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“Just so you know, it wasn’t my fault that we ended up like this,” Dazai said, defending himself from Atsushi’s temper.
“You were flirting with an old lady,” Atsushi began to say, “right in front of me” he finished with a blank face.
“You were jealous?” Dazai said, obviously making it worse for himself, “awe”
“Oh I’m sorry I got jealous because my ‘boyfriend’ was flirting with someone else right in front of me”
“Okay fine I’m sorry” Dazai finally said, and by the looks of it he looked sincere about it.
“Jealousy~” Dazai sang underneath his breath, who was he kidding, this is Dazai--he won’t take anything seriously!
“Shut up and think how we can get out of here!” Atsushi half yelled, referring to the cell both of them were in, their surroundings were dark and moist. The ground was wet from the water dripping from the holes in the ceilings, some holes had light coming out from which lighted up this place a little, there were more cells around them, most of them were empty around them but he could sense other people from the cells in the far back.
“This place looks very familiar” Dazai said out loud, then after a few seconds it hit him--this place they were in was the Port Mafia basement where they would lock up prisoners and targets….but this place was destroyed the time he left the Port Mafia because they were relocating HQ. Okay--so they did get hit by an unknown ability, they blacked out and woke up in this cell, if he’s right then they must be in the past.
Oh.
The past where he was still present working in the Port Mafia.
“Dazai” Atsushi asked once again.
“Oh--yes, what?”
“Do you know where we are?”
“I think we’re in the past” Dazai stated with all seriousness that made Atsushi believe it immediately.
“How do you know?”
“We-We’re in the Port Mafia’s basement”
“So like when you were still in the Port Mafia?” Atsushi asked, he knew that Dazai was an ex member but will he be finally seeing Dazai’s dark past?
They sat in silence trying to take it all in but then came the sound of someone walking towards them, Dazai warned Atsushi not to say anything if they came across the younger him.
“Well look who’s awake” a male voice said, appearing from the shadows, Dazai automatically knew who that was.
“It's Chuuya-san” oops, Atsushi wasn’t supposed to say anything.
“So you guys did a background check on us before breaking into the PM?” Chuuya yelled aggravated as he yanked Atsushi by his collar, Dazai pulled Atsushi away before Chuuya could do any more damage. “Oh look, another rat” Chuuya spoke again, “Dazai’s going to deal with you 2 after he comes back so enjoy the last minutes of your lives”
“You’re short” Okay, well that wasn’t very appropriate to say in this situation but it’s true-- Chuuya didn’t grow an inch.
“What the fuck did you say to me?”
“He said nothing.” Atsushi pulled Dazai away this time and whispered something about ‘you want to get us killed?’ to him.
He quieted down because he still had the consciousness of understanding the severity of this situation, if he was alone he wouldn’t care, but the truth was he wasn’t, he had Atsushi’s life on his hands and he wouldn’t try anything, well…..
“Your temper hasn’t changed 1 bit” Dazai added, one last thing, yep, now he’s done.
“I don’t have any temper,” Atsushi replied, improvising something so it looked like Dazai was talking to him because he did not want to die in the past.
“He was talking to me right?!” Chuuya caught on and Atsushi sighed.
“No, he was talking to me”
“Oh—yes, I was talking to my dear boyfriend here”
“Who has a boyfriend?” A similar voice came through as the steps grew louder, Chuuya grinned and Dazai frowned.
“Hey Dazai, look at who I’ve caught”
“You caught someone?” The other male called out as he got closer.
“Yea, and 1 of them looks like you,” Chuuya turned to Dazai and looked closely to study his features, “but older”
“Me? Let me have a look” the voice spoke as a body finally appeared in sight, oh my god, it was Dazai, but hotter, Atsushi thought.
Well, his boyfriend’s hot too but it’s probably the way the other Dazai’s dressed up. In mafia type clothing. After they go back to their time he’ll definitely ask Dazai to cosplay as a mafia leader during their- well, personal time.
Dazai leaned in and proceeded to whisper in Atsushi’s ear, “I’m hotter right?” Oh, hate to break to him….”the betrayal Atsushi-kun” Dazai fake cried.
“They’re weird, they don’t seem afraid at all even though they know they’re going to die” Chuuya said as the other Dazai finally stood beside Chuuya, finally being able to see the people Chuuya had caught.
