So I randomly got the idea to add another chapter to this. I may add more, but this is not my main propriety right now, because I'm working on a different Shitsurakuen fanfic, which is going to be a chapter fic... as in quite a few chapters, and my co-author won't let me post until I'm at least halfway through. -.- nehh
I don't own Shitsurakuen, if I did no SoraTsuki would be even hinted at. I hope you enjoy this chapter ... beware of some angst.
"We're here, Mama Reiko!" A young nine year old red-headed girl said while bouncing in the car chair excitedly. Causing the woman behind the wheel to laugh at her daughter's excitement. A small smirk spread across Reiko's lips.
"Relax, Rina, don't get to excite-d," before the woman could even finish her sentence she saw the high red ponytail bouncing away as Rinaka ran toward the entrance of the building. Sighing, Reiko got out. "I guess it can't be helped." She followed the bouncing red-head into the building and saw other little children in their karate uniforms sparring each other, most of them were male, of course that didn't bother Rinaka.
"Oh, Reiko-san, you're here? Ahh well I guess that makes this Sora's little girl? It's been a while, Rinaka," Yuki smiled down at the girl. Rinaka smiled back remembering this girl from the story she was told.
"Ah, Yuki, I kind of forgot that your family owned a dojo," the blonde scratched her head sheepishly, "and no need to add the 'san' after all we've been through." The twin braid haired woman bowed nodded with a smile.
They didn't know that a different red-head was coming up behind them, "Hey guys, I knew it would be any day now that Rina would join the dojo." He smiled at the two women. "Hey, Keiji, go spar with the other kids, okay? We're going to have some catching up to do." The brown haired boy nodded and trotted off to the other kids.
"Akane, wow what a surprise, who would have thought that a kid of yours would be into something like this... after all..." Yuki smirked teasingly.
Reiko snickered, "Come on, Yuki, we both know that Akane is into tough girls. I'm pretty sure those are Umi's genes running through that boy's veins." The girls shared a laugh.
"Ha, ha, ha, very funny." The tall lean dark red haired man scrunched up his face at the teasing insult.
"Who's mom did you call a dyke! Get over here and take it like a man!" The three adults turn their heads toward Rinaka shoving a guys face into the mat. "Take it back! My mothers are way stronger than any of your fathers could ever be, and you better believe it!" Yuki and Akane sweatdropped and glanced at the woman between them who was just smiling nervously.
"She's deffinately Reiko's daughter. She may have Sora's determination, and Sora's looks but her personality is alll Reiko." The two thought. "Well I better go off and start the real stuff before Rinaka gets herself in trouble," Yuki called as she started jogging over to the children wrestling around on the mat. "Hey, you two, cut it out!"
"So, Reiko, you realize your daughter has a temper, right?" Akane questioned glancing over at Reiko.
"Well... maybe once or twice... I saw her loose it, but that's because she wouldn't keep it a secret that her mother was married to another woman at some point. She sees it as something to be proud of," the blue eyed woman responded sheepishly.
The other nodded, it was understandable after all. "Have you started dating yet, Reiko-san?"
The sudden question about on such a topic made the blonde's head snap in his direction with her blue eyes widened. "W-what? Why would I do that?"
Akane sighed n pushed up his thin rimmed glasses. "You know, you're going to have to start dating again, you can't keep living in the past. Sora is gone you know... she's not coming back anytime soon."
Reiko glared at him. "Sora is the only person I love, I can't... I can't just move on!" She yelled at him in a hiss.
Another sigh passed through the man's thin lips and he ran his hand through his bangs. "Reiko, it's been seven years." the ground became suddenly more interesting as Reiko avoided Akane's gaze, trying to keep her sadness inside.
"No one can take her place..." Reiko whispered as if to the ground itself.
"I don't know why these guys think they're so tough, Mama Reiko, and I don't see why Mama Sora wanted to only protect the girls, I mean these guys are hopeless! I mean I understand why she preffered protecting girls because girls are born pretty... and the only pretty boy I've ever met was Hakaru from my class last year, but maybe that's because he had long light brown hair and was such a girly guy. Honestly though, these guys are weak! I'm gonna have to protect them too!" Rinaka complained waving her arms around as she ranted to her mother.
Reiko just smiled at her daughter's antics; Rinaka sure was different from her old bubbly self. She still is bubbly, but she has her moments when her anger gets a hold of her.
Akane's words kept repeating through Reiko's head. She watched the buildings as they passed by the window. Memories started to float around in the blonde's mine, like a certain idiotic red-headed knigt and her first date.
"Thanks for coming with me, Reiko-san," an 18 year old Sora said as she flashed the blonde a bright smile, too bad the older girl only heard the "coming with me" part and was flustered practically from head to toe.
"B-Baka! W-watch what you're saying!" Sora just smiled clueless-ly at the blonde.
"Reiko?" the suddenly shy voice caused the blond to look back at the red-head, who was actually blushing!
"What is it?" Reiko gulped wondering what embarrassing thing Sora was about to say.
"Could I... Could I hold your hand?" Sora glanced up at the older girl shyly. These words sent Reiko's face a flame, and her heart to to race.
"W-what?" Reiko glanced around and saw no one was particularly close to them. "F-fine, baka." Reiko looked away blushing and glaring at nothing as she held out her hand for her taller companion. "Just this once, okay?"
