#MY HEAD IS ALWAYS FULL OF THOUGHTS 4 THEM OKOK !!!!!

[acrux-jr]

Carousel - part 3

Ahhh okok so maybe I lied, I was sick in bed and had nothing to do lmao so i did the only logical thing: sleep write smut.

MINORS DNI // NSFW 18+

Tags: smut, fluff, dreams of pregnancy, age gap(forgot to mention reader is 20 to 23, Mike is said to be around 25-29)

Word Count: 1.8k

Summary: It gets hot and steamy with Mike.

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The two of you sat like that for a while, basking in each other's presence. You moved your shoulder and signaled off. You started up, and his hand snaked to yours.

"Where are you going?"

You gave a small chuckle and crouched down. "I'm just going to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. I'm assuming based on that fast grab you want me to stay over?"

He nodded. The Mike now was a completely different Mike from when you first met him but still the same somehow.

"Come on baby, let's go wash up and get ready for bed." Mike stood up and you grabbed his hand, pulling him along.

When the two of you entered the bathroom, a thought suddenly popped up. "Mike?"

"Hmm?" 

"Who was the girl in the hospital?"

Silence hung in the air. 

"I'm just asking because the two of you seemed close and she was in a serious condition being hooked up to the machines. Plus she looked really familiar."

"Um she's a police officer. She helped me get settled with the old security gig."

"Oh okay. What happened to her if you don't mind me asking?"

Mike froze. How the fuck was he going to explain that she was stabbed by her psychotic father who also kidnapped my brother, killed him, and 4 other children who he stuffed into suits which possed animatronics that tried to kill him and Abby. Just casually blurt that out?

You saw the gears turning in his head. 

"Okay. You don't have to tell what happened, don't worry. Just one thing." He nodded. "Were you two close romantically?"

"God no. Not at all. She's just a friend." He shook his head no and blurted that out.

"Okay okay calm down you're not on trial Mike. It's been two months and if you tried to date another person or had a one night stand I would get it, like I said for 2 months we were done."

Mike tilted his head. "Were you with anyone?" There wasn't an accusation tone per say but more of a jealous one?

You raised an eyebrow and hoped on the sink counter. "Mike Schmidt. Are you jealous?" You crossed your arms and tried to fight off the smile.

He rolled his eyes and huffed out a breath. "What if I am?" Was his snarky reply.

He went in between your legs. "How could I not be?" He whispered to himself as he kissed your jaw leading down your neck.

You uncross your arms and place them on his shoulders. 

He gently nipped and sucked your l/t/d skin. Your breath hitched and your legs spread a little wider for him.

He smiled against your flesh. His hands gripped your thighs and gave a soft squeeze. You hummed in appreciation and scooted a little closer to be flushed against him.

His hands traveled up your thighs and to the small of your back, pushing closer. You rubbed against him, and he pressed firm. Your breathing became ragged with desire. 

"Mike…," he gently kissed your neck, an acknowledgment of sorts,"n-hmm not here."

You gently pushed him back. "Stay right here. Come to your room in 5 minutes." He groaned and looked at his clock.

"5 minutes?"

You rolled your eyes at his exasperated tone,"Yes Mikey 5 minutes, it's not gonna kill you." 

As you left you heard a faint, 'It just might.' You giggled and rushed to the room. Most of your stuff was left here, even your lucky lingerie. It was dark green with black accents. 

Mike always went a little longer and a little harder when you wore this. You slipped out of your clothes putting on the lingerie.

You bit your lip in anticipation, and waited for the last minutes to pass before Mike had permission to open the door.

The door knob jiggled and turned and there Mike stopped in his tracks. The tent in his pants moved from the twitch. There you were, sitting on the edge of the bed, with the dark green see through lingerie dress. He quickly regained motion and hurriedly got in and shut the door, not needing to re-traumatize someone.

It fits perfectly against your skin. He slowly walked over to you, in between your legs again. He grabbed your chin and gave you a chaste kiss. "You're beautiful." You flushed red and bashfully looked away.

Mike dropped to knees and pushed your legs open more. He caressed the inside of your thighs, capturing the full view of you.

Dark green baby doll dress, tied in the middle with a black bow. And the fark green and black lace thong that was in his way. He kissed your knee, then traveled upward slowly. It was agonizing. Your thigh twitch and another grin spread across his face, a cocky grin and eyes looked up at you and slowly licked the rest of the way towards your pussy.

You were on fire. Every kiss, lick, and breath on your skin makes you burn. And you knew Mike was being a little shit going fucking slow. You rest on your hands, looking at Mike.

He glanced up at you and raised an eyebrow. His hands were hovering above your thong, a slight nod from you and they were moved to the side. A light moan escaped your mouth as Mike gently rubbed your clit.

You bit your lip as his tongue dragged upwards and circled around it as well. Your hand shot out and snaked in his hair. You bit your lip and pressed Mike a bit closer.

Mike licked and sucked your wet heat. How he wanted to rip his clothes off and fuck you silly, but he had to wait, take his time. One more rough lick up and kiss to you abused clit and he entered one finger. 

Your hips shifted and pushed the finger in. A whimper left your lips as Mike held you in place. In and out, pumping in and tou clenching around his finger drove him insane. He pumped another finger in you and curled them. Your breathing was ragged and moany. 

He let you fuck yourself on his finger, admiring how you already looked wreck and he hasn't even unziphis pants. He kissed your thighs again and gave a gentle nip. You tightened around his finger. He gave another shit eating grin and you had enough.

When he took his fingers out of you, you gripped his jacket collar, and pulled up towards you, laying down with him hover above you. Your mouths met, and you licked his bottom lip. Your hands trailed down his firm body, stopping at the zipper of his pants. 

As you sucked his bottom lip, your hands quickly unzipped his pants and freed his cock. This time Mike was breathing hard, uncontrollable even.

You grabbed it firmly, and slowly started to move. He was thick and warm. It made your cunt ache, it clenched at the idea of him.

He whimpered as he started to fuck your hand. His big brown eyes pleading now.

"Want do you want Mike?"

He was falling apart at the simplest touch, "W-want to," he groaned, "to fuck you." 

"Oh yeah?"

He nodded feverishly. 

"I thought you knew how to ask nicely Mike."

He flushed, "Please."

"Hmm I don't know, you were oughtly enjoying teasing me earlier. Maybe I should do the same to you."

He gave a slight glare and leaned down. Kissing your neck he spoke, "Baby please. I wanted to make you feel good." 

Heat pooled in your stomach. "Fuck me Mike." He quickly got up right and positioned himself. You nodded and he pushed in.

"So fucking tight and hot." He muttered to himself. Your back arched slightly from the intrusion and adjustment.

He was flush against you now, fully in. He waited for you to nod before thrusting. 

He towered over you, and with one hand holding himself up the other found its way to the tied ribbon, he quickly pulled loose.

Your breast was exposed, and his mouth found its way to your nipple. He lapped his tongue on your perked nipple. He whimpered as you pushed his head down and grinded against him, pushing him all the way in again and clenching.

His hips stuttered as you gave him a hickey and gently tugged his hair. "Fuck." Mike groaned in your ear.

You were close, Mike thrusted hard and his hand made it down to your clit again. Gently rubbing as the two of you kissed. 

A moan made it to Mike's ear as he felt you cum, squeezing harder than he thought was possible. A couple of more thrust and Mike finished, he filled your cunt and cum leaked. He stayed in you as he softened. 

An image if you were pregnant popped into Mike's head and he twitched. You raised an eyebrow and he gave a sheepish smile. He pushed it in the back of his mind, he didn't have the energy for round 2 or to even think deeply about that image right now.

He fell next to you, both of you out of breath.

He reached out and grabbed your hand. "I'll be back. Let me clean up." You drifted in and out of sleep as you heard Mike shuffle around getting ready for bed. You felt a slight shake. 

"Y/n."

"Hmm?"  Your eyes fluttered. 

"Let me clean you up, love." You gave a nod as Mike manhandled you getting you cleaned up and more warm clothes on.

You heard a distinct voice arguing as you stirred away. 

"Abby! Go away!"

"No! I want to see y/n!"

"Not now."

"Move."

"Ow Abby what the fuck!"

As she ran past Mike, after stomping on his toe, he heard simultaneously the two of you yell, 'Swear jar!'

Abby jumped on the bed and snuggled up right next to you. You were extremely grateful that Mike helped you change last night.

You glanced up at Mike and he gave you a deadpan look. Silently giggling, you motioned him over. Mouthing 'hurry up.'

Mike sighed and climbed into bed. They three of you laid together in bed, Abby falling back to sleep. You looked at her and smiled. Mike's heart was filled with love. He was grateful, happy, and stupendously lucky to have you. He was never going to mess it up again.

An exchange of  'I love you's' was softly spoken between the two of you, as you both nodded off to sleep too.

Strangely enough, all three dreams were filled with you, Mike, Abby, and one little baby girl learning how to draw with Abby.

