Morning came again, by some cruel trick of fate. Kaname was laying there, between asleep and awake, with her body slightly aching. Not really wanting to get up just yet, she lay there and tried to slowly ponder this turn of events. She usually woke up tired, but seldom sore. And her bed was really hard. Did she fall asleep on the floor again? No, that's not right. The floor was cold and hard. This was warm and hard. And moving. Breathing?

"Kaname." a voice in her ear spoke gently. Suddenly she snapped awake, and remembered last night.

"Sosuke!" she yelled as she bolted upright off of him. She muttered a curse as the pounding in her head caused her to loose her balance end up on the floor. She cursed again as she realized dumbly she was still naked.

"Good morning." Sosuke said, resolutely staring at the wall, away from her all too exposed behind.

"Why am I naked? I mean, did we... uh, you see.. um. You and I?" she sputtered as she rummaged through her dresser to find something to put on. She ended up grabbing Sosuke's shirt from off the floor. It smelled like him. She blushed. Not helping.

"It would seem we had intercourse last night." he said calmly, still staring at the wall.

"I know that!" she yelled, then grumbled, "Idiot." she sat on the floor and turned away from him, thinking hard. It was what she had asked him for, but the morning after was hard facing him sober. What were they now, lovers?

"Was it a mistake, Kaname?" he asked her, his voice guilty.

"No!" she yelled again, then repeated in a small voice, "No, it wasn't."

"Then why are mad at me?" he asked her.

"I'm not mad, I just don't really know how to deal with this. I mean I wanted this, but i'm just not very good with all this emotional crap." she looked back at him. " I'm sorry."

"I'm glad we did it." he said after a while.

"Me too." she said before getting up and heading out the door. She sagged against the door and just sat there for a long time, thinking. She felt safe around him, and she could even admit she loved him. But for so long there relationship had not been physical. For along time she wondered if he was gay.

"Guess I know that answer now." she said with a smile as she got up off the floor. Glancing at the clock on the stove, she cursed again. They were both going to be late. Opening the door, she opened it to find Sosuke standing there nude.

"Sosuke!" she yelled as she blushed, "Were going to be late for work! Hurry and get in the shower." she said as she grabbed a towel.

"Together?" she heard him ask.

"Unless you want to go to work smelling like that. Idiot." she said as she turned on the shower.

"Understood." he said.

Kaname rushed into work late. It turns out showering together is not as romantic or as fast as she had thought. Sosuke was fond of cold showers, and taking turns rinsing off left the other standing wet and cold. She had tried to not look at him, but they ended up brushing against each other several time.

She blushed as she remembered is erection and she ended up 'helping' him fit into his pant. His endurance in matters of the bed were just as impressive as his endurance on the battlefield.

Sitting down at her desk, she muttered another curse and glanced at the monster of an 'in' pile. It had grown more than usual. She started up her computer and set about the task to cut down the monstrous pile to more manageable proportions. She tried to focus on her work and not the soreness she felt down there. Losing your virginity hurt more than she had thought.

Sosuke had to rush, but ended up getting there just in time. Julie Davenport was just walking out to her waiting limo. She glared daggers at him as she huffed past him and got inside the limo. They drove for several moment before she spoke.

"How are you not fired?" she asked him, not even trying to hide her annoyance.

"Why would I be fired?" Sosuke asked her.

"Because you lost me yesterday?" she asked with a 'dont be stupid' expression on her face.

"I didn't lose sight of you."

"So you were following me like some stalker all day?!" she screamed at him.

"Affirmative."

"So when we were trying on bras you were-"

"nearby, but out of direct sight." to be exact, he had been in the roof, but that didn't really matter right now. Julie glared at him for a while.

"I hate you." she muttered as she looked out her window.

"Understood."

elsewhere, some one else was getting to work. The man had spent the previous day visiting various shops and picking up packages that had been shipped to him. His job was simple, an assassination.

Generally a simple task, but this job had a specific time and place attached to it. 1 Pm today. Business district, executive office.

School.

Sosuke stood near the wall in the class room that Julie was currently attending. He scanned the room again, but didn't really find anything of note. The same people, same expressions. The teacher, he had his questions about. But nothing seem dangerous to him.

