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DAREDEVIL
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Pt: 1
Summary: Reader and the turtles make their way to where the Fist is hiding out. Hopefully, Reader'll be able to gain more information about Fist's plan...
Warnings: Badly written fight sequences: violence: Maybe some mild swearing.
Requested: Yep!
GN Reader!
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"Alright, rule number one: Avoid their stun guns. Fist doesn't play honorably, very rarely they'll show you mercy."
You were giving your new allies a rundown of Fist. They knew the Foot Clan, but even though the two were allied, they were far from similar.
The Fist were even more ruthless than the Foot. They fought like animals, the type to throw sand in your eye, or murder you where you slept. The Fist would gut a child with no remorse.
Anything for their cause.
You had already explained that to the boys, they seemed to take it very lightly, however.
Leo chuckled, "Don't worry, we'll be fine. We aren't new to this you know."
You sighed, "Well you might as well be! The Fist Clan will do anything to win a fight. If they have to kill themselves to kill you, they fucking will."
You felt the air grow tense due to your tone, you hadn't wanted to be harsh on them, you could tell they were younger than you, but the last thing you wanted was to find their family to explain that their own confidence had gotten one of them killed.
"Listen." You said, looking out at your target, "You need to understand something. I have seen the Fist Clan do such horrible things, they can't even be spoken of. You need to take my words seriously. This is not a joke. Now I don't know what you boys have done in the past, I can't say I've faced the things you have. But please, take the Fist seriously, because if you don't, you won't make it home for dinner."
The rooftop remained silence for afew moments, you could feel the boys looking at each other, as though they were processing your words.
"Ok." Leo said, "Ok, we'll follow your lead this time. Tell us what you know."
You let out a sigh of relief as you turned back around, "How good are you guys at stealth?"
"Stealth? Dude/tte, we are stealth! We live in the shadows, we are the shadows; the shadows- OW!"
"Will you shut up?" Raph growled at his younger brother, "But yeah, we're ninjas, we were trained for stealth."
You smirked, "Good. Follow my lead. Do not engage unless absolutely necessary. This is a recon mission only. Am I understood?"
"Hai."
"Yeah."
"Sure thing, (Name)!
"...whatever."
"Alright. Follow me."
You leapt over the rooftops, landing quietly on the warehouse, four soft thumps behind you. You lifted the old skylight, dropping down onto the steel beams below as the sound of talking filled your ears.
"-Bradford should have contacted us by now. Something is not right, Saki."
"When I get my hands on the fool, he will regret his incompitance."
You heard a sharp gasp behind you, and you spun to face the four brothers, holding a finger to your lips.
You then held up your hand, motioning for them to stay were they currently were. You moved silently along the beam, attempting to get closer to where the Shredder and Sato Ryƫ were stood watching over their men.
Ryƫ was the leader of the Fist Clan, and the enemy of your father and sensei. Ryƫ is the reason you lost your sight 5 years ago when you were 12. Thankfully your father was there to protect you from a worse fate than blindness.
"When Project Merger is finished, we won't have to worry about Hamato Yoshi, or Nakamura Haru." Shredder said.
Your eyes widened, Hamato Yoshi? Uncle's alive? How could that be? He dissappeared 15 years ago. But what is this Project Merger?
You crouched low, listening intently.
"The shipment should be arriving next week." Ryƫ stated.
"Good." Shredder said, "When that arrives, we can begin."
Before you could hear anything else, a loud metalic ding! sounded further along the beam. You whipped your head around to face the young ninjas that accompanied you. You glared at them, standing to rush back the way you came, dragging the boys up as you ran along the beam.
"Baka! Damare tte ittadaro!" You scowled, lifting open the skylight.
"Wait, you speak Japanese?" Donnie asked as you pushed the four up onto the roof.
"That's what you're focusing on? Fucking run you fools!"
Raph scowled, "Why run? We can take 'em."
You grabbed his shoulders, shoving him foreward, "Move your shell!"
"How do you-"
"Uh, we better listen to them bros." Mikey said, "Those guns look really dangerous."
"Fuck."
You slammed your foot into the warehouse roof, causing a slab of the worn metal to come loose and shoot up into your hand as you held it up like a shield. The force of the stun gun caused you to fly backwards towards the edge of the roof.
You felt the ground leave your feet, but before gravity could take hold, the chain of a kusarigama wrapped around your waist.
"I got you, dude/tte!"
Mikey swung you up and onto an opposing rooftop, him and his brothers joining you and the five of you booking it away from the warehouse.
Ryƫ's laugh followed you through the night, his voice taunting, "You can't run forever, nezumi! I'll take your tounge just as I took your eyes!"
The five of you ran for almost a full half hour, finally stopping in a hidden alleyway. You were breathing heavily, and cursing silently under your breath.
"Idiots. What did I say? Be silent. Silent. We could have died! This isn't a joke!" You scolded them, kicking a trash can.
