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Shin likes hanging out at the JCC, it’s actually kind of nice and it’s like having the high school experience without going to high school. He also has friends there (most of which are teenagers… yeah he should probably fix that) so that also helps. He also helps in stopping random outbursts and such from students, mind reading tends to help with that a lot. Now that he thinks about it the JCC might be keeping him around as unpaid security…
Well who cares, whatever lets him see everyone.
Students were a little restless today, proven by the fact that he had to knock out at least 10 different people, something about cheating and riots… thoughts are kinda hard to read when the person themself doesn’t even understand the situation.
“You’re back?” a voice calls.
Shin looks to Natsuki, hunched over his desk with Toramaru and Mafuyu at his side looking at what he’s working on.
“You need me to come back or something? Looks like you’ve got company,” Shin teases, moving over and pulling up a chair to sit down on (cause Mafuyu stole his usual one… brat).
“Would you leave if I said yes?” Natsuki drawls, leaning back from his project as it makes a small explosion, he doesn’t look amused with it and it makes Shin laugh with amusement. It’s always fun to watch Natsuki struggle with random shit.
“Probably not,” Shin leans on the table, ignoring the small stuttering from Natsuki’s project.
“Whatever,” Natsuki pushes his chair back and grabs a notebook filled with undecipherable scribbles – oh wait, that's just his designs and shit… god his handwriting sucks – and scribbles something in it. Natsuki pauses, looks at the people surrounding his desk and sighs, clearly not impressed with the crowd that he seems to have accumulated. “Can you guys like… stand back a little?” Natsuki replies.
Toramaru giggles looking at Natsuki and Shin. “Sorry!” – she moves over to Shin and hugs him – “I just noticed I forgot to greet you! How are you doing Shin? How is Sakamoto doing? And Hana!”
“They’re doing good, Hana has taken up drawing, want me to show you a picture?” He asks, taking out his phone, Toramaru nods and Shin shows her the photo and watches as she coos over it.
“It’s so cute! She’s gotten so much better!” Toramaru takes his phone and Shin reaches for it but is soon distracted by the sound of things crashing outside.
Within an instant he’s up and looking for the direction of the sound, not noticing Natsuki’s slight frown as he does so. Soon enough two students run out of a classroom shouting at each other. A teacher runs out telling them to stop, obviously panicked.
“A slight argument caused this much trouble? They’re gonna get hurt,”
“I hate this guy, what a fucking bother,”
“I’m gonna kill him this time,”
“Shin,”
Shin looks over to Natsuki who’s glaring at him. “You don’t need to get involved y’know?”
Shin is about to reply that he does know but the teacher is already shouting for someone to stop the two of them, and when he looks back people are getting injured by the fight so… really he can’t help himself. He looks back to Natsuki giving him a small smile, Toramaru waves him goodbye with a smile and Mafuyu throws up a hand half heartedly.
“I’ll be right back!”
Natsuki grits his teeth and makes a move to stop Shin but Shin’s already gone and chasing after the two students, pinning one of them to the ground and using a stun gun (courtesy of Sakamoto) to hit the other one who sadly couldn’t move out of the way in time. Below him the other student struggles and manages to nick Shin’s ankle while flat on his stomach.
Shin sighs and stuns the other one, knocking him out and looking at the teacher. “Sorry, I kinda had to stun them,” he replies looking at the two of them.
The teacher nods at him.
“Is this guy a student here? He’s good for one, well whatever”
“Don’t worry about it, I’ll have a talk with them once they wake up,” With a smooth motion the teacher picks up the two of them and walks off muttering curses and a meek thank you to Shin’s direction.
“No problem,” Shin calls out and walks back to the lab where Natsuki and the others are. He looks down to his bleeding ankle. “Ah, I should probably patch that up,” he mutters.
“No shit, I don’t wanna clean up your blood,” Natsuki replies, turning around in his chair to stare Shin down. “Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you?”
Shin shrugs and bends down to get a better look at it, wow it’s actually kinda deep. He mutters something and soon enough Natsuki’s over and handing him bandages talking about how Shin should just carry them around everywhere if he wants to do shit like that all the time.
Shin rolls his eyes but accepts the bandages and begins wrapping them around his ankle. “I don’t do shit like that all the time,”
“Yeah, you do,” Natsuki replies casually. “You do shit like that a lot, seriously is it so hard for you just to stay still for like 5 seconds?”
“When there’s a situation, yeah,”
“Idiot,”
“He’s gonna get himself hurt, bad… he’s kinda self sacrificial now that I think about it… stupid”
“I’m not self sacrificial or whatever,” Shin mutters, standing up and testing his foot.
“You kinda are,” Mafuyu replies, oh so now he adds his opinion? Brat.
“Whatever, your opinion doesn’t count, you tried to kill me… multiple times,”
“Whatever, that doesn’t prove your point either,” Mafuyu groans, leaning back in his chair and looking at Shin’s wound. “Wow, you suck at bandaging,”
“Natsuki I’m gonna hit your brother,”
“Go ahead, he probably deserves it. He usually does,” Natsuki says, grabbing Shin’s wrist and sitting him down in a chair. “Stay there, and stay sitting, seriously for how often you get hurt you'd think that you’d know how to treat wounds properly?”
“I just got nicked,” Shin whines.
“Yeah, and whose fault is that… dumbass,” Natsuki adds, sitting back in his own seat and looking at his project.
Toramaru hands his phone back with a hum. “Now that I think about it you kinda are self sacrificial or whatever,” she says thoughtfully. “I mean you saved me when I tried to kill you, I don’t know many people who would do that,”
“I’m sure you do,” Shin takes his phone back and sees Mafuyu staring at him.
“You’re kinda weird old man,”
“I’m 21!”
“That’s old,”
“No it’s not!”
“Yeah it is,”
However before a full fight can blow out he hears Natsuki’s thoughts rambling about how Shin’s stupid and careless. He would refute his claims if it weren’t for the genuine concern in Natsuki’s mind. Then when he reaches into Toramaru’s mind and Mafuyu’s there’s the same concern. It’s masked and hidden better but it’s still there all the same.
He has to bite his tongue to stop himself from replying, he leans on the table Natsuki’s working on, face in his arms as he shuts his eyes and tilts his head down. He’s not self sacrificing, not in the slightest, he doesn’t think that he is.
He just cares a little more about people, no matter who they are. That’s not bad is it?
He just cares, how is that bad?