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"Where are you going?? Motoya instructed us to go this way! " Kiyoomi shouts while grabbing deadpools arm.
"Oh my god wait wait i just saw something! "
"What now. "
The idea of a gang made for deadpool was just plain stupid. It lacked evidence and it's really just a huge stretch in general. Even worse was the fact that Miya had to accompany him to this impossible task of following the plan.
"I've gotten a ton of pictures emailed to me about possible gang sightings, we can't really prove that it's actually a specific gang that's against deadpool. So all I need you guys to do is to just look around the city. " Motoya said a few hours ago.
"Oh nevermind it was just a cat. "
Kiyoomi immediately groans in agony. Slouching, he drags his hands across his face and looks up to the sky. The sun has set, the previously blue sky turned into a dark hue of blues and purples. The subtle wind in the hazy night sky would have normally been relaxing for Kiyoomi. But anything involving the masked man next to him is anything but relaxing.
"Spidey look! " deadpool shouts from a distance.
He was literally right next to him a second ago. Kiyoomi slowly turns his head and sees deadpool pointing at a alleyway.
"Wow Deadpool, an alleyway..! You never fail to impress me. " Kiyoomi states sarcastically.
Deadpool tsks at him and hooks his arm around Kiyoomis elbow. "No, no... Look here.. "He pulled Kiyoomi further into the alleyway. Kiyoomi had no choice but to let himself get dragged in.
" there! " deadpools points onto the ground. Kiyoomi's line of sight slowly follows the direction of his finger and sees... the cat.
But the cat was oddly coloured.
"... "
"What do u think a cat is doing here? Its kinda cute though, looks like you" Deadpool states lazily while Kiyoomi is still staring. Deadpool continues to ramble about his experience with cats, oblivious to Kiyoomi's heart melting.
Kiyoomi loves cats, he just really hates touching them. Whenever he's in his suit, he makes sure to bombard them with selfies and head pats. The problem is that Miya is right next to him and he is currently holding back the strong urge to just scoop up the red and blue colored cat.
As Miya continues to talk about his knowledge of cats in a smug tone because he wants to sound smart, Kiyoomi feels his resolve starting to weaken. He crouches down and reaches his hand towards the cat, but before he could even lay a finger on it he feels something wrong.
The world becomes quiet and he's strangely aware of everything surrounding him, a feeling he was gotten used to ever since he's been bitten by the spider. He calls it his 'spidey senses'. It's a stupid term, but it fits best.
Kiyoomi's body acts on muscle memory and immediately jumps away from the cat, snatching Deadpool away in the process.
"What the hell man-" deadpool struggles to find his footing, whipping his head towards spiderman in confusion. Kiyoomi gets into battle stance while Deadpool is still looking left and right frantically. Kiyoomi grabs his head with both of his hands, one on the top of his and one on his chin, whipping deadpools head towards the front aggressively.
"Oh.. "
The cat was not a cat at all. The cat has morphed back into it's original form, now standing on 2 legs, a weird mix of a humanoid and cat.
"..Is that a furry!?? " Deadpool shouts beside Kiyoomi.
"No way, this looks way creepier than furries.. " Kiyoomi shudders.
The thing seemed to understand him as it screeched in an agitating loud voice that could probably be heard several buildings over. Both Kiyoomi and deadpool immediately bend over, covering their ears in a grimace. The cat took advantage of that and started running out of the alleyway, shoving Kiyoomi and deadpool into the wall.
It takes Kiyoomi 2 seconds to recover and realize where that weird thing is going. He jumps to his feet to give chase. "Get up Atsumu and chase that thing! " he shouts over his shoulder.
"Yea ok im fine, thanks for asking. " Atsumu mumbles, groaning in pain. He just managed to get out of the now atsumu shaped hole in the wall. He dusts off the rubble on his shoulder and starts moving towards the city.
