A Homo? Oh No |Juzosuke One-Shots|

|After All This Suffering| [Meeting Differently AU]

A/N: This one is actually a request! Thank you just_someone_owo for this request! (Wattpad won't let me @ cause Wattpad is tweakin)

Prompt: Juzo and Kyosuke meet after despair. I'm going to take this as they properly meet after the KG (which Juzo isn't a part of), basically everything else in the KG happens though (with Kyosuke figuring out to turn off the power instead of Juzo) besides well... Juzo y'know...

Also as a part of this AU, Juzo doesn't get blackmailed or anything because duh.

AND TW! Haiji is mentioned and there is some homophobia and Haiji being icky.
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Kyosuke was exhausted from it all. Watching his only friend's corpse fall and having to deal with the aftermath of the killing game drained every ounce of energy in his body. And yet he continued to overwork himself.

In spite of the attempts to kill him in the past, Makoto was worried for him. By extension, Kyoko and Aoi also grew concerned.

Kyosuke just dealt with it by overworking himself more than usual. He figured that he couldn't think about it if he was working all the time.

On the bright side, the world was beginning to resemble something more normal each day. For that, Kyosuke and the others were grateful. Though they knew there was no returning to normal, not when so many people had died so quickly and not when so many people were still made bloodthirsty zombies by the hands of despair.

Some days, Kyosuke wanted to die. Though he couldn't allow himself to actually make it happen, not when the world was in the condition it was in. He figured once the world healed for good, then he'd allow it. For now though, he had to restore hope by any means necessary. He still had his old values-hope at all costs. It was just different in the way that he had nothing to lose anymore, and no reason to continue living once his sole purpose reaches fruition. He had no ambition to be the headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy anymore, that dream died alongside Yukizome. Fixing the world from it's current state was the only thing Kyosuke had to live for.

Kyoko slammed her hands on his desk. "Take a break," She demanded. Kyosuke looked up at her. His eyebags were deeper and darker than Ryota's and that was really saying something. He already looked like a corpse.

"I'll be fine," Kyosuke replied dismissively.

"You look worse than Mitarai. I know you don't have Yukizome anymore but you still should take care of your basic needs. Eat something, take a nap and get some fresh air outside. Naegi doesn't want to see you in here any longer for at least the next 24 hours," Kyoko told him.

"What of it? I'm his elder," Kyosuke responded with a snappy, irritated tone, though he didn't mean to sound so hostile.

"You and I both know how Naegi is. He will pester you until you finally drag your sorry ass out of here. In any case, we're all concerned for you. You should really eat something. How long has it been since you've eaten?"

"...I can't quite recall," Kyosuke admitted, realizing he couldn't remember the last time he's eaten. Even then, he couldn't recall how long since he had sat down to eat instead of grabbed something he could consume while working. He could only remember the last time he sat down to eat was when Yukizome was still alive.

"Listen, you're going to kill yourself at this rate. I understand your grief but of all people, you know you can't let it consume you. If you want to be better than despair then you'll take a break and do what's best for your body."

"I suppose you have a point," He agreed and stood up. Instantly wooziness clouded his mind, the sleep deprivation and hunger slapping him in the face all at once.