underground, nagi seishiro ✓

𖥻 02

i'm calling seishiro only "sei" here for a few chapters but it has a reason and it may annoy some of you so i just want to let you know it won't call him just "sei" for the whole story x

"we're here." reo parks his car and turns around to face you two in the back.

sitting in the passenger seat is a so called rin, although you're not quite sure if that's really his name.

the whole drive, he didn't say a single word to you and didn't really answer reo's questions, who is probably already used to his moods.

"remember, from now on we're platinum and devil yeah? no one here knows our real names, and if anyone asks you, you'd better say any other name." he speaks as if it's the most normal thing in the world.

after that, he eyes you and sighs a bit. probably because it's obvious that you two don't belong there.

"it would be best if you took off all that frills. that might irritate some there, in both ways."

suzume quietly removes her jewelry and hair clips from her caramel hair, which you do after a moment's hesitation - maybe it wasn't such a good idea to come here after all.

"let's go," reo laughs and together you get out of the car, have no idea where you are.

since you left the richer side of town behind you, you have lost your bearings. now you're in some parking garage that is no longer used. now you can already hear the loud music, the smell of alcohol and smoke and wild shouting, although you haven't seen a soul yet.

"hey, reo, who are they?" confused, you turn around to the voice and immediately your breath catches.

of course you wouldn't soon forget this hair, this face and the tattoos. standing in front of you is the guy who was in front of the café this morning. he also seems to recognize you, but apparently he is not very happy that you are there.

obviously you want to say something, but the look of the guy goes through your skin. the look is like the one from this morning, but so much more intense. you step from one leg to the other, the few seconds seem like several minutes.

"these are friends of mine. y/n and suzume," he points at you as he reveals your names to the white haired.

a few minutes ago, he told you not to reveal your real names, what was the point?

but apparently they know each other so well that he can trust him. "meet sei," reo laughs, coming up to him, whose name probably isn't really that, and giving him a brotherly thump on the shoulder.

seishiro looks suspiciously back and forth between you and suzume before rolling his eyes and turning to reo. he comes closer to his face, but even though his voice is muffled, you can understand him clearly.

"what the hell do they do here? these girls have no business being here! i get pissed off when i see their cocky faces," he murmurs, and reo's smile immediately falls.

he looks at seishiro with an evil glare, but quickly gives up and moves back towards you two. "come." he says emotionlessly and puts an arm around suzume's shoulder and together you walk in the direction from which the music is coming.

after only a few meters, the music is so loud that it booms unpleasantly in your ears and more and more people enter your field of vision.

the purple haired leads you further until you are in the middle of it. dancing and sweating bodies keep bumping into yours, which is why you slowly start to feel quite harassed and uncomfortable. you're simply not used to the whole thing and you think that you never will be.

above all, you're still not so sure whether the whole thing was a good idea or not.

"it's time, people. all rappers please come to the circle," calls a voice that belongs to a person with black hair.

"okay, you wait here now and then you'll see me on stage winning the battle," reo grins and then goes onto the stage, which isn't really a stage, but just a raised area built through pallets.

whether that's so safe is another question. you wouldn't voluntarily put a foot on that stand. for the next few minutes you hardly hear anything. people keep cheering and shouting until finally two people, one of them reo, enter the stage.

they both hold a mic in their hands. reo also has a hat on his head that covers half of his face. his whole appearance has changed. the always smiling sunshine reo is now devil a respected underground rapper; the crowd shouts the names of the rappers.

the other one seems to be some no names, if you understood correctly. and then your friends starts to rap, you're even are immediately impressed, he really didn't exaggerate when he said he was good.

in addition, he has to think up lines in his head in just a few seconds, you could never do something like that in your life, would be a pure embarrassment.

suddenly, a cold shiver runs down your spine, a feeling that you can't quite place spreads through you. the thought that you're being watched doesn't escape you, so you turn inconspicuously around your own axis until you're looking into two pairs of gray eyes.

these are familiar to you - it's seishiro. even when you catch him staring, he doesn't move a bit. if not, his gaze becomes even more sinister.

what does this guy have against you?

you can't remember having done anything to him.

"don't worry. he doesn't like rich, aloof little girls," says a voice next to you, looking at rin you get angry, don't like the term at all.

where does he get the right to call you someone like that, even though he doesn't know you?

"you better stay away from him. we don't want him to freak out," are his last words before he too runs to the stage.

he will probably be the next one to compete in a battle.

"what an ass." suzume, who is standing next to you has heard everything.

to be honest, you don't know if she means sei or rin, but it doesn't matter.

in your opinion, it fits both.