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"Well", Shintaro looked at the X-ray with a thoughtful manner. His assistant and lover (not that he'd ever admit that), Takao Kazunari, was writing something on the computer. Karma knew he was doing his job, probably writing a report about how his hand was healing or something, but doing his work nonetheless. Ignoring the black-haired assistant, the redhead turned to the green-haired doctor who was his only escape of not using his right hand. "Your hand seems to be healing as it should."

Karma allowed himself to sigh in relief. He had already been scared that his hand would have healed wrong, somehow, and he would need to use only his left hand for an even longer time.

"And it seems you have done as I told you", Shintaro glanced at him. "Meaning, you haven't used your hand at all."

Kazunari looked at the X-ray and hummed. "It's about ready to let him use it again, right?"

Shintaro nodded, pushing his glasses up. "Yes." Karma was about to cheer, but Shintaro shot him a look. "Carefully, of course."

Karma sighed. "Fine. Instructions, Shintaro-sensei?"

"Take it easy", Shintaro turned away from the X-ray and walked over to him. He took a gentle yet firm grip of his right wrist, starting to undo the bandage. "Don't do anything that has any chances of making this worse."

"I have midterms in a few days", Karma said, biting his lip a little bit. "I can attend normally, right?"

Shintaro seemed thoughtful for a moment. He and Kazunari glanced at one another and Kazunari took a look at the report he had been writing. He then looked at Shintaro and shrugged his shoulders. Shintaro sighed. He turned back to Karma and gave him a stern look. "You can, but you need to rest your hand if you feel it hurting even a bit."

Karma grimaced. "That's going to be a problem…"

"I'm sure Seijuro-san can talk with your chairman about it", Kazunari pointed out. Karma turned to look at him as he smiled. "If he does, not even your chairman can do against him."

Shintaro, who just got the bandages off of Karma's hand, pushed his glasses up as he walked over to a phone. "I'll give him a call immediately."

Karma just gaped.

…

Nagisa glanced at his phone impatiently. Seeing no new messages, he sighed.

Karma had an appointment with Shintaro today. Karma had said that it was to make sure his hand was healing as it should and he had promised to inform him immediately as he got the news. After all, those news would define if Karma would be taking the midterms with the rest of them or under someone's (the Chairman's) surveillance.

"Ooh, Nagisa~!" Nakamura grinned as she threw her arm over his shoulders. "Waiting for a text from your boyfriend, eh?"

Nagisa sweat-dropped, but nodded anyways. Kayano blinked. "Why? Do you have a date or something?"

"Ah, no", Nagisa shook his head. "I told you his hand was broken, right?"

Nakamura and Kayano nodded.

"Well, he has a doctor's appointment today to make sure it's been healing as it should have been", Nagisa explained. "He promised to inform me the moment he got the news."

"Oh", Nakamura nodded. "So, you're worried about him?"

Nagisa frowned a little. "He's my boyfriend. Of course I'm worried."

Kayano had a fangirl moment.

"Hey, Sugino!" Maehara grinned as he walked over to Sugino. "Did you watch the show yesterday?"

"What show?" Isogai, who also walked over, asked. Sugino grinned. "The new high school drama with Kise Ryota acting as the bad guy."

"Oh, that!" Kataoka smiled. "I saw it, too!"

"It was good!" Okano jumped into the conversation, grinning. Nakamura nodded, smirking. "Kise Ryota is such a hottie as a villain!"

Nagisa chuckled humorlessly. "Yeah… Uncle Ryota as a villain…"

All of the students turned to Nagisa. Maehara blinked before gaping. "That's right! Kise Ryota was a member of Kiseki no Sedai!"

"You've met him!"

"Yeah", Nagisa nodded. Okano's eyes shone brightly. "What is he like?"

"Nothing like the show suggests", Nagisa promised. "I can't believe someone could even think of giving him the role of a villain."

