Lazarus, Part 1
Is the Order a Rabbit? belongs to Manga Time Kirara, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure belongs to Hirohiko Araki. If I did, Cocoa still woulda died.
Whoops.
Christ...Tsumugu wasn't shitting when he was going to torture the fuck out of Cocoa. Lucky he didn't outright violate her though, that would guaranteed the M rating. Hope I can wrap this arc quickly, I'm tired of seeing these rabbits. I'm going to eat one of these rabbits at this rate. Just here...waiting for Breath of the Wild while I poo. Ugh.
If you like this fic, review, fav, and follow because if you don't do it Sharo will be the next one to die!
I might, really.
I can see in the reviews nobody took Cocoa'a death too well. Better make sure I don't kill anyone else!
Please don't leave me for killing Cocoa...
STORY IS NOW!
"JoJo-kun?" Cocoa peeked into her room. "Takahiro-san's asking if you can-"
She blinked when she saw a giant lump on her bed, covered by he blanket. She wondered if it was a [Stand] user or something. Too bad she didn't have her own [Stand] to protect herself...
"Who's there? Are you an enemy?" Cocoa questioned to get no response. "If you don't show yourself, I'll use ancient kung-fu techniques only used by masters in the Himalayas!"
No response.
"You got it! HIYA-" Before she can lunge at her bed, the lump moved and the figure underneath revealed himself. "JoJo-kun?"
The boy's face looked tired, as if he just woke up. His face was red entirely and he wore his pajamas along with his nightcap. He turned to look at the girl, panting.
"W-What...?"
"JoJo-kun?" Cocoa headed towards him, looking concerned. "Are you okay?"
"I dunno..." He replied slowly. "I'm coming down..."
"No wait!" She stopped him and put her hand on his head. "You have a fever! WAH!"
She backed away from him much to his displeasure. He sighed and looked at her. "Am I out of work then?"
"Of course you are!" Cocoa told him. "I'm going to tell Takahiro-san you're sick and I'll get medicine. You'll be taken care of by the legendary Nurse Cocoa-chan!"
She began to head out, once she opened the door Joren called out to her.
"Cocoa..."
"Eh?"
"Thank you." He told her gently before rolling the blankets over him. "I'm going back to sleep...sorry if I gotta use your bed..."
"It's okay, I can sleep on the floor anyhow! Just stay there and rest because Nurse Cocoa-chan will save you!" She winked at him before exiting the door. "I'll make you feel well again! If the medicine doesn't work I have a...more secret way to make you feel good..."
As she began snickering to herself, Joren's began blushing profusely.
"I can hear you, you know."
"Oh no! My method of dressing Chino-chan as a nurse also has failed! Uwaaah!" She slammed the door shut. "Sorry I slammed the door!"
Joren simply laughed quietly to himself in response. He tugged the sheets over him, placing the nightcap over his eyes again.
"This smells like Cocoa..." He sniffed the sheets before attempting to fall asleep again.
In the present day, the boy was alone in a classroom with nothing besides the body of someone he trusted, someone who shared his deepest fears were, someone who was there for him in the morning an at night.
Someone he loved deep down.
Now she was there, sitting on the desk adjacent to him. She was still and cold but had a small smile on her face giving some sort of piece. Josuke was able to repair her body to make her at least okay and not remind people her horrible torture before her death.
"Tsumugu..." He gripped his fists angrily, even though he didn't have sharp nails he dug his fingers so deep into his palms they bled. He knew Tsumugu did this to her, it obviously wasn't a rabbit who did this. Only the nimblest of people are able to evade the rabbits, if not [Stand] users. Tsumugu fit all categories, even if [Whiplash] was not present he could easily use his [Ripple] training to evade them and could take on Cocoa easily thanks to experience.
He also had the [Arrow] with him at the time, a sharp enough object to gouge someone's eyes out.
"Cocoa..." He banged his fists on the desk, shaking. "I-I'm so s-sorry..."
Meanwhile, his brother and two friends were outside, watching him. They inhabited the other room next to when Joren was which they familiarized with with each other afterward. They let Joren alone with Cocoa in the other room like a place to grieve by himself.
