#(Might post this on AO3 tomorrow or smth idk)

[scala-ask-caelum]

Hey everyone! Are you planning anything for Halloween?

When Xehanort walked into the classroom, he didn’t expect to see it covered in cobwebs and orange string lights. Black paper bats hung in the air. Whether they were suspended by a zero gravity spell or some kind of thin string, he couldn’t tell. Strangest of all was his friends decked out in all manner of costumes, from Urd’s cat ear headband and clip-on tail to Bragi wearing a trench coat to Eraqus’s oddly familiar ensemble. Baldr and Vor sat on the second floor, talking about something while reviewing a huge pile of candy.

“Oh, Xehanort!” Eraqus bounded up to him, the feather in his hat swishing. “Happy Halloween!”

As he stared at his friend, Xehanort’s heart trembled. The resemblance was uncanny. His face grew cold, as if the blood had drained from it.

“What’s wrong? You look like you’ve seen a ghost, hahaha!”

His friend’s playful ribbing brought him back to the present. “Nothing,” he said, shaking his head to dispel… Whatever that feeling was. “What’re all the decorations for?”

Hermod took off his dog-ear headband and twirled it as he said, “It’s for this dumb Halloween party we’re hosting.”

Urd shot him a look. “It’s not dumb, it’s a way for us to connect with other students! We were gonna invite the upperclassmen this year, remember?”

“If they’ll even show up,” Bragi chimed in. “Unless you forgot last year’s fiasco?”

Hermod groaned. “Who would? But for the record, it was not my fault the banner caught on fire!”

The banter brought a smile to Xehanort’s face. “Anything I can do to help set up?”

Eraqus pointed to where Baldr and Vor sat. “They’re sorting candy and making sure the allergens are separate. There’s also non-candy goodies you can prepare.”

With a nod, Xehanort climbed the stairs to find spooky patterned school supplies scattered on the table. Vor waved him over. “Hey! We’re gonna be filling the candy buckets, but you can get started on filling the supplies bucket. Here.” She handed him a big orange container. He sat down at the edge of the table and started gathering up the supplies.

“I’m not gonna be participating this year,” Baldr told him. “Don’t want to risk getting burnt out with exams coming up.”

Xehanort nodded in understanding. That statement seemed only partially true, however. More likely, if there were going to be more people, there would be more heightened emotions and energy. Either way, it made sense that Baldr wouldn’t be going.

“You don’t have to participate either,” Baldr continued, “if you think it’ll be too much for you.”

Xehanort shrugged. “Guess I’ll see how I’m feeling around party time, and I can always leave if it gets overwhelming. I’m kind of excited to see how it turns out! By the way…” He turned to Baldr and asked the question that’d been on his mind since he walked in. “What’s Halloween?”

“What!?” Vor jumped up and slammed her hands on the table, startling him and Baldr. “You don’t know what Halloween is?”

Eraqus headed upstairs at the commotion. He clasped Xehanort’s shoulders and said, “The anniversary of his arrival here is in a few days, Vor. He’s probably never gone trick-or treating, or carved pumpkins, or told scary stories around a fire, or—”

“We get it,” Bragi interrupted nonchalantly. He’d almost finished painting a small wooden coffin. “Xehanort doesn’t know anything about Halloween.”

Xehanort wanted to bite back, but Bragi’s remark was intentionally scathing. Trying to defend himself would only make it worse. But Bragi continued, “Doesn’t mean we should be surprised about it. Wherever he’s from probably had different holidays.”

That made Xehanort feel a lot better. With the situation defused, everyone went back to their preparations.

Finally, nighttime came. The classroom, lit by soft candlelight and orange string lights, nevertheless had a jovial atmosphere. While Vidar, Baldr, and Hoder were nowhere to be seen, the rest of the upperclassmen and Xehanort’s classmates were having a great time. The music, a quiet and steady constant, helped the party’s mood immensely. Sometimes it’d abruptly switch from a calm song to a more upbeat tempo, but that did nothing to dissuade the myriad conversations.

Xehanort decided to watch from the second floor, mostly. Sometimes one person or another would join him in people-watching when it got too chaotic for them, and he’d make polite conversation about a mutually interesting topic. Master Odin sat at a table in the back of the second floor, nursing a glass of cider and reading a book. Xehanort decided to not bother him.

One of the more interesting moments of the night was when Helgi convinced everyone to get in a dance circle. Xehanort could hear shouts of encouragement from those comprising the ring while someone occasionally stepped in and danced to their heart’s content. While it looked fun, he couldn’t bring himself to join them.

