Author's notes: New chapter new system I saw in one of the fanfiction I read how they were
handling their Author's notes and this style was like perfect I think I will use it from now on.
(Nah ok I changed it a little but who cares)
So hmm hey guys this is a new chapter of When friends die!
Today my dear Aomine and Kagami will shine :D so no Akashi and no Furihata.
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~Aomine's P.O.V~
Aomine shifted and moaned low in his throat. He knew that a new day had begun but he still didn't want to get up. He wanted to laze around like he had done back when he was home. It was still dark out, but it didn't matter as it was never light in the warehouse in the mornings. He squeezed his eyes shut and tried to sleep on, but it was no use. After he was awake he couldn't sleep again. Aomine sighed and rose...
"Fuck... ouch shit shit!" he cried out in pain while he abruptly slumped back on the bed holding his forehead.
"What the fuck Ahomine?!" Someone shouted from the other corner.
Aomine's gaze shot towards that voice. Where the fuck was he? His thoughts shot through his head while he tried to remember every detail from the past few days. He took a deep breath.
"Urg... yeah... right..." he muttered quietly.
He was at Nijimura's place. What the fuck was up with him, he never forgot such important things. Sure he had often pretended to have forgotten things in his past to not fulfil his duties, but it had never really happened to this extent before. He held his throbbing head. Now he had two bruises he had to live with.
He groaned again and rose this time slowly to a sitting position. His head was brushing against the ceiling but Aomine didn't crash against it this time. He rubbed his eyes and then his forehead tenderly. This low ceiling was going to be a pain in the ass. He yawned lazily and looked to the red haired boy. He saw that Kagami's eyes were wide open as if the idiot was trying to keep himself awake with force.
Aomine yawned again and decided to climb down his bunker. When he was down he searched for something to wear or rather his old clothes. After all, he couldn't wander around with his boxers like he had done in his warehouse after he woke up. He picked up his jeans and slipped them on. It was a comfortable pair that weighed nearly nothing, and made out of a strong material and he could move in without restriction. He smirked when he decided not to put on his shirt before he got Kagami to get down from the bunker.
"Yo get down here sleeping beauty." Aomine said grinning smugly.
Then he heard shuffling, murmuring and groaning from the other boy. But then the redhead teen's feet nearly knocked Aomine over as they swung around.
"Hey check before you swing your feet down, you moron." Aomine growled in annoyance.
"You wanted me to get down, so shut up" Kagami replied with a deep, drowsy voice.
Aomine wanted to wait until the red haired teen was down and at his eye-level before he spoke, but when Kagami was finally down all Aomine could see was bloodshot eyes, or rather ones that didn't sleep a wink in the night.
"What the fuck Kagami. Didn't you sleep?" Aomine took the other teens face in his right hand and dug his fingers in Kagami's cheeks while turning Kagami's head from right to left to examine the teen's face.
"Ahomine cut it out" Kagami brushed Aomine's hand away from his face forcefully.
"Man even your strength is lower than usual. You really didn't sleep, did you?" Aomine stepped a few steps back.
"And what if I didn't sleep? It isn't your concern jerk." Kagami replied yawning and rubbing his eyes.
"Did the princess have a nightmare?" Aomine poked in Kagami's side.
Kagami sharply jerked away before he began to laugh between his teeth.
"Cut it out A-Ahomine!" Kagami laughed out.
Aomine laughed a little too. He hadn't expected Kagami to be ticklish and now that he knew it, he wondered how far he could take this without getting beaten up. So Aomine began to tickle Kagami's sides with both of his hands. He laughed alongside with the other teen. It had been a while since Aomine had laughed with another person.
After a short amount of time Kagami fell on the floor from his laughter and Aomine nearly fell on top of him but could catch himself. Unusual as it was he wanted to tickle Kagami for a little longer. It felt good to laugh with all his heart, so he sat on Kagami's groin to stop the teen from wiggling away from the perilous tickle-attacks.
"Ahaha Ahomine please -hack- please c- ha- cut it" Kagami laughed but between those hard laughs escaped small moans to get enough air in his lungs.
Aomine's breath caught in his throat from those interesting noises Kagami was making. Aomine didn't laugh anymore, he just tickled Kagami so he would make those little sounds again. Even though those sighs and moans were from breathlessness, Aomine still kind of liked them. His eyes widened when he saw the Kagami's flushed cheeks while he laughed beneath Aomine. Aomine gulped as saliva began to pool in his mouth. His mouth was literally watering to those sounds and those looks Kagami made.
"Aomine! A-ha-omine please you'll kill me-ha I-hack -I can't bre-hah-ath anymore please!" Kagami laughed and tried to push Aomine off, but it was no use he hadn't any strength left in his limbs from the tickling he got.
Aomine saw that Kagami's eyes were teary, it was probably because he laughed so much. Aomine looked at those little tears in the corners of Kagami's eyes. He licked unintentionally at his upper lip. Those sounds and this face just looked so delicious, maybe he could taste some from those lips?
Aomine noticed where his mind was traveling to and it shattered him out of this daze. He immediately let go of Kagami and stood up. He turned around to grab his shirt from the ground. This was bad he could still hear the sighs Kagami was making after the teen could finally breathe. Aomine gulped this was bad he needed to get out of this room before he did things he would regret.
