Chapter Two
"Come on, more power than that!"
Karma's toe knocked the ball from beneath his friends shoe with ease.
"Don't need it." Gakushuu muttered, smirking triumphantly as his foot circled swiftly and brought the ball back into his posession. He turned, putting his back between his friend and the ball, feeling him slam into his back before growling and showing restraint.
"What's wrong, you pissed off you can't be violent in sports Karma? You want to kick something other than the ball?" He snickered. "Well you're not gonna get it-"
He kicked the ball, solid in impact before the redhead could run into the goal. To both of their disappointment, they watched as it flew off of the ground and well above the area of target, bouncing off the back wall hard before launching off into the field in the opposite direction.
Karma mocked loudly,"What the hell was that? If you're gonna boast make sure you actually get the point."
He ran for the ball, retrieving it in minutes, passing it to Gakushuu who was still red in the face and huffing when he returned.
"You're not focused. Is your dad pissing you off again?"
The Asano boy swallowed, holding his head high when he groaned. "He's not."
"Well you're not focusing. Fix up or I won't waste my time."
He sucked his teeth resiliently. Karma took a threatening step forward.
"Alright. I'll focus. Shit." He cursed brushing his hair out of his eyes.
Karma snorted, "We'll try that again. If it doesn't get in I'm leaving."
The redhead backed up into the goal so he could intervene as Gakushuu hid his bitter expression and took his aim.
"No problem."
He fired the ball, and to no surprise, it landed in the goal. What did strike him as odd though, was that his goal keeper hadn't made a single move.
Suddenly even more pissed off that he hadn't been taken seriously, he marched up to his friend. "What the he-"
"Good kick." Karma slapped his shoulder roughly, eyes hazy and straight ahead as he walked by him like a zombie in sight of brains.
"Where are you-"
He didn't need to finish his sentence, he already knew the answer to it when he saw a certain girl and her friends walking by.
The coach took no notice of the player that left, leaving his team at an odd number. So, too prideful to admit that he had been ditched, Gakushuu slipped out unnoticed as well. They didn't have long left of their session anyway.
The door to the changing room slammed shut behind him. Ignoring the sight of Karma invading Nagisa's personal space on the way in, he smiled approvingly while facing the other direction when the girl's two friends pushed the boy away and lectured him.
By the time he left the showers, the changing rooms were full. He was surprised to even see his best friend beside the boys. Their eyes met, Karma's thankfully no longer showing that abhorred look of being spellbound.
"Are you sane again?"
Karma nodded, nudging the other out the way so he could step into the shower.
"Nagisa's gonna walk with us today. You okay with that?"
"Sure." He shrugged.
"You can wait outside but don't talk to her if you're alone there."
The door shut on his face without further discussion.
"Your friends really don't like it when I touch you do they? Do you think they're jealous?" Karma asked the awkward question without hesitance.
"I know for a fact that you're neither of my friend's type."
"I wasn't talking about myself Nagisa~"
"Wh-Oh." She shuddered, clearly not wanting to dwell on the idea of her friends being in love with her, "You're not normal, anyone else would be made jealous by that."
"I'm not? I thought you said I was..." Nagisa froze when she felt hot breath against her ear. The third in their group didn't know exactly what was said, but knew that blue eyes wouldn't widen and flicker about frantically for no reason.
Her cheeks pinkened in a way never seen before by Gakushuu and therefore very amusing to him, matching the colour of her lips. "Kar-"
Her hand tried to push him off, but Karma's covered hers, easily over powering her until they were somehow holding hands as he laughed a dark almost sadistic sound.
Gakushuu would have been as terrified as he were concerned but something hot and equally dark had filled up in his chest at the sight.
"How about you not traumatise everyone we pass today, including me." He scoffed, standing between them and making a line to separate them. Despite acting disgusted, their exchange was strangely ... enjoyable to watch. Well, Nagisa's reactions were, Karma's on the other hand made him sick.
"You must be a virgin if seeing this traumatises you. You have a lot to learn little boy."
"Please stop talking. The idea of you and Nagisa doing something like that makes me even sicker."
"Thank you...I-I think." Nagisa muttered.
"Don't worry, that was mainly directed towards Karma. I have no problem imagining you- well um... I wouldn't be disgusted but I-I respect you so.." It wasn't like him to make a blunder like that, but before he knew it, he was getting hotter and hotter in the face with embarrassment.
Much to his relief, Nagisa took it as a joke. "It's fine! I knew that was what you... I knew you would say something decent that's why I said thank you."
They both blushed slightly, but shook it away with nervous laughter.
"I highly doubt what Karma said was true anyway. You have great friends, they care about you but that doesn't make them in love with you."
"I think so too, I'm really glad to have them."
