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Yuu awoke in darkness, except he was pretty sure that he was in an earthquake or some shit because with how much shaking there was he was sure he was gonna throw up all over himself.

Specs of blue made its way into the darkness and Yuu in all his idiotic teen glory realized that he was in fact not stuck in a closet of some kind but a tight spaced…. Fuck he forgot the word again.

He’ll remember it later probably, the door fell on the floor and he looked around to see a talking cat standing on its hind legs. He didn’t have a migraine and the room was spinning so he was clearly still drunk and not schizophrenic.

He jumped out of the, um… death box thingy (𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯???) and completely ate shit on the floor.

“Oh-ho! You got a lotta nerve ignoring me, human!”

“My bad little man! You need somthin?”

Yuu tried standing up with out falling and managed but ended up tilting his body. Yuu looked around the room and got the sudden urge to explore, so he did and 𝑪𝑶𝑭𝑭𝑰𝑵𝑺!!! The fuking word was coffins, holy shit bro quickest time ever remembering words.

Oh look an apple tree, om nom nom I’m hungry. Yuu grabbed an apple or two maybe three and started munching on it, he kept walking, where to? Only god knows where cause he sure doesn’t.

Walking around he saw a tall man with some pretty cool horns, “Cool horns tall man.” The horn man seemed caught off guard but what can he say, if the tall man has cool horns then he has cool horns.

“Thank you child of man?” Damn he’s hot, holding out his other apple which he totally didn’t just steal from… where did he get it again? Doesn’t matter.

“You want one pretty boy.” Pretty man seemed to choke on his spit and started chuckling, damn his voice is nice.

“Pretty boy?” He seemed amused at the notion of being called pretty but like is it a lie??? “Yeah, cuz you’re like pretty and all that and it’s totally not cuz I don’t know your name. Definitely not that.” Pretty man was chuckling even more at that statement.

“You don’t know who I am child of man?” With how hot you are I wish I knew you sooner, “You a celebrity or somethin? Truth be told I’m like, super bad with names and matching them to faces.” Where am I right now actually?

“Of sorts, however if you don’t know who I am then I’m afraid I can’t give you my name.” He was smiling, holy fuck he’s hot, SMASH. “There a reason pretty boy?”

“I wish to enjoy this moment of ignorance a bit longer if you wouldn’t mind.” Shiiit bro I wish I could enjoy this moment with you in bed with me.

“That’s cool I guess… hey quick question do you know where we ar-“

A hand grabbed his shoulder

“AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!” Yuu elbowed whatever was behind him and ran behind pretty man, a crow person was hunched over on the floor with the talking cat thing from earlier in a whip floating in the air, well he’s seen crazier things when he was high before so he guessed it’s fine.

“My, were you ever eager to make your debut.” Came out in grunts as the man seemed to be messaging a now, most likely, bruise on his stomach.

Now seeing the situation the man seemed to stumble on his words “M-Mr. Draco-“ he was cut off by the pretty man “Headmage, is there a reason for you to be running about as of this hour?”

Draco… like Draco malfoy? Y’know I actually used to have a crush on Draco back in like, 6th grade, lmao I can go back to having that crush but on a hotter irl version of Draco.

Speaking of Harry Potter, Tom Riddle was also pretty hot. I’m lowkey still pressed he ended up turning like, hella ugly. Fucking Voldemort and his ugly ass ‘he who shall not be named’ and his stupid ass horcruxes.

Ugly fuck, why couldn’t they let Riddle keep his looks, imagine what he would look like if he was older. I bet he’d age like fine wine-

Lost in thought, the headmage and the horns guy were near the end of their conversation with the headmage looking embarrassed and put on the spot while the pretty man seemed annoyed at not being invited to some important event.

“I see I was not invited again.” Yuu was pulled out of his Harry Potter thoughts and started trying to listen in as best an idiotic drunk (possibly cross faded) teen could, which was surprisingly actually really well.

“W-Well about that! You see there was this mixup and-“

Damn, how do you forget to invite a person as pretty as this and say its cuz you had a mixup, see I might be wrong bout this but I’m pretty sure bro’s lying, that’s just my opinion though.

They stopped talking and stared at Yuu, Yuu looked between the two “Wassgood? Do I got somthin’ on my face?” Fuck are those two staring at?

That bird fucker coughed into his hands, “Let us return to the mirror chamber.”

Yuu was stumbling about trying his best to walk in a straight line while the bird guy walked ahead, Yuu stopped realizing that the pretty horn man wasn’t following.

“Yo you comin’ pretty boy?” Yuu turned around to stare at the man only to see him shake his head.

“I’m afraid not child of man, I was not invited to this occasion after all.” He needs an invite? What is he a vampire or some shit. “So If I invited you then would you go?” Genuine question y’know.

Pretty horn guy seemed surprised and smiled at Yuu ‘holy fuck he’s so hot when he’s smiling’ Yuu’s face flushed a bit at seeing such a face.

“That is most kind of you child of man, however I don’t believe I would be welcomed by the other house wardens so I’m afraid I’ll have to decline.” He seemed to sulk at the thought and Yuu was, if not, the biggest simp for tall pretty boys.

“Well if they don’t want you there then it’s their loss, If theres ever a party or sumthin’ then you’ll be the first person I invite, kay?” Yuu got a dopey grin on his face at the thought of his party partner being such a fine specimen.

Taken aback the pretty boy seemed to stretch out his smile, “I’ll hold you to that invitation then.” Yuu watched as his (f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶h̶u̶s̶b̶a̶n̶d̶) new friend disappeared in a green flurry of fire flies.

Sick as fuck for real for real.

Yuu looked over to the crow man guy thingy and ran as fast as he could without eating shit and twisting his ankle since that stupid fuck decided to KEEP walking instead of WAITING like a NORMAL FUCKING PERSON.

FUCK YOU CROW MAN YOU SAD SACK A SHIT!!!

“Fuck!” Yuu face planted face first on the floor after having miscalculated how high up the floor actually was and tripped over an apple on the floor, damn when did that fall out of his pocket?

The crow man turned around to look at Yuu in disappointment, “I must ask that you tone down the crass language young man, this is a-”

Shut the fuck uuuuuup, holy shit man, bros literally a professional yapper cuz god damn bro literally rivals my history teacher with how much hes yapping right now.

Yuu groaned and got up from the ground, almost tumbling again due to the alcohol currently still in his system.

‘I have to use the bathroom’

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Big ass doors for real for real, fucks supposed to come outta there? Giants?

“All right, new students - let me be clear. At Heartslabyul House, I am the law. Break the rules, and it’s off with your head!” What the fuck? I mean go off I guess.

*Yawn* “Well, that ceremony was as boring as ever. I’m going back to the dorm. If you’re in Savanclaw House, follow me.” Real as fuck for real for real, I felt that.

“New students! Allow me to be the first to congratulate you on your achievement.” Damn what a happy ass motherfucker, reminds of Mitsuri but with more proper ass language, what does bro also got a creepy snake guy in his corner simping after him or sum shit?

“As dorm leader of Octavinelle House, I am honored to have the opportunity to support you in what I hope will be a fulfilling campus experience.” Damn bros still goin’, but also that was a happy ass line so ain’t no way bros not tryna kill someone.

“Hey, does anyone know where the headmage went? He disappeared midway through the ceremony…” What the fuck is a headmage? Like a principal or some shit?

“Some headmage he is.” Damn, bro’s dissin’ the headmage and he ain’t even here to defend himself, tragic I guess.

“Maybe he had a tummy ache?” Real, I felt that.

A loud bang and Yuu looked over to the bird guy as he realized he had kicked the door open. Dramatic as fuck but go off I guess.

“I most certainly did not!”

“Ah, speak of the devil.” Yuu looked over to the person who just spoke and HOLY SHIT HE’S ADORABLE WHAT THE FUCK????

“If you must know, I was searching for the new student who’d failed to show for orientation.” Oh shit who?

Crow man pushed Yuu forward “You are the only one who has yet to be assigned a dorm. Step up to the Dark Mirror, and be quick about it. I’ll watch your weasel.” Me??? Im the new student??? I mean that’s cool I guess? But also when the fuck did I get a weasel???

Yuu walked towards the giant mirror in the middle of the room while a bunch of people stared at him cuz y’know, no pressure I guess.

“State your name.”

Oh my god it talks.

“Like my legal name, my original legal name or my nickname?”

Yuu was just starred at by the talking mask mirror thingy.

“Tough crowd I guess, Yuu.”

“Yuu…. The nature of your soul…. Is unclear to me.” Siiick, what the fuck does that mean?

“What did you just say?” Oh shit, lmao forget people were here for a minute, whoopsys.

“Their soul is as complex as it is simple, fitting no dorm yet belonging to all, with magic so ancient even I can not tell what it is.” OH SHIT I GOT MAGIC??? My magical girl arc boutta go crazy for real for real.

“Therefore, no permanent dorm would be appropriate.” Does that mean I can house-hop? Siiick.

“Siiiiick, so what now crow man?” The room was filled with whispers, of what though Yuu had no clue but it was probably the fact that he didn’t have a permanent dorm.

Funsies (*≧ω≦*)

“But that is absurd! The student selection process has not erred once in its century of existence!” ???

“How could this have happened?” I dunno my guy, seems pretty sick though if you ask me.

The little weasel thing started struggling against the whip and managed to get free, look theres more blue flame-

 

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“Off With Your Head!!!”

 

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*Ahem* “Then I shall have it expelled from campus. I shall even spare it from being served as dinner.” Wild statement

“Yall eat cat??? That’s wild but ok I guess”

“My, but I AM kind… Someone take this away, please.” Where’s my phone?

Yuu checked their pockets and felt nothing and checked the weird robe thingy if it had pockets

“Well, that was quite the unexpected fracas. I hereby declare that orientation has concluded.” Where the fuck is my phone???

Yuu started panicking and going about their pockets before looking around the room floor to see if he dropped it.

“Housewardens, please escort your students back to the dorms.” Yuu quickly looked up to glance at the house wardens before checking the pockets again.

Yuu stopped rigidly and looked back up at them again and holy shit they’re hot, like please step on me hot.

Minus the floating tablet thingy but then again its a tablet sooooo.

“…Hm? Come to think of it, I don’t see Housewarden Draconia of House Diasomnia anywhere.” Draconia… Like the Draco dude from earlier? The super hot one with horns, who’s new nickname is now Draco from Harry potter? But also you literally saw him earlier????

“And that surprises you? Dude’s a total recluse.” Holy shit theres a furry here, I mean he’s hot I guess so he gets a pass but I swear to god if bro starts talkin’ bout how the bathrooms need liter boxes I’m gonna fukin burn this school to the ground for letting that shit slide.

“Wait a sec… Did anyone even invite him?”
He’s cute, like the type of boyfriend your parents want you to bring home instead of Mr. hot, fast, and furry over there.

“If you’re that worried about him missing out, maybe you should have told him yourself.” Holy fuck he’s gorgeous, what I would give for him to step on me with those beautiful long legs of his please and thank you. (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)

“Maybe, but I don’t know him too well either…” Damn that’s actually so tough, like even the known recluses at school are invited to house parties and shit despite them literally talking to like, no one, unless of course you’re those weird furry kids that don’t shower and shit.

“Draconia… Like, Malleus Draconia? THAT Draconia?” Damn does bro have a moanable name, I can fuck with that. But am I gonna remember that? Probably not.

“So it’s true? He really does go to school here?”

“Yikes.”

Damn why they talkin so much shit bout my boy Draco like that? Fucked up for real for real.

“Ah. Just as I’d expected.” Smash, all the way bro, you’re so pretty please date me.

“I figured I’d come down and see for myself whether Malleus had made an appearance. But once again, he was evidently not informed that his presence was required at an official ceremony.” I did try and invite him but my guy said no so, ye.

 

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Oooooh~ cool library, floaty books and shit that I’m probably never gonna read.

Yuu looked around the room as bird man went over books that have to do with like, geography or something.

“Just as I’d suspected. Nothing. Not only is your homeland not listed on any map from any point in history.”

Is there a bathroom around here?

“Now, are you QUITE sure that you come from such a place? That wasn’t some sort of lie, or jape?”

Sorry my bad let me just NOT know my own home address like I haven’t lived there for the past five years of my life and instead lie about some magical place I’ve totally lived my whole life. (￢_￢)

“Cool, whatever, look I’m boutta piss myself right now so do you like, have a bathroom around here?”

“Because if so- I… what?”

Bird man seemed confused at being cut off so Yuu being the kind hearted person he is repeated what he said.

“I’m boutta piss myself, is there a bathroom around here?” Yuu reiterated in a slower manner so that the bird guy got the gist of what he was trying to say.

“…. Down the hall, second door to the left.”

Yuu took off running, “YOU’RE A REAL ONE BIRD GUY!” Yuu screamed in order to let the bird guy know his thanks since he was just kind like that.

 

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Staring at himself in the mirror, Yuu realized that he previous clothes were gone and were instead replaced with more preppy clothes, which he like totally fucks with cuz it’s cute and all.

But also, Yuu realized that the alcohol was finally leaving their system as they only felt slightly dizzy and off centered now, so thats nice.

Drying his hands off on his pants, Yuu went back to where crow man was from earlier “hey thanks a lot bird ma-“ Yuu was swiftly cut off.

“Headmage.” Headmage?

“…Yes..?”

“Refer to me as Headmage.”

“…. Uh, sure.” Who the fuck refers to themself to their own title? Thats like the principal telling you to call them principal when you’re in the middle of a conversation instead of referring to them as their last name.

“I take it you’ve freshened up now?” Headmage bird huffed at Yuu in annoyance.

“Yeppers.”

“I take it you’re from a different planet then? As that would be the only explanation for your unknown home.” Mr. Headmage bird looked at them with expectancy

“Or perhaps you were summoned here from another dimension?” Dimension traveling, thats cool.

“Probably another dimension then? I mean, considering magic isn’t, y’know, real? It makes sense that this is a different dimension.” Can’t let bird guy know that I know I’m dreaming, honestly though, I’ve never lucid dreamed before but it’s pretty sick.

Mr. Headmage looked at me in disbelief, “show me everything that you brought here with you. Do you perhaps have a form of identification, a driver’s license perhaps? Or even a…shoe? You do seem a tad bit….empty-handed.”

Yuu pulled out a butterfly knife and a phone from an inner pocket hidden away in the robes, scared the fuck out of him earlier when he thought he lost his phone.

Yuu turned the phone on and realized he had smut open for the world to see and quickly turned his phone off.

Headmage bird stared at him in disappointment, Yuu faced his phone away from Headmage bird and quickly went to his photo gallery and pulled up a pic from when him and his siblings went to Disney land.

Showing the picture to Headmage bird, Yuu expected maybe a sign of recognition only for their not to be.

“Damn, if you don’t know this place then I doubt you’ll know any other place I show you.”

Headmage bird brought his hand under his to 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 show that he was thinking, fuckin loser.

“Well, this is quite the predicament.”

Lol

“I cannot have someone with magic that no teacher can teach bumbling about my academy.” Who the fuck says bumbling nowadays????

“And yet, as an educator, I am loath to expel a young person without a cent to their name, or any ability to contact their guardian…” lmao for sure I guess.

“Truly, my grace is boundless.” K cool can I go now?

“Hmmmmm….” Lmao don’t think to hard, you’ll hurt your head.

“Ah! There is a vacant building on this campus. It was, in fact, used as a dorm a long-“

God does he talk a lot. (￢_￢)

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Yuu took a good long look at the abandoned building and gravestones that stood in front of it.

‘Lmao ya no, I’m dipping the first chance I get’

“Isn’t it delightful? Right, scoot inside now. There you go.”

“Ew, like, genuinely ew. If I had asthma I would probably die within the first five minutes of me being in here.”

Headmage bird let out an awkward chuckle at that statement.

“This should keep the elements at bay for the time being. Now, I should return to my research. Do try to find some way too busy yourself.”

Great, now get the fuck outta here so I can dip, I’m tryna explore.

“But don’t let me catch you wandering the campus! Ta!” HOLY SHIT HE CAN READ MINDS!!? Fuck now I actually can’t leave now, he’ll magic man his way here the minute I step out the door and like… I dunno probably stab me or some shit.

Looking around, Yuu decided to sit on the couch by the window, dust and all be damned. Not even five minutes later did it start to pour.

Yuu pulled out their phone and went to their apple music to play a song he had downloaded in order to match the esthetic of being in an old house with rain pouring down.

‘Dark as the night’ it was. Pressing play, staticky noise was heard and Russian was being played, but for some reason Yuu could understand the words? Even though he doesn’t know Russian???

I mean sick as fuck, I guess. Is this what the mirror meant by ancient magic? The power of translation???

Staring out, Yuu looked at the forest before deciding to go to ‘Books’ seeing as he had no service and wanted to read.

Immersed in reading, Yuu was startled when he heard the door slam open only to see no one at the doorway.

“GWAH! It’s pouring out there!”

Looking down, Yuu realized why he didn’t immediately see them. It’s because it was a short little gnome that had walked in.

“Bahaha! That look on your face is priceless! Like a bat that got blasted by a water gun.” Oddly specific but for sure.

“As if I wouldn’t just sneak back on to campus the second I escaped pryin’ eyes. You all got no idea what I’m capable of!”

Yuu looked back onto their phone and started reading again as the cat started up his yap sesh.

“I ain’t givin’ up on goin’ here just ‘cause-“

 

‘-and Tanjiro knew he was selfish, his family had all but became demons while he was the only one who had managed to survive.

But he wanted to play family for a little longer. Wanted to continue being the reliable big brother, the hardworking son… their family.

[And the dark, troubled steppe has come to lie between us.]

Even if it meant giving up his morality, his humanity, he’d do it. For them… nothing mattered so long as he could continue being family with them… even if it meant killing those who have done no wrong.

Even if it means working with and using the very beings his family had turned into as a scapegoat for the killings. He’d do it for them and he would-‘

[Death is not terrible, we’ve met with it more than once in the steppe…]

Yuu was cut off from their reading as the wet cat decided to hop on the couch right next to them. Something about the roof having holes?

Yuu rolled his eyes and got off the couch to go explore while the cat started talkin’ mad shit bout how Yuu didn’t have magic and all that.

Yuu walked around in search for a room without a cat to get him dirty, while walking he swore he heard a creek.

Not like it matter’s anyways, worse comes to worse and he encounters a ghost he’ll just throw hands or some shit.

Damn is there a lot of cobwebs- three ghosts in capes and top-hats showed up in front of Yuu and just started floating there.

“Lmao you guys look like the marshmallow man.”

“Yee hee hee… Bwa ha ha ha ha.”

Goofy ahh laugh for real for real.

“We haven’t had visitors in ages!” I can tell.

“Oh, I’m just itchin’ for new friends!” Maybe go out and talk to people? Can you talk to people? He’s talkin to me though so I guess he can.

“Ah ha ha ha ha ha!”

“Sick, nice to meet ya I guess, do you have any clean rooms where I can stay?”

“…. Are you not scared?”

“I don’t know why I would. You guys have the appearance of a cartoon character that children would love, not really scary to be honest.”

“….”

“….”

“….”

“…. So about that room-“

“Hey, hurry it up over there- AAAAAH! GHOSTS! GHOOOOOOOOSTS!” That cat started screeching his ears off at the sight of the marshmallows.

“…. Seriously?”

“All the people who used ta live here got scared of us and ran away.”

Yuu snorted at the conjunction of being scared at these… beings? “Lmao fucking pussies.”

“We just want a new ghost to play with! What do you say, buddy?” The fat one questioned us.

“Lmao sure why not, but If I look anything like you guys then I want a refund.”

The three ghosts stared at Yuu in confusion, “Kid, you’re joking right?”

[I am glad, I am calm in deadly battle]

Yuu looked at their phone to pause their music, had it been on repeat for like, 10-15 minutes?

“Eeeeep!” Yuu looked over to the cat and noticed that it was shivering? Lmao what, it has fur and fire for ears yet it’s cold? Wild.

“I’m a master sorcerer! I ain’t afraid of any dumb ghosts!” Yuu cut into that statement “lol, it’d be embarrassing if you were scared of them.”

The cat, uhhhh Grime, glared at Yuu “Myahaaa.” Blue fire shot out from the cats hands and went towards the ghosts, burning the hardwood floor and giving the walls a charcoal gleam to them.

“Nuh-uh. Not even close.”

“Over here! Over here! Ah ha ha ha!”

Damn, they for real taunting him and for what?

“Argh! They keep disappearing and-“

Yuu tuned out the conversation and went back to the couch, it was still raining and he didn’t want to ruin the esthetic of doom and gloom so he went back to playing music.

This time he decided to put on one of his personal playlists, dubbed ‘3’, first song to play was ‘summer depresion’.

Yuu closed his eyes while listening to the music, leaning back onto the couch, he listens as the rain hits the window.

‘I want to wake up now, maybe I can convince Yvette to make dinner tomorrow. Haven’t had her cooking in a while.’

Yuu heard more screeches and jeering from the cat and taunts from the ghosts. Distant as it was, Yuu still found it annoying. He brought his legs to his chest, with his phone in his hand he raised the music and put his head between his legs.

[Summer depression comes every year

I just want to disappear

(Depression) Summer depression

There’s so much time to question my life

Summer depression

It’s my summer depression-

 

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Yuu woke up to the door opening again, Headmage bird was there with a bag.

[And you don’t seem the lying kind

A shame that I can read your mind]

Yuu paused the music to see what he was here for, yuu felt a warmth pressed against his side and noticed that the cat was lying against him.

“Good evening. In another gesture of my immense kindness, I have brought you dinner.”

At the word dinner, the cat seemed to lazily wake up.

“Myahhh…. Food…?”

Yuu felt the same way the cat did at that moment, kind of.

“Wait. That’s the creature we ejected for causing trouble at orientation! What id it doing here?!”

If the mention of food didn’t wake up the cat, then all the yelling certainly did.

“Took care of yer ghost problem, that’s what. You’re welcome, by the way!”

Headmage bird looked at the cat with disbelief before turning to Yuu, “What us the meaning of this, Yuu?”

“Quite literally just that, there were ghosts and our resident ghost buster over here decided to blast them with fire.” Yuu yawned and laid his head on top of his knees, looking at the little cat before closing his eyes again.

“Ghost buster…? But you know, on that topic, I do seem to recall that this dorm had a mischievous ghost problem.”

Yuu didn’t bother to look up at the bird, he was way to tired to give a fuck about anything at the moment.

“Ah, yes… That’s why it was abandoned, in fact. The ghosts scared away all the students. And you’re saying that you two joined forces to drive them away?”

“Joined forces” ain’t exactly how I’d describe it. More lime I drove ‘em away, and the human slept on the sidelines. And I only did it ‘cause I wanted some tuna.”

Grime looked at Yuu in anger “Hey… Wait a minute! I never got those cans of tuna ya promised!” …. When the fuck did I promise him tuna?

“Would you two be so kind as to demonstrate your ghost-eradication methods for me?”

“One, no, ‘cause I already wiped ‘em all out. And two, no, ‘cause where’s my tuna?!”

Yuu went to his phone to change the playlist, he realized something though while doing so. Even with him playing music on his phone for who knows how long, his battery percentage hasn’t gone down like, at all.

“I will play the part of the ghosts. As for the tuna. You’ll receive it when you defeat me. Oh, what generosity, Crowley…”

…. Who the fuck is Crowley?

“If you’re so generous, then I’m sure that you’ll be generous enough to clean up one of the beds for me, good as new.”

“Now to chug this transmutation potion!” Yuu rolled his eyes and clicked play on the playlist which he decided to name ‘BB101’.

The first song playing was ‘Doom Crossing: Eternal Horizen’. Yuu however decided to pause it before the girls actually started fight in order to get this shit right.

“Ah, you gotta be kiddin’ me. I gotta work together with the human?” Grime looked annoyed at the fact that he would have to work with Yuu.

“Do it for the clean bed an’ tuna lil’ man.”

“Hrmph. All right, but this is the last time. And I better be up to my jowls in tuna afterwards!”

What the fuck is a jowl and how does a cat know what it is and I don’t?

Yuu realizing that the fight was boutta start pushed play on the song and started giving out orders, all the while still sitting on the couch.

 

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When the little mock battle was over, Yuu watched as the cat was panting, “…. Well?”

Headmage bird only starred on in interest, “incredible… I’ve never seen anyone bend a monster to their will quite the way you have.”

Yuu decided that now would probably be a good time to pause their music.

“I must confess, my educator’s intuition did sense something about you after that brouhaha at orientation, Yuu.” What the fuck happened at orientation again?

“I could tell you had a certain animal trainer-y, beast master-ish quality to you. Oh, yes. That said, I…” Headmage bird started mumbling to himself.

‘Lmao bro hella just made that shit up on the spot’

“So like, do you think you could fix up our room now? I’d at the very least like a clean bedroom and bathroom that me and Grime could use.”

“WHAT? A monster, stay HERE?”

“Whoa, did you just?… Wait, Grime!?”

Yuu cut off Grime before he could go on a tangent.

“Pretty please, I’m like, super tired right now and I don’t wanna shower in a dirty bathroom.” Yuu’s voice was super dead and he couldn’t even muster up a small smile, honestly he was way to tired to care enough about appearances. Wait, could you even get tired in dreams?

“Hmmm… I suppose I cannot deny your plea. Very well.”

Grime seemed excited at that, “Myah?! Really?”

“Let me be clear! Under no circumstances would I admit anyone to Night Raven College who has not been selected by the Dark Mirror - especially not a monster!” Damn that sucks, feels bad for Grime.

“Nor do I intend to allow you, Yuu, to freeload until you’re able to return home.” Fuck.

“Hrmph. Never shoulda got my hopes up…”

“Now, allow me to explain. It was the Dark Mirror that transported you here. Therefore this school does bear some responsibility for your well-being.” K cool I guess.

“So I will allow you to remain in this dorm, free of charge. However, you will need to pay for your own food, clothing, and incidentals.” What the fuck are incidentals?

“As to how you will do so, penniless as you are… Ah. Ah ha. Yes, a fine plan.”

“?”

“You needn’t seem so alarmed. I’m simply going to ask you to do a few odd jobs. From what you’ve done here, Yuu, I can tell you know your way around a broom.”

What work? I haven’t done anything? Like, at all?

“So what do you say to you two working together as a janitorial team?”

Yuu quickly shot that Idea down, “No, I’m fine with starving, thanks.”

“If you agree to that, I will make a special exception anf allow you to remain on campus.” Ignored, fuck you bird man.

“I’ll also allow you use of the library, so that you may study, and research ways to return home. How boundlessly charitable I am.” Kill yourself.

“Ah, but only when your work is over, of course!” I hope when you walk outside you step in a puddle and get your socks wet.

“Whaaat? What kinda deal is that?!” Spout that shit out for the world to hear Grime! Let that bitch know!!!

“I wanna put on one of those sweet uniforms and be a student, not sweep up people’s junk!” Oooh- see I dunno bout the student part but I defo don’t wanna clean, anyways, say that with your chest little man!

“If you’re not satisfied with my offer, I can arrange to have you thrown out again.” OH SHIT, SHOTS FIRED CUZ BRO LITERALLY GOT YOUR ASS GAGGED.

“Mayh?!…. All right, fine! Let’s do it.” Lmao good luck Grime cuz I’m defo not doing anything.

“Anyways can you clean up the room now? And, y’know, the bathroom?”

Headmage bird looked satisfied at the cats answer, “Wonderful. Then I beseech you both…. To work hard as the newest members of Night Raven College’s janitorial staff!”

 

K cool now fix the fucking bedroom you fat ass bird.

Chapter Text

[Shut up, count your calories

I never looked good in mom jeans

Wish I Was like you]

Yuu groaned into the pillow and swiped his hand up and down the bed trying to find his phone.

[Blue-eyed blondie, Perfect body

Maybe I should try harder

You should lower your expectations]

Patting underneath the pillow next to his head, Yuu grabbed his phone and turned off his alarm.

{4:04}

Isn’t that nice. Yuu looked around only to realize he was still in the nasty ass building and realized he was in fact, not lucid dreaming, and that this was now his everyday life.

Fuck my life.

Yuu pushed himself off the bed and started walking towards the door, only for for him to fall on the floor due to the blood rushing to his head.

Ah, anemia, my good old friend how I’ve missed you. After a few seconds Yuu pushed himself off the floor and slipped on some shoes before walking out.

While the bedroom floor may be clean, that didn’t mean that the rest of the building floor was.

Walking out the front door, Yuu saw the two pots filled with rain water and brought them inside and set them on the kitchen counter. Grabbed a different pot, Yuu went to his bedroom and grabbed the ashes from the wood in their and set them next to the rain water.

Never made lye soap before, but like, how hard can it be?

 

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It took like, two hours and thats because I’m fuckin’ slow, but it wasn’t that hard.

Yuu got three glass baking pans and put plastic wrapping in it before pouring in the liquid mixture.

[Twist my spine ‘til I’m paralyzed

So I never leave your side

Hold me tight, can’t leave you behind]

Yuu was singing along to the song, he wonders what his mom was doing. It’s been a while since he last saw her….

Yuu heard a screech come from down the hall.

‘Guess the ghosts woke Grime up’

Yuu put the dirty dishes in the sink and turned the faucet on to fill the dishes with water. Yuu opened an empty cabinet and looked to see if there were any spiders inside.

None, thank god. Yuu grabbed the baking pans and shoved all three in the dark, desolate cabinet and slammed it shut.

In walks the bird guy who was in fact a real person and not just some fictional character that his mind had made up to fuck with him.

“Good morning, Yuu. Did you sleep well?”

Yuu hummed, “I guess.” Yuu turned the faucet off, deciding to just let the pots soak instead of just washing them immediately.

Grime came floating into the kitchen muttering curses about the ghosts and looked shocked that the bird guy was here.

Yuu sat on the counter and opened up one of the novels he had saved on his phone.

“Exactly how ramshackled IS this dorm? When I sprawled out on the bed, the mattress fell right through the frame!” Sucks.

“And worse yet, I got woken up by ghosts!” Damn, that’s tough.

“I am delighted to hear that you’ve adjusted so well, despite being sent to another world!” Headmage bird was all smiles and shit, like bro, my guy, my dude, it is six in the morning. Cut that shit out.

“Don’t be, I thought you weren’t even real yesterday.”

“Now-…. You thought I wasn’t real?” Headmage bird seemed confused about the wording that Yuu had used, which, I guess makes sense.

“Yeppers, thought I was lucid dreaming and shit. Magic ain’t real where I’m from after all, so I just thought that this was a crazy ass dream.”

“Right. Now, speaking of moving on, let us discuss your assignment for today.” Yuu groaned, rolled his eyes and looked back over to the bird.

[I don’t, I don’t know where I am

Don’t know where I’ve been]

Yuu wondered if he should pause the song or just let it play.

[And I can’t stand the place that I’m in

I’m back here again]

Yuu paused the music and put the phone in his back pocket, looking back over to Crowley to see what he was saying.

 

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“Wow, so this is Main Street, huh? This is incredibly!” Grime looked all around main street, floating around the Disney villain statues because why not? Who doesn’t love putting statues of Disney villains in a school.

“I didn’t get to see much of it yesterday. What’s the deal with these seven statues? All their faces look pretty scary.”

Yuu raised the volume of the music, turns out no matter where you are you can still connect to blue tooth earbuds, even if they are from a different world.

“Which one do you wanna know about? Cuz back there we got the Queen of Hearts, the wicked Sea Witch, the King of Pride Rock, God of the Underworld, the grand vizier of Agrabah, the Thorn fairy, and lastly the Evil Queen.”

Grime looked over the statues before choosing the first option, “That lady over there, looks like she’s got some reeeal anger management issues.”

Just as Grime finished that sentence, some ginger kid with a heart painted on his eye walked up to Yuu and Grime.

[What role am I playing?

A fool or humble girl?]

“You don’t know the Queen of Hearts?” The boy smiled the whole time while speaking to them.

[What mask am I wearing?

Does it cry or feel above the world?]

“Is she some kinda big deal?” Grim seemed confused, It would make sense seeing as he was some type of beast, so he was most likely never watched anything Disney related.

“She’s a queen dumbass, obviously she’s a big deal.”

The other boy near them continued smiling, “She was a queen who lived in a mazelike garden of roses long, long ago.” Considering his statement, I’mma take a guess and say that they’re actual people in this world.

“Yeppers, she had like, a shit ton a rules and killed any of her subjects that broke them.”

The other boy seemed to choke on his own spit at Yuu’s words and Grime looked shocked at the mention of murder.

Coughing into his own hand, the ginger kid went back to his own little explanation.

“She was a strict woman-“ “She was a total nit picky bitch.” “-who prized order above all.” “And was a total drag when it came to rules.” “She wouldn’t tolerate a rose being off color,-“ “Y’know, I think she even killed a guy for planting the wrong colored roses.” “-or her playing card soldiers being out of line step.” “Lmao I’d definitely end up killing myself if I was under her rule.”

The ginger kid snorted at the last sentence before pretending he was just coughing into his hand, y’know he’s actually kinda cute.

“She basically ruled over a kingdom of madness but not one of her subjects dared to defy her.” “No surprise there.” “You wanna know why?” “Not really no.”

The boy glared at Yuu for that, like my bad my guy, not like I totally don’t already know the fucking punishment she gave out left and right.

“The punishment for breaking a rule was immediate decapitation!”

Grime was a bundle of shock and fear all wrapped into one. “Wah! That is seriously messed up!”

The ginger continued smiling all the while, “pretty cool, right? I’m a big fan.”

Yuu started staring into the forest, “reaaal, to be honest I lowkey wanna see what it’s like to get decapitated myself but like, y’know without the whole death thing.”

The boy with no soul started looking at Yuu like they were a weirdo, like excuse me sir if anyones a weirdo here, it’s you ya fuckin’ ginger.

“I mean, who would bother to obey a queen that was kind all the time?”

“I mean, if she makes houses cheaper and made college less expensive I so totally would.”

Grime nodded in agreement with the ginger kid, “Yeah, true. A leader needs to be strong.”

Yuu snorted, “Dumbass, a leader doesn’t need to be strong to lead. They need the brains to gain the support from the people under them, I mean like, why be strong when you can just use other strong people to do the dirty work for you.”

Grime looked at them like how the ginger kid looked at them earlier.

“But puttin’ that aside… who’re you, now?”

The kid widened his smile and brought his hand to the back of his neck.

“Name’s Ace. I’m a first-year student here, as of… today! Pleased to meetcha!”

Yuu snorted and looked at Ace in pity, “Damn dude, your parents did 𝘯𝘰𝘵 love you lmao.”

Ace looked at Yuu in annoyance, “Hah?”

Grime smirked and puffed out his chest, “I’m Grim! I’m a prodigy who’s plannin’ to be, like, the greatest mage who ever lived.”

Yuu choked on air, fuck not again but also.

“Your name’s Grim??? Dude I thought your fuckin name was Grime the entire time not Grim!” Yuu heard giggled come out of the gingers mouth.

“Obviously my names Grim you infuriating human!” Yuu held down his laughter, “Right, my bad.”

Grim started muttering curses at my before deciding to give my own introduction.

“That there’s my far less interesting hench-human Yuu.” Yuu glanced over at the cat, “Kill yourself, anyways Yuu’s my nickname, nice ta meetcha’ Acey.”

Yuu watched as Ace’s eye seemed to twitch at being called Acey, lol.

“Yuu”? Huh. Name’s got an odd ring to it.” Lol bro’s so talkin’ shit bout my nickname right now.

“Yeppers.” Yuu made a small heart with his pointer finger and thumb, why? Honestly no clue.

“So tell me, Ace. Is that lion with a scar in the eye a famous ruler too?”

Yuu got bored of the convo and pulled his phone out to go back to reading, cuz like, why pay attention to people you barely know when you could just read?

‘-there was even this strange guy, something Tomioka if I remember, who kept insisting that I knew something.” Tanjiro giggled while explaining to his younger sister.

“I mean, he wasn’t wrong. But he also didn’t have anything to back up his claims and the authorities immediately put a stop to it before he tried to do anything more.”

Nezuko looked annoyed at that, “Maybe you should stop going out for a while, Jiro.” Nezuko was repairing Hanako’s hiori while Takeo was off to the side reading a book that his teacher had recommended to him.

“Or we could just kill the guy before he tried anything.” Takeo had offered but both Tanjiro and Nezuko shot the idea down.

“He’s a lot stronger than the other slayers, he smells the same way mama does.”

Nezuko hummed, “Not to mention if he knew that Jiro knows something then he might be a Hashira, I doubt we could kill kim quietly and get away with it like all the other slayers.”

Takeo scoffed and set his book down, he leaned on Tanjiro’s shoulder and watched as Tanjiro embroidered a chufurisode, “Then why don’t we get one of those weird upper demons to do it for us instead? Like those twins or the weird hantegu guy.”

Nezuko hummed, “I doubt they would even if we asked, worst comes to worse we’ll kill him and go into hiding again.” Tanjiro sighed at her comment.

“It was going to be sooner rather than later, Hanako and Shigeru still refuse to grow and Rokuta has been killing too many people around here lately.” Takeo groaned, “Don’t remind me about it, Shigeru still bitches at me like a little kid since he wasn’t the one who turned you into a demon all those years ago.”

“Takeo! Language, you know mama doesn’t like hearing you say those words.” Nezuko scolded him and Takeo only rolled his eyes, “Why does it matter if I cuss anyways, It’s not like mama doesn’t cuss herself.”

“You’re right Takeo, but that doesn’t mean that you should say those words just because I do.” Takeo and Nezuko both flinched.

“Mama! W-when did you get here?” Takeo looked nervous as Kie looked at him with a serene smile.

Kie hummed, “Some time ago, Takeo be a dear and help your younger sister with her studies.” Takeo swiftly jumped up from the floor and ran off.

“Mama, we’re going to have to move again soon.” Kie sighed, “I figured, there’s been more demon attacks in the city so it’s only a matter of time before all those slayers are around.” Nezuko huffed and set aside Hanako’s clothes to the side and started working on embroidering her own kimono.’

 

“Pretty cool, huh?”

Yuu tuned in back to the conversation with Ace and Grim, turning his phone off and putting it in his back pocket. The music was still blasting into his ears all the while.

“Not like some piddling weasel.” Ace’s smile turned almost sadistic and Yuu couldn’t help but laugh at that.

“He’s got your ass there Grim.” What were they talking about?

“Myah?!”

“Pfft…. Ah ha ha! I can’t hold it back anymore! Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!” Damn why is his laugh actually kinda cute too? Y’know normally I don’t go for gingers but I can make an exception every now and then.

“Come on, you’re the ones who turned orientation into such a fiasco, right?” Yuu nodded his head in agreement.

“To be fair, I was drunk so it was like, totally not my fault.” Ace snorted

“The one summoned by the Dark Mirror who can’t even use regular magic, and the monster no one summoned at all.”

[Punch your lights out

Hit the pavement]

“It took everything I had not to burst into laughter right in the middle of the ceremony!” Yuu huffed at the statement.

“H-hey! You don’t gotta be a jerk about it!”

“So in the end, neither of you got admitted and now you’re janitors? Ah ha ha! SO lame!”

Yuu sighed and rolled up his sleeves.

“What did you just call me?!” Grim huffed angrily at Ace.

“And you’re so clueless you don’t even know who the Great Seven are. Not one of them! Maybe before you try getting into the academy again, you oughta to take a second crack at kindergarten?”

[That’s what I call entertainment]

“Ah ha ha ha ha!” Ace was laughing like Grim was the funnies thing in the world, which unfortunately I couldn’t let slide.

“Grrrrr….”

Yuu looked at Ace in pity, “Sorry my guy but you aren’t nearly hot enough for me to allow that comment to slide.”

[Causin’ problems makes you famous]

“Anyways, just thought I’d tease you a bit. And man am I glad I did. It’s been a blast! Unlike you, I actually have classes to get to, so I’ll let you get back to picking up trash. Bye!”

Yuu walked over to Ace, “Ya, no. Unfortunately I’m gonna have to beat your ass now so you’re gonna have to miss class.”

Ace looked confuse at that statement, “Huh?”

[All the violence makes a statement]

Yuu socked Ace on the side of his face as hard as he could, Ace not expecting it fell to the ground and cradled his cheek.

“Pull up motherfucker, put those hands up.”

[Punch your light out

Hit the pavement]

Ace looked at Yuu like he was crazy, “Did you just fucking hit me?” Yuu rolled his eyes. “No I kissed you on the cheek, yes dumbass I hit you.”

Ace got up from the ground and started cracking his knuckles, “you’re gonna pay for that you bitch.” Crazy “Just put those hands up pussy.”

“Myaaaaah!” Blue fire shot out at both Ace and Yuu, “OH SHIT!” Yuu ran behind Ace and used him as a shield.

[That’s what I call entertainment]

“Whoa!” Yuu glared at Grim, “Grim my dude, what the fuck!?”

“No one makes fun of Grim, Master of fire! I’m gonna make that explodey-head of yours explode all over again!”

Yuu took that as his cue to walk over towards Grim.

“Explodey-head?!” Dude that’s what gets you pissed? That was a lame ass insult and you know it.

“You wanna throw down with me as well, shorty? You got some guts.”

“Lol someones mad.” Yuu snickered as Ace furrowed his eye brows.

“You wanna talk hair, huh? I’m gonna shave you like a toy poodle!” Yuu bent down and whispered in Grims ear.

“You gonna let that slide oh great Grim, cuz me, personally, I would not let that shit slide.”

“Myaaaaah!” More blue fire shot out and Yuu grabbed his phone and started recording the fight.

“Oh-ho! How do you like that?”

Ace sent wind towards Grim which seemed to throw the cat off balance, coincidentally it also managed to cut up Yuu’s arms as well.

Yuu however was having to much fun giggling over the entire thing to even care about the blood that was seeping through his button up.

“H-Hey! His magic winds are blowin’ my fireballs off course! No fair!”

“Quit your bitchin’ and just roast that motherfucker Grim!”

While fighting, other students started showing up.

“What’s going on over there? A fight?!”

“Oh? Sweet! Get ‘em!”

Yuu turned the camera to face the students before pointing it back towards Ace and Grim.

“Beat his ass Grim! Burn that bitch alive!!! Hya ha ha ha ha ha!” Yuu started cackling and the other students looked at him like he was a nutcase.

“Awww… Can’t hit me with with your little fireballs?” Yuu watched as Ace teased Grim all the while deflecting the fire to other places.

“Grrr… You better believe I’m about to!”

Grim shot off one of the fire balls and once again it was deflected, this one however ended up going out near Yuu’s leg.

His pants ended up catching on fire which led to him trying to put it out while recording, the camera quality would be shaky but it was better than nothing he supposed.

“Okay, you’re going down.”

 

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“Take that!”

“Pffft. All it takes is a little gust to - Hah!”

Damn why do they talk so much during a- oh shit.

Ace redirected Grims fire towards one of the statues, specifically the Queen of Hearts.
Lmao they are so fucked.

Ace started screaming like a little bitch at the sight of the statue, “Oh no! Now the Queen of Hearts’s statue looks like it’s been flame-broiled!”

Yuu started laughing watching the chaos.

“Who the fuck compares burning a statue to a cooking method, what the fuck!??” Yuu was leaning forward and holding his stomach while, for some reason, still recording.

“That’s your fault for tryin’ to divert it! You shoulda just let it burn you to a crisp!” Grim tried passing the blame onto Ace, like that would save his sorry ass.

“Who in their right mind would ever do that?!” Ace looks annoyed, real cause I would too if someone spouted out that bullshit to me.

“What is going on here? Cease this at once!”

Yuu jumped slightly at the sudden appearance of the Headmage, “What the fuck!”

“Oh no! The headmage!” Ace looked like he was about to piss himself in fear.

“Not more lashing of love! We gotta get outta here!”

…. Lashing of love? What in the bdsm bullshit kink is that, does he like, just whip students? Kinky I guess but like also we’re minors? Police?

“OW!”

“Myaaaaaah! And I’m still sore from yesterday, too!”

Yuu watched as the Headmage whipped both Ace and Grim while they tried to run away.

“What the fuck!!!?”

Yuu ran in front of the two and looked at the Headmage in disgust.

“Dude Ace is a fuckin minor, plus Grim’s a cat!?? Like keep your kinky bullshit to yourself before I report you for pedophilia and zooiphilia you fucking weirdo!”

Damn perverted old men and their weird fucking kinks, like what the actual fuck??? Who tries to do bdsm with a cat???

The Headmage looked surprised that Yuu had intervened but even more so at the accusation.

“K-Kink!? This is no kink! It’s an act of punishment!”

Yuu rolled his eyes, “That’s what they all say you pedo!”

The Headmage looked even more flabbergasted at being called such a hateful word.

“I do not like children! I’ll have you know I already have a partner!” Yuu scoffed.

“Save it for the cops creep.”

The other students started whispering to each other about whether it was true or not, I mean, even if it’s not then isn’t it still child abuse?

The headmage looked around and realized that apparently no one was on his side and looked distressed, desperate to get out of there he quickly yelled at the students before running away.

“As punishment for today’s infractions, you are hereby ordered to wash a hundred windows!” Was all Yuu and the others heard from a distance.

Yuu turned around to see a shell-shocked Ace and a confused Grim, Yuu realized he was still in fact recording so he ended the video and put his phone in his back pocket.

“What a fuckin’ weirdo, and he like, works here?” Yuu tried started out a conversation only to be pointed at by Ace and looked at in horror.

“Y-you just, you just called the headmage a p-pedophile!”

Yuu looked at Ace in confusion and shrugged, “I mean like, obviously? He was whipping kids which he literally calls the “Lash of Love”??? If he isn’t a pedo then he’s a child abuser, get in the game lil bro.”

Ace seemed bewildered before grabbing Yuu by his shoulders, “Are you fucking crazy!? Who in their right mind would even call the headmage a pedo!!? Are you trying to get us expelled!??”

Yuu pushed Ace off of him and grabbed the forgotten bucket by one of the statues, “Did you just not hear the entire conversation with me like, calling him a child-lover and all that?”

Ace looked in new found fear, “You’re fucking crazy.” Wow rude.

“At least I don’t whip children and call it the lash of love… You are underage right? Cause like, I know that this is called a college and all but you look kinda young.”

Ace looked at Yuu in astonishment, however he was broken off from what ever train of thoughts when he heard the bell right.

“Ahhhh! I’m gonna be late to class!!!”

Yuu and Grim watched as Ace ran as fast as he could across campus, “K, bye I guess.”

Yuu noticed that Grim was staring at him as he started wiping all the char off of the Queen of Hearts statue.

“You got a staring problem buddy?”

“Hey henchmen, what’s pedophilia… oh and the zoophile thingy.”

Yuu still wiping off the char, hummed in thought, “So like, a pedophile is when an adult-

 

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“I’m already exhausted from a full day of cleanin’. I can’t believe we still gotta wash a hundred windows!”

Yuu didn’t bother looking up from his phone when speaking to Grim, he was to busy sitting on the bench and trying to log into the wifi here.

“That’s cap, you didn’t clean shit you rat so stop bitching already.”

Grim looked annoying and put his paws on his sides, how the fuck does that work?

