Shangri La Pt. 1

21: Doubt

Though the blond thought all he had to do was just watch over the greenette, he didn't realize he had to do a lot more than just watch her. 

'Heh– This'll be easy, and I bet she's gonna be glad I've been watching her, and that means she won't be scared to be around me–not that she should be. This is gonna be–' 

The second he opened the door to the shed, Katsuki's mind went blank to see that it was still a dirty mess inside of the small place. As much as he thought the doctor cleaned up the place after treating the greenette, he was clearly mistaken. 

'She– Dammit, no wonder she didn't take that long, cause she made me have to clean this place! Fine, maybe she'll like that I cleaned her damn mess.' the blond thought with a sigh as he rolled up his sleeves and started cleaning the shed while the greenette was still asleep.

'Hah~ How's it so fucking hard to make a place like this so dirty? Huh–' 

After he finished cleaning, the blond couldn't help but look over to see the greenette still fast asleep and not appearing to be short of breath like before. She seemed to be more at peace now, but that also meant she was completely wide open. 

He leaned over her to get a closer look at her calm sleeping face, her cute freckles on each side of her cheeks, her long eyelashes and her soft pinkish lips. He couldn't help but stare over her lips as if he needed to do something, but strangely he started imagining things–like he'd actually rested his lips on hers before.

This kind of imagination almost intrigued him, as if he'd actually kissed this girl before, but why? 

'Why does this look... familiar? Have I... done this before?' he thought as he slowly leaned himself down towards the greenette to be mere centimeters from her face. He pressed his thumb on her bottom lip to feel how soft it was while his inner self started racing without any control. 

"Why're you the one that bothers me this much?" he muttered as he lowered himself more and more and then–

The sound of the door knocking interrupted the moment and caused the blond to stop himself and jerk upwards and away from the greenette. 

"W-What?" 

There wasn't a response, but the door opened to reveal Zeri had returned and the blond seemed a bit annoyed how fast the doctor had come back. 

"Ah– It seems you cleaned just like I expected you to." Zeri spoke as she entered the shed and knelt herself next to the greenette. 

"Arg– You knew I was gonna clean this place?" 

"Oh please, it just gave you something to do for the time. Anything bad happen to Izumi while I was gone?" 

"Tch– no." he answered as he averted his gaze over at the sleeping greenette. This caused the doctor to wonder if there truly was something going on between these two.

"You never met Izumi before that day in the forest, right?" 

"No, so why're you asking?" 

"Because I would like to remind you of something." Zeri started as she adjusted how she was sitting to face the blond. 

"Huh? Like what?" 

"I'm sure you've heard of the name of the Emerald Dragon before, right?" 

"Wha– Yeah, they were in the war, but I never saw 'em." 

"'She' was in the war, anyway, I'm sure you also know that Izumi here is a member of the Emerald Clan." 

"Yeah, what about it?"