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Fact: Kunikida Doppo wasn't an easy person to get along with. He noted this in several entries of his notebook, where he could be spotted scratching in nine times out of ten while he was awake. He had explosive anger, and was generally quite easy to rile up over the smallest of inconveniences.
Fact: It took a lot of respect to get on Doppo's good side. Either that, or it took a lot of convincing. As stated before, he was notably easy to piss off. He enjoyed his space, and he's near-impossible to befriend. However, this doesn't make him uncaring or unfriendly.
Fact: Doppo finds Dazai Osamu very, VERY irritating. Dazai always manages to poke and prod at the spots where he knows will tick Doppo off in the most perfect way, causing the greatest storm that they both know will be over as soon as Doppo's attention switches. It's a sort of cat-and-mouse game, but there's not exactly one set role for either of them.
Fact: Doppo finds this game a little bit fun.
Additional fact: Doppo may be having a little too much fun letting Dazai Osamu mess with him.
It's not anything... Indecent, if that's what you're wondering, it's more like he wakes up in the morning and can't get Dazai's next annoying quip or move off his mind. He wakes up thinking about either Dazai or work. He goes to sleep thinking about either Dazai or work. Not to mention, Dazai and work go hand in hand. He spends his day, pretty much, thinking about Dazai Osamu.
And... It's getting a little bit distracting.
Doppo has had relationships before, and if you were to ask him, they were great! And absolutely nothing like what is going on with his partner. Obviously.
Fact: He's not so sure about those last two statements.
Dazai Osamu has found himself nestled onto Doppo's lap as Doppo types away on a computer, a report of some sort, but honestly he's on autopilot. Whatever goes on between them, whatever open secret will-we-or-won't-we, whatever unspoken truth they share, Doppo doesn't understand entirely what it is. Much less why it is, or why Dazai bothers with him. He's flattered, but also a little bit lost.
It began not long ago, when Dazai had started flirting pretty much incessantly with Doppo. At first, he had many complaints about this development. Namely it being unprofessional and the like, not to mention annoying. As time went on, however, it became less of a complaint and more of a sharp, "Not here! Not in public!" Because, well, he was embarrassed to have his partner-but-not-like-that dote on him not only in broad daylight but in the public eye.
Fact: Kunikida Doppo is reconsidering his feelings on Dazai Osamu.
Dazai cuddles up closer to Doppo, sitting horizontally in his lap with his legs over the side of Doppo's chair and his lips on Doppo's neck. This wasn't an uncommon sight, maybe not to the rest of the office, but to Doppo it never failed to be utterly humiliating. Dazai's hand explores his chest and eventually finds a place to rest between his neck and shoulder. Doppo continues typing absentmindedly, wanting nothing more than to crane his neck awkwardly and kiss Dazai back, but... Well, that would be indecent.
"Ahm... Kunikida-san, Dazai-san," Nakajima Atsushi's voice cuts through the silence that had otherwise been just the occasional cough, typing, or... of course, the most pathetic "pay attention to me!" noises from Dazai. "Are you two just going to sit like that all day?"
Of course. Atsushi was new, he wasn't entirely aware that this was "the norm" around the office, much to Doppo's embarrassment.
Doppo shot a glare towards Nakajima. "No, actually, Dazai was just about to get off of me." He nudges Dazai with his shoulder, and when his partner refuses to budge, he all but shoves Dazai off of his lap and onto the ground.
"Kuni~kidaaa~kuuun~... Is that any way to treat your loving girlfriend?!" Dazai whines, staying on the ground at Doppo's feet and making a fiercely pathetic puppy dog expression up at him.
His what.
Sputtering something about having errands to attend to, Doppo up and storms out of the ADA office, and does not look back to catch a glimpse of Dazai's face when he realizes he's found a new way to embarrass Doppo.