Sora smiled brightly and took the older girl's hand into her's, "Okay." She squeezed Reiko's hand and smiled warmly at Reiko causing the girl to blush more and glance away muttering the word "baka" softly under her breath. They both knew it wasn't going to be a one time thing.
"Mama, are you okay?"
"Huh?" Reiko shook her head and glanced over at her daughter. "Yeah, why?"
Rinaka shrugged, "I don't know, you were just sitting there with a strange smile on your face... you looked like you were in a world of your own there."
"It's okay, Rina," the woman assured as she ruffled the red-head with a smile.
Later on the mother and daughter were sitting on the couch and Rinaka was playing with her mother's long curly pony tail. Rinaka smiled happily, amusing herself with the bouncy hair. "Bouncy, bouncy," Rina repeated. On the T.V. There was a scene of a couple kissing and this perked Rinaka's interest.
"Mama, how was your first kiss?"
Reiko snickered, "I didn't like my first kiss, I didn't want my first kiss, I didn't like a lot of my firsts, actually, but I can tell you about my best first kiss."
"There's a difference?" Rina asked tilting her head to the side, slightly confused.
"Yeah, there is. My best first kiss, was with Sora. She was very shy about it, if you could believe it." Reiko smirked.
"I don't care, do whatever you want, baka. You know that you could have any of us that you want. There's no reason for you to be wasting your time on me!" Reiko yelled at Sora. Yeah, to be blunt, she was jealous. She found out that Sora had kissed the other ex possessions of her's, except for Reiko herself.
"What do you mean? You act like I'm some catch." The red-head replied innocently, not realizing that in the eyes of many, she is THE catch.
"UGH! Then why did you kiss them!" Reiko yelled unleashing her anger.
"Kiss? Is that's what this is about?" A smile spread across Sora's lips as she pulled Reiko into a hug wrapping her arms around her slim waist. "I've gave Koharu a kiss to the cheek because she's very huggable, I gave Tomoko a kiss on the top of the head because she's so cute and like a puppy, I kissed Yuki's forehead, because she was one of the ones who believed in me the most. Hiyo kissed me, not the other way around."
Was that supposed to make her feel better? Reiko still hasn't received one kiss from the red-headed idiot knight! Just as she was about to voice this, Sora interrupted. "I want to kiss you..." Sora glanced away with a slight blush dancing across her cheeks, "but I don't know how... I never had my first kiss... and I'm 99% sure you would hit me if I did."
Reiko blushed badly and scoffed. Of course she didn't want Sora to think she wants her to kiss her, but she didn't want the scarlet haired beauty to think she'd hit her for it. "B-baka."
"So, Reiko, can I kiss you?" There's that shy look on her face again, that slight blush gracing her expression. Dark blue eyes gazed pleadingly into bright. Reiko's eyes widened, trying to keep a glare, face probably the color of Sora's hair. She was trapped.
"Only this once!" A flustered Reiko hissed at the taller girl, who just smiled knowing Reiko was just being a tsundere again. Arms tightened around the slim waist of the smaller girl, having a firm hold once they're bodies were flushed against each other, one hand trailed up and cupped the blonde's increasingly red face, slowly she tilted the head up and leaned in for the strike.
A brush of lips in the most innocent, yet intimate of ways. The sparks of the kiss surprised both of them, but they were too engrossed in the kiss to even really notice. Shy hands traveled up and wrapped around the taller girl's neck bringing the pair closer in the kiss.
Sora decided she wanted more, well she didn't decide her body kind of just reacted to the new feelings and her tongue asked Reiko for entrance as slowly as possible. This resulted in a battle for dominance, that Sora had won in the end before they both pulled away, air being an issue. Sora smiled down with a blush streaking across her face, while Reiko's face looked like a lamp. That was a bit too intense of a first kiss, if you asked the blonde, but the red-head was clueless to that idea.
"N-Never again," panted Reiko, they knew it was a lie; it was Reiko's game. A game that Sora won every time, a game of seeing through the lies and knowing the meaning.
A sly smirk played across Sora's lips, "Too bad we're under a mistletoe, isn't it, Reiko-San~" Blushing brighter all Reiko would think is what happened to the innocent Sora who was there only a few moments ago... or was it hours? Who knows how long that kiss lasted...
"Okay, Rina, time for bed, you have class in the morning." Reiko said, removing her long curly ponytail from her daughter's grasp.
"Aww, but it's only... ten... at night... -sigh- fine," Rinaka surrendered and went to go get ready for bed.
"Mama," Rina called as her mother was tucking her into bed.
"Hmm?"
"I think Mama Sora would want you to be happy, to not be lonely anymore." Reiko froze in pulling the blankets up over Rina. What had her nine year old daughter just said? Maybe she acts more like Akane than she should.
"Rina, I-"
"You are a great mother, who has taken great care of me, but who has been very lonely for a long time... I know you miss Mama Sora and no one can take her place, but you will always have her love, and I know that her love is still with you, waiting for you until it's your turn to enter the next life to meet up again... Don't be sad, she's waiting for you too." Speechless and completely stunned, Reiko just hugged her daughter tightly.
"B-baka, I already knew that..." silent tears flowed down and a sad smile spread across her lips.
"I miss you."
I don't know what made me get in the mood to write this, but here it is. I don't know if I'll continue after this, I may, just when I'm not working on my multy chapter Shitsurakuen fanfic. Tell me what you think, please? -has cookies for you if you review- :3