So I'm back guys! And thank you for all of your words. I know this took more than usual but I still need to study for my exams. So I will post a chapter once a week, with the occasional two chapter per week, depending on my muse and free time.
In this chapter, you will see the glee club finally getting their answer, well at least some of them. You will also see a little of Naru's past without Rachel. There will be also faberritanna moments, nothing serious yet tho.
I hope you like it and please remember that this is mild burn.
LOVE LIKE NIGHT
Chapter Three: Q&A Glee Style
NO ONE'S POV
After the song ended, a silence fell upon the room. Once again not feeling the obvious tension Mr. Schue started to clap his hands. "That was amazing. You have a marvelous voice Naru! And Rachel why didn't you ever brought him here? We need more voices like him. It's not right to hide such voice just because you want the spot light all to your self…"
While Mr. Schue was talking, all that Rachel could think of was, 'and they say I rant a lot…' Clearing her throat, Rachel said "Mr. Schue in case you have forgotten, Naru is new to McKinley as well as Lima, so I wasn't hiding him. In fact I only meet him this past summer"
Coming to his senses Mr. Schue, blushed a little before looking sheepishly. "You are right Rachel. I apologize for my assumptions"
"There is no need for that. I know that my past actions led you to believe that was capable of hiding the knowledge of a talent voice from the club just because I wanted a solo. But you need to know that would never do that. I like competition it makes things look more interesting." Finished Rachel with a smirk. Naru just rolled his eyes while smiling at the Diva.
Looking for some gossip Mercedes turned to Naru. "So you just moved to Lima? Where are you from then?"
Looking up to the glee club who were all focusing on him, Naru replied. " I never had just one place to stay. My family owns some business around the world so we were always moving from place to place. The last place I live was in New York, so I guess that's your answer"
Before Mercedes could nod, Kurt asked Naru "Where did you meet Rachel?"
This time Rachel answer. "We meet at an arts summer camp in New York. I was on the music part of the camp; Naru was on the literature part of the camp. Who had some workshops together and some classes, so we just started to talk."
Again, another member, this time Mike, asked something before anyone could talk. "Why were you in literature if you obvious know how to sing and dance?"
"I love to sing and to dance, but my true passion is writing. I wanted to be a writer since I first read 'Lolita'"
"Why Vladimir Nabokov? Why not Shakespeare or something?" Asked Quinn, she was also into literature, and she knew Lolita was not an easy book to find on the shelves
"Well it was one of the first books I ever read. My Mom gave it to me, she didn't want me to lose part of my heritage," Naru answered coolly, but Rachel knew it was always hard for him to talk about his mom.
"So you are Russian?" Quinn asked once again. It appeared to be the obvious answer.
"Yes I am. My mom was Russian while my Father was American." Not giving any more information, he turned to the rest of the glee kids "Does anyone as anymore questions?"
This time it was Brittany, who after raising her hand, asked. "What are you and Rachie? Cause we saw you together on Sunday?"
Smiling a small smile while turning to the blond dancer, cause really you cannot stay mad at her, Naru answered " I guess you can say I'm now Rachel's best friend, maybe adoptive brother even though I think that because of our past that's just not possible right now. And you saw us together because I'm living in Rachel's house"
If the all question moment was going surprisingly quietly and calm , that stopped the moment Naru finished his sentence. Pure chaos follow it… well not pure chaos just random yelling and shouting,
"WHAT THE FUCK!"
"YOU ARE LIVING TOGETHER !"
"OH HELL TO THE NO!"
"AS IN THE SAME HOUSE!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR PAST?"
"ARE YOU TWO TOGETHER ?"
Well things didn't seemed to be calming down anytime soon, so Rachel played her secret card, AKA her voice. Breathing in she shouted "CAN'T YOU PLEASE BE ALL QUIET!"
In seconds, the whole glee club was silent, freaked out with the powerful voice of the diva. Naru just looked surprised while muttering, "That never fails to scare me"
Being the first to recover Santana turned to Rachel and said, "Why is that perro living with you?"
Breathing in again, (cause really even for her it was hard), Rachel answered "Naru's living with me because he didn't had a house in Lima and no one to stay with. So my parents offered the guest bedroom to him. It would be a waste of money to buy a house, when I had an extra bedroom. Plus he is good company when he isn't being an asshole" Rachel finished with a smirk thrown at Naru, who just pouted at her saying "I'm not that bad"
Ignoring Naru, Finn got of his chair, walking to Rachel he asked when he was next to her, "And what did he meant with your past? Did you two dated, did you cheated on me?"
