He asked his friends to join him as he looked all over the lunchroom for Sutā. His face was alight with excitement for them to meet her! He looked in the middle. The side. The kitchen. His friends started dwindling with every part he checked off the cafeteria. He texted her but there was no response until all his friends... were gone. Maybe he should leave with them? No! He said he'd do this! A feeling of grief-struck him suddenly and he looked around to slowly realized he was all alone. He looked around trying to find any remaining friends of his but he couldn't see any of them. A feeling started overwhelming him more and more... he could make friends with a random person. Just start talking to them.

His breathing started to pick up.

Why was this happening now?

He could hear his heart in his ears.

Why to him?

He could taste his teeth.

"Kaito-Sama?" Someone asked softly. He quickly whipped around to talk to the first person he saw- oh. It's Sutā. She suddenly looked very concerned as she saw him and pulled him out of the lunchroom quickly with her.

"Hey, Sutā." He said less ecstatic then he wanted.

"Breathe with me." She said quickly as she counted and they breathed together. In through the nose and out through the mouth. He gave her a soft smile afterwards.

"I'm fine... I'm fine." He said partway through. She hesitantly touched his hand out of the concern and he just nodded at her. She slowly smiled and nodded back

"Okay."

"Where were you?" He asked narrowing an eyebrow.

"I was held up in class. Some man came into our class on a motorcycle and took Alice! We all went on a rather large adventure to get her back! But nothing 3 an hour time slot couldn't solve." She said with a soft laugh. He stared back at her and could see her face light up. It may have just been one hang out but she was quite quick to open up to people.

"Let's go out for lunch." He said cheerfully.

"Okay." She smiled, "Where?"

Acting only on instinct he grabbed her hand and started running. She squealed, trying to keep up as they ran out to the front of the school.

"Right or left?"

"R-right?" She questioned and he dragged her right still running.

They came to a set of lights, "right, left or forward?"

"Forward?" She said. He kept running with her. She stopped the squealing and started giggling instead. He smiled brightly and held his best friend closer as they kept running together.

His directions were right, forward, left, right, right, left. B. A. Start. He pushed through the door of an unknown food area. He could still hear her gentle giggles as the sudden adrenaline was washing away from them. The soft music of a food joint played above them, it seemed to be a ramen shop. It was cutesy. The girl who came to serve them was a cute little redhead too! She has sweet big glasses, yellow lovely eyes, she was kind of fit and had a bigger structure than he was used to a woman having, more of a square jaw. But that was fine. She was super cute. Sutā started blushing herself, was she that kind of girl? Not that there was a problem with that! He just wanted to know.

"Hey Sutā~," the lady said to her, her face got a little brighter and she waved with her fingers, it was adorable.

"H-hi. Good to uh see you." She said sweetly.

"Hi I'm Momota Kaito~," He said charmingly as he held his hand out. Wait if Sutā likes her maybe he should back off!

"Hi Momota-chan~" her voice was almost overly sweet, "call me Lacy."

"Hi Lacy~," He said with a hum in his voice without thinking. His event earlier this lunch was still bothering him but nothing a new cute girl couldn't fix, right? Wait- stop! You don't even know if Sutā likes her or not!

They both got their drinks and ordered their food as Lacy went away Kaito gave Sutā a smirk.

"You like ladies?" He said bluntly but quietly.

"I- what-" She said sputtering before smiling softly, "I... might..." she said with her gritted teeth, her face getting redder. He chuckled.

"You like her?" He said with a wink, she slowly nodded with her blush growing more, "no wonder you haven't fallen for me yet. You don't submit to charms like mine." He said with a brighter smile.

"No... I... I do..." she said softly as her face got brighter, he slowly started blushing, just from embarrassment. So she just genuinely didn't like him like that? Guess it was possible.

"Do you... uh... fall for charms like mine only?" She said trying to phrase it right. He laughed and shook his head no, before getting a bit closer to her and pushing up her glasses, causing her to blush brighter.

"I just fall for charms like yours especially." He said in a very hot, low and intriguing voice. He could feel Sutā's face gain heat from here, he slowly sat back down into his seat and laughed a little.

"Oh my god, did that actually work?!" He said overjoyed. He could do it! He could seduce a woman! Look at him go!

"Y-yes." She said hardly hesitating.

"S-sorry What was the question?" She suddenly said picking herself back up in a sense. She would have just... said yes to anything he asked just then? That's not good. But he decided to joke about the situation.

"If you wanted to kiss~"

"OH! I-I-"

"The moon!" He said as he pointed to the sky... then realized it was just a ceiling and he had just made the joke at the worst time. She laughed a little and smiled at him in the sweetest way possible, making him smile brighter.

