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”Ooo~ Finally, they restocked them!” You said gleefully, picking up a figure from its respective shelf. You were currently in an anime shop you had gone to two weeks prior with your two friends.
After getting off work you all decided to catch up with each other as you hadn’t hung out in a while.
“Finally restocked what?” Your friend ‘Julie’ asked, setting down the plushie of some other character she was inspecting then walking over to you.
You flipped around and held up the figure so she could see. It was a figure of Akutagawa Ryuunosuke from the hit series Bungou Stray Dogs.
“The BSD merch! I came in here a few weeks ago right after i got paid but they were sold ou—“ ‘Julie’ quickly shoves you aside and slots herself right in front of the shelf. “Move it! I needa find my man!” she barked.
Your other friend ‘Rosie’ just stares at the both of you with an uninterested look.
“This is boring..I can’t find anything that interests me in here.” ‘Rosie’ groaned. “My Hero is in the room over ther—“ without letting you finish she runs off into the room to your right, leaving you and ‘Julie’ to fight over who gets what.
You turn back around and squeeze next to your friend trying to look for more things that speak to you, the Akutagawa figure you picked up is definitely coming back home with you.
Bungou Stray Dogs has been your favorite series ever since you’d found it a few years ago. Atsushi and Akutagawa immediately became your favorite characters, though, every character will always have a special place in your heart. You really can’t thank the internet weebs enough for putting you on to it.
Sometimes you’d wonder what it would be like to live in the world of Bungou Stray Dogs. Sometimes you get a bit too into your thoughts, fantasizing about romancing them, how you could possibly date them, make them fall in love with you, make them become obsessed with you even— but then you’d snap out of your delusions and realise it probably wouldn’t be all that good being in that world..especially without an ability.
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After around twenty minutes of looking and picking out items, all three of you decided you had gotten what you’d came for so you all paid for your respective items and left the store. All you had gotten was a few plushes and figurines of your favs plus a Ranpo keychain that ‘Julie’ tried fighting you tooth and nail for before finding another one. It all added up to two hindered dollars! ..you were thankful you had a nice paying job and extra spending money or else your dad would be on your ass.
”Ahh~ this was fun! Minus getting chocked out for wanting Ranpo merch…” you muttered, side eyeing your friend. “Cough—cough, ‘Julie’…”
“Well..maybe you shouldn’t have tried getting merch of my man, (Name).” She smirked at you.
Rosie scolded “Stop it.” giving both of you a glare. “But yeah, today was great. I missed having fun with you guys, it’s boring being with family all the time.”
”I get that—my sisters are soo annoying!” ‘Julie’ exclaimed. “Just being near you guys lowers my cortisol, and i’m so glad we came here this is the first ever merch i’ve gotten of him” she sighed but started counting the bills in her purse. “But damn it’s expensive as hell..”
You chuckled and you all continued to converse while walking the sidewalk.
You’ve been friends with these two for a few years now after meeting them in high school, first you graduated, then ‘Julie’, and now ‘Rosie’ is on her way too. Meeting them was the absolute best thing that could have ever happened to you, you’ll forever be grateful to them for coming into your life when they did. Going from having zero friends, no social life, and basically being sad all the time to having people that call you just to make sure you’re doing okay and you’re still yourself. They truly are blessings in disguise.
The sound of ‘Julie’s’ stomach growling snaps you out of your sappy memories and you turn to see her rubbing her belly.
”Augh…bro i’m starving, y'all know a place nearby we can eat at?” She grumbled out.
You point across the street “Yeah actually, if we cross over here and keep asking for a few minutes there should be a fast food place right on the corner.” You explain and Rosie presses the stop button to cross sooner.
”I hope they got strawberry lemonade with the chunks, been cravin that.” Rosie said, soon after the light turned red and the few cars there stopped.
You start making your way across first, jogging since you knew the light wouldn’t last that long.
”Light ain’t gonna stay red forever! come on.” You yell at your friends. You then hear the beeping of the stopped car behind you to your left, turning to look at it you hear another louder beep of a semi truck coming from…your right?
”(NAME)!!”
You hear friends scream your name in unison, before you could turn towards anything you’re hit, hard, and then your flying in the air.
Everything feels as though it were going in slow motion, you’re scared, you don’t know what to do, you don’t what you can do..so you close your eyes. When you open them again you’re laying on your back somewhere in the street. You can’t move body not even your head or your fingers, all you can move are your eyes and it hurts to even do that.
Your head is screaming bloody murder and your eyes feel like they might actually be on fire, no matter where you look everything you see is blurry.
”Call the police!”
You can hear people yelling and speaking frantically.
”Oh my god!”
”(name).”
”That poor girl..”
”Poor girl? Her poor friends! Having to witness that…she should have been watching where she was going!”
”(NAme)!”
”Hello? Yes, A young lady was hit by a speedi—..”
”What?! It was a red light- that semi truck was speeding!”
”Downtown on ___ street—..”
”Her head..my god— I can’t look anymore..”