Eventually the energy died down enough that Xehanort felt comfortable mingling properly. Everyone’s costumes were fantastic, even if Vor’s wire fairy wings and wide-brimmed wizard hat made her somewhat of a safety hazard. Xehanort himself donned a comfortable red scarf Eraqus had given him (“Matching costumes,” he’d said), along with his original shirt and sleeveless jacket. The smell of it made him tear up a little with a feeling he couldn’t describe as anything other than heartache.

Everyone complimented him on his “costume”, which left his heart brimming with happiness. But how could his shoddy imitation compare to Eraqus being the perfect reflection of his dream friend, down to the clothes he wore?

As he reflected on the evening’s activities that night, Xehanort wondered why he’d never asked Eraqus more about his grandfather. He didn’t even know the guy’s name, much less anything important about him. But he had the same hat, and…

No. Best not to get too caught up in thinking about it right now. Xehanort closed his eyes, trying to push away the deep unease that had settled in his heart.

#answered #Meg Writes #The Class #Xehanort #Eraqus #Bragi #Baldr #Urd #Hermod #Vor #Odin #Helgi #starlightwayfinder #(Might post this on AO3 tomorrow or smth idk)

[formerlyz]

Hii I reblogged smth of yours just a while ago so I’m here to make requests! (Idk how)

Kazuki going to drinks with Dorothy and Carol and having a good time while Rei is absolutely dying with Miri at home then Kazuki gets a little too drunk so one of the girls calls the first number on his phone (he left it unlocked) to pick him up and it’s Rei you can choose what happens next anyway sorry for the long ask byeee

Hi Anon so this isn’t *exactly* what you asked for but I was already like 90% of the way thru this fanfic so I hope it’s close enough! Posting to celebrate the English dub coming out and making it CANON that Kazuki was just out for a girl night.

I might do one from Drunk Kazuki’s POV at some point as well.

Kazuki’s Girl’s Night

Word Count: 3178

Trigger Warnings: Alcohol Use, Drunk character

Other Notes: Established Relationship (Kazurei), Kazuki is very much an I love you drunk

For those who prefer to read on Ao3

Rei had just finished closing the diner, and was heading back upstairs when he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He took it out and read the text as he opened the door to their apartment.

“Can u come get me pleeaaase?” The text said, accompanied by a string of emojis that made no sense. Rei rolled his eyes and laughed to himself, knowing by now that Kazuki was probably drunk. He had left shortly after the dinner rush to meet up with some friends.

Even though they moved out of the city when they bought the diner, Kazuki still kept in touch with a few of the moms from Miri’s old daycare. About once a month, they would meet up for coffee or drinks and catch up. Rei was also always invited, but someone had to run the restaurant when Kazuki was gone, and he didn’t mind having time to himself once in a while. He did know most of Kazuki’s friends, but the only one Rei was really friends with was Anna, Miri’s former daycare teacher. She had helped them a lot in their first few years with Miri, so Rei had gotten to know her fairly well.

Rei responded asking where to get Kazuki before going to knock on Miri’s door.

“Come in!” Rei opened the door to find her sitting at her desk, writing in her journal. Her short brown hair was tied back in a messy bun and she sat with her long legs crossed under her in her desk chair. It was hard for Rei to believe she was starting high school tomorrow, it seemed like just yesterday she was a toddler running around their apartment in the city. So much had changed, and yet she still had the same big smile.

“Hi Papa! What’s up?” She said, turning to face Rei.

“I’m going to pick up Kazuki. Do you want to come along?” He said, leaning against the doorframe. She thought about it for a second before responding.

“That’s okay, I still gotta shower and figure out what I’m wearing tomorrow.”

“I thought you had a uniform?”

“I do, but I gotta figure out what I’m doing with my hair and what earrings and shoes I’m gonna wear and stuff. I want to look nice for my first day of school!” She said. Rei smiled, he never went to school, so he didn’t really understand a lot of this stuff, but he was happy he had the chance to learn through Miri.

“That’s fine, hopefully I won’t be gone too long.”

“Where is Dad anyway? He’s out for a ladies night right?” Right on cue, Rei felt his phone vibrate in his pocket again. He took it out to see that Kazuki had sent him a pin with his location on it.

“1 Star Saloon…that sounds familiar?” He said, showing his phone to Miri.

“Oh! That’s right by the Boba place we go to. You know that place with all the neon signs in the window.” Miri said, standing up and taking Rei’s phone. She zoomed out on the map and turned it back to him.

“Well at least it’s closeby.” His phone buzzed again as another text from Kazuki came in, Miri turned it back around and quickly read it.

“Pfffft he’s definitely drunk” She said with a giggle as she handed the phone back to Rei.

