"Hey, you alright?" Kara asked.
She suddenly passed out.
"Hey! Wake up! Hey! What's her name again?"
Her brother arrived.
"What happened?" he asked.
"She just passed out. Her heartbeat is normal," Kara replied.
Her brother looked concerned and asked Kara to carry her to the bed.
"Why me?" Kara asked.
"I'm just eight years old, I can't carry her," her brother said.
He looked at her body and thought, What am I supposed to do? Should I touch her? What if she finds out?
"Hey! Just do it!" her brother shouted.
"Right!" Kara said, then carefully carried her and laid her on the sofa.
Seka wakes up in her room. Blinking, she sees Kara and Mizuno standing at her bedside.
"Hey, our princess finally woke up," Kara teases, smiling. "I'll help with cooking, or it's gonna take forever."
Seka sits up, still dazed — but her imagination runs wild. Help in cooking? In her head, she sees herself as his wife, running a home, Kara helping in the kitchen…
"A-Aren't we going a bit too fast?!" she blurts.
Kara and Mizuno stare at her.
Silence.
Then Kara laughs.
Realizing she said that out loud, Seka turns red. "N-Never mind! Just help out."
In the kitchen, Kara rolls up his sleeves and begins pulling out ingredients. Seka watches in shock as he chops vegetables like a pro.
"Hey, let me do something too," she says.
Kara keeps going.
BAM!
She knocks him on the head.
"I said I want to help too! If you're going to do everything, go cook in your own house!"
"S-Sorry," Kara bows. "I just got carried away."
Seka sighs and takes a potato to peel.
"Why are you so good at this anyway?" she asks.
"I had to cook since I was a kid," Kara says softly. "Eventually, I started to enjoy it."
Seka peels another potato. "I've been cooking just as long… but mine's always a mess. I just end up with cuts."
Kara closes his eyes and smiles. "Yeah, I can tell. Your fingers are full of little marks… but they're still beautiful."
She blushes. "Can't you say anything without flirting?"
"Ah—sorry, I didn't mean to! But I wasn't lying."
She giggles.
Kara stares at her, wanting to say something. "I… I…"
"Hey! It's ready!" Seka shouts suddenly, turning off the heat.
"What were you trying to say?" she asks.
"I just… I don't bond with people this fast. But with you two, it feels like we've known each other for longer."
She looks at Kara with an awkward smile, "yeah like a friend from-"
She feels nostalgic, she gets a flashback
A dark figure,"run, take your brother and don't look back, keep moving forward"
"You alright?" Kara looks at her.
Her face looks sad in an instant
"It was him wasn't it? I thought I had the whole world I needed to live in my hands just to ruin." She thinks
"Let's set the tables Seka" Kara says.
"You're right," Seka says, handing him a plate.
They set the table together.
Mizuno runs in. "Looks like something happened here!" He tries to grab food.
"Hey! Didn't I teach you to wash your hands?" Seka glares.
They eat quietly… almost too quietly.
Mizuno breaks the silence. "Did something happen between you two? I heard stuff like—'you're so pretty'—" He mimics Kara.
Kara chokes, coughing hard.
Seka quickly hands him water.
"My sister never showed her this side to any one, Are you two a couple or something?" Mizuno asks, wide-eyed.
"N-No! It's not like that! He's just like that!" Seka shouts, red-faced.
Kara glances at her, then at his food.
After dinner, they clean up together — a smooth rhythm. Seka washes, Kara rinses, and Mizuno dries and stacks the plates.
"We should form a party!" Mizuno exclaims.
"Don't be so hasty," Seka says. "I'll need to ask my friends, and Kara probably already has a team."
Kara nods. "Yeah. I'll need to ask first."
After a fun day Kara returns, Seka and Mizuno come to the door to drop of Kara.
He steps outside the door then there is a slight snow, Kara looks up some of the snow is glowing blue,
One of the snow drwops in his hand just a tiny bit, his whole palm freezes, "you two get inside now." Kara shouts ! as he pushes her in
There is a silence
...