Too many people were speaking at the same time, you could barely make out what anyone was saying. Not to mention your head literally feeling like it was split open or somethin—
“(NAME)! Oh my god!” Someone yelled right into your ear, it was ‘Julie’, she was crying… You look to your right to see ‘Rosie’ there too, she was crying as well. Why were they both crying..and why did they look so scared..? You couldn’t think, your head hurt too much and you were starting to feel incredibly tired, you could barely keep your eyes open.
You mumbled something about being sleeping but you hear someone gasp followed by someone frantically shaking you, probably ‘Rosie’ as she was yelling something now.
She cried out ”Stop! Don’t fall asleep right now— you can’t fall asleep!”
”Can’t keep…eyes open…”
”(Name) please!”
”No (Name) keep them open!”
”I’m sorry…” With one last yell of your name everything goes dark, black even, noises stop all together. You found yourself in some type of void, there was no light, you were just floating there.
Were you…dead? ..It’s sad, you were only 20 years old and had just graduated the year prior. Sure you might have messed up a lot when you were younger and didn’t take things too seriously but…was that really deserving of death?
You wondered how your dad would react to the news, him having a normal day off then getting a call from some random number and being informed that his beloved daughter had been hit by a speeding truck and her brains had been splattered across the road. You didn’t wanna imagine his cries of despair..
Suddenly something starts to flash in front of you, some sort of light in the far disof the dark place. Everytime it flashed you realized it was actually getting closer, before you knew it the light was up close and personal and it eventually sucks you in.
You're really dead…you didn’t even get to say goodbye…
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”Mommy Mommy! Look Mommy!” The sound of a little girls voice fills your ears. “Mommy, that cat’s so big and fluffy! And it’s brown!! Look Mommy look!” the girl is insistent on having her poor mother pay attention to what she’s looking at.
“Yes sweeting I see the cat..” the mother groans “No touching! you don’t know what kind of diseases that thing has. Let’s go, now.” She demands, probably pulling her child along.
”Aww but i wanted to pet the kitty no fair!!” The child’s cries fade away as her Mother forces her down the sidewalk.
Sidewalk? Were you no longer in the street, but you could hear the sounds of cars driving by a few feet away. Did someone move you so you weren’t blocking traffic or something? Your head was hurting anymore so maybe you only hit it lightly..
You slowly open your eyes and sunlight invades your vision, looking around you find yourself laying on the sidewalk of some type of corner store. From your perspective it looks a bit bigger than a normal shop should.
You move your hands to rub your eyes but are immediately met with paws. Paws? Quickly you open your eyes and look at them, Chocolate brown fur and pink toe beans.. Was this some sort of dream? Were you in some kind of coma— you scream- or try to but it comes out as a yowl.
You jump up onto all four of your new limbs, you need a mirror— something that showed a reflection and immediately.
You turn your head the the left and see the glass doors that lead into the shop and run up to the front of it.
Much to your horror you find yourself to be a small—er pretty big and possibly fat cat..or is that the fluff? Was this an apology from the universe? They must have felt sorry that you died at such a young age so they made you into a brown fat fluffy carefree kitty. Right..?
This can’t be so bad..right? It could be worse! I mean— you could have been reincarnated as a refrigerator, nothing gets better than this..yeah! How bad could this be?
You've been walking around for a while now just enjoying the scenery, you got the hang of your new body real quick, you even know how to jump up on things now. Not too high though. The people you’ve walked by would call you cute and try calling you over to them, a few children even ran after you trying to pet you but you just ignored them all. Perks of being a carefree kitty. There were a few people that was sick there teeth and call you ‘Stupid Cat’ but they hadn’t attacked you so you didn’t care all that much.
After walking for a while you start to hear meowing near by, you hadn’t met any other cats yet so you immediately took off in the direction of where you heard it to go meet them. You wondered to yourself if they’d clock it as soon as they see you that you weren’t truly one of them..you hoped they didn’t.
Upon finding the cats you see a figure standing near them seemingly trying to feed them something from hand, the cats either ignore the stranger, runaway, or hiss at them and swipe their hand. Didn’t seem like these guys like them all that much how sad, but eh you aren’t gonna give him the time of day eithe—
A sigh can be heard. “Why won’t any of them take it..” A familiar voice comes from the Stranger.
Your head zips back to look at the stranger more clearly. Were you hearing that right..? That voice of his sounded strangely familiar. You examine the guy more clearly now, gray hair, green yukata…No way— could it be?
”Hm..perhaps this isn’t in their diet..i’ll have to look this up.” He nods turning around, now you’re able to get a good look at his face.
It’s him it really is! Fukuzawa Yukichi, from the hit series Bungou Stray Dogs! Oh perhaps gods really do exists and this is their apology— whatever god did this you’ll worship forever! This could be your chance you’ve got it all planned out. Go up to him, eat his treat, rub on him and have him take you home! Totally fool proof— after that you can meet all the characters and have them all love on you with your cuteness! This is it, i’m really doing it, thank you gods!
Quickly before he starts to leave you run up to him blocking his path and with a deep breath you give him your loudest meow. “Come on Fukuzawa, take me with you!”
”MEOW!!”