Throughout the following days things soon went back to normal. Doji was later caught and taken into the WBBA. Reiji disappeared before being caught and Ryuga was on a slow recovery from the dark power. Kyoya turned out to be okay also, staying the hospital with only small injuries. After a few days Madoka went back to work at the shop.
Then of course there was Ginga to deal with. It had been a few days after when he came to Madoka with his feelings...unfortunately for him he was kindly rejected. That didn't stop him from trying though, constantly bringing it back up. The two actually got into several arguments over it, usually ending with them yelling. Recently though the pair had stopped speaking or interacting at all. Ginga kept himself busy by training of battling and Madoka stuck to her work and daily visits to Kyoya.
"I can't believe you too!" Hikaru exclaimed, crossing her arms as she walked beside her friend. Madoka sighed as she finished telling the other of their recent argument.
"It's not my fault!" Madoka frowned. "He just won't stop bringing it up, I don't understand why he can't accept it "
"Well, in case you haven't noticed he doesn't particularly like Kyoya."
"I know that…" She sighed.
Hikaru placed a hand on the brunettes shoulder. "You're not really going to stop speaking to Ginga because of this are you? I know you enough to know that you would hate to lose Ginga's friendship because of this." Madoka noded, keeping her eyes aimed towards the ground. "What does Kyoya have to say about this?"
"What do you think? He's practically waiting for me to leave Ginga in the dust."
Hikaru smiled a bit. "Of course. You know...I never really imagined you'd fall for someone like Kyoya."
A faint blush appeared across Madoka's cheeks. "Well, you know...it just kind of happened."
Hikaru grinned, tossing an arm around Madoka's shoulders and pulling her closer. "Hey, I get it!" She laughed. "It's hard to get along with Kyoya, but as long as you happy I'm cool with it."
"Thanks, I just wish Ginga would see it that way…" The girls walked a few more minutes in silence. The sky above was slowly turning to an orangy color as the sun prepared to set. There was a slight chill in the air since it was the beginning of the fall months.
"Here we are" Madoka broke the silence as they reached a stop. "I can't wait until I get Kyoya home."
"Thats right, he's being released today." Hikaru smiled, "tell him I say get better soon, then maybe we can have a battle." Hikaru grinned.
"I'll let him know" Madoka laughed.
"I'll be down the street at the WBBA if you need help with him."
"Thanks." Madoka smiled and took a moment to look over her friends clothing choice of the day. "I was surprised when you accepted the Directors offer."
"I could use a break from all this for a bit, besides being his assistant can't be that bad. The pay is great by the way!" Hikaru mentioned before turning to leave.
"It's kind of late though?"
"He needs some help with getting things in order with Ryuga before he's released." Hikaru began to walk off. "I don't mind helping. See you tomorrow night! I'm coming over to get you all cute for the party!"
Madoka waved with a small sigh. "Right the party." Madoka continued towards the hospital with lots of things going over in her mind.
It wasn't long until Madoka finished what was left of Kyoya's release papers. Now she just had to go get him. Most of the doors were closed as Madoka walked down Kyoya's hall. Few were open, but she didn't bother to look into any, except for one. Ryuga happened to be sleeping soundly in the small room. Madoka stopped and walked to the doorway. Ryuga was going to be released tomorrow and staying in the WBBA for the time being. The boy was just about done recovering from the toll L-Drago's dark power had taken on him. He spent the past few days in and out of consciousness.
Madoka wasn't sure if she felt bad for him or not. Yes everything had been part of Doji's plans, but he went along willingly...though he probably didn't expect what L-Drago would do to him. Madoka inched closer to his bed, not expecting one of his golden eyes to peek open.
"What are you doing?" Came his sleepy question.
"I was just...I" Madoka rubbed the back of her neck, not sure what she wanted to say to him.
"Spit it out!" He growled.
"I hope you get well soon!" She blurted out the first thing that came to mind before turning to bolt out. She swore she heard the boy grumble something like an apology on her way out. Poor Ryuga...no family that came… she thought sadly before coming to Kyoya's room.
The Leone blader was already up and changed, an eager look in his eyes as she steeped in. "Took you long enough! Let's get out of here already." Madoka couldn't help but smile at him. She reached into her bag as Kyoya finished collecting his things.
"What's that?" Kyoya asked as she held the card out to him. "An invitation?"
"Yup, I was supposed to give it to you earlier, but I may have lost it temporarily. Its for the party tomorrow night."
"Party?" Kyoya asked as grabbed her hand and walked out of the room.
"Yeah, Ginga's dad is throwing it to announce some big event coming up. Lots of bladers were invited!" Madoka spoke excitedly. Kyoya shoved the card into his pocket without my care.
"I'll go, but I'm not dressing up." He spoke casually. "Only because you seem excited."
Madoka smiled. "Thanks."
Kyoya yawned. "Let's hurry up to your place, I'm exhausted, those beds are so uncomfortable and the food was terrible."
