Kuki Sanban had seen a boy shirtless before.

She had been to the beach, she had been to the public pool.

In fact, she never really even paid any attention to a shirtless boy over a clothed one before she turned thirteen.

Okay, well, it was true that Wallabee Beatles and his almost shoulder-length, silky, shimmering blonde locks and pine green eyes was a very, very, VERY handsome young man. Especially in Miss Sanban's (secret) opinion. Oh and his Australian accent was… pretty adorable. And perfect.

When they were younger, Kuki didn't think this way about him. But, a few months after she turned thirteen, she really could not keep her mind off of him, it was like an all of a sudden type thing.

Especially after he came back from Australia after his two month visit last summer, which is when he had a growth spurt and began growing out his hair. He looked so much different; but still the same.

The instant Kuki saw him, her heart stopped. And she wasn't breathing. He took her breath away, just the sight of him.

And that afternoon, her hormones had simply been pushed to the limit.

The entire sector V became TND operatives instead of being decommissioned, and instead of tree houses like the KND, the TND had underground bases accessed by pushing a secret button located in a different spot for every base at the closest convenience store.

The TND underground bases were designed in the shape of an arachnid. There was a center room, where Nigel Uno would announce their latest missions and they would gather to receive transmissions, etc. That center room was called the lobby. Around the perimeter walls of the lobby, there are eight doors, five of them leading to the operatives rooms, one of them leading to the training equipment room and the technology room for Hoagie Gilligan to work on his vehicles and make his weapon designs reality, one of them leading to a hallway of five personal showers for everyone, and one of them leading to a chamber of five escape pods.

So Kuki was relaxing in her room, feeling very irrated at the world in general (she was in a certain condition…), snacking on Oreos and peanut butter, watching High School Musical and Uptown Girls and an episode of Charm School on MTV.

Then all of a sudden, this booming, ear piercing guitar music starts shaking her room out of no where.

Wally seemed to be blasting his stereo, as usual. He seemed to be listening to some guitar solo type thing.

At once, Kuki was infuriated. First of all, he started blasting it out of no where, which caused her to hop up about three feet into the air (not literally), second of all, she was already irrated. For said reason.

She stomped her little aerie boyfriend-boxer, laced-tank-clad-self into the lobby, all the way down the hallway that lead to his room, and burst right on in.

"WALLY!" She screeched before even absorbing the scene before her.

Kuki stared for a moment, then her violet eyes grew wide.

Wallabee Beatles. Shirtless. Almost-six pack. Electric guitar. Bandana. Sweating.

She didn't even need to think in a full sentence, all those words beside each other silenced her enough.

He was on his knees in the middle of the room, front facing her, biting his lip, obviously pursuing some technical maneuver on his guitar. He paused in his place.

Instead of the old boxing ring Wally had in his bedroom when he was in the KND, Wally had a few mattresses pushed near the wall with a blanket or two and a bunch of pillows as his bed, then a wall of amplifiers for his stereo across from his bed, and a 42 inch monitor LCD screen television on the wall above the amps.

Wally's lips parted. "Whot?" He asked innocently.

"Ohh…" Kuki said breathlessly, her head tilting to the side slightly, hand still trailing down the doorframe. Her eyes were jumping from every part of him. All of a sudden, she wasn't so angry anymore.

"Ohh," she breathed again. Then she jumped a little, startled, like she was waking up from something, and said in a completely different tone, "Oh, oh, nothing."

Wally began smirking.

Defensively, her attitude kicked in. "And what are you smiling at? What do you think you are, some hardcore little scenester boy? Take the bandana off Wally," here she scoffed, "Ugh, sometimes you are such an idiot…"

And she turned to leave the room, when he muttered to himself. "Ooooh Wally yew are so sexy with yo'r guh-tar and yeh're shirtlessness that Oi'm almost jealousss tee heeeeee."

Only, Kuki accidentally heard that and retorted, "WALLY, SHUT UP, YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY GOOD LOOKING PERSON IN THIS… ummm…UNDERGROUND BASE."

"Yeah, Hoagie's pretty sexy too." Wally said calmly, as he continued to strum his guitar, loudly.

Kuki returned at his door way, and opened her mouth to say something.

But, he began strumming more powerfully and produced an even louder melody.

Despite she was yelling at him, inaudibly beneath the sound he was producing, he saw her eyes flickering from his face to his bare torso. Which is most of the reason they were both getting so red in the face; not even so much because of the strength it took for her to yell and him to play the electric guitar.

Kuki kept yelling about how he was so conceited (which he wasn't) yet adding that he did have a right to be but still—and he didn't hear a word of it.

Eventually she got so angry that she actually stomped towards him, and began swatting at him, but he nimbly avoided her while springing into the air and performing expert 360s and 180s as if he were onstage.

It gave Kuki reminiscent of their childhood days, playing tag and such. That's when he had a bowl cut and wore an orange hoodie all the time. And not a gorgeous stomach and chest. Or face. Or head of hair. Or butt.

And again, she was suddenly relaxed and not even angry. She began giggling, chasing the most handsome boy she knew around his room, and just after he landed another spin in the air yards away from her, she ran up to him and wrapped her arms around his stomach from beside him.

Unexpectedly, Wally lost balance and his guitar dropped all the way to the ground with a loud clang and thud that rang out through the amplifier, along with himself and Kuki over him, her arms still wrapped around him.

Kuki stop giggling after a moment and saw the serene yet profound expression on his face. And she calmed down as well.

She looked into his eyes for a moment, then just began descending her head towards his automatically. The girl couldn't help herself.

Their lips brushed, and Kuki almost jumped because of the riveting sensation that went through her at the instant.

Abruptly, a siren began wailing loudly, and Kuki lifted her head all the way up, then sprung to her feet and sped to the lobby without even glancing back at the dejected boy laying on the floor.