~A YEAR AND A HALF LATER~ ___________________________
Reader It had been a year and a half and Shu and Valt were now married. They were still very much into Beyblading. Unfortunately, Valt and Shu had to be apart for awhile to be on separate Beyblading teams. Valt joined BC Sol in Spain, and Shu joined The Raging Bulls in America. They've been apart for six months, but they were keeping in contact by texting and calling. Until recently anyway. Rantaro haf actually joined BC Sol with Valt, so that was a plus that he knew someone on the team. There were times the two of them wanted to quit the team, due to most of the members always treating them so poorly. __________________ Valt "Honcho, you awake?"
I whispered loud enough for him to hear me. Our third roommate, Kit, was passed out already.
"Yeah... Why?"
Honcho replied.
"Do you ever wish you hadn't come to BC Sol? Do you wish you would've just stayed home, in Japan?"
"Heh... More often than I'd like to admit. I take it you do too?"
I couldn't answer right away. I knew if I even opened my mouth, I'd start bawling. That's how bad I wanted to go back to Japan.
"Valt? Do you?"
"Mhm..."
'Shit, I still ended up crying?! Shu... I wish you would message me or something!'
I thought to myself. I was trying not to cry too loud and wake Kit, but it was hard to even breathe without bawling or yelling. ---------------- I was one of the first ones to wake up for once. I couldn't get back to sleep, so I just went and took a bath to relax. Or, try.
*TRIGGER WARNING*
I didn't realize at first, but I leaned back in the tub and saw I had my blade in my hand. I brought it from home. I looked at my arm and saw the scars I already had from my previous self-harm episodes. I knew I was about to ruin a year's worth of being clean. ---------- My arm was dripping blood, making the bath water red too. I drained the tub and made sure there wasn't even a drop of red water. I didn't want Honcho or Kit to know, especially Kit. He's too young. I didn't have any long sleeve shirts and it was too hot to wear a hoodie. I looked around and found some wrapping bandages. I put a paper towel over the cuts and wrapped my arm over it so the bandage wouldn't get hung on said cuts. I felt tears streaming down my face as I thought of what I was gonna say when people asked me about my arm. --------- I really didn't feel like training today, but I knew Trad would stay on my case if I didn't. I saw Stan come in the gym and I knew I was about to get teased by him.
"Woah, what did you do to your arm? You trip over a pebble? Haha! You walk just about as good as you Beyblade, and that's not very good at all."
I didn't say anything back, I knew it wasn't gonna be of any use. I checked my phone to see if Shu messaged or called me. Unfortunately, no.
"Valt! You finally realize you suck at Beyblading?! Hahaha, it's about damn time!"
Jango yelled to me across the room. I got up and ran outside with my arm covering my eyes. I needed to get away from everyone, so I ran out into the woods where Free would most likely be. I didn't care if I got in trouble at this point either. Maybe Chris will kick me off the team. ----------- I still had tears running down my face as I walked around in the forest. I did end up seeing Free, but I just walked past him with no eye contact. Unfortunately, he saw me.
"Hey, what are you doing all the way out here?"
He asked me. I didn't respond, but I looked over my shoulder only slightly. I kept walking until I ran into a buck. It tilted its head and stares at me, but I just decided to keep walking.
"Valt!"
Free yelled my name, but I still ignored him. I sat at the bey stadium that Free used for training, and all I could think about was Shu and being bullied here. They all treated me worse than they did Honcho. I pulled up a picture of Shu and I on my phone and stared at it for awhile and began crying again.
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"Valt. Why are you out here?"
Free asked again as he came up behind me.
"*Sigh* If I didn't answer you the first two times, that should tell you that I don't want to talk... Leave me alone."
I was shocked at how I just spoke to Free.
"Hey!"
Free yelled at me as grabbed my cut up arm to pull me back and spun me around. I hissed in pain.
"Fuck!! Let go!"
I screamed at him.
"I didn't mean to hurt your arm, I apologize. What did you even do to it?"
There was no way in hell I was gonna tell him.
"Don't worry about it. I gotta go talk to Chris."
"About what?"
"...Quitting BC Sol." ------------ I had talked to Chris and Trad and I was happy to be going back home. I packed my bags and went to tell everyone bye. The ones that cared at least. I was debating on if I should go back home, or to America to check on my husband. I was starting to worry more and more. ------------ I decided to go to America to see what was up with Shu. Not knowing how he was doing was just making me more depressed and I couldn't handle it. I got to the Raging Bulls' building and went inside. I saw all the members training, but I didn't see Shu. I went to find their head boss to ask him where my husband was.
"Hi, I'm Valt Aoi. I came to see Shu Kurenai, is he around?"
"I take it you're a friend of his?"
"I'm his husband. Please, tell me where he is."
The boss stared at me, then finally spoke.
"Come with me."
I followed him. We were walking for awhile and I didn't know where he was taking me. I was feeling scared but also happy to see my boy.
"I must warn you, Valt, Shu is no longer the same as he was before."
"What do you mean?"
He opened a door and gestured for me to go in first.
"See for yourself."
I looked inside as I walked in and I saw a guy with a mask on. The eyes of it were red. The guy had a long white sleeveless cloak with red on the rim of the collar that was up, just like Shu always had his up with his black vest. He also had a metal arm on his left arm, but it wasn't a prosthetic, it was just for looks. I saw he had white hair and the same hair style as Shu, but it was longer now.
"Wait, who is that?"
I asked Theodore.
"He's your husband, Shu Kurenai."
"Sh-Shu?!"
------------------- I'll make him be known as Red Eye in the next chapter. Sorry for the depressing half of the chapter, just wanted to work it back in for a bit. Now shit is getting interesting. Excuse me while I go wait for the new episode of My Virtual Escape to be uploaded!!!
