Umi didn't know what was going on.
She was first talking to Kotori about running away, but once she said 'Eli', Kotori was asking questions like: how tall was she? What was her hair color? When did they meet? Where was she at right now? Etc. It was a little confusing on why she wanted to know but Umi didn't say anything, mostly because she was confused and didn't know what to say.
Once she knew that no matter how many times she asked a question, she wasn't going to get an answer, Kotori sighed and put both her hands on her friend and gave her a serious look. "Look Umi... if you dont answer my questions I'm going go need to take you down in the police station for interrogation and I don't want to do that...". Umi was shocked at what Kotori said, but nonetheless more confused on why she would be taken to the police station.
"Kotori... why? What happened? What's so important about Eli?" Umi finally questioned. Kotori looked at her childhood friend in disbelief. "You mean... you don't know about Eli Ayase?" Kotori asked. Umi shook her head, "No... what's so important about her?" Kotori opened her mouth to answer when she was cut off by gunshots nearby.
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Eli was spying on Umi and Kotori.
She wasn't wearing the nuns outfit that Umi let her borrow, it was the attire she wore for her job.* Once she heard that Kotori was about to spill the beans on who she really was, she took her gun out and slipped out of her hidding place and went in front of the church to fire a couple of shots in the air to get Kotori's attention. Once she fired the shots she quickly went inside the church, hoping that no one was there, which to her luck, there wasn't any people, and went to the back door where she found a set of stairs leading to the first floor. Looking down she could see where Umi was standing frightened she was a little far away but she could probably have time and take Umi away. She was about to jump off the window and get Umi, when she saw Kotori run towards her and talking in her radio and reported about the shooting. Eli grunted and threw a smoke bomb towards Kotori and Umi, and wrapped her black scarf to hide her face. She knew it wasnt really necessary but you never know.
Kotori and Umi heard a 'clanck' noise and looked down to see something explode under their feet, exposing them to pure smoke, and the dark wasn't helping, making it harder for both woman to see. Once the smoke was visible to Eli was standing, she jumped off the window and went in the smoke to where she last saw Umi. She saw a familiar blue and white dress and fixed her gaze to see a petrified Umi. Eli could barely see Kotori try to find Umi, and decided to go inside her bag and throw tacks around her, once she was done with that, Eli scooped Umi up bridal style and quickly ran out of the smoke and took her away from the church, making her way to where she last remembered she parked her car. Umi was scared on what was going to happen that she lost her voice.
Once they both got to her car, Eli quickly put Umi in the passagers seat and quickly ran to her seat. She catched her breath and proceeded to start the car.
"Eli... what are you...?" Umi finally found her voice and looked at Eli with a hint of confusion. "Look I'll explain to you what is going on later..." Eli responded, leaning in to give Umi a kiss on the lips lightly, making Umi blush and pushing Eli away and covering her lips out of embarrassment. Eli smiled a little as she got out of her parking space. "For now, I'm going to take you to my place." The blond said driving towards to where her house was located.
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The whole ride to Eli's house, was quiet. There were a few police cars with their sirens on, driving the opposite direction that Eli was driving towards, which made her a little paranoid but she tried to keep her cool by not driving recklessly so that the police won't stop her.
Once she started driving in woods, Eli sighed as she knew she was almost home. "Eli... what are we doing all the way over here?" Umi spoke up in a soft voice. Eli smiled at her and said, "this is kinda where I live... I highly doubt the police would bother searching for me over here. Oh look, here is my place..." Umi looked up to see a two story house that looked rather unique, she since it was in the nature and it looked like a modern day American house. Eli opened her glove compartment and took out a slim controller. She pressed a button and the garage opened, she parked her car, turned it off, and sighed, relaxing in her seat. "Eli... can you explain to me what happened..?" Umi spoke up, still curious what was going on. Eli sighed and mentally laughed at herself for thinking that Umi would drop it. Of course she wasn't going to drop it.
