Friday, January 04, 2002
Hi! Since people asked about a sequel, here it is, I hope it doesn't totally ruin the first story. Hmm, well, I decided whom to use as the mystery guy, otherwise known as 'Mike.' It was hard, choosing the guy, actually, it could be Heero, Wufei, or Trowa. I hope no one hates whom I picked; it is just that I haven't seen many of these around. Anyway, on with the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own SM, yada, yada, yada…
Forever and more…
The Sequel
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She whipped her head around, looking for something, anything that would tell her that this was not a dream. All around her were floating pink and purple tinted clouds, each omitting waves of love and hope. It was odd, there was no breeze or wind although there were little wisps of clouds floating past her, seemingly pulled by invisible strings. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw the red sun in front of her. It was so beautiful. Instinctively, she brought her right hand up to shade her eyes from the brightness. That was when she noticed something red and sticky on her hand. She looked down at her hand. Dried, flaky blood covered her hand and wrist, with small flecks and blotches of blood on the rest of her arm. She followed the blood up her arm, wincing slightly at a row of pale scars on the inside of her forearm. After a moments pause, she continued to follow the small trail of blood up her arm to her chest. Stained red on the front of the large, white, man's dress shirt, was a large patch of dried blood. Amazed, she flecked some off absently, slightly dazed. Oddly, she didn't feel any pain, well, not any physical pain. Gingerly, she opened the top of her shirt and peeked, afraid of what she might see. Surprisingly, there was no gaping, bloody wound on her chest. Instead, there was only a small little scar, in the shape of a dime sized crescent moon. Her eyes widened and glazed over as the memories came flooding back. Wave after wave of memories assaulted her. Trying to block the painful memories out, she squeezed her eyes closed, hoping that these past ghosts would leave her alone. She felt her knees weakening as the blood seemingly drained from her weak body as she saw her own death played repeatedly behind her closed lids. With an agonized cry, she collapsed to her knees, her small hands clutching her head, trying to block out the pain.
Suddenly, the pain stopped. She opened her eyes timidly, almost afraid that opening her eyes would bring the pain rushing back. However, it didn't. Instead, right in front of her were a pair of rather familiar shoes. Slowly, she raised her gaze to the person's knees from her huddled position. Even the knees seemed slightly familiar, although she found that odd that someone's knees could be familiar. Her gaze continued past the knees, past the waist, and stopped abruptly at his naked chest. She felt a blush rise to her cheeks as she found herself intently studying the muscular, tan chest. Shaking her blonde head at her folly, she craned her neck to see who this man was. Much to her frustration, the sun blinded her, shadowing his face so she could not see who it was. Softly grumbling, she struggled to get up, but found that her legs would not obey her. She managed a strained laugh at her weakness. Unknown to her, a few tears slipped past her eyes and trailed down her pale cheeks. Looking up at the man before her, she saw him extend his left hand. She stopped laughing as she gazed hopefully at the familiar, beautiful hand thrust out in front of her. Her breath caught in her throat, causing her breath to come in shortened, slightly ragged gasps. She couldn't believe it, it had to be some sort of twisted dream she thought as she stared at the ground shaking her head in disbelief. ~ It just couldn't, it couldn't, it couldn't…right? ~
A shadow suddenly loomed over her. Looking up, she found the young man had crouched down in front of her, his face still masked by shadows. His once thrust out hand came to cup her chin, tilting her face gently towards his. Her eyes widened as he leaned forward and carefully kissed the tears off her face, his soft bangs brushing her face. Her eyes closed with longing as his lips lovingly trailed from her salty cheeks to the corner of her lips, only to rest there. Automatically, her lips parted slightly in surprise, her breath coming faster. Her eyes snapped open as she felt his own soft lips press on her own in a chaste and achingly familiar kiss only to flutter close again. His lips pressed hard on hers, not asking her anything, only giving. She felt her arms rise to rest on his naked chest, feeling his heart start to beat faster. She gasped when she felt his own beautiful hands slide softly from her shoulders to her neck, tilting it back, allowing him better access to her mouth. She felt his teeth nibble softly on her bottom lip before he pulled reluctantly away. Even though the kiss wasn't that long, her breath came in small gasps from the fierce intensity of the kiss. Her eyes were still closed as she felt him move his hands from her neck to the sides of her face. Not wanting this dream to end, she kept her eyes securely shut softly muttering, "this is not a dream. This is NOT a dream. This is not a dream…"
"Usagi." Despite her efforts, her eyes snapped open at the sound of that voice. Tears flooded to her eyes as she raised a shaky hand from his chest to his face, but not touching it, afraid that if she did, the wonderful dream would shatter, and she'd awaken alone. Although his face was still shadowed, she could tell that he was smiling. Removing his hand from her face, he bought it up to her hand, squeezing it softly before pushing it against his cheek fondly. She took a sharp intake of a breath as she felt his warm flesh beneath her fingertips. She heard a soft chuckle escape his lips. Not able to hold them back longer, the tears freely ran down her cheeks again only to be brushed away with his thumb. With her hand still clasped in his, he leaned down again to kiss away her tears. Her mouth began to tremble at his touch. Her eyes fluttered shut as she heard his warm, sensuous voice comfort her. "Shhh. Please, don't cry. I could never stand to see you cry."
