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Kyouka pokes Atsushi as he opens his eyes sitting up and stretching, he groans as the light streaming through the windows hits his eyes. Kyouka says something but Atsushi somehow didn’t hear what she said even though she was right next to him.
“What, did you say?”
Kyouka sighs “We need to go or we will be late, come on get up”
Atsushi reluctantly stands up, sliding on his shoes and walking out the door with her. He didn’t know what time he fell asleep last night but he knew he saw daybreak right before he shut his eyes. He was working on an important case trying to solve it early so he can get an extra day off to spend with Kyouka.
Walking into the office Almost everyone was already back at work. He tries to rub the tired out of his eyes as he sits down at his desk. He did not get much sleep for the past few weeks actually but this was his turning point.
Dazai surprisingly comes in earlier than he usually did, sitting down before noticing Atsushi looks very different from normal. He leans over to him “Looks like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed”
“I didn’t wake up and that’s the problem”
“Damn, you know I actually know this great napping spot if you want to take a cat nap-”
“Please die”
“Ok that was uncalled for”
“Your face is uncalled for”
Dazai looked like Atsushi just killed his grandmother right in front of him, “Are, are you really Atsushi?”
“Who else would I be? Chuuya?”
“Honestly at this point you might be”
“Good god if you miss your ex so much go back to the mafia”
“He’s not my ex!”
Atsushi sighed “I had a few a long sleepless nights so could I have a few moments to do my work, silently”
Dazai surprisingly complied to it and was indeed quiet. Atsushi continued his work until break, he decided to work efficiently he probably should take a nap. He stands up walking over to one of the couches and basically collapsed on it immediately falling asleep.
He was laying down in flowers in his dream looking up at the clear blue sky, it was very peaceful. Before he was very rudely awakened by the sound of someone calling his name.
He opens one eye looking up, Kunikida was there. He groans flipping over to his other side to ignore him. But Kunikida was not having it
“Please wake up, someone’s here to see you” he says shaking his arm a little.
“Unless the entire building is burning down and I have the only bucket of water I do not care“
“It’s Akutagawa Ryuunosuke”
“That’s somehow worse”
Atsushi sits up and Akutagawa was tapping his foot impatiently, “Sleeping during work hours? What are you, a child?” The mafia member says with hate and malice filling his words.
The weretiger groans “What do you want” he deadpanned, Akutagawa rolls his eyes “Because you have been clearly slacking off, I am here to make sure that you are not lazying around all day”
“Mk great, thanks for the visit you can go now” Atsushi falls back onto the couch planning on at least continuing his nap, “You will not ignore me!” Akutagawa says yanking him up.
Atsushi slaps his hand away standing up “Seriously what is your problem!”
“Excuse me“
“Come on now I don’t have to spell it out for you! You stroll in during MY work during MY nap time where I’M living MY life do you think you can judge me?!”
“I have every right to judge you!”
“You have the same amount of rights to my life as a baby pinecone!”
“Ugh, you are so impossible! This is why you are weak! You never do what your supposed to!”
“Do what I’m- IS PLEASING YOU ON MY LIST?! No it’s not, so unless you GET OUT OF MY JOB I will throw you out myself!”
“Please, You are Such a CHILD”
“The only thing that’s childish here is your obsession with your old mentor, you fatherless bowl of uncooked noodles!”
Akutagawa looked shocked at the insult, Dazai laughed awkwardly trying to get Akutagawa out of the ADA as soon as possible.
“Let’s calm down sweetie, we-“
“Sweetie? SWEETIE?! DO I LOOK LIKE KUNIKIDA TO YOU, I’D SUGGEST YOU SIT DOWN BEFORE YOU LOSE MORE WILL TO LIVE THEN YOUR YEN FOR BANDAGES”
“Whoa! Why am I getting dragged into this!” Kunikida exclaimed.
“SHUT UP I KNOW DAZAI HAS FUCKED YOU ON YOUR DESK”
“HOW DO YOU-“ Kunikida blushes bright red then goes quiet.
Dazai backs up from the scene sitting down. He has been in a lot of dangerous situations but for some reason Atsushi actually radiates the feeling of death.
And it was unpleasant.
Akutagawa scowled at Atsushi “How dare you disrespect Dazai he-”
“Oh for god sakes can you stop taking about Dazai for once? You sound like one of those school girls who desperately wants her upperclassman to recognize her, do you have any idea how pathetic that sounds?”
“But-”
“Take your opinion and shove it where the sun don’t shine, I don’t give two flying fucks about it”
“I-”
“So help me god I will kick you out this window so hard your insurance won’t be able to cover it if that has ANYTHING to do with my decisions in”
Akutagawa goes silent.
“That’s what I thought. Kunikida, I’m going home early today, tell Kyouka she can stay at Ranpo’s for the night or something”
Atsushi takes his bag walking out of the office.
Akutagawa was still standing there, in shock, since when did he grow a pair of balls and stand up for himself?! Something is not right.
Kunikida sighed “Dazai, did you do anything to him”
“Why do you always assume it’s me!”
“Because most of the time it is you”
“Fair point” Dazai says shrugging “Okay so basically my little protégé has been getting a lot of sleepless nights so he’s a little on edge” m
“A little on edge, you call that a little on edge!”
“Well… he didn’t punch anyone”
Kunikida sighed “Akutagawa you should have let him sleep, instead you add gasoline to the fire”
“How dare you accuse me-”
“I’m not accusing you of shit I’m saying it was you”
“Yeahhhh, go apologize to Atsushi!” Dazai cheers from behind Kunikida.
The blonde turns back to Dazai “And we need to talk regarding how the fuck Atsushi knows about THAT”
“Haha… ha… oops?”
“Oh there is no ‘oops’ and you better start answering my questions”
Atsushi gets home tossing his bag onto the table, he didn’t even kick off his shoes as he falls onto the couch.
‘Finally, sleep’ he thinks to himself before passing out.
Akutagawa reflected on angry Atsushi, why on earth did he get kinda scared? Like they have thought before and he has seen him angry at other people.
However having him angry at himself was a whole new experience.
Maybe he should shin him a gift basket of sorts. Just to please Da-
…
Oh shit Atsushi was right.
He is obsessed.
Ew
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The next time Atsushi appeared to work he apologized profusely to everyone and sent a small letter with a few cheap flowers to Akutagawa.
He was quite confused by the gesture but appreciated the fact he apologized for calling him an bowl of uncooked noodles.