He looks around to see where exactly spiderman and the not-furry went, just to see a man panting, hands on his knees, a piece of paper scrunched up in his hand. He seemed to be desperate as he talked to the passerbys in a panic, showing them the paper in his hand.
Atsumu walks towards him curiously.
"Yo dude ya good? " Atsumu asks. The man immediately whips his head up and grabs Atsumus shoulders.
"Hey... You really gotta help me-" the man stops to gather more air.
"-i lost pH-" another gasp of air. "-my cat-" a pause. "-have u seen him?? "
"Nnoo....not really.." Atsumu replies, dragging the n. "Is pH-"
"yesInamedhimafterthepHscale.Inamedhimthatcuzhe'sredandblue...whatever! Have you seen him????" the man blurts out in a rush, interrupting Atsumu.
Astumu takes a better look at the crazy man, his hair is a complete mess it's standing up really weirdly. He's also wearing a suit that is completely messed up. The tie has loosened significantly and the shirt is crumbled up. Well, negative plus negative equals to positive cause the man actually doesn't look that bad.
"-wait ill show you a picture of him! I cant believe I forgot to do that... " he mumbles out while hastily trying to smooth out the paper in his hand. Once he determined it was good enough, he shoved it into Atsumus face. Atsumu had to take a few steps back to actually see the thing, but when he saw it his jaw dropped.
"Oh my God its the furry. " Atsumu mutters out.
"The furry?? H-he transformed? Did you aggravate him? He's probably terrified. " the man is now tripping over his words in a panic.
"Hey deadpool." The man says suddenly. He looks at Atsumu with a serious expression, his hand was still firm on his shoulders, fingers digging into his suit.
"...Yes? "
"If you help me capture that cat, Ill give you a thousand dollars. You can transfer it to yen if you want. "
"That's an amazing offer, crazy dude. But my friend, im not sure if ya heard of him y'know... Spiderman? Yea, he's chasing him down right now, so ya can like give me the money and rest assure cause he will capture pH in no time. " Atsumu puts his hands onto the mans shoulders, expression equally serious.
"Is that so... Basically what you are saying is Spiderman is helping me get back my cat? I guess ill give the money to him then... "
"Wait what. "
"Im giving my money to the person who captures my cat so-"
Damn that thing is FAST.
The cat(?) Is running through the pavement, the occasional screams from the civilians fade through the background as Kiyoomi continues to chase the thing.
"Excuse me! "
"Coming through! "
"Watch out! "
"Sorry! "
Kiyoomi shuffles through the people, throwing apologies over his shoulder.
The catman throws an elderly woman at Kiyoomi, he quickly catches her and puts her aside. "Sorry ma'am, cat problems! " he gives a quick salute before shooting a web to the roof, swinging towards the cat.
The cat turns around and sees him approaching rapidly fast from the corner of it's eye. The cat immediately switches routes to the middle of the road. Kiyoomi immediately tries to stop the cars. One of them couldn't press the brake in time, the car almost flipping over from the speed of the sudden stop. Kiyoomi immediately shoots another web to pull it back.
He quickly resumes chase, about to swing through the lamp posts, but got stopped by a car running straight towards his direction. He jumps away in time, the car now making a hard turn towards the direction of the cat thing.
"Hey! " Kiyoomi shouts in anger and chases after the car.
He manages to land on top of the hood of the car, just to see deadpool through the windshield, driving the car.
"Atsumu, what the hell!? You could've hurt someone! "
"Sorry Spidey, no hard feelings, i just needed to distract you! " Miya shouts through the window, moving his head left and right, trying to see the road.
Kiyoomi was just really confused.
"Please stop blocking my vision thanks! " Atsumu snaps him out of it.
"Shut up! Weren't we supposed to work together?? "
"Like I said, no hard feelings. Money is on the line here! " Atsumu starts swerving the car side to side dangerously, trying the shake spiderman off.
"Money?? " Kiyoomi asks in confusion, staying in place.
"Yup. A thousand dollars, for whoever captures it. "
Kiyoomi looks around hesitatantly, everyone has already evacuated and he really could use that money.....
