Enchanted
Angelica Diablo
Disclaimer: Don't own Ronins. Don't bite my head off if you don't like the couples.
I woke up to find that I was curled around someone, and that same someone had draped
an arm over me. The warm body beside me was slowly stirring to consciousness; I
could feel the slight shifting that heralded the opening of one's eyes. "Kayura…" I
heard the breathed whisper next to my ear. It was her voice. I opened my eyes slowly,
and smiled to find that it wasn't a dream.
I felt her caress the side of my face gently; as if in awe that I was real, which of course
only made me smile wider. I leaned foreword and kissed the center of her forehead,
right over her third eye. "Good morning." I whispered against her soft skin.
She snuggled in against the curve of my body and tucked her head under my chin. I
knew such joy in that moment. "How late do you think we've slept in?" I asked her.
"Late enough." She sighed. "I'm glad today's my day off…"
I nodded my head agreeing with her. Outside her room I could hear the sounds of the
other members of the house stirring and moving about in their morning routines. I
could hear Cye working in the kitchen, and what sounded like Sage's voice talking with
him. Ryo was moving around in the living room, and Rowen sounded like he had just
dragged himself out of bed and was shuffling down the hall into the bathroom. I
assumed that Kento was in the work out room, though I wasn't positive.
I personally could have lain there all day with Mia and just listened to the sounds of the
others going about their lives, but my bladder insisted on otherwise. After another five
minutes of silence I had to get up. I kissed her temple as I unwrapped my arms from
around her. "I'll be right back." I whispered.
Mia opened her eyes again and looked at me questioningly. "Bathroom." I clarified,
and she nodded contentedly. I left the room and went down the hall. When I was
finished I opened the door only to find Kento was about to open it.
"You!" He bellowed, obviously angry that I seemed to be everywhere.
"Yes, me. Excuse me Kento, I would like to get through." I said as I walked past him
and back towards Mia's room. As I opened her bedroom door I noticed out of the
corner of my eye that Kento was standing in front of the bathroom glairing at me. I
ignored him and entered the bedroom closing the door behind me.
When I turned to look, Mia had changed into a pair of jeans and a loose tee shirt. She
had casually tied her hair back, and was making the bed. I quickly moved to help her
and she smiled at me. "You ready for some breakfast?" I asked her. She nodded, but
instead of going out the door to the kitchen, she walked around the bed and pulled me
into her arms.
"Whatever happens out there, we'll make it." She told me. When I nodded she leaned
foreword and gave me a quick kiss before the two of us made our way to the kitchen.
We walked in the room to find Sage sitting at the table, and Cye walking over with the
waffles he'd just cooked up for the two of them to eat.
"You want some?" Cye offered the two of us. "There's enough for everyone and
Kento." He joked.
"Sure!" Mia smiled. "These are Cye's famous waffles." She told me as she took her
seat. I sat beside her and waited for my share of the meal.
"The others should be here shortly." Cye informed us as he took a seat across from
Sage. Sage was cutting his waffles and hadn't noticed that Cye had intentionally sat
across from him, even when all other seats were left open. Mia noticed though, and so
did I.
Sage was silent, not that this was totally unusual for as laid back as he is. This however,
was a chilling silence that was only broken with the sound of his utensils hitting the
plate. It seemed that he and Cye had been having a rather interesting conversation
before we came in, but now Sage was just trying to rush through eating so he could
leave. When I glanced around Mia at Cye, I noticed that the redhead was watching Sage
more than he was eating.
Huh…it was interesting how Sage, who seemed to be so perceptive in so many things,
was missing the adoration in Cye's eyes. Or was he? When Mia and I made a silent
agreement to finish eating and leave the two of them alone, I heard Sage ask, "Cye,
something's been bothering you these past few days, what's wrong?"
I glanced at Mia as we both headed towards the front of the house and her eyes told me
she was just as aware of the eaves dropping I'd done. We tugged on our shoes and
boots at the door, having decided to go for a walk during the meal. We left the house
with the warm air of the early afternoon making us smile.
Inside the house Cye was battling with Sage's question. "Nothing…alright something is
wrong if you must know." Cye gave up trying to lie; he had never been very good at it.
"What?" Sage pressed, worried for his friend.
"It's personal Sage." Cye warned him.
Sage nodded, then added a moment later, "Cye, you know it's not good to keep it
bottled in if it's bothering you this much. I think you need to get it off your chest."
Cye had looked up from poking his waffles around his plate to look Sage in his one
visible eye. "Sage, you don't want to know. Trust me, you don't want to know."
