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Sakura Wars: Steel Soldiers from the West meet the Flowers of the East
Chapter one: The Imperial Flower Troop meets new faces
Well it's just another day with The Imperial Floral Assault Unit; the girls have just finished their rehearsals and are taking a break when Sumire begins to boast as usual.
"Ah I am the lead Actress again aren't I so amazing." Boasts Sumire as she plays with her hair and goes into one of her little dream worlds.
"Your about as amazing as a cactus plant, cactus woman." Laughs Kanna as she continues eating the snack she was eating. She turns her head after eating some rice and watches as Sumire gets to her feet not looking happy.
"Oh really Kanna if your brain was as big as your mouth I would be worried." Sumire laughs while Kanna just sits and stares at her while continuing to eat.
"They are at it again..." Iris lets out a sigh and she continues to play with her teddy bear and singing little songs and dancing about while Reni turns to her to talk.
"It wouldn't be them if they didn't argue and fight like that." Replies Reni as she looks over at Kanna and Sumire as they continue to fight Sumire is still growling and Kanna continues to laugh at her.
"That's true Reni but them two fighting isn't always a good thing." Adds Maria as she stares out the window thinking about something Maria is very deep in thought and is very quiet.
"Are you ok Maria? You look unwell." Asked Sakura as she walked over to Maria putting her warm hand against her head and to see if she is warm. Maria isn't very warm she is just her usual self.
"No Sakura I am fine I am just thinking." Maria smiles at Sakura and Sakura smiles back Maria then turns her head pressing it up against the glass and she is back in thought again.
"So what are the plans for today?" Asked Kohran as she sat their on her chair spinning it around and around in boredom.
"Nothing was planned from what I can tell. So how about we go for some Ice cream or something?" Asks Sakura looking at everyone. Sakura stares at everyone with a warm smile on her face, she turns to look at each if them when Kanna sudden jumps up.
"Did someone say ice-cream?" Screams Kanna as she leaps up out of her chair swinging her head around to try and allocate the ice cream.
"Yeah I said we should go out for ice-cream." Replies Sakura with slight giggle as she flicks her hair and does a little spin before stopping again.
"Ok let's go get ice cream." Screams Iris as she runs into the corridor and down the hall. Everyone walks after Iris and they go to tell General Yoneda where they are going; they enter his office and he turns around in his chair to face them.
"We are going out for some ice cream is that ok with you sir?" Asked the girls as they put on warm smiling faces to persuade the General.
"Ok girls have fun oh and tell Ohgami he's paying, my orders." Smiles General Yoneda as they go out the door. They girls are all happy as they smile when they are out in the hallway but Ohgami pops his head through the door again with a sad look on his face.
"I have to pay again....it is not fair." Moans Ohgami as he closes the door behind him. He quickly puts a smile on his face and let's the girls go on in front of him.
While else where on the streets of Tokyo, two men are looking for the Imperial Theatre. They turn a few corners and they travel down a few streets but they aren't having much luck. One of the men looks around before turning to talk to his friend.
"Are you sure we are going the right way?" Kyoko turns around and looks at Ryo with a confused look on his face, as he continues to look around he hasn't been here in a long time.
"Yeah I think we are but I am beat, let's sit down somewhere ok." Ryo leans over with his hands on his knees he is a bit short of air.
"Yeah ok Ryo how about over there." Kyoko points to a small café sitting at the street corner. They café is a nice looking place just ideal to have a peaceful rest from a long walk.
"Yeah that will do." Smiles Ryo as he gathers back some air and signals Kyoko to follow him to the café.
Ryo and Kyoko walk over to the café and have a seat. They order their food and the waiter goes back inside to place their orders.
"So Ryo do you think our new unit will be anything like the old one?" Asks Kyoko as the waiter returns with their orders. The waiter puts their orders on the table they both look at their food. They have been hunger for a while.
"Could be but I hope you get on better with our new unit, you didn't get on with the friends we had back home." Ryo turns and look at him with a sarcastic look on his face. Kyoko never really gets on with anybody.
"Yeah well I was still getting over my parents death and well if I got close to one of them and then they died I couldn't live with myself." Kyoko let's out a sigh and continues to eat his ice cream. He lifts his spoon and scoops up more honeycomb ice cream and puts it in his mouth.
"Well your going to have to get over that, things happen and there was nothing you could have done." Ryo begins to eat again lifting his spoon of Raspberry ripple when he hears foot steps of a group of people coming closer.
Ohgami has just led the girls around the corner and they look over to the café that Ryo and Kyoko are currently eating at.
"How about we go over there for some ice cream?" Asks Maria as she turns to the others of the group looking at each of them to see if they all approve.
"Works for me sister let's go!" Kanna begins to walk over to the café with a skip in her step Kanna will eat anything so she isn't complaining about where she goes. Orihime then sighs and looks at the others with smile going across her lovely face.
"You heard her girls and guys let's go." Orihime begins to follow Kanna and the others follow Orihime to the café walking at a steady pace and looking around to see what is going on in the city at this time of day.
Ryo is currently sitting down and he notices Ohgami and the girls approach their table while Kyoko is fixing his shoes and he doesn't notice them coming up to the table he continues to fiddle with his laces as they approach.