Ever since Kiyoomi left his family after graduation, he has been kind of broke. Before joining MSBY, he borrowed money from the bank to go to university after his scholarship ended. The bank he went to was familiar with his family, the owner felt bad for him and gave him some student loans. Motoya helped him secretly by paying a bit of the rent of his old small apartment. He has managed to pay back all his loans last week and moved into a bigger apartment that he only uses during the holidays. Only having enough money for his regular cleaning supplies and groceries. Nobody in the team knows this of course.
"Fine then."
"Really?? It's okay ill split ya 20% if ya want! "
"No, I mean that money is mine. " Kiyoomi says before he jumps off the car, shoots a web to the tall building next to them and swings towards the cat thing. It takes him 3 swings to catch up, immediately shooting webs at the creepy anomaly.
The cat got caught by the webs and was fighting it off, thrashing on the ground while growling. Kiyoomi quickly run towards it. Halfway there, he gets hit by a trashbin. He immediately cradles the part of his head that was hit, "ow".
" Don't think im gonna let ya take the cash ya scum! That moola is MINE. " Deadpool shouts while throwing the nearby lamppost at him.
" Hey you are destroying public property! " Kiyoomi scolds while dodging the flying objects that are thrown at him.
"Then let me pay it back with the cash! " Deadpool grabs a bench, hauling it towards spiderman.
Kiyoomi quickly grabs the bench and redirects it to deadpools direction.
"Stop throwing stuff! "
"No! "
Kiyoomi shoots his webs, hooking it to another lampost near by. He swung towards deadpool and kicked him in the face. Jumping back onto the floor, getting into a boxing stance. Atsumu quickly recovers, moving towards spiderman unpredictably, grabbing him by the legs and flipping him over. Kiyoomis back lands on the floor. He sees another bin in the distance, he shoots a web at it and pulls it over, hitting deadpool in the head.
Deadpool stumbles over and Kiyoomi takes this chance to throw another kick into his stomach, knocking deadpool away.
Deadpool gets up quickly, now throwing anything throwable towards Kiyoomi. Kiyoomi dodges them with ease, occasionally redirecting them towards deadpool. Deadpool simply just destroys them with his katana and continues to throw stuff.
Deadpool seemed to register how the throwing isnt working, and he decides to throw himself towards Kiyoomi instead.
Deadpool stretched a bit and started running towards Kiyoomi in full speed. Kiyoomi's eyes widen in suprise and immediately gets ready his stance in a rush, quickly getting tackled to the ground.
"Can we not?? " Kiyoomi grunts while trying to push deadpool off.
"Ya can't win this fight spidey! I just so happened to grow up with a twin! " Atsumu grins while pushing spidermans face into the ground.
While the two continue to wrestle on the floor, the cat human has already found a way to get out of the webs. It quietly tries to creep up towards them, holding the lamppost that was thrown in it's direction. Before it could slam it down, sirens loudly blared in the distance.
Kiyoomi immediately jumps in attention, shoving deadpool onto the floor, giving him an extra kick for good measure. He turns on his heels, just to see the cat humanoid holding a lamppost and about 10 police cars parked around the scene.
The cops slowly leave the vehicle, holding out guns. The cat drops the lamppost lifting up two of its paws. Kiyoomi squints his eyes at the blaring lights and directs his attention to the cops. "Hello officers, I can handle this myself. " He says mainly to the one cop he recognizes.
"Are you sure? Some civilians reported that you were on the floor, thought u needed some backup. " Daichi replies concerned.
"Ah no, haha...that was...." Kiyoomi tries to explain himself, rubbing his neck awkwardly.
"GOTCHA! " Kiyoomi quickly gets saved by a shout in the background, he whips his head behind him just to see deadpool tackling the cat thing, stradding it while putting it in a chockhold.
"....yea." Kiyoomi looks at Daichi, eyes full of dread while Daichi looks at the scene with a distant smile on his face.
