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“Kira,” Yumeko calls for the tenth time. “Yumeko, I am trying to work, go bug someone else,” Kira says from her seat in the student council room. “But Kira, everyone else is boring and we haven’t played each other in so long, I miss the excitement.” Kira looks at her paper work then back at Yumeko, “Give me 20 minutes of uninterrupted peace and silence and then we can play something.”
Yumeko somewhat agreed, so she decided to lay on the couch that's a bit behind Kira’s chair. Not even 5 minutes later she stood up and put her hands over Kira’s eyes. “Guess who?” Kira just sighs, “Yumeko, sit down, I need to finish these papers.” Yumeko looks at Kira mischievously, “Sit down, you say?” With no hesitation Yumeko sits down on Kira’s lap.
“Yumeko, get off, someone could walk in and how would I explain you on my lap?” Yumeko doesn’t move an inch, Kira glances back at her papers… “Ugh, fine, let's go to my dorm. We can play whatever you want there.” Yumeko happily gets off of Kira’s lap, “See Kira-san I knew you couldn’t say no for long, now lets go.” Yumeko doesn’t even give Kira time to clean up her papers, she grabs Kira by the hand and drags her back to Kira’s dorm room. Kira opens the door, still not even attempting to have Yumeko let go of her hand.
“You know where the cards are, what game have you decided for my poor fate?” Yumeko looks at Kira with a smirk before saying, “Strip poker.” “Yumeko, no, we are not playing strip poker, when you said game I was expecting something simple… then again nothing is ever simple with you.” “Fine, Kira-san if you don’t want to play with me maybe I’ll just ask Chad,” Yumeko turns to leave but Kira quickly grabs her wrist. “No! Ugh, I hate that you know what to say to get your way.” Yumeko smiles giddily. “Cards in the same spot as usual,” Kira says nonchalantly.
Yumeko smiles and gets up to grab the cards from the drawer of Kira’s bedside table. “You can deal, Yumi.” “Kira-san, you need to play with me more often, I get bored, no one is as fun as you,” Yumeko says while cutting and shuffling the cards before dealing them. “I’m sorry, I’ve been busy, the council has needed some… restructuring after SOMEONE decided to mess with the order.” Yumeko smiles, “Let’s play.” Yumeko and Kira both look at their cards.
Kira starts, “I’ll bet my sock.” “Fine, if you want to start small I will too.” Yumeko slightly whines. Yumeko lays out the Flop, it has the queen of hearts, jack of diamonds, 4 of hearts….
(I can’t write gambling scenes yet sooo fast forward)
They are in their 6th or 7th round, Yumeko is left only in her bra and skirt, Kira has her white shirt and skirt still. “YES, ROYAL FLUSH (BlaCk JaCK, BINGOOO iykyk: hint im talking about a live) oh Kira-san, that means your shirt has to go.” For the first time in the entire game Kira hesitated and Yumeko noticed. “Don’t worry Kira-san, I’ll behave once I see you…. maybe,” Yumeko says while slightly wetting her lips.
“You know what I think it’s time we call it a day.” Kira says realizing she has let Yumeko get too close to something only 3 other people know about. “But Kira, that's not fair you have to at least complete your consequence. You are a woman of your word aren’t you?”
Kira is still hesitant, ‘Yumeko wouldn’t think worse of me. She can keep a secret. But if I show her what if she freaks out. It would be another weakness she knows. That would give her too much power over me.’
“Kira, are you okay?” Yumeko says, snapping Kira out of her spiral.”I-” “If you really want to stop, it’s fine.” “No… I- I keep my word.” Kira starts to unbutton her white shirt but instead of doing it from top to bottom she does it from bottom to top which confuses Yumeko since Kira is big on order. Kira unbuttons her shirt really slowly… “Yumeko can you turn around?” Yumeko looks confused but nods, understanding there is more to this situation than just taking off a shirt. After Yumeko turns, Kira finally takes off her shirt, and looks at herself in the mirror, staring at the giant scar on her chest above her bra.
Mentally preparing herself, Kira tells Yumeko she can turn back around, facing Yumeko now, Kira can’t make eye contact with her as Yumeko sees the scar on Kira’s chest. Yumeko walks closer to Kira, “So this is what had you so nervous, you should know by now I would never judge you. You never have anything to be ashamed or scared to tell or show me” Yumeko lifts Kira’s head, “You’ve never looked down. Don’t start now.”
Kira, surprised by Yumeko’s reaction, does something neither of them truly expected. She pulls Yumeko into a hug, usually it’s Yumeko leading the physical contact.
