Infinite Stratos: Raze War
Chapter four: Farewell
After Hikaru calmed himself, the two Brothers each grabbed light arms, consisting of a holster with a pistol, a Punisher revolver (Raze 3) to be more precise, and a katana strapped to their backs. As they finished getting armed and ready they went on their way towards the front entrance of the main building.
(five minutes later)
They arrived at the front entrance and spottet already a few students and teachers, who finished packing, waiting in the entrance hall. The Major and the Captain positioned themselves beside the entrance and stood at attantion, their hands folded behind their backs, facing away from the building. Because they were the reason the school had to be evacuated they decieded to at least be a guard of honor for the departure of the people here. The last thing for them to do now was waiting.
(several minutes later)
As the time passed, more and more students and teachers filled the hall. Eventually enough that the first had to head outside because the room grew too occupied. It didn't took the girls outside long to spot the two young soldiers standing there. They became sure to be detected as a group of girls stormed over and fired questions at them.
While some started fangirling with shouts like "Kyaa, they are so handsome up close!" others were a bit more curious and asked something like "Why are you here right now?".
Hikaru didn't enjoy it very much to be surrounded by a bunch of girls and send his brother a helpless gaze.
Takashi on the other hand hadn't so much so much trouble with the female's attention but got the Memo none the less.
He cleared his throat to silence the girls and to get their attention and began to speak: "Right now, we act as your guard of honor. We are the reason you have to leave, after all, so we thought this is the least we can do."
"Hmmm. Interesting", called a stern voice suddenly out from behind the girls, who turned supriesed around. It belonged to no one else then Chifuyu Orimura. "Ah, Miss Orimura, can we help you with something?", asked the green haired teen in his friendly voice.
"Not really. I just heard the tumult over here and wanted to know the source", was her answer as she closed her eyes and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
She now adressed the little crowd of girls which grew over the passed moments: "Anyway, group up over there with Yamada-sensei. We will take our leave soon." As she said that she mentioned behind her to a young green haired woman seemingly overstrained to keep the girls chatter quiet.
The crowd let out a dissapointed "Haaaaai" in union and walked slowly over to the other teacher.
In the meantime, as the complete attention was on Takashi, someone tried to sneak up to Hikaru from behind. The emphasis is on tried.
As the suspicious person snuck up behind him and was about two meters away he suddenly called out to her: "What should that be when it's finished?"
A suprised "Huh?" was his reward as he turned around to face the mysterious person.
"You know it's dangerous to sneak up behind a soldier, right, Tatenashi?", said Hikaru with a slightly playful and teasing voice while he had a confident smirk on his lips as he faced a perplexed Tatenashi.
As she regained her composure she said slightly defeated: "You are the first to actually notice me while I sneak up behind them. You sure got one heck of an awareness."
"I wouldn't be standing here if it would be otherwise. What did you try anyways?", he asked her, his smirk faded with the second sentence and was replaced with a curious voice.
She tapped her chin with her index finger and tilted her head adorably and answered with an innocent voice: "I wanted to hug you from behind, why?"
This caused Hikaru to blush lightly and stutter an attempt at saying something: "H-hug me?!"
Because that came out in a much higher voice then thought he cleared his throat and continued now with concern in his voice: "You realized i have a katana on my back? You could've hurt yourself."
"Awww, are you worried about me?", she asked with a sweet and teasing voice, what caused the blush from the Major to increase. He averted his gaze from her and simply stated a "perhaps"
Tatenashi noticed this of course, grabbed his hands and said, "Aww, you really are worried about me", with a touched voice and facial expression.
Meanwhile the young Captain shot a glance towards his brother to notice Tatenashi took a hold of his hands. He couldn't suppress a smirk forming on his lips while he thought ´And how he fell for her´.
And because of that he spoke again to the raven haired teacher: "May i should tag along to the girls? I'm sure they will be happy to get another chance to ask some questions."
Chifuyu noticed his glance sooner however and shot a glance in the same direction to see the same scene and was able to put one and one together: "Alright. I don't think it would hurt."
"Thanks" said the green haired boy as he and Chifuyu Orimura walked towards Maya Yamada and the growing crowd while he send a wink to Tatenashi, who happened to look at him in just that moment.
