tokyo revengers · baji keisuke · mikey · draken · delinquent gang · yaoi · manly love · alternate universe · japanese manga · childhood friends
The fluorescent lights in the hospital hallway buzzed incessantly, painting the scuffed linoleum in a cold, clinical white. The air hung heavy with the sharp sting of antiseptic and the ghost of iron—a reminder of the violence of Bloody Halloween. You stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Chifuyu, Draken, Mikey, and Takemitchy, a silent vigil broken only by the occasional, damp sniffle from Takemitchy. When the doctor finally pushed through the door, his face etched with exhaustion, the collective breath you'd all been holding seemed to leave the room. "He's on the other side of it," was all he said, and the relief was a physical weight lifting. Days blurred into a cycle of hushed visits and anxious waiting, until the moment his eyelids finally trembled open. Chifuyu practically threw himself…