What you're name ?

Chapter 14 Bases

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One thing Dazai did not warn Chuuya about: his campus is huge. It takes him thirty minutes to find the field, and it takes exactly seven seconds after his arrival for Chuuya to regret all of his life choices.

CRACK.

Chuuya's head whips to the side at the noise, zoning in on the batter, who is now poised at the end of his swing. The ball travels in a perfect arc, and it keeps going—until it's disappears behind the fence.

"Ne, Edogawa-sensei—" Dazai tugs off his helmet, "do I have to run the bases, or can we skip that part?"

"Conditioning, Dazai."

"But it's just practice—!" He whines, turning around to start running.

And then he sees Chuuya. "Hey," he's jogging over, and Chuuya's Brain isn't properly functioning. Sure, he's aware that Dazai is taller than him, broader than him—but—he's never been so vividly aware of the other teenager's biceps before, and—It's distracting. "I wasn't sure if you were coming."

"Well—" Chuuya frowns at how strangled his voice sounds and he clears his throat. "You were right, I had nothing better to do, so..."

"Is that kid from another school?"

"He is, sensei—" Dazai calls back, placing a hand on Chuuya's shoulder, "he's my b—" They both pause. Dazai glances over at Chuuya, and the redhead knows Dazai didn't mean to put him on the spot, so...

"You can," Chuuya is trying so hard to keep his eyes on Dazai's face, "—you can say boyfriend, if you want."

Dazai gives him a short nod before resuming, "—my boyfriend!"

Chuuya doesn't miss the complete and total shock on the other player's faces, and for a minute he feels himself starting to tense up—but Dazai doesn't look worried or upset at all.

If anything he looks kinda...proud?

"Yeah well, he'll get the boot if the assistant principal sees him." The coach shrugs, sitting back with his clipboard.

"He's fine," Dazai snorts. "His sister came to half of our practices last season, and she didn't go here either."

"He's right, sensei!" Kenji shouts over. "She used to heckle Sakunosuke!"

"Heckle?" Chuuya blinks, trying to imagine his sister 'heckling' someone. "Ane-san?"

Yosano is cackling at the memory, and Oda is scarlet behind his catcher's mask. "If that's what you call wolf whistling when he ran the bases—"

Well. Chuuya would rather die, but—looking at Dazai right now, be kind of understands the urge.

"Well, you've introduced him—now finish running the bases."

"But it's out of the—!"

"Now, Dazai."

Chuuya ends up on the bench with Edogawa-sensei and Yosano, and it's actually—kind of—fun. It's genuinely fun.