A/N: Here's another update you guys! ^.^ There's some more Yuni/Yamato moments in this chapter and a rather scary Yuni so enjoy!
Amy Williams: It is a shame that he left but I'll always love him too lol. As for Yuni she's a tightly guarded vault so it at will take a while just keep trying ^.^
Wo-notice: Thanks! I've always felt bad for Baba-sensei he's so…disregarded
Chapter 11: Olives and Hazel
"I bet you think you've got this competition won already don't you?"
The harsh roll of the touch in these words drifted into Kyona's ear from all the way down the hall. The brutal intent of the tone had stopped her mid-sentence of what she had been talking to Nao about. The coal haired girl gave her a curious look but Kyona didn't give her much mind, she slowly turned her head to look down the hall where that bullying tone had come from.
Taguchi Kyona did not like what she saw.
There were some upperclassmen on the second year floor. Usually the seniors kept to their own space on the top floor of the building but occasionally, if the correct senior was crossed, they would come down from their high horses on the third floor and remind their kohai who was the top of the food-chain. Why would this not very common but otherwise normal event suddenly leave Kyona so displeased? Simple enough question with a simple enough answer: from the distance between Kyona and this group of roughly seven seniors the Akadou girlfriend could see within the small break in the group curling locks of amber hair and a stoic expression that, to Kyona, easily gave away the victims distress. That added onto the words spoke made it easy to know who their victim today was and Kyona would have none of it. She turned towards the hall sharply and began walking towards them. The girl who stood among them stared blankly ahead not surrendering any emotion to the older girls; this should be the right thing to do right? They'll eventually get bored and go away wouldn't they? Not these girls, they were here on a mission.
"Hisa is the Tennis champ around here" one of the shorter girls spoke in an uppity tone "it's her right to win and go up against the Kurogin girls"
"The only thing that's needlessly standing in the way is you" a girl beside the shorter girl added
"I would be running for the hills if I were you" another girl flanking the left of the group snickered out "Hisa-chan's boyfriend is head of the areas toughest gang. She could just as easily make you disappear but she's being nice so drop out of the competition"
"Get sick for the day"
"Spontaneously go on vacation"
"Fake an injury"
"Say it's a family emergency"
"Pretend you were kidnapped and got away"
"Just go away"
By the time Kyona had reached the group they were shouting their suggestions at the junior in a union of words that could not be separated from one another but still the young girl remained stone face. She stopped a distance and crossed her arms glaring at the girls as after a while they all began to cackle loudly at the second year.
"She thinks she's so hot because she use to be the hottest thing in Korea" one girl cackled out "believed me honey the cars around here make hotter road kill than you"
"Koreans must have really low standards" another mused
"I heard she was pretty low on the food-chain there too" a third girl chipped in before turning to the girl. Kyona tried her best not to snarl as the girl reached out and grabbed a handful of the kohai's hair "is that why you came here? To get a new start" her friends cackled on as this girl pouted in fake sympathy "changed your hair color, got a little surgery done and hope you can become popular here? How pathetic" pathetic? This girl? If only they knew who they were dealing with.
"Park Yun Lee" a fourth girl chirped "what a weird name, it's very ugly sounding don't you think?" her friends laughed on nodding their heads in agreement.
"She's been in so many relationships too, what a whore!" a fifth girl laughed "no wonder they don't last very long! She's as ugly as her name is!" the girl who had her hair muttered her agreement before giving the kohai's hair a not so gentle looking tug. Yuni, who had been silently taking all of this abuse, jerked her head slightly tugging her curly hair free so that it could once again drop to the side of her face.
Not wanting to jump in just yet and possibly make matters worse Kyona kept her distance and watched Yuni. Her face may have been blank but she was showing all the visible signs she normally does when she's in great distress. She was nibbling on her bottom lip, a habit that never failed to show her nerves, and her hand that were in front of her barely stayed that way, they kept moving from in front of her to her sides to behind her to her sides again. The last big sign was the face that those light eyes of her's held gave in to her nerves unlike her expression. They would look each girl in the eye for less than a half a minute before returning to the ground or straight ahead.
"Nana-chan" Nao spoke in a soft whisper from behind Kyona but the girl shook her head.
"Shh" she snapped watching on with sharp eyes.
"I heard she slept with her last teacher" a sixth girl added for good measure "such a girl doesn't deserve to play an honorable sport such as tennis"
"Maybe we should be careful" the first girl suggested "she's friends with that Akadou chick. You know, the one who's boyfriend got arrested a while back for those muggings"
"I heard this morning that his crew ganged up on some guy under Shirokin tunnel last night and beat his head in with pipes" the third girl added
"The fliers are everywhere" the fifth nodded her head "but Hisa-chans boyfriend fought those boys before, they're nothing but a bunch of wimps! They can't do anything right!" the girls would have cackled on for hours picking at Yuni but sudden the seventh girl raised a hand to silence them all. She was the tallest of the six other girls around her and through their jeering and cackling she stood silent, arms crossed, smirking at every insult her friend could come up with to throw at Yuni but now it appeared she was ready to speak her peace.
"Yuni" she said in almost a motherly tone that was laced with hate and arsenic "I'm not here to make your life a living hell, it may seem that way but I'm not" Hisa smiled a crocodiles grin as she spoke "I just feel since I've been in this country longer and well...I've been on this earth longer that I have the right to go up against Kurogin in the tennis competition. I'm more experienced than you; I am older than you and...Well... I've competed in more tournaments than you I'm sure. I've matched up with the best of the best that Japan has to offer and well...you...haven't." she looked Yuni in the eyes momentarily before Yuni looked away and bit down hard on her bottom lip, Hisa continued. "I just think it would be in your best interest and do our school the honor it deserves if you duck out of this one for me, but I have to hear you say you give up"
...silence... Yuni wouldn't say a word.
Not very pleased with the lack of reaction Hisa appeared to go for a darker route. She reached out and gripped Yuni's shirt bundling the fabric up and pulling the shorter girl up until she was on her toes. "Listen you ungrateful little bitch" Hisa snarled Kyona felt her muscles tighten and she glared daggers at the threatening figure. She couldn't act, not just yet. "I have worked too hard and too long for this just to have some useless little Korean come in and take it away from me" Hisa growled in Yuni's face "I can make your life in this school a living hell and I'll do so gladly. I will make it my mission for this year and the year you're a senior to make every day you come in this building worse than the last if you don't throw the competition" her threats had substance to back them up. Maiyuri Hisa was the senior who got what she wanted or there was hell to pay, Kyona had seen many a girl transfer out of Momo because they stood in her way. The other juniors in the hall stopped what they were doing and watched at a distance, they watched their idol be victimized but made no effort to stop it or defend Yuni because they knew just like Kyona did.
