I threw my covers over my head and buried my face into my pillow, finding comfort in them. I really did not feel like going to school. It would be too awkward after what happened yesterday. I could feel my cheeks heating up, my mind replaying the incident.
I frowned, remembering how Eiji ran away and never came back. I ended up staying on the ground for a good ten minutes before picking myself up and heading home, tears swelling up in my eyes. I had eaten dinner in silence and then headed up to my room where I allowed the darkness to consume me, and now it was morning.
"Elizabeth, it's time to get up. You'll be late for school." I let out an irritated groan as I buried my face further into my pillow, trying to block the voice of my uncle. He knocked several more times, calling out my name each time, before finally opening the door and walking over to the side of my bed. "Elizabeth, what do you think you are doing?"
"Sleeping," I replied, though it was muffled.
My uncle sat down and gently began to rub my back. "You have school today, sweetie. You can sleep in on Sunday."
"I don't feel good."
"What part of you doesn't feel good?"
"My stomach and I have a headache." I lied.
"Hm… I see…" the two of us were as quiet as a mouse for the next minute and a half. Sensing my uncle wasn't going to leave until I showed my face, I shifted around under my covers and sat up, using my arms as my support.
"Can I please stay home today?" I asked.
Uncle James let out a long sigh before nodded. "Yes, but I'm afraid to say you'll be home alone. I have to go to work and your aunt is going to visit a friend of hers soon."
"That's fine," I replied and face planted back into my pillows.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes,"
"I'll inform the school, then." Uncle James let out another sigh and stood up. "I'll see you around dinner time then. Try and get some fresh air today."
"I will,"
I listened to the sound of his feet pounding against my floor as he exited my room, shutting the door on his way out. I let out a long, loud sigh that helped rid of the awkward silence that had filled my room during the time my uncle was here.
I skipped out on having breakfast with my aunt and uncle. Before my aunt had left, moments after my uncle did, she told me she had wrapped my breakfast up and placed it in the fridge. Soon after her departure, I forced myself out of bed and walked downstairs and into the kitchen where I heated my breakfast up and ate in silence, something I happened to be quite used to.
My chopsticks lingered near my mouth as my eyelids lowered a bit. Memories of when I was a small child flash through my mind. I remember waking up and going downstairs to find the house empty, and my breakfast on the counter with a small note from my parents. I had always eaten alone, expect for Sunday. On Sunday, I did in fact eat breakfast with parents, so it actually wasn't all that bad.
I sighed. "I shouldn't be thinking about this. It'll only bring tears." I told myself as I gathered my dishes and walked over to the sink.
After washing my dishes, I headed back up to my room and sat down at my desk. I took out some of my textbooks from my bag and opened them up. I figured a little studying would do me some good, seeing as how I'm not attending school today. It was only fair. Or…at least that's what I liked to think.
I spent a good four hours studying. I would have spent more, but my eyes were beginning to hurt. I decided I would watch T.V and possibly take a nap, since I had nothing better to do and my aunt wouldn't be home until dinnertime.
I headed down stairs where I flopped myself onto the couch and turned on the T.V, flipping through the channels until I found a random cartoon. I watched it for a good ten minutes before flipping the channel to some Japanese drama show. And I have to admit, it was better than the American ones, so I ended up watching that until I fell asleep.
I slept through lunch, and almost until dinnertime. When I awoke, Aunt Jenny was not home, and I was hungry. I scrounged around in the kitchen for something simple to snack on until my aunt came home to make dinner. Sadly, there was nothing to really snack on unless I made it, but I really didn't want to do that. So I decided, after a few more growls coming from my stomach, that I would go out and grab something. I had money, money I had saved up from when my parents had spare change. When I had arrived here in Japan quite some time ago now, my uncle had taken me to the bank where we converted my normal US dollars into Japanese ones.
I headed up stairs and changed into a simple light blue tank top and jeans. Afterwards, I grabbed my wallet and headed back downstairs where I put my shoes on and headed out the door, locking it and stuffing the key into my pants pocket.
The fresh, late afternoon air felt nice on my skin. I breathed it in for my first time today and smiled. Being outdoors was quite nice after an almost full day in the house.
