Chapter 43

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POV: You

Part 1.

It's almost evening, Ahri, Akali, and I were the only ones home at the moment. Seraphine went to hangout with Lux and her boyfriend Ezral, he's a good kid. Evelynn and April were out together, Evelynn saying something about wanting to bond with her more, which makes me happy that the girls like her. Kai'sa went to go see a dance recital that was happening in town, it gives her time to relax especially after our time together last night. Ahri and I were on the couch watching a K-drama she had put on. Akali was on my pc playing doom eternal.

Ahri's head was in my lap as she laid across the couch. Moments like this make me forget that my job is being bodyguard of K/DA, now, I have an Alpha, Beta, relationship with their lovely fox vastaya. Their dancer fell in love with me shortly after I beat her ex boyfriend to a bloody pulp, I brought a member in which I met at their concert while having a crush on me. The diva that once did nothing but teased has mellowed out and changing bit by bit. And for the ninja, well, it's possible that she might have some sort of mixed feelings but I don't have much evidence.

"Hey Alphie" Ahri says while turning her head to look up at me.

"Yes Ahri?" Asked while looking down.

"Do you think I looked good with blond hair?" She asks me.

I smile and moved her bangs away from her face "You were beautiful with blond hair, fierce would be strong contender for a description as well"

"You think so?" Ahri says then closes her eyes.

I watched as her pitch black hair slowly turned golden blond, starting from the roots. Her white furred tails doing the same, starting from the base. Her tails were in this weird bundle that were kept close together so they weren't always in the way, looking like inly one tail from certain perspectives.

Ahri opens up here eyes and smirks a bit and sits up while pushing her hair back "Do I look fierce now?"

"As fierce as the beta of the Beast of Piltover would look" I reply "Question, why were you dyeing your hair before if you could have just done that?"

Ahri giggles "I have to be in the mood, it takes a lot of concentration so before I opted for a easier solution"

Ahri then leans close and pecks a kiss before putting her head on my shoulder "I used to hate that my instincts forced myself on you, putting you into the Alpha and Beta situation" She says then smiles "But now, I kinda like it, it's something only we have. With the other girls liking you, no matter how much they tried, they wouldn't have was we have"

"I guess you're right, having something special with each of you makes each of our relationships unique" I say.

"It does" Ahri says then giggles a bit "Who are waiting for anyway, Alphie? I want to be official already"

"She'll be back in a week, let's just say she had that high school type crush on me, and never got the chance to say it" I tell her.

"I'm sure we'll get along with her" She tells me.

"I'm sure you will"  I replied.

There were foot steps coming down the stairs and I look back to see Akali with her helmet.  "Hey Ahri, you wouldn't mind if I stole (Y/n) for evening, would you?" Akali says as she stood by us.

Ahri raised an eye brow "Oh, wanna go on a date with (Y/n)? I thought you didn't see him like that Kali"

Akali sighed at Ahri's assumption "I just wanted to hangout. Just cause you guys are all over him doesn't mean I am"

"Uh huh, is that so" Ahri says like if she could see right through the ninja.

"I don't mind, I'll go get my helmet" I say.

I went upstairs and grabbed my helmet off my dresser. I was in going out type of clothes so as long as I'm not doing anything stupid, a helmet should be all I need, despite what April would probably say. As I'm walking downstairs, Akali and Ahri were talking.

"Everything will be fine Akali, don't worry" Ahri tells her.

"Easy for you to say" Akali replied.

"Ready to go" I say as I got to the bottom of the stairs.

"Don't stay out too late, Sona, is coming over later for dinner" Ahri says "Sorry, forgot to mention it to you earlier (Y/n), was lost in the moment. Oops"

Let's go (Y/n)" Akali says as she walks to the door.

"So, where are we going?" I as as we headed into the elevator.

She smirks "You'll see, it's a spot of mine I like to go to from time to time. You'll love it"

"Let me guess, graffiti, graffiti, and more graffiti" I say.

"Ha,ha, very funny. That's not my only hobby you know" She retorts.

"I wouldn't call cooking one minute cup ramen in a 58 seconds a hobby" I tell her and she frowns.

"Are you seeing anyone else that can do it?" Akali claims.

"That's not my point Akali" I state to her.

"Also it's not graffiti, it's art" Akali tells me and the elevator door opens as we reached the garage.

"As you say" I replied.

"So if it isn't graffiti, what is it?" I ask her.

She smirks "You'll see, if your willing to be a little late to dinner"

"Ahri will kill us after literally just telling us not too" I tell her while we walked to our motorcycles.

