Double Black

rumours fly, whenever you lie

A/N: This is a sequel to inter-department relationship (around part 70?) but ofc this can also be read as a standalone!

There was a certain rumour going around in Yokohama University.

Naturally, in a big university like this one, rumours about various students and teachers was not uncommon by any means. People liked to talk, and they'd pretty much take any topic they got. At the very least, gossip and rumours were more interesting than the laws of gravitation and all that.

A few months ago, there had been a rumour circulating amongst a particular group of Physics students. This group happened to take Professor Nakahara's Physics class, and that fit, considering the rumour in question was about that person. It used to be pretty commonly said that Professor Nakahara was actually married. Nobody knew who it was, or if the rumour was even true, but a good number of people believed it rather easily.

Nakahara Chuuya was an attractive man, after all. It wouldn't be strange for him to have a lover, or be married. Aside from the students, quite a few teachers, who happened to be Chuuya's friends, used to believe in the rumour as well. For example, Yosano Akiko, the biology teacher. She'd thought that Chuuya definitely had a partner, but she didn't go far as thinking he might be married.

To say the least, she was very surprised when the truth was revealed. It had happened on one of those very annoying 'Bring Your Family to Work' day. The professors were requested to bring their spouses and their kids, and the students were welcome to attend university that day, even if it's just to meet their teachers' families. Of course, it was also beneficial for fostering inter-departmental relationships.

Which is why, the revelation of Professor Nakahara's husband came as such a shock to a lot of people. As it turned out, the rumour had been true, and Chuuya was married to a man. A literature professor at the same university, named Dazai Osamu. It had been especially surprising considering that Chuuya always claimed to absolutely hate that particular literature professor. 

But those two professors actually ended up being married, and for the two or so months following this revelation, the students got to see the two of them being very natural around each other. It wouldn't be uncommon to run into Dazai and Chuuya taking their lunch break together in the campus cafeteria, or going over to each others' staff rooms to grade papers together. It was very wholesome, even if those two could be rather traumatising at times.

Like, it definitely wasn't normal to insist that you hated your husband a lot, right? And it definitely was weird that such declarations was followed by fond looks towards said husband. Not normal at all.

But well, such a rumour all those weeks ago wasn't as bad as this one. The rumour going around campus as of now was about the same two people; Dazai-sensei and Chuuya-sensei. Apparently, people were speculating that those two were due for an impending divorce.

A divorce!!

Dazai-san and Chuuya-san!

Wasn't that absolutely unnatural? They might be a little eccentric in their methods of being in a relationship, but they definitely loved each other. In fact, they have been married for over four years, so there's no way they would even dare to consider such a ridiculous idea as getting a divorce, ne?

There's no way it's true. Especially, a divorce without even informing their beloved children (read: students) beforehand?! Absolutely preposterous.

Since there was no way such a rumour could be true, but there must be a reason for people to talk about a thing like this, two certain groups of students decided to meet up and talk about this. Lunch break was the only, and hence the perfect, time for the Physics and Literature students to gather together and discuss such important affairs. As expected, they were Chuuya-san and Dazai-san's students respectively.