Butterfly kisses and Flower petal wishes

Releap Pt. 3

"No reason." Draken twitched a few times at this, resisting the impulse to groan at the girl's joke, as he looked back at the group. "Just... needing to know for future reference."

Sighing annoyed, Meiko glared at the domestic dispute occurring between her brother and Hina, "God damn Baka-michi! I would be killing him myself if Hina-chan didn't have obvious dibs! I thought I raised him better than this!" She grounded out, dragging her hand down her face.

"To be fair, it is your fault he's so weak to girls," Yayoi muttered as Meiko sent her a glare.

"Teaching a boy to respect women, and to treat them as you'd wish to be treated and to never hit a girl unless absolutely necessary, does not mean I purposely raised a boy weak against girls!"

"Isn't that a contradiction?" Draken muttered as Meiko smirked at him viciously.

"Not when I'm a woman who knows how to kick most guys asses seven ways to hell and back it isn't."

"Women are just as capable as men at being abusive or violent pieces of shit." Yayoi nodded, as Emma seemed to hum in agreement. "But that's not what I meant. I mean the fact he obviously now has a fetish for girls that can obviously kick his ass." Yayoi pointed out as Hina threw the bat away huffing as she glared down at the boy.

"He does not." Meiko huffed, "He obviously just likes girls with a no-nonsense attitude and can still be nice and fun."

'Denial.' Yayoi, Draken, and Emma all thought before Draken sighed and turned to Emma.

"Oi!" She jumped, but Emma kept a practically cool face as she looked up at the much taller male.

"Yes, Draken?"

"Were you seriously just messing around with Takemitchy?" He asked, eyes narrowing, as Emma slightly shook inside under his critical gaze.

'Is this it?' She hopefully wondered, 'Is he finally going to notice me...' She turned to him and held her chin up high, "And if I was!" She boldly challenged playing with her hair, Yayoi and Meiko now focused on them as they looked between the two.

The two teens stared each other down for a good few seconds, Draken's eyes racking down Emma's body as if checking for signs of... something. Before settling on her eyes when he noticed nothing off. He took a glance to Takemichi as the boy now sat on his knees beaten as Hina stared him down, then to Meiko and Yayoi who both seemed to focus on Emma with contemplative looks of their own. Settling his gaze back onto Emma he finally took note of her tell, seeing a lack of proper pride or mirth in her gaze or posture. He felt his nerves calm as he realized nothing serious must have happened between the two. He clicked his tongue, "Tsk, whatever. Just be careful not to let Mikey find out."

"Wait seriously!" Yayoi almost seemed to snap, as the male began to walk away. "So wait. She just said she was in nothing but her underwear in front of Takemichi-kun. And all he has to say to this is 'don't let Mikey find out?' Shouldn't he be, I don't know... concerned about this?" Yayoi asked Meiko as the girl hummed unimpressed.

'Oh, definitely.' Meiko thought, frowning. 'But it seems he doesn't plan to show it.' She notes watching Draken walk away with a slight stiffness to his back before she glanced at Emma and noted how the girl's eyes flashed with hurt before a mask came into place as she redirected her gaze back to Takemichi and Hina. 'These two... have some serious communication problems.' Meiko sighed before also focusing her attention back onto the actual couple of their group.

"I'b sowwy. I won't do it again." Takemichi struggled to mutter out as Hina simply turned her back to him and began to walk away fuming.

"Jerk! I don't care!" She almost seemed to shout, almost close to tears of anger as she marched away.