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Carefully removing his hand from its warm spot and settling it around Asuna's waist, Keoni greeted the girl. Obviously she was one of the family friends, or at least, someone Asuna knew. Didn't look old enough to be a peer. Maybe she was from next door or Asuna's old school? "Morning, I'm the boyfriend, Keoni. Alola."
The young woman didn't bother reciprocating the greeting and kept her stern and impatient focus on Asuna. "Where is he, anyway?"
"Rustboro, most likely," Asuna said as she started to change into more appropriate day-time clothing without concern they were both in the room. Her tone seemed to shift slightly, trying to match that of this stranger's. "Although, I never learned how quickly he was going to act."
"Then why are you fucking here?" she asked rhetorically toward Asuna. Her tone was more bitter, condescending. Her word choice was the only kind of humor she would ever express.
"Because I'm her boyfriend and I'm damn good at it. And she's better." Keoni stood, not quite looming, but still emphasizing his height over the girl. He didn't like the tone this girl was taking. Firstly, it was impolite. Secondly, it was directed to Asuna, who didn't deserve it.
"I wasn't speaking to you," she said with cold eyes and her index raised in a gesture of his needing to take a step back. If he didn't know any better, she was being as threatening as he was attempting to be.
"Now who the hell are you and what the hell are you doing here? I know I'm from halfway around the world, but I'm sure that I'd be well within my rights to have Robin pin you to the floor by your foot."
"I'm not your concern," she said, continuing her threatening tone. "And I'm not in the mood to be humored."
Asuna put an arm around his waist, pressing herself subtly against him. "Keoni, don't be like that," she said, putting a finger against his cheek and turning him to kiss her. He did, pulling her close before breaking it off. "I did tell you I have a job. These are my grandpa's springs. It's his business, not mine."
"And it's in your best interest to speed things up, Asuna."
He tilted his head as she trailed a finger over his neck. He smiled indulgently, twirling her hair, then turned and whistled at a pitch that made her flinch. A decidueye feather flew through the window, ramming into the wood after flying past the girl's head and nicking an ear. "But it's polite to make introductions too, love. And you can fill me in."
Asuna's eyes just widened in shock and terror. Her eyes darted back between the girl and Keoni. "Sam, please!" She moved between them, letting go of Keoni. In that moment, Keoni glowed a bluish green and was raised off the ground and slammed against the wall.
"And it's also polite to not attack others over pettiness." Her voice was venomous, now. Her eyes glowed in a similar color and the Meowstic behind her revealed himself and showed similar eyes upon Keoni.
"Ow. " Keoni waggled his feet experimentally, but he didn't seem to be coming down. "You don't know what a decidueye is, do you?"
Though he was stuck where he was, he did seem able to shift his weight slightly as his back complained about the impact. There must have been a beam where he was.
Two arrows shot through the window to hit the floor close to the Meowstic and its trainer. But a light pink dome materialized to deflect them into away from their target. The hue was similar to the Espeon's coat that rubbed against the girl. At this, Keoni was released to fall to the floor gracelessly.
"I'm not here to play," the young woman said, her full attention on Asuna. "I have more important things to do. I'll be checking in on you in Rustboro."
Without any notice, the three of them faded from existence almost immediately and the room fell into a silence Asuna could barely handle. She ran over to Keoni, helping him pick himself up into a sitting position. "Are you OK? She didn't hurt you? She's such a bitch and I really should have warned you about her. Of course she had to show up when I was all..."
"Honey," Keoni tugged the front of her bra, lacking a shirt collar for a better grip. "Calm down. Who was that?"
She settled onto his lap. "Sam. She's my... colleague. She does the brute force and surveillance for our group. I'm like the investigator who gets into places and gets information. This was supposed to be a holiday where I just be with you and pretend like my life isn't a colossal mess and owned by people, but now it's all ruined and I have to work again." She locked lips with him again, the fierceness of her kiss almost hiding the tear running down her cheek.
A deft movement behind her back left her topless again. "You know, we did travel a little around Alola when you were there." Keoni wiped her cheek. "Maybe you can show me this Rustboro town, and we can have a little more privacy..." Asuna smiled as the mood in the room returned to what it was before the interruption. He ran a hand up her spine, as if pushing up the giggle that bubbled from her throat.
"We can take the Shinkanto and be there by this evening," Asuna said, rocking in his lap. "You have to help clean the hot springs before we go."
Keoni pushed her back onto the bed. "So there's nothing else I'm supposed to do before we go?" Asuna laughed properly that time.