As I rounded the corner into the market area, I took notice of the familiar school uniforms, uniforms of Seigaku. "That's right; school has already been let out…" I muttered to myself as I passed by a couple of girls who were window-shopping. They commented in their high, girly voices of theirs about how cute a pair of shoes were and moaned, and groaned about how poor they were, but wanted to come back another time to get them. Typical, I thought. This was a normal behavior between a couple of friends, yes? I've seen it on T.V!
"If that's a normal teenage girl behavior…why don't Miki or Lucy and I do it?" I tapped my chin in thought.
Maybe everyone is different after all…
I shrugged. Oh well.
"Hey, why don't we go see a movie?"
I turned my head, taking notice of an older couple, a boy and a girl, looking at posters of new or upcoming movies.
"Yeah, sounds like a plan." They both laughed, smiles plastered on their faces.
A frown made its way to my face as I felt my heart tighten. Eiji's smiling face popped into my mind almost immediately, and as I clenched my eyes shut, and brought my clenched fists up to my eyes, I could hear his laughter, but thankfully, the vision began to slowly fade away as did his laughter. My eyes soon slowly opened, and I unclenched my fists.
"Do you ever question the relationship Kikumaru-san and yourself have?"
Do you just hate it how your best friend can just somehow invade your mind, repeating a question she had once asked you before? Yeah, Miki sucks.
However, the question never left my mind as I stood there, in the middle of the sidewalk, just staring down at the ground as people passed by me. My relationship with Eiji…since the first day I met him, our relationship had just been friendship based. I never expected anything more than that, and really, I don't think I want to. I've watched T.V, I have seen practically best friends end up…you know…together, but in the end, it never works out, and it just leaves such a major awkward feeling between the two that they begin to distance from one another. That is something I absolutely do not want to have happen to Eiji and I. I cannot bear to lose him; he is just so…dear to me.
I felt my heart skip a beat. Dear to me… Sure, many people nowadays were dear to me. Ever since I arrived here in Japan, it seems I have just been meeting people who don't seem to be leaving my life anytime soon, therefore, we become closer and soon enough, I come to love them. Eiji though, he was a different case. My love…was completely different from the love I had for my guardians, for Miki, Lucy, Keitaro, Shinji, and even Momo, Ryoma and all the others. Never around them would my heart ever skip a beat, would my hands began to sweat uncontrollably, would my mind practically go blank every time we were close to one another, and never would my lips act in such a strange way for them. No, this only happened with Eiji.
I almost dropped to the ground at the moment, for my knees seemed to buckle as realization hit me like a ton of bricks. Thankfully, though, my crutch is what kept me up.
When someone's shoulder slammed into mine, I apologized and walked over to a nearby bench that was located under a tree, which gave me some nice needed shade. My hands shook as I brought them up to my face, resting my palms on my forehead as I stared down at my lap. I couldn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it. I could have sworn it was…lust. That was the best possible explanation I could come up with, seeing as how I never thought I could feel this way for Eiji. Then again, I never thought I would experience lust for his lips, either. Ah…but then again if my assumptions are correct, which I am damn sure they are I never actually experienced lust for his lips.
It was never lust…
It was…
Well…
Er…
Uh…
Erm…
DAMMIT, WHY CAN'T IT BE LUST?
"I just don't want to admit it to myself…" I groaned and face palmed.
"Admit what?"
"Admit what I feel for Eiji-kun…" I muttered.
I blinked. Wait – what?
I glanced up, only to come face to face with the one and only, Fuji.
Shoot.
"Fuji-san!" I exclaimed aloud in shock.
Fuji smiled at me, waving his hand as I calmed myself. He asked if he could sit next to me, but instead I got up and asked if he wanted to walk around. Fuji agreed to that so we set off to wherever our feet would end up taking us.
"Er…" I embarrassingly looked down to the ground. "Did you…happen to hear what I muttered?"
I could see his smile widen a bit. "Yup,"
I almost fainted.
Fuji chuckled.
Jerk.
"Can you please not mention that to anyone? I'm still trying to figure things out here." I asked of him, clapping my hands together and placing them in front of my face in a sort of begging tone.
