Soul Marked

Chapter Fifteen

A Surprising Finish

I want to apologize for being so late on this chapter. Some hardships for my family happened a month ago and to be honest with the stress and worry I just couldn't make myself right this story. I already had the chapter halfway finished but every time I tried to sit down and write nothing came to me. I do have to warn you that even though my inspiration came back to finish this chapter those hardships are still happening but as long as it doesn't get worse I feel like I can continue writing once again, though my updates may only be once a week, we will just have to see. I apologize in advance if I take a while to update again depending on what happens.

I will never abandon this story be rest assured.

Also if you haven't noticed I changed things up a bit more and since I ended up having way more than the normal sixteen people winning the second round I decided to add in a small round that will just end up taking a few people out before we get to the one on one tournament. I'm sure that's what we are all waiting for :D

This chapter was edited by my amazing beta: Whatisthiswitchery.

Izuka could feel her stomach jolt as something wrapped delicately around her waist pulling her to a sudden stop midair. Her dazed eyes glance around as she noticed green vines curled around her sending her over to where their teams pole is. Off in front of her the vines were also wrapped around Todoroki carrying him off over their defence as he struggled the whole way.

"And Midoriya makes it back to her pole just in time!" Present Mic announced and she realized she had been incredibly lucky. Gripping the holders she pulled herself onto it in a more stable position.

"Are you okay?" Ochaco asked up at her. "That could have been a bad tumble between you two. Thank goodness for Ibara, right?" Izuka frowned as she glanced back over where the girl had been. She wasn't sure at this distance she really was too far away, but she could have swore that the girl had a blank look over her face. It was Shinso who had saved her, she was sure of it. In that instant Izuka had to give points to Shinso he had definitely been put on a much more friendly level in her mind.

"I'm fine!" she said, her eyes then roaming around looking for anyone who could become a problem. There were nine enemies running their way, three from different teams, as they began to overwhelm their defence. "Did you get rid of Bakugo?"

"Yeah, he flew back a ways, Sero caught him with his tape from their pole," Ochaco said.

"He seems to be busy with something else," Hatsume said with a nod. Izuka wondered if someone had stolen a flag from them, or more than one, as that would be the only reason he took time from attacking them.

"We've got incoming!" Ochaco yelled. Six of the nine students had broken past Kaminari and Momo, and were heading their way. Iida was the first to make it to them and Ochaco didn't have the time to float the pole as she engaged in combat with him trying to keep him at bay. Hatsume had used one of her babies trying to keep another person at bay a few feet from them.

That left Izuka with four other people who had begun to climb up her pole. Asui ahead of them her natural affinity for climbing helping her move fast. Izuka pulled herself up onto the top of the pole as she brought her feet down hard kicking at Asui before bouncing toward the next person. Her feet would sharply hit her opponents but not enough to do damage, it was merely to keep them from advancing further.

She grunted at the effort of keeping herself up into the air as she flipped and spun moving along with the opponents as they moved trying to find an opening. Asui's tongue wrapped around her ankle tugging hard causing her hold to slip as she began to slip down landing hard on top of the frog like girl.

A hiss left her mouth as she grabbed at the nearest body to her and tugged trying to pull them away from the top. Two more were on the other side of the pole and advancing fast. Taking in a deep breath she called One for All and sent her power toward them, knocking them from their hold, as they fell down to hit the ground.

With her other hand she kept a tight grip on the boy from class 1-B and she wrapped her legs around Asui locking her into place as well.

"This is not how I wanted to do this!" Izuka yelled in frustration as she struggled with her hold on two different people. They struggled for several moments trying to break free from Izuka's grip as she tried keeping them in place her mind whirling with possibilities to get rid of them.

The sounds of blasts that normally would have her smiling only caused her more grief as she knew Kacchan had finally made his way back, deciding that now would be the perfect time to hit her as she was preoccupied.

"Dammit!" she yelled as he soared over her, landing easily on top of her pole.

His eyes roamed over the flags until they landed on the one that he wanted. Izuka panicked called for her power once more and tossed the boy off the pole causing it to jolt and begin to fall due to his grip that had been on it and the force with which she threw him. Her eyes widened knowing that she could either grab the flag back but still be out that left hardly any time to put it back, or let the flag go, right the pole, and get it back from him later.

There was really only one choice.

