Guardian of Sound:
Code 12
Minori sat at the kitchen table in silence stroking Yuuki's soft red fur. She may have patched up things with Yuuki, but how would Sakura-chan and the others react? Would they be just as forgiving? This she wasn't sure, but she was absolutely terrified to find out. Yuuki sensing her discomfort snuggled further into lap in hopes of putting her mind at ease. "Minori-chan, I can tell something's bothering you, what is it?" instead of responding Minori just tensed up. "Minori..." Yuuki said quite firmly as he hopped agilely from Minori's lap and onto the table.
"Minori-chan, look at me please?" He asked in a soft voice. Minori hesitated a bit, before complying and looking into his eyes. She had to note that even in cat form Yuuki eyes seemed to have this calming air about them that seemed to calm her down the moment she looked into them. "Minori-chan, I don't like it when you shut me out like this. It feels like you can't trust me." Minori felt a pain of guilt in her heart as she listened to Yuuki's words.
She trusted him, trusted him with all her heart and she knew ultimately he was right. She'd have to trust him, just as much as he trusted her if she didn't want to repeat her past mistakes. She gave Yuuki a warm smile before getting up from the table and going to her room and grabbing her pad and pen. When she came back she gave Yuuki a warm smile and gave him a small scratch behind his ear causing him to give a soft purr.
—I-I'm sorry Yuuki. It's just...I'm scared. W-what if Sakura-chan and the other are really upset and decide that—that they don't want be back at Shibuya house?
As Yuuki read the paper, he put a paw on her hand and gave her a reassuring smile. "Minori-chan, I know for without a doubt that Sakura-chan wouldn't hate you, nor would she kick you out of Shibuya-house. We all care for you like family we wouldn't dare kick out."
'A family? I've never—' suddenly an image of a fire and two people calling out to her as tears streamed down their faces flashed in her mind. Quickly as the image came, it disappeared, leaving Minori with a worrying expression and a sad pain in her heart.
"Minori-chan are you OK, you look like if you're about to cry?" he asked. Minori not wanting to worry Yuuki, shook her head and smiled.
—N-no, I-I'm fine. I just got a little side tracked. Sorry about that. Anyway, Yuuki how long does your adorable cat form last?
A blush clear on her face as she wrote this.
"Adorable, hm?" Minori gave a bashful nod and averted eye contact. Yuuki walked closer to her and swiped his tail under her noise causing her noise to twitch and her to make what he considered an adorable face. "I think you Minori-chan are far more adorable." This caused the blush already on Minori's cheeks to deepen. Yuuki chuckled, "Yep, way cuter. Anyway, my cat form lasts a total of 24 hours and then I go back to normal."
Minori nodded as well as stifled a yawn. "Tired? I wonder..." Yuuki got up and as delicate and softly as possible jumped on Minori's head stifling a yawn as well. "What time it is?" Minori got up from the table grabbed her pen and pad and headed into her room to check the clock. 4:20 A.M. 'Well, I might as well and try to get as much sleep as I can, before I made my surprise breakfast' Minori placed her pad and pen and as well as her glasses on the dresser and was about to go sleep when she saw a red tail swishing ever so slowly in front of her face. Yuuki had somehow manage to fall asleep on her head in such a short amount of time. Minori smiled to herself as she softly grabbed Yuuki off the top of her head and cradled him in her arms, before placing him on the futon.
As she was about to climb in herself, there came a knock at the door. 'Who could that be at this late at night?' Minori walked out of her room quietly as not to wake any of the other sleeping occupants of the house and made her way the door opening it ever so slowly. She was quite shocked to see who was on the other end. Surprisingly, the visitor was just as much.
"I-Ichikawa-chan? What are you doing here?"
