Sorry for how long this chapter took to make. Procrastination and laziness hit me harder then ever. Anyway, enjoy.
Agents One and Two walked into the spare room as Iho and Kareshi looked up at them. Agent Two then pointed to the stairs. "Ok Iho, you've been with him for an hour, now get out!"
Iho sighed. "Alright... But can I come back to check on him to-"
"No." Agent Two cut her off.
Iho and Kareshi shared a kiss before Iho left the shack as Agent Two aimed her charger at her until she was out of view.
Well, time for a blast of crap from Agents One and Two. Kareshi thought as he heard the front door slam shut. Soon after, the two agents stormed into his room. "Let me guess. You two are-"
"Shut up!" Agent Two cut him off too. "Now listen here, Agent Three. Get your hero gear on and ready your Hero Shot, because in one hour, your going into the kettle!"
"What!?" Kareshi asked. "Agent Two, look at this cut. I'm in no condition to-"
"I don't care if you get hurt or splatted! If you do, not our problem. But your going out there!"
"Why I can't rest for a while?"
"We need to get our grandfather and the Great Zapfish back." Agent One explained calmly.
"Fine, you got one hour! If you wern't dating that creature you call your girlfriend, then we would give you at least two weeks to heal!" Agent Two angrily said before slamming the door again.
Once Agent Two was gone, Agent One slowly opened the door and walked in. "Agent Three, I'm sorry for how she's acting. Personally, I think it's kinda cute that your dating an octoling."
"Really?" Kareshi asked.
"Yeah, and I'm gonna try and convince Agent Two, to let you rest for a while."
"Thank you Agent One."
"Don't mention it... Seriously." Agent One then closed the door as quiet as possible.
Agent One then took a deep breath before walking downstairs. "Agent Two?"
"What?" Agent Two asked.
"Don't you think we should let the poor squid rest? At least for a week."
"No."
"Why?"
"Because, Agent One! What's the first thing the judge is gonna do to him if he or she finds out that Agent Three is dating an octoling!?" Agent Two asked as Agent One stayed silent. "She's gonna call him disgusting and then splat him! But us letting him go out there and getting splatted is doing everybody a favor."
"What if the judge dosen't find out?"
"Wha- YOU PLAN ON KEEPING THIS A SECRET!?" Agent Two screamed.
"Um... A-agent Two-"
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO US!?"
"Agent Two, just calm down a little bit, ok?"
"Cod this poor girl." Agent Two then covered her face with her hands. "He gets 30 minutes."
"More?" Agent One asked.
"Less!" Agent Two harshly replied before stomping up to her room. Just as the door shut, Agent One burst in. "Want to give him even less time?" Agent Two asked.
"Agent Two, think about this... Your punishing him all because of his love life. Something we shouldn't get involved with." Agent One reasoned as Agent Two stood there. "Could you imagine sitting at home in Octo Valley just for the news team to report that Agent Three, your boyfriend, was killed? How would you react?"
Agent Two looked down silently "I... I never thought about it like-" Agent Two's face went from guilty, to angry. "No! She's nothing but a slimy octoling that needs to be splatted A.S.A.P!" She snapped. "Why in cod's name are you siding with that, that, that... THING!?"
"Because your being too harsh on Agent Three! He's gonna get splatted if he goes out there! And Iho is gonna-"
"Did you just use her real name!?"
"Oh come on, Agent Two!"
"No, Agent One! He's not resting any longer! And if you see Iho, splat her!" Agent Two then pushed Agent One out. "Now that's enough!" She then slammed the door.
"Nice job on being the bigger squid, Agent Two!" Agent One called from her side of the door.
No answer from the other side.
Agent One sighed before walking into the spare room. "Something tells me by the way that you two were yelling, it didn't go well." Kareshi said.
"No, it didn't." Agent One said with a sigh. "And I'm sorry, but I only made things worse."
"Oh no. This doesn't sound good."
"You got to go into the kettle now."
"Now!?"
"I'm sorry."
"It's alright, Agent One. You tried to help."