Her voice cracked as she tried to answer him as emotions ran through her mind. "Why? Why did you leave me? You promised. You promised…"
He pulled away from her, looking at her sadly before he pressed his forehead against her own. Large, cerulean eyes met startling green ones. They stared at each other, gazing into the depths of each other's souls. She wished this moment would never end. She wanted to stay like this forever, gazing into her lover's eyes. "I'm sorry. I never meant to leave you. Never would I leave you on purpose. Never. I love you."
With those words, their lips met in another kiss, but his time it wasn't sweet or gentle like the first one. All the love and passion they felt for each other spilled into this one kiss. When their kiss finally ended, a couple minutes later, they were both gasping for air. Their foreheads came together again, both their eyes closed. When Usagi finally opened her eyes, she found him already staring at her, with an unreadable expression on his face. She looked questioningly at him before asking, "What? Is there something on my face?"
He only grinned at her before whispering, "No, nothing is on your face. Your face is perfect, even if you had a great green glob of-"
"Gofer guts?" She offered with a silly grin, giggling quietly. He just smiled lovingly at her before adding, "Yes, even if you had a great green glob of gofer guts on your face. Although I wouldn't want to know exactly HOW it got on your face, you'd still look perfect. Hmm, maybe when you were shoveling all that food in your mouth, you weren't paying attention, and it sort of got in the way."
She pretended to look hurt, her lips pouting cutely at him. He couldn't tear his eyes from her adorable, irresistible lips. Slowly, her lips came closer and closer until, before he knew it, they were upon his own meeting in another kiss. The pout was quickly wiped off her face as the kiss deepened their arms around each other, each consumed with raging emotions and love. Once again, they tore themselves reluctantly away from each other. Grinning, he stood up and offered her his hand again. Smiling back, she placed her hand in his and he pulled her up into his waiting arms. She gazed up at him, wishing she could stay in his warm, secure arms forever. She laid her head on his chest, hearing his heart beat slowly, and steady in his muscular chest. Inhaling his scent, remembering it, storing it in her memory forever, she laid a feather soft kiss on the spot where his heart was. "I love you."
"I love you too." After one quick squeeze, he released his hold on her. They clasped each other's hands again as they walked off towards the sun, their intertwined hands forming a whole, healed heart…
**********Two Minutes Later**********
"Ah, Trowa."
"Yes Usagi."
"Race you to the pink cumulus cloud!" Usagi childishly challenged before she raced off, her white legs flashing in the sun and her pigtails flying behind her. Shaking his head, he took off after her, his long legs quickly catching up to her. Mocking her, he backpedaled, facing her, "hey, Usagi, do you even know what a cumulus cloud is?"
"Hey! I do to, those are the, the, um, the fluffy ones, yeah, the fluffy ones!" With that, she poked him lightly in the ribs before racing towards a random cloud, hoping it was even a cumulus cloud. Grinning at her cute behavior, Trowa raced after his beloved, hoping they will never be apart again.
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That is all folks! I hope I wasn't confusing with all the 'he, she' business, but there were only two people. The setting is in Heaven, or outside the Pearly Gates. I thought Trowa would make a good pick, at first, I was going to choose Heero, but there are not many Trowa/Usagi fics out there, so I made this one into one. Hope you liked it and it was worthy of the first one, not that the first one was any better. This gives me an idea for another continuous story that sort of is related to this story. Well, tell me what you think. Toodles! Oh, R&R!
~shyne~
