Chapter 4

"Then I would say that you're in trouble." His voice was as cold and sharp as a razor. It almost scared Kyo. Almost. But not quite.

"Relax, tough guy." Reaching out she put a hand on his chest and tried to push him away from her. "I still have 'em." Amon seemed to relax at this, but just barely. "But..."And back up with the tension again, "What would I get in return for giving them back?"

Even with a mask on his face, Kyo could see that he was glaring at her. Amon stood up straight and took a step back. "Just whose side are you on anyways?" The thief smirked up at him and didn't answer. "Kyo, I'm only going to ask once. Where is it?"

"You're no fun." The woman remarked. Amon sent her a warning look through the eye holes of his mask. "It's in my underwear drawer." The look in his eyes went from warning, to horrified. "If you want to go get it, be my guest."

Amon grabbed Kyo's upper arm, pulled her up and pushed her towards her dresser. "Go get it."

It looked like he really wasn't the rapist, pervert type. Or was it all an act? Kyo pulled open the drawer and pulled it out. She turned and dangled the key and plans above her head, holding it by her pointer finger and thumb. "Must be pretty important if the great Amon himself came to get it..."

Unexpectedly, Kyo bolted towards her open window, courtesy of Amon, and jumped out of it feet first. Being as it was the second floor, it was a little ways down, I suppose you could say. But she stuck the landing. As she ran, Kyo folded the paper up and put it down her shirt.

It was starting to get dark out. That gave both of them an opportunity.

Amon narrowed his eyes as he leaned out the window and watched Kyo run. She was really making this difficult. Grabbing on to the window frame, he swung out of it and hit the ground with a soft thud.

The masked man walked out of the alley they had landed in and watched Kyo run down the street. That woman was... Challenging? Amon turned and went back down the alley, all the way until he came to the other end, where it turned in to another alley. And that was where he went.

Kyo slowed down and looked over her shoulder. There wasn't anyone behind her. Anyone with that mask anyways. Looking everywhere around her, even up, there was no sign off that man. Or any man, woman or child at this point. The whole street seemed to be deserted. All the shops where closed and people where at home with their loved ones. Kyo was pretty sure he had followed her though.

She wasn't sure what would happen if and when he caught her. Probably nothing good. For those of you who wondered, no. Kyo was not flirting with Amon, even though it sort of seemed that way. She was merely just...Giving him a hard time. Probably not the best idea, seeing as he knew where she lived and had people who could tasor her ass, no matter how good a fight she put up, and how many people she knocked down. She really would rather not have that happen. To late now though.

Kyo flipped the hood of her coat up, over her head and started walking down the street. Her brown eyes continued to flick back and forth, looking for that one familiar mask. And this time she saw it coming.

Amon flew out of nowhere at her. Kyo spun out of the way and jumped up on to a dumpster, keeping her balance on the edges of it, seeing as it was opened.

"Took you long enough." Kyo mused.

Amon sent another blow her way, which she narrowly dodged, and ended up on the ground in a crouched position. "Quit playing games with me Kyo. I am starting to get annoyed."

"Oh boohoo." The fire bender had managed to get behind him and tried to attack from there, but he turned and blocked her kick easily. "I wouldn't really consider it to be 'playing games' though."

Amon didn't say anything and threw a punch at the thief. As she tried to dodge, it hit her in the shoulder. The blow was strong and made Kyo stumble back a bit. "If those plans are really that important to you then they are extremely valuable to me." He still said nothing, but eyed her carefully as he continued to attack. No, Kyo wasn't like all those awesome ninja thieves you read about in stories. Not to brag, but while she could be extremely agile, she was a terrible fighter. Though it would help a lot if she could use fire bending... But she wasn't about to give away her cover. Kyo really didn't want the man coming after her and steeling it from her. Sure, fire bending made her rather different in the water tribe. But Kyo quite liked being different. "There is no way in hell that I would give them up to you easily."

Amon sighed and finally spoke. "If that's the way you want it to be..." Why didn't that sound to good? Probably because it wouldn't be good at all. Amon sent a kick her way, which hit Kyo square in the chest and sent her flying backwards in to a parked automobile. When she hit it, the fire bender felt all the air in her body rush out through her mouth. Falling on her hands and knees, she gasped and tried to breath normally. Why did all the rough stuff seem to happen to her and not Korra? Korra was the bloody Avatar, wasn't she?

Amon walked over to her and crouched down, so he was just a bit above Kyo's level. He reached a hand out and gently grasped her chin and lifted her head so she was looking at him. "Just give the key and plans to me now and I won't hurt you." A couple long locks of her black hair hung in her face. With his other hand, Amon pushed them behind her ear.

Kyo was still breathing heavily. She felt like she didn't have the breath to answer him at the moment. So she didn't.

Amon let out an annoyed sigh and then something caught his eye. Looking down he saw the corner of a folded paper poking out the top of her shirt. Letting go of her chin he grabbed to corner and pulled it out. He could feel the key inside of it. Good. Now, normally he wouldn't have done something like that. It seemed pervy. But she didn't look like she was about to give it up to him.

"I'm presume that you can find your own way home." Standing up he turned and started to walk away.

Kyo's head snapped up and she sent a series of death glares in his direction. He presumes that she could find her own way home? What a stupid, cold hearted, wanker!

The woman forced herself to stand up and quietly started to charge at him from behind. Out of her sleeve she pulled out a small, but sharp knife and aimed to get him in the back of the neck. Just as she was almost on him though, Amon turned, somehow grabbed both her wrists with one hand and shoved her against the wall with them above her head. The knife fell from her hand and clattered against the ground. The two stared/glared at each other for what seemed like forever. Then Amon lifted the hand by his side and brushed a few stray hairs out of her face and behind her ear again.

Kyo couldn't help but feel something tingly in side at his touch. Slowly, Amon leaned his face forward and lifted his mask up so you could see his mouth. The tingly feeling felt like it practically exploded inside her. He was going to freaking kiss her! And she wasn't making any move to stop it...

His lips brushed against her, and Kyo pulled her wrists out of his grasp. Almost like they had a mind of their own, one of her hands found the side of Amon's face as the other found its place on the back of his neck. They both finally leaned in closer, if that were possible and started kissing. Kyo wasn't sure if she should feel angry or happy or what. She was confused.

Amon's hands found their way, one on the back of Kyo's head, and the other on the small of her back. The kiss was starting to get stronger and more passionate, then suddenly Kyo pulled away. Her brown eyes were wide and she had a confused look on her face. It quickly dropped to an emotionless one though as she dropped her arms to her side and slide out from his grasp. His fingers glided through her long hair as she did.

"No...I can't...don't... Just..." She let out a frustrated sigh and started speed walking back to her apartment. Amon's mask fell in to place as he stood there watching her leave, wonder what on earth had just happened.

Some sort of realization must have hit him, because Kyo heard the man let out an angry growl and then kick something nice and hard.

That night, Kyo didn't go out and do any thieving. Instead she just laid restlessly in her bed. Why had she kissed Amon? She hardly even knew him! And what the frick had been that feeling she gotten? She was pretty sure she hated it.

Sorry for the short chapter! Hopefully the next one will be longer... Review~!