Chapter 2: My Names Draken And Who Are You?

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At Mikey's Apartment

Mikey is wiping the mystery man's face with a towel, still trying to figure out who he was. He didn't have any I.D. but what he did have was gun. Mikey was scared and confused not knowing what happened to the mystery man and why he was shot at. Just when Mikey was about to leave the room the mystery man suddenly woke up and started looking around his surroundings not knowing where he was.

"Hey hey relax I got you. You're safe now ok" Mikey said rushing over to the mystery man, trying to calm him down.

But what Mikey didn't know was that, that only made the mystery man even more anxious.

"Hey hey can you hear me? What's your name? Do you remember anything? Do you know who did this to you?" Mikey asked to the mystery man.

"Who the hell are you? Where the **** am I? Was I followed here? Where's my team? Is there anyone else here?" The mystery man said to Mikey.

"My name is Manjiro Sano but you can call me Mikey, and you are in my apartment, and I don't know about your team, and I live alone" Mikey replied to the mystery man.

"Now please I need you to relax and calm down, you are still hurt so please you need to rest" Mikey said to the mystery man.

The mystery man was still on guard but Mikey didn't looking threatening to him and he was in pain so for now he lied down to calm himself down.

"I hope you don't mind me asking but can you tell me your name, so I know what to call you" Mikey said to the mystery man.

The mystery man stayed silent did a minute before responding back.

"My name's Ken but people call me Draken" Draken said to Mikey.

Draken looked down to see Mikey giving him a small smile as if he did something good which in reality all he did was give her his name.

"What?" Draken said to Mikey.

"Oh nothing just, happy to finally know your Ken-chin" Mikey said to Draken sought slightly smiling.

"Don't call me that" Draken said.

"Too late. I already made up my mind Ken-chin" Mikey said to Draken.

"Whatever. I'm going to sleep now" Draken said turning away from Mikey.

"Okay. Good night Ken-chin sweet dreams" Mikey said before getting up and leaving the room.

"What a weird girl" Draken thought to himself before falling asleep.

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The next day

It was around 9 am when Draken woke up to the sound of a pan frying and a blender going off. Draken quietly and slowly got up from the bed and made his way to the kitchen to see Mikey making breakfast. Mikey saw Draken up, and with a smile signaled him to have a seat and join her for breakfast. Draken hesitantly joined her because 1) he was still on guard about her 2) he just woke up and 3) he was getting hungry so why not eat. The two sat in silence during breakfast, until:

"I know it's not my place, but may I ask what happened to you last night" Mikey said quietly.

"No" Draken said to Mikey before going back to eat his breakfast.

"Why not?" Mikey asked a little louder this time.

"Because 1) it is none of your business, 2) I don't have to explain myself to you, and 3) because I just don't want to" Draken said to Mikey.

"Well it is my business since you barged into my shop asking for help, me taking you into my home and treating your wounds and now treating you to breakfast, so yes I think I do deserve an explanation on what happened to you last night ace why you were covered in blood and shot at" Mikey said angrily to Draken.

Draken looked at Mikey, now annoyed that she keeps asking questions and to him, he thinks that she does not have the right to know what goes on his life, and is ready to put her in her place, but stops when he looks at her and sees in her eyes that she will not back down and will keep asking until she gets an answer.

Draken sighs before turning back to his food with his head down and takes a moment before:

"My job is not a safe place to work and the things I do are not entirely safe either. Last night, me and my team went to make a deal with another team since our bosses made an agreement, but as we were about to call a truce, we have learned that it was trap and that we were set up, so me and my team fought back in order to escape since we were out-numbered, and well as I was fighting back I took a hit and I was separated from my team and before I knew it I was wandering around looking for a safe place to hide and apparently I stumbled upon your shop and here I am now with you" Draken said, not once facing Mikey.

It was quiet for a minute before someone spoke.

"I'm sorry" Mikey said to Draken.

"Why the hell are you apologizing, you didn't do anything" Draken said to Mikey, confused on why she was apologizing.

"No it's just that, you went there for a truce and they betrayed you and your team, and then you and your team were attacked and you got hit, and just knowing that makes me sad for you because you are going there trusting these people, but just for them to hurt you instead. I can't imagine that on anyone so I'm sorry" Mikey said with tears on the verge of falling from her eyes.

Draken saw this and began to panic, not knowing what to do as she was tears away from full on crying.

