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April 29th. A special day to Chuuya, his 16th birthday. He’s never celebrated it before, he’s never even heard of the word before!
Dazai walks through the halls of the Port Mafia, he’s excited. Very excited, for multiple reasons. He knows what day it is and what he has planned for it. He walks through the big doors at the end of the corridor, leading into Mori’s office. Mori turns over and watches as the brunette walks through the doors.
“What is it Dazai?” Mori asks, he’s currently working on a big project involving the Port Mafia weapon smugglers. Dazai sighs and answers his question. “Can we celebrate Chuuya’s 16th birthday?” He asks.
“Oh! That’s a surprise! Dazai being nice?” Mori teases. Dazai looks at him with all seriousness, which makes Mori shiver. Mori sighs and accepts defeat. “Yes we can, if! You decide the theme and prepare the party.” Mori commands.
Dazai’s eyes light up with excitement. He even, smiles. Mori can’t help but look at him with fond eyes, Dazai is starting to mature and care about someone for once, it makes Mori happy even. Dazai jumps up and down for a couple seconds until Chuuya walks in.
”What happened? Did you find a successful way to kill yourself?” Chuuya asks with a bit of sass. He throws his hand on his hip and almost poses in a way, Dazai found this cute and started to laugh. “Chuuya looks stupid.” Dazai says.
He straightened up and stopped laughing then walked past Chuuya, signaling Mori to keep him there. Dazai looks back and giggles at the confused Chuuya who still has his hand on his hip, just standing in the doorway complaining to Mori about something involving Dazai, Dazai ignores that and plans in his mind everything he could do for Chuuya’s birthday until he just comes up with the idea to ask. “Kouyou!!”
He yells, he saw Kouyou entering her room at the end of the hall. “Yes dear?” She turns her head to look at the brunette and silently laughs at how young he looks.
”Help me!! It’s Chuuya’s birthday and I don’t know what theme to pick!! I’m planning it!!” Dazai yells. He regrets yelling he’s out of breath now. Kouyou looks at him with a soft expression. Don’t get her wrong she’s surprised, very surprised. She’s never seen Dazai so vulnerable, he’s so distracted by Chuuya, it makes her heart melt. “Well I suppose I could give you a few ideas.” Kouyou says, leading Dazai into her room.
Meanwhile with Chuuya, he’s busy talking with Mori about why Daza is acting so weird. “What’s up with him?” Chuuya asks.
”He’s a little salty today, I’m sure he’ll get over it.” Mori sighs. “For now how about you go on a little mission for fun?”
Chuuya accepts the mission and goes down to the warehouse. The mission is to save the Port Mafias weapon supply. It was stolen by two unknown punks who seem to be pretty smart since they were able to sneak through the security and safely get the weapons.
”Kouyou!! Help me out here!! What’s his favorite color?” Dazai asks. Kouyou tilts her head and laughs, he sounds like a child asking someone for info about their crush. “Turquoise.” Kouyou answered.
“Like his eyes..” Dazai wanders off into his own thoughts and comes up with the perfect plan! “Thanks Kouyou!” Dazai walks out of the room before even listening to what Kouyou had to say.
He walked through the building until he found an empty room, well not empty completely it had boxes in it. Boxes of decorations! He had found the room where the Port Mafia kept the decorations for their annual party’s of success! They had all sorts of colors but he only looked for turquoise, Chuuya's eyes is all he thought about. His turquoise eyes were like an ocean hiding all of life’s secrets. It was deep. But pushing all the sappy stuff behind he rummaged through the boxes until he found turquoise ribbons and balloons.
He needed his cake and another present so he came up with the idea to gift him with 1964 Romanée-Conti he noticed that Chuuya had gained a new interest of collecting wines and noticed he doesn’t have that one yet so he bought it just for Chuuya! Wait. Why was he doing this? It’s not like he cares. Does Chuuya even know what a birthday is? He shook his head in disbelief. Maybe the Sheep were dum but not that dum. He got up and walked to his own room, it wasn’t to far from the party room so it took about 30 seconds since he ran. He grabbed the bottle and ran back to the party room. He needed to set the tables up and fix the ribbons plus put up the big happy birthday sign. So he did. He put the tables up perfectly and made sure to get a tiny chair for Chuuya, he found the children chairs that were meant for his sister, Elise.
He then attempted to hang up the sign but realized he was now in Chuuya’s shoes, he couldn’t reach. So he called Hirotsu. “What is it Dazai?”
”Can you put up the sign for me please!!” Dazai asked, he clasped his hands together in a prayer way and repeated “please” over and over again. Hirotsu sighed and gave up. “Of course I can.” Hirotsu hung up the sign and walked out not saying a word.
He wasn’t surprised, he did catch Dazai drawing Chuuya in a meeting once. He was good at drawing too. Dazai squealed in excitement. This was going to be great! Chuuya’s gonna have a great time! Dazai set up confetti cannons and everything he even set a booby trap for Chuuya to fall for! Confetti would get all over him. Dazai snickered as he imagined Chuuya’s face.
“Okay! Now’s the time!” Dazai said to himself. He made his way to the PA system for the whole Port Mafia. He knew Chuuya was on a mission now, he’s just smart like that. And he knew Mori wouldn’t have anything else to make Chuuya do. Why was his father so stupid? Dazai sighed and turned on the system. “Hello! This is Dazai Osamu, coming at you with the invitations for Chuuya’s birthday! It’ll be held in the party room located on floor 2! Everyone’s invited and don’t step near the wine! Unless you want confetti poured on you!” Dazai laughed and turned off the system.
