Beautiful lies

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Monday, 14th January 2023
10:34AM

To dazai's misfortune, he woke to the sound of his phone ringing annoyingly in his ear.
He groaned as he rolled over in his bed and fished for his phone on the beside table, knocking over an empty bottle of vodka while at it. He sat up slightly rubbing his eyes so he could actually see his screen, he stared at the contact name that read 'angry parent' he also had 32 unread messages and 4 missed calls from said person

It was at this moment he realised he was almost 2 hour late for work, his boyfriend was going to kill him

Dazai picked up the phone, flinching as he held it away from his ear giving his ear drums a chance to survive

"...hello?"

"JESUS CHIRST DAZAI YOU ARE TWO HOURS LATE FOR WORK" dazai groaned, he saw this coming "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS? GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE NOW!"

Dazai didn't get a chance to reply before the line went dead. He sighed as he tossed his legs off the bed and began changing into his work clothes

Dazai wasn't a fan of work, he would rather lay down all day as he soaked into nothingness. But thats not very healthy now is it? Work was always boring unless there was conflict between another organisation, particularly the mafia seeing as he used to be an executive before he fucked off after odasaku's death. Fighting with them is interesting seeing as he knows almost everything about all the higher ranking members. Although conflict with new unfamiliar members was just as fun

Eventually, dazai made it to the front door of his apartment, sliding on his dirty cream trench coat after popping his shoes on (forgetting to do his laces up as per usual)

He put on his usual annoying bubbly face and steps out the door

The agency isn't a long walk from his apartment so it doesn't take him long to get there. on his way there he greets as many people as he can, most would say its just his extroverted nature but really its just practice for when he sees the people that know him a little better.
Letting his mask slip could ruin it all

Eventually he arrives at the agency and starts to walk up the steps, slowly preparing for Kunikida wrath and he'll possibly be smothered too

The walls are rough in the stairwell...thats something dazai hadn't noticed until now. He didn't know why this interested him so much but it just did

After what felt like forever he finally made it to the office door, silently praying to himself

Dazai quickly opened the door and practically teleported to his seat not wanting Kunikida to see him and absolutely Destroy him.

Come to think of it, Kunkikida isn't normally THIS desperate to get Dazai into work, I mean he does want him in but never this badly

Dazai took a quick peek at the messages he was sent, apparently something important was happening at the agency and he was needed

"Oh Dazai-san you're here!" Well shit

Just when Dazai thought he had gotten away with sneaking in, Atsushi had discovered him, making Kunikida turn around and glare right at Dazai

Dazai groaned and hung his head back "oh Atsushi there are times when I just wish you were quiet, how could you do this to me?!"

He whips his head back and makes a god awful attempt as some puppy eyes before Kunikida made his way to Dazai's desk slamming his hands down

Atsushi quickly makes his leave and slowly waddles away, leaving the lovers to quarrel

"DAZAI! WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN YOU ARE WELL OVER TWO HOURS LATE!"

Dazai sighed "look love, I'm sorry I completely overslept"

Kunikida would never admit how much the word 'love' affected him, so in efforts to cover his rosey cheeks Kunikida continued to yell as Dazai and well, Dazai just let him. He knew Kunikida only meant well. He began zoning out of the conversation (which was more of a lecture)

Kunikida straightened out his posture as he calmed down and brought his tone back to its usual self. He adjusted his glasses as he spoke, a small habit only Dazai seemed to take note of

"God you're so irresponsible. How could you forget today was the meeting with president and the port mafias boss would take place"

Dazai almost suffocated while chocking on the coffee he found on his desk. he didn't even know whose coffee it was but it was his now apparently

"What the fuck thats today?!" Dazai was genuinely surprised. He knew there was a meeting taking place , he was the one to arrange it after all but thats the only involvement he had in the whole thing. Dazai didn't even know what the meeting was about, he just knew it was serious

Kunikida cocked an eyebrow, folding his arms with his ideal notebook imbedded in his armpit

"You actually forgot? Didn't you arrange the meeting?"

"Yeah I did but thats all I had to do with it, I didn't even know it was today. Shows how much I know" he mumbled the last part under his breath

Yosano walked in with kyoka not far behind her. Yosano had her hair up differently, a half up half down with her butterfly clip on the top of the ponytail instead of on the side of her heads. Normally her hair just sits in a bob flawlessly.

"I overheard something about the meeting with the port mafia, from what i know its big." Kunikida spun around unfolding his arms at the sound of the doctors voice

Kyoka walked over to the desk next to dazai's and began getting out some paperwork to give to Atsushi once she'd left, while Yosano leaned against the door frame crossing her arms in almost the same way Kunikida had done earlier.

Dazai perked up "Yosano, are you feeling alright?" He was quick to check up on his friend "I understand I'm not the only one here who suffers from the Mori bullshit, must be rough having him in the same building" he giggled slightly to himself at the name he had come up with

Kunikida pretended to understand by nodding his head while trying to figure out what the fuck Dazai meant by 'mori bullshit' while Yosano just laughed
Something nice with Yosano and Dazai is that they share similar trauma, so its easy for them to talk to one another about it (and also crack up jokes in the correct context)

"Really Dazai im fine, honestly its not as bad as I thought it would be. I saw him earlier and the only thing I wanted to do was punch him in the face rather than remove his limbs and organs one by one!"

A drop of sweat trickled down both Dazai and Kunikida foreheads while Kyoka couldn't honestly care less. Funnily enough, she too was also a victim on the 'Mori bullshit.' However, dazai pretty much forgot the girl was in the room so he didn't ask for her input on Mori being in the building