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This is the first chapter, I hope you enjoy~
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Warning:Quite colorful language, OOCness and hinted OgaFuru. And maybe a bit of KaoruFuru(?)
Disclaimer:For the characters' joy, I don't own them or this manga/anime. The original story belongs to Tamura Ryuuhei.
Let's start from ONE
Oga was sitting on the floor, reading some manga quietly as Beel played with demonic toys a few meters away from him.
As silence and peace was reigning in Oga's room, the door slammed open, roughly interrupting both the small demon and his contractor.
"Oga!"
The one who made all the noise at his entrance, was of course none other than Furuichi.
"Hey, don't go slamming other's door like that." said Oga boringly as he resumed reading.
"You-! You ass, do you have any idea of what I had to go trough because of you?" bursted out Furuichi as he leaned against the door, breathing a bit heavily after shouting so loudly.
Oga lowered his manga. Furuichi raised his voice, but the brunette didn't hear anger in it.
"What."
"You remember the delinquents you run into a few days ago? They totally told you that they would come back to get their revenge, right? And guess what, they came today. And you, you colossal idiot, of all days, had to pick today to go home earlier!"
Furuichi stomped towards the bed and then sat with his legs crossed on top of it.
"And why the hell didn't you tell me you were going home?"
Oga sighed before answering "Not my fault if you were loitering around."
"Ha? I was in the bathroom! Think of the surprise I got when I came back and heard that you were already out of the school-gates."
Oga wore a bored expression as he unclog his right ear. "So?"
"…What?" asked back the silver-head.
"I'm asking why are you saying all this. They were small fry, you shouldn't have had problems dealing with them."
"That's not the point here, idiot~." said Furuichi as he calmly picked up the manga Oga was reading and laid chest down on his friend's bed.
Both knew that what happened was nothing serious, and that Furuichi just wanted to complain a bit, not actually blaming Oga or anything.
Oga himself felt a bit bad for leaving his friend behind, that's why he let him have the manga he was reading.
Then his eyes landed on Furuichi's face, noticing something that surely wasn't there that morning.
"Hey, did you get hurt?" asked Oga, his voice slightly sharper than normal.
Furuichi turned his head towards his friend as he brushed his fingers on his cheek, where a new band-aid laid.
"Hm? Oh, this? Yeah, just a cut, nothing serious. Those idiots had knifes and one of them particularly liked to swing his around."
Oga felt a tight hold on his chest, a sensation that he already felt before, something that was hunting him since he met Furuichi…guilt.
«Damn, I shouldn't have left earlier today» the brunette bit his dry lips, «Next time I see those punks, I-»
"But thank God I was saved~" sighed Furuichi in relief.
"What?"
"Just so you know, there were a lot of them, and some were even armed. Just when I was in a pinch, that person came to help me, beating all of them." Furuichi's voice sounded more energetic than earlier, almost happy.
"Who." Oga didn't mean to sound angry, but he could stop his tone from becoming more bitter and somehow aggressive.
Furuichi normally would pick up such changes in Oga's behavior, but apparently he was too engrossed thinking about that someone.
"Kaoru-san."
Just one word. Oga could't believe how just one simple word spoken from his friend could shake him so much.
He didn't even pick up the name, what his brain registered was Furuichi's soft and fond voice, as well as his faint shy smile.
Oga couldn't quite give a name to the sensation he was feeling when he was looking at his friend's face. All he knew was that it was something raw and dangerous.
"Who's that?" asked the brunette, trying to erase that burning feeling in his stomach.
"What do you mean who? It's Kaoru-san, come on!" replied the silver-head indignant.
"Dunno." saw Oga's simple but honest reply.
"Seriously?" asked Furuichi as he sweat-dropped.
"What, I know them?" Oga raised an eyebrow.
"Of course you do! Kaoru-san goes to our same school, you surely have already met and talked. Come on, try to remember." encouraged Furuichi, seeing that his friend really didn't recall.
«Not that he's all that good at remembering people to begin with…» added silently Furuichi.
"Mmmm…" Oga held his chin as he pondered for a while, deep in thoughts, trying to dust trough his memory.
Then he opened one of his eyes, peeking at Furuichi. "Hints?"
"So…Kaoru-san is a third-year at our school. Very tall. Kaoru-san has an unusual but stylish hair-style. Not very talkative, the serious type. Kaoru-san is strong, very skilled in combat. Gives off that cool-aura. Good-looking. Quiet but very kind. Kaoru-san is…how do you say it, very-"
"Alright, stop." Oga interrupted Furuichi by placing a hand in front of his friend's face.
