"I swear Masaru, Kubo's going to vomit with the way she eats." Susumu growled as he and Masaru walked upstairs.

  Masaru was intending to show him a gem that he found with Haruo st night while they were out which could prove beneficial to him and the rest of the family once they sell it at the private marketpce, but depending on how it acts when he get's either him, Fuyuko or Honoka to check it out, then maybe it can help them with future cases instead of selling it.

  Their money situation is tight, but a gem with power like the one Masaru had found could prove to be useful if an enemy get's a one up on them.

  He would have gdly shown it to Susumu st night when the two and Haruo went out on their night run. Ever since that night in the forest, Susumu had been watching Masaru like a hawk, more so then usual, Masaru was annoyed by this, but didn't say anything, knowing why Susumu was upset.

  But Susumu was more worried about Haruo's behaviour st night, he had been distant these st few months and whenever he goes on a night run with the other kaijus, he often keeps to himself until we find someone, dangerous.

  "I don't know, she's a pretty fast eater, it even impresses Sota." Masaru beamed, walking beside Susumu as they reached their floor.

  "And compared to her, Masumi and Hayate, she's the fastest eater." Masaru chuckled, suddenly the boys heard a door in front of them opening, it was Haruo's room with Haruo himself slowly limping out from It.

  Seeing Haruo still in his bck tanktop and fnnel pants caught the two boys by surprise, usually Haruo would be the first person to wake up, along with Fuyuko, but he was actually the st today.

  "Haruo, you're only getting up now?" Masaru looked surprised upon seeing Haruo was still in his pajamas, Haruo grabbed at the edge of his door, almost looking like he was drunk, but he was dizzy instead.

  "Got a problem with that Masa?" Haruo grunted a little, he made sure his legs didn't touch the door, as if he didn't want anything touching them.

  "It's almost tweleve." Susumu sounded perplexed.

  "Obviously, I was almost up st night, doing shit when we got back home." Haruo compined, feeling as though he was being interrogated.

  "The boxing team's also going to want us to be ready when this break ends and we go back in the ring." Haruo would look down at his wrist, flexing it a little for any pain coming from them from st night.

  There wasn't, he was relieved, that means he won't be affected by anything when he goes back into the ring, he didn't want his preformance to suffer.

  Even if she hates his love for boxing.

  "Does that expin the bruise at the side of your back?" Masumi Ueda would ask Haruo, a mencholy look on his face as, he walked up to the three with coffee in his hand.

  Masumi had white skin, pearl beige eyes and wore a white buttoned shirt with bck overalls and boots, as well as a piercing from his right ear, his short bck hair was kept, if a bit of a mess at the back of it, Haruo in comparison kept his short front hair straight as he can, but not today, It was a mess like his current state.

  "Huh?" Haruo rubbed near the back of his neck, between his scales and his tattoo that was barely visable from the top of his tank top. He wanted to curse a little upon someone noticing his bruise being noticed.

  He didn't want anyone to know, he wanted it hidden.

  "Oh, that?" Haruo suddenly became oblivious, as if this was the first time he noticed the bruise.

  "I was training this morning and my sand bag smashed into me, I didn't expect it to leave a bruise like that." Haruo answered back, but he could tell that Masaru, Susumu and Masumi were doubting him.

  "Wow, that's the first time that something like that had happened to you, given how careful you tend to be." Masumi would point out, his face in disbelief.

  "Yeah well, It happens Masumi, so stop sticking that fist of yours up my ass and fuck off!" Haruo snapped back at Masumi, with a shurg, Haruo limped to the bathroom without even looking back at the concerned Masaru and Susumu.

  The three were concerned, and wanted to say something about Haruo's recent behaviour and the injuries he had been getting recently, but, they knew Haruo would blow them off and get into an arguement with them and it was too te now, seeing as how when he got to the bathroom, Haruo smmed the door shut and as loud as he could, pissed off by Masumi's suspicion.

  "Let's just..." Masaru looked down at the gemstone in sadness, before clenching it.

  "Show this off to Honoka?" Susumu suggested, he thought that showing off the gem to the girl's would get their minds off of the awkward situation just now.

  "Yeah." Masaru would agree with Susumu's suggestion. Together the two, along with Masumi, who was just as uncomfortable left.

  Haruo sat down on the toilet seat once he was alone, where he looked down at the leg that he was limping on.

  With a concerned look on his face, he slowly grabbed his fnnel pants and slowly pulled them up with a look of pain on his face, while the lower half of his leg was okay, it was the wound near his thigh that was concerning.

