Disclaimer: As much as I hate to say it, Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me. I wish I can own Michiru and Haruka though. Yeah… One can only wish.
Summary: A strange meeting, a twist of fate. Who knew that love can sprout so easily? A MichiruXHaruka story.
Author Notes: Haruka is a boy in my story. Just because I wanted her to. It made the story much easier and also I though Haruka was a boy when I first saw the anime too. Michiru and Haruka is such a perfect couple, they are definitely soul mates. Please review when you done reading.
Notes:
"…" : Talking
'…' : Thinking
(...) : Scene/ Time change.
Quote for the chapter: "A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet."
-------------------------------Prologue: A strange meeting. -------------------------
A small girl with silky aqua-green hair entered the giant room. She seems to be around 8 years old, and she looked lost as stood in the room full of people.
Her parent had brought her to another one of the many fancy dinner parties they often attended. The girl, who goes with the name Michiru Kaioh, has never liked these types of parties. She was dressed in a long light- green dress that brought out the color of her hair, and she wore a silver necklace carries a small dolphin crest. Even though she was practically engulfed by many adults who came to greet her parents, and also none forget to compliment how cute they thought she was, Michiru herself wished that she could be somewhere else.
It is not that she dislikes any of the guests, she enjoyed seeing a few of them in fact, but she still wishes that she could be in a place that's quieter than here. Unknown to her, someone near the punch bowl was watching her with great interest. The blond figure titled his head as he saw the pretty girl struggling to get out of the crowd of adults surrounding her.
As more and more people came to greet the ever famous Kaioh family, Michiru found a small path that she can slide through to get out of the commotion. She did just that. As she came out, she accidentally took an extra step and was about to fall flat on her face when a person, who seemed to appeared out of thin air, quickly caught her.
Michiru let out a small gasp when all of this was happening. After a few moments, as she realized what just happened, Michiru reclaimed her graceful composure and turn to face her savior, who placed her down after leading her out of harm's way.
"Thank you very much for saving me." Michiru said and slowly look up. She found her deep blue eyes gazing into emerald green orbs. Their gaze last for only moments as Michiru fully stood up and using that time to take a good look at the person who saved her.
The person who stood opposite of her was wearing a formal tuxedo, fit for these type of occasions. He has short curly blond hair and deep emerald eyes. And he seems to be in the same age range as Michiru. He was looking at her in a way that she can't predict what he is thinking. 'He looks like a nice person.' Michiru thought to herself.
"You're welcome." The blond finally spoke, breaking the silence between them. Broke out from her thoughts, Michiru came back to reality. "Hello, my name is Michiru, Michiru Kaioh." She introduced herself. "I see, I might've figure. You're family is quite famous." The blond say, then took a quick look over where Michiru was a while ago. "My name's Haruka, Haruka Tenoh." Haruka said.
"Thank you again for saving me." Michiru thanked her savior once more, feeling truly in debt to this boy. "Heh, don't mention it. I wasn't about to let a cute girl fall and hurt her pretty face." Haruka replied. At this Michiru face turned into a shade of red as she blushed at the comment. It's strange to Michiru, since when other people told her that she was cute or pretty, she never blushed before.
"Thank you." Michiru said in a small voice. "Heh, you're really cute." Haruka smiled and it made Michiru blushed a deeper shade of red. "Well, anyway. Why were you trying to hard to get away from there?" Haruka changed the subject since he didn't want the girl before him faint from blushing. He smiled slightly from the thought.
"Oh." This snapped the green-hair back to reality again. "I… I was feeling suffocated in there. I wanted to find a quieter place to be at." She answer, glad that everyone was not paying attention to the 2 children standing near the punch bowl. "Really? I thought many people liked the attention." He blond says as she pushes a strand of hair out of her eye. "I guess I'm not one of the 'many people' then. I do not like to be crowded like that, it feels strange and uncomfortable." Michiru reply, she then tried to reach a cup of juice but was having problem. Being the gentleman he is, Haruka, who was much taller then her, took the cup that Michiru was reaching for and hand it to her.
"Thank you, you're quite a gentleman." Michiru giggled and took the cup from him. "I guess I can't help it. I was born that way." Haruka came back with a reply. They both laughed at this. "Well, since you want a quieter place, let's go somewhere else." At this, Haruka took Michiru by her writs and pull her through the many people in the room. "But… I have to tell my parents." Michiru protested at first. "Don't worry; adults are always too busy discussing about things. They won't even know we're gone." At that, Michiru gave in and run after the boy before her, laughing as she did so.
After about minutes of running, Haruka finally stopped. Michiru at this time was trying to catch her breath. She never ran that fast before, and in a dress no less. But it was also one of the most fun things she did, so she was laughing all the way. "Here we are." She heard the boy beside her said. She gazes up, and was amazed to see that they were in the garden of the one who threw the dinner party. The garden was nice and peaceful since no one was there except for Haruka and herself. "Much better then inside, right?" Haruka asked her.