Of all the seniors to cross Yuni crossed the wrong one.
She only seemed to be making the girl angrier by not reacting or responding to her threats if anything Yuni gained a look of boredom from within her distress and this did not sit well with Hisa but what came out of her mouth next, and Kyona from that day on said that was a nail in the seniors coffin she'd never pry off, was the mother of all things you should never say to Yuni.
"you heard of the golden hawks right?" she spoke smugly "well my boyfriend so happens to lead that gang, if you don't wise up quick all I have to do is send him a little text on my phone here" she held up her pink phone with free hand "and he'll be on his way to your little brothers middle school in five minutes, catch my drift?" a tense silence drifted through the hallway as no one dared to speak after this threat. Some girls grew very pale and shook while others gained all knowing grins.
"...uhoh" Kyona heard Nao mutter from behind her while Kyona winced. Uhoh was right. Poor, stupid upperclassmen Hisa, if she wasn't so busy on her high of being the supposed top dog of the school like the other seniors she would have known what the juniors and freshmen knew too well: you never threaten Yuni's little brother.
You see there was a reason Yuni was so idolized and loved by her peers and Kohai. She was smart, pretty and one of the sweetest girl you could ever hope to meet. However Yuni wasn't just loved as an idol she was feared to the equivalent of a god. Why? Because when it came to Yon-kun Yuni wasn't just a sister cub, she was a teeth bearing, razor claws drawn, brute strength, in your face and make you want to die tiger mother and she could take a long list of teasing and bullying to her own person, it was almost like she really didn't care what happen to her sometimes, but she didn't like it when you threatened Yon-kun. A handful of the girls in this very hall who looked ready to cry right now beard the claw marks of their brush with the tiger and none of them would forget it.
All eyes were on Yuni now with faint curiosity, she could stand up to her classmates and kohai all she wants but would she really go at it with Maiyuri Hisa? Her boyfriend was a gang leader! She could get seriously hurt! Yuni changed when the threat seemed to finally sink in, she released her bottom lip from the torture of being bitten, her fidgety hands settled to a neat fold in front of her and with an uncharacteristic tilt of her head to the side her light eyes smoldered into a dark olive color. Oh yes, she was going to do it alright. Kyona took a couple of steps back pushing Nao with her and crossed her arms.
And now the show begins.
"...are you done?" Yuni finally spoke lining the hall and all those within with icicle with her cold tone. She stared Hisa in the eyes now as her now freed bottom lip formed a deep frown "I'm sorry, I was just waiting for you to finish your...adorable little speech. It would have been very rude to interrupt you while you were so passionately speaking Senpai" a wicked smirk curved the corner of Yuni's lips and all Hisa could do was scowl at her.
"Don't look down on me" she barked "I have my phone right here, I'll even call him right in front of you" with her free hand the senior flipped open her sleek pink phone. Nao hissed in a breath and Kyona shook her head softly, Hisa was just digging herself a deeper grave. Yuni's hand moved like lighting grabbing hold of the phone before Hisa could even think to start dialing her boyfriend's number. The amber haired girl easily yanked the phone free and with her other hand pried Hisa's grip from her uniform. She took a step back and examined to phone.
"...what cheap plastic" Yuni remarked as she examined the phone for a moment before a loud snap echoed through the hall and the seven seniors gasped, Yuni had broken the phone in half. The seniors had their round of insults and name calling now the ball was in the junior's court, it was Yuni's turn to play. Keeping the pieces in her hands Yuni slowly locked her eyes on the first girl to start throwing insults at her "it's funny you should mention road kill" she addressed the girl "wasn't your fathers restaurant just forced to close down because they discovered you were feeding customers animals they found on the street struck by cars?"
"That's not!" the girl snapped color draining from her face "how did you-" Yuni moved on to the next girl.
"and you" she spoke calmly "your standards are so low you'll go a round with anything that has a pulse" her wicked smirk curved even higher as she paused "or maybe you prefer cold flesh over warm...allegedly" she added with a dark implication. This girl, like the first, turned a ghost white she turned to the first girl with wide horrified eyes.
"That hasn't gotten out to the news yet" she whispered harshly "how does she know about that?" but Yuni again was moving on.
"Tell me" she addressed the third girl who squeaked in response "how did it feel to be in my shoes in Okinawa? Did the bullies there just say too much for you? Could you just not take it anymore so you moved to the mainland, changed your name, Begged your parents for the money to get you that new nose and well... Other things" this girl shot a hand to her nose and glared daggers at Yuni who was now smiling like an evil monster "your parents are almost bankrupt you know" she added salt to the wound and a dark laugh "I don't even know how you can even afford to go here! Your parents had to beg my mother for money to borrow so you could keep your house!" she laughed on as she moved along the ling skipping Hisa to claw at the fourth girl "and for your information" her smile dropped for a moment as she glared at this girl "my name was given to me by my father, and it means lotus flower. So far as I know that is a beautiful thing compared to an ugly, hairy, red mouthed demon... Akajita-senpai"
"That's not what I was named after" she snapped angrily.
"Coming from someone who" Yuni was starting on the next girl in the lineup but she couldn't complete her sentence, she burst into fits of giggles before she could go on "...someone whose been caught in the red light district...five times each time with a different guy! You have no right to call me a whore! Nor does your little friend here" she meant the sixth girl who cowered behind the fifth as if those now dark olive eyes of Yuni's couldn't pierce her soul and drag out her darkest secrets for all to hear "didn't you get your junior high teacher arrested after you were caught with him in a love motel?"
"Stop it!" the sixth girl cried "it was a mistake! I didn't know what I was doing!"
"...I'm sure you didn't" Yuni frown with fake sympathy before her eyes once again met Hisa. The senior before her scowled and crossed her arms as Yuni, with her head still tipped in such and unYuni-like way, moved her hands from the front of her to behind her and her eyes examined the girl "and then there's you" Yuni remarked her smirk returning to her.
