The Ones Within: Utaite Version

Chapter 41: Escaping the Island

The next day, Mafumafu was the first one to wake up as he looked up seeing Soraru still asleep as he was leaning his head against Soraru's chest. He smiled slightly when he pushed the bangs out of Soraru's face to take a closer look at his facial expression.

In his sleep, Soraru looked more peaceful and not on guard the whole time. The albino found it cute how Soraru's hair got somewhat messier than before and giggled at that.

Mafumafu remembered how it was exactly like this when they were young as well and he smiled sadly when he saw some dark circles under his eyes, caressing Soraru's face lightly and leaned his forehead against Soraru's.

"Jeez, Soraru-san. You look so lazy and tired all the time... but you still manage to accomplish so much.... unlike me.

How you're acting towards me is just like in the past even though you lost your memories. You even remembered our promise about not leaving but did you forget about the other part of our promise or did your feelings change?

Even if you forgot my confession I still love you... Sora-chan. I love you...", Mafumafu confessed and leaned in pressing his lips lightly on Soraru's who still stayed motionless as Mafumafu blushed and regretted his actions.

"Ah, what did I do?! This is so embarrassing!", Mafumafu said as he covered his face. After he somewhat calmed down, he decided he should wake Soraru up.

"Soraru-san, wake up.", Mafumafu said as Soraru grumbled and tightened the hug but didn't let go or wake up. "Soraru-san!", Mafumafu repeated once again as Soraru opened his eyes blinking a few times before his sleepy and off-guard expression changed back to his usual expression.

"Good Morning, Mafu.", Soraru greeted and waited for Mafumafu to get off him which he did before standing up as well.

"We should probably wake the others up as well. Retrodot did say that he would leave for a few days but the time is almost over.

And it'll be only a matter of time until Retrodot gets back and notices that none of us are there.", Soraru reminded as Mafumafu nodded before walking over to Luz who was hugging Nqrse while Soraru went ahead to wake the others up.

"Luz-kun. Wake up.", Mafumafu said as he shook Luz who wasn't responding at all. Mafumafu tried to call him again but Luz didn't even react at all. Nqrse giggled as he woke up already after Mafumafu called out to Luz before.

"Mafu-kun, you can go ahead and wake up the others. I'll take care of waking up Luz.", Nqrse assured as Mafumafu nodded thankfully and walked away leaving the two of them alone.

He walked towards Urata and Sakata and saw that Urata was trying to wake the younger male up as he knew that he wouldn't have to do anything here and walked outside to see the others slowly waking up as well. "Amatsuki, wake up already or else we'll leave you here.", Soraru said annoyed as he shook the brunette several times.

The said brunette grumbled a bit but didn't make any attempt to wake up as Soraru felt a vein pop. "Kashitaro, I'll go wash my face so wake him up for me.", Soraru said as he saw the other brunette coming from the bathroom.

"Sure, leave it to me.", Kashitaro nodded as Soraru sighed in relief, coughing a bit before going into the bathroom to wash his face with cold water to wake him up.

Mafumafu watched him walking away before turning his attention back to Kashitaro leaning down to Amatsuki whispering something into his ear that made him jolt awake.

Mafumafu was confused and curious as he tilted his head, grinning when he saw Amatsuki blushing and covering one of his ears.

"K-kashi, don't you dare! You hear me? Stop saying such embarrassing things!", Amatsuki demanded as Mafumafu's curiosity grew even more.