"Ahh, no worries we'll be fine" Akali says while waving it off "She'll forgive me because being late is my thing half the time and she'll forgive you because you are her cute whittle Alphie"

"Yeah, Yeah" I say.

We get to the bikes, my grey Ducati Diavel 1260s looked plain compared to her very unique Ducati Panigale V4. She probably spent a fortune on that thing, like I mean, way to much money.

"I've never asked, but how much did you spend on that thing?"  I ask her, she scratches her cheek nervously.

"Uhh, don't be mad, but....it was around like...half a million.."Akali says.

"How the fuck? A standard is 25k!" I questioned.

"What? I went straight to Ducati and had them make a one of one just for me. From start to finish, it took them six months to make" Akali tells me like spending 500k on a motorcycle is perfectly understandable.

I sigh "I don't think there is a single thing that could excuse that"

"You complain about how much I spent on my bike and not about how much Eve spends on clothes. Half her closet still has tags on it!, same for Ahri!"Akali tells me.

"Akali" I state.

"What about Evelynn's cars!" Akali exclaims.

"Akali" I state once more.

"What!"She shouts.

"I was saying you probably over paid for it, by a lot, not that you got it" I state.

It takes her a few seconds of standing there before realizing and feeling stupid "Oh...."

I smiled a bit "You can be cute sometimes"

Her cheeks glow a bit then frowns then takes a white inked sharpie from her top and writes on my gas tank "See, your bike is worth 500k as well now"

I look at my gas tank and on the right side of the tank she signed her name "No, you made it priceless"

Akali, slips her mask over her face, covering her glowing cheeks and put's her helmet on "C'mon, let's go" She says as she gets on her bike.

"Yeah, definitely confused"

{Time Skip}

I followed Akali through the city, Akali's motorcycle catching peoples eyes. We rode up to a small mountain just outside of Piltover. Akali near a place on the side of the mountain that looked over the city. We go onto a side road that opens up to what looks like an abandoned drive in movie theater. In the lot were lines of cars, there was a DJ pimped truck with his turn tables set up in the bed of it, he was sitting in front of what would of been the screen and on the screen was a large graffitied dragon with its mouth wide open. It closely resembled the details of Akali's back tattoo.

"A car meet..I feel like I should of expected this"

We park our bikes and Akali swings her helmet off "See, I got other hobbies"

"Car meet isn't what I expected" I say after taking my helmet off.

"If it's got an engine and it goes fast, I can dig it" Akali replies.

"Eyyy, look who it is, our girl Akali in the house" A somewhat familiar sounding voice says.

"Avery!, what's up" Akali says while placing her helmet down and getting off her bike.

I hear the name Avery and think back to high school, I immediately get my guard up. I get off mg bike and I see a guy who would resemble an aged up Avery walking up to us. He was wearing jeans and a leather jacket with a backwards hat. He didn't notice me yet.

"Been a while?, how'd the tour go?" He questions.

"Eh, as good as I could have" Akali says while shrugging her shoulders "I want you to meet someone, this is (Y/n), he's...uh..my bodyguard"

Avery turns my way and sees me, and remembered me. He then began to scratch the back of his neck "We uh..know each other actually" He says awkwardly.

"You do?" Akali questioned curiously, looking between us then putting it together "Ohh....I see"

"I'm uh, sorry for back in high school (Y/n), I was a real fucking prick...That punch you gave me was a real reality check man" Avery says, apologizing for the past.

"Is that so" I say, letting my guard down.

"Yeah, I know apologizing won't really fix the past" He tells me.

"Let's start over then" I state, holding out my hand.

"Really?" He questions.

"If Akali trusts you, then you really have changed" I say.

"Thanks" He says and shakes my hand then starts to laugh a bit "Wanna know something funny"

"And what would that be?" I ask.

"When my ex back then was saying you raped her, she was actually trying to cover up that she was fucking my friends" Avery says.

"Real shit?" I say.

"Yeah man, I didn't see how toxic they were. After what happened, I found my interest in cars and I've gotten better since then" Avery says.

"That's cool" I say.

"So, you like Ducati as well?" He asks me while looking at my bike.

"Yeah, ain't as custom as Akali's but I like it" I state and Avery chuckles a bit.

"You were never one for showing off" He says.

"Hey!, I signed his gas tank so it's like, a hundred times more unique" Akali says while motioning to the newly applied signature.

"That might made that the most valuable thing in this lot" Avery says.

"Oh, you should show him your car Avery" Akali says to him.

"Got a project car?" I asks.