"C-Cocoa..." Rize grit her teeth. "How...could I let this happen? To one of my own friends no less! My own coworker is dead now!"
"It isn't your fault Rize." Josuke walked beside her. "If anybody should be saying that it should be me. I was there when she died and I was too distracted. I could have saved her!"
This reminded Josuke of what happened with Shigechi and his grandfather. Even though he never personally met Cocoa, he knew how much she meant to his brother. He felt as powerless as when Kira escaped his grasp to disguise himself in a new identity, him not being able to do anything was painful.
"JoJo-kun..." Sharo murmured silently, she was long past crying but felt the extremely hard blow. She had been quiet for the rest of the hour, an aura of concern for her grieving friend. "Maybe I should go in-"
"No." Rize told her. "I want to jump in there also but he looks like he needs time to take this all in. He has been the closest with her of us all."
"Closest?" Sharo sighed to herself. "I supposed you're right as ever, senpai."
"But still, we have to do something. I'm not talking about Tsumugu, I'm talking about myself; I'm not trying to move past what happened but look." Josuke pointed at his fingers, some were sharp already. "We have to find Chino and ends this infection. The horde me and Joren ran into will go across town and here eventually, then it will spread to the next town. I'm not even sure the ocean can keep them from infecting the rest of the world."
Rize nodded, she had sent [PUK] out to search for Chino earlier and is currently awaiting its return. "I've told my [Stand] to attract Chino to us. Good thing we cleared out the school, right Josuke-san?"
In the previous, they chased each rabbit out of the school already, all running off thanks to gunfire and punches which gave the entire school as a fortress they can use but they needed to barricade it to make that work. Also the problem is when [PUK] does come back with news, how many rabbits will Chino have with her? More importantly, how long until the horde comes here to destroy them all? They had to find Chino before that reality can happen and finish this fight once and for all.
"We'll have to wait, [PUK] is an expert tracker even though it's a [Stand]. It will find her eventually." Rize told him. "You said Chino's the leader also, which means she's the most intelligent of them all which worries me."
"Right." Josuke agreed. "We have to fortify this place quickly. I can repair the damage done here and use [Crazy Diamond]'s strength but with the three of us, we can't make a barrier at the front of this place by that time."
"[PUK]'s out also, so we can't ask it to help us obviously. For Joren..." She trailed off, turning to see the boy still staring at Cocoa's body. "...I think we have to leave him alone, he won't move at all. I don't want to tell him to help after everything that's happened, it'll seem distasteful-"
"S-SENPAI! JOSUKE-SAN! LOOK!" Sharo was looking out the window. The two blinked and went to her to see a certain friend of theirs outside waving at them.
"Hi!" It was Chiya who was waving at them, surrounded by her and Cocoa's classmates along with Takahiro and Tippy waving at them. "Over here!
"Chiya-and Takahiro-san and Tippy?" Rize looked very surprised. "How did she-?!" She widened her eyes, seeing another person she thought she'd never see.
"BON?!"
"Hey, yo gal!" He shouted at them in his surfer attire. "You gonna let us in or what, man?"
Once they opened the gates, the group began flooding inside the school. The three were flabbergasted at how Chiya was able to gather up so many people, even Bon as well. They were all at the front of the school, conversing amongst themselves. Chiya went to them, smiling.
"Ah, good to see you're all okay, Sharo-chan and Rize-chan!" She turned to Josuke. "Nice to meet you Josuke-san! We met on the phone, remember?"
"Oh yeah." He rubbed the back of his head. "Well, good to see you also."
"Chiya, how...did you get everyone here?" Rize asked her. "Even Bon! How does he fit into all of this?"
"Actually he's the one that came to me." Chiay informed them. "You can thank him for all of this."
"EH?!"
Bon went to them, his face had a bandage showing his injury was still there. "Yo, this girl's right. It really was me who did this, yo."
"B-But why?" Sharo looked so confused right now. "You were our enemy! Senpai's [Stand] was the one who hurt you in the first!"
