Koshi's Curse

Sorry Not Sorry

Setting Suga back into the tub, Daichi got the sprayer once more and used one hand to grip the still trembling cat beneath his chest. Looking up at his friend, the setter spoke wearily.

"Please don't drown me..."

"I won't, promise. Just stay still, I don't know if I'll have enough bandages to cover anymore scratches." He murmured, causing Suga to huff unsympathetically.

"Serves you right, letting your little sister bathe me!" He snapped, but then ducked his head a little.

"I didn't mean to make you bleed though... Sorry."

Daichi chuckled softly as he began to rinse the soap from his fur with care.

"No, you're right. I deserved it."

"Yeah... You kinda did."

Managing to finish Suga's bath without further traumatizing either of them, Daichi left his friend in the tub as he fetched a large white towel from the bathroom shelf and carried it over.

"Alright, come here."

Wading through the shoulder high water as if it were a mud filled bog, Suga gingerly stepped to the side of the tub and propped his front feet up on the edge where Daichi reached down with the towel and scooped him up. Swaddling him nice and snug, the captain used the edge of the cloth to carefully rub at Suga's head, drying his ears and dabbing water droplets out of his eyes. Smiling as he did his best to dry the rest of his friend, Daichi snickered.

"You look like a drowned rat."

"I feel like one too." Suga said, baleful.

"Don't let anyone else take me, Daichi. I feel like a creep hearing conversation I shouldn't, your sister is sweet, she doesn't deserve that."

Nodding his head, the brunette set the bundle of shivering cat on the closed toilet lid so that he could get ready for his own shower. Turning to pull the plug in the drain and rinse out the tub, Daichi looked back over his shoulder with an apologetic expression.

"Again, sorry about that... I didn't expect her to just grab you, but I'll be more careful. Are you okay to sit there while I shower? Warm enough?" He asked, tugging his shirt off as he stood and then grimacing at the claw marks that ran the length of his body, stretching from his left shoulder to his navel.

Hunching down in his towel, Suga looked on extraordinarily guilty.

"Oh my god, I can't believe I did that to you, I'm so sorry!"

Daichi waved off his fretting as he examined the damage in the mirror. With the long crimson scratches standing out against his tan skin, it looked like he'd been attacked by a baby tiger.

"It's fine Suga, I'm sure it won't look so bad after I rinse off. I'll shower and then we can get something to eat, sound good?"

Still feeling horrible, Suga nodded his head and buried himself up to his nose in the towel.

"That's fine... I'm sorry..." He mumbled again, making Daichi laugh softly as he continued to undress.

"Stop apologizing, I'm not mad."

"Sorry..." He muttered again.

Exhausted from the horrible day he'd been having coupled with a cat's excessive need to sleep, Suga's eyes fell shut. Listening to the sound of the shower turning on, the third-year setter quickly drifted to sleep as his friend disappeared behind the bath curtain, not even noticing as Daichi hissed at the sting of water hitting his scratched up chest.