"Oh, did you remember who Kaoru-san is?" asked the tactician sparkly-eyed and cheerfully, almost too cheerfully.
"No…" was Oga's flat reply.
Again, he felt something rise within him. It was a cold sensation, not anger nor regret, it was something bitter in-between.
«I shouldn't have asked…» thought Oga, thinking that if he had left things on their own, this certain Kaoru-san could have been just a face-less passer-by that helped Furuichi, but after hearing his friend speak so fondly of this person, Oga couldn't help but picture this Kaoru, to acknowledge their existence and to admit that this person meant something to Furuichi.
Furuichi was usually a cheerful one, so it wasn't usual for him to tell Oga about the people he met, but he never spoke about something or someone with such a warm voice, not even when talking about the girls that he liked so much. After all their years of friendship, that was definitely a first.
Even in all his inner confusion, Oga could tell two things. First, he knew that right now his mind was a mess; and second, that he didn't like hearing Furuichi bringing up that Kaoru.
"Kaoru-san's very nice, even gave me this ban-aid!" announced Furuichi proudly.
Oga hummed upon hearing that. Then he gestured Furuichi to come closer, and the silver-head did, leaning in closer towards his friend.
"What?"
Without any warning whatsoever, Oga got hold of the band-aid and peeled it off from Furuichi's skin with one neat shift.
"Ouch-!" was Furuichi's pained protest.
"It's deeper that I thought." commented the Mad-Dog as he placed a finger over the fresh burning wound and pressed his nail against the reddened skin.
"Ouch ouch ouch! What are you doing Oga, it hurts!" cried out Furuichi as he slapped the offending hand away.
"Go to a doctor tomorrow." commanded the brunette as he bend down to get the kit under his bed.
"No need, it's not so serious." said Furuichi as he sat back up.
"Go." commanded Oga as he threw a new band-aid into Furuichi's face, a bigger and definitely better one.
"If you dare show your face to school tomorrow, I'll kick your ass so that you'll feel like going to the hospital for real." his voice was not particularly angry or threatening, but it surely didn't leave space for a 'no' as an answer.
With Furuichi's voice on the background complaining and whining about not wanting to go, Oga recalled that name.
«…Kaoru…»
Omake
Oga laid on the floor of his room, with his back against the bed as he was covering his eyes with his forearm.
He somehow didn't want to open his eyes, but as he kept them closed, he couldn't help but recall Furuichi's face.
As much as he was glad that his friend was happy, he couldn't erase that bitter taste in the back of his tongue.
«I thought that…»
Then Oga lowered his arm, letting the white light blind his vision.
«…I was the only one who knew that soft voice, that bright smile and those sparkling eyes…»
Oga bit down hard on his lower lip as his brows furrowed.
He knew that Furuichi was quite an outgoing and friendly one, and truthfully he was perfectly fine with it. After all, as long as he had the complete monopoly on some parts of Furuichi, he was fine with it.
But now…
«…Those eyes…» Eyes that looked at him, as if he was the most awesome hero and villain at the same, eyes that sparkled in admiration for him, for him only.
«…That smile…» A bright, cheekily but bashful smile, that was almost a smirk, one that wasn't only for show and that was displayed only to him.
«…and that voice…» Oga sometimes doubted to be a true sadist, not because he enjoyed beating his enemies half-dead, but because whenever he saved Furuichi and his friend would thank him, in that whispered, cracked, almost desperate but still tankful voice, he enjoyed it. And Oga felt even better when he got hurt while protecting the silver-head, seeing his friend with the grateful, indebted face made him feel damn good. The more broken Furuichi seemed, the more Oga's grin widened and the stronger the shiver ran down his back.
The voice so soft with which Furuichi called out to him…he couldn't help but label it as his property.
"Fuck." Oga couldn't stop himself from cursing when he realized that all those things that were for him only, now where directed towards someone else.
"Buu?" Beel's voice broke the delinquent out of his trance.
The child crawled in his direction and was now sitting in front of him.
"Hey Bell…" Oga looked at the little demon with tired and almost empty eyes "You think I should go see this Kaoru?"
It was 100% a question, but he didn't actually want a reply.
Oga frowned deeply, thinking that he felt conflicted towards this person that Furuichi held so dear. He wanted to meet this Kaoru but at the same time he didn't want to even hear such name ever again.
"Ah daa!" Beel shouted while holding his thumb up, overflowing with confidence.
Oga stared astonished at the sight in front of him, and then smiled.
"Heh, you're right. A man must take things head-on."
The human patted the child's green head, as the Beel giggled delighted.
"Alright, let's go find out who this Kaoru is!"
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