I'm back biotches!! And with a new chapter, too! I apologize for the crappiness of the first part, but I rewrote it, like, four times before I was at least satisfied with this. I hope the last scene makes up for it.
Chapter 24: The old man...died?
The music was pounding in Reina’s ears as she sat alone at the table, nursing her drink and watching with burning eyes as Sayumi grinded up against a good looking man on the dance floor. She didn’t even notice Risa and Ai close by, practically making love in public, lips sealed together and hands wandering. She probably wouldn’t have noticed if someone came up next to her and blatantly spiked her drink and she jumped when Eri tapped her on the shoulder.
“Where did everyone go?” The turtle asked when she got her attention. The five of them had decided to go out and celebrate together, leaving Saki at the hotel with the children, even though Jun was actually older then them. Tomorrow, they would assault the Tanaka Manor, having received their message loud and clear when one of Gaki’s contacts showed up at their door, half dead and bearing a note, his tongue long cut out.
“Off to dance.” Reina grumbled to her partner, nodding her chin to Sayu. When Eri looked up, her eyes widened and she scanned the rest of the club for their other companions.
“Where are Gaki-san and Ai-ch-”she cut herself off when she spied the lovers with their hands shoved down the front of each other’s pants, completely oblivious to the world around them. “Oh, ahem.” she blushed as the throbbing crowd swallowed their forms, seeming to become more energized by the sexual energy they emitted. “Why aren’t you out there with Sayu?”
“I don’t like to dance.” The cranky cop grumbled. “Ow!” she cried when a hand landed hard against the back of her head, turning around to glare at her partner, “What the hell, Eri!”
“Idiot! Who’s cares if you don’t like to!? Get out there with her before someone steals her away!” The turtle cried, shoving her friend out of her chair and making her stumble, “Now come on!”
“No!” Reina cried in panic, tugging against the grip her partner had on her wrist, “I can’t dance, Eri! I can’t!”
“You can have sex, can’t you?!” The older girl cried out surprisingly, spinning around and eliciting a fierce blush. When Reina tentatively nodded, she continued, “Then you can dance. Now, let’s go!” The turtle’s face turned serious as she went into mission mode.
They took up a spot nearby their targets, Eri grabbing Reina’s sides and pulling her almost uncomfortably close so that they could roll their hips together rhythmically. Neither were looking at each other, though, like good tactical partners, they were focused on their next move, slowly sidling into position. Sayumi was grinning and carrying on a conversation with the man through gentle whispers in each others’ ears. Reina’s temperature skyrocketed in jealously and Eri patted her lower back comfortingly.
“Excuse me! Can we cut in?” Eri shouted over the music, gaining their attention. The handsome man looked delighted at the attention and nodded eagerly, not having a chance to say anything before Eri grabbed his arm and ripped him away from the con, twirling Reina into his place in Sayu’s arms. “Come on, handsome.” Eri giggled, tugging him away, “You’re mine.”
“Hello there.” The con grinned, tightening her grip on the blushing Reina, “Guess you decided to dance, after all.” She slid one leg in between the yankii’s two and pressed close to her, beginning to grind to the beat.
Unexpectedly, Reina placed both hands on Sayu’s round lower cheeks and squeezed, eliciting a surprised squeak. She used her grip to pull the con in and lifted her knee up higher to grind against a sensitive part. “Only with you.” Reina murmured into her ear, nibbling on the lobe.
“Oh, Reina.” Sayumi moaned, falling into the grinding motion happily and trying to return the favor as best she could with her legs quickly turning to jello. Their months of foreplay were taking effect and both girls felt a strong desire building low in their bellies. Sayumi let her hands slowly stroke up and down the cop’s back, scratching through her thin shirt and sending tingles down her spine. Reina responded by dipping her head downward and trailing kisses across her smooth neck.
Throwing her head back, the con brought her hands up to thread fingers in the other girl’s hair, rocking her hips in a sensual mimicry of an ancient act. Reina felt so warm even through so much cloth and she definitely seemed to appreciate the action, if the way her hands massaged Sayu’s ass was any indication. The yankii pulled back to stare into the con’s dark, half lidded eyes, seeming to try to convey a million thoughts to her. Sayumi felt something inside her chest tug almost painfully for a moment, in that way that made her want to run away, but she ignored it; instead, she leaned forward to close the distance between their lips.
