✦1314✦Nanbaka✦Reverse-harem✦

✦34✦ Blue Flower Arc - This is my fight

A few days had went by and Michiyo couldn't find herself to go through each day with the usual comfort. She always had to worry when there will be a next time she will be ambushed, she couldn't even sleep properly without worrying herself. She began to worry that her problem was creating problems toward others, she doesn't want to bother anyone if she could have a choice. 

"Michi, what are you thinking about?" Uno asked her in the middle of the night. 

The cell was a little noisy because of the snoring sounds from the three sleeping cellmates. Only Uno and Michiyo were awake. 

The two of them didn't want to wake the others up so they moved away from their futons to sit against the door. 

"You're not thinking that you're causing troubles for everyone, are you?" He asked her this because he could somewhat tell she's bothered by something.

"Are you a mind reader?" She shouldn't be surprised that Uno would know about it, he had always been able to read others like a book.

"You've been in our cell for a good while now, I know you enough to know what you're thinking about." 

"I know you're doing it for me, I appreciate that." She saw how Uno did his best for her. She saw how he asked others to help, even if those other didn't know her properly. She's happy to have someone like Uno as her ally. "Uno, I'm tired..." 

"I know you are." 

"I feel scared ever since I saw that tattoo again. I..." She touched the tatami mat and then looked up at the dully colored ceiling. "I worry that the next time I wake up, I won't be looking at that dull ceiling. I'm worried that the next time I wake up, you four won't be by my side." How long will this last for? How long until the past stop clinging to her and try to pull her back into the darkness and the pain? She doesn't want to leave when everyone whom she deemed 'important' in her world were all here. She's found a bigger home right here in Nanba Prison, she doesn't want to leave it knowing she wouldn't be able to come back. 

"It's okay to feel scared. Anyone would be if they were in your shoes." Uno put his arm over her shoulders, hugging her close to him. "I won't let anyone hurt you." He had spoken to other inmates from this building too, it took a lot of convincing since many of them were afraid of her and her powers, but they all agreed that outsiders should not mess with an inmate. "We'll go to invite some people from Building 5 over. Get them on our side too." 

She smiled a little, "I guess you would know how to help a girl out since you had so many girlfriends." 

"You could say that, but you're the one I want to protect the most. You're special, Michi." 

"Me? I-I'm just me. If anything, I'm probably the furthest from normal." 

"Hmm..." Uno gave it some thought, "You're right on the normal thing. If you're a normal girl, odds are we'd probably go as far as shopping, dinner, and then a lot of indecent things that shouldn't be aired on TV all in day one." 

"Huh?" She got the first two, but she didn't understand what he meant with the last part. 

"But you know what? You're different. Knowing what you went through, I said to myself 'You need to be extra nice to Michi!' Because you need more kind people in your little world. I don't mind being in that little world of yours forever." 

"Uno..." She looked away with a shy smile. 

"Ah, there's that little smile!" 

"Stop it." 

"There it is again! Why are you hiding such a beautiful smile?!" 

"Hahaha!" 

The door suddenly flung open, making Uno and Michiyo fly forward and onto the floor with their face hitting the tatami mat! "Shut up with the lovey dovey moment and go to bed!" Hajime wasn't a huge fan of Uno and Michiyo!