"Hello there, sorry to bother you but we noticed the remaining tables are full and we where wondering if we could borrow these seats if your not using them?" Asks Ohgami as he pulls out a chair to sits down he smiles at Ryo with a warm look on his face.
"Yeah sure that isn't a problem you can use the seats." Replies Ryo who shakes Ohgami's hand as they both get out of their seats and then sit back down again.
"Are you talking to someone up there?" Kyoko raises his head and he notices Ohgami talking to Ryo but he doesn't notice the girls go into the café.
"Oh hello there I was just fixing something and I didn't notice you." Kyoko waves at Ohgami. "Oh hello there I was just asking your friend if we could use the seats you have spare; as the other tables are full and we are a pretty big group." Ohgami smiles and he nods in Kyoko's general direction. Kyoko responds with a quick smile be answering.
"You are?" Asks Kyoko as he looks round and sees all the girls leave the café and freaks when he sees how many of them there is he covers his face with his big hands and tries to hide himself. "Calm Kyoko calm, they're only girls there is no need to get nervous, calm." Said Kyoko to himself as he takes a deep breath and relaxes letting his hands drop he sits back up trying not to let it get to him. Ryo senses his friend tensing up and relaxing and thinks to himself.
"Hmm, guess he's not quite over his nervousness around girls yet." Ryo then leans over and whispers "Kyoko, its okay there's no need to get nervous; they're not going to do anything to you." Ryo tries not to laugh at his friends nervousness he never could quite understand how he got this fear of girls.
"I know that, but I am not used to being around so many at once." Whispers Kyoko still kinda tensed. Kyoko is now breathing heavily and he is beginning to feel rather warm.
"Hey do you think I am used to it either, It's not often that you see this many beautiful ladies, let alone actually meet them all at once, and from what I have heard about our new unit it's all female apart from the team General. So you had better get used to it." Kyoko's sweat begins to drip down his face when he hears what Ryo has said and adds.
"You're kidding right, please say you're kidding!" But the look on Ryo's face tells him he's not which just makes Kyoko slump in his chair in despair. He hides his face in his hands again and sits in his chair looking very miserable.
Ohgami and the girls are all chatting away about various things when they see Kyoko slump in his chair in despair with Ryo grinning away while trying to cheer him up.
"Come on Kyoko, its not that bad, I am sure you'll enjoy working with our new team once you get to know them all." Ryo pats his friend on the back and thinks to himself. "Your so big you shouldn't be afraid of anything let alone women.
"That's easy for you to say you don't have my problem." Replies Kyoko as he begins to feel more uncomfortable he begins to move around in his chair he is getting really nervous.
Ryo then replies as he watches his friend move like he has a bee in his bum. "You're going to have to get over that problem eventually, like you dealing with this problem easily right now, you're not freaking out around these girls." Ryo sighs and begins to scratch his head in disbelief.
"The only reason I am not freaking out right now is because I don't know them, and probably won't ever see them again once we leave this café so it doesn't bother me as much as it could be." Kyoko smiles and looks away.
All the girls and Ohgami are looking at them and wondering what is going on. Both the guys are about to continue their argument, when they notice that everyone else at the table is staring at them with confused looks on their faces.
"Umm, is something wrong?" Asks Ryo, as Kyoko remains silent and starts to fidget, as all the girls stare in his general direction Kyoko is feeling very uncomfortable with every passing minute.
"Your friend is very odd what's wrong with him?" Asked Ohgami as he looks over at Ryo with a confused look on his face and then turns to the fidgeting Kyoko.
"He is nervous around girls he doesn't know, but give him a few days and he will be ok." Smiles Ryo as he turns to Kyoko and then turns back to Ohgami. Ryo is kind of embarrassed with Kyoko's reaction to the girls. Kyoko turns to check the time and he quickly turns round to Ryo with a serious look on his face.
"RYO!!! We're going to be late for our meeting." Screams Kyoko as he turns to Ryo. Ryo quickly turns round and looks at him. "It's that time already." Ryo then turns to Ohgami and smiles "Sorry but we must be off it was nice meeting you and I hope we can talk again the next time we meet." Ryo and Kyoko both get up.
"Ok well it also nice meeting you as well I also hope we might again." Smiles Ohgami as he shakes Ryo and Kyoko's hand. They both leave Ohgami and the girls at the table and walk off in the direction of The Imperial Theatre.
Meanwhile Maria has also noticed the time and has just informed the others that they need to be on the move also.
"Ok you guys we also need to get going we have to go meet those two new recruits today." Maria gets up out of her chair and turns to her friends.
Kanna looks up from eating her ice cream and turns to Maria. "Are we meeting the two new recruits today?" She puts another spoonful of ice cream in her mouth.
"Yes muscle brain we are, did you forget or something." Moans Sumire as she turns to look at Kanna with a sly grin on her face.
"Yeah, yeah cactus woman I knew about it but I didn't think it was that time already." Kanna had just finished eating her ice cream and puts the spoon back into the bowl.
"Well we should get back then." Comments Reni as she walks off down the street with Iris.
"I agree come on we need to get back I hear the two new members are going to be young men and I wonder who they might be." Smiles Sumire as she and the others walk back to The Imperial Theatre via a different route.
"I think this might be the place Kyoko." Laughs Ryo as he looks at the building in front of him with a grin on his face as he looks up from the map and back at the building again.
