Nightmare~

My body was trembling, my eyes were watery, filled with salty tears which were continuously flowing down my face. I just stared into the distance, ashamed of my errors. Until a tiny light emerged and I heard someone's voice calling my name, followed by a strange sensation as if someone was shaking my body, yet no one was in sight.

Suddenly I gasped for air and woke up in my own bed, I noticed Kazutora standing beside my bed, concern written all over his face.

"Did you have a nightmare?" He asked in the softest voice possible. I just nodded my head, realizing tears were still pouring out like a waterfall, the sadness from the dream seeping into reality.

Brother quickly put me into a hug, after I sat up, as I remembered the things that occurred in the dream. I was scared, no terrified. Of the fact, that although I knew how the future was going to advance from this point on, I actually had no strength nor power to actually change the timeline for the better.

It took me at least ten minutes to calm myself down, but after crying so heavily I felt better.

"Thank you for waking me up from that nightmare."

"What was it about... maybe talking about it will make you feel better," Kazutora suggested as I fell silent, before admitting.

"I had a dream where although I knew when people close to me are going to die, I had no capability to actually stop it from happening."

"That's pretty specific." Was his response.

"Yeah... I guess... sometimes the worst nightmares are the ones that make you feel hopeless." But this made me decide, it was better to take some action now, rather than later. Sure I was scared of people finding out about the system, and treating me differently afterward, yet I rather risk being exposed, than later down the road regret not being by someone's side fast enough.

I glanced at my inventory and made the decision to hand over the health potion to Keisuke today. There was no certainty, someone wouldn't try to attack him before or after the fight, and what were the odds of me being there on time to feed him one myself?

After we walked downstairs, once my parents found out what happened, I was asked if I wanted to recuperate my mental health and stay out of school for the day, but I rejected the suggestion. Today there were no band practices, I just wanted to head to school and then go straight to Keisuke's place. Seeing his face would presumably reduce my anxiety more than sitting at home. Mom made sure to include my favorite dishes in the bento, feeling so loved made me want to cry again, this time for another reason.

So when I was at school I did actually cry when eating it, shocking the trio that was normally hanging with me at this point in time.

"Are you alright?" I got worried looks from both Souya and Senju, so I assured them I was okay, but Nahoya had to ruin it all.

"I never thought you were capable of crying." My eye twitched in annoyance.

"Right back at you, never saw you cry either." And an idea popped into my head.

"I bet you're just a clown from a horror movie that likes to terrorize people, that's your true identity."

"They are at it again... with you bickering so often I feel like I'm part of a dysfunctional family," Senju mentioned as I stopped in my tracks.

"You see honey you should take better care of your wonderful family, but all you do is start fights, is this really the life you want?" I guess that pissed him off too.

Later when the classes were over I didn't even care what the others thought of me, I just packed my things in speed light and started to speed walk to the entrance. But once I changed to my outdoor shoes I sped off to Keisuke's house, running there as fast as I could.

When I arrived I was quick to knock on the door, only to have his mom open the door for me.

"It's not usual to see you here." She was quick to let me inside as I asked.

"Is Keisuke at home?" She informed me that he probably be here soon, due to him having to change into his Toman outfit because they were supposed to have a meeting of some sort.

After being offered a cup of tea, I was let into his room to wait for his arrival. Later I realized how it never hit me to call him to give him a heads up. A few minutes later I could hear someone coming thru the front door and Keisuke's mom yelling.

"You have a guest!" Couldn't she be more specific? When he came thru the door he started.

"Didn't I tell you Chifuyu-" He stopped mid-sentence shocked to see me instead. He stood there frozen in time. So I simply just put away the warm cup I was holding in my palms and quickly rose to my feet putting this dumb-ass into a hug.

"Is this a new strategy for a prank or something?" Hey, I could go about my day without pulling any pranks, what was he taking me for?

"Yes totally, today you are not allowed to leave my sight until the night has fallen, you may not disagree."

"Awesome!" He yelled while putting his hands in the air, but then it seemed like he realized something important.

"But today is the captain meeting, I can't miss that shit. That's my last chance to convince Mikey to not accept Kisaki as part of our gang."

"Oh... Mikey plans to let him join?" Keisuke seemed kind of stressed, I guess he didn't want Kisaki on board, knowing full well what he was capable of.

"No, don't even think about joining Toman just because of that prick." That never even crossed my mind. I just stared at him unimpressed.

"I won't... moreover I can't."

"Why?" Because I was part of Valhalla, but it's not like I would admit to it.

"I don't need Kazutora going more off the rails, you have no idea how adamant he is about keeping me away from Mikey..." I could tell Keisuke felt bad, wait was he adding to my brother's craziness by agreeing with him perhaps?

