A/N: Sorry it took so long. Hope you like where I am going with this! Please Review-it makes me smile!

Mika shifted causing the bed to creak beneath them. It was now dark outside and she realized she had been sleep for most of the day. She looked at Raizo who looked to her like he was sleeping. Her eyes traced the various angles and shadows of his face. His long eye lashes. His smooth even skin. Those kissable lips...

"Mika?" Raizo opened one eye and then the other. He was a light sleeper. He felt when Mika had moved.

Mika jumped slightly. Startled.

Raizo smirked. Caught in the act.

Mika wanted nothing more to wipe that smirk off of his face. She grabbed a pillow and playfully hit him across the shoulders grinning from ear to ear.

Raizo looked stunned at first but then he realized that she was playing. Something he doesn't remember doing. She sat up on her knees and smiled waiting for him to retaliate. When he didn't she hit him again. This time Raizo caught on. He grabbed a pillow and hit her over the head but he held back afraid he might hurt her.

"Come on, Raizo! I know you can do better than that!"

The direness of the situation eluded them for the time being. She raised her pillow and whacked him again and playfully shoved him on the bed. He threw the pillow back causing Mika to hit him once more. Getting him back in a vertical position. She then straddled him lifting the pillow above her head getting ready for her finishing move. Raizo grabbed her wrists and the pillow drop. She sat on top of him giggling like a school girl and out of breath. She couldn't believe she got a trained assassin to actually have a pillow fight with her. They both grew quiet but neither of them dared to move. An invisible link locking them in place. They stared at...no...through the other's eyes like they were looking at one another's soul.

Mika leaned in taking advantage of the lost moment. Her mouth was above his but not actually touching. Her throat went dry but she waited for him to reciprocate the move. Ten seconds felt like an hour. Raizo was as still as a statue for those ten seconds. Mika licked her lips anxiously ready to give up when she felt Raizo's arm snake around her waist and pull her in. His arm was stiff at first and his kiss sloppy but eventually he relaxed and Mika felt her mind's worries dissipate. Raizo seemed to want and need her as he held her tighter deepening the kiss. Mika felt him harden beneath her when his grip tightened. They both seemed to forget what troubles lay ahead instead focusing on that moment. They snapped out of it at the sound of the bedroom door slamming. Someone had been watching them.

Mika scrambled off of Raizo and the bed clumsily making a beeline for the door. Raizo now remembered where they were and he was now really uncomfortable.

Mika reached the door and went out to the living room to find a fuming Maslow. He knocked over one of the lamps in his anger. Natalia came out of the bathroom to see what all the commotion was about.

"Maslow? Is something bothering you?" Mika asked gingerly.

Raizo now came out closing the door behind her, his face back to it's usual emotionless self.

Maslow paced the floor angrily refusing to speak. Natalia watched nervously, fidgeting with her fingernails.

Mika walked in front of him stopping him mid-pace. "I asked if was there something the matter." She said crossing her arms bracing herself for his explosion.

Maslow looked at her. "You seem to have forgotten why we are in this shit in the first place!"

Mika raised an eyebrow "Excuse me"

"You know damned well what I'm fucking talking about Mika! I saw you. We're fugitives running for our lives and you two are in there-"

Mika stopped him before he said something she didn't like. "First of all Ryan," she only called him by his first name when she was extremely pissed. "What we were doing was none of your business!"

Maslow's face burned red. Mika couldn't understand why he was so angry with her but she was highly annoyed with his attitude.

Raizo's fists tensed up waiting for something to happen. Natalia was shaking holding the counter for leverage. She didn't want to see her friends fighting and she didn't know Maslow's problem."

Mika spoke again this time her voice was low, calculating, and cold. "Maslow, I don't know what has gotten in to you. I don't even care what it is but I don't like it." She walked away towards the bedroom slamming the door behind her. Natalia went after her only glancing at Maslow leaving the two men alone to handle their own problems.

Natalia tiptoed in the dark room leaving the lights off. "Mika?"

She walked over to the bed and sat down. Mika tried to pretend she was sleep but Natalia wasn't fooled. Instead of talking though she patted Mika on the shoulder and went to the other side of the bed to lie down. Mika glanced over at her and then looked back towards the window.

They both listened for any commotion outside but there was no yelling. No noise. It was silent.