Allie
"So, um, why were you covered in bruises again, Haley?" Allie asked. She looked at Haley who just stared blankly back at her.
"Huh?" she asked after blinking twice. Allie felt a sweatdrop form behind her head. Allie could tell the others in the room felt the same way.
"I said, why were you covered in bruises," Allie repeated, laughing nervously at the end.
"Oh! Um, well I was on my way to the grocery store and I kind of got jumped," Haley began, smiling nervously as she saw Ashley sigh and rested her head against the palm of her hand.
"Weren't you able to use your Taser?" Ashley asked. Haley glared at Sakaki who was still standing in the doorway.
"HE broke my Taser!" Haley stated, pointing a finger at him. Sakaki sighed.
"Wait a second, you have a Taser?" a boy with brown hair asked. Everyone looked at him.
"Oh, Kenichi. When did you get here?" Akisame asked.
"What do you mean? I've been here for a good 10 minutes!" Kenichi yelled, throwing his arms around in anger. Akisame and Sakaki began laughing.
"It's not our fault your quiet, Kenichi!" Sakaki said while laughing. Kenichi pouted.
"I'm not quiet," he muttered.
"Anyway, yes. Haley had a Taser," Allie said after Sakaki's and Akisame's laughing died down.
"But why? Isn't she training with you two?" Kenichi asked. Sakaki shook his head.
"According to Haley, she isn't," Sakaki said. Allie saw Kenichi tilt his head to one side in confusion.
"Why not?" he asked Haley. Haley shrugged.
"Don't want to," she stated.
"She's too lazy," Allie and Ashley said. Everyone else in the room grew a sweatdrop on the back of their heads.
"I see," Kenichi muttered.
"How did he break your Taser?" Ashley asked.
"I think he stepped on it," Haley said. Ashley turned around and glared at Sakaki.
"You. Stepped. On. Her. Taser?" Ashley growled. He flinched. Allie just shook her head.
"Dude. That is not cool," Allie said, crossing her arms.
"Uh, yeah. I guess so," Sakaki said, rubbing the back of his head and laughing. "But it's not like I did it on purpose."
"You're in for it now!" Haley muttered, smirking. Ashley released her ki, and even though he was really strong, even he flinched a little.
"Ash," Allie warned. She knew how Ashley would get. She would forget her surroundings and the situation whenever she got angry. She would just want to punch whoever it was that was getting her angry. Sakaki didn't seem to be able to speak.
"Shut up!" Ashley whispered.
"Now, now, Ashley. Do you really think your friend seeing you angry will help her condition?" Akisame asked. Ashley didn't pay him any mind. . Instead she walked slowly over to Sakaki and gave him her evil eye. Allie shivered as she remembered the times Ashley would give either her or Haley that look. Even Sakaki was a slightly afraid. Well, he looked very afraid to Allie but to his comrades he probably wasn't.
"I don't give a damn how my emotions affect her recovery. The fact of the matter is that this guy stepped on her Taser, broke it, and now she doesn't have any way to defend herself when Allie and I aren't around. So, Sakaki, what are you going to do about it?" Ashley said. Every step she took towards him, he backed away. Allie and Haley were trying to keep in a laugh. However, Sakaki's friends weren't so happy. They looked scared and looked at Allie and Haley with strange looks.
"Uh, what-what am I supposed to do? It's not like I'm gonna buy her a new Taser!" Sakaki stuttered. Then he bumped against the wall of the hallway outside Akisame's clinic room. He looked behind him and was surprised to see that a wall was there.
"What do you mean, you aren't going to buy her a new one?" Ashley asked.
"First of all, she shouldn't even have one. She ain't a cop nor is she a government agent," Sakaki tried to reason.
Bad idea. Ashley is very stubborn when she knows she is right. If you try to reason with her, you'll just make her more mad. On top of that, she doesn't like to be told she's wrong when she is obviously right, Allie thought, shaking her head.
"So what if she's not a cop or an agent? She still needs a way to defend herself! She doesn't practice martial arts! And we don't feel comfortable enough to let her carry around a knife or any other weapon!" Ashley said. Out of the corner of her eye Allie saw Haley look at Ashley, slightly offended.
"Hey!" Haley yelled. Ashley and Sakaki ignored her.
"Then why did you give her a Taser?" he asked.
"We didn't! It came-" Ashley began.
"Ashley!" Allie yelled. When Ashley looked back at Allie, Allie shook her head.
"I mean, yes, we did give it to her. But it's the only thing we trust that can keep her safe when she is on her own," Ashley said, trying to cover up her previous statement. Allie glanced at Haley to see that Haley didn't hear what Ashley first said.
Good, she doesn't need to know about that part of her past yet. For right now, we need to make sure she thinks that we gave her that Taser for a Christmas she can't remember, Allie thought. Unknowing to Allie, Akisame heard the slip up and the glance Allie gave at Haley. Thankfully, he decided to keep his mouth shut until he could speak privately to the lesser violent of the terror cousins.
"Yeah!" Haley said. "So give me a new Taser!" Sakaki sighed.
"How about this? I'll teach her some basic karate moves so she can at least protect herself from thugs and perverts," Sakaki offered. Allie and Ashley both looked at Haley to see what she wanted to do. However, it was obvious she didn't hear what he said.
"What? Why are you two looking at me?" she asked.
"Do you want karate lessons in place of a Taser?" Allie asked. Haley thought about it.
"I don't know. The whole reason for having a Taser was so I didn't have to learn martial arts," Haley muttered. Ashley sighed.
"Fine, she'll have the lessons," Ashley said. Then she pointed at Sakaki's face and glared at him. "But don't think that this means you've gotten off my bad side. If I so much as hear one time that you've hurt her, you can rest assured that I will not be nice nor merciful. Hell, I might just make our masters get involved just to teach you a lesson!" Then Sakaki smirked.
"You do realize who I am, right?" he asked. What Ashley said next made his smirk fall off his face.