Bon smirked. "Well gal, you see I had a little thong called a 'revelation'. You saved my butt from your [Stand] , I decided to help you at least once after I went back home. I flew back to this town again and look what happened! Rabbits everywhere, yo! I saw some guy get mauled by a rabbit and turn into one. Oh snap, my balls dropped when that happened!"
"And then how did-"
"I saw your friend over here, trying to get her girlfriends outta school." He looked at Chiya, everyone else looked at her also with concerned.
"S-Sharo-chan called me...telling me what happened to..." She found it hard to finish the sentence. "...Cocoa. I had to move the girls soon to the other school here because I couldn't keep them safe all by myself, especially since the horde might come." She said in a somber tone. Sharo talked to her about what happened to Cocoa on the phone about her death and Sharo could only hear Chiya cry so hard...
"Then this gal was like 'yo, pass this Rabbit House place' so I did then these two dawgs were upstairs!"
"I'm a rabbit, not a dog." Tippy corrected. "What's with that accent? You sound like some gang member."
Everyone unaware Tippy could talk turned to the rabbit in shock. "D-Did Tippy just-" Rize spoke up in disbelief.
"Yes, I apologize that we've been keeping this secret from everyone but Tippy is my grandfather in a rabbit's body." Takahiro explained much to Sharo, Chiya, Bon and Rize's shock. "JoJo, Chino and Josuke-kun knows that."
"W-What-" Sharo turned to Josuke. "Tippy can talk the entire time?"
"I guess, I'm pretty sure they don't even know why he can."
"But T-Tippy is a female rabbit..." Chiya scratched her head. "D-Does that mean Chino-chan's grandfather became a girl but has the same mind?!"
"Hey! You're making me sound dirty!" Tippy protested their current thoughts. "All I do is pee from my butt! I would have probably done that if my old body was still alive today in a nursing home! Hell, I don't even have the hands to check!"
"That's enough Pops." Takahiro picked up the rabbit and put his hand over his mouth.
"UENXRJXXIDMDIX!" He screamed through the hand. Rize merely sighed, at this rate nothing could surprise her anymore.
"If this day couldn't get more bizarre." She felt a tapping at her shoulder. She turned to see Chiya. "Yeah? What is it?"
"Can I see Cocoa?" Chiya asked. "Sharo told me JoJo-kun's not taking it well but I still want to see her. I haven't told anyone else, I think this is a perfect time to tell everyone?"
"Tell everyone what?" Takahiro interjected, hearing the conversation. "What happened to Cocoa-kun?"
They only responded by looking down in shame.
Once they led everyone inside, they all just went to the room where Cocoa and Joren stayed. Everyone from the students to Bon just took one look and froze in place, seeing Cocoa dead.
"C-Cocoa-chan..." Chiya had tears fall down her face, going on her knees. Their other classmates were shaking with tears pouring down their eyes, some just outright collapsed and wept. Takahiro and Tippy were trembling, Bon had his mouth agape.
"W-Who...did this?" Takahiro grit his teeth. "Cocoa-kun...you repaired her, didn't you Josuke-kun?"
"Yes." He answered. "I don't wanna say how we found her but I wasn't able to heal her in time. Joren stayed with her until the end."
"Damn." Bon dropped his persona, seeing how serious this was. "She wasn't killed by a rabbit since she wouldn't be here. It...was Tsumugu or one of his minions, wasn't it?"
Chiya's look then directed to Bon, staring at him before her face morphed into one of pure rage.
"G-Get...out..."
"Eh?"
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" She shouted, tears falling down her face. "YOU'VE DONE WHAT YOU NEEDED TO, GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!"
"C-Chiya-chan..." Sharo went to her, everyone was staring at the scene before them and saw the usually calm Chiya become so angry. "Calm yourself, it isn't his fault-"
"SHUT UP SHARO!" She suddenly shouted at her. "Cocoa-chan was my friend! When you left for your prestigious school, we've never been further apart!"
"Chiya-"
"Don't make me quiet! Cocoa-chan was there when you weren't! How are you supposed to tell me to calm down when you left me! It doesn't matter how close you live, it doesn't matter how long we knew each other! All I know is YOU WEREN'T THERE!"
