Idiosyncrasy

Prologue

Akutagawa Gin was never the one to be happily taking the attention.

In fact, she was the one who'd sway away from the rays of the spotlight. Her brother can take that all, what being the 'mafia's most fearsome assassin'. Given the chance to avoid any confrontations, she'd run away and hide in the shadows… that is, if Tachihara pisses her off. That's the only time she'd gladly confront someone. If it was the annoyingly arrogant red-headed boy, Gin would gladly stab him a hundred times while exerting much of her energy with laughing manically.

However, today was a different day. After getting out of work, not even getting to go out of her work clothes, she was suddenly abducted by a strange piece of belt. Gin knew it was her brother's rashomon, this wasn't the first time this happened anyway.

Caged by her brother's powerful ability, she was forcibly held down on the hot-seat. They were in their apartment, a luxury that they had afforded after being dogs of the mafia. The building was owned by a sponsor of the Port Mafia, making it safe for them to stay without the threats of their enemies.

Ryuunosuke was the protective type of brother, Gin was thankful and annoyed by that fact. They were the only ones looking after each other, after all. The parents they left at the slums were no more than a blotch in their lives now. After a few months of living off of the streets, her brother valued Gin even more due to the fact that she's the sole remnant of his happiness and their family. It was both a blessing and a curse.

"Who's the guy, Gin?" Ryuunosuke asked, his voice stern and overbearing.

Gin stared at her brother with a questioning look. Well, he looks pissed, she thought to herself, blatantly relaxing despite the murderous aura her brother was emitting. Maybe he's asking about that Diet member that I killed today? She asked herself inwardly, No, he would've had no interest in that…

"You know what I mean." Her brother gave her a look.

The girl now knew exactly what he meant. In the past days, Gin was unfocused. She knew that herself but she can't help it. The subject matter is so controversial that the whole branch that the Black Lizard controls has a gist on what was happening with her. It was too distracting to the point that she almost had Tachihara killed at an assassination mission. Of course, her brother would've picked up on it. Having Higuchi as an assistant and bodyguard to him meant that all of the actions of the Black Lizard are being directly reported to her brother.

Gin sighed exasperatedly as she rolled her eyes, obviously taunting her brother and seeing as to how far she can try to 'rebel' against him. She loves her brother dearly but she's still the younger sibling… and younger siblings love to rile up their older siblings, especially when they're a sociopathic assassin who had painted his coat (not hands, he never uses his hand with that convenient ability of his) with the river of blood that he spilled over the past years.

"Gin." Ryuunosuke warned. "Who is this person that Higuchi said you were dating?"

She gave him a look that displayed, 'It's none of your business.' If his private life has to be kept a secret then so was hers. It was a simple rule of 'privacy' that her brother probably doesn't even care about at this point.

"Akutagawa Gin, speak." Ryuunosuke ordered, his eyes blazing with impatience. He was not a patient man, after all. "I do not intend to know of your private life thru other people."

Behind her mask, she smirked. She can see that her brother is already grating on the edge of his sanity. His bloodlust and anger was already clouding his logic and reasoning that it was his own sister he's caging with his rashoumon. One wrong move and Gin knew she's dead. "Are you sure you want to know?" She asked him with her sweet voice filled with sarcasm, not a tinge of fear is evident on her voice.

"Will I ask if I am not interested?" Her brother countered.

Gin shrugged in a 'you asked for it' manner. Her dropping the bomb is probably better than having Higuchi slam the cold hard truth on her brother's face. Probably.

She wasn't sure how to introduce the topic to begin with, considering that it was a sensitive subject and she had no idea where her brother stands on that topic.

It was concerning a childhood acquaintance, Yoshida Yayoi. Back when they were in the slums, she was often teased to be 'in love' with Gin's brother. The raven-haired knew that Yayoi was naturally loud-mouthed, overly-excitable and sociable. Trying to befriend the Akutagawa siblings became a mission for her, thus the teasing. It got to the point where her brother had proposed 'marriage' to her (note: Ryuunosuke was nine and Yayoi was eight) as a joke and to stop the mocking from the other children in the slums.

Gin could only laugh at the reaction her poor brother had gotten from the girl- a slap in the cheek and a loud cry followed by a running Yayoi.

This girl was supposed to be a forgotten memory in the slums… until Hirotsu introduced her as a new member of the Black Lizard guerilla. Yayoi was an ability-user who had accidentally helped Higuchi in an ambush, saving the Black Lizard's chief-in-commands. It earned her a direct spot in the mafia, much to the annoyance of the two Akutagawas. She seemed to have forgotten the 'marriage proposal fiasco' but she's still the Yayoi they knew. Loud-mouthed, overly-excitable and sociable.

However, this time, she became a walking disaster with her ability. Ryuunosuke did his best to steer clear of this girl which resulted in Gin having the time of her life (cue sarcasm) by being the baby-sitter of the said childhood acquaintance, being a senpai and a childhood 'friend' to her.

Now, concerning the rumors that were running around the Port Mafia, Gin deemed it was the right time to tell her brother the truth behind the controversy. But she's still going to get back at Tachihara for having to start the circulation of the gossip.

"Are you sure?" She asked him once again but without the sweet sarcasm that she had exhibited from earlier.

"Does this face look like I'm joking?" The boy retorted, his face slightly calmed down from his earlier pre-outburst of impatience.

Gin breathed in, gathering enough courage to come out to her own brother. If he's going to throw her out for this, then he should at least get the news directly from her. Gin breathed out, staring at her brother's dark irises.

She stated with slight pride, each word removing a huge thorn in her chest, "I'm dating Yayoi."

A/N:

There's not much material and screen time of the badass wife (that's Gin, btw) so here we go! This is going to be a short drabble series, which means that the chapters are going to be presented in a non-linear manner... but don't worry! I assure you guys that it's going to be understandable despite the way of presentation of the chapters~

*Yoshida Yayoi is a real person in the life of the real Akutagawa Ryuunosuke. They were childhood friends, as in close friends, and Akutagawa-sensei actually proposed marriage to Yayoi, thus the 'marriage proposal fiasco'. Things didn't work out because Akutagawa-sensei's adoptive family was against of the union and they were never actually married. Sad. He was happy with his wife, though! :3

**Shall I set update dates on this series? Considering that this is but a compilation of short stories, I think it would be better I post every Saturdays and Wednesdays? These two days were the only days that I'm free from university so I think that'll work out. My other series, The Good, the Bad and the Dirty (check it out guys, if you like to read DazaiXOC stories~), has an erratic update schedule because each chapter usually goes at around 6k-7k words and the effort to do such a story is taxing. It's fun but it's still taxing.

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