Recap

I groaned; I was surprised that Naru and Lin hadn't come out yet.

Chapter Two

*Mai's POV*

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Never mind. The silence was immediate as Naru stepped out of his office. You could almost hear the crickets chirping. Before Naru could even take breath to yell at us, Azumi stood up a glint in her eyes. I was immediately on guard. In the blink of an eye Azumi was across the room flaunting her body and batting her eyes seductively. Bou san, Ayako, Yasu and even John was awed at the speed of the girl's reaction to Naru. Only Masako had an extremely pissed off look that she didn't try to hide. It matched my feelings perfectly.

Naru was looking extremely uncomfortable and was looking at me for help (WTF!). I looked for Lin and saw he wasn't going to be of any use as he was struggling not to laugh out loud (I swear he was gonna bust a vein soon. His face was THAT red). I looked at the current problem that my sister created. I sighed and realized I still had the knife in my hand. With a smirk a flicked my wrist and once again a solid thud resonated around the room.

Azumi paused and slowly turned to face me. "You. Did Not. Just do. What. I. Think. You. Just. Did!" she snarled.

"I'm sorry. Did you like your hair? Too bad I missed my actual target." I smiled sweetly glancing at the pile of long brown hair that now lay at Azumi's feet.

"You BITCH!" she lunged at me. I grabbed her outstretched arms and threw her over my head across the room.

"Baka. You left yourself wide opened. Can't you remember your lessons? You do the same thing every time and it always it always has the same result."

By now Bou san and John had pushed the chairs out of the way to avoid unnecessary injuries. The girls and Yasu had retreated into Naru's office. Lin had disappeared and Naru was standing silently observing the scene from a corner of the room.

Azumi finally stood a dark aura forming around her, "Well. It'll be different this time. I have some new tricks up my sleeve."

"About time," I muttered as a 6 inch dagger appeared in her hand, "New blade? What happened to the last one? Every time I see you a new blade appears."

"You are what happened to my blades and you know it, stop smirking and get serious."

"Ha ha ha. You want me serious. Fine I'll give you serious." And with that I was across the room and had punched her in the gut. No one even saw me move. Well at least everyone but Azumi didn't. She snarled and came towards me seemingly unaffected. Then the fight began. Punches and kicks were traded at lightning speed. A pause revealed us covered in bruises, blood and cuts. Azumi was panting slightly.

"GET SERIOUS ALREADY! GO ON! WHERE'S THAT KNIFE OF YOUR"S? WHY WON"T YOU PULL IT OUT ALREADY?" she yelled. Before I could react she had thrown a small 3 inch blade. It went passed me. I heard a yelp as it hit someone. "John!" I heard them cry

"John! Are you alright?" my eyes never leaving Azumi's.

"Don't worry it got my arm."

I heard a yelp as Ayako removed the blade. Now I was pissed. My vision was slowly turning red and the air around me grew darker. I heard a 'finally' and my reply was that she had asked for it and that she now had to suffer the consequences. A blade appeared in each of my hand as I crouched low. I heard Monk drag Naru into the office and he shut the door sensing the danger.

I threw a third blade at her and she narrowly avoided it. Her hair tie was cut though releasing her newly designed hair now similar to mine. While she was distracted I moved. I gathered speed until I couldn't tell what my blades were slicing. I heard a small shriek as she was cut multiple times each varying in depth and width. My subconscious faintly remembered hearing a door open. I was shocked as an arm reached out and stopped me in mid pace.

I struggled to be released until I heard a voice command, "Mai! That's enough. Azumi has learnt her lesson, any more and you will end up killing her." With that my body slumped forward. The familiar arms wrapped tightly around to stop me from falling.

"Oh my lord," gasped John. I guess he and the others had deemed it to be safe to come out. I numbly looked around the room and winced. God I was gonna have a lot of explaining to do. The walls had long and short lines criss-crossing each other the wall paper was peeling off at places. The roof also had marks, so did the floor, doors and from what I could tell the couches were useless now.

I looked at everyone's expressions as they examined the room. Then I saw Azumi on the floor. Whoops. I was definitely gonna cop it BIG time. Inside a bubble of emotions burst and found myself sobbing into the white shirt that still clutched me. I felt the stares of everyone on my back. I cried so hard and worn out my body that I fell into a recuperative sleep.