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Chapter 38 Lights Out

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Is it a reunion?" Chuuya questions, "It seems a little early for something like that."

"No, no," Dazai shakes his head, "Really—Oda figured out a lot of people from our year were going to be in town at the same time, and then Kunikida got the idea that he wanted to round everyone up for dinner." He seems a little exhausted at the idea, and Chuuya can't blame him.

Dazai has one semester left, and his senior thesis is grueling , even for him. "Even Ango is coming."

"All the way from New York?" Chuuya shakes his head, "Then you really should go—"

"But it's on a Sunday!" Dazai whines, leaning on Chuuya pathetically.

"You haven't seen him since you graduated!"

"Will you come with me?"

Chuuya rolls his eyes, but he nods.

And really, Chuuya can't be upset with Dazai for what happened—because he had no way of knowing , and if he had, he never would have agreed to go to begin with. But—

"Nakahara-kun—" Kunikida looks a little stunned when Chuuya and Dazai arrive at the restaurant, "—you, uh—"

Chuuya isn't really surprised by the reaction—because the last time he saw Kunikida...he was...In a different place .

So, seeing him standing next to Dazai now, with the long hair, the piercings, the tight jeans and the leather jacket— i t's an adjustment , and even Ango seems a little stunned. "Just Chuuya is fine," he corrects, reaching out to shake his hand. "How has it been in Seoul?"

Dazai seems to be caught up in a conversation with Oda and Ango—and Chuuya doesn't mind, he's happy to see them catching up. But really, for how many people are here, it may as well be a high school reunion. And from some of the girls that are present, Chuuya knows it isn't even exclusively Keio students—

And then he sees a familiar face, and he pauses in the middle of trying to explain the ins and outs of his evidence class to Kunikida.

He isn't exactly proud of the first words out of his mouth, "Who the hell invited her?"

Kunikida looks baffled before he turns his head, and there, standing near the bar...Long, dark hair, brown eyes, an admittedly attractive face—

It's... her .

Sasaki.

Chuuya knows, logically, that this is probably a bigger deal for Dazai than it is for him. But the last time he saw her...The image of her, locked in Dazai's arms, leaning up to force her mouth against his—the memory leaves a bitter taste in his mouth.

"She was close with a few of the boys in our year," Kunikida explains slowly, "any one of them could have told her we were meeting up tonight—Chuuya-kun?"

Before he can even finish explaining, Chuuya is working his way through the crowd, not stopping until he's found Dazai, who is in the midst of joining Yosano in absolutely tormenting Ango by reliving a particularly heinous memory.