Upside Down

"You f.u.c.king c.u.n.t! You almost got me fired!" He snarls at me.

One on the other Officers tells him, "Abe, come on, she"s a little girl. You just got into trouble over this downstairs."

"f.u.c.k her, f.u.c.k you and f.u.c.k Aoki too. While I"m at it, f.u.c.k all of you too, you guys said nothing downstairs to back me up!"

"Of course not Abe, you were in the wrong." Another officer says.

"It"s this little c.u.n.t"s fault!" He retorts.

Honoka begins to say something and I hold up my hand to stop her. I can fight my own battle of wits thank you very much, especially when this moron is unarmed. Of course, there is also the little fact that what he called me made me angry.

"You"re not very bright are you Officer Abe? You"re the one that almost got yourself fired, not me and here you are again doing the same thing again."

"f.u.c.k you!" He snarls at me again.

"Is that the extent of your linguistic capabilities? Tell me this, what do you think would happen if I turned around and told Lt. Aoki what you just said to me?" His face pales, but his eye blaze with hatred. "Right, you would instantly lose your job. You"re the one that is driving nails into your own coffin, not me." I shake my head slightly. "Controlling yourself and developing some people skills would go a long way in helping yourself. The only difference I can see between your brother and you, is age since you"re just as immature as he is. Every time he gets caught doing something wrong it"s always someone else"s fault. It never occurs to him that if he didn"t act that way he wouldn"t get into trouble."

"f.u.c.k you, you smart-mouthed little b.i.t.c.h! Someone needs to teach you a lesson and I"m just the one to do it!" He growls out savagely. His face contorts into a hideous grin and he begins heading in my direction. When one of the other Officers grabs his arm, he angrily shakes it off to continue coming at me.

Honoka pushes me behind her and tells him, "Officer, I would really rather not have to hurt you, so please stop."

He laughs dementedly at her and says, "Oh? What does a cute little thing like you think you can do to me?"

Honoka sighs and I hear her mutter "Some men." When she gets within arms reach of her she suddenly lashes out, slapping him in the throat with the back of her hand, causing him to gag. Grabbing his throat, he falls to his knees.

She turns to look at me to calmly ask me, "Sora, would you mind going to get Lt. Aoki?"

I nod and head back into the house thinking, "I"m glad Dad called Honoka to come get me. There"s something seriously wrong with that man. I never would"ve thought that he would actually come after me." When I get to the top of the stairs, I call out, "Lt. Aoki, I"m sorry to interrupt, but would you mind coming up here for a minute. We have a problem."

"Sure Sora, your Dad and I will be right up. We"re preparing to leave anyway."

"Thank you." I reply and head back outside to wait with Honoka.

I stop upon reaching the doorway when I see him flat on his back staring daggers at Honoka. His expression says he wants to kill her. Okay, he looks to be one of those that never learns from their mistakes. I shake my head sadly.

"Stay down this time. I don"t really want to hurt you, but I"ll do it if you force me to." She tells him using a tone like she was trying to reason with a two year old.

"Honoka, from where you"re standing he can see up your dress." I tell her. She nods and takes a couple of steps back from him without taking her eyes off of him.

I imagine this is going to a rather large blow to his ego. A cute girl 10cm shorter than him and probably half of his weight doing this to him without even messing up her hair. Hindsight is 20/20, but I should"ve never said a word to him and simply gone back to the house. That"s a.s.suming he would"ve let us do that.

"What"s up Sora?" Lt. Aoki asks as he exits the bas.e.m.e.nt door behind me. I look at him over my shoulder and gesture to Honoka and Abe. He looks at the scene when he reaches the door and sighs.

"I knew he was dumb, but I never thought he was this dumb." He mutters and then looks at me. "What happened Sora?"

"Umm. I"m don"t want to repeat what he said, it"s rather vulgar, but suffice it to say he blames me for him getting into trouble. When I explained that it was his own actions that caused the incident, he made some more vulgar remarks. He made me angry so I wasn"t exactly polite in how I spoke to him. I told him he needed to learn how to control himself, learn some people skills, and grow up. He then decided to teach me a lesson and came after me. One of the other officers grabbed his arm to stop him, but he shook them off. Honoka stopped him and apparently she had to do it more than once. Oh, he"s a pervert to boot. He was looking up her dress too."

