First Impression Fail
Sorry it took so long to update...
I'm kinda stuck in this chapter... and it's getting busier in my office and college
well... please enjoy it...
Kaito and Haku are lying on the bed, holding hand while looking at each other.
"So.. well… let's do this again…" Kaito cleared his throath and smiled to her. "Hi, I'm Kaito! Kaito Shion! …Nice to meet you…eee….?"
"Ha-Haku… Haku Yowane… nice to meet you too…Shion-san…" She said her name hesitantly.
"Shion-san?" Kaito scratched his cheeks, a bit surprised and uncomfortable by how she called him. " Don't be so formal! Just call me Kaito!"
"Eh? But.. I'm…"
"Come on… we're friends aren't we?"
"friends? We are.. friends?" Her eyes are widened in disbelieve.
"Yup! after all that happened back there, i think it's safe to call us friend! We're friend, Haku-chan.." Kaito smiled at her.
" Friend…." Haku stared at Kaito and blushed, she had never have any friend before. Just bullies, angry adults and her mother. As her face turned deep red, she rolled to the side, while hiding her blushing face with her unoccupied hand.
" Haku…" she whispered
"eh?"
"Just… call me Haku… " Haku voice cracked, clearly embarrassed
Kaito think for a moment and nodded, " I get it! Nice to meet you! Haku! " Kaito gave her another bright smile and offered his hand.
Haku hesitated for a moment, Is he really called her his friend? Is this a dream?
But when she saw his smile, all of that pessimist thoughts are all disappearing. She can't explain it. But she know she can trust him. No, she wants to trust him. She might be hurt later, she might be betrayed. But she wants to believed in him. The only person one who ever give her a warm caring smile other than her mother.
Kaito and Haku spend the rest of the day to talk about each other, They talk about their everyday live, they talk about their family, they talk about their favorite food and asked each other a question, which they happily answered. They want to know more about their partner.
They keep talking for a hours until their stomach start to roar loudly (literally). Both of them are blushing, they forgot that they didn't get to eat anything before.
Their stomach started to roared again in synch, it's kinda funny since the sound this time sounded like a cat in mating season. They stared at each other eyes in embarrassment at the same time and started to laugh at how in synch both of them are.
"Well... seems like we're both hungry... How about we grab some snack?"
"Sure…!" Haku answer excitedly, but then she remembered the reason why she went out before. "… I … don't think… there's anything eatable in the house…"
"Really? Then…." Kaito seems to think for a while before he tried to search his pockets and let out some dime. "Well… this is not much, but…. let's go outside and try to search for food, shall we?" Kaito tried to get up from bed and offered his hand to Haku.
Haku looked at him with a bit hesitation. She wants to take his hand, but the last time she went out she was ambushed right away. Even though thanks to that, she was able to meet him. She wants to go with him, but she's still scared.
Kaito seems to realized Haku's uneasiness and hold her hand tightly, much to her surprise.
"Don't worry! No matter what happened I will protect you! After all, we're friends aren't we? And friend support each other!" He smiled at her again.
Haku blushed, she can't help but believing him. She believed that He will surely protected her, and she's willing to do the same. Even if it means that she has to fight.
"yes…. "
Kaito and Haku are walking down the stairs, going to find something edible in the kitchen before going out. They're still holding hands tightly.
everything seems fine, until Kaito comically tripped on his scarf, and start to fall from the stairs.
To make it worse, he's dragging Haku who's holding his hand. Both of them are falling and hit the stairs repeatedly. Kaito managed to pull and grabbed Haku into his embrace before she can hit the stairs and take the blow for himself, They're rolled down, hitting the stairs many times until they're finally hit the first floor, bumping to some furniture and stopped just right in front of the door.
Kaito grunted, he protected Haku, but she's still hurt a little. He blamed himself for being careless.
"Ouch…sorry Haku…." Kaito said as he lift his head
"It's okay… it didn't hurt so much… and… Kaito…" Haku said with a blush.
Kaito was confused by what she mean for a moment, but then he realized how awkward their position is. Kaito was pressing her down, with one hand spreading her left leg and the other one slipped through her unbuttoned dress and rubbing on her chest.
"Kaito…. Ecchi…." She looked away shyly.
Kaito panicked and tried to pull his hand away, Confused by how did they end up in a position like that. But before kaito can pull his hands and apologized, he heard a click on the door.
In Just a seconds, someone unlocked the door, and turning the handle. Kaito and Haku are slowly turning their gaze towards the door and freezes in shock as the door opened slowly, revealing a woman in her mid thirties.
"Haku, Honey.. I'm home…" Haku's mother, Lola, came in carrying some box of donuts. She looked exhausted and her dress are kinda messy, but she still tried her best to smile in front of her daughter. Only to see her daughter being pinned down to the floor by some unknown boy, and on the top of that, she can see a glimpse of tears on her beloved daughter..
