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Yata will try and discuss it too, like imagine even years after ROK and he’s waxing poetic about the different ways they rekindled their friendship and Fushimi only recalls that time a Strain attacked them at the arcade and Yata got thrown through a wall. Yata’s like okay but remember that time I took you out for drinks for the first time, at that little hole in the wall bar, and Fushimi clicks his tongue like how is he supposed to remember that. Yata sighs and says okay but remember the bar fight that you started because some guy bumped into you and you called him a useless degenerate without brain cells. Fushimi considers that and then nods, right, the guy that I stabbed in the shoulder, how could I forget. Yata can’t believe that Fushimi can remember the guy he stabbed but not the good time they had and Fushimi clicks his tongue, of course he remembers spending time with Yata he just wasn’t sure exactly which time it was until Yata reminded him that he stabbed someone at the same time.

Meanwhile on Munakata’s end I could see him insisting he does not dislike Yata Misaki at all, while Fushimi stares at him suspiciously. Munakata would perhaps admit that he is slightly jealous, because before Fushimi had a friend he probably spent a lot of time with Munakata and now he’s suddenly got a new friend who he’s always hanging around with instead. Of course Munakata is a mature child, he would never be upset that his baby brother has a best friend, like any mature and reasonable person he’s simply going to look into this Yata Misaki’s background to make sure that he is a suitable companion for our Saruhiko. It’s perhaps a low level dislike until Munakata goes to college and hears Fushimi moved out to live with Yata and Munakata suddenly feels very vindicated for having always had his suspicions about that person. From that point on Munakata is perfectly comfortable treating Yata as the bad influence that swayed Saruhiko to the side of further bad influences (such as Suoh Mikoto). Post-ROK he and Yata have something of an unofficial truce for Saruhiko’s sake but it’s very clear to everyone else that these two have some kind of beef going on and everyone also can probably tell the reason why — except Fushimi, who doesn’t get why those two keep having issues with each other, there must be some commonality he’s missing that they’re always fighting over.

Yata immediately gets upset, I told you to tell me if you couldn’t sleep. Fushimi is being all stubborn, muttering that he can sleep fine he just…doesn’t want to and anyway he can get a nap in during the day between missions. Yata is absolutely not accepting that, Fushimi needs sleep and Yata will go sleep on the couch if that’s what he needs. Fushimi grabs Yata’s shirt and says it’s fine, they can both sleep here and Yata’s making a big deal out of nothing. Yata’s like you’re always like this, I’m not letting you be unhealthy and not get sleep, so one of us is going on the couch. Fushimi still refuses and they end up squabbling a little, Fushimi is weak from lack of sleep so Yata’s able to get him in a headlock. Yata’s like so now will you let me go sleep on the couch so you can get a full night’s sleep and Fushimi drowsily says no…this is fine. Yata’s all ‘Saruhiko?’, worried he like cut off Fushimi’s oxygen or something, but no Fushimi is already falling asleep with Yata’s biceps for a pillow. It’s kinda weird but hey, if this gets him to sleep, and Yata carefully lays back down with Fushimi still in a light headlock. After this imagine they realize this is the only way Fushimi sleeps, not even necessarily a headlock but somehow entwined with Yata: sleeping on Yata’s abs or against Yata’s arms, or between Yata’s legs with his head on Yata’s thighs, and it makes Yata feel a little flushed but if it lets Saruhiko sleep he’ll just have to endure.

The S4 rumor mill quickly comes out in full force though, everyone knows about Fushimi’s injury but no one knows about Yata promising to help out in order to let Fushimi rest so to everyone else it just looks like Yata is spending a lot of time in S4. On top of that Munakata has agreed to pay Yata for his time (since he has to take time off his actual job) and the pay is not insignificant so Yata has been spotted grinning like an idiot as he looks at his paycheck, thinking maybe all this was worth it. He spends a lot of time in Munakata’s office too and one member stopped in the other day to find Munakata doing a puzzle of Yata’s face. This definitely has people wondering if Homra’s Yata Misaki has become the Blue King’s sugar baby, like clearly that’s the only explanation here (the alphabet boys are a little more skeptical though, listening to a description of everything that Munakata’s been doing and what Yata’s been up to and Doumyouji innocently wonders isn’t that just Captain bullying him though).

