by: Seiya's Star
Written during: 6-5-01 to 7-17-01
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Chapter 10
"Amazing Strokes of 'Luck', and Usagi's first kiss?"
Kaze was just having a cool dream about winning 2nd place in a car race, with his mother being the first place winner, and her looking down proudly at him. The Announcer was just about to place the ribbon around his neck when he hears: "Come on Brother, Wake Up, we all have some serious planning to do!"
"Huh... what.... ? Ai?" he says sleepily, brushing left over sleep from his eyes.
"Ssshhhh.... we don't want to wake up Usagi or Mamoru, or Seiya, or the other Three Lights!" Ai whispers playfully to her younger brother, "According to Usa, this night was a crucial night to Seiya and Usagi hooking up, or at least to them growing real comfortable around each other. Usa says that today, was when her mother, Usagi, and Seiya started to get to really know each other and spend quality time with each other, during a study session that Usagi promised her mother that she would have. And apparently, according to Kirei, Mamoru also admitted that their was going to be a study session that night, this night, too, and that he was suppose to be the one to tutor her, but that somehow, it didn't happen that way. So we've got to somehow make sure that happens that way, or else, this is the point in time where everything could go horribly wrong, and we cease to exist," Ai finished worriedly.
Kaze looked at his sister incredulously, "You mean to tell me, that if we don't somehow manage to get Mamoru away from tutoring Usagi today, and get Seiya to somehow, at some point today, be able to spend time alone with Usagi, that our future will alter, and all will be in jeopardy? So soon?"
"Yeah, unfortunately. I didn't know we had so little time to start things on the right path either, but it is true, so we've got to act! Usa is having all of us time travelers get up earlier than the others, and plan our strategy. So get up, we're meeting in the guest room," Ai said, playfully tickling her brother's stomach.
As Kaze finally finished tickling his sister back, and followed her into the guest bedroom, from where he was sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag of the living room, he noticed that his girlfriend Shizuka was already up, and looked like she had something on her mind, but was afraid to say anything, "Shizuka sweetheart, are you alright? You look like you have something on your mind?" he asked her gently, walking over to where she was quietly making the bed that she had slept in with Ai, Akari, Oyu, Kikan [transformed into Raging Revolution] and Shiranai.
Shizuka blushed and started fingering the blanket nervously, "Well...... I...... " Kaze kissed her on the cheek and prompted her to continue, "Well... Usa was saying as she came in here and woke us all up, that she felt sure that Usagi was probably being tutored in math, as that was the subject she always had the most trouble with as a teenager. So.... I was thinking, that possibly I could offer to tutor her, as i am an excellent math student, and have plenty of experience in tutoring others in the subject. But that probably wouldn't work, so I won't worry about it, a silly thought really...." she finished, wiggling out of Kaze's embrace, and finishing putting the final quilt on the bed, and fussing with flattening out nonexistent lumps in the made up bed.
Kaze Sweatdropped. "That's A Great Idea Shizuka!!" he burst out with, and Ai and Usa gave him a stern look, so that he would not wake up any of the Lights, or the others out in the Living Room, who were all still sleeping.
After all of the time traveling senshi had gathered in the room, Kaze told them all of Shizuka's idea, while she sat blushing into his shirt. Everyone agreed quite heartily that it was a great idea.
"But how are we suppose to get Mamoru away from Usagi, so that he isn't teaching her, and then get Seiya to have a chance at being alone with her again?" Someisa asked.
At this poin Kirei got a wicked grin on her face, and pulled out a set of car keys, "Hehehehe, anyone recognize these?" she asked, grinning widely. Usa, and Tanoshii's eyes practically bulged out of their head.
"Those are Mamoru's sports car and house keys? But how, how in the heck did you manage that?" Usa asked, very suspiciously.
Kirei laughed heartily, "Well... they don't actually belong to THIS Mamoru, they sort of belong to the OTHER Mamoru. I sorta thought i might be needing them, that they might come into handy during this whole mission, so i sneaked them off of Otosan when he and Okasan were sleeping," she said, stifling chuckles of mirth.
"You WHA--" Usa yelled out before Tanoshii, sitting next to her on the bed, put her hand over her older sister's mouth.
