Disclaimer: I never own Love Hina.
Motoko: What are you planning, dumbass! I would've never love any man!
Naru: But Yuki's awesome
Motoko: I'm not talking to you! I'm talking to that baka saru over there
Author: Me?
Motoko: Yes you!
Author: You have to
Motoko: Why?
Author: Because I'm the author
Motoko: (sweat drop)
Chapter 3: Something's wrong…
"At least answer me!" Motoko grabs Yuki's colar and shouts at him. They were in a field near Hinata. Motoko's outrageous because of their plan. "Calm down Motoko, it's right, our reason to come here is to kill the traitors to Shinmei-ryu" Yuki tried to calm Motoko down, but it seems that Motoko's not even trying to be calm, or at least as cool as usual. When she's a bit calmer, she sat next to Yuki and began to talk, "I know, the traitors are here somewhere in Tokyo, you don't even know what part of Tokyo do they live in…" "You don't really care about that, you cared about Mizuki being beaten up or killed right?" Yuki asked back with an empathy tone. Motoko went silence for a moment. She began to fiddle with the grasses, trying to find words. "It's not it, I just think that Mizuki's much weaker than the traitors" Finally Motoko found a good answer, and answered Yuki shortly. Yuki laid on the soft part of the grass "Why do think she's weak?" he asked innocently to Motoko who's looking blankly in the sky. "Don't you remember? Even Anende was no match for her" Motoko started to lie down as well, near Yuki. Motoko didn't care about the answers, she's too tired to continue this whole damn thing. Feeling their hands almost touched, Yuki blushed and trying to figure whenever it's wrong or right to just grab her and kiss her. 'Maybe I should show my feeling s after all' He almost made up his mind when a memory of Motoko beating him up because he slept at the training pops 'maybe it's better to hide my feelings'.
Yuki stared at a tree above where he and Motoko laid down with lazy eyes. He was deeply absorbed in his own world. "Do you know, that I always wanted to see you in the last three years" Motoko said quietly to Yuki. "A…a…a…" Yuki stammered because of Motoko's words. Maybe he's the first guy to be told that from Motoko. Instead to over reacting, he tried to act like most popular guys do. He was popular at Shinmei-ryu, but he rejected anyone who confesses to him flat out just because of Motoko. When she saw the uneasy expression at Yuki's face, she decided smiled coldly. "Hmmm, did you fall to my trick?" Motoko asked him. "Wha…your trick?" Yuki was feeling deeply hurt. He was hoping to be Motoko's boyfriend, but seeing that it wouldn't come true this days or maybe the rest of his life, he decided to bare with it.
"Feh, your trick was good, but I won't fall for it for the third time" Yuki swears to Motoko and sat up. "I guess I'll go back to Hinata-sou" Motoko hurried along the path that's leading to Hinata-sou and disappeared inside. 'What's with her? She looked a bit sad' Yuki thought, as he took a taxi and went back to the hotel he's in.
"Motoko-san…where are you? It's almost breakfast" Shinobu was about to cook steak for everybody when Motoko came in with a softer expression then usual. "I'm just…" "You're just going out with Yuki" Kitsune cuts Motoko's sentence with a foxy grin, hands on chin. "Uwaa!" Motoko let out a low scream because of her sudden appearances. "Heh…is that true Motoko-chan?" Keitaro asked with a curious tone. "No way I would go out with mankind" she sat beside Naru and started eating the sashimi, ootoro sushi, tamago sushi and fish soup. Naru took a glance at Motoko and began eating. She paused when she realized that all of the food was made by fish, or somehow related to fish. "Umm…Shinobu, is this a fish day or something? The foods were all made by fish." Naru held her chopstick up and started to examine a piece of sashimi. Keitaro just stared at Naru and started to think 'was there really a fish day' but, when he remembers the book about special days that he read a few days ago didn't even mention fish, a sweat drop pops in the back of his head. "Of course not, Naru-sempai… the lady that lives in the house near the river gave it to me because it's to much for her freezer" Shinobu turned her head to look at Naru who's looking a bit childish to ask such a question. "Are you longing for a fish day, Naru? I can make you a fish day!" Suu jumped out of her chair and grins widely at Naru. "Ma…maybe a hinamatsuri's better" Naru answered Suu with a big sweat drop. "I'm done" Motoko sat up from her chair and left the room. 'Where is Mizuki? She's out all day' Motoko asked herself. 'Maybe she's out with Yuki… I'll take a nap first' she slides the sliding door in her room and started to sleep soundlessly. There's something making her doesn't want to think of anything right now.
