A/n: haha look at how long this one is! Well things r starting to happen the train has begun moving. Anyways, like always, enjoy and review, cuz ghost readers suck, if they're followers & ghost readers thts k... Bt if theyre not even following. Hmph! No excuse. Review! XP jk, kinda not. I'll stop. Here.
-Ryan sensei
Karma finally reaches Nagisa, with his flashlight in the dark he could see a few cuts and bruises on the boy's face. He pulls Nagisa into a long and quiet hug, relieved that the small boy was within reach. Karma then gently pushes Nagisa's head to his face and kisses him on the forehead.
"What the hell happened? Nagisa, are you ok?!" Karma finally asked in a panicked voice.
Nagisa didn't reply for a while, so the redhead tried helping him stand up. Each time Karma tried to help him, Nagisa would whimper in pain. After a few failed attempts, Karma crouches over and gently pulls the boy over his back in the piggy-back position.
Karma slowly and silently walked back to his motorcycle, giving Nagisa the chance to speak, and also because he was afraid that if he walked any faster, he would break the very light, yet fragile boy.
After a few minutes, Nagisa speaks up, "Karma, you're sweaty..." He chuckles right after, but immediately afterwards, Nagisa tightens his grip around Karma, grimacing from the pain.
"Nagisa?!" Karma shouts in a worried tone, stopping in his tracks.
"I'm fine. I really am! I'm just a little tired.." Nagisa says wearily.
"Okay. You go to sleep, and I'll take you back to my house to get a better look at and treat your injuries since I do live closer. So just go to sleep for now, and you can tell me about it later, ok?" Karma suggests.
"Mn-hm," Nagisa replies before dozing off.
I swear whoever is responsible, they're going to pay! For Nagisa to be in such a state... I was with him not too long ago! But I couldn't protect him, and I swore I would! I'm a failure as your boyfriend, and as a man. I wasn't even thinking and now look what my negligence caused… DAMN IT! Karma thought in silence.
As difficult as it was for Karma to drive his bike, and make sure Nagisa didn't fall off while sleeping during the ride, Karma was able to safely maneuver the bike back to the woods, and piggy back Nagisa back to his house. He was tired, but he did it.
Karma enters his house, and turns on the house lights, laying Nagisa on the living room floor. The floor was made of hard wood and had a fluffy rug, so it wouldn't hurt Nagisa's back any more that it already did. He then takes one of the couch pillows, and uses it to prop up Nagisa's neck.
The red haired boy, in a swift motion then gets the first aid kit and comes back to Nagisa's side. The moment he sat himself down, was the first time he actually had a good look at Nagisa's condition.
He appeared even worse than he'd thought. Blood covered parts of his face, cuts and two blueish-purple bruises from punches covered his face and hands. Everything else was covered by his hoodie and pants. Karma knew he was injured by his chest as well; evidenced by the giant circle of blood seeping through his hoodie, so he'd have to check there as well.
Karma had never felt worse in his life, he clenched his fist and punched the floor with one hand, and used the other to shield his crying eyes. He couldn't even begin to apologize, there was no way to even start. Wiping his tears, he reminded himself that he had to know the scale of the wounds, so he could begin treating them.
Karma begun taking off Nagisa's hoodie slowly. I wanted to do something like this when he was up and willing, but I guess I'll have to wait a little longer, Karma pervertedly thought. After removing the hoodie and seeing the bare chested Nagisa, he couldn't help but shout at his max volume.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"
It was a yell loud enough to wake Nagisa up, but who could blame him when Karma saw what he did.
Nagisa's chest has not only a significant amount of cuts and bruises, but is bleeding in various areas. It was somewhat of a horrific sight, especially since it was on this small boy's body.
He has more bruises than I can count, is bleeding like crazy, and has a bunch of broken bones, Karma thought to himself.
"What part of this is fine?! Huh? There's also some weird lines here and there... and some even bigger ones on your wrists too! I'm no doctor, but even I can tell that this is not something you just patch up with first aid! Those guys are-" Karma began to shout.
Nagisa slightly startles the teen when he suddenly began speaking, "No! Wait Karma! those guys didn't really do that much, I'm fine, I just need a little longer nap! So please calm down. Besides, I've already had some of these marks before today."
Karma saw that Nagisa was trying to sit himself up, so the redhead tried lightly forcing him to lie back down, when suddenly Nagisa began coughing.
For a few seconds it was a light cough, then he began coughing up a little bit of blood.
Karma's eyes burned with fury as he watched his boyfriend suddenly cough up blood.
"I'll kill them. I'll kill everyone of them who did this!" Karma began shouting.