"Well we should go in and ask then; to find out if it is the building or not." Smiles Kyoko as he walks into the building. Kyoko takes a quick look around and spots three young women standing in the corner, he walks over to them a bit uncomfortable and coughs, Ryo is following shortly behind him. "Excuse me?" Asks Kyoko politely.
"Yes Sir, how may we help you?" Replies the tallest of the three. She is leaning on the desk with a smile on her face.
"Hello, I and my friend were wondering if this is the Imperial Theatre." Asks Kyoko politely yet again as he looks around again before turning to the young lady.
"Yes sir it is, can I ask what your business here maybe?" Replies the girl,
"Me and my friend have an appointment for 4:00 PM with Mr Yoneda." Answers Kyoko with a loving smile on his face.
"May I ask your names sirs?" Asks the lady as the second tallest passed her a notepad with writing on it with there details on it.
"I am Mr Katsuhito and my friend there is Mr Hacki." Answers Kyoko as the lady looks over the pad reading a few bits of writing as she skims through it.
"Ah here we go, Mr Yoneda asked for you to be taken to your rooms so that you may change before your meet him, Yuri, Tusbaki could your please show them to their rooms while I keep an eye on the office?" Replies the lady.
"Ok Kasumi." Replied Yuri and Tusbaki and they signalled for Kyoko and Ryo to follow them, Kyoko and Ryo waved bye to Kasumi as they followed them to their rooms.
Ohgami and the girls had just came back into the theatre when they noticed someone walking round a corner that they didn't recognize, some of the girls decided to head over to Kasumi and asked who it was as they stared at the corner Kyoko and Ryo had just walked around.
"That was the new recruits Mr Hacki and Mr Katsuhito arriving for their meeting with General Yoneda, Yuri and Tusbaki are showing them to their rooms so that they may settle in and change for their meeting with him." Answers Kasumi with a smile on her face as she looks at her friends.
The girls were about to start asking questions about them when Yuri came down the stairs and headed over to them and said "Hey everyone General Yoneda orders us to change into uniform and to meet in the General's office to meet the new team members." Everyone turns to look at her with a questioning look on their faces. "Hey don't look at me like that; I don't know why he's doing it this way either." Answers back Yuri defensively, she then turns round and heads off to her room to change into her uniform as the others stand there staying at each other.
"Well we had better do as the General says and get changed as well." Laughs Ohgami as he heads to his room. Seeing that there wasn't much they could do the rest of the girls went to their rooms to change as well so that they could go and meet the new members.
Meanwhile Ryo and Kyoko have both changed into their uniforms which are sky blue colour for Ryo and bland silver colour for Kyoko and are waiting outside General Yonedas office.
"So Kyoko what do you think of our new uniforms?" Asks Ryo as he looks at his uniform with an impressive look on his face.
"Well they could have made mine a bit bigger it's very tight around the waist and shoulders but apart from that it's pretty cool." Answers Kyoko as he stares at his uniform he is very impressed.
"I know what you mean they could have made mine a little tighter on the arms and the legs could be shorter but apart from that it's good and they certainly look better then our last unif..... What?" Ryo looks at Kyoko when he poked him in the side to show that the door to General Yoneda's office had opened and a young woman was signalling for them to come in they both looked at each other and walked closer to the door. As they entered the room General Yoneda turned to face them from staring out the window.
"Welcome gentlemen glad you could make it." Smiles the General as he greets them with a nod.
"Glad to be here sir." Laughs Kyoko as he nods back in the Generals direction.
"It's very good to see you; you haven't changed a bit Kyoko how have you been?" Laughs General Yoneda looking at him.
"You know me sir as good as ever." Kyoko flexes his muscles to show he is in good health he smiles and then lowers his arms.
General Yoneda nods and turns his attention to Ryo who is still looking at his uniforms. "And how have you been Ryo?" Ryo looks at him and smiles.
"Sir I have been keeping great and what about you?" Ryo looks at the General and gives him a small smile.
General Yoneda smiles. "I have been keeping very well thank you for your concern." Laughs General Yoneda as he rubs his head and laughs. "But don't you worry about me, now once the others get here you can introduce yourselves."
The three men continue to chat as they wait for the others to arrive at Yoneda's office.
"Come on you guys I want to meet the new recruits." Laughs Sakura as she does a little twirl and stops with a smile on her face.
"Why are you in such a rush Sakura?" Asks Kanna looking a tad confused as she watches Sakura dance and jump giggling every now and again.
"No big reason Kanna, but they are going to think we are rude if we keep them waiting." Replies Sakura as she stops out of the front of the Generals office
"Well we are here now so be one your best behaviour." Adds Maria as she knocks on the door waiting on an answer for her and the others to enter.
"Who is it?" Asks General Yoneda a he glances towards to the doors of his office.
"It's us General we are here as you asked." Replies Maria as she pokes her head around the door and glances into the room with s light smile.
"It's you girls and Ohgami as well come on in." Answers the General as he signals for the girls and Ohgami to come in.
The girls enter the room to see two figures standing near the window with their backs turned to the girls and to Ohgami.
"Ah girl's welcome, ok guys introduce yourselves." Command Yoneda then looks to wards Kyoko and Ryo.
Both Ryo and Kyoko both turn round and the girls nearly have a heart attack as does Ryo and Kyoko.
"It's you guys from the café." Screams Ohgami as he looks at Ryo and Kyoko with a shocking expression on his face.
