|Together| Kenji Kishimoto x Reader

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Everyone rushes toward Castle. He is practically tackled by James, who is then pushed of the way by Ian. Castle is laughing and smiling.

"I'm all right. Thank you so much for your concern. But I'll be alright, I just need a little more time, that's all." His voice sounds strained, like he hasn't used it in a while.  "Please, help me up. I'd like to greet our newest visitors."

Winston and the new girl help him up. He walks over to us, struggling.

"Mr.Warner. Ms.Warner Anderson. How nice of the two of you to join us."

"I'm not joining anythi-" Aaron starts to say but is interrupted by Castle again.

"I always knew Ms. Warner would. You I wasn't always sure but I am pleased."

I smile at Castle while Aaron seems to be trying not to roll his eyes. I elbow him gently in the ribs.

"You may let the guns down now, I promise to watch them closely in your absence."  Aaron sighs and lets the guns float to the floor.  "Very good. Now, if you'll excuse, I think I'm in need of a long shower. I hope you won't mistake my early exit for rudeness, it's only that I feel quite certain we'll be seeing a lot of each other in these next weeks."

Aaron tenses and I shake my head at him.

"Juliette? A moment of your time, please? In private?" He asks.

"You can use my room, I don't mind." James offers. "Adam will be okay," He says to Juliette. "He's just really stressed out. He's worried about a lot of things. He thinks we're going to run out of food and stuff."

"James-"

"It's okay, I'll hang out with Alia and Lily." He says, which convinces her to leave the room. I look towards the two girls left in the room.

"Hi, Lily." I say. She was so sweet to my during my time at Omega Point.

"Hey. I don't think you met Alia when you where at Omega Point."

"Nope, hi Alia, I'm y/n." I say smiling at the girl. She gives me a half smile but doesn't say anymore. We stand in an awkward silence before James says;

"I'm glad Castle is back."

"Yeah, us too, James." Lily says, he turns to me.

"It was kinda scary, him not talking." I nod at him and ask;

"How did you get out? Weren't you supposed to stay behind?"

"Yeah, but I didn't want to be there so I left."

"It was a good thing he did too." Adam says, him and Kenji have returned.

"Where are J and Warner?" Kenji asks. Alia points towards James' room. He sighs angrily and storms towards the door. Before he can open it himself Juliette does for him.

"What the hell you two think your doing? Get your asses out here, right now." He says through gritted teeth. Juliette comes out followed by Aaron. Again Adam looks like he wants to punch someone, probably my brother at the moment. Juliette turns red almost instantly.

"Adam, it's not what it looks like."

"I can't even talk to you right now. I can't be near you right now."

"Please," she tries to reason with him. "We were just talking."

"You were just talking? Alone? In my brothers bedroom? What the hell is going on, Juliette? What is happening right now?" He yells. This is worse than the flirting that goes on between her and Aaron.

"Can't we talk about this in private-"

"No," he cuts her off. "I want to talk about this now, I don't care who hears it."