In a panic to figure out how to calm Karma down, Nagisa lunges the top half of his body towards Karma, and embraces him. While in that position, he whispers in a hoarse tone, "Karma, it's ok. Calm down. I just... messed up a little, ok? Just don't tell the class about this... Besides something like this won't kill me. It hurts.. Like... A ton, but please, this isn't worth killing someone over. But I am happy you're worried about me... Thank you."
Karma was speechless for a few moments, but slowly regains his composure.
"Of course I'd be worried about you, but... Nagisa, I just can't back off and say nothing. I won't kill anybody... But I'll make whoever's responsible wish I did. Now, back to one of the previous problems, you holding me probably hurts right now, right? SO, you can let go, lay back down, and I'll bandage you as best as I can until you go to a hospital. Ok?" Karma says in his normal tone.
Nagisa began to release his grip and sank back into a sitting position, ignoring the redhead's suggestion. Karma sighs, but then takes out a prepared wet cloth and began wiping up some of the blood on his chest. Then the red head took one of the bandage rolls and wrapped it around Nagisa's torso.
The cuts on Nagisa's face were covered with a few bandaids. Before giving Nagisa an icepack for his bruises on his face, Karma kisses every cut and large injury on his face, and gives a few raspberries here and there.
"Karma that tickles, stop. He-he-ha! P-Please stop! Ow!" Nagisa said, covering his stomach.
The blood had begun to bleed through the fresh bandages. "I'm sorry, I'll stop, I didn't realize laughing would probably hurt too... Here, I'll redo your bandages…" Karma says apologetically.
After Karma redid the bandages, he takes Nagisa's hoodie and bloodied shirt that was in his bag, and puts them in the wash.
After returning from the laundry room, he finds Nagisa sleeping on the floor. Karma didn't want to wake him; he was finally laying down and wishes that he could've stayed like that as long as he wanted, but that wasn't an option. He had to find out who did this to Nagisa, to such a lovable boy. He had a good idea, but it needed to be confirmed before he could take action.
"Oi...OI... Nagisa..." Karma whispered, gently shaking the fragile boy. Nagisa, in response, slowly opened his eyes, waking up.
"Oh, Karma... Oh my god, I'm sorry! This is so embarrassing! I didn't mean to trouble you even more than I already have by sleeping again!" Nagisa says in a panicked tone.
"No! You haven't been troubling me! I'm doing this because I want to! It's my duty as your boyfriend to take care of you. There's really no need to be embarrassed, it's obvious that you'd be tired after something like that. You can feel free to sleep over her, but the thing is, I'm not exactly sure what happened, so could you tell me? Please?" Karma asks.
Nagisa nods his head and explains everything that happened since they had parted earlier that day.
After the explanation, Nagisa grows silent, waiting for the redhead's reaction. Karma's face was visibly angry; his fists were clenched, eyebrows furrowed, teeth gritted, a few veins were bulging out, and there was even a flame-like tinge in his golden eyes.
"'An example must be set so class E knows their place'?! What the hell kinda example is this?! Who the hell does he think he is?! Don't worry, I probably won't tell the class about this, I wanna deal with this myself, if I did, with Maehara's mouth, everyone would know; including the sensei's, and who knows what they and the sensei's would do. I can't help if they find out on their own, though... But was it necessary for you to suffer? I would've willingly taken your place if it meant you'd have been unharmed..." Karma says.
"Even if we were to have switched spots, I wouldn't have been able to handle it as well as you are right now," Nagisa says.
"Nagisa..."
"Plus, I'd one way or another would've gotten beaten anyways..." Nagisa lightly mutters to himself.
Apparently not light enough, because Karma was able to pick up on that last comment.
"What do you mean by 'you'd one way or another would've been beaten'? Huh Nagisa? Is there something else you're not telling me? Is someone threatening you? Are you bein-" Karma questions before Nagisa cuts him off.
"No! It's not like that! You don't need to worry about it! I'm used to it, so you don't need to get involved any further or be worried or anything! I'll take care of it, eventually..." Nagisa pleads.
"Nope. Now I'm really not dropping this 'til you tell me, and based off of what it is, I'll decide whether or not to drop it, though I probably won't.. And don't think about lying, I can tell whether or not you're telling the truth," Karma threatens.
Knowing Karma, that was most likely not a bluff, but Nagisa was still hesitant to tell him about his situation. He didn't mean for anyone to find out in the first place. He especially didn't want Karma to know and then pity him, or look at him differently, as some weak kid. He looked up to Karma, he was his everything and he was starting to become recognized as someone dependable in their class, he was starting to become worthy of being by Karma's side. He didn't want that to change. Nobody would think he was worthy, they'd think he was weak, someone that needed to be protected, but can't protect. Unreliable, but now Nagisa was backed into a corner, and the only way out would probably be to tell his boyfriend the truth, but still tried lying anyways.
