Heads or Tails
kingfishers' game
Chapter 1: CRUELTY
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Notes: Hello all! I'm extremely excited to be posting Heads or Tails, a collection of short Okikagu-themed drabbles that I originally wrote as creative exercises while working on Kids Will Be Kids. There will be a mix of canon-based and AU settings, and the length of each drabble will range from 100–500 words. Occasionally, however, I may post a longer piece—and I already have a few lined up!
I'm starting with a list of one-word prompts from tumblr user towriteprompts, and the first prompt I'm doing is "CRUELTY". Enjoy!
Kagura's well aware that Sougo's got a sadistic streak, but this is downright cruel.
It goes like this—Kagura's 16 years old when she starts…feeling feelings toward the first division captain of the Shinsengumi. She wouldn't call it 'liking' him—she likes him just about as much as she did before. It's more of a…physical thing.
It starts out when they're fighting one day, in the park, and Kagura has him on his back and she's sitting on his stomach and all of a sudden, there's this really annoying voice in her brain telling her that it would take very little effort to bend down and kiss him right on his stupid face. Of course, she doesn't do that; she goes home and tells Gin-chan that there's a voice in her head telling her to do crazy things, to which he responds that he can't afford to put her in a mental hospital, so she'll just have to tough it out.
It takes a couple more incidents of close physical contact with Sougo before Kagura realizes that the voice in her head is actually her own voice, and that she's not so much suffering a psychotic break as she is experiencing one of the more colorful side effects of adolescence. The question of 'why couldn't it have been literally anyone else' is answered when she makes a short list in her mind of all the men she knows who are:
- Not so old their pillows smell like 'ossan' (i. e. Gin-chan)
- Not so young they still make picture diaries for school (i. e. Seita)
- Not practically family (i. e. Shinpachi)
- Not literally family (i. e. Kamui)
- Not giant titans (i. e. what was his name again?)
She comes up with two people. And unless she wants to track down Hongo Hisashi and invite him to do some radio exercises horizontally, the only option left is Sougo. So it's not her fault. It's just…process of elimination.
(She chooses to ignore the voice when it tells her that attraction is not generally decided by process of elimination.)
Maybe it's wrong to say he's being cruel. She realizes…grudgingly…that he's not really responsible. Somehow that makes it worse.
Notes: Thanks for reading! Your favorites, follows, and reviews are greatly appreciated.
Want to suggest a drabble? Leave your prompt in a review and I'll use it (and credit you, of course) if inspiration strikes! Right now I'm mostly focusing on one-word prompts, but if you have something longer, feel free to give it a shot.
Next time, Chapter 2: WINTER