Bungo stray dogs One Shots

Kunikatai - University

"Wow this is old", was what the idealist thought as he glides his fingertips over the ink on the paper. He could still remember it as if it had happened yesterday.

- le memory -

It was a rainy summer day. The raindrops fell from the sky and knocked quietly at the windows while creating a beautiful and unique pattern. It seemed as if they wished to go in. Knocking quietly and politely to open the window.

"Man I want to go out don't knock", was what one of the boys said. They all sat at a table in the cafeteria of the university.

"Maybe you could change places and fall from the sky... the probability is 0,00001!", the other one joked. He was a bit smaller and wore some thick black glasses. His face was partly covered with pimples. He seemed like the nerd of the group. This thought was not wrong. But just judging by looks can end in a really awkward situation. Afterall he was the most normal one of the three of them.

The third one in the group – a certain blond individual – was the one with the best looks. Or at least the girls ranked him like that. Nice figure through his extremely planned workout sessions and a very nice dedication. Absolutely sweet to everyone and not having the slightest prejudices. Perfect boyfriend material if it weren't for his weird obsession with being ideal. Yeah Kunikida was VERY known. He could have a lot of girls if he would have stopped having this certain plan. But that's just how it he is.

The second one in the group was Kousuke, the second angry mom friend you could say. He was strict and got angry at times when people tried to use his friends. However he was not angry all the time. He could listen to ones worries for hours and could explain a math problem with the patience like Fukuzawa trying to befriend a cat. They would always run away but the old male still tried to pet their soft fur. When people would ask him how he could be so calm he always replied that no one could be harder to teach than his dumb brother.

Ranked third was actually the one with the thick glasses. His name was Haruto. He might not be the most attractive but he was known as the universities angel. Instead of being shy he was cheery and nice to everyone while having this certain aura around him that would make everything he explained extremely interesting. Something extremely practical for a person that aspires to be a teacher. All three of them were in the same year and studied to become a math teacher.

The group of those three individuals was called "The big three". And if someone thinks about "My h*ro Academia" now: That's what the ones giving this name were aiming for. These three were always there to help others. Those three gave their best to protect others from perverted teachers. Those three were absolute nerds and kind of weird so you have to warn the freshmen at least a bit before they get rejected by Kunikida. The other name they went by was the "group of mom friends".

The group didn't just consist out of three people though. There was one more person. And that person wasn't even aiming to become a math teacher. That person was a simple informatic student. A hacker. A genius in everything related to electricity. How did he get into that group? No one knew. Not even the other two members of "the big three".

"Why are we even hanging out with him?", was what Kousuke asked. It wasn't really intentional. His mind just wavered and kind of got to this point. "Do you have any problems in your department?".

"...Am I a math book?", was what the quiet man whispered.

A laugh escaped from Kousukes mouth: "Now I know again. Your puns are the best!", he sighed "Man I love puns... I told you all we should make T-shirts saying that we are Algebros!"

Katai would always sit next to Kunikida. That's where he felt less uneasy. He didn't hate anyone in his department it was just so much more nice and relaxing to be with his friend whom he had known for some years up till now. He felt happy when sitting next to him. Sometimes just looking at his friend made him feel incredible happy and... He needs a new crush. Yup that's what he decided. A new crush will help. Someone else he could be happy with in this way. Because if he realizes his true feelings now then he won't be able to keep this act up anymore.

"Why is six afraid of seven?", Katai asked to interrupt his thoughts.

"Why should a number feel afraid? That makes no sense Katai", the idealist raised an eyebrow. The other two were also looking at him. Haruto seemed confused while Kousuke seemed thrilled for the pun.

"Because seven eight nine!". The brunette slowly lifted and waved with his hands but got nothing but an awkward silence. Just when he was about to run away from his problems like he always did Kousuke started laughing. The joke wasn't even that good but he laughed like it was the best one. Guess he really had a thing for bad jokes. Haruto also chuckled.

"Because what? Katai you're just counting!", the blonde exclaimed confused. The other three fell silent. Only to all start laughing harder later at their lost friend. Haruto even screamed: "Seven eight nine!" before crying out with laughter. Their voices filled the whole cafeteria and you could see people look at them and chuckle. A laugh can be truly magnificent.

"WHAT? You're just counting! What's with seven eight nine?!". Katai felt sorry for the confused blonde but his face was just too good to not leave him in the dark. It wasn't even a hard joke so that made it even funnier.

"Write it in your ideal, maybe you will understand it o-pfft... one day. Haaaah", Kousuke wiped some tears out of his eyes only to start again the moment he saw the idealist note the joke down. This man seriously shouldn't write everything one said in there! What if someone takes advantage on that and gets on his nerves all the time?

"I have another one..." Katai looked them all in the eyes. He wouldn't normally do that. Never. But sometimes you have to be a drama queen to really set the mood for a joke. And if it's with friends you can take a leap and try to jump over the big barrier social anxious made to stop you. "There are three kinds of people in the world... Those who can count". He made a dramatic pause and looked at all of them again. He felt his fake confidence crumble. Nervousness made him lightly tap his fingers on his leg. Not now. This mission was important. He leaned back a bit: "And those who can't".

Again silence. The three waited for the joke, for the third person. After a minute Kousuke started to smile. The people listening from the other table also tried to stop their laughter. Maybe Katai spoke a bit too loud. Luckily a stare at the clock could free him he apologized and grabbed his things. He walked out of the cafeteria as fast as he could. Trying to be not too fast to seem awkward but also not too slow to escape the stares of everyone. His social energy to be in public places was low after all. Kunikida was fine. He could hang out with him at any time. Every other human, or disguised alien being? Nope not more than an hour of Smalltalk.

Kunikida looked at the smaller men walking to his classroom. He felt a little sad. Probably because he couldn't talk with his friend for the 30 minutes and 56 seconds as he had planned. Still he was confused and curious.

"What do you think would be the third type?", he asked looking at his friends. Both of them started to laugh harder now.

"Think about it again!".

"Oh...", the blonde blushed in embarrassment. He pushed up his glasses to hide it. Then all three of them burst into laughing. The blonde quickly dotted down the joke done by his friend. He wanted to remember this moment.

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A small chuckle escaped the idealists mouth. "Katai how did you come up with all these jokes on the spot?", he asked the man beside him.

"I, I researched them... I researched them a bit...", the neet looked away in embarrassment. He always had a crush on his best friend. He just didn't want to realize it for a long time...

"Ah here's also the joke where you just randomly counted numb-", the blonde stopped mid-sentence.

"Did you get it?".

"Shut up. I already did before!"

"Did just get it now! You're always aggressive when you're embarrassed", the brunette started laughing. His lover sure could be dense sometimes. Maybe that's why it took him ten years to realize that his best friend had some feelings for him...

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Yaaaay last one done for this month (at least for now, maybe I will write some more if I'm in the mood for it xD) Hope you enjoyed it. Small question before I stop writing this because nobody will read it anyway:

Do you guys also want AUs or just BSD Universe? I'm fine with both, I'm just curious uwu

Now we have 26 parts on the 26th of october, isn't that beautiful? uwu