senku / reader
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If love took the form of a door, Senku would never leave. If love took the form of spring, you would be kissing dandelions into the breeze.
Maybe if you did it enough times, Senku would grow curious from watch...
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Senku was ten years old when he last remembered talking to his dad about something silly called love.
He thought it was a shallow reason to visit his son back home from the United States just to talk about something like that.
"What do you mean you don't like love?!" His dad childishly argued over dinner like a lovesick girl who was willing to defend the term against anything.
"It's just... dumb. It doesn't get me excited. Why think of that illogical nonsense when you can think of anything other than that?" He stubbornly refused the way his dad is trying to drill the term into his head. He knows about it, but that's all it was to him. "it's just a word."
"Now that's nonsense!" Byakuya carefully ate his food before continuing. "At some point in your life, you gotta learn to love, kid!"
"Then I'll be sure to skip over that point when it comes."
"C'mon now, don't you love me?"
"I see you as an inspiration."
Byakuya stops, recalling his son's words as the kid continues to eat his dinner and is seemingly unaware of the effect of his words on the older man. He was almost brought into tears.
"S-Senku! you really mean that?!" Scratch that, he was brought into tears. Who wouldn't when your never outwardly affectionate son started showing affection through simple words?
"Yeah. When you failed the astronaut candidate selection exam, it pushed me to do ten billion percent better." Byakuya's joy was replaced with despair at the sudden reminder.
"Anyways... back to the topic at hand," Senku silently pouts at this. "You know, it's not you who gets to choose whether or not you'll fall in love."
"I hate that." Senku mopes.
"It may seem silly to you now—"
"Falling is an accident. I don't like it." Surprisingly, Senku's words catch his dad unsuspected and confused. "I'd rather walk into it willingly."
His dad stays quiet at this. Maybe Senku hadn't understood his point and lost the ability to think it through. Senku's point would have only gotten a "duh" from Byakuya, followed by "that's what I've been trying to say", but he doesn't say it.
Because he understands that Senku grows baffled when handling anything that can change with no computed proof on why. Perhaps something like people's feelings. He'd rather not indulge in it.
Senku knows his dad is a romanticist (despite the fact that he is still single) and that maybe he only wanted a normal interaction between father and son, but all of these are devoid of logic. Devoid of something he is sworn and used to abide by.
"Yeah yeah, finish your food and be sure nothing dangerous is related with your latest experiment." His dad continued on, "Oh and go see Y/n, she's been asking how you've been through the telephone."
