*Trigger Warnings: descriptions of throwing up, death, and blood.
{iii. after: first wave}
∫rin∫
When Rin wakes up, his entire body aches and his lungs hurt. He gives out shaky, painful breaths and groans, rolling over, feeling gravel underneath his body and a hard rock prodding into his right leg. His eyes slowly open and the sun blinds him for the horizon it's nearly over. He coughs violently and bends his head to cough up some of the water. His head hurts and he feels like someone punched him repeatedly in the stomach.
Sitting up, he notices Haru by his side, looking like complete shit, dirt sprawled on his cheeks and cuts all over his body. His clothes are ripped and Rin glances down at himself and groans again at the sight of his own clothes and the pain from fully sitting up.
Rin glances around, blinking at the sight. They've somehow made it out and onto the higher steps above Haru's house and Rin is almost in awe at the newly formed sea. The water is somewhat still, small ripples making their way across every once in a while, but Rin squints, trying to see what items are floating in the water.
When he sees the first dead body, he pales and turns his head to throw up violently, water and blood spilling out of him like it was simply last night's meal. No no no, people aren't actually supposed to die. No one was supposed to die! It was supposed to be a scare thing! Not real!
Fuck. Rin brings his hand up to wipe his tears away but seeing the blood on them makes his stomach lurch again so he looks away. That's when he sees Sousuke in the distance, completely passed out, laying what looks like on Haru's table. He's not far, close enough to retrieve after he wakes up Haru.
He turns over and looks at Haru for a second, noticing once again all of his injuries before shaking him slightly, trying to wake him up.
"Haru," he says, voice sounding completely wrecked. He shakes him again, but Haru continues to lie motionless and unresponsive. "Haru, wake up." He tries again, but Haru stays still. Rin's eyes widen and fuck, is he dead? No no—he's breathing. Thank god, he's breathing. He shakes him again. "Haru!"
Haru wakes up with a jolt, scaring the shit out of Rin who jumps back in surprise.
"Did we survive?" is the first thing Haru asks, not even opening his eyes.
"For now," Rin replies, sagging in relief that Haru woke up. Haru opens his eyes, his blue eyes seeming to light up the world.
"For now," Haru repeats, groaning loudly as he sits up. He glances up at Rin, bangs falling in his face. Haru gives him a small smile and Rin reaches over to tug one the strands behind Haru's ear before smiling back.
"Yeah, for now," Rin says again, smiling softly. Haru studies him for a few brief more seconds before tearing his gaze away, his mouth forming an 'O' when he sees the remnants of the first wave.
Rin watches him take in the same things Rin just did and the only thing Rin thinks is how it was fucking tragic for something so beautiful to see something so ugly.
When they are finally able to reach Sousuke's table, they pull it over to the steps and realize that he's still breathing with not many injuries. They wake him up and when they do, he doesn't say anything at all. They sit on the steps for a long time, all quiet and painfully tired until Sousuke finally says something.
"We should go."
"Go where, kid?" Rin asks, trying to not watch the lady pierce the air with her screams of horror as she swims through the water to her floating, dead husband.
"It doesn't matter. Just not here. I want to leave," he says.
"You and me both," is all Rin can say to that. Haru doesn't say anything about it except for the sharp intake of breath he'll make every once in a while.
Rin closes his eyes, thinking of this peace that'll only last not even two days. It's hard not to think about it when all he can hear are the screams.
Thing is, he's not sure it's that woman's.
The world is chaos.
*Yeah yeah, it's a short chapter. I just couldn't put it with the last one because it wouldn't work for me. Plus, I'm doing every chapter as a whole "before/present/after" sort of thing and this is the after part.
Okay, so I'm really planning on updating this story every Sunday or every other Sunday. It seriously just depends. Sorry.
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