“I lobve youuuuu so much thank you your my Rey of Sunshine you make me sohappyyyyyy” the text read. Another text came through that was just a bunch of hearts. Rei smirked and shook his head.

“I better go get him.” He sighed. He knew Miri was definitely going to tease Kazuki about that in the morning, but Rei was just thankful he hadn’t sent anything worse.

“Drive safe. Say hi to Auntie Anna for me if you see her!” Miri said, going to sit back down at her desk.

“Will do.” Rei said as he closed the door behind him. He texted Kazuki that he was on his way as he walked downstairs to their car.

It was only about a 10 minute drive to the bar. Even though they drove by the place all the time, he had never actually been inside.

Rei walked past the bouncer and immediately surveyed his surroundings. It was a pretty standard looking bar as far as he could tell. There were a decent amount of people there for a Sunday night, but the place definitely wasn’t full. He saw a group standing at a big round table towards the back corner and recognized the messy blonde hair of his partner. He slunk through the tables and chairs towards the back.

Anna saw Rei approach first, waving cheerfully to him. This got Kazuki’s attention and he turned around, gasping dramatically when he saw Rei.

“REI!!” He said, practically tackling him. After steadying himself, Rei waved awkwardly to Kazuki’s friends over his shoulder.

“I missed you!” Kazuki said, clumsily giving Rei a big kiss on the lips before moving to the side to kiss him multiple times on the cheek.

“Hey! Quit it!” Rei said, feeling his face getting hot. He tried to push away, but Kazuki had one arm tightly wrapped around his waist, while the other held Rei’s face in place as he continued to pepper kisses all over it.

“You two are so cute,” Dorothy cooed, the other women at the table laughed and nodded in agreement. Dorothy and Carol had both settled down and were part of the group as well. Dorothy had gone back to school and become a teacher, while Carol had a toddler of her own that attended the daycare Miri used to go too. They had gotten back in touch with Kazuki a couple years ago.

“Thanks for picking him up Rei.” Anna said as the rest of the women giggled at them. Other than Anna, they all seemed fairly tipsy.

“No problem. Miri says hi” Rei said. Thankfully, Kazuki had stopped his onslaught and now just had his face burrowed in Rei’s neck. “Are you okay to drive Anna?”

“Oh yeah!” Anna held up her soda. “I’m taking everyone else home too, I would have taken Kazuki but your place is in the opposite direction and I have to be at work early tomorrow.” She added apologetically.

“That’s totally fair” Rei looked back down to Kazuki, who had been resting his chin on his shoulder and staring at him.“You ready to go?” Rei asked, ignoring the sappy grin Kazuki was giving him.

“Mmmhmm! Lemme just say bye.” Kazuki said. He pulled himself off of Rei and clumsily gave each of his friends a hug. “Oh shit! My drink!” He said after he was done.

“Kazuki don’t! Oh geez…” Rei sighed as Kazuki chugged the rest of his cocktail.

“Text me when you get home.” Anna said, giving Rei an amused look.

“You too” Rei said as he wrapped an arm around Kazuki’s waist, Kazuki responded by slinging his arm over Rei’s shoulders. Rei gave the other women a polite wave as he led his drunk partner out of the bar.

Kazuki was giggling as they stumbled outside. “What’s so funny?” Rei asked.

“You’re really cute” Kazuki said, pulling Rei tightly against him for a kiss that only half landed on his lips. It was clear that he was trying to take it further, but Rei dodged his other attempts.

“And you’re really drunk. Let’s get you home. Rei responded with an embarrassed chuckle. He glanced back at the bouncer as he helped Kazuki into the car. The large man didn’t even seem to register Kazuki’s drunken makeout attempt, which Rei was grateful for. The guy probably saw worse on a daily basis.

“Drink” Rei ordered, shoving a water bottle into Kazuki’s hand as he started the car. Kazuki stared at the bottle for a moment before taking a large swig.

“Dude…this water is soooo good” he said, sounding amazed.

“I know. You should keep drinking it” Rei coaxed, trying to keep himself laughing so that Kazuki would do it. Kazuki downed more of the water as they pulled out of the parking lot and onto the road back to the diner.

“So. How was your night?” Rei asked once Kazuki had drunk a decent amount of water.

“It was fun! We did Karaoke and caught up and — Oh my god! Dude! Dorothy and Carol are dating now!”

“Really?” Rei was genuinely surprised. Rei was initially a bit suspicious of them, as their whole job at Fairy Lips was essentially to flirt with Kazuki and other men, but it quickly became clear that they treated the flirting as nothing more than a job and just saw Kazuki as a friend.

