A/N: I am sensing a pattern here. There is always a tree. In both my stories of Rosario+Vampire, there is a tree. Huh. I just realized as I finished a quarter of this story. Haha! Moving on…
WARNING: The characters and Rosario+Vampire are not mine. Only the story and plotline is. SHOUNEN-AI or BL here. Ah! Whatever song I may use in this story is not mine. I use it to set the mood. :D You've been warned yeah? R & R. Flames are welcome. I'll just use it to melt chocolate and make fondue. :3 yumm..
/hello/ - thoughts
"hello" - people speaking
+++ Remembering +++
I sat, waiting at our tree after a long tiring day of our (finally!) last exams. Looking around the many youkai happily chatting and discussing their vacation plans, I closed my eyes as I took in the cool breeze and the smell of the flowers near me.
'*Tutun.. Churuchuruchuruparapa.. Disco lady, disco lady.. With emotion, with—' I furrowed my brow, sidled my bag closer, reached into it and flipped my phone open to see a text message from Gin. /Come to think of it, I don't remember this song being my ring or message tone. Moka must have changed it./
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-babyWolf-
Tsukune, where are you?
-Tsukunek0i—
I'm under our tree. Remember, the last time you scared us with you roaring, just at the part of the story where I was gonna make them scream. I'm still a little mad about that, you know.
-babyWolf-
So that's where you are. The girls are looking for you. Anyway, that was hilarious! If you could see the look on your faces at that precise moment! You know I'm sorry for that right, love?
-Tsukunek0i—
I know. I forgave you as did they. I just get a little mad sometimes when I remember it. I'll be waiting for you and the girls, okay? Get here soon, I'm feeling kind of sleepy right now.
-babyWolf-
Will do. See you in a few minutes. Love you.
-Tsukunek0i—
I love you too.
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Clearing my throat, I closed my phone while blushing lightly. /He's so cute./ I thought.
I returned my phone in my bag, and making sure that it's right at my side. I closed my eyes again. I really am sleepy now, but I promised to wait for them so I need to keep awake.
Opening my eyes, I managed to keep them half-lidded, if not fully opened. My vision was replaced by a blur, which formed to images, which I think were memories. I think the background noise also helped my remembrance.
We were all over the room, laughing at jokes, discussing movies, some were drawing, others were sleeping, lovers were giggling to themselves and were star-struck to their significant others. The teacher didn't show up for our English class, and as the bell rang, the students occupying the room halved.
Time for lunch! I wasn't hungry,' cause I bought snacks during the last period when we were sure the teacher wasn't coming. Only a few were left. Two students were still sleeping, and three couples along with myself and the gang were here. The girls were giggling to a story Yukari was telling them, with gestures and sound effects added. I looked around for a certain someone. I didn't find him.
I decided to join the girls since there wasn't anything to do until our hour long lunch ends. After a few minutes of listening, three of our classmates entered, and a smell that was familiar yet puzzling was spreading through the enclosed space of our room. It was the smell of an alcoholic beverage I couldn't pronounce. And look! There he was.
Morioka Ginei was stumbling a bit. He greeted us. Slurred his hello's and took a seat beside me.
"Heyyyyy."
"Hi. You know alcohol's not allowed right? How did you guys even manage to sneak them in?" I said.
"Thaat's a sec-secret. Besides, I'm n-not drunk! Just a bit tipsyyyy. Hehe."
"Right.." I didn't quite believe him.
My two other classmates went to our group and showed us their bottle. It seemed they replaced the contents of a Liter Soda with their alcohol. So that's how they sneaked it in. Just to make sure, I took it and took a sniff of the colorless liquid, and recoiled a bit at the smell. Yup, definitely alcohol.
They suggested we each take a sip, just to celebrate with them. Celebrate what? I don't know. I don't want to, so I declined as did Yukari. Moka-san, Mizore-chan and Kurumu however, took at least two gulps of the plastic bottled alcohol. They were fortunately, not a lightweight like I was. As it was, they were flushed a bit due to the strong alcohol. Afterwards, the guys took the bottle and passed them around, and thankfully, only a few partook in their offer.
All in all, there were three slightly tipsy girls and boys, and five drunken classmates. Guess who was one of drunks? Gin was.
The atmosphere then became lighter due to the alcohol loosening up their normal personas.
Babbling was heard and the laughter echoing in the room was loud. I find myself doubling over in mirth as we watch some of our classmates make a fool out of themselves, more than one time.
Deciding that my cheeks, jaw and stomach hurt enough from laughing too much, I went out of the room and sat down the stairs a few steps away from the door of our room, and thought of how much trouble we were going to be in if a staff or teacher of the school takes a whiff of the smell of alcohol in the hallway.
Clutching my knees, I rested my chin on them and was lost in a daydream. I closed my eyes and thought of home, or more specifically, my precious bed. Oh yes. I missed sleeping in my very comfortable bed.
