Drabble 123 4th and last round
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estiroseTitle Gainfully Employed
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estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #12, Cry
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Airi shares some good news with Sakurai.
"You're pregnant?" Sakurai Yuuto asked incredulously. The two of them had moved from table to counter to bedroom over their relationship; he'd never dreamed he'd be a father. It was perhaps a good thing that they'd announced their engagement.
In a matter of months, they'd be parents. They'd be married by then, the baby would be a Sakurai, not a Nogami. He'd take care of the baby, soothe them when they cried, let Airi do what she did best.
After all, she was more gainfully employed than he was, he was embarrassed to admit.
Sure, he had a small amount of income, an inheritance plus some financially useful odd jobs. But he was poor and he knew it, just making enough for a tiny apartment and enough to eat.
"Of course I am," Airi said, smiling. Of course, what could go wrong? Airi would be a good mother, he would be a good father, and Ryoutarou would make a good uncle. Between them, they'd manage.
"Of course you are," he repeated. "Airi... congratulations."
She smiled even more, that wonderful smile of hers. "Isn't it great?"
Sakurai Yuuto kissed her in agreement.
Title More Important Than Money
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #14, Rejection
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Sakuri comes to Airi after she rejects another suitor.
The doors of the Milk Dipper slammed open as the man stalked out. Sakurai Yuuto vaguely recognized him - someone who had been interested in Airi, some kind of financial guy. Airi disliked him, she'd confided, because he cared more for money than anything else. Of course, money was always useful, but his and Airi's philosophy was that love was more important than money.
The man glared at Sakurai as he walked off. Sakurai himself entered the Milk Dipper with some trepidation. Airi was a loving soul, hard to anger and easy to forgive, but it was sometimes better to let her finish losing her temper before approaching her.
She was frowning when he came in, but it quickly turned to a smile. "Yuuto! Come in." The Milk Dipper was deserted; he'd deliberately timed things so that he came in when things were slow.
"Are you all right?" he asked. "I saw... whoever that was... leaving."
"Fujishiro Yuyo," she supplied. "I'm fine. He doesn't understand why I don't love him."
Sakurai nodded, letting her lean into his arms. "Sometimes, they just don't." He was lucky; she loved him.
"No, they don't," she agreed.
Title Breaking Time
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #16, Broken
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Airi and Sakurai don't break time lightly.
One could say, given the true nature of time, that what he and Airi were proposing to do would break it. Sakurai Yuuto grinned at that thought. It wasn't like they were breaking it, exactly. It was more like they were changing it around a bit, like one would rearrange things to hide something one didn't want found. That this involved erasing memories to alter time made it a bit different than hiding a spouse or sibling's present, harder to do, but still the same principle.
It wasn't like he and Airi wanted to do what they had to do, but they were doing it anyway. At least he could smile a bit at the grimness of the situation, the fact that they might be rearranging time to save somebody's life.
He and Airi might be amateurs, but it really wasn't that complex. It reminded him of that scene in the American movie "Men in Black" where the agency had to erase a whole lot of memories, and here he only had to erase two.
Maybe he was breaking time, but broken things could heal. Broken memories could be returned. Only time would tell.
Title Been Chosen
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #18, Ache
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto is not his future self, yet.
Airi had been kidnapped. Not because Kai had a clue to what he was looking for, but because some idiot liked her too much. The regulars at the Milk Dipper had little but his name and the fact that his eyes were completely black; a sure sign of an Imagin, and perhaps one of the same pair that had beaten up the youngest of Nogami's Imagin.
If so, it sounded like he'd wanted Airi for himself, and the Imagin were all too happy to grant it. Kidnapping someone was one of the easiest ways to grant a wish. Of all of Airi's suitors, this was the most dangerous one.
Airi had too many suitors, and it was cold comfort that she'd chosen the future him in the end. His heart sometimes ached, wishing that he could love and be loved like his future self would be.
He forced himself out of that thought, back to the battle to come. "Yuuto, do you intend to go?" Deneb asked.
"I have to, Nogami can't transform!" he exclaimed, knowing he alone could fight.
He ceded control of his body to Deneb, thinking of battle tactics as he went.
Title Have to Return in Time
Author:estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #20, Writer's Choice
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto has to return to his own time someday.
Deneb, somehow, found ways to keep in touch with Ryoutarou. His Imagin had told him that Airi remembered - at least a little bit, at least his name. But there was a pang of sadness apparently every time she said it, as if she remembered the tragedies that had happened in their lives, the fact that the older Sakurai no longer existed. Yuuto had wiped that him out of existence with the last card.
Now he was due back to his own past time, having to adjust to coming back from a time more advanced than his own. He almost preferred to be from no time at all, anchored to no time at all, but Deneb had pointed out that normal humans couldn't stay there forever; he'd have to return to the time he'd come from eventually, now the crisis was over.
Besides, someday he had to become the man that Airi loved once again. It might take a while - his daughter Hana would be born a decade or so late, the consequence of fiddling around in the timeline - but he would have his family.
And in the meantime, he had Deneb. And his memories. And someday, Airi.
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #12, Cry
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Airi shares some good news with Sakurai.