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Ive seen those clips of those um *cough cough* josh h. edits and bro the way i scream and had to laugh was something else 😭

Hope you enjoyed- the other 3 oneshots will be a bit later I got a chem test coming up and i need to study. Wish me luck or pray for me, whichever gets me an A 😭

Taglist: @hellothisisprincesskitty @stinkii-boii

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plots please! ((if you have any in mind! : o

aaaa sorry skelly no i don't have any 😔 BDKSHDHD NO- ARE U KIDDING ME!!!! THESE TWO ARE SO INTERESTING HOW CAN I NOT HAVE THOUGHTS FOR EM?? smh 🙄 /lh

just off the top of my head!!

this is more hakuno saying it than me but LET HER BEFRIEND HIS DOGGOS.....!!!! i still cry over that ask from you okok skelly IT'S SO CUTEE and i am speeding it up so it'll post shortly after i queue this post bc i rambled a bit in the tags for that post too 😳 BUT YES HAVE THEM BOND OVER THE DOGGOS! and maybe a little silly thing of them both debating over whether dogs or cats are better- i can very much imagine hakuno saving up (she's broke ok 😔) some funds to bring cascu to a cat cafe with her to prove her point though i also think she'd end up having so much fun, she'd forget her og goal of speading neko lover supremacy (is very >:0 !! afterwards like- caster! did you have fun??) (she do be like that)

still giving moon girl the reigns here- SHE HAS NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT OFFER TO HELP HER WITH HER MAGECRAFT! i'll be 100% honest here and say that i know n o thing abt the nasu lore for magecraft and all that, buuut fate extra materials say that hakuno has high quality magic circuits- which i think means that she has a lot of untapped potential! and speaking for myself- i'm pretty curious on how cascu would be as a teacher 👀 i'd imagine hakuno would question a lot of how and why cascu became as skilled as he is now too bc she's curious like that — i myself would like to know (because as i say many times-- canon cascu? idk him! skelly's cascu? 🥺🥺😭😫😫👌👌💖💗💝💘💕💖💞💖) and i'm excited to know how it'd contrast with hakuno and her own motivations and reason to be stronger!

i remember your cascu being a doctor in a modernverse and i am very humbly holding up my own modernverse for this girl! i am especially eye-ing that bit with cascu and his daughter because 👀 definitely see some potential for parallels here! maybe he could interact with a modern hakuno... og human hakuno in particular 🤔 from her high school days up to years later when she's about to get cryopreserved maybe! cuz in my canon for her, her relationship with her own parents are good but distant (from her end! to give a quick summary here: because of her illness, she feels like a burden to them and thinks they'd be better off without her ^_T tho that's honestly the constant hakuno mood in any verse rlly--) so i feel like it might be interesting to see how that'd play out and contrast with cascu and his dilemma with his daughter..... it'd be really wholesome if they could help each other mend the bonds with their respective family members methinks!! but i am not opposed to an unsatisfying kind of an ending where they don't... (((:

meme, closed! @corrchoigilt

[bunny-xoxo]

✨ Anon Playlist

For my ✨ anon, I hope it’s what you were looking for!

warning: slight timeskip!nishinoya spoilers, kissing?

gif not mine, credit to owner

A/N: I tried to make this GN! since I don’t know your pronouns, if you have any problems please let me know!

Relationship Head Cannons

Okok reading your ask I definitely had to pair you with Nishinoya!! Looking at your interests and your personality etc. I think you guys would make a lovely couple :)

He definitely met you while traveling and immediately asked you for your number (this man is so bold and shameless you cannot tell me otherwise); he was probably a little ridiculous about it and loud and he could not believe you said yes

Went from 😉😁😏 to 👁👄👁,,,😳😳😳 so fast

Called Tanaka drunk after you gave him your number talking about how you have to be the one or something cause he just got some gorgeous babe’s phone number at the bar and he’s pretty sure it’s real

Tanaka still laugh’s about it with him all the time and Noya’s always like oml haha so embarrassing😅😅 stop it dude they’re gonna think I’m a creep 🤬

Nishinoya love’s it when you get to meet his friend’s and get along with them!! It make’s his heart so full!

Double dates with Tanaka and Kiyoko!!! And Noya’s just so🤩🤩 guys guys look at my bb!!!!

omg would endlessly brag about your cocktail making skills asjjskfjnkajeke and NO ONE asked but he can’t help himself

Would shamelessly ask you to paint him and then immediately start undressing for a nude painting  adjskfieurir 

Would for SURE ask you to read to him and it’s one of the few times he’s actually calm, he just finds it so calming he gets to stare at you and just bask in you and how much he loves you is the real reason

Love love loves listening to you talk about your current book obsession and just finds it so cute

let’s be honest just worships the ground you walk on

LOTS of stargazing on beaches at night

He would ask you an abundance of questions about literally anything you know or love cause he’s a passionate guy, too!! You guys could definitely talk for hours and hours and never get bored of each other

And the way you listen to him while he rants about literally any and everything makes his heart practically implode

He’s so soft for you too cause he never thought someone would actually be down for his lifestyle of traveling and having a good time but you do! And you enjoy it so much :)!

PHYSICAL AFFECTION

LOVES holding your hand cause not only does it let him run around and make sure he’s not gonna lose you in the crowd but it just makes him feel so close to you? And it let’s everyone know he’s your boyfriend which he takes so much pride in pls

All in all, your guys’ relationship is just so full of fun that when you guys get to lay and look at the stars together and everything slows down for that moment, Noya knows he really loves you and couldn’t imagine finding anyone better

And what you’ve been waiting for... your playlist!

Ok, so I did my best to match your playlist to the indie vibes you mentioned and keeping it to the scenario of just laying with Noya as best as I could!

I sincerely hope you enjoy, please tell me your thoughts!! Below is the listed songs in order and my explanation for each :). And if you need anything changed, please tell me!

1. Lost in Your Love - Colyer: This song definitely is reminiscent of when you two first met, seeing you just hit him like a truck. Now, he could let literally let go of anything in his life as long as you were there with him. He’s quite definitely lost in your love (talk about devoted, sheesh).

2. My Kind of Woman - Mac DeMarco: So this is written with the intent of keeping you gender neutral since I don’t know your pronouns, so I don’t specifically take the “woman” part of this song as inspiration, but rather the idea of the love in the song if that makes sense. But if this song makes you uncomfortable please let me know and I will happily replace this song. SIMP ALERT 🚨 please Noya wishes he could dedicate this song to you with his whole heart. It’s more of him just being in complete disbelief that YOU choose to be by his side (this is a common theme here 🙄) It doesn’t matter how long you two are together he will never get over letting him be by your side

3. Nothing - Bruno Major: PLS THIS SONG IS MAKING ME SO SOFT FOR NOYA😰✋  please, this is your guys song. The epitome of just laying in each other’s presence and enjoying the warmth and conversation between you two, it’s these moments that really make Noya fall in love with you

4. Something About You - sophie meiers: Noya was definitely more nervous to ask you to be an official couple than he was saying I love you LMAO. He was just so scared to be like look I really like you, please just let me be yours and please be mine officially and let me do couple things with you and show you cool things I like (definitely came off like 💧👁u👁..... be my girlfriend? 🧍‍♂️)

5. Pluto Projector - Rex Orange County: C’mon now TELL me this ain’t you and Noya 🙄✋ your relationship is definitely always in that “honeymoon” phase, you guys are just effortlessly obsessed with each other cause not only do you have so much love to give but so does he!! And this song is just pure ~vibes~

6. Fall - Chloe x Halle: Ok, this one is mainly just for the feeling of it, but okok. You and Noya laying and looking up at the stars and it starts to rain but he just won’t get up and you guys just lay there having a laughing fit until you pull him up and make him come back to the warmth of your guys’ home. And as you’re drying each other off and you have a towel around your shoulders and your still dripping a little and you’re handing him his tea and fuck you just look so perfect he can’t help but tell you he loves you

7. Honeybee - Steam Powered Giraffe: SLOW DANCE TIME, everyone's gotta have one right? It’s more soft behavior, but this song? WHEW. Noya know’s he will forever be trapped by you and your beauty and presence but he just couldn’t care less, the things you do to him, god he swears you’re gonna kill him.

8. Intertwined - dodie: There’s no way you could mention laying with your s/o and NOT have me put this song on there, please just listen to this song you’ll understand 🙏 pure cuddly, chill vibes

9. Turning Page - Sydney Rose: stop it this song makes me cry tell me you guys aren’t laying with each other, tracing each other’s features with your fingers, memorizing every little detail there is to notice (fuck this is so intimate i-)

10. Like You Do - Joji: 🚨A LITTLE NOYA ANGST IM SORRY🚨 Noya would be a little scared his lifestyle would become too much and it’s kind of an irrational fear he has for you, but at the same time he knows that you make him so happy and you love him so much he’d be willing to even change this for you if it meant you could keep loving him like you do now.

