The reader taking a blow (that could k33l them) to protect their beloved (established relationship or not yet). Your choice if reader survives or not. Toman and Bonten boys.
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Title: Reader/ Y/n, takes the blow that was meant for them
TW: mentions of blood, gun, and the word k33l in it, implications of injury and death
Character: Ran Haitani
Genre: angst
You’re well aware of your boyfriend’s line of work, and you have always been prepared for whatever comes your way. You know you don’t have anyone else to blame for any of this, but Ran sure blamed himself for ever getting close to you.
It is autumn, a perfect day for a perfect date. You had prepared everything since last night and wouldn’t shut up about the things you wanted to do at the park with Ran Hatani the whole day. Just as excited as you were, Ran just sat the night before, full ears, and happily watching you planning out your date. He promised himself to make this day memorable for both of you. He wanted this to be your day as much as he knew it would be his. As a good boyfriend, he knew he hadn't been the best partner for almost a month now since work has kept him busy, but he’s now ready to spend all of his days off of work with you. Ran is determined to fulfill everything on your date list and have something in surprise just for you.
“Ran! Let’s go over there!” you smiled happily while pointing to the truck where they sell coffee. “You know, it isn’t perfect when we stroll around the park in autumn without a coffee in hand!” You giggled beside him, clinging to his arms and dragging him all the way there. “... I have been dying to try this kind of date with you!” Your voice is too soft, making Ran’s eyes soften, and his heart swells in awe.
“Babe, what’s your choice?” You asked him from the moment you both stopped in front of the menu board, which was placed from the far left of the truck. Just like you, Ran is busy narrowing down his choice of cup, to the ones you both uttered at the same time, “... I’ll have their best seller, hmm… Caramel Macchiato!” you both laughed before Ran took you to the bench just a few steps away from the truck and the line. “Sit here princess while I order, don’t miss me too much– or wait, I think I’ll miss you right away though!” your boyfriend said, as he planted a kiss on your forehead, and walked back, facing you with a foolish smile plastered on his face. “I’m not even a meter away from y– hey watch where you’re going or you’ll fall!” you voiced, highly concerned about his habit of watching you while he walks backwards. Ran just nodded his head, and went in line, obediently, still, a smile visible in his face.
Just as when the barista at the truck handed your drinks to Ran, you immediately walked towards him and helped him with it. You first took your sip as you were curious on how it tastes, making you hiss at the sudden feeling of a burn. “Ow… hot… hot…” you quietly whispered, wishing that Ran did not see that, but when you looked at him he was holding in his laughter, making you glare at him. “Sorry! Careful. Careful. The coffee might spill!” he said, laughing. “Sorry, love! I just thought it was cute~” he said, as he gently touched your lips, feeling the burned part checking if it had gotten scarred. “Your lips feel fine, should I kiss it?” he flirted, which made your face turn into a crimson red, “Not fair, Mr. Haitani! I might’ve gotten injured and you’re still flirting?” you scoffed at him, walking past him ignoring the teasing faces of the kids from the background.
“Love, wait! *laughs* Okay, I won’t! But I do think you needed a kiss right now. Isn’t this on your list?” You turned towards him as he walked towards you, hands wide open, “But first we need to sit down.” You nodded and intertwined your hands to his. “You know, that I love you right?” you randomly uttered, “and you know I do too, right?” he replied, placing a kiss on your forehead once more. “It has been awhile since we did this… Hmm, what do people call this? Holding hands while walking? It feels great, the weather seems to be in favor of this date!” you chortled, as Ran’s cheeks tinted pink. “Why are you so adorable?” Ran whispered to himself, making you look at him with curious eyes. “What, babe?” you asked, “I said, here’s the bench, love.” He smiled, you both sat there, just feeling the breeze, and each other's company, while you quietly sipped your cup of coffee, while you shared little stories with each other.
“Right, I remembered that! Back when Rin stole the hoodie you gifted me on our fourth year! Man, I was so mad at him, I could smack him with Sanzu’s katana, but I forgot that Sanzu might have done it to me first before I could ever hit my brother with it.” you both laughed, reminiscing the day you witnessed chaos in the Bonten HQ. “I know! Sanzu’s just trying his best to wait for you guys to get him involved in the quarrel! If I wasn’t there, I might’ve patched you the whole night and gave you a scolding.” you spoke, and took a sip from your coffee. “But it was the hoodie you gave me!” you cupped his cheek with your free hand, “Point made…” you tried to please his reason since you find him cute that way, ignoring the situation from back then.
Now, despite being on a perfect date, as you may have thought, it wasn’t the same for Ran. For a while now, just as much as he is happy with this bonding time with you, he has been feeling that the both of you were being watched from the moment you left the coffee truck. Ran’s been having a hard time trying to stay focused with listening to how your week went, he is trying his best to search the area with his keen sense, making him alert and have his eyes simply surveilling the area to make sure that none of his imaginations are going to be real, that no suspicious person walks near the both of you, and that you are free from the possible dangers that could occur anytime. He thought he was doing a good job keeping you safe all this time, but somehow he failed.
