Chapter Nine
The two had successfully escaped from the Varia hideout and were now at a grass field near Namimori.
"What do you think you are doing!!!??? It's the 15th floor for god's sake!" Aki chided.
"Hehe... But what matters most is that we are alive right?" Ganta laughed sheepishly.
"What if that fall failed!?" Aki told him.
"Well well we are still in one piece. What matters now is that we need to think of an excuse as to why we were truant for the second half of school." Ganta replied while bandaging Aki's leg wound with a piece of cloth from his shirt.
"We will think about that when we reach home." Aki replied as she popped another two painkillers.
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"Do you know where are they?" Yamamoto said as they were nearing the grass field.
"I'm not exactly sure, but I have a feeling that they should be around here somewhere." Tsuna replied while stopping and looking around.
"Super intuition. As expected from the Tenth (*_*)!" Gokudera said.
"There they are!" Tsuna exclaimed.
"Tsuna? But how did you all, I mean why did you all.." Aki asked, trying to find a simpler way to summarise the thousand questions that were floating in her mind.
"I thought something had happened since you suddenly ran off." Tsuna replied.
"Haha, it's nothing much. It's just that this guy got a bit carried off and went around picking fights. He got a bit of a bloody nose but it wasn't so bad." Aki replied.
At that moment, Ganta swiftly kept his gauntlet in his pocket while the rest were busy conversing. However, this movement did not escape the watchful eyes of Gokudera.
"What was that that he stuffed into his pocket? A glove or something? But it seems too big.." Gokudera thought to himself.
"Gokudera-kun! What's wrong with you?" Tsuna asked when he realised that Gokudera was staring into blank space.
"Huh, it's nothing Tenth!" Gokudera replied while managing a grin.
"Hmmm it's kinda late. I think we should all head home. Here are your bags." Yamamoto said and passed Aki and Ganta their school bags.
"We will just say that both of you had an urgent meeting about your family overseas."
"Okay.." Aki replied and started thinking of all the excuses Ganta liked to give when he skipped school.
"Oh I had a stomach ache."
"My dog died."
"I was sneezing and sniffling like crazy."
"Hopefully I do not take this as a habit.." Aki thought to herself. Just then, Ganta sneezed.
"Damn, it's the middle of summer and I'm sneezing. Someone must be cursing me." Ganta said out loud. That made Aki snap back to the present.
"Well, I think we should go now. Bye!" Aki replied and waved at Tsuna and the rest. She then started to drag Ganta along with her without even waiting for their reply.
When Aki and Ganta were far enough, Tsuna started to voice out his doubts.
"Hey, don't you guys think that after this afternoon, both of them are quite evasive from us?" Tsuna said.
"Might be the unfamiliar feeling in a new country." Yamamoto assured Tsuna.
"I guess so.."
Hmm... Something's not right. But what is it? Gokudera thought to himself.
Chapter Eight
"Stay still in there" the guard said as he slammed the cell door shut.
"Damnit! What the hell was I doing or thinking!? I should have known that I would not be able to defeat Xanxus, but yet, he was able to incapacitate me, TWICE." Aki thought as she banged a fist continuously at the wall.
Gradually, she stopped banging, as she knew that blaming anyone would not get Ganta back, nor will it let her leave this place. She turned to lean her back against the wall and started to plan her escape.
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Xanxus' Office
"What were you thinking!? You fired that damned gun at her twice!!" Ganta shouted at Xanxus, and grabbed his collar.
"Hey watch what you are doing." Levi said.
"Let him be." Xanxus replied.
"I told you not to hurt her, and yet you fired without thinking!"
"It's not like you care that much right? You need her gone in order to gain the Snow ring's power." Xanxus replied.
Ganta glared at Xanxus and pushed him aside.
"Our overall motive might be the same, but do not think that I am under your control completely. I dare you to hurt her one more time, and you will regret it. I'm going to get her out of that place." He said as he stormed out of the office.
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Aki's thoughts kept drifting to the past when she and Ganta were in a happy family with both her parents alive. It all seemed so peaceful, so peaceful that she would not imagine that incident to happen--
Her thoughts were interrupted by and explosion nearby. She could hear the guards outside running and shouting towards the explosion. Wondering what was happening, she stood up and peered through the small window at the door.
Just then, the door swung open, making Aki squint because of the sudden exposure to light. Before she could open her eyes and see what was happening, she was lifted off the ground.
Thinking that it was another guard, she started flailing about wildly, accidentally smacking the person's face repeatedly.
"Hey hey hey relax!! It's me!" Ganta said while trying to shield his face with one hand.
"LET ME GO-- Huh? Ganta?" Aki replied, telling herself that she is hearing and seeing things.
"But, how? I thought you were kidnapped."
"I'm not so weak. I'll leave the explanations for later. Let's get out of this place first." Ganta replied.
"OVER THERE!" A guard motioned to the two as the smoke from the explosion cleared.
"Pass me my weapons. I will blast a way through." Aki replied, hand gesturing for the gun.
"That won't be needed." Ganta said as he turned and punched the wall. Aki realised that he was using his weapon, a gauntlet (but only the left hand side at the moment ._.) with a ignited rank B mist ring.
It was only just after that moment when Aki realised they were actually more than ten floors above ground level.
"Hey wait! This is one of the highest fl--"
Before she could finish, Ganta jumped.
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!!???"