Sure he wasn't into guys. But he hadn't heard that kind of intense moaning in a while since there was no way of getting a hold of some porn. He brushed a hand through his hair, this was bad. He shouldn't react this way to Kagami. To his luck the door was opened and the bright light shone in. He had his back still to the door so he didn't need to shield his eyes and he waited before he turned around to see Midorima.
"So you two are awake." Midorima crossed his arms in front of his chest.
"I always wake up around this time" Aomine replied before he went through the door past Midorima to get away from Kagami.
That guy was bulky and didn't have a soft voice, but still Aomine had wanted to taste those lips as they had looked so delicious, just waiting to be savoured. Aomine still had the picture of Kagami's flushed cheeks and Kagami's parted lips in his mind. Why would someone moan like that when he was tickled?
He brushed again through his bangs and came in contact with the bruise that Haizaki had given him the day before. If he wasn't mistaken maybe that nasty bruise did really damage on some areas of his brain. After all he had forgotten important facts and his mind played wicked games with him. It showed him that flushed face again and again.
Aomine decided to never tickle that guy ever again. He still was walking aimlessly through the corridors of the station. After some time to his right he saw the room they had been when Kagami and he were brought to this place. He wandered inside and sat on the couch, but then he decided to lie down a little so he lied down and stared at the ceiling. Aomine needed something else to think of or he would go crazy. He rose up again and looked around what could he do?
Just then Nijimura stepped in the room and Aomine starred at the boy with a thoughtful face.
"What's with that stupid face Aomine?" Nijimura said while he looked back to Aomine.
"Nothing really I'm just confused as to what I have to do here for amusement. I'm bored as fuck." Aomine placed one of his hands on the backrest while he turned fully to face Nijimura.
"Perfect, go get the others. I have to tell them today's team-up" Nijimura ordered, teeth a little gritted at Aomine's flippant attitude.
"Ugh... yeah, yeah, I'm going, I'm going." Aomine replied and stood up from the couch.
He exited out of the room and went back to the section with the jail-rooms. He went straight to the room where Kagami and he had their area he looked in the room and what he saw let his heart throb hard in his chest. Kagami was still lying on the ground where Aomine had tickled him. Was this boy doing it on purpose? Had he seen how Aomine had reacted to him? Aomine ruffled his hair, this couldn't be happening. Why was this idiot sleeping with his hoody as a pillow?
Aomine kicked Kagami's side and heard a pained groan.
"What the hell!?" Kagami growled while he rose, scowl plastered on his features.
"You are drooling on my hoody idiot, ya know that is the only one I have. Oh and Nijimura is asking for everyone, so get your ass to the room from the other day."
Aomine turned to the door and left Kagami and his hoody alone in the room. He searched for the other three. When he turned around a corner he bumped into someone.
"Watch where yer goin asshole"
Aomine glared at metallic grey eyes. He was still extremely mad at Haizaki and his insistence on being a dick certainly didn't help Aomine to forget his grudge at all.
"Nijimura needs everyone in that room with the couch" Aomine said through clenched teeth, desire to punch the guy rising by the second.
"Well in that case I'll get goin. See ya later bitch" Haizaki past Aomine and waved shortly back.
Aomine breathed deeply in and out and continued on. He still needed to find Midorima and Takao so he just shook his head. His head was still a mess. He hoped he would find the two soon. He went from the second exit out of the jail section to find another corridor. He sighed and asked himself, how big this place was and where exactly the location of the station was.
He was deep in thought when he turned the next corner of the corridor. He abruptly stopped in his tracks because of the sight in front of him. He was in another room but in this one was again just containing a simple couch and on it were Midorima and Takao...
Asleep.
It was an interesting sight. Midorima was lying on the couch and lying on him was Takao. Aomine didn't miss how Midorima's right arm was slung around Takao's waist and that the other was protectively on Takao's head. Takao's cheek was pressed against Midorima's chest and both of them looked so content.
Aomine smiled fleetingly. It wasn't like him to think that something or someone was adorable, but these two looked so out of place in this world. He was just making another step towards them but something creaked and the next thing Aomine saw -or rather felt- was the rough floor against his face. Aomine groaned.
"Who are you?" Someone growled in his ear.
Aomine gulped. Who is this? The voice wasn't the slightest bit known by Aomine.
"Shin-chan, Shin-chan it's Aomine let go of him."
Aomine felt how the strong grip against the back of his head and both his captured arms loosened. He sure felt how the figure on his back painstakingly moved away. Aomine lifted himself with his arms and looked puzzled at the green haired teen. He saw that in Midorima's eyes still had a dangerous gleam in them.
"What was that Midorima?" Aomine asked still in disbelief that that guy had just pushed him on the ground with so much ease, and had even managed to hold him down. Aomine was surprised that Midorima was capable of such a movement.
Aomine watched how Midorima brought his hand up to adjust his glasses, but he wasn't wearing them. Now Aomine was even more surprised how had Midorima done this with hardly seeing anything? Aomine had just found out someone whom he never wanted as an enemy. Takao bounced up next to Midorima and gave the green haired teen his glasses.
"Don't be so upset Aomine. Shin-chan is sometimes just... a little jumpy." Takao grinned at Aomine.
Aomine didn't say anything else, he just stared at the green-haired teen before he began to speak again.
"Nijimura wants us to meet up in the other room with the couch." Aomine scratched his head and waited until the other two began to walk out of the room.
Aomine went after them and followed until they were at the room again. They were all standing in front of Nijimura waiting, so that the boy would start speaking.
