A Completely Normal Date

Faye enjoyed holding onto Dante's hand. It was a nice feeling. She felt as if she were dragging him along, but the way his eyes were wondering around at all the sites of the city she figured it wasn't bothering him. The traffic seems very slow today, and she had no idea what was causing such a fuss, but she kept walking minding her own business. She was so focused on finding the cafe she almost didn't realize when Dante let go of her hand. He gave her a glance and told her to go in. She noticed he seemed really determined on where he was going so she just let him go. Besides, she had arrived at the cafe it was just right there.

She walked into the cafe, well it was more of a coffee slash baking shop, but she liked calling it a cafe. The aromas around her intoxicated her, making her go straight to the counter to order a latte and a muffin. Once she got her latte and muffin she chose a table in the very back of the restaurant.

She thought about what Dante was doing out there, but honestly she wasn't sure she wanted to know what was going on. She continued sitting there sipping her latte, and picking her muffin.

Shinji had been sitting at the back of the cafe. He sat at a booth. The seats were a pale white, cracked leather showed the white stuffing that cushioned the buttocks of the sitter. The wall next to him however had a painting hung upon it. The picture was a painting that showed a few fisherman on a boat, calmly doing their job. Shinji looked up to it periodically as he admired it greatly. He didn't like coffee nor was he hungry enough to get something to eat, not even a pastry. So he ordered a hot chocolate just to warm up his system even though it wasn't really cold enough outside to the point of warming. Shinji thought to himself while he sat alone at his table. "What am I to do today. I've completely healed from that roof incident and I have no training plans for the day. So what now?" He asked himself as he sipped his hot beverage.

As he continued to think of his options for the day, Shinji had looked around the store as he was tired of staring at his cup and the table. Upon doing so, he saw a girl, about his age walk by him to take a seat in the back as well. She was only a table away and Shinji was bored out of his mind at the moment, so why not talk to her. "Hm, she is cute." He began to think to himself. "There is no way that someone with her appearance is here alone. Maybe I should go find out." He said just before standing. He fixed his clothing as he looked ahead at the girl. She wasn't facing him so he made himself presentable before walking over to her.

As Shinji walked across the blue tiled floor, he made his way to the girl sitting not too far away from him. Only about a meter, maybe? He walked around her table and stood on the other side. "Excuse me, are you here alone? I doubt someone as pretty as yourself would be here without a well deserving man by your side." Shinji's tone was soft and almost dazzling. At least he thought so. He wasn't really trying to win her heart or anything, I mean he only just met her. His bright blue eyes descended on her face waiting for her to look up at him. His black her pushed to the side slightly and his left hand in his pants pocket. He sipped his hot chocolate as he waited on her response.

Faye started to get worried, Dante still hadn't entered the coffee shop. She moved her light brown hair to the side when she remembered she had put her sketch book in her bag, and took it out to start sketching. It wasn't even seconds later when she heard a soft voice, a voice from a man, before she looked up through her long eyelashes.

The first thing she noticed was his bright blue eyes, they were eyes you could lose yourself in if you weren't careful. Faye had blue eyes herself, but they didn't even compare to his. She was beginning to lose herself in his eyes when she realized what he asked. His hands were in his pockets, and was sipping a drink.

"Oh, I actually came with someone, I met yesterday," she paused wondering where the hell Dante could even be, "but he's outside and I don't know where he went." She pointed towards the door.

She spoke way too soon, Dante was already through the door, sniffing the poor guy's neck. It was almost eerie how quick Dante got in here. How did he? Faye thought. Before she even realized, Dante slapped him. Dante slapped him! He then smiled at Faye, which sent chills running up her spine.. what in the world is wrong with him?? She thought again. She listened as Dante tried to converse with the guy, she didn't even know his name.

"Dante," Faye said, trying to sound like herself. "He had only asked me a question there is absolutely no need to do what you just did you know." She paused. "Maybe you guys should talk, figure something out." Faye grabbed her things and moved to another table away from them both. But in a way she really wanted to know the blue eyed boys name he was interesting. It kind of pained her to walk away.

Shinji was amused at the girl. She was even cuter than Shinji first thought. She began to speak to him in response to his question. Her voice was like music to Shinji's ears. But soon enough, irritation struck Shinji as he felt someone breathing down his neck. Just afterwards, there was a hard slap on his neck. "Hey!"The slap itself wasn't painful, it was the over grown finger nails that the man had that dug into Shinji's skin. It was rather painful and made Shinji's head move downward as it happened. Luckily he was able to himself almost instantly. There was no sign of the marks that he would have left nor was there blood. Shinji quickly turned around to see some guy holding out his hand to him. He spoke as well stating his name and that he was with the girl that Shinji was talking to before he was so rudely interrupted by the ignorance of the man who introduced himself as Dante.

