Punch Me Again

Punch Me Again (Belarus x Reader)

Dirt scraped itself against your bottom, making your rough landing all the more painful. After recoiling from the impact, you glanced up at the girl standing over you, trying your best to not make a squeak. She towered over you, her platinum hair menacingly framed her face as she stared daggers at you. You backed up to a wall to make as much space between the two of you, but she quickly closed it as she approached you menacingly. Once again, you cringed back, anticipating anything that was thrown your way.

Before she could do anything more to you, there were footsteps in the distance, which queued her to fall back. Before she did, she grabbed you collar and stared intently into your eyes with her icy ones. "I'm finishing this later, same spot tomorrow. Got it?"

You gave a pitiful nod and she let go before retreating to some place you didn't care about at the moment. You leaned your head back and let out a sigh of relief, shutting your eyes. This had been going on for a few weeks now. You didn't even know what you did wrong, she just attacked you one day and things went on from there. She never really hurt you, as in actual punches and kicks, but a lot of what she said did. You figured that something had been going on in her life, and you never said anything back to her.

"Hm? (y/n)-san? I heard something back here, was it you?" the gentle voice brought you back to reality, remembering that they were probably the reason the girl had dunked out before anything else could happen.

Opening your eyes, you were met with your soft-spoken Japanese friend, Kiku. He had knelled down next to you with a concerned look painted on his face. "Yeah," you simply told him and closed your eyes again.

Unbeknownst to you, he creased his eyebrows by the slightest and nearly bore holes into you. For a gentle little man, he could be quite threatening. This caused one of your eyes to peek over to him and meet his subtle glare. A moment of silence swept over the two of you until you couldn't take his stare any longer.

"What?" you snapped at him. He, however, was completely unfazed by your outburst.

"(Y/n)," he started. You gulped nervously, knowing full well that when Kiku dropped an honorific, he meant business. "You are a good friend of mine, and I will not stand by if you are facing trouble. Please, be truthful and tell me what is going on."

You met his gaze, his previous scowl had turned into a slight frown. His genuine concern was painted a over his face, and almost made you throw your hands up and yell 'I give up!'

However, you opted out for the much simpler slump of the shoulders and long sigh. You turned to him after staring at the grass beneath the two of you and opened your mouth to fess up.

"Nat... has been..." you searched carefully for the right words to describe your current situation. "...pushing me around...?" The last word sounded like you were unsure about your own words yourself.

"You are being bullied?" He asked, shocked.

You quickly shook your head, hands going up to wave off misunderstanding "I wouldn't call it bullying! She hasn't really hurt me, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest so..." your voice trailed off, unsure of what else to say.

Kiku didn't believe you and gave you a stern look, you returned it with your own uncertain look. After a beat of silence, you shrugged and leaned back against the wall.  "If she is bullying you, you need to confront her about it," the boy pushed, unfazed by your calm demeanor.

Defeated by the determined boy (who you would call a very good friend at the moment if it weren't for you complete lack of concern for yourself), you sighed and shot him a half-assed smile. "Yeah, you're right. It's just... I feel like something's going on with her, ya know? I don't wanna antagonize her here," you huffed out to your friend.