I AM STILL ALIVE!

-DRON

Chapter 6: Uncharted

Comfortable clothes, no makeup and a fresh gum in her mouth. That was all she needed to be calm. Or well, as calm as she could be. She and the rest of the group was being transported to their safe island. The silence was deafening, yes, someone followed them into the lab but the reason of such silence was another entirely. Their "leader" was resting on a bed, knocked out cold and with a severe bruise on the left side of his cheek.

Yeah, not the precise situation for her to be "calm", if that word ever fitted their current situation. Still, the rhythmic up and down of the boy's chest made wonders.

"It's okay Gogo, he will be alright." HL tried to comfort her friend but she just turned her head, finding an indefinite interest on the clouds that were covering the sunset.

She knew he was okay, she knew that her friend was just worried about her but… Seeing Hiro in that state, this relationship had awakened something inside her. Something she didn't know she had it in her. It was hard to explain the turmoil going inside her. The bloodlust, the sudden feel of helplessness every time her eyes turned to the boy lying on the bed in front of her.

At one point she thought she was being unreasonable. "This is getting absurd!" She yelled inside her head. Why was she feeling this way? She reasoned that Hiro was in danger but it was just a punch. JUST A PUNCH! Gogo groaned because of the lack of answers her brain was giving her. They have been in worst scenarios and never felt this way. Yeah, she was probably going crazy.

She just decided to close her eyes and let the soft humming of the aircraft take over. At least she could get 1 or 2 hours of sleep before arriving.

HIRO

"Ugh"

His head felt like a ton of bricks fell on top of him. He opened his eyes, taking more time than necessary to realize he was in some sort of bed. The room unusually white, which got the attention of the colorful patch of yellow sitting beside him.

"Water please!"

The yellow blob stood up and promptly handed the poor boy the liquid.

"Oh, thank you very much!" Hiro smiled, his eyes focusing and making out HL's facial features. "Hi Aiko."

"Hey Hiro." The bubbly blonde giggled at Hiro's grogginess. "Took you a while you know?"

"Where am I anyway?"

"We came back to the island." Sabi interrupted.

"You took quite a hit back there bud." Wasabi's face popped up right behind HL. "How are you doing little guy?"

"Better. Now that I know who was taking care of me." Hiro smiled, trying to lift their worried glances off their faces. "Where are the others?"

"They couldn't stand being here, waiting for you to wake up." HL frowned a bit. Knowing her, she probably tried to force them both to stay here.

"That's just like them to be honest." Hiro's smile grew pale as both of their faces turned sad for a second. "What's wrong?"

"You need to talk with Leiko." HL turned her eyes to look at him.

"What happened?" Hiro jumped out of the bed, noticing that he was still in his clothes, just his shoes were missing.

"Hey, calm down there. You just woke up!" Wasabi tried to stop the boy realizing that revealing Gogo's situation was a bad move.

"Don't worry." HL's voice interrupted both of the boy's stare quarrel. "Nothing bad happened but…"

"She just grew something fierce you get what I mean?" Wasabi interrupted.

"Where is she?" Hiro continued.

"She is in the training…" HL wasn't able to finish. Mostly because the person she was talking to was no longer there. "…room?"

Hiro felt bad for cutting them off but he knew that speaking with Gogo was a priority. He knows they will understand his rushing attitude when it came to that woman. In a sense, he knew her. He was aware already that leaving Gogo alone after things like this happened was a bad idea. More when it came down to something that happened to him or Aiko. Gogo wouldn't admit it of course and Hiro wouldn't dare say anything for she hated to be seen as a weak person. Not that the team knew she doesn't care but her rather fierce demeanor is something that needs some respect.

Hiro walked through the halls, saluting and even having some small conversation here and there with the people that had volunteered in helping them for the good cause.

Slowly but surely, he got closer to the training room. In the distance, rough grunts could be heard. Most likely Gogo trying to vent her stress through physical pain. At one point, the thought of this not being "a good idea" crossed his head, but he knew that tackling the "monster" in the room now was better than letting it cool and ignore it altogether.

"Leiko Tanaka, you've been training for hours now. We recommend some rest before you collapse!"

"ANOTHER ONE!"

"But…"

"ANOTHER!"

Hiro had stopped by the entrance of the training room. He hesitated for a minute but after some contemplation, some deep breaths and an unreasonable want to look at her opened the door causing everyone to stop mid round.

There she was in all her glory. Her face caked in sweat and a few bangs sticking to the sides of her face. She was breathing heav…. "HIRO! MIND OUT THE GUTTER!" She was surrounded by several guys in protective gear.

Everyone turned to look at the person standing right below the door frame. Hiro noticed Gogo avoiding his eyes in a weird stare contest. Hiro sighed and just decided to start speaking. "You can all leave now. I need to have a talk with her."

Everyone, knowing that the boy was the 'leader' of the team stopped what they were doing and started walking out of the room

"NO! You stay!" Gogo yelled almost immediately when she saw everyone following his words.

By pure force of nature, everyone stopped. They knew that getting on the bad side of the woman in the center of the room was a bad idea.

"GOGO." Hiro almost yelled, knowing that the change of tone would likely let her know that he was not backing out of this and also knew that she had a soft spot for him. He was just taking advantage of her at this point.

Hiro made way for everyone to walk out of the room. Conscious enough that Gogo was glaring at him, sending invisible daggers at him, hoping that he would walk out of the room and leave her alone. But she already knew, that was just wishful thinking.

"TEAM." Hiro directed himself to the people working inside the eagle's nest. "Please mute ourselves. I want to have a private talk. You may take a break. I will let you know when to come back." Every one nodded and made sure to make haste of the 'leader's' request.

"What do you want?" Gogo started once she knew there was no one spying on them.

"Wow, I knew you were in a bad mood but I wasn't expecting such welcome." Hiro replied, feigning hurt, trying to get Gogo to open up.

"What did you expect? You stopped my training session." Gogo continued, her back facing Hiro still.

"I heard that you have been practicing for quite some time now. Some rest here and there isn't that bad you know?"

Tsk

"Gogo." Hiro continued in a more serious tone. "Could you please turn around and look at me?"

No answer.

"Come on Gogo." Hiro tried to go around her but to no avail.

It became a game of cat and mouse for a moment until Hiro got frustrated. "Please Gogo, talk to me. I want to help you but you are not making this easy either."

Gogo just sighed while she moved her arms to hug herself. Which made Hiro even more worried. Perhaps the situation is worse than what he genuinely expected.

"Gogo." Hiro stepped closer, concern taking over the little precautions he set himself under when dealing with this woman. "Are you okay?" He touched her shoulder, just for her to step further away from the boy.

"Gogo?"

"I don't want to be with you anymore."

WHAT!? Hiro was in complete shock. His world had frozen the moment her words had registered in his mind. This couldn't be happening right? I mean, this must be a dream! There is no way.

Hiro was about to protest when Gogo turned around with a smirk in her face. Slowly, she started laughing at Hiro because of the contorted face he was making due to her statement.

"YOU BASTARD! YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT!" Hiro yelled in anger, running to her and tackling her to the ground.

"I hate you!" Hiro said, laying on top of her.

"I know, I am sorry but I couldn't hold myself."

"Yeah, just noticed."

"Are you going to move?"

"No."

"Why?"

"I am punishing you!"

"Oh really? And how do you plan to punish…"

Hiro closed the distance between them and forcefully laid claim to Gogo's lips.

"There, just what I needed." Hiro smiled.

Hahaha sorry, felt like adding a little scare at the end because reasons.

I wish all of you a wonderful weekend!