Battle high: not your average high school

After Battle twenty-nine

Finding Sora again

Kirai pouted at Artemis as he was pushed. "Heyy what'd I doo?"

"You let your girlfriend get away while she was obviously not thinking very straight?" Prism suggested.

"You failed yet again to stop her from running away?" Primrose added.

"You actually succeeded in becoming more intolerable?" Cloud tried. Kirai glared at him. "Listen to Artemis."

"Ahh shut up," Cloud waved off his comment and trudged down the hallways to the bathroom. "Go find your girlfriend, lover boy."

Artemis ran straight towards town to try and find any signs of Sora and her gang that would be anywhere by now in the city running around and causing trouble already.

"Now now..Let's get you in the bathtub young man," teased Lilly as she went to go get him some towels and rushed around trying to find him the shampoo she had placed somewhere.

"Not again...come on Kirai the two of us can go find her together," suggested Alex. "Raaah.. I dun wannaaa," Cloud complained. He remained in the spot he was standing in and pouted at Lilly while she scurried about. "I wanna go to sleeeep."

Kirai nodded silently, thinking over how many times Sora had run away on his watch. He had let it happen a lot. "Yeah..let's go."

"No sleep until you take a bath..it's your bath time..or do I need to put in that tub myself?, "she asked him as she grabbed a bottle of soap too from a shelf..cause I'll do it," Lilly said to him.

Alex walked outside and turned to Kirai, "Do you maybe have a slight idea where she might have gone to?," Alex asked him.

Cloud looked at her skeptically and wondered if she was serious. "..no you won't.." he said warily. He very seriously doubted that she'd be able to anyway.

Kirai followed him and thought as hard as he could. "No.. she was having another freak out moment about her parents earlier though... I don't know of any places attached to her parents though," he sighed. Once again, he was useless.

Lilly crossed her arms over her chest, "Oh won't I?," she questioned. Lilly quickly dragged Cloud into the bathroom and closed the door and immediately started to run the water. Before Cloud could even get away Lilly grabbed him by the wrist and started to try and get him out of his shirt.

"You're getting in that bath tub whether you want to or not..you need a bath," Lilly told him.

"Well is there any other place you think she may have gone to before you knew about her parents?," asked Alex. Cloud laughed when she proceeded to defy his assumptions. "And you intend to undress me fully, huh?" he asked with a smirk and grabbed her hands for a second and held them still.

He looked into her eyes and laughed again, a bit more mischievously this time. "Have fun with that," he whispered teasingly, giving her an innocent look and dropping his hold on her hands.

Cloud was curious to see if she would.. and if she did, how long it would take her before she exploded in giggles or died from blushing.

"Uhhmmm.." Kirai wracked his brain for anything more useful. "..Not really. But she always seems to be on top of places.. so she's probably someplace pretty high? Prism was on top of a really tall building once, she could be there," he said with a shrug. What good was that information?

Lilly gave him a look and smirked right back at him and shook her head, "You need bath time and I'll make sure you get it," she said to him with a slight giggle.

Once he released his grip on her hands Lilly ignored his comment and fought him to get him undressed, she knew what she was doing to herself. But she was determined to get him into the bathtub and make him sleepier.

Lilly had been successful in getting him undressed and a was blush wanting to start across her face but she forced it back and then looked at him and pointed to the tub. "Tub, now bad child," Lilly said. She tried to hide every hint of giggles and blushing as best she could.

"That's really helpful and which means we need to look up high and I need to try and make her flame start again," Alex said calmly.

Cloud stared at Lilly for a second before laughing. "Wow. You actually did it. I'm proud of you," he praised her, patting her on the head lightly before quickly getting into the bathtub and dragging the shower curtain across so he was hidden.

He'd forgotten that it would also be quite embarrassing for him.

"Now go away."

"Awh man.. I hate those goddamn things," Kirai grumbled.

Lilly laughed a bit and nodded, "I'll leave your towels here and your clothes too..I'll come back and check on you later," Lilly said to him as she left the bathroom.

Lilly went downstairs and sat on the couch and laid down and fell asleep watching the clock.

"Well it's the only way to make her stand out," said Alex.

Cloud had trouble staying awake, what with being submerged in warm water and having bubbles everywhere. However, he did manage to make it out without drowning..

He walked into the living room after getting re-dressed to see where Lilly had gone, and upon seeing her asleep, took a seat on the couch across from her and promptly fell into his own sleep.

Kirai sighed. "Yeah.. but she gets all dangerous and stuff.. and what if there are more color-themed people out there who find her and then she goes all evil again?!"

Lilly turned on her side in her sleep and yawned a bit. She opened her eyes for a moment and then pulled the blanket on the back of the couch she was on and pulled over herself and went back to sleep.

Alex patted his shoulder, "I doubt they had time to create the other three or four that were in progress, they didn't have time to put them into any trials so they would have been defective anyways," said Alex.

"Eh.. I guess she's okay then.. but still, it's unnerving to know that she's out in the city alone, at night, and could suddenly go insane over something as small as like, seeing someone litter. And she could hurt people," Kirai said. He was pretty paranoid about all of this ever since he'd seen how crazy she'd gone. "Well I'm not sure she would go insane over those kinds of things. But we need to find her still, if not I think Artemis might make you sleep in the backyard tonight," Alex said to him. Kirai blinked when he realized something. "Oh yeah.. I forgot you have no idea where to go around here. Whoops," he said, laughing at himself as he started to lead the way towards the middle of the city, where the building had been.

