Scene: A popular streamer on twitch that you loved to watch. He went by KuniWhisk online. You move into a new apartment, and have unexpected encounter while moving in your things.
CW: GN!Reader, Slow Burn, Modern AU, Famous x Civilian, Enemies to lovers, Neighbor AU, Streamer!Wanderer/KuniWhisk, Verbal Sparring, Alcohol, False Accusation, Fame Anxiety, and slight Tension.
-Art by:@/wa_bx55091 on X-
You had recently discovered a new Twitch streamer online while you were scrolling through Tiktok, and Since you found yourself cackling to his irritated comments towards his chat, you decided- why not, let's check him out.
After a few months passed, you were a seasoned viewer. Watching all his streams as soon as he went Live. You watched him while you were eating, and even while you were at work.
He's funny, sarcastic, cocky, easily annoyed, and high key teases his chat way to much, it often feels like he enjoys it, and his chat eats it up with no complaints. Its entertaining.
Recently, you have found yourself in a bit of a bind. You have been wanting to adopt a kitten, but the apartment complex you currently live in doesn't allow pets. Luckily you have the perfect excuse to move out. There has been a pestering neighbor who doesn't ever leave you the fuck alone, always complaining about the noise, or the long showers you take on your afternoons after a long morning shift.
You do have quite a bit of money saved up, and your financially stable enough to do so. After thinking it over and calculating the costs, you decide that it was finally time to move out of your first apartment and into a new one.
It was your dream to move into the city since you were a little kid, having grown up in such a small town like Vimara, a place like Sumeru City was huge in comparison. A apartment there would be a dream, so why not make it come true?
You go online and you instantly find the perfect apartment in a good area, with a mall and shopping center near by, and the academia was nearby if I ever wanted to study a small course for something. On top of that-and most importantly, Pets were allowed.
To anyone saying that hiring a moving company to help pack and move your furniture into your new apartment isn't worth it, your full of crap, but I applaud to you for being strong enough to do so.
Cause man- does it look like a shit ton of work.
While they packed your stuff up into the truck, you sit in your own car to watch the stream KuniWhisk had just started.
"Hey hey." He twirls in his chair, as his chat goes crazy, absolutely flooding with commentary. "Shit, there's a ton of you here today, normally you guys aren't up this early." he snickers. "So desperate to see me today huh?" he only chuckles when he sees how his chat mixes with denial and absolute obsession.
"This guy.. he knows exactly what his viewers like." You mumble under your breath. You place your phone on the stand, and continue playing his stream as you start driving towards the city. The drive was around 2 hours long, which with the his stream playing, you hardly could feel it at all.
Finally, you look out you window as the Gps tells you that you have arrived. The sun shining down rays of sunlight through the beautiful plant growth growing off the edges of the building. You pull into your assigned parking spot and step out the car, looking up at the complex you will be moving into, completely in awe.
The sound of a rumbling car behind you snaps you back into reality, it was the moving tuck. They had gotten here a lot faster than you thought. Guess they knew a faster route.
You turn to your car and go in to grab your phone and the keys to the new apartment your landlord had given to you in advance. You rush over up the stairs, which was only about 2 flights up, to open the door for them, allowing them entree.
"Go on in!, please do be careful with the purple boxes." You say softly, you wanted to sound as nicely as you could. They all affirm to you in unison, making you feel more relaxed about everything.
Right, his stream. You take out your phone and lean on the low concrete wall, lining the walkway in front of your apartment. You open his live again, which was luckily still going on. He was playing some sort of customer service game- about flipping patties and making burgers, to get to customers on time, which he got easily pissed at when they complained.
"You know what? Next time I see you come in here for the 5th time today, I'll give you an actually burnt one." he yaps annoyedly when the customer in the game got up and left without eating the burger. It got a good laugh out of me.
I was about to type something in chat when I realized that people weren't talking about the game, but some sort of noise in the background, which I didn't realize since my volume was so low. "Oh, the noise? Yeah, I think my landlord said there was a new neighbor moving in. Which means construction ASMR for the next hour, your welcome." that made me chuckle a little, the nerve this guy has to mess with his viewers.
About 30 minutes pass, and the moving guys finally finished unloading my stuff inside. They let me. "Alright, that's enough for me. I'm gonna head out." He stretches and then gets up and closer to his camera, ready to turn it off, and do his signature outro he dose at the end of every stream. He reaches for the camera, ready to cover it, "bye bye, see ya later, maybe~" he whispers lowley with a smirk, then the screen goes black and the live ends. We always see him again anyways.
