✧Sasuke✧

"You seem a bit out of it, did you bring any water with you when you ran?" Toshiro spoke up for the first time since we got home and I shook my head slowly.

Dad motioned for me to turn so he could clean my other arm after bandaging my left arm and I did what I was told to do.

"No…when I was running home I had a dizzy spell and my knees gave out on me for a second and that's how I got all banged up," I told them.

“Maybe next time make sure you make sure to carry a bottle of water with you,” Toshiro chuckled a soft smile spreading across his pale lips.

“Or next time he could just stay in school like he’s supposed to,” Dad comments grumbling.

“John.” Mom hisses at dad.

I heard the fridge open and my mom hands me a bottle of water, "Alright you're good to go., Dad said and helps me off the counter so my knees wouldn't give out on me again.

"Try to relax for a bit," My mom smiles at me.

"Alright." I nod and make my way out of the kitchen slowly my feet never fully leaving the ground. Now that all the tension was gone from my body all I have is a throbbing pain in my knees and exhaustion hitting me like I was hit with a truck.

"Do you need help?" I look over at Toshiro who was walking in from the kitchen.

"Um…it's alright I can get up to my room on my own," I shake my head declining his offer taking a few steps.

"Well, you said you wanted to talk so I guess I'll just come with you," He smiled gently at me and walks up the steps behind me.

My legs felt like lead weights attached to my hips so the remaining steps felt like I was climbing a mountain as I reach the top of the stairs. He walks along with me to make sure I don't fall on the way. Once we get to my room I plop down on my bed and I don't want to move I haven't opened the water bottle that my mom gave me yet I just kept it in my hand.

"So what did you want to talk about?" Toshiro questioned sitting down on the end of the bed.

“Did my dad seem more upset then what he was letting on?” I ask him.

“Um…I’m confused why are you asking me?” He says as I look over at him when I feel the water bottle taken out of my hand and he opens it for me.

“Because you seem like you’re really good at reading people and how they’re feeling. That’s why I figured I would ask,” I reply forcing myself to sit up.

“I can understand why your father was so upset. I mean you did leave school. You didn’t even sign out or ask him if it was okay for you to go home, you just straight up left. He was worried, we all were,” Toshiro responds in a very calm tone as he hands me the water.

“I know…it was stupid of me to do," I mutter before taking a sip from the water bottle.

“Well didn’t you just answer your own question then?” We lock eyes. His ice-blue eyes matching the slight glare that I was giving him.

“Don’t start on that. Usually, mom doesn't hiss at him when he says something so I'm thinking that dad had an underline meaning to what he said to me earlier,” I shake my head and cross my arms trying to think.

“Can you blame him though? Think about it, you just brought your powers back up to the surface and on top of it you find out that something made you a moon elemental. So it would make sense that your father was so upset with you. He doesn't want you hurting yourself. He doesn’t want someone getting a hold of you. He doesn’t want something else bad happening to you,” Toshiro hisses at me slightly clearly frustrated with me.

"I'm sorry." I apologize for looking down at my lap.

"I'm not the only one you need to apologize to," He said making me look up at him again.

“I know…I’m still sorry,” I mutter as silence falls between us.

There’s a knock on my door and then mom pokes her head in, "Toshiro sweetie, John said that he would rather you spend the night here, it's dusk and he doesn't want you walking back to the school alone," My mother said in a soft tone but it was also a don’t try to protest this is what’s happening.

"Okay then, I guess I'm staying for the night," He said and my mom closed my door again when she left.

“Oh darn, whatever will you do? You have to send the night at the headmaster's house," I snicker and Toshiro flicked my right foot because it was closest to him. I rush of cold spread through my foot, "Ah!!" I slowly brought my leg up to my chest and put a hand on my foot. It was freezing, “Don't do that." I grumble warming my foot.

"You deserved it," He smirks at me raising a brow

“You're such a jerk," I mutter moving my toes to help heat up my foot faster.

"What was that?" He questions about to flick my left leg.

"Nothing," I sift my entire body away from him so he can’t flick me, “Thank you for sticking around though.”

“Why are you thanking me?” He chuckles leaning back on his hands.

“I don’t know,” I shrug taking another drink from the bottle.

“Anyways were there any other questions that you want me to answer?” Toshiro tips his head to the right a bit those ice blue eyes piercing through his snow-white bangs.

"Yeah, but it’s more so a personal question if you don’t mind answering it,” I turn myself back to facing him and cross my legs carefully on the bed.

“Go ahead. I don’t mind,” He smiles at me in return.

“Were you born here like on Earth?" I ask setting the water bottle between my legs.

Nodding a little bit he looks down at the floor, "I was yes. I’m pretty sure my parents are dead by now and my little brother is probably around fifty by now."

"Why couldn't your brother go to the academy?" I look at him. I felt really bad for him. That has to suck. I didn’t really know how to comfort him though.

"I was the only one out to my family who turned out to be an elemental. My little brother is just human,” His voice is quiet but he continues to answer me.

“So were your parents human? Or were they also elementals?” I ponder curiously trying my best to get him to not look so depressed, I don’t know why it bothers me so much to see him so upset.

“They were humans. They didn’t really understand what was going on when I was freezing everything or why I was always so cold. When my little brother was born they wouldn’t let me touch him in fear that I would hurt him,” Shifting his weight so he was leaning forward on his elbows his hands cupping in his lap and squeezing his hands together as he stares at his hands.

“Does your little brother know you exist?” He looked so sad. I wish I could say I knew what he was going through but I really don’t.

“He knows I exist. I'm pretty sure he wants nothing to do with me anyways. Why would someone want to have anything with the ice prince anyway?” He said quietly hiding his face with his white hair and he brings his hand up to play with his snow-white bangs.

I get up and put a hand on his shoulder. He looks up at me with some tears in his eyes and I smile down at him, “Well I’m here. I know that we only meet not too long ago but ya know what, I consider us friends. You didn’t have to stick around and listen to me and you did. You didn’t have to open up and tell me about your past, but you did even with it just being a small sliver. I’m glad to see that you trust me enough to be able to open up.” I pull him in since it’s killing me to be up on my knees and sit back down as I have him practically on top of me as I hug him. I feel him tense up but then relax and hugs me back.

"Thank you, Sasuke. That really means a lot to me,” His voice is muffled because of my shoulder.

“Whenever you need someone to talk to don’t hesitate to ask if I’m free. Even if it’s two in the morning and that means something I don’t give up my sleep for just anyone ya know,” I chuckle a little and make him laugh as well.

It's quiet between us as we continue to hug. I rub his back until he breaks the hug and goes back to sitting on the bed once more, "You're really warm." Toshiro mutters so quietly that I almost don't catch it. His eyes locked on his lap as I notice a small flush of pink spread across his porcelain skin, “Sorry that was really awkward.”

I can’t help but laugh a bit at his reaction. “Well, my main element is fire; why wouldn’t I be a personal body heater?” I ask in a joking matter. I think that this is the start of a friendship that I know will last for a long time. I hope that he feels the same.

“Don’t laugh at me Sasuke you’re just making it worse,” He squeaks burring his face in his shirt as I see the tips of his ears turn red.

“Awe why not? The more your face heats up the warmer your body will get!” I comment and end up wrestling with him and making him laugh. Yeah, I think that this will be a great friendship.