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Title: Letter Not Erased
Chapter: 8: Episode "Double Date!" (Continued)
Dedicated to: Blonde Existentialist
A/N: This is a bit of a bonus chapter (Hence the "episode" title). It's all about well, dates.
KEY:
'Thoughts'
'Conscious'
Lyrics
Titles
Whispers/Background Voices
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Sunako looked at herself in the mirror. She would have chuckled thinking that three years ago she might've died knowing these articles of attire were in her room. But in lieu of today's planned events, she was too nervous to laugh.
"Ah, God… This is awful," Sunako mumbled, peeling off her black, lace-accented tunic.
"Too uptight."
Then the long black ruffled skirt was next off the list.
"Too zealous…"
The sexy red shirt.
"Ugh… Why am I so nervous…?"
Sunako sat on her bed with John in her lap. She looked at his face, remembering what Kyohei had said previous the first party she had to attend with her auntie, "Hiroshi-kun… I do not like him. This is not a date. So I don't care what I look like…"
She got up, peeled off the red shirt, and slipped into a white skull and bones fitted tee, with a plaid red skirt, black leggings, a pin-striped (over sized) black blazer and flats…
"… I just have to look nice so other girls won't bother him… That's the only reason he wants me to come anyway."
Meanwhile… Kyohei was giving himself the third degree.
"What are you doing, man…?" He asked his reflection, "She's already shown you that she doesn't like you."
He spun around and flopped onto his bed, "What am I doing…?"
"Well… She did say yes…"
"She said yes…"
He looked at himself in the mirror. He wore his lucky pair of jeans, and his favorite frayed shirt. Good. He didn't look like he was trying too hard.
"So I have to show her a good time…"
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"What's going on today?" Noi glared at Ranmaru across the living room, leaning comfortably onto Takenaga.
"Nothing… Listen, I know you guy's are all mad at me," he looked away, "but I'm the one who should be a little bit upset," Ranmaru mumbled, grabbing his coffee and leaving the room.
"What did he say…?" Takenaga looked at where Ranmaru had been.
"… If I heard him right… I think that we've been very, very wrong…" Yuki uttered lamentably.
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They agreed to meet at a nearby café and walk from there. So as everyone loitered around the common area, Kyohei passed by and said he was going out to the video store (which was odd since he had been on bad terms after they had fired him and Sunako). Quizzical looks all around.
Ten minutes later Sunako tore her eyes from her latest homicide novel and announced that she was going to the market for some missing ingredients for dinner. Now, this was normal, but still. Two minutes after Sunako left the house, all three felt they had right to investigate.
They followed Sunako to the corner café. She was running up to Kyohei who was waiting expectantly at an outside table for two.
"Now, if they're supposed to be sneaking around, it isn't exactly the smartest thing in the world to eat here… And in plain sight!" Takenaga hissed.
Noi chuckled, "This just makes it too easy!"
"Thanks for ah… Coming…" Kyohei said awkwardly.
"It's no big deal, I mean… I don't mind it…" Sunako laughed, taking a sip of her café-au-lait.
A short silence as they dipped at their biscuits in their coffee.
"You look nice…"
"… Yeah, well… All of my jeans were in the wash…"
Kyohei laughed. Maybe this wouldn't be so awkward if he just acted normal. But Sunako was really the happy one. She washed his clothes everyday, she knew that he was wearing his favorite items. But why did that make her happy?
The three eavesdroppers narrowed their eyes, "This date… Somehow seems too cute… To be Kyohei and Sunako…"
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"So where do you want to go next?" Kyohei asked after they had left the video store with a nice (not too graphic) horror movie.
"Well, you had something to do, didn't you?" Sunako asked lightly.
"Nah, I can put it off. Let's do something more fun." Kyohei smiled at her warmly, lifting his eyebrows in inquiry.
Sunako smirked, grabbing his shoulder, "Alright, but remember, you asked me."
"Is it just me, or is Kyohei's arm glowing where Sunako is pulling him…?"
The Fright Shop
"Are you sure? He really asked her on a date?" Sayuri whispered as Ranmaru pulled her into the Fright Shop.
"Yes, and I know they'll be coming here, so let's just wait here and hide out." Ranmaru responded quickly.
As soon as he opened the door he saw Sunako and Kyohei playing with a squishy organ doll.
"Ranma-" He turned and pulled a hand over her mouth, pushing her into a clothes rack.
"Shhh…" Ranmaru uncovered her mouth, pressing her against the wall, "they might have seen us…"
Sayuri clutched at his shirt in instinct, making Ranmaru shoot her a shocked glance, "sorry…" she mumbled feebly, turning away fast enough to miss his blushing face.
Neither Sunako nor Kyohei saw the two agents, but Yuki did…
They all stopped when they heard Sunako giggle.
"She giggles…? I never, ever thought that was possible…" Takenaga uttered in shear disbelief.
The two men who owned the shop stood behind the counter smiling at the two lovebirds leisurely.
"No, Sunako. There's no way I'm putting that on," Kyohei stated flatly.
Sunako pouted and looked at the Jack Skellington costume in her hands… It even had a volley-ball sized mask to match, "But Halloween's coming up, and why not? Bone Daddy's cool."
Kyohei rolled his eyes… Then smiled, "Alright."
