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inazuma4lyfe: face cam stream when? /j
Itto looked at the message in chat and laughed.
“Face cam? I’m not sure any camera would be able to handle all this natural beauty, this is for your protection, chat.” He laughed again. “I’m kidding, I’m kidding. I’ve been saving up for a good camera for a while now, so I will eventually. Just gotta keep grinding this streaming thing. I don’t exactly have a real job.”
bbarbatoes: i bet he’s secretly hot all the faceless streamers are
“What do you mean secretly hot? I tell you all how hot I am all the time!” Just as he said this, his character is shot and Itto groans, slamming his fist down on the desk, rattling the keyboard and microphone stand. “That’s what I get for reading chat instead of focusing on the game.” He looked at his second monitor and noticed an unread message from Gorou.
gorou (21:22)
Wanna play some minecraft? I'm just about to start my stream and saw you were online, no worries if not tho!
me (21:29)
YES!!!!!! GIVE ME A SECOMD
gorou (21:29)
Haha okay, call me when you’re ready!
“Hey chat, I’m not doing great at Valo today, how do you guys feel about switching to playing some Minecraft instead? I might even be playing with someone special. Oh, thanks for the one month sub gettinbread, welcome to the Arataki gang!”
The responding response from chat was yes, making Itto chuckle. He switched games seamlessly, well practiced in the art at this point, and called Gorou. He had known Gorou for almost as long as he had been streaming, as Gorou had been one of his first viewers, and they had eventually started gaming together and had grown to be fast friends. Itto had even managed to convince Gorou to start streaming himself, despite his protests that he wouldn’t be as good as Itto was. Itto still didn’t really know why Gorou had thought that, he was a much better streamer than Itto! Gorou’s chat were much nicer than his too, Itto’s seemed to enjoy making Itto suffer for some reason. In the year or so that they had known each other, Itto’s fondness for Gorou had only grown, to the point where he was starting to think he had a crush on him, which was ridiculous, as he had never even seen Gorou’s face, how could he be in love with a guy he had never even seen.
Gorou picked up the call almost immediately, his soft voice making Itto smile.
“Hello Itto, ready for some Minecraft?”
“You betcha!”
The pair played for several hours that felt like minutes, interrupted only by Ushi entering the room to bother Itto for his dinner.
“Ushi! Hey bud, you come to say hi to chat?”
“Oh is Ushi there?”
“Yeah, he just walked in. He always comes in whenever I’m on call with you. It's so weird man, I swear you must be part dog or something dude, you’re like a dog whisperer. Maybe his hearing’s so good he can hear your voice through my headphones.” He looked down at the large brown dog, who just panted back at him, not a thought behind his big brown eyes.
The donation sound effect brought Itto’s attention back to the screen, the robotic text to speech voice reading the attached message.
“ Hi bossman, here’s some money for Ushi cam, I suppose you can use Ushi’s cam too 🙄 ”
“Thanks so much man- HOLY SHIT THAT’S A LOT OF MONEY THANK YOU.” Itto stared at the screen for a moment, trying to process the very large sum of money just donated. “For you, dude, I’ll buy my new camera right now.”
The camera came the next day. It was surprisingly small for the price, but it was easy enough for Itto to set up and integrate into his setup. It was only once he had set up the camera did he realise what a mess his room was in. The camera was a 4K one, and unfortunately it showed everything in detail, including his unmade bed, various takeout boxes as well as his dirty laundry all over the floor. It had never bothered him before, but seeing it on camera actually embarrassed him. He spent a few hours cleaning the room as well as setting up the various lights he had bought ages ago but never bothered to put up. He stood back, admiring his handiwork.
“What do ya think Ushi? Looks good, right bud?” Ushi ignored him, plonking himself down in the dog bed Itto had pulled into his room so that it was in the background of his streams. Itto went about doing all his pre-stream rituals, as well as picking out an outfit and making sure his hair looked good. He never usually had to worry about he looked, but he couldn't exactly stream in in just his underwear anymore.
For the first time in a long time, Itto felt nervous to start a stream. He spontaneously decided to call Gorou, who picked up after only one ring.
“Hi Itto, everything okay?”
“Hey Gorou, yeah, well, no actually, I’m kinda nervous for this stream. Which is stupid, I know, because the One and Oni Itto never gets nervous -”
“It’s totally okay to be nervous, Itto, it’s a big change, of course you’re going to be nervous.” Gorou interrupted gently. Itto realised something.
“Wait, you’ve never seen my face either, have you?
“Uh, not exactly, no. You have sent a picture of your hair after you messed up bleaching it though, and that one time you sent me a picture of you flexing shirtless by mistake…”
“Gods I forgot I sent that.” Itto groaned but grinned to himself. That had not been a mistake. He had spent ages posing in front of his mirror trying to get the perfect angle that showed off his muscles and his new tattoos. It had taken him two whole days to work up the courage to accidentally send the picture, and Gorou’s reaction had not been what he had hoped (he knew expecting Gorou jumping to ask to date him after just one shirtless pic was a little optimistic, but still) but it hadn’t been totally negative. Gorou had complimented his tattoos, and Itto had ridden that high for weeks.
