#yuupei

[yutamayo]

[curiousrom]

"our love is a little formless but it'll do"

hello I have stepped into the "rarepair" hell that is itayoshi / yuupei and I will not get out

[yuujisdeadlovedones]

Baby I'll Behave / If You Let Me Stay | Chapter 1

jjk fic | yuuji/junpei | time travel fix-it | ao3 link | chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (on tumblr)

Junpei meets a weird pretty boy at the movies who won't leave him alone.

**Junpei's pov of a Yuuji that has gone back in time to change everything. Yuuji never mentions it though, so i leave all that stuff to your imagination.

Junpei first met the boy when he went to his favorite theater to watch a showing of an old horror movie.

The boy walked in around three minutes after Junpei sat down. He was around Junpei's age, a little taller, had cool pink hair, and from what little bit Junpei could see of his face, he was handsome.

He didn't sit directly in front of Junpei, he sat a few seats to the left in the row in front. He was a polite movie goer, didn't touch his phone during the movie, didn't talk except for a small shriek at a minor jumpscare, which was oddly endearing.

Junpei had watched the movie before, so he at some points looked over at the guy. He was leaning forward in his seat, completely engaged. He reacted sometimes, leaning back in his chair, curling up during a particularly stressful scene. Maybe if it was someone else, or a movie he'd never watched before, Junpei would be annoyed at the guy for being distracting, but he only felt the satisfaction of watching someone experience something for the first time.

When the movie was over, Junpei took his phone out to check the time. The pink haired guy stretched, making a little noise, before turning towards Junpei. "That was scarier than I expected, and I loved the practical effects! What did you think of it?"

Junpei fumbled out a response about how he'd liked how the fake blood was better than in the prequel movie. The guy jerked in surprise.

"There's a prequel movie?" He said a bit too loud.

"Yeah? It came out two years after, it was about when the mom and dad first started dating."

"Holy shit, what's it called? Also, what's your name? Mine's Itadori Yuuji!"

That was how Junpei was essentially pulled into a friendship with the weirdest guy he knew.

Yuuji's grandfather had very recently died, very recently, and he'd moved to Tokyo because he'd always wanted to.

"I didn't really have anyone left, to hold me back or to stay for," Yuuji said around a piece of sushi. He'd basically pushed Junpei into going to a restaurant with him. He'd promised to pay and had even shown Junpei the money in his wallet to prove it, which was a bit much but did make Junpei feel a little better. Yuuji was charismatic, definitely the sort to get his way, and Junpei didn’t want to get fucked over.

After their talk of movies petered out, Junpei was done with his food and Yuuji was finishing up. Yuuji admitted to wanting to make some friends, and Junpei privately wondered if he looked normal enough to be this guy's friend. He'd always thought he gave off some sort of aura that let people knew he was weak, a loser.

But Yuuji smiled at him, asked him questions, laughed at his dry jokes, made funnier jokes, and asked for his number, so they could meet up again.

As they walked home, it turned out the Yuuji lives only a couple blocks away from Junpei's place, in an apartment with a fairly absent roommate. Yuuji waved goodbye like this wasn't the last time they'd hang out.

Junpei walked home slowly, feeling empty. He was just entering his house when his phone went off. When he checked it, it was an unknown number.

'hey Junpei its yuuji!!!!!!'

'i had a lot of fun!'

'you free tomorrow? if not, when?'

':D!!'

....Looked like Yuuji was they type to get attached easily.

And a little pushy.

He saved Yuuji's number and contemplated putting a cherry blossom emoji next to his name (for his pink hair), but thought better of it. Didn't want anyone to notice it.

He didn't know how to respond, so he didn't. He didn't have read receipts on so he was safe.

His mom caught him looking at the message a few hours later. He didn't notice her reading the messages over his shoulder, and couldn't deny her when she pushed him into responding.

'hey sorry i missed your message, my phone was out of battery and charging'

'yeah im free tomorrow'

'have you been the shopping center near here?'

'no, where is it?'

Before he went to sleep that night, he wrote down a list of topics to talk about, with movies that weren’t too niche and questions he could ask to keep the conversation going.

They met up the next day at noon and hung out for hours.

[yuujisdeadlovedones]

Baby I’ll Behave / If You Let Me Stay | chapter 5

jjk fic | yuuji/junpei | time travel fix-it | ao3 link | chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (on tumblr)

Junpei meets a weird pretty boy at the movies who won’t leave him alone.

