umisabaku:

Furihata is still eagerly waiting
his gallant rescue (as a superhero, he is aware how horrible this. It is a true
sign that he is a failure as a superhero, that he is counting on other heroes
to save him) when the door opens. His momentary resurgence of hope is quickly
dashed at the sign of another villain.

“Sei-chan! We talked about
this! Kidnapping is no way to begin a love affair!” the Hell and Heaven
Lady says, causing Furihata to blink.

“That is not what is happening,
Reo. As I explained to you, many times, this is a recruitment effort,”
Akashi says, not sounding particularly put out.
“Same thing,” Mibuchi Reo says, and she moves to sit over on the
couch next to Furihata. “You poor baby chihuahua! Sei-chan is being very
rough right now, but I assure you, he has a good heart and he just wants what’s
best for you.”

“Um,” Furihata says, a
little disconcerted by the fact that the Hell and Heaven Lady is talking to
him. Like Akashi, Mibuchi Reo is top level supervillain. Definitely in the top
five supervillains of the present day. Her ability to increase density so that
people either fall flat to the ground under intense pressure or float to the
air is the kind of super-ability that Furihata has always envied.

“You should probably uncuff
him, Sei-chan. This is no way to start a first date,” Reo says.

“Again, not what’s
happening,” Akashi says. 

“You’re not going to run away,
are you, Furihata-chan?” Reo asks.

“Er,” Furihata says, once
again quaking a little under the intensity of her attention. He is really not
used to having powerful supervillains notice him. “No?”

“There, see? Furihata-chan
wants to join us!”

“No!” Furihata says, and
then, absurdly, feels guilty when Reo looks at him with a hurt
expression. 

“You don’t?” she says,
sounding like Furihata just disinvited her from his birthday party.

“Well, no,” Furihata says,
a tad apologetically. “I really like my team. And anyway, I can’t believe
that you actually want me to join you. I’m really useless. You probably
have me confused with some other person. I say, we should just call it a day,
you let me go, I’ll walk away, no harm, no foul, everyone’s happy.” He
manages a weak smile and hope he’s successfully conveyed, I am not a threat
to you, with But I will never join you and a healthy dose of, Please
don’t kill me.

But Reo just looks indignantly at
Akashi. “Sei-chan! You’re doing this all wrong! How have you not told him
yet?”

“I was in the middle of that,
Reo, but then someone interrupted,” Akashi says, his smile a bit
like a shark.

“It should have been the first
thing you tried! Far before the handcuffs stage, I should think. That’s third
date stuff, at least.”

Akashi looks like he is very
carefully controlling his temper, which Furihata finds unusual. He somewhat
expects that supervillains are cruel, even to their teammates. When Akashi
speaks, his attention is solely on Furihata.

“As I was explaining to you,
Kouki, you clearly do not have any idea of your worth, and your teammates are
fools if they have led you to believe that you are less than them. They do not
deserve you.”

“No, that’s not—my teammates
are very supportive!” Furihata protests, because he will not let Akashi
insult his team. “I don’t need anyone telling me my ability is
useless, that’s fairly obvious to all! I win grocery store lotteries, and
occasionally help with timing, but that’s barely any kind of—”

“Port Kanagawa.”

Furihata immediately stops talking.
The Battle of Port Kanagawa had been Furihata’s first real foray into stopping
real supervillains, and the dangers and disasters of that day are still things
that wake him up at night. He looks at Akashi quizzically. “I didn’t do
much during Port Kanagawa. I was civilian assistance that day.”

“You did not get injured,”
Akashi returns. “In fact, you were one of the only people who did not. And
the civilians you assisted all made it out through an uncanny demonstration of
your luck, as you call it. Which is, perhaps, the most trivial way
I have ever heard someone with reality manipulation describe their
abilities.”

“Reality manip—that’s not what
I do!” Furihata says, almost indignant, because reality manipulation is
one of those godlike super-abilities only spoken about in legend.

“No?” Akashi says,
smiling.

“Of course not,” Furihata
says, blushing for a reason he doesn’t understand.

“Kouki, we can do so many
amazing things together,” Akashi says. “I promise you, if you join
me, we will be unstoppable.”

It’s a pretty nice speech, and
Furihata still can’t believe he’s getting a temptation-speech from a
supervillain. Only really cool heroes ever get temptation-speeches from a
supervillain.

“Well, I think at the very
least, you should take the handcuffs off now,” Reo says. “I’m
beginning to suspect this is a kink of yours, Sei-chan.”

Furihata startles, because he’d
forgotten Reo was still there.

A/N: Hahaha, the continuation of
this AkaFuri superhero/supervillain short I wrote! I wasn’t expecting to write
more, but people seemed to enjoy this one and then I had the idea of throwing
Reo in. I can’t resist Rakuzan roasting Akashi. Might write more, if I have
more ideas =D =D