How to Say "I Love You" Without Words (Persona 4 AU)

She gestured towards the taller man, trying to show how she felt, how she had always felt. She was lucky the illness hadn't taken him away, and she wanted to tell him that, but how could she without words.

He understood.

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Three years ago an epidemic spread across the world they all lived in, killing hundreds, maybe even millions, but that wasn't all. It messed with people's heads, and took away all forms of speech, along with reading a writing. Communications became scare, and people had trouble containing emotions. The world was a wreck.

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Yee I hope you're all ready for some Naoto/Kanji feels cause I'm writing an AU based off a short story I recently read, Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler, and it's really good A+ material I totally recommend reading it and I liked the world in it SO AU TIME WOAH also I know I have non-binary headcanons for Naoto but for the universe of this Naoto's just going to be a girl, okay? Okay.

I'm also oddly writing Kanji as the main character for once which rarely happens because I love writing Naoto like seriously guys I've never written Kanji as the main wow anyways because of the nature of the story his name probably will not be said for like half of it but you'll know it's him trust me. And Nanako. She's real important. Yeah. Also near the end Naoto is the main character.

Lastly there are intense trigger warnings on this fic. There's blood, murder, guns, sad shit, suicide mentions, death, more sad shit, and a decease that pretty much makes us unable to have any form of communication. Oh and sad shit. Yeah, like everyone is dead. No lie. This is some sad shit right here. Like I guess they aren't sure if Rise is dead and Teddie is only mentioned like once but everyone else including like all the social links are dead fun times am I right?