"So as you know from yesterday, we will go on a supplies search today."
Aomine lifted an eyebrow. He heard about it the first time but didn't comment on it any further.
"I split all of us up in teams with two people. Haizaki you will team up with Kagami."
Aomine heard Kagami grumble displeased behind him. It made Aomine chuckle silently.
"Midorima you will go with Aomine"
Aomine looked at the green-haired teen waiting for any reaction, but all Midorima did was pushing up his glasses still watching Nijimura to wait for their leader to go on.
"And that leaves me with Takao. Any questions so far?"
Aomine looked around but there wasn't any disapproval.
"I gave all of you areas to search through Haizaki and Kagami will go towards the east side, Midorima and Aomine towards west, and Takao and me will search on south."
Everyone nodded in approval before Nijimura went on.
"Like I told you the day before, we have here strange activities from a group of people. They might be dangerous so if you see their exact location please get back to the police station immediately and make a fire on the roof, so that we know you have some information and head back too."
Nijimura looked around for question when there weren't any he spoke on.
"Get food, something to drink, clothes and anything else what could be useful. However, most of all be safe, help each other."
After those words Nijimura left the room. Aomine was wondering why Midorima and Takao weren't teaming up or Haizaki and Nijimura. After all they seemed to be the perfect matches for each other. Aomine yawned shortly and went to Midorima's side.
"Follow me" Midorima said shortly before he began to walk out of the room.
Aomine stood on his spot until Midorima's figure vanished behind the wall. He blinked and began then to walk slowly outside. Trotting after Midorima he wouldn't help but wonder what was that guy's problem? When Midorima stopped Aomine's eyes widened due to the things that were stored in the room they entered. On the wall were various weapons from knives to projectiles in all sorts. There was even some lying on the ground. He desperately wanted to reach out for one of those weapons.
"Don't" Midorima said shortly while he went to Aomine's side. He reached out for two small guns and two different long knives. He gave all these weapons to Aomine.
"I assume that you can use these." Midorima said while he grabbed similar weapons for himself. "If not say so and I'll search for something to give to you."
Aomine watched how Midorima pulled out gun holsters and gave one to him. Aomine placed the two guns he got in it. Midorima went past Aomine again and pulled two rather big backpacks out from a locker. Aomine got one of them.
"So we are ready." Midorima said shortly and left the room ahead of Aomine.
Aomine was startled. The otherwise awkward teen had just commanded him around the whole time he had been in this place. Aomine didn't know what he should think about that, but he decided just let the things be as they were. After all he was new to this kind of situation, to live with other people together. He didn't need to argue with Midorima. After all, Midorima had knocked him down with ease, without Aomine noticing really what was going on.
Aomine stuck his hands in his jeans' pockets and began to trot after Midorima. Aomine stopped and looked at Midorima, the boy was standing in front of a wall. He wondered why Midorima was standing in front of a dead-end. But then he saw how Midorima gripped on one side of the wall and began to pull at it. While Midorima was pulling, the others from the group joined Aomine and Midorima.
Finally the wall was pulled aside and on the other side waiting was a rather instable wooden door. It was confusing; this should be a prison aka a police station, or not? Those jails had had heavy doors but the door for the outside was this fragile? It didn't make any sense.
"This is an older section of the station" Midorima pushed his glasses up "This door is maybe older than your parents Aomine."
Aomine grunted in response and wondered how the green-haired zodiac-freak had seen what was going through his head. The door was pushed open so that everyone stepped out of the station. Then Haizaki pulled at a rope and the wall -which was out of metal- closed slowly. Nijimura went around a corner and then everyone heard a click.
"Right, nobody can get in there now." Nijimura said and went to the group. "You know what to do. Be careful."
With this everybody left for their route. Aomine and Midorima made their way to the west side and their walk was silent with Midorima leading and Aomine just following beside Midorima. After all, Midorima knew the place better than Aomine did. Aomine sighed it, was boring and awkward to be silent when someone was there to speak with. He hadn't spoken with someone for ages - it felt like it had been so long.
"How come you're not paired up with Takao." Aomine asked after he couldn't bear the silence anymore.
"It would disturb my rational thoughts." Midorima responded simply.
"Eh? How come that you're with Nijimura and Haizaki or rather how did you find each other?" Aomine asked again not wanting it to be silent again. After all he could be silent on his own, but when someone was with him they could speak.
"Coincidence. We nearly killed each other."
Aomine wanted to ask more when suddenly Midorima silenced him with a hand signal. Aomine looked around wondering what it could be. He walked on behind Midorima and watched how the teen squatted down and looked at a pit in the ground. Aomine saw nothing special in it until Midorima shortly felt the ground with his fingers. Some ash swirled up.
With this Aomine knew that there had been a camp fire a short time ago. That meant that in this area were other people. Midorima stood up again and motioned Aomine to follow him. They slunk forward following a track. Suddenly Aomine heard a loud shriek from some kilometres to their right. Midorima pulled out one of the guns and pointed with it towards that direction.
Aomine waited for something to pop up behind the bushes or trees but there was nothing. So Midorima lowered the gun again and put it back on his gun holster. Sighing Aomine did the same. They went on following the tracks on the ground and stopped just when those tracks ended. Aomine saw how Midorima pushed up his glasses and said nothing about this sudden end of the tracks.
