Skye: *typing frantically*
Agito: What the heck? Already?
Skye: Yes. I've been a bad author, so I need to update with 2 chapters.
Agito: Fuck. Something is really wrong with you.
Skye: *puts up some K-pop to help inspire her*
Agito: … The fuck is this!
Skye: K-pop, my latest obsession. It's soo damn addicting! Check out the band Beast if you can!
Agito: *Plugs in his ears* STOP THIS MADNESS!
Skye: I do not own Air Gear! Oh!Great-sama does! I only own my OCs Yohei, Kasumi—Oki and her dad.
Agito: Read! Fuck.
Previously:
Kasumi mentally noted the strengths and weaknesses of each of the Storm riders of Kogarasumaru, in case she ever needed to battle them. As the battle approached its end, the team with the octuplets lost. The girls cheering Kogarasumaru rushed to go and congratulate their boyfriends, she presumed. The short brown haired girl threw her arms around the blond: Kazuma, she reminded herself- or her so called "brother". He smiled, and wrapped his arms around her waist. The plum-haired girl smiled at the leader, the one that Kasumi found extremely annoying. Finally, the girl with the pigtails who seemed useless gave an awkward high five to Agito, who in turn pulled her in for a hug in his joy.
After the live streaming ended, a grin that could rival Agito's own grin was plastered on her face. The black-eyed beauty whispered to herself, "Shark-shit, I can't wait to eliminate you."
It has been about half a year since Oki had left Kogarasumaru. Agito was still angry at her, but he was coping well. Nakayama was especially helping him cope. They seemed to hang out more with each other than anyone else.
Ever since the Gram Scale tournament came up, and Kogarasumaru diverged from Genesis, they'd been training themselves to the max, especially Kazu.
Kazu was hunched, holding his legs, and panting. He kept trying to master the Flame road, he had to. He couldn't let Spitfire down and he couldn't let him remain unavenged. He returned to perfecting his accuracy. There was nothing better than working on the basics.
Dropping into the stance of a running start, his grey-blue eyes zoned in on the cans that he had lined up on the road. In a flash, he'd started and he was on the other side of the cans. An afterimage was playing, showing him crisscrossing between the cans, a result of one of his tricks, Clones of Flames.
In an alley behind him, Emily was well hidden. As she was watching him, her eyes softened at his effort. She smiled to herself, but gasped when Kazu fell to his knees. His head snapped back towards her.
"Who's there!" Kazu demanded, peering to catch a glimpse of the person.
She timidly stepped out from behind her hiding spot. Emily looked nice. She was wearing a simple hoodie, and some jeans that flared near her ankles, from where her sneakers peeked out. Kazu lowered his head and removed his beanie, not worried that it was some creep. She ran forward to help him up. Kazu smiled inwardly, while muttering thanks.
Emily frowned, "Kazu-sama, you should stop pushing yourself so much."
"I can't" Kazu looked away, sadness in his eyes. He looked back at her and replied "I need to avenge Spitfire." He looked down and clenched his fists. "The only way I can do that is to master the techniques he left behind for me."
"But you can't do it if you hurt yourself. Look at your legs for once! Your jeans are burnt!" She paused as he examined them. There were in fact, burn holes covered the denim from his knees all the way to his feet and they were in tatters.
Why are you not worried about yourself... Kazu-sama... Emily continued, "You're lucky it's just your jeans, what if it was your legs?" She was frowning at this point, her voice was rising pitches with every sentence and her arms were flailing around, emphasizing her words, "What would you have done? How would you have avenged Spitfire then?"
"Shut up! Why do you even care, Adachi!" He yelled at her. His eyes glowered with hurt and anger, as he towered over her, standing only a foot away. "You aren't Ikki, or Agito, hell you're not even a big part of this team. Why do you care so much!"
She didn't back down though. "Because I love you!" She blurted, immediately regretting what she had said, and looking down, blushing. "Forget that I said that..."
Kazu blinked twice, then looked up at the sky, smiling and avoiding her gaze as well, "Oh... I thought it was unrequited... Guess I was wrong..."
Emily looked up at him, her brown eyes wide, "You mean..."
Kazu smiled at her and then closed the gap. He captured her lips with a sweet kiss. Then ruffled the hair at the back of his head. "So, you wanna go to the amusement park nearby? I need a break and all..."
