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I apologize for this chapter because it has more conversation than usual and I can't seem to remember the name of Mamori's friends. So sorry if I disappointed you people all over the world.


"...I'd say 11" Ako said. The rest of Mamori's friend agreed with a nod. She was only half listening to their conversation so she really didn't have any clue what they were talking about.

"Earth to Mamori-chan" Sara spoke trying to get Mamori back to the world of the living.

"Mou, sorry what were we talking about?"

"That!" all friends said in unison. "You've been acting strange lately, does it have something to do with that demon?"

"What do you guys mean?"

"You've been spacing out more, you hadn't talked much though we hadn't seen you for ages and you hadn't spent the holidays with us. Is Hiruma behind this strangeness?"

"No, no it's something else entirely. I just have been busy lately."

"With what exactly? You had just won..." but Mamori was out of the conversation again. They were right; it had something to do with the demon. She hadn't seen him since their dinner at Christmas Eve in their house and it was 4 days ago. He hadn't shown up at school or practice. It was so unlike him to miss practice without telling her first. She had tried calling him but he never answered, well it was given that he had a lot of cellphone but she had almost all his numbers anyway.

At the corner of her eye she thought she saw Hiruma passed by the cafe. She shook her head, she was starting to hallucinate. The door at the cafe opened and Suzuna came inside. The moment the skate lover girl saw Mamori she came rolling down their table.

"Good morning Mamo-nee!" she said with her usual giddy voice. Mamori's friends looked confused, what was this girl doing here?

"Eh, Suzuna-chan, what are you doing here?"

"I saw Younii earlier, staring at the cafe. So when I saw you I went inside"

"Eh, you saw Yo, uhm Hiruma-san?"

"Yeah, but he fled right away when he saw me. Tell me Mamo-nee did you had a fight with Younii? I heard he had been missing or deliberately missing for 4 days?" Mamori's friends can't help but butt in the conversation.

"Hiruma had been missing?!"

"Well, isn't it good news!"

"No wonder Tokyo had been more peaceful lately." Suzuna blinked as if seeing Mamori's companion for the first time since she entered the cafe. Then she smiled and greeted them, they invited her to stay with them for a while.

"Youichi" Mamori muttered under her breath as her friends talk about things she couldn't care less at the time. Where was her boyfriend exactly? And what was he doing staring at her in the cafe when he could have just called her! What in the world is he doing?

The last time he had been out of her radar was back in highschool when he went to America without saying a word. But even that trip only lasted for 2 days and he was spying on the American dream team. There were no talks about a world youth cup so he's definitely not spying. What if? No, they were only Second years, they had a year left before they graduate.

Mamori's phone vibrated, jolting her out of her own brain. Her friends looked at her, to which she apologized. She excused herself from them and she went to the bathroom to pick up her phone. An unknown caller was posted at the screen. Silently she hoped it was her boyfriend. She pressed the answer button, and then went inside a cubicle upon hearing Hiruma's voice. Half of her was relieved that he was finally calling and half was annoyed that he only called her now.

"Where were you?! I thought something bad had already happened to you!" she scolded through her phone. She didn't mind at the moment to whoever was going to hear her fuming.

"Kekekeke, no one fucking asked you to fucking worry about me" he laughed on the other line. She listened intently on the background noise, trying to find out just where in the world he is but failed to do so. She didn't have his amazingly pointed elf ears.

"Just tell me!" she was starting to get irritated with the game he was playing. He tche'd and went silent. Maybe he was a bit guilty for disappearing like thin air to her; maybe just maybe she was slightly ever so slightly rubbing off to him.

"I'm in your fucking house, damn it! Be home at 8 pm I'll be fucking waiting. Don't you fucking be late, fucking Mamori" then he hung up. He was on her house, waiting for her. If he thinks showing up on her house would fix everything well he was so wrong. Mamori won't be a wimp on this one issue. No she would stand firmly and have her way on this one.

She looked at her watch; it was still 6 in the afternoon too early to head home. After all she didn't want to seem desperate to see him even if she was. If she does that, he'd think that he won the argument long before it was even started. No, she decided to make him wait a bit longer than 8 pm, she did waited for him for good 4 days without a word from him.

"What were you girls talking about?" Mamori said in a happier tone when she had rendezvous with her companion. The girls eyed each other cautiously, contemplating if telling Mamori was a good idea. That even made her more curious, there was no reason for her to be distracted anymore.

"What?"

"Mamoni do you have a boyfriend you're not talking about?" it was Suzuna-chan who had the courage to ask, certain that she would not do anything that will cause harm to them. Mamori was at loss for words shocked.

