I don't own Naruto only my OC's
Author's note: I will come back to edit, sorry the mistakes.
Happy reading. ^_^
"Mmh-hmm," I happily hum and sway my head side to side, as I joyfully chew on my sweet snack.
"This is what we really needed." Sakimi says, finishing the sake she had in her tiny cup.
I nod in agreement and take another bite of my dango.
She pours another cup of sake,
"Want a sip?" She holds the drink out in front of me.
I look at the cup, I guess a taste wouldn't hurt, "Sure." I take the cup and look at the clear liquid inside.
"Just drown the whole thing." I look up at sakimi as she motions how I should drink it.
I swirl the tiny cup, raising it to my lips and dunk the rice liquor with a fast and big gulp. Soon as that happens my throat starts to burn, follow by the sake hitting my stomach seconds after. It felt like that burn sensation when you haven't eaten all day and you can feel your stomach acids trying to eat your stomach. I scrunch up my face in dissatisfaction.
"You enjoy this stuff." I hand her the cup and takes a couple of sips of my tea to wash out the taste in my mouth.
"You get use to it." Sakimi says and hands me another cup of that bitter awful drink.
I shake my head refusing, "I guess."
She pulls back and drinks a sip of it herself, "So Rina, I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Yeah?" I see that her back is straight, her face unreadable, and locking her eyes with mine. Her body movements made me straighten my own posture a little. What ever she was going to say it's serious.
A giant grin slowly replaces the cold stone expression from before, "Who's the guy."
My whole body stiffens and eyes open wide," What guy?" I try and fail to hide my shock.
"You know what I'm talking about." She says with the same grin and wiggles her eyebrows.
"I-I don't know what you mean." I fail to control my blush and stutter, I guess I'm a really light weight drinker.
"That blush says something else." When I hear that I feel more blood rush to my face.
"It's the sake." I say as an excuse and avoid making eye contact.
"Yeah sure." I can hear that she is smirking, "This week you were acting so different."
I look at her with and tilt my head, she continues," In the beginning you were more happy and giggly than usual. You would randomly have this faint blush on your face, and looking like you where floating." I know exactly what she is talking about. I never realized till now how much Tobi's presents effects me. I stare at my food in front, like it was the most interesting thing in the world.
"Then after those days you seemed down. I was about to ask what was wrong tonight, but now you are back to this chipper mood." She taps the table to get my attention, I look away from my food and at her.
"So I ask again. Who is the guy?" She tilts her head.
"Oh sorry or girl, I agree that everyone deserves love."
"There is no one." I say to her and take a bite of my dango.
She rolls her eyes, "Come on. This "no one" has you acting all out of character, with the smiling and blushing. " She put her hands up putting air quotations when she says no one, "I won't say anything to anyone." She brings up her hands together in a praying motion and sticks out her bottom lip.
I ignore her and stuff more dango in my face.
She lets go of her begging expression and cross her arms, "Fine be that way, but can you at least tell me there is someone. There is no way someone cute and adorable as you hasn't have someone."
I shrug and drink some of my tea.
She gives me a, are you serious look and shakes her head, "But I did want to talk to you about something serious."
She changed the tone of her voice, from annoyed to authorize. I look at her with all my attention
"I'm moving back to konoha." She says quietly with a small smile.
"Really! That is great!"
"Wow you seem so heart broken about this." Her face goes blank, emotionless.
I give her my best Sorry face, "Sorry. It's just that I wanted to talk to you about the same thing."
She arches her eyebrow, "Hmmm?"
I reach out so I can hold on to her hands, " I'm moving towns pretty soon. I still want to travel the rest of the world and I didn't want to leave you alone with...him around." I say quietly as I can for only her to hear. She gives my hands a squeeze in return.
"Thank you Rina." Sakimi head is down facing her lap and I see her shoulders shake slightly.
"Thank you for thinking about me, protecting me, and for not judging. You truly are my best friend." She lifts her head and gives me a teary true smile.
"No problem Sakimi." I return the smile and let go one of my hands so I can give her a napkin.
She takes the napkin from me," Thanks, I didn't mean to cry, but you better come to konoha and write to me." Sakimi points to me.
I force a smile to my face," I'll put it on my places to travel list." is all I can say to hear. I know for a fact that I would never set foot onto one the great five nation's, unless I want to he tortured for information. I felt bad for maybe getting Sakimi's hopes up, but i think it's better if she just forgets about me.