“What’s buggin’ me is, Ace ain’t even here yet! To make us wait, after what he did…. Grrr!”

“Hmmmm, that’s cool.” Yuu’s voice was as bland as their mood right now, which was to say dead as fuck. Now did the password have an O or 0?

 

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“……..”

“It wasn’t even a zero or an o, it was an uppercased fucking q.”

 

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“………”

“Fuck yeah, I can go back to watching my Gary and Karl content now.”

 

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“…And now he’s super late! I bet he up and bailed on us!”

Yuu was snacking on a sandwich that he totally didn’t steal from a student during lunch earlier.

“No way, really? I could’ve like, never guessed he would ditch us to go lay in a clean bed instead of staying behind to clean.”

Grim started stomping on the table in anger, “Ain’t no way am I doin’ his punishment for him! C’mon, Yuu. I don’t care if we gotta drag him kickin’ and screamin’, he’s washin’ those windows!”

“Nah you got that, have fun though!” Yuu waved Grim off as the fuzzy little miscreant flew off to find Ace. Yuu laid on the floor and started scrolling on Tiktok to pass the time.

 

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“Dududududu commercial break, it’s baby Anais, the living baby doll-“ Yuu was cut off from his rambling while laying on the floor when the furry little sewer rat he abandoned came back flying over onto the chandelier above his head.

“Oh shit you’re back, and so soon at that.” Yuu looked at the door and was surprised to see another newcomer with Ace.

Damn and he’s cute too, way to go Grim, you’re now my new favorite cat. Well, actually no that’s a lie, my baby Ciel is still my favorite cat but you’re a good third place after Utena.

“Argh! Stop jumping around like that!”

Yuu pushed himself off the floor and walked over towards Ace, “Someone’s angy, you want mama to give you a cookie?” Yuu snickered as Ace’s facial expressions changed from anger to disgust.

“Don’t ever say that again.”

“Heh heh heh! Catch me if you can!”

Grim was prancing around from one branch of the chandelier to another.

“No fair climbing onto the chandelier, you coward!” Awwww, how cute he is for thinking a literal fucking animal knows a sense of fairness.

“I haven’t really learned flight magic yet… What could I summon to hold onto him…? Hmmm….” Mystery blue hair seemed deep in thought.

“You can summon a gun and I can try to shoot the little fucker down.” Yuu offered up his totally legal idea.

Both boys however seemed to far in thought to really hear what Yuu said, “Oh! That’s it!” Mystery man suddenly shouted which caused Yuu to flinch.

“Did you come up with somethi- Oh, hey! Stop! What are you doing?!” Yuu watched as mystery man pointed his pen thingy at Ace.

“Why are you pointing your pen at me?!” Ace looked distressed, which, I guess makes sense? I mean pointing a pen at someone can be a really scary thing, especially if it’s pointed at you.

“Because I’m going to launch you.”

“Lmao what?” Yuu pulled out his camera again and started recording.

“Are you kidding me?!” Yuu watched as some sort of force picked Ace up from the floor and started making him float in the air.

“Bwaaah! Put me down! Seriously, do not launch me! Abort! ABORT!” Ace was flopping around like it would suddenly allow him to break off the magic.

“Just make sure to grab him tight.” Yuu cut into that statement, “Oh and also you should like, totally do a flip, trust.”

“I’ve got him in my sights, and… Go!” Upon his signal, Ace was promptly thrown into the air.

“BWAAAAAAAH!”

“Well there he goes.”

“MYAAAAAAAH?!” Grims screech echoed all around the cafeteria.

Glass shards went all around the room as the apparent weight of one teenage boy and a cat was seemingly heavy enough for the whole chandelier to fall off the ceiling, I’m not judging but like also, damn is that sad.

“I wonder if they’re dead?”

Ace’s apparent coughing was enough for Yuu to know that they were in fact, not dead.

“I cannot believe you just did that!”

“Myaaah….” Grims little whimper was as loud as a pen falling on a tiled floor in a classroom.

“Shut the fuck up Grim and just stay asleep.”

Mystery boy looked surprised at the damage, “Oh, right! I probably should have come up with a way to soften your landing after you caught him…”

Damn is he a dumbass, then again I kinda like them stupid so I guess it’s ok.

Ace however did not seem to like that statement and instead seem totally pissed at that statement.

“You complete and total moron! We got Grim, but we broke the chandelier! If the headmage finds out about this-“

“If I find out about… what, dear Ace?”

Damn, speak of the devil and he shall appear ahh appearance.

“Ah! Headmage Crowley…” Is Crowley his actual name, lmao what the fuck.

“YOU. THREE. AGAIN. What have you done this time?!” Headmage bird looked absolutely pissed and for some reason wouldn’t look anywhere near Yuu.

“What’s good Headmage Bird, you not gonna try and y’know, whip us again are ya?” Yuu got behind the mystery boy and looked at Crowley like he was a pervert.

“Cause if so then five feet apart bitch, I got the cops on speed dial.” Crowley seemed to choke on the air and looked daunted.

“Myaaah…. Everything’s spinning…”

“Grim I just told you to shut the fuck up like, not even that long ago my guy, stop talking.”

“There is no reason to get the police involved Yuu, as I am not attracted to children.” Headmage bird seemed to grip that cane of his especially hard, lol looks like someones mad.

“Uhuh, sure.”

“Burning a statue wasn’t enough for you? Now you’ve destroyed a chandelier?!” Lol he’s ignoring me now. :p

“Enough. All of you are expelled.”

“Whaaaaaaat?!” Ace and bluey screamed at the same time in horror.

“Fuck yeah, get me outta this bitch, I fuckin hate school.” Yuu fist bumped the air in celebration as he was finally free from the shitty thing people call an education center.

“Headmage, please! Give me a second chance! I can’t get expelled from this school! I need to be here!” Damn, why’s bro so desperate to be here?

“Then blame yourself for your own foolish behavior.” Isn’t there meant to be like, a whole process to expelling someone? Like first you call the parents, talk about the damage, what they can do to fit the dam-

“I’ll pay for the damages! However much it costs!” There we go, bros coming up with a solution already.

“That chandelier is no mere light fixture. It is a magical chandelier-

Yuu starting zoning out of the boring ass conversation and just wondered what to do when he got kicked out, maybe he’ll find some shit bar to work at and travel or something, seems fun enough.

 

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These motherfuckers.

“Dark Mirror! Take us to the Dwarfs’ Mine!”

How the fuck did they manage to convince me to come to their stupid ass trip to not get expelled. Just watch you two, when this is all over I’m gonna kill myself and you two are gonna be the first three people in my suicide note, first one being that fat fucker Crowley!

 

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“これがドワーフの鉱山か…”
𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐰ā𝐟𝐮 𝐧𝐨 𝐤ō𝐳𝐚𝐧 𝐤𝐚…
(So this is the Dwarfs’ Mine…)

….???

“昔、この鉱山には魔石がたくさん埋まっていました.”
𝐌𝐮𝐤𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢, 𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐨 𝐤ō𝐳𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐢 𝐰𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐤𝐢 𝐠𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐚.
(Long ago, this mine was flush with magestones.)

Is this bitch speaking fucking Japanese??? Bro what???? Who the fuck goes from English to Japanese the minute we leave a building to go find some fucking rock?

“うーん...今そこに何が潜んでいるか誰にも分からない？”
𝐔 ̄ 𝐧... 𝐈𝐦𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐧𝐢 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐠𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐮 𝐤𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐢?
(Urgh… Who knows what lurks in there now?)

Damn even the cat, lemme guess Ace also just so fuckin happens to know Japanese too.

“ほら、家が見えますよ。そこにいる人たちが何て言うか聞いてみましょう。”
𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐚,-𝐤𝐚 𝐠𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐮 𝐲𝐨. 𝐒𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐧𝐢 𝐢𝐫𝐮 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐨-𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐠𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐮 𝐤𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮.
(Look, I can see a house. Let’s see what the people there have to say.)

MOTHERFUCKER, THAT BITCH KNOWS JAPANESE TOO! YOU TRAITOR ASS BITCH FUCK YOU, I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID ABOUT YOU BEING CUTE!!!

Yuu took a deep breath in and took his phone out from his back pocket.

‘Y’know what, fuck these guys, who needs them anyways? Cause I sure don’t.’

Yuu went through his playlists and found his good ol’ Fnaf one and pressed random play before putting it back into his back pocket.

[I just picked up a new job

But I’m hoping it ain’t hard]

Yuu watched as Ace, mystery kid, and Grim walked towards some tiny little house and followed after them.

[After all it’s a night shift

I’ll be working the graveyard]

“こんばんは？誰かいますか…？ 誰もいないはずです。放置されているようです。”
𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐰𝐚? 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐚 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐮 𝐤𝐚…? 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐳𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐮. 𝐇ō𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐬𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐮 𝐲ō𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐮.
(Hellooo? Is anyone home…? Must be empty. It looks like it’s been abandoned.)

Yuu watched as mystery boy knocked on the door and said something before just standing still, Yuu however being the impatient little bitch they are moved passed him and opened the door and just walked in.

“Bro just walk in already, damn. Takin forever and for what?”

“何？えーと、エース、彼らが今何て言ったか知ってる？”
𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐢? 𝐄 ̄ 𝐭𝐨, ē𝐬𝐮, 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐠𝐚 𝐢𝐦𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐤𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐮?
(What? Uhhh, Ace, do you know what they just said?)

Ace turned back to look at the blue haired boy while Yuu just walked off towards some painting in the corner of the room.

“ん？何だって？何て言ったの？”
𝐍? 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞? 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐧𝐨?
(Hmmm? Said what? What did they say?)

The blue haired boy looked at Yuu before looking back at Ace.

“彼らが何と言ったか分かりません、だからあなたに質問しているのです。”
𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐠𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐤𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐧,𝐝𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐧𝐢 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐮 𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐮
(I don’t know what they said, that’s why I’m asking you.)

Ace was about to retort that stating how he didn’t know when Yuu called out to the both of them.

“𝓗𝓮𝔂, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓼𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽, 𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷 𝓹𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓲𝓽 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓶𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓭𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓯 𝓰𝓾𝔂𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓱𝓮𝓻.”

Yuu turned around to look at the two only to see two confused expressions, “𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽? 𝓢𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷 𝓶𝔂 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓻 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷?”

The two looked back and forth at each other before looking at Yuu only to look back at each other.

Grim was the one to break the silence.

“おい、手下ども, それは何語だ？”
𝐎𝐢, 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐚-𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐨, 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐚?
(Hey, henchmen, what language is that?)

Yuu looked at the cat in confusion before snapping his fingers, “𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽, 𝓵𝓶𝓪𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝔂 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷’𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓼𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰, 𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓾𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓫𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓻. 𝓜𝔂 𝓫𝓪𝓭!” Yuu huffed as the three seemed thoroughly confused, so Yuu just pointed at his mouth, then his ears and made an X sign with his arms.

Grim wondered a bit farther in before he made a choking sound.

“ブーッ！顔に蜘蛛の巣がかかってる！プッチョー！プッチョー！”
𝐁ū~𝐭𝐬𝐮! 𝐊𝐚𝐨 𝐧𝐢 𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐨 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐮 𝐠𝐚 𝐤𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐮! 𝐏𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡ō! 𝐏𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡ō!
(Bwah! I got a spider web on my face! Ptchoo! Ptchoo!)

Ace looked around before deciding that a table was interesting enough for him to comment on.

“これらの机と椅子がとても小さいですね。ここには子供たちが住んでいたのでしょうか?”
𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐧𝐨 𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐬𝐮 𝐠𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐜𝐡ī𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐮 𝐧𝐞. 𝐊𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐧𝐢 𝐰𝐚 𝐤𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐨-𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐠𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐚?
(Look how tiny these desks and chairs are. Did children live here?)

“𝟏、𝟐…𝟕！ここはピエロの車のようだ”
𝟏, 𝟐… 𝟕! 𝐊𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐰𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐧𝐨 𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐚 𝐧𝐨 𝐲ō𝐝𝐚
(One, two… Seven! It’s like a clown car in here.)

Yuu went back to exploring as the two other boys seemed to be having a conversation involving numbers, math maybe? Who knows, cause Yuu sure doesn’t.

Looking around, Yuu went into one of the rooms and found that everything was still in relatively good shape, minus all the dust and cobwebs and all that.

But everything was still in one piece so there was that.

Yuu looked back out the hallway to see if Ace or the mystery kid were heading this way, seeing that the two were still in conversation Yuu shut the door before looking around the room.

Yuu rummaged around the night stand and found a bag filled what looked like some rusty coin or something, I don’t know it was dark.

Yuu took his phone and turned on the flashlight, looking in the bag the coins seemed to have some type of golden sheen to them. Score!

Yuu took the wind breaker he was wearing off his waist, thank you lost and found bin for having so many clothes, and put the bag in his pocket.

Yuu continue to rummage around the room for anything valuable before moving onto the next rooms to do the same.

I mean like, no one lives here anymore, so surely none of this shit would be missed.

As Yuu was rummaging through the last room, pockets heavy with some extra baggage’s, he found a diary of sorts belonging to…. Angry? Damn, never took him for someone to own a diary.

Now the question is whether to look at it now or look at it later. Yuu heard creaking and the sound of a door opening, look at it later it is.

 

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“そこの中に入ってみますか？真っ暗ですよ！”
𝐒𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐧𝐨 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐧𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐮 𝐤𝐚? 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐮 𝐲𝐨!
(You wanna go inside THERE? It’s pitch black!)

“え、暗闇が怖いの？情けない。”
𝐄, 𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐠𝐚 𝐤𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐢 𝐧𝐨? 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐢.
(What, are you scared of the dark? Pathetic.)

Yuu watched as both Ace and Grim went back and forth about something before Grim went ahead in the cave first.

Yuu followed after the trio of magical dumbasses into the cave.

The farther they got the more ores were popping up, Yuu made sure that the three were ahead of them before fucking up their nails in order to grab some of the smaller ones.

“え？ちょっと待って！”
𝐔𝐡, 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞!
(Huh, Hold up!)

Yuu froze and looked over to mystery boy and Ace, because that, Yuu knows what that means if only because of anime and shit.

“何だよ?”
𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐨?
(What now?)

As they were talking Yuu zoned out to some ghosts, they looks like marshmallows. What is it with these ghosts and looking like cartoon characters?

They’re ghosts and shit so shouldn’t they be scarier or something?

“𝑯𝒊𝒉𝒊, 𝒉𝒊𝒉𝒊! 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓! 𝑫𝒊𝒆 𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒊𝒕 𝒛𝒆𝒉𝒏 𝑱𝒂𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒏!”
(Hee hee hee hee! Visitors! The first in ten years!)

German? I mean like, I guess it makes sense since Snow White was a german tale.

“𝑭ü𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒊𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒆 𝒛𝒖 𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆... 𝑺𝒊𝒆 𝒌ö𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒏 𝒇ü𝒓 𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒏”
(Do make yourselves at home… You can stay forever!)

Damn maybe I shoulda actually stuck with the Doulingo lessons instead of just stopping after the first couple of weeks.

As Yuu was contemplating what to do he saw that the other three ran off deeper into the mines while firing off magic at the ghosts.

Damn, those assholes left me behind. What a bunch of pricks.

The two ghosts from before stared at Yuu, Yuu not being a pussy stared back.

“𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐”

The ghosts blinked, looked at each other then back at Yuu.

“𝑫𝒖 𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒏. 𝑼𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒕𝒆, 𝒊𝒉𝒓 𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘ä𝒓𝒕 𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒏𝒖𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒉ö𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑻𝒆𝒖𝒇𝒆𝒍, 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒋𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑬𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏, 𝒅𝒆𝒓 „𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐“ 𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒕.”
(So you can understand us. Here I thought you boys were just rude little hellions who ignored every adult that says hi.)

Yuu blinked in confusion while trying to rack his brain to try and figure out what the ghost said.

“𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝒏𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝑺ä𝒕𝒛𝒆. 𝑰𝒄𝒉 𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒉.”
(Sorry, I only know simple sentence. I am still learning.)

Yuu tried his best to remember every german lesson he took.

The ghosts however thought his explanation was the funniest thing however.

“𝑯𝒊𝒉𝒊, 𝒅𝒖 𝒃𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒛𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒅. 𝑰𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒆𝒊ß, 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒊𝒃𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒖 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒓?”
(Hee hee hee, funny one you are. I know, why don’t you stay here?)

Yuu gave it some thought before grabbing his phone and looked at the cell reception.

“𝑮𝒆𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒕, 𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒊𝒃𝒕 𝒆𝒔 𝒌𝒆𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝑳𝑨𝑵. 𝑰𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒆𝒏.”
(Can’t, theres no wifi here. I’ll die of boredom.)

The ghosts laughed like it was the funniest thing in the world, and given that they’ve been dead here for ten years with no entertainment it probably was.

Yuu heard screaming, he looked down the shaft and saw that the three came running back towards them.

When Yuu turned back to look at the ghosts however, they were gone.

“それは何ですか？！”
𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐚?!
(What is that?!)

“𝐌𝐲𝐚𝐚𝐚𝐡!”

Yuu walked over to them and picked Grim off the floor to see if he was alright. Grim however was crying and clinging to Yuu like he was boutta die.

“モンスターがいるなんて誰も言ってない！ここから逃げよう！”
𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐭ā 𝐠𝐚 𝐢𝐫𝐮 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨 𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐢! 𝐊𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐮!
(No one said there’d be monsters! Let’s get outta here!)

[For your safety

For the children’s safety]

“あれは超不気味だ！でも「石」って書いてあったよね？”
𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚 𝐜𝐡ō 𝐛𝐮𝐤𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐚! 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 `𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢' 𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐤𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐲𝐨 𝐧𝐞?
(That thing’s super creepy! But didn’t it just say something about “stones”)

[And for those around you]

“ちょっと、何？”
𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨, 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢?
(Wait, what?!)

[Run]

“𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒏𝒆... ... 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒗𝒗𝒂 𝒈𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒏𝒆…!”
(Stooonesss…… nevvva give stooonesss…!)

Yuu’s two new favorite pretty boys plus one cat all screamed in unison.

[Run]

“つまり、ここにはまだマジストーンがあるということです!”
𝐓𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢, 𝐤𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐧𝐢 𝐰𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐭ō𝐧 𝐠𝐚 𝐚𝐫𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐮 𝐤𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐮!
(So there ARE still magestones here!)

[Run]

Ink, why is there ink in it’s head? Yuu’s mouth felt dry, he wonders if he’d get sick if he drank it.

[Run]

Does it matter? For some reason he wants it, like, really wants it. No, he doesn’t want it, he needs it.

[Run]

Yuu dropped Grim on the floor and stared at the monsters head in fascination. Distantly he could here Ace yelling something and the other boy yell back.

[Run]

The only thing that interested Yuu at the moment was the ink that seemed to overflow from the glass jar on top of the body, and yet for some reason he swears that he saw the blue headed boy run towards it.

[Run]

Wait a damn minute. Yuu tore his eyes away from the monster. Wait a damn minute! That dumbass is running towards it what the fuck!?

 

_______

 

“𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆! 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆! 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆!”
(Begone! Begone! Begooone!)

Yuu watched as the blue haired boy went down after being hit by the monster, unsure of what to do, Yuu continued to hide behind a stone pillar filled with gems.

“あぁ、やばい！ルーズィー・デューシーがロープにつかまっている！私が見ている間はそんな事はさせない！ヒャー！”
𝐀~𝐚, 𝐲𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐢! 𝐑ū𝐳𝐮~ī 𝐝𝐞~𝐲ū𝐬𝐡ī 𝐠𝐚 𝐫ō𝐩𝐮 𝐧𝐢 𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐮! 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐠𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐮 𝐦𝐚 𝐰𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐧'𝐧𝐚 𝐤𝐨𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐢! 𝐇𝐲ā!
(Aw, crap! He’s got Loosey-Deucey on the ropes! Not on my watch! Heeyah!)

As the monster made it’s way to the boy on the floor, wind knocked it back, if only slightly.

“𝑹𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒈𝒉!”

The attention went from the boy on the floor to Ace.

“𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐡!”

Ace went flying into the wall behind him, lmao they are so fucked.

“みゃー！私から離れてください！”
𝐌𝐲𝐚𝐚𝐚𝐡! 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐤𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐢!
(Myaaah! Stay away from me!)

Fire erupted from Grims tiny little paws and went straight towards the giant, which only seemed to piss it off even more then it already was.

“𝑮𝒓𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒂𝒂𝒘𝒓𝒓𝒓!”

“まるで何も傷つけていないかのよう！”
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐦𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐳𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐢 𝐤𝐚 𝐧𝐨 𝐲ō!
(It’s like nothin’s even hurtin’ it!)

Yuu swore he saw something sparkle for a moment, or maybe his brain was playing tricks again? Fuck not again!

During Grim’s little firey spat, Ace had managed to grab the other boy from the floor and run towards Yuu’s hiding spot.

[Run, run

Will you make it?]

 

They were saying something, but with music blasting in his ear and Grims crying in the other, he couldn’t hear shit.

“𝑮𝑾𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑯! 𝑵𝒆𝒊𝒏, 𝒈𝒊𝒃 𝒅𝒊𝒓 𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆!”
(Gwaaaaaaah! Nooo giiive yooouuu stooooooone!)

[Run, run

Keep it steady]

“𝐘𝐮𝐮-“

Yuu looked back when he heard his name but quickly looked forward again towards the exit

[Run, run

While they’re not here]

“え！？置いていかれたの！ユウ、このバカ！”
𝐄! ? 𝐎𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐧𝐨! 𝐘ū, 𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐚!
(Eh!? He left me behind! Yuu, you jerk!!!)

“𝑮𝑹𝑹𝑹𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑾𝑹𝑹𝑹!”

[Run, run

Mangle’s screaming]

Upon hearing the roar, Yuu almost tripped over a rock but quickly steadied himself and kept running without looking back at the others.

[Run, run

System error]

Yuu heard more footsteps behind him as he made his way back to the forest, his heart was pumping and he felt like throwing up.

[Run, run

Watch your breathing]

He’ll be damned if he ever goes on another trip with those three fuckers ever again.

 

______

 

By the time that Yuu had sat down by a tree in front of the dwarf house, the other three got there out of breath.

One of them was saying something, but at the moment it only sounded like gibberish to Yuu. Yuu laid down on his back and just stared at the sky while he was trying to catch his breath.

He grabbed his phone and paused the music, he was so not in the mood for whatever bullshit was playing at the moment.

He took out his earbud too while he was at it and stuffed it into it’s case before shoving that shit back into his pants pocket.

Grabbing his phone again he put on ‘Kuchu Buranko’ and just listened. That was it, he stayed in the floor looking at the sky, and listened to the sound of his heartbeat and the song.

[この手をつかんで　怖くないから
Kono te wo tsukande kowaku nai kara

何処までもずっと君を連れてくよ
Doko made mo zutto kimi wo tsureteku yo]

Yuu heard yelling, tilting his head back he saw that Ace and his little boyfriend were arguing. Wasn’t his business.

[ちいさな傷跡　裂けて笑うけど
Chiisana kizuato sakete warau kedo

君が愛しくて何も感じない
Kimi ga itoshikute nani mo kanjinai]

I wanna go home.

[夢のテント　映る影が重なる
Yume no tento utsuru kage ga kasanaru]

Maybe laze around and skip school for a few days.

[ちゃんと僕が受けとめてあげるから
Chanto boku ga uke tomete ageru kara]

Maybe I could convince Katya and Elena to take me to the beach with them next week.

[ゆらゆら　揺れながら
Yura yura yurenagara]

Yuu snorted at the thought, couldn’t, Yvette would bitch at me bout missin’ school and stop givin me rides to places.

[僕らはただ求めてく
Bokura wa tada motometeku]

Yuu started humming along to the song, yet even now he could hear those two arguing. It was getting annoying like, just shut the fuck up already, damn.

They kept arguing, Yuu couldn’t understand, it was annoying, he wants to go home, Yuu can’t understand, he doesn’t want to be here anymore, he wants to go home, he misses his sisters, he doesn’t want to be here anymore, why can’t he understand, just shut up, he wants to go home, shut up, he wants to leave, shut up, he doesn’t want to be here anymore, shut up, I want to go home, shut up, I want to go home, shut up, shut up, sh𝙪t up! sh𝙪𝙩 𝙐𝙥! 𝙨𝙃𝙪t UP! 𝙨𝙃𝙪𝙏 𝙐𝙋! 𝙎𝙃𝙐𝙏 𝙐𝙋! 𝙎𝙃𝙐𝙏 𝙐𝙋! 𝙎𝙃𝙐𝙏 𝙐𝙋! 𝙎𝙃𝙐𝙏 𝙐𝙋!

“𝑱𝑼𝑺𝑻 𝑺𝑯𝑼𝑻 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲 𝑼𝑷 𝑨𝑳𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑫𝒀!!!”

Ace and the blue haired boy stopped talking, Yuu didn’t even realize he got off the ground.

“𝓗𝓸𝓵𝔂 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽 𝓭𝓾𝓭𝓮, 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓾𝔂𝓼 𝓴𝓮𝓮𝓹 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽?! 𝓘’𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓶𝔂𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯 𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓯𝓾𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓮𝓼!!!” Yuu had said those words despite knowing that they wouldn’t understand, just as he wouldn’t understand them either.

All three of them seemed startled at the outburst.

“うわ、うるさいね。どこから聞こえたの？”
𝐔𝐰𝐚, 𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐢 𝐧𝐞. 𝐃𝐨𝐤𝐨 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐤𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐧𝐨?
(Whoa, that was loud. Where’d that come from?)

Fuck, where’s the alcohol when you need some.

“𝐌-𝐦𝐲𝐚𝐡…”

The blue headed boy looked confused, he tried to say something but nothing would come out. He looked confused and tried to say something again, only to make no sound.

He grabbed Ace by the arm and tried to say something to him, but like clockwork, nothing happened.

Yuu was confused by this, just as Ace was. Ace slapped him hand off his arm and tried to say something to him only for him not to speak as well.

What the fuck are they doing?

Ace grabbed his throat with his before looking at the blue headed boy then at Yuu.

“𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽, 𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓪𝓵𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝔂.”

Ace only glared while the other boy seemed to flounder about opening his mouth and then closing it.

Grim was just as confused as Yuu, “やあ、君たちはどうしてそんなに変な行動をするの？”
𝐘ā, 𝐤𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐰𝐚 𝐝ō𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧'𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐡𝐞𝐧'𝐧𝐚 𝐤ō𝐝ō 𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐮 𝐧𝐨?
(Myah, why are you guys acting so weird?)

Yuu was thankful for the silence, even if the other two boys were being weird as hell with it.

Yuu sat on the floor again and leaned against a tree while the other two seemed to be writing something on the floor for Grim.

“彼はあなたの声を奪った！？？”
𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐧𝐨 𝐤𝐨𝐞 𝐨 𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚! ? ?
(He took your voice!??)

Yuu went back to listening to the music, now calmed from all the running after laying on the floor for some time, Yuu no longer felt like puking.

Yuu restarted the song and just put it on repeat. Not even halfway though, Grim came over to Yuu and started pawing at his pants.

“𝓗𝓶𝓶𝓶? 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓭𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽?”

Grim looked up to him and then pointed to the other two boys, they were staring at him yet they didn’t say a word.

“𝓓𝓾𝓭𝓮, 𝓘’𝓶 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓰𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓪 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓲𝓷 𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓷𝓸𝔀, 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝓯𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓼𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘’𝓶 𝓷𝓸𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓼.”

Grim was confused and didn’t know what to say, just kept looking between Yuu and the two other boys who for some reason looked… Yuu couldn’t remember the word, confuzzled? I don’t know something along that line, he’ll remember the word later probably.

But either way something about it made Yuu feel guilty, probably because of the cat but that’s besides the point.

Yuu huffed and turned in the opposite direction and stared into the forest, away from the boys and the house.

“𝓚𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓼𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓬𝓪𝓷’𝓽 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓶𝓮, 𝓫𝓾𝓽 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓹𝓲𝓼𝓼𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰. 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓾𝔂𝓼 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝒈𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒊𝒏’ 𝓪𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓰𝓾𝔂𝓼 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓭𝓸𝓲𝓷. 𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓴𝓮𝓮𝓹 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽 𝓭𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓘 𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓼𝓸𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓽𝓪 𝔂𝓸𝓾.”

After his apology he heard faint whispers from the boys and heard Grims voice faintly mingled among them.

Didn’t matter, what did matter though was that Yuu was getting hungry and- oh shit theres mushrooms.

Yuu reached over to grab some besides the tree and looked at them faintly before deciding that they were a decent snack.

As Yuu was munching on them his thoughts went back the the ink monster thing and-

 

________

 

Yuu didn’t know how long he sat on the floor, just that he was there. Faintly he knew that there were people with him, he couldn’t remember who or even what he was doing.

He watched in fascination as some black liquid seemed to crawl into his skin. He was there and then he wasn’t, someone grabbed him. Who grabbed him?

Yuu heard gibberish, he heard them speaking but couldn’t make out what it was, just that they were saying something.

They were bringing him some where, where were they going? Yuu giggled as he walked with them, something blue came into his vision and gave him something.

It was food, maybe? It was hard, he was hungry, he wanted food and then it was gone into his stomach.

What was he doing again?

 

________

 

Yuu was aware to some level that he was in the coffin chamber, he could hear people talking and while he did understand what they were saying, it just wasn’t registering in his head.

It wasn’t until they got to some office that he could actually pick up their conversation.

 

________

 

“-In all the decades I’ve worked at this school… The day had finally come when the students of Night Raven College have joined hands together to defeat a common foe!”

Yuu rapidly blinked his eyes in wonder as he realized that he was watching the Headmage cry his eyes out for… something, I don’t know.

Yuu looked to his left and realized that Ace and the blue headed boy were with him, looking in his arms he saw Grim was happily laying in them.

The blue one seemed to take offense to whatever the Headmage was talking about.

“Whoa! No! No way would I join hands with that guy!” Joining hands? Like as in working together? Or as in like, actually holding hands?

“Okay, one, there was no joining hands. Gross. And two, exactly HOW old are you, Headmage?”

Yuu looked at them in confusion, “Holy shit… Are you like, actually homophobic? Or are you just in the closet? I don’t judge, kinda.”

Yuu watched as Ace started coughing, “What the hell! No! I’m not homophobic??? Where did that even come from!?” What the fuck are we talking about then???

“At this moment, I am moved beyond words. This incident has proven my hopes were justified.” Bro what? What the actual fuck is happening right now?

“Yuu, my doubts are allayed! For you… You possess the talents of a beastmaster!”

Yuu stared at the man bird in disbelief, “…. Can I go home? Is that still an option?” Yuu knew that Ace and his possible, maybe, boyfriend were staring at him in confusion but I mean, a mans gotta ask still.

“My students have all been selected by the Dark Mirror for their exceptional talent and potential.” Ok and?

“…So is that like, a no? Or a yes?”

“But great talents begets great pride and big egos.”

“Aight, I’ll just go fuck myself I guess.” Yuu sighed and stared off at one of the painting on the side.

“Most are so self-reliant and self-centered that they never even consider cooperating with others.”

“Oh my god, really? Thats like, so interesting.” Yuu’s voice was dripping with sarcasm as he spoke, clearly he wasn’t paying attention because really, who would.

“You make it sound like that’s a bad thing.” Grim looked annoyed at the bird man but otherwise didn’t move from his spot.

“But you, Yuu, possess little to no magic.” Magic is still magic, I’ll take what I can get I guess.

“Yet in spite of that - or perhaps because of it - you were able to convince those who CAN use magic to work together for a common goal.” Alright fuck you too birdman, I see how it is you piece of shit.

“The everyday, humdrum mundanity you possess may be exactly what Night Raven College needs!”

“But… none of those are good things?” Ace seemed confused and maybe even a little offended and Yuu’s behalf, I take back what I said Ace, you 𝘢𝘳𝘦 in fact kind of handsome in your own brutish ways but also.

“…. Count your days bird man and if anyone’s listening, I would like to submit these as my last words: ‘I surrender. I’m the one who murdered Headmage Crowley.’”

“Yuu… I am convinced that people like you are necessary for the future of this school. My educator’s intuition tells me so.” Im gonna fucking murder you in your sleep.（╹◡╹）

“Trappola, Spade - I hereby revoke your pending expulsions! Furthermore, Yuu… I am granting you the qualifications necessary to attend school at Night Raven College!”

“WHAT?!” Ace, Spade, and Grim all exclaimed in surprise while Yuu groaned.

“As like, a student? Or as staff.”

Headmage bird was being all smiley and giggley and shit and Yuu was not for that. No, he was plotting either a murder or suicide, probably suicide but still, he was plotting something.

“Of course. This is extraordinarily kind of me. However, there is one condition.”

“To being staff or being a student?”

“Your feeble ability to use magic is, for a mage, unacceptable. You would not be able to adequately pursue the school’s curriculum!”

Yuu sighed and rolled his eyes, “Student it is I guess.”

“As for you, Grim… Your actions today have made it clear that you possess sufficient talent to become a mage. In light of the total sum of your respective circumstances, you and Yuu will share a single enrollment at Night Raven College.”

“Myah! I… I’ll get to go to this school…? As an actual student? Not a janitor?!” Yuu could feel Grims excitement and he doesn’t mean this metaphorically or rhetorically, no, Yuu could literally fucking feel his excitement as his body was fucking buzzing and shaking like he was a tweaker or some shit.

“Correct. However! There must be no further incidents like the one that occurred today. Are we clear?”

“Myah… Myah… Yuu, I… I finally…” Grim had tiny tears falling down his eyes as he started pawing at Yuu’s shirt and- oh shit I never bandaged my arms, lmao It’ll be fine… probably.

“Good for you I guess.”

“MYAAAh! I FINALLY DID IT!”

“Fuck!”

Yuu pulled Grim away from his body as his tiny little paws decided to bring out claws and dig into his collarbone while he screamed in excitement.

“Accordingly, I will now present to Grim the magestone that is issued to every student here. However! Since we did not plan for an extra student, I’m afraid you will have to go without a magestone for some time Yuu.”

“Heh! A magestone, eh?!” Grim however did not seem to care about what the Headmage was talking about as he has his tiny little paws on a shiny new toy.

“It is typically attached to the “magic pen” that each student uses. But I suspect your paws cannot handle implements. Therefore, I have a custom solution for you. Is it possible that I am, In fact, too k-“

Holy fuck does he talk a lot.

 

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“Wow, that’s quite the promotion. From janitor to student to prefect, all in the span of a day.”

Yuu snorted and elbowed Ace’s arm, “You should watch your back Acey baby or I’ll give ya detention for the fun of it.”

“Oh, I see. So if your dorm is just you two… And the headmage is putting you in charge of Grim, that makes you… the dorm prefect.” AAHAHAHHAHAAAAAHHFHJDHSH DON’T SMILE AT ME YOU STUPIDLY ADORABLE BLUE HEADED BITCH..!!!

“Well, that’s gotta be a a Night Raven first! A prefect with less magic than it’s student? But sure, why not? Whatever works!” Get that smug ass grin outta here Ace or so fucking help me lil bro I will-

“So if I’m prefect, does that mean I can give the other houses students detention? Cause if so sign me the fuck up!” Yuu started grinning and giggling like crazy.

“Heh heh heh. Good luck to you, Magic-less Prefect!”

“Ah. Yes. I suppose that does make you a prefect. I just so happen to have a job for you, and that title will make it all the easier to foist… er, I mean, congratulations!” This bitch.

Headmage bird handed Yuu an old polaroid camera that looked older than him.

“Now, I have something for you. This is called a ghost camera.”

“…? You mean a polaroid camera?”

“Ooh, my grandma’s told me about those. Those are, like, super old magic items, right?” Ew, it doesn’t like, have some disease does it?

“I would hardly consider them “super old…” Ahem. But it may indeed have been invented when your great or great-great-grandmother was a child.”

Yuu nodded his head, “Ya, so like, super old then.”

“It’s a camera enchanted with a special kind of magic. It enables the user to photograph not just the subject’s physical form, but parts of their soul itself.”

Yuu quickly dropped Grim on the ground and took a picture of Ace and with Spade right next to him, consequently him as well.

“Myah!”

“Wait, that sounds… sketchy.”

Yuu waited for the photo to come out and put it in his shirt pocket as it was still developing.

“They’re called Memories. Here’s the thing: when the soulbond between photographer and subject deepens… The Memories captured in this magic camera’s photos come jumping out!”

“Hm, sick.”

“When the photographer and subject grow closer, their photograph-“ Holy shit does he talk a lot, it’s like he has nothing else to do.

 

Yuu started zoning out of the convo and oh, damn. Yuu looked at the inner pockets of his jacket and realized he never grabbed the diary.

Well he can always go back later and scavenge some more. ( ^ω^ )

 

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“As a prefect, consider it your duty to maintain a sharp eye on your surroundings and record them.” Yuu nodded his head.

“Trust, I gotchu.”

He already had a video of a fight and of a chandelier being broken so he’d say he’s doing pretty damn good for his first day as resident teachers pet.

“Note how generous I’m being in providing a rare magical item that even someone like yourself can use.”

Yuu stared wide eye at the headmage before rapidly blinking. “… Kys motherfucker, I hope you fall and brake your back.”

Spade stared at him, mouth open while Ace started coughing into his hand to hide the obvious laughing coming from the boy.

“Is my kindness not beyond all reckoning?” You’re lucky you’re hot you fat fuck or else I would’ve destroyed half your god damn office by now.

“So kind indeed sir! So kind I’m sure you wouldn’t mind giving me a job with a good pay in order for me to properly live here!” Yuu could be a kiss ass if it meant getting the one thing Yuu loves most, which is money.

“The hour has grown late, so further details shall have to wait till the morrow. You are all dismissed. Return to your dorms.” I’ll steal your credit card one way or another mother fucker, just watch.

“Good night, sir!”

 

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“Phew… We managed to avoid expulsion. That was a close one!”

“Yeah, no kidding!”

Yuu stared at Spade before punching him in the shoulder.

“So like, never got your name, I’m Yuu by the way.”

Spade seemed to jolt before connecting the dots in that tiny little brain of his.

“Ah! Right, my names Deuce Spade, It’s nice to meet you!”

Grim was ahead of all three of them and skipping with those tiny little legs of his.

“Cool, cool. So like, what happened at the dwarfs mine?“

“I’m a student at Night Raven College! La la la! I’m gonna be the top mage on campus in no time. Enjoy eating my dust, boys!”

Deuce tilted his head and looked at Yuu in confusion, “You don’t remember?”

“Big words for a sentient pile of lint who’s literally only half a student. Still… Good for you.”

Yuu shook his head, “Nah, ate a mushroom or two and I completely blacked out. ‘Tis the predicament of hunger.”

“Ah, I guess we’re schoolmates now. Grim, Yuu - welcome to Night Raven.”

“Thanks, but anyways about what happened-“

“Okay, seriously, can we quit with that stuff?” Yuu glared at Ace who was rubbing the back of his neck and walking with his eyes closed.

“Heh. We’ll be seeing each other all the time now. We’ll see what a pleasure that turns out to be.” Is he not gonna answer my question?

“Especially you, Ace, since we’re in the same dorm.”

“Yeaaah, can’t say I’m jazzed to see your smug, self-important scowl every day.”

Deuce narrowed his eyes at Ace’s smug ass smile, “Better than your lazy, dopey grin.” Ya those two are like, totally dating.

“Keep bawling, crybaby. I haven’t forgotten how you almost wept when he said you were expelled.” Fuck, now they’re flirting with each other in front of me, gross.

“Catch ya later, Yuu.”

Yuu groaned, “I love bl as much as the next bitch over but if I have to be stuck between those two flirting all the time I’m gonna fuckin kill myself.”

Yuu and grim watched as the two were flirting the whole time as they went to the mirror chambers.

“Man, those two are made for each other. Maybe they’re the type who bond through squabbling?” Yuu picked Grim up from the floor and shook his head.

“Nah, those two were definitely flirting with each other, had to much tension for that to be simply squabbling.”

“Anyways, Yuu, let’s get back to the dorm! Tomorrow when we wake, it won’t be as janitors.”

Yuu picked up the pace, it was rather dark outside and he’d rather now be outside at this time of night with out a knife on him.

“Finally, finally… My glorious education as a proper Night Raven College student is about to begin!”

 

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Making their way inside the building Grim held his nose.

“Myah! It smells.”

Yuu sniffed the air and gagged, letting Grim down he went towards the smell and realized it was coming from a bucket by the sink.

“Ah, my bad Grim! Forgot I threw up in the bucket this morning, go to the bedroom while I take care of this!”

“Myah…”

Yuu took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves, grabbing the bucket he took it outside behind the building and threw the contents in the bucket by one of the tree’s before ditching the bucket by the building and walking back inside.

Grabbing the jacket, Yuu walked back to the room and looked at his arms. There was blood on them and the cuts were scabbed over but overall they were fine.

When he got to the room he saw grim passed out in the middle of the bed, dropping the jacket on the bed Yuu went to the dresser and grabbed a ratty, probably ten or so years, tank top and a pair of shorts before heading to the bathroom to shower.

By the time Yuu got out the shower and had his shorts on, he heard knocking coming from down the hall, presumably from the front door.

Yuu opened the bathroom door and was putting on a pair of socks he grabbed from the night stand.

“Myaaah… Hey, Yuu… I know it’s the middle of the night, but I think we’ve got a visitor.”

Yuu was putting on his tank top when he heard more knocking, “Maybe it’s those pesky ghosts again? They just don’t know when to quit.”

Yuu hummed in agreement before making his way to the bedroom door.

Walking out, Grim followed him. Yuu went to the kitchen and grabbed an old rusty kitchen knife before making his way to the front door.

“Who there!”

“It’s me, Ace! Just let me in, all right?” Yuu heard Ace’s muffled voice behind the door before walking towards the door and slamming that shit wide open.

“Ace? In the middle of the night!”

Yuu turned around to look at Grim, “Dude, we’ve only been back for like, maybe twenty minutes.”

“B-bwah! That collar!”

Yuu looked in front of him and saw Ace wearing a bulky, like really bulky, choker.

“I can’t go back to Heartslabyul House. I’m joining your dorm. For good.”

Yuu stared at the choker the whole time Ace was talking.

“Myah?! Come again?!”

Yuu grabbed the phone from his pocket and took a picture of Ace, “Say cheese.”

Ace looked surprised in the photo, his eyes were wide and his arms came up to his chest like some goofy ahh sprite movement.

“Wha-! Don’t take pictures of it!” Yuu stuck his tongue out at him before walking towards the lounge and waving the knife in the air.

“Then maybe don’t come knocking on my door wearing a gaudy ass choker for one.”

Ace was following, “Why do you have a knife?” Yuu shrugged his shoulders, “Why are you wearing a choker?” Yuu sat on the couch and stared at Ace who furrowed his eye brows and was frowning. Surprisingly it was actually pretty cute.

“I’d recognize that collar anywhere. It’s the same one that psycho stuck on me at orientation!” The psycho at orientation..?

Yuu’s eyes widened as he realized who Grim was talking about, “Oh! You mean the really cute red-headed boy who was all like ‘OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!’ Him right? It was definitely him.”

They both side-eyed Yuu as he was gushing about this mysterious cute red-head who he wants to… put in his pocket? What?

“What’d you do to get shackled with that?”

“I ate a tart.”

That broke Yuu off from his mini rant, “You ate a tart?”

Ace nodded his head all the while still sulking, “Yeah, that’s it! That’s all I did! I was a little hungry, see, so I went down to the dorm kitchen and found some tarts in the fridge.”

Yuu scooted over as Ace made his way to the couch.

“Three whole tarts! Big ones, too!”

 

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“Man, I’m still tired from our little adventure. I missed dinner, too, and now I’m starving!” Ace sighed before opening the door to the fridge.

“Got anything for me, fridge? …Whoa, score! Tarts! Those look amazing! And plenty to go around, too! No one would notice if I snagged one teeeeensy little slice, right? Right. Of course not.”

‘Why were you talking to yourself?’

‘Shhhh, I’m telling the story right now so shhhh.’

‘Fine then fuck you to.’

“Thank you for the food!” Ace took a giant bite of the tart with a big smile on his face.

“Mmph… SO good! I’m in pastry paradise right now!”

‘Actually no, why were you eating tarts for dinner in the first place?’

‘Shhh!’

“Of course they’re good. Trey made them. His tarts are always exceptional.”

“Yeah, but I mean… These are CRAZY good! Like, he could sell these at - wait, Housewarden?!”

“That you would think to touch something of MINE… Well, I’m impressed with your audacity, at least.”

‘Did you get a picture?! Pleaaase! I’ll pay you for a picture!!!’

‘What? No I didn’t get a picture? Why would I take a picture of him in that situation???’

‘I definitely would!’

‘Fine whatever, just shut up.’

“But the Queen of Hearts’s rule 89 is quite clear. “Never eat a tart without the Queen’s permission.” The theft of tarts is a serious crime!”

“OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!”

“Bwaaaaah!”

Ace was collared with the Housewardens magic.

 

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“And… here I am.”

Yuu was hitting his leg and covering his mouth while squealing, “He’s so adorable!!!”

“…..”

“…..”

“So…. The point is you’re both terrible?”

“You don’t think it’s insane for my magic to get sealed away for eating ONE slice of tart?! For a mage, that’s like having your arms and legs bound and shackled! And there were three whole tarts! THREE! It’s not like he could eat ‘em all himself! C’mon, you KNOW this is messed up!”

Yuu stopped hitting his leg and clasped both his hands together, “Honestly, I’d let him collar me for free anytime he wanted.”

Ace stared at Yuu in disgust while Grim stared at Yuu in disbelief.

“What kinda wishy-washy answer is that?!”

“One that wants to get in your Housewardens pants.”

“Yeah, but… I mean, if there were three if ‘em, they were probably for a party. Maybe it was someone’s birthday or somethin’? Lookit that! I’m, like, a master detective too!”

“A birthday party, huh…?”

“I mean, I guess that would make sense. Did ya a’least apologize?”

Ace groaned, “Man… I thought you’d be more sympathetic! I’m a victim of the Housewarden’s tyranny here!”

“Sucks, maybe don’t get caught stealing food next time.”

Grim made himself comfortable on Yuu’s lap, “But you stole food! That ain’t cool!”

“My guy, just go and apologize tomorrow and ask for him to take the collar off cuz you’ve ‘reflected’ on your actions.”

“You don’t go messin’ with another man’s meal… Hey, wait a minute! I just realized I never got those cans of tuna the headmage promised me!” Yuu snorted.

Ace sighed and shook his head, “All right, all right. Fine. I get that I should apologize. But you’re coming with me, Yuu. This was your idea, after all.”

“Kay kay.”

Ace crossed his arms, “Anyways, you got a place for me to crash tonight?”

“You were serious about that? Outside of the bedroom me and Yuu use, this entire dump is buried under a foot of dust. So if you wanna crash, you better start cleanin’!”

Yuu stood up from his spot on the couch and moved passed Ace all the while still holding Grim in his arms.

“Dude, no way! I hate cleaning!”

Ace started smiling and playing cute, “Just let me stay with you, Yuu. I’m real slime. I won’t take up much space.” Fuck, he’s cute and this asshole knows it.

Yuu rolled his eyes, “Sure, but you’re not wearing those clothes in bed.”

“Tch. You’re about- wait, seriously!?”

“Myah!?”

Yuu nodded his head, “Yep, yep. So hurry up already, I’m tired.”

Ace quickly got off the couch and started following after Yuu to their bedroom.

