sinners and saints

a bloody knife and a chokehold.

"so i don't blame you if you want to bury me in your memories, i'm not the girl i ought to be."

festivals weren't really your thing. yet here you were, riding on the back of mitsuya's bike in order to go meet takemichi. "y'know, mikey's been a lot more cheerful ever since he met you." you didn't say anything, just letting out a hum. "you noticed it too, right? that empty look in his eyes? they're a lot brighter when you're around. i guess i'm tryna' thank you. everyone cares about mikey a lot, he's been through a lot, y'know?" you found yourself flustered again. "say, f/n, do you like mikey? like, romantically." your eyes widened, you honestly didn't know how to respond. "i'm.. not sure, honestly. i've never really had feelings like that for anyone.."

he nodded, humming. "well, what do you think of him?" you hadn't really ever taken the time to entertain the thought that you might have feelings for mikey. "i want him to open up to me, i think. i feel like he's carrying a lot on his back, y'know? and it's like he's insistent on doing it himself. i, well i know i want to be there for him. if he goes through all of this alone.. i'm afraid of what kind of future he has." mitsuya really was thankful for you. "you really care about him, huh? 'm glad he has someone like you. ah, there's takemitchy." he saw you too, he probably heard the sound of takashi's bike. "mitsuya! f/n!" you saw the the grey haired male looking around, as if he was trying to find something. "where's draken?"

takemichi ran towards the both of you. "it's really bad! draken's gonna get attacked!" mitsuya just nodded, he didn't seem very surprised. "yeah, i know." he hadn't brought that up, you had absolutely no clue. "kiyomasa's gonna-" "it's peyan" okay, apparently they had different ideas. they both started questioning eachother, confused. "peyan couldn't let pah getting caught go, he's practically abandoned toman. he started talkin' about how he was gonna 'deal with draken'" no heterosexual explanation for peh's behavior man. both of them started running, takemichi yelled that you had to save draken. you ran along, not really wanting to get left behind. "mitsuya! it's the parking lot! is there another parking lot here?"

"huh? yeah, the back one, over there." takemichi immediately took off in the direction mitsuya had pointed out, both of you following along. totally confused and lost, you figured you'd just follow along. after a bit of running, you found draken, as long as a bunch of guys from mobius. some were beat up on the floor, the others still fighting draken. "go the fuck away mitsuya.. i'll kill you too." peh seemed happy to see you! your fists clenched, ever since you got caught up with these delinquents, everything just made you so mad. "asshole. what the hell are you doing with mobius?" emma went off on peyan, while draken took it upon himself to sit down. "all yours, mitsuya." one of the mobius members smiles, holding a weapon over his shoulder. "really think you can take all of us?"

"eh, shut up, fucker." peyan honestly looked dead inside. you almost felt a little bad. hence on the almost, you still wanted him to break all his limbs. "take 'em out. all three of 'em." before anyone could move, another bike exhaust could be heard. it was coming your way. based on draken's and mitsuya's reaction, you could only assume it was mikey's. peyan honestly looked scared as he saw mikey. "i get it now. you called me out somewhere else so you guys could attack kenchin and n/n." okay, wait a sec, who the fuck was gonna tell you that you were supposed to get attacked? "shut up! i'm doing this for pah!" you couldn't help but smile, he was doing it for himself, yet he didn't even notice. "this isn't your style, peh. just who tempted you into this?" mikey knew his gang well, you had to give him that.

"wow, this is a real shocker. so, the invincible mikey isn't just all brawn." there was a tall male approaching you, while another trailed behind him, holding up an umbrella. "hm, and who are you?" the dude stood in front of mikey, he was rather calm about it. he had tattoos on both of his hands, one with the word "punishment" and the other with "sin". "doesn't matter who i am. but i'm the one in charge of mobius, now. the names hanma." why would he say it didn't matter who he was then continue to introduce himself.?? "ah. so you're the edge-lord behing all this." you couldn't help but chuckle at the name calling. "you're such a pain in the ass, mike-" he was interrupted by mikey trying to kick him.