"All right," he agreed, to which I beamed. However… I had to tell him everything as we walked towards a new destination, Taka Dad's sushi shop. The two of us were in fact, hungry, so Fuji said he would pay as long as I told him the whole story. I reluctantly agreed.
As we sat down to eat, greeted warmly by Taka's father, I slowly began to tell him the story while we waited for our sushi. Fuji nodded, never interrupting even when I took a long pause. He only listened. When I was finished, our sushi finally arrived and I dug right into it.
"Saa, I see, I see…" Fuji said, his smile faltering a little.
"Yeah, it's pretty confusing." I said with a slight nod. "But I know… I'll figure it out."
Fuji rested his shoulder on the table, and placed the palm of his hand under his chin as he looked over at me, humming. I plopped a piece of sushi into my mouth, and chewed as I looked over at him. "What?" I asked a moment later. "Don't stare at me like that. It's somewhat creepy. No offense or anything."
"None taken,"
"Wonderful," I stared back down at my sushi, my chopsticks hesitating to pick another one up. "Fuji-san…"
"Yes?"
"Did Eiji-kun…say anything about me not being in school today?"
"He seemed…distant."
I sighed.
"I figured it was because of something between the two of you is why Eiji-kun practiced extremely hard. Harder than usual. He was trying to get his mind off of something, and that something…"
"…is me," I finished for him.
"So what will you do?"
"I'll go to school tomorrow. But until I figure everything out, and can even admit my own feelings, I think Eiji-kun and I need some time away from one another."
"Is that really the best choice?"
I blinked at Fuji's seemingly serious words. My eyes slowly gazed up to see the frowning Fuji. I rarely saw him frowning; only a few times at a tournament that they had a while back, but that was about it.
"The best choice…?" I repeated, "Is it not? Shouldn't I distance myself away from Eiji-kun until I figured everything out?"
"Distancing yourself from him will only make things worse." My eyes widened in shock as his words. I watched him pick up a sushi roll and plop it into his mouth.
"Fuji-san? Boyer-san?" My eyes snapped up towards the door, where Taka walked in with a shocked look in his eyes. It quickly vanished, however, and he smiled while walking over to us.
"Hey," Fuji greeted him.
Taka nodded towards him, then looked at me. "Boyer-san, I thought you were sick. You didn't come to school today."
I mentally sweat dropped. "Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't feeling too great this morning, so I just stayed home from school. I'm feeling much better now, though." I somewhat lied.
"Oh, I see."
Sorry, Taka.
Fuji smiled over at me, seeing right through my little white lie. I shot him a look, a look that told him to keep quiet. He chuckled a bit and I almost wanted to smack him.
I asked Taka if he would like to sit down with us, but he declined, telling us that he had to go help his father. When he left towards the back, I snatched the last piece of sushi on my plate and stuck it in my mouth. When I was finished, I stood up and thanked Fuji for the meal. Fuji stood up as well, and accompanied me out.
"Remember, do not mention anything about what I said today to anyone." I said.
"Your secret is safe with me." Fuji replied.
I smiled. "Thanks… Oh, and thanks for talking in English!" I laughed and spun around, making my way through the small crowd of people.
I raised my head, watching the white, puffy clouds in the sky float by. So, avoiding Eiji was not a good idea, apparently. Man, I really do suck at this kind of stuff. Then what do I do? Wait – what if Eiji avoids me first? Would Eiji really avoid me though? I sighed. Sometimes I wish I knew what Eiji was thinking. This was just getting irritating.
"Why does this have to be happening to me? !" I shouted, furiously scratching both sides of my head.
"Boyer-san?"
I blinked. My head slowly moved up, my eyes meeting a familiar face.
"Eiji-kun's sister? !"
(-Before school started-)
"And then he said tha-" Lucy stated as she was rambling to Keitaro.
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Keitaro screamed out of annoyance.
"…THAT. He was going to take Mari-nee out to lunch and I was like 'you did not just go there! I don't think so.' And after that I beat him but with the help of a sink…" Lucy finished slightly ignoring Keitaro's outburst.
