When It Rains, It Pours

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Chapter Five: Back to the Beat

With his hand shoved deeply in his pockets, he circled the perimeter of the cafe. Sousuke thought back to the peace treaty he had ment to show to Kaname. He believed that peaceful solutions were the best solutions, however by Kaname's actions it seemed that she didn't want find a solution. Could it be that her not showing up to the Principal's office was a declaration of war?

Sousuke stopped his pacing and took a deep breath. No, he needed to stop thinking in such military terms, and needed to think in civilan terms. Kaname was not at war with him, she was just extremely upset with him. As hard it was to believe, there was a difference.

The more Sousuke thought about the situation, the less sense it made to him. Wouldn't any reasonable person want to end all fighting and settle things peacefully? Why was it that she was not only giving him the cold shoulder, but now pretended she didn't even know who he was? Why were women so complicated?

He wasn't coming up with an answer, but only more questions. Quickly growing frurated he sat on a nearby bench with a sigh. It was alright for Kaname to make believe she didn't know him, but he could not return the favor. After all he was still her body guard, fight or no fight.

As the minutes crawled by, Sosuke was reminded to the very begining of his mission when he would follow Kaname and guard her from afar. With the memory, there was a strange, but newly familar feeling in his chest. Part of him longed for the time in his life before his feelings for Kaname gew. Things were much more simpiler when he was simply her bodyguard, she was simply his mission and nothing else. Now that she had brought him back to Tokyo, she had also brought back these strange emotions within him. Most of which he didn't know what do with. He felt distant and distracted because of them and couldn't get the thought of Kaname out of his mind. As much as he wanted to - and did for the most part- deny it, deep down he liked the warm feeling he got when he thought of her.

"I can't guard her like this," he mumbled as he closed his eyes and rested his face in his hands. "What I am supposed to do?"

He was ripped from his thoughts, though, when he felt someone stumble over his feet. He quickly looked down to see Issei Tsubaki laying facefirst onto the concrete. Quickly, the young fighter was back on his feet and glaring daggers at Sousuke, or he would if Sosuke happened to be the parking meter to his right.

"What's the big idea tripping me like that, you skinny little weakling!" Tsubaki screamed to the parking meter.

"My apologies," Sosuke said from his seat on the bench. "It was never my intention for you to trip over my feet."

"A likely story, pal!"

"Yes, it is."

"Shut up weakling, you sound awfully familar." Tusbaki began to rub his chin in thought. "Yeah, you sound just like another weakling I know. A real arrogant one, who cheats in all his fights. What's your name, anyway, kid?"

"My name is Sousuke Sagera."

"Sagara," Tusbaki continued to yell at the parking meter, causing many civilivans to stop and stare at the boy. "You no good cheat, you must've tripped me on purpose!"

"Negative, I was simply sitting here when you tripped over my feet that were in such plain sight that any other civilian would have known better and avoided them."

"What...are you insulting my eyesight? That's it, I'm going to show you a thing or two!"

Tusbaki then pulled back his arm and sent a dashing punch straight to the parking meter, nearly breaking both the meter and his hand in the process. Sousuke simply resumed his guard of the Cafe.

"That...was a dirty trick, Sagara," Tusbaki groaned as he held his injured hand.

"It was not a trick, Tusbaki. However, if you had put your glasses on you were have seen the parking meter infront of you."

Reluntantly, Tusbaki slipped on his glasses with his good hand, to see that Sousuke was right in the fact that he was just yelling at a parking meter for nearly five minutes. What Sousuke failed to point out, though, were the now many people looking at him with great courisity. Feeling his face flush from embarassment, Tusbaki turned to Sousuke in rage.

"This is your fault, Sagara!" he motioned to the crowd of people surrounding them. "To avenge my honor, I challenge you to a ma-"

Tusbaki's challege was never finsihed, for Sosuke had already shot him in the chest with a rubber bullet. The bang of the gun had caused many of the onlookers to panic and run away. However the hardened fighter still stood and watched in a daze as Sousuke sat peacefully on the bench, his smoking gun still pointed in his direction.

"I win," Sosuke said, his stare never leaving the Cafe.

Gaining back his composotion, Tusbaki ordered another rematch, but was interrupted by a small voice in the cowrd.

"WAIT!" Shinji yelled at he pushed his way through the onlookers.

"Kazama," Tusbaki asked, shocked to see him. "What are you doing here?"

"Sousuke, you know you aren't suppose to fire guns around here!" Shinji said, completely ignoring Tusbaki's question. "Also if Kaname sees this, you're gonna get it for sure!"

Sosusuke instanly felt himself stiffen with fear and the beads of sweat begin to gather on his forehead. He had forgotten about Kaname's reaction, and knew that such actions as this was no way to get back on her good side. Just as he was about to put his gun away, a crash was heard from the front of the cafe as Kaname pushed the double doors opened.

"What the hell is going on out here?" She demanded, her eyes glued to Sosuke and the gun he quickly attempted to hide behind his back. She didn't even notice Tsubaki until she heard his voice crack.

"K-K-K-K..." he studdered, his face growing redder with each stammer that fell out of his mouth. "K-Kaname!"

"Oh, hello Tusbaki," she said pleasantly, her eyes still glaring daggers at Sousuke. "Was this idiot giving you a hard time?"

"Idiot?" Tusbaki asked stupidly, before he remembered Sousuke petrIfied figure sitting on the bench. "Oh, you mean Sagara? Nah, he never gives me any trouble. You know me, I can take care of myself."

"That's good to hear, at least someone can."

"Oh thanks, it was really nothing," Tusbaki's face blushed deeper as he began to rub the back of his neck in embarassment. He was too busy gushing over her words of praise to notice that she was no longer paying attention to him.

Sosuke knew he was in for it the moment she started marching towards the bench. In her rage, she pracically threw Shinji as she grabbed a fist-full of his collar and pulled him up to her face. Sousuke could feel her nose nearly touching his, and he began to blush from the intinmacy of how close their faces were. On the other hand, he was also filled with fear since her eyes were now burning passionatly and promised pain.

"Could you do me a favor, Sargant Stupid?"

"A-anything, Chidori."

"Get the hell away from the restaurant," she growled as her grip on his collar tightened. "Before I call the cops on you."

"Chidori...I was just..."

"It wasn't a suggestion, Sargant," Kaname released him from her hold warily, looking away from his face. "It was an order."

Yes, I know. I've managed to prey myself away from Breaking Dawn long enough to post this update for you all. Thanks for all the reviews and support once again, but until I'm done with this book I wont be able to get up to type the new chapter. I haven't even done any of my summer assignments because of this book, haha.

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