Yata’s like what the fuck that was normal this afternoon and Fushimi starts snickering, Misaki sure is…lit up with excitement. Yata’s like this isn’t funny, probably worried like he can’t even really see it anymore, what if it disappeared or something. Fushimi takes an experimental handful and smirks when Yata sucks in a breath, looks like it’s still there and it appears that it still ‘works’ too. Yata’s like we can’t do it this way, I can’t do this without being able to see it, it’s too weird. Fushimi thinks it’s pretty amusing though, wondering if it would still glow if he put it in his mouth. Yata’s like that’s gross and Fushimi doesn’t see how, he’s done it before, and Yata’s like yeah but this time it’s all weird and shiny. Fushimi decides to try before Yata can stop him and maybe the Strain power likes to fluctuate a little, when Fushimi puts Yata’s dick in his mouth it’s suddenly not lit up anymore but there are little black lines everywhere. Fushimi has a little trouble getting his mouth around it because that little black line keeps hovering by the head but it doesn’t taste any different. When he stops though Yata’s dick goes back to glowing, it seems like more experimentation is required. Yata can’t believe Saruhiko intends to experiment with his cursed dick but Fushimi doesn’t see why not, think of it as research on Strain abilities Misaki.

The next day Kamamoto shows up at the bar completely shaved and everyone is totally staring, it just looks wrong for winter Kamamoto to be all smooth like his summer self. The Homra alphabet are wondering if this is like a new sign of spring, maybe Kamamoto’s shaving early, but it’s still February so that’s kinda early. When Fushimi sees him imagine Fushimi just staring for a moment and then clicking his tongue. Kamamoto thinks Fushimi should like it but Fushimi is clearly displeased, he won’t say it out loud but he keeps touching Kamamoto’s chin and chest and looking annoyed, grumbling that it’s not as soft as usual. Kamamoto sheepishly says he figured Fushimi didn’t like the hair, since he was always complaining, and Fushimi clicks his tongue again because how dare someone listen to what he actually says and not just interpret what he’s thinking instead. Fushimi also won’t straight out say that he likes the hair but he does mutter at Kamamoto not to shave this early, it’s bad enough in the summer, looking bothered enough that Kamamoto has to smile as he’s like so you do like it when I’m hairy. Fushimi huffs but gives a reluctant nod and Kamamoto has to promise not to shave when he’s in winter mode again, in fact maybe he can keep the beard in summer too.

Maybe she does end up chopping it all off one day, like Mikoto’s hair gets cut when she’s burning some guys and the next day she just shows up at the bar with a buzz cut. Kusanagi is openly staring and Totsuka bemoans the loss of Queen’s beautiful hair, though this one isn’t so bad either (less for Totsuka to have to dye, and he likes rubbing Mikoto’s head because it’s all soft and fuzzy now). Anna walks over and just stares upward, Mikoto wonders if Anna wants a haircut too and Kusanagi immediately vetoes that because we are not giving Anna a buzz cut. Totsuka thinks Mikoto looks more like a proper lioness now and Kusanagi decides that’s good timing, because they’re out of quite a few things and he just so happens to need someone to do a grocery run. Mikoto was going to take a very important nap and just stares at Kusanagi as Kusanagi hands her a list and some money, Totsuka says a good lioness needs to hunt for her cubs as he puts an arm around Anna’s shoulders. Mikoto decides maybe she’ll let her hair grow back out after all, if it gets her out of chores.

Then Yata’s alarm suddenly goes off and he sits up in a panic, where did the baby go seriously Saruhiko tell me you took the baby to work with you. Fushimi was up late with work and is extra cranky this morning so he isn’t particularly pleased at Yata waking him and asking about a baby. Yata’s really insistent though, shaking Fushimi as he says the baby is missing what are we going to do. Fushimi slaps at his hand and is like I threw the baby in the river, Yata’s super panicking now because what do you mean you threw it in the river and then he stops like wait a second. Fushimi is still glaring at him and Yata laughs sheepishly, oh right we don’t have a baby, that was a dream. Yata apologizes for waking Fushimi up, that was pretty stupid of me wasn’t it and Fushimi grumbles that it was. Yata laughs again and slides off the bed to go get dressed, but then as he’s walking to the door he hears Fushimi behind him ‘You want to have a baby…?’. Yata’s like well I mean I might if you did, I mean, it would be cool to have one…slowly trailing off. He can’t quite find the words to explain that in his dream he knocked up his boyfriend multiple times so he just quickly makes a retreat to go get dressed, leaving Fushimi still lying there in bed processing the whole ‘Misaki wants to have a baby with me’ thing.

