A Lovely Shade of Red ~ Mikoto Suoh

Chapter 2

Tatara's POV

"The Red King," she replied.

I just sat there and looked at her. The Red King. Mikoto Suoh. My King cheated on her. Why? Why would Mikoto do such a thing? I can't even imagine Mikoto doing such a thing.

"The Red King huh?" I questioned rubbing the back of my neck.
"Yeah that's what I said," she sighed.
"I'm so sorry that he did that to you," I replied placing my hand on her shoulder.
"It doesn't matter anymore," she replied standing up, "I don't plan on seeing him. Anyways, I'm gonna head out. Have a nice night Tatara."
"Thanks you too," I chimed.

Once she left I went back to my friends table. There sat Izumo, Yata, Rikio, and Mikoto.

"What the hell were you doing Tatara?" Yata asked with an attitude.

"Just talking to the lady who helped me out today," I answered.

"Oh really she was here?" Izumo questioned.

"Yes she was," I chimed.

"It's still hard to believe that a girl saved your ass Tatara," Yata commented.

"She did though," I blurted, "she broke the guy's wrist."

"That's pretty bad ass for a chick," Rikio said chiming in.

"So who is this girl?" Izumo asked with a curiosity.

I sat there for a moment taking a glance at Mikoto. He was just sitting there quietly smoking his cigarette. I'm curious to hear why Mikoto cheated on this girl.

"Her names Fang O'tara," I spoke playing with my fingers.

When I said her name Mikoto looked up at me with eyebrows raised. So he does know her. Not only does Mikoto know her but Izumo does too. The way he looked at Mikoto said it all.

"Fang helped you?" Izumo questioned.

"Yes," I answered, "I take it you know her too Izumo?"

Izumo glanced at me and gave a light chuckle.

"Yeah I know Fang," he began, "she's a good friend of mine. We talk here and there keep each other update."

This caused Mikoto to glare over at him. Mikoto didn't seem to know about that.

"She said that she knows you too Mikoto," I added.

"Oh yeah?" He questioned quietly taking the cigarette out of his mouth and putting it out in the ash tray across from him.

"Do you Mikoto?" I asked wanting to know.

"Yeah," he replied running a hand through his hair.

"I also heard you guys dated is it true Mikoto?" I asked with wanting to know how much I could get out of him.

"Yes Tatara," he sighed getting annoyed with me.

"I also heard that you ..."

"Tatara I really don't want to talk about it right now," Mikoto said cutting me off.

After Mikoto said that he got up and left the table. I guess I struck a nerve. I wonder if this means that he did cheat on her.

"Hey Tatara," Izumo began, "I wouldn't bother Mikoto to much about the Fang situation."

"Oh whys that?" I questioned.

Izumo sat there for a minute trying to choose his words carefully. He looked up at me and sighed.

"It's not a topic Mikoto is fond of so let's just leave it at that," he replied.

"Hm okay for now I'll let it go," I chimed.

"Don't push it Tatara," Izumo said.

"I won't," I chuckled.

The rest of the night we just hung out at the bar with Izumo and joked around. I couldn't help but wonder what had happen between Mikoto and Fang as I sat there.

Mikoto's POV

I sat there inside Izumo's bar with a cigarette in my mouth and a bottle of rum. My head had so many things running through it. Memories. Her.

Fang O'tara. Didn't think I would hear that name anytime soon. Why is she back here? What for? Sure she has friends here but other than that nothing. So many things went wrong. Not with just our relationship but with the accident. The accident shouldn't of happened. It happened because of me.

It's good to know I'll be getting interrogated by Tatara about Fang. My god that kid is something else. Why on earth did he have to be saved by her? It couldn't of been anyone else?

I sighed running my hand through my hair.

"Fang," I mumbled, "what am I going to do about you?"

Fangs POV

I sat there in bed looking up at the shadow from the window on the ceiling. It was quiet and I had a bunch on my mind. Being home, if that's what I can even call it, wasn't the same. I know why I'm back here, once I finish the job then I'll decide whether to stay or not.

As of right now I don't know why I would stay. Why would I stay? There's nothing for me here. Sure I have friends here but I barely keep in touch with them anyways. Not that I don't want to it's just hard with everything that's happened. I just don't see a point right now.

Then there's the whole Mikoto thing. Why on earth did that kid give me such a look when I mentioned his name? I can't even believe I told him what happened with Mikoto. I even said he was King of the Red clan how stupid can I get. For all I know he can be with another clan and may be trying to get info on him. Oh well he can deal with it. I have no desire to be apart of anything that involves him.

I sighed closing my eyes.

"Mikoto," I began, "I better not run into you."