I Should Thank You

Chapter 8| Learning

// Sorry for the trashy chapter :(

It's been about 2 hours of pure and utter struggle. I took about an hour-long shower trying to clean myself of all the dirt on me, which didn't take long but I missed the warmth of one so I just stayed in way longer than expected.

After that came the hard part: brushing my hair. It was already a tangled mess from not properly taking care of it for over a month, but after washing my hair it just made the problem worse.

It took at least 40 minutes to straighten my hair out from its chaos, and I could feel so much relief when it was over. 

Currently, I'm sitting on the couch waiting for Dazai who should be here soon.

Not a second later from the end of my thought, I hear a few slight knocks on my door. I stand up from where I am and go over to open it.

"Hey are you rea-"

Dazai began talking, but as soon as he looked at me he just stopped and stared.

"What?"

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah, but where are we going again?" 

We leave my room and start walking to the main base located under the center of Yokohama.

"I'm giving you a tour around the underground base, so you get more familiar with it. Usually, I wouldn't do this myself, but I guess since you're my student now it shouldn't be that big of a deal."

"So, you had other students besides me?" I ask.

"Uh- Of course I have, I'm THE Dazai Osamu, why wouldn't I have had other stu-."

"Liar." 

"OK, So you're my first student so what?" He says.

"I was just curious, you look really young for someone to be pretty high up in the mafia, I'm guessing."

"I've been in the mafia for 2 years now, starting when I was 15. You can say I'm high up in the ranks. I'm an executive!"

He's 17? So just a year older than me.

He turns to me and gives me a small grin and a slight wink.

"Show off," I mumble

"Don't forget this show off is your boss right now."

"Whatever. Anyway, I'm still confused about a few things."

"Which is?" 

"What do I do exactly here? Besides hearing that I'd be training, what do you mean by that and is there anything else I have to do?"

A few things are just an understatement. I entirely still don't get the things that are happening. It's like everything just went way too fast. 

I mean I got caught by the mafia for doing a bunch of things that I shouldn't have, I talked with the HEAD of the mafia and almost died, Dazai saved me and now I'm joining the mafia. 

That's way too much for a girl to handle.

"For now, since you're new you won't be doing much at least right now. You're going to be training, which means learning proper combat and strengthening yourself overall. Maybe throwing in some gun practice wouldn't hurt either."

"I'm getting into a lot aren't I?"

This sounds way tiring than expected.

"Isn't it obvious? Oh look we're here."