The Yakuza's flower

Friends

Kozue pov.
As I huff and puff my way down the busy streets running to a cute little cafe called "Garden" to go ask my new best friend Ume to help me get into school now that I'm late and the school gate has been closed.

I see her from a distance pouring a customer a nice hot cup of coffee. The funny thing about Ume is that many people confuse her for being a tourist because she looks like a foreigner. It's mostly because of her appearance. She's a good few inches taller than me and has nice (a bit dark) tan skin. Her hair is curly and sometimes I envy her about it and another thing is that she has really beautiful hazel eyes. She's actually what Japanese people call a "half " because she is half Japanese and half Latin American.

I wave at her to get her attention and she quickly attends to the customer sitting outside the shop then makes her way to me while she holds her tray.
"Ume!? Think you can throw me over the gate like last time?" I ask her while I try to catch my breath. She looks at me with worried eyes but a smile on her face "late again?!" She says to me.
"I know I know it's just I was hanging with Baki and got home a little late!" I say to her as I blush and try to avoid eye contact with her.
She quickly makes her way into the cafe shop to put her apron and tray inside. And tells the owner (aka her grandma) that she will be going on her quick break.

We both look at each other before starting to run in the direction of my school. As we ran we both started to laugh a bit because moments like these are what make great memories.

As we make it to the front gate of my school Ume gets in a starting position to get ready to launch me... oh I forgot to mention how crazy strong my best friend is. She says that she was just born strong but does work out a little bit.
"Ready?!" She says to me as she crouches down and cups her hands together. "Ready!!" I yell to her as I make some distance between us and get ready to run towards her and take a small step on her hands so she launches me on the other side.

We do our little Olympic game and I make it over the gate, landing on my butt ..ouch. I quickly get up and dust my school uniform off. " HEYY! STOP!" I hear a man yell and quickly get startled so I let her know I'm okay. "I'M OKAY, THANK YOU!!!" I yell to her before running to my class.

Ume pov

Beep! Beep!! Beep!!! I wake up to the sound of my loud alarm and get ready for the busy day that I have ahead of me. I get dressed in my white undershirt and pull a cute yellow sundress over it, the last thing that I put on is my black long stalkings. I don't really like to wear any dresses on without them ever since ...... well anyway.

I yawn and make my way downstairs to greet my grandmother and walk with her to the traditional coffee shop called "Garden."

"Good morning Grandma," I say to her in my usual sweet tone voice and give her a big smile. "Good morning Ume, I see you're wearing your long socks again. You're going to get hot; it's going to be very hot today." She says to me as she gets her purse and cute sun hat. "No no, I promise I'll be fine. I get cold anyway Grandma." She just sighs at me and shakes her head in disapproval.

We make our way to the shop and slowly see the streets of Japan become busy (since you know it's 5:30 am) once we arrive at the shop. Some of the other nice employees are waiting for us at the entrance of the shop. "Buenos Dias Ume, Como tu?" Rukia says to me in her struggling Spanish. I simply smile at her, giggle a bit and correct her. "Nice try Rukia, but maybe try "Cómo Estás." This means how are you?" I am quickly cut off by my Grandmother "enough silly talk, get ready for the day you two, customers will be coming in any minute." She says to us in a grumpy demanding tone.

After opening the shop, people began to come and go as the time slowly started to pass by. At around 8:50 ish I was outside on the shop's patio, serving a customer when all of a sudden I hear my name being shouted. "Ume!" I look to see who was shouting my name and it was my best friend Kozue. "Think you can throw me over the gate like last time?" she asks me while she huffed and puffed to catch her breath. "Late again!?" I say to her in a pretend surprise. She tells me her explanation but I'm already well aware of her excuse. Baki Baki Baki, she loves that boy with her life; I've never met him but with the things she tells me he sounds like a really nice guy. Anyway, I agree to go with her to her school and help her get in. I look at the gentleman that I was serving coffee to, and he smiles and nods at me with approval. I dismiss myself and quickly run into the shop and place my apron and coffee tray in their proper places. My Grandmother sees me and quickly asks where I'm off to. I only tell her I'm going to take a quick break and be back in minutes. Both me and Kozue take off to her school.

At her school, we do this little cheerleading routine where I throw her over the gate and hope she makes the landing. I see her make some distance between us so she has enough space to run up to me. "Ready?" I say to her as she nods her head and responds "ready." She runs towards me at her full speed and I launch her with ease. I wait on the other side to get an okay from her when we both hear a Loud "HEYY! STOP!" I look to the left and see what looks like a cop... maybe school security starts running towards me. I hear Kozue give me her okay and quickly take off running in the opposite direction to get back to the cafe.

While I'm running I make a quick turn and bump into what feels like a hard wall but it moves slightly forward. My vision gets blurry for a moment and I look up, seeing a tall ... no.. a giant man dressed in a white suit and wearing glasses looking at me with wide eyes. I take a couple of steps back and feel my body start shaking a bit. We make eye contact for a good minute before being interrupted by the person chasing me. "Hanayama!!" he says in a nervous and scared tone. The giant man turns his attention from me to the other man. While they were both distracted with each other I manage to make my getaway and never look back.

I make it back to the cafe and try to forget about the scary giant I ran into today, then I wait to finish my shift before getting ready for my next shift at the local hospital as a part-time nurse.
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