You Will Only Be Mine-Chapter 377: Nothing

I unsheathed my katana and stood before Ama and I rushed at her head first. She stood in her place ready to take me on and I jumped and threw the scabbard at her. She was easily able to parry that aside and had her eyes on me yet again but I was already in the range. I slashed my katana at her and instead of blocking, Ama had to dodge which she did so elegantly to the side and kicked at my side but ducked the moment my feet hit the ground and slashed the blade upward which Ama could block with the sword. I kicked at her feet to mess up her stance which she dodged by jumping high.

I ran back to where my scabbard was and as she landed on the ground, I was able to close in the distance between us. I thrust the scabbard at her chest. She pushed it away spinning me and I landed a kick at her back pushing her to the side. I didn’t put enough strength in that because I used the momentum to slash at her horizontally. Ama quickly ducked that faster than I have ever seen her do it and kicked my leg making me fall off balance. I landed on my back and probably got a concussion due to that.

"Ouch," I said and stood up but my face was met by the tip of Ama’s blade. "That should be enough for today Kazu-chan, you have gotten a bit better."

"Oh yea?" I said happy by the comment and let out my hand which Ama pulled to help me get up. "Any pointers I should be focusing on?"

The blonde held her chin thinking about an answer to my question and then looked back at me. "Well you have gotten better thanks to you trapping me in this training room for way too long but you still have yet to get full control of your weapon. Yes, your thoughts during battles are getting more complex but your body is yet to make the weapons listen to you completely. Be one with the sword, as some people say."

"And how do I do that?" I asked her and she patted my head.

"Experience and more practice, this is something you have to understand on your own. It isn’t something we can teach you, at least me, I can’t. I can use many weapons and styles but that also means that I am a jack of all trades and master of nothing. Which doesn’t help too well against very strong enemies. A reason why I was not the strongest S-class hunter…ever."

So…is she saying that…

"I am probably one of the weakest S-class hunters," Ama filled in my train of thoughts which left me baffled. I have been training with Ama for not too long but I know she is by no means weak. If she is one of the weakest…what kind of monsters are the other S-class hunters? Moreso, what kind of monster is Natsumi-san if she is deemed the strongest?

"I…see…" I said still baffled by the information relayed to me. While I was stuck in my train of thought, I felt Ama’s arms hold me in a gentle hug and rest my head on her chest. Okay seriously, what is this reoccurring way of comforting in this story? "Ama?"

"I know Kazu-chan, what will you be doing tonight," Ama gently spoke and my body had a chill run through it. Does she know about the mission?

"Please don’t try to stop me, Ama. I- "

"Stop? I was going to cheer you on for this mission," she said and I looked up seeing a kind smile formed on her face. "I understand how you are feeling Kazu-chan, I really do. I too had someone I held dear stripped away from me and I couldn’t do anything to protect him. That thought still haunts me to this day and I am not the only one."

"I…"

Completely taken aback by the words from Ama’s mouth I was at a loss of words. I didn’t know what I should say or how I should react. Should I comfort her in this situation? Should I grow weak in those arms or do I just do nothing and enjoy the embrace while it still lasts? The calm before the storm…

"Do you plan on going back to your home before the mission?" Ama asked me and I shook my head. I couldn’t go home today because I knew if I looked at Yuna’s face, I might say something unnecessary. I might do something unnecessary and I didn’t want to let that happen. "Good, you are coming to my place then."

"Huh?" I looked at Ama confused but she didn’t let me say anything and started dragging me with her. "What? Kazu-chan won’t be going home tonight and I have the perfect chance to call him to my home. Now I am not someone who would miss out on the chance."

The old Ama is back.

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"But I can’t trou- "

"Just try you are troubling me and you will lose an arm today Kazu-chan," Ama said with a big smile on her face. Scary. "You are not troubling me in the slightest, I myself am making sure that you get plenty of rest at my place which otherwise you would not get or need to go to a hotel room for which are just unnecessary expenses a high schooler shouldn’t be making."

Not even giving me time to say yes or no, Ama went out of the training room to change her clothes. I looked at my katana and scabbard and let out a sigh. Today was the day, for me to go on the mission. This has to be the most dangerous thing I have done and still, I wasn’t in the slightest bit nervous, I was too taken by the wanting to get Ai out of that place that all fear had lost meaning to me at that moment. My want to save the person I most care about has taken over my fear of death. I don’t have any intention of dying but the mission was by no means not deadly. I could die today, but did I care? Honestly, no.

I looked around the room at the remnants of the little destruction we had made to it. Ama’s kicks even though she said she is not as powerful, well, to put in normal words…are devastating. There were craters in the wall and even the floor from her kicks and if they were to have connected, I know my fate won’t have been pretty.

"I guess I did push her to use her true speed," I said while remembering the last move she had pulled off. I had never seen her move this quickly or duck this fast. I felt it too, she didn’t just disappear from that position, it was like she never existed there. "I’m still nowhere as strong as her."

I looked at the katana and my reflection in it. This was Dad’s weapon and I have in a way inherited it. I’ll not put his name to shame. From how everyone talks about him around here, it was evident that he was no joking matter when it came to vampire hunting. This also begs me to ask another question.

Then, how did he die that easily?

Given he was Natsumi-san’s mentor before she was the strongest ever, that did mean that Dad was by no means any weak. If not the strongest. Then how did he die then? He came to save me and Mom, I remember that. I also remember how he got killed right before my eyes. He…

"Ugh…" I grabbed my head as it hurt a little. My memories… seem to have been causing me more pain than I ever had. Well probably also because I never let them resurface out of fear of what it will do to me.

"Kazu-chan? Is something wrong?" Ama asked with a worried expression on her face. "Don’t tell me it’s because of you hitting your head. Oh I’m so so- "

"Ama, it’s not because of that. It’s just a little headache, some rest and I’ll be fine," I said to her but she didn’t seem to be convinced with that. Well can’t lie to a doctor such as Ama. "It’s just whenever I try to remember about my parents and how they…died it gives me this weird headache. It’s all because of that."

"I see…it might be too traumatic an expression for you that’s why it would be causing that," Ama said as she placed her hand on my head and started caressing it. "Don’t worry, if something like this happens again, come to me at once and we will get it patched up, okay?"

"Okay. Thank you, Ama," I said to her, and she giggled.

"Now don’t say thank you to me for something I want to do on my own. It’s my dear Kazu-chan after all, it is only natural I will take good care of him," she said as she continued to caress my hair. "So, ready to leave?"

"Yeah," I said and started to follow Ama outside the training room and we made our way to the elevator. "By the way Ama, how will we go to your place?"

"I’ll drive Kazu-chan there, of course," she said to me and smiled. "Why? Not feeling safe to be driven by a woman?"

"Huh? I never said that," I replied. "I was just curious."

"Okay then."

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