Code: Execute

Code: Girl's Night In (+ Dazai)

(Y/n) and Dazai were both smiling idiots for the next few minutes as they questioned each other all about their day and what they had to go through. Y/n had grown tired yet again and had laid back down on her futon. Dazai laid beside her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders in a way that rested her head slightly atop his chest.

To be frank, they were cuddling into each other's sides in the futon, but neither seemed to mind as they continued their conversations.

He held his free hand in the air to animate his story as he dramatically narrated the rest of his day to her.

. "Then, when I came back from the alleyway, Atsushi was strangling Haruno while under Q's curse-- just like this."

He held up a hand and mimicked someone strangling another  He's so childish...

"Then, when I used my ability to stop Q, Atsushi got all depressed so I thought, What would Y/n do to cheer him up? Then, once he had his mind in the right spot again, we all headed here."

Y/n couldn't help but laugh at his childlike antics before she asked, "So, what would Y/n have done in that situation? What did you do to calm him down?"

"I slapped him."

"O-Osamu! I would not hit him!"

He couldn't help the teasing smile that tugged at his lips before he said, "Oh, but you hit me every time I talk about sui-"

A loud slap resonated throughout the open apartment, followed swiftly by a yelp of pain from the injured man. The yelp caused the others in the apartment to all hurry up the stairs to see the pair lying on the futon side-by-side. One was massaging the red slap mark from his cheek. The other was massaging the pain in her hand away.

The pair were turned towards one another now as they laid beside each other-- each getting in each other's personal space to defend their arguments. They were arguing like children at one another, completely unaware of their spectators on the stairs.

"I told you to stop talking about that in front of me, you brought this on yourself."

"I know that you know I was joking right then! But you still had to slap me! If only your slaps were a special ability, then they would be disabled as soon as they touched me..."

"Oh, hush. I didn't even hit you that hard."

"You're massaging the pain in your hand away! You hit me hard enough to hurt yourself!"

"You can't prove that!"

"I will be able to prove it in a few hours once this bruise shows up!"

"You can't prove I hit you though, it could have been someone else!"

A strong and familiar voice broke through their playful banter, cutting off both of their arguments to one another.

"That is enough, you two. Y/n, you should be resting as much as possible, not arguing.  Dazai, you should be trying to get her to rest, not trying to get her worked up."

The pair turned to look at the older gentleman who held an expression on his face that begged them to try and argue with him.  With his arms crossed and the firm look adorning his features, both Osamu and Y/n sighed in defeat before they turned onto their backs with a huff.

Y/n turned her head to look at the brunette lying beside her as a smirk made its way onto her face and she asked, "Oi, why did you copy me just now?"

The brunette sent her a smirk of his own as he replied. "I'm the one being copied here, why don't you reflect and think about why you are copying me."

Y/n was about to retort before she heard Yukichi clear his throat from in front of their lying forms. Both she and Osamu lifted their heads and saw Yukichi standing there with an impatient expression on his face. His arms were crossed and his foot was tapping lighting against her floor. He had a single eyebrow raised as he stared down at the pair with a look of exasperation on his face and said, "Why do I even try to stop your bickering. It's almost as if your only joy with being around one another is to just argue."

Y/n went to sit up and argue, but she felt an arm that was wrapped over her shoulder pull and press her back into the mattress.   Osamu has expertly stopped her attempt to retort to Yukichi's statement before he said, "You should rest.  And Sir, that is only one of the few things we enjoy doing with each other.   We live for our enthralling arguments."

Atsushi spoke up this time as he said, "That's really one of the only things you like about each other?  You guys are practically joined at the hip, and you only like arguing?"

The pair nodded in unison towards the boy, each with an innocent look upon their faces.  The tiger boy sighed and facepalmed before he muttered out, "It's like they're the same person...  The same irrational person..."

Haruno and Naomi giggled behind the tiger boy before Naomi whispered to the other woman, "It looks like she told him how she feels~"

Haruno nodded and whispered back, "And it looks like girls' night is going to be canceled~" Atsushi turned to face the pair before he shyly asked, "Confessed? What did Y/n confess to Dazai-san?"

Naomi had a cat-like smile on her face as she said, "Wouldn't you like to know, tiger-boy! She confessed her L-O-V-E to him!"

Atsushi's face flushed a bright pink before he yelped out, "W-What! She confessed her love?!"

Both Y/n and Dazai heard the boy, and they could see his red-tipped ears while he faced the women standing behind him.  At the same time the pair smirked at the boy before they simultaneously said, "Atsushi, you're such a pure boy... Stop copying me..."

end chapter

(This is a short one, because I wanted to get to the juicy parts to come.)

As some of you notice-- I have not updated in a "few" months, so I'll give you the reasons why:

1.)  For Summer 2021, I was a Senior, about to graduate with my Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design and Technology (think of it as studying how to properly teach and train people since so many people, as evident with the pandemic, don't know how to do something as easy as running a distance learning e-course effectivley). This summer, I have had to take 4 classes in order to graduate, otherwise, I would have to wait until the summer of 2022 to receive my degree, and waiting a year is NOT an option!  For those of you without experience in college, full-time course work for summer is 2 classes (6 credit hours) and I was doing double that.   With that said,  I am now officially done with homework as of August 10th, 2021! Yay!

2.) I have a new job! It's a great job where I will get to use my degree in the future!  I can't tell you the name of the place because that would reveal A LOT about my location, and I'm not ready to die because of a loony out there reading this . Anyway, it's a full-time job where I work 40+ hours a week, and on top of my school, I have about 1 day a week where I might not have homework for a few hours. That lack of free time turned me into a loony, but now I am going to slowly revert to a mentally stable human.

In summary...

My life was a bit hectic for a few months, but now that I'm graduated I will be posting more often!  I thank everyone for their patience and support! <3

Becca :)