Kuro closed his game console and looked at Mahiru’s bedroom where his eve was still not coming out from. They had been home for a few days now and he had only seen him a few times when he went to check up on him. When they got to the hospital after the battle, the doctors told him that they weren’t sure that his eve’s sight would ever come back.
“Mahiru?” Kuro mumbled. He gave the door a small knock before opening it. The eve was still lying on his bed like an hour ago when Kuro had last checked. “Are you…hungry?” Kuro wouldn’t know how to cook anything but maybe Misono could call a guy to deliver him something.
Mahiru didn’t answer him. Kuro shuffled on his feet unsure on how to continue with Mahiru being like that. He felt sorry for him but he was sure that Mahiru wouldn’t want his pity. Kuro dared a few steps inside. The room was comfortably black which was good for Kuro but unusual for Mahiru. “I eh… think you should eat something…?” He scratched his head trying to think what to say next.
“Mikuni said he knows how to end a servamp contract.”
Mahiru’s voice was barely there but Kuro heard his words echoing in his mind. Of course Mahiru wanted to end the contract. After all it was Kuro’s fault that all of those things were happening to his eve. If Mahiru had never picked him up that day then he wouldn’t be miserable right now. He knew that the brunette regretted taking Kuro with him.
“You should get a better eve then me,” Mahiru continued “You don’t deserve to be stuck with somebody like me.”
Kuro shook his head. Was he hearing correctly? Did Mahiru think that he was the problem?
“It was bad enough before but now,” Mahiru’s voice wavered and the servamp could tell that he was crying “now that I can’t even see and I’m completely useless. You don’t need me.”
Kuro walked towards the bed and then around it so that when he kneeled on the floor he was looking straight into Mahiru’s face.
“What a pain…,” Kuro mumbled “You’re so troublesome I can’t deal.”
Kuro gently cupped his eve’s face only to have the boy flinch. “You’re the reason I moved on. You’re the best thing that happened to me. I need you.” Kuro didn’t think that he had ever been so honest before but he felt like this was what his eve needed right now. “If you can’t see then I will do it for you.” The vampire leaned forward to catch Mahiru’s lips with his own. The kiss was innocent and only lasted for a short moment before he pulled back again.
“I don’t think you know how important you are to me,” Kuro said “What a pain…”
The vampire felt Mahiru search for his face and he patiently waited until his eve had found it. He felt Mahiru pull him closer until their lips collided again. Kuro could taste the tears and pain of his eve. He could feel how his hands moved to his shoulders where they held onto for dear life. Kuro could feel how broken Mahiru had become but he promised himself to get the boy back to his usual cheery self no matter how much of a pain it would be.