"Is he that good of a guy?" Chiba asked. Nagisa scratched his cheek and looked away, thinking. "Well… I wouldn't say he's that good of a guy, but…"

"But?" Isogai asked.

"Well… He's…" Nagisa bit his lip, wondering how to describe Ryota without ruining his reputation with his classmates. "Kind of like Kayano… I think…?"

"Like Kayano?" Sugino blinked. Nagisa nodded. "Yeah. You remember the huge pudding assassination attempt?"

"And how she screwed that all up by crying over it?" Terasaka asked from the other side of the classroom. Nagisa nodded. "That. Well, Uncle Ryota is kind of like that. He's dramatic and easily cries, but at the same time…"

"What?" Kataoka asked.

"Well, Akashi-kun and Dad told me, but…" Nagisa shrugged his shoulders. "They said that when Uncle Ryota gets serious, you don't want to be the guy he's up against. He's apparently calmly scary."

"Oh", Maehara shivered a bit. "He's one of those."

"Not one of those insanely scary guys, like Takaoka-sensei was?" Hayami asked. Nagisa shook his head. "Not even close."

"Or like Karma-kun?" Terasaka asked.

Everyone turned to him. Nakamura blinked and then frowned. "Terasaka, what did you just…?"

"Don't deny it!" Terasaka exclaimed, frowning. "All of you were afraid of him."

"But…" Isogai began, but Itona stopped him. "You and Kimura, especially."

The atmosphere turned gloomy. It was like that for a while before Kataoka spoke. "I… That's right. We were all afraid of Karma-kun right then and there."

Maehara gasped as he turned to Kataoka. However, the girl wasn't finished yet. "But, that was only then! No one was thinking straight! When we did… That wasn't like Karma-kun."

"Yeah", Chiba nodded. "It was unlike Karma-kun. And that's why… that's why we've been so worried."

"It's true that we were seriously afraid", Kimura admitted. "But he was acting so strangely."

"It was like he truly was an emperor and we were nothing more than his imperial subjects", Isogai admitted as the door opened and Korosensei came inside. No one saw him, but he blinked as he listened to what Isogai continued to say. "But, Karma-kun is Karma-kun. Even Akashi-kun said it, that Karma-kun knew he would snap and tried to get away from us before that happened."

"Wait a minute", Takebayashi frowned. "If he did that, then…"

Okuda gasped. "Was he trying to protect us from that sight?!"

Korosensei nodded. "Most likely."

Everyone turned to him. "When did you get there?!"

"When Isogai-kun spoke", Korosensei grinned like he usually did. He then turned a bit more serious. "But I believe you are correct, Okuda-san, Takebayashi-kun."

"Karma-kun was trying to protect us?" Itona blinked. He then frowned, thoughtful. "Well, he knew that would happen. He must have also known what he was like when that happened…"

"But why did he suddenly become like that?" Yada asked.

"This is just my own speculation, but…" Korosensei wiggled his tentacles around, troubled. "Karma-kun might have a split personality."

Nagisa and Ritsu felt like they should interfere with this before it got even worse.

"Split personality?" Hayama blinked. Korosensei nodded. "I've heard of people who know they have one and can feel as another personality tries to overcome their actual personality."

"He wouldn't have any control over another personality, right?" Maehara asked. Korosensei nodded. "He wouldn't."

"Are you trying to put this all onto some mental illness?" Terasaka huffed. "That was Karma-kun, alright."

"Why are you trying to make this all Karma-kun's fault?!" Nakamura shouted.

"Why are you trying to make excuses and make him mentally unstable?!" Terasaka shouted right back. Nagisa blinked at his choice of words, thinking them over as the rest stared at the idiot of the class in shock. Now that he thought about it, with the rest, it did sound a little like they were making excuses. Excuses as to why they were afraid of Karma back then, excuses of why Karma had acted that way. Besides, they didn't know for sure that Karma was mentally unstable and that he didn't do that because he just felt like it. Yet, they still went and said that he was… We're horrible people here, aren't we?