"Oh it's you again hello." Smiles Ryo as he nods to acknowledge his friendship with Ohgami.
"You have already met them?" Asked the General as he looks between the two of them.
"Yes we did but we haven't been formerly introduced yet." Laughs Ohgami as he rubs his head trying to laugh it off.
"Well alright then introduce yourselves." Sigh's General Yoneda as he looks at the two men slightly confused.
They all stand to attention and salute. "Ok guys you two first." General Yoneda looks at Kyoko and Ryo and nods. Up steps the bigger of the two who is at least 7 ft tall, he has long red hair in a spiky style similar to Kanna's he is also a serious martial artist just like Kanna. He has serious light blue eyes which if you closely look at them, reveal a deep rooted pain in his heart. He has a well formed body with big rippling muscles with bandage's wrapped round his hands, basically he has a body women would kill to touch and Men would give anything to have and the general idea any person got from looking at him would be that he is a nice guy, but they wouldn't dare provoke him.
"Hey there everyone pleasure to meet your all, names Kyoko Katsuhito." He thumps himself on the chest as a mark of respect; he looks at each member of the team with a warm smile on his face.
Shortly after the smaller one steps forward who is a little short of 6 ft and has long teal hair set in a long pony tail with a pair of short bangs, he has gentle, carefree light green eyes which upon a closer inspection show a more serious look, he has a slim well built body that reveals him to be a swordsmen, the general image people would get of him is a kind fun loving guy who is always there to lend a hand. He gives a little flick like salute with his fingers and he speaks in a happy cheery sort of tone
"Nice to meet you all I am Ryo Hacki and I am sure we're all going to get along fine." Ohgami steps forward and offers his hand and replies in a friendly tone
"Nice too meet you I am Ohgami Ichiro and I am the Field General for this unit." He shakes hands with the two of them before returning to his position beside the others. Next up came Maria who steps forward; she salutes them and speaks in a calm cool tone.
"I am Maria Tachibana and I am the second in command on the field of battle." Maria takes a step back while giving the two new members a warm smile. She takes her place by Ohgami's side. Then Kanna waves from her chair and flicks her nose and begins to talk in a carefree tone of voice.
"I am Kanna Kirishima and I am sure we'll get on great, and keep an eye on cactus woman over there don't let her try and push you around." Kanna then rests herself back into her she gives both the newcomers a warm welcome.
Next Sumire steps up and shakes their hands. "My name is Sumire Kanzaki, nice to meet the two of you and don't let muscle brain boss you around she isn't anyone's superior." Kanna and Sumire both give each other dirty looks as little Iris gets ready to introduce herself.
Next little Iris steps up. "Hello my name is Iris Chateaubriand nice to meet you." Iris smiles as Kyoko leans over and shakes her hand.
"Nice to meet you two little one." Smiles Kyoko as he shakes her hand. Iris smiles at Kyoko and she shakes Ryo's hand before joining the others she stands beside Maria holding her hand. Next up is Reni.
"Hello my name is Reni Milchstrasse it's an honour to meet you." They both nod and Reni steps back with a small smile crawling across her face.
"Hello my name is Ri Kohran its going to be a pleasure working with you." She bows as she shakes hands with Kyoko and Ryo before taking her place standing beside Iris.
"And my name is Orihime Soletta glad to be working with you." Orihime steps forward she shakes their hands and she also greets them with a small warm smile, she then takes a step back and stands beside Kohran.
"You've already met my second in command Kaede Fujieda and those ladies over there that you met earlier are our support staff Kasumi Fujii, Yuri Sakakibara and Tusbaki Takamura." Smiles General Yoneda as he points to each of the three ladies. Each lady steps forward offering greetings and their full name.
"And you already know who I am." Laughs General Yoneda as he takes a drink of water from the glass on his office desk.
"That we do sir." Laughs Kyoko as he rubs his head and looks towards the General with a grin on his face.
"Well we don't have a show tonight so I am ordering you all to have a relaxing night and make the new members feel welcome." General Yoneda turns and looks back out the window with a smile on his face.
"Yes sir we will thank you." Smiles Ohgami as he leaves the office a few seconds behind the rest of the group. They are now standing in the hall outside his office.
"I am going to have a shower and get changed see you guys later." Kyoko heads off in the direction of his room putting his hands behind his head and whistling as he walks.
"Oh ok...so does anyone want to show me around the theatre?" Asked Ryo with a warm smile on his face.
"Yeah we can all show you around I suppose." Replies Sumire who turned to answer his question with a grin on her face.
"For the first time in my life I agree with cactus woman. We can all show you round." Laughs Kanna as she mocks Sumire.
"Yes it would be good chance to get to know you better also." Smiles Maria as she nods in his general direction and walks off signalling him to follow her.
"Yeah we are going to show big brother around now." Iris starts jumping around in a very happy mood. Ryo follows after them as they show him the gym, shower room and the swimming pool; after showing him around the building for a while.
"Whew I am hungry I had no idea this place was so big, so where do you eat in this place?" Asks Ryo as he rubs his belly, he is getting quite hungry.
"Follow me I show where you can get some food." Replied Kanna as she walked off towards the kitchen. A few minutes later they arrive in the dining room and Kanna points over to the kitchen.
