Futari no Merry-go-round: Chapter 2 - Game
Yes! I finally got to the 2nd chapter now!
Well, you all know the disclaimer so I am not going to bother with it now (me
lazy =P)
If you have gotten this far then I assume
you have read my first two chapters. What do you think? Email
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Love Love Aishiteru,
Pink Yuki
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Mikagami held her tightly. "I think I am a little tipsy
right now, do you mind giving me a little support?" The ensui wielder
whispered in her ears.
"Are you okay? Mi-chan?" Fuuko was bewildered that
the usual confident, cold Mikagami was talking so softly to her, not to mention
holding her.
"Yeah, just that Kurei and Recca developed a sudden
interest in wine tasting and forced me to go along with them. If it's only Recca
I could just walked away, but I don't dare turning my back on two flame masters
at once." Mikagami said with his hand twirling with Fuuko's hair.
Fuuko blushed slightly but enjoyed the feeling. "You
have nice hair, Fuuko. Don't ever use Clinique's shampoo okay, it would harm
your hair." Fuuko let out a slight laughter. That's the Mikagami she knew,
always obsessed with his hair.
"Mi-chan, so how have
you been lately?"
"It's okay. I got
offers from quite a few universities, but I haven't decided on where I want to
go yet. I wonder which one Mifuyu would choose?"
"The one you like the
best."
"Then it would be too
far away. I won't be able to see all the people here for a while." Mikagami
slightly pondered, but the alcohol in his system was still affecting him.
"Not that I want to see the sea-monkey or the gorilla anyway, but I like
shopping with Kurei and converse with him." He giggled.
"Ano… Mi-chan? Are
you gay?" Fuuko asked innocently.
"NANI???"
Mikagami jumped at Fuuko's question. The alcohol in his blood seemed to
evaporate within an instance. "I am 100% male, physically and
mentally."
Fuuko was embarrassed by
her misjudgment and further more by the weird stares from everyone around them.
*Gee… I didn't know Mi-chan of all people would ever make a scene.* She
thought.
"You want to get a
drink? I am kind of thirsty right now." Fuuko quickly diverted the topic
and dragged Mikagami to the bar's direction. Mikagami kept saying that he is
100% male along the way.
Fuuko found the two flame
casters behind the bar, with Kaoru, Joker, Neon, Miki and Yanagi sitting around
the bar table. "Go Neon-sama, go!" Fuuko heard Miki's cheer and peeped
though the crowd. Neon and Kaoru quickly gulped down the flaming liquid.
"Neon-neechan, I win!" the little boy grinned and wiped his mouth with
his sleeves. Neon grabbed Joker and kissed him square on the mouth.
"What is that? And
Kaoru! You are severely underage!" Fuuko turned to Yanagi, who was cheering
for Kaoru while Kaoru just stuck his tongue out. "Oh, Fuuko-san. They were
just playing drinking games." The healer smiled sweetly. "You two want
to join?"
"Sure." Mikagami
looked a little sober now and proceed to stand behind Kaoru, still holding
Fuuko's hand unconsciously.
"New
challengers!" Recca happily screamed. "Let's see… who wants to play
with Mikagami? Fuuko can wait for the next round since she doesn't know the
rules yet."
"I will." Kurei
smiled and started mixing the drinks.
Fuuko was totally confused
about the game." The game is basically two people drinking against each
other, and the one who lost have to do something the winner stated." Miki
quickly informed Fuuko. "It was really fun before, when all the
Jyushinshuus were here. You have to see Joker-san's face when he had to kiss
Mikoto!" Everyone laughed except for the cursing Joker.
"You have to kiss
Yanagi." Mikagami suddenly burst out.
"Niichan! Don't you
dare lose! If you kiss my hime I am going to burn you with all hachiryu!"
Recca shouted immediately. Mikagami just smirked alongside.
"Don't worry, since
when did I ever lose to Mikagami?" Kurei eyed his brother with a hint of
laughter in his voice. "Just do your job, Recca."
"What drink is
that?" Fuuko asked Yanagi, who was blushing furiously at how Recca was
protecting her. "Oh, it's flaming Lamborghini."
Recca skillfully poured the
liquor down and summon Saiha (wonder what the hachiryu thought of this?) to
light it before it could reach the glass. Mikagami and Kurei were drinking as
fast as they could with the crowd cheering around them. Recca being the loudest.
"I win." Kurei
smiled at the growling Mikagami. "See, I never lose to Mikagami!"
Kurei raised a V-sign to Recca, who nodded happily. "What are you going to
make him do now, niichan?"
Unaware of the crowd
forming around them, people were shouting out their suggestions.
"Call Duo Maxwell and
tell him he would take Heero away from him!"
"Call Hiei and tell
him he loves him more than Kurama ever does!"
"Kiss Fujimaru!"
