Unfortunately did not see any drst stuff but there was so much daiya!!!! I was so happy I bought literally everything daiya 😭
My gf and I were dressed as mitsuaya (ofc) and so many ppl and vendors recognized what we were and we were so happy 🥹(ik it’s popular now but it’s still surreal) I’d includ a pic but she’s sleeping now but tbh the odds of any of yall following her on insta is low but never zero lmao, she has like 31k followers on there and like 100k on tiktok so I wouldn’t be surprised 💀if you’re into gyaru & vkei makeup and just makeup in general then it’s likely you’ve come across her page (shameless plug and bragging, my bad yall I just love my wife)
SERIES DESC : ̗̀➛ when the new school year starts, reki meets his seatmate for the remainder of the year, you. then with a school project on both of your hands, and spending almost every minute together, the fondness you share for each other begins to change to something different.
a/n: forgot to cross-post the last couple bonus chapters… (`_´)ゞ this can be read on its own!!
It slowly startled to become more apparent. The bruises, the cast on his arm, the pain he'd feel whenever he lay down.
Yet you wanted to wait. Wait for him to talk to you, wanting not to pry and get unnecessarily mad at each other, even if it was necessary.
Reki noticed it immediately: the hesitant touches to his body, how you never hugged him super tight like you used to, and how your eyes lingered on the bruising skin of his arms.
He realizes now that he'd have to come clean, that he couldn't hide his frequent visits at S anymore now that he has you worrying for him.
It's quiet in your bedroom. For the most part, at least, your cd player is on, yet the music you play is still soft. "Hey, Y/n," Reki whispers, finding your hand under the covers. "I need to tell you something."
"What's wrong?" Worry picks at your chest, yet you try your best to keep a poker face to show indifference. "Are you okay?"
He nods, sitting up against your headboard. "I know you see the bruises I get, and that you don't necessarily believe the reason my arm's broken. I just didn't know if I could tell you the truth."
You sit up beside him, rubbing your thumb over his knuckles. "I'm listening."
"Right, you always are." He smiles, nodding his head with his words. "It's nothing... at home, you know my family." You nod. "I like skating, you know." A slower nod comes from you, confusion setting in as you try to piece together what little information you're getting.
"There's this place. It– it's called S. I know it's kind of a dumb name, but–" he cuts himself off, sighing when he looks at you. "It's where people go to skate, there's a course, and sometimes you can challenge other skaters to a race."
"I did one the other day, and I lost real bad." He laughs at his own words, and you realize he'll never get over his own self-doubt. "I broke my arm 'cause I landed on it, so what I told you wasn't all a lie."
"Is it dangerous?"
He nods, avoiding your eyes. "Sometimes, yeah." You nod your head, looking down at your hands. "I don't want you to think I'm actively seeking harm or anything. I just– I'm really unlucky."
"If there's any problems, you'll tell me?" He nods. You aren't convinced at all. "I'm not going to ask you to stop going, so don't worry about that." He nods again. "I just hate seeing you in pain."
"I'm okay. I can take it."
"Just because you can take it doesn't mean you should, Reki." He agrees silently, letting go of your hand to run his fingers through his hair. "I'm sorry if I pulled away from you." He tilts his head in confusion. "I was scared of hurting you, so I stopped hugging you."
"Oh." He says. He knew that already. "Right. It's okay."
The next few minutes are silent. Reki is slowly growing restless at the lack of communication, while your anxiety begins to grow at the information.
You begin to shift. Reki follows your movements to lie down but stops when you lift your hand to his chest. He looks at you, confused, and his breath shallows when your fingers latch onto the hem of his shirt.
"Will you show me?" Even in the darkness of your room, Reki's reddening face was visible. His lips pressed into a straight line as he nodded, and reached over to turn on the lamp. Yet you shake your head, "I need you to tell me it's okay. With words."
Reki's heart is beating out of his chest at the end of your sentence. What was supposed to be a normal thing suddenly turned different for him with just a few words.
"It's okay." He says, voice wavering as he guides both of your hands to his shirt. "You can see."
His hands shake as they follow yours in lifting his shirt over his head, and the breath he lets out is less than steady.
"You promise me you're okay?" You whispered, fingers lightly tracing every bruise that littered his skin.
"They hurt." He says quietly, there's no reason for him to be dishonest in this situation. "But the pain will pass." His heart stops when your eyes focus on the bruise on his chest, holding his breath once more when you lean closer to it.
The moment your lips press against his skin, his world stops. The music fades from his ears and is replaced by his pulsating heart, and his chest falls rapidly when your hand rests on his thigh.
Reki doesn't stop you when you begin to peck each of his bruises, his breathing has slowed, and he's found your hand to hold to keep him steady.
He tries to keep his heart still, even with the situation at hand, the new feelings wafting in the air, and the uncertainty of your next move. "Y/n," he starts, quiet and smiling. "I love you."
The tension between you thickened, and fear instilled in his heart at his words. "You don't have to say it back." He whispers. It's light and blends into the music that plays. "Just know that I love you a lot."
A light kiss is pressed to his cheek. His eyelids fluttered shut at the softness of it all. "I'm glad we met, Reki." He smiles, a thin line, but there's love seeping through. "I love you more."
He shakes his head, bumping it against yours by accident, and falls into a fit of giggles when you mutter a curse by reflex. "I'm sorry." He says between laughs, placing his hands on your shoulders, rubbing them gently. "I didn't realize how close you were."
