"I'm sorry for treating you coldly like that earlier Uiharu, but please you and your boyfriend can sit down while I prepare for us some tea and snacks." Konori as she tries to apologize for her earlier action.
Both Kakine and Uiharu immediately seated themselves. Uiharu still upset at Kakine earlier scooch away from where Kakine is seated. Kakine realizing this feels a bit perturbed, but he doesn't mind it one bit because seeing her all pouty and angry like that is enough to bring a smile to him. While Konori is busy making tea and preparing snacks. Kuroko is busy with observing Uiharu's boyfriend. The reason why is because not so long ago he hurt Uiharu.
It's a secret not known to many but a few. So Kuroko will be keeping an eye on him to make sure it won't happen again. "Alright here are the teas." Konori brings her tea to the coffee table and pour it on all four cups. Konori then gives the cups to everyone.
As Konori takes a sip from the cup she said to everyone. "Okay then, Uiharu why you never told me you have a boyfriend?" Her glasses starts to sparkle when she said that.
Uiharu slightly choked on the tea she was drinking on. "Konori senpai please, I don't want to talk about it!"
"And why not?" Konori said while she fixes her glasses causing a small glint to appear in the surface.
"Because why do you care if I have a boyfriend or not!" Uiharu practically screamed as she tries to defend herself.
"Ah, you right it's not like I care that my kouhai got a boyfriend before I do." She explains herself while hiding her feeling of jealousy behind the glint of her glasses.
Then Uiharu realizes that she is just being petty about her new found relationship. Sighed at her situation she tries to change the topic. "But I though you're already with Kurozuma-san"
Konori surprised to hear about his name from her. "No! Wataru-kun and I is nothing like that!" She blushingly objects. "We both may still keep in contact with each other, but I don't know if he saw me like that." She said while hiding her obvious blush.
Seeing Konori suddenly acting like a love struck maiden starts to draw all gazes from everyone in the room sans her. Eyes like dead fish glaring at her as everyone saw through her hypocrisy about complaining to Uiharu getting a boyfriend even though she probably have one already. Konori seeing the gaze she given to Uiharu earlier are being directed to her decided to drop it for now. "Ahem, alright then I think we better start with helping Kakine-san with his first assignment as a member of the Judgement then, shall we"
Uiharu relief that she doesn't have to endure twenty question about her boyfriend anymore. "Yes, Konori senpai what should we do first then?" She said ecstatically.
"Since this will be Kakine's first day you can bring him in your usual patrol."
"Okay I understand Konori senpai!" Uiharu replied enthusiacsily
"Wait a minute senpai. Please let me join with them on their patrol." Kuroko steps forward to volunteer her self to help with Kakine's training.
"I appreciate it Shirai-san, but Uiharu would be enough for the job." Konori explain to her.
"I know, but if I let her alone with him, he would try to do something to Uiharu."
"Tch, how do you manage to figure out my plan anyway?" Kakine playfully retort.
"Kakine-san how can you say that!" Uiharu blush at what he just said.
"Don't worry Uiharu I bet he's just joking." Konori try to assure Uiharu.
Uiharu relieved that it was just a joke, but Kuroko on the other hand does not see it that way and also she cannot believe that Uiharu just treat it like a joke after everything he has done to her. She knows what he did to Uiharu and she knows what he's capable of. "Senpai, please allow me to accompany the two of them!" Kuroko bowed to her senpai.
Seeing her kouhai bowed her head like that Konori can't help but to reluctantly agrees to her demand. "It can't be helped, truth be told I want you here in case something else happens. All right Shirai-san I will let you go with them, but if something urgent came I will call you on your cellphone and I want you to come back here immediately using your teleportation." Konori taken by her earnest plea allows her to join with Uiharu and Kakine with certain condition.
"Thank you senpai!" Kuroko bowed to her again to show her gratitude.
"All right then, Uiharu I want you to take them to your usual patrol route and came back here at five." Konori tells her subordinate.
"Yes!" Uiharu exclaim.
"Also Kakine-san please take this." Konori handed the Judgement armband over to him. "Congratulation you are now officially a member of Judgement.
"Thanks." He then proceed to wear the armband in front of the three and start posing with it "Don't I look cool in this." Kakine said while complementing himself.
The three of them did not say anything, but just gaze downward at the floor avoiding eye contacts with him.
"Hey what's the deal with the cold reception?" Kakine asked his teammates.
All three at first were hesitant to tell him the truth. Until Kuroko steps forward to say this to him. "You look like dork when you pose like that."
Her two teammates responded to her statement inside their mind in unison. 'Look who's talking!'
"Huh, then I suppose I won't be doing that then." Kakine surprisingly takes to criticism well.
Uiharu is relieved that Kakine is taking it well, but Kuroko has some other question she needed him to answer. A question that haunted her since he shows up here. "Why did you join Judgement in the first place?"