"You're pregnant?" Sakurai Yuuto asked incredulously. The two of them had moved from table to counter to bedroom over their relationship; he'd never dreamed he'd be a father. It was perhaps a good thing that they'd announced their engagement.
In a matter of months, they'd be parents. They'd be married by then, the baby would be a Sakurai, not a Nogami. He'd take care of the baby, soothe them when they cried, let Airi do what she did best.
After all, she was more gainfully employed than he was, he was embarrassed to admit.
Sure, he had a small amount of income, an inheritance plus some financially useful odd jobs. But he was poor and he knew it, just making enough for a tiny apartment and enough to eat.
"Of course I am," Airi said, smiling. Of course, what could go wrong? Airi would be a good mother, he would be a good father, and Ryoutarou would make a good uncle. Between them, they'd manage.
"Of course you are," he repeated. "Airi... congratulations."
She smiled even more, that wonderful smile of hers. "Isn't it great?"
Sakurai Yuuto kissed her in agreement.
Title More Important Than Money
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #14, Rejection
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Sakuri comes to Airi after she rejects another suitor.
The doors of the Milk Dipper slammed open as the man stalked out. Sakurai Yuuto vaguely recognized him - someone who had been interested in Airi, some kind of financial guy. Airi disliked him, she'd confided, because he cared more for money than anything else. Of course, money was always useful, but his and Airi's philosophy was that love was more important than money.
The man glared at Sakurai as he walked off. Sakurai himself entered the Milk Dipper with some trepidation. Airi was a loving soul, hard to anger and easy to forgive, but it was sometimes better to let her finish losing her temper before approaching her.
She was frowning when he came in, but it quickly turned to a smile. "Yuuto! Come in." The Milk Dipper was deserted; he'd deliberately timed things so that he came in when things were slow.
"Are you all right?" he asked. "I saw... whoever that was... leaving."
"Fujishiro Yuyo," she supplied. "I'm fine. He doesn't understand why I don't love him."
Sakurai nodded, letting her lean into his arms. "Sometimes, they just don't." He was lucky; she loved him.
"No, they don't," she agreed.
Title Breaking Time
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #16, Broken
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Airi and Sakurai don't break time lightly.
One could say, given the true nature of time, that what he and Airi were proposing to do would break it. Sakurai Yuuto grinned at that thought. It wasn't like they were breaking it, exactly. It was more like they were changing it around a bit, like one would rearrange things to hide something one didn't want found. That this involved erasing memories to alter time made it a bit different than hiding a spouse or sibling's present, harder to do, but still the same principle.
It wasn't like he and Airi wanted to do what they had to do, but they were doing it anyway. At least he could smile a bit at the grimness of the situation, the fact that they might be rearranging time to save somebody's life.
He and Airi might be amateurs, but it really wasn't that complex. It reminded him of that scene in the American movie "Men in Black" where the agency had to erase a whole lot of memories, and here he only had to erase two.
Maybe he was breaking time, but broken things could heal. Broken memories could be returned. Only time would tell.
Title Been Chosen
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #18, Ache
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto is not his future self, yet.
Airi had been kidnapped. Not because Kai had a clue to what he was looking for, but because some idiot liked her too much. The regulars at the Milk Dipper had little but his name and the fact that his eyes were completely black; a sure sign of an Imagin, and perhaps one of the same pair that had beaten up the youngest of Nogami's Imagin.
If so, it sounded like he'd wanted Airi for himself, and the Imagin were all too happy to grant it. Kidnapping someone was one of the easiest ways to grant a wish. Of all of Airi's suitors, this was the most dangerous one.
Airi had too many suitors, and it was cold comfort that she'd chosen the future him in the end. His heart sometimes ached, wishing that he could love and be loved like his future self would be.
He forced himself out of that thought, back to the battle to come. "Yuuto, do you intend to go?" Deneb asked.
"I have to, Nogami can't transform!" he exclaimed, knowing he alone could fight.
He ceded control of his body to Deneb, thinking of battle tactics as he went.
Title Have to Return in Time
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Den-O
Characters: Sakurai Yuuto
Table: Angst
Prompt: #20, Writer's Choice
Rating: 8+
Warnings: Entire series spoilers
Word Count: 200
Summary: Yuuto has to return to his own time someday.
Deneb, somehow, found ways to keep in touch with Ryoutarou. His Imagin had told him that Airi remembered - at least a little bit, at least his name. But there was a pang of sadness apparently every time she said it, as if she remembered the tragedies that had happened in their lives, the fact that the older Sakurai no longer existed. Yuuto had wiped that him out of existence with the last card.
Now he was due back to his own past time, having to adjust to coming back from a time more advanced than his own. He almost preferred to be from no time at all, anchored to no time at all, but Deneb had pointed out that normal humans couldn't stay there forever; he'd have to return to the time he'd come from eventually, now the crisis was over.
Besides, someday he had to become the man that Airi loved once again. It might take a while - his daughter Hana would be born a decade or so late, the consequence of fiddling around in the timeline - but he would have his family.
And in the meantime, he had Deneb. And his memories. And someday, Airi.
