It is Monday morning( three day after the incident with Takumi) I am feeling good, because I ate all my meals yesterday even though I am not a good cook and I had plenty of rest and my shin doesn't hurt as much as it did three days ago.

It is 6:30 pm when Takumi walks in. I am working on some stuff for the station when the fire alarm rings, I glance at the clock it is 6:33 am. That means no one else is her except for me and Takumi.

I run into Takumi's office, he was already near the door when I shot it open. I bumped into him. My body slams into his. I look up to his face, he has a serious face. He just takes my arm and runs to the garage.

He yells on top of the alarm. 'I will go to the control room and check the location and you get ready and drive, okay' it was more of a command than a statement

I nod and he lets go of my arm to goes to the control room.

If he goes into the fire alone I am going to go insane. He is so selfish.

I reach the garage and start to put on my suit. He runs in towards me.

'Ayuzawa, it is only a small fire so we should be fine, and there is only a three year old girl trapped in it'

'I am going in' I say with a firm voice

'You can save her but I am coming in too' Takumi negotiated while putting on his suit. Takumi put his arms through the sleeve, they fit perfectly in.

'Usui, you are so stubborn!' I yell at him

'Me' Takumi looked at me with an incredulous face ' Yah I am one who is stubborn!' Takumi says sarcastically

I don't say anything to him but he smiles as I storm off to the driver's seat of the truck

He sits in the passenger seat next to me seconds later and tells me the address. I close the windows it is late October and it is chilly. And I am only wearing a t-shirt.

We arrive there and there is practically no fire, I don't know what Takumi meant by small fire. I still hadn't put on my suit so I look at him and then back to my shirt as if reading my mind, he gets up and takes my seat to park as I go to the back to get slip my suit on. I struggle at first but I move around to get it on and zip it on. I leap out the back door and don't waste my time looking for Takumi and rush in. And couldn't find the girl. Through the window that looks at the front lawn, I see Takumi putting out what is left of the fire with the hose. He is really quick to take the hose out. If it was me, it would take me a couple of minutes but Takumi did it in seconds.

I turn back and my eyes dart around and scan the place but I don't see her anywhere, I don't even hear screaming. I walk through the kitchen and into the bedroom. I still can't see her. Everything is still intact. I go to the kitchen and see if any of the ovens are on, so that doesn't cause another fire. Then I slowly make my way to what looks like the bedrooms. I push one of the doors slowly and I see a bed with its cover all balled up at the end of the bed that is the closest to me. I scan the room and no one is there. That was probably the child's room, it had a lot of toys and it was kind of messy with clothes and blocks thrown everywhere. I close the door and stand in the hallway, ready to go to the next room when I hear footsteps.

Who in hell could be in a burned house!

I whirl around to see who it is. It is Takumi. Duh! Why wouldn't it be him!

'I can't find her' I say to him. We were kind of close but we were both wearing suits so that sort of created a barrier.

He nodded and said 'Ok, Misaki, let's find her together' Takumi kind of slipped his hand into mine. I don't know if is by accident but I still jerked away from. Even through my helmet I can still hear him trying to cover up a laugh. We checked all the rooms but no luck.

We walked side by side until I had a sudden urge to look in the bathroom. Takumi was looking in the closets that were not in the rooms but they were connected to the walls of the main hallway.

'Usui I am going to check in there' I pointed to the bathroom door

He simply nodded and turned around and Takumi checked another closet with a vacuum and bottles of cleaning agents on the top shelf.

I slowly opened the bathroom room.

I saw her, a little girl, playing in the tub filled with water and a couple of rubber ducks. She was happy and just playing with ducks. There were no bubbles so you could see everything that is underwater.

I turned around to look for Takumi to tell him I found the girl and to tell him to stop looking but Takumi wasn't there so I took a step inside the washroom.

'Hi' I started and took of my helmet and put it on the sink counter.

'Hey!' she smiled with glee. She hands a rubber duck in her hands and moved them about after she greeted me.

'Where is your towel?' I ask her gently as I walk closer towards her

'Why?' she asked me, she stopped playing with the ducks and looked at me, curiously

'So we can take you to your mother' I smile and stop centimeters away from the bath tub

'Okay!' the girl smiled and pointed to the small closet

I turned around to the closet and out of the corner of my eye I see Takumi slowly opening the door.

'Wait!' I yell to him and run over to close the door. There is a little girl naked in the tub; I am not going to let him in. Who knows what perverted things Takumi might think and do. Takumi doesn't push the door back but I know he is still there. I still there though with my hand on the handle

'Why, Ayuzawa?' Takumi questioned

'Just don't come in!' I yell to him through the door. That was obviously not a good answer. I can feel him touch the door. And I place myself in a stance where I can keep the door shut: legs apart and shoulder against the door.

'Fine, but explain why?' Takumi sounded serious but Takumi didn't try to open the door

'Because I found her, she is in the tub' I yell to the door still keeping my stance

'Naked?' perfect guess. I loosed my stance.

