"Norio-kun," Lisa purred to one of the men that had opened the door for them. The house was crowded with partygoers. "You look well tonight."
"Lisa-san," the man greeted smiling. "I'm a lot better now that you've shown up, and who might this be?"
"An old friend," Lisa said wrapping her arm around Nanao's shoulder. "How long are you working the door?"
"A couple hours more," he said with a shrug. "Wanna meet up after?"
"If I haven't found something better," Lisa agreed grinning. The man just laughed and stepped aside.
"You ladies have a real good time," he called.
"Oh we will!"
Nanao plucked at Lisa's fingers and dropped her arm off her shoulders distastefully. "Is there anyone you wouldn't sleep with?"
"A few people," Lisa offered with a shrug. "Not many."
"It doesn't bother you that you don't even know who you're sleeping with?" Nanao asked trying to hide her own curiosity.
"I don't get to personally know everyone I fight with and it doesn't bother me," Lisa said with a shrug. "Why should sex be any different? It's a physical action that results in pleasure. Who cares who's on the other side? Shunsui-kun and I argued about it often, but he never did win me over to his point of view."
"You cared for Kyouraku Taicho though," Nanao argued. "At least a little. I knew that even when I was a child."
"I care for a lot of people," Lisa said grabbing a drink off a passing tray. "It has nothing to do with whether or not I'm having sex with them. I care for them because of who and what they are, not because of what they can do to my body."
"I didn't mean it like that," Nanao said frowning.
"No one ever does, but isn't that what they're implying when you boil off all the niceties? I was never one for dancing around the facts, and the facts are loving someone should be completely independent from you screwing them," Lisa said moving them through the crowd.
"But loving them makes having sex with them better," Nanao stated simply.
"Now who are you to make that declaration?" Lisa asked glancing at Nanao over her shoulder. "Ever had sex with someone you didn't care for? I highly doubt it. I've had sex with people I did care for and people I didn't and in both situations I've had excellent sex and crappy sex. Sex is just sex."
Having no obvious defense against her comments, and very little real life experience to try and argue, Nanao trailed along behind her mulling the thought over. It didn't sit right with her, but in its own twisted way it was sweet that Lisa could admit to loving people completely independently of her physical attraction to them. Then again Nanao knew she simply would never be comfortable going to bed with a stranger. They made their way up a flight of stairs and out onto a balcony overlooking the party out in the gardens. Nanao paused to look at the gorgeous grounds and felt a shock run through her system as she recognized an unmasked face in the crowd. She clenched the railing between her hands and felt her knuckles go white.
"What's wrong?" Yadomaru asked noticing the change in her and glancing out over the crowd.
"I know that man," Nanao said watching him like a hawk.
"Which one?"
"The greasy looking one in the blue shirt," Nanao said tracking him with her eyes.
"Ah, Abe-san, he's a real piece of work," Lisa said spotting the man. "Where do you know him from?"
"He was a buyer of my fathers," Nanao said simply. "He was trying to buy me."
Lisa let out a whistle and joined her at the railing. "Doesn't surprise me. There's all sorts of disgusting gossip about him. Lots of underage servants in his house. Some of them occasionally go missing or wind up dead. Unfortunately he's a noble so what can you do?"
"Exposing him is one option," Nanao said viciously.
Lisa shrugged. "It wouldn't do any good. Anyone with half a brain knows what he is anyway. As long as he isn't molesting noble girls everyone is willing to look the other way."
"That's sick," Nanao said frustrated. There was nothing more she'd like to do than send an exploding kido directly into that man's balls and then watch him bleed out. In fact, she just might.
"That's life," Lisa said with a shrug. "Just be thankful you got away before he got his hands on you."
It was then that Nanao received the second shock of the evening as another man went up to Abe and started speaking to him. She recognized the girl on the man's arm instantly even with the small domino mask obscuring some of her features. "Kiyoko," she breathed.
"Hayashi Kiyoko," Lisa agreed glancing at her with surprise. "And one of her brothers. I think there are six in all. You know her? You'll want to stay as far away from the brothers as you can."
"Yes, I know her," Nanao said feeling a little sick as she always did when she saw the pregnant girl. She should have remembered the girl was coming home to Apulia to visit her family. "What's wrong with her brothers?"