Everyone made there way to the party room, chatting about Chuuya and Dazai. Mori couldn’t help but notice how close the two were, he didn’t know they would grow this close when he hired Chuuya. But he certainly doesn’t regret it.
Dazai was jumping up and down practically yelling at everyone to get in place to surprise Chuuya. When people didn’t listen he would threaten to have them hung. Everyone was in place now it was Chuuya’s turn to come and fall for the surprise it was about time for him to come back. He didn’t? 10 minutes passed and Dazai was starting to get…worried?
Chuuya was the only one who could make him feel like this. Dazai knew he was definitely way more responsible to fail a mission so what happened? “I’ll look for him.” Dazai volunteers.
He makes his way through the halls thinking maybe Chuuya had just got lost, he’s only been here for a year after all plus the building is huge! Even Mori gets lost sometimes! Dazai looks through everywhere he could think of. So he decided to finally check out where Chuuya's mission was. He calls Mori to ask and get the cords. “Where is it exactly?”
”Its the warehouse downtown.” Mori says. “We’ll wait here, stay safe Dazai.”
”Thank you.” Dazai ends the call and runs to his car. Once he’s in he breaks multiple laws by speeding up and ignoring the police. But what else is he supposed to do? Chuuya could be in danger and it’s his birthday! He doesn’t deserve this!
He finally escapes the police and pulls up to the warehouse entrance, he can smell fire? and he can hear……Chuuya? Chuuya’s yelling? Why? Dazai runs to find out and sees that, Chuuya is tied up. He has fire surrounding him.
“Chuuya? What the hell happened!” Dazai runs around the fire as he watches Chuuya slowly pass out. The enemy’s had gotten away and left Chuuya to rot! How disrespectful? On his birthday? Seriously?!
Chuuya passes out completely and Dazai watches as he goes limp. He picks Chuuya up and runs back to his car. “Chuuya! Wake up! I’m gonna bring you to a happy place!” Dazai sang.
He wasn’t to disappointed or anything Chuuya could survive this, he knew him. “Dazai?” Chuuya whispered.
“Sleeping beauty’s finally awake!” Dazai stops for a second and reconsiders what he said. He turns over and Chuuya’s face is completely different! It’s red and his eyes are wide but that beautiful turquoise is still visible of course! He looks beautiful.
”Do you know what day it is?” Dazai says to change the topic. Chuuya looks at him and sighs, he’s tired. “No.”
Dazai looks over and tilts his head. “What? It’s your birthday?” Dazai says. Chuuya looks at him dumbfounded and sighs once again. “Are you making up words now? What’s a birthday?” Dazai looks at him directly in the eyes, Ignoring the car behind him honking since he stopped.
“You don’t know?” Dazai says. He knew the Sheep were dum but he didn’t know they were that dum. “I don’t.”
“It was when you were born!” Dazai smiles, Chuuya didn’t listen to whatever Dazai just said so he brushed it off as not important. Dazai thought Chuuya not knowing things was cute, Dazai could teach him everything! Which means they would spend more time together. “Chuuya’s cute when he doesn’t know something so obvious.” Dazai thought out loud.
The car ride got silent as they both turned red. The rest of the ride was silence as they both got out and entered to an empty building. “What happened to everyone?” Chuuya asked.
”They’re over here!” Dazai ran to the party room. Chuuya followed behind shortly after. They entered the dark room and was immediately met with yells of “HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUUYA!” Chuuya looked confused, he was confused. So he just smiled awkwardly and asked “What?”
Everyone in the room went quiet and Dazai looked over at him, “What do you mean what?”
Chuuya looked at Dazai no joke in his eyes or anything, “What is this?”
”Its your birthday party.” Dazai said, he looked over at Chuuya who looked even more confused. “You’ve never had a birthday party?” Dazai asked.
”No?” Chuuya replied. Dazai was met with guilt, he hadn’t known Chuuya had never got one. He knew he was an experiment but he thought they would’ve atleast known when he was born. “Is it something you do? Every April 29th?”
”For you, yes.” Dazai said, “it’s the day you came into this world, Chuuya.” He offered Chuuya a soft smile and held both of his hands.
”Happy birthday Chuuya.” Dazai looked at Chuuya and saw tears prickling at his eyes. Everyone else in the room were silent, speechless. Then Chuuya broke, tears fell. Dazai looked at him and smiled again. He held Chuuya until the tears stopped. Chuuya sniffled a bit but asked what everything was in the room.
”Decorations for you! Your favorite color is turquoise so I got you turquoise decorations!” Dazai smiled, Chuuya began to explore the room, not noticing how Dazai flipped a switch so the confetti wouldn’t land on him. Chuuya looked over and saw the wine. He walked over there and noticed how the note besides it was signed with his name. He looked behind him and saw how everyone was having a good time so he didn’t make to much of a big deal about the wine. The note said,
“Happy birthday Chuuya, I gifted you with wine because I’ve noticed your new hobby, this is one you don’t have correct? I hope so. Your so fast and always leave me to stay in your shadow. And I could already tell something would happen to you on this day, we’re from the Port Mafia are we not? Danger is always going to surround us. But if you get in trouble I’ll be there, even if I leave. I love you, Chuuya.” Signed Dazai Osamu.
Chuuya looked behind him and noticed Dazai was gone. He walked out of the room, ignoring everyone who talked to him. He saw Dazai walking into his bedroom so he followed, Dazai was getting Chuuya clothes since his has burn marks over them. “Dazai?”
“Yes?” Dazai replied, he held a genuine smile on his face. Which did disappear after Chuuya walked over, his face went from smiling to shocked. Chuuya looked him in his eyes, and kissed him, he grabbed his face with both hands, dropping the note. He pulled away and said. “I love you too, Osamu.”