#furuya rei has got me fucked up

[sienne-k]

i just spent the whole three days of the easter hols devouring akai x furuya fanfiction in a fugue state and i am not in an emotionally stable mood to go to work tomorrow

like no regrets 10/10 would do it again, i'm just saying reading fanfic should occur in a separate time dimension so that i could have read all the fic i did and still have three days off work to recuperate and nurse my bleeding heart and pick up my damaged brain so that i can actually function tomorrow and not accidentally start sobbing and freak out my boss

[alitaimagines]

character: furuya satoru, hongou masamune - daiya no ace 

song recommendation: one last time - ariana grande  

note: someone wanted an imagine like my previous one with Harada and Ryo so here’s that! I’ve switched them to being third years. 

everyone watched as you cussed Furuya out clean. everyone knew this argument was going to happen but they had no idea you were going to do it in front of the team. 

Sawamura and Haruichi stood in silence, making an uncomfortable face as Seto and Okumura watched with their mouths wide open. They all felt like it was like watching a car wreck, they knew they should’ve turned away but couldn’t. 

“and you know what Satoru? I frankly wasted two years of my life with you thinking that you would love me!” you exclaimed, “only to find out that you dated me because you felt bad for me?” 

Furuya didn’t mutter a word as he knew that it was best to just remain quiet and listen to you until you finished. “God, I don’t know if I want to scream in anger or frankly risk a suspicion to kick your ass,” Sawamura gave you a look, “don’t do that. just leave,” he whispered in your ear. 

you tried to bite your tongue back, “I’m glad we graduate in two months because I don’t know how much I can last looking at you without wanting to much you square in the throat,” Haruichi grabbed your shoulder to pull you away. 

you grabbed Furuya’s sweater off and chucked it at his face, “and the next time you want to play with another girls heart, MAYBE SHE’LL BE THE ONE TO KICK YOUR ASS,” you stomped away but not without wanting to turn around and give him one final yell. you ultimately decided against it and made a bee line to your bedroom.  

once you got into your bedroom, you grabbed a box from underneath your bed and went into the drawer that you had solely for Furuya’s things. it was a bunch of clothes he had left or you had stolen from him. 

you heard a knock on your door not a few minutes later, “hey, ( your name ), they want to meet with you in the principals office,” you immediately whipped your head up, “me? for what?” you asked your roommate, “I guess for the scholarship and summer internship in Hokkaido.”

you immediately got up from the floor as your roommate followed you, “did you finally do it?” she asked implying Furuya. you nodded as you rolled your eyes, “the entire team heard it so hopefully he learns his lesson,” you muttered before entering the office. 

she gave you small smile as she told you that she would wait outside until you were done. you were immediately ushered into the principal’s office and noticed several people around the table. 

“good afternoon!” you greeted as excited as possible, “I’m sorry I look like this. I was just finishing up with my manager duties and got caught up with decluttering my room,” you knew it wasn’t right to lie but you couldn’t exactly tell your principal and faculty about the real reason. 

the principal waved you off as she smiled, “well, as you know, you were in the running to get the full scholarship to Hokkaido-University as well as the summer and fall internship with Nippon-Ham and we’re excited to announce to you that you’ve been selected as their only final entrant,” you gave your principal a look as she slid over the papers that held all the papers. 

“you’re pranking me! this can’t be real!” you squealed as looked at the acceptance letters, “ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I’M GOING TO HOKKAIDO?” you yelled making them all laugh, “I’M INTERNING FOR NIPPON-HAM, OH MY GOD!” you screamed.

“we are sending you over to Hokkaido University this weekend to get a familiar feeling with the area,” one of the Nippon-Ham faculty explain, “and while you’re there, you’ll be getting a tour with the rest of the interns to get recognized with our arena.” 

you nodded excitedly as they all shook your hand, “we are happy to welcome you to Sapporo,” they stated as they watched you squeal again. 

once they excused you and you met up with your roommate again, you gave you one quick look before showing her the papers, “I’M GOING TO HOKKAIDO!” you yelled before she tackled you into a hug, “I told you that you would get the internship! holy hell! you’re going to work for Nippon-Ham!”

“oh my God, this day turned out so shitty but with the news that I’m going to Hokkaido, this completely turned the day around!” you exclaimed making your roommate laugh, “what if I fall in love with a Nippon-Ham player, that would be fucking amazing!” 

she put a hand on your shoulder, “as long as you find a boyfriend for me,” she stated. 

-

what your internship team failed to tell you was that they were sending you to Hokkaido on Thursday instead of Friday so once you got the call that your car was waiting for you at the front of the Seidou, you immediately packed everything into your small bag and ran to the front.

