Now and Then: A Second Chance (Various! Tokyo Revengers Characters X OC)

~Intermission Part IIII~

A/N: Thank you so much to lunalehoux for all the recent votes!! I hope you enjoy this chapter :D

Misaki's P.O.V.

"It was good seeing your mom. She looks a lot happier nowadays." Misaki commented, leaning her head on her hand. Baji nodded as he stretched on the floor.

"Yeah, she's...a lot better now. I think she's just happy that I'm finally cleared to get up and move. I'm happy as hell about it, too." 

Misaki softly smiled and nodded. "That's true. I'd be pretty happy too if I was in your shoes. You can finally even leave the hospital." 

Baji squinted slightly in pain as he stretched his back a bit, likely tugging on his stab wound. He then sighed and leaned back on his arms, turning to stare at her.

"You sure I shouldn't stick around in case things go bad with the Black Dragons?" He asked, eyebrow raised. She shook her head. "Absolutely not. You know you can't come back until you're at 100%. You're just a simple pedestrian now, enjoy it." 

He groaned and leaned his head back. "But that's boring at hell. I've been itching to punch someone and the Black Dragons have pretty punch-able faces." 

Misaki snickered at his comment, causing him to peer over at her from the corner of his eye. A small smirk began to form on his face and he chuckled. 

"What? It's true, yah know."

"Yeah, believe me, I know." 

She then held her hand to her chin, head slightly tilted. "Although, some of them were pretty cute, so I might feel a little bad punching them if it came to that."

A large irk mark appeared on Baji's forehead, and he turned to her, glaring.

"Hah?? Cute?? Those assholes?? You must be blind!" 

A shit-eating grin appeared on her face at his comment. "You jealous that I called some Black Dragons cute?, huh~" 

His eyes widened. "H-Hell no! Why would I be jealous?!" 

She lifted a brow and gave him a cat-like grin. "Why'd you stutter, then?" 

His cheeks began to flush at her teasing and he blinked a couple times, before turning his head away from her, obviously irritated.

A playful sigh left her lips and she stood from her spot on the ground, walking over to stand in front of where Baji was staring. She crouched down and poked at his forehead before saying, "Relax. If you're that worried about it, you're cute too, so don't worry." 

He furrowed his brow at her comment before his face turned as red as a tomato. He then scrambled to place a hand over his face to cover his expression, and peered at her through his fingers.

"H-HAH?! I KNOW THAT, ASSHOLE!" 

She chuckled at his reaction and a small smile appeared on her face. It was silent between the two of them for a moment as they stared at each other, until she brought a couple of strands of his long dark hair close to her face, inspecting it. "When's the last time you brushed your hair?" She asked, genuinely curious, as it looked rather knotty, especially in the half-up hair-do he had it in while he worked out.

"U-uh..." He started, rubbing at his chin. "It's been a couple days. I've been too busy to even think about that shit so I've just been doin' this to it." He said, motioning to his current hair. She hummed and nodded, before standing and walking over to her bag. Pulling out a hairbrush, she motioned to his hair. "Can I help?" 

A look of surprise flashed over his features before they softened. He nodded once and looked away from her, but sat up fully. She walked back over towards him and kneeled down behind him. Gently, she removed the hair tie that was knotted pretty tightly in his hair. She tried her best not to pull but it did snag a couple time, eliciting hisses from him. When she finally managed to remove the hair tie, she set it to the side, and began to separate his hair into three parts.