#finalfantasy7

8:34PM: where denki kaminari has a little crush on a videogame store employee.

📝 𐔌  .  denki kaminari x reader tiny oneshot, first story kinda nervous, this is gonna flop but i did this for the other 3 denki kaminari fans left in the world sniffle  !  ౨ৎ

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A new store had opened in Denki Kaminari’s neighborhood. It was a matter of time, considering before it was an old clothing store with the sign faded and collecting dust, completely abandoned. The store had been open for around a week now, but Denki hasn’t had the time to visit yet. After seeing news of the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth game releasing and it being sold out on online stores, Denki decided to try his luck at the videogame store, and also to just check it out in general.

Seeing that the store was open 24 hours, and it was currently around 1AM, Denki decided to go take a visit now, to get the CD and play tomorrow since it’d be his off day and he’d have all the time to play. After a 6 minute walk, give or take, Denki reached the shop, taking a look at the exterior before heading inside. There was subtle music playing, and when Denki entered the store he realized how cold it was inside, refreshing how the air conditioner hit him because of the hot weather recently.

Considering that the store had only been open for around a week, it seemed to be decorated nicely and filled with videogames, consoles, and more. But what caught Denki’s eyes more was not the interior design of the shop but the girl at the counter, reading a comic book on the chair while blowing bubblegum. You seemed to be completely distracted, not even noticing yet that a customer had entered the shop, as you had an AirPod on one side of your ear, which was filled with piercings shining under the light. You wore blue jeans and a dark blue, almost black polo shirt that looked like it was the store’s employee uniform.

Denki, on the other hand, wore socks with sandals, black shorts, and an orange hoodie that was worn out from how often he wore it. He didn’t think he’d run into anyone anyway and honestly expected some 30 year old neckbeard guy to be working this late. But instead, the universe decided to make him come across the one girl who seemed beautiful beyond his imagination. Just his luck.

He walked inside the store more, trying to reveal his presence to the worker, noticing how it was not only a videogame store but also sold things such as Funko Pops, comics, and a few literature books. There was also a small sitting area near the window to the right when you entered the store. The place just gave a cozy vibe in general.

While looking around, Denki saw in his peripheral vision that you shifted your position, fixed your shirt, and tried to throw the bubblegum in the small trash can next to the counter without him seeing. “Welcome!” you said, and Denki turned his head towards you. “Sorry, I didn’t expect a customer to come this late. Do you need help finding something?” you laughed awkwardly.

“No, it’s fine, I’ll just look around,” Denki responded, almost about to stutter from how fast he responded. You nodded your head in response. He looked through the stalls, looking over the games and other items (and sometimes taking a look at you here and there), taking notes of it for when he wanted to get them another time, until finding Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

Denki headed back to the counter, putting the CD on the table and grabbing his wallet from his pocket to take out his card. He noticed your freshly manicured nails, though he didn’t know that they were fresh, he just thought they were pretty, as you picked up the CD to go through the scanner. “That’ll be 70 dollars,” you said.

Denki gave his card and you swiped it. “Oh, it declined,” you said awkwardly. Denki wanted an airstrike to kill him now. There was absolutely no way. He literally got paid 2 weeks ago, how could his card decline now out of all times?

“Can you try it again?” he said, almost embarrassed to ask.
You nodded and swiped it one more time.
“It worked,” you said. Denki closed his eyes out of relief.

“So, Final Fantasy fan, huh?” you said while taking a paper bag from under the counter, unfolding it to put the CD in. You weren’t usually a fan of small talk, but after getting employed, it had turned into a habit. Denki lifted his head up to you, but avoided eye contact at the same time to nod and say,

“Yeah, definitely gonna spend all day tomorrow playing it.”
“Good luck,” you said and chuckled.

You handed the bag to the customer and he took it with the receipt inside.
“Thank you for coming, have a good day!” you exclaimed, which Denki just nodded to and headed out after, giving a long sigh, realizing he was holding his breath. After Denki reached home, he dropped his things at a nearby table, not even bothering to look at the CD again, and opened his phone. 


Denki would come to the store quite often now. At first he’d just go inside to check if you were working. If you weren’t, he’d just quickly browse through a shelf then go back out, but if you were working a shift, he’d stay in the store for maybe 15-20 minutes at least, sometimes longer when he’d grab a book and sit in the sitting area placed near the window and pretend to be interested in the book when he would just secretly peek at you, trying to figure out how to talk to you, then put it back and go outside. It’s not like the only purpose of Denki going to the store was just to look at you or talk with you, even though it was like that the first couple of times, he did end up finding a comfort in the place.

Though he started overthinking that it might be a little weird to you that he’d come just to look and then leave, so he started buying random comics or games, a few he was actually interested in, to act like he actually had a purpose in coming. He had probably visited the store 10 times in the span of like… 3 weeks, but only 5 of those times were you working a shift. Which he now knows that you only work night shifts from 8 till 2.

In most of those times, the only conversations you guys would have were casual small talk. Other times you had small convos about something he was buying. One time he bought a Pikachu keychain and you said it looked like him. His brain almost short circuited.

Denki was going to ask you for your number earlier, but never got the right time. One of those times he brought Bakugo, Kirishima and Sero with him to “encourage” him to ask, but they ended up getting distracted with each other and the “sick ass store” as they said. Then the last time he wanted to ask, the store had a lot of workers with you and it was packed, probably because of the sale happening, and there was no way he had the courage to ask you in front of them even if they weren’t going to be focusing on you guys.

Finally, he went into the store at around 1 AM, mainly because that’s the time where there are no customers and just you working. This time he put effort into his outfit, very casual to you, effort to him. But he also wasn’t exactly trying to overdo it when it was 1 AM. Wearing a black shirt with gray sweatpants (because he saw a TikTok once about how it was attractive, he doesn’t know why) and simple sneakers, no socks with sandals. He learned that lesson after the first time.

When he entered the store, he saw you give a smile and a small wave.
“Welcome.”
Denki nodded in response. He did his usual routine of looking around, but he was actually just trying to not overthink it and just go for it in a stall, calming himself down and realizing “it’s not that deep.” He took a comic book and went to the counter, placed it down, did the usual small talk, paid for it and… left.

He paced around outside for around 30 seconds, telling himself he could do it and asking what’s the worst that could happen. But now he felt awkward entering just to ask for your number. He thought it would make him seem weird. That wouldn’t stop him though. He wanted to get this over with so he wouldn’t regret not asking you later.

He went inside again. There was no backing out now, and he went up to the counter. You lifted your head and raised your eyebrows when you saw Denki approaching you.
“Hey, can I get your number?” Denki said quickly, without stuttering even once. He wanted to applaud himself but was also too busy worrying about every bad outcome of this.
You smiled and said, “Oh sure, was wondering when you’d ask,” muttering the last part.

Denki just stood there for a couple of seconds, grateful you said yes, and let out a sigh of relief.
“So..?” you said after a bit.
He said, “Oh shit,” in realization and took out his phone for you to enter your number. You typed it in and saved your contact with your nickname and gave it back to him with a smile.

“Thank you,” Denki said, to which you just smiled.
“Text me,” you said to him, to which he responded that he’d make sure to. After a small talk about how you knew he wanted to ask for a while now and was waiting for him to, him feeling embarrassed and making tiny jokes here and there. He waved goodbye and headed home with a satisfactory smile, pulling out his phone the second he stepped outside. Already planning what to text you.

💪 1997 Barret Wallace 💪