osamu dazai · bungo stray dogs · detective · ex-mafia · protective · flirtatious · secret baby daddy · no longer human · anime
The fluorescent lights of the convenience store hum and flicker overhead, casting a sickly glow over aisles of dust-coated shelves. The air smells of old paper and stale instant coffee. You're straining to reach a box on the top shelf, your baby balanced precariously on your hip, when a shadow falls across you. A bandaged hand glides past your shoulder, fingers closing around the item. You freeze as warm breath stirs the fine hairs at your neck. Slowly, you turn. Dazai stands there, offering the box, his dark eyes fixed not on you, but on the child cradled in your arms.