Reita flinched as the sound of glass breaking filled his ears. He looked down at the mess of broken mugs and coffee. He shook as he sat down on the ground and started cleaning up the mess. He tried to ignore the stares from the customers around him, but it was making him feel more nervous. He felt a presence behind him and flinched when Kai knelt down next to him.

"I'm sorry." The blonde whimpered.

Kai sighed, but smiled at the pup. "It's okay. You're still getting use to everything. Let's get this cleaned up then shall we?"

Reita nodded with a blush and they worked together to clean up the floor. Within five minutes it was spotless and Ruki was working on redoing the order. The blonde felt a warm sensation on his back when Kai pressed his hand on it.

"You're doing fine. Try not to be so nervous ok?"

"Yes sir" He mumbled with a blush on his cheeks. He shivered when Kai removed his hand and walked away. Hitsugi walked past him and smiled as he grabbed the next order of pastries. His red hair was mostly covered by his bandana, but the piercings all in his face is probably what makes him feel threatening. In reality he's pretty calming and kind. Ruki rung the bell alerting Reita that the order was finished.

"Don't drop it this time." Ruki ordered.

"I-I won't." Reita responded with a shaky voice. He had been working at the café for two days now and he's dropped his trays at least five times. This was his second time today and Ruki was getting pissed. He was exerting the pressure on Reita to show his displeasure which was actually making him feel worse.

He managed the next hour without another accident before walking to the back where Nao and Kai were working together on pastries. Reita has caught the dark haired wolf rubbing more and more on Kai. It was obvious that Nao was trying to court him and it was obvious that Kai wasn't falling for it. Reita had walked around them to the fridge in the back right of the store. He grabbed two jugs of milk and started heading back to the front.

"Are you doing okay up there?" Kai had asked and it made Reita freeze. Kai's voice was very soothing to him.

He smiled at the alpha. "Yes, thank you."

"Keep it up. You're doing great."

A spark of warmth filled Reita's chest. He nodded and quickly headed towards the front, but in the process caught Nao glaring at him.

He kept working hard at the front serving the customers and taking lessons from Ruki on how to make a few drinks. It was about one in the afternoon when Shou walked in wearing his rainbow scrubs. He walked up to the register for a carryout. Reita walked up to take his order.

"I need two blacks, a caramel Frappuccino with extra caramel, and a triple venti soy no foam latte." Shou said and handed over a bill. Reita was still typing it in and took him a moment before tallying it up and taking the money. He gave Shou his change and went to give Ruki the order, but saw the alpha already working on the to-go cups.

Reita smiled before excusing himself to go to his tables. Hitsugi was working the other half of the café as Ruki worked on drink orders and as Nao worked on the pastries in the back. Kai helped at every station and walked to each table to talk to customers. Reita had found out on the first day that Kai opened this café and that it was his 'baby'. He took great pride in working here and taking care of the people who came in.

It was becoming late, they closed up the café and were cleaning up now. Reita was helping wash dishes in the back as Kai and Ruki counted the money and Hitsugi cleaned the front end. Reita placed a plate in the dishwasher and turned to find Nao glaring at him with his arms crossed.

"You listen, and you listen well." He growled. "Kai is mine. Stay away from him."

Reita gave him a slight glare. "If Kai wants to talk to me I'm not going to stop him."

"Kai is going to be my mate. I won't stand for him messing with an outsider like you."

"Outsider…I'm a member of this pack. And Kai is an alpha, he can mess with whoever he wants to." Reita snapped back.

The brunette let out a low growl. "You're not a member of this pack. I doubt Kyo will let you stay as much you mess up. This is your third job assignment and you still can't handle the work. This pack doesn't have time or the food to waste on you."

Reita didn't want to show that those words hit him hard. He made a 'humph' noise before grabbing a few more dishes to load into the machine. Nao pushed into him as he left the kitchen to work in the front instead. Not long after the confrontation Kai was calling for them to leave.

That night Reita played more with his food that actually eating it. Uruha was to his right and Hitsugi to his left. He had grown close to the two of them the most. Uruha was there for him since day one and taught him what it meant to be in a true pack. The third night here Hitsugi asked if they could scent each other. And since then they more or less ate together and hung out during their free time. All of his injuries had healed up nicely, so Hitsugi and Byou were able to show him around the city the day before he started working. Work. Reita sighed at the thought of all the failures he's made in the past month. First at Melody's grocery store where he messed up stocking the shelves several times and he kept messing up the display cases. Then at Kyo's restaurant he couldn't figure out how to make drinks and was overwhelmed by the amount of orders he would have to take at once. Now he's messing up at the café. Sure it wasn't as busy as Kyo's workplace, but he's still managed to be a fuck up.

"Are you okay?" Uruha asked.

"Yeah." He sighed.

"You sure?" His question was answered with the usual nod. Reita looked up when felt an alpha near him. Kaoru knelt down in front of him with a smile.

"Are you going to bed alone tonight?"

"Yes." Reita responded with a faint blush.

"May I scent you tonight then?"

"Sure." He said softly.