Sage had been about to say more when Ryo had walked into the kitchen looking for
something to eat. Sage had resigned the conversation then, but decided to bring it up
again later. It was strange, but Kento had been avoiding the kitchen throughout the
entire time Mia and I had been down there, but he followed not long after Ryo, eating all
but two waffles he decided to save for Rowen.
Unwary of these events, Mia and I strolled through the forest, pausing now and again to
inspect a patch of wildflowers, or whatever caught our eyes. Something I noticed, when
you're with someone who enchants you, the world suddenly is able to enchant you. I
didn't know if this was a good thing, but I didn't dislike it at any rate.
Before long we came to an area where the trees weren't as close as in other areas of the
forest. It wasn't exactly a clearing, but it was a nice place to sit down and look around.
There we lounged, with our backs to the tree trunks, and I found my mind wandering
back to Cye and his predicament.
"Mia?" I asked softly after a soft lull in the conversation.
"Hmm?" She replied.
"Well," I started, wondering if it was right to even get involved. I felt I owed Cye one
for talking me into talking to Mia, well, at least letting her know how I felt. "Do you
think we should talk to Cye?"
Mia thought for a moment. "Perhaps. He has spoken to me a few times about his
feelings, but I don't think he dares talk to Sage about it after Sage's reaction to us."
I nodded. It would have taken a lot of courage for Cye to approach Sage in the first
place, let alone after the way Sage was opposed to Mia and I. Yet I had to wonder if he
was more opposed to Mia and I simply because it was Mia instead of it being the fact
that we were lesbians.
Mia and I sat for a long while, though I'm not sure just how long, and we watched the
wildlife emerge to do a little recon on us. When we didn't seem to be that big a threat
they went about their business.
There was another set of eyes, doing a little searching of their own. Cye was on the
balcony of fate, gazing out over the pond and lost in his thoughts when the object of his
affections decided to join him.
"Cye?" Sage asked, making Cye jump.
"Hmm?" Cye asked, not turning to look at him.
"Mind if I join you?" When Cye shook his head 'no,' Sage moved to lean on the railing
next to his friend. "Cye, what do you think about Mia and Kayura?"
After a heavy sigh, the response came, "I think that they're happy together, and I wish
you wouldn't blame them for it. They can't help who they love any more than either of
us can."
Sage was shocked at the emotion in Cye's voice. He'd never heard Cye speak in such a
tone with him before. "Cye?" He asked almost tentatively.
"Yeah Sage?" Sage was surprised to find that Cye's voice sounded almost weary.
"I know that there's someone who you love that you are trying to hide from the
world…" When Cye didn't respond at all, Sage went on. "Does it have to do with Mia
and Kayura?"
Cye nodded. "It has to do with them, but it isn't either one of them." Cye said, trying
not to give it away, but at the same time he was beginning to burst with his feelings.
"Cye, will you ever tell me?" Sage asked.
Cye turned to face him dead on. "Sage, tell me something. If it weren't for the fact that
it was Mia, would you have a problem with lesbians?"
Sage thought a moment, not sure what to make of this conversation. Surely Cye wasn't
implying that…and something in Sage's brain just clicked. "Cye…"
"Answer the question Sage."
"No, not really. No…" Sage shook his head. He had been about to say more, but before
he could finish his sentence Cye had moved foreword and shushed him with a hand
movement.
"Sage, I can't tell you who it is I love, because I know you won't want to know once I
do."
Sage narrowed his eyes. "Cye, are you…wi-with me?" Sage made a hand motion that
indicated he meant 'in love.'
Cye didn't answer, but simply looked at Sage, confirming his suspicions. Mia and I
were in the woods and leaning towards each other as Sage just gazed wide-eyed at Cye
on the balcony. Mia pulled me closer as Cye took a step closer to Sage, trying to read the
look in his eye. I took Mia's hair out of her ponytail as Sage leaned closer to the aquatic
Ronin. Cye used all his courage to kiss Sage on the cheek, then turn away as Mia and I
paused for a breath. As Mia and I simply gazed into each other's eyes, Sage put a hand
on Cye's shoulder to keep him from leaving. As Cye turned around, a glimmer of hope
in his eyes, I held Mia and teleported her to my rooms in the Nether World. As Mia
gazed around my place with wonder in her eyes, Cye again turned away, leaving Sage
alone on the balcony, a stunned expression on his face.
I returned Mia to her house that evening, and Sage immediately jumped upon the two of
us. "Mia, Kayura, I have to talk to you. You two would be able to understand." When
Mia and I just looked at each other we knew that Cye had told him. We nodded, and the
three of us went into Mia's office and locked the door behind ourselves.
"We know what you want to talk about Sage." I told him. "We know how Cye feels
about you."
