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Y/N sighed as they opened the door to their apartment. Y/N looked around the so familiar room and the all so familiar feel to the space. The couch on the wall and small dining table, the mini kitchen, the one bathroom one bedroom apartment. It was a cute space and Y/N didn’t mind it. Just some days it was too formulaic. Y/N sat down on the couch and turned on the Tv to whatever random channel that was playing to drown out the normal world. Y/N sank deeper into the couch as she let her head fall back.
Y/N closed their eyes for a second, but when she opened them again it seemed like someone had put some sort of green tint over her eyes. It was green and almost blinding. Y/N quickly scrambled to put their arms up to cover their face from the light. Next thing Y/N knew it was dark. Also, like someone had turned off the sun kind of dark.
Ohhhhhhhh shit-
Y/N tried to reach up for her chest to see if her heart was still beating but she couldn’t. They could feel their arms and legs but it was like they were not moving even though Y/N’s head was screaming to move. Even shouting for help was impossible. So there Y/N rested. In the dark and with no way to call for help…
Maybe it would just be easier if I…
Y/N still had no idea what was going on but maybe it was all just a bad dream. She has laid down on her couch and fell asleep right…? Y/N let their mind slip and shut off.
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“Hey, wake up already!” A voice said.
Y/N didn’t recognize who the voice was from but a sudden kicking from the side made Y/N jolt awake. The sun hit Y/N's eyes as she opened them and Y/N instantly closed them again. It felt like no time had passed but it also felt like Y/N just woke up from a long nap. Feeling slightly drowsy and a bit sluggish.
“Ayeee Senkuu!” Another softer voice scolded.
“Well we really don’t have all day do we?” The other snickered, in a mischievous tone.
Y/N slowly opened their eyes from where they were laying. It felt like grass when she put her hand down to help keep her up. When Y/N’s eyes got adjusted to the light they saw two people standing over them. One seems to have leak-like hair in a sort of dress..? On the other hand, silver/ blonde-ish hair, dressed in almost all yellow. Even their cap was yellow.
The one in yellow sighed. “Here let me help you up,” The archer offered to help Y/N up.
Y/N took his hand and the other helped Y/N to their feet. Y/N noticed the blue eyes that contrast the all yellow get up. Y/N almost didn't notice the new surroundings. Almost-
“S- Sorry but where am I?” Y/N asked, letting go of the other’s hand as she got on her feet.
“Well,” The other, called Senkuu, Started. “You and the rest of humanity got turned to stone,” Senkuu explained. “It’s been over 3000 years and by now everything of our ould scientific society is long gone,” Senkuu stated so matter of factly, it was kind of jarring and took Y/N out of the moment.
“So…? It’s all gone?” Y/N asks like they don’t already know the answer to that question.
“I mean yeah,” Senkuu replied, cleaning out his ear with his pinky.
“How can you say that so calmly..?” Y/N didn’t know whether to shout or try to go back to sleep.
“Well I’m going to bring it all back,” Senkuu stated like it was a fact. “All 7 billion people,”
“Trust me he can,” The one in yellow said.
“Anyway just to get the name out of the way, I’m Senkuu and that’s Ukyo,” Senkuu pointed to the man behind Y/N. “Family names don’t really matter,”
“Ohh I see,” Y/N said, still trying to get a grip on this new reality.
“You’ll get used to it,” Ukyo put his hand on Y/N's shoulders with a smile. “Well after a while,”
“If you say so,” Y/N was trying, and failing.., to keep it together.
“Now that's out of the way, don’t think getting civilization back will just cakewalk,” Senkuu’s features twisted into a dark, almost evil, smile.
“Ahhh right…,” Y/N trailed off.
What have I gotten myself into?
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Reality was slowly setting in for Y/N, the loss of friends and family, for now, but also how amazing the new world was. Freelly running around with Suika and Chalk, running away from work with Gen before Kohaku brought you back, and resting with Yuzuirha as you tell each other stories. It was new and freeing. At first, thoughts of money and what Y/N will do about rent without a job before being grounded back in the stone world.