I would have loved to continue that very relaxing daydream, but a couple came back to the room, passing me by with grins on their faces. Raising an eyebrow, I stood up and stretched, about to go in the room but was blocked by the one and only, Gin.
I gave him another raised eyebrow and was about to move past him when he whispered my name.
"Tsukune.."
This surprised me for he normally calls me with the suffix –kun.
"Hai? Gin-sen- Wahh!"
He was only a few inches from my face right now, and he kept staring at my eyes. Against my will, I felt my face flush. So, I stepped back. The problem was that with every step back, he steps forward, until my back was against the wall. Great.
I tried to inch sideways but his arms blocked the sides of my head. My heart was pounding and I was sweating a bit. I frantically look at the door to see if I could get any help, only to find it closed. When did that happen?
I was pulled back from those thoughts by Gin-senpai calling me. "Tsukune!"
I looked back to see him looking down on me, or more specifically, my lips. Uh oh, I'm in trouble.
I tried to push him away but he ended up holding my head and shoulders, trying to kiss me. By then, I was panicking. I kept my hand on his chest, pushing against his pull, with the other on his bicep to pull it away from my shoulder. My thoughts quickly run through my classmates' names, thinking on whom to call for help, when I heard Yukari shouting and moments later laughing.
I yelled for her quickly, for Gin now had one of his hands around my waist and the other at the back of my neck. My lower body was now in line with his, my hands on his shoulders the only thing keeping our mouths from meeting. He was strong. I was only keeping him from kissing me through will power alone.
"Yukari! Yukari! Get out here! Yukari!"
The laughter inside the room was louder as she opened the door with her still laughing and looking sideways to the entertainment inside. I called her again, and as she looked back to me, her smile dropped and a raised eyebrow replaced it with a hint of a smile on her lips.
She continued to stare for a few more moments as she took in our position and I thought of what we must look like to her.
Me, flushed and flat on my back against the wall, with my hands on Gin's shoulders, as his arms were wrapped around my waist and neck, like a lover's embrace. It would be mistaken as that, if not for the fact that I was pushing and mouthing 'help me' over and over with him trying to move our mouths closer to each other.
A look that I couldn't decipher flashed on her face, and after a blink it was gone and I reminded myself to think about it later. After I was out of his strong arms. Geez. Wait. That sounded..weird. Moving on.
"Yukari, help!"
"Ginei-san! Let go of Tsukune-kun! Ginei-san! "
I looked at her to see what she would do, as Gin didn't seem to have heard her. I was distracted by a shine above our heads and heard her casting a spell.
I turned my head down, closed my eyes and readied myself for the pain of having a metal tub dropped on my head, when I was released and Gin turned around and walked gingerly into the room with Yukari's prodding. I glanced down and to the side to see a small washtub on the ground. I saw her glance back at me one more time, before the door was closed.
"Huh. That must have distracted Gin-senpai enough to finally hear Yukari calling."
I looked at the ceiling and took a deep breath, counted to three and let it out, amused and thankful that I was heard through the loud ruckus happening inside our room. I must have yelled loudly. Well, loud enough that the person being yelled at heard me at least. I can't imagine the scenario if everyone came out to see what I was yelling about.
As I was about to take hold of the doorknob of the room, the situation and position I was in a while ago finally sunk in, and I flushed heatedly once again. Determined to forget about the 'incident', I shook my head thrice, stilled my shoulders and turned the knob. I went inside the room and closed the door behind me.
That particular memory made me smile and cringe at the same time.
After I went inside the room, no one seemed to notice what happened outside, except for four people. It seemed that Yukari had told the girls what happened, 'cause they all were looking at me with their arms crossed across their chests. Thinking the small smile they have on their faces as hallucinations, I sat beside them and watched the show in front. No matter how funny I find the things being done by my drunk classmates, I still can't find it in myself to laugh as hard as I was before.
Giggling lightly as I remembered the accident involving Gin and me that day, I also remembered the silence that came with it. I was going to walk out the room again when Gin suddenly stood up and power-walked in front of me, going for the door too. Collision took place, and while intoxicated, Gin managed to hold my head and back in his arms as we fell down. We fell hard, and I believe that if Gin wasn't holding me, a trip to the clinic might have been needed. I was clutching the only thing I believed would steady me at the time of the fall, and I saw that my hands were holding onto his shirt and jacket. That's when the room became silent and looking up, besides the view of Gin's admittedly handsome face and curtain of hair, I can see the gob smacked faces of my classmates looking at us. Some amused, some uncertain, and some not caring.
I flushed when Gin whispered my name and hugged me tightly, his face pressed against my chest. I asked for help in getting him off me, and it took ten minutes to pry him off me, while we were still on the floor. He kept murmuring indecipherable things, which actually tickled, when they were trying to pull him away.