Donnie spoke up for his brothers, "We didn't mean to alert them, accidents happen-"
"I was so close!" you shouted, "Kuso yarĆ! I almost figured it out."
You sighed, taking a deep breath, trying to calm your breathing, "It's fine." you muttered, "It's fine. Temper, temper take a breath. Listen. I get it. You screwed up, but we have bigger problems. Like whatever Project Merger is. I need to find someone, someone I know can help. Someone I thought was dead."
"Who?" Leo asked, "We can help you find them. It's the least we can do after jepordizing your mission."
You turned to face them, arms crossed, "I need to find my uncle, Hamato Yoshi."
Silence. All you heard was silence. They were shocked, good. That means they knew the name.
"You know of him then?" you asked, tilting your head.
"Know him? Dude/tte, he's our dad!"
Woah. Wait what? Hold on. Now you were shocked. Dad?
"Hamato Yoshi, is your dad?" you repeated slowly.
Leonardo began to pace back and forth, "Yeah. Wait, what's your last name?"
"My full name is, Nakamura (Name). My father is Nakamura Haru."
"Oh! We know him! Sensei's mention him before!" Donatello exclaimed.
Your head shot up excitedly, "Take me too him."
"Huh?" Raph said.
"Take me to see your father."
Raph scowled, "No way! How do we know they can be trusted?"
"Raph, they're the child of Sensei's best friend. I highly doubt they're untrust worthy."
You turned to face Raph, looking at him directly in the eyes, even though you could not see, "Please, Raphael." you begged, "Take me to see your father. Take me to see my uncle."
You could feel him study you for a moment, his eyes searching your face.
"Fine." he said, "Let's just go home."
You smiled widely. Following the four as they led you over to the nearest manhole cover.
"I- uh, I hope you don't mind strong smells."
"Oh, boy."
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I know I said I wasn't going to be very active, and that's still very true, I just needed to take my mind off things for a moment; and writing is how I do that. So since I've been having trouble sleeping lately, I decided to busy myself by finishing some drafts.
Love ya'll, and thank you so much for the kindness.
Translations:
Baka! Damare tte ittadaro!: Fool! shut up and go!
Kuso YarĆ: Son of a bitch!
nezumi: Mouse
Hi
I made edits âĄ
Her name is valentine btw
i forgot i had a tumblr đ hereâs a silly guy i did for a commission !!
HĂĄganle un fanfic
what if
the mutant mayhem boys get dropped into the bayverse universe, where reader is and they have to stay with the reader for a little bit until they can figure out how to get home
well at some point the bayverse turtles end up meeting reader and ofc they don't really react bc these aren't the first mutant turtles they've seen
and the bayv turts are like "damn they they kinda" so they just keep 'accidentally' running into the reader in random situations and become and little obsessed infatuated
so at some point one or all of them follow reader home and they see the reader with a bunch of lil baby teetles and this sends like a little "protect" switch of in their head and then they go yandere
then basically reader is a little paranoid and start scavenging everything they can to send the guys home bc they aren't safe and they want to go home to their dad and stuff
anyways
Synopsis: You thought your little crush on Prince Yonji was a well-kept secret. Yonji is mean enough to exploit your eagerness to please in the face of his unrelenting cruelty; the thought of actually developing a soft spot for you never even crossed his mind.
Word Count: 6.1k
Tags/Warnings: Naive!Servant!Reader, No Reader Pronouns, Canonically Mean Vinsmokes, But Reader is Kinda Into It, Eventual Romance, Slow Burn, Name-Calling, Hitting, Reader Fell First, Yonji Falls Harder
Part I Part II
Notes: Welcome to my current hyperfixation. I guarantee you one hell of a roller coaster. Brace yourselves.
Ichiji had never seen anything like it.Â
He had gone into Yonjiâs room to talk about something, and from the sight of his brotherâs moving lips, it was evident that his question was definitely being answeredâ by a long monologue, no less. But Ichiji couldnât hear a word, not when you were zipping around the room, thoughtfully, pathetically doting on his brother as if he were a god.Â
None of this would have been out of the ordinary for Ichiji if your position had been that of royal attendant. A butler, a valet, or even one of the maids would have been more appropriate when it came to fussing over his brother so early in the morning, and even if it had been an entire swarm of regular servants, Ichiji wouldnât have batted an eye. But now that he considered it, Ichiji hadnât seen a single valet in Yonjiâs entire wing.Â
In fact, it appeared as though Yonji dismissed all his personal aids in exchange for the company of the royal library attendant.Â
The library attendant.
