Chapter 19 The problem with Akira

Kay stares at the innocent child sleeping on the couch. " He looks pretty harmless to me.." Kay says, shaking her head at Kaneda. It's about eleven-thirty in the morning. Kaneda crosses his arms. " Well Tetsuo never asked if this boy could stay and he didn't tell anyone who he is at all!" Kaneda whines. Kay sighs. " Ok Kaneda whatever..you know what? How about I go home for a couple of days and let you and Tetsuo sort this out and let you get some rest...ok? ok." Kay gives him a dry kiss and a hug. She is clearly fed up with this matter and wants to avoid it as much as possible unless it absolutely has to involve her. She leaves. Kaneda stands, shocked. He shrugs and looks angrily at Tetsuo's room. " What about his arm?!" He goes after Kay out the door shouting; " KAY! WAITT!!!"

Tetsuo and Magumi are lieing close to each other on his bed. Tetsuo kinda canceled the making out sesion due to the machanical arm mishap. Magumi is just cuddled up close to him. That was fine. Just as long as those strange happenings didn't happen anymore. He sighed and held her close. Maybe he didn't haft to worry about any of it anymore. He could just live his life normaly now. Maybe. A small child crawls onto his bed and taps his shoulder. Tetsuo spins around. Akira. I guess he forgot about him. What was he thinking bringing him here? Akira keeps shaking his shoulder. " What?" Tetsuo snaps. " Go away.." Tetsuo murmers. AKira hops off the bed and stares at him. Tetsuo is starting to get annoyed with him. Magumi is sleeping lightly. Tetsuo slowly pulls himself up and stands before Akira. AKira quickly walks out the door. " What the....?" Tetsuo crosses his arms. " Might as well get up and let her sleep." He thinks.

Kaneda walks slowly back into the house, failing at getting Kay to 'examine' Tetsuo's robotic arm. Tetsuo is standing in front of him drinking something out of a glass. " Tetsuo?!" Kaneda stutters. His arm is clearly visible. Kaneda grabs his human arm and drags him outside shouting, " KAY!!! WAITT!!! HE'S RIGHT HERE!!" Kaneda shouts at the top of his lungs. Tetsuo almost drops the glass. He rips his arm away from Kaneda. Kay is no where to be found. " What the hell are you doing, Kaneda?" Tetsuo snaps at him. Kaneda turns around at him, obviously pissed off. Tetsuo is already walkng back indoors before Kaneda can say anything to him.
Kaneda drags himself back inside. He plops down in one of the chairs, next to the table. Tetsuo is rumaging through the fridge. Yamagata appears from the hall. " Hey." He grunts past Kaneda, into the kitchen. He stands next to Tesuo for a few seconds, looking through the fridge with him. He picks up the milk carton and starts to take a long sip. " AHHHHHH!!!!!" Yamagata spits is all over the place. Milk runs down his chin. " YOUR ARM!!! WHAT THE HELL!!! TELL ME THAT ISN'T REAL!!!" Yamagata freaks out waving the carton in front of him, acting as if it was a sheild. Tetsuo sighs deeply and closes the fridge calmly. He grabs a towel off the counter next to the sink and throws it at Yamagata's face. " I guess that's for you to find out." Tetsuo says.

Keisuke wakes up. He sits up and stretches his arms up. Akira is sitting on the couch watching him. " Hey.. you hungry?" Kei asks. Akira hops to his feet. Kei slowly climbs to his feet. " I'm sure we can find you something to eat.." Kei smiles. Akira follows him into the kitchen.
" Well aren't we all up early today?" Kei laughs. Yamagata turns around. Tetsuo leans against the counter casually. Kei searches the shelves for some cereal, ramen noodles...something a child could eat that didn't contain alcohol or wasn't half eaten or drunk already. " I don't beleive this.." Mummbles Kei. " There is nothing in here that he can eat.." Kei says, slightly angered. " Why don't you just take him out to eat?" Kaneda suggests. Kei sighs. " Who wants to come?" He asks. Everyone almost immedietly nods. " Of course..I'm only paying for Akira's.." Kei says.

Magumi enters the living room, showered and dressed. The effect of the drug is gone. She looks for her bag and picks it up off the floor. She unzips it and pulls out a little stud-earing. She pushes it gently through her bottom lip. " Don't want it to grow shut on me.." She thinks, zipping back up her bag. Magumi enters the kitchen suprised that everyone was in there. Even Akira. " Hi everyone. Where's Kay?" She asks. Kaneda sinks lower into her seat. Tetsuo looks happy to see her. " We're gonna go out to eat due to the fact Kei thinks there is nothing here a child can eat." Yamagata says. " Well that sounds right to me." Magumi says. Yamagata shrugs. They get ready to leave.

The day was going to prove to be beautiful, sunny and not too warm, riding down the stretch of road leading into the city, already busy with people was fun for a change. The sun was right over-head with the wind from their bikes gently tugging at their hair. Akira clung onto Kei for dear life. Kei was doubting that Akira actually knew what he was doing when he drove that bike away from his assasin. It was probably out of fear. They park their bikes in front of a fast food joint and walk in. Some of the people glanced at them funny. Four guys, a woman, and a kid walkng into a fast food joint with motor bikes, some people stared and wondered what the situation was. They ordred their breakfast.

" Miss Gena.." A man soilder says. Miss Gena awakens on a small white cot. " Huh?" she murmers. " Oh." she remembers. " The colonel has gone. In a mad rage in search of Akira.." He explains. " He said if you were going to try to-" He stops . Miss Gena is rising to her feet. Her arm in a sling, it made no difference. " I want that phyco boy back her immedietly with Akira. I want the boy dead or alive it makes no difference to me." She says angrily. " But..the doctor says.." He starts. " I DON'T CARE." Miss Gena leaves. " Infourm everyone to be on level four alert..and send out a team to find those kids..ALL OF THEM!" she shouts.

At the resteraunt Yamagata was joking around with Tetsuo and punches him lightly in the arm. Akira jumps. " HM?" Kei looks up from his noodles. " YEAH and HAHAHA.." Yamagata punches Tetsuo again in the arm. Akira jumps and rubs his arm. " What the.." Kei mummbles. Tetsuo headlocks Yamagata and starts rubbing his hair making it all frizzy. Yamagata pokes him in the ribs. Magumi laughs.Akira dosen't move. " Oh well.." Kei murmers. The manager walks over and chews out Kaneda, for acting rough in his fast food joint , who isn't even doing anything but sulking. That's it. Kaneda snaps and grabs the managers collar. " OH YEAH??!! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?!" Kaneda shoves him into a table. The group stares. The manager quickly returns to his register. " I'm going home." Kaneda says, leaving quickly.

" What got into him?" Yamagata asks. " I don't know.." Tetsuo shrugs. He is holding Magumi's hand under the table. He just knows if Yamagata saw that he's never shut up. Akira finishes his food.