"Terasaka-kun…" Korosensei looked troubled, but Terasaka didn't allow him to speak. "You too, octopus! What the hell is with that, making your students into sick humans?!"

"Karma-kun is a guy who kicks people's asses for no reason whatsoever! No matter how unusual that was of him, he is still him!" Terasaka reminded. "Split personality? Pssh! Even if he had, it would still be the same Karma-kun and no one else!"

"You…!" Sugino gritted his teeth.

"I… agree."

Everyone turned to Nagisa in shock and horror. The boy looked down at his hands, folded over the desk.

"Nagisa-kun?" Nakamura asked, shock evident in her voice.

"Didn't expect you, of all people, to agree", Terasaka admitted, a bit shocked himself.

"No matter what Karma-kun did, he's still Karma-kun", Nagisa said. "Split personality or not, it was Karma-kun all the same."

"You can't be serious", Maehara looked a bit horrified. "If Karma-kun really has a split personality…!"

"What is it going to change?" Nagisa asked. "It's still Karma-kun, isn't it?"

Korosensei looked at Nagisa for a moment before sighing a little. "I see. So that's how you see it, Nagisa-kun, Terasaka-kun?"

Everyone turned to the octopus teacher for elaboration. Elaborate he did. "Even if Karma-kun has a split personality, it doesn't matter. Those split personalities are a part of Karma-kun, thus, he himself."

Kayano looked at Nagisa, confused. "But… Are you really…?"

"I can't judge others for something like that", Nagisa said. "But, lately… I've learned that split personalities are a part of the person who has them. They're not completely separate entities, like others seem to think. Each personality is tightly locked to the others and their actions bring consequences to all personalities."

"You've studied this?" Isogai blinked. Nagisa shook his head. "No. Father has one."

"Father?" Kataoka blinked before gaping. "You mean, Akashi Seijuro?!"

Nagisa nodded. For a moment, the classroom was filled with disbelieving shouts.

"No way!" Sugino gaped. "He?! A split personality?!"

Nagisa nodded. "He does. It's not that bad anymore, though."

"Anymore?" Maehara raised an eyebrow. "It used to be?"

"When he was in middle school and high school", Nagisa admitted. "He spent years as his other personality, not for once surfacing as his true personality."

Korosensei looked at Nagisa intently. "And from him, you learned that having a split personality isn't having a different entity in your head, rather…"

"Having a part of your own personality ripped away and pushed away, created into another personality", Nagisa explained. "Even… having your own feelings bottle up inside of you and have them made into a personality that is nothing more than just that."

"Such as?" Muramatsu frowned.

"Negativity", Nagisa said. "Sadness, pain, fear. Father told me that such a personality feeds off of those feelings and keeps growing until there is no more of said feelings."

"But it's impossible to never be sad, in pain or afraid!" Okuda pointed out. Nagisa nodded. "Exactly."

"That means…" Isogai's eyes widened. "Such a personality would… only grow?"

"And take control", Korosensei frowned. "Is that was happened to him?"

Nagisa was quiet for a while before nodding. "I… I think it did."

"If Karma-kun had one…" Sugino trailed off.

"It would still be him", Nagisa said. "It wouldn't be a different person. It would just be Karma-kun."

"But why would he hide such a side?" Nakamura frowned. "We're friends, aren't we?"

"What about your reaction?" Ritsu suddenly asked. Everyone blinked and turned to her. She smiled a little. "How did you react to him when he turned like that?"

"With… fear…" Isogai's eyes widened in realization. Kataoka wasn't far behind him. "He was… afraid…"

"That we'd… fear him?" Maehara gaped. Terasaka's eyes were wide. "Karma-kun?"

Itona looked indifferent, but his eyes held an understanding look. "Well, if I was like that, I guess I would fear that, too."

