A/n: we finally get to see Sakata's side :D

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Sakata woke up at the sound of his alarm. I don't want to go to school. He contemplated on if he should get up now and decided that he should unless he wants to be late. It was Friday so he at least had tomorrow left and then it's the weekend, which he looks forward to because he can spend it with him. As Sakata was getting up he felt a small pain in his stomach. Oh right yesterday I got hit with a soccer ball. He had forgotten about the pain after awhile but sitting up to get out of bed brought it back. He went to get dressed up and as he entered the kitchen he saw his breakfast on the table already made and a note next to it.

Had to leave early so I made you breakfast. Eat up and don't be late to school. If you feel any pain because of the injury yesterday go to the nurse and rest. Also make sure you take care of yourself. See ya later.

Sakata smiled as he read the note, such a worry-want. Sakata left the house and walked towards the school, with his earbuds in as he listens to music. After a 5 minute walk he looked up from his phone and saw an albino and brunette walking in front of him. That's Mafumafu and Amatsuki right? He didn't know if he should say hi to them, after all he isn't that close to them and decided to just walk behind them and hope they don't see him. Just his luck that Mafu decided to turned around and notice him, Mafu smiled and waved at him.

"Hey Sakata."

"Hi..." Sakata has always been quiet in the beginning but once you get to know him more, he ends up having the same energetic and happy energy as Mafu.

"Why don't you walk to school with us?" Amatsuki offered.

As much as Sakata would like to say no and be by himself, seeing their happy smiles caused him to only nod as a reply. While they were walking Mafu and Amatsuki were talking about random topics and Sakata only added some small comments here and there. The topic eventually shifted to Soraru, causing Sakata to jerk his head up to look at them as they talked.

"You know Mafu you're always looking at him. I wonder why~~"

"W-What doe you mean Ama-chan?" Mafu stuttered a bit and looked away from Amatsuki's gaze. Sakata watched in amusement as the brunette teased the albino, who was starting to turn red. Eventually the teasing stopped as they made it to the gates.

"Oi. There you guys are." Urata walked up to them as Shima and Senra followed behind.

"Hey guys this is Sakata. Sakata that's Shima, the purpled-haired, Senra, the blond male, and Urata, the tanuki." Amatsuki introduced Sakata to the three new arrivals.

"Who are you calling a tanuki?" Urata said, clearly annoyed at the remark Amatsuki made. Amatsuki pretended that he didn't hear Urata and continued.

"We've know each other for awhile and they're really great people."

Sakata didn't really know what to say, sure he had friends before but that was only when they didn't know about him. Once they learned about him, they stopped wanting to be friends with Sakata. It made him upset but as long as he was around, Sakata knew he'd be fine. After all people don't even try to understand his actions and just judge him based on what they see.

"Nice to meet you. Please take care of me." Urata, Senra and Shima smiled at Sakata after he replied. Immediately after the intro Amatsuki said they should probably hurry up to class.

The school day went by normally in the morning and gym went without any incident. It was lunch time before you know it. Sakata was with Urata and Shima as they waited for the others and he waited for Lon and Soraru. He was kinda nervous being around Urata and Shima since they were a year older than him but he thought that if they were friends with someone like Mafu then they aren't that bad.

Sakata then felt someone push him on the ground. He looked up and saw someone, probably some 3rd year, tower over him. Urata and Shima were quick to react and harshly scold the senior.

"Oi. What was that for?"
"He didn't even do anything to you yet you're just gonna push him."

The senior just looked at them with a blank stare and said, "I don't care. He was in my way so I just pushed him to move him out."

Urata was vivid, one thing he never liked was people bullying others. He knows how terrible it is because of his friendship with Mafu and would always help people being bullied. It makes him angry that people pick on the weak just to feel powerful.

"You guys aren't gonna do anything. You're just 2nd years and this pathetic 1st year was starting to get on my nerve with his fucking dumb smile."

Eventually Amatsuki, Senra and Mafu got to the cafeteria and saw Sakata on the ground. They rushed to Sakata as the cafeteria all looked at the scene. Sakata just looked at the ground after hearing the comment, Shima went to help him up while Urata and Senra just glared at the 3rd year. The 3rd year had enough of them and was about to punch Urata until he was seen jerked back by someone. Before anyone could react, the 3rd year was punched in the face. They looked back and was about to glare at the culprit who dared to punch him but then saw who it was. Soraru was in front of Urata, a clearly pissed off expression on his face. He turned his head to look and Sakata and saw that he had a few scrapes on his knee, due to the impact of being pushed to the ground. Soraru's expression darkened even more and he look at the 3rd year with a glare that would kill anyone, seconds after just even glancing at it.

