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Meaningless Love
Chapter 4 - Photos, please!
"He took the papers?" With enough sleep and lots of fluids, Ami's flu had diminished within two days.
"Yup," Minkao smiled, opening their fridge, she pulled out their coffee creamer, "he said he would return it to you sometime this week."
"Really?" Ami blushed, "he's coming to our apartment? He knows where we live?"
"Eh," Minako stirred their coffee, "not exactly." She slid Ami's cup towards her friend, then took a sip from her own. "His 'people' are dropping it off." Just then, their was a loud knock at their apartment door.
"I'll get it," Ami chimed as she dashed towards the door. Stepping on her tipy toes, she looked through their peephole. A tall man with silver-white hair stood on the opposite side. "Hello," Ami greeted the man as she opened the door.
"Hello," a deep voice replied back, "you must be Ms. Mizuno."
Minako knew that voice, it was the only voice she had heard for the past two nights, it couldn't be him. Rushing to Ami's side, she was disappointed to not see Kunzite at their door. "Helios..." She said under her breath.
He wore a heather colored blazer with a white button up shirt, tucked into a pair of dark washed jeans. "Hello," he turned to Minako, slightly confused, "have we met before?"
"No," Minako smiled, "but I've seen you before, with Kunzite at his press conferences on t.v." She pointed to her roommate, "Ami loves watching you."
Embarrassed, Ami quickly changed the subject. "Would you like to come in?" she asked, excited that someone from Mr. Shitennou's office was actually at their apartment, especially when that someone was his right hand man. No one else in her class had Helios showing up at their front door.
"No," Helios regretfully had to decline, "I have a rather busy schedule." Disappointed, Ami frowned. Flipping open his briefcase, Helios pulled out a large stack of papers. "I believe these belong to you, Miss Mizuno." He handed them to her, every single question had been answered.
"Oh, wow." Ami's frown disappeared and was replaced with a large smile, "he answered all of them." Curios, Minako peeked over Ami's shoulder.
"Let's just say he felt generous," Helios mused, he glanced towards Minako, "your friend made it clear how important this article was for you." Helios looked down at his watch, he scowled, it was almost noon. "I better get going," he shut hist briefcase, "it was nice meeting you, Miss Mizuno, Miss Aino."
"Helios!" Ami tugged on his blazer, "I know I've already asked a lot from him by having this interview, but I wanted to know if he could spare sometime for a brief photo shoot." Helios turned back to face her, with his full attention, she continued,"it would go great with my article, and we could print out some flyers for Mistress 9, think of it as free publicity."
Helios laughed, "if their was anything Kunzite liked, it was free publicity." He nodded his head, "I'll talk with him and get back to you."
"You don't have our numbers," Minako reminded him.
"Don't worry," Helios smiled at her, "he'll find you." Turning away, he descended down their apartment stairs, disappearing as he turned the corner. That was the second time she heard that. Did that mean she would be getting a phone call from Kunzite, the thought made her stomach twist into knots.
It was another long night at the UNLV photography lab, Minako was starting on her fifth cup of coffee. She needed to get these photos developed. Editing the photos on her schools computer, she began to click through the many photos. Some were decent, but most of them were either too far or out of focus. Scowling, Minako proceeded to do a bulk deletion of photos, until one caught her eye. It was a photo of Kunzite that she didn't realize she had taken. It was a shot while she was hiding away at the 40th floor of an unfinished Mistress 9.
He was looking in her direction, she really thought he had seen her. What if he did, but Kunzite was simply playing it off as if he didn't. He was such a mystery, yet Minako found herself strangely attracted to him. He was moody, self-centered, and worst of all, he was super attractive. As she continued to stare at the picture of him, his eyes staring back at her, Minako felt a cold chill run down her spine.
"Hello, Minako." A deep voice sounded behind her, a hand gripped her shoulder, causing her to scream. Jumping out of her seat, Minako picked up her camera bag and slammed it against the mystery man. "Ay!" the voice yelled, "what the hell, Minako?"
Realizing who it was, Minako slumped back into her computer chair. "Kaitou!" She yelled, throwing her bag at him, "what the hell are you doing here?"
Kaitou was a good friend of Makoto's, he met Minako at one of Makoto's many dinner parties. They formed a platonic relationship, but it soon turned romantic when Kaitou and Minako shared an English class during their freshmen year of college. Unfortunately for Minako, Kaitou was known for his wandering eyes, and after a year of dating, they split. For the next three years, Minako and Kaitou shared an on-again, off-again relationship with one another, much to Ami's dislike.
"I think I should be asking you the same question," he responded.
"I'm here editing pictures for my photography class," crossing her arms, she asked, "what are you doing here?"
"I was in the broadcast room, trying to upload tomorrows morning broadcast, but the computer keeps acting up." Frowning now, he took a seat next to Minako, "I wanted to see if I could upload it in here."
"No can do," Minako shook her head, "Ami and I have already tried. These computers are locked, they're only to be used for importing, editing, and exporting photos."
Letting out a huff, he crossed his arms. "Well shit!" He exclaimed, "what am I going to do now?"
"I don't know," Minako answered in a sarcastic tone, "you could always wait until tomorrow morning, when the broadcast teacher comes in."
Glaring at her, he poked her in a sensitive spot on Minako's side, causing her to jump. She let out a little squeal, making Kaitou smile. "Hey, I have a great idea to pass the time." He smiled at Minako, she knew that look a little too well.
"Oh no," she jumped from her seat, "we're not doing that, especially in here!"
"Why not?" He stood now, "nobodies here."
"You don't know that," Minako pushed him away, "you didn't even know I was here."
Katiou dimmed the lights in the photography lab, "there." He smiled, "come here." Pulling her to his chest, he kissed her hard. Minako felt her knees buckle, if she wasn't pressed so close to him, she might have fallen to the ground. He knew exactly what to do to get her aroused. Feeling another cold chill run down her back, Minako pulled away. Looking behind her, she realized the picture of Kunzite was still on her screen. His eyes, glowing from the moonlit night, locked on her. "Who's that?" Kaitou asked.
"A guy Ami is doing an article on." She shut the monitor off and turned back to Kaitou, "where were we?" She let out a little laugh as he led her to floor.
apigrabbit: Eeee~! It's almost midnight over here... I hope you guys enjoyed it :)
