Chapter 7 Misunderstanding Trick
"Ahahaha sorry for scaring ya, most people ignore my dogs so seeing someone come up to them like this is kind of new to me."
"Oh hahaha yeah I guess I can understand that." I said giving… Sora had a small polite smile. "Well I guess I should let you and your dogs be on your way I was just here to pick up something to eat before heading home."
"Ah I see, hmmm you're a Stormrider aren't you?" Sora said gesturing to my AT covered feet.
"Well not really more of an AT user over Stormrider, never really all that interested in all that drama." I said standing up straight.
"I see I was about to say you don't look much like a Stormrider and I was going to advise you to quit hahaha looks like there's no need." Sora said with a small chuckle while I noticed the hidden undertone from what he said, 'advise me' yeah right like how you advised Ikki and then gained his trust only to destroy it like it was nothing but just a simple hobby.
"Well I best let you go and be your way, I got a couple girls at home who probably are about to set the place on fire." I said giving an excuse as to why I wanted to leave.
"Oh I see, well I best not get in your way Mr…"
"Hamish, call me Hamish."
"Well Hamish my name is Sora it was nice to meet you." Sora exclaimed with a smile while I could just barely see his eyes under his cap that overshadowed the top half of his face while the bottom was left in the open to the light.
It was kind of fitting considering his two faced personality and all.
After Sora left with his dogs and when I was sure he was out of eye reach my polite smile dropped into snarl as I felt angry, angry that this guy is about to put the god damn world in danger, angry that him and his brother would kill anyone and everyone that stood in his way, angry cause he fucking got Rika pregnant, ignored it and then up and fucking nowhere BRAINWASH HER AAAAAAAAARGH!
SMASH!
Blinking away the anger I looked down to see my AT covered foot had literally crushed the nearby metal rubbish bin into a heavily deformed tin can.
"Huff Puff Huff I need a fucking drink." I finally said with the shake of my head feeling somewhat dehydrated and exhausted from the entire ordeal.
I better not tell Rika of this encounter, or anyone… not until it's well appropriate.
Not until I was sure that I could at least cause a hinderance to that fucking cunts plans.
Two weeks later
Knock Knock!
Hearing the sudden knocking i stopped mid push up and looked at my door, huh not many people have come to me in the last two weeks, I mean during the time I've just been training in here with weight training and push ups but other than that yeah no I haven't had anyone come to my room.
I mean I do get out of my room to cook everyone's breakfast, make their lunches and cook dinner but now that I noticed I haven't really been talking to them ever since I met… nevermind forget it.
"Hamish are you there?" I heard the muffled voice come from my door, stopping mid push up I slowly got up and removed the weights from my wrists and waist but kept the shin weights on before making my way over to the door.
Opening the door I was surprised to see Ringo standing in front of my room, huh she looks kind of sad I wonder why?
"Huh wha-Oh Ringo whats up?" I questioned the pigtailed girl as she looked at me with a frown.
"I was just wondering what was going on, Ikki and Ume says that you've been in your room for a long time and I'm just kind of worried about you well everyone is especially Rika but she surprisingly too-"
"Ringo calm down your mumbling and you know I'm terrible with mumbling." I said stopping the girl who seemed to finally realize what she was doing and took a deep breath to calm herself.
"I just wanted to see if you were alright cause you've been quite distant lately." Ringo said as I blinked in surprise.
"Wait I have?" I said looking at her in confusion.
"Well yeah, you don't talk to us much and most of the time you spend in your free time is usually in your room and the only times we've only ever see you is when you're cooking us our meals."
"Oh… whoops."
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"Whoops? That's all you have to say for yourself?" Ringo exclaimed, sounding as if I just offended her and her love for Ikki.
"Uuuuuh I experience long periods of isolation from time to time and no it's not everyone's fault it's just from time to time I feel better when I'm just by myself for those time periods." I explained as if it was plain as day and well it was.
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"Sorry I feel like you've missed a bit of context there." I exclaimed watching as the young girl who stood in front of me just face palmed.
"Nevermind I'll just tell everyone you're busy watching porn." yeah-wait what!?
