Touma's3

Ch. 3

It was a slap in the face,

How quickly I was replaced,

And are you thinking of me,

When you fuck her?

-You oughta know, Alanis Morisette

"Ami? Ami?" He looked around wearily. The room looked neat. Too neat for his tastes. "Ami-ko? Are you here?"

"You have no right to call me that," a savage voice said from the bathroom. Touma stepped in to see that Ami's eyes were all puffy and red from crying, her mascara was running. Touma went to put his arm around her, but she shook him off.

"How could you?"

"How could I what?" Touma asked, confused. Ami turned to look at him, a fierce look in her eye.

"How could you let that blonde bitch suck you like that??"

Touma's face went completely white. "Y-you know about that??"

"Oh, so you were planning to keep it a secret?"

"No! I came back to tell you about it, actually. Ami, please understand. She kissed me, I didn't know what I was doing!"

"It takes two to kiss, Touma!" Ami shouted. "And frankly I don't believe you anyway! You've wanted her since we got here! I knew it that day in the restaurant and I knew it yesterday in the pool!"

She stopped to sob then added in a low, cold voice "So much for Trooper honor."

She pushed out past the stunned man and grabbed her already packed suitcase.

"I'm leaving, Touma. And by the time you get back to Tokyo, I doubt the Sailor Senshi will have anything more to do with the Samurai Troopers."

Ami left, slamming the door behind her. Touma sat on the bed and held his head in his hands.

"Oh, god, what have I done?"

"Hi there!"

Ami turned to see Skye walking towards her, a satisfactory smug look on her face. Ami sneered.

"What do you want?"

"Just wanted to let you know that Touma-chan's going to be staying here with me, now that it looks like you're leaving him. "

Ami dropped her suitcase. "You have no right to call him "chan"!"

"Oh no? Touma and I got pretty close earlier. I'm sure he wouldn't mind."

Ami shook her head and picked up her bag. "I'm way above this. I'm leaving."

"Oh, by the way," Skye called after her. "I guess you'll have to learn how to really please a man if you want to keep him next time."

Ami dropped her suitcase again.

"Oh, that is it!" she turned and launched herself at Skye.

He had to find Ami and tell her how sorry he was. That he'd do anything to make it up to her! That he'd shave all his hair off, challenge Rajura to a staring contest, play Minako in Volleyball, eat his own cooking. Anything, as long as he could have her back. He saw that many men were running past him. He stopped one of them.

"What's going on?"

"Didn't you hear? There's a catfight going on between Skye and some small chick with blue hair."

"Oh god, Ami!!"

Ami aimed a high kick at Skye, who barely managed to duck it and rush Ami full in the gut. Ami flipped her over onto her back and began tearing at her long blonde hair. Skye screamed and forced Ami off of her before delivering a glancing blow to the side of her face. Ami aimed a few well placed punches of her own before scissor kicking her again into a wall. She was about to deliver another blow but two strong arms wrapped around her own. At the same time, a familiar smell enveloped her and she knew who was holding her back.

Suddenly exhausted from the fighting, she sagged against Touma as he picked her up and hugged her small, beaten body against his. He smiled.

"For me, Ami-ko? You shouldn't have."

Ami looked up at him and smiled weakly. "That was fun. I wanna do it again."

She then promptly passed out in his arms.

"Rise and shine, Ami-ko."

Ami opened her eyes slowly. God, everything hurt! She saw Touma bent over her, applying salve to her wounds.

"You think you're hurt, you should see Skye. She won't be attracting anyone for a long time."

That statement brought Ami fully back to reality and she turned her back on him. He sighed.

"Ami-ko, please don't be mad with me. L-look, she asked me to help her play pool, so I did. She kissed me, and I just kinda lost my senses. I barely remember any of it. I'll do anything to make it up to you. Ami, she hasn't replaced you in my life."

Ami glanced over her shoulder. "I'm not sure if I can forgive you just like that, Touma."

Touma kissed her softly on the cheek. "Look, Ami. How about we stay another week? Luna can have a fit when we get back. I think you deserve it."

Ami rolled all the way back over and smiled.

"Hey," she whispered. "Once I'm all better, I expect my punishment for earlier in the pool."

Touma blinked and grinned. "Believe me. I'll have you hurting more than you do now."

Ami grinned too. "That's a promise you'd better keep.