a mutually arranged attachment. [yoriichi tsugikini x reader]

『♡』chapter six: deja vu

 Sunday nights had always been the bane of your existence. The way you procrastinated all your assignments and did them at the very last minute was very on brand of you, but you quite literally just could not help it. You always contemplated if it would be easier to buy aderrall from your neighbor, but it somehow had always slipped your mind. You stared at your computer screen as your mind wandered off to him. You really couldn't help it. I mean just yesterday you and your friends were talking about how you're beginning a courtship and how you and Yoriichi had to have a conversation about it, but your phone has remained silent. He made no attempts of trying to contact you. It both relieved you and made you tense with anticipation. You wanted to text him and ask him what the fuck was up, but honestly? He needed to contact you first. It only made sense for him to, right?

Either way you were very much fighting the urge to text him what exactly was going on. He definitely owed you an explanation, but for now you were in Yoriichi purgatory and it was starting to feel like an eternity trapped in the unknown. You finished the last of your reflection and closed all your tabs which was relieving to say the least. It was always satisfying watching all of them getting deleted one by one knowing you were completely finished. You sighed as you got up to get ready to go to bed. You went to the bathroom and flicked the lights on and suddenly you had a eerie feeling that made the hairs on the back on your neck creep up. You tried to ignore it as you turned on the shower and stepped in letting the steamy water hit your skin, but even as you tried to scrub at your skin like you did your own thoughts the feeling wouldn't leave you. You felt like someone was watching you and you couldn't shake it.

It was as if your mind was playing tricks on you because you began to see shadows forming behind your shower curtains and you pulled them back quickly to see nothing there. You sighed as you pulled the curtains back to their original place and shook your head.

"You're okay, [name]." You muttered to yourself. You weren't sure who you were trying to reassure because it definitely wasn't yourself.

As you finished up, you could've sworn you heard something rustle in your room on the other side of the door, but you felt very done with being paranoid. You began your nightly routine of brushing your teeth and hair and washing your face and then you heard another noise and it was a bit louder this time. You felt your heart begin to beat against your chest as you applied your face lotion and rushed to put some clothes on just in case someone had broken into your apartment. If someone had managed to get in, how did you not hear it?

Millions of thoughts were rushing in your mind as you tried to find anything to defend yourself with. You silently cursed to yourself when you remembered your taser and pepper spray were in your bag that was on top of your bed.

"Perfect timing, [name]." You whispered frustrated at yourself. Your eyes scanned the room and they finally landed on the wooden back scratcher that Shinobu had gifted to you when her and her family went to Osaka last summer.

I guess this will have to do...

You secured your hair back with a hair claw and inserted a spare razor blade in between the spaces of hair that was pulled back just in case your attacker grabbed at your hair. You felt your throat dry up as you reached for the door handle and you opened it carefully checking the dimly lit room.

Of course, you only had your desk lamp on. It was dark in all the wrong corners of the room and you slowly emerged from the bathroom as you tightly clutched the wooden makeshift weapon. As soon as you felt the coast was mildly clear, you rushed to your bag on your bed to find your pepper spray and taser.

You dumped out the contents of your bag and your eyes landed on your pink and purple taser and pepper spray, but as your reached to grab it you felt someone cover your mouth and put you flush against their chest. The feeling of your heart dropping to your feet was enough to send you into fight or flight mode. You instinctively lifted your leg and centered it as best as possible to send it to your captors groin. The sound of them groaning was your signal to launch forward and grab your pepper spray. Without a second thought you began to spray at the shadowed figure.