3rd POV

After twenty more minutes, many of the members from the Kogarasumaru and the Royal Clubs began talking with each other. Ikki and Tatsuya mainly talked together, Kazu wasn't much of a speaker, but would talk every now and then. The Fang King, Agito, chose to ignore everyone and was silent for the rest of the time.

Just then, a person came from the behind and closed Mao's eyes.

"Who is it?" she asked as everyone stopped and looked at the guest. No response. The fingers were slender and cold. Mao placed her hands on top of the hands and tried to rip them off, she was successful for a second, but the hands returned to hide her eyes not a second later. Mao sighed, she hated these kinds of games.

She realized that the hands were probably not going to move unless she made a guess, "Umi?" Umi was one of Mao's closest friends from her school, which by the way was an all-girl academy.

The icy hands finally let go and Mao turned to a stunning girl with wavy, brown locks. Her face instantly lightened at the sight of her friend, Rin. Rin is half Japanese and half Spanish and looked very exotic.

"Rin! You're back?!" She got up from her chair and hugged the beautiful, smiling girl. She instantly realized that there were others too and decided to introduce Rin. She turned to the table, "this is my friend, Rin." Rin was Mao's best friend from her old school. Obviously, Mao's friends know who she is, but Mao was specifically introducing her to the Kogarasumaru members.

"Hey," she waved with a friendly smile.

"Umm…" Mao muttered and looked between the table and her friend. "Uh…I think I should tour Rin around. I'll get going then." She informed them and walked with Rin outside the restaurant.

"I didn't know you were back, Rin." Mao said with a hint of sadness.

"Yeah, I didn't either…." Rin laughed.

"You could have called me," Mao muttered.

"Hey, what matters is that I'm back, right?!" She replied excitedly.

"No, get away from me, you traitor." Mao joked and walked faster. Rin glared from the behind and smirked. She drew her arm and aimed for her shoulder, but then, Mao turned to her, thus causing Rin to punch Mao's boob.

Mao instantly grabbed her chest, gasped, and hurled in pure agony. Rin's jaw fell and her eyes widened. Getting hit on the boob was one of the most painful things a woman could ever experience in her life and Rin knew that.

"Holy crap," she sputtered. She was shocked and laughing at the same time.

Mao shot daggers at her friend. Of all the things she could say, of course, she blurted out something utterly retarded, "you punched me in the boob!" she yelled.

"No shit." Rin was still laughing like a madman.

"You punched my smaller boob, too! My boobs are already flat and now, they're not going to grow all because of you, woman!" Mao was a completely different person with her best friend.

Rin walked closer at Mao, who was on the floor, clutching her chest. Rin smirked, "do you want me to make them even, then?" She laughed again and Mao's mouth fell open widely.

"You bitch." Mao hissed.

Her laugh dropped, "get up." She groaned impatiently.

"No." She was now curled up in a ball, her arms wrapped around her legs, and her head faced down.

"Come on, I know a good place." Rin waited for a few seconds; no response and she groaned. Rin grabbed Mao's arm roughly and pulled her up. Mao watched as she stumbled to get up and follow her pace, then, Rin's hand on Mao's arm loosened as her hand glided smoothly towards Mao's hand, to where she clutched it gently.

While at the restaurant…

Ikki burped loudly and rubbed his stomach. An hour had passed and the conversations were dead—nothing more to talk about.

"That awkward moment when the conversation dies…" Saeki muttered.

"So…what do you guys want to do now?" Buccha asked.

"I want to go home and sleep." Onigiri yawned.

"Same." Kazu muttered.

"How about we play a game?" Tatsuya asked.

"Nah. How about we hit the arcade?" Ikki smiled, the others did too.

"Arcade it is!" Onigiri cheered and got up, the others followed. Kao closed her eyes and sighed.

"Boys." She muttered.

"NO! You press X and then the square twice, while holding the left, and press the triangle for a combo!" Ikki groaned as he explained for the fifth time on how to play the game.

"What? Square—triangle—what—?" Kao sputtered as she looked at the buttons and tried to follow what Ikki said, but she couldn't simply remember all those things. Kazu, Kao's current opponent was smirking—it was going to be an easy win.

"X…SQUARE…SQUARE—good move there—LEFT, and then TRIANGLE." Ikki spoke slowly and enunciated every word, like she was an elementary kid.

"X…square…square…left…" Kao mumbled lwoly as she pressed the buttons, "triangle…—where's the triangle?—oh no, I found it." She laughed sheepishly.

"No, you have to press them quickly! You're doing—"

"You know what? You're not helping! Go play with Tatsuya or something!" Kao hissed, not turning to him as her gaze was concentrated hard on the screen. She was tired of Ikki coaching her, even when she didn't ask for it. She then saw Ikki walk away from the corner of her eye. The others were all around the arcade, leaving Kazu and Kao to have a one-on-one match.

Kao squeaked lightly when her character was knocked down by Kazu's.

"Get up! Get up!" She yelled as she pressed the up buttons violently. Kazu chuckled. Kao knew she was going to lose and then, a thought came to her. Kao quickly cracked her fingers, wasting the least time as possible, and then started pulverizing the buttons violently; her penetrating gaze was fixed—hard— on the screen and she was hitting Kazu with her elbow, who was sitting right next to her.

"Woah. How did you do that?" Kazu asked, stunned when an incredible combo knocked down his character. Kao didn't answer, but sang happily within.

After half a minute, Kao was really into the game. She was brutally pressing—more like hammering—the buttons to the extent that they were going to break any time soon. She would thrash, yell at her character, and her eyes never left the screen; her face was only inches away. Kao's fingers were beginning to get tired, but she wasn't going to give up.

With one last press of a button, Kao's character knocked Kazu's over the edge of the screen. The word 'KNOCK OUT' appeared on the screen as Kao's character did a pose at the win. Kao's eyes grew and she squealed.

"I won!"

"I know," Kazu smiled, he was quite sad, but was happy for her win. "How did you do those things though?" Kazu asked seriously. The girl had talent.

By pressing random buttons. "I guess I'm a natural." The highly attractive girl smirked at the blonde.

"Seriously?" Kazu asked, very impressed.

"Seriously."

"Well then, it was a great match. We should play again some time." The blonde smiled and held out his hand. Kao smiled too and took his pale hand, and then suddenly, Kao felt something that she didn't understand; sparks.