Sargent Akabane

chapter 23

"Ouch-Karma that hurts!"

"Nagisa hold still and it won't hurt as much."

"Can't you be a LITTLE more gentle?"

Karma rolls his eyes at Nagisa as he tugs on his wrist and I wine. "Ouch."

"Sorry," He says furrowing his brow,

after seeing the marks on Nagisa's arms Karma took the liberaty of tending to the wounds.

The pair sat on the bed in the school infirmary, Nagisa's hand rested on Karma's knee so that his arm was infront of the redhead who was applying peroxide to the open cuts, none of them where bleeding but they where fresh. "Ouch!" Nagisa yelped again as Karma dabbed the damp  cotton ball on one of the cuts before tossing it in the trashcan.

"I'm almost done," He spoke gently, Nagisa kept his eyes on Karma's hands as he grabbed gauze to wrap his arm in so that it wouldn't get infected by anything else. Once it was done Karma sighed and stood up putting everything away in the cabinets. Nagisa sat on the bed pulling his sleeve down and stared down at his knees as he tugged at his pants tightly.

Now that Karma knew he felt anxious and vulnerable around the redhead. "So how long has this been going on?" Nagisa glanced up as Karma finished putting the last of the equipment away before heading back to the bed. Once he got closer Nagisa looked away and ignored the feeling of Karma sitting down next to him. Karma waited for an answer but didn't receive one, he felt frustrated but, he understood. He didn't expect Nagisa to open up about something like this, not this quick. Though the redhead worried what would have happened if he hadn't discovered the smaller boy's arms.

He furrowed his brows looking at Nagisa who refused to look at him, Karma sighed and leaned forward taking Nagisa by the shoulder. Nagisa let out a short yelp as Karma pulled him into a gentle hug.

Nagisa's eyes widened and his lips trembled, he bit back the urge to cry once more. "Shh, shh....it's okay..it's okay," Karma whispered as he combed down Nagisa's messy blue hair with his hand. He rested his chin on top of the smaller boy. "It's okay Nagisa, I'm here; everything will be okay I'm here now."

"I want to become stronger..." The smaller boy muttered, Karma smiled slowly. "I want to be strong like you.."

Karma planted a kiss ontop of Nagisa's head and continued to coress the boys silky blue hair. "Between the two of us you're the stronger one Nagi."

The bluenettte lifted his head curiously as he looked at Karma with wide eyes and a blush crossed over his cheeks. "Nagi?" The boy repeated, Karma realized what he said and blushed himself.

"Oh-uh-" He scratched his cheek nervously trying to think of an explaintion. "S-sorry I-I didn't mean to-"

"I...I like it.." Now Nagisa was the one to smile, the adorable innocent smile of his. Karma stared at him with a deep loning for the smaller boy and he smiled happily.