he caught his foot. he blocked mikey's attack. "hey now, don't be so hasty. it's my mission to destroy toman, and what better way to do that then with a good old fashioned fight? with these hands, i'm gonna tear the 'invincible mikey' apart." he smiled, putting one of his hands over his eyes before standing tall and spreading them out. "the entire mobius gang, one hundred men! against four measly toman members." he was going to continue, but you decided to speak up. "hey! don't be an asshole, i'm here too! it's five, thank you very much." maybe it was petty, but that didn't matter, it's not like he listened anyways. "ahem, moving on. don't wuss out like you guys did last time. i ain't soft like osanai. if you run away, i'll hunt you down myself and knock your damn teeth out!"

jee, he sure was a team player.

"take on mikey, draken, and n/n. kill all three of 'em." you weren't even really sure how you got looped into all of this, you didn't even really wanna be here. before any fighting could start, more people from toman arrived. all of them rode in on their bikes, the noise was honestly quite bothersome. a large group, all in their uniforms, approached you. a large number of them seemed quite pleased, funnily enough. "heh.. a big fight on the day of the festival. this really gets my blood pumping!" even after taking a bat to the head, draken was still draken. both groups ran at eachother. "let's do this!" was what mikey yelled, but hanma took a different approach with "kill em all!"

to each their own, you suppose.

apparently, you were one of their targets. man after man went after you, throwing their fists in your face. you could name everyone of them. after hearing what they did, you payed quite a bit of money to find out every little thing about them. you were quite determined to ruin their lives, actually. all of them were disgustingly predictable, it took no effort at all to dodge their attacks. it was easy to knock them out, too, all you really had to do was karate chop a pressure point on their neck. you were glad you paid attention in biology. there were more and more guys ganging up on you, it was beginning to stress you out.

you were too distracted by all the fists flying towards you to notice the knife.

kiyomasa.

he didn't need to stab you somewhere vital. he hit the bottom of your abdomen, you were positive the knife cut right through your uterus. well, child birth sounded painful anyways. "n/n!" mitsuya ran over to you, knocking out the guys who surrounded you. "fuck, shit, smiley!" a boy with peach hair quickly made his way over to you. "go take her to emma, we gotta get her out of here." he nodded, carrying you over. "emma, take her." emma looked at you worried, quickly letting smiley put you on her back.

takemichi, emma, and hina walked along, desperate to get to the hospital as soon as possible. but of course, with your luck, you were cut off by kiyomasa and his gang. they were yelling insults and threats like no tomorrow. draken made an attempt to tell takemichi to get emma, you, and hina out of here, but there was no way he was giving up. that's just who takemichi was. but, the reaction takemichi gave him was nothing but a loud yell. "i'm not gonna run, damnit! never again, i'm gonna save everyone! hina, emma, stay back." you couldn't deny that he stood tall, even in the face of kiyomasa. "the hell are you lookin' at? you wanna die, punk?"

"we.. we never finished our fight! i didn't lose. i won't lose." draken grinned, even while blood was leaving his body. "100,000 yen on takemichi!" emma, hina, they all bet on him. of course, kiyomasa and his gang only laughed, continuing to mock him. takemichi let out some sort of battle cry, sending his fist flying towards kiyomasa. and then a knife went straight through it. cute! he yelled out, hina called for him. "heh, like hell i'm gonna play fair with you! this isn't a real fight. this is an execution." it hurt you to laugh, but you couldn't help it. "even.. now... you're stil so pathetic.." it hurt. everything did.

"hah, tryin' to call me pathetic? are you forgetting who stabbed you a couple minutes ago?" did he really think that made him less pathetic? takemichi threw the knife, ripping it out of his hand. once again, he yelled. you couldn't help but wonder how bad his throat hurt. he ran towards kiyomasa, slamming into his torso and wrapping his arms around him. and then he fucking bit him. "ouch! he fuckin' bit me! get off of me, damnit!" takemichi practically crawled up him, holding him in a choke lock. "i don't give a damn if i can't be mikey! or draken! or f/n! i'm hanagaki takemichi, damnit!" kiyomasa yelled at him to let go, trying to breathe. but to no avail. takemichi pulled him backwards, sending both of them to the floor.

kiyomasa was knocked out.