AN: I had way too much fun while writing this.

Fired

Risa was pissed. She could feel the smoke coming out of her ears. She could feel every ounce of pure hatred for this one person flowing through her blood. She stomped down the sidewalk, her heels making menacing clonking sounds as she did so.

"I hate you, Hiwatari." she stated.

"Oh really?" came a cool, nonchalant voice behind her. Satoshi kept a quick steady pace to keep up.

"I just lost my job and it's All. Your. Fault!" she yelled into the air.

Heads turned.

"But all I did was come into your office." came the same cool, nonchalant voice behind her.

"Without knocking!" she yelled a little breathlessly.

Satoshi reached for Risa's arm, but she yanked it back just in time. But she suddenly stopped, causing Satoshi to nearly crash into her.

Tearfully, Risa turned around and sputtered, "Why are you following me? Didn't you hear? If not, I'll say it again. I lost my job. I can't pay the rent. I'm going to get kicked out. So please get lost, and leave me alone."

She spun around on her heels with the intention of running off, but her right heel got stuck in a crack on the sidewalk and she fell unceremoniously on her butt.

Right in front of Satoshi. Oh great. Just what she needed.

Wordlessly, he held out a hand. Risa scowled and swatted it away.

"If you really need that job…" he began, "it's not a problem."

She resisted the urge to look interested. Instead, she scoffed sarcastically, "Oh really? I guess you don't know what it means to be fired."

Risa ignored him and whatever he was doing right now. She focused on rescuing her heel from the crack, and tried to get up.

"Have a good day, Hiwatari san. Thank you for helping me lose my job. I hope I'll never have to see you again. Goodbye." Risa got up, smoothed her dress and walked on a broken heel all the way back to her apartment.

Satoshi smirked.

Satoshi placed his hands in his pockets, and walked back into the building, ignoring the receptionist's eyes on him. He went up the elevator, ignoring another random woman's ogling eyes. He shot her a death glare just before he exited, warning her to keep her distance.

Casually, he walked to room 401 where he knew Taishio san would be.

He entered without knocking.

"Taishio san, you're fired."

"I beg your pardon?"

"You're fired. Please remove all your belongings by the end of today. You will not be permitted to enter this building tomorrow. I hope you had a pleasant time working for our company."

Satoshi walked out, and down the hall to room 405.

"Wakami san, please arrange an interview for me with this person for tomorrow." he said, handing him a card with a name and phone number on it.

"Risa Harada san?" Wakami san read out slowly.

(divider)

The next day…

Risa looked out from the top of her stack of papers at Satoshi.

"You owe me." he mouthed to her.

She went down the other direction in the hall, forgetting that the halls were in circles. Inevitably, she saw none other than Satoshi again.

"Maybe you should go out with me to make up for that." he said this time.

Risa blushed furiously.

"I mean it." he said as he walked over and took the stack of papers from her. Then he pushed her against the wall and stared into her eyes.

AN: ehehe, oops, Satoshi's OOC…