Despite being so far from your typical work environment, you seemed less than bothered by the fact that you had assumed an entirely different job than what you were originally hired for. Rather, Ichiji thought you appeared fairly eager to place yourself at Yonjiâs disposal. He could practically see glitter in your eyes, and while he wasnât exactly surprisedâ in fact, he was a bit disgusted by the fact that a lowly book roach had the nerve to even think about looking at a member of the royal family in such a wayâ Ichiji couldnât help but feel that heâd missed something.Â
The library had to have been halfway across the castle, not to mention that Ichiji wasnât even sure if the library snail was currently docked to either Yonjiâs or his own fleet in the first place.Â
Yonjiâs curly eyebrows creased as he gestured toward himself, continuing to talkâ Ichiji still didnât know what about. Yonji flexed the bare muscles on his bulky arms proudly.Â
You held up two nearly identical shirts on two hangers to Yonjiâs left, one a bit higher than the other.Â
The only real difference between the two was the buttons. The one in your right hand sported large, clear buttons, while the one you held slightly higher had smaller, opaque buttons. Yonji barely spared you a moment of his attention, his eyes flickering to the white shirt with the opaque buttons. His glance communicated enough, and you swiftly placed the rejected shirt back into his ornate, hand-carved wardrobe.Â
The two of you had done this routine before.Â
Yonji made the shallowest efforts as you swooped in behind him, carefully pulling the fabric over his arms until it draped lightly over his shoulders and chest. He placed his hands in the pockets of his slacks, completely ignoring you as you maneuvered in front of him to begin buttoning his shirt. Yonji spoke over your head as you tucked it into his waistband.Â
âHey!â Yonjiâs aggravated growl snapped Ichiji from his trance. Yonji had you by the sleeve, just about tearing your uniform off your shoulder as his nose contorted in a deep snarl. âWhere the hell did you put my raid suit?â
âItâs right here, Prince Yonji!â You held up the canister like a precious treasure, eyes glinting at the number marked prominently on the side. Ichiji couldnât recall ever seeing someone so enthralled by servants' work.
Yonji scoffed, heaving you forward by the corner of your uniform before pushing you back with double the force. He roughly snatched the canister from your hands before he turned to make his way toward the doors.Â
âCâmon,â Yonji knocked a hand against Ichijiâs shoulder. âLetâs take a look at that new tech you were tellinâ me about.âÂ
âRight.â Ichiji nodded, the slightest bit heated that he had been made to forget why heâd visited his brother in the first place. He stood from the plush couch in the middle of the room to follow Yonji.Â
âGoodbye, Your Majesties! It has been an honor to serve you today.â Neither brother turned back as you bowed at the waist. The heavy doors closed behind the two, leaving you alone to tend to your chores.
Ichiji considered the closed entrance for a beat before joining Yonji, who strutted down the plush carpet of the hall with an elevated cockiness. Ichiji gave him a once over, studying him with acute curiosity before averting his attention to the view of the sea outside the passing windows.Â
âDoes the library attendant dress you every morning?â he asked. Yonji let out an obnoxious, bellowing laugh.
âYeah! And the best part is I didnât even have to ask!â Yonji cackled in his usual boyish rasp. He shoved his hands in his pockets, leaning forward slightly to narrow his eyes mischievously at Ichiji. âWhat? You like my new personal attendant?âÂ
Yonji laughed again as the two stepped into a winding stairwell. The sound resounded upward, bouncing off the stone walls. He squared his shoulders back, a wide, self-satisfied smirk plastered to his lips. Ichiji hummed, trying to decide how invested he was.Â
âRetaining a valet or two like Niji and me would be more logical. Perhaps a few chambermaids instead of some creepy roach,â Ichiji frowned. âYour taste in toys has always been⊠unique.â
âWhat can I say? I can never get sick of that stupid, wide-eyed face!â Yonji snickered behind closed teeth, tugging absentmindedly on the loose collar of his shirt. Neither he nor Ichiji spared a second glance at the soldiers who greeted them as they made their way across the courtyard. âI could kick it and still get an offer to shine my boots. A proper servant should consider it a privilege to serve.âÂ
Yonji continued to hiss, and Ichiji hummed again. He had grown tired of the subject, but Ichiji couldnât help but consider that there was something about your dynamic that he couldnât quite wrap his head around.Â
âAll this excitement over a little attention from a servant,â Ichiji muttered.Â
Yonjiâs self-assured smirk wavered as his pace slowed. He fell just short of Ichiji, who continued ahead. Yonjiâs brows wrinkled in disgust, and his lips quickly contorted into a disdainful scowl. He huffed, turning his nose to the side, before widening his strikes to catch up with his older brother.
âIâm being treated the way royalty outta,â Yonji spat. He hardly noticed how the doors to their destination opened in their presence. âWhat does it matter if I get a laugh out of breaking this one, too?âÂ
Ichiji didnât humor him with a response. The two brothers disappeared into the building, both finally tired from talking about you.
