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Disaclaimer: This story is not mine. It was translated from May I Have This Dance? by Queliet Kuro Shiroyama .
May I Have This Dance?
Soul and So's Apartment
"Soul! Dinner is ready!" exclaimed a brown-haired girl, carrying two plates of steak and over the dinner table.
"Ah, my food finally arrived!" a white-haired young man who had called Soul-over to the girl, followed by a black cat witch hat.
"Blair-chan also eat, huh?" The girl crouched down and give the cat three sardines which he put on a plate, and a bowl of milk. The cat was eating with gusto.
"Oi, So! Come on, you also eat!" Soul sitting in a chair, looking at the steak made the magama with hungry eyes. Saliva starts to drip.
"Ah, wait. I'm off the apron before," the girl who called it off so he was wearing a white apron and folded it before he entered into the closet. And also joining the Soul at the dinner table. He clapped his hands, praying. The red-eyed young man in front of him started to follow. He closed his eyes, as she clasped her hands before yelling, "HAPPY MAKAAAAN!"
"Soul, if you eat in a hurry, you could choke," the girl reminded before he started eating his steak. Who warned the girl just stared for a moment, then put pieces of meat into his mouth and said, "Take it easy, cool people will not be terse-UHUK!" Soul dropped the fork and knife. He pounded his chest, trying to remove pieces of flesh that tormented him from inside his mouth.
"You see! What do I say?" Then he stood up and went to Soul. The girl was giving his partner a glass of water, stroking his back. The gamma quickly grabbed a glass that given the magama and drank until they run out.
"Hah ... hah ... So, thank you very much ..." The white-haired young man trying to regulate his breathing, stroking his chest.
"Yes, same time," and smiled a little before returning to his seat. The girl was continuing its work, eat his dinner. Silence enveloped them. Clinking sound clockwise and tableware that collided audible. Soul unusual with an atmosphere like that decides to break the silence. But he could not find the topic he could discuss. Then, the voice sounded so broke the silence, preceding the Soul are still looking for a topic.
"Hey, Soul," the magama calling partner names while still focusing his gaze on the steak he was cut. The white-haired young man turned around with his mouth full, "Huh?"
"You do not forget, right, what day tomorrow?"
"Vheswok? (Tomorrow?)" Soul asked with his mouth full.
"Swallow your food first!" The red-eyed young man swallowed and said, "So what's tomorrow? far as I know tomorrow is not your birthday."
Tasseled two girls who sat in front of the white-haired young man stopped and gave his partner cut steaknya stares as if saying "You're kidding."
"What the hell tatapanmu it?" Soul raised an eyebrow.
"I do not believe you forgot, Soul!" Soul racked his brains to remember what day tomorrow, and what will happen. Then sighed, "It's really ... Tomorrow is the birthday of Shibusen! Period you forget?"
"Tomorrow? Give me a break! I do not want to hear long speeches Kid! Crazy if I could hear it again!" Soul devouring the last piece of his dinner and then took a sip of his drink-which was filled again by then.
"Then, hopefully Black Star will mess up his speech ... again," the brown-haired girl laughed a little.
"Ah, good idea!" the gamma response to his partner's words.
"Soul, you know I'm just kidding, right?" green-eyed girl had spent his food. Soul who was passing at the back then paused, then reached out his right, past the girl's shoulder.
"I know. But I really expect that fool was messing speech creature-lovers-symmetry it." The white-haired young man took the plate partner, "You must be tired of studying for the test before, right? Let me take care of this dirty dishes."
The magama could only smile as he muttered, "Thanks." The girl was moved from its place and walked to his room, "Good night, Soul, Blaire."
"Good evening, So-chan!" Blaire-name of the cat-back greeting her friend goodnight. Soul approached the cat and took the dirty plates and bowls which lay on the floor. The cat was staring at the red-eyed young man with yellow eyes with a smile and said, "Good night, Soul-kun," then the cat was walking towards the couch and fell asleep.
