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#86 it’s just you and me Hit me with that fluff, or angst turned fluff??

Alright, more painfully innocent fluff with a dash of teenage hormones. No I’ve never written a souyo fic without sexual tension. No I’ve never tried.

(Sorry, this one’s a little meatier; it kinda got away from me. ;___; And forgive me but I cheated just a SLIGHT bit on the actual prompt line. The version I went with just sounded better in my head.)

(The Strategist)

For all his hatred of school, and the work therein, Yosuke Hanamura rarely skipped class anymore. He used to do it in middle school a little, before his parents found out and scared the wits out of him with various threats to his person and property. Since then, he’d basically gone to school six days a week when it was open, sans the occasional sick/mental health day.

But Yu Narukami? Yu Narukami didn’t strike him as a skipper. Not remotely.

In fact, he was so uptight about attending school and performing well at it that his attitude often had Yosuke pine for those middle school days when he and a few friends would shuffle out of the stairway exits and make their way down the street to the arcade. Sure, maybe those hadn’t been the best of times, but, in all fairness, none of his pre-Inaba memories could really compare to the ones he’d been creating with Yu and the Investigation Team.

He didn’t quite get why simply knowing someone who actually liked school would get him to want to skip it, but maybe it had something to do with the fact that he was constantly uncomfortable (with himself, but also) with literally everything Yu did. At any given time. And because he had a fairly massive crush on Yu that he hadn’t been able to resolve to his satisfaction.

He huffed and rapped his pencil impatiently on his desk, just loud enough so that in front of him, Yu turned his head to look at him through his peripheral. Yosuke straightened in his chair immediately and whispered, “Sorry,” (although he didn’t mean it), and Yu quirked a small, understanding smile at him before turning back around to the lecture.

Yosuke huffed again, albeit much quieter this time. Yeah, he had to get Yu to skip. This was unbearable.

The next day after school, he’d implemented all of his charm as he proposed his skipping idea, winking and promising more fun than he was sure they’d actually have. Yu looked suspicious of him from the moment he approached, but, to Yosuke’s surprise and delight, did eventually agree.

“Wha-really? You’ll do it?!” Yosuke’s voice went to a much higher pitch than he’d wanted it to, but he tried to ignore how annoyed it made him feel.

“I think it could be fun, sure,” Yu shrugged. “If you know what you’re doing,” he prodded.

Yosuke stammered and pulled at the hair on the back of his head. “Y-yeah of course! It’ll be a blast! We’ll head out to Okina or something - you know, catch a movie or … whatever.”

“Now that sounds like a date,” the boy teased, with a small cock of his head.

Yosuke rolled his eyes and slapped both hands to his cheeks. “Oh~ I can’t believe I get to take the popular Yu Narukami out on a date! What on earth will I wear?”

Yu punched his arm lightly and the two chuckled as they headed off the school grounds and back to the Dojima residence for homework. Yosuke dutifully completed every assignment he was given that evening but spent much of the time excitedly formulating a plan in his head for the next day.

The next day came, and Yosuke was not prepared.

Well, he was kind of prepared. He knew what kind of fun things he wanted to get up to in Okina, but exactly how to get out of the school? He’d kinda given up on that … He knew enough about the building at this point to guess where all the least-populated places might be, but he hadn’t really successfully strategized their grand escape from said building. A part of him that he didn’t completely want to admit to secretly hoped that Yu would be able to come up with some ideas.

Slipping out during a class transition was easy enough - Yosuke had at least been able to think that far. But his creativity hit a roadblock once they entered the hallway, and it must have been obvious, because Yu suddenly took the lead as effortlessly as he did in the other world. Yosuke was a tiny bit disappointed in himself, but Yu was their leader for a reason, after all. If Yosuke was good at anything, it was falling in line behind him.

Although … now that they were walking down a barren hallway towards the main stairway (at Yu’s silent order), doubt was clouding his mind. Thinking about even attempting the main floor was what had given Yosuke so much heartburn the previous night. Why Yu was choosing it now was beyond him … maybe he didn’t know another way? Yosuke found that unlikely, though. Everyone knew that the first year hallway was always occupied with faculty.