"Hey... Did you know that there is supposed to be a ghost in the janitor's closet?" he said changing the subject.
"REALLY?" Lucy exclaimed happily.
"Yep…But you have to be in there with the door closed and the lights off along with that factor that you have to wait until school is over."
"Ok, let's do it!" Lucy smirked with some drool dribbling from her mouth.
"Hehehe~! Finally I can get ride of her!" Keitaro laughed evilly in his head while walking towards the closet.
(-After school-)
"Wasn't there something I was supposed to do?" Keitaro asked himself as he was walking home alone. "Eh oh well…If I can't remember it, it wasn't important."
(-Late at night around 12 in Keitaro's dreams-)
Keitaro was sitting in a field of flowers with Miki while eating sandwiches when suddenly a hand reaches out from Miki's mouth. The hand pulls the rest of its body out. As it would turn out the body was Lucy's and she wasn't exactly human. She had long horns protruding out of her head with bat wings connected to her hips, fangs and sharp pointy teeth. The whites of her eyes were black, her pupils were slits, and her eye color changed to bright blood red. The skies turn purple, the sun red, and the clouds black. The flowers morphed into demonic vines that snipped at Keitaro's body.
"Haven't you forgotten something?" Lucy growled in a weird evil voice as drool began to run down her neck from her mouth.
"I d-don't know what you are talking about!" he yelled getting up to run but he fell through a hole in the ground where it was pitch black.
"Maybe this will give you a hint." Lucy's demon voice came from inside the darkness with him before the lights turned on, revealing a janitor's closet.
"OH GOD!" he yelled before Lucy pulled out a scythe and swung it to chop off his head.
Keitaro shot straight up.
"Oh god! If I go there, she would kill me! Who would she not kill?" He asked himself aloud in a whisper. "…I know!" he snapped his fingers while looking for his cell phone.
He dialed the phone number.
"Why in the world are you calling me at this time in the morning?" Fuji's voice came out tired but somehow awake.
"Ya gotta help me man! I locked Lucy in the janitor's closet at school, and totally forgot to get her out!" Keitaro whispered into the phone.
"Wait…Slow down…Why did you do this."
"That's not important right now! She'll kill me if I go, and mom has a strict rule about not going out after eleven. Can you please go get her?" Keitaro said almost crying.
"Okay…" Fuji sighed from the other side of the line.
"Who was that?" Fuji's older sister asked in curiosity, poking her head into her younger brother's room.
"A friend. I need to pick someone up. Can you call Ryuzaki-sensei and tell her to bring the school key and to wait for me?"
"Be careful." She stated as she watched her brother leave the house.
Fuji got his phone out and decided to call Lucy's cell.
He dialed the number, but it would appear the blasted thing was either off or dead.
Ryuzaki stood there waiting for Fuji.
"Sorry to bother you about this, Sensei. But Lucy is locked in a janitor's closet." Fuji explained tiredly.
"…" was the coach's only reply.
She walked towards the gate and unlocked it along with all the other doors. She also turned off the security alarms. Eventually they reached the right closet and unlocked it only to reveal a sleeping Lucy.
Fuji then picked her up. The three of them went out of the building locking it up as they went.
"You want a ride?" Ryuzaki asked politely.
"No, I will walk her to my house."
"Why not walk her home?"
"I am afraid of what her family might do if I show up with her sleeping in my arms at one in the morning."
"I see."
And so Ryuzaki left Fuji standing there with Lucy in his arms. He looked down at her and he had a slight realization. She was actually pretty cute, sleeping like that.
"Sister, I am home." Fuji sighed opening the door somehow with Lucy in his arms.
"Oh, it's that girl you were telling me about, correct?" His sister smiled.
"Yeah. Can you change her?" he asked his sister while putting Lucy's small body on the couch before he turned to go and get something for the girl to eat just in case she woke up and was hungry.
"Not a problem."
After a couple of minutes Fuji's sister walked into the kitchen and stated that the pink haired girl was dressed in proper clothes for sleeping and that she would wash her school uniform.
Fuji then walked back into the living room and sat down next to Lucy, who surprisingly woke up.