You hum, feigning annoyance as you look at him. He raises a brow when your arms wrap around his shoulders and groans softly when you pull him down against you.
With his head resting on your shoulder, upper body seemingly trapped under your arms, he sighs loudly at your next words.
"Melt with me. You're my hostage for the night."
His arm snakes around your waist, fingers softly tapping against your skin. "Just for tonight or every night?"
"Every night." You respond, kissing his forehead, "You're mine." He hums, bumping his head against yours, "Goodnight."
DESC : ̗̀➛ when the new school year starts, reki meets his seatmate for the remainder of the year, you. then with a school project on both of your hands, and spending almost every minute together, the fondness you share for each other begins to change to something different.
TAGS : ̗̀➛ high school!au, strangers to friends to lovers, mutual pining, minimal angst, fluff, swearing, not following sk8 canon timeline, no langa (sorry)
a/n: i was listening to Maple Syrup by The Backseat Lovers when I wrote this <3 shout out purple sweaters ☝️
reki kyan x gn!reader (no pronouns mentioned) ~590 words | slight angst, not really a happy ending but it’s open
His purple sweater. It's hanging on the back of your chair, mocking you with its presence every time you look in its direction. It stands out, just like he did.
Reki's purple sweater, his favorite sweater. It became your favorite too. The large gear printed on it etched itself into your mind. Reki found a new sense of pride when you told him gears now reminded you of him.
Reki's favorite purple sweater that haunts your mind day in and day out just by collecting dust at your desk. It's only been a few days. Why are you so worked up about it? Because Reki has never disappeared without telling you the reason, and even when he did, he still texted you.
Your phone doesn't buzz once to tell you Reki's back.
You wonder for a bit if something bad has happened to him, but you remember you're friends with Langa, and even he doesn't know what's going on.
He brings you to a secret skate gathering, S, they called it, but you never understood why. There's a competition, and Langa asks with pride if you could cheer him on—in place of Reki. You agree and stand back to watch the large screen.
And then you hear him.
Adorning that awful colorblock corduroy jacket you gave him as a joke because he wanted to steal it from your closet, and a hat that was straight out of a skate magazine. He sees you, you know he does by the way he ducks down in fear of being caught but you both know it's not doing him any good.
He's gotten this far in avoiding you, how is it now when he's in the deepest pit he can't get out of, you manage to find him?
"Reki." He jolts at your voice, earning confused stares from the people he joined to hide from you.
"Y/n." He looks at you and he wants to cry.
You're wearing a purple sweater. A purple sweater with an all too familiar design, with all too familiar wear and tear patches and holes, with tears in your eyes.
"Where have you been?"
The three guys excuse themselves, not wanting to be in the middle of your– whatever it was– and scurry off in another direction.
Reki's not very smart in these situations. He tries to run. You yank him back by the hood of his jacket, your jacket. He chokes back a sob, then pulls away from your grip and looks at you. He's upset.
"It's none of your business." He says, straightening himself out as he takes a step away from you. "Leave me alone." He hates himself for pushing you away but he needed to do it.
"Did I do something wrong? Did Langa do something wrong?"
He flinches at the thought. "Of course not." He says, it's painful, his voice is shaking, and he can't look at you. "I just need to be away from you guys."
"Then tell us you need space, Reki." You whisper, hesitantly reaching out for his hand. He pulls away, you do too. "What happened to you?" He shakes his head, and all he sees is purple.
The purple sweater he gave to you after you said it was your favorite one. The purple sweater he sprayed his cologne on every time you asked. The purple sweater he wore the first time he kissed you. The purple sweater he gave you the last time he saw you.
Reki shrugs, muffling a groan with his hand when you wipe at the cuts on his leg. “I’m used to it.”
“I asked if it hurt.” You said, looking up at him from your position knelt in front of him. “I know you’re used to it.”
He blinks, “Are you mad at me?” You sigh in response. That’s all he needs. “I can clean these up myself.” He tries to nudge your hand away, and he finds it useless when you don’t budge. “Y/n, I can do it.”
“Every time you go skating, you come home with twice the amount of bruises you left with.” He nudges your hand again and feels tears building in his eyes— for whatever reason, he couldn’t understand. “Then, at the end of the day, you come to me.” A shaky breath from you lands against his leg and sends shivers up his spine.
“I can support your passion to the ends of the earth, Reki.”
“But?” He interjects, fist clenched against his knee.
“I can’t keep doing this thing— patching you up and pretending I’m okay with having to see you limp into my house or–or be carried in by your friends.”
“Then what, we break up?” His words are quick. If he speaks slower, he thinks it’ll tear his heart apart. “Is that what you’re trying to say?”
When you sigh again, the string that tied you and Reki seems to snap in his mind, and when you stand up and set the first aid kit on the counter, he thinks it’s over for good.
You shake your head, “That’s not what I want. I just–” You pause, watching the water change color as you wash your hands. “I don't want to be the person who only ever sees you at your worst. I want you to come home one day without any injuries or rips in your clothes that I’ll have to treat or fix.”
Reki looks down as you say your words, to the bandages wrapped around his legs, to the sewn patches and embroidered patterns on his jacket. You had every right to be upset; he just didn’t know how to handle it.
“I’ll do better.” He says quietly, looking at his hands that were folded in his lap. “Try not to get hurt as much, and to not rely on you when I do.”
“You can come to me, Reki.” You murmur, storing the kit away. “Just not when you’re bleeding. Blood is supposed to be on the inside.”
“So I can come to you about internal bleeding then?” He tries, smiling when you roll your eyes at him.