AN: This is a continuation of my Two Stories (Curiosity Kills and Curious Encounters) and I wanna put a heads up in before you start reading. I want to apologize to my british readers, my english probably won't be to your liking. To my american readers, it won't be much better either. I use a mix of Southern and British english and I know it looks a bit different. It's just my style, please if you are going to review: Please talk about the story not the english. Lastly don't be afraid to comment, PM me or Review about how you wanna see things go; I am happy to hear input. Thank you very much and please enjoy.
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Curiously Enough
CHAPTER ONE: Kakas Can't Understand Simple Concepts
"Ragna is mad at Tao," the beautifully tan skinned kaka pouted as her mate clomped towards her with a strongly creased brow and worried frown. She had run off on him as he visited Ibuki, some old leather shop keeper. . . She couldn't help it, she was hungry and there was a bug with pretty orange and black wings flying around. Once her tail started twitching and she lowered herself to pounce it seemed like a good idea.
Sighing an exasperated sound at her from his spot at the opening of the alleyway, Ragna tried not to growl as he looked down at her. On the ground, legs sprawled out, sad face. You can't stay angry at tha- started an all to familiar voice and Ragna did growl at that one. "Tao, you said you'd stay by the door," he exhaled hotly as he tried to smooth his brow, "You have any idea how I worried I was when I couldn't find you?" Tao's ears drooped as Ragna recalled the fear he had felt when Terumi had got a hold of her nearly a week ago. Sure he'd killed that son of a bitch but that Relius guy with his body and was still out there. On top of that the god damn Librarium was still up and running. "I'm not mad, I was just worried. . ."
Tao wiggled her way off of the ground and she strolled up the narrow shadowy alley to her mate, "Tao is sowwy, she didn't mean to worry Rawgnya." Wrapping her paws around his neck, she flipped back her hood to reveal the rich olive complexion of her beautiful face marred only by a single two inch long pale scar on her right cheek beneath her vibrant deep red eyes. The skin around Ragna's eyes tightened as he kicked himself internally for the mark but he leaned forward to meet her lips with his own. This feeling never gets old. . . he thought, mind relaxing to a state only she could instill within him. "Did Ragna get what he was looking for?"
"Uh, yeah," Ragna stammered returning back to reality, "I got them right here." When had that kiss stopped? God damn it, I need to get my head out of the clouds. Shaking his head softly, Ragna glanced about, taking in the grimy alleyway and melting sloshes of snow clinging to the corners where the worn gray cobblestone and bricked buildings met. "I'll show ya in a bit. Umm, Tao, where's your favorite place to go?" Ragna asked almost timidly as he felt for the bag hidden within his jacket.
"OH OH TAO KNOWS THIS!" Taokaka shouted while her hood swayed in time with her enthusiastic bouncing up and down, a motion that caused Ragna's eyes to drop down to her hoodie that did little to hide her voluptuous bosoms. Growling at himself for thinking about her sex appeal at a time like this, Ragna moved his hands to her hood and he flipped it back up over her head, her normal toothy grin gleaming out from her shadowed face. "Tao liked that restaurant best! The place we always go with TAPIOCA AND MEAT BUNS!" she roared as she danced in remembered delight.
"That place?" Ragna murmured as his hopes crashed down to the ground again. I should have known she'd pick a place with food, Ragna fumed behind a tight lipped smile and strained gaze, Tao knows how to ruin everything. God Damn it, Damn it all, I really didn't wanna propose to her in a place like that. . . why couldn't she have said the park! "Okay. You wanna go there today, I'll show you what I picked up after we finish eating."
"YAY! Tao loves Ragna!" the joyous kaka cried as she jumped onto him in a tackling version of a hug.
"Cugh-" Ragna coughed as he caught her, back peddling to regain his balance, "Yeah, I love you too Tao. Let's just get going okay?"
"GOTCHA!"
"Hello Welcome to Ra-" called the waitress at the chiming of bells marking new customers until she recognized the red coat and tan hoodie of her least favorite customers, "Oh. . . you two again. Just take your normal seats," groaned the woman, this time in a teal and gold trimmed cheongsam.
Thanks, we will, uptight bitc- "Ragna," Tao mewed from his side while she moved gracefully towards her chair, "let's eat now so you can show me what you got! Tao is super curious."
Grabbing his coat and the bulge of his purchase as if for strength or reassurance everything would be alright, Ragna grudgingly made his way to his seat and slipped into it to the glare of the obviously infuriated waitress. What the hell is her problem, we haven't done anything terrible to this place in a few days... You'd think she's get nicer to us the more we come in and more we tip her. Noting his gaze upon her, the thin woman sighed and disappeared into the kitchen. "Tch, we get terrible service here," Ragna moaned from behind the bamboo mat of a menu.
"It's not that bad," Tao offered with a blank look on her face, obviously not understanding what Ragna meant, "Tao means they feed her and smile at Tao. How could that be bad when they bring her. . ." sucking in a deep breath through her nose, Tao's platinum blonde ponytails swayed back and forth. Uh oh, something's wrong. . . The Bloodedge groaned internally as his girlfriend's eyes closed and opened, a green glowing glint taking over where the red orbs would normally be. "MEATBUNS!" Tao shouted at the top of her lungs and Ragna winced, shrinking in on himself. Yep. . .
The fierce cry of the kaka caused a chain of coughs and sputters from the few other patrons of the restaurant and the waitress came out with thinly veiled disgust and hate held within her light brown eyes. "Tao, please don't shout out loud in this place. . . I really don't feel like be thrown out before we eat."
