attakai | a. haruchiyo & k. nahoya

19 | last but not the least

On the outside, you would think Nari would be scowling and whining about getting beaten up by a random group of delinquents inside Shibuya station. Hear her cursing and bad mouthing them, but since it was Sanzu who is patching her up, Nari had nothing to say. So much that the color pink is tinted on her cheeks and his blue eyes on her made her heart flutter.

"The bleeding on your lower lip's all dried up." Sanzu mutters, Nari sitting on the lower stone steps. "I'll apply ointment so it'll really heal."

Watching Sanzu look serious and patching her up made Nari think that she should get beaten up more often. Snorting on her idea on the inside, she knew that wouldn't be possible. Instead, she basked being the center of his attention on this very moment. She didn't know when would a night like this happen again. And Nari made sure that every second that passed by, she would embed this memory inside her mind forever.

The feeling of Sanzu's finger swiping on her lower lip made the color on her cheeks deepen. Although she couldn't see herself, she knew she probably looked like a tomato in front of him.

"Do any of your other wounds hurt? Want me to put on pain relief patches on your hands?" He asks, a tone of worry laced in his voice. If only the two of them were in a private place and she didn't have this wound on her lower lip, Nari would have lowered his black face mask and pull him in for a kiss as thanks. Pouting to herself, she shook her head.

"My hands are okay, Haru!" She beams at him, wincing a little when she felt a stinging pain on her lower lip when she tried to smile. Her eyes suddenly widened in surprise when Sanzu took a hold on both of her hands, inspecting her bruises with his eyes.

"They aren't too purple. So I guess it'll fade in less than a week." Sanzu's eyes smiled at her, making Nari's heart flutter more inside her chest.

"I'll get better fast because of you, Haru! Thank you so much!" Nari smiles at him, her eyes closed.

On the other side of their meeting place, the rest of the captains were sitting amongst themselves, amusing themselves with the sight of Nari and Sanzu flirting with each other in front of them.

"Disgusting." Smiley spat, turning around to look somewhere else with his arms crossed over his chest.

"You jealous?" Baji teases him, turning his head to look at the orange haired male.

"Nah" Smiley responded, but Angry could very much sense his lie. "Just watching them like that makes me puke!"

"Then you are jealous" Baji says, laughing afterwards

"He said he didn't like her" Mucho begins to say, watching his subordinate and team mate flirting. "But look at the way his eyes look at her. Seems like the opposite to me." He spoke, a small smile painting his lips before shouting.

"Good luck Sanzu!" Mucho shouted, causing the two to turn their head to look at him with questioning looks.

"Don't ruin their mood" Mitsuya says, outstretching his legs in front of him. "Those two look very much occupied with themselves"

Angry takes a look at Smiley before turning his head in front again. "He has tears in his eyes now!" He said, causing every captain and vice captain to look at Smiley.

"No shit!" Smiley shouts. "Stop lying! You're supposed to be on my side!"

"I'm not even lying" Angry defends himself, shaking his head before looking away again. Though Angry may have already looked away, he couldn't help but sometimes take a quick glance at his twin brother who still had his back facing Nari and Sanzu. And for every time he would look at him, Angry swore there look of sadness and jealousy were clouding on his face.

When Mikey and Draken arrived, the meeting then began to commence. Resuming in their positions to discuss about the recent ambush of a delinquent gang from Yokohama called Tenjiku. Unbeknownst to all of them, they failed to ask Mucho on how does he know why all an too familiar name, Madarame Shion, is part of S62 Generation.

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"Thank you for bringing me home." Nari says, removing her helmet before handing it to Sanzu. "Please take care on your way home, okay?" She asks of him, her eyes looking at him.

"I'll try not get beaten up like you." Sanzu teasingly spoke to her. Causing Nari to scoff and turn on her heels, leaving Sanzu in front of the apartment building.

"Goodnight Nari!" Sanzu shouts before driving away.

Although Sanzu was no longer behind her, a smile painted Nari's lips once more. The strings on her heart felt like they were being tugged by him unknowingly. She couldn't help but feel like bursting while jogging up the steps of the apartment building. Stopping on their floor, she happily skipped towards their apartment number.

But a bouquet of geranium's were placed in front of their door. A white ribbon held the stems in tact, along with a scribble of her name ' Nari ' written with black ink. Picking it up, something fell to the ground, looking down at her feet, a tarot card of The Fool was in front of her.

"Ah! Nari kun!"

Turning her head to the side, she found Takemichi walking towards her, stopping by her side when he took note of the flowers in her hands. "What do you got there?"

With a stoic face, Nari didn't know what to make out of the items waiting for her by their door. A bouquet of geraniums and a tarot card that she didn't know what it meant. But thankfully, Takemichi is here. And since he's here, he could ask her something only he knows.

"Did your mom tell you the meaning of geraniums?" She asks, chuckling softly as she faces him. "Sorry if I keep asking you things like this."

"No no, it's fine!" Takemichi says, eyes wide while shaking his hands in front of her. "Geraniums, huh?" He scratched the back of his head. "I really don't know what they mean...or I just forgot. But I remember that they symbolize for..." Takemichi gulps, looking away, as if it was a sin to say the word since Nari is his senior in anything gang related.

"Symbolize for?"

"...stupidity"

Blinking her eyes, Nari eyed the bouquet of flowers before shrugging her shoulders. "Whoever placed this in front of our house is just messing with me." She made a 'tsk' sound.

"Takemichi kun? Nari?" Hina calls to the two of before rushing to them. "Did you two get into a fight again?" She asks, her eyes eyeing their wounds before turning down to look at the flowers in Nari's hands.

"You got a lot of admirers, Nari!" Hina says, smiling at her older twin.

Nari shook her head. "This one's a prank." she said, eyeing the flowers before opening the front door. "And a stupid one. Anywho, I'll leave you two be!" she spoke then closed the door.