Welcome to the fourth chapter of An Angel's Love. I hope I can make this chapter a good as possible.
Now, many of you know that I left a question on the bottom of the page last chapter regarding having mature content in this chapter. I have decided to leave that for next chapter where there will be a one-year time skip.
Ultrawolfie: thank you for reviewing on all this stories chapters and for your help with getting it started.
Now, let's get this party started!
Talking- "Blah, blah"
Thinking- 'Blah, Blah'
Emphasis/Zanpakto spirits- "really?"
Angry/Hollows/attacks- "HEY!"
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Chapter 4: A Night of RevelationsA new day. What is it about the breaking of a new day that draws humans to it like moths to a flame? Is it the serenity of the early hours of day? Is it the majestic sight of the sun filtering through early-morning fog? Or is it the promise of a second chance to do everything you didn't do the day before? Whatever it is, it certainly wasn't what Halibel was thinking about.
"Stupid sun," Halibel mumbled groggily from under her dark green quilt. She had just been woken up from the most pleasant dream by a stray ray of sunlight, angled perfectly to hit her right of the only portion of her body not covered by the quilt. Her face, or to be more specific, her eyes. 'I really liked that dream to just me and Masa-kun, alone on a deserted island…' She blushed red enough to make a certain boy-obsessed, dark-haired, pale-eyed girl jealous. (Many dimensions away, Hinata Hyuuga sneezed for no apparent reason. 'I hope Naruto-kun was talking about me,' she thought.) 'Bad thoughts, bad thoughts, bad thoughts,' Halibel kept repeating as she shook her head hard enough for her ponytail to come undone. "Great, now I have to do that again too," She sighed, got a change of clothes and headed towards the shower.
Roughly thirty-five minutes later, Halibel came walking down the stairs in her clean clothes. In reality, they were just her lounging around clothes since she had nothing to do until six in the after-noon. She wore a pair of very baggy sweat-pants and a very baggy sweat-shirt, both light gray. She decided that one ponytail wasn't enough for her wild blond locks, so she now has her hair in two smaller ponytails hanging over her shoulders. So far it seemed to keep her hair in better order. She made it down the stairs and into the living room but she decided she was to tired to walk around the couch so she just flipped herself on to it.
"Hey sweetie," Halibel's father came out of the kitchen with a cup of coffee dressed in flannel pajamas and a flannel house-robe. He walked over behind her and kissed her on the top of her head. "How'd you sleep?"
Halibel thought back to the events the night before and got a far of look on her face and a smile of pure happiness graced her lips. "It's the best I've slept in a while," 'both times were,' she thought back to falling asleep both in Masamune's arms and after being tucked in by him. 'That was the most peaceful sleep I've ever had,' She thought.
"Hey what's with that look?" Miyamoto leaned forward in his chair, "Is my daughter having pervy dreams?" he asked, hiding his enormous grin behind his steepled hands. 'It's so fun to tease her,' He thought.
'Did my dad just ask if I… no way! How dare he even… well actually I was interrupted right when Masa-kun was about to,' She blushed again and due to her temporarily aware state she saw the edge of her fathers smile, 'so that's how you want to play? Okay old man, let's play.' "Yes tou-san! I did! First we …" She proceeded to piece together all the "stories" she's heard around school into the most violent sex dream anyone has ever had. By the end Miyamoto's jaw was through the floor, basement, and foundation of the house and his mind was currently shutdown. Halibel was wondering if he was going to be all right, and Halibel's mother, Hitomi, was covering her mouth with one hand and holding her sides with the other. She knew Halibel just spouted out the biggest load of B.S. ever imagined and tricked Miyamoto with it.
Halibel calmly walked over to Miyamoto and whispered in his ear, "Tou-san… Gotcha." She then pulled back and skipped into the kitchen and prepared her breakfast. Hitomi couldn't take it anymore and fell on the floor, laughing so hard she cried.
