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Shinsou pov

"Hitoshi, can... can you, uh, come here a sec?"

I looked up when I heard my name called, someone was standing at the door in front of Papa.

"Uh...sure, what is it?"

When I reached the door Papa pointed to the boy in front of him,

"He's he's actually there right? I'm not having hallucinations, am I?"

"Uh.....no? The boy with blue hair and a band-aid on his nose?"

Papa nodded slowly. And then proceeded to pass out.

Oboro's pov

I caught 'Zashi before he could hit the floor. I looked at the boy, I believe that 'Zashi called him Hitoshi? I looked at the boy in front of me.

"So...   Hitoshi wasn't it? Or would you prefer something else?"

"Uh, I would prefer Shinsou, please."

"Okay then, I'm Shirakumo. Nice to meet you."

The boy, who I now know as Shinsou, moved out from in front of the door and walked over to a couple of chairs in the room. 

"We could lay Papa down over here, it's better than the floor."

I nodded and carried 'Zashi over and set him down in a chair. I turned back to Shinsou.

"Wait, did you just call him Papa?!"

"Uh.... Yeah?"

"Dang, how long have I been dead?"

Shinsou looked a me like I was crazy, then it hit me.

I'm supposed to be dead right now

I'm supposed to be a corpse with  barley any conscious being used as a base for some nomu thing.

I'm supposed to be dead. deader than a doornail. 

holy shit.

I'm alive. I'm actually alive. I'm not constantly having bits and pieces of memories swirling around my head. I'm not constantly wavering in and out of consciousness. I'm fully conscious and in control of my body. I can move every inch of my body, all on my own I'm back in conttrol. 

I'm not dead anymore!

"Shirakumo? Are you okay? You're um, crying? "

I looked up, I had spaced out for a while. I wiped away a few tears and looked at the kid.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just been a while since I was um, well, actually alive."

I laughed, it wasn't one of those fun, nice laughs. It was short, a little bitter.

"So, pancakes?" I asked.

"Um, shouldn't we, y'know, wait for them to wake up?" Shinsou gestured to Sho and Mic.

I looked down at them. "They seem comfortable, we should let them rest. Besides, I my or may not have heard that you haven't eaten?"

Shinsou nodded. 

"Pancakes it is then."

A/N: Hey! sorry I haven't updated in forever. Had some things going on. And a shit ton of,  'I wanna write, but I don't wanna write.' Thanks for all the reads. When I first started I looked at this and thought 'yeah, no ones gonna read this.' So I didn't expect all the reads. Thank you all! Make sure you take care of yourself and have a good day! 


p.s. I will probably take forever on updates. don't expect much or very good work either. I suck at being an author.

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