The Marionette ? Chuuya X Reader

41: Snowfall

You had claimed you don't deserve him; he had always thought the opposite. He thought he hadn't been enough for someone again.

Anger evaporating out of his face, Chuuya then nods helplessly, letting out a sigh.

"Fine, let's go."

•••

Headquarters empty because of the party, you and Chuuya get outside without a problem, the executive standing by the door as you walk out under the stars facing the streets and stretch out a hand with your head slightly tilted back, the soft but cold snow tickling your skin, the cold air ignored by you even as it gradually turns into a slight flurry, the only thought in your mind being how free you felt.

Except for one small detail, of course.

"I heard a saying once that if you are out in the first snowfall of the season with someone you like, true love will grow between you. Do you believe in things like that, Chuuya?" You begin to talk, turning back to him, hair covered in light snow, nose red from the cold.

"That's a childish thought." The man responds, cheeks heating, arms crossed in front of him as his eyes flicker away briefly.

"I don't think so. I've always wanted to feel that type of romance, haven't you ever been curious? You, a vessel for a god, haven't you wanted to feel the most human of things existing?"

"...not if I don't trust the only person I'd want it with. Not if they're off with someone else. It would mean it was never true. What would I do with bullshit like that?"

Talking, a hidden pain flashes across Chuuya's gaze, as if the thought had crossed his mind many times only to disappoint him each time.

So you do want to believe it, you're just afraid that I'm not your answer after all.

Or maybe you're afraid you aren't mine.

You don't even know how silly you sound saying that. Not when I've been unable to move on from our fight. I wonder if I'd be able to do this completely sober...

"Nothing happened and nothing will ever happen between me and Dazai. How do I prove it? You never failed me...it was all my fault. Should I yell it out for the whole night to hear? That I love you? Will that help?"

"What?"

The desperation back in your voice, the fear you had expressed before holding back your tears as a wave of emotions hits you again, you take a step further away from Chuuya after his eyebrow raises in question to your words, using the liquid courage to turn around and take a deep breath, ignoring his cold you were becoming stand so far out into the new snow.

"HEY! I'M IN LOVE WITH CHU-"

Reaching you from behind, Chuuya covers your mouth as quickly as he can, the leather of his gloves rough against your skin, your body colliding into his front backwards as he pulls you in, blue eyes wide and blush all over his face.

"What are you doing?! Did the wine make you crazy?"

"No, I just want to show you that I'm not lying. I really do want only you." You whisper to him as you pull his hand away from your face gently, eyes fluttering as you feel his warm breath on you, his body heating up yours the way he holds you.

"...[f/n]...stop..." Chuuya breathes, turning you around to face him and raising his hands to cup your face gently, all the pain in his eyes riding on solely your name rolling off his tongue. Together in the snow now, nothing else around you in this night mattering, your faces sit barely any centimetres apart, your eyes instinctively dropping to his lips and back up before he finishes his sentence.