Antagonizing but Sweet

"They what?" I ask, my head shooting up. Skull stayed quiet for a moment then nodded.

"The X-Blood want to challenge us..." Skull replies. "They think we don't deserve our titles. Since I've been down in the S+ rank for so long, apparently. Either they lose and we win or we lose and they win. I think we all know where this is going."

"I don't think we should go," I blurt.

"What? I wasn't expecting you to say that." Mask retorts, scoffing. I glare at him and he shrugs, rolling his eyes. Army sighs.

"I agree with Aloha, this could start an actual fight. We should tell them we are busy. We'll find a way to avoid them all day, that shouldn't be too hard, yeah?" Army says, looking to me then to Mask and Skull.

"But- won't Vintage know that we skipped out on him? I mean, he might be a little aggressive about it. Or, I don't know, say things that inklings may believe..." Skull points out. I sigh.

"He's going to harass us about it?" I ask Skull. "Harass us? That's it?" I raise an eyebrow. "I'm completely used to it. He can harass me as much as he wishes, if it makes him feel better about himself. I'm not going. That's that," I tell Skull, shaking my head. "I won't do it."

Skull nods, staring at the table. "Okay, then, I'll just tell him-"

"Hey, would you look who it is!" A familiar voice says. I quickly stand up, Army does too, followed by Mask and Skull. I turned to face Vintage, who scoffed at me.

"Still being silly about it? Just fight me. Don't chicken out." Vintage says, rolling his eyes. "It's not that big of a deal."

"You'll make it a big deal," I remark, trying to keep a glare off my face. I smiled a fake smile at him and turned to Army. "Should we leave?" I ask him. He nods.

"Leaving? Do you plan to ignore our challenge too? Like it was nothing? Come on, don't you have any pride as a member of the S4 or whatever? You have to have pride like us X-Blood!" Vintage yells after me. I keep that stupid smile plastered across my face, ignoring him.

"The hell's up with him?" Double Egg asks. "What a coward." He remarks. I stop dead in my tracks and Army looks over to me.

"Don't, Aloha." He tells me. I twitch slightly, anger coursing through my veins and the smile disappears in a single moment.

(P.S. Trying to write a serious scene when "Baby Shark" is playing in the background lmaoooo)

"We aren't going to fight you, we don't have time to fool around with you and have a hissy fight over a couple of titles. Just back off. I told you no," I say, keeping the anger from my voice. "I'm leaving." I say, walking off and Army followed quickly. I heard Vintage mutter something but I ignored him.

Army stayed quiet as we walked back to my place. "Sorry," I say, breaking the silence. He looks to me, confusion across his face.

"Sorry? For what?" He asks.

"I probably just started a fight," I admit, sighing.

"No...no, I don't think so. Besides, they're just desperate to get on Skull's nerves. They really don't like any of us...you shouldn't apologize." He says, looking back to the sidewalk.

"Aloha!!" A voice yells from the other side of the road. I look up, stopping. Army stopped to see who was yelling, too. Diver looked both ways before darting across the road. "ALOHA! Did you see it?" He asks, frantic. I look to Army who shrugs. I turn to Diver and shake my head. "WHAT!?" He practically screams. I quiet him down quickly, as we were getting a few stares.

"Okay, okay! Just-!" He shoves his phone in my hands. "Look at it!" He demands. I looked down at the screen. Red Sole posted...what about it? I clicked on it.

She posted a picture of our team, by the table, and tagged it as, 'Aloha's looking for a fight! Haha! How funny!' Thousands of inklings and octolings had seen it.

"Are you kidding me?" I ask, my voice faint and quiet. "Of course..." I mutter, rolling my eyes. I hand Diver his phone back.

"I figured that wasn't what actually happened so I went to find you...what're you going to do about it? The girl's are already getting harassed about it! Everysquid wants to know what happened!" Diver explains. As if on cue, a group of squids started pointed to their phones then over to us. Army shot me a worried look.

"We'd better get out of here, quickly," I say, grabbing Army's wrist and speed-walking down the sidewalk. Diver followed after us. "Where are the girls?" I ask him. Diver looks to his phone.

"Downtown." He answers. "They said they just escaped a group wanting to know what happened. Though, I dunno why they're asking any of us when I am the only one who has talked to you all day pretty much." Diver says, pointing across from us. Octo and Straw locked eyes with us and darted over here.