There was this silence afterward, many people around them had their hands over their mouths, Josuke and Rize had their mouths agape, Tippy and Takahiro just silently listed as Bon had tinges of guilt on his face. Chiya huffed after letting all those words out. Sharo just stared, backing away slowly.
"C-Chiya..." Tears began falling down. "I-I'm sorry!" Sharo began running through the crowd of girls, pushing anyone out of the way as she cried. She kept on running further into the hallway until she wasn't visible to anyone anymore.
"Chiya!" Rize angrily turned to her. "What the hell was all that about?!"
Chiya remained silent, wiping the tears from her eyes. All eyes were on her and she can only reply with a look of subsiding anger.
That was until she felt a hand on her shoulder. The girl turned to see it was Joren who held her, looking at her in the eyes.
"Chiya. Don't blame Bon for anything and don't lash out on Sharo for this." He said to her, no emotion in his voice or face. "Please make up with her."
"But-"
He slapped her.
Everyone flinched, seeing the boy suddenly smack Chiya hard across the face. The girl stared at the boy who struck her and he still held the same expression.
"Look at Cocoa." He opened the door further to show her peacefully resting body on the desk. "Do you want her to see you've become like this? I'm the one who's depressed right now, I don't want another unhappy person in my vicinity."
"JoJo-"
"Make up with her right now or so help me I will make you be with Cocoa again!" He outright threatened her. "Hurry up and all of you go other places! All this noise is annoying me!"
He slammed the door, leaving even more agonizing silence, Chiya rubbed her cheeks feeling some blood falling down her face. She then widened her eyes.
"S-Sharo!"
She ran through the crowd of girls and followed her friend's direction quickly. Then everybody looked at each other, having many complicated feelings for what just happened.
"Sorry to break everybody's mood, yo." Bon stopped the silence. "But we gotta find a way to prepare ourselves for rabbits, man."
Josuke nodded. "This guy is actually right. We can't be mopping in this depression here. We have to barricade the school before the rabbits get here."
"R-Rabbits?" Everyone spoke out in unison.
"All of you know what [Stands] are, the one who caused all these rabbits to run around is a girl named Kafuu Chino who's Sir Kafuu's daughter over here."
"Sir? I've never been called that since the army days." Takahiro scoffed. "Josuke-san here is correct, my daughter gained a [Stand] this morning and turned into a monster which leads us to our current situation. Rize-kun's [Stand] is trying to find her as we speak. If we defeat my daughter then it's likely everyone's infection will be lifted after."
"But it won't be easy." Josuke continued. "Chino will probably be surrounded by many of the people she turned. All the rabbits are still people however so we can't use lethal force and Chino is also the most intelligent of all the rabbits, she may even call the horde once she spots this school."
"In the end, we have to fortify the school until then." Rize finished. "We need to cover all fronts before then. Josuke-san doesn't have enough time, he's infected so we have to hurry. Find whatever furniture, piece of wood, anything to block the walls and the gates with before then. Are you with me or not, soldiers?!"
"YES I AM!" All the girls shouted, raising their fists. Takahiro began nostalgically remembering when Rize's father had the same optimism as her.
"Um...excuse me!" A girl raised her hand. "What do we call this Chino-chan's [Stand]?"
"I already have an idea." Josuke came forward. "[Scary Monsters], at this rate I can't find a more fitting name."
Then afterward, they all left to go pillage classes to find things to barricade the school with. There was a countdown now all looming over them and they had to hurry.
"S-Sharo-chan?" Chiya called out, hoping to find her friend in a darkness. The guilt of her words hurt her more than how hard Joren's slap was but she deserved it for what she did. She looked around the room, hoping for a response. "I guess she's not here-"
She heard a distant sob. The moment she heard that she headed to the direction of the voice within the room despite the room being an auditorium most likely. Chiya searched in the dark room, wondering where the girl was. Eventually she bumped onto the stage of the auditorium and climbed on top of it.
"Sharo-chan! Where are you?!" The sobs were becoming closer. Eventually she felt the curtains of the stage and the cries were in earshot. She turned to the direction of the sky and saw the outline of her friend by the curtains. "Sharo!"
