"Friend?"
"So… Aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?"
The question felt out of place after what he had just done. The man had threatened to take his life from him and would have forced his friends to watch as he got shot. He had seen this person as a crazy unsympathetic bastard who didn't give a shit about others. Now he looked at the person not only as if he was crazy, but like he was a long lost friend, which was exactly what the person was. He wanted to hug him after not seeing him for so long, but after what happened, the action would have felt out of place…
"What are you doing here?" He asked the question with no hostility in it, but he felt as though it wasn't the best thing to say to him. Especially since this was the first time he had seen him in nearly a year and a half.
The boy frowned at him. "Awww come on Keiichi, don't I get a proper greeting than just 'What are you doing here?' Haven't seen ya in over a year's time after all."
"You did almost kill me," he said frankly."
"That was a joke! I didn't think you'd take it that hard after seeing me."
"You scared everyone half to death!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah!" said a voice from behind him. He turned to see Mion walking to his side. She wasn't pleased with the joke either. "You walk in feigning the intention to kill Kei-chan, scare us all to death, and expect us to just laugh about it afterwards?" her anger becoming stronger with each word.
"Yeah," he said casually, "thought you guys would see the humor in it."
"Well let's just say we're not laughing," said Mion, her anger dwindling away, "Who the heck are you anyway?"
The boy chuckled. "Right, since Keiichi here won't do it, I guess I'll do it myself," he said, turning to address the group as a whole.
"My name is Kiratori Duos; I'm an old friend of Keiichi here. It's a pleasure to meet you all.
He smiled broadly in front of the group. He didn't seem to be bothered that most of the group didn't trust him.
"A friend of Keiichi's?" she said in a more friendly way. "Very well, I'm Sonozaki Mion, the class president here."
"Nice to meet you," said Duos, "And the rest of you are?" he said, waiting for the others to finish his sentence.
He realized that he should do the right thing with introducing his friend to the rest of the class. He told him who Rena, Satoko, Rika, Hanyu and the rest of the class were. He received a satisfying grunt from Duos as he inspected the rest of the group.
"Nice lot you have here. I expected as much, your charisma could attract an army." He decided to take it as a compliment.
"Anyways I'd like to apologize for scaring you all," the sincerity was evident in his voice.
"Well…" said Mion, "I guess you can't be all that bad if you're willing to apologize up front and all…"
"I'm glad I thought I had made the worst impression ever…"
You idiot of course you did! He thought to himself. He was just happy Mion had accepted the apology for the class and was hopefully not too angry at him. He thought for sure that she'd clock him one after that. Duos got off lucky.
"Anyways, it's best I be going. I promised your teacher that I wouldn't take up too much time in greeting you. You guys still got school for another few hours anyway-,"
"Wait! Chie sensei new about what was going on!" said Mion as she took another step towards Duos. He was probably gonna get it now…
"Yeah, I walked in, got the o.k. from her and your principal, and made my way down to your classroom." He seemed proud of himself. "I did modify what I told them a bit in order to suit my preference though."
"I bet you did," he said to Duos, holding off his angered friend.
"Well, I'll drop by once your school's finished. Then we can catch up," he said as he bent down to pick up the mask and bandana from earlier.
"That sounds good." His mood picking up a bit, "See ya later."
"See ya!" he called back, as he made his way out of the classroom.
It wasn't long before they watched him get on his bike and speed out of the schoolyard, waving to them as he left the property.
Safe…
The word, though relieving, did nothing to relinquish the fear dwelling in the young goddess. She had felt it, the fear, the same as the time when she saw a creature killing her in her dreams. It was all too familiar. But she couldn't bring herself to think that this boy could be the one that would kill her… No, she could, she just didn't want to think about it…
But she had felt something, something for sure. She would not deny that to herself. They had come close today. Too close. She wasn't sure about the boy's presence here, being almost a week before the festival came again. What were the chances, she knew deep down inside that it was no coincidence.
The bell rung, signaling the end of lunch.
She watched as the groups of kids began to reset their desks to their original spots and prepare for the next half of the day. They all looked to be over what had just happened. They had confidence in Keiichi. If he was fine with the boy and forgave him for what he did, then they had no reason not to do the same. But not her. She knew they had to be careful this time around. They didn't know a lot about this boy and friend or no fiend they had to be ready. She had seen the insanity and bloodshed that had befallen her friends in the past.
She wasn't going to give fate another chance to finish them off. Not on her life…
Author's Notes
When one enemy is taken down, a new one arises…
5 chapters down, I don't know how many to go.
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Heh…That rhymes:)