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yuno sykk was tired.
everyone in the city has spent about a month trying to figure out the casino heist. when x solved the riddle the boys were hyped.
yuno didn’t know it would be this tiring and time consuming.
the first day was fine he one shotted the thermite and he made his boys proud, but the second day? he was upset and disappointed in himself. even though he eventually hacked the thermite he still wasted thousands of dollars doing it, and those thousands of dollars weren’t even coming from his bank account.
after finally getting into the security room with tony, yuno just wanted to go home and crawl into the deepest corner of tony’s closet or bury himself under the covers of his and rays shared bed. he just wanted to cry, maybe scream a little bit. he’s stressed out, but his boys are counting on him, he has to stay strong for them and make them proud. x didn’t solve this riddle for yuno to fail the hacks he was suppose to complete. so when the 10 VAR hack was in front of his eyes he completely lost it. he couldn’t do this. it was getting too much. even though he turned his radio off he could still hear the made up disappointment in everyone’s voices in his head when he failed the 5 tries the hack gave him.
that’s when he collapsed. curled himself into a ball and started letting the tears slip out. he couldn’t do it. what would the boys say when they find out that yuno “the cheat code” really isn’t the cheat code they thought he was. millions of thoughts were going into yuno’s head. tony looked over at his boy, the youngest of everyone on the job, curled up on the floor while the others panic over the radio.
the cops were breaching, tony knew that. tony quickly dropped to the floor next to yuno and hugged him. yuno hugged him back sobbing in his shoulder, his mask and goggles were suddenly pulled off and shoved into tony’s pockets.
“hey buddy, it’s okay. no one’s mad at you, you tried you’re absolute fucking best. we’ve been here for hours trying to figure this out today and we’re all cooked and losing our minds. i know there’s a lot of pressure on you but just know we all love you, we wouldn’t be here without you.” tony says.
“look at me. i know you’re upset but we need to hide, okay? can you do that with me, we are locked in here. hide under this table with me alright.” he continues.
so yuno did exactly that, if anyone checked under there they both would be done. i mean you have two people practically cuddling under a table, hiding from the police, and doing insanely illegal stuff. yuno was scared, upset, disappointed. the hug tony gave him, cheered him up a little bit but he was still feeling awful. he had his head in tony’s chest and just kept taking deep breaths. they both heard footsteps coming closer and closer.
“does this door unlocked?”
“yeah let me unlock it”
the door opens and they see footsteps all around them, but then they disappear once they see no one in their eyes is in the room. tony and yuno look at eachother in shock. they whisper on radio, trying to connect with the other boys. they found out they were all hiding in the tunnel of the casino so they should be fine.
later that day
yuno got back to the manor, he didn’t want to be alone tonight. he would just have nightmare after nightmare just like when he failed the lower vault, this felt exactly like that moment but even worse. he lost so much money from just failing the thermite hacks back to back. this heist would give them a big payout also, so the fact he couldn’t do the hack today just made him feel so bad.
he slumped his way into mr langs room not even bothering to knock and saw him and tony talking out on the balcony not even noticing he came in. he immediately went to mr langs bed, took off his mask and goggles even his cat ear headband he had got from uwu and just wrapped himself in the blankets. he always loved how comfy mr langs bed was, it felt like he was on a cloud. he moved around and got comfortable until he heard tony and mr lang come back in the room.
“hey yuno baby. want to tell me what’s going on in that big brained lovely head of yours? hmm.” mr lang said softly sitting on the edge of the bed next to where yuno was laying.
“i couldn’t do it. i lost like hundreds of thousands of dollars in thermite just to get the hack on the last stick i had in my bag and i couldn’t figure out the 10 VAR hack. i swear i had it, i was so close to everything every time. whenever i do something like this i feel like it’s just about in my reach and then it slips. it’s like when you grab a glass cup out of the cupboard and your hands are sweaty so it slips on the ground and then you have to worry about stepping on the glass and injuring yourself. today felt like if i messed up one thing, i’ll be hated. i had to many eyes on me and to many people counting on me to complete it. i promise i’ll hack tons of banks next week and pay you guys back, i’ll even work shifts at uwu and burgershot. i just feel like a disappointment, i let you, x, mickey, ray, tony, and harry down today. i’m sorry mr lang i’m so sorry.” yuno cries out, voice cracking in the process.
lang looks at yuno with tears in his eyes. he finally understood why yuno is feeling like this. this is more than the casino heist. this is every moment leading to today. yuno has been through a lot of fucked up shit. he’s never complained once about anything other gangs or friends he once thought were real but ended up backstabbing him. he’s always bottled up his emotions and just waited for the pain to subdue.
“yuno baby. i want you to know that no matter how many times you fail, we will still love you. i will still love you. i remember when you first hacked on a job with me, tony and ray and you one shotted it like a badass, at that moment i realized i loved you. even though you never worked for me at roosters i still appreciated you and loved our banter we had. when you failed the lower vault that one time, i still loved you and supported you. you overcame that, you can overcome this. i know it sucks we didn’t get to progress more but this thought you put in your head needs to get out of there okay. we’re not disappointed, we’re not upset. we still appreciate and love you just as much as before and maybe even more. this right here is progress, you failing is progress, hell you even talking about how you’re feeling right now is progress. you have to realize that we are family, and we are learning new things every day. hell ray even ocean dumped mickey two years ago and we still love him right? we will never replace you.” lang said voice giving out on him as he goes to hold yuno’s hand.
“yeah yuno. we talked to all the boys after today and they have no hard feelings. they had so much fun. i know that us getting frustrated and yelling over the radio puts so much stress on you that we’re gonna do it more calmly tomorrow. we all love and appreciate you. if you need some reassurance tomorrow let us know. you just have to take some deep breaths in between each hack and hype yourself up a bit. it’s a hard ass hack and even the 10 VAR hack is fucking insane but you got it. we might not get it first try but this is how we figure things out, one by one. everything is progress. we are family and we will never let family feel like we hate them.” tony says while giving yuno a hug and tucking him into bed more.
“thank you guys. i love you guys…” yuno says while squeezing langs hand.
lang looked at yuno in shock, this was the first time he said it back. he smiled at his boy and let a few happy tears slip.
“we love you too baby. get some sleep, we gotta do this all again tomorrow. i’ll come back in, in a few minutes i need to make some calls” lang said while him and tony walk out the door.
as soon as the door to mr langs room shut tony and lang looked at each other with watery smiles and started jumping up and down and hugging each other. around the corner was ray, x, and mickey. two were crying and one was slightly smiling with a tear running down his face but if you ever brought that up he would fucking kill you. they had heard everything.
this is what makes them family. they have their ups and downs but at the end of the day they all love and would do anything for each other. even though ray and mickey won’t admit it, they still very deeply love each other and will forever be brothers but that’s a different story for another time.
right now they need to be there for their hacker and brother and need to give it all they got for the big casino heist.
soon. they will get it. soon.