It's been a couple of weeks since Isaka had decided to postpone Sora's manga, but after those few weeks, he had decided to get Sora back into working with him, and they were now driving her back to her house, but when they got out of the car, helping Sora bring in some groceries, someone called out to her.
"Sorata Suzuki, long time no see"
Everyone turned to see a really gorgeous woman leaning against a black Mercedes. She had waist length dark brown hair and grey eyes; she was wearing black high heels, a short tight blue skirt that revealed long tan legs and a baggy red party shirt with one sleeve hanging off her shoulder, she was fairly tall, about two more inches than Sora.
"Hara!" Sora gasped in surprise, setting down her bags and ran to give the woman a hug.
"Oh my god, when did you get back?" Sora asked.
"I came back last night; anyways, are these people Muzai was talking to me about?" Hara asked, looking at Isaka and Haruhiko.
"Yeah; guys, this is Hara Michiko, we were in high school together" Sora said.
"High school?" Haruhiko asked.
"Yeah, I'm 20 like Sora" Hara said, smiling.
"You're 20?!" Isaka asked in shock. Hara looked so mature and taller than Sora was.
"Yeah, I get that a lot; I envy Sora a bit since she's so small and cute" Hara said, hugging Sora.
"Don't call me cute!" Sora protested her face a light pink.
"That's like not calling a puppy cute; and you're just the cutest little puppy ever" Hara said, petting Sora's head.
Sora gave an irritated look and just went to grab her bags, "I've got groceries to put away"
"Hey, don't be like that; she can be so shy" Hara laughed and walked into Sora's home.
"So can you tell me where Muzai is?" Hara asked when Sora was putting some food away.
"Is that all you needed to ask me, you could have text her" Sora said.
"I know, but I want to surprise her, so I need to know where she is" Hara said
"I think she's doing after school activities, so she won't be out until six" Sora answered.
"Thank you so much, that'll be enough time!" Hara said and she shocked both Haruhiko and Isaka when she went up and kissed Sora on her lips.
"Bye!" Hara soon left and Isaka and Haruhiko were still shocked.
"What's wrong with you two?" Sora asked when she noticed that they had a weird look on their faces.
"S-she kissed you!" Isaka finally spoke.
"So; don't be a child, she does that sometimes, but there isn't anything behind it; what, are you jealous that I was kissed by a gorgeous woman?" Sora joked, laughing when Isaka just rolled his eyes, then added, "Besides, she's dating Muzai"
"She is?" Isaka asked in surprise.
"Yeah, they're pretty cute together; but there are times when Hara can get pretty intense with the rest of us" Sora said, muttering the last part, but both men heard it.
"What do you mean?" Haruhiko asked.
"Well she's kind of a… erotic novelist" Sora said, smiling sheepishly.
"Really" Isaka said, and then he started to think.
"If you ask her to publish for you, then you're out of luck, she's one of those people who makes the first moves on everything, I don't even know why, she's just a head strong person; I'm like that sometimes, but there are limits to things" Sora explained.
"…When you mentioned her name, I thought it sounded familiar; do you think you can put in a good word?" Isaka asked.
But before Sora could reply, the door opened and Ryuu, Nobuo, and Hikari came in.
"All right, some food!" Nobuo exclaimed and dove for the chips and hoped on the counter top.
"We saw that Hara is back, what did she want?" Ryuu asked, grabbing a beer from the fridge.
"She asked where Muzai was" Sora answered. Hikari looked a little distress when she came up to Sora.
"What's wrong Hikari?" Sora asked.
Hikari grabbed Sora's hand and lead her to the bedroom to talk in private; they were gone for a few minutes, and then when they came back, Sora had such an irritated aura around her, though she didn't show it.
"You gonna be ok?" Ryuu asked, like he knew what happened.
"Yeah, I can deal with that bastard when I see him" Sora answered calmly, leaning against the counter.
"What's going on?" Isaka asked.
"Sora's old boyfriend Takeo was asking to talk to her" Nobuo answer with his mouth full of chips.
Sora elbow Nobuo in the stomach when he said that.
"Do you have to tell everyone of my tragic love life" Sora groaned, then said, "This is a need to know basis and you two don't need to know"
"He wants to talk tomorrow" Ryuu informed.
"Ok" Sora sighed.
Isaka and Haruhiko soon left and Haruhiko felt a little worried that Sora was going to meet up with an old boyfriend, he never even thought of Sora's past relationships.
"Are you worried?" Isaka asked while they drove through the city.
"Why should I worry, she sounded like she didn't even like the idea of meeting him" Haruhiko said.
"But aren't you curious of what kind of person she dated before?" Isaka asked.
"We shouldn't invade her private conversation with this guy, she said that she would deal with him" Haruhiko answered.
"Yeah, but he might do something to try to win her back, that happens a lot when old flames pop up, they igniting old feelings" Isaka persuaded.
"I'm sure that's not going to happen" Haruhiko said, though he hoped that nothing happened.