Sunako perked up.
"Yeah, I'll make a fool of myself, I'll even walk out with it, but first you have to try on this!" Kyohei grinned evilly, shoving the "Super Sexy Sailor Scout" costume in her face.
The two workers whistled (ignored by all).
"Hell no!" Sunako punched him in the jaw- hard.
"Let's make a bet." Kyohei laughed and rubbed his chin, "I bet that you can't last in this thing for more than an hour in public."
Sunako scoffed, "Fine. I bet you couldn't last ten minutes in public!"
"Big time difference," Kyohei stated shaking on it.
"You underestimate my will power," Sunako smiled triumphantly, "If I win, you buy me the limited edition Gruesome Twosome life-size dolls."
"Deal."
"Wait. What do you want?"
Kyohei smirked slightly, "I'll think about it while we try these on."
"Did that really just happen?" Sayuri uttered in disbelief.
In another section of the store, the other three meddler's mouths had dropped permanently to the floor.
"I can't believe Kyohei…" Takenaga babbled.
"Sunako actually…" Noi mumbled.
"Up until now I had almost forgot that Kyohei was like a normal guy (with perversion and all)" Yuki blabbed.
But then they all smirked and looked at one another, "They're testing each other."
A little while later, you could hear Kyohei shouting over the changing room, "Okay, on the count of three…"
They both counted down.
"One"
"Two"
"Three!"
Kyohei looked absolutely ridiculous… It was like… The Gay version of Nightmare Before Christmas… On Ice.
The two workers drooled over Sunako. The shirt ended a good inch below her boobs, and the bow was designed in such a way that it bounced every time she moved… And the little green skirt was low cut and very short, and then a very very long way down were her hooker heels. The whole thing was basically screaming "rape me!" in Kyohei's opinion. Kyohei's mouth fell open at Sunako's embarrassed stature, tugging at the hem, "It's so damn short…"
And the boy's sprayed blood everywhere.
Then Sunako looked up and burst out laughing. And it seemed to echo throughout the shop, considering no one knew that everyone else was there, cackling at Kyohei's expense.
"Oh my God! Oh my GOD!" She was rolling, "I can't breathe."
Kyohei twitched, "It's not that funny."
"No, it really is…" after a few minutes, everyone calmed down, Sunako wiped a tear, "sorry, but I'm totally gonna win this bet."
Kyohei looked Sunako up and down and turned his red face away, "You're right."
"I know I am."
"No. The bet's off. I give."
Sunako stopped smiling all together, "Giving up so easily…?"
"Yeah. Now go change and I'll buy you that set."
"Wait, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings or anything… C'mon, it's not that bad. The game is half the fun of winning-"
"I said no. Now let's just… Go change and-" he started to walk into the changing room.
"No."
"What?" Kyohei whipped his head around, "I'll still buy the dolls."
Sunako looked a little flushed. They had been having fun. What went wrong? She didn't get it, "I don't want them anymore," she turned her back, "Let's just go…"
Kyohei looked at the curtain of her changing room, "Fine…"
'I just didn't want anyone else to see you dressed like that… Stupid… First I get perverted, then I get jealous… I'm so screwed up.'
"That"
"Did"
"Not"
"Go"
"Well…"
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Sunako and Kyohei stopped for ice cream on the way back. Hers was chocolate, his was strawberry.
They walked through the park, then took a boat ride on the lake, completely oblivious to the five characters in black crowded onto one boat.
"Look mommy! It's the men in Black!" and the little boy in another boat kept trying to touch them…
"Sorry for wrecking today…"
"…What?"
"I wanted us to have fun today," Kyohei stopped to look her in the eyes, "The video store was an excuse."
Sunako's cheeks flushed, and she just stared at him. Kyohei bit his lip and lowered his face.
"Hey! Toshii sit down!"
"Sunako… Do you want to know what I would've wanted if I won the bet?" Kyohei clenched his fists around the oars.
"Holy shit… He's gonna tell her!"
"Shh! They'll hear!"
"Men in Black!"
"Quiet kid, this is a precious moment."
"I would've wanted--"
SPLASH!
SPLASH!
Kyohei looked up, only to find Sunako and a little boy struggling in the water. It was only instinct to jump in after her. It's simply what a good person does.
… He would have done so for any stranger…
Now, it was only odd that even after the boy was safe with his mother- and they were sitting inside the boat rental shop drying off- he still held her…
She honestly couldn't understand it… Why she liked it so much.
But Kyohei knew.
He knew and it was killing him.
He'd tried so many times. It simply wasn't meant.
God was even telling him. Strange kids hopping in water and perverted horror shop owners and thugs ruining dinner and rabid fangirls destroying groceries…
((The last two are from their date in a later volume and the time they went shopping together and he found out about Sunako and the carrot thing))
"Aw! This is so sweet!" The quintuplet Men in Black sang through their twinkling tears.
"Sunako… If I had won the bet, I'd tell you to do whatever you want and be happy with Ranmaru…"
He didn't see the Men in Black's jaws drop to the floor.
So he certainly didn't see Sunako bite her lip and leek a silent tear underneath her towel…
She cleared her throat thinking, 'If that's what you want, then…'
"… I will…"
o0Author's Note0o
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