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You stepped your first steps on the streets of Shizume City for the first time in almost 6 years. It’s funny how it seems like nothing has changed here.
You grew up here, went to school with the boys, Mikoto and Kusanagi. Although Kusanagi was 2 years older than the both of you, it didn’t stop the fact that you all were close friends at one point. You were in your second to last year and it was coming to an end but you weren’t able to spend it with your friends. Your father got a new job that required him to be on the other side of the country… The United States. So, long story short, you got moved to the States with your family. Now you were 22 and you wanted to move back. It’s not like you didn’t like it there… but you didn’t click with anyone. No one was like your friends back in Shizume.
So here you were. Walking around on the street, taking in the much needed refreshing scene of Shizume. You couldn’t wait to find your friends. The only problem, you didn’t have their numbers, even though you knew where they had lived, there was no way they were still there. They had to be moved out of their parent’s house by. Considering Mikoto is also 22 and Kusanagi 24. Anyway, you made your way to your 1 bedroom apartment in this huge complex. You unlocked your door and placed all your stuff on the unmade bed. Not wanting to have to bother with everything right now, you took off again to explore your home town. Hopefully Izumo still has his bar. That’ll be the first place you’ll look.
“God, I’ve missed this place.” You spoke as you rounded a corner. “Oomph.” You huffed. You’d collided into someone and you bent down picking up your bag first. “I’m so sorry.” You brought your head up to face the person you ran into and you stared for a bit at the really attractive human that was standing in front of you. Then his features dawned on you and your eyes began to widen. “Mi… Mikoto?”
The man met your eyes squinting, he had a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. “What’s it to you?” His voice was lazy and rough.
“I… I’m back.” You gave an unsure smile at the man.
All of a sudden, his cigarette fell to the pavement, his mouth now open in shock. “Y… Y/N?” You gave a small head nod then his arms had engulfed you into his body but he retracted quite quickly. “Um…” He scratched the back of his head, but his face showed the same lazy expression he had on earlier. “You’ve grown up.” His amber eyes scanned your body before landing on your now blushing face.
You laughed softly. “Yeah. It has been 6 years.” You twisted your toe on the ground. “The other one still around?”
“Who, Kusanagi? Yeah. He’s got his bar still. I take it you wanna come by?” He asked you and you nodded, he took that as a means to continue down the street with you falling instep next to him.
You looked at his mature features with a sideways glance. His hair was much more tousled and spikier now with 2 single strands of hair falling down both sides of his face. He was wearing a really tight white v neck with a black leather jacket trimmed with a fur collar. His neck was decorated with a necklace and a random bolo necklace thing. He had a chain connecting from the front of his dark jean pants on his belt to his back pocket. He’s definitely changed from the schools’ dress shirts with a tie lazily laying on his chest with his sweater vest thing. He was definitely more buff, he looked good… really good. You looked away fast before he could catch you checking him out.
We walked for a bit till we came upon the bar that too, hasn’t changed. It was placed on the corner and had a huge sign at the top of the entrance saying HOMRA. We walked in the doors and it opened up to the warm homey bar feeling you got when you used to walk into here.
“I picked up a stray.” He moved out from in front of you and revealed yourself to a certain bartender. It seemed like the only thing that didn’t change was the town. Izumo stood in front of you, behind the bar though to be exact and boy did he look different too. His hair was more groomed, his bangs more neatly set to the side but framed his face. He looked like he’d gotten taller, more slim and lean. He was dressed very nice, a white button up with a redish ascot and a nice open black jacket.
“Well, well. Look who we have here.” His voice was smooth and soft. “What brought you back to this side of the country?” He gave you a smile before placing down the wine glass he was holding and his rag. He walked around the bar counter towards you. His eyes scanning from your feet to your head. “Seems you’ve grown… what? 2 inches in 6 years?” He patted your head then grabbed you for a hug.
“I’m short. So what. I like it!” You chuckled. “And I came back because… well, I missed all of you. I never really made many friends over in the U.S. And I mean, this is where I grew up. How could I not come back?” You smiled up at your bartender friend.
“Well, I’m sure glad you came back, and I know he is too.” He pointed over at the redhead who was now fast asleep on one of the booth cushions. “And he still does that.” You were about to say something when a couple guys came through the entrance all rowdy and loud. “You guys have to be quieter.” Izumo spoke to the bunch of guys.
One with a beany and skateboard laughed loudly. “Like anything is going to wake him up.” He said as he nodded over at the sleeping Mikoto.
All of a sudden, you heard a little chirp and a small child’s voice speak out. “Why, why is it so loud?” You turned around to see a little girl wearing a cute gothic Lolita dress standing beside you. She had one arm up to her eyes as she rubbed them, giving out a small yawn.