"Eh, just rumors really," Lisa said shrugging, "but probably true ones considering the company they keep. The family worked their way into a lot of debt and started slipping in the ranks. Then all of a sudden four high-born noble girls get knocked up by the brothers and have to marry them to save the family honor so on and so on. It was lucky the girls came with enough money to dig the Hayashis out of their debt."
"So what?" Nanao asked frowning. "They seduced them on purpose?"
"Well that's where the nasty rumors set in," Lisa said. "Supposedly the brothers were drugging the women at parties and raping them in the hopes that the women would get knocked up and have to marry them to save their reputations, thus bringing with them their family's prestige and riches. One girl said she didn't remember a thing from the night and killed herself before she was forced to marry one of them. Needless to say nobody leaves an open glass near a Hayashi anymore. Unless you're poor, then you're probably safe. Latest rumors are the sister just did the same thing to some idiot noble from another territory who didn't know any better. Might be true seeing how she's as big as a beach ball."
Nanao felt like she was going to pass out or throw up. She wasn't sure which. Maybe both. "You can't rape a man," she said softly.
"Sure you can," Lisa said with a shrug. "Specially a dizzy drugged up one. It isn't like it takes much to get them aroused in the first place. Not everyone needs love for physical reactions," she mocked with a laugh. "Rub them the right way and jump on top and you're good to go, though I don't imagine it'd be much fun with them looped up on alcohol or drugs. Or you just do it the other way and get them to sleep with you willingly and sabotage the contraceptive. That's my vote for how she did it. I mean she's cute enough. Or hell, she could have started something and then threatened to claim rape or some other blackmail if the guy didn't comply because really who are you going to believe was doing the raping?"
"I think it was the drugs," Nanao said sickly.
"Oh? Why do you say that?" Lisa asked looking at her curiously.
"Because Shunsui says he doesn't remember anything," Nanao said quietly. There was a brief moment of silence and then Lisa burst out laughing.
"Shunsui is the idiot who got her knocked up?" Lisa asked while she tried to regain her breath. "I always knew the moron would have something like that happen to him one day. And he's marrying her? Oh kami, his family must be over the moon and he must be ready to rip his own hair out. Don't tell me that's why the two of you aren't together anymore."
"Of course it's the reason," Nanao said defensively wanting to slap the woman for laughing. "And it isn't funny."
"Sure it is," Lisa said smiling. "Not my fault you take everything so seriously. Just because you have a stick up your ass doesn't mean the rest of the world has to have one too."
"He got another woman pregnant while he was dating me," Nanao growled.
"Yeah, apparently under the influence," Lisa said waving a hand at the group.
"It doesn't change anything," Nanao said sharply, "She's still pregnant."
"Does he love her?" Lisa asked.
"No," Nanao replied.
"So he still loves you?"
"He claims to," Nanao said coldly and then sighed. "And I believe him."
"And you broke it off with him purely because of this incident and not because of anything in your own relationship?"
"Yes," Nanao answered hesitantly, wondering where this was going.
"Then what is the problem?" Lisa asked. "Tell him to dump the broad and be together if that's what you want. This is my whole issue with getting sex mixed up with emotion. It's idiotic."
"There's a baby," Nanao spat out.
"Again, so what? He can take care of the kid without being married to a Hayashi," Lisa said with a shudder. "Unless you have something against the kid?"
"Of course not," Nanao said. "It's that he betrayed me."
"You said yourself you think he was drugged," Lisa reasoned. "Just make sure he doesn't get date raped again in the future and you should be fine." Then she burst into another round of laughter. "I still can't believe the bastard got date raped."
"It isn't funny," Nanao repeated.
"Oh man," Lisa said wiping tears from her eyes. "Shinji is going to love this one."
"You are utterly impossible," Nanao said fiercely. "I'm leaving right now."
"Oh come on," Lisa said grabbing her around the shoulders, "Have a drink and calm down. It's not like there is anything you can do about it now unless you are going to go punch her in the stomach."
"I'm definitely thinking about it," Nanao said darkly.
"Kami, only Shunsui could get himself into this type of situation," Lisa said grabbing a drink off a tray and shoving it into Nanao's hands. "Swallow that down you'll feel better. Really I have to give the girl some credit. I met her once and thought she was too much of a moron to be devious. I wonder if her brothers put her up to it?"
"The more I see of families, the less I ever want one of my own," Nanao said harshly downing the drink and glaring at the trio still talking in the garden.