So they began to walk on normally. After some time Aomine saw how they were approaching a town. He observed his surroundings and tried to figure out where in hell he was. But he didn't see anything that could be a help for him to recognize where he was. Aomine sighed in surrender. Aomine followed Midorima to a grocery store and searched for useful things. When there was something useful he put it in his backpack and continued on.
After some peaceful searching Aomine saw an alarmed look shift onto Midorima's face. He turned his head slightly and saw something from the corner of his eyes. There was a group of men walking towards their position. Aomine felt a strong grip around his wrist and then he was again in the store they wanted to leave. He knew that he had to be silent.
Aomine looked out of the window of the store and waited in his spot until those men were out of his sight. He watched how Midorima slowly opened the door of the store. He saw how Midorima wanted to take a step outside but then Aomine heard a shot. A silent curse came out of Midorima's mouth.
Aomine's eyes widened, Midorima had just gotten shot right in front of his eyes. He saw Midorima stumbling away from the store's door. When he was beside Aomine he gripped tightly on Aomine's right shoulder. Aomine hissed, the grip was tight and would surely leave bruises but he knew that this was nothing considered to the shot-wound on Midorima's right shoulder.
"Aomine the scarf we found." Midorima said through clenched teeth.
Aomine looked with wide eyes at the bleeding shoulder. The front side of Midorima's shirt was soaked with blood, but the worst part was it didn't stop. The blood poured out and drenched the shirt even more.
"Aomine the damn scarf!" Midorima growled this time.
"Uh, right!'" Aomine searched in his backpack.
Where was that god damn thing!? All this time it had been in his way when he wanted to put something in his backpack. It had even stuck once in the zipper, but now he couldn't find it. Damn it! He cursed in himself and right then something fluffy brushed his hand; he wrapped his fingers around it and pulled it out. It was the scarf.
"Around my shoulder... hg... on the wound." Midorima said closing his eyes and panting, sweat pearls from exhaustion and pain gathering on his temple.
"I can't see it god damn it Midorima! You... you need to take your shirt off!" Aomine nearly shouted out.
"Shut the fuck up!" Midorima opened again his eyes and glared at Aomine. "Go look if those men are coming towards the shop!"
Aomine saw how Midorima clenched his eyes shut again and gulped. He nodded and stumbled towards the door. When he looked outside, he saw that those men were coming towards this store. From inside the store he could still hear the pained groans and pants Midorima was making. He needed to do something. He fumbled one gun out of the holster and pointed it towards the men. He just wanted to make a warning shot. So he fired and suddenly he heard curses and yelling.
"Fuck! That son of a bitch killed Richard!"
"What should we do?!"
"Man let's just get away! I bet those things will get here anyway!"
Then Aomine just heard the sound of running shoes clash with the asphalt ground. Aomine looked one more time outside to be sure that there wasn't anybody left. He sighed relieved and turned towards Midorima. He saw that Midorima was now stripped out of his shirt and was sitting with his back against a wall. He saw how there was still blood pouring from the wound, but now Aomine could clearly see it. The place the bullet had hit.
Aomine's eyes were still wide, how could Midorima be so calm with a fucking bullet in his shoulder? Sure Aomine wasn't the kind to be scared of anything, but when he saw that happened to someone he knew made him feel frozen, petrified. Against his own will he became completely useless.
"Aomine stay calm. Take that scarf and take my shirt. Press the shirt as hard as you can on my wound and then wrap the scarf around it. Then you tie it up so that neither the shirt on my wound slips away or the scarf is too loose"
Aomine nodded and took the shirt from the ground, but pressed it on the wound he heard a pained groan from Midorima and loosened the pressure.
"Don't. Loosen. It." Said Midorima in agony before he gulped, and Aomine could see the veins in Midorima's temple and throat. "Otherwise the blood won't stop." Midorima gulped again, chest heaving in the effort to remain quiet and deal with the pain.
Aomine pressed the shirt as hard as he could on the wound and did his best to ignore those pained gasps from Midorima. He wrapped the scarf around Midorima's shoulder and made a knot on Midorima's back where there wasn't a wound.
"That should be enough." Midorima said and used his left arm to push himself up. When Midorima was standing upright, he supported himself heavily on the wall.
"Can you walk alone Midorima?" Aomine asked standing beside his friend.
"Yes... yes just leave me... a little..." Midorima's words were cut when his body suddenly slumped towards the ground.
Aomine caught Midorima in mid-air and pulled Midorima's healthy arm around his own shoulders. He knew that the zodiac freak was unconscious. He sighed, this situation was too familiar...
~Kagami's P.O.V.~
What's with these stupid shitty bushes in this stupid shitty forest? Why in hell did he have to go with this jerk? He hadn't slept one wink all night long and as a result Kagami's mood was as good as it used to be before an exam, so nearly unbearable!
Grumbling Kagami slashed his way through endless leaves and bushes behind Haizaki. The teen with the grey hairline wasn't waiting. He was just going strictly forward. He wouldn't tell Kagami what they were trying to achieve, or where the hell they were going. Kagami stopped abruptly after his patience came to an end.
"Hey. Hold up a second." Kagami growled.
Haizaki stopped and turned around not really looking at Kagami.
"What is it?" He drawled lazily.
"What are we going to do now?" Kagami asked while approaching Haizaki.
"Searching for food and shit, thought Nijimura said so." Haizaki replied.
