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Heartless: Chapter 7: New Beginnings
Dante smiled, he was slightly glad that she'd agreed to his proposal.
"Ok, first off loverboy, if I see you trying any funny business with Laura, I'll slice your hands off, ok?" Logan growled in a joking way.
"Y-Yeah…" A stuttering Dante said.
"Idiot, there's no way in hell I would allow that and Dante, you don't just say yeah!" Laura frowned.
"OK! First off I'm gonna need you to take out your weapons!" Logan instructed as they stood in front of him. "Laura…let's show him what F.E.A.R is all about!"
Dante smirked and took out Ebony and Ivory as well as Rebellion, he looked at Laura who grew two claws out from each hand and one claw on each foot, he gasped slightly.
"What the hell?" He said completely appalled.
"Haha, now the fun starts, Laura, attack while Dante try and block her attacks!" Logan said with a wide grin and stepped back to watch the fight.
"What do you mean TRY?" Dante asked in a confused manner.
Laura grinned and swung her claws at Dante's chest, making two long but shallow scratches on his bare chest; he backed away and touched his chest, with a small amount of blood dripping from his hands.
"Be careful, I was going really easy on you then." She smirked and lunged for him again.
This time he blocked with his sword Rebellion and grinned before pushing her back with it.
"Not this time!" he grinned and charged at her.
She dunked below it when he swung and slashed at his leg. He yelped for a moment before he slashed at her hair but she dodged just in time.
"Like hell would I let you do that!" She said and was about to go for his face when Logan stopped her foot in mid air.
"No, now we move on to swords, Dante your sword will obliterate the regulars so you gotta use standard issue also." Logan smirked and let go of her foot.
He walked to a closet made out of bamboo and took out two regular katana's and threw them to Laura and Dante, he then handed them a protective suit each and told them to change.
"What the hell, no way, I'm more experienced than that!" Dante protested.
Logan pulled him by the ear and pulled his face closer.
"You don't wanna end up losing that pretty face of yours now would you, Scarface?"' Logan exclaimed violently.
Dante gripped his wrist and threw it off his ear.
"Fine…" he mumbled and walked away with the suit in hand.
"Oh yeah and it's ladies first!" Logan screamed and watched with joy as Dante spun around.
Dante passed him and mumbled something about "Stubborn dick" and sat down on the dojo floor.
"So, how come you call Laura by her first name?" Dante asked tying to make conversation.
"Well ya see, she's a special student of mine, we're kinda alike in personality and power but I'm still the best." Logan smiled.
"What do ya mean alike?" Dante asked suspiciously.
"Well in terms of personality, we're strong and we take pride in what we do, that's why we're always the best and I guess it's also coz we don't hesitate when we kill so there's no room for much emotion but like myself she can get hot headed at times but you know, I've never seen her show that much emotion." Logan and sat next to Dante.
"Yeah I can see that." Dante chuckled.
"Haha yeah and in powers well I also have claws of my own, just three on each hand and none on the feet." Logan smiled. "You know what, you're not too bad kid, I can see why Laura hangs around with ya!" He patted Dante on the back.
"We don't hang out; we're class mates and just friends." Dante said nervously.
"Oh, well in any case it's good to see Laura finally getting friends who go the extra mile." Logan said and a serious face was put up again.
"What do you mean?" Dante asked.
"You didn't carry her for nothing now did you?" Logan grunted.
"You got a point; I do get carried away sometimes…" Dante trailed.
"I'm done, your turn!" Laura said and came out in a red body suit that fit her snugly and a matching helmet in hand.
"Haha, you look nice but dammit I wanted the red!" Dante chuckled as he passed Laura.
As he got dressed in his blue outfit, similar to hers but less snug and much bigger in size Laura and Logan were in deep conversation.
"You'll be ready by the end of this year if you put in a lot of extra hard work you know." He said.
"R-Really, I'll master being a weapon X?" She beamed.
"Yeah, you learn fast for a kid you know." He chuckled. "Someday after you graduate, you'll be better than me, you'll be the best." He continued.
Dante fumbled with his suit until he slowed down and heard the whispers of Logan and Laura's voices.
"He's a good kid, Laura, perfect boyfriend material, heh; in fact you'd make the best couple in the school." Logan joked and sat further away from her.