"You were sleeping in a warehouse for awhile there and the hospital was uncomfortable?" Kyoya shrugged before tossing an arm around the girl besides him, pulling her closer as they walked.
"Sir, if I may ask, what exactly is going to be done with Ryuga?" Hikaru asked as she prepared her things to go home. It was getting late and she was ready to crawl into bed and pass out. It was surprisingly a lot of work helping with the final preparations for tomorrow night. Not only that but things had to be in order for Ryuga. "We've done all this work and I don't even know what's going to happen to him."
"He'll be under our watch here for the time being" Ryo stopped shuffling through the papers on his desk. "Eventuality we'll have to let him go on his, but for the time being he'll stay here."
"Is that really a good idea?" She asked somewhat hesitantly.
"We can assure that nothing will happen Hikaru. Ryuga can't do much without L-Drago."
"Thats right…when you arrived L-Drago was gone. You never found it?"
"Unfortunately no" the man sighed, "but once we do the bey will be returned to the village."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" She responding quickly. "Others could go after it…"
"Trust me Hikaru we have everything taken care of."
Hikaru relaxed a bit before grabbing her bag from beside the desk. "Okay, I'll try not to worry about it too much then." Hikaru stepped out of the room, "I'll see you tomorrow at the announcement party, I'm sure Ginga and the other bladers will be excited to hear what coming up for them next!" She smiled once more before closing the door and heading down the hall.
After being joined by another girl in the elevator she waited quietly until they made it ground level. The feeling of her phones buzz caused her to dig into her bag to check the new text from Madoka, also finding one from Tsubasa. She frowned while reading through her boyfriend's, but still responding with a quick response before turning to Madoka's little update about tomorrow night. "I'm sorry about tomorrow night." Hikaru jumped slightly when the black haired girl opposite to her spoke up.
"Excuse me?" She looked up to met her green eyes.
"it's my fault her won't be able to make it on time." Hikaru gave a somewhat annoyed expression.
"Why?" She demanded.
"It's nothing like that!" She laughed. "The names Lilly. I've been working with the WBBA for a while now and tomorrow night I'm supposed to be investigating some odd activity going on in the next city over." Lilly brushed her bangs away. "I just asked if there was someone who could go with me and the director chose him."
"Oh" A faint trace of red appeared in her cheeks. "That's why...er, thanks for the apology at least." Hikaru awkwardly thanked her.
"It's no problem. Me and him should make it back near the end though, so I guess I'll see you then!" Lilly smiled and turned to the elevator doors as a ding was heard. She disappeared in the crowd of people soon after walking out.
"What a strange girl…" Hikaru mumbled to herself before also leaving.
The next day-
"I'm sorry I'm late!" Hikaru pushed the shop's doors open quickly, she spotted both Kyoya and Madoka in the front of the shop. Kyoya stood as Madoka helped with his tie. Smiling she walked up to the pair.
"You made it, I had to get ready all alone." Madoka finished with Kyoya and turned to her friend.
"Sorry, there were some last minute problems I had to help the Director with. And I had to get ready at my place so I could make it here in time. Besides you had Kyoya to keep you company."
"I know, but it's always nice to have you around to help out my make-up, you know I'm not very good at it." Madoka rubbed the back of her neck, almost embarrassed to admit it.
"Hey!" Kyoya spoke up. "I helped you get ready." He crossed his arms.
"You did?" Hikaru asked, not really believing him.
"I held her hair in place while she did it and I handed her the makeup she needed."
"That makes more since" Hikaru laughed. "You look great by the way." Madoka smiled as she smoothed out the skirt of her dress. The white dress was simple with the top fitting nicely and the skirt flaring out slightly as it reached her knees. Black flats matched the headband she wore. And of course she wore light makeup and a necklace to finish it all off.
"Thanks!" She grinned at the compliment.
"And Kyoya you clean up pretty nicely too." Kyoya rolled his eyes as she took note to the dress shirt and black jeans her had reluctantly put on, also the tie he spent fifteen minutes messing with. "What do you think about mine?" Hikaru asked, giving a quick pose for Madoka.
"As great as always" Madoka smiled looking over the dark blue halter styled dress, the makeup she had applied and her bare feet? "Uh...your shoes?"
"Right here!" Hikaru held the strappy black heels up for her to see.
"Why are running around with no shoes?" Kyoya asked, giving her an odd look.
"I ran here and it hard to run in these, now…" Hikaru placed a hand on Madoka's shoulder to balance herself as she slipped the shoes back on. "Let's get going!" She spoke excitedly.
A few hours later-
The party was pretty fun. The three friends arrived not long after it had started. Hikaru decided to talk with some people and have some fun while she waited for Tsubasa. Kyoya swapped between sitting alone and sticking by Madoka's side as she talked with people.
Ginga was lingering more by his father than speaking to anyone. Ryo was sitting at one of the tables talking with some of the older people and preparing to make his announcement. Ryuga was also around either in the corner or standing with Ryo.