“hey, you’re going to be late for practice!” you heard Sawamura say. you stopped for a brief moment, “Rei is going to tell you why! just make sure you’re not late!” you yelled at him before continuing to run.

Sawamura and Haruichi gave each other a look of confusion before walking to the field. as soon as they made it to the rest of the group, Rei gathered everyone together. 

“( your name ) will not be attending practice starting today and ending on Sunday. she was nominated and chosen for the summer-fall internship with Nippon-Ham and will be attending Hokkaido-University for her four years,” Rei told them, “so make sure you congratulate her when she returns.”

everyone gave Furuya a discreet look. it wasn’t exactly news that Hongou had accepted the offer from Nippon-Ham as their starting pitcher and if his gut feeling served him right, Furuya had a feeling that the two of you were going to run into each other this weekend. 

you on the other hand shared the car ride with an intern from Ugumori. as soon as you got in the car, she gave you smile, “hi, I’m Amy, you’re ( your name ), right?” she asked. you nodded, “how exciting is this, right?” you exclaimed. 

the entire car ride was spent with the two of you getting to know each other and figuring out that you both were roommates in the hotel room you were staying at. 

the ride to Hokkaido felt like an eternity but as soon as you entered the district of Sapporo, the two of you whipped out your phones to take pictures of the city. 

“we were instructed to drop you off at the Nippon-Ham stadium so you can take your internship photos,” the driver said as he made a sudden stop in the front of the stadium. 

both you and Amy got off the car as the driver told you that he would be waiting for the both of you to take you to the hotel room after your day of activities were finished. 

after all of the interns arrived to the stadium, you realized how rigorous the competition for the internship and scholarship was. besides you and Amy, there were only two others accepted. there was a boy from Ichidaisan and another boy from Yakushi. they introduced themselves as Rendai and Haru. 

“welcome to Nippon-Ham!” the lead coordinator said as she ushered all four of you inside, “we want to welcome you to the summer and fall internship with us. our internship will give you an open door too many opportunities that our team has.” 

you gave Amy a smile, “we tend to hire our interns after their internships are over as our full time managers. with many of our previous managers graduating in the fall and in the summer, we welcome our interns warmly,” your eyes widened at the thought of actually getting the opportunity to work full time with Nippon-Ham, “we work with Hokkaido-University to make room for your classes while interning and working for us.” 

the rest of the day was spent with getting to know the Nippon-Ham stadium and learning the manager duties that came with working with them. the last activity was taking the internship photos for their social media pages. 

they had given you the manager uniform to put on and you felt excited jitters as you put on the uniform. it was Nippon-Ham jersey with a matching athletic shorts for the bottoms 

all of you lined up against the mat as they took several photos. after the group photos, they took individual photos for each intern. 

“I’m going to run to the bathroom, I’ll be right back!” you told Amy as she nodded before telling you that she would text you the location when you were done. 

you made your way to the bathrooms and used it before quickly freshening yourself up and walking out. as you walked to the entrance, you couldn’t help but run into someone.

“I am so sorry!” you exclaimed, “I had no idea where I was walking and I apologize!” you rambled as you realized who was the person you had run into. 

you had met Hongou Masamune a few times because of your duties for Seidou. you knew of the attitude he carried and how easily upset he got with people. the only person who was able to calm him down with Renji. 

“Hongou, I am so so sorry!” you said again as he remained silent for a moment, “you’re fine,” he muttered. 

the two of you remained looking at each other and before you knew it, you felt a warm feeling creeping up your face as a small blush appeared on Hongou’s. 

“well, I should get going before my internship team starts worrying,” you whispered, “it was nice to see you again, Hongou.” 

he nodded, “my name is Masamune,” you gave him a look before giving him your first name and leaving. you without realizing it were swooning at the fact that he allowed you to call him by his first name. 

once you got back to Amy, she could tell that your attitude had completely changed, “what’s wrong with you?” she inquired, “oh nothing! just ran into a very old friend.”

throughout the weekend, the interns swapped between Hokkaido-University and the Nippon-Ham stadium. they were driving into all of your heads about how quick the internship was going to come. 

all of you had two months before graduation and they only gave the interns two weeks of vacation before they moved you into the Hokkaido University dorms for the rest of the year. 

time skip: 

you and Amy walked around the Nippon-Ham stadium, grabbing a few stray water bottles that some players left on the bench. both of you had offered to stay back and clean up the small messes everyone left. 