You turn off your phone, and put it into your pocket. Finally looking up and out at the pretty scenery, the wind was a soft breeze, and the trees were rustling with the same gentleness. This is where i'll be living now.
After a second of just living the moment, something everyone should do, you turn towards your apartment so you could start unpacking. And after about and hour and a half, you finally finished with the kitchen and living room. You had unpacked a lot faster than you thought you would, so you decide to use this time to clean up. You pick up all the boxes, which you flattened so it would be more efficiently easier, and softly kick your door open.
Suddenly, you hear a loud thump, shit was this really the first impression your going to make on one of your neighbors? You hurriedly drop the cardboard and rush over to help whoever you just hit with your door.
"Oh my god- I'm so sorry..that was my bad!" You turn the corner to see who you hit. "are you ok-" you pause the moment you recognise him. His Indigo hair being the first thing that stood out to you, along with the jellyfish haircut he had, that looked as if he had cut it himself, and his slender toned figure that you could recognize anywhere.
You almost couldn't believe who you were looking at. "Shit.." He murmurs, then he looks up at you, violet eyes meeting yours, which snapped you back into reality.
You rush over to help him, "Here-" you offer a hand, but he snaps it away.
"Seriously, this is such a pain." He mutters, slowly gets up on his own, and brushing himself off.
"Im so sorry.. really." Were you being delusional, or was KuniWhisk really standing right in front of you?
"Its fine, just watch it next time." He looks at you for a moment, and back over to the door that just made impact with his face. "Your the new tenant right?" he asks, his eyes glancing back at you. Your only responds being a nervous nod. He makes a tsk sound with his mouth, "Shit- are you a fan?" he growled. You only look up at him in shock.
He took that as an answer, "Fuck- listen here" He loomed over you, wanting to make sure you really understood what he was about to tell you. "I've got no idea how you guys find out, but don't go off telling people where I live. Seriously- I don't want to deal with another move."
Did he really think you were a stalker? "I didn't do it on-"
"No. You guys are always invading my privacy. Taking pictures of me at the gym, following me down streets, and finding out where I live for the second time." he scoffs, "Seriously- don't talk to-"
"Can you like, shut up, for one second? I know you tend to speak your mind but shit, let me defend myself." you snap at him, and he only looks at you with wide eyes.
"First of all, I didn't know you lived here- Okay? I'm not such a creep to go stalking my favorite streamer. I moved here because I wanted a fresh start in the city and a place that allows pets. When I saw the listing, I signed without thinking twice. So no, I didn't expect meeting some famous streamer here, let alone you." you huff.
All you could do was glare at him, he didn't have anything to say? fine. Then you'd be the first to leave. With a quiet breath, you close your eyes and pinch the bridge of your nose. It looked like he needed a moment.
"Whatever." Your hand found the door handle, and you look straight into his eyes. "Sorry for your face" and you close that door.
A week goes by and KuniWhisk hasn't gone live, maybe you told him off a little too hard, maybe he didn't believe you and still thought you were a creep. Anyway- It wasn't your problem. Suddenly my phone buzzes with a notification.
You click on the notification on instinct. You expect to see the chat fill with comments but no one was saying anything, no one was gifting the moment they joined, and the views were only at 1, you. And Kuni? he was sitting in his chair, looking straight into the camera with a bottle of soju beside him.
"I found you. Yes I know this is your account. You said I was your favorite Streamer, so did some simple looking up and found you. My Lovely Stalkerish Neighbor." What the fuck. You roll your eyes and you were about to click out of his stream when you hear, "Don't leave yet." You pause when you hear him say that.
"Come on, Stay. Since i'm your favorite, why don't you stay a while?" he snickers as he takes a shot of soju. How much has he been drinking? You couldn't even believe this was happening right now, is this real?
You decide to send in a comment in chat.
Mouse_Cheese1 Commented: How much have you been drinking Kuni?
After a second it gets to him, which makes him smirk. "Oh, lookie.. They finally decided to say something." He takes another shot. "Only like 3 bottles." He presents the empty bottles in front of the camera, like he was showing merchandise. "Smooth, and a little bitter. It's my favorite brand." he goes silent for a second.
"Anyways that's not why I went live just for you." He swirls the bottle that still had a little soju inside. Turning towards the camera. "I invited you in here so we can talk about how things are going to run from now on-"
Mouse_cheese1 Commented: Can you like shut up?