You never had any idea that you could tame such a beast, when he is known as a man so terrifying, that everyone else feared. A man so strong, that you know you’ll always be safe when he is around. That such a man who’s capable of loving you, caring for you, and protecting you is with you. Sometimes you still wonder, why does it have to be you? When there were other girls trying to seek his attention before the both of you started to date, and sometimes you question yourself with why is it him? You may not know the answer to this verbally, but you know that deep inside your heart, just as much as you meant so much to him, he was also the same to you. Just as much as he wanted to protect you, you wanted to do it as much to him. Even if it means you sacrifice what you have, your life.
It was only a swift moment when you saw the man with a black hoodie and jeans a few meters away hovering his way towards the both of you with his hoverboard, pulling out a gun from the pocket of his hoodie, and aiming at Ran. You stopped talking midway, smile dropping, and was frozen in place for a moment. You also noticed that Ran’s been a little tense this whole time from the moment you took a glance at his face looking from another direction. You shift glances towards Ran and the man who’s getting nearer and nearer as the seconds pass. Too stunned to speak, and was not smart enough to alert your boyfriend, you did not hesitate and blocked Ran from his sight last minute. And just as the kid kicked the pile of leaves near the bench you both were sitting, a gunshot was heard, and the man passed the both of you.
*BANG*
Time moves slowly, with Ran staring towards your standing form in front of him slowly losing its balance, wavering from side to side, your shaking right hand moving towards your left chest. Turning around to face your now standing boyfriend with his eyes wide open, as if the situation is not really sinking in.
“Ran…” you called softly, fat tears escaping your eyes, as the pain slowly registers to your veins from the sight of your own blood in your hands.
“Ra–n?” you repeated with a shaky, breathy voice. “I–I’m hurt…” you gasped, almost choking on the blood that you had just coughed, feeling your knees getting weaker.
Fast enough to catch you before you even meet with the cold ground, Ran grabbed you by your shoulders carefully sitting the both of you on the ground, with you close to his chest. “I– I’m bleeding…” you panicked, as breathing started to feel difficult with each inhale and exhale. Ran woke up from the trance he was in when he felt hot tears streaming down his face.
“No–no! Y/n? Stay with me!” his voice was shaky and full of desperation, “Somebody! Please call 911– my–my fiance’s– Y/n please? Stay with me! We’re still on a date– you can’t *chokes* Ugh, this can’t be–” Ran screamed and commanded the people around him, while he made sure to keep you with him. “Somebody! Call 911!” he cried once more, as he cupped your face, “Baby please? Stay with me… don’t leave me!”
He said, whining like a sad puppy in the rain, eyes turning glassy as the amount of tears he could produce kept on coming nonstop. Pain could be heard from his voice as if it was him who was shot. Desperation grows as each second passes. Feeling that the time with you is starting to turn into dust. Scared of what he could become if you close your eyes now.
“Open your eyes… Talk to me! Stay awake please!” he begged you as you flashed him a weak smile, and weakly nodded your head. “Ran– if…”
“Don’t… please save your energy– I need you babe. I need you.” You knew that people who had witnessed the scene gathered, and that they were all talking and some were making phone calls, but none of the vibration and voices you could hear and feel.
“Please, keep your eyes open, love. We haven’t done everything you wrote for this date. I haven’t kneeled in front of you yet.” Ran continued to talk to you, revealing that the surprise he had for you was his proposal.
“Ran, yo–” “Yes babe. So please, stay with me. I have waited a long time to do that, so please… I’m begging you–” You’re trying your best to keep awake, but your breathing became more painful than the gunshot wound on your chest. You’re getting numb, scaring you that you won’t be able to say something to Ran. “Love, y–you know… I love y–you so m–much and everything a–bout you.” you started, gathering all your strength to cup his face. “I know. I know. And I love you so much, that I can’t imagine my life without you in it… please Y/n… Don’t speak as if this is going to be a farewell–”
“Ran, I’m so grateful to have y–you in my life… And that I had the intention of dating you with marriage in m–mind.” you continued, growing weaker and weaker, feeling your body getting a little cold, coughing a little of the life you have. “I am genuinely h–happy that I became a part of you.” your voice is getting softer and softer with each word, enough to call it a whisper and eyes becoming heavy, threatening Ran with his worst nightmare at the very moment.
“Y/n, no… please? Stay with me… I know you never deserved me, but I still couldn’t let you go… I love you so much. I am confi–dent that I’m able to protect you, but– please? My love, stay with me…” his voice sounding so tired as he felt you approach your last breath. “Love, please? Open your eyes…”
“I don’t know how to live without you.” he whispered in your ear, giving him the last warmest smile you could ever give him.
“I love you… y/n, please hold on a little– no…” With the last ounce of strength he had, he cried his eyes out, whispering his last words, some are confessions of love, words of I love you’s, complimenting your looks, words of how he doesn’t deserve you and vice versa, and lastly, what he had planned in the supposed future with you.
With the ambulance arriving late, to bringing you to the hospital, informing his brother and the whole of bonten about what had happened, and to holding your funeral, revenge did not leave Ran’s mind. He is determined to comb the whole country in search for the man responsible for the death of his beloved, paying him tons of the amount of pain you had felt when you, an angel, died in his sinful, non-deserving tainted blood hands.
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