𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 - 𝚝𝚘𝚔𝚢𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜

𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 - 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞

Leaving Kuma at home with some food and water, Aiko arrived at Takemitchy's house. She knocked on the door, Takemitchy answering a few seconds after.

"Aiko! Come in." She followed behind him, in the middle of the room was a half completed puzzle which had 1000 peices, Aiko read the box on the floor.

"Damn, how long did it take you to make that!"

And there was the façade. Inside she felt like dead weight, stressed, tired and she also had a unusually bad headache. 

"It's taken me a day straight so far! I'm planning on trying to finish it before some of my friends come around, you don't mind, do you?"

"Not at all! I'll help you complete it!"

"Really?"

"Yeah!"

---

Takemitchy's friends had been round for a while now, they had managed not to break the puzzle that Takemitchy and Aiko had finished, they were both immensely proud of the puzzle. Surprisingly, she actually got along well with his friends.

There was a knock at the door that made them all silent, Takemitchy answered the door to be greeted with the voice of Draken.

"Hey, Takemitchy! How are you since you've been able to move around?"

"I've been good! My friends are here too."

"That's fine, can I come in?"

"Yeah."

Draken came into the room, he was a bit shocked when he saw Aiko but sent a smile her way and a wave anyway, "When'd you get here?"

"Not too long ago, " She said leaning back on the floor, she watched as Draken went to lean on the puzzle, "Stop! We worked on that for ages!"

He stopped in his tracks staring at the 1000 piece motorbike puzzle, "How many pieces is that?"

"1000," Akkun said, "They won't stop going on about it."

"Now that's a lie!" Aiko spoke, it was not a lie but Aiko just refused to acknowledge it. Beside she though she had deserved the right to brag anyway the amount of time the two took on it.

"So, how long did you guys spend on it?"

---

"I'm heading out," Said Aiko as she got up off the floor, Draken doing the same thing, "Are you coming too, Ken?"

She realized she hadn't called him that in a long time, he nodded before waving Takemitchy goodbye and walking out the door.

"It was nice to meet you all!" She bowed slightly to Takemitchys friends, "And its nice to see you two, Takemitchy."

The overlap of Takemitchy and his friends voices said goodbye in a different way, outside she met Draken before walking along with him to go back home, meanwhile.

---

"What the hell, Takemichi!? You're like best friends with both of Tomans Vice Leaders?" Yamagashi exclaimed, a shocked look on his face. Takemichi laughed, his eyes looking around at his shocked friends.

"Yeah? Well, Aiko is a close friend, oh she's the one that made Kiyomasa let us beat him up, remember?"

"WAHH!?" Suzuki, the black haired boy turned his head left and right to face his friends, "But she was so scary!"

"She still is. I've never seen her get that pissed in a while though."

---

Draken and Aiko walked side by side, her head was pounding and honestly, she wished she was home.

"So, have you seen Mikey?"

"Of course I have." Aiko snapped, not really in the mood for this, Draken obviously didn't catch the tone of voice and carried on.

"So who's side are you on?"

"Both."

"You can't be on both. It's Mikey, isn't it!"

"Do you two realize how fucking selfish you're both being? I have enough on my mind, Pah, my brothers, staying in my house, keeping the gang together and all you care about is if I've talked to Mikey or not!? What the fuck is wrong with you! I'm not dealing with this childish shit, so until you two get over it, piss off."

She walked ahead and out of sight, Draken then realized how bad of a friend both he and Mikey had been. How much stress had she been through while both Mikey and himself were too caught up in their own argument to notice the health of the third of their trio. He had failed someone he looked at as a sister, and he hated himself for it.

"Draken? What are you doing here?"

"Mikey. I can say the same." Draken said, a little less hostility in his voice, "I was visiting Takemitchy."

"Well, leave. So am I." 

"Who do you think you are, telling me to leave?"

Mikey couldn't help notice the less violent tone in his voice and the obvious unwillingness that radiated off him, yet both Mikey and Draken had pride, one just shows it more then the other.

And after all that, the argument was solved with a shit landing in Takemitchys hair. Idiots.