Soup and Sniffles
natasha romanoff x reader
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summary: you're sick and dont want natasha to find out. she finds out, fluff ensues.
word count: 961
notes: hey everyone this is the first fic im posting pls no hate 😄😘
You practically fall through your open window onto the floor of your bedroom, knees almost buckling underneath you. You’re able to catch yourself in just enough time to stop your face from slamming into the ground. The impact from your sort of fall is still loud, though, and you pray Natasha couldn’t hear it.
You realized you were sick two days ago, but only today had you really started to feel the full effects of your illness. School was a nightmare with a stuffy nose and constant headache, and with no time in between classes and patrol, you were absolutely miserable. But, not wanting to worry Natasha or risk being labeled as “useless”, you kept it to yourself and stuck it out. One fight in particular left you stumbling and sneezing, the guy’s ice powers making you feel even more sick. You’d managed to make your way to your shared apartment with Natasha. You couldn’t wait to take a much needed nap.
A knock on the door makes you jump up from your spot on the floor, which you happened to be very comfortable in. Natasha’s voice is muffled by the door.
“Y/N? What the hell was that?” she asks. Shit.
You panic. Clear your throat as quietly as you can, hoping to sound much less congested than you are. “Nothing! I’m ok, I swear.”
“I’m coming in,” she states, and she’s next to you before you can even begin to protest. She notices the carpet moved out of place under your feet and smirks. “Did you fall through the window?”
“Maybe,” you reply. She quirks an eyebrow at you. “Rough ni-” you start, but a cough racks through your body and you’re forced to double over. You recover as quickly as possible, shooting back up with a sniffle and a smile. “Rough night,” you finish. You break eye contact with her once you see the concern laced in her green eyes.
“I can tell. Did you get hit?” she asks, looking up and down your body looking for an injury that could be the source of your cough. She takes your face into her hands and studies the cuts littering it until your own hands push hers away.
“No, I’m fine. Well, I did get hit, but I’m fine. No problem.” You smile at her. It doesn’t reach your eyes.
The back of Natasha’s hand finds your forehead before you can react. Your mind tells you to pull away, but your body leans into the contact in search of comfort. She frowns as you sniff again. “You’re sick.”
“No I’m not,” you argue, finally finding the strength to pull her hand away from you. It drops to her side and her eyes search yours.
“Yes, you are. How long have you been sick for?”
“I haven’t been sick because I’m not sick.”
“Then why do you sound so gross?”
“I’m not gross.”
“You’re pretty gross.”
“I’m not sick, Nat! Jesus,” you swipe your hand under your nose and sniffle miserably. Her fingers find your face once more and she turns your chin to look at her, thumb swiping away a tear you didn’t know had fallen. Natasha looks at you, really looks at you. You’re shivering under her touch, just slightly, but enough for her to notice. Your eyes are sunken and red, as well as the tip of your nose and your cheeks. She looks back into your eyes.
“What’s wrong?” she asks softly, barely above a whisper.
Tears fill your eyes and you let them. “I don’t feel good,” you tell her, and the wall breaks. She pulls you into her and kisses the top of your head. You're very aware of the grossness you're getting on her shirt, but she doesn’t care.
“I got you,” she whispers over and over into your hair, rubbing circles on your back as you sob. Eventually your legs simply give out, but she’s there to hold you up. Drags you over to your bed and pulls away, forcing you to look at her. She hands you a tissue to blow your nose into.
“Gross,” she comments. You giggle tearily and she smiles at you. “I’ll make you soup if you wanna go shower.”
“Mkay. C’n you do tha’ thing where you put m’ clothes in the dryer so they’re all warm?” you look up at her with the best puppy eyes you can muster. This time she giggles at you.
“I guess so. Try not to take twelve hours in the shower, I want hot water too.”
You know she really wouldn’t care if you took forever, as long as it made you feel better.
You jump in the shower, and when you’re out (45 minutes later), there’s fresh clothes sitting on the toilet for you, plus a fluffy towel. You throw on the clothes and ring out your hair, walking towards the kitchen to the smell of soup.
Natasha watches you and shoots you a small smile. “Better?” she asks.