*Bang* *bang* that sound keep Motoko and the other Hinata residents awake, except Mizuki who's sleeping comfortably beside Motoko. "Sheesh, where's that sound coming from?" Kitsune grumbled with her eyes red and teary. Motoko sat between Suu and Kitsune. She stared at the ceiling eyes wide opened. She hadn't had a problem of awaking all night, because she already slept after breakfast. "This is scary…" Shinobu went closer to Naru, same as Motoko, staring at the ceiling. They all were in Motoko's room (including Mizuki), it was very unusual to hear bangs up in the ceiling in the middle of a night. "I know you're all afraid, but why are you all in my room?" Motoko asked them with one eyebrow up. "Be…because it sounds safe in your room…" Keitaro said to a glaring Motoko, "and you're a youkai exterminator, right?" Naru added, this time a bit shakily, because the bangs were heard a bit louder. Even Suu, was a quitter than usual. "Come on, you guys…if there really is a youkai, why wouldn't it attack us, and just decided to scary us?" this time, she said with her icy tone, even icier than usual. "I, I guess you make a point there, but…onegai! Let us stay in your room until morning" Keitaro pleaded to Motoko. "I can, if you want to sleep out there in the corridor" She pointed out to the dark corridor and stared at Keitaro. "Nooo!" He chickened out and once again, pleaded Motoko to stay in her room. "Kisa…!" "Wait, Motoko-chan, why you let Keitaro and all of us stay her, we promise he won't be any burden to you" Naru held her hand in front Motoko, she's ready to pull her katana out of the sheath. "A, anoo…Naru-sempai…to end all of this…why don't one of us go up into that ceiling and check whatever that's in there" Shinobu suggested with one of her hand up.
"That would be a good idea, now…who wants to be a volunteer?" Kitsune looked at the Hinata residents, expecting one of them to raise her/his hand. But, nobody raised its hand. "So, should I pick somebody then?" Kitsune looked a bit happy with this plan, nobody knows why. "Sheesh, I'll go" Motoko started to feel tired of this whole thing, so she decided to check that bangs and cut whoever or whatever's making that bang sound in half. Before she even took one step, Naru and Shinobu already held her hands. "No, Motoko-san…I think that sound's heading here, you should wait here and protect us, if something's happening" Shinobu said to Motoko, looking very nervous. "She's right, whatever it is, it's coming here" Keitaro cautiously stared at where the sound were coming from. Motoko didn't even expect that they were all this coward.
*Bang* *bang* the sound came closer every minute. "S, some body wants to check this sound out?" Naru asked them. Nobody said a word. "T, then shall Mizuki-san go then?" Naru suggested it and came a nod from everybody. "Mizuki…wake up…there's something in that ceiling" Kitsune tried to wake Mizuki up (she's sleeping again). "Mmmm, nani? Breakfast already?" they all fall into the ground.
*BANG!* Now, the sounds were right on top of them. "That damn sound…it's scarring everybody off!" Motoko hisses just loud enough for them to hear. She was getting very impatient of this whole damned thing, so she runs upstairs, into the center of the sound. Even they didn't want to, the rest of Hinata residents went with Motoko, because they fell insecure (of course Mizuki was with them). "Oi, Where did the sound come from?" Mizuki asked Motoko with a pair of red and teary eyes. Motoko sighed and turned to Mizuki. "Even you are scared?" she asked with a rather pissed tone. Mizuki knew that Motoko wasn't familiar with her after parting in three years, not now.
"GAAAH! There are footsteps coming from that direction!" Naru hugged Keitarou on the hand, while she points to a dark corridor linking it with the hallway. "U, ummm let's check it out" Keitarou suddenly felt brave after being hugged by Naru, he marched towards the sound and never looked back. Kitsune held her hand in her breast with teary eyes. "What a brave hero, he would sacrifice his self for our sake". *Flash* the candle they brought with them went out. "Mo…!" a lightning, striking near Hinata-sou, cut Naru's words.
