✦1314✦Nanbaka✦Reverse-harem✦

✦17✦ I'll protect you with these dirty hands

Michiyo was up on the roof, watching the endless ocean that surrounded Nanba prison. She liked the calm scenery of the unknown distance faraway from where she was. What was beyond the sea that she was looking at? What kind of world did other people outside of prison live? Were they living well? Were they happy? Michiyo doesn't know the answer to that. 

Michiyo looked at her hands and she began to make snow appear on her hand. Little by little, white piled on her hand and overflowed. Michiyo was trying her best to make the snow instantly disappear again; if she could create ice and snow, then it would make sense for the one to create it to get rid of it, right? She doesn't believe she's only capable of destruction, she might be made for the reason but she wanted to prove it wrong and live in the way she wanted. 

"Come on..." She tried to focus on getting of the snow in the her hands, but none of it showed traces of leaving. "No..." Did it mean only Musashi can melt it? 'Musashi can get rid of his flames at will after that man experimented on our bodies. Why is it only me showing signs I can't control it? What the hell was he doing at the time with my body?' She dropped the little pile of snow the ground where it melted under the shine of the sun. 

"What can I do...?" She couldn't get rid of a simple pile of snow. If she went out of control, will she freeze the people she cared about? 

"Do it now! You have to do it!" Uno was pushing Jyugo to do something.

"Huh?" Michiyo could hear voices that belonged to the ones who shared a cell with her. "Geez..." She smiled a little and she waited for them to finish. 

"W-wait! I'm chickening out!" Jyugo's voice could be heard in the background. "I forgot my lines!" 

"What?! But we're all the way here!" Nico complained, "Just wing it!" 

"All you have to do is say what we have been practicing!" Rock was also urging Jyugo to get on with it. 

"Jyugo-kun, you can do it!" Nico pushed Jyugo out from their hiding place, making Jyugo stand out in the open behind Michiyo. 

The blue haired girl turned around and she smiled at Jyugo. "Hey, it's been a while." 

"M-Michiyo..." Jyugo practiced how to apologize many times back in the cell with the others. He did so well! Why was it that when he tried to do the real thing, his legs shook like a leaf?! He couldn't look at her in the eyes without averting his mismatched eyes to the ground where his feet stood. 'Don't cower!' Jyugo mustered his courage and he looked at her without fear! "I'm sorry for cutting your back! Even if you're scarred for life, I'll accept you!" 

"Huh?" Michiyo was a little taken back what Jyugo was proposing after not seeing each other for a while.

Jyugo ignored all self pride, he got on his hands and knees, and his head touched the ground. "I'm sorry for cutting your back, I'm sorry for hurting you with my blades, and it's probably stupid of me to say this..." He looked up at her, "When I realized I hurt you, I instantly regret it, and a part of me felt like it's being ripped apart..." He could feel his tears well up, "I would never ever hurt you, Michiyo. Can you ever forgive me?" 

Michiyo stared at Jyugo while Uno and Rock were shocked with the added extra bits from the 16 year old's lips! What they had practice before coming here was completely out of the windows!

"Hold on a moment, pause, pause, pause!" Uno was not please with the added extra bits! Jyugo was only supposed to apologize! "Jyugo, you got it wrong! What's with all the added bits?!"

"Yeah! We want to watch you apologize, not watch you propose to Michiyo!" Rock argued. 

"You won't do as an actor, Jyugo-kun!" Nico laughed at the fail of the fellow 16 year old. "Michiyo-nee?"