11. Goodbye Horses - Q Lazzarus: Did someone say late night cuddly and giggly make out sesh? 😳 Noya pulling away every time just to go “oh no sir🤠!” before kissing you again  ( :40 in the song, you’ll know what I’m talking about)

12. Body Language - Miki Ratsula: We get it you two 🙄✋ you like laying down and cuddling together

13. Dogs at the Beach - The Altogether: PLS this is just for vibes tbh

14. Wanna Know - Sabrina Claudio: I do feel like sometimes Noya is a very blunt guy who says it as is, and not everyone else is like that! So I’m sure sometimes he gets nervous that he’s too much for you and whether or not you love him as much as he loves you! But ultimately he knows you guys wouldn’t be where you are now if you didn’t love him (and then he immediately hates himself for even questioning your love, protect him pls)

15. Let Me Follow - Son Lux: TL;DR, all you need is each other’s love to exist and you couldn’t ask for more.

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AHHHH IT’S FINALLY HERE , I’m sorry this took so long! I was having a lot of problems with Tumblr and am a fairly new writer, I really hope you enjoyed this, please give me your feedback and thoughts! I want to make sure you got this :(

Feedback and opinions from anyone is appreciated!

request’s for playlist’s are currently closed until I finish the others, but I will make a post when they’re open again! And to all of those who have requested, they’ll be out shortly!! 

-🐇out

[hannie-dul-set]

hi!!! <3 (before anything else, i'm in love wit u and i think u're such a wonderful writer and u truly are very lovely ugh) i am currently overwhelmed with feelings and emotions that is caused by you so i just cannot go without letting you know. a warning but this is gonna be so long yikes pls stay with me nsjs ENIWEY, i just read <an eye for an eye, a heart for a heart> and NDKSKSKSKS i dunno where to start i am sO OVERWHELMED!!! okok hoo ehem i was gonna go to bed and do my nightly ritual of reading fics to put me to sleep but i was also feeling too lazy to read so i looked for socmed fics and i remembered yours that i've been wanting to read for a long time but didn't cause the warnings scared me away lmao but i'm so glad i've finally come to read it bcs it's 4:24am in the morning rn and i have no regrets :D SOOOO when i tell you i did NOT FUCKING KNOW THAT I WAS IN FOR A RIDE HOLY SHIT NSJSJSJS my first impression of this fic is so far from what i experienced. first of all, i am down bad for the mc like i'm so in love with her🤧🤧🤧 istg you made her character an absolute sweetheart, always looking out and taking care of others. i can't tell you how many times my heart swelled with adoration, i was falling for her alongside with the boys nwjsjsje she's so full of love and a whole sunshine i swear i think i teared up somewhere in the middle of it all lol they better not hurt her😤 i don't think i'll be able to handle it nooo. although, i can't help but feel like there's this mysterious vibes to her cause all she's been about the whole time is other ppl but what about her?? what goes on in her life other than them? hmmm idk🤔

aND THE BOIS. THE BOOOIS. ngl when you said very flawed characters, i thought 00line was gonna be assholes the entire time and i mean they were, especially jeno but damn did they fold so fast against the mc hahahahaha i was kinda taken back😂 the interactions between them and the mc made me so giggly too like AAAAHHHH kinda wanna bang my head on a wall🦋😩💕 also, the first time they all got to meet her is just so well written and thought out like it feels natural to me hehe. moving on, so i know 00z characters are a bunch of red flags and they have their own reasons but considering it's a socmed fic i anticipated how you were going to show that, and oh my gosh, i just think you did it so well. i love how at first there were hints in the convos about their issues and obviously the priv accs too, but you made it known without feeling forced and how it fitted right in with the flow or pacing of the story, like it just slowly unravels. idk if i explained it properly idk idk but yeah, they're all so shitty but my heart ached once i realized why they act the way they are😭 my poor meow meows💔 (or atleast based on what i picked up) especially donghyuck nooOooO when he asked about zeus and hera, i was like ........o..H??? NSJSKSKSKS I AM BROKEN BUT HE'S STILL SHITTY UGH. and the date with jaemin????? he was shooked and it felt good lol also, it was hilarious when the mc messaged them all and they just all collectively panicked in their priv accs😂 i also really liked their friendship here too, the convos are pretty funny hahaha.

and then the mc's little family with jisung and chenle and mark aaaahhhhh, thought it was too adorable😩 like why is everyone so sweet and funny in this fic?? like i'm aware this has angst and drama but it's so soft nwjsis maybe i'm speaking too early and there's more to come but whatever hahahahaa. i just wanna say that i've never been so invested in a socmed fic before, i used to just speedread through others but yOURS i truly savoured and enjoyed every bit >< I LOVE IT AAAH. i look forward for what happens next but until then hohoho. AND YEAH ur one of my favs and i so love you, i've read some of your fics and am gonna read more. thank you for all of your beautiful works that vaguely, for some reason felt a lot of things but mostly felt home to me :(( (shoutout to ur araw-araw fic!!! will forever be special to me :"<) and lastly, i am so excited for your upcoming jaemin fic aaaah fightinggg💖😽

sorry, this was stupidly long lmao. i hope you're doing well and healthy, and happy and receiving lots of love!!!!! u3u

hooo.....oki....firstable......idk when this was send and what time it is there rn upon replying but gosh golly I HOPE YOU'VE FINALLY SLEPT??? pls i am wishing u the sweetest dreams :'>

when i said flawed characters, miss mc is also....very much included because HELLO HELLO MIC TEST HAHAHAH she's a sweetheart alright but all that meddling might bite back.....in the future HAGSVSJA oOPSIES

"my poor meowmeows" PLS 😭 i absolutely adore when these types of Men are just Absolutely Whipped u know. the more angsty and dramatic bits are def gonna come in the latter parts (whew..... sweatdrop......when am i gonna update this IDKK HAGS CNN AKA i'm sorry i hope u can forgive me :'>)

HOME!! yes omg that u so much for mentioning that bcs that's exactly!! the vibe that i'm trying to make in most, if not all, of my fics 😩 araw-araw is literally the epitome of that HAGSJSK it swells my heart with joy to just hear all of this omg i hope u know that you've just reminded me why i started writing in the first place :') thank you so so much and i am wishing you all the joy in the world ily <33

[writinginthesparetime]

A place far away pt.3

pairing: actor!Park Haejin x student!reader

Warnings: famous!au ; college!au ; litte bit of swearing?

genre: fluff

chapters: 1 - 2 - 4

(If needed I will add more warnings and upload the genre tags in next chapters)

Summary:

So that’s how all started.

It was a rainy day in Seoul and I was the new girl in town. Precisely the new girl in college, just moved from europe to study abroad.

Little did I knew Seoul was not the only korean thing I’d fell in love with.

A/n: this chapter ended up being dramatically long so I had to change my mind and make some adjustments. I am so excited about this story, i hope you’re too!

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“Thank you for coming with me.”

“It’s nothing, you needed someone to help you fill some papers!”

“I know but .... like i don’t properly know korean.”

“That’s why I offered to help you.”

Nana poured me some tea while we were watching, outside the window, the rain falling over the city.

“You have been definitely too kind, I’ll offer you lunch tomorrow.”

So we then headed to our rooms, it was already evening and actually the last day before classes too. The other girls were already sleeping, but we were still so upset.

Nana stopped on the threshold of her door, it was obvious we weren’t sleepy at all. “Y/n ... Are you sure you don’t want to see a movie with me?”

“No thank you, I’ll try to sleep now.”

So I rolled over in bed, again.

It was almost midnight, Nana was surely already sleeping but Seoul was still awake, as much as me. I could hear cars and people talking down street.

I was so nervous I kept changing my mood from pure anxiety to happiness. Eyes wide open looking at the ceiling while street lamps lights leaked out from curtains.

“Enough.”

I got up and changed into the clothes already prepared for the day after, i picked the keys and went outside.

As I thought streets were still full of people, young and old, the majority tipsy, which entered or exited bars.

Still angry about my lack of sleep I decide to call mom.

“Hi? Y/n?”

“Yes? Mom?”

“Y/n! How are you? Wait, isn’t it a little late?” She already knew.

“Hi I’m fine. Yeah, indeed I couldn’t sleep so i decided to call.”

“Are you outside?” She sounded so inquiring.

“Yes but don’t be afraid, I’m heading back home.” I lied while crossing my fingers. I couldn’t stand a scolding now.

“Okok ... so are you ready for tomorrow?”

“Im very excited, but please tell me about how my brother is doing.”

So I Switched the subject of our conversation, confident my mother could speak about my perfect and cute little brother for hours, especially on how he’s so smart and one day maybe became a math genius.

Her voice became a background sound of my promenade. Hearing her speaking, finally a familiar voice, was suiting to me.

I entered a 24/7 store and headed to the sweet ward, even if it wasn’t the healthiest decision, especially if I wanted to sleep and not get a sugar rush.

“Will you call us tomorrow too?”

“If i have some spare time after classes, sure mom, why?”

“I’m sure your brother would love to hear you.”