Yosuke didn’t like the way his nerves were beginning to twinge in his belly as they traipsed down the steps towards the shoe lockers. They huddled on the stairway against the wall, listening to the rise and fall of their teachers’ voices chattering outside the faculty office. All the while, Yosuke mentally shuffled through the array of video games he’d have to sacrifice once they got caught. Seriously, Partner, why choose the main entrance?! If only Yosuke had just had the nerve to admit that he’d come up blank earlier, they could have planned this out beforehand just like they did in the TV world …

Suddenly, Yu turned to him with wide eyes, and that was when Yosuke could tell that one of the voices was growing more distinct and - even more frightening - much closer.

Yu shoved him back up the stairs and Yosuke nearly tripped over them he was in such a rush to obey. They shuffled, bumping into each other, back around the bend of the staircase while the teacher neared the bottom and passed it. By that point, both boys were upstairs in the second year hallway again, panting and trying to control their racing hearts.

“Hey, why don’t we just go through the gym or something?!” Yosuke whisperscreamed when he was fairly confident no one else was around.

“Way too populated. I thought the first floor would be the quickest since it’s closest to the entrance. I … kind of forgot about all the teachers down there.”

Yosuke rolled his eyes in exasperation and scanned the hallways, paranoid that someone would poke their heads out of one of these classrooms any minute now. “You know, partner, you might be a lot better at this in the TV world,” he whined.

He was considering suggesting the hallway towards the practice building when Yu smacked his arm. “Yosuke!”

He turned towards him and assumed Yu must have seen something down the hall, because before he could open his mouth Yu had grabbed him and pulled him into a nearby supply closet.

It was completely dark and Yosuke had no idea what he was stepping on (in??) and this was not how he imagined his afternoon going. They were supposed to be on a train right now to Okina, not shoved against each other in a pitch black closet filled with the potent smell of cleaning supplies. It was hot in here, too. Stuffy.

Yu had his hands braced against the door on either side of Yosuke’s head, his open jacket flaps brushing against Yosuke’s stomach as the boy leaned towards the door to hear better. This brought his face very near to Yosuke’s face, and the proximity made his skin buzz. He decided he didn’t really like being trapped here with Yu hovering so near to him. It made a wretchedly familiar pang of arousal leap through his gut, and he hated that possibly even more than he hated school.

He tried to tune out the fluttery feeling racing through him by listening to the sounds beyond the door. He heard nothing - not the sound of walking, no doors, no screech of shoes over the worn tile. He wondered what Yu had seen that had made him drag them in here.

After several agonizing seconds of Yosuke desperately fighting the temptation to lean in and smell him, Yu broke the silence. His voice sounded calm and clean as it brushed passed his ear. “They’re gone,” he declared, yet remained stationed with his hands against the door and his body hovering close to Yosuke’s.

Yosuke’s heart thudded fiercely in his chest. He wished he could tell what was going through his partner’s mind, why his secret crush was subjecting him to this.

Then Yu moved his head so that he was facing him, and Yosuke’s stomach dropped out when the other boy smiled at him and mumbled, darkly, “Looks like it’s just you and me.”

Yu leveled his gaze at him, and Yosuke realized in that instant that his partner was a much more brilliant strategist than he’d just given him credit for.

fin

(Aaaa sorry it ended so abruptly but I didn’t want it to just drag on… I’m pretty sure at this point Yosuke just gets super flustered and breaks out of the closet and makes so much noise that they both get caught and are given punishwork and they never skip school again the end)

(Okay but it is a funny couples-story they eventually tell the IT like years later because it was when Yosuke first realized Yu liked him)

Okay, well that was the last prompt I’ve gotten thus far, so feel free to submit more at your own risk. I think I’ve gotten better at turn-around but can’t speak for the quality, unfortunately. Oh well! At least I have fun writing?

#souyo #work #writing prompt #yu narukami #yosuke hanamura #fanfic #persona 4 #jesus this was a long one

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