"G-Get away from me C-Chiya-chan..." The blonde told her, wiping her nose with the curtains. "I-I didn't know that's how you felt...I'm a terrible f-friend. I was so s-stupid for not seeing you like this."
"S-Sharo, I-"
"No, you're right. I-I've been too caught up with school, my job, JoJo-kun...everything. I haven't given you enough attention. You made me realize it, it's too late-"
"No, Sharo-chan, I was wrong!" Chiya apologized profusely. "I was so angry that Cocoa-chan died and lashed it out on that man and you! I was stupid, stupid, stupid for saying all these things!"
"Chiya-chan-"
"Look. I really have been lonely after you went to this school." Chiya admitted. "Whenever I came back home, you always said you were too busy working on studying every time I've invited you to hang out. After you were training with JoJo-kun and started to have a job, I've been seeing you less and less. The only times we saw each other when a [Stand] user was involved!"
Sharo remained silent, taking in every single word as she wiped her tears away with the curtain.
"Even thought that is what I felt, I'm sorry for not understanding what position you were in, how much this school means to you, how I said all those things so angrily." She took a pause. "Cocoa-chan was next to me when you weren't...n-now she's gone. I'm...so guilty not being there when she died, I felt like another friend by my side left me..."
There was a silence between them. "Sharo-chan, I am so sorry for what I said to you, I'm so sorry to Cocoa-chan that I wasn't there, I'm sorry at Bon who I yelled, I'm sorry for everyone who's scared and I'm not helping the mood at all, I'm very sorry for JoJo-kun, he looks so alone and we can't help him."
"..."
"You don't have to forgive me for what I said but I can't stand you to see you cry. So please, can you-" Sharo suddenly hugged Chiya. The brunette paused, taking a moment to take it in.
"S-Sharo-chan? Why are you hugging m-me?" She croaked out, tears falling down her face again. "I-I thought that-"
"It's okay." Sharo comforted her. "After you said all that, I think I want to be a better friend to you."
"W-We're still friends?"
"Of course. Nothing separates us, okay?" It was a second later that Chiya began weeping into her shoulder. Sharo still held her, not letting go.
"Okay, move the chairs over there!" Tippy instructed to some girls who placed the chairs on top of the walls. Josuke was fusing the furniture to the walls with [Crazy Diamond] to make more non-lethal barricades surrounding the school, enough to make sure no rabbits can stack themselves on top of each other and climb over the wall World War Z-style.
"Why is that rabbit talking?" One girl asked her friend.
"After everything today, I've seen enough in my young life." Her friend replied. "Besides a dick of course."
"Bon-kun, can you help me with this?" Takahiro asked the man who nodded.
"Sure thing, man!"
"Please don't call me 'man'."
"Alright, Mr. K!"
"Bon-san! Bon-san!" Bon dropped what he was holding, making Takahiro flinch and attempt to juggle the large table in his hands.
"Yes, gurl-" He blinked, seeing Chiya. "Oh, it's you." He didn't sound a bit hostile to her, just curious seeing how she was panting. "You okay?"
"Y-Yes, I'm fine." She wiped the sweat off her face. "Turns out the school is bigger than I thought." She then looked up at him. "I'm sorry!"
"Eh?"
"I'm sorry for yelling at you! I know you had nothing to do with any of this!" She began apologizing to him. "I'm thankful you've went all this way to help us. Please forgive me for lashing out at you!"
She went begging on her knees. Bon simply laughed in response at her attempts at saying sorry. "Hahahahahaha! Wow! Just wow! You're on your knees just to say sorry? You Japanese have more problems than I thought. Get up!"
Chiya stood up and Bon placed his hand on her head. "Look, I know you were a bit unstable and you're in puberty! Lots of girls are moody thanks to their periods and all." He smiled at her, letting his hand off her hair. "Look, no hard feelings, okay?"
He reached his hand out to shake. Chiya looked at the hand before smiling.
"No hard feelings." She shook the hand also.