Minori gave him a look that asked him the same thing. "While I..." Rei gave a tired yawn. "Would love to tell you what happened tonight, I really want to get some sleep and if you can't tell, she's quite out of if too." Minori gave a warm smile at the sleeping Sakura snuggled comfortably on his back. Minori nodded and let Rei in. She watched with tired eyes as Rei walked over to the couch and placed Sakura softly down and flopped down in a tired heap next to her trying to get a in a comfortable position and sleep. She went into her room and went into the closet to fetch a spare blanket for both Sakura and Rei. She came back to find Rei curled up on the couch. She gave a small silent giggle as she placed the blanket over both her sleeping friends before she too went to bed.
~Code Breaker~
That same morning Yuuki was awoken by a very hearty smell making his tail twitch. Thankful for him the door was slightly open meaning he wouldn't have to go through the trouble of opening it. After a small yawn and stretch he made his way out of the room and with relative ease jumped on the on the kitchen counter. "Good morning, Minori-chan." Yuuki said cheerfully causing her to jump slightly. She turned around slowly and gave him a slightly scared look, letting him know he almost gave her a heart attack.
Yuuki gave her an apologetic look. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, it's just I didn't expect anyone to be cooking breakfast and good a smelling breakfast at that." Minori turned around slightly and gave him a small smile as she went back to cooking.
Yuuki sat on the counter watching Minori move back and forth in the kitchen making a variety of different foods. His ears and tail twitching slightly as he heard the on and off sizzle of something being cooked a pan. Suddenly a familiar scent hit his nostrils making his cat senses go haywire. His tail swaying back and forth in anticipation...
"Minori-chan, did you—" before Yuuki could ask, a plate of fish was set down in front of him. Yuuki's tail swayed even faster as he licked his lips exposing one of his pearly white canines. He continually stared the fish as if he touched it, it would disappear. Minori had finished making all the food and was now carrying it over to the table and setting it down carefully so as not to drop anything. As she headed back into the kitchen to pour the juice, she heard a yawn as well as a pair of footsteps making their way into the living room. "Well, it seems we have a couple of stowaways crashing with us this morning, hm?"
Minori once again jumped slightly at the voice, but quickly composed herself. She turned around to see Kouji smiling at her. "Morning, Minori-chan—" Kouji stopped him sentence as he noticed the huge spread of food on the table. "D-did you make all this food, Minori-chan?" he asked, quite shocked. Minori gave a smile and nodded. She then pulled out her note pad from her stars Pajama's front pocket and began to scribble something down.
—Think of it as my way of saying thank you for both you and Yukihina putting up with me. And I hope you don't mind, if you need me to pick up so groceries I will.
"W-well, this looks amazing... and no, it's not a problem, so don't worry about it alright." That's when Kouji eyed the fish that was currently sitting in front of a certain red haired cat and decided he wanted to have a little fun. Kouji seeing how Yuuki was so absorbed in staring at the fish instead of eating it, tried to go and grab the plate and felt a nip at his hand. "Touch it and pay the price..." Yuuki said, warning in his voice. "Well, if you'd just—" Yuuki however wasn't anticipating Kouji's swift moves as he watched in what felt like slow motion to him, but was really just normal speed as Kouji placed the fish in his mouth and began to chow down on it. "Eat it."
"Kouji that was mine!" Yuuki exclaimed, giving Kouji a hard glare. "Sorry, but it didn't look you were eating it so..." Kouji tried to go and pat Yuuki's head apologetically, but Yuuki just swatted his hand away roughly with his paw. "Minori-chan made that fish," he grumbled clearly upset as his ears were now folded back in distress. Minori hadn't really made any extra fish as not to use up all of the food, but she wouldn't mine give him her share. Minori went over to her plate of food seeing as the one that she labeled as hers didn't have as much on her plate as the others. Minori grabbed her fish on her plate gave a quick snap to get Yuuki's attention.
She watched as his ears perked up and he looked at her with a confused expression. "Minori-chan, what's—" before he could ask he saw piece of fish being tossed in his general direction and on instinct caught it with ease between his teeth. Minori gave a warm smile as she watched as he chewed quite happily on the fish, his tail moving back and forth ever so slowly in contentment.
