genre | university au; rivals to lovers; slow burn; crack; light angst; fluff; eventual smut (will be tagged)
synopsis | sworn rivals since childhood. swearing that they both hate each other—having no shame in showing it. but what if realization dawns upon them and the questions starts to rise? having to brush feelings off until somebody makes the first move.
warnings | kys jokes; suggestive content; midly ooc; offensive language; ignore timestamps; unrealistic portrayal of university life; self indulgent; very messy progression; tags may change
status | on hold (tryna make it english because my tagalog slang is declining)
taglist | open (send ask or reply)
Introducing the names of Sides of a coin
↬ mabangong tambay sa kanto, mini miss yaur, extras
Note: FINALLY FINISHED DERRETH'S ART aka I just put it as I left it because I was too lazy to fix it-
chart
red - love/crush
orange - best friends
yellow - friends
green - neutral
dark blue - dislike
black - hate
pink - admiring
cyan - fmily
Inazuma
Arataki Itto - both like each other a lot! They met in... quite interesting situation... but nontheless, both find each other's company fun! But it's easy to say they're both big troublemakers...
Kaedehara Kazuha - Derreth knows more about Kazuha than he knows about her. Not in a creepy way... she simply studied every emergency way of escaping Inazuma if the past accident will come after her...
Kirara - they're good friends despite not talking much! They talk usually when Kirara delivers her packages or when Derreth orders something, but she ALWAYS makes sure to stay on good terms with her best delivery girl!
Kujou Sara - Derreth absolutely HATES Sara!! She just can't stand how she's so dedicated to rules and all... Does she just have stick in ahh she can't pull out?
Kuki Shinobu - she's someone who saved Derreth on quite few ocasssions... thanks to hanging out around Itto a lot, both know each other quite well! Derreth also admirers Kuki for how many skills she has and how free she is~
Raiden Shogun - she doesn't know much about the archon... after all, Inazuma isn't her home city! But from the stories and the Vision Hunt Decree... she didn't really took a like of her... Despite all the Miko's stories...
Shikanoin Heizou - canon ship for me <3 Their stage of relatioinship depands on the time but they're indeed dating!
Yae Miko - Derreth thinks she's... definitely quite an interesting person! She doesn't hate her, in fact she likes how teasing she is! But... it also messes with her often... so that's why she sometimes has mixed feelings towards her...
Yoimiya - she's another person who she knows she can turn to in case of an emergency! They're often gossiping about newest rumors (mostly Derreth) and strike a small talk whenever they see each other! Unfortunely, they're not on best friends level YET
Thoma - she met him while she was making a little shoppings and was impressed by how well he can go down with prices! She immidietly approached him and that's how their little friendship started~ They don't talk often but she still likes him a lot!
Sumeru
Dori - they're both sisters! Dori is obviously a lot younger than she. Derreth thought she won't remember her because of how early she left the house or will hate her because of it, but to this day, they exchange a little secret letters!
Faruzan - when she was still living in Sumeru, Faruzan tended to... talk her ear off a bit too often for her liking... it was either stern talk so she began avoiding her. But madam still seemed to somehow find her and scold her for avoiding the elders...
Candace - Derreth likes Candace a lot! And especially she loves making jokes with her name~ It can't be said the same for girl with heterochromia tho... she isn't very fond of Derreth to say the least...
Nahida - she only knows the God of Sumeru from rumors and little dreams she had as a child! Yet, she absolutely admirers her national god because of how smart and kind she is! Despite living in Inazuma, she still thanks the God of Sumeru for every good thing~
Nilou - she used to hangout with Nilou a bit when they were younger! They even danced together every now and then! She was like her best friend~ But unfortunely, contact faded and now they don't talk almost at all...
Heizou : So what’s your deal? You one of those girls who’s all dark and mysterious then she takes of her glasses and that amazingly scary ear spike and you realize that, you know she was beautiful the whole time.
Fandom: Genshin Impact
Pairing: Kuki Shinobu/Shikanoin Heizou
Summary: Heizou is detective and Shinobu is a lawyer in modern Teyvat. They were childhood friends, separated by different paths. When they come together again, Shinobu realizes that some things are never truly over. A Tears of Themis AU
Ao3 Link
Shinobu had long since considered herself as having grown up. She’d moved away from the shrine village of the mountain a few years ago, defying her parents’ hopes for her dreams and future to move to Liyue to study the art of law under the finest experts in all of Teyvat. It was there that she had learned so much more than just the law.
She’d learned how to cook and keep house, but she also had learned how to exist with herself, how to learn a new set of skills, and how to market herself as an independent woman.
By the time she’d returned to Inazuma, she could hardly recognize the girl she’d once been. Of course, she didn’t go back to her village—instead she had gone to Inazuma City, to work for the Themis Law Firm there. She kept an apartment in the heart of the City of Eternity, and had made a name for herself. Kuki Shinobu, the lawyer who could take on nearly any case, the personal protege of the legendary Deng Yanfei. She ignored the calls from home, the voice messages begging her to come back now that she had her education and her fun.
When would they figure out that this wasn’t about fun, or some hedonistic impulse?
She would never come back to her hometown. She’d left her childhood behind, all memories under the pinkish glow of the sakura blooms and turquoise-blue moonlight.
But Shinobu never expected a piece of her childhood to come back to her, to come bursting into her independent life in the city.
It started with a case at Shimura’s restaurant, a class-action lawsuit by a group of businessmen who claimed to be poisoned by the pesticide used in the building. One of his waitresses, a young woman— who he had been supporting to go to the university, as he had so many students before—- had requested Shinobu’s aid in trying to fight the lawsuit.