"Take into account that that must not have been the first time it happened", Ritsu reminded. "It's not like that was the first time ever for that to happen. For him to know when it happened, he must have experience on how it has happened before."

"Wait", Sugino gaped. "How have others reacted to that?"

"And for how long has that been happening?" Korosensei frowned, looking troubled. "If it has been happening since his early youth, other kids would have feared him a lot more than those in middle school…"

"That was the first time I've seen it happen", Nagisa said. "I've hung out with Karma-kun most of the time since first year."

"Which means, it must have begun a long time before that", Ritsu concluded.

"Oh my god…" Nakamura brought her hands over her mouth. "What has he been through for that?"

The atmosphere became gloomy and quiet. It was then that Nagisa got a text message. He blinked and took his phone out, just then remembering that Karma was supposed to inform him of his hand when he got the news. Opening the message, he looked at it.

So, I got safely to my appointment and Uncle Shintaro took the X-ray. My hand healed as it was supposed to, so no worries on that department. On the other hand… I have to take it super easy for now, which means that I need to rest my hand if it hurts. Which sucks. Anyways. Uncle Shintaro called Father and told him to arrange my midterms a bit differently, so that I can safely do them. Knowing Father, he can actually do that and I won't get to join the rest of you on the midterms.

Nagisa read the message twice, making sure that no one saw it. He then sighed, writing his reply to Karma.

Well, at least your hand healed fine! And you'll still do the exams. You can still show everyone who is the boss, right? ;) I'll come over later tonight to see you, OK?

It didn't take long for an answer to come.

But if worst comes to worst, I'll have the Chairman himself keeping an eye on me. The Chairman! That creepy sicko! But yeah, I don't mind. It's not like I have anything better to do than hang out with my boyfriend ^^ Have you already had a haircut?

Nagisa blinked at the last bit. While they had spoken of it the previous day… He hadn't really thought when and where he'd get that haircut.

No, why do you ask? And the Chairman?! O.o I feel kind of bad for you.

Nagisa noticed that the rest were finally becoming less gloomy. Which meant they saw him looking at his phone intently.

Thank you. And, well, I just thought. You are going to cut your hair, right? You said so. I already warned Dad, too, that you might have a new hairstyle when you come home BD No need to thank me.

Nakamura looked over his shoulder. She blinked before grinning as Nagisa quickly put the phone away. "Eeh? Nagisa-kun, you're getting a haircut?"

"Eh?" Sugino blinked. "Nagisa-kun…?"

"Well…" Nagisa pouted a little. "I thought about it. I haven't thought where, though…"

"Nurufufufu", Korosensei chuckled. "I can easily do a little haircut for you!"

Oh, Nagisa thought. That's why Karma asked.

Soon enough, Nagisa found himself sitting, Korosensei behind him and discussing with others what would look good on him. He just sighed and decided to answer Karma, instead of getting involved in the conversation. For now, at least.

Yes, thanks to you, I'm getting my hair cut in a few. Did you know they would force this onto me if they knew?

"What would you like, Nagisa-kun?" Korosensei asked. Nagisa hummed. "I just want it short. And I don't want it to be longer on the other side, either."

"Why so boring?" Nakamura pouted.

"I want to look normal", Nagisa sighed. Korosensei got to work as they continued to speak. Maehara was the one who brought the earlier conversation back, sighing. "I… never thought about it. Karma-kun, I mean."

"Thinking that he might have something like that", Takebayashi pushed his glasses up. "He doesn't seem like that."

"Neither does Akashi Seijuro", Sugino pointed out. "Yet even he has split personality."

"It's still not set in stone that Karma-kun has anything", Terasaka growled.

"But it's likely, isn't it?" Kayano asked. "Sure, it doesn't change the fact that it's Karma-kun. But it explains it."

"And an explanation is what we need", Kataoka admitted. "We don't need any more lies or anyone covering the truth."

Terasaka didn't say anything to that.

