Disclaimer: I don't own Pretear
"I don't believe this!" Himeno complained. The pilot had just announced that their flight to New York was cancelled and their plain had now landed in Michigan.
"Don't get too upset about it." Takako said. "We'll all just get a hotel here and get on the next plane to New York."
"She's right." Hayate said. "Worse things could have happened, so let's just find a place."
"Fine." Himeno said, but she was still disappointed, she wanted her friends to see New York.
Sasame and Hayate called around and quickly found a hotel and got directions. It wasn't so close to the airport because most of the hotel's with reasonable prices that were near the airport had been taken by everyone else trying to get to New York.
Elsewhere:
Kiyatta was still skating fast after Kayla, who, after stopping and buying her cousin a Popsicle decided to take the long way home and race her. On the way home, Kayla thought about how she was going to tell her aunt that Kiki was in another fight.
"Hey look!" Kiki said as they skated along the sidewalk. "A traffic jam!"
"I wonder what the cause of it is." Kayla said and slowed to a stop.
"Well…" Kiki said. "Let's go see!" she sped up and yelled behind her, "Race you to the head of it!"
"Kiyatta! Wait!" Kayla yelled. "Oh crap!" she mumbled and started to skate after her cousin. That girl was just so hard-headed and never listened to a word anyone said. She made to effort to race her, as long as she could hear her giggles and see her back, she was fine.
Distracted, Kayla didn't notice she could no longer see Kiki, that is, until she heard her scream.
Elsewhere:
Himeno looked out the window of the Taxi. "Look at all of this traffic," she said. "We'd get there faster by walking."
Kei looked at the traffic and agreed with Himeno. "At the rate this is going, it'll be night before we get there." They all agreed that they should get out and walk until they came to a bus stop or there was less traffic.
They paid the driver and got out of the car, starting to walk. "How far do you think we'll have to walk?" Takako asked.
"Not that far." Sasame assured her. He heard the sound of wheels against the pavement and turned to see what it was, as soon as he did, a little girl on skates crashed into him and they both fell backwards, the little girl screaming as she fell.
"Oww!" she whimpered and rubbed her head, looking at her hand to make sure there was no blood on it.
Sasame knelt down beside her "Are you alright?" he asked and looked her over to make sure she had no injuries, but found a scrape on her right knee.
"I just fell flat on my a-…bottom…and you ask if I'm alright?!" she snapped. Sasame looked at her, as did Hayate, Goh and Kei, this girl seemed familiar somehow. "What are you all staring at?" she asked. "Never seen a girl on skates?"
"Sorry." Sasame said softly and offered a hand to the strangely familiar girl. "You know…you remind me of someone." He told her.
"Oh?" she asked and was about to take his hand when another girl skated in front of her and stood there glaring evilly at him.
"What did you do to her?!" she nearly screamed. "She doesn't scream for anything and she never falls down."
"Kayla," the fallen girl said calmly. "I'm not hurt."
"Look at your knee!" Kayla yelled in an older sister manner.
Suddenly, the older knights remembered something.
Flashback:
Chandra was training, and trying her hardest after preting with Hayate, but they weren't that in sync. She dodged an attack from Goh but was sent spiraling towards the ground.
She closed her eyes and forced Hayate to un-pret with her, tensing, as she expected to hit the ground, the worst that happened was on the way down, a nearby branch scratched her face, but Sasame quickly caught her before anymore damage could be done to her.
"Thank you." She whispered, holding onto him until they reached the ground.
"How did you do that?" Hayate asked. No one had ever been able to do what she did while they were in the air. It was impossible.
"I don't know," Chandra answered, "I was just scared for you so I imagined that we were separate again." She touched her injured cheek and winced slightly.
"What's going on?" came a voice from behind them. They turned to see Chandra's sister and immediately tensed. She was pushing her baby's stroller and had ice cream with her, no doubt for her sister.
"Just training." Hayate said and tried to hide the pretear behind him, away from the over protective sister.
"And where is Chandra?" she asked trying to get a glimpse of her sister. "Chan?"
"I'm okay Char." Chandra assured Charlotte.
Charlotte set down the ice cream and pushed her way through the knights. "What the hell?!" she yelled when she saw her sisters bloody cheek.
"It was my own fault." Chandra insisted. "I should have been more careful."
Charlotte looked like she wanted to throttle whoever caused her sister to fall, but walked to Chandra and grabbed her hand "I'd better take care of her; I'll deal with you all later."
Chandra reluctantly followed her sister as Charlotte pushed the baby's stroller and pulled her along at the same time. "Char, it's no big deal."
"No big deal?!" Charlotte yelled, taking Chandra home. "Look at your face!"
Flashback ends:
"Can you stand Kiki?" Kayla asked trying to help her cousin up and at the same time shaking the knights from their thoughts.
Kiki tried to stand up but her knee was pretty sore and she fell back down and started to cry.
