Summary: Jakurai saves you after you get kidnapped but at what cost?
A/N: I kinda made this as a part 2 to these headcanons I did a while ago. I really wanna flesh this out into a chaptered fic about Jakurai’s past and his time as an assassin, then falling in love with you and the trials you have to face together, but it might get too long. Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in reading at all~
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Warm sunlight poured in through the cracks of the blinds as you felt yourself roused from sleep. Turning to lean on your side, you hissed at the bruises that still littered your skin as memories from the night before came pouring back in. Opting to pull the cover over your head, the darkness that awaited you was torture.
The feeling of scratchy rope tying your hands back and holding the darkness against your eyes. The cold, steel blade of the knife at your throat when you were told nobody was coming for you. The rancid smell of blood in the air when your savior finally came for you. Despite being under three layers of sheets, your still shuddered at the thoughts, curling up into fetal position on the soft mattress.
“Y/N?” a soft voice called out.
You froze where you were, instinctively not wanting to make another move. You remembered what happened the last time you tried to fight back, and you couldn’t bare to have that happen again. The sound of something being placed gently down on the bedside table next to you made you flinch, but the warm, sweet aroma of hot chocolate was too good to forgo. Rustling from your sheets, you managed to poke your head back out and groggily look up, only to see your boyfriend looking at you in surprise.
“Oh, I’m sorry. Did I wake you?” Jakurai asked, kneeling down on the floor beside your bed. You let out a soft groan and shook your head as your eyes adjusted to the brightness of the room. “Well, I brought you something to drink, but you don’t have to have it just yet,” he said, motioning to the mug. You gave a soft grunt once more, causing Jakurai to smile softly.
He reached out to brush a loose strand of hair away from your face and you found yourself flinching at the action. There was a split second of surprise on his face at your actions, before his hand was pulled back by his side.
“I’ll leave you to rest, alright? You just let me know if you need anything,” he said, softly, as he turned to leave the room.
“Jakurai,” you mumbled, your voice hoarse and scratchy. He froze at the sound of his name, his back turned to you and one hand outstretched towards the door.
“Yes, darling?” he asked, sparing a glance back with a raised eyebrow.
You gulped slowly as you shook your head. Had it all been a dream? Some kind of horrible nightmare that your mind had created as a fantasy? Or had it been real? You were frightened to admit it, but you already knew the truth. It had been Jakurai that had come to save you. It had been Jakurai that had cut down all of those ment that had kidnapped you.
“Did you…did you really kill them all?” you whispered, staring at the mug of hot chocolate.
Your words hung in the air like an ill-fated omen, and you wished you could take them back right as soon as you had said them. Perhaps it would have been easier to live in your little fantasy word of playing a game of house where Jakurai was your lovely, kind boyfriend who was a doctor and couldn’t hurt a fly.
But you knew the truth now. You knew what he was capable of. It was different than having being told about his past. It was one thing to simply mention that you had done dirty deeds in the past, and it was entirely another to see those deeds being done in front of you.
Moments from the night before flashed before you again, this time more clearly. The moment Jakurai took off your blindfold, you knew that you were in over your head. It was more than the blood covering the men on the floor. More than the sounds of their moaning, and more than the cries of their begging.
It was the look in Jakurai’s eyes.
Gone were the naturally curious, content, kind eyes you had become so used to when he was teasing you or kissing you or touching you. You couldn’t forget the look even when you tried. His gaze had turned barren. There was nothing there but a cold, hardened exterior that left you aching and scared.
Shaking the memory away, you turned your gaze towards your ceiling.
“Never mind,” you said, leaning back against the bed and resting your head against the cool pillow. “I don’t want to know just yet,” you added. There was a moment of silence and you wondered if Jakurai had left the room or not when he suddenly spoke.
“I want to tell you everything, Y/N,” he said. His tone was strong, but you could hear a sense of urgency in them. A kind of franticness that was so unlike Jakurai that you wondered if he was actually the one speaking to you. “You deserve to know the truth, but I couldn’t forgive myself if I told you before you were ready. I need you to promise me that you’ll ask only when you’re ready. Truly ready. The truth isn’t kind and it certainly isn’t clear. Do you understand?”