"You're luck you have someone like Minori, who cares for you so much." Kouji said as grabbed himself a plate of food and juice before sitting down at the counter to eat. Kouji was surprised at all the food that littered his plate. A rice ball, fish, omelet, toast and just for healthy measures slices of fruit. "Wow, Minori-chan you've really out done yourself, I haven't had a real meal like this in a long time." Minori gave a slight bow and blushed at the complement. Minori gave a nodded to her right, pretty much letting the two that she be going to her room for a sec. Both the boy and cat nodded in agreement and then with slow eyes watched her take her leave.
"Yeah, I am. And I wouldn't trade her for the world." Yuuki gave warm and loving smile as he wiped the small trace of fish bits from his face and whiskers. A set of yawns as well as a door creaking open could be heard throughout the whole of the apartment. "Well it seems like everyone's finally awake." As Kouji took a bite of his omelet, his fork clattered to the floor alarming everyone. Minori who was tending to something in her room, ran out to check out the commotion.
"Kouji are you alright?!" Yuuki exclaimed. Yuuki gave him a once over... his face wasn't turning blue and his breathing wasn't shallow so he was still breathing normally, so what was wrong? That's when Kouji spoke...
"T-This...omelet is... ha-mazing! I-I've never tasted something this...this..." Kouji looked at Minori with a smile as well as a gleam in his eye. Kouji then reached over the counter and clasped his hands around Minori's startling her a bit. "M-Minori-chan I don't usually say this, but would you do the honor of staying here... permanently, please?" Kouji gave Minori a soft smile causing a faint blush on her cheeks, while Yuuki's fur bristled at the thought.
"Oi, Kouji don't even think about it!" Yuuki said in a stern voice, letting Kouji know it meant it. "Why? Do I sense jealousy?" Kouji challenged. Yuuki just turned his back to Kouji his tail swishing back and forth in irritation as well as his ears flattening. "I-I'm not jealous!" he mumbled his voice however lacked conviction. "Riiight."Kouji just rolled his eyes. "So what do you say, Minori-chan?" Kouji looked back the megane wearing girl he through these short day considered a sister. Minori on the other hand her mind was already made up. Minori slowly pulled her hand out of Kouji's and with a kind smile shook her head 'no'
Kouji however instead of being shocked, just gave her a warm smile. "No more running away, huh?" he then gave her a flick on the forehead causing her to rub her head and give a small pout, before giving a smile of her own. "Well, I'm glade." He then went back to finishing his food.
Minori then went over to the red haired cat sitting on the counter and began stroking his fur. Yuuki turned his head knowing full well who was stroking his fur; he'd always know, her soft fingers he'd never mistake. His forest-green irises locked her soft crimson ones conveying feelings and thoughts only he'd know and no one else. Minori then picked him up surprising him and giving him a nice and loving hug.
'I'd never leave you Yuuki, I love you too much for that.' She seemed to say through her actions. "Don't worry Minori I know you wouldn't."
"Aww, isn't it cute Rei, Yukihina?" a voice cooed, Minori felt her face heating up as she recognized the voice that was behind her. She slowly turned around and was now face to face with a gushing Sakura, slightly smiling Rei and an ever stoic Yukihina's face turned up in a somewhat smile.
Minori clearly embarrassed looked away slightly, while Yuuki softly climbed on her head and rested there. Suddenly Minori felt arms wrap around her and bring her into a bone crushing hug. "Minori-chan I-I don't know why you left... if it was something we did or something else entirely, but... please try, try to talk with us. W-we'll try to help if we can, I-I just don't want to lose any more family." Sakura said in a warm and soothing voice. Tears were streaming down Minori's face as Sakura let go of her with a sincere and loving expression.
Hearing these words made a happiness swell up inside her that she never ever thought she'd know. She collapsed on her knees as she continued to cry tears of happiness.
'Thank you Yuuki, everyone!'
~Code Breaker~
[EDEN HEADQUATERS]
"Has Code Breaker 06 reported back yet?" asked a guff voice.
"No, but I wouldn't worry. I have feeling that everything is under control...besides if you're so worried sir, I wouldn't mind stopping in for a visit I haven't seen my—friends in a while I'm sure they miss me. And if what we know is true about the girl, I wouldn't mind seeing her for myself."
