Love in Death [nqrse] {On Hold}

Chapter III // Doubt

Closing the door behind me I walked down the hallway until I saw a familiar figure stumbling down to her room.

"(Y/N)...?"

POV Reader

That monster finally released me after hours of enduring this intense pain, physically and mentally.

I stumbled through the dark hallway, trying to reach my room without getting noticed, but my plan failed.

"(Y/N)...?"

"Shit..."

"(Y/N)!? Where were you? What happened to you!?"

"Nowhere and nothing. It doesn't concern you."

"It does!"

Opening my door with his card he grabbed my arm, making me hiss in pain, and dragged me in, shutting the door.
He turned on the light and came closer.

"Show me your arms."

I knew it would be useless to resist him so I did as he said, stretching out my arms while averting his gaze.

"What happened? Who did this to you? Was it that bear!?"

"It's fine, Soraru. I'm fine."

"You're not, don't lie to me! Take off your shirt."

"Are you completely nuts now?"

"Take off your shirt, please."

"..."

Although utterly embarrassed I knew better than to be childish in this situation and took it off.
The elder leaned in, staring at my exposed skin and the wounds covering it all over.

"That bastard..."

"It's fine."

"Did he see?"

"'He'?"

"You know who I'm talking about."

"No... He probably hates me."

"He would never. Go talk to him."

With a slight, unsure nod I walked to the room next doors, knocking softly.
Without a question he opened the door, his mood immediately changing to a more furious one.

"What do you want?"

"I need to tal-"

"Talk? About what? How much you dislike me? No thanks."

When he was about to slam the door into my face I quickly put my foot in between, wincing in pain.

"Please, listen to me!"

"No, you listen to me!"

He yanked my arm, pulling me inside and pushing me against the wall.

"n-nqrse-"

His hand wrapped itself around my neck, cutting off my way to breathe.

"Y-You're ch-choking me- I-I can't brea-"

"Do you know how much it hurts, hearing that you don't trust me? I thought you lo-"

"(Y/N)!!"

Suddenly Soraru burst into the room, making nqrse drop me in surprise.
I coughed, trying to catch my breath.

"Are you completely insane now!? What were you doing to her!?"

"I-I-"

"No, don't say anything. Did you even look at her? That bastard beat her up, nqrse! Take a goddamn look at her!"

While I was still on my knees nqrse crouched down, inspecting me.
When he realized how wounded I was and that he made the pain worse by grabbing me forcefully, he was on the brink of tears and threw his arms around me in a tight hug.

"I'm so sorry... I don't know what's happening to me... I hurt you..."

"Shh, it's fine... Everything's okay..."

I lay my arms around his neck, hugging him back.
Soraru stood beside us, observing our reunion with a smile.

……………………………

The next morning, everyone met up for breakfast again.
When I entered the dining hall, all eyes were focused on me and silence hung over the room.

"So you decided to show up again? What were you doing, assisting the bear in taking each of us down?"

"un:c! Keep it down!", Amatsuki scolded him.

"He's not wrong, though. It really was suspicious that she was gone the whole day.", Eve added to the conversation.

"Shut up! Leave her alone!", Mafu shouted through the hall.

"It's fine, Mafu. I don't blame you for doubting me. It's probably better this way. None of you should trust me, for your own safety."

"(Y/N)... Show them your arms."

I refused but Soraru decided to show them anyways, lifting my arms up himself.

"Do you see this? She got hit by Kuma yesterday. She has bruises and wounds all over her body. Do you still believe that she's on his side?"

"Maybe they did that on purpose to make it look like she's on our side? I still don't trust her."

"How can you even dare to say that about our friend!? Are you even realizing what you're doing right now!? You should be ashamed to doubt anyone here! We're friends, right...? Why must a plush toy and an unfortunate situation destroy our relationships...?"

By the time Mafu finished, tears were rolling down his cheeks which he desperately tried to brush away with his sleeve.

"Mafu is right. No matter what happens, I'll believe in (Y/N)!", Shima called out.

"Me too!!"

The purple- and white-haired took a step forward, towards me.

"I couldn't not be on my sister's side, could I?"

Urata took one step forward, too.

Soon, one after the other was standing near me.
The exceptions being Sakata, Eve, Sou and un:c.

"I'm sorry...", Sakata mumbled but I shot him a glance of forgiveness.

When Amatsuki tried to take a step forward, too, though, Kashi grabbed his wrist, held him back and shook his head.
Amatsuki looked at me with sadness in his eyes which I returned with a smile, telling him he shouldn't worry about it.

"It was not my intention to see who's on my side and who's not... But I'm still thankful. For everyone."

I gave them a bright, warming smile which they returned and we ended our meeting, leaving to our respective rooms.
Before everyone left, though, I held Shima back, asking him for a talk in private.
nqrse and Soraru were still in the kitchen, seeing me walk away with him.

"What is it?"

"There's something I'd like to ask of you. It's nothing bad, but it's really important to me, so I hope you can understand."

"Sure, what is it?"

"... I want you to stay by Urata's side forever."

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This chapter is a little bit shorter but it was the perfect point for a cliff hanger and we all love cliff hangers, don't we?
lmao-

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed!