Rotrm

Chapter 3

Determination

Akihiro was true to his style. He worked her to her breaking point, then went a little bit farther then had a long, nice break for an hour. There was a cafeteria that was fully paid for by Akihiro himself. A whole bunch of Italian food lay there on the table behind the glass. Jessica's mouth watered, food from her home country was everywhere. It's as if Akihiro did it only for her, because she was the only Italian in her group of 10. Soon, Akihiro asked if Tabane could take their measures and report them back to him, so he could find the best way to heighten their abilities without doing damage to their body. During this measuring, she heard the others that were before her say that he did nothing like that for them, and that someone might have a little crush. There was no way that he could have feelings for her 'I mean he works me harder than the rest, is always screaming at me, and is a jerk to me! But could he be doing that because he likes me? He is pretty handsome, his blue eyes are bright, at least I think so, considering he covers one of them with his regal black hair that shines in the sun, definitely fitting of bright and shining, for which he was named.'

"Hey. Jess, come over here!" She hears from behind her.

"Y-yes Wheeler-Senpai!" She replied hastily. He was one year her senior, so she always treated him like that, as though he was her master.

"Well, you certainly do know how to both take control and bow down. You are very interesting you know?" He smiled. Her heart jumped up and down, beating as fast as it was when she ran but she hadn't run in 30 minutes! It was just when she was around him! Could it be that she was falling for him too? She looked him straight in the eyes but found something disturbing when he pushed his hair back. She looked into his eye, not eyes. A robotic eyeball peeked at her through his other socket. She jumped back in her seat.

"What happened to your…" She gasped.

"Oh this?" He asked touching his robot eye. "An old friend did this. I reckon you have heard the rumors of me being born in Ireland and about my move here?"

"I have…" She nodded.

"Well, the gang was attacking us eight in front of the lab where a family friend was, we were just visiting because my father and the doctor were old war buddies. That man was a doctor and saved my father's life. His son was a young biologist who had finished research on an eye that could replace a lost one and enhance brain capabilities. We ran away and…" His voice faltered "We ran away and I tripped and fell onto a nail that was so rusty it was like a bee's stinger. My eye was ripped out so I was led by my mother back into the lab to see if he could let me have the eye."

"What do you mean, enhance brain capabilities?" She said, trying to take the image of him tripping and losing his eye out of her mind.

"I can use my brain to its fullest. The optical cord has another cord connected to every part of my brain, supercharging it, giving me a lot of abilities that no normal human has." He grins.

"Like what?" She smiles, doing her best excited face even though she was scared.

"Like I can tell you're afraid of me, and that you have feelings for me that you doubt. Also…" He says mischievously. A black aura surrounds his eye and her hand. All of a sudden her hand moves against her will straight towards his lips. He kisses her hand without moving his own. "I have telekinesis and telepathy." He says without moving his lips. He walks away but stays around the corner to watch her.

"He just kissed my…" She says as she lifts her hand. She takes a look around to see if anyone's looking and then kisses her own hand in an indirect kiss, and then giggles.

He turns around and smiles. "I love you, Jessica."

She puts her hand on her heart. "I love you, Akihiro."

They soon go back to training and then Christmas week soon comes. On the day of Christmas Eve Akihiro asked Jessica to come to his office.

"What is it Aki?" Jessica smiled.

"I want to know if you would like to go to this restaurant with me for dinner tomorrow. They say the ramen there is great, and one of my good friends works there." He says, scratching the back of his head nervously.

"As in, a date?" She says, holding back a smile.

"N-No! Just t-to talk." He stutters.

"We're going to a restaurant?" She asks.

"Y-Yeah…" He smiles.

"Just the two of us?" she smiles.

"It's not a date!" He yells.

"Well my answer is yes." She starts to walk out of the door but turns around before she leaves she turns around, smiles and says "I'd love to go on a date with you."

"It's not a…" The door closes, interrupting him "Jeez, Jessica, well, this is why I love her."

"A date huh?" she says, softly turning around putting her back against the office wall. She grabs her heart and smiles, holding back a squeal of joy. She walked away, a skip in her step, thinking only of how the date would go.

On the day of the date, Akihiro gave everyone a day off. Jessica and him left early and started off with Akihiro giving a tour of Tokyo. She had got there about a week ago and still hadn't seen the sights of Tokyo. They had breakfast at a checkers in Shinjuku-ku, went to the Imperial Palace Garden East, had lunch at tempura Imoya, and then took a walk near the IS academy.

"This is where I first heard about you." He smiled. "I was helping to build this, doing all the heavy lifting fyi, and Tabane told me about this interesting Italian girl. A few days before she had asked what my type of girl was. I told her exactly what it was, and guess who fit the bill perfectly."

"Tabane picked me because she knew that we'd fall in love?" She asked.

"Exactly, if you want to get some love ask Tabane, she'll hook you up with someone that fits you pretty well." He grins.

They arrived at the Kyushu Jangara – Harajuku Branch and had some dinner. They both agreed, the ramen there was amazing, and that the night was amazing, they stayed at Jessica's apartment. They stayed up all night, shut the lights off, stared into each others eyes as they stripped... through the curtain as they put on kingdom hearts cosplay and turn on kingdom hearts and play through the night. What were you thinking? Pervert!