Gas Masks

Proposition

"The training room is not too far from here," Black informs me, "It's at floor -5."

I thought about the last time I saw Kiyoshi. When he was just doing a lab experiment. Before that he hugged me for confessing that he had given me that note. What will he do to me this time?

Taking the elevator up, the floor beneath me became rickety and shaky. I swear, one of these days it's just going to fall!

Entering the 'Training Room', I see the entire place charged with mats, dumbbells, exercising equipment and weapons.

I find Kiyoshi wearing an initiation jacket and sweats sitting on a bench. He's holding a canteen with his finger-less training gloves. He was probably pre-training.

Without speaking he gets up. "Why did you need me here?" I ask in an inquisitive tone.

"We are going to do a training session," He says, "to regain some of your memory."

"So go change in there before we start." He says pointing at the door.

I don't hesitate to do so and open the heavy door that was forcing to close. Training clothes like the ones Kiyoshi was wearing was hung up on the wall next to a mirror and another bench.

I was distracted with myself in the mirror, the girl in the gas mask was fairly attractive... but plain at the same time.

Soon I realized I forgot to change, so I speedily switched my clothes and pushed the door open to meet him.

Kiyoshi was already standing up in a ready potion. Does he expect me to fight with him right off the bat?

I was... a little shiver from the cold air rushing through me, someone really needs to turn off the air conditioning. Almost  delaying, I go ahead and walk closer to him to see what he wants me to demonstrate.

Suddenly, his arm reflexes gave off a great pound to my side, I was completely alert. For some reason, this did not abuse me, it's almost like my muscles deflected the strike.

I instantly went with my instincts and batted back, defending his other move. I felt like my body was in control, knowing exactly what to do. Another line of strikes come forward as I keep defending them with my remote moves.

I mentally knew in timing that there was was a perfect open smite for me, I streaked another hit.

We both stopped, as he looks at me with certainty and a slight grin. "Very well," He says breathing heavily," better like always..."

He stumbles on the floor to take a seat, I think this tired him out... but I don't feel tired at the moment...

"I-is there something wrong?" I say startled. I must have went too harsh on him.

A woman, which seems to be one of the maids, rushed up to him. Pressing a wet towel against his forehead. The woman looked to be my age, she had beautiful black flowing hair with round glasses. The typical waitress outfit suited her appearance, in a good way.

"He'll be fine," She says in a serene way as Kiyoshi clenches his chest, "he just has a slight breathing problem, this one isn't severe. "I couldn't bare the pain he was giving off so I looked away.

"Hey, your that agent girl who lost her memories, huh?" She sighs re-positioning the towel, "I can't imagine... having to restart life right off the bat."

I remembered when I woke up and had no clue where I was... or who I really was. I was practically restarting life.

"I wouldn't agree more." I say.

"Same thing goes for me too," She says, "This is my first time working in a place like this. Just a few days ago they took me in after rescuing me." She puts her clenched fist over her chest. "And I promise to help, no matter what it is!" She says determined.

Kiyoshi gets up not needing her assistance, but almost stumbled back down.

"My name is Hina Chikage," She smiles sweetly and does a curtsy, "I can be a little clumsy at times, but we might be able to become great friends."

"Hina Chikage..." I say, "That's... a beautiful name." In my opinion.

"Hina" seemed to be very sweet, kind, and a strong-willed girl. "Eh?!" She says blushing with beatific, "Really?!"

I bubbled out a giggle, "Yes, really."

A tiny voice on the device attached on her neck spoke "Chikage, please report to level 6."

She breaths another sigh, "Awe darn, I was just I was just getting to know you!" Hina says as she rushes to the elevator. I wave a good-bye to her and she does the same with her goofy smile.

"We have to go there too," He says.

He became silent looking at the floor. "Are...You alright?" I ask. He can be difficult to read at times.

"Yes," He answers quietly," Good job for today. It's time to wrap up and head where she headed."

We almost had to cram in the small, poor elevator on our way. We didn't mention anything that happened in the training room. "The invitation says that it's an announcement, unfortunately it doesn't state what its about, all I know is that it's important that's for sure" He says looking at his wrist gadget's blinking red notification. 

An emergency I thought.

The elevator door opened and I find a girl that was hung from the ceiling.