The way he was looking at the tinny diva, as if he wanted to punch somebody, made Naru edgy so he careful walked next to the diva, but didn't do anything else.
Sensing Finn's bad mood, but knowing she couldn't drag this anymore Rachel said "First we are not together, so I was not cheating on you. And second, yes me and Naru dated but we are not dating now, nor will ever be again. Me and him are best friends and that's all there is"
"BULSHIT!" yelled Finn grabbing Rachel's arm. Before anyone could intervene, (meaning Naru, Quinn, Britany and Santana, who were all glaring with rage at Finn), Rachel grasped Finn's thumb before twitching it, pressing the nail. That made the boy's nerve react and so with a yelp he released the Diva. "What did you do?" asked a confused Finn clutching his thumb
"I merely pressed a nerve you had on your finger, which made you feel a rapid pain, which consequently made you release me" Rachel said coolly. Speaking again she said "Fin I can understand you being upset, but please know that next time you try to manhandle me I will not be so peaceful. Next time I may just let Naru have fun with you. And believe me he can get carried away very easily"
Too prove her point, she gestured to the boy in question. He was grinning a wicked grin while cracking his knuckles.
Finn had fear in his eyes, but he refused to show it. Turning to Rachel he said "We will talk later" with that the giant boy stormed out of the room.
After a silent while, Mr. Schue said "Well I think it's best if we end the class now"
His answer were nods and murmurs of agreement. The rest of the club just slowly started to leave, not really believing on what had happened.
In the end, only Naru and Rachel plus the Holy Trinity were left. Just then, Naru's phone started to ring. The boy went to turn it off when Rachel cut it him off. "Your phone has been ring for the whole meeting, don't you think it may be important?"
"It's only my grandfather. He must want to just know how my staying going" answered Naru is
"Well it may not be that, you should answer it" tried Rachel again
"Well you will not stop until I do it, so I guess I have no choice" grabbing his phone he said "Meet you on the parking lot okay" seeing Rachel nod Naru started to walk away
Grabbing her bag, Rachel started to leave the room when Britany touched her shoulder. Smiling at the bubbly girl Rachel asked, "Do you need something?"
The blond she smiled while saying "Are you going to the dance studio today?"
"I … actually yes I'm going why ?" replied Rachel
"I'm going too and San and Q are going also, so you should come with us Rachie" said Britany while pointing to her and the other two girls who had shy smiled on her faces
Trying not to chuckle at the taller girl giddiness, Rachel said " I'm sorry Britany but I brought my motorcycle today so I can't really come with you guys. Thanks for asking thought" finishing with a smile that made the other three girls internally swoon
Touching Rachel's shoulder again Britany said, "Well I know that! We saw you in the morning, you were really hot on top of your bike" this made the tinny diva blushed, which brought a smirk to Santana's and Quinn's faces " But you can ride behind us, and after class we can all go eat something"
Rachel was starting to answer "Well I dunno Britt I may have too…" when her phone biped, seeing what it was she saw it was a sms from Naru, opening it she read, 'I'm sorry Little one but I have to go meet my grandfather see you on Wednesday. Take care. Love ya'. Tipping her response Rachel wrote 'That's okay Naru, I will warn the teacher. Love you too'
Being able to read the tiny girl's sms Britany said "You see now you don't have to worry about Kiev plus with us you won't be alone"
"Who are you calling Kiev?" asked a confused diva
"Naru of course isn't he Russian? Now come one we need to go to dance class" grabbing Rachel's hand Britany started to sprint towards the parking lot, the tiny diva running trying to keep up, with the energy blond.
Santana and Quinn followed the two girls. Santana muttered, "At least she didn't said no"
"I don't think Britt really gave her time to do so"
"Well I play with what I can get. At least the new guy won't be around Rachel for a while," replied Santana
"Yeah but then he comes back to live in her house… and we already know that her dads travelled a lot so they will be together and alone for a long time" bitterly assumed Quinn. She didn't like the thought of the tiny diva and the Russian kid all alone at night… nope not one bit.
Santana gripped her fists while she tried to contain her rage. "You just had to make me think of that, didn't you Quinn! Now I want to strangle the new kid!"
