Chapter 7


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As Rika led Suuichi around the bookstore, she pointed out the different sections: history, math, science, biographies, and manga. He appropriately looked where she pointed, and commented accordingly. She proceeded to lead him up to the second story, where the magazines, fiction, non-fiction, schoolbooks, nature guides and kids books were.

As they walked through the bookcases, they came to a set of narrow stairs that were labeled: Do Not Enter, Employees Only. Rika led Suuichi over to them and started to climb up, but he stopped her.

"We shouldn't go up there. It says Employees only, and you aren't working here, are you?" Suuichi pointed out as he caught her arm.

"Well, no. But I have permission to go up there any time I like. So it's ok for us to go up there. Anyway, there are some books I think you'll like. Come on, let's go." Rika told him, pulling her arm away from his grasp.

He hesitated, but followed her up the dimly lit stairs. When they were about halfway up to the top, Rika suddenly shrieked as something furry crashed into her. She started to fall backwards, and Suuichi tried to catch her by grabbing her shoulders. His hands, however, had a different idea of what they should grab. As she fell, his hands shot between her arms and her body, and to his surprise he found himself holding her breasts. He managed to steady her, clasping her against himself to keep her from falling again. She struggled weakly to tear herself away from him, but he didn't want to let go of her yet. It was too dark to see her expression, but he knew that she must be blushing. His own face was burning, but in the back of his mind he thought that her breasts felt good in his hands.

He tried to tell her that it was an accident, but his mouth wouldn't work. Then there was a loud yowl as the furry thing that had knocked her off balance attacked him, scratching his face with sharp claws. She extricated herself, ran up the rest of the stairs carrying what appeared to be a cat, and disappeared. Faintly he heard someone asking a question, but he didn't know who it was until he got over his shock of feeling her warm body pressed against him, and finished climbing the stairs. At the top, he saw Shigekazu, Rika's brother talking to a crimson-faced Rika, who stopped talking when he appeared. He finally managed to blurt out an explanation of what had happened, and he saw Shigekazu looking amused and on the brink of laughter.

"So, Suuichi, I see that you have become lucky. Many boys have been dreaming of fondling her like you did. Are you happy?" He asked mischievously, giving him a discreet wink. Rika wasn't as amused as her brother was, and she let him know by whacking him with a book that she had grabbed off the shelf.

"You two may think its funny, but I don't! Either one of us could have fallen down the stairs and died or have been paralyzed for life!" She whirled and stomped away, still carrying the furry bundle. She ran between the bookcases, with Suuichi close behind her, and when he had caught up to her, he tried to tell her that it was an accident. She just sped up, darting around the shelves, trying to get away from him. He didn't give up, but started to try to get in front of her. Finally, he managed to block her.

He finally saw what she was holding, and he involuntarily stepped back. She was holding a black cat that was angrily glaring at him with blazing red eyes.

She was panting slightly, and her face was still red. He looked directly in her eyes and said, "I didn't mean to grab you like that. I missed your shoulders in the dark. I'm sorry. Anyway, what is that thing you're holding? It looks evil!" He paused, inspecting the books on the shelves. "What kind of books are these? They look ancient. Are they history books?"

She glanced around her, and then looked back at him and said, "These are indeed ancient. These are the kind of books that I wanted you to see. Take a look at the titles. And this is Chizu. She is very protective, as you may have found out."

He gently touched the scratches on his cheek, and did as she asked. He was shocked to see several of them written in the demon script. "Where did you get these? These books are extremely dangerous. They should be locked up!"

She chuckled, and showed him the force field spells that enclosed the shelves. "Yes, that's why I have them behind these charms. If they weren't protected, I wouldn't let any clients come up to browse. Some of these books have rather violent tendencies to try to bite off people's heads. Very nasty."

Suuichi continued to look at the books on the shelves. He asked, "Can I look at this one? I want to find out if the necklace I have is mentioned in it. I have the necklace here with me, so you can look at it."

Rika carefully released the spell that kept the book on the shelf and gave it to him as he gave her the necklace. She inspected the necklace, running her hands over the pendant. Suuichi didn't know that the necklace belonged to her, and he was too busy looking at the book to notice that her eyes had changed color and were now silver instead of blue.

Meanwhile

Anyang was downstairs talking to Risa, who explained the soon-to-be couple. Anyang was interested that her niece had a lover at last, and she wanted to try to help their relationship along. Risa wanted to help too, and so they started to devise a plan to get them together. While they were doing this, Shigekazu came downstairs and butted into their conversation.

"Hey, what are you two doing? Does it happen to include Rika and Suuichi? If it does, they're upstairs on the third floor alone. Not counting Chizu, of course."

Anyang and Risa exchanged a look. Together they walked over to the stairs and started to climb up them, but someone else was coming down them. The man roughly pushed his was between the two women, and Risa shouted "Hey, watch it! You should come back and apologize for pushing us! Hey!"

The man paid no attention to her, and Risa started to go after him, but Anyang whispered "No! That man's dangerous! Stay away from him!"

Risa immediately stopped and backed away from the man, dashing back up the stairs to where Anyang waited. She looked at Anyang, who gestured to go up to the second floor.

When they reached the top, Risa demanded to know why she couldn't have punched the man. Anyang told her, "That man isn't really a man. I briefly saw that he had an illusion around him, hiding his true appearance. I didn't see what he really looked like, and I'm not sure I want to. Anyway, he's trouble, and I don't want any trouble this close to closing time."

"Ok, I'll leave him alone, but I think that Rika could take him on. Oh, we were going to go spy on them. Let's go before they finish and come down." So saying, Risa bounded over to the narrow stairs that led up to the third floor. Once she got there, she proceeded to tiptoe slowly up the stairs, with Anyang and Shigekazu following her.

As Risa peeped over the top of the steps, she gasped in shock. The other two also looked over the step and were also shocked by what they saw.


What did they see that caused them to be shocked? Were Rika and Suuichi in a passionate embrace? Were they doing it? Or was nothing happening? Find out in the next chapter. Please review and enjoy!