Making Amends….. Kind of
Kaia POV
I wake up shaking and covered with sweat, I hate those nightmares. I jump at someone knocking at my door, wait it's not at the door that leads to the hallway its coming from the door that connects my room to Snake Eyes. "It's unlocked" I watch as Snake opens the door and comes in, he sits down on my couch. "What?" He turns to look at me 'I heard noises and was wondering if you were okay?' He is lying I can tell. "Snake, you can't lie to me, I know you to well." He lowers his head. 'Fine I heard that you got mad at Duke and the others, and that you were mad because they thought that it was your fault that I was acting different.' I nod my head and then look away. "Why? Is that what you want to know?" I see him nod his head out of the corner of my eye. "I…. Snake the others don't know that we already knew each other and I see no reason to tell them that we did." I snap at him and see him flinch, not expecting my tone. I look back at him. 'Wolf, we can't lie to them, if they ask we have to tell them that we trained together, and anyways they are just worried for me, I have not acted like this before.' I just stay quiet but after a minute I nod my head, if they ask I will tell them. I look over at the clock, 6:00 AM; I probably won't get any more sleep tonight. "Why the mask Snake, you know that you don't need to wear the mask around other Arishakage members." He shrugs and then turns his head away, not looking at me. I just glare at him. "I am going to go get some food, you want to come?" I get up as I say that and move towards the door, he just gets up and follows me. As we get to the mess hall I see that the other Joes are already awake and are at the table in the corner of the room, beside me I see Snake Eyes tense up, I nudge him towards the kitchen, now is not the time to get into a fight. "Snake, not now." I hiss at him, luckily he listens and goes into the kitchen to get some food, I know that he will get some food for me too so I wait outside and look around, I see the only Joe that hadn't looked mad at me, he looks Moroccan, I walk over to him when I notice that he is sitting all alone. "Hi." He looks up from his laptop "umm… hi?" I laugh at him. "I am not going to kill you so you don't need to act like I am going to kill you okay?" He laughs too "sorry I just saw you get mad and ya…" I shrug and sit down and wave Snake Eyes over as I see him come out of the kitchen. "I'm Kaia by the way." He smiles. "Everyone around here calls me Breaker." I nod and then thank Snake as he passes me a tray of food. I notice that the others are looking over at us and send a glare at Duke making him look away and tell the others something. I turn back to Breaker and say "you are obviously a Joe but what do you do, and since your name is Breaker and you have a laptop I am guessing that you are a hacker?" He shrugs "close enough, I actually am in charge of almost all of the tech for the Joes." Impressive, I grin at him and then start wolfing down my food when I remember that I didn't have dinner last night. I hear Breaker laugh and look up "you don't need to act like you were almost starved to death" I only glare at him for that comment "well since I have not had anything to eat since yesterday morning I am pretty hungry." As I finish my food I get up to go throw my trash away, as I walk towards the trash bin I look around and see Ripcord looking at me but as soon as he notices that I have noticed him looking at me. I walk back to the table and sit down "hey Breaker I know who you, Duke, and Ripcord are but who are the others?" He looks at me and opens his mouth but then pauses, looking at something behind me. I don't even have to turn around to know who it is. "What do you want Duke? Because I am really not in the mood for an argument right now." As I speak I watch as Snake Eyes tenses up and then shifts, he must have his throwing knives with him. "ないヘビの目はありません。"(No Snake Eyes, don't) The others just look at me as I watch Snake, after a moment he relaxes a little but keeps his hand by where his throwing knifes are. "What, surprised that I know Japanese? Since I already knew Snake Eyes that shouldn't surprise you." I hear Ripcord mutter something and see Breaker trying not to laugh at Duke. I finally turn around to look at Duke and meet his eyes. He is really mad at me but I only glare back at him, I have no reason to be afraid of him like the others do. I stand up and then turn away and motion for Snake Eyes to follow me. "I believe you promised me a tour Snake" I say as I walk towards the doors. He gets up and follows me with, to my surprise, Breaker following him. "Why are you coming Breaker?" he smiles sheepishly. "Well you might be able to face an angry Duke but I can't." I nod and then motion for Snake to take the lead.
Note: I am really happy for everyone who has read this. It is my first fanfiction. I would appreciate feedback on things that you would like me to change. I apologize for any people who know how to read/ speak Japanese. Bing and Google translate aren't the best.