OUR HEARTS JOURNEY
By: saihei
Disclaimer: I do not own 'Full metal panic'.
Last event from the latter chapter...
"I see, can you receive a package?" The brown haired stranger asked.
"Um, tell me your name first! Mommy told me to not talk to strangers, you know?" Shizuru explained.
The stranger smiled and rumpled Shizuru's hair. "Alright, forgive me, my mistake. I am Sagara Sousuke..."
CHAPTER 3: "Inevitable meeting"
Shizuru smiled widely and bowed her head. "Hello Mr. Sagara! Nice meeting you!"
Sousuke returned the warm smile. "Same here little miss, so can you received a package then? But I supposed I would rather hand over those heavy packages to your guardian." He pointed to the set of big traveling bags behind him.
Shizuru looked at the familiar bags. "Um! That belongs to us!" She pouted. "You're right, I can't carry them," Her sulking face lit up when she thought of something. "Alright then! Please wait for a moment I'll call my mommy!"
Sousuke nodded. Shizuru was about to run to the bathroom when she saw her mother already making way closer to her. She's wearing a white silk bathrobe, her long blue hair was still dripping with water and she was frowning. "Oh-oh?"
Sousuke's eyes squinted when he noticed the sudden change in the jovial child's face. "What's wrong?" His attention transferred to the voice that was beckoning closer to the door; a very familiar feminine voice...
"Shizuru! I ordered you to just stay put! What are you doing standing before that open door?!" The female voice irritably reprimanded.
The brown haired young girl places both of her tiny hands behind her and looked up to her miffed mother with her most angelic gaze. "But mommy, there's no one here to open the door but only me."
"Either!" Kaname halted in front of the door.
Sousuke's eyes widened. His heart began to beat faster than normal. His grey eyes had pinned to the beautiful face he thought he would never see again...he uncertainly uttered her name. "K-Kaname..."
Kaname frowned and unsuspectingly moved her glare to the person who called her name. "Who the he--" This time, Kaname was the one who stared incredulously toward the unwanted visitor. "Shit,"
"Um?" Shizuru squinted. "What is that mommy?" (A/N : she's preferring to the 's' word.)
Kaname slowly removed her gaze from Sousuke and looked down to her daughter. "Shizuru..." She tried to recomposed herself. Her breathing became uneasy and ragged. "P-Please...stay inside the room."
Shizuru noticed her mother's uneasiness and nodded, but before leaving she bowed her head and said goodbye to Sousuke.
Kaname took a deep breathe and face Sousuke with a rather more firm feature. "What the hell are you doing here Sgt. Sagara?"
Sousuke motioned to reach for Kaname's hand but the latter slapped it away. "Kaname please let's talk...I've been looking for you...that day when we broke up, I returned but I never found you at the apartment and no one told me where to find you! Please Kaname..." Sousuke plead.
Kaname's eyes became fiercer. "Shut-up sergeant, that's already part of the past, it's useless to talk about nonsensical things, now if you please, just leave."
"Kaname..." Sousuke's eyes begged more. "Please listen..."
Kaname was about to speak when Shizuru's voice began sounding at her ear. The innocent girl began mumbling about a dog commercial she saw at the television. Kaname ignored her and chose to close the door behind her. She sighed when she realized that she was only wearing a thin bathrobe. She looked up to Sousuke with an increasing annoyance gleaming in her brown eyes. "Look soldier Shizuru is not a restful child, there's no way I could let her alone inside this room for a long time, so please can you go now!"
Sousuke frowned. "Who is that child Kaname? Why is she calling you mommy?"
That naïve question brought gladness to Kaname's sharp mind. 'Oh...he did not notice then. Good.' Kaname cleared her throat and began to speak with a calmer voice. "Well, you see, I'm her mother, she's a daughter of a good doctor," She lied. "...she's quite a nosy child so I really have to watch her carefully, so can you leave now?" Kaname smiled slyly and turned around to face the close door, when she was about to turn the door knob a strong hand suddenly grip her right arms.
"I said let's talk Kaname!" Sousuke said in a commanding voice.
Kaname became mad again and pushed Sousuke's hand away from her. "Are you stupid?! Can't you understand my words?" Kaname reprimanded angrily. "I said leave damn it!"
"Why are you so tense? Are you hiding something from me?" Sousuke asked, his eyes narrowing incredulously. "Maybe you're lying that the child is a daughter of a doctor," Sousuke felt his throat tighten as he finished his sentence. "Maybe she's mine."
Kaname became quiet. 'I can still lie...he's a clueless soldier, I can still fool him. Kaname found her voice and triggered a very sarcasm laugh. "Are you nuts? There's no way she could be your daughter, we've been apart for so many years now, you know...I can't even remember the last time we'd had a contact, Hahaha! you really has an ingenious mind soldier!"
Sousuke got embarrassed but did not waver. "Really? But I have my way Kaname, I can find for myself if she's really other man's daughter or my daughter, since you don't want to have a decent talk with me I could use force as well, can't I Kaname?"
Kaname bemusedly stared at Sousuke's sturdy face. "Shut up Sousuke, don't you dare mingle with my personal life...you have no prerogative to take such actions. Stay out of my life." She said with a low but threatening voice.