“Because maybe Anna was sleeping.” Izumo looked at the boys with a hard scold and they all started apologizing to who you now knew as Anna.
The boy that had the skateboard walked up to her giving her a small hug and apologizing. “I’ll be quieter next time.”
“It’s alright. I need…” yawn, “to get up anyway.” The young girl said and then she looked up at me with the boy’s gaze following. His face then turned red and for some reason, he got embarrassed and stumbled away from you. “You’re very pretty.” The little girl looked up at you as she held a marble to her eye looking at you through it. She eyed you with a head tilt then looked over at Mikoto who was now sitting up with his head leaning against his propped-up hand with a tired look. “Your red is very vibrant today.” She then proceeded to look back at you with a smile. “You must be Y/N then.”
You looked down at Anna a bit shocked. “Uh, um. Yeah, I am. And you’re Anna. It’s nice to meet you.”
“I’m glad that you’re here. Maybe you can cheer Mikoto up, it seems lately his red had been dull, like he’s not happy. But then when Kusanagi brings you up, his red gets brighter.” She said with the same smile she had on.
“I’m glad I’m here too.” You brought your head up towards Mikoto and shyly smiled at him.
“Well, let me introduce you to everyone.” Izumo spoke up as he started point to people and learned a bit about them and the fact that they had powers and stuff and all that stuff about Kings and clans. You looked at everyone taking in their names and faces. “Everyone, this is Y/N.” He graciously pointed over to me.
“That’s Y/N?” The guy named Tatara Totsuka whispered loud enough for you to hear in Mikoto’s ear. “You weren’t kidding when you said she was pretty. Man, she’s gorgeous.” You glanced sideways at Mikoto with a small smile who caught your eye and blushed a bit.
“So, the guys we were tracking down for smashing our windows got away. The hopped on the other side of the train tracks as we got close, then a train cut us off and once it finally passed fully they were gone.” Yata said as he twirled his skateboard around.
“How did they get away so easily? It would have been so much easier if you just burned them all like I said.” He said annoyed as he puffed out the smoke he had accumulating in his lungs.
“Burning everyone isn’t the only way to do stuff.” Izumo said continuing to polish his wine glasses.
Mikoto let out a tsk before laying back down and closing his eyes.
The guys all dispersed and you went to sit down on the booth next to Mikoto. “Hey, before you nod off in a deep sleep and stuff, come out with me and Izumo. I clearly have a bunch to learn about you and everything, King.” You gave his leg a nudge and he opened one eye at you.
“I don’t need you calling me King.” He said as he sat up looking over your face. “Where’d you want to go?”
“How about that sushi place we would always go to after school? I’ve been craving one of those salmon rolls.” You beamed at him before bouncing up off the booth seat when he gave a nod. “Izumo! Come on! I’m going with Mikoto and you to Shaishu Sushi so we can catch up!” You said as you grabbed ahold of his left wrist. “I reaaalllllyyy need one of those salmon rolls.”
He gave a low chuckle. “I have too much to clean up right now, but I can catch up with you sometime next week. Just go hang out with Mikoto, he can surely fill you in on everything that’s happened.”
“But Izumo…” You gave him your best pout and puppy dog eyes. Something Izumo has never been able to turn down.
“Y/N…” He looked at you smiling, shaking his head. “You make it hard to turn you down.” Score. “But I really have to get this stuff done.” What…
You huffed before giving him a playful hit. “You owe me Kusanagi.” You said then turned around to head out the bar with Mikoto.
The walk to the restaurant was nice but the food when we got there was even better. “Mmmmmmmm.” You moaned in savory heaven as you chewed a roll.
“You’re acting as if the U.S doesn’t have sushi.” Mikoto laughed as he put a roll in his mouth.
“Well, I mean they do. But nothing can beat the sushi here.” You smiled with your eyes as you took another roll into your mouth and relished in its flavor.
You both spent a good 2 hour there talking about how school went for you, how he’s doing with the clan and what exactly it was all about. “We should probably get going.” You said motioning your head over to the workers starting to close up.
“Damn, I didn’t realize it got that late.” He said with a frown on his face.
“Well, don’t worry.” You teased him. “I’m not going anywhere so we’ll have plenty of time for you to see my dazzling face.” You brought both hands up to your chin leaned closer to him and smiled, causing him to blush. You both looked into each other’s eyes and you felt your stomach stir.
“Let’s go.” He shook his head, probably trying to shake the blush away and got up, helping you up and headed out the door.
A good two weeks went by. You were loving being back here and seeing your friends. You’ve spent the majority of your time at HOMRA with everyone in the clan, getting quite close with a good few of them. Things fell back to the way they used to be between Mikoto and Izumo and some days you couldn’t suppress how happy you were.