âOh my god!â a cleaning woman gasped, quickly slapping a hand over her mouth as she gaped in horror at the sight just outside the window. A crowd of other house servants gathered around her, all careening to look down at the training grounds below. They muttered to themselves in panicked horror, causing more staff to drift from the hall and into the storage room to catch a glimpse of what was happening on the ground below.Â
On one side of the yard stood all three Vinsmoke brothers, each donning their respective raid suits as they talked amongst each other. However, the Vinsmoke princes were the last thing the hoard of staff pressed up against the four medium-sized windows appeared concerned with.Â
You stood directly in the middle of the opposite end of the training ground. Three large books were stacked on top of your head, and a basket of crisp, green apples was in your hands. You wabbled, teetering slightly as you tried to balance the books. Perhaps you could have if there were fewer of them or maybe if the princes hadnât chosen an encyclopedia each.Â
All the upstairs staff could do was watch as Yonji sauntered over to you and plucked an apple from your basket. He placed it on top of the stack of books, tongue poking out from his lips as he rotated the fruit on top of the book cover until the orientation was to his liking.Â
âDonât you dare move a muscle,â Yonji sniggered. As if he were studying a piece of art, he peered at you tauntingly with one eye closed through a box shape he made with his fingers. He chuckled again, pivoting to retreat to the other side of the training ground. Ichiji and Niji were already waiting for him, sinister smirks contorting their faces to reveal sharp incisors.Â
âOh my god, I canât look! I canât watch someoneâs head get blown off!â one of the upstairs maids turned from the window to push through the hoard of gathered servants. Her spot was quickly filled in.Â
âI wonder what brought on such a brutal punishment,â a laundryman remarked to a pantrygirl. The gathering of servants shifted around to accommodate the new bodies that gathered. âDoes anyone know what happened?âÂ
Cosette had just appeared at the end of the hall as the group's muttering grew louder. Unlike many other servants who gathered around the windows, Cosette had actual work to do in the kitchen storage closet. Still, it hardly took a moment of her standing in the doorway to realize something was terribly wrong.
âWhatâs going on?â she asked a scullion, a wave of dread washing over her like a bucket of cold water.
âThe princes have someone down there that theyâre using for target practice,â he answered, gesturing to the top of his head. The scullion ushered her forward, allowing Cosette to slide in at the edge of the very last window. She squinted at the sight below before gasping in horror at the sight of it all.
The books, the apple on top, and the giant basket of more shiny green apples that you gripped in your hands.Â
And on the other side of the yard, Yonji was winding up.
âWho is that?â Cosette gasped in mortification. Your form looked more than familiar, but Cosette couldn't see your face from the angle she was looking. In a moment of realization, her eyes widened. âIs that who I think it is?â
âSomeone said it was the library attendant,â another servant answered, and Cosette ran into the same question that every other servant in the room considered upon hearing that information.Â
What business did the princes have with the library attendant?
Tormenting the staff, especially over the slightest perceived infractions, wasnât out of the realm of possibility when it came to the Vinsmokes. However, given that your post was strictly the library, and nowhere else, none of the gathered staff could fathom a scenario in which the custodian of the library would even have to make contact with any of the princesâlet alone all three. None of them ever held any interest in books, after all.
 Other than Judge, the other Vinsmokes assumed interests that they deemed more valuable than Germaâs extensive archive. Not to mention that all scientific notes and heavily referenced texts on technical information were kept in their own room near the central laboratory. On rare occasions when a member of the royal family wanted to seek knowledge that would enhance their combat abilities, they would have a servant deliver a text, no matter where it was stored.
The books you maintained comprised a vast collection of lesser-used texts. From general encyclopedias to old records and files to more niche topics, most of your domain was compiled during the days that Judge was strictly a man of science and included the extensive accumulation of the late queen. It was primarily due to record-keeping reasonsâ and perhaps sentimentalityâ that the Germa Kingdom kept a library attendant at all.
If your head were about to roll with those chances, the rest of the staff would have no hope.
âYou better hold still!â Yonji warned. The motor in his gauntlet whirred to life.Â
You stared straight ahead with your back erect and your muscles as halted as your untrained body could muster. Your teetering from before had subsided, and while you continued to shake slightly from effort, Yonji couldnât help but consider that you didnât look nearly terrified enough. And as you stared directly into his dark irises with your stupidly eager gaze, Yonji decided that heâd give you something to be afraid of for once.Â
His winch whipped out of his forearm, the metal wire extending many times the length of his own body as he swung his weapon clockwise in a swiping motion. It barreled towards your head at lightning speed. The horrified screams from the gathered servants above were drowned out by the thundering boom that exploded as Yonjiâs winch crashed into the castle wall to your far left.
And for just a moment, before the windows in front of the servants broke and the castle violently trembled, Yonji's winch swiped away the second book on your head. The green apple and the book it sat on fell neatly onto the text directly on your hair before you were blasted into the dirt.Â
You tumbled across the training ground as the castle wall dented, the accouterments on your head leaving a trail to mark where you stood. The basket of apples had tumbled to the ground, causing the fruits to roll across the field. The three princes bellowed with laughter as Yonji recalled his weapon.Â
âI told ya that you better hold still!â he sneered.