Well it looked like Sage had been shocked again, though it was hardly evident in that
mask of a face he has. "What should I do?" He asked.
"Well, that depends Sage, how do you feel about him?" Mia asked.
Sage thought for a moment. "I care about him I guess, but I never thought, ya know,
more than a friend. I've never thought of a guy like that before." He was obviously in
over his head. "I don't want to hurt him, but…I don't want to…I don't know what I
think about him. I guess I could, but I just never thought …"
"Sage, do what you do best. Go meditate on it, you'll find the answer." I told him,
cutting him off, though I could tell he'd been doing just that for most of the day.
"Yes, I know. But…" He shook his head slightly. "I'll go talk to him." Sage said, then
turned to walk out. Half the distance out the open door he turned to glance at us over
his shoulder. "I'm sorry. Both of you, I'm sorry for the way I acted."
"It's alright Sage, you didn't know. We forgive you." Mia told him. He nodded and
walked out. Mia and I smiled knowingly at each other before returning to our own little
world.
We could hear Sage knock on the door of Cye's bedroom. We heard him be admitted,
and we heard him close the door behind him. When we heard no other motion from
that area of the house, Mia and I took it to be a good sign.
I left before diner, telling Mia that I thought it best if we gave the others a break from
our relationship, mainly because I thought Kento might kill me if he saw me again that
day. I returned to the Nether World, only to go back to the manor that evening when
Mia was getting ready for bed.
"Mind if I join you?" I asked her softly when I appeared in the corner of her room. She
jumped at my voice, then turned and smiled widely at me.
"No, not at all." She said, shaking her head. "I have good news."
"Hmm?"
"Cye and Sage were sitting next to each other at dinner tonight." She revealed to me.
"So are they a couple?" I asked as I climbed between the sheets.
She shook her head. "No, I don't think so, not yet any way. But who knows what the
future may bring. Though I advised them after dinner to not let any of the others know
about it for a while. Let them recover from us first."
I nodded my head as she reached over and turned out the light. She turned and curled
up against me again, and I wrapped my arm around her. "I adore you Mia." I
whispered.
"And you have enchanted me Kayura." She said against my skin before kissing my face.
In the darkness we snuggled close together and found a blissful place to sleep.
A/N: All right, unless I have any request for it, I think I'm ending the fic here. Please
review and tell me what you think!
Angelica Diablo
Disclaimer: Don't own Ronins. Don't bite my head off if you don't like the couples.
I woke up to find that I was curled around someone, and that same someone had draped
an arm over me. The warm body beside me was slowly stirring to consciousness; I
could feel the slight shifting that heralded the opening of one's eyes. "Kayura…" I
heard the breathed whisper next to my ear. It was her voice. I opened my eyes slowly,
and smiled to find that it wasn't a dream.
I felt her caress the side of my face gently; as if in awe that I was real, which of course
only made me smile wider. I leaned foreword and kissed the center of her forehead,
right over her third eye. "Good morning." I whispered against her soft skin.
She snuggled in against the curve of my body and tucked her head under my chin. I
knew such joy in that moment. "How late do you think we've slept in?" I asked her.
"Late enough." She sighed. "I'm glad today's my day off…"
I nodded my head agreeing with her. Outside her room I could hear the sounds of the
other members of the house stirring and moving about in their morning routines. I
could hear Cye working in the kitchen, and what sounded like Sage's voice talking with
him. Ryo was moving around in the living room, and Rowen sounded like he had just
dragged himself out of bed and was shuffling down the hall into the bathroom. I
assumed that Kento was in the work out room, though I wasn't positive.
I personally could have lain there all day with Mia and just listened to the sounds of the
others going about their lives, but my bladder insisted on otherwise. After another five
minutes of silence I had to get up. I kissed her temple as I unwrapped my arms from
around her. "I'll be right back." I whispered.
Mia opened her eyes again and looked at me questioningly. "Bathroom." I clarified,
and she nodded contentedly. I left the room and went down the hall. When I was
finished I opened the door only to find Kento was about to open it.
"You!" He bellowed, obviously angry that I seemed to be everywhere.
"Yes, me. Excuse me Kento, I would like to get through." I said as I walked past him
and back towards Mia's room. As I opened her bedroom door I noticed out of the
corner of my eye that Kento was standing in front of the bathroom glairing at me. I
ignored him and entered the bedroom closing the door behind me.
When I turned to look, Mia had changed into a pair of jeans and a loose tee shirt. She
had casually tied her hair back, and was making the bed. I quickly moved to help her
and she smiled at me. "You ready for some breakfast?" I asked her. She nodded, but
instead of going out the door to the kitchen, she walked around the bed and pulled me
into her arms.