"SHHHH! Remember? We don't want to wake anyone up!" Tanoshii said to Usa, smiling wickedly, and, still holding her hand to her sister's mouth, she took out a pair of keys from her own pocket.
Usa's face got livid with angry red, and since she realized that screaming bloody rage and discipline and responsibility to these two, whether or not silence was important or not, was completely useless, she contented herself with biting Tanoshii's finger real hard. Tanoshii just yanked her hand away and started sucking on it, suppressing another laugh.
In a angry whisper Usa said, "And I suppose that you also took your mother's keys too then, didn't you Kirei, and you, sis, our Dad's keys, before you both left, as well?" Kirei and Tanoshii just nodded, smiling and both holding in large amounts of guffaws.
At this point, Aiseru turned to his sweetheart and putting one strong hand around her mouth gently, procured a set of keys from his pocket, "Don't get too mad at them Usachan, they weren't the only ones to have made good use of the sense of memory keeping our parent all seem to have."
At this point, Ai, Oyu, Shizuka, Hataori, and Someisa, all procured keys from their pockets as well, at which point Usa just sighed and sweatdropped, "I suppose there really is no point in lecturing any of you on the importance of not disrupting the time continuum by bringing in too many things from the future, into the present, is there? Oh well.... Alright then, how do you all plan on using your use of keys, to our advantage in this present upcoming situation then, eh?"
Kirei gave another of her triumphant, wicked grins, "Weeellll... I was thinking that Mamoru can't teach Usagi math, if Usagi can't find her math books, cause she is having such a hard time learning the stuff, she probably won't be able to tell him what she is currently studying in class. So me and Tanoshii were talking about this, and we thought that we would run back to Usagi's house, sneak in through the door, since it is fairly early in the morning still, and then take her math book and hide it!" she finished.
"And then how will Shizuka teach her math then, with what learning material?" Usa asked, skeptically.
Shizuka then managed to take her face out of the folds of her boyfriend's jacket coat, and said shyly and very softly, "Well, I uhhh... didn't really want to be without my math book and notes, since I love math so much, and so i sort of, with Oyu's help, a few months ago our time, worked on this formula to expand my Extra Dimensional Senshi pocket, to include more room, so i could put more stuff in there, and so I actually have my math textbook and notebook, with many different levels of math studies, in my Pocket, and could easily teach her from those....." she finished, blushing profusely.
"Alright, and just how are you planning on getting there and back, Kirei, in a quick enough time to do all of that, before it gets late enough for people to start waking up in earnest, it is 6:00 AM now, on a Saturday, but still it won't be too long before people start there day, including Usagi's parents," Usa asked.
It was Aiseru who answered for Kirei this time, "Well Usa, my dad's keys from the "past" include keys to the car that they drove around during their idol days, the same car that is sitting out next to this Coach Bus. And I am legally old enough to drive, where as they are not, so I was going to drive them over there myself, in the Lights' car," he answered, looking at her with his famous puppy dog eyes look [author's heart melts (i think he is cute, what can i say *innocent shrugs*)].
Usa, who by this time is not surprised by anything anymore, just sighs and sweatdrops, "Okay, well if you three are going to try this hairbrained idea, you better get started now, meanwhile, the rest of us better get back to looking as if we've been asleep, so that when the others do wake up, it won't look suspicious, and if they want to start about their day, we will be awake really, to hinder them until you three get back," Usa said, finally gaining control back over the situation.
Everyone nodded their agreement, and went to sleep, except Hataori and the three who were going to drive over to Usagi's house to implement that part of the plan.
"I know that you all don't really know the extent of my "senshi" abilities, just from the limited time you have done battle in my company, and i don't usually like to give away too much about myself, but if today is so important to all of our future existences, then I will make a small exception. Your idea is very risky, has way too much potential to go wrong, for someone in the house to hear you and such, when i can just go to her bedroom, and get her book, and "misplace" it, without anyone ever knowing the better. I can find it myself too, as i have a few latent "talents" that allow me to know where certain things can be found," Hataori whispered to the three.
