Fearless

Chapter 30

The next morning, Kiara woke up to a slight headache. She walked down the hall heading to get some breakfast with everyone. As she walked down the hall, her tail dragged behind her with the tip of it brushing against the ground. When she tried to think about what happened the night before, Kiara drew a blank. She as able to remember up until she had sat on the rock and finished eating, but after that it was a complete blank. She assumed Shura had mixed up their drinks with hers and accidentally gave them all alcohol.

She walked into the room and spotted Rin sitting at one of the tables, looking as tired as she felt. She also saw Bon and Konekomaru sitting at a different table across from where Rin was sitting.

"Morning." Kiara said, sitting down across from Rin.

He perked up, "Oh, hey Kiara." He muttered, before starting to doze off again.

Kiara grabbed a bowl of rice that had been laid out and started eating, listening to Bon's conversation happening behind her.

"The whole night's a blank after I left you guys. It's like I got drunk and passed out or something... but how? Oh son of a- she gave us her drinks by mistake. Some teacher she is." Bon said, coming to the realization of what happened.

So he doesn't remember anything either, huh? Kiara thought.

"How're you feeling now?" Konekomaru asked.

"Eh, I'm okay. You get a chance to pay respects to your folks yet?"

"Yeah. I did."

"Glad you got a chance to. Welp, see you at the meeting." Bon stood up and walked past Rin and Kiara, Kiara silently eating as Rin had dozed off, his head bopping up and down as he tried to stay awake.

"Good morning Okumura! Hoshino!" Someone said, and Kiara looked behind her to see Shima walking up to them and sat right beside her. "Dude, you've got some outrageous bed head. Did you find your way back to your room okay?"

"I don't remember." Rin answered.

Shima laughed and Kiara just stared at him— just yesterday he was avoiding Rin like the plague, but now Kiara could barely sense a trace of fear coming off of him, though speaking of fear— she looked towards Konekomaru, who was starting at the three with a shocked expression on his face.

"Yeah, I bet you don't good thing I didn't drink my juice!"

"Are you okay with talking to him in public like this?" Kiara asked, turning her attention from Konekomaru to Shima.

"Huh? Of course!" Shima said, chuckling.

"Well, Pinkie, looks like you can surprise me." Kiara said.

"Reennnnn-" Someone shouted and Kiara looked over her shoulder to see Kinzo flying through the air straight towards Shima, and next to her, fear wafted off him as his older brother got closer, "Zooo!" Once Kinzo had gotten to them, he kicked Shima in the face, sending the pink haired boy flying and causing everyone to look.

Immediately Kiara started laughing, holding her stomach as she bent over, her tail lashing back and fourth.

"Damn it Kin! What the hell was that?" Shima asked.

"Huh? What do you mean? That was a flying kick. Man you're dense." Kinzo asked, causing Kiara to start laughing harder.

"You're calling me dense? You jerk!"

"Renzo, looks like you're doing alright." Someone said, and Kiara looked up to see the man from before— the one who had gotten into a fight with Mamushi and ended up sending his K'rik straight into her ribs. His name was Juzo if she remembered correctly.