Kaoru smiled petted the blonde head. "I'll be waiting for you then."

Reita smiled as he walked away. Scenting. The way pack members familiarize with one another and strengthen the pack as a whole. Too bad he wasn't feeling much like a member. Nao really got to him.

Reita finally finished what was left of his meal, bathed and headed to the foyer where everyone was laying down for the night. He spotted Kaoru already laying down on his futon so he started walking over to him. On the way he spotted Ruki on top of Uruha kissing him. A warm hand grabbed his shoulder and he looked behind him to find Kai smiling at him.

"Would you like to scent with me?"

"Um…I can't." Reita sighed. "I already told Kaoru I would lay with him tonight."

Kai looked a little disappointed for a split second before giving him a toothy smile. "Alright next time then." He rubbed his hand down the blonde's arm. "And Reita, your natural scent has really came out since your first day here. You smell…sweet."

Reita felt his whole body burn from the compliment. "Th-thank you."

"Go on now. I'll wake you in the morning for work."

Reita nodded which earned him a small, almost unnoticeable giggle from the alpha, but he did notice. He's been noticing everything about Kai these past few days. His dimpled smile, his soft hands, his long fingers, his strong scent, and his voice that made Reita shiver. Reita shook his head as he made his way to Kaoru's futon and sat on it. An arm immediately brought him down on the alpha's chest. Kaoru rubbed his cheek on Reita's forehead.

"Do you like him?" Kaoru asked.

'Huh? Who?"

"Kai. I saw you two talking and I saw how you acted."

"He's…nice. I…Nao told me that he and Kai were going to be mates. I shouldn't get in the middle of that."

"He's still at it?" Kaoru sighed. "Kai already took Nao as a mate once before, but they didn't connect. At least Kai didn't feel a connection and he broke it off. Nao has been trying to get back with him for the past year. We were hoping he would get over it on his own, but he just seems more determined now."

"What are you going to do about it?" Reita asked rubbing his face a little into the alpha's neck.

"Nothing. It's not causing problems and Kai seems to have a handle on things so we let it be. It's mostly just him being immature. Just ignore whatever he said to you. As long as he hasn't threatened you you'll be alright."

"K." He said softly. That was the end of the conversation. Reita heard a clank and looked up enough to see Ruki dragging Uruha by the arm up the staircase. After they disappeared into a room with a door the silence allowed them all to drift asleep.

They next day was going a lot better for Reita at the café. He handled the morning rush without an incident and the lunch rush was going pretty steady for a while. Ruki often patted his back and neck telling him when he did a good job which made Reita feel so good. He was making the alphas happy. He was doing a great job. It all changed, however, a little after two. Nao was placing pastries in the glass box as Reita was grabbing a table's order of coffee. Nao looked around and saw Ruki dealing with a customer at the register, Kai and Hitsugi were both talking to customers at the tables. As Reita walked behind him, he stuck his foot back and caught Reita's ankle, tripping him. The loud sound of the glass shattering brought all attention to the blonde. Ruki groaned. "Reita…"

The blonde climbed to his feet and glared at Nao. "Why did you do that?"

"Do what?" Nao retorted, feigning innocence.

"Why did you trip me?" He shouted. Everyone in the café was staring at this point and Kai was walking over to them.

"I didn't touch you and you know it. You just want to blame someone else for your own clumsiness!"

"Nao, Reita!" Kai snapped making them both flinch. He wasn't happy at either of them. He pushed his pressure onto them so they were under his control. "Nao to the back. Reita, clean up your mess."

"Yes, sir." They responded and their bodies moved automatically to carry out the orders. Reita shook for the rest of the day and dropped another tray. His happiness from earlier had been drained away and he was acting on autopilot. Ruki took notice of Reita's interesting behavior, but decided to address it later if he remembered.

The café was closed and they were cleaning up the store. Nao and Reita were both mopping the front of the store. Hitsugi was cleaning the kitchen as Kai and Ruki counted down their earnings. Nao and Reita refused to make eye contact with each other and stayed on opposite sides of the café. Finally Nao let his anger get the better of him. He sat his mop to the side and walked over to the blonde and growled at him.

"You piece of shit. You just had to make a scene didn't you? Now Kai is pissed off at me."

"It's your own damn fault! You tripped me. Why would you do that? I could have gotten hurt." Reita snapped.

"Who cares about you?" Nao scoffed. The blonde shook his head and turned away from the other omega. Something snapped inside Nao at that moment and he growled out. "Don't turn your back on me!"

He gripped Reita's neck and slammed him down on a nearby table. There was a sickening 'crack' as the blonde's head connected with the corner and he fell motionless onto the floor. Nao gasped as he saw a puddle of blood forming on the floor around Reita's head.

"Oh shit…" He took a deep breath and looked to the kitchen and waited. It didn't seem like any of the others heard anything. He paced the floor for a minute to think before taking his mop in his hand and walking to Reita. He dropped it beside Reita and started shouting as he knelt down. "Help! Help! Kai! Ruki!"

Hitsugi was first to run out to find Nao shaking Reita's body trying to him to wake up and blood mixing in with the chemicals on the floor.