Dante stopped and stepped closer to the door to hear her answer.
"W-Where the hell did that come from!" Laura exclaimed folding her arms.
"I'm just saying, you two suit each other nicely, like Fire and coals." Logan smiled.
Dante leaned closer to hear her response.
"Hey, don't go putting us in a situation like you and Miss Grey!" Laura growled. "Besides so what if we compliment each other, it's not like anything's gonna happen."
Dante frowned, wait, why was he frowning, he shook off his expression and finished up dressing.
"Ok, let's roll!" He shouted coming from the changing rooms.
He walked towards Laura who looked guilty of something and then frowned for a second.
"What's wrong?" she asked picking up her sword. He looked at her for a moment and then shook his head.
"Nothing." He simply stated while picking up his own sword.
"Ok, let's get started then!" Logan said and then blew his whistle. "Ready…Fight!"
Dante and Laura locked swords and slashed at each other, Dante was more experienced with a sword while Laura was only fighting based on a years experience and pure potential.
Laura lunged at him and slashed at his chest with only an opening on his suit. He was fast and slashed at her arm with an equally deep scratch, she gritted her teeth and tried to slash at his arm but he dodged it quickly.
She cursed and made a second attempt still missing him but only by a second. He picked up the speed and came from behind her and slashed at her back with small success as she managed to block at the last second with her sword, only leaving a long yet cut off scratch on her suit.
"Haha, Dante I know you wanna let her show some skin but you're gonna have to try harder than that!" Logan laughed at Dante's attempt of surprise. "But other than that, good attempt at a surprise attack while Laura, you're block was skillful."
"Can it old man, I never meant to do that!" Dante said hiding a small pink tint on his cheeks.
Laura looked at him as if he was strange but then she shrugged it off and charged at him with her sword, she managed to strike him on his stomach.
He chuckled and then charged back at her with full force but she blocked just in time for her to be scratch free.
"Yo, wrap it up we got twenty minutes left for the period, the one with the most hits on their suit loses, ten minutes left and I'll count it, now let's go!" Logan said vigorously.
Laura had no second thoughts and slashed an opening on his wrist and acted fast by slashing at his back also. Dante was shocked at first but then smirked and slashed at her back again. She gasped and then a smile formed on her lips as she jumped up and slashed at his shoulder but he was quick and blocked, she bounced back.
He reacted very quickly and slashed at her leg.
"Damn!" She cursed as he slashed at her hip and backed away.
He placed two more hits on her stomach and laughed.
"Come on, one more won't hurt." She taunted him.
"…" He smiled and slashed at her but she got the upper hand and expected him to be confident, she slashed down at his chest and backed to the side.
He chuckled and stood with one hand on his chest.
"Damn but you pack a punch." He said excitedly and slashed at her other wrist.
"Jackpot!"
"Well done, little students." Logan clapped. "Now let's count em' scars."
He walked over and counted Laura's marks and then moved on to Dante's.
"Hmm…the winner I'd say is Dante!" He announced. "Too bad you only won by one mark though, Laura put up well today!" He grinned. "Ok, now go on and get dressed and Dan-." He started.
"Ladies first of course." He rolled his eyes and sat down, taking the helmet off.
He watched Laura enter the changing room and thought she looked amazing in that suit, he shook his thoughts off and thought about Physical exercise period.
'Man, I'd get lost in this school soon, it's freakin huge!' He chuckled to himself for a moment but then thought seriously about it. 'Good thing Laura and I have the same classes…even if it is separated…'
"Yo, Dante, you ok?" Logan's hand popped up.
"Y-Yeah I'm just thinking about Physical exercise period." Dante stuttered.
"Oh, yeah that period is hell, good luck running around a 1000meter track for ten times straight and then still do push ups and that shit!" Logan groaned.
"Haha, we never do any of that stuff and I'm considered to be in good shape!" I chuckled.
"Yeah but that shit's useless if you're an idiot, that stuff kinda works, it gives you more stamina and makes you more agile." Logan scoffed.
"Yeah and I aint no idiot, I kinda wished they'd do that, no wonder there's so many huge kids in our academy!" Dante smirked.
Logan chuckled too and then stared back at the dressing rooms.