"Let Domon braids his
hair!"
"Just make him bake
cookies since we don't have much snacks left." Fuuko raised her voice to
the suggestions. She didn't think that ensui would do any good in front of a
Gundam, nor did she think Mikagami would appreciate having weird plants growing
out of his body.
"Cookies! That's a
good idea." Kaoru licked his lips. "Mikagami niichan bakes the best
cookies in the world!"
"Cookies it is then.
Off you go, Mikagami!" Kurei smiled. "Fuuko, why don't you go and keep
an eye on him also? I don't want my kitchen to burn because of a drunk
man."
"Okay." Fuuko
stood and followed the giggling water wielder out of the room.
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"Mi-chan, at least
this is better than calling up the Gundam pilots, right?" Fuuko sat herself
on the kitchen table. "Come on, you can't be angry at me for this? I have
never tasted your cooking before also since Kaoru always eats all of them before
I could reach one."
"Hmmp." The water
wielder looked at her and put the dough into the oven. "Time it, 30
minutes."
"Fine, be that way." Fuuko set the time on her Baby-G, looked up and noticed Mikagami's face was no more than a few inches from her, with arms enclosing her around the kitchen table.
"You still have
that?" Mikagami looked at her watch.
"Yeah, you guys got me
this for my birthday, remember? My 17th birthday present." Fuuko felt weird
as she could clearly mark Mikagami's breathe on her face.
"Yes, I
remember." Mikagami suddenly put his head on Fuuko's shoulder. "I
picked it."
"Ano… Mi-chan?"
Fuuko was bewildered by Mikagami's actions. *This is my teammate, for goodness'
sake. And he only wants some support since he is still drunk. Stop blushing,
Fuuko!* She was trying hard to suppress the redness rising from her cheeks.
"We missed you."
Mikagami murmured on Fuuko's neck, which gave her a burning sensation. *Come on
now, Fuuko. He is DRUNK!* Fuuko stiffened and slowly raised a hand soothing
Mikagami's back. "I am back." She softly said.
"I missed you."
Mikagami put his arms around Fuuko's waist, still murmuring on her neck. *Now
this must be an illusion, he was just saying we missed you, where the heck did I
hear I missed you from?* Fuuko couldn't stop herself from blushing and remained
silent.
'beep beep beep' Fuuko
straightened up and stopped her watch. *Gee, I was holding Mi-chan for 30
minutes? He must be real drunk not to protest.* "Hey Mi-chan? Let's check
on the cookies." Now that her redness subsided, she pushed Mikagami up and
proceeded to the oven. "They look wonderful."
Mikagami silently put the
cookies on a plate and gave one to Fuuko. "Try it."
Fuuko savored the white
chocolate chip cookie and looked up, "The best I have ever tasted."
She smiled.
Mikagami smiled and
motioned Fuuko to go back to the party.
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When Fuuko and Mikagami
arrived the living room, nearly half the people were on the floor. The kuu team,
except for Saicho and Misora who were drunk beyond belief on the recliner, were
a dead pile on the floor. Domon and Aki have blacked out on the couch. Joker was
trying his luck on the half-drunken Neon, and got a whack on his head as Neon
told him to wait for another century.
"You are back!"
Kaoru seemed unaffected and bounced towards them, "Cookies!" the anki
wielder grabbed three and forced them down his throat.
"Hey you two, come and
play again! The kuu team was defeated in a second. Not much fun really."
Recca shouted at them and ran over for the cookies.
"Fuuko's turn."
Yanagi smiled. From the redness on her face, Fuuko could tell that the healer
was rather tipsy already. "I will drink with you."
"Fine." Fuuko
slipped into the seat beside her best friend. "How many did you drink
before I was back?"
"Just six. I beat
Misora six times in a row."
"SIX? Yanagi, I
didn't know you handle liquor that well…" Fuuko was dumbstruck.
"Okay ladies, on your
set now." Kurei smiled at the two of them and put the glasses down.
"Kurenai!" A small action figure sized fire came from Kurei's finger
and lit the liquid as it flowed down.
Fuuko was trying her best
to gulp down the liquor, but it was stronger than she anticipated. A moment
later, she heard the healer giggled an "I win."
Fuuko gulped down the last
mouthful and looked at her friend, "So what do you want me to do now? Call
up Quatre Winner and confess how cute I think he is?" Fuuko laughed.
Yanagi thought a second
before a wicked grin came onto her face. "Kiss Mikagami-senpai for 30
seconds."
"Nani? Yanagi, stop
joking."
"Rules are rules, my
friend." Yanagi smiled at her embarrassed friend.
"Just do it. It's only
thirty seconds." Joker sat down next to Fuuko, "I had to kiss Mikoto
for a whole minute!"