"Didn't you just hear what I just said?" I exclaimed in slight panic, why the hell would this girl just come to that conclusion when I just told her what was up with me.
Before I could explain any further the girl just began to walk off while I stood there panicking.
"Shit shit shit oh for fucks sake!" I yelled to myself grabbing a nearby shirt seeing as i wasn't wearing any and sprinted across the inn towards the living room.
Sliding to a stop my eyes widened when i suddenly found myself staring at all three of the sisters who sat at the dining table with their arms folded looking right at me with frowns plastered onto their faces.
"Finally I thought that excuse would get him out of his room." Mikan exclaimed while the sisters seemingly nodded in agreement.
"Uuuuuuugh what's going on… am I in trouble?" I asked unsure what was going on.
"Surprisingly no, you're not." Rika said her frown dropped as she looked somewhat saddened. "The last two weeks you have been distant especially after that night you went out."
"Long story short we wanna know what happened that night and why it caused this to happen." Mikan pretty much summarized it and going with how everyone just nodded in agreement they appeared to have had these thoughts for quite the while.
"Well I met Spitfire he was ok and well I had to run away from an annoying swallow and well after that…" I paused for a minute when I felt my body started to shake a little bit. "Look lets just say I met a guy who I don't want anything to do with and honestly he's very dangerous."
"So you got scared and started wholing yourself up in your room?" Ume seemed to be very sceptical of this, well no shit coming from me who was literally the last person who was ever scared yeah you would be doubtful as well.
"For your info I have an arachnophobia, I don't like horror films and if you honestly think it's that much of surprise to hear that I'm scared then that's your fault for not taking notice." I quickly replied to the girl as I did have my fears, no one just fucking asked what they were until now.
"Alright lets just calm down here, look can you at least tell us who you met maybe we know him and we could tell him to-"
"I'm sorry Ringo but it's not that simple this guy… he doesn't have a sense of empathy in him one bit." I had flashes of the last arc popping up in my head as he and Ikki fought each other down that giant tower, his emotionless state of being and how uncaring his sounded when talked didn't once help his case.
He even fucking screwed with his brothers mind to the point he is just a broken mess filled with jealiousy and hate.
"Look I'm sorry if this may look off but for now I'm just trying to get my game up and well I don't want to fall anytime soon, so do me a favour." I said, giving the sister a large kind smile. "Don't worry about me, I can take care of it."
And with that I walked away no longer bothering to look back seeing as I made a very big decision, a hard decision.
One that could either break me and save everyone here or kill everyone.
I couldn't afford to make another misunderstanding not now.
I hope Rika forgives m-
"LIKE HELL I WOULD AGREE TO THAT YOU DUMBASS!" swinging my head around I was quickly met with a pair of feet shoved into my face and kicking me down the hallway.
"Aaaaaaah the hell was that for!?" I yelled slightly pained as she kicked me right in the cheek.
"Shut up and listen up, I already have one idiot doing stupid shit and I will not have another god damn one walking around my Inn!" Rika yelled stomping her way towards me my eyes widening in fear as she got closer and closer until she was right on top of me. "So you listen well whatever shit you go through, whatever problems you have with stormriders or whoever the fuck it is you come to me got it!"
"Or I swear to god I will pile drive you into the damn floorboards understood!?"
"Y-y-yes ma'am."
"Good now get your ass up and cook us some damn lunch!" with the order I already found myself jumping onto my feet and sprinting right over to the kitchen getting right into the cooking.
Is it weird that I'm kinda turned on by Rika now?
"So what do you want me to do now?" I asked Rika as it was just the two of us in the living room and seeing as once I was done with lunch Rika got me to clean the entire Inn both inside and out, and in that just left me to tiredly sit with my back against the wall while Rika sat and relaxed in front of the TV as a random cartoon played.
"Hmmm well for now you're fine."
"Oh thank fu-"
"But I need to ask you something."
"Damn it." I mumbled to myself in annoyance clearly not seeing how this woman seemed to like torturing me constantly, who the hell do you think I am Ikki?
"Do you hate me?"
"What?" I spoke utterly confused from what she just asked.
"It's just unlike with everyone else you've been avoiding me the most I was just wondering if you hated me."