His eyes met Dazai’s, okay so this person definitely looked like him, maybe it was some ability? “Hey come here” he asked as he pulled his glove off his hand.
“Oh, you’re checking to see if I’m using my ability?”
Could this impersonator even read his mind?
“Yes,” he answered.
“Sure” Dazai let his hand out for the other Dazai to touch, the ability went off and nothing happened, “see?”
Both Chuuya and Dazai looked flabbergasted.
“Then explain why’re you’re here”
Atsushi could sense that Dazai was going to say something stupid by the way he was grinning so he stepped in, “we’re from the future, believe us.”
“I didn’t believe that crap” Chuuya half-yelled annoyed.
“How exactly?” The younger Dazai asked, something was testing his patience today.
He saw the white haired male who looked like his age tense up, so you were going to make something up huh?
“Dazai here was flirting with some old lady and well she got mad and sent us back to the past”
“I was flirting with someone?” The younger Dazai asked.
“No—not you, the one beside me”
“Oh”
“I wasn’t flirting, I was simply just asking for directions”
“Yeah by pecking her hand” Atsushi grumbled.
“Hold up, so how far from the future?” Chuuya asked.
“4 years,” Atsushi answered.
Both Chuuya and Dazai had a moment of realization, so it made sense.
“Why are you dressed like that?” The younger Dazai asked.
“Cause I can” Dazai answered, maybe revealing anything about the future would be a very bad idea so he didn’t say anything.
“Okay…so um, who’s he?” The younger Dazai pointed at Atsushi.
“My dear boyfriend,” Dazai said as his arm tangled with Atsushi’s.
What. He’s not gay, never was, he isn’t Bi too so-
“See I knew it” Chuuya laughed out loud, “you’re gay”
“I’m not-“
“Then explain that” Chuuya said, pointing at Dazai kissing Atsushi’s cheek, making the younger Dazai fluster.
“I am not gay”
“Don’t know about that,” Dazai answered with a smile.
“I’ve never even thought about a guy that way!“ Okay now he was definitely panicking and Chuuya was going to have a field day with this.
“Oh, you want me to kiss him and show you?”
“Yes please” Chuuya answered for Dazai.
“No! Don’t kiss! I’m not gay!”
Then he saw the older Dazai and his future ‘boyfriend’ kiss on the lips, gross. This was not happening.
“You guys can stop now!”
“Oh, forgot you were there”
“I’m so sorry” Atsushi apologized and he finally noticed the other’s eyes, they were….pretty.
“It’s…okay” shit he wasn’t blushing right?
“No you’re definitely blushing” Chuuya answered as he burst out laughing, well fuck you.
“Come on now, you’re already falling for him?“ Dazai asked, “he’s my boyfriend k?” He grabbed Atsushi and pulled him in for a back hug as he laid his head on the other’s shoulder.
“I don’t know man, that seems pretty gay to me” Chuuya ran his mouth over and he felt like kicking him in the balls. Balls, sucking—whatthefuck no no no he’s not gay, he’s not panicking he’s….not gay for now.
“Will you shut up?!”
“Will you let us go?” The older Dazai asked.
“No,” The younger Dazai replied.
“No?” Atsushi repeated as their eyes met again, okay shit shit shit.
“Yes I mean, keys Chuuya?” He received the keys from the other and also a ‘awe you’re already smitten’. He was not smitten, he was just…getting comfortable for the future.
“So tell us more about your future” Chuuya asked walking up to Atsushi, “am I still single?”
“Yeah no one likes short dudes” Dazai answered from the back and both of the Dazai’s grinned.
“Don’t—Don’t listen to Dazai-san” Atsushi turned back to Dazai glaring at him, the older one pressed his mouth close and the younger one looked baffled—did he just get ordered by a glare?
“Loser” the younger Dazai muttered and the older one laughed knowing what he meant.
“It’s gonna happen to you too, you know?” The older one stated.
“Mm”
“You don’t seem surprised”
“Can’t change the future can I?” The younger one answered cleverly, “and besides Atsushi doesn’t seem that bad” he said again as his eyes flew over to Atsushi laughing with Chuuya.
“Yeah, I agree” The older one also turned to admire Atsushi and they both fell in silence as they creepily stared at Atsushi.
-
They were all eating in a restaurant. It just somehow happened, someone was hungry and he felt pity so he took everyone out for dinner, it totally wasn’t because he heard the white haired male say he was hungry, totally.