"Good evening, Blaire ..." Soul turned and walked toward the kitchen to finish his last job.
"... Good night, then ..."
Soul-So
"Hey, Now! Can be a little faster, no?" for the umpteenth time, knocked on the door of the room And Soul. Already half an hour waiting for the white-haired partner. I wonder what made the girl to the point that it takes a very long time to prepare himself.
"Wait a minute! Be patient a little!" So exciting.
"You're old! I want to warm up my bike first, then you directly to the bottom of it!" The red-eyed young man walked away from the room partner. Soul appearance today is very formal. The tip of his black tailcoat and white shirts wrapped in it waving at the white-haired young man walked. Shoes are black leather wrapped her legs, making him look cool.
"Soul-kun, Blaire go first, huh?" a beautiful girl sexy and scantily clad bodied and wearing a witch hat ran past the Soul with a rush. The girl who turned out to be a human figure of a black cat who lives with Soul and then was immediately shot out. Penetrating cold December air.
"Hey, are you going?" Soul shouted at Blaire who already is quite far from the apartment. Girl dressed all in black man replied as he kept running, "Clothes that Blaire drill is descending price! Christmass sale!"
Soul can only be looked at Blaire figure who began to disappear, thinking, "Why is it extremely sexy cat like shopping, anyway? Then I do not like ..."
Red-eyed youth that ignores what he thought and continued his journey to the place where he parked his motorcycle.
Soul-So
It's fifteen minutes of Soul sit on the bike. Waiting for that either partner-is-doing-what.
"Shit ... what the heck was he doing?" muttered the young man. He fell from his bike and was about to follow the magama as the girl in question was located not far from where he stood. Red-eyed young man looked at his partner with a look of disbelief. He was fascinated by the magama that looks pretty with black dress that hung up on her knees. He exposed her shoulders covered with rubber-sleeved black bolero. Long arm just an inch from his shoulders, while the bolero itself the length just reaches the bottom of his chest. Bracelets small black and white adorn his right hand. Brown hair she let loose. It's just that she added a black ribbon-shaped pins on the left. Black shoes with the right foot about three feet wrapped around the magama. So who feel uncomfortable note, realize the gamma from his reverie,
"Err ... Soul? Is there something weird with me?"
The white-haired young man came out of his reverie and turned her face, "No ... never mind ..."
So a little confused by the attitude of Soul walking toward his partner.
"Let's go! We're late," said the green-eyed girl with a smile. Soul red eyes glanced at his partner's face, then he quickly glanced at the other, "Who is that old?"
Soul up the bike and started the motor. His voice broke the silence of Christmas Eve.
"Come on, ride!" The white-haired young man began to play a gas bike, getting ready to accelerate.
"Wait, Soul!" which of course turned invoked.
"What else?" grumbled the gamma. Her heart beat fast when suddenly the magama fix his tie ties, "your tie mess. Well, here's the new good."
The young man could only mumble "Thanks" as she turned her face. Then smiled sweetly, and he climbed the motor Soul. Of course the magama had to sit sideways because he was wearing a dress does not allow her to sit astride as usual. His left hand around his stomach Soul, making the red-eyed young heart beat faster.
"Hey, careful driving, huh? Dandananku I do not want a mess when I got there!" cried the girl commemorate.
"Yes ... yes," with that, Soul spur rode his bike through the stillness of Christmas Eve.
Soul-So
Shibusen
"Ah, So-chan! Soul-kun!"
"Tsubaki! Black Star!" The green-eyed girl waved her hand towards a girl who dicepol black hair and wearing a long white gown.
"Yo, Soul! Long time before you!" a turquoise-haired and blue-eyed old with messy clothes and then went to Soul of the new arrivals and Soul punching arm slowly.
"Well, someone took more than half an hour to dress up," said the white-haired young man with satirical intent.
"Let me alone! His name is also a woman! Yeah, right, Tsubaki?" magama the defensive. The dark-haired girl who called Tsubaki was only nodded with a friendly smile as usual.