"Now you sound like Shunsui," Lisa said with a laugh. "Being around the upper ranks will have that effect. They have so much money and time on their hands they can't think of anything better to do than screw around. Some of the best frustrated sex of my life was when Shunsui would come home from family visits. They set him off like nothing I could do, and trust me I tried."
Nanao shifted uncomfortably having had similar sex with him on a few occasions. For all Shunsui's conquests Nanao had never had personal relationships with any of them and had thus been spared conversation with anyone intimately familiar with him. As it was, she was not altogether enjoying knowing Lisa shared the same knowledge she did.
"It really was the best kind with him," Lisa mused handing Nanao another drink. She gulped it down quickly trying to ignore the conversation. "He generally tried to be so careful. I liked it better when he was rough. He'd always finish and storm away locking himself up in his study or going out and getting smashed. It was so much easier than when he was being needy. Does he still do that?"
"He never stormed out on me," Nanao answered quietly blushing all the same. In fact, he'd never left her after sex. Even at his most frustrated he usually just ended apologizing over and over into her skin, which was completely unnecessary since she could at least agree with Lisa that some of the rougher sex was fun. He did have the tendency to be too gentle with her at times.
"Wouldn't want to upset his Nanao-chan's delicate disposition, I suppose," Lisa said grinning. "Thank kami he didn't think of me as a weak damsel in distress. I suppose he rubs your back till you fall into a peaceful sleep every evening? Maybe he never even got rough with you for fear of you breaking?"
"Not only did I handle him just fine in those moods," Nanao said feeling her anger rise and the rapidly thrown back drinks loosen her tongue, "but he never left because we usually had multiple rounds. Ever think you just weren't doing the trick?"
Lisa flashed her a dangerous smile and laughed. "Now there's some of that steel he kept going on about. I wondered if you'd ever show it. From the way he talked about you those couple days after the fight with Aizen you'd have thought you were a little hellcat. I just couldn't see it no matter how hard I squinted. For a while there I was sure we'd utterly failed you."
"He talked about me to you?" Nanao asked stupidly. She'd been so mad at him for such a long while after the war that she hadn't even contemplated what he and Lisa might have shared while she was giving him the cold shoulder.
"Incessantly," Lisa said rolling her eyes. "It was always Nanao-chan this, and Nanao-chan that. He was also upset because you were ignoring him. When I found out he wasn't even sleeping with you at the time, it made me a little nauseated. I let you stay in our division because I thought you actually had the potential to grow up to be something, not because I thought he'd take a shine to you."
"I think I liked you better when you just taught me kido spells and read to me," Nanao commented nastily, reaching for another drink as a waiter passed by.
"And I think I liked you better when you were cute and hung on my every word," Lisa said grinning and stared back down at the crowd. "Oh the things I could teach you now that I don't have to play nice," she continued. "In fact I could teach you them with Shunsui at the same time if you'd like. We could make those hentai manga look like children's books."
"Regardless of me having no interest in a threesome," Nanao said dryly. "I no longer have any interest in crawling into his bed."
"Liar," Lisa said easily. "I've seen the man. You'd have to not have a pulse to have no interest in crawling into his bed. And once you've experienced what he can do to you when he gets you bent over a table there is just no going back."
Nanao shuddered at the thought and tried to think of other things. She was most definitely not remembering the time he'd pinned her over the arm of his couch and had his way with her. She'd been sure the neighbors heard her screaming his name that time. He'd often offered to do the same over her office desk and she'd always been hard pressed to refuse him.
"Um hmm," Lisa hummed. "I see that face. You know what I'm talking about. I could show you all sorts of fun variations. In fact, I'd be willing to make the trip back to the Seireitei with you if you'd be up for it. I'm sure we could convince Shunsui."
"I'm not going to participate in anything where I have to see him have sex with another woman," Nanao said sharply.
"Still a jealous lover when you aren't even together?" Lisa asked raising an eyebrow and Nanao realized she'd let the woman goad her into admitting more than she wanted to. "Really you should look on the bright side. Let him marry the cow and let her shoulder the boring noble responsibilities. You just keep banging him and having all the fun."
"As much as I appreciate the advice, you can stop now," Nanao said shaking her head and glaring back over at the blonde woman who was waddling her way through the crowd below them on the arm of the slimy man who'd twice tried to own her. She felt the rage bubble up in her again and wanted nothing more than to kido blast them all into oblivion.
"When it comes down to it," Lisa said suddenly serious sounding. "You know he'd never have left you if you'd been raped. Even if there was a child."
