The day Midorima got fired, his car broke down on his way home. It greatly bothered him that neither that car nor his original car would even make any attempts to start again, so now 2 of his 3 cars were permanently broken. He had tried to already get the first one fixed but found that nothing could be done for it, so he didn't even bother with the second one. He decided to just give up on both.
It was a few days after that now, and Midorima was in terrible condition. He hadn't left his apartment at all, nor had he actually been getting enough sleep or enough to eat. He didn't have much of an apatite so he only had a few snacks a day, and even with that, he was already running out of food since he never bothered to go to the grocery store that week. He felt like sleeping the entire day away, but no matter how much sleep he got it was always bad. He felt even more tired when he woke up than anything, so after the first 2 days, he decided to not bother sleeping unless he was truly tired.
On top of all his issues already, knew that he needed to be finding himself a job. That thought was making his situation worse since he knew what he needed to do, but he currently couldn't handle it at all. His family had already offered to assist him with money, but he wanted no part in that. He refused to live off all his family so that just left using his savings that he'd been growing for quite some time, but he truly didn't want to use up all that money either. It didn't help that his "friends" contiguously texted and called him, wondering if he was doing alright. With his friends and family pushing him, he was forced to ignore his negativity for now and make a decision.
So, with his mind made up, Midorima showered and changed before leaving the house. He was already dressed and ready when he realized that he'd nearly forgotten his wallet. He spent an hour searching for it, before realizing that it was gone. He wasn't sure if it was stolen or just fell out somewhere, but either way, it was now completely gone from the male who owned it.
"This is ridiculous." Midorima checked Oha-Asa to see if his ranking was bad, but was concerned to see he was ranked first. He sighed to himself and shook his head. "My lucky item will probably not even assist me at this point..." Midorima then used his last car to go to the store but first stopped at an office place to get copies printed off of his resume to go to a few interviews. On his way to the grocery store, his car decided to break down, like the others.
He was now even more disappointed and irritated but most of all he, himself, was breaking down. He didn't even want to walk home at this point, but his logic and calm side told him to anyway.
However, just like the rest of the things in his life, bad luck struck the folder of papers. A gust of wind blew and his papers were scattered all over the busy and wet road. He could only watch as his many copies of his resume were soaked and ran over.
"I can't just allow them to remain there." It was bothersome to the green-haired male but he knew he had to retrieve them. He waited until the road wasn't too busy to begin his task.
He picked up quite a few which were completely soaked but still salvageable. A few had blown further into the roads, so he looked around before going to get them.
He picked them up but they were more torn and tattered than the rest, due to being run over. His annoyance and lack of sleep won, and his attention to the traffic around him slipped. He failed to notice the large truck barreling towards him. The driver was eating, and not paying any mind to the road in front of him. The two only saw each other, when it was already too late.
The driver reacted and slammed on his breaks, but Midorima did nothing. The green-haired male had been at the end of his sanity and stopped caring about his existence. He made no attempt to move and gave in to his fate.
Moments before he was hit, there was a flash of black and something hard hit him. The next thing Midorima knew, he was sitting at the side of the road with someone's arms wrapped around him. Confused and slightly in pain, Midorima looked at the person to see who it was. The person was a male shorter than him with black hair and wearing all black clothing. To the green-haired male's horror and confusion, there were black bat-like wings attached to his back. As Midorima watched, they folded into each other and disappeared as if they were never there to begin with.
The other male sighed with relief before smiling, a big smile at Midorima. The green-haired male felt all sorts of emotions at that moment, despite not usually feeling anything. Most of all, he was curious about the man, even though there were other feelings he should have been feeling.
"I'm so glad I made it in time! I was worried for a second there!" The male said in an upbeat voice. "Hey there Shintarou! I'm Takao Kazunari!" His words stunned Midorima. The previously winged male was acting as if his appearance was the most normal thing in the world.
"Wh...What?" Midorima wasn't sure what just happened but he didn't like it. He was in the arms of a male who didn't look normal, and he was fairly certain that he wasn't even human.
"I'm Takao, that's my name." The male continued to smile at Midorima as he stared in confusion. Well, he stared until things around him began to go black as he fell into unconsciousness. The last thing he saw was the concerned amber eyes of the male holding him.
Midorima awoke in his bed with a shock. He sat up, put his glasses on before looking around. He was glad to see his room around him and that it was his bed he woke up in. He was wearing his sleep clothes, and nothing seemed out of place.
"That must have been a dream. An oddly vivid one." Midorima said to himself out of relief. He was worried he was losing his mind. He was also unhappy with how out of character he'd been acting in his dream. His stomach growling informed him that laying in bed was not something his body was wanting to do.
Once he put on his day clothes, he left his bedroom to go to the kitchen for some breakfast. He entered his kitchen to see the male from his dream standing there at his stove, cooking. He no longer wore black clothing, but normal jeans and a t-shirt. He looked like a normal person, but when the male turned around to smile at Midorima, the green-haired male remembered he was nor a normal person. The male's eyes were a slate blue, but Midorima could have sworn they were an amber color when he'd first seen him.
"Oh, you're awake! Sit at the table Shin, and I'll give you your food." Takao was oblivious to how horrified Midorima was at that moment, however, he was irritated by the abbreviated use of his name.
"What did you call me? Also, how did you get in here?"
"Huh? You mean you don't remember? We met yesterday when you almost were killed. You sure have bad luck, but that's why I'm here!" He chuckled as he began to serve out food onto two plates. "Here you go Shin, eat up!" He set the food on the dining table and sat down to eat. Midorima, however, did not move from the doorway. It wasn't shock or horror that he was feeling anymore, but complete annoyance.