"Ah, by the way, Kid Where?" the gamma circulate his views, making friends-it enthusiast-symmetrical.
"Kid-kun? Earlier he was with Shinigami-sama, Liz and Patty," Tsubaki Soul answering questions. Just at that moment, the lights in the room was dim. A spotlight seen pointing toward the stage, where someone-or something-with a black jacket and white skull mask was standing was accompanied by a man with red hair and green eyes.
"Shuuu! Welcome everyone!" exclaimed that masked creature. All eyes immediately drawn to him. And could be heard several people whispering "It's a Shinigami-sama!" or something. The room was now filled by the sound of applause from the more-or less a hundred people.
"Thank you, thank you!" Shinigami together again to talk, "my speech is finished."
"Shinigami-same never change ..." Then he said, followed by a nod of his friends. Then, a dark-haired young man with three white lines on his right to walk over to being masked.
"Father! I told you many times berpidatolah right!" exclaimed a young man wearing a white coat.
"Ah, Kid! Perfect! Please give them a speech," which is the father of the creature known youth named Kid was handed the microphone to his son came down from the stage. Followed by the death of his Scythe.
"Father! Haah ... What can make," Kid sighed quietly, then began his speech, "Good evening all! Welcome to the birthday party celebration Shibusen that ..."
"Ah, he's already started. I'm going to get some fresh air first," Soul inserting his hands into his pants pocket and walked out of the group.
"Ah! He began speaking again! All those who spoke was a great person! That means I also have to make a speech!" exclaimed the Black Star. Then the maanki directly bolted to the stage.
"Ah, the Black Star!" aanki his partner were chasing a will to do mischief. Leave the girl alone gamma controller in a crowd. So listen to speeches Kid well, at least until the speech was disrupted by the Black Star that Shinigami have to compose them together.
"We provide plenty of food for you. And we also provide 'Live Music'. Or if one is willing, you can use the grand piano, saxophone, violin, cello, guitar, or any musical instrument that is liking you," said the Shinigami- same, "Well, have fun you guys!"
Soul-So
"Good night, Kid," said So when he met the son of Shinigami-same.
"Ah, good evening, So Alban," the young enthusiast symmetry was greeted back with a flat expression, "Where's your partner?"
"Ah, Soul? He was on the balcony. He does not like to party. Do you? Where the brothers?" So a friendly smile.
"Well, I'm looking for them. Last I saw them," before saying the small shinigami finished, two pretty girls came up to him.
"Ah, that's them," muttered Kid.
"Kiddo! Long speech as usual! Kyahaha!" short-haired girl said.
"Liz, Patty, from anywhere you are?" Kid asked irritably.
"We are looking for a drink. Then Patty compile empty glasses into an elephant," said long-haired girl as she pinched her sister's cheek.
"Haah ... yasudahlah ... Now let's dance!" Kid pulled both his partner's hand and drag them into the crowd was dancing. They also began to 'dance'. Well, while standing in a row while holding hands and lifting the feet alternately according to the rhythm of the song can not be called as 'dance', they all still do it , maybe not all because Liz is the only sane person among the trio that-and he just stood with flushed face, do not follow the movements such as controlling and humiliating his brother. Then chuckle to see the behavior all three of them. Then he felt a tap on his shoulder by someone. He also turned around.
"Ms. Alban, will you dance with me?"
Then smiled and replied, "Of course, Doctor Stein."
The girl was then danced with her teacher. Accompanied by soft music floated in the air. The combination of piano, violin, cello, and saxophone.
Soul-So
"I hate parties," muttered a young man with white hair who was standing on the balcony of one of the towers school. A wine glass containing a red liquid on the surface of sweet purple stand limiting flat balcony railing and off the air. Red eyes the young man looked at Death City from above. The lights coming from silhouettes buildings across the city decorated the night scenery. The young man reached for a glass of wine that had been waiting for a drink, play it long enough to disrupt the calm surface of the liquid inside, and then sipped it down. Suddenly, a voice calling his name.