"R-Rika I don't hate you, it's actually the opposite… I mean not like the opposite as in I love you or anything but-no-I-um hey look at the time guess it's time for me to get to work." I said quickly getting up no longer bothered by my tired fatigue and just bolted towards my room to get change for work that didn't start for another 6 hours.
"Seeya Rika uuuuuum yeah seeya!"
The fuck was that?
"Daunt can I ask you a couple of questions, they're kind of personal by the way sooooo…" I asked my boss as we were looking through some paperwork in his office, the both of us sitting on one of the couches while there was a small stack of paperwork on the coffee table separating the couches.
"Sure I got the time and also this paperwork is a little boring anyway." Daunt exclaimed while I silently agreed with the sentiment this paperwork was indeed boring but that was the least of my problems.
"You ever been in love?"
"Oh its one of those questions, why you having some girl trouble?" Daunt asked while I just nodded not bothering to speak as I felt myself say something that would have started a misunderstanding. "I see, well what happened?"
"I met someone some time ago and well lets just say after that I grew a bit distant from… her and she's mistaking the distance for me hating her, but I don't and really I have no fucking clue what to do and trying to fix this misunderstanding has really put a wall between us." I explained not bothering to be difficult but tried to be at least a little bit subtle.
"So Rika thinks you hate her ahahahaha!"
"Wha-how did you-"
"Boy I know you have been living in her Inn and I had a distinct feeling you had a thing for her, which isn't a surprise considering I did to back in the day." Daunt said while I blinked in surprise but quickly remembered that Daunt was a part of Sleeping Forest sometime ago and of course Rika caught his interest, that girl just had a way with… connecting with people.
"Oh don't look so down, look unlike my previous teammates and don't ask how I know, I just know you're more knowledgeable than you like to come across." Daunt exclaimed, his face had a large good natured grin on his face. "And compared to us well I think you are a better match for her anyway."
"What makes you say that?" I questioned wondering where Daunt was going with this.
"Well unlike us you have a good head on your shoulders, your genuine with your responses, your an honest hardworking guy and unlike us back then you see AT's as more than jant weapons." Daunt explained while I just blinked in surprise.
"Well duh AT's are meant to be used to fly, but I use them for more than that."
"See that is exactly what I'm talking about, you don't care for pride or dramatics that AT's bring into people's lives Ahahahaha the more I talk about it the more I can see why Rika is so damn infatuated with ya."
"Wait what infatuated with me why would she-"
"I explained why, now just shut up and let it stew in your mind." Daunt exclaimed shutting me up completely. "Oh and before I forget what was your other question?"
"Oh yeah uuuuuh why the hell have I gone from being the cook to being your personal assistant?" I questioned in a flat tone.
"Well you're good at paperwork."
"I hate paperwork."
"That's why you're good at it cause you know what goes where and can do it faster than me."
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"Does that mean I get a pay rise?"
"With what I pay you? Hell no this is the least you could do to earn it."
"Ok fine that is fair… does this mean I get to DJ some nights?"
"No."
"Fuck."
The next day
"Hey Rika." I spoke midway through making breakfast, my mind finally set at doing something now that I had some time to think about what I could-no should do with Rika.
"Yes?" she responded right next to me as this was one of the few times she decided to help me cook.
"You wanna go out on a date with me?"
"WHAT!? I mean th-I-um don't you-"
"Rika I've been thinking about this seriously since yesterday and frankly I'm kinda annoyed that it took me this long to figure this out but I have feelings for you, I'm a very blunt person so I want no misunderstandings between us when I say I would like to go out on a date with you and if you say no then I will completely agree with your decision and back off appropriately."
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"Rika are you ok?" I asked looking over to the girl in question as I found her face was literally as red as a tomato while steam came out of her head.
"I think you came on pretty strong there Hamish." Looking to my right I saw Ume watching the entire scene with a frown on her face while I just shrugged.
Hey I'm blunt, the fuck did you expect from me?
Chapter 7 end
Wow some of you actually believed I was going to attack a calamity like Sora, geez at least have some faith in me I mean I'm not that fucking stupid.
Other than that bet you didn't expect the chapter to go on like this.
Ah well nevermind this is Amvmaster logging off.
Laters!