Room 7653. I look at the key in my hand and back at the door. Should I just open it? Knock and wait for him to answer, maybe Yell.
I knock on the door, " I'm coming in!" and use the key to open it. I walk in the room and hear yumma's voice coming from further inside.
"I told you guys, I don't feel like sight seeing today." Yuuma sees me and stops walking and drying his hair with the towel. "Rina."
"Hey." I wave at him and close the door behind me.
"You actually came." His face shines with happiness.
"You didn't think I would?" I cross my arms feeling a little insulted.
"I didn't think so soon, I thought you have work." He gesture that I was in my uniform for work.
I lift my shoulders ," I do, but in a little bit." He nods his head and starts drying his hair again. I take off my shoes and look around his hotel room. The walls are a golden brown and there are a red sofa and arm chairs is the first thing I notice. A small coffee table that has an empty take out plates on top of it. I walk further in and see a big unmade king size bed next to a window with the curtains closed. There was another door that I assume that was the bathroom. I open the curtains and see there was also a patio giving a great view of a small rivier below.
"So this is the life of a rock star." I say to him and close the curtains again.
"Yeah. Well no this is just a mini vacation before we all perform in the village hidden in the rivers." He tells me and drapes the used towel over the foot of the bed. I plop down on his bed and admire how fluffy the pillows are.
"You really did make it." I look at him and let out a small laugh. I was proud of him, he made our dreams a reality.
He walks to the other side of the bed and lays down with me." Yeah I guess I did." He smiles down at me.
I let out a sigh, "Wish I can say the same thing." I look up at the ceiling. Ever since I agree to become a spy and fallow Tobi's plan, I completely threw out my plans on becoming an artist.
I feel his warn hand touch my arm. "It's not to late." I turn to look at him and half smile. If he only knew that it was for me until infinite tyskyomi was complete. My eyes drifts down and I notice something black under his white short sleeve.
"Is that?" I point to it.
He fallows the direction I am pointing," Oh yeah you notice." He rolls the sleeve up so I can get a better look.
"You got a tattoo?" I sit up to get a better look at it.
"Yeah."
It see the black and white tattoo fill his entire upper right arm. The tattoo is a geisha's upper body in a kimono. The geisha side is slightly facing me, but her head looking right with smoke escaping her painted lips. She is holding a paper umbrella with her right and a cigarette holder with the left. Cherry blossom braches at the bottom of the tattoo and with some petals flowing in the air, some more swirling with the smoke. It was very detailed, I can clearly see the folds and depth of the geisha's kimono, and umbrella. The kimono is so we'll drawn giving the tattoo life, and the paper umbrella has a koi fish on it.
"It's beautiful."
"It took so many sessions like you wouldn't believe to complete it." He rolls his sleep back down.
"Is that the only one you got?"
He shakes his head," No I have this one." He stands up and takes off his shirt off. He turns so his left side is facing me and lifts his arm to revealing another tattoo.
Unfazed by his nudity I read the quote on his rib. Life is like a piano; the white key represent happiness and the black show sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also create music.
"Very deep." I tell him and try to remember this quote.
"Yeah and of course I had to have one dedicated to my late parents." He sits on the bed, with his back facing me.
I get on my knees to get a better look, "I remember you telling me about them." Before Yuuma left to travel, him and his mother were stuck in the middle of a battlefield. Them and others tried to run to safety, but some didn't reach it in time and that included his mother. His father was a shinobi and was with a group on a suicide mission by order of the Mizukage, or that's what he thinks happened. I smiled sadly at the both their names written on his back.
"Now I kinda want a tattoo." I sit back down on the bed.
Yuuma puts his shirt back on and sits with me,"If you want one just tell me and I'll recommend you to the guy that did all these."
I hold my hand out to stop his idea," I said kinda, I don't know what I would want permitted on my body."
"How about a chibi red mochi character for my cute Rina-chan." He bops my nose. I chuckle a little and push him playfully.
"No."
"I think it would be cool and you love that snack with a passion. No one can come between Rina and her mochi." He shivers, " I still remember what happened when I ate the last one without asking."
I small laugh at that, " I didn't eat much that day and you fucken ate more than me." I remind him.
"Rina you almost pierced me with the chopstick. If I didn't doge in time i would have ended up in the hospital."
