Disclaimer: I still don't own Kenshin. (darn)
Some OOC...sorry
Once again, Thank you so much foxfire9
Oh and the drawing idea was inspired by a fic by Chibiangel3- I don't know what story it was though.
( 2003
19-year-old Ariel opened her eyes wide, stretching as she got out of bed and looked over at her alarm clock.
"6 am," she groaned as she turned it off quickly. Her roommate happily burst into the room as she bit into a piece of toast.
"Ah you're up!" cried Kali. "Come on lets go, you have kendo practice in an hour!"
"You don't." mumbled Ariel as Kali continued to pull on her arm. "So why are you up so early?"
Hearts seemed to fill Kali's eyes as she got a far off dreamy look. "I can't miss Aric-sama at practice!" She giggled happily as she thought of him. "His strong body and gorgeous blue eyes, oh if only he would take me into his strong arms and hold me and then-"
Ariel realized just where this train of thought was going and hit Kali hard on the back of her head before she could continue.
"You hentai!" Ariel hissed as Kali rubbed her head.
"Ow! That hurt Ariel! You just have no imagination. Just wait until YOU find someone you love. You'll be just as hentai!" Kali chided.
"Someone I love..." Ariel said as a far away look came into her eyes. "What if I already have someone I love?"
Ariel was so into her thoughts that she didn't notice the heavy footsteps heading towards her room until almost too late.
"The man you've been fantasizing about in your twisted dreams doesn't count Jou-chan." The owner of the gruff voice that replied to her slammed open the door and paused in his tracks. He had no intention of barging in when the girl's were getting dressed when he showed up to pick them up, but now that he had, he found that he couldn't move immediately. He glanced at the two girl's appraisingly, noticing their state of dress, or undress as it seemed, but before he knew it a blur of light skin and dark hair came rushing towards him.
"Gaahhhh!!! Donovan! What are you doing here? Don't you know how to knock?! HENTAI!" Ariel cried as she sent him flying out the door from her punch. She shoved Kali out as well and hurriedly put on her school uniform, muttering curses about perverted men and her love life, or lack there of as it seemed.
"Those two baka no hentai... How do I get myself into these situations?! Fantasy... hah!" A slight wind ruffled a loose sheet of paper half underneath her binder, Ariel picked up the piece of paper. It was a facial sketch of a man, a very handsome man at that, Covered with a midnight shadow. The girl's eyes softened as she caught sight of the sketch she had doodled two nights before and her eyes softened. She hadn't really drawn it on pupose; a brief flash of a person cloaked by darkness, passed through her mind and she started haphazardly making marks on her paper with her pen. When she had finished and looked down at what she had drawn, she had been convinced her writing tool had been possesed. Afterall, she had never really been good at drawing anything before. Mainly stick figures... But this picture...
Ariel gently traced the soft eyes on the man's face as she studied the drawing. The man's face looked real enough to make Ariel believe that he just might blink. The eyes were the only things she had managed to draw perfectly, but in the shadows of his left cheek she saw what looked like an oddly shaped scar.
Kali had complemented her on her skills when she first saw it and asked how Ariel had managed to make it look so nice when had never drawn much of anything else before, but Ariel had no answer for her then, nor did she now.
As Ariel continued to trace the eyes and the scar felt her eyes well up with tears. She didn't know why but as she looked at it, it seemed that a long forgotten wound was beginning to open up. Truth be told she had been dreaming of this man for as long as she could remember. At first she took it at face value but the dreams kept on coming back to her and she began to wonder if maybe there was something else to them.
Ariel suddenly began to feel cold. She looked over to the other side of the room to see if her window was open. She was mildly surprised to see it wasn't and began to get a strange sensation rising up her spine. "What is thi-?"
"Kaoru-dono..."
The girl jumped up and spun around to take in her room, looking for what had made the odd noise. She felt what seemed like an icy finger brush her cheek and the sensation grew. What was that? She searched for anything that might clue her in but found nothing. "Perhaps it was just my imagination running away with me."
"Kaoru-dono..."
It was the voice again and, grabbing it quickly from beside her bed, Ariel swung her kendo stick towrds the direction it was coming from, hitting someone straight in the face.