"What the fuck do you think your doing?" Soraru's voice was filled with so much venom. After the question Soraru knocked the 3rd year down and as they tried to get back up Soraru put his foot on their chest to restrain them. "I'm gonna count to three and you better be fucking out of the cafeteria or else I won't be held responsible for what happens."

Right as Soraru removed his foot, the 3rd year quickly got up and ran out of the cafeteria, fear clearly written in his eyes. The whole cafeteria was stunned, no one dared to say anything in fear of being the one next to face Soraru's wrath. Soraru glared at the door before turning to face Urata and the others. Urata flinched a bit and moved away so Sakata was standing in front of him. Soraru wrapped his hand around Sakata's wrist when he looked at them and whispered something that they never thought they'd hear him say.

"Thanks." Soraru then walked out of the cafeteria with Sakata.

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After the incident no one heard about what happened to Soraru or the 3rd year. Sakata didn't return to class and Mafu saw the empty seat next to him. He was worried that he might be in trouble, Mafu had always worried about others' well-being before himself.

"Do you think he's okay?" Amatsuki asked looking at the seat left vacant. During lunch they were all quiet, not knowing what to say after witnessing Soraru's outbreak. They actually were scared for the 3rd year, Soraru looked like he was about to rip his head off.

School was over and the cafeteria incident was news all over the school. It seemed like ever since Sakata joined there was always some incident occurring in the school. Urata and Shima had some things to do today and couldn't hang out so Senra went home alone and Mafu was walking home with Amatsuki. They were talking about what to do tomorrow since school had been cancelled because of a pipe leak. It broke right around the last 2 hours of school so they had called a day off for students while the school would try to fix it.

"We can go to the arcade or just hang out at the park. It's going to be sunny and the weather is nice. Plus we've been shut-ins for awhile so might as well use up that time." Amatsuki offered suggestions but he noticed Mafu wasn't paying attention, and he knew why. "Still shaken up by what happened at lunch?"

"Yeah, it's just that we've seen Soraru act cold towards others and how he gets into fights sometimes but today he looked so pissed. I'm just surprised at how this is the first time we've seen him this angry."

"That was surprising, I thought he was about to beat the 3rd year into a bloody pulp. And what was more shocking is that he said thanks to us. US." Amatsuki put emphasis on the 'us' part.

The walk was quiet after that and once Amatsuki had entered the comfort of his own home, Mafu went on to go back to his. Along the way his thoughts went back and fourth between Sakata and Soraru. He noticed that Soraru seemed to act friendly towards him, how he protected him today from that 3rd year bully. I don't think he's just friends with Sakata because Lon told him to be. I think he might care about Sakata more than people think. He made it home and did his routine as usual: eat, do homework, shower and go on his laptop. Iroha walked into his room while he was on his laptop and played around with the cat toys she found on the ground. Mafu was allergic to cats but he wanted one so badly so he said screw it and got one. Of course he wasn't dumb enough to not buy medicine and stuff to help his allergies. After another hour or so Mafu closed his laptop and went to sleep.

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It was the next day and Mafu groggily got up once the sunlight hit his face. Sitting up he looked at the time and saw it was 10:30 am. He planned to meet the others at around 11:30 am to go to the park and decided he should get ready. After eating a bit of breakfast, though it was actually just an apple since he was to tired to cook, and walked out of his house with Iroha following along. She needed to spend some time outside too. He walked around the town and saw couples, kids with their parents all walking around. Once he got to the park he sat down on a bench and played with Iroha while waiting for the others. They arrived one by one, well Shima and Senra arrived together but that's to be expected.

"You brought Iroha with you?" Amatsuki crouched down to pet her, getting a cute purr as a reply.

"Yep. She deserves a bit of air too, like her master." Mafu said proudly.

"So basically she's a shut-in because you're one and you finally realized that you need to go out more often." Urata bluntly said. Mafu's proud smile faltered and he just pouted at the comment.

"Well let's get going. Um...what exactly are we going to do?" Shima asked after he realized that they didn't really make a plan for the day, just decided to meet up at the park. The others shrugged and Shima just sighed at their unresponsive gesture and decided for them what to do.

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Sakata woke up to the blinding light from behind his curtains and looked at the clock reading 12:40 pm. Eh it's that late? He questioned himself as he got up, though it didn't really matter because he was happy school was cancelled for today. Now I can spend time with him was his thought as he left his room. He went downstairs and was expecting to be greeted by a hello but only got silence. He found it weird and decided to check the kitchen but he saw no one there. That's strange he shouldn't have work today. Sakata then went back upstairs and knocked at the door next to his room. When he got no reply entered the room, avoiding the crumbled up papers and stuff on the ground. He should really try to clean his room. On the bed was a lump of blanket, on closer inspection Sakata noticed that the person he was looking for was just underneath the blanket.