"Don't you want answers too, Nagisa-kun?" Sugino turned to look at Nagisa. The boy blinked and looked down. He felt so bad, not being able to tell them the truth. That he knew. He had been in contact with Karma, more or less, the whole time. But it was Karma's wish, to not tell, right? So he couldn't really. Not without breaking Karma's trust on him. And that would hurt so much more than anything else.

"Stop bothering him about that", Isogai frowned a little bit. "Life is harsh on Nagisa-kun already, even without this whole thing with Karma-kun. Do we need to remind him of it every other hour?"

"Right", Sugino shook his head. "Sorry, Nagisa-kun."

"Your life really is one hell of a hurricane right now, isn't it?" Korosensei asked as he finished cutting Nagisa's hair. Nagisa reached up and felt the edges of his strands, now so much shorter than they used to be (Nagisa's hairstyle from the end). After a while, Nagisa nodded. "Yeah, it really is. With everything going on…"

"You found out your father is someone different than you thought, you moved in with him…" Okano sighed. Maehara nodded. "Found out he's a member of Kiseki no Sedai, met Kiseki no Sedai's members."

"Got a boyfriend", Nakamura giggled a bit. Kayano nodded. "Went on dates with him."

"Karma-kun going insane like that", Terasaka shrugged his shoulders.

Nagisa smiled and nodded. "It's been one hell of a hurricane. But, I'm sure it will be over soon and things will go back to normal."

The rest looked at him and smiled, too. Some began to chuckle and even laugh. Korosensei looked proudly at his blue-haired student. Even in a situation like this, he could make everyone feel so much better. He really was an unusual child.

…

(Meanwhile)

…

Karma frowned as he was walking home. He was glancing at his phone every other second. By the time he reached the third turn, he called Ritsu over. "Ritsu!"

"What is it, Karma-kun?" Ritsu appeared onto the screen, blinking a little. Karma looked a bit annoyed, but mostly just worried. "Where's Nagisa?"

Ritsu blinked. "In the classroom. Why?"

"He isn't answering me", Karma pouted a bit. "Can you show me live video of what's going on?"

Ritsu sweat-dropped, but did as Karma wanted her to. He frowned as he looked at the screen, seeing that Korosensei just finished cutting Nagisa's hair. Looking at the boy's new hairstyle, he smiled. It fit him.

Then he heard Terasaka saying that he went insane.

"Excuse me?!" Karma exclaimed. "Terasaka Ryoma, I will make sure your death is painful and slow!"

"But, Karma-kun…" Ritsu sweat-dropped. "He's kind of right…"

"Shut it, Ritsu", Karma waved his hand. Ritsu giggled a little bit as Karma frowned while walking. "He didn't need to say it like that. I didn't go insane."

Ritsu suddenly blinked. "Wait a minute…"

Karma blinked. "What is it, Ritsu?"

"Karma-kun… You're Aka right now, right?" Ritsu asked, just to be sure. Karma blinked and nodded. "Yeah…? I haven't actually been Ki since Akaki disappeared. Why?"

"Well…" Ritsu looked at him thoughtfully. "You're not acting fully Aka."

Karma blinked. "I'm not?"

"I mean, Aka is uncertain, emotional and so on?" Ritsu asked. Karma nodded, recognizing his actual personality being described. That's who he was. Or, had been, before Ki appeared.

"But, you're acting more like Ki right now", Ritsu said, blinking. "Like you're a mix of Aka and Ki."

Karma blinked and paused for a moment. A mix of Aka and Ki? That… didn't sound bad, but it didn't sound good, either. Huh. That could actually be problematic. Or was it because he was outside? Was he unconsciously tapping at Ki's personality and taking traits from there or something?

I have to ask others, if I've been acting unlike Aka lately, Karma decided. Once more, he turned to look at the screen. A vein popped on his forehead. "Terasaka, be happy while you can. When I see you, I will slowly torture you to death!"

Ritsu could only sweat-drop.