PI PI PI PI!
Some time later, Chie's phone starts to ring, loudly ripping her from sleep she didn't realize she had fallen into. Simultaneously, Sho awakes, though his head seems to hurt even worse than it did before he fell asleep. Fumbling around in her pockets to find her screaming phone, Chie turns her eyes down to Sho. The look on his face says it's not the sound of her phone bothering him, though he won't admit that certainly.
PI PI PI PI!
At last, Chie grabs up her phone and answers it. On the other end, her mother's words shoot through the phone at lightning speed. Looking at the time, Chie understands why. She must have fallen asleep shortly after Sho had as nearly two hours had passed. Making up a quick lie, Chie explains how she had helped a friend who was hurt. She didn't dare mention it was a boy or that she had fallen asleep with him. Quickly, she adds that said friend might have a concussion so she was afraid to leave them alone right now.
Being highly understanding, the voice on the other end calms and begins to ask if she should expect Chie home tonight. Pausing to look over to Sho who is now attempting to stumble into the kitchen again, Chie decides it best to stay. A slight blush comes to her cheeks as she says she'll be home after school the next day. And with that, Chie ends the call and hurries over to Sho's side.
"Are you okay?" Chie watches as he holds his head.
"What do you think?!" Sho grumbles. "I guess you could say I have-" He growls, "Shit, I can't even pun right now." He grabs a water and downs it very quickly then takes a seat at the tiny dining room table. The back of his head is visably swollen now and just the sight of it makes Chie flinch.
"Would you like some medicine? I have some ibuprofen." Her voice is quiet as she sits down beside him.
"I'd rather just sleep." He groans then takes another drink of his water. Chie watches him and finds herself admiring him in her half awake state. His eyes were such an amazing color, nearly glowing blue, especially against that brilliant red hair. Even when in pain, his face was pretty nice to look at, despite the distinct scar across his nose. Though, over the week, Chie has found herself coming to like the characteristic scar as it was something to truly break him apart from the crowd. Not that his loud voice and nearly constant use of puns wasn't noticeable enough, but it was one more thing to add to the list of interesting quirks about him. Despite having barely moved, Sho's top button had come undone, revealing just a peek of the muscle beneath. While not as ridiculously built as say, Akihiko, Sho wasn't exactly lacking in that department.
When she looks back up, Sho has noticed her staring and he can't help but laugh a little.
"Were you enjoying the 'Sho?'" He smiles his silly sideways grin then points at himself. "Eh? Eh! The Sho...get it! It was funny, laugh!" His enthusiasm does make Chie smile a bit, but her tiredness gets the best of her. A large yawn rips its way out of her lips then she stretches a bit. "Wow, guess it was a pretty lame one huh? Man, didn't think it was that bad." Sho finishes his water then stands up and stretches backwards.
"Oh no! It wasn't-er-it's just-!" Chie fumbles her words as she stands from the chair. "I'm just really tired." She stops herself while she's ahead then stetches her arms far above her head.
Sho looks back at her and grins. Her hair was a mess and her jacket was crumpled from sleeping on the couch. Tired like this, she was actually really cute. He realizes Chie may want her clothes to not look slept in so he glances around suddenly.
"Did you want to borrow clothes?" He asks this then stops and looks at himself then her. "Well, not that anything I have would fit you. Shit, my clothes would probably swallow you whole."
"I didn't even think about that!" Chie gasps. "Oh man, if I go to school looking like this..."
"Eh, your fan club would find you even more adorable I'm sure." Sho says this then realizes what he says. His face burns red, realizing this could be taken as a compliment in itself. He turns away to see if he cant find something she might fit. Luckily, he finds a pair of sweat pants that he honestly isn't sure where they came from and one of his t shirts. While they might be big, it'd be something. Taking a deep breath, Sho returns and tosses the stuff at Chie.
"Fan club?" She starts, then turns toward Sho. Before she can continue, clothes have hit her square in the face. Snatching them up quickly, Chie grabs them and looks at Sho viciously. "Ooo, I should get you for that."
