Heart Of Blades
By Shirogami

Chapter 2: You do care for her, don't you, Kanna?

As Oogami ready to go upstairs, he saw there is light comes out from the gymnasium. In wondering of who is in there, Oogami opens the door and see Kanna is practicing with the punching bag, Kanna notices him as well and greet him.
"Yo, captain, what kind of wind have brought you here?"
"Just a normal patrolling around the theater, it seems like you are doing fine here." Oogami is happy to see that Kanna is the one do not fell depressed at this moment.
"Well, may be we are defeated, but the most important thing is we still alive, that means we still have a chance to defeat those devils in future. Right, captain?"
"Yes, that is definitely true. As long as we are still here, no one can endanger Teito." Oogami said to Kanna as she has the same thinking as his.

"By the way, captain, have you seen Sumire around? I haven't seen her since this morning, either or brunch time."
"No, I don't see her around either. All this morning I had been inside Manager Yoneda's office to submit my report."
"Hmm... in that case, I think you better check her out, since the last battle, her doesn't look so good all the time, except the chilling, creepy laugh". Kanna says to Oogami as worrying expression appears upon her face.
"Ha... chiu" Somewhere in the theater, Sumire sneezes and feels a chill down to her own spine. "Gee, I wonder who is gossiping about me behind my back."

"Leave it to me, Kanna." Lightly punching his own chest, Oogami ensures Kanna that he will have a look for Sumire and help her when she needs it. Then he continues, "By the way, I thought you always fight with Sumire, hard to imagine you will care for her now."
"WH... WHAT? I CARE? THAT CACTUS WOMAN? NO... NO WAY!!!" Kanna yells for her captain's words and blushed as well.
By drilling both of his ears a bit, Oogami continues, "Calm down. Kanna, it is fine for you to mind and care for Sumire, after all, you've known her longer than I did. Plus, she is our companion, more over, FRIENDS! It is nothing strange for us to care for our friends, especially now, I bet she needs encouragement more than anyone of us, you should know that better, right?" Oogami explained to Kanna, as he knew that the arrogant Sumire appreciates her pride more than everyone did, even she needs help, she will not ask for it and wait for someone to offer it.
"You... you are right, captain. Sorry about just now." Kanna apologizes to Oogami, as she knows her over-reaction almost causes Oogami almost gets a heart attack or become deaf.
"It's okay for me. By the way, it looks like you had improved your techniques, how about a spar?" "You mean that? Sure, why not? Just don't cry when you get hurts, hahaha... "
"Hahaha...same to you, so, let's start it, shall we?" Posting a ready stance, their sparring begins...

After a short spar with Kanna, Oogami feels like getting relieve after sweating. As he continues his way to the library, he notices someone is approaching to him. A yellow colored hair girl is running towards Oogami, hugging her teddy bear.

Author's Note:
Greetings, everyone! Shirogami here and I would like to thank you all for keep reading this story.
In personal opinion, I really like the relationship between Kannaand Sumire, they like to fight each other, but still, when one of them face problem, the other one will concern. And I think this kind of friendship is a lond-lasting, don't you think?
Okay, next chapter is up soon, please R&R, Thank you.