Once inside, Yuu grabbed a pair of shorts and a T-shirt at random and threw them at Ace, “Go change and go wash your face before getting in here.” Yuu went towards the bed and laid down while Grim was grumbling about having to share the bed.

“Ah, right!”

Yuu heard the door to the bathroom slam shut, Yuu moved his pillow to the other side for Ace to use and laid down on his stomach.

Yuu was halfway asleep when Ace finally got back into the bedroom in old sleep wear and a clean face.

“Took you long enough.”

He seemed fidgety and honestly Yuu was to tired to give a shit about anything, so Yuu laid his head back onto the bed and promptly knocked out.

Leaving Ace feeling awkward about sharing a bed with someone he just met like maybe 5-6 hours ago.

Wasn’t Yuu’s problem though, he was sleeping already.

Chapter Text

Yuu watched as card soldiers painted a heart shaped rose bush red with paint. One by one the white roses were painted red as they sang a song to go with it.

“Hurry up and paint those roses red!”

“Slather them quickly, as aforesaid!”

“Hurry, hurry! There are still roses left to paint!”

Yuu tried to move from his place but for some reason he couldn’t, he was stuck to a still. Just then a blond girl with a blue dress and pristine white apron over it walked over to the playing cards.

“Why are you painting these roses red?”

‘𝘠𝘶𝘶.’

It was Alice, he knew it was her just based on the looks and clothing alone.

“Huh?”

‘𝘠𝘶𝘶, 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧.’

“Why, you ask? It’s quite simple.”

‘𝘎𝘢𝘩! 𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺!’

It was the cartoon version, he remembers watching the movie a few times as a child, although by now he’s mostly forgotten the whole movie and the sequences of the movie.

“We planted the wrong color, you see.”

“The Queen likes her roses red. If they’re white, we’ll lose our heads!”

Yuu watched as little Alice ran to another rose bush that had white roses on it still.

‘𝘠𝘶𝘶!’

“Goodness!”

“And so, we’re painting the roses red.”

 

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“-off me!”

Yuu opened his eyes to the noise of a door being banged on and an Ace yelling in his ear. His arms were wrapped around the boys waist and his head was laying on his thigh.

“Dude! Get off already! Someones at the door.”

Yuu grumbled in displeasure but he let the other boy go. Listening to the door being slammed open and the sound of thumping hitting the floor, Yuu pushed himself off the bed and rubbed his eyes.

Yuu grabbed his phone from the table side and checked the time.

{6:41}

Ah, he forgot to set an alarm. Yuu sat on the bed for some time before getting up and making his way towards the entry way to see Ace and Deuce talking.

“-housewarden’s tart. You really are an idiot, Ace.”

Yuu yawned as he walked over, “Understatement of the year my guy.”

“Oh, shut up! Like you’re one to talk! Anyways, uh… Is he still mad?” Ace crossed his arms and furrowed his eyebrows, what a lil cutie patootie.

“Not at all. Maybe a touch irritated, if anything. A few of our dorm-mates overslept this morning… But only three of ‘em got your treatment.” Tough, actually if only three got the choker treatment then how many overslept?

“You call that “not at all” mad?! Sounds like he’s still on a rampage, to me.”

Yuu hummed, “K, cool. Y’know as much as I’d love to talk about your adorable house warden, I’m cold as fuck right now so I’m gonna go change, peace.” Yuu started walking back to his room with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumbass following behind arguing about something.

 

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Walking this early in the morning made Yuu want to kill himself, especially with three little fuckers who act like they’ve had 15 shots of fucking expresso in the span of one hour.

“Move it! Outta the way! Night Raven College student comin’ through!”

Yuu rubbed his eyes and grabbed his phone, he had ‘Magical Doctor’ playing on repeat and he’d rather not hear that damn cat’s voice for at least an hour. Yuu raised the volume all the way up before putting his phone away.

“Oh? Did my collar catch your eye? It is way better than the one you’re stuck with! You know, the one that makes it so you can’t use magic?”

“Fuckin’ a Grim, shut the fuck up.” Yuu dragged out the words in a fit of drowsiness.

“But hey, the school could always use another janitor! Bwahahaha!”

Yuu was leaning on Deuce to keep himself steady so he doesn’t trip somewhere and eat shit while walking.

“Grim, don’t be pissy just cuz he made fun of you for fucking up his entrance ceremony. Condescension doesn’t look half as good on you as it does the headmage.”

Ace meanwhile glared at the cat and started growling… what a fuckin’ weirdo.

“Grrrrr! Trust me Grim, when I get my magic back, your hide is the first on the chopping block!”

Deuce grabbed Yuu after he tripped over one of the slightly raised tiles, “Didn’t the headmage JUST tell you yesterday, no more incidents?”

“Ah, thanks.” Deuce patted him on the shoulder before looking over to Ace and then his gemstone on his uniform.

“Regardless, you’re not going to be able to participate in class if you can’t use magic. So why not just apologize to the housewarden? It’s a small price to pay for having the collar removed.”

“Aaaaargh! I hate this so! SO! Much!”

Yuu snorted, “Maybe don’t get caught stealing next time dumbass.”

“Hmm. Ya know, we do still have some time to kill before class starts. And I am kinda curious about the other dorms. Guess I’ll go along and scope out the place while you make with the groveling.”

Yuu brought up his left arm to the sky with his hand clenched and in a dragged out tired tone gave his own little response to feel included, “Yaaay~! Field trip!”

Ace looking exasperated looked at the group and screamed. “Since when did this become a field trip?!”

 

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As they made their way into the Mirror hall, Yuu took this opportunity to look around at the other mirrors.

They were all based on the Disney villain statues that he’d seen the other day, honestly Yuu kinda wants to go through all of them and see the other dorms as well.

When they were at the Mirror with cards on it, Yuu instantly knew that it was for the Queen of Hearts. He watched as the other three walked into the mirror with no hesitation.

Yuu took a picture of the mirror, grabbed a mushroom that was growing beside it and hid it in his pocket before going into the mirror himself.

 

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Yuu fell to his knees and hunched over, his hands covering his mouth in the process.

“Dang, this place is swank! This is nothing like our dumpster if a dorm.”

Ace and Deuce seemed to notice Yuu’s little problem as one of them grabbed his shoulder while the other kneeled by him.

“What’s the matter with you? Are you sick or something?” It was Ace, and even if he sounded like a bitch asking it he at least still asked so that was nice.

“….Motion sickness…. I think I’m gonna throw up… Fuck this field trip.” Yuu could feel his nose get runny and felt like his mouth was dryer then the god damn dessert, yet had too much saliva in his mouth that he might choke on it.

Ace quickly withdrew away with a disgusted look on his face, little prick, while Deuce helped Yuu stand up.

“Eugh, don’t throw up here. That’s gross.” Yuu flipped him off and purposely went into Ace’s space and gagged.

“Heeeee! Gross! Gross! Gross! Don’t you dare throw up on me!” Ace shrieked while Deuce sighed at his antics.

“That’s rude Ace! You should be helping the prefect instead of just calling him gross for feeling sick.” Aww, my knight in shining armor, you’re now my favorite first year. ♡

 

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Yuu stared at the rose bushes that had red paint dripping off of them, deja vu anyone?

“Aww yeah, I am getting my paint on!” Yuu looked over to who was talking and- OH NO HE’S HOT!

“Ah, someone’s here.” Way to state the obvious Grim.

“They all gotta be red, or it’s “off with my head”!” Stop he’s so cute, Aahahahhaahaahhhxhjdhsh!

Yuu took this chance to let go of Deuce and sit on the floor, nausea settling down now that he wasn’t standing up and walking.

“Sick cut.”

Upon hearing those words, the ginger boy that was painting looked over to the first years.

“Huh…? You guys need something?”

“What are you doing there?” He has a paint brush in his hand and there’s paint on the roses, take a wild guess Ace. (-_-)

“Are you blind?” Yuu snorted and started giggling causing Ace to glare at the boy, Yuu turned his head away to giggle more at Ace’s idiocy.

“I’m painting these roses red, duh.” Yuu tipped over on the floor and held his hands to his mouth to try and cover the sound of him laughing.

Deuce looked at the boy in worry while Grim looked at Yuu like he was a lost cause. Ace kicked Yuu’s leg for laughing which only caused him to laugh harder.

Deuce however seemed to want to get out if here as quickly as possible, “What? Why?”

Ace was still glaring at Yuu while the other just pointed and laughed.

“Ah ha ha. So naïve, you put the “n” in newb.” Ew, gross. I know bro did not just say that.

Yuu stood up from the ground before feeling a wave a nausea come over him, squatting it was.

It caused him to stop laughing tho but it seemed that Ace was still annoyed at him.

“Hold the phone, I know you! You’re the ones who broke a billion-thaumark chandelier and nearly got expelled for it, yeah?”

“That chandelier is gonna haunt us till the day we graduate, isn’t it?”

Yuu nodded, “Got the video and everything, wanna see?” Yuu stood up and pulled out his phone, the other boy had this sudden look in his eyes and Yuu couldn’t tell if he thought it was hot or not.

Deuce and Ace looked surprised while Grim went on his shoulders to see what Yuu was going on his phone.

“And you! You’re the one who ate the housewarden’s tart that same night!” Yuu pulled up the video and watched it with Grim first, he could hear everything that was said even though Yuu was wearing an ear bud. I mean, he’s a cat though so maybe he just has better hearing?

“You guys are THE hot topic around campus! I’ve gotta get in on this fleeting fame.” The ginger closed in on their space and huddled the three close together.

“I’m just gonna grab a selfie real quick…” Yuu grinned and threw up a side ways peace sign which covered his mouth slightly while the other two seemed caught off guard. The camera had a shutter sound on it signifying that the boy had taken the picture.

“Yay~!” Oh! We’re both throwing up peace signs, twinsies!

“It’s cool if I post this in Magicam, right? Gimmie your names so I can tag you.” ?

“I’m Deuce Spade.”

“Ace.”

“I’m Grim, and that’s my henchman, Yuu.”

“Uploaded! Sweet.”

Yuu watched as the boy put his phone away after that but Yuu had a totally important and valid question.

“What the fuck is a magicam?” In it like, Insta but a copywrited version of it?

“Eh~! You don’t know what Magicam Is!? That’s like, a nation wide insult to social media!” Damn dramatic much.

“Ah! I’m getting distracted, I’m Cater Diamond, by the way. I’m a junior here at Heartslabyul.” …. Im starting to see a pattern here and I don’t think I like it.

“But Cater is fine. Or Cay-Cay it you’re cray-cray!” Ugh, I don’t care how hot you are, please never say that cringy shit near me ever again.

“Soooo nice to meetcha.”

Yuu remembered what he was originally doing and went back on his phone to the video, “Nice to meetcha I guess, here’s the video I promised.”

Yuu shoved his phone in Caters face that showed Deuce picking Ace up and throwing him in the chandelier.

After watching it, Yuu put his phone away and the boy seemed to now recognize him.

“Ah, you’re the prefect of the so-called Ramshackle House dorm, right?” What the fuck?

“Like, I can’t believe you actually live there!” Stalker alert cause how the fuck did he know I was a prefect when I literally just become one last night?

“It’s all gloomy and looks like hot garbage on Magicam. No filter could salvage THAT dump.” I guess I could let is slide though, he is hot.

“Y’know, you’ve done nothin’ but diss us here, pal!”

“Who is us? He’s talking shit about a run down dilapidated dorm that looks like it would collapse if you accidentally run into one of the walls, bro’s spitting facts.” I miss my old room, least it was clean and I didn’t have to worry about rats and roaches every time I stepped out my room.

“Gah, what am I doing? I don’t have time to chat! The party’s tomorrow.” The boy furrowed his eyebrows while still smiling? Yuu took a picture real quick before hiding the evidence that he did such a thing.

“If we’re not ready, it’s “off with my head”! Hey, you kids wanna help me paint some roses?”

“I’m down.”

“Yeah, uh… why are you doing that exactly?” Yuu grabbed a random paint bucket with a brush already inside it and went to a random bush with white roses.

“Because red roses are so much more photogenic! Or…something…?” Yuu snorted while he was painting, he’s never painted roses before but it seemed fun.

“And after that, I’ve gotta start getting things ready fir the big croquet tournament.” The game where you like, hit balls under those wired hole thingys? I think I remember them playing that game in Heathers.

“And that means coloring all the flamingos.” The boy sighed at that.

“You’re colorin’ flamingos now? Isn’t anything the-“

Yuu quickly got distracted with the music blasting in his ears and painting the roses. He didn’t feel as nauseous anymore though so that was nice.

 

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It all went decently well, only like, five or six of the roses caught on fire and twelve of ‘em got turned blue instead of red but it could’ve been worse.

Lets just say that Yuu got quite a few good pictures out of this, so he’s well and happy.

“Wow. You’re even less competent than I thought.” Wow rude.

“Yo, maybe you should just leave the roses white! They look perfectly pretty ‘n stuff to me.”

“Nuh uh.” You can see bugs and shit if you look at white flower’s closely.

“It’s a matter of tradition. You can’t have an unbirthday party without the roses being being red.” What if they were pink? That’s an off shade of red.

“And you can’t play croquet without seven-colored flamingos as mallets and a hedgehog for a ball.” Can I take one?

“Oh, but of course, the roses need to be white when the garden flowers put on their spring concert. That’s absolutely crucial.” Y’know he kinda talks almost as much as the bird man.

“All your rules are completely insane!” Damn, what a way to insult tradition.

“They say the Queen of Hearts made up these rules herself - she was one of the great seven you know. And Riddle is all about tradition. Probably than previous housewardens, T-B-H.” Ohhhh, so the other red heads name is Riddle, damn what us up with the Harry Potter cross references.

Their housewarden is the red headed one right? Damn, second guessing myself now, anyways pretty sure the red headed one is their housewarden.

“I’ll admit that he’s well… a bit extra.”

“Yeah, no kidding. I sure don’t have time for this nonesense.” And what? I do?

“Is Riddle here? I gotta talk to him.” Good thinking Ace, I want a picture of him.

“Yeah, probably. But are you sure that’s wise? Did you even bring an apology tart to replace the one you ate?” That’s a thing? I mean, I guess it makes sense though since he did steal the boys food.

“Uh, no…? I came here first thing in the morning!”

“Ah ah ah… That could be a problem.” Ace you stupid bitch why don’t you know your own dorms rule?!

“Have you forgotten rule 53?” All characters have an opposite sex counter part? Or was that 63? Either way.

“‘Stolen items must be replaced.’ If you’re not in compliance, I can’t let you in.” Well fuck.

“Are you serious?!”

“All dorm residents must obey the rules. If I let you slide, it would be off with my head next! I hate to say it, Ace, but I’m gonna need you to leave before Riddle spots you. Thanx.” The boy waved at them while smiling.

Yuu nodded his head and grabbed the two boys, “Real shit, If you ever need help with the garden call me!”

“Wha-! Yuu let go, we can’t just let this guy get away with using our labor like that!”

Ace struggled against Yuu while Deuce seemed perfectly fine going along with it.

“Fuck you mean forced labor? I did that shit for funsies, not cause someone forced me.”

“Besides why should WE do anything? It’s your mess.”

“You can’t be serious?!”

Yuu stopped.

“Eh?! Yuu you get it don’t you?”

“Prefect?”

“….” Yuu let the two go and walked over to Cater, he seemed apprehensive at the sudden change.

Ace seemed hopeful while Deuce was confused and Grim made himself comfortable on Deuce.

“Did you forget something prefect?”

Yuu stared him down before looking at the others behind him, “…. Do you know how to get out of here? Kinda forgot the way back to the mirror and I’d rather not get lost and die in a maze.”

Cater looked at the boy with wide eyes before he started laughing, “mmh! I can help you with that one! Cay-Cay’s got you covered!”

Ace groaned while Deuce was, well it was Deuce.

Cater waved his wand around and made a clone of himself… HOLY SHIT HE CAN MAKE CLONES??!

 

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“Do make sure you bring that tart next time, m’kay? Buh-bye now!”

Cater waved them goodbye as they walked in the mirror and Yuu and Deuce waved back while Ace sulked like a little bitch.

Once they were back in the chamber Ace started complaining.

“Was that guy for real?!”

“He was nice.” If a little weird, but then again who isn’t weird?

“You’re joking? So lemme get this straight: we walked in there totally tartless, but this dude still made us do that whole song and dance before throwing us out? He just wanted to make us paint his stupid roses!”

“Honestly I thought it was fun, besides if you didn’t want to paint then you didn’t have to, you’re the one that decided to do it in the end.”

Grim crossed his arms, “We sure look like a bunch of chumps.” Do these bitches not know how to be kind?

“I guess we’ll just have to get an apology tart and come back. Maybe after class, we can try and find a way to get Ace a tart.” Deuce you may be my current favorite but don’t push it.

“I mean, I guess I’d be down.”

Deuce checked the time on his phone, “we should hurry, the first bells gonna ring soon.”

Ace rolled his eyes but Grim looked excited at the thought of attending a school for magic.

“Myah! I don’t wanna get a blemish on the first day of my glorious Night Raven education! Shake a leg, chumps! To the classroom, pronto!”

They were already halfway at the school anyways so why did they need to rush?

“Hey, so what class are you guys in, anyways? You’re freshmen too, right?” You make a fine point my good bitch.

“The headmage said we’re in Class 1-A!” When the fuck did he tell us this? I don’t remember this?

Deuce smiled at the aspect of having more people he knew in class, “Hey, that’s the same one I’m in. We got Potionology for first period.”

“Oh ho, yeah! That sounds awesome!”

Wonder if I could get away with drinking some of the potions.

“Hmm, damn. I suck at chemistry, can’t imagine how i’d even be able to pass potions of all things.”

“M-maybe I don’t need magic for that?”

“Real, to be honest I still don’t know how to use my magic either.”

Ace seemed confused at that, “Huh? But just last night you- agh!” Deuce punched Ace in the arm .

He coughed into his hand, “Anyways, we should hurry up or else we’ll be late for first period!” Ace grumbled but kept his complaints to himself after a look from Deuce.

Ew gross, they’re flirting again.

 

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“Ah. You must be my new homeroom students.” Damn he’s pretty fuckin hot, plus he got a nice ass fit too, I can fuck with that.

“Hm, that’s quite the unusual coat of fur. Do make sure that you arrive properly groomed.” …hm? Coat of fur? Properly groomed? Don’t tell me this fucker has a pet kink or something, please, please, please! I mean I’d bark for him if he asked but still.

“My name is Divus Crewel. You may call me Master Crewel.” Divus Crewel, as in Cruella de Vil? Thats actually kinda sick.

“Now, take your seats. Class is about to begin. We’re going to start with the basics.” Sick.

“And by that, I mean beating the names and distinguishing characteristics of one hundred herbs and poisons into your tiny brains.” WOAH WHAT THE FUCK??! WHERE’D HE EVEN GET THE BATON THINGY FROM??? AND WHAT IS IT WITH THE ADULTS IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT TRYNA BEAT ON KIDS ALL THE TIME???

“The mycelia are another matter. But eventually, I’m hopeful you’ll be able to take a walk without putting anything poisonous into your gaping maws.” Yo I can make tea with them.

“Yuu.”

Yuu looked over at Ace who was whispering to him, “what?”

“What’s a mycelia?”

“How the fuck should I know? Just look it up.”

Ace rolled his eyes, “We can’t have our phones out in class.”

“Ok and? Just hide your phone from the teacher then and look it up, problem solved.”

“Shh! Mr. Crewels teaching right now, you shouldn’t talk now or else you’ll get in trouble.”
Fucking teachers pet.

“Not my fault this asshole decided to bother me. 𝘖𝘩~, 𝘠𝘶𝘶 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢? How the fuck should I know!”

Ace jabbed Yuu in the ribcage, “I do not sound like that, and quiet down before you get us caught.”

“Agh, you little bitch!” Yuu grabbed his side and hissed in pain.

“All I care about is how to tell the yummy plants from the yucky ones.” Grim was sitting on the table top and staring at the ingredients at the back of the classroom, presumably in hunger.

“Of course you would, big back.” Yuu scoffed at the little cat before rubbing the tiny thing’s head.

“Whats a big back?”

Yuu stomped on Aces toes with his heel, “It’s someone who eats like, a lot, a lot, y’know.”

Ace crouched down and grabbed his foot, “Son of a-!”

“You guys we’re gonna get-“

A crop whip

“Boys! A problem?”

“Ah! No sir!”

Ace groaned, “No sir.”

Grim decided now was a good time to act like a cat and just meowed and called it good.

Seeming to wait for Yuu’s response, Yuu pointed at Ace, “…He started it.”

“YUU! You little rat!”

Another smack on the table and a glare was enough to make him be quiet, “Today’s only the second day so I’ll let you off with a warning. If you boys cause any trouble and I mean 𝘢𝘯𝘺 trouble, week’s detention, am I understood?”

They all grumbled out a ‘yes sir.’ Only for the teacher to smack the riding crop frightening close to the the four of them.

“You are to respond with ‘Yes Master Crewel’ am I understood!”

“Yes Master Crewel!”

 

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“Yo can you guys read any of this?”

Ace, Deuce, and hell even Grim looked at Yuu like he was a dumbass.

“You’re joking right?”

“Ace, if I was joking about something then I wouldn’t make a dumbass joke about fucking reading of all things.”

Deuce went to a random page and pointed at a word, “Yuu, what does this say?”

Yuu dead panned before looking at the page and then back at Deuce, “Deuce, dearie, honey, I just fuckin said that I don’t know what the page says. So what the fuck makes you think I can read any of it?!”

Ace and Grim snickered before Ace stopped suddenly, “Wait, does that mean you’re illiterate?”

The three stared at each other while Grim continued to giggle.

“MASTER CREWEL!”

“Fuck my life.”

“Holy shit are you actually illiterate!?”

 

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“What do you mean you can’t read?!”

“Meaning I can’t read, what the fuck else is it supposed to mean?!”

“Language puppy!”

“Hya!” Yuu was hit by the riding crop.

 

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“Oh dear, that certainly is a turn of events.”

Yuu rolled his eyes, “Tell me about it.”

“If you can’t even understand the common language then would you mind writing down your own language.”

“Sure whatever.”

 

“…..”

“…. Oh dear.”

 

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“Mr. Vanrouge! A pleasure.”

Yuu stared at the cute boy next to him, Vanrouge noticed immediately and sent the boy a smile causing him to look away.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHDHJDHXHSHGH! \(//∇//)\

“To what do I owe the pleasure Crowley?”

Yuu noticed that Mr. Headmage bird seemed more tense then normal.

“I believe that your expertise will be needed in terms of another student.”

“The one next to me?”

“Yeppers.” Yuu flashed him a little heart for funsies.

“It would seem, that Mr. Yuu here knows Old Trade.”

Vanrouge tilted his head, “Well, Old Trade is a rather old language, however I fail to see what that has to do with me Crowley.” Fuck he’s so adorable!

Bird man coughed into his hand, “Well, normally yes, such a thing wouldn’t have to do with you. However, it would seem that the 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 language they know 𝘐𝘴 Old Trade.”

Vanrouge stared at Yuu with wide eyes, his smile that he’s been wearing this whole time even dropped.

“Oh dear.”

“Oh dear, indeed.”

“???” Bro what?

 

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“Mr. Yuu, would you mind telling me what year it is?”

Yuu stared at the two of them like they weirdo’s, what is this? A time-travel plot?

“The year’s 202X.”

They both took in deep breaths, Vanrouge however seemed pissed.

“Crowley, just what in the name of the seven have you done!” Yes! Yell at him some more!

“Wha-! I didn’t do anything Mr. Vanrouge! The Mirror brought the boy here, so if it just so happened to bring someone outside their own time period then that’s completely out of my hands!” Lmao what?

 

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“Last I checked Crowley, the Mirror clearly stated that this boy ‘fit no dorm, yet belonged to all.’ Meaning that he will be coming to Diasomnia, end of discussion!”

“But-“

The doors had closed shut as behind them as Yuu was grabbed by Vanrouge to, somewhere, I don’t know.

“… Hey, Vanrouge?”

The boy, probably a man, stopped suddenly causing Yuu to bump into him, “mh, my bad.”

Vanrouge turned around to face Yuu, “Apologies for that little one.” He had a soft smile on his face and his eyes had lost the anger from earlier, Yuu didn’t know how to feel about that but it was certainly doing things to him.

“Oh, no it’s cool, I don’t mind. I- um, I just wanted to like, know for how long I’d be able to stay at Diasomnia, I can stay there right? Cause I know you said I could stay there and all but I don’t like, y’know, wanna impose or anything but-“ Yuu was rambling, he knew he was rambling but he didn’t know why he was rambling.

Yuu felt a hand on his head, he was being pet. What the fuck, why?

“Well little one, I already gave confirmation that you would be residing in Diasomnia to the Headmage. So it would look rather pathetic on my part if i did not uphold my promise to you to give you residency until we can find a way to send you back, yes?” Oh…. That’s actually really nice of him.

Yuu nodded, “Ah, right…”

As they were walking somewhere Yuu swore he saw a familiar blue outside by the courtyard… WAIT A DAMN MINUTE!

“Hm? Little Yuu?” Yuu pulled away from Vanrouge and opened a nearby window that faced towards the courtyard.

“GRIM!!!”

The little blue furball stopped moving and looked in Yuu’s directing, he swears he can see two students running in Grims direction.

“YOU GET YOUR TINY LITTLE ASS BACK INSIDE THE BUILDING AND GO BACK TO DEUCE!!! Not to Ace though, I don’t trust Ace enough to keep you from killing yourself.” Yuu shook his head at that and HOLY SHIT SOMEONE JUST FOOTBALL DIVED MY SON!

Vanrouge watched from the side in amusement to see this seemingly insecure child yell at someone like he was their mother.

“WHO THE FU- ACE??! IF YOU HURT MY HEAT WARMER I’M GONNA SHAVE YOU BALD YOU LITTLE PUNK ASS BITCH!!!” He just flipped me off, what an asshole and now he’s walking away to Deuce. Oh thank god Deuce is still there.

Yuu closed the window and walked back over to Vanrouge, “Sorry about that Vanrouge, it’s just that I’d rather not have to deal with another problem like some broken relic around here due to Grim.” Vanrouge nodded at that.

“Fu fu fu, that’s quite alright, rather I found it amusing.” Hmm, is that a good thing? Orrrr…..

“Do you know what period it is right now?”

“Currently, we should both be on brake right now, on that matter what class schedule are you?”

“Class schedule… I think it was like, 1-A or something?”

Vanrouge nodded, “I’ll take you to your class then little one.”

“Sick, thank you.”

 

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“Wooo! Lunchtime at last! Whoa! They got some good-lookin’ grub!” Grims mouth was wide open and was dripping saliva on the floor.

“Ew, oh my fuckin-! Keep your damn mouth closed Grime, you’re getting saliva all over the fuckin place.”

“Myah! Grime!? We’ve been over this human, the great lords name is Grim! Not Grime! Grim!!!”

Ace snorted, “Are ya sure Grime? Honestly I think that name suits you better.”

“Grrrrr!”

Deuce sighed, “Don’t patronize him, it’ll just cause more trouble.”

“Lmao, sorry Deucey!”

“Boring~.”

They didn’t need to worry long though since Grim’s hunger ended up winning in the long run, damn big back I swear.

“Look how fluffy those omelets are! Ooh, grilled chicken! And a bacon-and-egg tart!”

Yuu gagged at all the smells coming from the food, Deuce seemed worried but Yuu brushed it off.

“Shhh! Dude, inside voices! Where was this energy earlier today?”

“Yuu, grab me the grilled chicken! There’s only one left! And an omelet too. And that jelly-filled bread. Just fill your whole tray with ‘em!” Yuu looked at Grim in disgust.

“Dude, your gonna get fat if you eat all that shit. Plus I’m pretty sure all that shits way outta your pay range.”

Grim bumped into a tanned boy with white hair, “Ow!”

“Hey! Watch where you’re goin’! M-my carbonara! You broke the yolk!” Damn, feels bad, for real for real.

Some little ginger boy with the hair color of a tomato butted in to the conversation, “Whoa, that’s messed up! Pokin’ the egg is the best part!”

Whoa there buddy! Don’t go startin shit! Thats my job motherfuker.

“You better make this right, pal!”

“Dude what the fuck are you yellin for?! You think that shit makes you look tough you whiny little bitch!” Yuu yelled louder than him just to prove a point, a point that no one knows.

Both boys flinched before smoothing out there nerves I guess? Yuu pulled out his phone however and started recording for potential fight material.

“I’m gonna need that grilled chicken of yours as compensation.”

Grilled chicken? Yuu looked down at his trey only to see it stacked with food.

Grim you big backed bitch! No wonder my arm was starting to get tired, when’d he even get all this shit on my trey in the first place?

“Myah?! No way! Hands off the bird, chump!” God Yuu needed to teach Grim some more insults so that he didn’t talk like some old disney show character.

“I need my protein, because I am HANGRY!”

“Hey! That’s no way to speak to an upperclassman! Catch me outside and I’ll teach you some respect!” Lmao is no one gonna get any faculty or like, any student monitors to stop this shit? Cause if so then Imma start a betting ring… hmm? Aren’t I technically a monitor though?

…Fuck.

Yuu handed his tray and phone to Ace and grabbed the stupid little badge that the bird man gave him instead of actual cash for yesterday’s cleaning.

“Um, excuse me, sir, but it said in the handbook that fighting with magic is prohibited….” Oh sweet Deucey, of course he would try and stop the fight from happening.

“Fighting? You got it all wrong. This is just me helpin’ an ignorant freshman know his place.”

“Now, let’s see how many ways there are to skin a cat!”

Yuu grabbed Deuce’s shoulder and pulled him back, walking in front Yuu showed off the badge that Headmage bird gave him.

“Hey yeah prefect here, and sorry no that’s not gonna happen. Instead what’s gonna happen is you’re gonna turn around and go on your merry way like nothing happened, or! Big or here, if you don’t walk away and continue to try and push this manner, I’m going to issue you both a weeks detention and speak to your housewarden in great, Great! Detail on why you’re both getting detention.”

Yuu looked at the both of them in the eyes and realized that their eyes were still drawn to the stupid fake golden badge he was holding in his hand.

Yuu put the badge away and snapped his fingers in front of the boys faces, “Ladies, eyes here please.”

They both seemed to snap out of their stupor and seemed… fearful of Yuu? Bro what???

“Great! As I was saying, we forget this ever happened and have a jolly good day and you two don’t end up on my black list of getting detentions every time you break even one, single, tiny little rule in the handbook. Okay? Okay, have a good day gentlemen!” Yuu patted their shoulders and, gently, pushed them up the line with a smile.

Yuu walked over to Ace and Deuce who had their eyes open wide while Grim was smiling confidently. Little prick, he was so gonna have his ass for this later.

Yuu grabbed his phone and paused the video before putting it in his back pocket and then grabbed the trey from him.

“Thanks for holding my shit Ace, you a real one for that.”

Deuce was the first one to brake out of whatever he was in and started grinning like a madman, “That was super cool Yuu! You were like a real life honor student there!”

“… Thanks? And also fuck you, I’ll have you know I was an honors student back in my old school, hell even in middle school I was an honors student… principals list even.”

Deuce seemed to beam at that and Ace finally managed to brake out from his shock.

“Dude what the hell!? Why do you have the principals plaque with you??!” Damn why’s he screaming so much for?

“I’m sorry the what?”

“Principal plaque?”

Ace stared at them like they were from dumbasses, which rude by the way, Yuu’s GPA never went below a 3.0 so he’ll have you know he’s very smart, if at times lazy but still! Very smart.

“It was on the school’s pamphlet?”

Yuu and Deuce looked at each other and shook their heads, Grim was in the background boasting about how cool his henchmen was.

“On the third page about the school’s relics.“

“Didn’t read a damn pamphlet, hell I never even got one.”

“Ah… I was going to read it, but I got distracted with- um, things.”

“Oh my sevens, the principals plaque where it’s stated that the first principal made it out of metals and magic that would protect the principal from any and all danger? Y’know, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 principals plaque.”

Deuce seemed to put something together and once again he was staring at Yuu like he was some mystified creature.

Yuu shook his head however, “Nah, never heard of it.”

“You’re joking!”

Yuu rolled his eyes, “Whatever, look I’m gonna go pay for my food now, peace!”

 

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“-Dig up my grave and save my body

Now I’m rotting to the bone

But my hearts still beating

Hoping you won’t leave me

Creepy girls, you’re just my style

Blood-red lipstick, you don’t smile

Falling victim-“

“Dude, shut up already!”

Yuu jolted from his spot and stopped reading his A-plus, totally literary and nothing else, fanfiction before rolling his eyes, “Fuck off Ace, you’re just jealous you don’t have a good singing voice like mine.”

Ace scoffed, “Please, you sound like a dying parrot thats stuck in a dishwasher.”

Yuu stomped on his foot, “better than a tone deft bitchy ginger who probably can’t tell the difference between a soprano and tenor.”

Ace yelped while Deuce, sweet Deuce please never change, looked confused.

“A what?”

“Nothing Deuce, you don’t have to worry your pretty little head about it, Ace on the other hand might since he’s, well y’know, Ace.”
Jkjk I still love you Ace. ♡

“What’s that supposed to mean!?”

“Myah!? I swear you two humans fight more than Ace does with his boyfriend, Yuu.”

“Nuh-uh.”

Ace choked on his food while Deuce was confused and honestly annoyed.

“Boyfriend!? Who’s my boyfriend you little sewer rat!”

“You and Deuce? At least that’s what Yuu sa- wait a minute! Who are you calling a sewer rat!?”

Yuu watched as Ace and Grim started arguing and honestly, mood. Bored as fuck right now, might start a fight for funsies.

“So like, I know your dorms big as fuck and all but are all the other dorms also like that?” If so then I want a god damn refund for that shit, rat infested dorm I’ve been sleeping in for the past two days.

“I’m sure you’re familiar with the statues of the great seven?” Is that… fuck what was his name again?

“Night Raven College has a dorm themed after each one.” Anyways my favorite pretty boy ginger is here! Happy times for us all indeed.

“Bwah! You’re the guy from this morning!” Ace stopped his argument at the sound of a familiar voice who, in his words, used him only for labor.

Grim noticed him as well and seemed upset at his presence, “You tricked us into paintin’ those dumb roses!”

“‘Tricked’ is such an ugly word. Do you think I wanted to spend MY morning painting roses? It’s dorm policy! I was just following orders.”

“Real, nice seeing you again my guy.” Yuu liked the guy since he seemed nice at the very least, and he hasn’t insulted him on their first meeting, nor has he forced him into a life and death situation for some stupid fucking rock.

“Heyya prefect!” Cater smiled and gave the prefect a peace sign while Yuu made a small heart for the boy with pointer finger and thumb, giving him his own boyish grin.

“And grinning like a fiend all the while.” Damn, does no one at this table like the guy besides Yuu? Lmao that’s kinda sad.

“Now, now, Deucey. Outside of the dorm, I don’t care what rules you follow. Here, I’m just your friendly mentor figure!” Wait stop why is he whispering like that!(//∇//) Doin things to me, for real for real.

“Please. Do NOT call me Deucey.” Damn does that mean I gotta stop callin him that too?

“Ah ha ha. That’s how Cater shows he cares.” Hm, he has some big titties, wonder if he’d ever let me use them as a pillow.

“And who are you?”

“Ah, I should introduce myself. The name’s Trey.” Damn that’s a shit name, actually they all kinda got shit names now that I’m thinking about it. Not Yuu though, he has a fan-fuckin-tastic name, unlike these bitches.

“Trey Clover. I’m a junior at Heartslabyul, like Cater here.” …. Holy shit I was right?! That goofy ass mirror doesn’t choose people by their souls! He chooses them by their fucking names!? Motherfucker!!!

“And you must be Yuu, the new prefect from that dump of a-ah, I mean, the “rustic” dorm.”

“Real smooth my guy.”

“I heard the whole story from Cater. Thanks for looking out for our boys yesterday.” Tall, big titties, and refers to first years as ‘our boys’? Definitely Dilf material, sign me the fuck up cause I’m tryna become someone’s new stepdad.

“I don’t recall inviting you to sit with us…” Ace you little bitch if you ruin this for me I will ruin your sleep schedule like no fuckin tomorrow.

“It’s fine isn’t it?”

“Hey now, we’re all from the same dorm, right? Let’s all try and get along. Here, gimme your digits.” Any day my guy.

“Yeppers, I dunno my number though so you’re gonna have to put it in my phone instead.”

Yuu turned his phone back on and went to the phone app and set it out for Cater.

“Yay~!”

“Cater. You’re freaking out the freshmen. Maybe take it down a notch?”

Yuu watched as he typed the number in and handed the phone back to him with a smile.

“Ha! Sorry! I can get a little extra sometimes. What were we talking about…” Real, had that shit happen to me more times then I can count.

“The dorms, yeah? Ah, what fun to mentor new students! Go ahead, A-M-A.”

Grim had eaten most of the food by now, Yuu however didn’t wanna starve later for when he got hungry so he stole his sandwich without him looking.

Deuce was also eating his meal and honestly it looked pretty good, he had a rice omelette with pickled radish on the side and a red bean bun. Seeing that the boy was also distracted by the convo, Yuu stole a radish and pretended that nothing ever happened.

“Before you get into the other dorms, I wouldn’t mind learning a bit more about ours.”

Yuu changed the music that was playing on his phone.

[Bittida en morgon innan solen upprann,

Innan fåglarna började sjunga.

Bergatrollet friade till fager ungersven,

Hon hade en falskeliger tunga.]

Yuu nodded his head along to the music, “Like, what’s the deal with all this “Queen of Hearts rule number whatever” junk?”

“I’m sure you’re familiar with the legendary Queen of Hearts already? She had to rule-“

Yuu pulled out his phone and started reading his A-plus literature he was reading from earlier and went back to reading.

 

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“-For example, look at that guy.” Yuu put his phone down.

“Who we lookin at?”

Following where Trey was pointing Yuu saw a delicious looking man with wide shoulders, white hair, and maybe dog ears? On his head. I dunno but they look like dog ears.

Yuu snorted, “Talk about tall, dark, and handsome. To be honest I wouldn’t mind having a taste of that.”

Ace side eyed Yuu, “Dude, not the time.”

“That rough-and-tumble vibe he’s got has Savanaclaw House written all over it.”

Cater nodded in agreement to that, crossing his arms and closing his eyes in agreement.

“No doubt. That dorm is full of scrappy guys who are into, like, working out and fighting. How should I describe the vibe…? Macho dudes? Gruff big brothers? Something along those lines. The black and gold armband is another giveaway.”

“Dude, I know you did not just compare him to a ‘gruff big brother’ after you just heard me say I wanted a piece of that.” Yuu’s eyes narrowed as Cater winked at him before sticking out his tongue.

“Huh. All right, so what about that guy with the grey and purple cord wrapped around his arm?”

Who? Yuu looked around before landing on the guy they was talking about, white hair with glasses, cute.

“Isn’t that one of the Housewarden’s? Hihihihi! He’s super cute.” Yuu nudged Deuce’s shoulder in an attempt to get his attention.

“Hey, you think if I asked him for his number he’s give it to me?” Deuce looked at Yuu before looking at the boy with silver hair and then back at Yuu, “Maybe?”

Ace snorted, “Not a damn chance.”

Yuu put his head down and covered the bottom half of it with left hand while hitting the table with his right, “One chance! Please!!!” 。・゜・(ノД`)・゜・。

Trey and Cater watched the scene in amusement while Ace and Grim laughed at the boy, Deuce patted him on the back.

“He’s gotta be from Octavinelle House. And the student sitting at the table in front of him has a red and gold armband - Scarabia colors.”

The boy with white hair and dark skin looked familiar to Yuu but the one next to him with his hair in a pony tail, that one Yuu didn’t know.

“Oh lmao it’s the other Housewarden, uh what’s his face. Anyways why’s the guy next to him super hot too? Like bro what??? Why couldn’t the guys at my older school be this hot.” ONE CHANCE PLLLLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEE!!! AHHHHHHFJFHSHDOFHSG!!! o(〒﹏〒)o

“Those dorms are for the smart students. They’re always neck-and-neck in the academic rankings.” Thanks for the explanation and all Cater, but I’m like, so totally not gonna remember that.

“Ah, but the current housewarden of Scarabia doesn’t seem to be all that great of a student….” Damn, what a way to call someone stupid without calling them stupid.

Yuu stifled his giggles, “And here Cater goes, off on some tangent.” Ace shut the fuck up, his tangents are adorable and I love them!(`皿´#)

“Ha. You learn fast. Let’s go back on topic. You see the flashy one with the purple and red armband? Those are Pomefiore colors.”

Trey pointed to a boy with the ugliest blonde bob with a fedora on his head and a cute boy with purple hair next to him.

“Whoa! The girl with the potion books, I really like her!” Keep it down you rat, they’ll hear us.

“Huh, If I had his looks my mom definitely woulda let me get away with more shit when I was a kid.”

“What’s she doing in a boys’ school?!” Looking over, Deuce seemed shocked and even a little nervous at the thought of a girl being there.

Ace furrowed his eyebrows, again really adorable but also, he looked at Deuce and Grim like they were idiots.

“You two are such morons. There aren’t girls officially enrolled here.”

“WHAAAT?!” Deuce and Grim shouted in unison, almost like they didn’t care if everyone would stare at them like weirdo’s.

“….?”

The boy looked over and Yuu waved at him, “Hey~!” The boy smiled at him and waved back before going back to his books.

“What a total cutie, wonder if he’d agree to go drinking with me.” Yuu giggled at the thought.

“Aren’t you to young to be drinking?” Shush you himbo, this doesn’t involve you or your big titties.

“Speaking of girls, there’s a portrait in the west hall who’s a real beauty. Name’s Rosaria. If you’d like to meet her, I’d be happy to introduce you. Maybe we can set something up?” Is this your way of telling us to touch grass Cater? Cause if so fuck you.

“A painting? Hard pass! I don’t care how cute she is if she’s two-dimensional!” Shush Ace.

“He’s joking by the way, now how cute we talkin Cater? Like ‘oh my god she’s so cute’ cute? Or ‘holy shit she’s cute’ cute.” I can make a new friend here that isn’t a filthy, sexually deprived, probably uses a 4-1 soap, boy and make friends with a girl that probably knows everything about everyone here!

“Come on, man. Yuu gets it, who cares how many dimensions she’s got!”

“You can’t be serious prefect.”

“Anyways.”

“Oh I am Deucey, imagine how long she’s been here! How much tea that only she and the other painting would know, can you imagine?!”

“They take vanity pretty seriously at Pomefiore. It’s basically a dorm full of models.”

“Real.” Yuu opened his phone and pulled of Psekai and started playing Milk crown on sonechka.

“Their housewarden has 5 million followers on Magicam.” Cater pulled out his phone and started typing away on it.

“Ooh~ lemme see, I wanna see!” Is he cute? Or is he hot, that’s the real question.

“Hey now, they’re not all just pretty faces. The students at Pomefiore are among the best at portions and casting curses.” Sick as fuck.

“Heh heh. True dat.” LEMME SEE THE PHOTO MOTHERFUKER!!!

“Next, we have Ignihyde… Their armbands are blue and black, but I don’t see any around here.” Cater sighed and closed his eyes, he’s very adorable.

“They tend not to be the most outgoing of students. Even I don’t have a single friend from that dorm.”

He quickly went back to smiling though, “They’re kind of the polar opposite of us sunny, fun-loving Heartslabyuls.” Damn, what a way to talk shit, I mean go off I guess.

“So they’re gloomy and miserable?” Do these bitches not have filters? Like damn, and I thought I was bad.

“Hey, no need to put it like that! They just have a reputation for being quiet and serious, is all.” Damn, what a way to say gloomy and miserable but in pretty words.

“That dorm tends to attract magical-energy engineers and students who are good at tech.”

“Oh! So they’re like, rich, rich is what your getting at.” Sick, nice to know on who to become friends with.

“And that just leaves… Diagonyalara, was it?” Lmao, real.

“You were off to a good start, and then you rammed right into the guardrails. It’s ‘Diasomnia’.” It’s not leviOsa, it’s leviosaaa, ahh statement.

Yuu snorted, “I know that! I just misspoke, all right?”

Cater pointer to a railing, “Diasomnia House is, hm…. Ah, look over there. Those guys in the special seating area. You can tell from the neon green and black armbands. They’re basically campus celebrities.” Sick as fuck, for real for real.

“The vibe they give off makes it real hard for regular schmucks like us to even approach then.”

“Who is we? The fuck.”

“And their housewarden is that times a thousand.” Oh! The really pretty boy with horns! Lmao I remember him, super adorable ya’know?

“Oh! Look theres, um, fuck I forgot his name. But anyways I know the guy in the middle, super sweet ya’know?” The guy from the office was there along with a boy with silver hair who seemed to be dozing off and a boy with green hair and too much hair jell on his head on each side of him. Lmao they’re all lowkey kinda hot though.

“There’s a little kid in that group! Wait, when’d you even get to know him Yuu?” Ace seemed surprised.

“Ah, we do get some child prodigies here. But that guy there is no kid. He’s a junior like us. Name’s-“

“Lilia. Lilia Vanrouge.” PLEASE HIS VOICE IS SO \(//∇//)/ AAAAHHHHHCHDHWHAH!!!

Lilia appeared above the table upside down, pretty sick to be honest.

Ace and trey screamed in unison, “H-he just teleported!” Yes we know Grim.

“Dude, that was fuckin’ sick!” Like for real for real, bro literally just appeared out of thin air like it was nothing.

“I understand my age interests you? As this bespectacled fellow accurately noted….” Bespectacled fellow. Lmao I’m so saying that shit now about anyone who wears glasses.

“Despite my fresh-faced, boyish good looks, it would be inaccurate to call me a ‘child.’” Bro’s totally in his hundreds, common baby faced trope where they look like they’re 12 but then they’re like, 2,000 years old or some shit.

“‘Fresh-faced,’ he says…”

“You need not gawk at us from afar. You may feel free to speak with us directly. We are schoolmates, are we not? All of us at Diasomnia House welcome you without reservation.” STAHP HE’S SO CUTE WHEN HE’S SMILING THOUGH!!!

“Bet.”

Looking back over, Yuu swore that the one with green hair was glaring at him. That or he just has rbf cause if so, same. The silver one however seemed to be more interested rather than like, angry or anything like that.

“And yet, those guys over there aren’t exactly rolling out the red carpet in terms of approachability…”

“You don’t know that Deuce, for all we know they could just have a massive case of resting bitch face, not their fault.”

Lilia chucked at that, “Forgive me for appearing above you during your meal. I do hope we can speak again. Oh, and little Yuu.”

“Hmm?”

“When school is over I’ll come pick you up, ok?” Lilia started petting Yuu’s head.

“Okay!” Yuu leaned into the touch, grinning all the while.

At the confirmation, Lilia teleported back to his table with the two other boys and began speaking to them about something.

“Their table has got to be over twenty yards away from ours. And they overheard our conversation? Thats WAY creepy!” Ace was whispering in fear of being heard.