"UWAAAAA!" they all screamed, because of the loud noise the lightning was making, all except Motoko who's just leaning on the wall beside them, sighing every time her fellow mates freaked out. "DAREKATASUKETE!" Keitarou screamed from behind them. "What's wrong keitarou !?" Motoko held Keitarou's arm with a firm grip, she feels a bit worried with this entire thing happening. "I'll check this out! Stay here!" Motoko's command was short and simple, but everybody obeyed and nobody moves.
She run down the corridor and bumped into somebody. "Aa, Motoko-chan, why are you so rushing?" Motoko bumped into Seta, he was holding a box full with tools in the right hand, a hammer in left hand, and some nails in his mouth. It was surprising how he would talk with a mouth full of nails.
"What!?" They all shouted in the same time. "You freaked the whole dorm out for your reparation!?" Kitsune held Seta's collar with her eyes wide open, it makes her looked like URD (from Aa! Megami-sama!). "So, that's why Sara was here the other day" Keitarou examined his bruises while he's trying to figure out his dumb act by thinking there was really a youkai, it seems that the other were just like him, except Mizuki and Motoko. Motoko looked relieved to get out of this whole fuss, on the other hand, Mizuki looked as if she's going to faint from insomnia. "You totally forgotten about me didn't you?" Sara eyed Keitarou and began attacking him when he's facing the other way.
In the middle of the fuss, Mizuki slowly left and went to meet Yuki. She stared around, "well, I did want to meet Yuki, but why did I end up here?" She was in the city park where there are couples around. The park she's in was in the southern part of Tokyo, while the hotel Yuki's in was in the Northern part of Tokyo. "And the worst is there are all couples around, while I was alone and lost, should have heard Motoko" Her tears were streaming down her face. "Hey, what are doing in such a place alone?" Somebody patted her on the back. She jumped and panicked like there's no tomorrow. "No! I'm going to be rapped!" She tried to escape but that person held her tightly.
The man took her to a place where there's just them alone. "UWAAAA! Now I'm really going to be rapped!" Mizuki cried like a two year old kid. "Sssst, face me" The man's voice was soft, but his grip was firm. Mizuki was forced to turn to that man. He was a good-looking man, in fact handsome. He has a gold diadem attached to his head; he has a black hair and a pair of sharp looking eyes. He was more than that, but Mizuki couldn't think of anything. He was too awesome for a woman to comment on.
She blushed because her face was so close to the man's face, she wasn't all that afraid again. "I think I know you…" the man examined her face carefully. "Yeah! You're Mizuki, right!?" The man spoke at about 2 minutes after looking at her face. "How… do you know?" She gave that man a frown, she knew she know this man from somewhere…she just couldn't remember. The man pointed to his self and said with excitement "Remember? I'm Koutarou, your senior from Shinmei-ryu" Mizuki still stood silent. He held a photo of him and Mizuki that was taken long ago, just to a sure her that he really is Koutarou.
"Ah! So you really are Koutarou-sempai!" She exclaimed with a cheerful tone, the kind when a girl was accepted to a date by a popular man. "So you remembered…" He wasn't any surprised by how long it took Mizuki to recognize him, because he was really different from 5 years ago when he left Shinmei-ryu, 5 years ago he was more like a book warm a large circle glass than a Kendo player.
"Urashima! I think there's somebody knocking on the door," Motoko informed Keitarou from the balcony where she usually trains. "Hai!" Keitarou ran to the door as the knocking became impatient. "Geeez, do you always locks the door?" Mizuki said on the other side of the door, Keitarou quickly opened the door for her.
She rushed inside at once. "Motoko!" She stopped for a while to catch for breath. Everybody was in the balcony, discussing something about love, and of course Motoko was 'caught' in the middle of the discussion because she was training there. "What's wrong Mizuki? We're in the middle of an important discussion" Kitsune said to her teasingly, Mizuki decided to ignore her and went straight to Motoko, leaving a pissed Kitsune behind.
"What's wrong Mizuki?" Motoko asked between the swings of her sword. Every body stopped to hear whatever she's saying in interest, and as always Kitsune had some 'kind' of idea stuck in her head. "I met Koutarou-sempai!" Everybody stared at her. "Keitarou?" Naru asked with a strange expression. Mizuki fell to the ground. "Kentarou?" Shinobu suggested between the clothing lines. Mizuki once more fell to the ground. "I said KOUtarou-sempai!" Mizuki screamed at the top of her lungs. Motoko looked at her for a moment and went back to training. "The traitor" she said in a whisper.