“I’ll try.”

I picked a candy snack and some chocolate and put them inside a red basket.

“So ... see you tomorrow?”

“Yes mom, tomorrow. I love you.”

“I love you too, y/n. Take care, goodnight honey.”

I hanged up.

After choosing a packet of biscuits I headed to another snack ward. Despite the late hour, the shop had many customers, especially teenagers.

I was looking at chips, undecided about the flavour would suits the most the stressed-evening occasion.

“If you prefer spicy, this one is the best.” A chips packet materialised in my hands. “Indeed, it’s my favourite flavour.”

I turned around and almost clash into someone chest, I looked up and it was him. Standing tall in his brown leather jacket and still wearing an antismog mask.

Recognising him by his brown eyes, because once again it was the only thing i could clearly see.

“Mmh , thank you?” I bowed at him and thrown the chips inside the red basket.

“Well, purchasing so many sweets at this hour isn’t healthy at all.” He laughed while looking inside my basket that I quickly hided behind my figure.

“I couldn’t sleep, so it seemed a good idea to me.” I whispered excusing myself.

“And it was a good idea because we had the chance to meet again.”

Was he flirting? Flirting with me?

“We always meet under the weirdest circumstances, or at least every time something embarrassing happens to me.”

“I don’t think so, you know?” And Again his eyes smiled. “Are you alone?” Concerned, he looked around, maybe trying to find someone actually looking for me. “It’s dangerous.”

“Sounds like the beginning of an horror movie to me.”

I was certain this could actually be part of a script, and he sounded like a potential cinematography serial killer. “Don’t be afraid, i know how to defend myself.”

We both smiled at each other while I started asking myself when did i became so talkative. And when did i have Any courage to talk to a stranger like this? Like not only to ask directions.

“So ...” he was looking at the shelf “why can’t you sleep, if i may ask?”

“Top secret.” And that being said I kindly smiled at him and surpassed him, going to the cash desk. He followed me and paid right after me. Both holdings our own plastic bag we headed out the shop.

The city was finally calm and even the wind became delightfully fresh.

“Can i offer you something?” I looked at him shocked.

“Honestly i was thinking about going home.” I stuttered.

“Are you finally sleepy?” He asked smiling. Was he really going to tease me like this? Of course he knew i wasn’t sleepy.

“Actually not.” I looked down at my hands shyly. I could definitely imagine his satisfied grin on his face.

“Only one beer” he sit on the walkside outside the shop and took two cans from his plastic bag.

“Only one.”

What the fuck was I doing? Uh y/n? Did I suddenly became a kid? Did I completely forgot how to behave? Drinking with a stranger?

What was Seoul doing to me?

But one beer couldn’t hurt me, plus I was already into this.

I sit next to him, he quickly opened both of the cans and gave me one. I grabbed it with both my hands, still not able to look at him. Too shy now.

I only saw his hands, beautiful hands by the way, take his beer and touch slightly mine. Our fingers touched and I suddenly felt my stomach upside down.

I was already so nervous, this wasn’t needed.

“Cheers.”

“Cheers.” I whispered and drank down the whole cold beer with closed eyes.

“Ehi, oh, slow down.” I could hear his surprised tone.

“That’s it, one beer.” My fingers kept playing with the tab’s can.

I should get home.

I wanted to get up but his hand gently leaned to my wrist, trying to stop me.

“You know, when people say to drink something together, that’s not what they’re talking about.” I looked up while he was fixing his mask. Unbelievable: did i just missed the opportunity to see his face?

So i suddenly knew what was my goal for the night.

“I’m sorry, I’ve been nervous all day.”

“You’ve already said that.” He leaned his face on his hands and looked at me closely.

I really couldn’t understand how he could be so noisy yet definitely kind.

“Is there a reason?”

Now?

You.

“College, classes start tomorrow.”

“Oh wow that’s amazing! What are you studying?” Again I felt in the middle of the attention and my cheeks turned red. Shy me.

“Fashion, makeup to be specific.”

“Interesting, there are a lot of jobs opportunities, do you have any ideas yet?”

He asked and sipped the beer again. I was so focused on finding the right words I completely forgot my goal.

“Not yet, I believe here in korea there will be many.”

“I can guarantee that.” He gently laughed and i heard him looking for something inside the plastic bag. He gave me another can.

“So, you can tell I’m so nervous I need another one?” I whispered hiding my face behind my hands.

“Alcohol is never a good solution, but maybe for this time we can make an exception. Cheers.”

“Cheers.” I closed my eyes and sipped the beer. “You know, I don’t fancy beer so much.”

“You could have told me before.” We both smiled.

“True.”

He looked at me closely.

“Your cheeks are red.”

“That must be true too.”

I finally looked at him in the eyes. I could definitely feel the heat of alcohol inside me giving me some courage. He took out the mask with an hand and raised his face to sip some more beer.

“Ah, refreshing.” He then picked up all the empty cans to throw them away and i was frozen.

I was so thankful he didn’t noticed my facial expression because I definitely looked dumb. Mouth wide open and dreamy eyes. Shocked.

He was unbelievable HANDSOME. definitely in his thirties, the clearest skin ever, plump lips and a breathtaking smile.

“Do you feel good?”

“Uh wha- yes?” Blinking to make sure he wasn’t a dream.

“Do you want me to take you home? Your cheeks are so red and-“

“No. No. I’m fine.” I cut him while jumping up, but I ended up almost falling.

“Ehi.” He grabbed me by an elbow to help me stabilise me. “You drank too much.”

“Not at all.” Or maybe yes?

My life leaked of any social interactions and this actually leaded me being a nerd always at home while everyone was partying. So I actually never drank too much, but two beer couldn’t be my limit to sobriety.

Being clumsy in first place wasn’t helping at all.

And being with the most handsome man ever didn’t too.

“I tripped over, that’s it.”

“I take you home.” This time his voice was purely concerned, no contradictions allowed. He grabbed our bags and hold me. “Tell me the address please.”

So I did and we started walking.

“If I only knew you couldn’t drink so much i would have offered you some juice.” He smiled and i hit him on the shoulder.

“I’m telling you I just tripped! I’m very clumsy.”

Luckily the dorm wasn’t far and we quickly arrived.

“Here i am.” I stopped on the sidewalk in the opposite side of the road. I couldn’t start being naive.

“Ok. I need to apologise.”

“For what? The beer?”

“No, for being so nosy, I swear I’m never like this.” He looked at me while scratching his nape and then just bowed.

“Don’t worry, thank you for taking me home, and the pleasant conversation, mr ...”

Mr? Why so formal all of the sudden?

“Please call me Hae-jin.”

“I’m y/n.”

“It was a pleasure meeting you.” He smiled and my legs started shaking. “I think you should go inside, you’re freezing.”

“You’re right.” I grabbed my bag but I stayed still.

“Then I’ll go, goodnight y/n.” He bowed.

“Goodnight hae-jin.”

[intra-fiducia]

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! Novel II - Summary of Chapters 4-6

Earlier chapters (bar my quick ch3) have been translated in full by @vashtijoy! 

Please excuse my incredibly boring summary skills, but here’s a casual rundown of what happens; for more detail, ask me for a full translation. My thoughts are kinda scattered in the text but I think it’s pretty easy to tell what’s textual and what’s me lol

Content warnings apply as usual with this novel for suicidal thoughts/behaviour and unhappy home situations, and also for some potentially slightly shippy comments on my part.

Chapter 4: Play-Family Time

This chapter starts the morning after Chapter 3. Yumoto wakes first out of the main five, though technically Gora was awake even earlier (he’s out chopping wood). Yumoto wakes Ash up and gushes over how fun the sleepover was.

Ash: Yeah......It was alright. But I’m a bit tired.

Even as he said that, though, he was smiling. Of course, Yumoto calls him out on it and tickles his tummy as if cuddling Wombat. The rest of the club wake to Ash’s ‘angelic laughter’ okok. Yumoto teases Ash for his bedhead since it makes him look like a chicken; Ash tells Yumoto he looks like a cream puff. Yumoto takes it as a compliment :P

The rest of the club look on. Ryuu seems a bit sour about it.

Io: What is it, Ryuu? If Ash is happy, isn’t that the most important thing?

YOU TELL HIM, IO.

Ryuu: Io, were you the type to say that sort of stuff?

Woahhhh he totally was. But anyway, Io asks what problem Ryuu could have with Ash being happy. Ryuu throws a pillow at Ash and Yumoto in frustration and Ash gets sad, so Ryuu smushes the pillow in his face to comfort him. Io tells him he’s a kid; Ryuu asks Io to join in.

En-chan is still asleep. Io comments on how poor his sleeping posture is -- his head is covered under the sheets. Atsushi says they have to wake him or they’ll be late to the zoo (oh, back to the plot now).

Yumoto’s hugging a pillow (cute). Atsushi calls out to En even though he knows En won’t wake just from that. He starts to shake him too but it doesn’t work, so Ryuu gets Ash to go under the covers and tickle him, which works well.