"You are over reacting"
He points his finger at me," you threw the chopsticks so hard that they stayed sticking out of the wall. Remember we had to pay for the owner for the damages after you calmed down. "
"We still aren't allowed back there." I laugh.
"Ha-ha yes, laugh at you almost killing me." He fakes laugh.
"It just your face was priceless." I like his cheek. He flinches away, but I could see a part of the smile he was trying to hide.
" Moving on from my near death experience." I roll my eyes at his exaggeration, "How long do you have before you have to go?" He asks
i look around and read the tiny clock next to me in the nightstand," Um soon now. I just came to check that this key wasn't a prank." I pat where the key was located in my pants.
Yuuma's eyes grew wide," Dammit that would have been hilarious! I had a chance." He run his hand through his hair.
"Your loss." I shrug. Im glad he didn't.
"Where are you staying in this town?"
"With a roommate."
"A female roommate right.?" His face shows concern.
"Does it matter?"
"Yes, because I don't want anyone trying anything to my Rina-chan." He tries to ruffle my hair but I dodge his hand.
"I'm stronger than I look, or do I need to remind you how scary I can be." I place the best twisted smile I can do. Yumma's turns white.
"No no, you don't have to do that Rina-sama." He waves his hands defensively in front of him.
"Drop the sama. I learned to be ok when my patients do it, but not you."
"Ok I will if you answer my question, Are you free for hanging out tonight."
"I am."
"Good." He looks into my eyes and I forgot how blue his eye were and how easily I got lost in them.
"I have to get going." I say before i make things awkward, I get off his bed and head towards the front door. I hear him follow me, I reach to put on my shoes.
"You are welcome to come by anytime Rina." I turn around to face him. We pull each other in to a hug and I break it before it makes me late for work.
"I will, see you later today." I smile at him and leave his room.
"I can properly walk!"
I hear our number one patient of the year yell at the physical therapist at the 27th time today. I am heading towards the same direction when I hear a thump. I quicken my pace when I hear the mean comments stop. Once I make it to see what was happening I see Takashi on the floor, with the physical therapist trying to help him up. I rush towards his free side and help him up.
"Here you go." We walk him around, so he can grip his walker for stability.
"Finally a real doctor." He turns his body and walker to face me. Ever since he has woke up he had been alot nicer to me, I have no reason why but I always return the kindness. I look over at the and see he is trying to contain his sour look on his face. I look back at Takashi and smile gently to him.
"Takashi-san just let him help you, I don't think you want to be rolled out of this place." I say to him as gently as I can.
His face scrunchies up in response.
"Just two more days and you will be good to leave."
His face remains the same as before and looks away from me, "Fine." I see him walk back to a line that was marked on the ground.
"Thank you Rina." The therapist bows his head in gratitude. I walk down the hall and stop in my tracks and look back to them.
"Oh before I forget Takashi-san I contacted you co worker and he should be visiting you today." Takashi nods his head and starts to cough. He begins to turn blue.
"Takashi-san are you all right?" The therapist speaks up and stands closer to him. His coughing turns to him coughing blood. My eyes widened and I rush over to him before his body hits the floor. I grab him, quickly and gently lay him down on his side so he couldn't choke on any blood.
I look at the therapist and he standing in shock, not really knowing what to do with himself.
"Find me a bed gurney now." I order him and he runs to do just that. I look back down and see he was wheezing between breaths for air.
"Takashi stay with me. I'm going to clear a passage way do you can breathe." My hand begins to glow green and he nod his head understanding and giving me right to do so. I began to woke and focus moving the blood that filled his left lung out.
"Rina-sama we have the bed." I hear the wheels come to a stop and ignore everything around me. Even if I could let him die here and now, it was my job and right to do everything in my power to keep a patient in life threatening situation from drying. That and for some reason my body just moved on it's own.
It was hours later I checked up again on Takashi, he was still asleep. Everything was a success and i order for him to be on bed rest for the a rest of the day. I quietly hum to myself as I write down his vitals. He was my last person on my shift and I was ready to meet up with Yuuma. I put alot of thinking of where i should take him, and I thought of the perfect place.
"Mmh." I hear his voice and see him stretch his limbs as he wakes up.
I grab a nearby chair and sit down to make me eye level with him. "Takashi-san, it happen again are you sure you don't want treatment or at least medicine for the pain?"