"Look... I'm the notorious criminal, Eli Ayase. Who I works for is Russia, my home country, in other words, I'm a secret agent." Eli imformed the curious woman next to her. "At first my job was going great, I took some information and sent it to Russia. But I started getting ahead of myself and started messing up on my job." Eli sighed, remembering her first failure. "I asked the Russian government if I should head back home, since I was messing up so much, but they said that I should head back in a few months. I still have to go to this extravagant party, because they are celebrating a launch this huge company is having. After that party, I head back to Russia." Eli finished. Umi sat silently and wondered what she should do now. She wanted to go back the church, with the kids she considered her children, but she couldn't leave, probably Eli tought she couldn't trust her, so she brought her with her, or probably something else.
Should she call the police late at night? No that was to bogus of her to do, Eli didn't seem like a bad person, a flirtatious one, yes. But not a bad person, at least Umi hoped. Not only that but she didn't even have a phone to contact anyone.
Eli and Umi both got out of the car and Eli showed her to Umi's room, since she was staying there for a while, not because Umi wanted to though, but because Eli told her it was for her safety. Since Kotori knows they have been talking to each other, she is considered a suspect too.
Umi sighed and wondered what she should do, since she was far away from the church and was far away from the kids too. It broke her heart that she was far away from the people she loved, but there was no choice, she had to be with Eli for the time being.
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Eli took out her phone and dialed one of her friends, one of the few people she could count on.
"Hello?" Nozomi picked up, Eli sighed, relieved that her best friend picked up.
"Hey Nozomi, can you come over?" Eli asked, Nozomi hummed as she thought of an answer. "Why what happened?" I'll send you a message on what happened, just can you please come over? By come over I mean like sleep over..." Eli giggled at the end awkwardly. Nozomi sighed and spoke up, "Alright but you better tell me what happened." Eli hummed in agreement and Nozomi said goodbye, so that she can get ready.
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Nozomi sighed as she hung up and got her stuff to head out.
"Nozomi? Where are you going?"
Nozomi looked up to see her roomate, Nico standing at the doorway.
"Well I'm going to Eli's, she asked me if I could sleep over." Nozomi said as she looked back at her belongings and got her bag from her closet and stuffed them in. "Wait but how am I going to do it for rent?" Nico questioned, freaking out not wanting to one day come home and have an eviction notice on her door. Nozomi giggled and spoke up, "Don't worry I'll send my half of the rent. I'm not gonna let you suffer with the bills all by yourself, we are roomate after all. Also, I might just be over there for a few weeks, maybe months, not that much so I'll be back." Nozomi said zipping up her bag and walking past Nico and opened the door to head out.
"Oh! Also, don't do have too much fun by yourself or with anyone while I'm gone!" Nozomi winked at the dumbfounded Nico and closed the door behind her. Once it clicked, Nico madly blushed from embarrassment.
"I'm not going to do that! I don't even got a boyfriend!" Nico yelled. Nozomi heard and giggled. Nico huffed, and felt her phone vibrate.
'Or girlfriend ;)' Nico blushed a darker shade of red, more than her eyes, and screamed.
"NOZOMI!"
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Nozomi drove a little over the speed limit, since she was so she was a race car driver. She hated when there was traffic, over something stupid like an accident, because then people would slow down to look and see what happened.
Can't they just mind their own business?
Nozomi sighed as she quickly drove to Eli's house. She just wanted to stay home and watch TV. But something was going on with her best friend so she went to go see what was up.
Once she arrived she saw Eli patiently sitting down on the concrete steps. She pressed a button from a tiny control she had, and opened the garage and let Nozomi park her can next to her car. Nozomi nodded as a thank you and parked, turned off her car and quickly got out, bringing her bag with her.
"What happened to my text message?" Nozomi spoke up, smilling at her friend. Eli shook her head and smiled. "Well knowing how you drive, you would've arrived and I would still be texting." Eli said getting up and walking towards her friend. "Well you just need to text faster." Nozomi said in a playful tone.
"Or maybe you need to drive a little slower." Eli said back playfully."
"You know I can't drive slower!" Nozomi smiled and hugged her friend. "How you been?"
"I've been good, how about you?" Eli asked, being nice. "I've been great!" Nozomi said happily slapping Eli's shoulder lightly, not knowing that's where she got shot a few days ago. Eli winced at the pain that shot through her body, which was noticed by Nozomi.
