a bit late, but I wanted to draw something to celebrate the dr stone finale! thank you to this show for the joy its given me for the past few years and many more to come
Tags: Rivals to lovers, canon divergence, slow burn, angst, some crack.
Synopsis: You go insane when you stay at the KoS without Gen. Senku took it as a sign to be a bitch.
Notes: Lmk if my writing style is ass, I'm still struggling with writing in English. Thank you @taigumii for beta-reading this!!
Chapter 7: Switch-ups.
Previous chapter:
#6: Recovery and Tensions.
“This is bad! Gen's gone, he vanished somehow!”
It was the start of a bright new day, and Chrome's screams immediately harassed everyone's ears uninvitedly.
“Ah, it looks like he's going back to Tsukasa.” Senku picked his ear in boredom.
“Shouldn't we do something?! He's going to tell him that Senku's still alive!” Kohaku turned to prepare to chase him, but a figure leaped forward to her with a spear in hand. The tip of it was held in front of her face, preventing her from moving any further.
“Y/N?! Seriously out of all the times, this is where you decide to finally attack us for real?!”
“I'm not attacking you, I'm keeping you in your place. Nobody is chasing anybody.” Your words hold no space for any argument.
“You can't-”
“I said it firmly last night, I'm Tsukasa's spy. I have the right to keep you from ruining our mission.”
“She's stubborn and determined, Lionness. There's no point at convincing her.” Senku interrupted before she could respond.
“But Senku, that bastard is going to snitch. You're going to die at this rate!”
He simply placed a hand at her shoulder and moved closer to her, whispering unknown words into her ear. She only reacted with a huff and backed away from you.
“I'm sorry, but I have to keep you away from him, I hope you understand. To compensate, I'll still help you guys train for the tournament soon, for now I need to wash up at the river.” You walked away from them curtly, going deep into the forest. The dark greenery slowly consumed your figure, and eventually you were out of sight.
Senku sighed in relief as soon as you departed. “Kukuku, looks like I don't have to worry about her eavesdropping on us.”
“Eavesdropping?” Kohaku gave him a perplexed stare.
“You couldn't tell, huh? That mentalist will clearly give Tsukasa a fake report. It's obvious since he's been helping us earlier and refused to let Y/N leave with him.”
“So, Gen is actually on our side?”
“Ten billion percent, he's going to convince that primate that I'm dead for real.”
“But what about her? She's not gonna like it knowing that Gen became a traitor.”
Senku cracked his neck and waved dismissively in the air. “That's not our problem, it doesn't affect us by a millimeter. Now let's put ourselves to good use, we'll be making him an icy cold cola. He's a shallow man, we need to give him one thing to prevent him from switching up again.”
…
Hours passed and the sun peaked in the middle, its rays much more blinding than before. Ever since you left the KoS you've felt something weighing in your chest. Your body sat nearby the river, completely slumped on the grassy area, gaze locked at the river and looking at it like it personally betrayed you. You finished cleaning up long ago, but a part of you refused to go back for some reason.
Your hand drifted towards the cool water, feeling the soft currents moving against your fingers. ‘Why am I like this? It's pointless to mope around. But why am I feeling like shit?’ Thoughts were clouded with negativity, making the world around go mute.
It doesn't make sense, is there something you don't know? Why do you feel like everything is going to go wrong soon?
You shook your head violently from the thought, it was eating your mind up. With a harsh groan, you reluctantly stood up from the ground, wiping away the stray drops of water on your hand.
“I guess it's time to go back. Wonder what they're up to.” You mumbled to yourself as you grabbed your only stone weapon that was left forgotten at the side. When you're making your way back, you start to think about how Gen is doing with his report to Tsukasa.
‘Hopefully he doesn't mess it up. We need to get over this as soon as possible.’
…
(At Gen's side):
He ran away frantically, his hands shook aggressively in the air. Even through the occasionally stumbling on tree roots and small stones, it barely did anything to stop him. He was panting greedily, a burning sensation on his legs were rising high — threatening to give out any time soon.
Fortunately, it wasn't too long when he finally arrived at the Tsukasa Empire, looking like he lost a fight to a bear. He dashed to the entrance of a dark cave and jerked when an arrow nearly landed on his bare foot.
“Wait Tsukasa it's me!” He called out, words echoing on the walls of the cave. His chest heaved and his hands fell onto his knees as he grasped for more air to refill his weak lungs.
“Me and Y/N-chan found a village full of primitives! They attacked us both, but she allowed me to flee while she distracted them on her own.” He explained between heavy breaths. “As for Senku-chan, he was gone. No trace of him anywhere.”