"Yes. How do you know about this place?" Michiru exclaimed as she looked around the garden. Her house has a law too, and Michiru in her mind is planning to ask her parents to turn it into a garden. She always liked flowers. "I've been here a few times. A few trip through the place, and I ended up out here. I also don't like so many people crowding over me." He answered, with his eyes closed, and let the wind play with his short flocks of hair.
'You look really cool like that.' Michiru silently thought this without saying it out loud. Instead, she said: "The wind is so nice today." "Yeah… It is happy today." Reply Haruka, almost as a whisper. "You like the wind a lot, don't you?" Michiru absent mindedly asked. "Yeah, I want to be just like it…I want to be as fast as the wind." The blond then open his eyes, and look into Michiru's deep blue eyes. They stay like that, for some moments, and then Haruka broke the silent. "You know, the wind likes you too. It likes to play with your hair." He says as he saw the wind playing with Michiru's aqua- green hair, gently tugging and pulling at it.
"You think so? I'm happy then, I like the wind too." Michiru smiled at the boy. This made him blush this time. "But my heart belongs to the endless ocean." Michiru added. Then there was silent between them. About a minute later, they both broke out laughing. Then they start to play the games that kids of the age of 8 would play with each other.
( An hour Later.)
"It's unfair Tenoh-san." Michiru yelled to the running blond as she tries to take deeper breaths. "What's unfair?" Haruka look back and stopped running. Michiru caught up to him, and said: "How did you run so fast? I can never catch you." "Because I want to chase after the wind, so I train to be fast." "But then you have the advantage in 'Hide-and-Seek'. I never trained before." "Why not? It's fun being fast." "I promise you, when I grew older; I will be able to run along side you." "It's a promise then." The blond declared.
"Yes. But in the mean time…" Michiru gave a small smirk and tagged the blond before her. "Tag, you're it Tenoh- san." After that, she quickly ran. "Hey, that's cheating." Haruka yell after her. "Not at all Tenoh- san, it calls using brain over brawn." Michiru yell back as she giggles and run. "No matter, I'll catch you again Kaioh-san." Haruka said, as he too took off running.
(15 minutes later.)
Exhausted from running so much, both Michiru and Haruka sat down on a bench, looking after the setting sun. "I guess we should be going back now." Haruka stood up. "Already?" "Yes milady, we can't let our parents worry about us now, can we?" "Alright." Michiru pouted at this. "I had a lot of fun today." Michiru start as they walk back. "Thank you so much, Tenoh-san." "I had fun too. I should thank you." Haruka reply. "For making this boring party so much fun."
As they approach the door to the room where the party was held, Michiru turned and ask: "Will I meet you again?" At this Haruka put a hand on his chin and think for a short moment. "My family will be moving to another region next month." He said. "Oh." Michiru felt sad at this. "I see, so this is good bye."
"Not necessary." Haruka suddenly reply. "Kaioh-san, do you believe in a thing called 'Fate'?" "Fate?" Michiru titled her head, wondering where this is going. "Yeah. If you make a promise to me that you won't forget me, then I will promise that we will meet again, sometime in the future. Ok?" Haruka asked her, with much excitement in his voice. "Ok, then. I promise I won't forget you, Tenoh-san." Michiru agreed with just as much energy, because she didn't want to never seeing her new found friend again. "And I promise that we will meet again someday." Haruka smiled a smile that seem to shine more then the sun itself. "And I never broke a promise before." He added. And they both went into the dinning room, laughing with joy that they had made a new friend for themselves.
"Wait." Haruka suddenly stopped. "What it is, Tenoh-san?" Michiru asked, confused. "Here." Haruka then took off his necklace, which is made out of silver and have an emerald, in the shape of a wing, trapped on it. He put it on Michiru. "So you won't forget me." He added. "Thank you. And here." Michiru smiled, and took her own necklace and place them in Haruka's hands. "So you won't forget your promise." They smiled at each other.
As they almost reaching the main hall, Haruka turned and stare at Michiru. Michiru blushed after the blond didn't stop her staring. "What it is?" She asked, looking away. "Nothing" Haruka stopped and smirks. "Just noticing that you're definitely the cutest girl I've met." Michiru face is turning into a whole new shade of red as she heard this. "Ha ha ha, you are really the cutest." Haruka laugh out loud. "Goodbye my little princess." He turned and starts to run. "Until we meet again." He shouts to her from the distance.
Broking out from her trance, Michiru noticed that she was standing alone in the hall. Feeling a bit lonely, she too started to head to where her parents might be. 'Yes…Until we meet again.' She thoughts, and smiled.
(Fade out.)
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Thank you for reading my story. R and R.
