ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴡʟ | Tokyo Revengers

🐉 XIX: Black Dragon

The exhibition had been a great success, the home economics club won the extra budget and its reputation now was higher than before, surely next year lots of new members would be joining.

The excitement around the girls was upbeat, all cheering and jumping in their places, hugging each other, Yasuda was crying unable to handle the emotions, even Takashi's excitement was visible.

The one who was always so collected and calm exploded in joy, taking his disguised friend by her shoulders and approaching her, everyone would think he was going to embrace her, but his fuzzy mind by the happiness drove him to place his lips over hers for a moment before noticing what he was doing and step backward embarrassed and frightened.

Y/n was still in shock, she was expecting a hug too, but what she got instead was something she didn't foresee.

All the stares were in their direction, after all, they were the winners of the contest. People around applauded more than before, classmates whistled and scream encouraging him, resulting in two flustered teenagers.

"You should go for your award." She managed to say, looking away with her reddened cheeks under the make-up.

"Hmpf, that was..."

"Shut it, Peyan." She lightly nudged him when Mitsuya went over stage tagged along with his sobbing vice-president.

The rest of the evening consisted in picking up all the stuff and leaving the gym cleaned. After that, both were walking back to her house in silence.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what happened to me. Are we good?"

"Don't worry, I guess the excitement was too much to bear. Congratulations, by the way." Bumping her arm with his, she chuckled nervously starting to feel soothed.

Takashi's phone received a call halfway to their destination, making him worried, Hakkai asked him to meet him at Takemichi's house as soon as possible to tell him what happened. "Sounds like bad news. We better hurry." 

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Y/n looked down worried at the sleepy boy, already cleaned and bandaged by his girlfriend, who was tearing up in silence beside him holding his hand. "What the hell, Hakkai?" He looked away ignoring her with nerves. "I don't know why I keep bothering. I'll wait downstairs."

Y/n went to sit on the porch with a pack of frozen veggies, where Yuzuha was hunching herself waiting for her brother. "Take this." The girl next to her flinched at first when the bag made contact with her swollen cheek skin. "Did he hit you again?"

"It was nothing."

She was trying to bottle up her emotions, Y/n noticed by the short answer and her way of avoiding looking at her. Taking her free hand between hers, she got closer to Yuzuha. "You're a tough girl, but that doesn't mean you're not allowed to cry."

It's hard to help someone who knows that has a problem at home but refuses to be aided because they think it's a lost cause before even trying anything.

In the few years that she had known her, Yuzuha always had bruises and cuts to hide, it was no secret that Taiju commits domestic abuse. Hakkai has at least his getaway with Toman, but her sister was trapped with her older brother and the Black Dragons' business, taking the worst part for the sake of her family according to her.

Letting Yuzuha sob in silence for a few minutes, they stayed sat side by side, and willingly, she started talking.

"Next time he lays a hand on you..."

"I can handle it. I'm telling you because you will get to know what happened sooner or later, not because I want you to meddle in the family's business."