  It was marked red, with two chirped holes in the center, as if something like a fork had stabbed that part of Haruo's leg, hard enough to even pull a bit of flesh off.

  When he checked it st time, it was bleeding, but Haruo had cleaned it st night when he got home, but it bled again when he woke up an hour ago, he panicked, as he didn't want the wound to get infected and bring attention to his family.

  He turned towards the nearby mirror and opened it, inside was various tablets, bandages, ointments, and a small green bottle at the corner of the cabinet called "Wound Be Gone!"

  It was expensive, and Haruo couldn't use it to clear a wound like that. He grabbed an ointment meant for closing up wounds and applied it to his own, while using a bandage to wrap it up so it doesn't fall from his leg.

  He huffed from the pain, which sizzled a little upon contact with his skin, but he faced worse pain by this point in his life. He needed to be smarter with hiding these wounds.

  As Haruo slowly rolled down his pants, someone would knock on the door. "W-What is it?" Haruo squeaked.

  "Hey Haruo are my pills In there? I think I left them in thia bathroom." It was Fumihito Chibana. Haruo sighs, quickly noticing the pill bottle near the sink.

  Fumihito was about to knock again when Haruo suddenly opened the door and shoved the pill bottle into Fumihito's hands. "There here." Haruo fumed at being interrupted.

  "Stop leaving them around the bathroom!" Haruo then smmed the door shut and limped away down the hall.

  "Uh thanks." Fumihito was happy that he found his pills at least, his head was starting to hurt and it was becoming hard for him to focus.

  He had white skin, stone grey eyes and wore a warm bck cardigan with a bck tanktop on the inside, and long white pants and sandels, like with most of the other boys in the family Fumihito had pierceings on both sides of his ears, but not more then Haruo, he only had one on each side. His short hair was bck with yellow ends.

  He looked down at his pill bottle sadly, not because of them, but he was worried about Haruo and how, aloof and angry he's gotten tely. He must be still upset over Haruki's disappearance.

  In their own way, they were upset, with Haruo being hit the hardest over Haruki being gone.

  Fumihito wonders what Vio saying to him whenever they're alone together.

  ...

  Was she even helping at all?

  It still hurts, but Haruo tried to walk normally, he, was also starting to get hungry since he had forgotten to eat today, he really needed to look out for his own health tely, he keeps forgetting to eat and in turn get's dizzy.

  Once he made it to the kitchen downstairs, Haruo began eating some cereal, to his relief, nobody was around, or so he thought.

  "Oh, your awake Haruo." Fuyuko smiled as she stood at one of the entryways to the kitchen, Haruo turned towards her, he stopped eating his cereal.

  "And you're not dressed?" Fuyuko looked perplexed like Susumu was earlier by Haruo still wearing his pajamas.

  "It was a long night for me, It won't happen again." Haruo answered back.

  "Was Goro up earlier?" Haruo then asked.

  "Yeah, just before me, Kae and Honoka went back to my room to have some tea. He was half awake but we helped him back to bed." Fuyuko expined, rubbing the back of her neck. She always feels sad whenever she saw Goro, whenever she did, Fuyuko often felt, helpless like with Kae.

  "He's been worried about you and how, distant you've became." She revealed, Haruo remained silent, but she noticed the sad look that grew on his face.

  "I'll talk to him ter." Haruo responded, but then he remembered something regarding the earlier conversation he had with Masaru, Susumu and Masumi.

  "Oh right, Masa found a gemstone, maybe we can sell it or something." He suggested before he stood up and began walking away from Fuyuko.

  "We need more money anyway." He muttered as he approached the sink to wash his dishes, but Fuyuko turned to him before he left.

  "Machida-kun." She called out.

  "I just wanted to let you know." She smiled.

  "If you ever want to hang out with any of us then feel free to do so, our tea meetings are always avaible for everyone." Fuyuko rubbed her arm a little.

  "If, you're interested that is." Fuyuko finished bringing up her offer, Haruo didn't move from where he was standing.

  "Nah." Haruo stated.

  "Tempting, but I'm not interested." He added, but, he smiled a little as he turned back towards Fuyuko.

  "But thanks, for the offer." Haruo said, his little smile, reminded Fuyuko of what he used to be like before he became more aloof then usual, she watched as he walked away, her smile shrinking.

  She too was worried about Haruo's behaviour tely. She was worried about where he keeps getting those bruises from, as she knows that their not from fighting or from his boxing matches, there was even precautions to prevent injuries in that club too.

  Something else was causing them, and Fuyuko knew that Haruo was too afraid to speak up about them for some reason.