Third Chapter.

Sorry if it sucks, I've been writing poorly lately due to

lack of enthusiasm. And boredom. Enjoy.

Aoi had spent more time than planned at the shrine, listening to Kouta's stories at school and being disciplined by her grandpa about marriage. God, he did get annoying, but she had to put up with it. He was her grandfather after all.

"Aoi, be sure to tell Oga what I said," Aoi's grandpa said as he waved goodbye from the top of the shrine.

"Yeah, yeah. See you soon, Kouta," Aoi said and smiled as she began her descent down the stairs.

"Come back tomorrow, sis!" Kouta exclaimed and waved too. Aoi nodded and turned, speeding up. She had stayed too late and she still needed to get some groceries. Aoi sighed and slowed her pace, thinking.

"I wonder what type of job Tatsumi got. He still never told me, huh," Aoi muttered to herself and glanced at the remaining sunlight that was peaking through the trees. Realizing what time it was again, Aoi jogged the rest of the way down the steps and to an all night convenience store.

"Will this be all, miss?" the young cashier asked as he finished ringing up the food.

"Yes, thank you," Aoi smiled and grabbed the brown, paper bags.

"Have a nice night," the cashier said and smiled as Aoi left the shop. Aoi decided to call Oga, wanting to tell him why she was late and all that jazz. Aoi quickly punched in his number and hit call, waiting for an answer.

One ring.

Two ring.

Three ring.

"I'm sorry, 555-555 is currently unavailable. Please leave your message after the-" Aoi ended the call. Weird, Aoi thought, he usually always answers. Clutching her groceries tighter, Aoi began to run home, assuming the worse.

When Aoi turned the corner into the complex, she was shocked to find Oga balled up on the ground with his eyes closed.

"Tatsumi? Tatsumi!" Aoi shouted and dropped her groceries as she ran over to her fiance. Bending down, Aoi turned Oga onto his back. She could see a cut on his cheek, which was still bleeding, and he seemed to be covering his...

"Tatsumi!" Aoi growled and slapped Oga's shoulder. Fluttering his eyes open, Oga looked at the woman kneeling beside him.

"What do you want Aoi? What time is it?" Oga asked groggily as he sat up. Feeling a tinge of pain in his area, Oga slowly let his memories come back.

"Are you alright? What happened? And why were you napping out here?" Aoi asked quickly, not letting Oga answer.

"We have a party to attend. For my new job," Oga muttered, ignoring Aoi's questions.

"What? I'm not going anywhere until you explain to me what happened here," Aoi demanded, crossing her arms over her chest. Still ignoring her, Oga began to stand up.

"Hurry up. It probably already started," Oga said and painfully walked up the stairs and into their apartment. Aoi, accepting her sad defeat and following behind Oga after gathering her groceries.

"Are you even going to tell me what happened?" Aoi asked, snatching a sweatshirt and a different pair of jeans to wear.

"How was your visit to the shrine?" Oga asked, dodging the subject again. Aoi pouted as she slid into her sweatshirt and shooed Oga away so she could change into her pants. Oga came out moments later, wearing a black, unbuttoned shirt over a white one with a pair of black jeans.

"Lets go," Oga said and left the apartment, closing the door after Aoi walked out. Walking down the stairs, the couple looked at each other and Aoi smiled.

"Same bet?" Aoi asked, her smile fading when she realized Oga wasn't.

"Hell yeah," Oga said cockily. Stretching for a quick second, the two bolted off down the street, racing to their destination.

Aoi knew she was going to lose, especially when she didn't even know where the party place was. When they were running though, it seemed Oga was running with much more speed than usual. Aoi hadn't really cared, she managed to keep up with him anyways. Their usual bet was that if Oga one, which he always did, was that Aoi would have to set out the futons and not bug him to clean them up. If she won, which she never did, then Oga would have to do the chores for a month. Of course, Aoi never let herself win either. Even if Oga got stuck with all of the things she did, she would still be the one doing it while he watched TV.