Yumoto is confused about the zoo thing; Atsushi realises they’d forgotten to tell him what they’d decided on. Cue short spiel on how Gora used to take Yumoto to the zoo. Ash is all tsun about wanting to go to the zoo, but Yumoto tickles that out of him and is like ‘alright, let’s go then!’ It’s like he’s the one who’d thought of the idea :P So the rest of the guys gang up on him to refute that and poor Yumoto is a little sad. The rest of the club is actually just jealous that Yumoto got to have fun with Ash they’re so petty omg.

THEIR THOUGHTS:

En: How strange; it’s not like me to get jealous...... Atsushi: I thought En-chan might be, but the same goes for me. Am I jealous of Yumoto? Ryuu: Huh? I’m a bit sulky? Io: Yumoto just wants to go to the zoo himself, but /we/ decided to go to the zoo as a result of searching Ash’s memories.....(far out Io, a couple of issues there)

Yumoto doesn’t even know a thing. He talks about how he gets touched seeing the animal parents lick their kids --- BAM TRIGGER WORD --- but it’s too late when everyone realises and Ash is like ‘huuh so that’s what zoos are like’. The seniors are all like ugh Yumoto stop in their thoughts :( BUT! Ash defies their expectations and smiles happily. Io considers buying the zoo for Ash.

Yumoto: Right? Zoos are fun. I was always watching the house alone, but when I saw the animal families it reminded me how nice families are.

Wombat understands that Yumoto instinctively wanted to convey to Ash how wonderful families are.

The seniors get jealous again (seriously guys, stop) but they kind of realise they’re all jealous and Ryuu goes for the denial. En-chan sees right through him lol. Enter Gora with a mountain of onigiri~ aaaand end of section.

***

They’d heard the zoo was small, but it’d be more appropriate to say it had been forgotten by the townsfolk. There were no lions or elephants or giraffes in this zoo! You had to pay to feed the animals and the entrance fee wasn’t cheap. And even though there was a farm-like place there, you couldn’t eat delicious soft serves or drink fresh cows’ milk, and you couldn’t ride around a track on a pony. There was a monkey mountain and you could pet the rabbits and walk with the goats, but it was pretty sparse. AKA rather than a zoo it was more like a petting zoo in the corner of a park. That panda on the homepage was a pretty big dream. However! <-- quote novel haha

According to Yumoto, up until the that month the zoo had only had a couple of animals, but they’d gotten something new in. There are capybaras! Io explains what they are; Yumoto praises him for being knowledgeable; Zaou doubts that Io bought stocks in the zoo because he liked animals. Bingo --- Io had no interest in the zoo itself but he’d heard capybaras were becoming more popular worldwide. The stocks were cheap when he bought them, too. 

En: Amazing, Io. Did he sense the smell of money coming from the capybaras? Atsushi: ......Can you really make money off capybaras?

Yumoto tries to explain what capybaras are to Ash but En and Atsushi keep teasing him for his rough explanation. He gets a bit sad :( Io takes over the explanation (he’d looked it up the previous night! :P). Apparently the capybara goods (and those alone) were flying off the shelves. I could summarise what’s said about capybaras, or you could read the wiki. Just saying :P The important thing is that they like baths and are easy to get along with --- they have strong family bonds and easily get used to humans. Ash respects Io’s intelligence. Oh dear, now everyone’s getting jealous again >.>

En: ......He’s just repeating what he found word-for-word. *sigh*...... Ryuu: He only sees capybaras as a source of income. Even I could say that much with access to a search engine.

Meanwhile, Atsushi had been looking stuff up on his mobile (see, put those words into action lol). He offers a tidbit about there being a type of capybara called a carpincho.

Ash: Ahaha, what a funny name~

 to which everyone else (including Yumoto) gets jealous and is like ‘ughh what useless info I can’t believe Ash was into that’. Io’s frustrated because he thought it wasn’t necessary, and yet...! Yumoto is unsure what he is feeling (it’s jealousy).

Ryuu: Damn it! I won’t lose, Kinugawa-senpai! En: It’s been a while since I’ve seen Atsushi’s smug face. Io: This isn’t like you, Kinugawa-senpai. Fine; I’ll take on this challenge.

Yumoto wonders why they’re all glaring at each other. Wombat tries to make a speech about how it’s immature to quibble over whose love is greater, but nobody listens to him. Io makes a jab at Ryuu usually only being interested in girls; Ryuu ofc says Io is usually only interested in money. En-chan agrees :P And then Atsushi joins in and asks what’s going on with En since he’s usually not interested in anything. Atsushi takes the lead again!

Thus began the defence club’s heated “Ash Contest”.

***

Location: Capybara Kingdom (a bit of an exaggeration :P). Wombat is troubled, but he figures this is their way of expressing their love for Ash. Yumoto has no idea what’s going on. As long as Ash is happy, he’s happy!

They’ve decided to take it in turns starting from Yumoto to have play dates with Ash. The order was decided by rock-paper-scissors and goes Yumoto --> Ryuu --> Io --> En --> Atsushi. Wombat is still worried about it since ‘it’s the first time he’s seen them like this’.

En notes that Atsushi seems pretty composed. Atsushi refutes the idea, but En still feels it.

Wombat: What can I do, merely sitting on the bench like this? There has to be something. I’m meant to be a specialist on love. Umm, something I can do for young Ash......

***

Yumoto gets excited seeing the capybaras but they ignore him. Ash is a bit bleh because there were supposed to be capybara families there but he only sees one kid. Apparently there’s a mother, father and three children. Ash is worried because the capybara seems cold. There’s no water in the bath! And where's the rest of the family! The zoo attendant has to come and explain that it was raining the previous day, and also that they just argue when they’re out together AHAHA. Wombat forgets he’s supposed to be a soft toy and is all like ‘oh noooo Ash will never know what familial love is like nowww’. Io starts on an impassioned rant about how he needs to reform the exhibit. blah blah how scandalous even animals fight poor ash

Ryuu tries to switch in. They’re all like ‘kids aren’t girls you know’. Io tells him that Ash doesn’t want LOVE as in the love girls want with Ryuu, but rather the warmth of familiar love. Ryuu says he knows, but that Ash needs more than that; just watch.

He tries to explain to Ash that the capybara’s being a lone wolf. Ash doesn’t get it. Everyone is all boo what’s with that explanation BUT in the end Ash is pretty happy to accept that being alone can be cool too. Yumoto suddenly starts talking about how they’ll be Ash’s family, because if Ash can’t get love from the capybaras, he’ll have to get love from the defence club. The plan changes to seeing who can be the best dad for Ash.

WOAH SHIP ALERT.

En and Atsushi lock eyes and begin to hash out a plan together.

En: Atsushi, according to Wom-san’s plan, everyone’s going to be a fatherly, but it’s not ideal to have fathers only, right? Isn’t it a bit much? Atsushi: That might be. En: So it might be good for us to change up the positions. Atsushi: Yeah. I was thinking the same thing myself. En: We’ll figure it out, but it might be good for someone to be a bit motherly. Atsushi: I see. It’s not like we can go with an older sister type. En: Nope. Atsushi: A motherly character, huh. I might be able to do that?

AND

Atsushi: Your personality isn’t quite motherly......yeah, no way. You completely miss the morning on Sundays; you just evoke the feeling of someone told things like Papa, all you do is sleep; you’re such an old man.

That’s why Atsushi feels he has no choice but to take over the mothering role by process of elimination, but he still doesn’t think it’s possible for him. Maybe it is better for everyone to be dads after all? He’ll just be a dad with some motherly traits. En asks whether they want to cooperate as a dad and a motherly dad.

Atsushi: That’s fine, but......En-chan, will you be able to be a good papa? En: It’ll be better than me trying to be a good mama, right?

As Atsushi’s explaining some stuff to Ash, En thinks about how Atsushi is totally a good mother.

Cue exposition about how Ash is so lovely and cute and wonderful etcetcetc ok next section SORRY I’M JUST VERY DONE WITH ALL THE REPETITION

***

The activity starts with Ryuu offering to carry Ash on his shoulders. En thinks that Ryuu’s short, so he won’t be as good as it as En would be. Atsushi is worried about how he can be both a father and a mother to Ash.

Io: Hmm......straight to skinship, huh. That’s so like Ryuu.

OKAY IO. He then respects how the simple act of carrying kids on one’s shoulders can resonate with them more than anything. After all, Ash’s entry to the zoo was free (thanks to Io) and that didn’t bring a smile to his face.

After ten minutes, Ryuu gets tired. Io time!

It’s a bit cloudy, so Io suggests sitting down and getting something warm (like lemonade???? Io????) to drink. Ryuu’s pretty shocked by his behaviour and wonders whether Io’s actually used to this sort of thing. Wombat tells him it’s the power of love :P

Meanwhile, En-chan is totally amused. The rest spot they’re going to is reserved for shareholders. Io’s using the power of money even with a child as his partner.