"Gonna pry into me now?" Hisa laughed out seemingly unimpressed "give me your worse; I don't have anything to hide. I'm proud of all I've done"
"I wouldn't be" Yuni replied with a throaty chuckle "sure you've gone against japans best but you lost" Hisa frowned while students in the hall gasped, Hisa proudly bragged how she slaughtered the competition and beat the best Japan had to offer and that lie just came rocketing to the surface "not only did you lose but you didn't even place in any of the tournaments you've been in. Even if you did, even if you are the best of you age in Japan I'm the best Korea has to offer of my age" Yuni took a step forward and Hisa took a step back "I've faced off with the best in china, France, the US, Canada...and guess what senpai?" another step was taken forward and another taken back by senpai and kohai as Yuni leaned forward slight "I won" she whispered this with a cocky grin.
"Nana-chan" Nao whimpered from behind Kyona "stop her, she's scaring me"
"Sorry Nao-chan but I can't do that" Kyona replied with a slight chuckle "she's on a roll now, there is no stopping her at this point" it would be like trying to stop a giant snowball half way down a hill as it rolls at full speed: a nice thought but hopeless.
"You say your boyfriend is from the Golden hawks right? The leader right?" Yuni earned Kyona's attention again as she spoke on "Akai Hana took really good care of him I heard" she smirked "more than half the gang ducked out after the second time she came around"
"They didn't duck out!" Hisa snapped, she was backing away now while Yuni advanced on her "they're taking a break!"
"Those pathetic wimps ducked out and you know it" Yuni's voice lashed like a whip now and her dark eyes were growing wide in size, the big finally was coming up because by the looks of it tiger mother was getting ready to pounce on poor Hisa. "the Golden hawks are no more and so is your threat" she was closing in on Hisa with those freakish eyes of hers, Kyona was sure if anything about this would strike fear into Hisa it would be the look Yuni was giving her right now. So filled with rage and hidden power, her voice was calm but her eyes betrayed to demon within that didn't like to be made angry, any cutthroat businessman with kill for the talent Yuni was displaying right now. "How common of you to threaten me using my brother. How common and spineless and tasteless. Would you like to hear what a real threat sounds like senpai?" the tiger attacked gripping the seniors uniform and yanking her down to Yuni's eye level "I have influence that stretches pretty damn far, you think you can make my life in school a living hell? I'll make your life in this town a living hell, I'll make you suffer in so many ways you'll be at my feet begging for forgiveness by the end of this week and that is something I can promise." oh how wide Hisa eyes had become, now she was going pale like her friends before her, Kyona could even see a hint of a shudder from the senior while Yuni dragged on "your friends will ignore you, your boyfriend will leave you, your parents will hate you and you'll be the laughing stock of this school for as long as I see fit and I think I'm in the mood for a long year of torment" how sadistic of Yuni by saying this but the girl didn't seem to care, her eyes softened a bit and her grip loosened after the threat was made, if she really was a tiger this would the moment she caught her preys neck in her razor teeth and deciding if she should bite down or not. "But I'm going to leave you with a warning today" Yuni spoke softly at this point but her harsher look of rage returned a moment later "keep your grubby paws off my little brother and we'll be cooler than cucumbers. I'll forget this ever happen and you can go back to being queen bee but if so much as a hair is misplaced on his head and I find out it was because of you then you better buy some kneepads because the floor isn't very comfy against tennis knees...catch my drift?" and with a hard shove Yuni was done.
The tiger lowly backed away growling and snarling dangerously as Yuni turned away from the senior calmly and began walking to what everyone would assume would be her classroom. Behind her Hisa stared at her in shock and then humiliation and quickly to rage.
"Don't you dare turn your back on me!" the senior snarled charging at Yuni with fist tight. Gasp and yells echoed through the hall as the senior swung at Yuni who turned around just in time to catch a fist inches from her face before it was stopped cold. Hisa was stumped feeling a tight grip hold her forearm in place and keeping her from slugging the uppity Korean before her. She turned to look at who stopped her and met the amused brown eyes of Akadou chick and best friend to Yuni, Taguchi Kyona.
"I don't think so" her face danced with delight before she drew back a fist of her own and decked the girl hard. Hisa's friends jumped in almost immediately after their leader went down and a few juniors jumped in in an effort to defend their idol.
The hall rumbled with the screams and yells of girls of all ages as the fight grew out of control, seven seniors against over thirty enraged juniors...this fight was later deemed 'The Maiyuri incident' by the frighten freshmen down on the main floor who did not know that a fight broke out, just that the ceiling rattled with the stomping and the yelling could not be ignored.
It was later, when teachers were finally able to break it up and figure out who start it, Kyona found herself in a rather...familiar situation. She stood outside her classroom sporting a nasty black eye holding two heavy buckets of water in her hands. From beside her Yuni groaned in pain, this was the first time the girl had ever been punished, she must not be used to it.
"I'm sorry Nana" Yuni mutter softly "this is my fault" her eyes had faded from their olive shade back to the light color they normally were, the tiger was back in her den. Kyona snorted and shrugged her shoulders.
"I've always wanted to deck that girl" she replied with a chuckle "it's no big deal"
"Do you think maybe I went too far this time?" Yuni asked bashfully, it was like Yuni had been possessed! If you didn't know Yuni like Kyona did you think there's no possibly way someone so...so...fragile could be that same tiger from before. Kyona laughed slightly.
"Are you kidding? I thought she was going to pee herself! That was amazing! I like how you broke her phone like that" Kyona mused tugging a tiny grin from her friend. Ren had always asked why Kyona put up with Yuni's attitude some times, well...this was why.
"That...was pretty cool wasn't it?" her grin grew just a bit more. The two friends gazed at each other in silence before both couldn't hold it in anymore and burst in fits of snickers and giggles at what had taken place in this very hall not long ago.
"I have to call the guys and tell them I can't hangout today" Kyona pointed out Yuni nodded as her giggles died down.
"It's going to take hours for us to clean that gym!" she complained
"I hope the boys aren't getting into too much trouble"
Oh they were in so much trouble!
Even though that was a fact Umeki, being a former delinquent, found herself trying her very hardest not to laugh as she gazed impressed with Akadou 3D's latest work. She was standing right behind head teacher Sawatari with the painful feeling like her lungs were about to burst, her shoulders shook with the laughter she was trying her hardest to keep in and her eyes were starting to water. Oh god she was going to die!
"Who did it!" roared the head teacher "who defaced the portrait of the chairman!"
"We don't know" was the innocently guilty chorus of the class that made Umeki lurch forward with a hand to her mouth as she tried not to start laughing. Head teacher Sawatari whipped his head around to look at her to find she quickly composed herself and was now stone faced. He turned back to the class and the stone cracked sending Umeki crumbling into her fits of body shuddering laughter. These boys, they would kill her!