"Yes...I'd love to. If only I could breathe there." She hummed softly.

"Let's see if we can buy you a piece of moon rock."

"No no no, that's okay... thank you though." She said with a soft voice. His smile got a little bigger before he suddenly realized Lacy was there to give them their food and they're goofing around was blocking her way. He quickly apologized and pulled himself back to his seat. She gave a sweet laugh and nodded, putting their ramen down and walking off.

"I was gonna let you meet my friends today you know." He said with a certain sweetness he only let his close friends hear. Which was apparently after 2 hangouts.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I just wouldn't be able to eat knowing Alice was kidnapped."

"Tell me about that! What happened?" He said with a bigger smile.

"Oh okay... well.." she started.

Alice was kidnapped by a man with black and white hair, he looked kind of like Dante from devil may cry and Cruella De Ville had a kid. He arrived on a Motorcycle and was determined to take the classmate named Alice. Well, he didn't have much trouble. He just picked her up and drove off. Her and Ruvel, a thief apparently, ran together before the class could figure out what just happened. The rest of the class was quick to catch up. This DJ kid apparently had some kind of next-level transportation and they went after him on it. Sounded like something only Miu could have come up with but he'd rather not think about that.

Well, they caught up to him in an ally way, threatened him till he decided Alice just wasn't worth it and gave her back. Alice quickly fell into the DJ's arms and he held her tight.

"That's... wild, Sutā. I'm glad you could help track her."

"It's easy with knowing the license plate!" She said cheerfully.

"I hope our class gets into something like that!" He said excitedly. Sutā shook her head and laughed softly.

"You really don't. It scared the heck out of me." She said, sipping on her ramen a bit before eating it like normal. He chuckled and started eating himself.

"Well if you get kidnapped by some super high school level villain I'll come to save you." He said with a laugh. Oh. This was saltier than he was used to. But it was still pretty good. Shrimp ramen was always his thing. But her chicken ramen looked good too. He heard her slurp as she sipped and he chuckled as she blushed a tiny bit. She chuckled back at him and gestured to his chin. Oh. It was caught on his facial hair again! God damn it. He grunted as he pulled it off. He watched as Lacy started to put on some incense with a wink towards him.

Does she think they're on a date? Guess so. Oh well. What does he care? Maybe they'll get better service cause of it. It's all fine with him. With her? Maybe not. Ugh. He needed a girlfriend. He needed that pianist... Nah... Nah... don't... don't be like that Kaito. She's so happy with Shuichi and you're so happy for Shuichi. Suta lightly touched his hand with a soft smile and he smiled back. Guess he was expressing it visually after all.

"Just breathe."

"Oh. No... not that... I mean... I just... I got scared I didn't have anyone."

"You always have me..." she trailed off. He smiles softly and nodded, holding her hand. Her eyes lowered before looking back up at him, eyes full of hope and he couldn't help a little bit of blushing on his part. Where did they come from? Was that a move?

"Did it work?!" She said cheerfully. He blushed a little more before nodding.

"Kiss me Sutā!" He said almost desperately as he reached out towards her She burst out laughing and swatted his hands away.

Lacy brought the check by the end, the only problem is that it was... just one check. Sutā grabbed for her wallet and Kaito slammed money on the table.

"Uh... K-Kaito, it's okay, I got this... you can-"

"No! It was my invitation! I'm gonna be a man about it!" He said as he pounded both fists together. Sutā laughed awkwardly and pressed her glasses up slightly removing her hand from her jacket. He grinned his usual grin and after paying, they left, him holding out his arm to her so that they could stay together once more. Sutā happily took it... unfortunately.

"Do you know the way back?"

"Uh..." Kaito trailed off. All the roads looked the same. Every place... looked the same... "what's the word for... uh..."

"Lost?"

"Yeah. I'm lost." He said with a sheepish smile.

"We're lost..." she corrected.

"We're lost..." he said as he turned the corner, "... right?" He said. She looked at the area before nodding determinedly. Okay sweet. She remembered this way too... or was it that way? Or maybe they went straight? He was about to ask when Sutā's grip tightened on his arm. She never did that.

He looked around. What was going on? Looking at her face he could see it was scrunched up in fear, but he didn't see anything out besides people just normally walking around.

"You okay?" He said with a certain softness to it. She jumped a bit before looking up at him and nodding. They continued walking, without him asking her for more direction until he stopped feeling her hold his arm.

"Sutā?" He said as he turned around.

She looked at him quickly before holding herself, hands on her shoulders and looking more scared than before. She was shaking. He decided he didn't have much of a choice... he picked up his phone. She shook her head and looked at him pleadingly.