He look at the other officers for confirmation and several of them nod. Lt Aoki shakes his head and sighs loudly. "Abe, you had best hope that Ms. Ikeda isn"t fertile or you just signed your own death warrant." Abe"s face drains of all color and he looks terrified. "Sora, he didn"t lay a hand on you did he?"

I shake my head. "No, Honoka pushed me behind her when he came toward us."

Honoka looks back toward Lt. Aoki and says, "Lucky for him I"m not. Regardless of that, this type of person shouldn"t be an police officer." She turns back to look at Abe. "As for you, Sora is right, you need to learn to control yourself. Counseling wouldn"t hurt either. That being said, once they fire you for this, if I see you anywhere remotely near Sora again I won"t simply knock you on your a.s.s."

"Ms. Ikeda, do you want to press charges against him?" Lt. Aoki asks her.

"It"s probably not a bad idea. They would force him to get counseling in prison before he could be released. He d.a.m.n sure needs it or he"s eventually going to kill someone, but no, I don"t. He isn"t worth the time it would take me away from Sora. I doubt this taught him anything, but let"s hope it does."

She looks down at Abe. "You"re lucky it was me and not her Father, he would"ve beaten you senseless for talking to Sora that way, but we both know that"s why you did it. You thought you could get away with it because we"re girls." She holds her hand out to me. "Come along Sora, we"ve wasted enough time, let"s go home." She tells me sweetly.

After I take her hand and we"re outside the gate heading home, I hear Lt. Aoki"s voice float over the wall saying, "d.a.m.n Eiji, that"s some woman. Remind me not to p.i.s.s her off. Honda, Kato, pick up that piece of s.h.i.t and throw him in a van. Abe, you"re one lucky son of a b.i.t.c.h."

"I"m sorry Honoka. If I hadn"t said anything to him that wouldn"t have happened."

"Don"t apologize Sora. You didn"t do or say anything I wouldn"t have and to be honest, you said it much nicer than I would have. Even if we simply said nothing and tried to walk past him, that would"ve happened. He was blaming you for whatever happened downstairs."

"He was rude to me downstairs. He took the computer I was using and told me "Little girls should be at home playing with dolls." Needless to say, I didn"t react very well to that."

She chuckles. "No, I don"t imagine you did and I don"t blame you in the least. When I first joined the JSDF there were several people in my training unit just like him. Anytime they would fail or get into trouble, they would try to blame others instead of facing their own shortcomings and correct them."

"Umm, Honoka?"

"Yes Sora?"

"Would you teach me how to defend myself? I know I still have to gain my strength back before you can, but would you please?"

She stops to look at me and I look up at her. "Can you tell me why Sora?"

"You aren"t always going to be right next to me and there are lots of people just like him out there. If something happens without you right next to me, then what do I do? Even a.s.suming I can get the emergency signal out, it will take time for them to respond to it. I found out the hard way that a lot can happen in a very short period of time. I would like to be able to at least slow someone down that wants to hurt me until help can come. When those men attacked the house, what happened in the kitchen took less than a minute. A minute is a long time when someone is trying to hurt you."

I sigh loudly. "Honestly Honoka, I hate the very idea of learning to fight. I abhor violence, but being the subject of so much bullying in school and those men attacking the house has taught me something. If you can"t defend yourself and the people you love then you"re at the mercy of those who have no qualms against using violence."

She pulls me against her and hugs me. "Good answer. Okay, I"ll teach you." She kisses the crown of my head. "Come on Sora, let"s go home." She takes my hand again and we walk back to the house.

When we open the door, I see Chinatsu standing there with her arms crossed, looking upset.

"Hi. We"re home Chinatsu." I tell her.

"Don"t you "hi" me, we have something to talk about." She snaps at me and grabs my arm to pull on me.

"Chinatsu, at least let me take my shoes off." She releases my arm, but continues to glare at me while I take off my shoes. Once I have, she grabs my arm again and pulls me upstairs to my room. She pushes me ahead of her through the door, locking it when we are inside.

