Aiba stared down at the menu again and shook his head before looking up at Aisling. In that moment, he noticed that she along with Mari were trying to wake up Kaki who remained asleep. The dark haired boy blinked and believed more or less that it was fatigue or something. In truth, he was tired too. Master… I will be back. Ookami’s voice jutted Aiba a fraction, and as soon as he looked down at his ring again, the dark haired boy found that the spiritual pressure inside his Wolf ring was gone. He blinked a fraction before looking at Aisling but finding that Ookami had said this only to him. The dark haired boy returned his gaze to the ring and was now a fraction worried. However, as the food that had been ordered arrived, Aiba promptly forgot this and started eating.
“Don’t eat so fast you’re going to give yourself a stomach ache….” Mari commented watching Aiba all but attack the food he had ordered. Aisling simply stared for a minute before blinking and shaking her head going at her own food. Everyone else appeared to be enjoying something more or less.
Ohno, in a strange exasperation of energy, had somehow managed to crash on the table and appeared to be sleeping soundly with his head on the table and his uneaten food in front of him. However, even with this show of things, his surveillance around the area remained intact with every smooth surface reflecting something and giving information back to him. Aiba looked over and was going to make a drastic reach for Ohno’s plate but had his hand smacked away in half a second by said red haired man. The dark haired boy laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head. Dinner ended without a word, and everyone seemed to disappear into the air sort of speak. Kaki had still not gotten up, but Ohno, who actually did wake up, got up and helped carry him back to Aisling’s house. They walked slowly for a while, and Ohno found his ears already listening in.
“I’m sorry for… all the trouble….” Mari said aloud shaking her head as she walked alongside Aisling who walked in front of Ohno.
“It’s fine…” Ailsing said after another moment before looking forwards again. “This place has changed really quick…..” The red haired girl appeared to be looking down at her hands a moment before she shook her head and forced a smile. “But I’m sure everything will work out in the end… it should….”
“By the end of the war and everything,” Ohno said aloud causing both girls to jump as though they had forgotten he was walking behind them. “We’ll all be laughing and great friends, and then maybe….” He found his face growing red thinking on trying once again to purpose to Ame….. He had tried before, and she simply took it as a joke and went on.
“Ohno do you like someone?” Mari said aloud causing Ohno to blink and then laugh nervously. “You have that face like you do….”
“Just a friend…..She’s really special to me….” Ohno answered back sighing outwards. “And what about you Miss protective?” he smirked bumping Mari a bit. “I saw you talking with this one.” He made a head movement to Kaki who was still asleep on his back. Mari seemed to turn red for a moment before punching Ohno fully in the jaw. The red haired man blinked and laughed again. Aisling laughed as well as they all walked. “If this war hadn’t been going on for ages…” Ohno sighed a bit to himself.
“But then none of us would know each other…” Aisling said after another moment causing Ohno to blink. It was true… if there was no war… none of them would probably have met…. Ohno laughed a fraction.
“True,” he answered back. Suddenly the red haired man tensed and froze.
“Ohno? What’s wrong?” Aisling asked aloud. The red haired man shook his head and smiled a fraction.
“It’s nothing,” he answered back… It was nothing… or rather he hoped it was nothing. In the back of his mind, the red haired man worried a fraction.
~*~
Ame opened an eye and found Elle looking frantically at her. “Where… am I?” she asked looking at the dark haired girl.
“The hospital….” Elle answered back. “You passed out, and I had to rush you there… “
Ame sighed outwards and stared at the ceiling. She felt extremely weak for one reason or another but was not willing to admit it more or less due to her own pride. “Does anyone else know?” she asked aloud. Elle shook her head, and the teal haired woman sighed out rather in relief than anything else. It meant that she was a tad safer from the disgrace of ending up in the hospital.
“They said that your blood was full of this toxin….. and….” Elle waved her hand in the air as though trying to find the words to describe it but finding that they were no longer in her grasp of things. Ame just nodded a bit and sighed outwards.
“Thanks….” The teal haired woman finished causing the dark haired girl to stop and nod a bit to herself. “So the docs fixed everything up?” Ame continued.