"Hey it's time to wake up niichan. You're not allowed to be lazing around the house today." Sakata pouted at the lump of blanket and the response he got was silence.

"Are you okay?" Sakata worriedly asked when they didn't reply and decided to remove blanket that was covering them to see their face. They stared back at Sakata with groggy eyes. Sakata move his hand to touch their forehead and immediately pulled it back upon impact like he was just burnt.

"You're burning up! Ah you have a fever!" Sakata exclaimed as he looked worriedly at he figure in front of him. They only nodded in response, too tired to talk.

"Well that's no good. I'm gonna go to the store and buy some medicine for you to drink after I make you something to eat." The figure just shook their head no and started to talk.

"I'll be fine. I'll just not overw—"

"Nope," Sakata cut off the figure, putting emphasis on the 'p' and said, "I'm gonna make you something to help you recover so while I'm at the store you're going to stay in bed and rest." With that the figure could only sigh in agreement as Sakata went to his room to get ready and go to the store.

Sakata was looking at the shelves on the store, trying to find the medicine and once he spotted it he grabbed it in triumph. This should help, he thought as he smiled at himself. He decided to also buy some pills for headaches and more bandages while he was at it since they were running out. He went to the store to buy some ingredients to make a curry (medicine curry as he liked to call it) for the weak and fallen figure at home. While he was walking back home he happened to bump into someone and when he looked at who his only thought was, what a funny coincidence. He inwardly laughed as Mafu apologized for bumping into him again.

"I'm sorry Sakata."

"It's okay Mafumafu, see I'm fine." Sakata gestured to himself, showing the albino he's not injured. He noticed the cat next to Mafu, probably his pet cat, it's so cute. Urata managed to snap Sakata out if his thoughts.

"This is like deja vu," Urata mentioned before he noticed the red-haired male had bags with groceries and medicine. "Why do you have that? Are you sick?"

Sakata was confused at the statement and followed Urata's gaze towards the bags he's holding, realizing what he meant. "Oh no, I'm fine but niichan isn't. He has a fever and it's my job as the younger brother to cure him." Sakata boldly declared towards the group.

"Eh you have an older brother?" Shima questioned.

"Really? Cool~~ is he in college?" Amatsuki followed Shima's question.

"No he's still in high school but he'll graduate eventually. Anyway I'm going home to make him curry and give him the medicine."

"You can cook," Urata said in disbelief, he looked at the red-haired male, no way this idiot can cook.

Sakata was silent after hearing the question and barely replied with "............ not really."

"Me and Mafu can help you cook if you want." Senra offered to Sakata, who's eyes lit up once hearing the offer.

"Really! Thanks alright I'll lead you guys!" Sakata then walked ahead before stopping and turning back to look at them.

"Oh and... um... thanks for defending me yesterday," Sakata casted a smile at them and continued to walk towards his house. After the others looked at each other they followed him to his house. He's so energetic, like a small puppy was what they all thought after seeing Sakata bounce with energy and happiness.

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Mafu was amazed at how the house looked, he would've guessed that it cost a bit more than his own house. His parents must be able to make good money. Sakata opened the door to the house and soon shouted loud enough for the person upstairs to hear him.

"Niichan~~ I'm back. I brought the medicine and ingredients. Also some friends were near by and wanted to help me cook so they joined me on my journey back." Mafu and the others smiled at the thought of Sakata trusting them enough to call them his friends. Although one of them was irritated about the sudden outburst.

"You're so loud," Urata said as he semi-glared at the boy in front of him, who just sheepishly laughed at the remark.

He walked into the living room, putting the bags on the table and turned to face the stairs when he heard footsteps come down the stairs. Saying Mafu was shocked is an understatement, he was beyond bewildered at what he saw.

"Can't you announce your arrival a little quieter. My head hurts from your screaming."

"Sorry niichan~~ Also I said to stay in bed and rest while I went to the store," Sakata scolded the figure who was going down the stairs.

"I did stay and rest. I'm just coming down now that you came back."

All of them were shocked, staring wide eyed at the one in front of them. There he was, Soraru, the most rumored student in their school, walking down the stairs with bed head and a sleepy, groggy voice, rubbing his eyes in an attempt to wake up.

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A/n

Soraru is Sakata's brother, it probably wasn't that surprising

I mostly made this fic cause the idea of Soraru being Sakata's brother seemed so sweet and wholesome to me.

I'm surprised people are reading this fic it was just an idea that got stuck in my head and I need to write it to satisfy my brain (/ • w•)/

I'll probably update a bit more today and tomorrow since I mostly write the story when I have free time and I have a lot since don't have school rn. Well thanks for reading :3