Corporate Negligence [Kaoru (and maybe ShinsukAI)]
"Aw, c’mon, Hayashi! You’e no fun. Jeez, I already told ya I’m not gonna turn the lights off again! What, don’t you believe me…?" For just a moment, long enough to spit the mocking sentence, his voice shifts to a more sneering tone. "Man, fucking with you is boring. You just whine and flinch. Can you do anything for yourself? Too bad Uetsuji isn’t here, she might make things more interesting. Like, y’know, for example, she could kick one of her dumb balls at me, and I could MOW HER THE FUCK DOWN. Wouldn’t that be FUCKING HILARIOUS?”
But with Kaoru’s reactions becoming stale, he turns his attention to Hayate now, he of the big ol not so humble brag. Good fuckin’ god, was this guy serious? Hayate proceeds to then say that he’s very serious, and it’s all Shinsuke can do to stop himself from lapsing back into peals of laughter.
He falls silent as Hayate makes his big stand, and there’s a soft huff from the speaker. “Yeah, that’s cool and all, but uh. That whole CEO thing? Like I said, you might wanna keep on that comedy gig, moneybags, since Communitie Corp. is—oh! Shit, I’ve said a bit too much! Haha. But yeah, good luck ‘ending me’ or whatever, you rich piece of shit.”
When Kaoru was threatened she didn’t do much other than cower and whimper. Lock her in the dark and she’ll bawl and shake. Kaoru took many abuses as they came simply trying to weather them as one would a storm.
But threaten a soccer loving girl that she immensely cared about? Kaoru drew the line there.
At Shinsuke’s threat Kaoru stood up so violently that her chair fall backwards with a loud clatter. “Don’t you DARE!” She yelled, slamming her hands down on the table in front of her. Fear was still in her eyes but it mixed with anger now. “Don’t you dare hurt Shinobu-chan! I don’t care what you do to me but if you hurt Shinobu-chan I’ll I’ll…” She took a breath. “I’ll stick you back in your body and shove you out the airlock." She hissed, hands tightening into fists.
Still, as angry as she was, as awful as Shinsuke was, Kaoru was shaking like a leaf over her outburst. Not in fear of Shinsuke’s reaction but just from her own outburst. She didn’t often respond in anger and it left a bad taste in her mouth.
But this was the person who had caused them all so much misery. This was the person who had backed them into corners again and again until someone snapped and people lay dead. This was the person who had killed Kaoru’s friends.
And now he threatened Shinobu? Kaoru was not going to let him steal her away too!
At Kaoru's outburst, Hayate only nodded approvingly. It was scarely appropriate behavior in a civilized society but they were far gone from such a place, and to see it expressed by another was satisfying in its own way.
"Communitie Corp. is what? Bankrupt? Disbanded?" he scoffs, "I've... Been prepared for such an inevitability." he closes his eyes, having hesitated for just a moment, "But I am Gacchiri Hayate. If there is anyone capable of reviving it, it is I."
He opens his eyes, raising his head once more. "I will not allow myself to fall to your manipulation any longer."

















