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Akutagawa has not been fond of finding a romantic relationship, although Higuchi has been trying to get with him for a long time, he could never find the reason to say yes.
(This fic will have a slight canon start, but will start to get more fanon in chapter 3, I planned it out, I’m not giving up on this fic)
Akutagawa was walking along the streets, having met Dazai just a moment ago, cleaning the dust on the edge of his black coat after fainting of the slightest compliment that Dazai gave him. Weakling, how could you faint in front of Dazai? What a failure you are.
That really made Akutagawa wonder, how did that Weretiger get Dazai’s approval so easily? Akutagawa tried for so many years, and yet that god forsaken Weretiger, got his approval in a nick of time!
Akutagawa, focused on his own thoughts, seemed to be caught off guard by Higuchi, but he hides it and puts back on his stern and cold face. “Uhm, Akutagawa-sama?”. Ugh, for some reason, Akutagawa could feel a slight irritation when Higuchi mentions his name, so many years this Higuchi has been trying to get with him, it really started to get annoying to just hear her voice. “What is it?”, A new mission from Mori? Or is this one of those little shitty attempts that Higuchi tries with him? “Mori wants to see you.”
Wow. Atleast it wasn’t an attempt this time.
“What time?” Stern as ever, trying to scare Higuchi away and leave him alone after that meeting with Dazai.
”As soon as you can, basically saying as soon as I tell you this.” It seems that Akutagawa’s attempt had failed, Higuchi has a slight blush on her cheeks, she found that attractive? Not surprising.
Without saying goodbye, Akutagawa turned around and walked or maybe jogged towards the hidden HQ, only saying a quick “Ok.” after Higuchi was done with her sentence. He wasn’t excited to be with Mori but it was better than Higuchi trying to create a love story between himself and her.
Akutagawa took a step onto the maroon dirty carpet inside Mori’s office, with shavings of pencils and some crumbs of crayons. There they were, Mori was waiting for Akutagawa with a thin string of patience while the object that was keeping it steady was Elise drawing in her probably expensive princess coloring book.
Mori took his eyes off Elise and looked over to Akutagawa, moving his head slightly towards the chair signaling Akutagawa to sit. And so Akutagawa sat, he really didn’t want to since the grey cushions fabric would always itch his skin, it annoyed Akutagawa but it was better than standing and tiring his legs out. Mori smiled, such a fake one, it could be easily seen right through, but Mori was probably not even trying to hide it.
”Akutagawa, I have a new mission for you” Mori told Akutagawa with a serious but yet happy tone, but Mori giving Akutagawa a mission directly to him was something he wasn’t quite used too, as Mori would always send Higuchi over to tell him.
”What is it?” Akutagawa said with a stern and rough raspy voice, as always.
”Capture the Weretiger.”
What the fuck? Hell “No.”, the urge to say the complete sentence he had in mind was strong.
”i’m not taking a no for an answer.” Mori’s voice went up and down, ugh. it made Akutagawa lose focus but by his following words it seemed he got the gist of it. “Why?”, the answer was very obvious, goddamnit, he had no choice. “I’ll do it, not like I have a choice.” Akutagawa said before Mori could reply to his previous question. He stood up from the grey cushioned chair, feeling a sense of relief from the fabric no longer touching a single atom of his skin.
”Glad to have someone like you in this side.” Mori said amused. Akutagawa said nothing in return he turned around and walked across the carpets towards the door, when Akutagawa left the office he was pretty sure that he saw Elise drawing him with his head separated from his body with a gush of blood coming out the place where the two parts should have connected, what did Mori do to that kid? Screw him, I have to deal with that fucking weretiger.
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Akutagawa walked along the streets to find a dark alleyway filled with graffiti, this must be where Higuchi lead the weretiger and that fucking red-head which he didn’t bother to know the name of. The feeling of Higuchi being there just made him annoyed, that girl would pester him all the throughout the mission. Surely enough, they were there, Higuchi was much more serious than she was with Akutagawa, to be honest, if Higuchi acted like that with Akutagawa, the chance of them getting together would be raised by 0.0028%.
“Ah! Akutagawa-San!” There Higuchi was, back with her fangirl behavior.
Weretiger was there, and I don’t bother to learn his name(Tanizaki for those who are confused) was also there, with his supposed sister that Akutagawa forgot even existed. He also didn’t bother to learn her name.
Higuchi shot a ton of bullets at Red-head, but Bro-con stepped in to save her brother, was this shit a movie or what? Tanizaki got mad and used his ability, blah blah blah, Akutagawa didn’t give a flying fuck about those two. His main focus was on Atsushi, or as Akutagawa likes to call him, Weretiger.
Akutagawa wanted to see why Dazai would like him? why he would approve of him so fast? Could it be that Weretiger saved him? But Dazai never wanted to be saved, let alone by a measly orphan who had nothing better to do except for beg for food.
Akutagawa gave a signal for Higuchi to go away and so she did, one of the only things Akutagawa liked about Higuchi, she would always listen. Red-head(Tanizaki) was having his dramatic savior moment with bro-con(Naomi), it was better, he had all of the time in the world to fight the Weretiger, he got excited to see if he could beat Atsushi, Dazai would see how much stronger he was than Weretiger, he had a slight chance to get Dazai’s approval, in better words, to steal it from Atsushi.
Akutagawa summoned Rashomon at the sight of the Weretiger, something about the Weretiger’s face made Akutagawa feel something, it was bright, those two-toned purple and gold eyes made him shiver. Seeing Weretiger’s dedicated face made Akutagawa think of a reason Atsushi got Dazai’s approval, but it was nowhere near reasonable.
Taking a step back, Akutagawa charged Rashomon at Atsushi, throwing some attacks at him. The weretiger dodged every single attack with swift and smooth moves, that of a ballet dancer but the steps were much intense that it’s choreography. Akutagawa still felt hatred, seeing the Weretiger dodge his attacks weren’t surprising since tigers were fast, but seeing the weretiger dodge his attacks in swift just gave Dazai more reason for his approval, it really upset Akutagawa still.