You get up from your bed, and put on your jacket. It was dark outside and you didn't want to get cold when you beat him up.
His live was still running, "Huh? How dare you-" he barks, pausing mid sentence as a loud knock comes from his door. He pauses cartoonishly, and turns towards his door, then towards his chat.
Mouse_Cheese1 Commented: This is not a stupid Movie. Open up.
It was almost funny how he was tryna go about this, you never thought that the Streamer you would watch so much online would have such a childish side to him like this. You were his neighbor now, he should act like it. It was like he was tryna live a movie.
The live ends suddenly, and it takes him a minute to come and answer the door. I guess he was just embarrassed.
Click His door cracks open, and you help him open the rest of the way. "Your funny I'll give you that. But if you want to talk- Let's talk in person." You help yourself inside.
"Sure, just make yourself at home, whatever your name is" he grumbled sarcastically. Rubbing the back of his head.
"Its [Name]" You look at him up and down and he closes the door behind him.
"Well then [Name], you could have at least let me finish my Soju peacefully before you decide to just walk on over." He says as he takes another swig at the last bit of the Soju left in the bottle.
You roll your eyes, "Like you were saying?"
"Ooh right, I knew I was forgetting something." He sits on his couch, and I keep standing awkwardly. Not even knowing why I was in a situation like this anyways. "Sit." he says, pointing at the free spot on the other side of the couch.
He smiles knowingly. You feel like it was his way of saying 'Don't sit next to me, were not the same.' so grudgingly, you sit respectfully beside him, crossing your legs in a fit of dominance. Which his only way to respond to it was a chuckle. "Wow, you really are something you little stalker."
"Didn't I say Im not your stalker? It was unintentional." you huff.
"Well, you do still know who I am, so i'm going to have to ask you to keep your pretty mouth shut for me kay? I don't need my fans to know where I live got it?"
You pause for a second. "Sure.. but for 500 mora."
"500 mora? That's it?-" he chokes. "Then make it 1500 mora, I guess numbers like that are small for famous people like you."
He turns his body towards you, but you don't flinch, instead you stare straight back into his eyes and smile. "What are you going to do with 1500 mora?" he sighs and raises a brow at me.
"I'll pay this months rent with it." you pull your phone out.
He stares at you for a second, and then bursts into laughter. "Your the only human I know of that would waste free money in such a boring way."
"It's not boring. Its cost-effective." you defend yourself.
He pulls his phone out as well, "Mhm, well I guess you will be needing my number, I'll transfer the mora through there." You tap phones, and transfer contacts like that. After the exchange, you get up and head over to his door.
"Awh, here I thought we were going to hangout and become the best of friends~" he cood mockingly.
"I'll be heading out." your body hesitates for a second as you open the door to leave, turning your head to look at him. "see ya." You knew this wasn't going to be the last time you will hear of him.
A few weeks pass and you both haven't so much as talked. You would see each other in the hall when you would get home from work, but you would only wave hello without expecting a greeting back. The only thing you wanted to do was jump onto your bed and close your eyes.
He still went live almost everyday, and you would join them like usual. Every single time you joined, he would greet you casually. He didn't call your username out but you felt like you knew they were for you. It was like he was a completely different person online, a confident cocky attitude, and a flirty way of speaking. In person those qualities were only like half true.
You join the stream like usual, the chat was as active as usual, Kuni in his chair, staring into the camera with a pack of soju beside him.
"Hey hey.." He mumbles lowly into his mic as he looks off to a corner with a smirk on his lips, Is he planning on drinking all of that? he's going to get sick. After a few minutes of game play he decapped his first bottle, taking a few victory shots after every win, celebrating with his chat on how great he was.
Then another hour- another 3, he finished his first pack, and pulls out another pack from under his desk, placing it on the desk in front of him to show the audience.
"Should- mm.. Should I drink this chat? I could finish this entire set easy~" he asks them, everyone in the chat encouraging him.
If he keeps on going like this he's definitely going to get sick. I guess it was because you watched him so much that you were caring a little much for his health. Especially now that he's your neighbor, you were seeing him more than just a guy online with bad habits.
You press send, Mouse_Cheese1 sent 5 Mora!- You should lay it off with the drinks, you will get too sick to play the game right.
The chat disagrees, trying to convince him to keep drinking. Kuni looks up at the camera, then off somewhere with a small smirk. The chat just fills with comments, disappointed that he looked like he was considering it.