Madoka had been talking with a few other girls when she noticed Ginga's standing off to the side, not far from his father. She gave a small frown before beginning to walk over to him. She felt Kyoya watching her and sighed. I don't want things to be like this! The feeling of someone's hand on her shoulder stopped her quickly. Thinking it may be Kyoya she turned, ready to tell him to let her do this. Instead she met with a somewhat familiar face.
"You're the guy from the beach…" She looked at him in disbelief. She hadn't expected to ever see him again.
"Hey there, nice meeting you again." The boy grinned. "So what do you say want to dance?"
"I don't even know you."
"Then let's start, the makes Toma, and you?"
"I don't have time for this" Madoka turned away from him, ready to walk off once again. She was quickly met with the feeling of Toma's fingers wrapping around her wrist.
"Oh, come on-" Quickly Madoka reached to slap the boy, making him let go and glare back at her.
"Fine then, not like you're anything special." Madoka rolled her eyes and continued to walk to Ginga. Toma was left to turn around, planning and hitting the blonde near the doors, but was met with a cold pair of blue eyes.
Kyoya glared down at him, "I'm going to hurt you." Kyoya spoke harshly, fully prepared to punch the boy.
Toma sighed, "just make it quick."
Meanwhile Madoka stepped up to Ginga. The redhead looked at her for a moment. "Shouldn't you be dancing with Kyoya? A slow songs about to come on anyways." He spoke carelessly.
"Ginga why are acting like this? This isn't like you." She questioned.
"You know why."
"You can't stay mad at me because of this! I'm not going to let you. We're friends and I don't want our friendship to end because of this stupid argument." Madoka crossed her arms and gave him a bold look.
"I can and I will stay mad." He spoke simply and looked away.
Getting slightly angrier she told her to look at her, which he did. "You know if you care about as much as you say you do then you would happy that I'm happy!" Ginga's honey eyes widened at the statement. "Now excuse me" the sight of Ryo taking the stage and the music stopping signaled for her to get back to with an angry and upset expression she quickly went to look for Kyoya.
Blocking out whatever his father was saying he opened his mouth to speak. "Madoka wait!" Ginga called out but didn't move from his spot. It was a few moments before he perked back up, hearing his father mention something about a new tournament.
"But not just any tournament, were talking about a championship. Specifically a world championship." The man spoke, looking out to the many bladers. Murmurs of interest and questions arose from them. "Starting around this time next year we will hold the first ever World Championships! Bladers from all around the world will get a chance to represent their country and battle others from all across the world!" Ryo grinned enthusiastically. "More details will be released soon so keep an eye out!"
Ginga sighed, that did sound amazing, but couldn't bring himself to get that pumped for it. "I couldn't help but overhear." Ginga jumped slightly and turned to see Lilly standing with a sympathetic smile. "I know it must be hard."
"Yeah...I guess it is." He sighed. Lilly frowned, trying to think of a way to cheer him up.
"Here let's dance!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him to the dance floor.
"I don't really feel like it." He admitted.
"Come on it'll make you feel better!" She smiled.
Meanwhile Kyoya had been standing towards the back when he was joined by Madoka again. "You look upset." He observed.
"Ginga just being so-" Madoka looked away, feeling tears building. Quickly she felt Kyoya grab her hand.
"Don't cry about it!" He snapped. "I don't want to see you do that. I'll admit I don't care much for Ginga, but I know you do. He's you friend and if it makes you feel better...I'll talk to him later and...work things out."
"...You would do that?"
"If you want me to." Kyoya gave a small smile and pulled her to the dance floor. "But for now lets just dance, like you wanted."
"I thought you didn't like to slow dance?"
"I know you do." Madoka grinned and got on her toes to reach and wrap her arms around his neck, he placed his hands on her waist as the two began to move slowly to the music.
They spent a few moments in silence before madoka spoke up, lifter her head from his chest."I'm glad things turned out the way they did…"
"Me too." He agreed. He looked down at her for a minute.
"I'm glad I met you." He spoke. "You're just-" Kyoya closed his mouth, not sure how to say what he wanted.
She laughed slightly, "I get it Kyoya!" Leaning closer she hugged the Leone blader. "I know how you feel already." She mumbled. Kyoya lowered his head to hide his blush.
"I sure hope so, I'm no good at this express your feelings stuff." He chuckled, his chin pressed against the top of her head. They both had stopped their dance to just enjoy each other's embrace, both wearing big grins on their face. "Let's get out of here."
"And go where?"
"Back to your place. I'd rather spend spend time with you than be around all these people." They separated. Madoka followed as he led her out of the building. "You can pick the movie were going to watch." He tossed an arm around her and pulled her close as they walked and talked with smiles.
Hope you guys liked the ending! I'm glad to of finally finished this story. There's just one more thing I have left for this story though. A while back I started to write a chapter all about Kyoya and some more background on him any why he asked madoka for a battle and all that kind of stuff. But for whatever reason I never finished it. If I do decide to finish it I'll post it and if I don't then I'll go on with my next stories. Keep an eye out also, because I plan to have the first chapter to my next fic out very soon.
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