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An ordinary day at Holma High was usually battling one’s way to a necessary job waiting for them in one of the class room doors. In the case of the leaders, there was very little time during the school day for them to waste around.

This was oh so apparent as the work for an average school day dragged on as usual for Bushimaru, the leader of Bakesama. However, he was greeted with something he hadn’t expected.

As he sat in the Costa Family classrooms, he patiently waited for Cameron—the younger brother of the current boss, Cecelia—to finish their meeting.

“Oh, by the way, you oughta thank sweet pea for me.”

Knowing the nickname fairly well, he knew who that was referring to, but questioned the reasoning behind his comment.

“Hm? Why?”

“Because, while I know she wasn’t being sweet for my sake, she helped me out a lot with this whole thing. If it wasn’t for her, you wouldn’t have any of these records today. She stayed overnight and helped me organize everything and helped me get some things straight about our outposts. You know, just to make things easier on you now.”

Bushimaru found himself a bit shocked, not for the reason so easily assumed.

Now in a bit of a hurry, he spoke quickly. “I’ll be sure to do that. Was there anything else you needed to be sure I knew?”

“Nope, just what I reported. Don’t want any useless confrontations y’know?”

“Yes, we wouldn’t.” Bushimaru then got up and made his way to the door.

With his second-in-command right behind him, she was alarmed at his changing speed and picked up her pace as well.

“B-bushimaru-sama, we’re in no hurry to get to our next meeting.”

He didn’t respond and quickly walked to the main staircase descending down them quickly. She huffed, picking up her own speed and getting the attention of Bushimaru once they reached the bottom floor.

“Mei? What is it?”

She smiled seeing his slightly distracted expression. “I know you wanna go see her, but you’ll have to wait until our scheduled meetings are over.” She paused. “You know today is the only day everyone’s gonna be here.”

He sighed at the reminder. “I… know.” He started walking again, but this time he was slower. “It’s just Emeryk and Danai left, yes?”

“Yes, Emeryk will probably be quick all things considered.”

“That’s strange, I assume he would take the rest of the school day since we’ll be mapping out which areas he can conduct his experiments in.”

With a slight smirk, Mei said, “we are, but Cassie-san went ahead and gave Emeryk a general outline of where our territories end and begin. I’m sure it’ll be much simpler now that he’s had time to look that over already.”

Just as he was before, Bushimaru found himself unable to say very much. His impulses just took over and he, once again, started to talk quickly.

“Then we shouldn’t waste any time. Let’s go and wait for him.”

Just as he said that, the third period bell rang over their heads indicating to them that Emeryk would be out of his classes for the rest of the school day.

“Yes, I’ll be right behind you.”

Bushimaru usually had a fast pace about him, opting to do things in a timely manner, but even Mei could see how much quicker his actions were. She let out a smile, thankfully her leader was so obvious even if his words didn’t always match.

So, just as they planned days before, they finished out their school day having met with Emeryk and then left their last meeting for afterschool. There wasn’t very much more for them to do, so Bushimaru sent Mei off for the day, hoping she would take some much needed time to herself, and made his way to the third floor for his last meeting.

The door was open, so he simply let himself inside where he was promptly stopped just before he got his whole body through the door.

“Ah, sorry, but you still can’t come in here.” This voice was one he was fairly familiar with.

The bright tone matched the similarly brightly dressed individual in front of him. He found it somewhat refreshing to see her unique sense of style opposed to their usual drab uniforms.

“Danai, I don’t mean to waste your time, but do you mind if we reschedule our meeting until tomorrow morning?”

Her brows furrowed. “Why? Are you busy right now?”

“A bit…” He looked off. “I just want to go and see someone right now.”

Danai caught on quickly evidenced by the smirk on her face and the gleam in her eye. “Come on, you’re gonna keep it from me too? You do know me and her are friends right?” In a singsong voice she said, “she’s told me some things about you two~”

“I’m very aware, that’s why I feel I can ask this of you.”

Her arms crossed. “You know, I don’t want the friendship I have with Cassie to be something you can exploit you know.”

“I promise you I won’t do this ever again. Besides, I did say we would meet in the morning and isn’t that better for you?”

She huffed. “Of course you know that.” Feigning anger for a bit longer, Danai eventually shrugged and smiled at him. “I’m just messing with you though, of course you can go see her. I’d want you too anyways.”

Feeling immense relief, Bushimaru said, “thank you, Danai.”

