Prompt: "We partnered together for this project and we both forgot to do it, now we have to pull an all-nighter at my house." AU
"My house is right here!" Yong Soo announced, pulling his brother's car up to his house.
Natalya glared daggers at him. She wanted to rip his smooth, pale, lovely, skin off and use it to make a coat for her dear big brother.
"Remember, you fool, I don't want to be here. I would rather be with big brother-"
"So would I, da-ze!"
Yong Soo frowned.
"Oh… wait…"
"Your brother is in your house, you idiot!" Natalya hissed, "Why are we at your house anyways?"
Yong Soo grinned, "Because I have siblings there that could help us!"
Natalya groaned. He was the biggest idiot that had ever existed. He was- he was… adorkable.
Great. Now she sounded like Emma.
"Why?" She wailed, clawing at the windows, "Why didn't you do the project? I could be stalking my brother right now-"
"You didn't do it either!" Yong Soo protested, "Remember, we're partners! The teacher said that-"
"You sound like you're five."
"I'm fifteen!"
"Right, fift-"
Natalya turned pale.
"Fifteen?" She shrieked, "You're not old enough to drive!"
"Oops."
"You idiot! You could have gotten us arrested! That Polish idiot already tried to get a restraining order placed on me-"
"I'm not the only one! Li Xiang knows how to drive too!"
"He's twelve! Twelve, you utter imbecile!"
"It wasn't my idea! You see-"
"Forget it," Natalya growled, "Let's just go."
Before Yong Soo could make like a gentleman and open her door for her, Natalya ripped the door clean off of it's hinges.
"Hey!" Yong Soo yelped, charging out of the car. "This is aniki's car! He's going to be so mad at me!"
Natalya scowled.
Yong Soo moaned, "Okay, let's just go."
He offered Natalya his hand, and was met with a harsh slap.
"Ow!"
Natalya glared at him.
"Do not try to come near me," She growled.
Yong Soo pouted. "You sound like Kiku."
The two walked up to Yong Soo's home. It wasn't big, but it had a warm atmosphere to it. There was a garden in the front, with different types of greens. The door was a thick one, probably because of Yao's paranoia.
Cheerly, Yong Soo reached into his pockets, and came up with…
Nothing.
He spewed out some colorful language.
"I forgot my keys!" He wailed, throwing himself against the door, "What are we going to do now? We're going to freeze out here, aren't we? And my GPA's going to come down because I was too busy following aniki to do my project and I'm going to get disowned and- aieeeee!"
The door was suddenly opened, causing Yong Soo to come crashing down on their savior.
"You idiot!"
"Hyung!" Yong Soo cried, "You-"
"You imbecile! What are you doing crying in the middle of the night? We're going to get called in for a noise disturbance, and we already have records because of you and Li Xiang's little car stunt-"
"I love you!" Yong Soo grabbed Hyung Soo into a hug. "You're the best brother ever! I knew all along you wouldn't leave me to freeze!"
Hyung Soo still looked angry, but Natalya thought she could detect a hint of happiness in his features.
Yong Soo grinned like a little kid.
Hyung Soo scowled and pulled the two of them up. Then he noticed her.
"Natalya," He greeted, "How's Ivan?"
Before Natalya could answer, Yong Soo gasped, looking betrayed.
"You know her? Is she your girlfriend?"
"What?" A girl screamed from inside the house, probably Mei.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Yong Soo demanded, "Here I was thinking me and maybe Cheng were the only straight guys in the family-"
"Shut up!" Hyung Soo yelled, while Natalya pulled out her knife.
"She isn't my girlfriend!"
"Thank goodness," A voice said. It was Li Xiang, the youngest kid in the family.
"Mei would have totally freaked," He muttered, "She's been obsessing over your love life for two years now. If you got a date-mate and didn't tell her, she would, like, totally go ballistic."
Hyung Soo rubbed his head and groaned.
"You stupid little-"
"Yong Soo brought home a girl!" Mei shrieked, suddenly appearing, "I read his diary and-"
"What?" Yao howled from inside.
There was the sound of someone spewing out tea.
"I thought he liked dudes!"
"I did too! He's always trying to grope Yao and Kiku-"
"He's too young! This will mess up his grades and bring dishonor to us!"
"OTP! OTP!"
"Does this mean he will stop bothering me?"
"What is this 'oteepee?'"