Daichi slowly pulls out a walkie talkie from his belt. "We got a cat person here, I repeat, a cat person. "
The police managed the calm the cat down and it shifted back to It's cat form. Atsumu cradles the cat in his arms while Spiderman talks business with the cops.
"Deadpool! " a voice calls over. Atsumu turns his head around just to see the crazy man from earlier running towards him, waving his arm frantically.
When he reached him, he looked way disheveled than before. He was on his knees panting, the tie now completely gone, hair somehow impossibly messier.
"Hello crazy guy! Found yer cat. " Atsumu greets before saying "now give me the big bucks. "
The man smiles in relief. "Oh, pH im so glad you are safe!" He scoops up the demon cat from Atsumus arms and started to coo at it.
"Dontchu go running away from me like that. You scared the life out of me! "
Atsumu clears his throat to get his attention.
"Ah yea, sorry. I assume you don't recognize me. My name is Kuroo tetsurou. Again, thanks for finding my cat."
Atsumu stills in recognition by the name.
"-And about the money. Ill do you one better, instead of a thousand dollars how about I pay off your debt, huh? " Kuroo grins at him, seeming to realize how Atsumu is just staring blankly at him.
"..Ya'd do that? " Atsumu replies cautiously, raising an eyebrow.
"Of course, pH is actually really precious to me and kenma.. Let's say this is also an apology for the immortality thing, although we did tell you the risk.. "
Atsumu could only dumbly nod slowly at his words.
".. Plus it seems to be helping you out in the job aspect. " kuroo continues.
How did Atsumu not connect the dots? He has no idea. Of course the crazy man with a crazy cat that is named after chemistry would be Kuroo, the partner of the crazy rich wizard.
"Im so sorry to say it like this, but you have terminal cancer. "
"... "
The office went dead silent, the air somehow got colder than the stupidly cold hospital air conditioner. Atsumu's mother's face twisted in agony while Osamu was gripping Atsumus sleeve so tight, he thought it was gonna rip off.
"Unfortunately, we noticed it too late-"
"How long? "
"Sorry? "
"How long do i have left. "
".. Around 6 months. "
Atsumu simply just sighed. He knew there was something wrong with him when he passed out after the match against karasuno during nationals. The doctors all assured him he was fine and it was just from stress, but there couldn't be any other explanation on why his body is acting like this. He hasn't played volleyball in weeks, never had the energy to. The captain role has been passed onto Suna as Osamu wouldn't play volleyball without Atsumu. He couldn't bring his team to victory, he could never play volleyball ever again.
Third year Astumu just stared blankly, already thinking of the dream career that will now forever be a dream. His mother beside him broke down sobbing while Osamu just sat there frozen, still gripping onto Atsumu's sleeve.
"6 months.. " Atsumu mumbles. He felt like his soul has already left his body and he's just looking back at a memory. He slowly turns to Osamu,
"hey samu"
"..What Tsumu. "
"Does cancer cause baldness? " Atsumu asks in a blank voice.
"I dont know tsumu. "
"... "
"... "
"I don't wanna go bald from cancer. "
"Ya wouldve been bald anyways from the bleach in your hair. "
"I dont wanna go bald from cancer. " Atsumu repeats, voice cracking.
"I know tsumu, i know. "
"Rin I don't know what ta do.. " Atsumu overheard Osamu talking to Suna on the phone. The voice came out muffled as Atsumu press his ear hard against the door.
His brother always acted brave whenever he was in front of him, but Atsumu knows that Osamu has been crying while calling Suna.
'Make the rest of his life worth living... ' Atsumu could hear Suna's small voice from the other side.
After that, Osamu was stuck to Atsumus side like glue. Suna would also come over after school and hang out with him while Atsumu would get calls from his current and former teammates.
Osamu also skipped school most days to go to chemotherapy with Atsumu. Atsumu hated it. He hated how Osamu isn't playing volleyball, how he isn't going to school just because of him. But deep down, selfishly, he's glad he has his brother with him.