Sasame kneeled down and helped her up. "It'll get better; it's nothing to be upset about."
"It's not that," Kiki said. "I'm embarrassed because I can't even walk!"
"Where do you live?" He asked.
"Hey! Hands off!" Kayla yelled and punched Sasame in the shoulder, effectively bruising him.
"Hey!" Takako scolded the girl but only received the filthiest glare she'd ever seen.
"Kayla!" Kiki yelled.
"Don't tell him where we live!" Kayla scolded. "He might be some kind of pervert!"
Kiki looked at Kayla then up at Sasame and smiled. "You're wrong about him" she said and wrapped her arms around his neck so he could carry her. "He's good, I can tell." Kiki then rattled off her address and told him where to find it.
Sasame picked Kiki up, one arm under her legs and one around her back and started to walk with her into the direction of their house.
Takako looked at him "Our Hotel's in the other direction."
Sasame smiled at her "This won't take long."
Kayla, now carrying hers and Kiki's bags rolled her eyes. "Your sister has a real attitude problem."
Everyone's gaze shot to Kayla and they looked shocked. "Kayla you're dumb…they don't resemble each other enough to be brother and sister." everyone relaxed a little. "They're cousins, like you and me." They tensed up again.
Kayla looked at her. "We don't look that much alike."
Kiki shrugged. "Our eyes, hair and skin are different, but we both have the facial features of our mothers, and they're almost twins."
"Kiki, my mom's older than your mom."
"You…think we're related." Takako finally spoke.
Kayla and Kiki nodded, "You give off the vibe of being brother and sister." Kayla added.
Kiki agreed. "But you don't look enough like each other so you must be cousins."
"Actually we're not…" Sasame started but was interrupted when Kayla spoke.
"Here's the house." She said and opened the fence as everyone stared in awe at yellow the Victorian styled house with a green roof. She looked at Sasame who was still staring, "You'd better bring her inside, and the rest of you come on."
Sasame nodded and carried Kiki into the house as Kayla opened the door and set her on the couch. "You know…" Kayla said before going to retrieve the first aid kit. "This is the first time I'm noticing…but you two have the same eyes, color shape and all…and your noses are the same too."
Sasame looked and Kiki as he helped her take off her skates, he did admit she did have the same eyes…and a streak of silver hair like his…but she looked like someone else to him. "What?" she asked.
"I'm sorry, but you remind me of someone." He answered. "And so does your cousin."
"Hey," Shin said, picking up a picture and bringing it over. "Is this your mother?"
Kiki looked at the picture and nodded "Yeah, that's my mom, isn't she pretty?" Shin nodded and Takako took the picture and looked at it, almost immediately dropping it. "Hey! Be careful!" Kiki squealed as her mothers picture was dropped and the glass shattered.
Takako didn't hear over her own thoughts…this girls mother was the same girl from Sasame's pictures! She was older now, but she was certain it was her.
"I'm home!" a womans voice called.
"Mom!" Kayla yelled and ran out to her mother, carrying the first aid kit.
"Charlotte!" Hayate said, surprised.
"No way…" Charlotte mumbled, just as stunned. "But…" she ran and hugged him tightly. "I don't believe this!" she laughed. "How've you been?"
"We're fine but we were a little worried when you disappeared without telling us."
"So wait…" Goh said and looked at Kayla. "That's the baby?"
Charlotte nodded. "Yeah, that's the baby."
"She's got a mouth like you." Kei added.
"I missed you too Kei." Charlotte said dryly.
"Mom!" Kayla chirped then pointed to Sasame. "He hurt Kiki!"
"He didn't." Kiki said.
Charlotte looked at Sasame then froze. "Nice seeing you all, now bye, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
"What?" Sasame asked standing.
"Chandra's coming home…and I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to see you."
"Mom, since when are you scared of aunty?" Kayla asked.
"I'm not but…"
"I'm back!" Sang another voice.
"Too late…" Charlotte grumbled.
"In here mommy!" Kiki called loudly.
"Mommy?" Sasame asked.
"Shhh!" Charlotte whispered, but it was too late.
Chandra walked into the living room, hearing her daughter call her and when she saw that they had company, she froze. "S-sasame…what are you…?"
Sasame looked at her. She looked wonderful, she'd grown so much since the last time he saw her. She'd left him ten years ago with no reason.
"Chandra." He said, causing her to shiver nervously. "It's nice to see you again." He walked slowly towards her, Takako watched closely, her face turning red.
"I…I…" Chandra stuttered, unsure of what to say, "You…" before she had a chance to think of a word to say, Sasame embraced her warmly.
"You look great." He said to her.
Chandra felt her face getting warm and her heart rate increasing. She was happy to see him, but at the same time…this was a disaster. Her mind started to get cloudy as she started to feel overwhelmed and she quickly fainted in Sasame's arms.
A/N: Two old flames meet again. R&R please
