#hinashi

“You’re looking pale these days. What’s the matter, your super-soldier girlfriend wearing you out?” Masaomi waggles his eyebrows suggestively.

But Shiori only sighs, and lays her head down on her desk. “Yes, in fact.”

“Really? Do tell. With details.”

“Get your mind out of the gutter, Masaomi-san. We went hiking yesterday.”

“Hiking?” Masaomi says this with the appropriate amount of disdain that Shiori feels the sentiment warrants.

“Yes. Before that, we went cycling. Before that, kayaking. Hinami-san did most of the work, there, but…”

“All your dates are outdoors?” Masaomi successfully guesses. “What, Hinami never lets you plan the dates? That’s rather selfish of her.”

“Not at all,” Shiori says, lifting her head and bristling. “Hinami-senpai is very considerate. She’s just… happier. Being active. We tried to Netflix and chill one night, but she kept twitching and getting up, and then ended up assembling a bookshelf for me. Which was nice, I needed a new bookshelf, but…”

“Not the way you wanted that night to end?” 

Shiori sighs. Their relationship is still fairly new. Shiori still can’t believe someone as amazing as Kasamatsu Hinami would even want to date her. So she wants to make sure Hinami is having fun on their dates, and she always seems happiest when she’s outdoors and running around. 

“How do you handle it?” Shiori asks, for surely Masaomi is not any more athletically inclined than she is. “Youji-san is just as active as Hinami-senpai.”

“More so, I should think. That man probably wouldn’t even sleep indoors if he could get away with it,” Masaomi says. “Luckily, there are many indoor activities we both mutually enjoy that uses up excess energy nicely.”

Shiori suppresses the impulse to sigh again. Her relationship with Hinami isn’t quite there yet, but maybe someday…

“You’re probably being too accommodating. You should be more selfish, Shiori,” Masaomi informs her. “Really, Shiori, this attitude is just defeatist, and not like you.”

Shiori mulls this over. Perhaps it was time to go on the offense. 

*

“We’re watching a movie tonight, Senpai,” Shiori says, smiling, as Hinami enters her house. 

“Oh,” Hinami says, slightly taken aback. “Sure. We can do that. Do you have another bookshelf for me to make?’

“No, I just thought we should spend some time indoors tonight,” Shiori says, pulling Hinami to the couch. She sets up the movie, while Hinami sits down on the coach. The restlessness is already sitting in, and Hinami looks a bit like a caged tiger, ready to start pacing back and forth.

As the movie begins, Shiori moves back to the couch. But instead of sitting down next to Hinami, like she did last time, she sits down on Hinami’s lap.

“Shiori--” Hinami startles in surprise.

Shiori nuzzles into Hinami’s neck, getting comfortable. Hinami’s arms automatically wrap around her, securing her in place. “Yes, Senpai?”

“Nothing,” Hinami says, blushing. But she seems to calm down, and looks less like a tiger ready to move. Shiori breathes out in contentment, and thinks they should have been watching movies like this from the start. 

full post happy quarantine guys

Masaomi figures no matter what the narrative was supposed to be, he was doomed to be a failed knight. It would bother him more, except he never really thought of himself as a "knight" from the start.

Not like the duck who is currently at his feet. Youji time and time again proved he was much better suited for the role of knight, even if that wasn’t the role he was supposed to play either. Masaomi bends down to pick up the duck in his hands, and it's the first time he feels like he failed. Not with Hinami, the prince with a shattered heart, who Masaomi was supposed to protect. But this duck, who is a hero, and deserves a happier ending. 

"I'm sorry," Masaomi says, and it's an absolutely useless thing to say. It does fuck-all for actually conveying what he wants to say. Sorry you were never destined to be with the one you love. Sorry you were meant to disappear into a flash of light if you so much as confessed. Sorry the one you love rode off into the sunset with the crow princess, sorry you would have made a much better knight, sorry I couldn't even protect one duck.

Youji nips at his hands, like maybe he doesn't want any of those apologies, even the ones Masaomi didn't say. 

But Masaomi isn't going to wallow in self-pity. Hinami and Shiori, against all odds, found a happy ending in a story that was supposed to be a tragedy for everyone. 

"I'll write us a better story," Masaomi promises. "I’ll write us a better ending."

ok so i realised the cute draw the top thing i found had 7 otps,,,, is already assigned them to variations of the ot4 so i’m gonna. draw them. all. but there’s also 7 days in a week.

so day 1 of “me processing that my free education is over with no exams through the ot4”. it’s gonna be a Week.