He looks at his at his lap and realises a long breath,"Just let me go home." He pleads.
"You still have a two days left." I remind him on the hospital policy.
"Don't I have the right to refuse?" He asks.
I slowly shake my head, "It's best not to, but you can if you wanted to. We just want to make sure if you have enough strength to be able to be by yourself." He choughs again and clear his throat.
"I guess a couple more days won't kill me, if this thing doesn't do it first." He pats his chest. I look to see that his face seem wasn't showing annoyance like usual, but agony.
"You need anything. Pain medicine is still an option?" I tell him.
"No." He waves his hand rejecting my offer again.
"Ok, we'll call the nurse if you need anything. Less than 48 hours, then you will be free to go." I stand up and move the chair back where it was. Takashi gives me a half smile and waves goodbye to me. I bow to get and leave the room.
"Rina, where are you taking me?" I hear Yuuma ask the same question for the millionth time. I roll my eyes and pull his arm to follow me through the forest.
"Somewhere fun I told you."
"You are starting to scare me, first you don't answer my question, take me into the forest, and the day is starting to get dark." He says nervously.
"I'm not going to kill you if that's what you're thinking." I hold on a small giggle. "Or am I?" I mock the best psycho laugh and hold his wrist I little tighter.
"R-rina?... This isn't funny." I chuckle at his stutter.
"Give me a good reason to want to kill you Yuuma?" I look over my shoulder to him.
"Isn't obvious, this is revenge for the mochi."
"I don't hold grudges that long for food... I'm to lazy too." I hear him laugh at that.
"That's true."
We continue to walk in a couple minutes in comfortable silence as I follow the flow of the river that was next to us.
"How is it that you are in a better shape than me." I hear Yuuma breathing starting to get heavy. " Is being a doctor keep you athletic the same as a shinobi."
I ignore him and In the distance I hear water falling. " Stop complaining, we are almost there." I quicken my steps and pull him with me.
"Oh come on." He complains and forces himself to keep up with me.
When we finally arrive to our destination, poor Yuuma was on one knee trying to catch his breathing.
"I'm sorry." I felt bad for making him walk for an hour.
"It's fine...I'm fine." He slowly get up to stand beside me.
"I hope this is worth it." I gesture infront of us with my hand.
Infront of us is a small body of of hot water. The steam is clearly visible and the body of water is surround with gigantic tree's. The branches of the trees cover the top as well letting only bits of moonlight shine through. With the sun gone for the night, the moons light sparkles ontop of the water, like the stars. We are standing right next to the water fall and below the small cliff is a 14 foot drop. The river is cold but when mix with the natural hot water makes the perfect temperature.
"Isn't beautiful." I say in awe everytime I come here.
"It is...how did you find this place." I look at him to see him still taking in the view.
"When I travel I like to hike and see what the land has to offer. One day I was wondering, never really having a destination and I found myself here." I lift my shoulder and look at water.
"Ok. This is really worth the one hour walk." He picks up a nearby rock and throws it in the middle, watching the water ripple.
"Let's go inside." I tell him.
"Yeah."
I start to take off my shoes and pants, "Wait you are serious." He says in shock and quickly turns to look away.
"Of course I'm serious." I take off my shirt only leaving me in my undershirt, bra and underwear. I walk to the edge of the cliff.
"Come on it will be fun." I look behind me and see Yuuma no longer there.
"Yuuma?" I turn around completely, before I can take another step I hear him yell and run towards me.
"I got you!" His arms extend ready to tackle me. I shake my head and easily side step his attack.
"W-what?!" His eyes open in surprise and tries to slow down. He was go to fast to stop and went running off the cliff. I hear a big splash, I take my wig off and place a genjutsu over me to make me look I still have my short black hair. I take a couple steps back and jump in to the water. My body hits the warm water and my feet softly touches the bottom and I come up for air and see Yuuma a couple feet away from me.
"You tried pushing me in." I splash water at him.
"I-" he tries to talk, but I splash more water at him. I stop my water splashing and see that Yumma's head no longer visible.
"Yu- kyaa" I scream as I feel something wrap around my ankle a drag me down. I open my eyes under water to see Yuuma outline, I have a feeling he was grinning. We both pop out heads out of the water, I look at him to see that he was grinning.
"Gotcha." He swims further away from me to float in his back.
