Chapter 5: This is War
Kaoru POV:
I woke from a nightmare in a cold sweat breathing heavily. I sat up trying to catch my breath apparently I woke Butch up too. "Kaoru calm down it was just a dream I right here beside you," he said groggily as he sat up and pulled me into his embrace and continued to do so until I fell back asleep for a few hours before school started. I took up Butch's offer of using his shower before going home and used his shower gel since it was the only option I had. After we both showered and redressed though Butch basically gave me a pair of his boxers, a tank top that matched the black boxers, and a large dark green hoody sweat shirt. He gave me a gym bag to put my stuff in.
Butch teleported me to my apartment door we stood in front of the door for a few minute. He held me in a strong embrace mumbling soft yet sweet words of comfort. He read my mind about everything that happened last night the weary thoughts and depressing feelings of being used, regret, panic, guilt, and worst of all fear that had come from the nightmare from earlier this morning.
I was afraid that I'd possibly get pregnant or worse lose everything. At the same time the guilt weighing on me for everything that happened between what we did to our families along with the consequences. Last night might've been an extremely safe version of 'too in the moment to think' type of event that was amazing an I'm glad it happened with Butch and that he loves me enough to use the right precautions so that I wouldn't…
"Kaoru," his voice snaps me out of deep thought I look into his dark green eyes filled with worry, panic, sympathy, love and something else. "Kaoru please calm down I wouldn't leave you….If something does happen, if you were to have a child now or later I'd stay by your side…. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm in love with you." Just as my mouth opened to say something he planted a gentle brief kiss on my lips. He wasn't reading my mind thankfully because if he was I wouldn't have to say that. "You don't have to say anything just please don't regret last night," Butch said in an almost pained hoarse voice. "I don't regret last night, last night might have had its ups and downs but I'm going to worry about certain things. There is one thing that I know you'll never have to worry about is that I love you Butch…I'll see you in a few okay," The small frown on his face dissolved as I kissed him one last time before going inside my apartment.
I tiptoed through the halls of my apartment until I got to my door Miyako and Momoko weren't up luckily. I threw on a matching lime green bra and underwear combo, black jean, and sneakers with an army green tank top then brushed both my teeth and hair. I decided to put his clothes in a draw of their own. I also put on the heart pendant necklace Butch gave me for Valentine's Day. I looked down at the engagement ring on my finger and smiled before walking out the door to see Butch was in dark wash blue jeans, vans, and a black t-shirt that showed his muscular arms and hinted that he had abs. I noticed he was holding a jacket in his hand while a mix of embarrassment and shame created a blush on his face as he gave me his jacket. "Kaoru I'm so sorry about all the love bites I guess I couldn't control myself," he said disappointedly while I couldn't help but giggle at all the bite marks, scratches, and bruises that are half showing half concealed by his shirt that showed up noticeably against his pale ivory skin."What's so funny?" "Butch I can get a jacket if that makes you comfortablebut have you looked at yourself?" "I'll be fine I just don't want you to get ridiculed because of me,"he said finally giving up I put on the jacket. Today I rode on my light green and black motorcycle while he rode on his forest green & black motorcycle beside me.
Butch POV AT SCHOOL:
I drove into the student parking lot and cruised over to my parking space. Kaoru pulled into her spot beside me. I stood leaning against my bike and pulled Kaoru close to me after putting liquid pain killer non drowsy medicine in my mouth careful not to swallow it or have her notice it in my mouth. Just as she opened her mouth to speak I kissed her in a way you can only do when you've planned it out. She swallowed it out of reflex before pulling away from our somewhat heated kissing or snog session that had attracted zero stares. "Butch what did you just do," she said shocked.
"Don't worry it was just a non drowsy pain relief medicine for you know last night. I just thought since normally you hate taking medicine that I could spice it up a little. Plus it's an extra precautionary step just in case that pill didn't work," I said whipping the medicine dripping from the corner of her mouth before cleaning my face off with a handkerchief. "Thanks but next time warn me a little I don't think I should wear the ring at school just in case you're wondering why I'm taking it off. I just don't want to be questioned," she said blushing. "Yeah I understand at least you're wearing the necklace I gave you so that's enough for me," I said besides we're still really young so nothing is set in stone. We walked into school inside together which shocked most people since no one knew or even thought we could stand each other and that the whole me asking her out thing was a rumor plus we've been hiding our relationship at school and in public until I did that stunt. We didn't talk we just read each other's minds literally. 'Kaoru I think you were right about the bite marks, scratches, bruises, and hickeys how am I going to deal during soccer practice and P.E. today we're dressing out in the auditorium for final all boy freshmen through seniors paintball team tournament. One last thing, call me if you need anything. ' 'Okay and if anyone gives you any problems say your girlfriend gave them to you,' I looked at her and she winked at me and giggled before going to her seat in homeroom.