Ruki and Kai were going over the checks they had when they heard faint yelling. Ruki looked back at the door. He muttered a soft 'what the hell?' as they stood up and walked out. They came out to see the scene. They felt dread in their stomachs as they ran over and pushed the omegas back from Reita.

"What happened?" Kai barked.

"He…he…we were mopping and I just heard something. When I looked over he was gone. I think he slipped and fell." Nao whimpered. "I…I…"

"Call the clinic, if Shinya is still there tell him to stay. We're taking Reita there." Ruki ordered Hitsugi and the redhead ran to the phone. Kai carefully rolled Reita onto his back and gasped at the blood covering half his face. A large gash was on the left side of his forehead and was pouring out blood.

"We have to stop the bleeding. Nao go get a towel now!" Kai ordered. He gently rubbed Reita's cheek and carefully nudged his shoulder. "Reita? Reita can you hear me? Are you conscious? Reita? Come on wake up."

His voice seemed to be coming through a little because Reita's face twitched. Hitsugi made his way back to them. "Shinya's waiting. He said to come through the back door."

"Here!" Nao shouted as he ran back and handed over a white dish towel. Ruki took it and gently pressed it against the gash. The blonde let out a loud whimper before opening his eyes.

"Reita, Reita stay awake!" Kai said. "That's an order, stay awake okay."

"ye…"His voice was faint and his eyes were droopy. Ruki managed to tie the towel around the blonde's head but it didn't help that much. They worked together to get the blonde onto Kai's back and they left.

The clinic was an urgent care one and it was only a few blocks down the street. They ran through the crowded sidewalks and dashed across crosswalks. They were running up to the back of the clinic ten minutes later and Ruki banged on the door. Hiroto was the one to open it and let them all in.

"Take him down to exam room three." He told them. Kai carried him to it and they carefully laid him on the bed as Shinya walked in and donned some gloves.

"Sit him up and take that off his head." He ordered and walked to them. Kai raised Reita up and supported him as Hitsugi took the towel off letting blood flow down some more.

"Oh shit." Shinya said looking at the deep gash. "What did you do, Reita?"

"Mmmdonknow…"His words were mushed up together.

"Concussion." Byou said in the doorway. "Hitsugi, Nao go to the waiting room. We don't need to crowd him." The two quickly did as the alpha had told them and left the room.

"After I stitch him up, we'll need to get X-rays and an MRI." Shinya said. "Byou would you get the machines ready?"

"Yeah. Let me know when you're finished. Shou, come with me." Byou ordered and the omega out in the hall followed him. Hiroto went into the drawers to grab the items Shinya needed and unpackaged them.

It took about thirty minutes to clean the wound and stitch it up. After it was cleaned up they realized it wasn't as bad as it looked. The blood had made it look a lot larger when it was about an inch and a half long. The cut was more to the left just above his eye and moved towards his temple. By the time they were finished Reita was sitting up on his own, but he was still a little dazed.

"Do you remember what happened, Reita?" Shinya asked as he tossed his gloves.

Reita groaned and rubbed his head. "Hurts."

"Yeah we know. We need to know what happened."

"Was mopping…" He answered.

"Did you slip?"

"I don't remember."

Shinya nodded. "Okay, let's check out your brain."

Ruki and Kai were told to stay in the room as they took Reita out to get his head scanned. Kai kept pacing the room and Ruki just stared out the window and watched as the snow fell from the sky. It wasn't too long before they were walking back in and this time Reita seemed more alert or at least enough to walk on his own. They noticed however the areas around his left eye and around the cut were turning purple. He sat back down on the chair waiting to hear the verdict from Shinya.

"Well, good news is he doesn't have any internal bleeding and his brain isn't swollen. Bad news, he has a small skull fracture about a centimeter long. It's not serious, but will take about three months or so to fully heal. Reita try not to hit your head anymore, okay?"

"Yeah I'll try." He answered more clearly this time.

"Go wait out in the waiting room with the others. We'll be out in a minute."

"K." He sighed and stepped out. Shinya closed the door behind him and looked at the two alphas.

"We have a serious problem. Byou and I agreed that we don't think this was an accident of Reita being clumsy."

"What do you mean? How do you know?" Ruki asked.

Shinya took a deep breath. "This is an urgent care clinic, guys. I see minor head injuries every day. I see people who've tripped, slipped, and fall onto a floor and they sometimes get a cut on their head. His head hit something like a counter or table or something that has an edge. A slip and fall rarely has enough force behind it to crack a skull."

"Are you telling me someone deliberately slammed his head into something?" Kai asked.

"Yes, I am. Who was with him when it happened?"

"Nao." The alpha sighed. "But he said Reita slipped and fell. Would Nao really do something like this?"

"We can't really say…" Ruki sighed. "Will Reita remember what happened?"

Shinya shrugged. "Sometimes patients remember sometimes they don't. We just have to wait and see. I have to tell Kyo about this. If we are suspecting Nao, but have no evidence then he'll probably just move Reita to another job to keep them separated."

Kai nodded with a sigh. "Let's head home."