He snapped his fingers as he shifted into his usual sing-song voice. “There's no doubt that the man is dead! And I forgot to mention that Y/N-chan insisted on spying on them as soon as she calmed their nerves down. So there's no need to worry about our fierce goddess who's unfortunately not by my side.”
“Gen, you and Y/N didn't actually see his body. If he's somehow still alive, he'll find the village and turn it into a Kingdom of Science.” Tsukasa gave him a look of something dangerous and unshakable. “Unfortunately, I failed to mention to her that if she does manage to find him, she should kill him immediately. So, we'll build an army as soon as possible, and we'll take over the village alongside her.”
“Of course~! Expanding the empire is important for the Stone World.” Gen exclaimed in his foolish voice to disguise his internal immense dread about the situation. ‘Senku-chan is so screwed!’
…
The KoS was starting to become visible in your field of vision as you walked closer and closer, your horrible leather shoes crunched against the ground softly. It didn't take long for Kohaku to see you thanks to her 20/20 vision.
“You came back really late.” She puffed with her arms crossed as she ambled towards you.
“I was washing up.”
“Until it's practically noon?”
“The dirt was such an ass.”
She sighed from your answers, it was way more simple and blunt than Senku's. “Whatever you say girl.”
“Anyway, what's up with this place? Where are the others?” Only the sounds from clashing sticks from the battlefield and the crackling fire from the furnace were heard around the vicinity. It indicated that the presence of some special people are missing because usually there would be chatter about experiments.
“Ha! You finally noticed. Senku and Chrome left with Suika to test out her glasses.” She pointed with her thumb to where the scientists went.
“Ah, she couldn't see well. That explains why she wears that helmet, I'm guessing it's something about the pinhole effect.” You pondered.
“How did you know that? Senku explained that earlier. I didn't know you're a scientist either.”
“Used to be a decent one, but I only became one to compete with Ishigami.”
“Ishigami? Isn't that the village name?”
A confused expression was visible on your face. You looked at her as if she said that pigs can fly. “What are you talking about? God you know what, nevermind.” You immediately dismissed your own question when it escaped, not wanting to be bothered with lore that has a chance that he's the main focus of it. “I meant to say.. Senku.” You feel mentally disgusted at using his first name for the first time ever.
“Oh I see. Wait, why aren't you competing with him now?” Her questions were beginning to annoy you slightly.
“Academic competition in the Stone World? I'll pass. Survival is much more necessary than chemical play.” You responded with little irritation.
“Then this means you're okay with Senku since your science fight stopped right?”
You grumbled weakly when she asked more, still, you replied with no hesitation. “It doesn't mean I stopped disliking him. He's still an asshole, I'll never be fond of that guy even if thousands of years passed again.”
“You modern people are so complicated. What's the point of holding a grudge?” Her shoulders sagged from how ridiculous your relationship is with Senku. You responded to it by rolling your eyes, it's way too hard not to when you clearly hate talking about him.
And speaking of the devil, the said person that was the topic of your conversation walked out of the forest with Chrome and Suika beside him.
“Kukuku, look who's finally here.”
“You're the one that came back.”
“You left hours earlier for who knows why. A bath doesn't take approximately 3 hours when you don't have the hygiene products that contribute to that hellish time.”
You clicked your tongue at how well thought out his argument is. “Screw you, you don't have the right to be curious about what to do with my life. What are you, my boyfriend?”
“You're ten billion percent delusional. It just doesn't make any sense dumbass.” He didn't deny it, but you didn't put much thought into it when your attention moved to Suika's helmet which changed a little from the glasses.
“Suika, you can see better now right?” You intentionally ignored Senku out of spite.
“Yep! Detective Suika can help easily now!” She beamed with her arms stretched in the air.
“That's great to hear!” Your sudden change of demeanor made the others look at you like you're a totally different person.
She nodded happily at your comment. “And Suika can see your face clearly. You look so beautiful!”
A slight blush appeared at your cheeks warmly from her innocent compliment. “Oh, I appreciate it a lot.” From the outside, you were composed enough to give her reasonable gratitude. But internally? You're screaming and crying thanks to the girl's sweetest words. Sure, your classmates back in the 21st Century admired your looks as well, however it didn't hit hard enough for your heart to beat a millisecond faster. Children are an easy exception for that, you know they are always honest just about everything.
“You broke her capability to speak after that sweet lie, well done Suika.” Senku interrupts your thoughts in which your mood goes upside-down quickly.
“I'm gonna throw you off a cliff.” You bit back.
‘There it goes again! Her insane mood swings!’ Is what the rest shouted in their heads in unison by chance.
“Do that and in exchange you help these primitives evolve their scientific progress-”
“No.”