PE Class Dressing Room (12:20pm):
I never saw the full image of what Kaoru did to my body after last night. So I forgot about finding a way to avoid my peers comments and locker room talk that I wanted no part in. "Whoa, guys look at Butchy-boy finally got some," Jarred my senior for soccer shouted out making the room go silent and all attention on me. It was bad enough I forgot to brush or do anything to my hair after last night so I was rocking 'I just got laid bed head' multiplied two times more noticeable from my helmet. He drew a large mass group of attention to me as I noticed no one else had any marks of the sex escapades.
"Okay everyone kneel or sit down on the floor around me," Jarred said. Everyone followed as told as I was forced to stand. "Now gentlemen who knows what Butch has experienced recently," jarred asked a ginger who was senior from soccer name Sammy. "I, Sammy thee oh so wise senior shall share, this my friends, my brothers is no longer a boy but a man," Sammy shouted standing up mocking me there was clapping and cheering. "So now the question at hand who is this fine honey or grenade that did this to you my friend and does she have any hot friends," Sammy and Jarred said together.
"It's none of your business," I said trying to get my paintball padded gear shirt since I already had on my pants. Of course no one let me but instead they tried playing monkey in the middle with it. "Tell us Butch who the girl maybe even some helpful hints," Sammy said. "Okay let's see she's my too hot to even try to mess with girlfriend. So will you give me my shirt back,"I said just as my phone started to ring I was about to answer and Brandon snatched it out my hand before saying hello Brandon another senior from the soccer and plugs it to a speaker so everyone can hear Kaoru's grumpy childish voice that she only lets me hear mostly when snuggled up together watching a movie, last night, and other times to get something or complaining. Right now it was for something.
"Butch guess what my health class is joining the guys paintball tournament but sadly these stupid uniforms don't have pocket pockets and I totally forgot to bring my lock for gym can you come to the gym lobby I need you to hold on to something for me that's really important," she said in that cute grumpy little voice but today it's more sexy then childish that I subconsciously clinched my jaw. I was about to send her a psychic alert of the situation when Boomer and Brick gave me the 'Take your embarrassment like a man and don't tell her'. There was an annoyed sigh she was probably rubbing her temple trying to think what to do and I couldn't help it a smirk found its way to my lips. "*yawn* I wish I'd known that the P.E. schedule would be like this today I wouldn't stayed up so late," she said everything annoyed yet still calm still in that grumpy voice there was a pause and the sound of her rummaging through her bag. "Oh, when did you…sometimes I think you might be a ninja. Thanks for the energy drink and Butch soo not cool putting me on speaker phone. Love ya bye," she said it in a really special tone and hung up. Kaoru used that tone only with me which means she was trying to put me at ease. I let out a sigh trying to not get stressed out on thinking of how to make sure Kaoru doesn't get hurt her-self badly. "Oh my, what a girl you have, a moody prude tomboy type never saw that coming," Brandon said. "Well she won't be spreading anything for anyone but Butchy boy since she loves him," Sammy teased. "Well boys it's not our problem if Butchy boy fell for a moody bitch," Jarred said shrugging that was it. I turned around and punched him hard enough to bruise him but not cause two weeks of soreness since my superhuman strength due to the watch was keeping my powers under complete control. "Sorry but you shouldn't talk shit about someone who isn't here to defend themselves and definitely not my girlfriend. I don't know about the rest of you but I'd rather have a moody prude of a tomboy then a slutty bitch for a girlfriend any day," I said loud enough for the entire silent room to hear now they were all saying ", oh!" I put on my shirt and took my phone placing it in my pocket before locking my clothes in my hall locker. I saw Kaoru waiting there ready for the tournament. Kaoru's uniform was basically a black version of Nina's training uniform in Chrome Shelled Regios. I walked up to her a look of determination and anger shone brightly in her eyes. I snaked my arms around her waist pulling her close against my chest ",Kaoru what's wrong." Of course she looked away before muttering ", I'm upset okay, imagine how I felt talking to a wall basically and then the aha moment of someone else had your phone letting all those guys hear me talking to you. I saw what happened to your phone through the alert." I couldn't help smirking she leaned in gracing me with for the first in public full out passionate make out starting it was a full blown snog session I pushed her up against the lockers as her hand started to play through my hair. The longer we stayed like that the deeper our snog session became and the less I noticed of my surroundings.