After everyone calmed down, the family got together I the living room. Halibel was sprawled out on the couch, Hitomi was curled up in the wicker chair, and Miyamoto was in his recliner. The news was on the television but no one was really watching it. "So what's everyone doing today?" Miyamoto asked, tired of the silence.
"I'm going to meet Hana-chan at the new café down the street at noon," Hitomi stated. Hana is one of the friend's Hitomi has made since moving to Tanzaku Town and is probably her best friend.
"I'm off today so I'm probably going to be doing this the rest of the day," Miyamoto gestured to himself sitting in his recliner.
"… Masa-kun … wanted to know if I could spend the night over at his house tonight," She started off a little unsure but she quickly gained confidence. Hitomi just smiled, 'I can see the grandchildren now,' she thought dreamily. 'It's about time the boy made a move. I was about to lock the two in a closet together.' Miyamoto thought with a little aggravation.
"Okay what time does he want you to be over?" Hitomi asked after breaking out of her thoughts of grandchildren. 'They're too young. All in good time Hitomi, all in good time,'
"He said he would come pick me up at about six this after-noon," she said cheerfully.
"Hmmm, you know I don't think Masa-chan's ever told us about his house. Come to think about it, he hasn't even told us where he lives," Miyamoto thought out loud.
"He offered for me to spend the night after I told him that same thing," Halibel replied. She too was curious about her best friend's living arrangements.
"Well you'll just have to tell us all about it when you get back," Hitomi said with a smile.
"Remind me when I get back," She said. "Now I just have," she looked at the clock, "*sigh* eight hours to kill." With that she fell back on the couch. 'This is going to be a long eight hours,' She thought condescendingly.
It turns out Halibel's was wrong. The eight hours past faster than she would have thought. Once it was five in the after-noon, she took another quick shower, got changed, got all her stuff together for the sleep over, and waited for him to arrive. She had changed into a pair of blue jeans, a tan coat with white fur lining, and she had her white street-shoes by the door. She didn't have to wait very long, because at exactly six 'o clock, she heard a car pull up to the house. "Later tou-san!" she yelled as she flew down the stairs, bag in hand. She got to the door and put on and tied her shoes before she could blink. She opened the door to come face to face with Masamune, his hand raised to knock on the door.
"Well, I guess I don't have to wait for you to get ready," He said as he put his hand down. He was dressed in a red black short-sleeve shirt with a yin-yang symbol on the front, under which was a white, long-sleeve, skin-tight shirt. His steel bracelet was still holding on to his right wrist. Halibel absent-mindedly thought it was glued on or something. He had on a pair of black jeans with silver stitching, held up by the same black-with-silver-skull belt. He was wearing a pair of black skateboarding shoes with white laces. Behind him was a black limo with the engine still running. 'Whoa, guess dad wasn't kidding when he said how rich Masa-kun was,' Halibel thought.
"Come on, I can tell you can't wait to see my humble abode," He said the word humble with so much sarcasm it could almost be felt. He took her hand and led her to the limo and opened the door for her, "Ladies first," he said with a mock bow and a smile. Halibel grinned a bit at his humor.
"My, my. What a gentleman," she said while getting into the limo. The Inside of which was quite extravagant, but not flashy. The seats were black leather and wrapped all the way around the inside of the limo, save for the doors. The floor was black shag carpet and the paneling was Mahogany. On the roof of the car was a strip of soft lights that cast a warm glow throughout the cabin. At the front was a mini refrigerator and microwave. And attached to the ceiling was a flat screen T.V. that appeared to be hinged on the roof.
"So what do you think?" Masamune asked from next to Halibel. She was so caught up in the interior of the limo that she failed to notice Masamune sitting next to her. The result was her jumping up in her seat a good six inches.
After she calmed down enough to notice Masamune laughing softly next to her. She slugged him on the arm and said, "It's pretty nice but how is all this powered?" She really doubted this could all run on the cars battery.