"Did you guys really do it?" Yankumi chirped, she looked at the portrait of the chairmen with all its scribbles and drawing scattered across it and turned a questioning eye to the class.
"We don't know anything about it" Ogata spoke up from the back of the class with that smug look on his face that just screamed he did it.
"Listen to them" the head teacher grumble digging a hand into his pocket
"Judging from this they must be responsible for last night's incident too!" there was a rustle of paper before the head teacher was waving a flyer in their faces. Curiosity came to Umeki, everyone had been talking about these flyers but she had yet to actually see one yet. The nurse calmly took the paper from her boss and looked it over. It told tale of a gang of teens running around Shirokin tunnel beating people up...wait but Umeki had been in Shirokin tunnel last night...she must have gotten lucky.
"What was that?" Ogata shot out of his seat with Kazama close behind him.
"Don't go making decisions like that on your own!" Kazama snapped. The words of their leaders seemed to rile the boys up because a handful of them were banging on their desk and yelling now.
"If you don't want to be suspected" the teacher tried to yell out strongly back up to the door in fear "behave responsibly" and so the fuse met the bomb. The classroom exploded in screams and yells of anger directed at the teacher who now looked to Yankumi for help. Standing in front of all these angry boys, now Umeki knew how Yankumi felt putting up with her class three years back... Guess she should put a stop to this... Taking in a breath Umeki gathered up all she had in her and whimpered loud enough to for the class of boys to hear.
"A gang of thugs lurking around Shirokin tunnel?" she gasped clenching the paper in her hands tightly and frowning deeply "b-but I go through Shirokin tunnel to go home! Kowai!" god she should get an award for how damn good she could act. The class settled down like that gazing at Umeki in awe.
"...how does she do it?" she heard the head teacher mutter.
"...I don't know..." Yankumi replied. Once 3D had finally calmed down Umeki did her woke and was easily on her way leaving the boys to be the victims of their teachers annoying passions towards rugby.
"So what do you guys wanna do today?" Ren asked the same question he did everyday but like everyday there was an indecisive look among them. Jun snickered, they might not care now but when they left the school there would be arguments on what to do.
"Let's go by that Takoyaki stand again" Jun suggested leaning back in his seat getting hums in return. So it was decided.
"let's go pick up Nana-chan first" Kura added before casting Honjo a sly look "we can invite Yuni-chan to hangout with us again Honjo will like that won't you"
"Shut up" the obviously embarrassed boy glared at him but he couldn't fight the grin coming to his face.
"Oh right I forgot" Jun jumped in lazily "Nana and Yuni are under punishment so they probably can't join us"
"Eh?" Ren arched a brow at this "I can understand Nana getting into trouble but Yuni-chan too? How did that happen?"
"I don't know the details" Jun replied digging his hand into his pocket for his phone and flipping it open so he could read the text his sister had sent him earlier "all she said is that they got into a fight with some seniors and they have to clean the school gym as punishment" that girl? Get into a fight? How in the hell could that happen? Yuni might be a bit of an uppity bitch, or at least that's was Yamato thought, but she seemed so fragile and easily frightened.
So how? Well it would be later that day, after stopping at that Takoyaki stand and having Ichi spontaneously bail on the group that Yamato would find out how. They had been lounging in one of their usual spot when a couple of Momo girls came chattering by. Normally the guys would hit on these girls but the subject they spoke about catch the group's attention.
"You were up there? In all that mess?" one girl yelped in surprise, the other girl nodded "Kowai, the whole ceiling shook from that fight" Fight? The boys strained their ears to listen in.
"I saw it with my own eyes" the second girl remarked "it was Yuni-senpai and that senior Maiyuri Hisa...you know the one who dates that gang member? And then Kyona-senpai jumped in and the whole thing went crazy!" the girl flipped her phone open "I recorded the whole thing, wanna see?"
"excuse me" the two girls jumped when Ren stood up from his spot "do you mind if we see too?" surprisingly enough the girls complied, weather out of fear or just because they were asked Yamato didn't know, no sooner did Ren ask were the five guys huddled together watching the video on the phone.
The Yuni that Yamato found himself staring at in this video actually scared him just a bit and nothing scared Yamato. The way she tipped her head to the side and drew her eyes wide as if just itching for a fight and the dark tone in her voice...why did this girl remind Yamato a little bit of the frigid bitch that he recalled she was when she had first turned Honjo down so coldly. Now Yamato was really interested in this girl, he grinned to himself as the Yuni in the video back a senior twice her size and height into a corner and shove her hard. Soon after Nana appeared saving her friend from a punch before decking to senior herself and that was all Yamato wanted to see.
"Sorry guys" he spoke to his friends "I've gotta go"
"Eh?" heads turned in his direction as he rose from his crouched position and stretched his limbs before turning away from his friends. "Where are you going?" Ren called but all Yamato did was wave over his shoulder and walk on.
"Oi! Yamato!"
Yuni sighed tiredly wiping sweat from her brow before bending down and picking the bucket she had back up. Just a few more steps and she would be back inside. All she had to do was duo this dirt water and take the bucket back inside so she could continue her punishment. She didn't like this punishment at all, her limbs ached from the repetitive motions of mopping and scrubbing the floors and walls, her skin was salty with icky sweat, the skin on her hands was peeling from constant friction and water, she had blister forming on her fingers and to top it off she was sure she reeked of cleaning chemicals. She vowed never to get into trouble again so long as she lived.
"Curse the messes I get myself into" the tired girl muttered as she dump the water out slowly "I'm never doing that again"
"Why not? You were in your right, she threatened Yon-kun" who the hell was talking to her right now? Was she talking to herself? Yuni grumbled to herself, these chemicals were making her delusional "if that had been me I'd have knocked her clean out" upon actually letting this voice register to her it sound deeper than a girls voice. Great, now she was sure the chemicals were making her delusional.
"She's a senior" Yuni replied to this voice in her head, maybe talking to it would make this punishment go by faster "I shouldn't be picking fights with seniors"
"...funny" the bright sun that was beating down on Yuni back suddenly disappeared as a shadow loomed over her person. She wasn't delusional, someone was here! "That doesn't seem to stop you from picking a fight with me all the time"
"EEK!" a startled Yuni yelped as she whipped around, the wind whistled as she flung the metal bucket at owner of the shadow. It struck the poor person with a loud CLANG! Before clattering to the ground, Yuni could hear them curse loudly as she moved fast crawling away from them as fast as she could.
