You Smiled With Blood on Your Teeth Chainsaw Man Fanfic (Power & Denji) by MythboundCal
They’re laughing again.
Not because anything’s funny.
Just because they’re still alive.
The ramen spilled. Power slipped. Denji tripped over the goddamn cat.
Now they’re both on the floor—noodles in their hair, bruises blooming, Power with a split lip and Denji with chopsticks stuck in his hoodie somehow.
It’s disgusting.
It’s perfect.
“Idiot,” she cackles, blood in her teeth like glitter.
“Takes one to know one,” he shoots back, grinning wider.
The cat—Meowy, smug and unfazed—climbs onto Power’s chest. She yelps like she’s been stabbed and immediately starts bragging about how loyal her familiar is.
Denji doesn’t correct her.
They eat cold ramen with their fingers.
They drink stolen soda. Power burps loud enough to make the light flicker and Denji nearly cries laughing.
He doesn’t know what this is.
He’s had family. He’s had hunger. He’s had pain that made him feel real.
But this?
This is different.
“You’re my minion now,” Power declares, jabbing her finger in his face. “Swear fealty!”
He blinks. “I don’t know what that means.”
“Good,” she says, collapsing onto the couch like a queen after war. “That means you’ll do it.”
He watches her—bloodied, wild, glowing. A nightmare in pajama pants. And something inside him—something small and soft and stupid—feels safe.
She called it friendship.
He didn’t know any better word.
But whatever this is?
It’s his.