The other three looked at him with a bit of awe, as the power to move around in space that easily was a very powerful ability indeed. Aisaru nodded, "You speak wisely my friend, so we will allow you to take care of it. I myself wondered about the success probability of our plan, so i'm glad that you are able to come up with something better."
The next instant Hataori transformed into Dark Spacefire, threw his cloak around himself, and vanished from sight. When he reappeared somewhere, he was in a dark bedroom, the sounds of heavy, sleep filled breathing permeating the room with sound. He then took out a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and stuck the note in a pair of genes that were folded up on top of the upper most drawer. He then threw his cloak around him again, and next thing, he was reappearing in the Guest Bedroom of the Coach Bus, where everyone was apparently sound asleep already. Hataori then went back into the living room and quietly lie back down in his sofa bed, next to his girlfriend.
A few hours later everyone ended up being woken by a phone ringing, a Cell Phone to be exact. It took a few minutes for the person whose phone it was to realize what was going on and pick it up, "uhh.... Hello?" he said, wondering who was calling him, and wondering why they were calling at 8:30am on Saturday.
From the other end of the phone, a female voice responded while all the other occupants of the Coach Bus looked on with curiosity, that had been also sleeping in the living room, "I am really sorry to disturb you Mr. Chiba, but I was given a note from my, uhhh... previous teacher at my old school, saying that if he didn't want me to tell the current Principal about my, ummm.... problems, that i had to at least bring up my very poor Physics grades. So he wrote your phone number down on the note, saying that i needed to call you exactly at 8:30 AM, and set up an appointment for today to have you tutor me in Physics, or else all of my old school records would pass on to my new school. He also wrote that you were excellent in Physics and that you were the one to tutor me, and that i needed to have my grades dramatically raised by this Monday, or once again, he would make sure the teachers at my new school watched my every move. So i am really sorry to disturb you at this early hour, but he said it was ok on the note, and that i should call you now, and that you would be ok with it," the female voice finished, blurting it all out in a hurried, nervous tone.
Mamoru, on the other side of the phone, just sort of stared for the longest time at the far wall in bafflement, :What the heck is this all about, noone said anything to me about this: he thought to himself. But the female sounded quite upset and worried, and he was actually very good in physics, and if this girl needed his help or else she would be in trouble, he didn't really want to let her down, even if she was a complete stranger and hadn't even given her name yet.
The girl must have realized that she had skipped introductions and such, because a moment later, she added, "I'm terribly sorry Mr. Chiba, i just realized that i didn't even tell you my name or anything, gomen nasai, i'm just really nervous after having read this note, cause if i get too much "attention" payed to me cause of school related issues, they may make me have to live with someone else, instead of living on my own as i've been doing, and i also don't want to be in trouble with my new school before even starting, so please forgive my rudeness. My name is Makoto, Kino Makoto, and I will be attending Crossroads Junior High," she finished, again all rushed.
Mamoru recognized that school as being the same one that Usagi was attending, and was now in quite a bind, as he had told Usagi that he would be tutoring her today, but this girl also seemed to need to be tutored badly today as well, "Well you can call me Mamoru, Makoto, and would it be possible for me to tutor you tomorrow? I had already made plans to do something else today," he asked.
Meanwhile, all of the future senshi's eyes went wide, in amazement and enthusiasm, that things seemed to be possibly working out really well for their grand plan. The only person who was upset by what they had heard on his end of the conversation was Usagi, who wondered if this girl would steal his affections from her. But she quickly shook such uncharacteristic jealousy from her mind.
"Well.... not really, i'm sorry Mr. Chiba, i mean Mamoru, but on Sunday is my cousin's wedding, and i have to go, so it has to be today, or else i won't be ready to make good grades in Physics on Monday," she replied worriedly.
Mamoru was now stuck, he had no idea what to say, "Umm.. Makoto, could you give me a few minutes then, i need to see about something? I will call you right back. What's your number?"
Makoto sounded really nervous still, "Uh, sure. It's 856-4323"
[AN: i had no idea what her number was, so i picked a random one]
"Ok, thanks Makoto, i will call you right back," he said and hung up his Cell Phone.