"There's several batteries under a panel in the trunk along with several built in solar panels on the roof," he said after a moment of thought. "Well, let's get going," He clapped and a panel at the front of the cabin rolled down to reveal the driver in the front seat. "Home, Jives." He told him. "Hai, Okami-sama," he said as the panel slid back up. Masamune let out a deep sigh.
"What's wrong?" Halibel asked. She was wondering why being called "Okami-sama" made him sigh like that.
"I just don't like people calling me that. My parents left me a big house and a bunch of butlers and maids and such. But they all call me sama. I'm not their master. I'm their employer, but I'm not their master," he ranted on exasperatedly.
"I think they just have a high level of respect for you for turning out the way you did pretty much by your self," Halibel tried to explain.
"I guess that makes sense," he accepted. 'But I didn't turn out like this by myself, you helped me more than you know,'
"Of course it does! I said it after all," Halibel said proudly with her arms crossed and eyes closed.
"Yeah, yeah. For you are the great and mighty Halibel. And you are always right," Masamune said while rolling his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I can't here you over the sound of how awesome I am." Halibel said pointing to her ears and talking louder than necessary.
'To perfect,' "Maybe I can clear your ears for you," H said and quickly put earplugs in his ears and pressed a big read button that said "PUSH IN CASE OF SMART-ASSES" The cabin was instantly filled with extremely loud metal music. The result was Halibel covering her ears with her hands, trying to scream, "Turn it off!" but to no avail. After a few seconds, Masamune pushed the button again which turned off the music. Halibel immediately began mercilessly pounding on Masamune.
Halibel had stopped pounding on Masamune as they drove through the high, brick gates surrounding the house and was looking out the tinted windows. Masamune was nursing a bump on his head next to her. The car stopped and the driver said over an intercom, "We're home Okami-sama," 'why didn't I use that before?' Masamune wondered. He got out of the car followed by Halibel who was stunned speechless. "Welcome to my home," Masamune said with some pride to his voice. His home was a three story mansion constructed out of bricks. The roof was covered in a dark blue tile and all the windows had dark blue shutters on either side. The front, where they were at the moment, was landscaped with beautiful flowers surrounding a stunning water fountain that was modeled to look like a geyser. The front doors where large, ornate, oak doors with depictions of samurai covering both doors. The steps leading up to the doors where a pure white cement and were made up of concentric half-circles.
Masamune laid his hand on Halibel's shoulder, "Come on Hali-chan, we should go inside," She snapped out of her stupor and walked up the steps. Once they reached the doors Masamune lifted up the face of one of the samurai sculptures, revealing a keypad. Hey punched in a few numbers and the door started opening.
'Come on. Open faster!' Halibel thought impatiently. In her mind she was envisioning multitudes of interior designs for the house. Everything from medieval castle interior to the entire house being a front ran through her head.
None were right.
The doors opened up into a large open area. To the right and left were long, white halls full of coat racks. Past that was a circular area with a marble floor and off-white walls. Lining this area on either side were to marble staircases which both led to an open walkway that disappeared into the walls to the left and right. "Let me give you the tour," Masamune gestured to the room they were in, "this is the 'grand staircase', as I like to call it. These are the only two staircases that go from the first to second floors," He pulled Halibel along to the next room. At the moment Halibel was unable to speak correctly due to the sheer size of the "grand staircase". The steps were twice as wide as her! "This is the 'party room' it got its name due to it being the largest room in the house and it's where my parents would hold parties," This room had hardwood flooring from wall to wall with the same off-white walls. The room was roughly elliptical in shape, with one wall having very ornate widows leading to … something. To the left, the room tapered to a large stage that could probably be used for a major production. To the right was a truly massive fireplace. It was bigger than some living rooms.
Halibel's shock at the rooms was gradually taking less time to wear off, so as soon as she regained her senses she asked a question that has been bugging her since she got in the room. "What's behind those windows," Masamune's response was guiding her to the windows and, once again, removing a fake section of the frame to reveal a keypad. He pressed a few buttons and put the frame piece back just as the backyard lights came on.