"Did you get shot again?" Nozomi asked worriedly. Eli nodded squeezing her arm. "I'll call Rin, she can help you with that wound." Nozomi said taking out her phone and dialing their friend.
Once Rin got the news, both women went inside to talk.
"Okay! Now tell me what happened. Tell me everything, I can tell when you leave details behind, so you better tell me every little detail!" Nozomi smiled as she got her hands ready for her signature breast grope. Eli awkwardly laughed and started from the very beginning, from where she got shot.
After 15 minutes of talking, Nozomi stayed quiet until she finally spoke up.
"... aw! Eli is in love!" Nozomi said in love in a sing-song voice. Eli slapped her hand on Nozomi's mouth but it was too late, and probaly everyone in the house knew, and by everyone I mean, probaly Umi also heard from her room.
Nozomi laughed as she saw her friend blush madly. They both heard a knock on the door and Eli looked at Nozomi, in which Nozomi got up and opened the door, to reveal the short nurse, Rin, patiently standing to go in the house.
"So where is Eli, nya"
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When the smoke bomb erupted under her and Umi, she knew something was up. She didn't know where the smoke bomb was thrown from, but the light blue smoke was everywhere, making it hard to see. She heard light footsteps heading towards her and Umi were, and she tried to find Umi's arm to bring her close to her, but the smoke screen didn't let her see Umi. She heard something fall around her and she squinted to see that tacks were all around her, making it dangerous to step anywhere. She heard footsteps run towards the gate of the garden and sliently complained on how the police department was taking their sweet time getting here.
After 5 minutes, the smoke cleared out and saw the the circle was a few inches thick, which was easy for Kotori to step out of the circle. She looked at the now opened gate and knew that by now, Umi and Eli were far away by now.
After talking to her boss about what happened, but leaving a few details out, like how she confessed to Kotori, she was sent home.
"Kotori!" The policewoman turned around to see Honoka, her other childhood friend. "Oh! Honoka! What are you doing here?" Kotori said running towards the ginger haired woman and hugged her. "...I have to talk about what happened tonight. Just when I thought I was free to go home, they tell me to go out and talk about the incident here!" Honoka complained, then sighed to collect herself and mumbled "The struggles of being a newscaster, but at least it gives me a reason to see Umi, I haven't seen her since the longest!" Honoka said, exaggerating on the word 'longest'. Kotori sighed and spoke up, "Well you are going to have to wait a little longer, Eli took Umi with her..." Kotori whispered.
"What! What do you mean?!" Honoka said a long with another voice. Kotori and Honoka were caught off guard and looked around for the other voice, until they saw a little girl that looked just like Honoka, with minor differences.
"Wow... you look so similar to Honoka..." Kotori kneels down to the little girl. "What's your name?"
"Chika Takami!" the girl said cheerfully, raising up her hand. Kotori giggled, and Hokona just stared at the little girl. Kotori was about to speak up but was cut off by another voice.
"Chika! Where are you?!" A little girl with the same hair color as Kotori yelled, looking around for her friend frantically. "I'm over here!" Chika waved over at her friend cheerfully. The little girl happily ran towards her friend until she laid eyes on Kotori.
"What a cute uniform!" The little girl yelled, her tiny hands examining Kotori's uniform. Honoka smiled and knelt down. "What is your name?" Honoka smiled warmly, the little girl looked up and smiled brightly. "My name is You Watanabe! Aye! Aye!" You said putting her hand on her forehead, soluting Honoka, which made her smile, "Nice to meet you, You. I'm Honoka Kosaka, and my friend over here is Kotori Minami." Kotori smiled and waved at the little girl. "Nice to meet you, Watanabe."
Chika smile faltered when she remembered what Kotori said and looked up to the older woman. "Hey Kotori..." Chika tugged on Kotori's sleeve, making Kotori look down at the little girl. "What happened Chika?"
"What did you mean by Eli took our teacher, Umi with her?" Chika's wide eyes were filled with curiosity and despair.
Kotori felt a sudden guilt having to break the news to both Chika and You.
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* Eli's uniform i mean By the UR that she is paired up with Kotori., tho in here i Gave her a scarf