Setting: SEALED School AU
Sho's POV
Notes: Takes place sometime after the previous chapter.

Sho enters the school infirmary in a rush.

Nagi clearly does not expect him here, because she looks startled as she gets up from her seat. Sho glances over at the bed and spots Toya lying there with his eyes closed, lying far too still. He is too panicked to remember what Nagi wrote in her text message, so he peels his eyes off Toya's pale face and turns to her.

"What happened?" He asks, and she frowns a little.

"Practice. He overdid himself." Her answer is short and concise, as if delivering a report to him. Somehow, her strict, military composure helps him calm down. So, Toya was practicing his Gift when he collapsed.

Toya's Gift is manipulating magnetic fields, he recalls, a power that Toya doesn't often use unless he has to. Magnetism is easy for Toya to control, but the electricity he forms is much more complicated. From what Sho remembers of it, Toya's electricity feels raw and powerful, wild and uncontrollable, always on the verge of destroying not just the targets but also everyone else within range. Sho doesn't often go to Gift Practice, as his Gift doesn't need practicing, but he remembers how frighteningly close Toya came to losing control, how his aim felt a little off, how exhausted he was after just a few rounds. Controlling his electricity is something no one can teach Toya to do, and Sho knows that Toya takes the responsibility seriously, that he understands the damage he is capable of causing if he doesn't learn to control it. So it doesn't surprise him that Toya had over-exerted himself during practice.

"I'll watch over him, Sho. Don't worry." Nagi's voice interrupts his thoughts. "I know how busy it gets in the student council."

"I want to stay," he blurts out, and after a moment of hesitation, of weighing his options, he continues. "We're, we're seeing each other."

Only recently, he adds silently in his mind, but the revelation still stuns Nagi. She blinks, then once more, and finally she steps back and apologizes.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know. If I had known, I would've texted you sooner."

She leaves, closing the door quietly behind her, leaving Sho alone with Toya. So, he thinks, Toya hasn't told anyone. He hasn't told Nagi, the next person he is closest to.

Toya shows no signs of waking up, but his breathing is steady, and so Sho settles down with the student council work he had thought to bring along. It is a while before Toya awakens, and Sho is making good progress when he hears Toya stirring.

"Nagi?" Toya's voice is uncharacteristically weak, slurring with exhaustion. A sharp sting pierces Sho's chest, and it takes a moment for him to realize that he is hurt. The first name Toya calls out is not for him, but for someone else.

"Toya, it's me." Toya's health is more important right now, so he presses the hurt out of his mind and leans over. Toya meets his eyes and looks startled, like Nagi did when Sho first entered the infirmary, and Sho can't help but think how similar the two of them are.

"Sho?" Toya stares at him in disbelief, and he tries to get up. His body is too weak and he can barely lift himself off the mattress. "What are you doing here?"

"I heard you collapsed. Of course I'm here."

"I see." Toya pauses, his gaze flickering over the pile of work Sho had been working on earlier. "I'm fine now. You don't have to worry."

His firm, polite tone tells Sho to leave, that he doesn't need to stay. The stinging pain bites Sho again, this time in his palms, and he realizes he is clenching his fists. They are dating, aren't they? Why is Toya asking him to leave, when he had just called out for Nagi?

His chest burns with a tight, uncomfortable feeling, and he is suddenly overwhelmed with the thought that he does not want to lose to anyone, especially to Nagi. He places his hands against Toya's chest and leans forward, pushing Toya back down onto the bed, pressing his weight into Toya as he leans over him, feeling the bed dip slightly from their combined weight. He looks deeply into Toya's questioning eyes, and then, before his nerves fail him, he kisses him.

It is their first kiss with each other. It is chaste, determined, a little shy, a little nervous. When Sho pulls back, Toya's eyes are wide with surprise. He stares back up at Sho, not seeming to register what had just happened, not seeming to register that Sho had just kissed him. Just when Sho starts to think that maybe the kiss was a bad idea, Toya's face begins to redden.

He rolls over, turning his back to Sho as he buries his face in his arms, but it is too late. Sho has already seen the look on Toya's face. In that glimpse, he understands that Toya does indeed like him, does indeed like the kiss, even if he did not anticipate it at all. Toya's off-guard expression is endearing, and Sho finds that he can't fight the smile off his face.

Toya no longer asks him to leave, so he sits back down and picks up the pen on the table.

"Next time," he says quietly, "call my name instead."