Yata thankfully has matured enough to realize when something is bothering Saruhiko and tries asking him straight out, Fushimi grumbles that isn’t it Yata who wants to say something. Yata’s all confused and Fushimi clicks his tongue, Yata’s the one who’s been avoiding him not the other way around. Yata realizes what it must have looked like to Fushimi and imagine him getting all red as he mumbles that it isn’t Fushimi, it’s him, he doesn’t like….being the bottom. Fushimi looks at him like he’s an absolute moron and is like why didn’t you say something idiot, you’re the one always yelling at me for not telling you things. Yata says well it’s not like they can do anything about it and Fushimi gives him a look like he’s just said the most worthless thing ever, all really you are a virgin aren’t you, that you didn’t even bother to figure out other ways. This is all new information to Yata and just imagine him getting redder and redder as Fushimi rattles off all the possibilities like they sell straps in all different sizes, in the same tone he would use when reading out a report at work. He also mentions he could just pay for Yata’s bottom surgery if it’s that big an issue, still in that same flat tone as if what he just said was no big deal, and then he stops because Yata is suddenly giving him this worshipful look. Yata can’t believe that Fushimi would really pay for something like that and now Fushimi is the uncomfortable one, shrugging and looking away as he mutters that sure he can…if it’s for Misaki, he doesn’t mind paying for it.

Yata assumes this must be the case for Fushimi’s entire body, completely smooth and bony and soft, and then he gets Fushimi’s pants off and there’s just a mess of deep black hair down there. Yata’s first reaction is honestly probably ‘this is why you need to wear underwear Saruhiko, it’s gross like this’ and Fushimi clicks his tongue all you do realize some of us bathe ourselves entirely right, we don’t all smell like sweat constantly like some people. Yata huffs at that but he’s also kinda fascinated by this one hairy spot on Fushimi’s body, idly touching the coarse hair. Fushimi acts like Yata’s being weird but imagine he likes it, feeling Yata’s hands right above his groin touching all the hair and occasionally ghosting against his skin. Yata grins, looks like Fushimi has a fuzzy spot he can pet after all.

Then one day imagine she’s like coloring a picture and she just idly pipes up wondering what happened to ‘other dad.’ Fushimi freezes, maybe for a moment even thinking she’s remembering her actual parents and what if she did have parents looking for her after all, what if he has to give her back and here’s another precious thing broken, and then she says she remembers someone with red hair. This doesn’t really lessen Fushimi’s tension any though, as she says other dad had a happy smile and he always took care of her when she was sick and he took care of dad too, he made the yummy food with the pineapples. Fushimi’s immediate thought is probably to lie and say that was a dream but he can’t quite bring himself to do it either, Niki was a guy who lied to his kid all the time and Fushimi swore he wouldn’t be like that guy at all. Fushimi just says that person ‘isn’t here anymore’ and his daughter looks up him, wondering why other dad went away. Fushimi laughs bitterly under his breath and says I made him go, his daughter can’t quite hear him and just looks at him curiously. Fushimi tells her not to worry about it, distracting her with some toy or oh look Uncle Hidaka wants you to tell him about your dolls better go catch him, hoping that since she’s so young she’ll just forget about that person who won’t ever come back to Fushimi’s side again. (And then post-ROK when Yata and Fushimi make up one day Fushimi hesitantly brings her over to see Yata and immediately she points at him and says ‘it’s my other dad!’ all excited.)

The rest of the Homra guys are part of Mikoto’s direct retinue, probably working mostly in guard positions. Yata is a newly minted Captain of the Guard and extremely proud of it, though he’ll also loudly declare that Mikoto doesn’t even really need a guard because anyone who would try to assassinate him would be easily defeated anyway. Imagine at one point Fushimi also worked as a member of the guard, having joined up with Yata, but Kusanagi quickly realized that Fushimi’s talents could be better spent elsewhere and Fushimi was put in more subterfuge-oriented positions, spying on their enemies and gathering information. Kusanagi’s not particularly pleased when Fushimi ultimately deserts and goes to some other kingdom, having lost an important member of Mikoto’s subordinates and also perhaps being aware that their kingdom is often beset by enemies and any of those people gaining Fushimi could put them at a distinct disadvantage. Kamamoto is Mikoto’s head chef, the only person who can be 100% trusted to cook food for the pharaoh that will be free of poison. I imagine Anna being some kind of priestess, maybe rescued from a group of slavers or something who believed she had powers granted by the gods and could directly commune with them. She was offered as a gift to the pharaoh and Mikoto proceeded to break her chains and burn the guys who brought her, unofficially adopting her instead so that no one could dare touch her.