Motoko: What are you planning, dumbass! I would've never love any man!
Naru: But Yuki's awesome
Motoko: I'm not talking to you! I'm talking to that baka saru over there
Author: Me?
Motoko: Yes you!
Author: You have to
Motoko: Why?
Author: Because I'm the author
Motoko: (sweat drop)
Chapter 3: Something's wrong…
"At least answer me!" Motoko grabs Yuki's colar and shouts at him. They were in a field near Hinata. Motoko's outrageous because of their plan. "Calm down Motoko, it's right, our reason to come here is to kill the traitors to Shinmei-ryu" Yuki tried to calm Motoko down, but it seems that Motoko's not even trying to be calm, or at least as cool as usual. When she's a bit calmer, she sat next to Yuki and began to talk, "I know, the traitors are here somewhere in Tokyo, you don't even know what part of Tokyo do they live in…" "You don't really care about that, you cared about Mizuki being beaten up or killed right?" Yuki asked back with an empathy tone. Motoko went silence for a moment. She began to fiddle with the grasses, trying to find words. "It's not it, I just think that Mizuki's much weaker than the traitors" Finally Motoko found a good answer, and answered Yuki shortly. Yuki laid on the soft part of the grass "Why do think she's weak?" he asked innocently to Motoko who's looking blankly in the sky. "Don't you remember? Even Anende was no match for her" Motoko started to lie down as well, near Yuki. Motoko didn't care about the answers, she's too tired to continue this whole damn thing. Feeling their hands almost touched, Yuki blushed and trying to figure whenever it's wrong or right to just grab her and kiss her. 'Maybe I should show my feeling s after all' He almost made up his mind when a memory of Motoko beating him up because he slept at the training pops 'maybe it's better to hide my feelings'.
Yuki stared at a tree above where he and Motoko laid down with lazy eyes. He was deeply absorbed in his own world. "Do you know, that I always wanted to see you in the last three years" Motoko said quietly to Yuki. "A…a…a…" Yuki stammered because of Motoko's words. Maybe he's the first guy to be told that from Motoko. Instead to over reacting, he tried to act like most popular guys do. He was popular at Shinmei-ryu, but he rejected anyone who confesses to him flat out just because of Motoko. When she saw the uneasy expression at Yuki's face, she decided smiled coldly. "Hmmm, did you fall to my trick?" Motoko asked him. "Wha…your trick?" Yuki was feeling deeply hurt. He was hoping to be Motoko's boyfriend, but seeing that it wouldn't come true this days or maybe the rest of his life, he decided to bare with it.
"Feh, your trick was good, but I won't fall for it for the third time" Yuki swears to Motoko and sat up. "I guess I'll go back to Hinata-sou" Motoko hurried along the path that's leading to Hinata-sou and disappeared inside. 'What's with her? She looked a bit sad' Yuki thought, as he took a taxi and went back to the hotel he's in.
"Motoko-san…where are you? It's almost breakfast" Shinobu was about to cook steak for everybody when Motoko came in with a softer expression then usual. "I'm just…" "You're just going out with Yuki" Kitsune cuts Motoko's sentence with a foxy grin, hands on chin. "Uwaa!" Motoko let out a low scream because of her sudden appearances. "Heh…is that true Motoko-chan?" Keitaro asked with a curious tone. "No way I would go out with mankind" she sat beside Naru and started eating the sashimi, ootoro sushi, tamago sushi and fish soup. Naru took a glance at Motoko and began eating. She paused when she realized that all of the food was made by fish, or somehow related to fish. "Umm…Shinobu, is this a fish day or something? The foods were all made by fish." Naru held her chopstick up and started to examine a piece of sashimi. Keitaro just stared at Naru and started to think 'was there really a fish day' but, when he remembers the book about special days that he read a few days ago didn't even mention fish, a sweat drop pops in the back of his head. "Of course not, Naru-sempai… the lady that lives in the house near the river gave it to me because it's to much for her freezer" Shinobu turned her head to look at Naru who's looking a bit childish to ask such a question. "Are you longing for a fish day, Naru? I can make you a fish day!" Suu jumped out of her chair and grins widely at Naru. "Ma…maybe a hinamatsuri's better" Naru answered Suu with a big sweat drop. "I'm done" Motoko sat up from her chair and left the room. 'Where is Mizuki? She's out all day' Motoko asked herself. 'Maybe she's out with Yuki… I'll take a nap first' she slides the sliding door in her room and started to sleep soundlessly. There's something making her doesn't want to think of anything right now.
