The Demon Within (Karma x Nagisa)

Chapter 8: Dawn Of Genesis

Nagisa waited anxiously in the front room while peeping through the blinds just in case a neighbour had heard the loud bangs from when Nagisa's uncle was being thrown against the walls and decided to call the police. 

In the meantime, Karma was walking as fast as he could however he didn't know the exact way to Grisha's house so he made a few wrong turns every now and again but he was walking so fast that it easily made up for the time. In fact Nagisa wasn't even sure if he had even left the house yet so it really didn't matter too much.

*Knock* *Knock*

Nagisa's mind was so distracted that he didn't even notice his Karma walk right past the window, that he was so carefully watching, and right up to the front door. As soon as he heard the knocks he ran to the front door to open it as quickly as he could.

"Hey Na-"

Before Karma could finish his sentence Nagisa had already thrown himself into his arms while tightly wrapping his own around Karma's waist.

Karma was still half on the porch but he didn't mind, he knew something traumatic must have happened to Nagisa for him to call him in such a panicked and afraid tone let alone ask him to come over straight away.

He just stood there with the blue-haired boy wrapped tightly in his arms until Nagisa felt ready to let go.

Finally Nagisa eased up on his grip and slowly slid out of Karma's arms, lifting his hands up to wipe the tears from his eyes.

Karma put his hand on Nagisa's shoulder while he slowly walked inside the house, closing the door behind him. He followed Nagisa into the front room and sat down on the sofa beside him.

"Are you okay to talk?" Karma asked with care.

"Yeah." Nagisa said softly.

"Okay, so what happened?"

Karma had already guessed that whoever killed Nagisa's father had come for his uncle next. That would explain why Grisha didn't appear to be in the house but one thing he learnt in his assassination training was to never assume and to always keep your mind open to all possibilities so he just let Nagisa speak.

"I...I think I ki-." Nagisa said while breaking up.

"Take it easy, Nagi." Karma said, while rubbing his fingers through Nagisa's hair, which wasn't tied up like it usually is.

"Karma, I think I killed my uncle." Nagisa said, as his voice got weak and his throat burned towards the end of the sentence.

"Huh- what do you mean you think? Wait, Nagisa what happened? The full story. I can tell when you leave bits out you know." Karma said, raising an eyebrow, still rubbing his fingers through Nagisa's hair.

Nagisa sent a smirk Karma's way.

"I knew you would say that," He said.

Nagisa explained everything that happened including things like how his uncle called what was in the syringe 'the possession serum' and how when he bit into his uncle's neck some sort of venom must have gone through his body and it caused acids to burn his uncle from inside out.

Karma was speechless for a second when Nagisa finished explaining.

"Woah, okay. That must have been horrible but I'm here for you now, okay. Why don't you get some of your stuff and come back with me to my house? You can stay for tonight and I think I have an idea for tomorrow." Karma said with a comforting smile.

Nagisa nodded, returning the smile.

"Can you just grab some of my stuff from upstairs? I'll grab a few snacks for us from the kitchen even though you probably have loads already." Nagisa said followed by an innocent laugh.

Karma went up stairs to grab Nagisa's clothes, hoping to see if he could get any hints about what happened earlier. When he opened the door he saw half melted chains hanging off the bed and cracks all along the walls. 

He noticed a dark patch on the ground probably where the acid flowed out from Grisha. There were only small drops but it was very noticeable on such a white carpet. One thing he did notice though was that there was not a single drop of blood.

"Hm...no blood? That's odd." He thought to himself.

Even if it's what he thinks it is, there should still be blood, in fact there should probably be quite a lot. 

He began collecting Nagisa's clothes from the wardrobe and draws when he noticed a tiny syringe on the ground laying half under the bed.

"Hm, this is probably what Nagi was talking about." He said to himself.

He noticed there was still a bit of fluid inside, it probably wasn't enough to do anything but he put it in his pocket anyways before leaving with the last of Nagisa's clothes in his hands.

"Karma are you sure you can manage all that." Nagisa laughed as he saw the red head walking down the stairs with a pile of clothes so tall even he couldn't see, despite being about six foot.

Karma smiled. "I got it!" He yelled as he watched the clothes fall all along the stairs.

They both laughed.

Nagisa helped Karma pack all his clothes in a suitcase he found in the storage cupboard. When they were done they both left and made their way to Karma's house.