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"I'm happy you've come to a smart decision, (Y/N)-san, I look forward to working with you."

He saw the look in your eyes which led him to count you in his plans with Itona. It was in the way the look of defeat looked so pleasing when he grinned lowly at the way you capitulated, hanging from the wall. He wanted to gain your trust just as he would risk trusting you but he was tenaciously relentless in his plan to have Koro killed so he could get a large sum of the reward money but to also finally have ended Koro's life.

"Get me down from here dammit." Your voice was raspy and Itona stepped forward to obey seeing as you already stated that you'd help them contain your teacher. And tentacle moved from his head to undo the rope before it exploded and he gasped in pain and shock. You watched with wide eyes when the man in white put his gloved hand on the boys outstretched limb, "Don't trust so easily Itona. I don't want to have to teach you a lesson in obedience just as I have with her."

The teen; Itona backed away with his gaze to the ground, his limb healing much slower in comparison to Koro-sensei's abilities. Your heart rate was quickening immensely at the look of sheer evil in the mans eyes when he then asked Itona to get you down, "Hurry up then." You noticed the way he hesitated but continued as he refused to make eye contact, "My name is Shiro and as you may have realised; this is Itona."

He placed a hand on his chest as he introduced himself and waved a hand to Itona as well, his outfit was really secure on his body as only his eyes were visible. He noticed your staring and seemed to smirk from behind the cloth, "I've clothed myself in anti-Koro powder embedded within the cotton as a measure of defence."

Itona let another tentacle slowly hold you up so you wouldn't fall as he untied the rope around your elbows, your wrists and then your ankles. He wrapped the same grey limb around your waist and lowered you to the floor, placing your back against the wall on the floor where you coughed as your rib cage begged you to stop. The bruising was more prominent, the rips on your shirt and your pale legs were bent in awkward angles as you tried to move but your body wouldn't listen.

It made you furious when your body didn't move as if you had déjà vu. You were determined to not be that way anymore when you went through hell on that single bed feeling as if your limbs were as light as a feather when something was compressing your chest so tightly it felt as if it would shatter your sternum, "I know what I'm going to do, alright. I'm not going to turn against you so.." You felt bile rise, "Please let me leave."

He looked down at you, "Right, well you know we- I had to enforce this countermeasure for all the right reasons. You understand, don't you?"

You inwardly rolled your eyes and moved your neck to rest your head against the wall from when it had been slung forward exhaustedly. Nodding widely yet slowly when you tried to stay as still as possible to catch your breath, blood had dried on your face, your hair and on your chest, "I understand."

"Itona, take her and get her cleaned up. Take her wherever she asks - and then come back here. We'll be seeing you very soon (Y/N)-san."

Itona moved his tentacles away to place an arm around your underarms and lifted you up with a monotone face, he heard you gasp with a sharp cry but he didn't stop his actions when your feet were dragging across the floor. His cheeks turned light pink and you could see it in his face as he was much closer now when his golden eyes looked straight ahead of him, "Hey.. Why are your cheeks red? First time holding a girl~?"

He seemed surprised at your comment after you had just been so badly hurt in front of him. Previously, you appeared to be in a state where you had given up, becoming more submissive when you had been blackmailed to work with two strangers, "You're heavy."

You gaped a little, feeling your lips form a tiny smile and leaned against him more when he turned a corner to find a small tap pointing out of the wall. He sat you down again, turning the tap open to cup the water in his two hands and pour it on you. Grimacing, you looked down as the water dripped down your face, turning pink as it fell to the floor.

You saw the piece of cloth hanging from the side of your shirt and ripped it off, folding it own half to put it under the tap. Itona noticed and backed away so you could clean yourself but you surprised him by thrusting the wet cloth to him, "Clean me. I'm injured."

"You're really weird."

"Do as you're told man, my arms hurt." You pouted when he stared but smiled as he took the cloth to kneel before you, moving it to your face and your neck to wipe away the blood, smearing it onto your skin when half of it got absorbed into the dirty rag, "Wet it again, I can't leave with blotches of blood on me."

He nodded, oddly submissive and did as he was told when he turned the tap off after it had still been running, after wetting the rag when blood mixed with sweat and tears came off of it. The cold rag touched your skin again when you stared down at the purple-blue bruise that had small amounts of yellow mixed in too. It was pretty large, about the size of a softball- perhaps a little bigger that was covering your stomach.

"Ah- be careful!" He touched your cheek as the cut stung from the middle of your cheek down to the edge of your chin below your lip. He glazed over your lip as well and moved his hand over your split lip with care - as odd as it seemed, "Deal with it."

Pouting again, you looked away, "Are you nearly done?"

He nodded stiffly, "It's in your hair." Sighing in distaste, you turned your body despite the aching coming from your torso when your wrists and ankles also bruised with rope burns though they hadn't broken through your skin as it only turned light red and purple, "Use the rag to tie my hair, put it under my hair and then tie a knot- make sure it's tight."