"That's the kitchen over there if you wait here I'll go and make you something." Kanna goes into the kitchen and begins to prepare some food for the hungry guest.
"I'll come with you and help it wouldn't be polite for me to sit here and let you do all the work." Answers Ryo as he walks over to the kitchen which Kanna is now preparing some food in. Ryo goes into the kitchen and begins to make something to eat with Kanna's help.
In the kitchen Kanna and Ryo are busy cooking away doing all kinds of fancy cooking secrets, when Kanna turns round to Ryo and asks.
"Hey Ryo, How long have you and Kyoko known each for?" She turns and looks at Ryo she is interested in finding out more about his friend.
"I've known him for a little over 4 years." Answers Ryo while continuing, preparing and cooking the food for the dinner.
"So what is he like?" Asks Kanna getting very curious now Ryo is beginning to realise.
"Well that's kind of a hard one to answer, he's more complex than he looks and I still don't completely understand him, for example in most things he's a very confident person you could even say arrogant at times. But because of the way he's been brought up he doesn't have much confidence around women, yet you would think he wouldn't have much trouble around them from the way he looks and from his attitude towards other people." Answered Ryo.
"What do you mean?" Asked Kanna she is still curious just slightly confused now. Ryo turned some of the food down to a simmer he rests his hands on his sides he looks at her and replies.
"He gets really nervous around girls; he used to be so bad that he couldn't talk properly around them, but he's not as bad as he used to be but he's had a relapse because of an incident back with our old unit." Upon saying that he just stood there deep in thought as if remembering something and a deep pain like look shot across his face for a moment but then it disappeared again and he turned to her and said "Come on the food is ready lets take it out to the others or they're going to begin to wonder what's happened to us in here." Ryo started to put food on to plates while Kanna looked at him confused for a moment, she thought nothing of it and then started to help.
Meanwhile back in the dining hall the girls are busy doing what girls do best and gossiping about the guys.
"So what do you think of the new guys?" Asks Tusbaki as she leans forward looking at everyone else.
"All I can say is that we need more guys around it does get lonely with us all being girls." Smiles Yuri going slightly red in the face.
"Hey Kasumi, you deal with all the Generals files and stuff, your bound to know something on them?" Asks Tusbaki as she turns a looks at Kasumi with a sly grin on her face.
"Well I did get a look at their files but I didn't get to see much." Answered Kasumi taking a defensive sort of tone as everyone closed in to hear what she has to say.
"Come on Kasumi tell us what you know?" Tusbaki asked enthusiastically as she began jumping in and out of her chair.
"Okay but which one should I start with?" Asked Kasumi looking at the rest of them.
"I know... I know tell us about big brother Ryo first!" Asked Iris happily while jumping up and down with her cute little smile on her face.
"Okay well lets see, his date of birth is 3rd august 1904 which would make him 19, the information in the file says that he lived with his parents in Sendai until he was 13 when he ran away from home. There was no info on why; but it is assumed that he had fallen out with his family. He then travelled to Tokyo and earned passage to China, where he wandered around for a year before meeting Kyoko in the city of Shanghai, after that meeting they both started to travel together. While travelling they performed many kind and brave acts such as dealing with bandits, solving crimes, helping out villages during disasters that kind of thing. They did this for 4 years until they were hired to join the British Floral Assault Unit to serve as the unit's frontline warriors in the war against the demons, they served with it for a year before being transferred to our unit because of a incident where two members of the unit died in combat." She takes a small breather before reading out Kyoko's background.
"Now what do I remember about Kyoko hmm? Oh yes. Well he was born 1st June 1903 so he would be 20 now, the information I can remember from the file states he lived with his mothers sister as his mother and father where killed in a demon attack when they were on a trip to London. When he returned to Japan his mothers sister took him in and her aide trained him in the Katsuhito fighting style. After staying to train in the temple nearly all his young life, he left and met Ryo in China. They both travelled with each other helping out the needy, until the British Branch of the floral assault unit tracked them down and recruited them. He was transferred here his reason is unknown. Well there you go there's all the information I can remember from the files so what do you think about them?" Finished Kasumi.
"All I can say is that they have been friends for a while." Comments Maria looking at the others.
"Yeah it sounds like they really know each other well, I bet they have lots of embarrassing stories they can tell us about each other." Answers Kohran with a slight giggle.
"HA they just sound like another muscle head and country boy to me and we already have one each of them and we don't need any more." Laughs Sumire in her typical stuck up manner.
"Sumire there's no need to be insulting they both sound like really nice people to me." Replies Maria glancing at her with angry look on her face.
"I agree they both sound like really nice people" Said Sakura shooting an angry look at Sumire also. They are both about to get into an argument when Ryo and Kanna come out with the food and Kanna shouting at the top of her voice.
"Hey is everyone ready to chow down?" Kanna does a spin with a really good looking meal on her plate.
"You have been keeping us long enough muscle brain we are hungry." Moans Sumire as per usual.
"Don't blame me cactus woman it was his entire fault he suggested on making fancy stuff." Replied Kanna giving a menacing look in Sumire's direction.
"Relax you two it's here now so no point complaining, could someone go get Kyoko from his room? His shower shouldn't have taken him this long." Ryo wonders why his friend could be taking so long.
"I'll go get him." Answers Reni as she gets up to leave.
"I'll go to." Adds Iris as she quickly gets up and runs to the door.
