"Are you sure you're ready to go?" Rei asked Gumi.
Gumi was fixing the holster around her thigh. It was laying right next to the gun when she lunged for it, for she decided to use it and take the gun with her. She never handled a gun, but she remembered that her father had one for protection, and her and Gumo would watch their father as he cleaned it. She checked to see how many bullets she had left, and she would have had a full clip if she didn't use one bullet to kill the failure. "Let me see if I can find some ammo first." Gumi said, opening drawers for ammo.
"Do you think there'll be ammo here?" Rei asked.
"If there's a gun here, there's gotta be ammo right?" Gumi said, still looking.
"You have a point there. Let me help you look." Rei walked around the room and did the same thing Gumi was doing, searching through drawers and cupboards.
Gumi felt dizzy and leaned against the counter and closed her eyes. She took a few deep breathes before resuming her search.
Rei opened a few drawers and he found mags, all filled with bullets. "I found your ammo Gumi." Rei said.
Gumi walked over to Rei and took all the loaded mags and placed them on the counter. "How am I going to carry them all?" Gumi asked.
"Uh…" Rei looked around and found a fanny pack and tossed it to the girl. "You can use that."
Gumi examined the fanny pack and grabbed the loaded mags and stuffed them in the fanny pack, all 7 of them fit. She zipped it up and buckled the pack around her waist. "I feel funny, Do I look funny?" Gumi asked Rei.
"Yes." Rei said honestly.
Gumi punched Rei in the arm and walked out.
Rei chuckled and followed the girl out. "Try not to push yourself alright?" Rei said.
Gumi nodded. "Alright, I'll tell you when I need a break, and this time, don't leave me behind." Gumi said, remembering what happened when Rei left her behind.
Rei nodded. "I won't make that mistake again." He would never leave this girl's side.
Gumi smiled. "Okay."
The two teens continued down the hall, this place was familiar so they knew their way around and quickly found a set of stairs. They made the hike up the stairs and that's when the stairway ended, it was broken and there were no more stairs that led up, so the two were forced to exit the stairwell and go back into the hallways. The two walked down the halls, taking left and rights here and there until they came across and giant hole in the floor. This is where the two fell down and got separated from the group.
Gumi inspected the hole, she looked down and saw the crumpled rubble and a large pool of dried blood underneath the rubble. That's where the dead failure is buried. To think they fell down that far, made Gumi cringe. She jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"You okay?" Rei asked.
Gumi nodded. "I'm fine." She stood up and saw something at the edge of the hole across from her. She quickly walked around the hole to the object she saw and picked up the lightweight feather. This was her brother's, this was Gumo's feather. She held the feather close to her chest. "Gumo…" She said softly.
"I'm pretty sure they're fine Gumi." Rei reassured the girl. "Their bodies aren't here, and there's no blood trail, so they got away okay. We'll find them."
Gumi nodded and stood up, holding the feather in her hand. "Let's keep moving."
Rei nodded and the two were off again, looking for a way up. There was two stairwells, and one of them was demolished. The other had to be somewhere because if their friends weren't here, that means they went only one way, and that was up.
Gumi tugged on Rei's shirt and nearly collapsed, but Rei caught her just in time.
"Let's take a break." Rei said.
Gumi inhaled deeply and nodded.
The two walked into a room and Rei carefully placed Gumi in a chair. Rei walked over to the door and closed it. He walked over to the wall next to Gumi and sat down and leaned against the wall. "Let me know when you're ready to go."
"Alright…" Gumi said softly. She just sat there, taking deep breaths. Closing her eyes from time to time, but not sleeping. She looked back at Rei who was watching her. "I'm fine, you don't have to watch me." Gumi smiled weakly.
"I know I don't have to, but if I don't then something happens, because something bad nearly always happens to you." Rei said.
Gumi giggled. "You do have a point there. You're just like Gumo, he refuses to take his eyes off of me because he's afraid that I'll do something stupid and get myself hurt."
"I have to side with your brother there, you do tend to do stupid things." Rei pointed out.
"I do not!" Gumi protested, quickly getting up on her feet, but she nearly blacked out and fell over.
Rei quickly caught her, but he was off guard and he ended up falling backwards with the girl landing on top of him. He blushed slightly. "Y-You okay?" He stuttered.
Gumi clenched Rei's shirt, and stuffed her face in Rei's chest. "Do you think… I'm an idiot?" Gumi asked softly.
"What? What makes you think that you're an idiot?" Rei asked.
"Everyone, is always watching me, taking care of me, because they're afraid that I'll do something stupid and hurt myself. So…" Gumi looks up at Rei, tears filling up in her eyes. "Does that make me an idiot?" Gumi said shakily.
Rei sighed. Without even thinking, just going based off of instinct, he quickly presses his lips against Gumi's lips and kisses her sweetly. He was very sure of how he felt about her know, it wasn't a doubt in his mind. He truly loved this girl, everything about her. Her smile, her personality, her clutzyness, her carelessness, even her cat ears and tail.
Rei pulled away from the girl who was a bright red. Gumi could feel her heart fluttering, Gumi liked Rei, she started liking him after the two started talking to each other when everyone else was sleeping, but she never would of thought that he would like her back.
"Gumi, we watch over you because we care about your safety, me your brother, none of us think you're an idiot. We just couldn't live with ourselves if something happened to you, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let you get hurt."
Gumi smiled weakly at Rei, some tears, spilling out of her eyes. "I'm not a burden then?"
Rei shook his head, sitting up. "Like I said before, you are never a burden for me."
Gumi smiled. "Thanks Rei…"
Rei smiled back at the girl and leaned in close for another kiss. The two kissed, despite the situation the two were in, they still were able to find love.
The two parted and Rei wiped away lingering tears from Gumi's face. "You ready to go?" He asked.
Gumi nodded. "Yeah, I'm ready."
Rei stood up and held his hand to Gumi and Gumi took it, pulling herself up, but she didn't let go, instead the two held hands and walked down the halls, looking for a way to reunite with their friends.