"Why would they do that," Tao whispered back, wide eyes blinking fitfully as she tried to understand what she'd done wrong this time.
Hiding his face with his hand, Ragna tried to hold in his laugh of frustration while their waitress stormed to them and nearly slammed their drinks onto the table with the force of her annoyance. "Hey, I am really sorry about this," Ragna apologized before she could growl her first hot words at them. She seemed taken aback at the comment and Ragna inclined his head slightly towards her in a bow. "We will quiet down, promise."
"Oh, uh, well good. You want meatbuns I take it," she breathed as her eyes shifted from Ragna to Tao accusingly.
Beaming up at her, Taokaka nodded vigorously and mewed "Yes please! Juicy juicy meatbuns!" Looking back to Ragna, the waitress's tension seemed to fade away as he nodded morosely.
"Two meatbun platters, I will have them out soon," explained the waitress with a more profession mien than Ragna had ever seen on the cold woman, and she turned away with a smooth unworried grace before disappearing into the kitchen.
"What the hell was that?" Ragna hissed under his breath as he struggled not to stare at the kitchen curtain which she slid behind seconds before, "She normally glares at us and is well, a bitch."
"Well, Ragna apologized to her," Tao purred as she picked up her drink and gulped loudly, sighing a hot breath after she removed her lips from the steaming brew, "Ragna never apologized to Restaurant lady before."
"Nah. . . That can't be it. . ."
"Yep yep! Kaka's know when to apologize," the kaka woman claimed with a huge sharply toothed grin and Ragna groaned at her comment.
"Kaka's don't know anything else about anything though. They don't understand the simplest things but they get that. Great, that makes me feel like an idiot," the tall white hair man berated himself and Tao laughed lightly at his embarrassment.
"Yeah but Rawgnya is my idiot!"
"HEY!"
The rest of the meal went surprisingly well seeing as the the only stares they were getting were from the other restaurants guests instead of the staff. Normally they would have eaten quickly and escaped before their waitress blew a gasket but today was a nice changed from that. They got their food quickly and with a smile. They took their time to enjoy their food and they were given fresh tea before they had finished theirs. Perhaps Tao was right, imagine that. . . Ragna mused to himself as he sipped another mouthful of the warm amber liquid. "Sooooooo, What did Ragna get?" Tao prodded the second she finished the last of his buns on his plate. Silly I know but she would pout if I didn't get her the last few. . .
"Well," Ragna answered as he reached his hand into his pocket and withdrew the a pale brown bag as his heart began racing feverishly, "I got you this." Out of the soft beige canvas sack came a beautiful dark red collar with a few small but brilliantly glimmering diamonds pressed into its rich smooth carapace. At it's front stood a vibrantly white pearl with a pair of tiny rubies above it and below it. Tao's eyes locked onto it as he gently pressed into her paw and he withdrew another deep red one, this one having nothing on it for decoration other than the embroidery of her name and his name with shimmering black and silver thread. "Tao. . ."
Don't mess this up!
Shut up, I won't.
Seriously, Don't mess this up, laughed another voice and deep down Ragna bit back his frustration and nervousness.
"Will you M-Marry me?"
For a few seconds Tao said absolutely nothing as she gawked at the shinning gems sparking in the lantern light across the collars surface. Inside Ragna's heart fluttered in uncertainty as she remained captivated by the collar. "Tao?"
"I'm sorry what?" Tao mewed in confusion as she tore her gaze away from the collar and looked to Ragna again.
"T-T-Tao. . ." Ragna eked out in disbelief, she didn't hear a god damn thing I said. . . I love her but for crying out loud. . . "Tao, will you marry me?"
"Ma-Marry?!" She screams out loud and their waitress passing by jumped, dropping the fresh pot of tea she had on her tray onto the ground with a harsh shattering crash. "OF COURSE TAO WILL MARRY YOU!" Springing forward to give him a tackling hug, they crash to the floor to a chorus and woops and hollering cheers from the people sitting in the tiny tavern.
"Owww, Tao, I- Gugh" getting squeezed tightly by his new fiance Ragna coughed as he realized an all to familiar glare was coming for a teal and gold colored cheongsam wearing waitress. . . And everything was going so well too.
"What are they doing now madame?" Valkenhayn inquired as he served a steaming cup of tea upon the soft mahogany table by his mistress's side.
"He proposed to the poor girl, funny though," Rachel murmured in her soft prim and proper voice, "he gave her a collar instead of a ring. I feel it ironic to note that he gripes upon my comments that he is a dog, a mongrel, yet he gets a collar for himself as if it were a wedding band. . . Such a misguided fool. I will have to needle him about it at future date."
"I see, yes madame," Valkenhayn answered with a bow before taking a step back and turning to leave. . . A smile hidden from his master as he mental congratulated them.
AN: Hello ello! This chapter was way too long but I had to get the chapter out of the way. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter, I feel a little rusty but I'm sure after my edit it will be alright.
Boy is it just me or did anyone else notice that everyone else stopped writing over the summer? I only had one story I was following update in 4 months. . . FOUR MONTHS! Lord, it must have driven you guys mad because it did for me! Well here's to fixing that! I wanna thank my new friend OrangeTabby101 for Reviewing my update and giving me a renewed zeal for writing! Thanks for following along and I hope you all enjoy!
Gonna dust it off but. . . Keep reading the good story and Stay so very Classy!
EisKrahe