Kagami couldn't believe how the others could handle this guy. He was a jerk, he wasn't listening and he wasn't answering questions properly. Silence fell between them. Kagami wasn't making a step forward nor was Haizaki.
"I know ya wanna leave." Haizaki said suddenly.
Kagami's head shot up and he looked straight in Haizaki's eyes.
"Ya 'know I'm not stupid." Haizaki went on "Ya have this look in ya eyes, the one that says that ya don' wanna see a friend die again."
Kagami lowered his gaze. So someone could see that easily into his thoughts. Was he really such an open book?
"If ya wanna leave just do it. I'll say yer dead, Aomine won't follow ya then." Haizaki looked straight at Kagami. "The less people under our roof the fewer mistakes that can happen, the less food and supplies we will need."
Kagami watched how Haizaki turned around and went on as he had done before he has stopped. Kagami was standing still there staring at the ground, wondering how many of the people in that station knew about his intentions.
Did Nijimura say - If you want to leave this place and never come back then you can do as you like, but as long as you are here you have to obey those rules- because he knew? Kagami shook his head, now wasn't the time to think about this. He began to walk after Haizaki.
"Don't you dare to say what I want to do." Kagami growled after he was close enough to Haizaki.
What he didn't see was smile that spread on Haizaki's face.
Their walk was silent again, but suddenly they heard a shot from the opposite direction they were heading. Kagami spun around and knew Haizaki was doing the same. He looked in the direction the shot had probably come from, and then there was another one. Kagami gulped and saw from the corner of his eyes that Haizaki suddenly began to run towards that direction. Kagami was startled for a moment, but then he began to run after Haizaki. What was this idiot thinking? If Kagami wasn't mistaken then Nijimura had said they shouldn't do anything reckless.
"Hey Haizaki what do you thinking you are doin'?!" Kagami shouted after Haizaki while running.
"Shut up and just run idiot." Haizaki yelled back.
Kagami could hear the overwhelming venom in Haizaki's tone, so he just did as he was told and ran after the other. It felt like an eternity until Kagami saw that they were in a little town. His breathing was quick so he began looking around. After he took out the gun in his belt he spotted one of the living-dead in the corner of his eye.
It wasn't just one, there was a small group which stumbled out of the forest, and they weren't leaving, so just like him and Haizaki they had heard the gun shoots and began to stumble to the town. Kagami saw just in time that Haizaki ignored those things before running towards a store and entered it without looking inside.
Kagami groaned and ran after him. When he stood in front of the door, he opened it slowly and peered in before he entered. He looked around and spotted the black-haired teen with a silver hairline. He closed the door behind himself and approached Haizaki. When Kagami was standing beside Haizaki, he saw bloodstains on the floor. He saw Haizaki bending over and picking up glasses. When he looked closer, he recognized that those glasses were Midorima's.
"How did you know they had been here?" Kagami asked.
"Bloodstains leading out the door. Dead body some feet away. It was obvious" Haizaki answered bluntly "We're gonna search for them."
Haizaki passed Kagami and approached the door, and without pause he opened the door abruptly and stabbed the first living-dead behind it. Kagami went after him and took out his knives. This could get troublesome. Kagami stepped out of the store and saw that the living-dead he had seen stumbling out the bushes, were now dangerously nearby.
He knew that they hadn't the time to kill the living-dead, so he tried to figure out what Haizaki wanted to do. Then he saw that Haizaki began to run towards the station. Kagami did the same and ran after Haizaki. He kept running and running, trying not to lose the sight of Haizaki and simultaneously stabbing the living-dead that stumbled out the bushes in front of him.
Kagami had to help Haizaki in time, as acting too quickly the guy had stumbled and fallen to the ground. Before Haizaki even had the chance to stand up one wandering-corpse had lunged out for the teen and pinned him down to the ground. Kagami had reacted quickly and killed that corpse. Then he quickly pulled Haizaki to his feet.
It was only a small setback, as after that Kagami was running again after Haizaki yet again, the natural grey-haired teen only offering him a clipped nod in thanks. That was, until the teen suddenly stopped and looked intently at a tree-trunk. Kagami didn't exactly know what Haizaki was doing but he went after him anyway. Then Kagami stopped and gulped. In front of them was Midorima, slumped against a tree with sweat on his temples. Midorima's face was paler than usual; it had nearly become the same colour as the clouds above their heads.
"Shit!" Haizaki hissed and bent down.
He picked Midorima up in a bridal style. It had been done so swiftly and with so much ease that Kagami wondered how strong that guy really was.
"Where the hell is Aomine?" Haizaki growled "How could he leave Midorima here!?"
Kagami heard the anger in Haizaki's words. Kagami could only stay silent. He went after Haizaki, with his knives taken out. Kagami was on-guard looking for any living-dead that could be a threat for Haizaki and Midorima. His thoughts raced in his head.
He knew that Aomine was rude and not really reliable, but Kagami was sure that Aomine wouldn't be the kind person that left a comrade behind -especially not a wounded one. There was just one question in his head as he looked around and stabbed every corpse that was close by. Where the hell was Aomine?
After some time he could hear loud gurgling, shrieking, slamming, screeching, and scratching sounds from nearby. It was to his left. He knew that those noises could just come from living-dead. He stopped and looked in that direction. Haizaki had slowed to a walk too.
"Aomine..." breathed Midorima shallowly. With his face screwed up in exertion Midorima tried to continue "He..." but then Midorima was silent again as his grip on Haizaki loosened.
