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Kaidou was borderline panicking.
You see, earlier in the morning, Saiki and his friends nuisances were at the beach to hang out together and for some reason while the psychic was taking a nap, he somehow transported himself and Kaidou on an island in the middle of nowhere. Saiki was about to complain when he was woken up by Kaidou, but he couldn’t really do so in good faith when he saw the situation.
“I was just taking a nap then I suddenly woke up here??? At least you’re here with me, Saiki, but what happened??? Am I just dreaming? Oh, I get it! This is probably just a dream, right? Oh yeah, m-maybe I should stop panicking because this is just a dream!” Kaidou seems to be confused but at the same time successfully gaslighting himself into believing that he is safely on this island and it’s just a dream.
Saiki got the shivers at the deja vu moment he just felt.
“Do you know a way out of here, Saiki?” Kaidou asks, taking a deep breath right after because the ramble he went on seemed to make him breathless. Saiki shakes his head, bringing his knees up to his chest and hugging it as he enjoys the silence since they were far away from anything that can trigger his telepathy; Well, he enjoys as much silence as Kaidou’s thoughts will provide him, though… now that Saiki’s focusing on it? The bluenette wasn’t thinking about much of anything now that he’s successfully gaslighted himself into thinking this was a dream.
The only thing he was thinking about was ‘ I wish I can always have this much alone time with Saiki. ’
Wait, what Saiki thinks to himself as he turns his head to the bluenette who was already looking at him; the moment that they make eye-contact, Kaidou blushes a bright red before stuttering out the question again “D-do you know a way out of here?” He asks before finally looking away and not being able to take the intense gaze that Saiki had.
“ No. But it’s okay, we can stay here for a little bit longer. ” Saiki answers, his curiosity taking over his better judgement as he tries to dig deeper into Kaidou’s mind; If the bluenette thinks that this is a dream just like how Teruhashi did once, then he wanted to see what he would do at this golden opportunity for him.
“You’re right. You like it when you’re away from other people, right? I could say I’m the same since as The Jet Black Wings, many of the informants of the Dark Reunion have put me on a bounty-” He gloats, and Saiki finds it amusing that even in dreams he still goes along with his Dark Reunion spiel. “-So being away from crowds helps my mind rest. I… I also like it since my right-hand-man is with me.” He says, the blush on his face remains as he stares at Saiki and drops the embarrassment he was feeling earlier and picks up his confidence.
“ As always, Jet Black Wings .” Saiki says, playing along with him since Kaidou is under the assumption that this was a dream.
“You know… I’ve always liked that about you; how you’re always so comfortable just being alone but still being a good friend and going along with our shenanigans from time to time. Nendou pretty much forced you here but you’re trying your best to enjoy it, hm?” Kaidou rambles on, and Saiki just nods as he stares back at the boy, making sure that he knows that he is listening.
“I’ve liked you for a while.” He confesses, the confidence in his words are building up since he’s just ‘ dreaming ’ and ‘ it’s therapeutic to think that you're actually confessing to the person you like the most ’ is what Kaidou is thinking and Saiki freezes up at the confession. He freezes up because he doesn’t know how to react- with Teruhashi, it was easy… it was easy to find a way to give her what she wanted but with Kaidou, he doesn’t know what the boy wants. He tries digging into his mind, searching for anything that would indicate how he wanted Saiki to react to this, but there was absolutely nothing .
“ Really? ” Saiki ends up asking. Maybe if he asks, Kaidou will reveal what he wants soon after and he can end this ‘dream sequence’ for him. Right? Saiki thinks to himself.
“Mhhm… It all started when you were playing along with my fantasies.” He laughs, shaking his head before bringing his finger to the sand and drawing random shapes on it as he talks. “Then it bloomed when I started noticing the small things about you; It was simple at first, basic actually, how you liked coffee jelly so much… then I noticed how you seemed to always observe everyone and understand their nuances in your own way. You always seemed so distant from us but I recently just realised just how close you actually place us in your social circle.” Kaidou lists off, and Saiki doesn’t have to act when he feels like he’s slowly being dissected and analysed. He didn’t realise just how observant Kaidou was, so he voices it out.
“ I didn’t know you noticed those things. ” Saiki says to the bluenette, and the latter shrugs with a little giggle following it. His face is bright red and- and Saiki didn’t know when this happened but Kaidou seemed to be glowing much brighter than Teruhashi ever did at this moment.
“Hmm… Nice to know that you never noticed it- I did everything I could to make sure that you don’t notice it because I didn’t want to look like a creep if you ever noticed it.” Kaidou explains, and Saiki is impressed that it worked because his thoughts never even betrayed him once.
Until he picked apart his memories and scans for the small slip-ups that Kaidou’s thoughts had, and just notices how much he noticed from him.
‘ Saiki always eats half of his lunch to leave room for his coffee jelly, I wonder if he eats enough? ’ ‘ He’s staring at Nendou as they’re talking again. I know he wants to reject his offer but for some reason he always ends up going. ’ ‘ He prefers the mini-mart coffee jelly, I see this packaging more often than the other one. ’
Kaidou always noticed him .
It leaves an impression on Saiki’s heart.
Kaidou yawns, laying down on the sand and closing his eyes. “Saiki, I’m going back to sleep- having a lucid dream for once is tiring.” He murmurs, his breaths slowly even out until he’s back to sleep once again.
Everything is quiet, absolute static; It leaves Saiki in his thoughts for a solid minute, before the psychic realises the golden opportunity and uses his clairvoyance to check the area where they were taking a nap and seeing that nobody was there at the moment so he teleports them back there quickly.
For once, the hundreds of thoughts swarming him was not the only thing he was focusing on, instead his gaze was fixated on the sleeping bluenette on the beach blanket beside him. Saiki is still staring at him, only forcefully pulled out of it by Toritsuka who pulls him up suddenly and brings him to a more secluded place.
“ Good grief. For the millionth time, Toritsuka,, I will not help you with your perverted requests. ” Saiki says, rolling his eyes and Toritsuka looks slightly offended.
“First of all, okay fine I get it.” He says, looking defeated for a second before his face contorts into confusion “But that’s not why I pulled you aside!” He says and Saiki raises an eyebrow, staring at Toritsuka and expecting the medium to continue.
“The spirits were gossiping about a blue haired boy confessing to a pink haired one and it was left in an open-ended way. What’s that about?” Toritsuka asks, obviously wanting to hear some sort of gossip that he can use against Saiki.
The psychic turns around and walks away, the medium following behind him and begging for the tea; He won’t utter what happened in that island to another soul, the only ones who need to know what he thinks is himself and his mind.
And his mind seems to be rethinking what he previously thought about the bluenette, a weird feeling of warmth spreading across his chest.