"Hold on a second!" this unknown guy barked, they grabbed hold of one her ankles as she crawled and Yuni fumbled in her effort to get away. In a panic Yuni screamed out glancing over her shoulder and swinging her free leg so she could kick the creep in the head. He must have seen this coming because he caught her leg by the ankle and with a hard yank Yuni was flipped onto her back with a grunt "I'm usually not rough with girls but-" whatever he had said after that was drowned out by Yuni's yelling.
"Let me go! I'm warning you, you have no idea who you're messing with!" she screeched at the guy thrashing her legs around in a desperate attempt to get free from him. He paused keeping a firm grip on her ankles and keeping her in place.
"Park Yun Lee" the guy said after a long amount of silence, he chuckled "what's your problem?" what was her problem, what was her problem? Was this guy stupid or just a twisted bastard? The frantic girl shot the guy a glare but as they're eyes met her glare faltered. That face, she knew that face!
"O...Ogata?" she squeaked out staring with wide eyes at the smirking Akadou boy who nodded at her. What was he doing here?...more importantly what was he doing to her? Casting her light eyes to her ankles that he gripped so tightly Yuni flashed a vibrant shade of pink "get off me" she snarled and after another swift kick of both legs the boy let go with a look of amusement as he watched the girl roll onto her hands and knees before getting to her feet.
She brushed dirt off her tan blazer that she had tied around her waist and refolded the sleeves of her white shirt back to her elbows. She had her back turned to Yamato but she looked over her shoulder occasionally to glare at him before looking back at her uniform whipping that curly ponytail of her's around as she did. Not bothered anymore by the girls standoff-ish attitude towards him Yamato stood up straight shoving his hands into his pockets.
"What are you still doing at school? Don't you have to pick up your brother?" Yuni grumbled under her breath turning to face Yamato.
"That's none of your business" she snapped pushing past him and picking up the bucket she had thrown at him "what are you doing here anyway? Shouldn't you be out somewhere causing trouble?" Yamato turn to her and Yuni had to look away just to avoid looking into his amused eyes.
"I wanted to come see the big trouble maker that started a big fight today" what did he mean by that? Yuni tucked the bucket under her arm and walked past him again.
"I'll get Nana-chan then" she replied casually as she past him "wait here, she'll be out in a-" Yamato pulled a hand from his pocket and gripped Yuni's wrist stopping her words and footsteps. Her muscles flexed and tensed under his fingers and she fell into silence keeping her back to him.
"I'm not here to see Nana" he corrected her, Yuni looked back at him this time and her light brown eyes reflected curiosity and confusion. To further explain what he meant Yamato nodded his head in the direction of school gate "come on, let's go" Yuni frowned deeply at this and quickly pulled her hand free from his.
"I can't" she replied "I'm in trouble, I have to clean the gym as punishment" Yamato snorted rolling his eyes reaching out and taking her wrist again.
"How are you Nana's friend and you've never ditched work before?" he snorted out, he wasn't taking no for an answer. Without much effort Yamato pulled the girl towards the gate. Yuni stared at the back of Yamato's head as she stumbled after his in a battle between wanting to leave and knowing she had a responsibility to help Kyona back at the gym.
"B-b-but" she stammered out trying to get free with weak tugs "Nana-chan, I'd be leaving her to clean the rest of the gym by herself" with that said she looked over her shoulder at her school "I really shouldn't-"
"How many times has Nana ditched you for a date with Ren?" Yamato looked back at her and smirked at the look of realization that crossed the girl's expression "it's only fair that she covers for you from time to time"
"..." the two stopped just before the gate and stared at one another while Yuni looked for words to reply to Yamato with. Finally, after what felt like hours, she replied "so..." she said timidly "this is a...date?" well Yamato hadn't expected her to say that. He lost his smirk and replaced it with a slight frown as Yuni's cheeks were getting even deeper in shade. Rather than answer her Yamato took the bucket from her and tossed it.
"Just come on" he ordered turning round and pulling Yuni with him and though the girl stammered her protest she hardly fought him so off they went away from the school leaving an oblivious Kyona behind.
The girl in question was currently busy as a bee mopping away at the gym floor. Sweating much like Yuni had been Kyona had adjusted her uniform like her friend did and twisted her hair up into a messy bun to keep it out of her face. She had suspected that her friend had simply stopped to take a break and that was why she was taking so long to come back with a clean bucket of water. The gym door clamped open and the noise of it echoed through the gym announcing what Kyona thought was her friends return.
"That was a long break" Kyona called to Yuni not once looking up from the floor as she did "you must be really tired, go sit down Yuni I can do the work from here on" Yuni didn't reply, the soft echo of her footsteps was all Kyona heard coming towards her. That was weird; Yuni is never this quiet and compared to how much she had been talking before she left there had to be something wrong. The footsteps stopped right behind Kyona and still Yuni said nothing. "Yuni?" Kyona turned to look at the girl "are you okay? Did something happen outsi-" oh by all fates and powers of the universe that was not Yuni.
"Yo" the Kurogin pin reflected light into Kyona's stunned face as none other than Omoto Seiji who waved at her with his free hand; the other held a bucket of fresh water. Overcoming her shock Kyona yelped loudly releasing the mop in her hand and tried to jump back and put some distance between her and the boy. Her legs tangled up in instrument and with an even louder scream Kyona tumbled backwards and onto the gym floor in a poof of water and soapy foam. Seiji didn't bad so much as an eyelash at this "you're a clumsy one aren't you?" he asked her blankly. Kyona glared at the boy from her spot on the floor.
"What the hell are you doing here?" she barked at him with eyes wide "where's Yuni?" her eyes grew even wider "what did you do to Yuni?" Seiji rolled his eyes at the girl.
"Do you really have such a low opinion of me?" he asked staring down at her.
"You've only given me reasons to hate you" she hissed "what do you think..." Kyona paused in her insults...what was it that Yuni called Yamato all the time? "Babo!" she snapped angrily when she recalled the word. Seiji gained a crooked grin tipping her head ever so slightly.
"It's not nice to call people idiots you know" he replied "some guy came and took Yun Lee away" someone took Yuni?
"And you just let them?" Kyona screeched so hard she was sure she popped a blood vessel somewhere. Quickly Kyona slipped and stumbled back to her feet taking fistfuls of the jerks blazer and snarling at him "you just stood back and watched some guy take and innocent girl away? What the hell is wrong with you?"