Kara looks down he sees seka looking at him in his eyes.
"Hey Sek-"
Slapp!!
Seka gives a huge slap in his face, seka looks flustered with no words,
"Well that was a sight, altho that was like more of an accident" Mizuno talks as he watches two of them blush,
"So Veilstorm huh I cant go home now." Kara looks at Seka with a uneasy feeling.
"Hey did you close all the windows Seka" Kara looks at Seka,
They hear a sound the Veilstorm in its true form "unless we close the window the protective layer wont work." Kara thinks,
Dash!! Kara disappears in an instant.
Dam dam dam
Mizuno and Seka hear sounds all over of the windows closing, they rush in the living room, they see their TV and the Sofa frozen solid.
" Hey big bro I know i should not be saying this but my room" Mizuno looks at Seka with unpleasing smile.
Seka looks at him with a glare "I am not leting him in, He can just sleep on the kitchen floor"
Kara looks at her "Do you really hate me that much, okay then"
Kara walks away to the maindoor
"Wait hey where r you goin I said kitchen"
The thunder start rumbling.
"Sigh! Okay fine you can sleep at my room but dont try any thing stupid" Seka says.
Mizuno just goes inside his room, Kara and Seka bring out their futon.
They both lay down with out a word and face the opposite side of each other there is literally not much space so their futon is very close even if they tried to make it far apart.
Kara changes his posture, looks up in the seeling.
The clock ticks ,2 am
"I know you still awake, you dont need to keep looking at me with that side look" Kara speaks.
"How did yo-"
Crack!!! Lightning struck "AHHH!!" Seka screamed
Kara looks at Seka in her bed she is not there.
Then he feels some thing grabbing his shirt he looks down
Its Seka helpless scared, with tears in her eye looking at him trembling.
He couldnt bare but blush with the pure sight of her state.
Kara tries to speak"Hey what ar-" , "nothing its nothing" Says Seka clenching the shirt even more.
"Dont tell me your afraid of the-","just shut up!, its just i cant focus okay its not that"
Banm! There is another lightning. Seka gets even more aftaid she grabs his shirt more tightly.
"Until the lightning stops" Seka speaks in small voice
Kara looks the other side unable to look at her state,"Di- did you just says something…. Seka?"
Seka but in a smaller tone "I said until the lightning stops just stay still"
"You re so childish" Kara adds but couldnt even face her.
Kara thinks about what hes just saw, her yyes both watery, with the moon light shining a little with thunder bit of clouds snowing, her clothes bit loose he could see one of her soldiers and neck.
"Youre so childish" Kara speaks.
"Is there a problem with that " Seka replies.
So Kara asks "When did you start playing".
"it's been a couple week science I came here". My brother and I travelled for days to get here .
"Why get here" Kara asks
"Why of course to earn some money and make a living dumb ass!" She says in a soft tone.
"Why leave family then" another question from Kara.
Seka looks down clenches her other fist "its better I dont talk about my past altho I still wanted to see him its not important just stay quiet".her voice slowly gets low as Kara could barely hear, but he understands .
He has a slight jelousy and discomfort with her words.
Kara nods, times goes by the Veilstorm stops .
Kara opens his eyes blinks a few times, He tires to move, his arm is numb, something is grabbing him he looks down, its Seka, sleeping in his arm, Grabbing him like a teddy bear, Kara moves away slowly,
He gets out of the room
Mizuno standing right outside asks "you did not do anything to her did you"
Kara pats in the head and says "don't worry about that, I didnt even try to touch her".
Kara leaves.
When leaving he sees that some one is there in the corner, outside but when he tries to look there the person just disappears,
I just sensed some magic there
"I think i am way to flustered right now" he talks to him self and just continues
"A lot happened that night.
But that was the moment I — Kara, sixteen, fighter for Kiokou International —
— met that cute girl again."