It is a question that is both appropriate to ask, but at the same time seems rude. "Well I want to do my part to help Academy City." Hearing him Konori can't help but to applaud at his sense of civic duty, but the two girl on the other hands didn't fall for his obvious lie.
Still Uiharu like to believe it even if it weren't so. Cause she likes to think that the man she knew has changed for the better even if it were not true. Kuroko on the other hands are not so trusting of his intention and remain quiet hostile with him.
"Okay, that's enough lollygagging already. Get going you three." Konori said to three of them to start with their patrol.
Finally given permission to leave, the three of them exits through the door, Uiharu gets out of the door first followed by Kakine, but suddenly he was stopped by Kuroko. "I still remember what you did to Uiharu and don't think I will forgive you any time soon after what you did to her. The only reason I didn't just tell you what kind of horrible human being you are to Konori senpai is that Uiharu asked me not to for some reason. So let me keep this clear to you, if you do anything to hurt her I will be the one to finish you off."
"I won't have it any other way." He answers before he leaves. Kakine's answer leaves Kuroko puzzled at his reaction to her threat. Nevertheless she follows him out.
Outside the three of them continue walking until they reached Uiharu's usual route. As the three of them start their patrol Kuroko want to ask something to Uiharu. "So Uiharu why are you together with him?" Uiharu not really want to answer that particular question is trying to find an excuses, but before she can say anything to her. Kakine answered her question first. "Because we love each other that's why, do you need a reason to fall in love with each other?" Uiharu both relieved and at the same time embarrassed at how easy he can say something like that. Even Kuroko was embarrassed at hearing something like that from him.
"Look can we discuss this some other times, Shirai-san it's not I want to keep it a secret from everyone is just I want to tell it when the time is right."
"I understand Uiharu, It's that I'm just curious about it that's all."
Both Kakine and Uiharu grabs each other hand and both said at the same time to Kuroko. "It's a secret." Then both of them smile at each other as they look at one another with tender gaze like that of a true lover.
Seeing them act like that even cause blush to appear on Kuroko's face and causes her not to pry for answers anymore or at least until the red on her face is gone. Uiharu and Kakine keep holding hands until they reach a park where Uiharu usually frequented on her patrol. "Kakine-san, Shirai-san let's take a break here for a second." Uiharu said to them.
Both of them nod in unison to take on Uiharu's offers. "Then I'll go buy us something to drink, Kakine-san, Shirai-san. What do you guys want to drink?"
"Lemonade is fine for me." Kuroko said as she twirls her hair around.
"Beer for me then." He point to himself with his thumb.
Uiharu glare at him menacingly. "Kakine-san we're minor we can't drink alcohol yet!" Uiharu explain.
"Fine. A soda for me then." Kakine grudgingly put both his hands on his pockets.
"Okay then I'll be back in a few minute, I'll be off."Uiharu ran in search for a vending machine.
Both Kakine and Kuroko then seated themselves on the park benches to be face to face with one another. Both of them watch each other, trying to find something to talk about, anything. "So you're Shirai right, I though Judgement's work is much more exciting than this." Kakine said to break the ice.
"Most of time its like that, we usually just help old lady walk the street or finding lost items, but sometimes things can get a little too exciting."
"I see, I heard from Uiharu that you have been a good friend to her since she joined up with Judgment."
"That's right... Unlike you."
"Are you seriously going to bring that up?"
"What do you think I was going to say, you broke her shoulder! Do you think people are going to let it down anytime soon?"
"Shut up! It was in the past. I apologized to her already."
"You think you can just apologize after what you did to her!"
"Don't you think I didn't know that! Do you think I won't carry that guilt to my grave?"
Moved by the intensity of his gaze. Kuroko can see that he is feeling guilty over what happened, but she can't find the way to forgive him, not after what happened. She wonders how Uiharu can forgive him, but she can't. "I don't know what is it that made you hurt Uiharu in the first place, but remember this. I will never forgive you."
"I won't ask for your forgiveness, but I want you to understand that no matter what happened in the past, I want you to respect her decision to forgive me. Even though I probably doesn't deserve it."
Although Kuroko will never forgive him, she will follow what he just said and at least try to respect her decision to do so. Both of them silently acknowledge this and both them keep their silence afterward. Kakine feeling the tense atmosphere around him after the heated discussion between them decided to find a way to break the ice once more. He moves forward to her bench so he can sit together with her so they can have a more private talk.
"Look, I know why you're asking me all this questions, it's because you think that it's weird that a guy that hurt her in the first place get together in the end."
"It is weird, but how do you get Uiharu to like you?"
Kakine then moves his finger to her lips. "It's a secret." It left Kuroko with an annoyed look on her face.
A few seconds later Uiharu finally comes with the drinks. "Oh what took you so long?" Kuroko gets up from the bench to greet her and get her lemonade. Behind her Kakine also follow suit.