“Ace stop being a bitch, honestly I think that shits sick as fuck.” Wait does that mean that he overheard all my thirsty comments?

“Well… Diasomnia House does have a bit of a reputation for having lots of special students. Some of them are extremely talented at magic. Their housewarden, Malleus Draconia, is considered to be one of the five best mages in the world.” This feels like when an npc tells you what the quest is, and like, gives you all the important details lowkey.

“Myah? What was up with that weirdo saying he was picking you up after school yuu?” Damn, was lowkey hoping he wouldn’t mention anything.

“Grim, shut the hell up. I’ll tell you after, m’kay?” Grim glared at Yuu before going back to eating whatever desert he grabbed without Yuu noticing.

“Malleus is reeeeeal bad news. Though I suppose the same could be said of our own dear housewarden.” Damn, what is up with all the kids here talking shit about the other students?

“No kidding! He collared me for eating one slice of tart! All his rule obsession is outta control!”

Yuu looked over Aces shoulder and saw Riddle standing over him, lmao he’s super adorable.

“My ‘rule obsession’ is ‘outta control,’ is it?”

Ace like a dumbass, nodded in agreement, “You bet it is. Riddle’s just a petty tyrant who leans into the whole ‘rules’ schtick as a pretext to keep everyone under his puny thumb!”

Deuce noticed the figure behind him and seemed frightened.

“Ace! Behind you!”

Ace looked behind and saw the tiny figure staring at him like he was trash, and compared to him, Ace in fact was trash.

“Bwah?! Housewarden!”

“Dude, why’d you tell him? That shit was funny as fuck.” Yuu cackled and watched as Ace started squirming under Riddles eye.

“Hey, Riddle! What’s shakin’, pal? You’re lookin’ adorbs, as always!” Lmao that’s the best you could come up with Cater?

“Hmph. Cater, keep running that mouth and you’ll lose it - along with the rest of your head.” HYAAAAAAAAAHHHH HES SO ADORABLE!!!! ONE CHANCE PLEAAASSSEEEE!!!!!!

“Sorry, sorry! My bad!” Yuu snorted and quickly looked away as Cater started glaring at him.

“Myah?! You’re the guy who put that stupid collar on me at the-“ Yuu quickly covered his mouth before he could spout anything else out.

“Sorry about him, he’s like, technically speaking only five or six so he still doesn’t quite get human customs and all that!” Yuu laughed a bit at the end, ah ‘tis the life of single parenthood.

Grim was scratching Yuu’s hand with his claws but he’d rather deal with the pain rather than deal with the social embarrassment that was to come if he let him speak.

“And you’re the new students who were nearly expelled yesterday. I’ll ask that you not refer signature spell as a ‘stupid collar.’” Stop he looked so adorable when he was frowning, Yuu could feel his heart beat in his chest and he lowkey thinks he might actually be dying.

“Right, my bad.” Why am I apologizing for this little fucker? He’s the one that called the choker stupid not me.

“The headmage’s habit of tolerating rulebreakers like you is going to send this entire campus spiraling into chaos one day.” Tough.

“Those who break the rules should have their heads removed immediately, without exception.” Yuu quickly raised his hand in the air, letting Grim go back to eating whatever dessert was on his plate.

“Oh! But what if like, I had to rush out of class in the middle of a lecture or something cause of an allergic reacting? Would I still get in trouble?” Riddle looked over at Yuu and tilted his head.

“That would depend on how bad the reaction could be, if it’s a simple allergy that merely causes you to feel congestion then it would be off with your head.” Yuu shook his head.

“Lmao I wish, but nah, I’d prolly just end up dying lol.” Riddle looked surprised by that but quickly regained his composure.

“Well, if it’s a life and death situation then I suppose it would be alright to leave class to go to the nurse’s office.”

“Dude, seriously? This guy look like a wimp but talks like a monster!” Ace shut the fuck up before you ruin your chance to apologize!

Riddle glared at Ace, “The headmage may have forgiven you, but if you break any further rule, I assure you I will not.”

“So, uh, listen, housewarden, sir…. Any chance I could get you to remove this collar?” I doubt acting all cute will get you anywhere but good luck I guess.

“I had intended to remove it once you’d taken an opportunity to reflect upon your crimes. But I’ve not detected so much as a hint of remorse in the foolishness I’ve heard you spout today.” I mean like, he ain’t wrong.

“So I think I’ll let you keep that for a while. Don’t worry. The freshman curriculum is more focused on magical theory than practice. And your inability to use magic will help prevent incidents along the lines of what happened yesterday.” I don’t know why, but he’s lowkey kinda nice about it, in like, disciplining yet still focusing on studies and shit.

“Now, if you’ve finished your meal, you should quit gossiping and prepare for your next class. Rule 271 is quite clear: ‘One must leave the table within fifteen minutes of completing their lunch.’ You DO understand what happens to rulebreakers, I trust?” Damn is it that late already? I don’t wanna go back to classes though. (T ^ T)

Ace sighed, “More insane rules…”

“I believe you mean to say, ‘Yes, Housewarden!’”

“Yes, Housewarden!” Both Ace and Deuce yelled in unison, Ace in a sarcastic tone and Deuce because… well actually I don’t know why he yelled either to be honest.

Riddle nodded at their statement’s, “Very well, then.” Trey tried to cover for them however.

“Don’t worry, I’ll keep an eye on them.”

Riddle looked down on him, which is funny cause Riddle’s like way shorter than him and even when Trey’s sitting he’s basically the same height as Riddle.

“Hmm. As Vice housewarden, I trust you’ll avoid any further indiscreet conversation. Now, as per rules 339…” Damn why’s there so many rules?

“‘The post-meal beverage is to be lemon tea with two sugar cubes.’ Thus, I must go to acquire my sugar cubes. Farewell.”

“Bye bye!” Yuu waved him off as he walked away.

Yuu could hear Riddle mumbling about sugar cubes and about a violation of them running out. Lmao what a funny lil guy…. He wants him back here, something about the little red head just makes Yuu want to take a large bite outta him and inject the smaller ones blood into his veins.

Lmao that’s weird, like really weird. But he’s really adorable though so Yuu supposes he doesn’t mind it all to much.

“Yeesh! That was terrifying.” Cater seemed relieved that he was gone.

Grim however seemed angry, “That guy… has some serious issues.”

Yuu shrugged at their comments, “I dunno, to be honest he’s actually kinda nice.”

Deuce glared at both Grim and Cater. “Hey, don’t disrespect him!”

Ace kicked Yuu’s leg, “Of course 𝘺𝘰𝘶 would say he’s nice. He’s a total nightmare!”

Yuu wasn’t paying too much attention to what the ginger said, rather he was busy listening to the other students.

“Is the housewarden gone?”

“I totally just broke rule 186, ‘Never eat a hamburger on Tuesday.’ I don’t know what I would have done if he’d caught me!”

One of them sighed, “… I wish he wouldn’t come here so we could at least eat lunch in peace.”

It seemed that Yuu wasn’t the only one listening in either, as both Cater and Trey were dead silent as well.

“Riddle managed to secure the housewarden title before the end of his very first week at school.” I don’t remember asking.

“I know he can come off a bit harsh, but he’s not a bad guy. Everything he does, he does because he thinks it’ll improve the dorm.”

Grim didn’t seem to believe that, “Would a good guy go around putting collars on strangers’ neck?”

Yuu shrugged his shoulders, “I dunno Grim, would strangers try and steal someone’s clothes and threaten to burn them alive?”

Cater chuckled, albeit awkwardly, while Trey looked somewhat grateful at my interjection.

“Grrrrr…. But that collar really hurt, and it shut off all my magic! That’s just rude!” Grim was pouting, like that would make me take his side.

“Y’know what also really hurts Grim? Burning someone 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦! That kills people y’know? Really rude of some stranger to just do that to another person.” Im never letting you live this shit down you rat.

Cater decided to change the subject as the vibe, to him at least, seemed to start getting hostile.

“Hm? You’re curious about Riddle’s signature spell?”

Deuce feeling a bit awkward as well with all the tension went along with Cater’s obvious change in subject.

“That means, like…It’s a spell that only he can cast, right?”

Trey decided to play teacher for him, “I doubt he’s the only person in the whole world… But yes, a signature spell is a magical ability that is, generally speaking, unique to its user. You’ll learn about them in class soon enough.”

Cater nodded along to it, “Riddle’s signature spell allows him to temporarily seal away the magic of another. The spell is named….”

“Off With Your Head!”

Grim shivered in fear, “Even the name is completely psycho!”

Both seniors seemed to regain their composure.

“To a mage, losing the ability to use magic is about as painful as losing your head completely.” In a literal sense or metaphorical one?

“Which is why all of us at Heartslabyul House try hard not to violate Riddle’s rules.” It’s a bunch of old rules from far back your own time, surely you dumbasses are smart enough to find loopholes in them.

“And as long as you are following the rules, Riddle isn’t so scary.” I wouldn’t say he’s scary, more like he’s really stern I guess.

“Speaking of which- are you still not gonna let me into the dorm until I buy a tart, Cater?”

Cater smiled, I̷t̷ ̷l̷o̷o̷k̷s̷ ̷f̷a̷k̷e̷, super adorable ya’know. “Don’t @ me, but…yeah. That’s rule 53, so my hands are tied. Also, Riddle always looks forward to having the first slice of a tart. So if you want him to forgive you, you had better bring a whole tart!”

Ace frowned, “What happened to ‘We’re all from the same dorm, let’s try to get along?’ Throw me a bone here!

The other boy chuckled, “That’s one thing. This is another.”

“A whole tart has gotta be pretty expensive.”

Ace sighed and shook his head, “Seriously? I don’t have that much money!”

“Real, I’m broke as fuck too.”

Deuce looked confused, “If you’re poor then how’d you manage to buy lunch?”

Yuu pulled out the little badge from earlier, “Staff gave it to me for free cause of this shit.”

“Then why not make one yourself? Trey made those three tarts by hand, after all.” Cater tried giving him options since he felt bad for Ace.

“They just gave it to you for free!?” Deuce was shocked at the statement.

Yuu nodded his head and put the badge away.

“You made those tarts, Trey? That’s incredible!” Ace seemed shocked that they were handmade.

“I know it was like, kinda weird I guess? But I got free food so that’s a plus.” To be honest they kinda made a big deal outta it but I guess it’s cause its a relic and all that? I dunno probably.

“That was like something you’d find at a bakery!”

Deuce sighed in defeat, “Lucky, I had to pay 15 Thaurmarks for my food.”

“Heh. I appreciate that. We do have most of the stuff you’d need, but… I’m afraid I’ll need something from you in return.”

“Sucks, for real for real. I’ll get you lunch next time though, that is if they’ll still give me stuff for free again.” The question Is though, did they give me a free meal for stopping the fight or because I had the badge?

“You’re gonna charge me to make it?!” Yuu wondered why Ace was screaming so much but chose to ignore it.

“No, it’s fine. You don’t have to do that for me Yuu.” Deuce looked over at Grim and realized he had completely finished everything on the trey by himself.

“What kinda racket…?!”

“Speaking of food, are you not hungry? Grim basically ate everything on the trey and I don’t remember seeing you grab anything to eat yourself.” Deuce looked worried, how cute.

Trey laughed, “Nah, I wouldn’t take money from a freshman!”

Yuu shook his head, “Nah, to be honest I ate this mirror mushroom on the way to first period and I’m lowkey still full from it.” I can’t really feel my arms or legs that much though, but I feel good!

“But Riddle wants a chestnut tart next, so I’m gonna need you to gather a ton of chestnuts.”

“Mirror mushroom? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of those before.”

“Lmao that’s cause I just named it right now, honestly I dunno what mushroom it was, but it was besides the Queen of Hearts mirror so I grabbed it.”

“Like that’s any less of a hassle. But…fine. How many do you need?”

Deuce seemed to freeze at Yuu’s statement, “…. Aren’t the mushrooms by the mirror poisonous…? Yuu how many did you eat?!”

“Eat? What did Yuu eat?” Cater was now interested in the conversation and put his phone down, watching as Deuce shook Yuu’s shoulders.

Even Ace and Trey were brought out from their own conversation at the sound of Deuce screaming.

“The mushrooms! By the Queen of Hearts mirror, the ones we were told specially not to touch since it could paralyze and stop our hearts if we ate them!” Deuce seemed scared and close to tears.

“What!?” All three of the other boys plus Grim screamed.

“Dude, it’s fine. I only had like, one of them so it’s not like it’s gonna fuckin kill me or anything like that.” Yuu rolled his eyes.

Cater seemed to have enough sense though as he quickly got up from his spot and the grabbed Yuu from his, “Cay-cay has this covered! Just get him to the nurses office and things will be fine!” Cater seemed to be talking to himself more and trying to reassure himself rather than Yuu.

The other boys stood up from their spots to try and follow and watched as Yuu fell on the floor after only a couple steps.

“… Is this a bad time to say I can’t feel my legs?” My legs are numb and I can’t feel my fingers anymore. (*/▽＼*)

 

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Yuu’s mouth tasted slightly bitter from the weird potion, but in like, a good way if that makes any sense.

“…..So, funny seeing you here-“

Mr. Cruella held up his hand to stop Yuu from talking while using the other to message the bridge of his nose.

“Puppy… tell me, what in the seven went through your mind that made you 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it would be a 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 idea to eat something you just found on the floor?!” Yuu flinched as the other man yelled at him.

“….That I wouldn’t have any money for breakfast and I was hungry?” Damn, maybe Yuu should’ve kept the whole eating a mirror mushroom thing to himself instead of telling Deuce.

Yuu watched as the older man took in several deep breaths, “How long?” How long what?

“Hm?”

“How long has it been since you ate the mushroom?” Ah, lmao that makes sense.

“Well, it was a bit before first period and lunch already ended so like… 1, 2, 3.” Yuu was counting on his fingers from starting period to now.

“I think like, roughly 5 or 6 hours?” Maybe? Fuck when did school start again?

Mr. Cruella sighed before standing up from his chair, “You will stay here for the rest of the day, rest assure I will call your remaining period teachers and let them know that you will not be able to attend classes.” Fuck yeah! I get to skip and I don’t even get detention for it.

“But!” Yuu watched as the man brought out the crop whip and bent it a bit with his other hand.

“If I find out that another situation like this happens, rest assured puppy that the one to handle your discipline will be me and not that useless bird.” …. Theres another person here who hates the bird man? I think I might’ve just found my new best friend.

“Yes, master!” Fuck, please don’t call me out, please don’t call me out, please don’t call me out!

The other man nodded, “Now, I will be off. If I find out you tried to leave before I come back and check in then I trust you know the consequences.” Lol I can’t even feel my legs but sure I guess.

Yuu nodded his head.

With that the other man left the room and now Yuu was alone… Yuu grabbed his phone and pulled up his favorite manga site to read something, something blinker. I dunno but its a long title.

Oh look Cater texted me. ( ^ω^ )

 

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[I grabbed my favorite Cabernet

He’s got no clue and so I say

Darling, the wine]

“You are free to go puppy.”

Yuu stood up from the bed, “Yay~! Thank you.” Yuu walked over to Ace and Deuce who were standing at the doors.

[The wine? The wine!

They’re serving monkfish, so darling the wine can’t be red

How ‘bout this Australian Riesling instead]

“I swear, you call me a dumbass but then go and do idiotic things like eating things off the floor.” Ace grabbed Yuu by his arm to help him with walking, likewise, Deuce did the same.

“Nuh-uh, I’m like, way smarter than you.”

Yuu was side eyed by Ace, “Right, sure you are.”

They took some time to walk out the building before Yuu realized that he had no clue on what they were doing.

“Yo, where the fuck are we going?”

“To the woods behind campus, duh.” This bitch did not just say that to me.

“Ok cool, but why?”

“That’s because Trey said we had to gather around two to three hundred chestnuts in order to make the tarts needed for the unbirthday party.” Swear bro, Deuce the only real one, for real for real.

“That’s cool and all but why are you taking the sickly patient to help you get chestnuts?” Yuu watched as Ace snickered at that.

“You already agreed to help me with the tarts, so you’re gonna go through with the deal until it’s finished!” Ok but what if I don’t want to though? The fuck.

“Fine, whatever I guess. Gotta text Lilia about it though.”

Yuu pulled his arm from Deuce to grab his phone and started texting the smaller man about the change of plans.

“Myah! That’s right, you never did tell me why the creepy guy was gonna pick you up after school!” Lol, knew I was forgetting something.

Deuce looked curious and Ace was staring at Yuu’s phone as he texted the other boy.

“When’d you have time to even get his phone number?”

“So like, y’know when you told the teacher that I was illiterate and shit, and he took me to the headmages office?”

Deuce nodded his head while Ace gave him a snarky answer, “It was only 7 hours ago, be pretty hard to forget something like that.”

“Ok yeah, whatever. But anyways somethings happened, Lilia decided that I’d stay at Dia- uh Dia something I dunno, and then he took me to class and gave me his phone number.” Yuu looked at the response Lilia gave him, thumbs up and a promise to save him a plate of food which he cooked himself, sweet.

“Ok, we good.”

 

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“Whoa! There really are a ton of chestnuts just layin’ around. I’m gonna be livin’ large on chestnut tarts! Mmm!” Real.

Yuu looked around at the lush forest and went to the apple tree to grab a few apples.

“Fuck yeah! Free food.” Yuu was stuffing a few apples in his jacket and took his sandwich out, which he totally didn’t steal from Grim because stealings bad, don’t do that kids.

“Let’s get grabbin’- YOWCH!” Yuu watched as Grim, like a dumbass, tried to grab the chestnut with his bare hands.

“Yew guud?” Yuu was eating but decided to still ask, even though his mouth was full.

“Myah! The chestnut spines pricked my paws!” Tough.

Deuce looked at the tree’s before looking back at Ace and Yuu, “I don’t think we can do this with out bare hands. And we need something to put them in, too.”

“Maybe we can find some supplies in the botanical garden?”

Deuce nodded his head, “Let’s take a look.”

Yuu followed them while eating his sandwich, he wonders if he’d be allowed to take stuff from the botanical garden.

 

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“Whoa, I didn’t realize this place was so huge.

Yuu looked all around, pots filled with flowers of all kind were hanging from the trees. Even on the walkway there were pot’s filled with flowers and other weird species of plants he’s never seen before.

He’d never been inside a botanical garden before, but from what he can see and the many different plants all around him, it’s lowkey pretty fuckin’ sick.

“If is this large, it’s got to have a groundskeeper. Let’s split up and look.”

“Sure. Dibs on the right side.”

Deuce nodded, “Then how about I go left, while Grim and his prefect go straight ahead?”

“Kay, kay~.” Yuu took off with Grim and the boys went their own direction as well.

As they were walking, Grim suddenly stopped.

“Hey, come take a look at this! There’s a ton of fruit growing here! Smells like they’re ripe, too!” What the fuck are those?

As Yuu continued walking he stepped on something which felt oddly like a branch but didn’t at the same time.

“Ouch!” Damn that’s a deep voice.

Yuu looked down at what he stepped on and saw it quickly slither away from his foot, “What the fuck?”

“Hey! You got some nerve steppin’ on my tail and just walkin’ away!” Yuu felt his heartbeat quicken, a man with long brown hair and cat ears on top of his head glared down on him. The very same man that he originally thought was a furry a few days ago but anyways.

God DAMN is he fine! Plus, bro’s lowkey kinda snatched, got an hourglass figure for real, for real.

“Are you the groundskeeper? Not sure you outta be talkin’ to students that way, pal.” Bro, someone needs to get your ass in english or speech class or some shit cause LEARN TO READ BETWEEN THE FUCKIN’ LINES MY GUY!!!

Yuu grabbed Grim from the floor and quickly covered his mouth again, “Ah! Sorry about him, he’s still young and doesn’t know how to think first before he speaks! Anyways, I’m really sorry for stepping on your tail.” Grim was making squeaking noises as he thrashed in Yuu’s hold.

Yuu could feel himself clammer up as this absolute, fine man stared him down like he was a piece of meat, and not in the good way either.

“Ain’t nothin’ worse than bein’ in the middle of a good nap and havin’ some jerk step on your tail.”

“Again, really sorry about that!”

Yuu watched as the man stopped scowling at him for reason and got on this smug grin, and like, holy shit was it doing things to Yuu.

“You…. I know you.” You do?

“You’re that herbivore from Orientation who smelled similar to that old bat.” Bat? What the fuck, I didn’t know this school kept bats.

The man suddenly came closer to Yuu and he swore that he was gonna have a heart attack as the man suddenly just… sniffed him, haha that’s totally not weird.

“Do I smell or some shit?”

The other man backed off suddenly, “Huh. You smell Similar but yours is way worse, like putrescine and dried gardenia.”

Seriously? That’s what I smell like?

“Well, can’t say it’d be fun to hurt someone who smells like they’re on their deathbed. Still gonna do it, though.” That is a wild ass statement, what the fuck. Yuu could feel himself start to laugh but kept it down so he didn’t make the situation worse.

Yuu could feel Grim start to shake in fear.

“No one gets to stomp on my tail and just walk away without payin’ the price. I’m in a bad mood on account of bein’ woken up from my nap, too.” Fuck he’s so hot, y’know what I think I’m fine with this.

“That’s gonna cost you a tooth.” Fuck I’m not fine with this. I’ll take getting my ass beat, but my teeth? Bro why’s it gotta be my teeth?

“See, I get that you’re like, upset and all that but do you think we could maybe talk this out instead?” Yuu took a step back as the other boy stepped towards him.

Just then, thank you god, another boy appeared from out the bushes with his hands behind his head all happy and shit.

“Leona! There you are!”

The man, Leona presumably, turned around and started scowling again, “Heh?” Damn is he hot even when he’s mad.

“I knew I’d find you here! We got after-school classes today, remember?” Y’know he’s actually kinda cute with his little… I’m gonna assume dog ears and how his uniforms all scrunched up cause its to big for him, he’s lowkey kinda adorable, I fuck with it.

Leona brought his hand up to his head and started messaging it, “Ugh… And now I’ve got this guy on my tail…”

The other boy smirked at Leona, “Leona, you’ve already had to repeat one year. If you get held back again, we’ll be in the same grade!” HE’S A SUPER SENIOR??? Bro say that shit ain’t true, please!

“Oh, put a sock in it already. I’m tired of all yer yappin’, Ruggie.” I mean, he’s hot though so I’ll let it slide I guess if he turns out to be rich or somethin.

Ruggie gave leona an annoyed look and his ears even drooped down as well, “Look, you think I like always being on your case? C’mon, man. You act like it’d be hard for you. You could skate through life if you’d just TRY. Come on! Let’s go already!” Thank you kind sir! I’ll never forget your sacrifice. (T^T)>

Leona side eyed Yuu, “Hrmph…. Next time you stink up my territory, there’s gonna be a price to pay, herbivores!” Oh… my god, I’ve only known you for like, less than ten minutes and I already get a nickname? See I knew he liked me.

They both walked off with Yuu waving at them, “Bye-bye!”

Yuu finally let Grim go from his grip and the small hell-cat clung to Yuu’s pant leg while shaking.

“Myah! I don’t like the sound of that! What is up with this nutso?”

Yuu squatted on the floor next to Grim, “Maybe it’s a side effect of being a super senior?” Grim looked confused.

“Y’know, like, people that were supposed to graduate but got held back? So they’re like, kinda the only adult student on campus, barring the other seniors who only just became legal.” Grim seemed a little confused still but nodded as if he got the statement.

“Yo, guys, we found baskets and tongs.” Yuu flinched and turned around quickly to see Ace and Deuce with baskets on the backs with Deuce holding an extra one, presumably for Yuu.

“What in the world happened to you two?”

“Oh, right, the chestnuts! We gotta gather those chestnuts so I can get my tart on!” Real, but to be honest Tiramisu is better.

“We’ll fill ‘em in on the crazy super-senior while we forage.” Awww, my little baby is learning big kid words. I’ve never felt prouder before to know one of my children is picking up after me.

 

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“…and then he peaced out!”

Ace looked shocked, “Yeah, no way was that guy the groundskeeper.”

Grim tilted his head, “Y’know, now that I think about it, he WAS wearin’ the golden of that Pajama-clog dorm.”

“Dude, it hasn’t even been that long since lunch. How do you forget the name Savanclaw in like, under four hours?”

Deuce stopped grabbing the chestnuts momentarily, “Pajama…clog? You mean Savanaclaw?”

Yuu stopped grabbing chestnuts as well and looked over at Deuce, “Savanaclaw? Wasn’t the name Savanclaw?”

Deuce shook his head, “You know, I’m starting to think that there’s an awful lot of delinquents here at Night Raven…”

Ace stretched his arms above his head, “All right, that should be enough chestnuts. Let’s get these baskets over to Trey!” Fucking finally bro, holy shit do my arms fell dead right now.

“Myahaha! Now that we’re all gassed up, it’s destination: Flavortown, baby!”

 

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“Welcome back. Looks like you got plenty!” Trey smiled at them with a bunch of cooking ware out on the counter.

“Now you can make us some massive tarts!” Grim had a happy grin on his face at the prospect of more food.

“Well, the bigger the tarts, the harder it’ll be to peel all the nuts, so… good luck with that!”

Deuce closed his eyes and vaguely looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here, which real by the way, “We have to peel all of these…? Suddenly the whole room is spinning…”

Yuu raised his hand into the air, “How long does it usually take to make a mont blanc?”

Trey chuckled, “Preparation is the key to good baking. As for how long it takes to make one… I’d say a little over 4 hours?”

Yuu looked at Trey before looking down to his hands, “…. What if I just got on the floor and sobbed?”

Ace rolled his eyes, “Yeah, yeah, I know. We’ve come this far. We’re not giving up now!”

Yuu tilted his head away from the two and stared at the wall, “Mmm, see about that.”

“Myah! don’t you dare henchman! You already agreed to help out, so that means you’re helping!!!”

“But I mean like… do I really want too though?”

“Prefect.”

Yuu rolled his eyes before snickering, “Yeah, I know, I’m just fuckin’ with yah.”

 

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Scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, switch, scoring, swi-

[Counting ten, nine, zero fingers

Won’t you come play the gray man’s game]

Yuu tried grabbing another chestnut, only to be met with air and nothing else. Yuu let go of the knife and started messaging his hand as it was cramping.

Yuu wonders if the Riddle would actually like the mont blanc. Maybe he could invite Draco to the party or something, that’d be fun.

[Move quick, be an artful dodger

When the cleavers start swishing in flames]

Looking over to Ace, Yuu realized that his basket was also pretty much done as well, with Trey most likely doing most of the work on his part.

Yuu figured he could help out, since he’s y’know, just such a nice person and all that.

With the last one down, Yuu watched as Ace and Grim sighed in relief, honestly it kinda looks like they’re about to cry.

“THERE! We peeled every last one of those stupid things!”

Ace was messaging his fingers, “My fingers and wrists are killing me…” real.

Trey chuckled at their pain, what a total sadist, “Haha. More work than you thought it’d be, huh? We’ve still got to strain them, though.” See, now what If I just killed myself instead?

Ace, Deuce, and Grim looked at the taller boy in despair and Yuu swore he saw a tear or two fall from Grims’ eye’s.

“There’s MORE?!” Yes Deuce there’s more, it’s not like tarts can just make themselves.

 

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“There! We finally got ‘em all puréed!” Ace yelled in excitement while Deuce sighed.

“My arm is killing me.” Could never be me, for real for real.

“Tragic.”

Trey patted the boys on the shoulder, “Nice work. It’ll be all the sweeter for your pain!”

Grim was staring at the purée and drooling, nasty bitch. “The smell alone already had me droolin’…”

“I just need to add butter and sugar to the chestnut paste, add a sensible splash of oyster sauce- that’s my secret ingredient!”

“Oyster sauce?!” Ace and Deuce screamed in unison with a shocked and disgusted look on their face.

Trey meanwhile, gross as bitch for adding oyster sauce to his tarts, merely smiled at them, “Yep. The umami of the oysters gives the cream a deep, savory flavor.” Yuu wonders if he could ever consider the older boy his ‘friend’ after hearing that foul statement.

“I use this one here: Walrus-brand Young Oyster Sauce.” Trey explained it like it was the most normal thing in the world and Yuu had half the mind to just grab his shit and leave.

“All the best bakers use it in their tarts.” The smile he had was reassuring and given any other situation, Yuu would probably believe him.

“Really? But isn’t oyster sauce like, super salty?” It is, which is why this bitch is obviously lying. Looking over, Deuce seemed to have this look like he was actually contemplating whether it was true or not.

Ace tilted his head and seemed to actually be contemplating whether or not putting oyster sauce in a tart was viable. “Some folks put chocolate into curry, don’t they? Maybe it’s the same idea.” This bitch.

“Hey motherfucker, you leave curry outta this shit. Chocolate and oyster sauce are two very different things when it comes to adding it into food.” Ain’t no way I’m finna let this man diss curry like that.

“Pfft… Ah ha ha ha!” All three boys +Grim, looked over to see Trey laughing.

“I’m totally lying! No one in their right mind would put oyster sauce into a pastry.”

Ace looked surprised, “What?! So you were just yankin’ our chain?” …. Is it too late to leave still?

“Ah ha ha! I mean, if you’d used your brain, you’d have realized how ridiculous it was!” You’re lucky you’re hot motherfucker because swear, I was boutta smack the shit outta you.

“Let that be a lesson to you. Don’t believe everything you hear.”

Grim was grumbling over this, “Feh. And here I thought that human was actually somewhat decent.”

“Next, I’ll put in the cream…Oh!” Trey’s hands stopped in front of the ingredients.

“What’s wrong?” Ace has questioned the older boy but it seemed a little insincere to Yuu.

“You guys gathered so many chestnuts that we may have overdone it with the chestnut paste.” Trey looked rather troubled, like he wasn’t the one who told us to collect over a hundred fucking chestnuts in the first place.

“I don’t think we have enough cream to mix in.” Say sike right now, my guy.

“Then I’ll go buy some. Do they sell it at the school store?” We have a school store? Fucking rich kids, I swear.

“They sell pretty much everything, so…probably. Can I have you pick me up a few other things?” Aren’t you like, a junior or some shit? How do you not know what your school store sells?

“I need two-“

 

Yuu started daydreaming about random scenarios in his head.

 

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“Hello, can I get some he- Whoa. This shop is wild. They have crystal skulls, grimoires, taxidermied… Uh, I don’t even know what animal that is!” Deuce looked around the shop in fascination.

This is the school store? They have a fucking piano next to a desk with a crystal ball and some other shit on it, with jewelry hanging off the damn walls. There’s a damn shelf filled with some weird sciencey shit, like jars containing some weird looking things and a box filled with treasure right next to it.

“You sure this is the school store? Cause this looks more like an antique shop than an actual store meant for students.”

Grim looked around in a daze, “You think they really sell cream here?” No, cause literally that’s what I’m saying though.

“Greetings, my stray imps. How fare you today?” What the fuck!

Yuu flinched at the loud noise and the sudden appearance of the man.

“Welcome to Mr. Sam’s Mystery Shop. What among my humble selection interests you? A charm from a secluded land? The mummified remains of an ancient king? A cursed tarot card?” Is this shit legal? Like how’d he even get the permission to sell that shit to literal children?

“Myah! I wasn’t expectin’ this kinda selection.”

Deuce grabbed a crumpled up paper from his back pocket and showed it to the older man, “Um, we wanted to buy all the Items on this list…”

Grim however decided that now was a good time to butt in, “Ring up two cans of tuna while you’re at it!”

“No, Grim! We’re not here for tuna!” Lmao he’s like, overly serious but in a cute way.

Sam grabbed the note and did a quick rundown of the list, “What’s this? Cream and eggs and… Quite the sacchariferous list!” What the fuck is a sacchariferous?

“I’ll get everything for you.” And like that, the older man disappeared to god knows where.

“Whoa… He really does stock that stuff, huh?”

Yuu figured he’d explore while he can, time to find some skincare.

 

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“Here you go. It’s pretty heavy… Are you sure you carry this?” Yuu overhead the owners voice from a couple shelves over and figured that the man was done collecting whatever was on the list.

Yuu stood up and put down the facial cleansers he was looking at before making his way over to Deuce.

“Luckily for you, our 1/100th size flying saucers are 30% off today. Perfect for carrying groceries!”

Yuu grabbed his phone and snapped a candid photo of Deuce and Grim, for memories sake and because Deuce was too cute not to take a picture of.

“Ooh, lemme see! That sounds awesome!”

Yuu made his way next to Deuce and grabbed two of the bags that Sam was holding, “We’re fine, thank you. Let’s go, Grim.” Damn, nothing to say to me? Fake as fuck.

Grim got all sulky and started pawing at Yuu’s pants, “Myah! I didn’t realize today was National No Fun Allowed Day!”

Sam laughed at the little display, “Very well. Then until next time, my little imps. Do come again! Ciao!”

 

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While they were walking down main street, Yuu shivered, and like damn was it lowkey kinda cold.

“That store was amazing.” Deuce was holding two of the bags while Yuu had the other two, one containing some heavy ass cans and another containing some flour.

Grim was sitting on Yuu’s shoulder and leaning against his head, “Yeah, and you’re amazingly cheap.” Damn! Did that bitch dirty.

Deuce glared at the cat, “Who are you calling cheap?!” Yuu snorted at the two.

While walking Yuu had to readjust the bang in his arms multiple times, cause y’know, they’re heavy as fuck and they’re stabbing his damn arms.

“Hmph, Yuu, looks like you got the bag with all the cans. That must be heavy.” Are you fucking with me right now? Cause swear lil bro, I’ll-

Yuu was stopped as Deuce suddenly got closer to them and grabbed the bag with the cutest little smile on his face. “Let me take that one. I’ve got a little trick for carrying heavy bags.”

I’ll buy you lunch everyday from now on, yep that’s what I’ll do for you, you lovely son of a bitch.

“Damn, you’re like, actually pretty fuckin’ strong huh?” Yuu watched as the boy maneuvered the other two bags to make space for the third one.

Deuce sighed and shook his head, “Yeah. My mom always used to stock up at sales, and the bags would get ridiculously heavy. I was the only man in the house, so I got to do all the heavy lifting, and-“ Deuce suddenly cut himself off before sending Yuu an apologetic smile.

“Oh, sorry. I didn’t mean to monopolize the conversation.”

Yuu was staring ahead at the sky as it shaped to turn into hues of purples, oranges, and blues. “Hmm, nah it’s cool. To be honest I kinda think it’s nice that you did so much for your mom, y’know?”

“No, it wasn’t like that at all. The truth is, I-“ Deuce let out a grunt as he suddenly fell on the floor, and the damn eggs cracked, motherfucker bro.

“Myah! The eggs!”

Deuce stared at the bag, “Shit! T-the carton of eggs is totally smashed! And now the bag’s dripping egg good everywhere.”

“Ah, rest in pieces my eggies.” Yuu wiped an imaginary tear from his eye.

“Ouch! Why don’t you watch where you’re- HEY! You’re the jerks who broke the egg yolk in my carbonara!” Oh, its the little losers from lunch.

“I’ve had about enough of you punks. You need to learn your place!”

Deuce continued to stare at the bag before glaring at the seniors, “You’re the ones who darted out at us from around a corner!”

Yuu took this as his que to go sit on the sidewalk with Grim and pull out his phone to record.

“And you tried to pick a fight with us at lunch over an egg that you were still totally able to eat!” Deuce dropped the other bags on the floor.

“And now you’ve destroyed six of OUR eggs!” Damn, bro’s mad angry right now, tough for real for real.

Grim hopped off Yuu’s shoulder but didn’t go too far from him, “Yeah! He’s right!”

The white haired boy got up and close to Deuce, “So what? You sayin’ that was our fault?”

“No! He’s saying it was the tooth fairy’s fault!” The boy looked Yuu’s way and was promptly flipped off by Yuu, “Fucking dumbass, bro, obviously he means it’s your fault.”

Deuce nodded his head, “I am. Please reimburse us for the eggs. And then apologize to the chickens.”

“Apologize to the chickens? Lmao chat is this bitch for real?”

The red head leaned towards Deuce with a grin on his face, “Ooh, look who’s got his big boy pants on. You sure are makin’ a big deal outta some stupid eggs.”

“What?”

The what haired one snorted, “They haven’t even touched the ground, so they’re still edible. Quit whinin’.”

“You should be thankin’ us for savin’ ya the trouble of crackin’ ‘em!” On god, I’m boutta beat this bitch up if he keeps talkin his shit.

Both of them started laughing at Deuce.

“That ain’t funny.”

“Huh?”

“I said, THAT AIN’T FUNNY.” Deuce brought up his fists and started cracking his knuckles.

“OH SHIT! BRO’S FOR REAL BOUTTA BEAT YALL’S ASSES.” Yuu started cackling while Deuce continued yelling at the boys.

“You don’t get to call my eggs stupid. You don’t get to call ANY eggs stupid!” Oddly specific but go off I guess?

“Those eggs may not have gotten to be chicks, but they were gonna make some amazing tarts!” Hmm? Is he like, on the spectrum or something? Or is he just like, obsessed with eggs?

“Do you get it yet? DO YOU?!” Yuu snorted while he watched the two boys that Deuce was potentially threatening, squeaked in fear.

“What is with this guy all of a sudden?!”

“You owe me six eggs. If ya ain’t gonna pay me for em, then you’re gettin’ a bruise for each one!”

“Are you serious right now?!” Said by delinquent A because I for one, do not know his name.

“Grit those damn teeth!!!”

 

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To be honest this got a bit longer than I thought it would, so I’ll finish everything next chapter. :p

Chapter Text

“Grit those damn teeth!!!”

Deuce socked the shit out of the white haired boy, clocked him in the face with a nasty right hook.

Yuu whistled at the sight, “Hey, Yuu.” Grim whispered to Yuu, looking over while still keeping the phone on Deuce and the other two boys, he glanced at the cat in curiosity.

“Hmm? What’s good?”

Grim made himself comfortable on Yuu’s legs, “You already stopped those losers once, so why don’t you stop them again?”

Yuu started petting the cat before hugging the little one close to his chest, “That’s cause we were in school at the time. If someone were to get into a fight or break any of the rules outside of school hours, then it’s really not any of my business, y’know?”

Grim started purring as Yuu scratched between his ears, “Myah, not really. If you can put those weaker than you in their place, then you should show no mercy!”

Yuu watched as Deuce utterly pummeled the two boys into the ground, a little violent seeing as he was getting their blood on him, but Yuu liked the look. It was oddly satisfying in a way, Yuu liked seeing the boy lose himself to his emotions, it made him look really pretty.

“I mean, you can think however you wanna think I guess. But constantly yelling at people and getting mad at them gets boring after some time, its like, totally useless. What’s the point of getting mad when it’ll do you no good but get yourself worked up…. Honestly it’s best if you just ignored all those emotions all together, ok Grim?”

They were running away, scared and insanely injured with a shit ton of bruises, the two boys made their escape as Deuce yelled at them.

Grim tilted his head so Yuu could scratch a certain spot on his head, “Myah, ok henchman.” He wasn’t really paying attention, much to distracted with the scratching and head rubs.

[Days seem sometimes as if they’ll never end

Sun digs its heels to taunt you]

That’s ok though, it’s best if he were to just… ignore it. Ignore every little thing and stay as happy as possible, that would do him more good then being angry or sad for some god forsaken reason, wouldn’t it? Of course it would.

[but after sunlit days,

one thing stays the same]

Deuce looked down at his hands that were stained with blood before looking over to Yuu in fear. Yuu however saw no reason for such a thing, he smiled at the boy before pausing the video and putting his phone down next to him to wave the boy over.

[Rises the moon]

Deuce does so, admittedly a little slow. But he still made his way over and sat next to Yuu. He didn’t say anything, neither did Yuu, Grim seemed to be dozing off.

[Days fade into a watercolor blur

Memories swim and haunt you]

That was how time seemed to pass, whether it was only seconds or minutes, Deuce was to wrapped up in his own mind while Yuu simply didn’t care. He had all the time in the world after all.

[But look into the lake, shimmering like smoke

Rises the moon]

It was quiet, but Deuce finally managed to work up the courage to speak.

“I did it again, didn’t I…?”

[Oh-oh, close your weary eyes

I promise you that soon the autumn comes]

He sounded close to tears, Yuu looked over and saw that he had his head down and the boy was in fact crying. His hands scrunching up his pants as tear drops fell on top.

[To darken fading summer skies

Breathe, breathe, breathe]

“I was dead-set on becoming an honor student this time, too…”

Yuu looked and stared out at the sky, turning more purple and blue as the time passed.

[Days pull you down

Just like a sinking ship]

“When I was in middle school, I was pretty wild. I cut school all the time and got into fights.” A breeze went by and Yuu shivered, pulling the little cat closer to him while he listened to the boy next to him.

[Floating is getting harder]

“I called my teachers names, hung out with bullies, bleached my hair… I blasted around tight curves on my Magic Wheel…”

[But tread the water, child

And know that meanwhile]

“I’d show off my magic to kids who couldn’t use it yet… I was a total punk.”

[Rises the moon]

Yuu hummed, “Everyone goes through different phases in life that they later regret, y’know? You’re not alone on that.”

[Days pull you up

Just like a daffodil]

It was getting colder, and there were no more students on the road, they were utterly alone here.

[Uprooted from it’s garden]

“…But one night, I saw my mom talking on the phone to my grandma. She was trying to hide from me, but I saw her, and I could tell she was in tears.” His voice cracked and he looked over at Yuu in tears.

[They’ll tell you what you owe]

“She was saying how she must have been a horrible mom, and that maybe she never should have tried to raise me by herself.” The boy shook his head and hugged himself in a way to try and make himself feel better.

[But know even so

Rises the moon]

“That had nothin’ to do with it! She hadn’t done anything wrong. It was all me who screwed things up!” Yuu felt rather awkward in such a position, but he was the boys friend now, so he would listen to his woes. It was the least he could do.

[You’ll be visited by sleep

I promise you that soon the autumn comes]

“When the carriage came to take me to Night Raven College, she was so happy for me… I decided then and there that this time, I wouldn’t do anything to make her cry. This time, I’d become an honor student- someone she could be proud of.”

[To steal away each dream you keep]

Deuce started wiping his eyes, smearing his make-up, “And I already screwed it all up!”

[Breathe]

Yuu grabbed the boy and pulled him in to a side hug and resting his head on top of the others, “Huh…?”

[Breathe]

“You’ve already made it this far, not to mention you’re even trying to better yourself. Not a lot of people can do that, y’know? Taking a different step and becoming someone totally different than yourself, to be what you believe to be better, it’s a hard thing to do.“

[Breathe]

Change was a scary thing after all, most are too afraid to except someone different from themselves… and fear more often than not turns into hatred.

“Most people can’t even do that Deuce, you should be proud of yourself for at least trying.”

“Yuu… Heh heh… I guess you’re right. I just hope those chicks can rest in peace.” ….Should I tell him? Nahhhhh, maybe later, lil bro just cried his eyes out and I’m not boutta be the reason he cries again.

 

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“Ah, you’re finally back! Took ya long enough.” Yuu was greeted by a cleaner kitchen and Ace, Trey being right next to him and organizing.

“Let’s get this tart-y started!” Yes, Yuu was in fact hardcore judging this himbo of a man, sue him.

Deuces make-up was smudged and his eyes were red but both boys had collectively decided not to mention anything about it, even if there was also blood covering his and Yuu’s clothes.

 

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“The last part is to put the chestnut cream we made on the tart.” Trey was explaining the process to them while getting the ingredients prepped.

“And then we can chow down, right?! Consider me PUMPED!” Hol’up, why the fuck are we letting Grim cook in the first place? Doesn’t that bitch have like, flees or something?

Ace had a grin on his face as he stared the tart down, “Same here. Time to go and bang out this tart!” Bang out this tart? What are you gonna do, fuck it? Yuu snorted before grabbing his phone and putting on ‘Big Fun’.

“Good to see your eyes’re on the prize.”

[Dad says act our age

You heard the man, it’s to rage!]

“Let’s keep that momentum going!”

[Blast the bass, turn out the lights

Ain’t nobody home tonight!]

Yuu was humming along to the music as the started baking and fucking around.

 

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“-I am more than shoulder pads and and makeup

No one sees the me inside of meeeeeee~

Jesus your making me sound like Air Supply!”

Ace snickered at the sudden change of mood while Grim was confused about what his hench-human was doing, like bro was for real giving them a concert with a whisk while Deuce was trying to concentrate on his tart.

Trey chuckled at the display, “Okay, now we just sprinkle on a little powdered sugar, and….”

“Finished!” Ace and Grim screamed in unison while Deuce smiled at his work.

“Thank fuck! That shit took forever.” Was Yuu doing any actual work though? Hah! Imagine working like those little corporate slaves, could never be him.

Ace rolled his eyes, “Saying that like you actually did any work in the end.”

Yuu stuck his tongue out at the boy, “Shut it whore, your just mad that you got kicked out your dorm while I got a freebie somewhere else.”

Trey chocked on his saliva in shock, “Whoa there now-“

“What’s a whore hench-human, explain!” Grim and his endless curiosity probably wasn’t a good match for Yuu and his endless honesty.

“Why is this my life?” Deuce stared out into space and questioned how his life got this far.

“It’s someone who’s a little bitch.” Ace was loosening his tie while bringing up his sleeves.

Yuu was staring him down and took off his jacket, “Isn’t that a little far Prefe-“ Trey was trying to calm down the situation.

“So like you then?” Fucking Grim, and his stupid ass questions about what curse words are and Yuu who explains the, albeit incorrect, meaning.

Ace snorted and started laughing along with Deuce, “Grim, I’m literally going to chop your little fuzzballs off, shut the hell up!” Fucking traitor! I raise and feed you and this is how you treat your mother!!! .°(ಗдಗ。)°.

“Yeah, whatever. I’m pretty beat. Making tarts sure takes it outta you.” Ace was fanning himself with his hands, too hot and not cold enough to keep him comfortable with the uniform on.

“Real, can we get an open window up in this bitch. It’s hot as fuck right now and I’m like, literally dying of dehydration or some shit.” Yuu sighed as he started opening up his button up a bit, he could feel sweat go down his forehead and he was uncomfortably warm.

The door swings wide open and in comes, Yuu looks at the boys face, Diamond. He smiled at the boys and waved at them.

“Hey fam! You look wrecked. Are the tarts done?” Looking at the table of amateur tarts, +Trey cause bro’s literally in a league of his own, Diamonds eyes lit up.

“Ooh, those look sooo cute! Lemme snap a quick pic for Magicam!” Diamond brings his phone out, takes a quick pick and starts rapidly tapping on his phone.

Ace however wasn’t having any of that bullshit, “What, NOW you decide to show up?”

Diamond did a little peace sign at the boy and grinned, “I just came to see how hard my little newbs were working.”

“It’s tough work if you’re not used to it. But there’s no better cure for the ails of fatigue than something sweet from the oven!” Trey who was still smiling at the boys softened his gaze.

“Help yourself to some of this tart.” Trey cut up pieces of the tart and pushed it to the boys, Yuu glared at the tart, deciding if he was hungry or not. He probably was but he couldn’t really tell since there weren’t any hunger pains, that and well, let’s just say he didn’t really like chestnuts all to much.