The spiky haired youth covered his nose with his hand after Ariel removed her stick. "Geez! Me and Kali were just curious as to why you were taking so long," he grumbled. Don was about to leave the room when he caught sight of a pink sakura blossom swirling on the ground. Curiously, he picked up the petal.
"What's this?"
Ariel and Kali looked at what he found and then watched as it dissolved into a light powder and floated out of the room in his hand.
"Okay... Now that was weird." Donovan said, but quickly shook it off when he saw Ariel pale in disbelief.
"Jou-chan?" Donovan asked quietly.
Kali watched, as her friend didn't move. "Ariel...?"
Ariel blinked as her color managed to return and she smiled at them.
"Gomen for hitting you Don, but we better go now. The kendo professor will get angry if we're late." She called as she dashed out the door with Don, her genki friend Kali following happily.
Just minutes before class started they managed to reach the college and part ways. Ariel didn't tell anyone, but the sakura petal and the voice she had heard just moments before seemed to bring back an image of something she had long since buried in the back of her mind. Apparently this showed in her movements, because even her usually cold teacher suggested she go to the nurse to see if she was feeling well while she was practicing. Ariel blushed and shook her head in embarrassment.
"I'm just a little distracted, sensei."
"Well get rid of your distraction," he said in his usual cold tone. "If you are in a real match and are distracted, it can be fatal." To prove this he suddenly lunged forward, hitting her on her side, causing her to yelp in surprise and anger at his accuracy and her inability to stop him.
"I told you," he said in his know it all tone before walking away.
Ariel fumed silently at this, but tried to get her mind back to her task.
Before long her class was over and she ran over to meet her friends in the student center. Before she could get there though, she caught sight of another sakura petal and had an overwhelming sense that she needed to go to the admissions office. She never noticed when Kali and Don passed right by her, or when the man just around the corner stopped in his tracks since he sensed something. He, however, shook it off and continued on his way, his long crimson hair swaying slightly.
Ariel suddenly felt weak. She swayed slightly and Don caught her arm quickly, steadying her before she fell.
"Jou-chan!... Ariel!" she heard the two voices call to her, causing her to shake her head in hopes of clearing the fog that had settled there.
"Daijoubu desuka?" Kali asked with a deeply worried tone to her voice.
"Hai... daijoubu desu!" she replied. For a moment there she felt as if she had traveled back in time to the place where her love had died, along with her heart. Ariel suddenly chuckled as she thought about what she had just felt. Heart... love? It made no sense.
"Are you sure?" Kali asked again and she nodded.
"That does it! I'm taking you to go see that fox-woman so she can tell you what's wrong with you besides your looks." Donovan said with a mischievous look in his eyes.
"Oi... you just want an excuse to flirt with her." Ariel accused.
Don shrugged his shoulders. "Hey... I'm a guy. Can you blame me if I think she looks better than either of you?" he asked, his smirk growing as he continued. "It's hard not to notice that soft long black hair, those sexy legs that stretch out to forever, breasts the size of..." he trailed off when he noticed the two girls next to him glaring with murder in their eyes.
"Hey now... You two are okay too... Sort of."
"That's not what we were talking about!" Within seconds he was flat on his back after feeling two flying fists connect squarely with his jaw.
"Men!" cried the two girls as they hurried away.
Don looked up irritatedly. "Women! Shit! I think they dislocated my jaw or something." He touched his sore jaw tenderly then grinned. "Oh well looks like another visit to the fox for me." he said as he casually got up and sauntered to the nurse's office.
"I can't believe the nerve of that guy," muttered Ariel as her and Kali walked. They had been at the school since 7:20 am, and their English class had just ended at 1:30 pm. Since they didn't want to head home right way they had decided to take a detour to the mall for a couple hours. On the way Ariel was complaining about Don the whole time.
"Do you like him or something?" asked Kali as a tease and Ariel stopped at the insult.
"Of course not!" she exclaimed, "I seriously don't know what Asa sees in him! They're always arguing anyway."
"Oooo! Ariel does like Don-san!"
Ariel stopped in her tracks and practically beat her roommate with her kendo stick.