The backyard was enormous! First, the house led on to a large cobblestone veranda with a huge fountain in the middle modeled after a tree. The veranda had a few stairs leading on to the ground of the backyard. Several dozen yards past that was the biggest swimming pool Halibel's ever seen. Between the pool and the veranda, a few large trees were scattered about, presumably for shade. "Now on to the second floor!" This broke Halibel from her trance.
"But there has to be more on this floor. If I had to guess, we've only seen half of the first floor," Halibel stated.
"Well yeah. But the rest is all kitchens and maintenance, so I thought you'd want to skip that," Halibel was about to argue, but she couldn't. That was exactly what she would have done. 'I guess he's got me figured out after all these years,' she explained to herself.
"Err… lead on!" Halibel exclaimed a little more than embarrassed. Masamune just smirked and led her back to and up the staircases. (AN: I'm just going to describe the second floor since it would take quite a while to describe al the rooms so I'm going to be very brief.)
The second floor started out as a circular walkway around the 'party room' on the first floor, but it had several hallways branching off the main path. When Halibel asked about it Masamune just said, "The hallways on this side lead to several game rooms and such while those on the other side lead to guest rooms," After explaining this, Masamune stopped in front of a seemingly normal wall on the far right side of the second floor. "Hali-chan, are you ready to see the third floor?" He asked this with real concern towards her. He knows that too much shock at once is bad for someone.
Halibel stood their for a while and took a few calming breaths. "I'm ready Masa-kun," she said with confidence.
Masamune just smiled his, now patented, shit-eating grin. He squared his legs and reared back his right hand into a fist. Halibel processed this and she just thought, 'He is not going to do that.' Masamune however, had different plans and sent his fist rocketing towards the wall. Just before his hand reached the wall Halibel screamed "Masa-kun!"
"Yes Hali-chan?" Masamune asked standing in front of a newly revealed staircase.
Halibel looked from him, to the stairs, to him, to the stairs, and back again. "How did… never mind," She sighed, deflated. As Masamune led her up the stairs she noticed the "wall" had sunken into the floor below. As they neared the top of the stairs Halibel's wondered what was on the third floor. 'Maybe and observatory, or maybe a library, or maybe a..' Her train of thought was prematurely ended once she saw the third floor.
Compared to the other floors, the third floor was smaller but it was more… homey than the other floors. The floors where soft tan carpeting leading to cream colored walls with off-white molding. The space they came up in looks like a living room. The furniture was dark blue satin-like material facing a large, dark-colored fireplace. Scattered around the walls were relics and souvenirs from all different countries. Coats of arms from Europe. Tribal masks from Africa. Katanas from Japan. Those and many more countries were present on this floor. From what could be seen of the kitchen through the bar/wall was similar to the living room; cream walls, tan floors, and dark blue cabinets, counters and appliances. "Well, that's it! The bedrooms aren't at all spectacular so I'll leave those till morning. You wait here and set up your stuff and I'll go get mine," He said as he rushed out the only hallway leading from the room. Halibel set down her bag and pulled out a sleeping bag, some toiletries (shampoo, soap, etc,), and some pajamas. As soon as all her stuff is out of her bag Masamune returns with a few blankets and pillows. Halibel looked at him questioningly but he just shrugged. Halibel carefully asked, "where's the…" "First door on the right," Masamune said, knowing she was going to ask where the bathroom was. Halibel nodded and got into the, oddly enough, average bathroom.
After a few minutes Masa could hear the shower start up. 'Time to get to work,' he thought and began arranging the pillows and blankets in a variety of ways. He was so caught up in fixing everything perfectly he didn't hear Halibel sneak up o him. "Whatcha' doin'?" Halibel asked sweetly.
Masamune let out a short scream that was followed promptly by him falling into the arrangement of pillows and blankets he had made. *Mumble* "What? I can't hear you!" She asked again.
"I said I'm having a heart attack thanks to you!" Masamune said trying to sit up, aggravated by his friend sneaking up on him.