“YAY!” All the boys yelled in excitement, Ace’s eyed Cater with a suspicious look.

“Pretty funny how you managed to show right when it was ready to eat, Cater.”

Cater pouted a bit, “Heh heh. Someone’s gotta be the official taster!”

Grim however was busy drooling over the tarts, “Mmmm… That smells so good… Glossy chestnuts on top, fluffy cream below… I can’t wait another second, I’m going in!”

All boys took a good spoonful of the chestnut tart.

Ace’s eyes widened, “Oh, dang…”

Cater widened his smile and closed his eyes as he did so, “Yuuum! Liked and subscriiibed!”

Deuce, much like Ace, was shocked at the taste, “This is like something from a fancy bakery.” An overly expensive bakery with the tiniest servings probably.

Grim went on a food tangent, “Rich in flavor, yet not too sweet… it’s like chestnuts are dancing across my tongue!” Rich in flavor??? Bro how the fuck do you know that term? My guy you are a cat, not a fuckin’ sensory analyst.

“Is that… a good thing?” Tr…Ta-, wait no, fuck what was his name again??? Yuu looked at the corner of his face, Clover looked confused at the statement.

Cater got an mischievous, is that even an actual thing?, glint in his eye, “Oh, Trey!” Thank you Cater, literally love you. ♡♡♡

“You gotta do the thing.” Cater seemed excited while Trey continued looking confused before something seemed to go off in his head.

“The thing? Oh… That.”

Ace was, if not, a nosy bitch. “Uh, wanna fill me in here?”

“What’s everyone’s favorite food?” Odd timing for a question like that but go off I guess?

Ace didn’t seem to care, “Me? Probably cherry pie. Or hamburgers.”

Grim didn’t even have to think it over. “Canned tuna’s at the top of my list. Then maybe cheese omelets, roast meat, pudding…”

“Definitely Tiramisu, oh! And Irish coffee, shit’s fire as fuck.” Yuu could practically taste the two on his tongue at just the thought of it.

Deuce tilted his head to the side and thought about it for a minute, “If I had to pick, I guess I’d say… omelet rice?”

Cater snapped his fingers and pointed out, Yuu looked in the direction, seemingly nothing.

“I like a nice lamb chop with diablo sauce.”

Trey nodded at all of them, “All right, you’ve got it… Let’s ‘Paint the Roses’!” There was a little glow of light around the tarts but nothing seemed to physically change.

“Huh? What does that mean?” Deuce was confused by the spectacle.

“Take another bite of your tart and see.”

Ace was the first to dig in, “Huh? How- Now it tastes like cherry pie!” Ace was thoroughly confused at the sudden change, but like also it’s magic? It should be easy enough to pick up that Trey used magic on the tarts considering he pulled out his pen and some glowy shit came from it.

What kind of magic though was the question, seeing as it can change the very components in a chestnut tart. Either he only temporarily changed the flavor of the tart, highly likely, or he changed the very molecular structure that made the chestnut tart and made it more similar to a cherry pie?

Or maybe, plot-twist! He changed our taste buds?! Dude imagine all the kick ass shit you could do with that! I could eat anything and change it into something I actually like.

Grim was the second to dig in, “It’s just like canned tuna!” Taking more bites and Grims’ eye’s brightened, “Now it taste like a cheesy omelet! And grilled meat! And pudding!”

Yuu was curious about it and took a spoonful of his tart before shoving it in Ace’s mouth, “How is it? Does it taste like tiramisu?”

Ace was confused and nodded before swallowing what was on the spoon, looking at the boy, he licked his lips and stared at him in confusion. “If you wanted to know, why didn’t you just take a bite yourself?”

Yuu looked down at the plate and then back back at Ace before tilting his head a little bit, “Huh, good point.”

Ace smiled and rolled his eyes, “Weirdo.”

Yuu took a bite and marveled at the taste, Tiramisu was truly one of the best desserts out there.

Cater sounded as equally as excited as Grim, “Neat trick, eh? That’s gotta be a hit when trey’s having tea with the ladies.”

Deuce, like wise, was also very impressed. “It’s very impressive. Is changing flavors your signature spell, Trey?”

Trey chuckled, “Technically, it’s ‘overwriting characteristics.’ I can change taste, color, smell, whatever.” Hm??? Hmmm?! Did this bitch say he can change basically anything and everything if he wanted too?

“It only lasts for a little while. But it is kinda like covering up the real thing hence, ‘painting.’” Okay and??? Even if it’s only for a little while that shit’s fucking over powered as fuck, what the fuck??!

“If I had magic like that, I could be eatin’ canned tuna every meal of every day!” Kinda gross and really unhealthy, but y’know what, mood cause I’d probably do the same thing. Except for the canned tuna bit cause theres no way I’m eating that shit every day.

“That’s way better than Riddle’s stupid collar magic!” Unless he like, joins the military or some shit, maybe a police officer but still.

“Oh, that’s in a whole other league. His signature spell is a weapon. Mine’s just childish prestidigitation.” Trey shook his head, did I know the meaning of prestidigitation? No, but also, chat is this bitch being serious?

Cause like, be so fuckin for real. If I had that shit I’m being the pettiest bitch on Earth and fucking up everyone’s day. Like ‘Oh my god, Yuu your day’s been so terrible, could never be me’ like no bitch, your days also boutta be terrible. Same to you and the rest of your little friends, and those fuck ass teachers too.

“Speaking of Riddle.” His mood seemed to lighten up at the mention of the smaller boy, cut-sleeves I swear, but also mood.

“It’s too late to give him these now. Let’s call it a day and do it tomorrow. Don’t forget that tomorrow’s the unbirthday party. You don’t want to be late.”

Ace poked Yuu at the side and leaned over to him, giving him this adorable little smile and- holy fuck this little bitch is manipulating him and his love for pretty boys.

“Yuu, can I crash at your place again? It doesn’t sound like I’ll be allowed back in my own dorm tonight.” Ace got up in close as he spoke, Yuu couldn’t look the boy in the eyes and started squirming as the boy closed in on him.

Yuu’s face had turned red and he felt short of breath as the other boy seemed to be hardcore staring at him. Yuu looked at the boys lips and felt his own begin to tingle a bit before he turned his head away from him.

“Uh- y-yeah! Sure you can stay! I uh-“ Yuu had difficulty swallowing his saliva as the other boy began poking at his face and holy fuck was he actually kinda hot.

“-I don’t mind.”

With those words Ace backed off from the boy and took a couple steps back, “Sweet, thanks Yuu~.”

The other three boys watched with different thoughts in mind, some sympathetic while others amused.

“Again, seriously?” Cater rubbed the back of his neck seemingly sorry, except for the fact that he had a smile on his face and watched the whole interaction like it was a damn rom-com, stifling down giggles the whole time.

Deuce crossed his arms as he glared at the red haired boy, “It isn’t right to keep mooching off of Yuu, Ace.”

Grim backed the other boy up, “Yeah, it ain’t! If you wanna stay tonight, you gotta pay for the privilege! Ten cans of tuna!”

Ace looked annoyed at the other two boys, “What?! Guess I’m sleeping outside, then.”

Trey looked at the boys amused, “Why don’t you go and stay at Yuu’s dorm too, Deuce, so you can keep an eye on him? As vice housewarden, I can issue you a sleepover pass.”

Cater jumped a little and looked at Trey, shocked that he’d do such a thing when school barely even started. “That’s out Trey, always spoiling the newbs. What fun for you. Ooh, maybe I’ll come too! What do you say, Yuu?”

Yuu pulled his phone out and began texting Lilia, the boy looked up at Cater and then back at his phone, “I mean, if you want to I guess, it’s not like im staying there for the night anyways.”

Trey seemed to think it over, weighing the pros and cons and decided that he couldn’t let two freshmen boys stay in a place without the owner, even if it was only for one night.

Trey sighed and rubbed the back of his neck before looking over to Cater, “Fine, but make sure that those two don’t get into any trouble.”

“Yep, yep!”

“Sorry to dump then all on you, Yuu. At least it’s just for tonight.”

Yuu stared down the three boys, “So long as they don’t go through the desk drawers in the bedroom then I don’t care, they can stay as long as they want.”

“Tomorrow’s the unbirthday party.” Ace seemed nervous at the prospect but looked determined all the same. “Finally, I’m gonna get rid of this stupid collar! Just you wait, Riddle!”

Yuu snickered at Ace.

“20 bucks, Ace is gonna get grounded for the whole month.”

“Oh my sevens Yuu! Shut up!” Ace screamed as Yuu cackled at the boy.

 

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“Aight, this is my stop. Bye-bye~!” Yuu waved at the boys as he made his way over to the, quote on quote, “Hall of Mirrors”.

Mad cringe but it’s self explanatory I guess. Walking inside Yuu saw Lilia waiting, floating, by the presumed Diasomnia mirror and grinned when he saw the boy.

“My, you sure did take your time.” Lilia had a grin on him as he stared at the young man before him.

Yuu looked a little to the side, feeling a little bad for making the other wait.

“My bad, was tryna convince Grim that he couldn’t eat all the tarts. That and he wanted to stay with the other boys and play card games instead of followin’ me.”

Lilia laughed at the boy, “Well, isn’t that quite the predicament. Come along now young one, children such as yourself should sleep early so you aren’t cranky in the morning!”

Damn, he lowkey talks like an old person. Like a grandmother or some shit.

Lilia grabbed the boy by his arm and started dragging him towards one of the mirrors. Yuu didn’t get a chance to really look around before being dragged into the mirror.

And holy shit did he hate it, stupid fucking mirrors and it’s nausea inducing magic bullshit. On god, one of these days bro, one of these days he’s going to destroy those stupid fuck ass mirrors.

As Lilia dragged the boy to some gothic architectural castle, Yuu looked to the sides in the forest of thorns and very, very steep cliff side.

When they got inside Yuu noticed three boys, two being the ones from lunch that sat by Lilia one of which was knocked the fuck out on one of the couches, and the other being the really tall pretty boy with horns.

When Yuu saw him, he brightened, “Yo!” Yuu waved at them and was glared at by the boy with green hair while he was simply being stared at by the other.

Fuck what were their names again? I’m pretty sure I know their names, maybe? Was I told their names actually? Pretty sure I was or- “Wassgood my guy, how’ve you been?.”

Yuu jogged up to the other two boys and stood in front of the pretty boy.

The boy with green hair seemed absolutely flabbergasted while Yuu’s favorite pretty boy seem surprised as well.

“Are you… referring to me? Child of man.” He seemed confused which is kinda real, considering that Yuu didn’t say his name and quite literally also doesn’t remember it.

Yuu nodded his head, which seemed to surprise the other boy even more and he swears he can hear Lilia trying to cover his laugh.

“….I have been well.” He seemed a little awkward but Yuu didn’t mind, maybe he’s just like, I don’t know bad at talking to others or some other shit.

“That’s nice, hey by the way there’s this party thing going on at the hearts dorm, do you like, maybe wanna go with me?”

Lilia’s laughter stopped and it was like, dead quiet. All three of them were shocked, well one of them looked more curious than anything, pretty horn man, while the other two were shocked.

“Cause like, I’m pretty sure I said something about taking you to parties with me? Or maybe it was something else, don’t remember to well to be honest but do you like, maybe wanna go? You don’t have to if you don’t want to by the way, if so I’ll like, try and find a different party you can go to. Maybe like go to a club or something, I don’t know-“

 

Lilia who was watching this scene was shocked to say the least, which quickly changed to joy in a way, looking at the boys he raised and realizing his eldest who was as lonely as they may come might finally have a friend. And all it took was some rambunctious, sad, insecure child to get his eldest son a friend, he has long since desired for as far as he could remember, since the boy had came into his life.

Sebek on the other hand was at a standstill of shock and on the verge of a breakdown, I mean, some lowly human treating his lord in such a casual manner? That was practically the very eminence of discourtesy and impudence, although deep down he was secretly almost jealous that some human was able to speak to his lord so casually.

Malleus didn’t quite know how to feel however. Should he feel joy for finally being invited to an event by some little human he met barely a couple days ago? Or suspicion that it could all just be a ploy to get close to a high ranking member of nobility. He didn’t understand humans and their simple ways of life, but for now he supposed that he could stay curious instead.

“-so like, yes? No? Like I said you don’t have to accept if you don’t want to, no pressure y’know?” Yuu rubbed the back of their neck as they felt a cramp from having to look up for so long.

“Hmmm…” Yuu felt himself twitching as this absolute monument beauty of a man stared him down. He could almost feel his stomach cramping in nervousness, but also his stomach hurt because he was in fact getting cramps and them bitches hurt like a motherfucker.

“Well! I’m sure Malleus can make it if one of his, ahem, friends were to invite him. And you are his friend are you not, little Yuu?” Lilia, the man you are!

Yuu nodded, much to the green haired boy’s shock, “Trust, I’ll try and find some parties to get you guys into.” Yuu brought his arm up and flexed before giggling and putting his arm down.

Yuu was still being stared at by the pretty man, but it seemed to be in amusement more than anything. Looking a little to his side, in the corner of his eye, he saw the silver haired boy staring at him.

Yuu turned to look at the other boy and waved, “Yo! Name’s Yuu, I’ll be crashing with you guys for the night, hope you don’t mind.” The other boy didn’t say much, just stared at him some more before turning and promptly going back to sleep.

A lightbulb went off in his head, looking back at the other boys, and their weird thing with staring at him, Yuu asked a question since he was kinda scared of authoritative figures.

“So like, your dorm head won’t get mad I’m staying right…?”

The boy with green hair looked like he was about to have an epiphany while Lilia started laughing at him, even Mal-… whatever his new name is Mal now, started chuckling.

“No cause I’m being so fuckin’ for real right now! If I get yelled at cause I’m not supposed to be here I’m gonna like, literally sob on the fucking floor and have a mental breakdown or some shit.”

The green haired boy seemed to have enough of his shit by now, “YOU- YOU- YOU INSOLENT HUMAN!!! HOW IN TWISTED WONDERLAND DO YOU NOT EVEN KNOW THE GREAT AND MIGHTY- AHK!”

Lilia shoved what looked to be beef jerky into the other boys mouth? …HOLY SHIT HE JUST FUCKING COLLAPSED WHAT THE FUCK!!?

“WHAT THE FUCK??? LILIA!??” Oh my god I’m too young to be in jail!!! I don’t wanna go to jail! Do you know what they do to boys like me in jail!!? I’ll be bitched by a man 15 times my age!!!

Mal picked the boy up in a princess carry, “He’ll be fine…. Probably?” DUDE HE’S LITERALLY FUCKING TWITCHING AND FOAMING AT THE MOUTH??? FUCK YOU MEAN HE’LL BE FINE!!?

“Deep breaths Yuu, deep breaths. It’s fine, this is all fine, he’s not dead, Lilia isn’t a murderer and I’m not an accomplice…. Oh god I’m gonna be thrown in jail and all that fucking studying will be useless and I’ll end up having to whore myself out cause no one wants to hire someone with a murder on their record and no college degree!”

Yuu felt sick and honest to god felt like crying, fifteen years and only a sophomore yet he was gonna be thrown in jail for a crime he didn’t even commit!!? What kind of bullshit is this! If he knew this was gonna happen he would’ve just said fuck school and settled on a C average and had fun, rather than deciding college was actually important and waisted his youth away studying and doing boring shit he didn’t even like for a better fucking college application!

“Hmmm…”

Lilia, the little prick, was still laughing while Yuu was having an existential crisis about how he’s technically now a murderer while Mal disappeared with the green haired boy.

Silver who woke up to the commotion decided that maybe trying to welcome someone to the dorm was way to much work and went to his room to waste away, at least it wasn’t him who had Lilia’s food shoved down his throat.

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Yuu glanced around and noticed he was in the rose garden once more. It wasn’t until he heard a loud shrill that he saw the Queen of Hearts and Alice.

‘For painting my roses red, someone will lose his head!’

She was standing over Alice holding one of the rose trees, all the while still somehow managing to look perfect to a tee.

The Three of Clubs who was holding a red paint brush stuttered, looking for someone else to blame amongst all the clutter.

‘Y-your Majesty, if anyone’s to blame, it’s him!’

The Two of Clubs took grace and pointed at the card beside him in haste.

‘Have mercy, Your Grace. It was the Ace!’

The Queen moved closer towards the cards and brought the rose tree up in the air, as if she was going to hit the card with it while wallowing in despair.

‘So it was YOU.’

The Ace of Clubs shook his head in denial, getting paint all over the place as a bucket was turned upside his head and had drenched him in nothing but red.

‘Gah, no, it was the Two!’

The Queen took another step towards the cards.

‘Then he will pay.’

‘It was the Three, I say!’ Was the cards rebuttal, hoping that today would not be his funeral.

The Queen however had, had enough. Her precious roses had been mocked and planted white, and to see them being painted red gave her quite the fright.

‘Enough of this. Off with ALL their heads!’

The cards and Alice were dragged off by red soldiers.

‘Ooooooooh! Yaaaaay!’

The Queen took a sadistic delight in seeing the faces the soldiers made, but now she was to busy herself with their execution date.

‘Hee hee hee.’

The soldiers who were watching felt amusement as well.

‘A fitting end. Color, you can’t mend.’

‘Everyone knows the roses should be red.’

 

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Yuu opened his eyes to a dark overhead and grayish brick walls.

Blinking and trying to steady his eye sight, he pushed himself up and rubbed his face with his hands. Bringing his face up he looks around the room to see a desk next the the bed and a dressing cabinet in front of the bed.

“What the fuck?”

Yuu took the blankets off and noticed he was in a pair of cotton pajamas which was, kinda weird? He didn’t remember changing, and he sure as hell didn’t remember even coming into this room.

He had the weirdest fucking dream again about Alice in Wonderland, and everything started fucking rhyming at the weirdest fucking timing. Bars. Wait no-

“Yoohoo!”

Yuu jumped up a little from his spot, turning his head he saw Lilia was with him in his bed. Well, kind of, he was floating above it and was staring down on him.

“Haha, um, Lilia? What the fuck was last night?”

It took Yuu a minute to remember last night, last night being Lilia giving some green haired motherfucker food and him having some type of allergic reaction to it? I think he’s dead???

“My, whatever do you mean little Yuu?”

Lilia gave him this grin like he knew exactly what the boy was talking about but kept this innocent look on his face the whole time, and damn it all Yuu wanted to make out with this adorably hot motherfucker!!!

“Y’know, the um, fuck what was his name? Anyways! The thing with the guy eating the beef jerky shit you gave him and him dying of food poisoning or some shit…? He’s not like, actually dead, dead… right?”

Lilia giggled before handing him, suspiciously the same looking, jerky and smiled brightly at the boy.

“You wound me little Yuu. I was merely giving the boy a snack, a homemade snack at that, since he looked rather famished!”

Yuu looked up at the boy and then back at the jerky before taking it. Hesitatingly, he took a small bite of it.

All the while Lilia looked at him with this weird gleam in his eye and y’know, the jerky tasted kinda weird but it wasn’t like, bad? He doesn’t know how to describe the taste but Yuu thought it was like those types of food that don’t taste good until you start getting used to it.

It’s like when you eat something weird so much that you develop a weird taste for it, and then after not eating it for some time you start to miss it.

Yuu took another bite, then another, and before he knew he ate the whole thing.

“So, like… did you come here just to feed me? Or was there another reason.” Yuu stuck out his hand for another one while Lilia floated to the side of the bed and landed on the floor.

Giving him a couple more to chew on, Lilia chucked, “It would seem that Malleus has become rather excited about your prospective outing with him, i’d try not to keep him waiting too long.” Lilia winked at him before leaving.

Weird as fuck but ok I guess, Yuu who was still chewing on the jerky looked around for his phone.

It was on the desk by his bed, grabbing it he checked the time and choked. He quickly stood up while placing the jerky on the desk and rushed over to the dresser.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, lmao I’m like, so totally fucking late right now. Yuu grabbed a button up, blazer, and slacks and changed as quickly as he could.

Yuu searched around for some socks and where his shoes were before grabbing his phone and the jerky and rushed out the room once he was fully dressed.

Yuu checked his phone after realizing he had gotten a message like, 10ish minutes prior from Cater saying they were leaving the dorm.

Yuu rushed over to Mal and patted him on the back, “Mornin’ Mal!” Rushing in front of the taller one, Yuu grins at him and pokes him on the cheek.

“How’s my favorite pretty boy doin’ today?”

To say that Malleus was astonished was quite the understatement. He did, however, find the situation to be amusing as he’s never been referred to in such a casual manner by anyone really, aside from Lilia that is.

“Pre-! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE HUMAN! TO TALK IN SUCH A WAY TO LORD MALLEUS IS UNBELIEVABLY DISRESPECTFUL YOU BOORISH PEASANT!”

Greenie yelled at Yuu, scandalized by the casual behavior shown to his lord and savior.

“Bitch, who are you calling broke! I mean it’s true… but that’s beside the point!” Yuu threw one of the beef jerky sticks in his hand at the boy before pointing at him.

“Y’know what, that’s why you fuckin’ fainted last night after eating jerky.” Yuu started chewing on one of them before realizing he forgot what he was doing for a minute.

Looking over at Mal, Yuu realized that the boy was looking at him in shock and…concern? Whatever, not his problem.

“Oh, actually do you mind if we stop at Ramshackle first before we head over to hearts dorm? Kinda needa do some stuff over there.”

 

“…-

 

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“I fail to see why the Young Master has to attend with a lowly human such as yourself to some plebeian party.” Bro’s for real dissing me in shaksperian, crying, shaking, throwing up, pulling my hair. .°(ಗдಗ。)°.

“Sebek.”

That seemed to cut the boy off from his rant by the mere name from Malleus, “Apologies Young Master.” *Cough* Dick rider *Cough*

Walking passed the shabby gate, Yuu turns his head slightly to look at Sebek, who was following after Mal.

“Hey Sebek, quick question, but do you like hopping?”

The door was jammed, motherfucker those little assholes slammed the door shut.

“Do I enjoy-? Pardon but I don’t understand the meaning behind the question human, explain!” Yuu snorted and rolled his eyes.

Yuu twisted the knob on the door so the lockings would open and shoved him shoulder on the door as hard as he could.

When the door opened Yuu almost tripped from the force the door had opened with.

“Nothing, L-m-a-o don’t worry bout it.” Damn that shit lowkey kinda hurted, for real for real.

As Yuu’s making his way inside, Sebek and Malleus follow after him, Yuu noticed this but he’s like, on the way to the bathroom right now so he’d rather have them not follow him.

Yuu points towards the living room, “You guys mind waiting for me over there? Just needa do a couple things, then we can dip.”

Yuu walked off before they could get a say in.

 

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“-but then after that she ended up getting with his dad, y’know the one he doesn’t really talk to anymore, and ended up going to their family Christmas get-together. But here’s the thing, the whole family, except the dad and her younger sister Kate, didn’t know that she was gonna be there, cause the ex-boyfriend told everyone that she was still in the process of ghosting him and brought the girl he was cheating on her with, his childhood best friend, and didn’t expect to see her there.”

Honestly why don’t these fuckers talk, like, at all? Yuu’s been yapping the whole time cause these motherfuckers wouldn’t say shit and swear, that shit was awkward as fuck.

“So when her and her current boyfriend, his dad, got there, there was this huge fucking fight and everything. Shit was crazy as fuck for real, for real. Like his dad and him started fighting and his stepdad tried getting in as well, which didn’t really go well since his bio dad was a veteran and then my friend, Katie, got into a fight with his childhood friend after telling the whole family that she was a home wrecker and everything about how she slept with her sister’s ex multiple times while they were still together. Which led to Dan’s mom screaming at both her and her son and the last time I checked his mom had like, completely stopped talking to him.”

Mal tilted his head while Sebek seemed rather interested in the story.

“That is… how do I say, quite the interesting love story?” Yuu giggled at Mal’s statement.

Sebek however huffed, “Honestly, you humans allude me on your vanity and your constant need to throw yourselves at others.”

Guys, I don’t know if it’s just me, but I think Mal’s little lap dog might be xenophobic but like to humans as a whole, I mean that’s just what I think though.

Yuu hummed and grabbed him phone from his back pocket, connecting his ear buds and playing some music.

[I always hate, hate, hate

When you running around]

Yuu and his new little friends began making their way through the rose garden, which felt more like a maze at this point, in silence.

[I wanna shake, shake, shake

Bitch, I wanna be drowned]

When they got to the tea party, Yuu saw Ace, Deuce, and Grim all by each other near the seniors.

Yuu grabbed the polaroid camera that had been given to him just days prior and took a picture of the organized mess that was Heartslabyul’s signature Unbirthday Party.

[I’ll watch you hate, hate, hate]

Multiple tables carried different kinds of tea cups and had snacks on the white linen sheets, while also having top hats on the tables that seemed to not fit, yet still work with the theme of the party.

There were different kind of chairs all over the place and one of them even had multiple books placed as a chair with a tiny stool on top of it.

[Until you burn to the ground]

There was a long table that caught Yuu’s interest, one that had a rather large heart chair in the middle. He supposed it was meant for the person of highest ranking belonging to the Heart’s dorm.

The garden was filled with all Heart’s dorm members and most if not all were seated, save for the trio of dumbasses and the two mildly dubious seniors.

[I’ll watch you hate]

Yuu saw a table somewhat empty, only with one person there. He was wearing, what Yuu had assumed, was the standard Heartslabyul dorms uniform. Except he also wore a what appeared to be a heart styled eyepatch with it, covering his left eye.

[(Until you burn to the ground)]

Getting closer, the boy had somewhat dark gray hair which looked almost black. Had they not been in direct sunlight, Yuu himself would assume that his hair was in fact black just like his, or well, used to be his.

Once they were in front of the table, the boy who seemed to be reading a book refused to look up. Yuu didn’t mind though, “Hey, is it cool if me and my friends sit here?”

[I always hate]

At this, the boy did look up before quickly looking back at his book, “Do what you want. Just don’t bother me.”

Wow…. Total emo.

Yuu grinned before taking a seat, “Kay, kay thank you!”

[Hate]

“Who do you think you are?!! You lowley-!”

Yuu quickly stood up and practically forced Sebby into a chair and brought one out for Mal, which he sat in no problem or anything.

[Hate]

“Hey! Seb-…. Sebastian?”

Yuu got glared at by the green haired boy, “It’s Sebek, you would do well to remember that you lowly human!”

[When you running around]

Yuu nodded without much thought, “Right, whatever, anyways you’ve known Mal for some time right? Got any embarrassing stories or some shit to share with the class?”

Sebek scoffed, “As if the Young Master would have anything to be embarrassed about!” Yuu hummed before looking over to Mal.

[I wanna shake]

“What about you Mal? Got any embarrassing stories about Sebek?” To be honest, Yuu didn’t actually care much about learning about their past, but what better way to get closer than ice breakers that expose such things?

Mal brought his hand up to his chin and tilted his head with this sultry little smile and god DAMN did Yuu wanna smash, but thats besides the point.

[Shake]

“Perhaps, I did watch him grow up after all.”

Sebek’s eyes widened at the admittance of his lord a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶a̶v̶i̶o̶r̶, all for some no named human. “Young master!?”

Yuu snorted while Mal seemed to find humor in such a display and chuckled as well.

[Shake]

Just then, a group of boys with trumpets signaled for something? Yuu had like, half a mini tart in his mouth when this happened and he see’s some other boy just get up from his spot and start yelling.

“All hail our leader, the red sovereign himself… Housewarden Riddle!” Lmao what the fuck???

[Bitch, I wanna be drowned]

Other boys suddenly rise from their positions, even the little emo prick across from them. Yuu, panicked cause holy shit bro what kinda cultish shit is this, quickly followed the lead from the other boys in standing.

Mal and sebek followed what Yuu did, but it was more like Mal copied Yuu and Sebek copied Mal.

[I’ll watch you hate]

“We salute you, Housewarden Riddle!” What. The. Actual. Fuck???

The red head of a Housewarden walks around and inspects things, Yuu who was at one of the farthest tables couldn’t even hear anything so he opted to grab his camera and take a picture of the red head and the rest of the students.

[Hate]

Yuu didn’t even realize that there was still another picture with it until he grabbed, presumably, one only to fine two. He put them in his chest pocket and sat back down just so he could start eating some of the food on the table.

Yuu realized that both boys by him weren’t even doing anything besides watching him and surveying the area, and like, dawg what the fuck? Like you’re both hot and all but please stop staring at me, and like not to be rude, but that shits kinda creepy.

[Hate]

Yuu grabbed their plates and filled it with sweets for them.

‘Please, for the love of god, let this little party be quick. I’m not tryna be in this awkward ass situation any longer!’

Yuu see’s Cater talking to Ace, Deuce, and Grim about something only for him to see the older boy change their clothes to fit the atmosphere. Which, like, sick as fuck by the way, but also I kinda wanna leave already.

[Until you burn to the ground]

 

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As the boys began eating the sweets at the table and making small talk, with minor jabs from Sebek about being a human and Mal stoking the flames just for his own amusement, Yuu can say proudly that he still wants to kill himself.

[One, two, 3D]

He doesn’t know why he offered the other boy for free plus ones for any party that he’s invited too, he doesn’t even like parties all that much, maybe, actually no It kinda just depends on his mood, and right now his mood is saying that he should lay in bed and not do anything.

[I can’t touch you through the phone]

Damn being human and having to do shit everyday just to live and keep stable relationships, that shit sucks ass for real for real.

[Or kiss you through the universe]

“Before we begin the croquet tournament, let us make a toast. Does everyone have their teacup?” Riddle grabbed his teacup and brought it up a little of the table.

[In another time zone]

“On this most significantly inauspicious of days, I bid all in attendance… a very merry unbirthday!”

Yuu watched as the other Hearts students all bring their teacups in the air, all with blank eyes and strained smiles. He didn’t really give a fuck though, to be honest he was lowkey vibing.

[It’s the only time I can’t reverse]

“To a very merry unbirthday!”

Yuu decided to turn his body in the chair so he could lean against Mal with his back and fuck with Sebek by poking his thighs with his feet. Lil bro done talked to much shit to him about being human, so now he’s finna piss him off and give him a reason to actually hate humans.

[But when there’s two dimensions]

Giggling, Yuu looked at Sebek with a shit eating grin, the same Sebek who looked close to throwing down with Yuu in front of all the other students, “What’s wrong Sebby? You mad?”

Sebek grabbed the other boy’s ankle, causing Yuu to squeak, bro for real was not boutta let that shit slide.

[There’s only one I’m missin’]

“A CHESTNUT tart?!” Chat, what the fuck?

“What?!”

Yuu who heard the shrilly little scream, thought it sounded a little like that ginger kid he befriended a day or two ago. However his miny game of tug-a-war with Sebek quickly took up what little mental capacity he had.

[And if you feel alone]

“Shit!” Yuu quickly grabbed onto something near him, which just so happened to by an arm, and practically clawed at it for stability as Sebek pulled on his ankle so hard that he almost fucking fell off his chair.

[You don’t have to feel that no more]

“You-! Let go of the Young Master you little parasite!” Sebek got up from his chair and started pulling and the boy from his ankle, and Yuu in a moment of not wanting to fall ass first on the floor, grabbed onto Mals neck as the boy continued to try and pull him by his ankle.

And quite frankly the other boy was winning, Yuu could feel himself starting to lose grip and was slowly slipping more and more.

“Wait, wait, wait! Sebi-, seb-, fuck whatever your name is! We can talk about this!” Yuu was slipping more and more as the green haired boy glared at him even more and just continued to tug at the boy.

“Yuu! You agree that these rules are too much right!?” Who?

Yuu, in a moment of surprise let go and fell after another pull from his ankle, the other boy let go of him once he was off of Mal.

Yuu quickly stood up and nodded his head, “Ah- um, that’s right!…?Totally agree with what Ace said!” Yuu side eyed Sebek and whispered to him, “What were they talking about?”

“Why would I have to pay attention to what you and your little friends converse about!” Dawg, please for the love of god just talk like a regular person.

“Cause I wasn’t paying attention??? Chat am I cooked?”

Yuu can see the tiny red head of a Housewarden is saying something to those trio of dumbasses and to the senior boys by them, but he had no fucking clue what was going down.

They obviously said some dumbass type shit, cause Riddle got this pissed off look on his face before he was yelling at them, oh and they were wearing collars too.

“Trey! Cater! Eject them from the premises!” …. Wait does that include me too?

Yuu sat down on Sebeks chair and went back to eating, until he felt a hand on his shoulder, looking up he saw Trey look at him with a sad face.

“Sorry, but you heard the Housewarden.” Chat, I’m eating right now. Can this shit wait?

Yuu licked some crumbs off his fingers before getting up, “Yo, you two coming? Or are you gonna chill here some more?”

Mal shook his head, “I believe we should take this as our sign to leave.” The taller boy grabbed onto Sebek before turning into a flurry of green fire flies. That shit was sick as fuck, I wanna do that too.

Yuu followed Trey out the Hearts dorm and was left to wonder. After like, a minute or two of just walking, he came across Ace, Deuce, and Grim all bitching about the situation they got in.

“Rrrgh! I hate that little ginger megalomaniac! Does he think HE’s the Queen of Hearts?”

Yuu walked right behind the boy while he was in the midst of complaining about his Housewarden and whispered into his ear.

“Are you also not a ginger?”

“HYAAAHHHGGG!” Damn, he lowkey screams like a little girl.

Yuu quickly took a step back just as Ace jabbed his elbow right behind him, probably in hope to hit whoever was behind him.

Yuu snorted, however the other boys didn’t even seem to crack a smile. Tough crowds.

Ace quickly turned around to see the perpetrator and got red in the face, “Yuu! Just where the hell where you when we were getting our heads chewed off by that tiny tyrant!?”

“Banished by the housewarden from my own dorm…. My dream of becoming an honor student is slipping further and further away…” Deuce began to mumble to himself in despair.

Yuu yawned, taking his time in answering the ginger.

“Dawg, I was like, chowing down on the sweets and shit. Mad tasty by the way, full complements to the baker.”

Grim was clawing at his neck, “Stupid collar! It’s so tight! Grrr….” Damn, that sucks.

Yuu, who felt bad, picked the cat up and tried to alleviate the weight from his tiny legs.

“You’re really racking up those collars. Quite the impressive collection.” A mysterious voice appeared out of no where, looking around, Yuu saw a floating head and the ugliest, ugliest pair of fucking bangs he has ever seen.

That shit looks like it came straight out of the Bungo Stray Dogs, like damn, who did your hair?

“BWAH?!” The three with collars all screamed in unison, Yuu however couldn’t keep his eyes off the bangs.

“Dude, did you fuck your barbers wife or some shit? Or did you cut your bangs while they were wet? Cause holy shit are they ugly.” I mean like, the bangs aren’t even, even and there’s strands that are literally longer then his fucking bangs???

The purple headed boy with cat ears on his head stared at Yuu with a blank smile, “What?”

“Myah! A ghost head!” Grim started shaking and trying to hide himself in Yuu’s arms.

The rest of the boys body slowly started appearing, and to be honest he kinda reminded Yuu of the Cheshire cat.

“Oh dear. That’s not a nice thing to say about someone’s hair.” Damn, my bad.

Deuce seemed shocked about the other boy, “What? Er, so do you have a body, then? Who are you?”

The other boy seemed interested in the three with collars around their neck, “The name’s Artemiy Artemiyevich Pinker.” Damn, that’s a long ass name.

“Am I a cat? Am I a purrrson? A mimsy borogove, perhaps? A mome rath with a knack for magic?”

“What the fuck is a mimsy borogove???” No like seriously though, I’ve never heard of anything like that.

“Uh, look, Ar… Arte… Run the name by me again?” Ace treated the name like it was a tongue twister, confusion sinking in when trying to say the other boy’s name.

The purple cat boy however only giggled, “Heh heh. People usually just call me Chenya. Let’s just say I’m not from the other side of the looking glass.” What looking glass?

“Weird ass statement, but you do you I guess.” Dawg, who the fuck are you and why are you talking to us?

“You think so? I’d say by the standards here, I’m no more mad than anyone else.”

Ace seemed to glare at nothing, the boy obviously still angry about his earlier treatment. “After that insanity that teapot tyrant put me through, I’m not in the mood for whatever this is. Just leave me alone.” Real.

“Riddle the teapot tyrant…. Heh heh. Well, I can’t dismiss that perspective as wrong. He’s always been quite strict.”

Not gonna lie, I lowkey fuck with the piercings though, ahhhh damn I wanna go home, I miss my bed.

“Do you know something about him?” Deuce seemed interested in the connection between the mystery boy and the housewarden which just kicked him out of his own dorm.

“Perhaps there are things that I know, and perhaps there are things that I don’t.” So… are you gonna like, tell us? Or are you just fucking with us for fun?

“That’s not an answer!” Grim crossed his arms and gave the boy a dead panned look.

“Is there something you wish to know about Riddle?” The purple headed boy seemed open to questions now, score.

“Yeah, what created su-“

“-What’s his dick size.” Sorry acey, but a man needs something to bully him about and it can’t just be about his short height.

All four stared at Yuu with a blank stare, almost looking like he was crazy.

“Are you seriously-!” Ace choked on his spit while trying to talk.

Deuce got red in the face and started shouting. “That’s hardly something we should be talking about prefect!”

“Why would you even wanna know anyways?” Grim seemed curious about his reasoning about such a question.

Yuu shrugged his shoulders, “He asked what we wanted to know about Riddle, and I want to know what his size down there is.”

“Well, I wouldn’t know even if you asked, perrrhaps you should ask Riddle himself in person.” The boy seemed to find the situation hilarious and looked like he was holding back laughter.

Y’know, he’s actually kinda cute like that.

“Whatever, ignore him, anyways what created such a control freak?” Ace seemed content to just ignore whatever it was Yuu had just said.

Chenya was waving his pointer finger around in circles before pointing towards the dorm. “I believe his four-eyed friend may have the answer.”

The mention of four-eyes and ‘friend’ seemed pretty easy to guess since Riddle had like, only two friends and only one of them wore glasses.

“Four-eyed friend? You mean Trey?” Damn, Riddle lowkey needs some more friends.

“He’s known Riddle since we were all little boys.” So he has three friends then, does Cater count as a friend actually? Maybe.

“If you want to know more about Riddle, I would begin my quest there.”

“They’re childhood friends? I didn’t really get that impression.” I’d say that’s real Deuce, but to be honest Trey has this energy bout him that makes it look like he’s lowkey a little gay for Riddle, so imma have to disagree. A personality like Riddle’s makes it hard to crush on him, even with how cute he is.

“If you’re so perceptive, then what are you asking me for? Buh-bye!” Chenya’s body started slowly disappearing into thin are.

“Bye-bye.” Yuu waved the boy off.

“H-hey!” Deuce shouted at the boy, why? No clue, maybe he had more questions or some shit.

“Ha ha ha ha…!” Chenya laughed the whole time as he slowly disappeared from their eyesight.

Grim huffed, “I tell ya, no one makes any sense around here.”

Deuce shook his head and sighed, “Well, we’re not going to be able to do much in the way of schoolwork with these collars on. So let’s go see what Trey had to say, and then…”

Ace cut the boy off, “If you’re gonna say ‘apologize to Riddle,’ you can forget it!”

Yuu hummed, “I say we jump him, even if we don’t have magic it’s still like, four against one, I think we’d win.”

Deuce punched his fist and Ace looked damn well ready to jump Trey as well.

 

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“-his eyes are like angels but his heart is cold

No need to ask, he’s a smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator

Smooth operator…

Yeah, so like, Ace, Deuce, I don’t think Trey’s coming to the library today.”

“Just wait it out, he’ll come eventually.” Ace huffed and looked rather annoyed himself.

“Dawg, It’s been like, only one day since you both got kicked out, I don’t think he’s coming today.” Yuu put his phone down and put it in his pocket.

“Well, I’m sure If we wait long enough then he’ll come!” Deuce seemed hopeful, as if he himself wasn’t just whining about having to stay here for so long not even a minute ago.

“Right… well, um, you guys got this, and watch over Grim for me. K, thanks!” Yuu ran out of there before they forced him to stay there any longer.

“Yuu!-

“Prefect!?-

Yuu tuned them out and kept running, ain’t no way is he staying there any longer.

As Yuu was going down the hall, he grabbed his phone from his pocket and checked the time real quick.

In his moment of absence he ended up bumping into a wall and fell straight on his ass, looking up he saw a pair of twins and damn were they fine.

“Hah?” The one he bumped into had a black steak on the left side of his head, or is it right? I mean technically speaking it’s right but it looks- y’know what never mind.

“Shit, my bad.” Yuu pushed himself up from the floor and looked back towards the boys. “Damn you’re tall, like, really fuckin’ tall.” Not like Mal tall but still tall.

“Apologies for my brother, he didn’t mean to bump into you.” The one beside him looked almost apologetic except with the smile on his face and the way he was staring at Yuu, yeah my guy was not sorry at all.

“Nah, it’s my fault really, should of-

“I’m gonna squeeze ya shrimpy.”

“What?” Lmao chat what the fuck???

“Squeeze, as in hug? Or squeeze as in you’re gonna choke me or some kinky shit.” Cause if so that’d be kinda hot but like also we’re in a school, keep it pg-13 in public.

The twins both looked at each other, one looked annoyed while the other kept this ugly little smile on his face and y’know what? I may not know them but it’s official now, I hate both of you.

The one with that fucking smile on his face was going to say something but Yuu was not hearing it, he ran past them and their lenghty ass arms and legs and went towards the stairs.

The boy looked back and saw that one of them was about to give chase but was stopped by the other.

Freedom at last, oh the joy of this beautiful, lovely, amazing world, and it’s will to steal away minors from different world’s. Wonderful times indeed, oh look it’s that purple headed boy from lunch.

Yuu jogged over to him, “Hey!” The boy stopped and turned around, oh shit he’s like, actually super pretty up close.

The boy tilted his head towards him, “Do ya need somethin?” He spoke in a roughish manner, and honestly, the accent was kinda hot.

“I mean like, not technically no but I wanted to say that your hairs like, super pretty. Did you dye it or were you born with it?” Different world different genetics, how the fuck are people born with different hair colors? I’ll never know.

“Eh- um. Thanks I guess, I was born with it this color, yours don’t look to bad either.” He seemed like he wanted to say something but kept his mouth closed.

Yuu nodded, “Thanks, periwinkle’s a damn nice color, I fuck with it. I’m Yuu by the way, nice to meetcha.” Yuu extended his arm towards the boy for a hand shake.

He simply looked at the hand before looking his him the eyes, grabbed it he spoke, “Epel felmier.” Damn, he has a strong hand.

Letting go, Epel started walking and Yuu followed after. “I’m a freshman by the way, how ‘bout you?” The boy was carrying some books, looking close it was a book about plants.

“Fresh-? Ah, Imma first year, class 1-B.”

“Class 1-B, guess that makes sense why I didn’t see ya in any classes.” Yuu nodded, wondering where they were heading.

“Where are ‘ya from? I don’t recognize yer accent.” My accent? I have one???

“I have an accent? You’re not like, fuckin’ with me right?”

The boy nodded, “Ya talk kinda fast, and when ya speak it’s nasally, also the way ya pronounce certain words makes it sound like yer sayin somethin’ else until ya get the full word out.” Damn, what the fuck.

“Damn, seriously? Never knew that, I live in a somewhat small ass town by the sea, has like, 3000? 4000 people livin’ there.” At least I think there is.

Epel nodded, “I’m from Harveston, it’s a small town in the Shaftlands so I know how ya feel.”

“Where ya headin’?”

They were outside by now, going in a direction Yuu had no fuckin clue.

“My dorm leader said I gotta study some more ‘bout plants, so I’m headin’ back to my room.” Oh, sick I guess.

Yuu stopped suddenly, “Aight, good luck with that Epel, cya ‘round I guess.” Fuck, he totally thinks I’m a weirdo for following him back to his dorm.

The smaller boy nodded and waved, “Bye.” He turned around and quickly made his way over to the presumed Hall of Mirrors or whatever the fuck it was called.

Damn, it’s confirmed, he thinks Yuu is a weirdo, fuck I’m gonna kill myself, that shit was so embarrassing, stupid, stupid, stupid fucking Yuu and his want to make some fucking friends.

Yuu headed back to his old dorm, he was gonna clean that shit ‘till he dropped from either exhaustion or killing himself from embarrassment.

As comfortable as Diasomnia was, for some reason he felt this odd discomfort in his chest the longer he stayed there, he wasn’t fuckin’ with it all that much.

 

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“Yuu, I’m bored!” Grim was laying on his back on the table, Yuu however came prepared this time and made a tab in Crowley’s name and bought a thick blanket, plus a fluffy one, and a pillow at the student store.

“Tough, I’m tryna sleep right now though so fuck off.”

Yuu laid on the floor on his side and kept his eyes closed, if he was doing this he was getting some sleep before he jumped someone.

 

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“Do we really have to do this on a fuckin’ Monday? Cause I’m like, over this shit already.”

Due to reasons, Yuu was now forced to study the Japanese alphabet and compare notes with Lilia’s handwritten English quote on quote Old Trade standardization oh what each character stood for and how to make words with them.

Shit sucked. Fuck school, fuck Crowley, and his lack of help for getting me home. I miss having money.

“You’re the one who came up with the damn plan of jumping him! You can’t back out now.” Ace glared at the boy, Grim nodded in agreement with Ace.

“Well, maybe we shouldn’t actually jump him though, if we harm another student we could all get suspended or expelled.” Says Deuce, like a hypocrite, because he broke a priceless artifact and almost got another student killed when braking said artifact on the first fucking day.

“Meh, meh, meh, who gives a shit! I was all for jumping him the first day but we’ve been at this for like, three days already. I’m hungry, I haven’t had a full fuckin’ meal in like two weeks and my love for food is back full force. Not to mention I have to learn this fuck ass language just to actually understand half the fuckin shit said and done in classes and-”

“Shhh! Shut up for a minute.” Ace covered Yuu’s mouth and stopped him mid rant, he was staring intently at the doors as a certain four-eyed green son of a bitch finally walked in through those doors.

As the walked into the library, Yuu and Grim snuck behind him. While this was happening, Deuce and Ace walked over to the boy.

“Hello, Trey.” Deuce walked right in front of him with Ace following him behind.

Trey turned around and saw Grim glaring at him, Yuu however stared very wide eyed and looked the boy straight in his eyes with a giant fucking smile.

Trey was uncomfortable at being stared at in such a way, he felt a shiver go down his spine the longer Yuu stared at him in such a way without blinking.

The boy looked away from him, score, Yuu won.

Was Yuu actually staring him down to intimidate him? Yes. Did he turn it into an unofficial staring contest, yes, yes he did.

“You four!” Trey turned around again to look at Deuce and Ace to try and get rid of the discomfort that was Yuu.

“We figured that if we waited at the library, you’d show up to return your tart cookbook eventually.” Deuce was frowning all the while and Ace was glaring at the boy the whole time.

“We still got a problem with the way Housewarden Riddle is handling all of this.”

Trey brought up a hand to the side of his head and shook his head while sighing, “Yeah, I thought you might say that.”