Uiharu face was dark as she gives Kuroko her ice cold lemonade. "You okay Uiharu? You seem to look depressed" Kuroko concerned at Uiharu's appearance.
"I'm okay..." She silently said to assure her friend of her condition.
"If you say so." Kuroko then opens the can to chug down on her lemonade.
"And here's one for you to Kakine-san." Uiharu said as she gives a can of soda to him.
Kakine took the can from her and notices something was wrong with it. "What gives? This thing is warm." He said to her before he opens the can and only to be met with a gushing torrent of soda squirting at his face.
Kuroko notices it immediately and laugh at his expenses. Kakine soaked from the neck up immediately points toward Uiharu. "Uiharu what gives?! You did this didn't you?" He said accusing Uiharu of the deed, but she just drinks her lychee flavored drink while not paying attention to him.
Fumed at Uiharu reaction Kakine approach her to say a few things to her. While in the background Kuroko just keep laughing at him. "Why do you do this?" He said with more question than anger because he can't believe that Uiharu can pull a prank on someone.
She avoids his gaze not wanting to face him. "You shouldn't flirt with Shirai-san then." She whispers something to him as she took another sip acting like this has nothing to do with her. Kakine couldn't hear what she just said is now more perplexed than ever.
"Uiharun!" A voice is calling out to them.
"Saten-san!" Uiharu is surprised to see her friend in the park.
"Ruiko-chan wait for us." Another voice was calling out to them. This time it was Akemi and behind her was two girls, Mako and Muu all three of them goes to the same school with Uiharu and Ruiko.
"Why are you all here anyway?" Uiharu ask all four of them.
"Because we sees you on the park and want to say hi, silly." Uiharu, Ruiko and the others then start conversing with one another.
Seeing Uiharu talking to her friends just give Kakine an idea on how to get back at her earlier. Smiling from ear to ear he approaches Uiharu and her friend. "Excuse me ladies, but Uiharu and I still have a job to do.
Surprised at seeing Kakine just interupted them. Ruiko commented on him. "Who's this guy Uiharu and why is he with you?"
"Uhm, this is, Kakine-san. He's a new member of Judgement." Uiharu said as she introduces him to everyone.
"Wow, he looks so handsome Uiharu. Does he have a girlfriend?" Akemi one of her friend asks this question to Uiharu.
"He is, he is..." Uiharu while she's twirling her fingers trying to avoid the question.
Finally given the opportunity to exact his revenge he smiles from ear to ear and proceed by making a move on them "Of course I already have a girlfriend; you're looking at her right now." He proceeds to embrace Uiharu from behind.
"Ka-Kakine-san. What are you doing!" Unsurprisingly all the other girls were shocked upon hearing the revelation.
"I don't think I'm doing anything wrong my dear." He replies with great sarcasm.
All the four girls then focus their gaze on the couple and said a few words to them:
"Your boyfriend is so cool!" Said Akemi the tallest of the four girls.
"I'm so happy for you." Said Mako the girl with the pigtails.
"I wish I have a boyfriend too." Said Muu the girl with the brown hair.
"Uiharu is that true, you have a boyfriend now?" While the other girls gave Uiharu some form of congratulation on getting a boyfriend. Ruiko was more or less seems devastated over hearing the news.
Uiharu upon hearing of their approvals was relieved. At first she was afraid that they would rejects her like Konori senpai did but Kakine was surprised to hear of their rather positive reaction towards them and are plotting to go with another plan of attack. Uiharu now in cloud nine over her friend's approval of their relationship was unaware of Kakine devious plot to undermine their friendship yet again. "Uiharu did you manages to get the condoms that I told you earlier?"
Kakine's sentences repeats in everyone mind as it circled around inside their heads. Uiharu on the other hand was too traumatized to form any retort to that. After the smoke is clear. All of them look at Uiharu with accusatory gaze. Their eyes devoid of any light, just staring and looking at the couple. Ruiko which are still trying to process the information suddenly fainted in front of their group. Noticing that Ruiko fainted to the ground the group suddenly breaks away from the trance and run toward Ruiko.
"I'm sorry Uiharu, but we need to take Ruiko to a hospital right now." The tall akemi said as the three of them help carry Ruiko.
"Uiharu its okay if you actually gone and done it. We won't tell anyone about it." Muu said to cheer up the now catatonic Uiharu.
"So sorry, but we got to go now." Said Mako as the three of them have to carry the now unconcious Ruiko.
Kakine finally have his fill of revenge are now satisfied at seeing Uiharu's devastated expression. "You bastard!" Finally coming to the scene Kuroko pulls a pile-driver wrestling move and using it on Kakine's head.
This cause Kakine to let go of Uiharu as she falls to the ground. Uiharu finally have her faculty back decided to cry after what she gone through. "Kakine-san no Baka!"