The next morning, Karina Lyle gets to school before the first bell rings and sits in her seat for homeroom. One of her friends gets there a little bit later and also takes their seat near Karina for homeroom. Karina is continuing to read some of the shojo mangas her friend Naomi recommended for her and let her borrow to read, while she waits for the first bell of the school day today to ring.
As soon as the first bell of today's school day rings, Karina puts away what she was reading after she bookmarks where she left off and starts learning, along with the rest of the students in the school as the school day today starts. During her least favorite class of the day, Karina starts daydreaming about Kotetsu.
Throughout the school day while Karina is at school, Kotetsu Kaburagi is working out and training with his crime-fighting partner Barnaby Brooks Jr., and a couple of the other Heroes he, Kotetsu, is friends with. Out of the blue, this afternoon, before Karina gets to work from school, the Hero Fire Emblem in is regular form asks Kotetsu while working out and training more, "Say Tiger, would you ever fall for a fellow Hero?" Kotetsu answers as he trains and works out more too, "Ya, actually I guess I would, Nathan." Nathan responds, "Really?" Kotetsu nods as he keeps doing it and says, "Yup." Kotetsu doesn't notice this has sparked a curious interest from Barnaby and Keith Goodman, the Hero known as Sky High.
Later this afternoon, Karina gets out of school and goes to work, training with the rest of the Heroes until she is summoned into action, like all the Heroes do. A little while after she starts training with the rest if the Heroes, she soon finds herself with a little difficulty with something. Kotetsu notices this and goes over and helps her out. After that, Karina is trying to get the hang of a particular weight exercise move and, once again, Kotetsu comes over to help her. Since the weight exercise move Karina is trying to get the hang of is an auxiliary weight exercise, Kotetsu gets behind her, real close, and starts helping her by putting his large, tanned strong hands over her smaller, feminine ones. Once he's done that, Kotetsu moves his arms with hers to demonstrate how that particular exercise move goes.
Karina lets his arms guide hers in movement until she gets the hang of it. She soon gets the hang of it thanks to him and, she, noticing that some of the Heroes have left to change after working out and training, she instinctively gets closer to him until both Kotetsu and Karina are inches away from kissing. When she gets the hang of it, she doesn't see the light blush dust Kotetsu's face as she hears him whisper to her in her ear in a soft murmur, "Do you get the hang of it now, Blue Rose?" She nods affirmatively, blushing from the closeness and how sexy Kotetsu's soft, husky voice in her ear sounded to her when he murmured that. Kotetsu softly says to her, "Okay, that's good." She nods in agreement and thanks him kindly and politely for his help today with her workout. He murmurs in her ear softly, "It was no problem at all. I'm happy to help you always so if you ever need anything, you don't have to hesitate to ask me." Karina nods in understanding, neither she nor Kotetsu noticing that their faces are getting closer and closer to each other, their lips about to touch.
Just as both Karina and Kotetsu are about to kiss, having not broken apart from the position they were in, Kotetsu's watch phone communicator band on his wrist goes off, signaling he and Barnaby are needed somewhere to fight crime, interrupting the moment. Kotetsu excuses himself and soon joins Barnaby in the transformation chamber of one of their sponsors' aircrafts and both guys soon transform into their Hero suits in unison. Karina mentally sighs in frustration at how close she was to kissing him.
An hour after both Wild Tiger and Barnaby start fighting crime together tonight, as they always do, Karina gets called in to stop another criminal as Blue Rose. Karina gets into her Blue Rose Hero self and goes to where she is being summoned. After she starts doing what she was summoned there to do, after she gets there, she starts to wonder and think to herself, 'I wonder if there is any way I, Blue Rose can get to be teamed with Wild Tiger to stop criminals and save the city alongside him, that way I can get closer to him and vice versa, by using our crime fighting jobs.' She soon makes quick work in capturing the criminal and delivering the criminal to the police of Sternbild City.
After she finishes that one, she goes through the same work of capturing a few more criminals for a couple of hours before she gets allowed to go home in her regular self, Karina Lyle. She gets home and gets ready for bed at around 10:00pm before she reads a little of the shojo mangas before she goes to sleep.
By the time Kotetsu gets back home from crime fighting later that night, its already way past midnight. Kotetsu walks in his lonely apartment home and gets ready for bed. A while later after he finishes getting ready for bed himself, he lays down in his lonely bed and goes straight to sleep.
That night, as Karina sleeps soundly in her bed, she is visited by romance novel style fantasies of Kotetsu Kaburagi sweeping her off her feet in romantic ways in her dream tonight.
Author's Note: This was Chapter 3. I put in a little more bonding time between Kotetsu and Karina in this chapter than in the previous chapter. Please review and tell me what you think.