Chapter 7:
Kisa walked back and saw Hiro coming out of his house, but it was too late for her to try and hide the bruise forming on her arms and her cheek. He rushed over to her and cradled her head in his arms.
"Oh, Kisa-chan…" he said, "Did Akito-san do this to you?"
"Mm-hmm." She replied while crying into his arms.
"C'mon, I think that I know where Tohru-chan is." He said; sounding irritated at having to see Tohru.
'That whiny brunette is going to kill us all if she keeps messing with the zodiac curse. It was a wonder Akito hadn't had her memories erased, not to mention her friends' too.' He thought with disdain.
"Th-thank you, Hiro-kun," she said kissing his cheek.
"You are always welcome." He said softly and along the way to Shigure's house, he talked to her.
"I think… I think I love you Kisa." He said suddenly.
She looked at him, that was the first someone had used her name without an honorific (AN/: I didn't know if you knew, but I learned this recently, and I thought it would be cool to include this tid-bit of information: when someone doesn't use and honorific after your name in Japan, it typically means that you are very close and intimate with that person! XD).
"Hiro-kun," she said, but he cupped her chin in his graceful fingers and smiled at her.
"I know that you probably don't have those feelings yet, but I do, and I am willing to wait for you to have them before I try anything drastic."
Drastic?
"Hiro-kun… I'm flattered," she said and smiled back.
"Good, so do you want to go out on a date next weekend?" he asked.
"Umm… sure!" she said and he, avoiding with as much care as possible her sensitive cheek, kissed her.
"Hiro-kun," she said as they neared Shigure's house, "thank you."
He looked at her.
"For what?"
"For being there for me." She said, trying to forget the things that had just happened, but the thoughts of Akito kept on coming back like a reoccurring nightmare.
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"C'mon Kisa-chan!" the girl cried, tossing her the ball to serve in their volleyball game.
There was a quiet groan from the rest of her team because Kisa was weak, it was a known fact, and the probability of her getting the ball over the net was very small. She tossed it up after feeling its worn skin under her fingertips and she smacked it with all her might, it barely made it, and the other team was so stunned that they couldn't move to hit it back when it came over. Kisa looked at her hands and felt a new confidence in her.
"Nice!" her team cried as she was given the ball and she made it over again.
"Go Kisa-kun!" they shouted as she hit three over, finally losing the ball on the fourth one.
"Wow Kisa-chan," a girl said clapping her on the back, sending her forward into someone.
"Watch it." They said turning to glare at her.
"Hey," the girl who had pushed her said, "it's not her fault. I was congratulating her, don't give her an attitude like that."
"Excuse me?" the other girl said whirling around, a sea of raven locks falling just into place as she glared at Kisa's savior.
"You heard me right," she continued, "leave Kisa-chan alone."
"Back off bitch, I'm not in the mood to beat you up today." She warned and stormed into the locker room.
"Please," Kisa said, "You shouldn't do that… you could get hurt."
"I'm Mai." She said shrugging, "and that girl, that's my sister, Kimaru."
"Oh…"
"Don't worry," she said then turned to her, "so, you wanna hang-out this weekend with me and my sister?"
"Umm…" Kisa thought, did she have any plans? "Oh that's right! I have a date with my boyfriend."
"Oh?" she asked, it was like they were close friends already.
"Yeah, Hiro Sohma."
"Oh! He's in my art class, a little bit of an attitude." She commented, "But I could see how you would like him."
"Huh?"
"He's outgoing," she said, "My sister, Kimaru-chan, she goes for that type too 'cuz in reality she's a big sissy."
"I HEARD THAT!" Kimaru called form the other side of the room.
"You'll see what I mean," Mai continued as if nothing had happened, "I mean she really has self-esteem issues."
"WILL YOU QUIT TALKING ABOUT ME? IT'S NOT LIKE I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" Kimaru protested.
"Oh get a back-bone you jelly fish!"
"IF DAD HADN'T TOLD ME THAT I COULDN'T STRANGLE YOU-"
"But he did, and therefore, you can't." Mai replied snidely.
"You're full of it." She replied slamming her locker shut.
"I know." Mai answered flicking her red hair over her shoulder, "So, where's your next period class?"
"Umm…" Kisa replied and gave the location of her next class, Biology, and the girl nodded impressed.
"You're smart, and you can hit a volleyball, nice!" she teased.
Kisa smiled, was she her friend now? She wondered what Hiro ould think... or what if they found out about the monster...?
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