Afterward Fushimi asks Yata what that was all about and Yata grumbles that he just doesn’t like that guy, why was he getting so close to Fushimi anyway. It takes Fushimi a moment to realize Yata’s acting jealous and he smirks, telling Yata that he doesn’t have anything to worry about with Munakata, Fushimi much prefers to be with Yata anyway. Yata gives a sheepish laugh, maybe he was being silly anyway. But the feelings don’t go away and sometimes Yata even finds himself getting jealous of some of the other alphabet boys too, like why is Hidaka smiling at him like that (knowing that Hidaka smiles at everyone like that) and why does Akiyama always bring him coffee (because Fushimi will kill Doumyouji if not properly caffeinated). Munakata is definitely still the main focus of his jealousy though, imagine S4 and Homra doing some joint mission and Fushimi is in charge of the debrief. Munakata is leaning over his shoulder and suddenly Yata just puts himself between them, glaring at Munakata while Fushimi sighs. It’s not like he doesn’t enjoy knowing that Yata’s being possessive, it’s something he’s probably even wanted for a long time, but if Yata could keep it in check while Fushimi is working that would be nice. Of course then imagine when everyone’s going to do their parts of the mission Yata goes with the Homra guys and they’re all chatting and being close and Fushimi finds his hands itching for a knife. Even so he can’t help but sulk a little, probably telling himself that it’s different when he’s being possessive of Yata, he’s not letting it get in the way of the mission or anything, this is a totally different matter than all the trouble Misaki is causing with his petty jealousy.

Imagine the first time he finds himself thinking like a normal kid with a normal family, just the pause it gives him. His new best friend Yata wants Fushimi to stay overnight at his place and Fushimi’s immediate response is well I have to ask my parents first and then he just pauses, Yata staring at him curiously because maybe it’s not okay after all. Fushimi shakes his head, muttering that it isn’t a problem at all, not really sure how to explain the realization that this is the first time he had a ‘normal family’ moment, that once needing to ask permission from parents was a completely foreign thing and now suddenly it just comes to his mind as normally as breathing. And then maybe later he’s out with Yata another time and realizes that he’s running late and for the first time Yata’s not the one to suggest calling parents to let them know he’ll be late, Fushimi remembers it all on his own. It’s like Fushimi himself suddenly becoming aware that there are so many things normal kids would know that he doesn’t but now he’s actually learning, it isn’t strange to him to think about calling mom to say he’s running late or asking his dad to help him with something (and even thinking of them as ‘mom and dad’ is probably new for him, not ‘that guy’ or ‘that guy’s wife,’ not just people he’s obligated to live with, but his mom and dad). And even the totally new experience of having big brothers, trying to study and finding a particularly hard problem so he thinks he should just ask Reisi, or needing Taishi’s help because he got a knife stuck high up in a tree (he was practicing gardening, really) and Fushimi can’t reach it. It’s a strange feeling to think that maybe he himself is by extension becoming ‘normal,’ Fushimi’s not the unwanted child or the child without a proper home, he’s not notably different from everyone else around him now, he’s not just this one island surrounded by regular people who wouldn’t understand, he finally has this actual regular family and it turns out that isn’t so bad after all.

 Meanwhile of course Fushimi doesn’t remember the small emotional things, he doesn’t really know what food Misaki likes other than ‘pineapple’ and ‘stupid healthy crap he keeps trying to make me eat.’ All of his ideas of Yata’s favorite shows or manga are probably solely based on stuff he vaguely remembers Yata mentioning in middle school. But he immediately remembers Misaki’s birthday and Yata only needs to mention his blood type offhandedly once and Fushimi has it memorized (imagine Yata getting hurt when Fushimi’s still in Homra and he needs to go to the hospital, the nurses asking if anyone knows Yata’s blood type and Kusanagi sheepishly trying to explain why he doesn’t and then Fushimi pipes up from behind everyone). I feel like Fushimi would probably be the type to remember important dates too even if he doesn’t realize at the time that they’re important, like Yata couldn’t guess the day he and Fushimi talked properly for the first time in the school bathroom but Fushimi knows it immediately, why would he have forgotten that. Fushimi isn’t good at figuring out what emotional things should be important enough to remember but he always unconsciously collects information and never forgets it, so of course he knows anything about Yata that involves easy to remember numbers and dates and blood types.

Yata’s probably not even mentioned his boyfriend to everybody at work for that matter, it doesn’t really occur to him and anyway he’s so used to the rest of his friend group being like ‘you mean you weren’t already dating’ that it doesn’t actually think he needs to say anything. After all, Fushimi picks him up from work a lot and it’s kinda weird that his one coworker is always extra friendly when Fushimi shows up and being really chatty with Yata the whole time but that’s probably nothing. Fushimi meanwhile is completely unable to be normal about this, imagine him muttering under his breath all the ways he’s going to get that guy fired or arrested or something, how dare he smile at Misaki. The rest of S4 will overhear him whenever they’re like on patrol and passing Yata’s workplace and they assume Fushimi is just being too attached again, like I doubt anyone wants your man, and behind them Yata’s coworker keeps trying to get into Yata’s personal space (and in fact imagine one day one of the squad members has to stop into Yata’s workplace for something and finally sees the flirting with his own eyes, like okay never mind Fushimi-san someone absolutely wants your man and we gotta make sure that doesn’t happen).