Tokyo Revengers; Fate.

Chapter 25

Baji Kohaku P.O.V.

I look at the school building in front of me. Winter break is over, which also means I cannot avoid Mitsuya as much as before. I sigh softly and enter, and I'm a little surprised to see Mitsuya already at the lockers. So he's already out of the hospital.. there's no longer bandages on his head, though it still contains a large bandaid. When I open my locker and grab my slippers I feel his eyes on me. "Ohayo Kohaku.." I hear softly. I close the locker door slightly to look at him. "Ohayo" I mumble before putting my shoes in the locker and closing it. "How was your winter break?" Mitsuya asks. "Don't do this, Takashi-kun" I say. "There's no reason for us to have these kinds of small talk" I say. "I want to though" Mitsuya says, frowning slightly.  "I don't" I say, then shake my head. "I really don't" I add mumbling. Mitsuya takes a small step toward me. I grab my bag and swing it over my shoulder and walk away. As I walk past Mitsuya, he grabs my wrist, stopping me. "How did we get here?" He asks softly. "It started with my brother dying" I answer. "Our relationship wasn't based on your brother." Mitsuya says. "No but it all went downhill from there" I say, pulling my wrist from his hand and walk away from him, to my own classroom. It still hurts me to do this, but it's for the best. For us both. I'm the first one in the classroom, but soon it's filled up and the bell rings for first period. Our home room teacher walks in, and after he says he hopes that we had a good winter break, he explains that this semester, the last two periods of the day will be dedicated to a group project. Each group will contain four members, each one from a different class of our year. The end result of the project will have to be sold at the school festival that will be held at the end of the semester. The groups will be chosen randomly and you can't switch. I smile slightly when the class is excited and anxious but the home room teacher unsuccessfully tries to quiet everyone down for home room class. Surely it will be interesting. I lean my chin on my hand and look out the window.

"Excuse me" I say, sliding open the classroom door. There's two girls inside waiting, both quite pretty. One is quite tall, with pinkish hair. The other is shorter with blonde hair. "This is the classroom appointed to group C right?" I ask awkwardly. The tall one smiles slightly. "Sure is" she says. I walk in. "Baji Kohaku. Nice to meet you" I say, bowing slightly. "Please sit down" the shorter one says and I sit down at the table. "My name is Aoi, Fujita Aoi." She says. "Kimura Sakura" the tall one says. "Nice to meet you" I say, once again. "Sorry I'm late.." I look up when I recognize the voice and unfortunately Mitsuya is in the doorway. Mitsuya sits down across from me and the introductions start all over again.  "So this project" I say. "Yes." Aoi says, grabbing the project guidelines. "It has to be sold, so it's something that needs to be made" she says. "So anything, anyone is particularly good at?" Sakura asks. "Art" I say dryly. "Sewing" Mitsuya says.  "Baking" Sakura says. "So nothing at all that's alike" Aoi says dryly. "So, any ideas?" I ask. There's silence as we all think about it. "How about a combination?" Mitsuya says after a while.  "Please explain" Aoi says. "At a school festival it's easy to do a cafe or sell sweets right?" Mitsuya asks. "How about we design something, and we incorporate it in a shirt and or hoodie, a piece of art and something sweet" Mitsuya says. "And how do you see that happening?" Aoi asks. "For example a sugercookie with icing, a small painting and a shirt in a nice little bag and we sell the bag. It's just an idea" Mitsuya says, then shrugs as he leans back in his chair. "I kind of like it. We can do the design on the bag even" Sakura says. Aoi looks at me. "Are you able to produce a large amount of paintings in the timespan?" She asks. "Probably. Depending on the size and design" I say. "Then let's go with that" Aoi says deciding. "You can leave the pricing and selling to me" she says with a satisfied smile. "So how about we work on the design and details of what the bag contains tomorrow?" Mitsuya proposes. "Sure" the two girls agree. I nod in agreement as well. "Then it's decided" Aoi says.

"You seem troubled, my cute little prey" Ran whispers in my ear. I smile slightly. "I have lots of troubling things on my mind" I say, lifting my head. "Like what?" Ran asks as he appears in my range of vision and tilts his head slightly as he looks at me. "It doesn't matter" I say. "If it troubles you, it does matter" Ran says softly, stroking my hair behind my ear. I sigh softly. "I just think that fate is taunting me sometimes" I say. "Every time I try to forget something, it's been blown right back into my face" I add. Ran stays silent for a while. "What if it's fate's way to help you move past it..?" Ran asks. I tilt my head slightly. "You think so?" I ask. "I don't know. It might be" he says and then smiles slightly. "I think you're worrying about it too much" Ran says, pressing his lips against my forehead. I sigh deeply. "Probably" I mumble. I wrap my arms around his waist and pull him closer. Ran chuckles as he places both hands on my face. "Oh how I wish I could get those demons out of that pretty head of yours" he says. I close my eyes as Ran kisses me and I  gladly kiss him back. "Stay with me and everything will be alright" Ran says. "Do you promise?" I whisper. "I do" he answers smiling, as his fingertips slide down my jawline. "I said it before, didn't I? Everything you need is with me" Ran says. I smile slightly as I nod. Ran kisses me again. "I don't want you to go" I whisper as our lips part. Ran chuckles amused. "I'll see you tomorrow again." He says. I pout slightly, making him press his lips on my lower lip. "Go inside, spend time with your family" Ran says, stroking my hair behind my ear. "Yeah alright" I whisper. Ran tilts his head as the back of his fingers stroke my cheek. "You're a good boy, aren't you?" He asks. "Yeah, I'll go inside" I say, letting go of his waist. Ran smiles. "I'll see you  tomorrow" He says, kissing me longer this time. I smile and nod as Ran steps away from me and turns around to leave. I watch him leave before jumping off the brick fence and walking up to the front door. "Tadaima" I say, closing it behind me.