"Whatever happens out there, we'll make it." She told me. When I nodded she leaned
foreword and gave me a quick kiss before the two of us made our way to the kitchen.
We walked in the room to find Sage sitting at the table, and Cye walking over with the
waffles he'd just cooked up for the two of them to eat.
"You want some?" Cye offered the two of us. "There's enough for everyone and
Kento." He joked.
"Sure!" Mia smiled. "These are Cye's famous waffles." She told me as she took her
seat. I sat beside her and waited for my share of the meal.
"The others should be here shortly." Cye informed us as he took a seat across from
Sage. Sage was cutting his waffles and hadn't noticed that Cye had intentionally sat
across from him, even when all other seats were left open. Mia noticed though, and so
did I.
Sage was silent, not that this was totally unusual for as laid back as he is. This however,
was a chilling silence that was only broken with the sound of his utensils hitting the
plate. It seemed that he and Cye had been having a rather interesting conversation
before we came in, but now Sage was just trying to rush through eating so he could
leave. When I glanced around Mia at Cye, I noticed that the redhead was watching Sage
more than he was eating.
Huh…it was interesting how Sage, who seemed to be so perceptive in so many things,
was missing the adoration in Cye's eyes. Or was he? When Mia and I made a silent
agreement to finish eating and leave the two of them alone, I heard Sage ask, "Cye,
something's been bothering you these past few days, what's wrong?"
I glanced at Mia as we both headed towards the front of the house and her eyes told me
she was just as aware of the eaves dropping I'd done. We tugged on our shoes and
boots at the door, having decided to go for a walk during the meal. We left the house
with the warm air of the early afternoon making us smile.
Inside the house Cye was battling with Sage's question. "Nothing…alright something is
wrong if you must know." Cye gave up trying to lie; he had never been very good at it.
"What?" Sage pressed, worried for his friend.
"It's personal Sage." Cye warned him.
Sage nodded, then added a moment later, "Cye, you know it's not good to keep it
bottled in if it's bothering you this much. I think you need to get it off your chest."
Cye had looked up from poking his waffles around his plate to look Sage in his one
visible eye. "Sage, you don't want to know. Trust me, you don't want to know."
Sage had been about to say more when Ryo had walked into the kitchen looking for
something to eat. Sage had resigned the conversation then, but decided to bring it up
again later. It was strange, but Kento had been avoiding the kitchen throughout the
entire time Mia and I had been down there, but he followed not long after Ryo, eating all
but two waffles he decided to save for Rowen.
Unwary of these events, Mia and I strolled through the forest, pausing now and again to
inspect a patch of wildflowers, or whatever caught our eyes. Something I noticed, when
you're with someone who enchants you, the world suddenly is able to enchant you. I
didn't know if this was a good thing, but I didn't dislike it at any rate.
Before long we came to an area where the trees weren't as close as in other areas of the
forest. It wasn't exactly a clearing, but it was a nice place to sit down and look around.
There we lounged, with our backs to the tree trunks, and I found my mind wandering
back to Cye and his predicament.
"Mia?" I asked softly after a soft lull in the conversation.
"Hmm?" She replied.
"Well," I started, wondering if it was right to even get involved. I felt I owed Cye one
for talking me into talking to Mia, well, at least letting her know how I felt. "Do you
think we should talk to Cye?"
Mia thought for a moment. "Perhaps. He has spoken to me a few times about his
feelings, but I don't think he dares talk to Sage about it after Sage's reaction to us."
I nodded. It would have taken a lot of courage for Cye to approach Sage in the first
place, let alone after the way Sage was opposed to Mia and I. Yet I had to wonder if he
was more opposed to Mia and I simply because it was Mia instead of it being the fact
that we were lesbians.
Mia and I sat for a long while, though I'm not sure just how long, and we watched the
wildlife emerge to do a little recon on us. When we didn't seem to be that big a threat
they went about their business.
There was another set of eyes, doing a little searching of their own. Cye was on the
balcony of fate, gazing out over the pond and lost in his thoughts when the object of his
affections decided to join him.
"Cye?" Sage asked, making Cye jump.
"Hmm?" Cye asked, not turning to look at him.
"Mind if I join you?" When Cye shook his head 'no,' Sage moved to lean on the railing
next to his friend. "Cye, what do you think about Mia and Kayura?"
After a heavy sigh, the response came, "I think that they're happy together, and I wish
you wouldn't blame them for it. They can't help who they love any more than either of
us can."
Sage was shocked at the emotion in Cye's voice. He'd never heard Cye speak in such a
tone with him before. "Cye?" He asked almost tentatively.