Their bodies stopped moving as both girls concentrated on the kiss, Sayu slipping her tongue inside her willing victim’s mouth and energetically beginning a duel. Reina felt a cloud of happy feelings form inside her as her wet muscle slid against the con’s, keeping up with her energy with sheer intensity. There was a cheer and a catcall from beside them and the noise made them break apart, but their eyes never left each other.
“Stay with me in my bed tonight.” Reina offered in a voice that really made it sound like a command and Sayu eagerly nodded. Across the floor, looking over her dance partner’s shoulder, Eri pumped her fist in victory and made a mental note to be far away from the room later.
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“Thanks for letting me stay with you guys tonight.” Saki said gratefully, bowing to Aika and Jun and causing them to scramble to return the courtesy.
“No, no, really, it’s a pleasure to have you here, Shimizu-san.” Aika said politely as Jun finally turned to flop on her bed. “We don’t mind sleeping together and you can take my bed, though I’m quite surprised that Kamei-san asked to stay in Lin Lin’s room.”
“I’m not, would you want to be in the room when Tanaka-san and Michishige-san get it on?” The hitter giggled, rolling onto her back. She turned to Saki, “And if you don’t want to sleep by yourself, Shimi-chan, you can bunk with me instead.” she winked at the suddenly blushing girl, “I’m sure Aika wouldn’t mind, right?” Jun grinned at her young companion and received a pillow to the face in return.
“Quit it, you.” Aika grumbled to her muffled laughter. As if to spite her teasing, Saki hopped onto the bed next to the hitter and laid her head on her shoulder, “Oh, don’t encourage her.” The thief sighed as they batted their eyelashes at each other playfully.
They fell quiet for a moment and began to notice a few sounds coming in from the room next door. When they realized what they were hearing, they scrambled for the television remote to drown out the noise.
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After a night of much needed levity, the gang found themselves approaching the manor in their most comfortable and movable outfits while clutching their weapons warily close. Risa could see, as they entered the wide opened gate, many eyes watching their trek from the windows as Reina led the way. The cop marched up to the door and prepared to kick it in, but it opened suddenly before she could, nearly causing her to stumble.
“Welcome home, Ojou-chan.” an older man said pleasantly, “Your father and brothers await you in the dining hall.” Reina glared while, behind her, the others traded uneasy glances. Of course they had known they were expected, but this wasn’t the reception they’d thought they would get. The yankii led the way down the hallway and to their destination. The large double doors swung open easily to admit them.
“Welcome.” Reiki boomed out as they entered the giant room, “We’ve been waiting for you.”
The dining hall was huge and round, the floors and walls were marble and the ceiling a thick crystal with lights behind it to always give the illusion of daylight shining in. The massive table that took up most of the room could have easily sat everyone there and still left space between them. The walls were covered in an eclectic, but extensive collection of art, everything from paintings of Greek Gods and European Kings to abstract shapes and landscapes. There were usually pedestals that seated statuettes, but they had been removed in preparation of the coming battle.
At the far end of the room, spread out near the entrance to the hall that was used by the manor’s residents, were the Tanaka higher ups. On the far left was Maimi, holding Saki’s gaze as unwaveringly as she could manage. On her left was Etsuo, then Chion, both looking quite bored. In the middle was the towering Reiki, hardened eyes on his daughter from across the long table in between them. Further down the line was Baku, Erino and Daisuke, each grim faced.
Lined up across from them were the girls, standing in front of the guest’s entrance and gripping their various assault weapons firmly. Next to Saki was Ai, sizing up Etsuo and Risa was watching Chion. Reina, of course, only saw her father, but she acutely felt Sayu’s encouraging warmth as she and Eri stood across from Baku. Aika, Lin and Jun seemed unconcerned with their opponents and their noncommittal attitudes seemed to irk Erino and Daisuke.
For a long moment, the two gangs just stared each other down and with the forever noon time lighting and the stiff atmosphere, Eri felt a sense of déjà vu. She was certain she’d seen a movie like this, once, but she wasn’t sure she had liked the ending. She remembered the most of the heroes being decimated in the fight.
“You are on my turf now, Princess, we fight my way.” Reiki snapped his fingers and a handful of servants came into the room, all holding swords, “We will do battle the way you were trained, the way I was trained and my father and his father. We will fight like warriors.” Reiki commanded, his booming voice leaving no room for arguments, even from his opponents. His lieutenants already carried their favored weapons on their belts, but the girls had to trade in their firearms. Risa was especially reluctant, but in the end, each girl took a single, finely crafted long sword.
