You Deserve Better (Osamu Dazai x Reader)

Chapter 1: Our Beginning

In the spring of my sixth year at school, a house fire tragically took the lives of my parents. I received the devastating news in the middle of a math class after being summoned to the office. With no other relatives, Mori Ougai, a friend of theirs, took me under his wing. Initially, I was thankful for his kindness, but in time, I would discover his true, dreadful nature.

Upon starting junior high, Mori educated me on his professional practice after school hours, enabling me to assist him in his office as his aide. He already knew about my ability, If It Bleeds, from my parents. I was able to manipulate my blood to form objects, as well as heal any flesh wound on my body. I knew how it worked, but I never had to use it in a fight. 

Mori always encouraged me to practice the use of my ability when it was just the two of us, such as forming a rope-like thread with my blood to reach things on high shelves, or to make multiple blood ropes to carry many items at a time.

The clinic never seemed like a secure environment. Questionable individuals frequented it daily. It was reputed to be a neutral territory, yet that didn't prevent the occurrence of killings. Within the initial months, the number of deaths I observed became too numerous to count, whether caused by an outsider or Mori deliberately mishandling a procedure. Death became an everyday sight. It seemed just as common as a butterfly flying past the window in the middle of a sunny day.

For a time, it was only Mori and me, until three years had passed. As I was sweeping his office, the doctor entered, accompanied by a brunette boy whose right eye, neck, and limbs were wrapped in bandages.

"(Y/n), this is one of my patients." Mori smiled, keeping his hands on the boy's shoulders. "His name is Osamu Dazai and he's going to be sticking around with us for a while."

Approaching the boy, I extended my hand with a smile. "My name is (Y/n) (L/n), it's nice to meet you, Dazai."

He looked at my hand, then back at my face before deciding to take it. "Nice to meet you too, (Y/n)."

I later found out that Dazai was in Mori's care because of a suicide attempt. He never said anything other than that, so I had no idea about his family life, if he had any.

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"(Y/n) dear, do you mind getting my bag?" The doctor asked, pointing over to the desk where it sat. "The boss needs another visit; it seems like his health is declining quickly."

"On it." I replied, seizing the bag and trailing after Mori out the door, with Dazai following in our wake.

In the elegant bedroom of the Port Mafia's boss lay a sickly man. Mori and I approached his bedside, while Dazai stood at its foot. Assuming my usual role, I placed Mori's doctor's bag beside the bed and opened it.

"(Y/n), please hand me my scalpel." A sinister smile plastered its way onto the man's face as he held his hand out to me.

He's gonna kill the boss of the Port Mafia? I cast him a peculiar glance before passing him what would soon become the murder weapon.

"How are you feeling, boss?"Mori inquired of the elderly man, who appeared quite disoriented.

"Doctor... tell the board this is an order... kill all enemy organizations, military police, anyone else who opposes the Port Mafia by sundown," he groaned, clearly out of it.

"That would be most unwise." Mori raised his hand, holding the scalpel to his Jugular.

"I don't care how many of our own need to die. Just kill them! Kill them all! Kill them!"

"I hear you loud and clear."

Within the blink of an eye, it was over. Blood splattered onto the wall; the boss died within seconds. His once white sheets were soaked with his own blood.

"The boss has succumbed to illness," Mori stated. "He left behind a will entrusting me with his position."

He spun around, his face smeared with blood that was not his own.

"You two are my witnesses. Understood?"

Neither of us responded, yet our expressionless faces conveyed everything. Having witnessed death in the clinic, whether accidental or not, I've seen it all. However, this new era within the mafia presents challenges unlike anything I've previously faced.