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41. Kisses shared under an umbrella.

The sound of rain was, despite some of the memories associated with it, a rather soothing one for him.  Takuma stared up at the cloudy sky, rain beginning to scatter in little dark spots over the concrete.  Under the threshold of the hospital doors, he wasn’t likely to get very wet unless there was a breeze — though walking back to the apartment in this would be a bit uncomfortable.  He hadn’t brought an umbrella.  He stuck his hand out just out from underneath the arch and let the drops scatter over his palm.  They were cool against his skin, droplets running through the lines of his palm to rest in a small puddle in the middle.

“Saiou!”

He looked up.  Running down the lane to the clinic doors, umbrella held over his head like a black flower, was none other than Edo.  Saiou blinked, lips parting.

“I thought you had work,” he said, as Edo huffed to a stop in front of him, the extra large umbrella swaying slightly.

“I saw the weather forecast changed,” Edo said.  “And I knew you hadn’t brought your umbrella with you to your appointment.”

He gave Takuma a pointed glance, and he couldn’t help but smile, though with a bit of apology.

“I didn’t think it was going to rain.  But you shouldn’t have called off of work just for that.”

Edo waved a hand dismissively.

“They can deal with it,” he said, and for just a moment, he pouted like a petulant child, like he was the constantly annoyed fifteen year old he’d once been so long ago.  “You can’t walk home through the rain — you’ll get sick.”

“I’m not so much of an invalid as you think me.”

“And you’re not as healthy as you pretend you are.  Now get under the umbrella and stop complaining.”

It was enough to make a smile break over Takuma’s lips, and he let out a breathy laugh.

“Thank you,” he said, ducking beneath the umbrella.  “I’ll try to stop being ungrateful.”

“You’d better,” said Edo, smirking and raising his eyebrows.

The rain began to fall with a determined fury by the time they made it to the end of the lane.  Edo laced an arm around Takuma’s, dragging him closer to him to keep him under the umbrella as much as possible.

“I’m not going to catch a chill from a few drops,” Takuma said with a soft laugh.

Edo didn’t respond except to tighten his arm a little bit more around Takuma’s, a protective sort of gesture that couldn’t help but make Takuma’s heart swell with affection. 

A breeze gusted between them, spraying some of the rain up under the umbrella.

“Dammit,” Edo swore.  “Let’s stop here for a minute, see if it lets up.”

He guided them under a bus stop, and the sound of the rain against the umbrella faded to the patter of the drops against the glass of the roof.  Edo didn’t let the umbrella fall, though, keeping it over their heads as the remaining drops began to plop from the corners.

“You could always call your car,” Takuma pointed out.

Edo looked down at the ground.  He said something that Takuma didn’t quite hear over the sound of the rain.

“What?” 

When Takuma tilted his head down to try and get a glimpse of Edo’s face, he saw the pink dusting his cheeks.

“I said,” he said, blushing harder, “that I wanted to walk home with you.”

Oh.  Takuma blushed slightly, too, though he smiled.  He let his arm slid down Edo’s, where their hands pressed together before their fingers intertwined.  Perhaps this was the real reason Edo had called out of work after all.

“It has been a while, hasn’t it?” he said.

Edo grumbled something, and this time, Takuma didn’t ask him to repeat it.  

Edo tilted his head up towards Takuma, though, fingers tightening on his.

“I missed you,” he said, softly.  “They don’t give me a lot of time off.”

“You’re doing your best,” Takuma said.  “I’m only sorry I can’t be working as your manager anymore.  We’d have more time together then.”

“Not the right kind of time.”

Edo was getting taller, Takuma realized.  Tall enough that when Edo decided to lean forward, Takuma barely needed to lean down to meet his lips.  His lips were warm, soft, gentle.  Above them, the umbrella closed them in, sealing them off into their own little world.

“Takuma,” Edo whispered to his lips when they broke apart, and Takuma shivered as he always did when Edo called him by his first name.  “I love you.”

