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shockingly, senku couldn’t pinpoint exactly where in the timeline the novelty of the relationship became second nature to you both.

distance shortened, literally and figuratively. you talked to him about anything and everything, not that you didn’t before, but senku thought this kind of talk was new. he started to feel swells of pride every time you sought him out for something, from questions about stars to if he would still like you if you were a worm. he liked your attention on him.

he liked your hands on him even more. they were usually casual touches, seemingly friendly to outsiders looking in, but to senku, he wanted to drown himself in it.

it was honestly baffling to him how affected he gets, ears red and skin delightfully warm, when you pat him sweetly on the cheek, run your fingers through the valleys of his knuckles, or press against his back, clinging onto his shoulders in an unexpected hug.

senku found himself reaching for you more too. your hand fitted perfectly into his, and so did your jaw. he grew addicted to the feel of your face in his hands, loved to trace your cheek bones down to the back of your neck, pressing light swirls into your skin.

3700 years into the future, where he becomes quite literally the smartest guy alive on the planet, senku has a multitude of things to think about, food, water, a new lab, if tsukasa really is going to build an army to off one measly scientist, and you. more specifically, the whereabouts of you.

he can’t find you, and that worries him. he knows you weren’t too far away from him before the petrification, exactly one seat from the window, doing some work you had forgotten while he was looking out of the window down at two little lovebirds.

he knows you shouldn’t be far, but he hasn’t found you yet. so, instead of missing your rambles and the delicate pressure of your skin on his, senku tries to focus more on the situation at hand. he thinks of items that would help him, a little bit about the possibility of death and advancing the kingdom of science. after all, he can’t just revive you into a world that’s just barely on its way to crawling. you would not like that.

as all good intelligent organisms do, senku adapts. he begrudgingly gets used to keeping his hands to himself. he misses the warmth of another on him, but it’s nothing an actual fire can’t fix! (spoiler: it doesn’t fix. he still yearns for one of your signature hugs where you squeeze and pepper kisses under his jaw. you’ve ruined the guy.)

he sidesteps away from the overly clingy advances of the others and favours quick interactions.

taiju he can tolerate. he doesn’t mind his hearty slaps on the back or the jigglings of his shoulder. the oaf is his best friend for a reason. yuzuriha’s company is preferred though, when taiju gets too excited. there’s only so much his ears can take. no more of either of them, alas, they’re all the way at camp tsukasa.

chrome is similar when he gets excited about science-‘sorcery’. his enthusiasm bleeds out into large gestures very deep into senku’s personal bubble, but that’s fine. the people of ishigami village are their own characters. he makes it his mission to not collect any more who do not know the definition of personal and space.

the lioness keeps her distance, which senku appreciates. what he doesn’t appreciate is whenever kohaku throws him over her shoulder and chucks him away from the general vicinity whenever he talks about something true. objectively true. not his fault she doesn’t like facts.

gen usually keeps his distance as well, but when it comes to his tricky schemes, gen isn’t below using his boundaries like a skipping rope. whenever he has that silly little gleam in his eyes, senku makes a point in avoiding him and his schemes.

senku finally finds your stone self just a few days after hyoga’s attack on ishigami village.

he’ll be honest, but as soon as he laid eyes on your statue, he almost collapsed to his knees, weak with sheer relief. however, after being hit with pure unadulterated joy, a dash of fear crashes into him.

how is he going to explain all of this to you?

hello lover, sleep well? missed you a bunch. how do you feel about war in a year against the tsukasa empire? what’s the tsukasa empire you ask? long story but basically it’s the strongest primate highschooler plus 100 others. how about we make it a date? you’ll get to see the tank that i’m working on — yes, a tank. it’ll be the first date in 3702-ish years. yes, i look a little worn. no, it’s not your eyes. your boyfriend has just aged a year and a bit without you.

senku can’t really bring himself to care much about it anymore. he’s selfish at heart. he’s taking his shirt off so quickly that he almost defies physics, and grabs the secret vial of revival fluid from his pocket that’s reserved for you and only you.

he hears a squeal from behind him, probably gen, maybe chrome. his vision is tunnelled on you.

it’s been 39,484,800 seconds since he had revived without you. 457 days — a year and three months. he tries to be as gentle as he can when he dresses your stoney body, but he’s desperate. forgive the guy will you?

as the stone falls from your body, senku doesn’t dare to move away from you, to the surprise of the mini audience of three he’s garnered. their reactions to the scene are either ones of loud shock (eyes wide and jaws agape, chrome could catch flies with how wide his mouth is) or excited gossip.

senku tries to angle his body in a way that hides the majority of yourself away from prying eyes. something stupidly close to possessiveness nestles into his chest. you haven’t even fully revived yet and he wants to keep you all to himself.

… so he hasn’t grown out of his clinginess in your absence. just his luck. (not that he would trade that for all the stars in the sky.)

you look confused when you finally manage to crack open your eyes. (valid fucking reaction, he should’ve hauled your statue back to the village and into his room instead of reviving you in the middle of nearly nowhere.) the hoarse sound of his name leaving your lips nearly has him throwing himself at you. he lets out a breath he didn’t know he was holding.

“sleep well?”

“senku, why don’t you have a shirt on?”

back at the village, and after a brief explanation on, well, everything up to now (and finding some more clothes) introductions formally start. gen, chrome and ginro are all too happy to meet you. questions upon questions to which you answer happily.

out of habit, senku sits closer to you, shoulder to shoulder. you lean into his warmth. he finally feels at some sort of peace again by your side.

he knows he should be thinking about other things, science-y solutions to a war with no bloodshed, but his brain is just drowning in a cocktail of oxytocin and the familiar presence of you.

gen opens his wicked mouth, teasing.

“so it seems that dear senku has a lover, is that right?”

before you say anything in response, senku groans a blunt ‘yes’ and moves to rest his head on your lap, arms circling around your waist. instinctively, your hands make their way into his hair, playing with the strands.

all chatter seems to stop.

kohaku is the one to break the silence, “well, that’s the first time senku’s ever touched someone willingly.”

titters of agreement. oh well. all he does is clutch on to you tighter, trying to hide his reddening face away from everyone. you giggle at all their reactions. it’s a quiet sound but there all the same. god, he can’t think straight.

the next day, the day after that and the weeks after those, senku seems to have superglued himself to your side. the village slowly gets used to their new leader and his beloved/“betrothed”/lover.

gen truly laments the loss of smartphones and cameras. the number times he’s caught the two of you snuggled asleep together is astounding. senku never seems to leave you. always an arm around your waist, or a hand here or there. you don’t mind, used to the physicality of senku, of being practically joint at the hip.

hey so hi! i have been quite busy these past few days with school, so i hope you guys enjoy this!!! not fully proof read im so sorry if it’s a little well shit but yahhhhhhhhhhhh my brain was about to melt when i was figuring out the timeline and the aging aspect of this … probs was not that deep but eh i managed to map it out lol thank you anon for req 🫶🫶🫶

inspired by this line from the dlc: