Man worth 6.000.000 $$
Since you’ve been old enough to mend for yourself and since you’ve remembered yourself you’ve always been a very light sleeper. After that, after being a mercenary for a few years, your sleep became even more uneven and you’ve been plagued with insomnia for many nights in a row, until you just pass out of tiredness.
After being used as a bait and stood up by one of your contractors you’ve became a scapegoat and a wanted criminal with some petty sum on your head.You've been angry at yourself for falling into the stupid trap, but decided to just deal with it and clear your name, since you've kinda enjoyed the life and the paycheck of a mercenary and before the incident you've managed to build up a bit of a name for yourself. For now, all you needed to do is lay low, travel off the roads and find the jerk who stood you up.
Somewhere on your trip you've met a peculiar guy, who you really didn't believe to be "the" Vash the Stampede as he claimed at first, but you've decided to stick with him cause why the hell not, it became a bit of a burden to travel all alone and be on the constant lookout for your back. Somewhere along the way, you've have gathered that he was indeed "the" Vash by observing his skills with dealing with attackers without killing them. Somewhere along the way, you've warmed up to him; and somewhere along the way you've noticed that you're not suffering from insomnia anymore.
Due to your travels off the road, you've had to spend a lot of nights out in the cold desert, so you've slept in close proximity to each other to keep warm without having a fire out, so that you're not noticed so easily. With time, the close proximity turned into basically curling into each other in one sleeping bag with all the other clothes piled up above. During those nights, you've began resting more and more peacefully, maybe by having a feeling of companionship with someone and having your anxieties subsided for a bit, maybe just by listening to his breathing and the beating of his heart. You've been able to score a few little jobs along the way and pretty much stay low (although it has been not so easy due to your travelling companion's ability to attract all kind of crazy situations around himself), so you've managed to even book a room for the night in a few inns in few small villages you've came across so far. Most of the time, it was a single-bed rooms, but you've been so used to sleeping near each other, that it didn't raise any conserns.
But this time, it has been different. Once you've booked a room and went upstairs to get rest, you've noticed that it has two small single beds situatied pretty far away from each other, separated by two bedsite tables. Just as any other time, you barely had any energy to assume anything, so you've just took a shower, got into your spare semi-clean clothes that can be used for sleeping. But as minutes and hours went by, you couldn't fall asleep for a second, no matter how tired you've felt. Your continuous tossing and turning with loud groans and exhales has woken up Vash at some point. He blinked a few times at your side and asked whatever's bothering you. After venting for a bit that you can't fall alseep but assuring him that it's fine and you've been used to it for your whole life, you promised to keep quiet and nudged Vash to get back to sleep so that "at least one of you will be sane tomorrow".
You've wondered what has been different this time but couldn't figure this out. You've felt safe, you have not been hungry, you have not been anxious, but still sleep evaded you for so long..you've tried to concentrate on something to take off your mind of idle thoughts, and your ears have caught up the sound of your companion’s soft snoring. Still, it was very-very quiet.. and very far away…Wait a second.. The realization of the cause of your newfound insomnia overtook you instantly. You’ve tried to calculate how selfish it would be to wake up Vash right now and burden him with your problems, but the thought of you being a functioning and rested person outweighed 20+ minutes of sleep Vash could lose from your request. You came up to his bed, kneeled in front of him and tried to shake him gently while whispering his name. At this, he opened his sleepy eyes and looked at you absentmindedly, trying to focus on your face. You’ve sheepishly tried to explain to him that sleeping next to him seemed to make you fall asleep easily and asked if you two can move the beds closer together right now, so you can catch a few hours of sleep before the dawn. Hearing that, his face flushed a little (not like you could’ve seen it in the dark room) but he nodded while yawning, got up and helped you move both bedtables first, then your bed closer to his, in fact he pushed your bed against the floor till a soft “thud” of it hitting his own bed has been heard.