Its been 3 months and he's gotten extremely weak. He can barely stand or eat. He doesn't even want to. Osamu has to spoon feed him every day since his mom is too busy earning money for his treatment.
Osamu eventually had to go back to school despite his heavy protest. Whenever Osamu is at school, Atsumu would lay in bed and sleep for hours, occasionally using his phone to doomscroll. Osamu would always come home looking more tired than the day before, his eye bags was so heavy you'd think he hasn't slept in days ( he probably actually haven't. )
One day when Osamu was at school and their mom was at work, Atsumu laid in bed as usual. He thought of his second year of high school, might be the best year of his life. Not like he'd know, since he's gonna die soon. He lays on his side while scrolling through his phone, looking through previous texts in the Inarizaki volleyball club groupchat.
He might have scrolled too far up as he saw pictures and selfies of when they had a practice match with Nekoma high. He thinks of the match they had and their players. Their setter Kenma stood to him the most. A setter who is unathletic yet their team manages to still thrive. There was something he remembered about Kenma. What was it their captain said?
"Kozume Kenma... Pleasure to meet ya. " Atsumu smirked down at the opposing teams setter, leaning against the wall.
Kenma looked up from his game.
"Hi" he mumbled back.
Before Atsumu could say anything further, he gets interrupted.
"Oh? Wow it's one of the infamous Miya twins, what're you doing here? " Atsumu turns his head towards the voice and he sees the captain of Nekoma grinning at him.
Atsumu stops leaning on the wall and Kenma stands up from his crouching position while his captain walks towards them.
The third year boy rest his elbow on Kenma's shoulder when Atsumu responds, lifting his hands in surrender. "Nothin' just curious. "
"Curious on what? "
"How is it he's so athletic and the team can still thrive? "
"HAHA don't you know? Our Kenma here is magic!" Nekoma's captain laughs. "-But that's not it, a team doesn't only depend on their setter. Everyone has their own role in the game! "
Kenma immediately glares at him and pushes the boys elbow off his shoulder.
"Dont go telling random people that...You're so embarrassing. Lets go. " he mutters towards the captain.
Atsumu heard anyways.
"Whatd'ya mean by he's magic? " he asks curiously.
"Wouldn't you like to know? " The older boy cheekily smiles at him.
"Kuro let's go. " Kenma looks more annoyed now, grabbing his arm.
"Ok, ok" The older boy laughs out. They headed towards the exit of the gym. But before they left, he turns towards Atsumu one last time. "If u have any troubles Atsumu, don't be afraid to contact me, I know a tad of 'magic' too. " he says before tossing Atsumu a piece of paper with his contact info. Atsumu caught it easily.
"If this is yer way to hit on me, im sorry but my heart belongs to another! " Atsumu shouts as the two leave the gym. All he gets as a response is boasting laughter.
The last thing he hears is Kenma asking the other boy. "Why did you do that? "
"Because.." They fade into the background.
And Atsumu never talks to them ever again.
Atsumu slowly sat up from his bed. He reaches for his drawer, almost falling off the bed in the process. He opens it and is relieved to find out he still has that piece of paper. He quickly adds his contact and texts the former captain.
Nekoma captain
Unknown: hey, i found ur num inmy drawer. Its Atsumu btw
Nekoma captain: helllooo Atsumuuuu should you be using your phone?? Aren't you dying?
Atsumu: haha so u heard of that
Nekoma captain: i heard of it from Kenma🤷♂️
Atsumu: ah
Nekoma captain: so
Nekoma captain: whyd you text me
Nekoma captain: want me to use my magic to cure you?
Atsumu: i don't find this very funny
Nekoma captain: I'm srs
Nekoma captain: I probably cant help you since I'm in university but Kenma could help out.
Nekoma captain: he's super skilled in magic.