After I was able to stand and he was lead away, he dropped down to the corner of the room, laid down and kept calling for me. Sometimes murmuring, and at other times, shouting. It was embarrassing! My classmates were asking him questions at my expense, and the only thing I could understand was my name and wife and house. I was like 'Whaaaattttt?'
Shaking my head from side to side, I looked at the clock and realized it was almost the end of lunch. If you can only see the strategy we had to employ in order to keep the next teacher from finding out that he and the others have been drinking. It was hilarious.
I still remember the relief I felt that day, as well as the disappointment and confusion. I was relieved because no one saw us about to kiss, I was disappointed because nothing happened, kissing or otherwise and I was confused because I was disappointed. The thoughts running through my head that day continued until I couldn't sleep that night.
I figured now, that that day was the day I finally took notice of Morioka Ginei as anything other than my senpai. Being the resident pervert and our senior for a year, those qualities didn't exactly endear him to me. A brother sure; a perverted brother or a guardian, he can be that. But in that drunken episode with him, he thought that his senpai looked quite a bit…gorgeous. From that day forward, he began to take notice of Gin's little mannerism and activities. You could say, he had a tiny crush on him.
He sometimes even interpreted Gin's actions wrong or somewhat wrong, in a way which he thought Gin was romantically inclined with him.
I knew now that I wasn't wrong in assuming that, because apparently, Gin had been trying to make him notice.
I was startled from my thoughts when my phone played a song in English, which sounded foreign, even to him.
'*Why am I feeling this is a crazy law, you can have many laws. Even how you're born. Why am I feeling—' /Where do these songs come from?/
Reaching for my phone once again, I saw two more text messages.
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-CapuChuXx-
Tsukune, can you wait for at least five more minutes. Something came up and I need to finish it quicky.
-Tsuki-kUn-
It's alright Moka. I'll wait. What about the others?
-CapuChuXx-
Oh, they'll be along. I actually have no idea where they are. I've been called by the principal. Don't worry, it's nothing serious. See you.
-Tsuki-kUn-
Alright then. See you.
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I opened the other message. It was from Mizore-chan.
-Miz0i-chan-
I'm with Yukari and Kurumu. Wait for us. I see you.
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I sat up and looked around. I couldn't see them, so where-?
Kurumu plopped down on my shoulders, her wings were out so that means she was flying. Mizore had long jumped off her girlfriend's back and sat herself in front of me. Yukari stopped her broom a few paces besides us, shrunk it and sat beside me.
"Kurumu-koi, sit down." Said Mizore, softly to her lover.
Kurumu flew up and sat almost entirely on Mizore's lap, sprawled on her chest and grinned up at her girlfriend.
"Look at them, Tsukune-kun. They're so sweet. Where's Gin-senpai?" Yukari asked.
I smiled at her and said "I have no idea, but he'll be here soon."
"I bet." Yukari smirked.
Just as she finished her sentence, I startled and jumped a bit when arms grabbed me around my waist and out of instinctive self-defense, I head-butted the person behind me. Who grunted a lot like Gin. Yeah. Oh no.
As I turned around from my seating, rambunctious laughter was heard from my peers as I saw my teary-eyed, headband wearing, black-haired lover clutching his nose. Cringing as I carefully remove his hands to inspect the damage, I bit my lower lip to stop the laugh that wanted to escape my lips. His nose was bright red! He looked like a personified version of Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. A cute one, at that. Besides, he was pouting. Awww.. His look said 'Wounded wolf here, you shouldn't be laughing when you did it.' Right then. After all, it was my fault he has that red nose, albeit unintentionally.
Helping him up, I sat against the tree and made him lay his head on my lap, and kissed his nose softly, giving him an apologetic look as he hissed in pain when my lips made contact. Smiling through the pain, he reached up to the back of my neck and pulled me down to one of the chastest kisses he has ever given me. Chaste, but nonetheless gave me butterflies in my stomach and made my heart beat faster. I smiled down at him, petting his hair as he smiled back and closed his eyes. Hearing conversation about the latest fashion in the youkai world, I looked at my friends and thought /This is nice. It's so peaceful, for now anyways. /
Ten minutes passed by, conversation shifting from topic to topic, until we saw Moka running towards us. Sitting heavily next to Yukari, she took her hand and leaned on her until she caught her breathe back.
"Is something wrong, Moka?" Yukari asked her lover.
"Nothing at all, Yu-ka-ri-chan~. I'm just excited to come with you to your Sabbath." Said Moka with a smile on her face.
"Speaking of Sabbaths, Tsukune. Where are you going for your summer vacation?" asked Kurumu.
At that question, Gin opened his eyes and looked straight up at me. I ignored him. Biting my lip, I answered that I was going to stay at the school for this summer. I told them, that my parents were going on their third honeymoon and that I didn't want to be a bother to them.