"Hey, Soul."
"Hn?" the young man turned around and found his partner was standing in the doorway, "Oh, So. What is it?"
That brown-haired girl stepped and stood next to the gamma. Staring at Death City. The girl put the plates that he had been brought onto the flat surface of the railing. Several pieces of lettuce, tomato, watermelon, pineapple and fresh melon are watered by a white viscous liquid neat above the girl's plate. So stick the fork into one piece of watermelon and put it in his mouth.
"You do not join?" asked the girl after a piece of red fruit-surely-already destroyed it swallowed. Green eyes still staring at the town of flashing Death City kalip.
"I thought you already knew that if I hate the party," the gamma folded his hands and put it on a flat parmukaan guardrail. The magama chuckled, then stuck his fork into a piece of pineapple.
"You're not hungry?" the girl enter the yellow pieces of fruit into his mouth and stuck his fork into a piece of lettuce. The girl turned to his partner and thrusting his fork. Soul also ate lettuce mayo gravy from the fork held controller.
"Not really. A glass of wine was able to prop my stomach," replied the gamma, chewing the green sheet.
"Need to get you some food?"
"I can grab yourself if I'm hungry."
"Haah ..." brown-haired girl sighed and turned away, he leaned on the railing and looked at the people in the room who was dancing and having fun.
"You're always alone here every year. And if I'm taking dance, you'd refuse. You become more like a bodyguard than a partner," said Then he grabbed his plate and began to spend what is served there.
"That reminds me ... when the party is a mess a few years ago. We pursue Bu Medusa and Crona," and smiled as he recalled those days. Soul attention to his partner and then added, "That is ... if not wrong when you asked me to dance, but you pulled your dad and ended up dancing with him, right?"
So a small laugh, "In the end we were dancing. In the Black Room."
Soul thin smile, he really hated what happened. More precisely 'time' it. The period in which he was not stable.
"Akh, come on! Do not nostalgia!" the young man grumbled as he ruffled his hair.
"Soul, hair a mess," the girl laughed a little to see behavior of partners. His little hand reached out to straighten the gamma-white hair. Heeled shoes that he uses is useful to increase its reach. If so wear regular shoes, she might have to tiptoe to reach the head of the Soul. Young man's face a little flushed.
"Well! You must
maintaining your appearance during this party, "said the magama when he finished his partner's hair straightened. The girl smiled and left the red-eyed youth. Back to a crowd of people who were having fun inside.
Soul-So
Soul put his head between the folds of her hand. He was getting bored with the scenery that he saw. Crescent moon hanging in the sky made him upset.
"When will this party be over?" he asked no one in particular. When he was berbosan ria, a sound of footsteps. He turned and walked toward him to find his face looked tired.
"You what?" Soul asked.
"Papa found me and forced me to dance with her. During the dance he kept telling our past with the 'little' mistake. Because annoyed, I stepped on his foot during the dance ended. Then I bumped into Kid and he asked me to dance. Because he asked politely, so I received alone, "said the green-eyed girl. Soul chuckled softly.
"And Kid dance well?"
"Like a professional. I was also surprised," was a shock, a Death the Kid who always 'danced' with both partners with the very embarrassing, it can dance like a normal royalty.
"Is not he concerned about it?" Soul pointed ribbon-shaped pins on the left side of the head of the girl.
"Well, he did ask me to take it off during the dance with her. After that, I put it back."
"Install it yourself without a mirror?" The red-eyed young man raised an eyebrow. Then the gamma straightened out his hand for the ribbon-shaped pins, "No wonder the results fall apart."
Green-eyed girl's face was flushed, he mumbled, "Thanks."
Soul just smiled, then he turned his gaze toward the town Death City, which began boring. So join in, brown-haired girl had folded his hands and put it on the guardrail. Wind blows night and stroked her hair brown magama property as well as the gamma and white hair. Silence enveloped the two. Then opened his mouth to break the silence, but sound defeat Sir Sid.
