A/N-Ooo! the conclusiong approaches!! Reviews, people!!

CHAPTER 6

After the excitement of the black snake robot nothing more happened for the rest of the week. Naota and Haruko, however, had now become much closer than ever.

"It's getting boring around here, Ta-kun. There's no excitement anymore," Haruko said, sitting in the grass under the green bridge.

"Yeah, no excitement," Naota mumbled, staring at the calm river water.

"Hmmm, but I can change that," Haruko said in a suddenly seductive voice. With lightening speed she jumped onto Naota, pushing him on his back and putting her face close to his.

"Haruko... get off," he said in a not-too-convincing tone.

"It doesn't sound like you really want me to get off. Come on, Ta-kun, you know you want to," she smirked. Naota face was quickly turning cherry red.

"Haruko..." he said quietly, "not here. We're in plain view."

"Awww, poor little Ta-kun! You're embarrassed. Don't be! It's only natural.!" She said in her seductive voice, forcing him into a deep kiss. He didn't pull away or resist. After a few moments Haruko broke off the kiss and released Naota. He looked quite pleased as he got up off of the ground and held out his hand to Haruko who was sitting in the grass. With a fond smile, she took his hand and stood.

"So now what? We still have to destroy that Medical Mechanica factory, you know," Naota said, crossing his arms and looking towards the giant structure.

"I know, but we'll do that in due time. When the time is right, ya know. But for now, we should just relax and enjoy life while it's sweet," Haruko replied, putting her arms around Naota's waist, and closing her eyes.

"Yeah," he said, doing the same.

That night Haruko volunteered to make dinner.

"Haruko! What the hell are you doing down there?! It sounds like a damn battle.!" Naota yelled from his room. He could hear bangs, crashes, and even loud booms coming from the kitchen.

"Making dinner!" she yelled, "It's almost done!"

Naota rolled his eyes as he got off of his chair, put his new Flying V guitar in the corner and headed down to the kitchen.

"What the fuck?!" Naota hollered as his jaw dropped. The kitchen looked like a bomb had exploded in it. The table was on its side, a chair was broken, the blue bass guitar was sticking out of the wall, food was everywhere, the fridge door was ripped off, cabinets were completely destroyed, debris littered the floor, there was a hole in the ceiling, somehow the sink was on fire, and last but not least, Haruko was sitting cross-legged on the counter, stirring something in a pot, smiling cutely.

"Ya hungry?" she asked, pulling the spoon out of the pot reveiling a strange looking green glop.

"W-what is that?!" Naota said apprehensively.

"Curry!" Haruko answered, beaming. She looked around the room and laughed. "Maybe we should eat somewhere else."

Naota gave her a cold look, rolled his eyes, and nodded turning around and heading back up to his room.

"I'll leave Kanchi a note telling him to clean up this little mess I made," Haruko said as she began sifting through the mess to find some undamaged dishes and silverwear.

Five minutes after he had returned to his room, Naota saw Haruko enter his room carrying two bowls of her strange concoction.

"Here's your curry, Ta-kun," Haruko said putting the bowl down on the desk in front of him.

"What flavor is this?!" he asked leaning forward to get a better look at the green mush in the bowl, scrunching his nose up at the putrid scent.

"It's my flavor! I took regular curry and just threw stuff I liked into it."

"Eeewww! After some of the stuff I've seen you eat?! There's no way I'm eating that!" Naota exclaimed, pushing the bowl towards the back of the desk.

"You better. I'm not making anything else," Haruko said sternly, pushing the bowl back at Naota.

"Grrr. Fine, I'll try it. But that's it! If I don't like it I'm throwing it out!" Naota said picking the spork that was stuck in the questionable-looking curry.

"AND if you DO like it you have to do something for me," Haruko said with a strange grin on her face.

"And what is that?" Naota said raising an eyebrow.

"You'll see, I f I win, that is," she said with a smirk on her face.

Naota looked at the bowl, gulped and put his spork into the curry. With a last deep breath he took a bite, chewed, and swallowed. His face was blank. "Fuck! For once her curry is actually good! Oh man, what is she going to do to me? Something perverted I bet!" he thought to himself.

Haruko had her hands behind her back and was smiling widely. "You like it don't ya, Naota? Hahaha!" she chuckled maniacally. "Oh would you get rid of that look! I'm not gonna make you do anything kinky! But... that may be fun!" she chuckled gauging Naota's reaction. He gave her a worried and slightly scared look.

At that moment Haruko's bracelet began to rattle again. Haruko looked at it disgustedly, "Why does this always happen at the exact wrong moment?"

"I have no clue," Naota said with great satisfaction, "But I'm out of here." Getting up, he grabbed his Flying V, and darted out of the house.

Haruko ran to the kitchen to find Kanchi working diligently to clean it up. Quickly she scanned the room, spotted her guitar, grabbed it and went outside to find Naota standing with his arms crossed.

"Nothing's happening," he said, looking at her and shrugging.

Suddenly they heard the loud alarm-like sound and saw couds of steam burst forth from the Medical Mechanica factory. At that same moment, Haruko's bracelet seemed to be pulled towards it, like it was like some kind of giant magnet. A look of terror was know plastered on her face.

"Naota!" she yelled, "I-I-It's the factory! They've activated it! We have to destroy the core or the world will be destroyed!"

"W-What?! Then we have to get there, FAST!" Naota barked. Haruko looked at the ground, then at Naota, she had fresh hot tears gathering in her eyes.

"Naota... we have to destroy the core, and the only way to do that is to shatter it from the inside. We'd be inside when it blows and probably die!" she sobbed.

Naota walked forward, wiped the tears from her cheeks and took her into a warm embrace. He spoke softly in her ear, "If I'm going to die I wouldn't want it any other way, with you."

Haruko held him tighter as she cried. "Me too," she said burying her face into his shoulder to stifle her sobs, "Just promise me that you'll never leave me."

"I promise," Naota said caressing her back.

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Hahaha another cliff-hanger!! have fun waiting, it probably wont take longer than 2 or 3 days though. and u gotta give me credit for the kitchen scene! Reivews reviews reviews!!!