"Oi! I'm just kidding Ariel! I know he's not your type! But I am curious... What is your type? I know it's not the strong silent type like my dear Aric-sama..." she said with happy sigh in her voice, "Or the gruff type like Don. You don't like the shy quiet type, and you most definitely don't like egotistical types."
Kali noticed her friend drift into her own little dreamland and became a little upset that she wasn't listening to her. "Hey!" the girl cried, forcing Ariel to come back to reality.
"I'm worried about you..." Kali said, "You're not acting like yourself."
"Ah it's...," Ariel said as they reached the mall, trying to forget about the strange things that had happened today. She caught sight of a new gift store with swords and shinai's on display in a case behind the window."Oh look!" she cried "Let's go there!"
The girl hurried towards the gift shop.
"Chotto Mateo! Kaoru-san!" Kali cried, and Ariel stopped dead in her tracks.
"What did you call me?" She asked as she turned towards the smaller girl.
"What do you mean?" Kali stated with a look of confusion on her face, "I called you Ariel of course."
"NO you..." Before she could finish her sentance, Ariel caught sight of a shock of long red hair, and a samurai outfitted man in the corner of her eye. The girl spun towards it only to see a small boy in a red sports jacket. Ariel chuckled to herself. "I must be getting paranoid."
Afterwards Ariel twirled around and headed towards the gift shop.
( To be continued...
AN: If you want to see the sketch that "Kaoru" drew go
I made like three or four sketches before I got to one I like, so I hope it's satisfactory. (Copy and Paste, or it won't show)
Now for Sayings...Most of the sayings in here are common knowledge...but just because I'm bored I'll put their English equivalents...and I'm not 100% sure about all the character names...
Jou-chan= Little Missy Daijoubu desuka?= Are you okay?
Hai... Daijoubu desu= Yes... I'm fine!
Hentai= Pervert, perverse
Baka no hentai= those stupid perverts
Sensei= Teacher, professor...
Gomen= I'm sorry
-Sama= respect, Endearment to someone older
-dono= Miss/Mr. (very polite honorific)
Names:
Kaoru= Fragrance
Ariel= Lioness of God/Spirit
Kali= Energetic
Aric= Strong leader
Donovan= Strong fighter
Asa= Healer
Some OOC...sorry
Once again, Thank you so much foxfire9
Oh and the drawing idea was inspired by a fic by Chibiangel3- I don't know what story it was though.
( 2003
19-year-old Ariel opened her eyes wide, stretching as she got out of bed and looked over at her alarm clock.
"6 am," she groaned as she turned it off quickly. Her roommate happily burst into the room as she bit into a piece of toast.
"Ah you're up!" cried Kali. "Come on lets go, you have kendo practice in an hour!"
"You don't." mumbled Ariel as Kali continued to pull on her arm. "So why are you up so early?"
Hearts seemed to fill Kali's eyes as she got a far off dreamy look. "I can't miss Aric-sama at practice!" She giggled happily as she thought of him. "His strong body and gorgeous blue eyes, oh if only he would take me into his strong arms and hold me and then-"
Ariel realized just where this train of thought was going and hit Kali hard on the back of her head before she could continue.
"You hentai!" Ariel hissed as Kali rubbed her head.
"Ow! That hurt Ariel! You just have no imagination. Just wait until YOU find someone you love. You'll be just as hentai!" Kali chided.
"Someone I love..." Ariel said as a far away look came into her eyes. "What if I already have someone I love?"
Ariel was so into her thoughts that she didn't notice the heavy footsteps heading towards her room until almost too late.
"The man you've been fantasizing about in your twisted dreams doesn't count Jou-chan." The owner of the gruff voice that replied to her slammed open the door and paused in his tracks. He had no intention of barging in when the girl's were getting dressed when he showed up to pick them up, but now that he had, he found that he couldn't move immediately. He glanced at the two girl's appraisingly, noticing their state of dress, or undress as it seemed, but before he knew it a blur of light skin and dark hair came rushing towards him.
"Gaahhhh!!! Donovan! What are you doing here? Don't you know how to knock?! HENTAI!" Ariel cried as she sent him flying out the door from her punch. She shoved Kali out as well and hurriedly put on her school uniform, muttering curses about perverted men and her love life, or lack there of as it seemed.
