Belligerent Wyrm

Komari gave an arrogant laugh. "What do you know of a woman's intuition, Blue?" she asked, waving him off. "I see a dog, I bring a dog home," she said simply. Oh. Perhaps that explained how she ended up with two furfrou, then. Tired of the nonsense, she pushed Mitsu aside to clear a path for Akio to come in, much to the chagrin of the manager. Not her manager though, and certainly not her dad, either! She was safe to bully him all she wanted! ... Kind of. As long as he never brought out any of his giant scary pokemon he never talks about or shows to anyone.

"Akio-Kun, you are so kind," Furuka replied, taking the gift wrapped box of Macarons. Silly Akio. Don't spoil your opportunity to give your crush a nice gift be so humble.

"Look at the time~" Fay sang, stepping past both girls and the despairing Mitsu. "It's off to work for me- the night shift awaits. Mika-chan," he paused, turning back over his shoulder at his sister and giving her a thumbs up. "Ganbette~" From his belt he tossed a premier ball, revealing a large white swanna. Typical. Mounting the pokemon, it took off into the air in a showy puff of pure white feathers. "Everyone better get along, or I'm not paying the mortgage anymore, ha!" he shouted, his laughter fading into the distance as feathers rained down on Akio, who was the only one still standing outside.

It may have been one of the more flambouyant displays Komari had ever seen from the man. Gifting him that swanna was a mistake. Ganbatte for what? She hmphed, tapping her foot on the ground, feeling as though she were out of the loop, though Mitsu seemed just as confused.

For a moment, Furuka seemed troubled, but she quickly perked up and ran outside, placing her hands on Akio's back and pushing him into the house, past Mitsu. "Come in,' she said, even though she had already pushed him inside. "You are always welcome."

"Who said that?!" Mitsu pouted, but Komari closed the doors. "I thought this was a democracy, Furu-chan!"

"Uh-huh. Whatever you say brat..."

The blue haired man would mumble to Ko as Furuka would take the box of macarons from his hands. His red eyes would blink as Furuka's brother passed by them, leaving in his flashy way to go to work. He watched as the white feathers would drift down around him.

That was until he felt Furuka begin to push him into the house. letting out a surprised grunt as she did so and tipping his head to the side out of confusion.

"Erm, thanks." he mumbled, awkwardly. Mitsu pouting was still rather odd to him, he always thought he was a lot colder, more stern. Maybe the family life softened him up a bit...?

Komari looked down at the treat in stunned silence, the world around her phasing out of existence. He remebered? Or was it a lucky guess? Why did he get her anything, anyway? She'd only told him to buy treats as a customary courtesy to arriving at someone's house- especially unnanounced. There was no reason for him to give her anything, so...

"Hooray, pastries! Akio, how did you know these were my favorites? Are you a psychic? You are, aren't you?" Fay teased, and Komari wasn't sure if he was bullying her by pretendnig she didn't exist or saving her by playing along. Probably the latter, knowing Fay.

On the othe hand, Mitsu eyed the tiramisu lustfully. "That's... that's not fair. That's blackmail. That counts as blackmail," he complained, but took the treat. "But I still--"

"Eh? Akio-kun? Nani, nani? Could it really be? What is it you are doing here?" a third blonde head appeared around her brother's shoulder, jumping onto her tip toes to try and confirm who exactly was standng outside. "It is, really truly! Ko-chan, you have brought him here?"

"Excuse you miss brat. But I was actually looking into a lead for a Mega Dragalge stone. And then all the sudden you used weird idol witch magic to pop up out of nowhere and drag me away."

Akio would retort, how was he in any way like a dog?? This brat was rude. Rubbing the back of his head, the Dragon trainer would let out a sigh.

He would then offer Furuka the sweets Ko picked out for her, and grinned. "Ahh, lil missy Ko here decided to pick out some nice stuff for everyone, I'm just happening to be the delivery boy. That's all."

He would blink though, man it was loud, but it was still like old times. It made him sort of miss it at least.

The blond was caught off gaurd by this, practically tripping over her own two feet and her hands landing against his chest, her face red. "A-Ah, gomen, gomen!" she exclaimed, motioning to pull away.

"Hooh? Maybe your books are lying then hmmm? Have any of my dragons tried to eat you huh?" He teased back, putting the blonde back down on her feet before giving her a shrug of his shoulders.

"Hoh? Why would I wanna be a knight? Talk about lame. Dragons are were it's at. You should know this by now yeah?" he jumped to his feet, grinning playfully down at Furuka before his hand gently grabbed her own, and pulled her off the street and into the air before he caught her mid fall with both arms.

