Chapter 3.

Meanwhile back in the part of the city where Ryuko, Celle, Mako and Ira are things are still lively as some people are talking amongst each other. Ryuko and Celle were both walking over to Mako and Ira together. Once Ryuko and Celle had come over to them Mako looked at Celle and smiled cheerfully as she said "Hi there my name is Mako Mankanshoku what's your name?"

Celle didn't say anything for a few minutes. And Mako stared at him while blinking and then she turned to Ryuko and whispered to Ryuko "Why isn't he saying anything to me? Is he unable to talk to me or hear me?"

Ryuko whispered to Mako "No it's just. Well he seems to be a little shy around other people it seems. I mean when I met him at first he was acting somewhat shy to me. But now we're friends and I think I'm probably the one person that he doesn't feel nervous about."

Mako said "Oh..."

Ryuko said reassuringly to Celle with a smile "It's ok Celle you don't have to worry Mako's... a bit eccentric... But she's also a good person and she won't cause you any harm you can count on that.."

Celle smiles back at Ryuko and then he looks at Mako and says "It's nice to meet you Mako. My name is Celle Kuroma."

Ira then says "And my name is Ira Gamagoori."

Celle greeted Ira as well and Ryuko said after looking at her watch "It looks like it's getting kinda late guys let's all go back to Mako's place. Celle you can come along too if you want to I mean."

Celle nods with a small smile "Sure."

After they all started walking Ryuko said to Mako

"So Mako how did your date with Ira go?"

Mako smiles and her eyes sparkle "It's all been going fantastically. Me and Ira did alot of fun stuff on our date we went to the amusement park together and it was a whole lot of fun. We went on rides together like rollercoasters and ferris wheels and even the Tunnel of Love. I really liked that part."

Ira smiles at Mako "Yeah so did I Mako."

Ryuko smiles at this as the four of them all start to head towards Mako's house. Mako then stops out of nowhere and the other three notice this and looks back at her. Ryuko asks "Mako what is it?"

Mako said "Me and Ira had kind of came across this man in a grey driver's uniform. He said that he was a worker for this big corporation that is currently involved in many different forms of media as he said. I think he said the company is called Genimoe Zaibetsu."

Celle's eyes widen as he looks frozen in fear. He feels his pulse get faster somewhat. No one noticed this or was actually looking at him though and Celle was happy about that. He really didn't want to explain the darker parts of his past right now. He then calmed himself down a bit in order to hide the look on his face.

Ira nods "Yeah he came to us from the shadows with a big creepy grin."

He and Mako both recall the event in their minds.

Awhile ago Mako and Ira were walking around the amusement park together. They were both smiling at each other and Ira had an arm around Mako as he was holding her close and smiling. Just then as they were walking a man came out of the shadows.

Mako and Ira saw the man who was wearing a black guard's uniform which was a grey suit and a badge and grey gloves and he was also wearing a grey chauffeur's cap. He also had black hair and waxy skin and he had grey eyes and was grinning widely.

Mako and Ira both noticed him shortly after they had both looked away from each other and everything around had gotten quiet all of a sudden. The man smiled and said "Hello there you two I must say it does my heart good to see a young couple such as you two enjoying yourselves."

Ira stood infront of Mako as he was glaring at the man "Who the hell are you, you big freak. You'd better back off right now if you know whats good for you."

Mako looks up at Ira and smiles "You're so brave and heroic Ira."

The man said "I don't wish any harm to either of you. No need to get so worried or defensive. Allow to introduce myself I am one of the company drivers for the organization I work for."

Mako asked with curiosity "What's the company called?"

The Driver closed his eyes while smiling "It is called Genimoe Zaibetsu. It is a great and vast organization and I'm very surprised that you haven't heard of it until now it is an international corporation. And it is currently involved in many different forms of media and it has many divisions and sub divisions too."

Ira asked "Why are you telling all of us this anyway?"

The Driver shook his head still smiling and he backed away into the shadows. Ira went after him and when he reached the area of the shadows he called "HEY! GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!"

Ira then sees that he's just yelling into the darkness and that no one's there. Then Mako came over and looked into where the man had disappeared to and then she looked to Ira "Where did that man go Ira?"

Ira looked at Mako and shrugged "I don't have the slightest idea... But I hope that we don't see him again anytime soon."

Mako holds Ira's arm "Let's go on the carousel again."

Ira smiles and says "Sure thing."

He walks away from that area with Mako so that they can continue to enjoy their date. However Ira turned his head to where the Driver previously was for a second and then he looked forward.

Ira then said "That driver guy was a very strange person. And he had that big creepy grin on his face too."

Mako said "Let's try to not think about it for now."

Ryuko nods "Mako's right it's getting late but we should discuss this some more tomorrow I think."

Celle nods in agreement "Yeah."

They all start to walk back to Mako's place. Celle was still looking unnerved as he wasn't able to hide how we was feeling as well as he had wanted to. Ryuko had noticed this but Ira and Mako did not as they were infront of Ryuko and Celle. Ryuko frowned and thought to herself "I wonder what's the matter with Celle maybe it has something to do with what Mako and Ira said."

She then felt bad for Celle who looked very upset and she put an arm around him to comfort him. Celle calmed down and he at looked at Ryuko in slight surprise and Ryuko said "I can take my arm off of your shoulder if you'd want."

Celle smiles "It's ok Ryuko. Thank you for comforting me. That's very nice of you."

Ryuko smiles a little "No problem. You can talk to me about any of your problems if you need to. You can also tell Mako, Ira and my big sister Satsuki and her friends too for the record. But only if you want to."

Celle said "I'll keep that in mind I'm glad I met you Ryuko. To be honest I've never really had friends before in my entire life and you're the first person that I've met that I can actually consider to be a friend."

Ryuko isn't able to help but feeling touched by this "Thank you Celle that's very nice of you to say. I know how you feel actually... You see I've been alone for alot of my life myself actually."

She looks downward as she frowns and is thinking about how her life used to be as she gets her arm off of Celle. Celle looks at her with a sympathetic look on his face. He puts an arm around her and holds her close. Ryuko looks at Celle and smiles a little "Thanks. Well as I was saying I never really had many friends myself until I met my best friend Mako me and her are like sisters I think as we've always been going through things together. And I also made other friends as well so now I'm not lonely anymore and neither are you."

Celle smiles and nods and he and Ryuko both see that Mako and Ira were ahead of them. Ryuko and Celle then walked at a faster pace to catch up to them. Then soon after some time has passed they all reached Mako's place. It was actually her new place as Satsuki was able to make it that Mako and her family had a bigger and better place to live but they weren't rich like they were when Mako was Fight Club president but they at least were able to live a better life.

That's the end of Chapter 3.

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