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Rain

Akira Kurusu x Fem!Reader

On a rainy day, Akira tilted his head towards the window, admiring the gentle splatters of water upon the school window, drowning out the sounds of the lecture as he closed his dark eyes to the sound of rain, a wave of serenity rushing over his body as the calm atmosphere drew a veil over his eyes, the stress of school, the Metaverse, and his probation all fading away in this moment of peace. He couldn't care less about anything at this point in time, relishing in the few minutes of peace within his mind as he listened to the white noise that cluttered inside his head. His hand held his head up as he stared outside the window, gently playing with his ebony locks. His other hand had the dull pencil in its grasp, the tip gently skating across his notes in patterns that he remembered from the metaverse and the grand palaces that he and the Phantom Thieves had come across during their time in the alternate dimension. The corner of Akira's lips perked up in a soft smile, his face relaxed as his mind wandered to what he thought of the world and all of it's imperfections and corruptions: where he and his confidants would change the selfish cognitions of others to make the world a better place, even if that is only miniscule compared to the massive amounts of corruption that the world held.

He let a breath of air escape from his mouth as his phone buzzed in his pocket, reaching for it to check who had sent a text. Akira's mind instantly flipped to Ryuji, the 'bonehead' of the group who made it a bad habit to text during class. 'That's probably also a reason that everyone thinks he's a delinquent...', though he was pleasantly surprised to see it was an old friend of his from his hometown, the single thing he missed about that hell of a place. Akira's glasses began to slide off his nose and he swiftly put them on the desk as his eyes scanned the message he had gotten. Remembering that she had come with the school on a trip to Tokyo, she seemed to be stuck indoors due to the rain, though compared to him, extremely bored. A common side effect when stuck with people you don't care about and with nothing to do. 'Dude, entertain me before I die of boredom!' Akira fought back a chuckle at his friend's text lest he get caught by the irritable teacher that yapped on and on about something or other.

'If you're so bored, why don't you act like a good student and do you work while you're free now?' Akira's finger's flew on the screen, typing the snarky words his companion surely expected, as his quiet demeanor shook and fell to his cocky and arrogant one only for a few people; the ones that come inside the Metaverse with him, and her.

Akira bit his lip as the next message came quickly. 'Like you're one to talk! Er... text. Anyways, don't act so cocky and just tell me how your life has been. Gotten into any trouble recently? I hope not. You're still on probation! If you go to jail I will personally kick your ass into oblivion.'

Akira looked up from his phone and shifted his gaze to the teacher who had his back towards the students. He saw the combined alphabets as the teacher droned on and on about the different expressions in language, a topic they had covered before where Akira had figured out the meaning behind "wunderkind". He turned back to his phone, seeing his cat companion asleep inside his desk, probably from the rain, and texted back as discreetly as he could. 'I'd rather meet up and talk than have you "kick my ass into oblivion", especially since you're here for a weekend.'

'Oh, so now you want me to act like a bad student and leave the class trip? Sounds fun. Where do we meet up?' Her text was like a taunt, but he could almost feel the smile from the other side of the monitor. 'And let me know when you want to go so I can sneak out.'

Akira scrolled through his notes and copied the address of the cafe he currently resides at, pasting it into their chat. 'I have lunch in about three minutes. I'll skip afternoon classes. Meet me there asap.'