"She didn't yell for help or fight him" Seiji replied to Kyona calmly despite how angry she was "she seem to know him and they talked about you for a minute before he took her away...what was his name?...O-something...O...O..." Kyona could feel her patience evaporating as the jerk gained a confused look as he tried to recall the name. Who did both Yuni and Kyona know that was a guy with a name that starts with O?
"...Ogata?" Kyona offered, Seiji snapped his fingers and grinned.
"That's it! Ogata! That's what she said his name was! He said it was only fair that you cover for Yun Lee because you're always ditching her to go out on dates with some Ren fellow" he explained to Kyona's curiosity, what would Yamato want with Yuni? How weird. Kyona let this mull over in her mind as she released the Kurogin boy, he eyes her curiously "so this Ren guy is your boyfriend isn't he?" he asked casually "you skip a lot of classes for that guy"
"If you're here to bash my boyfriend I hope you're ready to lose some teeth" Kyona turned away Seiji picking the mop she dropped back up and went back to work. The boy laughed at this and too turned away moving across the gym. Kyona watched him closely as he moved over to where Yuni had been scrubbing the floor. He slipped off his blazer, rolled up his sleeves and dropped onto the floor and this got Kyona very curious. She stopped mopping and turned to look at him "what are you doing?" she asked
"You still have a lot to clean" the boy looked back at her briefly before picking up the brush Yuni had left behind and began scrubbing the floor "if you try to do this by yourself you'll be here all night." so did that mean he was going to help her?... "I figured after the fight I heard you had today the last thing you should be doing is trying to clean an entire gym by yourself so..." he gave her a quick grin before he went back to scrubbing.
Kyona watched the boy as he took over Yuni's abandoned task, she really didn't want to and she fought it all the way but as she went back to work a small smile tugged at her lips.
"So who was that threading a girl twice her size that I saw?"
Yuni couldn't answer the question at first. Her cheek puffed out like an overstuffed chipmunk and she chewed the grilled meat with delight. How could food grilled at a stand taste so good? It was amazing! From beside her Yamato watched the girl trying to swallow the three pieces of Yakitori she had shoved into her mouth only moments ago. It was like she was starving, what was the rush? As fate would have it the girl had stuffed far too much into her mouth to answer leaving her, for once silent. Yamato laughed at this.
"You were really scary Yuni-chan" Yamato commented to the girl. She swallowed as much as she could after this comment.
"I didn't mean to" was what Yamato was guessing she said though her mouth was still very full so one could never be sure. After a couple of more chews and a satisfies swallow Yuni's cheeks flattened back the way they should be "I kind of just saw red, she said she'd get her gang leader boyfriend to go to Yon-kun's school!" that was a good enough reason to snap at someone but Yuni hadn't just snapped, she exploded. The thing about it was she looked far too comfortable making those threats for someone who's as apparently fragile as Yuni. Maybe the reason she didn't talk about her old school wasn't because she had been bullied badly like Yamato had originally thought, maybe she had been the bully, maybe something really bad happen and she left the country to get away from it and didn't like talking about it, that would make a lot of sense to Yamato.
"You did a good job" Yamato commented patting the girls head "I don't think she'll be doing anything to you or Yon-kun for a long time" this obviously pleased Yuni because she smiled sweetly at Yamato before ordering more Yakitori to the boy's amazement. Damn not only could this girl eat but she sure as hell money to spend, this was the fifth time she ordered more for herself.
"These are really good" she hummed happily to Yamato "thanks for taking me here Yamato" she was too happy to notice but Yamato arched a brow at her; she had called him by his first name. A level of trust must have been crossed, perfect.
"you sure do have a lot of money to throw around" he commented to the girl getting a curious look from her "do you work?" the question sounded very stupid the minute after it came out of his mouth, Yuni always went home after picking up her brother how would she have a job? Stupid, stupid.
"My parents" Yuni answered "my dad sends me money every week and my mom does the same from time to time" ah right, her parents were never home they were always...busy.
"So Yon told me your fathers a professor?"
"Mm" Yuni nodded gaining a similar smile to the one Yon had when talking about their father "he teaches Korean at a college in Okinawa" Okinawa?
"That's pretty far" Yamato commented staring at Yuni with slight surprise "why would a father go and do that and leave his two kids on their own like that?" their father sounded like a jerk!
"He didn't want to" Yuni replied, she traced circles around the palm of her hand with the wooden skewer from the Yakitori she had eaten moments ago "it's always been his dream to be a college professor and that numbskull was ready to turn down a great offer because then Yon and I would be home alone. I promised I'd take care of Yon and made him take the job" Yuni raised her head and looked Yamato in the eyes, she smiled sweetly at him and shrugged "it's no big deal, it really isn't much work considering I get a lot of help"
"Help?" Yamato questioned, the way Yon talked it sounded like Yuni spent all her time focused on her brother. That was one of the things that had driven Yamato to get Yuni today, knowing the girls habit far too well at this point he knew she'd go straight home. She needed to get out more and Yamato would make her do just that one step at a time. He'd get her to trust him and then he'd learn her great secret. He was about to question Yuni on about this help she seemed to have but as the cloud pulled away from the sun and the giant ball of fire shined on Yuni's eyes just right he was silenced. Her eye couldn't be light brown; now that he looked at them Yamato could see green in there. He leaned closer and Yuni, feeling uncomfortable, leaned back.
"What is it?" she questioned "...is there something on my face" Yamato didn't answer, instead he leaned even closer staring the girl in the eyes before...
"Hazel"
"Eh?" Yuni blinked when he spoke before noticing how close he was to her face and looked away with a deep blush. Yamato quickly made her look back at him.
"Your eyes" he stated "they're hazel" oh how red Yuni turned under the boys touch but despite her embarrassment Yuni felt a hint of glee. No one had even noticed that before, everyone just thought Yuni's eyes were a unique shade of light brown even her closest of friends and classmates had thought that and here was this guy who's gut Yuni hated and he, with just a simple look, noticed that they were Hazel not light brown. Only one other person had notice that on their own before...
"You noticed huh?" Yuni pulled her face free from Yamato's hand and quickly turned her face away. Yamato didn't move away, he kept himself leaned forward and kept staring at her...what was he looking at? Yuni felt her face getting redder under his stares "it's a family trait, you always knew someone was a true member of my family by the color of their eyes" the girl stammered bashfully but with a hint of pride "it's a dominate gene"
"They're beautiful" Yamato stated
"...Arigatou" Yuni smiled brightly "I've been told mind are the lightest in the family, not even my mom's are as light as mine" Yamato watched as she frowned after saying this. Was there some kind of tension with her mother? "...I don't like them" she went on; she must have meant her eyes. Why wouldn't she like them? They were unique and if Yamato would openly compliment the girl for anything he would say those pretty eyes of her's fit her perfectly.