She seemed to still be asleep, but she looked at him, got up, and sat on his lap.
"When did I get out of the closet?" she asked seemingly slightly irritated.
"Thirty minutes ago."
"Hmph! That Keitaro is going to suffer the next time I see him."
"Philips-san…Why were you in the closet?" Fuji asked politely.
"Keitaro said that the closet was haunted and that you had to wait in the closet in the dark for the whole period of school." She huffed, annoyed.
"I see… Have you learned something from this, Saa?"
"Yes…Never trust useless lackeys!" She stated. "What time is it by the way?" she asked taking her cell phone out only to find out that it was in fact dead.
"Around one forty-five," He answered. "Can you please get off of me?"
"No. You are warm." Lucy stated cuddling into him more.
"Then do you mind going to my room so I can change back into my clothes?"
"Nope," Lucy retorted softly before Fuji picked her up again and walked to his room and plopped her on his bed.
She then turned towards the wall after crawling under the blankets and before seemingly to fall asleep, and Fuji started to change. After he was done, he got under blankets before realizing that Lucy was a bed hog. So he pushed her more towards the wall in order to get at least some room.
"Fuji-senpai…You could have asked for me to move." Lucy stated before turning around to face him.
"I thought you were asleep, Philips-san." He replied looking into her eyes. Wait a moment! One of them was green. "Lucy? You have two different eye colors?"
"Huh? Oh yeah…" she sighed, averting her eyes away from his face. "Must have lost my contact lens somehow…"
Fuji's hand somehow found its way up to Lucy cheek. And before Fuji knew what he was doing, he kissed the pink haired girl.
All she could seem to do when he pulled away from her face was to stare at him in shock.
"Saa…Sorry about that Phillips-san." He chuckled at her reaction.
Lucy's facial expression seemed to change because of the statement. She stared at him with a serious look on her face for a while before moving her face closer. "May…I ask what that was for?" she looked up at him while pouting.
"Because you are so cute," He replied kissing her once again, but this time she kissed back.
After a couple minutes of kissing each other, Lucy pulled away and went straight back to sleep.
"Hm…I should probably go to sleep as well." Fuji hummed aloud while cuddling the small pink haired girl.
LP8: Summer vacation has started. Half of this chapter was written while I was watching my awesome (expensive as hell) Prince of Tennis episodes! All together, it was 160 dollars for it, but dammit, it was worth it! (even if it took most of my money away, so I didn't buy much at the convention. I had a goal to come back with a crap load of anime this year, but then I remembered how much more expensive it is there than on eBay!)
Bloodpuppy wrote the Fuji and Lucy part. We are wrapping that relationship up. All I have to say as to WHY is because of...problems, I guess. I don't want to go into details because life should not be complained on Fanfiction. ...I'm making a fucking blog. I need something to complain on. BACK TO THE STORY! However, it won't affect Eiji or Lizzy. They are my problem(not in a bad way!), unlike Fuji and Lucy. Just think that the two have had mutual feelings (which you'd have to look pretty closely in during their time together) for a while now. Most of that is in fact, true!
I am sorry to all of those who probably wanted to see the relationship being taken slowly. I know that a lot of things have been changing in this story lately, and I know it gets annoying after a while, but I SWEAR this is the last huge change/change at all!
I'm not sure what you are all thinking or feeling, but do you get a feeling that this might be closing in to the ending soon? Hehe, I'll let your minds think about it now. 8)
All in all, this was a pretty fun (crappy in my mind) chapter. I do hope you all enjoyed, though!
I was originally going to have Ryoma be in the place of Fuji, but then I thought it was time for some FujixLucy... And was able to ask Bloodpuppy to work on that one part.
Anyway, I would like to thank: PhoenixRage92, DarkContessa, rachil and ThePockyOfDoom
for reviewing last time! THANK you!
Please do leave a review, and I will try to get to the next chapter as soon as I can! But for now, I'm going to sleep. It's one in the morning, and I am tired. Let me wake up to some nice reviews! That would make my afternoon pleasent! (Hurrr... Look at me trying to get you all to review in such a lame way.)
~LP8