"B-Bon...h-help me you b-bastard!" Takahiro was being crushed by the table he had to hold. Chiya then sent out [Snow Halation] to help push the table off him.
"Where's your friend...Sharo was it?" Bon asked her. "She's kinda missing, yo."
"Don't worry, she's helping another friend out."
Joren was still staring at Cocoa's body. He was frozen, not being able to do anything but look at his failure to save his friend. If he didn't become so hysterical then perhaps none of this would have happened.
You failed...
You could have saved her but your own fear stopped you...
You're pathetic.
"Cocoa-" He tried to speak out but couldn't. Joren already knows how much of a failure he was so there was no point in saying anything. He remained silent, looking down in shame for the next minute.
At least until the door opened.
"JoJo-kun?" It was Sharo, looking at him. Joren turned to her but then went back to looking downwards at Cocoa's direction again.
"Go away."
"I'm...just here to tell you that everyone's working outside. Rize-senpai's [Stand] is looking for Chino-chan and bringing her here. She probably has a large army with her so we have to fortify the school when that happens."
"Did you make up with Chiya?"
She remained silent a bit before nodding. "Yes, I did. She's apologizing to Bon-san also."
"Good." He glanced at her. "Is that everything you wanted to say?"
"Um..." She tried to find a reply but failed to. Sharo saw the beautiful eyes of her friend, they were empty like his will to live was taken from him. Bags were under his eyes, tired from crying. His hands had blood drip down from them, some dried but some still fresh. "Your arm..."
"Don't worry about it-"
"No. You might get an infection, no [Hamon] can stop that from happening."
"Fine." He answered, giving up. "I'm too tired to use it on myself."
Sharo went towards him and grabbed his hands, she began [Hamon] breathing and held both of his bloodied hands with her own as she began pouring the energy onto them. She looked up at him, only seeing the boy she called friend look down at his palms.
"There." She healed his wounds, being a bit disgusted by the blood now on her own hands. "Ew. It's all sticky..."
"I guess it is..." He blinked once the girl was staring at him. "...why are you looking at me?"
"This isn't you." She told him, straight in the face. "The JoJo I know wouldn't look so depressed after someone died. You actually like killing from what I heard from Chiya and Cocoa-chan."
"Sharo, I enjoy killing my enemies, not killing the people I care for..." His arms retreated back to him. "...I...I killed her, I killed Cocoa-"
"That isn't true, it was Tsumugu-san! It isn't your fau-"
"IT IS!" He snapped at her. "I WAS THERE WHEN SHE DIED! I HELD HER WHEN SHE SAID HOW SCARED SHE WAS! I COULD HAVE AT LEAST HEALED HER ENOUGH UNTIL JOSUKE COULD COME BUT I WAS TOO SCARED TO DO IT! SHE DIED IN MY ARMS, CRYING! YOU WEREN'T THERE SHARO, YOU WEREN'T-"
"JOJO!" She shouted back at him. "I know your sad, I'm sad...I'm so angry and sad also but you can't hurt yourself and tell yourself you're a failure for all of this!"
Joren tried to look at her in the eye but couldn't. Instead he looked at Cocoa after calming his breathing.
"You know the first time I killed someone?"
"Huh?"
"It was a few years after I met my old man." He began telling her. "I was at home, eating food like a fatass. Then suddenly our butler came in, he was sweating like he was fountain. He told me...my old man was shot..."
Sharo blinked in surprise, his father has been shot? Of course, he's been through worse and lived but still.
"Apparently some assassin, I couldn't even remember the name. Of course, they got him to a hospital and even my sister was crying, my old woman knows he'll make it through but...I was so angry. I got so worried and angry at the assassin for doing that shit and getting away with it I decided to track him down...didn't even visit him at the hospital! Funny, protecting someone by pushing them away."
"JoJo-kun..."
"I hunted the fucker down. I hired some detectives to track him down for me and they did. Turns out where he lived was the rundown building with some hobos." He smiled solemnly. "Turns out he some kid, barely out of his twenties. He got kicked out of his home and lived with them. He got hired by some rival or something to kill my old man for some money. The kid did the job to bring some money not for himself but everyone in the building..."