The day after tomorrow
The day was going fine until Isaka decided to barge in while he was working.
"What is it?" Haruhiko asked. Isaka walked over in a hurry and he looked a little excited, but worried.
"You can't believe what I found out yesterday when Takeo came over-"
"You spied on them!" Haruhiko interrupted, "Why must you always invade people's personal lives?"
"Well I'm glad that I made it a habit because this is important; Takeo is a dangerous guy to Sora, they got into a fight when he came over!" Isaka said.
"Is she ok!" Haruhiko asked in a worried tone.
"Yeah, I thought it was kind of cool when she punched him in his face" Isaka said, smiling a little in amusement, then added, "You probably need to watch over her, he'll probably come back again"
"I agree with you; but why are you so worried about Sora? You're usually the one to care less for other people like this" Haruhiko asked.
"Well, she's probably the first person to actually give us crap and not care who we are; she's actually the first cool person I've meet" Isaka said.
Haruhiko knew he was right, Sora always said what was on her mind and usually played around with them, treating them like they've been friends forever.
"Anyways, you should make sure that this guy doesn't do anything to hurt her" Isaka said.
Haruhiko soon left to go check on Sora to make sure that she was ok. When he made it there, he decided to knock instead of using his key; Sora soon answered the door and was surprised to see him there.
"What are you doing here?" Sora asked.
Haruhiko looked at Sora's right hand to see two bandages on her knuckles.
"What happened?" Haruhiko asked, gentle grabbing Sora's hand to look at it.
"It's ok, I… had an accident in the kitchen" Sora said, smiling to show she was ok.
"Who the hell is this?" a voice asked angrily.
They turned to see a man with short black hair and brown eyes with a heated glare directed at Haruhiko, and he noticed that his left eyes was black and swollen; he was wearing a black heavy metal band t-shirt and blue jeans.
"Will you just leave Takeo, I thought we settled this yesterday" Sora demanded, walking to stand in front of Haruhiko.
"You settled it yesterday, I wasn't finished talking" Takeo said, still glaring Haruhiko.
"We finished talking when you decided to get aggressive and scream at me!" Sora shot back.
"Well I'm going to continue, and I'll start with if this jackass is your new boyfriend!" Takeo said, crossing his arms.
"First off, you don't talk about him that way, he's important to me; and second, you made choice to do all that crap and I can't forgive you for that, so just leave!" Sora demanded.
"Well I'm not leaving until you-!"
The world seemed to freeze for what happened just then. Haruhiko had decided to end the conversation by grabbing Sora's face and kiss her on the lips. Nobody moved, but when Takeo got the point, he just huffed and left, and even after he left, Haruhiko still lingered, but he knew that he had to pull away. When he pulled away and saw Sora's face, her eyes were wide in shock and surprise and her face was a bright red. But the moment was ruined when she started to yell.
"W-what the hell was that for?!"
"I was helping" Haruhiko simply answered.
"I appreciate it, but you didn't have to go that far!" Sora said, looking away to try and hide her blush.
They were quiet for a bit until Sora sighed deeply and turned to face him.
"You're lucky that I like you, because if someone else did that, they would have gotten a busted lip, a broken nose, and a lot of bruises" Sora threatened.
Haruhiko couldn't help but smile, knowing that she liked him and that he didn't get in trouble.
"But if you don't wipe that smug look off your face, I'll do it" Sora threatened again, but smiled a little too.
Sora sighed and sat on the steps, and Haruhiko sat beside her; he felt like she had more she wanted to talk about.
"Sorry that you had to see a side of me like that, I mean, you've seen it when I pushed Orochi in that fountain, but this was way different; I don't like getting violent, only when it's necessary do I have to get physical, but that wasn't necessary" Sora said, sighing again and pulled her knees to her chest.
"You said that he was getting aggressive, so it must have been necessary" Haruhiko reminded.
"Yeah, though I still feel guilty about it, but I'll get over it; I'm still upset about what you did though" Sora reminded, giving a small glare.
Haruhiko wondered what she would say next, if she said that she didn't want to talk to him for a bit, he would rather get beaten by her instead.
"But I'll forgive you if you bring Alexander over for a play date with Yuki" Sora offered, smiling a little.
Haruhiko smiled too and agreed; they both stood up and Sora gave Haruhiko a hug and he returned it, only this hug lasted a bit longer than their other ones.
"Thanks for checking up on me" Sora whispered into his chest.
Haruhiko smiled again and gently rubbed her head, holding her a bit closer. They said goodbye to each other and when Haruhiko was about to leave, Sora called out to him.
"Oh, and tell Isaka that if he ever eavesdrops on my private conversations again: he's going to get a beat down" Sora threatened, and went inside.
Haruhiko knew that Isaka would one day get into big trouble if he kept eavesdropping on people's conversations.
Ok, I hoped you like this one, the next one might get a little dramatic, but not that much, but I hope you like it, thanks for reading.