5| Root of the problem

"What do you mean?" Gakushū stood up, expression stiff. Karma decided to thread carefully so as to not freak out his..... well, his husband he supposed, again. The strawberry blond's reactions earlier showed how distressed he was with their situation, despite how calm he tried to appear for Karma.

He knows Gakushū well. Even after all these years the man hadn't changed at all. His quirks, his mannerisms, his little ticks, they were the same as when they were ten years ago

Gakushū is clearly displeased judging from how he couldn't even look at Karma without flinching, brow twitching, or lips quirking. Karma didn't want to further upset him so he forced himself to remain calm for the both of them

Even though the strawberry blond was confused at Karma's levelheadedness, the red head was sure the strawberry blond was impressed with how maturely he was taking this

"Karma will you please act your age?!" He remembered teenager Gakushū complain to him years ago. "Karma stop it! Panicking will not do anything for us, just sit still, take a breather, and let your mind calm down.. alright?"

He almost smiled at the fond memory.

Ten years ago, it was Karma who wore his feelings at his sleeve. When he was angry, sad, happy, annoyed, he showed it, while Gakushū was the level headed one and had restraints.

Funny how they seemed to have switched places now

"Karma!" Gakushū snapped his fingers in front of Karma. The red head was pulled out of his thoughts "what do you mean, that we were drugged?" He repeated his question.

Karma forced himself not to focus on the fact Gakushū was standing so close to him now(he didn't even notice the man move toward him) and instead answered straight forwardly, as he expected Gakushū to prefer him to be

"I checked my phone album and found a few interesting pictures and videos--don't worry it's nothing controversial" he added quickly when he saw Gakushū's nervous look

"It dates back to Kunogigaoka's reunion party weeks ago" Karma states.

Gakushū frowned, trying to remember anything important or could give them clues on how they got to where they are now. "Did you taste anything weird in your drinks?" He asked the red head.

Karma said no

"What about the food?"

Again no

"Here" he showed Gakushū his album

There were about two thousand pictures of them together, with giant smiles, various poses, most often it had Karma showing off his ring

Which made their hearts skip a beat, not that either them knew that.

Karma kept scrolling and scrolling, each picture made the men blush and feel various emotions, all were positive, but again they didn't know that was how the other felt.

Eventually they reached the date of the reunion party. Karma pressed on a video which was ten seconds long

The video was of Karma making faces while he spun around slowly("pfft--" Gakushū stifled a laugh, and Karma rolled his eyes)

"There!" Karma paused the video and zoomed in the background

There was a blurry image of a figure(they couldn't tell if they were a man or woman) putting a plastic of blue powder in two glasses of alcohol.

That was all they could work with. "Well, this still doesn't explain our amnesias" Gakushū sighed. "But we have something at least"

"Yeah" Karma quietly said, making Gakushū frown. "He's too quiet, I don't like this" he thought. Is Karma that upset with their accident marriage? Gakushū felt insulted. Sure their situation was ideal but for Karma to be reacting this way was a bruise to his ego. It was as if Karma thought being married to him was the worst possible thing that could ever happen to him!

"He's glaring at me" Karma thought, noticing Gakushū's narrowed eyes. "Great, he blames me for this" back in high school, whenever something bad happened or didn't go his way, the strawberry blond always found a reason to blame Karma. Which hurt him yes but he understood why, Gakushū saw him as nothing but trouble

And Karma acted like he was nothing but trouble. It got him Gakushū's attention, but not in the best way possible

"Well, I gotta fix this shit for him, since he's that angry at being married to me" Karma thought, feeling offended.

Gakushū massaged his forehead. He noticed Karma was lost in his thoughts once more. "He's thinking about how to get out of this mess" he thought.

"Uhh.. Akaba-- Karma" he corrected. It felt weird calling Karma by his last name when they're married now. "How about we take a breather? Outside" he suggested with a smile he hoped was reassuring.

"The weather is nice, maybe this will clear our minds enough to think of... what to do next?"

Karma smiled back at him. "That's a.. good idea" he hesitantly.

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