"How did you unlock my diary? I hid it in the safest place eve-"
"It was in the kimchi jar! An idiot could have figured it out! It was all gross and slimy-"
"It was not gross! It was blessed by the awesome kimchi!"
"You sound almost as stupid as that utter imbecile Alfred-"
"Hey! He's cool! But you're still the coolest, Hyung. I remember you used to bring an cool Korean sword to the playground so you could murder people who tried to bully us. Then we got sued and-"
"Where did I go wrong, aru?"
"Nii-san, when is dinner?"
"My little siblings are either emotionless weapon-obsessed psychopaths or detention regulars or school mafia members-"
"But I only got 11 detentions this week, aniki!"
"All of you already have a criminal record!"
As Natalya watched the family scream, she was suddenly struck by how similar they were to her own dysfunctional, weird family. They fought, they screamed, they had criminal records- but they stuck together. Just like her own family. Because that was what family was supposed to do.
She and Yong Soo did actually have a lot in similar. And he was kinda cute-
"What am I thinking?" Natalya mentally reprimanded herself, "I want to marry big brother!"
But he's rejected you for so long, and voice in her head said.
But Natalya loved her big brother… or did she?
Not in that way anymore. Yong Soo's sweet, tall, handsome, smart… what more could you want?
He was an idiot!
Everybody has flaws.
A cute idiot!
Yes…
A cute, lovable, idiot!
Mmhm… c'mon, girl. Admit it. You have a new crush.
"Please be quiet!" Kiku screamed.
Everyone looked shocked.
Then, in his normal quiet monotone, he said, "We have a guest."
He gestured at Natalya.
"Hello," Natalya said flatly, "I am not the Yong Soo's girlfriend. I am marrying my big brother."
Kiku looked nervous.
"Ah… yes…" He said, "As you can see, she is… umm… marrying her elder brother… so… I believe that there is no problem-"
"Then what's she doing here?" Mei demanded, obviously still attached to her new "Oteepee."
"Oh, we forgot to do our project for school and-"
"What?" Yao shrieked, "Ho- wh- wha-"
His eyes rolled back in his head and he fell backwards, only to be caught by a panicked Kiku.
"Nii-san!" He cried.
Mei turned to Yong Soo accusingly. "You killed him!"
Yong Soo burst into tears. So did Mei.
"You fools!" Hyung Soo yelled, "He isn't dead! He just fainted!"
"He's such an old man," Li Xiang muttered, "I think the shock was too much for him."
"I didn't mean to!" Yong Soo sobbed.
"There, there," Cheng said, stroking Yong Soo's back.
Bawling, Yong Soo collapsed into Cheng's arms.
"Stop it, you moron!" Hyung Soo shouted, "You're crying like a baby in your little brother's arms! Do you have no shame?"
He began pacing around.
"This is all because of that evil Western influence! And that idiot Alfred! One of these days, I will rip him from limb to limb! Why, this is shameful! Disgraceful! Those foolish video games of yours will eat your brain away. And don't even get me started on those ridiculous dramas, with their dyed hair and-"
"Hyung Soo-ge-ge?" Cheng gently nudged the ranting Hyung Soo. "I think Yong Soo and Natalya need to go do their project-"
"Yes," Natalya growled, "We need to do our project so I can go home and marry big brother-"
Yong Soo, having stopped crying sometime during Hyung Soo's rant, winked at her. "Marry me instead?"
Natalya turned bright red. But, much to her chagrin, she found that the words left a warm, bubbly feeling in her stomach…
1/22/2017
First straight couple! Woohoo!
(I feel like real-life authors are all like, "this is my first gay couple!" and we fanfiction writers are just standing there with this expression on our face…)
I know I didn't do the all-nighter in the prompt, but writing isn't something you can force!
Also, the "oteepee" idea came from something I saw on the internet. So basically this parent asked a question on the internet about whether their daughter reading stories about two men in love and calling them her "oteepee" was normal or just a phase or something… I died while reading that, it was hilarious.
The part about the door being thick… doors in China are really thick and heavy (trust me, I've been there). And Yao being paranoid? Well, doors in China are thick to prevent baddies from coming in. Of course, we don't have that in the US (don't worry, we still have our share of jerkfaces).
Also, I played with some dialogue rules in this story. The idea actually came from Forbidden Tomatoes. Go check out their story "Truly and Artist." It's truly awesome.
