Cardfight!! Vanguard: Heiwa

-Part 5

After the fight between Izuru and headmaster Endo ended with an absolute defeat for the former, Minami carried Izuru across dark and empty areas of the city by putting his right arm around her neck. It was a long process that took more than an hour, because of the difference in weight between the two and Minami's lack of strength, but also because of a lack of cooperation from Izuru. If she had left him at the parking lot and run away, he'd understand.

But eventually, they arrived at her home, where she dropped him on the yellow couch in the living room and began panting.

"I live alone so he won't be here. You're probably hungry, right? I-i'll go make dinner." Minami said, running off to the kitchen, but was stopped by a question.

"Why?" Izuru asked.

"W-what do you mean..."

"You know what I mean... It's all true. Nothing of what he said was a lie... I actually did that. I beated Nijimura-san's brother when we were in middle school. Even after my knuckles were a mess from so much hitting, I kept going... And then I used Ryuuga's power and the power of those he knew to cover everything up. What your father said was true, I am a violent berserker." Izuru admitted, looking down on his lap. "So why did you bring me here...?"

Minami bit her bottom lip and walked back to Izuru.

"I'm as terrible of a person as your father said I-"

The pink haired girl raised her hand and swung it across Izuru's face, making him look up to her.

"M-mina-"

"Shut up... Who cares about what you did...? You aren't like that anymore..."

"But I attacked your-"

"Stop calling him my father!" She exclaimed. "Endo Mitsuaki isn't worthy of being called that! That thing isn't my father, he's just something that pays for my expenses, nothing more! You only raised your hand against him because he pushed your buttons, it's all his fault, not yours! I know the Izuru I met that day... I know you're well past that berserker crap! I want to believe you are!" She cried. "S-so who cares if you beat up Nijimura-san's brother or Ban or Endo or whoever... That isn't who you are now... Right?"

Izuru remained silent and frowned.

"Answer me!"

"I... I don't know... I don't know! I keep ignoring that past and acting like an innocent fool, like someone who can protect Heiwa, but I don't know!" Izuru cried, looking down. "I didn't mean for it to end like it did... That guy, he bullied Tate... And I happened to find the two alone... A-and Airi tried to stop me and Tate tried to stop me but I just kept hitting him and hitting him... B-but I didn't want for his family to be destroyed.... I didn't want to ruin Airi's life! But my dream of one day protecting Heiwa... And then I used Ryuuga and everyone else... And I try and try to avoid fighting but the next thing I know my fist is into someone's gut already! And I keep messing up and messing up and then just lying about it! S-so, I don't know!"

"It's okay..." Minami muttered, sitting next to Izuru and grabbing his hand. "It's okay..."

After eating the dinner Minami made, and taking a bath with her help because of struggling to stay up for long after all the blows against his body done by the headmaster, Izuru laid on the bed of a guest room on the house, looking out at the gleaming full moon from an open window.

"How tacky..." He chuckled, looking at the dark red shirt with the word "BUSTER" written on the front, that Minami had found lying around from him to wear.

But his eyes turned dark as he remembered of a time before the incident with Nijimura's brother, of meeting with a beautiful high school girl with light blue eyes and a long dark purple hair on a park, and of her calling out his name.