Monica's POV

I waited quietly in my bedroom. it was really boring....but that may have been because akuma had gotten me dressed early and I can't get my dress messy, resulting me in sitting down and doing NOTHING.

All was quiet, until my bedroom door opened to reveal akuma. His eyes were half-lidded, his smile was weak and he looked as if he had run a mile.

"Akuma..are you alright?" I asked, concerned about him.

He nodded, "y-yes..I-I'm fine.." he had a hurt expression clearly shown on his face.

"You don't look fine..What is bothering you? I asked, still worried.

"I told you, I'm fine. Don't worry about me, all you need to worry about is keeping that dress clean for kira's party." He smiled weakly, walking towards me and stroking my face again.

I pouted. Akuma doesn't want to tell me what's wrong with him..does he not trust me??

Akuma noticed my expression, "why do you look so sad, ma'am??" He frowned.

"Because you're not telling me why you are upset.." I answer, avoiding his gaze.

He shook his head, patting my head and leaving the room, NOT turning his back towards me. "I'm gonna go and change into a new suit" he said.

"But why? What is wrong with the suit you have on?" I questioned, quite confused as to why he needed to change his clothes, when there is nothing wrong with it....I didn't get an answer from him..

I furrowed a brow towards him until he was out of my peripheral vision. I just sighed and shrugged.

~Time skip~

We were leaving for kira's party and I was still curious as to why Akuma acted like that before. We boarded the aircraft and sat down, waiting to arrive at kira's party.

While we waited, father was on his scroll informing kira's parents that we were on our way to their party, Ben was playing a game on his scroll seemingly bored, Akuma was staring it of the window- lost in thought and I was being very perceptive of my 'lovely' family..

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When we arrived to kira's party, there were a lot of people there..obviously- but I was kinda surprised to see Weiss here as well. I mean, I thought Weiss and kira hated each other- considering what had happened in chapter 22 and all.

I think it was chapter 22..I'm not quite sure.

My father went off to go and talk with kira's parents, leaving me with Ben and Akuma. I seriously didn't want to stay with them so I went to Weiss..

I talked to her for a while, bringing up my Curiosity as to why she was invited to the party- not trying to be rude or anything. Weiss told me that after the little altercation between her and kira, she got onto good terms with him ever since she started to understand Faunus more.

I then noticed that dusk wasn't with her, so I asked where dusk was and she pointed to the food table where dusk was there, eating all the meat that was dished out.

"So..where's that wolf you're with 24/7?" Weiss asked, noticing kurisutaru was not anywhere near me.

I frowned, avoiding her gaze. "He went somewhere, but he'll be back." I lied.

A simple "oh" escaped Weiss's lips.
shaking the subject off, I scanned the area, trying to pin point where kira might be- but failing. So, I asked Weiss. "Hey, do you know where kira might be?"

She slowly nodded her head, "yeah, just before you arrived, he said that he was going to go and train in the training room." She pointed to where the training room was. I nodded and thanked her, beginning to walk towards the sparring room.

I knocked on the door which was closed, and heard shuffling on the other side of the door. "Who is it?" The voice questioned in a stern voice.

"Umm..it's me- Monica. May I come in?" I answered.

There was a moment of silence before I heard a "come in" from the other side of the door. I hesitantly entered the room to see kira in a black suit, holding a sparring sword while sparring with dummies.

"I'm surprised you could make it to the party." Kira smirked slightly.

I smiled, fully entering the room and closing the door shut behind me. "yeah, why would I miss it"

He shrugged, continuing to cut and destroy the remaining dummies in the room. I sighed and sat on a chair in the corner of the room, silently observing him as there was a knock at the door.

Kira stopped and turned his attention towards the door. "Who is it?"

"Urm....it's me, dusk! May I enter?" Dusk asked.

Kira fell silent for a moment, before answering. "Yes!"

..The door opened to reveal dusk, grinning slightly, as she entered the room and closed the door behind her. "Yo!" She made a peace sign towards me and Kira, while me and Kira smiled towards her. She walked over to where I was and sat next to me..

"So, do any of you want to spar with me?" Kira asked, smirking as he faced dusk and I.

Dusk almost immediately shook her head, "seeing what you had done to Weiss before, I don't think that I would want to fight you." She shuddered, looking away.

Kira turned his attention towards me, "what about you?"

I smiled nervously, "I really don't want to get my dress filthy and unwearable.." I chuckled nervously, looking away.

"That's not a proper excuse!!" Dusk yelled in my ear, smacking me on the back of my head.

"So you're sparring?" He asked, chuckling.

I shrugged, I wanted to spar with him but at the same time I didn't want to. Kira began to tap his feet on the ground impatiently, "I'm waiting."

I sighed, "why can't you just spar with Sepai or your other teammates?" I questioned.

"Because I've already started with them." Kira said in a bored tone.

"Why can't you spar with dusk!!" I whined.

"Me!? Uh- no way!" She retorted.

After a moment silence, I sighed, getting up from my seat and grabbing one of the sparring swords. "Fine....I'll spar with you." I sighed.

Kira smirked, tilting his head slightly to the side. "So you finally decide to verse me, eh?"

I nodded, pointing my temperary sword towards him, as he did the same to me....