Winged Lion

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Meet the friends

"We do we get to meet him/her?"

Once Run and Leone had gone back to work or next met up with their friends that had been the very first thing they'd been asked.

Leone had immediately arranged for a meeting on Saturday, tempting Run with the promised sight of her in what she considered her 'special uniform.' Her boyfriend may have prided himself as a gentleman, but his newfound affection and relationship had awaken more carnal desires in him.

Run, on the other hand, avoided his friends for the majority of the week, feigning an overload of papers to mark or 24 hour flu he didn't want them to catch. He immediately regretted that, as no one in his social circle had ever been sick. In fact, for the two whose reactions he feared the most, getting sick was borderline impossible.

It was a PD Day for Run's school, and he had finished all his work. He had decided to get this over with and walked over to his 'true' boss' office. Waiting outside were Wave and Bols, along with their fellow gang-members; Dr. Stylish and Seryu.

Dr. Stylish was a young man in a suit and lab coat with black hair and a white-streak going through it. A brilliant geneticist to Run's biomechanics and bookworm knowledge, he was a proudly camp young man.

Seryu was 'the baby' of the gang, even though she was a little older then Kurome; her father had been a treasured friend of their leader and Run himself who had been slain in combat overseas. Esdeath had taken her in, given her Koro, her beloved puppy and taught her all she knew in combat.

"I suppose you're all to watch my imminent demise?" Run joked.

"It'll be stylish at least." Dr. Stylish smiled. "A shame though, you were always a cutie Run. I liked you almost as much Wavey-boy."

"I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND, YOU FRUITY LOOP!" Wave roared, ignoring the looks he got.

"More the merrier!" Stylish beamed. "My offer still stands."

Times like this, I'm so glad Stylish was the first to realize I was married. Bols thought to himself before blushing at the thought of his wife.

"I assume you told them, Wave?" Run asked his so called best friend, who merely scratched the back of his head uncomfortably.

"May Justice protect you, Mr. Run!" Seryu declared, saluting her surrogate father.

"Pray for him." Wave begged.

"Already have." Bols saluted his teacher friend.

Run entered the room, only have his ears assaulted by the whining of a man. He glancing down to see a formerly handsome and strong willed noble slobbering under the boot of a beautiful woman with long blue hair and a sadistic grin on her face wearing a military uniform.

Esedeath, chief of police, founder and leader of the Jeagers gang. Run had been her second in command ever since they were kids, after her family moved from the Northern lands to the empire. She was the strongest fighter in the empire and the one who pulled the strings at the city's affairs, thanks to her contact with mayor Honest.

"Run." She smoothly smirked. "Just the one I wanted to see."

"Do you have to do that?" Run asked with a sigh.

"What?"

"Sadistically break anyone who gets in your way."

"Way I was raised." She muttered, taking a sip of her tea. "Besides, it's not often that I find that actually keep up with me, even if it is just for a few seconds. But enough about me, tell me about Leone."

Run told her how they'd met and their first date, tense at her opinion.

"So she works for Najenda." Esdeath confirmed.

"Y-yes." Run confessed before a spurt of courage entered his being. "Esedeath, please tell me…what happened between you two? I've been your friend for years and yet you've never told me anything about that."

Esedeath glared at Run, who suddenly felt a slight chill. Glancing behind him, he saw a knife of ice imbued into the wall.

"And I, at least, shall take what happened to my grave." She growled before huffing and downing a whole glass of red wine from the bottle she kept in her drawer. "Forgive me Run, it's just…personal. Najenda was my first real rival. I'd hoped she'd stay with the police with me, but…"

Run placed a hand on his old friend's shoulder.

"Please forgive me, Esedeath." He said. "I acted without your…"

"Don't say permission. You're my first friend and one of my most valued subordinates. I'm not your nanny, you are a man with needs that quite frankly, you've been slow to realize. You don't need my permission to date anyone, just don't let in interfere with your work. As for Leone, bring her to the next meeting if you can." Esedeath commanded as she walked out the door.

"Yes milday." Run bowed.

"Have you all been listening in?" Esedeath asked sweetly. "Be truthful."

The other Jeagers nodded

"Well, madam, you have to realize, we wanted to see the Stylish ending of this little talk." Stylish announced cheerfully. "Got to say, kind of a disappointment, but still stylish in a sweet way."

"We'll discuss this violation of privacy later. Honest has a job for us."

Several bikes suddenly appeared in front of them. Wave rode a blue one akin to a fish, while Dr. Stylish rode one covered in lights and sparkles. Bols' was covered in flame designs and Seyru's was shaped like a dog. Esdeath herself rode one white as snow, while Runs had decorative angel wings on it.

"Let's ride!"

And soon, the streets were cleared for the Jeagers.

