"Just know that when and if you come home late, you won't get out of it without punishment." This is what your mom said when you had left for school in the morning, and by punishment she meant getting hit, thrown into furniture, and other horrors you didn't want to even think about, led alone experience it again. But here you were, the end of the school day and you were too scared to go home in fear of what might be awaiting you. This all began when your father had passed away. Struck by anger and sadness, she began taking all of her writhed up feelings out on you. It hurt. It hurt.
It hurts.
Physically and emotionally. Knowing that dad would never be back, and that mom will never be the same really fucked with you. Did she hate you? Surely not, right? She still loves me right? Right?
It pains you thinking about it. You keep lying to yourself, telling yourself that she still loves you, that you still have a chance of a normal life. But theres still that little naggimg voice in the back of your head, she doesn't love you, who would? You'll never have anyone. Just stop trying.
Just the feeling of wanting to feel needed, to be needed, and knowing that you'll never be able to experience it really hurts. Sometimes all it felt like you could do is keep it inside and cut. Your body has scattered bruises and scars, no one has ever seen them, and you planned to keep it that way. The thought of talking to someone about this was forbidden. Besides you had no one to talk to, well, you did have one person. Satori Tendou. He was your only friend, the only person who tolerated you and all of your mysteries. Satori was always able to cheer up the atmosphere, he himself has gone through some pretty tough stuff, like bullying. Monsters aren't allowed on human teams! Yeah, he does look like a monster. Monster. Monster. Monster.
And sure, Satori is your friend, but he's not necessarily someone to talk to about these types of problems. Yet you found yourself waltzing around Shiratorizawa after school hours around the fitness area. You hadn't realized it but you had subconsciously been walking for hours trying to avoid home. But knowing that you were already late made you petrified of coming home considering her claims of punishment. What would happen when you finally got home? Should I avoid home? Where would I go? Should I tell somebody? Nobody would care. Stop
God you were so scared. The overwhelming sadness and fright that has been kept inside you for so long was just too much to bear. You sat down underneath a tree to rest your feet but eventually gave into your tears. They came flowing in like a waterfall, you almost felt relieved just being able to let all these tears out finally.
Time skip
'How long has it been? Oh god. Whats mom gonna do to me? I don't wanna go home. I don't wanna go home." The overwhelming fear came flooding back. "I can't go back home. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't!" Without realizing it, the tears had started flowing again, stronger this time, you were sobbing because you were now fully aware that it was too late. You were probably going to get the worst punishment when you got home. You were so deep in thought you hadn't even heard the footsteps approaching. Suddenly Satori appeared infront of you crouching down in front of you. You looked up and basically had cardiac arrest. "S-Satori! What are you doing here?" You said as you looked away frantically wiping away your tears hoping he hadn't noticed. "Volleyball practice was over and I was walking home when I saw you!" He said cheerfully. Thank god, I don't think he notice-
"Are you crying?"
Shit.
"What? No! Not at all!" You stuttered back trying to keep your obviously shaken voice under control. He looks at you with a quirk of his eyebrow. "Really? Then why aren't you facing me?" He shot back. "B-because... yeah...." You responded, mentally punching yourself for saying that. He came closer and moved your arms away from your face. Just then your sleeves moved a tad bit, just enough for him to catch a glimpse of red. He looked back at your tear stained face with a stern look. "Whats on your arms?" He asked staring deep into your eyes awaiting an answer. You pulled back your arm and pulled up your sleeves, "N-nothing! What are you talking about?" He looks back at you with doubt in his piercing red eyes. "Oh yeah? Then show me your arm." A wave of anxiety shot over you. "No no! I'm fine! Really! Theres nothing there!" You shoot back hoping he'll buy your obvious lie. "If there's nothing there, then why are you hiding it from me? Surely if you have nothing there then why would showing me your arm be a problem?" He said condescendingly. You couldn't have him know, you needed to get out of this situation and clearly by the direction of this conversation, it wasn't going to happen easily. You quickly stood up and started walking away, quickening your pace. "Sorry Tendou, I have to go home. Goodnight." You said trying to sound stern and hopefully get out without anything else happening, but that was stupid judgment of the situation. He stood up and caught up with you. Without any hesitation, he grabs your arm and pulls up your sleeve. Your eyes widened as you tried to comprehend what just happened. You quickly tore your arm away from Tendou and pulled your sleeves down. "Y/N." you didn't respond, you knew that he saw them. "Y/N, look at me."