“I know he isn’t careless,” she’d told Shinobu while wringing her hands. “I just know that someone’s framed him!”
Shinobu didn’t like the idea of letting an old man lose everything like that. So of course, she took the case and agreed to help Shimura. When she came to investigate and figure out if they had a case, she knew that the waitress had also hired a detective to help her.
But when the detective came through the door, she wasn’t expecting to see none other than her childhood best friend.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t Kiki Shinobu.” His mint green eyes surveyed her a moment before they met her own violet ones. “Fancy seeing you here.”
“Hello, Heizou.” Shinobu placed a hand on her hip. “So you did become a detective after all.”
He’d laughed. “Took a while, but I got there eventually.”
The way he looked at her, Shinobu knew he wasn’t just talking about the detective job.
Of course, after their initial investigation, Shinobu insisted on going out to dinner with him. They could catch up, as old friends. As the sun set over the hills, they spoke about what they’d been up to in the last few years.
Heizou had been the first to leave their small town on top of Mount Narukami. Too clever for her own good and brighter than the midday sun, he burned for glory, so of course he’d graduated a year early. He’d gotten a full ride to the university on Watatsumi Island, pursuing forensic science, a good and sensible career. Everyone was proud, excited for him.
Shinobu was too, although she remembered that last rainy afternoon before he left for good.
“It’s not like I’ll be gone forever,” he’d promised her then. “You can’t get rid of me that easily. Besides, with your talents, you’ll be there with me in another year.”
He was right, in a way. Perhaps growing up on Mount Narukami had given him the gift of prophecy in hanging around the shrine all the time.
Then again, he hadn’t been entirely right. Shinobu’s life had gone down a completely different path, one that nobody expected. Least of all her.
She’d applied to the university on Watatsumi Island in hopes of joining Heizou. But they’d declined her, for one reason or another. Shinobu wasn’t entirely sure. Not that she could have been sad about it for long. The day after her rejection came in from Watatsumi Island, she’d received a full ride for Liyue Harbor’s most prestigious university and had been put on the track to study law like she’d always dreamed.
She’d applied on a whim, a misplaced sense of having flown too close the sun, for surely it wouldn’t happen?
“And yet it did.” Heizou folded his arms over his chest and leaned back, clearly impressed. “And look at you now.”
“Look at you—you finally became a detective.” Shinobu paused, thinking of the years with no letters, not even so much as a phone call or an email or a text. “What happened, by the way? I thought you were fogging to become a forensic scientist, not a detective.”
A smile played at his lips, but something darker lingered in his eyes. “What can I say? Like you, the plan changed.”
Shinobu narrowed her eyes and said nothing. She knew better, she could read him too well. But she knew there was also no point in pressuring him.
Besides, who knew if their paths would continue to cross?
Naturally, their paths crossed plenty of times after that. More investigations, all linked together by mysterious drugs and chemical substances brought them together. They’d become a team for the cops to call, the most elite detective and lawyer, surely making Inazuma all the safer for it.
They didn’t keep it to work either. It became trips to Homuland Inazuma, a sleep-in at the aquarium. They tried making jade parcels from Liyue, from a cookbook that Shinobu had picked up during her cooking phase in college. Going to escape rooms and doing scavenger hunts together on their weekends off.
She’d surprise him with some new skill she’d picked up in her time away. He’d hint at yet another secret, a new mystery about the years away that he wasn’t ready yet to reveal. She hoped someday he would.
It was on a rainy morning as Shinobu sorted through old photographs sent courtesy of her mother as she listened to Variations on a Theme of Schumann that she had an epiphany. Seeing the green-haired girl who chased after the bold, daring boy in the photos, quietly making sure their misadventures ended in safety, it reminded her of how she had once felt when they were both children.
Some things were never really over, she’d realized. And she had never been over the childhood crush she’d held for Shikanoin Heizou. It was different now that they were both adults, it was something deeper and more complex. But she could recognize the base of it for what it was, the flame that had never gone out, the storm that never ceased.
It was then that she knew how she felt, and she had to tell him. Not over text or phone, no digital form could properly express the ever-dancing lightning inside of her.
Without abandon, she sprinted into the rain.
Others might have feared the rain pelting Shinobu’s skin, the lightning’s arc overhead or the howling winds. But how could Shinobu fear the storm? For that was her and Heizou in their very souls, they were the essence of the storm. An unstoppable force, meant to be together.
She was completely soaked through by the time she showed up outside of Heizou’s door. But she didn’t care.
“I love you,” she said when he opened the door.
She didn’t expect him to take on that disapproving, pitiful look. “We can’t.”
“I don’t care.” She took his face into her hands. “Whatever secrets you have, I don’t care, nothing can change this.”
“I know.” Their faces were almost touching. His tone was filled with a reverent admiration, like watching lightning touch the ocean and light up the waves. “Nothing can stop the great Kuki Shinobu.”
“So just let me in,” she whispered, even though she didn’t know why.
“I love you too.” That was as much of an answer as Shinobu needed to lean in for the kiss.
There would be time for discussions, for dark secrets, for a history to be unearthed. But for now, there was this, the electricity and the course of the wind. All else could wait.
El fanfic estará en español e inglés/The fanfic'll be in English and Spanish
Mientras termino mi siguiente fanfic TomoKazu quiero tener en mi mente ya a mis próximos candidatos. He escrito sobre ships medianamente populares y me apetece escoger esta vez un ship menos popular. Lo que tienen en común estos ships es que ninguno tiene un fanfic en Ao3 en español como protagonistas o directamente no hay ni uno, me apetece darles una oportunidad para brillar. Sé que es bastante probable que no sea tan leído como otros escritos que tengo, pero es lo que me apetece hacer y eso haré.