(July 07, 2005)

"There," Hiyori puts the last patch on his face with medicine so that his bruises could heal. "Ugh, I'm surprised you didn't end up in the hospital with all of that shit on your face." She says bluntly.

'You'd be surprised by how I even managed to survive...' Takemitchi thinks to himself, rubbing his cheek. "Thanks, Hiyori-san..."

"Though, you looked like you were given ointment before you came back," Hiyori says and crosses her arms, then she smirks. "Did Hina-chan come to your rescue again~? Look at you both all lovey-dovey~!"

"H-Hiyori-san!" Takemitchi's face went red at this. "D-Don't bring Hina into this! And even if she did help with my injuries, that just means she's a loving and doting girlfriend!" He says in defense. Though, in reality, it wasn't Hinata who gave him ointment; He didn't want to let Hinata see him in such a state.

"There," Masaru let out a sigh as he cleaned up the injuries of Takuya and Takemitchi. "Be glad I learned first aid."

Akkun was helping Masaru with patching Takemitchi up, though he was skeptical. "...why help now? You've already made things worse."

Masaru didn't say anything at first, then he let out a sigh. "I made a promise," He says quietly. "I'd do something right for once."

Takemitchi was just staring at him. It was unlike Masaru to make a promise and then keep it. Considering that he... well, straight-up lied about the whole thing. "Sure, do something right." Akkun rolled his eyes at that. "You're the reason why we got into this mess."

"But!" Makoto comes up from behind. "Takemitchi was fucking awesome!!!" He exclaimed, and Yamagishi comes up next to him, facing Takemitchi. "And! You got the unrivaled Mikey to notice you! It's the end of our slavery!"

Masaru didn't say anything, and Takuya notices. Now that he thought about it... during the whole scene, Masaru looked like he didn't recognize Mikey at all, only just his fighting style. He gave the benefit of the doubt, thinking that Masaru didn't recognize Mikey or Draken because they weren't in uniform... but Mikey and Draken were wearing the same uniform as Kiyomasa's. And Masaru didn't bow when everyone else did, but was forced to.

So the conclusion was that...

"You... didn't know." Takuya looks at Masaru in realization "You didn't know that Kiyomasa-kun was in Toman."

They all looked at him with wide eyes. Masaru was still silent... before eventually, letting out a sigh. "Okay, I was lied to." He admitted. 

"So you decided to lie to us to make yourself feel better." Takemitchi says bluntly while glaring. "How low, even for you."

"...look, you can call me a selfish prick. But admittedly, a lot of us are in the same boat." Masaru stood up once Akkun was done patching up Takemitchi. "I'm not even getting anything out of this. Well, except maybe for... forgiveness, I guess."

Akkun and the rest look at each other, then back at Masaru. "That's not for us to decide."

"Oh, and please," Hiyori ruffled Takemitchi's hair, snapping him out of his thoughts. "Get yourself a hair dye. You look like piss."

"I do not look like piss!" Takemitchi says in defense, trying to fix his hair with the brush. "Ah, Hiyori-san! You ruined my hair! I woke up at five in the morning to do this!"

"So that was you who was using the hairdryer?" Hiyori had a menacing aura surrounding her and she was cracking her knuckles. Takemitchi let out a gulp, realizing that maybe he should've just nodded and kept the comment of his hair to himself. "You're getting a hair dye after school."

Well, there goes the morning without feeling any pain from Hiyori's wrath...

Takemitchi ended up not fixing his hair after Hiyori had decided to "convince" him to stop using the hairdryer and hair gel at five in the morning. And he also promised Hiyori that he wasn't going to wake up that early.

He trudged up the school stairs, about to reach his classroom when he starts hearing a commotion down the hallway. A few of the students were going over to the corner, and Takemitchi followed suit.

...and then he sees two familiar blonds at the end of the hallway.

"Don't think outsiders could get out so easily from here!" One of the "punks" (Takemitchi just called them that since they weren't in a gang to begin with anyway) of Mizo Middle walks up to them with his posse.

"Mikey?" Takemitchi says aloud in disbelief.

Mikey hears him, and once he managed to get a glimpse, he waves at him. "Oh! Found you, Takemitchy!"

The punks turned to Takemitchi in both anger and in disbelief. 

'I am so fucking screwed!!!' Takemitchi screamed in his mind. 'Going from Kiyomasa-kun's slave, I became a toy of a monster that I can't understand!'

"Hey, it's dangerous to turn your back on us."

The punks hear Draken and they turn around to see him and Mikey already charging in for an attack. Mikey started kicking and punching from every direction and Draken was just helping. Some of the students were cheering and the rest were rightfully panicking and running away. It got to a point where the punks had to grab anything they can use as a weapon, but even then, they were still getting beat up by Mikey and Draken.

In other words, the punks didn't stand a chance.

"Oi, Mikey!" Draken calls out after hitting one of the punks in the face. "Let's go!"

Mikey shoved two punks out of the window (Takemitchi was glad that the building wasn't that high for those two to die) before he and Draken walk up to Takemitchi. "Takemitchy, let's hang out. I got free time!" He exclaims as he slings an arm around him. Takemitchi was just nervous and in shock. Aside from the fact that they came to see him (which was honestly flattering, but also pretty terrifying), they also decided to cause damage by literally beating the shit out of the punks.

"Get out of the way, you pieces of trash." Draken commanded, and the remaining punks that were on the ground. They all weakly muttered a "Yes, sir" before moving--though they looked like they were writhing on the ground. "Kenchin," Mikey looks at the punks on the ground. "They're more like carpets." He tells them.

"He said you got promoted from trash to carpet," Draken stated. "You all line up here, face down."

The punks just did as they were told. They definitely learned their lesson after this and there was no way that they'd be defying orders again. 

Even if they were getting stepped on.

Takemitchi was starting to feel bad for them in all honesty, and he decided to step on the floor rather than... on them. Like how Mikey and Draken were doing. 

"I heard there's someone influencing Udagawa to make Shinsen their territory." Draken says casually.

"S'alright. Let's go knock 'em out." Mikey chimed.

'Naoto... it's insanely impossible to kill this guy.' Takemitchi thinks to himself. How was he, someone who ran away and apologized multiple times, managed to time travel into the past and present by just shaking hands, and somehow managed to survive the amounts of pain he got from twelve years, supposed to kill this guy who could potentially make his life a living hell!?

Maybe Takemitchi could find an answer to that later in the day...