"Alright, do as you see fit."
"Thank you, sir."
"So, how has...Shibuya been, any activity on his end?"
"No, he hasn't moved in about a month, but I've got my eye on him just in case he decides to interfere."
"Good. I can always seem to count on you when I need to."
"I do my best sir."
"Anyway, just keep me informed."
'I can't wait to see everyone...' the man nodded a menacing smile as he left the room.
...
[Shibuya's secret location inside the school library]
Shibuya had taken off the cat head to his costume and was staring with a somber face at photo of a women with long black hair with a loving smile on her face. She was holding a new-born baby in her arms. "Just when you think you can let the past go...fate seems to have other plans. In the end we did the right thing, right Sakurako?"
[Year's earlier...]
"I don't want to do this just as much as you Shibuya, but..."
"I know, we knew this would happen when we found out you were pregnant, even so..."
"We'll just hope that even with everything we've done and will do, be it your blood and my affiliations with EDEN happiness can be found."
"Yeah, you're right...and maybe, just maybe fate will let us be united again."
"Yeah, I love you Shi."
"I love you too, Sakura."
...
[A week later...]
Minori was now officially back at Shibuya house and seemed more at home than ever. Right now Minori was fully caught up with her school work seeing as Sakura took it upon herself to get her school work for her while she made her "failed" escape attempt. She also didn't have any work today, because when she'd returned she made sure to stop by 'Blue-Moon Bakery' to explain her situation to the manager and Uesugi-kun and surprisingly they weren't upset, but told her as compensation for leaving without so much as a notice, she'd go a week without pay and would come in early to open shop and bake the first orders for the day. Which she agreed to without so much as a complaint seeing as she'd caused her people who'd gotten her the job so much trouble. She originally was only going to keep her job at the bakery part-time, but after a while hangout with Uesugi and cooking and grown on her and she decided to keep her job.
Minori at the moment was just casually drawing in her sketch book a picture of Yuuki in his cat form, while Yuuki himself was asleep on the floor next to her with his head in her lap. As she sat there her pencil moved gracefully across the paper there was a soft knock on her door. "Ichikawa-chan," a soft voice called from the other side. Minori placed her pencil down and grabbed her pillow and placed it under Yuuki's head so she didn't wake him and got up to see who needed her. Her Pen and pad in her star pajama's front pocket, seeing as her pants didn't have any.
She opened up the door and was confused and somewhat surprised because she didn't expect to see 'her' of all people. It's not that she hated her my any means, it was just outside of their first meeting, or Toki harassing her, or Yuuki and Toki getting into it, she never really interacted her. It's also not that she never wanted to talk to her just didn't how, maybe this moment as awkward and unexpected as this was maybe would be her only chance, so she should probably take it.
—P-Prince, is there something you needed?
As Minori looked at the older women and noticed that she seemed really antsy and a bit nervous. "I know this may be odd, b-but I need your opinion on something if you don't mind. I-I promise it won't take up much of your time."
—Don't worry I'm not really doing anything.
"O-Oh, alright, thank you. Follow me." Minori gave a smile as he followed Prince to the destination. R-Rui," Prince said in a soft voice that Minori barely heard it. "My name...call me Rui," she repeated, this time more clearly. Minori nodded and gave a smile.
—Rui-san...that's a very beautiful name.
"T-thank you, Ichikawa-chan."
—Just call me Minori-chan, I won't mind.
A minute later, the two had reached their destination a somewhat large room in the back of the house. "Minori-chan, Rui-san called you too?" Sakura asked as she saw the two enter the room. Minori gave Sakura a smile and nodded. "M-Minori-chan you can go sit down, I b-be back," Rui stated as she went to the bathroom in the back of the room.
"I wonder what Rui's surprise is," Sakura asked as the two sat there.
—Yeah, me too!
As the two sat there and waited, Minori couldn't help but wish she'd brought her sketchbook with her, but she didn't want to be rude, so she left it.
