#raiden fluff

"I know I hardly write for him, but I love him sm

Raiden is such a good person to have around you when you're in a depressive episode

Let's say you're not taking care of your personal hygiene. He's not judgmental. He won't be like "bitch you fucking STINK!

Raiden understands that you don't enjoy being dirty. Your brain is convincing you that you don't deserve good things like a bath, and/or moving is exhausting

Raiden is the type to run your bath water, get you a towel and even get a new pair of pajamas ready for you

He's making sure you're eating everyday

Once I said he would bring you produce as a gift, and imma stand on that still

"Raiden... Is that a big ass wheel of cheese?" "Yes :D" "I'm lactose intolerant" "When have you ever taken that seriously?"

Probably asks you to cook with him so you're up and doing something

Listens to listen, not just to respond

I can see him staying at your place or him asking you to stay at his if you've been isolating yourself

The type to lay with you and not expect you to say anything. You'll talk when you're ready

"What's got you down?" "I don't know, man" "That's okay"

Gives little lightning shows if that makes you happy

Checks in everyday to make sure you're alright

If all you can think of are the bad parts of yourself, he has no problem listing all the good parts

Tries to keep you around people, like Kung Lao (because Kung Lao can make anyone laugh, even when they're down)

Makes it known that he loves you and wants the absolute best for you. He doesn't make you feel like a burden for needing help. If you need help, he'll be there. Whenever and wherever.

If I were to describe my mood with a picture, it would be-

It blew my mind that just days ago, we were facing Armageddon, defeated Titan Shang Tsung and now, my friends and I surrounding a table at Madame Bo’s, eating dinner and chatting like it was just a dream.

I wouldn’t want to have it any other the way, though. Us making it out alive and unharmed was nothing short of a miracle.

The challenges we face surely didn’t change them in the slightest, being pestered by Kung Lao and Johnny as I sat between them.

They both were arrogant and flirting with me while I stared at my friend Raiden, my eyes asking him to put me out of my misery.

He could only laugh at my reactions at first, but after so much, I couldn’t tolerate it anymore.

“Why would you want to be with farmer boy here, when you have a mega star right next to you,” Johnny loved to throw those words around, making Kung Lao argue back:

“I may be a farmer boy, but I have everything a lover could ever hope to have.”

“Johnny, Kung Lao,” Raiden began to speak up, but at the same time, I rose from my seat, scoffing at them:

“All I want is damn peace and quiet. Which I’ll find in the restroom.”

That finally silenced them, staring at me as I went to the restroom, needing some silence, washing my hands and when I felt ready, I left to find Raiden in the hall.

“Are you okay, Y/N? I know they were testing your patience.”

Raiden was a great friend who didn’t pester me like the others, putting on a smile for him, making him laugh:

“Roughest test I’ve gone through yet.”

“I don’t doubt that,” He laughed, being kind as he added, “You deserve better than that.”

“Thank heavens someone understands,” I sighed, patting his cheek, “Only if there were more people like you, Raiden.”

“I guess I could say that I’m special,” He blushed, eyes darting away nervously, “Is it okay if I ask you something?”

“Of course,” I nodded curiously, reconnecting our gaze as he proposed:

“Maybe when we have some free time at the Wu Shi academy, we can do something together?”

“I’d like that, Raiden,” I smiled brightly, “Just let me know when.”

“Soon,” He smiled back, escorting me back to the table where we paid the bill and parted ways.

Only two days after, Kung Lao, Raiden, and I began training the new initiates at the academy. I was excited as they seemed to be promising.

At the end training day, we were all looking forward to our free day tomorrow. Changing into something a little more comfortable as I heard a knock on my door.

Answering, I found Raiden, a blushed smile on his face as he asked

“I’m not disturbing you, am I?”

“Never,” I assured, excitedly asking, “So, are we having our little randevu?”

“If you’re still okay with that,” He began to smile more as I stepped out and shut the door:

“Lead the way.”