"No hard feelings right, Koneko," he said as he took off through the air. She growled as she let Asui go and allowed her body to fall to the floor before catching the pole. Using her quirk once more she knocked Asui and the other guy away keeping them from grabbing any more of her flags.

Grunting with the effort she shoved it back into a standing position as she hopped back onto her eyes glowing with annoyance and determination as she watched the other teams fighting with her own teammates.

"Ochaco! Hatsume! Get back!" she hollered out as she waited for them to move before using her quirk to blow their opponents away. The force of the shock waves blew Momo and Kaminari's hair as they shielded their face from the gust of wind that blew past them. Several people were blown back over their line of defence.

Izuka glanced worriedly around trying to find someone that was allowed to go off an catch their flag back.

"Hatsume, tell Momo that Kacchan has our flag!" she yelled down at her. The pinkette nodded and zoomed off.

子猫

Momo had been in the middle of flinging another opponent away from their defence when a pink blur sped by her and came to a stop. Her eyes widened but refused to get distracted in the middle of battle.

"Number one wants you to know the flag has been taken by a Kacchan, fufufufu-," Hatsume said with a nod of her head. "Pass it along!" Momo nodded knowing what she had to do, they had come up with a plan for this type of thing. Not bothering to watch the girl leave she spun around and captured Kaminari's attention waving madly.

"Take over long enough for me to get the message to Hakagure," she said and with those words Kaminari knew exactly what had happened. Shaking he only nodded as he used his staff to vault over an attack coming to stand behind some student from General studies. Swinging back the staff he tried to only focus the electricity on his hands watching as the volts traveled through the metal and back, a light hum in the air.

With all his force he swung it forward knocking into his opponent and instantly neutralizing them. They began to shake before he pulled back the weapon ceasing the attack. With the volts no longer coursing through the weapon he shoved the staff underneath the person before spinning around, lifting the staff, and chucking the incapacitated body over him into the air. The student landed on another taking them out as well and causing him one less person to watch out for a the moment.

"Yeah, sure," he said with a grimace. "Just hurry it along, yeah."

Momo quickly spun around and leant over, her mind connecting with her quirk and instantly began to think of everything that made a tracking bug work. She thought of every detail, every screw, piece of metal, and line that it took to form the bot. She took time to imagine the wings that it would have, the appearance of a beetle, and even the holes for its eyes.

She could feel the hunger begin to strike at her from how much she had already used her quirk but it was easy to ignore.

This was meant to push their limits, to show what they could do, and announce it to the other heroes. It only took a few seconds for the beetle bot to appear from her skin, the appearance of purple announcing that it had been made. Taking it into her hands she set the details to find the invisible girl knowing that she would know what it meant when the time came. Causing a marker to appear from nowhere she quickly wrote Bakugo on it.

Now Hagakure would know who to target.

Throwing it into the air the wings fluttered to life as it took off, searching for the tracking device that had been placed on the girl in question easily leading it to her. Momo could only hope it hadn't been damaged in any kind of fight. Otherwise it may never find her and they'd be out one million.

Her eyes snapped back to the defence line when a familiar icy aura filled the air around her. Her heart began to stutter and beat erratically at the mere thought of Todoroki. Her whole sense was full of him, and she took a deep unconscious breath of the air around her.

It sent her emotions on fire, an odd effect for ice to have, but she knew his other half dealt with fire and could be the only logical reason. She had tried to avoid it, tried not feeling anything for him, it was what he wanted. After all he had basically rejected their bond, the pain still feeling utterly and uselessly raw. However, the bond refused to be acknowledged in such a way and all she could feel was complete devotion and hope every time she saw him. It was crippling.

She didn't have to be accepted in a romantic sense, it didn't matter to her, all she wanted was to be accepted. To be known that she was someone precious to him. A friend was more than enough for her.

Shaking her head she shoved those thoughts and feelings aside. This time he would not make it pass the barrier. She couldn't allow it. They didn't have enough points to be taken out now, and once he saw the flag gone he would surely put all his effort into knocking them out before leaving.

He grew closer, her feelings grew wilder, but she clamped down on them and focused solely on her task. She counted down the seconds.

He was only a yard away.

