TURBULENT / XIAOVEN

nineteen

authors notes: er... i know this chapter is a bit longer than usual so i will say this: i hate writing torture scenes so these r not very descriptive bc writing my favs getting the shit beat out of them is not my favorite.. no offense <3

ermm u all may not like hu tao but that's Ok! she's not a good person but tbh nobody in xiao's family (including xiao) is a good person LOLL

also xiao is 16 & kunikuzushi is 17 during this so no weird comments yknow..

ALSO posting this early so by next update, i'll be 19!!! HOLY SHIT!!!! me xiao and venti in this fic boutta be age besties amg.... ok but jokes aside thank yall for making the past year (since yknow. with love. if u were there for that) soso good anyway mwuah mwuah ily guys!

cws—

explicit: injections/needles, kidnapping, abuse, dehumanization &
implied: stalking, stockholm syndrome, experimentation on a minor, past abusive sibling relationship, scars, hints of dysphoria, regression to cope i think.

lmk if i missed any!

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kunikuzushi has always hated the idea of zombie apocalypses. it's not like it because they were scary in movies and such, it was just plain old fucking stupid to him. just don't get bit and don't be an idiot in the apocalypse is basically what he stands by and yet, in nearly every media with zombies, nobody seems to abide by the second rule. 

he vividly remembers how he used to argue with xiao (well, er, jinpeng at this time) about how awful and stupid some of the people in zombie apocalypse like situations were. kunikuzushi would be so passionate about what he would do and such in these situations that xiao eventually asked him, 

"if i got bit, do you think you'd shoot me?" 

kunikuzushi laughed, "one, fuck yeah, you're not biting me. secondly, i don't think you'd manage to even get bitten, you're like, so insane. i think you'd be too busy with something else to even deal with zombies." 

xiao laughed, "yeah, right." 

kunikuzushi wished that he wasn't right. it's not like he hoped to be tortured while there were flesh eating zombies loose. 

the first day that everything had happened was awful. people screaming in the streets as cars sped by, not even caring for human lives anymore. kunikuzushi didn't know what to do. i mean sure, he had jokingly made plans that were extremely detailed and planned out but those were like, jokes. duh. 

all he could do was stand in silence, he couldn't move. this wasn't real, too much was happening. his phone buzzed in his pocket and without hesitation, he picked it up. 

"kunikuzushi?" came a shaky voice from the other line. 

"ei?" he asks as he pauses to listen to her more. 

"is it happening there, too?" she asks and almost immediately his heart drops from the sound of her voice. 

"y..yeah. i don't- i don't know what's going on," kunikuzushi says and he can hear rustling on the other end of the line and screams are heard in the background of both of their lines.

"okay," she says as he can practically hear her nod, "i just wanna say i love you and all that shit because i don't know if we're going to be able to leave or anything like that." 

kunikuzushi freezes, "what? you can leave! there's boats leaving every day!"

he hears ei sigh, "do you think i don't know that? yae and i don't have enough money for both of us, only one of us can go."