Posted originally on the Archive_of_Our_Own at https://archiveofourown.org/ works/9645026. Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Underage Category: M/M Fandom: 文豪ストレイドッグス_|_Bungou_Stray_Dogs Relationship: Akutagawa_Ryuunosuke/Dazai_Osamu/Nakahara_Chuuya/Oda_Sakunosuke, Akutagawa_Ryuunosuke/Dazai_Osamu_(Bungou_Stray_Dogs), Dazai_Osamu/ Nakahara_Chuuya_(Bungou_Stray_Dogs), Dazai_Osamu/Oda_Sakunosuke_(Bungou Stray_Dogs), Akutagawa_Ryuunosuke/Nakahara_Chuuya_(Bungou_Stray_Dogs), Akutagawa_Ryuunosuke/Oda_Sakunosuke Additional Tags: OT4, this_is_a_mess_okay, it_isn't_my_best_work_at_all Stats: Published: 2017-02-10 Words: 1585 ****** russian roulette ****** by saviorbrother Notes I don't know what I'm doing, we're going to act like this fits in the timeline. Storge Family is inherent to most, a default of life. To Akutagawa, family had been a congregation of lost children with a flimsy vow. “If we move in from the south wing, we’d be able to cut off their route, take them in for questioning.” Oda lays a comforting hand on his head as plans are discussed for an ambushed. A funny sight they make at this grandiose table, casually discussing criminal matters like light lunch. His temples throb from lack of sleep and overexertion, eyes blurring as he rests his cheek against the cool wood of the table. “If you go in with such a small unit, the other potential exit won’t be properly covered,” Nakahara-san sounds bored, lounging in a seat at the head of the table. “Akutagawa-kun, you wouldn’t mind coming with, right?” Dazai questions, spinning his gun around one finger. Without giving an answer, it’s settled, he’ll accompany Dazai on his day off. Gin isn’t free tomorrow, anyhow. “I’ve got to go,” Oda stands, lifting his hand away from Akutagawa’s head in the process. None of them know who they were born to, but Oda’s features are a unique mix; baby blue eyes and blazing hair, dark stubble. As he stands from his seat, he stretches, raising his fists to the ceiling. “Odasaku, why not go out for drinks? Chuuya, you too!” Dazai bounds out of his chair as Chuuya declines the offer, getting ready to leave, also. Akutagawa is comfortable enough here, but stands as Oda gives him a look. “What about you, Akutagawa-kun?” Nakahara-san questions as they wait for the elevator, fixing his hat. Dazai hums his favorite tune, tapping his foot enthusiastically, but doesn’t await his answer. “Home,” Akutagawa shrugs, covering his mouth in retaliation of their attention. Home is roaming the streets until Dazai calls for him, or Oda bumps into him and buys him a cup of tea, and maybe Chuuya tracking him down so he can get some rest. /// Ludus This morning, he and Oda meet over the roofs of the poor. Where sewage and wet clothes permeate the air after a night of rain. They’re both surprised, freezing over a sunken roof. “Catch me if you can.” Odasaku says it with such a straight face that he gets a five-second head start on Akutagawa. It’s with a great deal of force that he lets himself go. Allowing his body to hop from shack to shack, sailing over the dilapidated structures, small children in the infested streets below, and feel the wind making way for them. After a minute, no one is chasing anyone, nothing but a child-like giddiness ballooning inside his chest as they flip and dodge one another in a fluid dance. “Dazai should be calling you soon,” Oda stops on top of a house made of brick and wet newspaper, not a hair out of place. Akutagawa feels disheveled, as if he had too much fun, and uncomfortable with the amount of emotion washing over him. “I suppose.” Oda leaves him with a respective bow, flying mid-air like it’s where he belongs. Warm sunlight erupts in Akutagawa’s chest. /// Philio “That bandaged bastard can’t get in my car.” Akutagawa looks scandalized as Chuuya burns rubber getting away from the curb, away from Dazai. “Where are we going?” “Dinner. There’s a place opening up on Main street,” Nakahara-san drives without his coat, and depending on the distance, forgoes his hat also. “You can loosen up around me, I don’t care for the formal bullshit, Akutagawa.” “I’m not sure how to,” Akutagawa sounds unsure, relaxing in his seat. “Just like that,” Chuuya crows, turning on the radio and going 90 in a 40 mph lane.   