"Where did you get that ridiculous notions?" trying hard to keep up her poker face. She made a mental note to force Hiruma to teach her his famous unbreakable poker face.

"I have sources" Suzuna replied smugly. By sources does she mean Sena? Oh that poor boy was getting it, not from her but from her other half. Yes, he would allow Hiruma to scare the wits out of her childhood friend just this once.

"No, I would never keep a secret as big as that to you girls." she twitched with the lie she just made. That was one lie down for her record, and many more to follow.

"Oh really?" Ako joined in. She was giving her, her infamous i-know-you're-lying stare.

"Yeah!" she replied in an instant making her look defensive which she was.

"So no one would disapprove if we go on a karaoke with a few college guys."

"What? I can't! I have to go home by 8."

"So you do have a boyfriend!" they all accused her as if she was caught stealing a bread.

"Fine I'll go! But I still have to go home by 8" Mamori gave in.

oooooooooo

It was already 8:30; Hiruma would have been fuming by now. In Mamori's defense she did try and emphasized on try to get out of there but Suzuna tricked her into staying. They were even cunning enough to take her phone away from her; she knew Hiruma would have called her a thousand times now. He didn't want to keep waiting more than he should have. Great, just great she would have to face an angry Hiruma, which by the way was 10 times more difficult and more suicidal than a grinning Hiruma.

Noise was coming from the outside; it was like a riot was starting to break out. Everyone shriek in shock as a guy feel on the floor of the room they were renting for the karaoke forcing the door to open. It was one of the staff of the place, they looked at the door, there was another person trying to calm a guy with a blonde hair. The staff guy was completely blocking the blonde one, which clearly wasn't a staff in there. Mamori saw a glimpse of a gun with the blonde guy, she concluded right away. The blonde guy kick the staff guy who was blocking him, and the staff guy stumbled down to the floor next to his co-worker. As soon as there was no one blocking the blonde guy's way, he scanned the room and his reaction lit up for a second when he saw Mamori. He blew a bubble to add to the drama.

"You-nii!" Suzuna stated the obvious still shocked by the sudden turn of events.

"Let's fucking go, fucking manager!" she wasn't able to respond, to shock maybe. Hiruma tche'd and went on and grab her wrist dragging her with him. One suicidal guy stopped their track by grabbing Mamori's other wrist.

"Hey, you're not going anywhere with my date!"

"Kekekeke!" Hiruma laughed hysterically. It amused him that someone dared to stop him; clearly this guy doesn't know who he was. It was time to let him introduce to Hiruma Youichi.

"Uhm, it's ok Sawada-san I kn..." Mamori was interrupted.

"Sawada Haruto from Kansas. Taking up Civil Engineering in Tokyo University. Kekeke, it says here you fucking ran 100 miles na..." Hiruma read from his threat notebook.

"Stop that! Where did you get that!" Sawada-san exclaimed embarrassed that his secret was seconds away from seeing the light of day. Who was this demon looking guy anyway?

"Hiruma you're not going to ruin this for Mamori!" Sara shouted. He did not bother getting familiar with Mamori's friends, but they were starting to annoy him now. How dare they accuse him of ruining something for his fucking girlfriend when they were the one who was inches away from ruining something more important?

"Fuck off fucking women. Fucking skates, the fucking shrimp is fucking waiting for you outside" Suzuna didn't wanted to go out but there was an implied go out or else somewhere there.

"Okay You-nii"

"Fucking hentai" Hiruma addressed Sawada. "remember the name Hiruma Youichi. Just for this I'm fucking ruining your life. Kekekeke" his laugh was malicious. Sawada finally sweat dropped, he remembered that name. Suddenly he wished he didn't go into this blind date.

"Hiruma let Mamori go!"

"No Ako its really ok. I have to go anyway."

"You don't have to fucking explain to these idiots fucking girlfriend. Let's fucking go, your fucking mother's voice is still pouncing inside my head." He dragged her. He said it, that word. She didn't know if her friends caught it but at that moment she didn't care. He just said the word in front of other people aside from her parents. Maybe being public isn't that far-fetch now.

"Youichi stop dragging me."

"Fuck no! You deserve the pain for fucking cheating on me fucking girlfriend!" there it was again.

"I did not cheat on you!" they continued arguing through their way out. Their voice was not to within hearing reach anymore when her other friend said,

"They are really together."

"I can't believe it."

"The angel and the demon, who would have thought" Ako concluded.


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