“hey, I’ll meet you back in the dorms! I’m getting a headache and I want to catch a nap before I wake up tomorrow with a migraine,” Amy told you, “make sure you text me when you get to Hokkaido so I can let you in!” 

you waved her off as you grabbed your bag and made your way up the stairs. you heard noises coming from the workout room and without a second thought, you made your way towards them. 

“oh, hey Masamune!” you said in a whisper-yell, “I didn’t know you were still here. I just want to remind you that all faculty is supposed to be out of the building by ten.”

he nodded as he got down from the treadmill and you without hesitation grabbed one of the water bottles you had hanging on your waist and wave it to him. 

“so, what are you doing here so late? I thought all Hokkaido players left hours ago,” you asked him. he shrugged, “wanted to work out,” he stated. you remained quiet as you silently cursed yourself out for your awkwardness. 

“well I’m calling an Uber to drive me to the Hokkaido dorms in twenty minutes, do you want to come with? I know the Hokkaido player apartments aren’t too far from the dorms,” you waited for his answer, “sure. meet me here in twenty and we can walk out together,” Hongou said. 

you nodded as you quickly left the room and ran to the locker room to get dressed. once you got to the locker room, you realized you were stuck wearing your uniform because you had forgotten to bring your post work clothes. 

“I’m sorry but I forgot to bring my other set of clothes,” you told Masamune as you walked out of the locker room, “I left my bag on my bed and forgot to grab it on my way out.” 

he shrugged, “your fine, let’s go,” he stated as you pulled out your phone, “we should call an Uber now so we’re not just waiting outside in the heat,” you told Hongou as he shook his head before grabbing something from his athletic bag. 

“I have a car,” you gave him a look before nodding, “uh, right! of course you do! I’m sure you Hokkaido players get played very well so why wouldn’t you!” you rationalized. 

Hongou for the first time gave out a genuine laugh, “are you hungry?” he asked. you thought for a moment, “just a little bit but I’m sure my roommate made us dinner!” you nervously replied. 

Hongou didn’t respond but he immediately turned the corner and made his way to the restaurant he always ate at after practice. you soon realized that Hongou didn’t listen to you but if you were being honest, you got butterflies thinking that he could’ve thought of this as a date. 

the two of you entered the restaurant and immediately got sat in a booth in the corner. the dinner for the most part went silent but it wasn’t until people started doing karaoke did the conversation spark up. 

“oh God, I haven’t gone out like this in months,” you admitted to Hongou, “what do you mean?” he asked. you hesitated on telling him but you ultimately decided to tell him considering you no longer had any attachments to Seidou.

“I’m sure you know Furuya,” you explained as his eye twitched at the sound of your ex’s name, “we dated for two years before I found out that he was only dating me because he felt bad for me when I first asked him out.” 

Hongou’s face went to complete anger as he started cursing Furuya out. you couldn’t help but grab him hand gently, “but we’ve been broken up for months now. I’ve moved on from that idiot and I’m glad I did,” you admitted. 

you bent over the table to give Hongou a kiss on the cheek and when you retracted, you were able to see the blush on his tan skin. 

-

Nippon-Ham was hosting a practice for all the first year players in the league. although it was a practice, it went by rather quickly before they ushered the players for the practice dinner. 

you were happy that the interns weren’t expected to help for the dinner portion of the practice and you sat with Hongou as Renji and Amy sat across from you. 

after the night at the restaurant, the two of you slowly progressed towards a relationship. you knew Hongou needed all the help he could get when it came to getting to know you and how a relationship works but you were more than willing to guide him through it. 

Renji and Amy were relatively shocked that Hongou was the one who asked you out in the first place but once they came to terms that Hongou genuinely liked you, they could see the love in his eyes for you. 

“hey, there’s a few reporters who want to talk to you,” you told Hongou as he sighed, “it’s only for a few moments and I’ll be right behind them if you want me to be.” 

he nodded as the both of you excused yourself from the table and made your way to the press pool. for the most part, the interview were going great until one of the reporters asked Hongou a question you knew wouldn’t fly with him. 

“so, you’re young and an amazing player. the only thing is you having a girlfriend,” your eyes widened at the question, “I have one,” he stated befor walking away. 

you gave him a look as he dragged you away from the press pool. what you didn’t realize was that you had someone following you discreetly. Furuya wanted to know if you were actually dating the Hokkaido player and he got his answer when he seen you go in for a kiss. 

“relax, remember what I told you?” you whispered, “you get nothing out of getting angry with the reporters,” he pouted as he went in for another kiss to distract you from the conversation. 

“you’re not going to distract me from this,” you told Hongou, “no matter how many times you kiss me, you need to learn how to manage your anger.” 

he shrugged before grabbing your hand, “I will, just for you,” he replied before giving you one more quick kiss before going back to the ball room where the dinner was being help. 