Today was a good day, like they all have been. You were sitting in HOMRA with your head against Mikoto’s shoulder, falling in and out of sleep only because everyone was talking about clan stuff you weren’t quite following.
“Um… I have a surprise for you.” Mikoto shook his shoulder waking you up.
“What is it?” You asked a bit groggily then picked your head up looking over at him.
He slowly met your eyes then smiled gently. “Didn’t I say it was a surprised?” He patted your head.
You laughed, “Yes, I know.” You shook your head. “Are you going to let me in on what it is?”
“Go do something with Anna and be back here by 6:30. No earlier and no later.” He spoke as he placed his hands in the pockets of his jeans.
You looked at him curiously as you slowly nodded your head and walked over to Anna. “Hey, come on. Let’s have a girl’s day. Get our nails done, go window shopping.” You smiled at the small strain and her face lit up as she nodded her head fast. She shimmied off the seat and stood up, placing her tiny hand in yours and you both walked out the bar.
You walked all over the town of Shizume with Anna right by your side. You already finished getting your nails done, Anna’s was a vibrant red and yours more of a deep maroon red. You looked down at your phone. 5:38. “Wanna go grab an ice cream or something? We’ve got a little under an hour before Mikoto needs us back.”
“Yeah, that’d be great. I love ice cream.” Anna’s smile beamed up at yours and you both walked into a small ice cream parlor.
You didn’t get anything but Anna had a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles, whipped cream and a cherry. You watched the strain eat her ice cream with such happiness.
“Hey.” You gave her a smile. “I have been meaning to ask you a question. When you were talking about Mikoto’s red, what did you mean?”
She smiled at your question and put down her spoon. “Well, I can see people’s red, their aura. I can tell when people are mad, sad, lying, happy, in love and all that stuff.” Her small voice spoke out. “And when Mikoto is around you, his red is so vibrant, so bright. Before you came, the only time I have ever seen his red that bright was whenever your name was brought up. That’s how I knew it was you when you first came here.”
“So, what does it mean, his red being so bright?” You asked her, taking a bit of whipped cream off her ice cream with your finger and licking it.
She gave you a cute smile before continuing. “Well, even though your aura isn’t red, I can tell what you’re feeling too, and it’s the same brightness and feeling that Mikoto shows.”
The… the same feeling? Without her saying any more you knew exactly what she meant, exactly what she could see and your face reddened as you smiled at her. “Well, let’s get that ice cream finished so we can get back on time.” She returned your smile and finished her ice cream.
“Let’s go!” She grabbed your hand dragging you out of the parlor.
“Well, isn’t someone excited.” You laughed as you settled the little girl down. “You know what the surprise is, don’t you?”
She gave you a knowing look before looking straight ahead again with a large grin on her face. “I’m really glad you decided to come back. Especially for Mikoto.”
You seemed taken back by Anna’s words. Did you come back for Mikoto? Your thoughts wandered before you shook it off, you didn’t even know if he was dating anyone or if he was even here anymore. So, you dismissed the young girls’ words. But Mikoto still here is a plus. A big one at that too.
You kept your hand in hers as you both approached HOMRA. The doors were shut and Izumo was standing outside the doors with Yata. “Back just in time.” Man, does everyone really know but me? “Come on, Anna. We’ve got a couple errands to run quickly.” The tall blonde held out his hand and Anna gave you a hug, releasing yours and grabbing onto his. “He’s inside.” He nodded towards the bar and started to walk away.
Your heart was racing as you opened the doors and headed inside. Mikoto was sitting at a table looking out the window and looked up when he heard you come in. He looked nervous as he got up and walked over towards you.
“Hey.” He said in his lazy voice.
You couldn’t help but letting out a little laugh. “Hey. So, that surprise?”
“Remember back right before you left, I had a question for you?” Mikoto’s amber eyes looked into yours.
“Yeah…” You said as you remembered back. “It was the day I told you I was leaving… You’d come up to me, needing to ask me something but I was so distraught since I’d found out just minutes ago that I was leaving the country.”
“Yeah. When I saw that you were upset I asked you what was wrong instead.” His eyes showed sadness.
“I told you I was leaving and you said your question wasn’t important anymore and gave me a hug. Then I cried.” You let out a short laughing huff thing. “Well, what about that?”
His eyes wandered around your face then to the side of the room and back to your eyes. “Um…” All of a sudden, a light hum of music filled the bar and the lights got dimmer. “I’m going to finally ask you that question.” His hand reached out to your side and grabbed your hand and held it lightly, sending shivers and butterflies through your body. “Y/N? Would you like to go to Prom with me?”
