Ardent Hope: Chainsaw Man x Male Reader Insert.

8. Eternity.

Denji was promptly awakened by Himeno, who poked his face with her finger. He took a deep sigh before yawning.

"Can we leave the eight floor now?" Denji asked her, straight to the point.

"Hate to disappoint you, but it looks like we're still stuck." Himeno answered. A slight frown on her expression. "While you were sleeping, we learned we can use the water, and electricity. As far as food goes, there was a little bit in the luggage the hotel guests left behind when they ran, but to be honest with you, everybody's been pretty worn down." She got up from the bed, straightening her back and stretching. "Arai was helping Aki at first, but he has shut himself up in a room, and refuse to come out. As for Kobeni, she completely lost it and tried to drink from a room's toilet, so I had to knock her down."

Denji chuckled for a moment before keeping asking questions to her. "And what about the other three?"

"Aki's been hunting for the devil nonstop. I've been trying to get him to take a break, but he won't listen." She said. "The fiend was strenuously talking to (Y/N), something about winning a nobel prize, even though I think she doesn't know what they are exactly. So he tried to talk her down, at first, but upon his failure he stepped out of the room to help Aki hunt the devil down." Denji stretched and started to get up from the bed. "Unfortunately, Power left right at his side. Poor Aki right now must want to kill them both."

"Then, I'll use my nobel prize as a stepping stone to become prime minister!" Power constantly moved her hands, motioning and explaining everything she thought about in the short span Denji was asleep. "I want to watch humans suffer, so my first act as a prime minister will be to implement a hundred percent sales tax!"

Power stopped walking, and judging by the expression of her gestures, she was expecting an excited applause from them both. Aki and (Y/N) looked at each other before resuming their walk, leaving Power behind. "Yeah yeah, you're really demonic, Power." (Y/N) muttered lowly as he kept walking.

"Seriously, you two are such a no fun!" Power yelled as she ran trying to catch up with them.

The moment they got an important lead ahead of Power, one of them decided to break the silence. "You should've just assumed she would follow us here." Aki's voice seemed tired of dealing with all of them for so long, although he was only whispering.

"What do you mean?" (Y/N) whispered back as he looked at Power a couple of feet away from them, by now she was scouring through the area and trying to act dumb after she broke a piece of pottery.  

"She's almost glued to you." Aki simply responded. "If things keep going like this, you won't even be able to go to the bathroom without her there with you."

(Y/N) flushed at his response. "Well I'm not exactly asking for it!"

Aki sighed longly as he stared into his eyes for a couple of seconds. "Well, she seems to have grown acquainted to you, so at least you're able to keep her contained." He said. "That's not half bad."

Unsure of his words, (Y/N) remained silent as he stared at Power, who was by now running directly at them with a new idea of what she would do if she became prime minister.

"It's so great having an addiction. In this life, you need something to take the edge off!" Himeno was now explaining Denji. She wasn't exactly all that relaxed about this whole situation, but she did a pretty good job hiding it.

Thinking about something entirely different, he couldn't help but stare intently at Himeno's lips, and that was the moment he realized something particular. "Hey, that's the same brand I've seen that jerk smoke." It was right. Denji had seen Aki smoke the same brand of cigarettes since they've met and Denji remembered continuously laugh about Aki's poor health care decisions.