Be Happy || Tokyo Revengers ||

Chapter 9

"Zeno, what the hell are you doing?" Shiro asked, clearly used to his weird antics. He was staring at her, sitting in front of her desk.

"You just seem off lately." He started. "It's weird."

An irked mark appeared on her forehead, "I'm a human too! Speaking of weird, you've been coming here too often instead of your own class. What's the deal?"

He leaned back into the chair and had his arms behind his head. "I'm bored."

"Well, go with your squad to beat up people or whatever then. Stop bothering me." She huffed, looking outside in annoyance.

"I was hoping to have a fight with you but you kept staring at nothing and being all weird!" He whined.

Shiro sighed and laid down her head onto the table. It was true, she had too much on her mind with Baji's situation and the new 3rd division captain too. She doesn't trust him and she don't know why.

"Say," She started, "What will you do if one of your closest friend decides to turn on you? Would you fight them?"

"Is this about the 1st division captain, Baji?" He asked. She nodded and he took a moment to gather his thoughts. "I guess I would want to know his reason for turning against me and drag him back. If he struggle, then I would knock him out then drag him away."

She blinked at his answer. "Okay?"

"Genius am I right? No need to thank me, Akashi. I've received a lot of praise so you don't have to." He continues to have his own monologue.

"Whatever you say, Zeno."

***

The school had ended so Shiro and Mitsuya were sitting on the bench of the park.

He had his headphones on his head, listening to songs while Shiro just stared off in space. She had bags under her eyes because she can't sleep due to her worrying about her friend.

Mitsuya sighed as he pulled down his headphones, "You need to rest for tomorrow's big fight."

"Yeah..." She absentmindedly replied making Mitsuya held both of her cheeks and turned to face him. "Takashi?" She was taken aback by his action.

"Stop worrying about it. We are all in this together and we will take Baji back." He spoke calmly.

"You do know that Toman doesn't let a traitor off so easily, right?" She sighed, leaning into his touch. He let his thumbs caressing her cheeks, "We'll just have to convince Mikey."

"Hmm." She let her eyes closed, and Mitsuya stared at her face, analysing all her features with a flushes cheeks. His heart began to accelerate as he slowly lean down to her, his mind was fuzzy, letting his body took control.

Just as he was about to touch her lips with his, he backed away. He shouldn't be doing this. He can't take advantage of her, he knew her heart belongs to that person even though she doesn't seem to know it herself.

He quickly composed himself before Shiro opened her eyes lazily. "When's the meeting start again?"

"In another 3 hours."

"Okay."

She pulled back from his hold and stood up with him follow. She then held his hand and gave him a smile, "Let's walk around for the time being." 

They were walking around the neighborhood to pass the time. Mitsuya was enjoying the warmth of her hand as he let her dragged him around.

"Look Takashi!" She pulled him towards a jewellery shop where they showcase jewellery by the window. "This," She pointed to one of the necklace that have the same hair colour as his hair with a grin, "It reminds me of you."

Her statement made him blushed as he put his free hand behind his neck in shyness. "R-really?" She hum in response before pulling him to another shop.

Soon enough, the meeting will start and they made their way to the destination, still holding hands together.

"I..." She started, "I don't want to fight Baji." He was one of Shiro's closest friends. She know he will never turn his back on them without a reason. Her gripped on Mitsuya hand was tighten, "Is there really no way to help him?"

Mitsuya squeeze her hand back in reassurance, "Don't worry, whatever you want to do, I'll support you. For now, let's see what Mikey have to say about it."

"Thank you, Takashi. I don't know what I would do with you." She smiled sadly. Both of them were childhood friends, even before she met Shinichiro.

They finally made it to the shrine where Toman usually had their meeting. They let go of their conjoined hand and went to their perspective positions.

Shiro stood beside Mikey while Draken on the other side. Mikey gave her a smile which confused her a little. What does that smile mean?

"Can I be a kid for a second?" He requested. "I don't want to fight a friend."

Everyone was baffled as he continued, "Please lend me your strength and take Baji back!"

Shiro and Mitsuya made eye contact and they both broke into a smile of relieve. The gang all cheers with their fist in the air, "TOMAN TOMAN TOMAN!"

Once the meeting dismissed and people began to go home. Shiro ran down to Mitsuya and jumped into his embrace which he barely caught. Shiro doesn't seem to care if people were watching, she was too happy to hear that she wouldn't have to fight one of her friends.

He returned the embrace with a flushed cheek as he smile.

"Since when are you two dating? Are we missing something?" Draken asked with a knowing smirked.

Mitsuya glared at him to shut up but he ignored him and continued, "How long has it been? To think you guys keep it a secret from us."

Shiro blinked in confusion and slowly let go of Mitsuya but still lean onto him. "What do you mean? We are not dating at all, Draken. Takashi is my best friend!" She smiled while Takashi felt an arrow of friend zone shot to his heart.

He wonders how Shinichiro deal with Shiro's oblivious and he sweat dropped.

Draken broke into a laughing fit as he slapped Mitsuya back repeatedly. "Oh man, I feel bad for you, Mitsuya." This made Shiro frowned, "What do you mean by that Draken? I'll have you know that Takashi and I are bestie! I won't let you make fun of our friendship!"

That made Draken laugh even harder, holding his stomach as it started to hurt from laughing. Mikey chuckled at the sight.

He wished that this would last even after tomorrow's battle.