forever young | various tr x reader

8: remember me

izana watched you talk to kakucho from across the room. he was getting ready to play some sort of drinking game with his friends when he spotted you.

the two of you stood close together, a shit eating grin on kakucho's face as he leaned into you while you spoke animatedly. you must have said something funny because kakucho burst out laughing, and you beamed up at him in response.

the entire scene was strange to izana. kakucho rarely talked to girls, let alone smile or laugh at whatever shit they said.

he had seen you come in earlier, recognizing you immediately as you awkwardly took a lap before getting yourself a drink. he considered finding you later and ask what you were doing there, but he could now put together kakucho invited you. and since he saw you brazenly flirting with his subordinate, he felt the urgency to move.

"izana? you alright dude?" someone asked their captain when they noticed him zoning out.

"yeah. i'm good." izana replied, his focus coming back to the people immediately around him.

now that he thought about it, it may not have been the best move to walk over there and interrupt your conversation. you were clearly enjoying yourself.

but that thought went out the window when he heard one of his underlings whine, "this isn't fair! i want kakucho on my team."

he saw it as his opportunity and took it.

"i'll go get him." he said to the others, although his eyes glued to you and kakucho.

he navigated through the crowd of people, people moving out of his way easily until he reached your side. you and kakucho were too busy staring at each other to notice his appearance.

"well, well. what do we have here?" he asked.

you both froze for a second before realization passed over kakucho's face. he blinked a couple times before looking over at his captain, who stared at the two of you blankly.

kakucho was ready to introduce you to izana when you spoke first.

"izana?"

"hmm. you remember me." he noticed, a smile forming on his lips as he lifted his cup to them to drink.

"wait, you guys know each other?" kakucho asked, suddenly feeling like he was the third wheel in the situation. not that you were acting like that, but he could just tell. the atmosphere had shifted into something else, now some sort of tension hung in the air.

you stared at izana expectantly, waiting for him to explain until you came to the conclusion you would need to do it.

"um.. yeah, we met the other day at the other toman party." you explained, looking back at kakucho and giving him a nervous smile.

"oh. i see." kakucho said unconvincingly.

"i came over here to get kakucho. some of them are requesting his presence over there." izana nodded towards the group of people he had just left.

"i was going to hang out with her for a bit since she just got here though." kakucho reasoned.

"it's okay. i can keep her company until you return." izana told him.

your gaze bounced back and forth between them, wondering what the hell the power dynamic between them was. from what you had noticed, a lot of toman captains seemed like best friends with their vice captains, but yuzuha had warned you some of them were... different.

"understood." kakucho said solemnly before looking at you. "sorry, i'll be back."

"no worries." you gave him an encouraging smile.