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Chapter Fifteen

[Butch POV]

This was perfect. Kaoru was mine, mine, mine, mine to have and hold and love.

Could this get any better? We were at the beach and the sun was setting. I took her hand and led her out near the edge of the water. We sat down to watch the sunset, and she had her head on my shoulder.

Did I mention she looks great? Perfect? Beautiful? That was what really drove me over the edge. She wasn't kidding about the bathing suit Miyako and Momoko practically forced her in. But she still looked perfect.

I snaked my arms around her waist and I kissed her again. She didn't mind, she never does.

Our kisses were hungry and passionate, but sometimes they were loving and soft. This was a passionate one. It was love, but it was need as well.

We broke away when the sun set, gasping and panting. "Who's a puppy now?" I asked.

She smiled. "Still you," she said.

"What? No way!" I complained. I pressed my lips to hers again, trying to make a point. I broke away sooner this time. "Dogs don't kiss and they certainly don't kiss as well as I do!"

She laughed. "I didn't say dog, I said pup. Plus, puppies slobber, and I knew you were drooling over me when you saw me in my bathing suit!"

"Hey! That's not fair! You'd make any animal drool over you!"

She laughed. "Now you're an animal? I must be really pretty to make you insult yourself," she joked.

"Yup; you're gorgeous," I said before kissing her again.

[Kaoru POV]

We were all walking to our houses. Miyako and Momoko were walking to Miyako's house for a sleepover. Brick and Boomer were heading home, and Butch was walking me home.

This was a fun day, I'd say. For once, I was actually kind of happy I lost something athletic. Hey, it feels like I won, anyway.

And I did win. I know I'm tough and a tomboy and all, but I'm still a girl, which means I am girly sometimes. And it means I can fall head over heels for someone.

In this case, Butch.

We were almost to my house, sadly. I loved my family and all, but I felt like growing up and living in my own house. My family got in the way sometimes.

"Hey, Kaoru?"

I looked up at Butch. His emerald eyes were so beautiful… "Yes?"

He smiled. "Now that you're my girlfriend, you sure you don't want your family to meet me?"

I almost choked. "No! They're gonna ruin everything! My dad, my mom, my brothers--they're going to embarrass me! Plus, they'll put restrictions on what times I can come home or not!"

He frowned. "But what if they find out when it's already been months and months? How will they feel? They'd be even stricter."

I frowned. "Shut up, shut up! Stop making sense!"

He snickered. "Okay, okay, some other day."

I smiled. "Great! Tomorrow, I'll meet you at the park at ten, okay?"

"Ten in the morning? Who's awake at that time?" he asked.

"You were, yesterday. Plus, tomorrow's a free day from school."

"Okay, fine. I'll wake up at odd hours for you--only for you," he said playfully.

We were near my house. "This is where you must go," I said. He frowned. I grabbed the front of his shirt menacingly, and I pulled him in and kissed him. I let him go, pushing him away. He fell back on the grass. I laughed. "Night, Romeo," I called, walking to my house.

"Night, Juliet," I heard him call. I smiled. I opened the door to my house and ran up to my room.

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After I finished taking a shower, my belt flickered. Great…

"Powered Buttercup!"

I transformed and flew out the window. Surely enough, there was a monster near the beach. I'm just glad it wasn't there when I was there.

I met up with Blossom, Bubbles, Brick, Boomer, and Butch.

The monster was a giant octopus, purple, with one eye. It looked like the one I'd fought a few days ago.

It swung its arms at us. Bubbles and Blossom got hit, and Boomer and Brick were taking care of them. Apparently, one hit from this thing hurts a lot more than it looks.

"Well, looks like it's just you and me, babe," Butch said to me.

"Nice seeing you again so soon," I replied.

I pulled out my hammer and swung at the octopus. I hit it, but it rebounded off it and swung the other way. I was swung away with the hammer. I was so angry! I threw my hammer at it. Just when I thought it was going to be hit, the octopus caught it and snapped it.

