No.

A nice. Day.

Sigh.

What an uneventful day, almost jarringly so in comparison to just about every other day. But that was fine. It was nice. Nice and calm. No nuisances bothering him. He’s just going to spend his break laying on the roof enjoying this very, very nice day. 

It’s quiet. 

Almost too quiet. Unsettling, even. 

It wasn’t the sort of silence that being in contact with germanium provided him from the world, no, nothing like that. But still, something about this felt... off.

His fingers drum against the book he closes as he glances out his window. He doesn’t really need to do this since he would hear anyone approaching well-beforehand, but he can’t help the impulse. After all, maybe he would see Nendou making his way towards his house. 

But there was still no one. 

His parents had gone out earlier, leaving the youngest Saiki to himself. That wasn’t anything unusual, or any reason to be concerned. 

So what is this? 

He’s had sudden feelings of foreboding before. Was this another of them? 

Maybe it was nothing. Maybe it was fine. He was just becoming too expectant nowadays of people coming to ruin his precious time alone. 

That... had to be it...right? 

Kaidou Shun was bored. He’d been doing work for his cram classes for hours and if he had to look at one more math problem he might just throw himself into the hands of Dark Reunion to end his misery. Maybe if he told his mom he was going to ‘study’ with at a friend’s house he’d be able to escape?

By some miracle, his plan worked. With his bag of notebooks and pencils that he did not plan on using today, he happily walked the familiar path to Saiki’s house. His introverted friend usually didn’t have any plans unless he was dragged into doing something, so he was probably free! Kaidou wasn’t sure exactly what he wanted to do yet, but he could figure that out when he got to Saiki’s house. Maybe they could go search for a good base of operations against Dark Reunion! That would be epic.

When he finally rang the door bell at the Saiki residence Saiki Kurumi opened the door. “Oh! It’s one of Ku’s friends! Let me call him down for you.” She smiled at him and he smiled a little sheepishly back. He was so excited to get out of the house he didn’t really think about the fact he was dropping by unexpectedly.

“Thank you mam. I’m sorry I didn’t call ahead.” As brash and confident as Kaidou tried to act in front of his friends, he always tried to be a little more polite in front of adults. “Oh nonsense! We’re always happy to have Ku’s friends over.”

Then, a little suddenly, Saiki came running down the stairs into view. “Ah, there he is! Your friend came by to see you!” His mother turned to smile sweetly at her son.

Kaidou waved at the pink haired boy. “Hey Saiki! You wanna hang out for a while? We should go do something!”

No. We shouldn’t. 

Leaving now was the absolute last thing Saiki wanted to do. The sweets. The sweets. He would miss the precious sweets if he went off somewhere with Kaidou. He didn’t have time for this.  

Just go back home. It’s probably safer there. Because at least if he was at home, he probably wasn’t at some point in the near future going to fall from... something. Saiki had seen him falling into a white void, but that wasn’t really the case. The vision just wasn’t being clear on what he was falling from or where it was happening. 

“Why are you waiting for? Go have fun with your friend!” Venom laced itself into his mother’s sing-song voice as she gave him a gentle push out the door, giving him no choice in the matter. That was the danger in her answering the door. She would never let him avoid people like he wanted to. The moment she’d answered there was already no way out of this. 

And just like that, there went the potentially perfect afternoon. 

All was well. It was quiet, perhaps a little too quiet, but that was just fine. Saiki Kusuo welcomed the absence of disturbance. It wasn’t perfect, of course. The idle thoughts of everyone in the area were still a low din in his mind, but other than that, the afternoon had been relatively peaceful. If it could just remain like that while he watched the three hour program on luxury desserts that was starting soon, he would consider it close enough to perfect. 

He switched the TV in his room to the correct station and sat before it in anticipation. What could possibly bother him now? Well, he didn’t want to think about anything that might. The sugary treats he was soon to see deserved his complete and undivided attention.

And it wasn’t as though something would surprise him. He always knew what was coming, and now was no dif- 

That proud train of thought was interrupted by an unexpected, surprising, severe pain ripping through his head. He winced, a hand automatically coming up to catch his forehead as it lulled forward a bit. A very brief image of Kaidou Shun screaming and falling flashed through his mind. 

Then it stopped. The headache was gone as fast as it had come. 

Saiki sat up straight and sighed. What was that? Where was that? I didn’t even get a location. 

When was it even happening? Surely... not... soon, right? Not now, right? Not when the dessert show was about to - no. No no no no no! 

He hopped up as he realized it and teleported onto the stairs without thinking. He rushed down as fast as he could, but he was already too late. He found his mother standing by the door which was already cracked open, and standing outside, looking completely fine, was Kaidou. 

“Ah, there he is!” Saiki Kurumi smiled sweetly towards her son. “Your friend came by to see you!” 

Kusuo stared at Kaidou, a less than thrilled look on his face.