Pairing: Appleshipping (If you squint)

Prompt: An obscure AU.

Words: 807


Chapter Text

"Rin, I thought we talked about this?"

They had, yesterday at dinner, at night, before going to bed, this morning at breakfast her mother had handed her the money needed and then some more 'For a nice haircut.' she said before reminded her one more time.

And she had gone to the esthetic right after school… idling in front of it for hours - or at least that's how it felt - before going back.

"I… promise I'll go tomorrow." she said still looking down, gripping on her skirt tightly.

"Never mind." Her mother said after a heavy sigh.

And Rin lifted her eyes feeling beyond relieved, did her mother finally understood her? Why she couldn't do this?

"Yes, I had feeling something like this would happen…" she started and Rin tried to squash down the smile with little success. "Which is why I made an appointment for the weekend and I'll be going with you, then I can help you choose the right brand and color." Her mother finished while she held a strand of her blond hair, "I mean you still have such a nice hair, soft, and …shiny, it would be such a shame to ruin it, don't you agree dear?"

'Oh…of course' She shouldn't have let her hopes up she thought as she nodded.

Yugo was restless, he always was.

But as of late that energy that his friends, teachers and the like knew him for has gone up and never stopped, that's why he went to the gym every day, that was why he had gotten a part-time job at the car shop down the street, and how the owner had hired him.

That's how he learned how to make a new bike from the old engine of a destroyed Harley and managed to make it look as good as new.

Better than new, the owner had said while he whistled in appreciation after the paint job had been done.

"For a guy who eats nothing but fruits and vegetables you sure have some stamina" Crow had said one day. "Maybe you need to find a purpose… are you looking for something?"

He didn't knew why but he almost choked on an apple when he heard that.

She was eating lunch, alone, again.

"That's the girl I was telling you about?"

She had long since given up on hiding, people would always find her no matter what, and then start pointing at her and hushed comments about her.

"No way! I thought you were kidding!"

It was fine, she was used to it, and she just wished they would stop staring at her like some sort of… circus freak. After all, everything else about her was normal, it was just her hair that was…unusual.

"I don't know who she thinks she's fooling… look at those faded roots!"

Rin gripped her chopsticks a little tighter, she knew what followed after those comments.

"I know right? They almost look green, and I used to think that blonde hair was pretty…"

Green, her hair was not green, it was greenish but not green - Chartreuse, one of her aunts had kindly supplied one time - it wasn't her fault that her hair was so unlike her parents, or her uncles and aunts, or her grandparents…

'It will be over soon… we're are coming,'

She whipped her head to the side… Who? It must be her imagination she thought she had heard someone next to her.

"Why do I have to cut my hair?!"

"Because your bangs are going to be the cause of a traffic accident one of these days." said Crow as he dragged him down the road.

"Is this a sham? Are you gonna tell me to dye my hair too? Huh?" he accused him trying one more time to tug at his arm to no avail.

"Please your hair is arguably the least striking feature about you, stop being so whiny." He said finally stopping in front of some ridiculously over the top esthetic that had a bunch of colorful announcements of discounts and offers on the window.

"I knew it! You are just taking advantage of me!" He yelled when he saw the 2x1 haircut sign.

"Well you can't blame a man for trying to save- uh? Yugo are you ok?"

Yugo barely heard Crow as he watched a sullen-faced girl next to some old woman, she was blond like him too, although she looked far better than him with it - in his opinion anyway

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They both stared at the other in wonder, she touches her hair then maybe noticing his bangs of golden hair on th front, and somehow Yugo knows that she knows - and vicerversa… probably, hopefully - that it's not fake, and as the wind picked up.

"It's you… I found you… my queen."


PD: The obscure AU mystery is The Twelve Kingdoms :P