"Then what happened?"
"I killed him." He replied. "I grabbed his body with my tiny hand and threw him out the window. I only found out by taking his diary and reading it. I was so angry with the thought of losing someone close to me and being alone again, I took it out on him. God...I still hear his neck breaking."
"Did anyone find out-"
"Yeah, my old man did but never told anyone else. We had more than enough money to make all those homeless in the buildings have homes again afterward." He turned to her. "In the end, Joseph Joestar taught I have to hear the other side of the story when I could but I learned something else entirely."
Sharo remained silent after listening to the story.
"W-What?"
"I'm selfish." He answered. "I'm too afraid to be left alone, I'm too afraid to be abandoned, I'm too afraid to lose anyone. In the end, I push everyone away just to keep myself from being left behind" He then finally looked at Sharo again. "This is the kind of person I am, someone who's selfish enough to keep people who care for him in his grasp. Now, that selfishness killed one of them...hasn't it?"
Sharo stared at him, seeing how much pain and guilt he was going through at last. She began going closer to him with a determined face.
"Why are you still here?" The boy grit his teeth. "Even if you don't believe me, I won't leave this room."
"No, I believe you." She replied. "You're one of the most selfish person I've ever met, not to mention perverted, stupid, arrogant also."
He frowned, wondering if that was meant to help him. "That doesn't help-"
"No, even though you're all those things, you're one of the bravest and kindest people I've ever meet also." She held grabbed and held his hand. "Do you even know why you went to this town?"
"To recover the objects Tsumugu stolen and stop him."
"Exactly! You did that all by yourself. They could have sent anyone there but you went on your own! If that's not bravery and stupidity combined, I don't know what is." She told him. "Do you know why you helped Cocoa-chan go to the Rabbit House?"
"She was cute...and I needed directions."
"Exactly! You were both selfish and nice during that time!" Sharo told him again. "Why did you teach me [Hamon]?"
"To teach you to protect yourself-"
"No." She stopped him. "It wasn't that. You could have just left me alone and told me to stay out of it but you didn't. Instead you went through the effort with me just to teach me how to learn the [Nipple]-"
"[Ripple]."
"[Ripple]! You didn't do that to protect me, you did it so I don't feel left out, didn't you?" She asked him. Joren nodded in response. "Hah! You did!"
"Yes, I did so you'd feel good about yourself. I couldn't stand a cute girl like yourself feel bad because she lacks a few things everyone has." He said. "I'm not talking about breast size."
Sharo smiled, seeing him give a small smirk to her. "Why did you help Bon-san even though he was an enemy..."
"Because-" He paused, now he was wondering why he helped the man. He could have easily left the man to his fate with [PUK] but didn't. [PUK] would have returned to Rize anyway so why did he save him?
"Because?"
"I...someone told me all life was worth something." He answered her. "That was Cocoa."
"Last question." She said to him. "Why were you so scared of losing Cocoa?"
Joren felt like an arrow just pierced the armor that was his emotions. He began shaking, gripping his fists as tears began flowing down his face without him even knowing it.
"I-I love her..." He answered, crying. "I-I love her...I didn't realize u-until now. I love her s-smile, I love her stupidness, I loved how nice she was to everyone..." He placed a hand on his face. "...I was s-so afraid of losing her t-that I...I..."
Sharo then hugged the boy. He tried not letting all the tears fall but couldn't.
"W-Why...do you c-care so much for me? It was my fault, a-all of this!"
The blonde looked up at his face, smiling warmly. "Because you're better than you think you are." She cupped his face with her hand. "I asked you all those questions to show you aren't just selfish. You are a kind person who never asked for anything in return. You have so many flaws (including pervertedness and laziness) but that doesn't stop you from trying."
"S-Sharo, I'm-"
"You don't let people in because you don't want them to share the same hurt, do you?" She wiped away the tears from his eyes. "You can't help but feel lonely but you try to keep people out from yourself. This kinda contradicts what you feel, doesn't it?"
"Y-Yeah..." He chocked up. "I-It is, i-isn't it?"
