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Goto Ryuji

Tags: fluff • confession • shopaholic • close friends • 11:11

Warning: slight swearing

🚧 Lemon zest

WC 1161

Korean A-rank Yn and S-rank Ryuji. Friends. He had "free time" and Yn wanted to meet to go shopping. Goto Ryuji saw the 11:11 posters all over the streets and he asked.

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[ ryuji's p.o.v. ]

📌 seoul, korea

Goto Ryuji threw himself on his bed. He just finished a meeting with his fellow S-rank Japanese hunters and they were quite a handful of kids as usual.

His phone began to ring, he groaned but picked up his phone and before he could reply hello, "Get out, we're going shopping." Demand the voice on the other line.

That is why he is out in the middle of the streets walking together with his "close friend", Tai Yn-shin.

"What do you want to buy now?" He grumbled but in all honesty, it was a good thing they finally have some alone time together.

After the successful Jeju raid, Korea and Japan did a union and would usually do a partnership between the two countries. The Japanese S-rank hunters met Yn because she was working under the association Korean president and she knew how to speak Japanese. The Japanese S-rank hunters were all over Yn because she speaks Japanese so well.

Ryuji was called by the Korean hunter association to do some approvals and papers together with the other S-class Japanese hunters too, meaning all of them flew to Korea. Which also meant that he couldn't even talk to her unless it was for work and without anybody interrupting them or abducting Yn away. So when she called him personally, he was beyond enthusiastic but kept to himself.

He may or may not have a slight liking towards the woman he is walking along with.

"Come over here." He guided her away from the main street and switch places with her.

"What a gentleman." She taunted at him.

"I have a face to maintain after all." He taunted back at her.

Maybe these teasing of her made him fall for her. The way she would sneer and snort out a witty comeback. Or maybe the way she would softly smile while her eyes are also smiling.

Yn bought a bunch of new clothes and shoes because it's November and almost the holiday. While walking and shopping, Ryuji kept seeing the 11:11 word everywhere and lots of ribbons and package gifts like. Even the resto they are eating at had 11:11 signboard outside.

"What are these?" Ryuji pointed at the 11:11 sign on their table.

"Oh, those? It's almost November 11, right? That's like second Valentine's here, kind of like pocky. Do you want to try too?"

He asked, "What do I do about them?"

"You gift them to your love ones. I bet the ones we ordered had Pepero sticks on them." Yn explained, feeling pumped up and eager to eat.

"How about those in packs?" Ryuji pointed at the table near the entrance. They were in fancy and cute boxes, they don't look like commercialised, prepared and wrapped by the resto itself.

"Those are for special love ones, kind of like confessing during Valentine's day," Yn explained more.

Confession huh? He thought carefully.

Yn is well-liked by everyone, like almost every single soul. She radiates like a burst of sunshine, a cheerful person, and very funny.

It was easy to fall for her, just difficult to confess.

He tried so many times to find time to confess to her. Even to the point of booking a flight just to see her even for 10 minutes and them going back to Japan. But alas, their conversation never went there smoothly. Yn also has a busier job than Ryuji. And when Yn has a day off, he was off to do some dungeon task and it pissed him so bad.

When their order came in -pesto and carbonara plus two iced tea- there were also two small cupcakes along with it. "It's in the house." The smiling waitress replied and left them to eat.

Ryuji had a chocolate cupcake with strawberry pepero while Yn had a strawberry cupcake with chocolate pepero. Chocolate is indeed his favourite. So when she pulled out the chocolate pepero stick and poke in his cupcake.

He was stunned.

"That looks like a confession silly." He teased at her, waiting for a laugh.

But she didn't. Instead, their eyes met together but she was staring right into his soul. "What do you think then?"

Ryuji didn't know what to say. He broke their eye contact, simply ate and swallowed, processing what she just said. It took a moment before Yn started eating too, it was so quiet between even if the resto was so packed with customer and loud voices.

He can feel the pressure around the air.

Confess now, idiot. He pushed himself, pinching his legs to try and man up.

"Yn-" But Yn cut him off.

"The pasta was so good right?" She complimented the dish they had, sipping her iced tea.

He jerked. "Yeah, it was." He answered way too fast and robotically.

Fucking idiot.

Yn was busy looking over the window, her eyes following the people passing by with all smiles and laughs. While she plays with the ice in her glass looking a little weary.

Inhale. Exhale.

"Yn." He called her name softly.

"Hmm?" She hummed in response, staring back at him, it was like an angel's humming.

Fuck it.

Ryuji pulled off the strawberry covered sticks from his cupcake and thrust onto her cupcake. Yn was watching with no idea about what he just did. Her eyes wide open and it looked like she was processing what he did. Ryuji won't lie but he didn't think about it too much.

"Do you... Do you realize what this suggests right?" She asked him, her eyes big and promising.

"I do, and I hope- Oof!" Ryuji thought he was attacked by a bear from how sudden Yn threw herself all over him.

Yn engulfed him in a big hug than Ryuji have ever received in his entire life. She squeezed him so tightly and he squeezed back at her. He could smell her hair that was so good that gives tingles across his spine. Even the vanilla perfume that he gifted to her back then.

He could smell it a hundred times better and more intense.

"Ryuji- I-" she coaxed out, unable to find her words.

He stares into her eyes, pushing off a strand of hair away so he could see her brown eyes looking ay him back. "I know, baby. I know." He replied knowingly

She was surprised. "Ba...by?"

"Well, unless you want me to call you something else."

"Baby is good." She decided and pulled in for another hug

He hugged her back, tight and long hug. "I'm glad." He murmured into her ears.

"Took you so long."

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