Atsumu: tell me u r jesting 😭
Nekoma captain: !! I'm not
Nekoma captain: yk magic is real right
Nekoma captain: just look at the news with the villain attacks n shit
Atsumu: so u weren't joking when u said that last year
Nekoma captain: ?? If you thought I was joking why did you contact me
Atsumu: I'm bored and I'm dying, let me live
Atsumu: pun unintended
Nekoma captain:😭😭
Atsumu can't believe what he is reading right now, if there really was a way to cure his cancer by using magic, he'd do anything to take that chance.
The guy that Atsumu just found out is actually named Kuroo called him and told him that Kenma agreed but he must follow some conditions. Kuroo also explained to him how Kenma came from a family of wizards and is gifted with magical abilities. Despite Kuroo's family having zero magic history, he and Kenma works together with experimenting with magic. It's most likely because Kuroo is a massive nerd- Well, he didn't say that specifically but Atsumu figured it out when he kept making science jokes.
Kuroo wouldn't be there physically but he will be on call with Kenma during the 'experiment '. Kuroo sent him the directions to the right train station to Tokyo, but before Kuroo could realize that Atsumu literally is not allowed to get out of bed, Atsumu agreed.
With new his found motivation, Atsumu stumbles out of bed for the first time in three months. He puts on a jacket and makes sure to wear a cap.
Truth be told, Atsumu has completely forgotten what the two of them looked like. Luckily he's not supposed to meet Kenma in the train station, but an address that is apparently Kuroo's house.
He quickly scribbles down a note to tell Osamu where he's gone and leaves the house.
The train from Hyogo to Tokyo is around three hours. Atsumu had to fight to not pass out in the train but he managed to make it to the Tokyo station unscathed. He received about 50 phone calls after he reached the station. Samu must've gotten home. He turns his phone on silent mode and moves towards his destination.
He looks at Kuroo's text and the house infront of him back and forth just to make sure he's at the right house. After 5 minutes of standing there, the door slams open to reveal a short figure standing there.
"Hi.. " Kenma peeps out the door.
"Hello.. " Atsumu stood there.
God, it was awkward. This is what happens when you don't interact with anyone other than your mom, twin brother, Sunarin, Aran and occasionally Kita for the past few months. You can so easily lose all your social skills. Not that Atsumu had much before, but at least he had volleyball and Osamu to cope with it.
They stared at each other in silence until Kenma eventually speaks, ".. wanna come in? "
"Yea"
Kenma leads Atsumu towards Kuroo's living room. There was already a phone there with Kuroo on call. "Kuro he's here. " Kenma informs him.
"Hello Atsumu, how are we doing? You dead yet? Sorry sorry sorry-" Atsumu sits on the couch while Kuroo keeps apologizing for his terrible joke.
"Kuro stop" Kenma interrupts him.
"Soo, what are the terms and conditions? " Atsumu quickly butts in before they start their back and forth.
"Kenma would you do the honours? " Kuroo says dramatically.
Kenma ignores that but explains anyways.
"We have never tried this before, the most we managed to do is reviving animals. I won't let you die but I want to warn you that there may be mistakes, or side effects. " Kenma states.
"What kind of side effects? " Atsumu asks skeptically.
"Paralysis, permanent injury, memory loss, yknow all those. " Kuroo answers from the phone.
"If you still wanna go through, sign this piece of paper. " Kenma says while handing him a sheet of paper.
"Wow now I feel extra unsafe. " Atsumu comments while his eyes sweep through the terms of conditions but in paper form.
"Don't worry, it's just a rule on using big magic on other people. " Kuroo reassures him.
"Can I take a pic of it? " Atsumu asks.
Kenma nods his head, not looking up from his console that Atsumu didn't even realize he took out.
Atsumu then takes a picture and sends it to the small group chat with his brother, Suns and himself. The group chat immediately explodes with Osamu telling him to call him right now while throwing insults. Suna telling him to reveal his current location. Atsumu took it as a message of approval and signed the paper. Nothing left to lose, worst case scenario is him being paralyzed but he rather that than die young.