"Hah...I don't like this!" Octo says, shaking her head. "Squids are so...dedicated to knowing what happened. Does it really matter? I mean, come on! We don't even know what's going on? You have better got a good explanation, Loa!" Octo yelps. "Let's hurry to your place, they won't be allowed inside there."

Army POV

We rushed over to Aloha's house and when we were safely inside, away from the crazies wanting to know everything about us, Aloha locked the door behind him, sighing.

"This is going to be difficult to explain..." He mutters. I looked at him then opened my mouth to say something but he cut me off. "-No, I'll do it." He says, smiling at me. How did he...? Nevermind. He's my boyfriend, of course, he's going to know. I smile at him.

"So, what actually happened is that the X-Blood wanted to challenge us to a turf war but I didn't think we should go...none of us really thought we should go to it. So, we planned on declining the offer with an excuse and avoiding them all day, shouldn't be too hard, yeah? Well, I suppose Vinatage, Omega, Double Egg, and Red Sole were looking for us. They found us at the park, we were talking amongst ourselves when they approached and started antagonizing us about just doing the turf war and stop being such chickens. I told them I wasn't going and that he couldn't make me. I don't know how that's, 'looking for a fight' in any way. But, whatever. I don't really care, what are they going to do? Keep posting about it? I don't mind." Aloha explains to his teammates. Diver pauses then says...

"But, if they keep posting about it, won't people start believing them?" Diver asks.

"Not really. Aloha's not a fighting type. He's...far from it." Straw points out. Aloha raises an eyebrow at her. She notices and starts giggling. "It's true though, Loa!!" She yelps, hiding behind Octoglasses as Aloha tried to attack her, playfully.

"Alright, alright!" Diver says, breaking the two of them up. Straw was still laughing and Aloha just beamed at her. "So, how do we fix this issue of ours?" Diver asks. Everyone was silent for a moment, then a knock came at the door.

"Hmm?" Aloha turns to the door. "I don't recall..."

"Inviting anyone over? I didn't think you did," I finish. He looks to me and smiles slightly before getting up and opening the door, just slightly. He slammed it shut quickly.

"Nope~!" He says, turning away from the door as another knock came. I give him a purely confused look. "I'm not getting the door. I'm not here and I'm not dealing with them." He says, shaking his head.

"We don't solve it. We let it play out. I won't say anything to them." Aloha tells the others.

"But, how are we supposed to avoid everysquid for now?" Octo asks.

"Um...that's going to be the tricky part. I don't wanna get into a fight but at the same time I don't wanna have you guys being harassed about it, either." Aloha tells her, thinking for a moment.

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.

I turn to the door. "Are you sure you don't want to answer that? It sounds urgent..." I say.

"It's not." Aloha replies. "They can GO AWAY!" He shouts the last part. KNOCK, KNOCK. I look at him, confused once more.

"Why is it not important? Whose at the door, Aloha?" I ask him. "Tell me,"

"Uhm, nobody is at the door because they are leaving," Aloha explains. KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!

"Aloha, I'm going to answer the door," I tell him. He sighs, knowing he won't win this battle.

"But, Army..." He whines. "I don't wanna deal with her...she'll make up rumors." He complained. I get up, glaring at him.

"How do you know? You left her outside," I told him, walking over to the door.

"Is anything going to change your mind?" He calls after me.

"No, not a chance, Aloha. You stay put," I tell him.

"Ugh...I'm going to get something..." Aloha rushed upstairs as I opened the door.

"Oh...why're you here?" I ask, politely. Now I see why he slammed the door in her face...I would've done the same thing. What did she want?

"I'm here to ask you again. Are you coming or nah?" She looks up from her phone, quickly, her pigtails bouncing slightly as she looked up.

"Uhm, to the turf war?" I ask her, keeping my voice still and polite. I turned around to see if I could spot Aloha, he was upstairs, peeking out from his door. I glared at him and he stuck his tongue out at me. I scoff and turn back to Red Sole. "No, we aren't."

"Okay, whatever." Red Sole turned on her heel and walked off. I watched her go. "Cya." She called, leaving my sights. I sigh and shut the door. I turned around and Aloha stood behind me.

