𝔹𝕣𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕟 • 𝔹𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕠 𝕩 𝔽𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕖! ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕣

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛.𝟿

"What are you doing in my room?" You asked, after yawning loudly and sitting up in your bed. You had caught a glimpse of purple hair, slightly disheveled and long, lanky limbs sprawled out in the chair in your room.

"You asked us to stay." Rindou's voice came from beneath you, and you peered over the side of the bed to see his unruly purple mullet splayed across a pillow he had stolen from your bed.

"I highly doubt that." You said monotonously, reaching down to snatch the pillow, but Rindou had rolled away from you at the last second, a soft chuckle falling from his lips.

"Yeah, okay. You were crying out for Sanzu when he set you in bed last night, you nearly gave the poor fucker a hernia. He was so confused by your... odd, behavior. When he had to leave to go with Mikey, you begged us to sleep in here." Ran said, his raspy morning voice going straight to your core.

Why the FUCK am I feeling like this about fucking Ran Haitani? I have a fucking HUSBAND! You reminded yourself bitterly, feeling guilty.

You needed to find him. You were irritated that Manjiro told you that you had to wait for Bonten to tie up some loose ends before heading to Okinawa, but you knew that leaving on your own would only put a target on your back, and for the first time in forever, you had hope, you had something to live for.

Someone to live for.

"I... thank you for staying. But can you please leave? I need to change." You said, feeling that you were still wearing the dress from the night before, and a wave of relief washed over you.

"Oh, you can go ahead and change if you want," Rindou said, sitting up finally and eyeing you down with a challenging look that made you shiver despite the horrified expression on your face.

"Yeah Princess, don't worry. If I see something I haven't before, I'll bark at it." Ran added, making your face go beat red and you quickly grabbed your pillow and swung it at Rindou's head, making him fall back onto the floor. You were irritated that his head landed on the pillow he had stolen, and you turned around and tossed the pillow at Ran who caught it with ease, adding to your anger.

"Get the fuck out!" You screeched, making both Haitani burst out into laughter. Thankfully they had quickly complied with your request, and you followed behind them as they laughed all the way out of your room, and down into the hallway.

You slammed your door to make a point, and you locked it for good measure. A very small, minuscule part of you wanted to trust they wouldn't barge in here to take a look at you, but the past trauma abolished that trust the moment you thought about the last people to ever see you naked.

You decided to shower after grabbing a change of clothes from the closet, and you also made sure to lock the bathroom door behind you as well. You wandered over to the shower, and you looked at the handle with a hard stare. You were contemplating on whether or not to try to inch your way back up to showers that had almost been lukewarm, but then you remembered what happened to you last night and you quickly became embarrassed at the fact that the worst criminals of Japan had witnessed your panic attack, and you opted to not have anything else trigger you so soon.

After showering, you dressed in spandex shorts and a dark grey tank top as you had decided in going down to the basement. You and Ren had converted it into a fully equipped gym after the both of you had moved in, and it had been a while since you worked out.

Plus, you needed a distraction from the eerie darkness that you could feel looming around inside of you. It had been a while since you felt like this, the last time being when you first decided on your vengeance mission against Wantanabe and the rest of your platoon, and the thought scared you.