'Yeah, and I know how perverted you will get' I lightly chuckle

'I am only perverted to you and no one else' I know Takumi is lying but still continue chuckling

I didn't reply because I would just lose to him like always, so I turned around and went to get the towel from the closet.

'Got it!' I say while holding up the towel in my hand. I walk over to her, she emerges out of the water and I wrap her in it.

'Do you want to carry you or do you want to walk?' I ask her as I help her out of the tub

'I can walk' looking up at me while smiling. She has a cute smile

'Perfect' I open the door for her and grab my helmet on the way out

I see Takumi waiting beside the dining table. His eyes dart at me and a smile grows and stops midway as Takumi sees the little girl.

'Okay, Usui, we are ready to go' I say to him

'Great!' Takumi walked beside us. My stomach lets out a growl. Shit! Let's hope no one noticed.

We got out and walked to police car. Her mother was there waiting for her. They looked completely different they had no similar features. The mother wraps the girl in her coat and takes the child in her arms. Oh how I long for a hug from my mother.

He police took it from there. 45 minutes later everything was cleared

'Ayuzawa, do you want to leave?' Takumi asked me

'Sure' we walked to the truck in silence but something tells me that Takumi is burning holes in my suit with his stare.

'I am going to get changed and, Ayuzawa, I will drive' Takumi says with a tinge of seriousness

'Okay' I nod

It takes less than 3 minutes to come out and sits in the driver's seat. I still have my suit on. It is a bit chilly for a t-shirt so I decide not to take mine off.

'The others are probably at the station by now' I say to him as Takumi starts the truck and drives out of the neighborhood.

'Yeah' Takumi says calmly while his eyes are still on the road

'They are going to be wondering where we've been' is Takumi mad or something?

'There was a fire' still looking at the road. Thank you captain obvious

I nod and look out the window. If Takumi is mad then I better not make it worse.

A couple of seconds later, I say to him 'I am going to change out of this' I unbuckle my seat belt and face him 'It is hot and I am sweating' I get up and walk into the back.

'Aren't you forgetting something' Takumi looks at me with a devilish smile.

'What?' I don't know

'I might look' Takumi grins. I think I am happy that Takumi is not mad and back to his teasing self.

'Oh right! Don't look or I will kill you here!' I yell

'Okay, Ayuzawa' Takumi chuckles and a smile grows on my face as I turn to the back of the truck

I walk to the back of the truck and looked if Takumi was watching me but for some reason I knew Takumi wouldn't. And Takumi wasn't watching me. His eyes were still trained on the road. I quickly peeled of my suit and hung it on the hook and walked back to the passenger seat. Takumi made a turn right and I was standing right in between the seats. I didn't have control and was moving left... Near Takumi.

It happened so fast. I was just standing. I felt his hand around my waist, it was warm and soft. I think Takumi touched my bare skin because how would I know his hand was soft. I shut my eyes and I feel warmth all around the right side of my body. To scared to open my eyes, I don't move a muscle; I don't what to where I landed. I feel his fingers loosen up but still lingering on the small of my back.

I slowly open my eyes and then I realize am in his lap. I meet his eyes, there is a glint of happiness and a little bit worried. I look around myself and I see his arms trapped me, one of them on the wheel and the other on my back. My legs were dangling out towards my seat.

'Don't move; let me get into the highway first' Takumi said with a firm tone and still turning on the huge curve

'Why are we on the highway?' we don't need to go on a highway to go to the station

'Because it will be faster' Takumi said while grinning

'But we didn't use it when we came here?' I ask. I can feel my hand slowly moving away from my back and onto the wheeling, I presume.

'I know, I am starving so we are going to eat' Takumi is so weird. Dragging me along to eat just because Takumi is hungry, selfish jerk!

I glance at the digital clock on the dashboard, 10:15 am

'It is still 10 in the morning!' I yell

He nodded 'that mission just took a lot out of me' Takumi smiled at me

He has to be joking! I shifted position so I can face him better and I can feel his arm with my back as I move. I grabbed on to his shirt and yell 'Are you joking! You didn't do anything on that mission! I was all me! I AM THE ONE WHO FOUND THAT GIRL AND WHO TOOK HER OUTSIDE UNLIKE YOU! YOU WERE just being perverted!'

I scrunched up more of his shirt in my hand. I didn't realize but we arrived at a diner. Takumi takes off his seatbelt. He swiftly takes my waist into his left hand and my legs into his right hand so easily like I am ready to be carried out like a princess. His fingers are light and soft and his face is solemn and before I can react to any of this I can only think that going to do something perverted to me. I figure out my options: 1. Scream 2. Kick 3. Bite him or spit 4. Attack him head on, but I think Takumi is a little bit stronger than I am. Takumi does nothing, Takumi doesn't lift me instead Takumi stares into my eyes and I do the same. I had no words left.