Y/N still couldn’t tell if Senkuu was a good person or if he was a horrible laborer who would overwork everyone one of these days, but even then Y/N didn’t mind this new world. Air conditioning would be nice but constantly working in the shipyard kept Y/N busy and the chief, Francois’s, food was amazing. Andddd maybe there was a certain archer dressed in yellow that may have caught Y/ N’s eye. His kind nature but also his wit. Both caught Y/N attention. Y/N knew it was really bad when one night Y/N couldn’t help but think of Ukyo and their outing earlier that day.
“Hey wait up, will you?!” Y/N called after Ukyo who was way ahead of Y/N
“What? Going too fast for you?” Ukyo teased but stopped to let Y/N catch up to him.
“... You got a head start and left me to pick the grapes on my own,” Y/N put their hands on their knees and bent over to catch their breath.
Ukyo giggled a bit, before helping Y/N stand up straight. “Come on,”
Y/N rested in bed for what felt like hours, twisting and turning, trying to get some rest before the morning. Ukyo’s smile just didn’t want to leave Y/N’s mind.
“Welp that’s it! I’ve lost the rest of my sanity,” Y/N boldly claimed out loud before instantly regretting doing so. Y/N just hoped she was the only one up.
“Keep it down!”
God damn it-
Y/N must have fallen asleep at some point in the night because they woke up from the sound of the autumn leaves being stepped on in front of their tent.
“Hmmnggg,” Y/N groaned as they woke up.
“Wakey wakey,” A voice sang as they opened the tent door.
“No,” Y/N simply replied, hiding their face in their pillow.
“Didn’t sleep huh?” Gen asked.
“Tchhh I slept fine,” Y/N sheepishly said.
“Hmmmh,” Gen sarcastically hummed. “Either way get up,” Gen turned and went to wake some of the others.
Y/N dragged her hand over her face to wake herself up. Y/N pinched the bridge of their nose and finally got out of their bedroll.
If there is one thing Y/N learned in this whole thing was the key to a good day was to have a full night of sleep or you’d suffer in the morning with exhaustion. Even hauling logs of wood was more difficult. Y/N was hauling some wooden logs up to the deck of the ship and then back down to get more. Y/N took a small break after what felt like the 100th back and forth. Y/N sat on a barrel trying to catch her breath.
“Uhhhhufh,” Y/N huffed as they looked up to the sky.
Just need a small break. That’s all.
Ukyo, Gen, or Yuzuirha would normally be the ones Y/N would talk to on break but all seemed to be busy with either teaching or sewing.
“Hey Y/N,” a voice called for Y/N. Y/N looked to her side to See Ryusui standing with two canteens of water. “You look better beat,” Ryusui offered one of the canteens to Y/N.
“Ohhh thank you Ryusui!” Y/N happily took the water from him before gulping half it down.
“Geez, it’s only 12pm,” Ryusui jokes.
“Hey, shut up,” Y/N jokingly said. “I couldn’t sleep last night so now I feel like shit,”
“Maybe someone was thinking about you,” Ryusui pointed out before he also took a sip of the water.
“Ohhhh please, that late at night? Who would do that?” Y/N rolled their eyes before realizing that’s the exact thing they had just done.
Oh my god. I'm an idiot.
“Hey, if no one else, I was,” Ryusui shrugged just as confident.
The sudden confession made Y/N pause for a second before she remembered who she was talking to. “You desire everyone Ryusui,” Y/N pointed out light-heartedly.
“Ha ha you are right about that,” Ryusui laughed.
“Oh wait wait,” Y/N said through laughter. “Aww Ryusui, how sweet of you. Maybe I was up at night thinking of you too,” Y/N put on a serious face and was able to hold it for all of 5 seconds before breaking down laughing. “Ok ok ok sorry sorry,” Y/N was able to get out. “I’m sorry I couldn’tttttt~,”
“Good performance,” Ryusui praised.