"Okay see you when you get back. Oh yes if he's not in his room check the gym that's probably where he'll be." Smiles Ryo as he finishes putting the food on the table. Everyone looked at the food on the table while Iris and Reni leave to go get Kyoko.
"Is this thing eatable?" Asks Sumire as she picks up a fork and starts to poke a strange looking food she looks at it very oddly she is expecting it to come to life and eat her.
"Yes it is eatable now stop poking it and just try it." Answers Ryo a bit annoyed at Sumire.
"I'll try it but if I get poisoned by it I'll hold you responsible for it." Replies Sumire with a growl like tone in her voice.
"Yeah, Yeah don't worry it won't kill you." Answers Ryo while waving his hand in a non caring way and putting food onto his own plate.
"If we're lucky it'll change her attitude." Laughs Kanna as she mutters under her breath trying not to laugh.
"What was that muscle brain?" Growls Sumire as she shoot's a dagger like glanc3e in Kanna's direction.
"You heard me cactus woman." Laughs Kanna as she sits down and tucks into her male.
"Humph if you weren't so common I might actually dignify that with a response." Cackled Sumire how has just about had enough from Kanna.
"Common am I, let me show you just how common I am you spoiled brat!" Shouts Kanna as she stands up and jumps over the table to attack Sumire, but before she can reach her Marie jumps in and stops her shouting
"Calm down Kanna, do you want Ryo to think you're nothing more than a muscle brained brat who only lives to fight!" "
Aah don't worry about it, there was a guy back at our old unit who Kyoko was always fighting with, I didn't get on to well with him either to be honest, and the idiot was way to full of himself." Answered Ryo while looking over his shoulder at them.
Meanwhile Reni and Iris knock on Kyoko's door.
"Hey big brother dinner is ready." Said Iris as she knocked the door again as she stood at the door with her ear up against it.
"Yeah I am coming now, come on in." Iris and Reni let themselves in, they see Kyoko partly dressed he reaches for a sleeveless top and turns round with a towel wrapped around his neck. "Hey you two I take it dinner is on the table then?" He smiles as he tightens his head band and removes his towel and puts on his top.
"Yeah it is on the plate we where sent to get you." Added Reni as she left the room first.
"Alright let's go and get something to eat." Kyoko lifts Iris and puts her on his shoulder using an arm to support her. "Ok now we are off." They leave the room with Reni in front. They walk down to the last set of stairs then Kyoko turns to Iris and he said "Iris hold on tight okay."
"Huh why?" Asked a confused Iris as she tightened her hold, next thing she knew she was free falling through the air as Kyoko hopped over the banister of the stairs. "Wheeeeeee" Shouted Iris. After they landed they waited for Reni to come down who said
"That was very irresponsible of you, what would you have done if you had dropped Iris." Reni gave Kyoko one of those emotionless stares.
"Its okay Reni, I had a strong grip on him and he wouldn't have let me fall anyway would you big brother?" Said Iris as she looked at Kyoko.
"Course not, there's no way I would let a cute little thing like you fall." Answers Kyoko with a grin as he looks back at Iris. "Now which way do we go?" Asked Kyoko looking around at all the doors.
"That way big brother." Said Iris as she pointed to the dining room.
"Okay let's go get some chow!" Smiled Kyoko as he headed to the dining room, but as he entered; he catches the tail end of Ryo saying something
".... .... You and Kyoko would get on really well I wish I could get to know him better." Kanna goes kind of red as Kyoko closes the door behind him.
"Hey guys sorry I took so long." He sets Iris down and she runs to her seat he turns to Kanna and waves.
"Yeah well food is on the table so sit down and eat it." Laughs Ryo as he puts Kyoko's food on to a plate and hands it to him.
While Ryo and Kyoko are talking away to each other they don't notice Sumire, Sakura, Maria, Orihime and Kohran standing apart talking among themselves as the others got dug into the food. After a while Kyoko notices that the girls are standing by themselves.
"Ryo what do you think those five are talking about over there?" Asked Kyoko as he turned to look at him and then pointed to the girls.
"Huh, what do you mean?" Replies Ryo as he turns to glance at where Kyoko is looking.
"The girls seem engrossed about something." Answers Kyoko looking a little worried.
"Well I don't really know what girls gossip about but if I have to guess their probably talking about us." Smiles Ryo as he continues to eat his own food.
"Huh but why would they be talking about us?" Asks Kyoko a bit confused.
"They are probably talking about us because we are a pair of new faces and we are both males, both something I am sure that are in short supply around here, but hey I could be totally wrong, they could be talking about their next play for all I know, So don't worry about it." Answers Ryo with a quiet laugh he lifts his fork and puts a piece of steak into his mouth.
"Well I am going outside for some air so if anyone needs me I'll be outside." Kyoko goes outside and into the grounds. Ryo watches him go with a sad look on his face but quickly wipes it off before anyone can notice, as he's about to get some more food from the table, he hears Iris asking him a question
"Big brother Ryo where is big brother Kyoko going?" Iris seems a little concerned about Kyoko.
"Oh he's just going out to get some fresh air, hey Iris you want to see a fun trick?" Answers Ryo as he kneels down.
"Yea, me and Jean-Paul love tricks, isn't that right Jean-Paul." Answers Iris happily while holding up Jean-Paul and making him wave at Ryo.
