Human Kid (II)

2.

"CIN! CIN!!" Ethan started in an excited tone.

Aiden faced him. "What?" he asked indifferently.

"Say, when do we get our first mission?!" Ethan asked with a big grin. "That's right!" Suzanne stood up from the desk she sat on. She moved to where Aiden was seated.

"When's our first mission CIN?!" she asked leaning a bit closer to him.

Aiden rolled his eyes.

Being an instructor to upcoming heroes was exhausting to him. He wasn't still happy about the fact he was labelled exactly that; a CIN.

"Back away," he told her.

She laughed nervously and stepped back a bit.

Andrew continued using his laptop undisturbed.

Ryan rolled his eyes. "Suzanne, you act like you'll even add any good contributions when we're given a mission, you know you're quite a disturbance," he snorted.

Ashley turned to him and clasped her hands around one of his.

He raised an eyebrow at her.

"Now Ryan!" she frowned, "That's not nice."

He tried to pull out of her hold. "I'm not trying to be nice," he replied sourly. Her frown deepened.

She kept both hands on her hip, leaving his hand in the process.

"You will be nice," she said with such certainty it was like she was ordering him to be nice. Ryan looked away. Ashley gave Suzanne a small smile.

"I apologize on his behalf!" she told Suzanne with a short bow.

Suzanne was touched. "He's always like that Ashley, you don't need to apologize, in fact..." Suzanne looked away with a small sad chuckle, "I'm kinda used to it."

Ashley crossed her arms.

"Well, I'm not going to put up with an attitude like that," she said with determination and threw a smile at Ryan who frowned.

She pinched his cheek, "So you better change okay?"

Ashley laughed as Ryan pulled away.

"Gosh," he rubbed his cheek with his palm while shooting glares at Ashley.

Aiden turned a page of the book he was reading.

"How to be a good CIN."

He looked up at the sound of the nearness of the voice and saw Ashley reading the title of his book.

He closed it and stood up.

She beamed him a smile. "How sweet CIN!"

Aiden pushed her face away with his hand.

"Now listen up," he said as he went to the center of the room. Andrew looked up from his laptop. Ryan sat on the window sill while Suzanne went back to the desk she was seating on.

Ashley stood a bit next to Aiden while Ethan sat on a chair turned the other way.

"Being E-rank means you've stepped up in responsibilities," he started.

"That's right!" Gwen afirmed as she entered the room. "Sorry I'm late, I got held up in a meeting."

"That's alright Coach," Ethan grinned as he looked at Suzanne. "Besides, Suzanne comes late all the time so it's a pardonable offence," he laughed.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Suzanne demanded hotly as she stepped closer to him.

"You're this close to getting a massage on the face from my fists with statements like that!" Suzanne yelled at him while clenching her fists.