The new place on Main Street is a jazzed up diner with a line wrapped around the block. Akutagawa follows Chuuya past all the people waiting and inside, immediately having them led to a booth. “Burgers and fries, a fruit smoothie for him and a chocolate milkshake for me.” It isn’t their usually five-star eatery or the quaint, worn shops tucked away in quiet streets. This is a place for normal teenagers and families. Nakahara- san is in his element, slouching in the leather cushion with a content face. “What kind of--,” Chuuya trips on the word because what exactly is he to Akutagawa? “What kind of person would I be if I didn’t take you out to one of these places once in your life?” “Normal,” Akutagawa’s eyes dart around, ready to attack at a moment's notice. “Oi, it’s fine. You’re alright here,” Chuuya says, stern, “you’re with me.” He tastes the maple bacon from Nakahara’s burger and more than a few sips from his shake, the frozen chunks tucking into the gaps of his teeth. It’s an indirect kiss, Akutagawa frets, thrilled. The footsie under the table as they eat isn’t as soft as Nakahara-san’s hand resting on his lower back while they stroll back to his car, he hasn’t felt so full and drowsy in his entire life. This part of them leaves him tender, sated. /// Agape “Akutagawa-kun, I told you to take care of the coat, not ruin it.” The building behind him burns in billowing flames, blackening the sky.The Port Mafia doesn’t play well with others. “Akutagawa--” Oda catches him before he can collapse to his knees. The hole in his back is evident, alarming. “Was that…” Odasaku sounds startled, holding the young boy up. “He doesn’t know how to keep his ability from lashing out at his own body. This happens sometimes,” Dazai mutters, shaken at the sight yet trying to act nonchalant. “And you still let him take this job.” Dazai takes his own coat to cover Akutagawa’s naked and raw back, lifting him out of Oda’s arms. In a maelstrom of blazing embers and suffocating smoke, his friend walks away with his subordinate in his arms, limp and trusting. Those two aren’t always a pretty sight and that’s what’s enticing. It isn’t that Dazai doesn’t believe in the kid at all, he trusts him entirely too much with dangerous matters such as taking out entire buildings full of rogue ability users. What he thought was a one-sided bargain is actually unconditional and crude love. In it’s most natural form, love is a writhing snake in the grass trying to fulfill it’s greed while attempting to lull it’s victim into submission. Akutagawa’s eyes flutter open, peering in alarm over Dazai’s arm, before relaxing as the hold on him gets tighter. He won’t be wandering in darkness for eternity completely alone, not in this life. /// Eros If you put three horny teenagers in a room with a twenty-year-old with the resolve of a monk, this is what you get. Chuuya’s eyes are cerulean, sultry in their lazy look. Dazai’s bandages rasp against his skin, burning in the glide up his naked thigh. “You’re gonna make him come,” comes an accusing statement from his left. “Isn’t that the point, Odasaku?” Dazai teases, pinching Akutagawa’s flesh. “Not if the point is to have him last.” “Nakahara-san,” Akutagawa murmurs, but he doesn’t shy away from his mouth. Kissing him is like melting butter over his tongue, like being melted. Dazai spits on his cock again, jerking him off in tight, hasty strokes while Chuuya holds him down to the bed with one fist binding his wrists. Odasaku can sit in a chair beside the bed, couch, table, or counter, while the three of them get tangled. But tonight he seems impatient, shedding his clothes and panting. “Rock, paper, scissors?” Dazai asks. No matter how many times they play, Akutagawa always ends up being the first to get fucked. “That’s just how things go,” Chuuya grins, shuffling between his spread legs. It’s not that he doesn’t enjoy it, he just wishes they would drop the ruse of him having a chance in the first place. Chuuya’s mouth always goes slack on the first push, dazed as he feels Akutagawa take him, overheating the instant he bottoms out. “That never gets old.” Akutagawa can’t deal with their eyes on him, especially Oda’s, a mix of curiosity akin to a child’s and awe. It’d be nice to have his mouth on his cock, Odasaku gives good head, and Dazai’s fingers can twist his nipples until he’s squirming on Chuuya’s dick. It’s lewd, and uncomfortable, but he wants it. Then Dazai is there, shushing him. Making Akutagawa realize he wants to be inside of his mentor just as much as he wants Dazai-san in him, too. “Say it,” Odasaku whispers softly, thumbing over Akutagawa’s mouth. Chuuya puts his left leg over his shoulder, sucks a mark on the inside of his knee. “C’mon, Akutagawa.” He bites down of Oda’s thumb, hard enough to hear the bone grind against his teeth. /// “Hey, Odasaku.” “Mm?” “We should play russian roulette. But let's make sure Chuuya gets the bullet.” “No. Then you’d complain that you didn’t get to shoot yourself.” Dazai agrees, slumping down onto Akutagawa’s shoulder with all of his weight, almost tipping them both off their bar stools. “But watch this…” Chuuya makes all of their drinks float mid-air, stacked on top, then in a line, and proceeds to juggle them. “Dazai, no!” Chuuya screeches, getting the glasses within an inch of the bar top before his ability is nullified. Dazai scurries off to the bathroom, Chuuya hot on his tail, leaving Akutagawa alone with Oda. “Think you can hold it?” He looks to his right as Odasaku slides him his whiskey. Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work!