By Your Side - Tomo x Kazuha [Complete]

Part 6 - [Unedited]

After checking the three different rifts, Kazuha found himself attached to the young adult. When they passed by camps with enemies or the fatui that's weirdly gaurding the rifts, tomo was the one who always deal with them, he can only watch in the sidelines as the enemies fall into their doom.

"Thank you." Kazuha slowly blurted out while walking towards the place where xavier is located. They were done checking the rifts so they decided to go back and report to xavier about the fatui. Tomo glance at him before smiling brightly.

"No need to thank me." Tomo answered. Kazuha stared at tomo not realizing that he was already smiling softly. Tomo's eyes heart pounded again. Kazuha's smile was beautiful, very beautiful, and his sparkling eyes made his whole body melt. Tomo stared at kazuha in awe.

"We've been together for quite some time now. How about we exchange names?" Kazuha couldn't help but ask the young adult's name. He was quite curious of the young adult to be honest and he would like to know more about him. Tomo was taken aback about the sudden question.

"Tomo....My name is Tomo." Tomo answered kazuha's question. Kazuha's smile widen even more after tomo answered his question.

"My name is Kaedehara Kazuha. A wonderer." Kazuha opened his mouth and introduced himself. Tomo's eyes widen when he heard the name 'kaedehara'.

'Kaedehara? He belong to the kaedehara clan?' Tomo stared at kazuha feeling baffled. The kaedehara clan was a noble clan from inazuma, but there have been rumors going on about the kaedehara clan declining. Tomo decided to shut his mouth and looked away.

"Nice to meet you kazuha." He mumbled while smiling softly. A gentle breeze brush through Tomo making his long hair that was tied up into a messy ponytail sway gently. The calm heart of kaedehara kazuha started to pound madly as his cheeks flushed with a bright shade of pink. Touching his chest, kazuha tried to calm his beating heart but to no vail it was still pounding so he looked away feeling flustered.

"Y-yeah." The dou stayed silent until they got back. Yuki opened her eyes and stared at her master. A mysterious glint flash from her eyes before disappearing.

"Oh you're back! Thanks to you The situation looks stable, at least." Kazuha snapped out from his thoughts when he heard xavier's voice. Taking a big step kazuha opened his mouth and explained what happened. Tomo couldn't help but stare at kazuha. On their way back here the young rōnin have been silent. He wondered if it have something to do with him, or he's just not the talker type.

"Rifts....Fatui? What are those sly Snezhnayans doing all the way out here?" Xavier exclaimed in complete surprise. The mikage furnace have nothing to do with the fatui.

"I am not too sure of their objectives but I can smell from the winds that they are up to no good." Tomo frowned upon seeing xavier's expression. Earlier, He thought that xavier asked the fatui to gaurd the rifts, But it seems that those fools got too much if their selfs to the point where they start to middle with others business.

"You've got that right. But if the current issues with the Mikage Furnace are the Fatui's doing, then that complicates things." This time it was kazuha's turn to frown. What do they want from the furnace anyway?

"Goodness gracious. How can this be happening! I'm just a humble engineer. I only wanted to come here to do a little research, do some filming, get a taste of Inazuma's delightful culture, et cetera." As xavier said those words his face turned paler and paler. Tomo looked at xavier with a hint of pity from his eyes.

"How did I go from that to being caught up in this whole mess!? It began as a simple technical issue. Then the commissioner refused to help and all of a sudden it's somehow a process issue! And now the Fatui are here. If it goes on like this, the nature of this problem is going to change quite radically indeed!" He add up looking a bit panicked.