You Stole My Heart
Okay, okay, as much as I dislike this pairing, I have received a request from a reviewer to do a RyouxIchigo drabble. Which I am. I hope you enjoy it, as I will still put effort into it despite it not being my favorite pair. ^_^
Drabble 4: Take me away
I cannot find a way to describe it
it's there, inside
all I do is hide
I wish that it would just go away
what would you do
you do if you knew?
What would you do?
Ryou gave Pudding her check, because the girl was leaving early. He forced himself to not look in Ichigo's direction. She was sitting at a table with Mayasa, not doing any work, and laughing about something he had said.
This is just torture. The blonde man thought, unable to resist the urge to send the black-haired boy a dark look. Look at him. Does he even know Ichigo as well as I do? Or is she just some chick he picked up from straight boredom?
Ichigo wasn't even trying to do work anymore. She had just plunked down at her seat and chatted up her boyfriend, as if just to spite him.
"Ichigo!" He yelled. "I'm not paying you to sit around! Table 5 needs their orders taken, so do that!"
"You hardly pay me at all!" The red-head shouted back, annoyance gleaming in the chocolate brown pools that were her eyes. Nevertheless, she stood up, muttering something to Mayasa, which he blandly agreed with. Ryou's fist clenched. Ichigo walked off to take the table's order, casting Ryou a resentful look over her shoulder.
You'd think I had just interrupted her marriage proposal. He thought to himself, ripping his eyes away from the apple of his eye. Doesn't she think of anyone else? Ever even consider them...? Then again, if she did, he would have found himself at odds with Kish as well. Even though it had been a year since the aliens had left, he wondered if the broken-hearted alien would truly keep his promise.
He didn't need another love rival. Mayasa was enough trouble as it was, since Ichigo wouldn't even give him the time of day as long as that boy was around.
Ichigo continued to bounce around the cafe, taking orders. Her red hair whipped by her face at a toss of her head. She was beautiful to Ryou, rapid-fire personality and all. Did that make him a masochist? It was clear that when it came to love, Ichigo was naïve and self-absorbed. He did everything he could think of, but so far it had been brushed off.
"Why are you staring at Ichigo, Shirogane-san?" Ryou blinked and turned his head towards Lettuce, who had been standing next to him for a while now. She was looking concerned, but there was a hint of jealously in her eyes.
Briefly, Ryou wondered why, but he dismissed the unspoken question quickly. "No reason, Lettuce. I'm sorry, did you want to ask me something?"
Lettuce bit her lip, as if she had just forgotten something. "Could I have the day off tomorrow? I am behind in a lesson and I need to catch up."
He wanted to disagree, since he needed all the help he could get around the cafe, but at the same time he didn't want to make Lettuce or any of the other girls fail in school. "Alright. I'll inform the other girl that you won't be here." He replied eventually.
Lettuce smiled immediately. "Thank you Shirogane-san." She bowed a bit before heading back out to finish her shift.
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The next day, Ryou was a bit short on workers. Pudding had caught a cold and Zakuro had been informed that a last-minute photo-shoot had been planned, so she couldn't so how either. And since Lettuce had stayed home to do some catch-up study, only Mint and Ichigo were here as workers.
Ryou watched Mint come in. For some reason, she walked over to Mayasa's table. Dismissing it as a casual conversation, Ryou shrugged and ducked into the kitchen to give Keiichiro a hand with the pastries.
There had been a huge thunderstorm, so there weren't very many people in the cafe. Keiichiro smiled at the younger man before returning to making his cake. Ryou had finished setting up the oven for baking when a scream sounded from the other room.
Ryou walked back outside, where he was greeted by an astonishing sight. Mint was all over Mayasa, and they had clearly been making out. Ichigo was standing in the door way, and looked as if she had been carved from stone. She wasn't moving at all.
Mint quickly got up, off Mayasa, before muttering something like "I forgot something at home" and hurrying into the change room. Mayasa just looked between her and Ichigo, feeling the stares of everyone else in the Cafe. Stupidly, he said "this isn't what it looks like!"
Ichigo just shook her head slowly, before turning around and running into the thunderstorm.
Ryou swore under his breath and went after her. "You idiot!" He hissed as he flew past Mayasa. But he could chew out the little two-timer later. Right now, he had to worry about Ichigo, who could quite possibly be in danger now.
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Ryou finally found her, several minutes later, standing stonily on the bridge and staring into the swelling water.
"Ichigo!" He yelled.
The red-head suddenly became animated. She spun around and glared daggers at him. "Go away! I want to be alone!"
Ryou shook his head and grabbed her by the shoulders. "Do you have any idea how much danger you just put yourself in?" He hissed. "Running out in a thunderstorm and standing out where you could get hit by lightning! How could I face your parents and tell them that you went out and got yourself killed?"
Ichigo looked shocked, as if the intensity of his words had taken her by surprise. "Mayasa has been cheating on me!" She exclaimed. "With MINT! One of my friends!"
"Do you really think that little brat is worth dying for?" Ryou asked, still rather forceful. "Don't be stupid, Ichigo! The world won't end, and there are still people here who care about you!" Loosening up a bit, he muttered "like me."
Ichigo blinked. "Pardon?"
Ryou looked up at her. "You heard me! I love you, you've just been so blinded by your supposed 'true love' that you haven't..." His voice trailed off, and he let go of her shoulders. He was being too rough. That wasn't the way to win someone's love.
Ichigo stared at him, as if something was just occurring to her. "Sorry, Ryou." She said, quietly, sincerely.
Ryou couldn't help his next move. He moved in and kissed her, crushing her softer lips under his own. Ichigo's body tensed up, her spine arching as he ran a finger over it. But she did not resist him. In fact, after a little, she hestiantly hugged him back.
For a moment, Ryou wondered if this was going to be a mistake, if he was just going to be Ichigo's rebound. But, as he was allowed to taste his strawberry for the first time, he really didn't care. Right now, he had everything he had ever longed for since he had first met her.
All the pain
I thought I knew
all my thoughts lead back to you
back to what is never said
back in forth inside my head
I can't handle this confusion
I'm unable, come and take me away
End Drabble
Aaaaaand it's done! Phew, that was a little hotter than the others. I hope that makes you Ryou and Ichigo fans happy! So far, the next pairings in the lineup are MintxMayasa, and ZakuroxKeiichiro!
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