The day had been uneventful, as it seem Julie had given up on trying to ditch him. She seem annoyed at his presence, but accepted it. Over all, she was much more cooperative than Kaname had been. Here, Julie was one rich kid in a sea of rich kids, and the number of targets worked in his favor.

school, basement.

"are you sure this is going to work?" said a student holding a camera.

"Sure. Its fool proof. By the time the girls walk by, they will all be soaking. I'll set the fire alarm to trigger just after gym class." another student said as he madly typed away at a computer in the maintenance room. "its genius." he said. "All those girls in soaking wet shirts. See through at its best."

"If you say so..." the camera man said.

"Okay, were set. Lets go get into position."

Julies next class was gym class. He stood just out side the door as the girls changed. There were several female body guards, so he felt relatively safe being just outside. The gym was the largest room, and had the smallest windows. A sniper shot was not impossible, but highly unlikely. And the size of the room meant a bomb would have a less lethal compression wave.

The students had been filtering out and Sosuke was about to go and look for her, but she walked out before he could do anything.

"don't you get bored?" she asked him flippantly.

"No." Sosuke said, "boredom can be deadly on-"

"Fire!" a teacher yelled as the sprinkler came on and started drenching every thing. The gym was filled with chaos as every one rushed at once to leave. A kidnapping would be easy in all this mess. He grabbed Julie's wrist in an iron grip as he led her deeper inside the school.

"Let me go!" she screamed and tried to break free.

"we are leaving. Its dangerous here." he said to her as they navigated deeper into the school, away from the easier ambush spots.

"Its just a prank. Didn't you go to high school?" Julie asked him.

"I can't take that risk."

"Don't I get a say in this?"

"No." he said as they broke free of the building and headed to the parking lot. Sosuke glanced around the lot, looking for a few teachers he knew too lunch in their cars. Spotting one, he dragged Julie towards a red Honda

"what the hell are we doing now?"

"securing transportation." he said, drawing his gun.

"huh?" she said as she watched Sosuke open the car and haul the teacher out.

"car keys." he demanded, pointing his gun at the woman as she handed over her keys.

"thank you." he said as he shoved Julie in the passenger seat.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" she screamed at him as they drove off, "YOU JUST CAR JACKED MY ENGLISH TEACHER? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

"I am just borrowing it." Sosuke said reasonably.

"Oh, 'cus that makes it all alright." she said as she looked outside the car window.

"Take me to my mothers office. Its got tons of security. I can get some clothes there too." Julie said with a smirk.

"understood."

Kaname's work.

Kaname Chidori was pounding away at her desk as she did the half mindless work of entering the data on the computer. She was almost finished on one paper when Tanaka came up to her desk.

"Can I help you?" she said, not even bothering to hide her annoyance.

"you lied on you application." he said to her.

"What?" she said, as she stopped tying to face him. "I didn't lie."

"you graduated a year lat, but still put down 'high marks in school'".

"and?"

"you dont graduate with high marks if you were held back a year."

"There were things that happened." she said looking away. Her high school life sounded like fiction with all the things that happened.

"Like what?"

"Its a long story." she said desperately.

"then lets hear it with the boss." he gestured for her to lead. Kaname got up and headed down the hall. She glanced at a clock as she passed.

12:53

The assassin setup on the roof top. It was an easy shot, and the window glass was thin enough to make it unlikely it would deflect the bullet.

Now it was just a matter of waiting a few minutes.

Julie Davenport stomped in to her mothers giant office building soaking wet with a calm Sosuke Sagara in tow. He followed her past the receptionist as she entered the elevator and punched the top floor.

"your mother works here?" he asked her as the door slid closed.

"yes, and when we get there your fired."

Sosuke said nothing in response. What was done was done. Julie was safe, and that is what mattered. He stood there while she fumed.

The elevator dinged and Julie stomped out and headed for the large double doors.

"Your mother is in a meeting, you have to-"

Julie ignored her, as did Sosuke.

Kaname found her self at the very top of the building in a giant office that held the CEO of the company. "Davenport – CEO" announced the plack on her desk.

"So, miss Chidori, what this all about?" she said from behind her desk.

"Well, I didn't really get held back so much as I took a year break from school."

"Really? And your school was fine with that?" Davenport said as she leaned in.

"Well, yes." Kaname said, trying not to figit.

