I Don't Smoke (bsdxmha)

Hop, skip and a jump

"Yamada-sensei? You're Aizawa's mysterious partner?" Dazai asks with wide eyes.

"Wouldn't expect it, right? Shouta's so aloof all the time, but I swear he's such a good husband. Oh! So you're the student staying with us then? He only bothered to mention he took on an intern yesterday!" He complains, nudging the Aizawa softly in the ribs.

"Hizashi, don't say things like that around my student." Aizawa mutters.

Ohoho, is he embarrassed? His stoic teacher gives the blonde a small but pointed smile.

"So on-brand for Sensei." He nods in agreement. "He should learn from you."

"Just drop the formalities this week. It's too weird being addressed as a teacher in my own home." Aizawa interrupts, effectively splitting up Dazai and Yamada's conversation.

Yamada agrees exuberantly, ushering them to the dinner table. To Dazai's mortification, they're going to eat together. It's like a family dinner, except Dazai should not be here. He doesn't think he's ever had a family dinner in his life, and his dinners with Mori are certainly unpleasant.

Aizawa and Yamada chat about their day, bantering back and forth casually. He doesn't want to eat, not really.

Both of them glance at him and his plate every few seconds, but Aizawa is much less subtle.

"When are we going on our patrol?" Dazai asks, only to try to draw attention away from the food he's been pushing around on his plate.

"Soon."

"Sounds like I should get ready then! Something loose and dark, right? No problem!" Dazai abruptly stands and brings his dish to the sink. "Thanks for the food."

"Are you sure you're full? You didn't eat that much..." Yamada trails his eyes over Dazai's figure with a contemplative frown.

He wraps his arms around himself uneasily, turning himself away from their view. "Yep."

Dazai scurries to his room, eager to change. Unsurprisingly, most of his duffel bag is stuffed with bandage rolls. He has his gun, that one mug from Oda's kids and random items of clothing. Not many belongings to be honest. He did debate bringing his computer but dedicated in the end that he didn't want to carry that thing around. On second thought, now that Fyodor is in his apartment he's regretting it. Who knows what he could have done already? Hmm.. something dark and loose. His hero outfit? May as well wear it, considering he packed it.

After changing, he sits on the floor and continues where he left off in the manual to suicide. This one's got something to do with snapping his spine in half by sitting in a barrel. Sounds too difficult. Eventually, Aizawa knocks on Dazai's door, asking if he's ready to go. Dazai throws the book to a corner somewhere and happily skips along. Aizawa is dressed in his usual tracksuit and Dazai wonders if he actually wears anything besides that.

He leads him out the front door and once they're a short walk away, they climb up a roof. He might take the chance to jump off a particularly high building if the opportunity arises. Aizawa makes him stay close behind, guiding his technique while climbing and jumping through commentary and light touches where he can.

Dazai shadows Aizawa's nighttime hero patrol. He has to say, jumping on rooftops is quite a hobby. Aizawa abruptly drops to the fire escape, climbing down swiftly. Dazai follows, albeit more lazily. There are no criminals in sight, Aizawa obviously just wants to keep him on his toes. His feet hit the ground with an almost lack of sound, feathery and agile.

As they make their way through grubby backstreets with trash bags littering them, an alarm catches their attention. It's coming from a block away to their left, Dazai notes. By the sound of it, it's relatively cheap. Cheap alarms have a more grating sound to them in comparison to high-end alarm systems that have a distinct blare that covers more space. There's also a commotion that he can vaguely hear, which means it has to be open. That rules out businesses like cafes. The most logical answer is a convenience store of some sort that is easy to break into. Some don't even have alarms installed if the company is poor. The most likely reason is a break-in, a robbery.