:🍥: ➢ 𝙰 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 (𝚂𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚖𝚊 𝚘𝚗𝚎-𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚜)

Winter Holidays bring Bloody Flowers

I bully Kokichi in dying too much in angst.
So he won't be dying
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Hanahaki!Nondespair!AU

Kokichi didn't know when it happened. Hell, he never expected it to happen at all. At the beginning of the school year, Kokichi felt none of the symptons, but after the 3rd week, his throat became dry and scratchy, followed by his appetite. Which wasn't big to begin with, but it was worse. Kokichi used to have Nagito as his comfort, being able to have him as some sort of support

Kokichi was born with a weak heart that would become more and more fatal as he grew up. But Kokichi was too scared to do surgery to fix his heart, even when Nagito had enough money. So Nagito would try and do the best thing he could do by comforting Kokichi whenever he felt a huge sense of physical pain.

But during the summer, Nagito flew out with his newly wedded husband, Hajime to their honeymoon. And Kokichi guesses that the wedding was his luck factor in, because their plane's engine stopped working when they were in the middle of the ocean, and it soon crashed into the deep blue waters.

Even when Kokichi knew that Nagito had no chance of surviving, he was still angry at him. Though the anger was mainly built upon his betrayal that Nagito would leave him the same way their parents left them, leaving Kokichi in an empty home with an empty stomach. And so, within that empty void, a flower started to bloom, it was pretty to say the very least, but of course the petals were the color of red. Even though in real life, the blood in this world was a hot pink, sometimes in fictional settings, mostly detective movies, the blood was a deep red. Adding more to the horror of a dead body.

And it was the same red color that Kokichi noticed when he coughed up a petal. In was a rose, and god Kokichi hated the fact that the flower was a rose. Even though it was his crush's favorite flower, Kokichi despised the flower. Because it was painful for him, with the thorns being part of the stem of the sickness growing within him and tearing him apart bit by bit.

Now Kokichi was laying his back against the wall, his track jacket noticeably a bit pink if you squint at it enough. He excused himself from P.E because he reported that he was feeling a little bit sick and lightheaded, and it was until Kokichi started bursting into a coughing fit, that drew out blood that the P.E. teacher decided to excuse him finally.

His reputation isn't helping his case since no one would believe him, but what could he do when he made a name for himself that made people cringe at the mention of it. And when Kokihi noticed the shadow approaching him, he saw the source of his problem. Shuichi looked at Kokichi in a worried expression, holding a napkin.

"Are you feeling alright, Kokichi?" asked Shuichi and Kokichi wanted to respond with "Do I look alright to you?" But his raspy voice can muffle a lot of the words he can say, he didn't want to drive Shuichi away from him, and he just felt extremely tired.

So Kokichi just slumped against the wall. Shuichi frowned when he got no response and plopped a seat beside Kokichi. "Not to be rude and all, but you look like a wreck." said Shuichi, and Kokichi couldn't even argue back. There were noticeable eye bags and dark circles on his face, his eyes were more glossy than usual, and his cheeks were hallow. Not to mention the bit of blood that was dripping down his chin when he started going on a coughing fit, in which Shuichi instantly made Kokichi cough into the napkin, cringing a little bit when the metallic smell hit his nostrils.

Kokichi was the equivalent to a corpse at this point, and people might as well excuse him for a zombie considering his sluggish movement at times, the polar opposite of his usual happy-go-lucky demeanor he put up for himself. And he would sometimes just stop making comebacks, which was just recently and Kaito stopped insulting Kokichi since the purple-haired male judge stopped responding and looked like every ounce of life was sucked out of him. A depressing sight for everyone who knew him, no one noticed his importance when the halls became all gloomy and lifeless no matter how much the teachers tried pumping the kids up.