The dust cleared, revealing your overpowered body in the dirt. You lay motionless.
âI think your new toyâs broken!â Niji howled.Â
Yonjiâs brow creased in disapproval, taking in the sight of pages and apples strewn across the yard. He glanced around wildly, an undetectable hesitancy stalling him where he stood.
âHey!â He stormed forward, jaw clenched as he kicked a few fruits across the lawn. âHey! What the hell did I tell you? You better get your ass up!â
You propped yourself up weakly, barely mustering the strength. Yonjiâs eyes bored into the back of your head as you tried to pick yourself up. His impatience trumped your efforts as he wasted no time in grabbing you and hauling you to your feet roughly. He shook you with barely restrained rage.
âYou got the nerve to disobey me, huh?â Yonji jerked you violently, his grip around your bicep punishing.Â
Your head snapped back, and only then did Yonji notice the water pooling in your eyes. The glossiness clouding your pretty irises was enough to redirect his rage into a wide, toothy grin. Self-satisfied, he let you drop to your knees.
âPrince Yonji!ââ you cried out just as he turned to walk away.Â
His earlier annoyance had just about melted instantly, and in its place came a righteous sense of power and control. Yonji had allowed you to fawn all over him for long enough now, and now that he had broken you, your novelty had worn off. He sighed to himself, letting his eyes close as you slowly stood somewhere behind him. It was time to find something new to play with.
ââThat was awesome!âÂ
Yonjiâs eyes snapped open, and without thinking, he pivoted on his heel to face you. The tears that he saw in your eyes were present, but the look on your face was nowhere near the expression of terror that he anticipated. Instead, you looked up at him with pure admiration and a dumb smile on your lips. The complete subversion of his expectations left him at nothing less than a loss as he couldnât help but stare while you blabbered on about how amazing you thought he was.Â
ââconsidering the width of the cable, the damage amounted to a force of equal magnitude to your highnessâs strikeâ!âÂ
Yonji shook his head as if the physical motion would reset his thoughts. His hand came up to his forehead as he cringed into his glove. And with a motion of dismissal, Yonji turned away from you once again.
âYeah, yeah, whatever! Just pick all this stuff upâŠâ You didnât need to be told twice. You grabbed your basket, ready to chase all the apples around the training ground.Â
Just as you were about to reach for your first one, Niji kicked it into a nearby shrub.
âOn your hands and knees. You can collect these with your mouth,â Niji taunted. He toyed with another one under his shoe, and lining it up with the side of his boot, he kicked it up into the air and right into the side of your head. âFetch, doggie.â
âYou better pick âem up quickly and get those books back on your head, library roach,â Ichiji gruffed. His red light energy glinted, sparking threateningly around his form. âWeâre not done with you yet.â
Yonji eventually sent you to the medical ward. Although he immensely enjoyed looking at the nasty scapes and bruises that marred your skin, he considered the dirt and blood unsightly. So, when the Vinsmoke family was to be having dinner, you were given strict instructions to make yourself presentable and bring an extra helping of dessert back to Yonjiâs quarters.
By the time you arrived, the kitchen was just beginning to wind down, having already presented the royal family with their courses. Cosette nearly jumped when she spotted you just inside the kitchenâs entrance, sputtering out a few more directions to her staff before making a beeline to you. Despite your refreshed uniform, Cosetteâs eyes were immediately drawn to the tech bandages that littered your body.Â
âOh my god, youâre alive! Are you okay?â She ran up to you, placing her hands on your cheeks to inspect your head. (Your face was miraculously devoid of damage.) Having seen most of what you had gone through today, her question was clearly rhetorical: âAre you hurt? What are you doing here?âÂ
You took Cosetteâs hands in your own. With the library always being so far away from the main parts of the castle and Cosetteâs promotion to head chef, the two of you hardly saw each other anymore. And after what she had witnessed just a few hours prior, she worried about what had happened during the time and distance you had been apart.Â
âPrince Yonji sent me to bring back dessert,â you answered, returning your attention to Cosetteâs widened eyes. âDo you happen to have any cake?â
Cosette couldnât help but recoil, hands hovering hesitantly between you. A cleaning boy passed through the tight space where you and Cosette stood. She pulled you out of the way as dirty water from a dish splashed the floor.Â
She opened her mouth to address the servant, but your question blocked out any focus she had on kitchen affairs. Cosette blinked a few times as if your words would make sense. Your name crawled from her lips in confusion and concern.Â
âWhat happened to the library?â she opted to ask. The crease in her forehead deepened with distress. She ran a hand down her face to center herself, but a bulky chef carrying the compost bag began to shimmy past the two of you. You pulled her out of the way, and both of you pressed yourselves flat against the wall as the chef passed. Cosette grumbled to herself, rolling her eyes. âSave that thought!âÂ
She determinedly nodded, pulling you through the kitchen and into the pantry. Cosette tugged the light on before closing the door behind the two of you. Your name left her mouth again in a frantic hiss.