"Ms. Alban, you are called Doctor Stein!"
"Ah, good!" the magama ran left partner. Red eye where the gamma follow directions the girl go. At least until the girl disappeared from view.
Soul-So
Shibusen birthday party was over five minutes ago. In the room there were only two teachers, Stein and Mary, and four students, including Soul. White-haired young man was still standing on the balcony. Staring at the lights twinkling in Death City, which looked like dots of light. Partner disappeared since an hour ago.
Soul is not a bad guy who would leave a girl home alone in the cold night like this. So, he decided to wait. The remaining guests begin to leave the room one by finally, the gamma is the only person left in the room.
He looked back as he had felt no signs of life in the room. He turned around and went inside. Walks through the room. Then his red eyes catch something that caught his attention. Grand elegant piano black. Soul walking toward the entrance, turned to the right and left to ensure no one around the room.
He then walked over to the piano which is located at the corner of the room along with other instruments, sat in chairs that are available, then put his finger on the keys of rectangular black and white. The gamma started pressing the keys that generate sounds strung into a soothing melody. Red eyes closed, appreciate the songs he played, carried the game.
Soul-So
"I'm tired ..." muttered a brown-haired girl. He walked down the corridor Shibusen tower, where the party took place. The girl stepped into a room that the door is open.
The girl's ear caught a sound. Piano sound that plays soft soothing melody. My curiosity arose within him. The girl dared him peering into the room.
"Soul?"
Jreng! Sound discordant notes sounded when six white and four black keys pressed simultaneously. Red eyes immediately turned to the sound source and found the figure of the magama who was standing in the doorway.
"Ma ... So?"
The girl walked in and approached his partner. Soul immediately felt nervous. He did not think the secret will be uncovered. Cold sweat running down his temple.
"I do not know if you can play the piano!" the girl exclaimed, looking amazed. Soul got up and walked away from the piano. Then he patted his shoulder and whispered, "Do not tell anyone, huh? Not cool."
"What's not cool? That's really cool to know!" The brown-haired girl holding both hands partner. The girl was increasingly admired the gama, "Will you play it again?"
Soul silent. His red eyes stared straight with the green eyes magama. He sighed quietly, then turned around and returned to the black grand piano in the the slightest proes, Soul resume play piano which had been halted. Dance with the nimble fingers over the keys of black and white.
The magama closed his eyes, and began dancing to the rhythm played by his partner. Moving swiftly on Lanai white marble that reflects light crescent moon out there.
Soul glanced at his partner. Seeing The dancing, the white-haired young man smiled a little. He wanted to hold the hands of the girl and asked her to dance.
Without them knowing it, someone watching them from behind the door. The figure with long hair that peeked, then smiled.
"Soul-kun really liked the then-chan ..." the figure plays his forefinger, as if to draw a small circle while saying a mantra, "PUM PUM Pumpkin!"
Soul-So
Soul stop the game when he heard the soft strains of waltz music. So even stop dancing and stare Soul, "You're changing the music?"
Soul shook his head and circulate his views. His red eyes had caught something. A record player with the classical model. With a pumpkin patch illustrated in piringannya. Soul of small chuckles.
"Basic ... Cats ignorant ..." The red-eyed young man rose from his seat and walked over to his partner. He stopped a few inches in front so, then bent over and held out his hand.
"So Alban ..." the gamma lifted her face, bringing her red eyes with his green eyes magama.
"Yes?" So face implies confusion. The girl tilted her head to the right. He saw the boy took a deep breath, then smiled.
"So Alban ..." he repeated. Seeing it, brown-haired girl was smiling, "Yes, Evan Soul Eater?"
" May I have this dance?
Disaclaimer: This story is not mine. It was translated from May I Have This Dance? by Queliet Kuro Shiroyama .
Visit my profile page and participate in the poll, too, please. You should read "When Dreams Die" before you do though.
Also, I should mention that this is a rough translation. I'm working on writing a more direct translation, on the new translation will be posted on the main story link (Archives).