“So if you’re dating then why was he flirting with an old lady?” Chuuya asked and both of the Dazai’s choked on food. Dazai felt guilty—kind of—and the younger one felt remorse for Atsushi was it? But he also felt guilty because knowing himself he wasn’t the type to ever stop flirting. It was like second nature. Yeah he’ll try to change that.
“I don’t know, why were you flirting with her Dazai-san?” Atsushi asked in an annoyed/mad tone.
“Wait, so how old are you? Chuuya asked Atsushi.
“I’m 18”
“Oh—so you’re the same age as Dazai” Chuuya referred to the younger Dazai.
“Yeah”
“How do you know each other?”
“From work” Dazai answered, “let’s not talk about work okay? Cause revealing too much might be bad”
Everyone nodded in response and continued eating, it was all going smoothly, a bit too smoothly Chuuya thought.
Oh maybe he jinxed it.
A gun fired off and everyone in the restaurant started panicking and running out, another shot was fired again and this time it was aimed for the younger Dazai, Atsushi’s tiger reflexes jumped him right in and stopped the bullet with his arm.
“What?? He has an ability??” Chuuya and Dazai were genuinely surprised, and Dazai was quite grateful for Atsushi or he would’ve had a bullet through his head right now and he was not trying to dirty his new coat.
2 more men rushed in with guns and the older Dazai broke the window ready to jump out, Chuuya smirked at him before he rushed in powering on his ability making the guns fly out of their hands and aiming it towards them, the guys surrendered, or acted like they did before octopus like tentacles appeared from the ground stabbing, or well almost stabbing Chuuya; instead stabbing Atsushi who had jumped in pushing Chuuya aside.
The older Dazai yelled, surprising the younger one because one thing he knew about himself was that he would never outright show intense emotions for someone—he was showing vulnerability, him.
“Hey you’re boyfriend seems pretty reckless to me” the younger Dazai tried cracking a joke but ended up getting a glare from the older one and a shove from Chuuya, “you’re seriously joking now?”
“Hey, just trying to brighten u-“
“Shut your mouth you dumbass” Chuuya half yelled before they walked up to Atsushi who was a bleeding mess right now. After Atsushi had gotten stabbed the men had escaped and the tentacles had disappeared, Chuuya was about to go chase them but he chose not to, seeing that Atsushi had gotten stabbed.
The older one held Atsushi close to him as he tied his wounds by a cloth he had found while the younger ones watched Dazai do it and it sent chills down the younger Dazai’s spine—when was the last time he had held someone close to him like this?
“Is he going to recover?” Chuuya asked, being genuine again, surprising the younger Dazai—really?
“His tiger form heals him but he’s still hurting”
“Let’s go to my apartment, he can rest there…” the younger Dazai offered.
“Sure,” Dazai answered before he carried Atsushi in his arms, Atsushi grunted as his body felt a pang of pain and both of the Dazai’s felt hurt in his place—both of them were scared despite the younger one having no connection to Atsushi—he still felt like he was responsible in a way.
-
Atsushi had just gotten up after a 2 hour sleep, beside him were both of the Dazai’s head down sleeping, smiling he tried getting up but stopped as he heard a knock on the door, there leaned Chuuya against the door frame, “I suggest you don’t get up or Dazai there will beat us up” he said with a chuckle.
“Gotta go washroom”
“Here I’ll help you” Chuuya offered a hand and Atsushi took it, getting up with a thanks and a smile. “No, thank you ”
“Ah that, it’s fine”
“Wanna have a drink later?“
“I can’t really handle alcohol well but I’ll try”
“Haha well good luck with that”
-
10 minutes had passed and Atsushi still hadn’t come out, “Atsushi? You in there” No reply came so he asked again, “Atsushi?? Do you need help? Should I come in??” No one replied again but someone touched his shoulder so he yelped in surprise.
“Woah woah it's only me-“ The younger one replied, “do you know where Atsushi and Dazai are?”
“The other Dazai disappeared too?”
“What do you mean? Did Atsushi leave too?“ Dazai asked with a frown.
Chuuya opened the washroom door and in there was no one, “yeah, looks like they went back to their timeline”
“Man this still feels like a dream”
“Why would you dream about yourself being gay?”
“Ah shut up”
Chuuya laughed, he wasn’t ever going to drop this, the straightest mf turned out to be gay ha. Like they say, it’s always the straightest looking people.