Some days, it's hard, to see...

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                   Birds flew together in the air as the blazing sun slowly rose from its sleepy perch beyond the horizon. The sky was painted many shades of red, orange, purple and gold, and cool breezes blew peacefully over their feathered bodies, swirling and whistling around the buildings and few people walking in the early hours of the morning, almost as if it were dancing gracefully to an unknown source of music. Most people were home in their houses at this time. Some who had night jobs had just returned home and got ready to obtain some much needed rest while others, like business men and medics, had just left home to commence long hours of tiring shifts at work.

                       The aura of the environment was very peaceful considering the major battle that had just taken place. The three way war between the Guild, the Port Mafia and the Armed Detective Agency had finally ended a few months before. The Port Mafia and The Armed Detective Agency now had a formal truce and constantly constructed joined missions between different members. While work did continue as normal, it spiced things up a bit to have mafia members continuously passing through the agency, despite not planning to blow anything up.

                     Atsushi sat comfortably on the windowsill of his dorm's dining room, peacefully watching the sun rise. A steaming cup of green tea sat graciously between the palms of his hands and every so often, he took a few sips of the warm liquid. Mornings like this were, surprisingly, not very rare for Atsushi. They occurred every time he had a bad night, which was almost always. Nightmares and memories plagued his mind day and night, and he just couldn't find a way to make them stop. It was easier to distract himself whenever he was doing missions or was buried in piles and piles of his and Dazai's paperwork; it was the reason he always agreed to do the man's paperwork even though it was always tiring to complete. However, due to the recent events, he'd had more free time than before. Meaning more nightmares.

                   Because of this, he began startling awake at ungodly hours with a scream caught at the back of his throat, accidentally waking Kyouka. Feeling guilty, he made sure to wake up without making a sound from then on. From there, he'd crawl out of the closet, making sure Kyouka didn't wake up, and make a pot of tea. Then he'd wait for his special guest to arrive. Speaking of which, said guest should be arriving soon. As if on que, there was a knock on the door and someone else walked inside the small apartment.

       "Ohayo gozaimasu Dazai-san," he called softly to the man behind him.

        "Ohayo Atsushi-kun," Dazai replied calmly.

                    Dazai leaned against the edge of the windowsill, nursing the cup of tea Atsushi had left on the dining room table for him in his hands. They both watched the sun as it continued to rise, basking in its warm rays and the peaceful silence they'd created.

         "So how are you today Dazai-san? Was last night any good or was it the usual?" Atsushi questioned. 

         "It was...  better than normal but still difficult," The man replied softly. Atsushi could hear the tiredness in his voice though. It saddened him to know his mentor had nightmares, causing him to also have insomnia, just the same as him. He wished he could take all of Dazai's pain away. Conversations like this happened often between the two of them. 

                      They'd gotten pretty close over the time in which Atsushi had come to Agency. He trusted Dazai more than anyone else although he cared just as much for the rest of the agency as well. Even a certain few mafiosos had managed to worm their way into his heart. However, he spent most of his time with Dazai, though Kyouka came in at a very close second. They'd begun opening up to each other about certain things and Atsushi was grateful that Dazai had trusted him enough to do that. 

                        Their conversations were widely ranged. They'd talk about food, work, things that annoyed them and things that calmed them down. Sometimes they'd talk about each other's day, and other times, about Dazai's old partners and subordinates in the Port Mafia. There'd normally been hatred and disgust in his voice whenever Dazai talked about the mafia but when talking about certain people, namely Akutagawa, Kouyo Ozaki, and especially Nakahara Chuuya, his voice would always go soft. He knew there was another reason Dazai left the mafia, but as the man never brought it up, he never bothered to ask.

        "How was your night Atsushi-kun. You woke up earlier than normal today," Dazai asked him in return.

        "It was... worse than usual today. B-but  I was able to calm myself down and everything so you don't have to worry Dazai-san!" He quickly responded. Burdening Dazai with his problems when the man already had his own was something he constantly worried about.

         "Don't say that Atsushi-kun! Of course I'd worry about my little kitten!"

                           Atsushi felt heat crawl up his neck as his face burst into many shades of red from embarrassment.

          "D-d-dazai-san!!!" He exclaimed loudly as Dazai joyously laughed at his embarrassed face. 'Cute,' the man thought as he watched Atsushi hide behind his hands. As he rotated his gaze back to the now fully awakened sun that was now shamelessly showing off its entire body, he couldn't help but let a soft smile plaster itself on his face. The first real smile he'd had in years.

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                    Atsushi treaded at a steady pace towards the meeting place for his current assignment. Though the day had been peaceful so far, he'd been having very off feeling. For the past few days, he'd been having nightmares and while that was normal, these nightmares were not. They were not riddled with self deprecating words, the face of the head master or the tiger. The landscape would be completely covered in black goo and cryptic messages would be written in the goo via white scratches. The messages were always blurry and while he never remembered exactly what they were, they always left a cold chill running through the marrow of his bones. The most clear message was the most recent one; and it left him confused and terrified.