"Oh, you're welcome," She smiled at him and sat down next to him. "So, what's up with this," She said gesturing to the … nest of pillows and blankets she was currently sitting in.
"Just something I figured out one day when I was bored. Here," He said while offering her one of the left over blankets. She took it and wrapped it around herself. Her pajamas were a pair of tight-ish (not skin tight but not baggy) flannel lounge pants with an over sized black sweatshirt. "You get comfortable while I take a shower," He said while, once again, going down the hallway. She waited until the telltale sound of the shower until she relaxed. *sigh* "How am I going to tell him? How am I going to tell Masa-kun that I might… love him?" She asked herself, struggling with the "L" word. Yes, it was true. Tia Halibel as fallen in love with Okami Masamune. 'I used to think we were just really good friends, but the way he carried me, his smell, how he acts, when he kissed me goodnight and tucked me in, How could I not fall in love with him?' she thought to herself. Her train of thought continued on like this until she heard the shower cut off. Masamune came out of the hallway with his hair damp, but still spiky and he was wearing black sweatpants and a white short-sleeve shirt.
He plopped back down on the nest and covered himself with another blanket and pulled a remote control out of… somewhere. At this Halibel raised her eyebrow and was about to comment when Masamune pressed a button on the remote. The ceiling above the fireplace seemed to open and out cam a huge 60", high definition, plasma screen television.
"Wow," was all Halibel could say.
"Yeah it's nice but I like the features better," He said as he turned it on. For the next six hours the two were watching all kinds of movies and shows. When they watched a horror movie Halibel didn't burry her head in Masamune's shoulder, but she did hold his arm a bit (read: extremely!) hard. When they watched a funny movie they would have to lean against each other for support while they laughed. When they watched a movie with romance in it they would blush and think 'I wish she/he and I could…' then they would both quickly look away.
After they both got tired of watching movies, Masamune flicked on a random channel just for background noise and maneuvered on to the couch, taking a pillow and blanket with him. "What tired already?" Halibel asked, taunting him a bit.
"Not really. I just wanted to move," He answered. Halibel agreed and continued watching for a bit. After a while, though, her legs got tired. 'I guess I should move too.' With that she got up and, with a little difficulty managed to get to the couch. However, when she went to sit down, her legs gave out and she fell backwards. 'Hmmm, this couch is kind of lumpy but it is warm,'
"Geroff." 'What was that? Wait wasn't Masamune on the couch? …Whoops.' Once she stood up she turned around and saw an agitated, and somewhat flatter, Masamune. She smiled nervously with a small laugh. "I'll get you for that. I don't know how, and I don't know when but I'll do it." He said and turned back to the television. Halibel sighed and sat on the couch, the right way this time.
After a few minutes, Masamune had a stroke of brilliance. "Hey Hali-chan, how about we play truth or dare?" He asked. Normally, Halibel would refuse outright but all night she has been trying to find a way to get her feelings across to Masamune. 'Maybe I'll find a way to do it in a game of truth or dare,' she hoped.
Masamune was in a similar predicament. He has fallen in love with the dark-skinned beauty beside him. He admitted that to himself long ago. But he just never had the courage to ask her on a date or show that he likes her. (Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge). 'Maybe I can admit it to her tonight,' he prayed.
Both, still completely oblivious to the other's feelings, silently agreed to the game. "So Hali-chan, truth or dare?"
The game dragged on for about an hour and a half and neither have gotten any farther in their romantic goals than when they started. Tired of dancing around everything Halibel decided to start pushing at the safety line. "Masa-kun truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Do you have a girl that you like?" She put the emphasis on like to make which meaning of the word she was using obvious.
'Does she know?' Masamune thought for a second but quickly discarded the thought. "Yes," He answered. 'She's sitting right next to me.'
Halibel had mixed emotions at that. She was happy because it could be her but she was depressed because it might not be her. "Hali-chan truth or dare?"
