attakai | a. haruchiyo & k. nahoya

8 | worn out

Nari closed her eyes as she tried to feel the cool breeze of the last day of October. The once green leaves of the trees slowly grew out to turn in the colors of yellow and red, the stores started to hang little ghost paper cut outs that they hang on the windows and decorated their interior with fake webs and scary face masks. Although Nari liked Halloween, she was looking forward to celebrating Baji's birthday after this and having a sleep over in their place.

The junkyard they are currently in is a vest empty space filled with old and rundown cars that were probably being stored, recycled or to be discarded. As Nari was trying to mind her business by feeling the wind brushing her long, peach hair back, she was turning heads towards her direction. A "princess" in a gang isn't common, but for other gang members outside of Toman, she was a sight to see.  And truth be told, Sanzu was getting irritated.

"You're showing too much skin" He told her as he walks up to her, buttoning her upper top uniform to hide her exposed stomach. "These fuckers looking at you are probably undressing you in their eyes right now." Sanzu adds, angrily buttoning the buttons.

Nari opened her eyes and smiled at Sanzu. "Thank you for taking care of me, Haru." Nari begins to say, "If these guys are undressing me in their eyes right now, then it's probably their first time seeing a girl." Nari reasons, shrugging her shoulders.

"Dumbass, don't get ideas." Sanzu responded back, giving up when he couldn't find the buttons of the last three buttons of the top uniform. But in reality, Sanzu's heart was fluttering inside his chest and his cheeks were heating up. Pushing his perverted thoughts out of his head, he goes back to where Mucho is.

"You got that freak taking care of you, huh?" Smiley asks, standing besides Nari from where Sanzu stood earlier.

"Haru's naturally good at taking care of others!" Nari beams, smiling brightly at Smiley. "That's one of traits I like about him. Despite his strong and scary facade, he's sweet and nice." Nari added.

"Damn. It's Halloween but why does it feel like it's Valentines?" Smiley asks, pretending to shiver and shake off the feeling. Nari huffs out a breath before placing her hands on her hips.

"Don't be like that, Smiley! Sooner or later, you'll find someone who's going to make your heart flutter and chest swell like this!" Nari says, turning her head to where Angry is standing. "Right, Angry?"

Angry turned his head to look at the two of them. "I don't know what the conversation is but you're definitely right, Nari."

"You're my twin! How can you side on her?"

"I really don't know the topic but whatever Nari says, I'll just say yes"

"I'm the one overseeing today's fight." A guy with olive skin with a diamond earring on his left ear spoke in the middle of the junkyard. "I'm Hansen from the Ikebukuro Criminal Black Members."

"Nari"

Nari took a glance from her behind to see who was talking to her. It was Draken.

"You're playing a big role again today. Do you want to switch?" He asks her. But Nari shook her head.

"Thank you for your concern, Draken. But these guys don't scare me." Nari says, grinning as she eyed the members of Valhalla, grimacing when she saw Hanma winking at her.

"Hansen. Thank you very much for overseeing this fight today." Mikey spoke without much expression on his face.

Hansen grins, turning his head to face Mikey. "If this fight sucks, I'll beat you all myself." Hansen spoke. But his cockiness was ruined when Nari grabbed his collar, pushing him forward and close to her face.