Battle High: Not your Average High School

Battle High: Not your Average High School Chapter 15

Battle High: Not your ordinary High School

Battle fifteen

planning

Kirai shook his head, "No, I wouldn’t have! I’m too scared. Haven’t you noticed I’m a total coward?!," he asked with a serious tone.

Lilly glared at him through half closed eyes and yawned again, she would have said more if she hadn't laid her head back onto Cloud and fell asleep again. Kirai rolled his eyes at Lilly after she went back to sleep, her threats were rather pointless since he hadn’t gotten a lot of training from Sora or Artemis, although he figured that training would happen sooner or later. He turned onto his back as he listened to the silence of the cave, everyone was asleep, and everyone else had fallen asleep at different hours of the night leaving Kirai all by himself in the night with his thoughts.

Kirai glared at the ceiling as he laid on his back in the cave lost in his own thoughts in the everlasting silence. Another night of sleeplessness. This random insomnia was driving him crazy. He pulled on his hair, an annoyed habit he had obtained over the last few years of not getting sleep.

"I need sleep, dammit!," he yelled to himself. Nobody else woke up, the damned heavy sleepers. Kirai sighed and tried to think of something that would make him fall asleep. Eventually he did, but instead of a dream, he had more of a flashback.

~10 years ago~

"Kirai Shizukana! Get down here!!"

Taiki gave his older brother a worried look, "Why's daddy mad?"

Kirai shook his head and stood up.

"I probably did something dumb. Stay here okay?," Kirai told him, lightly patting his head. He exited his room and descended down the stairs. Despite his command, Taiki followed him down with a scared expression.

"But you didn’t do anything; you've been with me Kira," Taiki said in a scared tone.

Kirai rolled his eyes at his nickname, "I know but he might think I did something. And I told you to stay up there."

"But I don’t want you to get hurt, Kira," the younger one told him pleadingly.

Kirai gave his brother a sad smile, "I’m not gonna get hurt. Go back up okay? I’ll be right back, I promise."

With tears threatening to break from his eyes, Taiki hurried back up the stairs. Kirai sighed and walked into the living room.

'He knows...,' Kirai thought sadly. All the effort he'd given into making sure his little brother didn’t know about their father's punishment methods. Gone because Taiki was too smart to ignore every time he got a black eye.

"What did I do this time?" Kirai asked, rather annoyed and knowing what would eventually happen.

"Your school called," Kirai's heart instantly stopped.

"You got into another fight, did you?" not saying anything, Kirai glared at his father. The man walked over to his son.

"You broke his arm and his other wrist. How are you even strong enough to do that? You’re freaking seven years old!" Kirai’s father shouted.

"Maybe it’s because I ‘practice’ fighting with you," Kirai said bravely, not looking away.
About four milliseconds passed before a loud smack echoed through the room as Kirai was slapped across the face.

"Don’t even dare talk to me like that again. They're making us pay the bill. Do you know how much money that is?" his father questioned him.

Ignoring the stinging of his cheek, Kirai replied with, "They should really get insurance."