「Anime x Reader One Shots」

Midnight Meeting (Subaru Sakamaki x Reader)

For the past few weeks, Ayato suddenly held an interest in both yours and Subaru's love life. Yes, perhaps it was obvious that you had a crush on the white-haired boy and perhaps it wasn't hardest thing to realize that he had a knack for hiding emotions. Only one thing was for certain, though; Ayato had other intentions than to just hook up his half-brother with you.

Other intentions or not, you didn't care. You really needed all the help you can get in this department. It wasn't clear to you whether or not Subaru actually liked you and you couldn't bring yourself to ask him. Fear of rejection swirled in your mind, stopping you from even pondering the thought of asking him yourself.

Without your knowledge, Ayato would talk to Subaru about you. Attempt to get him to own up his feelings about you to no avail. It wasn't a matter that he didn't have any feelings to own up to. He simply had rather too many feelings such like yourself. Love, lust, worry, fear. They all weighed heavily on him, more so fear than anything else.

One night, something completely unexpected happened. While you were taking a shower, a note was slipped under your bedroom door. You couldn't help but let your curiosity get the better of you as you unfolded the slip of paper. On it read:

Meet me in the garden at midnight. I want to discuss something with you.

-Subaru

Happiness soared through your body until you realized that this may not be what you actually wanted it to be. As much as you hoped he set up the meaning in order to discuss emotions, it was far more likely that it was about something completely different. Either way, you knew it would be worth it to go and find out for yourself.

Waiting for the clock to strike midnight was one of the hardest things you ever had to endure. What was only an hour felt like days to you. As much as you tried to stop it, excitement and fear coiled and clashed inside your stomach. It was hard to find something to distract you from pondering on the events that would be sure to come later that night.

As the clock rang, sounding off a loud chime twelve times which announced it was now midnight, you were already standing in the garden. You had your arms wrapped tightly around yourself to keep your body from shaking. Right after the clock sounded its last chime, Subaru appeared in the garden as well. He looked more well-dressed than usual and a faint blush was lingering on his face.

"So," he mumbled as he turned his head away from you, refusing to look at you. "What did you want to talk about?"

Confusion quickly replaced the other emotions you were feeling. What did he mean by that? Wasn't he the one who reached out to you to talk?

"Weren't you the one who sent me the note?" you asked.

"Note?"

He finally turned his head to look at you just in time to see you pull the note out of your pocket. Unfolding it once again, you showed him the contents inside and earned a look of shock from him. Slowly, he pulled out a similar looking note out of his pocket and showed it to you.

You had no idea what was going on, but thankfully, you didn't need to waste the time to figure it out. Subaru already knew the person behind this meeting.

"Get your ass out here, Ayato!" he roared, his hands clenched in fists and ready to punch the nearest thing around him.

Slowly, the brother crept out of the garden with his arms crossed and a smirk tugging on his lips. "Now, now. I go out of my way to set up this meeting to express your secret love for each other and this is how I'm treated?"

Both yours and Subaru's faces flamed red with embarrassment at his words.

"What the hell?" you asked angrily. He was doing nothing more than spouting words from private conversations you had with him about Subaru. Is this what he called helping?

"The two of you should be thanking me. I, after all, am helping my little brother get past his tsundere ways," he teased.

"I'm going to kill you!" Subaru screamed, his body trembling in anger.

"Before you try to do that, keep in mind that by the two of you showing up here thinking that the other might possibly share their emotions, it proved that the two of you do share some sort of strong emotion for the other."

Subaru still looked pissed, but you pondered on what Ayato said. As much as you didn't want to admit it, he was right. His plan, as wrong as it may be, was genius and it worked. Despite what you thought, this white-haired boy you held so many emotions for felt the same in some sort of way.

Without thinking through your next actions, you ran over to Subaru and hugged him. His body tensed in yours, unable to comprehend what you were doing at first. Slowly, his hands loosened up and he wrapped his arms around you as well. Looking up at him, you noticed how shocked he looked. Shocked but happy.

To your surprise, he lowered his head and placed a small kiss on your lips before pulling away. A smile appeared on your face showing that you were finally happy with the events that came to be that night.

"You're welcome, by the way," Ayato said with a chuckle as he slinked away further into the garden.

Neither you or Subaru paid him any mind, though. How could Subaru focus his half-brother's comments? After all, all he was focussed on doing at that moment was making sure that night with you would be the most memorable experience of all.