You let his words sink into you, feeling overwhelmed as you slowly let your eyes closed.
“I promise,” you whispered, grateful that Jakurai hadn’t spoken any more about the previous night. You needed answers and you needed the truth, but it was all too soon for any of that.
I think you're beautiful with jakurai please hggnn
Since the requests are open, I would like to ask for number 50 with Jakurai and fem s/o who recently has kinda low self esteem when it comes to her body. Thanks in advance! - another anon
50) “I think you’re beautiful.”
You stood in front of the mirror, frowning slightly as you tilted your head. You had lifted your shirt up and were touching your stomach rather crudely, pinching and poking at the skin that was just slightly too soft for your liking.
“Darling, what are you doing?” Jakurai called out to you from behind. You immediately dropped your shirt back down and looked away sheepishly.
“Nothing, sorry. I’ll be there for dinner in a minute,” you promised him, glancing back at yourself in the mirror. You could see Jakurai frowning behind you and you felt a pang of guilt in your stomach as you turned around to face him. He was staring at you with sympathetic eyes that made your heart grow a bit.
“You musn’t look at yourself like that, my love,” Jakurai said, reaching out for your hand and holding it gently. “You’re body is perfect just the way it is.”
“It’s just so ugly...” you mumbled, wanting to pull your hand away but Jakurai held it close to his chest as he tugged on your chin with his hand. You met his soft gaze as he smiled lovingly at you.
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Assassin!Jakurai is one my favorite things from hypmic and I swear to you all that once things calm down and I have time, I am absolutely going to write out something for him (even though it’s literally just me fixated on this plot line and nobody asked for it)! Click on the picture to see it in high res!
It’s gonna be completely non-canon and ooc but you can bet your ass I’m gonna do it anyways!
Hi! I'm relatively new to your blog but I love what I see so far!! I was wondering if maybe I could request either headcanons, or a drabble (whichever you prefer to write!) Of Assassin!Jakurai after discovering his s/o's identity has been compromised? Maybe someone he's supposed to be assassinating found out he was hired to kill them, and they took his s/o to warn him to back off or to use as a bargaining chip? I hope this is specific enough! Thank you, and have a good day, loves!💗
Okay, I started writing this out as a scenario because I loved it so much, but I was barely halfway through and it was already at 2,500+ words so I’m just gonna do the main plot points in headcanons instead. I hope that’s okay! I’m obsessed with this AU though so I might end up finishing the writing and posting it separately. Maybe I’ll even make it multiple chapters! If I have time, that’s something I’d really love to do. Also, I accept this artwork as canon because it’s gorgeous and I can’t stop staring at it. Please view before reading - everyone needs young, short haired Jakurai in their lives~
TW: violence and killing
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to say that your relationship with Jakurai was normal was incorrect
your boyfriend was an assassin, after all and that tends to make a relationship a bit different
he was soft-spoken, almost cold, but you had broken through that facade and given him warmth and comfort he had never known
you made him want to feel things
feel the emotions he had pushed so far down inside of himself that he wasn’t sure if they existed anymore
this was mainly why he hadn’t wanted to tell you of his profession initially
he was afraid of putting you in danger and the less you knew the better
but you were smart and it didn’t take a genius to know that Jakurai obviously didn’t work an office job
what kind of office job requires that many knives and calls you into work at 3am?
so you all but forced Jakurai to tell you the truth and to his surprise, your relationship didn’t change much
of course, you wanted him to teach you how to fight and throw knives, and be sneaky, but of all the changes that could have happened
Jakurai felt that he was happy
you knew you were happy
until the day he had always feared came to pass
“We know who you are. If you don’t back off, we’ll kill them.”
