Snippet #2573757

"So ... The beast lives,"
"Well? Are you going to explain yourself?"

The familiar voice was enough to startle Tatsuya. Turning around slowly, he found that it was in fact Elden who was speaking to him. Someone who he really respected as a martial artist. The lump in Tatsuya's stomach made him want to turn around. Fighting Elden wouldn't get anyone anywhere. Not only that, but he didn't want to hurt someone from his old team on top of leaving them.

Before Tatsuya could move, Elden was already blocking his path.

"What you're doing ... It isn't right, Tatsuya. You're worrying everyone. It's an inconvenience for me, really. But not for everyone else. They're all worried about you. All of them. They need their leader back. They need their friend back. They need you back, Tatsuya."

Tatsuya turned his face away from him, not wanting to hear the kids bull. Tatsuya knew what he was doing and didn't need to explain himself. Though once he saw Elden's head move toward the dorm, his face couldn't help but frown up in anger.

"And you're worrying her. You haven't a clue what you're doing to her, do you? The girl rarely eats and sleeps. She is constantly either training or worrying about you and the other members of the Alliance. I don't know every detail about what happened that night so long ago, but it isn't right what you're doing to her, and you damn well know it. It isn't fair to her - and it's pissing me off!"

"So. It's not like that can be helped with all that's happened. She'll be fine, I have other stuff to worry about."

Once the boy responded to him with a shove, Tatsuya was about to drop his food and hit him, but decided his hunger was more important than a fight. That, and he knew that Elden didn't understand. It wasn't his fault. If anyone was to blame, Tatsuya blamed himself for telling everyone something... no, making people believe in something he had so little knowledge of. So since it was his fault, he just stared directly into the boys eyes. He could tell Elden was thinking the same thing he was thinking and that all there had to be was one move taken. One move to start their fight.

"You're acting like a spoiled little piece of shit brat that didn't get specifically what he asked for for Christmas. Now get your shit together and figure out what the Hell you want out of everyone, because what you're doing right now - it's the lowest of the low!"

With that said, Elden left, leaving Tatsuya dumbfounded. He sighed in exhaustion looking at his food. "I haven't eaten in a long time either. Damn.... It's gonna rain huh?" He looked at the rain then towards the dorms. If he had walked back to the hut the rain would wet his food. It was definitely something to question when it came to the taste of wet rice bread. Climbing to his window with the food back slung around his back, he peeked inside to see that the window was locked and the door was opened. He made a mental note to change his locks. Of course that'd have to be after he got inside. He went from window to window, but the locks were on each of them. God forbid he had to go to the student bedroom windows. He looked over and saw one more faculty room window and lunged at it, hanging from nothing but the railing on the window and his fingers. Just as he was about to open it up, he heard murmuring coming from the room. Taking a closer look through the glass he could see Reika, who looked like she was crying or something. He pressed his ear to her window to hear what she was saying.

With each word Tatsuya heard a steady thump from the sky, which made him want to go inside even more. If it had started raining that would mean thunder would come soon as well as the lightning.

However, that wasn't the only thing he had to worry about, for it seemed she was bleeding. He couldn't tell from the dark of the room at first, but the flash of lightning confirmed that it was infact blood he had seen. Tatsuya tried to open the window, which was unlocked, but the window wouldn't budge. It was almost like it was frozen in place. Tatsuya could hear Reika muttering to herself and raising her voice. At first he thought it was because he thought she was in pain.

"... I wanted us to be together!"

With her yell, it was like the weather went from harsh to haphazardness in a blink of an eye. The wind picked up, blowing out the windows and launching Tatsuya through the hole. On the outside, the rain was coming down fast and hard and the lightning was setting streams all over the place.

The wind still caused trouble on the inside, blowing into the room with all it's fury.

"Reika!!!" Tatsuya yelled, trying to un-glue himself from the wall. He reached into his back of now smashed food and bread, pulling out a nice honey bun. It looked so good, he was going to eat it, but he started crawling towards the girl instead. It took him awhile to reach her, seeing as the wind was trying to push him away, but since he was on his knees he was able to balance himself out better. Once he was within arms reach her he wrapped his arm around her placing the honeybunn on her lap and used his now free hands to cover her ears.

"It's okay. The storm's not going to hurt you as long as I'm here."

He didn't know how bad the storm was going to be, but he wanted it to be over soon. He knew that Reika wasn't a fan of thunder and lightning, plus it wasn't like he would be able to enjoy his food like this.

"I'm sorry."

He said words, a lot of them actually, but he didn't think any of them would reach the girl with his hands on her ears.