"Besides, Mikagami
wasn't protesting. He never remembers what he did when he was drunk anyway. We
have had that experience before. We made him dress up in Neon's clothes and took
a picture of him, he didn't remember it at all until we showed him the
picture!" Kurei and Recca laughed as they recalled the incident.
Fuuko turned around and put
her hands on Mikagami's face, slowly she moved her face forward. *Well, at least
he won't remember at all.* She thought as she closed her eyes.
Suddenly Mikagami reached
down and covered Fuuko's lips with his. Fuuko's eyes opened abruptly. Mikagami's
left hands had encircled her slim waist, while his right hand rested behind her
neck for support. Mikagami kissed her passionately and nibbled on her lower lips
every now and then. Fuuko felt the world spin around her, she closed her eyes
and started to kiss back. She stopped when Kurei announced that thirty seconds
were over.
Fuuko looked up at
Mikagami, whose eyes were so passionate that it burnt holes in her. She blushed
and pulled away from his grip, sitting down on the bar stool once again drinking
the whatever-it-is in front of her.
"Now that's what I
call passionate." Yanagi eyed Recca and grinned. "Recca, maybe you
should start taking lessons from Mikagami-senpai?" Everyone laughed and
Recca whined.
"Oh damn!"
Koganei suddenly cried out. "It's 4 o'clock already. Kurei niichan, aren't
we going to help Kagero-san in her store tomorrow? We will have less than 5
hours of sleep even if we drop dead now!"
Kurei sweatdropped.
"We do, don't we?" He looked at Kaoru and the latter nodded.
"Damn! Party's over! I have got to sleep now!" Both Kurei and Koganei
dashed for the door, when Kurei all of a sudden stopped and turned to the crowd.
"Neon and Joker, just settled everyone who wanted to stay into the guest
rooms, okay?" With that he ran.
"I never knew niichan
is a sprinter." Recca was still looking at the door, "He could have
won the Olympics with that speed! Oh well, whatever. Since the party is over, I
am going to go sleep too." He yawned.
"Hime, you can have
the room next to mine… Joker, would you drag the Kuu's to the spare rooms on
the left wing? Thanks. Neon and Miki, can you settle Saicho, Misora, Domon, and
Aki? Thanks." Recca took his leadership role and started settling everyone
in. "Mikagami and Fuuko, are you two staying?" He turned to the very
bewildered Fuuko and the absolutely spaced out Mikagami.
"Yeah, I guess so. I
can't drive at this state anyway." Mikagami seemed to sober up a little.
"I'll take the room next to Kurei's, is that okay?"
"Well, Kaoru would be
staying there tonight, since they have to go help Kachan early tomorrow."
Recca thought for a second. "I guess you have to take Kaoru's room. And
Fuuko?"
"I guess I would stay
also, it's not very nice to wake dousan and Ganko at this time of the
night." Fuuko looked over to Mikagami. *Stop thinking about him Fuuko, it
was just a kiss, a kiss he won't even remember!* Fuuko looked back at Recca.
"Well, then you have
to take Ganko's old bedroom. It's next to Koganei's, I guess Mikagami can take
you there." Recca shrugged and yawned. "Gee I am suddenly tired now,
see you guys in the morning k?" Recca turned and walked out.
"Well, Kaoru's room is
on the third floor." Mikagami picked up a beer from the fridge before he
grabbed Fuuko's wrist and walked out of the living room door.
"Mi-chan, I can walk
on my own you know." Fuuko slightly panicked and tried to loosen Mikagami's
grip.
"I know you can, but I
don't know if I can." Mikagami turned his head slightly and took another
mouthful of beer.
"If you stop drinking
then there is a chance you can get your ass up the stairs by yourself."
Fuuko murmured at the depth of her throat.
"I have to
drink." Mikagami led the two of them through the hallway on the third
floor.
"Why?" Fuuko was
plain confused and was starting to feel tired, they have reached the door of
Ganko's room when she turned and asked.
"Because…"
Mikagami held his body up by putting one arm on the door, his other arm touches
Fuuko's face slightly. "Because I have been wanting to tell you how much I
miss you." He lowered his lips to an astonished Fuuko's forehead.
"Mi-chan?" *this
has to be hallucination. Freezer boy? Miss me?* Fuuko's mind was all jumbled up,
and before she could say anything, Mikagami kissed her softly on the lips.
Fuuko felt electricity
going down her spine. Her legs are getting wobbly, and her mind seemed to have
abandoned her. It's only when Mikagami pulled away and said goodnight that she
straightened up and went into her room without a second glance at the water
wielder.
Fuuko lied on the bed.
*Neon couldn't be talking about him, could she? They don't even know each other
that well. Plus…* Fuuko was twisting and turning on the bed. "He likes
girls that are gentle and sweet, like Yanagi." She whispered to herself
before she closed her eyes for a dreamless sleep.