THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS
Chapter 85: Dispute

Chapter 85: Dispute

*Heart Beats Slowly*

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*Solemn Silence*

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*Intense Whispers*

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Hiro’s ears twitched, along with his bandaged hands, his food in front of him uneaten, consisting of beef and rice with vegetables and a small drink next to it.

The whispers got more intense and irritating for him, the fierce aura around belonging to the other bio-genetics was directed at him... well not just him, but the unusual girl seated in front of him, silently eating her food.

"You seem awfully calm," Hiro said with clenched teeth.

Yuki gulped down her drink in a swift move, before bringing it down.

"Why did someone die," she said with a straight face.

Hiro’s fist clenched in a tight hold.

"I’m talking about what happened... They can’t stop staring, they seem to hate us" he hissed with a nudge of his head.

They were the only ones seated in their seat, just the two of them, the rest of the bio-genetics were seated with either their roommates or their friends.

Shino and Ten were seated at tables away from them. Shino gave Yuki a heated gaze before looking away, Ten gave Hiro a look of worry.

"I can feel their aura pointed at us," Hiro adds.

The bio-genetics gave them bits of glances before turning to their own discussion, it happened on several occasions and it pissed Hiro off.

"Right, what happened," Yuki said with a thoughtful face, but then it turned emotionless.

"I don’t regret it" she states.

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Hours Earlier

"You two obviously had some kind of plan of your own" Sumi spoke up from behind, in a pissed tone, arms folded and her angry eyes on Hiro and Yuki like they just committed the worst crime.

Hiro and Yuki turned to her, she had a dark expression on her features, her teeth clenched.

"So what was the plan... to steal the show after we did most of the work?" she snaps once again, her voice loud and gaining the rest of the Bio-genetics attention. Whispers filled the training hall.

"She’s right"

"They just conveniently show up at the last minute"

"We had a plan together, they just went off with theirs"

"Isn’t this about teamwork?"

"We were the one who’s been fighting General Anzai before they show up"

"It’s not fair"

"I don’t like this"

"Thinking they can steal the show just like that"

Ten looks around seeing the rising dispute going around.

"Uh oh... this... is not good," he said knowing the outcome of this, Hiro and Yuki were the centers of it and he knew a general center of the dispute was not a good place to be in. He chewed on his nail. This was... bad.

Yuki rose to her feet in spite of her numb leg as she limped, Hiro rose to his feet too.

"Look, this wasn’t like that," Hiro said sternly.

"Oh, really and you expect me to believe that, where were you when we were getting our asses beaten up" Sumi hissed irritated.

Hiro was about to say something.

"We needed General Anzai to be preoccupied for our plan to work," Yuki said with a straight face.

"Tsk" Sumi made a pissed sound.

"So you just used us then" Haya spoke up with folded arms.

"Instead of us working together as a team" she adds.

Others nodded in agreement.

"I thought we were going through all lengths to overpower General Anzai no matter what... means it doesn’t matter who is being used as long as we accomplish what we are after," Yuki said.

Getting more pissed Sumi took a step closer but was stopped by Shino who was now in front of her from nowhere.

"Why you?" Sumi growled, he always got in the middle of everything.

He had a dark expression against his features.

"Shino," Hiro said, noticing his tense aura.

"What did you say, Yuki..." Shino began in a serious tone as his hazel brown eyes met her violet ones.

"That it doesn’t matter who is being used? What are we?! Some kind of puppets because we are trying to accomplish a goal?" he states.

"In the process of seeking to accomplish something, we don’t have to lose ourselves in the process," he adds with shaky eyes.

"Shino-san" Ten said with sad eyes, he spoke like it was an experience.

"Does it matter?" Yuki said with an unreadable expression?

"Yuki!" Asano hissed.

"Hiro!" Shino hissed facing him.

"And you were okay with this huh?" he states.

Hiro’s fist tightened.

"You were okay with her plan, you were okay without informing us so that we can work together... you were okay with using us?" Shino said with hard eyes.

Silence broods around the hall.

Hiro’s fist reduced its clench, and he raised his head to face Shino.

"It was a plan, a plan to overpower General Anzai... In the end, we all got what we wanted didn’t we?"

Shino’s teeth clenched in a tight hold, he doesn’t get it.

"Or because you thought it would make you feel better," Shino said faintly but Hiro heard him, his body tensed by his words.

"If this was a real-life situation, if something like this happened when we were at the surface... then Hiro would have thought of using us... would you have waited in the side lines while we did all the work for you? Tell me Hiro!" he demands.

Hiro’s fist clenched hard, the white bandages around his hand staining with more blood.

"I’m not questioning your choice of siding with Yuki but your plan... to the part of using? it’s not right" he states.

"Hey, Hey guys that’s enough, let’s not get ourselves all worked up," Ten said walking towards them with a forced smile against his lips.

He placed a hand on Shino’s shoulder to calm him down.

"It’s enough Shino-san," Ten said in a more serious tone.

Shino faced Ten before gazing back at Hiro, his looks stern, both of them on tooth and nail.

Ten just chuckled awfully, knowing his words were going nowhere.