# 𝕯𝙀𝘼𝘿 𝘽𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉, sakamoto days. ( ✓ )

( .ᐟ ) 𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗧𝗘𝗦, two

I SAT ON MY BED AND WAITED for Gaku to return from training. The people in the orphanage started to open up to him despite being a troublemaker. The director often turned a blind eye to his actions for particular reasons — reasons I wouldn't want to disclose to him. It has already been a few months since Uzuki left.

Sometimes the orphanage felt empty without him — but I still had the others. I stood up because boredom got the better of me and mostly because I had some injuries that needed a little attention. Perhaps everyone but Gaku knew that I was a wreck when it came to medical skills. So because I'm such a genius I rushed over to Kumanomi.

The path to her room was etched into my muscles and unforgettable. I arrived in front of the door to her room and knocked before entering. The lime green haired girl only looked at me with a threatening gaze. "At least you knocked this time, what do you want?" She returned her attention to the little metal thing in her hand.

I stood still in my place as if I wanted to signal that I wanted something. Kumanomi observed me closer and saw the loose bandages slipping off from under my shirt. She sighed and scolded me, telling me to stop defending the others. "But it was for Gaku this time." I tried to reason but her response was tightening the bandage around my chest to suffocate me.

"Okay sorry!" I winced in pain and tried to regain my breath. She knew that scolding me wouldn't help since it became a habit, maybe I couldn't see it but I felt her plotting gaze behind my back. "No, we're not killing the director." she rolled her eyes and focused on fixing me up.

We shared a comfortable silence until Gaku decided to break it by barging through the door. "The fuck?" I asked while looking at Gakus laidback face. "You weren't in our room." I deadpanned at him, "You could have played with the others you know?" He shaked his head and mumbled something.

Over the months we grew inseparable — Gaku was always found somewhere in my safe distance and as for me? Nobody except close friends really knew where I was.

I couldn't exactly put my finger on what Gaku thought of me. It itched me in the wrong spot somehow — I wanted to have a long talk with him sometimes but never could bring myself to speak up. I noticed how he observed me or more likely Kumanomi. "Why are you injured?" He straight up asked me.

"I fell down the stairs."

"You're lying." Apparently I was more readable than I thought and Gaku just sat down in front of me. "I'm not telling you." I just looked away and Kumanomi finally finished patching me up and put the medical supplies away. "Can't you love birds not talk this out in your own room?" She asked annoyed but I knew she merely didn't want to disrupt the private conversation.

Gaku stood up and grabbed me by my wrist carefully and led us back to our room. After finally arriving at the familiar wooden space. He threw me onto the bed and laid down beside me, "Are you mad at me?"

"Did I give off the impression?" I closed my eyes because I suddenly got really exhausted as soon as my head hit the bed. "You didn't wait for me after training."That was true.

"You had the others."

"But I don't want them." That sentence caught me off guard and it seemed that for the first time in forever I could tell what he was thinking when I turned towards him.

"You should save that for your future lover." I turned away from Gaku and started to feel drowsy. Despite being trained to be an assassin for the order I always felt myself become defenseless around Gaku.

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"Uzuki called?" Gaku was the one who woke me up and said that some guy just left with that message. "What did he say?" I rubbed my eyes and yawned, I probably looked terrible right now but Gaku didn't pay any mind to that since he has to see me like this on a daily basis.

"He asked if you and the others were okay." I chuckled a little, of course he would ask that.

"As if he's in any position to worry." I didn't necessarily mean to insult him, it was just my way of saying that he should take care of himself more. "Would you worry about me like this too?"

I didn't even hesitate with my answer, "No." Gaku seemed to flinch a little at my tone. "Gaku don't get me wrong — the way I care about Uzuki is like a brother." Gaku was standing on the side of the bed as if he was watching some weak person dying.

"Come here." I stretched my arms out for a hug but Gaku didn't exactly get it. "I'm telling you to embrace me." I seriously had to teach him every step. Gaku seemed to hesitate a little before putting his weight onto me.

I took the second step.

I didn't exactly see his face but I still felt happy, right now it felt like it was only us two. Maybe that was the moment when I realized how attached I got to Gaku.

If I had to describe our relationship it would be a venus trap and a fly.

I wanted to say that I'd worry about Gaku way more than Uzuki but it felt weird in my mouth or maybe it was just that I was scared that Gakus affection would vanish into dust when I reveal my thoughts.

Gaku was breathing relaxed and without a care in the world despite being trapped in an orphanage made for the sake of killing. Sometimes I just wished to keep him close like this forever but just because I was a bird trapped in a cage didn't mean I had to trap other birds.

The least I can do for him is cover him from any harm called the orphanage, the birdcage.