Silver Infinity ((Kamukura X Komaeda))

Chapter Twenty One: Turbulence

"Someone shut her up."
"Can't we just throw her overboard?"
"Silence!" A more familiar voice hushed the annoyed men. "He is waking up."
Komaeda attempted to readjust his sleeping position but merely felt more discomfort as his head buried against an arm.
"Will he be alright?" A young child muttered, receiving no response.

"Sh-Should've just bled out, honestly." A girl stuttered, earning what sounded like a quick slap.
As Komaeda opened his eyes, he found his gaze having met red eyes looking down on him.
Without even a second to speak, the Pirate King pulled him close to his chest and stole a kiss.
He didn't know why, but Komaeda felt the kiss held emotion into it, he didn't want it to end, especially after how warm the Captain's lips were, but he was oddly breathless, forcing him to break it and look around to the entire crew staring him down.

"How are you feeling?" Kaito kneeled down to where Kamukura sat on the ground with Komaeda in his hold. "That was a nasty injury."
"We did the best we could." Ryoko hesitated. "Mukuro did most of the work though." The redhead gestured to a girl looking away from the scene, arms crossed, and focused on the ocean ahead. She was unfamiliar, but Komaeda felt gratitude nevertheless.
Still... "Injury?" He looked around to the crew, then to Kamukura. "What happened?"

The Captain was silent a long moment before sighing.
"My plan collapsed. I intended to get information out of King Hifumi, then divert him with the kernels as we departed. It would have been achieved had..."
Eyes turned to a girl standing a distance away. Not just any girl, but Toko, fidgeting her fingers.
"Do-Don't look at me!" She quickly hissed. "I was still wor-working for the King, what was I su-supposed to do? Just let the King of Pirates get away? I be-bet you all wanted me executed for something like that. Who wouldn't?"
"You need to stay silent, please." Shuichi glared her down before looking back to the men. "After you got hurt and fainted, Captain attacked the King and the guards attacked him back. Luckily Ryoko and I got back up in time and the commotion in the castle led us there. We got you both out but..." He suddenly winced, looking away.

"Does it hurt?" Kamukura gently traced his fingers down Komaeda's left arm before taking his bandaged hand in his own.
Yet, Komaeda couldn't feel his hand at all.
"I'm... I'm fine," He couldn't help but feel a little confused. His hand didn't have any feeling in it, and his wrist stung a bit, but he felt completely healthy. "I'll be okay, but how did Toko-?"
"She begged us like a baby to take her with." Ryoko waved it off quickly. "Captain can't turn away those in need, even if they're ratshit."
"That is not significant right now," Kamukura's eyes glazed with worry, yet his hold on Komaeda softened, as though he was restraining himself from squeezing out of worry.

He had never seen the Pirate King so full of emotion before. Perhaps to any other person, he didn't look different, but Komaeda... He could see it with only a glance. "It's no wonder you don't feel it." Holding his hand as gently as possible, Kamukura rose it up for Komaeda to see.
The bandage slipped ever so slightly, revealing the hint of wood underneath.
For Komaeda, it took a moment to register. He was fairly sure they wouldn't have needed wood to fix an injury, could his eyes be playing tricks?

"I request your forgiveness," Kamukura ushered, only loud enough for Komaeda's ears, before he tugged the bandage, revealing an entire wooden hand, with fingers attached with mere hinges.
"This..." For a long moment, Komaeda's mind couldn't fathom what he was looking at. Everything in his mind shut down, from concern, to fear, to anger, any emotion that might have been felt upon seeing your own hand was missing, was absent.
Was he dreaming? It had to be a dream, in what world could something like this happen?