"Yeah, it's a story" He says then motioned for us to follow "I think you'll like it"

We followed Avery through the rows of cars. People looked Akali and I's way, girls giving me the look Evelynn gave me once upon a time, she still does but it's rare now. Would they look at me like that if they knew I was powerless? Avery then leads us to a black Porsche 930 turbo.

I whistled "Where'd you get this?"

"Four years ago, it was a barn find, was sitting for 30 years, had paint issues, half guttered, project car nightmare but I saw the gem that it was" Avery tells me "I restored it all by myself"

"Must run like its factory new" I say.

"Even better, modified the displacement and now it's 3.4 liters and got a custom exhaust, there's a few other things but it's mostly original" He says "It's my dream car, wouldn't sell it for the world"

"What do you now? For work I mean?" I ask him.

"I work with my dad in his construction business, that also helped me" He tells me.

"My dream car would be a 92 NSX- type R" I tell him.

"Holy shit, a real car connoisseur right here" He says.

Akali was feeling left out in the guy conversation Avery and I were having, a conversation which was actually going well considering our past. Akali then elbows me in the side while looking at me.

"What?" I asked her.

"Did you forget that I was here or something?"Akali questions while looking at me.

"No, just conversating is all" I say.

Akali's eye brows frowned a bit then eased up before looking at Avery "(Y/n)'s got an old Mustang"

"Really? Shoulda brought it up here, we don't got much old muscle up in the area, mostly import tunes and modern muscle" Avery says to me.

"It's kinda in a state of disrepair right now, got to fix it up, got into an accident with it" I tell him.

"Accident would not be the word I'd use" Akali states.

"Well, when you fix it up, you should bring it around" Avery says, not prying into what happened to the car.

"Damn, those fuckers are back" I hear someone shout.

The three of us looked towards the entrance of the drive in and a bunch of large trucks drive in "God damn it" Avery mutters.

"Who are they?" Akali questions.

"What I used to be" Avery states.

Avery starts walking towards the trucks, Akali and I look at each other then we followed Avery in the direction of the trucks. When I say trucks, it's more like fuel guzzling vehicles that resemble trucks, that kind of trucks, one was even doing that god awful squat thing that makes no sense.

"The fucks happening here? A play date?" A hear a familiar voice say, one that pissed me off.

"I remember telling you last time to never come back, this is my property" Avery says.

"Don't see your name on it" the voice says.

Akali and I neared the two guys, I then see owner of the voice that pissed me off, it was that fucking bastard Jackson. With his were all his buddies from riot university. By now the music had stopped and people gathered like this was Turing into a gang war, tuners vs truck guys.

"A simple minded muscle head, of course" Avery says.

"What a reunion" I say while walking to Avery's side.

"It's you, fucking bastard" Jackson says and cracks his neck.

"You know him?" Avery questions.

"You can guess how" I state.

"How's that car of yours?" He asks with a cheeky smile.

"Your face imprint is still on my rim" I state. Jackson growls "Get to stepping before we get a repeat of last time"

"(Y/n), you don't have to" Akali's says, grabbing my hand without realizing.

"It's my job to protect you, in turn, what you care about" I tell her, while looking in my eyes she lets go of my hand and steps away.

"What do we got here? Replaced your old bitch with another?" Jackson says before he and his buddies laugh.

"Watch who you call bitch asshole" Akali says while taking out her kunai.

"This one's got fangs like the last too" He states.

"It's always got to go to old fashioned fists a cuffs, don't it" I say while starting to take my leather jacket off, I then hand it to Akali "Hold these, Eve bought it for me, would rather not get blood on it"

"I'm stronger than last time you ba-" I cut Jackson off with a fist to the face.

I spear him into his trucks brush guard, denting it inwards. I punch him across the face once more. Jackson activates his hardening part, delayed by my hits. He's on the defense, in my onslaught of hits, he manages to hits me once in the chest, making me slide back a bit.

"Did you forget that I have a power and you don't?, powerless trash" Jackson says.

There were murmurs in the crowd, I then laugh a bit "Funny that you say that, I had a reevaluation, and it turns out I do have a power, it's called muscle enhancement. It's basic enough anyone could of thought it powerless, think of it like a cocktail of adrenaline and mana enhancing every fiber of my body"

"That makes so much sense now, that punch he hit me with back then  was like a fucking train" Avery says.

"No matter, I will get pay back prick" Jackson says.