Come to us...

Don't be afraid...

Or we'll come find you...!

Oh Grantors Of Dark Disgrace...!!!

                     He'd originally planned to keep it hidden, and was already doing so as to not burden the others. However, this new part of the nightmares really worried him, so he'd decided that he'd talk to Dazai-san about it during their next morning talk. As of now, he had to focus on his assignment.

                      For the current mission, a rare pair had been chosen. Nakahara Chuuya and Nakajima Atsushi. The mission administered to them was not, difficult, per say. However, it required powerful physical abilities and a well thought out plan, which had been provided to them by Ranpo-san. Due to many of the others having different tasks to complete, Chuuya and Atsushi were the only ones available for said mission.

                Surprisingly, this mission was the the first time they had actually seen each other. Atsushi had heard many things about the gravity ability user from Dazai, in-between and after cases, and Chuuya had heard a lot about the weretiger from Akutagawa during their tea sessions in either his or Akutagawa's apartment, and Dazai as well as he liked to brag about his 'Cute new subordinate' on all of their missions together. From just that alone, they seemed to be pretty close. He actually felt sorry for the kid for getting attached to someone like Dazai. However, they had never actually met before. 

                  Atsushi was wearing his regular outfit; a white button up shirt, a black tie, black suspenders, black knee length dress pants, black fingerless gloves, black shoes and an overly long black belt. Chuuya also wore his regular outfit which consisted of a white button-up shirt under a dark red vest, a black choker, a black ribbon bolo tie held together with a small silver buckle, an open black cropped jacket with the sleeves rolled up at the elbows, black slacks, a black belt hanging off his right hip, black low-arch shoes and black gloves. He also sported a long black coat with light-colored lining, lapels that he wears around his shoulders like a cape and a light red undercoat. 

     "Uh- um.... Hello there Nakahara-san. It's a pleasure to get to work with you! My name is Nakajima Atsushi," Atsushi introduced himself nervously once they had both arrived at the meeting spot for the mission. He looked down at the man in front of him. 

      'He's shorter than I thought he'd be,' he thought absently. 

               He softly trailed his gaze over the executive's figure, observing him. His clothes were very professional and stylish, and Atsushi wondered how much his outfit must have costed. He unconsciously shivered, feeling his wallet drain just thinking about how expensive the outfit must have been. The older man's hair stood out greatly against the dark colours he wore. It was a vibrant shade of orange, a fire-y kind of orange if you will. He'd never seen any colour as bright and powerful as this. His bright blue eyes flashed glamourously in the moonlight and greatly complemented his slightly tan skin.

                 Chuuya also took his time to observe the weretiger carefully. He looked very nervous and seemed to unconsciously curl in on himself. The clothes he wore were boringly plain and very drab. Whoever the hell gave the kid these clothes needed a serious talk about proper fashion. His silver hair seemed to shine brightly in the small amount of moonlight that shone on him from the moon as it slowly began to rise and the sun finally said its last goodbye. It was then that Chuuya's gaze landed on the weretiger's eyes, and to say he was surprised would be an understatement. They were a mesmerizing mix of both purple and gold. They were bright like a gorgeous sunset and seemed to hypnotize him the longer he stared into them. Unfortunately, reality tauntingly danced in front his face as he came to a sudden realization.

     "WHY IS THIS BRAT TALLER THAN ME?!?!?!?!?" He yelled inwardly.

               He immediately became very pissed off and a large scowl placed itself comfortably across his featured.

     "Um... N-Nakahara-san..?" He suddenly herd the weretiger call for him. 

           He automatically snapped out of his thoughts and schooled his expression into a calmer one.

      "Alright. My name is Nakahara Chuuya and I'm a Port mafia executive. I've been sent here today to work on a mission with you since no one else is available. So what's the plan Nakajima-kun?" He stated in a professional tone.

    "And also, please call me Chuuya! There's no one out there who calls me Nakahara-san!"

    "Alright Naka-um-Chuuya-san! Please call me Atsushi then," Atsushi quickly replied.

    "No problem Atsushi-kun," Chuuya responded calmly, with a wide smile.

         They then quickly discussed the details of the mission. Lately, strange kidnappings had been happening. There seemed to be no pattern to the kidnappings as the range of victims was very large. People were kidnapped on their way home from work, from their homes in the day, from their beds, from orphanages, slum groups, bars, jail and even work places. The ages of the victims were of a wide variety as teenagers, adults and children were all taken. The one similarity was that all victims were ability users. And that was where the dangers came in. All of victims' abilities were either dangerous or had the potential to be. 

