Blueberry Ice Cream - a yoruXfem.reader novel

Chapter 2

He grabs your wrist and pulls you to face him. You see a glimpse of the future: eating blueberry ice cream with this guy. The fuck? Why would I want to get ice cream with this bastard?  You twist your wrist free of his hand. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," you tell him. 'Wow. She doesn't even ask for my name', he thinks. 'Shame. Those are some beautiful green eyes though.'  You ignore his thoughts and focus on his words instead.

"And why would I be scared of the newest agent here?" he scoffed. "Because of this," you reply. In a flash you have him in a choke hold. "I will kill you if you ever dare to touch me again," you whisper in his ear. After a slight delay you release his neck. You glare at him as he rubs his neck. Bastard got what he deserved.

You leave him standing in the corridor with an unreadable expression. You're too far away from him to read his thoughts, so you have no clue what he's thinking. And frankly, you couldn't care less about this bastard. 

Then why does he keep filling your thoughts later that night when you try to fall asleep?

timeskip oooooo

The next day you wake up at 6 again. When you get to the mess hall for breakfast, you see the guy from yesterday sitting at a table over with Phoenix, Jett, and Skye. You ask Raze what his name is. "Oh, that's Yoru! I can't believe you didn't see him yesterday at the meeting. He was staring at you from the moment you entered the room!" she responds. "Right, Killjoy?" she says as she nudges her (totally girlfriend) who nods in agreement. You grumble that "Yes, I did see the bastard," but you see Neon almost drop her tray and the lovebirds across from you don't press you on the matter. You levitate Neon's breakfast and bring it to your table with your power. Neon, obviously exhausted, staggers to your table and sits down. "Thanks," she mumbles to you and eats her food. 

You decide to check in on her, since she usually is full of energy. You read her mind and realize that she had horrible nightmares last night and couldn't sleep. Neon inhales her breakfast like usual, but a bit slower this time. "Neon, amiga, how are you feeling? You don't look too good." Raze asks her, clearly concerned. "I didn't get much sleep last night." Neon replies as she yawns. Killjoy tells her, "Go sleep right now. I'll send Lark to wake you up when you're needed." Neon protests and says, "But I have to work on the teleporter with youuuuuuuu." Raze stands up and puts her hands on Neon's shoulders. "Amiga, she's right, you know. Get some rest."

"Fine." You nod your agreement and Neon says bye and leaves the mess hall.  "You should probably follow her to make sure she doesn't fall asleep in a corridor," says Killjoy with a shake of her head. "Yeah, that's probably a good idea," you reply and get up, levitate four empty trays, and place them in the tray return section as you leave the mess hall. Right before you leave the room, you feel that you're being watched. You look back and see Yoru staring at you, then once he realizes that you know that he's staring at you, he blushes and looks away. Weird.

You follow Neon and find her leaning against a wall of the corridor, obviously asleep. Killjoy, you're a genius. An actual one. You levitate Neon with your power and walk to her room. Taking her key and opening the door, you're greeted by her colorful room. You set her down on her bed, being careful to not disturb her, knowing that she's a light sleeper. After quietly closing the door and attaching her keys to your keys, you walk to your room. You can't shake the feeling that you're being watched, so you run to your room and lock the door.

Soon, Brimstone calls you to his office. When you get there, Yoru is spinning around in a swivel chair and Commander is sitting behind his desk with a bunch of papers on it. Both men look up. You don't check Brim's thoughts, but you read Yoru's. 'Oh for fuck's sake! Lark's my partner. It just HAS to be the one person who I can't tolerate for a single fucking second even when she's not even near me.' What the fuck? He thinks about me?

The commander had called you to his office to assign you to defend a point on Venice from our Mirror Earth counterparts. "Yes. The same part of Venice they already lifted into the sky," he sighed and shook his head. "The two of you leave in two days. You better work together." When he dismissed us, both of us were thinking the same thing. 'I have to be partners with HER, of all agents? This is unfair.' he thought, while you thought I have to be partners with HIM, of all agents? This is unfair. Even though both of you shared thoughts, both were for different reasons. 

You couldn't tolerate his arrogant attitude. Yoru had very different things that made him both hate and love you at the same time.

A few hours later, you were walking to Neon's room a minute earlier than Brim's voice rang through the intercom thanks to your foresight ability. You knock on Neon's door to wake her up then enter. She was still asleep, so you wake her up by humming her favorite tune. Neon asks you, "Lark, what are you doing in my room?" You point a finger at the speakers in her room as Brimstone calls you, Yoru, Killjoy, Raze, and Cypher to a meeting concerning the mission in two days. 

"Didn't want you to wake up to that," you tell her as you give her her keys back and leave her room. You pause at the doorway, and say, "Oh, and make sure to visit Sage about those nightmares. I hear she has a remedy for them," making sure to stay in range of your mind reading to hear her think, 'How does she know about those? However she knows, I guess Lark's right. I should talk to Sage about my nightmares.'  

At the meeting, Brimstone assigns the five of you to the mission, with you being the leader. You and Yoru are to defend site A on the floating piece of Venice. Raze and Killjoy are assigned to defend site B and Cypher to keep control of the area between both sites. Two days later, you're wearing a black jacket over a light teal blouse and ripped jeans, your teal and lilac pistol in the holster on your waist, and you are getting onto the Vulture. Sitting as far away from Yoru as you possibly can on the Vulture (VALORANT's aircraft), you don't look at him. Yoru, however is staring at you very intently. Raze and Killjoy definitely notice something strange. Cypher is mysterious as always. 

You hear Cypher think, 'So opposites do attract. One's in denial and the other is lusting for her attention,' then he chuckles. The fuck? I hate that bastard. I'd rather see him dead than hug him. Well. I suppose it would be better if he stayed alive. Then at least I get to annoy the shit out of him. Still doesn't mean I like him. You fall into deep thought on the trip to Venice. Yoru looks at your concentration face. The way your brows furrow make him smile. 

You catch him smiling and you blush. He only stares harder until your face is beet red and can't go any redder. Your focus broken, you hear each thought that goes through every agent's mind. Raze and Killjoy are both thinking about how you made Yoru smile for the first time ever. They are also both thinking about how you're blushing. Both think that there's something other than hate that connects the two. What the fuck?

You hear Yoru's thoughts. They somehow made you blush even more. 'I love her face when she's angry.' They went on like that for however long the flight took, and all the while you're as red as a beet and thinking about ways to kill the bastard that's staring at you with a decent excuse. Shooting him then claiming that he got shot by someone else? That would work for a bit, but when Sage inevitably revived him he would make it his personal mission to take revenge on you.

Drop a really heavy object like a microwave on his head? That wouldn't work at all. There aren't even any microwaves around here! A small yell of frustration escapes your lips as you bury your red face in your knees. You let the thoughts of the four agents around you fill the time. You hear the three agents that aren't Yoru think that he's 'down bad' as they watch him stare at me for the whole flight. You watch yourself and Yoru through Raze's descriptive thoughts. Soon enough, though, Yoru's thoughts about you block out the other agent's thoughts, which makes you want to take your pistol out and shoot yourself in the head. 

a/n

thx for reading so far! this is the first of the chapters that appeared at around 2 am from an exhausted brain? suggestions are welcome :)

chapter summary: 

brimmy with da stimmy calls y/n and yoru to his office to assign the two of you to the mission in a few days. on the flight there, yoru has some strange thoughts about you...