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#I think Munakata would be careful not to make baby Fushimi feel pressured
ridiasfangirlings · 8 months
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AU with Munakata taking his prodigy child Fushimi to this school for the gifted and talented while Iwafune takes his own prodigy child Hisui there. I sense competition.
Between the parents anyway, I bet Fushimi at least doesn’t even care XD Imagine this in like an AU where there aren’t any Kings but Iwafune was some kind of well known figure, like maybe he was a government official in the department where Munakata is works and so Munakata is aware of who he is. After some tragedy happened Iwafune was used as a scapegoat and it made him disillusioned with the whole thing so he retired to a private life. The incident in question had a body count and Iwafune takes in an orphaned child, deciding to raise the kid instead of working for a system that doesn’t help the people and is too bound by rules and bureaucrats to make any difference. 
Meanwhile Munakata takes over this department, he’s young and untested and it’s assumed he’s supposed to just be like a puppet for the old guard but instead he purges the entire place and reforms it from the ground up with his own people. He also ends up taking in little Fushimi after some incident where Niki is arrested and Munakata becomes aware of this talented child that’s not being nurtured as he should be. Munakata is of course super excited to be a parent, he’s constantly bragging about his splendid child and decides to enroll Fushimi into a school where his talents can flourish properly.
When he arrives for orientation with Fushimi in tow who should he run into but Iwafune with his own child, even though Iwafune’s taken on a new name Munakata immediately recognizes him and greets him as ‘Ootori Seigo.’ Iwafune is pretty unimpressed with Munakata’s reforms in his old department, he thinks that Munakata is still an idealistic youngster who hasn’t opened his eyes to the real world yet. Munakata meanwhile finds the current Iwafune someone who’s given up on ideals and who thinks that one shouldn’t strive for better things, he finds Iwafune’s attitude towards him irritating and condescending…and so of course while he doesn’t say that Saruhiko should be sure to out-perform Nagare he’s really kinda hoping it happens.
So then after this imagine Munakata and Iwafune having this low key rivalry every time they go to any school function, because Munakata can’t resist pointing out that his child got the highest grades in the class again and Iwafune counters that it looks like that was only cumulative and Hisui beat Fushimi in a few key areas, must be a parenting flaw. Meanwhile as the two of them snipe back and forth Fushimi and Hisui are hanging out quietly coloring or something, like neither one entirely cares about this and they’ve just agreed that parents are weird and to leave it at that. Iwafune I feel like would be more chill about it than Munakata too for that matter, like he enjoys when Hisui beats Fushimi more because it pisses off Munakata than anything else and he likes watching Munakata get pulled off his high horse. Munakata is more invested in showing that his way of raising a child is best and that his Fushimi-kun is superior in general, though I think he’d also be careful that Fushimi doesn’t become too aware of the rivalry because he doesn’t want Fushimi to think Munakata will be disappointed or care about him less if he isn’t perfect.
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