Kaoru Pov:
Butch had me pressed against a locker in a passionate embrace kissing me senseless. When suddenly a door from the gym pushed open I just barely noticed and I didn't care either. That's when I heard several different footsteps and then some guy shout playfully ",Uh oh uh oh I see ya Butch showin that fine honey some love! Shout you out playa player!" I noticed Butch's arms flinch at being caught off guard but he ignored it and continued while hiding my face from all visible angles which I knew he was reading my mind so I thought 'thanks butch.' Then my mind started to drift when we both had to pull away for air but we still maintained kisses in between the short gasps of air until I said ",I think we should continue this somewhere a little more secluded and thanks for cheering me up Butch meet me at your car for lunch if I'm not done in by paint ball pellets." As I gave him one last kiss before going to meet my gym class he turned on the psychic link and said ", during lunch I want to show you some places that'll take both Lunch A and Lunch B." "Okay I'll see you at lunch then good luck." "Same to you and Kaoru be careful remember it might be battle of the genders so please don't do something reckless."" I won't Butch I know my control gears limits all I can do is heal a little faster and a little bit more speed and agility than the average girl. I'll see you in the school forest aka battlefield for today." I walked to where all the girl students were supposed to meet up and there was a space separating the genders both genders lined up in two separate lines from a to z in last names a screen showed who was paired with who and once you saw your name you walk up with you partner and are put into either black team or red team. "Black Team Butch K. Jojo and Kaoru A. Matsubara" "Red Team Miyako Goutokuji and Boomer X. Jojo...Momoko Akatsutsumi and Brick R. Jojo Black Team." Butch walked up to me and smirked ", what are the odds." "I know right well lets go and meet the rest of our team best friend," I said winking at him.
When all of the names and partners were picked we were taken to separate locations in black team base was an extremely large tree house base. Butch grabbed two large paintball machine guns and passed one to me we put the straps our shoulders. I took four hand paint ball guns. "No way I'm not taking the girly guns babe I like the feel of the larger ones," he said with a dead set look at the larger hand guns. "*sigh*Fine here honey," I said with a smirk we loaded up on ammo then left the supplies room. I used a black bandana to cover most of my face while dark tinted sheriff glasses covered my eyes Butch did the same but his bandana didn't cover his face. "You ready babe," he said opening the door for me. "Yep and thanks hun," I said pulling my bandana down long enough to steal a kiss from his lips but he swiftly pulled me close and deepened the kiss. "Butch*kiss*we've*kiss*gotta*stop," I said just barely getting words out as he attacked my lips. He turned the psychic link on and said ", come on just a little while longer and I'll stop." "Fine babe but when I pull away you stop and we become serious again." "Okay." Three straight minute we stayed in the same position kissing like there was no tomorrow since you could never know what disaster or monster would make you go unconscious or dead. Also no one knows when the next new super villain will appear. I heard footsteps and chatter when we pulled away it was too late the crowd already had seen our private little moment to ourselves. I felt my crimson grace my cheeks and Butch just grabbed my hand and squeezed it giving me some reassurance. He turned to me and pulled the bandana over my nose and whispered ", now I think I'm ready let get going." I just nodded we walked hand in hand passed the crowd they stared briefly and some of the boys asked Butch who I was. The only response they got was that I was his superhot girlfriend as he pulled me closer.