"Shit!" Haizaki growled.
Kagami saw the blood that soaked Midorima's body, and that even more was escaping from around the bandages. He saw that the shirt -that had been on the wound- was now hanging loosely around Midorima's armpit.
"Fuck this shit. That shitty bandage is loose." Haizaki put Midorima down and leaned him against a tree. "Kagami. I will fix this shit up and you go and find that fuckin asshole. He might be in trouble."
Kagami nodded and began to slink towards those noises to his left. After a while he saw the navy blue of Aomine's hair stand out between a group of those things. Aomine was fighting against them, and Kagami could see from here that Aomine was struggling to keep his pace up. Kagami knew that Aomine would be down breathless in no time so he ran towards the group and began to hack alongside the asshole he had been looking for.
He didn't want someone he knew to die ever again, not at the hands of these monsters. It was a hard fight, and they both killed and killed but there were still more coming. It seemed that it would never come to end, so when Kagami finally saw a gap, he took Aomine's hand and he pulled the navy haired teen after himself through that gap. It was only by luck's grace they managed to get away unharmed. They ran back to Haizaki's spot, and Kagami saw that Haizaki was ready to go. Midorima had a new bandage which was applying adequate pressure to his wound.
"Take those backpacks with you." Haizaki said with a firm voice and picked Midorima up again.
Aomine and Kagami took the backpacks and began to walk after Haizaki. Both of them were on guard -still breathless from their fight but on guard- and knew that they had to protect Haizaki and Midorima with everything they had. After all, Haizaki couldn't fight with Midorima in his arms. Kagami heard gurgling and screeching so he looked around to see, or rather to find one of those things.
But there weren't any. Kagami strained his ears, his breathing was fast and he knew that he had heard something to his right. But there was nothing there. His brain had to pick now to play tricks on him. He heard something from behind, but when he turned around there was nothing. Kagami closed his eyes shortly and tried to get his senses together. He opened his eyes again.
And then finally... Finally.
Kagami could see the station and he wanted to sigh relieved. But suddenly Haizaki let himself fall to his knees and he pointed the other two to do so too. When Kagami questioned why, Haizaki jerked his chin to a group of men that were standing near of the entrance of the station.
"Those bastards." Aomine growled from deep inside his throat and nearly stood up. Haizaki's hand shot forward and grabbed Aomine's shoulder and pulled the idiot down again. While Haizaki did this Midorima's feet hit the ground with a silent thud. Haizaki had to take Midorima's feet again in his arms while he spoke up.
"When ya do that we're all as good as dead, jerk. Stay quiet and stay down." Haizaki ordered harshly and looked back to the group of men.
Kagami saw how those men looked around probably searching for any clues to get in the station. With this they were distracted. Haizaki slowly rose up a little -just enough to move- he was still ducked away behind the bushes. Kagami followed Haizaki's lead and freed his arms. Haizaki, Kagami and Aomine were approaching the door they had all left from this morning. Luckily the men were still distracted with the front door, so that they didn't notice the teens. Haizaki pointed with his hand around the corner Nijimura had disappeared to morning.
"Shithead, pull that rope there and when yer done hide it again understood?" Haizaki said.
Aomine nodded. Kagami was slightly confused how Aomine even knew to respond to the insulting nickname. He watched Aomine as he was running folded over towards that place and pulling the rope. Then Kagami heard the screeching of the fake wall against the floor of the station. It was not loud bit it wasn't silent either. Kagami held his breath. If those men noticed them right now they would be dead for sure.
When the screeching stopped Kagami stumbled out of the bushes, ran towards the door and pulled it open. He stood outside holding the door open for the others and waited. Haizaki stood up and ran inside the building, after him Aomine darted in, and then Kagami let go of the door and got inside too. Then suddenly a shot was heard.
Kagami hissed in pain and closed the door quickly behind him. Backing away from the door he made room so that Haizaki could push the wall on front of it. Kagami heard the click and breathed out relieved. He leaned his back against the fake wall and could hear some curses from the other side of it. Kagami opened his eyes and faced Haizaki, Aomine and the lying Midorima. He felt the stinging in his right arm, but ignoring it he watched Haizaki bend down and take Midorima in his arms.
"How should we alarm Nijimura?" Kagami asked walking beside Haizaki.
"Make a fire on the roof. The firewood is in this room. Shithead, get moving!" Haizaki said while pointing with his head to his left.
It was the room with the couch in it. Haizaki didn't stop as he walked past the room.
"Kagami, get your ass over here! We need to get this nasty bullet out of Midorima's shoulder." Haizaki commanded walking down the hall without pausing.
Kagami hesitated but went then after Haizaki. He watched how Midorima was placed on the doctor's couch. Haizaki was searching in some cupboards for something while Kagami stood beside the doctor's couch. Then Haizaki came back with a box full of medical utensils. Kagami had to look away when he saw how Haizaki pierced a needle through Midorima's skin near the bullet wound. He watched again when he saw that Haizaki was pouring some water-like liquid in a cup and put a slim knife and a tweezers-like plastic thing in it. Then the smell of alcohol reached Kagami's nose.
"Kagami, Midorima will probably scream when I start doing what I have to do. I want you to hold him in place. Don't let him struggle. Even if Midorima is normally a tight-ass, this bullet's gonna hurt like shit when you take them out. Believe me." Haizaki looked in Kagami's eyes with a hard merciless gaze.
