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This wasn't how Shiho thought the day was going to go when she woke up this afternoon, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes and contemplating not doing much at all today. Sure, there was probably something to do if she tried to look for it since she was the one in charge of espionage and information gathering, her psychic abilities making her perfectly suited to the task.

But she was bored and she was hungry and so the first order of the day had become "get pizza".

That's where she is now, happily selecting toppings with her most charming manner and cutest smile because that's never failed to get her extra anything she wanted. It smells good enough that she's even happy to not roll her eyes when Kaneda strolls on in.

If pressed she'd admit that she didn't hate him. Sure, their respective gangs occasionally clashed and yes, she'd referred to him as the boss of a bunch of babies at least twenty six times, she'd started calling him "what's-his-face" and any kind of conversation between them almost always turned into a snarky argument but if she really, really, really had to in a life-and-death situation, she'd say that she respected him and if it came to it, she'd probably not help someone else hurt him.

But she doesn't have to be civil about it as she tilts her head at him with a raise of her eyebrow, fully intending to make the next order of the day: Start a fight with Kaneda.

"Look who finally decided to leave his little club house. What, no one with you today?"

Never mind that she's also alone here (though her excuse is that she's easily one of the most terrifying of her group even with Kaoru the psychokinetic and Aoi the teleporter there). Which doesn't stop what happens next as an explosion rings out just across the street.

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Shiho wipes the smug look off the first one's face with a well-placed shot to the knee that will probably never heal correctly. The second shot to the next one's shoulder, disabling their gun-toting arm. Shiho doesn't shoot to kill, but she doesn't shoot like she'd mind it terribly if they died of shock afterwards.

She trusts him to have at least shot one person since those darts are laced with heavy sedatives, the amount usually reserved for elephants and cause almost immediate blurry vision and loss of motor control. And she trusts in the faint sound she can hear. It sounds like the scream of a jet. Or like a psychokinetic that can almost reach the speed of sound and has the unerring ability to know when her friends were in trouble.

"...You trust me, right?"

Because with that Shiho is grabbing him by the hand and with a disconcerting shift they're in the air, floating high over what is now technically still his safehouse. Just in powder form. Only then does Shiho breathe a sigh of relief, just in time to get tackled from the side by both Aoi and Kaoru. And then a barrage of questions: Was Shiho hurt? (only a little and she hides the scrape by holding onto the back of Kaneda's shirt) Was Kaneda hurt? Did Kaneda actually do a good job and protect Shiho? Whoa, he's actually more dependable than we first thought, Aoi-chan. Does that mean we don't have to pay for that safehouse?

All throughout it though, Shiho is smiling, even turning that smile to Kaneda while she's at it.

"So? Are you hurt?"

Because that hand she has holding onto his shirt is opening, her palm pressed to his back to make sure he really hasn't been hurt.

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oh my gosh, I'm sorry this is so late