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Chapter 6: I will escape.
Yard at the back of school was totally empty. Kouji didn't knew if it was because the sun was pouring from the sky and there was only one tree to give shadow and grass wasn't short at all or the front yard was more glamorous to being on. He wasn't giving a damn, he didn't liked crowds at all. He was sitting under the tree with his note-book at his lap but he wasn't thinking about homework. He wasn't thinking about anything particular – just gazing at the sky when he heard cheerful, well-known voice.
"It was really hard to find you but I think I got used to it." Miaka said walking through tall grass, balancing with her hands trying not to trip. "First look under the trees." She sat beside him, huffing. It was really hot this day and schools uniforms, even with short sleeves weren't helping.
He chuckled slightly at his friend's comment. "So, I suppose I have to find a better hide-out if even you has started to finding me." Now was her turn to chuckle.
"Kouji." She started drawing his attention. "I-I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you then." She hung her head slightly and for a brief moment there was silence between them. Boy was looking at her with serious expression. He knew what could had happened and he was praising gods that they let him come in right time.
"I think that day… I was so overwhelmed with that situation that I lost my sanity. I felt like I wasn't controlling anything in my life and wanted to end with this." She turned her head away and her voice grew more quiet with every word. "But thanks to you my consciousness is back. I don't have enough words to thank you for that." She hung her head and stared blankly at her hands.
"Miaka It's ok." Now was his turn to draw her attention. "I surely can't imagine how did you felt back then but I'm glad that nothing had happened and it's most important for me." She looked into his eyes and light blush spread at her face. "Beside, girl how many times you were thanking me, after 5th I stopped counting!" He shouted and ruffled her hair playfully making her squeal lightly and shout lines "Kouji, stop it, please!" between her chuckles.
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''Saniiro , Como te llamas? Que hubo?" Yui clung onto Saniiro's arm and she was playfully trying her new vocabulary.
"Darn Yui." Boy rolled his eyes. "You're acting like a child."
"Que?" He just grunted making blonde giggle slightly. Oh how she love to annoy him.
When they were standing at the lockers Taka approached them. Saniiro saw him first and nudged Yui slightly. She turned around and winced almost invisible. She didn't wanted to be anywhere near him – not after what he did to her best friend.
"Yui have you seen Miaka's around?" Saniiro shoot a deadly look at him but Taka couldn't care less. "I can't find her."
"You think that we will tell you?" Saniiro answered before Yui could speak. "She probably don't want to see your ugly face so she hid." He added with nasty smile.
"Listen you!" Taka moved at Saniiro with angry face but was stopped by Yui who placed her hands at his chest. She pierced him with her icy stare taking him little aback.
"Ok! I don't need your help." He brushed Yui's hands off and looked with anger at Saniiro who still has a nasty smile on his lips but his posture was straightened and ready for fight.
"And when it comes to you and your friend better watch your steps or it won't be pretty for both of you." He glared at Saniiro then fixed his stare on Yui. He was looking at her a second before he turned around and slowly went onto his own direction.
"Taka finally show his true face." She heard a voice of her friend from behind. "And how do you like it Yui? Still thinking that Taka is so innocent?"
"I can't believe he said something like that." She started slowly still processing everything that had happened a second before. "That he is like that. He was.. But why did you said it!" She spun around and her voice was filled with anger. "Couldn't you just shut up and let me handle it?"
He was kinda shocked by her remorse. He looked into her eyes and he could swear for a second he saw a hint of fear in them.
'Could it be that she's…'
"Baka! Do you hear what I'm saying to you?" She was talking louder and louder. Her nerves started getting on her.
"Yui-chan." She stopped, her mouth half-open. He never called her like that before. "Don't worry about me and Kouji. We're not so angelic too. Taka approached wrong guys if he think that he can threat us like that." He smiled.
"Saniiro.. But." "No buts!" He interrupted her. "We'll be okay, don't worry girl."
'Right. They can take care of themselves but Miaka… Taka has changed and for worse. His stare. I never saw him being so angry. And be angered so quickly. It's not the same Taka that Miaka fell for. I hope she will make up her mind quickly before something… Yui was staring blankly at space totally zoning-off.
"Yui?" Boy waved his hand before her eyes but nothing had happened. "Yui!" He clapped his hands before her face. She blinked two times. "Welcome to reality. C'mon, I wanna eat something. I'm starving." As to confirm that statement his stomach growled loudly making them both laugh.
"Saniiro sometimes you're just like Miaka." Yui clasped her hand at Saniiro arm. "Ok, let's go eat something. Target – lunchroom."
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"So, no more thank you, ok? It was enough after first time you thanked to me." Kouji was leaning at his elbows and was looking at Miaka who loosen her hair and was trying to fix them in two buns again.
"But Kouji I'm.."
"Or I'll mess your hair even more." He said playfully and started to draw closer to her.
"NO!" She jerked away in panic. "No, please! I won't! Promise" She showed her hands with open palms and waved before her to convince him that she won't thank him again. Then she got back into fixing her hair. He was looking at her fighting with hair and smiled when she gave up and tied it into a low ponytail.
