Hey! Sorry again, that I didn´t update sooner! But I was kind of busy with my other fanfictions. Anyway from now on I will update more often and I promise the next chapter will be longer. Hopefully you still enjoy this story :)


Chapter 9 – Aftertaste

"He kissed you?!", Sakura exclaimed, while I just nodded my now beet red head.

"Wow. That´s... Interesting..", she added.

Embarassed as I was, I now stood up and almost screamed at her: "Interesting? What do you mean by that?! I´m just.. so confused.. I can´t believe this even happened to me!"

"Why? Was it your first kiss?", my best friend started to grin.

"Don´t be rediculous! Of course it wasn´t my first!"

"Oh really? I didn´t know you were such a playsquid. So who was your first then?", the pink Inklinggirl asked me.

"Ugh.. A guy from my childhood? But I don´t remember his name.. I think his name startet with the letter "G" or something like that..", I answered her, being quite annoyed.

"Oh, come on girl! A childhood friend? That doesn´t even count! Anyway, so did you like the kiss?", her grin becoming clearly bigger now.

As she asked me this, my face started to burn with embarassment again: "I ugh.. no.."

"You are lying...", Sakura almost sang that sentence.

"Well, it wasn´t bad! However, the more important question is, why he did kiss me in the first place, though.", I said.

"Hmm, if you ask me there are only two possibilities. The first one would be, that this guy really likes you. But it could also be, that he is in fact a playsquid, so he might just be fooling around with you.."

I sighed at her opinion.

"However this story will end though, I´m quite exited about how the whole thing will proceed!", Sakura playfully hit my arm. "Maybe you will get a boyfriend sooner than me!"

"Stop it, Sakura! I don´t even like this guy! He is my rival. My enemy!", I exclaimed.

"Never say never!", my friend finally said, before we continued to talk for a while until we both went to our homes.

After being kissed, I just had to talk to someone about the whole situation. So after I calmed myself from the recent events, I immediately had called Sakura to meet me at the town central of Inkopolis.

I must say, I felt a little better after talking to her. But I was still very confused. Why had Shiro kissed me? Was he really a playsquid? Well, he was always surrounded by Inklinggirls and he was always awfully nice to me, though I was being rude to him since I met him. So it could be that he was only playing with my emotions..

So what if he was? Why did this possibility give me such an unsure feeling in my stomach?

And why the heck did I return that damn kiss?!

I shook my head to let go of these thoughts and went straight home. Whatever that boy was planning, I would definately find it out sooner or later!

With that I opened the door,only to be greeted by my mother, who was watching TV right now.

"Welcome back, honey! How was the tournament?"

"Great. We won as usual.", I answered.

"That´s good to hear. Oh, by the way! Did you hear that from tommorow on, there will be new rules at turf war and ranked battle?", my mom mentioned.

Curiosity got ahead of me: "Really? What did they change?"

"I´m not sure. They just mentioned it on TV. But you know how I am. I didn´t really listen because I´m not that interested on that topic."

I smiled at that. It was true. My mother never was that much onto splating. In fact neither was Sakura.

"It´s okay. I will look it up later."

And with that I went to my room and immediately looked up the new rules on the squidnet.

Maximun level raised to 50

Rank S and S+ have been added

New Maps, Gear and Weapons available

Possibility to do private battles

I read through the article and groaned.

"Seriously? Rank S+?! Ugh, I guess I know what I will be doing tomorrow after school..", I talked to myself.

As the thought of tomorrow came into my mind, I suddenly felt sick. How the heck should I approach Shiro, after what he had done to me today?