ALITA 

[musicprincess655]

Haruichi had seen Jun at practices before. He’d been on the team last year, and he still came by sometimes to help out, even if his version of helping mostly involved shouting and insults.

Today, though, it didn’t look like he was here to help. He looked flushed an excited as he called over Ryou and Kuramochi. Haruichi drifted closer, Furuya and Eijun close on his tail.

“You all have to come over later,” he was saying, gesturing with his hands. “I’ve finally had a breakthrough.”

“You can unbind us?” Kuramochi asked. Haruichi couldn’t read Ryou’s expression.

“I’m going to run it through with Rei-san while you’re practicing, and try it out on some more complex animals than a mouse, but I think we’ve got it,” Jun said. “If it goes well now, we could have you two unbound by the end of the day.”

That should have been good news. Haruichi wasn’t so sure, though. Both Ryou and Kuramochi were looking subdued over news that should have made them both happy. Haruichi had already seen how they were getting attached to each other, but he hadn’t realized that it had gotten this bad.

“Aniki,” he asked quietly as they left the showers after practice. “Are you and Kuramochi okay?”

“Why wouldn’t we be?” Ryou asked.

“Because I don’t think I’ve seen you look him in the eyes since Jun-san told us about the reverse spell.”

Ryou muttered something about troublesome under his breath.

“It’s not like I’m going to leave right away,” he said. “I want to stay until your contract is done. It’s your first one, and I want to make sure you finish it with no problems.”

“Does Kuramochi know this?”

“Does it matter?”

“I bet it matters to him,” Haruichi said. “And that makes it matter to you. Something’s been different with you two for the last week.”

Haruichi didn’t miss the way Ryou’s face twitched.

“You two are together now,” he realized.

“If you call a physical arrangement together, I guess,” Ryou said.

“Don’t be like that,” Haruichi said. “I know he means more to you than that.”

“Like Furuya means more to you than just a contract?” Ryou asked. Haruichi blushed. “Yeah, I noticed that. What are you thinking?”

“We’re going to figure something out,” Haruichi said. “I have at least two years before I have to eat his soul. I’ll find a way to keep him alive in the time I have left.”

“A lot of hope you have there for someone with no clue what he’s doing.”

Haruichi wanted to argue more, but they’d gotten to Jun and Tetsu’s apartment, and he had to let the subject drop.

“So here’s the circle,” Jun said, pointing to a pre-drawn circle on the floor. “Courtesy of Kuramochi, because he draws better circles than me, and supervised by me, because we’re not fucking up a spell meant to correct a fuck up.”

“Sounds good to me,” Kuramochi said. He looked even more dejected than he had earlier. Haruichi felt bad for him.

“Ryou, we’ve worked in that idea the two of you had of having you help with the spell to stabilize it,” Jun went on. “I have the words written out for both of you here.”

“Thank you,” Ryou said, stepping into the circle.

“Audience, are you guys ready?” Jun asked.

“OSH OSH OSH!” Eijun cheered. He was squashed on the couch between Furuya, Miyuki, and Masuko. They’d all been part of breaking this bond, and they all deserved to see it come to an end. Haruichi perched himself on the arm of the couch, leaning against Furuya for balance. Furuya wrapped an arm around his waist to steady him.

“You two can start any time you like,” Jun said, sitting down to watch next to Tetsu on the chairs they’d dragged over. “It might feel a little bit weird, but if you think something is really wrong, stop the spell immediately and we’ll do damage control.”

Kuramochi took a deep breath before lifting his paper to start reading the spell. He still hadn’t really looked at Ryou.

It was a long chant, mostly done by Kuramochi, with only some interjections from Ryou. Haruichi couldn’t see anything happening, even if he could sense the flow of magic. He couldn’t really see magic circuits the way Eijun had once described them, but he could easily sense them. And right now, there was a lot of magic flowing back and forth between Kuramochi and Ryou.

Kuramochi’s voice faded, and the flow of magic slowed to a stop.

“Well?” Jun asked, breaking the silence. “Did it work?”

Kuramochi and Ryou looked at each other for the first time since Jun had told them he could break the spell.

“We’re not bound anymore,” Kuramochi said finally. Eijun and Jun both cheered. Haruichi couldn’t bring himself to be happy when he was too busy looking at his brother and Kuramochi’s faces.

“I’m really going to miss you, Onii-san,” Eijun said, and Haruichi could hear the tears in his voice without having to see him. He really did wear his heart on his sleeve.

“Yeah, I’ll have to admit, it was interesting to have a demon around,” Jun said. “Figuring this out was a lot of fun. I’ll be sad to see you go.”

