Kind People (1)

“Sooou!!”

“—gh”

As soon as I entered the futsal court, someone came running at me with great force. I was caught completely off guard, and I got directly hit by that charge.

The one who clung to me and hugged me just after was Narumi. Well, I expected that much.

Narumi’s height wasn’t that different from mine, so it hurts when his head hits my ear when he hugged me closely like that.

Even so, I couldn’t seem to get out of his arms that hugged me so tightly.

“Stop that. You’re hurting him.”

“Whoa… Wai-, Ten, what are you doing?”

As I was troubled and didn’t know what to do, surprisingly it was Amagi who came to my rescue.

He walked slowly from behind, grabbed Narumi by the neck, and pulled him away from me. He stared at me while he was at it, but his face didn’t look as disgusted as back then.

“…You don’t smell today.”

“Huh?”

“Anyway, Sou! What happened to you?! You didn’t show up for almost a month, so I was worried… I was so lonely too.”

I was curious about the words that Amagi muttered, but the words I asked back to him were drowned out by Narumi’s loud voice.

Even though Amagi had pulled him away from me, Narumi came close to me again and clung to my arm this time. The tone of his voice was joking, but his face that was peering at me from the side looked really worried.

I mean, I just realized that I hadn’t been coming here for a month.

“—There’s the exam… and well, many things.”

“I see. So it was the time for students to have the exam.”

Narumi nodded his head as if he was convinced, but he still wouldn’t let go of my arm. I looked at Amagi to ask for help, but he just averted his eyes from me.

It seems like he wouldn’t help me this time.

I wonder if this is okay. Even though he seemed to be jealous of me before.

“Okay, let’s go to the changing room together then.”

“Wait, haven’t you changed already, Narumi?”

“It’s fine, it’s fine. Come on, let’s deepen our bond. I want to have my fill of Sou’s body after a long time.”

Deepen our bond, he said?

Without being able to reply that I think our bond was already deep enough, I headed to the changing room with Narumi still clinging to my arm.

*

“So, what do you mean many things have happened?”

“Huh?”

“You said it. That there are exams and many things that happened. What’s ‘many things’ ?”

After making sure there was no one else in the changing room, Narumi asked that with a serious expression. The tone of his voice was totally different from before.

He sounded so serious that I felt like I was suddenly being cornered.

“…Did I say something like that?”

“You did! Anyway, I’d ask about it even if you didn’t say that. You’ve lost weight, haven’t you? Or rather, you’ve gotten thinner. You don’t have any energy, and you look like you’re about to collapse. If you’re like that, you can’t kick the ball and have fun.”

Was it really that bad?

It was the day before yesterday when I talked to Ryuuji. I’ve been trying to get some sleep since then, but it looks like it was still showing on my face.

But, there was no way I could tell him the truth.

“Maybe it was because my heat was so tough this time.”

It wasn’t a lie that my heat was tough.

Though it wasn’t my body that was in pain, but my heart.

I thought I might be able to fool him with this. Narumi is an omega too. Even if he had Amagi as his pair, he must know the hardship of the heat.

And yet—

“…That’s probably true, but there must be other things too.”

“What…”

“You think you can fool me?”

Narumi wouldn’t get fooled by me.

He grabbed both of my shoulders, then brought his face so close to mine that I thought it would touch me. He looked into my eyes and narrowed his eyes while looking sad.

“You can’t talk about it to me?”

“…That’s-”

“Is that why you stopped coming here? Because you didn’t want to see me? Am I bothering you being like this?”

“No! That’s not it.”

I thought that it was hard to face him, that’s for sure. But it wasn’t those kinds of negative feelings.

It’s just that when I see Narumi, I can’t help but think of Yuugo.

If he were to ask me about the message from that time… If he asks about Yuugo, I have no confidence that I’ll be able to keep my composure.

Even so, it was also hard to just stay at home and do nothing.

Because there was nothing to do, I ended up reaching for my phone. There was still that app that I couldn’t delete in there, and every time I looked at it made me sad.

That’s why I thought I might be able to forget about it if I played soccer. That’s what I thought, so I gathered my courage and came here.

But it looks like I couldn’t forget it in the end.