"Why not?" he leaned back again boredly looking up at the clouds passing by "it's better than the boring old brown, you could even land yourself a boyfriend if you weren't such a bitch sometimes"
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that bitch remark" Yuni snarled pointing a skewer at Yamato making him laugh, what was she going to do about it if he said it again? Should he test her?
"...bitch" he remarked again smirking mischievously at the girl as she sent him a glare.
"Asshole" oh! So miss uppity could curse! What was this world coming to?
"Seriously though" Yamato said through his chuckles "why don't you like your eyes?"
"...It's complicated" she answered pushing off the bench as her order was finished. It's complicated, everything was with this girl or at least that's what she liked to say. Yon had said that before too. Yamato leaned back thinking about what the little runt had said to him yesterday.
"Noona doesn't like to walk alone in the dark. I think it's because she's afraid of the dark but she always tells me it's complicated"
"So" Yuni said trying to change the subject when she came back and sat back down, she grinned happily at Yamato and turned on the bench to face him "Anymore questions you want to ask? Think you have enough of my trust yet?" He had question alright, Yamato looked this lovely girl up and down before opening his mouth.
"Why do you hate the dark so much?" he asked, Yuni frowned "are you afraid of the dark?" perhaps she had just said it was complicated because that was her secret, she was afraid of the dark. Yamato watched Yuni closely wondering if he had just discovered her secret. She shook her head turning her eyes away from him and staring at the grilled meat in her hands.
"It's not that" she said softly nervously nibbling at the grilled meat on the skewer "I know it looks that way but it really isn't. It's just…hard" Now she was just being cryptic as usual, Yamato crossed his arms and fixed Yuni with a stern look that she tried her best not to see.
"Hard to be out in the dark alone?" he questioned and Yuni nodded "Well…why? Yon says you feel better when you're holding someone's hand"
"Yon talks too damn much sometimes" Yuni snapped in a slight grumble and tugged a slight grin of victory from Yamato's mouth, if she was getting snappy and nervous he was onto something. The pretty girl took in a deep breath and sighed looking up at the clouds drifting slowly through the now orange sky. Yamato looked up as well, it would be dark soon his time today was almost up. "I just…" Yuni's words drifted into the sky above the two "from my own experience it's better for everyone if I'm not outside alone when it's dark out." She explained darkly "speaking of which… I should be heading home now" guess his time was up, Yuni was slowly raising to her feet now digging into her blazer pocket for her wallet, all Yamato could do was silently watch the girl as she paid for her food and looked back at Yamato. Her Hazel eyes shimmered as she smiled sweetly at Yamato. "Thanks for the treat today….Anno…we should do it again sometime" with a new found hint of pink to her cheeks Yuni turned quickly and was off in a run. Yamato sighed, like always Yuni left in a hurry obviously at this point refusing to give him anymore answers, looks like he had to dig a bit deeper.
"Cute girlfriend you have there" the stands cook commented to him a moment later. Hmmm yea she was pretty cute- wait what?
"She's not my girlfriend" Yamato snapped standing up as well.
"Yea sure" the man behind the stand laughed "That's what they all say"
Today turned out to be a real bummer. Not only did the gang not know what to do with their time but eventually everyone just dispersed one after another soon after Yamato departed from the group saying her had something to do. Now Ren walked casually by himself with a bored expression staring at the orange and red sky. What was he doing now you may ask? He was heading towards Momo academy.
Kyona had to clean the gym with Yuni as punishment for starting a fight today according to Jun. Now Ren didn't want to brag or anything but he knew Kyona almost as good if not better than her own family did and since he did he knew that even with Yuni help Kyona would still be in that big school gym cleaning away or goofing off instead of cleaning. Figuring she'd enjoy herself more, and the couple could have some much needed alone time, Ren decided he'd go and see her and send Yuni hone before it got dark out. He brushed past the gate with his bag slung over his shoulder and headed straight for the gym; he knew where it was because this wasn't the first time Kyona had this type of punished. When he reached the hall a loud clatter reached his ears a hall or two away. Wheels screeched against the tile floor somewhere nearby and an amused smirk came to Ren's face when he heard the signature squeals and giggles of his girlfriend. The girls must be having a lot of fun. He could hear cleaning equipment clattering loudly in the cart they were being pushed getting louder as they came closer to him, Ren peered around the corner ready to surprise the girls but what he heard and saw stopped him short.
"Hang on tight!"
"No!No! Don't go faster! The carts gonna fall over!" Kyona say atop the metal cart gripping the edges as tightly as her slender fingers could. Her eyes were wide with excitement and the wind from the speed the chart was going sent her red hued hair blowing back. Of course this would be a normally amusing sight for Ren but the thing was that wasn't Yuni pushing the cart his girlfriend was riding on. The deep voice that had told her to hold on belonged to some guy Ren didn't recognize. The guy grinned playfully as Kyona looked back at him, he put all his might into pushing harder and in response Kyona wailed loudly in fear and delight "Slow down!" she squealed "Omoto-kun! Stop! We're gonna crash!" and after a few minutes this …Omoto-kun abruptly stop the cart, not prepared for the sudden stop Kyona yelped as she found herself being throw from the metal box on wheels.
"Kyona-chan!" Omoto's eyes went wide and he dove forward circling his arms around the girl's waist, the cart pushed forward as the two teens toppled on top of it. The cart zoomed past where Ren was leaning against a wall and down the hall before crashing against a wall loudly and very painfully sounding. Buckets rolled and brushes slid across the floor away from the mess the two teens had just created and Ren hid behind a corner watching the guy with his girlfriend. He recognize this guy a little, he event to Kurogin just next door didn't he? Omoto Seiji. Ren remembered clearly that he had called one of Kyona's friends ugly and so she tried kill him with a lethal throw of a rock, there was no getting around the fact that the fiery young girl had aimed to kill the senior that day. Either way so far as Ren knew Kyona hated this guy and often called him Kurogin goody-goody trash that wasn't important so why was she laughing with him like this and let him keep his arms stay so tight round her waist. Anger was starting to boil within Ren's person as he caught the punk letting his eyes wander over his girlfriend while she giggled away on her spot on the floor.