"Those two baka no hentai... How do I get myself into these situations?! Fantasy... hah!" A slight wind ruffled a loose sheet of paper half underneath her binder, Ariel picked up the piece of paper. It was a facial sketch of a man, a very handsome man at that, Covered with a midnight shadow. The girl's eyes softened as she caught sight of the sketch she had doodled two nights before and her eyes softened. She hadn't really drawn it on pupose; a brief flash of a person cloaked by darkness, passed through her mind and she started haphazardly making marks on her paper with her pen. When she had finished and looked down at what she had drawn, she had been convinced her writing tool had been possesed. Afterall, she had never really been good at drawing anything before. Mainly stick figures... But this picture...
Ariel gently traced the soft eyes on the man's face as she studied the drawing. The man's face looked real enough to make Ariel believe that he just might blink. The eyes were the only things she had managed to draw perfectly, but in the shadows of his left cheek she saw what looked like an oddly shaped scar.
Kali had complemented her on her skills when she first saw it and asked how Ariel had managed to make it look so nice when had never drawn much of anything else before, but Ariel had no answer for her then, nor did she now.
As Ariel continued to trace the eyes and the scar felt her eyes well up with tears. She didn't know why but as she looked at it, it seemed that a long forgotten wound was beginning to open up. Truth be told she had been dreaming of this man for as long as she could remember. At first she took it at face value but the dreams kept on coming back to her and she began to wonder if maybe there was something else to them.
Ariel suddenly began to feel cold. She looked over to the other side of the room to see if her window was open. She was mildly surprised to see it wasn't and began to get a strange sensation rising up her spine. "What is thi-?"
"Kaoru-dono..."
The girl jumped up and spun around to take in her room, looking for what had made the odd noise. She felt what seemed like an icy finger brush her cheek and the sensation grew. What was that? She searched for anything that might clue her in but found nothing. "Perhaps it was just my imagination running away with me."
"Kaoru-dono..."
It was the voice again and, grabbing it quickly from beside her bed, Ariel swung her kendo stick towrds the direction it was coming from, hitting someone straight in the face.
The spiky haired youth covered his nose with his hand after Ariel removed her stick. "Geez! Me and Kali were just curious as to why you were taking so long," he grumbled. Don was about to leave the room when he caught sight of a pink sakura blossom swirling on the ground. Curiously, he picked up the petal.
"What's this?"
Ariel and Kali looked at what he found and then watched as it dissolved into a light powder and floated out of the room in his hand.
"Okay... Now that was weird." Donovan said, but quickly shook it off when he saw Ariel pale in disbelief.
"Jou-chan?" Donovan asked quietly.
Kali watched, as her friend didn't move. "Ariel...?"
Ariel blinked as her color managed to return and she smiled at them.
"Gomen for hitting you Don, but we better go now. The kendo professor will get angry if we're late." She called as she dashed out the door with Don, her genki friend Kali following happily.
Just minutes before class started they managed to reach the college and part ways. Ariel didn't tell anyone, but the sakura petal and the voice she had heard just moments before seemed to bring back an image of something she had long since buried in the back of her mind. Apparently this showed in her movements, because even her usually cold teacher suggested she go to the nurse to see if she was feeling well while she was practicing. Ariel blushed and shook her head in embarrassment.
"I'm just a little distracted, sensei."
"Well get rid of your distraction," he said in his usual cold tone. "If you are in a real match and are distracted, it can be fatal." To prove this he suddenly lunged forward, hitting her on her side, causing her to yelp in surprise and anger at his accuracy and her inability to stop him.
"I told you," he said in his know it all tone before walking away.
Ariel fumed silently at this, but tried to get her mind back to her task.
Before long her class was over and she ran over to meet her friends in the student center. Before she could get there though, she caught sight of another sakura petal and had an overwhelming sense that she needed to go to the admissions office. She never noticed when Kali and Don passed right by her, or when the man just around the corner stopped in his tracks since he sensed something. He, however, shook it off and continued on his way, his long crimson hair swaying slightly.
Ariel suddenly felt weak. She swayed slightly and Don caught her arm quickly, steadying her before she fell.
"Jou-chan!... Ariel!" she heard the two voices call to her, causing her to shake her head in hopes of clearing the fog that had settled there.
