Chapter 4

As usual, you were the one who woke first. Normally you'd be delighted to order food before Makoto wakes up, but that was only possible when you weren't hindered by something or someone.

"For fuck's sake, Makoto," you muttered as you tried to disentangle Makoto's limbs from yours. It would seem like one or both of you had somewhat moved during the night, and you couldn't feel one of your arms.

There's only been one time that you've experienced this arm-less-ness and it was when you were a teen. Out of curiosity you had just continuously flopped your arm over and over again against the wall. You had felt nothing and had genuinely wanted to experience it again.

"But not like this!" You mumbled as you finally located your arm pinned beneath your sleeping boyfriend. You quickly grabbed hold and yanked it out from under him. Makoto shifted slightly but didn't wake up. All that detective work must be catching up on him.

You slipped out of bed and sighed. Your left arm was useless. Not that it'd cause too much trouble, but you rather liked having blood in both of your arms when you wanted to order breakfast for Makoto.

And so, after making the call, you flopped around the hotel room, enjoying yourself in the rare moments that you couldn't wake Makoto up. When you started to feel something in your arm again the doorbell rang. Just in time. Room service brought up a few toasts, orange juice, omelettes, pancakes, waffles and coffee, as well as some butter, jam and syrup.

"What did you order?" You heard Makoto exclaim from somewhere behind you.

"Nothing like the smell of food to wake you up," you commented as you wheeled the cart - yes they left you the cart - into the middle of the room. Referring to Makoto's question, you said, "I told them to give me a little bit of everything."

You looked up from arranging the food to see Makoto staring at you with a smile on his face. You rolled your eyes and went back to the task at hand. "It's not like this is the first time I'm doing this." You came up with a plate of a bit of everything and turned around to offer it to him.

"Yeah, I know," Makoto laughed and took the plate from you with a nod of thanks. You got your own plate and went to sit next to him, on the bed.

"I guess this can count as breakfast in bed, right?" You asked as you two ate. "Mmhm, I forgot how good the waffles here can be."

Makoto smiled at you before getting up to get seconds.

After you two ate your fill and had put away all the plates, you turned to Makoto. "So…"

"So…?" he said. You knew he knew what you were trying to ask, and you detected that slight shift of tone he used when he was trying to hide something. You glared at him until he gave in.

With a sheepish smile, he said, "Uh, I was going to take you to the theme park at the edge of town." He produced two tickets from… somewhere and waved it in your face.

His choice of words didn't float past you, though. "What do you mean, was?"

Makoto's smile grew even more sheepish, if that was possible. "Some friends are tagging along." With a flick of his wrist, the two tickets became six.

You knew what friends he was talking about. You pouted. "Your guys trailing us again? We can't ever do anything fun with them around." Some of the bodyguards were alright, but the majority of them were such joy-killers that you couldn't even get them to at least stay behind the both of you and pretend they're not stalking.

"Do you still want to go?" Makoto's smile dimmed somewhat. "I know it won't probably be as fun… but well if you still want to go…"

You were about to reply to that when you realized why he sounded so downcast. Last time you guys had bodyguards trailing you, they wouldn't even let you run too fast, lest you trip over your own feet. That had been particularly frustrating and in your irritation, you had commented that you weren't ever going out if there were bodyguards around again. Makoto was probably remembering that incident.

After you remembered, you realized how you could take advantage of this. "I'll still go," you said, slowly breaking into a sly grin. "But under one condition." You could see Makoto brighten up cautiously.

"I have something planned for tomorrow and you can't say no."

"That's a bit risky…" Makoto clearly could tell what you had in mind. "We could cancel the theme park trip, you know..."

This was not how you wanted it to go. "You won't regret it, and I'll make it up on the day after tomorrow," you smiled sweetly. "We'll be safe; after all, I thought it was your boss who picked out where we could and could not go."

Makoto turned slightly pink. "You knew about that?"

"I have my sources." You said smugly. "And since a certain someone also ordered a background check on every regular and staff member in a two-kilometer radius around the hotel." You paused to gauge Makoto's reaction, which was pretty satisfactory. "Of course, my sources may be wrong but I assume they're correct?" You finished it off with an innocent smile.

Your boyfriend was shocked into silence for a few moments. "Do I have to tell my boss to up their security?" He finally said weakly.

You laughed. "It's not the security. That's fine." You leaned in closer, all traces of humor gone from your features. "It's the men. Replace those who aren't in the inner circle of things. They're the ones causing trouble." You leaned back against the wall, a smile on your face again.

"Uhh… Okay," Makoto said uneasily, shifting a bit. Your display of your magnificent control of emotions often did that to him, not that you switched channels all the time. That would be exhausting.

"So we good on the deal?" You said, bringing him back to your original topic, hoping to take his mind of the things you'd just told him. Maybe you should've left it for later. But well, you didn't want to pass up that great opportunity… Besides, you might've forgotten to tell him if you left it for later.

Although Makoto's face still had hints of worry, he still gave you a smile. "I don't know if I'll like this plan of yours, but I do hold faith in your arrangements for the third day." He stared right at you, as if he meant his words as a challenge. Which you accepted, of course.

"Great!" You laughed. "Let's get changed and… When will your guys be able to go?"

"Any time we choose," Makoto said. Of course. Bodyguards who do nothing but trail you two and appear the moment you two step out of the hotel, and disappear the moment you two are safely tucked away in the folds of the hotel.

You're just going to have to put up with it until the day is over. It's only for today, anyway. The next two days you'll have Makoto all to yourself.