Too close. She reared her staff back before darting it forward. He sidestepped trying to move from it's path but she corrected her course and swept it into his side knocking him off balance. Swinging it off to the other side she jabbed it into his stomach keeping him back as she continued to counter his every movement. This was only a short term solution, her mind began to buzz with what she could do to keep him away longer.

Her mind began to whirl as she once again used her quirk, the energy to do what she needed taking a tole from her, as a net gun appeared from her uncovered skin. She could feel herself begin to grow slow but knew she had to keep going, and just make sure she only used the things she had already made from this point on.

She was truly overdoing it at this point.

Using one last jab that knocked him back several steps, and caused him to bend over in pain, she grabbed the net gun and prepared it. "This better work," she said to herself as she aimed. His hunched over form was an easy target but what would be the deal breaker was if he saw and used his ice.

Already several times she had to use force to knock away ice to get at him. She could see that his ice side was forming crystals on his skin and clothes, he was also reaching his limit, she could tell. This would be her opportunity. The only one.

Now or never.

Pressing the trigger the net shot out, flying through the air. Everything moved in slow motion for Momo as she watched it travel across the space between them before everything seemed to slow down almost to a complete stop before it all rushed forward in one swift motion. The net had struck its target true.

Todoroki, who had been uncurling himself from his crouch, only had a second before the net was wrapping itself around him. His ice a moment too late only caused the situation to be worse as it too was stuck inside the net. He struggled with the wire, different from the normal rope. Momo truly was brilliant.

Changing what the rope was made from only made it harder for him to get free. His ice wouldn't be able to pierce through the material, and he would have to rely on his teammates to come to his rescue.

His mismatched eyes landed on her smug form before his vision was blocked by green vines. He could feel his tangled form rise into the air before a whooshing noise flooded over his hearing and he could feel himself being dragged through the air.

Once free from the vines he could see he had been placed on the opposite end of the field.

All he could feel was an annoying twinge of pride for his soulmate. It was a feeling he had tried to shove down, a connection he could not afford to have. A sigh tore from his lips as his eyes searched for a passing member from his team.

"Asui!"

子猫

Hagakure heard the buzzing before she saw the tiny silver beetle, the sun reflecting off it's surface giving her the sign she needed to grab at it. A small feeling of foreboding pierced her as she knew the only reason this would have been sent was because the flag had been taken, the deal breaker for this game.

The one million.

Opening her palm she watched as the beetle settled at the contact and allowed her to read the name that was scrawled across it in elegant swooping writing.

Her eyes darted around the area looking for her target, the ash blonde menace. Darting forward she could see him across the field making his way quickly toward his pole. He wasn't using his quirk, no need to when he could easily dodge the people around him. He kept the white flag securely in his fist.

She avoided those around her, side stepping and jumping over anyone who got in her way. There was no need to bring attention to herself, especially the closer she got to Bakugo. His eyes were constantly searching the area around him, his attentiveness only growing sharper the closer he got to his pole. He wasn't going to drop his guard with the prize in his possession.

Her fingers reached out tentatively toward his hand as he ran by her. All she had to do was snatch it from his grip and lose herself in the crowd. It would be hard to go completely unnoticed once the white material was in her hand but she hoped that within the crowd of running students it would be harder to spot her.

Her breathing was coming out louder than she intended as her fingers clung to the material of the flag, but slipped from it as someone jostled into her side causing her to be flung to the side. Her grip hadn't been secure it was easily ripped from her hand as Bakugo's was much tighter.

He felt the tug on his prize and his eyes darted to the side seeing no one who had seemed to have had gone for the flag. His eyes narrowed as he rounded his free hand in the direction the attack had come from and let off an explosion.

Hagakure yelped at the feeling of heat licking at her skin but she rolled away from his attack. It would just be mere mild burns on her arms. Moving faster he willed his legs to take him over his defense. Pushing herself up off the ground Hagakure forced herself to forget about the pain as she ran after Bakugo. No matter what she had to return to her team's pole with that flag.

Her body swerved and sidestepped the people around her, taking extra energy to make sure she went unnoticed as she entered the defense of Bakugo's team. Here it was less dense, people were sparser as his defence seemed fairly capable at the time to keep unwanted people at bay. Though she was mildly curious about how much time was left in the event. Did she even have enough time to steal back the flag and make it back to Midoriya?