Your eyes widened, and you finally understood why the bar looked the way it did. “I…” You stared at Mikoto and your heart started to swell. “Mikoto…” You breathed out and gave his hand a squeeze and your face curled into a large smile. “Of course I’ll go to prom with you.” Mikoto’s eyes lit up as he led you around the bar to a long box that sat on the shelf under the counter.
He picked up the box and handed it to you. “I think you might need this.” You eyed him before going to open the box but he stopped you. “Go into my room first, then open it.”
“Your room?” You looked at him confused before obeying and heading up the stairs. Once you got into his room you opened the box and pulled out what was in it. Your eyes widened again as you took in the dress that was in front of you. It was a floor length deep red dress that had small sequins going down the side. You stood there in awe before shaking out of your trance, stripping down and putting it on.
It fit you like a glove, formed around your curves. You gave a twirl in the mirror that was behind Mikoto’s door. It was nice and flowy passed the middle of your thighs but was tight all the way up to your neck. You breathed out a bit unsteadily. You never went to prom, you’d just moved into the new school, you knew no one so you never went. But yet, you were flustered, you were getting nervous. You plead for your emotions to calm down but since they didn’t seem like they would, you ignored them and walked down the stairs after you got your hair situated.
You got to the bottom, breathed out then rounded the corner to head into the bar area. The bar now had light streamers hanging and the ground was covered in petals. Since you only had sneakers with you, you opted out on shoes and walked barefoot in the middle of the bar. You fiddled around, wondering where Mikoto was then you heard footsteps. You turned around to where you’d just come down the stairs and your jaw dropped.
There Mikoto was standing in front of you. He was wearing a white button up shirt with a very loose tie that matched the color of your dress. He had a black jacket on that wasn’t buttoned and black pants with shoes to match. His hair looked the same but that was fine to you but his overall look was intoxicating.
“If you don’t close your mouth, you’ll catch flies.” Mikoto joked as you walked up to you. His eyes scanned over and over your body as he grabbed your hand and brought it to his mouth giving it a kiss. “Y/N…” He breathed out with such admiration in his eyes. “You look… gorgeous.”
Your stomach erupted with butterflies as you tried suppressing your large grin. “I’m…” Your train of thought was not there, nothing besides Mikoto standing in front of you matter in your head right now.
“May I ask you to dance?” He spoke softly as the sound of a violin filled the bar. You nodded your head with your awe-filled eyes. He nodded his head down once and held out his hand for yours as you gladly placed it in his. He pulled you close to his body, placing your hand on his shoulder, grabbing your other hand to fit into his and his arm curved around your lower back.
You both started to sway to the music and you placed your head down on the redheads’ chest, humming along with the tune and taking in the warmth of his hand and just his body in general.
“Mikoto.” You whispered into his chest and you heard a muffled hmm through his body and you continued. “Thank you, for this.” You moved away and looked into his eyes.
“No… thank you. You don’t know how long I’ve waited just to have you in my arms. I was… I was devastated when you left, you have no idea. It felt as if… as if I just wasn’t whole anymore. With you not around, I felt as if I couldn’t be myself anymore. I didn’t have any reason for the things I did in life.” He brought his hand up and caressed your cheek.
His words made you go drunk with love and you didn’t realize till Mikoto wipe your face. You were crying. He shook his head at you then leaned in. Extremely close that his lips grazed over yours. Your eyes darted back and forth between his and he closed his eyes, you following suite and your body got cold then hot as his lips fit into yours. The arm around your waist tightened and your body melded into his. The feeling of his lips on yours sent sparks off, your mind got hazy as he moved his lips against yours.
One of the strands of hair dangling off Mikoto’s head started to tickle your nose causing you to laugh into the kiss.
“What’s so funny?” Mikoto looked at you amused, his eyes shining a bright amber as he looked into yours.
“Your hair is tickling me.” You said as you twirled one of his strands with your finger before pulling it slightly telling Mikoto to kiss you again. He gladly obliged and landed his soft lips upon yours, tightening his hold around your waist again pulling you in for an even deeper kiss. Your insides just started to go crazy as you felt the pressure and the warmth generating from Mikoto.
You both suddenly heard a clatter and looked over by the front of the bar. Tatara was crouching and you could see a bit of his hair showing over his video camera as he peered around the corner. When you realized what he was doing your face turned as red as your dress and you buried your head into Mikoto’s chest hiding your face.
“Oh, come on Y/N. This is a happy moment. It’d be wrong for me not to capture it.” He said with a lopsided grin as he waved around his camera.
You groaned into Mikoto’s white shirt. “Tataraaaa.”

