'Just Another Love Story'

Chapter 18

By the time Tenya retreated back to the room for the rest of the day like his classmates, he had found some other company in the room.

"Oh, sorry about that." It was Soundwave, or, well, at least how everyome knew him. He had never given his real name nor did it be givem away during the epic fight. "I can leave if you want me to-"

"-no, it's alright." Tenya didn't mind the idea of him being in the room, yet again, he barely even knew the guy. "So, how is he doing?"

It was an odd question for him to ask but it was better than the awkward silence, plus, watching someone sleep is just straight up cringe. He did not think Akamine would like to wake up with realizing people were staring at him while he slept away, that would be some murder right there.

"According to what they found out, he basically used most of his body's engery. You know, like that big comotion that happen with the dust and smoke? That was him." He sits up, getting away from the point he was sitting on the bed. Akamine comtinued to lay there, breathing slowly. "They said all he needs is a ton of rest. They made me being him back here though since our exercise was rather more dangerous and more people could be in more condition."

Tenya went into the bathroom to rid of his hero costume and put on more appropriate clothes, walking out seeing nothing had changed with what was going on.

"I do have a question to ask though." Soundwave looked at the other confused, Tenya walking towards the unoccupied bed. "What was Sora like when you knew him?"

"That depends, what is he like now?"

I took a good moment to think what he was actually like, after all, Tenya had barely described him word wise to anyone. Tenya had described him millions of times in his head but like he would say those words out loud for Akamine's friend to hear.

"Rational, short tempered, cold hearted." simple words, the words that just popped up in Tenya's mind and were read out like a book. "But what does that have to do with how he was back then?"

Soundwave mved to the opposite side of where akamine was, fidgeting with some random item he had found on the nightstand. He only continued to figet while he looked down at the flooring.

"The way you describe him was the exact opposite, he is like this little angel everywhere he went." He put it down, Tenya felt strange as a pose to hearing those words. "Or he was, I guess he is no longer that same person I met at the tree all those years ago."

"What do you think happened?" Tenya had this awkward gutted feeling sinking in his core, but had decently decided to ignore it from his range of seriousness.

"I'm not to sure to be honest. From what I know from my one friend back in America though, she lost her pet dog and turned into that description you just gave me."

"You think he went through trauma?!" Tenya knew for some odd reason, he knew it all seemed to just add up like the last piece of the boarder of a puzzle. It explainednso much that all he needed to do was to fill in the big blank slowly.

"He went through something, yet, whatever that is, it is something I probably wouldn't get to know or find out."

Soundwave was about to step away when he was quickly tackled to the floor, landing painfully on his back and howling in pain. There was more sounds of thudding floor as some other hit it too, hitting the nightstand as they went down.

"*beep* ,what in the *beep* world is wrong with you?!" Soundwave had gotten up, checking the other. "Look at you now Aki! You are bleeding!"

"I grabbed a first aid kit!" Tenya yelled, which was quite easy to find since it was ligit in the bathroom on the countertop.

It took so much effort just to fix everything. Akamine wouldn't stop moving, the 2 having to force him down, try not to get punched in the face, manage to not make more of comotion than necessary, and end up more brusied in the end.

"That was completely unecessary!" Tenya heads to the bathroom, seeing if he was deemed ok, even after receiving a big punch to the face.

"That's it, I am done here!" Soundwave was dashing towards the door to leave, not looking back at all. Onve he reached the doorhand, both had heard something of most suprising words.

"Please stay, Ish, please." It was such a soft gentle voice, Akamine's voice.

"So you do know my name." Soundwave, Ishihara Osamu-Seiji, says. He looks up at the clock before looking back at Akamine. "I can't stay since I have to head back but we can talk later."

The door opened and shut in an instant, Tenya jolting as he walked out of the bathroom. He noticed in the conrer of his red eyes that Akamine was smiling, not a weird evil grin like Katsuki does at least once, no, an actual heart-filled smile. Once Akamine noticed he was looking though, the smile turned into a cold unhappy stare.

"What? Am I not allowed to know other people?" Tenya only sighed.

"No, it's just strange seeing you smile." Tenya looked out the window, seeing the sun just beginning to set. "I thought you never would."

"Guess what *beep*, you ain't seeing that stupid *beep* again." And there Akamine goes, back to his original human self.

It was short time before it was the destined time to sleep, both boys seemingly resting in the now pitch black room. Tenya was not resting, his eyes weren't even shut at all, all he did was lay there looking at the ceiling.

That same feeling from before, guilt.

He was confused as to why he would feel like this, he couldn't even think of a reson for it. He tried to think of other things to let his mind sleep but the guilt kept tripping back at him. He left the feeling to only be sucked up by it once more.

He realized then and there that the feeling was going to pull him under at some point, planning to drown him until he couldn't breathe anymore, being held under the water unable to force yourself upwards and out, the cold hand of guilt becoming the killer of pride and all things he knows.

That feeling hasn't got to him yet but he knew it would, he knew at just a simple point in time where everything will just fall apart like shattered glass. It will be out of his control and something he will not be able to fix, something that could break him like a wine glass.

Whatever it would be, he found it might be right where he was, the training camp. The guilt would dare to show itself and unlurk from the tiny shadows it hides upon. For now though, that was out of Tenya's way, for it is something he didn't want at the moment.

Tenya had gone to sleep but the guilt was planning to pull him soon, he just didn't know how much it would drown him.
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