Takuma responded by kissing him again, soft, gentle, and with all of the words he needed to say back.

when I started shipping it if I did:  so like, before zarc and ray was revealed, I did not actually like the fact that all the bgirls x yuboys were shipped like that together cuz I thought “that’s awfully convenient” (past me is… hilarious). I still shipped them regardless tho lol And so like, I was really determined not to ship zarc and ray (ahahaaaaaaaaAaaaa). When episode 125 and 126 aired, I was like “oh thank god, Zarc and Ray aren’t romantic, they didn’t even know each other, oh good.” Ya know, overwhelming sense of relief and whatnot. And then… a strange thought hit me… BUT WHAT IF THEY WERE IN LOVE!??!?! and uhhhh, I walked backwards into hell and never looked back.

my thoughts: I can’t believe past me contemplated not shipping them since it’s such a fun example of enemies into lovers / star cross lovers and really fuels so much “what if” fantasies. I’ve always wanted something of this dynamic and I finally got it and even with what little I have of them, I loved it instantly. Like, their counterpart selves really show that had they meant, a lot could’ve been prevented and it’s a tragedy in that sense. 

What makes me happy about them: Their designs and how pretty they are. How easily I can be like “zarcray au when”. Their fucking shipname. What they dynamic could’ve been. How friendly the fans are. The shitposts. 

What makes me sad about them: They didn’t even get a conversation or like, sharing the screen and I will always be sad about that cuz everything gotta be created.

things done in fanfic that annoys me: I will say, while it doesn’t annoy me so much, I don’t really need origin stories that go down the same route and hit the same beats and plot points. IDK, it was prominent in the early days and not so much now. So I guess not much annoys me whoops

things I look for in fanfic: porn. if not that, interesting aus

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: lol what. they just about the only ship i have where i’m like “i do not multi-ship. i am a monogamous hoe”

My happily ever after for them: they are happy and marry

who is the big spoon/little spoon: they alternate but zarc likes being the little spoon more often than not but he’ll never admit it even tho it intimacy he never had with someone. but also, ray got her times when she just like “i wanna be held by broad shoulders” and zarc is like, yup, i am here, it me. the broad shoulders ;-;

Thank you for your concern! 

Luckily for us, we just got @baddyzarc back along with all the terminated accounts!! This did not happen with daddyzarc, so we’re really happy that every thing is back

Well, I think the point of that post was more that there are people who act like Arc V fans are just being elitist or mean and acting like they just don't want to get along with the rest of fandom for no reason when that's not the case at all. The fans who were harassed and continue to be harrassed over liking the show are not the problem in fandom.

They are when they decide to turn around and do other people what is/was being done to them.

It kinda looks bad to say ‘hey leave us alone and stop hating on the show we like’ and then turn around and go ‘hey this one is the best and this other spinoff sucks’ or ‘all people who like [other spinoff] are awful’ cause that is *exactly* what I’m seeing and the point im trying to make. People turning around going ‘A5 is the best one and VRAINS sucks’ and ‘vrains fans are awful’.

Man I had to deal w/ this shit back when GX was new and it was everyone insisting that DM was superior and GX was lame.

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I agree so hard on hating the “good guy is worse than the bad guy” trope. A hero screwing up and doing something morally wrong doesn’t mean they’re suddenly worse than the guys who have repeatedly committed murder or whatever and it annoys me when people act like it does and that heroes have to be pure all the time in order to be considered good enough. :/

It is the worst trope and it is in all of my fandoms.

Granted, I didn’t see it in Arc V as much. At worst, you got the “Yuuya is brainwashing people with his smile philosophy” nonsense, but not really anyone claiming he was worse than the villains. I wonder if the reason he avoids this trope is because (without spoiling anything for you), the entity within him serves as an adversarial force already. There were theories each about Reiji and Yushou being villains, but those were dropped as the show disproved them.

That dumb trope just needs to die already. It’s never been funny. And to have Yuya of all people do it… I’ve been staying away from the manga for fear of possible spoilers but this certainly wouldn’t make me want to read it. :(

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