JEAGERS BASE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON

"I brought a girl over…." Run announced. "So please…don't do anything that would embarrass me. Or her. In the reverse order. Need I remind you what happened with Stylish's last boyfriend?"

The Jeagers fell silent, their doctor sighing.

"Poor Eyes, he was so stylish… Good with his hands, masculine and Teigu compatible." He mused.

"He was evil!" A young girl with a long pony tail roared. Wave and Bols cringed slightly at volume, making the older man nearly fall from his seat before he heard the kettle begin to whistle.

"Seryu…" Esedeath said. "I thought we talked about this."

"Sorry milday." The girl said, her dog barking in agreement.

"We talked about that to." The cop sighed. "On the job, it's chief or boss. Off duty, its names only. And yes, Eyes was a psychopath that we had to put down."

Leone then walked through the door, snaked her arms around Wave's waist and nibbled on his ear.

"Hey angel." She smiled, giving Run a kiss on the cheek. "Hope I'm not too late, security around here is tight! Seriously, I had to duck into a closet three times."

"You do have the ticket I gave you, right?" Run asked. "Nobody would stop you…."

"Birdie, when you got a body like this, everybody's going to stop you." Leone mused. "Don't worry, they didn't hold me up too long."

Run almost added something

"And I didn't cripple or break any bones. No, introduce me."

"Everyone." Run announced. "This is Leone. My girlfriend."

"This is Esedeath…"

"How do you do?" She smiled, shaking the guest's hand.

"Seryu."

"I think I know you," Leone mused. "You're the officer of my old neighborhood."

"A pleasure to meet you, citizen Leone." Seyru smiled as she shook hands, before a slightly sadistic smile appeared. "If you see any evil, let me know and I shall vanquish it!"

"Seryu…." Run admonished.

"Sorry, Mr. Run." The girl sighed, only to be hugged by the blonde woman.

"You're just too cute!"

Cute? Seryu? The Jeagers thought to themselves. Oh right, she hasn't seen her in a brawl.

"Dr. Stylish."

"You two would make stylishly beautiful children." The doctor mused.

Leone and Run blushed, before a thought entered the teacher's head.

Huh. They would look rather nice, actually. NO! Bad Run! No kids yet!

"And you already know Wave."

"Leone."

"Wave."

"E-excuse me?"

Leone then turned to see a giant of a man wearing a gas-mask, holding a tray of tea and cookies.

"The tea is ready, if anybody would like some."

"Thank you, Bols." Esdeath bowed slightly, motioning the others to the table.

It then occurred to the Jeagers that they hadn't introduced their pyro-inclined member.

"Nobody notices me…" Bols whimpered in the corner of the room.

"You're Bols, right?"

The man tuned, shocked that the guest knew him.

"Run talks about you all the time." She explained. "Says you're the nicest guy and that you've got the cutest kid. Nice to meet ya!"

The took shook hands before….

"Daddy!"

The door swung open, revealing a four year old girl with short blonde hair and a basket in her arms. Bols' form quickly tightened before relaxing in delight.

"Ember, what're you doing here?" He asked, joy at seeing his daughter obvious.

"Mommy told me to bring your lunch."

"I forgot it again?" Bols smacked the back of his head. "How could I?"

"Silly daddy." Ember said before reaching toward him. "Can I have a piggy back?"

"Of course, sweetie."

As Bols happily played with his daughter, Leone took a sip of her tea and watched them, when a daydream entered her head.

"Mommy look!" a little boy beamed. "I'm king of the castle!"

"Oh yeah, well mommy's queen of the beasts!" Leone playfully growled as she took her son into her arms and blew on his belly, making him laugh.

"Miss Leone? What do you do when you're not working" Seryu asked, bringing the dancer out of her dream.

"Well, I mostly work out, drink and gamble." Leone answered truthfully. "But on the slow days, I go to my old neighborhood."

"I like her." Esedeath smiled. "She's good for you. Taste in friends aside."

Run was awestruck by his friend's blunt but happy answer.

"We better get going if we want to make Najenda's deadline." Leone said.

"Oh, before you two leave…" Esedeath started. She then threw Run the keys to his bike. "Best to arrive in style. And Leone, if there's the off chance that you ever need a job and Najenda can't supply, give us a call."

NIGHT RAID

"I like him." Najenda smiled, overlooking the papers Chelsea had given her regarding Leone's boyfriend.

"You haven't even met him yet." A girl with log pink hair in pig tails sighed. "For all we know, he's a perverted pig."

"No." Kurome interrupted, munching on cookies. "Run is a good man, Mine. Odd choice in friends, yes. But a good man. He puts up with Wave patiently."

"That's a feat in and of itself." Chelsea mused as she finished her lollipop.