“I’m not leaving yet,” Ryou said. Kuramochi’s face was almost heartbreaking in its hopefulness. “I want to stay until Haruichi finishes his contract. Anything can happen, and I want to be here to stop it when it does.”

“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” Haruichi muttered.

“I’ll be covering half the rent for now,” Ryou told Kuramochi. “So I hope you’re prepared to keep buying me chickens every week.”

“Yeah, of course,” Kuramochi said, and that grin that was a signature of his expressions was back in full force. “You can stay as long as you want.”

“Make sure you don’t regret making that offer,” Ryou said. They both looked happier, though. And that was what mattered.

It wasn’t until they were filtering out of the apartment that Ryou spoke up again.

“I’ll meet you back at the apartment, Youichi,” he said. “I’m going to go out with Haruichi.”

“Going celebrating?” Kuramochi asked.

“Something like that.”

“Want me to get some drinks to celebrate when you get back?” Kuramochi offered. Ryou’s smile turned into a leer.

“Youichi, you aren’t trying to get me drunk so you can have your way with me, are you?” he asked dangerously. Kuramochi’s cheeks blushed pink, but he didn’t back down from the teasing like he had before he and Ryou had started their relationship. “But yes, if you want to buy alcohol, I’ll drink it with you.”

Everyone had waved them off as they split from the group, Haruichi assuring Furuya that he would be home soon. He’d probably still have to smoke into the apartment. Furuya wouldn’t be awake for much longer.

“Just to be clear, I’m not going drinking with you,” Haruichi said as they walked down the empty street.

“Of course you’re not,” Ryou scoffed. “I’m not taking you clubbing or anything like that. Maybe I just want to spend time with someone who understands what it is to be bound. It wasn’t long, but you were bound when you made a contract with Furuya. You understand what it would be like for me all this time.”

“Kuramochi understands that too,” Haruichi pointed out. “He probably understands better than I do. He was bound to you all this year.”

Ryou gave him a sideways look.

“This isn’t just so you can interrogate me about Furuya, is it?” Haruichi asked.

“I have better things to do than hear all about your lovey-dovey new relationship,” Ryou said. “Just promise you’ll use a condom and we’ll call it good.”

“Aniki!”

“What?” Ryou asked, looking unashamed. “You’re innocent, Haruichi, not ignorant. You know what sex is.”

“Doesn’t mean I want to talk about it with you,” Haruichi said, cheeks burning. He wasn’t really in the mood to talk about his lack of a sex life with his brother.

They walked in silence for a while, and Haruichi got the feeling that his real appeal to his brother right now was that he knew about everything that was going on with him and Kuramochi, and wasn’t Kuramochi. If there was anyone Ryou could talk to about all this, it was him.

“It’s nice to not have to go back,” Ryou said, stretching his arms above his head.

“But you want to,” Haruichi said softly.

“What?”

“You should stay with Kuramochi,” Haruichi said. “You’re happy here, happier than you were back home.”

“It’s not that simple,” Ryou argued. “We’re demons. We were built for Hell, not earth. This isn’t my place.”

“Why not?”

“Because no matter how much I want to stay, it’ll be hard on me and everyone around me!” Ryou snapped. “I have to have a chicken sacrificed to me once a week to even stay here long term! I drove off Youichi’s roommate and left him hanging on the rent!”

“Which you’re picking up with your job,” Haruichi said. “It sounds like Kuramochi will be fine as long as you’re here.”

“So I can keep living off a chicken sacrifice a week?” Ryou asked. “So I can go track down some new idiot to sign his soul over to me every few years? So I can stay the same age while I watch Youichi age and die? What kind of life is that?”

“I didn’t say it was an easy choice,” Haruichi protested. “But it is the best one, and you know it. You’ll figure something out.”

“Like you’ll figure out something for you and Furuya?” Ryou asked. Haruichi looked down at his feet. His brother had a point.

“I have time to figure something out,” he said. “I have a few years. There has to be some way for a human to live without a soul. And there has to be some way for a demon to comfortably live on earth. We’ll find answers, I can feel it. We just have to look.”

Ryou looked at him for so long that Haruichi was worried he would dismiss everyone out of hand again. When he finally did speak, it was the last thing Haruichi expected him to say.

“There’s something Mom and Dad told me that I’ve never told you,” Ryou sighed. “Something about demonic nature that I didn’t want you to know, because I didn’t want it to be turned against you.”

“What is it?” Haruichi asked. Something he didn’t know about his own nature?

“With any luck,” Ryou said, “it’s the solution to both of our problems.”