"And why is that?"

"you wouldn't believe me if I told you." Kaname said bitterly.

"Try me."

Kaname sighed as she saw the look of victory on Tanaka's face. "Because I was kidnapped and experimented on for a year."

"Experimented on?"

"Yes, an attempt to gain technical knowledge from the future." she said through gritted teeth.

"Your sure you not of of those chuunibyou, you know, those delusion kids?"

Kaname opened her mouth to answer, but the office door flying opened cut off her reply.

"Mom! You wont believe what this idiot did today."

Kaname turned to see a girl storm in the office followed by?

"Sosuke?" Kaname said, turning to him.

"Kaname?" he said to her.

"What?" Mrs Davenport said.

"MOM!" said the girl.

"EVERY ONE DOWN!" Sosuke yelled as he tackled her boss as the window behind him shattered sending glass flying. Sosuke tossed her boss over the desk as he popped a smoke grenade and started shooting out the window.

"Kaname! Get them out of here!" he yelled.

"right!" she yelled back as she shoved her boss out the front door. Turning to Tanaka to see he was scrambling towards the door, she turned to the girl and tossed her towards the double doors. Kaname was right behind her.

"All clear!" she yelled to Sosuke before jumping though the doors herself.

The three of them sat there panting when Sosuke joined them. She rushed to him and embraced him.

"Are you okay?" she said to him. He nodded his reply.

"You two know each other?" Mrs Davenport asked Kaname.

"Yes, he is my boyfriend."

"You said you wanted her fired, Tanaka?"

"Yes." Tanaka said.

"Good. Kaname, your fired."

"What?!" she screamed.

"Good, now fire him." the girl said to her mother.

"Your going to love this Julie. Kaname, your hired. You will be working with Sosuke. Congratulations. Mrs Davenport said to a confused Kaname.

"Mom! You have to fire this loser first." Julie said to her mother.

"Shut up brat, your lucky to have Sosuke." Kaname said to Julie trying to hold in her anger.

"Whatever, he is just some worthless bum that my mother-" her words were cut off by Kaname's kick to the face that sent her flying.

"Never call my Sosuke worthless. He just saved your life, bitch." she said to a stunned and bloodied Julie who was picking her self up off the floor.

"Mom, she just hit me!"

"So like I said, you will be working with Sosuke." Mrs davenport said to Kaname before turning to her daughter. "didn't I tell you that mouth of your would get you into trouble?"

"I cant believe you." Julie said as she sulked.

"by the way, Mr Sagara, has miss Chidori ever been kidnapped?"

"yes." he said, "However I'm not a liberty to discuss the detail."

"And you just believe that crap, mom?!" Julie cried out.

"Well, Mr Sagara has proven to work well under pressure, and Kaname seems to work well beside him, even when her live was in danger. Is she is chuunibyou, I dont really see how that's a problem at this point."

"I am not delusion." Kaname said.

"Of course not." Mrs davenport said some what condescendingly.

"Julie, don't you have to be getting back to school?"

"Mom, I- oh never mind. You wont care anyways." Julie said as she stalked off with Sosuke close behind her.

"Well, if you will excuse me, I have to get to my new job." Kaname said before she turned and dashed for sosuke in the elevator.

The door closed and she considered apologizing to Julie. But then again, she really was out of line.

"I still can't believe you stole my teachers car." Julie muttered.

"Oh, so that is how you got here." Kaname commented out loud.

"Your all crazy! He stole a car and all you have to say is, 'gee whiz, so that is how you got here'?"

Kaname cocked her head to the side, and thought.

"Is the car still on one piece?" Kaname asked Sosuke.

"Arrgh! This not a joke! What is wrong with you people?" Julie raged at them.

"Has be blown up you shoe locker yet?" Kaname asked her.

"that's not even funny."

"I wasn't joking." Kaname said.

"Small amounts of Composition 4 are effective for disposal of a wide range of dangerous packages." Sosuke chimed in.

"maybe its best I'm around. Sosuke was my body guard in high school. I know he can get out of hand sometimes."

"But aren't you two the same age?" Julie asked.

"he grew up as a child soldier." Kaname said off hand.

"Oh god. Some one please tell me this is a joke." Julie said as they reached the ground floor.