"That's because I let you." I copy his movements and float on my back.
"What ever you say." I hear him chuckle. I smile and look at the some of the moonlight through the tree branches. I close my eyes to enjoy the easiness and the peaceful feeling I am feeling right now. The way everything feels weightless as I let the water guide me where ever it wanted to. I think Yuuma felt the same way, as we both didn't speak a word for a couple minutes. After more time pass by our bodies bump into each other, both of us shoulder to shoulder.
"I wish everyday could feel like this." I her him whisper.
I open my eyes and move my head to the side. His dark blue eyes focusing on me, how was it possible his eyes shine brighter here than in this morning. His lips form a smile.
" Me too." Before he can say another word I push my body into the water and swim towards the waterfall.
"What are you doing?" I hear him yell behind me.
"Want to jump in again?" I stop climbing to ask him
"Hell yeah I do!" I giggle at his excitement and hear water splashing behind me.
"Hey wait up for me, so I can push yo- i mean so we can jump together." I look below me to see him starting to climb up.
"No" I shout and climb faster. I make it to the top and take a running head start to do a front flip into the water.
"I can do better!" I look up to see he was only half way up. The rest of the night was just us trying to out do one another.
Achoo, achoo, a-achoo.
I blow my red nose into the tissue.
"Just what where doing last night?" Sakimi places an extra box of tissues in front of me.
"Being stupid." I sniff and wrap my blanket tighter around me.
She rolls her eyes at my answer, "Just stay home and don't do anything else stupid."
"What about work?" I look up at her
"Your job is to heal people, not to get them more sick." She looks down at me and puts her hands on her hips.
"But." Achoo. I sneeze again.
"Be a good girl and stay put Rina." She pats my head and I just sink further on the couch in defeat.
"I'm still going to work, i'll see you tonight and bring you some soup."
"You don't have too." My eyes follow her as she walks to the door.
"It's no big deal, just get better." I nod in response.
"Bye." And she closes the door.
Achoo I sneeze for the hundredth time today.
"Let's go waterfall jumping she said, it would be fun she said." Yuuma blows his nose into a tissue. I decided to check on him to see if he got sick too. He is the same as me, so we both decided to lay in his bed for the day.
I laugh and sniff my clogged nose. Yuuma sits up and gets out of bed.
"Come on let's go out." He starts putting on a grey hoodie he had near by.
"Where?" I make no effort to move.
"We are going to make some miso soup." He exclaim.
I deadpan, "You have no kitchen." I point out that flaw of his idea.
"Then we will use yours." He shrugs
A giant wave of laziness hits me and I pull the blanket over my head, " I don't know."
"Come on it will be good for us." I feel him tug on the blanket, but I have a grip so it didn't uncover me.
"Can't we just buy some." I feel him pull harder on the blanket and with my strength he had no chance.
"No. Homemade. is better. Dammit Rina let go." I hear him struggling.
An evil smile place on my face "Ok," I let go of the sheets like he wanted me to do.
"SHIT!" I hear yuuma's body this hard on the ground. I start to laugh and crawl to to see if he was alright. I saw he wasn't moving, " you said to let go haha." I pull the sheet off him, he still wasn't moving. My laughing died and I lean towards him.
"Yuuma? Yuuma are you ok?" I begin to worry, he was still breathing and I get out of the bed.
"Yuuma?" I nudge his shoulder, but his eyes wouldn't open.
"Hey Yuuma?" I start to believe that he hit his head to hard. My hand starts checking his pulse on his neck,
"Wahh!" He shouts, making me jump back.
"Kami, don't do that!" I yell at him and push his stupid laughing face away from me.
"That was pay back for intentionally hurting me." He stands up from the floor and holds his hand for me to grab.
"What ever we're even now," I refuse his hand and stand on my own.
He was still laughing," come on let's go buy some groceries," He walks towards the door with a victory smile plastered on his face. I let out a lazy groan, slump my shoulder and fallow behind him.
"So what else do we need?" I look at the ingredients in the basket.
"Look, We can add Noddles and make ramen." He says holding up the precooked Noddles.
I move my head in agreement, " That sounds- Achoo more yummy." He places the item in the basket and fixes his hoodie again.
I let out a breath "Do you really think that people are you going to notice you here?" I tease him by tugging his hood back.