"Yeah? I'd like to see you try!" He taunts then scratches his eyebrow. As he yawns, Sho is caught off guard by Chie jumping toward him with a loud 'HIIIYA' and before he can respond, he is knocked to the ground. This, of course, causes him to hit his head again. Angrilly, Sho jumps up and glares toward her. "Oh sure, that's really nice. Kick me while I'm down." He takes a deep breath. Over the past week, Sho has become increasingly aware of his temper and has tried his damnedest to calm it. If he wasn't especially careful, he could really hurt Chie and as she was his first – and only – friend, he really didn't want to do that. But man was it hard for him to calm that. Sometimes it would be way easier to just beat her up and call it a day.
"You weren't down when I kicked you!" Chie tried to use his own attitude right back at him. She starts bouncing around in a fighting stance.
Obviously feeling rejuvenated, Sho gets ready to fight. A smile blossoms onto his face. This is why he liked Chie. She enjoyed fighting nearly as much as he and she could out eat him, even on the mega beef bowls at Aiya. He could almost be himself around her without getting into too much trouble. Sure, there was the part of him that would gladly kill any who got in his way that he's had to silence, but for the most part he could put a muzzle on it by simply fighting with Chie a bit.
"Rabbit." He crosses his arms then his legs. "You don't stand a chance against me." Swiftly, he reacts as she charges toward him. However, his overconfidence got them best of him. Chie is able to knock him over, but this time he ends up backed against the wall. He holds himself up while simultaneously grabbing Chie in a grapple hold. "You may have hit me, but now there's truly no escape. Hahaha!" He ignores the butterflies flapping around in his stomach and picks up Chie to throw her down. He aims for the couch, but Chie can't see this, so she grabs onto his shoulder and pushes off him toward the ceiling. So, rather than tossing her onto the couch, Sho does a flip then lands comfortably on the couch with a laugh.
"Why do you call me rabbit?" Chie sighs loudly before plopping down onto Sho's stomach. After loudly saying 'oof,' Sho laughs a bit.
"Because you're a rabbit." He reminds her. The weight on his stomach actually seemed to help pop his back into place. How convenient. Chie punches him in the chest.
"Am not!"
"Then prove it."
Chie can't decide the best way to prove it so she simply hops up, swipes up the clothes she planned to borrow then heads down the hallway, hoping she would find the bathroom. She finds it relatively easily. The bathroom has only a frosted glass door, plain sink and toilet and one beige towel. It is painfully obvious that Sho really did only have what he needed. Changing quickly, Chie folds her clothes then places them on the sink. She was honestly surprised to see how clean the house was. For such a chaotic guy, he didn't seem to care much for a mess. However, she did notice what a mess she looked like. The clothes were huge on her, though the pants could be tightened so that was good at least, and her hair was a mess. After running a quick hand through it, Chie exits the bathroom to see that Sho hasn't moved an inch.
"Well I want to sleep so you should move."
"Why should I move? You can have the bed. I'm comfortable here." Sho doesn't even open his eyes.
"I can't take your bed!" Chie feels guilty. He didn't have much as it was, but now he wanted to offer up his bed, no way.
"Then enjoy the floor." He mumbles before rolling over and quickly falling asleep.
Chie stomps toward the room she assumed to be Sho's room. Within that dark room, Chie sees a bed, open closet and Sho's prized swords. The swords are placed close to his bed, something he was probably taught as a child. She lays down in the bed and finds it to be strangely lulling. Just as she falls asleep, she hears something odd from the living room. Was it...Sho talking? Or...was it crying? No, it was too unusual sounding for that. Grudgingly, Chie crawls out of the warm blankets and heads back to the living room.
When she reaches the couch, she sees that Sho is still sound asleep, but also is able to see that he seems to be having a bad nightmare. Unsure what to do, Chie listens to Sho's mutterings while running a hand through his hair.