Love caught up in my throat(Nagisa x Kaede)

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Nagisa

I was very reluctant to leave Kaede alone. Heck I actually considered spending the night at her house just to make sure she'll be fine. Seeing her vomiting those bloody blue flowers hurt me so much, I just wanted to take her pain away

I never knew she was harboring so much love for someone. I never knew she was suffering so much in silence, come to think of it, there's so much I didn't know about her up until now.

Like how her real hair color is black, why does she dye it? It's beautiful. As dark as a raven, and flies elegantly with the breeze when the wind comes. I think she looks good with her natural hair color, she looks beautiful

I'd like to see her hair down again, without the green dye

Crap. Did I just spent a full minute monologuing about her hair? This would be embarrassing if anyone, my friends mostly, heard my thoughts

"Mom I'm home" I call out as I opened the door. Thankfully for me, I was greeted with silence, and a dark hallway. She's probably working overtime, meaning she wouldn't be able to yell at me for coming home late, and wouldn't question why I smell like vomit and blood

I took a quick shower, washed my dirty clothes, and then hung them on the balcony of my room.

As soon as I laid in bed, my thoughts drifted back to Kaede. She looked so miserable and in so much pain, I want to take all that pain and misery away, I just want her to be a happy girl with no worries in life

But then again, It's hard to be a happy girl with no worries if you're given the hanahaki disease, there's also the part about us killing our sensei to save the world.

"Kaede" I whispered her name unconsciously. I wonder who is it that she loves? This guy must be really special, to have caught her eyes.

If I'm being completely honest, I don't fully know why I asked her out. It was just something I did, without fully thinking nor knowing of. She's my best friend, and up until a few days ago I've only just seen her as that, just my friend

But ever since she fell into that river and nearly drowned, I knew something had changed

I think it was at that moment I realized that I nearly lost her. And the thought of losing Kaede forever, hurts me more than I realize.

But I'm still unsure if I like her romantically or if I am confusing my feelings for her. She's my best friend, a person I care about, a person I wish to protect, is there more to it or am I wrong?

And tonight, I had so much fun with Kaede, and she seemed to have had such a good time with me too.

"Wait if she loves someone then why did she say yes to this date with me? Did I even confirm to her that this was a date?" I muttered with furrowed brows

I'm over thinking. I'm thinking about things that are unimportant when I should be focusing on Kaede's health. Rolling to my side, I reached for my phone on my bedside desk and turned it on, I searched for Kaede's contacts and sent her a message asking if she was alright.

She didn't respond so, I assumed she was asleep.

Sighing I turned off my phone and went to bed

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The next morning I arrived to school pretty early. I'm hoping Koro-sensei is already here, I need his advice on something.

"Sup Nagisa!" Karma called to me. I smiled at him, "morning Karma". He looked much chipper today than the past few days. "How did your date with Kayano go?" He asked me with a smirk, I turned a bit red and coughed. "It went...fine" I half lied

"Just fine?" He raised a brow. "What happened? Anything happened between you two?" He leaned his face closer to mine with a devilish grin "did you two kiss?"

"No!" I pushed his face away embarrassed, and he started laughing. I ignored him and went to my seat, Karma followed after me "hey sorry! But you should have see your reaction!" he chuckled "so, did you?" he asked me again

"I said no" I repeated firmly. The idea of me kissing Kayano? I don't know how to feel about it, I feel weird.

Karma remained by my side, hands behind his back, looking at me expectantly, like a dog waiting treats. I sighed and recounted the nights events to Karma, minus the events after our date when Kayano started vomiting blood and blue flowers

I'm still disturbed by the memory

He seemed satisfied enough, and left me alone.

"Hi Nagisa". I whipped my head back and came face to face with the girl who I was worried about all night. Kayano stood before me, smiling as if nothing was wrong in the world. As if I didn't witness her on the floor of her bathroom crying in pain while blood and saliva dripped down her chin.

I forced out a smile "Hi". For a few seconds we just stood in awkward silence, neither of us knowing how to break the ice. "Um, I had a great time last night, thank you Nagisa, for everything you did" she said to me sweetly "I-including afterwards"

From the corner of my eye I saw Karma whip his head to our direction

"It's no problem Kayano, anyone would have done the same" I eyed her throat. "U-uh, how do you feel?"

"Sore, but that's to be expected" she said with a light blush. "I need to go find Kurahashi" still smiling at me she spun on her heels and hurried out of the classroom. I felt the need to go after her and make sure she'll be alright, but I found myself remaining seated on my chair

Karma strolled over to me with a wolfish grin "Sooooo....guess you two must have had a REALLY fun night"

I stared at him in confusion. Before the implications slowly sunk in "KARMA!"

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Kayano

I left the classroom and stood behind the door, but remained there and listened to Karma tease poor Nagisa. I giggled to myself, knowing Nagisa will have to put up with Karma's teasing all morning

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Karma

After teasing Nagisa and enjoying it IMMENSELY, I left him by himself and wandered down the mountain. There was someone I wanted to pay a visit

Soon I arrived at the main building and found my target reading a book under a tree, his brows furrowed and eyes holding intense concentration. I snickered to myself, knowing what I'm about to do will piss him off

I pulled out a small water balloon from my pocket, and threw it at him.

"AH!" He yelled when the water balloon hit him square in the face, wetting his face and a small part of his uniform. "Akabane!" he growled angrily, glaring at me. "You and your childish pranks! Water balloons are forbidden from school you know" he stood up and slammed his book shut, glaring st me with such intesitiy it made me shiver

"And I never gave a crap about the rules, you know that" I gave him a toothy smile, pulling out another water balloon from my pocket

I threw it again and this time it hit his shoulder

"Akabane!" Asano began to run towards me. Sastified that my goal was accomplished, I began to run back to the mountain.

I was laughing while running, I looked over my shoulder and saw he was gaining after me, so I sped up.

I take pride in the fact that I'm the only one who can rile him up, the only one who can reduce Asano into a hot furious mess.

It's childishly stupid, but effective. It's the only way to get his attention

After all, to him I'm just an E-class low life, practically a bug under his shoe. He'll never look at my direction unless I call out to him in the most obnoxious way I know

that's why sometimes I hate myself for falling for him, and getting the hanahaki disease