He hand shoots up fix it, " Well I wouldn't have to worry, if I hadn't lost my wig because someone had the idea to go swimming at night." He says directly to me. A giggle escapes my lips at his dramatic behavior.
"Not funny." He tells me and begins to walk down the food aisle. A wide grin covers my face and I happily skip behind him, while whistling an innocent tune.
"Rina?" He turn his head to look at me suspiciously and with one swift movement I pulled his hood down.
"Hey!" His hands drop the basket and reaches to cover his hair.
"Stop." I grab his hood to make my point, "see no one is noticing." I tell him.
Just them we hear the sound of boxes fall, we look to find the source of a young grocery store worker girl. The boxes of item she is suppose to stack scattered around the floor.
"Y-yuuma?" Her shakey hand points at him.
"Uhhh..." Yuuma stands frozen in his spot and the girl is star struck.
Her shocked face is replace with a gaint smile " Izumi-chan come here! You have to see this! Get over here he-he. It's really him!" She shouts and starts to runs to tell everyone.
Yuuma looks at me in terror.
"Run." He pulls his hood back and grabs my wrist. I grab the basket and match his pace towards the exit.
"That is him!" We run pass a few confused customer's who are trying to figure out what was going on. Right when we about to reach the exit I stop.
"Wait we forgot to pay for the food." I tell him
"Yuuma-kun!"
"He's getting away!" We hear Yuuma getting the attention of more fans.
He looks at me then back to the growing crowd fallowing behind us,"No time," and we start to run again.
I take the lead and start to pull him behind me. If we don't do something quick they will catch up to us. I see a small stand selling clothing and an other stand selling toys. I drag both of us to small gap between the two stands.
"Wait! What are you doing? We have to run." Yuuma whispers shouts and before he can make the move to start running again, I stop him.
"I have an idea just trust me."
"Rina we have to run." He says back.
"Yuuma...trust me." His eyes lock with mine and within seconds he relaxes a little. I put my hand up and use a genjutsu to put a henge on us. I grab his arm, and I walk out of hiding.
"Wait no! They will notice me." He panics and pulls against my hold.
"Shh, Just act normal." I turn my head to look at him to see his head shaking his head back and forth. I roll my eyes and let go of his arm.
"Just stay here then." I whisper to him. I hear him say something else but I was already to far away to hear.
I casually walk behind a stranger, my hands secretly form the same hand sign for a genjutsu.
"Look there he is!" I hear a women shout.
Now the man from before, who now looks like Yuuma starts looking around in confusion.
"Yuuma-kun!"
It was seconds before he was swarming with 30 plus fans. I manage to escape the crowd and go back to were I left Yuuma. I saw he was no longer hiding, but looking at himself in a mirror by the sunglasses rack.
"Let's go." I pull him from looking at the mirror to me.
"Rina why do i look like this." He looks back at the mirror pulling on his cheeks. His once young appearance is now a 50 year old man. I made the genjutsu so we looked normal to each other but not to everyone else. His face looks at me then back to his reflection. I walk to the side of him and he jumps back to me and the mirror.
"W-WHAT, w-why?" He stutters pointing back at me and the mirror.
"Don't question it. Let's get out of here." I grab his hand and pull him along with me.
"Wait what about the food?" He stops walking.
"Umm..."
"Hey?! Where did he go!" I hear one of the many fan girls yell out in dissapointment. I can only manage a curtain amount of genjutsu's at once.
"Never mind. Lets get out of here."Yuuma grabs a hold of my hand and starts to walk.
"Wait!"he stops again.
"What now!?" I yell in annoyance.
"Haha I don't know where you live, soo you should lead." I rubs the back of his neck giving me his apologetic smile. When he smiled that way I couldn't stayed angry for long, I intertwine his arm with mine and we start walking to my temporary home.
"I think I feel alot better now."Yuuma takes a big breath through his nose.
I drink the last bit of broth and place my bowl on the table, "ahh Me too." I smack my lips and pat my now warm belly.
"It was fun hanging out with you today, but I don't like that you know some shinobi skill besides medical. " His eyebrows creases and locks his blues eyes with mine.
"Rina just what have you been up to?" Before I could give him an answer he interrupts me.
"And don't sugarcoat it. You have gotten stronger, your reflexes are scary goo, you wear fake contacts, you cut your hair. If I didn't know your name in the emergency room I would have never look twice and guess it was you." He slides his bowl to the left and leans on the table to come closer. This whole time his eyes never leaving my own and I can see that he was worried.