"So which building is it that she was at when she had tried to hunt down Prism the first time? Artemis told me the story once of their first meeting in a long time," Alex told him. Alex looked around the city; he knew if he didn't stay close he would be the one to get lost. "Maybe the building besides being tall. Has another purpose, I mean tall buildings aren't just stood on for no reason right?," asked Alex. He saw Kirai trying to read the signs only problem was right when he moved Kirai to the side a bullet went past them.

Alex turned and saw three guys standing there in the darkness each with a weapon in hand. Kirai looked in the direction of where the bullet had flown from. "What..the..fuck?" he said slowly.

This was not a good situation.

Three against two, it was likely that Alex didn't have any weapons on him, and Kirai sure as hell didn't. He wouldn't be of much help either way.

"What the hell do they want?" he whispered carefully to Alex. "If I knew that don't you think I would've kicked their ass already?," Alex whispered back to him.

The three of them stood in front of the two, they were about to advance forward when they stopped. "Don't. Touch them," said a girl's voice. The three of them parted to let the girl through. Once she came into view they saw it was Sora.

"They're just street mice, they aren't who were looking for..let's go," said Sora. She turned to leave. Kirai stared at Sora with confusion. They were what? Did she just call her boyfriend and her little brother street mice? Was she alright?

He gave Alex a glance to see if he knew what was going on. "Uh.. is she okay?"

He looked at her, "I think so..but I think she only called us that to seem not all girly in front of them. She seemed to be in charge and once you show weakness of any kind its over for the leader. She may explain later," said Alex.

"Are you three idiots coming or not?! Leave those two boys alone before I come over there and kick your asses instead!," Sora shouted at the three. Kirai suddenly had the desire to embarrass the hell out of her in front of them, as payback for the multitude of times that she'd done the same to him. But he quickly thought better of that. Doing something like that could mean more trouble than some blushing for Sora.

"Oh." He looked over at the three guys who were still standing in front of them. Why hadn't they moved yet? Alex gave him a slight nod. It was hard to understand somethings with Sora, but when she was in charge back at the base he never saw her crack under any kinds of pressure until the attack.

The three stood there still not moving. Sora got tired of waiting and then walked back and shoved of them to the ground roughly, "I said. Let's get going. Or did your ears break?," she asked with a hiss. Kirai was only slightly surprised at Sora's random aggressiveness. He wondered how badly he'd get injured if he asked who they were looking for. It was probably best not to ask.

Why were those idiots not listening to her? Obviously they knew what she was capable of, so were they suicidal or something? The three didn't bother to answer her but simply shook their heads in response. "Get going now. I'll catch up in a minute," Sora ordered, they nodded and they got up and left.

Sora watched them leave, once she knew they were gone she turned back to Alex and Kirai, "What are you two doing out here?"

"Looking for you. What are YOU doing out here?" Kirai asked her. "And who are you looking for?" He couldn't think of anyone else they needed to get rid of. "I'm out here doing business. And why are you looking for me?," she asked Kirai. "As for who I'm looking for..thats not your concern," Sora said with a secretive tone in her voice.

"Artemis was being protective again. And you also have a history of running away and getting into some serious trouble," Kirai pointed out.

He tilted his head at her. "Are you sure it isn't? I mean I'm pretty concerned right now," he said, a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "Well he can just kick rocks then. Yes I am aware of how much trouble I can get into and that's a good thing for me," Sora told him.

"Don't worry about it...let's just say..they won't need to worry about anything at all after tonight," she said with a slight smile. Kirai blinked at her, suddenly feeling scared for whoever she was talking about. "Sora. Who are you killing?" The only person he could think of was Kiki, but he wasn't about to say that and give her an idea if it wasn't her original plan.

"No one Kirai..at least..no one you need to worry your sweet little head over," she said to him innocently. Sora wasn't going to let him know who she was going to kill; it was an old rival from the other gang that had always managed to piss her off all the time. Kirai continued to look at her, unconvinced. "It doesn't matter who it is, the fact that you're killing someone is the bad part. If Cloud hadn't known you would it have mattered any less that he killed your parents? No. Would you hate him any less? Probably not. What if whoever you're going after has a little sibling they have to take care of, huh? They're going to be put in the exact same situation you were."

Sora rolled her eyes at him. "Please, I know their back story already. They ran away from home and didn't care who they left behind. They in fact used to live several states away from here and they have changed their name to never be found by their original family. They heard the missing children's list and saw their name but did not care, they never answered and no one found them. They so far believe their child will never return home."

"Person was an only child and they aren't planning on returning home," Sora told Kirai the back story. She gave him a smile, "And besides..let's say they betrayed their only friend when they arrived and ended up killing and taking away some of that person's allies."

Kirai sighed in annoyance. "What fucking ever, go kill things, have fun." He was honestly getting tired of everyone wanting blood around here. Could anyone go a week without killing someone? It was quite ridiculous in his eyes.

"I'm not going to try and stop you anymore cause it's useless anyways, but Artemis will kill me if he finds out that I let you go." He wondered what he could do. Alex sighed, "After all this time of no longer using your assassinations you go right back to the old ways...sometimes I wonder if they ever fucked up this clone. I mean you got what you wanted..but do you honestly think killing them would be best?," asked Alex.

Sora gave them a look, "Kill them? What the hell? We were only going to report them in as the run away to get rid of them..but killing is another way too," Sora said calmly.