…
(Huge timeskip)
Several days have passed since Gen's report. He still hasn't come back, you assumed he's planning an attack on the village with Tsukasa. It's not like you want that possibility, but this village is one step closer to rebuilding the old world, it's going to be necessary.
You're sitting at a boulder nearby, watching the members of the KoS finish up at recreating chemical compounds in their makeshift laboratory, it almost felt nostalgic. Almost.
“Y/N, are you a bad guy ‘cause you didn't help us in the lab?” Suika skipped towards you.
“I'm not a bad guy per se, but I don't help just because. If I were one, I would've killed Senku myself, and since I'm not, I'm just observing you guys.”
“I don't understand why you're spying on us though.”
You chuckled at her innocence. “I'm just doing my job, that's all.”
“Tch, job my ass. You just don't have the guts to kill me.” Senku walked over to your conversation with a sly grin when he wasn't even mentioned.
“My job was to protect Gen, which recently changed to keeping watch of you idiots. Nobody said that I should take your life.” You retorted.
“Whatever helps you sleep at night, kukuku.” His teasing reply makes your temple throb in rapid pulses. You've been stuck in this kingdom for far too long in your opinion, one more day with this bastard you'll explode into smithereens.
“Don't you have more dangerous ingredients to bring back?”
“Nah, I need alcohol for the rest, dummy. It won't be a problem soon because the Grand Bout will be starting in a few moments. Our chances of getting it have increased since I'm joining it to shit on the rules of it.” He shrugged casually.
“Of course you would. You don't care about being fair when you see the advantage it gives you.” Your eyes narrowed at his scummy strategy.
“Obviously, it's ten billion percent more efficient this way!” He grinned like an average Disney villain and you cringe at his stupid look.
“You're so childish.”
“You're boring.”
“Your explanations are worse.”
“Guys can you shut up for one second? Despite being together for days, your relationship is still bad!” Chrome yelled out in frustration. “It's about to start! We need to go!”
“Yeah sure, go gather everyone else. We're going to get that alcohol and save your precious Ruri.” Senku dug a finger in his ear. “You coming or what? We can use another set of hands with us.” He turned his head back to you, expecting you would say no but it doesn't hurt to try. A trump card can turn the tides.
“No chance. I'm staying.” You denied quickly; the bar of his luck is still in the depths of hell.
“Your stubbornness is almost admirable. Oi team! Let's move out already, I can't wait another second to step foot in the village for the first time ever.” He called out to his teammates and walked away to the village's bridge, leaving you sitting alone in boredom.
“And I can't wait to get out of here.” You mumbled to yourself.
“Don't worry Y/N-chan~ it'll be soon enough.”
“Hopefully.” You froze when you realized what you just heard and said. Turning your head to the direction of the voice slowly, a dark but familiar figure starts to emerge from the shadows of the trees in the far side.
“Long time no see,
Y/N-chan!”
I hope nobody notices the mistake I made with the duration of making Suika's glasses. It should've been a day but I wrote it as 3 hours for the sake of the plot. So if this inaccuracy is bothering you, well get used to it this is canon divergent it's not guaranteed I will follow the anime properly. 😝 @yukonoo @rotten-despair
Teasobi by Eryo (Eryo Branch)
New collab with Chas! We now live in a post "Senku is eroi and Gen had no b*tches before petrification" world, and it's beautiful.
Tags: Fluff, AU - School setting, no petrification, established relationship
Synopsis: He's a cold and calculating scientist, you're a lively and ongoing craftswoman. A relationship with you two feels like a fantasy to think about.
HM: @red-2003 for requesting this!
“Senku-chan~ what's your type of girl, hm?” Gen asked him with a teasing smile. Despite being a senior, he acts like a middle-schooler when it comes to his friends’ love life.
“Ha ha! Surely there must be a pretty and refined lady that would get your attention.” Ryusui snapped his fingers and shouted loud enough to gather the attention of most students in the cafeteria.
“Quit it you fool. This is humiliating.” Senku rubbed his temples to attempt to soothe his stress between these persistent guys.
“You're not denying it, which means there's definitely someone you admire, am I wrong?”
“Yeah, I admire Albert Einstein.”
“A girl damn it!”
“You said someone that I admire.”
“Let's not push Senku-chan further, he's an awfully stubborn man.” Gen sighed, he knows that Senku is hiding something from them, but the scientist is way too good at keeping his shit together. Tricking him to spill out his secrets has a chance of an absolute zero.
The way this conversation is going is slowly killing his hopes on Senku actually having a relationship or a simple crush. He already stated that love is illogical and a waste of time to them before, he never made any nice comments about it.
Gen decided it's best to let it go for now and watch from the sidelines, he figures there might be a slip up soon if he chooses to let things take their own course. His face looked quite dejected.
