Trust Fall(Under Editing)

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Karma looked at his friend. "What?" He asked.

"You're... still hurting" Nagisa spoke. " I know you want revenge Karma, and I'll help you" the small blue haired man said quietly. For a while neither of them spoke, until Karma broke the silence

"So what'cha thinking?"

Nagisa smiled a little. "Well, Asano is a respected teacher at Kunogigaoka, as well as the CEO of his father's company. He's a well respected young man with dedicated followers" the bluenette began. "He must have worked hard for him to have the position he has"

"Yes, knowing him, that's a fact" Karma agrees. "So what?"

"Why not destroy his reputation?" Nagisa suggested. "Ruin his image at the perfect teacher to his students? Destroy the faith his staff and shareholders have over him?"

That sounded tempting enough. But Karma thought that Nagisa's idea was too plain, and easy. "With my connections I can easily do all of that with just the snap of my fingers Nagisa" Karma remarked. "Give me a challenge" he said, chuckling.

The bluenette took the cigar from Karma's mouth, earning him a glare from the red head.

"Remind me again.... how Gakushū broke your trust, heart, and soul?" He carefully asked.

"He fucked a whore" As if Karma could ever forget.

"Exactly" Nagisa hums. "He whored himself to someone else, why not reveal his filthy side to everyone who holds him in high regard?"

Karma was tempted, very tempted. His controll was slipping...

Well not like he had a tight grip on it in the first place. He's wanted revenge against Asano Gakushū for years but he never acted on it. Why? He doesn't understand why not either. But today, thanks to Nagisa's serpent tongue, he's decided he's done holding back.

"Any ideas?" Karma asked.

"I know you have plenty of your own, Karma" Nagisa scoffed.

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Gakushū woke up in cold sweat.

He had another nightmare.

This time it had Karma standing over him. He wasn't doing anything, he was simply staring at him, watching him with hate filled eyes. Gakushū laid on his back, paralyzed. He tried calling Karma for help but his mouth wouldn't open

Karma kept glaring down at him. Simply watching as he suffered in silence.

And then he woke up

Gakushū groaned and slapped himself

"Fuck" he cursed, getting out of bed and then going to the kitchen for the glass of water.

He passed pictures of family and friends hanging on his wall. Some of those pictures were of him and his best friend since childhood

After filling a large glass to the brim with water, he took a large chug.

After finishing his glass, he placed it down and ran his fingers through his hair.

He's been getting nightmares that involved Karma lately. Ever since he and Karma were forced to work together to prepare their best friends' wedding. It didn't start off as nightmares though.

At first his dreams were memories from his past relationship with Karma. They were usually the same

Karma with a big grin, running towards him wearing a white jacket and pants, engulfing him in a tight hug, whispering in his ear how much he loved him. He would wake up feeling guilty and ashamed

But a week later he started having nightmares. It would start off as simple. Making Karma cry, Karma screaming how much he hated him. Memories of that confrontation would play in his dreams on repeat. He hated it so much, but his brain loved torturing himself

Next it would get progressively violent. The red head would either throw furniture at him that seemingly came out of nowhere(it was a dream after all) or would verbally abuse him.

This past three nights had been relatively calmer though. All Karma was doing was glaring down at his paralyzed body.

It was scary, made him feel ashamed, and still managed to wake him in cold sweat yes. But it was better than the previous nights where he had to deal with bad memories playing in a sick loop in his head...... or the ones where Karma was physically and verbally attacking him in his dreams

"I deserve it anyway" he reasoned.

"My body knows I'm scum... So it's punishing me, because Karma never did. It's just giving me my just deserts"

If Ren knew what he was thinking, he would have angrily told him to: ".... stop treating yourself like a walking garbage alright Gakushū?! What happened back then wasn't your fault!"

And then he would scold Karma for never giving him a chance and shutting him out of his life. "If Karma had just sat his fat ass down that day and listened to what you had to say!" He imagined Ren's speech.

But what's been done is done. He couldn't change the past. Karma hates Gakushū now

And Gakushū hates himself

But he supposed that, Karma still tolerates his presence... To a decent degree.

He remembers their time together while shopping for Rio's wedding gown

That had been really fun.

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"Can you repeat that?" Gakushū lightly demanded at the photographer

"I said! That you if you and Akabane-san agree to be my new models for the photo-shoot today, I will gladly give your best friends a FREE photography service for their wedding day!"