Io tries to leave Ash while he goes to buy drinks, but Ash wants to go with him. That reminds Io of how he needs to focus on the important things because the crux of it is that Ash wants love. They end up buying lemonade and coffee.

So apparently it’s about to be Summer, but it’s still cold. The rest of the club has to wait for thirty minutes out in the cold. As En reaches his limit, Io and Ash finally emerge from the break area, looking very warm and toasty. They bring hot lemonade for everyone; Yumoto drinks it and pulls faces at the sourness; Ash laughs at him.

En and Atsushi get fired up over it. They ask what Ash wants to do and it turns out he wants to wash his hands since they’re sticky from the lemonade. En offers to give him a piggy back. Atsushi does his usual ‘wow how rare for you to be fired up’ thing, and En is surprised himself at how warm and fuzzy he feels carrying Ash.

After Ash washes his hands, he’s hungry. Time for lunch! Yumoto takes over, and En/Atsushi lament how all they got to do was take him to the bathroom ahahahahaha

They get to eat Gora’s handmade onigiri ahh. According to Yumoto, they look plain white, but they’re not. One of them has a pickled plum inside (like that winner’s coin in the cake tradition in England or something, I guess?). 

En: Urk, I don’t like picked plum. Atsushi: You can’t say that, En-chan. Gora-san went to the trouble of waking up early to make it for us.

En backs off :P Atsushi holds out a wet tissue to Ash and asks him which rice ball he wants. En starts another little thought about how Atsushi’s far more a mother than a father.

Ryuu: Wet wipes?! Who has those, usually? And a high school boy, at that!

On top of that, the wipes are antibacterial! NICE, ATSUSHI.

Cue sob story about how Ash’s lunch was only ever sandwiches (he wonders if his mother even knows what pickled plums are) and now that she’s in America she doesn’t make lunch for him.

Most of the defence club aren’t happy that Ash has been reminded of his mother, but Yumoto’s pretty excited over the sandwiches. He manages to turn Ash’s mood around.

Apparently making sandwiches is more effort than making onigiri I’M LAUGHING Yumoto sums up the trip by saying that he’s glad they came to the zoo, even if the capybara exhibit was a disappointment. (Everyone: That last bit was unnecessary!)

En asks Ash how the onigiri is and Ash hurries to try one. He makes a face because it’s sour; everyone laughs (the biggest laughs of the day!).

Atsushi: That ‘Ash~ How’s the umeboshi onigiri?’ was so dad-like; nice. You asked it knowing he hadn’t eaten one yet. That’s really like you. En: Shush, you......

HAHA HI

They all start to ponder whether they’ll ever be able to solve Ash’s actual problem, since they can’t be with him together. They want to bring him home wearing that angelic smile of his.

Chapter 5: The Angel’s Little Fever

Ryuu suggests that Io do something about the capybaras, at least, with his money. Usually, Io would reject these suggestions, but this time he agrees, as it’s regretful Ash only got to see one. It’s rare for Io to express regret.

Apparently Ash’s mood has been going downhill since lunch. Atsushi asks him if he’s cold, but nope. Yumoto tickles his tummy, but to no avail. Ash just says ‘it’s nothing’...while clearly looking as if there is something please communicate, child. En asks Atsushi what he thinks is going on.

Yufuin had a habit of turning to Atsushi when he didn’t know something.

And then:

Zaou, too, soon turned to Naruko when he didn’t know something.

Unfortunately, nobody knows! Yay! They figure it must be because he’s thinking about his parents or something, so they decide to change locations. They try to think of places they liked visiting as kids.

En: I’ve always been the indoor type......I can only remember going from home to school and back again. Atsushi: For me......it might have been the school grounds......and then the library or the assembly hall. Ryuu: If you’re after date spots, I know plenty, but...

Sometimes Yumoto goes camping with Gora sometimes, so they decide to go hiking/camping on Mt. Binan. Atsushi’s like ‘haven’t we been there recently’ and En-chans remembers they used to go for excursions back in primary school. According to Io, there didn’t used to be much around, but recently they built a hot spring there to revitalise the town and there are a lot more buses that go straight there. He’d been wondering whether he should invest there, but apparently a lot of others were going to make it quite extravagant, so he held back; besides, the Kurotama Bath is enough for him. They decide to go, and return to the Kurotama Baths at night.

Ash is in a bit of a better mood after that.

***

The bus carries them right into the heart of the mountain, and then it’s a twenty minute walk from there to the top. Io complains about the company being halfhearted by not taking them all the way to the top. They can see a building at the top that really doesn’t suit the overall feel of Binan City --- it’s the hot spring. Nobody likes the look of it.

Ash seems to be getting tired. Yumoto offers to piggyback him, prompting more jealousy from Ryuu. Meanwhile, Io is still complaining about the bus route ahaha

ENTER THE STUDENT COUNCIL

A limousine passes by them. It looks familiar to the third years. The only people who’d have a car like that in this town...it’s Kin-chan’s family.

***

Inside the limousine, the student council are having a nice chat. Akoya things the people they just overtook seemed familiar. Kinshirou knows it’s the defense club because only they would walk around on the road in such a disorganised manner. Arima noticed the kid. Akoya hopes they’re not going to the spa, but Kinshirou reassures him that they have private rooms. He’d just like to avoid running into them in the public areas (especially since it’s a holiday).

Arima’s watching Kinshirou out of the corner of his eyes with a bit of a teasing smile.

Ibushi: Well, it’s not that bad if we go in with them.

But Kinshirou doesn’t answer.

***

Yup, even as they get closer, the spa still looks just as gaudy to En-chan. Zaou reckons it’s like a high-class love hotel; Io retorts that he doesn’t know what they’re like.

Atsushi is optimistic, saying that they don’t usually come to these sorts of places. Yumoto, of course, is super excited. It’s like a castle to him, and he hopes there’ll be those lion fountains with water coming from the mouths.

Ash isn’t very energetic. And wait, he’s shivering? They decide to go inside quickly; it’s very nice with all its stone floors and chandeliers etc

AND THERE, UNDERNEATH THE CHANDELIERS, is the student council, sitting at a table decorated with roses. They’re elegantly enjoying welcome drinks.

Yumoto is excited to see them. En is like...ohh man. Io realises that the investors who’d made the building all extravagant are likely to be Kin-chan’s family...

Kin-chan is clearly displeased. Beside him, Arima’s smiling and enjoying the situation i like this ibushi more than the manga version tbh.

Atsushi tries to make small talk but when Kinshirou stops answering him Akoya takes over.

Akoya: You knew we might be here, and yet you still came. On purpose. In other words, you had no consideration.

Ryuu gets mad; it’s like Akoya’s saying they’re not allowed to come! Arima smiles and says it’s fine for them to be here since it is a public facility. Ryuu says he won’t get in the same tub as Akoya, to which Akoya replies that’s natural, since the student council has a private room. Yumoto tells them that baths should be for everyone to share! ‘Naked bonding!’

Kinshirou admits that this is a public space, so he has no problem with them being present. He asks what Ash is doing there, and Yumoto says that Ash is his little brother for the day. Kinshirou’s lost for words......or rather, keeping silent. Instead, Arima laughs and says, ‘your little brother for the day. You’re as interesting as ever, Hakone Yumoto-kun.’

Then, surprisingly, Kinshirou speaks again. Ash looks unwell to him, and they suddenly realise that he has a fever. Then, again, unexpectedly, Kinshirou offers to lend them the car. Even Akoya stares at him for that. Atsushi beams and thanks him, and En turns to him to tell him that the offer is appreciated, but they’ll be fine. Kinshirou doesn’t reply.

Yumoto’s about to run back the way they came, but En stops him, because there’s a faster way than a limousine! HE’S SO SMART and Yumoto understands. Love Making happens. Atsushi’s worried about the practicalities of Yumoto transforming with Ash on his back, but Wombat assures them that thanks to his highly advanced technology it’ll be okay. Wombat’s actually kinda useful in this novel ahaha

 There’s some banter about why they’re still spouting lines when there’s no enemy to defeat. En and Atsushi are embarrassed. En tells everyone that only he and Atsushi need take Ash to the hospital *waggles eyes*. Everyone else is to contact Ash’s dad and bring him to the hospital. EN-CHAN. HE’S BRILLIANT.

Io is the first to agree. En picks Ash up bridal-style.

En: In the end, it’s this again. (referring to when he’d first caught Ash)

The other three start arguing over who’s going to find Ash’s father first. Io’s already looked up his workplace so they’ll branch out from there.

Atsushi: When you do that, you seem more like a knight than a dad. En: What’s with that.

The two of them sped towards town, cutting through the wind, truly looking like knights protecting a princess.

***

Meanwhile, Kinshirou is remembering Atsushi’s thanks (but not En’s, lol, bc Yufuin who???).

Ibushi: We didn’t even do anything deserving of gratitude, hm.

