K: Bittersweet Flames

Chapter 8

"Is that how you speak to a fellow friend and classmate you meet after three years?" The male named Hamaro, snickered. His eyes glint with a hidden, evil intent.

"I wouldn't call you a friend though." Kaiyo hissed out.

"Chey. After how I have treated you as one. Does my act of kindness not mean anything to you."

"Since when did you show any act of kindness. You're contradicting yourself."

"And the vicious, violent gang fighter is holding hands with a little girl?" Hamaro snorted, letting out a breath of laughter out from his mouth. Kaiyo released Anna's hand and took a step forward to stand in front of her, holding out a hand so as to keep her behind.

Yata came out to stand to Kaiyo's right. "What do you want?!" Yata yelled out, his eyes glaring hard on Hamaro.

"Oh I'm just here to greet the gang fighter."

"Through all those times, you don't ever acknowledge my words do you? I'm not a gang fighter!" Kaiyo snarled at him, her jaws clenching tightly to each other. "Then again, I don't suppose people who jumps to conclusion and belittle people based on their own assumptions, can ever listen properly. It makes them seem as if their damn ears are plugged with wax to the point where their ears are just decorations."

The vein at his temple throb out when his anger fuelled in himself. Holding himself back, he grinded his teeth together. "I don't want to hear that from someone who fights gangs. And at such a young age as well."

Yata could be seen snapping his head to Kaiyo's direction from the corner of her eyes. "What is he talking about?"

"It's false rumours." Kaiyo answered back. "Don't listen to whatever he has been saying."

"Oh, and now you're trying to be an innocent resident?" Hamaro sneered at her. "Are those two people you're hanging out now your next targets?"

When his words registered into her mind, negative emotions swarmed in herself. Taking a step forward, Kaiyo's eyes took a darker shade, glaring daggers right back at Hamaro. "Why you bastard! Don't you ever say those words. They are more than just acquaintances."

"Then? Your friends? The little scared little girl and the dude that looks like a gang leader?"

Yata, not being able to hold in his anger for belittling him and Anna anymore, he dropped his skateboard on the ground and stood with a leg on it. "To let you know, Mikoto is the King. I can't have you running on our turd and belittling us!"

--King?

"Huh? What turf? This is a public area. And I ain't heard of anyone called Mikoto or what. King? He thinks he's a gang leader of this place? Ha! That's a high podium he stands on no?"

With a strong push of his feet, he skated towards Hamaro in a sprint. "Teme la! I will have to show you that!" Kneeling down so that his right hand touched the side of his skateboard, he intended to flip it out whilst conjuring his red aura onto the board, having the sparks that ignites from the wheels to at least be able to scare him off.

However, a yell tore through the park and Yata skidded to a stop—using his right leg as a break—before he could conjure his aura to his skateboard.

"Yata!"

A young man with short and neatly-combed down brown hair with his bangs framing the side of his face and covering over his forehead ran in from the side, standing a few meters away from Yata and Hamaro.

"Totsuka-san?!"

"Yata, don't do anything rash!" The new person yelled out. He seemed to know who Yata was, from Kaiyo's point of view. Even Anna had called the new stranger's name, but of a different one—Tatara. Kaiyo had guessed either one of them was his given or family name.