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You stepped your first steps on the streets of Shizume City for the first time in almost 6 years. It’s funny how it seems like nothing has changed here.
You grew up here, went to school with the boys, Mikoto and Kusanagi. Although Kusanagi was 2 years older than the both of you, it didn’t stop the fact that you all were close friends at one point. You were in your second to last year and it was coming to an end but you weren’t able to spend it with your friends. Your father got a new job that required him to be on the other side of the country… The United States. So, long story short, you got moved to the States with your family. Now you were 22 and you wanted to move back. It’s not like you didn’t like it there… but you didn’t click with anyone. No one was like your friends back in Shizume.
So here you were. Walking around on the street, taking in the much needed refreshing scene of Shizume. You couldn’t wait to find your friends. The only problem, you didn’t have their numbers, even though you knew where they had lived, there was no way they were still there. They had to be moved out of their parent’s house by. Considering Mikoto is also 22 and Kusanagi 24. Anyway, you made your way to your 1 bedroom apartment in this huge complex. You unlocked your door and placed all your stuff on the unmade bed. Not wanting to have to bother with everything right now, you took off again to explore your home town. Hopefully Izumo still has his bar. That’ll be the first place you’ll look.
“God, I’ve missed this place.” You spoke as you rounded a corner. “Oomph.” You huffed. You’d collided into someone and you bent down picking up your bag first. “I’m so sorry.” You brought your head up to face the person you ran into and you stared for a bit at the really attractive human that was standing in front of you. Then his features dawned on you and your eyes began to widen. “Mi… Mikoto?”
The man met your eyes squinting, he had a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. “What’s it to you?” His voice was lazy and rough.
“I… I’m back.” You gave an unsure smile at the man.
All of a sudden, his cigarette fell to the pavement, his mouth now open in shock. “Y… Y/N?” You gave a small head nod then his arms had engulfed you into his body but he retracted quite quickly. “Um…” He scratched the back of his head, but his face showed the same lazy expression he had on earlier. “You’ve grown up.” His amber eyes scanned your body before landing on your now blushing face.
You laughed softly. “Yeah. It has been 6 years.” You twisted your toe on the ground. “The other one still around?”
“Who, Kusanagi? Yeah. He’s got his bar still. I take it you wanna come by?” He asked you and you nodded, he took that as a means to continue down the street with you falling instep next to him.
You looked at his mature features with a sideways glance. His hair was much more tousled and spikier now with 2 single strands of hair falling down both sides of his face. He was wearing a really tight white v neck with a black leather jacket trimmed with a fur collar. His neck was decorated with a necklace and a random bolo necklace thing. He had a chain connecting from the front of his dark jean pants on his belt to his back pocket. He’s definitely changed from the schools’ dress shirts with a tie lazily laying on his chest with his sweater vest thing. He was definitely more buff, he looked good… really good. You looked away fast before he could catch you checking him out.
We walked for a bit till we came upon the bar that too, hasn’t changed. It was placed on the corner and had a huge sign at the top of the entrance saying HOMRA. We walked in the doors and it opened up to the warm homey bar feeling you got when you used to walk into here.
“I picked up a stray.” He moved out from in front of you and revealed yourself to a certain bartender. It seemed like the only thing that didn’t change was the town. Izumo stood in front of you, behind the bar though to be exact and boy did he look different too. His hair was more groomed, his bangs more neatly set to the side but framed his face. He looked like he’d gotten taller, more slim and lean. He was dressed very nice, a white button up with a redish ascot and a nice open black jacket.
“Well, well. Look who we have here.” His voice was smooth and soft. “What brought you back to this side of the country?” He gave you a smile before placing down the wine glass he was holding and his rag. He walked around the bar counter towards you. His eyes scanning from your feet to your head. “Seems you’ve grown… what? 2 inches in 6 years?” He patted your head then grabbed you for a hug.
“I’m short. So what. I like it!” You chuckled. “And I came back because… well, I missed all of you. I never really made many friends over in the U.S. And I mean, this is where I grew up. How could I not come back?” You smiled up at your bartender friend.
“Well, I’m sure glad you came back, and I know he is too.” He pointed over at the redhead who was now fast asleep on one of the booth cushions. “And he still does that.” You were about to say something when a couple guys came through the entrance all rowdy and loud. “You guys have to be quieter.” Izumo spoke to the bunch of guys.
One with a beany and skateboard laughed loudly. “Like anything is going to wake him up.” He said as he nodded over at the sleeping Mikoto.
All of a sudden, you heard a little chirp and a small child’s voice speak out. “Why, why is it so loud?” You turned around to see a little girl wearing a cute gothic Lolita dress standing beside you. She had one arm up to her eyes as she rubbed them, giving out a small yawn.