Kinshirou doesn’t reply. Akoya takes a sip of tea (black) and says with less bitterness than usual that they’re idiots, since it’d be warmer in the car. Kinshirou agrees. Arima says that it’s like them, though. Kinshirou leaves wordlessly but he comes back to his VIP seat not five minutes later.

Akoya asks where he was, naturally, and Kinshirou waves him off with a really vague answer. Arima’s smiling teasingly again.

Ibushi: Speaking of which, the only hospital operating at this time on a holiday would be your family, right, Kinshirou? [...] You won’t let yourself say that you called to ask them to take care of an emergency case coming now.

lol arima why you gotta call him out like that

Kinshirou: You’re talking quite a bit.

aka shut up in polite words ahaha

Chapter 6: Let’s Talk Love in the Tub

A neighbouring town to Binan city. A large road ran through the town, but the bullet train didn’t reach it, so there were only small shops etc by the road. It’s an even quieter town than Binan since it doesn’t have hot springs to liven it up.

Scarlet and Vesta are searching the town. They’re in the most residential area, but nobody’s around; they recall that Ash said his father barely came home. Io’s missing. Ryuu tells Yumoto that Io must have gone straight to Ash’s father’s workplace. Yumoto decides to yell for Ash’s dad before they leave just in case, and while Ryuu is dubious, it actually works. A tired-looking man in his thirties rushes to them all ‘did you say Ash?!?!’

Io’s shocked that Ryuu and Yumoto found Ash’s father first. There’s a short conversation where Yumoto tells Ash’s dad to spend more time with him.

***

Ash has already been examined by the time they reach. He’s calling for his parents while he’s sleeping in bed. Wombat’s finally feeling guilty but En tells him that there were problems even without that. Wombat laments that though they spread love as the Battle Lovers, they caused this poor child so much suffering.

A bit more talk on how Wombat will, try, in time, to do something about Mr Tawarayama.

***

Ash’s dad grips Ash’s small pale hands in both his own while the defence club look on from a distance. Yumoto tells him that Ash will be okay because his dad is holding his hand.

Ash’s father: Honestly...I’d been thinking he hadn’t eaten much lately. He’s never had much of an appetite, but that’s been especially true of late......Even the dinner I prepare is barely touched when I come home...... Yumoto: When I’m alone, I don’t have much appetite either. Eating alone is no fun.

YUMOTO DOESN’T MEAN TO BE CRUEL. But like, ouch. En and Atsushi try to soften the blow by saying that Ash’s dad works so it can’t be helped. Ash’s dad apologises to Ash for coming home late all the time.

There is a stilted, awkward conversation between Ash and his dad. En tries to smooth things over when it peters out. But as it turns out. Ash doesn’t want to go home.

***

Ash was fed up with being a good boy. He hated both his parents --- but there was nobody around for him to tell that to, so all he could do was cry. He called his grandfather wanting to hear his voice, but nobody picked up. Maybe he was busy. So he tried emailing him, but received no reply. He rushed out of the house, thinking that there had to be some reason why, and went to the school......He was afraid that his grandfather had gone somewhere far away, like his mother had. He climbed a tree hoping to spot a glimpse of his grandfather, and there decided he didn’t want to live anymore. Not even he knew whether he was serious. But the next thing he knew, he was falling towards the ground. As he fell, scared that it would hurt when he hit the ground, he was caught in the arms of an older boy.

***

The defence club can’t believe that they’d met Ash only the day before. They’ve all grown so attached to him. Wombat can’t talk because he’s pretending to be a toy, but he wants someone to explain that Ash’s dad really does love him and worry about him.

Yumoto addresses Ash’s dad (who startles at it) instead.

Yumoto: Ash said he doesn’t want to go home, but I don’t think that’s actually true! It’s not that he doesn’t want to go home; it’s just lonely being alone all the time!

Everyone agrees. Yumoto tells Ash that it’s okay to tell others when you’re lonely.

Yumoto: When I was younger, I felt lonely too at times. But An-chan always told me, ‘Yumoto, you can tell me if you’re lonely.’ Kids don’t have to hold things in. So Ash, you can say it too, that you’re lonely. Okay?

Ash gets a bit angry. He tells Yumoto that he’s really childlike.

Ash: I mean, my parents are both busy with work, you know? It can’t be helped......Wouldn’t it be wrong to say I was lonely? It’s not like they can take time off. They wouldn’t earn any money, and we wouldn’t be able to eat.

They all wonder how to tell Ash that there needs to be a balance, that Ash is too young to tamp down on his loneliness for those reasons. Wombat understands that Ash’s dad desperately wants to say something, but doesn’t know what; he’s the sort who isn’t good with his words, even though he’s not a bad person. mmmmwelllllll there’s always an excuse isn’t there.....

Yumoto says that Ash should tell his parents anyway.

Ash: And what would that change? Would they quit their jobs and stay with me all the time? Would they bring me to the zoo? [...] Nothing would change, okay? So if I said I was lonely and nothing changed, that would make me even lonelier......

En says that it does sound like it can’t be helped, but he puts a hand on Ash’s head. Yumoto sees that Ash’s dad does love his son, so he tells Ash about how he used to tell Gora he was lonely sometimes, and when he did, Gora would always play with him. So what Ash needs is......an older brother?!?!

That’s not right :P

They realise that Mr Tawarayama was to Ash what Gora was like to Yumoto. Then Yumoto remembers Gora used to tell him something...Atsushi gets impatient waiting for him to elaborate (as does Ryuu immediately after). Yumoto realises that there’s a deeper feeling to express than loneliness. You have to say, ‘I’m lonely! I love you!’ Then, apparently, you must hug.

Everyone is confused. But love is something you start by giving, not receiving! is it really but ok sure

En-chan explains that the reason Ash gets lonely when his parents aren’t around is.........He gets a bit embarrassed, but he finishes the sentence.

En: It’s because you love your papa and your mama. Right, Atsushi~ Atsushi: That’s right. Good explanation, En-chan. En: Shush, you.

Ryuu agrees that when you want a girl to like you, it’s fastest to say you like her first. Io retorts (as usual) that that’s a bit of a different thing. Ash’s dad wipes tears from his eyes (even though he did nothing but stand there the whole time) and Ash is a little surprised by that.

***

Back to the baths! ...Or is it, because Ash has a fever, so he really shouldn’t be taking a bath. Yumoto gets the feeling that his baths are good for colds, though! Ash’s dad promises to go with Ash when he’s recovered. Ash is still shocked, but he’s happy.

***

The defence club return to the Kurotama Bath and Ryuu tells Io to do something about the zoo again. Io’s already submitted his opinion on it as a shareholder. Atsushi tells En he’s being uncharacteristically quiet....and it’s rare for Atsushi to turn the conversation to En. (is it really??? huh) Usually, it’s En calling ‘Atsushi~’.

En’s wondering which of them represented family best to Ash. There’s a bit of a dispute, during which Ryuu tells Io he was more of a guardian, to which Io realises that while yes, he was, guardians are meant to stand in for parents, and parents are family. Apparently this is a childish rebuttal. En says that without him catching Ash, none of this would have happened, so this is all thanks to him (he uses ‘ore-sama’ cute). Ryuu doesn’t think that’s quite right.

Atsushi says that while he was plain, he managed quite alright with Ash. And En says he was a total mother; Ryuu says it’s pretty great because it was natural; Atsushi is like, ‘uh, is that a compliment???’

They all tell him it is and while Atsushi is a bit mixed about it, he doesn’t dislike it. Wombat tries to sum things up by saying love is something you give first, and Yumoto’s like ‘this time you were just a pink toy for the whole thing!’

Cue cuddle time!

The sound of wood being chopped leads Yumoto to reminisce about how Gora is always loving him, so he wants to give love to people just like that!

En and Atsushi are like, that’s fine, but saying it out loud is a very Yumoto thing to do. They tease him a bit about how Yumoto’s more of a kid than Ash.

***

Several days later. It’s drizzling at dusk. A blonde boy holding an umbrella heads to the Kurotama Bath on his father’s back.

The rain soon stops, in the sky just above father and sun, shines a rainbow, faint yet radiant with the entire spectrum of colour.

THE END

(There is an afterword, but not much is said there.)

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Random Survey 1.

1. Do you have a nice yard? If so, do you spend a lot of time outside in it? If not, where do you go when you want to relax outdoors on nice days?

The new house did come with a yard, yes.  I don’t think the previous owners really knew what to do with it, though, as it’s pretty bare.  I’ve got plans for it, this spring, though!  We’re getting rid of the evergreen that had been planted right next to the garage, because that’s a dumb place to put a tree.  We have a huge side yard, so I want to plant a new one, there.  Maybe a cedar.  I dig cedars. I also want to plant lavender in the back yard, and maybe fox gloves, and put a smol gazebo-thing for a place to sit.  The roomies will have to clean it out a bit, though, as it’s currently full of their puppy’s poo, and I don’t fancy kneeling and digging around in it, when the time comes. 

2. Is there a group of friends that you used to hang out with but no longer do? Why don’t you hang out anymore and how do you feel about them now?