He lead me to a garden that was full of cherry blossom trees, the leaves allowing some sunlight to shine across a blanket in the grass with a picnic box on top, and it put such a nice smile on my face.

“I know it’s not much-“ He began as he kneeled on the blanket, but I quickly shut down his worries:

“Raiden, It’s perfect.”

Neither one of us could stop smiling as I joined him, chatting over a wonderful lunch, chatting about the new initiates and our future goals regarding the academy, future tournaments, anything meaningful to us.

I appreciated that he took the time to do this and as he was cleaning up our lunch, I saw some cherry blossom pedals next to me in the grass, taking them to gift him.

“The cherry blossoms here are gorgeous aren’t they?” He looked back, curious as he saw me folding some, working but responding:

“Absolutely gorgeous.”

“Are you making something?” He leaned over to see, holding out my hand to show him hearts that I made from the pedals, offering:

“For you.”

Taking them delicately, his cheeks got so red, admiring them but meaning wholeheartedly:

“I’ll cherish them forever, Y/N.”

That nearly made my heart melt, continuing to show my appreciation as I leaned to kiss his cheek:

“Thank you for this. I’m more than happy to keep having more picnics.”

“As many as your heart desires,” He stared deeply into my eyes and I instantly felt this zap between us, my heart taking control of me as I softly kissed his lips.

With both our eyes closed, he started kissing me back with strong passion, leaning closer to me and accidentally mistaking the basket for the ground, making us fall back.

His looked a bit embarrassed, but I was laughing, happier than ever and as he stared at me for a moment, cherry blossoms falling onto me, he started laughing too, a pedal gracefully gliding past his eyes, titling my head over to kiss:

“You’re the best, Raiden.”

he’d help them with their homework, listen to their rambles every single day, hug them whenever they need comfort and play with them whenever he’s got time on his hands

pretty sure he’d be a stay-at-home dad just because he loves you and his kid so much and he’d want you to focus on your career that you had to pause work when you found out you were pregnant 

you’d sometimes come home to your little family while childe was laying on the floor with toys around him and he was holding your toddler above him, making playful sounds with his mouth while your child was laughing happily. 

he is so thankful for you and his kid and he never forgets to remind you how much he is. well, mayhaps your kid wants a little sibling, huh? 

✧. ┊ AL-HAITHAM 

now, this one is a quite interesting case, right? 

well, my thought initially was “a guy who doesn’t even want to lend out his books to others or can come up with different plans for rescueing an archon would be a very interesting dad” 

well, i think he would be an amazing dad

he wouldn’t ever miss out a day reading his kid a bedtime story. he would always be super supportive, no matter what would be going on

bad grades when your kid starts school? it’s okay, you guys can study all together again and your kid would do better with his dad’s tutoring. 

being disrespectful to others? al-haitham won’t hesitate to become strict. 

sometimes when kaveh was staying over, he’d listen the architect telling your kid about the big palace he built once. 

he would be super caring and careful and absolutely would turn a 180 when he’s back at home from the akademiya and his work as the scribe, where he’s super serious and doesn’t let anyone distract him. 

when he’s at home though, he always makes sure his kid is his first priority and that his kid knows that 

but he would never, ever forget about you. once he bored your kid asleep with a goodnight story, he would finally come back to your bedroom, hugging you from behind and leaving soft kisses over your shoulder. 

he would tell you ever so often how much he loves you and how grateful he is for your small family together. 

✧. ┊ RAIDEN EI 

she would be SO overwhelmed. 

not knowing your neighbor’s kid was at your small house just outside of inazuma city, she’d come over to visit, widened eyes when she heard the crying sounds from inside 

she’d see you softly shushing a baby, holding them gently, yet firmly in your arms, finding the view quite endearing 

ei wasn’t sure how to handle babys, so she’d ask you to let her help you in any way, all you’d have to do was explain how things work, despite your initial protest, you agreed at the end.