“You kept these?” Reina asked breathily as she was handed two customized blades, one long and one not that much shorter, in dark blue sheaths. This was her specialty, two swords, and the only person who had ever bested her when she had these particular blades was her father. He didn’t answer, only giving them a moment to secure their sheaths to their sides before pulling his massive broadsword from his back.
Taking their cues, the others in the room also readied their weapons and took up their stances. Tension rose thickly into the air. Suddenly, Reina gave a cry and ran forward, hopping up onto the long table to sprint down the length towards her father. This was all that was needed for chaos to break out in the hall. Reiki swung his broadsword as Reina came within reach, missing as she jumped over it and tried to bury her long blade in his head.
He may have been big, but Reiki was unbelievably quick, leaning back out of the way of the surely fatal blow with a swiftness that he shouldn’t have been able to pull off. He twirled his body and extended his sword in the same motion, forcing Reina to fall backwards into a practiced tumble, but he kept his momentum going and twirled again, his sword aiming for her waist as she righted herself.
The little yankii knew there was no way in hell she could block a brute force like that, the only way to keep herself from being chopped in half would be to use her blades to deflect his energy in another direction. She crossed her swords in an X and thrust them out to the side, slipping them underneath his broadsword. Then she jerked her arms upward and his blade scraped off her own, flying harmlessly upward and pulling his body closer to her where she gave his meaty middle a swift kick.
Reiki laughed, “Well now Princess, I’m glad to see you’ve been keeping up with it while you’ve been away.” He brought his sword back to his original offensive position, held out in front of him and she readied her own crouching stance, her long sword held horizontally above her head and her short sword parallel to it at her waist. She waited for him to make the next move.
Taking Reina’s cue, Saki began her own charge towards her estranged lover, katana held up straight, parallel to her body, elbows bent and held out evenly. Maimi, grim faced, met her rush with much the same stance. Even before their blades clashed, Saki knew it was a hopeless battle. They had trained together, so they knew every move the other would make. There would be no victor in this battle, so the little captain could only hope to talk her girl back to her senses.
“Maimi.” she grunted, pushing back an overhead blow, “Please, we don’t have to fight!”
“What do you want me to do?” The taller girl asked with a quick slash, “Give up? Surrender?” She jabbed, but was easily deflected, “You know I can’t do that,” she blocked a swing at her head, staring down into Saki’s face as they pushed against each other, “Not anymore than you can.”
Ai held her sword awkwardly, repeating in her head the brief lecture she’d had from Reina in defense. She understood the concepts, but had serious doubts about her own abilities to survive. Etsuo ran at her with his naginata lowered, apparently confident in his ability to break her guard. Good thing she had no intention of letting their blades connect if she could help it.
The demo expert had already decided that the less time their weapons locked, the less chance there was of this obviously much stronger and more experienced man overpowering her. Ai had been a dancer for a long time, she bent her waist around his first thrust, those reflexes didn’t just go away. Letting instinct take over, Ai swayed to the music of battle.
At the same time the monkey was avoiding her opponent’s weapon, Risa was having a much harder time of it. Sure, melee weapons weren’t her forte, but the gunner was no stranger to an old fashioned sword fight, she could hold her own. Unfortunately, this was no sword fight; she swore when a sharp tip poked a hole into her baggy cargo pants, narrowly avoiding impaling her knee.
Chion jabbed at her with wild eyes in much the same style as his brother beside him, but his piercingly sharp trident offered thrice as many things to look out for. She’d never encountered such a style or weapon before, so Risa really had no idea how to defend against such speed and maneuverability; in the face of her panic, her lessons fled her mind. A stiletto tip just grazed her side as she jumped away, arms flying up in time to miss becoming skewered.
Letting go of her sword with one hand, Risa grabbed a chair and flung it at the scarily grinning Chion, hoping to catch him off guard enough to press her own attack. With one swipe of his trident, the chair continued flying, landing somewhere behind Ai as he continued his relentless assault. She knew he was just playing with her; she was the mouse and he the hungry cat, sharp claws at the ready.
Baku stumbled backward under the dual pressure on his sword from Eri and Sayu, who had wasted no time in getting the upper hand in their battle. The older man found himself more than a little terrified and distracted by Sayu’s maniacal grin; she was obviously enjoying the struggle, while Eri was more concentrated on defeating him. The bunny pushed on frantically, keeping his attention on her while Eri came in to strike while he defended.
