Number One (a UA fanfic)

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"I think I might actually get used to this."

Luther and Eden sat on the counter, both having breakfast together. Eden made them both pancakes and ginger tea.

"How does having 6 other siblings feel like?" Eden asked. "I mean, I'm an only child here so I'm curious."

"Well, you could say we're problematic-" Luther shrugged. "We usually fight to get our dad's attention, but he almost never gave it. When he did, it was all for the wrong reasons."

"Damn-" Eden closed their eyes. "That's some shitty childhood."

"You could say." Luther shrugged. "Our dad didn't bother to name any of us at all, calling us by numbers."

"So how did you get the name Luther?"

"Our mum- the robot named us," Luther answered. "When we're seven years old, Mum gave all of us names."

"So you grew up being called numbers?" Eden asked, their eyes wide. Luther nods. "Wow, can't imagine. I thought that's just your mission name."

"My mission name was Spaceboy, it sounds childish, I know." Luther drinks his ginger tea. "Wow, this is awesome."

"Thanks, Spaceboy." Luther glared at Eden as the latter laughed. "Spaceboy sounds super childish."

"Well, my dad wasn't the most creative person around." Luther shrugged.

"Maybe you're called Spaceboy because you have super strength and you can hold up the weight of space better than people without super strength?" Eden theorises. Luther scoffed in amusement.

"Too far off," Luther says before he furrowed his brows. "I'm called 'Spaceboy' because I'm always so fascinated with space. You could say I'm a nerd growing up."

"That's cool, Professor Luther." Eden checks the time only to find out it was 7.58 AM. "Oh shit, the store should be open now! Luther, hand me your plate." Eden outstretched their hand, holding a plate in another. Luther hands them his used one and Eden placed them in the dishwasher.

"So, what will I do?" Luther asked.

"I'll deal with the customers, you fill me in whenever I can't," Eden answered. "Oh, and help get whatever herbs or spices needed from the shelves."

"Will do." Eden turned the door sign from 'CLOSED' to 'OPEN', sitting on the seat behind the counter.

"Now we wait-" Eden sighed. "This isn't as fun as you probably thought, I'm sorry."

"Nah it's fine-" Luther scoffs. "It's better than either training or be in missions, you at least do something every day."

"If you say so." Eden raised a brow as they smiled. Just their luck, their first customer came.

"Hello, how may I help you?" Eden asked as they greeted the customer. It was an older woman- possibly in her 50s with a glaring red hat and a feather.

"Of course, I'd like some green onions and dried basil." Eden nods.

"How many?"

"Three stalks of green onions and one bottle of basil."

"Luther, can you grab green onions? They're in that shelf- lowest row." Eden points to a shelf right behind. Luther nods as he worked on getting the onions. It was three stalks, right? He grabbed exactly three stalks and gave them to Eden who thanked him, already having the basil shaker.

"That'll be 7 dollars in total," Eden said. The lady gave them the exact money before she left after saying her thank you to the workers.

"So it's basically like this every day, Luther," Eden said. "Five days of the week, at Thursdays the lorry comes, then be drunk off my arse at weekends. It wasn't usual for me to get drunk on weekdays, yet again it wasn't usual for me to get a working partner."

"I like it." Luther grinned as he stared around the shop. "Really."

"So we'll split what we gain into two," Eden explained. "You get 35% and I get 65% of the income- what do you say?"

"You're the boss here, Eden." Luther shrugs. "After all, I live with you and you need to find ways to keep the business active whilst filling two stomachs, so I think that's fair."

"Alright then." Eden pats Luther's back. "It's nice to call you my friend and my working partner."

"It's nice to call you my friend and working partner too," Luther smiled as he crushed Eden in a hug. Eden pats his back several times before Luther remembers of his super strength and lets go of the hug.

"Let an adult breathe, wouldn't you?" Eden complained as they coughed.

"Sorry!" Luther laughs. Eden huffed.

"It's fine, it's fine. Super strength and all, right?" Eden gave him a lopsided grin. Luther sheepishly smiled as he scratched the back of his head, hissing a little.

"I should learn about normal human strength, yeah."

"Well, if you want to hug and be friendly, you should," Eden agrees and had their hand up. "Fistbump me."

"What?"

"I said fistbump me," Eden repeated. "You want to learn average normal human strength, don't you?"

"Well, yeah."

"So fistbump me." Luther doubts before nodding and had his hand up a ball before colliding it with Eden's. Eden widened their eyes as they retreated, moving their hand side to side.

"Ow!" Eden complained, still moving their hand side to side. Luther bit his bottom lip.

"I'm so sorry, it was an accident!"

"Luther, calm down," Eden faced Luther. "It's fine."

"Sorry."

"It's fine." Eden smiled. "I'll show you just how strong the fistbump should be by fist-bumping your shoulder and you can imitate it, ok?"

"Ok," Luther nods. Eden fistbumps Luther's side to show what it's supposed to be like. Luther nods, he gets it now. He should be more gentle.

"I get it now, let's try again." Luther grinned as he had his hand ready for another. Eden chuckles but did it anyway. Eden smiled in triumph as they noticed that Luther didn't put excessive force in this one.

"Yeah, that's what I'm talking about!" Eden grinned as they smacked Luther's side lightly. Luther chuckles and looked down.

So this is what living as a normal human being is like.