Panacea

Panacea Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

As Hikaru and Seto were travelling to Suoh, a thought suddenly occurred to Hikaru. It would seem that the idea really appealed to him seeing as he quickly rounded on Seto.

"Hey Seto, I got an idea on how I can spice up the group training exercise today. Kinda feeds the whole 'platoon is a family' shtick you talk about so often." He said cheekily as Seto then looked at him curiously.

"Interesting...what did you have in mind?" The man said, his curiosity piqued somewhat by Hikaru's playful yet well meaning attitude.

As Hikaru explained his plans to Seto, the two of them arrived at the OSF building. 'Seto's probably going to receive a summons from the chief regarding the emergency deployment yesterday...better leave him to it.' Hikaru mused as he noticed the captain receive a brain message, after which he bade farewell to Hikaru and left for the elevators. 'It's pretty early so I may as well check on Tsugumi and Kagero in the training facility.' He thought as he made his way to the room.

Break

"So what do you think of my plan Tsugumi? Pretty slick for just a training exercise right?" Kagero asked Tsugumi as the man explained just how the training would be structured.

"Kagero, you are acting strange..." Tsugumi said as she looked at him askance.

"What do you mean?" Kagero asked 'innocently'.

"She means that normally your lazy ass couldn't be bothered to do these lame exercises. I mean, the late blooming genius that is Kagero Donne wouldn't need them-even if he got his butt handed to him my some Other just the other day..." Hikaru suddenly said, having heard their conversation as he entered the room.

"Hikaru, I don't need this from you! I got enough ribbing from Captain Seto already. ~" Kagero said as Tsugumi looked at the two inquisitively.

"What does he mean Hikaru? Did...you guys get hurt on a deployment?" She asked as Hikaru walked to her and calmly ruffled her hair, getting said girl to flush pink and look away adorably.

"Nah, just had to save Kagero after he bit off more than he could chew. Had to heal Seto's wounds as well...kinda the reason why I had to wait for my energy to regenerate to heal mine." Hikaru nonchalantly said as Tsugumi turned to look at him through her bangs as she quickly took one of his hands in her own as she looked him over.

"I know...my power doesn't work on you...and that you don't want me to worry. But that doesn't mean...that you should put yourself at risk like that...cherish your own life as well." She said as Hikaru quickly looked away hiding a faint pink dusting on his cheekbones.

"It wasn't that bad though...fine, I guess I can be more careful. Just don't look at me like that...that moe power is real. "He said, scratching his cheek awkwardly as Tsugumi hid a faint smirk at his reaction.

'Ah...teasing back is fun...I got him back for the head pat and got ammo with that last bit...he just muttered.' She thought while Kagero was simply watching the proceedings with a nostalgic look.

'Don't know why Kagero isn't teasing us but I am not going to look this gift horse in the mouth.' Hikaru thought as the trio watched Gemma and Nagi walk into the room as well.