Various suggestions were thrown this way and that, such as he could come with them, that their parents wouldn't mind but I politely declined each of them.
I looked at Gin as he sat up, stretched and pulled me up by my wrist. He excused us, and led me a few paces away where our conversation wouldn't be as easily heard.
He turned back to me, his nose perfectly normal as it was before he got injured ten, fifteen minutes ago. In my head, I was cursing the unfairness of it all. /Stupid werewolf healing./ I grumbled silently, not really meaning it.
"Why won't you even consider going with them for your vacation?" asked a concerned Gin.
I bit my lip as his reason for distance dawned on me. I looked down and said that I didn't want to bother anyone.
He cupped my face in his hands and tilted it up towards him. He caressed both my cheeks with his thumbs and asked why I thought I'd be a bother to my friends.
Alternating between looking at his eyes and at the ground, my hands clenching and unclenching at my sides, I said "I don't want to be a bother because maybe they'll change their mind, and I don't want them to make a decision that would be hard for them, like maybe telling me that they can't be my friends anymore. I don't want to be a baggage or a hardship to anyone. So instead, I'm saving them the trouble in the future."
"Oh, koi." He hugged me tightly. Wrapping his arm around my waist and cradling my head against his neck. I hugged back with as much intensity I could muster at the moment.
"You are very kind and considerate, Tsukune. But sometimes, you have to consider and think about yourself for once. About what would make you happy and right now, I can tell that you want to be out and about with your friends. So why won't you?"
Blushing in his hold, I whispered and admitted that besides the fact that I didn't want to be a bother to them, I actually wanted this summer vacation to be spent with him. Just the two of us. As I said this, I turned my head to hide my face on his chest, not wanting him to see how embarrassed I am.
He had the nerve to laugh at me, but I forgave him when he kissed my hair and sighed I love you while resting his cheek on top of my head. I murmured I love you back.
Peeking around his arms, my half-lidded eye looked over my friends and saw them waving us over. I told him that we were wanted and pouted a little when he loosened his hold and pulled me over our spot under the tree once again.
This time however, I was the one laying my head on his lap, with him petting my hair.
He is so sweet.
I was thankful when the conversation started from a topic unrelated to the previous subject of summer vacation. However, after a few minutes, Kurumu steered it back again to the one I dreaded.
Shockingly, Gin was the one that answered for me.
"Tsukune-koi is going with me and my father on our vacation. We're going hiking and spelunking on the forest and mountain near our home in the Human World." Said Gin nonchalantly, smiling down at me.
I was stuck on what he said for a moment, before a grin spread on my face. I yelled happily before pouncing up and hugging my boyfriend until we hit the ground with an 'Oof!'. I smiled down at him from his position on the ground, made myself comfy and listened to his heartbeat beating loudly and fast against my ear. Smiling sideways at my friends as they told us how happy they were that no one was going to be alone this summer, I took a deep breath and watched the sun slowly set in the sky, Gin's warmth and solid presence calming me as I slowly fell asleep listening to the happiness leaking out the voices of my friends and the song Gin was softly singing as his hand gently ran across my back.
*My precious one, my tiny one
Lay down your pretty head
My dearest one, my sleepy one
It's time to go to bed.
My precious one, my darling one
Don't let your lashes weep.
My cherished one, my weary one
It's time to go to sleep.
Just lie your head and give your cares to me.
Just close your eyes and fall into the sweetest dream
Cause in my loving arms
You're safe as you will ever be
So hush my dear and sleep.
And in your dreams
You'll ride on angel's wings.
That's when the stars
Will touch the face of God
And if you should awake.
My precious one, my tiny one
I'll kiss your little cheeks
And underneath the smiling moon
I'll send you back to sleep.
A/N: Thank you for reading. Hope you don't mind their nicknames in the cellphones. Don't know what I was thinking when I wrote those names. You should be able to guess who is who though right? Haha..
Anyway, please review. Tell me what you think. :D Ah! Sword slasher was it? I think I like this pairing as Tsukugin rather than Ginkune. :D That's just me. Anyway! Thank you very much to all that reviewed in my one-shot, Simply a Coincidence. Hopefully, you'll like this chaptered story as well.
Don't forget to review and sorry for taking so long to update or even upload a new story for those who have read my stories. As for being more spicy for this couple, I'm still at the stage where cuteness and romance keeps me going. But, if I get the inspiration to be a little more, you know, I'll be sure to make it for you, Caone. And! You actually reviewed that story twice. Thank you, once again. Scarlet-and-snow, dude, I wanna hear from you again, email me or whatever. How are you?
Oh yeah! The songs I used:
*Discotheque - Rosario Vampire S1 Opening Theme Song
*Crazy Law - Kazaky
*My Precious One - Celine Dion
Moving on, hope you like this. Review for cookies, candies and chocolates please! :D
