Reminiscent // KUNIKIDA DOPPO ||

Chapter 5 : Keeping Secrets

"L/N, you're still here?" Why was it that this woman was always at the Agency last? She was typing and clicking away at her laptop, occasionally writing down in her notepad.

"Mhm, we're leaving for Okinawa tomorrow, but we can't just go to the second-largest city in Japan without having a clue with what place we're going to go." She explained, her eyes flying across the screen. Was she..was she planning? Yet another responsible, but rare, thing coming out of her. I should have probably stopped comparing the woman to the adolescent version of herself.

"What have you got so far?" I asked, walking over to her.

"A few high-class bars, museums, nightclubs, strip clubs..."

"Strip clubs?" I repeated.

"Well, that sure caught your attention." L/N spun her chair around and looked at me with a smirk. "Do you plan on having a good time Kunikida?"

"Shut up, you." I rolled my eyes and spun her chair back around to her laptop personally. She merely laughed and closed her laptop.

"Welp, I'm beat. Time to go home." The woman began placing her things into her bag, and stood up. I waited for her at the door, keys to the Agency in my hand. My hand turned the knob and opened the door for the two of us. Once we had both walked out, I inserted the key into the hole and turned it until it locked.

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The streets were quiet as we walked. There was silence between us, but this wasn't rare. I had recalled times we would walk around the garden in our old school, simply admiring all of the work that we had done, and not talking whatsoever. Regardless if I was forced to remain in it, being in that club made me appreciate nature more than I had before.

Speaking of the devil, we were about to pass a floral shop. I had forgotten there was one so close to the Agency building. I had gone to the place once to buy flowers for my apartment, back when I had first joined the Agency. Although I hadn't had much time to take care of anything at all. Lately, my apartment seemed to be a place where I slept and occasionally ate. L/N walked a tad bit faster to get a glance at flowers in a pot near the front entrance. She bent down and examined them with intent eyes, this was becoming familiar. A very odd sense of Deja Vu, it's not as if we were in a garden, so why was something familiar? I couldn't figure it out.

The woman took in a big inhale of the flower and exhaled with a satisfied smile. She stared at it a bit longer, then looked up at me.

"Cosmos..." She said with a smile. "Very pretty, huh?"

Oh...

Now I remember what's familiar.

"Camellias. You don't see these too often huh? The seeds for these things are so expensive, but I would really like to grow them someday." I stared at her, being in total awe. L/N grabbed onto my hand, and looked at me with a determined look, "Once I get the seeds, you'll be helping me grow them, got it?"

We never did grow those camellias...I had wanted to, very much.

"Kunikida..? Hello...Kunikida?" I snapped out of my daze and saw L/N staring at me with a confused look.

"S-sorry." Dammit, why was I stuttering? "We should probably get going, the subway leaves soon."

"Right." She stood back up and continued walking. We arrived at the station and got on the subway on time. Once we were out, we continued walking beside the road. 

There was still so much deja vu I was experiencing, what was I not remembering? There was a tingling feeling inside, one which I hadn't understood. The image of L/N's profile looking at the flowers with fascinated eyes still kept replaying over and over, what was so important about that moment? C'mon..think..think.