When they had arrived, Aoi didn't react in any way. She had been to Himekawa's company building once or twice over some high school business, but that was it. She never really liked that Himekawa guy, of course neither did most of the school. Oga didn't stop running until he was inside of the building, followed by a panting Aoi. Right away, Aoi saw girls. No, not girls, women. Women with big chests, women who belonged on magazines covers, and women who needed to put on more clothing and stop looking at Oga. Aoi could barely pick out the men in the crowd, they seemed to be in groups stuffed in corners.

"Oga, glad you could make it!" a brown haired girl said and walked up to Oga with a smile on her face. Aoi automatically hated her, her jealous fiance side kicking in. The girl hugged Oga, wrapping a single arm around his neck. Aoi inwardly smirked when Oga didn't return the gesture in any way, rather trying to push her off of him. "And you must be the fiance! Oga was talking about you this morning," the woman added, turning towards Aoi and extending a manicured hand. Aoi took it and smiled back, nodding. She glanced at Oga who seemed to be staring at something. Following his gaze, Aoi found herself looking at a slim, chesty blonde haired woman who was smirking back at Oga.

"Excuse me," Oga said through gritted teeth and began making his way over to the blonde woman. Oh, no, Aoi thought, is he...is he cheating..?

Damn bitch, Oga thought as he mad his way through the crowd of woman to the blonde, breaking into my house, cutting my face, kicking my-

"What the hell do you want?" the blonde asked when Oga was directly in front of her.

"What the hell do you mean what do I want? I want an explanation as to why you followed me to my fucking house just because I bumped into you at the park?" Oga sneered.

"Someone as low as you isn't fit for an explanation," Hilda said icily and turned to walk away.

"You're not going anywhere until I get an explanation," Oga growled and snatched Hilda's arm before she could move.

"Tatsumi, what's going on-"

With one swift movement, Hilda slapped Oga, causing the attention of the room to turn towards them.

"Keep your unfaithful hands off of me," Hilda snapped, and tugging her arm out of Oga's grasp, walked away.

"Tatsumi, are you okay? Who was that woman?" Aoi asked, tending to her fiance. Oga had one hand placed on his red cheek and an evil smile on his lips.

"Dumb bitch wants to fight still?" Oga muttered to himself.

"Tatsumi who the hell was that? And what did she mean unfaithful?" Aoi asked finally. Oga looked at her with a look that she didn't recognize, it wasn't his evil glare but it wasn't his regular, neutral gaze either. Was something wrong?

"Excuse me," Oga apologized and brushed Aoi off before walking off after Hilda. Aoi, her jaw dropped, watched as her fiance went and chased down some other woman. Even though it sounded like he wanted to fight her, what the woman had said and what she had done could mean something different. Aoi never had any competition for Oga, he didn't exactly appeal to any girls that knew him. To them, he was a strong, brainless barbarian who punched anything in sight. Was Aoi getting herself caught up in a harem?

"Tatsumi, wait," Aoi called, but it was already too late. Oga had followed the blonde woman out of the room, through some weird door. Looking around, Aoi saw everyone's heads turned in her direction, causing her to blush before rushing to the door herself.

"Stalking now?" Hilda muttered when she had found Oga had followed her. Unfortunately, she had found herself the only door in the world that led to a brick wall.

"I want an explanation and an apology from you. And I want you to beg for forgiveness, on your knees," Oga stated clearly, crossing his arms over his chest.

"What makes you think that I would do something as low as that to someone far below me," Hilda scoffed and crossed her arms over her chest, mimicking Oga.

"Well, someone here is a hell of a lot weaker than the other, and I think we all know who is who," Oga countered, eyeing Hilda up and down before frowning.

"Judging from the cut on you cheek and the limp in your walk, I think it is obvious who is dominant here," Hilda asserted.

