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"Atsushi are you sure you don't want me to come with you? The brat can watch the cats while we're gone" Dazai asked watching Atsushi put on her white jacket.
"Yeah! I'm just gonna go grab some food for Atsumu and Yume from the store near by" Atsushi says in a rush before giving Dazai a peck on the lips and walking out of the door , she takes a long breath of the cold air before walking hurriedly in the snow
Atsushi notices many things as she walked . From the kids playing in the snow to the elderly gossiping about the wife who cheated on her husband when they they noticed Atsushi they waved and greeted her with smiles on their faces , Atsushi greeted them back and continued her way to the store.
When she arrived , her tiger senses began to alarm her about danger near by ,Atsushi shrugged it off and brought what she needed and walked out the store.
As she made her way back home a black cape stopped before her and pulled her in.
When she tried to fight back , she felt something enter her body and her consciousness began to slip away.
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The fact that sitting on a hard floor hurts your butt , and its creepy being in a dark room and that it's cold in here is what Nakajima Atsushi's brain registered when she opened her eyes.
"What would we get by capturing the weretiger? The bounty on her head no longer exist and I don't believe that she'd do us any good" a voice that sounded too much like her shopping-buddy said from outside.
"Well Chuuya-kun... With her in our hands, it'll rail Dazai-kun so badly that he'll try to do anything in order to get the light of his life. "
"... It never was my place to ask anyway. I'll go check on Ryu- Akutagawa my leave..." Atsushi was more than sure that it was her shopping-buddy... Yes it's weird that the girlfriend of Dazai Osamu gets along with the Nakahara Chuuya who despise his ex-partner . But despite all the hate between those two, it seems that Atsushi gets more than well with Chuuya which drives Dazai mad.
"Chuuya-kun, you're to guard the weretiger, I promised Elise that I'll take her to the German sweets shop 14 streets next to us . If anything happens , Kouyou-kun will be in charge!" the one Chuuya called boss said and Atsushi heard his footsteps as he walked away... And soon a bright light almost blinded her eyes. She blinked for few times and tried to focus on looking at the figure that just appeared before her.
"Thought that it was me who walked away? What a darling~" Mori smiled "Well you were half right that I was about to walk away ~ But of course not before checking on you. Pleased to make your acquaintance, Atsushi-kun"
"Are you the one called Mori Ougai? If so I have one question that I'd like you to answer honestly... Why on earth did you capture me? There's no more partnership between Akutagawa and I neither there's one between Nakahara-san and Osamu. And Francis-san had removed the bounty and technically speaking there should be no reason why I should be captured"
"Well~ Atsushi-kun I'd have had liked to stay here and answer your question but I believe you must have heard the encounter between Chuuya-kun and I few minutes ago. So I think it should answer your question. Now I'll see you later."
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Seconds turned to minutes that turned to hours and soon those hours turned to days .
Atsushi had been living in the same cold cell but now the cold floor at least had a warm bed that Chuuya managed to sneak and the facilities in that cell were fixed by Akutagawa. At least the toilet works well now, the heater works although it has its breaksdown moments. Kouyou brings her tea sometimes and had left her a water boiler.
"Do you feel lonely?" Chuuya asked her one night after he brought her dinner.
Atsushi shook her head, lied and smiled.
She wasn't lonely, everyone aside from Mori treats her rather well. She gets along with most of the Port Mafia . So well that one of the newbies mistook her for being a member of a high rank that has a dangerous ability and was locked down.
But what was real and what she hadn't told anyone was how she actually felt.
What she felt was something else.
What she felt was a mixture of ugly emotions that's she had when she was at the orphanage. Loneliness, coldness, numbness and the feeling of wanting to disappear.
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(IMPLIED RAPE SCENE . READ WITH CAUTION)
"Why did you capture me" Atsushi asked Mori once again
"You never get tired of that question? Well I'm gonna tell you this. I want to do more experiments on Dazai. See that nullifying ability of his? I inserted it into his hands more than 33 times. See those bandages around his body? Those are scars from me taking his blood to test abilities on it. Soon Dazai will find out where you are with his future predictions ability and will come to get you . Then he'll give himself back to me. And then you too will be an experiment like your boyfriend" Mori laughed "You know you look stunning now , in chains and scratches , there's something missing... Ah yes blood staining your body and horror filling your eyes" Mori smirked walking to Atsushi and starting to un-botton her shirt.
"Get away you psycho" Atsushi tried to escape by kicking Mori in the guts only to get her skirt off by Mori followed by the rest of her clothes and started touching her now exposed chest.
"The Hell you think yourself doing?" Atsushi felt fear rousing in her chest as he started un-click her bra.
"Well I'm bored that's for a start. Two I wouldn't hand you to Dazai as you're now something horrible has to be done in order for you both to hate yourselves. Consider this a training session. And that said are you a virgin? I don't care about that and I'm going to see for myself"
Atsushi never screamed that loud in her life like she did when he flipped her on her back and unzipped his pants .