"Hey Dante, what's your deal with the girls, I mean a guy like you must have several girls after him, even a girlfriend." Logan asked in a jovial tone.
"…Girls aren't really a priority for me right now, I don't have a girlfriend now coz most girls will date any guy just for popularity and that shit, I gotta admit I am a good looking dude but I'm just not hung up on girls, I never seem to meet any nice ones who don't like me and don't wanna strangle me." Dante said with a serious tone in his voice.
"So have you met at least one nice girl?" Logan grinned and nudged him on the arm.
"Well I'm not gonna mention names but yeah, at least one to be honest." Dante smiled.
"Well…that's great then." Logan smiled back and got up. "You're up pretty boy!"
"I thought I was Scarface?" Dante smirked while staring at the changing rooms.
"Whatever..." Logan rolled his eyes and smiled.
Laura emerged from the dressing rooms with a small but fake smile on her face and put her sword back in the closet like thing.
"I left your suit in the dressing room, ok?" She smiled widely at Logan.
He nodded and watched as Dante entered the dressing room with a frown on his face.
Soon afterwards Dante was dressed (If you could call it that) and ready to leave.
"Bye Logan, see you again on Thursday and Friday!" Laura waved and walked out of the dojo.
"See ya, Logan." Dante nodded and exited the dojo also.
"Wait!" he called after Laura who began to run.
He ran to her and soon he caught up to her and grabbed her wrist.
"What is it, I'm gonna be late for class if you interrupt me like this." She snarled pulling her hand away from his grip.
"I'm l-lost…will you please…uhh escort me to the period?" He asked scratching his head and looking away shyly.
She looked at him bewildered for a moment and then spoke up.
"Fine… but don't lag or I'll run without you!" She smirked.
He looked at her for a moment and smiled before they began to walk.
"Man, why the hell does he give us ten minutes to get to the next period!" Dante complained as they walked down the hallway.
He walked with his hands on his head and a frown on his face. She ignored his question and just kept on walking.
They walked for a couple of minutes and Dante was growing impatient.
"Why don't you talk coz man this walk is boring!" He groaned.
"It goes faster when you shut up." She smirked and narrowed her eyes.
"Dammit, that's boring…so how come you're training to be an assassin, you don't really look like one…?" He said glaring at her.
"…I never chose to become one I was…" She began but her voice choked.
He noticed and scowled.
"You don't have to tell me ok…" He said plainly.
"Thanks, I'll tell you some other time by the way, if I don't look like an assassin, what do I look like to you?" She sneered and glanced at him.
He stumbled at first but then straightened up again. He blushed and looked the other way to hide it.
"Y-You look…like...a...Err…" He stuttered.
"Get on with it already!" She demanded and scowled.
"Err…you look like a model for one of them magazines only perverts read…" He said and looked neutral.
She turned to meet him with an angry look on her face.
"A swimsuit model!" She said eyeing his face.
"Y-Yeah…" He said nervously.
She stomped on his foot and walked quickly away from him.
He noticed that some idiot student must have left his skateboard lying around when he was caught riding it in the halls or something and looked in Laura's direction and saw that she was headed for it and she was gonna fall.
"Hey, watch out!" He screamed and ran for her but it was too late.
She was a second from stepping on it when he said these words and she felt her body slip and she was falling and was awaiting the painful fall which ended with cold concrete hitting the back of her body but she felt no such fall.
She looked up and saw that Dante had managed to catch her. He lifted her up so that she could stand and she turned to meet his gaze.
His piercing blue eyes met with her golden green ones, their sense of time was taken away from them as it felt as if they had been staring forever at each other and the thing was that none of them wanted to break their gaze.
He leaned in and tilted his head slightly and she did the same, for a stare was no longer enough, they leaned in closer and so did their body contact as he pulled her closer to him, she was so close that her breasts grazed against his chest and their lips were but inches apart.
He closed the space and pressed her body against his own, their lips were but an inch away from meeting but suddenly they both pulled back and a bright red shone across their cheeks.
'I almost kissed her dammit!' Dante thought to himself as he covered half his face.
'I nearly… kissed him…' Laura thought, covering her own half of her face.
They both walked in the awkward silence afterwards and just made it to class.
They were instructed by separate teachers to change into more appropriate clothing.