"Why do you look so guilty?" I questioned, but because he refused to tell me I just chose to let it go.

"Wait there a minute... how about you advocate how bad Kisaki is, maybe Mikey will listen to you instead?" Keisuke asked as I reminded him.

"That's an awful strategy you have there buddy... asking the person that has a crush on the guy to talk badly about him. I may lose my initial point and start babbling about how cute he would look in a dress." Keisuke just groaned in dissatisfaction.

"I will not question that..." He may have become my next victim if he did.

"Right, I came here to give you something." I pulled out a health potion in form of a pill and asked him to open up his hand for me, when he followed my request I offered it to him.

"What is this? Candy?" He questioned as I put my hands on his cheeks.

"Listen here Keisuke Baji." I put my face really close to his, it reminding me of the time we first met, but this time he was the one looking utterly confused.

"If you even get inflicted with a wound, that you think could become life-threatening. You will open up this package and swallow the pill. Do you understand me?" Although a little bit disoriented he nodded his head in agreement.

"Good. Therefore you will have it on your person at all times, even in your sleep, only this will put my mind at ease."

"You're scaring me Michi..." I stared at him waiting for him to confirm he would follow my request.

"Ok, I will always carry it on my person." I smiled, finally feeling just a tiny bit at peace with myself.

"But what is it, some kind of drug?" He tried to joke.

"Sure think of it... as some really powerful painkillers, and let's leave it at that." He was looking at the health potion in wonder but then he pulled out his Toman uniform and he put it into one of his pockets.

"Satisfied?" He questioned as I nodded my head sighting in relief and then I left the room, giving him space to change his getup. Once he came out he looked incredibly happy, blurting out.

"Since you be following me everywhere today, I can easily announce it's officially to be a date." If that made him happy so be it.

I suggested eating out before we went to meet up with the other guys.

When we arrived together the gang was confused by seeing me there, but before they could question my motives we heard a frantic voice yelling in the distance.

"Baji!" We all turned around, only to witness a pink-haired male running toward us.

"Are you two on good terms?" I whispered to Keisuke, Sanzu wasn't pleased to see me, but I could tell he was smiling smugly under that mask of his.

"Great you're here, then I can expose your ass to Baji!" I just stood there utterly confused by his questionable behavior, but then he whipped out a newspaper, where the title said.

"Romance is not dead." With South and me on the cover. I snatched it quickly from Sanzu's grip and read the article quietly. Since the whole spectacle was caught on TV, South was later questioned by some reporters about why he escaped the police only to show up in a dancing contest.

He dared to make up some story that I as his girlfriend, was passionate about dancing and wanted to win the competition, and how it would break his heart if he missed the opportunity when he promised to win first place for me.

What kind of nonsense was this? What kind of fanfiction was he writing in his own head. Considering how he once admitted I wasn't his type, maybe he just wanted to be arrested in style. As I finished the article a mission popped up.

'Would you rather slap Haruchiyo Akashi or rip up the newspaper apart?' I chose the second option, shredded it to tiny bits, and stomped on it like a crazy person, this is how enraged it made me. I was just hoping for a nice day where I just cling to Keisuke making sure he was safe not saying much and South decides to come out with this gibberish?

"He shall not be safe, even in jail!" I proclaimed and promised myself once my stats were all on 100 I would go visit him and give him a proper beating.

"So nothing is going on between you and him?" Keisuke asked even after seeing my outburst.

"Yeah, sure I would date a guy I just met literally three times in my life," I answered sarcastically, causing Keisuke to sigh in relief.

"I wouldn't be surprised, girls like tall guys," Sanzu stated a fact that truly didn't apply to me.

"Oh I forgot... he's not a threat since you like shrimp-sized guys." Keisuke who I was supposed to cling to today, was also getting on my nerves.

"Great that you have finally realized you lack the qualifications." Mikey just laughed, but Draken was bothered about wasting time

. So I did him a favor and rushed everyone present. But that left me outside alone with Sanzu. I opted for some small talk to kill time.

"So was that your attempt to look out for your buddy?" I asked but it seemed like it wasn't the case.

"I wanted him to feel devastated because he dared to suggest soap for washing hair." I couldn't do anything but laugh, but I decided to be merciful for today and help him out, by giving him Jun's number. He was into beauty routines and other similar stuff after all.

After the meeting ended I witnessed Keisuke leaving pissed off, I guess his persuasion didn't work once again.

"Let's go for a ride." He suggested and so I spent the evening going from place to place having fun with this crackhead of a person. The most memorable moment was us buying a ton of cat food and feeding all the stray cats we could find all around Tokyo.