"Okay then I'll show you this one then, just give me a moment to find some paper?" Answers Ryo as he began looking for some paper; after a few moments he found some and said "Okay now what to do for my trick... .... Ah I know." He then took a piece of paper and started to carefully fold it. After a minute or two he had made a small beautiful flower he then held it up for Iris to see and then started to put it in her hair saying. "Here you go a beautiful flower for a beautiful lady."
"Oh wow, thank you big brother it's so pretty." Squealed Iris happily.
Just as Ryo is about to make another paper toy for her Kanna, Sakura and Kohran came over and Kanna asked
"What are you two doing over here and where has Kyoko gone?" Kanna looked around to see if she could spot Kyoko but she had no luck.
"Well Kyoko has gone outside to get some air, and I am making things for Iris out of paper." Answered Ryo looking up.
"Look at what big brother made for me." Said Iris as she points to the paper flower in her hair.
"Wow that is really beautiful?" Smiled Sakura as she looked at it in awe.
"Yeah that is really good Ryo can you make anything else?" Asks Kohran as she looked at him.
"Sure I can, here I'll make you something." Answers Ryo. He then takes a piece of paper and folds it into a small paper bird and hands it to her saying "Here you go hope you like it." Kohran turns it round and round while looking at and says to him in a cheerful voice.
"Wow this is great it looks like it would actually fly if I threw it into the air." Before Kohran can say anything else Kanna jumps in saying
"Hey make me something too." Kanna looks at Ryo as he picks up another piece of paper.
Ryo just smiles and folds another piece of paper into a small cuddly teddy bear and then hands it to her saying
"Be careful with it, it's pretty fragile." He carefully gives it to Kanna. While Kanna is busy admiring it Ryo looks at Sakura and asks "How about you Sakura you want one to?"
"Yes please if it's not too much trouble." Asks Sakura politely while bowing.
"Of course it's no trouble, it's a pleasure to make them for lovely ladies like all of you and please Sakura there is no need to so formal, we all friends now and friends don't need to be so formal with each other." Answers Ryo.
"Umm okay I'll try to be less formal." Answers Sakura as she goes a bit red around the cheeks.
"Okay now to get to work on your one." Said Ryo as he took another piece of paper and started to fold it. As he was folding it he said "As a sign of our new friendship I'll make you my favourite paper model." Kanna, Iris, Kohran and Sakura all gathered round so that they could get a better look as Ryo carefully and slowly folded four pages into different shapes and then used a fifth one to hold them together and when he was finished he held it up to reveal that he had made a beautiful paper angel. "Here you go Sakura make sure to take good care of it." Said Ryo as he handed it to her while the others all stared in awe at it. Sakura went all red again but Ryo just let out a slight giggle. They all continued to laugh and joke in the dining room.
Meanwhile else where Ohgami is walking through a side corridor heading to the dining room when he glanced out a window at the garden to see Kyoko laying on the grass looking up into the sky, deep in thought, with a sad heart-rendering look on his face and tears trickling down his face.
"What's going on here?" He wonders to himself as he looks at Kyoko and then after a few moments of wondering to himself. He said to himself "I should go out there and talk to him; it is my duty as he commanding officer and as a fellow team mate to help." After a few more moments of watching him. Ohgami gathers up all his confidence and walks outside near to where Kyoko is; he waits for him to notice him.
Kyoko is just lying down thinking about his past when he senses that someone is near by and turns his head to see who it is and he sees Ohgami standing there staring at him with a worried look in his eyes.
"Hey chief is something up?" Kyoko looks up at him trying to rub the tears away quickly enough so that Ohgami doesn't notice.
"It seems to me that your upset about something do you want to talk about it?" Asked Ohgami as he sat down beside him and gives his friend a warm smile.
"Bad memories that is all. Seeing everyone get on so well brought a few memories I would rather forget." Ohgami looks down at him as Kyoko continues to lie down in the grass looking towards the sky.
"Would you like to tell me about it?" Asks Ohgami as Kyoko looks at him.
"Well I lost two close friends back with my other unit...and it was my fault. If I hadn't of left them they would still be alive. And I don't want to get to close to anyone just in case I let them down too." More tears drip down Kyoko's cheeks as he looks up at the sky. Ohgami looks at him.
"Let me give you a piece of advice. This advice was given to me when I first joined up. You got to remember you're human. Don't keep it all bottled up inside we are all here if you need to talk to someone about your problems." Kyoko wipes away the remaining tears.
"Ok Ohgami thanks." Kyoko sits up. "Well we had been called out to a demon attack, and the battle started fairly well. We had gotten into our formation and followed orders exactly; we had them on the ropes. But my two friends their Koubu's where badly damaged then another wave came; I had to go break up their attack but as soon as I left my position...they...got...killed...by...a steam cannon. Once we had won the battle I returned to find their bodies on the ground; their Koubu's where totally destroyed, I got out and watched both the closest people that I considered, "the sisters that I never had" die right in front of me." Kyoko begins to weep again he puts his head into his arms and Ohgami can hear him cry. Ohgami puts a hand on his shoulder.
"I see, so you blame yourself for their deaths and you don't want to get close to anyone because you have never got over it." Ohgami smiles at him he can see where Kyoko is coming from.