With really upset eyes, he looked at Usagi, who was sitting expectantly on the sofa bed she was lying on, hoping against hope that he would not cancel their Math tutoring time. Her hoping was to no avail, "I'm really really sorry Usako," he said, sounding quite sincere, "somehow this girl named Makoto, who will be transferring to your school on Monday, is in serious need of being tutored by me in Physics, and will need quite a lot of instruction, and can't be tutored tomorrow, and she will be in much trouble if I refuse. I can't let her down, even if i do have no idea who would have given her my number. I really hope you will forgive me," he pleaded.
Usagi's whole face got crestfallen, and tears welled up in her eyes, cause she was so looking forward to having virtual private time with Mamoru, who she had had a crush on for quite some time. But she realized that he honestly was doing the right thing, had she been in his shoes, she would not have been able to let a person down either, who needed her. So she held back her tears, gulped, and replied, "Of course i can forgive you Mamochan!" she said, putting on her best smile, "I know you can't let down someone who needs you, hopefully i can find someone else who can teach me some math, and i've already seen the Three Lights Concert, so my mom can't stop me from that now, cause i am not improving my math studies, so all is well, no worries," she finished.
"Thank you Usako, for being so understanding," he said, walking up to her and hugging her, and she threw her arms around him and hugged back equally as fierce.
He called back, and told Makoto that he would be at her house around 10:00am, after he got back to his place, showered, and gathered his school belongings. He then said hurried but happy goodbyes to all the other friends he had made the day before, and left hurriedly in his car, after being told reassuredly by Aisaru that the former would be more than happy to take Usagi and her friends back home, and that he would tell the Three Lights, and the future travelers still sleeping in the bedrooms, that he was happy to meet them and wanted to get together with them all again.
After Mamoru had left, the future travelers who were witness to the whole phone conversation, politely excused themselves from the living room, and went into the Guest Bedroom again to finalize the plans for hooking Seiya and Usagi up today, given the new set of circumstances. After much conflicting debate, it was decided that Shizuka would still offer to tutor Usagi, and that they could study in the Guest Bedroom, and that the others would stay in the living room and get to know everyone better, and that at some point, everyone would say that they had to go off and get some food and movies and such, and would "convince" Seiya and Usagi to be left alone in the bus until everyone else came back. It was also decided that some of them would actually spend time "staking out" Makoto's house, and making sure that that tutoring session over there went as smoothly and "romantically" as possible.
So when they came back out from the room, Shizuka shyly told Usagi that she was an expert at math, and would be more than happy to tutur Usagi today, and that they could do so in the Guest Bedroom, after they had breakfast. Usagi was immediately happier, and even though she couldn't be with her crush, she was at least with very nice new friends, and so she happily nodded her assent.
In the meantime, as the Lights were getting up, and the day was starting already for everyone, Kirei offered to make everyone a completely decked out breakfast, being a great cook, and the television sets were taken out of their swing in closets and everyone watched TV while Kirei made breakfast. During all of this, Shiranai decided that their was no reason why things couldn't progress even early in the morning. So she concocted a plan. She had even wanted to do this in the first place anyway, and what better way to do it then to do it in a way that got the two of them alone.
She went into the bathroom, went back to her time period, got "something", came back, and "placed it" in a out of the way location of the closed Tokyo Stage Theater, and told "it" not to leave from that place until she came back for it. "It" obeyed, and she reappeared in the bathroom, and came back out again with tears on her unusually lovely face, her hood up over her head to cover her "sad" state. All of that had taken her all of 3 minutes in the current timeline.
To her immense happiness, Seiya was just coming out of his private bathroom, after having taken a shower, and she ran up to him and tugged on his shirt, "I'm really sorry to bother you Seiya, but," she started crying silently and let her hood slip a little down the back of her head, "i realized, that in all of the confusion of the battle last night, i forgot to get my baby pet from its hiding place that i left it in way up on the rafters of the stage at the Theater. Its got to be very hungry and scared, and you are one of the only people that i know that given your position as a star, you would have keys into the Theater, and i don't want to bother anyone else with this really, if you could just help me find them, with Usagi's help, i would be ever so grateful to you, really!," she burst out, crying heartily but silently.