Nanao's head snapped up and she stared at Lisa in surprise. "I didn't know it was against his will until right now," she defended.
"Well now you do know and you still don't sound like you're going back to him," Lisa said.
"What do you care?" Nanao asked bitingly.
"He was my Taicho and a friend," Lisa said with a shrug. "He was one of the few people that could look past a surface and see the worth within. He was also one of the only people who could forgive quite as much as he did. I wasn't the girl for him and we both knew it, doesn't mean I like to see him heartbroken. Especially not over something so stupid."
"It's more complicated than that," Nanao said with a sigh.
"It really isn't," Lisa countered. "Just get a nanny and you never have to go near the child. Unless you're worried about your kids being the rightful heir to the Kyouraku name and not some bastard child."
Nanao made a face at her and accepted the new drink Lisa pressed into her hands. "I don't care at all about his family name."
"Then there is no problem."
"He slept with another woman, and we don't have any actual proof that she drugged him, just some nasty rumors," Nanao said solidly. "His history of conquests doesn't exactly speak in his favor."
"Shunsui has many faults, but being a cheater is not among them and you know that. He's too honest. One of the only reasons he could tolerate my bluntness. He'd rather that than lies and backstabbing. If he was done with you he simply would have said and then found a new woman, but fine believe whatever you want. I don't want to spend the rest of the night arguing with you. Now, I think the best way to handle this is to go out and get laid by other men," Yadomaru suggested breezily.
Nanao glared over at her and said, "Sarcasm is really unnecessary."
"Who said anything about sarcasm?" Lisa asked laughing. "You have a valid point that we have no proof to support the rumors. So time to move on. You obviously don't want him back. Finish that drink and we are going to the dance floor."
"Absolutely not," Nanao said looking mortified. A few drinks in and she was still not drunk enough for dancing.
"So instead you're going to stand here and be a big mopey mess all night?" Lisa asked with a snort.
"I am not moping," Nanao argued.
"Denial too," Lisa said. "Fine stay here, see what I care." She started to move off through the crowd and Nanao realized how alone she would be in the mass of people. Hollows she could take, parties freaked her out. She darted after Lisa and found her waiting at the top of the stairs for her. "I thought so," Lisa said. "Chug the last of that, have another, and lets do this."
Nanao woke up feeling awful. She rolled over and realized she'd been sleeping on her arm making the entire thing numb from the elbow down. She shifted around onto her side and groaned. This had to be the worst hangover ever.
A hand landed on her hip and she froze. It was a rather large hand. She opened her eyes and saw that there was a man lying in front of her. She really didn't start to panic though until she realized that the hand on her hip did not belong to the man in front of her. Rolling over slightly she tried not to freak out as she found herself sandwiched between two men in nothing but her undergarments. What the hell had happened? The last thing she remembered was dancing with Lisa and then talking to some men that had come up to ask them to dance.
Kicking herself into action she carefully slid the hand off her waist and wiggled to the end of the bed trying not to wake either man up. Standing carefully she paused for sore muscles and not finding any could only hope that things hadn't gone too far. Where had Yadomaru gotten off to? Nanao looked herself over quickly and besides a rather large bruise up the outside of her left thigh and butt, seemed to be all in one piece. The door creaked open and Nanao instantly took a defensive stance.
"Oh, you're awake," Lisa said calmly holding two cups of tea.
"What the hell happened?" Nanao demanded in a hissing whisper as her head throbbed.
"You are a lot more fun when you're drunk," Lisa explained with a shrug.
"Who the hell are they?" Nanao said gesturing to the bed and feeling herself blush bright red.
"Couldn't say," Lisa answered. "Good looking though, nicely done."
"I didn't," Nanao said sharply and then realized she really wasn't sure what she had and hadn't done.
"I don't know that I totally approve of your tattoo choices though," Lisa said sipping her tea after setting down the one Nanao refused to take.
"My what?" Nanao squeaked.
"Tattoo," Lisa said calmly. "I mean repressed much? Really his name in a bird of paradise flower? And so large on your shoulder."
Nanao reached up in horror to touch the edge of a bandage on her upper right shoulder blade. "Oh kami," she said feeling her legs go weak and sitting on the floor. What had she done?
"Why do you look so upset?" Lisa asked.
