Light Impulse

Reality Check

When Chifuyu's phone started beeping loudly he didn't really have to look to know what it was about. It was early in the morning and a chilly breeze had come on during the night making his room freezing cold through the window that was opened just a bit. He hadn't been able to sleep much. It had taken all of his self restraint to not wait outside Mitsuya's door all night to make sure she wouldn't leave. He had tossed and turned wishing he had had the nerve to just spend the night with her. With a pit in his stomach he turned around and grabbed his phone. The app was already buzzing with confusion when he opened the picture that started it. A picture of Yuuna's phone and a handwritten note that only read ' Think about it ', left on Mitsuya's kitchen counter. He flung his phone across the room and cursed angrily as he let himself fall back into bed. He pressed the base of his hands against his eyes as he muttered continuous curses for a while. Anger started to bubble in his chest again as all that was said and done started replaying in his mind. He couldn't believe they could possibly have been this dense. "And now she's gone!" He yelled angrily as he jumped out of bed. He picked up his phone from the corner of the room ready to give everyone involved a piece of mind but he was surprised to find the chat had simmered down already. He scrolled back a bit. Most of them weren't aware something had occurred and were asking for context. But at the bottom, right after Izana was wishing everyone involved into the deepest pits of hell, Baji intervened.

" Everyone pipe the fuck down, give me until sundown. I think I know where she is," he wrote resolutely and surprisingly enough, everyone shut up.

He quickly put his phone to his ear.

"What the hell happened?" Baji growled, the sounds of him walking down a couple flights of stairs in the background.

Chifuyu didn't really know where to begin.

"What can I expect when I find her?" Baji asked when Chifuyu remained silent.

" If you find her," Chifuyu said angrily.

Baji laughed sarcastically. "Idiot, look at the date," he said over the clinking of keys.

Chifuyu pulled his phone up to his face and blinked at the corner of his screen. It was the 31st of October.

"You get it now?" Baji chuckled. "Now, what can I expect? Is she in worse shape than the last time I saw her?" He asked in all seriousness.

"She had a bad fever last night and collapsed after a fight at Mitsuya's, her leg has been bleeding the biggest part of the afternoon and well into the evening," he said reluctantly.

"What the hell?!" Baji roared over the sound of his motorcycle engine starting up. "What the fuck happened?" He asked angrily. "I told her to not overexert herself or her leg! Ungrateful wench," he added in an angry mumble.

Chifuyu shook his head. "She couldn't help it, we were being tailed by a set of mercenaries. We stuck it out in a manga cafe for a while before Taiju came to sweep the place and get us out," he said, he awkwardly noticed how his body remembered their time at the manga cafe all too well too.

"What about that fight at Mitsuya's?" Baji asked as he manoeuvred his bike out of the parking lot.

Chifuyu sighed. "We were busted out by Taiju because Mikey had sent him in prematurely. He had been stalking the bullets in the app, saw Takemichi stalling near us and sent Taiju, Koko and Inupi in on his own accord, assuming something was up," he grumbled.

Baji roared with laughter now. "He is stalking her?" He coughed, unable to drive off because of his laughing fit.

Chifuyu clenched his jaw angrily. "He's losing his cool, man," he said as he heard Baji take off by the revs of his engine.