Flinging such thoughts from her mind she pushed her legs faster as she neared the pole where Bakugo had already placed it. Her heart stuttered at the sight that Ojirou was the one who had been assigned as the ninja to their pole, guarding the flag along with Bakugo, who seemed determined to keep it there now that he had it.

If she could she wanted to keep her appearance completely a secret. She didn't want to see how they would react or how she would, fighting against her bonded. Especially knowing that he probably hadn't activated his own mark, how could he when the process relied on being able to see the person who was made for you.

Inching closer she prepared herself to pass around unnoticed coming up behind the pole as she thought of how she would jump up and grab the prize. Her eyes searched for an opening. Surely if she climbed up Ojirou would notice, he had to be able to sense the disturbance if she were to do that. However, as she glanced around it was becoming quite obvious that it may be her only choice.

Her quirk didn't allow her to get up there unnoticed, and was quickly coming to the conclusion that she would have no other choice. Taking in a deep breath she silently released it slowly keeping herself unknown.

Preparing herself she jumped up onto the pole and as soon as her skin touched wood she shimmied up it quickly. She could hear the questioning of Ojirou as he made Bakugo known to the disturbance behind them. Neither one was able to see who was making the disturbance.

"It's Hagakure," Ojirou said. "I'm sure of it." She began to panic as the thought of being found out entered her mind. Moving faster she carefully made her way up, trying to get there faster.

Using the vibrations coming from the girl climbing Ojirou flung himself around the pole and Bakugo exploded his way up to the top. Making a noise of surprise as a fist came for her face Hagakure shoved herself to the side, barely dodging the attack. Gripping the hand holders she shoved herself up, moving faster than before. She had been found out.

Now was the time to get up and out of here as quickly as possible. She couldn't be sticking around for much longer.

Pulling her gaze up she quickly spotted the one million, but between trying to keep Ojirou from noticing her position, and getting past Bakugo, who wouldn't care to explode in any random direction to keep her at bay. This would take a lot of luck and planning. Gripping the metal holders tighter she shoved herself up again, this time dodging a haphazard aim of her Bonded's tail.

The tail barely grazed her leg but the force behind the hit was enough to cause a stinging pain to erupt where it hit. Gritting her teeth she shimmied around the pole trying to change her position and make it harder to be hit once more. There wasn't much space on the pole as it was and she was sure if she didn't quickly grab what she came for she would be hit once more and probably worse than before.

Coming up behind Bakugo she reached out carefully but quickly snatching out to grab what she had come for. Bakugo noticing it moving away spun around to cause an explosion in the face of the person who had grabbed it but she was already allowing herself to drop to the ground. Completely letting go of the pole she fell to the ground hard.

Taking a deep breath knowing she had to do what she did best, and disappear, she took off running, hearing behind her the shouts of outrage of Bakugo as he took off after her. Her heart was hammering in her chest as she heard him follow after her.

Would she make it?

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Izuka desperately glanced around trying to see any sign of the flag coming back their way. From her distance away from the action she could barely make out that Momo had been creating something, and only hoped it was the beetle they had agreed on in the beginning. With it being so tiny she wasn't able to tell if it had flown away, or if that was even what Momo had accomplished to make.

Everything was literally up in the air, and she was sure they didn't have that much longer before the time was up. All she could do was fight desperately to keep the flags that they had and hope to whoever was listening that it was enough. Her only job at this point was too keep her pole from being pushed down. It was important at this point, their team relied on the offence to bring back their flag.

"Do you think they got it?" Ochaco asked in a worried voice. Momo and Kaminari were keeping people back easier now that Ibara had begun to fling opponents away

"We just have to trust in them," Izuka said as her eyes never stopped darting around the area. They only had a few minutes left before the game would be over. Her nerves were starting to get the worse of her. Her muscles were beginning to feel sore once more but she was far away from it getting to a point where she should stop fighting and using her quirk.

She figured before the last event they would be given a period of time for lunch and to take a break. That would be her saving grace but for right now she had to focus on the game. She kept her eyes trained but there was no sign of a flag or anyone of her teammates for the offense team.

Off to the right she noticed one teams pole going down, Shinso could be seen to the side his eyes staring as the ninja of the team took it down. It would seem he had successfully taken one of their opponents out of the running. Izuka could only assume he had figured out what points they had and knew taking them out would leave them with no chance of getting a high enough points to move up past their team.

