"Do you have to go?" Karamatsu asked as I was about leave for work. "I've been gone for two weeks and the bakery, and my boss, needs me." I say adjusting the tie to my uniform (picture above) and saw Karamatsu look down sadly. I sigh and walk over to him, kissing his cheek, and smiled. "I'll be back at 4:30. What time is it?" I ask and he looks up "12:00" I nod "exactly, you can wait four hours can't you?" I ask and he nods "I suppose."
I kissed his nose "good. I'll be home before you know it." I say before leaving and beginning my walk. Even though Karamatsu felt better and could go home, he wanted to stay with me. So we share the home, living together like we're married, that thought always makes me smile because it's true. Despite only dating for two weeks, Chibita approving it, though I didn't need his approval, we acted like we've been together for longer, acting like a married couple.
As I enter the bakery I greet my co workers and get right to work. As I was working I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see Homura, she had been in town before but this time she would be staying, she also happened to be Jyushimatsu's girlfriend. "Hey Homura." I greet and she smiles "I heard you were dating Karamatsu." She says and I nod "two weeks strong." I say "I also heard about how you guys ended up together." She says in a softer voice, rubbing her wrists.
I glance at her and nod "yeah..unfortunate circumstances but I'm glad we're together at least. How are you doing with it by the way?" I ask and she smiles "a lot better thanks to Jyushimatsu. He's helped me like you've helped Karamatsu." She says and I chuckled "yeah I guess that makes Jyushimatsu and I similar when it comes to the ones we love. Willing to protect and care for them no matter what." I say wiping my slightly tearing up eyes
"Oh sorry, didn't mean to make you cry!" She exclaims and I wave my hand at her "it's okay. I'm okay. I just get sad thinking about how Karamatsu used to be so depressed. Even now he isn't completely better. But it's okay because he's better at least." I say with a smile.
Before I knew it it was time for me to head home. I was so happy to be heading home. On the way home I ran into Totoko. I gave her a quick hello and rushed home excited to see my boyfriend. When I got home I was greeted by Luna and Zuko. I didn't think anything of it other than Karamatsu might be napping. Until they both started to nudge my legs in a certain direction before leading me.
They lead me to the bathroom where I heard the shower running but I also heard the water muffled sounds of crying. Not giving it a second thought I pushed the door open and saw Karamatsu in a sitting fetal position under the shower head with only his pants on.
"Karamatsu? What's wro-you're bleeding!" I shout running over to check on him but he pulled his arm back. "you don't have to pity me." He says in the most broken voice I have ever heard from him. "What? I'm not pitying you." I say and he turns to look at me "sure you are. Why else would you care?" He says and I reach out to rest my hand on his shoulder. "Because I care about you and I love you now let's get you out of here." I say pulling him out of the shower and sit him on the toilet seat. "You say that but that's just you telling me what I want to hear...you're just doing this out of pity...you're probably only dating me because you pity me." I looked at him in shock as I grabbed the bandages.
"I mean...Why else would anyone as beautiful as you want to date someone like me?" He says dropping his head down. I lift his head and look him deep in the eyes before kissing him with as much love, care, and passion as I could give. I pulled back and held his face gently "because you are gentle, honest, loyal, nice, funny, caring, and very loving." I place a kiss on his face with each word ending on his lips "Now..why do you think I'm doing all this, that makes you happy, just because I pity you."
He let out a long sigh "okay, I'll tell you why..." he started and I begun wrapping his wrists.
"it started after you left for work."
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Shattered Mirrors (Depressed Karamatsu x reader)
FanficI don't want to give anything away. So I'll just give a warning. This includes mild swearing.