(END OF CUT)
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"It seems like nobody is coming to save you" Mori said after another torturing session " Dazai-kun was smiling with a random girl when I last saw him. Maybe you should just forget the idea of being rescued" Mori says and before Atsushi had the chance to voice her opinion, the older left.
Atsushi wanted to tell at him that there must be something holding them.
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"Wouldn't they tried to save you like last time?" She heard the orphanage director says in her head as he knelt beside the tigeress that stared at her.
The tigeress would usually take a human form or roar at her but she was quite this time.
"Why would they? Had I been an important member maybe then they would have had rescue me by now..."
The orphanage director said nothing and disappeared followed by the tigeress.
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The tigeress growled at her the next day and Atsushi flinched.
A roar echoed in the white room in her head .
Soon something shone and the tigeress was replaced by a silver haired lady with blue eyes .
The lady wore a long white dress and had black strip marks in her cheeks and arms.
" Stop drowning us into the darkness again!" Yelled the lady "Not after what we went through! Not after what you went through! That shit boy you're dating is waiting for you to break free at your own will not let some vampire cosplayer old man do these things to your body!"
"I'm useless Kouta!" Atsushi cried hugging herself.
The lady's blue eyes soften as she wrapped her arms around the younger girl
"Atsushi you're made of steel... We're gonna think of a way to break free. Atsushi! Fight like the tiger you are !"
Atsushi looked at the lady and chuckled nodding
"Yeah"
"THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL AM I THE GREAT KOUTA LET THAT SHIT VAMPIRE COSPLAYER BREAK MY VESSEL! NOT WHILE I AM AROUND!"
Atsushi laughed and hugged the lady now tigeress .
"Thank you Kouta"
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Akutagawa may seem cold to many but underneath that cold mask lies a young boy full of love , life and warmth. A boy whom dream is to live happily with his sister .
He doesn't talk much. But he thinks and observes faster than anyone, after quickly analysing the situation. He operates without asking for anybody's opinion.
And that's why Akutagawa was the first one to notice Atsushi getting swallowed by the darkness slowly.
Akutagawa Ryuunosuke was not in the slightest a nice person to anyone but his little sister and his lover and maybe Higuchi. Though the latter is more debatable since it depend on his mood.
But he somehow took a pity to his ex-partner in the Shin Soukoku team , and thought that asking Higuchi and Gin to talk to her was a good idea.
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Maybe he was wrong in his choice of girls... Gin and Atsushi wouldn't stop gossiping about Akutagawa's embarrassing moments while Higuchi shared some of his so called happy moments making them go awe and soon Chuuya joined the trio and that's when Akutagawa decided that maybe killing himself with Rashoumon wouldn't hurt.
So the next day when he checked up on her , She looked brighter and much better than she was before.
He talked to her and said that going back to darkness after clearing up the clouds on people's life is something he'd kill her for. He lectured her and she laughed and he groaned but deeply he smiled.
Later on that night Chuuya and Gin teased him about being a softie.
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"Ah~ you seem rather better than I thought you'd be Atsushi-kun." Mori praised. Atsushi paid him no mind and occupied herself by taking a lock of her hair and braided and then used a red ribbon to attach it to the right side of her hair.
"What did you expect then Mori-san?" Atsushi said bitterly as she sat on a chair.
"What did I expect? What an interesting answer ... Let's see..." Mori's smirk grew wider as he moved behind Atsushi and whispered taking her cheeks and poked them together "I expected you to be broken. Swallowed by darkness. A mess. But what have I gotten instead is a doll that's refusing to bend to my will" Mori let go of her now red cheeks and started to sniff her neck before licking it and biting down. Atsushi shrieked in pain and kicked Mori with her elbow in attempt to make him let go of her neck.
He let go after almost tearing her skin up and made his way to the door with a smirk that screamed murder.
"Curse you" Atsushi cried after he closed the cell's door.
Atsushi fell to her knees as she tore a cloth of the bed's blanket to stop the bleeding from her neck.
She can't heal it with her ability because of the cuffs in her hands.
They weren't attached to the wall but if she tried to leave the room some kind of force will pull her back.
Atsushi cried so much that she blacked out. When she opened her eyes Chuuya looked at her worryingly. She shrieked and pulled the blanket over her upper body.
When Chuuya asked who did the mark on her neck she cried again.
Later that night when Akutagawa came to give her dinner and asked she told him the truth and begged him to not tell Chuuya .
Akutagawa Ryuunosuke may be an asshole but he's a good person . Atsushi decided that night after all he tried to cheer her up both now and in the past although his ways are strange but they're effective.
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Dazai Osamu was losing his mind by now.
He looked everywhere , asked everyone if they saw Atsushi.
He was as of now being held by Yosano as she tried to assure him that his girlfriend is strong and is not in danger.
His girlfriend with the name of Nakajima Atsushi was a 19 years old girl with a platinum blonde hair and central heterochromic eyes with the combination of amethyst and a golden ring surrounding the outside. She's short and have a long lock of her hair that has a thin strand of black between her silver hair.
She's always smiling and wears a white blouse and a black skirt that almost reaches her knees.