Looking at the girl with his peripheral vision, Shinji heard what she was saying. She seemed mad, almost annoyed, at Dante. Amused Shinji looked Dante in the eye grabbing his hand firmly but not hard enough to provoke anything. With a slightly arrogant smile and tone, Shinji looks to Dante and introduces himself. "The names Shinji. You should probably cool down those reckless actions of yours while with someone of that caliber." Shinji said as he nodded his head over to the girl. She had moved tables to get away from the two. Shinji knew that this guy would probably hostile and honestly, Shinji was up for some action but not in front of the lady. Gotta stay professional, right?

"Another thing, you should probably cool that recklessness down with people you have never met be for. Could come back and bite you in the butt." Shinji stated as he let go of the man's hand while maintaining optimal eye contact. If this was to get rough in the cafe, Shinji would have to find a way to get Dante out of the building so that he could fight him without worrying of damaging the store or the people within it, especially the girl he had only just met. What was her name, by the way?

Faye continued her walk to the other table away from them, and tossed her stuff in a booth, laying her drink and muffin down. She sat in the booth seat and laid her head on the cold, smooth table. She heard the guy with the blue eyes say something, but couldn't quite make out his words, she was hoping she'd hear him say his name, but she didn't. Heck, she forgot to even mention her name to him.

Was she too hard on Dante? She thought to herself. After all, he wasn't use to socializing. Maybe she should have reacted calmer, what made her lose her cool so easily? She typically maintained herself usually well. That's when Faye, heard a smack and she lifted her head quickly and looked behind her.

Oh no, Dante had punched the guy, she couldn't make out if he did any damage, but it didn't sound good, at all. He seemed so territorial, and they had only known each other a day. After Dante punched him he walked towards her, or was it the door he was walking for? Dante gave Faye a brief nod, and walked out the door. Oh no, she thought again. What had she done? She didn't mean to upset him. Or the other guy for that matter.

She rushed to the blue eyed guy, and quickly asked if he was okay, and handing him some napkins in case there was blood. "My name is Faye." She muttered, but she was worried about Dante now too. "I hate to rush off, but I need to see what's wrong with him."

Faye quickly went to her table and picked up her things. She gave one last glimpse at the guy, and took off out the door. Dante couldn't have gotten too far. She walked out the door and looked left to right she wasn't sure which way he had gone. Once she spotted him, she took off in a slow run, hoping she wouldn't trip over her flats, and praying her pink dress wouldn't fly up. "Dante!" She yelled, hoping and hoping he would hear her.

Shinji stood only still as he watched Dante constantly. He knew that he was obviously hostile and would take his words into some kind of offense. It was only natural first of all, men are natural savages and plus Shinji was being arrogant in the first place. His thoughts were calm although he was a little thrilled to see that he may be able to put his abilities to the test against another person who is actually trying to her him. Just another way for him to see how he has been doing in his training really. But it would be a little difficult to fight someone that he has no idea what he is capable of. There is a reason everyone is on this island, can't just be so that we can all live in peace and not fear the resentment of normal humans.

Quickly, though, the aggression in Dante's eyes grew. It was almost funny how fast he got angry. Was it Shinji's smart remarks, or was it the fact that Shinji was talking to the girl that he was with? Either way, it didn't really matter. Dante had let out a full fledged punch towards the middle of Shinji's face. Luckily, as a somewhat good side effect of his abilities, Shinji was able to react fast enough to dodge this attack moving his head to the left. Those he saw it coming, it doesn't seem that Shinji is actually fast enough to dodge. Maybe his eyes are faster than his body. 'Smack!' a huge sound was made. Shinji wasn't hit directly though.

Upon hearing the loud smack, everyone in the cafe looked over to where the two had stood. Shinji smacked his opponent's forearm just in the right moment to redirect the angle of his attack. It was a close one though Shinji didn't come out unscathed. Dante's nails dragged against Shinji's shoulder. Along with the force of the attack and the sharpness of his nails, it sliced both through his clothing and his skin. This stung and burned for the moment. The girl ran over to Shinji, though, as Dante left the cafe. His healing had already begun as she handed him some napkins. It was healing slowly, but effectively enough for Shinji to carry on with his life.

"My name is Faye." She sad as she went off to get Dante. Shinji thought for a moment as he looked at his wound and then out the door. He wasn't very mindful of the stares he got from the people in the cafe. "Faye, huh? Wait, that bastard attacked me... Shinji quickly realized what had just happened after thinking of Faye briefly. He had no choice but to retaliate since he had his own self pride to protect for his own mental health.

Looking around for something to throw, Shinji located some table ware. Two metal spoons and one fork to be exact. He ran to the door way and held one in his palm. It was the spoon. It began to rotate and lift up rapidly as static formed all over his hand as well as the spoon. The spoon was engulfed with lightning and was spinning quickly within seconds of full concentration. Taking the spoon, Shinji launches it quickly through the air on a curve. This way it would move around Faye's head and go straight towards Dante. The spoon had enough rotation and force behind it to penetrate a cement block but not move through it. It would only go in half way. As Shinji moved forward, walking quickly he spun both the fork and the other spoon in opposite palms and readied another small attack for Dante.