「Anime x Reader One Shots」

Reunion (Karma Akabane x Reader)

After graduating high school, it's always expected to run into your old classmates. In fact, it's something everyone ultimately expects, if not dreads. You had already run into old high school classmates just weeks after graduating. It wasn't something you hated at all. No, it brought a smile to your face seeing the people you spent four years of your life with. It reminded you that you were finally an adult.

So yes, running into high school classmates was something you definitely expected to happen. Never in your wildest imaginations, though, did you ever imagine yourself coming face-to-face with a classmate from middle school. That just brought back memories you only wished you could forget.

Between the outrageous class lessons, the tragedy of your beloved teacher, and situations you found yourself in with a certain student, your last year middle school wasn't something you cared to remember. But when you were forced to relive it the second you heard his voice? It was almost too much to handle.

"Well, what do you know?" the voice said from behind you. "Funny running into you in such a small cafe as this one, (Y/N)."

You froze in your seat. His voice was much more matured now than it was back then, but it was still easily recognizable without even having to look at his face. Yet, you did so anyway. Your body turned before your brain could stop you. Your heart skipped a beat when your eyes landed on his face. That red hair and pale, gold eyes... There was no doubt that this was him.

Karma Akabane.

Memories from so many years back suddenly rushed back to you; the strong feelings you held for the boy, the way you followed him around like a lost puppy. The day he told you he reciprocated those feelings you held for him when in reality, he was toying you around for his sadistic, little game. He humiliated you for months - mocking the emotions you had and making you believe they were a joke.

He thrived on your pain and boy, did you hurt. Even to this day, you felt that pain. It was as if he took that knife of his and stabbed you right through your heart, breaking what was left of it. You knew far too well that something that was once broken could never be the same again.

Tears sprung up in your eyes, but you didn't want to give this sadistic bastard the satisfaction of seeing you cry. He may have been able to torture you in middle school, but he no longer could. He had no power over you. Standing up from your seat, you finally managed to tear your eyes away from him. Confrontation was the last thing you needed right then so without saying a word, you tried to walk away. Before you could even take as much as a step, his hand grasped your arm tightly, stopping you in your tracks.

"Oh, come on. This is no way to treat an old friend, now is it?" he teasingly asked.

"You were never any friend of mine," you shot back, yanking your arm out of his grasp. His eyes bore into you, making you feel as if he could look right past your body and view all your inner emotions. You self consciously wrapped your arms around yourself as if it could stop him.

He chuckled softly. "I see you're still upset about what happened years ago. We were just kids, (Y/N). People change."

Yes, people did change, but not Karma. Ever since then, you've never been able to fathom him as human. Emotion is the sole aspect that makes people human, but those said emotions were something that this man lacked.

Either way, you could tell he wasn't ready to let you walk away so easily. Causing a scene was the last thing you wanted to do so in spite of your bubbling emotions, you pursed your lips tightly and took your seat once again. You couldn't help but wonder what he wanted to talk about. Why after all this time was he suddenly interested in talking to you again? It couldn't possibly be that he wanted to apologize out of the goodness of his own heart.

"You've certainly changed a lot since middle school," he commented as he took a seat across from you.

"I'm not sure I can say the same for you," you replied bitterly.

A laugh escaped his mouth. An obviously fake laugh at that. "Are you really still upset over what happened years ago?"

"You embarrassed me in front of everyone!" you cried. "You took my emotions and made them into a complete joke!"

He slowly leaned back in his seat with his arms crossed. "Can you really blame me for that? If anything, you only embarrassed yourself with how freely you expressed your emotions. I can still remember how you'd always stay by my side. It was almost as if you were my little pet."

"I was fourteen! I didn't know what I was doing!"

"Oh, on the contrary, I think you did," he replied with another chuckle. "You certainly seemed to know what you were doing when you confessed your undying love for me back then. Do you only try to write it off as a childish act because I rejected you?"

"You didn't just reject me... You stole my heart and publicly shattered it into millions of pieces. Couldn't you have at least waited until no one was around to do that...?" you asked, your voice cracking at the last sentence. Just thinking about that memory made you distraught.

A smirk suddenly appeared on his face. You used to love that smirk back then, but now you knew it was just pure evil. "Now what fun would that be?"

Tears sprung to your eyes in an instant. He was no different than how he used to be. How stupid could you be to even talk with him again? The only thing it resulted in was managing to crush your already broken heart. You desperately needed to get away from him and thankfully, someone allowed you that.

"Karma!" a voice called. "So this is where you ran off to."

The blue-haired boy came running into the cafe and over to where you sat with Karma. It wasn't hard for you to recognize him as Nagisa. Much like Karma, he looked nearly identical to how you remembered him years ago.

"Oh, (Y/N), is that you? It's been such a long time," he said.

"Yeah," you replied quickly as you got up from you seat, being sure to keep your head low so no one could see the tears in your eyes. This little reunion was far too much for you to handle at the moment. "I'm sorry, but I have to go now."

You managed to exit the cafe quicker than you ever deemed possible, but you just wanted to escape from the hell that was that man. How was it that he always managed to make you feel so weak and helpless around his presence? It just goes to show that someone like him could never change.

Now, the only emotion you felt when thinking of Karma Akabane was just pure sorrow.