♡ Kryptonite ● Akaza x Reader ●

Chapter 12: "Trust"

Y/n POV:

My lips parted slightly by his sudden statement, he never failed to surprise me.

"Y/n."

Just one word was my answer as my thoughts were still reconstructing the previous events. And I found no conclusion to his weird behavior.

"Y/n... Sorry for scaring you, but you didn't listen to what I was saying."

His words made sense I was in such a rage mode that nothing reached through to my brain. It's slightly embarrassing to act this much out of character just because of the feeling of despair and confusion.

"I understand, but I wasn't entirely scared, more like pumped with adrenaline and a little excited I guess someone would call it."

His hug around my body seemed to become a little tighter after that statement. I guess he could be relived that he didn't push it to far to scare me away from him. But who knows what a demon like him would think. Now the only thing that matters was that he is here with me.

Our bodies were pressed against one another, it made me feel warm and my face turned red due to the intimacy of this action. I didn't want this to end.

But reality once again took a toll on me and the moment ended way to soon. Even though his warmth left my body he retreated just a few centimeters so I could have my personal space. I don't know if I wanted to have that right now but I was thankful for his politeness.

My face may still be as red as a tomato and my whole body may tremble because of my nervousness but I wanted to turn around and look him in the eyes. I wanted to see him and be able to study his features once again. My feet started to move in an attempt to turn around.

Well, it should forever stay an attempt because I lost balance on the branch, my mind was just to occupied to remember to carefully choose my steps. Yep, now it's just me and a terrified scream from my lungs as my body darted towards the ground. *Damn that's gonna hurt and on top of that it was embarrassing as hell. Definitely on my top 10 list of how to ruin a perfect moment.*

I closed my eyes to be ready for the impact. Before that could happen I heard a crashing sound and then I landed rather softly.

Slowly my eyes flutter open to see I was in the arms of Akaza. He had a tiny frown painted on his lips.

"How often will you nearly die in my presence?"

His remark was understandable, considering how often he had rescued me during the last of my missions. But now my mouth only grew into a big smile as I found my answer.

"I don't know, how often will you save me?"

I expected a fast comeback from him, but no his reaction was priceless, obviously he didn't think that I would answer nor give him a counter question. The irritated expression on his face vanished and his eyes became bigger, and his cheeks slightly flushed. I never knew he could look this cute, so my smudge expression changed mirroring his. Now silence. I know we both were at a loss for words now until he moved and brought my feet back to the ground. He looked a little mad and turned his head slightly to hide his face, but I could make out that his cheeks were still slightly reddened.

"You're gonna be the death of me women."

With two fingers he held the bridge of his nose and closed his eyes. A sight left his lips and he contained himself once again. My smile never faltered since I saw a completely new side of him. He could be so cruel with people and at the same time he could be cute and innocent if caught off guard. It made me happy to learn something about him.