Ace pointed a finger at the green haired boy and began poking him in the chest, “Come clean with us. What’s your take on Riddle?”

Yuu walked around and wrapped an arm around Ace’s neck, “Yeah! Like are you two dating or some shit? Or is he single?”

“I- what?” Trey was confused at the certain take on question’s as he was so sure they were going to confront him about different manners that relate to Riddle.

Ace jabbed his elbow into Yuu’s ribs causing the dyed pink haired boy to collapse on the floor and rub his ribs, “You bitch!”

“Ignore him, is it true that you’ve been pandering to him since the two of you were kids?”

“What?! Who told you that?”

Deuce stepped towards Yuu to help him off the floor, causing Ace to roll his eyes cause like, he didn’t even hit him that hard so he’s totally just being over dramatic.

“A guy who called himself Chenya.”

Trey fixed his glasses, “Chenya… Huh. That explains it.” Dawg you got beef with him or somethin? The fuck is up with those major furrowed brows, you’re boutta get wrinkles.

“What I don’t get is, aren’t you older than Riddle? Why haven’t ya told him off already?” Grim complained towards the older boy.

“I do when I need to. I don’t think think the situation calls for it.”

“Why not?” Ace looked like he wanted to scream at the older boy, had they not been in a library he probably would’ve.

“These sorts of strict rules… They’re what created Riddle.” Chat, if that were true, lowkey I probably would’ve killed myself long before I entered high school. Thank god I’m not in their dorm, you’re never catching me with my neck out, permanent collar till Riddle’s a fourth year.

“Huh?” Real, I felt that Deuce.

“His parents were famous magical healers. Everyone where we’re from knew their names.” Did I ask???

“His mom was especially talented, and she really wanted Riddle to live up to her legacy.” Ah, mommy and daddy issues, makes sense.

“So, from the moment Riddle woke up to when his head hit the pillow at the end of the night…. Every aspect of his life was planned, down to the minute, by the education program she made for him.”

Damn, rest in pieces Riddle, you would’ve loved Little Prince. I shall remember you and your lack of childhood, and pray that you have a better life up there in heaven oh dear friend of mine.

 

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Somewhere far away in a red dorm, an equally red headed boy was in his dorm petting his favorite hedgehog when he suddenly sneezed.

“Ah, rule 423, if one sneezes in the presence of a hedgehog, they must immediately give it a chamomile and peppermint bath before 5 minutes has passed.”

The boy stood up and and quickly went about his way to start the bath and grab both chamomile and peppermint.

 

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Grim looked at the boy in shock, “Sounds pretty lame.”

Trey nodded, “What he ate, what he wore, what soap he used, who his friends were - every last detain had been predetermined for him.” Dawg are you just gonna like, trauma dump someone else’s trauma the entire time???

“And to please his parents, Riddle obediently completed every task they’d laid out for him. He mastered his signature spell by age ten. He’s been the top student in all of his classes. I can’t even imagine how hard he must have had it.”

Damn, we got the whole childhood, plus the trauma, and the schooling backstory package all in one go. What, are you gonna tell us next that he’s gonna die soon due to some premeditated illness that his mother created? just for him to be saved at the last minute and get some God given gift to go with it.

Ace, Deuce, and Grim stared at the boy in silence, shock obviously prevalent in their features.

“That’s like, actually disgusting. If I had to deal with that I’d probably just kill myself after the first 10 years.”

“Riddle sees the enforcement of strict rules as a service to his dorm members. In his eyes, being bound by rigid guidelines - by fear - is a fast-track to personal growth. Because that’s how it worked for him.” Damn does he talk a lot.

“And on the flip side, he sees the violation of those rules as an inexcusable offense.”

Ace brought his hands up to his chin and seemed to be staring hard into nothingness. “I guess that makes sense, since rules made him who he is.”

“Look, I totally get why you see Riddle as a tyrant, and why you disapprove of his methods-“

“You’re a horrible friend.”

Yuu cut Trey off as he was speaking. The green eyed boy looked at him with wide eyes.

“Huh?”

“And I’m being so fucking for real when I say this, you’re like, genuinely a shit friend. Not only do you not stop one of your supposed ‘good friend’ when he’s obviously going through something and majorly fucking himself over, you literally trauma dump his childhood to literal fucking strangers who you’ve barely know for like a week??? What the fuck kinda friend even does that?” No like, being so for real that’s lowkey an asshole move.

Ace looked like he had some kinda breakthrough during that speech. Meanwhile the other three stared at Yuu in bewilderment.

“……. All right, now I get it. It’s YOUR fault Riddle’s like this.”

“What?!”

The shock of both Yuu’s speech and Ace’s agreement to it caused the three to yell in shock.

“Riddle didn’t get to choose his parents. But you know what his parents did to him, and you know it was wrong, right?”

“I mean, yeah…”

“Well, now Riddle’s making the exact same mistakes that his parents did. You’re going easy on him because he had it tough as a kid? Don’t you see where that’s leaving?”

Yuu cut the boy off, “Mmm, yeah no, don’t do that. Given what Trey literally just said about his crazy ass mom and how famous she is, she’s probably still doing the exact same thing from when he was a kid. As in he’s still going through that tough childhood of his.”

The response seemed to catch the ginger off guard, “Ah, well, yeah! But still, he’s basically just letting him make himself into a pariah.”

“It’s childhood trauma that’s still currently going on. What more can you expect for something that’s so ingrained into someone and currently still being ingrained into them? For them to change their entire worldview after like only ten months of boarding school?”

Cause if so, good luck with that one Acey.

Trey looked uncomfortable with the whole situation, while Deuce looked taken aback about the whole thing.

“Ace, man, come on…”

The ever need to defend himself felt most prevalent for the orange haired boy. “Okay, yeah sure. But why doesn’t Trey just say something? If they’re such good friends surely he wouldn’t have to worry as much about ‘loosing his head’ too? It’s pathetic!”

Ace gained this mocking smile during their conversation and was practically looking down on Trey.

“And you guys are supposed to be childhood friends?! Cause you don’t even act like it.” Ace snorted.

Yuu nodded at that statement and started snickering himself, “Like an ever loyal dog to his anger prone owner.”

“YOU THERE! BE QUIET! YOU ARE IN A LIBRARY!”

And all of a sudden, I hear this agitating, grating voice.

“You’re yellin’ louder ‘n any of us, though!” Grim crossed his arms when suddenly Yuu pointed towards the man.

“YOU!”

There stood the man, the myth, and soon to be dead bird Dire fucking Crowley and his fuck ass top hat.

Chapter Text

“YOU!”

Yuu ran over to the taller man and kicked him in the shin.

“WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WAS THE POINT OF GIVING ME YOUR PHONE NUMBER IF YOU WEREN’T EVEN GONNA ANSWER!!?”

Crowley quickly backed away from the younger man, shin throbbing from the kick the younger one had deemed necessary.

“What in Twisted-!”

“Thirty minutes.”

Ace looked between what was happening along with the other boys and was confused over what was happening.

“Um, Yuu, you good?”

Yuu turned around to face them, “Am I good?! I don’t know Ace, how does getting your foot stuck in the FUCKING FLOOR because of a ROTTEN floor board for THIRTY MINUTES sound to you?! Hm?! HMM?!!”

All three boys jumped as the boy yelled at them. Deuce grabbed the boy by his shoulder, face pale from fear, probably at the thought that he might get expelled since his friend was verbally abusing his principal.

“Yuu! You shouldn’t curse at the Headmage while he’s right in front of you. Are you crazy?! It’s like you’re trying to get us expelled!”

Yuu forced Duece’s hand off of him and glared, “Like you have any right to talk Mr.Let’s go throw a student at a chandelier and almost get three people killed, fuckin’ dumbass.”

Turning around to look at the fucking bird of a principal, who Yuu now officially fuckin hated and would probably write fanfics of later with other teachers just because he could, Yuu flipped him off with no regrets.

“Kill yourself, you fucking asshole. I spent a damn good minute trying to call you only for you to not FUCKING ANSWER! And when I tried calling Lilia his call went straight to fuckin’ voicemail and I had to spend 25 FUCKING MINUTES waiting for fucking Cater to get his ass to Ramshackle and another five for him to help me get my foot out the GOD DAMN FLOOR!”

That shit like actually majorly fucking hurt, my ankles still rapped up and everything and throbs if I put too much pressure on it.

“Y’know what? it doesn’t matter. Cause why would it matter? Nothing matters.”

The three boys plus monster slowly inched away as the prefect began muttering to himself. The headmage awkwardly coughed into his hand.

“Right… Yes, my apologies. But let us strive to maintain the library as a quiet place for reading.”

Trey apologized to the elder man, not out of respect or anything like that but or less because he was, well the headmage. Which whether he liked it or not, meant that he could be probably expelled for showing disrespect to the man.

“Well, at least you know better now. Incidentally, what are you all discussing with such grim faces?”

Deuce sighed and crossed his arms, “Well, since you asked…”

Cut to the absolute yapping between Deuce and Ace about how they were kicked out their dorm and collared like criminals.

By then Yuu had snapped out of whatever little depression spat he had and grabbed a mushroom out of his pocket. One that’s mildly poisonous and only causes hallucinations and dizziness, he researched this shit so he doesn’t almost accidentally kill himself.

He’s learning right now guys, trust.

Crow man looked to be in thought contemplating the situation. “Ah… I believe I understand the situation. You are resistant to the idea of apologizing, but unable to devise any other method to get the housewarden to remove the collar.”

Ace had a scowl on his face, irritated at his situation that involved a tiny red headed tyrant. “Yeah, pretty much.”

Yuu pinched his cheek, “keep frowning like that and you’ll get wrinkles making you 10 times uglier than you already are.”

Ace slapped his hand away from his face, “Like you’re one to talk, uggo.”

Yuu blinked in surprise. “Excuse me?”

“You heard me.”

“No, I just wanted to make sure you said what I thought you said before I beat the fuck out of you. You ratty ass little bitch.” Yuu used both his hands and started pinching and pulling at Ace’s face.

Ace tried to pull the the boys hands away, but given their similar stature and the fact Yuu was decently strong despite his shitty eating habits, he was struggling and resorted to kicking instead.

Crowley and the three other boys, (Grim now being included as one of the boys) stared at the scene before them as two scrawny first years were kicking and pinching each other, it’s one sided really cause only one is getting pinched in the face.

“Are they always like this?” Crowley looked from the scene to the three children at his side.

Grim nodded his head, “Pretty much.” While Deuce sighed in exasperation, “sadly.”

Deciding to ignore the two and their little fight, Crowley nodded along, “I see. Well if you and the housewarden are truly unable to reconcile, you could always transfer. However, this is the dorm that the Dark Mirror chose for you based on the essence of your being. Any attempt to relocate would necessitate quite a burdensome process, as well as a new ritual.”

Ace managed to get away from the evil boy and was rubbing at his cheeks, “A transfer, huh…? That’d make me feel like I was running away with my tail between my legs.”

Yuu grabbed Grim up from the ground and hugged him to his chest, hes’ felt cold the whole day despite the sunny sky and warm wind, so he needed his little heater.

Grim used to suddenly being picked up by the boy didn’t do much besides make himself comfortable.

“Hmm. Then it sounds like you should challenge Mr. Rosehearts for leadership of the dorm.”

All four boys screamed in unison, “WHAAAAAT?!”

Yuu rubbed his ears at the sudden screaming, but now that he thought about it, lowkey, his name sounded fake as fuck. Riddle Rosehearts does not sound like a real fucking name. But then again neither did Deuce Spade or, or…. Fuck what’s the green haired guys name again?

Crowley glared at the four boys ”Lower your voices! This is a library!”

Now that he thought about it, why wasn’t his music playing?

Ace whispered back to the man ”But what you said was… insane!”

Yuu grabbed his phone and started scrolling through his music to find a song to listen to.

“There is nothing remotely “insane” about it.”

[You can set yourself on fire (hey!)

You can se-]

No.

“After all, that’s how Mr. Rosehearts got the position.”

[It can’t be said I’m an early bird

It’s ten o’clock befo-]

Nuh uh.

Deuce tilted his head, “What exactly is the process by which housewardens are selected at Night Raven College?”

[Attention, Helldivers

Please direct your attention to the nearest monitor for this-]

Hmmm… maybe later.

Grim spoke up, now being held in only one of Yuu’s arms as he scrolled through his phone.

“Trey said that Riddle became housewarden within his first week as a student here.”

[I got that good stuff that you want

Let me be your pusher, pusher, pusher, ay]

Hmmm, aight I guess.

“There are several ways. You could be appointed by the previous housewarden, for example, or duel the current warden and win. A duel is certainly one of the simpler methods.”

“But isn’t fighting with magic against the rules?” Ace had asked, mainly because on his first day of fighting with magic, he got sentenced to clean a hundred windows, and sure he burnt a stature but it was old anyways and the ghost would’ve probably just taken care of it.

Crowley however thought that the boy was simply being a curious young thing instead of secretly dissing the man in that tiny little head of his.

“In general, yes. A duel initiated through a formal procedure and conducted in the presence of the headmage is another matter entirely.”

“I’m pretty sure the du-

 

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“-ya better believe I’m running the show!”

What?

Yuu rapidly blinked and realized the headmage was still there talking, but had a somewhat hard time fully processing what was happening. Things felt kinda weird but Yuu decided they were a good kind of weird so he chose to ignore it.

Ace and Deuce were both smirking like they were about to con someone. “Oh man, here we go again.” Ace, now that she thought about it, looked like he was making fun of someone.

“Huh? What’d you say?” Deuce looked taken off guard for a moment. Crowley looked like he was enjoying himself? Why?

“Then I’ll get started on the paperwork.” The man had nodded to himself and yet made no move to leave the library yet.

Grim however, during the entire conversation, had noticed how his henchman had suddenly gotten super quiet, which was weird cause he almost never stopped talking.

Looking up he realized that his human seemed to be in a daze and was staring at seemingly nothing but looked to be holding himself back from laughing. Weird.

“Hey, humans! We should leave already, the Great Grim is starting to get hungry and won’t be able to fight properly on an empty stomach.”

Grim had jumped out of Yuu’s arms upon making the statement and tugged on his pants making the human look down on him.

Ace scoffed at the statement, “Whatever, its not like you’ll be the one fighting anyways. But, uh… does anyone have any good ideas on fighting the housewarden?”

Deuce closed his eyes for a moment and tried to think hard for a moment. “Hmm. Hard to imagine we can beat Riddle with straightforward magic.”

Hitting his fist against the palm of his other hand, the blue headed boy smiled with a side of his mouth tugging up more than the other side.

“A solid left hook, on the other hand…”

Grim smiled at the thought, “Yeah, that guy looks like a pushover!”

Crowley hearing such things suddenly remembered something that could be considered important. “Ah, did I forget to mention that detail? These duels are to be fought solely with magic.”

“What?!” Deuce was surprised by the rule and someone disheartened that he couldn’t just fight a simpler way.

“Ha ha ha! Nothing beats a good, civilized duel! Now, the paperwork should be prepared and filed on the morrow. And the duel scheduled accordingly.”

The man left the library leaving two of the five students rather disheartened.

“Aight, let’s do this! I may not be the world’s greatest mage, but… I’ll figure something out!” Ace tried to cheer himself up but it was a rather poor attempt if you were to ask any of the other boys in the room.

“That’s the-

“Lets psychologically torture him with his worst fears and make him loose his shit so that on the day of your duel he’s too out of it in fear that his mother will find out what he did and punish him, distracting him from the actual fight so one of you can become the housewarden.” Yuu was looking up at one of the walls with this dazed look on his face and a content smile on his face, he didn’t even bother to look at the boys while he was speaking.

“-spirit… Yuu what the fuck!?” Deuce was somewhat terrified at the sudden suggestion.

Ace had choked on his spit while he tried to say something against it. Trey started patting the boy on his back and looked at the boy in front of him with a strained smile.

“How about we don’t do that Yuu?”

“Hmm, okay!” Yuu was still smiling and looking dazed all the while, Grim was just wondering what the hell happened to his henchman in the span of the 5 to 10 minutes that was them talking to the headmage about taking over the hearts dorm.

Yuu however wasn’t paying too much attention to what he was saying, rather he was thinking of scenarios with his current favorite characters and creating an au in his head that he may or may not write in the future.

 

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Yuu didn’t know how, but when he somewhat came to he was making spam fried rice (yum) and Deuce, Ace, and Grim were whispering to each other about something.

Yuu realized the food was done and turned off the stove, serving himself a bowl and sitting on the couch.

“Foods done by the way.”

All three boys jumped slightly as he talked, “Ah, right! Thanks man!” Ace had scrambled from his seat and ran to the kitchen with Grim following.

Deuce stayed behind and looked at him with worry, “Yuu, you’re ok right?” Yuu looked the boy up and down with confusion on his face.

“Yeah, obviously.” It was said in a slow manner, and while it didn’t seem to do the trick on convincing Deuce that he was fine, the boy still nodded his head and just went to the kitchen.

Right… totally not weird but what can you do. Yuu ate his food while watching Youtube while the three other boys seemed some what skittish around him. Yuu didn’t really care and just his food in peace before placing his bowl and utensil in the sink and putting the pan in the fridge.

He was too lazy to pack up the fried rice.

“Right, well I’m headin’ to bed. G’night.” Yuu walked down the hall while the other boys yelled goodnight to him as well.

Yuu realized he still had his earbud in his ear and took it out and placed it in its case. Getting to his room, he changed clothes and laid down in bed putting some music on to sleep too.

That’s when he realized however that he in fact did not brush his teeth. He was feeling lazy however and couldn’t bother to get up so he just knocked the fuck out before he could get a second thought in.

 

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Yuu looked around and realized he was at his old house. Not the one him and his sisters moved into later but the one he lived in up till he was 11.

It was a furnished one story house with a basement that seemed more like another bedroom then an actual basement.

Yuu was standing in the living room and Ace and Deuce were sitting on the couch watching tv. Even Sebek was there, but he was looking at a picture of something. Looking over to the kitchen he saw his older sister Yvette doing something, it looked like she was cutting something up.

She wore a white long-sleeve turtle neck that contrasted her tanned skin and a long loose black skirt. Her black hair was tied up into a loose bun.

Yuu was going to go over to see what she was cutting when she saw it. Her? Something. A tall malnourished skinny woman wearing a filthy, floor length dress. She seemed to be covered in dirt and grime while her hair looked like a rats nest.

She brought up her hand and pointed at something behind him, her nails long and sharp. He tried to look at her closely but couldn’t see her face.

When he turned around he saw Grim and decided to follow him. The once short hallway becoming long with multiple doors, more than he remembers there being, on each side of the wall.

It wasn’t until the once wooden floors started to become grass-like that he realized he was in a garden, a rose garden with dripping paint from it.

He turned around to see his house but realized that nothing was behind him besides a large bush that seemed to tower over him.

When he looked in front of him again he realized that Grim had already began to leave him. Following behind he looked as the rose bushes started changing into hyacinth flowers instead.

He stared at them for a while before looking back over to Grim, only to realize he was gone. Well fuck.

Yuu was lost and decided to explore when unexpectedly he came across a three way cross path.

From left to right there was a courtroom filled with playing cards, a savanna with animals, and a beachside with what appeared to be tentacle legs peaking out of the water.

Yuu swore he saw Ace in the courtroom, so that’s where he went.

But when he walked down the pathway instead he saw Alice in the defendant seat while the Queen of Hearts was in the Judge’s.

It looked like Alice but he swears that he can see a heart in the corner of her eye and her long hair seems somewhat orange rather than blonde.

She was pointing at the Queen.

‘And as for you, Your Majesty… “Your Majesty,” indeed!’

Huh? Dawg that doesn’t even make sense.

‘Why, you’re not a queen. You’re just a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old ty…tyrant…’

I mean, say it like it is I guess. Is it just me or is her hair getting shorter?

The Queen of Hearts seemingly didn’t hear her however, ‘Mmhmmhmmhmmhmm… What were you saying, my dear?’

The longer Yuu stared at her the more he saw as her once black hair had slowly started becoming a rosey red.

Just then the cheshire cat appeared on top of her crown, crossing his arms. ‘Well, she simply said that you’re a fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant! Hahahaha!’

Huh… since when did the cheshire cat have his ears pierced?

At those words the Queen of Hearts went red in the face, ‘OOOOOOOOOFF with her head!’

The cards that surrounded the courtroom all started screaming.

‘Ooooooooh!’

The King of Hearts screamed at the soldiers in correlation to the Queen, ‘You heard what Her Majesty said! Off with her head!’

The soldiers started chasing after the girl when rose bushes sprouted out from the floor and dragged the screaming girl down into the earth. Its thorns pricking her skin and causing her to bleed as it covered her skin bit by bit. Hyacinth flowers blooming in the place she once was.

 

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Yuu woke up with a major headache and a dry mouth.

“What kind of insane bullshit-?”

Yuu cut himself off and stood up from the bed, making his way to the kitchen and grabbing a bottle of sweet tea from the fridge. There was a bag in there filled with some sweet shit and pills.

When did he even-? You know what never mind, Yuu grabbed the Ibuprofen and pain meds before heading back to his room. Laying in bed he unscrewed both caps and grabbed 2-3 from each bottle and swallowed them down with the tea. Putting them away in his bedside drawer he saw the glittery gems from the mines and his knife.

Maybe he should take it with him tomorrow? Nah, not like he’ll actually need it. Yuu threw the covers over him and realized that Grim wasn’t in bed with him. It felt lonely sleeping alone, Yuu doesn’t like it.

 

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Yuu woke up to both Grim and Ace in his room talking.

“Hey, Yuu! Ah, good, you’re already up!” Grim jumped onto the bed and fell onto Yuu’s stomach.

Ace had a stern look on his face, “Today’s the big duel! Let’s Do this thing.”

Yuu looked out the window and groaned, “Dude, it’s barely sun out and shit, why the fuck do I have to get up for this?” Yuu felt like bawling his eyes out right now, he felt nauseous to all seven circles of hell and woke up with a, probably nausea induced, headache.

It’s a lot better than the one from last night but still.

Ace grabbed the blanket off of Yuu and practically yelled at him. “Get UP!”

Yuu groaned again.

Had Yuu looked in the corner of his room he probably would have seen hyacinth flowers blooming in the corner of his room with a single red rose blooming in the middle.

 

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Yuu felt dead inside after he threw up earlier that morning, the three boys looked at him in worry but also seemed to be rather anxious themselves, minus Grim. He just looked worried and annoyed.

Walking through the rose maze, Yuu overheard noise from the other students.

“Did you hear? They say someone’s challenged Housewarden Rosehearts to a duel!”

“Riddle Rosehearts? Seriously?! Whoever it is has gotta be outta his mind. Riddle will have his head off in five seconds flat.”

“Still, it’s the first challenge since Rosehearts took power. I’m pumped!”

Listening closer he could hear Cate, was his name Cate? Whatever, he heard Cate talking to someone.

“You’re saying Ace and Deuce are challenging Riddle for the housewarden’s seat?!”

Yuu found the main area and decided to part from Ace and Deuce, waving he went towards Cate and… Trey.

“Please tell me you’re kidding.” Cate looked all worked up when talking to Trey. Sneaking up on them he heard Trey speak.

“I tried to stop ‘em.”

“Of all the stupid ideas… I just hope this doesn’t make everything worse.”

Yuu, who was carrying Grim in his arms, (sue him he was cold) decided to interrupt their little worry cycle.

“Yo!”

Trey and Cate- Cater! Trey and Cater jumped in surprise at the sudden voice coming from directly behind Cater.

“You two good?” Yuu tilted his head and watched as both boys calmed down.

It was Trey who spoke first, “When did you get here? And where are those two Idi- I mean our Adeuce pair.”

Yuu hummed, “Got here just right now, as for Ace and Deuce, they’re waiting at the front of the entrance for the headmage.”

Cater laughed, which sounded fake as fuck if you asked Yuu, “So… do you know what was going through your fellow freshmen’s tiny little brains when they decided to challenge the housewarden?”

It seemed like a question, but it really wasn’t one, Cater seemed a bit on edge and his smiled seemed a bit strained.

“Ah, to be honest I don’t really remember much of yesterday, but I’m pretty sure the headmage goaded them into challenging Riddle.” Yuu kept coming up with blanks when he tried to remember what happened the day before.

Trey sighed while Cater just looked defeated. Yuu figured thinking about yesterday wasn’t gonna do much and just decided to take out his phone to record and prepare to see his fellow freshmen get their absolute asses handed to them.

 

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“We are about to commence two challenges for the housewarden position if Heartslabyul House.” Crowley spoke to the crowd of students without particular care.

“The first challenger is Ace Trappola. The second challenger is Deuce Spade.”

Ace and Deuce stood next to each other while Riddle stood across from them a good 7-10 feet away.

“The current housewarden they had challenged is Riddle Rosehearts.”

Yuu was recording the whole scene and was also maybe taking screenshots of Riddle in his housewarden outfit for safekeeping. Sue him alright, he was super cute and Yuu LOVES cute things with a burning passion. Why do you think he kept Grim, Ace, and Deuce around. It’s because they’re all really fucking cute in their own way and Yuu LIVES for it.

“Now, in accordance with the duel rules, please remove the magic-sealing collars as they would provide an unfair disadvantage.”

Yuu snickered at the absolute mess that Ace and Deuce were about to get into.

With the wave or his scepter, Riddle got rid of the collars, a scowl on his face at the annoyance that was his dorms freshman.

“Ah! FINALLY, the dumb collar is off!” Ace and Deuce both collectively sighed in relief.

Riddle smiled while looking down on the pitiful fools, “Enjoy your moments of freedom. The collar will be back on soon enough.”

Yuu kept himself from squealing over how adorable Riddle was. Like a little doll manufactured for the simple task of looking cute atop your shelf. Ahhh, if only he could take Riddle away for safe keeping, the world was a dangerous place after all. And what safer place in the house besides her bedroom.

“I could hardly believe it when I heard you two intended to duel me.” Riddle suddenly wiped the smile on his face, appearing more serious and albeit annoyed.

“Is this a joke?” Yuu took more pictures of the boy, all while still recording.

Ace and Deuce both looked mad, “Do i look like I’m joking?”

Deuce scoffed before adding on to Ace, “I’d never propose a duel as a joke.”

If they were both serious, then Riddle supposed he couldn’t be too mad over the sudden duel, if only annoyed. However he’d soon put those boys on the right track, for their own good of course.

“Hmph. Have it your way. Let us get this over with.”

Cater and Trey had left him amidst the crowd when Riddle first showed up.

“Uh, Riddle, what do you want to do about today’s afternoon tea?” Cater had interjected himself into the conversation, seeing as it was approaching tea time, and sevens forbid Riddle misses tea time. Then they’d all loose their heads.

Now had Riddle been a sassy person he probably would have rolled his eyes and scoffed at the question, however he was a rule abiding upright young man, thus he didn’t.

He did however cross his arms while looking down on the boy (despite his short height), “A foolish question. You know the rules stipulate I take my tea every day at 4 p.m. sharp.”

Cater laughed a little and pulled out his phone, quickly turning it on. “It’s just that it’s already past 3:30….”

“And you fear that I will be late? All the more reason to end this promptly.”

Looking back at the trouble makers, Riddle appeared more serious, bringing his arm up and lightly touching his chest in declaration. Please that shits so extra I love it.

Yuu took multiple pictures of that.

“It appears I have little time to waste. Rather than facing my opponents in succession, I will take on both at once.”

The other dorm members began yelling, “You can do it, Housewarden! Knock ‘em dead, sir!” If you ask Yuu, it seemed rather rehearsed in his opinion, but then again what did he know.

Trey looked at the scene and shook his head.

Deuce, Grim, and Ace all looked mad at the scene. That little punk ass bitch Grim left me after Cater and Trey left, little brat.

“Cowards.” Deuce looked at the boys who had yelled out praise to the housewarden.

“Myah. I got a bad feelin’ about this.” Grim looked out of place as he really only reached the other boys knee’s.

“Hey, at least we got a plan!” Poor little Ace and his belief that he’ll actually be able to best Riddle Rosehearts. Maybe had he underwent the same childhood that Riddle went through then maybe he would have been able to best him, or maybe he’d have become more of a rebel in return. Who knows.

“Headmage, please give us the signal.”

“When the mirror I’ve thrown shatters upon the ground, that is your signal to begin. Ready… G-!”

Yuu smacked the mirror out of the crows hand and watched as it breaks on the floor. The crow man stared at him in disbelief while Yuu refused to look at the man, instead choosing to scream amongst the crowd.

“GO RIDDLE!!! I LOVE YOU!♡♡♡” Yuu had cupped one of his hands before he started screaming, something about him thinking that it makes him louder? I don’t know.

The students around Yuu looked at him like he was a total freak, which real I guess, cause he is.

The battle however was short lived, which was kind of anticlimactic if you asked Yuu but what could you do really?

“OFF WITH YOUR HEADS!”

And like that, the collars where on their throats again before they could even cast their first spell.

“KYAAAAAAAGH! You’re so cool Riddle!!!” Yuu screamed with enthusiasm, causing a few of the beast-men students nearby to cover their ears. Even that crow of a principal twitched.

“Bwaaaaah!”

Ace reached up at his throat, the pressure hurting his neck as the collar was tighter compared to the one from before.

“Urrrgh… Not again. I didn’t even have time to finish my spell!”

Deuce himself felt like he couldn’t breath quite right with that damn collar on, “He shut us down like it was nothing…”

Yuu however started absolutely loosing it in the crowd and couldn’t stop himself from laughing.

“Visualization is key to spell casting. The better you are at accurately visualizing your magic’s effect, the stronger and more precise it will be.” Crowley, ever the little helper had explained to Yuu, despite the fact that he didn’t care nor ask.

“It would appear Mr. Rosehearts has finely honed his magic.”

Grim looked on the verge of tears, “Myah… They didn’t stand a chance.”

Riddle looked smug over the easy win, “Hmph. You didn’t even last five seconds. That was all you had, and still you thought to challenge me? You must be utterly humiliated.” Oh, damn. I mean like, preach I guess.

“I guess my mother was right. A man who cannot follow rules is a man who cannot achieve anything.” Fuck is he going on about???

“Tch… We agree that rules should be followed but forcing others to follow nonsensical rules like the ones you’ve enacted is tyranny!” Awww, there goes Deuce with his little hero speech. I love him♡.

Riddle’s smile seemed to stretch across his face while he glared at the boys in front of him.

“Then you agree that breaking rules is wrong. And in this dorm, I AM the rules.” We love an adorable tyrant, slay king.

Riddle by then had started frowning, which was bad because if he frowned to much then he might develop wrinkles early. Which is a big no-no in Yuu’s book.

“Therefore, those who cannot abide by my decisions deserve not the heads they use to complain!”

Yuu however was a good friend, a nice one even, so even when he’s acting as camera man he’ll still scream at the top of his lungs.

“Yeah but those collars kinda hurt! Ace has bruises and shit around his neck and they’ve only been on him for like 2-3 days! So can’t you just like, not collar them for minor offenses?!” Plus punishing people by putting collars on them is kinda kinky, which Yuu did not sign up for.

Oh shit-

“I am the one who decides what is wrong and right!” Riddle glared over at Yuu before getting that stupidly adorable smug smile on his face.

“What sort of pitiful education have you received, that you cannot follow such simple rules? Clearly, you don’t were born to parents with no great magical capability. And as a result… You lack even the basic education necessary to attend a school such as this. It’s quite sad.”

Yuu practically choked on his own spit while Deuce glared at the red-headed boy, “Bitch excuse me-!?

“You little…”

“YOU SHUT YOUR SPOILED LITTLE MOUTH!”

“Wh-what…?”

….. oh- oh my god. Riddle just got socked in the fuckin’ face by-

“Riddle?!”

“Mr. Rosehearts?!”

Yuu couldn’t believe his eyes. Yuu covered his mouth, trying to hold in the giggles spilling from his lips and failing.

My god, Ace Trappola the man you are.

Trey and Cater fretted over Riddle as Crowley made his way over to him. A big bruise is sure to bloom on his face.

“Whoa! He just punched the housewarden…!” A group of students screamed amongst the crowd.

Yuu walked over to where Ace, Deuce and, Grim were standing. Laughter practically falling from his mouth uncontrollably.

“Bam! Right across the face!” Grim exclaimed with a glimmer in his eyes, meanwhile Deuce seemed surprised and caught off guard.

“A-Ace?!”

Once besides the two, Yuu decides to shout at his favorite ginger.

“I LOVE YOU ACE! Beat his ass!!!” Phone in hand still recording, he made sure to get plenty of photo’s.

Ace however didn’t seemed to care much besides standing over Riddle while the smaller boy held his cheek, red blooming across it.

“That’s all I can take. Forget Riddle. Forget the duel. I’m done.”

Tears welled up in the smaller boys eyes’, “That hurt! You… p-punched me?!”

Ace however only clicked his tongue over the scene, “Kids aren’t trophies for their parents to flaunt. And the accomplishments of a child aren’t determined by the worth of their parents.” Huh, was not expecting that from Ace. But sick nonetheless.

“It’s not your parents’ fault you became a tyrant -or anyone else’s.” Oh, he’s still going.

“You’ve been here a year and haven’t even made a friend who will tell you you’re outta line. And that’s on you.”

Riddle glared at the boy with all the anger in the world. “What are you even talking about?” Yeah, no that’s kinda real.

“Yeah, maybe you had some rigid upbringing from a relentless helicopter-mom. Is that all you are? An extension of her? Can’t you think for yourself?” Oh, damn. When I said beat his ass I meant physically, not metaphorically.

“You call yourself the “red sovereign”? You’re just a baby who’s good at magic.” Oh, never mind that shit sucked, I take back what I said Ace.

“Baby…? Did you just call me a “baby”?!” Seriously? You’re seriously mad over that?

“You don’t know anything about me! You don’t know anything about anything!” We know about your shitty childhood. Does that count?

Ace turned his head and rolled his eyes and spoke with a lazy tone. “Nope, sure don’t. And I don’t need to. Your attitude tells me all I need to know- that you’re nothing but a spoiled brat!” Someone’s clearly never head of the cycle of abuse, that’s for damn sure.

Riddle had long heard enough by now, ignorant, naïve brat just don’t understand. No matter how hard he makes them try. “Shut up, shut up, shut UP! My mother was right! And that means I’m right too!”

Trey who was besides the boy tried to calm him down.

“Riddle, calm down. The duel is already over.”

Even Crowley seemed serious for once, “Mr. Clover is correct. The challenger has been disqualified due to physical violence. If you do not cease your conflict now, I’ll have you written up for breaking school rules!”

Unknown voices started shouting from the crowd.

“Ace is right, though! I’ve had enough of Riddle!”

“Huh?!”

Riddle felt as something was thrown at his head, a slimy liquid dripping from his head. He reached up to touch it and saw as an eggshell fell to the ground.

Trey looked over as well and was surprised, “An egg?”

Riddle however couldn’t stop looking at the shell on the floor, watching as clear liquid dropped onto it from his head. A dark, filthy, pit encompassed his stomach, as anger and Hate overcame all emotions in him.

“Who did that?” Felt like a whisper to him, that’s not right. He wanted to shout, to scream. “Who threw that egg?!”

The longer the crowd stayed silent, the more anger built up in him. He started feeling fuzzy, and then he saw him. That student who had befriended the freshmen of HIS dorm, recording HIM like this was all one big joke.

Maybe it is, maybe to them it all was one big joke. Maybe it was all planed to bring him down and ruin him. Riddle hates them, he hates them so, so much that it hurts, why can’t they understand that he’s only trying to help them and that this is for their own good.

If everything his mother put him through helped him come this far in life, then why wouldn’t they accept his help as well. What was so different from him and them?

“Heh heh…. Ah ha ha ha! You say YOU’RE fed up?! I’M the one who’s fed up with all of YOU!” What was the point of those grueling hours trying to explain the rules to them. Going over them one-by-one over and over and over and over again. Just for them not to even care in the first place?

“No matter how strict I am,” Ahh, he hates them.

“No matter how many heads I remove,” He really hates them.

“You keep breaking the rules!” He really, really, really Hates them. Each and every single little rule breaker.

“All any of you care about is doing what YOU want to do! If the guilty party won’t come forward, then I’ll pass judgement on all of you!”

He’s doing the right thing.

“Clearly, none of you value your heads!”

He knows he is.

“OFF WITH YOUR HEADS!”

And yet…

“Bwaaah! Let’s get out of here!”

“Urrrgh…”

Students all around were being collared one by one. Each losing their magic and running away.

“Ah ha ha ha! How do you like that, hm?” Riddle stood up from his place on the floor, egg whites still dripping.

“Now no one can do a thing to me! Do you see now? My strict adherence to the rules was clearly the correct path!”

Crowley had began evacuating the students away from the the clearing and into the rose maze. “Cease this improper behavior, Mr. Rosehearts. I expect better from you!”

The words felt like cotton on his ears, he felt more fuzzy, less aware.

“Trey, if he keeps using his spell… This could get ugly, fast!”

Trey knew that, he knew that, of course he knew that, and yet he could barely do a damn thing to stop it.

“Riddle, stop this!”

Ace had backed off near Yuu and Deuce, he scoffed, “Wow, way to totally prove me wrong here, pal! I call you a baby, and you immediately throw a temper tantrum!”

“Retract your comment immediately, or I shall skewer you where you stand!” Who does he think he is?

“No way. I ain’t retractin’ squat.”

WHY THAT LITTLE- “YEEEAAAAARGH!”

“Dude, this is bad! You’ve G-2-G, now!”

How dare he, how dare he, HOW DARE HE!

Riddle didn’t know what he was doing fully, but he did know he was doing the right thing.

“The rose trees! They’re floating!” That cat… who does it think it is showing up here?!

“This is some serious magic!”

His mouth was moving before he could fully process what he was saying.

“Mighty roses, tear this brute to pieces!”

His word was law, his word was absolute, and whatever she said was to happen, then follow he would.

“Cease and desist at once!”

He saw as that outsider screamed, saw as that troublemaker gasped in fear, and he saw as Trey brought his wand against him.

He saw as his rose bushes became nothing more that air and card symbols. Why?

“Nngh?! What just-“

Those two trouble makers were sat on the floor, fear apparent on their faces.

“Huh? I’m still alive? What’s with all these playing cards?”

“All the rose trees turned into cards?”

Why?

He was yelling at him, Trey was yelling at… Him? Why? Why yell at him and not those rule breakers?

“Riddle, stop this right now!”

“Wait, is that Trey’s “Paint the Roses”?! But… how?!”

Is he not my friend? If he is then why is he taking their side and not mine?

“All the magic-sealin’ collars are gone!”

“What did I tell you? My magic can overwrite characteristics for a short time.”

Was mother right after all?

“So I used it to make “Riddle’s magic” into “my magic.””

Even when I went against her he still…

“You can do that? That’s some kinda loophole!”

His world was crumbling.

“N-no… Off with their heads!”

It wasn’t working.

“I SAID, off with their heads!”

Was she right after all?

“Riddle, stop. Can’t you see how you look right now?”

No…

“He… He was really gonna do it!”

“He is completely out of control.”

“He’s like some kinda monster!”

Of course she was right.

“What?”

She’s always right.

“Was my magic overwritten by yours? Does that mean your signature spell is stronger than mine?!”

He feels like crying. All that work gone to waste all because he chose to not follow a single rule.

“Of course it doesn’t. Riddle, take a deep breath and listen to us.”

Mother was right about him, and yet….

“Are YOU going to tell me that I’m wrong too? After all I’ve done to protect the rule of law?!”

And yet…

“Do you know how much I’ve suffered for this?! I… I refuse to believe this!” Tears fell down his face, as it twisted in anger.

“Cease immediately, Mr. Rosehearts! Any further attempt to use magic will leave your magestone completely tainted with blot!”

“But… I’m right! I’M the one who’s right! There is NO! POSSIBLE! ALTERNATIVE!”

“RIDDLE, STOP!”

Why… does it hurt so much? Mother… tell me what to do. What should I do to make everything stop hurting…

Chapter Text

What the fuck…. What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!????

“But… I’m right! I’M the one who’s right! There is NO! POSSIBLE! ALTERNATIVE!”

Yuu stared in disbelief, the so called Teapot-Tyrant was having the biggest crash out of the century. All he could do was watch as the boy was consumed.

“RIDDLE, STOP!”

He was being consumed, it was consuming him. The pretty ink was consuming the boy as it flowed from his own body to do so. Yuu watched, phone forgotten in hand still recording.

Lips stretching in a wide smile, blood was rushing to his face. His heart was pumping the hardest its ever had before, it felt like he had just run a marathon.

The red-headed boy became as pale as a corpse, his eyes a gleaming red, so deep and so pretty. Yuu wants them.

His outfit was practically ripped to shreds, with a petticoat that was half red and the other side stained in ink. Even the white roses that outlined his hips were being stained in it. The playing cards that wrapped around like hoops also seemed to be dripping ink.

It was covering him up and it was moving. Moving down his arms, his hands, his fingers. They were practically gloves for the young man.

It even seemed to materialize into a solid, creating a circle around the boy that looked like a heart. Oh! It even covered his neck as a heart lined choker, it he was so pretty like this.

His once golden crown disappeared in the ink, dripping from his head to his eye to formulate a design that reminded Yuu of a tattoo in a way.

“Heh heh heh… AH HA HA HA!”

As his mouth moved, Yuu realized that there was even ink covering his lips.

His voice was distorted it was beautiful it was horrifying. Anger clouded the housewardens face.

“You are fools to defy me! You are not welcome in my world.”

Is he even breathing anymore? Yuu can’t tell anymore, their body felt like static. He was hearing and feeling everything all at once and he loved it.

“In my world, I am law. I am order made manifest! The only response I will accept from you is ‘Yes, Housewarden Riddle.’”

The boy waved his arm and gestured towards the students causing some of the ink to fly off of him and onto the green grass. The ink started making its way back to him… it’s alive?

“All who defy me will lose their heads! Ah ha ha ha ha!” His voice was distorted as well, was it the ink?

In the distance, Yuu could hear as the headmage began to complain and weep.

“Dear me, what have I done? I’ve allowed a student to overblot in my presence!”

Yuu looked at his hand, should he continue to record or not? With the way that crow was crying about Riddle and his… ‘overblot’ he could definitely use this against him for some cash. Maybe threaten to take it to the news if he didn’t pay for his silence.

But what about Riddle? What about Riddle? You barely know the damn kid so who gives a flying fuck about how it affects him!?

“‘Overblot’? What does that mean?!”

Is the video footage enough right now? He has the fight down, when he tried to kill a kid, the breakdown, and the whole transformation. So it should be fine, right? Right. Wait no, I need that Crow in it and not just his voice.

Yuu turned the camera towards the headmage and started walking over to him.

“Overblot is a dangerous condition that mages must avoid at all costs. At the moment, he is overcome by negative energy, and has lost control of his magic and emotions.”

Yuu quickly ended the video when he noticed the headmage look over, exiting out and going to his music playlist before waving with the phone in his hand, showing the screen and what he was on.

Whether the damn crow noticed him recording or not would take some time before he tried ‘speaking’ to him in private.

“Okay, sure… but what does that mean?” Grimes little trident tail started puffing up a bit while his ears seemed to burn a little bit brighter than normal.

“Please explain!” Deuce had recovered from the shock of almost being killed it seemed, lucky him.

Yuu scrolled and clicked on a song he hasn’t listened to in a while, starting off with a guitar solo, one of his favorite parts.

Cay-something interjected, fear evident in his eyes yet his face barely showed any.

“To put it in layman’s terms, he’s in evil berserker mode!”… Evil berserker mode… I didn’t get sent to some mmorpg game did I?

Yuu looked around at the atmosphere and noticed that most of the smaller objects where floating, including dirt and grass off the floor, he hadn’t realized it immediately but he himself felt lighter than usual.

“If he keeps releasing magical energy, we could be looking at a loss of life here - his included.”

The green haired boy spoke up after, not that Yuu was paying much attention.

“Uh, WHAT?!” Grim screeched.

“The well-being of my students is my top priority. Therefore, I must evacuate them immediately.”

“As for Mr. Rosehearts, we must restore his consciousness before his magical energy runs dry. For as bad as loosing him would be, there are scenarios that are far worse…” The old man looked down at his hands in worry and contemplation before looking back at the other students.

[Standing where I should be]

Yuu however had his eyes only on one person, and that my dear friends was Riddle, I dub thee with mommy issues, Rosehearts.

[Believing as I’m told to believe]

“Listen well: I need all of you to seek help from the other housewardens and members of the faculty.”

[Being who I should be]

Yuu saw a stark orange from the corner of his right eye before it moved in front of him and started screaming.

“Hiiiyah! Take that!”

[Doing what I should do]

A wind spell was thrown both at Riddle and the ghastly beast behind him, although it doesn’t seem to have done much damage.

“Huh?!” Yuu heard screaming as he himself went to the side building in the gardens to try and find something, anything useful in there.

[Did you hear what I said?]

“I summon thee, cauldron!” Deuce shot off a cauldron towards the ink monsters head, only for Riddle to shoot off a flora spell at it, roots from the ground suddenly grew and blocked both himself and the monster before quickly withering away in nothing.

“Myah?!” Using what core strength and best imagination he had, Grim shot off a fireball the size of a large pumpkin.

[Did you get what I mean?]

“What do you fools think you’re doing?” Riddle screamed at his idiot card soldiers, to attack their own queen is the same as wishing for their own demise. Idiot boys.

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As Yuu was searching through the shed he found something that might actually be useful for him, a wide grin spread over the boys face.

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“Um, hello?!” Cater stared in disbelief as his underclassman attacked his, currently overblotting, housewarden with attacks so weak that it was damn near laughable if the situation wasn’t so fucked.

“911? We’ve got an idiot emergency!”

[What you saw is an illusion]

“You DID hear that part about how reeeal bad things are happenin’ with him, right?!” Grim screeched at the top of his lungs before shooting off another fireball at that damn thing. With him being an all legs he’s a lot faster than he usually is, so any incoming attacks he quickly jumps to the side before shooting off another fireball.

“That’s why we need to stop him now!” Fireballs reigned down on them forcing them to disburse, less they catch fire themselves. Grass catching on fire before quickly dying out.
“I don’t want that on my conscience!”

[You’re living in delusion!]

“And I’m not givin’ up till I hear him say ‘I was wrong and I’m sorry’.” Ace redirected one of the fireballs onto a rosebush nearby.

With his magipen still out, Trey waited for his countdown on his unique magic to be down fully before he could cast it again.

[Going on and on I have the future in my hands]

“All right, let’s do this. I can overwrite his magic for a little longer. In the meantime, do what you can! Headmage, please evacuate the other students!”

During the time they were battling, Crowley had gathered the students and casted a large barrier around them, keeping them out of the fight themselves.

[Getting loose from days I never could get over]

“Wait! This is dangerous!” Crowley had already began making sure the students left the garden, with orders to the seniors to take their injured underclassmen out the maze and to the mirror.