"Huh? Me? I did no such thing," Komari replied, a blank look smoothing over her expression. The girl was surprisingly good at this dumbfouded act.

"Look at that, Mitchan, he brought a peace offering! C'est quoi? C'est quoi?" the man asked enthusiastically, eyeing the sweets bag and stepping to the side to let Akio in, but also inadvertently opening a path for Mitsu.

The manager clicked his tongue, clearly having an internal conflict. He didn't like Furuka spending time with Akio when they first met because she was an idol, under strict idol rules, and should never be seen alone with a boy. But now she wasn't, she was free, a young woman who never got to have a boyfriend in her teen years, inexperienced, going out into the worl--

"I don't care," he replied simply. Not his little girl! His perfect, beautiful, innocent, easily manipulated airheaded girl! "You're here to corrupt my baby!" he exclaimed, nearly falling to his knees. Where was Ren to talk some sense into his husband?

Akio watched on at the father's...performance? He could feel the second hand embarrassment from the other two as his brow slowly rose. That judging look on his face as he was accused.

"Uh-huh. Right. Anyways."

Akio began to dig through the bag, handing Fay his treats and then Ko the shortcake he ordered for her, before glancing to Mitsu and offering him what Ko picked out for you.

"Dunno what your deal is or if you took some professional acting classes lately, but here. "Don't care if you don't take it for me, but I'm sure you'd do it for Ko, so."

Swallowing hard, she reigned in her nausea and brushed off her dress. "I mean, I guess, but considering we're all basically broke now, I dunno," she nearly sang, strutting up to the front doors. It was kind of true- Furuka, Fay, the managers, and even herself, all pooled a large amount of their savings into it. Luckily, Fay made decent money at the hospital, and the managers walked away with a hefty severance (or rather, hush money) from the agency. Komari had stock piled a lot of the money her parents would send her, and Furuka used what little she had left from her time as the agency's pet idol.

From here on out, they had to rely on Fay's income, and whatever Furuka made off ticket sales for her solo tours. It wasn't like she was able to get any of the royalties from the songs she sang and wrote when contracted to the agency. Those bastards retained all rights after she was terminated.

The girl reached into her bag, fishing out her keys, but before she could even insert them in the lock, the doors swung open.

"C'est qui?" Fay sang as he appeared in the doorway, blue eyes looking over the very interesting sight before him. Little Ko, a giant dragon, and... well, well. "Ça alors! Ko-chan! And can it be? Do my eyes deceive me? Is that Akio? Ko-chan! You've brought our lost puppy back home!" he teased.

Oh, thank the gods it was just Fay, and not...

"Oh wow, some people just don't change. Imagine that..." Akio said half heartedly, rolling his red eyes at the dark haired man demanding the doors be locked. As rude as ever wasn't he?

The Salamence behind him gave a nasty snort at the man, clearly no mood to be around present company, she would be recalled back to her Pokeball by her trainer.

"Well, Fay has always been cool, so. But, yeah. It's me." he said, holding the bag of sweets up with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Your little princess over here caught me in Lumiose and decided to make it a hostage situation, so here I am." Of course, he was kidding about the hostage part. His jacket covering up his recently bitten arm by Furuka's Mawile friend.

"Then I'll hold ya to it then."

The man turned his phone sideways, allowing the blonde to take a good look at the map of Galar, city names and all. "Would you wanna go the long way? Sightsee a bit? Or just go directly to the area to find your horse, princess~?"

"Yes, you are right," she replied, checking her work by turning his arm around once, then letting go. Fay had taught her well, but now, it seemed, she had a lot more to learn from Akio. "Galar~" she sang in thought, reaching up to one of her pigtails and pulling out the tie. She repeated the same motion with the other, letting her long hair flow in free waves down her back.

"Ne, ne, where will go first, Akio-kun?" she asks excitedly, her eyes lighting up. This time, she was serious. This time, she was going to follow her heart.

He watched as she began to undo her pigtails, curious about why she suddenly wanted to change her hair style. Yet, gazing into her eyes. There was certainly a fire igniting in them.

Once she was done looking at his arm, he would turn his gaze from her and scratch at his cheek, a light red tint crossing his face. She was so pretty with her hair down. Arceus help this man.

Insufferable man, annoying man, terrible man! She wasn't a kid anymore, she grumbled, so why did he still treat her like one?! Had he no decency, no compassion, for poor little Komari?

"Livin' the good life are we?"

