022. Insult her, but wisely walk away.

"Fuck off!" I told Natsumi, and I think that really surprised her because she went totally speechless as I turned and walked away from her back upstairs.

I was just leaving the house to join everyone else on the lawn when I heard Natsumi boom, "Not so fast Matsumoto!" I turned to face the large, now very angry woman. "You better tell me what you know."

"I know what a nagging, stupid cunt you are!" I yelled at her. Her hand moved lightning quick as she slapped me hard across the face.

"How dare you..." she began, but I wasn't going to take any shit from her anymore. I moved to smack her back, but when my open hand connected with her face she was somehow tossed into the air like one of my sister's old rag dolls. Her already **** body crumpled into a pile of limbs easily ten feet from where she had been standing, and suddenly I knew something was wrong with me.

I hadn't even tried hard, and yet I didn't feel any different, but I could still tell that I was. I looked around, worried about how this looked to everyone else, and they were all just standing back staring at me with faces of shock and fear.

Then I turned and ran. I wasn't sure where I was going, but I had to escape. In those wee hours of the morning, about two hours before sunrise, the street was completely empty and silent. Then I saw a tiny flicker of light through a tiny gap in heavily drawn shades.

That was Hazuka's house I realized. I didn't know anyone else who I could talk to as I quickly rapped on her door. She was still dressed, maybe from staying up, or maybe from getting up early, I couldn't tell. "Can I sleep here?" I asked before she could speak as she cracked open her door. She was a bit flustered, thinking maybe that I was hitting on her at first, but I explained, "Something happened and… I can't go home tonight."

Then her expression changed and she stood to the side to let me in. "Of course Kenji. What happened? Did you have a fight with Kouki?"

"No. Natsumi,"</font> I said. I still wasn't really sure how, but told her everything I could remember about the fire and me leveling the warrior woman.

"I'd have loved to see that!" she laughed, but saw I wasn't in a laughing mood. "I was just about to go out for a jog. Go get some sleep in my bed."

I wasn't sure if I should, but she just smiled and walked out her front door, leaving me alone. It was still dark out, but for the light of the bright moon and I was still tired so I entered her bedroom and relaxed on her sleeping mat without actually getting under the covers. After all that had happened, I didn't think I could sleep again, but I was wrong.

I actually found myself dreaming again fairly quickly and it was just as vivid as my last dream. I was light on my feet and nimbly dashed through town as the sky lightened. Thanks to a few cracks in the wall I pushed my tiny fingers into them and climbed up a back wall to look down on the Honda dojo.

Natsumi was awake, limping and sore as she returned to her room. I felt a smile on my lips, but then I was off like a flash. With Natsumi safely in bed, no one was patrolling the streets.

I gracefully hopped from rooftop to rooftop until I had to drop down and creep the rest of the way on the ground. I came to a massive hedge and pushed through a small gap I'd made and came into the Takahashi grounds. I know I'd have to work fast with the sun coming up soon.

I poked an eye through the knothole in the bath, but it was empty. Then I ducked low and crawled up to the house and peeked in the master bedroom window. I saw Azami walking around half-naked, only wearing some lacy bra and panties and I felt funny, but stayed out of sight and moved on. I crouched back down and circled around to then peek in the next window. Even better, this time I saw Setsuko still lying on her bed, but not under any blankets, and completely naked. Not only that, but it looked like she was touching herself!

I didn't have a very good angle, but then I heard her whisper "Oh Kenji," and my chest tingled and my groin felt like I was peeing myself. I reached down to fondle my cock and realized it was gone! I felt very strange and knew then that this dream was turning into a nightmare.

I quickly snuck back over to the small koi pond and leaned over to look down into the water at my reflection and instead saw Hazuka looking back up at me. That shock startled me enough that I shook myself awake. I was still in bed in Hazuka's house with my cock painfully throbbing in my pants.

That was such a weird dream, yet seemed so real. "Hazuka?" I asked nervously and looked around. She wasn't here and I was completely alone in her home still. I stood up and tried to calm myself down as looked out a window to see the sun was now cresting the horizon.

I figured I should go back home to not have Kouki worry about me. Once I had calmed down enough that I wasn't poking out of my pants I walked out and wasn't halfway home when I saw Hazuka come into view, soaking wet and trudging home in a tight black suit. "Hazuka, what happened?" I ran up and asked her with concern.

"Nothing," she happily smiled and just hurried past me and trying to avoid eye contact. I didn't know what to make of that, but if it wasn't crazy I'd have sworn she was coming from the Takahashi manor. I then tried to follow her wet trail before it dried and it did in fact lead back to their koi pond. Was that real? Had I been controlling her body as I slept?

"Where is she?" Azami yelled at me as she spotted me walking in her backyard, a robe wrapped around her.

"Who?" I asked playing dumb.

"I know that little thief was here!" she growled. "Trying to loot my jewelry after she heard about the fire."