HOLY CRAP! HOLY CRAP! HOLY CRAP! HE KISSED ME! HE KISSED ME! ME! NOT ONLY THAT BUT HE FREAKING JUST ASKED ME OUT! HOLY.. HOLY... HOLY! THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE! Emily's inner-self was hyperventilating. Emily, he's waiting for an answer you idiot... say yes!
Emily smiled, a slight blush still on her face, "Sure"
Kazu was whacking the baseball with much needed gusto. "140mph" The scoreboard read. People were staring, and a girl from a couple was asking her boyfriend to do what the blond was doing.
Emily was shocked, Eight consecutive home runs... amazing!~ But then again, this is Kazu-sama...
"Okay, next up..." His voice trailed off talking about other sports games set up in the amusement park, as Emily was consumed in her own thoughts.
Is this some kind of sports marathon? She wondered, "Ah! Oka-" A sudden beeping noise interrupted her.
"Oh, forget what I said Emily, I need to go now," Kazu muttered somewhat disappointed, "I had a great time though, lemme walk you home."
"Oh... if you don't mind me asking, where do you need to go?" Emily asked, walking besides him.
He answered in an instant, "Self-training, anyway let's get you home."
Kasumi watched in boredom at the girl performers that stood on stage, and diverted her attention to the ring where there were A-T matches going on. People around her were either watching the girls or cheering on the Stormriders who battling each other. The viewers cheered on, the smell of alcohol reeked off them. Some of the men were standing close to the stage, watching the girls perform.
"So we meet again, Sweetheart." someone called, slipping into the seat next to the blue-haired girl. There was only one person that called her "Sweetheart". Sure enough, there he was, Yohei. His copper colored hair framing his face. He was watching the almost naked girls dancing on the stage as he brought his Sprite can to his lips.
Those sluts. Is that their only life? How long must I wait Nike? You should let me go. I can take that peice of shit on, alone. I'm his counterpart for shit's sake. I know his weaknesses. Why must you torture me with Orca and that... thing? Orca hurts me so...he isn't the one I'm made for unlike... him. And Yohei, he's a pervert, and it creeps the shit out of me.
"Ah," Yohei chuckled, reading her mind, "but you can't hate me too much right? This match turns out to be interesting..."
The ring was covered by a metallic meshed fence, which kept the sparks and the bodies away from the viewers as the riders battled almost to death. There were two Stormriders, both equally powerful, and both had masks on. She didn't bother with trying to identify them knowing she had other things to take care of, like meeting the Thunder King as Nike had told her to.
A commotion from the kids that she was sitting with caught her attention and she tuned into the conversation.
"You guys can come here anytime...but do you guys come here often?" A tenor voice asked
"You just have to mention Nue and you can get into any A-T cafe" the young girl in pig-tails piped up.
Kasumi's head snapped up at the mention of the Thunder King's name. "Nue? Are you really him?" Surely enough, there stood the kid with the platinum colored hair. He was dressed in a black leather robe, two stylized skull studs adorned his shoulders, keeping the robe in place.
"From the looks of it, you should be Oki, but your eyes are different. You must be Kasumi" Nue replied, while he was taking a can of coke from the waiter, "Nice to finally meet you, Mist-Queen. What happened to Oki?"
"There's no need for that piece of shit, she's just a pond when compared to a vast ocean. Anyway, Nike asked me to meet up with you. They'vestarted their attack."
"Who's the opponent?" Nue asked, seeming to ignore Kasumi.
"I don't know, but he's some one strong." One of the Black Crow children spoke up.
Nue looked back at her, seemingly uninterested, "What do you want me to do about it? Until they attack us, or until either Nike or Sora order us to do something...we can't do anything in return."
Kasumi remained quiet at his response. Her black orbs returned their focus to the A-T ring. She gasped as the one of the girls yelled. She finally noticed the A-Ts he wore, Hatch Venom... that means...
The girl had said, "Oh no! Crazy face Kaji is in a bad shape."
Nue's eyes widened, That guy is..."Don't fall for that move Kaji!" He screamed, trying to get trough the metal cage keeping them apart.
