"Congratulations, Nagisa-kun~ We are finally done with our graduation ceremony."
A familiar voice was heard by a boy with light blue colored hair with a twin tail hairstyle which was going to last only for few more hours. After the graduation ceremony, Shiota Nagisa planned to make some drastic changes to his hair,cutting it short. It was a promise that Nagisa made to himself and to his mother long before the occurrence of today's special event. Many things happened to Nagisa and his classmates that would stay in the boy's memories for, pretty much a life time. Not only Nagisa was one of the students at Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High School, but also, he was part of Korosensei's student. The boy could safely say that he enjoyed his time as a student and also as an assassin, balancing his school duties but at the same time, observing and coming up with plans to take down Korosensei with the hopes of saving the Earth before the deadline date of March.
That hope finally became a reality and Nagisa, with the rest of his dear classmates of 3-E, was able to graduate, still living and breathing in the planet Earth. Many students were now able to focus on their upcoming studies as high school students because working like groups of assassins was not forced upon anymore. They were granted to live like normal students when the Earth was saved from Korosensei. But the idea of living like a normal student might not apply to Nagisa yet as the boy continued to think about his natural talent, a skill that he was practically born with.
The skill of killing people.
"Thank you, Karma-kun. It feels strange that we're going to be leaving this school," said Nagisa as he looked around the field filled with his classmates and their parents exchanging words. It still felt unreal that this whole situation was happening right now to Nagisa but at the same time, he was going to miss everything: his friends, the entire school atmosphere, working together like assassins and being in the same classroom with Karma. Speaking of Karma, the blue haired boy was curious about something but before he even had the chance to ask, Akabane Karma, spoke first.
"So Nagisa-kun, it seems like you and I are going to be attending different high school after this. Do you think we can still hang out when we're not drowning in school works?"
"I can't imagine you getting yourself drowning in school works in the first place," Nagisa answered with a few hint of laughter.
"Come on~ Just because I can score some few high grades doesn't mean I'm going to fly through my years as a high school student." Karma couldn't help himself from joining into Nagisa's chuckle; he was also going to miss this a lot once they both start their separate years in high school.
"I was talking about how you're going to avoid attending classes when workloads start to pile up…" Nagisa's voice trailed off but this was also a small joke that he decided to make with his close friend.
"Ha-…? That better be some weak joke from you, Nagisa-kun."
Nagisa only continued to laugh even longer as he slipped his hand inside the back of his pocket, taking out a small blue colored gift box. He then took Karma's hand and placed the item carefully. Karma was also surprised at the sudden gift but he tried not to express it too much through the reaction. Instead, the taller boy gave his mischievous smile, looking at the blue box and then back at his friend.
"Heh~ What's this all about?" Karma asked while shaking the tiny box.
"Ah-haha.. It's a graduation gift for you," Nagisa explained while scratching his hair, "Since I don't know if I can see you as often as I would like from now on.."
Karma had to frown at that statement; he knew that showing this type of face expression was very unlikely for him to do so, especially in front of Nagisa but it was difficult not to. Not to mention he felt bad because he didn't exactly prepare anything for his friend either.
"You make it sound like we're not going to see each other again, Nagisa-kun," said Karma with his tone becoming more serious right after. "Don't say that."
"….." Nagisa's eyes looked at the floor, the sound of his friends and their parents fading away slowly until he felt Karma's hand on top of his shoulder.
"Don't be so sad during the graduation ceremony~! If you want to meet, we can always make reasons to meet up like me helping with your studies. See? So you don't have to act all upset and what not."
When he heard Karma's attempt to cheer him up, Nagisa finally smiled weakly, nodding his head to agree for now.
"You're right Karma-kun. Why don't we also go and join some of our friends for a while?"
Slipping Nagisa's gift into his pocket, Karma also followed his friend along to the center of the crowd as he planned to open the wrapped item when he got home. This was something that he looked forward to during the entire ending ceremony of their middle school year at Kunugigaoka.
And that was actually the last time when Karma was able to see Nagisa with his own eyes.
After the graduation, Karma and Nagisa still kept their touch through text messages, phone calls and sometimes video chats, talking about their school lives as high school students and how they should meet. The meeting never happened, usually Nagisa being the one who had to make cancellation in the last minutes. This frustrated Karma at times but he tried to understand, thinking that Nagisa probably had some good reasons for choosing to decline their meet up.
Then one day, Nagisa left a last message to Karma, saying that he needs some time alone to focus more in his studies and about his future career.
**** As an Assassin****
"And then I just lost my connection with him," Karma muttered to himself in his lonely dorm, currently a first year student at a Keio University, which is one of the top schools located in Tokyo.
It was his third day as a freshman and truth to be told, he was already getting bored with so many things each passing days. He never really cared too much about receiving a high class education but even Karma was surprised when he applied to Keio University just for fun and to his own surprise, the acceptance letter arrived few months later. He didn't care too much about sharing this news with his friends since around this time, he was already upset with the fact that he had to accept. He completely lost his connection with Nagisa.