Yumeko just stands there embracing Kira in her rare moment of vulnerability. “Do- do you want to tell me how it happened?”
Kira didn’t respond for a few minutes until she got herself together, rebuttoned her shirt, sat on her bed and gestured for Yumeko to sit next to her. Yumeko can’t think of a time she has ever seen Kira this vulnerable.
“The scar, the injury happened a long time ago. My father came home one day furious about something that happened at work. Maybe some deal went wrong or someone made a mistake but he was mad.” Kira’s eyes are glazed as she remembers that day. “Riri and I always knew when he came home, especially in that kind of mood to stay out of his way, no loud noises, no mistakes, no getting in his way, only speak when spoken to.” Kira recites the rules her and Riri would follow to stay safe which cause Yumeko’s heart to clench because Kira and Riri were just children, no child should be that afraid of their father.
Yumeko gently puts a hand on Kira’s wrist to help keep her grounded. Kira continues to stare out straight ahead from the bed but continues telling her story, (Riri is younger in this fanfic) “Riri and I were playing in her room, we usually did that to keep Riri distracted from our fathers bad mood. She got thirsty so we went into the kitchen to get a glass of water. She ended up dropping it, we hoped our father wouldn’t hear but of course he did. Thankfully the glass didn’t crazy shatter just 2 pieces which I threw away before he came down but we couldn’t hide the water.” Yumeko was curious how all this led to the scar Kira had on her chest but said nothing.
“He ended up slapping both of us for it… Sorry I’m getting side tracked, you don’t need to know my whole sob story you were asking about my scar. It happened that same day, He invited a business associate over into his office Riri and I were curious what they were talking about so being the children we were we listened in. Which is funny cause you would think we know better by then. We hid in a corner when they left the office and Riri wanted to see what the inside of his office looked like, so we went in. I had to make sure she didn’t break anything.”
Kira was slightly trembling so Yumeko pulled her closer to her chest resting her head on top of Kira’s, “You don’t have to keep going if you don’t want to, you can tell me another day if you want.” Kira shook her head, “If I don’t say it now then I don’t think I ever will.”
“We were in his office and Riri found his gun drawer. Turns out he forgot to turn the safety on and Riri accidentally shot it, I don’t think I ever heard him run up the stairs faster. I had no time to get the gun out of her hands. I was scared and couldn’t think, he walked in and saw Riri with the gun in her hand. He was already mad before it was even worse now… He grabbed the gun from her hands and smacked her with the butt of it. He had the eyes of a killer at that moment.”
“I knew we weren’t safe, I knew he was going to do something bad to her but I didn’t know what until I did. He shouted at her for the gun, and at us for sneaking into his office, I was hopeful that would be it until he said, “Riri, let me show you how a gun works, stand against that wall and don’t move.””
Yumeko had to hold her reaction back, what kind of man, no Arkadi is no man he is a monster in every form. Yumeko holds Kira a little tighter as Kira’s voice starts to tremble, “I knew what he was about to do to my little sister and I could just stand and watch so I jumped him right when he was about to shoot… I think you can guess what happened. Poor Riri had to see me bleeding out while our father was just complaining about the mess happening in his office. Riri was screaming and crying for help. My mom found me bleeding out maybe 2 or 3 minutes later because she was already on the way home.”
“This was probably the one time my mom actually hugged Riri to stop her from crying, she got Riri to quiet down while putting pressure to stop me from bleeding till the ambulance got there.”
“Kira, you both were just children, neither of you deserved that.” Yumeko says very softly knowing Kira is in a very vulnerable spot right now. Kira went silent for what felt like hours but was only like 5 minutes. “Kira, can I ask, how old were you both?” That question is what broke Kira into tears, she tried muffling and stopping herself from crying but she couldn’t, Yumeko only held her while rubbing her back to try and comfort her while whispering words such as, “your okay now,” and “you're safe with me.”
“It was about 7 years ago so I was 11 and Riri was 10.” Kira mumbled out while having her face buried in Yumeko’s shoulder. “Kira, you both were just children, Kira, I promise to get revenge for you.” Kira only nods, she's so emotionally exhausted.
“Kira, love, you need to change into pj’s and then I’m going to hold you and never let you go so you can sleep comfortably. Then tomorrow you can go back to being the stone cold president everyone knows, and at night come back to my arms so I can hold you and hide you away from all your pain and suffering.”
“I love you Yumeko, thank you”
“I love you too, Kira, you always have me.”
One-Shot Request by theCaTarabella