"Why are you smiling like that? It's hard to fix it without a mirror." She crossed her arms and pouted at him.
"I'm not smiling because you couldn't get your two buns back but because you look so pretty in your new hairdo that it's hard not to smile." His smile widened and she could feel that her face was on fire.
'Why is he saying things like that to me. And why I'm acting like… Like I would like to hear something like that from him again and again every day. Why…'
"Miaka?" He called her name seeing that she's thinking about something intensively.
"What? Uh-oh. Sorry, I think that weather has a strange effects on me." She placed her palm onto her forehead and gazed at the sky for a brief moment. "You were saying something?" She turned her head fully to him.
"Not really. Just thought that I'll get you from a cloud seven before you'll be totally lost."
"Damn you! Meanie!" She tried to punch him in the arm but he avoided it. Instead she took the opportunity to steal his note-book and she dashed to the opposite side of yard.
"Look what I've got here!" She was pretending that she's reading his notes but her eyes were looking at him.
"Darn it! Miaka give it back!" He ran after her and in split of a second he was standing beside her trying to grab his note-book.
"A-a-a. No way!" She avoided his attempts to grab a notes and was still making fun. "You know Kouji, I never thought you can have so nice handwriting, It's really nice." She waved his note-book before his nose and dashed to the other side before he could catch her.
"Miaka better give it to me now or you will meet consequences." He stated trying to sound dangerously but his laugh doesn't let him.
"I'm not scared of you and it's payback time for messing my hair!" She was turning and swirling around avoiding his attempts easily like she would be a butterfly.
She ran under the tree when he finally caught her pining her to the tree with both his hands onto her side above her shoulders. Both were panting heavily from the little running they had.
"You little vixen, finally you won't run away. Give it back." He looked straight into her eyes.
She hid note-book behind her and she grinned cockily although blushing slightly. She never was so close, face-to-face with him. She focused all her attention at his face and she could say without doubt that he's most handsome boy she met. He had beautiful eyes. She remembered first day they met. They crashed onto each other and first thing that she memorize were his green eyes. And now she is looking into them once again. Now they looked very calm and happy but she knew that they can look dangerous and scary too.
"Miaka Yuuki give my note-book back or I won't let you go."
"I won't give it back to you and if I want I'll get myself out easily." She turned her head lightly to the right and looked at him confidently.
"Oh sure. Now, give it back to me." He tried to dive for it but she was shielding it with her body. "Stop toying with me."
"Kouji-kun don't underestimate me." She smiled slyly then she stood on her toes and she kissed him. It was just a peck in the lips but she felt sudden blood rush. She closed her eyes not wanted to get distracted by anything.
'I can't believe I'm doing this! It's beyond sanity! But his lips are so soft and sweet.
Miaka pulled herself together remembering why she had kissed him. Albeit she wanted that kiss to last forever she used moment that she caught him off guard and she released herself from his embrace. She quickly put some space between them and waved his notes triumphically in mid-air. She could feel that her face is flushed with red and her heart is beating as fast as it actually wanted to jump out of her chest. Kouji was still standing under the tree and was looking at the empty space with shocked gaze. When he snapped out of his state he saw that she was standing with her bag in one hand and his notes in another looking at him and smiling slyly.
"You didn't believed me but as you can see I got escaped." She grinned with her eyelids closed.
"B-but..." He stuttered. Never before he would stutter in front of or because of a girl. "Miaka…."He tried to get his voice back. She could saw a myriads of emotions in his eyes.
'He looks stunned. I wonder..'
"Let's go Kouji-kun!" She put her fist in the air brushing that hint of pink off from her cheeks. "I'm hungry and I want to eat!" She passed him calmly, certain that he won't try to steal note-book from her hands. He was looking at her with big eyes. He slowly nodded and followed brunette who were dancing before him.
"But Miaka… How, why did you-" "Curiosity killed cat." She interrupted him half-way and smiled as pretty as she could.
He just nodded again to stunned to continue talking.
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"I was looking for you whole lunch-break. Where the hell you have been?" Taka came to her when she was putting her books into a locker sounding obviously angry. She stepped back from him, leaning her back at locker. Bruise from his hit was still too fresh to forget pain that he caused.
"I was in the lunch-room." She tried to sound convincing but she let a hint of fear pour her words.
"Bullshit!" He hit the locker just above her shoulders making her squeak lightly in fear. "I was in lunch-room and you weren't there. Friend of yours said something interesting to me, that maybe you're hiding from me." His face draw closer to her. "Kinda appealing but I wouldn't count on that, right sweetheart?" The word sweetheart was tinted with malice and irony. "You weren't also with that fucker.. What was his name? Ah, right. Kouji." He touched her cheek with his hand and caressed it slowly. "Good girl. Obey me, and nothing like that situation in class will occur anymore. By the way – in the morning you had different hairdo. Don't change your hair like that, I like your buns more." He took his hand from her cheek and with one last look he walked away.
