Scrub till it Shines! [Job w/ Kalec]

Kalec had found him a nice quite relaxing place to lay down and take nap. He had been up for several hours already, before hardly anyone else in the guild was up. He either got up early or was just coming in from the night before, knowing him it was latter. While sleeping comfortably, he drifted further and further into his dreams. Whilst he dreamed peacefully in a nice cushioned chair in the guild hall, he was snoring as loud as a bear.

His snores rang through out the hall of the guild. Anyone who walked past would stop and be a bit freaked out as to where the hell the bear was, and why was there bear in the guild hall. Only to discover the sleeping bluenette. While the members of the guild worked to clean the guild hall. One member began to grow irritated at the fact Kalec was sleeping, while they did all the work. The dark haired guild member went and grabbed a bucket of cold water, a sponge and other cleaning supplies and came back. He slammed the metal bucket on the wooden table trying to startle the sleeping Kalec, but to no avail did he wake up instead, he simply rolled over putting his face into the back cushion of the chair. However before doing so Kalec while still asleep wiped his mouth and gave a slight chuckle before spouting out "baka" then back to snoring he went.

The dark haired man's face grew angrier as his faced scrunched up forming wrinkles along his brow line. He picked up the dry sponge and dunked it into the bucket a few times and with out hesitation hurled it at Kalec lodging it in his gaping maw while he snored. Kalec choked on the water that began to trickle down his throat from the nasty sponge. He quickly woke up spitting the sponge out back across the table sliding back to the bucket. "What the hell man, you trying to kill me?!" he shouted in anger. Kalec was pissed at the fact his fellow guild member tried an assassination attempt on him, and with a sponge at that. dark haired guy shook his head at Kalec's stupidity. "No, actually I'm trying to clean these tables off, so we can be done with our cleaning and go get some food. Everyone else is cleaning so you need to pitch in and go do your share of the work too." he said in a calm tone as he grabbed the sponge and laid it in the bucket of water.

Kalec stood up wiping his mouth, still coughing a little here and there. He slowly walked around the table glaring at the man. He placed his hand on the sponge picking up a few inches off the waters surface. "Next time try waking me up like a normal person, instead of trying to drown me with a friggin sponge."He said with a voice still ringing with anger as he shook the wet sponge at the man purposely throwing water at him and making a bigger mess for him to clean up.

"Right, and next time maybe you'll be able to make it to your own room and sleep there."  he shot back at Kalec. Kalec smiled at him and patted him on the shoulder "Aw don't be so jealous that you didn't get invited to go party." He snarked back at him flashy him a toothy grin. "So where am I cleaning up at?"he asked in a calmly manner. once again the guy just shook his head and released a long drawn out sigh. "Your job is to help clean the hot springs out." No sooner did he finish talking Kalec spoke up. "Are you kidding me right meow, that's going to take all day. I'm not going to get any breakfast, or lunch for that matter." he complained throwing the sponge in the bucket causing water to burst out and splash both himself and his guild mate.

While wiping the water droplets from his face he spoke clearly"If you would let me finish, then you would have known that you're not working alone shit head. You're working with Poko, and unlike some people around here she's already gotten a head start on her task. I actually feel sorry for the poor girl getting stuck with a slacker like you." he said just laying it all out there on how he felt about Kalec's behavior so far since his arrival at the guild.

Kalec's face slowly dropped as he darted his eyes away from him. "Yeah, well I didn't ask for your damn opinion." He spoke softly still trying to hide the fact that his words cut into him deep. Kalec wasn't one for letting people know how he felt, he always tried to hide it but that time he couldn't catch himself and he let a bit of them escape from him. Kalec grabbed the bucket of water, or what was left in the bucket at this point. He started to walk away from him and before he got to far away he turned and with a sorrowful expression on his face he said his thanks and made his way to the hot springs.

Kalec still looked a bit down in the dumps after hearing just a little bit of how his guild mate felt about him, sure maybe he was just upset that Kalec wasn't cleaning or that he stayed out all night living it up in the local bars before trekking back to the guild hall. He had no time to worry about if that was really the way he felt. Kalec had a job to do, and after getting yelled out like that it only served as a means to motivate him. He wanted to finish his chores faster than that guy, just to prove him wrong about the ideas he had of Kalec.

Walking down the hall with bucket in hand. He noticed a blonde girl just standing outside of one of the other hot springs door. He tilted his head in the opposite direction of hers trying to figure out what she was doing. He turned while still moving to look behind him to see if maybe someone else was walking behind him, yet no one was there. He turned back around just in time to be a few feet away from her. While taking another look at her, eyeing her up and down. He noticed that her cleaning supplies looked used, like she just got done cleaning. He also noticed that the color of her eyes were orange. He had never seen someone with orange colored eyes before, he found this to be pretty awesome.