He had given off an unfriendly vibe when she first met him but she found that he was at least a team player, a good trait in her eyes.

As Izuka's eyes were searching the field they finally landed on a white flag seemingly floating in mid air darting through people heading in her direction. A sigh of relief released from her lips before her emerald eyes zoned in on who was following after Hagakure in hot pursuit, an angry look marring his features.

That sigh of relief caught in her throat as she choked. Hagakure had made it past Momo but Kacchan had caught the attention of Todoroki who had doubled his efforts in making it past Momo and Kaminari. Using the distraction of Kacchan they both flew above her teammates leaving them behind. Izuka gasped as she flung back her hand and flung it forward allowing a shock wave to rush through the area but Todoroki made a wall of ice stopping the effectiveness of her attack.

Kacchan used his ice wall to avoid being blown away as well before both immediately began to attack once more.

"Hatsume, help Hagakure get here," Izuka said indicating where the floating flag was running.

"On it number one!" she stated before racing off with her shoes. She watched as the pink haired girl intercepted the flag and dodged an attack from Bakugo, barely being able to fly up into the air, before crashing back down.

Taking off in the next instant she dashed over to where Izuka and Ochaco were.

"Ochaco if you can zero gravity one of them I'll fend off the next one." Ochaco nodded at Izuka before darting over to where Todoroki was making his way to them faster than Bakugo. Ice shot out after her but she rolled, dodging the hit, before using the jetpack to fly up into the air. They clashed mid way and begin to spin around in a circle as Ochaco gripped him tightly before applying her quirk.

He floated mid air but she didn't let go of him scared that he would be able to somehow use his quirk to still move around.

Bakugo took no notice of Todoroki being stopped, his eyes were firmly on the flag that was now being handed of to Izuka. His eyes narrowed as he used a blast to fling himself through the air. His hand stretched out reaching for any kind of grip on Izuka or the flag not carrying which. His fingers curled around the top of her gym outfit, digging into the material as he pulled himself closer and threw her off balance.

Panic began to set in as she tried to throw herself backwards toward the top of her pole. Kacchan was trying to drag her away from being able to place the flag where it had to go for it to count as points for them.

His free hand held onto the pole stabilizing himself before letting go using the grip that Izuka had to keep him up as he reached out for her hand that the flag was gripped tightly in. Izuka groaned at the extra added weight as they both began to fall forward. Activating her quirk in her arm, she held on tighter and tried pulling herself up. Sweat began to pool at her brow as she tried kicking at Kacchan to push him off her.

"Kacchan, get off," she grunted but the only answer she got in return was a hiss as he pulled himself closer the tip of his fingers brushing against the white cloth of the flag.

Avoiding her kicks he was able to get his hand wrapped around his goal and began to tug, trying to pry it from her own grip. The struggle between the two caused the pole to shift, Izuka could begin to feel it fall over. Her efforts doubled becoming more panicked as she began to buck trying to dislodge him from herself, anything to keep the pole up right and the flag in her possession.

She could feel herself begin to move back but the worst was when the flag was tugged from her grip in one swift movement. Her emerald eyes widened as they darted around trying to find who had taken it. Kacchan who was still gripping tight to her, way too close for her comfort now that she wasn't focused on getting him away from the flag, was also looking confused.

Where had the flag gone?

Who had taken it?

There was no sign of it and she could feel herself still falling before with a thud, a painful gasp ripping from her lips as the weight of Bakugo crashed down on her as well, the pole reaching the ground.

Other than pain the first thing she registered was the fact that her team was out, and she still had no clue where the flag had gone. Panic and disappointment had settled in entirely blinding her to the fact that Kacchan was still draped across her, his own confusion still clouding his mind.

"Times up!" announced Midnight.

The Pro Hero's words snapped Bakugo out of his confusion as he glared down at Izuka before shoving himself off her body. As he stood to his feet he couldn't help but sweep his eyes over her form looking for any injuries he may have caused her during the fall but found none and felt satisfied.

His own disappointment and fury at the lack of the one million had begun to flood his body after he realized she was fine and not in any physical danger. Fists clenched at his side as he glared dangerously around him before his eyes locked onto the thing he was looking for.

Secured tightly to Izuka's pole was the flag in question. His rage burned with that knowledge as his gaze darted down to where the green-haired girl was lifting herself from the pole rubbing at her back as she did it. He wasn't sure how she had done it but that knowledge pissed him off. Her team had won.