“Kukuku, you look like I refused to give you a math cheat sheet. Seriously, you two should mind your own business.” Senku waved his hand dismissively.
“Whatever you say Senku-chan.”
…
Senku usually stays late inside the school laboratory to work on experiments, but this time he waits at the gate. His watch displayed the time, 5 PM, he glanced at it with a patient look. Then he hears you, your loud but gleaming voice echoed in his ears.
“Senku!!!” You waved both of your arms in the air as soon as you saw him.
“You'll ten billion percent rupture my eardrums sooner than I will launch a rocket to space.” He picked at his ear to display annoyance but the softness of his voice gave it away.
“You know you love it!” You aggressively grabbed him by the shoulders, almost making the guy lose his balance.
“Alright calm down, you're acting like a 5 year old that consumed the whole candy aisle.”
“Sorry! It's just so unexpected to see you waiting for me.”
“Have to break a routine at some point.” He shrugged it off.
“Aww, you're so sweet!”
“Don't make me regret this.”
“Doubt you will, you're smiling like a maniac!”
“You're stretching it.”
You both giggled at the exchange. He took your hand and walked outside with you by his side.
“How's the crafts club?” He tried to play it cool, but it was difficult when you're tightly holding hands with him.
“The usual crocheting and stuff. Yuzu and I were so busy earlier that I nearly forgot my own lunch!” You responded happily.
“Bothersome, you could've starved during your classes if you didn't remember such basic necessities.”
“And you're the one to talk? On most days you survive on just coffee and sunlight. You experiment on your chemicals longer than me doing crafting projects!”
He clicked his tongue at your comeback, you had a point. “Touché.”
You two continued to walk back home, you were mostly yapping about your day while he stayed silent to listen to your experiences. To think the Senku Ishigami would be the listener in your relationship and not the other way around is quite surprising.
Actually it's more surprising that he's in a relationship, and nobody knows yet except for his two close friends — Taiju and Yuzuriha. He's not a big fan of publicly announcing it since he hates how much people love to pry about his personal life. So he tries to keep it as private as possible by expressing how love can't compete with science, being the center of attention when it comes to love is not his cup of tea.
Although it doesn't stop the curious minds and their hypothetical thoughts. People expected a cold, efficient, and logical genius like him to be his partner. However, you were by far the opposite of him. You're just like Taiju, extroverted, loud, energetic, and way too emotional. Because of it, nobody stopped to think that you two were compatible with each other.
And another reason that nobody knows you're both in a relationship, is how little you see each other in school. Not from the amount of assignments piling up, but from both of your projects in your own clubs.
He's always up to something in the science club, while you crochet and sew clothes in the crafts club. Neither of you had the time for a break and look for each other.
Yet it felt natural between you two, despite being busy for the other, you still managed to find ways to make up for lost time outside class hours.
You would often hangout with Senku at the rooftop, where there's barely any students. Perfect for both of you to just bask in the presence of your partner without any prying eyes.
“Hey, Senku-kun!” You called out to the guy who's been spacing out since you went quiet earlier.
“Yeah?”
“Do you think that someone will find out about our relationship one day?”
He gave some thought to it and broke out his signature grins. “Kukuku, ten billion percent. Our little privacy won't last for long, especially since Gen and Ryusui have been pushing me to talk about love more. It was getting difficult to call it irrational and pointless.”
“If they do figure it out, you're still going to stay with me, right?”
“I would be an idiot if I didn't. Sure it's gonna be a pain in the ass, but I'll manage. Besides, you're worth more than science, it would be hell to give up on a girl I love.”
You blushed wildly at his response, you expected he would call you a dummy for asking a stupid question, but he didn't. He admitted something real so casually, it was enough for you to bring your arms to him for a hug.
“I love you so much!!”
“Okay okay, be easy with me. I can barely breathe.” He muttered breathlessly, patting onto your back weakly.
“Oh sorry!”
“Seriously, control your strength. This genius might not live long enough to get married to you.” His ears turned bright pink at the tips.
“Stop! You're too smooth for your own good!” You squealed and playfully smacked his chest, which he reacted to with a chuckle. Both of you were so lost in your own world, none of you noticed a certain senior and a filthy rich student watching you from afar.
They have been spying on Senku without him knowing. And they managed to see your interactions with him so far. Their faces were priceless to see the moment you hugged Senku tightly; clearly they aren't used to seeing you hug their physical avoidant friend. Senku is going to have a long talk with them.
I love the this idea, hopefully I didn't mess up the execution huhu. It takes a while for me to start writing these since I'm still working on my long fic so sorry for the inconveniences.
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