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“Ano…” Aki said softly, tugging on Kuro’s sleeve but not daring to look at him or Kin. “Back there… with the monitors…I wouldn’t have won that fight, by myself. I got scared before it started and I didn’t want to fight,” she was near tears now but held them back out of determination not to be any more foolish than she already was. “And I was so glad when Kin stepped in and took the second one…I always loved the tessen, and I thought I loved fighting with it but, I’ve never been in a real fight. Maybe,” her face fell as she prepared to make her suggestion, “maybe I should just go back to class and begin normal training. I don’t want to bring you guys down.”
Maybe it was the exhaustion or excess emotion, or maybe it was the idea of turning away from her first real friends, but Aki had to let a couple tears drop into the dirt she still determinedly faced as she waited for their answer.
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