Fearless

Chapter 25

A day or two later, Kiara found herself in one of the classrooms at the cram school alongside her classmates trying to exterminate Col Tars. Though it was kind of difficult to do when the Col Tars kept floating away from her. She swung down with her net, just barely missing a few Col Tars as they quickly floated away from her in panic.

"Damn, this is harder than I expected." She muttered, a look of annoyance on her face.

"Wow, they really don't seem to like you." Shima chuckled, watching as Kiara struggled to capture any, then he let out a sigh, looking around the room. "This sucks. Just because we went after Rin during the drill we're forced to exterminate the Col Tars in one of the unused classrooms."

"Quit your complaining." Bon said, "The longer you complain the longer it will take for us to finish."

"Someone's in a bad mood." Kiara muttered, watching as the Col Tars ran away from her just as she was about to catch them in her net. Her cheeks puffed up in frustration and she glared at the creatures, which only made them run further away from her.

"Koneko, we're good over here, I think maybe Moriyama and Kamaki might need your help over there." Bon said.

"Okay." Konekomaru said, standing up and starting to walk over to Sheimi.

"Oh, no. We're fine. We can handle it." Sheimi said.

"I bet your arm still hurts. Why don't you relax a bit." Izumo suggested, then she looked at Kiara, "You know, you should rest too Kiara."

"Oh." Konekomaru said, a disheartened look appearing on his face.

"I'll rest when I'm dead." Kiara stated blandly. "And that's not happening any time soon."

"You know what, I'll take a break too." Shima said.

"No, you need to work harder!" Izumo said.

"But... I sorta got hit in the ribs, remember? So..." Shima said.

"Tough luck." Kiara said, laughing slightly, wincing a bit as her ribs protested at the movement. Apparently, despite her enhanced healing, her ribs still needed some time before they were as good as new. There was a sudden spike of fear in the room and Kiara looked at her classmates, seeing that they were all staring at the doorway. Turning around, she spotted Rin standing there, his tail out for all to see.

Damn, I'm jealous. Kiara thought. Just thinking about her tail being wrapped around her waste made it start aching.

"What up guys." Rin greeting, breaking the silence that had fallen upon the room.

"Good morning Rin!" Sheimi exclaimed, a sweet smile on her face.

"Uh, morning." Shima said, a blatant nervousness in his voice.

"Sup, spawn." Kiara said.

"I stopped by the classroom outta habit but you guys weren't there, I sorta got freaked out. So we're exterminating Col Tars? Man, they love sticking up with these lame jobs, don't they. Anyone got an extra dust rag?" Rin rambled, obviously trying to lighten up the mood that had plummeted towards hell ever since he had stepped into the room.

"I don't. Maybe there's one over there?" Shima suggested, motioning over at some of the desks that had some cleaning supplies on them.

"Oh, cool!" Rin said with a grin.

"I'm going to take out the garbage." Konekomaru said, and Kiara looked at him, knowing that the majority of fear in the room was coming from him.

"I can give you a hand with that!" Rin offered, walking over to Konekomaru only to stop when the smaller boy flinched and shook his head.