"I know I'm pretty handsome but if you keep staring at me like that, you're going to burn a hole through me." he said jokingly as he smiled at her. "You wouldn't happen to be..now what did he say her name was...was it Yoko?yeah that was it. You're Yoko right?" He asked her with a bit of excitement to his voice. He knew what her name was, he just couldn't match the name to the face. Plus he needed to try and get his mind off of the earlier situation and he found that the best way to do that was by kidding around. He still knew what his job was but there was no harm in having a little fun while doing it.

Kalec gave a slight chuckle as Poko turned her head away from him. He thought it was cute that he caught her off guard like that. When she turned back around to face him, he noticed that her eyes had changed colors. Kalec wasn't expecting it at all, in fact he was caught off guard by it and simply just raised a brow and blinked at her trying to figure out what the hell just happened, was he seeing things right.

"Easy there, I know your name. I was just playing around. another guild mate told me your name, after he rudely woke me up." He explained as he tossed up his thumb pointing behind him toward where he had just came from. "My name is Kalec, that's correct and it's nice to meet you Poko."He said in a smooth friendly tone of voice as he was trying to smooth things over. He didn't want to start building up his reputation for pissing guild mates off, that's not who he was.

He wasn't sure if he was going to be able to smooth things back out with his newly acquainted guild member, so ignoring her demands for him to go clean the mens hot spring. He had an even better idea on how to take care of both his desire to prove that bastard wrong and to help out Poko. "All though that is a good idea Poko. I don't think it's what i'm going to be doing, so come on follow me." he said as he opened up the door that was directly in front of them and took the cleaning supplies out of hand and walked through the door.

"I know you cleaned the first one all by yourself, and I'm really sorry for not being here at the same time as you were. So to make it up to you, I got these next two all by myself." He told her as he walked toward the middle of the room and turned around and faced her sitting all the supplies down in the middle of the floor. "So why don't you take a break for a bit and just come sit in the chair in here and keep me company while I clean. I promise I'm really a nice guy." he said as he unzipped his black and blue long sleeved jacket and placed it on the back of the chair that was pushed into a wooden desk that was kept in the room so some guest could come and relax. While relaxing some would even write out letters or cure their writers block while visiting these hot springs.

Kalec stood there in his dark blue tank top and black track pants and his all blue high top sneakers. "I'm fairly new to this guild, so it would be nice to pick your brain and hear some cool stories." he said as he grabbed one of the sponges dipping it into the water. He looked back at her and smiled "Sorry but that's how it's going to work." he told her as he moved the supplies to the outside of the room next to the hot spring so she couldn't just walk in and grab and walk away.

He crouched down on the floor and began running back and forth in straight lines. When he came to a halt, he would get on his hands and knees and scrub it until it was completely gone. Kalec did this several times until he made his way to the hot spring. He stopped and emptied the water out of the buckets and filled them back up with clean water. He took off his shoes and socks, rolling his pant legs up till they were above his knees. He looked into the hot water and noticed that there were several spots. He slowly made his way in trying not to get his clothes wet.

"Ah man who ever used this last was nasty as hell" he shouted out to her.

Kalec listened to her as she spoke, he stood upright looking at her as she began to apologize. "You don't need to apologize Poko, It's really only my fault, I was late and you cleaned a whole room by yourself with out my help. So I'm the one who needs to apologize to you. you have every right to be upset with me."He said with sincerity ringing out through his spoken words. He filled up the nearby wooden bucket and splashed water along the walk way, to wash away some of the mystery filth that had built up.

Returning the bucket back to it's spot, he picked up the broom sized scrub brush and began scrubbing the inside of the hot spring. He held back and moved at a more cautious pace as to not splash water all over the place. While still scrubbing the spring, he wasn't paying attention the blonde. Kalec still thought that she was sitting taking a break, it was when he went to push the scrub brush again that he noticed there was now a pair of legs wading in the water with him. He slowly brought his gaze up to meet the girls. Her eyes were now a bright blue color. Kalec started to feel his body temperature rise, it was either due to the hot spring or the fact that he was the one who was blushing now.

He couldn't help but stare off into her eyes as if he was diving deeper into a bottomless pool. "Y..Yeah I wouldn't mind the help to speed things up." Kalec stammered as he found himself tripping over his words as he was still staring at her eyes. It wasn't until she turned away and started cleaning did his trance like state fade. Blinking multiple times and shaking his head try and shake the clouds away that were in his head. Kalec hopped out of the water and scrubbed the rest of the pathway around the spring and used the brush to get rid of any excess filth or slimy substances that tended to get on the rocks from time to time.