"Why do I look upset?" Nanao demanded about ready to cry. "I can't remember anything past the dance floor last night, I wake up with two strangers, kami knows what I did with them, and I have a tattoo that I would have never gotten sober. I didn't even think I drank that much! I've never been blackout in my life."
"Hmmm, well you'll just have to take responsibility," Lisa said. "You did use a contraceptive last night right? I called after you to remind you, but I wasn't sure you heard me. Otherwise we probably need to get to a healer today."
Nanao just made a whimpering noise and hugged her knees. What the hell had happened? She wanted to throw up. "I didn't mean to," she said pathetically.
"Now you sound like Shunsui," Lisa said with a laugh.
Nanao's head snapped up at the thought and sputtered anxiously, "I must have been drugged. I only remember having four drinks." She stood up and turned murderously on the two men still passed out in the bed. "This is all their fault." Kido crackled around her fingertips and Lisa stalled her hand.
"Even if you were drugged isn't it your responsibility?" Lisa asked tempering the kido.
"Of course not," Nanao spat harshly. "There was nothing I could do."
"Interesting double standard," Lisa commented lightly releasing her hand. "Nothing you could do, yet Shunsui should have been able to stop it."
Nanao felt some of the anger go out of her at that thought. "We don't know he was drugged," she repeated petulantly, still watching the men like a hawk for any sign of waking.
"But if he was, you still aren't going to forgive him," Lisa commented sitting in the lone chair in the room.
"I," Nanao started and then didn't know what to say. Of course she would forgive him. It just didn't mean she would date him again. When had that happened? Wasn't the only reason they weren't together the woman and the baby? "I'd forgive him," she said quietly.
"But," Lisa prompted watching her closely.
"But I wouldn't go back to him," Nanao admitted in defeat. Lisa nodded and they both turned as one of the men rolled over in the bed. Nanao had a kido shot ready to go and Lisa laughed.
"Oh don't kill them," she said smiling. "They haven't done anything wrong. I'm the one that slipped the drugs in your drink."
"You what?" Nanao demanded.
"I drugged you. Figured it'd be a good experience for you, knock you off some moral high ground," Lisa said with a shrug. "Besides you obviously had no clue what you wanted. I figured it might help you sort some shit out. Also I was just curious what you'd be like."
"You drugged me, let me get some awful tattoo, and let two men have their way with me?" Nanao asked in a dangerously cool tone. She was going to kill her mentor, and if she wasn't strong enough she was going to tell Shunsui what happened and let him kill her mentor. She figured this was the one instance where he might break his rule about fighting women.
"Eh," Lisa said shrugging. "I was lying about the tattoo, just wanted to see your face. You really fell down some steps and bruised your ass and scratched up your shoulder. The patch is from a first aid kit the inn had and it's just an injury. As for the men, you were fun for a little while, think you may have kissed the one on the right, and then you started laughing about something, curled up in a ball on the floor, and fell asleep. I handled both of them, but when I woke up this morning you looked so cold on the floor I figured I might as well put you in the bed to keep you warm."
"You were just screwing with my head this whole time?" Nanao asked clenching her jaw. "And what kind of person has date rape drugs on them?"
"It wasn't a date rape drug. Just an ordinary upper I had on me, and I figured it would mess you up pretty good combined with the alcohol," Lisa admitted easily. "You had some baggage to work out. That and it was just plain fun."
"That is severely twisted," Nanao said anger lacing her tone.
"You're so uptight," Lisa said shrugging. "It's a wonder you and Shunsui ever happened at all."
"You don't know anything about us," Nanao hissed. "We weren't us when you knew us."
"I know Shunsui," Lisa said with a shrug. "And right now, its quite obvious you can't stand at his side as you are."
Nanao felt her stomach drop and tried not to show it. For all that she was finding out she didn't like the woman it was still hard to hear a childhood hero say she just wasn't good enough. "I'm leaving," Nanao said sharply starting the search for her dress.
"Oh don't take it the wrong way," Lisa said calmly. "You're a child and he's an overprotective idiot. How in the world did you ever have any hopes of matching up to him?"
"I'm not as weak as everyone thinks," Nanao snarled.
"Ise," Lisa said with a sigh. "Do you know why you won't go back to him?"
"I," Nanao started and then felt some of the anger dissipate. "Something changed."
"You figured out what everyone else must have known from the start," Lisa commented sipping her tea. "You weren't a match for him. Shunsui and I might not have been in love, but we were a match. Perhaps not in strength but in spirit. You two, on the other hand, were neither a match in strength nor spirit, you were just in love."