"Truth,"
"Do you have a boy that you like?" 'Should've seen that coming,' she thought. "Yes," she answered. 'He's on this couch.'
His reaction was the same as Halibel's. "Masa-kun truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"I dare you to… take your shirt off." Masa looked a little surprised but quickly obeyed. 'Wow, I guess Jeet Kune Do will do that to you,' she thought. He didn't have the body of a Greek god but he definitely had the best body of anyone in their grade. "Well, truth or dare, Hali-chan?"
"Truth,"
Masamune had to think for a second but he eventually found the question he wanted answered the most. "Why do you always wear baggy shirts?"
'Crap! Not good, not good, not good!' Halibel was freaking out in her mind. 'I could tell him, but it just doesn't seem natural. I mean, no other girl in our class has ones this big," she reasoned. "Well Hali-chan?" '*Sigh* I guess I've got to give something to receive something in return,'
She started, "Well the reason is…" she found the floor very interesting at the moment. "Well?" Masamune pressed. She was blushing a new shade of red at that. "It's to hide…" Again, she couldn't finish. "To hide what?" Masamune asked. 'I can't believe I'm saying this.' She thought. She whispered as soft as possible, "My breasts."
Masamune, by some stroke of fate, heard her whisper and was floored. 'I didn't expect that,' "Come on. It can't be that bad," he reasoned. 'Can it?' In response, Halibel took off her sweatshirt. Masamune was stunned. Underneath the sweatshirt was a button-up flannel shirt, matching her pants. However, the shirt was containing somewhere between high C and low D cup breasts. How is this surprising? Because they belonged to a twelve-year-old and they developed in the span of about a year.
Masamune was absolutely awe-struck. 'If she was beautiful before, now she's a goddess,' he concluded. And he had more reasons than just her breasts. The baggy clothes also hide her lean body (a result of Muay Thai training) and developing curves from the world. Masamune could think of many ways to describe Halibel's body, but what he heard next was not one of them.
"I'm a freak," Halibel said. She sounded defeated; you could hear the tears in her voice. 'How could she think that?' Masamune thought, baffled on why she thought she was a freak.
"No." The word was said with such conviction that Halibel's head snapped up, trying to find the source of the word, to hope it is true. "Halibel," He wasn't playing around. 'She needs to know I mean every word I say,' "You are not a freak," he started. He put his hands on her shoulders. "You are, by a wide margin, the single most beautiful girl I have ever seen. You are also the kindest, funniest, strongest, and coolest girl I've ever known. Most girls would rather want to forget I exist than get to know me. But you, you are different. You are better than any of them. The best of the best! I'm proud to call you my friend and …" He looked away 'Wait, does this mean he,' Halibel thought, trying not to get her hopes up. The speech already has her holding back the tears, if only just. "And I wish, Kami I wish," He said in a much softer, soulful tone; as if he was speaking from his very soul. "I wish that maybe, one day, that … we could be more." He finished, unable to bring himself to look Halibel in the eyes; he was scared to death of rejection.
Halibel was crying tears of pure joy at his revelation. 'He feels the same!' "Masa-kun, truth or dare?" she asked tears plainly evident in her voice. Masamune brought his eyes up to met hers. What he saw there filled him with unbridled happiness. Love. Pure, unconditional, love. The same was reflecting in his own eyes. 'I will go to the nds of the Earth for him/her," were the thoughts of the two.
"Dare,"
Halibel smiled as ginned softly, "Kiss me," That kiss said all that was left unsaid between the two, they would know each other's secrets, their deepest fears, their hopes, and their dreams. They would know all of it. And they would always keep that to themselves. They would always be there for each other. That night, they fell asleep in each other's arms. And slept peacefully, knowing their love was there with them.
Chapter 4: A night of Revelations – EndWow, 5k words. Not bad if I do say so my self.
So was it good? Bad? What do you think?
I'm not a breast expert so I just guessed. If you want you can say their about one-half to three-fourths the size they are in the manga/anime.
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