[Going on and on until I’m finally myself]

Cater vigorously nodded his head in agreement, “Are you S-R-heeeee!” Cater quickly dodged out the way as a fireball came straight towards him, his foot caught on a branch and tripped him just as another fireball was hurling right towards his head. Cater looked up and watched as the entire tree caught on fire and quickly moved before any of the branched could fall on him.

[Getting out of this dishonest world I never wanted]

“We can’t beat Riddle!” Cater felt doomed at the moment, he looked over and watched as his underclassmen dodged and kept firing their own magic and Riddle.

[Now is the time]

Ace backed off slightly, cooling himself down so he didn’t tire himself out entirely in just the first ten minutes. “So what, you’re not even gonna fight unless you KNOW you can win?” Ace quickly redirected a fireball away from Deuce before it hit him.

Grim was blown back a bit as he shot off one of his larger fireballs at the monster, “Don’t be such a weakass!”

[Now is the time]

Deuce summoned a cauldron and with the help of Ace targeted it at the monsters head, that thing however dodged, however sluggish it was, and so it only managed it knick it on the side of its head instead.

“It’s either we fight him or he dies! What do you prefer?!

Trey used his unique magic once more, momentarily stopping all magical attacks, “I Can’t lose Riddle! There’s too much that I still want to talk about with him, what I haven’t said to him!”

[Ask me if you’re anxious]

Just then a fast moving object came out the bushed right besides the ink monster, running towards it through an object that felt like it was hurling towards it at light speed. Hitting it’s object which was the glass head filled with ink. The figure then ran past Riddle as the monster tried grabbing it, not before hitting the smaller boy, in his confusion, square in the shoulder.

[I’ll give you all the answers]

A loud snap was heard from the others in the courtyard as the figure ran back towards them. “K-Kyaaaagghhhhh!” Riddle hunched over in pain as the monster tried covering him with it’s hands.

Laughing all the while like a damn maniac, “Holy shit you guys, did you see it, fucked up his arm real nice and good!” Yuu came running towards them with a large metal mallet in his hands.

[Truth or dare - it’s your choice]

“Yuu, what the hell!?” Ace screamed in surprise. Grim shot off another fireball at the monster before talking to his human, “Henchman, where’d you even come from? And where’d you get the giant hammer from!”

Trey starred in worry while Cater starred on in disbelief. “There’s a shit ton of metal mallets in the shed so I grabbed a few.” Deuce recuperated himself while Ace took charge in attacking since he got to rest a bit.

[Your truth is what you wish for]

Cater however finally made up his mind and groaned in misery, “Ugh, I do NOT like and subscribe to this, but fine!” He got up off the floor before shooting off his own magic at that damn monster as well.

Crowley who watched the whole thing played out for reassured, “I’ll be back as soon as I’ve gotten the rest of the students to safety. Stand firm until then!” The students who decided to stay behind and watch the fight were quickly forced to retreat by the headmage.

[Who am I to tell you that the future’s in your hands?]

Riddle glared at them with blazing hatred, tear streaks all the more evident as it stained his face with an inky black. “Such defiance, from every last one of you! I shall take all your heads!”

Trey couldn’t help but worry, even as his life was on the line, for Riddle. “Riddle’s body can’t take much more of this! We need to stop him before it’s too late!” Tree’s were being thrown at them as that monster realized its host could no longer protect them with its magic.

[Set me free from lies and cold deception, I’m so scared]

Cater could feel tears prick at his eyes once he realized Trey’s unique magic had worn off and he was once again being forced to dodge, in a moment of brilliance however he realized that Riddle was being specific about where his spells were going, like he was aiming for them specifically. Cater grinned, even if he was scared to all hell, he’d come out of this alive.

”I am him and he is them. Split Card.”

[Going on and on across the land, across the time]

Around thirty clones appeared near Cater and started scattering around calling out for Riddle and damn near dying in the process, still, with so many targets being aimed at there’s bound to be open spaces on the damn thing for the other boys to attack it at.

Yuu went back into hiding with his mallets and waited for Trey’s unique magic to activate once again.

[Going on to see, to feel, to breath, I’ve always wanted]

Riddle felt his anger exploding as his garden was being ruined more and more by these rebellious card soldiers of his. Some of his fireballs soon started taking the shapes of spears, less strong yet faster. The quicker he puts them in their place the faster he can get everything back in order.

[Sleepless nights I’m spending]

Ace realized he was running on thin air, so instead of outright attacking the thing himself he started partnering up with Deuce and Grim, pushing a cauldron out faster here, strengthening a fire there, and on occasion blowing a fireball away from his fellow first years and seniors. He so did not sign up for this.

[Counting all the words that broke my heart]

Cater focused distractions while Trey focused more on making his unique magic last as long as he could before he was forced to be put on cool down and dodging.

[I’m leaving all my past here]

When Trey’s unique magic was activated Yuu would come out of hiding and would get as close to the beast as possible before throwing a mallet at its head as hard as he could before running away again hiding, waiting for it to forget about him before doing the same thing again.

[Then I’ll see the world for sure]

Grim stuck to dodging and shooting off fireballs at the monsters head just before either Deuce or Yuu were going to throw something at it.

By now at least a quarter of Caters clones had been slaughtered, and he himself was running himself thin with the constant spells and unique magic running rampant, he was getting sloppier, his clones were getting sloppier. By the sevens this needed to end, it needed to end fast or he might really loose his life here.

[Going on and on I have the future in my hands]

Deuce was thriving, his blood was pumping and the heat of the battle kept him going. However even he had his limits, and the number of cauldrons he was summoning were starting to slow down.

[Getting loose from days I never could get over]

Trey didn’t know how much longer he could keep this up, he can’t keep going full stop with his unique magic and praying it lasts just a little longer, just a second more. Even with all his praying the time between his unique magic working is getting shorter and shorter and it’s taking longer before he can even use it again.

[Going on and on until I’m finally myself]

Yuu stared at the boys as they were starting to run ragged, he had to do something, he had to be quick, he had too or it’d all be lost and they’ll all die. Fuck, what to do, what to do, what to do,what todo, what todo,whattodo,whattodo,whattodowhattodowhattodowhatto-

Yuu ran over to Ace, Deuce, and Grim. “Yo! I got something-

 

[Getting out of this dishonest world I never wanted]

The boys nodded, staying back for a bit waiting. Yuu ran towards the bushes with Grim following and on the other side ran to where the monster would be in front of. It’s fine, this’ll work, it’ll work and this’ll all be over…. Oh fuck we’re all gonna die.

[Now is the time]

The other two boys rushed off to their seniors and informed them of Yuu’s plan, and by the Gods they hoped this worked. They stuck to dodging until Trey could get his unique magic working while grim spent the whole time heating the mallet up with his flames.

[Now is the time]

Once Trey’s unique mage got itself working, Cater used whatever remaining magic he had to make as many more clones as he could before making them all rush towards Riddle and the monster, climbing on top of each other to try and hold both of them still. Riddle was an easy case, it was the blot monster that he had to worry more about.

[Chase after time]

Deuce and Ace likewise used their remaining magic and their own attacks, Deuce summoning his largest cauldron and sending it off towards the beast and Ace using his winds to force it to a speed so fast he thinks it might break the sound barrier. When it hit, there was a loud sound of cracking before it started falling back.

Just then Yuu positioned himself under its falling body where the head would be, and with his own hot as hell metal mallet, swung as hard as he could and cracked the head in completely destroying the jar head. Glass came at him with such a ferocity that they left multiple cuts on him, the ink then getting in his wounds.

[Chase after time]

Riddle turned around once Cater’s clones finally disappeared, despair swallowing him up. “I…. Was I truly wrong? Has my whole life been nothing but lies? Mother…” Yuu watched as the ink started swallowing up the smaller boy and quickly ran over to try and grab him. Only for him to get pulled in as well.

 

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Yuu stared into nothingness, he looked around and came up with nothing but black. Which I guess makes sense seeing as he was pulled into ink. While looking around he found a certain area that started looking brighter and ran towards it.

He ran, and ran, and kept running until the pitch blackness became wallpaper and wooden floors. The more he walked the more he saw, pictures, paintings, awards. Then he came across a dining table with a beautiful red headed woman and a much smaller red headed boy.

It was Riddle, and based on the similar looks his mother as well.

“Happy eighth birthday, Riddle.” She sounded happy, excited even for her son’s birthday. Had a nice and kind smile and everything. So what went wrong?

They couldn’t see me, Yuu walked up to them and waved in front of both their faces. Yuu walked towards the windows to see if he could see outside, but when he tried all he saw was the black nothingness again.

“This year’s birthday cake is a low-sugar recipe made with nuts and lecithin-rich soy flour to improve your cerebral function.”

Riddle’s smile however looked pinched, compared to the woman’s, he himself looked less happy that it was his birthday.

“Thank you. But, Mom… Just once, I’d like to try one of those tarts covered with bright-red strawberries…”

The woman’s brows pinched together as she stared in disappointment at the boy for having asked such a question.

“Absolutely not! Those tarts are monstrously unhealthy. I might as well feed you poison!” She was a rather soft spoken person, with the way things seemed with Riddle and his shitty childhood, you thought that his mother would be some raging bitch who would scream and yell at even the slightest offense. Maybe throw a dish there, a well thrown glass cup there, and an insane amount of guilting and gaslighting.

“Even just a single slice would exceed your recommended daily intake of sugar.” The disappointed look then shifted back into a smile and a light hearted stare.

“Now, dinner tonight will be a tuna sauté rich in DHA and omega-3 fatty acids. Now that you’re eight, your caloric intake should be…” she sounded contemplative and yet almost scared? Weird but ok.

“It should be 600 kilocalories per meal, so don’t eat more than 100 grams of it. Understood?” 600 per meal? I thought the average intake per meal for eight year olds was 250 to 330 per meal..? Damn those classes for lying to me.

Riddle seemed a bit down however at the swift rejection but still nodded his head with the same pinched smile, “Yes, Mom.”

For some reason Yuu started to feel a deep longing for something, which was weird cause he doesn’t want anything right now?

Yuu blinked and he swore he saw some fancy little bakery with strawberry tarts in the window. Damn, he’s like super craving them right now.

Tiny Riddle was seated in a desk with multiple worksheets filled out in front of him. Riddle’s mother stared at them with a certain satisfaction.

“That’s enough classical magic study for today. Your homework is to read the first fifty pages of the philosophy of language book referenced in today’s magical philosophy texts.” Hot damn! Fifty pages???

“You may now have one hour of independent study before your potionology lesson.”

Riddle nodded his head, “Thank you, Mother.” Yuu could feel a pit form in his stomach and for some reason felt a certain dissatisfaction for something, for what though he couldn’t be sure.

“I need some time to prepare the lesson materials. I will see you in one hour, okay?” She gave him a quick kiss on the forehead before making her way out the room.

He didn’t know how to feel, Yuu felt happy for some reason but also a dissatisfaction for something. Is he feeling what Riddle feels?

Some time passed and Yuu watched as Riddle worked, all of a sudden he heard knocking on the window. Yuu felt as some sort of curiosity built up in him.

“…Is someone knocking on the window?” Riddle opened the window and Yuu heard voices from the other side. “Whoa, he heard us!” With Riddles curiosity building up in him, Yuu decided to take a look at who was outside. Walking over he saw two children. A green headed child and purple headed one with cat-ears. Wait a damn minute isn’t that-

 

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Yuu blinked multiple times before consciously realizing that he was awake. He was supposed to remember something but he can’t remember what it was. Not like that’s anything new.

“-Yuu! Over here buddy.” Yuu looked over and saw Ace and Deuce kneeling beside him with Grime on top of him. Ace held three fingers in front of his face.

“Yo, how many fingers am I holding up.” Yuu slapped his hand before sitting up himself and rubbing his neck.

“I just knocked out real quick from shock. I don’t got a damn concussion.”

Yuu looked around at the shit show of a garden, more things burned and broken then not. Yuu looked over to the two boys at his side and noticed how tired and sluggish they both were.

“You two good? Not on the verge of dying or overblotting yourself, yeah?” Yuu smiled a bit as both shook their heads.

“We’re fine, just thoroughly exhausted.” Deuce smiled as well at the realization that his friend was alright.

“Riiiiidle!” Yuu looked over at Trey, who was holding the small red-headed boy. Riddle woke up with a jolt, “Gah!”

Ace glared at the boy with a hint of humor to his words, “He’s back!” Cater sighed in what seemed to be relief.

“Well, it’s about time… we were just about losin’ out heads over here - figure of speech sorry - ‘cause we thought you might never wake up!” Yeah he’s not sorry bout that mix up of words.

Riddle was left gasping as his memories were both slipping from his mind and coming to him one at a time.

“…What in the world happened…?”

Crowley who….?! When the fuck did that bird get here???

“Ah, Mr. Rosehearts appears to have regained consciousness. Excellent.”

Trey, who was still beside the boy, spoke to him in a soft tone, “Don’t worry, Riddle. Just try to rest.”

Yuu watched as Ace’s eye twitched before the boy started complaining, “Yo, that’s just the sort of coddling that led to him going nuts in the first place! Now the garden is torn up from the floor up, not to mention that we could’ve died!”

“He’s right. It was looking bad for a while there.” Deuce couldn’t help but agree.

Grim sighed and crossed his arms, “For cryin’ out loud. When you humans let that stress build up, the results sure ain’t pretty.”

Yuu watched as tears pricked the corner of Riddle’s eyes, “The truth is, I…” Riddle tried pushing himself up from the floor before screaming out in pain.

“A-Aaaargh!” Trey quickly grabbed the boy before he could fall to the ground, worry all the more evident in his eyes. “Riddle?!”

Riddle groaned while the other boys stared in confusion, “M-my shoulder, I think something may have damaged it.” His shoulder? What on earth..?

Flashbacks of Yuu running wild with a mallet and hitting Riddle with it quickly flashed through the other boy’s minds. When Yuu himself remembered it he coughed in his hand awkwardly and turned his head the other way to look at the burnt trees.

“That may have been my bad… sorry.”

“What on…?” Riddle himself was confused but figured his memories would come to him later about it.

The crow man sighed and rubbed the side of his head, “Mr. Clover, please take Mr. Rosehearts to the infirmary…” looking at the boys and all the bruises and cuts they had, he sighed dramatically. “Actually how about all you children head to the infirmary while I inform the staff about the happenings of today.”

As they were all walking out the maze, Trey carrying Riddle, Cater leaning against Deuce as his ankle was definitely sprained, Ace and Yuu walking side by side, with Crowley leading the way Grim noticed a shiny rock that smelled especially good on the floor. And well, no one was looking so surely it was fine to eat, right?

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Warm, it’s nice and warm and cozy. Happy, so very, very happy. A tiny baby with barely a speck of red hair was bundled up in blankets with pillows underneath him. It was comfy and warm. The tiny baby opened his eyes and looked.

The room that seemed to be filled with colors fascinated the child, colorful objects spun around high above his head.

It was funny and silly looking, he found himself entertained by them. He felt a little breeze against his face and tried turning his head to see what touched him.

When he saw nothing but floating cloth he turned the other way. There was nothing else in the room with him. Where was she?

The tall one with a soft voice and warm arms. Where is she? Did she get taken? Did she leave?

Tears began to fall from the baby’s eyes, he began to scream and cry for them. The sound of clicking didn’t register to him, but when he felt something warm around him and the weightlessness he knew that they came back for him.

He felt happy, he was safe. Tears dried up and the baby began to babble and giggle to his tall one.

The woman who had the child in his arms had a soft smile on her face, she sat in the rocking chair by the window. Soft breezes blowing against them, she rocked back and forth on the chair and began humming to the child, her child, her baby.

 

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The small child, once a baby, now had a head full of ruby red hair. He had started his crawling phase, curiosity a constant buzz in him as he took in the strange things that lived with him.

He was stuck in one room however, so he had little that he could look at, still it kept him occupied.

More often than not a tall person would be in the room with him. She had red hair just like him, and called herself Mother. The child doesn’t understand what it means, but she made him happy and felt nice and warm. He doesn’t know what it means.

He doesn’t like when she leaves though, it hurts when she leaves. But she leaves him with new stuff. Colorful stuff. Papers with bright colors and objects that keep him occupied.

Sometimes she’ll leave him things that make noise, it’s a very pretty noise. He likes them.

When he first heard it, he was surprised by it and kept turning it over to see how it was making that noise, he never could find it however and just laughed and enjoyed the sound it made.

 

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When he began walking, Mother let him out of the nice room. He was given a different room, she said it would be his bedroom. But he doesn’t want this room, he wants his room. The colorful room with the tiny sliding window that let’s him see outside when he stands on the chair.

He doesn’t want this boring room with little colors and no toys. But when he looks at his Mother she seemed overjoyed. He likes when she’s happy.

There’s more windows in here too, so maybe it isn’t all too bad.

She’s been spending more time with him, reading him things and teaching him letters as well. She doesn’t like when he doesn’t get it right, she looks at him weirdly when he gets it wrong. But I tried really hard to try and remember them.

Maybe he’s doing something wrong. That must be it.

 

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Mother’s given me harder books, she wants me to read all of them by the end of the week. I’ve been asking her questions, but the more I ask the more she gets that weird look on her face again.

What do I do? I don’t understand them, and she doesn’t like that I don’t understand them. She mentioned that she might have to start her classes early if this much is giving me trouble.

Maybe these classes will make everything easier, and she’ll look happier instead when I answer one of her questions.

She said that I still need to read all the books though, I don’t know if I can finish all of them though. Maybe I just need to try harder?

 

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They keep fighting, it’s loud. What’s wrong? Did I do something wrong again? Is that why they’re fighting?

Mother says I’m doing good in my classes though. So maybe it’s something else I did? Maybe I accidentally forgot to do one of my worksheets and Mother found out?

I should go apologize then, Mother said it’s best to always take responsibility for mistakes that a person made, and that they should apologize for every mistake they make.

Creeping slowly out his room and towards the living room, the red-headed boy flinched as he heard something shatter against the floor.

Scared, he’s scared, he doesn’t want to go over, but he has to do it, he did something wrong so he has to go over and apologize. But I’m scared, I don’t want to go over.

He came across the corner separating him from the hallway and the living room, they were yelling and breaking things now and he was too scared to go over.

He peaked into the living room, his parents were crying, why were they crying? They keep mentioning him though, so that must mean he did something wrong. He had to apologize, he has to apologize, he has too or else Papa will leave again and Mama will be sad.

Pushing down his fears Riddle starts taking little steps towards them, his voice barely a whisper “M-Mother I’m-“

Riddle watched as his mother slapped papa, papa was leaving, he was leaving him, leaving him alone with her, don’t go. Please don’t leave me papa.

 

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Riddle Iracebeth Rosehearts, that is my name. Born and raised in the Queendom of Roses, son of Elizebeth Vivaldi Rosehearts belonging to the Rosehearts Barony.

As the only son of my mother who was an only child herself, that means I’m the sole heir to the Rosehearts Barony line. Our line consists of top of the line doctors, lawyer’s, financial officers, and on the rare occasions investment bankers.

And as a son of the Rosehearts family I am expected to make one of those choices for my future occupation as well. The pride and joy of the Rosehearts family is what they call me. The future of the Rosehearts family is ‘bright’ once more they’ll say, how I’m lucky to have been born from such an amazing woman and that she must have given some of her talents to me.

What utter imbecilic foo-

“Riddle, dear.”

Riddle jolted and quickly looked up from the book in his lap to his mother, “Yes, Mom?”

She sighed when she saw the book, yet a warmth stayed in her eyes. She ran her hand through his hair before making a comment. “Reading about our family line once again? I swear you read that book almost every night.”

Riddle felt as his face reddened, embarrassment building up in his chest. It only seemed to build up more when his mother let out a little laugh.

“Come now, there’s no reason to be embarrassed. You should be proud of our lineage. But, that does not mean that you can stay up later past your bedtime just to read it.” She grabbed the book and set it on his desk, how saddening, he wanted to read it a little more.

Riddle watched as his mother made her way to the door and flicked the lights off, “Now, get some sleep dear. You have an early start tomorrow and we can’t be one minute off.”

Riddle buried himself under his blankets, “Yes Mother.”

With those simple words she closed the door, Riddle listened as her heels clacked against the hard wooden floor. He had an early morning tomorrow so he had to sleep or he’d be too tired for his afternoon classes.

 

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“-Magical theory, Geometry, Advanced Lapine, Anatomy, and then potion theory. After going through those lessons we’ll do a test on cutlery etiquette and end the day with animal linguistics.”

Riddle stared at the piles among piles of books, to him it seemed almost never ending. Biting his tongue and smiling, Riddle looked above his mother’s eyes, straight at her forehead. “Of course, mother.”

 

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He doesn’t know when it started, but suddenly he found he couldn’t bear to look his mother in the eyes anymore. The few times he’s tried, fear, shame, and hatred pierced his heart. His stomach churned while a heavy, deep seated stone formed in his stomach.

Heavy and nauseating was what it was. It left him feeling bile in his throat for days. He hated it. Yet he never could bring it in himself to hate her, the cause of all this mess.

Maybe it started when his mother drove his father away, or maybe it was when the workload became so revoltingly large that he’d began to loathe the very idea of another day coming.

Or maybe it started when his only friends had disappeared from his life. Maybe he’d always been like this and maybe he’d just made those friends up. Maybe they never existed in the first place, just figments of a fantasy he wished had happened instead of this.

Maybe…. Oh just maybe none of this was real in the first place. He could practically see it now. A world where his parents loved each other and loved him just as much as he loved them.

They’d let him play and eat as much as he wanted. He’d definitely be taller too, and he’d have a bunch of different clothes to wear. Maybe… just maybe that was his reality and everything that was happening to him now was nothing but a bad dream.

 

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Riddle was studying the needed material when he heard knocking on his window, they were here!, Riddle walked over towards the window. ‘Did a bird hit the window?’

Opening it he saw a young boy with the greenest hair he’s ever seen. “Wh- he heard us!?” The green haired boy practically jumped out of his skin when Riddle opened the window. Riddle however was in a state of shock, this was the first time he’s ever seen other children so up close that weren’t introduced by his mother.

A head appeared right in front of him. With deep purple hair and cat ears, the head had a sly smile on his face. “Hey, hey! Come play with us!”

“Waugh!?” This was the first time Riddle’s ever seen something like this. His heart was practically bumping out of his chest. “W-who’re you two…?”

The rest of the heads body appeared, a young beastman wearing a stripped long sleeve with overalls over it, and red trainers*. With a wide grin and sly eyes, the boy introduced himself.

“My name’s Chenya,” and pointing to the other boy, with green haired and glasses, “And this is Trey.” What silly names those were

Trey was wearing a jumper* with faded blue jeans, he was smiling at him, he seemed nice. Chenya was shouting and had his arms up in the air, “Let’s play croquet!” Riddle tilted his head, he thinks he’s heard of it before, but he can’t remember where.

Rummaging through his overalls, Chenya grabbed a circular object before throwing it at Riddle. Caught off guard, Riddle instinctually held his hands open to catch it, only to see the cutest hedgehog he’s ever seen. Well he’d actually never seen one in real life before that day but still, he’d seen plenty of pictures of hedgehogs to know them upon sight.

“A hedgehog…?” Riddle was openly gaping at the little thing, it was just so adorable after all. Chenya snickered, “He wants to play with you too.”

Riddle wanted to play with them, he wants to so, so bad. He looked back at his desk where his notebook and potion theory book was out. “But, I… I can’t. It’s my independent study time, and I have to focus.”

“That means you get to choose what you study, right?” Riddle looked back at the purple haired boy, he was relaxed and seemed happy. “My gramps say’s that playing is basically a kind of study.”

Riddle had never heard of that before, his mother had never mentioned such a thing before, but how he longs for those words to be true.

“Play… is learning?”

The other boy had spoke, Trey was walking to him now, “Want to come down and join us for a little bit?” Riddle looked down at the hedgehog that was now sitting on his ledge and then looked back at his desk.

He wants to go and play with them, but he has to study. He wants to though, he really, really wants to go with them.

“J-just for a little bit, then.” Trey reached his hand out to him, “Mind if I ask for your name?” Riddle was hesitant to grab his hand, “R-Riddle.” In a stroke of bravery he quickly grabbed Trey’s hand, “Riddle Rosehearts.” He should have known better than to grab his hand

 

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“Riddle, is there anything you want to tell me?” The sound of cutlery scratching against the plates was the only sound that accompanied the older woman. Her face was completely devoid of emotion as her gaze pierced him. He wished he could just crawl into a hole and wither away in there.

“No, nothing that I can think of.” I did everything I was supposed to, I studied from day till dawn, not to mention I got complete hundreds on all the tests that she gave me, so what in Twisted Wonderland have I done this time?

“I won’t get mad dear, you can tell me.” She was getting impatient, he could tell just from her voice. But he had no clue on what he did wrong. Riddle tried to think upon his schedule and what he did this week but only came up with blanks.

Riddle looked up from his plate, her brows were creasing, he was taking too long to answer. He doesn’t know what he did wrong though, what is he supposed to tell her when he can’t even come up with an answer himself?

’One little slice can’t hurt!’

’Now me? I wannya scarf down a whole tart’

Riddle’s eyes widened, memories flowing back to his mind, a dream that feels more like a fantasy now.

“….A couple days ago I accidentally fell asleep when I was supposed to be studying.” Riddle supposed he was meant to feel shame now, but quite frankly he found that in the moment he couldn’t bring himself to care enough to feel anything.

Looking up he saw his mother gain this satisfied glow on her face, “Now dear, was it truly that hard for you to fess up?” Her smile dropped. “But honestly Riddle, you’re already 13, there should be no reason for you to ignore your studies just to laze around and sleep.”

Riddle gave a small nod, “I know mother. I’m sorry mother.” He felt utterly drained, like someone had carved him out completely and put him back together.

Riddle’s mother smiled again, going back to eating as if nothing had happened in the first place.

 

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Noise, chatter, random bouts of laughter from the many people in this hideous reception room.

He was dressed in a rather stuffy outfit with the color palate being black and red.

https://pin.it/4MXvuKIXZ (Imma be so fr rn I did not wanna give a whole description for his fit so just imagine that but with red, get rid of the tights and boots and imagine knee high socks and loafers. Hella unprofessional fanfic writer of me to cut in at random but again, did not wanna try and describe that fit.)

Riddle was off somewhere in the corner of the room trying to blend in with the wallpaper, he utterly despised these types of outings. The people there either tiptoed around each other while commenting on any filth they could of the other, disguising it with some flowery language that his mother made him learn for him to read between the lines on what was truly a complement and what was an insult.

And if they weren’t insulting you they were sucking up to you like a leech would with blood. Clingy, disgusting little things that would push, and push until they deemed themselves good in the other persons eyes, then they would find their next target to flatter up until they found their next ticket to some high society ball.

Riddle watched as his mother was somewhat crowded with leeches of her own. Making small talk about what that doctor did and which patient she saved from deaths door. It was the same every time, he doesn’t understand how she never gets tired of it.

In the corner of his eye he saw one of the waiter approach him with drinks, he grabbed one and set the waiter off on their way. Taking a sip, a bitter taste filled his mouth. Riddle’s nose scrunched up in disgust.

Walking over to one of the tables he placed the drink down before making his way outside towards the back. There were people there as well but significantly less than inside. There people sat at tables surrounded by gardens and fairy lights.

He walked past them, into the garden, deep into a maze. He stopped at a lone tree, near it was a rather large and deep hole. He tried looking in but couldn’t see a thing.

He scoffed before sitting down on the other side of the tree. He was tired, another thing he never liked about these outings were how long they ran, usually to 1 or 2 in the morning. His mother would stay until some time after midnight.

And every time he’d be forced to stay up past his mandated bed time. He was drowsy, and his eyes felt heavier and heavier at each passing second. He’ll close his eyes for a second, then he’ll head back inside, only a second.

 

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Riddle was in a big green field. He was with Trey and Chenya. He was having so much fun playing with them.

They were playing football, but rather quickly Riddle found that he couldn’t keep up running with them, so they settled for kicking the ball around between the three of them instead of using the makeshift goals.

Things I didn’t know, and even games I’d never even known existed before. They both taught me a great deal.

Riddle remembers the first time he tried to climb a tree, or those time Trey, Chenya, and him played old maid. They always seemed to win, but it was fun, the funnest thing he’s ever done.

When Riddle heard the knocking, he’d look over and see the two of them. Over and over again he’d sneak out to play with them.

Today they were playing like normal, but Riddle still got tired rather quickly so they took a short break with Riddle sitting down on a nearby bench.

He doesn’t remember how the conversation had come up, just that it did.

“Whaaaaat? You’ve nyever tried a strawberry tart before?” Chenya was sitting right on top of the back of the bench, how the boy didn’t fall off is something Riddle couldn’t quite figure out.

Riddle shook his head, “Nope. My mother says they’re bad for you.”

“I mean, you probably shouldn’t eat too much of it, but…. You know, my family runs a cake shop. Let’s get one right now!” Trey was grinning at Riddle.

At the mention of a cake shop, Riddle can only really think of one.

“Cake shop…? The one with the green roof over the store windows?” Riddle remembers only that one, the big words ‘Patisserie Clover’ in the middle of the clear glass window. With an equally big four-leafed clover in the middle of the two words.

Trey chuckled, “Already know it, huh… But yes, that’s the one.”

“The tarts at Trey’s are the cat’s meow!” Chenya had a lazy grin, eyes shaped like crescent moons.

‘That heaping excess of sugar might as well be poison!’

Riddle flinched, he swore his mother was just behind him, standing tall, with her eye brows furrowed.

“Uhm… But, I-“

Trey looked at him confused but still with a big smile on his face and held out his hand for the boy to grab, “C’mon, one little slice can’t hurt!”

Chenya was licking his lips on anticipation, “Now me? I wannya scarf down a whole tart!”

The image of a large, sparkling, strawberry jeweled tart practically shone in Riddle’s mind. He was practically salivating over it just from the thought of it alone. Both chenya and Trey suddenly grabbed the boy by a different hand and pulled him up.

“WAH-“

They both laughed as they practically started dragging Riddle behind them, “Let’s go!”

 

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Riddle stood in the middle of the shop, staring at what seemed to be hundreds of deserts around him. Mini tarts with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and peaches filling them. Chocolate cakes with intricate designs. Cakes covered in pure white frosting with pretty shaped strawberries on top of them.

Riddle swears to the seven that he could practically call this shop a museum of beauty.

A woman standing behind the counter looked at the boy with surprise. “Goodness! Isn’t that Mrs. Rosehearts…?”

A man holding a baking sheet greeted the boy, “welcome!”

Riddle jolted back to reality, “E-Excuse my intrusion!” Riddle heard the sound of a door creaking open, he turned around to see Trey going through a door. “Come on in.”

Before Riddle knew it, he was sitting at a table right next to Chenya, Riddle looked to his right and saw a desk with many pictures of Trey and, who he presumed, to be his family.

The door was wide open, and from the other side he heard voices.

“Who is it? Chenya?”

“Heeeey! Cut me a slice too!”

Two childish voices who Riddle assumed were Trey’s younger siblings.

“Just go back to your rooms, guys! I’ll cut you some later!” Trey sounded annoyed, he walked into the room somehow carrying three plates. Each with a strawberry tart placed right in the middle.

“Sorry for all the noise.” Trey huffed in annoyance. Chenya however was already reaching over the table, trying to grab himself a slice.

“Were those your siblings?” Trey nodded his head, “Yeah.” Placing the plates on the table, he gave one to both boys. “Sorry for the wait.”

Riddle looked down at it, a bright-red strawberry tart on a pure white plate. It was practically sparkling, like the brightest jewel he’d ever seen.

Riddle grabbed his fork and plunged it straight into the glistening red strawberry, he brought the fork to his mouth and without thinking he quickly shoved it in. Worry and stress quickly faded from the boy as he chewed on the sweetest strawberry he’s ever tasted before.

The first bite was so sweet and delicious, he’s never had anything like this before. With each bite the red-headed boy stopped caring so much about everything, and with everything being forgotten also came the time he was supposed to be back at his desk, studying some other boring subject.

He should’ve known that this was how things were going to end, he never should’ve gotten his hopes up in the first place.

 

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“Unbelievable! Not only did you abandon your studies, you were eating a mountain of sugar as well!”

Riddle felt shame and embarrassment well up in him. His mother turned to the window, looking over he saw Trey and Chenya outside the gates peeking over at him.

“Those two are what must have led you astray. There will be no more playing with those terrible influences ever again!” Riddle felt his whole world crumble under a second with those few words.

Riddle quickly grabbed onto his mother’s waist coat, tears filling his eyes. “I’m sorry mother! It won’t happen again, so please!” His mother turned around, her face contorted into anger and fear. Her eyes began to water.

“Be quiet! You broke the rules, and now you’re paying for it.” She goes over to the window and closed it shut. “Honestly! Do you even know how scared I was!? I come into your room and your window is wide open and you’re no where in sight!” She turned to look at the boy, Riddle felt his throat start to close up. For the first time in his life, Riddle see’s as his mother begins to cry.

“When I didn’t see you in your room I checked each and every other room in this building! I kept yelling for you and I received no answer!” She fell to her knees and hugged Riddle close to her, “You idiot boy! I thought that someone had taken you from me, that they kidnapped you and were doing sevens know’s what to you! Do you have any idea at all as to how I felt!? Do you?!”

Riddle felt tears start to fall down his very own face, “I’m sorry mother. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you. I’m sorry. Sorry. I’m sorry.”

He doesn’t know how many times he apologized that day, he didn’t want to make his mom sad, but he also didn’t want to be separated from his friends. All he knows was that by the end of the day, his throat was so sore that he couldn’t even speak, and that he’d never be able to see his friends ever again.

 

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Dinner was a silent affair once more, he was accepted into Night Raven College, as expected. He was leaving tonight, all his things were properly organized and he was fully dressed.

Once finished, the boy stood up from his spot and began making his way to the front door where his belongings were. He heard the sound of a chair scraping against hard wood floor before he heard the sound of his mother speaking.

“Riddle.”

Upon hearing his name, the boy turned around to face his mother. He was expecting many things to happen in this moment, expecting his mother to give him a talking too about proper behavior, about constant contact with her, to not cause any trouble, and so on. However instead of any of that happening he was instead thrown in an unexpected situation.

His mother had hugged him. Riddle could name all the times his mother had hugged him, the reason being was that she almost never hugged him. Kisses on the forehead, sure, a pat on the back or even a pat on the head, were decently normal. However as far as Riddle could remember, his mother had never really hugged him.

Maybe when he was a toddler, or the time she thought someone had kidnapped him. The number of times his mother had hugged him could be counted with one hand. Two now he supposes.

“I expect weekly calls and daily messages. You will tell me how your day is over text and at the end of the week I will call you. Every Saturday at exactly 7:30. Is that clear.”

Riddle opened his mouth and then closed it, mind a bit scrambled at his mother as she finally stopped hugging him.

“Yes mother, we’re clear.”

The woman nodded before turning her back on him and making her way to the dining room. Picking up the dishes and then making her way to the kitchen. Riddle took that as his cue and promptly made his way out the door and outside the gate.

According to the Night Raven College pamphlet, Riddle would have to wait until a horse drawn carriage arrived. When it did he would set his things aside in the carriage and would have to lay himself down into a coffin.

Riddle huffed at the absurdity that was Night Ravens tradition, he could name ten ways another student could get injured just off the top of his head from the carriage ride, twenty if you give him five minutes to think.

After a short time, Riddle could hear the sound of hooves stomping against the street, looking down the street he saw a pair of two beautiful steeds. A pair of what he believed to be Friesian horses.

Riddle closed his eyes and tried to calm his nerves as the stomping got closer and closer. When it stopped he opened his eyes and he knew his chance of freedom was slim to none, even in a place away from her.

 

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“-The team of educators and staff are here to guide, inspire, and support each and every one of you through each step here at Night Raven College. Students are encouraged-“

Riddle watched as a student was being sorted, all around him were boys his age goofing off, making small talk, moving from one place to another. It was disorderly, disorganized. Mother would have his head had he ever acted like that.

Just thinking of it puts him in a terribly bad mood, it was off putting to him that so many people would act in such impish ways despite getting the chance to study at a prestigious institution.

Riddle huffed in annoyance, as he was waiting in line he heard someone next to him hum before feeling a hand upon his head.

Riddle’s eyes widened at the brazen display of behavior and quickly turned to his left to see who would do such a thing. In doing so he saw a rather tall, slouched boy with teal hair and a black streak in his hair. With golden eyes staring at his hand in what seemed to be…. confusion???

“Heyyyy~ that’s weird. It’s red, but it ain’t hot.”

Who…. WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS?!!!!

Riddle didn’t need to even utter the words, fire shot off at the boy before the taller one could say anything, the force of it causing him to shoot off across the room.

Riddle ran after the boy, magic pen in hand when he felt arms rap around him stopping him in place, and against all better judgment he continued to try and push forward.

“Mr. Rosehearts, please calm yourself!”

Riddle heard laughter bouncing across to room, which only further fueled his anger. They thought this was funny did they? Well he’ll show them something funny to laugh at then, after he’s dealt with that miscreant.

 

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He stood before his incompetent upperclassmen, magic pen still in hand as the other had collapsed on the floor out of breath. Students watched on in shock and awe, a first-year student had just beat a third year like it was nothing.

Riddle scoffed at the other, “Honestly, how in the sevens did someone such as you become Housewarden in the first place? No matter how much I try and rap my brain around it, it just doesn’t make any sense what so ever.”

Riddle shook his head and sighed, “Truly, what have the standards fallen to in this school if this is what the upperclassmen are like.”

Crowley coughed awkwardly into his hand, voice somewhat shaky, “C-come now Mr. Rosehearts, such words are unnecessarily harsh.” He looked at the Housewarden, previous Housewarden, before talking in an almost chipper tone.

“Now Mr. Bon, as according to the rules, you will sequentially give up the Queen’s scepter, pack your belongings and vacate the Housewarden bedroom, and hand off any and all work to young Mr. Rosehearts here.”

The young man stared at his upperclassmen, resentment filled his upperclassmen’s face. Riddle couldn’t care less, detestation and abhorrence mattered little in his eyes, he was now the Queen after all. Either follow what the Queen says or be branded as a rule-breaker, Riddle would deal with the card soldiers that break the rules until they have it engraved into their minds on what they could and could not do.

 

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A rose garden with multiple tables surrounded them, tea cups of all kinds laid on top. Porcelain, bone china, stoneware, glass, stainless steel and even plastic existed on each table. Walking and looking into each cup showed a different version of Riddle through the tea that lay inside. Some young while some old, moments where he’s happy and others where he hates. The feeling of bitterness remains though.

17 years worth of memories lies in each mirror, sectioned based off of material, emotion, and tea-type. The porcelain cups contained Pu-erh tea, memories stuck out with the emotions coincided with moments of confidence and brilliance. The bone china contained herbal tea, the delicate moments when he could truly allow himself to relax and be calm were little to none, but nonetheless they were cherished all the same.

The stoneware teacups contained green tea, in moments of sickness and in health they say, his most resilient moments await in those teacups. The glass teacups contained white tea, his purest and most innocent moments of life. Looking into one of them, he saw Riddle as a child playing with the baker boy and his cat beastman of a friend. Some of his more happier memories.

The stainless steal teacups contained black tea, moments of strength and boldness, keeping himself together in his hardest moments. Then again Riddle was always rather durable no matter the situation. And finally the plastic teacups. An inky black liquid filled each one memories that he wishes he could dispose of filled with his hate, rage, and anguish. Emotions that he’s deemed filthy and tainted are stored in those teacups.

Emotions that he meant to dispose of, yet there they all sat, along the rest of the teacups filled with everything that made Riddle himself into the young man he is today. The sound of a teacup subtly hitting against porcelain caught your attention.

Turning around to see all the tables vanished except one, table clear except for a single tea-set. Riddle sat tall in the plush red seat on the other side of the table, you walked over to the table and found that your side had a porcelain teacup as well.

“It’s rather rude to go exploring another person’s life without so much as their consent.” The red headed boy narrowed his eyes at him, although the stare was rather light. Riddle picked up the tea pot laid in the middle of the table and filled up his own cup with tea, what came out was herbal tea; rose if we’re being specific. In the blink of an eye the teacup went from porcelain to bone china instead.

You sit down on a small white stool that was opposite to Riddle. A small quirk of the lips and an airy chuckle came from your lips, “Well, I suppose it’s our life now. I have lived through each second of each day of your life after all.”

Picking up the teapot yourself, you poured yourself a cup of tea to find blot coming out filling your now plastic teacup almost to the brim. Setting it down you bring the teacup into the air, “To a lovely new start for our lovely Rose-Princess, Riddle Iracebeth Rosehearts, Cheers!” You tilt your head upwards and down it all as quick as you can.

The boy before you starts to giggle, which then becomes full on laughter, “Yes, I suppose you are right, to the lovely beginning of us now becoming Riddle Iracebeth Rosehearts.” The ground beneath you starts to crack as you see the other boy bring his own teacup up himself. Just before you fall through you see his lips move, the ground swallows you up as the words protruded from his lips, black encompasses you fully and the cool earth pulls you into a deep slumber.

 

“Cheers!”

 

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Eyes open up to a stone white roof, looking from side to side revealed cream colored curtains. The room was quiet, Riddle he was in the nurse’s room. Yuu pushed himself up slightly and winced before falling back on the bed, arms failing him in moments of weakness.

Yuu sighed, patting his sides revealed his phone missing and given that there was no desk or stool near him showed that it wasn’t near him either. Meaning the nurse has his phone and he was stuck.

The beds weren’t that uncomfortable and honestly he was still kind of tired, however he had classes to attend too, and he’d rather not be kicked out of this shitty place and left homeless wandering the streets.

The curtains were drawn open suddenly and light filtered in causing Yuu to squint at the sudden intrusion of light. There stood Crewel in all his black and white with a touch of red glory. The man’s eyes widened, “You’re awake?”

“Considering I went to sleep just the night before, yes, I am now awake.” Being awake for a bit let the boy regain some of his strength, he pushed himself up slightly and sat up on the bed.

The man raised his eyebrow before deciding that he’d rather not deal with a child with an attitude, he simply decided to make his next words quick and simple, “You’ve been out for the past two days, it’s currently your fourth period right now. By all accounts your body shut down after strenuous periods of stress and was left to recuperate it by some unknown process.”

Yuu slowly nodded his head, “…Right, I’m just saying, rather vague but that’s ok I guess.”

“I’ve tried using magic to check your condition and even had the younger Shroud check your condition puppy, however it seems whatever magic you possess refused both checks and blocked out any and all scans. Paw.” The gloves hand grabbed something from his coat pocket before thrusting up before the boy. Yuu put his hand out underneath the gloved one and was excited at the sudden appearance of candy.

Unwrapping one and plopping it into his mouth was a bland tasting candy, not exactly bitter but also not sweet with a false strawberry flavor.

“Take the rest of the day rest or go to class, it’s entirely up to you.” The man then stalked off to do who knows what.

“… Hey wait, my phone.”

 

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Phone securely in hand, Yuu spent the rest of the day in the nurses office periodically reading, scrolling through TikTok, and playing whatever game he had downloaded on his phone.

“-Ha, Billete, Ha, Billete. Hyahahahah!” Yuu had been watching the same video on repeat for at least ten times all for one man, my beautiful bitch Qin Shi Huang. Yuu quickly turned into the pillow and started squealing. “He’s so bad! God one chance, PLEASE!” Yuu started hitting the bed with left hand while holding on to the pillow with his right hand, airing out girlish giggles and squeals.

Yuu heard footsteps get louder the closer they got to his area and before he knew if it a fatty little cat was on his back laying on him, “Hey! Henchman, what the hell was that with leaving me alone with those losers for the past two days?!” The tiny thing was swatting at Yuu’s back with its paws.

“Grim, get off him!” Deuce picked Grim up only to get swatted away by the dire beast, “Hey, hey, hey! Watch your fucking language cat, who the hell said you could cuss?” Yuu turned around and was looking at the Heartslabyul duo and his little hell beast.

Grim jumped back on the bed and onto Yuu’s lap, promptly trying to swat his face. “Uh, dude pretty sure he got it from you. Also who the hell are you calling a loser you fatty!” Ace flicked Grim in the head causing the little thing to try and swat Ace with his claws, “Who the hell are you calling fat! You, uh….” Yuu coughed by Grims ears and whispered something causing Grim to brighten up.

“You dumb red-headed bitch!” Ace gasped with a scandalous face, “You dare you little forest mongrel! I’ll have your head for that!” Deuce groaned, “Prefect, please stop teaching Grim to cuss, we already got in trouble multiple times in class cause of it and I’m really not trying to get detention within the first 2 weeks of school.”

Ace and Grim were bickering in the background while Yuu let out a dramatic gasp himself, “Excusé moi!? Why I’d never-“ Deuce’s deadpan stare caused Yuu to start giggling which then turned into laughter. Deuce himself started smiling himself before seeming to realize something, “Oh shi-! I mean, uh- Ace the party!” Ace’s eyes widened at that, “Ah, almost forgot, Aren’t you lucky you woke up today and not a day later prefect.” Ace grabbed Yuu’s wrist and hauled his ass out of bed.

Yuu not having used his legs for the past couple days, almost fell and ate complete and utter shit himself, if not for Deuce helping him. Yuu side eyed Ace, ”Whore.”

“What was that?” Ace glared at Yuu, “What was what?”

“That word you said.”

“I didn’t say anything.” Yuu rolled his eyes.

Grim snickered and jumped up into Yuu’s arms to be carried to the Hearts dorm. Making their way out the nurses office, Ace brought up what Yuu said.

“I clearly heard you say something you lying prick.” Ace scoffed.

Yuu turned to look at Deuce and shook his head, “Do you hear this man? Delusion, I swear.” Ace hit Yuu’s arms before looking over at Deuce as well. “Dude, he’s clearly lying! You heard him say something too, right?” Deuce rubbed his temples, “Keep me, the fuc- heck out of your arguments.”

Grim looked up at Yuu’s face before looking at Ace and then back to Yuu, he settled onto some decision in that tiny little head of his and looked at Ace a final time, “He called you a whore.”

Yuu pushed the cat forwards away from his chest to stare at the cat in betrayal.

“Grim, what the fuck dude!-“

“Aha! I fuckin’ knew you said something you lying piece-!”

“We’re literally still on campus, we’re gonna get in trouble if you keep-!”

“I feed you and this is how you treat me! You’re own moth-“

“Try and lie again to me you bitch! See what-“

“Why do I even bother with you three? I could be stud-“

“You promised me tuna but passed out like a little bi-“

“What have I ever done-“

“Maybe If I distance myself from them I can become a proper honor-“

“Hey, what the hell! Are you two ignoring-“

The four utter children continued their loud bickering as they made their way out the school and into the hall of mirrors. By the time they got there, most of everything was set up and prepared so they figured they could just go find a seat and be done with it.

Yuu wanted to at the biggest table while Ace wanted to sit far the fuck away from it since that’s where Riddle sat, Deuce didn’t care and just wanted to sit down while Grim tried to scramble out of Yuu’s grip to get to the food.