"Okay" Kenma nods at him, grabs his phone and leads him to the basement.
Atsumu followed him and they entered the basement that looks more like a lab.
There was science equipment everywhere. The lights were bright white, it reminded Atsumu of the hospital. He looks around more and he see's a hospital bed with more equipment next to it. It's basically a hospital at this point.
He stares at it as Kenma starts taking out some stuff that Atsumu can't even name.
"Welcome to my basement! " Kuroo's voice chirps out of the speakers from the cameras all over the room.
"Why do y'all need all this to do magic? "
"The medical equipment are just for my personal experiments. We won't be needing them today. "
"Ya sure ya ain't just a crazy dude who's ganna kill me? " Atsumu stares directly at the camera raising an eyebrow.
"Don't worry about it. Kenma over here will be doing the works, I'm just here for support. " Kuroo tries to reassure him.
Atsumu is NOT reassured but he still complies when Kenma tells him to lie down.
"Hey Kenma" Atsumu whispers to him, covering his mouth with his hand. Kenma hums in response while still setting up whatever he needs. "Don't take a picture of my bald head please. "
"... I won't.. "
"Thanks"
Kenma waves a hand and the world goes black.
Atsumu woke up to yelling. He blinked away the haze from his eyes, vision blurry from sleep. He tries to get up but he finds himself unable to move. 'Ah, so I'm really parazlyed' he thinks to himself (its either him being paralyzed or just way too tired to get up.) He turns his head to look around his surroundings.
He see's Kenma looking at a computer screen, while yelling something that Atsumu can't make out. His face looks pissed and he is basically radiating annoyance. Atsumu tries to focus more and he hears two other voices.
Wait two?
"Kenma, how. " Atsumu was able to make out a tired familiar voice.
"We didn't take it into consideration.." Kenma mutters to himself, he had one of his hands gripping his hair while the other is furiously clicking the mouse of the computer.
"Oh my God Kuroo shut up, you aren't making anything better here. " he hears a voice he doesn't recognize coming out from the speakers. The person speaking sounded really annoyed. Why is everyone so mad?
"Okay I just-" Kuroo's voice turns defensive.
"Yaku is right Kuro, just shut up. Please. " Kenma buried his face in both hands.
Atsumu really couldn't care less anymore. He tunes out the rest of the conversation and stares at the ceiling. He brings his hands up to try to cover the bright lights, just to see blood.
Is that his blood?? He sits up in a rush, hunching over to try to take a closer look at his hands. Not realizing how the background noise has faded.
"Guys he's awake. " the voice Atsumu assumes is 'Yaku' points out.
Kenma turns around. Atsumu can take a better look at him now, he looks like he hasn't slept or eaten anything for a while. Or maybe that's what he always looked like. It's hard to remember stuff.
Kenma approaches him and stands over Atsumu's hunched body.
"Atsumu."
"Kenma? "
"The cancer is gone. "
Atsumu stares at him, waiting for the punchline. Waiting for the side effect. He's not paralyzed that's for sure and he's not lucky enough to come out unscathed.
"But, " Kenma continues.
Andd of course he was right.
"You can't die. "
Oh.
"Uh, yay? "
"No yay. "
"Oh ok"
Kenma explained how the spell he and Kuroo made up turned out to have a drawback that he didn't know about as Atsumu was the first one he tested it on.
The spell altered his DNA, giving him an extreme regenerative healing factor, mutating his cells, it was supposed to fight the cancer cells, removing the cancer. They didn't take in consideration how long the regenerative cells would last. The cells will keep regenerating forever, allowing him to heal immediately after injuries. But also getting rid of his ability to die and his ability to grow old normally.
Atsumu sat there in shock, the words barely registering through his head.
"Wait so I can't age? " he asks dumbly.
