"Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table."
- W.H Auden

Chapter 8: Trust

When he had eventually regained some sense of where he was, Kira was coughing and spluttering on the floor in the bathroom. The bath was still full of the blood stained water and he was now breathing quite heavily. He thought he heard a voice calling him.

"Izuru-kun! Izuru-kun!"

Kira coughed again as his lungs cleared. Where was he?

"Speak ta me! Are yer okay?"

Izuru then realized himself to be very much alive when he did open his eyes. So he wasn't dead. But he did wonder who it was that had brought him back. Saved him.

"Whe- where am I?"

There was a big sigh of relief from the other, and Izuru then started to regain some sense of self awareness as everything came back into focus.

Kira was being cradled in the arms of his taichou, who was kneeling on the floor. Still clothed in his shihakusho, only without the haori.

"God ya scared me there! Are ya alrigh'?"

Izuru looked up. Opening his eyes to find himself looking up at that smile again. "Ugh… taichou?"

Kira was still naked from having being in the bath, but Izuru didn't even care that this situation was the most awkward indeed; all that mattered was that he was alive right now. That Gin had dragged him out of the water and heaved his body onto the floor and resuscitated him. Brought him back from the brink of death. He was alive, so what did it matter that he was naked in front of his taichou. He'd seen it all before right?

"Izuru I jus' saved yer life. Ya was quite lucky I got 'ere when I did. Ye' woulda been dead else."

So it was Gin that had saved him. No matter how much he had distrusted him, no matter how much Kira said he had hated him, and no matter how much Kira had pushed him away, Gin still had gone out of his way to save him. He didn't have to, but he did. And Kira felt that now he would be able to trust him more now. Gin had to resuscitate him, drag him out and revive him.

"Tai- taichou… th- thankyou."