*Bang* *bang* that sound keep Motoko and the other Hinata residents awake, except Mizuki who's sleeping comfortably beside Motoko. "Sheesh, where's that sound coming from?" Kitsune grumbled with her eyes red and teary. Motoko sat between Suu and Kitsune. She stared at the ceiling eyes wide opened. She hadn't had a problem of awaking all night, because she already slept after breakfast. "This is scary…" Shinobu went closer to Naru, same as Motoko, staring at the ceiling. They all were in Motoko's room (including Mizuki), it was very unusual to hear bangs up in the ceiling in the middle of a night. "I know you're all afraid, but why are you all in my room?" Motoko asked them with one eyebrow up. "Be…because it sounds safe in your room…" Keitaro said to a glaring Motoko, "and you're a youkai exterminator, right?" Naru added, this time a bit shakily, because the bangs were heard a bit louder. Even Suu, was a quitter than usual. "Come on, you guys…if there really is a youkai, why wouldn't it attack us, and just decided to scary us?" this time, she said with her icy tone, even icier than usual. "I, I guess you make a point there, but…onegai! Let us stay in your room until morning" Keitaro pleaded to Motoko. "I can, if you want to sleep out there in the corridor" She pointed out to the dark corridor and stared at Keitaro. "Nooo!" He chickened out and once again, pleaded Motoko to stay in her room. "Kisa…!" "Wait, Motoko-chan, why you let Keitaro and all of us stay her, we promise he won't be any burden to you" Naru held her hand in front Motoko, she's ready to pull her katana out of the sheath. "A, anoo…Naru-sempai…to end all of this…why don't one of us go up into that ceiling and check whatever that's in there" Shinobu suggested with one of her hand up.
"That would be a good idea, now…who wants to be a volunteer?" Kitsune looked at the Hinata residents, expecting one of them to raise her/his hand. But, nobody raised its hand. "So, should I pick somebody then?" Kitsune looked a bit happy with this plan, nobody knows why. "Sheesh, I'll go" Motoko started to feel tired of this whole thing, so she decided to check that bangs and cut whoever or whatever's making that bang sound in half. Before she even took one step, Naru and Shinobu already held her hands. "No, Motoko-san…I think that sound's heading here, you should wait here and protect us, if something's happening" Shinobu said to Motoko, looking very nervous. "She's right, whatever it is, it's coming here" Keitaro cautiously stared at where the sound were coming from. Motoko didn't even expect that they were all this coward.
*Bang* *bang* the sound came closer every minute. "S, some body wants to check this sound out?" Naru asked them. Nobody said a word. "T, then shall Mizuki-san go then?" Naru suggested it and came a nod from everybody. "Mizuki…wake up…there's something in that ceiling" Kitsune tried to wake Mizuki up (she's sleeping again). "Mmmm, nani? Breakfast already?" they all fall into the ground.
*BANG!* Now, the sounds were right on top of them. "That damn sound…it's scarring everybody off!" Motoko hisses just loud enough for them to hear. She was getting very impatient of this whole damned thing, so she runs upstairs, into the center of the sound. Even they didn't want to, the rest of Hinata residents went with Motoko, because they fell insecure (of course Mizuki was with them). "Oi, Where did the sound come from?" Mizuki asked Motoko with a pair of red and teary eyes. Motoko sighed and turned to Mizuki. "Even you are scared?" she asked with a rather pissed tone. Mizuki knew that Motoko wasn't familiar with her after parting in three years, not now.
"GAAAH! There are footsteps coming from that direction!" Naru hugged Keitarou on the hand, while she points to a dark corridor linking it with the hallway. "U, ummm let's check it out" Keitarou suddenly felt brave after being hugged by Naru, he marched towards the sound and never looked back. Kitsune held her hand in her breast with teary eyes. "What a brave hero, he would sacrifice his self for our sake". *Flash* the candle they brought with them went out. "Mo…!" a lightning, striking near Hinata-sou, cut Naru's words.
