Omegaverse SKK AU where Chuuya is selected as the surrogate for the child of prestigious Mori Corp CEO Dazai Osamu and his wife, Michiko.
CW // mpreg
Michiko is enthusiastic about the pregnancy, and insists that Chuuya temporarily moves in with them. To be fair, Chuuya
doesn’t really mind — Dazai’s house is huge, and he can have a /driver/ to the pre-school where he works. A damn driver. It’s like living in a fairytale.
The first weeks go smoothly.
Dazai is a pain in the ass and an obnoxious asshole, but Michiko isn’t bad at all.
It’s fine.
Until Chuuya starts to notice little odd things.
Michiko /doesn’t/ want this baby.
She doesn’t even want her husband. She sure as hell pities Chuuya.
All she wanted was to live up to the peer pressure of being an accomplished upper-class wife with a good husband and a child.
But that same peer pressure is crushing her, day after day.
She gets a little bit more irritated with every discussion she and Dazai have, even thought they never really argue, until /Chuuya/ and Dazai are the ones who mostly take care of the baby’s arrival.
The people around them wanted this child.
Dazai agreed to shut them up and Michiko followed her instructions with the customary meekness of a good omega and a good wife.
Even worse: Chuuya is technically carrying Dazai’s baby, and the alpha has /no/ business being so charming.
It’s not like Chuuya is falling for the father of this child.
And it’s no big deal, because after the birth he’ll be the fuck out of this marriage and away from him.
But it’s really no surprise at all, for Chuuya, when he wakes up to a note from Michiko: /I’m sorry, I can’t/.
At Chuuya’s seventh month, Dazai wakes up to divorce papers.
And it’s suddenly just him and Chuuya, a handsome pre-school teacher who turned from literal /stranger/ to part of a marriage Dazai thought was cruising smoothly.
Them and a baby.
And Dazai /so/ not ready to be a single parent, but he’s never been one to admit defeat.
He’s possessive, too, and this child is /his/.
So they opt for the only thing that seems possible to avoid a mess: they go on with the pregnancy and stick together for the time being.
Enter here 100k of strangers to lovers 😌
100k Chuuya feeling guilty and being addressed as a social climber who is somehow to blame for Michiko’s actions, while Dazai is trying see himself as a single parent — all the while falling for Chuuya a little harder every day.
Because they /could/ be together, Michiko left, but Dazai is not ready and Chuuya is scared.
It all happened too suddenly, not on their terms.
And Chuuya is not ready to be a father — he was just the surrogate omega, damn it! — but he also doesn’t want to give up on Dazai.
Because Chuuya likes him, he likes him /a lot/, and hates himself for it.
He’s also not the kind of person who would leave a baby (/his/ baby) alone in a society that looks more like an arena full of lions and snakes. No wonder Michiko fled.
So he fights.
And he stays.
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Ok but listen. AU where Soulmates can communicate telepathically.
Cut to Soukoku: the most devastating partnership the mafia ever had.
An understanding so complete that also comes from the fact that— well, they /do/ hear each other thoughts.
They /have/ a deeper connection.
Nobody knows it because they always refused to address their unwanted connection, but—
but /they/ know.
They both try to ignore their link after Dazai defects. Sometimes they still talk, sometimes they argue.
Chuuya does his best to respect Dazai’s mourning, to keep out of the
brunet’s head while he remembers his best friend.
And then, on some nights, Chuuya gets /really/ drunk and angry.
Dazai ignores him, letting the redhead shout into the void while he rolls on the side and tries to focus on the pillow under him and not on the voice in his head.
Thinking of Paper Rings SKK taking a six-months Europe rail trip so Dazai can find inspiration for his new novel
They land in Paris first, have a big fight in Prague (Dazai runs after Chuuya under the rain on Charles Bridge) and Chuuya proposes first in Saint Petersburg 🥲
(Dazai had planned the same proposal for when they got back to Yokohama, and that’s how he knows /this/ time is the right one).
Of course, it’s not always all good.
They miss a lot of trains. Sometimes they get lost. Chuuya tries to speak Spanish and they end up with a weird
and non-alcoholic drink that is not even remotely Agua de Valencia (look, he /tried/!).
At some point, Dazai is /so/ frustrated with his work that he threatens to take the first flight back to Japan.
But, for every explosive fight they have there’s twice as heated make up sex.
Verlaine’s blond eyebrows rise, a mix of sharp amusement and /pity/ written all over his face.
“Oh /please/,” he says. “Don’t insult me.”
Chuuya presses himself against the cabinets, wishing he could just dig a hole for himself and hide.
He refuses to meet the man’s gaze.
He’s a sharp, handsome individual, Paul Verlaine.
He carries himself in a way that is too sophisticated for a small, family-run temple in the middle of the mountains, but his presence is always /graceful/ and never suffocating.
And he /loves/ both his nephews.
That doesn’t mean he’s merciful when Chuuya fucks up.
“Was it that obvious?” Chuuya asks, voice thin.
“What to you think?”
“/Well/, I’m sorry.”
The muttered apology comes from the bottom of his heart. Well, he /is/ sincerely mortified about getting caught.