“Because maybe Anna was sleeping.” Izumo looked at the boys with a hard scold and they all started apologizing to who you now knew as Anna.
The boy that had the skateboard walked up to her giving her a small hug and apologizing. “I’ll be quieter next time.”
“It’s alright. I need…” yawn, “to get up anyway.” The young girl said and then she looked up at me with the boy’s gaze following. His face then turned red and for some reason, he got embarrassed and stumbled away from you. “You’re very pretty.” The little girl looked up at you as she held a marble to her eye looking at you through it. She eyed you with a head tilt then looked over at Mikoto who was now sitting up with his head leaning against his propped-up hand with a tired look. “Your red is very vibrant today.” She then proceeded to look back at you with a smile. “You must be Y/N then.”
You looked down at Anna a bit shocked. “Uh, um. Yeah, I am. And you’re Anna. It’s nice to meet you.”
“I’m glad that you’re here. Maybe you can cheer Mikoto up, it seems lately his red had been dull, like he’s not happy. But then when Kusanagi brings you up, his red gets brighter.” She said with the same smile she had on.
“I’m glad I’m here too.” You brought your head up towards Mikoto and shyly smiled at him.
“Well, let me introduce you to everyone.” Izumo spoke up as he started point to people and learned a bit about them and the fact that they had powers and stuff and all that stuff about Kings and clans. You looked at everyone taking in their names and faces. “Everyone, this is Y/N.” He graciously pointed over to me.
“That’s Y/N?” The guy named Tatara Totsuka whispered loud enough for you to hear in Mikoto’s ear. “You weren’t kidding when you said she was pretty. Man, she’s gorgeous.” You glanced sideways at Mikoto with a small smile who caught your eye and blushed a bit.
“So, the guys we were tracking down for smashing our windows got away. The hopped on the other side of the train tracks as we got close, then a train cut us off and once it finally passed fully they were gone.” Yata said as he twirled his skateboard around.
“How did they get away so easily? It would have been so much easier if you just burned them all like I said.” He said annoyed as he puffed out the smoke he had accumulating in his lungs.
“Burning everyone isn’t the only way to do stuff.” Izumo said continuing to polish his wine glasses.
Mikoto let out a tsk before laying back down and closing his eyes.
The guys all dispersed and you went to sit down on the booth next to Mikoto. “Hey, before you nod off in a deep sleep and stuff, come out with me and Izumo. I clearly have a bunch to learn about you and everything, King.” You gave his leg a nudge and he opened one eye at you.
“I don’t need you calling me King.” He said as he sat up looking over your face. “Where’d you want to go?”
“How about that sushi place we would always go to after school? I’ve been craving one of those salmon rolls.” You beamed at him before bouncing up off the booth seat when he gave a nod. “Izumo! Come on! I’m going with Mikoto and you to Shaishu Sushi so we can catch up!” You said as you grabbed ahold of his left wrist. “I reaaalllllyyy need one of those salmon rolls.”
He gave a low chuckle. “I have too much to clean up right now, but I can catch up with you sometime next week. Just go hang out with Mikoto, he can surely fill you in on everything that’s happened.”
“But Izumo…” You gave him your best pout and puppy dog eyes. Something Izumo has never been able to turn down.
“Y/N…” He looked at you smiling, shaking his head. “You make it hard to turn you down.” Score. “But I really have to get this stuff done.” What…
You huffed before giving him a playful hit. “You owe me Kusanagi.” You said then turned around to head out the bar with Mikoto.
The walk to the restaurant was nice but the food when we got there was even better. “Mmmmmmmm.” You moaned in savory heaven as you chewed a roll.
“You’re acting as if the U.S doesn’t have sushi.” Mikoto laughed as he put a roll in his mouth.
“Well, I mean they do. But nothing can beat the sushi here.” You smiled with your eyes as you took another roll into your mouth and relished in its flavor.
You both spent a good 2 hour there talking about how school went for you, how he’s doing with the clan and what exactly it was all about. “We should probably get going.” You said motioning your head over to the workers starting to close up.
“Damn, I didn’t realize it got that late.” He said with a frown on his face.
“Well, don’t worry.” You teased him. “I’m not going anywhere so we’ll have plenty of time for you to see my dazzling face.” You brought both hands up to your chin leaned closer to him and smiled, causing him to blush. You both looked into each other’s eyes and you felt your stomach stir.
“Let’s go.” He shook his head, probably trying to shake the blush away and got up, helping you up and headed out the door.
A good two weeks went by. You were loving being back here and seeing your friends. You’ve spent the majority of your time at HOMRA with everyone in the clan, getting quite close with a good few of them. Things fell back to the way they used to be between Mikoto and Izumo and some days you couldn’t suppress how happy you were.
