Chance Meeting

Shunsui's face turned to Nanao as she finished off the remains of the paperwork. His face changed to a pout as he tried to "convince" his cold assistant to allow him to take the night off. Finally Nanao agreed, a vein in her temple throbbing while her eyes glinted dangerously. Thankfully Shunsui was intelligent enough to get out of there. FAST!

Sitting quietly in the office she finished signing and forging signatures, stretching upward and letting the pen fall from her fingers to the desk.

A small smile played on her lips as she grabbed her coat and stepped into the breezy autumn wind. As she allowed the rising moon's light dance across her face something jerked her off guard. The heavy sound of a man's footsteps.

Continuing her quick pace, Nanao kept an ear on the clumsy tracker. Soon the footsteps stopped to be replaced by the sound of several footsteps, all men. Quickly she turned around to be faced by twelve men, every one of them large and bulky. The largest of them stepped forward, a slimy smile oozing onto his face. They would expect her to go quietly. A cold smile, unnoticeable by the men appeared, that wouldn't happen.

Lunging forward Nanao took all of them by surprise as she let her hand punch forward to smash in the slime's nose. Cursing out the leader held his hand against his nose and nasally yelled out,

" GET HER!" Yelling and whooping the eleven remaining men charged forward.

Riza yawned as she looked at the clock and gave a quick glance at the rest of the men and women still here, all of which were dead on their feet. Waving her hand, she gave them the rest of the night off.

"Ugh. It's already nearly one in the morning. Might as well leave the rest for tomorrow." Riza mused. With that thought Riza left to catch at least a few hours of sleep before returning to the mountain of paperwork.

Shivering slightly she went outside only to find a girl with twelve men, four of which were unconscious, the rest trying to get a punch in. The girl on the other hand was valiantly defending herself, even than one of them managed to get through her defenses and punch her porcelain face leaving a scratch and a large bruise beginning to form.

Drawing one of the two guns she always carried with her, her hand tightened on the trigger and watched in satisfaction as one of the men screamed out as a thin red line appeared above the man's eye.

"Watch yourselves I will aim lower next time." Her voice cold with ice. A smile just as cold as her voice appeared as she watched the men carry off the wounded and scamper off.

Riza turned to Nanao as she prodded at the bruise that was forming around the scrape began to swell. Nanao gave a groan.

"What is it?" Riza asked, puzzled, " Be glad it could be a lot worse. By the way I'm Riza." Nanao nodded and spoke,

"I'm Nanao and I know but the problem is my boss, he's going to murder those guys and I'm going to have to get him out of prison AGAIN!" Riza laughed, the sound ringing throughout the empty street.

"Trust me been there done that. Come on, I'll see if I can help hide that so your boss won't go on a killing spree." Nanao stepped back, waving her hands as she protested,

"It's fine I'll patch it up at home!" Riza just smiled and beckoned for the dark haired woman to follow. Hesitantly Nanao followed, a tissue pressed against the scrape.

Within ten minutes they reach the apartment, to Nanao's surprise it was where her apartment was situated as well. Climbing upwards they reached the sixth floor and Riza let her in. Yapping, a small black and white puppy came running up to them, welcoming them. Laughing once more Riza introduced them,

"Nanao this is Black Hayate." While tilting his head Black Hayate gave one more yap and ran off. Both of them laughed as Riza led Nanao into the living room.

Gesturing for the uneasy woman to sit Riza set off for the restroom to gather the supplies she would need.

Nanao sat there nervously, letting her hands fix her hair back up neatly and push her wireframe glasses back up her nose. Soon Riza was done and set the materials on the coffee table. Taking a cotton ball she soaked it in iodine and pressed it into Nanao's scrape. Nanao grimaced as the liquid caused the wound to sting with a vehemence.

"Done" Riza declared keeping an eye on her handiwork. Some makeup hid the bruise well and a bandage covered the bright red of the scratches. Studying her reflection Nanao gave a small smile since the wound was well covered and would remain covered until she could explain to Shunsui before he err…jumped to conclusions.

"Thank you for doing this and here," Nanao said handing her a piece of paper containing her number, "here's my number and call me if you have time so I can thank you." Walking out the door Nanao allowed the small smile to grow larger as she reached her own apartment. They would become friends, she knew it.

The next day Nanao walked into the office on time as always and Shunsui waltzed in singing his praises of his "lovely, lovely Nanao-Chan!" Her temple throbbing, Nanao resisted the tempting offer to punch him as she began to explain the scratch before he leapt to some ridiculous conclusion…

"Nanao-Chan! What happened to your beautiful face? Did your lover hit you in the face?" …too late. Her fists shaking Nanao gritted out,

"No this didn't come from a lover! I tripped and scraped it on the concrete, and Kyouraku-San you are to call me Ise-San." Immediately Shunsui backed off, the fire in his eyes fading into softly glowing embers.

Time flew past as the two argued, fought, repeated this cycle, and one of them managed to get her paperwork done by lunch. Suddenly, with a sharp RING! The sound of a cell phone managed to break through their banter, arguing whatever you prefer to call it.

Picking it up Nanao held it against her ear as she fended off an eager Shunsui. "Hello? Oh, hi! Yeah sure I'll meet you there in ten minutes okay?" Tapping a button on the phone she turned to Shunsui and abruptly said," I'm going to lunch." As she walked off, Shunsui quickly began to follow her hoping it wasn't an admirer or worse, a suitor. The thought made him shiver causing his eyes took on a determined look as he followed Nanao quietly out the door.

Meanwhile, Riza was trying to get Roy back into the world of the living while he snoozed at his desk, his pen poised above a sheet of paper. Giving up she finally pulled her gun. That usually worked…not this time. Grimly she aimed and fired at Roy the bullet landing a centimeter away from his head. Starting he woke and scrambled away the woman holding a smoking gun.

"Sir I'm going on my lunch break." Her voice finally breaking the silence which had followed the gunshot.

Riza walked out the door, but the moment she left the men in the room began to chatter about the phone call the assistant had made before shooting at the boss. Roy listened with interest, his mind beginning to thing and plot. A smirk appeared on his face. Well what if Riza meets up with a rapist. I should be there to protect her. Roy's logic made sense…albeit only in his mind. But that was beside the point, he walked out the door to follow Riza on her meeting with Nanao.

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