We had already planned ahead we were hiding in the branches of the two large weeping willows. The psychic link was turned on with in the first thirty minutes all of black team had been taken down all that remained was Butch, Momoko, Brick, and myself. We remained hidden until Brick gave the signal then me and Butch went Mr.& Mrs. Smith type maneuvers on them when they weren't aiming to kill one another. Finally the seniors ended up surrounding us as Brick and Momoko went into ninja stealth mode trying to capture the red flag and leaders. Which ended up being Miyako and Boomer I heard two shots and Brick say through the link ",we're out it's up you guys also you're secretly carrying the flag and are the leaders good luck. By the way Miyako and Boomer don't underestimate their ability to shoot others." "Thanks, Butch it's just me and you now." "Okay on count of three we take them out." "Okay 1,2,3,"I shouted we started shooting the 'enemy soldiers' while turning rotating around we didn't miss anyone when they were all taken out or so we thought I accidentally disarmed one I gave Butch a look that said put the captive in a headlock we're going to use him later. I picked up two of the 'dead soldiers' paintball hand guns from them and loaded them with white paint pellets. "So Butch is she the total badass girlfriend you got into a fight over in the locker room," the captive aka Luke, Butch's good friend asked along with the now sitting down 'dead enemies'. "Yep she is and I don't think she'll mind meeting you right now," he said as I looked up from replenishing the pellets in my other guns. "Hey babe would you mind showing Luke that angel face of yours real quick," he asked hoping I wouldn't shoot his friend in the throat, face, or where the sun doesn't shine. I just nodded and pulled the bandana down and removed the glasses hanging them on my tank top. "No hard feelings but I'm getting sick of this so take us to the red team base an if not I'm going to turn you into target practice," I said removing the safety and hit in the pellet cartridge as I walked closer up to Luke and Butch. "Either way you're going to shoot me sorry no way," Luke said. "Okay fine I guess I'll have to shoot you at point blank and it'll bruise worse," I said shooting him point blank right above his crotch so it only hurt a little less he fell over holding his lower areas as I put the bandana and glasses back on my face. "Common Butch we've still got a flag to grab and thirty more people to take down excluding Boomer and Miyako the leaders of red team," I said. "Okay but was that necessary." "Hmm it was I didn't shoot him in the balls so see it as me being nice I just pressure pointed him." We kept walking fifth teen minutes later we were surrounded by thirty people. We took them out easily and kept walking till we got to a clearing where we found Boomer and Miyako waiting with a red flag in Miyako's hands. Without any warning I shot Miyako while Boomer was facing off Butch then he noticed me and Butch went in for the kill a shot Boomer. Miyako gave me the red team flag and saluted to me jokingly and we walked out of the forest with them and handed the red flag to Mr. Covax the administrator of sports and physical education. "So you two are the Mr.&Mrs. Smith Movie duo that took out eighty percent of red team and their leaders good job now if you could both remove your gear so everyone can see your faces that'd be even better," Mr. Covax said. I removed the guns that had been strapped to me my back and let hair tumble down to the small of my back before pulling down the bandanna and taking off the glasses. Butch did the same except he just took off the glasses. "Our winners for the black team are Kaoru A. Matsubara and her partner Butch K. Jojo, both are of the sophomore class congratulation to both of you. Now quick question are you two going out by chance, since we picked these cute little moments of them through the game." We nodded before he showed any pictures giving him a look that said very few people know. Then a projector showed all our secret couple moments throughout the day even my playing with the ring heart pendant necklace he gave me for Valentine's Day and the light smile that I had. The security cameras footage of our passionate moments all throughout today, like in the gym hallway and on the black team's base. I felt my cheek become tinted with crimson and Butch grabbed my hand giving yet another reassuring squeeze that brought me back to my normal mellowness. "Well darn we were really trying to keep this a private matter you nosy old man but I guess now that everyone knows I can finally do this," Butch said in a slightly joking tone before kissing me on the lips clear out of the blue. I couldn't help myself that look in his I could make me melt in a heart beat and he knew it. I kissed back for a second and pulled away feeling the stares of shock, amazement, hatred, and so much more. "Butch I told you to wait till later," I whispered into his ear and walked off the stage. I heard mutters of judgment words of hatred dripping with venom. Words like slut, whore, skank, and several others from everywhere, I started walking quickly through the crowd some girls' clawed at my arms that showed up and bleed a lot for a short time period then healed rapidly. That's when I got called a freak no one knew I was a PPGZ. So everyone remembers only bits and pieces of what we would look like. "Sorry, but trying to injure me isn't going to do anything it only ticks me off," I said to the group of ticked off girls with python deadly auras as I started to heal right before their eyes. I kept walking through the group until I was completely out that's when I headed for the locker room and quickly changed before grabbing my stuff and leaving for the parking lot.
I heard mutters and whispers then I bumped into a tall muscular chest. It was a small group of girls with Morbuck they knocked me down at first trying to scratch me. I struggled and fought back they gave up and started beating me up. I screamed out until my vision started to dot I heard them snipping my hair and calling me names. Finally it stopped just as everything goes black I felt Butch grab me and shed a few tears that touched my cheek muttering sweet nothings.
Author's Note: So what did you think was this chapter worth the wait will you faithful readers continue to review and tell your opinions since they mean very much to me and in fact brighter my day. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I try to update soon.