Tatenashi got the message and blushed slightly.
"Hmm, is something wrong? Are you not feeling well?", asked a concerned blue haired Major as he got closer to her face.
"Huh, oh no, I'm fine. However, you promised me, right? To come back...", she said concerned and a bit shyly.
This caused Hikaru to get a bit back through suprise, but he was also able to regain his confidence.
"I wouldn't be standing here if I would die easily. But...why are you so concerned about a soldier like me? I mean, I may be the best soldier alive, but I still am nothing more than a killing machine...", he trailed off at the end because he can't comprehend her concern for him.
Tatenashi flinched at his dark words but squeezed his hands reassuringly and said: "Because you are more than just a killing machine. You are more human than some people i met. And besides that, you wanted to show me your equipment."
Slightly dejected he said: "My equipment...of course."
´How could an incredible girl like her feel something like sympathy towards someone like me´, was what he thought as he hung his head even more dejected.
She sensed the sadness in his eye and sqeezed his hands even thighter, which caused him to look her in the eyes and said: "I look forward to it, because you are going to show it to me, okay?"
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before he answered: "Alright. Don't worry, I'll totally return these aliens to sender and come back alive and kicking. I've defeated them once, I'll do it twice. You don't have to fear anything, you have my word of honor."
He squeezed her hands back as he spoke the last sentence. After that, the both of them just stood there, holding hands and looking in each others eyes.
As Takashi arrived at the crowd they became louder again as some started fangirling again.
He spotted a certain blonde girl who send him an angry glare and walked over to her.
"Don't worry. We'll save earth for sure. I don't want to miss our duel", he said with a teasingly yet reassuring voice.
This casued the blonde noble to laugh. "You sure are optimistic. I just hope for you that only men will attack you, because you wouldn't last long against women with IS."
"Yup, I really look forward to our duel. 'Cause I'll be able to shatter your illusions", he said that secend sentence while he balled his fist in front of his face. "Anyway, I came over here to answer some more question of yours, if you have any", he said towards the crowd, which surrounded him and Cecilia in the time they talked, with a gentle smile.
Some girls started to gawk over him and say something like "He's so cute!" and other things along these lines while some others actually mustered up the courage to ask something like "How old are you?" and "Do you actually have a girlfriend?" what obviously annoyed the blonde noble.
He none the less answered the questions just like he said: "I'm 16 years old and single."
That caused the girls to shriek before he could continue.
He cleared his throat because of that to silence the girls and said: "You don't have much free time as a part of an international elite unit. Even tho I'm better off than my bro."
"Why's that?"
"While I, as a Captain, have at least some spare time I can use however I want, he, as a Major, have much less than me. And he uses the little he have for more training."
"How did you manage to became an elite soldier even when you're so young?"
"Years of training. We never knew something else than the military and startet to train at the age of six each." He was decently impressed that the girls managed to go over the state of fangirling over him and be honestly curious.
"Wow, you have to be really strong."
"I'm pretty sure I am", he said with a confident smirk.
"I bet you could carry any girl."
´Well, maybe I rejoyed too soon´.
Eventually everyone gathered outside and Chifuyu clapped her hands once: "Now, that everyone arrived, we can take our leave. Don't worry about accommodation, something like that is covered by our emergency plans."
The clap of her gained the attention of the two blueheads too, who shut out of their trance and let go off each others hands and walked towards the rest of the group.
Takashi took this opportunity and spoke up: "Rest assured that we will handle this situation. Right, bro?"
Hikaru, who was suprised for a second, recovered quickly and added: "Of course. We didn't came the long way here to fail now. Our preperations are even right now in progress, so you can leave without sorrows."
"Alright, with this nice words of farewell we can leave assured", said the raven haired teacher.
Takashi, who stood right beside her, said quietly to her: "We have your contact info, so we'll call you once the situation is cleared."
"OK", was her short reply, before she added a "good luck".
He gave a her a confident smirk and thanked her. And with that, the students and the teachers took their leave towards the station.
A/n: If you are still reading: thank you for staying tuned. I hope you like my story so far. And don't worry, it won't be long before the battle finally arrives. I'm open to critism, as always.
Until next time, Cpt. Lynx.