Capturing her emerald eyes with his own crimson she flinched at the look they held before he stalked off without a word. Confusion clouded her mind as she stared after him, a light blush covering her cheeks as she remembered how close they had gotten. They had been flushed together and in the moment she had other things to worry about but now there wasn't, as it was a good distraction from how she thought they had lost.

"Let's see who's teams have passed!" Midnight said as she turned to the board where the points had been kept track of. "In Third place we have Team Bakugo!" Izuka let out a nervous but happy sigh, she was glad that his team had passed and couldn't help but feel that way. Still it made her nervous because she was sure she had failed and refused to look at the scoreboard, scared of what she would see there.

"I can't believe it," Izuka heard Ochaco say in a hushed excited voice. Izuka didn't understand her excitement but kept her ears tuned into Midnight's voice waiting for her to say the final two teams.

"In second place we have Team Todoroki!" This wasn't surprising to Izuka and she felt the disappointment grow inside of her.

"I'd like to say something," Ibara said coming up to where Izuka stood looking dejected. "After noticing the flag floating I figured Hagakure had to recover the one million, I quickly followed her from across the field. I was afraid I wouldn't make it in time, especially when I saw Bakugo latch onto you and the pole begin to fall." Once again she could feel the blush reheat her cheeks. "I was able to use my vines to grab a hold of the flag."

This had to have been why Izuka hadn't notice anyone come up and grab the flag. Her vines would have been easy enough to overlook when she was busy trying to keep Kacchan at bay and worrying about the pole falling.

Still her brain was trying to catch up with itself and figure out why Ibara had been saying this.

"First place is Team Midoriya!" Midnights words flooded her ears as her head spun at the new information causing her to whip her head around in surprise at the scoreboard.

"I was able to place it on the pole right before it touched the ground," Ibara said a small smile gracing her lips.

Elation shot through her body as she spun back around and flung her arms around the vine haired girl. "Oh this is amazing!" Izuka shouted. "I thought I had lost it and we wouldn't make the count!"

"Due to so many people passing the second event we are running a preliminary round!" Midnight yelled out capturing the attention of everyone on the field and causing Izuka to let the girl go. "This will be started in thirty minutes as one of our teachers will be making the course! In that time span we highly recommend for those who are injured to see a healer or taking a rest before the next event starts! Before that let's find out what it will be!"

Everyone's eyes were glued to the scoreboard which had changed to a randomizer going through all the events faster than her eyes could see. Within seconds they landed on two words.

"It'll be a maze event!" Midnight said with a huge smirk. "Spend your time wisely."

Bonus: Chapter Two

Shinso had locked his eyes on the form of the short haired brunette who had instantly tried to cower once he spoke up. His words were harsh and were meant to cut at Class 1-A. His views of them were pompous and stuck up, especially the ash blonde one who had announced how great he thought he was.

The other students that surrounded him, as they all too were trying to see who Class 1-A was, faded away as his eyes locked onto her. He didn't know her name or anything about her, he hadn't expected to find his soulmate here in this class. The knowledge itself almost caused him to lash out, not feeling as if that was fair. Having one of them being someone he was bonded to almost seemed like a cosmic joke, they had been born blessed, but one look at her had easily washed those judgements away.

He couldn't help but find himself stepping forward wanting to introduce himself but he forced his body still, to not move even an inch. He was sure his introduction would be unwanted after the little speech had just spewed out toward them, toward her.

Shinso felt the need to apologize to her, only her, as he was sure she had to be different, why else had they been connected. Surely even the Bond wouldn't tie him to someone who he hated, who was exactly the kind of person he hated the most. Someone like that blonde.

She had to be different, but his worries began to override his mind, causing him to worry about what if she wasn't. Could he really tether himself to someone like that if it ended up being true? It was then that he decided to wait before introducing himself. The pull to her was great but his resolve was greater.

He wanted to find out more about her first because he was sure once he heard her voice, knew her name, he wouldn't be able to make himself care. He would be undeniably tied to her.

Moving automatically out of the way of the ash blonde and the girl who hid behind him he kept his eyes trained on the brunette until the crowd began to walk away taking him with it.

Shinso wasn't sure if he even cared at this point but fought the urge to turn around and talk to her. All in due time he was sure.