           The group found responsible was a group called 'Universal Change'. The group had large connections to high ranking underground human trafficking organizations, experimentation businesses, slave trade companies and even the government. Thankfully, they did not have the governmental immortality of the guild, making them easier to deal with. Said fact, however, did not make the group any less dangerous. They had extremely large numbers and majority of their group was made up of ability users. Sending the two of them alone was very risky, however, neither of them were in any way weak so the mission should be completed in a few hours time. 

              Once all information had been shared, the plan had been formalized and earpieces had been distributed, both parties made their way to the location of the headquarters. As they had both memorized the layout of the headquarters before arriving, the plan was immediately put into action. The first part of the plan was for Atsushi to take down all of the non-ability users while Chuuya shut off the security system. You see, the way this organization was laid out was that, all the members without abilities would patrol areas with no security since they were viewed as scum that had no value. Their deaths didn't matter so no security was placed to inform anyone if something happened to them. As the ranking goes up, you earn more value. Atsushi was to seize all the territory without cameras and take out as many members as possible as some low ranking ability users also patrolled there. To get higher into the ranks as silently as possible, Chuuya would head to the security room and switch of all cameras and security devices.

                This part of the plan was performed swiftly and with accuracy. Once Atsushi had finished taking out all members on patrol and the few ability users he encountered, he immediately headed to meet Chuuya in the security room. Chuuya had just finished powering off the security system when Atsushi arrived and informed him of the completion of his part of the plan. 

     "Alright. Part B - Ambush. All of the Higher raking members should be in a meeting right now. The meeting room, the floor its on, and the floors below it will be guarded by about 60% of the group's members as the ones you took out already made up 10% according to the information that detective of yours gave us," Chuuya explained quickly, "Let's go."

                      They quickly made work of the ability users guarding the room and floors, with Chuuya simply crushing them with his gravity and Atsushi either punching them unconscious or slashing them with his claws, seriously, but not fatally, injuring them. They then continued onto the final phase of the plan - Defeat and capture the remaining members.

                     Chuuya harshly kicked down the door and they both rushed inside. Fists were automatically thrown and abilities clashed. However, something seemed off. Despite being the 'highest ranking members' of this organization, they didn't take too long to take down. In about fifteen minutes, all the enemies were defeated. A heavy atmosphere lingered in the room as Atsushi nervously looked around the room.

      "Ch-Chuuya-san..? I've got a really bad feeling right now," Atsushi stammered shakily.

                   Something was off and they could all feel it.

       "I know Atsushi-kun. Something here's not right" Chuuya responded quietly.

                  Chuuya unconsciously got closer to Atsushi. Although they had just met, and were not close by any means, Chuuya felt determined to make sure the kid remained safe. It was the least he could do as the weretiger's current partner. He was also pretty sure Dazai would annoy him to no end if he let something happen to his 'cute subordinate'.

Drip.

Drop.

Drip.

Drop.

Pit.

Pat.

Pitter.

Patter.

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Drip. Drop. Pitter. Patter.

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DRIPDROPDRIPDROPPITPATPITTERPATTERPITTERPATTER...

PINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!

                   Patterns of different noises began to play on repeat in their ears. The noises went gradually from calm sounds to high paced screeches.  Atsushi's sensitive hearing picked up on every sound and was able to locate where each was coming from. That information led to the clarification of his current thoughts. There was someone else here. However as soon as he turned to tell Chuuya the room began to spin. A large headache began to form as the room seemed to be warping. The sounds from before picked up even more speed and seemed to be moving as if it had a sugar rush. He glanced at Chuuya and could tell that he most likely was experiencing the same thing.

                  Then the sound of a bell came then rang in the form of a large 'Ping!' that left his ears ringing and his head pounding. Neither he nor Chuuya seemed to realize that their abilities had been unconsciously activated. Byakko growled lowly in the back of Atsushi's mind and Arahabaki actually became silent for once. It was as if they knew that their vessels were in danger. Everything became eerily silent.

                  Then the world went dark. The last thing their minds were able to register before finally going blank, was a sinister voice echoing the words...

                  Absolute Cancel.

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Well hello everyone!!! I haven't updated since 2020!! Don't worry, all my published stories will be updated soon, and if not, they're jus on short hold because of my tests and assignments. I had limbo, folk and ballet class from like 3:30pm to 7pm and I had wo assignments and one project due at 12. I became fed up with myself being lazy about updating so I refused to go to bed without finishing this chapter. Anywho I hope you'll enjoy it. I'm not sure what ships to put in here so just comment next to the one you want!

Dazai x Atsushi

Akutagawa x Atsushi

Dazai x Chuuya x Atsushi (Yes this is a ship. It has its own tag on Ao3 if you wanna check it out)

Male OC x Atsushi

No ships

I'm literally addicted to Yaoi so you're going to have to really convince me if you want a male x female pair. Unless the anime only has male x female pairs like Date a live. Anywho, I'm planning to release some of my million and one drafts soon (hopefully) so you can look foward to that! Remember to stay safe guys! Luv you!