âWhat is going on? Everyone was saying you were being punished for something. Everyone was watching because Madame ThĂ©nardier spied you from the third-story storage closet, and everyone thought you were about to dieâ!â She waved her hands frantically, pacing herself in a circle. ââAnd I told everyone to leave once I learned it was youââ Cosette curtly gestured in the air. ââBut then Master Yonji hit the castle, and the glass was everywhereâ!â You moved in front of her before she could hit her head on a bundle of carrots.
âCosette,â you stressed, and she stopped for a moment. But only for a moment. You grasped her gently by the shoulders. âI am more than alright. I still work at the library.â You offered her a single, soft nod, but her shoulders remained tense under your grasp. âBut Prince Yonji needs me sometimes, thatâs all.âÂ
You glanced off sheepishly at a bag of potatoes.Â
âHe needs youâŠâ Cosette glanced you up and down. You nodded adamantly.Â
Cosette heaved a heavy sigh, drifting away from what you intended as a reassuring touch. She sat herself on a barrel of flour, both arms wrapped around the knees she pulled up to her chest. She puffed out her cheeks, not entirely eager to listen as her back slouched.Â
âI donât doubt that, butâŠâ She nodded a few times in punctuation.
The door to the pantry opened. A cook with a pile of boxes quickly turned back around at the frantic wave of Cosetteâs hand, letting the door shut again. She met your gaze, tilting her head to the side.Â
âI donât doubt that, but you almost got your head blown off today⊠I worry about you⊠I donât know if you realize how scary today was.â Cosette trailed off, letting her feet fall back to the floor. She thought, zoning out on a random tile past your knees. âGetting so close to a person who doesnât have a heart⊠itâs dangerous.â
The pantry went quiet.Â
Noise continued outside. Pots clanged together. Water ran from faucets. The kitchen staff called out to each other; their voices muffled through the door.Â
You took a deep breath before you spoke.
âThank you,â you started. âFor being so concerned about me. Youâve always been a great friend.â
Cosette didnât answer you, and silence overtook the pantry once again, and the kitchen noise continued.
She wasnât convinced about your safety in the slightest.
And with this talk about the Vinsmoke prince needing you, Cosette wasnât even convinced that your own words convinced you.Â
She remained quiet, at a loss for what to say or even think about the whole bizarre situation.
âI think he really likes me.â You smiled at your shoes.
Cosette most definitely didnât know what to say to that.
Her shoulders deflated. She toyed with the end of her apron as she quietly considered you. You leaned against one of the shelves, admiring a basket of green peas with a quiet giddiness.Â
âI thinkâŠâ she pursed her lips, following your line of sight to the basket. âI think that perhaps his Highness likes the idea of you liking the idea of him liking you.â Cosette squinted her eyes, facing a random direction, as she lowered her hand in a slicing motion on her opposite palm.Â
âYou think he knows?â Your eyes widened at the prospect. You bolted up from where you were leaning, slamming the top of your head against the shelf above. âOw!â You covered the sore spot with your hand. And as you were rubbing away the acute pain, you missed the softness that spread over Cosetteâs gentle features.Â
She quietly rose from her barrel and took your arm in hers.Â
âCome now,â she sighed, opening the pantry door. âLetâs get that cake the prince was asking for. I wouldnât want to make you late.â
You beat Yonji to his quarters, although it was probably for the best that you didnât arrive after him.
You shut the doors quietly behind you with your shoe, taking in the eerie stillness of his room. It always felt odd being there without Yonji, and anticipating his presence left you with a nervous, looming feelingâlike you werenât supposed to be there. And, at least according to your job description, you werenât.Â
Most of the room was just how you left it. Yonjiâs king bed sat opposite the door, with the headboard positioned in the middle of the wall. The microfiber sheets were neatly made just as you left them, and the pillows remained perfectly fluffed.Â
All surfaces were clear and freshly dusted except for the circular table in the corner of the room near the door. Two large sake cups sat empty; condensation from earlier had already stained the wooden finish. You spotted the sake bottle on the floor.
You stepped down into the lowered lounge area to collect it and the cups. The two curved, leather couches were usually riddled with personal items, tools, and technical partsâwhich you were never to touchâbut a space next to the table had been conveniently cleared off.Â
You could only assume that the princes had been in Yonjiâs room while you were in the medical ward. You wondered if you would be punished for your absence later.
The holo-screen glowed in the corner, and a large, detailed map of Germaâs next assignment was displayed and annotated with green and blue markers.Â
You stared at the depiction of the sparsely populated city, placing the bottle with the cups on the table. In your other hand, you held the covered plate with Yonjiâs cake. The green marker, a more neon color than the matte blue marker, depicted a series of vectors of the same size in various sections of the city, each ending with an âXâ symbol. Meanwhile, the blue markings were dotted lines and small, boxed-in buildings. The trail ended at the coast.
