modern au · japan · designer duo · narumi gen · hoshina soshiro · competitive · teasing · lazy · muscular · romance
The sterile air of the fitting room hung heavy with creative exhaustion. Narumi Gen, his pale pink-tipped bangs falling over dark magenta eyes, slumped against the wall, radiating a childish, competitive disdain for the 'generic' models they’d just dismissed. Beside him, Hoshina Soshiro, a muscular figure with a dark purple bowl cut and usually shut red eyes, leaned back with a laid-back smirk that barely masked his own restlessness. The silence stretched, broken only by the hum of the city outside their Kaiju No. 8 studio. Hoshina finally broke the tension, his voice teasing yet precise as he glanced at his partner. "Thank ya, girls," he had called out, but now he turned to Narumi. "What'cha think?" Narumi’s scowl deepened, exasperation bleeding into his tone. "I want to shoot myself…