The shoes of Kaji's opponent started to glow, giving the skulls on them an appearance of coming alive with an eerie green glow.
"No Kasumi don-!" Yohei yelled but was cut off by Kasumi's actions.
Black Mist... activate... A heavy fog set down on the cage, as Kasumi jumped into it as well. Although, the timing was horrible. Rip Steel Soul, Get together. All three of the Storm riders got electrocuted, Kasumi and Nue the worst.
The masked man got up, still able to sustain the damage. He smiled when he saw who had attacked him, "Ah... look who we have here, more prey for you Hatch Venom."
Nue just growled, his body shield was still letting off sparks, which would in turn drift towards Kasumi.
Misty Ocean, deactivate it! Now!She internally screamed, taking away the pressure on the wheels, and deactivating her regalia.
The fog disappeared, Nue got up and started to encase the man in his Lightning Spider Net. He quickly escaped, appearing next to Kasumi. She tried to take him out by sweeping her right leg underneath the masked man's feet, but failed to do so, and Hatch Venom was beside her face in a split second. The regalia started to glow again... but the man hesitated, and started to ride away from them both.
"I'll see you later King, and Queen." He muttered, his hand raised as to show his parting.
Yohei ran to help Kasumi up onto her feet. "Let's get you retuned, come on!" he whispered urgently, "Misty Ocean's at 5% right now! You can't fight in this stage."
Nue on the other hand growled, "Wait dammit. You can't get away that easily Horn King."
"I wouldn't attack if I were you..." The so-called king stopped in his tracks, "You're regalia was damaged and is currently in no form to take me on. I'll spare you this time, only because I remembered something important. Dare cross my path again, my Hatch Venom will rip your face off."
With that he disappeared, leaving Nue to collapse onto his knees. Kasumi tried to help him up, only for him to harshly swat her hand away.
"Look, don't you ever try to help me, ever again." the platinum-haired boy snarled, "Mind your own business, the only ones that can help are my team, not some outsider like you."
She winced at his words, and moved back. His team mates from Black Crow helped him up.
"Take me to Toul Tool To Now." He ordered them.
Yohei pulled her away, into one of the changing room stalls. "Get your clothes off, we need to get you tuned."
"Look, right now, I don't need it to be 100%, you pervert. Just get it as high as you can. We can get it tuned in the base later on when I'm not in a battle."
"Fine, I can only get you to 85%. That's okay ri... Of course it's okay with you. Okay let's get started."
He closed his eyes, concentrating on her heart beat, and syncing his own with hers. Once he was on the same melody as her, he started to use his tools and repaired Black Mist, tightening screws, making slight modifications allowing her to control the wheels as if they were water itself.
(A/N: If anyone of my readers are into K-pop, Heartbeat by 2PM XD ~Listen to my heartbeat~ )
Kasumi watched in amazement, it never ceased to surprise her when Yohei did this. He was almost on par with Kururu, the new tuner she saw a few days ago during her last tuning. He pressed himself against her once, to listen better for the final check. Blood rushed to her cheeks due to the proximity. A smile ghosted upon his lips, but it disappeared when he opened his eyes.
"I'm done." he whispered smugly, stepping away from her "Go kick some ass, sweetheart"
"Thanks... Pervert." She grinned, pulling the boots on, and riding away to catch up with the Horn King.
Once she left a smile broke out on the copper haired boy's face, "Aaah... that girl... I wonder when she'll realize that I actually do love her, both sides of her actually."
Agito: I'll unleash Leviathans on that bastard! How DARE he! She's mine!
Skye: Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say Sharky.
Agito: Fuck! Stupid girl, can't you see that he's trying to… never mind. Just thinking about it is making me agry.
Skye: Oh.. Agito.
Agito: Fuck, I don't like this story anymore… where am I in this chapter?
Skye: In the previously….
Agito: But it's not enough!
Skye: I'm sorry for making you wait. My random block just kept me out of it for a while. I've also been distracted by other things. I have everything planned out now, so I'll be updating. Thanks to K?O?K for helping me edit this chapter up. I don't know what this story would be with out you and pushing me to write it out and stuff, THANKIES ^.^ Just don't mind me if I update like every three months. I'll try not to.
Agito: Yeah I'll make sure you won't. Fuck, do review. They're apparently appreciated.