"UWAAAAA!" they all screamed, because of the loud noise the lightning was making, all except Motoko who's just leaning on the wall beside them, sighing every time her fellow mates freaked out. "DAREKATASUKETE!" Keitarou screamed from behind them. "What's wrong keitarou !?" Motoko held Keitarou's arm with a firm grip, she feels a bit worried with this entire thing happening. "I'll check this out! Stay here!" Motoko's command was short and simple, but everybody obeyed and nobody moves.
She run down the corridor and bumped into somebody. "Aa, Motoko-chan, why are you so rushing?" Motoko bumped into Seta, he was holding a box full with tools in the right hand, a hammer in left hand, and some nails in his mouth. It was surprising how he would talk with a mouth full of nails.
"What!?" They all shouted in the same time. "You freaked the whole dorm out for your reparation!?" Kitsune held Seta's collar with her eyes wide open, it makes her looked like URD (from Aa! Megami-sama!). "So, that's why Sara was here the other day" Keitarou examined his bruises while he's trying to figure out his dumb act by thinking there was really a youkai, it seems that the other were just like him, except Mizuki and Motoko. Motoko looked relieved to get out of this whole fuss, on the other hand, Mizuki looked as if she's going to faint from insomnia. "You totally forgotten about me didn't you?" Sara eyed Keitarou and began attacking him when he's facing the other way.
In the middle of the fuss, Mizuki slowly left and went to meet Yuki. She stared around, "well, I did want to meet Yuki, but why did I end up here?" She was in the city park where there are couples around. The park she's in was in the southern part of Tokyo, while the hotel Yuki's in was in the Northern part of Tokyo. "And the worst is there are all couples around, while I was alone and lost, should have heard Motoko" Her tears were streaming down her face. "Hey, what are doing in such a place alone?" Somebody patted her on the back. She jumped and panicked like there's no tomorrow. "No! I'm going to be rapped!" She tried to escape but that person held her tightly.
The man took her to a place where there's just them alone. "UWAAAA! Now I'm really going to be rapped!" Mizuki cried like a two year old kid. "Sssst, face me" The man's voice was soft, but his grip was firm. Mizuki was forced to turn to that man. He was a good-looking man, in fact handsome. He has a gold diadem attached to his head; he has a black hair and a pair of sharp looking eyes. He was more than that, but Mizuki couldn't think of anything. He was too awesome for a woman to comment on.
She blushed because her face was so close to the man's face, she wasn't all that afraid again. "I think I know you…" the man examined her face carefully. "Yeah! You're Mizuki, right!?" The man spoke at about 2 minutes after looking at her face. "How… do you know?" She gave that man a frown, she knew she know this man from somewhere…she just couldn't remember. The man pointed to his self and said with excitement "Remember? I'm Koutarou, your senior from Shinmei-ryu" Mizuki still stood silent. He held a photo of him and Mizuki that was taken long ago, just to a sure her that he really is Koutarou.
"Ah! So you really are Koutarou-sempai!" She exclaimed with a cheerful tone, the kind when a girl was accepted to a date by a popular man. "So you remembered…" He wasn't any surprised by how long it took Mizuki to recognize him, because he was really different from 5 years ago when he left Shinmei-ryu, 5 years ago he was more like a book warm a large circle glass than a Kendo player.
"Urashima! I think there's somebody knocking on the door," Motoko informed Keitarou from the balcony where she usually trains. "Hai!" Keitarou ran to the door as the knocking became impatient. "Geeez, do you always locks the door?" Mizuki said on the other side of the door, Keitarou quickly opened the door for her.
She rushed inside at once. "Motoko!" She stopped for a while to catch for breath. Everybody was in the balcony, discussing something about love, and of course Motoko was 'caught' in the middle of the discussion because she was training there. "What's wrong Mizuki? We're in the middle of an important discussion" Kitsune said to her teasingly, Mizuki decided to ignore her and went straight to Motoko, leaving a pissed Kitsune behind.
"What's wrong Mizuki?" Motoko asked between the swings of her sword. Every body stopped to hear whatever she's saying in interest, and as always Kitsune had some 'kind' of idea stuck in her head. "I met Koutarou-sempai!" Everybody stared at her. "Keitarou?" Naru asked with a strange expression. Mizuki fell to the ground. "Kentarou?" Shinobu suggested between the clothing lines. Mizuki once more fell to the ground. "I said KOUtarou-sempai!" Mizuki screamed at the top of her lungs. Motoko looked at her for a moment and went back to training. "The traitor" she said in a whisper.