Muah ha! I have decided that when I get 15 reviews for my rewritten version I'll post Chapter 13...
Chibi-Quatre: Don't you have to post seven to 12 as of yet?
Ya, but I'll post up to 12 today, and then people review them, and then I post 13 tomorrow...
Chibi-Duo: **staggers out of bedroom** Kool.....Aid....
Chibi-Quatre: **hides it behind his back** What was that Du-chan?
Chibi-Duo: Must...have...**in a sudden burst of energy Duo glomps the blonde Chibi and plants a kiss smack on his lips**
Chibi-Quatre: AAH! **is kissed** Mmph mumph mrr... **blushes**
Chibi-Duo: **grabs the Kool-Aid and runs** Ha HA! The God of Death Strikes again...SHINIGAMI IS BAA~AACK!
Heheh...surprise tactics...I've tought you well my little minion...
Chibi-Quatre: **pouts as he sees the Braided Chibi sprout his chibi bat wings and flutter off with the remaining Kool-Aid** Not fair.....
I'm getting some more...you've got wings, chase him...
Chibi-Quatre: Good idea! **sprouts his chibi feathered wings and takes off**
What did I say, endless sources of amusement...
Chapter 6
The grey gelding galloped to the next jump and cleared it, the girl in the saddle turned and aimed the horse at the next jump.
"That was good, Ami! Try raising your seat a little next time!"
"Got it Trowa!" she yelled back as she turned toward the next fence. She raised her seat and double-checked her form as she neared the jump. He's really helping me! She thought excitedly. And he told me to raise my seat…that means he was checking out my--, her horse suddenly shied and she was forced to move with it. The gelding did a tight circle and began to buck. Ami was thrown from the saddle and landed on her back at the side of the jump, unconscious.
"AMI!!!" yelled Trowa as he jumped off the fence and raced over to the still form of the light brown haired girl lying in the sand. "Daijobu? Ami, wake up!" he said as he kneeled beside her and cradled her head in his hands, he looked around, trying to find someone else around them. There wasn't. Kitto there isn't, he thought, it's Saturday you baka, most people are at home!
Ami groaned and stirred in his arms. Trowa looked down at her as her eyes flickered open, he and smiled, "Welcome back to the land of the living. For a second I thought Duo had gotten to you. Daijobu?"
Ami gave him a puzzled look and simply stated, "Itai!" Trowa laughed and suggested that that was enough riding for today. She agreed and he helped her up and onto a stool in the tack room, explaining that he'd put away her horse while she gathered her wits. Ami sat on the stool and tried to calm the aching pain in her head as she watched Trowa walk back out to get her gelding.
Trowa walked out into the empty arena, save for the horse standing at the far end with its head down and its coat shining with sweat. The horse turned a wary eye on the approaching boy. "It's Ok," said Trowa in a soft voice, "C'mere and I'll put you in your stall." The horse backed up a few steps and gave him the horse equivalent of the evil eye.
Ami was watching all this in amazement, I never knew this side of Trowa existed! She giggled as she heard him say calmly to the horse, "Now stop acting like Heero. If you come back to your stall quietly I won't have to destroy you."
"Oh ya, tell him that!" she yelled across the arena, it made her head hurt more. Trowa looked back at her and gave her a lop-sided smile, closely resembling one of Duo's.
"It doesn't matter what you say…as long as you make sure their gaining something in the deal. This horse will not be turned into dog food if he follows me back to his stall. I think that's a pretty good deal, don't you?" He asked.
Ami just shook her head and waved him back to his work.
"Ok horse, if you help me impress this girl I'll let you have a couple carrots…and maybe some sugar cubes too." Trowa whispered to the gelding. The horses' ears perked up and he turned to face the green-eyed boy. Backing up slowly, Trowa turned around and began to walk towards the horses' stall. He looked over his shoulder to make sure the gelding was following him, it was. As Trowa walked by Ami, who was still sitting on the stool, he gave her a thumbs up sign and winked as she giggled at him and the horse. "Smart horse." He said and led the horse into its stall, closing the door behind him.
Ami got up from the stool and went down to the geldings' stall, watching Trowa take off all of the horses' tack and place it over the hay rack. He pulled a carrot and some sugar cubes out of his pocket and handed them to the now calm horse. Trowa then proceeded to groom the gelding from head to tail. Picking up a brush from the bucket outside the stall door, Ami let herself in and started to help. "Daijobu desu ka?" asked Trowa.
"Hai, a bit better. I still have a headache though." She answered as they both finished grooming. The gelding gave a swoosh of his grey tail as Trowa grabbed the bridal and saddle from the hay rack and Ami opened the stall door for him as he carried it to the tack room.
"Trowa?" she asked as she sat down on her stool and grabbed a piece of the bridal to start to clean.
"Hmm…?" he answered, scrubbing at the saddle.
"Arigato"
"For what?" he looked up at her, confused.
"For helping me out, with my form and…everything else." Ami finished, blushing.
So she does like me! Trowa thought when he caught her blushing. "No problem." He said, then got an idea. "Ano…could you pass me that sponge over there?" he asked as he pointed to a soap covered sponge.
"Hai, sure." She said and threw it at his waiting hands, he deliberately missed it and the soap suds splashed against his grey shirt. "Oh, gomen!" she gasped. He looked down at his shirt, looked up at her and smiled mischievously, an unusual sight on Trowa. He grabbed his sponge and threw it lightly at her. It hit her on the shoulder. Shocked, Ami looked at him before grinning and throwing her soap-laden sponge at him. This fight went on for a while, them dodging and hiding behind the other pieces of tack, eventually causing everything in the room to be covered in soapsuds. Trowa caught Ami as she was running around a saddle stand and looked down at her, a slight smile on his face and in his emerald eyes. She looked back up and him surprised. He closed his eyes and bent down toward her, heard her gasp then felt her kissing him back. Trowa wrapped his arms around Ami's waist and she wrapped hers around his neck.
When they finally parted from the kiss, Trowa looked around the room, "We should really clean this up." He stated.
"In a minute." She said as she pulled him close for another kiss.
