Karma's Pov:
"I-I...I s-saw him..."
Irina-sensei said in a trembling voice full of fear, clutching Karasuma-sensei's shirt and looking down.
"Who?...Irina look at me...Whom did you see?"
Karasuma-sensei said cupping her face, making her look at him.
Irina-sensei paused for a moment as she took deep breaths, her eyes wide with fear as if she was remembering the moment, as if it was happening, what she saw then was right in front of her eyes.
"Irina! Who was it?"
Karasuma-sensei asked wiping her tears carefully and stroking her cheeks as he could feel her breathing get heavy. The moment was getting too tensed and the atmosphere was suffocating when Irina-sensei whispered something.
"...R-Rick..."
Irina-sensei said and karasuma-sensei tensed up, his grip tightening around her as Irina-sensei was shaking.
"shhh...he's not here..."
As soon as Karasuma-sensei said that, Irina-sensei pushed on his chest, breaking the hug and looking at him with teary eyes.
"..n-no...I s-saw..him...in the g-garden..."
I became stiff and so did Rhea because we were the only ones in the house and in the garden. We looked at each other worriedly, but choose to stay silent.
While Karasuma-sensei was comforting her, I noticed a few bruises on her neck and arms, which made my jaw clench. I decided to leave the room with Rhea, we both went downstairs to the living room when she asked me,
"Would you like some tea, sir?"
"No...just water is fine, please.."
I said and she left, bringing me the glass of water after a while, she sat at a distance from me, as if wanting to ask something.
"I didn't see anybody..."
I said breaking the silence and getting a hint on what she wanted to talk about.
"Yes...even I didn't notice anything wrong..." She said looking down on her lap, fidgeting with the tray, I sighed and looked at her worried face.
"anyways, let's wait for what Karasuma-sensei has to say..."
I said after a while of silence, she nodded and left to keep the tray in the kitchen.
After sometime, Karasuma-sensei came downstairs, rubbing his temples, he looked really stressed. He came and sat across me looking angry and worried at the same time.
"How is she?" I asked to lighten up the atmosphere. Karasuma-sensei sighed and looked at me.
"She's not fine...well she's okay for now.."
He paused for a moment before continuing, his brows furrowed as he rubbed his hands together.
"Rick was the person who kidnapped her and..." He said while not wanting to speak the rest.
"ohh..I see" I said getting a hint on what he was implying, I didn't ask further questions, but Karasuma-sensei suddenly got up and called out to Rhea.
"Rhea, make something light for Irina to eat, Karma and I are going to my study..."
Karasuma-sensei said, before gesturing me to come with him.
"Certainly Sir.." Rhea said while we left the living room, Karasuma-sensei led me to his study, quickly opening his laptop.
"Let's check the footage..." He said and I nodded, going around the table to look at the screen. The CCTV footage only showed Kayano-chan and me coming to the house and there really was no one other than us around.
"It can't be Rick you know...he's dead.."
He said while opening the footage of the garden at around the same time.
I nodded to him, but when he saw me scaring Irina-sensei on the CCTV footage, I shuddered as I felt a glare at me, I awkwardly looked at him, mumbling my silent apologies. After a while of checking the footages we came to a conclusion that no one had entered the house and maybe, just maybe Irina-sensei was seeing things because of the trauma.
We went to the living room just about the time Rhea was leaving to get food to Irina-sensei's room.
"I'll call her doctor..." Karasuma-sensei said.
"I'll go to Irina-sensei's room...with Rhea of course..is that okay?" I asked.
"Yeah sure.." He said while already dialing the doctor's number and putting the phone next to his ear.
I followed Rhea to Irina-sensei's room. When we opened the door, she was sitting there, looking outside through the balcony door, She looked at us and slightly tensed up, relaxing after a while as we sat at a distance from her on the bed.
Irina's Pov:
I was looking through the balcony door, when my room's door suddenly opened, I tensed up a bit, but relaxed after knowing it was just Rhea and Karma. They sat across me on the bed. Rhea Handed me the pancakes while Karma leaned forward and picked up the hot chocolate, giving it to me. I hesitated a bit, I don't want this pity...I don't like seeing pity for myself...Tadaomi never does it, but others...I bit my lip and decided to say it.
"t-thank you, but I d-don't want the s-sympathy..." I said quietly and closed my eyes shut quickly, thinking I shouldn't have said that, but Karma only lightly chuckled.
"It's not sympathy...it's support..."
I slowly, but hesitantly opened my eyes to look at Karma, only to find a Kind look in his eyes and a kind smile on his face and when I thought about it, he was right, it never was any sympathy, it was always support, care and love. I smiled warmly, acknowledging his words. I felt a bit more relaxed....
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Karasuma's Pov:
"Rhea!" I called out from the staircase and Rhea and Karma both came downstairs, letting Irina have her meal quietly.
"Yes sir?" Rhea asked, I was still on the call and it confused both Rhea and Karma.
"Did Irina take her medicine today? after breakfast?"
The question made Rhea gasp as she remembered what happened.
"No sir, just as I was about to tell her to take her medicine, sir Karma arrived..and then.."
Rhea said quietly.
"I am sorry, I'll be more careful and make sure she'll take her medicine.." She said, feeling down a bit as it was partially her fault.
"No, it's fine..it's no one's fault...thank you for your hard work..." I said in a hurry and returned to the call.
"She didn't take her medicine, Ichika-san... is it because of that?"
"Hmm, it maybe, the medicines I prescribed are for anxiety and strees relief, well if you're saying she didn't take any today...then may be she hallucinated because of her trauma, it happens sometimes... hallucinating the face of the person who caused the trauma is normal...you have to be careful"
"I understand, I'll make sure to pay more attention.."
"hmmm...this just goes to show how much the incident has affected her...she's showing very less signs of healing you know, her mental condition will get worse at this rate...don't let her trauma overtake her, okay, Karasuma-san?"
"Right...thank you very much"
I hung up the call and looked at both Karma and Rhea, giving me a supporting look, I feel grateful to have all of them...
Right! we'll all get over this together, specially Irina...
Alright Guys, what's up?
been a long time...since it's my birthday week...I'll be releasing an extra chapter on the wednesday...rest, I am happy to be back on schedule...🤗
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We Are Better Together!
FanficIt's been 7 years since Koro-Sensei's Death, Irina and Karasuma are now married. They have been working for the Ministry of Defense and get to spend little time with each other, but still they are trying to figure out the way of life together and be...
