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Sasuke: um i have a joke to cheer you up

MC: you, a joke?

Sasuke, hesitant: Don't be sad, because sad backwards is das, and das not good.

MC:

Sasuke: ...MC?

MC, screaming: SASUKE JUST TOLD A JOKE!

MC: I may have also been one of those people.

Mitsuhide: Wait, are we talking about our wedding?

MC: Yes.

Collaboration with the wonderful @kuma-tori! Our favourite best boys featuring Future Fish / mermay!

“But you’d better watch your back. You don’t want to get bitten.”

fuck ha ha i know you like the free bois so……..rinrei?

Rei hates the soulmate business. Its really not beautiful. The fact that you age until you are 18 and then stop, and then age normally after you find your soulmate is stupid and incomprehensible. Like HELLO? How do you decipher whether you aged or not? After 18, the results wont show immediately so you gotta wait a few months to see if you have changes in your appearances or your height or build etc etc and it frankly boggles him. And by that time, how would you know who exactly??? is your soulmate??? It could have been anybody by then??? The exact pinpointing factor doesn’t exist and it makes him so confused that he tries to avoid the topic at all times. Lest he rants too much and gets nick named as the guy who didn’t believe in soulmates. Its as confusing as swimming to him. Only Nagisa has been privy to his rants.

Until of course, swimming happens. And more so when Haru turns 18. 

“Makoto-senpai? Is your shoulder width increasing?”

“Ha ha, really?”Makoto shrugs, beaming a smile outshining the fucking sun.”I didn’t notice it.”

No one is surprised when Makoto and Haru age normally. When they move about their life in Tokyo after college in that weirdly we-were-already-kinda-soulmates-from-birth-so-we-dont-particularly-care way. 

Its something beautiful and makes him yearn for it. 

He starts pursuing it. Dual major in Medicine and Soulmate Studies. He gets a chance to move to Australia for his final year, and continue his PhD there which he takes. And whereupon he contacts the one person he knows who lives there.

“Rin-san, I am……how do I say this? But can I …..move in with you?” He holds up his hands, palms forward, flushing. “Ahh, but only for a while! I promise! I will move as soon as i get-”

“Rei, come on man. You can move in ha ha.” Rin gives his trademark toothy smile. “Just shoot me a text when you take the flight.”

So they settle. Friends because of a healthy rivalry become roommates who……surprisingly blend very well. Rin who doesn’t get along much with other people, suffering his life with Ai’s messiness, Haru’s dazed and one mind thinking, Sousuke who steals his bed and cola just to piss him off, gets along swimmingly with Rei.

The guy keeps his things neat and precise, works hard at what he wants, and most of all has classical music taste. Sure there is a few terrible pop rock and hard metal thrown in there but Mozart hits the right notes after a gruelling workout. Food is terrible though and Rei’s “I am fabulous and I know it” fashion sense is actually pretty cheesy and laughable. But meh he loves it. 

They go out to a few places which Australia has to offer and search for food spots and play with Winnie from time to time. Russel and Lori love Rei a bit too much in his opinion.

All in all, he likes hanging around with Rei more than he ever thought he would. He could probably live with Rei forever and wouldn't think twice about it.  

“What are you doing? It’s saturday night.”

“I am looking at some old photographs.” Rei’s face is screwed up in concentration before he looks up. “Don’t you have training?”

Rin scratches his cheek. “Yeah…..it got canceled. Its a fucking holiday this weekend and the pool isn’t open so I am staying put inside.” He sits beside Rei and picks up one of the pictures. “Why? Whats this all about?”

Rei furrows his eyebrows and looks down at the table, strewn with pictures from his childhood. “Its…..confusing.” He mutters. More to himself. 

Rin pokes through a few of them. Rei looks adorable in this one. No better in this one. No even better in this one. He smiles easy looking through all of them, kinda wishing he was there to see it all. Rei was so cute. He is always cute, even when he had ketchup on his nose and a soggy burger in his hand. Somewhere in the back of his mind, a little alarm bell rings.  

Then he stumbles on some pictures where he is there. Standing next to Makoto, arguing with Haru or putting an arm around Rei and teasing him or having a glaring showdown with Sousuke. There is even one when he had his 18th birthday party. He is sitting on his bed, down with cold and all his friends around him. Cake on his bed and popping confetti in the background. He is glaring at the camera, prissy about being sick. He chuckles.

Rei starts. “What is it?” 

“Oh nothing. Wow we have changed huh? All grown and gone separate ways…”

“Rin-san.” There is terseness in that voice that Rin notices. “We have changed.”

“Yeah thats what I sai-”

Cons:

chances are, just about five people actively ship it in your fandom

there’s hardly any fanart, fics, or edits of your ship

if you want something done, you have to do it yourself

you literally just signed yourself up for like ten, with about half of that ten actually being good, fics in their ao3 tag

constantly being asked why you ship them when [insert reason as to why it apparently makes sense to NOT ship them]

Pros:

when ship drama happens in your fandom, at least your ship is safe from it

usually the people that actively ship the rare pair are nice