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Madoka's POV

I grabbed my stuff and sighed in frustration. I was planning to go home with Kenji but Homura wanted me to stay but when I rejected his offer he got all mad. So I decided to just leave since I was dying to see Kikotei.

"You're not worried about Homura?" asked Kenji

I shook my head.

"Why not?" he asked

"All he wants to do is have sex." I replied

Kenji gave me a look and I frowned at him.

"You guys never been on a date together?" he asked

"No." I replied

"Oh." simply replied Kenji, "But don't girls just want sex, that's it."

I slapped the back of his head.

"Are you calling girls sluts?" I snapped

"No no that's not what I meant." quickly said Kenji as he waved his arm around in surrender, "I thought maybe you would enjoy doing it with him."

I sighed and just rubbed the back of my head.

"I do, but sometimes I'm not in the mood." I said

Kenji nodded as he understood what I meant. I sighed and just rubbed his head where I hit him.

"Sorry about that." I apologized

"It's fine." he replied

That's when Kenji's phone buzzed and it surprised both of us because Kenji said he doesn't really text others. Kenji looked at his phone and I peeked over his shoulder and saw that it was from the girl in track, Hina, he quickly responded and put his phone away.

"How did you get her number?" I asked

"She gave it to me." he replied

"Huh? On the paper?" I questioned, "But Emiko took that away from you."

"I memorized it before she took it." I said

My eyes widened in surprise.

"You can memorize things just by reading it once?" I asked

"Well, kind of." he replied

I took out a piece of paper and just wrote random numbers on it.

"Read it." I said

He read it once and nodded.

"3, 2, 17, 23, 1, 89." he said

I looked at my paper and he got everything right and he didn't even hesitate once.

"What the fuck, are you some kind of fucking genius?" I asked, "What's your IQ score?"

"140." replied Kenji

'140?! Mine is 110 and that's average.'

"What's-"

But I cut him off by shoving my hand into his hand.

"It's rude to ask a girl that." I said

"Is it?" questioned Kenji, "Sorry I'm new."

"I can tell." I replied

That's when our train was arriving so I grabbed my duffle bag and put on my regular backpack. Kenji grabbed his guitar bag and put it on and picked up his duffle bag. We waited for the train to slow down and when the doors opened the first person I saw was this long red haired girl with bangs who was about 165 cm tall.

But then Kenji suddenly turned around making me confused and when I looked at him, my eyes widened when I saw fear in Kenji's eyes. The girl walked right past us and once she did Kenji just speed walked into the train leaving me behind.

"Oi Kenji what's wrong?" I asked

Kenji sighed in relief when the train closed and he flopped onto the chair.

"Sorry, I get all freaked out when I see girls with red hairs." he replied

"Why?" I asked

"Cause it reminds me of someone." he replied, "It's personal."

"Personal huh?" I questioned

"Yea." he replied

I just sat on the chair in front of him and looked at him.

"Anyways, we're going to stop by halfway cause we need to transfer trains. But we're going to eat right?" I asked

"Yea sure." replied Kenji

Kenji sighed and looked out the window and his eyes widened again so I looked out the window to see the same red haired girl stand there looking straight at Kenji. But she was smiling, but not in a happy way but in a very evil sadistic way.

"Kenji who is she?" I asked

"No one, don't worry about it." he quickly replied

"Kenji there's clearly something about her that's scaring you. She even seems to know you." I said

But then there was a knock on the window and my eyes slightly widened and I saw the red girl knocking on the window and looking at Kenji. Kenji slowly looked at her and she showed the screen of her phone and it said 'Found you.'

That's when the train started and started leaving but Kenji just kept looking out the window and his eyes were wide and he looked scared. His hands were trembling and he looked like he was having a seizure.

"Oi Kenji." I called out

"Huh?"

Kenji looked at me and blinked for a couple of seconds.

"Who is she?" I asked

Kenji looked at his hand and squeezed them together and he closed his eyes, he began to lower his head ignoring me.

"Kenji tell me." I pressured him

I grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him in towards me but then I gasped when I saw tears flowing out of his eyes.

"I, Kenji are you-"

"Sorry, I'll tell you just please, let me go." he pleaded looking away

I immediately let go of him and he wiped his tears away as quickly as possible.

"Kenji, I'm sorry I didn't know you were hurt." I apologized

Kenji stayed silent and just looked out the window as the sun was nearly setting.

"That girl was someone I knew since elementary school." said Kenji

"Then why did you cry?" I asked

Kenji took a deep breath and let it all out in a loud huff.

"She bullied me during my entire childhood." he said, "Until we graduated high school."

"You were bullied throughout your entire childhood?" I questioned

"Yea, I was called her errand boy." said Kenji

"Errand boy huh? You bought her things?" I asked

"I was forced to." replied Kenji, "But it was materials that were embarrassing."

"Like what?" I asked

"Like uhh, tampons." replied Kenji

I dumbfounded when he said that. Kenji looked miserable and he seemed to have found those days really dreadful.

"Is there more?" I asked

Kenji stayed silent and just began to play with his fingers.

"Kenji please tell me." I said, "It's the only way I can help you."

"Help? There's no way you can help me when I'm with her." said Kenji, "No way, I've seen people try to but fail."