Sousuke ignored Kaname and turned around. "Those are your things right, I met a stranded taxi along my way to Shinji-kun's place, I helped him by delivering those suitcases to this hotel..." He sneered. "But look what I found, the woman whom I been looking for so many years and a child who brought some weird feelings to mine...it's nice to see you again Kaname, maybe you're not yet ready to listen to me, but I could wait." He began walking. "See you." Sousuke said and step inside the hotel's elevator to completely leave the venue.
When Kaname saw that the brown haired man had totally disappear from her sight. She slowly turned around and once again faced the close door. Her mind began to muse. 'He will know...' She weakly turned the door knob and stepped inside the room. 'What I'll do now?' Her eyes traveled around the room and saw her daughter already sleeping soundly on the couch. 'I don't want her to meet him...' Unconscious to Kaname, her tears had begun falling continuously. 'I want her to have a normal and peaceful life...without the pain that I felt when I chose to...love him.' "Shizuru..." Kaname fell to her knees and covered her trembling mouth with both of her hands, she strangled the sound of her crying, not wanting to wake Shizuru and see her at a very distressed position.
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Sousuke quietly opened the door of his car and slowly sat on the driver seat. His impassive eyes stared at the steering wheel. "So long..." He weakly placed his head down to the leather coated navigation material. "...had I felt my heart beat like this again..."
His eyes traveled down to his callused hands. His grey eyes began to focus on the shimmering silver ring encircling his right middle finger. "Chidori Kaname." He closed his eyes and smiled as a certain sweet memory began to play in his mind. The event which occurred 5 years ago...
Sousuke and Kaname had just graduated from high school, they both decided to celebrate it at Sousuke's apartment...
"So Sousuke, do you already have some plans for college?" Kaname asked drunkenly to his one year boyfriend.
Sousuke pondered for a moment. "College?"
Kaname nodded. She stood up from her position on the floor and sat beside Sousuke on the couch. She nestled her head down to Sousuke's shoulder.
Sousuke encircled her waist with his strong arms and answered. "I don't have any."
Kaname frowned and pinched one of Sousuke's hands. "What do you mean huh?"
Sousuke ignored the slight pain brought by Kaname's pinch and smiled gently. "I have other plans..."
Kaname raised her head and stared at Sousuke's face. "What?"
Sousuke stood up and knelt in front of her drunken girlfriend. "Kaname," Sousuke took something out of his pant's pocket. "Listen carefully okay?"
Kaname nodded. Her brown eyes stared skeptically at the tiny box in Sousuke's hands. "...could that be a ring huh Sousuke?" Her eyes narrowing.
Sousuke sighed frustratingly. "C'mon Kaname, don't interrupt me, I practiced so hard just to perfect this."
Kaname giggled and nodded. "Okay!"
Sousuke sighed again before continuing. "Alright, with all my heart and soul..." Sousuke started.
Kaname waited. Her heart begins to beat faster. She could feel Sousuke's tenseness, a very unusual tenseness mingling with fear. "Sousuke?"
"...along with my undying love and devotion..." Sousuke slowly opened the lid of the tiny box.
Kaname gasped. Inside the box is a silver ring with a carved of her name. "Sousuke is this..."
Sousuke nodded and smiled gently and sincerely. "Will you marry me, Chidori Kaname?"
Kaname's eyes began to release some fresh tears and she kneeled down to embrace Sousuke tightly. "Sousuke...fool..."
Sousuke smiled and hugged her back. "Kaname you have to answer first."
Kaname smiled and tightened the embrace. "Of course idiot!"
"I assume that means yes." Sousuke said. He gently pushed Kaname away to be able to lock gazes with her. "Kurz told me that I should put this in your finger."
Kaname tearfully nodded and watched the ring inserted in her middle finger. Her ayes deviated from the ring when a familiar finger tilted her face up. Her brown gaze met the grey intense eyes she loved so much.
"I love you Kaname." Sousuke said full heartedly.
Kaname nodded. "I love you too...Sousuke."
Both of them moved their face closer and pressed their lips together. Kaname entwined her hands around Sousuke's neck and savor the passionate kiss. Sousuke smiled and stood up along with Kaname, without unlocking their kiss Sousuke carried Kaname toward his bedroom.
And there, they consummated their love for the first time.
Sousuke's eyes slowly opened up as his reminiscing ended and his mind found its way back to reality. He felt his heart ached painfully. "Such sweet memories...why does it have to end Kaname? Why..." He raised his head and stared at the quiet parking lot through the sedan's window. "I won't let you go again Kaname...I will do anything to have you back again." He remembered the child Kaname was with in the hotel room. "I have to do some investigation."
With a resolute face Sousuke start the car and head off toward the place where he could find a person that could help him.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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AUTHOR's NoTe:
That's it! Chapter 3 up! Hehehe! Well, I know this chapter is kinda boring but I'm planning to mix a little comedy once Sousuke is already trying to get Shizuru's affection. You know this story is a little dramatic too and I am thinking about the best way of getting our main characters together again. Um, by the way...do you like Tessa?
Arigatou Gozaimazu! Please Read and Review! Ja!
