Life in Borderland

The Map

Kagami's head was resting in Chishiya's lap and the pair wore nothing but their underwear. Chishiya's back was pressed against the pharmacy desk, that Kagami was on top of not too long ago, and he stared straight ahead. His fingers were trailing across her shoulder and collar bone while Kagami quietly examined his face. She could still feel his fingertips and lips on her body and she hoped that the feeling would never go away. Chishiya made her feel safe, which was a rare feeling for her. Kagami had always learned to expect the worst and despite knowing that Chishiya had a ruthless side to him, she trusted that he was sincere when he told her had feelings for her.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Chishiya smirked, looking down at Kagami who flashed him a grin.

"I like your face." She said simply, stretching her hand upward to touch Chishiya's hair. "You need to do a redye though." She added with a chuckle before she sat up and picked up her black singlet.

As Kagami pulled the singlet over her head, she moved to find the rest of her clothes that had been strewn around the pharmacy while Chishiya remained seated. His eyes watched her every move as she found her clothing and slowly got dressed. Once she was fully clothed and had gotten her shoes back on, she turned her attention to Chishiya's clothes. Picking up his grey t-shirt and the white sweatpants, she tossed them over to him before she grabbed the blue gradient cardigan that she held close to her chest.

"You seem like you're in a rush." Chishiya said as he pulled his T-Shirt over his head.

"There is a murderous gunman on the loose and we've already been here for... awhile." She said, trailing off as her thoughts became lost in the things they had done not even fifteen minutes prior. As Chishiya got to his feet to put his sweatpants back on, he smirked at Kagami.

"I like to be thorough." He said with a shrug, making Kagami bite down on her bottom lip as she tried to contain her smile.

"You definitely do." She said back. "But, I have a plan. If the blimps show us where all the game arenas are, we should find a map so we can mark where all the games are. That way we can pick and choose what games we want to play and work out the quickest way to get there." She explained, looking around the pharmacy from where she stood to see if she could catch a glimpse of one laying around.

"That's a good plan." Chishiya replied. He was now fully dressed and walked towards Kagami. "Let's go and find this map then." He said, grabbing onto the gradient cardigan that Kagami was still holding onto to.

Kagami almost didn't want to let it go. It smelled like him and Kagami found that somewhat comforting. Reluctantly letting him take it back, she watched as he looked her up and down before he put it back on. Kagami resisted the urge to kiss him by moving down one of the four isles to instead focus on finding a map. Looking back over her shoulder towards where Chishiya was, she noticed that he had taken it upon himself to look around the desk. He wasn't looking at her and Kagami couldn't help but smile to herself as she watched him for a few seconds longer. Her feelings for him were stronger now that she knew he at least returned some sort of feelings for her. She had spent so long trying to bury and deny them that it felt nice to know that she didn't need to anymore. Looking back ahead, Kagami continued to walk, looking at the many different items that filled the shelves. It was obvious by the state of the pharmacy that they hadn't been the first people to raid the store and as she saw blood on the ground ahead of her, her suspicions were confirmed.

Kagami very slowly followed the trail of blood, it was unlikely that whoever had left this behind was still in the building. After all, Kagami had been making quite a bit of noise not long ago, so they surely would have heard her. As the trail of blood lead her around the corner and into the second isle, her eyes widened as the trail came to a stop. Her eyes were locked onto a single piece of fabric that had clearly been torn off of a piece of clothing. She would have recognized the pattern anywhere. It was Niragi's shirt from the Beach.