ꔛ QIQI

“oh, that’s quite a lot!” baizhu remarked as he noticed you and qiqi empty the bags full of halloween treats on the floor. he was right, all because you and qiqi decided to continue trick or treating far enough to receive a lot that varied in different types of treats. you laughed and nodded in reply while trying to organize it all to be stored in a jar you prepared while baizhu kneeled down to join you and qiqi.

however, it seemed that baizhu wouldn’t stop sneaking a few small ones into his mouth.

“baizhu, less eating and more helping!”

“i am helping, y/n. i’m lessening the ones needed to be put away, am i not?”

you squinted your eyes at the green haired man while he just shot you with his closed eyed half smile, half smirk as he continued ‘helping’. you sighed and continued, not until you noticed qiqi’s face that featured her adorable, little pout while she fiddled the ends of her mummy costume with her small fingers.

you smiled softly and opted to move closer to her before you placed a comforting hand behind her back. “qiqi, what’s wrong? are you tired?” she only shook her head and furrowed her brows with her head hung low.

however, you didn’t need to try to gain an answer from her when you noticed how much she shifted her eyes at the candies and chips in front of her, as if looking for something. so you smiled and placed a tender hand on her cheek to make her look up to you, “qiqi, i prepared a little ‘treat’ for you! oh- and it’s your favorite!”

“qiqi’s… favorite…?” you giggled when her eyes shone in a combination of curiosity and excitement. you nodded at her before you stood up and made your way towards the kitchen to get something from the refrigerator. you returned with your hands behind your back, hiding the item from qiqi while baizhu chuckled for he already knew what you had prepared this morning for the little one.

“alright. now, you have to ask me the spoooky~ question before i give it to you!”

qiqi curiously gazed up at your kneeled figure with your hands behind your back. nevertheless, she stood up and picked up her halloween bag beside her as her hands stretched it open for you. “trick or treat…!” despite her soft, quiet voice, she tried her best to say it louder than she did during earlier’s trick or treating.

“here’s your treat, cocogoat milk!” you smiled at qiqi and showed her what you had, coconut milk — or cocogoat milk, as she always calls it — stored in a pumpkin-shaped bottle and a straw. a wide smile found its way onto her features as she placed her bag down and took the bottle with both of her hands, she quickly expressed her thankfulness and, without a second wasted, started sipping on the straw. the delighted hum and the sparkles in her eyes made you smile.

“so,” baizhu started once you’ve stood up with the jar full of treats in your hands, “do i get a treat too?”

“well, did you say ‘trick or treat’? and, you’re not wearing a costume.”

your little banter with baizhu was interrupted once you felt qiqi tug on the ends of your costume. you smiled and kneeled down on her level to hear her out.

“can qiqi… ask for another?…”

ꔛ RAIDEN EI

it’s early in the evening as you smiled after you finished filling the first container with different varieties of candies, chocolates, biscuits, and chips. you didn’t have to worry about the second container that you trusted ei to fill; after all, she was the one that voluntarily offered a hand after noticing how many you and her bought from the other day’s grocery shopping.

you picked up the filled container and turned around to walk towards your girlfriend, whose back was turned to you as she filled her container.

“honey, are you done?—” you noticed how her actions froze upon hearing your voice, while your words halted as your eyes landed upon the reason behind it.

“ei!” you called, your voice a bit louder in shock. “i told you to fill the container, not eat it!” you now moved to stand beside her sitting figure by the dinner table and placed your container on the table. “those are for the kids who’ll be knocking on our door to trick or treat later…” you sighed.

ei lifted her head up to look at you with her witch hat still on her head. “well…” she started, her voice a little mumbled as she still had her mouth full, only continuing once she had swallowed. “you mentioned that it was ‘my’ container, i thought it meant that the contents are mine as well, love.” you grumbled at her words and shook your head. why didn’t you expect this from her?

