oblivious | nahoya kawata

sixteen

[unedited and alot of grammatical mistakes and errors, pls bare w it while I edit them ]

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"WHAT?" you blinked your eyes twice, nahoya's laugh resonating behind your back, that's when you realised how close he was standing behind you, blood rushing to your face to make you look a like a tomato in this night, you coughed awkwardly and slightly "I said, I'll teach you how to row a boat" silence filled the air, the crickets sound was louder than the city.

"o-oh... thanks" you slapped yourself mentally for misunderstanding things, what's wrong with me today? ; you sat, facing smiley "damn, are you okay? you're changing into colors!" smiley laughed as you dumbfounded, looking away, a soft cold breeze brushed past you, the hair on your body standing on its edge, I should've brought my jacket.

"now y/n, are you ready?" smiley asked enthusiastically to which you nodded hesitantly, "now take both the oar and place it in the hook of it, and then when I row backwards-" he did what he said and the boat started to move, you held onto the oar tightly, "-can't one person row the boat? ain't that enough?" you asked, tensed up.

"actually, we took a couples' boat so we both gotta row, it's called a double scull" he grinned, "if angry was here we would've took the bigger one and only one of us gotta row" you frowned "and who would that be?" you raised an brow as he threw his head back, laughing like a maniac "either angry or you, ofcourse!" you deadpanned before rolling your eyes.

"ok back to our lesson, when I row it backwards, you do the same but in the opposite direction a-k-a, towards my direction" you nodded and did as he said "yea right, now let's do it on the same time!" and the ship sailed, I meant boat*. you did messed in between and got you two killed, almost.

the boat stopped "let's chill here for sometime, we got forty minutes to go" you sighed. you looked up at the moon, looking beautiful as she ever used to be, you just now realised that you and nahoya are alone, in a boat, in a beautiful evening-night. it looked like a cute date, "so..." you started "yeah, is angry that scared of water?" you questioned.

nahoya cackled "it's a long-ass funny story! lemme tell ya" you beamed, nodding "I guess grans told you about our parents stuff, well it all started there" he exhaled deeply, but his smile not falling off "me and angry grew up here 'til we were like 10-13 and we were called so many names for a mischieves like devil twins and the trouble twins and stuffs like that"

you listened eagerly like a five-year old listening to her grandmother's tales whilst she knits, "and one day, just like today, I wanted to try boating around this lake, back in the days, this lake was really popular and this was even bigger and deeper than today, the boat-men said we can't rent a boat saying we were too young and blah blah blah" his voice changed into an annoyed tone.

"and when the man was talking to another customer, me and angry sneaked and stole a boat and somehow ended up really far away from the village, but since we didn't have any experience, the boat started drowning in and flipped the other side, so I quickly swam to the ground but I thought angry was tagging along behind me and didn't check but he wasn't..."

silence filled the air as nahoya's face didn't have any emotion on it, he was dead serious telling the story, his eyes covered with his fluffy hair falling on them, "then... what happened?" you asked hesitating, "I started to get worried and cried, at the end, I had no idea but to run and for help, my parents, grandparents and many more village members quickly rushed back there, the lake was dead silent, no sign of the boat or... angry,

my parents were really mad at me and I knew I'd be dead then and there when a hand reached out for help out of the water and a fisher man jumped in and got angry out of water, I was both relieved and stressed, relieved that my brother was found and stressed about what every elders are going to say to us, but that's the day everything changed, my dad slapped me really hard on my face..." nahoya touched his left cheek,

"... and angry got mad at my dad, then pushed him onto the lake and my mom was screaming yelling at us, and then she was scolding angry for going in the water, so I got mad at her and I dragged angry with me to our grandmother's home, many times mom and dad will try to drag us with them but grans didn't let them, she really raised us well and cooks the best food...

souya didn't really smile ever since that day, he rarely smiled, he was scared of something that he hated going out for going out for a month, then grans sent us to the city to our uncle's house and our life moved on with eachother.." you furrowed your brows "confusing, isn't it?" he sighed leaning back, "it was scary..." a tear slipper out of his eyes, highlighted by the moonlight,

"and that day, I almost lost souya..."

A/N ; yk I love it when you guys comment, it really makes me wanna write more 🧍‍♀️