"You little sh-" He cuts me off.

"DON'T!" He holds his hands up in defense. "I told you not to!" He says. "You did it anyway!" He crosses his arms, pouting. I sigh.

"You did, but, it's rude not to answer the door. Even if you don't like the person," I tell him, grabbing his wrists and uncrossing his arms. He smiles at me a little. I lead him over to the others, his team.

"So, Red Sole posted again." Straw says, showing her phone to us.

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Red Sole_X-Blood ✅ 5 minutes ago... posted!

Just got a door slammed in my face by @S4_Aloha ✅ , today. Really great day. Nice. I don't really care if he slams a door in my face. If it "makes him feel better". <3

:Comments:

X_Vintage_X ✅: Why did he slam a door in your face? What did you do?

X_Omega_X ✅: Maybe he didn't intentionally "slam" the door.

X-Double Egg-X ✅: ...hmm.

Straw_Hat(Pink!)✅: WTF, that's not what happened! He shut the door and Army answered it. Geez. Consider yourself lucky we even answered at all after those rude comments at the park. Quit trying to start a fight, X-Blood. We don't want a fight. @S4_Aloha✅ did nothing to you.

RedSole_X-Blood ✅: @ Straw_Hat(Pink!)✅, He slammed a door in my face. Literally. I knocked, he opened the door then saw me and slammed the door shut.

Straw_Hat(Pink!)✅: @RedSole_X-Blood he did not!

Diver~(Pink)✅: Both of you quit arguing, there's no point to it. Everysquid sees things differently than another one. Calm down. It's not a big deal...serious Straw it's bogus to argue. Why not make a lev up instead, ya? Just chill it down, k?

RedSole_X-Blood✅: Wtf did you just say? Does anyone know?

X_Vintage_X✅: No. I do not speak "party animal". Stop arguing, Red Sole, we have a meeting soon. Hurry up or you'll be late.

Straw_Hat(Pink!)✅: We're gonna make a lev up!? I'm so chillin it down now! Promi! <3 Time to lev up!!

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I looked up from the phone to Aloha. "What does that mean?" I ask him. He looks at me then back to the phone.

"Oh." He says. "He basically said, No point in arguing, it's a waste of time, why not plan a party instead to calm down." Aloha says, like it was common sense to him. It probably was like a second language to him. I sigh. He continues, "She replied with, we're planning a party? I'm so calm right now, promise. Time to party." He finishes. I stared at the phone, perplexed on how he got that out of those weird phrases and words...

"Don't try to understand it, you won't get it." He warns me. I look away, nodding. Straw puts her phone away, sighing.

"So, what about that party? It certainly would calm everyone down. A nice way to relax, don't you think? We could host a huge party and it would be fun! We could have lot's of fun!" Straw exclaims. "Besides, Loa~" She cuts herself off, biting her lip in excitement, a grin across her face as she looked at Aloha. He stared at her for a moment then jumped slightly and quickly hid his face.

"D-Don't even!" He snaps at her, glaring at the floor. I smile slightly, watching him.

"What's wrong?" I ask him. He looks up, his face tinted with a light blush.

"N-Nothing, nothing at all. She's just teasing." He glares at her. She burst out laughing. "It's nothing really. Let's get to work, planning a party takes time, yea?" He says, changing the topic quickly. He rushes upstairs to grab something.

"What were you talking about?" I ask Straw. She giggles.

"Do you really wanna know?" She asks. I hesitantly nod.

"DO NOT DARE TELL HIM!" Aloha practically screams from upstairs. I laugh slightly. "DO NOT TELL HIM OR I SWEAR TO COD! I WILL KILL YOU!" He screams at her, I heard something upstairs slam. "OW!" He snaps. I quickly went upstairs, "ow" was never good with Aloha. He kicked his beside table and turned to see me. He froze.

"What did it do?" I ask him, crossing my arms.

"I- It didn't-" He stops. "That was rhetorical." He answers. I nod.

"Yeah, it was. Because, I'm real sure that the side table jumped out a hit you, right?" I ask him, sighing as a smile crept onto my face. He noticed and glared playfully at me.

He grabbed my hand. I looked up from the ground to him, a smile on my lips. Then, he closed the space between us in a kiss. It was pure bliss. I melted into the kiss, savoring every moment between us...