How do you think Arataki Itto would deal with a crush who is the opposite in personality. Like He’s loud and crush is quiet. He jumps into things, they don’t. They’re always smiling around him when he suddenly turns up, like their eyes light up?
Ooh, I definitely like this concept. Let's roll with it a bit, shall we?
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First off, when I tell you Itto's gang will not go a day without giving Itto the utmost shit for his infatuation, I mean it, and it's because you are so different from him. When he first met you, they could practically see the hearts in his eyes, and he went up to you, tried to brag and flaunt himself in your presence, make a grand presentation of himself like usual but times ten, and... you were so scared by the big oni man you ran off before he even finished his speech about "the one and oni". The Arataki Gang? Yeah, they never let him live that down.
It's no secret that Itto likes to place himself around people that challenge him. You, however, were a different challenge entirely. You really tested his patience, not because he was getting tired of waiting around for you or anything. He would wait a million years for you to come around if he had to, but he's known from the moment you two met (literally) that making the first move was out of the question. You were so timid and fragile, and holding himself back is not Itto's specialty, but sure as damn well will learn for the woman of his dreams!
This man, despite his own nature working against him, has the patience of a saint. He waits days, weeks, months before it even becomes clear to him that you in fact don't mind his presence. Whether it was because he was just an idiot or his own insecurities surrounding you were clouding his judgment, he was never sure until the moment you told him "I'm glad you're always around" that he knew, and that boy lit up like a Christmas tree. He went and bragged to Granny Oni that night and told her how he was gonna marry you some day.
So I'm sure you can imagine at that point how grueling it is for him to be holding back all these strong feelings when a year passes by, and he's still in the friends zone, being absolutely dogged on by the gang and Ayato. Even Yae is watching smugly from the sidelines at this point. All he wants to do is hold you and kiss you until the end of eternity, but he's aware that if he tried you would quite possibly implode into a disaster of cosmic proportions. But when that moment finally does come, when you two are sitting under a withering arch on the edge of a cliff at sunset and you finally muster up the courage to place your dainty little hand on top of his, the fireworks that go off in that man's head are indescribable. By the time he notices you looking up at him sparkling little doe eyes, a rosy hue painted across your face as gentle sun rays lay on top of you and make your skin glow a shade wondrous gold, he's immediately committing that sight to memory. He will mention it in his wedding vows, and you might faint during them, but it'd be worth it.
You actually like him back. It's a concept for many weeks Itto is practically incapable of comprehending, but the worst part is he might never know you actually felt that way from the very beginning. You just never possessed the guts to tell him, and instead you submitted both you and him to a year long painstaking slowburn that felt like it lasted forever, but Itto will swear for the rest of his life that wait was one-hundred percent worth it.