He cleaned the rag again after having cleaned your chest and face, hands and thighs and then did what you said, successfully tying your hair to pull all of it out of your face. You had turned back around and nodded, a little grateful though you still wanted to get away from this person immediately. He wasn't doing this because he wanted to, he wasn't helping you out of his own kindness and you knew he was just doing it to avoid being punished by his caretaker - the irony.

"Pick me up and take me to the tallest tower in Kyoto." Your voice became low again, on the edge of becoming hoarse while your arms were stretched out like a baby with a grimace on your face for having to hold them there until he picked you up from your waist. You leaned on him and moved your feet slowly, not placing too much weight on them when your burns hurt on your ankles, "You're a coward if you're going to jump."

"Idiot I'm not going to kill myself, It's almost ironic that you'd say that." Recalling the way you dove through the air on that cliff in 3-E, you huffed and looked straight ahead when he sped out of the underground lair-like building to have the sun shining down on you, "Hurry up then."

Karma had one thing on his mind when the train stopped in Tokyo. The class got out when he followed and some stopped to see the other classes smiling and laughing from having traveled in first class. Koro still hadn't reunited with them but they weren't concerned when he could fly to the other side of the world and back within an hour or so.

Karasuma had been silent the entire time even when Bitch-sensei tried to flirt with him but as always her fruitless attempts caused the class to endure her endless tantrums. Terasaka and his gang didn't do much, just talking normal banter but Muramatsu became stiff when he was spoken to, almost as if he was paranoid.

Nagisa and his group played cards on the way back and talked about more plans to assassinate their teacher and other students did the same in their limited space on the train.
Nagisa saw Karma walking away from the group when they tagged out of the station as if having a destination already in his mind and Karasuma saw, "Karma, we're going back to school for dismissal."

He stopped and turned around three quarters, glancing at Nagisa as he smiled sweetly, "Sorry Karasuma, Nagisa and I have to go to the hospital."

He didn't sound apologetic at all and Nakamura stopped her chat with Hinata when they heard this, staring as did most of the class. They knew what he meant and Karasuma couldn't help letting them go, "Come back to school when you're done." He turned back around to lead his students to the other exit to take the bus waiting to go back to school and Bitch-sensei walked by him again, "The hospital? Why're they going there?"

"To visit a classmate."

The hospital wasn't as busy as the other days that Nagisa had been there. He knew exactly where he was going as Karma followed with no facial expression, his hands buried in the pockets of his pants. Nagisa stepped into the elevator, exhaling loudly when he couldn't help watching Karma in the reflection of the steel doors, "Are.. Are you nervous?"

"Me? Why would I be nervous."

In truth, Karma was wondering if Nagisa could hear his rapid heart rate but he just smiled innocently, his palms were beginning to sweat a little in his pockets and he didn't say anything else, looking to Nagisa's hand that pressed the '6' button of the wall.

Karma's legs began to feel weak when he exited the elevator. Nagisa walked out immediately and some nurses even nodded towards him in greeting when he smiled back. Karma didn't know what to think but there was a tight feeling deep in his stomach that made him feel jittery. Goosebumps appearing on his arms underneath his blazer and he read the name,

'Room 38

(L/N) (F/N)'

He wasn't aware of when it happened but he could feel his hands shaking when removing one from his pocket to hold the opened door as Nagisa walked through slowly while Karma followed right on his tail. There was a curtain that separated the two boys from seeing beyond it, the shadow of a bed with a body laying upon it. Nagisa felt himself sighing, his shoulders sagging a little when he looked around the curtain nonchalantly as if having done so many times before.

Karma's heart raced in his chest, as if his stomach was churning the food he had recently eaten in a bad way. But then he saw something was wrong, he saw the blood draining from Nagisa's face and how he faltered when he had wanted to sit by your side, "Wh-.. What?"

The red-haired boy felt his eyes widening and he stopped when Nagisa raced past him as a shadow had gone by the door of the room, Karma felt uneasy and stared at the two feet that shaped the blanket when Nagisa had flicked the curtain a little to turn away. He was nervous to see anything further, "Sensei- what-..?"

"Oh, you're one of (L/N)-san's friends, right?"

"I.. I am, isn't this he-"

Nagisa felt his breath leave his body when he saw the doctors hand, holding a name tag that read your name, '(L/N) (Y/N)' that had just been taken down, another name to replace it, "She's been released actually- and make sure you take care of her - she'll be in a lot of pain within the next few weeks with the way she's going on recklessly."

"Released?" Karma's voice grew bright; as if breathing his words out in relief, his eyes glowing from the shadow that the sunlight cast on the back of his head though a smirk- no, it was more a smile, grew on his mouth as his canines were visible, his cheeks turning pink from the warmth that spread within him. He threw back the curtain behind him and focused his unwavering stare down at the sleeping patient, an elder male with a couple of scrapes and bruises. The bed that you had laid in was now occupied by another.

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