THIS IS THE END. OMG THIS IS ACTUALLY THE END.
Thanks for everyone that followed this story, and thanks for all the reviews and the love... And I am happy and sad that this has come to an end...
But they are happy, at last!
Like hell.
The moment they were sitting on the train back home he felt so exhausted he could die.
He would have fallen asleep on the spot actually, but yeah, he was stubborn.
He was beginning to clear things up with Midorima, so no way he would be sleeping now.
Yeah okay, some part of him still thought that this was a dream, so the moment he fell asleep this wonderful dream could end. Takao knew his minds well enough to consider this possibility.
The fact that Midorima accompanied him to Kyoto in the first place was weird to begin with. "Ne, Shin-chan. Didn't you said you had business here? With your former captain from the miracles?"
He felt Midorima stir beside him. Shifting uncomfortably for a moment or two before coming to a halt in order to start mumbling. Takao leaned over to grasp what he was saying.
Or in order to hear any sound coming out of his mouth. Midorima was a pretty silent mumbler.
The more he heard, or thought he heard, which didn't matter to him at ALL, the more he started to smile. His smile eventually became a wide grin.
Takao felt his face spilt open. "I see. You lied!"
Takao hugged Midorima's arm out of reflex and happiness.
"I had no choice. What was I supposed to do?" he heard Midorima grumble.
He didn't shake Takao off though, which made Takao just snuggle closer to him, resting his head on Midorima's shoulder.
"What would you have said then if the hospital had not been conveniently in Kyoto?" he teased.
"Shut up, Takao."
"Yeeees~" he hummed.
He closed his eyes in content. Okay, maybe this was not a dream.
And he needed the rest. And maybe if this was a dream, nobody said that it wouldn't continue when he woke up again.
Maybe he actually drowned in his bathtub this morning and was in heaven.
He didn't really care, he was together with Midorima! And he was so damn tired.
"Ne, Shin-chan." Takao said after a while, opening his eyes a bit.
"What?"
"Do you think... birds die if they can't fly anymore?"
He didn't really know why he cared so much about this. It just had been on his mind for a while now, poking him.
If this was some kind of ending because he drowned himself accidently, or if this just was a dream that would come to an end... then he needed to know at least the answer to that question.
"Why should they have to die just because of such a trivial matter?" Midorima answered his question with a question himself. "If they can't fly anymore, then they just learn to walk, that's all."
Takao chuckled to himself. This was Midorima.
This was no dying or wishing dream of his. Takao would never be able to think this positivley, not anymore. And in not in such a Midorima-fashioned way.
He actually said 'trivial'.
"I see... you are right..." was the last thing Takao said before finally drifting off to sleep.
And when he woke up he would wake up next to Midorima. He was certain now.
Birds don't need to die because of such trivial matters, huh? And if they are not able to look after themselves, they'll find someone that takes care of them, don't they, Shin-chan?
OH GOD FORMATING. What did I do? I don't know. Well okay. I decided to just continue with this Story. As in Now PART TWO IZUKI. Or something lame as that. Because that 'Birds die if they can't fly' thing just matches Izuki's part of story just as Takao's story.