Later in the night while lying in the now-shared bed with Vash, you still couldn’t fall asleep while listening to his breathing, but you didn’t want to wake him up, or make him aware of you not sleeping after he was awoken and been asked to push the furniture in the ungodly hours, so you preferred to just lay there unmoving with your eyes tightly closed. At one point, a moon must’ve risen up in the sky cause the black color behind your eyelids became touched with a bluish tint, so you’ve opened your eyes and look at the side Vash was occupying and winced, because his eyes were wide open and he was gazing at you. Seeing you awoken and startled, he chuckled and just pushed you closer to him asking why you’re not sleeping after making him moving furniture during the night (just as you thought he would), so you redirected the question at him. It took him a few breaths to start talking, after which you’ve heard his confused thoughts on you wanting to sleep closer to him willingly, because all the previous times were “out of necessity”, in his words. You could barely see his face since you’ve been tucked under his chin while he was saying that. You wondered, if it was intentionally on his part, so you pushed yourself back and up a little, your eyes now on the same level as his, seeing a confused and almost pained look in his eyes. So, you’ve fought with your common sense for a bit and started spilling out everything you’ve been thinking and feeling about your travelling companion for the past several weeks, explaining how his presence seemed to finally cure your insomniac tendencies that you’ve had since forever. You’ve been explaining everything quite passionately, so you were more in your head gathering your thoughts and putting them into words, that you didn’t notice that Vash moved closer to you again, and pressed his lips to yours in between your rumblings. You didn’t register at first what has stopped you from talking, before you opened your eyes, scrunching the nose and looked ahead of you, seeing only Vash’s eyelashes and his shut eyes in front of you. At the same time you’ve felt his lips being tightly pressed to yours. Later, you were sure that this moment took a few seconds, but at the time it felt like eternity between you experiencing the touch, and it provoking the corresponding feelings in you.
Just as he began trembling a bit against you and moving away, you’ve pressed your hands to his cheeks, and pulled him back to your lips, responding with a vigor. The kiss was sloppy, but tender, filled with hands on each other’s faces and each other’s hair, touching teeth, brushing noses and almost no air to breathe. You were feeling elated at the moment, giddy with giving and receiving so much physical affection at once, you’ve probably haven’t felt this way in years. So you smiled gently back at him, when stopping and suggested living all the talks after a bit, since Vash couldn’t bring himself to talk, so you decided to give him time to think about what happened. Surely it’s not like it’s something he has planned, but it has made you very happy; feeling loved and loving someone back, whether platonically or romantically was fine by you, but overwhelming. With these thoughts, you fell asleep peacefully, listening to his fast beating heart.
When you woke up, the other side of the bed was empty, so you’ve assumed that Vash awoken earlier than you as usual, and headed down to the inn, so you were not worried in a bit, as you’ve started packing your things and getting ready for the day, but then you’ve noticed a few bits of paper laying on one of the bedside tables. You stretched out and took them in your hands. One was a quick sketch made by a street artist of Vash and you looking around the town square, that he definitely did while you were not watching and then guilt tripped you into buying, but the second was a hand-written letter saying something about “not deserving the happiness” and “not willing to risk the life of people he cares about”. The last thing you looked at was a little stone that was initially laying on top of the letter. It was a stone you’ve found on one of the nights you’ve spent in the open desert. You’ve said then that the specs of color in it remind you of Vash’s eyes.
You sighed and put them all inside the pocket of your jacket, finishing up packing so you can start chasing your companion, who dumped you without even starting anything. Luckily, due to his crazy luck it won’t be as hard to find him as a regular person. After all, he was a man worth 6,000 000 $$.
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This is me spewing this monstrosity after overconsuming the Trigun content, and also after reading all the ‘Skip to Loafer’ manga.
I’ve been also comparing the characterisation of OG Vash and Stampede!baby Vash and thinking about how OG Vash wouldn’t let a situation like this occur. He’s like so used to wearing a persona under the persona under the persona + outlining his boundaries, that by the time he would’ve scared the reader off with his fake overly flirty persona or would’ve just done nothing and ease any tension with humor. As the very last resort, he’d spew all his thoughts right to the reader’s eyes, if they were so insisting in their feelings.
I feel like the Stampede Vash is a bit more naive and open and conflicted.
He’s very closed off initially, so it takes a lot to bring him out of his first “cheery” persona, then he feels too much, then he flees ahah
So yeah, just my little headcanons, enjoy everybody who’s as Vash content starved as I!
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