Thirty-minutes later, Rui came back out of the bathroom stunning both girls. "R-Rui, y-you look really pretty!" Sakura exclaimed.
—You look really beautiful Rui-san!
Rui was wearing a lilac purple dress with a strap over her left shoulder with a black rose. "It's really beautiful Rui, but what the occasion? Did you finally find someone special?" Sakura urged hoping that she was right. Heck, even Minori seemed interested as her eye held this somewhat of a mischievous gleam in them.
A blush made its way on Rui's cheeks at both girls' implications. "N-No nothing like that, a friend of mine came back into town and since we haven't seen it other in a while, he decided that we'd catch up over dinner at a restaurant. A-and I'm not one to where dresses so, I need both your opinions." Rui's blush intensified causing her to look away from embarrassment. "Well, I think you look amazing, don't you Minori-chan?"
Minori nodded vigorously. That when an idea came into her mind. She quickly got up and left the room surprising both girls
"I wonder what's gotten into her." Sakura couldn't help but agree. Minori came back a couple minutes later with her sketch pad and pencil, pretty much letting Rui know what she was getting into. Minori made her way back over to Sakura sat down and began to sketch the older women without so much as a though. "U-Um, Minori-chan... not to interrupt you but, why are you drawing me?" Rui asked slightly embarrassed.
This caused Minori to look up with a small blush littering her cheeks. —S-sorry Rui-san I got so absorbed in the thought of sketching you I-I forgot to ask your permission, I-I'm sorry. A sad look now clear on her face as realized her mistake. "It's alright Minori-chan I'm not mad or anything. I don't mind, but do you mind if I sit down, I not really much for standing."
Minori shook her head and let her go get a chair to go sit down in before she continued sketching Rui came and sat down, Minori once again began the task of drawing her, leaving the room in a comfortable silence and with nothing for Sakura to do. "Hey, why don't I get us something to snack to on?"
"That would be nice, Sakura."
Minori gave her a smile and nodded in agreement.
"Alright, I'll be back in a moment." Sakura got up and left the room leaving the other two girls alone.
"Do you like to draw Minori-chan?"
Minori smiled and nodded.
—Yeah, I don't know when I started but I've always loved drawing.
"I-I don't mean to pry, but don't you remember drawing pictures for your parents or something like that?"
Minori shook her head. —No, I honestly don't remember anything from my parents, friends, hobbies, everything I should know about myself has been lost to me. The worst part is I don't know when or why.
Rui didn't respond instead looked at her with sad eyes.
"Do...you ever think you'll remember one day?"
—I-I don't know. A part of me wants to know, but a part of me is really scared.
"I'm sorry Minori-chan, I didn't mean to—"
Minori put hand up to stop her. —It's alright. If I don't remember then that fine, if I do... I have my friends to help me through it.
"Minori-chan..."
Minori just gave her a smile as she continued to draw. She was almost done she just had to finish up the up the legs and feet. "I'm back!" Sakura announced as she walked into in the room with a tray of cookies and tea. "Oh, Rui-san looks so pretty!" another voice besides Sakura exclaimed causing Rui to jump slightly in surprise. Rui turned around hoping that the voice she heard was just in her head, while Minori gave a small smirk.
"Y-Yuuki! What a-are you doing here?" Rui stuttered clearly embarrassed having another person, especiallya boy see her in a dress. "Well, when I woke up I noticed Minori-chan was gone and went looking for her. I heard noise in the kitchen and ran in Nyanmaru and she told me where Minori-chan was so I followed her," Yuuki explained nonchalant. "Oh, well..." honestly Rui didn't mind Yuuki seeing her in a dress, his innocent outlook on life had this charm and air to it that she felt comfortable to not let it bother her unlike if it was a certain lecherous and perverted blond code-breaker. This caused Rui to shutter at the thought.