Using much the same tactic, Aika and Jun engaged Erino and Daisuke while Lin dealt out the real damage to them. They wanted to make this a short fight, but the swordsmen were skilled enough to deflect any killing blows and whatever did hit them, they ignored. Jun dealt an overhead chop that was easily blocked and Erino directed her sword down to clang against Lin’s thrust. At the same time, Daisuke pressed towards Aika, who stumbled a little under his strength.
In a slight pause in the battle, Aika and Jun looked at each other and gave a nod, deciding to switch partners. The youngest rolled under a slash and darted to the side, coming up underneath Erino’s guard and kneeing her in the stomach. Lin followed with a quick slash across the woman’s back which elicited a cry, and the thief used her distraction to get in a jab of her own. Erino quickly recovered, blood dripping from a cut on her face, which darkened into a heavy frown.
Daisuke grunted when Jun’s sword clashed hard against his own, sending a shockwave down his wrist. She was obviously much stronger than he was, which was not good. He wasn’t nearly as refined as his brothers, relying on brute force in his style, rather than grace and skill, and Jun found this out rather quickly. They were evenly matched, she realized with a grin, but she never played fair, she played to win.
He tried to keep up the attack, but she easily blocked every clumsy move he made. She allowed him to wear himself out for a while, before outright sidestepping a particularly violent, overhead slash, causing him to go stumbling forward right into a well placed knee. The air left him in a huff and Jun slammed the hilt of her sword down hard onto the back of his neck, sending him to the floor. When she went to cut off his head though, he rolled out of the way.
“I’m not going to that easily.” he growled, getting to his feet. Before he could properly ready himself, though, Jun was charging, sword held high. Daisuke jerked his arm up and moved into a more defensive stance, expecting her blade to come arching at him from above, but she surprised him by kicking him hard just underneath his right knee.
With a sickening crack, his leg bent backwards and his upper body fell forward as the broken leg collapsed under his weight. Jun turned and swung with all her might and Daisuke’s head rolled to a stop against the wall. The hitter turned away with a satisfied smirk as the rest of him hit the ground, blood spurting out as his heart continued to beat for a moment.
Out of the corner of her eye, Erino noticed her comrade’s demise, noticed Jun stalking closer. She dodged a swipe from Aika, blocked a jab from Lin and then backed away, hands shooting into the air when the hitter began to lift her sword, “I give!” her blade clanked as it hit the ground, “Three on one? No way. This isn’t worth dying over.”
The three girls exchanged a glance, lowering their own weapons, “Alright.” Jun agreed, “I won’t kill you, turn around.” Reluctantly, the female lieutenant did so and the hitter grabbed her in a choke hold, squeezing her neck until her struggling ceased and she fell limp in her arms. “Don’t worry.” Jun hurried to ease the horrified looks she got from her companions, “She’s just knocked out.”
Ai gasped as a sharp blade ran against her side, barely slicing into her sweater. That was too close, she gave a half hearted swipe back in return. Her plan had been successful so far, she’d sustained no injuries at all, but then she realized that she really had no means of dispatching him. He was more skilled than she was, stronger too, and she was beginning to feel dizzy from the constant twirling she was doing.
The only thing was that he was becoming quite frustrated by her uncanny ability to dodge his pole arm’s attacks. Ai could only hope that he made a mistake soon and she would be fast enough to exploit it. Suddenly, he gave a loud growl of anger and pressed forward furiously, jabbing with seemingly lightening speed. Ai shrieked and scrambled backwards, knowing there was no way she would be fast enough to dodge everything.
She jumped, throwing her weight hard behind her as a swipe came for her head, just missing her nose, unfortunately, Ai didn’t see the chair that was toppled over behind her. With another short scream, she fell on her ass, feet scrabbling for purchase on the wood underneath her, but finding none. Instead, her movements sent the chair flying forward and colliding hard with Etsuo’s shins, knocking his feet out from under him.
As he flew forward, Ai gasped and instinctively threw her sword out at him. The tip slammed into his chest, dove between two ribs and protruded from his back in a split second, Etsuo was dead before he even realized what had happened. Ai stared up at him in amazement, his naginata clattering to the ground beside her head, what luck! She almost couldn’t believe she had so easily pierced his heart like that.
