Angel(s) in Disguise (MikaYuu)

CH 25

Third person point of view:

   When Mika wakes up, it's already night time. He looks around, and figures that he is still in Yuuichiro's home. Looks like he has some exploring to do, because god, was he hungry?

Apparently, he is.

   He walks out of the room, and finds the room beside the one he wakes up in locked, while the others aren't. He concludes that it's Yuuichiro's bedroom, so he doesn't bother the raven yet and makes his way downstairs.

   He walks around, and eventually, the blonde found the kitchen. He tries to find cereal, or junk foods, something that can fill his stomach without requiring him to cook. But sadly, he finds none. At the very least, he found some small box of milks inside the fridge. And so he takes one, and go upstairs to find Yuuichiro next.

   Standing in front of the raven's room, he knocks. "Yuuchan?" He calls, after knocking twice. There is some rustles coming out from inside of the room, but the door doesn't swing open.

    Mika stares at the door, puzzled. "Aren't you opening this door?" He tries. There is no footsteps, just rustling of the bedsheet and blanket, which makes Mika frowns. He starts to think that Yuuichiro is asleep, but then the raven answers him.

   "Go away." Yuuichiro says from behind the door. "Leave me alone." He continues not long after, making Mika's frown falls deeper. Well, more precisely is that Yuuichiro is shooing him away, making Mika a tad bit sad.

   But he complies, backing away. Yuuichiro is in a bad mood, he suppose. And he doesn't want to bother the raven. He can survive on a box of milk. Well, he never know unless he tries. Plus, there is more downstairs.

   "Hope you feel better later, Yuuchan." Mika whispers before leaving to enter the next room with his box of milk.

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   Yuuichiro turns in his bed, covering and kicking off his cover anytime he please. But nothing seems to help him fall asleep. He takes his phone in the nights stand and check the time.

   It's already eleven o'clock at night, so around two hours has passed since Mikael knocked on his door. It makes hum wonder even though just a little. Why does Mikael seems to care about him?

   When his friends doesn't understand him and could not sense his distress, Mikael did. Perhaps, that is the reason why the blonde ushered his friends to leave. Because he can sense that he can't keep his walls up any longer.

  Their words hurt. Forget enemy, your friend's words against you hurt way worse. At least, you knew that your enemy should hate you. You knew they intended to hurt you. Knowing that, you survived.

  But oh dear. Shouldn't friends has your back? Shouldn't friends comfort him too? If they are lecturing then why would they leave Yoichi out of it? What about Yuuichiro?

   Yoichi used him to get Kimizuki. The brunet hurt Kimizuki's feelings, and he is the one who got scolded for agreeing to help. What is it that is running through their head, the raven wonders.

   Yuuichiro's stomach growls unpleasantly, but he ignores it. He doesn't feel like eating, too deep into his dilemma to care about his needs. He is about to force himself to sleep again, but then a knock on his door jolts him up.

   His house was quiet, and he used to live alone. It is kind of foreign for him that there is someone living with him now. He clears his throat. "Do you need anything?" He shouts, hoping that Mikael can hear him through the door.

   Indeed he must have, as Yuuichiro himself flinch at his own voice. He underestimated the silence in his house, it seems.

   A voice answers him through the closed door. "Can you come out, Yuuchan? I'm starving, i think i am going to die."

   Upon hearing that, Yuuichiro sits up immediately. "Is that you, Mika?" He asks, not shouting this time. He stands and wear his indoor slippers.

  "Yes it's me." Answers Mika. And Yuuichiro gets the door, opening it to the blonde. "How long have you been awake, Mika?" He asks. Did Mikael not eat anything before going to sleep? Poor child woke up to an empty stomach, how unfortunate.

  "I woke up at nine." Mika mumbles, looking down to his feet. Realization hits Yuuichiro. So the one he dismissed earlier was Mika, and not Mikael. The raven feels bad now.

   Yuuichiro pats Mika's head, ruffling his blonde hair a little. The blonde looks up to him, and he flashes Mika a sincere smile. "Come on, let's go downstairs and find something to eat. I'm hungry too." He admits, and Mika beams.

  They go downstairs, and Yuuichiro rummages through his cupboard to find something. Well, food. Thankfully, he founds some cups of instant noodle behind empty boxes of cereal. He makes a mental note to throw them out later.

   He prepares the instant noodle, making one cup for each of them. After filling it with boiling water, he puts the cup in front of the blonde and sits across him at the dining table.

   "How are you feeling, Yuuchan?" Mika asks him, while Yuuichiro observes the blonde. Could it be that Mikael is pretending again?

   "Why do you ask?" He questions the blonde while stirring his noodle. Mika copies him. "When you tell me to go away, and leave you alone." The blonde says halfway and make eye contact with him. Briefly serious, but then it turns into something softer.

   "You sounds sad." Mika finishes. Yuuichiro stares, before an 'oh' comes out of his mouth. "So, how are you feeling?" The blonde repeats.

   The raven focuses on the feeling inside his chest. Dread. He wished he can just sleep it away, but he didn't get a wink of sleep though he laid in bed for hours, ever since evening.

   "I feel better." Yuuichiro answers. Mika hums, slurping on his noodle loudly. After swallowing everything down, he looks at Yuuichiro again.

   "Mikael may have said that you are a good actor, but that statement doesn't apply to lying." Mika states, while Yuuichiro stops chewing on the noodle.

  "You are a horrible liar, Yuuchan. But i won't push you to answer honestly." The blonde simply says, making Yuuichiro scrunch up his eyebrow in confusion.

   ".. Why?" The raven asks. Mika is really fascinating. Smart for a twelve years old, despite how childish he is. He waits for an answer that he may not expect.

  "People don't lie for fun. If they lie, there will be a reason behind it." Mika retorts. Just as he thought, Mika comes up with an answer he doesn't expect coming from a twelve years old. Yuuichiro giggles lightly.

  "Should i thank you for letting me off the hook?" The raven asks playfully, trying to lift up the mood. Mika stands, and throws his cup inside the trash bin near him before walking up to Yuuichiro and stands beside him.

   The raven stares, wondering what Mika is trying to do. "Maybe you should." The blonde says. He eyes Yuuichiro with a look he can't quite read, making the raven feels a tad bit nervous.

   "I'm dying to know who would want to hurt you, after all." Mika says in a monotone, and Yuuichiro gulps. What's up with these blondes anyway, they are all so weird. And so, Yuuichiro awkwardly laughs.

   "Yuuchan. I've been wondering for a while, but how did you bruise your neck? Did Mikael niichan punch your neck or something?" Mika asks with pure curiosity in his voice, and Yuuichiro petrifies for a short while.

   After a while of considering the answer, Yuuichiro finally retort. "It is safer for you to think that, so yep, Mikael punched me."

   "On your neck?" Mika inquires, raising an eyebrow. Yes, Mikael punched Yuuichiro on the neck. With his lips and tongue. "Yep." The raven confirms.

He is going to kill Mikael.