She was his subordinate a year and half ago. His crush five months ago and now his girlfriend three weeks ago. Oh and his partner when they adopted Yumeno Kyuusaku a month ago.
She had been missing for almost a week.
And he hadn't been able to sleep ever since. Kyouka tried to assure him that Atsushi is ok and said that tiring himself won't do any good to both of them.
But even Kyouka was restless. He has seen her. She drinks 4 cups of coffee every two hours in order to stop herself from sleeping .
When he went to his apartment for the first time in a week ,he found an envelop addressed to him, he opened it to see picture of unconscious Atsushi and a letter.
He scanned through it and his blood boiled he called Kunikida and told him to call for an emergency meeting.
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Akutagawa Gin is the younger sister of the Port Mafia guarding dog or something of sort.
Gin has no damn clue why her brother's title has the word 'dog' included in it. After all she knows for a fact that her dear older brother hates dogs and would literally gladly kill a puppy with a happy smile and he wouldn't even feel guilty after doing such a thing .
Putting that aside ... Gin is no idiot so when her brother asked her take Higuchi and talk girl to girl with Nakajima Atsushi. She knew he meant well.
Her brother is an asshole to everyone but Chuuya and her.
When they were younger he was not so much of an asshole. He was an asshole but not as big as now. It's just that his asshole-ness grew bigger as he gets older. Point is . an asshole is an asshole no matter what.
So when he asked her to open Atsushi's cuffs so that she can escapes she knew that maybe the asshole image has shrank so he asks her if it's ok to leave the Mafia with him and Chuuya.
He said that maybe that Tachihara boy would stop looking down her chest and then asking if Gin was a girl before gropping her boobs.
Gin then said that her brother is an ass and left.
After all she had been dating the ginger haired boy for six months now.
Of course he has the right to touch her body!
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Akutagawa Ryuunosuke holds into the title of The Biggest Asshole On Yokohama© proudly but he makes expectations when he has to drop his title and become a nice person.
And that's why Akutagawa went to Dazai and told him Atsushi's whereabouts and boy did Akutagawa see his ex-mentor run so fast since that one time where a large dog chased him to the train station.
Chuuya might hate him for being a softie and weak against Dazai.
At least Chuuya would be happy and proud of him since he recorded both occasions where Dazai runs fast.
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If there was anything that was missing that would be Atsushi's cuffs.
They were missing when the morning came and Atsushi almost let a cry when she saw Dazai and was about to run to him when she noticed him fighting Elise as Mori smirked from behind.
Mori seemed to notice her and smiled innocently before throwing a needle at her that she dodged with ease .
Atsushi charged at Mori and used her tiger legs to jump from Dazai's fight.
"I see you broke free?" He said throwing more needles that Atsushi dodged "I would have loved to see Dazai-kun over there go BOOM and lose his mind and comes begging me to let you go only to see your fresh served head under a white cloth in a nice China tray surrounded by lilies"
"Mori-san you damn bastard!" Atsushi yells and attacked him.
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"And that's why you my dear niece, Hikari should never trust a man with a lab coat" Gin said closing a book
"I still don't get it! What does that has to do with my biology teacher? This ain't making no sense!" The burnt sienna haired cerulean eyed teenager girl whined and left the room.
"HONEY HE MIGHT BE A LEMON IN DISGUISE! ASK KAJI HE KNOWS. CHECK ON CHIKA WHILE YOU'RE AT IT! " Chuuya yelled from the kitchen
"AND DAZAI STOP MAKING OUT WITH ATSUSHI! YUMENO AND DAICHI ARE WATCHING YOU!"
"It's useless telling Dazai that, once he starts he never stops" Kaji said in a dead tone
"I had to name my first born after him! And the second after Atsushi!" Kunikida said
"At least your children have nice names! Not mine who's named after the father's ability" Lucy continued
"Thomas and Hukllberry. God Thomas's name reminds me of that cartoon about a certain blue train. Speaking of that Edgar you named your son Conan? Is it after that Sherlock Holmes author?"
"No... It's after that famous long anime Ranpo-kun watches... Edogawa Conan... He named Conan himself... I thought maybe after the author but I was wrong... "
"Oh my God he did?!!" Yosano laughed holding her swollen stomach "Fukuzawa-sensei named our first born, Aya. And after begging him , he actually allowed Ranpo to name the two coming"
"What are you gonna call them?" Chuuya asked,
"Well the boy is definitely gonna be named after the director. The other one... Is Ranpo's choice..."
The room fell silence and everyone had the same thought. (Poor second boy) until Dazai broke the silence
"Wow. What do I have to do with all of this! I get Kunikida-kun's but Lucy? Poe? Yosano-sensei!"
"Ger out you're no longer welcome in my living room" Chuuya deadbeat, getting up and kicking Dazai out of the living room
"But my Atsushi is still over there!"
"You have no right to defile my dear friend ! you rotten mackerel wrapped in bandages!" Chuuya yells kicking Dazai's asswhile pulling Atsushi closer to his body
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