Ukyo just got done teaching the villagers some katakana and let Gen take over the lesson about penmanship. Ukyo went out to the docks to see if they could catch Y/N on her break. Ukyo spotted Y/N sitting on a barrel with a canteen in hand talking to someone. The other's blonde hair and captain's hat gave away who it was. Ukyo stopped in his tracks looking at the pair laughing together.
“Ha ha you are right about that,” Ryusui laughed.
“Oh wait wait,” Y/N said through laughter. “Aww Ryusui, how sweet of you. Maybe I was up at night thinking of you too,” Y/N sounded so sincere in their voice.
Somedays Ukyo cursed his hearing. Even the uneven beating of Ryusui’s heart. It sounded like an out of beat drum.
I don’t want to see this.
Ukyo turned and walked away from the shipyard. Ukyo knew this feeling. It was jealousy or even anger towards Ryusui. He couldn’t bring himself to hate the other. It just so happened that he was too slow to build up the courage to confess first and Ryusui beat him to it. The only thing that made Ukyo sad was he didn’t even know Ryusui felt that way. If he did he would’ve confessed first.
Right?
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“Come on Ukyo!” Y/N told Ukyo. “Francois needs this ingredient for their dish,” Y/N reminded him.
“Yeah I know,” Ukyo smiled, but his answer lacked the wit or general light feel his words normally had.
Maybe he’s having a bad day again?
Ukyo seems to have a lot of those recently… And that thing that scared Y/N it only seemed to be around her. With the others Ukyo was lively and full of life, but with her, He just seemed to shut down. Y/N had been spending the last few days going over every time she and Ukyo had spoken up to that point. It all seemed so normal. Y/N didn’t want to push Ukyo on it but it was starting to scare them.
“Yeahhhh,” Y/N awkwardly said.
He’d tell me if something is wrong right?
Y/N was happy when Senkuu paired the two up to go get ingredients for Francois’s dish but now Y/N’s insides were twisting in the awkward silence.
“Hey Ukyo, what do you think Francois is making with all of this?” Y/N tried to keep some conversation going.
“Well it’s getting colder out so I hope soup,” Ukyo replied plainly.
“Really? I was kind of hoping for a meat dish,” Y/N daydreamed. “Ohhh maybe a rice bowl,”
“Yeah, A rice bowl does sound good right now,” Ukyo agreed.
“I know right!” Y/N smiled. “I would always make rice bowls around this time. Get a nice comfy sweater and warm apartment,” Y/N recalled.
“Sounds comfy,”
“It wassss~ ughh now I miss the old world,” Y/N groaned.
“What’ll you do once everything gets restored?” Ukyo asked.
“Take a nap,” Y/N sighed. “Keep some snacks nearby and rest the day away,”
“I can’t even imagine that now,” Ukyo laughed.
“Right?!” Y/N dramatically asked. “I guessed even the 5 wise generals don’t get a break huh?” Y/N snickered. “ Gen and I always try to get out of it,” Y/N explained. “I don’t know how you and Ryusui do it,”
Suddenly Ukyo seemed to close off again. “Who knows?” He shrugs.
Ukyo didn’t mean to act colder to Y/N but what he assumed was Ryusui’s confession stuck with him. It was silly Ukyo knew that. He and Y/N were friends and Ukyo valued that friendship, but right now he wanted space from Y/N to think things out, but that was kind of hard with a kingdom of less than 300 people and having to Ryusui in the meeting Senkuu call didn’t help either.
The two of them had been hanging out a lot more as winter crept in. Ryusui even letting Y/N use his jacket.
“I guess we can call this meeting to an end,” Gen clapped his hands together.
“Wha? Mentalist we just started-,” Senkuu started.
“Thankssss Senkuu chan~,” Gen sing song voice intputed Senkuu. “Come on Ukyo chan,” Gen grabbed his friend and dragged him out of the lab tent.
Senkuu, Chrome, and Ryusui all stopped and looked at each other.
“See what I have to deal with?” Senkuu asked, and he pinched the bridge of his nose.