One day, his friend tells him in a text message that he needs some time alone so that is what Karma exactly did for Nagisa, trying to show some respect. When Karma realized that it has been over eight months since their last interaction, he tried to connect back with Nagisa. All the attempts that he made, calling, texting and trying to figure out what happened to Nagisa by asking other people failed miserably. When Karma visited the last address that he can think of, Nagisa's family and the boy himself were no longer residing at the area anymore.
Betrayal was what Karma felt.
His heart hurt more than everything else that happened to him.
"Ah- maybe I should look around this campus more," Karma announced to himself, glad that he didn't have to share this dorm with anyone in particular as he stood up from the chair and went outside at night.
The noise of his own footsteps was the only sound that Karma heard as he continued to walk peacefully throughout the empty campus. The time was already extremely late, almost twelve in the morning but that didn't stop Karma from walking around. And besides, he was inside the school campus, which is supposed to be a safe place anyways.
Even as a college student, Karma still had the same custom of wearing a black blazer on the top while wearing something inside that usually exposed some skin around the neck and the upper chest area. It was not because of the style but more like, it was a comfortable choice of clothing style for Karma. Even now, he wore jeans, a white V neck shirt and a short sleeve blazer which was, you guessed correctly, black color. Karma's hands were inside his pocket and he approached a nearby bending machine to get something cool to drink while walking around some more. He thought about getting himself strawberry milk for some old time memories as he placed few coins inside the machine. But, when Karma was just about to press the button and make his selection, he saw someone walking from his peripheral vision. At first, he thought that it was another student with too much time on his hand, getting a drink. But his eyes opened widely when he recognized the similar body structure and…
"Hello, Karma-kun. I see that you're still wearing my graduation gift from our middle school ceremony."
Karma touched a silver chain of necklace around his neck. It was simple, just like how he likes it since he never really liked wearing something too fancy and Nagisa, his old friend, new that perfectly.
Hearing that familiar voice again, Karma didn't know how to act first.
So many questions were already filling up his mind but putting all those aside, the important factor was that this person was Shiota Nagisa. A reunion that Karma thought it would never occur.
"I can't see your face well if you're all hidden in the shadow like that-" Karma stated with his usual playful tone, trying to cover up all the emotions consuming inside of him. "Nagisa-kun. Do you want to come closer? I can buy you a drink and we can chat here."
"I'm not sure if you want to see me in the light." Nagisa gave an instant response towards his old friend, not moving from his spot surrounded by shadows.
"Heh~ I hope that's not some kind of excuse from you." Karma casually selected a drink but instead of picking the strawberry milk, he picked a glass bottle content filled with grape flavored soda. After getting the drink, a teasing smirk is formed as Karma threw it in the air. "Catch, Nagisa-kun-"
The sound of glass crashing onto the floor was not favorable to Nagisa, especially since the male wanted everything to be as quiet as possible. Karma's plan of drawing his old friend out into the light worked perfectly as Nagisa quickly walked a little forward in order to catch the bottle.
"….." Nagisa caught the bottle before turning his attention back to Karma, giving an un-amused face expression.
"Nagisa-kun." Karma called but stopped to think about his next sentence. It was clear to him why Nagisa didn't want to come out into the light in the first place. There were small but visible stains of blood on Nagisa's clothes but what appalled Karma the most was the fact that the once animated blue colored eyes were now lifeless. Like eyes that belonged to a true assassin. "Since you caught that bottle of soda, now you have to sit down and talk with me while we drink."
Nagisa quietly stared at the drink in the grip of his hand. "As expected, you always know how to manage your situation calmly, Karma-kun."
"What? Like asking how I should be asking questions about your small blood stains or things like where were you for the past few years?" Karma tried to maintain his temper while getting himself strawberry milk before turning around to face Nagisa. "I can ask those later after I get some reunion time with you."
Nagisa smiled and walked to where Karma was standing. The smile that was displayed on Nagisa's face looked like a friendly smile that Karma missed seeing during their middle school years. He thought the blue haired male was smiling because he was also feeling delighted at the sense of their sudden reunion in the middle of the night.
"Karma-kun." Nagisa's grin continued to linger while returning the bottled drink back to the red-head.
"You're going to be my next target soon. Do you still want to have this reunion talk?"
…..
…..
A silence was needed between the two. Nagisa, thinking about how Karma, his old friend and now his target, is taking this whole story while Karma on the other hand, is thinking about the legitimacy of Nagisa's delivered statement.
But even Nagisa was more surprised at Karma's next sentence.
"Hm- Your hair looks a lot similar like back in middle school but the size of your twin tails got smaller and less fluffy," Karma pointed to the bench in front of them, asking for Nagisa to sit as he did the same for himself. "Come on Nagisa-kun~ Don't you want to sit down with your old friend while gazing at the stars?"
A small sweat drop is formed on Karma's forehead. This was the first time when he actually sensed some type of fear but he refused to show it to Nagisa just yet.
* It's up to the reader if you want to think Korosensei is dead or not but in this story, the Earth is saved!
*This is only an introduction which is why the chapter is kinda short. If more people are interested, I can continue but if not, the story isn't going to get any continuation after this one.
*Thank you for reading and review will be thankful!
*I'm still thinking if this is going to be a light romance or a deep bonding friendship. Let me know in the review~