Kagami nodded.
"H-How should I hold him?" Kagami asked unsure.
"Press Midorima's head down. His wound is on his right shoulder. Hold his right upper arm down so that he can't move it. Place this in his mouth when he wakes up and tell him to bite on it. Hard."
Kagami nodded again and took the towel in his hand "What do we do about his left arm?"
Haizaki fumbled marginally with his belt and took it off. He used it to secure Midorima's arm to the couch firmly.
"You have a belt?" Haizaki asked.
"Er... yeah..." Kagami answered and began to take it off.
He handed it over to Haizaki and watched him doing the same thing to Midorima's right leg. Midorima's left leg Haizaki tied down with his own shirt, which he took off when he had noticed that they hadn't anything else for that. For Midorima's groin Haizaki used a rope he had taken out from one of the cupboards. He laid a towel on the places the rope could cut in Midorima's flesh and then wrapped the rope around Midorima's groin and tied it.
"Why don't you do this with his head and right arm?" Kagami asked.
"He is injured there so it's better when another person does it." Haizaki replied. "Ready?"
Kagami gulped and nodded then. Slowly Haizaki was untying the pressure bandage -made out of a scarf and shirt. Haizaki then took the tweezers that were lying in the clear liquid and slowly neared it to Midorima's shoulder. He slowly prodded inside the wound and that was the moment Midorima's eyes flew open. Midorima's scream was loud and filled with so much pain Kagami had to cringe and had nearly let go of Midorima's arm and head.
"Midorima bite on this." Kagami said momentarily letting go of Midorima's head and placing the towel in Midorima's mouth.
Midorima bit on it so hard Kagami could see Midorima's veins in his throat and temple. He gulped when he saw how Midorima's eyes widened more and more with every move Haizaki was making. They looked like they would pop out of Midorima's sockets. Kagami was doing his best to hold Midorima' head and arm in place. The green-haired teen was panting heavily through his nose beneath Kagami's hands and he was bucking up again and again with every jolt of pain that shot through his body. Suddenly the heavy breathing and struggling of Midorima stopped. Kagami's eyes widened.
"Midorima! Hey! Midorima!" Kagami saw from the corner of his eyes that Haizaki was still working on Midorima's shoulder.
"This fucking bullet's stuck in Midorima's bone! Fuck this shit! I collected all little pieces around the bullet's head, but the real deal is this fucking piece and its stuck in there..."
Haizaki took the knife from the cup.
"I have no fucking clue if this will work, but if this shitty bullet has lead in it, it can poison Midorima. Or so the asshole said this one time while working one of those shitty things out of me."
Kagami tried to look away when Haizaki started to poke the bullet in Midorima's shoulder, but he couldn't do it. His curiosity controlled his eyes and so he was watching how Haizaki tried to loosen the bullet's grip in the bone. He gulped and felt how his stomach flipped. He was at his limit before he would vomit. He pulled his hand over his mouth, and then he remembered that Midorima wasn't moving. Kagami's eyes widened. What if Midorima was dead? Kagami brought his ear near Midorima's mouth to test if he was breathing. He felt faint puffs against his ear and sighed relieved. Midorima was breathing.
"Shit!" Haizaki cursed.
Kagami looked again to the wound and saw that even more blood was spilling out than before.
"What the hell did you do Haizaki!?" Kagami shouted. "You made it worse jerk!"
"I said before that I didn't know if it'd work! The bullet is out though..." Haizaki said.
Then Kagami heard a metallic clink and saw the bullet on the ground. Haizaki was sweating heavily; he was constantly brushing off his forehead with his wrist.
"We... we let this bleed out a little now, I suppose..." Haizaki said unsure.
"What are you talking about!? Midorima will die if we don't stop this bleeding. He's hardly breathing now!" Kagami shouted.
"We.. Let's put that bandage again around it and wait till it stops or Midorima wakes up again." Haizaki breathed out.
He took the scarf and shirt from the floor. Kagami watched Haizaki tying the high-pressure bandage and hoped that Midorima would wake up or maybe someone who knew more than from just watching some shit. Kagami sat down and took his face in his hands. How could this group handle this much pressure and despair when some of their friends get injured?
All they could do was wait. It felt like an eternity, and somehow Kagami was sure Midorima was dead by now. He had lost so much blood.
"You two..." Kagami's head jerked up. "You two... still not done?"
Midorima breathed out shallowly and weakly.
"Oh thank god. You're alive!" Kagami stood up and was immediately beside the doctor's couch.
"That -hack- that won't kill me..." Midorima smirked a little and coughed. "You stitched it?"
Haizaki shook his head.
"Injected me something against infections?" Midorima asked closing his eyes.
"Yeah... yeah I did."
"Good" Midorima coughed again. "I bet that bullet lodged in my bone right?"
"Yeah it did."
"You worked it out with a knife correct?" Midorima wasn't opening his eyes and every word was faint and weak.
Haizaki and Kagami had to hold their breathes to understand what exactly Midorima was saying.
"Yeah with a knife."
"That explains the high-pressure bandage..." Midorima laughed faintly. "Stitch that wound as fast as you can when the bleeding stops. I want to sleep a little."
With this Midorima was silent again. Kagami wasn't sure if this sleeping meant just sleeping or...
He shook his head; Midorima wouldn't give up and die right here from a simple bullet wound.