"Look." She put her head against his. "Nobody wants to see you beat yourself up. You're our friend, no matter how many times you try pushing everyone out." Sharo told him with care in her voice. "You are still a good person no matter how many mistakes you've made. Cocoa-chan doesn't want to see you beat yourself up like this, does she?"
He began nodding slowly, the tears stopped falling down. "You're right...y-you are so right...I've been doing nothing but sitting her and making myself excuses when I should be helping everyone and make sure Cocoa's death is worth something in the end."
"C'mon then." She stood up and held her hand. "We gotta clean up ourselves and head outside to prepare-"
He immediately grabbed Sharo and pulled her towards him and hugged her tightly. "E-Eh?"
"Thank you, Sharo for everything."
"N-No biggie..." She began blushing profusely. The two let of of their hug afterward and looked at each other. "Do you still blame yourself?"
"Yeah, a lot still but now I have a new purpose." He gave her a look with determination in his eyes. "I will help save this town and make sure Tsumugu pays for what he's done."
"Good but you really have to clean up yourself." Sharo told him. "There's some extra clothes your size in a club that makes clothes here."
"Do you girls have clean showers?" Sharo nodded. "Alright, let's go."
The two walked towards the door of the room, the girl opened it and they walked out. The boy looked at his friend, looking peacefully by the desk at his direction almost as if she was smiling at him. He stared before nodding to himself before closing the door...
"Are you okay now, JoJo-kun?" Cocoa asked the boy, he had thermometer in his mouth and a giant bag of ice on his head. "You kinda don't look happy..."
"You have a bag of ice crushing my head and this stick you jabbed in my mouth. I'm freaking happier than Barney molesting kids!"
"Really?"
"No." He replied. "This thing is crushing my head and this thing on my mouth in uncomfortable."
"Oh." She frowned. "Should I take them off?"
"Nah." He answered much to her surprise." Just...take care of me some more, will you?"
There was a before Cocoa's face broke into a warm smile.
"Sure! Leave it to Nurse Cocoa-chan!" She then took out a syringe. "This is to make sure you're better."
"COCOA, NO." He yelled at her but the needle kept on coming towards him. "NOOOOOOOOO! COCOAAAAAAAAAA-"
TO BE CONTINUED
[Stand] Name: [Snow Halation]
[Stand] User: Chiya Ujimatsu
Destructive Power- D
Speed- B
Range- B
Durability- C
Precision- B
Development Potential- C
Abilities- [Snow Halation] freeze people into perfectly cubed blocks of ice, relative to the height and width of the object or person being frozen. If living things are frozen, they are kept alive within the block and the block of ice is invisible to non-[Stand] users. She can also control the block [Snow Halation] created, being able to move left right, forward, and backwards. However the freezing ability will be resisted by people who were affected by it before, or people who are at least aware of it, being able to broken easily, especially by other [Stand] users.
[Stand] Name: [Crazy Diamond]
[Stand] User: Josuke Higashikata
Destructive Power- A
Speed- A
Range- D
Durability- B
Precision- B
Development Potential- D
Abilities- [Crazy Diamond] can restore or revert objects and organisms to their previous state. It can repair damage, heal injuries, revert chemical changes and revert things to their previous structures (such as making spaghetti go back to being its base ingredients such as noodles and tomatoes). It can also fuse objects together by breaking them and repairing them over each other to fuse them together. It can also warp the restoration to change the structure of the things it's fixing also. However the biggest weakness it has is that it can't heal its own user, or can't heal things that are absolutely destroyed (like an object being erased on a molecular level). It also can't bring the deceased back to life.
I really don't know how well I did Sharo's comfort speech. It took forever to make one that satisfied me but I dunno if that was even good. Also I kinda regret what happened to Cocoa but like Sharo said you can't change that shit.
Can I?
I keep apologizing for these delays but it's redundant by this point. This chapter is a huge drama bomb like what the fuck. I know this feels like bad fanfic melodrama but after at Cocoa shit we needed all that.
Anyway if you like this fic, review, follow, and fav because I'mm gonna get so much backlash.
TO BE CONTINUED