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After some days at the hospital and another week at home he wasn’t going to waste another day of his holy summer vacations indoors. Plus, he made a promise; he is going to become stronger, and today is just perfect to start.
The climate looks nice, the TV said that there wasn’t going to be bad weather, why don’t go to the beach?
There is where Keigo is going by himself. He would always ask for his friends to join him in any type of activities that weren’t related to school, but they would always have better things to do, so, his first resolution was ‘don’t wait for others, do it yourself’. Keigo has decided to make his own happiness regardless of who was or wasn’t there to share with –it sounds a little depressive when said out loud. –
A nice sunny day without being too hot, just the right temperature and refreshing breeze. It all seemed to point out that today was going to be a very good day, not like the other days where he would think that something bad was going to happen if he stepped outside of his apartment without company. He really had such bad luck.
At the beach there were so many people; most of them were tourist from another region of Japan or not even from Japan. There were some weird hair colors too...
Keigo shakes his head pushing away that last thought; he wasn’t going to judge anybody by how they look anymore –maybe a little bit if they looked like a serial killer... Like Jack or Freddy–, if he did that then he would be limiting himself in meeting new peoples and, who knows, he might even make new friends; it’s all in keeping an open mind.
The brunette nods his head, clenching his new resolution (metaphorically speaking) and turns towards the stairs that would lead him down towards the sand.
He was looking around to find a nice place to lie down, because of the vacation there wasn’t a lot of empty space, especially the play grounds were pretty much full except for one; it is occupied, but nobody was crowding around it, there were plenty of places to lie down and enjoy the sun without interrupting the peoples from that play ground.
Keigo walks to the place that is suited opposite to the volleyball play ground, he choose that place because it was a little bit more private –he didn’t want to lie down in an open space, it would be too obvious that he was alone–; there was still plenty of distant between him and the volleyball court when suddenly he hears someone shouting.
“Watch out!”
He looks at his left and sees a ball coming at his direction with full speed. Instead of ducking or crying; he let his bag fall, bent his knees, put his arms together and hit the ball with all his force, sending it right above the net and ended on the opponent’s field, winning some points for... Well, to whoever wasn’t in that side of the field.
Keigo didn’t wait to hear what the group was going to say, with his luck they would probably shout at him for interrupting their game. He picked up his bag and resumed his walk, but stopped to think that maybe going in this direction wasn’t a good idea if the group of players that ‘lost’ wanted him to pay for it... So, he turned on his heels and walked the way he came from just to be pulled with force backwards by his arm, making him to trip.
He thought that he would feel sand all over his back and hair but he didn’t, instead, he could feel something warm on his back and something heavy in each of his shoulder, like holding him so he wouldn’t lose balance and fall.
“So brute like always, remember that he is a human!”
That’s weird, why would a human refer to other human as human, Keigo thought not making any movement, he has learned that fast and out of the blue actions tend to catch the attention of carnivorous, and now he is the one thinking that they are animals. Keigo frowns to himself, he really needed to get over this judgmental way of thinking and start to think in a way that helps him to defend himself in such situations.
“Tsk my bad”
“You got to apologize!”
“What!? ”
It seems that the guy holding him and his friend, who must be a little bit far for the sound of his voice, were going to start to argue, at least that’s what Keigo thought. And he wasn’t happy about that prospect and it got worse when he couldn’t find a life guard nearby, he is going to have to prepare to run in anytime if the situation got worse putting him in the middle of the crossfire, like he always does.
“Hey kid” he shakes Keigo a little bit, turning him to stand face to face, “ah… ug… Sorry for that eh”
A group of peoples laughing could be heard from the distance, but Keigo wasn’t paying attention to them or anything surrounding him –bad movement when you are trying to escape–, he was lost for words when he saw who was holding him; a freaking Greek god with sexy spiked light blue hair and stunning blue eyes, and let not start with the chest -where Keigo’s back was touching a moment ago- the poor kid might just faint right there.
I got to have the worst luck, but by now I shouldn’t be surprised, making myself ridiculous in front of gorgeous peoples is natural for me, just like breathing, Keigo looks at his feet moving the sand there, he was too deep in his embarrassment that he didn’t notice at first that the guy was talking to him.
“Hey-”
“Ah… Sorry for interrupting your game, I will go now!” He picks up his bag that fell from his shoulder a moment ago. Keigo thought that it was better to apologize and get away as soon as possible.
“Like if we are going to let you go that fast” he holds Keigo by the hips, lifts him up without a problem, and puts him on his shoulder.
“Eh? I am sorry! I am really sorry! I… I … I just reacted! If I knew I would have let the ball hit me! I am sorry! Please don’t hurt me!” Keigo started to whine; moving his body everywhere, maybe like that the blue hair dude would loosen his grip and Keigo can jump from his shoulder and run at full speed.
“What are you whining about? You are going to help us to win” He says while walking towards the group.
Keigo stops moving after hearing that “What?” he tries to look at the other’s face, “me win?” he points at himself with a finger. This blue hair guy might look hot, but he seriously doesn’t know to difference strong from weak peoples, not that Keigo considers himself in the second category he is just not in the first either.
“Yeah you”
“You got it wrong! It was just luck! Luck!”
“Ja! You managed to hit that green head girl’s nasty throw and your arms are still attached, I wouldn’t call that just luck” He grins, readjusting Keigo on his shoulder, “It’s a nice feast for a human.”
“There is it, referring me as human again, of course I am a human! If I wasn’t one, what would I be!?” Keigo stops breathing for a second, realizing that he let his mouth talk instead of sending the words to make a stop at the brain first, he seriously has to look into his inner-thought-traffic-manager; they will have a serious talk about this. “So… Sorry” He mumbles, letting his entire body to hang. If he wasn’t screwed before, now he definitely was.
“What for? You are a human, a human with balls” He laughs, it was the first time from the moment that they reached there that he encountered this type of human. The others were too scared, shy or sexually aroused –not that he is complaining at that type of human– therefore none of those humans were useful for them, they needed someone to show them the human world and most importantly, who could handle them.
Keigo makes a sound, the one that is made while thinking “Thanks… I guess” He gives other look to his thought, should he introduce to him or not… Well, his first resolution is ‘don’t wait for others, do it yourself’ and that includes having an open mind with the possibility to make new friends, and to do that he must interact –regardless of the weird situation– Note to myself, I must look closely into my future resolutions before making them my definite resolution, he thinks after realizing that his first resolution had loop holes.
He takes a deep breath and lets it out, “Asano Keigo.”
He reaches where the others are right before Keigo said his name “Uh?” He puts Keigo on the floor, looking at his face “What did you say?”
“My name is Asano Keigo,” the brunette repeats, looking directly at the others eyes, not flinching the slightest or feeling intimidated by the height, body build and the closeness of the other to his scrawny body. It felt great to have this confidence, even if it was for a moment –Keigo really hopes that it will last for awhile, at least right before he leaves the beach–.
“Morons, found a nice meat!” He grins right before shouting at those who are behind Keigo, without looking away from the brunette.
Soon after that there were some snickers that tensed Keigo; made him even more nervous. Keigo didn’t approve the mischievous snickers.
“What?” Keigo looked at the other dumbfounded; that only made the others to laugh more hard.
“Grimmjow Jeagerjaques” he raises an eyebrow, amused by Keigo’s expression, “My name.”
“Oh… Hi…”
The others burst laughing at the expense of the poor brunette, saying things like; weak, needs a haircut, won’t be able to handle them, cute, funny nose, put him on the court and –the scariest one of all– he was eatable.
Keigo definitely didn’t approve.