"H-hey now it's not that big of a deal, some things just go this way and it's not like we trusted them completely. If we did then we wouldn't have brought our weapons to the meeting now will we. We knew that there was a chance that this was a trap, so we somewhat came prepared, and yeah we were out-numbered and some of us got hurt, but we managed to get out of there now did we " Draken said to Mikey (hoping to make her feel better).

"I guess your right, but are you sure your okay" Mikey said.

"I'm alive aren't I" Draken said with a small smile.

"Yeah Ken-chin looks fine to me" Mikey says with a small laugh while wiping her tears away.

After that the day went by fast and before they knew it, it was night time.

"You still need more time before you are fully healed, so if you want you can stay here a little longer" Mikey said to Draken.

"I think that's for the best" Draken said to Mikey.

"Okay, then good night Ken-chin, I'll see you tomorrow" Mikey said getting ready to leave the room.

"Hey" Draken said suddenly making Mikey stop in her tracks.

"Yes Ken-chin" Mikey said.

"Thank you" Draken said.

"What?" Mikey said confused.

"I never really got a chance to thank you for taking me in and for taking care of me, so thank you for taking care of me today and yesterday" Draken said to Mikey.

"Your welcome Ken-chin" Mikey said, smiling at Draken softly.

After that Mikey closes the door leaving Draken to his thoughts.

"She's petty cute huh" Draken thought suddenly.

"Wait what. Did I just think that she was cute? No? No. It must be the pills. Yeah it's just the pills. Yeah. Yeah it's the pills" Draken thought to himself.

In the next room with Mikey.

"After getting a good look at Ken-chin, he's pretty handsome and charming" Mikey thought to herself smiling at the thought.

"Hopefully Ken-chin is single. Well even if he isn't, that's not necessarily a bad thing since Ken-chin can be with whoever he wants, but hopefully he is not seeing anyone" Mikey thought to herself.

"Wait what an I thinking, I just met him, I shouldn't be thinking of him like this. No. No. No. Bad Mikey" Mikey thought to herself.

"But he looks so beautiful and perfect" Mikey thought to herself.

"No. No. No. Bad Mikey" Mikey said scolding herself.

After that both Draken and Mikey had a hard time falling asleep.

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1 month later

It's been a month since both Mikey and Draken have lived together and so far everything is going great. Mikey has not told her siblings about Draken since she did not want to bother them and because she knew that they would be over protective and she did not want that. In that 1 month both Draken and Mikey have gotten closer and dare to say feelings have bloomed for both Mikey and Draken. Everything was going great until someone got a phone call.

*Ring* *Ring* *Ring*

"Hello?" Draken said on the phone.

"DRAKEN IS THAT YOU?" the person on the other line said loudly.

"Yes this is Draken. Who is this?" Draken said.

"It's me—" said the other person.

"Oh hey—. How are you? Where are you? How are the others? Are they okay? Are they with you?" Draken asked worryingly.

"Yes, yes we are all okay" the other person said.

"Thank god" Draken said after talking a breathe he didn't know he was holding.

"Are you okay? We haven't heard from you for over a month, we thought you were dead or captured" the other person said rambling on.

"Hey, hey I'm okay. I'm safe" Draken said, hopefully calming down the other person on the phone.

"Okay okay good. I'm sorry I was just so worried. We were all worried" the other person said.

"I'm okay I promise" Draken said.

"Well where are you? When are you coming back?" the other person said.

"Oh well you see it's kinda complicated right now" Draken said.

"Well whatever it is we need you back" the other person said anxiously.

"W-why what's going on" Draken said hesitantly.

"Some shit is going down between us and other groups and it's not pretty, so we need you back" the other person said nervously.

"I-I can't right now I'm-" Draken said as he was cut off.

"Draken please we need you right now. I'm sure you have a good reason on wanting to stay where you are right now but we need you right now, please" the other person begged.

After a period of time Draken said:

"Okay. Text me your location and I'll be there shortly" Draken said.

"Ok thank you. We'll see you shortly. Everyone will be happy to see you again, you have no idea" the person on the other side said.

"Yeah me too, I can't wait to see everyone" Draken said softly.

"Ok bye Draken" the other person before hanging up.

"Bye" Draken said.

"Ken-chin I have everything ready for the movie" Mikey shouted from the living room.

"Coming" Draken shouted back.

After packing his stuff Draken went to the living room to see Mikey on the couch ready for him for there movie.

"Hey Mikey" Draken said quietly.

"Oh Ken-chin you finally arrived, I was wondering what was taking you so long-" Mikey suddenly stopped looking at Draken all packed.

"Ken-chin what going on why are you packed?" Mikey asked.