You slowly turned your head, you were scared. He knows now. You finally look up and he locks eyes with you. "Why are you doing this?" He says pointing to your arms. "I......." you couldn't respond, you couldn't let anyone know about what was happening. He looked at you as you averted your gaze to the wet grass. "Okay, then do the bruises have anything to do with this?" Your whole body stiffened as your anxiety kicked in overload mode. At this point you couldn't even talk as you were trying to keep your hyperventilation under control. Tendou looked at you with concern, he knew he was being a little bit pushy with this whole thing, but how else would he help you? What you felt next was unexpected, you were suddenly enveloped in a warm embrace as you felt Tendou's arms wrap around your frail, weakened figure. It had been so long since you've had a hug, you didn't want it to end. You couldn't help it, tears started rushing out of your eyes as you desperately cling onto him. He was surprised as he wasn't expecting you to hug him back, he hasn't had many hugs as well, but it was nice to finally have one after all this time. He laid his head down on your shoulder as he stroked your arm gently. "Let's go home, to my home. I don't trust whatever is going on at your house to let you go back." As much as you hated it, he was right. "Okay..." you responded quietly clinging onto his arm as you two walked off to Tendou's house.

Time skip

You finally arrived at his house as you two entered his dimly lit house, thankfully, his parents were away on a business trip so there wouldn't be any questioning about having a girl over. "Go get ready for bed, it's already 12:00." Tendou called out to you. "Um, I don't have anything to get dressed with. You brought me here.." you responded, thinking of ways to sleep with jeans on comfortably. "You can borrow a T-shirt and some shorts of mine if you need!" He called out to you responding to your inquiries. You blushed slightly thinking about wearing his clothes, but you really didn't wanna wear uncomfortable clothes to bed, so you accepted. You slipped into the bathroom to get changed. As you were putting on his T-shirt, you blushed. It smells just like him...
You thought as you inhaled the comforting scent. Wait, this is a T-shirt. I can't go out like this! He'll see the scars! Fully this time! You thought as worry filled your whole body. "U-um, Tendou? Do you have any long sleeved shirts?" You asked nervously.      "Y/N, it's okay, I've seen them now." He responded quietly with a hint of concern. You didn't want to press on anymore so you just decided to accept the T-shirt. You waltzed out with your arms inside the shirt like a turtle. Actually, now that you thought about it, a lot of your bruises and scars were visible woth this outfit but you had already walked into view so it was too late. He eyed your bruised and frail body, sadness overwhelming him. "It's that bad huh?" He asked. You shyed away as he told you that you didn't have to hide it. "I'm really sorry about what's happening right now Y/N. It'll get better, I promise." Tendou said to you with genuine worry and sadness in his voice. You looked away, "Should we go to bed now?" You asked trying to pull away from the heavy subject. Tendou agreed, however, another question popped into your head. "Where am I going to sleep?" You asked. "With me, why?" You blushed furiously and you stuttered. "W-w-what?!" He looked at you confused, "Why? Do you think I'm planning something sexual?" He asked jokingly. "W-well no, of course not..." you stammered back. "Well then lets go to bed!" Tendou exclaimed, his bed was quite big so it shouldn't be that big of a deal, right? You hesitantly got into bed with him as you settled in. Suddenly, you felt his warm presence wrap around you. You stiffened up, he took your arm to get a full look at the scars. "I didn't think it was this bad. Please, don't keep this to yourself anymore, okay? We'll figure something out to fix all of this. I don't want to see you hurting yourself like this." Tendou said quietly. "O-okay.."
you responded, feeling the comfort of his embrace and the tiredness rush over you as shut your eyes. "Goodnight Tendou, and thank you."
"Goodnight."
Extra: "Hey Y/N?" Tendou said as you were falling into a blissful sleep. "Yeah?"
"I love you." You were shocked, but was happy nonetheless.
"I love you too, thank you."
END
A/N: Holy crap sorry that this fanfic is actual shit. I wanted to write about our beautiful boy Tendou because there aren't any sad fanfics about him so I wanted to make one!