Karma had stopped walking a while ago. He looked at the two from behind, his face was still, almost analytically looking at them, comparing their heights, the way they walked, the way they wore their uniforms and they way they kept taking glances at each other though never while the other was looking.
Suddenly, he wore a cheshire like grin.
The others stopped when they noticed his laughter coming from behind them. Turning to face him, they looked puzzled. Nagisa though looked sceptical.
"What's so funny?" Gakushuu was the one to ask.
He chucked from behind them, somehow sounding even more menacing as he walked over slowly, holding his fingers together like a picture frame to look at them.
"I was just thinking about how well you two get along~ Who would have thought that my own best friend and girlfriend would have so much in common."
There was no anger on his expression. No anger at all. That was the scary part. His words seemed to paralyse the both of them. Anxieties arose as he approached. Somehow his eyes flickering over them - which wasn't concerning before - now felt like the scrutiny of a police officer.
"Now that I see you two together like this, you sure do look good together~" He purred, making the others feel like the air around them was water and they were being circled by a shark.
"In fact, just yesterday you were telling me how pretty you thought she was weren't you Gakushuu, I bet you have feelings for her already, because she is just so very beautiful and you haven't even found out what she's like to kiss yet..." He drawled on.
Regrettably, Gakushuu felt easy and weak as his words took affect, planting traces of arousal and want in his mind that kept on growing.
"K-Karma.." Nagisa intervened, trying to warn the other of what was acceptable. His words had no effect, as usual she had no control.
"That's right, you should kiss her! You would like that wouldn't you Gakushuu? Don't be shy, kiss her. Or maybe she should be the one to make the first move."
He stopped just behind the girl. He wasn't smiling anymore, but the only way she saw this was to look up at him, making their height difference so clear. Making her feel so much tinier, so much more anxious.
"So which of you is it gonna be?" His voice seemed to have lowered an octave. Nagisa's shoulders seemed tensed nervously, like kitten about to be pounced on my a tiger, she bit her lip flinching when Karma's hands caught her neck and turned her back to look at his best friend.
Gakushuu himself was looking away blushing. His chest was heavy with humiliation, and he knew he had to say something, he just couldn't think of what. Or maybe it was that he was too nervous to stand up to his friend while he was acting this way? He couldn't be a coward like this, what could he say that would calm Karma, that would reassure Nagisa...
The boy with strawberry blonde hair hadn't been looking. If he had he could have reacted in time, but he didn't. He also didn't need to have seen the incriminating action to know that Nagisa had been pushed.
She stumbled forward, headed straight for the pavement before she could even scream, before he could reach out to her and before he could ever hope to catch her. She was about to hit the pavement when Karma caught her by the collar of the shirt and yanked her up into his arms.
The girl clung to him weakly, her shoulders still hunched and eyes still shut in fear until the sound of something small and plastic hitting the concrete awoke her.
She pulled back from Karma like he was poison, looking down to reveal that three of the top buttons on her shirt had been pulled free, revealing her innocent white silk vest, unfortunately not high enough to completely cover the smooth pale curve of her chest.
"Why did you do that!?"
Her anger snapped the others from their shock. If only this road had been a little bit busier, someone on the street could have reported the blatant harassment. Now, that pressure rested on Gakushuu's shoulders, still feeling like his respectable best friend's display of behaviour had somehow punched him in the stomach.
"I just brought this...What's my dad going to think?"
The third had nearly gasped at her. She clearly wanted to shout at him for something else, was she too afraid?
"I'm sorry Nagisa." her boyfriend coaxed, looking fully apologetic only to find his acting wasted as Nagisa avoided the boy who had nearly hurt her's gaze to her best ability.
She still hadn't noticed that neither boys had their eyes on her's either. Or the fact that crossing her arms over her chest only proved to push more up into sight.
Karma evilly took this opportunity to trace his fingers lightly from behind her ear onto her soft neck, bringing her wide, vulnerable blue orbs onto his before his fingers made the sudden decline down between her sensitive flash.
"Ah!"
A shock coursed through her, a sudden burst of tingling pleasure but more than anything else, violation. "K-Karma!"
She reacted as if she had been attacked, backing up only to find Gakushuu behind her. The cold left her as he placed his jacket over her shoulders, quickly fastening the first few buttons to cover her sufficiently. Looking over at him from the side, she was unaware that the fear from her face faded with his kind treatment.
She opened her mouth to thank him, but he pulled off of her sharply, taking her by near her elbow and leading her down the pavement with haste.
"Let's try get you home before your Dad comes back."
Karma followed behind them at his own leisurely pace, more than content with the fresh memories of a beautiful bank of expression's and Nagisa clinging onto his arms after he had pulled her back up to occupy him as he did.
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