'It-it's not him.. Not him. Not my Taka. I don't want it like that. Stop it Gods. Stop it' She slowly sunk down and sit under her locker totally lost in her thoughts. She was getting scared of her own boyfriend. And everything went worse from time when Kouji show up in their school.
'No! I can't sit here like that, guys are waiting for me!' She quickly collected herself and run to her three friends.
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"Hasta manana."
"Yui, oh for god's sake! Stop it!" Saniiro was clearly annoyed by Yui's frequent talking in Spanish. "Say bye in normal language for once, please!
"It looks like someone were doing his homework lately." Kouji said between chuckles, looking at the Saniiro's resignated expression.
"Or someone is enjoying his Spanish lessons." Miaka chimed in. "I think lesson was very good, right Yui-chan?"
"Si." Come short reply from blonde making Saniiro groan and everyone else laugh more.
"Oh, by the way Miaka what's up with your hair?" Saniiro fixed his eyes on brunette. "I could have sworn that in the morning you had buns not a ponytail."
"Yeah, that's true." Yui added getting into discussion. "It's strange and unusual for you to change your hairstyle in the middle of the day."
Miaka stood there little stunned that they had noticed her change. She quickly looked at Kouji – he has his arms crossed at his chest and was looking at her too with sly smile.
"It's getting late. I think we should go now. Bye guys, see you tomorrow." Miaka quicklu waved at both boys dragging Yui along her when Yui rapidly repeated her Hasta manana taking one of her hands up and then down in 'bye' manner.
"Crazy girls. Tell me again bro, what do we see in them." Saniiro said looking at two fading feminine silhouettes.
"Probably that they're not just ordinary girls." Kouji patted his friend's back.
"Yeah, I think you're right." Said Saniiro smiling lightly. "They're without doubt not your ordinary make-ups wearers."
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The sun was coloring everything in red. Children where playing on the playground when their mothers were sitting on the benches and were talking about fashion and cooking. Miaka and Yui were walking down over the park to reach their houses and were engrossed in discussion.
Suddenly Miaka silenced and it disturbed her friend.
"Miaka-chan everything's fine?" Yui was very sensitive at her friend's mood changes and it was striking her too.
"Um.. Yui I guess I have to tell you something." She scratched back of her head feeling very nervous. "B-but please, don't scream or overreact. Ok?" She turned her head to the blonde waiting if she'll accept and she did accepted.
Brunette sighed heavily and gazed at her feets.
"I kissed Kouji." She doesn't even finished her sentence right when she heard loud squeaky "WHAT?" followed by the tons of other questions her blonde friend were shooting at her with machine-gun's speed.
"Yui calm down! You promised that you won't overreact!" Miaka has to scream to silence girl beside her.
"Oh I'm sorry." Yui huffed heavily making Miaka sweat-drop. "I think I exaggerated a little."
"A little is an understatement." Miaka said with little pout while Yui was scratching back of her head feeling stupid for being such a kid. "Ok. One more time." Miaka crossed her arms at chest, closing her eyes. "You heard me correct – I kissed Kouji. We've been in the back yard at lunch-break and we started messing with each other and.." She opened her eyes and Yui could say that her friend had kinda sad look in her eyes although she doesn't knew why.
"I took his note-book and we were running around, then he pinned me to the tree and-"
"Wait! He pinned you? But he didn't?" Yui gave her questioning look. Miaka didn't understood at first but when she did she flushed with red and smacked her friend upside down.
"Idiot. No he didn't! He's not like that! I just pecked him on the lips to escape from him. Did I do something wrong? Did I was unfair to Taka?"
Yui was looking at her friend progressing everything she had said. She didn't know if say truth to her friend or not. Then she came up with best thing she could think of.
"No Miaka it wasn't unfair to Taka. Haven't you noticed that he's flirting with everything that has skirt on?" She know that her words can hurt her friend but it was for her own sake. She can't live like that and still acting like everything is fine because it's not. "Stop acting like you're blind Miaka and your life will be easier. Give yourself a chance."
They haven't noticed when they had arrived at Yui's apartment.
"Believe me Miaka, I want only good for you." Yui stood before her stairway with both her hands holding her backpack. She was looking at brunette before her. In her unusual hairdo, with red glow and thoughtful eyes she looked… Very uncommonly.
'Like a truly Suzaku priestess. Especially with that glow.' She chuckled lightly to herself then her giggling was interrupted by Miaka's voice.
"I'll think about it Yui-chan. I know you only want good for me."
"Of course I want you little baka!"
They kissed each other in the cheek and said their goodbyes.
I'm kinda back – kinda because I don't know when will be next update :(
I'm not very happy with that chapter – writers with longer experience will see mistakes, wrong tenses (probably) and – what is annoying me the most – that I have slight problems with dialogues and putting an expression on characters. I have hard time thinking what emotions will their face show on how will they stand/react.. Meh.. I hope I'll get better with that.
Enjoy R & R please & Thank you.
