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“He flinches, he can't help it. He knows he's safe now. He knows his friends aren't violent like that man was. But his body doesn't seem to understand. His body can't forget. How could it when no one’s raised their hands with intent other than to hurt.”
When Atsushi made contact with almost anyone new he would get startled or flinch, it was never meant to be like that..
He was out with Kyouka eating lunch, he got his favorite Chazuke and he didn't really remember what Kyouka had got… but that's fine… he will just look at the bill later, He then heard and felt his phone ring then he took it out of his pocket and looked at it, it was Kunikida, he probably needed to go help to do paper work (dazai’s paperwork) he answered his phone quickly after looking at who was calling him.
“Hello? Need something Kunikida” he asked as he put the phone to his ear, “Yeah, sorry to disturb your lunch with Kyouka but we need you guys back as fast as you can, we have a few more papers and you already know Dazai won't do his work so i need your help” He said in a voice that sounded stressed. “Y-yeah! I should be able to come fast, just let us pay the bill and we'll be right there!” the male with white hair said as he hung up on Kunikida.
—After both Atsushi & Kyouka got back to the agency—
“We're back!” Atsushi announced to the agency, “Welcome back Atsushi-kun!” said the older male with brown hair. To almost everyone's surprise, Dazai was actually doing a paper, he was actually doing his work. “Hello Dazai-san.. Uhm.. you must be working on something important?” The white haired male asked.
“Ah… yes! It's none of your concern, okay?” The slightly older male said. “Okay” was all he said before he started to work on his paper that was assigned to him. He was now just really focussing on the work he was doing right now, all the noise around him was kinda not there, it was all almost muted, he just had his thoughts and the work in front of him.
He then felt someone touch him, it was so sudden he froze. His fingers stopped typing and he flinched away from the hand that had touched him. It was Dazai, really Dazai should've known it would happen and should've tried to get his attention. Atsushi just turned and looked at him, and then said “Oh.. Dazai-san! Sorry you just uhm.. Scared me, it was kinda sudden..” There was a small pause then he asked “What do you need?”
The older male seemed a bit sorry as he made the boy flinch, “just needed to tell you that you need to go with Kenji-kun to get Ranpo-san snacks.. Sorry for scaring you” he said. The boy nodded and then took off to go help Kenji get snacks for Ranpo
Extra:
Atsushi noticed that the agency members started to say his name more when trying to talk to him or ask him questions instead of touching him or yelling at him. He started to feel special.. They cared about him… I mean of course they did but it made his heart feel.. Warm? In a way he's never really felt