Favorite Crime || Mikey/OC/Mitsuya

18 - favorite crime

this chapter's playlist would be: As The World Caves In by Matt Maltese 

I recommend playing it on repeat as you read! 

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"what?"

Takemichi knew beforehand of the things Mikey had done, Naoto had told him everything—that he was responsible for the deaths of their friends. he never really believed it but for Mikey to confess to it, he wasn't so sure anymore.

"I killed them all," Mikey says with a smile.

his dark hair swept away with the wind—they were once pretty yellows Izumi loved to adore.

"even Izumi-chan?!"

"Izumi..." his voice sounded regretful as he says her name with a sad smile.

do I even have the right to utter your name, Izumi...?

"she was my favorite, Takemitchy."

"what? was? why are you saying was?!"

"she was my favorite crime."

"no way...you killed her too?!"

"because she loved Mitsuya, how could I separate them both?"

"why would you kill her, Mikey? you said you loved Izumi! you told me that back then!"

"you left so you wouldn't know, but we were in a relationship, right after we lost to Tenjiku and became one with them. since then, I know how much more my darkness had control over me, but somehow, Izumi loved me. I couldn't change no matter what she did, I could only change for the worse but she stuck with me."

he smiles to himself as he remembers coming back to her after a night of brutality in the streets, washing the blood off himself before he snuggled beside the already sleeping Izumi. she would always ask where he was—he was obviously dishonest every time, but she hugged him anyway.

this was what led him to have thought that she was finally his; that Izumi would stick beside him down the path he was going even if she knew it was wrong. he couldn't even tell he was being selfish, he was just succumbed to darkness and he took Izumi with him.

"what about Mitsuya? the Izumi I know would never do that to him."

"Mitsuya?" he smiles, "she left him. for me. she wouldn't even talk to him nor cross paths with him—I thought she was completely mine back then...little did I know she avoided him because she knew she would waver. I got into a disagreement with Mitsuya and Draken, and purely by impulse, I was about to shoot him...Izumi stepped in."

he vividly remembers how tears were running down her cheeks as she protectively stood in front of Mitsuya, her tiny arms wrapping so familiarly around him. he had never felt so betrayed, and so, he pulled the trigger—knowing fully well that it was her he would kill.

"Izumi loved me, much more than I could ever know, she even left the love of her life to save me. but then, above saving me, she cared more for him. I realized then that our relationship was built on nothing but her desire to save me from myself."

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he shot Draken right after shooting Izumi, and he watched as Mitsuya caught her in his arms as he crouched on the floor, begging her desperately to stay with him. Izumi's blood pooled across the wood, painting Mitsuya's clothes red.

"Takashi, I'm sorry."

Mitsuya had held her so delicately as he hugged her to himself, promising lies that she would be fine, that everything would be okay. Mikey felt so twisted inside to see her reach out to caress his cheek, her eyes harboring nothing but happiness and content as she looked back at his crying ones.