she lifted her hand to show you a piece of chocolate with the wrapper still in-tack to it, giving you a view of her nails that were painted purple, “also, this is my favorite among it all. you really made an amazing decision for buying this, darling.”

it was the chocolate that you were unsure of buying due to its unfamiliar brand. “really?” she nodded at your question. you lifted your hand in order to take the piece of wrapped chocolate from her fingers, only for her to move it away from your reach.

ei stood up in order to stretch her arm that held the chocolate higher, totally out of your reach, but you still tried your best to reach it; standing on your toes and hopping. it didn’t click to you that your body was pressed against hers, faces barely a few centimeters away from each other.

it also didn’t click to you that her free arm was now wrapped around your waist and you weren’t fast enough to notice her lips pressed against yours in a loving kiss. your widened eyes stared at her, whose eyes were closed, soon you wrapped your arms around her and kissed back with your eyes closed. ei’s kisses always felt so electrifying no matter the intensity, it left sparks and tingles.

it makes you breathless, ‘til you wish every moment could last for eternity.

but, now, you could taste something deliciously sweet from her lips. it taste like chocolate.

when ei pulled away from the kiss, she took notice of your flushed cheeks and chuckled.

“so, how did it taste, darling?”

ꔛ ALBEDO KREIDEPRINZ

“trick or treat!”

it were the three same words you’ve been hearing for the past hour ever since people of different ages wearing costumes started knocking on your door, you’ve given treats to every single one of them. however, this time, you recognized very well who was the little girl wearing an orange-black colored dress with a pumpkin hat on top of her head accompanied by an older male wearing what seemed to be a prince costume.

“hm…” you placed a hand on your hip as you pretended to think. “i think i don’t have anything left to give to the both of you.”

“eh- but!! i thought you said klee will get a looot of treats if klee dressed up!?” you noticed that klee lifted the pumpkin on her head to be able to look up to you properly. you laughed and shook your head before showing to the pair the container full of treats and took multiple handfuls of sweets to stuff into her and albedo’s halloween bags. klee’s eyes sparkled and her wide smile reappeared as she looked at the contents of her bag before looking back up to you again. “thank you sooo muuuch~!” you placed a hand on her head and ruffled her hair with a smile.

“i’m sorry that we stopped by quite late, flower. klee and i decided to start from the ones near our neighborhood before we expanded our route.” albedo apologized.

you shook your head, “it’s totally fine, ‘bedo. it’s actually an amazing strategy to get more treats.” you laughed and albedo nodded with an adoring smile on his face that you didn’t notice was because of you.

you felt a tug at the end of your clothes; the moment you looked down, you’re met with klee’s pleading eyes. “can you join klee and albedo onii-chan for trick-or-treating?” your eyes widened, would that really be a good idea?

“it’ll be fun.” albedo mused. “after all, our costume quite matches each other’s, no?” your eyes automatically scanned his costume, then yours. once you realized that the theme of the costumes matched, even without having it planned, your cheeks gained a red hue and warmth you couldn’t shake off.

in your flustered silence, albedo chuckled and offered you a hand, accompanied by a charming and loving smile on his lips.

“shall we, your highness?”

ꔛ ARATAKI ITTO

you groan with your hand on your forehead as itto and his friends receive another set of candies inside their bags. why were you here again, anyway? right, itto had actually convinced you to accompany him for trick-or-treating, even got you convinced to wear an oni costume that matches his.

he turns around to leave after thanking the kind owner of the house, but never forgets to wrap his arm around your waist to bring you along with him while his other hand held his halloween bag. his set of rowdy friends were silenced by shinobu when she noticed that almost all eyes on the street are on them for being too loud. in the mean time, your eyes looked up at itto who was too busy enjoying his pumpkin-shaped lollipop while striding towards a new house to trick-or-treat to.

"itto, are you seriously going to go for another house?"