"Yeah Sage?" Sage was surprised to find that Cye's voice sounded almost weary.
"I know that there's someone who you love that you are trying to hide from the
world…" When Cye didn't respond at all, Sage went on. "Does it have to do with Mia
and Kayura?"
Cye nodded. "It has to do with them, but it isn't either one of them." Cye said, trying
not to give it away, but at the same time he was beginning to burst with his feelings.
"Cye, will you ever tell me?" Sage asked.
Cye turned to face him dead on. "Sage, tell me something. If it weren't for the fact that
it was Mia, would you have a problem with lesbians?"
Sage thought a moment, not sure what to make of this conversation. Surely Cye wasn't
implying that…and something in Sage's brain just clicked. "Cye…"
"Answer the question Sage."
"No, not really. No…" Sage shook his head. He had been about to say more, but before
he could finish his sentence Cye had moved foreword and shushed him with a hand
movement.
"Sage, I can't tell you who it is I love, because I know you won't want to know once I
do."
Sage narrowed his eyes. "Cye, are you…wi-with me?" Sage made a hand motion that
indicated he meant 'in love.'
Cye didn't answer, but simply looked at Sage, confirming his suspicions. Mia and I
were in the woods and leaning towards each other as Sage just gazed wide-eyed at Cye
on the balcony. Mia pulled me closer as Cye took a step closer to Sage, trying to read the
look in his eye. I took Mia's hair out of her ponytail as Sage leaned closer to the aquatic
Ronin. Cye used all his courage to kiss Sage on the cheek, then turn away as Mia and I
paused for a breath. As Mia and I simply gazed into each other's eyes, Sage put a hand
on Cye's shoulder to keep him from leaving. As Cye turned around, a glimmer of hope
in his eyes, I held Mia and teleported her to my rooms in the Nether World. As Mia
gazed around my place with wonder in her eyes, Cye again turned away, leaving Sage
alone on the balcony, a stunned expression on his face.
I returned Mia to her house that evening, and Sage immediately jumped upon the two of
us. "Mia, Kayura, I have to talk to you. You two would be able to understand." When
Mia and I just looked at each other we knew that Cye had told him. We nodded, and the
three of us went into Mia's office and locked the door behind ourselves.
"We know what you want to talk about Sage." I told him. "We know how Cye feels
about you."
Well it looked like Sage had been shocked again, though it was hardly evident in that
mask of a face he has. "What should I do?" He asked.
"Well, that depends Sage, how do you feel about him?" Mia asked.
Sage thought for a moment. "I care about him I guess, but I never thought, ya know,
more than a friend. I've never thought of a guy like that before." He was obviously in
over his head. "I don't want to hurt him, but…I don't want to…I don't know what I
think about him. I guess I could, but I just never thought …"
"Sage, do what you do best. Go meditate on it, you'll find the answer." I told him,
cutting him off, though I could tell he'd been doing just that for most of the day.
"Yes, I know. But…" He shook his head slightly. "I'll go talk to him." Sage said, then
turned to walk out. Half the distance out the open door he turned to glance at us over
his shoulder. "I'm sorry. Both of you, I'm sorry for the way I acted."
"It's alright Sage, you didn't know. We forgive you." Mia told him. He nodded and
walked out. Mia and I smiled knowingly at each other before returning to our own little
world.
We could hear Sage knock on the door of Cye's bedroom. We heard him be admitted,
and we heard him close the door behind him. When we heard no other motion from
that area of the house, Mia and I took it to be a good sign.
I left before diner, telling Mia that I thought it best if we gave the others a break from
our relationship, mainly because I thought Kento might kill me if he saw me again that
day. I returned to the Nether World, only to go back to the manor that evening when
Mia was getting ready for bed.
"Mind if I join you?" I asked her softly when I appeared in the corner of her room. She
jumped at my voice, then turned and smiled widely at me.
"No, not at all." She said, shaking her head. "I have good news."
"Hmm?"
"Cye and Sage were sitting next to each other at dinner tonight." She revealed to me.
"So are they a couple?" I asked as I climbed between the sheets.
She shook her head. "No, I don't think so, not yet any way. But who knows what the
future may bring. Though I advised them after dinner to not let any of the others know
about it for a while. Let them recover from us first."
I nodded my head as she reached over and turned out the light. She turned and curled
up against me again, and I wrapped my arm around her. "I adore you Mia." I
whispered.
"And you have enchanted me Kayura." She said against my skin before kissing my face.
In the darkness we snuggled close together and found a blissful place to sleep.
A/N: All right, unless I have any request for it, I think I'm ending the fic here. Please
review and tell me what you think!