THIRD PERSON POV

Thud.

Kou gasped. "Mitsuba-!"

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Kou ran over to where Mitsuba fell. Mitsuba had—most likely—passed out. Maybe loss of blood? Maybe from the pain? Or even just being tired? Who knows.

Kou crouched next to Mitsuba and lifted his head. Seems as if he's out cold. Speaking of cold, his body was freezing. It would occasionally shiver.

"What in the world.." Kou muttered. He grabbed Mitsuba and got up, holding Mitsuba in his arms. He was pretty light for some reason.

Kou walked over to the couch and put Mitsuba down on it. Still kinda concerned about him. Of course, he wouldn't admit that TO him. Although, the cuts, the bruises, the blood, and the shaky breathing made it hard to not show worry.

It was VERY out of character for Mitsuba to be like this.. and Kou had a lot of questions. Who were those kids? Why did they do that? How did they do that? And how much did they do? Kou threw a blanket over Mitsuba.

And being the way he is, he decided to help Mitsuba a little by cleaning his wounds. They would easily get infected since they were fresh and the cuts were deep.

Kou walked over to the kitchen to find bandaids or bandages (wtv u call them idfk) he grabbed some and then walked back over to Mitsuba. His breathing had finally slowed a little after Kou had put the blanket on him.

Kou grabbed Mitsuba's arm and looked at it. There were bruises and cuts everywhere. He didn't know whether to feel bad or frustrated at how Mitsuba even got himself into this situation. He sighed and grabbed the roll of bandages that he had set down on the coffee table.

3 cuts wrapped.

5 bruises wrapped.

10 cuts wrapped.

17 bruises wrapped.

Eventually, Kou had wrapped all of Mitsuba wounds. Except for the ones on his face. He put bandaids on those.

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Mitsuba started to stir finally. "Mmmnnnn...." He opened his eyes and quickly sat up.

Kou was in the kitchen tapping his fingers on the counter, on the phone with Teru. "Seriously?! Why do you keep going out? Where even are you? ...Fine. Tiara is asleep anyway, but you've better come back tomorrow." Kou paused. "Tiara is asleep right now so that gives me some time. Bye" Kou hung up.

Mitsuba looked at his arm. What?.. I don't remember having bandages.. He thought, looking up.... and saw Kou. Oh. Mitsuba stood up, still kind of shaky and uneasy from the pain, but managed.

He walked over to the kitchen where Kou was. Kou was now looking in the fridge. "He-y." Mitsuba spoke.

Kou jumped but turned to see Mitsuba. "Finally, you're awake."

"..How l-long was I asleep for?"

"Ummm..." Kou looked at the clock on the wall. "Two hours."

Mitsuba was about to scream until he realized that was probably not the best idea in his current state. His eyes sharpened. But then he saw a text from his mom.

Mom‼️: Hey. Won't be home 'til late today (like 12am), you can stay at a friend's house or something if you'd like.

"Oh." That's all Mitsuba could say. Well, how else was he supposed to respond. He turned off his phone and put it on the counter.

"Yeah. You passed out on the floor." Kou said. Mitsuba looked at the bandages and bandaids all over his arms again. Although feeling annoyed, it felt kinda nice. Knowing Kou did this made him feel better than if anyone else did it.

"Are you good now? You weren't looking good earlier." Kou explained.

"Well, I f-feel better." Mitsuba shrugged, but that sent a signal of pain and he flinched.

"You shouldn't be very active, your wounds were deep." Kou said, leaning against the refrigerator.

"I'm fine, s-shut up." Mitsuba, being stubborn.. what's new?

"Ugh, well if you wanna pass out again you do you."

"I'm not gonna pa-ss out again."

"Say what you want."

"Just shut up!" Mitsuba wasn't really able to yell, it really only came out in a whisper-yell. His voice was hoarse. In fact, it seems it's been hard for him to speak this whole time. Did the kids choke him or something?

"Whatever. I'm gonna order pizza because I don't feel like making something." Kou explained, grabbing his phone.

"Um, 'kay. By the w-way I'm staying here tonight and don't s-say no my mom isn't coming ho-me until tomorrow." Mitsuba said, walking to the couch.

It's not like Kou could say no to him anyways.

Not to the boy he's loved for years.

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yasysyay i finished this chapter

i tried making it longer since the others are quite short‼️

hope you enjoyed this one, it actually focuses a lot on mitsukou 🤤

byee