We go at each other, throwing our firsts, Jackson didn't get a single hit in, not a single punch hit me. Compared to the last time, where I pissed, this time it I was in my right mind but the objective was similar, defending a girl. My strength was far superior than Jackson's, it was obvious, when a defensive linemen can't take punishment, can he really call himself one. I wasn't holding back my strength, why should I? It like now as punching a brick wall. Every time I hit Jackson, his hardened skin would crack. Jackson finds a moment where he grabs my shirt then head buts me, a fist to a brick wall is one thing, not a head to a brick wall. He then kicks me away while still holding onto my shirt, ripping it off leaving me shirtless.

"I liked that shirt" I state.

I hit him with a fast and heavy upper cut, while Jackson was dazed,I grab him, lift him up then slammed him down onto the pavement. I get on top of him and keep hitting him, at first he was using his forearms to block his face. I then hit him with an upper cut from the side with my left hand, hitting him in his ribs. There's audible cracks from the sound of his ribs breaking. His guard goes down, leaving me an open between his fore armed. I punch him square in the face, his head whipping back then bouncing off the asphalt, I then hit him again. I get off of him, flexing my fingers on my left hand, one doing the most damage to him.

"What.the.fuck?" Jackson groaned.

"What? Can't stand the thought of getting your ass kicked for the second time?" I ask him while holding my arms out.

"Fucking.bastard"  He mutters.

"Always so cocky, but you all always fall the same" I say then crouched down and grabbed Jackson by his hair. I pick him up "Now, your going take your trucks and goons back where ever you came from, don't ever come back, if you do, I'll be here waiting"

One handed, I throw Jackson face first into the rim of his massive truck. A couple of his friends hoist him in his truck and they all take off. Leaving me shirtless infront of a crowd of car guys and girls.

"Hey DJ! , Get that damn music back on!" I shout.

"On it boss" The DJ says and gets the music back on.

The crowd slowly dispersed, I'm sure someone was taking a video and picture of what I just did "Holy shit man, fucking wicked" Avery says as he approached me with Akali walking next to him "You didn't have to do that though"

"When I said let's start over, I meant it" I say.

"H-Here" Akali says handing me my leather jacket, trying to avoid my gaze.

"Thanks" I say while slipping my jacket on then leaned close to her and whispered "If you didn't pick up on it, I was bullshitting on the power thing"

"People aren't ready to figure out K/DA's bodyguard is powerless"

"Y-Yeah..I knew that" Akali says.

"Thanks for what you did (Y/n), I'm gonna see what everyone else is up to, seems I'd be intruding if I stayed" Avery says then walks away.

"You alright Akali?" I ask her as she tries to avoid my gaze still.

"I..just.." She says then takes my hand "I wanna show you something"

Akali leads me away from the car meet and into the woods a bit, we were going up hill. She leads us to a clearing and in the clearing there was a large fallen tree. We get to where the fallen tree and the view I see is amazing. From this angle, the dragon graffiti looked like it was swallowing Piltover.

"I call it City Eater" Akali tells me.

"Why's that?" I question as she sits on the log.

Akali takes her mask off before answering "It represents how the city will swallow you up and change your life forever"

I sit next to her "Is that how you felt when you came here"

"Yeah, it's way different than my life in the Kinkou Order was, I was free, and my dream to be a famous rapper came true" Akali tells me while looking at the graffiti then looks at me "And I would of never met you"

Akali paused before speaking again "I've never been in love before (Y/n), I wouldn't know the feeling. At first I only saw you as a friend, a good friend, yet a part of me was yearning for more. I didn't know what it was so I brushed it off. I see how you are with the others, and the more I see it the more I want that same thing...I just don't know how to go about it"

"It tends to be that way some times" I say to her.

Akali puts a hand on mine, a flustered look on her face "Would you..maybe..show me what it's like to be in love?"

Akali seeming more girl like is weird, she's always in a more tomboy type of area but I won't dismiss a girly Akali either. I put my other hand on hers "Yeah, I can do that"

Our faces inched towards each other before our lips connected, it was only for a few seconds then we pulled away. Akali's cheeks glowing in the moon light "So that's a kiss..."

"The basic one" I say.

"There's others!" Akali says in surprise.

"You act like you've never seen someone kissing" I state.

"I don't watch romance stuff" Akali tells me.. she then sinks in her self a bit "Hey..do you think I'm immature?"

"A bit, but you are you, I wouldn't change you one bit. I'd keep the ramen goblin, speed demon, game freak, and rap god that you are" I tell Akali and now Akali was more than a blushing mess.

She speeding reflex she pecks a kiss on my lips then puts her mask on, hiding her massive blush "Thanks...I needed that..we should probably head back now..."

As I looked at the girly acting, blushing mess which was Akali, I smile to myself "I'd never thought I'd see Akali act cute...never change Akali, you don't need to"