Summoned

Take two

"Are you s..."

"Yes." I cut Shizuka off.

"It doesn't h..."

"No." I cut Shizuka off again.

"Why do you keep c..."

"Because this is the hundredth time you wanted to check my arm in the last five minutes." I cut off Shizuka yet again. And she finally lets go of my arm.

I then re-tie the bandage Khota gave me from the stuff inside the Humvee and lower my sleeve.

"Kitchen wares my butt..." Saya mumbled with her arms folded, leaning her back against the door next to her seat. Staring at me from the back of the car, as I was now sitting on the front passenger's seat.

"Yes, Kitchen wares your butt." I reply flatly.

"If I had just, followed your orders and did not kill these corpses near the fridge, as you told me to..." Saeko, who was in the middle of the back seats mumbled as well, her sight locked to her legs.

You see, now we had another problem. That being that Saeko started blaming herself that I tripped on a corpse that was 'dead' near the fridge, since she was the one that killed them...

"And if I had remembered to change my broken armguard. And if Rika had not dragged me into that job that cracked my armguard." I respond.

"Hey now..." Rika frowns slightly as she pops from behind my seat.

"The point is, it's nobody's fault. Or it's everybody's fault. Besides, had you not stomped that corpse as fast as you did it might have managed to actually bite me. Plus, I should have been more aware of my surroundings. We got too relaxed, we should be glad 'this' is the worse that happened for not taking it as seriously as we should have." I continue as I keep looking at Saeko.

"Are you sure you are ok?" Saeko then asks as she lifts her head.

"Asami has seen a person after they got bitten. They become sick, very fast. Naier does not look sick." Asami responds as she glances between me and Saeko with a worried expression.

"I also checked the bite mark, there aren't any cuts, the armguard and clothing under made the bite more like a bruize from a blunt object if anything." Shizuka adds.

"Uhh. Did we get any corpses coming from the forest?" I ask as I turn to Rika. Mostly to at least try and change the damn subject.

"Nope, none popped up from behind us. No idea what's happening behind the estate or the actual zig zag road though." Rika responds. I nod back.

"Right. So, as much as I want to skip this. We 'still' need to clear like half of the estate..." I sigh as I turn to look back towards our 'base'.

While it looked clear from here. Aside from corpses that needed to get burned or buried. We still had the warehouse, dojo, and two upper floors to check.

"And we're burning daylight here. We got, what, three more hours before the sun bails on us?" I add as I lean towards the windshield to look at the sky, then pull my watch from my vest's chest pocket.

"Ummm, maybe if we sleep in the car. And return to the airport tomorrow..." Shizuka mumbled.

"No. Absolutely not, I am NOT going back there." Saya declared as she leaned towards the center of the car, narrowing her eyes at Shizuka.

"Sorry..." Shizuka just lowered her head apologetically.

"Ekhem, time for round two it is then. Before you guys start clawing at each other." I clear my throat and exit the car before the group could really react.