THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS

Shino grabbed some supplies from a store, loading his bag as well as grabbing a tent pack.

"Commander Shino".

He turns at the sound of his name.

"Engr. Kazuya"

"I thought i might find you here" she said in amusement and then her eyes lands on his supplies.

"I see... training has began" she said.

"Yeah I guess... but I'm still curious as to why, we already had enough training back at the base, improving on all forms of techniques but..." he trailed off.

Kazuya caught his change of mood.

"At the sight of an Alpha we freeze" he murmurs but she heard him.

He face her with a smile against his lips but Kazuya knew it was a camouflage.

"But with more training certain weakness can be eliminated, we need to get stronger, I understand General Anzai perfectly well".

"You have a good heart Commander Shino" she began.

"You have sacrificed so much and yet you keep smiling and leading your comrades... General Anzai was right to choose you as the Commander" she states pulling up a slender portable bag Shino didn't know she had until now.

"What's that?" He asked taking it with his one good arm.

"Took a month to make it... I did say I would make some modifications to your robot arm but it turned out destroyed" she shrugged.

"You made a new one?" He said stunned.

She nods.

"Well what are you waiting for take a look at it" she said in amusement.

Shino quickly did as he was told he zips the bag open, he froze when he saw what's inside.

"It's a prosthetic arm?" He said stunned staring at the arm inside that looks almost like that of a human ,so real, you couldn't even tell it was made.

"Glorious isn't it" Kazuya said walking up to him sitting him down as she grabs the arm.

Shino's shaky eyss fixed on it.

"It's not just a prosthetic arm but I also made it a blood weapon" she states.

Shino froze at her words.

"With that... your blood can flow through it, it doesn't need any mechanism to function just your blood, making it the perfect arm for you" she said fixing it on his amputated arm, she spin the top and then it clicked, a perfect fit.

"Now concentrate your blood to the arm".

Shino nods as he took a deep breath closing his eyes.

Kazuya walk as his crimson blood flowed to the arm and then disappeared within, the arm twitch.

At the feel of it, Shino flash his eyes open.

"Now move it"

He did, the lightness the easiness as it almost like...

"It's like my real hand" Shino said amazed.

"Of course, I'm a genius aren't I" Kazuya going up on her feet.

"Thank you Engr. Kazuya, this really means a lot" Shino said almost teary.

"Well the truth is who you should really thank are Hiro and Ten" she said facing him.

Shino froze at her words looking up to her.

"The genius and the headstrong boy made this come through" she said with a sigh.

*

Weeks Ago

Warehouse (Kazuya Workspace)

"Ehn... an arm like a blood weapon?" Kazuya said facing Ten and Hiro.

"Ten is right Engr. Kazuya, modifying the arm as a blood weapon will make it twice as stronger than the last robot arm, we should consider that" Hiro said.

"A prosthetic arm is just like our weapons but it's efficient because of our blood, so making the arm compatible to the use of blood flow will make it the perfect arm for Commander Shino" Ten explained.

Kazuya rubbed her chin.

"How come i never thought of that" she said in deep thought, it was her plan to make a arm for Shino but she never thought of making it a blood weapon.

"We ask this of you Engr. Kazuya" Ten said bowing  his head in request.

"Hey is this really necessary?" Hiro said with twitching eyebrow.

"Dummy! We're asking a lot of her, it could take weeks to create something like that... so just bow your head!" Ten hissed quietly at Hiro forcing his head down much to his disagreement.

Kazuya smiled at their antics.

"Fine then" she states rising to her feet, folding her arms underneath her large bosom.

"I will put in your suggestions, but I'm not doing it alone... after hours meet me here and we will work on it together" she states.

*

Shino was stunned after hearing everything from Kazuya, no wonder for the past month Ten and Shino always came back late to the Lodge, they were both working on this arm for him.

"Ah great... I went ahead and spill the beans, they told me not too, my bad" Kazuya said pouting but she was smiling on the inside that she told him even when they pleaded to her not to, because they didn't want Shino to be indebted to them.

*

"Promise Engr. Kazuya, promise you won't tell Commander Shino" Ten pleaded.

"I own him a lot for saving my life" Hiro said as his head flashed to the day they fought the first Alpha.

"Doing this isn't enough to repay but it should count in for something... we don't want him to know so that he won't feel he own us anything when it's the other way around" Hiro said scratching the back of his head.

Ten nods in agreement.

"Yes yes I promise I won't tell" Kazuya said smirking.

*

'Ugh too bad I can't keep the promise especially when they did something as angelic as that for Shino' she thought with shinning eyes placing a palm on he cheeks.

"Sorry Commander Shino, I went ahead and spill the beans, it was just so heart wrenching that I couldn't keep it in" she said dramatically before turning to him.

She froze when she saw Shino in tears, streaming down his cheeks hotly.

"Thank you for telling me Engr Kazuya..." he said looking up to in tears but a smile was evident on his lips showing how happy he was right now, his chest warm with joy.

"... for letting me know I have such amazing friends  in my life".

Kazuya smiled warmly at his words.

She nods. 'You do Shino.... you do'