"But tell me, what else is there?" I asked

Kenji looked at me then back out the window.

"I uhh I was..."

He sighed and rubbed his eyes.

"I was used." he said

"Huh?" I questioned

"She used me as her punching bag." said Kenji, "But not just in punching but also in sex."

My eyes widened.

"Second year in high school she got drunk." explained Kenji, "But I just finished basketball practice that day."

I couldn't believe it, a guy was raped. I knew Kenji was bullied but I didn't know it was that bad.

"She came over and literally jumped on me and dragged me over to her place. I didn't know why, she wouldn't tell me why and if I asked she would slap me. And from there she handcuffed me onto her bed and raped me." said Kenji, "I desperately wanted to stop her but what could I have done, nothing. I was strapped onto the bed, blindfolded while she used me as her toy."

'No wonder he thought that sex was what all girls wanted.'

"But even after that day, I couldn't get myself to tell the teacher. For some reason I couldn't and it bothered me a lot even to this day." sighed Kenji, "From then on until the end of high school I was used over and over again. Until college I did whatever I could to get away from her, got a new phone, made a new social media account and all that."

"Then why don't you react when girls like Emiko, Hina and Yuziki like to touch you?" I asked

"They're different, I'm just new to that feeling of not getting bullied. All of this is new." he replied

"Kenji, I'm so sorry." I said

I felt so bad for Kenji that I grabbed his hand and held it in mine.

"It's okay, everything is in the past. She may have found you, but I'll help you." I said

Kenji's hand stopped trembling, his cold hands started to feel warm.

"Thanks..." he whispered

Kenji gently tightened his grip.

"She doesn't know what school you go to right?" I asked

"I'm sure she doesn't, but now that she knows I'm in Tokyo she's probably going to narrow down every school until she finally finds me." said Kenji, "I thought I got away from her for a year, why did she have to show up here?"

Kenji sighed and just leaned back on his chair.

"Well, I have to forget about it for now and just live my life today." said Kenji

Kenji looked so sad so I moved seats and sat next to him. Kenji seemed surprised as I leaned against him.

"Madoka what are you doing? You have a boyfriend." stuttered Kenji

"I'm just comforting you, nothing else." I said

I leaned against his shoulder and closed my eyes.

"I hope you don't mind staying awake until our stop." I said

Kenji stayed quiet for a few seconds.

"I don't mind." he replied

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3 hours later

I felt someone shake me awake so I slowly opened my eyes and yawned. I looked up to see Kenji looking at me.

"We're almost there get ready." he said

It was dark outside so I raised an eyebrow.

"How long have I been sleeping?" I asked

"3 hours." he replied

"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to keep you awake for that long." I apologized

"No it's fine don't worry about it." he replied

I was going to get ready but then I realized that I had Kenji's jacket over me.

"Here, thanks for it." I said

'Kenji, put this over me?'

"No problem." he said, "And I forgot to thank you earlier."

"Thank me?" I questioned

"For earlier, thanks for helping me out." he said

He then smiled brightly for the first time ever.

"I never had a friend before so this feels new to me as well." he said

I couldn't help but smile back at him.

"You're so dumb." I chuckled, "In a good way."

The train stopped so we got off and headed towards the city called Joetsu.

"What do you want?" I asked

"Uhh, I'm feeling very non asian today." he said

"What is that supposed to mean?" I asked

"I want a hamburger." he said

"Hamburger huh, that's nice let's go." I said

He nodded and we walked through the streets but as we passed by some people they began to recognize us.

"Look it's those two, the famous ones out of the University of Tokyo." said a group of people

"Wow what the heck, it feels like I'm meeting a celebrity." said another man

Kenji felt really awkward as people were pointing at us, but I just felt a bit annoyed.

"Here a hamburger place." I said

Kenji opened the door and went inside and we got seats.

"This places looks nice." said Kenji

Kenji started looking at the menu but he didn't seem to focus on the menu.

'He must be really anxious about the girl.'

"Hey Kenji stop thinking about her." I said

"S-sorry." he apologized, "I think I know how she found me. Well it's quite obvious."

"How?" I asked

"Fame, everyone knows us." replied Kenji

"Oh right." I said

'This is why being famous sucks.'

I sighed and just shook my head but then I got a message from Homura.

'Hey, what are you doing with Kenji?'

'How did he know?'

'He lives near me apparently.'

'But you guys are in a restaurant together.'

I looked around and saw people glancing at us.

"Word fucking spreads fast." I sighed

"Huh?"

I showed Kenji my phone and when Kenji read it he sighed.

"Damn." mumbled Kenji

'Cause why not?' I replied

'Are you two friends now? Just cause he's famous?'

'Yea can't we? And we've been friends, I've just been pretending I wasn't.'

Homura didn't reply after that so I put my phone away.

"Have you decided?" I asked

"Huh oh yeah I'm just going to get the bare cheeseburger medium rare." he replied

"I'll just get a cheeseburger." I said

We quickly ordered our food and ate. After we were done we paid and left.

"The trains here we have to hurry." I said

We began running towards the station together and we barely made it in time.

"Thank goodness we made it in time." said Kenji

"Yea, now let's go home." I said