Overwatch x Reader

Hanzo x Reader: A Petal Away From Death (Hanahaki Disease AU)

When people ask Y/N if they have butterflies in their stomach but it's actually just flowers in their lungs.

Y/N was only human, they couldn't stop themselves from falling in love no matter how hard they tried to deny it. Hanzo was closed off from the world, hidden in the darkness of his past mistakes. He sought no redemption, he only laid in his shame. To love someone like that seemed like a loss cause. Y/N found a way. They found a way to open up their eyes to see what's inside Hanzo's rude demeanor. But they knew Hanzo would never love them the way they loved Hanzo. 

That's when the problem started.

It was an ordinary day at HQ, uneventful and boring. It was breakfast, training, lunchbreak, training, dinner, and sleep. Y/N went to grab their favorite cereal when they started to cough uncontrollably. Luckily, Genji was awake to pat their back as Y/N coughed out a petal.

"WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK?" Y/N yelled.

Genji gasped as he looked closely at the petal, "A cherry blossom? Y/N... You-"

"Genji, what the hell did the cafeteria ladies put in that soup at dinner last night? Because I don't remember any fucking flowers in the soup!"

"Y/N are you in love with my brother?!" He yelled loudly.

"GENJI YOU SHUT YOUR CYBORG MOUTH OR I'M GOING TO COUGH UP A FUCKING BRANCH AND HIT YOU IN THE FACE."

"Y/N you don't understand! You're in danger!" He exclaimed.

"Because I coughed up a petal?"

"Yes! It's the hanahaki disease; I thought it was just a Japanese legend but that petal proves it's real!"

They scoffed, "Genji, you and you're weird Japanese legends. What is this flower going to do? Kill me?"

"YES!"

Y/N's eyes widened, "oh shit."

Genji went on to explain the illness. Long story short, when a person loves someone that doesn't love them back, they start barfing petals.  An unrequited love situation where the petal cougher with die if they don't communicate with the petal-coughing starter or they just flat out get rejected and die.

"So... I'm going to die?" Y/N didn't want to believe that this legend was actually happening. Their life was in the hands of another, someone that probably did not care for their life at all.

"I don't know if my brother could ever open his heart after everything he's been through. Sorry, Y/N."

"Don't be. There only one person to blame and it's me. I fell for him and I'm going to do whatever I can do to stay alive."

"So... you're gonna get the surgery then?" He said lowly. Genji held a distaste for that surgery to exist. "You'll never feel love again if the flower is taken out. A pointless existence."

Y/N cringed, "Shit Genji that's sick as hell and not in a gangster way."

"Dude, you will just become a piece of cardboard if you get that flower ripped out. It might not be too impossible to have Hanzo open up, but you will have to be as stubborn as he is."

Stubborn as Hanzo? Bitch, please. Y/N was capable of making Soldier 76 change the schedule of a meeting by making a bunch of noise in front of his dorm. Y/N had no shame... maybe a little though. Hanzo was a sculpted hawtie, and we not talking about a play dough sculpture. We talking fine ass air-dry clay from the Crayola isle, not that crazy art shit. He got the detail tattoos, the beard, the graying side-burns, the one titty pec that popped out of his uniform, and the man bun. It was like Y/N went back to 2015, where it was desired to have those things in a man. They knew of his soft heart blocked by his titty tat tat because of course they had some romantic encounters with this archer: