We're unbreakable [Josuyasu]

Prologue

Okuyasu, you dumbass. How dare you be dreaming at a time like this?- Josuke asked even tho he couldn't understand what was happening in front of his eyes.

Don't be so harsh! You're looking pretty fine for someone who got all beaten up.

Shut the hell up- Josuke's voice cracked as tears of joy started running down his bloody face.- You should have woken up if you weren't dead, dammnit!

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That day I though I'd really lost him. Okuyasu is my best friend, even tho the first time we met didn't start with the friendliest approach. I really didn't think someone would be inside that creepy looking house let alone that they would try to kill me for stepping in. On the next day, he met me at my house in the morning so we would go to school together. That then became our usual routine.

I know, pretty weird. I thought so too at the time.

Truth is that we instantly clicked and anything that happened before that felt like it was replaced with many years of friendship, like we had known each other for ages.

I'm really fond of him, he's my best bro, my partner in crime. We've went through a lot of bizarre stuff together. I'm sure things wouldn't be the same if he wasn't here with me anymore.

We're stronger together!  At that very moment... he saved my life. I thought he was gone, but he came back from the dead to save me. It would take a good amount of luck for me to get through that one alive.

Sometimes when I'm alone with my thoughts I wonder ... What if Okuyasu really died? Even though it fortunately didn't happened, recalling that day makes me feel uneasy, like it's something fragile, like I'm living the same threat right now and I'm at the verge of losing him.

I'm still just probably in shock, but recovering from it has been tough. Morioh is fine now and safe, but I can't help but feel like something is still not right. I can't tell what it is, but it keeps bothering me.

Things haven't been the same these last days, I think everyone is still trying to digest everything that happened. Kira was finally defeated and now is the moment our minds give us time to process things. Until the killer wasn't found we had no choice but to keep going forward.

Now is the moment we feel everything our hearts didn't have time to feel during battle. Everything is over, but now a new battle begins within us. A battle to forgive ourselves, to accept, and to move on. Morioh and its people might be safe now, but their scars will never leave.

I still can't forgive myself for letting Shigechi die. He used his last words to call for me and still I was useless. The kid was a brat for sure and, well, way too intense at times but his last actions showed who he really was. He's the kind of kid you get used to and grow to like. Okuyasu had the same reaction, we had to comfort each other. I would even say he feels even worse about this. He's a good person with a very big heart and gets attached to his friends. Well, who doesn't?

The face of someone who's truly heartbroken. The kind of face you make when you don't know if you should be incredibly mad or terribly sad. That's the face I had to see from Okuyasu the day Shigechi was gone. I remember hugging him and feeling his hand gripping my clothes as he cried in angst.

"Dammit, dammit!"

"H-hey Okuyasu, I thought you didn't like the kid! I didn't imagine you would be all this worked up.. ha.."

"Shut the hell up Josuke, he was just a kid." (...) "We were his only friends and yet we failed at helping him"

I was quite shocked to see him in that state. He's a crybaby, but this was different. He was right, we were irresponsible. Okuyasu didn't had the easiest past, and I know there's a lot he has to deal with inside of his head everyday. I don't bring it up, but I'm happy when he opens up so I can help in any way. I was there for him at the time and I'll always be.

I want to tell him he can count on me for anything, that I won't ever leave his side, and that he can talk to be about whatever, but... Man that's too cheesy, he would mock me everyday for telling him that.

I've been thinking a lot about him lately, I mean, about what happened. I think about the moments we lived together how I don't want to loose that. I just came home from hospital a few days ago but still can't move much so my mom won't let me outta home even if I wanted, therefore I haven't been meeting up much with Okuyasu. He comes to visit me often, but they're quick visits to leave me something like my favorite sweets or check up on me. Not that he didn't want to stay longer, in fact it was my choice. I don't know why but I feel uncomfortable on spending too much time with him, I think my brain still believes that he's just a ghost...

"Josuke! Go get the door, I think it might be Okuyasu."

"H-hum.. C-could you get it yourself, mom, and tell him I'm sleeping...please?"

"Oh... What happened? He's probably just worried about you, did you two fight on the accident?"

"It's nothing. I'm just really tired right now, please mom"

I would be lying if I said I don't feel guilty for doing this, it probably makes him more worried. I believe the reason he visits me frequently is because he needs someone to be with him, but I can't be there right now. He has Koichi (he comes to visit me too, sometimes with Okuyasu), but I'm the one who he's closer to. It's weird, I miss him but at the same time feel like I want to distance myself. I'm probably just thinking too hard on this.

I'll just wait a little longer until I go back to normal. Better than ever!
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Josuke turned the lights off and tugged the sheets of the bed he was already laying on, looking at his bedroom's ceiling while thinking about all of this.

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Hello everyone who happened to read this fic! This is my first one in a very long time, in fact it's still something new to me since I never really finished a work.
I'll be trying my best to write a good story for these two!

-Kyta