"Um, well, ah.. I fell?" was the best Nagisa could come up with in the short time span.
"Nagisa, you suck at lying, geez that's not even a good lie. Out with it, now."
"... Promise not to yell or anything?" Nagisa asks.
"I'm not promising anything," Karma replies, his arms and legs crossed, and eyes directly staring at Nagisa's.
"I'm not saying anything until you promise not to yell."
"Fine I promise not to yell..."
"Ugh. Well, you know my mom right?" Nagisa begins.
"Yeah…?" Karma replies, not liking where the conversation was heading.
As Nagisa continues to speak, he can no longer look Karma in the eyes.
"Well, in the past she couldn't live out the life she wanted to, so she now and then tries to make me live out the life she couldn't have. Even though I'm a boy... Since I have a girly face and with her help, a matching figure, she won't let me cut my hair, and makes me crossdress now and then... It's only whenever she gets mad she's scary..." Nagisa says hesitantly, telling as little as possible.
"Just wondering, do you have any photos of when you crossdressed?" The redhead asks with interest,"but I'll press that matter later. I can imagine that your mom's probably pretty scary when she's mad, I mean she already acts strict.. But what does your mom have to do with you being beaten, I mean-" Karma says, but then stops himself before connecting some dots.
"Wait. Y-you can't mean that your mom... I mean... Are you saying that your mom.. Oh my god Nagisa, does your mom beat you? ...Oi, oi! Nagisa, say it's not true. I mean she's crazy, but your own mother wouldn't do that to you right?!" Karma says in a panicked tone.
Nagisa remained quiet, his head facing down as a few tears dropped onto the floor.
"I'm sorry, I really shouldn't have said anything. I just don't know what to do anymore.. I don't want to go back. Back to that basement, back to that house... I'm sorry I'm being so selfish, I'm not hiding anything else, I promise that's it, I just..." Nagisa says, continuing to cry.
Karma immediately hugs the small boy. "It's not your fault Nagisa, it's hers, you did nothing wrong. I'm so glad that you trust me enough to have told me something this big, I mean I kinda forced you to, but I'm seriously glad you told me. I don't know what I can do, but I'm sure we can come up with something together. I'm all yours ya know," Karma says as he delicately strokes Nagisa's back.
The soothing motion was enough to calm Nagisa down, and make him go back to sleep, but right before he closed his eyes he said, "Thank you Karma. I know I should've probably talked to her about it earlier, but I'm still too scared... But just knowing you're there for me, makes me happier than you can imagine... I'll try to talk to my mom about it when I see her; I mean since I'm injured, she wouldn't do anything, she's still a reasonable mother. So I'll a take just a small nap before I see her..."
Karma held the sleeping boy in his arms and as delicately as possible, hugged Nagisa like his life depended on it. I'm sorry but you just might be the only one in the world who thinks that that woman is 'reasonable'. Anyone that beats… Scratch that, anyone that beats you, or their own child is despicable. This can't be solved with a simple 'mom, please stop', he would've done that ages ago, so what is he gonna do when he really does see her? Karma thinks before drifting off to sleep.
A few hours later Karma opens his eyes and realizes that he had fallen asleep with Nagisa in his arms.
The red head gazes down at Nagisa's features, noticing the small details about him. His light blue lashes, his small nose and frail figure, even the light breaths Nagisa took through his mouth. Karma admired every bit of him.
It's hard to believe he's the class's best assassin... But for Asano and those others scums to do this... They'll pay tomorrow, and Nagisa will probably be out for a bit, so that'll definitely be enough time for my revenge... What time is it anyways? Karma thought as he looks around for a clock
Karma's eyes scan the room for the time, and finds a clock that reads: 1:58 AM, on a nearby clock.
"It's pretty late..." Karma says while yawning.
Just after he finishes yawning, the doorbell began profusely ringing.
Ding-Dong... Ding-Dong..Ding-Dong!
The frequent ringing wakes Nagisa up, and Karma lays Nagisa, still weary-eyed, on the couch.
Karma gets up and starts angrily and groggily walking to the door.
"Who's that at this hour?" Karma whines while scratching the back of his head. Karma opens the door and says, "If you want me to buy something, don't bother I alr-".
At that moment Karma's tired face transformed into an unwelcoming frown. The guest at his door was none other than Nagisa's mom.
A/n: woah ho ho, you thought I forgot about her and what she told nagisa b4 leaving right. Well unfortunately, no. I'm actually kinda starting to feel bad for making nagisa go through all this crap... Oh well, i've come this far. Cya next time!