When Jakurai first got the call from the target, Mr. Yamamoto he had been scoping for the past few months, he was shocked
he didn’t show it of course though, because he always had trouble with his emotions
that was something you had been helping him with
the thought of you in the hands of a serial killer was too much for him though
and he heard the phone crack a bit as his grip on it tightened
immediately, he knew that there was a mole in his sector
there would simply be no other way the target would have made him like this
so the only person he confided in was one of his closest partners, another assassin named Yuki
with Yuki’s help, Jakurai began to put a plan into motion to get you out of captivity
he had been working this case for a long time, and although the target didn’t know, Jakurai was well-aware of their operation
he knew the location of Yamamoto’s hideout, he had just been waiting for the right time to bring them all down
and this was the most definitely the right time
making his way to the base, he recalled all of the information he knew about the guards
he knew exactly where they would be posted at exactly which time
he had done his work as diligently as humanly possible because there was no way he would slip up and fail to rescue you
he easily subdued the guards at the entrance, barely making a noise as he easily took them down
he moved further into the complex, waving at Yuki to snipe down the guards above him as he pulled out a knife
weaving in and out of the foot soldiers, he left them all lying on the ground behind him
his eyes were sharp and emotionless
he had to push away the emotions you had worked so hard to recover
if he gave into them, he knew he would fly into a fit of rage, making him become sloppy
and Jakurai was never sloppy
he continued to work his way through the guards, cutting them all down until he finally reached the central room - the one he was sure you were inside
Jakurai opened the door slowly and the first thing his eyes landed on was your figure, strapped to a chair, bound and gagged
beside you was Mr. Yamamoto, far too close for comfort, and surrounding him were four armed henchman
upon seeing Jakurai entering the door, they all pointed their guns directly at him
Jakurai sighed, annoyed, and rushed the first, stabbing him directly in the heart without hesitation before pulling the second close to him
he used the man as a shield to block the other men’s bullets, tossing him to the side before throwing two knives at the two remaining men
finding his mark perfectly and embedding the knives deep into their necks
“Not another step!” Mr. Yamamoto screamed, bringing out a gun and pointing it at your temple
you had a blindfold on, put you were still able to flinch away from the cold metal and groan softly
Jakurai turned to face the man and didn’t make a move
for a moment the two looked at each other in silence
“How the hell did you get in here? What did you do to my guards?” Yamamoto shouted, waving his gun in panic
Jakurai narrowed his eyes and frowned
“I took care of them.” he stated simply, beginning to walk towards the man
Yamamoto hurriedly pointed the gun back at you and yelled that if Jakurai took one more step, your head would be gone
Jakurai froze one more and narrowed his eyes, tapping gently on the device in his ear
“Yuki, do we need him alive for questioning?” he asked, emotionless, his eyes never leaving Yamamoto’s face
Yamamoto faltered and began shouting at Jakurai to shut the hell up and surrender already
“Nope,” Yuki stated into Jakurai’s ear, happily.
Jakurai uttered a thanks before whipping out a dagger at lightning speed and throwing it hard at the face of the man before him
you weren’t able to see, but you heard a squishing sound and felt a thud next to you
within moments, Jakurai was by your side, gently pulling off your restraints
once he pulled off your blindfold you blinked a few times and gazed up at him with tears in you eyes
you quickly threw your arms around him and cried into his chest
Jakurai allowed you to do so and slowly brought his hands around you as well
trying to remember what you had said was normally done to comfort people in situations like these
“I was so scared” you cried to him, softly
“But I knew you were going to come save me” you added, a dry laugh coming through your tears
Jakurai gently ran a hand through your hair, holding you close before shaking his head
“I’m so sorry I ever let something like this happen. You don’t deserve this”
he would begin to feel things then, something like a pang in his stomach
was that guilt? it didn’t feel like what he remembered calling ‘anger’ or ‘sadness’
was this a combination of the two?
he didn’t think about it much longer, pulling you into his arms and beginning to walk out of the facility
he told you to close your eyes
but you didn’t listen
you wanted to see every body of every man Jakurai had taken down
you weren’t sure why exactly, but you had to know
you had to know just what your boyfriend was capable of doing
as an assassin
and as a person
once you made it outside of the complex you spotted the getaway van Yuki was waving to you from
“You should know something” Yuki said to you as you were lying down in the back of the van, your head leaning against the window
Jakurai was driving and Yuki was speaking in a low enough voice for him not to be able to hear
“Know what?” you asked narrowing your eyes as your heart picked up a bit
“The only target was Yamamoto. Taking out everyone else too? That was all Jakurai’s decision”