"I fucked up." Haizaki said and laughed pathetically.
Kagami cringed as Haizaki began to laugh and laugh. It was a grating and hair raising noise not at all pleasant to hear, and Kagami would have liked it more if Haizaki had cried. But the teen was laughing his ass off as if the hysterics were a better way to show his mental state at the moment. A pained laughter isn't as easy to deal with as a cry. It was also when someone was far past being able to shed tears.
Kagami couldn't take it anymore.
"Stop laughing, idiot! We still have to stitch the wound so busy your ass and get me a needle and thread." Kagami said, breaking the awful sound.
Haizaki looked at him in a stunned disbelief, but did as he was told. He brought a needle and thread silently, his face twisted in an emotion Kagami couldn't decipher. Kagami took it and put them in the cup with the alcohol. He waited a little and while waiting he untied the high-pressure bandage. He sighed, relieved because he had waited so that the wound wouldn't bleed like hell. Taking the needle and thread Kagami plunged the string through the needle's hole.
He then looked at Midorima's wound. This would be his first time he'd stitched a wound. He wondered if it would be like stitching a shirt or jeans. So he brought the needle near Midorima's flesh and pierced it through one side. He immediately knew that it didn't feel same. To pierce through flesh was hard and yet at the same time somehow easy. It didn't feel right to his hands and they began to shake.
He had to pull himself together. He stitched the wound stitch after stitch and prayed that the thread wouldn't tear. After all, Kagami had to pull two opposite side of flesh towards each other. The wound would try to reopen if Kagami wasn't careful, just the thread the only thing preventing that. Kagami gulped, sweat was on his forehead and was slowly sliding down his nose. He wiped it away before it could drop down into the wound.
When he was done he breathed out relieved and stared at his work. He laughed a little when he saw which colour the thread held.
It was green.
"Shin-chan! Shin-chan!" Takao cried out between sobs. "Don't you dare to die you promised you'd stay!"
Kagami was standing beside Takao. He wanted to soothe him somehow perhaps by laying a hand on Takao's shoulder or patting the crying teens head. But he did neither of those. He just stood there and stared at the crying Takao. He walked out of the room when he couldn't bear it any longer. It was sad to see in how much pain Takao was. His heart stung because of those cries and sobs.
Nijimura had said that he wasn't sure if Midorima would wake up any time soon, he even said he wasn't sure if he would wake up. This was shit. He and Haizaki had done everything they could. Yeah they fucked up in the middle of it but it wasn't like they wanted to. It felt so shitty to have things turn out this way. Kagami rubbed his face and just then felt that he had tears in his eyes.
He brushed them away and cleared his throat. It was then that the others except for Takao exited out of the room. They stood there together in an awkward silence, until Nijimura broke it.
"Even now those men are probably still out here. It had been a pain in the ass for Takao and I alone to get in." Nijimura said. "We have to get them away from here or we won't get any rest until they're gone."
Kagami nodded and looked at the other two. Suddenly they heard how the door behind them clicked open and be slammed shut. Takao was there. He stood beside Haizaki, and the reckless teen couldn't help but shrink way slightly. In Takao's reddened eyes was a murderous gleam that told Kagami that Takao was ready to slaughter every single one of those men that shot Midorima.
"I want to go with you." Takao said with a voice that was strangely calm and clear.
"No." Nijimura replied.
"I have to Shuuzou... I have to..." Takao said glaring at Nijimura without restraint.
Kagami noticed the change in Takao's behaviour. The person in front of him looked just like Takao but everything else was different. How he stood, how he looked at those around him, how he spoke and even how he breathed. His whole aura was darker and blackened with a sick kind of rage.
"No Takao. You are not capable of this, not now. You can't and you won't come with us." Nijimura responded calmly.
Kagami watched how Nijimura turned around, but what he hadn't expected was what Takao did next. He- no, nobody could react quickly enough when Takao was suddenly attacking Nijimura. Kagami was perplexed he couldn't move, just watch how Takao slammed his fists and elbows wildly into Nijimura's arms, shoulders, stomach, torso and head.
But Nijimura did nothing against it, he just let himself be hit by Takao. Kagami knew that Nijimura was so much stronger than Takao, but he still didn't do anything against those hits. Haizaki was the first one to react. Lunging forward he wrapped his arms around Takao's waist and pulled him away from Nijimura.
Haizaki pulled him towards the door of the room Midorima was in. Aomine was the next one who went after them. He opened the door so that Haizaki could push Takao in the room. Then the door was slammed shut and locked. Kagami had just watched this spectacle in shock. He hadn't- no, he couldn't move a single limb. Takao was screaming and slamming his fists against the locked door. Kagami cringed he tried to block out the curses and chocked sobs Takao was making behind the door. Kagami closed his eyes momentarily and looked back to Nijimura.
"You ok?" Kagami asked.
"Yeah." Nijimura replied blankly. "If it had been me in Takao's situation, nobody could have stopped me." He said before turning around to face Kagami.
"Don't forget one thing Kagami. To have someone you care for with all heart in this world isn't easy. I could have let Takao do as he pleases- after all he has all right to so. I could have let him go to kill those people who laid a hand on his loved one, but if I had let him go he could have died. Nobody can think rationally with the feelings Takao has in the moment, so if you want to stay, be prepared."
Kagami nodded.
"Now, get yourself ready. We're going to murder." Nijimura said coldly.
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