“Yeah. Less gross,” you reply honestly. Your nose is a lot less congested and your shivering stopped for the most part. You plop yourself down in your spot on the couch and Liho, Nat’s cat, jumps up with you. You pull her into your arms and lay down on a pillow given to you by some distant relative, paying little attention to the sitcom running on the tv.
Nat turns to bring you a bowl of soup, but sees you passed out on the couch, snoring quietly. She walks over and grabs your favorite blanket from over the top of the couch, draping it over you and kissing your forehead. Notices you’re a lot less warm than before, smiles down at you. The soup could wait for later.
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Naruto au where Jiriya comes back to Konoha to adopt Naruto like he promised to do but somewhere along the way they get Tsunade back in the village and Tsunade becomes Sasukes caretaker (She adopts him but neither are comfortable calling eachother mother and son yet so they stick with "The Lady in my house who cooks bad" and "the brat who doesn't appreciate good meals when he sees them")
Then at some point when Naruto and Sasuke are genins Jiriya and Tsunade get married and now Naruto and Sasuke have to live together. There's a really emotional scene of Sasuke having to say goodbye to his old home and its like "oh god its really all over they're not coming back I'm not coming back I can't just leave them behind I need to let go but I just can't do it" and Tsunade calls Sasuke her son for the first time and he totally doesn't cry!!!
Forest of death but Sasuke Sakura and Naruto already know who Orochimaru is, Sasuke knows absolutely not to trust him so the curse mark doesn't really affect him too horribly but it does lead for a lot of tension in the group. Also after being the girlboss she was born to be Sakura decides she can't be protected anymore and bc Tsunade is like, right there she asks her if she can be trained and Tsunade says yes obv. Hiruzen dies purely because i hate that guy but Orochimaru also dies to Jiriya and Tsunade also because I really really hate him too.
Theres the time when Kisame and Itachi visit Konoha and Itachi hears Naruto refer to Tsunade as his mom and Sasuke as his brother and hes GOT to know what's going on so he spies on them and learns that Sasukes been adopted but he sees this moment of Tsunade announcing she's pregnant (what a shocker she was 🤏 that close to never having to worry about pregnancy ever again but Jiriya just couldn't keep it in his pants for another 2 years, the manwhore.) And itachi sees Sasuke realising he's gonna be an older brother and being super happy about it saying he's gonna be the best big brother ever (Hades hangs his laundry on the bar its so low all he's gotta do is not kill everyone and he's already better than Itachi) and Itachi is like "ah man but how's he gonna get stronger there's no hatred in there i need him to do my suicide for me!!!" But Jiriya noticed he was there and confronts him a little later but see Jiriyas a little smarty pants and has been living in Konoha for years and always knew there was something fishy with the massacre and danzo so Jiriya just bluffs his way to the truth (Phoenix is that you?) And he's like "look Sasukes ur brother but he's my son now, he has enough nightmares and enough trauma and enough trust issues to last him a lifetime feck off and if you wanna die so bad then kill yourself and don't use your brother as a tool for ur suicide" <- I may be projecting a bit but ANYWAYS Itachi and Kisame have to leave Konoha bc Naruto is under watch by Kakashi, Tsunade and Jiriya and they are NAWT winning that fight.
Skip to shippuden era Sasuke v/ Itachi fight but Itachis been skipping out on his meds!! (He did it because he's a nerd loser guy who thinks "oh man sasuke isn't angry or filled with hatred and overall living a really terrible and unfufilling life he's probably so weak i need to stoop down to his level") Oh no so hes really super sick and Sasuke has picked up a lot from Tsunade so he knows Itachis time is near and although Sasuke really wants Itachi dead he's like "fuck it, dude you absolutely ruined my life and gave me trauma I'm never ever going to recover from sometimes I still wonder if my friends or family are going to turn around and kill me do you know how fucked that is why the hell did you even do that I don't want some bullshit excuse tell me" like he absolutely chews that loser (derogatory) out and Itachi is like, "kk ill tell u everything" and Sasuke is RUINED and he takes like a long 30 minutes of silence between the two just sitting there for Sasuke to go like "Itachi, I don't... think I forgive you. But I understand why you did it. I would have done it too" And its very emotional!! That moment is all Itachi needs bc he was sort of barely clinging onto life as it is and now that he's got peace he can finally die and they share a really sweet moment before he goes :(
And when Sasuke gets home and cries, (this time he can admit it cause he's a big boy now and understands it's okay to feel) to Tsunade he calls her his mother for the first time and its so ahaishahabnabsjsjnd
Anyways they all lived happily ever after the end no wars no nothing all over bye bye
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SO UH. ITS REALLY FUN TO DESIGN/REDESIGN BOTS.