Dante came out wearing a powder blue and white soccer jersey and matching soccer shorts with black and silver Addidas soccer boots.
Laura came out wearing white shorts of a short length and a black tank top and black Chuck Taylors.
The girls did track events while the boys did soccer and sprinting.
"Ok boys, today we'll be warming up with some exercises and a few races then we'll play a short game of soccer, now do some basic exercises and after ten minutes I'll sort you into some races, now let's go!" The instructor, Mr. Triathlon announced.
"Ok girls, do some basic warm up and we'll race, move it!" the female instructor, Mrs. Wasp said.
"How was your lesson with Laura?" Modeus asked innocently as he appeared next to Dante. He wore the same attire as Dante just with a navy blue color instead of powder blue on his uniform and white and black shoes.
Dante cringed at the mention of Laura's name.
"O-Oh yeah…it was ok, yours?" he replied casually.
"Oh, Oscar is really cool; we enjoyed the hand to hand combat the most!" Modeus beamed.
"Oh I see, that's awesome, so is he your friend now?" Dante chuckled lightly.
"Yeah, I guess so, he's also really funny." Modeus said as he stretched with Dante.
Dante smiled and glanced back at the girls and saw Laura talking to her friends while stretching, he felt a weird sensation as he remembered that he pressed her body on his.
He growled and continued with his stretches.
Laura hated track events but loved stretching, it made her more relaxed.
She looked at the boys' side and saw Dante talking to his friend Modeus.
She blushed as she remembered the close proximity between them and how they got lost in each others eyes. She shook her head clear of these thoughts and continued with her stretches.
The period ended quickly with Dante immediately becoming a star player in soccer as he scored the first two goals for his team, coach recommended him to be on the first string for soccer.
Laura made a popular streak as she won every race handed to her but she sucked at the track events except javelin.
"Wow, you're amazing Dante, congratulations on winning!" a girl named Patty exclaimed as she joined Dante, Modeus and Oscar.
"Uhh thanks…uhh Patty." He said with a small smile.
She smiled back and walked with her friends who giggled with her.
"Hey Dante, you were really great." a girl named Nina winked at him.
"Thanks." He simply said and walked with his hands in his pockets.
"Aah you were great Miss Kinney!" a boy called Kenny grinned at her.
"Uhh…thanks Kenny but it wasn't that awesome." She said humbly, offering a smile.
"Haha it's modesty like that, that'll land you a date with me, Miss Kinney." He smiled.
She chuckled and he walked off with a wink.
"Laura you were so awesome today!" a handsome boy called Guy smiled and blushed slightly.
"T-Thanks Guy…" She smiled.
He waved goodbye and she walked in peace for a while before she was interrupted again.
"Aah Kinney San was most awesome today!" Exclaimed a boy with handsome Asian features, named Akira.
She laughed and thanked him with a smile before she walked off to meet with Nikki and Rena.
"Laura, how was training with the hottest guy in the whole of our school?" Rena jumped on Laura.
"Fine…" Laura mumbled and rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, I'm sure he was…" She continued until Laura slapped her into sense.
"Stop dreaming and talking unnecessary things!" Laura yelled at her.
"Is someone getting jealous, right Rena?" Nikki taunted.
"Shut up Rena, I'll never have feelings for that sad excuse of a person!" Laura snapped and scowled.
It was night and everyone was in their dorms, chilling or partying in the halls. Dante and Modeus decided to get a good night's sleep and went to bed early. Laura and Rena stayed up with Nikki just talking and having coffee.
It was now ten and everyone was in their rooms, either asleep or awake.
Dante was in bed but he was still conscious while Modeus slept like a baby.
'Damn light sleeper!' Dante opened his eyes and recalled the day's strange events.
'Shit, I'm gonna have to say sorry and shit, well that's what I get either way…' he smiled and then closed his eyes at the thought of his resolve.
Laura was now in bed but couldn't find it in her to sleep; she looked out of her window and sighed.
'Today was a long day; hopefully it will become shorter so I can get out of this hell!' 'Today was…strange, definitely…' she smiled and got up to close her blinds; she looked out at the sight of DMC's dorms and smiled.
She closed the blinds and went back to bed, quickly falling asleep.
