Month five,
Day fourteen, nine AM
Yuichiro woke up in a soft bed, much softer than what he was used to than almost jumped when he realized that something was constricting him, but after he swallowed his heart back down his throat when he remembered that he hadn't fallen asleep in his bed alone after a long and tiring day of battling. He would never again see the feeling of doing so.
It was all over.
Yuichiro felt a strike to his chest at the reminder, memories of the nightmare that took place just the day before blinding him and sending shivers through his whole body, the dread of the ear-piercing screams blurring his vision, but none of that mattered now. His past would only drag him down now because they weren't like his family, when they died he was given an opportunity to fight in the name of what he lost, but his squad..., he can't avenge them, not anymore. So the only thing that he could do to be happy in his life was to let go, something he had never learned to do in the army, and take the chance he was given to smile once again. He had been given that chance three times now, it wasn't going to happen again. This was his life now, and if he let it, it could be a really good one.
"Good morning Yuu-chan." Mikaela chipped, leaning over Yuichiro from where he was laying, and put his arm beside the boy's shoulder to balance himself while using his unoccupied hand to stroke Yuichiro's hair.
Yuichiro felt his face get a bit hotter, his eyebrows furrowed in reaction to the sudden feeling he didn't remember having very often. Mika was really close to him, he was touching him, though there was no need to, he was staring into his eyes with those beautiful shimmering blue orbs that he always found himself getting lost in. Though the embarrassment that came that feeling was overpowering the joyful fluffy billowing of his heart, so he said something before Mikaela could notice.
"Good morning to you too Mika, now get off me, you're being clingy. Yuichiro spoke with a soft and playful smile. Mikaela frowned and tilted Yuichiro's head to the side using his hand and stared at him for a brief moment as if he were observing him, like one would observe an exotic animal, before letting him go and sitting up.
"Hey, Yuu, we slept without changing clothes didn't we?" Mikaela muttered as he looked down at himself with a slightly bothered expression. He was right, they never changed out of their battle uniforms before they went to bed, it was gross, with the bloodstains of both their own body's and others, and the dust that was picked up off the grown from of the relentless fighting.
"Yeah... We didn't..." Yuichiro muttered. "Where do you get clothes here?"
"It is offered to us in changing rooms, one moment, I'll go get some. Oh, wait... Yuu-chan, you probably don't want to wear the clothes that the vampires wear, do you?" Mikaela murmured with an expression that Yuichiro couldn't understand, it was like he was annoyed, but also... mischievous? He didn't know, it was an emotion he had never seen before... or rather... didn't even think existed. In short, he thought that Mika was being weird with his self-expression.
"Uhh... I'm sorry if I'm going to be a bother but... Yeah, you're right, I don't want to wear the vampire uniform." He answered truthfully, he didn't want to have to see himself in those clothes. It would feel like he had just given up on his comrades, betrayed them. His comrades... He remembered when Guren died, it was heart-breaking but not nearly as traumatizing as the death of his squad...- His thoughts were cut off when Mikaela answered him.
"Yeah I figured, so I collected some clothes for you." Mika smiled, Yuichiro was relieved, he didn't need that kind of trigger in his life, but he couldn't help but get distracted. Mika was wearing the tiniest smirk on his face, it was well hidden, but it was there.
O-Oh, that's great! He cheered, pretending that he wasn't concerned that Mika was going to give him something ridiculous as a prank or something, like what if he gives him a big yellow rain-coat and pants with hearts all over them or something?! Yuichiro shuttered at the thought, but didn't get to keep toying with the horrifying image before something Mika said caught him off guard.