Yuu won the argument and they sat by the biggest table where they started arguing even more about something mundane that Deuce was rather passionate about, and Yuu being the professional rage baiter that he is kept disagreeing with him and making stuff up while Ace started arguing with Grim. Yuu was cackling, Deuce was red in the face, Ace had a sly smirk on his, while all of Grim’s fur was puffed out in anger.

Hey, whatever happened to my earbuds?

“All hail our leader, the Red Sovereign himself… Housewarden Riddle!”

Oh shi-!

Yuu quickly stood up and grabbed the nearest teapot and poured all four, yes Grim is included, boys tea before setting it down like nothing happened. Ace and Deuce stood up quick as well but slower than Yuu, Grim continued to sit in his chair.

“We salute you, Housewarden Riddle!”

The students around all had nervous smiles on them still but seemed a tad bit more relaxed than when Yuu first saw them at the first party. Riddle walked out in an assortment of whites, black, and red with yellow being the less prominent of the colors. He looks damn adorable I could just eat him up…. Does this count as selfcest…?

“Hm. The garden roses are red, the tablecloths are white… This seems a proper unbirthday indeed.” Yuu spotted a bush of white roses earlier when he walked in but didn’t say anything.

Sitting down in the signature Queens chair, he reached out to a teapot that lay in the middle.“Is there a dormouse asleep in the teapo- Er, well, I suppose it’s fine either way.” Nuh uh, what if it’s awake and starts running around the table? Fucking rodents I swear.

Trey gave a chuckle from behind, “Not everything has to change completely, you know?” Riddle quickly turned to his side to look at the green haired boy.

“Instead of spreading jam on the mouse’s nose, try spreading it on your scone instead.” Trey grabbed a butterknife that was by the jam and spread it on a random scone that was on the table before handing it off to Riddle. “Let’s try setting the bar at ‘It’s great if it’s this way,’ not ‘It must absolutely be this way.’ That’s a good enough goal for right now.”

Riddle looked at the scone and smiled, “Yeah, that makes sense.” Ace, Deuce, and Grim went to go mingle with the two seniors while Yuu stayed at Riddle’s side.

Ace was complaining while Grim was practically drooling over the sweets on top of the table.

“Haah… I can’t believe we got roped into cleaning up the garden again.” Deuce smiled at Ace’s misery, “Well, at least the Housewarden and Prefect recovered without a issue.”

Cater took a quick selfie, an impish look on his face, “And the garden is Magicam-worthy once again! I call that a great success!” Grim was practically in tears at this point at not being allowed to eat, “Ugh, I just wanna eat already! We got no chance to do it last time.”

Cater grabbed a filled teacup from the table and brought a hang up to bring attention to him, “Okay! Get your cups ready for a toast-!” He was cut off by the sounds of a teacup slamming against a porcelain plate, “Wait a moment!” Riddle’s eyes were narrowed on the patch of white roses, “Why are there white roses?”

Ace and Deuce choked on their spit, “We missed one?!” while Cater was panicking, “Who was in charge of painting the roses?! I told you not to miss a single one…!”

Yuu looked at the commotion and looked back to Riddle just as he was about to get up, he quickly poked the boy’s forehead with his index finger and looked at the boy with a lazy glare, causing even more of the students to stop what they were doing from shock.

“Y’know, after risking my life just to keep you alive I would have thought that we were friends. Are we not friends after all, Riddle?” Yuu leaned over towards the boy, getting rather close to his face, Riddle’s eyes widened at the realization before a smile fell upon his lips a tiny giggle making its way, “Yes, of course.”The boy stood up from his chair, “In accordance with Rule. #469; When throwing a party for new friends, one must decorate with both red and white roses. As of today Prefect Yuu will officially become an honorary member of the Heartslabyul dorm! Therefore the Unbirthday party shall officially turn into a welcome party instead.”

Grabbing his magic pen the boy waved it around and white roses started appearing from the mass of red ones.

Well damn, wasn’t actually expecting him to agree with it given that I’ve never actually talked to him before, let’s fucking go!

Everyone sighed from relief before bringing their cups into the air, “All right. Let the party begin!”

The party began and students began to mingle, although practically everyone steered clear from Riddle, it didn’t upset him. He was happy just watching Riddle kept a smile on his face.

Yuu poked Riddle on his cheek, looking over he raised an eyebrow. “Do you need something Prefect?” Yuu hummed, “No, not particularly. But since we’re friends now I think a formal introduction is in order given that we’ve never actually talked before.” Riddle nodded at this, “I suppose you are right.”

Sticking his hand out for a handshake, Riddle started it off. “My name is Riddle Rosehearts, Housewarden of Heartslabyul and your senior by one year. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” Yuu grabbed his hand, “All my friends call me Yuu, the Prefect who belongs to the Ramshackle dorm. I adore clothes and anything that looks good, I like savory and sweet stuff over spicy and bitter things. And I enjoy reading and listening to music in my free time. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Riddle.”

Riddle nodded his head and quickly let go of the other boy’s hand, “Likewise, I enjoy puzzles and prefer honey over sugar in my tea, I find magical healers to be admirable and I enjoy the smell of freshly baked cakes.”

“Ahhh, that’s so real, cakes right out the oven smell heavenly, although I think I like my tea most when it’s plain. Let’s me truly taste the flavor y’know?” Yuu picked his teacup up and took a quick sniff before drinking some, peach tea is rather tasty

“Truly?” Riddle tilted his head before pouring himself a cup, a full cup of rose tea.

Yuu nodded his head, “Yup, I like peppermint tea a lot, but I think my favorite tea is Earl Grey.”

“Earl Grey is rather palatable, I find that citrus desserts pair rather well with it. Although I usually take mine with sugar, I think it tastes rather well with milk.” The tension that was once in Riddle’s shoulders slowly started to fade as their conversation carried on.

It wasn’t until Ace appeared that they stopped, “Housewarden, whatever happened to that apology tart you promised?”

Riddle scrambled to get something from the table and handed it over, “I made it for you, as I promised I would.” Holding out a box and opening it showed a messy strawberry tart, the custard was falling out on some ends and the tart itself appeared to be darker in some areas. But overall it looked edible.

“Here, this is the strawberry tart, crafted by yours truly.” Riddle looked bashful, super adorable. 10/10 please do it again.

Cater took a picture of it, Grim looked weirded out by it and made a sly comment, “It looks weird and wonky.” Trey crossed his arms and looked at it closely. “Nice! The shape’s a little off, but I can tell you put a lot of effort into the glaze. A fine job for the first time!”

Ace sighed, “Yeah, yeah. How about we actually try it before you start fawning all over it.”

While they were talking Yuu had cut up the tart and was serving them all pieces of it, baring himself and Riddle that is.

“Thank you for the food!” Was a collective sentence the group said before taking a bite.

“Hmm…?

“Ugh…!”

“Salty!”

“Huh?!” Riddle seemed shocked at the outrage from his dorm mates.

“The hell is this?! It’s a full-on salt lick! What did you put in this?!” The boys started eating whatever dessert there was at the table to get the taste out of their mouth. Yuu grabbed a plate that was abandoned and took a bite out of it. The salty-ness was heavy but Yuu kept eating it.

“But I followed the rules perfectly and measured everything by the gram! This reaction should be out of the question!” Riddle tried to think back to when he was cooking before he remembered a certain unlisted ingredient.

“Ah! Unless… could it be from the oyster sauce?”

Deuce was holding his mouth and looked green, “Did you actually use that Walrus-brand oyster sauce Trey joked about…”

“But Trey told me that oyster sauce was an unlisted secret ingredient to all tasty tarts! He said all the finest bakers use it…”

“Who in the three-circles of Hell would believe that! Just think for a second; it’s obvious he’s joking!” Ace’s outrage had hit a certain point and completely exploded.

“You really shouldn’t be talking Ace, your dumbass fell for it too.” Yuu finished his slice of the tart and put the plate down to drink some tea.

“Outsiders should stay outside the conversation!” Yuu flipped Ace off for the statement and finished his tea, deciding to grab a slice of the chocolate mousse cake. Cater showed a face of full exasperation, “Even if you believed the joke, it was only supposed to be a few drops… Just how much did you add?”

“I-I told you it’s an unlisted secret ingredient so the exact quantity wasn’t written down, how was I supposed to know how much to put in when he wouldn’t tell me?!”

“Pfft- Ahahaha!”

Riddle’s entire face was flushed red from embarrassment.

“I can’t believe someone actually fell for my silly oyster sauce joke! Ahahahaha!” Seeing Trey so happy moved something in him, a smile splitting his face. “Ahahaha… yes. Quite silly indeed. I truly am a fool.”

Yuu felt a paw touch his face, looking over, Grim was standing on his hind legs on the table, “Hey, henchman, why does your face look all weird? You’re smiling now but it looks like you’re gonna burst out into tears at any moment.” Yuu reached up and his face. He was indeed smiling.

“Nothing… I’m just… happy, that’s all.” Yuu quickly squashed down whatever he was feeling into whatever tiny box it came out of and hid it away. It left him feeling rather hollow instead.

Grim still looked worried but decided to ignore it and go back to the tart. “Y’know, in its own way it’s actually pretty good.”

“I get that! It’s not bad at all!” Cater took another bite of the tart. Deuce looked at the boy in disgust, “You’re agreeing with Grim, Cater?!” Cater pouted at the way the boy was looking at him. “What’s so bad about that? Yuu at a whole piece too!” Deuce and Ace looked over to Yuu and saw the empty plate near him. “Seriously…?” The look of disgust was aimed at Yuu now instead.

Ace faked a gag, “Ugh, gross.”

Trey’s voice cut the air, “ ‘It’s not sweet, so I like it’, right? Because you hate sweet stuff.”

“….”

“….”

Cater’s smile gaped, “Huh?! How’d you even know that, Trey?”

Trey’s face had a bland smile and a knowing look, “ ‘Cause you always bring up “Doodle Suit” whenever we’re eating sweet stuff.” Trey rubbed his chin, smile turning into a soft smirk. “You hid it pretty well, but… I figured it out when you kept asking for taste changes.”

Yuu took his phone out and snapped a picture of the two boys, Caters face in a furious blush while Trey kept giving the boy a knowing look. Oh they’re def fucking.

The boys continued with their teasing when Yuu saw something purple from the corner of his eye, a purple tail swinging in the air. Looking over, Chenya was in the air enjoying the sweets atop the table.

Walking over to the boy eating, the purple headed cat looked over to see Yuu taking a photo of him. The boy held out a piece of cake on his fork for Yuu, with a lazy grin the boy said, “You want a bite?” Yuu leaned closer to take a bite only for the fork to be taken away, “Well that really is too bad to, cause it’s mine.” Chenya took a big bite of it in front of Yuu, as retaliation Yuu yanked on the boy’s tail before grabbing himself a slice of the cake.

The other boys seemed to notice the commotion however as Chenya had let out a rather noticeable ‘Yeowch’ when Yuu pulled his tail.

“Chenya! Why are you here?!” Riddle was shocked, confusion splaying across his face. Floating over, Chenya took the boys crown. “Well, originally I came to celebrate my unbirthday party, but then it became a welcoming party instead. Happy celebration Riddle.”

Grim looked at the scene from afar with the other boys, “Ah! He’s the weird meow-meow guy!” Yuu nodded in agreement, “Yes, the good-looking ugly guy.” Grim looked up at Yuu, “What dorm is he in again?” Trey overhearing the conversation butted in, “He’s not a student of this school.”

Chenya had put on Riddle’s crown and was floating lazily, “Chenya is a student of our forever rival school magic school: Royal Sword Academy.” Sounds equally as preppy as Night Raven College but who’s asking me?

“A student from another school?!” Grim was shocked at how another student from a different campus could easily enter this school.

“Royal Sword Academy, you say…?” Students from nearby tables all started getting up and slowly started walking near the intruder. “Oops!” Chenya put the crown back on Riddle’s head, “Now that I’ve eaten some sweets, I should see myself out.” Chenya then started floating out of the maze, students hot on his tail.

“Mmhmmhmm~♪”

“Everyone! Go after that Royal Sword Bastard!”

“Don’t let him get away!”

“There’s blood lust in the air.” Grim muttered.

The air was still light with cheer as students realized they were free from tyranny, distantly though, Yuu can’t quite shake the feeling of being watched. Yet no matter where he looked, all he saw were students enjoying the party. Yuu decided to ignore it though, leave it for future him to deal with while he enjoys the party.

 

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“Hey, Leona. How come those Heartslabyul kids get to have parties all the time while we have jack-shit, huh?” A boy with hyena ears and sandy blonde hair looked at the darker skinned man, eyes shining with annoyance and envy.

“Screw off Ruggie, can’t you see I’m napping.” The man groaned, keeping his eyes shut and turning away from the younger. “Well, whatever I guess.” The hyena started cleaning while thinking on what he should swipe from the man. A prince who leaves valuable belongings just lying around is basically asking to have his things stolen, and who was he to deny the natural order of life.

The hyena was walking out the room when a deep voice called out to him. “Ruggie, gather the dorm tomorrow evening in the commons.” The hyena looked back before a sharp smile took his face, “‘Kay.” The boy went back to doing chores while the older man, a lion beastman scoffed.

“Just you wait Malleus.”

Chapter Text

[-think it’s all over

Get up and try again]

Yuu’s day started off with a foul taste in his mouth and blurry eyes, so clearly off to a good start. Yuu grabbed his phone from the bedside table and checked the time, reading 5:23 on the digital clock.

[You’ve got to act your age, darling

Before you fall back in]

Now that Yuu was awake, he wasn’t really vibing with his sleepy time playlist and went to change it to something else. The question though was what to listen to. K-pop, J-pop, rock? He chose K-pop, pushing shuffle; his first song was Gimmie Gimmie.

[Why can’t I run away? (Ah-ah-ah)

Feels like I pulled all-nighters everyday (Ah-ah-ah)]

Yuu found the auto-translate to be a little annoying, they sounded slightly different but it’s whatever I guess. Yuu spent his time scrolling on some manga site to try and find something to read……

{Protect the Fake Saint!}

Fuck it why not.

…

…

“SHE’S A MAN??!”

Yuu looked down as Grim groaned and kicked his leg, still asleep mind you. My bad little bro.

 

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“Y’know he’s actually kinda bad when he looks older.”

 

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“Oh my god??? Who is this emo baddie, I need him so raw. I'm cracking him and I’m not stopping until he’s pregnant.”

 

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“His hair!? Bro why the fuck would they cut it??? He looked so fine with long hair! You chipmunk bitch fuck you!”

 

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“Fuck! What do you mean this is the end??? That was only like 4 chapters.” >:(

Time to go fishing for some more.

 

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“What the fuck is a Negative Love and why is it on one of my tabs? Whatever I’m reading it.”

 

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“Damn they’re lowkey both hella bad.”

 

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“Oh, that's… I'm just gonna pretend like nothing happened.”

 

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Tbh I’m kinda bored now. Yuu switched tabs and tried finding a Black Butler fanfic. Specifically a crossover fanfic of Black Butler and Harry Potter, literally peak trust.
“…Let’s see, Language; English, Exclude Harry potter and Snape relationships. Freaky as fuck, I do not fuck with it. Sebastian and Harry??? What the fuck? Did not know those fanfics existed. Anyways, exclude.”

Rapid tapping and pressing enter left only 186 fanfics ready, “Sweet~♪” scrolling down and choosing random fics to read made time pass faster for Yuu. Madam Red reincarnating as Harry? Bookmarked after reading, rather sad it’s only a one-shot.

Oooooh~♪ Ociel is immortal along with his servants, Undertaker is there with Rciel and struck some kind of deal, and now Sebastians mad that Undertaker screwed him out of a meal and the Queen wants him to deal with a certain criminal, totes reading. Kudos for them.

 

…

 

Booo, can’t find anything else interesting enough to read. Yuu hopped on Tiktok where the doom scrolling commenced. >:)

 

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What the fuck is a lobotomized Kirishima?

 

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Oh my god why is there actually lore??? Insane Iida… Schizophrenic Kaminari? What the fuck.

 

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”Driving in my car right after a beer. Hey that bump is shaped like a deer.” Oh shit, this shits actually kind of fire hol’up. ”DUI how about you die! I’ll go 100 miles an hour.” Yuu stared at his screen which was an animation of Joonghyuk driving after Kim Dokja.

 

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“Is that my goat Lebron James!? Oh I'm busting all over the screen.” Cue to the video of Lebron James x Persona 5 Royal edit.

 

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” -Because I told her to. You find I can be very… persuasive.” Tommy Riddle? What the fuck are you doing here.

[Cause my insides are red

And yours are too

And the red on my face is matching you]

Music filled the air as Yuu stared at his phone hella hard. listening to the music while blanking out– random fanfic scenarios from different anime’s and manhwas flashing through his mind for a good couple of minutes before going back to his phone and scrolling like nothing happened.

 

…

 

What was he doing again? Yuu looked at his phone and saw an edit of Sebastian on his phone, except 20 minutes had passed while he was hard-stuck on the same video without him realizing it and now it was 7. Yuu sighed and got up, getting clothes to take an early morning shower.

When out, he instinctively went to look for face care products only to remember he doesn’t have any. Dark circles were starting to show under his eyes and his face felt a little dry. Brushing his teeth and wiping his face with a towel, Yuu felt a little cleaner, his body felt clean but his face felt bare. Fuck this place and fuck Crowley, on god he’s a bitch.

Yuu wasn’t even wearing the school uniform, he had the pants, button up, and shoes sure— but his button up was dirty from all the damn dirt and the other one had blood on it, not to mention Grim spilled juice on his school pants and those are the only ones Crowley gave him. And honestly those shoes hurt like a bitch when using them for long hours, he doesn’t wanna fucking wear them. Yuu had instead settled for whatever washed up shirt he could find and greyed out sweats when previously picking out his clothes. He didn’t have any socks and the ones he did find had a weird smell to them.

There was a shit ton of old shoes here though, some fucked to hell and others some what good, he managed to get a decent pair of slides from one of the rooms he scavenged out of so that was a plus. Yuu grabbed his phone from the bed, 7:39, school doesn’t start till an hour later so Yuu had an hour to go fuck with Crowley and get a permission note to wear whatever the fuck he wants.

Yuu looked over to Grim who was still cleanly knocked the fuck out and thought it over in his head before heading out the dorm on his own, the air chilling him slightly as he stepped out.

His card soldiers will wake Grimmy up and take him to class, so it should be fine.

 

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Yuu walked around campus like he knew the place, and thank god for living as Riddle cause now he does in fact know the campus…

….Fuck he’s lost.

Yuu looked around at the identical halls and classrooms. “Fuck this school and it’s fuck ass halls. Who the fuck designed this shit?” Yuu went to the nearest window, tried to open it up but struggled for a minute before remembering it’s a latch so it literally pushed out. Then he panics because he thinks it’s gonna fall only to then realize he doesn’t actually give a fuck if he causes school property damage and then proceeds to stick his head out to see where he is vs the Headmages office.
He’s 2 floors under it but on the other side he’s kind of close to it. So that’s nice. Now then soldiers, we march!

 

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Yuu saw the office doors in sight and did a quick turn with the nobs before pushing both doors open with more strength than needed. “Rejoice peasant, for I have graced thou with my lovely presence!” Yuu who did a quick once over of the room and then looked at Crowley saw that the man was trying to hide something in his cabinet drawer. Well he succeeded in hiding it kind of since he doesn’t know what it is, but then again he also saw him in the process of hiding it so does it really count?

“Yuu! Goodness, does patience and courtesy defy you!” Wow, way to distract from whatever porn mag you were reading earlier you creepy old man.
Yuu sat down on the right couch as opposed to the left one, crossing his legs and crossing his arms, he looked over to Crowley with a smile on his face. “I need cash. Oh also I like super need a washing machine and a dryer too, so can you like, write me a note excluding me from the dress code until I get said dryer and washer? Pretty please.”

“I- What?” Crowley looked confused over the situation on how this seemingly homeless child just walked into his own personal office and started demanding money. “Y’know, money.” Bringing one arm up to show his hand rubbing his index finger with his thumb, his other arm promptly thrown back onto the back of the couch. “Some green. But also I have like, no clean clothes whatsoever and I’m like not even sure if the clothes I’m wearing are currently clean either.”

Crowley had his mouth agape like he was still processing what was happening so Yuu decided to have some fun and add fuel to the fire. “I mean you like totally gotta do it anyways since you like totally kidnapped me from home. Which makes the school responsible for me and since you’re like, y’know the one responsible for the school that means you’re responsible to me. Which also means you’re like basically my legal guardian.”

Crowley finally processed what was happening and tried to cut off whatever the younger man was about to spew out next, “Now hold on Mr. Yuu, surely-“ Yuu cut him off, “I’ll tell the whole school that you’re a dead beat dad that refuses to pay child support and are neglecting your one and only son.”

Crowley stared at this child, the audacity to try and blackmail him of all people, “We don’t even look alike! Who would even believe that we’re related?!” Yuu rolled his eyes, “Y’know my hairs dyed right? I could just say that you had some weird situation-ship going on with my human mom and abandoned her the second you found out she was pregnant. Oh! Also do ya think you can like, make me some legal documents? Maybe even a fake paper trail that I’ve lived somewhere my whole life? I’m tryna get a job in town. Ace said there was this sick ass karaoke-bar-cafe thingy that hired students in town. He was all like, ‘Something-something my brother’s a bitch who flaunted his money that he got from working in town’ or some shit like that.”

Yuu mimicked Ace’s voice as he spoke, much to Crowley’s surprise Yuu actually did sound like the red-headed card soldiers. It was a little disturbing if anything.
Crowley held his head in his hands, head ache already forming, “If you’re planning on getting a job then why do you need money from me?” Yuu hummed before getting up and walking over to the man, “Well, you’re the adult so it’s only fair you pay for the necessities of your 16 year old child, I’m just tryna get some extra pocket money for face care and all that, y’know?” The man only groaned and refused to look up.

Yuu however took this as his chance to poke at him continuously, “Crowley, hey Crowley, you there? Crowley, Crowley~♪ hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, old man, bird guy, Mr. Crow, c’mon cough it up, Crowley. Crowley, c’mon just gimmie some cash, Crowley, crow man, principal crow, Mr. Principal Crow? Mr. Principal Headmage Crow, Mr. Crow, Crowley, Crowley, Crowley, Crowley, y’know I’m not just gonna go away if you ignore me right? Crowley, Crowley, Crowley, Crowley, c’mooon already~ Crowley.”

Yuu stopped his antagonizing for a moment to take a deep breath, “DA-!” Crowley quickly covered Yuu’s mouth before he could utter the words. “Ah! Alright, alright! Here just take it and get out of my office already you trouble-some child!” Crowley grabbed his wallet from his coat jacket and tossed a card to him.

What the fuck? Yuu held it in his hands and realized that it was somewhat heavy. “Now shoo! Go!” Yuu looked at his desk and grabbed a sticky note and pen, “I need a note for my clothes, also I don’t know the pin number.” Crowley quickly grabbed the pen and wrote down a couple sentences on it before signing it with his signature with a flourish. “7952, now go.” Yuu took the note and quickly typed the pin number in his notes before he forgot it.

As Yuu made his way out he could hear the bird sobbing, “-never in my entire stay at this school-“ muffled between his hands, Yuu had a bright wide smile on his face. Looking down at the card made him exceptionally happy, the question was though where to put it?

If he was a girl and wore a bra he’d just put it there no problem, except he wasn’t and he was also somewhat prone to losing things. Ehhhhh, I guess the phone case works then. Yuu put the sticky note on his shirt and fished out his phone, struggling to take the case off and slipping it into the back. It left a somewhat wonky shape but it works I guess.

Hmmhmhmmhmmhmmm~ ♪

 

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“Hello~♪ anyone here?” Yuu peaked his head inside the classroom, his homeroom class with Crewel. It was rather empty though, y’know you would think the teacher would be in their own classroom if they left the door unlocked but oh well. Yuu made his way to where they usually sat and grabbed his phone. The time reading 8:04, now then, let’s see what I can do to-

Unknown Number

Who the fuck? Yuu pressed answer and put the phone by his ear, “Yo, who this.” Ace’s voice was on the other line, “Yuu come open your damn door already! We’ve been knocking for damn near 5 minutes already.” Yuu blinked in surprise. “How the fuck do you have my number? I don’t remember giving it to you.”
Yuu from his side of the phone heard a loud bang, “Cater gave it to me, now come open the door before I kick it in!” Cater, Cater is… the other red head who acts as Riddle’s time keeper. Right, right, right.

“The doors open you fucking dumbass, also I’m not at the dorm right now, I’m in class already.” Yuu waited a moment, hearing another loud bang before not hearing anything, “Ace?” Yuu heard background shouting before hearing a different voice on the other end. “Sorry about that Prefect, Ace got his foot stuck in the door and dropped his phone on the floor, anyways what was that you said?”

Foot stuck in the door? How the hell- Yuu’s eyes widened in realization. “DID THAT ASSHOLE BREAK MY FUCKING FRONT DOOR!?? BRO ON GOD YOU GUYS ARE REPAYING ME FOR THAT SHIT. But no, anyways hi Deucey, the front doors unlocked so you guys can just walk in. I’m already at the school so do you think you can get Grim up and take him to school for me?” Yuu heard silence on the end again before distantly hearing Ace shout about something.

“We’ll call you again later, sorry Prefect.” The call hung up and Yuu stared at his phone in annoyance. Yuu added the contact to his phone before going to look for a
manhwa to read.

 

…

 

Yeah he couldn’t find anything, but that’s what TikTok is for, to get recommendations.

 

…

 

{Depths of Malice}

Fuck it why not.

 

…

 

It was under Concentration of Malice, anyways time to read.

 

…

 

“Um, what the helly? It’s literally only the first chapter, why are they getting down and dirty.”

 

…

 

“Yeah! Cut that bitch’s dick off, all pedo’s deserve to have their dick sliced away.”

 

…

 

“Y’know Verta’s actually kinda bad.”

 

…

 

“Oh my god??? It’s only chapter 12 bro, what the fuck are they doi-“ Yuu was cut off by the sound of a door slamming open, looking over stood Ace with cat scratches on his face and a Deuce holding a Grim in his arms like he was a prisoner. “Yo.”

Ace marched over and pointed at his face, “Don’t ‘Yo’ me, look what your fucking cat did!” Yuu stared at it, before looking over at Grim who was sulking. “So I heard you broke my front door, whatever happened to that?” Yuu looked back down at his phone and continued reading, “Wha- I, well-“ Ace couldn’t find anything to say to that, Deuce watching the scene could only sigh.

“Y’know we’re not supposed to be in the classroom when the professors not here, right?” That seemed to break Ace out of his stupor, “Hey wait a minute, what the hell are you even wearing? That’s not the school uniform.” Yuu pointed to the sticky note on his shirt, “Don’t have a washing machine and my clothes are all dirty, so I got Crowley to give me a pass for the next week or so.”

“Is that why you were at school so early?” Deuce looked over Ace’s shoulder to read the note, Yuu hummed in agreement. “Anyways I’m hungry, let’s go get some food.” Yuu stood up from his chair and started heading out of the classroom, “We already ate at our dorm.” Were the words spoken by Ace, who still followed him out despite the words.

“Okay, well then me and Grim can eat-“ Deuce cut him off, “Grim and I.” Yuu turned around, continuing down the hall backwards, “What?” Deuce continued on, “The proper way to say it is ‘Grim and I’ not ‘me and Grim’.” Yuu looked Deuce up and down for a moment. “What the fuck are you, the grammar police?” Ace snorted but quickly covered it up with a cough when Deuce glared at him.

Yuu realized that Grim was in fact not dead and instead sleeping in Deuce’s arms, which thank god I guess. He was a little too quite which scared Yuu for a minute, “Anyways, let’s just hurry up and-“

Ace and Deuce tried to stop him, “Wait, dude stop wal-“

“Prefect stop mov-“

Yuu collided with a sturdy chest, craning his head upwards, he saw a familiar face with bright green hair. Yuu’s eyes widened, “Oh shit, Sebek?” Yuu quickly stepped away from the boy, seeing his serious face made Yuu’s heart thump a bit in his chest. Seriously though, good looking guys are harsh on a weak heart like Yuu’s.
Sebek narrowed his eyes on Yuu and did a once over of the entire group, he grabbed Yuu by his wrist and started dragging him somewhere.

“Uh, sebby? Where are we going?”

Ace and Deuce continued following, “Dude what the fuck? Who just grabs someone out of nowhere?”

“It is rather rude to just drag someone with no explanation whatsoever.”

Yuu waved them off, “It’s fine, it probably has something to do with Mal or Lilia, seeing as they’re the only reason Sebby interacts with me in the first place.” Yuu winced slightly as the other boys grip tightened when mentioning Mal. Whether that’s because it’s Mal that wants him or because he disapproves of the nickname, Yuu had no clue. He did however hear whispers behind him.

”Who the hell is Mal?”

”Why’re you asking me? If anything I should be asking you that, you’ve known him longer than me.”

”Uhh, by like half a day, and besides shouldn’t you be the one to know? He’s the one who claims you’re his favorite or whatever else bullshit he
spouts.”

”He only claims I’m his favorite because you piss him off more, if anyone here’s the favorite it’s Grim!”

Yuu heard his child’s voice, “You lousy humans seem to know your stuff, I am in fact the favorite!” Came a boastful tone.

Yuu turned around and tried to pull out of Sebeks grip, he failed spectacularly. “Grimmy~♪, c’mere baby.” Yuu held his arm out to the little hell cat, Deuce was forced to open his arms as Grim started swatting at it. Once free, the tiny thing jumped into Yuu’s embrace. Yuu brought him close to his chest and started rubbing his cheek against his head, “I missed you.” My precious baby, he’s so adorable I love him.

”M’not a baby.” Yuu finally opened his eyes, feet still moving and seeing the cafeteria doors in sight, “No of course you’re not, you’re my strong little hero.” Yuu started giggling when Grim started swatting at him as well. No claws of course, those are reserved for their resident card soldiers.

It wasn’t until Lilia and the silver one were in sight that Sebek finally let go of Yuu, “Yo! What’s good?” Sebek walked to the table and sat near the silver one all while still glaring at him. Lilia got up from his seat and did a walk around Yuu checking him over, “…Uh, what’s good? You needed me, right?” The smaller man gave a small sigh before a light chuckle befell his lips. “Nothing little one, I simply heard a small rumor regarding your accident with Rosehearts and thought to check you over, that’s all.”

Oh, wow. That’s like, actually super sweet what the fuck? But no being so for real though I barely know you why the fuck are you being so nice to me? Is it cause I’m friends with his like pseudo-son or some shit? Maybe. I mean, that’s the only thing that could really explain it since this sure as hell isn’t home and most of the assholes here are actual pieces of shit or closed off losers like Ace and Deuce. So it’s either he wants something from me or he’s acting nice so he can-

“And that little sleep spell of yours did little to quell my worries young one, I know you said you’d be more comfortable at the Ramshackle dorm but just know that Diasomnia will always welcome you with open arms.” Lillia had a soft smile on his face and was looking at Yuu like he was a little kid or something.

I dunno but it kinda feels like he’s pushing the ‘I’m a responsible adult who wants to be your parent’ thing a little too hard, it feels kinda weird. And not the quirky kind of weird but the step-parent that you just met wants you to call them mom or dad.

Yuu smiled back at him, “That’s really sweet of you Lilia, but trust, I’ll manage with what I have— and I wouldn’t want to bother you guys more than I have.” Got me fucked up if you think I’m dorming with a bunch of assholes again. I’d genuinely rather fucking kill myself then have to sleep at that dorm with all those pretentious pricks, sorry lils but your little parent-that-stepped-up act isn’t gonna do shit to change my mind.

Lillia only nodded, “Well, take care of yourself then.” Yuu gave a hum before grinning at the shorter man, “Of course, anyways I’m gonna go get some food, cya.” Get me the fuck away from these people, I don’t wanna go back to their dorm.

Lillia sat back down and waved Yuu off, when the pink haired boy turned around Ace and Deuce had disappeared. Grim was still in his arms and appeared to be sleeping, looking around he saw the two card soldiers sitting at an empty table and quickly walked over to them.

When he got there he handed Grim off to Deuce, “Yo, hold him for me real quick will ya? I’m gonna get us some food real quick, kay thanks.” Yuu sped off before Deuce could even say anything.

 

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Yuu was leaning against Ace and scrolling through the more explicit side of twitter, reading short stories or looking at pictures of both drawn men and women alike. Yuu wishes he had his notebook, it’s been too long since he’s had the chance to draw.

The bell had rung and Yuu was lazy when it came to putting his phone away in his pocket. In walked in their fashionable, with very questionable teaching methods, professor Crewel. Is this a safe space to say that Yuu doesn’t really like him?

He grabbed a stack of papers from his desk and used magic to spread them all out. One of them was just a regular paper with questions on them and the other was… a testing form sheet with twenty columns listing A to C.

Wait a damn minute, twenty? But there’s only ten on the….

Yuu flipped the page and saw more questions. With a sigh and a face now being placed into his hands, Yuu let out a groan, “I’m killing myself tonight.” Around the classroom students let out their own groans and complaints. A loud smack against the blackboard caught everyone’s attention. “Now listen here puppy’s, we’re doing a surprise pop quiz on this weeks- you.” The man suddenly stopped and walked over to Yuu, “Just what in the seven are you wearing? Do you think yourself above the school rules now that you’ve been named school prefect?” The words were curt and to the point.

“I’m wearing pajamas, It’s cool though I got permission from the principal.” Yuu pointed to the sticky note that he put on the left side of his chest, a bright orange sticky note with cursive writing and a large signature that belonged to their Headmage.

Crewel grabbed it off his shirt and was practically glaring a hole into the sticky note. ”Rude.” The man quickly looked up at him, “What was that pup?” Yuu damn near jumped out of his skin, “Agh-! Nothing professor. Must have been the wind.” The teacher narrowed his eyes at Yuu, “Right…” Distantly Yuu swore he could hear Ace and Deuce holding back laughter.

Crewel looked back down at the note before sneering at it and then giving it back to Yuu, “See me after class.” Can I not? I don’t really like you enough to want to actually chat after class, or really any time outside of class.

Yuu gave the man a bright smile, making sure to slightly squint his eyes, “Sure!” The older man nodded before going back to the front of the class and resumed whatever the hell he was originally gonna say to the class before he got distracted by Yuu’s clothes.

Funny thing Yuu learned that actually turned out to be useful, y’know when people say they can tell when someone’s faking a smile and when they’re not? And that it’s because of their eyes? Well turns out they’re actually very true rumors. Yuu spent quite a bit of time in front of a mirror looking at a few candid pictures of him smiling at something or just laughing and practicing it in a mirror. Mainly for fun, and just because he felt like it y’know?

Oh hey he knows this question, Yuu did a once over of the paper and started filling out the answer sheet. While Yuu may not have the best memory, he is rather good at guesstimating what is or isn’t the answer, that is— so long as he has answers that are right in front of him.

Yuu gave a genuine smile at the paper, easy work as they say, and my— how truly useful Riddle’s memories were when it came to the school work of this world, especially since the boy prized himself in his academic achievements.

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Yuu watched as the other students poured out the door, with Ace and Deuce being last. They tried staying with Yuu, which he’s grateful for, but sadly Crewel shooed them away.

I mean, can you believe this asshole? He even tried to shoo Grim away, my own child! The nerve of this man. >:(((

“So, did ya need anything professor?” Yuu tilted his head like he was interested in what he had to say, knowing damn well he was gonna ignore basically the whole conversation.

“My next class is in 30 minutes.” The man walked back to his desk and started rummaging through his drawers. “Uhuh, right. What about it?” The man pulled out what looked to be body measuring tape and a journal.

Yuu turned to look at Grim- who was sitting on the table watching anime on his phone- before looking back at the man. “It’s an embarrassment for a proud student of Night Raven College to come around walking in those…. Clothes as you called them. So I’ll be taking your measurements for more uniforms.”

…. You’re gonna take my measurements… and make me new clothes when this could all just be solved with a washing machine and dryer? Also you’re a teacher? Why does a teacher need to know my measurements?

“Uuuuuh, sure yeah, why not.” Free clothes I guess. I just hope he doesn’t act freaky about it…

 

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Mission accomplished and clothes are now pending probably in a couple days. Yuu glanced at the late slip in his hand from Mr. Potions man. Now there's no actual time that’s stated when he needs to go back, so he could go back right now technically speaking…. Or he could skip.

“Hey Grimmy.” The tiny hell cat was being held in Yuu’s arms, dozing off as his human carried him like a human child. “Hmmm?” The cat had his face buried in the sweatshirt Yuu had on, nuzzling against it. “D’ya wanna head to history or take a nap in Crowley’s office?” The cat grumbled, no answer explicitly given so Yuu took that as his sign to take a nap.

Now one might wonder why said cat is so tired despite usually acting like a little radioactive battery powered cat at the ass crack of dawn. Well that my friend is because Yuu thought it would be a good idea to watch a game play-through of Resident Evil which spiraled into Grim watching it with him til around 1 but hey, they finished Biohazard, Village, and even got into some CoD zombies lore.

All was good but now they were tired, so off they went to crow man's office and- oh hey, lucky he’s not here right now :).

 

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Fadia…. Oh my precious Fadia, so pretty and sweet, just like your mama. You’re mama’s greatest treasure. You and your sisters need to take care of each other, in a world overrun with nothing but filthy vermin, they’re bound to try and take advantage of you. Make sure to keep yourself safe and your heart hidden, or else they’ll try and eat you whole with nothing but shame and disgust to keep you company.

 

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Yuu woke up to a weight on his stomach and his heart thumping like crazy, it took him a moment to realize where he was, from his phone though he could hear voices.

“-Hello? Any government secrets in here?” Yuu looked at his stomach and saw Grim watching Youtube on his phone, Yuu didn’t have anything else to do so he figured he may as well watch it with him.

“Sekaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.” “...The hell?”

Yuu watched as Hatsune Miku tried hitting Leon with a candle holder…. Oh he’s watching Nylon, real shit.

“Stop that.” “aAAAaaAAAaaaAaaAAaAAaaaaa”

Leon watched as Miku ran away and sighed.
“Listen- you need to come with me.” Miku, who was looking out an old medieval window, shook her head. “NOOOOooooooo I do not want to.” Leon walked over to her and looked out the very same window she was to see a mob of villagers holding torches and pitchforks. “Well, it’s either me- or the chanting spanish mob with torches and pitchforks outside. Take your pick.”

Miku looked at the villagers before looking at Leon and then back to the mob. “HmmmmMMmmm. I choose femboy.” “Alright- you’re on thin ice, ma’am.”

 

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The sound of the door being slammed open cut the two off from watching Youtube, In walked Crowley with a group of students all who happened to be…. The other housewardens. The worst thing about this was that Grim didn’t pause the video and his phone was hired all the way up.

“-Fuck them kids.” “Ahhhgggghh!” “OOoooGh?!” Yuu quickly grabbed his phone and shut it off but by now the damage was done. They were all staring at him and Grim, some with questioning looks and some annoyed. He looked over and saw Riddle and being the good friend he is, he waved at the boy, “Howdy.”.

Crowley was looking at the boy like he was questioning his life choices, “Ah? Prefect Yuu, what are you…? No actually it doesn’t matter, take this and start writing down notes.” Yuu was handed a tablet that was opened up to some notes app, fire ok. Yuu opened his phone again, lowered the volume and gave it back to Grim to continue watching his videos since he was such a wondercat cat dad.

As he sat on the sofa, he noticed that some of the boys were giving him looks but overall ignoring him. Riddle in question was hard staring at him, “Pardon me Headmage but I don’t recall you saying that we would be having more people in this meeting.” Crowley not having expected anyone to actually say anything was surprised. A boy with silver hair and glasses, his name started with an A if Yuu remembers correctly, also seemed to take offense to his presence. Don’t know why, Yuu’s never even talked to the damn kid.

“If you needed someone to take notes over the meeting Headmage, I would have been more than willing should you have compensated me. I hardly see the need to have another Housewarden here when he doesn’t even have a student under his care, no offense um- Yuu was it?”

Yuu narrowed his eyes at the boy, seeming to catch the drift of why the boy was annoyed at Yuu, just as Crowley was going to speak Yuu cut him off. “I was hired recently as a part-time secretary for the Headmage, mainly to help with paperwork and take notes during housewarden meetings such as this, so you don’t have to concern yourself about this matter Mr…. sorry what was your name again?” Yuu tilted his head at the boy, lying through his teeth for who knows what, and smiled as the other boy's eyebrow twitched, “Azul Ashengrotto, a pleasure.” Yuu nodded, “Right. Nice to meet you I guess.”

Crowley coughed into his hand, focusing the attention on himself once more before clapping his hands together, “ That’s right, Prefect Yuu was hired just recently to take care of the more bother- I mean to help me take care of the heavy load of the paperwork so I can focus on more important things.” Yuu looked at the man with disbelief on his face, honestly wasn’t thinking he would go through with the lie but what the hell why not.

“Now, let’s continue with the meeting about the plans for the next few months regarding student behavior and-”

Hey wait a minute, isn’t someone missing? “Why’s there only six Housewardens? Isn’t there supposed to be like, one, two, three, four, seven Housewardens? Where’s the last guy?” Yuu looked them over, counting them one by one again and still only coming up with six. The guy with long hair and cat ears scoffed, Leo- something whatever the fuck his name was Kingscholar, scoffed. Rolling his eyes and words coming out that sounded bitter as hell made his undeniable dislike for the last guy known, “As if that lizard would show up, too high and mighty to deign us lowly mortals with even a second of his time.”

Riddle could only sigh, maybe before the overblot he would have freaked the fuck out about someone being late to a meeting, but now he could only look somewhat resigned in his annoyance while mumbling to himself. “Even when I took the time to let him know the date, time, and even the place he still didn’t show up.”

This seemed to set them all off, mumbling one thing or another about the last Housewarden, Draconia about never showing up for meetings, his condescending attitude, although from what Yuu saw through his memories they all acted like condescending pricks of the highest bitter, except Kalim he supposed and just about picking at any flaw that they could think of.

“Damn my bad I asked, I get it you hate the guy, can we start the meeting now Crowley.” Yuu rolled his eyes and huffed at their antics. Crowley started up again and before Yuu knew it, he was taking notes on probably one of the most boring fucking meeting in all his life. Which isn’t really saying much since he’s never actually done this before but the idea’s still there.

 

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As the final Housewarden left, the only people in the room were Yuu himself, his son Grim, and the Crow. Crowley’s gaze was on him, eyes narrowed and arms crossed like some disappointed parent. “So, just what exactly were you doing in my office Mr. Yuu?” Yuu turned the tablet off and situated Grim in his lap, turning the volume up so he could listen to it better.

Humming in thought, Yuu decided to open his mouth and actually explain in detail how he got there. “So like, y’know how I got you to sign that little note being excused from the uniform for a couple of days, well I guess Mr. Alchemy teacher It’s Crewel, you really should start remembering your fellow Housewardens and your professors name’s. It’s only proper. wasn’t really fucking with my fit and decided I needed to be pulled aside after class to take my measurements and gave me a late slip to history afterwards. But then I got kinda tired and Grim did too so I decided to sleep on your couch. Grim woke up and started watching some videos on Youtube and I decided to join him in that, then you walked in with those fuckers and now we’re here.”

Crowley squinted his eyes, “You got pulled aside to get your measurements taken, and instead of going back to class when you finished, you decided to skip and sleep in my office?” The man said the words slowly, enunciating each word as he spoke like he was talking to a toddler. Yuu just nodded his head, “Pretty much, yeah.”

“....”

“....”

“-What you gonna do??? Cry to your mommy???? Get it!? Cause she’s dead!”

Yuu giggled a bit at that but covered it up with a cough when he realized Crowley was still staring at him.

“Detention tomorrow after school Mr. Yuu.” The man then grabbed the tablet on the couch and walked over to his desk. Yuu clicked his tongue, grabbed his kid, and then started to make his way outside of the room, “Yeah sure, whatever dad.” Crowley choked on his spit, coughing out, “I’m not your-” but sadly the final words were never heard since Yuu firmly closed the wooden doors behind him before another word could be said.

Yuu looked at his phone and realized Ace was calling, grabbing his phone led to Grim throwing a mini-tantrum which Yuu quickly stomped out by threatening to throw the damn cat in the basement without so much as a light. I mean, yeah sure Yuu wasn’t the best cat parent for threatening his kid, but he was the only parent that Grim knows so it’s not like he could say anything about him being a horrible parent. Not to mention this school was filled with horrible people, Yuu was just the dime in a dozen when it came to the fuckers here.

 

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“-Uh dude, what the hell! You totally ditched us, where the hell were you?!” Yuu could hear Deuce trying to calm him down in the background. Yuu rolled his eyes and started to fake a cough, “Sorry man, I don’t know if I ate something bad or something but I ended up feeling hella sick after I left and went to go rest, stayed in the nurses office for a bit and then got saddled with some work from Crowley. You know how it is.” Yuu’s voice was soft and kind of raspy, almost like he really was sick. Why bother lying about this? Had I had it my way, I’d have you beheaded and writing 10,000 lines for skipping and breaking rule #432 Yuu could almost feel himself giggling as the line went silent.

The fuckers on the other end were probably feeling guilty, probably assuming that he almost died again or some shit. Through the phone Yuu could hear Ace scoff, “Dude what’s it with you and almost dying like every week? Whatever, you better not bail on us tomorrow or I’m kicking your ass.” “Dude! You can’t just say that, what if he’s still feeling sick?” “How’s that my problem?! Maybe if he didn’t just eat stuff off the floor he wouldn’t be getting so damn sick all the time.” “But still, It’s rude to just-”

Yuu ended the call, annoyed by their arguing. He put the phone back in his pocket and continued on to his dorm. Surprising all it took to get Grim to go along with his little lie and not say anything was to promise him some food, we I guess it wasn’t that really surprising in the long run given how he acts and how he has the mental age of a little kid, but still.

Yuu took to humming a song as he made his way back to the dorm, using both arms to now carry Grim while a bag hung off his wrist with today’s dinner and tomorrow's breakfast. The sky was darkening and was a beautiful sunset hue or oranges and yellow hue. As he continued humming, the shadows from the trees started curling around the two. Although they both didn’t seem to notice anything, one too distracted to really notice and the other who simply couldn’t care enough about the world around him to bother looking. Even as the young man's own shadow started to grow he didn’t notice.

Yuu saw the dorm in view and couldn’t help but smile, while he truly couldn’t care about the dorm all too much, he’s made it his sanctuary in this unknown world filled with dangers. Opening the door and stepping inside made him feel a strange sense of relief start to sprout from his chest, the tension in his limbs easing, and even that annoying voice that seemed to take up to criticizing him on his uncouth behavior seemed to quiet down.

However once the door shut the gentle glow from the outside seemed to die down, the only sound being the croaks of frogs and the chirping sounds from crickets. The ramshackle dorm was rather secluded after all. Whether one or two people were to suddenly disappear from within the dorm would be something only the previous inhabitants of the dorm would truly know about, just as only they would know about the sudden awakening of a new member that seemed to love following their only human dorm member around.

They’d never tell anyone about it of course, because where would be the fun in that? :)