"Who're you!? And what have you done to my daughter!" She shouted as she throw away everything she hold and running towards Kaito.
Kaito tried to say something, but he can't as he already get kicked away without even able to defend. The kick was hard enough to throw Kaito to the floor and rolled until he hit the wall. He seems unconscious,
Lola was going to jump and do a rider kick to Kaito, but she can feel Haku pulled of her dress.
"Mom! You're wrong! Kaito is-" Haku tried to stop her mother fury.
"Let me go Haku! I'm gonna kill this- Wait... Kaito? You know him?" Lola calmed down and looked back at her daughter who's desperately trying to stop her.
Haku nodded and loosen up her grip on her mother's dress.
Lola seems hesitated, she knows how bad she get bullied, and to suddenly get a friend in this situation is kinda suspicious. She squatted down to her daughter height and place her hands on Haku's shoulders.
"Haku... it's not like i doubt you but... the last time a boy approached you they tried to rape you..."
Haku shocked her head violently, "Kaito isn't like that! He... protected me... He risked his live to me... he's ... he's... my friend..." She said with a low voice.
Lola still not believing him completely, but she noticed a slight blush on her daughter's cheeks when she said 'friend'.
"I see... I'll believe in you..." Lola rubbed Haku's cheek gently.
"Really?" Haku replied with a smile on her face, a smile that's even rare for lola to see.
" Really! I believed in you my dear..." She smiled and patted her head gently. "Now, let's wake him up..."
"Ah... there's no need to ma'am... "
Lola quickly turned to the voice and surprised to see Kaito who seems to be okay even after receiving her kick.
Kaito clean up the dust and dirt on him and bowed at Lola with respect, much to Lola's surprise.
"Nice too meet you, Ma'am! My name is Kaito! 12 years old! Please give me your daughter!" Kaito tried to greet her as formally as he could. His intentions are right. It's just that he was a bit stupid. And much to his playboy father teachings.
Lola immediately bury him in the wall with a Rider Kick.
Kaito, Lola and Haku are now sitting together in the living room, Haku sit on the couch with Lola besides her and Kaito sit on another couch in front of her, separated just by a small glass table.
Kaito, who now covered in bandages all over his body except his mouth, much like a mummy, tried to pick up the donuts Lola brough before. But it's kinda impossible with his hand covered.
Haku leaned over and helped him to pick the donuts she even help to feed him up directly. Kaito happily take the donut from Haku and hold it on his mouth. He didn't eat it yet, instead he leaned even closer to Haku, with the donut pointing at her.
Haku was confused at first, but then she realized what Kaito trying to do and blushed. She hesitated took a bite on the donut, facing him face to face with only a donut separating them. Kaito playfully nimble on the donut, getting even closer to her by every seconds.
Haku blushed madly and take a big bite on the donut, cutting it before Kaito can reach her.
Kaito was not surprised, he know that she will cut the donut before he can. But it's not like he didn't hoping for her to hold it until the end.
Lola squinted her eyes to the sigh. Both of them are already not just friends. That was not something a mere 12 years old friend would do. It more like they're already a couple or a newlywed even. Something she never experienced herself. And that's kinda make her angry.
"enough flirting...!"
"What's flirting?" Kaito and Haku asked in synch.
Lola slapped her face in frustration. "Never mind..."
Kaito and Haku looked at each other in confusion before continuing their talk from earlier while eating some donuts and a hot milk.
Lola observed the two, while dipping her donut into her milk. Usually when she's home from work, she would hug her adorable daughter like a teddy bear and pampered her as a stress reliever. But looking at the two, she decided not to disturb them and move her body around to a comfortable position on her couch. Trying to get some nice rest.
"So... ma'am...? How did you get so strong?" Just as she's finding a good position to sleep, Kaito went and asked her, much to her surprise. "Did he being considerate?" She thought.
"Well ... You see... I was studying Taekwondo, Kick boxing, Muay Thai, Kungfu and some other martial arts that involve kicking after I have Haku…" She answered. She put Haku between her arm and hugging her like hugging a teddy bear. Haku didn't seems to mind it, since it's normal for her.
"That's explaining why your kick was so strong, maam…" Kaito said while holding himself from vomiting.
"Thank you for the compliment" Lola take a sip on her coffee, "You see… after I was pregnant with Haku I was aware of how dangerous the world we're in, especially to a beautiful lady like I was before, and as you can see, Haku inherited that factor of mine."
"Yup! She's really pretty!" Kaito complimented, making her blushed and hiding behind her mother.
Lola rubbed her daughter's hair gently. She was smiling at how cute her daughter is when she's flustered, but she still looks sad.