“Mmhmm, about damn time.” Kazuki said, taking another sip of water.

“Really? I didn’t see that one coming,” Rei said quietly. Kazuki giggled again. “What?”

“You’re SO bad at picking up signals,” Kazuki teased.

“Says the guy who took like 6 months to kiss me” Rei retorted.

“Hey! In my defense! Your signals used to be a lot harder to read.”

“I literally told you I wanted to spend my life with you and raise a kid with you.” Rei said, “and you still only did it because Miri kept asking”

“…okay fair. He said sheepishly. Rei reached over and squeezed his hand briefly to let him know he was just teasing.

“How’s everyone else doing?” Rei asked. Kazuki perked up and launched into a drunken explanation of his other friend’s life updates. Even when Kazuki was sober, Rei couldn’t really keep track of all the gossip, so he only half paid attention. He mostly just liked listening to the sound of Kazuki’s voice.

On the drive home Kazuki had sobered up enough that he could at least make it up the stairs on his own, though Rei still kept a hand on his back just in case. Once they were inside, Rei led Kazuki to the couch, where he plopped down.

“C’mere” He said, trying to pull Rei into his lap.

“In a minute, I’m gonna get you something to eat.”

“But I wanna cuddle.” As nice as that sounded, Rei knew if he didn’t get some food into Kazuki that he would be extremely hungover the next morning.

“Later. Alright?”

“Please. Just for a minute” Kazuki begged, giving Rei sad puppy dog eyes. Rei sighed and was about to relent when Miri came out of the bathroom, a cloud of steam billowing behind her. She was wearing her pajamas and had a towel wrapped around her shoulders that she was drying her hair with.

“MIRI!! Kazuki cried. Launching himself off the couch to throw his arms around her.

“Hi Dad! How was—Bleghh! You smell like booze!” she said with a laugh, hugging Kazuki back. Rei took the opportunity to sneak into the kitchen.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” He said, trying and failing to sound sober.

“Oh my god you’re totally drunk.” She teased.

“Your Dad doesn’t get drunk, he just has fun” He said indignantly. This caused Rei to snort and Miri to start giggling.

“Mmmhmmm” she said, Kazuki didn’t seem to pick up on her sarcasm. “How is everyone?”

“Good! Anna says hi and that she wants you to visit her soon. She has to work tomorrow”

“Oh yeah, I guess that makes sense that tomorrow would be her first day of school too” Miri said. Kazuki threw his arms around her again.

“I can’t believe tomorrow is my baby girl’s first day of high school. You’re growing up so fast!” Kazuki started tearing up.

“Aw Dad, I’m only 14.” Miri gave him a pat on the back to comfort him. Rei shook his head and gave her an apologetic look, but she was amused by Kazuki’s dramatics.

“Still! It seems like just yesterday you were this big” he said, pulling apart and putting his hands super close together.

“She was never that small Kazuki” Rei said.

“It’s a metaphor!” Kazuki said angrily. This caused both Rei and Miri to laugh again.

“I should probably start heading to bed. I wanna get a good night's sleep before the first day of school”

“Ah! And you’re so responsible! I’m so glad you didn’t break bad” Kazuki said, hugging Miri again.

“What does that even mean?”

“He used to be afraid you would turn bad once you got older. Like that you would ditch school and shoplift and stuff like that.” Rei clarified over his shoulder. “For some reason the bad version of you has a Texas accent” Rei was never sure where that one came from, but whenever Kazuki impersonated ‘bad Miri’ he did it with the accent.

“Like this?” Miri said in her best southern drawl.

“Miri no!!” Kazuki cried, hugging her tighter as she and Rei laughed at him.

“I’m kidding, I'm kidding. Goodnight Dad” she said, hugging him back.

“I love you so much,” Kazuki said, giving her a big kiss on the cheek before he reluctantly let her go.

“Love you too.” She said sweetly as she popped over to the kitchen. “Night Papa” she stood on her tiptoes to give Rei a kiss on the cheek. “Good luck”, she whispered with a smirk

“Don’t worry, I can handle him.” Rei chuckled before giving Miri a kiss on the forehead. She turned around, giving Kazuki one last wave before she closed her door behind her.

As soon as Miri was back in her room, Kazuki sauntered over to Rei in the kitchen and wrapped his arms around Rei’s waist from behind.

“Whatcha doin??” Kazuki asked, resting his chin on Rei’s shoulder.

“Making you food so you sober up” Kazuki hummed appreciatively and began kissing Rei on the neck. “That tickles,” Rei said. It felt really nice, but was making it incredibly hard to focus. Kazuki responded by rubbing his goatee aggressively against Rei’s neck.