I am stupid and reckless. First Sakimi now him to see through my facade. I shouldn't have let so many things slip, if Tobi were here to see me now he would have me a whole week with no breaks.
"Rina? Please don't keep secrets. If you are in trouble or something, let me know. I can protect you"
"What?" I begin to chuckle," I'm fine Yuuma, some of these skills are just for self-defense. Do you really think it should be a bright idea for me to travel the world without some sort of protection?" I pop my elbows in the table and give him my best innocent smile.
His eyes still looking into mine, I he spent a few moments in them to see if I was telling the truth, but I remain calm and waited patiently.
"You have a point there." He leans his body back and accepts my excuse, " but why the change of hair and contacts." He motions his finger to circle around my face.
I raise my eyebrows and cross my arms,"what. Can't I enjoy changing my look. It's not like I went under the knife."
"It's not that. It's just... nevermind. I just want to make sure you were ok."
I shrug, "Yeah. I mean I'm still here." I joke. Yuuma half smile and leans back to stretch.
"I've got to admit. It's pretty cool what you're able to do. The way you disguise us, it looked like we were an elderly couple."
"I guess we did." When he mentioned that, I begin to feel a little awkward and guilty. I still felt bad when I rejected him. I just look down at my knotted fingers, not knowing what else to say.
"Are you still with that guy?" I look up to him, " you know the guy from the festival?"
"Yeah I am." We both stayed quiet after the mention of Tobi.
"Are you happy. Is he traveling with you?"
"I am and he visits me from time to time." More awkward silence pass before Yuuma breaks it.
" It's getting late. I think I should get going." He stands up and I copy his movements.
"Want me to come over tomorrow?" I grab his hoodie from the couch and give it to him. I can see that his face was blank and he wasn't smiling. I frown at him, but as soon as our eyes met he shows a tiny smile.
"No, I'm probably going to get in trouble by what we caused. Knowing now that a rumour of a so called no body has been spotted, is going to cause some security problems." He jokes. Putting his gray hoodie on , I follow him to the door.
"I'm sorry that your vacation is probably going to end so soon because of me." I bow my head at him.
"Haha, but it was so much fun."
"You were such a scaredy cat for the most of it." I tease him and he just shrugs in response. I then feel his hands pull me close to him in a tight hug.
"If I don't get a chance to see you again..." He squeezes me closer," Good night Rina."
"Goodnight." I am the first to pull away. His hand reaches up to ruffle my hair, but I dodge it. Yumma looks at me in confusion.
"Goodnight Yuuma." I open the door for him. I didn't want him to feel that my hair was actually fake and have him dig deeper into my secret, It was best for him not to.
He lips look like they were about to say something, but he stops himself. He smiles at me one last time and leaves the apartment.
"You sure you don't want me to help you?" I ask Takashi if he needed my assistance going up the stairs.
"No." He bluntly answers. I move my hands to my sides and keep my distance.
Takashi walks up two steps and pause, "How is my shop doing?"
" I visited Korouyasu-san like you told me. The shop is doing just fine and he gave me a scroll of the supplies that will need to be restock."
We reach the top of the stairs and he reaches in his pants for his keys.
"Thank you Rina." He give me a close eye smile.
"It wasn't any problem." I tell him.
He places the key in his lock and stops, "Would you like to come in for some tea."
My eyes widen at his generosity and I look at his door, remembering all the traps that are set up behind that very door, " I don't know." I shake my head unsure.
"Please let this old man show you some gratitude for helping me." He unlocks the door and is the first to walk in.
Everything in me stands stiff waiting for the anticipation that the traps will set-off.
"Well...come in." I look to see he was is in his living room with no scratch or sebon in sight. How did he disable them? Noticing I was staring I close my mouth and enter his home.
"Let me get the tea ready. You like black tea?"
"Yeah it's good." I close the door behind me and take off my shoes. I can hear takashi-san rumbling through the cupboards to prepare the drink.
"I probably won't have food to eat it with, since I think half of my food is expired." He continues to talk from the kitchen.
"I could run to the store if you want Takashi-san." I turn around to face to door.
"No." I here his voice behind and before I can turn my body to face him, a knife is against my neck right above a very fatal vein.
"I just want to know what were you doing in my home."
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