Rui was so lost in thought that she hadn't even notice Sakura nor Yuuki walk over to where Minori was. "Wow, Minori-chan I can't believe you did this in so little time," Sakura exclaimed, clearly impressed by the albino girl's artistic skills. Minori smiled, a small blush on her cheeks as she seemed embarrassed by the compliment. Yuuki on the other hand remained surprisingly quiet as watched intently as Minori's hands moved with grace and fluidity across the paper defining certain parts of the drawing that made it come to life with every stroke.
Eventually after five minutes, Minori had finished her drawing at least what she considered the first half. While she was done with the most complicated part, she felt that a drawing wasn't complete until the drawing was colored, it added this spark of life that didn't feel the same feeling than when it was just a black and white picture. So she held off in giving it to Rui until it was truly finished.
~Code Breaker~
She only been gone three days, but Minori's class was treating her as if it had been a week. They'd come up and ask her if she was alright, or if she needed help catching up on homework. She kindly have to tell them she was all caught up and thank them kindly for their concern. It was extremely comforting and heartwarming to know that just because of her disability, they didn't see her as freak or an outcast, she was treated as an equal... at least with a majority of her class, there were however, a small group of students, a group of girls who didn't like Minori's 'popularity' with the class a decided to take it on their own accord to rectify the 'problem.' It was the end of the day and Minori and a couple of other students had been tasked with cleaning up for today. She was almost done cleaning the classroom, when she heard the sound of someone struggling, she looked over saw a pile of books about to fallout of a guy's hands. She quickly leaned her broom on one of the desks and went over to help, she removed some of the books and placed them on one of the desks.
"T-thanks, Ichikawa-chan, I wouldn't want the dust from books on the floor you just cleaned." Minori gave a smile and waved him off. That when a thought popped into her head, she pulled her notepad out from her school outfit's front pocket and began to write something down. —Abe-kun, can I ask you a favor?
The brown haired freckled boy gave Minori a smirk. "Yeah, sure. Whatcha' need? —You're part of the art club right? Abe nodded. —D-do you think...if it's not too much trouble, do you think you could let me borrow s-some coloring supplies? I-I'll understand if you can't, I'll just have to wait until I get paid again.
Abe placed a reassuring hand on Minori's shoulder. "Don't worry Ichikawa-chan, the art-club teacher isn't strict when it comes to letting students take supplies out the art room as long as we return it, so don't worry about it. I'll have the supplies to you by Monday." Minori was so excited about being able to finish her drawing for Rui, that she'd accidently hugged the young classmate causing him to blush scarlet. Quickly realizing her mistake she pulled away and gave him and apologetic bow.
"T-That alright, I-Ichikawa-chan you were just excited as all..." the air around the two became awkward, both looking for anything to distill the moment. "W-well, l-let finish up this cleaning, s-so that way we can go home, we don't wanna be her to late..." Abe walked right past Minori without so much as a word. Minori soon followed suite picking her broom and finished up her sweeping.
Eventually the two had finished and were getting ready to leave, "W-well, I'll see you on Monday, I-Ichikawa-chan." Abe had already collected all his things and was about to head out the door. Minori gave a small wave and watched him walk out of the room. She let out a sigh of relief as she watched the door closed. 'God, I'm such an Idiot! W-why'd I do that! Now he won't want to talk to me and he probably hates me!' she said berating herself. There was no worrying about it now, he was gone. 'Maybe Monday will be better.' She couldn't help but think as she soon exited the classroom to head home.
...
As she was about to head through the school gate, she felt a pair of warm and clammy hands dragging her to the side of the school building. She tried to fight back, but they were just too strong. She eventually was tossed roughly to the ground, a group of girls surrounded her. The girl in the middle, who Minori assumed was the leader, she recognized as the girl that had threatened her on her first day that the school, and from the scowl that was now cemented on the girl's face, she was none too pleased with Minori.