She turns to face me, her eyes flashing angrily. "Don"t you ever leave me behind again! I"ve done nothing but worry and imagine all kinds of horrible things the whole time you were gone!" She yells at me and crosses her arms while glaring at me again.

"I know Chinatsu. I knew you would when I decided to make you stay here. If I had taken you with us I would"ve gotten nothing done because I would"ve been watching you the whole time."

She starts to interrupt me. "No, d.a.m.n it! I let you have your say without interrupting you! You will do me the courtesy of letting me finish as well!" I tell her hotly while her eyes widen in surprise. Understandable, since I don"t usually talk that way to her.

I take a breath and slowly let it out to calm myself somewhat. "You can be angry at me all you want, but I"ll never, ever take a chance of taking you to a place where something could happen to you. I let you have your way in most things, but I love you far too much to take that kind of chance. So, be mad at me, hate me if you must, it"s not going to change my position."

I take her hands in mine while looking into her eyes, pleading with her to understand. "I have no faith in my ability to live without you. If something happened to you, I couldn"t take it. I"ll repeat myself again. No matter how angry you are or how much you might hate me for doing it, I"ll never take you somewhere where something could happen to you. If something happened to you, it would destroy me. So, what am I to do? Put the person I love the most in this world at risk just so she won"t be separated from me? That"s not going to happen. I would willingly suffer through the most painful, gruesome death there is a thousand times over rather than take a chance of that happening to you. There, I"ve had my say, you can resume yelling at me all you want now."

When I let go of her hands and turn around to go sit down on my bed, she slips her arms around my waist.

"I"m sorry Sora. I know you did it to protect me, but that doesn"t mean I have to like it. The fact is I simply don"t like being separated from you. I"ve always hated being apart from you, I guess that makes me a clingy b.i.t.c.h. You know that what you said goes both ways, right? If something happened to you, it would kill me. I love and need you Sora, that"s the end all, be all of it. That"s true whether you"re my girlfriend or my sister."

I turn around in her arms to look at her. "Chinatsu, you aren"t a b.i.t.c.h and you can always be as clingy as you want with me. I love it when you touch me." I touch my lips with a finger. "These are yours." I lean in to kiss her for a moment, then take one of her hands and move it to my right breast. "These are yours too." I move her hand down to my "special place." "This is all yours as well." Then I move her hand to over my heart. "There isn"t one single part of me that doesn"t belong to you, most especially my heart. Can you feel how fast you make it beat just by being close to you? I love you Chinatsu."

"I love you too Sora." She melts against me, holding me tightly against her.

"Do you feel better now?"

"Mhmm. I"m sorry I yelled at you." She says quietly.

"Don"t worry about that. If you didn"t care about me you wouldn"t have gotten upset."

"Sora?"

"Hmm?"

"I wish I could have your baby."

"You know that"s actually possible don"t you?"

"Huh? Really?"

"Yep. Really. They"ve been able to do that since 2021. It"s simply a lot easier now since nanotechnology was developed."

"I didn"t know that. Well that makes it easier then, would you have a baby with me?"

I chuckle. "Don"t you think we ought to wait till we"re a little older? Mama and Dad accept our relationship, but I"m pretty sure they would get upset if we get pregnant at thirteen."

She giggles. "I wasn"t talking right this minute silly. I meant when we are older."

"I figured that"s what you meant. I was just teasing you, but to answer your question, yes. If you still want to when we are old enough, I"d love to."

"Sora, if they can do it that way, why do they make us get married then?"

"Because two women will always have girls as children. If you mean why don"t they just fertilize our eggs with whatever genetic material they want, I would guess because there would be h.e.l.l to pay if they tried to do that. That would basically be making all fertile women slaves in that respect. I know I wouldn"t stand for it. I"d rather kill myself than let them do that to me."

"I know you"re talking hypothetically, but don"t say things like that."

"Sorry Chinatsu, I know you hate it when I say things like that."

"Sora, I meant it, I want to have your baby. I won"t change my mind."

"I know. I just hope she"s as beautiful as you are."

"Sora?"

"Hmm?"

"Make love to me please. Leave the lights on though, I want to see you."