“Stop!” Rei hissed, gently elbowing him in the ribs. “I’m gonna shave that thing off in your sleep one night” He was only half joking.

“Aw. But I like it!”

“That makes one of us” Rei turned around in Kazuki’s arms. Kazuki tried to lean in and kiss him, but Rei blocked him by holding up a rice ball in between their lips.

“Eat first.” He said. Kazuki ate the entire rice ball in one comically large bite, his cheeks puffing out as he chewed. “Not like that. You’re gonna choke.” Rei said, exasperated. Kazuki laughed through the mouthful of food before stepping back and taking another swig from the water bottle to wash it down.

“That’s really good,” Kazuki said once he could talk again. His brow furrowed in concentration as he tried to figure out what the filling was. “Did you make these?”

“I did, I just took some of the leftover chicken and added some seasonings to it.” Rei said, proud of himself that Kazuki liked it. “I put on some lemon pepper seasoning and rosemary.

“I’m so proud” Kazuki beamed. Rei had learned a lot about how to cook from Kazuki over the years. He still didn’t really know enough to come up with his own recipes, but he had come a long way from the days where he could only cook ramen.

Rei handed him the plate with the rest of the rice balls on it and they both went to the couch. Rei relaxed for the first time that day, playing video games while Kazuki sat next to him and enjoyed his food. Once he had finished, he placed the plate on the coffee table and turned around to lay his head in Rei’s lap.

“How are you doing?” Rei paused his game and began stroking Kazuki’s hair.

“I think I’m starting to sober up.” Kazuki said with a yawn.

“Wanna start going to bed?”

“Finish your level first, I’m enjoying watching you”

“Okay” Rei certainly wasn’t complaining about that, though he didn’t always have time to play video games nowadays, he did still find that they helped him unwind at the end of a long day. He ruffled Kazuki’s hair before unpausing his game.

About an hour later Rei finally got to a checkpoint. Kazuki had dozed off about halfway through. Rei wasn’t expecting it to take him that long, but Kazuki seemed perfectly comfortable where he was.

“Hey.” Rei whispered, putting a hand on Kazuki’s shoulder and shifting his legs a bit. Kazuki’s eyes cracked open.

“Hmm?” He mumbled.

“Bed?”

“Mmhmm” Kazuki swayed slightly as he sat up. Both of them were pretty heavy sleepers, but Kazuki usually took a bit longer to wake up once he was out. Rei chuckled and gave Kazuki a gentle kiss on the lips.

“Mmmm” Kazuki exhaled, putting his hand on the back of Rei’s neck and pulling him closer. It was a sweet and chaste kiss.

“Come on” Rei coaxed Kazuki off the couch and led him into the bedroom. Kazuki had woken up enough to change into pajamas and brush his teeth as Rei did the same.

“Thanks for taking care of me” Kazuki said when they got into bed.

“You take care of me all the time.” Rei said matter of factly. “Besides, we can’t have you too hungover for Miri’s first day of high school.

“God, I can’t believe that’s tomorrow. She’s growing up so fast.” Kazuki sighed. “I feel old”

“I mean, you still go out drinking with your friends and I still play video games whenever I get the chance, so we can’t be that old.” Rei reasoned, knowing aging was something that gave Kazuki anxiety.

“I guess that’s true, the only real difference is we get random aches and pains now.”

“To be fair, I don’t think our previous career did us any favors in that department.”

“Yeah…” Kazuki reached out and stroked Rei’s arm. “Thank you again”

“Of course” Rei said, knowing Kazuki meant to thank him for both tonight and for standing up to his father all those years ago. He gave Kazuki a peck on the lips.

“Lucky for you you’re pretty entertaining when you’re drunk.” Rei said with a chuckle.

“Well at least I’m not annoying”

“Oh no you’re definitely annoying” Rei teased, causing Kazuki to pout. “But you’re also funny. And kinda sweet.” he admitted, moving in to kiss Kazuki again. Kazuki’s hand moved to the small of Rei’s back and pulled him closer.

After a few minutes of lazily kissing, Kazuki broke away to yawn, which caused Rei to yawn as well. Kazuki gave him one last kiss on the cheek.

“Goodnight. Love ya” He mumbled, already falling asleep.

“Night. Love you too” Rei turned around and made sure his phone alarm was set before settling into bed with Kazuki’s arm slung over his waist.

Thanks to Rei’s efforts, Kazuki was only a little hungover the next morning, and was pretty much fine after a cup of coffee and a shower. Miri, predictably, made fun of him for his drunken antics the next day.

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