Her arms began to shake from holding his full weight and Ai struggled to direct the body to fall to her side, planting her feet on his torso to pull her blade from him. It wouldn’t budge, no matter how hard she tugged; her eyes fell on his pole arm. Well, it was pretty cool, she supposed she could take it and use it. With a shrug, she grabbed the naginata and stood, where was Risa?
The gunner hissed in pain as three points speared her right bicep; it actually hadn’t hurt when the needle like tips entered her flesh, but damn had she felt them ripping out. She held her sword awkwardly in her left hand, her right hanging uselessly by her side. Slowly she began to back up, still feeling like a hunted animal and even more so when her heel hit the wall behind her.
“No where to go~!” Chion sing songed to her cheerfully. Risa glowered at him, trying not to give him the satisfaction of looking as terrified as she felt. “I’m going to enjoy this, let’s see how long I can drag it out.”
With a cry, the gunner swung at him wildly, clenching her jaw when he easily knocked her blade aside. His face suddenly went angry and he jabbed forward hard, thrusting his weapon into Risa’s forearm. She gave a silent cry of pain as the tips were forcefully ripped out of her skin, her blood splattering across the floor as he jerked his trident to the side. Her numb fingers fell away from the hilt of her sword, the weapon clattering to the floor.
“Aw, perk up!” Chion chuckled harshly, his face back to it’s psychotically cheerful visage. In a way, he really reminded her of Sayu when she fought. The thought kind of made her laugh, so she did, not really seeing why she couldn’t do whatever she wanted if she was about to die, “What’s so funny?”
“I can’t believe someone as pathetic as you is about to end my life.” She couldn’t help letting loose on him, seeing his face darken.
Face going angry again, Chion jammed the trident through Risa’s shoulder, “Bitch!” It was excruciating, but she kept laughing anyway, knowing that it infuriated him, “Shut up!” The three points kept her pinned to the wall, so that when he kicked the side of her knee, even though her leg buckled, she didn’t fall.
He buried his fist into her abdomen again and again, but Risa was beyond caring, eyes rolling around to find the rest of her crew. She noticed that most of them were cleaning up, she saw Sayu hacking away at what must have at one point been her and Eri’s opponent, while Eri just looked a little green. Reina was still trading blows with her father, neither really getting the upper hand.
Ai, where was Ai? Worried for her lover, Risa turned her head to her left trying to find the older girl. Chion gave a stunned cry when Risa grabbed his hand with her seemingly useless right arm, holding his limb outstretched with a smirk. Before he could even begin to struggle, a naginata blade slashed down swiftly and chopped the appendage off below the elbow.
Ai was glaring at him with all the strength of her anger, twisting the pole arm and bringing it up on the backswing, the blade embedding itself in his throat. He gave a gurgle of surprise, backing away quickly and causing the sharp edge to remove itself with a sucking sound. Blood spurted from his severed artery and his head lolled as his muscles and tendons were no longer attached enough to control the movement. The gaping wound only bled more and within few seconds, he collapsed backwards, dead.
Wasting no time, Ai didn’t even pause to watch her handiwork, more concerned with her pinned lover, “Risa!” she cried, dropping her weapon in favor of gripping the trident, but the gunner’s cry of pain when she so much as twitched it caused her pause, unsure.
“It’s going to be hard to get it out.” The bean warned, “I’ll probably scream, but it has to be done, I can’t stay up here all day.”
About this time, Jun materialized at her side, “Gaki-san!” The two youngest weren’t far behind while Eri was busy trying to pull Sayumi off the bloody pulp she was basically playing in.
“Good, alright, Jun! Put both hands on my shoulders, don’t worry about hurting me, I guarantee you will.” Hesitantly, the hitter did as she was told, “Aika, get some cloth strips ready, Lin, you help her. Ai, you have to pull this out.”
Saki held her sword up, panting in exertion; as she had guessed, neither girl was gaining the upper hand. She had to do something or this battle would go on indefinitely and she didn’t want to hurt Maimi any more than she had already. Seeing blood dripping from various shallow slices along the taller girl’s body was already so painfully to see.
The both ran towards each other again, Saki’s sword raised high and Maimi’s held at her mid section. The captain knew that her girl would go for a thrust, just as Maimi knew that she knew and would be able to easily block. This time, though, Saki had a plan; she knew what would end this once and for all.
