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Hisui can admit that she didn’t like many people though being a Ranger it was hard to enjoy a lot of the people there. Invaders had wiped out most of the people she had cared about. But she still had some people that she gave a crap about. There were still people who pushed her buttons like nobody else. One of those people was Yumeko Suzukiri.
She didn’t like or understand the blonde-haired woman. There was just something off about her whether it be the woman’s perpetual smile or how she never really seemed to be genuine with anybody though her sarcasm and taunts ranked pretty high on Hisui’s dislikes of Suzukiri. It also didn’t help that after the Green Battalion had dealt with the IRA and been separated for a year Suzukiri had wound up on their doorstep with bruises, scratches, and a blank look in her eyes. Number 3 of the General Knights had shown up through a portal before dropping Suzukiri off and making another portal to rush through.
She was about to call for an ambulance and maybe Pink Battalion to pick her up to heal her when Suzukiri lashed out and almost choked the life out of her had D not grabbed her and started claming her down guiding Suzukiri away from her. That was another thing that Hisui had gotten used to. The truth was that D was an Invader though he wasn’t bad and she wanted to know about him so she wasn’t gonna kill him.
Back to the matter at hand though Suzukiri had shown more emotion than Hisui had ever seen out of her just now and was breathing heavily almost like she was on the verge of panicking. She had the look of a feral animal in the murky depths of her eyes. Hisui honestly had no idea what to do but surprisingly D did know what to do. He got up close and grabbed her hands with a tenderness Hisui hadn’t known D was capable of.
D then began to shape-shift until where the visage of Hibiki Sakurama once stood now stood the form of a boy with black hair, and eye bags. He wore a white shirt, black jeans, and some white sneakers. He then began to speak with a softer tone Hisui had only heard when she found him during the IRA situation.
“Hey, easy Suzukiri she's not your enemy. You’re with allies”. Yumeko then acknowledged D, her face looking up from the ground. The murkiness in her eyes seemed to dissipate a tiny bit just by seeing his face. This confused Hisui cause as far as she knew only her, Chidori, and Usokubo knew that D was an Invader. She had to ask him later. D then began to speak to Suzukiri again.
“Alright, it’s you in there wanna tell us why you’re here”. Yumeko still seemed to be wanna be quiet but her eyes lingered on Hisui before having a silent conversation with D with just her eyes. D then turned to Hisui with an embarrassed expression and opened his mouth to ask her something.
“I know this asking a lot but could you step out for a minute?”
“Huh! No way! I have questions too!”
“Come on just for a minute! You can come back in like twenty minutes?!”
Hisui expression softened before she smirked at D.
“Fine but I’m gonna have you working crazy on house cleaning when I get back.”
D made a face of exasperation before responding.
“Fine, whatever just get out.”
Hisui then began to make her way out of the Green Garrison but she didn’t miss the way Suzukiri’s eyes seemed to narrow at her when she smirked at D. Well now that she noticed that she might as well tease them a little bit on her way out.
“Don’t go making out while I’m gone!”
She managed to catch their response on her way out.
“What’s making out?”
“Don’t worry about it little footsoldier”. Suzukiri said her first words in what was probably the most genuine tone Hisui had heard out of her.
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Hisui walked back into the Green Garrison building. The lights were out except for the living area and D’s room. She had picked up some yakiniku from Hagino for this conversation which she figured was gonna be a long one. She walked in to find D looking for something in the cubby. He was still in that black-haired teen form.
“Hey, I'm back you better have not made a mess.”
“Hello I’m just busy looking for a blanket for Mu–I mean Suzukiri”
Hisui wondered about that slip-up which was probably something important but she had decided to just let it go for now after all she had a lot more questions for D. Hisui unveiled the meat she had picked up which drew D's attention from the cubby. He turned around and there was drool coming from his mouth.
“Is that meat from Hagino?” He asked reaching for a fork.
“Yep, she sends her regards by the way.”
“So she's staying the night?” Hisui had asked.
“Just for the night then I’ll take her to Usokubo’s mansion”. D had said.
“Alright, I’ll get right into it how does she know you’re an Invader”.
D looked sheepish at that and had started sweating.
“Can I get another question?”
“No way or you’ll be doing triple cleaning duty.”
D rubbed the back of his head.
“She was the first earthling to know what I was.” He had a smirk on his face. He then continued with his speech. “I worked with her to steal a divine tool, Red Keeper caught us though and we got separated”. Hisui remembered when Red Keeper had raged out at the meeting when his JFC had told him to take responsibility. That confession added a whole new layer to this situation if Suzukiri was in on it the entire time. It was kind of nice to know that there was off with Suzukiri and she wasn’t being paranoid.
“Then we met again after the Magatia mission and started working together again. That's all”
“But what about the IRA situation she disappeared during that so if you were her partner you’d know where she was but you told me you didn’t know where she was.”
D's expression then changed to a recent one she had seen whenever people brought up Suzukiri when they didn’t know where she was. A look of longing, one she never expected to see from an Invader.
He spoke again after realizing he had spaced out. “I don’t know where she went. She was a damn fool when she left but she had her reasons. Now she’s back and together me and her are gonna crush the Keepers”.
Hisui remembered D and his confrontation with Yellow Keeper before they went to the slums and realized things started to make sense. Yumeko’s sudden interest in the Bailong Exams. Her little taunt at the bowling alley when she told the other JFC she was taking Usokubo and D. She stayed at Green Garrison when Chidori went to the Sunday Battle. Now that she knew it all there was only one explanation, Yumeko had a crush on an Invader which was gross.
Hisui was about to respond to him until she heard the door creak from where D sleeps during the night. She looked at that door and found Yumeko peeking out looking at D with crazy women eyes. Yumeko then glared at her with an expression that showed her anger immediately. Oh, this was going to be good.
“Little Footsoldier you said you’d be back quickly so we can plan our strategy”. Yumeko walked out of the room showing her wounds had been patched up though anyone could tell it was a sloppy job. She then grabbed D’s hands and yanked him up.
“Woah! Easy women, I’m fragile!”.
Any other complaints D had were drowned out by Yumeko slamming the door to D’s room. However, Hisui couldn’t stop smiling despite the fact her conversation had been cut off. The reason was that as Yumeko had dragged D off she had seen Hisui’s shit-eating grin being aimed at her at her the whole time and realized that her little crush had been found out and she was going to give her hell for it in the morning.