The fifth day started in a somewhat negative mood, after the story from last night. The alphas were already warming up again, Izuku, Eijiro and Shoto were completely unmotivated because of the tiredness.
Katsuki woke up pretty late, it was really hard for him to get up. He felt groggy and sick to his stomach. He was sweating really heavily too. “Morning Kacchan” Denki greeted him.
“Morning …” he mumbled. He forced himself up on his feet. The world spun around for a few seconds.
“Hey, is everything okay?” Denki looked concerned. Hanta and Fumikage looked over to him.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m fine, maybe I stood up too fast?” He stretched and put some cloths on. Denki looked still concerned but didn’t say anything. Together the four of them went outside.
Hound Dog ushered them to the training ground, he looked at Katsuki with a weird look but didn’t say anything.
The training was very hard for him this morning, he didn’t know what was wrong with him. Did he catch a cold? Did he eat something bad? Had one of the spiders bitten him and he was turning into spider man? Everything but this, please!
He was doing some push ups with Denki and Hanta, when the first wave of sickness hit him. He could hold it in however, so after some sips of water, he was ready to go again. “Hey man, you really don’t look good” Denki mumbled.
“I am fucking fine! Maybe I ate something bad yesterday. It won’t kill me.” He growled.
“If you say so …”
They got back to training again, this would be a very long morning …
The alphas had again their special training, Kairi, Ian and Jesper had prepared the forest the last night. They had placed some ‘treasures’ and they had to find them with their alpha senses.
They all entered the Zone, even though they were afraid. It wasn’t perfect but as Kairi had told them, it was easier to control than the last time. She promised them, that they would get the rest of the day off, when the last treasure was found.
They didn’t know what kind of treasure it was but they thought that it had something to do with their sense of smell. Mezo was immediately checking the area with a lot of noses.
Izuku jumped through the treetops, he was in full on Zone mode and his sense of smell was incredibly heightened. He could even smell the others in the camp. He continued to jump through the trees.
Hitoshi and Shoto looked more on the ground. If they had at least a clue as to what they were searching for …
They all continued to look, while Kairi was monitoring them. She wondered who would win. They had placed a treasure for each person. She sat on an overturned tree trunk and listened to them. Her thoughts drifted off a little.
Katsuki lay in the grass during their break. He was still hot and sweating like crazy. Some light explosions crackled in his hands as a result of that. He wasn’t feeling well at all. He had eaten half of a sandwich, before the nausea hit him and he had to stop. He had one arm over his eyes, while the other hand rubbed slowly circles over his upset stomach. What was wrong with him?
Ian and Jesper came out of the forest, Ian looked like a zombie at this point. He had big, dark circles under his eyes, he was constantly yawning and even though his eyelids were heavy, he still couldn’t find sleep.
The prime walked over to Katsuki and sat down next to him. Katsuki lifted his arm and looked over to the alpha. “You look terrible!” Katsuki mumbled.
“I feel terrible … haven’t slept in about 140 hours …”
“Why can’t you sleep?” The omega sat up, he pulled his legs closer to his body and wrapped his arms around them.
“Nightmares, mostly. You see, I died a couple of times too and … it fucks with your head. Every time I try to sleep when Hua’s not around, I get trapped in nightmares. Me, dying over and over and over.”
“That sounds awful.” Katsuki mumbled. “H-how many times have you died?”
The alpha pursed his lips. “Eight times … Usually I don’t get so heavily injured that I die, but from time to time it happens …”
“How did it happen?” Katsuki stopped. “Uh, you don’t have to answer that!”
“I … I got shot by a sniper one time and I fell down about sixty feet. Jes and I were jumping between the buildings of Bangkok. We were attacked by someone from the Italian Mob” he mumbled.
“You live in a dangerous place” Katsuki noted.
“Oh yeah, Bangkok is dangerous. Half of Thailand is, but after the many wars it got even worse. We don’t have a hero system, so it’s each their own.”
“The worst thing for me was the three times I died in close proximity. You see, I need time and new energy every time I come back, that’s why I eat so much, but … this one time they captured me and put me into a coffin. They drowned me. I died and came back, but I died again, and came back again, and then I drowned again … and died again. Thankfully mother saved me after that. But it’s keeping me up at nights. Drowning is – in my opinion – the worst way of dying.”
Katsuki looked at him in horror. “Oh shit … That is fucked up …”
“Yeah …”
The omega looked over to the alpha, sighing, he robbed closer. “You should at least try to sleep during the break. I’ll stay here and wake you up if you have a nightmare” Katsuki offered.
Ian looked at him. He took a deep breath. “Okay … I’ll try. Thanks Kacchan.” He patted the omegas head, before he laid back down into the grass. He closed his eyes and he instantly fell asleep.
Katsuki’s cheeks were burning, praise from a prime alpha! He smiled like an idiot and turned a little, so he could watch Ian better. He didn’t notice how his hand stroked through the soft, black hair. His stomach was still twisting and turning, but he couldn’t focus on that now, the prime alpha needed him!
Jurota and Mezo were the first ones to find the ‘treasures’. They were cute little key chains. Cait had organized them. Juzo was the next one to find his. Tenya and Rikido followed. They all returned to the clearing, Kairi was on. They waited for the others. She ordered them to meditate a little and to open their senses so that they could easily follow the others.
Tetsutetsu and Eijiro found their key chains at the exact same time, Izuku found it in a hollow tree, Shoto under a root and Hitoshi in some branches.
Happy that they found it so quickly, they made their way over to Kairi. As promised, they made their way back to the camp.
Ian slept quietly until Katsuki had to wake him when the break was over. It was kinda hard to wake him up, he was really groggy after that. He groaned and got up to his feet.
“A-are you feeling better, prime alpha?” Katsuki asked. His voice was a bit slurred. Ian furrowed his eyebrows but his brain was too sleep-deprived to think anything of it.
“Yeah, a little bit.” Katsuki smiled brightly at that. They both got up and went back to the others.
The training went as usual, but Denki had his eyes on Katsuki most of the time, something was up. He had the feeling that something bad would happen.
Ochako and Mina were a bit on the edge too. They had watched Katsuki during the training earlier, but they weren’t sure what they could do. He wouldn’t take any help from them. They hoped he wouldn’t overwork himself.
The training continued and most of them, didn’t notice that the alphas came back.
Katsuki was in the middle of an alpha command, when he felt it coming. He struggled heavily against it and eventually he broke free. As fast as he could he ran to the tree line and he threw up. He retched heavily and the half eaten sandwich from earlier found its way out of him.
Ian was next to him and rubbed carefully over his back. Denki and Hanta were with him too. Denki brought a bottle of water. Thankful, Katsuki took a sip when he had the chance. “Fucking hell … Why do I have to get sick now?” He growled.
“You’re sweating like crazy, you have a fever” Ian felt Katsuki’s forehead. He was literally burning. Ian picked him up. “Okay, you’re going straight to bed. This is not normal.” Together with the betas, he brought Katsuki back to his cabin.
On the way back, they got the attention of the alphas. Immediately, Izuku and Eijiro came running over. They got to the cabin and Ian placed Katsuki in the bed. “I guess you will take care of him?”
“Absolutely. Don’t worry about it.” Izuku answered. Ian nodded and left the cabin he went back to the betas to train them.
Izuku, Eijiro, Denki and Hanta stayed with Katsuki while he was burning up. He somehow managed to fall asleep.