Perhaps she -should- have known that excitement would build up. The very moment that leash would clip on his collar she let out an "Ehh?!" yelp as she was suddenly pulled forward. Oh Haetae had places to be. And one was gonna stop him.

The delivery girl's feet scuffled around the ground trying to keep up, at least until she got in pace with the fire type canine. The trainers passing by returning friendly smiles at the barking pupper. Even a few taking his offer to shake his paw.

Haetae couldn't be the only one having all this fun. It wouldn't be long til one of Lynn's pokeballs released her mightyena. Tsuki's sing-song yet high pitched howl nearly made the brunette jump out of her skin. She's a water type trainer and yet she roped her own self into being a poke dog walker~

Fren! Big fren! Fren Fren Fren!! Watch the little Fire-Type jump at the Dark-Type! Nipping playfully at her ear and loudly yapping away at her! Before going back to tugging poor Lynn down the path at the park, sniffing at everything, tail wagging at, well, everything!

Before she could finish whining, her stomach was pratically launched out of her ass, and she let out an involuntary scream. With eyes clenched tightly shut, she clung to Akio for dear life, regretting every single life choice she'd ever made up until this moment. Had Furuka ever done this with him?! Knowing her, she probably would have enjoyed it, being how psychotic she was about his dragons, the weird girl. For someone who was so polite and formal, she sure did enjoy the strangest things.

Not so bad? NOT SO BAD?! she screamed internally, repeating his words. But, whatever stubborn parasite lived in Komari's brain won out, and she simply refused to admit that she was scared for her life. Instead, between short, panicky breaths, she slowly opened her eyes. What greeted her was something she could have never imagined.

The world beneath them was so... tiny... yet beautiful. She never, truly and fully, realized how vast the ocean was. It was one thing to look from the shore and watch it endlessly disappear into the horizon, but to see it glittering from above... was breathtaking. Unfortunately for her, it seemed that this may be another moment with the man she would never forget.

"You wanna ride on Taniwha next? He's a lot faster than Kepi~." he would still tease at her, smiling back at the blonde as he held onto the sweets as the dragon carried them through the air.

While Akio's demeanor was far more friendly, the dragon seemed more like she was on a mission. Her eyes narrowed, as if keeping a lookout for something. Though it wasn't lost on the man, who let out a sigh.

"Hey, Ko. Ya might wanna point out where ya live to Kepi here, otherwise we'd be flying all over Kalos looking for yer home."

Akio glanced back to her as he felt her grip on him tightened. His eyes scanned the idol over, a hand reaching back to gently rest on her head and ruffle her hair.

The potential confrontation immediately snapped Furuka out of her self loathing. She quickly returned all her pokemon, including Maya, not even bothering to scold her. She knew she was just trying to protect her, but more so than that, she knew it was just a waste of breath to even try disciplining her at all. The pokemon never listened to her, and at the end of the day, she would do whatever she wanted regardless.

"A-Akio-kun, your arm," she fretted, grabbing the arm that had previously been clenched between Maya's jaws. It didn't seem to be too injured, thankfully, but a few spots where her "teeth" had punctured were bleeding lightly. Furuka reached into her messager bag, pulling out a small first aid kit that her brother always ensured was well stocked and on her at all times.

"Well, h-how to explain it..." she started, opening the kit and pulling out some antiseptic and bandages. "It is just, things like that, they have always seemed so very far away from me. What is the phrase?" she asked herself as she tore open the packet of antiseptic, blotting it onto a small plastic applicator. "Out of reach, yes. It have seems out of reach for me. You know..." she fell silent in a moment of concentration, spreading the medicine on his open wounds, "I am still getting used to not working for the agency. That I do not have to think about everything so much and how my actions will reflect on them. Back then, at the onsen," she blushed, remembering the incident that had occured when she'd gotten into the water with him.

Has he had worse? Sure? A bit? After all, he goes hand to hand with a bunch of his own dragons for training. But they don't MEAN to hurt him, so it was different for sure. He sucked air through his teeth as his ex began to tend to his wounds. It stings, it stings, it stings....

Brows furrow slightly as she began to speak. Yet he let her continue with no interruptions. His eyes watching her secure his wound with the tape. That look on her face, the tone of her voice.

His gaze dropped from her as he frowned. He remembered every second of those days. It was something he would never forget, did he feel betrayed slightly? Yes, sure. But he still understood. But now...

"But it's different now right? You're basically free to do as you please as you pursue an independent career right? You can finally do what you wanted to do all this time and not hold back."

He gazed over the job she did nursing his arm, she was pretty good at this too...Before continuing.