Ukyo was beyond confused on why Gen was pulling him away from the meeting but it wasn’t appreciated. Gen had dragged him to the outskirts of the village.
“Care to tell me why you’re glaring daggers at Ryusui?” Gen asked.
“Huh? I’m not-,”
“Ukyo chan…,” Gen crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.
“I mean, I don’t mean to,” Ukyo corrected himself.
“You’ve seemed a bit off lately,” Gen pointed out. “Did something happen between you and Y/N?”
“How- How did you know?” Ukyo asked.
“I’m a mentalist Ukyo chan. I notice things,” Gen innocently smiled.
“I didn’t mean to but I think I overhead a confession from Ryusui to Y/N and I think Y/N accepted,” Ukyo explained.
“Oh?” Gen hummed. “Well, that’s news to me,” Gen stated. “And I think Y/N too,”
“I don’t know Yuzuriha,” Y/N sighed. “He just seems so distant,”
“I haven’t noticed anything different,” Yuzuirha added.
“That’s what I’m worried about,” Y/N explained. “Around you all, he seems so casual, but around me, he just seems colder,” Y/N sighed. “And I wish I knew why,”
“And you didn’t say anything to hurt his feelings?” Yuzuirha tried to softly ask.
“I… I don’t think so,” Y/N told.
“Well, maybe you should ask him if it’d been like this for weeks,” Yuzuirha pointed out sweetly.
“Maybe you're right,” Y/N agreed.
It was getting late and by now Y/N would be out on their normal walk around the village. Ukyo choice would be a good time to clear things up. Winter was coming and with how fast the ship was coming along Ukyo figured it was now or never. The cliff's edge was a normal place for Y/N to stop. Y/N and Ukyo would even walk this way sometimes.
“Ukyo?” Y/N’s voice asked.
Ukyo looked up from where he had been sitting. “Hey Y/N,”
“Ummm I was meaning to talk to you actually,” Y/N’s face was already red from the cold but maybe it got redder. Y/N sat down next to Ukyo.
“Funny, I was too,” Ukyo said.
“Oh really? About what?” Y/N questioned.
“No no, you first,” Ukyo said.
“Ummm oh ok,” Y/N muttered. “Ummm did I do something wrong? You’ve been kinda cold to me… I don’t know if you meant to! It just feels like it,”
“I guess that kind of leads into my thing,” Ukyo rubbed the back of his neck. “I heard what I thought was a confession between you and Ryusui… and I may have been a bit jealous,” Ukyo confessed.
“Wait wait. You were jealous? So wait… You like Ryusui?” Y/N blurted out.
“Wha? No- I-,” Ukyo stuttered. “I was jealous of him,”
“Ohhh,” Y/N sighed in relief before- “OHHH!!”
“Yeah,” Ukyo blushed even more.
“Well, now I feel dumb because I was worried you didn’t like me either,” Y/N confessed.
Ukyo was a bit taken aback before starting to laugh. All this time he was worried and for what?
“H-Hey!” Y/N stammered.
“Well I guess we’re both dumb then,” Ukyo said through laughing.
Y/N pouted before joining in with Ukyo. “Best confession ever,”
Y/N and Ukyo laughed together as Y/N laughed so hard they leaned on Ukyo’s shoulder. Not that Ukyo minded.
Y/N looked up at Ukyo’s laughing face and couldn’t stop the smile on her face. Ukyo’s face was red from the cold and even his nose was a cute shade of red. Ukyo looked down at Y/N as he regained his composure. Their eyes met and Y/N noticed they were leaning on Ukyo.
“Is it ok if I-?”
“Yeah it’s fine,” Y/N kept blushing.
Ukyo leaned in closer to kiss Y/N before-
“Ow,” Y/N winced before backing away. The brim of Ukyo’s hat had bumped Y/N’s forehead as Ukyo was leaning it. “Maybe take this off,” Y/N took off Ukyo’s hat and put it in her lap. Y/N leaned in and placed a light kiss on Ukyo's lips. “There,”