As Maimi neared, Saki readied herself for the blow to come, locking eyes with her opponent. At the last second, instead of swinging her arms downward to block, Saki simply dropped her weapon, letting it hit the floor. Maimi’s eyes widened and she started to put on the brakes, but it was too late, with a meaty thud, the two girls collided, the sword protruding from Saki’s back shining red with her blood.
“Saki!” Maimi’s cry was nearly drowned out by Risa’s scream of pain across the room, but the captain still heard the concern in her girl’s voice. Tenderly, Saki embraced the Tanaka captain, feeling the action returned as she slumped into Maimi’s arms, “Why did you-?” the taller girl trailed of with a tearful choke.
“I didn’t want to fight you.” Saki replied weakly, looking into her girl’s eyes with a loving smile, “Don’t cry, I know you didn’t have a choice. If we had lost, they would have hurt you for not fighting properly.” Her eyes closed suddenly as she grimaced and Maimi shook her once.
“Saki, don’t-!” She breathed a sigh of relief when the older girl just opened her eyes and smiled again.
“You didn’t want to hurt me either, did you? This wound isn’t even fatal.” It was true, though painful, Maimi hadn’t been aiming for anything serious and the sword just jabbed into her side, missing her vital organs.
“Stupid.” Maimi sobbed, “You’re so stupid!” She was happy to feel familiar lips press against her own and kissed back hard.
Reina panted harshly as she dove over a wild swing, apparently, she wasn’t the only one getting tired; the sword pulled up a little slower than normal and she easily ducked the backswing. She darted forward and poked her short blade at Reiki’s arm, but he just swatted at her as though unconcerned. She knew he was feeling at the wounds she had given him, though, as he was positively soaked in blood and sweat. He had to be woozy at least!
Rolling out of the way of another swipe meant to decapitate her, Reina again tried to reassess her strategy. If little slashes wouldn’t do then she would have to try big ones, but he was so thick that all she was likely to hit wouldn’t kill him. The only place he was really unprotected was his neck, but she couldn’t get passed the stupid broadsword.
The thing was so huge, it looked like a diving board to her, she probably couldn’t even lift the thing. It was sharp, though, and he swung it like a pro. Like a light bulb going on, an idea suddenly came to her and she paused. As she expected, he tried to take advantage of her apparent lack of attention and swung at her extra hard, but Reina was ready.
She crossed her swords and locked them together on his blade, using his own momentum to send the sword over her head and slamming into the floor with a dull thud. As Reina pressed her attack, Reiki tried to raise the weapon, but it was stuck. His eyes widened as he realized too late that she had used the broad sword’s size and his own strength against him.
He tried to let go and raise his hands in defense, but Reina had already run along the length of the blade up to his face. Jamming both swords into the top of his shoulders, Reina jumped over his finally defensive hands and, using her weapons for leverage, swung both feet into his face. Reiki tumbled over backwards and landed hard against the floor.
The cop tore her swords from their fleshy sheaths and crossed them like scissors against her father’s neck. “Well?” Reiki asked when she didn’t move, “Aren’t you going to kill me?” To his surprise, she dropped her weapons and started to cry.
“My brothers are dead. Fuji’s probably going away for a while, but I can at least visit him. I don’t want to kill you, papa. I don’t want you to die.” She sobbed, falling to her knees and throwing her arms around him, ignoring the blood that seeped from his wounds.
Reiki hugged her back, petting her hair gently, the way he used to when she was a child. She only cried when her brothers picked on her, he remembered fondly. “Alright, you win. The gang is yours, princess. I’m too old for this shit anyway, but I’m not going back to jail.”
Slowly, he began to sit up, watching as the others gathered around. Before anyone could so much as take a breath, though, the door burst open and paramedics rushed inside, immediately beginning to tend to the wounded. A tall, slim teenager followed behind them, clapping her hands enthusiastically, “My that was an impressive show of your skills!”
Most of the girls reached for their weapons, but Risa didn’t bother. No one tries to patch up their opponents, “Who are you?” she asked as Ai pushed her behind her defensively.
“Me? Oh, I’m Kusumi Koharu!” she gave a peace sign and grinned cutely, “And I have a proposition for you.”
“And what might that be?” The gunner inquired with a tilt to her head, Ai finally letting the EMT’s close enough to begin examining her.
“I want your help to kill my father.” Koharu said, her smile never faltering.
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END OF SECOND ARC
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Oh and a side note, the song lyrics I used were to Pink Floyd's Us and Them. In case anyone was interested (I know your not, but that's just my narcissism kicking in).
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