Kyoko turns to look at Ohgami. "That is one way to look at it, and I am worried when that time will come again and I might lose more of the people I care about." Kyoko still has his head buried in his arms
Ohgami nods. "Well I wouldn't worry yourself; that was the past I am sure they wouldn't want you to sit here like this. I bet they want you to be strong and live out your life now with Ryo and us." Kyoko nods in agreement with what Ohgami had just said.
"I guess your right Ohgami, but it isn't something I can just shake but I feel easier now knowing someone else knows but you should know that I've sworn to avenge them." Smiles Kyoko as he gets to his feet.
"I can understand that and as long as it doesn't get in the way of your work I won't stop you, but I have one last question for you, do you know how Ryo feels about this?" Asked Ohgami stopping Kyoko as he turned to leave.
Kyoko stops and looks thoughtful before he answers "Ryo hmmm, he hides it better than me but he is probable really tore up by it as well. He blames himself for it even though it was my fault, because he was the one who set down the unit tactics and was the field General for the unit. He gave me the command to break up the attack and he believes if he hadn't given that command they would still be alive; known him he's probably swore that he wouldn't take a command position again because he believes he's not up to it, but I think its more than that, he was starting to get really close to one of them, he thinks that they had managed to hide it from everyone else but I could see what was happening. But don't tell anyone else that he was in a relationship. Well we had better get back to the party, everyone might start to worry." Kyoko begins to walk to the door.
"Hmm yeah your right, do you think I should talk to Ryo about his feelings on this as well?" Asks Ohgami as they turn to head in through the door.
"Yeah your should but if you try it by yourself it won't do any good, when you try take Sakura and Iris with you, Ryo can't say no to cute little girls like Iris it's his one weakness when it comes to girls like Iris; and take Sakura because her kind and understanding nature will help him to talk about it, well we had better stop talking about it now." Answers Kyoko as they walk back into the dining room.
After walking in to the dining room they looked round to see what was happening and saw that everyone was gathered in a group over at the food table with them all laughing and giggling.
"I wonder what's going on over there" Asks Ohgami looking at Kyoko who is just as confused as Ohgami is.
"You're looking at the wrong person here; you've known them longer than me." Answered Kyoko shrugging his shoulders. After that exchange they looked at each other and just shrugged their shoulders and then walked over. As they neared them Ohgami asked
"Hey everyone, did we miss something?" as he looked at them all giggling.
Kyoko also added "Yeah what's going on, you guys are laughing and giggling so loudly we could hear you outside." Kyoko crosses his big arms across his chest and looks at them.
Everyone jumps when they hear them; they were so engrossed with what they were doing they didn't notice them.
"Hey guys, give me a moment while I get my heart under control, you guys startled us." Answered Ryo while he held his chest showing his surprise. But before he can say anything else Kanna jumped in and said.
"Ryo's been making these fun little paper figures and telling us embarrassing stories about you and him, Kyoko." Kanna looks at Kyoko and gives him a small smile before going red and turning her attention back to the others.
"Yeah, he's been telling us all kinds of funny stories, I really like the one when you both got lost in Beijing." Giggled Sakura as she rested her hand against her mouth.
"How about that one where they went to sleep in a cave one night and woke up next morning to find that they had gone to sleep in a lions Den." Laughs Orihime as she looked at Kyoko with a smile.
"Man I remember that one, that was one hell of a nasty shock, and I swear I'd never had to fight so hard before in my life." Laughed Kyoko with a small grin on his face as he remembered what happened that day.
"I know what you mean, we were a right mess by the time we got out of there, but you should have seen the lions they were even worse of than us." Replied Ryo with a laugh.
"Yeah, how many of those poor sods did we have to kill before they figured out that it was just easier to let us go than it was to try and kill us?" Asked Kyoko as he tried to remember.
"Hmm lets see, well I think I killed 3 and I think you got 5 so I would say that between the two of us we killed 8 or about that number, I can't really remember it that well, to be honest I was more concerned with staying alive then with how many of them we killed." Ryo had stopped using his fingers to count and rested his hands by his sides.
Everyone just stared at them in amazement until Sumire broke the silence and said "You mean that happened for real!!"
Ryo turned to look at her and said "What do you mean by that, did you think I was making it up or something?" He gave Sumire an awkward look before looking away.
"But how do you take on a pride of lions with just a sword and you bare fists?" Asked a stunned Orihime wondering how her two new friends are standing in front of them.
"It was not easy I can tell you now, but it is possible." Answers Kyoko as he flexes his muscles before putting his hands on his hips.
"Reni would you and Iris take all the models up stairs; for everyone?" Asked Ohgami as he knew where the conversation was going to go.
"Okay, come on Iris lets take them upstairs." Answered Reni as she moved around the group and collected everyone's models. She then walked over to Iris and offered her a hand.
Ryo waits until they have left the room before he turns to the others and he said to them "Okay now that the younger ones are gone we can tell you the painful details."
"Painful is right I've got the scars to prove it." Kyoko lifts up his top to show a few small battle scars from the lions but he decides not to show the larger ones.
Ryo laughs and Replies "You not the only one that's got the scars to prove it." Ryo is about to say something when suddenly an alarm goes off in the building making everyone stand up and Ryo and Kyoko look at the others with questioning look on their faces.
"It's a demon attack everyone lets go." Shouts Maria as everyone runs after her with Kyoko and Ryo running behind them.