The Serpent Inside (A Karmagisa Fanfiction)

11: Locked Away

3rd POV

SQUEAK

Nagisa froze, hoping he hadn't been heard.

Luck was not on his side as the light in his mother's room turned on and the woman herself opened the door.

"Nagisa-chan? Where are you going?" Hiromi asked with a false sweetness in her voice. She looked at her son's bags and it clicked in her mind.

"Are you... running away?" She asked, her wavelength flipping from high to low faster than Nagisa could recognize.

"U-Uh... I-I'm..." Nagisa couldn't think of a convening lie.

"YOU ARE! DO YOU KNOW WHAT I DO FOR YOU? WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN AWAY! I OWN YOU NAGISA! YOU OWE ME!" Hiromi roared as he started beating her son, shaking his body, snapping his elastics that held up his pigtails, and bashing his head against the wall, which had begun to stain with blood.

Nagisa blocked out his mother's screams as he reached desperately into his pocket and pulled out his phone, pressing in Karma's number, which he luckily had on speed dial.

Karma was sitting by his phone, waiting for the call that Nagisa got out safe. When his phone rang, his eyes lit up and he smiled, but when he heard what was coming from the other line, his face morphed into one of horror.

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?! RUNNING AWAY? WHAT HAVE I RAISED YOU TO BE!" 

Karma knew that voice. In a heartbeat, he had put the call on hold and called the police.

"Tokyo Police, what's your emergency?"

"My b-friend!" He stopped himself from saying boyfriend. "He's being abused by his mom right now, and by the sound of it he may not make it out! His name is Shiota Nagisa, he lives at-" Karma listed the address.

"Alright sir, we'll send men and an ambulance there shortly."

The officer on the other line hung up.

Karma burst from his house, checking the call with Nagisa. He couldn't hear anything other than faint breathing. Karma breathed a small sigh of relief. Breathing meant alive.

Willing his legs to go faster, Karma decided not to use the train, knowing he would never be able to sit still and wait for it.

It took him a while, but he finally made it to Nagisa's house, where he watched Shiota Hiromi be forced into a cop car, her face and clothes stained with red. Karma's breath hitched in his throat as he ran up to an officer.

"My name is Akabane Karma, I was the one to call, where is Nagisa!?" Karma asked, his voice desperate.

"He was sent to Tokyo Medical University Hospital, it's about a mile from here." The officer answered, Karma running the direction of the hospital before the man could finish his sentence.

Around 5 minutes later, Karma arrived at the hospital.

"Is Nagisa here!?" He yelled out at the lady at the front desk.

"Full name of the patient?" She asked, unamused.

"Shiota Nagisa."

"And who are you to Shiota-san?"

"I'm his boyfriend." Karma answered without hesitation.

"Shiota-san is in room 325." The lady glared in disgust.

(After Karma ran off, a few people entered the hospital.

"Hello, what do you need?" The lady at the desk asked.

The people's eyes filled with bloodlust as they came up to the woman and slapped her as hard as they could.

"YAOI IS BEST! Y U GLARE AT OUR PRECIOUS KARMA WITH DISGUST?!?!?!"

The woman may or may not have died that day... You have no proof.)

Karma ran off without saying thank you, taking the stairs up to the third floor and looking for 325. Quickly, he found it and burst into the room to see Nagisa lying on the hospital bed, unconscious and covered in bandages. Luckily, all his snake-parts were still covered up. How they hadn't been revealed in the bloodbath, Karma didn't know, and frankly he didn't care. Tears sprung to his eyes as he walked over to Nagisa gingerly wrapping one of the pale boy's hands in his much larger ones.

"N-Nagisa..." Karma murmured as he pressed a kiss to his forehead.

Karma sat down in a chair, keeping his hands on Nagisa's. 

Slowly, he drifted to sleep.

At about 11 in the morning, Nagisa cracked his eyes open and groaned as he felt a weight by his side. He turned his head to see a sleeping Karma, who had his head on the bed and was flopped in a chair. Nagisa chuckled softly as he brushed Karma's bangs out of his face, waking the taller teen up.

Karma looked up to see an awake Nagisa, and he sprung a hug onto him.

"You're awake!" Karma exclaimed as Nagisa chuckled softly.

"That I am."

Just then, Karasuma and Irina burst into the room.

"Nagisa-kun!" Irina exclaimed.

"Hey Bitch-sensei, Karasuma-sensei." Nagisa looked over at them awkwardly as Karma moved his hug to just one arm slung over Nagisa's shoulders.

"We heard what happened, and Nagisa-kun, if it's alright with you..." Irina paused, looking to Karasuma to courage. He nodded, and she continued. "I'd... We'd, like to adopt you, to keep you out of an orphanage."