"Sides, if he was a pervert, Leone wouldn't have come in looking so happy." Another woman with pink hair in a long dress mused, looking up from her book. "I have never seen her smile like that."

"That, Sheele, is the smile of a woman in love." Lubbock mused.

"And how would you know what that smile looks like, Lub?" A young boy with brown hair and a vest asked as he followed Bulat inwards.

"…shut it, Tatsumi."

"Don't be mean to Tatsumi, he's a good boy." Bulat playfully growled before cupping the younger man's face. "A very good boy…."

"Bro…!" Tatsumi whimpered. "I don't swing that way!"

"I know." Bulat smiled. "But you're just too adorable."

Leone then bounced into the room, Run being tugged along

"Seriously, what is it with you and the dragging?" He asked in exasperation.

"Why didn't you tell me you had bike?" Leone huffed.

"…You never asked?" He mused weakly.

"…point taken." Leone said, running her finger along Run's neck and pressing her chest against his. "Though, if I'd known…You might've gotten something the night we met, tweedy."

"It's Run." The teacher replied on reflex.

Huh. He'd kind of missed that.

"We're right here, ya know!" Mine shouted.

"Jealous?" Leone joked. "Don't worry, your prince'll come one day."

Mine humphed.

"I'm not a little girl who expects a Disney prince to come and sweep me off my feet." She then glared at Run. "And just so you know, I don't trust you. I'll never trust you. I only came because Leone's my friend and I was told there'd be male strippers. All I got is Bulat, and he doesn't even like girls!"

"I can hear you, you know." Bulat mentioned before patting Run on the shoulder. "Nice to see you again, Angel. You and Kitty make a good couple."

He then sighed.

"Bro?" Tatsumi asked

"All the good ones are either taken or straight." The older man sighed.

Leone leaned in and whispered into her boyfriend's ear.

"Stop me if this is a bad idea, but why not bring Stylish here and introduce him to Bulat?"

Run cringed at the thought.

"….no promises."

"Not even if I walk around your apartment with nothing on?" She grinned.

"LEONE!" Run gasped, only to redden when Leone started laughing alongside him.

"Stop teasing Run." Kurome said as she weakly tried to kick Leone.

"Kurome, stop picking fights." Akame chastised her sister.

"Sorry nee-chan."

The drawing card of Night Raid and its top dancer's boyfriend then locked eyes.

"Akame." Run bowed.

"Run." Akame did the same before a smile appeared. "Thank you for taking care of Leone. Let me introduce you to the others; the purple head is Sheele, Tatsumi is the boy, and Susanoo is the piano player."

A young man with horns on his head waved, as did Run.

"Wait, is that War and Peace?" Run mused when he saw the purple haired woman reading a book.

"You've read it too?" Sheele asked, getting a nod from Run

"Well, the first three volumes at least." Run admitted. "Been meaning to go back…"

"Then maybe you could help me keep track of a few things?"

"I'd be delighted."

Leone smiled, glad her friends liked Run.

"Ah, Lubbock, was it?" Run noted. "I thought you looked familiar. I purchased the majority of my library from your store."

Lubbock took a closer look at Leone's boyfriend before he remembered.

"I thought you looked familiar." He mused as they shook hands. "And before you ask, as successful as the store is, books alone don't pay the bills."

"A shame they don't." Run replied.

In her mind, Mine was awestruck. A well-educated teacher, genuinely found of his students, a reader of fine literature?

Leone had grabbed a catch of a man!

"Please teach me!" Tatsumi and Lubbock suddenly fell to their knees, as if worshipping their guest.

"Pardon?" Run asked.

"How did you do that? No one's ever been able to shoot down Mine's arguments so fluidly!" Tatsumi asked.

Lubbock took Run aside.

"Listen, any tips…"

"For Najenda, I take it?" Run cut him off.

"..Am I that obvious?" The green haired man sighed. Run shrugged.

The evening was a fun one, filled with booze, food and drinks.

The two returned to their apartment building tired but happy. As they ascended the stairs, Run suddenly grabbe Leone and slammed her into her room's door, kissing her.

"Impatient are we?" She joked.

"Very." Run confessed. "The whole evening, I was being driven mad by the thought this wouldn't be approved. Now that it has, I want to make sweet love to you and prove to myself this isn't a dream.

Leone opened her door and kissed Run sweetly.

"Wait two minutes, Run-sweetie. I promise this'll knock your socks off."

And so he did. For two full minutes Run tried to contain his excitement. What would Leone emerge in?

"Alright handsome, I'm all yours."

Run froze at the sight.

Leone was clad in a purple belly dancing uniform, veil, scarf and all.

"What do you think?"

Run simply walked inside, locked the door, and carried Leone to her bed.

They enjoyed themselves all night.

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