"I don't want Haku to experience the same thing like me. So I tried to teach her some of my technique for self defense, and guess what? she's surprisingly talented at it. Even my masters said she's a genius who's born once in a 100 years or something... I think they're just kidding about it thought..."
Kaito nodded in agreement, " Yes, I saw it! She send those man flying with ease! You should look at it ma'am! They make a funny face like this!" Kaito tried to mimicking the man face when they get kicked.
Lola laughed a bit, "Haku is strong… the only reason why she's still bullied was only because she's too weak mentally..."
"Those guys are scary…." Haku whispered.
"But then, you aren't afraid to a grown up men?" Lola fully understand the reason why her cowardly daughter can stand up and fight against adult, but she's just too cute when she's flustered so she want to tease her a bit.
Haku went silent for a while." They're… scary… really scary…. But…. They hurt Kaito…and… I hate it…" she said it with a slight blush on her face
Lola snickered, holding an urge to hugged her adorable daughter. "My little Haku's already reach an age where she can like a boy huh?" she though.
"But you're not bad either, Kaito."
"Eh? Really? "
" You know…. I was so sure My kick just now was even capable to defeat an adult men in one hit, yet you received it and still sitting here like nothing happened, That's quite amazing!"
Kaito smiled to the compliment, "My father always beating me up! He's really strong, and he bear me up daily! I might be stupid! but I'm confident about my durability to take up a beating or two!" He said it with pride. Much to Lola surprise. Is beating up a defenceless child is a trend nowadays?
"I see… you must have it rought too…" Lola said, showing a bit of sympathy to the boy.
"Oh, don't worry maam… It's not that bad once you get used to it!" Kaito said with a pride in his voice.
Haku seems to be admiring him, but Lola seems to be a bit disturbed by it. "I-I see... that's good then..."
Kaito took a glance on the clock "It's still 1 o'clock? time surely goes slowly isn't it?"
Haku shocked her head. "i-it's 1 o'clock in the morning... you're fainted for a whole day... kaito..."
Kaito face went pale. A bit of fear can be seen on Kaito's face. "I'm so... death..."
"Kaito..." Haku worriedly hold his hand. "What's wrong?"
Kaito shocked his head a bit, "it's nothing... but... i didn't think it would be this late already..."
"Your father?" Lola asked
"Well... mostly... but i'm sure mom and the others would be worried about me... " Kaito seems to be more concerned about his mothers and sisters instead of the torture Mikuo might prepare for him when he's home.
Haku nodded, she understand how it feels to wait for someone to coming home.
Kaito stand from the couch, together with Lola and Haku. Moving on to the door.
"Are you sure you don't wanna have a night over? It's already midnight. And believe me! THese neighbourhood are one of the worst in this country..." Lola asked Kaito as he is wearing his shoes in front of the door.
Kaito keep silent for a while before he declined, "Thank you for the offer ma'am... but i think it's best to go home as soon as i can..."
" He's a responsible boy i see... I know he want to stay... but he put his family first i see..." Lola thought as she open up the door for Kaito,
"Thank you, See you later ma'am..." Kaito said as he walk pass the door.
Haku wants to stopped him, but she can't find any good reason for. Kaito doesn't seems to be scared by the dark nor the neighbourhood. But she wants him to stay. Who knows when he will came back? What will she do if he will never come back? "... bye... Kaito..." She whispered.
Kaito walked a bit before he stopped and turned around to Haku, he heard her "Bye Haku! See you tomorrow!" Kaito said while waving his hand like crazy.
Haku smiled happily, he didn't said see you later, he said see you tomorrow! so he will surely come back tomorrow too and that makes her happy. Happy to see her friend soon.
But it's not enough, she want to stay with him more, she wants to spend more time with him even if it's just a seconds more. She wants to run after him and hug him from behind, preventing him from going. Anything as long as she can be with him.
Realizing an uneasyness on her daughter's smile, Lola rubbed Haku's hair gently, "You know Haku… I think he's really a good boy… despite my very first impression to him…." She said while remembering how Kaito pinning her daughter down.
" Really? Then, can we has a night over?" Haku's face brightened in hope.
Lola smiled back at her and hugging her once more, kissing her forehead before letting her go. "Sure, go ahead. Catch ! and drag him back! I'll make a call to his family... " She gives her an approval.
Haku didn't wait a second more, she hug her mother back gratefully and then start running away. Running to her friend and embrace him from behind.
Lola keep her smile as she looked at Her daughter and the boy. It's just a glimpse, but She can see a smile on their face. How many years has it been since she smile that much?
" Kids these days…. She have grown so much when I can't see her…" Lola said it with a little pride in her words, Happy for her daughter to finally found someone who truly care about her.
"Too bad he's a masochist…."
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