StacyMellon4 Commented: Nooo, Keep drinking!
KunisLeftEaring Commented: Drink Drink Drink!!
Whiskers_Nel567 Commented: LOL
He looked at his chat for a minute, reading off some of the comments aloud. "Keep drinking..? Hmph. Do you guys want me to get sick?" he snickers, "Wow, some.. hic some fans you are" His chat making a complete 180, filling with concerned and worried for him- comments.
"Nah, you guys hate me." He mumbles as he rests his head on his arm. Was he trying to look cute or something?, because it was working. His chat was eating that shit up.
He looks up at the camera again, and sighs. "Yeah whatever, I'll be off. Streams done." he stumbles slightly as he gets up to cover his camera. His fans and everyone watching trying to apologize, begging for him to not end the stream, but he ignores them. "Byee." The stream ends. And his fans were left all alone again, including yourself.
You sigh to yourself as you turn to lay on your back, looking up at the popcorn ceiling that hovered right above you. What if a single piece of that popped off and landed in your eye.
Ding, KuniATM Messaged You: You home?
You take a look at your phone, your heart skipping a beat for a second, you didn't know why it did, but it did.
You: Yeahh i'm home, Whats up?
KuniATM: Just come ober, doors un locked.
He was definitely drunk with spelling like that. You slowly get up from your bed and walk over to your front door, grabbing your jacket on your way out. You stand at his door for a minute, twisting the door handle slowly and peek in. "Hello?" you call out.
You walk in, looking around his apartment, noticing things you didn't the first time you came. Like the purple and black checkered tapestry hanging across the wall, and the YouTube Golden Play Button hanging on his wall. Strange, never knew he ran on youtube too.
"I'm over he- here" you heard his muffled voice from a different room.
Ignoring all sparkling trophies on the way over to his room, you slowly peak into his room and catch Kuni drinking up the last bottle to the 'fresh' pack that he had presented on the live just a few minutes ago. "I thought you said you weren't going to drink those."
"I never said I wasn't. G-going to drink them hic" he mumbles.
you sigh, what a waist of 5 mora. Could have gotten yourself a drink somewhere with that, or maybe at least a pack of gum. You have been needing that..
It's been easier talking to him. A good morning everyday for every single rising sun helped you accustom to talking to a big time celebrity. Especially with a face like that to look at everyday, hitting on him felt like you would be pushing it. Thank you Archons for this blessing.
"Just because you.. hic, sent me 5 moras- and told me not to drin-k, doesn't g-guarantee I wouldn't drink"
You walk over to him, glancing at his set up, then the popular background we see in every stream. This really was amazing. He sat there tiredly in his gaming chair, his face pink from the drinks he likely chugged down. Not sure what he was up too at all.
"Seriously." you look down at him, "Your so complicated. You shouldn't have drank this much." you tilt the empty bottle of soju on his desk. Impressed he drank so much, yet also concerned.
"Ugh, Why hic why do you care?" he barks.
"Why did you text me to come over?" you snap back. He stays silent, and looks away. "hmph."
"Right." You start to grab all the soju bottles that he had huddled up on his desk, throwing them in the trash can that you saw in the kitchen. It only took you like 5 minutes to clean up, finally prioritizing your idiot neighbor.
"Just call me Kuni. It's fiine." he mutters.
I must have not been calling him by anything out loud. You sit on the edge of his bed with no shame and cross your legs to get comfortable. "Come here." you pat the free space beside you.
He stays silent, but doesnt think much about it and sits beside you. He was surprisingly willing to sit next to you.
"I'll have you know, hic, we aren't going to do anything." he swung his arms out in a X, he only stated the obvious. I caused you raise a brow in amusement.
"Oh? and what made you think I would do something?" you smirk.
He turned his face away from you, annoyed. His cheeks looking oddly pinker than they did a second ago.
"Or did you want me to do something?" you teased. "Mm? Maybe I diid." Unexpected, but still, he was way too drunk to know what he's saying in the first place.
"Welp, unLucky for you, I don't like hitting on drunk guys, let alone make a move on someone who isn't sober." You shrug it off, hoping to make him feel safe. For some reason he looked at you like he was disappointed. Seriously, this guy..
You sigh. "Anyways, I cleaned up here a bit. Get some rest, you will need it. Your head will hurt in the morning especially with the amount you drank tonight."
