I just remembered that I never posted the art I commissioned from @hypogryffin which is criminal of me, look at it!!! Look at my boys!!! I love it so much. 🥰
since @kiaroscuro and @jesseoftheorder already made their own wanluce fake dating au drabbles, i needed to make my own! my writing isn't nearly a good as y'all's (check out their drabbles if you haven't read them!!), but i hope everyone enjoys the little bit i'll write anyways!!
"How?!"
It was a fair question, and a question Shoki should've been a little more prepeared for. But instead, here they were, in Nagisa's living room. When Shoki had texted him asking for a very private place to talk, as soon as possible, yes it was time sensitive, Nagisa had offered his house, even letting him know that Lufel was taking a nap. That actually helped him quite a bit - he didn't mind Lufel, but he didn't exactly want an audience to explain this to. Especially because right after he opened the converstation with 'mamma thinks we're dating', Nagisa froze for a second, eyes opened wide, and, well, here they were.
"When I was talking to mamma, I wanted to tell her about how I had made some new friends, and how amazing you all were. And I tried to tell her about how much you helped me, without telling her about the Phantom Thieves. And... I think she misunderstood." Shoki sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I was telling her how amazing you were, and... she took that as me dating you." Shoki waited for Nagisa to respond, but it took a second. Nagisa blinked a couple times, clearly trying to process it all.
"Why didn't you correct her, though?"
"She was... so happy on the phone. She sounded so much happier than she had in years, I couldn't be the one to break her heart," Shoki said. "And I did try to call her back, but she didn't pick back up. Mamma knows a lot of people who want to know how I'm doing, and by now she's probably told all of them that I'm dating someone, and is probably on the phone to papà." He could even see her, beaming proudly as she excitedly told her friends that her son had found someone, isn't that wonderful? And the idea of his mamma smiling so brightly, he couldn't, wouldn't, dare make her upset by correcting her. Nagisa took another second to think, his face betraying the hundred questions he had swirling in his head. Shoki spoke up again. "I know it's a lot to ask you, but i just need you to pretend we're dating, just for a little while, and just in front of my parents... and maybe the team, too."
"The rest of the team?" Nagisa asked, still a bit bewildered. Shoki couldn't blame him.
"If we're going to be acting in front of my parents as a happy couple, then we need to be a believably happy couple. We need a lot of practice for that, so we'll need others to believe that we're together too." The more he spoke, the more insane the idea sounded, but he was already too deep here, might as well see how long before he drowned in it. "We'll start slow, just telling them, and then from there see how it goes. And after my parents have met you, maybe a couple more weeks, and then we can 'break up', as it were," he put air quotes around the word 'break up', "and we can pretend this whole thing never happened."
"Can I let Lufel know?"
"I don't think so. Like I said, making it believable to everyone is the goal, so the only people who can know is us." Shoki sighed again, muttering a couple of Italian curses under his breath. "I'm sorry, this is way too much to ask of you, especially when we barley know each other."
Nagisa didn't say anything, but was clearly deep in thought. Shoki just studied him, watching as Nagisa thought of the next thing to say. He really was quite pretty, dark red hair shining slightly in the afternoon light while dark crimson eyes studied the table, framed by full lashes. On the most vain of levels, he was a good option for a fake boyfriend, looks-wise. Finally, after what felt like an eternity of silence, Nagisa spoke up.
"I'll do it."
"Thank yo- huh?"
"I'll do it," he repeated. "I don't want you to be in any more trouble than you're already in, and it's not even the first time I had to fake a relationship with someone, though that time I had to pretend to be her cousin." Nagisa said this so matter-of-factly that Shoki could only stare for a second.
"But, don't you have a girlfriend? Won't she be mad?"
"Nope, I've never had a girlfriend," Nagisa shook his head, "I spent Valentine's about as single as you can be, so you don't have to worry about that." Shoki couldn't believe that girls weren't absolutely falling over themselves to confess to Nagisa, but that did make this much, much easier.
"Alright," Shoki nodded. "Well, I'm not sure when we're going to tell the team, but-"
"Tell the team what?" A sudden, third voice, and the sound of wings ruffling made Shoki's head snap around. Oh, Lufel had woken up, and now he had flown down from Nagisa's room to the living room, hopping up onto the table. He wasn't expecting to start the performance this early, before any rehersals, but an actor always had to be ready to improvise. And Nagisa seemed to know this too, taking Shoki's hand into his.
"That we just started dating," Nagisa said. Shoki looked away, both to play the bashful new lover and to avoid eye contact with Lufel, as the obvious reaction to that news happened.
