Inevitable Collision

While Ren pretends to be something he's not thanks to his family, Alex abandoned his to find his own purpose in life. Despite being opposites, they share the same existential loneliness: not being understood or accepted by anyone for who they are. After a fistfight, they both realize this. From then on, what will they do? Though they don't usually communicate clearly what they feel or think (Ren because he doesn't like/know and Alex because he simply doesn't want to), they are able to express it through action. Not that Ren is able to catch a hint... Ren, heir to a prestigious family, which made him much more lonely during his childhood, has a complicated relationship with Alex—who is also the only heir to a prestigious family, sharing many of Ren's sorrows, despite never having met him until a day ago. Ren always preferred to maintain a charismatic facade to be accepted, something Alex noticed right away thanks to his extremely fake family. He developed a certain hatred for Ren because of this, so he told himself that he preferred to avoid him. On the first day of class at a prestigious school—his new school, Hoshigawa Academy; a highly regarded academy considered to give you a "guaranteed future" if you manage to do minimally well—he did a group project with Alex and five other people. At the beginning, Alex asks for a pen, someone lends it, and Ren asks for it back. Alex doesn't want to return it, even though he knows it was his that someone else had borrowed. A few seconds later, one of the people in the group stops the argument, and Alex decides to go to the bathroom. Ren, annoyed with Alex and his childish behavior, chases him to the bathroom, running after him while Alex runs from Ren. When they reach the bathroom, he sees that Alex is just going to use the bathroom normally, so he returns to the classroom. Alex, dissatisfied, when he returns to the classroom, smears his own urine on Ren's face—who only notices by the smell. After quickly washing his face with alcohol, still seated, he gets up and goes to question Alex about it, when the vice-president of the Student Council interrupts them and takes them to the principal's office, where they spend the next six hours. Ren spends the hours with his head resting on one of the desks, away from Alex, while ignoring his casual provocations. When the punishment period is over, they leave the principal's office. Ren, dissatisfied and with a feeling he couldn't name in his chest, decides to follow Alex to his dormitory. However, he discovers that he was going to what appeared to be a hidden basement under a staircase in a less frequented part of the school. Ren decides to threaten Alex, which causes a fistfight between them, an unusual level of closeness for acquaintances. Ren realizes that Alex is not used to street fights, as whenever one was on top of the other, Ren seemed to have the advantage. In the end, Ren fractures Alex's collarbone with a headbutt, and Alex fractures one of his upper ribs on the right side, causing terrible pain when breathing. When the fight ended (or, rather, when both were tired, panting, somewhat sweaty, and almost unable to continue exchanging and defending punches), they stopped, and Ren leaned against the hallway wall. I forgot to mention, but since Ren was quite curious about the basement, he ran to the door and broke it down, only to find a hallway with another door at the end—Alex knocked him to the ground, and when he managed to get up, Ren was thrown by him to the other door, breaking it and hitting his back on the almost warm floor of the sumo. Anyway... a short time later, Ren gets up, with a heavy conscience and somewhat dizzy, and goes to take a shower. When he finishes, he puts on his clothes and goes to Alex, after finding a first-aid kit in the bathroom. He asks Alex to sit in front of Ren, and he does. Soon after, Ren sits down too, and begins to carefully tie a sling to his right collarbone and forearm so that he can recover. Before that, Ren applies light pressure to the spot with two fingers of his left hand, eliciting a grunt from Alex. This situation is new to both of them. Never before has the person they fought been so kind after the fight, to the point of letting them live, showering them, or even tending to their wounds. This brings to both of them, especially Alex, a growing, unnameable feeling at the moment. Alex, who previously said he hated and preferred to avoid Ren because of his false personality, now wouldn't mind seeing different sides of Ren every day. Ren and Alex were deflowered before even entering Hoshigawa — on purpose. Before they started fighting for real, after Ren was thrown and broke a door, he removed his jacket and loosened his tie, while Alex removed his hooded shirt, glasses, and mask, leaving only a dark gray tank top, black pants, black socks, and his gloves that function using nanotechnology. Whilst Ren had black, kind of loose pants which didn't show how big his legs are, and a white dress shirt, which, due to sweat, now reveals his prominent chest and abdomen, as well as his broad, thick shoulders and arms. Alex is taller, but Ren is more muscular. Furthermore, Alex seems, for some reason Ren doesn't understand, to really enjoy teasing him. And Alex is not the type to explain, since he likes leaving things ambiguous to piss Ren off. Even if someone says things with double meanings, Ren doesn't understand because he's not capable of understanding flirting, as he doesn't have a dirty mind. Currently, Ren avoids Alex to protect himself, since he's not used to having people around. Still, Alex always manages to meet up with him and provoke him, something Ren enjoys, since he is curious about how far Alex would go just to know him, without knowing that both him and Alex are getting attached simultaneously, while revealing themselves.