TIMEPIECE

by Sakako


GRATUITOUS DISCLAIMER: Yeah, just the usual… Funland is a good place to spend your Sunday afternoons… Oh yeah, I don't own Love Hina or Hirofumi Sasaki's songs.

"Timepiece" Phase IV: Popping The Question (Su POV)

As I said before, it was clear what I had to do. After I got rid of Keitaro's questions, and he had gone to sleep, I started work on my newest invention. I took a small vermillion pot from my items cupboard (hidden inside a tree, no less), and worked into it with a silver scythe three eyes. I placed into it some unseen ingredients from the shelf above, and used a mortar to grind the powders into the red clay. I put the now-glowing pot into a small alcove in the top of the tree, and I would leave it there for another twenty hours. But first, to tend to my dear Kei-kun…

But he woke up.

I nimbly jumped up into the trees, remembering first to shut and lock the alcove door. I watched him arise, and confusedly look at his pyjamas.

Shit.

I can't believe I would do something like that. I mean, sure, I was curious. But I shouldn't have changed him. I should have left him in his previous clothes. Oh well, that's been done, so I can't change that.

He was about to walk through the door. I had to make my move now! I dropped down from the trees.

"Ohayo, Kei-kun!"

I still wonder to this day about what he thought of me already knowing his name…

"What is it, Kaolla-san?"

I had to take this to the next level. Soon. Now.

"Please, call me Kaolla. It would be my pleasure."

I felt my face flush. I couldn't let anyone else see this, so I checked again that my door was still shut. I could feel a red mark growing from over the bridge of my nose, spreading to under my green eyes.

"Okay, Kaolla. But anyway, what did you want?"

Crap. I had to make up an excuse quickly. Without realizing it, my right index finger started drawing circles on my left palm.

"Kaolla …"

Was this it?

"Kaolla. Will you go out with me?"

SUCCESS! I'd never been so happy in my life. I ran to him and hugged him. Perhaps I overexerted myself a little with that, but I needed to get that out. It was all that pent-up suspense of when it would be asked, and who would ask it first.

But I thought it would have been me.

"Timepiece" Phase IV: Popping The Question (Kei POV)

Man, what a tiring day… Meeting this beautiful dark-skinned girl and her serving me my favourite meal… Also she knew my name… This is starting to sound like something out of some kind of anime… Oh well, as I say, it's been tiring, so I'll go to sleep now.

After a ten-hour crash on a green-covered futon, I awoke to find that my Kaolla-san had disappeared. I got up to find that somehow I had changed out of my clothes and into some blue cotton pyjamas that seemed just a tad too big for me… I wonder how that happened… I blushed as I thought that Kaolla could have done that… wow.

As I was walking out of the room, I heard a soft thud on the sticks behind me.

"Ohayo, Kei-kun!"

I still don't realize how she knows my name… Oh well, maybe I told her before.

"What is it, Kaolla-san?"

"Please, call me Kaolla. It would be my pleasure."

She blushed at this… She's definitely coming on to me. Maybe I should make my move now?

"Okay, Kaolla. But anyway, what did you want?"

When would be the opportune moment…?

"Kaolla…"

"Kaolla. Will you go out with me?"

There. I did it. She looked happy too. She quickly rushed over to me and embraced me, rather energetically I thought. But hey, it was just a matter of time. When the question would have been asked, I didn't know. Who would have asked it first, I didn't know.

But I thought it would have been her.

(Sakako's note: Yes, I know, thank you to whoever it was that reminded me that Kaolla's eyes were green not brown. I was going to try and write it from a different perspective this time, but that failed. Instead, I broke from my regular pattern of writing Kaolla's POV and then copying it into Kei's POV, changing a bit of story and a few adjectives, and this time I wrote both chapters at once. I don't know what's going on with this story, but a hint for next chapter: something interesting will happen. R&R onegai shimasu!)

(Kenji's note: I loathe fangirl Japanese. Hahaha.)