**Junpei’s pov of a Yuuji that has gone back in time to change everything. Yuuji never mentions it though, so i leave all that stuff to your imagination.

ch5: Yuuji stays over.

When Junpei's mom walked in to see someone else with Junpei, he could tell she was cautiously optimistic. By the end of the night, she was overjoyed.

Yuuji got along amazingly with Junpei's mom. He was relaxed and informal in a way that wasn't rude, just endearing. He was funny and nice and charming. She hugged Junpei tightly as soon as Yuuji walked out the door around 9.

Only 5 minutes later, Yuuji was back, standing in front of their door awkwardly.

"Ok, so...I can't find my keys? And I asked my roommate, but he's not gonna be home till like 2 AM...can I stay here tonight? I'm so sorry, I don't really know anyone else in the area, I can go to a hotel-"

Junpei's mom cut him off and ushered him in while Junpei awkwardly stood by. "Of course, come in! Let me set out the futon for you! Me and Junpei are both night owls, so if you’d prefer to sleep early I can put it in the living room?”

Yuuji made eye contact with Junpei. "If it's alright with you, I can stay in your room?"

Junpei looked away and nodded. "Yeah, that's fine."

Junpei and his mom left Yuuji in the living room while they quickly tidied up his room. “Sleepover!” She whispered to him excitedly. He ignored that.

Junpei invited Yuuji into his room, watching in the doorway as he settled down on the futon. He began to close the door but was interrupted.

"Hey Junpei, could you leave the door open, just a little?"

"Uh, yeah, sure."

Junpei felt a little better. Usually he kept his door shut, but this meant they wouldn't be doing anything that they wouldn't be ok with his mom overhearing.

His thoughts were suddenly invaded by something else, rather pleasant things they could do that he wouldn’t want her to hear-

"Hey Junpei, I was wondering. Those dude...they mess with you, right?"

"...Yeah."

"...Do any of the teachers know?"

Junpei inhaled deeply. He couldn’t make eye contact with him. "Yeah, I know that at least my homeroom teacher knows, he just doesn't give a shit."

"...That's not right."

Junpei shrugged, uncomfortable.

Yuuji looked down and shook his head, face serious and just a little angry. "Hes a shitty teacher, then. I've had good teachers. They care. I had a teacher who let me stay over at his place for a while when things were really bad."

Junpei thought- "Well that's because, you're popular. Likeable."

Yuuji turned on the futon to look intensely at Junpei. "Yoshino Junpei, you are so likeable. I like you a lot." At this, to Junpei’s horror, he could feel himself turn red. "And a good teacher is good to everyone, even students with crap personalities. You deserve a teacher that cares, that helps you. Your classmates and teachers....they're failing you."

Junpei had no clue what to say to that, nose burning and eyes prickling.

"And what do you mean, not likeable? You're wrong about that."

"I-it has to do with looks, too..."

"But you're cute? Junpei, you're good looking, kind of pretty!"

Junpei turned around to escape Yuuji’s sincerity and tried to suffocate himself in his pillow. Yuuji laughed, patting him on the back. "we'll work up to it, right?"

They watched videos on Junpei’s laptop till midnight. This was actually a lot earlier than Junpei usually went to bed, but he wasn’t all that worried about not being able to sleep. The day’d been draining, from school to the fight, to bringing someone over to his house for the first time in...ever.

Junpei rubbed his eyes, enjoying the feeling of being sleepy, not just tired, at the appropriate time of the day.

Movement out of the corner of his eye caught his attention and he turned to see Yuuji taking his shirt off.

Yuuji saw that he had Junpei’s attention and smiled, oblivious. “Usually I sleep without pants too but I think that’d be weird, right?”

Junpei must've nodded because Yuuji turned to his phone.

...Yuuji had to have, like, no body fat. He had pecs. And very nice nipples. Junpei felt himself break into a sweat and hurried to turn out the light.

“Goodnight, Junpei! Thanks for having me over,” Yuuji said, the smile in his voice audible.

Junpei settled into his bed. “Goodnight, Yuuji.”

He fell asleep fast, but before he did, he wished he’d thanked Yuuji as well.

[yuujisdeadlovedones]

Baby I’ll Behave / If You Let Me Stay | Chapter 2

jjk fic | yuuji/junpei | time travel fix-it | ao3 link | chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (on tumblr)

Junpei meets a weird pretty boy at the movies who won't leave him alone.