"it's not that hic, muuch." He laid back on bed, unconsciously obediently listening to you. Like a robot just following commands.
"Yes it was. Why did you even drink all that anyways." It felt like you might of been prying too much, maybe even being a little too friendly. You two have barely talked all that much, apart from listening to him scream when your watching his lives. I mean, you felt like he's probably way more uncomfortable than you were.
Though yet again, maybe today was the day you two could get a little closer. "I wanted to see hic if I was right.." he mumbled, he was already falling asleep. "Right about what?"
"None of your business.." His voice dips down as he fell asleep, losing himself in the darkness behind his eyes. Yay. Now your going to die of curiosity. Its fine, maybe he i'll ask him tomorrow, we should be close enough at this rate. Your body shutters, what if he doesn't remember anything and leaves you out in the dust? That's something to worry about later.
"Your an idiot." You sigh, covering him up with a blanket you found in his closet. "Sleep well." you turn off the lights to his room and close the door gently and then simply went home to get some shut eye of your own.
Honestly, looking out for this guy was way easier than you thought it would be. When you finally made it home you fell onto your bed, looking up at your popcorn ceiling again. Your heart skipped a little. You don't think you would mind falling for him. After all it was ok to feel like that, a lot of fans develop little crushes on their idols.
A little crush never hurt nobody.
Morning rolls around and you got ready for work as usual. You grabbed your bags and keys like usual, and you smelled the fresh breeze the ran through the wind like usual, but Kuni was not going out for a coffee like usual. Which made a flicker of worry cross through your mind, did he get sick like you said? Did he just have a really bad hangover? You decided to ignore it, and you didnt didn't receive any text from him until the afternoon rolled by.
What a strange way to start a conversation.
You: Yes, I was there last night.
He took a second to reply.
KuniATM: I didn't say anything right?
You thought it would be a good idea to mess with him, maybe make him think he said something embarrassing.
He just almost exploded right there, the possibility that he could have said something stupid while drunk sankin his mind.
KuniATM: Forget about it then.
Why was he getting so anxious? Being able to notice that through some text is some next level shit. Curiosity filled your mind now, and just some text and some dry words weren't enough.
You knock on his door. You hear a soft thump at his door, like there was someone pressing against it. You glance at the peephole and smile, giving him a nice presentation. He slowly opens the door, and you walk in shamelessly.
"Your suppose to ask to come in. Isn't that common sense?" he retorted.
"For someone who invited me over last night, made me clean up their mess for them, and then also take care of a drunkie? Do you have no shame~" You teased.
He scoffs, "Says you, Little Stalker." he watches you as your make yourself at home.
At this point you were sure he's made 'Little Stalker' your nickname or something. It didn't bother you at all, you were used to hearing his constant bickering, so Kuni teasing you about the situation that's been resolved was ineffective.
You walked familiarly in his house, completely unbothered. Coming to him straight up would be the way to go right? These thoughts filling your mind. You wanted them to be true. Well, you wanted to feed your own delusions even it it was for just a second.
"Why are you here anyway?" he huffed. You only peak to look at him, like you wanted to hear something out of him. He feels his cheeks blush, surely she was meaning something else. "Thanks for yesterday." He says instantly.
“Your welcome, but that's not what I was talking about." You droop onto his couch.
“Yesterday, you obviously had something to say.”
“I mean, you didn’t drink all of that, call me over, for nothing right?” You snicker.
“What are you- it’s not that deep!” he barks at you, “I wanted to drink thats all!”
“I wanted to see if I was right?” You quoted. You wanted to keep teasing him. It did take matter if you were wrong or not. His balls up his fist like he was angry, his face was telling a different story, with his cheeks flushed pink.
“I think the heat from the sun had made you go stupid.” He murmurs angrily, leaning over you, his arms on each side of your head. “It meant nothing. Can’t you listen? Or are you deaf?” He growls. His cheeks still pink. It was amusing, but slightly intimidating.
“Archons your attractive, no wonder fans love you..” You mumble under your breath, but he heard you loud in clear. Causing him to lean back a little in shock. “What?”
Fufu, “Oh my bad~ I didn’t think you would hear that.” He only closes his eyes in defeat. “[Name]..” he growls angrily.
End of this one. Honestly, took me way longer, since I ran out of inspiration. And just started leaning towards an animated writing style. 😵💫
But I love the beginning. I want to write more about this AU, i just need more ideas, and better knowledge on character growth.
Anyways. Love this draft, hope you love this one too.
