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Chuuya sighs as he finishes this month's report of his long mission outside of Yokohama for tonight and saves it as he smashed his head on the keyboard, groaning. He turns his head before spotting his digital clock blinking 11:32 PM and his already droopy eyes threaten to close as he yawns.
"Maybe I should drop the movies for tonight. I need the energy for tomorrow." Chuuya mumbles to himself as he stands up from his chair, turning off his laptop before walking his way to his bed. Another yawn escapes his lips as the ginger slips into bed. He tucks himself in and closes his eyes shut. I wonder what's in store for tomorrow. Chuuya puts an arm over his eyes and his consciousness drifts away into the dreamscape though it wasn't long before—
Ring... Ring...
"Hngh... hello?"
"Chuuya," Dazai? Why is he calling this late? And how the hell did he get this number? This is the third time this week. Ugh, so annoying.
"This is bad, it's an emergency." Millions of thoughts swirled up a storm in his mind. Dazai, who can deal with shit on his own, has an emergency? Is this a prank call? "Ha? What's wrong?"
"I'll explain once you're here. I can't talk about it here over the phone. But it's okay if you can't, I completely understand, it's up to you." Chuuya felt chills on his back as he heard Dazai's voice. This must be really serious. There's no denying it. The ginger immediately sits up from his bed with a panicked expression plastered on his face. Is Dazai going to be okay? He seems uninjured and fine, but that silky voice of his was undeniably solemn. "Hang on, I'm coming over." Chuuya hangs up after standing, opening the lights of his room.
"Do you think he'll come, Dazai-san?" His friend and subordinate, Atsushi asks as he apprehensively fidgets with his fingers and looks up to his mentor on the corner of his eyes. Dazai looks up to the ceiling, forming a small smile with his lips. "He will, I trust him." Upon looking at his face, Atsushi smiles as well, patting his thighs as a sign of relief. "Of course!"
Worried about whatever may happen to him, Chuuya rushes towards Dazai's residence with his motorcycle, driving off in the dead of the night. He recalls the call with him moments earlier. He... hasn't sounded like that in a long while. Just what the hell even happened? While Chuuya tries to brush off these bothersome thoughts, he arrives at Dazai's front door. Gulping down his nervousness, he knocks on the door and it creaks as it slightly opens. 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳? This is Dazai we're talking about after all. Chuuya sighs as he opens the door to a room blanketed in entire darkness. The ginger takes off his shoes and tries to look for the light switch.
Blindly sauntering about, he lightly presses the wall for support as he strolls around before touching an unidentified object. It was fleshy, soft, slender, and smooth— "Happy Birthday, Nakahara Chuuya!" The lights were opened along with the confetti and streamers up high in the air. The mentioned birthday boy looks around the place, blinking his eyes to adjust to the colorful and bright room full of birthday decor and other things that catch Chuuya's eyes.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday, dear Chuuya
Happy birthday to you!
As everyone ends their poorly off-key version of the song (despite practicing it jokingly with a tint of seriousness after the preparation of the party), Chuuya turns his head to the left and sees Dazai staring at him. The brunette then takes back his hand as Ranpo walks in with a cake, singing yet another terrible version of the Happy birthday song jokingly.
"Bakazai is this—"
"Your birthday party!" Dazai interrupts as he recovers from the awkward moment just a few song lyrics ago. Everyone then goes to Chuuya, congratulating him for living through another year full of happiness and life. (And crime. Mostly crime.) Dazai watches as everyone then return back to the party and grins. "Congrats, chibi. You're another year older." Chuuya scoffs before letting out his iconic boyish laughter, catching everyone's attention. "You guys really..." he shakes his head as he continues to laugh. "You guys really had to pull off a thing like this for me?" Every person in the room nods and Tachihara raises his hand enthusiastically. "We just want to celebrate Chuuya-san's birth. We respect you!"
"No wonder he's Chuuya-san's pet," says Higuchi to Gin who says the same thing to her brother Ryuunosuke, stifling their laughter but ultimately failing. The ignorant Tachihara cocks his head to the side in confusion as the three giggles like a bunch of high school girls. As the scene unfolds before them, a cheerful expression appears on Dazai's face and closes his eyes. "But really, congratulations, Chuuya." Chuuya glares at the taller male as he raises his eyebrow at him. "You're acting weird tonight. Making a prank call like that and greeting me twice. You sure you didn't eat anything weird?" The brunette visibly frowns and crosses his arms, pouting.
"You're so cruel to me, ma petit chou-fleur!"
"Wh-"
"Ah—" Ranpo then lifts up a plate of cake, "Now, let's give Fancy Hat a slice of his cake!" Everyone cheers as Ranpo stroll towards the two, giving them the plate. "Why don't you two share? You're partners, right?" A playful smirk paints on the detective's lips before turning his back from them casually. Dazai and Chuuya exchanges stare at one another, deeply looking into their eyes. Well, that is until Dazai scoops up a bit of icing and smearing it across Chuuya's cheek, laughing. "You think that I can't do the same for you?" Chuuya then repeats the same process and turning the entire party into a childish food war with everyone joining in the fun, laughing away through the midnight.
"Please move a little more to the left!" Higuchi says as she illustrates her point by waving her right hand to the left, causing some of the agency members to compress closer with the mafia. "Dazai is dead to me after this." Kunikida mutters under his breath as he stands next to Yosano and Kajii. "Agreed." Says Yosano, looking at Higuchi's camera. Higuchi gave everyone a thumbs up before running towards Ryuunosuke's side, slightly scaring him in the process. "Wait, ma petit chou-fleur means-" The camera clicks as Chuuya realizes a little too late.
The picture came out fine, with Ryuunosuke hissing at Higuchi, making her scream. Mori and Fukuzawa glaring at one another with Kunikida trying to make them look at the camera. Kajii jumps and covers the faces of other detectives as he takes out some lemons. Yosano and Kouyou looked like they wanted to disappear. With Ranpo trying to sneak in another slice of cake, making his figure a blur on the picture. Chuuya was about to beat up Dazai too. It was perfect.
Higuchi turns to everyone who was doing their own thing realizes she can't do anything to make them hold still for another picture, she decided to let the picture be the way that it is. She's definitely going to frame Ryuunosuke up on her wall. Another masterpiece for her collection.
As the group continues to horseplay around, Chuuya thanked everyone with his thoughts, Thank you, everyone. and sincerely smiles.
Happy birthday, Chuuya.