He was a little helpless to her look of utter sadness and an absolute begging for him to not get help from someone else. He truly was her superhero at this moment. So he gave into his unmanliness thing ever... admitting he needed help with directions.

He pulled up his phone and started hyping in hopes peak academy.

Within that time someone called out to his best buddy right there beside him.
"Sutā." The man said, starting to walk over.

"No," Kaito responded, turning around with her.

"Uh- what-"

"No," Kaito said again.

"I'm trying to talk Sutā," the man states.

"I don't care. I said no."

"You don't speak for her."

"Man, she's crying, obviously not in the mood to talk to you," Kaito stated angrily in response to her... kind of attacker... I guess.

"Why wouldn't you just let the girl talk for herself. You're a big girl, Sutā, you can do it, use your big girl words."

"If you don't stop talking right now, I'm gonna punch you," Kaito warned with anger in his face; the man already gave up his pride for this damn app so they could get to school quickly, not gonna back down from this asshole now.

"Sutā?" Kaito asked, trying to show that she was perfectly fine to talk like he wasn't controlling her but...

Sutā couldn't stop crying. Nothing Kaito could say was getting through to her. Her body was shaking and she couldn't stop crying... whatever they said... whatever they did... it destroyed her. She couldn't speak. She wouldn't speak. Sutā rejected any attempts.

So Kaito didn't know quite what to do, but he could feel his blood boiling the more and more tears that ran down her face. He pocketed his phone quickly, staring down at Sutā, he gave her his jacket, putting it around her and leaning down towards her.

"I'll be right back." He said with a soft smile.

"K-...Kaito?" She went to ask a question but he softly shushed her with a slightly bigger smile.

"I'm gonna be your confidence." He said happily before turning the anger right back on, "hey! fuck you!" Kaito yelled with venom, "you're the reason she's crying you know!"

"What." The guy looked confused.

"She was perfectly fine and happy. She was having a good time. Then you showed up, just even got around her and she started crying! Fuck you!" Kaito continued to yell. He didn't care if everyone heard absolutely everything. He was going to protect his friend. He was going to be her sword and her shield. He was going to fix everything.

Anything she needed.

"I am Kaito Momota, a luminary of the stars and I'm gonna kick your fucking ass!" He yelled as he punched this random man across the face.

Had this man even really don't anything to deserve this? Just for patronizing her a little? No. But obviously, something is wrong here.

The hit landed with a loud noise, the guy's face was turned almost entirely to the opposite side. A solemn look on his face and a red mark where he was punched.

"Why?" The guy asked.

"I already explained this to you," Kaito said slyly with a cocky smirk on his face.

"What the fuck man?! What did I do to you?! I was just making comments!" The guy snapped his head back into place, "she hasn't even said anything! She's just fucking crying!" He looked at Kaito with almost the same pleading look that Sutā had.

Oh.

Kaito couldn't back down. He shook his head and just turned around to face Sutā, smiling softly at her.

"I told you, things will be fine." He said happily before he felt an intense blunt pain along the back of his head. He was happy she couldn't see him as she covered her face with his jacket. That's would have been embarrassing.

He flared right back up and clenched his fists.

"Sutā. Could you do me a favour?" The man said before he pulled out his blade, which gleamed in the sunlight.

Kaito shook his head and quickly pat down his pockets. Ah fuck.

"Pick a better fighter next time." The guy said.

Kaito closed his eyes hard for a moment.

"I-i-" he could hear her voice quiver. Kaito looked back at her quickly and saw his jacket shaking.

He turned his head back around to see this guy charging at him with the knife.

He heard his heartbeat inside his ears. He slid away as best he could, tripping over his own feet on his way before he felt a rather sharp pain dig into his left arm. Tears were immediate to his eyes, furrowing his eyebrows with a loud grunt. Kaitos right hand instinctively whipped at the guy, a loud smack once again ringing out of the area as it landed right in the smack dab middle of this guys chest.

Kaito then immediately stared at his stab wound, feeling the pain as the knife was forcibly ripped out of his arm. He finally let out a pained scream that rung through the area, only to be met with the horrified scream of his best friend, looking devastated.

He couldn't take another chance, immediately grabbing her arm and running off as fast as he could. He would have stayed and fought to the death if he didn't have her as his main priority.

He held her close as soon as he found a safe area to duck behind, having no idea where the fuck they were now, 'good job Kaito' he though. Only just now did it occur to him that his hands were clammy and sweaty, yet he was still holding a cute redhead to his chest with a worried yet determined expression on his face.

She struggled against him. He held her tighter.

She almost made a noise and he quickly hushed her hard.

She finally just collapsed into him a bit,