Chapter 13 – Faint*
Hajime POV
More time passed. Luca was still distant, still needing time, I guessed.
Kami, I missed him. Keita is cool and all that, but with Luca… it's always been different. I have always known he'd understand me, whatever it was I needed him to understand and that's why he was my confidant, my best friend…
My best friend who wanted more… with me.
Some friend I was, never having noticed that. Sakura's words kept coming back to me. "You chose not to notice."
I sighed again, looking down at the meal I was just poking at. I didn't feel like eating. I stood up and just put the food back in the fridge.
Feeling restless without Luca around me and with my life as messed up as the recent revelations had made it, I decided to take a page out of my dads' book and actually immerse myself in some kind of sport.
Well… maybe doing around 100 push-ups, after half an hour at the punching bag, when you have never trained anything in your life, wasn't very smart…
"Aniki… maybe you should slow down for now. I mean, that's far from a beginner's level."
My little brother, who looked much tougher than me by the way, sounded really concerned. I stood up to (hopefully) stare superiorly down at him.
"Enough drama, Kira, I'm totally…."
My head suddenly felt light and full of white smoke. My body swayed. I heard Akira yell a terrified "Aniki!" right before I fell.
"Severe dehydratation, undernourishment…", the doctor rattled.
"Undernourishment?!", Kotetsu sounded scandalized. "What? How?", he asked me, as if accusing me of a crime.
I shrugged. "I didn't feel like eating… the past… few days."
"Few days!?", Kotetsu erupted, while Izumo threw his hands in the air, shaking his head.
"And of course you decided to do push-ups, for the first time in your life, when you hadn't eaten in days!", he grumbled.
Akira shook his head. Even Lulu looked at me like she was judging me.
"Seeing as I'm in a hospital, can we at least postpone the talk of what an idiot I am for, I don't know, later?!", I growled, annoyed.
Heavy footsteps right in front of the door to my hospital room made us all look up in that direction right as the door burst open, and a panting figure dressed in what looked like a traditional kimono stood there. The man looked at me, his eyes containing pure horror.
It was Luca.
Luca in a iaido uniform.
Luca stood there… in those clothes… his short dark hair a messy disarray of spikes, a light sheen of sweat on his brow, panting… The shitagi was slightly opened, revealing his muscular chest…
He looked….
I'll be damned, but he looked…
He was the sexiest sight I have ever seen.
A.N. * there's a song called like that by Rungran. I quite like it and I think it matches the last few moments of this chapter ;) Also, next chapter will be much more long and eventful, promise. To speed up its uploading you may review ;)