"Alright Poko, I think we finished it up pretty nicely." He boasted about their cleaning skills. If one would have looked at the room from the door, they could probably see shimmering spots from the lights on how well they cleaned everything up. Putting back the scrub brush into a tucked away position in the corner of the room, where he had gotten it from. He walked over and picked up his socks and shoes slipping them on. "How do you want to go about cleaning the next rooms?"He would ask her. He figured that she probably didn't want to clean the men's side, seeing as how it was known for being one of the worst besides the common one. He grabbed his cleaning supplies and waited for Poko's response.

He stood up from picking up the supplies and looked at Poko. He was kind of caught off guard that she wanted to help with the guys hot spring room, usually..well the girls He knew always threw a fit over just the smell of a guys room or the way they left things. He nodded his head a few times and pushed his lips out a bit. He was truly impressed with her bravery wanting to venture into the mens side. He watched as she crossed her arms, he had a feeling something was up just by her body language. He chose not to ask what was bothering her. He ignored it when she began to speak. After she finished talking, he figured that "no" wasn't going to be an answer she would take.He knew he had to just deal with that fact. "You're right, we did clean this room up pretty fast." he added in. He didn't quite hear the last bit about the two getting breakfast together or rather maybe he chose to ignore it for now, it was most likely the former.

As soon as he saw that smile he had a hunch something was following behind it, he just wasn't sure. Kalec was prepared though for what she was about to say. He gave a slight chuckle to himself as she finished speaking. Now it was his turn to return the playful joke back at her. "Aw, well I certainly want to make such a cute face sad." Kalec would say to her as he would make his way to the men's hot spring. He was laughing to himself all the way to the room. He had no clue what was going on in her head, but if she wanted to play like that then the game was on.

Kalec sat his cleaning supplies down on the left side of the room. He stood still for a moment scanning over the room as to find the first task to tackle. He noticed that some of the wicker made baskets were either out of their spot or just slightly crooked on a shelf. Poko yelled randomly as she went racing out of the room. He couldn't even get a word out, before she was already out of the room and racing down the hall. "O..oh ok I'll get started then." He would say a loud but only to himself. Kalec thought that she was just going to get something of hers, or maybe she need more cleaning supplies. He didn't think anything of it.

Kalec began rearranging the baskets and checking them for any items that happened to be left behind. After fixing two of the baskets and moving onto the third one that was just laying in the floor. He found a hair band. He picked it up and looked at it confused, who knows why that was in the men's side but he didn't question it to much as he slid it into his right pocket of his track style pants. He tidied up the rest of containers and began to scrub the floor in front of the container shelf. which just happened to be on the left side of the room, behind the door.

Kalec was muttering to himself as he found a piece melted gum attached to the floor. Who ever brought gum in here and left this mess, I'm going to kick their ass when I find them. He thought to himself as he grinded the bristles from the hand held brush against the gum in both clockwise and counter-clockwise rotations. Too involved in the task at hand to hear the crash of Poko crashing into the wall. The door slightly cracked open and a focused Kalec never noticed. Luckily for Poko the door was just a few inches away from hitting Kalec's foot and alerting him of her.

While Poko made her way across the room and hooked up the hose, it couldn't have been anything more than perfect timing. He stood up and turned around just to be met with a cold blast of water drenching him from head to toe. He stood there and took it, exhaling a long sigh. He wiped the water droplets off from his face, he brought his hands around running them through his medium length blue hair. He pulled his hair back into ponytail, letting the soaked ends rest on his shoulder. While he was doing so Poko started giggling and asked him "Who's cute now." Kalec didn't know what she was thinking or where to even start thinking. He simply took off his now drenched sleeveless t-shirt. His peach colored upper body was now in full view. The water began to run down across his well toned build.

"I really don't know what kind of question that is. You're still the cute one.I know i'm not the cute one." He would say as he slung his shirt over the back of the chair. Kalec then picked up the soaked sponge that was in the bucket and flung it at Poko. He intended for it to plop her in the forehead but his aim was slightly off. The wet sponge was now on a direct line straight for her body. Oh crap, that's going to miss the mark. He thought to himself when the sponge left his finger tips.

Kalec cringed as the girl slipped and fell back on her butt. He reached out from where he was standing but it wasn't like he could grab a hold of her and catch her, it all happened too fast. "A..Are you alright." He asked out of pure concern for the girl. He knew just how bad it hurt to fall on those kind of stone surfaces, he's done it multiple times in the past.

