Back to The Past (Kenji)

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← Previous Work Part 2 of Time traveling!

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Published:: 2025-11-29
Words:: 2,491
Chapters:: 1/1
Kudos:: 29
Bookmarks:: 4
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Summary:

Kenji goes to the past this time!

Notes:

This is also probably cringy but i genuinely hope i was funny enough for this

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

When Kenji heard what happened to Ben, he didn’t think it would happen to him. Now he was in a bed that used to be his.

“Kenji get up!” He hasn’t heard Roxie’s voice in years.

He hopped off the bunk to find Darius and Ben’s bunks empty. The room looked almost nostalgic. The dinosaur themed wallpaper, the decor, even their belongings that he remembers teasing them about it.

Now he just needs to know if they remember what happened with Ben or if this is a clean slate.

He steps outside to see the familiar younger group of people talking in the kitchen. They seemed friendly enough to assume that it’s already been a few days since camp started. It seems like Dave and Roxie left to do something though.

The camp fam turns their head, expecting an egotistical dude with gelled up hair but instead sees…whatever can classify Kenji as of now.

“Uh are you a new counselor or something?” Brooklynn looks skeptical.

“No it’s Kenji.”

Everyone’s face cringed.

“Come on is that hard to believe?” Kenji dig around in his pocket for his phone, “See I still have the pic you sent of us driving to camp?”

When they got back to the mainland and Brooklynn finally managed to get back everything that was on her phone, she had sent all of the videos and pictures to everybody.

The younger camp fam stared at the picture, looking back and forth from the Kenji they knew to the Kenji they didn’t know yet.

“What the fuck?” Yaz has a hand on her hip, scowling. Kenji forgot how much attitude she had.

Meanwhile Ben was red and in disbelief. His big blue eyes stared up at Kenji, trying to understand how this came to be.

Kenji caught sight of the Ben he hasn’t seen in seven years. He’s all small and fragile and still extremely shy. He basically squeals and grabs the boy, squishing their faces together.

“Man I haven’t seen you like this in years!” Kenji nuzzled into Ben, who was having a crisis.

“W-What? What does that mean?” Ben didn’t even try to fight him off.

“Oh dude! You’re like huge now!” Kenji squeals.

He looks through his photo gallery for reference of Ben now.

“Oh not that one, not that one either…”

Kenji swipes through the camera roll, realizing most of his pictures of Ben were either extremely stupid or explicit. His boyfriend’s hot, go figure.

“When did he take this???.” Kenji stumbled on a specific photo he never knew was in his phone.

Kenji’s sleeping in the background behind Ben flexing his bicep, half of his neck in view covered in hickeys.

He definitely isn’t showing this one.

“What the hell is on your phone?” Brooklynns up on the counter, watching Kenji stare at his phone in disbelief.

“Uh nothing don’t worry about it B.”

He finally gets to a picture the fam took together when they got together for Yaz’s birthday. He flipped the phone around and showed the younger group.

Everybody gasps, especially Ben.

“No way!” Ben shrieks.

“He’s gotta be like 6’5” Sammy zooms in onto the picture.

Brooklynn takes the distraction to get a hold of Kenji’s phone. Kenji lets her because what’s she gonna find?

The camp fam all watch behind Brooklynns back as they see pictures of themselves taken years in the future.

“Woah I look cool.” Darius says behind Brooklynns back.

“Okay the Kenjinators gotta go to the bathroom.” Kenji looks around, trying to remember where the bathroom was, because last time he saw this camp, it was rubble.

“Perfect he’s gone.” Brooklynn snickers.

“You’re not gonna go through his phone?” Ben twiddles with his fingers.

“Oh I so am.”

As if something heard her, a notification from “Camp Fam” pops up.

“Ooh! Click that!” Sammy points over Brooklynns shoulder.

11:08

ex-superstar: omg you guys won’t believe what i js found

11:09

big sis yaz: Please tell me it’s that video of Darius getting tipsy

11:09

D: We don’t need to talk about that.

11:10

ex-superstar: it’s better than that actually

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“Aw we’re at the beach! Fun!” Sammy taps on the video for Brooklynn.

The video starts off with a closeup of Ben’s face, a horrible angle taken by Brooklynn.

“Say hi to the camera Benny!” Brooklynn shoves the phone in Ben’s face, who’s laughing.

“B get that out of my face.” Ben shoves the camera away, chuckling.

They were all at the beach. Sammy had a bikini on with a birthday hat so it was probably for her birthday. She waved to the camera as she put sunscreen on Yaz’s back.

“Hey Ben, mind fixing the parasol for B? You know she burns sometimes.” Yaz giggles, reading a magazine.

“Hey! Ben’s always gets red after we got to the beach!” Brooklynn interjects, losing control of her phone for a bit.

“Just fix the umbrella Ben.” Darius comes back with a cooler.

Kenji is seen running towards them with scuba goggles.

“Dudes I found tons of seashells!” Kenji empties the bucket on a towel. He notices Brooklynns filming and sticks his tongue out.

As Ben turns around to go set up the parasol, the younger camp fam watching gasps at the sight of his back. There’s scars. A lot of them. Across his shoulders and back. They’re completely healed but they ran deep and large. Like a wild animal did it.

“What?..” Younger Ben peers closer at the phone.

Yaz pauses it and squints.

“Maybe there was an accident? We can ask Kenji later when he’s back from the bathroom.” Darius shrugs.

“Yea Darius is right. Now let’s go back to watching this, because this is interesting.” Brooklynn presses play again.

Kenji unfreezes and Brooklynn zooms in on his face. He’s shushing her and trying not to giggle. Yaz, Sammy and Darius look clueless, but still watching nonetheless, intrigued.

As Ben was opening up the parasol, facing the back of the crew, Kenji snuck up behind him, raised his palm and landed a smack right on Ben’s ass.

Ben’s ears turn red and he immediately whips around to see a giggling Kenji.

“Really Kenj?”

“What?”

“You know what you did.”

“Nuh uh.”

“Yuh huh.”

“Mm mm.”

Brooklynns voice is heard over the phone, laughing. Sammy’s also laughing, her eyes crinkling as Yaz and Darius looks disappointed but extremely amused.

Before the video can continue, another notification pops up. Brooklynn clicks out of it and checks it.