“Oh, but since we’re pretending here, can I pretend that you’re not gonna try and make a move on her? That she won’t be telling me about any new relationships she’s in?”

Bushimaru closed his eyes and shook his head with a soft smile on his face. “I’ll leave you to believe whatever you want and whatever Cassie tells you after is the truth.”

Danai huffed and gave a playful pout. “Ugh, fine. Be that way, but I swear one of these days I’ll get you to admit what I already know.”

“And your company will always be appreciated.” Bushimaru then gave her one final goodbye before he turned around to pick up a bag Danai hadn’t seen him with until now. She made a sound like she was hinting at something, but Bushimaru just waved goodbye to her once again.

He made his way down the third floor hallway where it started to get darker no thanks to the broken lights overhead. However, a soft blue glow emanated from one of the classrooms down the dark hallway and Bushimaru felt a sense of calmness as he approached the door.

Getting to room 309, he opened the door to find gentle music filling the room. With the soft blue light in the corner, the warmth in the room felt like a hug wrapped around him the moment he stepped inside. He looked to the mattress on the floor and found a lump hidden under a fuzzy blanket. He smiled approaching the mattress where he sat down and gave the lump a weightless nudge.

“Mmm…” A trail of a sleepy voice came from the lump.

“Cassie?” He paused trying to find her head, he pulled at various parts of the blanket until she emerged from it with a deep frown on her face.

Lying in a ball completely horizontal across the top of the mattress, he found her closed eyes trying their best to remain that way. He chuckled at the sight and reached into the bag, which quickly got the attention of the freshly woken girl.

“Too bad you’re not a lighter sleeper.”

With a yawn, she finally spoke. “I’m sleeping in a school, I don’t think that would be very safe. Especially since I can’t lock my door.”

“You never got that fixed?” He asked.

“No, I don’t care to tell any staff about it and only you guys come in here so I’m not too worried.”

“Still, you should get someone to fix it sometime. Otherwise I’ll worry about you when you sleep in here overnight.”

“You worry about me even when I sleep at home.” She pushed herself up and was now sitting crossed beside him, the blanket covering her legs and hands. “But, what’s in the bag?”

“Well, I wanted to thank you somehow for making my day a bit easier.”

“Huh?” She paused thinking about it for a second, but then her mouth fell open. “Oh, that stuff? That’s nothing to thank me over. I just did my job.”

“I’m sure you think that, but if I don’t feel grateful for this, then what would I ever thank you for?”

She shrugged. “I just never really think about it.”

Bushimaru brought the bag closer between them and before Cassie could see it, he pulled out a small plush of a dragon character. She let out a loud gasp stopping herself from snatching it out of his hands.

Amused, he held it closer to her. “You’re lucky, he was just about to be sold out again.”

Cassie seemed unable to contain her excitement for very much longer, but she held off. “How’d you get him?”

“A reseller happened to buy a few since they were being scalped and he gave me this one as thanks for helping him find the scalper.”

Giddy, she thrust her hands out looking for him to finally hand the plush over. With a chuckle, he did so and Cassie held the toy delicately as if it was fragile glass and even her soft breathing would break it.

“He’s so cute.” She paused before looking at him again. “I really love him.”

“I’m glad you do, but that’s not all I wanted to come here for.” He reached into the bag and also pulled out a DVD case of the very movie the character was from; alongside that, there were the sound of chips and other assorted junk foods in the bag. “Since you helped me so much, I wanted to give you a little break; and even though I don’t like you eating junk food like this, I figure it’s okay as long as I can watch how much you eat.”

Cassie giggled. “You’re such a mom.” She eagerly moved to make space for him beside her. “But this’ll be the… thirty-first time we watched this together.”

“You’re actually keeping count?” Bushimaru got up to put the DVD in her CD drive booting up her laptop as well.

“Of course I am, this movie is my entire childhood. I can recite the whole movie word for word, so it’s no problem for me to keep track of how many times I’ve seen it,” she said with a giggle.

“That’s reasonable for you huh?”

“Is that a compliment?”

Once the movie projected onto the large smart screen against the far wall, Bushimaru returned beside Cassie where he sat down and looked at her. Taking in the excitable person before him made his smile grow.

“Yes, I’m always immensely impressed with everything you do.”

Cassie smiled proudly moving the dragon between her arms. “You hear that? He thinks I’m impressive and there’s no greater compliment coming from the master himself!”

Bushimaru just chuckled as Cassie began to hum the opening track to the movie and cuddled up closer with the plush in her arms and Bushimaru right beside her.