"Subaru!"

"Just look out for yourself, okay? I don't want to see you hurt."

"...maybe I should take you to meet him."

"What?"

"Look, you're making a bunch of assumptions. And don't pretend to me there isn't sexism right there, you think an omega wouldn't be good enough for me. Well, whatever, I'm not monogamous anyway. But you should meet him before projecting all those prejudices onto him."

"...maybe."

"No maybe. I'm making you do it."

"Now you're flirting."

"I'm always flirting."

It's the evening, and Inori is sitting in a swing in a park thinking about his life choices.

Dumb, shitty alpha. Why is he going and doing dumb stuff like that? Why did he kiss Inori? He said he fucked Inori because he lost to pheromones but then here he is just doing that when Inori isn't even in heat.

...and why didn't Inori hate it? Why didn't he hate the sex either? He... meant it... when he said he'd have killed that dumbass alpha if he hadn't liked it. Which means he liked it. Is that just how it goes, you get so lost in heat that when an alpha dicks you down you love every second of it, even the pain?

That doesn't explain the kiss, though.

The kiss was... nice.

Shit! Why is he getting in heat again! Come on why does this keep happening he hates being an omega so fucking much—an image flashes in his mind and he had been on his way to Kokonoe High anyway so maybe—he reaches down for the pipe he just dropped—

"Thought I smelled something nice. There's an omega here," says an alpha with a smirk on his face.

    "You okay, luv?" asks his friend. "This your first heat?"

He looks up at them with venom in his eyes.

"Ooh, that's a sharp glare!"

"I'm going to fucking k—"

But that image appears in his head again, of that night with Tōkan, when he was in heat and—and Tōkan said his name—he loses concentration—

"It's dangerous to carry stuff like this around," says the first one who spoke, kicking the pipe away.

"A-asshole!"

"Can you stand?" asks the second one in mock concern, lifting Inori up by the arms and keeping him in a headlock.

I want an alpha. The thought comes unbidden and his whole body flushes with desire. I want one.

...but it's neither of them.

"My place is nearby. How about I take you home?" asks the first one.

But the next second Tōkan is punching that one hard enough to knock him off his feet.

"Thought I smelled you." He looks at the one still holding Inori up. "What have we here, then?"