âItâs fascinating, isnât it?âÂ
Your heart nearly leaped out of your chest, and with it, the cake almost toppled over as you turned to face Yonji. You had expected him to tease you, but he stood silently with his hands in his pockets. His expression was not one you usually saw. Yonji gazed at the holo-map, face grave.
âI canât say Iâm a fan,â Yonji grumbled. His eyes flickered to yours, locking you into an intense stare with a frown. âBut you know, now that youâve seen thisââ He pointed a finger at the map, tilting his head to the side. ââIâm gonna have to kill you.â His face contorted into a wolfish grin.
âOh, I see.â You glanced back at the annotations, unfazed by how Yonjiâs nose scrunched up in amusement. He prowled around the upper level, approaching the two steps down into the lowered corner lounge.
âMission information is confidential.â Yonji placed his hands in his pockets. He stood directly behind you, the minor elevation allowing him to more than dwarf your form as he quietly blocked your only exit. âFor the eyes of Germa 66 only.âÂ
âThe arrows,â the words slipped out of your mouth. âTheyâre the radius of your winch.â You had most definitely meant it as a question, but the observation came out with more certainly than you anticipated. Â
You turned your head for confirmation. Yonjiâs chin jutted slightly back in acute surprise, his curly brows knitting together as he sneered. You stared at him silently, waiting for an answer, but Yonji only continued to look at you disapprovingly.
âThe arrows are the radius of Your Highnessâs weapon,â you corrected (as if that was the issue).Â
Yonjiâs scowl deepened as he snatched the bottle of sake from the wooden table. Unexpectedly, there was still some left. He flicked off the cap, shook his head a few times, and took a swig.
âYeah? So?â Yonji circled the upper level, eyeing you closely as you stepped closer to the map.Â
There were several levels to the city upon closer inspection. The entire diagram rotated upon your approach, revealing a multi-layered, three-dimensional diagram. The markings followed, remaining proportional despite the new angles.Â
âIs this Speleothem?â you wondered aloud. Yonji took another swig of his bottle somewhere behind you.
âYeah,â he said, sounding distant. You hadnât noticed. âYou been?â
âIâve only read about it in books.â You reached out to touch the hologram.
The motion sent it into a tizzy, the diagram spinning erratically, causing you to step back. But once the image settled, it revealed an entire blueprint of the island with the green and blue markings still trapped inside.
Speleothem was a nation comprised of a single, large mountain. Uninhabitable on the outside, the people who lived on the island dedicated generations to carving out the dense rock, leaving a vast network of tunnels on the inside and an extremely rocky coast in the surrounding waters. But most critically, at least to Germa, were its five small entrances.Â
Two canals passed through the island's base, intercrossing in the middle to split the system into quarters. Just above the waterâs intersection, a vertical tunnel had been dug straight through the peak of the mountain to let in natural sunlight.Â
You could see the problem. None accommodated the circumference of Yonjiâs winch, and the tunnel system was far too narrow to support his typical brute-force attacks without collapsing a massive sector of the island. You wondered why he was concerned with being careful in the first place, too lost in your thoughts to remember where you were.
Yonji swiped the cake platter from your hands. You stiffened as you were rudely snapped from your daze. Yonji laughed at you that time. He turned on his heel, flicking the top off of the container. It clattered to the floor where the sake bottleâ now emptyâ sat once again.Â
âThe hell are you still doing here?â he chewed. Yonji pushed past you, shoulder-checking you on his way back up the two stairs into the center of the bedroom. The fork that Cosette included already had a second bite of cake on it.Â
âI thought you needed to kill me.â
âNot worth my effort,â he announced, mouth still full as he waved a now clean fork behind his head at you. âAnd I donât want your corpse making a mess of my room when I have shit to do in the morning.â
Yonji plopped down on a different pair of couches in the middle of the room. The two ornate fixtures boasted intricate designs and velvet seating, both flanking an equally intricate coffee table in the middle, on which Yonji kicked his feet up. The set appeared to be a part of the same collection as his wardrobe, and the craftsmanship was a stark difference from the technologically sleek appearance of the furniture in the lower corner lounge.Â
The back of his head faced you as he took an oversized bite of his extra dessert.
You were sure his ignorance of you was your cue to leave.Â
You picked the serving lid up off the floor and held it upside down. As quietly as possible, you placed the empty sake bottle and the two cups into it. Yonji didnât spare you even a glance as you quietly made for the door, unamused by you at the current moment.Â
With the apparent raid on Speleothem the next day, he was either very tired or in an extremely good mood. Whatever the case, you knew better than to mess with it. You pressed down the push button at the top of the knob, holding it there as you hesitated.
You should really leave.
