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Chapter 4 - Chapter IV, Bitter Rivalries

A loud knock at my apartment front door is heard the next morning, causing me to awaken and groan in annoyance at my disturbed sleep. I slip out of bed nude and equip my pistol before approaching the front door, opening it to be met by a familiar face all the while Kendrick groans into a pillow.

"Rise and Shine princess. Lookin' good today huh?" The familiar man comments, smirking and crossing his arms as 2 men with assault rifles firmly stand either side of him, all 3 of which shamelessly looking my tired, exposed body up and down.

"Very funny Vincent. You wanna quit bein' a perv or you gonna tell me what you want? Because I'm this close to blinding your optics and dropping all 3 of you on my doorstep." I scowl as I stand before him without embarrassment despite my nude form due to being very secure with my own body, knowing he can't have it even if he tried.

"Just came by to see how my favourite netrunner's doin', that's all. Where's the harm?" He asks, obviously trying to get a rise out of me.

"Yeah? Well I was doing perfectly fine without your obnoxious presence you oversized participation trophy. I gotta say you really like cucking yourself knowing you can't fuck what you're lookin' at aren't you? Like i'm some slut for you to toy with; you're practically foaming out the mouth you mindless sex crazed maniac." I retort harshly with my own amusement laced inside, squinting my eyes with annoyance as I continue standing before the 6 foot muscular male.

"Hmm… I can be anything you want doll." He comments creepily as he looks me uo and down again, to which I open my Cyberdeck on the Corneas of my Kiroshi optics to hack into his OS, blinding his optics with a quick hack and holding my pistol up. The guards immediately raise their own weapons but the retliation is shirt lived as I short circuiting the through the circuits in their brain whilst my eyes become visibly bright neon pink as I look to him with disgust and disdain.

"Yeah you would be wouldn't you? Fuckin' creep. Give me one reason I don't blind you permanently shit bucket." I spit on his blinded face, the guards lay limp on the ground as I push Vincent to the railing, my gun still aimed towards his face.

"Goddamn- alright I was just playin'..! Shit..". He scoffs and wipes his face before standing up; finally regaining his vision and gaining a serious look.

"I came to tell you to stay the fuck out of my territory. One of your bitchy friends came by trying to enter a club I run in search of some random choom; Kiera was her name I think? Said i'd be hearing from you if I didn't let her enter so I thought i'd visit you personally. She comes near my territory again, I won't be so fucking generous." He scoffs before walking off with his pride injured, murmuring pissed off curse words.

"Fuckin' asshole." I scoff and slam the door, locking it as Vincent walks away, turning to see Kendrick who's respectfully looking away, surprised and blushing by my nude body.

"I- who was that-?" He ask, his hand still in front of his face as he averts his gaze and I sit down on the couch with a pissed off expression.

"Vincent Cawriss. Major perverted Misogynistic prick. Runs the gehtto near here. Been pressing me for a couple months. Asshole never knows when to quit." I answer before walking to my bedroom with an extremely irritated attitude.

"Oh- I- I see. Could you put some clothes on please..?" He requests so he can stop covering his face, causing me to laugh loud.

"Why're you so embarrassed? You're acting like a 13 year old who's saw tits for the first time." I smirk whilst picking out a simple light blue Hoodie and sweatpants from the bedroom and going to the bathroom to brush my teeth.

I then return to the living room as he visibly sighs as he calms.

"I- it's not that I just- you're obviously very attractive and it was unexpected- a better question is why're you so comfortable with it? You're not afraid of walking around nude, especially in front of a man that you probably already have a bias against?" He questions, looking to me as I take hold of my hairbrush, running it through my long, dishevelled wavy hair.

"It's not like I walk around like that Kendrick, I just sleep naked and he woke me up. It's comfortable. And it's not like I occasionally have guests such as you and Vincent. I'm not self conscious, I know I look really good and there's no shame in it. And like I said yesterday, I don't hate you. You couldn't do anything if you tried. Wouldn'ta let you stay otherwise." I respond, as I continue brushing my hair whilst walking to my kitchen. After around 10 minutes, I walk to the kitchen and beginning to prepare some basic breakfast for both of us.

"What're you making?" He asks, raising an eyebrow as he gets up and stretches.

"Just some Eggs and Bacon. You know. Basic shit. It's SCOP though so." I state, resulting in the corpo's disappointed sigh, obviously a bit disgusted and put off by the SCOP food.

"Yay… worms and bugs… my favourite…" he responds sarcastically for the first time, rolling his eyes as I dramatically gasp and smirk.

"Your learning Sarcasm! good! They grow up so fast." I smirk as I pet him on the head condescendingly.

"Oh fuck off with that. I ain't your damn pet." He rolls his eyes and swats my hand away with annoyance and frustration.

"Oh that's right. You're still 'saka's lapdog. Well, I'll be here when they inevitably get rid of you." I reply before chuckling to myself z

"They're not gonna "get rid of me", I've got a Scholarship." He argues as he begins to get defensive whilst I continue to cook and brush my hair in the meantime.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night bud. All i'm saying is that Scholarship means nothing to them if you're not a brainwashed slave to the corporation." I remark before focusing on my cooking. 

After breakfast passes, he leaves my apartment and presumably returns to Arasaka Academy and I clean up the Kitchen, leaving shortly after to go searching for Kiera in relation go Vincent's appearance.

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