Beaten Up With Nowhere to Go

[of_many_treasures]

[Well if this wasn't a sorry sight.

Kaitou was stumbling along, holding a wounded shoulder as he was making his way to the only people who he trusted to get him help. And with a groan, he collapsed in the front of Myodoun Academy, face first on the ground.

It wasn't long till students started noticing this, and Kaitou groaned as he tried to get up. He was also clutching onto a familiar looking cooler with a shrill elephant-like miniature sound trumpeting from inside.

With a heave, he looked up at the nearest student, biting out,] Call your student body president... and get me to the infirmary...

[Someone help? Looks like he got severely thrashed again.]

Comments

[sunbloom]

We can only hope. I mean, it's one thing for him to get involved, but... the best thing to get back your power is an equivalent power that knows whose Driver he's found. We'll deal with the rest when it happens.

[Satisfied with her medical loadout, she turns back around to figure out how to patch him up; her mood's improved a little.]

Are you kidding? I still owe you for helping make sure everything turned out okay with the whole Sunshine thing. Don't get me wrong, you were right to come here - even if we weren't already friends through everything, I'm not going to leave you out in the cold. But even then, I'm not doing this out of some kind of desire to even up, or because Yuri would want it. I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do, and I worry. Please, don't ever feel like you owe me for something like this.

[Cotton swab and isopropyl alcohol in hand, Itsuki feels it'd be fair to warn him:] This will sting. You can handle it, I'm sure, but don't say I didn't warn you.

[of_many_treasures]

Tsukasa knows exactly whose driver this is. He's seen it in action many times, so he and Yusuke can handle it.

[He smirked at that, shaking his head.] Well all right, thanks. I guess it helps that you feel like you still owe me something in return.

Ow! Can you get any less stingy iodine?

[sunbloom]

Well, I'm glad you're confident. I'll let you worry about that; I've got far too much else on my mind to deal with that right now.

[The process thankfully doesn't take that long - he's got a nasty wound, but it's only one, and she's trained on how to patch people up - she wouldn't be a very good student council president if she couldn't take over in the infirmary if something happened, after all. In short order she's put down the alcohol and switched to some gauze and bandages.]

No, that's more expensive to replace; I can get another bottle of this at the convenience store for a couple hundred yen, so I don't really care about using it. Besides, you're tough. Besides, there's an easy solution - don't get hurt again. I mean that, okay? I don't like being reminded my superhero friends get hurt, too. [Her gaze glasses over for a moment, and there's pain in her smile.] I found that out the hard way once already.

[of_many_treasures]

Well I guess if it works... [He wore a wry smile on his face as he shook his head.]

Everyone gets hurt, no matter who you are. You just have to deal with helping them through the fallout.

[sunbloom]

I know that. I just don't like to see it happen. And really... why can't it be me? I have the power to protect. That's all I want to do... keep my important people safe.

I mean, I'm okay with helping them after the fact too, but... I want to keep it from happening in the first place. Not all scars disappear with time.

[of_many_treasures]

Funny how my own power to protect was tested sorely in the last couple of days.

And yeah, you have a point. One slipup and... [Kaitou fell silent.]