"Oh please you already wanted to do that" retorted Quinn
"Maybe… but now I have another reason" slightly smirking said the Latina girl
"Yeah… yeah… let's just go find the Britt and Rachel" an also smirking Quinn said
With that, the two cheerleaders started walking towards the other two girls
AFTER PRACTICE
Before the summer, the word Quinn and Santana would use to describe Rachel was something between the lines of – annoying, tranny, Diva, weird, hobbit, etc... After the summer the words changed – cute, misunderstood, fighter, tinny, amazing, etc.… Right now however, the only word that was son their mind was – HOT.
You see, while not being as flexible as Britany, Rachel danced with an aura of confidence and sexiness that she usually didn't showed. Her movements were fluently and without no effort whatsoever. She made doing a slip look easy. Plus her clothes were not helping the girls either. A pink sports bra that let her stomach open, grey shorts that hugged her ass on all the right places and a pair of grey snicker that had seen better days. Her hair was pulled up in a ponytail, and because of that, you could see she had a piercing on top of her left ear, nothing much just a silver star.
Their drooling fest was stopped however, because Britany run up to them with a face that screamed 'I'm excited and so happy right now'. Looking expectantly at their girlfriend, they waited for her to talk.
"Guys you won't believe what just happened!" the taller blond was seconds away from starting to jump up and down
"You could tell us sweetie and we would know" a smiling Latina said
"Rachel just said we could have a sleepover at her house… I mean I kind of beg her too…. But she said YES isn't that awesome! She is now getting dressed so in about less than twenty minutes we will be alone with Rachie for a whole night !" she was rambling so fast, that Santana and Quinn had trouble keep on, but they did get the important parts, and that left them with big smiles on their faces. 'Progress' was what they were all thinking.
"So we are just going to drive there or are we going to a restaurant first?" Asked Quinn
"I thought it would be best if we order take out actually" came the voice of Rachel from behind Britany
"I also agree that's the best option." Said Santana looking at Rachel "Are you ready to go?"
"Yeah I'm ready. Just follow my bike and I will take you to my house"
"Roger that tiny"
"You know you are almost the same height as me, don't you?"
"You are still tinier"
"ugh. Could you possibly be more annoying!"
"Says the queen of all that annoys"
"Please that's your majesty for you"
The girls continued to bicker until they reached the parking lot, not knowing that the blonds we having a blast while trying to contain their giggles at the show Santana and Rachel were putting. For a while, life was calm.
WITH NARU, NARU'S POV
After leaving glee, I quickly grabbed my bike. My grandfather hadn't said much just 'they are here' and 'You need to come here now'. The truth was that there I didn't need anything else, to know what my Grandfather was talking about.
My parents were back…
Now I know that sounds impossible, because they are dead, right? WRONG, I told Rachel that because for all purposes my parents are dead. Dead to me and my family that is.
You see for generations my family, the Calcifer's have lived by a code. To protect each other and the future's generation at all costs. During medieval times, a children would only be taught how to fight if their father and mother had died first, our girl was to create a world without violence. Now that sounds almost impossible right? Yeah well about a hundred years ago my great great grandfather also thought that, and so the code was changed. From that day our family would became weapons whose purpose was too protect those who could not protect themselves. My family transformed into a shadow that helped the people without them knowing it. I could write almost a bible telling the wars that we helped win. We never wanted recognition, the dark was our friend, the light made things harder for us.
My father however was not a Calcifer and that was perhaps his downfall. Played by his greed, my father stole the drawings and projects for weapons, and the formulas for medicines that my family created. He sold some of them and with the money created his own monopoly. A kingdom forged by the blood of innocents who didn't have the money to pay for his weapons.´
My mom was too blinded by her love to notice the changes in my Father, and when she did she was too late, his soul was beyond saving. She didn't leave him, no my mom loved him, and so she fled with him. With them went also my twin sisters, Ana and Astrid. They always were daddy's little girls and so that was not a surprise. I on the contraire was more shy and reserved, and that's was what saved me in the end. My father ignored me most of the times because of my shyness and so I learned that he was capable of being wrong.
When the time came for me to choose, I choose my family, I choose the code.
I never thought of them since that day almost 8 years ago. Funny how life doesn't let me forget my regrets…
And that's it. I keep it short because I want the next part to be all together.
Hope you like it!
Next is chapter 4 – The lies we tell
Sinaikai out