"No! My hammer!" I cried out.

I was so angry… I was seething, practically dripping with rage. Butch took out his energy sword and sliced the octopus' arm. It cried out in pain, then took Butch's sword by force and snapped it, just like it did with my hammer.

"My sword!" Butch yelled.

We were both angry.

I yelled, letting out a battle cry and lunged towards the beast. My vision was clouded. I felt something coming out of my eyes. Was that… was that a laser?

The octopus cried out and turned to its side, where I hit it with my laser vision. Apparently, that's what it was. Butch was looking at me surprised.

"What was that?" he asked.

"I don't know. It just happened. But it's your turn. Get him back for snapping your sword," I said fiercely.

Butch's expression changed to anger, and he glared at the monster. He was still, but in the blink of in eye he flew towards the monster and pelted him with punches and kicks, and Butch delivered the final blow. He flew up the eyes and kicked it--hard.

The monster cried out in pain, and it stumbled, falling down. One of the arms fell towards Butch and hit him, propelling him forward into a partly destroyed building.

I screamed when Butch was sent flying into a metal bar that had a thin, sharp point. I flew towards him as fast as I could. The metal pierced though him about a few inches in, leaving a gash on his side.

I tried to help him. He pulled the metal bar out so it wasn't anywhere in him, but he couldn't fly in so much pain. I caught him before he hit the ground, and I stayed with him. His eyes showed pain, and he was bleeding.

"Buttercup…" he said weakly.

"No!" I screamed. "You'll be okay!"

I hugged him and, for the first time in a long time, I cried a little. I sat next to him, inspecting the gash. One of my tears fell into the cut. I watched.

Something happened that I didn't expect. His wound was glowing; it was glowing light green, like my eyes. I put my hand over the gash and they started glowing. In a matter of seconds, the wound was healed, like it was never there.

I looked up into Butch's eyes. His emerald eyes were showing confusion, and they were asking questions. "We have to go see the Professor," I said.

I helped him up and hugged him tightly. He held me close and kissed my cheek. "The pain went away," he said. "What was that? New powers?"

"Like I said, we have to see the Professor. I'm not too sure," I said.

The others came and joined us now. "Butch! Buttercup! Are you guys okay?" Brick asked.

"Buttercup, what was that?" Blossom asked.

"I don't know. We're fine for now. We have to go see the Professor, all of us," I replied.

We all flew straight to the Professor's, and I held onto Butch's hand. He was going faster than the rest of us, anyway.

We all walked in through the door and ran to lab. The Professor doesn't like us to fly in his house, anyway.

"Professor!" Bubbles called.

"Hmm?" he asked.

"I have a job for you," I said.

"I'm listening," he said, probably half-listening.

"I need you to find out something."

"Okay, now I'm listening," the Professor said.

"Boomer, Bubbles, Brick, Blossom, can you leave?" I asked.

They all left without a question, probably to the living room.

"Okay, what is it?" Professor asked.

"Well… First of all, my hammer and Butch's sword were broken. They were snapped in half."

"Don't worry; I can probably fix that, or I can create new ones that are better. Is that all?"

"No…"

"Then what is it, Buttercup?" Professor asked.

"Well… After our weapons snapped, I went to take the monster head on and I--"

"Buttercup has laser vision," Butch interrupted.

"Interesting," said the Professor.

"Not only that, but, Butch had something like super speed," I added.

"Continue…"

"And then, when he was hurt by a sharp piece of metal, one of my tears fell into his gash and it was glowing. Then I placed my hand over the wound and it healed--as if it was never there," I finished.

"This is very interesting, indeed," the Professor said. "I'll have to look into it. Did the other get any additional powers?"

"No," I said. "Just us."

"Then that makes the search a bit easier…"

"How so?" Butch asked.

"I'll search information on counterparts, seeing as how only the two of you have new powers."

"Okay, thanks, Professor," I said. I pulled Butch out of the lab before I could blush at what the Professor said. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that we were the only two dating…

No. That wasn't it.

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