Seiya immediately bent down in the hallway, and took her in his arms, and hugged and soothed her, "Don't worry Shiranai, i will help you find your pet," secretly Seiya was wondering why in the world she also had singled out Usagi to help her, but given that A, Usagi was the only other one among them that seemed to feel comfortable around Shiranai, other than the young boy Kikan, who seemed to have a crush on her, and B, Seiya really wanted another chance to be virtually alone with Usagi, he was not about to complain.
Quietly he walked over to where Usagi was sitting on one of the small couches, next to Tanoshii, Kirei, and Hataru, and silently whispered in her ear to come with him outside for a second. The future visitors looked in, once again excited curiosity, as the three of them then proceeded to go outside of the bus, and of course none of them interfered with another seemingly amazing twist of fate.
"Of course we will help you to find your pet, Shiranai! So don't you worry, we will get it back for you in no time," Usagi said, comforting her much in the same way as Seiya had done a few minutes ago. Seiya, for his part, just watched her and admired her wonderful caring spirit.
Together, the three of them went through the back employee/entertainer doorway into the Theater, and went to the back areas of the stage, behind the back curtains, where all of the precariously thin, fragile looking rafters were located. Shiranai was glad that she had placed one of her "charms" on the two of them, so that neither would question why she couldn't just go up their by levitation, as she had when she first entered this time, and get her pet herself.
"Alright, this is way to dangerous for you to travel up yourself, Shiranai, so i will go up there and get it, and you can stay down here with Usagi. Okay?" Seiya asked her gently.
With a very worried look plastered on her face, she replied, "But Seiya, that stairway is way to fragile to support your body, i'm the only one who is light enough to make it up there safely," she said, working her "charms" again. She knew that if her parents ever discovered she was doing her "charm" magic, they would punish her for weeks, but if she continued doing it so well, they would never know.
"And anyway," she added, I need the two of you to stay down here and hold the rickety steps for me, while i go up there and get her."
Seiya and Usagi, believing that the steps to the rafters were indeed very weak, due to Shiranai's "charm magic", reluctantly nodded their agreement, and they both grabbed different sides of the step ladder thingee, as Shiranai climbed her way up. The rafters were way high above, and since the Seiya and Usagi thought that the steps were very weak, then Shiranai could easily go very very slowly, pretending that she had to do so in order not to have the steps fall down or break.
Meanwhile, Seiya and Usagi looked up nervously at her slow approach. Quietly, Usagi voiced a question to Seiya, that she had been pondering for a little while now, "Seiya, do you have any idea where, or from when, Shiranai might have come from? She is so different!"
Seiya shook his head, "Not a clue. But i could swear that she knows me very well, somehow, and she called me this strange word or name, and then mysteriously told me that she couldn't tell me what it means right now. Maybe you've heard of it, she called me: Onoirte Daidein. You know what that means, or even what language it is in?" he asked.
"No, i can't say i have, but it is very interesting, and fits with her mysterious demeanor and all, hmmmm...." Usagi replied.
The two of them then were lost in silent thought of the mysterious senshi, for the next 15 minutes that it took for Shiranai to get up to the top of the rafters.
When Shiranai reached the top, she walked over to the other end of the platform, where a few wooden beams reached the ceiling slightly above, and reached in between the two beams, and pulled out an adorably cute little catlike animal, that appeared as a baby cheetah. The cute cat creature had longish fluffy golden brown fur, with black cheetah spots all over its sides and face, and black stripes on its back, and the typical cheetah black marks on its eyes to its nose. Shiranai happily hugged it close, as she had missed her favorite pet, even in the day she had been gone from her time period. As she hugged it, she looked into its only odd feature, its royal purple, gold specked eyes that glowed in the dark with a lovely radiance.
After she hugged it, it made a inquiring sound, that was as beautiful as Shiranai's voice, and sounded like a flute playing. Shiranai whispered something in its ear in her bell like voice and it nodded its little head.
Much louder she said to the two below, "Okay, i've got her, i'm sending her down alone first, cause i don't want to risk trying to take her down myself, with the added weight and all."
The little cheetah cat came carefully down the stairs. When it got down, Usagi and Seiya were immediately enraptured by it, it was simply the cutest little pet either of them had ever seen, and they watched it as it sat licking itself on the 4th rung of the ladder, as Shirani started coming down slowly.