Today was a good day, like they all have been. You were sitting in HOMRA with your head against Mikoto’s shoulder, falling in and out of sleep only because everyone was talking about clan stuff you weren’t quite following.
“Um… I have a surprise for you.” Mikoto shook his shoulder waking you up.
“What is it?” You asked a bit groggily then picked your head up looking over at him.
He slowly met your eyes then smiled gently. “Didn’t I say it was a surprised?” He patted your head.
You laughed, “Yes, I know.” You shook your head. “Are you going to let me in on what it is?”
“Go do something with Anna and be back here by 6:30. No earlier and no later.” He spoke as he placed his hands in the pockets of his jeans.
You looked at him curiously as you slowly nodded your head and walked over to Anna. “Hey, come on. Let’s have a girl’s day. Get our nails done, go window shopping.” You smiled at the small strain and her face lit up as she nodded her head fast. She shimmied off the seat and stood up, placing her tiny hand in yours and you both walked out the bar.
You walked all over the town of Shizume with Anna right by your side. You already finished getting your nails done, Anna’s was a vibrant red and yours more of a deep maroon red. You looked down at your phone. 5:38. “Wanna go grab an ice cream or something? We’ve got a little under an hour before Mikoto needs us back.”
“Yeah, that’d be great. I love ice cream.” Anna’s smile beamed up at yours and you both walked into a small ice cream parlor.
You didn’t get anything but Anna had a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles, whipped cream and a cherry. You watched the strain eat her ice cream with such happiness.
“Hey.” You gave her a smile. “I have been meaning to ask you a question. When you were talking about Mikoto’s red, what did you mean?”
She smiled at your question and put down her spoon. “Well, I can see people’s red, their aura. I can tell when people are mad, sad, lying, happy, in love and all that stuff.” Her small voice spoke out. “And when Mikoto is around you, his red is so vibrant, so bright. Before you came, the only time I have ever seen his red that bright was whenever your name was brought up. That’s how I knew it was you when you first came here.”
“So, what does it mean, his red being so bright?” You asked her, taking a bit of whipped cream off her ice cream with your finger and licking it.
She gave you a cute smile before continuing. “Well, even though your aura isn’t red, I can tell what you’re feeling too, and it’s the same brightness and feeling that Mikoto shows.”
The… the same feeling? Without her saying any more you knew exactly what she meant, exactly what she could see and your face reddened as you smiled at her. “Well, let’s get that ice cream finished so we can get back on time.” She returned your smile and finished her ice cream.
“Let’s go!” She grabbed your hand dragging you out of the parlor.
“Well, isn’t someone excited.” You laughed as you settled the little girl down. “You know what the surprise is, don’t you?”
She gave you a knowing look before looking straight ahead again with a large grin on her face. “I’m really glad you decided to come back. Especially for Mikoto.”
You seemed taken back by Anna’s words. Did you come back for Mikoto? Your thoughts wandered before you shook it off, you didn’t even know if he was dating anyone or if he was even here anymore. So, you dismissed the young girls’ words. But Mikoto still here is a plus. A big one at that too.
You kept your hand in hers as you both approached HOMRA. The doors were shut and Izumo was standing outside the doors with Yata. “Back just in time.” Man, does everyone really know but me? “Come on, Anna. We’ve got a couple errands to run quickly.” The tall blonde held out his hand and Anna gave you a hug, releasing yours and grabbing onto his. “He’s inside.” He nodded towards the bar and started to walk away.
Your heart was racing as you opened the doors and headed inside. Mikoto was sitting at a table looking out the window and looked up when he heard you come in. He looked nervous as he got up and walked over towards you.
“Hey.” He said in his lazy voice.
You couldn’t help but letting out a little laugh. “Hey. So, that surprise?”
“Remember back right before you left, I had a question for you?” Mikoto’s amber eyes looked into yours.
“Yeah…” You said as you remembered back. “It was the day I told you I was leaving… You’d come up to me, needing to ask me something but I was so distraught since I’d found out just minutes ago that I was leaving the country.”
“Yeah. When I saw that you were upset I asked you what was wrong instead.” His eyes showed sadness.
“I told you I was leaving and you said your question wasn’t important anymore and gave me a hug. Then I cried.” You let out a short laughing huff thing. “Well, what about that?”
His eyes wandered around your face then to the side of the room and back to your eyes. “Um…” All of a sudden, a light hum of music filled the bar and the lights got dimmer. “I’m going to finally ask you that question.” His hand reached out to your side and grabbed your hand and held it lightly, sending shivers and butterflies through your body. “Y/N? Would you like to go to Prom with me?”