“Who did you even mean to send that picture to? You’re not dating anyone … Wait, was it for Sara? It totally was, wasn’t it!”
“Oh, yeah, totally for Sara, yup. Definitely not for anyone else.” Itto was very glad Gorou could not see him, as he was blushing a very deep red.
“How did she take that?”
“She blocked me.”
Gorou burst out laughing, his laughter infectious, and soon Itto joined him, feeling much lighter than he had a few minutes ago.
“Gorou, can I turn my cam on before the stream? Just to check that it works of course. Not because I’m nervous. Because I’m not. Nervous, I mean.”
“Sure! I’m honoured to be the first to see the famous OneAndOni’s face first.”
“Okay here goes nothing.” He turned the camera on. The camera took a second to focus on his face, but it did eventually, blurring the lights behind him to create a fuzzy red and purple background. Itto puffed out his cheeks as he breathed out, unsure where to look, before smiling awkwardly at the camera. “Is it working?” Gorou cleared his throat.
“Yeah it looks great! It’s such high quality. Why aren’t you wearing a shirt though?”
“I am wearing a shirt!” He gestured to the very cropped top he was wearing.
“That barely counts as a shirt, Itto. Aren’t you cold?”
“Arataki Itto never gets cold! Well, not for the majority of the time anyway. Besides, you like what you see?” Itto flexed his pecs and wiggled his eyebrows teasingly. He could practically hear Gorou roll his eyes.
“Of course you would wear a shirt like that. I bet you own one of those tank tops that say ‘I flexed too hard and the sleeves came off’ or something like that.”
“Pfft, nah.” He absolutely did.
“Your hair looks good too. I mean the dye looks so much better than that picture you sent, and it’s so much longer now.” Itto preened at his compliment and combed his fingers through his hair.
“You think so? Thank you. After I failed at dying it myself, I went and got it done properly at a salon. They even dyed the ends of my hair red as well. I think it looks very intimidating if I say so myself.”
“It looks very soft.” Gorou said quietly.
“Huh?”
“I said it looks good.” They both sat in the awkward silence for a moment before Gorou cleared his throat. “You know, you’re not the only one who recently acquired a camera.”
“Oh really? Who else got one?”
“Me dumbass.”
“OH! For real?”
“Yeah, and I think it’s only fair that you get to see my face too. You know, I'll show you mine if you show me yours, that kind of thing.” Without any further warning, the image from Gorou’s camera popped up.
Gorou looked exactly how Itto thought he would look like and somehow nothing like he looked like. He was slender, much smaller than Itto, but that wasn’t difficult, considering how big Itto was, and had short, tawny brown hair with a white streak of hair in his bangs. He was wearing a pair of headphones with fluffy dog ears attached to the band. The fur was a very similar shade of brown to Gorou’s own hair.
“Before you say anything about the dog ear headphones, they were a prank gift from Kazuha and unfortunately they are the best pair of headphones I own.”
“I think they look very cute. They suit you.” Itto said. Gorou flushed a deep pink and Itto committed the image to his memory. That summed Gorou up in a nutshell. Cute. Itto snapped himself out of staring at Gorou.
“Oh, wanna see my cool new headphones I got? They’re kinda like yours. I had some money leftover from the camera and the store was doing a sale. Look!” He pulled out a pair of deep red headphones, which weren’t much different from his current ones, but the main difference was that this set had a pair of red horns on the band. Considering the sheer amount of hair Itto had, his hair covered the majority of his headphones, making it look like he had a pair of horns coming out the top of his head.
“They’re so cool! You look just like your channel art with those!”
“I know right! I saw them and thought they would be perfect to wear for my first face cam stream. Oh shit, I was meant to start that ten minutes ago.”
“Don’t let me hold you back any longer than I already have. You feeling better?”
“Loads. Thanks Gorou.”
“Of course. Don’t mention it. I’ll be in chat cheering you on. Good luck!” He held up two thumbs up and smiled, and Itto’s heart fluttered. He waved goodbye and started up his stream.
OneAndOni is live!
FACECAM STREAM LETS GOOOOOOO
Itto wasn’t nervous anymore after talking to Gorou and the stream is the usual chaos, with Itto getting derailed and distracted every few minutes, and his chat were incredibly supportive of his face reveal, though it quickly devolved from compliments to demanding to finally show Ushi.
ieatspiders: let us see the boy!!!
✔ goruwu: we were promised ushi cam! we demand ushi!!
bbarbatoes: I WAS RIGHT HE IS HOT
wamenlov3r: show us ushi or im unsubbing rn on god
aratakifan314: USHI TIME USHI TIME USHI TIME
“Ahaha okay guys, here’s the boy.” Itto got up from his chair and scooped up Ushi from where he was sleeping on Itto’s bed. Despite Ushi’s large form, Itto held him up easily for chat to see, Ushi looking confused at being manhandled but happy for the attention, panting happily. “Here he is! Oh dude he just drooled all over my keyboard. Ushi bud. Come on. This is a very expensive keyboard.” He gently put Ushi back on his bed and searched around for something to clean up Ushi’s slobber.
"Right guys, what shall we play today?"