"babe, of course! it's halloween, so we shouldn't waste this opportunity to get snacks for free!"

you flash him a dumbfounded look, which he laughs at. "if you just wanted free snacks, i could have just bough some and gave it to you for free so we wouldn't have to go trick-or-treating."

at your words, realization, shock, and panic fills the expression of his face as he immediately scrabbled closer in front of you.

"no! that won't do! we had to go trick-or-treating together. it wouldn't be fun without your dear boyfie, righttt?" he reasoned before he showed you his phone's lockscreen wallpaper — which was the picture he took of the both of you earlier before stepping out to trick or treat. "look!! we look absolutely cute and awesome together with our matching costumes i bought for us!"

you wouldn't — couldn't — deny it, really, he was right. it made you giddy knowing that he was the one that initiated something so couple-y. you laughed and shook your head at him, no matter how much you could possibly say 'no', you found trick or treating with itto endearing.

"alright, fine." you grinned, unable to hold it back anymore. "if you don't give me a bag right now, i'm dragging the both of us home right now."

itto's loud, enthusiastic laugh echoed into your ears and you still couldn't help but feel the butterflies. after he gave you an empty and unused halloween bag, he flashed you his grin that showed his fangs while he interlocked his larger fingers with yours securely.

"but, babe, i'm stealing all the lollipops you get."

"what!? no fair, itto! at least trade it with my favorites!"

ꔛ SCARAMOUCHE

"no."

clear, stern, and emphasized. that's how scaramouche answered with every halloween costume you've presented to him, hoping that at least one will tickle his fancy. however, it has been so long and you've lost count of how many costumes he had turned down — which were, all of the costumes you've shown him. you've offered him to personally look one for himself on his own, in hopes that it could solve the problem.

but he merely skimmed through it all.

"come on, pleaase, kuni?" you pleaded. "it'll be so cute with us wearing something that matches for the party!"

"y/n, we are not children to be going around wearing costumes in halloween." he retorted with his arms still firmly crossed against his chest.

"but it makes up for the occasion!" you reasoned out while showing him two costumes that matches with one another. "how about we wear this?" you smiled, but the sigh he releases makes you lower your arms from holding up the two costumes before putting it back into the costume store's rack.

it makes you think that maybe scaramouche wasn't a fan of dressing up, trick-or-treating, or that he isn't really a fan of halloween as a whole. so with a bit of a heavy heart, you returned every costume you've presented to him. with how busy you were, you don't notice him watching you with guilt in his indigo irises. he's too harsh on this — on you.

your hand held the hanger of the vampire costume, the last that you had to put back, until a gentle hand stopped you from doing so before the owner had stole the costume away from your hands. you look up and watch as scaramouche examines the coat, your eyes confused as he looks back at you.

"i think i'll wear this." scaramouche turns to you as you notice the superiority on his voice disappear. "and you can wear this." he said as he got another vampire costume that matches with the one he plans to wear.

"k-kuni, you don't really have to if you don't want to-"

"i want to." he states firmly, yet his voice is soft. "for you."

"you know... I think you're as beautiful as amakumo peak during a thunderstorm!~"

a long sigh escaped your lips, "thank you Ei..."

the sad excuse of an archon (affectionate) had her head currently resting on your chest area running her fingers through your hair, cooiny praises at you while you were just on the couch trying to read.

you had just purchased the book yesterday from yae publishing house, actually ei just managed to convince the mysterious shrine maiden running the agency to give it to you for free. you still have no idea how...

you didnt notice you had zoned out until your girlfriend stopped playing with the collar of your shirt.

"dear?.. are you alright?" "oh!- i'm fine Ei."

a gentle smile danced on your lips as you closed the book, set it down and gave Ei a pat on the head, grudging her to continue.

a few hours passed and it was about time you got up and left for your shift, and so you told Ei about it, but did she listen? no!

"Ei... please.. i need to leav-" "oh? but i'm quite comfortable here."

and so she continued whatever the heck she was doing before, except this time she increased the number of cheesy praise by a lot.

"oh almighty shogun, stop being so sappy all the time..."