You should really leave and take the dishes straight to the kitchen before turning in for the night.Â
Ruining Yonjiâs fortunate mood and continuing to talk out of term? What a surefire way to get yourselfâ
âSpeleothem uses a water system. Thatâs how theyâre able to keep the tunnels together and carve out more.â Your voice cut through the air. The scraping of Yonjiâs fork against his plate died in an instant. You cringed, letting your eyes squeeze closed as you braced yourself. No strike ever came.Â
You slowly turned around, hugging your makeshift basket close to your chest. Yonji had an elbow over the back of the couch. His face was nothing less than unreadable as he studied you.
âThey have ventilation tunnels that the water gets pumped through, and if those were to be disrupted, Iâm sure youâsomeoneâcould cause massive structural damage without collapsing the system on something important below.â The words tumbled out of your lips faster than you could stop them, if not for the sheer purpose of filling the uncomfortable silence in the room.Â
You could feel his stare boring into you, but you didnât dare meet his gaze. Out of all the Vinsmoke princes, Yonji wasnât the strictest when it came to meeting his eye, but it didnât feel like the appropriate moment to test his generosity.Â
He spoke your name, and it sent a shiver through your core. All your better instincts were as on edge as the hairs on your arms, afraid of the powerful man sitting before you. But in a match-up of pure will and power, the fluttering in your chest swiftly outweighed your senses.Â
âYes, Prince Yonji?â You bowed your head. He liked being reminded of his royal status.
There was another beat of silence.Â
âGet out.â
âYes, Your Highness!âÂ
Speleothem was an eyesore. Just a large rock in the ocean surrounded by smaller rocks, Yonji couldnât say he was particularly pleased about his assignment on an island so dull and fragile. Reiju had, after all, been the one initially assigned to the assassination, but since she had been called for another assignment, Yonji was the one to take her place.Â
The entire mission had been too covert for his liking. Unlike his sister, Yonji didnât have much in his arsenal to cover a large area without compromising the structural integrity of the entire Goddam island. Unfortunately for him, Speleothem needed to be (mostly) intact.Â
Yonji couldnât help but grumble to himself as he fought off another security grunt with a strong uppercut. The sturdy exoskeleton clattered to the side, his compilation of fallen enemies beginning to make a pile around him. A series of high-pitched scraping noises and clicking sounded from just down the tunnel. Yonji ran the back of his gloved hand over his forehead. He despised that he was already working up a sweat, but they just kept coming.Â
He ventured down into the main sector to meet the battalion coming his way. Due to the narrow passageways, the footsoldiers practically charged at him in a single file line. Yonji made short work of each one, critically denting their outer armor with each swing of his enhanced fists, but no matter how many times he swung or how many guards fell, more seemed to replace their fallen comrades at a rapid pace.Â
The number of troops in front of him didnât appear to dwindle. By the third round of reinforcements, the dark smirk Yonji typically had during battle had disappeared. He huffed to himself quietly, occasional grunts of effort being the only noise to break the steady rhythm of communication clicks and insect-like scraping.Â
When another battalion of guards began to make their way down the tunnel from the opposite end, Yonji was officially annoyed. Even using a fraction of his skills, Yonji could have made short work of the entire section of the island, and he knew it. And if the mission took place at any other location, he could have. Instead, heâd have to play glorified punching bag until Niji gave the signal.Â
In the midst of the chaos, Yonjiâs eyes flickered up to the tunnelâs ceiling. He had been able to hear the sound of rushing water since the moment he entered.
One of the footsoldiers tackled Yonji from behind, digging his sharp mandibles into Yonjiâs shoulder. Yonji moved on instinct, punching up into the ceiling and letting the flood of water wash out the tunnel.
But despite a real lack of excitement, the assignment went off without a hitch. By the end of the morning, Niji and Yonji had safely retreated and were ready to report back to Germaâs central sector, leaving Speleothem flooded and leaderless.
âSmart thinking with the ventilation system! I couldnâtâve strategized a better distraction!â Niji let out a deep chuckle and smacked Yonji hard in the center of his back. âHow the hell did you think that one up?â
Yonji trudged forward, ringing some water out of his orange scarf. While he could fly over the flooding in every other tunnel, Yonjiâs raid suit was still wet from the first ventilation duct he broke.Â
âRead about it in a book,â Yonji grumbled as he trudged forward. The bite he endured earlier had caused minor damage, breaking the skin just enough for the wound to be irritated by his damp clothes.Â
Niji stood behind him, fists on his hips as he let out another hearty laugh.
âYou know how to read?â
Yonji hardly heard him, trudging in the direction of his quarters to change into more comfortable clothes.
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Notes: He will get better. The soft spot I have for the Germa 66 boys has been absolutely crippling. Alternate names for this fic included "Easy," "Glutton for Punishment," and, of course, "Beauty and the Beast."
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Fun! Natural! Fun!
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