"I don't get it, what makes you so special, huh?" the girl looked at her with cold eyes. "You can't even speak, you're a freak! Ugly!" the girl roughly picked her up, scared crimson eyes stared into cold and menacing gray ones. "Well let's see how everyone will like you when we show them just how ugly and a freak you are!" the other girls began to advance on the helpless Minori. She tried to run, but one of the girl's grabbed her hair and pulled her backwards. "I don't think so bitch!" one of them spat. Minori felt a hard kick to her abdomen, as well as more hard kicks and hits to her body, she tried to shield her face the best she could, but the girls still got hits in. By the time they were finished, Minori had a bruise under her right eye, a busted lip, a swollen left eye, and a bloody nose. Thankfully her glasses were just knock off and no harm had come to them. "T-there let's see how everyone will treat you now!" Minori was in too much pain to move, she felt the leader grab her roughly by her hair and she was holding a pair of scissors in her hand. "Just as a parting gift..." Minori's eyes widened as the scissors moved closer to her hair she began to trash around making it harder for the girl to position the scissors. "Stop...Moving!" the girl said through clenched teeth. Snip.
Minori was dropped roughly on the ground, the pair of scissor clattering down next to her. She watched with half lidded eyes as the girl and her group walking away, chatting as though nothing had happened. Once they were completely gone, Minori tried to the best of her ability to stand, but it hurt like hell, eventually though she managed. Minori grabbed her things and with all the strength she could muster limped home.
~Code Breaker~
"Minori-chan, what happened?!" Sakura exclaimed as she entered the household. The younger girl looked terrible, her face looked like shit and her hair had been cut. Her glasses were surprisingly the only thing in good shape. Minori looked at Sakura with pleading eyes. Sakura knew exactly what Minori was asking of her. 'Don't let Yuuki see me like this, please!'
"Alright, but when I patch you up, you'll explain what happened, understand?"
Minori hesitated for a moment before nodded. After about 2 hours in the bathroom, one hour tending her face which was covered in a variety of Band-Aids, and cotton patches along with applying ointment and bandaging a couple of bruises to her stomach, arms and legs and the other hour having to sadly cut her hair, which no longer extended down her back and stopped at her neck. Sakura was now just finishing up by putting pins on the sides of her hair. On the left side she crossed two white pins, while on the right side she used two red pins, with one of the red pins having a red cat on it and placed them in her hair, with only one piece of her hair covering a bit of her left eye.
"There, I'm done!" she announced as she stood back a bit to admire her work and for Minori to see it in the mirror. It wasn't what she was used to, but she couldn't deny that Sakura had done an amazing job. Minori gave smile and hugged Sakura, catching her off guard for a moment.
"You're very welcome Minori-chan. Now that we're done here...what happened?" her voice stern. After Minori's explained everything, Sakura felt like she was going to blow a gasket. "Why those stupid... Argh! I swear on Monday I'm gonna kick their asses, I don't care if I get expelled!"
—P-Please Sakura-chan don't, I'm fine!
Sakura slammed her hands down on the table causing Minori to flinch. "Fine?! Look at Minori-chan, you're not—!" the sound of a pot rumbling could be heard. "Ah, the curry!" Sakura quickly got up and ran into the kitchen to tend to the food. "Minori?!" Yuuki exclaimed as he came in and saw her face and hair. "What happened? Did someone do this to you?!" his usual cheery and calm demeanor changing. Minori averted eye contact. "Don't worry about it Yuuki, I know who did it, I'll handle it," Sakura stated. Yuuki nodded and made his way over to Minori. "Are you sure you're alright?" Yuuki asked in a caring tone. He looked at the Band-Aids and cotton patches that covered her face. Minori nodded and smiled. "Good, I just hate seeing you like this, especially when I'm not around to do anything." Yuuki pulled Minori into a hug, kissing her hair. "I think your hair's beautiful," he said smiling. Minori gave him a knowing look. A chuckle escaped Yuuki's lips, "I'm serious. Your hair was amazing before, but... the way it looks now. It suits you, it's cute."
A blush rose on Minori's face as she wrapped her arms around Yuuki and gave him a tight squeeze. "I love you too, Minori. Forever and always."
Code 12: END
A/N: Hey guys, I'm back with a new chapter. This one is quite the read so I hope you all enjoy and I hope to have more for you all soon :)