"Well, you can. But it will be inconsistent and slow. "
"What? "
"You would look like you are twenty when you are actually maybe thirty to forty years old. "
"Wait so what will I look like when I'm twenty? "
"... Twenty. "
"What"
"Why is this what you are most concerned about. " Kenma's voice gets more irritated so Atsumu stops asking about that.
"Wait so I can age, but can't die. "
"Yes."
"I can't die of old age... But I can age? "
"Yes."
They stare at each other in silence. Two voices coming from the speakers interrupts their moment.
"Magic is weird. " "yea."
Atsumu looks up at the cameras and Kenma seemed to notice his confusion. "My old teammate Yaku is here too. His family has a history with magic, well most of Nekoma does. " Kenma explains to him.
"Kenma just happens to be a prodigy here. " Yaku says. Atsumu can hear his grin from the speakers.
"Shut up. " Kenma mutters while walking away to grab something.
He hands Atsumu the contract he signed earlier.
"I normally wouldn't still charge you the original price since there was a mistake. But my family insisted because this spell in particular is really energy consuming. "
Well that explains his eye bags...
Wait- 'price'??
Atsumu squints at the paper and realized when he signed it he didn't read it completely and missed the 'price' printed on it. The line was filled with zeros and Atsumu had to try his best to keep his face neutral, not wanting them to see how he embarrassingly thought it was free.
"Wow. Say, when do I need to pay this. " He tries to keep his voice as neutral as possible.
"Well.. It does cost a lot doesn't it? " Kenma mutters to himself and maybe to the cameras.
"Thats true. Atsumu is also from hyogo.. " he hears Kuroo muttering to himself.
"Oi what that mean!?? " Atsumu squawks.
They ignore him and seemed to come up with the verdict.
"Before you are 30 years old. "
When he went home that day, he was shocked to see his whole team, including his ex-teammates huddling in his living room. He was thoroughly scolded, but then they celebrated on the fact that Atsumu was going to live. (He only told a few people how he is now immortal)
His mother passed out and Osamu had to hold back his vomit when Atsumu showed them the price tag.
And so Atsumu has been working like a dog day and night.
He has heard of Kenma's new career. It's not really a surprise that Kuroo would help him with his debt. Kenma is already disgustingly rich with a successful YouTube channel, a butt ton of donations, a whole ass company and he helps out the Masters of the Mystic Arts from time to time. He just really wished Kuroo said this earlier.
"Is that so.. " Atsumu says with a tired smile.
"Yup! You've already paid half way anyways. "
"How much did I pay again? "
"You've already paid 1,593,640,000,003 yen. " Kuroo says without stuttering while checking his phone.
"Nice." Atsumu says, a singular tear falling down. "Although I do wanna ask sumthin I never had that chance to ask. " Atsumu continues.
"What is it? "
"Why did you give me your number in the first place? "
Kuroo pauses and looks at him thoughtfully before smiling. "Let me let you in on a little secret. "
"What?? "
Kuroo leans in beside his ear. "I can see the future. "
"What."
Kuroo leans back, turns around dramatically and raises one hand.
"Bye, bye Atsumu! "
".. Bye? "
Atsumu could only stand there dumbfounded.
"Hey Atsumu, who was that? " A voice appears behind him, jump scaring in the process. No matter what anyone who was there tells you, Atsumu did NOT scream out loud and fall on his ass.
"Yes Spidey? " Atsumu asks nonchalantly while standing on his two feet.
"Are you going to get up or are you going to keep posing on the floor like that? " Spiderman asks with a blank expression.
Okay fine he might have fell, but he did not scream. Atsumu gathers back his dignity and dusts off the rubble from his ass.
"Yes Spidey? " he asks again sweetly.
"Was that the owner of the cat thing? " Spiderman asks, choosing to ignore Atsumu's mockery.
"Oh yea it was, I didn't get my money though. "
"Maybe it's for the better. "
"What were ya talkin bout with the officers?" Atsumu also chose to ignore that comment.
"I was asking about leads on the 'gang' and I might have found something useful. "