Aria the Scarlet Ammo (Hidan no Aria) is not my property nor are any of its characters.

"Kenji."

I rolled over at the sound of my unwelcomed roommate, and checked the display on my phone. 4:27. What the…

"Kenji," Aria said again. Her voice was surprisingly not as rough and demanding as usual. As a matter of fact, she was almost … whimpering?

I begrudgingly sat up, and looked toward her voice. She was huddled next to my bunk wrapped in a blanket. What is this? She only acts like this when it - BOOM - rolling thunder interrupted my train of thought. Oh, that's it. There's a thunderstorm. The girl, who charges into any situation guns blazing, is terrified of thunder.

The look on her face was one of a scared little girl not an armed butei. She's almost like a regular girl. She is so cute. I know its not the right time for that kind of thinking but I can't help it. Unlike myself got out of bed, preparing myself, and sat down next to Aria and put an arm around her in comfort. She immediately clung to me with no space between us. Here it comes. The flow of blood. The rush of heat. Fight it. Ok I think I've got it under control.

"Kenji?"

Yeah, Aria." I asked absentmindedly still concentrating on keeping calm.

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"For everything." She then pressed herself even closer(if that's possible).

"Uh… yor welcome I guess," I said more confused than before asking the question.

The thunder had let up before it was time to start getting ready for class, but the rain was still coming strong. I had hoped we would make the 7:58 bus, but I had to argue with Aria for ten minutes about the likelihood of the thunder starting again. So now we then found ourselves walking under the same umbrella. Needless to say we missed the bus. Normally I would have it that we use our own umbrellas, Aria on the other hand had insisted we walk together even after I warned her what it would look like to others. I ultimately gave in to expedite our departure.

Thankfully for the rest of the school day the thunder didn't show itself. After the final bell, Aria decided for the both of us that we needed to brush up on our hand to hand skills. (She obviously didn't want to risk being outside with the possibility of thunder even though I explained that the longer we wait the more likely we would end up in another bought of thunder.)

When Aria had successfully beaten the living tar out of me several times over and she couldn't stall any longer, we made our way out of the Assault building.

We walked down the large hallway parallel to the practice area, but there were voices coming from I believed to be an empty, unused classroom. It was strange to see anyone here this late so I guess my curiosity got the better of me. I stopped Aria, and listened more intently. There were voices, but in… English? My English is horrible, but it's Aria's first language. We listened and Aria blinked in code what they were saying.

One voice said, "…stealth mission so Eez we're gonna need suppressers for just the side arms: my USP and Pup's P2000's-"

A second voice cut in, "Don't call me Pup, JJ."

First voice again slightly annoyed, "You got that, Eez? We'll also scout the city for good sniper nest locations."

A third voice apparently Eez replies, "Got it, boss."

The "boss" continues, "Now, Mutt, You're gonna need to see if we can get ahold of a few bikes. We may need to get through traffic pretty fast."

"Shouldn't be a problem. The Japanese butei are cooperating fully. Three bikes fo-" thunder rumbled as the one called Mutt (or was it Pup) answered.

The thunder also elicited a high pitched noise from Aria and she Immediately hugged me. Crap she's right up against me and she's shuddering. Oh I can feel her chest. Here it comes the rush of heat the flow of blood. I've gotta fight it. No! Too late. I've entered Hysteria Mode.

My hyper accelerated brain notices the voices have stopped.- Another clap of thunder.- Aria squeals again and leaps to the nearest corner and curls up in a ball. If they didn't notice us before they probably have now. The voices start up again, but they seem agaitated.

Even in Hysteria Mode I still don't understand much.

"What…on guard…"

Okay they are obviously butei or somehow affiliated with butei. They should be friendly. No problem.

The door slams open. A handgun followed by two arms and a whole body emerges. My Inquesta training and Hysteria Mode kick in and I immediately size up the person. He is about 180cm. Blonde. Pale skin. Probably American. Likely a teenager. He has a USP in his hands and a knife with knuckles- a trench knife?- strapped to his thigh. Dressed in street clothes. He shouts something in very bad Japanese. Something like, "Who are you? Who sent you?" I didn't get a chance to answer before two more people came out of the room. The first was just shorter than the first with dark brown hair and a goatee. He held a basic combat knife in an aggressive stance. No other weapons. The second was about five centimeters taller than the blonde one. He had short curly brown hair and held two P2000's.

And all of them had their weapons pointed at me.

The Hysteria Mode me instinctively stepped in front of Aria still shuddering in the corner. The Blonde one seemed to notice this and said something in English I didn't catch. Then the shorter one slowly while still pointing his knife at me got just outside of my reach. He feinted to my left like he was going to run past me. Aria was helpless in the corner so I moved to block his way. Then the Blonde one rushed past my right and toward Aria. He grabbed her roughly and jerked her to her feet and pointed his USP at her temple. I began to run at him but the other two grabbed me from behind.

The blonde one repeated the earlier questions but added something

"Tell me or I'll shoot."

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