A/N: WHA…12 reviews! Oh thank you they really keep me motivated. My sister had her leavers dance last night hence why there was no chapter as I was forced to get involved XD

Chapter 7: A Invitation

The last day of combat came round quick and before the two teens knew it they were at the end of usual their routine. The blonde was rolling up the all so familiar mat, which by now wasn't as fluorescent as it once was. Yoshiki cringed a little remembering how Ayumi use to dominate him in their earlier sessions, however that was a different story now since today he was 'exceptional.'

Ayumi was swiping on her tablet, trying to find out more about their confidential task coming up, the girl in frazzled bunchies would glance occasionally at the tired out student, just to make sure the blonde wasn't up to anything as he seemed the unpredictable type in the short time they knew each other. A sudden sound of fists making contact to the door interrupted the two.

Knock Knock Knock

"It-s o-pen!" Ayumi panted out since Yoshiki was so 'exceptional' he was hard to keep up with so the last combat session was still taking a toll on her.

The door flew open. The figure holding the door handle had dark brown hair much alike the colour the bleach blonde use to have, the figure had the exact same bullet coloured eyes as Yoshiki, yet his were even more menacing, even when he seemed content like right now. This figure was no other than Isao, who was clothed in a navy blue suit that exaggerated his shoulders, giving off the illusion that he was bigger than he really was. As Yoshiki scanned the man, his fists clenched, in doing so he dropped the exhausted pale blue mat, while it flopped to the floor Yoshiki inched a little closer to his mentor, his promise was still prominent in his mind, since he was a victim of Isao's past verbal abuse. Yoshiki could feel his entire body tense, that it was probably visible to Ayumi that this man and he had some bad blood.

"Ah Shinozaki... Yoshiki, I have the timetable for next week's activities, you can have tomorrow off since you both excelled in the program so much also after next week you will commence phase one of the allocated mission, we have chosen for the pair of you, any questions?" Whilst Isao said so he strode into the room placed the timetable on Ayumi's desk, snatched the old mat and forced it into its designated spot and lastly he waltzed back to the door.

"J-just one, who will be teaching Kishinuma programming? As I'm not that advanced in that skill level." Ayumi stuttered out, she had a short amount of conversations with this new presence in the room, but after witnessing Yoshiki's reactions to his own father, she suspected there was more to him that she didn't know.

"No worries I wrote the name on the sheet, Shinozaki we are bringing in a specialist her name is Yui Shishido you both will be taking part in the sessions since the knowledge wouldn't hurt for you to know Shinozaki. And I know you can keep him in shape." Isao's gaze fell onto his son, his son who gave him nothing but a dismissal appearance, deciding that the last thing Yoshiki would want to do is talk to him Isao signaled the teenagers that he was taking his departure, and carefully closed the door behind him. This left a short silence in the room the girl in bunchies contemplating whether to pry into the Kishinuma's business and the blonde was startled whilst thinking of his past with that man. Finally coming to a decision the small petite girl said;

"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, I have my family problems you have yours, let's keep it like that and try to do the best with this month!" Ayumi's eyes beamed with encouragement as she scanned the sheet Isao left them. Yoshiki watched her in awe the positive determination was by far one of his most favorite characteristics the bluenette possessed as Yoshiki had none whatsoever, she was his reminder that in the world there was some good left.

"So what are you going to do tomorrow Shinozaki?" Yoshiki piped in as he formed a dangerous yet perfect idea in his mind.

"I honestly don't know, I have no paperwork or assignments to work towards right now apart from this one." Ayumi casually explained while gesturing at her desk, the desk only had the timetable sat on it unlike a while back where it was piled high with documents and binders.

"Perhaps we c-"

Knock Knock Knock

"It's open…again" Ayumi sighed as she was, a little curious to hear what the blonde was going to say.

"HI ALL." Bellowed a cheery and ecstatic Seiko, her appearance still hadn't changed a bit since the blonde first met her. "I just wanted let know that we are having a barbeque on the training fields tomorrow. And you guys can tag along if you want to."

"Oh Shinohora thank you for the invitation, when you say we…?" Questioned a now slightly interested small girl.

"Ahhh you remember Sakutaro and Mochid-"

"Yes." The interest Ayumi gave to this conversation was escalating, fast. The fact she cut off Shinohora and her face faded to a pink spiked the attention to the silent person in the room.

"Their back from their assignment, they surprised me and Nakashima while we were wiring some movement detectors! Suzumoto is visiting tomorrow too as she is delivering some new devices. That means we can be the 6 we were when we all started! It can be a 7 if Kishinuma wants to come" The girl with the cinnamon rolled hairstyle danced about the room, but what really caught Yoshiki's attention was when this Mochida was mentioned Ayumi's aura perked up and then as soon as Nakashima was mentioned the aura deflated. 'Who is this Mochida? And what's their relationship?' questioned the blonde. The easiest way to answer these inaudible queries was to agree to go to the event Seiko was blubbering about.

"Heh…The more the merrier right?" Yoshiki tried to pitch in some sort of enthusiasm. He raised his left arm to scratch his right side of his head that was fully healed as previous patch of blue and purples matched the rest of his skin once again.

"Hell YEAH! I'll go tell Mochida and Nakashima who are properly making out some place round here. Bye!" And with that sentence the small child who had too much sugar bolted out of the room.

Ayumi let out an audible sigh forgetting that the blonde was still in the room.

"So who's Mochida and Sakutaro?"Yoshiki smirked a little while asking this, he leaned his body to rest against his mentor's desk.

"They were part of our friendship group back in High school, we were all together even when this agency chose us for their training program as we were the strongest candidates from Kisaragi Academy. Although after training I went in a different direction, since I was class rep I was considered for a higher title and everyone paired off apart from Suzumoto, she's Sakutaro's girlfriend and she designs the gadgets in a whole different campus." Ayumi's explanation was without hesitation.

"Sorry to hear that, I know what it feels like to be separated off from everyone else."Yoshiki could feel his eyes cloud over a little due to past frustration he had been keeping to himself.

Ayumi made a small hum after her student said that "As much of a pain you are to teach-"

"I'm not that bad!" Jokily snapped the blonde.

Ayumi turned her head to look at him dead in the eye, Yoshiki's body tensed but not as much Isao made him "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. You shouldn't interrupt me Kishinuma. I was going to finish that I'm glad you are here." Ayumi looked away in embarrassment at the last sentence, she knew she was crossing boundaries a little with that but honestly was always a love hated trait she had.

"Sorry. I am an idiot." Yoshiki slid his hand under his mentor's chin, to force her to look at him as he said his next sentence with all his honesty. "Believe it or not the feeling is mutual." The blonde stared deeply into the ocean blue eyes that softened at his gaze. Ayumi felt stunned as she could feel herself get lost in the sharp menacing eyes full of…something that she didn't understand. The bluenette couldn't point it out however she instantly got control of her actions and flexed from the blonde's proximity.

"Well that's good, you can leave now if you want to I'll go through our future program and give it to you tomorrow at the barbeque." Ayumi limped over to her desk, confusion sickened her thoughts and movements.

"See ya teach." Yoshiki casually watched her retreat in a mixture of embarrassment and happiness, embarrass as she retreated, happy as the long pause it took. He approached the door and carefully closed it, leaving a flustered bluenette to think.

A/N: Awh well I stated at the beginning how there would be little fluff...although I can't help myself.

Yep. We are having a reunion! WOO! Although will Yoshiki be happy with the new arrivals? I dunno I'm about to write it :3