"I told you we were going to crash" she told him after she had calmed down enough, Omoto simply smirked at her.
"are you okay?" he questioned checking her over a couple of times as they sat there in that far too comfy looking position "you're scary boyfriend will hunt me down and kill me if you got hurt because of me" too late buddy, the torpedo is already lock on you...just give the Akadou boy a reason to fire.
"If anything he'll think it was because of the fight" Kyona remarked before pointing to her right eye which was just a bit darker in shade than her left "see? I even have a black eye to prove I had been fighting" Ren tried not to growl loudly as Omoto drew in dangerously close to Kyona examining her eye as he did.
"it's not that bad" he stated "if you put some ice on it when you get home it should look a lot better tomorrow and then you'll just be a cute face to your boyfriend again" he smiled at Kyona but this time she didn't return it. The girl frowned slightly and quickly pushed Omoto away from her brushing his arms away from her and creating distance between them. An awkward silence followed.
"what did you mean before" Kyona asked tugging her hair from the messy bun it had been in and then looked down at her hands as they twisted the fabric of her skirt a bit "when you said to be careful because Ren was one of those kinds of guys" she clarified when Omoto gave her a confused look. He sighed leaning back against the wall as he did, Kyona watched him.
"Worthless" the word came out so easily for him even in Kyona's presence he spoke it so freely and he didn't sound sorry about it either. "The kind of guy who doesn't give a damn about anything. He's lazy in class and he doesn't care, he doesn't study for test or do homework he just goofs off every day and does anything he wants" Kyona at this point was fixing Omoto with a deep glare but the boy didn't slow down nor did he shy away from her glares. The two looked each other in the eyes as he kept talking "He's short tempered which means he always gets into fights and gets in trouble with the law and what makes it worse is that with his behavior and attraction to trouble he drags everyone around him with him" the annoying punk reached out and gently caressed Kyona's cheek causing a tightness to come to Ren's jaw and his knuckles to turn white from clenching them so tightly "even his lovely girlfriend" Kyona jerked her face out of his grip and he sighed again "you don't want to hear this I know but it's the truth" he said "I've seen a lot of guys like him and I know how the usually all end up. They join gangs or become drunks and most of them end up in jail. That guy, your boyfriend Ren, he can't keep you safe forever...he can hardly do it now"
"You don't know why you're talking about" Kyona snapped defensively but Omoto never missed a beat.
"but you do" he said looking her up and down with sharp eyes "I've seen you come to school wrapped in bandages and covered in bruises Kyona-chan." Kyona couldn't protest to that, both she and Ren knew the truth to that. Instead the girl hung her head in shame unknowingly egging Omoto on "You don't think students talk?" he said "Because of your boyfriend you've gotten caught up in your own share of fights haven't you? I've even heard a rumor that the boss of Ara high had you kidnapped when you were in junior high just to keep your boyfriend from forming a group in Akadou" now Ren was snarling quietly from where he stood, that rumor wasn't a rumor at all.
The former leader of Ara had wanted to set ground rules on who ruled the area around when Ren first started in Akadou. When he asked Ren politely not to "do anything stupid" and try to make a gang on Ara territory Ren "politely" told him where he could shove his territory and started ruling Akadou anyway. In retaliation he ordered Kyona to be kidnapped and held hostage until Ren gave in, that didn't sit well with Ren and ever since Ara boys were cautious whenever Ren came around. He was the reason Akadou had a name to begin with but the subject of Kyona's kidnapping was something Ren didn't like being brought up especially when it being used like this.
"Kyona-chan" Omoto pulled Ren from His thoughts "you'd be a lot better off if you weren't date Kazama Ren" those words practically impaled poor Ren where he stood. This features loosened slightly as he let the words sink in and claw at him, he...he was right. When was the last time he'd successfully protected Kyona? The last time there had been a fight she had barely been able to walk afterwards for a few days. Ren was always dragging her out of school when he was feeling bothered, she was always stepping in when Ren was ready to do something that he might regret later, she even fought with her family daily because of Ren...his presence in her life certainly didn't make life easier for Kyona... Omoto was right, Kyona would be better off...
"You're wrong" Kyona's voice floated into Ren's ear and pulled him from his self loathing. He looked back around the corner and saw Kyona was now standing up and staring down at Omoto with a small smile on her face "sure he doesn't think before he does things and he lets his temper get the best of him sometimes but... Don't say he doesn't care." she spoke softly in her reply, there was no anger in her tone that she had been showing when Omoto talked. All Ren could see was a look of peace when Kyona spoke of him "He let a gang of thugs beat him into a bloody mess just so they didn't do anything to me, he even ran into a big group of them just to save my big brother. He keeps calm when everyone starts to panic even when he's scared too just so the others feel like everything will be okay" her smile grew bigger "he was by my side three years ago when I thought I had no one to help me. He might not show it like you thing he does but Ren cares... So don't say he doesn't care. I know Kazama Ren better than you do, all Ren does is care." and there she was defending Ren again even when he thought Omoto was right in his words. To Kyona if someone said something negative about Ren they were wrong and it would always be that way to her. It's time to take her home before she causes Omoto harm. Stepped back a few paces so it would sound like he just got here Ren began walking loudly.
"Nana-chan" he called with his hands in his pockets "are you still here?"
"Kaza-kun!" thrill came to Kyona's voice when heard him. He rounded the corner trying his best to look like he just got here. "What are you doing here?"
"I figured you'd still be here cleaning so I came to help" he explained before giving Omoto a hard stare "...what happen here?"
"Nothing!" Kyona chirped innocently skipping to Ren's side and linking arms with him "Omoto was just about to clean up the mess he made and I was about to leave" looks like the Kurogin goody-goody trash was being pushed to the back burner, great. Ren grinned at his smiling girlfriend.
"Perfect" he mused "let's go out somewhere" Kyona nodded and without another look or even a goodbye to Omoto the two headed down the hall side by side.
"Ne Kaza-kun" Kyona spoke as they made their way out if the building and Kyona notice that it was, in fact, just the two of them "where are the others?" but her question fell on deaf ears as Ren still smiled at his girlfriends determined defense a few minutes ago. When he didn't reply Kyona turned her head and looked at him "Kaza-kun?" she tipped her head curiously.
"Nana-chan" Ren looked down at her.
"Mm?" she hummed; Ren pulled his arm free from her grip and wrapped it around her waist. He pulled her close and kissed her forehead.
"I don't deserve you" he stated.
He didn't deserve her but was sure as hell glad to have her.