Design Notes (WARNING. LONG AS HELL)
General note: if im givin em (slight) digitigrade legs im givin em a tail. for balance. and for funsies.
Daigo (M-DIG)
its his stupid lil jacket
to differentiate him from fishiki (both predominately white/monochrome bots) only his upper half is white. again. jacket...
platforms. #shortkingdaigo
slightly wider waist (still. snatched as hell. bc the bots look like that)
Mine (M-MIN)
kirin influence
rgg can pry his red/brown/gold color palette out of my cold dead hands.
pretty sure the lil fur tuft on his tail is real fur.
congrats! you programmed a robot that can experience love! unfortunately this means that he & his bf are going to be Insufferable
Has the gunshot wounds Mine sustained on The Ruff
ALT: he uhm. he fell.
Ryuji (M-RYJ)
BIG FUCKIN DRAGON !!!!!!!!!
added in the black from his coat trim. + the other colors are a combo of his suit + the one dragon from the strength tarot.
also wider waist than default
Has the gunshot wounds Ryuji sustained in the finale
ALT: i think they just . gave him a random spare part arm HJGHKWEHTLEW it doesnt even match w/ his colors..... doesnt even turn into a gun either booo
Nishiki (M-NSK)
hes fish !! i was allllmost considering giving him a fancy lil tail fin thingy but mrrr. nah.
again . lots of focus on differentiating him & daigo. adding more colors n shit helps
if u look reeeeal close in the midsection the uhh. black section has a real faint y0 shirt design.
shortest of the 4 if you don't account for Daigo's platforms.
ALT: i had to look up. so many burnt out cars. anyway. he exploded.
Kiryu
dragon elements but more normal abt it. he doesn't care as much as ryuji (who is. #1 territorial dragonposter rep)
bulkyyy. his legs are the closest to what the actual canon bots have???
Akiyama
bird but also catboy. stray cat strut......
first robot to experience the effects of smoking (outdated)
the lil gold accents come from his lil necklace
Saejima
yes the fur pauldrons are real fur. scritching him....
obligatory tigerposting. this does mean he's SO patterns though.
Tanimura
this guy's got turtle shells. rounding out the whole 4 gods motif
otherwise. pretty standard design. shortest of the 4. etc.
Masato
a lil busted to hell n back
most exposed wiring
most snatched waist of the bots
Cancelled Governor Ryo Aoki
literally just repurposed the masato bot lmfao
anything pure blue was entirely replaced, otherwise they just kinda sorta. painted over. lmao.
bulkier replacement legs since support was an issue
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Thinking of how, so many times before, I’ve watched women in mcc, and how sometimes they would go silent (or be talked over) for a minute, maybe minutes at a time, only speaking up occasionally to add something small, and how nobody on their team would really comment on it. Now thinking about how, today during one of the games, I can’t remember when, Jojo didn’t say anything for... ten seconds? Maybe not even? and Shadoune immediately spoke up, asked her what happened, why she wasn’t talking, expressed concern, i can’t remember if he suggested technical issues (because he had some earlier), and she quickly said no, no, I’m alright and he immediately said something like, oh, okay, don’t do that! You need to talk! And obviously it wasn’t those exact words, (paraphrasing, translation), but something along those lines, and I can’t exactly explain why it’s so special to me, but like, I think sometime back in S1, watching Niki spend minutes without saying a word to her team, seeing people post about False not getting listened to, having a tiny part of me accept that that’s just how things were for women- idk, it just makes me think like... things will improve. And I wish I could have shown my two-years-ago self that: I loved mcc then, and I still do now, but I always had to numb myself a little to watch it- to ignore the little things like getting talked over or else I would get upset. And that was such a small moment, really, it almost meant nothing, and maybe it does to other people- but it means something to me.
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