Troublemaker - ❌Juuzou Suzuya❌

6- Shinohara

Juuzou gave up.

It was fine, of course. He was going back to a better, more fun place. A place where he was given everything he wasn't given here, at the academy.

The kagune flew ever so closer to Juuzou's stomach, and finally it had made impact.

It crunched through his skin and bone, and got drenched in blood as it came to a halt. It stuck out of his body proudly, like a sculptor that was proud of his statue, or a scrapper proud of the show that he had put on.

Big Madame landed with a thud, looking thoroughly disappointed despite the fact that the kagune had made impact and even managed to pierce though his body; making it more than easy to carry him back home.

Well, almost.

Juuzou took his hands off his eyes as he looked up to find the kagune. Instead of being inside him, knocking him senseless, he found the large body of Shinohara, lugged over Juuzou in an overprotective fashion, shielding Juuzou from the attack.

"S-Shinohara..?" Juuzou looked up with watery eyes, astounded once again by the show of compassion.

Shinohara smiled emphatically.

"That's funny..." snorted Big Madame, landing on her feet after the huge jump, "I wasn't aiming for you."

Shinohara steadily got to his feet, stumbling over once or twice with the pain of the blow he had taken clearly leaving its mark.

"E-everything... you said... about Juuzou... was WRONG!!"

Juuzou looked up in surprise. Big Madame looked over in confusion.

"What are you going on about..?"

He turned to face her head on, also revealing the damage to his back to Juuzou. His expression went from surprised to surprised and worried as he saw the depth of the wound, and how severe it was.

"Everything you said about Juuzou... NONE OF ITS TRUE!!" He was panting in agony as even that simple sentence seem to pain his body.

"Yea I heard you the first time maggot, but what do you mean..??" Big Madame was getting impatient and grew back another kagune to replace the one she had detached.

"What you said before... that Juuzou was just a killer... that's he's a tool... that he doesn't care about us... that we don't care about him... that he'a just for making money... THAT HE'S AN EMOTIONLESS TROUBLEMAKER... it's all wrong..." Shinohara staggered as he went a few steps towards Big Madame, who carelessly watched on.

"Oh yea..? Come on don't deny it, you know what he did when he was young. He was a scrapper and no monologue is gonna change that..." Madame also started moving towards Shinohara now, as the people from the busy road crowded on the sides, looking on at the calamity.

Shinohara looked up again with pure determination and hatred, as well as some compassion for Juuzou in his eyes.

"The person you talk about... isn't Juuzou..." He got some raised eyebrows and confused looks in reply. "The person you're talking about is Rei. A killing-machine, emotionless, careless; a tool which has no place in this society. The person I'm talking about, is JUUZOU SUZUYA. The dependable, heart-warming, caring, funny, strong, and misunderstood soon-to-be investigator of the CCG. The Juuzou Suzuya who's into donuts and giraffes and wouldn't think twice about saving a friend. The Juuzou Suzuya that wants nothing but to be in bed right now with a lot of anime and cake. The Juuzou Suzuya that skips classes and has a strange obsession with stitches. The Juuzou Suzuya who is sitting behind me right now. He's an angel that dropped out of the sky because his past had cut off his wings. I don't know this Rei guy that you're looking for because I certainly haven't ever met him."