"Don't speak to me in such an informal and friendly way."
"Hush, you seem like you haven't eaten a good meal in a long time. We'll talk after we eat."
Midorima didn't want to sit and eat with this stranger, but his body clearly did with the sounds his hungry stomach began to make. So reluctantly, the green-haired male sat down and began to eat. He was pleasantly surprised to taste the food. He'd thought it would taste bad but it actually tasted fairly decent, well better than he could get it to taste anyway.
It didn't take long for the food to be devoured with how hungry the green-haired man actually turned out to be. Midorima had indeed not eaten a good meal in a long time. It nearly made him forget about the inhuman stranger in his kitchen. Nearly, but not totally.
"Explain to me now. Who and what are you? Why are you here?"
"Well like I said before, my name is Takao Kazunari."
"Yes, I remember."
"Good, good. Well moving on then. I'm a demon. Specifically, your new guardian demon."
"I thought people had guardian angels?"
"Really? That's the first thing you ask me? Shouldn't it be something about how I'm a demon? You're only bothered by the guardian demon part?" The black-haired chuckled but got no response, so he continued with speaking. "Most people do, but there are some who need demons and you, Shin, need me." The male nearly seemed cocky about it, which hit a nerve for Midorima.
"Explain." Midorima was seemingly radiating irritation and hostility towards the male. It was surprising, but it actually made Takao a little nervous.
"Well, the shrine you four went to was of an original goddess. She ruled over fortune long ago but was shoved aside by others. Over the years, she's been treated badly by humans, so anger and hate grew. You four caused it to boil over." Takao informed the annoyed male. "She's been corrupted, causing her fortunes to inflict the opposite of what they say. So, when you got the best fortune possible, you were actually cursed with terrible luck. That caused your original guardian to run away."
"Why would a guardian angel run away from bad luck?"
"She's a coward and didn't want your misfortune to spread to her. She chose her life over yours." Takao honestly seemed very annoyed over it. "So, since she broke a law, she was exiled and to combat your bad luck, I was brought in."
"You're a demon, how can you be a guardian and how can you fight bad luck. Aren't you just bad luck?"
"Now, now Shin, all demons aren't that bad. There's quite a few that look after humans. I was just most suited for you."
"How unfortunate..."
"Ha! Well, that bad fortune is why I'm here. You're stuck with me now. I won't run away from it."
"You sure?" Midorima was skeptical considering he was talking to a demon he'd just met.
"Of course! Shin is mine... to protect so I won't leave your side!"
"How can I get my fortune back?" The green-haired male wanted to just ignore the unnecessary comments from the black-haired male and wanted to find out how to get rid of him, as soon as possible.
"... I have no clue!" The huge smile on Takao's face made Midorima want to slam his own head against the table. He wasn't sure how much of the demon he could handle.
"So are you immune to the misfortune? Is that why you're so willing to stay?" In response, Takao just shrugged. He wasn't 100% sure about it, so it was something he'd find out later.
"If I get your bad luck, I'll still remain by your side. I won't leave you alone, not even for a minute."
"You don't seriously believe you'll be staying in my home, do you?"
"Of course I am! My old band members live around here, so I can protect you and get them all back together at the same time! I'll be sharing a bed with you too!"
"No."
"I'll be happily sleeping on the couch?"
"If you must, however, stay out of my way. I don't want to see you." Midorima got up from the kitchen table and began to leave the room.
"Sorry Shin, but now that I've shown myself, you and everyone else can see me now. There's no stopping that for a while, if ever." Hearing that annoyed Midorima, however, he still left the room. He wanted to do anything but talk to Takao a moment longer.
Midorima wasn't prepared for the insane world of demons and angels he was now in. He didn't usually believe in such extremes such as curses, but now that he was stuck with a being like Takao, he didn't want to, but he reluctantly believed. All the changes and insanity gave him a headache, on top of the one he'd already been having since his bad luck began.
To calm his headaches, Midorima decided to just go back to his bed. He didn't really have too much motivation to do much else with the pain in his head. How he had already been feeling before the appearance of Takao made it all so much worse.
So, needless to say, Midorima's spirits were down. It was something he was planning to fix with excessive sleep. Well, that was his plan, but not Takao's. After an hour of sleeping, Takao burst into the room, shocking the sleeping man awake.
"Shin! You can't just sleep!" Takao climbed onto the bed with the now waking and angry male. "Come on, we've got plans!"
"What plans? Go away." Midorima glared at the black-haired male. Only his head was showing out from under the blankets. His green hair was messed up, and his eyes were only half open but still had anger within them along with looking tired.
"Oh wow Shin, you look super hot right now!" Takao leaned in closer to the sleepy male to get a better look at Midorima.
"What?" The male responded by shoving Takao off the bed. His body made a loud thump as he hit the floor hard.
"Ouch! That wasn't nice Shin!"
"Be silent and get out of my room."
"Are you going to come with me?"
"If I have to. Just get out."
"Good!" Takao cheered to himself as he left the room and went to sit on a couch in the living room. It was only a few minutes before Midorima exited his room and approached Takao. "That took forever!"
"Where are you taking me?"
"Where are your keys? I'm driving."
"No."
"Come on, you don't know where you're going, so it'll be easier for me to drive."
"Can you even drive?" Midorima spoke as he handed the black-haired male the keys to his last car. Takao took the keys and chuckled, his eyes suddenly amber and gleaming with mischief.
"It can't be that hard."