"And love isn't enough," Nanao said sadly remembering having said exactly that to Shunsui.
"No," Lisa agreed. "It's not. If you go back to him now you'll be the same pet, the same sidekick, the same Nanao-chan you've always been. That's what Shunsui never understood about people. It's that sometimes you have to let the ones you love go to let them return again. He was always so desperately afraid of loosing the few people he actually took the time to care for that he couldn't see he forced them into a corner, smothered any strength they might have had. You have to be a match for him not to be put in that safety box he tries to shove you in. You never had a chance. What could you do as a child to avoid it? And now, now you can't find what you need to find within yourself while at his side, and he'll never understand that. But you're starting to aren't you?"
"He didn't mean any harm by it," Nanao said quietly.
"He never does," Lisa granted. "But me and Ukitake we met him on level with him. He learned to care about us when we could already take care of ourselves. You were different. He met you when he still thought he could cocoon you away from all the hurt in the universe. Nothing will change unless you change first."
"And then what?" Nanao asked. "Go back to him? Is that what you're saying?"
"Nanao-chan, once you've grown up some you might not even want to go back to him," Lisa said with a sigh. "Either way its about you, not him, at least not anymore."
"Why? Why do all this?" Nanao asked.
"Because I think you can be something more than what he made you," Lisa said sighing. "After all, you were my project first Nanao-chan, and I'd have never allowed things to turn out like this. You gotta kick the baby bird out of the nest at some point. I'd have done it ages ago."
"Heartwarming," Nanao said sarcastically snatching up her dress, which she finally found under a chair, and dragging it violently over her head. She strapped her zanpakutou back on and felt instantly more at ease.
"Kinder than Tanaka would have been I assume," Lisa said with a shrug.
"The Higurashi will be wondering where I am," Nanao said coolly as she slipped on her shoes. She winced as they resettled on blisters she'd apparently formed the night before. This is why she hated heels.
"Of course," Lisa said nodding calmly. "Nice seeing you again." Nanao snorted and started towards the door. "Oh, and Nanao?"
"Yes?" Nanao asked pausing and wanting nothing more than to be far away from her old mentor.
"I'll visit sometime," Lisa said glancing over at her. "Hurry and grow up. I've always been fascinated to see what you'd be capable of."
"I doubt very much you'd like what I can do," Nanao said lightly thinking of her own recent training.
Lisa made a small humming noise. "I always knew you'd could be something fun if you tried."
Nanao marched out of the room without another word. She even restrained herself from slamming the door before starting to shunpo away. Kami, this was the first time she was grateful her mentor hadn't stayed with the 8th. She didn't think she would have enjoyed all the mind games the woman obviously took great pleasure from. No wonder her and Kyouraku got along so well. Game playing was their forte and sex was their chosen reward. Nanao was suddenly very happy she hadn't been old enough to understand their relationship. Lisa was right, they might not have been in love, but at least they'd been evenly matched.
"Out late Shinigami-chan?" Kei asked as she entered the inn the Higurashi were staying at fifteen minutes later. She shot him a glare, but otherwise continued towards her room. "And returning in the same clothes this morning? I have to admit I really didn't peg you as quite this promiscuous. That Taicho really was holding you back after all."
"Go die," Nanao said disdainfully.
Kei just chuckled. "I do hope you didn't get into too much trouble."
The comment reminded Nanao of why she'd gotten into this whole mess to begin with. Really she should have never followed those yakuza men. She stalked over to Kei making a great show of her anger in case anyone else was around to see. Then she poked him hard in the chest to make it look like she was cursing him and hissed, "I'd be wary of the Yamaguchi brothers. They've taken an interest in Mamoru-nii."
Kei's dangerously offended expression morphed quickly into an angered one to cover his look of surprise. He captured her hand and bore down on it enough to make her wince. To anyone looking on it probably looked like he was chastising her for daring to touch him. In a dangerously low voice he said, "Today's the last day. We'll watch them."
Nanao nodded sharply and ripped her hand out of his hold glaring at him. "Understood," she growled out loudly for show before spinning on her heel and stomping away. At least now the Higurashi would have some warning if anything did happen and her brother would be protected. Meanwhile she was going to take a long hot shower and try to erase the past few hours from her mind.
A/N: Sorry for typos, I only had time to read through once. Reviews please!