Jun stumbled on his feet, almost falling flat on his face. However, he felt small hands grab his weak, and flailing arm, and the other, wound around his small waist. Trying not to strain his bruised neck, he slowly turned his head around and used his good eyes to see who it was. All he remembered seeing was a concerned look on his face, and his brown eyes staring at his distorted face. He was unable to mutter out the words ‘let go’ as his mind swirled in many colors and switched off on its own...
“--un...Jun, wake up please...”
He woke up to the sound of someone shaking him and calling his name desperately in his sleep. He only caught a small glimpse of who it was before closing his eyes again because of the pain coming back to his body. The last thing he remembered was being saved by his weak friend after he had gotten into a bad fight against four older boys from his school. He hated it when his friend came to his rescue. It only made him look like the weak one despite being the savior of his friend who was always the one being bullied.
“Please, Jun... I’m sorry I got you into this mess...”
“No you didn’t,” he grumbled through his split lips, “I was just...trying to save you...”
“I didn’t need it! I could fight on my own.”
“No you can’t,” he argued, “I always come to your rescue.”
“Fine,” his friend sighed in defeat, “but allow me to bring you home. I’ll call your parents and tell them you sleeping over.”
Jun grunted in reply and let his friend grab his arm and swing it over his shoulder. His legs were pretty stable but his body felt so weak he could pass out again in his arms. By the time he realized it, he was gently placed on his friend’s futon and his wounds were being dressed carefully by his friend’s hamburger like fingers.
“Thanks, Kazu,” He mumbled, turning painfully to his side so his back was facing his worried friend, “Thanks...”
“Anytime, J,” He heard him mumble under his breath before passing out cold again from the pain taking over his body.
He woke with a start, his body still in pain as he suddenly sat up. His whole body was sweating and he felt uncomfortable with the clothes he had on yesterday, all bloodied up and almost ripped from getting beat up. He lifted his arms up to take his clothes off, but realized he couldn’t move his right arm as it was being held by something soft and moist. Looking down, he saw his friend sleeping but his eyebrows were knit together like he was having a nightmare. He wriggled his friend’s arm free from under his body, and tried smiling when he realized his friend was tightly holding his bandaged hand. He didn’t want to wake him up just because he felt uncomfortable and instead laid back down, and faced his small friend. Using his left arm, he swung it around Nino’s small body, and pulled him closer until his forehead was touching his.
“Thanks, Kazu,” he whispered to his sleeping friend. He didn’t expect an answer any longer and just closed his eyes before going back to sleep again.
The two of them woke up a few hours later at the same time, with the was sun shining down on them from the skylight on the roof. Both of them stretched while yawning, their small hands still intertwined together. Jun felt a little bit better after smelling the warm fragrance of green tea seeping from the small gap under Nino’s door, and his friend who was now sitting up and grinning at him with half of his teeth.
Jun tried to hold back his laughter. His friend has recently been losing his teeth while all of his was complete in his mouth. The more his friend’s eyes went wide and his grin was touching his small ears, Jun opened his mouth and let out a round of laughter as tears came running out of his eyes.