Then the kitty stopped licking itself and started to go up to first Usagi, and then Seiya, and started licking their faces in happy greeting, and both of them giggled with happy delight, for its tongue was only slightly rough, and sent such an incredibly soothing feeling all over them, as if they had just bathed in warm waters for hours. Awash in such a pleasant, and happy feeling, that the cat just couldn't help but emanate, the two of them bent down at the same time to kiss the opposite sides of its soft, fluffy body, when suddenly.... it vanished in thin air!
Seiya and Usagi had of course way too much momentum by then, and ended up pecking each other on the lips instead of the cat!
Both of them of course immediately blushed furiously and went back to holding the step ladder thingee with both hands, and focusing on Shiranai's descent, which was of course still only half way finished.
Then the cat reappeared, on Seiya's shoulder, and started licking his neck and face. Usagi couldn't help but giggle, cause the whole scene looked so cute! Then Usagi went to try to pet it, and it vanished again, and her hand lightly touched Seiya's cheek, and a feeling of warm, energetic, electric shock went up both of them, at which point of course Usagi quickly withdrew her hand, as these feelings shocked her.
Luckily, at least for the two blushing companions holding the steps, Shiranai had made it almost to the bottom, at which point the cat reappeared on her shoulder and started licking her furiously. Shiranai hugged it back happily, then reached out and hugged Seiya and Usagi, thanked them heartily, and then started running back down the hallway to the outside door, leaving Seiya and Usagi looking shy around each other, now that they were alone in the dark stage room.
"Seiya, I... I... I'm real sorry about umm... well..." Usagi stammered, feeling like she needed to apologize for the fairly intimate touch that she had layed on his cheek by accident.
"Its okay Usagi, i knew you were trying to pet that kitty, know offense taken, really," he said, his eyes a little hurt, wondering if she had disliked the touch.
"And about the kiss.... well I...." Usagi said, stammering even more this time, and just stopping mid way and blushing fire red.
"Shhh...," was Seiya's response, as he stepped up real close to her and put his finger on her lips gently, "No worries dear Odango Attama, I understand."
Usagi tilted her head down shyly, and so quietly that Seiya could barely hear her, she said, "Its just that, well.... i've never kissed a guy on the lips before, so that was kind of like my first kiss."
Seiya smiled, and this smile was a charming smile, even for his amazingly cute smiling standards, and he lifted her chin back up, "I'm sorry Odango, that was a heck of a kind of first kiss to have, being it an accident and all. I wish to try to make it up to you, that you had to have your first kiss be an accident, instead of something heart felt and special," Seiya replied, and, amazingly enough for even him, he reached the hand that wasn't holding up her chin, and put it around the back of her head, real gently, and put his lips to hers in a very gentle kiss.
Immediately that same strange warm, electrical feeling washed over the both of them, standing alone in the back of the dark theater stage, and they both kind of lost themselves in the moment, as Seiya probed her lips with his tongue, and Usagi very slowly, opened her mouth. As Seiya gently brought his tongue in her mouth Usagi was adrift in a wonderful taste of minty sweetness, with a touch of wood smoke, that just made all the world around her just disappear. Seiya reveled in the wonderful taste of cherry blossoms that emanated from her soft lips and warm tongue. But, even through the haze of loving emotion that Seiya felt at finally, after all this long time, being able to kiss his Odango, he realized that he had to take it slow still, so he gently withdrew his tongue and lips, and stepped away from her a bit.
Again with his most charming smile [author's heart melts once again] and with a super nova's worth of loving warmth issuing from his eyes, he said, "There you go Odango, now you have had a first kiss worthy of someone as special as you."
Usagi blushed bright red and shyly turned her face slightly away from his. Seiya then gently took her hand and they walked, hand in hand back towards the back hallways and door, to join the others for breakfast.
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Sorry, no sneak previews this time, lol. To be honest, i don't know what's in store yet for the next chapter. *dodges bricks again*
But please keep reviewing, to keep giving me incentive, as you have so far, to continue this fanfic through thick and thin, lol. You all are Great and I wish you all the best. I'll see ya all at the next, hopefully soon, chapter! *waves enthusiastically*
-Seiya's Star
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