#*koumaki

Take Me

Makishima thinks Kougami is simply fascinating. It isn’t often that someone can call him out on his bullshit, but somehow Kougami just always knows and if that isn’t something worth noting, then Makishima doesn’t know what is.

(The fact that Kougami is also distressingly good looking helps too).

So his reputation is that he’s a loose (true), lit major (true), slightly sadistic (true), and can’t stay in a relationship to save his life (also true). And Kougami is known around campus as the straight-laced social sciences student whom can profile you before he gets a cigarette out and lit (all true).

(And it’s also a fact—to a select few—that Makishima and Kougami have had each other on their respective radar for a while—ever since they were freshman and had clashed during orientation to be exact).

In fact, it’s really not a surprise to Kougami when he wakes up with no recollection of the past few hours to find himself tied up in a chair in a disturbingly spotless white room that can only belong to one individual. He also knows that Makishima knows that he can easily get out of the ropes tying him down—although if he were to actually fight Makishima would be a different matter.

So when Makishima comes into view holding a sharp-looking razor, he’s only the slightest bit worried because whilst he’s certain Makishima won’t kill him, hurting him is a different matter. But knowing Makishima—narcissistic, attention-craving, disillusioned, cruel at his worst, he’s also lonely, alienated, and romantic in the weirdest sense.

(He feels as though they’ve known each other more than once. In a life where they were different, harsher versions of themselves; where they fought and fought and one of them died).

And so if Makishima’s serious about being tutored in psych—‘I’ll cut your pretty little face if you refuse’—Kougami will willingly agree because he understands Makishima better than Makishima himself and he knows it goes the other way too.