Your eyes widened, and you finally understood why the bar looked the way it did. “I…” You stared at Mikoto and your heart started to swell. “Mikoto…” You breathed out and gave his hand a squeeze and your face curled into a large smile. “Of course I’ll go to prom with you.” Mikoto’s eyes lit up as he led you around the bar to a long box that sat on the shelf under the counter.
He picked up the box and handed it to you. “I think you might need this.” You eyed him before going to open the box but he stopped you. “Go into my room first, then open it.”
“Your room?” You looked at him confused before obeying and heading up the stairs. Once you got into his room you opened the box and pulled out what was in it. Your eyes widened again as you took in the dress that was in front of you. It was a floor length deep red dress that had small sequins going down the side. You stood there in awe before shaking out of your trance, stripping down and putting it on.
It fit you like a glove, formed around your curves. You gave a twirl in the mirror that was behind Mikoto’s door. It was nice and flowy passed the middle of your thighs but was tight all the way up to your neck. You breathed out a bit unsteadily. You never went to prom, you’d just moved into the new school, you knew no one so you never went. But yet, you were flustered, you were getting nervous. You plead for your emotions to calm down but since they didn’t seem like they would, you ignored them and walked down the stairs after you got your hair situated.
You got to the bottom, breathed out then rounded the corner to head into the bar area. The bar now had light streamers hanging and the ground was covered in petals. Since you only had sneakers with you, you opted out on shoes and walked barefoot in the middle of the bar. You fiddled around, wondering where Mikoto was then you heard footsteps. You turned around to where you’d just come down the stairs and your jaw dropped.
There Mikoto was standing in front of you. He was wearing a white button up shirt with a very loose tie that matched the color of your dress. He had a black jacket on that wasn’t buttoned and black pants with shoes to match. His hair looked the same but that was fine to you but his overall look was intoxicating.
“If you don’t close your mouth, you’ll catch flies.” Mikoto joked as you walked up to you. His eyes scanned over and over your body as he grabbed your hand and brought it to his mouth giving it a kiss. “Y/N…” He breathed out with such admiration in his eyes. “You look… gorgeous.”
Your stomach erupted with butterflies as you tried suppressing your large grin. “I’m…” Your train of thought was not there, nothing besides Mikoto standing in front of you matter in your head right now.
“May I ask you to dance?” He spoke softly as the sound of a violin filled the bar. You nodded your head with your awe-filled eyes. He nodded his head down once and held out his hand for yours as you gladly placed it in his. He pulled you close to his body, placing your hand on his shoulder, grabbing your other hand to fit into his and his arm curved around your lower back.
You both started to sway to the music and you placed your head down on the redheads’ chest, humming along with the tune and taking in the warmth of his hand and just his body in general.
“Mikoto.” You whispered into his chest and you heard a muffled hmm through his body and you continued. “Thank you, for this.” You moved away and looked into his eyes.
“No… thank you. You don’t know how long I’ve waited just to have you in my arms. I was… I was devastated when you left, you have no idea. It felt as if… as if I just wasn’t whole anymore. With you not around, I felt as if I couldn’t be myself anymore. I didn’t have any reason for the things I did in life.” He brought his hand up and caressed your cheek.
His words made you go drunk with love and you didn’t realize till Mikoto wipe your face. You were crying. He shook his head at you then leaned in. Extremely close that his lips grazed over yours. Your eyes darted back and forth between his and he closed his eyes, you following suite and your body got cold then hot as his lips fit into yours. The arm around your waist tightened and your body melded into his. The feeling of his lips on yours sent sparks off, your mind got hazy as he moved his lips against yours.
One of the strands of hair dangling off Mikoto’s head started to tickle your nose causing you to laugh into the kiss.
“What’s so funny?” Mikoto looked at you amused, his eyes shining a bright amber as he looked into yours.
“Your hair is tickling me.” You said as you twirled one of his strands with your finger before pulling it slightly telling Mikoto to kiss you again. He gladly obliged and landed his soft lips upon yours, tightening his hold around your waist again pulling you in for an even deeper kiss. Your insides just started to go crazy as you felt the pressure and the warmth generating from Mikoto.
You both suddenly heard a clatter and looked over by the front of the bar. Tatara was crouching and you could see a bit of his hair showing over his video camera as he peered around the corner. When you realized what he was doing your face turned as red as your dress and you buried your head into Mikoto’s chest hiding your face.
“Oh, come on Y/N. This is a happy moment. It’d be wrong for me not to capture it.” He said with a lopsided grin as he waved around his camera.
You groaned into Mikoto’s white shirt. “Tataraaaa.”