Sure, I’m sure everyone does.  There are friends I knew in school, who just faded away after I was no longer in school.  There were friends who proved toxic, who simply no longer exist to me.  There were friends who came with my husband and predictably (and thus painlessly) disappeared the moment he became my ex-husband.  A lot of people in life are temporary.  Most, in fact. 

3. Do your parents enjoy any of the things that you enjoy? Do you bond over these things?

I inherited about half my taste in music from my dad (classic rock, like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, etc.), so we bond over that.  Any time I discover a video of someone doing something awesome with a guitar, I’ll share it with him, and he was really impressed with 2Cellos.  Things like that.  When I was a kid, I bonded with my mom over hiking. We used to go to state parks and pick a creek and follow it back into the wilderness for hours, come back wet to the knees and muddy and sometimes vaguely hypothermic.  (Fuck ur namby pamby trails, ok?  City Folk...)  We don’t really bond over anything any more, though.  She’s turned too toxic for me to do anything but keep her at a safe distance.

4. Did you ever say or ask something that you assumed was a neutral subject, but the person you were talking to became offended and you had no idea why?

... Honey, you know what site this is, right..?  

5. What is the movie that you have waited the longest for/which film do you remember anticipating the most/are still anticipating?

I waited with bated breath for both Only Lovers Left Alive and Crimson Peak.  I’m really fond of Tom Hiddleston, so when I heard he was gonna a.) star in a vampire movie with Tilda Fucking Swinton, and b.) do a Gothic Romance directed by Guillermo del Toro, I was completely ecstatic on both counts.  I always get a little “oh yay!” moment when I pick up on the actors/directors I like doing something new, but in those instances in particular I was glued to the screen for any news until they came out.

6. Do you have any ideas for a story or movie you’re planning to write or you’d write if you got the time/had the talent? Please share a synopsis!

Oh dear lord...  So far as stories, there are so many, and I feel protective enough of the ones I’m actually working on to not wanna share a lot.  There’s an Epic Steampunk Fantasy I’ve been working on for like ten years (AKA The Goddamn Novel).  Since I’m giving that one a break until the ideas feel fresh again, I’m also working on one involving The Magic of Writing and a girl inheriting an outrageous fortune and being haunted by her awesome great great aunt, and there’s also faeries.  There’s about a thousand interconnected short stories I wanna do modernizing Changeling legends.  There’s a gothic fantasy about a pair of incestuous half-demon half-siblings who usurp their actually-worse father’s kingdom.  There’s... there’s just a lot I wanna do, ok?

If you want movie ideas, let me show you my book shelf, but god help you if you don’t respect the source material, okok.

7. Do you ever feel like anyone is “out of your league” or does that concept not make any sense to you? What do you do when you’re attracted to someone but find them out of your league?

I don’t think leagues exist.  I mean there are people who are Very Not Suited for one another, and sometimes it’s really obvious they’re not, but...   When I’m interested in someone, all I care about is whether the interest’s mutual.  If it is, then yay!  If it’s not, you lick your wounds and move on, or maybe you at least get a shiny new friend of out of it, which is pretty great, too.  You’ve just gotta talk to them and find out.

8. What is something that an interested guy/girl could comment about you, that would make you instantly open to them (e.g., “That book you’re reading is from my favorite author”)?

Instantly open... eeehhhhnnn *vague hand-wiggle*  I think I’ve got too many trust issues for that, really.  But similar tastes/interests/viewpoints is a big plus.  

9. Do you refer to yourself by any sort of fan nickname (Belieber, Little Monster, etc.)?

I’d classify myself as a phan. (Phantom of the Opera fan)  I don’t think any of my other fandoms actually have cutesy names.  Or, if they do I’m not involved enough with the social aspects of it to know.

10. Do you ever just get lazy and give up on your friendships?

When that’s possible, I think it probably shouldn’t actually be classified as a friendship.  Sounds more like an acquaintance, to me.  At which point, yeah.  

11. Is there a person in your life (maybe barely) that you feel in constant competition with (even just in your imagination)? Maybe you feel they are consistently outshining you.

No.  There are people I admire, and consider sort of role models.  But, as twee as it sounds, the only person I’m ever working to outshine is past!me.

12. If you are single, even if you are normally happily single, are there certain specific things you witness that make you wish you were in a relationship (e.g., people getting engaged)?

I am mostly happy single, but I miss having someone to cuddle with sometimes. So, little intimacies, I guess?  Romantic gestures just for their own sake, especially if the person has paid enough attention to their partner for it to be actually personal and not generic.  Or, people having intimate conversations, where they really obviously click and they’re just excited about each other.  I don’t feel jealous of people who get to do these things, but they do make me feel a little lonely.

13. What sort of situations make you feel most self-conscious or inadequate? Are there any people or places that just make you want to crawl into a hole? If you can’t think of anything specific, can you remember the last time (or any time) you felt this way?

Wasn’t our school system designed around creating instances like this...?

14. Out of all your usernames for websites, which one is your favorite? Do you use it for more than one site?

I like the one I have here.  It’s from a Dorothy Parker poem (one of the ones where she isn’t just trying to be flippant and clever, though I like those, too.)  Over on the only other site I really do much on, I go by sister_midnight, because David Bowie is one of those celebrities who I always kind of felt like was a beloved weird uncle I never actually got to meet. Also I like that song.

15. Are there any cities near you that you’re afraid to go to because of the crime rate or its other bad reputations?

I don’t think I’d want to be in parts of Indy after dark.  But honestly there are plenty of rural places and smaller towns around here I’d say that about, too.

16. If you went to camp as a kid, was it a pleasant experience? Do you think that all kids should be able to go to camp? If you didn’t go to camp, do you feel like you kind of missed out on something?

I got hustled off to Bible Camp, once.  I mostly didn’t bother protesting because it was something to do away from home, and my step-mother never respected me not wanting to go to church, so church-camp was the same sort of thing. It was kind of an alien situation, seeing as I hadn’t actually been Christian for about five years, by that point, but I was also used to it.  Plus, sometimes it’s just interesting what you can learn by letting people think what they want and just standing back and... watching them go.  I learned way more about what they were really like by doing that than by reading the Bible, that’s for certain.

17. Do you grandparents ever judge you or stick their heads in your business? If not, is there someone else in your life you dread seeing because of their unwanted input?

I was half raised by my grandparents after my parents divorced and my Dad moved back home, with me in tow.  They were never Catholic enough to do the church thing often, but by god they were Catholic enough to wanna use judgement and shame as a means of trying to browbeat you into who they thought you should be.  According to my father, the judgement started at conception, actually.  I was an accidental pregnancy, you see, and Grandma only stopped abusing him over it after he pointed out that abortion was always an option.

18. Have you ever spent the whole day (or multiple days) just looking up one thing on the internet (e.g., videos of your favorite band, how-to videos, quizzes, etc.)?

I studied faerie lore pretty much non-stop for like five years when I was a teen.

19. Would you ever go on a media fast (i.e., avoiding tv, movies, the internet, and magazines for a certain amount of time, in an attempt to become aware of how media makes you feel)? Do you think that sort of thing would benefit you?

Yeah, and actually I have found it beneficial in the past.  It’s good to take a break and unplug sometimes.

20. Are you happy with where you currently live? If not, what don’t you like about the area and do you plan on leaving?

I love the actual land, where I live.  We have some beautiful countryside, here.  But I don’t like the people, and would love to eventually move someplace more liberal.  I love New England, especially around Boston, and my best friend lives there. (Though I don’t think I’d want to live in the city.)  I’d like to poke at the West Coast, especially around Washington and see how that suits me.  And I adored Ireland, when I visited, so I wouldn’t write that off as an option either.  For now, though, here will do. I’m in a good situation to save up money and plot a permanent escape.

21. If someone told you that we live in a society that hates women, how would you respond?

Seems obvious to me.  Though, I do hold out a certain amount of hope for things to change for the better. We just need to build enough guillotines and put them to good use.

22. When was the last time you were on a boat? Whose boat was it, and what were you doing?

... I honestly can’t remember that last specific time.  o_0  Clearly I should fix this.

23. Have you ever been completely blindsided by a break-up or have you sort of felt all of your relationships deteriorating before they ended? If you would prefer not to answer, what is the last instance you can remember being totally blindsided by news you heard?

No, not really. Generally you can feel things starting to unravel.   

24. Can you remember the last thing you thought and subsequently thought, “wow, I really shouldn’t be thinking that”?

No.  Like Shakespeare said, thought is free.

25. If you ever think about getting married, what are some aspects of the wedding that you would like to see in a non-traditional manner (e.g., a different color dress or “partners” over “husband” and “wife”)?

I don’t do white clothes, wedding dress or otherwise.  As for the rest, if I bothered with a second wedding it would actually be for me, this time, so you can bet it wouldn’t be traditional.  Given that I couldn’t see myself choosing a traditional partner, I don’t imagine they’d mind.