Kalec watched as the girl's eyes changed instantly to a red hue, he figured that this probably meant that he was about to die. While she stood up her clothes probably ever bit as soaked as his were. He gulped in fear that she was probably going to kill him now. While she slowly stood up, he noticed the sponge. He took a step toward her to get it, but it was to late she had already picked it up. He knew karma was about to bite him on the ass. He tilted his head slightly as she began to speak one word at a time.

Suddenly the wind in the room began to pick up, Kalec looked around watching as things began to slowly slide and papers on the desk fluttered in the air going past Poko. Kalec's hair began flowing in the wind in her direction. It took him a few seconds till he put it together that Poko was a wind mage. However it was to late for him. while he was to busy paying attention to the objects in the room, Poko had launched the sponge back toward him with impressive speed and accuracy. The sponge spiraled through the air looking like a drill with the way the air went around it. Kalec just accepted his fate. He stood upright and prepared for impact.

The strength from the wind and the sponge, not to mention he tried to hop back a little hoping that would help him. His movement didn't help at all, it only served as a bad move. The blow from the impact ended up knocking him into the wall. He held his stomach and leaned over in pain. Kalec tried both to catch what little air he could and was trying to toss up his cookies. Ah shit He thought to himself as he continued to draw in some deep breaths and exhaled slowly. He stood up and noticed that Poko was already beside him. Kalec was pissed but he hid it away from her. He removed the sponge from his abdominal area and looked down at the nice deep red mark the sponge had made. If one was to look close enough, they would be able to see pieces of peach colored skin through where the holes in the sponge were at.

"Good..throw, Let's get back to work though so you can go eat your pancakes." He said coldly as he took the sponge and picked up the scrub brush and walked outside and began scrubbing the rocks. Kalec wasn't in the mood for conversation at this point, he just wanted to finish the job.

Kalec continued to scrub away at the rocks that lined the hot spring. Much like Poko he too was also lost in his own thoughts as he cleaned. Perhaps it was his fault with all the teasing he did. Kalec was very good at continuing to push peoples buttons with jokes, or just poking at them with stuff they didn't like to be called. He could defiantly feel that something was wrong, just by how the air felt. Kalec was normally really good with perceiving these kind of things. He got up and moved to other side of the spring and began cleaning those rocks. While he was switching sides, he walked past the open door just when Poko blew her healing winds toward him. He could instantly feel the pain subside, as a tingly numbing began to wash over his back and stomach area. He was shocked at how quick it went away. Kalec began to lift his knees up, causing his stomach to scrunch. He was amazed there was no pain.

He turned his attention toward Poko and raised his brow. "I'm guessing that was you?"He would ask while walking to the other side of the sping. He couldn't see or hear Poko summon the "Evil angel" he just went about his business cleaning up the rest of the springs. He continued scrubbing the rocks for a few more minutes until they were completely clean. Kalec scanned over the spring to make sure there were no stains or trash in the water or stuck between the rocks. He nodded his head at his job well done and walked back into the room with Poko. He didn't speak a word to her as he grabbed his shirt off the chair and put it on. Kalec's shirt was still damp from being hit with the hose.

He then remembered as soon as the cold shirt hit his skin. He made a mad dash out of the room and went into the common room, and grabbed his jacket that he had forgotten. He slipped it on and ran back into the men's room. "Come on slowpoke you done yet? We got one more room to go and then it's chow time." He would say in a friendly tone of voice as he stood in the door way with his back against the door frame.

Kalec tilted his head in confusion at the mention of someone named Xiolan. Kalec had never heard of them before, not since his short time of being in the guild. Kalec just watched as Poko left to go check on Xiolan. He began to think of ways to apologize to Poko yet again, but he was also ok with the notion of just pretending that it never happened. While Poko was across the hall he dumped and rinsed out the bucket and cleaned the sponge of the dirty water they both contained.

It was perfect timing on Poko's part as Kalec had just finished and was walking toward the door when she came back. He noticed that she avoided eye contact with him while she spoke. He nodded in agreeance to go get breakfast with her. Kalec first made a pit stop at the supply closet to return the supplies he used. He ran down the hall and caught up with Poko. "It's omelette time!"He would sing as if it was his cheer of victory. He glanced over at her and smiled. He was proud of their work and the fact that the two of them worked well together. He wanted to pitch the idea of forming a team with her. He then thought that perhaps that little water fight would hinder his idea. He wasn't sure but he would just have to wait and see how things played out.