RIIKO POV

I was more than relieved when Soushi picked me up in a princess lift and ran, he had a scratch on his face, bleeding from the nail of the one he had fought and even though his hands were in the most unsuitable places, I didn't quite mind as much as I had before in the van. When he held me, the pain didn't seem to hurt me as much. After he removed my gag he never looked down at me, he was simply blushing. "Where are you taking me?" I asked, not recognizing the way he was running.

"My house."

"Why?"

"Are your parents home?"

"Yeah…"

"Exactly."

I understood, if he brought me home, either way if I walked in alone or he carried me, we would be questioned as to why I looked the way I did, tied with ropes, ripped clothes, whip marks, practically naked. Soushi hugged my front to his body so that no one else would have to see what was there, Even though the blood from one of my wounds was dirtying up his A&F polo. "Well, not girlfriend but I do like her."The words replayed in my mind. I do like her, I do like her, I do like her. Could it be true? I stared up at his face, my heart was racing and I was sure that he could hear it, maybe even feel it, with that, I forgot about the rumors today, I didn't think he could've been the one now.

"We're almost there." He told me, the whole time we were in an alley where no one could see us. If he took the same alley way then it must mean that he lives somewhat close to me.

Knight had come in at the last moment, his fighting was amazing, he moved so fast that you couldn't see what he did but the guys were hit nevertheless. It was almost as if he were…robotic. Soushi and Knight came to save me….but why Knight? Before I could finish my thoughts, Soushi pushed open a door and ran upstairs, he lay me down on his bed and turned away, his face flushed a dark red. I quickly sat up and laid back down again immediately, my stomach was killing me. The bleeding had stopped but it still hurt, a lot. My whole body hurt, from being tackled to the ground, thrown into the van and cut randomly, it was torture.

"I should cut those for you." Soushi said shyly, he took a peek-a-boo knife and put some out, then he started to cut the ropes that bound my limbs together.

"I can't believe they did this to you." He went on and then started babbling mindlessly. "I mean who ties ropes this tight, that van was an ugly color…they-they…um…splinters hurt…that guy had s-sharp nails and well.." he stuttered as he nervously kept sawing away at the ropes.

"Why are you so…nervous?" I asked him, curious for his answer.

"You're lying on my bed, nearly nude. I'm cutting bondage style tied ropes off of you. When I look at you, my face feels like it's burning off and thinking about everything that happened back there is making me wonder what happened. I also said something, I don't know if you heard it…" he explained.

"They tried to rape me and they almost did. Since I refused them, one guy whipped and cut me. You came when I thought I would lose my virginity in a dirty van to a bunch of strangers and you said something I heard perfectly clear. I…never mind." I told him, embarrassed.

I felt the ropes loosening and my arms were free, then he started on the legs. Soon they were unbound too. He went into his drawer and threw a t-shirt and shorts at me.

"Those are my smallest. Make it work." He said, "I'll go get the disinfectant and some gauze….."

After fixing up my injuries, Soushi let me take a shower in his bathroom. It was painful but at least I didn't feel disgusting anymore. His smallest clothes were still baggy on me. Then when he thought I was good enough to go home, he drove me back.

"If a guy liked you and would do anything for you but he isn't sure if you like him, would you still go out with him?" Soushi asked when we were in front of my house.

"If he were nice enough and not trying to play me but he actually liked me, then yeah." I replied, blushing.

"Then let's go out." He said, smiling.

"Your question was if you weren't sure that she liked you, not if she did like you." I replied, I had wanted to admit it but I wasn't sure yet, until now.

Soushi turned to me, his eyes focused on me, he gave me a smile, the one that made my heart melt.

"Even more reason to ask…" he trailed off and leaned towards me as I returned the action. Our lips were almost touching when I heard my name.

"Riiko!" Knight yelled as he ran towards me. My eyes widened and I practically jumped out of the car.

"Bye! I'll see you two tomorrow." I yelled and ran into the house in embarrassment.

SOUSHI POV

"Why did you come, you totally ruined it!" I scolded Knight.

"I just want to tell her that everything would be okay." He said, "But now I'm glad I interrupted."

"Whatever man." I said to him, rolling my eyes, "Let's go hang at my house."

Knight got in my car and we went back. I didn't want a girl to ruin our friendship, no matter how much I liked her.

MIKA POV

"WHAT?! You guys didn't do it? You were supposed to……ARGHHH!" I screamed in rage. I had ordered them to rape Riiko but they didn't finish the job.

"We tried but these two guys came…and they took her and fought us." The guys cowered at my feet.

"That's weak. Who came? It better be a magician if two can beat five!" I yelled.

"Well, this one guy said he liked her and he had brown hair and brown eyes…pretty good looking and then there was another guy who seemed to working together with the first guy…blond hair, blue eyes, tall and gorgeous….the blond one was crazy, he could FIGHT!" they explained.

"Whatever." I hissed and gave them a death glare. Getting the message, they ran out of the parking lot. Drastic changes would have to be made, Riiko could not win.