Underneath (Foundation/Pre-write)

Chapter 7

When we got back to the room, Kota noticed we had a message in our inbox. Though, he realized at a painful time. 

Kota and I were resting on the bed, with Kota lazily playing my hair. I was slowly falling asleep on his chest. He was listening to some music that he claims was "The Best Band of The Old Ages". 

All the sudden there was a very loud robotic noise. I groaned, turned off his chest, and rolled into the blankets. 

"Get up." He said, playfully nudging me."

"Can't I just take a nap." I yet again groaned. 

"Nope," he said popping the 'P'.  "We have a message." He said completely pushing off my bed as he got off himself. 

"Dude! I was warm!" I yelled as I pouted. He turned to look at me with a smug look before turning to the message board. 

"Sorry not sorry." He said, tapping the code into the screen. "This could be impor

"Now don't joke about that. But, you are right." I cuddled even deeper into the blanket, taking in a big whiff of his smell. 

"You creep! But if you're going to be doing that, just smell the real thing." He said. I took him up on that. I jumped off the bed and took a running jump onto his back. I put my face into his shoulder and took a long breath in. "Hey, cut that out. We have new training schedules. Sad thing is they're based off gender." I clung to him tighter. 

"In that case, I'm not going." 

"Kaity, you have to. These people know where you live." He said poking my sides. 

"Onward!" I said, pointing at the spare room we had. I wanted to talk and cuddle with Kota on the couch for a bit. Kota headed that direction, but when we got into the room, we noticed it had been changed into a weight room. There was a super cool fridge to the right, a public shower to the left, and all sorts of weights in the middle. Sitting on one of the benches were two watches. I hopped off of Kota's back to check out the watches. The surface of the watches were small screens. I handed Kota the larger looking one and strapped one onto my left wrist. 

When I turned it on, a needle poked my wrist. I'm guessing it was a blood test. Suddenly, the screen flashed one word. Bionic. It wasn't making any noise, but it scared me. The watch wouldn't do anything else but flash that one word. So I shut it off, and gave my strongest smile to Kota. I felt the needle pull out of my wrist, so I carried on. 

To think I've only been here for 3 weeks, and all this chaos and magic has happened. That night, me and Kota slept close to each other. I held onto his as if I was going to lose him. He was the only thing that felt real to me. 

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The next day started with self training in our personal weight rooms. Me being a pretty weak 14 year old, I started bench pressing 65  pounds. Kota being the beast he is, started with 135. He claims that 135 was not a lot for guys his age. But looking at what I was pushing myself to do, I told him not to worry. We did 5 sets of 6, him increasing weight every time. I only got up to 75 pounds. After that I couldn't get any reps in. After that, we moved to the squat rack. He told me ti spot him, as he had 2 45's on each side. After he did a few reps, I only did 90 pounds. 

After I fell trying to do 100 pounds, Kota lifted me up onto his shoulders and started doing squats. 

"God girl, how much do you weigh? I could do this for hours!" I kicked him a little bit."

"I'm only about 100 pounds!" I started laughing as he started running around the room. He came to a stop and checked his watch. 

"We have group cardio in a half hour. What do you want to do until then?" He said as he put me down. 

"Umm... Well we should eat. Not a lot, but some." He nodded and headed to the cool refrigerator. 

After we ate we headed to the training area. There were all sorts of machines for cardio, but we had to go to the trainer. She was going to give us a routine or route to get done in the hour we had. This was all explained on our small sheets of paper. 

(I won't bore you guys with my younger self's idea of a workout.)

The chime rang, that means we move onto the gender specific combat training. Kota kissed my cheek as he headed to the separate room. As I headed into my area, Becca caught up with me. 

"Hey girly!" She greeted.

"Hey." I said back.

"Crazy huh? Right as you get out of the Above World, they get attacked." She chuckled. I have never thought of it like that. I hung my head.

"Yeah, that's pretty crazy." I sighed.

"Are you ready to engage in combat?" Becca said in a robotic voice. She bumped my sholder with hers, so I chuckled through the guilt. 

Becca opened the door to the room. It smelled like sweat and bleach. There were three mats, one larger than the other two. A very built woman stood in the center of the room.

"Welcome ladies, today you will be learning the basics of hand in hand combat." There was only 10 of us here, so her enthusiasm was booming. 

We spent the next two hours watching professionals 'show what they know'. Some everyone else got to attempt to win a 1 on 1 duel. But I got left out. As usual. 

When they let the class out, there were two guys waiting in the hallway. One was Kota, the other had something to do with Becca. He was tall and perfectly tanned. As I was staring, Kota grabbed my waist and pulled me towards him. I went to look at him, but his lips had caught mine on the way. 

"Ew, you're all sweaty!" I said, teasingly pushing him off of me. He chuckled and blushed. 

"Do you wanna go get lunch now?" He said looking at his watch. 

"No. Not until you get a shower." I said heading down the hallway. Me and Kota began talking about what we did today. I didn't say much. Well I didn't do much. Kota began to talk about how he was nearly the strongest in his class.

"Why not the strongest?" I asked. 

"Well, your little friend is pretty feisty. Xavier?" 

"You didn't hurt him did you?" 

"If I did, he didn't let it show. He's pretty tough." He said, unlocking our door. I closed the door behind us, making sure it was locked. When I had turned around, I saw that Kota had already taken his shirt of. And damn was he hot. I immediately blushed. He saw me and just chuckled. 

"Aren't you turning 15 pretty soon?" He asked with a smirk.

"Yeah, mhmm." I said, trying to look away, but his hotness drew my eyes to his chest. 

"I'll go shower now." He said, heading into the closet hall. 

I just stood there until my goofy smile decided to fade. I gathered some stuff so I could shower after him. I decided to just goof off in the weight room. Finally, Kota walked into the room. Fully dressed and adorably messed up hair.

"Did you leave any hot water for me?" I teased. 

"Yes, now hurry up. We may not make lunch." So I rushed to the bathroom and took the quickest shower since I've been here. I dressed into some comfy clothes I had and walked out of the bathroom. Right as I stepped out of the bathroom, Kota had scooped me up and ran for the door.

---Chapter End---

I'm sorry if that was too long or too short. My word counter isn't working right now. Like I said before, Kaity's age needs to be changed back to originally being 14, for the sake of the plot. I just got out of school, so I am hoping to update more. Thank you for reading. 

-Otter~chan