“They said you might have some side effects from the poison… but… other than that,” Elle nodded a bit to herself and fell into silence as though not able to fully give the details of such a thing. Ame was silent but finally nodded to herself in a rather dark understanding of things. “They said they wanted to keep you overnight….. hey wait….where are you…”
“I’m fine,” Ame said aloud taking off cords and things. Elle looked a fraction unbelieving of this. Ame stared and then shook her head before trying again to look extremely serious. “I’m fine,” she insisted. After a moment, the dark haired girl sighed and watched the teal haired woman get up again. “I wonder how the dinner went….” Ame sighed outwards. Elle was silent a moment. “Did you get anything to eat?” Ame asked. Elle was silent then too. Taking out a fan, Ame tapped Elle lightly on the head. “Come on… let’s enjoy ourselves and go get some food in the hotel like I said wed would.” After a moment, Elle sighed and nodded before forcing a smile.
Both women walked back into the hotel after getting past the extremely tired hospital. As the entered, Ame put her hands together and grinned lightly. “How about we order everything they got?” she grinned to herself. Elle seemed to blink before laughing and finally nodding to herself.
“Alright…” the dark haired girl answered back.
As the food was finally brought up, both women devoured their share of food and started talking lightly to one another. “And that was when I dumped water on three of them,” she grinned proudly to herself. “Emo, Matsu, and Ohno didn’t know what hit ‘em.” Elle seemed to laugh as the story came to an end before she picked up a piece of candy and began to eat it carefully.
“So do you like both Ohno and Matsu?” Elle asked. Ame nearly choked on the roll she had been eating. The teal haired woman stopped and forced down the food before looking back at the dark haired woman.
“Do you mean like friends? Ya… Ohno is a good friend and Matsu is…” Ame breathed in and half smiled. “He’s so positive and good….” Elle nodded a bit before looking down. “Hey what’s wrong?” Ame asked blinking in confusion.
“I just… wish I had guy friends like that….” Elle answered back. Ame stared a moment before leaning back on the wall that her back was all but pressed up against.
“You seem like the dating type instead of the guy friend type,” Ame finally said after another moment. Elle blinked before finally nodding a bit to herself in correspondence. “I never wanted to date anyone in my life,” the teal haired woman grinned a bit to herself before shaking her head. “But then I met my guy friends and decided I could just stay friends.”
“Why didn’t you want-“ Elle stared only to stop as Ame laughed a fraction.
“I never viewed myself as pretty enough to date,” Ame answered back shrugging her shoulders a bit. “That’s all…. Dating was one of those ‘you dress up nice and search for a Romeo’. I didn’t want that at all.”
“Ah….” Elle answered back seeming to elapse into her own thoughts for a moment.
“Hey don’t think so hard on it,” Ame said after a minute. “It’s just my way of thinking.”
“I just… understand what you mean…” Elle finally finished. Ame grinned a bit to herself and then finally shoved a piece of chocolate in her mouth. Suddenly Elle grinned causing Ame to blink. “But if you had to choose between them which one would you date?” Elle grinned rather evilly for a moment. The teal haired woman gulped a fraction before grinning to herself.
“Both of course,” Ame answered back. “And then I’d see which one really….” She laughed a fraction. “Want to hear a funny story?” she grinned. Elle nodded. “Ohno once tried to purpose to me…. It through me off so much that I just resorted to laughing and saying ‘it was a good joke’ as if I didn’t think he was really serious….” Ame leaned her head forwards and said nothing for a moment. “But…. I kind of knew he was serious….”
“You should have given him straight answer,” Elle said aloud causing Ame to look up and blink rather confused. “It’s not good to tease like that… it only ends up…. Making you hurt….” Elle shook her head and turned a fraction red. “I… learned that the hard way….” Ame was silent before taking up another piece of candy.
“If I was serious….” Ame sighed to herself thinking for a moment. “I would have no idea what I would say,” she finally finished. Elle looked up and then seemed to nod. “He’s like…. A funny older brother… and a baby and…an annoying brother… and hah… so much more.” Ame rolled her eyes a bit. “I don’t think… if I had been serious…. That I really could have said no…..” Ame shook her head a bit. “I don’t know… just one of those things…” She shrugged her shoulders before rolling her eyes and smacking her forehead.
“What?” Elle asked.
“As Sho always used to say ‘Vessels aren’t supposed to have relationships’ seeing as we’re all supposed to be preparing to die anyways….” Ame sighed outwards and seemed to shrink on the wall. “But it’s nice to dream….”
~*~
Aiba had been left to head back to Nino and Matsu’s apartment for the night, yet he couldn’t bring himself to do so for one reason or another. He internally knew… they weren’t there. He couldn’t even explain how he knew… but something in the way Ohno had said ‘go back’ had clued him in on it. I wonder where they are then…..Aiba thought aloud as he began to walk the streets back ‘home’. Suddenly he caught sight of Sephira appearing to walk down the street as well. “Hey!” He said waving a hand towards the person he had played Twister with.
