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The gym was empty at the moment, save for a certain purple-haired Rocket and her cyndaquil. At the moment, both Kofuku and Nina were manning a pair of treadmills, and both seemed to be on rather good terms with each other. Behind them was a water bottle, a cup for Nina to drink from, and a portable stereo that was currently blaring 'Eye of the Tiger' out at a rather high volume. Their backs to the door, both pokemon and Rocket would be completely clueless if someone came in.

"BAH! BAHBAHBAH! BAHBAAAAAH!" Kofuku belted out at the top of her lungs, not really concentrating on singing, so it sounded like some poor animal dieing. Rocking out to the music, she received some strange looks from Nina as the pokemon jumped off to go lap up some water from her cup.

"Risin' up, back on the street! Did my time, took my chances-" Kofuku blinked a bit in confusion as she found herself belting out words with no song. "Hey man, no cool!" She turned around as the figure started to speak and her eyes grew wide. Oh. s**t.

"S-Sir!" She stuttered out, feeling the heat rise in her cheeks. Oh dear god, she was going to be in so much trouble, especially if that Nurse had really written her up and he was the one who'd gotten it. Jumping off the still moving treadmill, she wiggled her shirt up to wipe her brow, showing the tank top under it. "I'm sorry, No one was in here when I started."

Nina perked up as the Elite came in, and she felt her trainer's attitude change. The flames on her back rose a little in an aggressive way on the little pokemon.

"Nina, no, stand down." Kofuku shot the order quickly, knowing how much the Cyndaquil liked setting fire to things. Thankfully the pokemon backed down and went back to drinking her water.

"S-sorry...." She quickly bent down to grab her water bottle and stood back up, completely rigid and at attention. Her heart stopped when he said her name, and she had to tell herself repeatedly that he was Elite and all Elites knew their underlings name; she didn't know if that was true, but it got her to breath a bit.

"Yes sir, Grunt Kofuku Minamaya." She used her full name in a way to correct him without making it seem like she was correcting him. Her voice was strong, but inside she was freaking out. She was at the point where she was feeling her stomach starting to cramp up.

Kofuku stood there numbly, her stomach churning as her face began to pale. Oh, she was not feeling well, and quickly she took a drink of water to try to sooth her stomach.

"In all respect.." Her voice cracked a little and she cleared her through, resuming speaking again. "I missed your class due to a stomach flu. I made an assumption that had I'd come in with a bucket and disrupted it with sounds of dry-heaving, you would have been rather displeased."

Taking another deep breath, she looked down a bit, knowing that what had happened in the infirmary was going to catch up to her. "I... had not been aware at the time that Hayes had been promoted. I was under the understanding he was a Grunt like myself." Pausing to take another sip of water, her hands shook a little. "Had I been aware of it, I certainly would not have thrown cake at him."

Slowly, her eyes slid around the room as she looked for a garbage can; she had a feeling she was going to need it's assistance soon with how upset her stomach was getting

His yelling caused her to snap her eyes right to him again, and she felt another wave of nausea hit her. Oh crap, oh crap oh crap. Watching him with wide eyes and a pale, serious face, she slowly nodded. "I understand my laps in judgement, sir."

Taking a slow, deep breath in, and then letting it out, she put on her best act of professionalism. "What did you have in mind for punishment, Sir?" She had to take responsibility, and Seth was right to be incredibly furious with her, but that still didn't keep her from being scared out of her mind of him.

There was a silence as Seth told her what her punishment was going to be. Waiting for a moment when he finished, she spoke. "I understand sir." That was it? Really? She felt her nausea subside in shock. She had been expecting such a worse punishment, but this really didn't seem as bad as what she had built everything up to be. And, at least this had been after her date with Panther and her hang out with Claris.

Taking another sip of water, her face must have held some detail of relief, since she felt like she'd just cheated death. "When am I to start cleaning?" It was rare, but she could be the adult she was, even if she chose to be the child she never could be most times.

It took a great deal of self will, and the help of still being a little scared of him, to keep Kofuku from rolling her eyes as the sarcastic comment. Oh, that Doctor hated her so bad, but at least it wasn't going to be worse than what she'd put up with in the orphanage.

She had no idea what to expect for the 'private training' she was going to be receiving, and she had a feeling that was going to be painful for both her and her pokemon. "Mental note to leave Hiromi in the room for that..." She muttered to herself; at least her team was starting to get stronger.

Looking down at Nina, she smiled sheepishly, talking in a low voice so Seth wouldn't hear if he was still there, paying attention. "Looks like we narrowly avoided death...." At the Cyndaquil's snort, she corrected herself. "Alright, I narrowly avoided death."