**Junpei's pov of a Yuuji that has gone back in time to change everything. Yuuji never mentions it though, so i leave all that stuff to your imagination.

Talking to Yuuji was comfortable. Conversation flowed easily and they could talk for hours without Junpei having to pull out his emergency topic list.

Junpei didn't really want to bring up anything serious but eventually he gathered up his courage. "Which school are you transferring to?"

"Satozakura High School, I've already set most things up, my first day is Monday."

Junpei's stomach dropped. They'd be going to school together. He'd known it was likely, but...

God. How soon would Yuuji realize that Junpei was a loser?

How soon would he stop greeting Junpei, stop acknowledging him?

Would Yuuji immediately jump ship, or awkwardly try to stay friendly out of guilt?

Yuuji watched him as he tried to compose himself. "Which class are you in, Junpei?"

For a moment Junpei didn't want to tell him. "....3A."

Would Yuuji...join the bullies? Either to save himself, or maybe because the strong enjoyed putting down the weak?

"...Junpei, I've never- I usually don't make friends at school. I, uh, recently made some friends outside of school, and I may not seem like it, but...I don't make friends. I make really friendly acquaintances. People you can laugh with, but people you don't go out of your way to hang with, but I want to be friends with you."

Junpei stared at Yuuji. That was so odd. "Why?"

Yuuji didn't seem to know what to say to that. "Why not?" He huffed and looked away. "Because you're Junpei?"

Junpei wanted to question that, to dig in to see in which way Yuuji was fucking with him, and why..but Junpei had looked Yuuji up that morning, his grandfather really had died recently. Only a very twisted individual could be fucking with people so well after their guardian had just died.

Junpei decided to be honest. "I'm not-I-no one likes me. Well, the people that do stopped, because enough people hate me enough that - it was in their best interest to stay away. If you wanna make friends at this school, act like you don't know me. You're friendly, you can make friends, you'll be fine."

"And if I don’t want to do that? I didn't say I wanted to make friends, I just wanna be friends with you."

"...We'll see about that."

On Monday morning, Junpei had only been awake for a few minutes when someone knocked on his door. He blearily opened the door to see Yuuji, wide awake and holding a convenience store bun out.

"Good morning! It's my first day and I thought you could walk me to school. Here, I got this for you!"

Junpei stared at him.

Yuuji looked confused, taking in his pajamas, then took out his phone. "Am I early?" he muttered to himself. Junpei looked. 20 minutes before school started.

Junpei used to be the sort of guy that woke up 2 hours before class. He'd be tidy, would have breakfast, laze around, get to school early, and mess around on his phone if he didn’t have leftover homework.

This past year though, he was just too tired in the morning. He never wanted to get out of bed in the morning.

If things didn't get better soon, he probably stop going to school.

"..Thanks," Junpei said. "I might be late, so you can walk to school without me. Sorry, I'll pay you back later for the-"

"Hey, I don't mind waiting! If we're late I'll just be making a memorable entrance."

Yuuji actually seemed to mean that, so Junpei nodded and ran off to get ready.

He was done in record time and Yuuji looked up from his phone and smiled when Junpei started to put on his shoes. As they left Yuuji handed him the bun and Junpei took it gratefully.

Yuuji made small talk while Junpei ate.

"I might join an athletic club, coaches were always trying to recruit me at my last school. Hope I don't have to deal with any assholes, I will start a fight on my first day if I have to."

Junpei looked at Itadori incredulously but didn't say anything as they'd reached the school gates. They hurried inside and Junpei guided him into the building, and as Junpei showed Yuuji to his locker, he asked which class Yuuji was in.

"3A!" Yuuji said, smiling brightly.

That was definitely not a coincidence.

They made it to class right before the teacher did. While Junpei sat down, Yuuji introduced himself to the class. He wasn't as friendly as he'd been with Junpei, as his gaze at the students and the teacher was almost calculating.

There were a few seats open, and Junpei noticed that for some reason, most of his bullies weren't in class yet. Yuuji was allowed to take any seat and he picked the seat behind Junpei's.

Sometimes, guys would sit behind Junpei and poke at him hard with lead pencils, or pens if Junpei was wearing white. Yuuji was quiet except for halfway into the period, when he poked Junpei and passed him a note.

It was an unflattering picture of the homeroom teacher. Junpei huffed and immediately hid it in his pocket.

Maybe this wouldn't be so bad.