentative tone bringing Izaya’s focus back to him. “We must have been friends.”
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- Part 1 of Memory is Fragile
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13 Nov 2025
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Shizuo and Izaya are subjects at a human research facility. Shizuo struggles to survive, but Izaya seems to thrive.
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12 Nov 2025
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When Shinra, by a stroke of mad-scientist genius, de-ages Shizuo by almost fifteen years, Izaya ends up as temporary guardian of a very displeased little monster. But that label, "monster," starts to take on a whole new meaning as the child's scars also regress, becoming open wounds once again.
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11 Nov 2025
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Soulmates are almost impossible to come by. Shizuo should have known he'd have the worst luck possible.
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11 Nov 2025
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Izaya hits his head and has a spot of amnesia. And Shizuo's not going to take advantage of this. He's not.
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10 Nov 2025
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"The poor have me, the rich need me, and if you eat me you'll die. What am I?"
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- 40/40
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10 Nov 2025
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Shizuo has barely seen Izaya over the past few years.
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10 Nov 2025
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Shizuo finds himself, through a series of confusing and dizzying events, working alongside none other than Orihara Izaya: feared informant and constant, unrelenting thorn in his side.
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- Part 1 of Aomori Adventures
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10 Nov 2025
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Orihara Izaya is dead. It’s all over. Shizuo should be happy.
So why isn’t he?
When Shizuo gets thrown back in time to his high school years, a second chance with Orihara Izaya might be simultaneously the best and worst thing that’s ever happened to him.
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09 Nov 2025
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Dazai’s 10 Steps Guide to a Successful Marriage by Yellow_Canna
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
25 Dec 2019
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Step 1: Isolate your potential wife from his friends and cause mistrust to develop between them.
Step 2: Set up potential wife so he gets backstabbed by friends (literally).
Step 3: Invite potential wife to your organization run by your child-loving boss.
Step 4: Gets pulverized and spend the next three months in the hospital bed while potential wife went underground.
Step 5: Secretly observes potential wife from afar for three years behind your lolicon boss’s back.
Step 6: Defect from pedophile boss’s organization.
Step 7: Find an Ability user that can turn people into cats for 24 hours.
Step 8: Get potential wife to adopt you on Christmas Eve.
Step 9: Make hot passionate love to potential wife throughout Christmas until he forgets about murdering you.
Step 10: Bribery is the key to a happy marriage.
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09 Nov 2025
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“‘When you’re ten it’s imaginary friends and make-believe in the sandlot. When you’re twenty, they call you dangerous and wild and a genius, and it’s all very sexy and fun. But then you’re thirty—bam!’ Izaya tips his own head back, index finger a trigger beneath his chin. ‘They diagnose you with a mental illness and throw pills at you.’”
Shizuo’s realizing that he still has a lot to learn about the man called Orihara Izaya.
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09 Nov 2025
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“Why?” Dazai asked into the room. The question left his mouth but stayed in his head where it rattled around incessantly. Why, why, why. The endless rigmarole.
“Oh you’re still here?”
“Why?” Dazai repeated with more pathos.
“Why what?” Chuuya responded, still not looking up from his book. “I need you to be a little less cryptic.”
“Why do you want to have sex with me?”
In which: Chuuya wants Dazai, but Dazai's self-image doesn't align with the idea of being wanted. They talk about it, and in the process discover how weak Dazai is for kind words.
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09 Nov 2025
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Confessions by setosdarkness for Ansay, Aislin (Aniliidae)
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
24 Sep 2020
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Dazai’s in the middle of a mission when he suddenly loses his memories. Resolved to finish his undercover mission, he sends an SOS message to the only number that he remembers.
[amnesiac!dazai + crossdressing!chuuya + undercover mission = this fic]
[art based on their tango scene @ ch3!
1: by @hanabi_angel // 2: by @ailurophiee // 3: by @4nimenut
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[more art by @KagSesshLove]
[thank you so very much!!!! ♥♥♥][NOW COMPLETE as of 9/24/20]
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09 Nov 2025
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Or: Chuuya gets severely injured during a battle, and Dazai orders him not to fall asleep.
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“You can’t—“ With that single note of a well-known song, Chuuya pushed him off a cliff - and Dazai was still falling when the second note vibrated between them. “You can’t do a double suicide—"
‘It’s going to be alright, ‘Samu,’ Chuuya had said. ‘You are going to be fine.’
And, now, the stupid Chibi was trying to make him laugh.“—On your own.”
BSD Secret Santa 2022 🎄
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- Part 7 of Secret Marriage AU
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09 Nov 2025
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every day is spring, when you're in love by setosdarkness for trashcandies
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
27 Feb 2019
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Reasons why Nakahara Chuuya is the scariest, most badass motherfucker in the whole of Yokohama—and not solely because of Arahabaki or his exemplary work as a mafioso.
He’s the only one capable of making Dazai willingly volunteer to do chores. WILLINGLY, because it cannot be stressed enough.
(Alternately: you know you’ve hit the relationship jackpot when you actually enjoy doing chores with your partner.)
(Take two: 5 chores Dazai willingly did and did well + the 1 chore that Chuuya would rather die than let Dazai do)
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05 Nov 2025
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Chuuya gets cursed by an Ability that forces him to eternally live out his biggest regret. Unlike the other victims who end up killing themselves or hurting others, Chuuya goes into a coma.
For his biggest regret is—
[groundhog day AU with a twist, where Chuuya relives the day Dazai leaves the Port Mafia over and over and over and over—]
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- Part 8 of soukokuweek
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05 Nov 2025
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“The Agency dorms are being fumigated,” Dazai explained cheerfully. “So, I offered—Atsushi can stay with us.”
Or: Atsushi's observations from inside Yokohama's strangest household.
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- Part 2 of connecting the dots
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05 Nov 2025
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Sleepy Cuddles Are a (Totally Okay and Allowed) Weakness by Grinch1234
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs
05 Nov 2023
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“Excuse me,” Dazai plants a hand on the short redhead boy’s muscled, bare shoulder. “Any chance you’re Chuuya Nakahara?”
But, instead of an answer, the redhead wobbles and proceeds to collapse.
“Woah there.” Dazai catches the boy in his arms, one under his shoulders and the other scooping up his knees, before the boy can face-plant into the dirt.
A frown mars Dazai’s lips as he examines the boy: Same copper-colored hair, height, and shockingly dark eyebags as all the descriptions of Nakahara that the Port Mafia has obtained. But Dazai was told that Nakahara did not sleep, and, for whatever reason, the boy curling into his arms is clearly out cold.
Well, this is quite the predicament.
Or the 5+1 in which Dazai gets a crush on Chuuya, who can’t sleep unless in contact with No Longer Human, which leads to Chuuya never joining the mafia.
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- Part 9 of Unrelated skk fics
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05 Nov 2025