"Daijoubu desuka?" Kali asked with a deeply worried tone to her voice.
"Hai... daijoubu desu!" she replied. For a moment there she felt as if she had traveled back in time to the place where her love had died, along with her heart. Ariel suddenly chuckled as she thought about what she had just felt. Heart... love? It made no sense.
"Are you sure?" Kali asked again and she nodded.
"That does it! I'm taking you to go see that fox-woman so she can tell you what's wrong with you besides your looks." Donovan said with a mischievous look in his eyes.
"Oi... you just want an excuse to flirt with her." Ariel accused.
Don shrugged his shoulders. "Hey... I'm a guy. Can you blame me if I think she looks better than either of you?" he asked, his smirk growing as he continued. "It's hard not to notice that soft long black hair, those sexy legs that stretch out to forever, breasts the size of..." he trailed off when he noticed the two girls next to him glaring with murder in their eyes.
"Hey now... You two are okay too... Sort of."
"That's not what we were talking about!" Within seconds he was flat on his back after feeling two flying fists connect squarely with his jaw.
"Men!" cried the two girls as they hurried away.
Don looked up irritatedly. "Women! Shit! I think they dislocated my jaw or something." He touched his sore jaw tenderly then grinned. "Oh well looks like another visit to the fox for me." he said as he casually got up and sauntered to the nurse's office.
"I can't believe the nerve of that guy," muttered Ariel as her and Kali walked. They had been at the school since 7:20 am, and their English class had just ended at 1:30 pm. Since they didn't want to head home right way they had decided to take a detour to the mall for a couple hours. On the way Ariel was complaining about Don the whole time.
"Do you like him or something?" asked Kali as a tease and Ariel stopped at the insult.
"Of course not!" she exclaimed, "I seriously don't know what Asa sees in him! They're always arguing anyway."
"Oooo! Ariel does like Don-san!"
Ariel stopped in her tracks and practically beat her roommate with her kendo stick.
"Oi! I'm just kidding Ariel! I know he's not your type! But I am curious... What is your type? I know it's not the strong silent type like my dear Aric-sama..." she said with happy sigh in her voice, "Or the gruff type like Don. You don't like the shy quiet type, and you most definitely don't like egotistical types."
Kali noticed her friend drift into her own little dreamland and became a little upset that she wasn't listening to her. "Hey!" the girl cried, forcing Ariel to come back to reality.
"I'm worried about you..." Kali said, "You're not acting like yourself."
"Ah it's...," Ariel said as they reached the mall, trying to forget about the strange things that had happened today. She caught sight of a new gift store with swords and shinai's on display in a case behind the window."Oh look!" she cried "Let's go there!"
The girl hurried towards the gift shop.
"Chotto Mateo! Kaoru-san!" Kali cried, and Ariel stopped dead in her tracks.
"What did you call me?" She asked as she turned towards the smaller girl.
"What do you mean?" Kali stated with a look of confusion on her face, "I called you Ariel of course."
"NO you..." Before she could finish her sentance, Ariel caught sight of a shock of long red hair, and a samurai outfitted man in the corner of her eye. The girl spun towards it only to see a small boy in a red sports jacket. Ariel chuckled to herself. "I must be getting paranoid."
Afterwards Ariel twirled around and headed towards the gift shop.
( To be continued...
AN: If you want to see the sketch that "Kaoru" drew go
I made like three or four sketches before I got to one I like, so I hope it's satisfactory. (Copy and Paste, or it won't show)
Now for Sayings...Most of the sayings in here are common knowledge...but just because I'm bored I'll put their English equivalents...and I'm not 100% sure about all the character names...
Jou-chan= Little Missy Daijoubu desuka?= Are you okay?
Hai... Daijoubu desu= Yes... I'm fine!
Hentai= Pervert, perverse
Baka no hentai= those stupid perverts
Sensei= Teacher, professor...
Gomen= I'm sorry
-Sama= respect, Endearment to someone older
-dono= Miss/Mr. (very polite honorific)
Names:
Kaoru= Fragrance
Ariel= Lioness of God/Spirit
Kali= Energetic
Aric= Strong leader
Donovan= Strong fighter
Asa= Healer