"Well aren't you just a cocky bitch," Oga retorted.

"Well aren't you just a weak dog?" Hilda muttered. Just when she was going to walk away, Oga lunged at her. Surprised, Hilda didn't have a chance to dodge before Oga had her pinned against the brick wall behind her. Of course I chose the only door that led to a brick wall, Hilda thought. Oga had both of her arms pinned above her head and one of his legs pressed between hers, preventing her from moving. As strong as she was, she couldn't push Oga's weight off of her.

"An apology," Oga muttered. In his head though, all he could think about was her chest. Pressed against his. Even if he was using most of his strength, he couldn't focus enough to use it all.

"This counts as sexual harassment, expect a letter soon," Hilda huffed and tried to shake off Oga's grip. With no luck after many attempts, she gave up.

"And then you begging for forgiveness," Oga added.

"Are you sure you want to keep-"

"Tatsumi? What are you doing? Isn't that the woman from before?" Aoi chimed in, causing Oga to freeze in his tracks. Turning slowly, Oga glanced nervously at Aoi. Hilda, staying expressionless, simply turned her gaze to the black haired woman who was suddenly appearing from the door.

"A-Aoi..." Oga began but let his voice trail.

"Dumb ass, doing that she'll only get the wrong idea," Hilda whispered so quietly that Oga could barely hear it.

Oga snapped his head in her direction, adding a shut-the-hell-up glare before turning his attention back to Aoi.

"Are you..." Aoi began, but like Oga, her voice trailed off. Looking down, Aoi slowly turned around and, after pausing for a second, ran back through the door. Oga immediately let go of Hilda and chased after her, just leaving a vaguely confused Hilda behind.

"Well I knew coming here would only be a disaster," Hilda murmured to herself as she lightly rubbed where Oga had held her, "But it could have been worse."

"Aoi! Aoi wait!" Oga called and ran between the crowd again. When he had gotten back inside Aoi was already out of sight, probably running back to their apartment. Ignoring the people who were trying to start conversations with him, Oga finally broke out of the crowd and ran as fast as he could back to their apartment. Running as fast as he could would had meant he could catch Aoi, but she was running as fast as she could too, and it wasn't to their apartment.

Aoi was running with her eyes closed, afraid that if she opened them she'd see him. If she saw his face at that moment, she would probably kill him, showing no mercy. Aoi didn't want to go to jail, but guessing if her grandfather found out that she was better off killing him than her grandfather. Against her will, Aoi smiled at the thought until she bumped into someone.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see you," Aoi said instantly, changing into her disciplined mode.

"Aoi? " a vaguely familiar voice asked. Aoi looked up to find the one guy who had tried so hard to get her to go out with him; Izou Aiba.

"Izou?" Aoi muttered, shocked. Of all of his attempts, Aoi let herself go on a date with him once when they were both out of high school, which led to more undesirable things that she would have preferred to lose to Oga. That was why she couldn't let her and Oga do anything, she didn't want him to know that.

"I haven't seen you since, well, it's been a while!" Izou said and smiled. He was in a white t-shirt with plain blue jeans. Aoi could have asked what he was doing out so late, but then again she wasn't his girlfriend.

"Aoi? Are you alright? You look sad," Izou said, his voice full of concern. Wow, Aoi thought, we haven't seen each other for years and he still cares...

"I'm fine, it's nothing," Aoi said and wiped away any tears that might have escaped.

"You don't look fine," Izou scolded. Draping his arm around her, Izou led her in another direction, away from wherever she was running. Not that she was running to anything anyways...

Sorry this chapter is short. And kinda bad.

And sorry about saying I'd finish this off by the end of the week

And sorry that the chapter sucks again, because I know it does

And sorry that Aoi probably would have been more dramatic but I didn't write her like that

I'm just trying to incorporate the rest of the characters into the story

I'll write a better chapter next time, promise (and I won't break it)

"Learn your ABC's kids"