"Well, you should get going, it's only gonna be me talking to you today. Agent Two needs to cool off."
Kareshi sighed. "I'll get ready."
Fifteen minutes later...
As Kareshi made his way throughout the mission, Agent One helped him to the best of her ability. But Kareshi was in pain every time he switched from kid to squid, so he had to pause and take a breather. Each time he did so, Agent One would ask him if he was ok, and every time he responded with no.
"Cod, Agent Two should've let you rest." Agent One said. "Do you want to quit and do this later?
Kareshi nodded. "No... I need to do this is, I want to rescue Cuttlefish and the Great Zapfish."
"Well, speaking of a Zapfish, your getting close to one."
"That's good..."
"Ok Agent Three. Just get the key and you can get out of there."
Kareshi nodded and looked down between the two flooders. He then inked up the side of the wall, inked around the key, hopped down and grabbed the key. But when he went back into his human form, Both of the flooders locked onto him.
Kareshi grabbed the key, turned into a squid and jumped onto the wall that he inked just in time before the flooders splatted him. "Ok, that was too close for comfort." Agent One said with a releaved sigh as Kareshi opened the vault and super jumped to the Zapfish.
"Your telling me." Kareshi replied before he broke open the shield and grabbed the Zapfish.
"Well, time to super jump back. I'm so happy that you made it out alive."
"Your not the only one." Kareshi replied when he landed.
When Kareshi got back to Cap'n Cuttlefish's shack, Agent Two staired at him. "See? Your fine. That whole thing about your cut is just an excuse to spend some time with that creature."
"First of all, it's not an excuse. It hurts to change to my squid form. And second, that "creature" is an octoling. A very beautiful one." Kareshi replied.
"Aww." Agent One said as Agent Two staired daggers at her. "Aww!? Really!? This is disgusting! An octoling and an inkling should never touch each other unless they are fighting!"
"What is your problem, Agent Two!?" Agent One finally asked.
"Him and his girlfriend are my problems!" Agent Two replied as she pointed to Kareshi.
"If he isn't affecting you, then why should you care?"
"He could've told her anything!"
"I didn't tell her nothing about-" Agent Two cut Kareshi off. "Shut it, and put that Zapfish where it's supposed to go!" Kareshi nodded and ran upstairs.
"Can't you be a little nicer to him?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Agent One, we already had this discussion."
"I don't see why your getting into this! It doesn't involve you, and it doesn't involve me! So stay out of his love life!"
"But he's trusting her too much! She'll splat him!"
"Then that's his choice if he wants to trust her or not!"
"Um... I'm just gonna go." Kareshi said as he slung his bag over his shoulder.
"Yes, get out!" Agent Two said before pushing him out and slamming the door for the third time. As Kareshi walked away, he could hear the two arguing until he went through the kettle to Inkopolis.
When he got back to his apartment...
Kareshi opened up the door to his apartment and instantly he saw that two female inklings and one male inkling were turning the place inside out. "Takumi, Miyu, Hina!? What are you doing!?" Kareshi asked.
"Kareshi!" They all said. "Where in Inkopolis have you been!?" A female inkling with green tentacles, and blue eyes asked.
"I was on a vacation." Kareshi lied.
"To where!? Octo Valley!?" The male inkling with orange tentacles and purple eyes asked.
"No, to Calamari Country."
"Why?"
"Don't ask Takumi. Just be happy that we found him." The other female inkling who had light blue tentacles and green eyes, said to the boy with orange tentacles.
"So, I'm sorry to say this, but can you please leave? I've had a long day and I need to get some sleep." Kareshi asked.
"Ok, but we're doing some rank battles tomorrow." The green tentacled inkling said.
"Of course, I missed playing rank battles with you guys." Kareshi replied before everyone said their goodnights and left towards their apartments.
Kareshi then hopped into bed as a horrifying thought hit him. He opened the top drawer in his dresser and when he saw the picture of him and Iho, he let out a sigh of relief. "Thank cod... They didn't find this picture."
He put the picture on top of the dresser so it was facing him. He smiled at it and went to sleep.