MUSE . . . yaku morisuke + f! reader
warnings : 17+ to read, language, illegal activities
She's already out of breath by the time she nears a fence, running so hard her lungs may as well cave in. She makes quick work of jumping it, hooking her fingers in the chain link and forcing herself up despite her body wanting to give up.
If she stops, she gets arrested. And being arrested means losing her job.
It's cushy, nice, but not as much pay as she'd like it to be. Although, she doesn't think of it as work most days; more often than not she loses herself within the motions, finds herself deep within a project or something of the sort. Most days, she comes home dead tired, but content. Then finds herself going back out in the middle of the night, the witching hour, to abandoned buildings or run down billboards.
She teaches intermediate art, advanced art, and art history at the high school down the road. Not even a five minute walk from her apartment. But in the dead of night, when everyone sleeps, she's a vandal - of sorts.
“UZ eludes police again.”
“Controversial mural downtown is spectacled to be from the vandal UZ.”
Art was never a stranger to her.
She teaches it. She lives it. She might very well get arrested for it one day.
But she finds solace in the spray paint and secrecy. A version of herself she's more confident in, where she's allowed to be herself - express feelings she would normally leave unsaid. There's something comforting about anonymity, to hide behind the facade that was UZ.
But she can't hide behind shit if she's caught. So she runs for her life, for her dignity, for her sanity and well being.
She doesn't stop until she knows she's lost the police, until she doesn't hear the hurried footsteps behind her. And she slinks into an alley with her chest on fire, and thanks a higher power she's able to go to work tomorrow.