Saints Row: Bullet to the Heart

Untitled Part 101

~*Johnny's Hospital Room.*~

Ky walked the halls in troubled thought. What else could come from left field? She'll have to ask Pierce to look into Julius. Right now, she needed to check on Johnny. When she reached Gat's room, he could clearly see she was distressed.

"What's wrong?" He asked, dressed in comfortable clothes and sitting up.

"Nothing, I'm fine." She put her best smile on, thou it didn't reach her eyes. "How you feeling?"

Johnny narrowed his eyes at her. "Better, Pierce said you would be in soon. He just left out."

"Oh." She went and took a seat near his bed.

He pointed at the ring box in her hands. "That for me?"

Ky looked up at him and snorted slightly. "No, it came from Troy."

Anger bubbled in his chest. "I thought you wasn't seeing him anymore." Johnny slid off the bed, his midsection still a little tender, stood in front of Kyouki.

Ky looked up at the tall man, not liking the fact that he was accusing her of something she definitely was not doing. She stood, pushed him back gently. Her forehead reached his nose, and she tilted her head up to look him in the eyes. "I'm not. Ran into him out in the parking lot. I had to... I called him the day... told him to get her from the house... Before anyone, I was ready for anyone to find out." Kyouki paused and looked at the floor. She didn't mean it to sound as harsh. It still felt unreal, like a nightmare unending. Ky calmed herself before continuing. "I invited him to her funeral..." She held up the box. "And told me to call him if I needed anything. He said he had been holding on to this since the day I had died, said Ish helped pick it out." She was barely audible.

Johnny nodded as he took the box from her, stuffing it in his pocket, holding her hand, and squeezing it. Ky froze for a moment, going to pull her hand away, but he held on tight. He raised her hand, caressing her knuckles as he examined them. He saw minor cuts and scars from all the various guns she wielded and saw a newer cut on her right hand on the thin skin between her thumb and first finger. That was still healing. "What have you been up to?" he raised her hands to his lips, and just as he was about to kiss those deadly hands, the lights went out.

Pierce came running into the room frantically. "Yo Ronin is everywhere. We gotta jet outta here now!" Pierce headed from the room once more.

"You couldn't bring me a gift, instead you bring people trying to kill us?" He grinned and groaned when Ky pushed him back onto the bed.

"Oh, shut up." Ky ran to the door, the emergency lights kicked in as she looked to the left, then to the right, and saw four Ronin coming up the dimly lit hall. "Shit, he must've been waiting for this. We need to get you out of here." She said as she bolted from the door.

Johnny raised an eyebrow. "Shogo?" He called after her. He hurried to the door, peering out to see she had taken out two people with their swords. She was very graceful despite the situation. It was like watching living art. He was awestruck. She snatched the swords off the bodies. Saints came in and shot them to end their lives.

Ky ran back to Johnny. "Here, take these and get on the gurney." Ky handed Gat two guns she snatched from the dead Ronin, tossing the swords into the room. They slid across the polished floor. Ky raised the guardrails on the gurney and pushed Johnny out into the hall. She reached for her phone as she rolled up the hall to the elevator, heading down.

"Pierce, where the hell you go?" she screamed into the phone.

Johnny couldn't hear him on the other end. She turned the speaker on to steer the gurney.